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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1968
Page
2
A Greek coastal merchant ship named the 1,413: son Evelpis sank Saturday off the southwestern coast of the Peloponnesus in rough seas. All 16 men aboard are missing, the Coast Guard reported.
Milford Finance Board opens its two Saturday sessions at City Hall with Peter Penzala elected chairman and Joseph Pennington reappointed vice chairman. The panel reviews the 1968 69 proposed budgets for $9 476 706 in municipal and $7 914 250 for the Board of Education and plans public hearings for resident questions.
The Los Angeles Association of L aymen voiced support for 200 teaching nuns who seek less regulation. The group urged the Immaculate Heart sisters to retain teaching roles and set their own rules, while noting lay participation in decisions. Cardinal McIntyre said the archdiocese has not dismissed the sisters.
Lynda Bird Robb plans to move back into the White House as Charles S Robb departs for Vietnam in late March. The 23 year old newlywed daughter previously stayed in a suburban Virginia home after honeymooning in the Virgin Islands.
Willard H. Sahloff of GE housewares predicts a boom through 1980 led by product innovations and rising affluence. He cites new can opener and automatic toothbrush adoption, rapid household growth, and a shift to higher income buyers driving double current volume by 1980.
Off-Broadway musical Your Own Thing opens at Orpheum Theater in New York. Donald Driver Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar provide book music and lyrics for a fast lively romantic spoof with slide projections and faux voices. The cast features Tom Ligon Marian Mercer and Rusty Thacker led by Leland Palmer and offers a chaotic modern crossfire of Shakespearean identity in a glass and chrome Manhattan setting.
Severe weather grips Europe with blizzards and a rapid thaw. Alpine resorts trap tourists amid avalanches while British roads flood and Italian towns freeze. German highways close as Spain enjoys warm sunshine and idle airports close due to ice. A gas field delay to protect whooping cranes noted.
In Sasebo Japan protests rise against the U S aircraft carrier Enterprise arrival with 5000 police mobilized. Leftist groups pacifists and Zengakuren vow to storm the port while unions plan antiwar leaflets and monitor U S sailors ashore amid security pact debates.
Guatemalan police discovered the body of 26 year old former beauty queen Rogelia Cruz Martinez under a bridge in Escuintla. She was beaten about the head and possibly poisoned, with investigators treating the death as a terrorist act by right wing extremists.
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