States Host to Tour Group
Eastern Connecticut showcases industrial potential as a two day tour guides more than 20 brokers and newspapermen from New York New Jersey and Connecticut. Sponsored by the Connecticut Development Commission and utilities the caravan charted about 300 miles through New London Windham and Tolland counties inspecting plants and sites for future industry with state police escort.
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Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut Development Commission
New London
Windham
Tolland
Tex
Weather report for Bridgeport area and coast
Partly cloudy today with a high near 60. Tonight cool and fair with 45 on shore and 35 inland and a scattered frost chance. Tomorrow mostly sunny and near 60. Winds NW to today, good visibility, slight seas. A long list of old meteorological notes follows, including Moon rise times and Orion constellation mention.
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Bridgeport
New York City
Long Island Sound
Ridgefield Zoners Quit Critics of Town Officials
Ridgefield five member Zoning commission resigns in a special session citing lack of cooperation from town officials. The panel had faced criticism over operations, a court reversal, and disputes over sign ordinance enforcement led by Assistant Prosecutor Irving L Bruns who did not sign warrants but urged compliance. The board will review a related study and meet today.
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Ridgefield
Board of Selectmen
Selectmen
Zoning Board
Irving L Bruns
Bruns
Old Branchville Road
New York City
Juror Seated at Sheppard Trial in Cleveland
The Sheppard murder trial selected its ninth juror as trial moves swiftly. Two housewives joined the panel, including Mrs. Margaret E Adams, wife of a metal parts firm VP, bringing five women and four men on the jury. Earlier, Mrs. Beatrice Orenstein, wife of a postal clerk, was named. The trial recessed for lunch after the ninth juror was picked. Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard stands accused of first degree murder in the July 4 death of wife Marilyn.
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Cleveland
Sheppard
Margaret E Adams
Beatrice Orenstein
Samuel H. Sheppard
Marilyn
Hceme
Fred W. Garmone
John J. Allen III Hospitalized in Washington DC
John J. Allen III, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 191 AFL, is in Capital Hospital after a slight shock. He has been in Washington attending a union convention since last Sunday. Allen felt unwell yesterday and was admitted, with his son Michael reporting he is under sedatives and expected to be released Saturday. He was staying at the Hell Hamilton with his wife and son when illness struck.
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John J. Allen
Teamsters
AFL
Doctor's Hospital
Washington DC
Allen
Washington
Michael
Chuckle Snippet on Chigger Welling and the Rube
A brief comic note describes a chigger with a tiny head that wounds badly. It contrasts the creature's bite with a rural joke about the unsteady rube and a Weeprwnght General Features line.
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Featcres
Ike Hails Gains Of His Regime Against Reds
President Eisenhower told New York audiences last night his administration has come far toward blocking communist aggression and achieving lasting world peace. He warned Russia and Red China remain dangerous threats while urging support for GOP candidates in New York and New Jersey. The White House labeled the event non political as Ike planned further meetings and a Smith Memorial dinner appearance. The remarks followed a Sheraton-Astor reception marking Jewish life’s 300th anniversary in the United States.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
New York
Eisenhower
Russia
Pedr China
White House
Harry S. Truman
Adlai F. Stevenson
Truman
Sevenson
New Jersey
GOP
Roosevelt Hotel
U.S
Irving M. Ives
Averell Harriman
Ives
Thomas E. Dewey
Fufford P. Case
Senate
Case
Joseph R. McCarthy
McCarthy
Leackers
AlIfred E. Smith
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
DuMont Television Network
Sheraton-Astor
Nurse pay boosted for private duty in Hartford
Private duty nurses in Hartford were authorized to charge $14 for eight hours, up from $12. The increase was proposed by the private duty section of the Connecticut State Nurses' Association at its annual convention at the Hotel Statler and approved by the CSNA board of supervisors.
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Hartford
Connecticut State Nurses’ Association
Army surveys sites in Fairfield for radar and missiles
The Army is evaluating two sites west of Reef road in Fairfield for guided missile installations and radar stations. Surveys cover the town dump off Reef road and the Old Dim road area near the Lena Dinerstein property. Army engineers discussed locations with Fairfield town officials as part of coastal defense planning.
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Army
Fairfield
Fairfield Beach
Reef Road
Old Dim Road
Lena Dinerstein
James T. Patterson
First Army
Smilar
Army Engineer Corps
Robert Bryan
Bryan
Dinerstein
Town Plan and Zoning Commission
Murphy Field
Ree Road
Park Department
GOP Gains Seen From Ike Visit In Hartford
President Eisenhower's four hour Hartford sojourn stirred GOP optimism for the November election. State leaders said the visit boosted the Lodge ticket with crowds of 50 000 to 60 000 at Bushnell Park and 7 500 at Trinity College as the White House called the trip non political.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Esenhower
Governor Lodge
Clarence F. Baldwin
Bushnell Park
Trinity College
Trinity
Bushner Park
John C. Kelly
Congress
White House
Banker Tells of Bribery at Arkansas Power & Light
Arkansas banker Arthur McLean, president of the Commercial National Bank of Little Rock, testified before the Senate monopoly subcommittee that bribery coercion and police have marked the operations of the Arkansas Power and Light Company for years He warned the Arkansas Public Utilities Commission there will be no bribery in the companys pending rate increase application and called the proposed Devon-Yates contract an outrate
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Washington
IAP
Arkansas
Arkansas Power & Light Company
Arthurr McLean
Commercal National Bank of
Little Rock
Senate
Snd
Arkansas Power
McLean
Devon-Yates
Arkansas Public Atliit«s. Commission
Bus Crash Injures Students in Edgefield Scene
In Edgefield South Carolina a school bus collided with a pickup truck and slid down a 25 foot embankment injuring at least 14 pupils and one woman. The accident occurred today near Edgefield.
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Edgefield. SC
Community Chest 35th Annual Campaign Totals and Need
The report shows 1955 division pledges by sector with totals for Residential Commercial TI Pan Industrial Trade Finance Public Service Educational Stratford and Special Gifts. Pledged to date stands at 321 599 with 595 345 still to be raised and a call to pledge full support for community welfare.
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Stratford
Six Polio Cases Reported In New Milford
New Milford records six polio cases this October as two new infections raise the monthly total. Health officer Dr. Howard G. Stevens orders suspension of youth activities for at least a week. Several local students and out of town youths are being treated or observed for polio at New Haven hospital. gamma globulin has been given to remaining students. State and city officials urge calm and standard polio precautions.
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New Milford
Howard G. Stevens
Gloria Raino
Daugher
Lawrence Raino
Spring Street
Main Street
New Haven Hospital
Charles Cheney
LeRoy Wolfe
Rocky River District
Canterbury Preparatory School
Richard Higgins
Worcester
Mass
Kenneth Scassera
Priceton
N. J
Mary Ellen Buckley
St. Francis
Richard W. Turner
Gifts lagging in 1955 Bridgeport campaign report
The 1955 Fed Feather campaign of the Bridgeport Community Chest and Cornel aims to reach two-thirds at tomorrow noon's Stratfold hotel luncheon, sponsored by Bridgeport Fabrics, Inc. More than 200 attend. $21,599 raised by third report, lag blamed on late large industry gifts. Guest speaker Harry Reser, noted musician and USO tour veteran, with brief Chest talks and slides. Charles H. Abbott chairs the event.
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Bridgeport Community Chest
Cornel
Stratfold Hotel
Bridgeport Fabrics, Inc
Egifts
Harry Reser
USO
Europe
North Africa
Northeast Air Command
Greenland
Labrador
Newfoundland
Korea
Japan
Reser
Paul Whiteman
Charles H. Abbott
Copter Strikes Crane In Texas Two Killed
Fort Worth Texas Oct 21 UP a helicopter crashed into a 70 foot crane today and fell to the ground in Dallas killing two men Philip V Shrock an instructor for Bell Aircraft of Fort Worth Roper A Kaadtmann of Fort Worth an instructor for Bell Aircraft Shrock had just accepted delivery and taken off from the heliport of the Western Hills hotel
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Fort Worth
Texas
Tames
Philip V. Shrock
Dallas
Coper Service
Roper A. Kaadtmann
Bell Aircraft
Shrock
Western Hills
60 Year Old Love Story Ends At Altar For Woman and Man
In Hartford a 76 year old woman Mary W. Brodeur and 80 year old Arthur G. Gonthier wed at Our Lady of Sorrows church after a romance that began 60 years ago at a wedding in Duluth Minnesota. The couple, once separated by distance and life, recalled their youth and their journeys before sealing vows and starting a California honeymoon.
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Mary WV. Brodeur
Arthur G. Gonthier
Our Lady of Sorrows Church
Puluth
Minn
St Isidore
Que
Springfield
Mass
Brodeur
San Bernardino
Calif
Seven nations back defense union in west Europe
Seven European states including West Germany agreed to join a Western European Union for common defense. The accord rewrites the 1948 Brussels treaty to add West Germany and Italy, with Britain France Belgium Luxembourg joining, and aims to end Allied occupation while preserving limited sovereignty and continued NATO integration. Canada and the United States will act as guarantor nations and supervise rearmament under the new pact.
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Paris
West Germany
United States
Canada
Brussels
Italy
Britain
France
Belgium
Helland
Luxembourg
Palais de Chaillot
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
West
French Foreign Ministry
West European Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Anthony Eden
Pierre Mendes
Francé
Netherlands
Benelux
Navy suspends Condon security clearance at Corning Glass
Bulletin Washington reports on October 21 that the Navy suspended the security clearance of Dr. Edward U. Condon, former chief of the Bureau of Standards, now director of research and development at Corning Glass Works. His firm had said Tuesday he had received a Defense Department clearance for access to government secrets.
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Washington
Navy
Edward U Condon
Bureau of Standards
Condon
Corning Glass Work
Tuese
Defense Deparment
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Boy's Village
Milford
Bob Ward
Peggy
Cindy
John R. Cuff
Pine Rock Park
Shelton
States
Waller Temperature & Am
Pleasure Reach
Ilam
Reedimz
Newmeron
Orion F
Orion
Miami
Fla
Jacksonville
Caribbean Sea
Miami Weather Bureau
Swan Island
Jamaica
John J. Allen III
Capital Hospital
Ike
Dewey
Breas Noes
Lke
Secret Service
Baldwin
William J. Walsh
Dixon-Yates
Community Chest
Red Feather Services
Stevens
Saxton
Johnny Saxton
Ed Gavilan
Mit
Teenacere
U. S
Bic
Bulletin
George E. Wees
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