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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1967
Page
4
In Peoria County proceedings, the state announces plans to pursue the death penalty for eight nurse killings. The venue change from Chicago prompted tight security, juror screening, and a ban on publishing juror questions to prevent prejudice.
The city calls for bids by March 9 at 11 a.m. in City Hall for grading paving sewers traffic lights and installations in Warren Prospect and Lafayette streets between State Street and the Connecticut Turnpike. These upgrades are in the State Street redevelopment area ordered by the Common Council on Redevelopment agency request.
Last night the Common Council extended congratulations to Alder man Aaron Hent Sixth District Democrat on the birth of a son this week to him and Mrs Ment It is their first child
A campus forum on coeducation draws three male student reps from different classes as debate over integrating women at St Peter’s and Sacred Heart continues. Participants weigh realism, tradition, and alumni funding impacts while noting Fairfield students’ mixed poll results and transportation concerns.
City Council approves Fred Cafora Sr to open a pizza shop at 3789 Main Street and Jerry's Apizza at 12182 Madison Avenue. Alderman O'Brien notes the trend of new pizzerias at successive meetings. Council President Mai acco jokes about a corned beef house before St Patrick's Day. The piece recalls the 1896 Olympic debut.
A UFO was sighted near City Hall by Officer Sawyer and others. Witnesses described an umbrella shaped object with a bright light moving over the building, then drifting toward New Haven and Long Island as firefighters observed from Fire Headquarters.
A chaotic report describes a mysterious object causing fatal incidents in Rio de Janeiro. Eyewitnesses, police, and meteorologists weigh balloon and airborne debris theories as two apartment blocks collapse and residents nearby react.
Report notes that the Pittsburgh Pirates posted a .2794 team batting average in 1966 amid floods and rain triggered landslides in Rio de Janeiro. It details that about 184 Rio residents died and mentions that the 1954 Cardinals and 1953 Dodgers posted higher team marks in prior years.
Officials feared rising deaths as a disaster unfolds in the city and nearby areas. Doctors at the scene reported 12 to 15 people pulled alive from the rubble of three buildings with no official missing count. A local paper speculated as many as 100 could be buried.
In Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara State floods trigger mudslides that collapse shanties and slow city traffic. QC Globo estimates up to 200 dead and 25,000 homeless as 2,700 people are housed in a stadium. Gov Negrao de Lima creates a 1.5 million disaster fund amid rising Paraiba and Pirai rivers.
Turtles live longer than any other backboned animals. One giant turtle reached a recorded age of 152 years and may have lived as long as 200 years before death.
Norwalk police charged 24 year old Lucille B Thompson of no fixed address with arson in two fires. The Grace Baptist church on West avenue blaze Feb 5 caused about 150000 in damage. The Health department at 7 Academy street also burned and unofficially estimated to exceed 15000. Thompson was arrested at a West avenue laundromat and jailed on two counts of arson and related charges. After psychiatric evaluation she was committed to Fairfield Hills State Hospital in Newtown.
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