Bridgeport Post and Telegram Circulation Details and Rates
Local notice outlines subscription options for The Bridgeport Post and The Bridgeport Telegram, including yearly and half year rates for Bridgeport residents and readers beyond 150 miles. It lists prices for daily, Sunday, and combined Post and Telegram services, plus single copies and mail delivery terms.
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Bridgeport Telegram
State St
Bridgeport
Conn
Bridgeport Post
Post Publishing Company
Morning
Bridgeport Sunday Post
Audit Bureau of
Sunday Post
Sun Post
Associated Press
Greenwich Time and the Global Prime Meridian
The 17th century king ordered Greenwich Observatory to chart the skies guiding ships. The 1884 Washington conference fixed the Greenwich meridian and time zones. Britain moved to year round daylight time to align with Western Europe and reduce dawn driving hazards.
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Charles II
England
Greenwich
Washington
Pacific
Britain
Europe
Western Europe
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Automobile Insurance Debate Moves to ABA Study
The American Bar Association will study whether automobile damage suits should be abolished amid rising backlogs in auto accident litigation. State efforts in Massachusetts North Carolina and New York to require insurance and compensate victims reflect costs and claims concerns, with supporters arguing for premium savings and opponents fearing doubled claims.
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American Bar Association
Massachusetts
North Carolina
New York
House of Representatives
Senate
Appli Bence
ABA
Admiral Rickover Calls for Faster Nuclear Vessel Development
The article notes Admiral Hyman G. Rickover pressing Congress and the Pentagon for accelerated progress on nuclear powered war vessels. It argues that despite hopes, aggression and wars persist and U S readiness remains essential amid ongoing global tensions.
Nuclear program urged by committee for world security
A congressionally convened committee declared the U S must aid weaker nations while tightening defense. It called for immediate major upgrades to the nuclear submarine program and criticized the Defense Department for not advancing nuclear powered guided missile escorts and destroyers. Vice Admiral Rickover emphasized the need for thorough defense establishment expansion.
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Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Hyman G. Rickover
Pentagon
U.S. Defense Department
Rickover
Welfare rolls surge as war raises anti poverty costs
The article notes a large rise in federal welfare recipients with 686 000 added last year and estimates total on federal welfare at about 2.5 million. HEW warns that if all eligible people joined, about 5 million would be on welfare and requests 1.135 billion more emergency funding plus the existing 4.1 billion, implying welfare costs could top 10 billion.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Farmers See Small Share Of Food Dollars Reported
The family food basket shows the farmer gets 37 cents of each consumer dollar, down from 54 cents years ago, while farm prices have fallen 10 percent over 20 years as wages and corporate profits rise. Poage warns of higher costs for shoppers. processors receive the added cost. Milwaukee alters garbagemen title to combustible truck loaders with unchanged pay.
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W. R. Poage
House Agricultural Committee
Poage
United States
Milwaukee
Patriotic coeds defend flag at Northwestern campus
Jackie Dzierzak and Lynn Schweick, Northwestern University students, defended the U S flag on the Evanston campus against peace demonstrators who sought to lower it. The pair, two male protesters and onlookers clashed briefly in a tug of war, then guarded the flag until the rally ended.
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Morning Star
Rockford
Jackie
Lynn
Jackie Dzierzak
Chicago
Lynn Schweick
Reading
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
United States
Vietnam
Soviet Tubeland
The Moscow Young Communist League notes 25 million Soviet TV sets with a high repair rate. Sputnik fails 55 percent after purchase, Volkhov 50 percent, other brands also poor. Faulty parts and rushed factory work blamed. Replacing a set or finding a repair comrade is nearly impossible.
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Chicago Tribune
Soviet Union
Moscow Young Communist League
Sputnik
Volkhov
Time At The Top Wastes Chief Executives Time
A Chicago study summarized in Business Management shows American chiefs work about 63 hours weekly, with managers spending over half their time in conversation and little solo work. It notes heavy dialing, handwritten memos, and mass reading hinder efficiency, concluding only 28 percent of firms get full ROI from their top leaders.
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U.S
Enomy
Sylvia Porter
Chicago
Daniel D. Howard Associates
Business Management
Howard
Nuclear Device Explosion Report at Yucca Test Site
The Atomic Energy Commission conducted a nuclear blast at the Yucca test site in Nevada. The device released energy about 20 000 tons of TNT and was not felt by many nearby communities. It marked the sixth test announced that year and the 332nd since 1951.
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Las Vegas, Ney
Atomic Energy Commission
Yucca
Nevada
AEC
New York Is 201 Faces Race and Foundation Funding Controversy
The piece attacks the Ford Foundation and IS 201 in New York City for backing a Jones play and a memorial event, linking them to funding from Ford and to broader tensions over civil rights and militant rhetoric. It cites LeRoi Jones, Herman Ferguson, and Martin Luther King Jr. charges, arguing foundations finance perceived extremism and urging a defensive response.
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Johnson
New York
LeRoi Jones
Malcom X
New York City
Ford Foundation
Martin Luther King
Washington
Ford i
Jack Kennedy
McGeorge Bundy
Far
Harlem
Herman Ferguson
Governing Board
Ferguson
le Roi
Jones
Newark
Foundation
Black Power Boys
National debate questions college for all goal
The article reports on Capitol Hill critics arguing that universal college education is unrealistic and that a broader vocational education system may better prepare youths for employment. It outlines proposed policy changes including expanded vocational training, two years of post secondary training, and increased federal funding, while noting government spending trends and reactions from lawmakers.
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Capitol Hill
Congress
Albert H. Quien
R-Minn
John“W. Gardner
Roman C, Pucinski
Cill
Narrow nationalism in the Test Ban debate sparks shifts
In August 1963 a senator shifted from opposing to backing the Test Ban Treaty after attending a Kennedy invitation trip to Moscow. The piece argues narrow nationalism buys political support, criticizes public relations, and warns of eroding sovereignty through treaty concessions on the Panama Canal and related issues.
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Kennedy
Moscow
Anand
Madison Avenue
Panama Canal
Robles
G Senate
Thurmond
South Carolina
H. R. Gross
Strom Thurmond
Food Cost Rise and Pay Gains Fail to Help Workers
Washington AP reports higher food and medical prices pushed January living costs up three tenths of a percent, with the CPI at 118.6 and annual inflation at 3.4 percent. Wholesale costs rose, grocery prices up, doctors fees up seven tenths, while clothing fell. About 615,000 workers under CPI contracts will gain one to four cents an hour due to rising living costs.
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Washington
Arnold Chase
Bureau of Labor Statises
Chase
Bu- Teau
Bu- Treau
Britain protests MIGs too close to airliners over Germany
Britain protested to the Soviet Union that MIG fighter planes came too close to British airliners in air corridors over East Germany. A spokesman confirmed at least two incidents in February with unclear details on the planes involved.
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