Dulles Heads to London for Talks on West Germany Rearmament
Secretary of State Dulles sails for London to press Premier Mendes France and allies on rearming West Germany with safeguards. He warned the United States cannot gamble survival on a fragile European defense and will consider alternatives if talks fail. The trip tests his diplomacy as London hosts the nine power conference.
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WASHINGTON
Dulles
London
Mendes- France
West Germany
United States
Mendes-France
Eden
Adenauer
Germany
France
Europe
U. S
Britain
Spain
Italy
Middle East
U.S
Lawsuits Cloy State Courts in a Ten Year Wait
Connecticut court delays clog civil suits with three year hearing lags as a multi‑part series examines system workings. The Hartford Courant, mirrored by The Bridgeport Post, outlines statewide logjams and upcoming installments through next week and The Post on Oct 4.
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Connecticut
Bridgeport Post
Hartford, Courant
Sunday Post
The
Courant
Connecticut Backlog Slows Civil Jury Trials Across State
Connecticut faces long jury delays with 16 222 civil suit backlog and 150 000 new actions projected, tying up 20 Superior Court judges through 1970. Common Pleas Court holds 15 495 pending cases, demanding 12 judges until 1973. Hartford New Haven and Fairfield counties see two to three year jury waits and 14 to 28 months for bench trials.
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Connnecticut
Common Pleas Court
Hartford
New Haven
Fairfield
Connecticut
Hartford County
Court Opens War on Grid Rowdies
Judge Michael J. Sicilian placed a 16 year old on strict probation after a fracas at the season opener in Hardingfield on Sept 17. Nathaniel Dennis pleaded guilty to breach of the peace as police described about a dozen teens as a semi friendly crowd near the stadium entrance. City prosecutor Ernest Capozzi vowed to crack down on hoodlum activity at high school football games.
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Michael J. Sicilian
a. fracas
Hardingfield
Ernest Capozzi
Nathaniel Dennis
Hamilton atreet
John Casey
Dennis
Bridgeport Firm Commissioned To Work on Yacht for President
A local Bridgeport firm Parish Controls has been hired to install remote controls on the 92 foot cruiser Barbara Anne, being prepared for President Eisenhower at Annapolis. The Barbara Anne honors a President’s granddaughter and the project follows the Williamsburg’s earlier use and the Navy’s handling of presidential yachts.
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Parish Controls
Bridgeport
Eisenhower
Annapolis
Maryland
Navy
Roosevelt
Truman
Associated Press
White House
Williamsburg
First Night Mass in Fairfield County Oct 8
Fairfield county's first evening Mass will be held at 7:30 p.m. October 8 on Fairfield University's Alumni Field. Thousands of Catholics in the Diocese of Bridgeport are expected to attend. The event, third of its kind in Connecticut, is a Marian year testimonial to the Virgin Mary, said Bishop Lawrence J. Shehan. The Mass honors the feast of the Most Holy Rosary, observed the day before, with benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Fairfield county
Fairfield university
Diocese of
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Lawrence J. Shehan
Shehan
Red Impasse By Secret Papers Revealed In Atomic Talks
Secret documents released by the State Department show Washington and Moscow remained deadlocked from the start over Eisenhower’s peaceful atomic energy plan. The Soviet bloc pressed for a broad ban including Red China. the U S rejected Chinese participation and argued the plan aimed at cooperation, not a complete disarmament solution.
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WASHINGTON
Moscow
United States
Russia
Eisenhower
State Department
Dulles
Soviet Union
Red China
Dukes
Reds
England
France
Molotov
Berlin
Referee approves thruway damages in Fairfield county
State Referee Carl Foster approved agreements in which Connecticut will pay 712 785 dollars for 32 parcels needed for the Greenwich Killingly expressway right of way. The largest award 122 000 goes to Mary V Deep for Atlantic Street Mumford business section. Second largest 57 485 to Andrew Tucker for factory property on King's Highway Fairfield. Continued on page Sixteen.
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Connecticut
Fairfield county
Carl Foster
Mary V. Deep
Atlantic street
Mumford
Andrew Tucker
King's highway
Fairfield
Bassick Talks Hit Deadline As Strike Looms
Negotiations between Bassick company management and Local 229 CIO union stretched to a deadline set at 12:01 this morning. With sessions ongoing, Kronenberg says 852 union members will vote at Rakoczi hall at 2 p.m. on whether to accept terms or strike if no deal is reached.
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Bassick company
Bassick
TUE, CIO
Sunday Post
William Kronenberg
Rakoczi hall
50 Pound Striped Bass Sets Shoreline Record
A 50 pound striped bass caught by Stanley J. Gadsky off Shefield Island Norwalk near Stratford set an unofficial county shoreline record. The fish measured nearly four feet long with a 32 inch girth, according to boat livery operators and veteran fishermen.
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Fairfield county
Stanley J. Gadsky
Glenfield avenue
Stratford
Sheffield Island
Norwalk
yester
Lodge Demands Democrats Keep Word and Meet Him
Governor Lodge urged Democratic state candidates Samuel J. Tedesco and John N. Dempsey to meet him in his office at 3 p.m. Tuesday to address charges of misusing files in a dispute over the Legislative Council. The lawmakers insisted the meeting occur in the Capitol's Legislative Council offices, not in the governor’s office, following another telegram exchange.
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WILLIAM J. WALSH
Lodge
Samuel’ J. Tedesco
Bridgeport
John N. Dempsey
Putnam
Legislative Council
Capitol
Governor
Fairfield RTM rule changes seek delay on new business
A 13 member group proposes amendments to Fairfield RTM rules to restrict action on items presented for the first time. The measure would allow discussion but require referral to committees for a report back, while preserving the budget session and suspension of rules.
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Fairfield
RTM
Neighbors Help Run Stepney Farm for Critically Ill Youth
In Stepney 21-year-old Chandler Bond lies in Grace-New Haven hospital in a coma from lockjaw. Neighbors 4H members Newtown High agriculture class and local farmers organized daily milking and harvest to care for his 23 acre dairy farm including 30 head of young stock and extensive corn crop. The Bond family credits the community with overwhelming support and notes many volunteers, some traveling from Fairfield to help. Bonds say their son will be heartened by the outpouring of neighborliness.
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Grace-New Haven hospital
Stepney
Chandler Bond
Charles E. Bond
Main street
Fairfield county
Newtown high school
neighbooring farm
Bond
Chandler
Fairfield
Bullard Havens Technical school
Bridgeport Gas- Light company
Monroe
Bridgeport Brass Plans 4 Million Plant Expansion
Bridgeport Brass Corp moves to demolish part of its East Main plant to clear space for a new one story building. The $4 million project will house equipment for a Copperware kitchen utensils line and is designed for economy and efficiency with concrete brick and steel construction. President Herman W. Steinkraus said the facility will be about 400 feet by 80 feet with two 40 foot bays and will include large presses and updated production gear.
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Bridgeport Brass company
East Main
Herman W. Steinkraus
Bridgeport
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Milford Referendum Nixes Council-Manager Plan
Milford voters defeated a proposal to switch from council-manager to mayor-council government by 2,274 to 2,002. Turnout was 4,288 with 12 voids. districts split 3-2 against the measure, which needed 3,948 yes votes. Local officials and groups voiced disappointment and urged greater public support for future efforts.
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MILFORD
George F. Weed
Theodore Hornish
William H. Calhoun, Jr
League of Women Voters
John J. Desmond
Robert H. Guest
good government association
Father in Oxygen Tent Weds Daughter in Hospital
Confined in a Park City hospital oxygen tent in grave condition, Joseph Tivador, 48, arranged a noon wedding split between his room and Holy Cross church. His daughter Ann Julia Tivadar, 24, married Steve Zoltan Varga, 98 Orland Street, a Basick toolmaker, in a ceremony capped by the hospital.
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Park City
Joseph Tivador
Bruce avenue
Stratford
Holy Cross church
Pine street
Ann Julia Tivadar
D. M. Read company
Steve Zoltan Varga
Orland street
Bassick company
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Ruth Shaw
First Reformed church
Hawthorne
N. J
Mosley
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ROBERT L. LAWYER
U. S. Weather Bureau
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Red
China
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Trineko
Rheingold
UBS
Roland
Emery
Johnnie ‘Esposito
Adrianne ‘Garrett
Peggy Simmons
University of ‘New Hampshire
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