Boating Fatalities Rise with Capsizing Causes
One thousand three hundred sixty persons died in boating accidents last year. Forty percent of boating facilities-related fatalities were caused by capsizing, highlighting safety risks on waterways.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1966
Page
7
One thousand three hundred sixty persons died in boating accidents last year. Forty percent of boating facilities-related fatalities were caused by capsizing, highlighting safety risks on waterways.
Raybestos division will host the Red Cross Bloodmobile at the brake service garage on Thursday from 11 30 a m to 4 p m for the 50th visit since Connecticut Regional Blood Program started in 1950. Employees have donated 6238 pints of blood and officials hope this visit becomes a top effort.
Officers of Housatonic Grange 79 Patrons of Husbandry were installed at a recent meeting. Names listed include Harry Ireland master and Eleanor Wilkinson lectur er. The State Needlework contest is set for Saturday at the Meriden grange with Mrs Bertha Arnold entered. A town slate of community events followed including dances, rehearsals, and a public zoning hearing in Stratford.
The Stratford Amateur Radio club begins its annual Code and Theory class next Tuesday with registration tomorrow at the club house Boothe Memorial parks from 7 30 to 9 p m. Mrs May Blakley leads assisted by Dennis Grinrod and Joseph Pelham.
The Stratford press notes where to send Stratford news to William Bart lay and details mailing to P. O. Box 173 or Catalano's News Store and Police HQ. It urges full first names for persons and states 48 hour prior deadline for club meetings.
Joseph Schimmel from the U S Patent Office will speak at the Connecticut Patent Law Association meeting in New Haven at 6 p m The talk covers Patent Office procedures after patent issuance Officers include Costas Hanrahan DeLio Ware Past presidents named in Bridgeport area notes Also a stray line advises monthly greeting card reminders for busy month ends.
A Yomiuri Shimbun reporter in Peking says the Red Guards are being converted into a reserve labor force, easing purge excesses after the October 1 anniversary. The army has halted robberies of merchants and foreign residents, reopening postal offices and high end shops. Lin Piao rises as Mao’s No 2 amid the cultural revolution.
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