State Hospital Escapees May Have Faked Illness
Hartford AP report notes three of six Norwich State Hospital escapees may have feigned mental illness to transfer from Hartford jail. Commissioner Bloomberg proposed tighter security, new jail inmate ward, reinforced doors, and routine lock checks. A full review of Connecticut Valley Hospital is under way amid calls for more staff and safer wards.
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Hartford
Norwich State Hospital
Hartford State
Wilfred Bloomberg
John Dempsey
Norwich
Bloomberg
Lodge West
Harford
Dempsey
Connecticut Valley Hospital
Middletown
Council 16
Federation of State
Afl-Cio
Maric Didonne
Katherine Leary
Miss Leary
Dr. Bloomberg
C. Perrie Phillips
George J. Conkling
Marine Radio Replacing Boater Warning Displays
Connecticut sailors will receive weather advisories from an ESSA station in Hartford with transmitters on Long Island Sound. Visual warning towers along the Connecticut coast are being phased out as radio broadcasts take over storm warnings for boaters. remaining displays are privately maintained or Coast Guard auxiliary.
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Connecticut
Hartford
Long Island Sound
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Greater
Bridgeport
Marine Radio
U. S. Environmental Science Services Administration
ESSA
Seaside Park
Seaside Point
Bridgeport Harbor
City Park Department
Elmer Travers
Weather Bureau
Lordship
Travers
New York
U. S. Coast Guard
Jalsa
New Haven
Stratford Shoal
Mamaroneck
Medical Building Planned Near Commerce Park in Bridgeport
Bridgeport developers Theodore Ruderman and Ross D. Sanders announce a six acre Commerce Park complex sale to Commerce Park Realty, with a north end medical building of 16 000 square feet to begin after weather permits. The purchase price was 1 750 000 and Albert Fishman heads the buyer group.
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Commerce Park
Theodore Ruderman
Ross D. Sanders
Bridgeport
Main Street
Commerce Park Realty Association
New York
Connecticut
Ruderman
Trumbull
State National Bank
Richard S. Weinstein
Norwalk
Albert Fishman
New York City
Abraham Kalina
Fairfield
Kalina
Major Building Corporation
A and M Developing Corporation
Sanders
Major Building
A and M
Bank
Longest living Stokes kin turns 108 with family tribute
Mrs. Cordelia Blackwell Stokes of 265 Parrott Avenue, born February 16, 1869 in Kendricks Virginia, would celebrate her 108th birthday Friday. She is the oldest member of a clan of more than 1,500, with a 15th annual reunion held last October.
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Cordelia Blackwell Stokes
Parrott Avenue
Stokes
Ethel Hopkins
Arthur Ashe
U.S
Meteorites: Earth's Only Known Extraterrestrial Samples
Meteorites are the sole samples of alien material confirmed to reach the Earth's surface. They originate from distant bodies and provide direct evidence of materials from space.
Bead-Incense Shop Bows Out In Fairfield
Fairfield two Sacred Heart students Joseph Sia and Louis Neel announced they will discontinue operations at Bead Incense Shop on Upquown Road after Fire Chief Joseph Stopa ordered the premises closed. They had planned a zoning compliance hearing, which was canceled, as the site was deemed a place of assembly rather than a retail store.
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Upquown Road
Fairifield
Joseph Stopa
Joseph Sia
Tunxis Hill Road
Fairfield
Louis Neel
Jackson Avenue
Sacred Heart University
Arthur Bouvier
Stopa
Labor dispute tests LBJ rights order in South unions
The Justice Department seeks a permanent injunction in New Orleans federal court to stop white workers at Crown Zellerbachs Bogalusa plant from walking off. The case tests Johnson's civil rights order and could shape Southern union race policies for years. Herbert Hill of NAACP calls the issue central to Negro workers rights and union integration. Crown Zellerbach says it complied with the agreement to end segregated seniority to challenge later.
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Associated Press
NEW York
Justice Department
Louisiana
Federal District Court
New Orleans
Bagalusa
Crown-Zelerback Co
United Paper Makers and Paper Workers
Afl-Cio
Herbert Hill
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South
Hill
Johnson
Crown-Zellerbach
Aflcio
Bogalusa
400 Go On Strike At United Nuclear
About 40 employees of United Nuclear Corp went on strike after a contract expired at midnight with no new agreement. The strikers from the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union formed picket lines outside the New Haven plant as negotiations continued without reported progress.
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NEW Haven
UPI
United Nuclear Corp
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
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Cort Junior College
Dermont B. Duggan
New Bedford
Mass
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Phyllis Roberta Alpert
Harrison
N.Y
Diana Winter
Needham
Joan Bronhard
Fall River
North End
Society
For Savings
Jerome Grattenstein
Major
Building Corporation
Mil‘ford
Mrs. Stokes
Web
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Stratford AV
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Fairfield Ave
Porterhouse
Dox
Duerer
Nuernberg
Germany
Albrecht Duerer
Dixie Labor Union
By Austin Scott
ROVER
Westminster Kennel Club
United Nuclear
Scotthgard
Clark's
Sagless
Colla
Jay James, Inc
Fairfield Avenue
Jay James
Ing
Conn
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