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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1954
Page
11
A reader questions if expertise is required to invest and suggests gathering facts from reliable sources. The note mentions company reports, financial pages, newspapers, and brokers as good sources to support sound investment decisions.
Governor Lodge assails Democratic platform as unfunded promises while defending his administration. He warns the plan would bankrupt the state and cost millions. Senator Prescott Bush leads a Greenwich rally with about 450 in attendance. John J Bracken contends Ribicoff plan shifts inmate costs to high income families.
The Connecticut Education Association's Department of Classroom Teachers will hold an all day Elementary Institute on October 21 at Salisbury Central School Lakeville. Yale nursery director Miss Evelyn Omwake is keynote. Seventeen teachers will show methods to help children develop potential from kindergarten to eighth grade.
Mra Ernest Hebditch chair of Bridgeport Tuberculosis survey announces volunteers for a three day X Ray program starting today in Black Rock. The mobile unit will operate noon to 9 p.m. daily at Circular and Fairfield avenues and will X ray employees from Model Tool, Bridgeport Tool and Die, Connecticut Chemical Research, Black Rock Manufacturing, and Automotive Twins. Volunteers include Mrs. Russell Kinsman Jr and many other local women and PTA members. Dr Bernard Berkowitz urged public cooperation to fight TB and keep Bridgeport free of the disease.
The Algonquin club will recognize new officers at its annual president's dinner tonight. Guest speaker Samuel H. Ramsay, humorist, will address the value of humor in human relations. Clifford H. Plants becomes club president on October 1, succeeding Joseph T. Foerth.
State Senator George A. Saden seeks reelection in the 22nd district and will speak on WNAB at 7:48 am. A rally is planned at the Singer Manufacturing plant with Antoni P. Trojanowski and other candidates for the state eleminiator in the 1st and 33rd districts. Austin K. Wolfe and Dominic F. Y Ame are nominees for state.
Rep. Seely Brown of Connecticut’s Second district, a Republican candidate for reelection, warned at a campaign workers’ meeting that Democratic control of Congress would place committees under southern Democrats who discriminate against northern industry. He cited textile firms migrating from Eastern Connecticut and accused southern and southwestern blocs of attempting to steal industries for their regions, calling dispersal a pretext to move jobs abroad. He warned that atomic threats could be used to justify relocating industry away from New England and the Middle Atlantic.
The passage argues Southern Democrats will back shifts that aid their own directions, noting that they previously offered little resistance to similar moves in Congress, and contrasts this with the greener Carolina and Tennessee regions. It frames the issue as a regional struggle over industrial policy and political alignment.
The Stratford Eli Whitney school Fathers' club will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the school. Iraq expands purchases of soft currency goods, Baghdad report.
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