Huntington Man Charged With Stealing Insurance Funds
Huntington Conn. man George F. McDermott 35 charged with stealing 870014 given by his former employer to pay insurance premiums. Co conspirator John Caldiero named. $521788 recovered and returned to Crane Co. plus assets in Antigua and Leeway Liquors. McDermott induced Crane Co. to buy four policies from his paper company. Indictment covers April 1966 to August 1968. he resigned thereafter.
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New York
Huntington
John Caldiero
Global Risk Underwriters Ltd
Antigua
West Indies
Hogan
Crane
Caldiero
Leeway Liquors Ltd
McDermott
Stamford
Hi Ho Buys Bridgeport Orbits Renames Team Jets
Frank D Addario purchased majority control of the Atlantic Coast Football League team, renaming the Bridgeport Orbits to the Bridgeport Jets. The Jets will operate as a farm club for the New York Jets with the New York organization handling personnel decisions. Milt Rosner stays as general manager and Herman Wolf Associates handles public relations.
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Emmety Spillane
Braves
Boston
Bridgeport
Park City
Frank D’addario
Orbits
D'Addario
New Haven
Dan Adley
Jim Lamberti
Newton Schenck
Israel Gordon
Bridgeport Jets
New York Jets
American Football League
Algonquin
New York
Rosner
Milt Rosner
Herman Wolf Associates
Connecticut Coke and Fuel Company
North Avenue
Waterbury
Bridgeport Area Weather Outlook Mild And Sunny
Mostly sunny and milder today with a high near 50 to 60. Tonight remains fair and mild with a low in the 40s. Showers are unlikely, 20 percent today and 10 percent tonight, winds southwest 10 to 20 mph. Almanac notes March 27 as the eighty seventh day of the year with sunrise at 5:45 am and sunset at 6:12 pm.
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Bridgeport
Police Board Finds No Brutality Proof After High School Dance
The Board of Police Commissioners announced no evidence of brutality by officers against three youths arrested after a Warren Harding High School gym dance. Wiley Wheeler said four officers were injured and the incident inflamed community tensions, but the board found the officers acted properly after lengthy investigations and medical reports.
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Warren Harding High School
Wiley Wheeler
Board of Police Commissioners
Mr. Wheeler
Wheeler
Restraint Urged By Leaders at East End Rally
Calm but firm action by responsible leaders kept the crowd from erupting at a public rally at East End Baptist tabernacle. More than 500 Negroes and a few whites discussed alleged police brutality charges against Bridgeport policemen during a Saturday arrest of three teenagers near Harding high school. Rev. James Peters urged adults to drive youths toward restraint and nonviolence.
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East End
Abrams Meets Johnson in Washington on Vietnam Strategy
Gen Creighton Abrams, top Westmoreland deputy, slips into Washington for talks with President Johnson about Vietnam, with secrecy surrounding details. Reports say Abrams may be a candidate to succeed Westmoreland as commander before Westmoreland leaves to become Army chief of staff in July.
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Westmoreland
Fred 8S. Hoffman
Washington
Creighton W. Abrams
Johnson
Pentagons
Abrams
William C. Westmoreland
Vietnam Command
Army
Urban Coalition Reviews Police Community Relations Plan
Greater Bridgeport's Urban Coalition weighing its role in police community relations as its steering committee examines a police oversight plan in an early stage of development.
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Greater Bridgeport
Robles Guars Block Panama Assembly Sparks Riots
In Panama City the national guard under deposed President Marco Robles halted the assembly from hearing a rival leader's message. Rioters were dispersed with tear gas and shots, injuring seven, including civilians and guardsmen. Max Delvalle, sworn in by the assembly, dodged amid the turmoil as the guard kept recognizing Robles.
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Panama
Marco A. Robles
National Guard
National Assembly
Legislative
Max Delvalle
Assembly
Guard
Robles
David Samudio
Arnulfo Arias
Delvalle
Congress Deals Double Setback To Johnson Financial Planners
Waves of Viet Cong attacks and heavy fighting across the central highlands, Khe Sanh, Soc Trang, and Trang Bang yield significant casualties. U S and South Vietnamese forces report numerous enemy kills as air and ground actions continue near Kontum and Saigon amidst air strikes from Ta Khli bases.
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Congress
Johnson
Saigon
Central Highlands
U.S
Khe Sanh
Mekong
Soc Trang
25Th Infantry Division
Suoi Sup
Trang Bang
Air Force
North Vietnam
Ta Khli
Thailand
U.S. 4Th Infantry Division
Kontum
Fairfield School Budget Increase Proposal Rapped
The Fairfield Board of Education seeks a 9,920,585 budget, up 1,232,777 from last year, with 757,000 for contracts with teachers and administrators. First Selectman John J Sullivan and fellow selectmen led opposition at a Grasmere hearing attended by over 200, aiming to cap the rise at about 1 million.
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Fairfield Board of Education
Finance Board
Grasmere
First
Pill Aims to Stop Cancer Spread by Charging Cells
Dr Bernard Gardner at SUNY Brooklyn Medical Center outlined a new research line at an American Cancer Society symposium. The approach seeks a pill to alter electrical charges on cancer cells to prevent clumping and metastasis after tumor removal, based on how opposite charges attract and like charges repel.
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Ralph Dighton
San Diego
Calif
Bernard Gardner
State University of
Gardner
Singer and General Precision Reach Merger Accord
Singer Co and General Precision Equipment announced in New York that they have reached an agreement in principle on a merger. The Singer Metrics division operates in Bridgeport with about 500 workers at 915 Pembroke Street. The merger would exchange GPE shares for Singer stock and new preferred stock, convertible over 10 years into common stock, with liquidation preferences and stock terms to be approved by directors and shareholders.
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Singer Co
General Precision Equipment Corporation
New York
Singer Metrics
Bridgeport
Pembroke Street
Singer
General Precision Equipment
GPE
Singer Common
Singer Co. Common
New York Stock Exchange
John P. van Duyne
Easton
General Manger
GOP Nominee Wins Stamford Judgeship
Republican Louis J. Jacovo defeated Democrat Paul A. Plotkin in a special Stamford probate judge election. Jacovo captured 8,897 votes to 7,562, filling the vacancy created last fall by Judge John Keating's death.
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Stamford
Louis J. Jacovo
Paul A. Plotkin
Jacovo
Plotkin
John Keating
Bullard Blaw-Knox Mergers Into WCI Approved
Stockholders of Bullard of Bridgeport Blaw-Knox of Pittsburgh and White Consolidated Industries of Cleveland voted to merge into WCI. Bullard shares 81 percent in favor 3.7 percent against. Effective today the merger completes with state filings. WCI to gain Bullard Blaw-Knox assets adding about 250 million in annual sales. White shareholders also approved share increases and reclassification boosting dividends on preferred stock.
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Bullard Company
Bridgeport
Blaw-Knox Company
Pittsburgh
White Consolidated Industries, Inc
Cleveland
Bullard
Edward P. Bullard II
WCI
Bullard General Office
Ohio
Connecticut
Delaware
White Consolidated
Senate showdown over Johnson tax and spending plan
The Senate heads to a final vote on merging Johnsons 10 percent income tax surcharge with a 6 billion dollar federal spending cut. Earlier actions saw a Treasury ban on tax exempt bonds overruled, and the House committee failing to move a tourist tax abroad. Leaders Williams and Smathers touted support despite House resistance and a pending Senate House conference.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson Administration
Senate
President Johnson
Treasury
House
Ways and Means
John J. Williams
R-Del
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Smathers
Ways and Means Committee
Senate House
Nixon Drive Starts With County GOP Help
Fairfield county figures organize a statewide Republican committee to back Richard Nixon for the GOP presidential nomination. State Rep. John W. Boyd fronts the group with goals to win support from Connecticut's 16 delegates. The move follows a party freeze on individual candidacies and gains blessing from Republican State Chairman Howard E. Hausman.
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Fairfield County
Richard M. Nixon
John W. Boyd
Westport
Fairfield County Republican Organization
Nixon
Connecticut
Boyd
Howard E. Hausman
Hartford
Hausman
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Albert L. Cole
Greenwich
Reader's Digest
Peter P. Mariani
Groton
William O. Jordan
Willimantic
Republican State Central Committee
George T. LaBonne Jr
Glastonbury
A. Searle Pinney
Eisenhower opposes any candidate who favors capitulation
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower says he will not support any candidate who advocates capitulation in Vietnam. In Readers Digest he criticizes dissent that weakens national resolve and calls for honest negotiations only if both sides intend to negotiate in good faith. He singles out North Vietnam as lacking such intentions and rebukes armchair strategists.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vietnam
Readers Digest
Eisenhower
Europe
South Vietnam
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Grid Team
By Pete Mastronardi
Gen. Abrams
LBJ
Viet
Urban Coalition Tables Plan For Review Board
25Th Division
Fairfield
Pill
Abby
Dr. Brandstadt
M.D
Ari
Financial News
Jacoby On Bridge
Polly’s
Sylvia Porter
Oreo
GOP
Carmen Tortora
Cancer Crusade
Cancer Crusade Group
Norwalk
Rex Fuller
Blaw-Knox
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