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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1958
Page
12
Louis Harvey and Leroy Pratt were named co valedictorians of their Rochester Vermont class with just four scholarship points separating them. Harvey earned a $200 University of Vermont scholarship while Pratt received $100 from the school principal with matching funds from local citizens.
New York report claims a new healing substance Bio Dynet shrinks hemorrhoids relieves itch and pain without surgery. It is offered as Preparation H suppositories or ointment with applicator and is described as effective over months with no narcotics or anesthetics.
Stamford reports George Gist of 10 Burwell Street South Norwalk and his wife Idella escaped injury when their car struck a fence on the Connecticut Turnpike near the Route 1 exit at about 2 30 pm. State Policeman Arthur Lassen issued a summons to City Court on August 11 for driving without a license.
In Taipei on July 6 AP reports Father Joseph Patrick McCormack, 64, a released Maryknoll priest, denounces mainland Chinese secret police and Communist cruelty. He says Communists have no nationality and describes 38 months in four jails, sharing a six by four foot cell with five others. He cites propaganda claims of reconstruction as hollow and notes the Hankow Yangtze bridge was built by slave labor. Fellow priest Father Cyrill Wagner to join in Taipei before returning to the United States via Japan.
Pope Pius XI sent his apostolic blessing to 6,000 child pilgrims gathered at the Shrine of Bernadette in Lourdes. The children from 15 countries, including the United States, listened as Maurice Cardinal Feltin read the Pope’s message urging a deeper Christian life, devotion to Mary, and fraternal unity in song and prayer for world peace.
Gregory Peck stars in The Bravados at Bil l Loew's Poli theater amid battle scenes set in an ancient world. Joan Collins Stephen Boyd and Albert Salmi fill out a large cast as the hunted convicts chase a revengeful rancher. No Time For Sergeants plays at Warner. The Vikings screens at Majestic with Douglas Leigh Curtis cast. The Bridge on the River Kwai runs at Beverly and Hi Way with Hayakawa Donald Sears and Horne headlining.
The Rev. Robert E. Bayusik of Bridgeport becomes the first Byzantine Rite priest assigned to Alaska and launches an effort to establish a Byzantine edifice there. He offered Mass June 8 at St. Jean the Baptist Greek Rite Catholic church in Bridgeport, then left for Juneau July 1 to travel the territory for Mass and meetings. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bayusik of 37 White Street.
The listing shows showings for The Bravados Thundering Jets Vikings and No Time for Sergeants at Loew's Poli Majestic Beverly with times across the afternoon and evening. Short subjects and newsreels accompany main features with multiple daily screenings and repeated pairings for Merritt and He-Way theaters.
Former President Herbert Hoover lauds the American pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair calling it architecturally the most distinctive and noting the exhibition’s quality given funding limits. He visited as Eisenhower’s special envoy aboard the Columbine on a trip with Robert Murphy and Samuel Yates.
Secretary of State Dulles arrived in Washington after what he called full and satisfactory talks with French Premier Charles de Gaulle in Paris. He said de Gaulle is a man of wisdom and power and would help France play its rightful role in world affairs. He planned to travel to Ottawa with President Eisenhower for talks with Canadian officials.
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