Ex-Teacher and Dog Die in Bridgeport Fire
Retired Bridgeport teacher Miss Helen B Reilly and her dog Ziggy perished in a two story wooden dwelling at 397 Jackson Avenue last night. Fire official say blaze started in the rear, spreading to the kitchen and porch. authorities investigated the cause as neighbors alerted the fire department at 9 55 p m.
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Pete Mastronardi
Bridgeport
Jackson Avenue
Shelton School
Helen B Reilly
Shelton Public School
Wheeler Avenue
Patrick Coleman
Miss Reilly
Harold Doherty
Doherty
John Schmidlin
Three Apollo 1 Astronauts Buried Across Nation
President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey attend the burials as three Apollo 1 victims are laid to rest. Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee are interred at Arlington National Cemetery, while Edward White is buried at West Point. A solemn arrival at Andrews and Newburgh precedes the ceremonies as services honor the fallen astronauts.
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Washington
Johnson
Arlington National Cemetery
Cape Kennedy
Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
Hubert H. Humphrey
Air Force
Virgil J. Grissom
Navy
Roger B. Chaffee
Arlington
Andrews Air Force Base
Edward H. White II
Newburgh
N.Y
Johnson to hold televised news conference this week
President Johnson plans a televised news conference this week in the White House East Room. Press Secretary George Christian said the time is undecided but likely to be Wednesday or Thursday, with full coverage to be available for television and radio.
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Washington
Johnson
George Christian
Christian
White House East Room
Apollo 1 Fire Inquiries Cloaked By Secrecy
At Cape Kennedy a 15 member board of inquiry met to honor Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil Grissom Edward White and Roger Chaffee whose deaths followed a flash fire during a test on the launch pad. NASA debated whether the craft used internal or external power and discussed continuing to use pure oxygen versus a two gas system.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States
Air Force
Cass
Virgil J. Grissom
Edward. H. White
Navy
Cmar
Roger B. Chaffee
Cape Kennedy Air Strip
Congress Urges Debt Increase To Prevent Half Bill Pay
Treasury warns Congress that without a higher debt limit the government may pay only about half its bills in March. Secretary Fowler asks for a $7 billion increase to cover deficits, warning Social Security, veterans benefits, salaries, and tax refunds could be frozen if borrowing power remains capped. Lawmakers argue the move fights deficits and accuses the administration of loopholes via government loan participation sales.
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Congress
Treasury
Washington
Johnson
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Oppor
Fowler
House
Ways and Means
John W. Byrnes
R-Wis
Charles L. Schultze
Attorney General
Byrnes
Maoist Takeover Claims Shake Tsingtao Amid White Terror debate
Tokyo AP reports Maoist forces seize the port city of Tsingtao with help from a regional garrison amid White Terror rhetoric. Liberation Army Daily cites 23 rebel Maoist groups in Shantung, as Liu Shao-chi opponents resist and calls for a united front intensify.
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Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
Tsingtao
Mao
Liberation Army Daily
Shantung Province
Peking
Liu Shao-chi
Radio Peking
Liberations Army Daily
New China News Agency
People’s Daily
Seventy Plead Guilty In Fairfield Gaming House Case
In a Federal court room once used for the Solberg murder trial, seventy men pleaded guilty to gambling charges arising from police raids on a Fairfield avenue gaming house last fall. They had previously pleaded not guilty and changed their pleas after morning recesses. ten defendants began trial the prior Thursday.
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Solberg
Fairfield Avenue
Ex-Envoy urges Americans to forget Cold War
Retired diplomat George Kennan urged Americans to put the Cold War behind them and said neither Moscow nor Peking plotted the Vietnam War as a test of Western resolve. He criticized the bombing of North Vietnam as extravagant yet supported the administration’s stance to avoid an ignominious exit. Kennan keynoted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee inquiry into U.S. foreign policy amid hopes for easing East-West tensions.
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Washington
George Kennan
Moscow
Peking
Vietnam
Kennan
United States
Yugoslavia
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dent Johnson
Congress
U S Allies Kill Sixty Eight Reds in Vietnam Conflicts
U S Marines and South Korean troops report killing 68 guerrillas on the central and northern coasts of South Vietnam. 35 slain in coastal entrenchments near Quang Ngai City, with offshore naval gunfire and air support. South Korean White Horse Division claims 33 enemy killed with no casualties reported. B52s raid Do Xa area and nearby base camps in the Central Highlands near Kontum and Pleiku Diereng area close to Cambodia. Explosions shake Saigon as military actions unfold.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Leathernecks
7Th Marine Regiment
Quang Ngai City
South Korea
White Horse Division
Ninh Hoa
Plei J Diereng
Public Hearings Set On Fund Use by Dodd
The Senate Ethics Committee voted to hold public hearings possibly next month on charges that Sen. Thomas J. Dodd diverted campaign contributions to personal use. In a four hour closed session the panel led by Sen. John C. Stennis agreed to resume the year old investigation focusing on Dodd acting as an errand boy for lobbyist Julius Klein of Chicago. Dodd and his lawyer argued the committee lacked authority.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Ethics Committee
Sen
Thomas J. Dodd
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Dodd
Julius Klein
Chicago
John F. Sennett
Senate
Northeast jetport proposed at Stratford Shoal on Long Island Sound
A Long Island publication in its January issue proposed a Northeast International Air Center jetport midway in Long Island Sound at Stratford Shoals. The plan envisions over the water take offs and a rail tunnel from Long Island to Connecticut, serving New England, New York and New Jersey with 500 passenger and 313 passenger supersonic jets.
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Long Island
International Air Center
Long Island Sound
Stratford Shoals
Long Island Scrmmmeyeray Review
Plainview
Bridgeport
Port Jefferson
Connecticut
New England
New York
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Hoston
Stratford Shoal
Suffolk
Calverton
Westhampton
Doyle proposes 33.7 million budget with tax rise
City Comptroller Thomas M. Doyle proposes a record 33,687,910 budget for 1967-68 starting April 1 and recommends a nine tenths mill tax increase to 45.6 mills. Hearings begin February 7 as the Tax Board reviews the plan before final adoption later in February.
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Thomas M. Doyle
Doyle
Board of Apportionment and
Comptroller
Tax Board
Prand
Frank S$. McGes
Public Warns About Respectability Cloak Used by Crime
A three state police panel told Westport reporters that organized crime hides in ordinary shops and firms. Inspector Louis Cattell urged public awareness as officials from New York Connecticut and New Jersey discussed methods to expose and curb criminal networks under the cloak of legitimacy. Lt Wayne Bishop of Connecticut State Police urged openness about organized crime problems, noting progress but warning that much work remains. Major Frank Halley said gangsters operate in all areas and urged local authorities to investigate activities in their towns as part of broader operations.
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Westport
New York City
Connecticut
New Jersey
Louis Cattell
New York
Maniero
Wayne Bishop
Bishop
Frank Halley
Cattell
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Edward ‘Dhylé
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Mark
Scott
Seabrook Methodist Church
Manned Spacecraft Center
Texas
Grissom
Walter M. Schirra
Telegram
Dre Senee
Abby Ve
Brandatads
M.D
Jacoby
Polly
Apollo
NASA
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Wighs
Atatanag
Sun Uises
Institute of Oncology
Thiliss
Russia
Tass
China
Domenick Montanario
Linen Avenue
John G. Cicala
Joseph Abbenante
North
My le
25Th Infantry Division
Long An
Casey
New York Mets
Casey Stengel
California
New York Yankees
Mickey Mantle
Whitey Ford
New Hyde Park
Hyde Park
State Bank of Long Island
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Russell J. Redgate
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