Bridgeport Telegram and Post publish rates and details
The Bridgeport Telegram and Bridgeport Post publish daily and Sunday editions with rates listed for 1 year and 6 months. Home and long distance subscription options include with Sunday Post add ons and regional pricing beyond 150 miles. The papers are members of the Associated Press and billed by local mail.
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Bridgeport Telegram
State St
Bridgeport
Conn
Bridgeport Post
Dial
the Post Publishing Company
Bridgeport Sunday Post
Audit Bureau of
Sunday Post
Sun Post
Associated Press
Flexible Tax Rise in doubt as Ackley keeps open options
President Johnson and his economic team signal flexibility on a tax increase for 1967. Gardner Ackley told Congress the tax hike could be dropped if conditions change and hinted at reinstating the investment tax credit before January 1, 1968. The advisers keep an open mind, with July 1 as a deadline if an increase is needed.
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Johnson
Congress
Gardner Ackley
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Jacob K. Javits
New York
Joint Committee
Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Kennan declares communism crumbling as bloc unity fades
Former ambassador George F. Kennan testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a new consular treaty with the Soviet Union and a bill to boost east-west trade. He argues the communist world is splintering with rising national independence in eastern Europe and strain between Russia and China.
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Artemus Ward
Europe
Mao Tse-tung
China
North Korea
South Korea
Free World
Korea
Asia
Russia
George F. Kennan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Soviet Union
Kennan
Kennan on the danger of a nuclear world war and shifting powers
The piece argues Americans must unlearn postwar lessons to avoid catastrophe from nuclear conflict. It notes Vietnam as a test of containment, warning that more Russian consulates bring spies, and that trade with communist regimes indirectly aids adversaries. It contends the monolith of communism is fading and the U S can influence change.
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Vietnam
J. Edgar Hoover
Europe
Asia
United States
Kennan
Artemus Ward
Truthful Label Aids Shopper in Packaging Reform
The article notes a modest success for the truth in packaging campaign as Congress did not pass broad rules. Instant Potato Products Association members adopted a seven point code agreeing a half cup is a standard serving size with water instructions. It cites ongoing economic expansion through February 1967 and predicts a slowdown but not recession, supported by housing and consumer spending.
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Instant’ Potato Products Association
U. S
U.S
Syevia Porter Jonger
Vietnam
Harvard
Harvard Medical School
Anthony
Police To Study Police Science At Norwalk Community College
Norwalk Community College, with police officials from nearby towns, plans to offer police science and administration classes starting in September. President Everett I. L. Baker stated attendance will accommodate rotating shifts, following a conference led by Belden H. Schaffer. The program aims to improve efficiency and reduce public nuisance from crime.
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Connecticut
Norwalk Community College
Polic
Everett I. L. Baker
Belden H. Schaffer
Connecticut Municipal Police Training Council
Johnson proposes national crime program faces GOP pushback
President Johnson outlined a nationwide crime prevention plan seeking 350 million dollars over two years with the federal government paying about 90 percent of initial costs and 60 percent of later program expenses. He argued crime control is local yet requires federal help, and urged Congress to back planning, research, and pilot projects aligned with the National Crime Commission findings.
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Johnson
Congress
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
National Crime Commission
Commission
Not the Racketeers But Eye Doctors Prominent in Senate
National piece reports Dr. Marc Anthony of Spokane testifying before a Senate subcommittee led by Sen. Phil Hart about alleged unethical practices among ophthalmologists. He accuses AMA members of indifference to ethics and cites dispensing doctors billing 2200 eyeglasses yearly as exploitative. He advocates legislation to curb storekeeping within medicine and improve the profession’s image.
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American Medical Association
Marc Anthony
Spokane
Wash
Anthony
Senate
Phil Hart
D-Mich
AMA
Dr. Anthony
D. Anthony
Paris
Ben Franklin
Ben
House of Delegates
Build Better Buses
Civic planners and traffic authorities back mass transit as solution to city congestion. The National Academy of Sciences receives a 150000 grant under the Urban Mass Transportation Act to develop a quieter cleaner bus to lure car users from the private vehicle.
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Hartford Times
National Academy of Sciences
Urban Mass Transportation Act
West Berlin Rules Communist Party Air Time Pre-Election
A West Berlin court ruled the Communist Party may use public radio and television to present candidates for the March 12 local elections via Sen der Freies Berlin. Air time, allocated proportionally, will be given to the party despite past refusals by the U S information agency station. The Communists polled 1.9 percent previously and will receive a smaller share than major parties.
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East Berlin
Air Iine
As I See the Story A Mouse and Cat Game
Holmes Alexander argues that Uncleivated urban decay in the United States is a historical cat, with reformers like Muskie Nelson and Ribicoff suggesting probed plans. He urges frank acceptance of suburban growth and slum razing as the only way to bell the cat, declaring the city doomed.
RKO General Buys Belmont Hotel on Cape Cod
RKO General owner of WRKO WNAC stations reports the purchase of the 120 room Belmont Hotel at West Harwich Cape Cod Massachusetts. Price not disclosed. This marks the second New England resort hotel for RKO after buying the Equinox Hotel in Manchester Vermont in 1963.
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Boston
RKO General
Wnac-Am
Wrko-Fm
Wnac-Tv
Thsday
West Harwich
Cape Cod
Mass
New England
Manchester
Talks Begin Between U S And Soviet Over Missiles
Deputy Secretary Cyrus R. Vance said the United States and the Soviet Union have started talks to prevent a costly race in ballistic missile defenses. President Johnson and Defense Secretary McNamara have warned that an anti ballistic missile race offers no advantage to either side.
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Washington
Cyrus R. Vance
United States
Soviet Union
Johnson
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Senate Foreign Relations Disarmament Subcommittee
Vance
Sen
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Russians Protest at Chinese Embassy Door in Moscow
Russians gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Moscow shouting Cowards and rallied against Beijing in response to the siege of the Soviet Embassy in Peking. Tass reported continued anti-Soviet demonstrations, with police intervening as petitions were torn up by a Chinese official.
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Moscow
Peking
Tass
Chinese Foreign Ministry
Soviet Union
United States
Vietnam
China
A - Tass
Mao Tsetung
Moscow Aviation Institute
Mao
Red Square
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