Federal Grant Program Criticized By Connecticut Leader
Hartford officials and state lawmakers grilled the federal grant in aid program, arguing it is wasteful and shifts financial burden. Connecticut figures show 1956 grants totaled 68.5 million while the state received 31.0 million, with calls to limit federal control and return powers to state and local governments.
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Hartford
Carter W. Atkins
Connecticut Public Expenditure Council
Panibattan
L. H. Fountain
North Carolina
Eden
Win H. May
Wethersfield Repub
Miller
Robert Michael
Florence Dwyer
New Jer
Middletown
Sey
Atomic Energy
Maromas
Atkins
Morelli
Robert P. Stacy
Connecticut Chamber of
Merce
Connecticut
Congress
Vawianion
Theodore S. Ryan
Senate
Carleton Sharpe
Terrale
Commission Named to Build Jail Wing in Fairfield County
Fairfield county legislators form a nine member commission to oversee a 1100 cell jail wing and mess hall addition in Bridgeport. The project costs 450000 dollars funded by a portion of a 650000 dollar bond issue approved by the Legislature. Members include Reps Pope Draper Curtis and Lindstrom Senator Sibal Sheriff Platt and county commissioners Birge Schuck and Eielson.
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Hartford
Fairfield County
Bridgeport
Fred Pope, Jr
Fairfield
Sarah F. Curtis
Newtown
Rodney S. Eielson
Trumbull
Nancy Carroll Draper
Ridgefield
Abner W. Sibal
Norwalk
Edward A. Platt
Edward S
Weather State Forecasts For New England And Mid Atlantic
Connecticut sunny and cool today with clearing tonight and a modest warm up by Thursday. Massachusetts Rhode Island expect sunny and cooler today with a bit warmer Thursday. New Hampshire Vermont fair and cool with clear to partly cloudy mountain areas. cooler tonight and similar Thursday. Maine mainly fair and cool with possible afternoon showers in northern mountains. clear tonight and Thursday fair but cool. Eastport to Block Island winds 20 to 30 mph. small craft warnings posted. generally fair weather and good visibility.
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Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine
Eastport
Block Island
Davies Trial Opens With Four Jurors Seated
In Waterbury on October 1, only four jurors were seated for George Davies 39 facing a first degree murder trial for killing an 8 year old girl with a screwdriver. Prosecutors challenge jurors over potential prejudice referencing other crimes. Davies also faces another first degree murder charge in the death of Gaetano Boivin 16. Trial resumes tomorrow at 9 a.m. before Judge John R. Thim with State’s Attorney William B. Fitzgerald prosecuting.
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Waterbury
George Davies
Davies
Edward T. Carmody
Gaetano Boivin
Walcott
Brenda Doucette
Bristol
Norwich Water Sale Bill Clears Path for Towns
Hartford October 1 Norwich may sell water to neighboring towns under a new bill approved by the Legislature. The measure paves the way for a Mont Nile industrial plant and was advanced after Rep Louis J. Padula was bypassed by sponsors who moved thePublic Utilities committee to report a similar measure favorably.
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Hartford
Norwich
Mont Nile
Cities and Boroughs Committee
Louis J. Padula
Norwalk
Padula
Public Utilities Committee
School Board Candidates Address Forum Tomorrow
Candidates for the Board of Education will speak at an open town hall forum tomorrow night at 8 in the high school bandroom. Co sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the PTA Council with Mrs Norman Cote moderating.
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Board of Education
League of Women Voters
PTA Council
Norman Cote
David Fowler
Robert ‘N. Adams
League
Alan Brandt
Brandt
William Calhoun
Bertram Cohen
Bion Francis
Milton Krantz
Milton Kahn
Phillip W. Siehr
Alexander Smith
Donald Stewart
George Weed
Gerald
Candida C. Dahut
Albert J. McKilis, Jr
Paisley A. McKils
First Avenue
Mildred A. Bartlett
Charles L
Eleanor J. Huchet
Maple Street
Robert F. Dixon, Sr
David Martinez
West River Street
Grassland Road
Ruth Ann Terrance
Arthur Simpson
Howard Wilcox
Stanley McBrien
Sunshine
W.S. Thorndike
Thomas Meyn
Kenneth Gallo
George Gardner
PTA Magazine
William ‘Harkins
Room Mothers Telephone
Norman Carlson
Pumpkin Delight
PYA
United Fund
Trinity Lutheran Church
Mary Martha Guild
Wopowage Lodge
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Daniel Street
Civil Defense Disaster Group
Civil Defense Headquarters
Milford High School
Isabelle Rebekah
Odd Fellows
Eloise Creevy
Noble Grand
Ethel Stannard
Harriet Cook
Myrtle Law
Odd Fellows Hall
PTA
Central Grammar School
Joseph Gage
Richard Dorien
James Pepe
Charles R. Tovino
Schola Lupt
Joseph A. Foran
Robert Winslow
Louis Lichtenstein
Ralph Verdi
David Crosby
Robert Neal Adams
Michael Vanacore
Michael A. Nicefaro
Sigmund Krikscian
Frank Praskievicz
Harold Reinhart
William Hoddinott
Ralph Wise
Praskievicz
Etta Anderson
Milford Hospital
Henry Olenski
Irene DelVecchio
Darina Place
Bridget Hayes
New Haven Avenue
Adlele Pendleton
Plains Road
Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club
Pine Room
Townly
James DeMaria
West State Street
Williamsburg
Durham
N.C
William
Rome
John Santellas
Ridge Road
Richard Sutphen
Vermont
Police Athletic League
Sewage Commission
Board of Selectmen
Erwin H. Ezzes
Gault Park
Esso
Post Road
Westport
Broad River
Norwalk
Jack Jesslin
Roseville Road
Boston
London
Navy
Hi Jinx Dance Planned By Pumpkin Delight PTA
Tickets for the Hi Jinx dance sponsored by the Pumpkin Delight school PTA go on sale this week. Proceeds fund a portable basketball back stop for the school gym. The event features music by the Seven Jacks and refreshments.
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Pumpkin Delight
PTA
Calvin Smith
Clifford Petk
Seven Jacks
Wilbur Currish
William Bull
Edna McLaughlin
Jack Fomenko
George Reed
Meadowside PTA Set Meeting Friday at 8 P M
Meadowside PTA executives plan Friday 8 p m meeting at the school to discuss a teen center Children’s Play series and Home Nursing Court for Asian Flu plus finalizing Harvest supper and business meeting for Oct 10 at 6 45 p m in the school gym.
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Red Cross
Meadowside School
PTA
Richard Plummer
Chesleigh Layman
Horace Becie
C. M. Ganzle
Walter Lurix
G. A. Demoses
Daniel Dodge
Layman
Paul Forner
Stanley Kavan
Carl Baldwin
Irving
Nordstrom Dies at 65 Proprietor of Sign Display Co
O Benjamin Nordstrom 65 of 1145 Barnum Avenue Bridgeport died yesterday at Bridgeport Hospital. Services Friday private at Henry E Bishop and Son Funeral Home with Rev James Hood. Burial Lakeview Cemetery. Nordstrom 32nd degree Mason member of Ashlar lodge 124 AF and AM Lafayette Consistory Pyramid Temple AAONM S American Legion Stratford Post 42 Patterson club. Survived by wife Lillian Kettner Nordstrom daughter Marjorie Schneider sister Miss E Aurora Nordstrom brother J Milton Nordstrom and two grandchildren.
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O. Benjamin Nordstrom
Barnum Avenue
Abercrombie Sign and Display Company
Bridgeport Hospital
Henry E. Bishop
Stratford recall provision restored in charter vote
Hartford lawmakers approved a bill restoring recall provisions for Stratford councilmen in charter revision plans. Voters will ballot on the issue Monday after the provisions were omitted inadvertently when proposals were first authorized earlier in the year.
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Hartford
Stratford
Men Get Life in Kidnap Plot in South Carolina
Thomas D. Jacobs and two others received life terms after a jury found them guilty of conspiring to kidnap the son of Clinton banker Robert M. Vance for 350000 dollars. Jacobs claimed entrapment by a Clinton handyman and sheriff's office, while co-defendants denied involvement. The judge said the mercy recommendation spared potential death.
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Greneker
Jacobs
Presbyterian College
Robert M. Vance
Weathy Clinton
Lewis A. Young
Clinton Handyman
Sheriff's Office
Young
Jeffect
Charles Wood
Arlington
Jacobs|Tex
Shelton
Hill
Terday
Bright Side Formula From 99 Year Old Woman
Meriden resident Mrs. Etta Buckingham, who turns 100 tomorrow, shares her advice from a hospital bed after a June hip fracture. She says there is no bright side to seek but one must look for brightness in life, enjoys jigsaw puzzles, and previously lived alone in Wallingford cooking and shopping daily.
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Meriden
Etta Buckingham
Wallingford
Welfare rents set per room in low cost housing
Hartford October 1 the Legislature approved a bill to set welfare tenant rentals in low cost housing on a per room basis. The measure ends a dispute between Bridgeport Housing Authority and the State Welfare department over flat rents and nonpayment claims, reducing eviction threats.
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Hartford
Bridgeport Housing, Authority
State Welfare Department
Bridgeport
BHA
Methodist Church Plans Golden Anniversary Fete
The Community Methodist church hosts a Golden Anniversary Harvest Festival on Oct 24 from 3 to 9 pm in Westport center. Coordinators include William B. White and James R. Bowen and the event features a full course turkey dinner, an Old Country Store booth, games and children's movies.
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Community Methodist Church
Church Lane
Westport
William B. White
James R. Bowen
Hugh Harper
R.H. Landgrebe
Joe Randolph
George Ferris
Clyde Ross
William Whitely
David Miller
Bruce W. Jamieson
Harry Audley, Jr
Robert Feistel
Philip Barnthouse
Harold Shippey, Jr
Ann Bowen
James Kyle
Everett Baker
Dean Lindquist
Ray Pearsall
Ted Zattola
William Best
Mucis
Richard Hodgeman
Walter B. Stevenson
Red Cross
Christ and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Lions Club
Philip Totten
St. Luke Cyo
Long Lots Road
Ymca Businessmen's
Matthew H. Johnson
Johnson
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Atwater Street
James Francis Timoney
Nettleton Avenue
Henry Hanauer
Cindy Circle
George Hunt
Winchester Avenue
Douglas MacQuarrie
Rivercliff Drive
Arthur Oemcke
Overhill, Road
Phillip Brough
Buckingham Avenue
Meadowside Pta
C. B. Nordstrom
Methodist Church
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Turkey Hill Road
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Fred Dehmer
Deletta Lane
James F. Czel
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company
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