City approves new police captain and four assistant fire chiefs
City commissioners passed emergency ordinances authorizing a new police captain and raising the fire staff from three to four assistant chiefs. The changes await recommendations from the police and fire chiefs. The manager gains power to appoint Middletown Park Board personnel with board input and commission approval. Patrolmen Delmas Birch and Andrew Stephens receive permanent police appointments. The clerk of the civil service commission salary is to rise from 1200 to 1500 annually.
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City Commission
Division of Police
Howard H. Kramer
Middletown Park Board
Delmas Birch
Andrew Stephens
Tilmon Ellison
Civil Service Commission
Heart Fund Drive Now Under Way
The 1955 Heart Fund campaign begins February 1 and runs through February 28 with Heart Sunday on February 20. A door to door canvass is 2 to 4 p m that afternoon. Nu Phi Mu sorority leads Middletown Heart Sunday efforts with district chairmen and publicity coordinators named. Volunteers and inquiries may contact Mrs Albert J Frebis at 2 3390.
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Heart Fund
Heart
Nu Phi Mu Socority
Middletown
Nancy Roth
Kathleen Sullivan
Nancy Barr
Norma McGuire
Carol Helton
Norma Cox
Diane Hall
Frances Frebis
Ruthella Berry
Peggy Cox
Dora Hartman
Lucille Bryant
Albert J. Frebis
Princess Irene Mdivani on American women
The White Russian princess formerly with Schiaparelli in Paris offered a pointed appraisal of American women describing them as fond of milk and preoccupied with bust size. She said they dress to please themselves rather than men and worry about staying young, but otherwise are quite nice.
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Los Angeles
Irene Mdivani
Paris
Schiaparelli
Postal service switches routes delayed by snow
Driggs Idaho residents waited for postal officials who planned to explain a switch from train to highway delivery. Snowbound roads halted travel and officials did not appear, delaying the planned briefing on supposed improved service.
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Driggs
Idaho
Tories Deny Jet Planes Lseless
Britain’s government rejects opposition claims that defective Hunter jets and a lagging guided missile program leave the air defense weak. Laborite Woodrow Wyatt pressed MPs as undersecretary George Ward acknowledged bugs in simulated combat but said the Hunter remains formidable and could go into action tomorrow.
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London
Britain
Woodrow Wyatt
House of Commons
George Ward
Royal Air Force
RAF
Ward
Civil Service Tightens Veterans' Preference
The Civil Service Commission announced a new rule preventing federal agencies from bypassing eligible veterans for nonveterans lower on the list without commission approval. The commission must determine that the reasons for passover justify action.
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Washington
The
Civil Service Commission
Police Stit Hunt Killer of Financier
Estelle Gardner questioned for a third time as New York police pursue the Rubinstein murder case. A cab driver identified a woman fare near the 5th Avenue home before 2 am, but Gardner cannot be confirmed. Police review hundreds of names from Rubinstein address books while the 46-year-old financier is found dead.
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New York
Estelle Gardner
Serge Rubinstein
5Th Avenue
Abe Lewis
Rubinstein
Lewis
Miss Gardner
Stanley T. Stanley
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