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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1958
Page
4
Twenty children from a Johannesburg school for the deaf were taken to Kruger National Park for a wildlife visit described as a great adventure.
The Greater Bridgeport Landlords League asks the Common Council to exempt downtown rooming houses facing redevelopment from required renovations. Ernest Garrick writes the proposal, to be reviewed by the ordinance committee, arguing savings on condemnation costs and preservation of capital for post redevelopment use.
The report blends a Q A segment on pencil graphite danger and Canadian diplomacy with a Trumbull town court roundup. It lists youths charged with breach of the peace and multiple traffic offenses amid a public safety note about confiscated rifles. Names ages and addresses appear in the court itemization.
Pilot Wiley Post finishes the first solo flight around the globe covering 15 596 miles in seven days 18 hours 45 minutes setting a landmark aviation record.
Willard M. Sweetser Jr of Waterbury was found not guilty of speeding. Warrants issued for Robert J. Burke of Derby and Nathaniel McIntyre of Bridgeport on illegal parking charges with bonds set at 0. Thirteen out of area violators forfeited $174 total for traffic violations including hitch hiking speeding driving light illegal parking failure to grant right of way and stop sign.
Four elderly residents died as smoke engulfed a three story West Toronto nursing home. Tillie Hewitt 85 and William Cavanagh 79 died en route to hospital. Frank Cooper 71 and John Black 75 died of smoke inhalation six hours later. Eight others injured. Nurses and police evacuated 68 patients, some lowered by stretcher from the second floor.
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