Merry Meals Cooking School Opens to Full Capacity
A standing room audience filled Klein Memorial for the first day of the Merry Meals Cooking School, running daily this week. The event, hosted by The Post Publishing, aims to teach cost saving kitchen skills to brides, homemakers, and a few brave men. Major prize winner Mrs. Raymond A. Marroces won a Hotpoint range. she previously won a Roper gas range two years ago for her writing.
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Sandra M. Lopez
Klein Memorial
Merry Meals Cooking School
The
Post Publishing Company
Raymond A. Marroces
Savoy Street
Marrocco
Cookine School
Lucille Harris
National Livestock and Meat Board
Bridgeport
Wer
John P. Garvey
Hawley Avenue
Harris
Carolyn SS. Marshall
Miss Harris
Kinnie Outlines Flood Controls For Fairfield Shore
First Selectman Dimill L Kinnie outlined a plan to tackle shoreline flooding in Fairfield. The program, by town engineer Frank F Daniels, costs about 850000 and centers on berms dikes and beach front elevation from St Marys to Rowland road. Private owners including Fairfield Beach Club seek aid as public works crews plan protective barriers to prevent water incursions into homes.
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First
Dimill L. Kinnie
Fairfield
St. Mary's-by-the-Leq
Rowland Road
Winnie
Ersterly
Dens Nings Beach
Riverside Drive
Jennings Beach
Includine
Fairfield Beach Club
Bething Pavilions
Cottiace
Black Rock Plans New Branch Bank
The Black Rock Bank and Trust will build a branch at Black Rock turnpike and Stillson road in Fairfield with opening slated for February 1955. Harold C. Main, president, said the Connecticut Banking Commission granted permission. The full service facility will include parking and serve Fairfield and surrounding areas. The site measures 344 by 200 feet at the southwest corner of the intersection. Fred P. Carstensen, chairman, noted proximity to the main office and continued expansion plans. The bank, founded in 1926, built its current Fairfield building in 1920 and remodeled in 1936. The branch will be about two and a half miles from the main office on the same route as Brewster street becomes Black Rock turnpike. In Washington, the Supreme Court announced it will hear further argument on December 6 regarding its school desegregation decision.
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Connecticut Banking Commission
Main
Black Rock — Turnpike
Stillson Road
Fred P. Carstensen
Fairfield
Strateld
Black Rock Bank and Trust Company
Fairfield Avenue
Brewster Street
Grewster Street
Black Rock Turnpike
Official Weather Data for Bridgeport and Vicinity
Bridgeport and vicinity fair cool and windy today with a high of 67. Tonight fair cool with shore low 59 and interior around 45. Tomorrow fair and warmer with a high near 70. New York City same conditions. Long Island Sound winds westerly today, diminishing tonight, with excellent visibility and choppy seas.
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Bridgeport
New York City
Long Island Sound
Autumnal Equinox Brings First Day of Autumn
Bridgesport reports clear sun as autumn begins at 9 56 a m tomorrow marking the equinox. Weather notes describe a wet season with 13 rainy days totaling 4 91 inches, rainfall deficits shrinking to under 2 percent, and last summer’s heat never exceeding 100 degrees.
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Sceatherman
Fiona
Cal
Earth
Harriman Wins Over FDR Jr On First Ballot
Averell Harriman, a 62 year old former Republican, won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination on the first ballot at a heated New York convention. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. conceded after Harriman led 541 to 217, pledging to support Harriman and campaign vigorously. Roosevelt expressed goodwill and predicted a Democratic win in New York after years of defeat.
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New York
Averell Harrimane
Roosevelt
Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Harriman
New York City
U.S
Irving M. Ives
John A. Ulinski
Buffalo
Leutenant
Rooosevelt
Onondaga County
165Th Regiment Armory
Mra
Eleanor Roosevelt
Paul E. Fitzpatrick
Halten
Fdr Jr
Averett Harriman
Ike Begins Tour of West Tonight
President Eisenhower opens a Far West speaking tour as GOP campaign pace quickens. Officials say he will avoid direct plugs for candidates and refrain from harsh attacks on Democrats. Leonard Hall warns of a tough fight, but Eisenhower plans continued public appearances with restrained campaigning. Voters enroll today from 3 to 5 p.m. in the council chamber of City Hall.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Congress
Far West
Gevid
Leonard Hall
White House
Hall
Peees
P.m
Clerc
Louis Hafele
Board of Selectmen
Council Chambere
City, Hall
Chuckle on the money as range in change baffles Isa
A humorous column riffs on financial strain as Isa complains of an empty wallet while Pete Mat manrthye Matrix Contract Cor adds a playful jab about budgets and jobs.
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Pete Mat Manrthye
Matrix
94 Families Seek Housing Under Change in BHA Rules
Bridgeport Housing Authority reports 24 new applications for Beardsley Terrace state rentals since eligibility eased. Harold Poole says 33 families have moved in. 311 of 700 units occupied. Income limit up 15 percent to 4025 for a two‑parent home plus 390 per child. 16 applicants are from outside Bridgeport, including Fairfield and Stratford.
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Bridgeport’ Housing Authority
Beardsley Terrace
Harold C. Poole
The
BHA
Trumbull and
Reservoir Avenues
Poole
McLevy
Connecticut
Mr. Poole
Bridgeport
Fairfield
Stratford
Eisenhower Leads In Peaver For Peace
President Eisenhower urged a nationwide day of prayer for world peace. He attended a morning chapel service at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado. In Bridgeport clergy, mayors, and governors said they were unaware of the request, yet churches remained open for individual prayer.
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Eisenhower
Lowry Air Force Base
Colorado
Bridgeport
World Amity
Associated Press
Clubmen greet Gen Willoughby speaker at stag dinner
Maj Gen Charles A Willoughby US Army Tet will address the Algonquin club at its stag dinner on September 14. The topic is Soviet Eepioneve in the Far East with details on the worldwide subversion scheme of Soviet master-spy Richard Sorge. Willoughby, who joined the Army in 1910, rose through the ranks to colonel by 1941. (Continued on Page Fourteen)
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Charles A. Willoughby
USA
Douglas MacArthur
Algoenquin Club
Gen
Willorzhky
Surgeon Warns Smoking Link to Lung Cancer Rising
Oklahoma City reports Dr. Alton Chaner of New Orleans warned at a medical meeting that one in 19 male smokers will develop lung cancer by 1970. He noted lung cancer share has grown from 10 percent in 1920 to 23 percent in 1940 and projects 13 percent by 1970, citing tar levels as the cancer cause and heart trouble as the leading killer before cancer develops.
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Alton Chaner
New Orleans
Ochsner
U S Wins Ban on Red China at United Nations
The ninth United Nations General Assembly voted 43 to 10 with six abstentions to bar Red China from further discussion for 1954 and shelve unseating Nationalist China. Soviet and Indian delegates challenged the vote, while Beleo N Van Kleffens was named UN president. the U S moves were led by Dulles and Lodge amid Cold War tensions.
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Newser
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
United Nations
9Th General Assembly
New York
Lodge
John Foster Dulles
U. S
Assembly
Russia
Vishinsky
China
N. Y
Lom S
UN General Assembly
Joan Foster Dulles
Henry Cabott Lodge
Andrei Vishinsky
V. K. Krishna Menon
India
Mina
Vu. Pandit
Menon
Netherlands
Beleo N. van Kleffens
Mme. Pandit
Prince Wan Watthayakon
Thailand
USS
Crore Kh Oc
Yeh
Peiongs
Pnesia
Red China
Priday
Peipinge
Britain
Australia
Sullivan tops civil service list in firefighter ranks
Twenty eight of 103 candidates passed a recent examination for pumper engineer in the Fire Department. Firefighter Edward T. Sullivan, of 100 Newfield Avenue, heads the new employment list released by Civil Service personnel director John W. Linley. Second is Firefighter Ernest E. West of 3059 Central Avenue, third is Firefighter Leonard B. Keeshner of 478 Seaview Avenue.
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Candi
Giles
John WT. Linley
Civil Services
Edward T. Sullivan
Newfield Avenue
Ernest E. West
Central Avenue
Leonard B. Keeshner
Seaview Avenue
Stengel Signs to Manage Yankees Through 1956
Casey Stengel signed a two year contract to lead the New York Yankees through 1956. Stengel, aged 41, has managed the club for six years and produced five pennants and World Series titles. This season New York finished second to Cleveland. terms were not disclosed.
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New York
Casey Stennel
New York Yankees
Stencel
Yankees
Yanks
Cleveland Indians
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