Bridgeport Post and Telegram Publishing Rates and Notices
The Bridge Publishing Company announces subscription prices for The Bridgeport Post and The Bridgeport Telegram including daily and Sunday rates, postage surcharges for distant addresses, and cross-service arrangements with The Bemeyer Telegram. Also notes Associated Press rights and mailing status at Bridgeport, Conn.
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Defense Costs Rising In Early Cold War Era
The piece argues defense spending will reach 44 billion dollars soon, rising to 70 billion by 1970 if trends continue. It notes growth in military aid, atomic weapons, stockpiling, and space research, and questions the ability to sustain such multi billion costs without improved national management.
Playground purchase boosts Bridgeport youth space
Residents of Success Village apartments raised 5600 to buy a 7.5 acre site off Granfield Avenue from the federal government. The Park Board will maintain it as a park to keep children off the streets, with aims to spur civic leaders and champions starting there.
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Granfield Avenue
Bridgeport Housing Authority
Park Board
Bridgeport
Cities Must Halt Flight to Save Industrial Areas
The American Society of Planning Officials urges cities nationwide to measure blight in industrial districts and renew central areas to prevent industries from moving outward. Detroit and St. Louis already use such methods. obsolescence and crowded streets push firms away. The plan calls for surveys, clearances, vacant-site guidance, and targeted development corporations to finance central-area plants. Bridgeport follows these ideas, aiming to retain and attract industry through redeveloped cores.
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United States
American Society of Planning Officials
St. Louis
Detroit
Plannerg
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Society of Planning
Alaska Becomes 49th State and Its Strategic Edge
A historical note on Alaska joining the Union, noting its proximity to Russia, the tiny Diamede island near Big Diamede, and a distance of 2.4 miles. It predicts Alaska’s future population dynamics, climate ranges, and economic potential, praising Secretary Seward for the purchase and framing statehood as a pivotal moment.
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Clothes Rule For Students Sparks Debate In Waterbury
Waterbury school board to regulate student attire aiming at a disciplined classroom. Prohibits turtle necks, T shirts, sweat shirts, outside shirt tails, jeans, pegged pants, combat boots, sneakers, bandanas for boys. Girls barred from tight skirts and tight sweaters, pin curls, bandanas. Observers call it an infringement but support a neater democracy. Psychiatrist quip about sanity and fear of going insane. Antarctic conference noted with preference to do nothing.
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Waterbury Republican
The Affluent Society sparks nation debate on abundance
A reader notes widespread imbalance in American life and praises John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society. The piece argues for refocusing production toward public goods like education, infrastructure, and health, advocates expanded sales tax funding, and supports a new unemployment benefit system to curb inflation while tolerating temporary jobless highs.
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Soviet Handbook Details 1957 Foreign Trade Turnover
Soviet foreign trade turnover for 1957 rose about four rubles or a billion dollars from 1956, amounting to roughly 84 billion dollars. Machinery led exports at 17 percent, mainly to communist bloc nations and Middle East Asia. Non communist trade peaked with Finland and Britain, while U.S. trade share has declined to under one percent. A forthcoming handbook will publish 1957 figures in full.
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News Behind the News The National Whirligig by Ray Tucker
Ray Tucker critiques mid century mediocrity across politics economics diplomacy and education while praising scientific breakthroughs that threaten civilization He cites Madison Avenue leaders like Charles H Brower Barton Durstine Osborne and rivals Benton Bowles noting their influence on politics and public perception Brower warns Americans risk complacency and a hollow “great era of the goof off” as Western civilization faces a shadow of ruin from Soviet pressures and internal laxity
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Charles H. Brower
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Connecticut
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New Bird Sanctuary Seeks Relocation From Fairfield Site
Connecticut Audubon Society plans moving its bird sanctuary from Unquowa Road in Fairfield due to Turnpike traffic noise and a planned parallel road on the opposite side. Founded in 1914, the sanctuary includes a grounds museum open free to the public on Tuesday Thursday and Sunday from 1 to 6 pm.
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Unquowa Road
Fairfield
Frank J. Novak
Milford Couple Win In Antique Car Tour
Mr and Mrs George M Blanck Jr of Milford won the Connecticut Historical Automobile Society trophy for the 1958 Connecticut Circle Tour in June 2022. They drove a 1917 Ford among four antiques in a route from Cheshire to Newtown then Danbury and Woodbury with several other cars in the event.
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Woodbury
Overseas Outlook scrutinizes foreign aid shifts and defense
The article argues Congress may restore most of the deep cuts in foreign aid while noting American ground forces would need expansion if aid is reduced. It highlights the tension between executive branch control of allocations and legislative desire for tighter, per-country earmarks. Names like Eisenhower, Nehru, Rhee, and Pervukhin appear in context of aid decisions and allied commitments.
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ROK
Otto V. Kuusinen
Khrushchev to Visit East German Confab
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will lead a six member delegation to East Berlin for the East German Communist party fifth congress. A mass rally is planned in front of the railroad station as Khrushchev and East Germany’s Walter Ulbricht address the crowd. Khrushchev last visited East Germany about a year ago and his stay length is not announced.
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ADA Sees Slump Prompting Tax Cut Plan
The Ameri can Democr atic Action ADA calls on President Eisenhower and Congress to act on a new tax cut and spending program to spur demand. ADA urges a temporary eight billion dollar annual personal tax cut plus widespread programs in schools hospitals housing highways and social security, while noting a slow economy and unemployment.
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