Bridgeport Telegram and Bridgeport Post pricing and access info
The Bridgeport Telegram and Bridgeport Post publish daily and Sunday editions with combined and separate subscription rates. Local residents pay 1 year 21.90 for daily or 34.00 with Sunday Post. 6 months 10.50 or 17.30. 3 months 6.25 or 8.65. single copy 1.10, Sunday Post 0.35. Beyond 150 miles, 1 year 3.00 for daily or 49.00 with Sunday Post. 6 months 15.00 or 24.50. The papers are part of The Post Publishing Company, with AP affiliation.
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Bridgeport Telegram
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Bridgeport
Conn
Bridgeport Post
Audit Bureau of
the Post Publishing Company
Bridgeport Sunday Post
Sunday Post
Sun Post
Associated Press
Focal
Children’s Television Workshop aims to educate via showbiz style
Lively TV methods will be used to teach preschoolers through Children’s Television Workshop. Funding comes from the Carnegie Corporation Ford Foundation and the federal government to reach millions under age six, with an $8 million start in fall 1969.
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Carnegie Corporation
Ford Foundation
Children’s Television Workshop
Educational TV
Ribicoff Pushes Open Convention Plan for Connecticut Delegates
Senator Abraham Ribicoff proposes allocating Connecticut delegates by each presidential candidate Kennedy Johnson and McCarthy, urging an open convention. Party chair Bailey supports Johnson’s unit rule, risking splits. readers await Ribicoff’s stance before 1960 stalemate and upcoming Democratic strategy.
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Abraham Ribicoff
Connecticut
Johnson
Kennedy
McCarthy
John M. Bailey
Thomas J. Dodd
John F. Kennedy
Ribicoff
Bailey
Nature Bank Aims to Save Threatened Species in Maryland
A 1965 Nature Bank initiative at the Wildlife Research Center on the Patuxent River Laurel Maryland focuses on saving species such as the whooping crane masked bobwhite and Aleutian Canada goose. It seeks expanded funding to build a Noahs Ark style refuge program to breed and reintroduce wildlife into the wild.
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U.S
Wildlife Research Center
Patuxent River
Laurel
Patuxent
Ambitious plan to establish new wildlife stations
The agency outlines aims to create additional stations within a decade across regions like the Gulf states for tropical species, the Southwest for desert types, and Hawaii for oceanic and tropical land forms. The project, though costly in time, seeks to preserve wildlife for future enlightenment.
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Gulf States
Southwest
Hawaii
Immigration changes set quotas by hemisphere starting July
The July first reform ends national origins quotas and replaces them with hemisphere based limits. Preference goes to relatives and skilled workers, with broader eligible origins and a first come, first served approach by region. Irish protests urge restoring traditional preferences.
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United States
Random jury selection returns in U S courts
Congress requires federal juries to be chosen by lot from voter lists with no exclusion by race religion sex or origin. Judges will implement the random method to ensure a representative cross section, despite concerns about education and complex federal cases. A management study notes only 28 percent of firms get full return from their top executives.
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United States
Thomas Jefferson
U.S
Congress
Mao
Cleveland
Gary
Ind
Carmichael
Church of the Redeemer
Crash Research That Is Needed
The national highway safety bureau will study the crash experience of at least 27 passenger car makes and models over five model years 1965–69 in New York State. Data will reveal how crash and fatality records vary by vehicle, aiding motorists in shopping for safety.
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Milwaukee Journal
National Highway Safety Bureau
New York State
William Haddon, Jr
New York
Picketing In Style On Fifth Avenue Ads Fur Coat Protest
About 40 neatly dressed protesters paraded on New York's Fifth Avenue for 45 minutes to oppose use of spotted cat skins in fur coats. They warned that Africa faces dwindling big cats and questioned whether fashion buyers will heed the plea to spare sea otters and other species.
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Miami Herald
New York
Fifth Ave
Africa
Africa needs education and training over aid says Porter
In East Africa the author critiques Western aid as ineffective without education. She notes Tanzania Uganda Kenya faces schooling gaps and rising population, urges U S focus on training workers and farmers, not large loans or devaluations, citing recent currency neutrality and local attitudes toward gifts.
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Dar Es Salaam
Tanzania
Arusha
The
Nile
Uganda
Sylvia Porter
East Africa
Britain
Kenya
U.S
Africa
Opinion: church and Carmichael clash over guns in race debate
The author condemns Stokely Carmichael and the idea that guns equalize power, noting that churches like Washington's Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer have drawn fire for endorsing violent rhetoric. The piece argues voting, not violence, remains the path to political influence and cites African American officeholders as evidence of progress.
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Vane Masullullott
Washington
Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer
Stokely Carmichael
Christ
Finany
Piers
Church of the Redeemer
Carmichael
Carmi
Johnson faces critics as he backs commission findings
President Johnson, under fire from Sens Eugene J. McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy, remains noncommittal about the commission’s proposals after calls for praise. Vice President Humphrey broadens attack, arguing the report overstates gains and warns of a two Society split, while noting persistent white discrimination in jobs, housing, and education.
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Johnson
Sens
Eugene J. McCarthy
Robert F. Kennedy
Simpatico
Commission
Humphrey
Comic Dictionary Entry Sinner
A comic dictionary entry defines a sinner as a stupid person who is exposed or found out.
Kennedy to Lead Again Acalm Political Reflection
The piece surveys Bob Kennedy in a 1968 style scenario, comparing him to John and RFK. It notes the televised stage, the shift from Bobby to Bob, and how his run questions Kennedy era policies. It highlights his stance on Civil Rights, poverty programs, Vietnam, and his NSC experience during crises.
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Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Jack Kennedy
Bob Kennedy
Kennedy
JFK
RFK
Bob
Bobby
John Kennedy
U.S
National Liberation Front
Vietnam
National Security Council
Connecticut McCarthy Uprising Faces Disillusionment and Split
A Connecticut columnist recalls a spontaneous McCarthy movement that dazzled with purity but quickly faced a stark shift as Kennedy involvement pressed its members to abandon amateurism. The piece predicts possible further decline unless the movement heals and resists professional power.
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Kennedy
Connecticut
McCarthy
Cities Face Disaster from Pollution Warns Official
Harold Romer, director of field services for New York City’s Air Pollution Control, warned at the Eastern Regional Safety Convention that every American city faces disaster unless air water and soil pollution are tackled together with modern managerial principles. He urged integrated environmental control considering all influencing factors.
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New York
UPI
Harold Romer
New York City
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