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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1958
Page
35
Moliners are urged to reduce traffic deaths by a city program offering one day of free parking for every 90 days without a fatality. The plan, approved by the City Council after Jackson, Michigan, adopted a similar scheme, covers meters with paper bags on free days.
Four pacifists from Connecticut New York New Jersey and New York were convicted of criminal contempt for sailing the 30 foot ketch Golden Rule toward the Eniwetok nuclear testing area in defiance of a court injunction. Judge Jon Wiig sentenced them to 60 day suspended terms and one year probation. Skipper Albert Smith Bigelow 52 Cos Cob Conn and crew William Huntington 51 St James Long Island N Y George Willoughby 43 Blackwood Terrace N J Orin Sherwood 28 Poughkeepsie N Y were part of the protest.
The Planning Commission will review two redevelopment items including an early draft city wide blighted area map by consultants Candeub and Ficissig and a revised thoroughfares plan adding the Connecticut turnpike and a Route 25 relocation. Four subdivision pleas are also on the agenda led by Rose D'Ermo proposing Orient Heights section 3 on Rooster River Boulevard between Madison and Park Avenues.
The International Society of Skilled Trades filed four more petitions for representation elections as GM Ford and Chrysler held new talks with UAW under a news blackout. The union seeks 50 elections across GM Ford and Chrysler plants, signaling intensified union activity in Detroit. The piece also notes Chattanooga’s early history with John Ross as a local figure from 1810.
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