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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1974
Page
12
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Waterbury AP Rep. Ronald Sarasin called for immediate reconvening of Congress to address the energy crisis. He cited closed service stations long lines and threats of violence from motorists unable to buy gasoline. He urged hard facts and effective laws to share any shortage equitably and prevent profiteering.
Berlin Connecticut officials distribute wallet sized gasoline cards to its 150 plus volunteer firemen to ensure fuel for firefighting. Mayor Arthur Powers says each card entitles the bearer to 10 gallons weekly for firefighting use only, with plans to expand the program to other towns.
State police arrested twenty men at a Beiram barn on Saturday for attending a cockfight. Fines totaled seventy dollars. Marshall, 65, pleaded guilty to possession of a fighting bird and permitting a dog to be used for cockfighting. McKenna, 51, of Windsor Locks, fined fifty dollars for possession of a fighting bird. Five male juveniles were also taken into custody and returned to parents for possible Family Court referral.
A failed push to establish a city spring tradition ends abruptly as Mayor Sullivan, sworn in last January, cancels the inaugural hall gala amid a latest wave of New England shortages. Local officials had hoped the event would become an annual rite, but a funding gap and broader supply woes forced the cancellation.
A brief account notes amber as the hardest resin known, formed from fossilized wood of extinct plnek trees once growing near the Baltic Sea, embedded in ancient sediment and valued for its durability and translucence.
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