Iles Charges Irregularities At Redding Republican Caucus
State Senator Harold Iles protested irregularities at the April 29 Redding GOP caucus where he and Robert N. Allen were defeated for delegates to the May 27 Hartford State convention. Iles alleged no check list, extra ballots, no space for write-ins, invalid ballots without a mark box, and ballots collected in wastebaskets. he said the dispute will be referred to the credentials committee at the Hartford convention.
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Redding
Harold Iles
Hartford
Stephen Sanford
Denton Anderson
GOP Town Committee
Iles
Robert N. Allen
Danbury
Henry Gebert
Jesse P. Sanford
Gebert
Firemen Save Tax Office Books in Ballina Blaze
Firefighters battled flames at Ballina in Eire saving the tax office books and records. Local crews contained the fire quickly, preventing total loss to vital fiscal files.
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Ballina
Eire
Polio Toll, Fairfield County Tops 1951 Case List
Fairfield county reported 9 polio deaths among 103 cases last year, with Hartford county totaling 2 deaths in a statewide 303 cases and 12 fatalities. Dr. Mila E. Rindge notes higher incidence and virulence in 1951, especially among older patients, with peak onset in late August. The oldest patient was a 59 year old woman. the youngest was a nine week old boy.
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Fairfield County
Connecticut Health Bulletin
State Department of Health
Connecticut
Hartford County
Mila E. Rindge
Bureau of Preventable Diseases
Rindge
Fairfield
Hartford
Spring painting on Connecticut highways begins on Route 15
Connecticut's Highway department has started spring painting with fresh white center lines on Route 15 from New York to Massachusetts excluding the Berlin turnpike and on U S Route 5 north of East Hartford and the Veterans highway. Comd.44 will finish to New Hartford this week and work will run through the summer in good weather. The new double solid line indicates no passing and motorists are asked to avoid criss crossing while the paint dries. Belgians are described as descendants of German Celtic and Latin mixtures.
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Hartford, May
Connecticut
State Highway Department
New York
Massachusetts
Berlin
East Hartford
New Hartford
G. Albert Hill
City clampdown planned on false store charges by teens
City court and police officials announced steps to halt a wave of false charges in stores. Officials said eight to ten teenagers from a single high school charged merchandise to others’ accounts, with some stores letting up to ten dollars pass without questions. A conference with department store heads will tighten charge account rules to close the loophole.
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Otto H. LaMacchia
LaMacchia
Massachusetts Man Declared At Fault In Fatal Merritt Parkway Crash
Coroner ruled 70 year old Alex Mailloux of Lowell died from his own fault after his car mounted the esplanade on the Merritt Parkway in New Canaan on April 11. His vehicle collided with Dominick Alterio's car as both traveled westbound. Mailloux's wife Eva and landlady Marie Havey were injured. Alterio and his family escaped unharmed.
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Edgar W. Krentzman
Massachusetts
Merritt Parkway
Alex Mailloux
Endicott Street
Lowell
Mass
New Canaan
Norwalk Hospital
Alierio
Cecelia
Christian Home topic sermon at United Church
Dr. Wallace W. Anderson will deliver a Sunday sermon titled The Christian Home Source of Insight and Nurture at 10 30 a m in the United Church with Rev Howard C Nutting assisting Special organ and choir selections arranged by Benjamin W Lehn feature soloists Mrs B W Lehn and Reinhard Grah Church school departments meet at 10 30 a m Pilgrim Fellowship class at 11 45 a m Junior High Fellowship 4 30 p m election of officers 6 30 p m Evening worship 7 30 p m led by Doris Boose Don Wakeman Tau Kappa Phi young adults meet, taxis join at 8 p m.
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United Church
Wallace W. Anderson
Anderson
Howard C. Nutting
Benjamin W. Lehn
B. W. Lehn
Reinhard Grah
Church School
Pilgrim Fellowship
Pilgrim Fellowship Unit
Doris Boose
Don Wakeman
Tau Kappa Phi
Barbados Sugar Sets Island's Rhythm of Life
In Barbados sugar dominates life with cane fields covering most of the island. Cane cutters work January through June and favor cutting with the wind as hot days and tall cane hinder airflow, notes the National Geographic Society.
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Barbados
National Geographic Society
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