Bridgeport Newspapers Publish Daily Telegram and Post Details
The Bridgeport Telegram and Bridgeport Post publish schedules and prices. The Telegram is a morning paper with a Sunday Post option, and both papers offer subscriptions by mail. Rates vary by duration with separate city and long-distance terms and a post bureau affiliation.
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Bridgeport Telegram
State St
Bridgeport
Conn
Bridgeport Post
Audit Bureau of
the Post Publishing Company
Bridgeport Sunday Post
Sunday Post
Sun Post
Bridgeport Upholds Police in Youth Disturbance Case
In Bridgeport last summer after a Warren Harding High School dance a disturbance led to three youths being charged with police brutality. The Board of Police Commissioners cleared the officers involved noting four policemen were injured and urging restraint and unity across neighborhoods. The editorial stresses maintaining law and order while avoiding overreaction.
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Warren Harding High School
Board of Police Commissioners
Wiley Wheeler
Wheeler
James Peters
East Side
Peters
Red Cross Campaign Seeks 29000 in Local Drive
The Red Cross faces financial strain and seeks public aid through a local drive directed by Ernest H. Noren Jr. The fund aims to support emergency communications mass feeding and long term rehabilitation for disaster victims across the community.
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Red Cross
Bruce S. Kershner
Ernest H. Noren, Jr
Good Guys Gain Points on Youth Service at UCSB
A California report highlights 500 University of California Santa Barbara students spending over 2,500 hours weekly tutoring disadvantaged children serving as scouts and taking trips. They work under the Associated Student Community Aid Board and receive the same reward for their service.
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California
University of California At Santa Barbara
Name Buttons to Guard Congressmen From Disrespect
A Rules Committee subpanel studies issuing lapel name buttons to Congress members to reduce misidentification by staff. The discussion recalls veterans mistaking younger members for pages, with a historic anecdote about John F Kennedy as a messenger.
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Rules Committee
North Carolina
John I. Kennedy
No Peace Hope In Soviet Link
Leon Dennen analyzes the 1968 U S Vietnam debate as candidates promise peace moves with Moscow amid doubts. Kennedy Nixon and McCarthy face vague plans while Johnson and Rusk acknowledge Moscow’s resistance, and Sihanouk’s Cambodia shows risks of appeasement.
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Leon Dennen
POST
NEA Foreign News
New York
United States
Vietnam
Senmuieriem Siging
Johnson
Eugene J. MacCarthy
McCarthy
New Hampshire
Robert F. Kennedy
Tough Dove
Richard Nixon
Hanoi
Russia
Kennedy
White House
Senator Kennedy
Nixon
Moscow
Rean Rusk
China
Mao ‘Tse-tung
Southeast Asia
Kennedty
Marxist-Leninists
International Rescue Committee born from wartime refugee aid
The International Rescue Committee is highlighted as a major nonsectarian, privately funded organization aiding refugees worldwide. It traces origins to 1933 with figures including Jol Dewey and Albert Einstein and notes ongoing work through Hungary 1956, Berlin Wall era, Vietnam, Cuba, and other crises. The world refugee population exceeds 16 million.
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Jol Dewey
Albert Eimstein
International Rescue Committee
France
Hungary
Berlin
IRC
Truji
Dominican Republic
Duvalier
Haiti
Congo
Angola
Laos
Tibet
Castro
Cuba
Vietnam
America
TRC
Peale Attacks Spock Over Child Rearing Strategy
The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale criticizes Dr. Benjamin Spock for a “don’t let them cry” approach to child rearing. Peale claims this method has helped create an undisciplined era, while noting Spock’s first rule is to check for hazards like an open safety pin when a baby cries.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Benjamin Spock
Spock
Peale
Checkers Motors Eyes U.S. Diesel Car Launch
Checker Motors Corp of Kalamazoo announces diesel option for marathon passenger cars and taxis in the United States. The Perkins diesel engine will be available late summer, with the firm claiming to be the only U.S. automaker offering both gasoline and diesel choices.
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Chicago
Checker Motors Corp
Kalamazoo
Mich
United States
Checker Marathon
U. S
David R. Markin
Checker
Kennedy strategy hinges on Oregon and California wins
The analysis reports Kennedy expects a strong Indiana showing but needs wins in Oregon and California to threaten Johnson at the Democratic convention. McCarthy’s exit is desired before May 28 Oregon voting, while Wisconsin reports hint at a McCarthy edge. Johnson maintains party machinery with governors largely backing him.
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Donald M. Rothberg
Robert F. Kennedy
Wisconsin
Eugene J. McCarthy
Johnson
Kennedy
Washington
Gene
Indiana
Roger Branigan
McCarthy
Branigan
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Chicago
Oregon
California
Timing
Lynch
Associated Press
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
Thousands of Cuban Private Firms Seized in Revolt Offensive
Fidel Castro’s Revolutionary Offensive, in its third week, has seized thousands of small private businesses and pushed for mass labor in sugar and coffee fields. Neighborhood CDR groups oversee nationalized shops, suppress anti government talk, and confront private owners. Havana teeters as restaurants close and fuel rations curb traffic. The drive targets unemployed youth and condemns loafers as the regime enforces military style labor.
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Castro
Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Cdrs
CDR
Cdrsi
Connecticut Factory Wages Rise to 127.56 in February
Connecticut's average weekly factory paycheck climbed to 127.56 in February from 126.24 in January as hourly earnings rose to 3.03 and the workweek expanded to 42.1 hours. Nonfarm employment reached 3,123,870, with the manufacturing sector driving most gains, especially metalworking firms adding 2,470 workers.
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Hartford
Connecticut
State Labor Department
Expellee's Hope and Fears in a Divided Germany
In Hanover, Erhard Herzig recalls life as a German expellee fleeing Silesia after World War II. He describes loss of home, identity, and the cold hard fact of a border fixed by the Oder-Neisse line. The article notes mass displacement, political resistance to reclaiming lands, and Willy Brandt's push for acceptance of postwar borders at Nuernberg.
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Hanover
Kings
Erhard Herzig
Silesia
Oder-Neisse
Herzig
United States
Pomerania
Brandenburg
France
Britain
Soviet Union
Oder-Neéisse
Nuernberg
Social Democratic Party
Willy Brandt
Oder-Neisse Line
Europe
West Germany
Czechslovakia
Sudetenland
Nurnberg
United Press International
Connecticut Politics Tangle Over Ribicoff Neutrality
Critics debate Senator Ribicoff’s stance on the Democratic presidential nomination with Bailey and the Connecticut party structure. They note Ribicoff’s Viet Nam challenges and potential shift away from Johnson, while Bailey fears losing control as grassroots currents challenge the party line. Bailey faces a narrowing political space as insurrection grows within state delegations.
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Bailey
Ribicoff
Democratic Agion Oamstead
Johnson
Johnson Ribicoff
Vietnam
Ribicofft
Fulbright
Kennedy
McCarthy - Kennedy
Boston church blaze destroys First Church in Back Bay
A fire in Boston destroyed the First Church in Boston Unitarian Universalist at 64 Berkeley Street and spread to 53 adjacent buildings. Fire Commissioner William Fitzgerald estimated damages over $2 million as upper floors and interiors suffered major damage. No serious injuries, residents evacuated in night clothes as heat melted car paint nearby.
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Boston
UPI
Unitarian Universalist
Berkeley St
Back Bay
John Winthrop
Haddon Hall
Berkeley and
Marlborough Streets
Commonwealth Ave
William Fitzgerald
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DeNaught Syndicate, Inc
Re Manning
Thomas C. Lynch
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Lower Saxony
Union of the Expelled
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