Plans announced for 475 bed St Vincent's hospital in Fairfield
Sister Clair outlined a $19 million project to replace the Main street hospital with a 335 350 square foot facility on a 60 acre Easton turnpike site. A May or June 1968 permit hearing precedes construction set for 1968 with completion targeted by August 1970.
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Fairfield
Sister Clair
Fairfield Chamber of Commerce
Fairfield Inn
Main Street
Town, Plan and Zoning Commission
Connecticut Planning Council
Merritt Parkway
Bridgeport
Easton
Trumbull
Monroe
Daughters of Charity
Clair
Bloody Fighting Erupts in Tibet
Tibetan capital Lhasa sees clashes between Mao supporters and opponents who declare martial law. Reports from Peking via Tokyo say anti-Mao forces seized key offices and held prisoners, led by Gen. Chang Kuo-hua and aide Chang Tsai-wang as a purge campaign unfolds in China.
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Tokyo
Lhasa
Tibet
Peking
Mao
Peoples Committee
Yomiuri
Kyodo
Chang Kuo-hua
China
Fourteen Nations Sign Western Hemisphere Nuclear Ban
In Mexico City fourteen Latin American nations signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons in a Western Hemisphere zone between the US and Antarctica. The pact restricts manufacture use storage and acquisition of nuclear arms and requires ratification by all negotiating nations and guarantees from the five nuclear powers. Some powers will observe without immediate signing. Cuba and several others abstained or opposed.
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Mexico City
United States
Andarctica
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Red China
Great Britain
China
Cuba
Bolivia
Reinaldo del Carpio Janrepui
Colombia
Costa Rica
Chile
Ecuador
el Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Panama
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Argentina
Jamaica
Trinidad-Tobago
Paraguay
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Red Cross Here Saluted At Golden Jubilee Event
Very Rev. William C. McInnes spoke at the Bridgeport American Red Cross 50th anniversary dinner held at the University of Bridgeport Student Center. He highlighted local leadership as essential to the blood program and community improvement, praising 50 years of chapter achievements and key contributors.
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John E. Butler JR
Red Cross
Fairfield University
Bridgeport
American Red Cross
University of Bridgeport
William C. McInnes
Bridgeport Weather Summary for Today and Tonight
Variable clouds and unseasonably mild for Bridgeport and vicinity with a high of 45 to 50. Tonight and tomorrow turn colder with a low in the 20s and a 30 percent chance of precipitation. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph shifting to northwest late today and tonight. High yesterday 7, low yesterday 29, monthly precipitation 0.05. Almanac notes include tides and February 15 as the forty sixth day of the year.
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Bridgeport
Becker Named GOP Choice for Connecticut State Auditor
Henry J. Becker Jr. of Avon, research director for Connecticut Republicans, was unanimously chosen by GOP General Assembly members for the state auditor post. The $14,000 job was previously held by former State Chairman Clarence F. Baldwin, and the caucus followed J. Tyler Patterson's withdrawal from the race.
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Hartford
Henry J. Becker Jr
Avon
Connecticut
Republicans
GOP
General Assembly
Clarence F. Baldwin
Woodbridge
J. Tyler Patterson
Old Lyme
Patterson
A.searle Pinney
Deploring Leader Drain Mayor Hails YMCA
Bridgeport Mayor Curran at the YMCA annual meeting notes loss of local leadership to outlying towns. He praises the YMCA for sustained concern with community problems and cites daily coverage in local and New York papers.
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Drain
YMCA
Jeffrey L. Craig
Bridgeport
Curran
Ymca of
Greater Bridgeport
New York
Air Pollution Bills To Be Heard Thursday
The Health and Safety committee of the Legislature will hold a hearing on all air pollution control bills Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Hall of the House.
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Hartford
Health and Safety Committee
Legislature
Minesweeper sunk as Viet Cong strike Saigon river
Communist guerrillas mined and sank a U S Navy minesweeper and damaged two others on the Long Tau river south of Saigon. Thirteen Americans wounded and a fourteenth missing in two separate incidents as Viet Cong gunners hit two ships with 57 mm recoilless rifles and automatic weapons. The sinking vessel grounded on the north bank after being pushed there.
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Bulletin Saigon
UPS
Long Tau
Saigon
U.S
Long Tan River
South China Sea
Dr. Dinan Granted 8000 Pay Hike In City Roles
Dr. H P Dinan Jr receives an $8000 raise to reach a total annual pay of $25,875. The increase, approved by the Civil Service Commission, makes him medical director of Hillside hospital and city administrator of humane affairs, the highest combined salary in the city government.
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H. P. Dinan, Jr
Hillside Hospital
Humane Affairs
Supt. of
Lester S. Silverstone
Curran
Civil Service Commission
Board of Humane Affairs
Hillside
Dinan
Humane Board
Pinan
Civil Service
Commission
Thomas J. Barrett
Barrett
Dr. Dinan
Com
Clashes Mark Hearing on Housing Code Debate
A public hearing at City Hall on the proposed housing code featured disputes between Alderman Thomas E. O'Brien, chair of the ordinance committee, and opponents Abe Katz and Harry Peck. Five speakers supported the code, three of them linking approval to passage of the rent receivership measure.
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City Hall
Common Council
Thomas E.o'brien
Abe Katz
Harry Peck
Heart Patient Survives Second Surgery in Houston
Hector Fernandez a 38 year old Houston patient survived a second exploratory operation after a left ventricular bypass artificial heart pump was temporarily removed. The patient had been back in surgery two hours after an initial Monday procedure at Methodist Hospital.
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Houston, Tex
Arces
Hector Fernandez
Sa.m
Tory
Methodist
Villa Azueto
Thabacattal and
Tacnan Ane
Orbiter 3 Set To Snap Photos Of Apollo Sites
Lunar Orbiter 3 is poised to photograph a smooth region in the Sea of Tranquility as a potential Apollo landing site. If successful, the images will be radioed to Madrid then released from Goldstone and Jet Propulsion Laboratory with NASA scientists presenting analyses at a Thursday news conference.
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Calif
Lunar Orbiter 3
Madrid
Spain
Goldstone
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Natural Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet. Propulsion Laboratory
Red Troops Dynamite U S Helicopter Base
Communist forces attacked the U S Army base at Nha Trang using satchel charges of dynamite. Several helicopters were reported destroyed or damaged in the raid near Saigon as officials described the attack.
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Saigon
UPS
Nha Trang
Blake Curran talks on airport sale vote in Stratford
Stratford officials authorized Blake and Curran to meet the Stratford mayor to discuss possible sale of Bridgeport Municipal Airport. Gunn’s bid to pursue a purchase discussion was rejected. Stratford councilmen decry Bridgeport’s offer as a squeeze play and oppose expansion of the airport.
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Stratford
Richard E. Blake
Hugh Curran
Bridgeport
Seventh District
Richard W. Gunn
Gunn
Edmond A. Dorne
Blake-Curran
Wilson Says Secret Deal Aims to End Vietnam War
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson told Parliament he reached a secret agreement with the Soviet Union on a plan to end the Vietnam War. A single small move by North Vietnam to cut arms would be paired with a U.S. halt in attacks to unlock peace talks. Informants described the move as synchronized steps toward a conference among main contenders.
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Wilson
Russia
London
Harold A Wilson
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Jeader
Alexei N. Kosygin
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S
Con
Allied Viet Cong Hit and Run Clashes Reported
Ground fighting in Vietnam intensified with hit and run clashes between allied units and Viet Cong. Murky weather limited air missions to 45. In the Mekong Delta three Vietnamese battalions fought guerrillas, killing 56, detaining 20 suspects, and seizing six weapons and 12 grenades. US 25th Infantry strikes targeted guerrillas northwest of Saigon. In Nha Trang guerrillas hit an Army helicopter pad, causing light helicopter damage and heavy jeep damage with no U.S. casualties reported.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Vietnam
U.S
Mekong
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Nha Trang
Assembly Awaits Dempsey Budget Message in Hartford
Governor Dempsey will deliver the budget proposal to the General Assembly at noon in a joint House and Senate convention. The plan, expected to exceed 1 billion dollars, outlines spending priorities for the coming year.
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Hartford
Dempsey
General Assembly
House
Senate
Poem by 12 year old on Napalm Embarrasses Pentagon
A 12 year old girl's poem about napalm bombing in Vietnam drew Pentagon protest and led to the Defense Department removing it from a Presbyterian Sunday School magazine. The board spokesman said no embargo and chaplains may subscribe to religious publications.
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Child
Vietnam
Pentagon
Philadelphia
U.S. Defense Department
Presbyterian Board of Education
Washington
Negro soldiers face higher Vietnam casualties per race
Washington AP reports that Negro enlisted men make up about 11 percent of U S forces in South Vietnam yet account for 17 8 percent of combat deaths through last year s first months, indicating a death rate about 60 percent higher than their share of servicemen. Defense data show Negroes died at higher rates in 1965 than in 1964.
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Washington
South Vietnam
Defense Department
Vietnam
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