Bitter Cold To Continue Grip on Area
The bitter cold will persist through Saturday with teens today and subzero readings tonight as a high pressure system from northern Canada keeps the area in a freeze. Snow and rain for the weekend have been erased but gas shortages persist for nine firms, halting some operations and idling about 200 Bullard workers.
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Cie
Southern Connecticut Gas Company
Bullard, Heppenstall
Carpenter Steel
Avco Lycoming
Raybestos
Peerless Aluminum
Producto Machine
Ductile Iron Foundry
Bridgeport Brass Company
Bullard Company
Bullard
Tennessee
Connecticut
Canada
Fear Plane Down Over Battle Mountain Nevada
A four engine U S Marine transport plane with 15 aboard was feared down in a blinding snowstorm near Battle Mountain Nevada Wednesday night. Rescue teams searched the rugged area as weather hindered locating any survivors or wreckage.
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Battle Mountain
Nev
U. S. Marine
Nevada
Rusk Sees Nuclear Threats and Future Peace Challenges
Secretary of State Dean Rusk warns the world has 5 to 10 years to establish controls on nuclear weapons and 20 to 30 years to master the population boom. He urges a treaty to block proliferation, urges cool heads in tough years ahead, and links Vietnam to building a lasting peace while stressing the need to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
U.S
Rusk
United States
Soviet Union
Vietnam
ULS
Biggest Fake Money Ring Smashes in U S History
New York police and federal agents report the largest counterfeit operation in U S history was disrupted. About $4 1 million in fake $100 bills were seized December 29 at Kennedy Airport in boxes intended for a buyer paying at least 10 cents on the dollar. Three men were arrested. authorities expect more arrests. The fake notes were described as passable reproductions bearing Franklin’s portrait and the group likely planned to ship them overseas.
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New York
Ring
Kenshedy
Ohio
Joel Lee
Miami Beach
Fla
Albert E. Whitaker
Secret Service
Kennedy Airport
San Francisco
Federal Reserve
Benjamin Franklin
Whitaker
Weather Forecast for Bridgeport and Vicinity
Mostly sunny and cold today with teens for highs and continued cold tonight and Friday. Low near zero tonight, increasing cloudiness Friday with a 10 percent chance of snow. Northerly winds 10 to 15 mph today diminishing tonight. High yesterday 65, low 32, precipitation none.
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Duwna
Wewine
Ours
Bridgeport
Russell F. Neary
Board of Park Commis
Precipitation City Hall
Curran
Joseph Dewhirst
Martin J
Russell Neary Re elected Park Board Chairman
Russell Neary was re elected chairman of the Park Board. Mayor Curran proposed using college students as part time park policemen to boost manpower for the Barnum Festival tent theater during warm weather. The city currently operates two park policemen and three night watchmen.
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Curran
Board of Park Commissioners
Senior Citizens High Rise Project Delayed to March 1
Harborview Towers the Bridgeport Housing Authority project for seniors was delayed from this month to March 1. Deputy director Helen Vangel reported to BHA chairman M. McDonald Isaac Jr. and the board last night. Architect Toby Vece said final stages are underway and the contractor has 75 on site. Waiting list now 1,149 after seven new applications in the past month. Mrs Beitner seeks an apartment. Father Panik tenant leader Marie Jenson spoke for her hospitalization after a mugging.
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Harborview Towers
Bridgeport Housing Authority
BHA
M. McDonald Isaac, Jr
Helen Vangel
Toby Vece
Francis J. Shanley
Father Panik Village
Ann Beitner
Marie Ferjenson
Father Panik Tenant Association
Burns Fatal to Widow in Norwalk Fire
A 65 year old widow Irene Sterling of 7 Blake Street was found dead on her back porch after a small fire in her Norwalk home. Fire officials say her clothing ignited from an electric range burner as she moved outside to escape. Investigators note she started a fire in a pile of papers near the living room back door and the blaze consumed her clothing before firefighters arrived. An 11 year old newspaper boy Glenn Dalmas first observed the blaze at the rear of the house.
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Norwalk
Irene Sterling
Blake Street
Benjamin A. Mangels
Glenn Dalmas
Brown seeks asylum at Cuban Mission after street confrontation
Black Power leader H. Rap Brown took sanctuary inside the Cuban Mission to the United Nations after police tried to arrest him during a street incident. Brown, calling the action Gestapo like, said whites would not intimidate blacks, then left the mission with an aide and a girl for an undisclosed destination. The Cuban delegation protested police conduct and a summons for harassment was sought, with Brown’s lawyer stating they would fight it if served.
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New York
H. Rap Brown
United Nations
Brown
Lindsay
Johnson
U Ythant
William Lakeman
Manhattan
Upper East Side
Stephen Hyman
Richard Gleason
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Hyman
Kasperak Improves But Stays Critical
Stanford doctors report Kasperak's donated heart functions normally and shows significant improvement while remaining on the critical list. His blood pressure and pulse are steady with no fever as he sits up and encourages circulation in the fourth day since the transplant. The kidney from Mrs. Virginia Mae White was implanted in Annabel Mann of Reno, Nevada.
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Stanford
Calif
Mike Kasperak
Kasperak
Virginia Mae White
White
Stanford Medical Center
Annabel Mann
Reno
Nev
Sihanouk Calls Jackie's Visit a Failed Mission
Washington reports Prince Norodom Sihanouk labeled Jacqueline Kennedy's Cambodia trip a failed diplomatic mission. Bowles is said to return empty handed from talks. Mrs Kennedy's spokesman denied any government mission, calling the journey private and strictly a touristic visit.
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Washington
Norodom Sihanouk
Jacqueline Kennedy
Cambodia
Chester Bowles
New York
Kennedy
Michael V. Forrestal
Sabo finds overloads in Long Island Sound sewer plants
Alderman Robert J. Sabo reports a six month survey of eight shoreline communities shows sewage plants operating beyond design capacity with Stamford Norwalk Westport Fairfield Bridgeport Stratford Milford and New Haven among them Fairfield Milford did not reply Stamford limited. New Haven and Bridgeport appear largest overloads. Westport overloading mainly in summer. Westport and Fairfield provide primary and secondary treatment. others provide only primary.
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Sabo
Robert J. Sabo
Long Island Sound
Bridgeport
Stamford
Norwalk
Westport
Fairfield
Stratford
Milford
New Haven
Soil Analyzer On Surveyor 7 Develops Hitch
Pasadena Calif AP Surveyor 7 halted by a mechanical hitch as a soil radiation analysis box failed to reach the lunar surface. JPL said signals released the 5 by 6 by 7 inch instrument from a door three feet above ground but a ratchet likely caught the suspension line. Controllers planned to jar the device loose with an extendable scoop similar to the tool used on Surveyor 3 to begin scratching operations. If the box cannot be lowered one of the major experiments aboard the final unmanned lunar scout would be blocked.
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Pasadena
Calif
Surveyor 7
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Surveyor 3
U.S
Attack Fails On GI Post Near Saigon
Saigon area combat leaves heavy Viet Cong losses as American infantry and artillery repel a five hour assault northwest of the city. In Binh Dinh Province near the coast another clash yields high enemy casualties. US figures report 103 enemy killed, five Americans dead, twenty eight wounded. A separate Mekong Delta action lasts ten hours with 18 American dead and 50 wounded. Viet Cong losses are 26 killed.
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Binh Dinh
Saigon
U.S
Mekong Delta
Area police urged to swap officers for fresh faces
Fairfield County Chiefs of Police met in Westport as Mayor Hugh C Curran urged a man for man exchange of policemen among Connecticut departments. He said smaller cities cannot hide identities and proposed sending officers to other communities while inviting theirs to Bridgeport to gather information. Curran pressed for citizen support to back enhanced police protection and cooperation.
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Westport
Bridgeport
Hugh C. Curran
Fairfield County Chiefs of Police
Connecticut
Joseph A. Walsh
Curran
Assembly Seat Won By Hartford Democrat
Hartford Democrat Richard Yedziniak won the State House seat in a special election, defeating Alda Provera 510 to 153 in a 4,295 voter district. The contest filled the vacancy after Rep. Marie Bworak resigned to move to Wethersfield.
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Hartford
Richard Yedziniak
House of Representatives
Sth
Yedziniak
Alda Provera
Marie Bworak
Wetherse
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