Living costs rise in November with broad inflation
The Labor Department reports a 0.3 percent rise in consumer prices in November with increases in most categories except food. Wholesale prices also edge up while medical costs surge. The CPI stands at 117.8, about 2.8 percent higher than a year earlier, as December could bring further gains.
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Labor Department
Arnold Chase
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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UN Extends Cyprus Peacekeeping Force Three Months
The UN Security Council unanimously extended the Cyprus peacekeeping mission for three more months. Secretary-General Thant said he would coordinate with contributing nations to keep the 4,700 troops in place. Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus were urged to show utmost moderation and restraint to avoid further tensions.
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Security Council
U.N
Cyprus
Thant
Greece
Turkey
Crash-Killed Area Youths Kidney Used in First State Transplant
Yale-New Haven Hospital performed Connecticut s first kidney transplant using the kidney from Alfred J Halberstadt a 19 year old New Fairfield student killed in a traffic crash on December 9 The donor was the student s kidney transplant history notes about 1000 kidney transplants have been done in the United States since the operation first succeeded in 1956 The patient receiving the kidney was unnamed at Yale New Haven Hospital officials said on Friday
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Yale-New Haven
Jack W. Cole
Newly Arrived U S Paratroops Hit Viet Cong Stronghold
In Saigon area 35 miles northeast, freshly arrived troops from the 101st Airborne Division engage the Viet Cong in a brief battle during their first combat test. The Iron Triangle site is described as a key Communist stronghold near Saigon.
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101St Airborne Division
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Milford Catholic Leader Dies After 36 Years As Pastor
The Rev. Dennis F. Moran, 86, longtime pastor of St. Mary's Milford, who guided the parish through its growth including a 1955 church and school complex, died in a Milford hospital after a long illness. Ordained 1910 in Hartford, he earlier served at St. Francis New Haven and St. Thomas Waterbury.
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Trumbull
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Hartford
Canada
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L Grand Seminary
Montreal
St. John’s Seminary
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Mariner 4 KO'd by Meteor Barrage
Pasadena AP report says a 10 day micrometeorite stream ended Mariner 4's three year active life at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft lost stabilization and drifted up to 50 degrees from its sun locked position after the bombardment.
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Meteor Barrage
Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Vietnam Veteran Struck in Milford Hit-and-Run
A 19 year old Vietnam veteran named Gordon L. MacLachlan, living on Green Hill Road, Milford, was hit by a westbound car on the Boston Post Road at 6 42 p m Friday and left at the scene. He was taken to Milford Hospital for emergency surgery and remained in critical condition. Police questioned two witnesses as they sought to identify the vehicle. MacLachlan had just returned from Vietnam and planned to resume work at Amity High School. Milford police logged a total of one accident in a six hour period from 3 13 p m to 9 20 p m Friday.
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Orange
Boston Post Road
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Alexander MacLachlan
Amity High School
Fulbright seeks probe into Tonkin incident linked to 1964 bombing
Sen. J. W. Fulbright calls for staff study of destroyer logs Maddox and Turner Joy after Pentagon releases four new photos claiming North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks in Tonkin Gulf. Fulbright argues analysis is incomplete and cautions against premature conclusions.
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Gibson Named Deputy Sheriff in Fairfield County
Fairfield County Sheriff John P. Previdi of Danbury appointed George A. Gibson of Edison Road Trumbull to deputy sheriff. Gibson, a Democrat in real estate and insurance, has served on Trumbull's Board of Selectmen and ran for first selectman in 1951 1953 and 1965. He is a World War II Marine veteran wounded at Iwo Jima.
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Danbury
George A. Gibson
Edison Toad
Trumbull
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Iwo Jima
Teacher Group Here Adopts Code of Ethics
The Bridgeport Education association has adopted the teachers code of ethics from the National Education Association. BEA president William F. OBrien said the board of education should recognize the code in the contract, relying on teacher self discipline. The ethics committee presented a capsule version stressing fairness to students community integrity professional cooperation and responsibility.
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National Education Association
BEA
William F. O’brien
Teachers’ Organization
Board of Education
Ethics Committee
Dorothy Crutch
Bridgeport
Mideast Peace Envoy Reports Cooperation
UN Secretary General reports that special Middle East envoy Gunnar Jarring found Israel and three Arab neighbors cooperative. He plans a new round of talks Tuesday after Cyprus briefing, following visits to Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Israel. Syria refused to meet him.
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Middle East
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Cyprus
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Jordan
Egypt
Ispah
McCarthy asks FCC to order air time to reply to LBJ speech
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy urged the FCC to force the major networks to provide him equal air time for a reply to President Johnson's Tuesday address. Networks rejected the bid, saying Johnson is not a declared candidate for renomination. McCarthy and his campaign argued incumbents gain unfair advantages and sought a quick FCC ruling or a hearing.
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Post Publishing Company Announces Christmas Day Publication Omission
The Bridgeport Telegram and The Bridgeport Post will not publish on Monday for Christmas. The Post Publishing Company states this holiday pause allows all employees and newspaper carrier boys to enjoy a complete holiday. The company wishes its readers a Merry Christmas.
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Holiday Travel Throngs Like the Old Days
Holiday travelers filled Bridgeport stations and highways for a long Christmas weekend as crowds rivaled past years. Rail line workers and toll attendants noted heavy traffic while roadways showed typical to lighter holiday patterns. Police logged numerous crashes and injuries across the region amid rain slick roads and high volumes.
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Connecticut Turnpike
Stratford
Norwalk
Greenwich
Fairfield
Little Hope For White Christmas Amid Milder Outlook
Winter arrived in name only with a 51 degree high and 4 tenths inch of rain at Bridgeport Municipal Airport. Forecasters offered little hope for a white Christmas though colder weather is expected today and tomorrow with mid 30s highs and 20s lows. Christmas Day should be milder and partly cloudy.
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Long Island Sound
U.S. Weather Bureau
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Johnson visits troops at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam
President Johnson arrives at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam to greet U S troops, visit the 12th Air Force hospital, present Purple Hearts, and meet Gen Westmoreland and Ambassador Bunker. Bob Hope accompanies the Christmas mission as in previous years.
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Cam Ranh Bay
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Australia
Harold E. Holt
U.s.air Force Hospital
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Ellsworth Bunker
Bob Hope
South Vietam
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Manila
Air Force
13 Believed Drowned In Peru Air Disaster
A Peruvian amphibious Catalina carrying 26 people crashed into the Contamana River 370 miles northeast of Lima. Eleven service members on leave were among the 13 missing believed drowned. six were seriously hurt and seven others injured.
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Peru
Contamana River
Aeronautics Ministry
Features for Everybody In Telegram Every Day Page
Classified ads panels and page sections listed with page numbers and column topics. Includes comics crossword Dear Abby editorials fashions financial news card Jacoby on bridge obituaries sports theater news TV and radio women's news, indicating a broad daily newspaper structure.
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Motor Vehicles Staff Ordered to Return Gifts in Waterbury Scandal
Hartford AP reports Motor Vehicles Commissioner John J. Tynan ordered all department gifts returned after Waterbury photographs allegedly showed waterbury office inspectors receiving liquor. Governor Dempsy seeks full report to determine improprieties and ensure no questions remain.
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Waterbury Republican
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