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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1971
Page
5
The U S Coast Guard academy sailing barque Eagle sails from New London with 18 cadets and 6 crew on its first summer training cruise. It is bound for Southport North Carolina for a three day visit expected May 25.
Washington AP. The federal government warned of a potential electricity crunch this summer and launched a nationwide conservation campaign. A POTUS OEP report cited weak generating capacity and reliance on old equipment, forecasting brownouts in parts of the nation unless voluntary efforts cut demand. Lincoln urged households and industry to reduce power use, save fuel, and curb lighting as a national energy program aims to extend beyond summer into future seasons.
AP reports New Haven resident John DeGonnaro saved seven people from a three story tenement fire. Fire officials said he awakened by his wife broke into the burning building and rescued a woman and two children on the first floor then entered the second floor to save two more women and two children on a porch. No injuries. Unknown origin. Substantial damage to the first two floors, minor damage to the third.
West German police said Walter Scheel was en route to the airport with his wife after attending his mother's funeral when his car collided with a taxi in Bonn. The taxi driver was killed and a passenger was critically injured. Scheel and his chauffeur were hospitalized with injuries but later boarded a West German Air Force jet to Bucharest. President Heinemann was to join the trip for a Romania visit but delays occurred for the funeral. Both vehicles were badly damaged with debris and minor injuries reported.
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