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THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGR.WCTU REELECTS MRS. ELLA FLY1The Bridgeport Women ? Christian Temperance Union reelected Mrs. Ella Fly. 47 Cottage place. Stratford, as president at the county convention of the WCTU this week in union headquarters, 239Gilbert street.The local group a iso reelected itstreasurer. Mrs. Alice Campbell, 73 Washington terrace.Reflected to serve the Fairfield ! County W’CTU were Mrs. Ralph Nichtrson, of East Norwalk, president; and Miss Amy D. Dorsett, of Stamford, secretary. Newly elected officers for 1952 were Mrs. Mabel Taylor, of Norwalk, vice president, and Mrs. W. Ward Walker, of Darien, treasurer.The Rev. Burdette Sanford Clark,pastor of the Wesley Methodist church, gave the opening address a* yesterday’s session. The groupalso heard an address by Mrs. Norma Burgess Moore, of Hartford, president of the ConnecticutWCTU.Following an informal discussion on temperance problems the group passed resolutions pledging total abstinence and prohibition; commending the Kefauver Committee for its investigations and exposureof crime; banning the sale of alcoholic beverages, advertising, and its broadcasting over the air and television; that the sale and gifts of alcoholic beverages be prohibited from minors and in the training camps of the armed forces.Also to urge a nation-wide adoption of uniform tests for alcohol concentration in the blood and more severe penalties for drinking drivers; to protest against any attempt to transfer the functions of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics tothe attorney general or any otheragency, and to urge local govern-J ing bodies to act to check increasing incidence of drug addiction;r* 4 a. 4* /\ fl ra A 4 U a 4 U M A ea 4 /’!
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Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Thu, May 29, 1952
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