League of Women Voters Day Declared in Bridgeport
Mayor Samuel J. Tedesco proclaims today League of Women Voters Day in Bridgeport. The LWV annual finance drive seeks 1200 as contributors back non partisan citizen education in government. The mayor urges citizens to support the organization’s democratic outreach and its booklet We the People of Bridgeport.
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Germany to get new military chief in East Germany
Western intelligence sources say Marshal Andrei Grechko, chief of Soviet armed forces in East Germany, is being replaced by Army Gen. Matvei Zakharov. Zakharov, once commander of the Leningrad district, denounced Marshal Zhukov on Nov. 3 for personality cult statements. Transfer viewed as routine after four years in post.
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Andrei A. Grechko
East Germany
Zakharov
Matvei V. Zakharov
Leningrad
Georgi K. Zhukov
Grechko
Stolen Auto Rams Pole In Trumbull Crash
A 16 year old, Robert Thiebault of Seaview Avenue, and five younger boys were detained after a stolen car crashed into a pole on Main Street Trumbull. Thiebault faces auto taking charges with a $500 bond. others released to parents.
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Dover Street
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Stephen Zawadski
Bridgeport
Teaching Profession Seen Withering Away
New York November 24 AP The Carnegie Foundation warned the teaching profession is slowly withering away due to low pay. The 52nd annual report notes teachers leaving the field and young people avoiding it as real incomes for faculty drop 5 percent from 1940 to 1954 while lawyers physicians and industrial workers rise. Tuition reflects only a fraction of education costs with colleges covering the rest.
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Burglars rob Little Hungary restaurant on State Street
Burglars entered the Little Hungary restaurant at 1511 State Street in the early morning hours yesterday and escaped with $15 in bills and an unknown amount of change from a cash register. Police quoted owner Veronica Saray that the business closed at 2 a.m. Sunday and reopened about noon. Entrance was gained by breaking a rear side window.
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Little Hungary
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Mendel Fisher to Speak at Bridgeport Jewish Fund event
Mendel N. Fisher of the Jewish National Fund of New York will address a general meeting of Bridgeport's JNF Council at the Jewish Community Center. Senator Shannon denounces GOP leadership as tyrannical and claims a minority controls the party in Bridgeport without naming individuals.
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Jewish National Fund of New York
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Jewish Community Center
Beardsley Terrace Cops Meeting Hopes for Patrol Settlement
Beardsley Terrace Race Association officials meet at noon with Mayor Samuel J. Tedesco and Supt. John A. Lyddy to settle disputes over police patrols in the housing project area. Secretary Janice Jacobs cites at least a dozen children aged 4 to 7 mistreated in three months. Last reported victim is Geraldine Todice of 12 Woodside Avenue, mother of three. Todice says a youth she could identify mistreated her Saturday night as she stepped from a neighborhood drug store. he fled with four others in a parked car. The association seeks 24 hour walking policemen. Housing Authority Director Harold C. Poole says it is a city police responsibility.
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Beardsley Terrace Association
Samuel J. Tedesco
John A. Lyddy
Janice Jacobus
Geraldine Todice
Woodside Avenue
Todice
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Harold C. Poole
Bus crash in Bihar kills 27 of 34 aboard
A speeding passenger bus plunged into a river near Muzaffarpur Bihar. Thirty four passengers were aboard. 27 died including the driver. Police and rescue teams rushed to recover victims.
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Muzaffarpur
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Scholarships Spurred Anew As McLevy Living Memorial
Bridgeport Mayor Tedesco announced plans to revive the Jasper McLevy University of Bridgeport scholarship fund as a living memorial to the long serving mayor. The target is eighty thousand dollars by McLevy’s 80th birthday, with current funds around thirty one thousand six hundred and four hundred donors named. The project would reassemble the Citizens' committee from 1956, chaired by Sylvanus Locke, to oversee renewed fundraising and administration at UB.
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University of Bridgeport
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Sylvanus D. Locke
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Students invited to nuclear plant in Windsor visit program
Combustion Engineering announced it will allow college and high school students in Connecticut and Massachusetts to inspect its 535 acre nuclear facility. The Windsor plant is described as the nation’s largest privately owned nuclear engineering and development center and is testing a land prototype of an atomic submarine. Swiss trade figures show a boost in watch production so far in 195.
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