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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1957
Page
4
During the dedication, people moved through the school until nine o’clock. A dozen or more children were separated from their parents but were reunited with help from Bridgeport Police using the public address system.
Typhoon Faye tore into the Okinawa base with 146 mile winds, damaging plants and homes, overturning trucks, and injuring and displacing sailors and Marines. Damage projected above ten million dollars. Reports list 11 dead, 17 seriously hurt, 111 missing, 417 houses destroyed, and 855 damaged on Okinawa. up to 2,200 homes lost. An unidentified American Marine is in critical condition. Several Americans hospitalized. many treated and released. Faye had been a tropical storm earlier and intensified near midnight striking Camps Hansen and Hague. The all clear was issued around 1 p.m.
Police estimated a crowd near 20 000 as Cardinal Spellman led Benediction at a school ceremony in Bridgeport Park Avenue area. Firemen ambulances and St Vincent’s doctors stood by. traffic on Park Avenue stalled during rush hour with officers directing crowd and vehicles.
The 372-ton Argentine freighter Presidente Mitre sank today in the Uruguay river between Uruguay and Argentina. The Uruguayan vessel Ancao VI searched the area off Punta Lobas and found no sign of the ship or survivors. The number of people aboard was not immediately reported.
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