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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1958
Page
21
Fire chief notes losses estimated at 492 700 with endangerment value of 3 231 and forty alarms logged in February. Alarms included 16 funding 12 grad two autos nine miscellaneous and one fake. Health report records 26 chicken pox cases raising yearly total to 104. four German measles, one influenza, one mononucleosis, two botulism, three scarlet fever, and two other listed infections.
Town Meeting officials announced the March 24 session will be omitted due to no business. Town Clerk Remuel Glover said only the appropriation of 4908 for stew removal was listed and will be moved to the April meeting.
World War I veterans plan an auxiliary organization with an initial meeting today at noon in Legion Hall. All mothers wives sisters and daughters of World War I veterans are invited to attend.
Charles Fancher announces a lobster dinner tomorrow at 6 15 p m for the Stated Communication at the Masonic temple. Norman C Richards invites area Master Masons to attend a Rhody Hill Road dwelling event with Leroy Harvey Clayton and Wanda Rogers assisting. The Fellowcraft degree will be exemplified March 3 with Mr Harvey directing. Robert Buell, Trowel Club president, will announce committees for the ensuing year.
An Easter bonnet contest will feature the Nathan Halé echoo PIA meeting tonight at 8 o clock. All hats in the contest must be homemade. Mrs. Charles Jewaki is in charge of the program and refreshments will be served by auxiliary mothers. The Finance board meeting will discuss the proposed Fire Department budget for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. Hyman Person will conduct the session at 8 o'clock in the Town Court Room. Also to be presented tonight will be budgets for hydrants and water, the Building Commission and Civil Defense.
PTA meetings at 8 o'clock across Stratfield and Sherman schools. Budget hearing in Town Court Room at an unspecified time. Recreation for boys spans Roger Ludlowe Old Field Holland Hill Mckinley Stratfield Mill Hill 7 to 10. Dance lessons at Mill Plain 7 30 to 9 30. Townies teens meet at 7. Osborn Hill PTA supper at 6 30. George A Smith Legion post at 8 in Legion hall. Boy Scout troop 4 at Assumption school 7.
Stratford will relocate the Old Academy building near Town Hall. Work began yesterday on foundation holes as First Selectman Dimitl L. Kinnie explained town government operations to Roger Ludlowe High School students. The Beach Road area gains a street sweeper, Tunxis Volunteer Fire Company names delegates to the State Firemen’s convention and promotes Arnold J. Steeves to captain and adjutant of his ROTC squadron. Fred Flanagan is patient at Veterans Hospital in West Haven after a home illness.
Sydney fashion experts report a ten percent rise in walking cane use by well dressed young men in Austria. Gate receipts from the 1953 Kid Gavilan Chuck Davey bout in Chicago totaled 274,451 dollars.
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