Dodd Libel Suit Moves In First Round
U.S. Senator Dodd faces a deposition process as lawyers clash over records and scheduling. Judge Holtzoff may limit public access to witness depositions while preparing for trial, which is not expected before autumn. Pearson attended as a spectator. Anderson and Dodd were absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodd
Holtzoff
John F. Sennett
Warren Woods
Pearson
Anderson
Sennett
Wood
Groton
UPI
Robert F. Graham
Richard Jacques
Jacques
New London
Graham
Eagles from across state gather for workshop in New Britain
Eagles from all over the state travel to New Britain for a workshop at the aerie on Walnut Street under the Grand aerie of the Fraternal Order. Thomas Philpott of Toronto will represent the Grand aerie. auxiliaries invited. Officers-elect will attend a session titled Your Year Where Are You Going and How Are You Going to Get There. A class starts May 26 in New Britain in honor of State President Arthur E. Hamess of Stamford.
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Eagles
New Britain
the Aerie
Walnut Street
Grand Aerie
Order of Eagles
Thomas Philpott
Toronto
Arthur E. Hamess
Stamford
Youth Fined In Auto Death Of East Side Man
Enrico Palmieri, 38, of 1130 Kossuth street, was fined 250 dollars after pleading no contest to negligent homicide in circuit court. The fatal crash occurred on Huntington road near Rose Street killing Zigmantas Baddonas, 51, who died at the scene from a fractured skull and crushed chest. The car was owned by Casey Schiappa of 58 Fairview avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enrico Palmieri
Kossuth Street
Luke Martin
Underwood
Martin
Palmieri
Zigmantas Bagdonas
Rose Street
Huntington Road
James K. A. Daly
Huntington’ Road
Casey Schiappa
Fairview Avenue
Bagdonas
Harold E. Doherty
Daly
Enrico H. Palmieri
Lengthy Pretrial Work in Case Cited by Legal Team
Sonnett predicts 15 days to depose nine witnesses and main parties. He requests 10 days for depositions while columnists’ lawyers may need five. Pearson accuses Dodd of leaking libel copies to the press during a narcotics hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonnett
Holtzoff
Pearson
Dodd
Senate
Sister Mary Josefa Dies Former St John Nepomucene Faculty
Sister Mary Josefa Mikulak of the School Sisters of Notre Dame died at the Mother House in Wilton. Services Monday at 9:30 a.m. in the Mother House chapel. burial at St. Michael's cemetery Stratford. Former St John Nepomucene Bridgeport faculty 1954 1958. last post SS Francis of Assisi New Britain 1958 1964. Survived by two sisters Catherine Janes Shelton Elizabeth Daiute Ansonia, three nephews two nieces.
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Mary Josefa
Mikulak
Sisters of Notre Dame
Order
Wilton
Mother House
St. Michael's Cemetery
Stratford
St. John Nepomucene
Bridgeport
Derby
St. Michael's School
Order of the
Brooklyn
N.Y
St. John Nepomucene School
SS Francis of Assisi School
New Britain
Lani Anni Sen
Catherine Janes
Shelton
Elizabeth Daiute
Ansonia
Renewal meeting of Redevelopment agency postponed
Lack of quorum forces postponement of Mrs Connie Rafail's husband Apostol Rafail's widow's meeting at City Hall. The session will resume Monday at 1 30 p.m. at Henry E. Bishop and Son funeral home 1139 Fairfield avenue then moved to St George's Albanian church burial at Lake View cemetery.
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Connie Ra
Capitol Avenue
Apostol Rafail
City Hall
The
Henry
Bishop and Son Funeral Home
Fairfield Avenue
St. George's
Lake‘view Cemetery
Birchites, JWW Clash Over Birch Society Remarks
The Joint New York New Jersey Action Committee of the Jewish War Veterans opposed John Birch Society statements after Thomas J. Davis called a report by Sen Irwin Brownstein and Assemblyman Bertram Podell radical. JWW denounces smear tactics and urges objective issue discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Davis
JWW
Birch
John Birch Society
Rubbish Fire Ties Up Firemen at Columbia Towers Yard
A rubbish fire in the yards of the Columbia Towers on Barnum Avenue kept firefighters busy over an hour. Assistant Chief Howard Bogey said the pile ignited from a nearby barrel fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Towers
Barnum Avenue
Howard Bogey
New Computer Center Links 1000 Colleges and Employers Coast to Coast
A new computer center brings together job seeking graduates from about 1000 colleges with employers nationwide. The initiative aims to streamline hiring across regions and industries.
Top Economist Sees No Signs of a Recession
Ford blames the safety uproar for auto demand drop while Council Chairman W B Murphy cites Ford's report as showing a 1966 output near 9 million cars. The Business Council panel forecasts rising production and prices with a median 732 billion dollar economy estimate.
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Ford
Council
W. B. Murphy
Campbell ‘Soup Co
Murphy
Ralph Nader
The
Business Council
Washington
William M. Batten
J. C. Penney Co., Inc
Fifty Year Jubilee for New York Cardinal Spellman
Celebrations mark Cardinal Spellman's fifty years as a priest and his role as a leading church figure. Refuge from Whitman to Rome and Boston, he later headed the New York Archdiocese and served as an adviser to leaders. Messages of esteem came from President Johnson and Pope Paul VI. A mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral will feature a gathering of nine senior church figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Johnson
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Paul VI
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Jesus Christ
Whitman
Mass
Spellman
Fordham University
North American College
Rome
St. Peter
Boston
Papal Secretariat of ‘State
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Pope Pius XII
New York
Edward T. Snadrow
New York ‘Board of Rabbis
Dan M. Potter
Protestant Council
Two Stratford teens save driver from burning car on Boston Avenue
Charles Mason and his brother Joseph Mason Jr. ran from a service station to free Eloise Wells from a blazing vehicle that crashed into a parked car and struck a gas pump on Boston and Carnegie avenues. Mrs Wells was treated and released after X rays. The boys’ quick action drew praise from their parents as firefighters extinguished the flames. The car, which had defective brakes, was a total loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie
Boston
Charles Mason
Joseph, Jr
Canaan Road
Stratford
Eloise D. Wells
Larkin Court
Joseph Mason, Jr
Walls
City
Bridgeport Hospital
Set
Joseph Salata
Salata
John Zelinski
Donald Gaines
Boston Avenue Hill
Carnegie Avenue
I.B.S. Oil City
Boston Avenue
Charles
Joseph Mason
Joseph
Howard Bogey
Bogey
Circuit Court
Ann Mason
Undertaker Appeals Pallbearer Award in Superior Court
A pallbearer award of 39000 dollars was challenged as excessive and unsupported by evidence. Stephen Vissar, 47, of 847 Wood Avenue, tripped in a cemetery four years ago, and Mountain Grove Cemetery Association initially paid 6000 dollars before being dropped as a codefendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Potter and Son Funeral Home
Fairfield Avenue
Superior Court
Joseph “E. Kian
Stephen Vissar
Wood Avenue
Mountain Grove Cemetery Association
Fallout from China's test raises questions on weapons
Government experts say the October 1984 Chinese test was likely a low yield device using enriched uranium with thermonuclear material present. Radioactivity in food could be detectable in some areas, but there is no cause for alarm as compared with 1961 62 megaton explosions. The AEC notes uncertain power and timeline for a hydrogen bomb. A Song festival in Germania hall is postponed to May 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
U.S
AEC
China
Hiroshima
Soviet Union
United States
Red China
Robert S. McNamara
School Lawsuit Threat Looms Over Bridgeport Racial Demographics
NAACP aide James Hill warned that a Black man with a bachelor’s degree may earn less lifetime than a white student with an eighth grade education. He criticized enrollment patterns, urged district redistricting, bus use changes, and new school buildings while praising Bridgeport and New Haven anti poverty programs. He told Black voters to hold politicians accountable on Civil Rights enforcement and asked officials to consider quality desegregation plans this summer for Bridgeport schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Viet Nam
Hills
Center For Urban Studies
New York City
Board of Education
Hill
Pew Haven
Charles B. Tisdale
Freedom Fund
Walter W. Curtis
Curran
Frank Verrilli
NAACP
John F. Merchant
Ella L. Anderson
Connecticut
James E. Tisdale
Naacp Youth Council
William C. Johnson
Louis A. DeProsio
L. Scott
Melville
Donald J. Irwin
Gerald A. Lamb
Herbert Harris
Lester Silverstone
Fairfield First
Bead Chain Vote Rejects IUE Bid
Bead Chain Manufacturing employees voted down the IUE bid. Of 131 eligible workers, 126 cast ballots at 110 Mountain Grove Street with 79 against and 46 for Local 293 IVE. One ballot was disqualified. The firm last faced a union bid in 1952 when United Steelworkers of America was turned down. No employees are presently represented by a union. Election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board New York regional office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers
Afl-Cio
Bead Chain Manufacturing, Company
Mountain Grove’ Street
United Steelworkers of America
National Labor Relations Board
New York
Three Girls Killed in Wilbur Cross Parkways Crash
Three teenage girls died in a two car collision on the Wilbur Cross parkway near West Rock Tunnels. Three other persons were seriously injured as investigators traced the crash at about 8 43 p m. A lone trooper noted a pile of handbags in one car and said victims were thrown from the vehicles. All victims were from the New Haven area and identification was pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamden
Wilbur Cross Parkway
St. Raphael’s Hospital
New Haven
West Rock
AML
Blood Donations Reach 103 at UI Blood Bank Drive
The United Illuminating company blood bank on Broad Street collected 103 pints with 12 walk-ins led by Herman Friedman top donor with 47 pints. Rudolph J. Gondar joined as 40th donor and several others from US company and other organizations donated, amid union and management support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Illuminating Company Blood Bank
UI Broad Street
Federation of Utility
Herman Friedman
Scientific Shoe Fitters
Rudolph J. Gondar
Melvin R. Warner
Dominick J. Pento
Ernest Chateauneuf
Edward V. Simpson
Gaza Legoza
Robert Friot
Charles W. Petzold
Louis E. Soracco
John J. Mackwan
Edward Midfin
Charles L. Jacobus
Ralph J. Doerr
Gerald Rees
William Schneider
Helena Mone
George Hoyt
Alan H. Kaufman
Henry C. Rosehill
Thomas G. Sanosetti
Andrew J. Fabry
Duane R. Howell
Daniel F. McCourt
John F. Dempsey
Leopold J. Main
Joseph J. Zdanowski
Maurice P. Wilson
Joseph L. Felner
Joseph Zorpette
Albert Kandrot
Vincent Lesko Jr
Donald H. Weller
Alfred E. Christiansen
Zoltan
Wicek
Paul B. Kovalsky
Laurence W. Shaw
Thomas F. Eckenrode
John Williams
Gus D. Lawrence
First Gallon
Walter C
Pitta Southern New England Telephone Company
Joseph Deak
U. S. Post Office
Robert A. Sherwood
William L. Barker
Adela Babian
City Trust Company
Road Honors Murphy in Saigon Ground Fight
A Marine unit aided by gunships clashed with about 300 Viet Cong 54 miles southwest of Saigon. Government spokesmen reported 92 enemy killed and 26 captured as Vietnamese forces backed by U.S. helicopters pursued insurgents while police announced 38 Communist commandos were arrested and weapons and documents seized. The action followed a broader crackdown in Saigon with bombings and raids linked to Viet Cong cells.
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da Nang
U.S
Saigon
Viet Cong
Special Action
Metropole
Victoria Hotel
F4C Phantom Downs MIG In North Viet Nam Duel
Reported air clash over North Viet Nam near Hanoi involved an F4C Phantom firing a heat seeking Sidewinder that destroyed a MIG 17. Maj. Wilbur R. Dudley led the mission from an air base in Texas and New Mexico, with U.S. officials signaling possible strikes on MIG bases if more American planes are attacked.
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Makwan
Viet Nam
Red River Valley
Wilbur R. Dudley
Orange
Tex
Alamogordo
N.M
Peking
Gilbert L. Meyers
U.S. 7Th Air Force
State Department
Washington
Robert J. McCloskey
U.S
Red China
North Viet Nam
Thanh Hoa
Red Fliers
Phuc Yen
Hanoi
United States
Bridgeport
Beverlyland
Howard C. Nutting
United Congregational Church
William M. Wyman
Norwich
Masons
Connecticut
St. John’s
Corinthian
Temple
Ashlar
America
Daytime
Stratford
Fidelity
Lafayette
Fairfield
Aspetuck
Easton
Monroe
Three-National Control Commission
Ho Chi Minh
Xp Doai
Franco American Vets Hear Curiale Tonight
Salvatore Curiale of 459 Savoy Street, an exhibit coordinator and multiple Freedoms Foundation award winner, will address the Franco American War Veterans of the state at their annual dinner tonight at 7 in the Stratfield Motor Inn ballroom. Past State Commander Frank St Onge of Hartford will serve as master of ceremonies. An open house at Stratfield featured the convention, which continues tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvatore Curiale
Savoy Street
Lycoming Division Price
Freedoms Foundation
Stratfield Motor Inn
Frank St. Onge
Hartford
Stratfield
City Seeks Role As Air Pollution Center
City advances as a hub for air pollution control training with University of Bridgeport operating an environmental engineering center using Bridgeport Air Pollution Control bureau facilities. Post graduate courses in air pollution control are offered. A Connecticut Watershed Council report cites cross-border pollution causing haze and health concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport Air Pollution Control Bureau
Connecticut Watershed Council, Inc
Robert L. Hendrick
Travelers Research Center
Hartford
Chief Bannon
Bridgeport
Dinan
H. Philip Dinan
Humane Affairs
Three Painters Injured As Truck Snaps Scaffold Cables
In Hartford three painters were hurt when a truck snapped the scaffold cables on a highway bridge over Interstate 84 near Broad Street. Identified as Donald Vernale 28 Naugatuck Joseph Diorio 36 Oakville and Joseph Moquin 37 Wallingford all were taken to Hartford Hospital. Vernale discharged Diorio and Moquin admitted with injuries.
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Hartford
APS
Donald Vernale
Naugatuck
Joseph Diorio
Oakville
Joseph Moquin
Wallingford
Hartford Hospital
Vernale
Diorio
Moquin
Broad Street
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Eagles of State
East Side
Mrs. Apostol Rafail
JWW Group
Chicago
Michael J. DeBella
DeBella
Alice B. Atwood
Des Plaines
Ill
Undertaker Appeals
Germania Singing Society
Germania Hall
Main Street
IUE
Ap’ Wirephole
Karen Weinfuriner
Omaha
Nebraska
Judith Zielinski
Zielinski
Miami Beach
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Weinturiner
Wilbur Cross
Yunnan Province
Masonic
Eastern Star
Brainard
Brainard Field
Francis Sjof Rainbow
Der
Hartford Times
Forland Fairfield
Connecticut Aer
DeMolay Anautics Commission
Monona
Vauualugs
Curiale
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