Mayoral Candidates Invited to Briefing in Danbury City Race
Thayer Bowman announces inviting the three mayoral contenders Gino Arconti Joseph Taylor and Samuel Solmer to sit in on budget briefing sessions before the March 27 city election. Bowman does not seek reelection and notes the charter requires a budget and message by mid-April. The new mayor to take office April 3 must prepare an estimated 8 to 9 million dollar budget within 15 days. Bowman cites charter revision as needed amid repeated attempts by Democrats to block it. Also mentions ongoing winter to spring classes and an art center enrollment at Ridgebury Road Danbury.
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Thayer Bowman
Bowman
Common Council
Gino J. Arconti
Joseph Taylor
Samuel E. Solmer
Citizen's Party
Arconti
Board of Tax Review
General Assembly
Senate House Finance Committee
Danbury
Tax Review Board
How Fast Can You Read A Rapid Reading Advertisement
A Chicago publisher promotes a self training booklet How to Read Faster and Retain More claiming readers can double speed and retain more. It promises a method to read sentences in a glance and pages in one second and invites readers to mail name address and zip for a free copy at Reading 635 Diversey Dept. 317 012 Chicago IL 60614 with a postcard.
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Chicago
Diversey
Dept
Spring Bulbs Show needs protection and tax review extension
Mild weather spurs bulb growth and requires covering new shoots with marsh hay or dry grass to avoid smothering. Remove material later when growth resumes. Also, Arconti seeks a legislative extension of Danbury tax review hearings to allow another month of assessments and comparisons. current hearings end Feb 21.
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Raymond J.platt
Fairfield County
Extension Service
Mr. Pratt
Mr. Platt
New Term Opens at Wooster Community Art Center
Registration is open for the winter spring term at Wooster Community Art Center on Ridgebury Road. Classes are free with a nominal fee for adult classes and small lab charges for a few courses. The center, sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, reports strong community response with 273 students enrolled last fall across drawing painting sculpture weaving and printmaking and includes high school classes for Ridgefield Bethel and Danbury students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wooster Boys
Wooster Community Art Center
Ridgebury Road
Danbury
Wooster
Act Center
Fund For the Advancement of Education
Ford Foundation
Art’ Center
Ridgefield
Bethel
Leahey to Coordinate Taylor's Mayoral Drive
Richard S. Leahey of 11 May Brookroad named campaign coordinator for Joseph F. Taylor in the March 27 city election. Leahey, a longtime party worker, will share duties with Frank W. Molinaro as Taylor's campaign manager. He is sales manager of the life insurance department at Goodfellow-Ashmore and was with John Hancock. Leahey chairs GOP enrollment and registration efforts in Danbury and previously led the Young Republican club. He is married with four daughters.
Rep Meskill Invited To GOP Fund Dinner
Rep Thomas J. Meskill Jr the states only Republican congressman has been asked to keynote a local fundraising dinner on February 25 to help kick off the city election campaign. He captured a house seat last November in the 6th District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Meskill, Jr
School Board to Review Pleas for New Personnel
The Norwalk board meets tomorrow at 8 30 p m in the Administration and Service center to review requests for new personnel for the 1967 68 school year beginning Sept 1. They will also discuss naming of a 2 500 student high school to replace Norwalk High on the Naramake site and Latin instruction for seventh and eighth grades.
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Board of Education
Schedued
Main Street
Board of Education City Council
Naramake
Norwalk High School
Naramake” High School
Jefferson Elementary School
Roton
Highland Avenue
Norwalk Methodist Church
Broad River
Mid
Fairfield County
Westport eyes private ambulance driver contract
Westport officials will consider hiring a private driver to operate the town ambulance at the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. The firemen’s union has rejected proposals to keep ambulance duties under the Fire department, though the service has been praised for efficiency and safety. Police recruits Albert Crossley and Alen Chaffey completed a four week course on Feb. 3. A Feb. 15 bridge luncheon by the Women’s League will aid the Mid-Fairfield Youth Museum’s budget. Westport’s grand list shows 7,429 homes, up from 7,227, with assessed value rising from $98,767,985 to $104,760,110.
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Board of Selectmen
Firemen’s Union
Church Lane
Arthur Audley
First
Chiefs of Police Association
Women's League of the Mid
Alfred Calabrese
Mr. Calabrese
Hearing on One-Way Traffic Feb 20 at 7 p.m.
The Board of Police Commissioners sets a public hearing for February 20 at 7 p.m. to consider a western Bedford avenue and northern Harborside drive one-way plan to Elton Street. Hearing in Circuit courtroom, Police Building, 14 West River Street.
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Board of Police Commissioners
Bedford Avenue
Harborside Drive
Elton Street
Police
West River Street
Police Hold Son After Double Slaying Near Chicago
In Lake Forest Illinois a real estate dealer Frank Charles Stone 61 and his wife Bernice 48 were shot to death in their home. Their son 22 Francisco Charles a former mental patient was found crouching about 500 yards away with an empty .38 caliber revolver nearby. Their daughter Bonnie 18 escaped and is in shock at friends.
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Lake Forest
Chicago
Frank Charles Stone
Bernice
Francis Charles
Bonnie
Friends
Pumpkin Delight PTA Meet Discusses Brain Dysfunction
The Pumpkin Delight school PTA meets Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. Assistant professor Eleanor Messing of Southern Connecticut State College speaks on Educating Children With Minimal Brain Dysfunction. She is a speech therapist with a long career at Bailey Hall School for Retarded in Katonah New York and has held roles at St. Vincent's Hospital New York and Long Island University prior to teaching at New Jersey State Teacher's College.
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Pumpkin Delight Pta
Pumpkin Delight School
PTA
Eleanor Messing
Southern Connecticut State College
N.Y
St. Vincent’s Hospital
New York City
Long Island University
New Haven
Messing
New Jersey State
Stitch-Chatter Meeting Tomorrow at Masonic Temple
Stitch and Chatter club of Lucia Chapter 25 CES will meet tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the banquet hall of the Masonic Temple on Broad Street. Mrs Kay Austin, president, announced the gathering to discuss yearlong projects. A luncheon will follow.
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Stitch and Chatter Club
Lucia
CES
Tomerrow
Masonic Temple
Broad Street
Kay Austin
Police Wives Meet Tonight Milford Auxiliary
A Milford Police Wives Auxiliary meeting is set for tonight at the home of Mrs. Ben Fitch, 26 Franklin Road, with Mrs. Wade Lowe assisting. The group plans to send care packages to Vietnam service members. In a separate item, Lohrman will make an official visit to Adam Sattig Council 35, R and SM, at its next stated assembly tomorrow at 7:45 p.m. in the Masonic temple, 59 Broad Street, announced William Van Iderstine, master.
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Milford
Police Wives Auxiliary
Ben Fitch
Franklin Road
Wade Lowe
Fitch
Vietnam
Co Lohrman
Puissant Grand Council of
Royal and
Select Masters
Adam Sattig Council
R and SM
Masonic Temple
Broad Street
Iy William van Iderstine
Democratic Women Elect Tonight
The Milford Federation of Democratic Women will hold an election meeting tonight at 8 o clock at the Elks club on New Haven avenue. Officers for the next two years will be elected from the slate submitted in January by the nominating committee: Mable Kelly president, Muriel Richards vice president, Katheryn Griffin secretary, Esther Banta treasurer, and Josephine Smith corresponding secretary. Floor nominations may be made. Third district members will act as hostesses.
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Milford Federation of Democratic Women
Elks Club
New Haven Avenue
Mable Kelly
Muriel Richards
Katheryn ‘Griffin
Esther Banta
Josephine’ Smith
Third District
Indonesia Labor Calls For Break With China
The central board of Indonesia's largest labor organization urged breaking relations with Communist China. The Federation of Islamic Trade Unions backed a similar parliamentary call, saying Sino-Indonesian history harmed Indonesia. Relations cooled after the 1965 anti-Communist coup and the rise of Jakarta's military government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sakarta
Indonesia
Central Board
China
Federation of Islamic Trade Unions
Jakarta
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Rep
Meskill
GOP
Norwalk
Connecticut
J. Thayer Bowman
Joseph F.taylor
Cloverleaf
Martin Rader
Robert Noce
T. Clark Hutt
John P.providi
Joseph H. Sauer
Mabel G
Ireland
Willie James Massey
Roodner Court
Ely Avenue
Dorothy Elaine Bentley
Benjamin Harrison Palatano
Hale’s Court
Westport
Betty Jane Zdanowicz
Cranville Street
Fairfield
Kenneth Frank Broadhurst
Sharp Hill Road
Wilton
Nevelys
A A. Quiros
Friendship Court
Order of ‘Amaranth
Old Well Masonic Temple
Gregory Boulevard
Christine Gibson
Alva Perkins
Truman Street
U.S
League of Women Voters
National League
Peoples Republic of China
Robert Slate
Sun Yat-sen
Chiang Kai-shek J
Mao Tse-tung
Peoples Republic
Tai‘wan
Slate
W. K. Chen
Taras Halibey
Norman Sacks
Richard Steele
Singing Woods Road
Perry Avenue
Steele
Eric Malmquist
East Avenue
Ruth Burr
Lockwood Jane
Robert Easton
National League of Women Voters
Frost
THE
State National Bank OF Connecticut
Federal Reserve Sysem and
Fesetsl Deposit Insurance Corporation
CE Cental
Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport
Ansonia
Main Std
Col. Main & Bridge St
Bayview Shopping Center
Boston Avenue
Black Rock Turnpike
State Street
Black Rock
Conn
Toke
Stratford
North
Ain Street
Paradise Green Office
Shelton
Howe Street
Southport
Old Post Road
Trumbull Ofice
Plain Street
Long Hill
Cronin
Philippian Society of St. Peter's. Episcopal Church
River Street
S. Lee Fairchild
Frank Melbourne
Carroll Gouger
Orange Avenue
Arlene Schwartz
Mansfield Road
Connecticut Labor Department
Robert A. Cronin
New Zealand
Larry Tirreno
Sam
Russ
Steve
Chevron Oil
Chevron Oil Company
Chevron
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