Primary Battle For Democratic Nomination In Connecticut
The article describes a statewide Democratic primary contest with Col Kowalski favored by party leaders and Joseph Lyford challenging him after losing the state convention vote. Lyford still earned enough delegates to trigger a statewide primary, while Kowalski, a Regular Army officer, awaits retirement and maintains support from party organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Pe Lyford
Westport
Frank Kowalski, Jr
New Britain
Connecticut
Kowalski
Fort
Belvoir
Mr. Lyford
Lyford
Rescue boats battle tides after speedboat sinks in harbor
The 18 foot Cobral with a 200 horsepower inboard motor flipped and sank in 35 feet of water in the Bridge Harbor Channel near Pleasure Beach, about 100 feet from the first buoy and 400 to 500 feet west of shore. Two or three people were rescued as waves from a passing craft lifted the vessel.
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Port Harbor
Telegram Daily Features and Classified Fragments
A fragmented OCR of a newspaper page lists features for everybody including telegram notes, comics, editorials, crosswords, bridge puzzle, obituaries, radio and TV, theater news, and women's pages. It references Constantine Brown Jacoby on Bridge and Sylvia Porter column highlights without full context.
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Angelo
Paul
Cece
Constantine Brown
Bundegen
Jacoby
Wes Ae
Anor
Sylvia Porter
Plespeete
Youth Shot in Stratford Chase Ends in Hidden Wound
Stratford teenager Michael Timpanelli, 19, awoke two hours after a predawn pursuit to learn a bullet had struck his leg while he rode as a passenger in a car pursued by police. James Cullen, 18, of Stratford, faces a charge of reckless driving as officers investigate seven gunshots fired during the incident.
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Stratford Chase
Stratford
Michael Timpanelli
Broadbridge Over
James E. Cullen
Harvard Avenue
Timpanelli
Bridgeport Weather Summary and Tide for Today
Official U S Weather Bureau bulletin reports mostly sunny and warm conditions in Bridgeport with highs in the 80s and light southwest winds 12 to 18 mph. Tonight fair and mild with low near 60s, plus humidity, barometer, and tide details for today and tomorrow.
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U. S. Weather. Bureau
Bridgeport
Sts
Three Boys Win as Prack Trophies Event Highlights Barnum Festival
A fragmented report notes three boys winning Prack trophies amid a chaotic tale of a seized bus near Guantanamo Cuba. The piece blends references to Fidel Castro Rebels, a U S Embassy statement, and a Barnum Festival invitational with sponsors Hunter and Havergs Inc.
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Haynesville
Thie
Ermite
Cuba
Centrale
Isabel - Mill
Guantanamo
Chia
Avery Wonderful
Barnum 'Festival
Hunter
Havergs,“Inc
Jet Tankers Set Transatlantic Flight Records
New York news reports Air Force jet tanker planes flew from London to New York in under six hours, beating the old record by more than an hour. The same fleet had previously set sub five and a half hour marks for the reverse direction, surpassing British records from 1955. The Alpha landed at Idlewild at 2 20 p.m. with a 3,460 mile crossing.
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New York
Air Force
London
York- London
Royal’Air Force
Sidewalk Slabs Stolen From Front Walk In Patriot Colors
Mrs Harold reports theft of about four feet of concrete sidewalk from her front yard. The red white and blue colored slabs were taken, leaving a gap on the walkway outside her home. Police investigated the incident noted in a continuation on page eleven.
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Triot
Harold
Missing Weston Boy Found After Five Hour Hunt
Seven year old Nicholas Bell of Weston Connecticut was found hiding in a town beach bath house five hours after he disappeared triggering one of the state’s largest manhunts. National Guard troops, sailors from Quonset Naval Air Station and about 300 volunteers aided the search along Charlestown beach and waterways. The boy, son of Mr and Mrs Oliver Bell, was last seen in trunks wandering along the beach earlier today.
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Charlestown
Nicholas ‘Bell
Weston,Conn
Bath House
Guard
Naval’ Air Station
Cameo
Navy
Oliver
Bell
Newtown
Turnpike
Weston
Charlestown Beach
Canadian Drowns While Visiting Relative at Glen Echo Pond
A 25 year old man from Granby Quebec Donat Poulen drowned while swimming in Old Ives pond at Glen Echo Girl Scout Camp in Meriden Police identified the deceased after the incident he was visiting relatives in Wallingford for seven months. He was accompanied by his brother his sister in law and her mother the pond owner at the time of the tragedy.
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Meriden
Donat Poulen
Granby
Que
Wallingford
Tast
Poulen
Old Ives
Glen Echo Girl Scout Camp
Nixon Defends Adams in Row Over Influence Favors
Vice President Nixon defended President Eisenhower by saying there is no proof of wrongdoing by Sherman Adams in the scandal over costly favors from Bernard Goldfine. Adams admitted asking questions of regulatory agencies but denied using influence. agency officials supported his denial.
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Washington
Nixon
Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
White Horse
Adams
Truman
Bernard Goldfine
Keneath
Beaches Crowded As Mercury Reaches 83
Beaconsport crowds swarmed Sea side park and Plea dure Beach as temperatures hit 83 with cloudless skies and light breezes. Between 40 000 and 56 000 visitors flooded Sea side, 8000 more at Plea dure, and 7000 to 8000 watched the Barnum festival regatta from stands. Today expected hotter with mid 80s.
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Pleadure
Rebels Pounded Around Tripoli by Beirut Forces
Government forces pounded rebel strongholds around Tripoli by land and sea in the major battle of Lebanon’s seven week rebellion. Rebels threatened Kennedy Memorial Hospital, a U S facility in rebel territory overlooking Tripoli, where 25 patients and 42 staff remained inside. Nine killed and many wounded reported as gunboats shelled the port area and roads to the hospital were mined.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Tripoli
U.S. Presbyterian Hospital
U. S
Kennedy Memorial
Mediterranean
el Mena
Car Crash Kills Two On Merritt Parkway Bridge Abutment
In Trumbull at 9:15 am a 1953 convertible blew a right front tire sending it 250 feet out of control into the Madison avenue bridge abutment. Driver Felix Negron, 29, New York City, and passenger Bienvenida Cabrero, 45, Bronx, were killed instantly. Cabrero’s two daughters and a companion suffered head and facial injuries.
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Trumbull
Madison Avenue
Merritt Parkway
Felix Negron
New York City
Bienvenida Cabrero
Bronx
N. Y
William T. Corbett
Corbett
Cabrero
Patricia. Cabrero
Sonia Munoz
Rafael Lopez
South Main Street
Waterbury
St. Vincent's Hospital
Parkway
Alfred Venning
Westport
Louis D. ,Marchese
Frank J. Bennnett
Hurt in crash on the East Side
Seven persons including several children were injured in a two car crash at East Main and Pearl streets shortly before 6 PM. Police identified victims with ages and addresses, noting two children were ejected when a car door opened.
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East Main
Pearl
Bridgeport
Francisco Lopez
Beardsley Terrace
Idolino Velez
Hancock Avenue
Maria Medina
Victor Medina
Frances Medina
Michael Zuber
Booth Hill Road
Shelton
Donna Ruderman
Peter Nemeth
Nemeth
Maria L. Medina
Michael Zuber, Jr
Zuber
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