Monroe Defeat Moves for Probe of Police Setup
In Monroe on November 29, a town meeting with over 400 attendees defeated a petition to form a five member citizens committee to investigate the police department. Town counsel ruled that the Wagan case could not be investigated by a town meeting and that subpoenas could not be issued.
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Monroe
Citizens’ Committee
Board of Selectmen
Robert Wagan
Thomas J. Dolan
Vayan
Police Department
Dolan
Richard H. Simons
Milford
Republican Town Committee
Simons
Board of Police Commissioners
Police Commission
Wayan
Paliee Organization
M. Dolan
Warren Drouet
George E. Vayan
Bridgeport Weather Forecast Clears With Wet, Cooler Spell
Increasing cloudiness and a few showers expected this afternoon in Bridgeport and vicinity. Highs near 50, then cloudy and colder tonight with occasional rain ending. Sunday mostly fair but colder. Also includes almanac and tide details for the area.
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Bridgeport
Mayor lights 12000 bulbs at Yule ceremony in downtown
Mayor Tedesco joined Santa Claus to flip the switch turning on 12 000 lights for this year’s downtown Christmas display. About 2 200 spectators watched from Broad Street to Golden Hill Street as warm weather and a high school band opened the event. The mayor thanked the Chamber of Commerce and praise Public Works Police Recreation and Education departments for their roles in the celebration.
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Telegram
Brinsko
Main Street
Chamber of Commerce
Mary Booth
Golden Hill Street
Tedesco
Santa Claus
Broad Street
Public Works, Police, Recreation and Education
Harding
John A. Lyddy
Chamber Opposes Rooming House Law Changes
The Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce will fight changes to the city rooming house licensing ordinance, with a possible exception for an appeals board. Mayor Tedesco may seek a delay in the law’s effective date to study revisions. The chamber opposes a landlords on the board but may accept Welfare Police and Fire department representation. The Greater Bridgeport Landlords' Protective League proposed the appeals board.
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Chamber of Commerce
W. Dudley Jewell
Chamber
Tedesco
Jewell
Greater Bridgeport Landlords’ Protective League
Chamber of Commerce Holiday Hours Announced
Stores open until 9 p.m. and close by 5 30 p.m. Christmas shopping season extended with Chamber Commerce open Monday and Thursday nights for the next two weeks until 9 o'clock.
Eisenhower Tours Farm During Recovery Visit
President Eisenhower, after a minor stroke, returns to his Gettysburg estate for a weekend stay. He inspected his Angus cattle on a 500 acre spread with the White House physician and Secret Service present as he resumes light activity.
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Gettysburgh
Eisenhower
White House
James Hagerty
Secret Service
Howard M. Snyder
Hagerty
Snyder
Gaillard Wins Algerian Confidence Votes in France
Paris reports Premier Felix Gaillard’s government wins two confidence votes in the National Assembly on Algeria policy. The framework law for restricted home rule passes 269 to 200 and the elections plan 267 to 200, amid opposition from communists and right-wing groups. The Algerian National Liberation Front in New York says it rejects the framework law as imposed.
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Paris
Felix J. Gaillard
National Assembly
Algeria
Gaillard
Mier
France
Pierre Mendes-France
Maurice Bourges-Maunory
Assembly
New York
Front of National Liberation
Milford School Chief Urges End to Thanksgiving Eve Rallies
Milford School Superintendent Joseph A. Foran requests adult community action to stop annual Thanksgiving Eve rallies after a riot‑tinged event. He proposes school supervised or banned night rallies, urges police to curb teen gatherings, and notes 800 youths disrupted center town with eggs, rocks, and property damage.
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Milford
Joseph A. Foran
Foran
Tran
Amman
Jordan
Jerusalem
Damascus
Dents
Tra
Stratford-Milford
Christothers
Stratford
Youth Wounded While Hunting in North New Portland
Bridgeport youth Stephen F. Tarnoczy, 17, was accidentally wounded in the thigh by a .22 pistol while deer hunting in North New Portland Me. He was treated at Franklin Memorial Hospital Farmington and described as in good condition. Tarnoczy, a radio and television repairman and recent graduate of Bullard-Havens Technical School, said the weapon discharged while holstering.
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Bridgeport
New Portland
Woods
Stephen F. Tarnoczy
Thormer Street
Franklin Memorial Hospital
Farmington
Tarnoczy
Bul
jlard-Havens Technical School
Work on Wizard shows new weapon of the future
A Long Island factory worker Santo Scalise admitted damaging uranium filled cylinders at Sylvania Corning Nuclear Corp to spite his employer. The cylinders destined for the Aiken South Carolina AEC plant could have caused a massive explosion. He was arraigned on government property charges with a possible 100 year sentence.
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New York
Long Island
Atomic Energy Plant
Aiken
S.C
Kenneth Sternberg
U. S
AEC
Sternberg
Santo Scalise
New Hyde Park
N. Y
Sylvania Corning Nuclear Corp
Aiken Plant
Scalise
Martin Epstein
United Nations Secretary General
Hammarskjold
Beirut
Lebanon
Middle East
Idlewild Air
Honest Finder Returns Wallet and Refuses Reward
Seventy-year-old John Milne of Bond Street lost a wallet with 280 dollars earmarked for pension and grandchildren. An anonymous finder from Trumbull returned the money and declined the offered reward, uttering only two words Santa would approve: Merry Christmas.
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John Milne
Bond Street
Trumbull
Death plunge predicted for Russia rocket satellite
Cambridge observers report a world wide alert for the satellites final descent on Sunday morn ing as scientists note variable reentry timing. Smithsonian officials caution pinpointing the impact area is unreliable with only a 40 minute timing window. Predictions place possible landings across North America or Australia, with Kansas Iowa and Canada among favored sites.
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Cambridge
Mass
Russia
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
North America
Australia
United States
Fred L. Whipple
Smithsonian
Kansas
Iowa
Canada
J. Allen Hynek
John White
John 3. Rinehart
White Horse
NW. T
Wizards of Antimissile: Air Force to Speed Missile Shield
The Air Force announced work on an anti missile weapon named the Wizard aimed at defending against intercontinental missiles. Gen. Thomas White said the project is highly challenging but feasible with a unified Defense Department effort. SAC will take control of ICBMs and IRBMs in initial operational capability.
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Washington
Air Force
Thomas D. White
White
New York Times
Army
National Press Club
Deffense Department
U. S
Convair
General Dynamics Corp
Kirkland Air Force Base
New Mexico
Kirkland
America
Britain
SAC
Strategic Air Command
Features for Everybody In Telegram Every Day
Classified Ads and comics listed among sections for the day. The page includes editorial notes, fashion, financial news and bridge columns. Obituaries and theatre news are also featured with other lifestyle items.
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