16 Oct 1959
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1959
Page
1
Fumes from a defective boiler flue seeped through a five story West 42nd Street tenement injuring and alarming residents. Six people were treated outside fire stations as emergency crews evacuated tenants from the building.
The Soviet Union joined twelve nations calling for a ban on military use of Antarctica and for unfettered scientific inquiry. US Secretary of State Herter pledges peaceful scientific cooperation while Khrushchev’s delegation marks a thaw in East West tensions as talks proceed on a binding international regime to protect the continent.
The French National Assembly voted 441 to 23 to back President Charles de Gaulle's plan for Algeria. Debre urged unity and warned against secession, endorsing self determination with local autonomy, not full independence, while some deputies urged complete integration with France.
Fair and mild in Bridgeport area with a high near 60 as a system moves in tonight. Cloudy cool 40s to 50s. tomorrow cloudy with showers and cooler. Almanac, sports, puzzles, weather data and ads fill the page alongside editorials and broadcasts.
Educators unveil a multimillion dollar airborne educational television project covering six states. A DC7 aircraft at 20 000 feet will relay courses from Purdue University to participating schools and colleges, reaching about five million students in Illinois Indiana Kentucky Michigan Ohio and Wisconsin. Ground facilities at Purdue exchange programs with the circling plane for retelecast regionwide.
An oil painting claimed to depict the Torrington birthplace of abolitionist John Brown has resurfaced in Milford. Owner Robert W. Granger, a New Haven Journal-Courier sports writer, says the 1891 canvas shows a New England saltbox house and emerges amid centennial Harper's Ferry observances and notes of past occupancy by a fire.
Representatives from 20 major New England bakeries and the Teamsters union pressed contract talks through the night and into Friday morning. They aimed to settle without a strike, with mediators present, while acknowledging potential effects on independent establishments reliant on direct bakery deliveries across six states.
Government fact finders urged direct negotiations between the steel industry and the United Steelworkers. The union and industry agreed to meet in Washington, as Eisenhower’s inquiry panel warns the walkout endangers production. Leader figures McDonald and Taylor weigh arbitration vs talks, with no clear settlement by Monday.
CBS canceled Mae Wests appearance on the Person to Person program noting some answers were too hot to handle. West said she is usually frank and that questions asked drew no trouble before. Charles Collingwood conducted the interview filmed for tomorrow nights telecast.
Readers faced tough entries in the Post cross word game with an $800 prize and a looming $825 next week. The Old Maestro proved unbeatable as clues referenced FOALS not FOOLS or FOWL, SHEEP not SHEET, and CAFE not CAPE, highlighting the puzzle’s sharp theme and patience-testing clues.
Dozens of families flee as a 5000 acre brush blaze roars north from the Foothills toward Big Tujunga canyon. Firefighters from La Paloma flats evacuate 30 to 40 homes while 2000 men battle the flames. Merle Lowden calls it a potential powder keg as smoke darkens the city.
A B 52 carrying a nuclear weapon and a KC 125 tanker crashed during midair refueling near Hardinsburg Kentucky. Four killed five survived with no danger of atomic detonation reported by SAC. Rescue teams and bases including Ft. Knox coordinated amid wide area wreckage and conflicting crash theories.
In Lowell Massachusetts a car swerved from the street and crashed into the Immaculate Conception elementary School yard as dismissal began. Five children ages 5 to 12 were injured, two seriously, with Bri an Sullivan and Joanne Gargan among those hospitalized. Police blamed a brake fluid ring on the driver Mrs Dorothy Witch.
President Eisenhower and Chancellor Adenauer exchanged messages on safeguarding West Berlin independence and German unity in talks with Russia. The letters cover discussions with Khrushchev and future Western strategy, with plans for a Western leaders meeting before the East West summit. Separately Fairfield town selects insurance agent list tied to a political controversy.
In Oakland, a bandit took 45 dollars from a grocery store then returned the cash to the manager saying he could not go through with it. He waited for police near his car and tried to avoid a ticket by feeding a meter.
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