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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1954
Page
35
The Stock Market surged to a new 25 year high this week with gains across sectors. The Associated Press average rose to 137.00, marking the highest level since 1929, while short interest climbed to about one and a half days of trading, aided by merger activity like Packard and Studebaker.
A Luscombe seaplane with two aboard crashed in Shelton on September 17 after a long takeoff with full fuel and two passengers. Investigators cite floats, metal wings, and auto gasoline as risk factors, noting pilot error and challenging terrain led to an unrecoverable stall and fatal impact.
Henry Pree outlines the dahlia once popularized in Europe by Empress Josephine. Seeds sent in 1789 by Vicenta Cervantes to Abbe Cavanilles led to the flower’s naming by Andre Dahl. Dahl valued it, but his food-plant hopes failed due to its bitter taste, though the bloom thrives worldwide now.
Yale University’s Freshman Assembly heard Sterling Professor Henri Peyre warn the Class of 1958 against pessimism and a “failure of nerve.” He urged optimism, belief in standards, and reliance on Yale faculty while stressing the freshmen’s crucial role in shaping civilization’s future.
Mr and Mrs Albert Goyette of Helen Street Fairfield marked their twenty fifth anniversary with a family dinner at Lyons Pier Norwalk. Their son Albert flew in from Florida to attend, joining the couple and their three other children Shirley Donald and Edward along with Mr and Mrs Emerson Cole and Mrs Cole an attendant at the wedding.
Doris R Ogowski of 34 Farmil street Shelton is the city's third polio patient to be discharged. She was admitted to Grace-New Haven Hospital on September 17 with non-paralytic poliomyelitis and is now home for further convalescence.
Vienna reports the spread of rad ios by wire in Iron Curtain nations including Czechoslovakia as Hungary struggles with sabotage of underground cables. Residents rent loudspeakers wired to a central point and must listen to communist broadcasts without option to change stations or switch off.
Sheriff Arnold Ladd of Morristown New Jersey is an amateur racer with an English MG TC. He finished seventh in a 12 hour endurance race at Linden, despite an artificial leg from a World War II jeep blast in North Africa.
In 1952 about 150 million people visited state parks nationwide, reflecting strong public interest in outdoor recreation. The figure underscores the era’s growing use of public park system facilities and scenic areas for leisure and travel.
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