May Vehicle Sales Look Slower Across Chrysler GM and AMC
Preliminary May sales show Chrysler GM and AMC reporting declines from the 1965 pace while Ford posts the strongest early May showing in company history. Industry observers cite auto safety hearings and broader economic softness as contributing factors to softer demand.
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Detroit
Auto Industry
General Motors
Chrysler
American Motors
Fort Ihe
Ford Motor Company
AMC
Roy Abernethy
Ford
Arjay Miller
City Zoning Panel Considers First Condominium Project
The zoning commission will hold a May 27 public hearing at City Hall on amending regulations to allow condominium buildings and on Candlelight Terrace a 120 unit garden style project by Baker Firestone Inc planned near Madison Avenue Vincellette Street. The project would be the first of its kind locally and involves new owners acquiring the site from Vincellette Apartments Inc led by Lawrence Rosano.
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Commission
City Hall
Madison
Baker-Firestone,Inc
Madison Apartments
Vincellette Apartments, Inc
Lawrence Rosano
Puzzlers See Prize Rise as Sunday Post Puzzle Fails
The Sunday Post reports no correct solution to Puzzle 624 leaving a $150 prize, now raised to $175 for Puzzle 625 as the kitty climbs by $25. The piece notes puzzlers gulp bitter pills and that the contest tests readers with a difficult weekly word challenge.
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Sunday Post
State Agrees To Esplanade Upkeep In Bridgeport
Bridgeport park officials win pledge from Governor Dempsey via the State Highway department to maintain and repair esplanades on state roads here. Maintenance chief Roland Booth will prioritize mowing and begin a survey to identify sections for future resurfacing as funds allow. The move follows earlier pleas by the Board of Park Commissioners for remedial work on esplanades and curb the blight along Main Street North Avenue Park Avenue and other through roads. Signage to ban parking near Waldermere Avenue and Broad Street in Seaside Park was ordered near a University of Bridgeport dormitory.
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State Highway Department
Bridgeport
Board of “Park Commissioners
Dempsey
Park Board
Highway Department
Joséph ‘M. Fennell
Parks and Recreation
Roland Booth
Highway’ Department
Booth
Esplanades
Main Street
North Avenue
Park Avenue
Seaside Park
Board of Park Commissioners
Waldermere Avenue
Broad Street
University of Bridgeport
Board of Police Commissioners
Weather Outlook for Bridgeport and Vicinity
Rain ends today with slow clearing and milder temps in the 60s. Tonight stays fair and cool with lows around the 40s. Tomorrow increases clouds with a 40 percent rain chance and northeast winds veering north.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Bridgeport
Yeriday Ie
No Clues Found In Search for Abducted Girl
State police FBI agents and volunteers with rifles hunted a wooded area near Shade Gap Huntingdon County for 17 year old girl abducted Wednesday by an armed masked man. Investigators link the suspect to the elusive Mountain Man who has terrorized the region for two years and fired at residents during recent shootings.
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Eugene Brodnick
Shade Gap
Peggy Ann
Peggy
Huntingdon
FBI
Huntingdon County
Petr
Pone
Black Tuscarora
Yale Doctors Question Blood Pressure Readings During Interviews
Yale School of Medicine researchers F Patrick McKegney and Redford Williams report that blood pressure readings taken during medical interviews may be unreliable. Their study shows pressure rises significantly during discussions of personal problems, a common part of clinical exams. 23 hospital patients participated.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Yale School of Medicine
American Psychiatric Association
F. Patrick McKegney
Redford B. Williams, Jr
Maryknoll to Install Stratford Priest for Japan Mission
The Rev. Mr. Joseph Bukovchik of Stratford will be ordained a Maryknoll priest on Saturday June 11 at Maryknoll seminary. Archbishop John W. Comer will ordain. On June 12 he joins the society’s Departure Ceremony for Japan and will receive his mission crucifix with other new priests.
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Maryknoll
Stratford
Japan
Joseph Bukovchik
M. M
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
N. Y
John W. Comber
Father Bukovchik
Stephen Bu
Bukovchik
Costly Flood Project Backed for Trumbull
The Army Corps of Engineers approved a $5 million Pequonnock River flood control project at Trumbull Conn. Rep John S Monegan says the plan includes a dam and reservoir to aid water supply quality control and recreation in addition to flood control. The Pequonnock drains 28.3 square miles from Bridgeport through Trumbull Monroe and Shelton into Long Island Sound.
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Washington
Army Corps of Engineers
Pequonnock River
Trumbull, Conn
John S. Monegan
D- Conn
Board of Engineers For Rivers and’Harbors
State Water Resources Commission
Secretaries of Interior, Commerce and Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
Trumbull
Pequonnock
Long Island
Sour
Mediator Vows Action In New York Taxi Tie Up
New York taxi drivers halted service in a citywide strike prompting the state mediator to promise action. He said he would push for a restart of negotiations to resolve the impasse and end the disruption affecting riders and businesses.
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N. D.C
New York
UPI
Istate
New York ‘City
Help Shortage Weather Woes Plague Fairfield Farmers
Fairfield county farmers face a growing labor shortage amid cold wet weather drought and rising prices. Raymond Platt county agricultural agent notes scarce farm labor and a drastic decade long decline in farm numbers worsening yearly.
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Fairfield County
Raymond Platt
Redding
Platt
Middlebury Coeds Offer Dog Passage To Europe
Two Middlebury College seniors sought summer travel to France by ship and offered to travel as dogs due to limited funds. They cited United States Lines brochure terms charging 50 dollars for dog passage and quoted their plan to become dogs temporarily to afford the voyage.
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Middlebury, Vt
UPI
Middlebury College
Middlebury
Collie
Crackdown on Debris and Disrepair Planned by Humane Affairs
Humane Affairs Administrator H. P. Dinan Jr announced to the Board of Humane Affairs a crackdown on debris littered yards and on dilapidated tenements. Sanitation officers may issue on the spot summonses, with discussions noting many conditions blamed on tenants rather than landlords.
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Sid Folsom
Board of Humane Affairs
Humane Affairs
H. P. Dinan, Jr
Dinan
Dr. Dinan
What Happened To Spring It Got Smothered
Washington AP reports spring was smothered by a cold mass from the Canadian Arctic pushed south by a planetary wave system. Forecasters said a large cold air mass formed in Hudson Bay and the polar region then spread southward, delaying warm weather for Bridgeport area residents and outdoor plans.
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Martha Cole Washington
Jerome Namias
U.S. Weather Bureau
Canadian Arcic
Hudson Bay Area
Polar Basin
United
Prisoners Miss Chance to Hear Traveling Tenor
Norman Begin, 24, of Hartford, pleaded guilty in Circuit court to speeding and a prior suspended license conviction. He claimed to be a touring tenor and said he carried a music book to rehearse in jail. Judge Irving R. Levine fined him 300 dollars and required 100 dollars, with Begin seeking help from a friend to pay.
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Norman Begin
Hartford
Begin
Irving R. Levine
Underwood
Merritt Parkway
Stratford
Levine
Probe Set on Fixing Sale of Library Books
Federal grand jury to probe alleged price fixing in the sale of library books. Sen. Philip A Hart announced at a Senate subcommittee hearing that librarians report indications of price fixing.
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Washington
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Senate
Law Lesson At Hairdresser Trial Noted In Court
UPI reports in Hartford that Texas lawyer Percy Foreman quipped during a narcotics case in which James J. Miller of Milford is accused as the Connecticut contact for a Montreal narcotics gang. Judge Blumenfeld pressed on motions as Foreman reframed courtroom practice with a joke about the delay.
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Hartford
UPI
Texas
Percy Foreman
U.S
M. Joseph Blumenfeld
Foreman
Milford
Connecticut
Montreal
Hillside to Convert Ward for New Medicare Plan
Humane Affairs Administrator H P Dinan Jr told the Board that a former 28 bed open ward at Hillside hospital is near completion to become eight smaller rooms for a new chronic disease program. Seventeen beds will be in three private rooms three two bed and two four bed rooms. The hospital will be inspected today for Medicare participation though Dinan questioned the effort. Grover A Lyon board president predicted space will be needed and foresaw a lower age limit in the future.
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Hillside Hospital
Humane Affairs
H. P. Dinan, Jr
Board of Humane Affairs
Dinan
Hillside
Teowah
Grover A.’ Lyon
New Term for Wheeler Approved by Senate Panel
Nomination of Gen. Earle G. Wheeler for a two year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff won approval from the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
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Washington
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Armed Services Committee
Kiwanis Urges More High School Service Clubs
The Kiwanis club urged area high schools to establish more service clubs with 50 hours of annual service. Bassick High School hosts 44 boys in the Bassick Key Club and the Keyettes girls group. Kiwanis president James Jolly and club advisor Alfred Trifone cited youth leadership needs and noted a portion of troublemakers draw headlines. Continued on Page Two.
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Kiwanis Club
Bassick Club
Kiwanisj
Bass Girls
Keyettes
Yester- Jolly
Stratfield Motor Inn
James Jolly
Kiwanis
Alfred ‘Trifone
Five U.S. Jets Shoot Down Chinese Planes Near Vietnam Border
TOKYO AP dispatch reports China claims its plane was shot down by guided missiles in a clash with five U.S. fighters over the Chinese mainland near the North Vietnamese border. A Chinese spokesman called it war provocation. In Saigon, another MIG downed by a heat seeking missile in a dogfight with U.S. Phantoms north of Hanoi and near border areas.
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Tokyo
Red China
U.S
China
Saigon
Hanoi
ACT OF War
Makwan
Peking
New China
First Chinese Aircraft Claimed Shot Down Near Vietnam
The NCNA reported a Chinese training flight aircraft was downed near Makwan in Yunnan Province, about 170 miles northwest of Hanoi, in what Beijing called an air engagement with American fighters. The Pentagon and U S officials said they were checking the report amid tensions as South Viet Nam and North Viet Nam operations continued.
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Pentagon
Defense Department
Washington
Peking
New China News Agency
NCNA
Makwan
Yunnan
Hanoi
Tokyo
Ministry of National Defense
Johnson Administration
United States
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Barnum Festival King Queen Judging Begins
The 1966 Barnum Festival prepares for royal judging with four judges interviewing candidates in the first phase. The final round Saturday May 22 at Klein Memorial auditorium is open to the public with winners crowned for the festival in July. Judges include Alden Speare Easton children's author Charles Bonifati and Bernard Trager.
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Seves
Brandstadt
M.D
Financial, News
Jacoby
Polly
Sylvia Porter
Stratfield ‘Motor Inn
James P. Schwartz
Jay James Camera Shop
Klein Memorial Auditorium
Alden Speare
Ribbins Road
Easton
Charles Bonifati
Dora Circle
Bernard’h. Trager
Cartright Street
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Diag
Joseph “Bukovchik
Richard Day
Dodn
Hugh W. Duffy
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Drew Pearson
Dodd
Pearson
U.S. Downs
Hillside For Medicare
Wheeler
Mainland
Paren
Te UK
Maine
Bowdoin College
Inn D.M
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