Johnson appeals to states to curb spending growth
President Johnson urged seven governors to collaborate in trimming spending as he warned Vietnam war costs could rise by about 10 billion dollars over the current year. Officials stressed no firm figure on total defense costs, while McNamara and others consider a supplemental request possibly between 10 and 12 billion.
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Washington
Johnson
Scranton
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Viet Nam
Defense Department
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Pentagon
McNamara
City to Hold Public Hearing on Redistricting Oct 11
The Charter Revision Commission set October 11 at 8 p.m. in City Hall for a public hearing on redrawing voting district lines. Chair John P. Maiocco Jr said a second hearing will follow to gather views on a tentative solution, with salary proposals possibly addressed later.
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City Hall
Common Council
John P. Maiocco, Jr
Mai
Sikorsky Receives $22.3 Million Skycrane Order
The Defense Department awarded Sikorsky Aircraft a $22.3 million fixed price contract for CH54A Skycrane helicopters. The order covers a substantial quantity to be produced starting May 1967, with prior CH54A work already underway for a six heicopters Army purchase. The CH54A is in use in Vietnam by the First Cavalry Division for heavy lift and rescue missions.
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Defense Department
Sikorsky Aircraft Division
United Aircraft Corporation
Stratford
Army
Sikorsky
Viet Nam
First Calvary Division
Weather data for Bridgeport and vicinity
Mostly sunny and cool today with some afternoon cloudiness and highs in the upper 60s. Tonight clear and cool with lows in the 40s. Tomorrow fair with little temperature change and a 30 percent shower chance this afternoon decreasing tonight. Small craft warnings on Long Island Sound. Northwest winds 10 to 19 mph diminishing tonight. Almanac notes: sunrise 6 42, sunset 6 47, Harvest Moon Sept 29, Venus east of Uranus, Mars near Uranus in November.
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Bridgeport
Long Island Sound
Igam
Venus
Uranus
Mars
Youths Rob Hi Lo Package Store With Knife
Two youths escaped with about 150 to 200 dollars after entering the Hi Lo Package store at 82 Albion Street at 8 PM. A clerk Ernest Gollenberg Jr. and a customer Charles Mitchell were involved as suspects and victim, with one wielding a switch blade. The customer was struck in the face but not seriously hurt.
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Albion Street
Ernest Gollenberg, Jr
Burr Street
Fairfield
Robert Carroll
Charles Mitchell
Evergreen
Gollenberg
Carroll
Soviet denounces U.S peace plan as a sham at U N
The Soviet Union calls the U S Viet Nam peace proposals a sham and demands a U S military withdrawal as the price of peace. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko delivers a hard hitting UN General Assembly speech and awaits a considered reply to Soviet Viet Nam proposals. The U S offers to halt bombing in North Vietnam if Hanoi shows steps to defuse the war and to agree to a timetable for supervised withdrawal.
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AP Virephota
Andrei A. Gromyko
General Assembly
U.S
Washington
United Nations
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
UN General Assembly
United States
Hanoi
Gromyko
Dempsey and Rockefeller to meet on commuter aid
Governor Dempsey announced a rendezvous with Governor Rockefeller in Greenwich to discuss a major program to preserve and improve essential commuter service on the bankrupt New Haven railroad. The meeting at 11 a.m. will include Connecticut and Metropolitan Authority reps and state partners.
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Hartford
Dempsey
Greenwich
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
New Haven
Showboat Inn
Steamboat Road
Connecticut Transportation Authority
Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority
New York State
CTA
New Haven Railroad
Ex-PAC Aide Named To New CTA Post
William J. Lynch a 39 year old Hartford man was named to the new post of assistant director of the Connecticut Transportation Authority. He formerly served on the legal staff of the Public Utilities Commission and will work with Samuel Kanell the CTA's executive director who had been its only administrative official.
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Hartford
William J.lynch
Connecticut Transportation Authority
Public Utilities Commission
Lynch
Samuel Kanell
CTA
Death Shatters Happiness Korean Orphan Adopted Daughter Dies
Hudson New York UPI reports Mr and Mrs William Sprokey mourn the loss of a Korean infant girl adopted to join their family. The child Maryann died shortly after arrival in the United States with her brother Michael after a long flight from Korea. Coroner tests pending. The couple planned to adopt two children and cremation or burial arrangements were made with family in mind.
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Hudson, N.Y
UPI
William Sprokey
Sung Seok Chun
Michael
United States
Sprokey
Kennedy International Airport
New York
Seek Chun
Maryann
Tracy
Sorokey
Sorokeys
Jong
Korea
Anthony
Angela
Hanoi denounces U S peace plan as hypocritical
Hanoi's Viet Nam news agency rejected Ambassador Goldberg's UN peace proposals as a cover for U S aggression in South Viet Nam. Izvestia in Moscow also denounced the move as false and demagogic. The agency claimed the plan seeks UN interference to allow continued U S troops and war efforts.
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Tokyo
Viet Nam
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Nations
Hanoi
South Viet Nam
South
Two Teen Runaways Loot New Haven Loan Office
Bridgeport police and FBI hunted two teenage escapees from the Meriden School for Boys after they robbed the First Federal and Savings Loan Association at 2861 Fairfield Avenue of 1100 dollars. Detectives tracked them to a fourth floor Allen Street apartment where they leaped to the ground and fled. Detective Kearsley injured a foot pursuing them.
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Bridgeport
FBI
Meriden School For
Federal and Savings Loan Association of
New Haven
Fairfield Avenue
Pequonnock
Allen Street
Alfred Kearsley
South End
Robert Preston
Branford
Kearsley
P. T. Barnum Project
David Robert
Alexander Alexay
Philadelphian, 27, Held for Threat To Kill President
George K. Marshall a 27 year old college graduate was arrested in Philadelphia on charges of threatening to kill President Johnson. He allegedly telephoned Bell Telephone at 2 45 am telling operator Dolores Owens he had the necessary weapons and would leave for Washington to reach the President. He gave his address to Miss Owens who notified authorities.
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Philadelphia
UPI
George K. Marshall
Johnson
Marshall
Bell Telephone Co
Dolores Owens
U.S. Atty
Harold O'Brien
House Approves $100,000 for Milford Harbor Maintenance
The House of Representatives approved $100,000 for Milford harbor maintenance and dredging as part of a public works appropriation bill. Rep Robert N Giaimo D Conn reported the action.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Milford Harbor
Robert N, Giaimo
D-Conn
NATO applies deathly force as US hits seven thousand warheads
Rome report says Defense Secretary McNamara announced about 7000 nuclear warheads are in western Europe an increase over five years. He described the total as fantastically high and said plans to give NATO allies a bigger nuclear role are under consideration by a NATO working group and will go to the 10 member council for approval.
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Rome
U.S
Robert 5. McNamara
Atlantic
America
Europe
McNamara
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
United States
Tthe
Decense
Denis Healey
Britain
Kai-Uwe von Hassel
West Germany
Roberto Tremelioni
Italy
Ahmet Topaloglu
Turkey
NcNamara
Washington
London
Paris
Percy Aides Agree to Take Polygraph Tests
Two young men on the Charles H. Percy campaign staff volunteered for polygraph tests in the Valerie Percy slaying investigation. One test cleared the subject of guilty knowledge. a second test was postponed due to nervousness.
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Kenilworth, Ill
Charles H. Percy
Percy
Valerie
Chicago
Daniel Dragel
Dragel
Deferment Passing Grades Hit 81 Percent in Draft Tests
A federal report shows 81 percent of 767,995 young men who took the Selective Service college qualification tests in May and June scored 70 or better. Regional results varied, with New England 93 percent passing and the South Central region 53 percent.
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Washington
Selective Service System
New England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Kentucky
Mississippi
Tennessee
Gangland Killers Rule Out 2 More Driving in Mass
In Middleton Massachusetts Stephen Hughes 38 and Samuel Lindenbaum 66 were shot to death in a gangland style ambush on Rt 114 near Lawrence. Lindenbaum had rented the car used in the killing and witnesses reported two cars overtaking the victims before the fusillade. Cornelius Hughes was killed last May in a similar drive by on the Northern Expressway.
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Friday
Samuel O. Lindenbaum
Revere
Rt. 114
Lawrence
Middleton
Cornelius Hughes
iNorther 1St
Lindenbaum
Autumn Arrives as Bridgeport Welcomes First Fall Day
Bridgeport marks the start of autumn with a high of 71 degrees on the first fall day and a midnight low around 53. Expect sun and blue skies with upper 60s today, followed by a clear cool night in the low 40s.
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Bridgeport
Wallace Defies Courts Over Beliefs in Desegregation Case
Governor George C. Wallace challenged federal court authority to jail a governor for political and social beliefs amid a NAACP contempt motion over school desegregation. He warned of potential civil contempt consequences and possible statewide integration delays.
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Montgomery
Ala
George C. Wallace
Wallace
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Benefit for Retarded Children Drum Corps Contest at Kennedy Stadium
Fourteen East Coast drum corps compete in the Drum Corps Associates title event sponsored by Parents and Friends of Mentally Retarded Children at Kennedy stadium. Gates open at 6 pm, show begins with colors and national anthem, Buccaneers start at 7:30 pm, rain date Sunday 2 pm.
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Drum Corps Associates
Kennedy Stadium
J Reading
Buccaneers
Baltimore
Yankee Rebels
New York Skyliners
Leonard R. Buono
Reading
Buccaners
Linda Wright
Jenny Lind
Wes Hobby
Drum Corps
Destruction widespread in Viet Nam air and ground strikes
U S Navy bombers returned to Thanh Hoa targets destroying fuel tanks boxcars warehouses and bridges. Air Force jets hit oil storage near Dong Hot and truck convoys while Viet Cong mortars attacked Dinh Tuong Province causing light casualties. A large Viet Cong assault in the central highlands was repelled after three hours of fighting.
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Saigon
U.S. Navy
Thanh Hoa
Viet Nam
U.S. Command
Intrepid
Navy
U.S. Air Force
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