Explosions and Fires Hit Houston Area Channel
Two major blasts and fires struck near the Houston Ship Channel injuring four at a Shell Chemical plant segment. The Liberian freighter Christiane collided with gasoline barges downstream, causing a second explosion with no injuries, while one Shell employee died of a heart attack. The channel faced closure for hours as crews fought the flames and passengers evacuated to shore.
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Houston, Tex
Houston Ship Channel
Shell Chemical Co
Christiane
Shell
Baytown
Héber Gingerich
York
State Drafts New Motorcycle Helmet Rules
Hartford state officials move to rewrite helmet standards after the prior rule proved unenforceable. Nine riders had charges dropped in Bridgeport for wearing no helmet as the Department of Motor Vehicles reviews labeling and compliance issues to ensure buyers can verify standards.
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Hartford
State Motor Vehicles Department
Drawing Board
Bridgeport
Edward A. Carroll
Motor Vehicles Department
State Attorney General's Office
Carroll
General Assembly
Walter Stecko
Hartford Chief Plans Crackdown on Street Crime
Hartford police chief John J. Kerrigan announces immediate deployment of special task forces in the Albany avenue Sigourney Garden streets Asylum area to curb purse snatching muggings and street robberies. He notes a 44.2 percent crime rise in 1967 with youths aged 10 to 16 most involved and calls for public help and testimony to aid the effort.
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Kerrigan
Hartford
Explosion Claims Shell Plant Guard in Houston
A Shell plant guard, Charles Campbell, 46, of Houston, died Tuesday about 15 hours after an initial blast thought to be a heart attack amid a ship channel incident. The vessel was towed to Galveston for repairs and traffic returned to normal by Tuesday afternoon.
Bid Opening Delayed On School Addition
The Board of Education delayed a bid opening for a John Winthrop school 1 percent classroom addition in the North End. The meeting shifts from today at 4 p.m. to a week from today at 4 p.m. The project will convert the elementary to a middle school with a completion target in September.
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John Winthrop
North End
Board of Education
Dowd Urges Business Push To Shape Connecticut Policy
Rep Thomas F Dowd Jr R Trumbull urged businessmen to take a more active role in policy drafting in Connecticut He criticized the 1967 General Assembly as pro business and questioned budget choices for state colleges and UConn while noting pensions debates and a large state budget. He spoke to the New Britain Industrial Management Club.
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NEW
Dowd
General Electric
House
General Assembly
Connecticut
Uconn
Milford Planners Urge City Close Several Streets
Milford Planning and Zoning board recommends abandoning streets in the Myrtle-Walnut Beach redevelopment area including Spencer Place Bill Street Fox Street Myrtle Avenue Gold Street Park Street Stratford Avenue Norton Street and Nichols Street. The board wills also consider downzoning West River Street and Silver Sands area next meeting.
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Milford
Myrtle-Walnut Beach
Spencer Place
Bill Street
Fox Street
Myrtle Avenue
Gold Street
Park Street
Stratford Avenue
Norton Street
Nichols Street
Pritchard Street
Stowe Avenue
Harrison Avenue
West River Street
Silver Sands State Park
Riverside Park
Robert Powell
Gerard Street
Orange Avenue
YMCA
Harold Woodruff
Blackite Corporation
Oronoque Road
Willett-Miller
New Haven
Central Avenue
Brookhedge Development Corporation
Platt Street
Lucius Montano
Marwin
Alex
Dorothy Kish
Meadowside Road
West Blake, Inc
Entrance Road
Arthur and
Mary Kish
Chimney Sparks Blamed for Fairfield Attic Fire
A Fairfield attic fire caused extensive damage to the 21 Haydens Hill Road home from chimney sparks. Furnishings and antiques owned by Mrs. Jeanne S. Delevett were ruined. Fire Chief Stanley Makucevich said the blaze, confined to attic and roof, was under control within about 30 minutes. The rental occupant Charles Manceri learned of the fire from a passerby. No damage estimate yet.
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Haydens Hill Road
Fairfield
Stanley Makucevich
Jeanne S. Delevett
Charles Manceri
Pennsylvania executive named associate UF chief in Fairfield County
Francis Donnon, executive director of the Community Council of Lancaster County, Pa, is named associate director of the United Fund of Eastern Fairfield County. Robert J. Maore, president, announced the appointment yesterday. Donnon will fill the post vacated by George McGarry and start by March 1.
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Francis Donnon
Community Council
Lancaster County
United Fund
Fairfield County
Robert J. Maore
Donnon
George McGarry
Darien
Bridgeport Exhange Ranks Third Largest in Connecticut
Bridgeport telephone exchange is the state's third largest by number of telephones and fifth for phones per hundred population, according to The World's Telephones. The data, released by American Telephone and Telegraph Co., are current as of January 1, 1967.
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Bridgeport Telephone Exchange
Connecticut
American Telephone & ‘Telegraph 'Co
Connecticut telephone exchanges and per capita ranks
The report lists exchanges by total numbers and by telephones per hundred of population. Hartford leads in both categories with 246 830 telephones and 69 per hundred, Stamford remains second in per capita density, while Norwalk moves ahead of Bridgeport in density. The piece notes suburban service outside the core cities for all but Norwalk. A separate line notes Gerhard Schwedes as the first AFL draftee with the Boston Patriots in 1960.
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Hartford
New Haven
Bridgeport
Stamford
Waterbury
Norwalk
New Britain
Bristol
Meriden
Boston
UPI
Gerhard Schwedes
Syracuse
Boston Patriots
Voter Session Under New Plan Tonight
The Board of Selectmen and Town Clerk Frank J Verrilli will host a voter making session tonight at City Hall as the first under a revised state law. Applicants may apply and be sworn as voters at two offices any day and need not attend tonight unless notified otherwise. New applications are accepted. 15 names from the town clerk’s office, plus five from the registrars of voters, are to be submitted.
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Board of Selectmen
Frank J. Verrilli
City Hall
Marion Hulton
Registrars of Voters
John JF. McCarthy
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Houston
State
Rep. Dowd
Pontiac
Michael Sileno
Harwington
Conn
RCA
Jack Adams
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Pater di Yemara
Mre
C. A. Swainson
West Suffield
Stanley C. Gerwvinski
Fremk J. Kobiisaki
Connem
M.A. Asher J. Bristol
Josepn P. Kopakow
Menden
Josepn
A. Rocce
Harvard
Tonn
Esso
Ployet
Ezso
Perth
Ilor TV
Driscoll
RCA Victor
Friger
Reezer
Wesbway
Maytey Kong Ate
Senas
Aise
Mudrick’s Television and Appliances
Boston Ave
Pennsylvanian
AFL
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Enarsy Company
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