Brewers Plan To Save Grain From Meat By-Products Use
Washington on October 15 AP reports Brewers and the Citizens Food committee discussed a grain conservation program. Meatless Tuesdays rules were eased to allow use of by products like liver kidneys brains and other parts on that day and possibly others. The group seeks a substantial grain reduction without overhauling the entire program and plans to inform Charles Luckman later in the day.
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Washington
Citizens Food Committee
Charles Luckman
Emall Brewers Committee
Luckman
Theo
State and City Form Save Food Committees
State and municipal citizens food committees prepared to cooperate with President Truman's national food committee conservation as the organization and work of each was being formulated. In Hartford Governor McConaughy announced the names of five persons in the state who will form the nucleus of the state.
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Truman
National Food Committee
Hartford
McConaughy
Official Weather Summary for Western CT and Eastern NY
Weather bulletin notes clear tonight with lows in the upper forties and light variable winds. Thursday brings mostly sunny skies and warm temperatures with highs in the mid seventies and light variable winds. Data attributed to the Weather Bureau and beta sources. tide times and sunrise sunset details included.
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Connecticut
New York
Vet Center Ends Service As Community Enterprise
Johnny, once a troublemaker, found help through a Red Feather worker at the Boys Club, steering him from delinquency to constructive activity like swimming, basketball, handiwork, and reading. The Bridgeport Boys clubs, a Community Chest member, aim to curb juvenile delinquency with engaged youth programs.
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Vet Center
Johnny
Red Feather
Bridgeport
Community Chest
1000 BACK PLEAS FOR JEWISH STATE AT BRIDGEPORT RALLY
A Bridgeport rally by the Bridgeport Labor Committee on Palestine drew over 1,000 attendees in Bassick high school auditorium to back a resolution endorsing a Jewish state in Palestine and condemning Britain's deportation of 4,400 Exodus 1947 refugees. Governor McConaughy, Mayor McLevy, and Thomas J Dodd spoke. Al Capp entertained. McConaughy urged action amid hunger and homelessness, criticizing indifference and the term displaced person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport Labor Committee On Palestine
Palestine
Bassick High School
McConaughy
McLevy
Thomas J Dodd
Nurenberg
al Capp
Li'l Abner
Community Advisory Service Center Ends Emergency Role
J William Hope reports Bridgeport veterans program shifts to private counseling as CASC dissolves. Dr Randall Hamrick transitions the center to a commercial veterans service, with ongoing arrangements to care for those in need under Hamrick’s organization. Hope notes past emergency programs duplicated by public funding should end.
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Community Advisory Service Center
J. William Hope
Bridgeport
McLevy
Randall B. Hamrick
CASC
Mr. Hope
Hope
United Community and War Fund
Community Chest and Council
McCarthy Calls FPHA Books a Mess and Grows Call for Rule Cuts
Senator McCarthy labelled the Federal Public Housing Authority bookkeeping a mess as a Senate committee probed a Price Waterhouse audit on FPHA 1945 46 accounts. He warned vast government funds may have disappeared amid unclear misuse while FPHA leaders testified no one profited though observers noted pervasive concern.
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Washington
McCarthy
Wis
Federal Public Housing Authority
Frm
Price, Waterhouse and Co
FPHA
Comptroller General
U S Confident Quon Victory Despite Reds
U S delegates at the United Nations face sharp criticism from Soviet deputy foreign minister Vishinsky but plan to await reaction before replying. John Foster Dulles and Herbert Evatt back the plan for a year around assembly while Palestine partition debates unfold with Lebanon and Syria pushing Arab positions. Indonesia cease-fire talks stall as Russia demands Dutch withdrawal. Marshall plan economics gains support though Slav nations resist.
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Dulles
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Vishinsky
Marshall
Russia
U. S
Palestine
Farid Zein Ed-Din
Moscow
U.S
Camille Chamoun
Lebanon
United States
Dr. Evatt
Palestine Committee
Jewish Agency For Palestine
Arab Higher Committee
Security Council
Indonesia
Assembly
Committee On Economics
Europe
Treasury Balance Report Shows Oct 13 Total
Treasury balance in Washington on October 13 stood at 4,631,516,333 dollars as reported by INS. Funds held across federal accounts reflect normal operating cash and reserve balances for the period.
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Treasury
Washington
Fairfield Board Rejects Clerk Salary Rise
The Fairfield Board of Finance set the town clerk annual salary at 4,800, denying Samuel Glover’s request for 8,400. The clerk, previously fee-based, moved to salary after the charter change. The board also named Henry Rennell permanent chairman, elected by a 2-3 vote, and ordered review of the clerk’s salary schedule with budget adjustments to cover nine months.
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Fairfield Board of Finance
Samuel Glover
Town Hall
Joenry H. Rennell
Ralph C. Hart
Richard M. Brett
DeWitt ©. Ramsay
Glover
Rennell
Orson Kilborn
Frank S. Shaw
Kilborn
First
Fire commissioners urged to avoid “sidewalk chiefs” in Bridgeport
John J. Gillespie, newly named Bridgeport fire commissioner, heard veteran advice from George Wellington at a Bridgeport Elks testimonial dinner. Wellington warned against overconfident civilians, urged proper hydrant purchases, and urged careful leadership to keep the fire department efficient amid housing shortages and rising city needs. Mayor McLevy praised Wellington’s legacy and challenged Gillespie to match his standards as Bridgeport’s fires department continues its high performance.
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John J. Gillespie
Board of Fire Commissioners
George Wellington
Ice Board
Bridgeport Elks
Elks
Wellington
Board of Public Purchases
Bridgeport Lodge of Elks
Fire Department
McLevy
Gillespie
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Fire Department
United States
William K. Mulvihil
Ghillespie
Governor Opposes Sale of War Housing in Connecticut
Governor McConaughy protested federally owned permanent war housing projects in Connecticut including Lincoln Terrace Huntington Homes and the frame portion of Success Park Bridgeport. He urged they be kept on a rental basis until the housing shortage eases, citing a critical housing condition. Lincoln Terrace already sold. Huntington Homes and Success Park frame portion are slated for sale despite local opposition.
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McConaughy
Connecticut
Lincoln 'Eirace
Huntington Homes
Success Park
Bridgeport
Raymond M. Foley
Lincoln Terrace
Bridgeport Housing Authority
Huntington Home
BHA
Harold C. Poole
The
Lanham Net
Poole
One Man's Opinion on Taft Hartley Trials and Races
Walter Kiernan surveys mixed political currents from Boston to San Francisco. He notes Taft Hartley opposition, Dewey allies confident in stopping Stassen, and the possibility of reshaped nominations if Hoover engages. He imagines the grim toll of postwar trials and vanquished rivals in a shifting 1940s political theater.
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Walter Kiernan
Boston
Ajel
San Francisco
Taft and Hartley
Stassen
Taft
Hoover
New Haven Railroad Reorganization Hit
Washington Oct 15 Senator Clyde M Reed R Kan said the US District Court for Connecticut acted with almost indecent haste in approving the reorganization of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad He urged more time for appeals and called the move ruthless and arbitrary wiping out common and preferred stocks and some junior bonds
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Washingston
Clyde M. Reed
Kan
U.S District Court For Connecticut
New York, New Haven & Hartford
New Haven
Woman to Retain $88 Paid in Strike
Alma F. Barrows of Bridgeport keeps 88 dollars received as unemployment compensation during a 1946 General Electric strike after Judge Edward J. Quinlan voided the refund for future claims. The ruling upholds the recovery of benefits already paid but allows future offset against any future claims under the unemployment compensation law.
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Alma F. Barrows
Bridgeport
General Electric Company
Edward J. Quinlan
Superior Court
U. S Employment Service
Uer-Mw
Ernest B. Partridge
Second Congressional District
Quinlan
Stocks Active in New York Opening Trade
Active demand for stocks continued at the opening in New York. Gains were smaller than yesterday but nearly all sections rose.
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New York
INS
Rescue of Bermuda Sky Queen passengers ends at sea
New York October 15 AP 62 passengers and seven crew were rescued from the flying boat Bermuda Sky Queen after a storm-tossed night at sea. The Coast Guard cutter Bibb aided by Argentia and high seas rescued 69 aboard and ordered the plane destroyed to prevent danger.
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New York
Bermuda
North Atlantic
Coast Guard
Hach
Paul B. Croniz
Bibb
Newfoundland
Admial Joseph F Watley
U.S. Coast Guard
Washington
Biho
Matii Fation
Argenta
Argentia Eairly
Cronk
Martin
Air Iner
Ireland
Gander
Nild
Tts
Duane
Argentia
Nfld
Charles Cannick
Star of
Lisbon
Shannon Evra
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Save Food
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Weaber Bureau
William J Merlin
Alitanag
H. C. Bishop
Bishop
Labor Committee
WICC
Balkans
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Comita
Hirst
Anne Brady
Pegler
Westbrook
Rocky Clark
Roosevelt
Eleanor
Rose
Billy Society Nova
Sokolsky
George E
Wisconsin
Senate
Herbert Emmerich
John N. Edy
Emmerich
E. B. van Horn
Senate Committee
Ciges
Qun
Evatt
Sky Queen
Preminto Airways
Boeing
American International
Eiie
Hudson River
New York City
England
Fairfield Trims
Sam Glover
H. H. Rennell
Victor
Nuremberg
Dewey
Taft-Stassen Combine
NEW Haven Railroad
Flying Boat
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