Movie Night benefit show for March of Dimes in Westport
Westport Weston March of Dimes plans a Tuesday benefit at Fine Arts theater starting 8 30 pm. Proceeds support polio fund drive with two films Bank Dick and Room Service and an auction of celebrity signed bills and a presidential autographed card.
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Westport-Weston
March of Dimes Committee
Fine Arts Theater
W. C. Fields
Stephen K. Morse
The
West
Port Transfer Company, Dimes Committee
Ed Sullivan
Kate Smith
Floyd Patterson
Eisenhower
Art Hannes
Weston
CBS Westonite
Ian Sharkey
NBC News
Mothers March
Westport
Zoning Amendments Face Public Hearing Tuesday
Planning and Zoning commissioners will hold a public hearing Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Town Hall to review amendments on corner lot front definitions and building coverage rules in business zones, plus side yard requirements in specific State Street areas.
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Planning and Zoning Commission
Town Hall
State Street
Norwalk Town Line
Burr Avenue
Imperial Avenue
Myrtle Avenue
Fairfield Town Line
YMCA
Richard W. Sutphen
Red Cross
Howard Leisner
Matthew H. Johnson
Sleeping driver found asleep at roadside in arrest
Elliot Anderson 33 of 880 Pearl Harbor Street was found asleep with engine racing in his parked car at Crescent Avenue and Harriet Street about 4 05 a m yesterday. He faced breach of peace and drunkenness charges and was released to his lawyer's custody pending further probation officer review.
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Cresent Avenue
Harriet Street
Elliot Anderson
Pearl Harbor Street
Kenneth J. Zarrilli
Anderson
Clem Fulton
Robert Brown
Arthur Patrignelli
Bombers Sign North Texas End Dennis Shaw
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Western Interprovincial Football Union announced the signing of Dennis Shaw a 23 year old end from North Texas State Shaw is 6 3 and 212 pounds forming a new addition to their receiving corps.
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Winnipeg, Man
Blue Bombers
Western Interprovincial Football Union
Dennis Shaw
North Texas State
Shaw
Chou En-lai and Kadar Meet in Secret Solidarity Talks
Premier Janos Kadar and Chou En-lai conferred in Budapest amid heavy security with Soviet armored cars and Hungarian militiamen guarding the site. Chou pledged Red China’s support while Kadar pressed disarmament and resilience of the socialist bloc amid Hungary’s political upheaval. Trials and death sentences linked to the uprising were also reported.
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Budapest
Janos Kadar
Red
China
Chou En-lai
Chou
Warsaw
Josef Cyrankiewicz
Toepel
Kadar
Radio
Hungary
United Nations
United States
Rese World Organization
Tass
Moscow
Red China
Kadars
Pat Maleter
Imre Nagy
Meade Alcorn Heads to Washington in Chairman Bid
Meade Alcorn Republican National Committee member from Connecticut left for Washington with his wife to take part in inauguration activities amid reports he leads for the national chairman post. A subcommittee will meet Saturday with President Eisenhower to discuss the choice, and the full committee will act Tuesday. Ray Bliss withdrew his candidacy, clearing the field for Alcorn.
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Hartford
Meade Alcorn
Washington
Afcorn
Connecticut
Eisenhower
National Committee
Leonard W. Hall
Alcorn
Marcia
GOP
Ray Bliss
Ohio State
Bliss
Milford M others Set Polio March Jan 30
Milford reports the M others' March on Polio will occur January 30 between 7 and 8 p m with Mrs Roger Martin as town chairman and Mrs Patrick Capozzi and Mrs William Bradshaw as lead captains for the West Shore section.
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Milford
Roger Martin
Patrick Capozzi
William Bradshaw
West Shore
Charles Soule, Jr
Arthur Adams
Fred Rouff
Ernest Price
Thomas Fla‘herty
Lester Sembler
JC. Edward Neilson
Dennis Harrigan
Richard Stoll
Carl Gartner, Jr
John Leake
A. B. Trunkfield
A. G. Kalpren
Gilbert Graham
Herbert Daniells
John Riley
Everett Aspden
State tax yield up in first half of year
State Tax Commissioner John J. Sullivan reported that the first six months of the current fiscal year brought $44,581,072 in tax receipts, up from $39,981,805 in the previous year. Increases occurred in sales inheritance corporation and liquor taxes.
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Hartford
John J. Sullivan
Regional high school study group weighs final report
A Redding Easton regional high school study committee met at Samuel Staples School to review drafts for a regional junior senior high school plan. Sub committees will draft the final form for committee approval and public presentation.
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Redding-Easton
Samuel Staples
Easton
Dentists to Hear Speaker Tonight in Bridgeport
Dr. Martin R. Protell will address the Bridgeport Dental Association tonight at 7 in the Algonquin club. He will discuss Crown Preparations Simplified. Dr. William Wenkert, president, will preside and dinner will precede the lecture.
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Martin R. Protell
Bridgeport Dental Association
Algonquin Club
William Wenkert
Assembly Honors Late Mrs. Edgerton
The Legislature paid tribute via joint resolution to Mrs. Malcom J. Edgerton of Stamford who died in a Venezuela plane crash. She served as state representative from 1943 to 1947 and helped develop school grant funding based on pupil enrollment. The resolution cited her Stamford civic service and Assembly work. Representatives Clarke Prokop Farmer spoke in the House and Senators Grant Barringer spoke in the Senate.
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Hartford
House
Senate
Malcom J. Edgerton
Stamford
Venezuela
Edgerton
Springfield Office Building Fire Causes $500,000 Loss
A three alarm blaze damaged a downtown Springfield office building worth about 500000 dollars. Seven firefighters were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. others treated on scene. The unoccupied two story structure housed a clothing company owned by Gus Berman and the State Employment Security office.
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Springfield
Mass
State Division of Employment Security
Gus Berman
Five from area get jobs in assembly
Hartford January 16 the legislature adopted resolutions naming sergeants at arms schoolkeepers messengers and coat room attendants for the session. Among those named were Jerry Campglucci Raymond Zaleski Stanley Kamykowski Ellis Howard and Carl Hubbard. The positions pay 600 for the session plus a seven cent per mile transportation allowance. legislators receive the same salary with ten cents per mile.
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Hartford
Jerry Campglucci
Raymond Zaleski
Bridgeport
Stanley Kamykowski
Milford
Ellis
Howard
Norwalk
Car
Hubbard
Bethel
la Mite
Connecticut State Police sponsor bills curb firearms and crime
Hartford January 16 AP A series of bills requested by the State Police would tighten gun laws and curb vehicle use in crimes. Rep Erving Pruyn introduces measures to register pistols tighten permits fingerprinting and raise renewal fees. A second bill targets using motor vehicles in felonies with up to five years imprisonment or a 500 dollar fine.
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Hartford
Connecticut
State Police Department
Erving Pruyn
Colebrook
Rep
Pruyn
House
GOP
Judiciary and Governmental Functions Committee
Parkway Board meeting disputed over out-of-state venue
Merritt Parkway commission postponed a meeting in New York City after Rep. Henry Ferne criticized planning to conduct state business out of state. Chairman William Gaxton said the Friday New Canaan session will discuss a bill by Rep. Helen Mackie to authorize restaurants along the parkway.
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Merritt Park
Lambs Club
Washington
Eisenhower
Gaxton
Commission
the Lambs Club
Rep
Ferne
Rep. Ferne
Connecticut
New York City
Commissioners
Highway Department
New Canaan
Pathway 6
Greenwich
Helen Mackie
Westport
Governor Ribicoff heads to Washington for inauguration
Governor Ribicoff will leave Hartford for Washington to attend President Eisenhower's inauguration a day early. He will also attend a Friday meeting of the Presidents Committee on Traffic Safety and may represent the National Governors Conference. He cannot address the State CIO convention in New Haven and will be replaced by Renato Ricciuli. Ribicoff plans to return to Connecticut Tuesday.
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Hartford
Connecticut
House
Senate
Finance Committee
Ribicoff
Greenwich
Killingly
Washington
Eisenhower
New Haven
Renato Ricciuli
Newtown Church to Elect Board at Annual Meeting
The Rev Richard Martin will preside at St John Episcopal parish annual meeting in the parish hall at 8 pm. A parish supper is planned at 6 o'clock with Yeoman Yolande Pompey organizing the event. Hans Stretz is unable to attend due to illness. Berhard Hecht will meet Mrs Albert Kuhne Sr in a non title bout. East Pakistan plans a memorial for Dacca to 12 revolutionaries killed in the 1930 Chittagong Armory raid.
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YMCA
Jean, Levin
James E. Driscoll
St. John’s Place
Norwalk
Driscoll
Board of Selectmen
Friends of the Assumption School
Friends
John Clancy
Fairfield University
West Fort
Newtown
Richard
Martin
St. John's Episcopall
Hans Stretz
Berhard
Hecht
Albert Kuhne
Presi- Yolande Pompey
Trinidad
Dent
St. John’s Guild
T. Reginald Walker
Harold J. Peterson
Austine E. Dinkler
Hazel Tilson
Rose McClanahan
George Johanson
S. Henry Johnson
Edmund F. Dinkler
Carl Robinson
East Pakistan
Dacca
Chittagong
Fire Hits Rooming House on Atlantic Street
Twelve people left homeless when a fire swept a rooming house at 61 Atlantic Street just after 12 15 am. Third floor resident Theni Wooten 28 jumped to a shed roof with her husband Ray and suffered a leg injury. Capt. Carroll arranged temporary shelter for Lillian Dubois LeRoy Dubois Arthur Ingraham Catherine Ingraham Juanita Ingraham Joseph Payne Melvin Crews Rachel Crews William Crews William Reed Pocahontas Smith and the Wootens Father. Alarm sounded from Box 195 at 12 19 am with a recall ordered at 12 59 am.
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Imade
Atlantic Street
Theni Wooten
Ray
St. Vincent's Hospital
John P. Carroll
Lillian Dubois
LeRoy Dubois
Arthur Ingraham
Catherine Ingraham
Juanita Ingraham
Joseph Payne
Melvin Crews
Rachel Crews
William Crews
William Reed
Pocahontas Smith
Mrs. Wooten
Box 195
Main
Percy Searles
Executive Insures Brain for 100000 Dollars
Beaumont Texas January 16 Lloyd C McManus 37 year old president of Southern Iron and Metal insured his brain for 100000 with Lloyds of London He said I make my living with my brain Local insurers arranged the policy believed first on a brain He said the policy would run 10 years but refused to reveal the premium.
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Beaumont
Tex
Lloyd C. McManus
Southern Iron and Metal Company
Lloyd's of London
McManus
Bill to cut accidental poisoning seeks poison information center
Senator Angelo J. Squillo introduced a bill to create a state poison information center. It would empower the Health department to run the center and supply hospitals and physicians with data on potentially poisonous substances, with $38,200 in funding.
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Hartford
Angelo J. Squillo
New Haven
State Health Department
South Carolina Joins Union as Eighth State in 1778
South Carolina became the eighth state to enter the Union and ratify the Constitution, doing so on May 23, 1778, marking a key milestone in early American governance.
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South Carolina
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