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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1958
Page
2
A scientist predicts a manned moon station by 1968 with funding debated by Congress. Topics cover satellite progress, potential US Russian cooperation, cost estimates, and the military and scientific value of lunar and interplanetary exploration.
Bonn West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss left Duesseldorf for a three week visit to the United States. He will meet Secretary Dulles and Secretary McElroy and visit American tank and aircraft plants. Chancellor Adenauer sent best wishes. Strauss said the trip would strengthen German American relations.
Services will be held today for Travis Alva Daniels Weaver 83 of Stratford a former business manager of Post Publishing and ex president of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce who died Saturday of a heart ailment. Cremation will be private at family discretion. The Chamber cancelled its weekly luncheon in observance of him.
Jarry Ford, broke and with 22 cents, tried to break into a market on a Thursday night. After a neighbor reported the window smash, police found him hiding under a truck and learned his wife Jane Fllen and infant had no food. Officers and a shopkeeper helped with milk and meals, but no charges were filed. Ford was released, his family restored, and authorities urged him to seek help, which he refused.
J Haldwin Pearson of Hald win Pearson and Company Wil Speak on the YMCA real estate course noting industrial and commercial real estate theories. The discussion touches on space travel, dangers of gravel and steel balls, and the impracticalities of testing space travel concepts with current technology.
A possible U S concession could push disarmament talks and a summit with the Soviet Union. Eisenhower, Dulles, and Menshikov plan a 1 a m CST meeting to discuss conditions for suspending atomic tests. Key demands include NATO consensus, access to test data, congressional approval, and finishing spring tests before any suspension takes effect. An inspection system remains essential to detect violations.
Dr Edward Teller called Harald Stassen's plan to halt atomic tests for two years while continuing weapon production dangerous and a lost cause. He warned there is no inspection system to prove compliance and that Russia could cheat, saying the proposal aims at an important zone but its methods are questionable.
Don Miller 65 advertising executive for the Columbia Broadcasting Company died today after a heart attack at his Westport home Walton Road. He collapsed at home and was taken to Norwalk hospital in a town ambulance. Services are set for Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. at Christ Hy Tranity church with Rev Frederic Li rector officiating. Miller is survived by his wife Jana Howe Miller a son Don in the US Air Force and a daughter Jit of New York. Funeral arrangements are by Fahl funeral home Westport.
Post master James Brennan names Roderik J. Roster as superintendent of the Chepayee post station and Andrew Wagner as superintendent of the parcel post station. Roster, a Milford native and Milford High School graduate, has served 26 years with the office. Wagner, with the department since 1944, previously supervised Devon station and parcel post duties. Both men are married, with three children and ties to Milford High School.
Lawmakers clash over carryover funds held by government departments and the Budget Bureau. Cannon warns that Congress losing control could lead to instalment buying and uncertain payments to contractors. Taber labels the plan dangerous, while a New Yorker substitute proposal seeks annual department justifications and presidential recommendations before final congressional funding decisions.
Survivors recount panic as water blasted through windows of the 148 ton ferry with capacity 345. A New Year girl, Mone Soya, says passengers rushed for life jackets and many were swept into the sea. Officials probe overload claims while Turkish navy deploys divers to recover more victims.
Phyllis Ann Whitenack of Bluefield West Virginia aged 17 wins junior Miss America. She took the scholarship money and plans to attend Queens College Charlotte. Runner up was Jon Bradley of Cartersville Georgia with a 7000 prize. Other top five include Line Wood Mississippi Panthea Reid Hobcattdasa and Gwen Jennings.
More than 700 florists from New England and New York attend the Hartford gathering as severe cold dampens azalea displays. The event at the Statler Hilton showcases flower arrangements and demonstrations while growers hold separate meetings and vendors offer wares.
Arch bishop's Chelsea procession to the National Guard armory faced no incident after death threats were reported. Boston and Chelsea police, with plain clothes officers along the route, escorted him from the Mass to the armory while crowds cheered. A search of Holy Cross cathedral found no danger and police guarded the archbishop’s Brighton residence as a precaution.
Milford resident Francis Calamita leads a campaign to form a Connecticut chapter of the National Timberwolf Association, grouping former 104th Infantry veterans. An organizational meeting is set for Sunday March 16 at 7 p.m. in West Haven. About 40 Connecticut veterans have been contacted, with about 200 more believed alive in the state invited to attend. Judge Arthur Mason of Framingham is expected to attend, with Maj. Gen. Terry Allen as national commander and the association totaling around 8,000 members.
U S Embassy West German and South Korean Red Cross reps met in a Korean Armistice village to receive possible captives from a vanished plane. Hobbs’s wife flew from Hong Kong to Seoul hoping his return. Pyongyang radio said captives would be turned over at a mutually agreed location inside North Korea. South Koreans would hand captives to the Red Cross. Rhee’s government refuses to negotiate with the North Korean puppet regime. The plane departed Pusan Feb 16 for Seoul. South Koreans allege communist agents seized the aircraft at gunpoint and forced the pilots north.
The Randall family and their three children attended a reception this evening after surveying their new home. Mrs Randall said they moved for space for the children and would not cramp the community, while Mr Randall, a Yale graduate and actuary in New York, worked on furniture. The children Juliet and Robert, ages 7 and 8, will start Broad River Elementary School tomorrow.
A nightmarish scene unfolded as 14 bodies were recovered from a sunken school bus lodged in the river near Knotley Hollow. Divers and heavy equipment pulled the bus from the mud, with authorities planning continued river patrols and underwater searches to locate the remaining 12 children. James Thomas Gusley, 15, was the first body recovered, found hanging partially out of the bus. Driver John Derossett, 27, was among those removed. The incident drew a crowd of 4,000 to 5,600 as rescue efforts moved forward. Authorities suspended nets downstream to catch any drifted remains while divers prepared for further underwater searches.
The nation's railroads report 1957 as their second best safety year with 6 passenger fatalities, a rate of 0.6 per 100 million passenger miles, compared with a historic high of 0.4 in 1852. AAR board chairman William T. Fariey noted figures from scheduled domestic sitings show 1d fatalities per 100 million passenger miles in 1957.
Cleaners at 4100 Main Street reported a break in through an air vent connected wire mesh to a cellar. Crown Food at 770 Park Avenue was entered through a back door. Thieves also accessed the Hawley Building at 670 State Street, ransacking three offices. A full inventory listing missing items was not available last night.
Miss Arzedi, reported missing and feared dead, reappeared at a Brooklyn police station with her fiancé Pinto and mother. She described a personal flight from Brooklyn to Manhattan to Los Angeles and back, saying she planned to wed at a future date. Police offered no further questions.
In Danbury city court on March 2 two men, Merritt Stilson and William Trudeau, were fined $25 each for obscene gestures and abusive language toward a Danbury police officer. Associate Judge Albert H. Hornig also suspended part of Stilson’s sentence. Stilson, 25, from Southbury, and Trudeau, 20, from Sandy Hook, Newtown, faced disorderly conduct charges.
The Newtown Young Republican club hosts its fourth annual meeting Saturday at Hawley Minor Inn with a 7 30 p m dinner dance. Credit for early success goes to State Representative Sarah Frances Curtis and others. The club, reorganized in 1954, trains future local leaders and supports party unity.
Pope John XXIII, 82, was greeted with telegrams from Italian premier Adone Zoli and West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer as he entered the 19th year of his pontificate. While a defamation suit against him was noted, sources said he attended Mass privately and showed good health. A major birthday observance was held at the Lateran and a coronation anniversary Mass is planned for March 12.
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