Remington Park’s Lost Woods Near Bridgeport Revealed
In Stratford Bridgeport area lay Remington park a large fenced tract once used for powder storage and testing by Remington Arms. Former works engineer Tou Blakely recalls the park’s rise from farmland to an industrial complex with Success lake elk deer and a 385 foot well while children sought berries along Asylum Street.
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Broadbridge Avenue
Cogswell Street
DuPont Place
Evers Street
Remington Arms Company
Remington Park
Success Lake
Tou” Blakely
Remington Arma Company
Stratford
Lou
Union Metallic Cartridge Company
Mr. Blakely
Putney
Merger steps approved by Lutheran synod in Blair
The United Evangelical Lutheran church approved preliminary steps toward uniting over two million Lutherans into The American Lutheran Church. It adopted the constitution and by laws, articles of union, and a timetable for completion by January 1, 1961. The Blair synod, with about 60,000 members, originated the movement in 1948 and ends its year with final action.
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Neb
United Evangelical Lutheran Church
American Lutheran Church
UELC
United Lutheran
American Lutheran Churches
Synod
Blotr
Greenwich maid held in Queens stabbing
Greenwich Conn housemaid Vivian Taylor, 36, was arraigned on a homicide charge after Leonard Johnson, 34, was found stabbed to death at her South Jamaica home in Queens. Police say she warned Johnson to stay away from her daughters before the fatal argument and stabbing.
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New York
Greenwich
Taylor
James Fe, Reynolds
Queens
Johnson
Prof Adler Dies in Cologne at 55 Nobel Laureate
Prof Kurt Adler, 55, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1950, died Friday in Cologne. He shared the prize with Prof Otto Diels for hydrocarbon synthesis work. Adler once headed a J. G. Farben department and helped spur dye and synthetic textile industries globally. He had joined 17 other Nobel winners in an atomic age peace appeal three years earlier.
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Cologne
Germany
Kurt Adler
Adler
J. G. Farben Chemical Combine
Otto Diels
Diels
United States
Train crash injures ten near Thurmond West Virginia
A westbound Chesapeake and Ohio freight crashed into a halted passenger train at Thurmond station injuring ten. Engineer H. W. Honaker of Hinton suffered crushed legs while three crew members and six passengers received hospital care. Mechanical failure prevented braking before impact. The George Washington passenger train originated Newport News and carried added Washington passengers. Seven passenger cars and five freight cars derailed as traffic shifted to the adjacent track.
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Ohio
H. W. .Honaker
Hinton
Honaker
Lego
Ac&o
Richmond
George Washington
Thurmond’ Station
Charlestown
Cincinnati
Newport News
Way and
Washington
Beepitals
Oakhill
Oscar Levant Loses TV Show For Antagonizing a Sponsor
Oscar Levant was dropped from his KCOP television program after insulting a sponsor and directing critical remarks at a rival show. The incident followed a on-air chat with a contestant and a botched commercial, with Levant blaming frayed nerves and a last minute format change. He pledged passive resistance and hinted at future projects with Steve Allen Benny Fisher and a poetry book.
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Oscar Levant
A- Station
Alvin
D. Flanagan
KCOP
Levant
Oscar
AL Flanagan
Chondriac
Sponson
Steve Allen
Jack Benny
Eddie Fisher
Dies in crash on New York parkway near Harrison
A two car collision on the Hutchinson River parkway near Harrison, New York killed a Providence mother and daughter. Dr Wera Haluszczynska, 37, and Eugenia Haluszczynska, 70, of Providence died after their car crossed a center divider and struck a Connecticut family’s northbound vehicle. Robert Christensen, 29, his wife Margaret, 28, and their 17 month old daughter Gay, of Windsor, Connecticut, suffered minor injuries. The Rhode Island pair were taken to St. Agnes hospital in White Plains.
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N. Y
Hutchinson River Parkway
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence
Wera Haluszczynska
Eugenia Haluszczynska
Connecticut
Robert Christensen
Margaret
Gay
Windsor
Conn
St. Agnes Hospital
White Plains
Rhode’ Island
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Lutheran Synod
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Kiplinger Letter
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Ten Petra
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