Butler voices a prediction on Eisenhower resignation
The Washington chatter about a deal between the President and Vice President regarding Eisenhower’s possible resignation after the 1959 elections is seen as smoke signaling fire. Meyer hints Nixon may occupy the White House by 1960, noting Ike’s earlier talk of resigning if no longer capable and the White House burden he faces.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nixon
White House
United States
Lisenhower
Hotel Green sale talks surface for Danbury property
May 5 Danbury. Henry C. Wilson counsel for Fair City Corp indicates negotiations for sale of Hotel Green, Danbury’s largest hostelry, aiming to transfer both real estate and business to new management. Fred C. Brown, principal stockholder, ill recently. his wife Greenland, a Danish crown, has been managing.
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Danbury
Green
Henry C. Wilson
Fair City Corp
Fred C. Brown
Wilson
Brown
Greenland
Toolony
Judge Mellitz Sworn as Associate Justice of State Supreme Court
About 100 Bridgeport Bar members attended in Superior Court as Judge Samuel Mellitz was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court of Errors. The oath was given by his son Jacob Mellitz with remarks from Associate Justice James E. Murphy and welcomes from Bridgeport Bar President Clarence Lister. Attending judges included John M. Comley James C. Shannon Sidney A. Johnson John T. Dwyer Otto H. La Macchia and Benjamin M. Leipner. State Referee Richard Swain also attended the ceremony.
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Bridgeport
Superior Court
Samuel Mellitz
State Supreme Court of Errors
Mellitz
Jacob Meilitz
James E. Murphy
Meilitz
Bridgeport Bar Association
Clarence ©. Lister
John M. Comley
James C. Shannon
Common Pleas
Sidney A. Johnson
John T. Dwyer
Otto H. la Macchia
Benjamin M. Leipner
Richard
Swain
Sias
Gromyko Notes and NATO Aim at Meaningful Summit
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and NATO ministers questioned Soviet enthusiasm for a top level meeting. Lloyd urged the world to see through Kremlin tactics while NATO vows to keep the Russians on the defensive by pursuing a summit with real substance. West Germany’s von Brentano insisted no summit discuss German reunification. Informants described three days of deliberations in Copenhagen at Christiansborg Castle.
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Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
Kremlin
NATO
West Geremany
Heinrich von Brentano
Copenhagen
Christiansborg
Mediators to Meet GE and Union on Arbitration Dispute
Mediation session scheduled with GE and the union to arbitrate a contract conflict. Panel members include Ro bert L. Stulz Archibald Williams Anthony Manning and Philip J. Koons Cronin will coordinate whether meetings occur jointly or separately at a hotel. The strike began after GE awarded a renovation contract to Gellatry Construction and refused to re call laid off maintenance workers.
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State Mediation Board
Robert L. Stulz
University of Connecticut
Archibald Williams
New Britain
Anthony Manning
Stratford
Philip J. Koons
Trumbull
Robert A. Cronin
Wethersfield
Reid
Santoianni
Union
Keons
Cronin
Gelfatty Construction Company
Gellatry
Renovation Job Sparks Jurisdiction Dispute in GE Complex
The $2,000,000 GE building renovation for the Fan department triggers a strike rooted in a jurisdictional clash between the IUE and the Building Trades council. The council comprises unions whose members work for Gellatry. The union claims the strike targets the company alone.
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IUE
Building Trades Council
Association of
Building Trades Unions
Gellatry
Safe YS Looted of 2.25 Million
Police believe at least three people, including a woman, pulled the safe job as $2.25 million vanished from a high profile theft. A key found in a Montreal man's car led investigators to a railway station locker containing two suitcases with the loot. Securities officials caution the total value may be enormous.
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Rene Martin
Montreal
Sterlit
Brockville
Lesilie Hobbs
Murder Charge Faces Suspect After Denver West Standoff
A McKnight couple attempted to sell a .25 caliber pistol at a service station 40 miles west of Denver. After a pursuit and a gunfight near a roadblock, Mrs. McKnight was shot dead at a station east of Denver, and the man surrendered. The incident involved station workers Gerald Burt and others, with state patrol and city officers responding.
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Denver
William Lee
Lee
Ross Melton
Hult
Hull
McKnight
Here
Gerald Burt
Darrell Penner
Cpl
Bob Laughlin
John Kelly
Selectman Seeks Referendum Over Teacher Pay Cuts
The Selectman calls for a referendum on a budget plan that trims 87 000 in extra increments for teachers and reallocates 12 200 from salaries for 22 new teachers to hold the line on the tax rate. He defends the move as fair and necessary while critics urge keeping teacher pay competitive and maintaining school quality.
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Empployee
Selectman Kinnie
Yeu
Selectman
Smith
Kinnic
Slate to Be Seated at Industrial Forum Dinner
Walter P. Hibyan of the Diz ylaphone corp to be installed as president of the Bridge pore Young Men's Industrial Forum at the YMCA dinner tonight at 6 30. Maurice W. Reid of the General Electrc company will speak on Opportunities Ahead in Industry. Zolton A. Bengus, retiring president, will preside. Rev. Percy R. Batchelor will give the invocation. Ernest Cleev eh of the Bullard company will introduce the new officers. Harmon E. Snake of the Manufacturers association will present the charge.
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Walter P. Hibyan
Dizylaphone Corporation
Bridgepore Young Men's Industrial Forum
YMCA
Maurice W. Reid
General Electrc Company
Zolton A. Bengus
Percy R. Batchelor
Advent Christian Church
Willl
Body of Hartford Man Found In Abandoned Maine House
The body of Robert Kallin, 44, of Hartford Connecticut, was found in an abandoned house on Gardner Lake near Route 1 in East Machias Maine. Medical Examiner Karl Larson ruled death exposure with an estimated postmortem interval of three to four months. Kallin had been reported missing January 14 by his wife Mary Kallin in Hartford. His abandoned car was later found in Perry Maine and returned to a Hartford finance company. Dowling located the body on his property.
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Machias
Maine
Connecticut
Oiday
Gardner Lake
Karl Larson
Robert Kallin
Hartford
Conn
Kallin
Mary Kallin
Perry
Hartford Finance Company
Minton Dowling
Warren Wins Pulitzer Prize Despite Doubts
Warren praised the Pulitzer win as deserved noting it today. He earlier won the National Book Award for Promises in March. Warren settled in Fairfield in 1953 while teaching at Yale, converting a dairy barn into a residence near the Merritt Parkway with his wife Eleanor Clark, author. Their children Gabriel Penn and Rosanna Phelps Warren are mentioned. Warren’s career spans Vanderbilt LSU Minnesota and Yale teaching, Library of Congress poetry chair 1944-45, and Guggenheim fellowships 1939-40 and 1947-48. His notable works include World Enough and Time Band of Angels and Segregation The Inner Conflict in The South.
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Mr. Warren
Fairfield
Warren
Yale
Eleanor Clark
Merritt Parkway
Redding Road
Gabriel Penn Warren
Rosanna Phelps Warren
Yate
Guthrie
van Derbuilt University
Te University of California
Oxford
Southwestern College
Memphis
Tenn
Vanderbilt University
Louisiana State University
University of Minnesota
Yales University
Library of Congress
Guggenheim
Band of Angels
South
City studies site for parking meters on state street lot
Mayor Tedesco said the city plans studies led by Lt. Kaleda to install parking meters at a municipally operated lot at the foot of State Street. Current 25 cent daily rates may shift all day parkers to a new lot proposed under the Connecticut Turnpike viaduct, with a State Highway reply pending.
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Tedesco
Yesteday
George Kaleda
Police Department
State Street
Parkers
Connecticut Turnpike
Fairfield Fire Destroys House Belonging to Waxmans
The Waxman family with two young children escaped as a fire gutted their Fairfield home after smoke was spotted in a bedroom wall near the fireplace. Weston and Fairfield fire crews battled flames from 6:40 p.m. until the late hours, sparing only one wall and leaving the house destroyed. The couple, staying with a Westport friend, questioned jurisdiction due to tax and service connections across towns.
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Had
Westport
Fairfield Department
Weston
O'Brien
Whale Place
Fairfield
Waxman
Easton Turnpike
Westport Turnpike
Waxmans
Autthor
Max Schulman
Jto
New York City
Mrs Irene Williams of Stepney Dies at Home
Mrs Irene Williams widow of William C Williams of Route 25 Stepney died Monday at her home. Services set for Thursday at 11 a.m. at Wilmot Ward Goulding funeral home Route 25 Stepney. Burial in Stepney cemetery. Survived by daughter Dorothy D Williams of New Rochelle New York.
Plea Switched by Mass Killer Starkweather Note Disclosed
Defense lawyers reveal contents of a jail wall note by Charles Starkweather written after his capture in which he admits nine killings and assigns two to Caril Ann Fugate. Caril faces murder charges. district court death penalty fight delays trial while juvenile court option looms.
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Starkweather
Caril Ann Pugate
Caril
Scotts Bluff J
Gering
Neb
Lincoln
Douglas
Wya
Stratford Driver Unhurt in Merritt Parkway Crash
Greenwich May 5 Peter Karpowicz 47 of 164 Glenwood Avenue Stratford escaped injury when his car missed a curve on the Merritt Parkway at North Street and struck a fence. State Policeman William Shaffer issued him a summons to Town Court May 21 on a charge of failing to drive in an established plane. British Guiana has an area of 183 thousand square miles.
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Greenwich
Peter Karpowicz
Glenwood Avenue
Stratford
Merritt Parkway
North Street
William Shaffer
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Kinnie
Hartt
William Armstrong
Citizens’ School Study Council
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Mill Plain
PTA
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George P. Brett
RTAE
Alvin Norhrop
Pequot School
Harald A. Swaffield
RIM
Earl Marsh
Melvin Fennel
CSSC
Fennell
ATM
Todd
Milford
Easton
Fitzpatrick
John Curran
Legislatuive
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Public Works and Highways
William H., Moffit IV
Robert A. Lavers
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William C, Williams
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