Group launches school data job committee aims for new high school
Mayor Tedesco’s High School Study committee organized to gather data for a new high school. Judge Milton E. J. Reinhard was elected chairman and Mrs. Charles Merritt secretary. Schools’ Supt Augusta Mendel Asst Supt Frank Piazza and City Planning Engineer Joseph M Dearborn to compile enrollment and land use figures. Two months before a complete report, planning ties to redevelopment relocation impacts on pupil distribution.
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Tedesco
Milton E. J. Reinhard
Board of Education
Charles Merritt
Augusta Mendel
Frank Piazza
Joseph M. Dearborn
Bridgeport Weather Summary Local Forecast
Official weather data for Bridgeport and vicinity shows mostly fair skies with a slight temperature change today. Highs 45 to 54, lows in the 30s, and increasing clouds tonight. Friday looks mostly cloudy and mild with a chance of occasional rain. highs 45 to 54. Northwest to west winds 1 to 13 mph. Almanac notes include date specifics and tide times for today and tomorrow.
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U.S
Bridgeport
Pigeon With Spring Fever Flies 550 Miles to Sea Deck
A homing pigeon named Snapper, about 8 months old, traveled 550 miles from Linden New Jersey to the deck of the Italian liner Cristoforo Colombo 350 miles off the Atlantic coast. Owner Joseph Surko says pigeons fly more as weather warms. Ship captain Capt Giuseppi Chalvien notified New York offices with the legband EWK 137 1F 57 identifying the bird.
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George W. Cornell
New York
Snapper
Joseph Surko
Linden
N. J
Cristoforo Colombo
Atlantic
Italy
Surka
Giuseppi Chalvien
Surko
Radio
Mes
Rem ARMS Fire Hits Duty Free Gun Market
E C Grifting, manager of the Remington Arms plant, says mutual aid returns of American made guns flood the U S market and cut employment by about 25 percent, with other U S plant drops and a 32 hour four day week at the IIion New York facility. He warns that unless industry relief arrives and mobilization needs are met, unemployment will rise and defense production will suffer. He cites surplus military rifles and sporting gun dumping as worsening factors from mutual aid allies and U S government releases.
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E. C. Grifting
Remington Arms Company
U.S
Remington
Tlion
N.Y
Griffing
Dredging Plan for Housatonic Cited at Stratford Hearing
Public hearing in Stratford drew 350 people to back Army Corps of Engineers dredging of the Housatonic from Stratford to Derby and Shelton. The plan calls for an 18 foot deep, 200 foot wide main channel about five miles from Long Island Sound and a seven foot, 100 foot wide secondary channel for 8.5 miles. Supporters argued flood control and revived navigation will aid industry and recreation, with Connecticut and local leaders urging favorable action. Opposing letters cited flood damage to properties and plants. no formal opposition voiced at the hearing.
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Housatonic
Shelton
Stratford
Army Corps of Engineers
Council Chamber
Col
S. W. Dziuban
di J Vision
Boston
Corps of Engineers
A. R. Chandler
A. A. Vulgaropulos
N. A. Lord
George Evans
Springfield
Army Corps
John J. Curry
State Water Resources Commission
Connecticut
Derby
Ribicoff
Army Engineers
Long Island Sound
Culvers Bar
Devon
Nelson Downes
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Henry Bradley
Manning, Maxwell, and Moore Inc
Downes
Sikorsky
Three Theories On Silent Explorer II Moon Contact
Iowa City March reports Dr James Van Allen physicist who led Explorer II decoding gear construction outlines three possible reasons for no contact with the second moon launch. He cites failure to reach orbit, miscalculated orbit, or radio failure. Van Allen heads State University of Town physics department.
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Iowa City
Iowa
James van Allen
United States
van Allen
State University of Town
M'Levy Named Fall Guy at Circus Saints Luncheon
At a Hotel Barnum session the Jumbo Tent of the Circus Saints and Sinners Club of America named Jasper McLevy the first Fall Guy to be honored at a luncheon on April 9 at noon. Walter Kiernan, president, outlined the group’s charitable aims and fall guy program, with officers and committee members listed.
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Hotel Barnum
Circus Saints
Sinners Club of America
Walter Kiernan
Jasper McLevy
Kiernan
J. William Hope
Frank A. Hayes
Harold B. Dow
Vernon C. Behn
Herman W. Steinkraus
Mr. Hope
Ray Flicker
William S. Simpson
G. Neil Tobin
Edwin
Hawaii Hit By Heavy Rain Deluge
Heavy rain drenched the Hawaiian islands dumping eight to 10 inches. The Weather Bureau warned conditions could worsen and flood warnings were issued. Communications were disrupted, streets and valleys flooded, low areas evacuated on Oahu, and schools closed. Red Cross opened an emergency shelter, Air Force flights were canceled due to lightning and fog.
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Honolulu
APA
Weather Bureau
Oahu Island
Red Cross
Air Force
Military
Hawaiian Islands
GOP Hints Move to Gear Aid Hire 1 Slump Period
Hartford March 5 AP Republican leaders weigh unemployment legislation targeted to a recession to avoid permanent expanded benefits. House and Senate adjourned after 108 bills with hearings set on jobless benefits and the governor’s public works plan. Rep Pope said details are early and stance may change as GOP members await hearings.
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Gear Aid
Hartford
iHouse
Fred Pope
Rep. Pope
House
Senate
Elmer S. Watson
Wethersfield
Pope
Ribicoff
Rep. Pop
Assembly
Milford residents on TV game show win small share
Forty three Milford residents appeared on Ive Got a Secret and won a total of 80 dollars, averaging about 1.86 per person. The segment spotlights Easy Acres on Pond Point road, dubbed Easy Street, as their living secret.
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Milford
Easy Street
Easy Acres
Pond Point Road
Senate panel backs $5 billion farm surplus disposal plan
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved programs to sell trade or give away nearly five billion dollars of farm surpluses over two years. The plan doubles the Benson request, bars tapering of barter, and extends foreign currency sales for two years through mid 1960. The action directs the Agriculture Secretary to barter up to five hundred million dollars.
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Washington
March
Senate <Agriculure Committee
United
Benson
Eisenhower
Senate
Pickets Move On as Council Debates Parking Ordinance
Union official Samuel G. Janis said an industry wide garment strike would likely settle soon while picketing of seven factories in the city resumes at 8 30. A mass meeting of 350 dress makers approved protests after walking out with 105000 other workers in seven states.
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Samuel G. Janis
Trumbull
Connecticut
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Harry W. Congdon American Legion Hall
Golden Hill Street
Janis
New Haven
Common Council
Donald A. Brown
Reds to Return 26 of 34 Aboard Airliner
North Korea says it will hand over 26 of the 34 people aboard a commercial airliner seized Feb 16. The group includes two Americans, a West German, and 22 Koreans. American pilot Willis P Hobbs and co pilot Lt Col Howard W McClellan among those named. Radar tracked the plane across the border after takeoff from Pusan Seoul. North Korea previously claimed seven Koreans seized the crew. those seven likely stay withheld.
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Panmunjom
Korea
AP Red North Korea
North Korea
Willis P. Hobbs
Vallejo
Calif
Howard W. McClellan
Buchanan
Mich
McClean
Pusan
Military Armistice Commission Secretariat
Two Greenwich Teens Sentenced for Basement Torture
Two Greenwich teens were sentenced to stay away from girls for six months and placed on probation after allegedly torturing ninth grade pupil Daniel J. Sullivan in a high school basement. The victim was bound with rope and metal strips, suspended, and beaten. the defendants Michael J. Bochas and Kenneth C. Muller faced breach of peace charges.
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Greenwich
Birle
Grace
Michael J. Bochas
Kenneth C. Mailer
William L Tinney
William Burke
Bochas
Muller
Daniel J. Sullivan
Sullivan
Dmn
Sullivan Burke
Jupiter-C Launch Fails to Put Explorer II In Orbit
At Cape Canaveral the Jupiter C lifted Explorer II aiming for orbit but signals and telemetry were faulted. Army and CALTECH scientists noted a high chance the satellite did not reach orbit and may be lost in or re-entering the atmosphere. Only one questionable signal came from Inyokern, California, as officials awaited data analysis over several days.
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Cape Canaveral
Florida
Pasadena
Calif
William Pickering
California Institute of Technology
John B. Medaris
Pickering
Army
Inyokern
Air Force Missile Test Center
Cape Caaveral
U.S
Earth
USS
U. S
Soviet Union
Reds Shell Island Taiwan Fires 27 Rounds
Chinese Reds on Amoy fired 27 rounds at Little Quemoy and nearby Ta Lanister. Other Red batteries ten miles north fired 15 rounds at Kaoteng in Matsui group. Defense Ministry said the attacks were harmless. the nationalists did not return fire.
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Taipei
Formosa
Amoy
Little Quemoy
Talanister
Kaoteng
Matsui
Defense Ministry
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Ansonia
Anthony Dimenzo
Florence O'Keefe
Dean Emerson
Star Pin Company
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Harry
M’levy
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Angelo Patri
Constantine Brown
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Dr. Bundesen
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Sylvia Porter
Wireptieln
Leon Campbell
Moonwatch
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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