Fairfield Adopts Line Taking Most of Lochner Route
Fairfield representatives approve a thruway route aligning mainly with Lochner plans with deviations from Southport Post road to North Benson road. About 250 attend in Fairfield high school auditorium as plan moves to study inland highway and halt shoreline work.
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Lochner
Fairfield
Post Road
Southport
Benson Road
Town Plan and Zoning Commission
duPont Company
Ronald J. Henry
Governor Lodge
Fairfield County
Herbert C. Elton
Robert Bryan
Representives
Elton
Wood- Lpon Avenue
Kings Highway
Pine Creek Road
Mill Plain Road
Weather Summary for Ridgeport and New York City
Ridgeport and vicinity shows mostly sunny and warm conditions with a high near 70 today and a clear cool night with a low 40 to 45 and frost risk. Tomorrow remains fair and warm with little temperature change and moderate northerly winds shifting to variable tonight. New York City temperature readings up to 8 pm record a high 72 with no precipitation noted. tide at 7:03 pm. the date is the 123rd day of the year and the 44th day of spring. Sunrise at 5:48 am and sunset at 7:51 pm.
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Ee Ridgeport
Tod
New York City
Sam
Yesterda
William H Hubbell Hurt In Hot Rod Crash At Home
William H Hubbell 21, son of Bridgeport manufacturer Harvey Hubbell, was critically injured when his 1932 Chevrolet hot rod overturned several times on a homemade track behind the Hubbell estate in Trumbull. He was taken by Trumbull police ambulance to St Vincent’s Hospital Bridgeport for treatment for possible skull and shoulder fractures. Hubbell, president of a Stratford hot rod club, had been testing the car on the track near his Main Street home.
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Trumbull
William H. Hubbell
Bridgeport
St. Vincent’s Hospital
William
Harvey Hubbell
Harvey Hubbell, Inc
Mainstret
Joseph Kane
Hubbell
Stratford
Seat
William Collins
Jonathan Ebling
Ike Leads in Taft Hear Candidates in Cincinnati Debate
In Cincinnati on May 1 the League of Women Voters staged a radio TV forum with three Democratic and two Republican hopefuls. Eisenhower’s stance was presented by Paul Hoffman while Taft was represented by no direct delegate. delegates show Eisenhower leading Taft 278 to 274 in AP tallies, with Missouri contributing several delegates.
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Ike
Taft
Cincinnati
League of Women Voters
League
Hoffman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Paul G. Hoffman
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
GOP
Taft Auditorium
Associated Press
Hiram, C
Truman
Congress
United States
McCarthy
Senator McCarthy
R-Wis
ST. Louis
Robert Taft
St. Louis County
Chicago
Sedalia
David E. Ingalls
Missouri
Boonville
Mayville
Jackson County
Kansas City
Salem
U S Bans Travel to Iron Curtain Nations for Americans
The United States restricts travel to all iron curtain countries except approved by the State Department. New passport stamps warn travel to Albania Bulgaria China Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland Romania and the USSR requires explicit endorsement. Prohibitions already cover Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Hungary and China through permits. The order tightens controls as the tourist season begins.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Albania
Bulgaria
China
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Union of Soviet Socialist’ Republics
Russia
Department of State
U. S
McMahon enters presidential race as sixth Democratic claimant
Connecticut Senator Brien McMahon announced his bid for the Democratic nomination praising Truman’s steel seizure and calling it essential to defense. He stressed limited campaigning due to Senate duties while praising Roosevelt and Truman administrations and backing collective security and Point Four. He noted he would not seek the vice presidency and looked to the Democratic convention to choose the nominee.
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New York
Brien McMahon
Connecticut
Truman
McMahon
Senate
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Washington
al Smith
Norwalk
Roosevelt
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Richard Russell
Georgia
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
W. Averell Harriman
Democratic State Central Committee
Deadlock in Oil Walkout Triggers Forced Hoarding
In Denver on May 1, a nationwide oil strike stalemate prompted federal orders for forced hoarding of petroleum supplies amid rising local shortages. President Truman indicated no move to seize the oil industry, while near agreements were reported in the walkout. Gasoline pumps ran dry in the Chicago Gary area and Boston dealers restricted sales to regular customers.
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Denver
Truman
Fas
Chicago- Gary
Boston
Chapman
Washington
Plane Wreckage Found in Jungle. 50 Die in Brazil Crash
The burned wreckage of a Pan American Stratocruiser found in northern Brazil confirms the loss of all aboard. Fifty aboard including 19 Americans are believed dead after the Buenos Aires to New York flight crash. Wreckage located 287 miles southwest of Carolina on a hill amid dense jungle.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Barreirax
Carolina
Jim Rowing
Miami
Tocantins
Buenos Aires
New York
Pan American
Panair Do Brasil
Three Women Die in Branford Fire Blaze Destroys Rest Home
A Branford rest home for the elderly burned today killing three people. Eva Nor tham Collins 53 operator, Isabelle Nickerson 92, and May Swain 7 died. Mrs Joseph Rogers 45 relative of Collins died later from a heart attack caused by embers at a nearby house.
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Branford
Eva Northam Collins
Isabelle Nickerson
May Swain
Joseph Rogers
Collins
Miss Swain
Warren Northam
Zoners Crack Down on Violations of Waiver Conditions
The Zoning Board of Appeals plans action against violators of conditions tied to zoning waivers. The board, adopting a tough policy, will revoke waivers where conditions are breached, a power held since 1949.
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Zoning Board of Appeals
Two companions held after Stratford grass fire fatality
William Sinchuk, 57, of 611 Hallett Street, died at Bridgeport Hospital from burns after a grass fire on James Farm Road in Stratford. Police found two men, Ev Mann Savich and Stanley Seharo vich, intoxicated and later arrested. Savich held a permit to burn brush on Pumpkin Ground Road property.
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William Sinchuk
Hallett Street
Bridgeport
James Farm Road
Stratford
Sinchuk
Paul Keepan
Keenan
Veronica Savich
Evmann
Seharovich
Savich
Trusty Walks Away From Fairfield County Jail
A inmate named Joseph King age 3 from 60 Greenwich Avenue Green which walked off during parole rounds on North Avenue between 3 30 and 4 pm He had served four months of a six month larceny sentence Sheriff Platt issued a nine state alarm and King was last seen in prison khaki.
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Fairfield County
Joseph King
Greenwich Avenue
Greenwich
North Avenue
Edward A.platt
King
Reds reject Allied compromise plan at Panmunjom talks
In Panmunjom, eight generals and two admirals met as spring greens spread across western Korea. The communists rejected an Allied plan addressing prisoner exchanges and postwar airfield rebuilding, and discussions paused with plans to resume the next day.
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Munsan
Korea
Gener
Panmunjom
Washington
U. S. State Department
Voice of America
President Truman asks Murray to call off steel strike
Truman urged CIO head Philip Murray and six steel company leaders to meet at 10 am Saturday to seek an immediate settlement. He cited a Court of Appeals ruling allowing government operation of mills and stressed national defense needs. Murray had not yet commented, saying he would respond after receiving the telegram.
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Washington
Truman
Philip Murray
CIO
Murray
Pittsburgh
United States Court of Appeals
District Court
David A. Pine
Court of Appeals
Sawyer
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the Telegram
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Herman Bundesen
Erich Brandeis
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