Senate debate on postal pay raises and rate hikes
Senate and House clash over proposed 12.5 percent postal worker raises and rate increases to fund modernization. Democrats push to veto and resist cuts, while Republicans back higher charges, with key differences in first to fourth class rates and a government deficit around 760 million dollars for the year.
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Carlson
Sen. Monroney
D-Okla
Summerfield
Olin Johnston
D-Sc
Senate Post Office Committee
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
House
GOP Convention Set for Tuesday in Girattie Hotel
Republican Town Chairman Hanford W. Bigelow issued a call for a city convention in the Girattie hotel at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The meeting will consider a slate for the Town committee and delegates to state congressional and county conventions. The Town committee will finalize the official party slate at a Thursday meeting in the same hotel.
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Hanford W. Bigelow
Girattiele Hotel
Tuday
Baursday
At & P.m
Decision Near On Dress Strike In Textile Industry
The industry faces a possible dress strike with most workers being women. The union seeks a 15 percent wage raise, stricter penalties for contract violations, extended paid holidays, and time and a half for overtime to piece workers. Current wages average 31.86 an hour locally and about 2.10 in New York where 57,000 workers labor. Other workers are in New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Council Debates New Pay Plan for Next Year
The group discusses raises set to start April 1 1909 but agrees not to act immediately after Mayor Tedesco requests admin approval for a one year deferment. City officials weigh legality and confer with the Mayor as they consider Griffenhagen proposals and a possible year long plan.
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Tedesco
Leonard B. Kershner
Gladstone
City Adv
Hugh C. Curran
Curran
Dance hall owner held under Blue Law in Milford
Milford February 28 Wentworth D Smith 43 of 237 High Street owner of a roller rink and a dance hall on Daniel Street to plead not guilty when arraigned Monday in Town Court on a charge of operating a dance hall on Sunday in violation of Blue laws. He was arrested last Sunday night by Lieutenant John O Connell during a dance. Smith says the sign offered skating 7 to 9 pm and dancing 9 to 12 midnight and that patrons paid only for skating. police seized the sign as evidence. This marks the first Blue Law arrest since early last year following earlier attempts to revise the law.
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Milford
Wentworth D. Smith
High Street
Daniel Street
General Assembly
Mattress Blaze at Savoy Hotel Ends With Arrest
A smoldering mattress on the Arch Street side of the Savoy Hotel caused a small smoke scare at about 15 minutes past midnight. William Bryce, 40% of 905 Grant Street, was arrested on a city ordinance charge for careless handling of combustibles after firemen contained the smoldering bed and evacuated roomers. He posted $100 bond.
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Savoy Hotel
Main Street
Arch Street
William Bryce
Grant Street
So Amoke
John E. May
George Pelham
Bryce
Labor outlines aid program for unemployed in state
State Senator Bauer supports a 10 aid plan funded by a temporary sales tax hike to help families when the chief breadwinner is out of work. Governor Ribicoff notes unemployment fell to 8,200 in February but remains serious as Bridgeport and other plants restart. He backs higher unemployment compensation and a highway and public works bond issue at the forthcoming special session.
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Bauer
Alsop
State Labor Department
Ribicoff
Underwoord Corporation
Bridgeport
Esso and Socony Raise Gasoline Prices in Several States
Esso and Socony boosted gasoline prices in multiple states with Newark 7.4 to 15.4 cents and Albany 15.4 to 15.9 cents. Linden New Jersey rose to 15.2, Hartford Connecticut to 35.4, while Burtington Vermont, Buffalo, New York City saw no changes. New York City dealers face 16.1 cents and Philadelphia 15.2 cents after taxes and markup. Esso limited increases to New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania for now, with New England and Delaware under study. Bridgeport and Stamford figures not available.
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Boston
Albany
Linden
N. J
Hartford
Conn
Socony
Burtington
Buffalo
New York City
Esso
Philadelphia
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New England
Delaware
Bridgeport
Stamford
Milford Man Held After Break In Attempt
Milford resident Edward T. Mahoney 29 was arrested on a charge of breaking and entering and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license. Police said he admitted attempting to break into the Melba Pharmacy after a burglar alarm sounded. Mahoney, found with minor injuries from broken glass, was held on $2,000 bond for questioning.
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Milford
Edward T. Mahoney
Edgefield Avenue
Richard Pendleton
Slong Melba Street
Melba Street
Mahoney
Pendleton
Melba
Board votes to invite bids on restaurant at airport
The Municipal Airport commission approved inviting bids to privatize operation of the Happy Landing restaurant, citing deficits and potential service gains. Mayor Tedesco chaired the organizational meeting and city officials arranged contract specs with Purchasing Agent Meath.
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Municipal Airport Commission
Happy Landing
Tedesco
John M. Brannelly
Donald Meath
Pleasure Beach
Hide
Park Department
Horace Strong
Lawler
Commission
Strong
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Brannelly
Hugh Currran
William L. Keller
Common Council
Louis I. Gladstone
John J. Morris
Stratford
Harry B. Flood
Malarkey
Two youths rob grocery. 580 taken at Lindley St
Mrs. Papazian reports two teenage bandits 16 to 17 years old held up a grocer and took 580 in cash. They fled south on Lindley street in a car, as police led a search without success. The store is near St. Vincent's hospital and the Papazians live at 1552 Wood avenue.
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Papezian
Wood Avenue
Heli-Coil Workers Reach Agreement on Contract
Danbury February 28 IAM Shelter Rock Lodge 983 members approved a new contract with Heli-Coil after 60 days of negotiations. Seven changes in the current contract were accepted including non wage benefits. The pact covers 135 bargaining unit employees. total Heli-Coil staff numbers 256. Norman Keeler chaired the negotiating committee with Paul Dinto and Raymond Bailey assisting.
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Danbury
International Association of Machinists
Shelter Rock
Heli-Coil
IAM
Haters Hall
JAM
HeliCoil
Norman Keeler
Paul Dinto
Raymond Bailey
Eisenhower to undergo checkup after tooth extraction
President Eisenhower, 67, had an upper molar removed at Walter Reed Army Hospital. He will begin a neurological checkup tomorrow, a follow up to the November stroke, with three neurologists from that time.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
White House
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Robert N. Shira
Walter Reed Dental Staff
Edward H. Stesmeyer
Robert D. Youmans
City weighs bond package for several municipal projects
The Financial Advisory committee will meet Monday at noon in City Hall to consider nearly two million in bonds for school sight preservation, West End elementary school expansion, sewer work, a new incinerator on Bostwick avenue, and a Seaside Park comfort station and refreshment stand. Of note, a prior $700,000 authorization and a separate $1,000,000 incinerator bond have already been issued.
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Tedesco
West End
Bida
Bostwick Avenue
Mack Near Collapse as Push Grows for Resignation
White House aide James Hagerty refused comment on Mack's status while President Eisenhower prepared for a Walter Reed checkup. Mack insisted Whiteside acted as a friend, denied knowledge of an ax to grind, and faced calls from Rep Moss to resign for unfitness. Harris condemned the proceedings as a conspiracy undermining the FCC, urging Mack to quit.
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Ike
James C. Hagerty
White House
Hagerty
Mack
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
Whiteside
Miami
National Airlines
Rep
Moss
FCC
Harris
Prober
Sharp
Level Jones Harris
Englewood Hospital Reports 18 Patients Under Care
Dr. Richard C. Shea said Englewood hospital treated 18 patients last week. Three had tuberculosis, one scarlet fever, one chickenpox with tonsillitis, and 13 were in the new illness care program. In the prior month eight tuberculosis patients were moved to state sanitariums.
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Richard C. Shea
City Health
Englewood Hospital
Englewood
Rain Lashes Coast as Tide Soars and Flood Fears Ease
Wet weather swept Connecticut with four foot coastal tides and high water in Seaside Park and Pleasure Beach. By evening most roads cleared and police reported no additional flooding after evacuations. rivers were rising earlier but stabilized by late afternoon.
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Bridgeport
Seaside Park
Pleasure Beach
Fairfield
Westport
Milford
Connecticut
Fire sweeps house. Naugatuck man dies in blaze
Naugatuck police say Chester Ruszczyk, 47, of Mulberry Road, died after a fire swept his six room home. Firefighters rescued him from the second floor but he could not be revived after an hour of artificial respiration. He died at St. Marys hospital in Waterbury. His wife is hospitalized there. The home suffered about 10 thousand dollars in damage. He left a widow and four children. All children were outside the house when the fire started.
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Naugatuck
Chester Ruszczyk
Mulberry Road
Ruszczyk
St. Mary's Hospital
Waterbury
Roszczyk
Thor launched in test of nose cone during missile flight
The Thor rocket lifted in a nose cone test after a brief burn, its descent reentering the atmosphere toward a target. General Electric supplied the nose cone, with training underway for crews handling the components. The test marked the 12th Thor launch and the second flight test of a nose cone with the complete missile.
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THOR
Earth
General Electric
Air Force
Atlas
Navy
Class of '43 Plans Stratford Reunion
Stratford high school class of 1943 moves ahead with a June 14 reunion at Nu-Champion Seaview avenue. A committee led by Helen Fitzsimmons Ryan and others will contact known members and seek additional volunteers.
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Stratford High School
Seaview Avenue
Helen Fitzsimmons Ryan
Irene Dunbar Correll
Laly Agresta McCarthy
Jean Horfield
Robert Horkheimer
Joseph Felix
Edward Kost
Frank McNamara
Woman dies in fire at Talcott Mountain home
Ida Smith Shepard wife of a Connecticut tobacco grower died in a fire that heavily damaged her $85,000 Georgian residence on Talcott mountain. Fire Chief O Loughlin said her body was found in a confined bed she used due to ill health as investigators probing the blaze in the north section. Carpenters working nearby reported the fire.
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West Hartford
Ida Smith Shepard
Connecticut
Talcott Mountain
John T. O'Loughlin
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