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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Sep 26, 1947

Page

7

Balloon advertising faces U.S. clamp on moored balloons

War Assets Administration trials selling barrage balloons for ads drift into regulation after a loose balloon drifts away. The Civil Aeronautics Administration requires a special permit and strict visibility and distance limits near airports, endangering ad balloon sales. Floyd Brinkley of WAA lamented the reduced market.

Y Arthur Edson Washington War Assets Administration WAA Floyd Brinkley Civil Aeronautics Administration CAA

Raccoon Trapped in City Park Sparks Chase

In New York a half grown raccoon wandered through a city park as sixty children and fifty adults pursued it. The animal took refuge on a tenement fire escape where an ASPCA agent captured it with a pale noose.

New York ASPCA

Injunction Blocks Erection of Store in N E Corner

Judge Edward J. Quinlan granted a temporary injunction blocking a building permit for a store at the northeast corner of Broadbridge road and Huntington turnpike. Adjacent property owners Paetsch Swinton and Sultzbach, represented by Henry J. Lyons, obtained the injunction to enforce residence A zoning until further court action. The Zoning commission had reclassified the site from residence A to business, and a declaratory judgment suit to test the change is set for October term.

Broadbridge Road Huntington Turnpike Edward J. Quinlan Superior Court Bernard J. McKelvey Mr. McKelvey Charles Paetsch Wesley Swinton Paul Sultzbach Henry J. Lyons Pullman Comley

Houston to open windowless six story store

Houston will welcome Federated Department Stores Foley Brothers latest six story unit this fall. It will be the only department store in the United States without windows with lighting from fluorescents and all windows eliminated except for main floor displays. Air conditioning throughout enables the radical design.

Houston, Tex U.P Federated Department Stores Foley Brothers United States

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