Playgrounds to Stay Open Cool Spell In City Until Nightfall
Bridgeport officials reach a three way agreement to keep all public school playgrounds open until nightfall with police patrols monitoring after hours. The plan targets vandalism blamed on older youths and includes roaming supervision to promote non destructive play while preserving safety.
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Sid Folsom
Bridgeport
Board of Education
Police Department
Department of Parks and Recreation
Usgees
Agen
Albert A. Snyder
Joseph A. Walsh
Board of Recreation
John Balogack
Walsh
Snyder
Park and Recreation Department
Eagler
Park Recreation
Weather Report for Barent DRIDGETORT and Vicinity
Mostly sunny and warmer today with a high near 70. Cooler by night with a low in the 40s. Sunday shows partly cloudy and warm with a high around 70. Temperatures reached a high yesterday and fell to a low last night. conditions improving through the period.
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Dridgetort
Wong Che Shore
Downtown stores unite for three day sale event
Seventy downtown stores join in a three day sale announced by Bridgeport Commerce. Stores stay open late Monday and close earlier Tuesday and Wednesday as shoppers gain a wide range of discounts across departments jewelry clothing furniture cameras books and food.
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Bridgeport
Mt. Modzhr Sau
Growers Battle Spring Freeze Across Northeastern Regions
Fruit and vegetable growers across Maine to Delaware used straw coverings, smudge fires, wind machines, hovering helicopters, and planes to fend off a third late spring frost attack. Damaged crops included hardy apples in the Appalachians and a $100 million stake crop in western and central New York. Frost efforts limited widespread loss, with lower temps in the upper 20s.
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Maine
Delaware
New York
Appalachian
Maryland
West Virginia
Insurance Probe Ends Ends, Prosecutor Gets Data
Hartford May 24 AP The Republican led House Insurance Committee closes the probe into state insurance commissions and forwards records to State's Attorney John D. LaBelle for possible grand jury action. GOP members may pursue other investigations while ending the insurance inquiry and asserting the legislature’s role as a co equal branch.
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Hartford
House Insurance Committee
John D. LaBelle
House
Mc. LaBelle
GOP
Insurance Department
Nicholas DB. Eddy
New Hartford
Rep
Eddy
Les
James Byes
R-Pomfret
John P. Kelly
Scotland Yard Hunts 6270000 Stolen Gold Heist
Scotland Yard searched Britain for 40 gold bars valued at about 6270000 dollars seized by three masked men in a major bullion robbery at a licensed warehouse. The raiders, dressed in overalls, fled in a car against traffic after bashing open the door and tying the guard to a chair.
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London
APY
Scotland Yard
Britain
Ginshiry
Sharps, Flutey and Ca
Charles Houghton
Fire Destroys Milford Home. Several Rescued
Milford fire destroys a Cedar Street home shortly after 9 pm injuring firefighters and threatening nearby houses. Archie Freed, 72, and others were rescued as flames surged 60 feet high. A fallen power line caused electrical explosions hampering hoses until a truck was moved to safety. The Freeds’ dogs died and eight people became homeless.
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Milford
Myrtle Beach
B. Chamberlain
Jattis
Robert Campanaro
Randolph Freed
Cedar Treat
Campanaro
Archie Freed
Vincent O'Connor
Cedar Street
Freed
Haiti toll rises as night battles flood Port au Prince
Diplomatic sources report hospitals in Port au Prince crowded with about 19 casualties from nightly clashes. Armed guards barred entrance to the hospitals and details on the case remain unclear as violence continues in the capital amid political upheaval.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Mair
Dasaby
Franciis Duvalier
GOP backs compromise on highway safety measures
Hartford May 24 Republican House members overwhelmingly approved a highway safety compromise including a 70 mph speed limit on divided highways and chemical tests with implied consent. The plan drops a demand to curb the motor vehicles commissioner’s license suspension powers for first offenses, and aims for passage before June 5 adjournment. Governor Dempsey praised the GOP shift and said a strong speed limit and chemical tests are essential, while opposing full suspension power weakening.
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Hartford
APA
House
GOP
Ofien
Louis J. Padaia
Norwalk
Goveric Dempsey
Legislative Council
Senate
Regisla
Padula
Dempsey
Haiti Pays Up Dues Keeps UN Vote Intact
United Nations dispatch reports Haiti paid 23500 to the UN, avoiding loss of voting rights in the special General Assembly on financing. The payment ends a two year arrears totaling about 129006, after Haiti had boycotted sessions and its budgetary committee pending settlement.
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United Nations
Haiti
Special General Assembly
U.N
Assembly
Cam Bitlee
Khrushchev Will Visit Cuba Amid Nuclear Defense Pledge
In Moscow Khrushchev promised to visit Cuba and pledged Soviet aid if Cuba is attacked, framing Cuba as the first socialist state in America. The Tass communique stressed defending Cuba against invasion and warned that an invasion could trigger global nuclear war.
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America
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Khrushchev
Russia
Tass
Fidel Castro
United States
Soviet Union
Castro
Kheush
Chev
Washington
State Department
Red China
Castro Khrushchev
U.S
L A Menta Slated for Principal Post in Bridgeport
Lawrence A. Menta, a Dunigan school teacher, is certified for promotion to elementary principal by Civil Service. The Beardsley principal position will open with Elizabeth Roche’s retirement next month, and the Board of Education will act after the Civil Service approves the nomination. Menta, a New Haven native, has taught in Bridgeport since 1955 and served in the Navy before teaching.
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Cisi] Service Commission
Lawrence A. Menta
Bridgeport
John J. Linley
Vanalley
Elizabeth F. Roche
Beardsley School
Board of Education
Jetter
Civil Service Np.1
Mr. Menta
Dunigan
Menta
Pastor's Walk
Monroe
Wheeler and Roosevelt School
New Haven
Southern Connecticut State Teachers’ College
Fairfield University
U.S. Navy
Bridges
Connecticut House delegates preside daily session notes
In Hartford on May 24 the Board of Education chaired by Pope and Fennell oversaw a Senate portion during testing and Civil Service discussions. The House saw Rep Melvin Fennell acting as Speaker for part of the day as lawmakers debated education matters and related assignments.
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Maria
Marilyn Finn
Bridgeport
Barbara
Lawrence, Jr
Hartford
Sen
Thomas
Fred Pope Jr
R-Fairfield
Board of Education
Senate
House
Melvin Fennell
Fairfield
Powers Denies Quit Plan As NASA Assignment Extends
Lt Col John A Powers known as the voice of Mercury Control says he has not been fired and will not quit. He states he remains an Air Force officer on detail to NASA with assignment extended through May 1964 and that no resignation is planned. He spoke at a NASA executives' session during the national aviation space writers convention in Dallas.
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Dallas
Tex
John A
Shorty) Powers
America
Lam
Air Force
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape Canaveral
Powers
Voice of Mercury Control
Guit
Feorden Cooper
National Aeronautical and Space Administration
National Aviation-Spacewriters
Sugar Glut Seen as Sugar Prices Expected to Fall
The Agriculture Department says sugar supplies are plentiful and prices should drop. Undersecretary Charles S. Murphy warns speculators may push prices briefly but a surge in foreign commitments and 1963 stockpiles suggest ample supply. Hearings are planned to probe rising sugar costs and restore market stability.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Charles S. Murphy
Murphy
United States
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