Fairfield Buys Sturges Tract in Grasmere School Vote
Fairfield Representative Town Meeting approved purchasing about 19 acres of Frederick Sturges tract on Unquowa Road for education, park, and recreation. The $17,200 appropriation covers first of five annual payments on a $75,000 price. $1,200 funds six months of interest. $1,000 for costs. Also $5,100 for tree planting. Purchase price reportedly $7,000 below town appraisal. acquisition recommended by Board of Education. Weather and almanac data follow.
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Frederick Sturges
Unquowa Road
Fairfield
Grasmere School
Mill Plain School
Connecticut Turnpike
First Selectman Dimill L. Kin
Sturges
Board of Education
Rog
Split Decision Gives Challenger World Middleweight Title
New York September 23 AP Blood-smeared Carmen Basilio won the world middleweight title from Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15 round split decision at Yankee Stadium before about 35,000. Judges differed with Basilio 9 5 1 and 8 6 1 on the card while the AP tally stood 6 6 3. Robinson staged a late surge but Basilio kept control with relentless body punching and defense.
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Carmen Basilio
Sugar Ray Robinson
Yankee Stadium
Jack Hand
New York
Ball Park
Basilio
Robinson
al Bert
Artie Aidala
Bill Recht
Gene Fullmer
Chicago
Carmen
Sugar Ray
Drought Aid Drafted In State GOP Conference Action
GOP leaders Bracken and Robinson reported two bills cleared in a three and a half hour conference. If House caucus approves tomorrow, bills go to Senate for similar review. The plan would set a $1,000,000 revolving loan fund for farmers with loans issued on specified terms.
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Rupe, Jr
Paireia Saia
Bracken
House Gop
GOP
House
Senate
Senatte Gop
Five Miners Die in Pennsylvania Mine Blast
Five miners killed and six rescued after a dangerous explosion at Bethlehem Steel’s Marianna Mine near Washington Pa Rescue teams worked from dawn to recover bodies and free trapped workers The blast fractured the underground shaft at about 7 15 a m Officials said the last bodies were found after hours of search as families waited at the surface
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Mike’Knizner
Stanley Majesky
John William Nelson
Kornet
James Wright
Washingt
Hnenital
Marianna
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Anspugsu
Joe Federal
Smith
Stanley Collins
Braves win NL pennant as Aaron’s 11th inning homer shocks Cards
Hank Aaron hit a 403 foot two run homer in the 11th, his 43rd of the season, driving in Johnny Logan to lift the Milwaukee Braves past the St Louis Cardinals 2 0 in a dramatic one inning pennant clincher. The Chicago White Sox were eliminated after a 6 5 loss to Kansas City. Bob Cerv of the A’s delivered the decisive sacrifice fly in the eighth to break the tie.
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St. Louis Cardinals
New York Yankees
Chicago White Sox
Kansas City Athletics
Braves
Milwaukee
Hank Aaron
Aaron
Johnny Logan
Bob Cerv
Athletics
White Sox
Cerv
Chicago
Ship saves 9 survivors of disaster at sea
A U S freighter Saxon rescued five survivors from the German bark Pamir after a hurricane 550 miles west-southwest of the Azores. Ten ships searched the area as two lifeboats and a raft were spotted. five survivors were taken to the Geiger for medical care, while four mariners remained missing.
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Germany
U.S
mid-Atlantic
Azores
Isbrandtsen Lines
Coast Guard
Isbrandtsen
New York
Line
U. S. Coast Guard
Buenos Aires
Carrie
Baltimore
Trieste
U.S. Air Force
Military Sea Transport Service
Geiger
Casablanca
Morocco
U.S. Coast Guard
Lars Bjotvedt
Brooklyn
Eisenhower Warns Federal Force Over Arkansas Riot
President Eisenhower vows to use federal power to curb violence after a day of riotous attacks at Little Rock Central High. Eight Negro students enter briefly before mobs drive them out. officials report 11 newsmen assaulted. Arkansas Governor Faubus and Mayor Mann comment on the crisis as federal intervention looms.
City Employees Adopt Group Life Insurance Plan
A joint city committee yesterday adopted a group life insurance program for municipal employees. Travelers Insurance Company won the contract by unanimous vote after bids from 18 companies were publicly read on September 10 and analyzed for variables, plans, dividends, and retention estimates.
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Travelers Insurance Company
Fired Two Shots Girard Testifies At War Range Trial
William S. Girard a 22 year old Ottawa Illinois soldier testified in a public hillside session at a U S Army firing range in Somagahara Japan that he fired twice toward a Japanese scrap collector Mrs Naka Sakai who was killed by an empty cartridge case on January 30 The open air trial is before three Japanese judges with Presiding Judge Yuzo Kawachi directing the proceedings The testimony included Girard indicating the firing point and counting the shots as two.
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Somagahara
Japan
William S. Girard
Ottawa
U.S. Army
Naka Sakai
Girard
Yuzo Kawachi
Kawachi
Newsman Describes Sudden Mob at Little Rock High
Relman Morin reports from Little Rock Central High where a peaceful morning escalated into a 200 strong mob at 8:40 AM as crowds gathered to watch two dramas. He recalls the moment Negro students arrived through a side door and witnesses describe the explosive scene.
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Little Rock Central High School
Relman Marin
Associated Press
Morin
Read’s Store Celebrates 100 Years with D M Read Leaders
B Earl Puckett of Allied Stores lauds D M Read Co at Chamber luncheon in Stratfield hotel as Read's marks a century of operations. Sidney Reisman and Milton Mandelson praised for leadership while 125 guests attend including Allied executives and Read's manager Arthur Lox.
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D. M. Read Company
B. Earl Puckett
Allied Stores Corporation
Read's
Chamber of Commerce
Stratfield Hotel
Department Store
Mr. Puckett
Sidney Reisman
Read’s
Milton A. Mandelson
D. M. Read
Puckett
Charles E. McCarthy
Allied Stores
W. Earl McCormick
Corporation
Chamber
T.A.D. Weaver
Reisman
Mandelson
Weaver
Arthur Lox
Eeeee
New York
Market slides as prices drop to two-year lows
The Associated Press stock average fell sharply with all sections hit by selling waves. The AP average of 69 stocks declined $3.60 to $166.20, the largest one day drop since October 10, 1955, marking its lowest point since October 17, 1955 as industrial shares led the decline.
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Associated Press
Proclamation to End School Violence At Little Rock
President Eisenhower signed a history making proclamation to uphold federal court orders in Arkansas. He warned he would use full power of the United States if necessary to prevent obstruction of justice at Central High and to carry out federal law. The action followed riots by white mobs as Negro students entered the Little Rock school and aimed to deter further violence.
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Little Rock Central High School
Eisenhower
Newport
R. 1
White House
United States
James CC. Hagerty
Hagerty
Central High School
Arkansas
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