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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1973
Page
7
Stratford issues a winter parking warning to aid snow removal. The town ordinance bans overnight on street parking to keep access for plows. Crews finish leaf collection, repair curbs, and resurface drives while residents are urged to bag leaves for safe handling.
Town hosts a Santa visit with a parade float from Grand Union and police escort to Paradise Green. Children invited. PTA members, business leaders, and civic groups organize events around a 3 to 4 pm program, with town hall and Main Street activity including reconstructions and school outreach.
Open house programs run from 7 to 9 p m at Genter and Chapel Street schools. Parents can tour classrooms learn about their children’s work and meet teachers to become acquainted with school facilities and activities.
Judges Frances Tripp and Michael Mancini named winners in the poster and diorama contests as National Children’s Book Week ran November 12 to 18. Winners include Jacqueline Krehel, Nicholsschoot, Jean Alelio, and Margaret Haffner from Second Hill Lane and Chapel schools, plus Laura Schrader and Mark Cody from Great Neck, among others.
Heavy snow warnings and advisories extended across Colorado Arizona New Mexico and the Black Hills of South Dakota with new accumulations. Flagstaff Aviz and other locations reported several inches more while southeastern Wyoming and southwestern Nebraska faced a heavy snow watch. Weather varied nationwide with storms producing rain in Missouri Florida and the Atlantic coast and clear or partly cloudy conditions in several cities from Boston to Miami.
Two lawsuits filed in Manhattan Supreme Court demand a total of 487.5 million related to the August 1 Broadway Central Hotel collapse. One suit seeks 55 million for the death of Kay Frances Parker, 38, a secretary, among four killed. Defendants include the hotel lessee, the management firm, the property owners, and the City of New York. A separate 2 million suit by Matilda Edwards and Gertrude Latham claims they bought the hotel in 1969 and name the lessees and prior operators as defendants alongside tenants of the building.
Plaintiffs cited Schoen Architect Lea Schoen and two firms in a prepared plan for alterations at the University Hotel on lower Broadway. They charged tenants and owners made willful changes to the building, changing its name and causing a substantial portion of the wall to collapse, a widely known landmark.
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