Block Island Weatherman Keeps Job With Six Month Delay
Block Island may keep William B Phelan as its one man weather observer for six more months after ESSA postponed the Sept. 30 shutdown. Residents argued the service supports fog alerts and local needs, and island concerns prompted a delay while Phelan, a longtime 54 year old resident, remains a key community figure and unofficial Chamber of Commerce liaison on Block Island Rhode Island.
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Block Island
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Environmental Serene and Services Administration
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Weather Bureau
Wil.iam B
Phelan
Pittsfield
Robert M. White
Rhode Island
Bill
Chamber of Commerce
Dheew Water
Satani
USS Grouper Taken as 01 Commission
America's oldest active submarine the USS Grouper was taken out of commission at the New London Submarine Base in Groton After 27 years of service the sub conducted twelve war patrols and is credited with sinking or damaging 75000 tons of enemy shipping It later served as a hunter killer and floating sonar test laboratory before salvage and final disposition.
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Groton
America
Grouper
New London
Walsh Given 22 Years For Kidnaping
John A. Walsh Jr. 27 of Jersey City receives 22 years in a New Haven federal court for kidnapping a truck driver and hijacking a $150000 load of razors, part of a case that struck down the death penalty for kidnapping and affected three defendants. Jackson of Brooklyn got 25 years. a third man faced trial after the Lindbergh Law challenge. Walsh’s sentence runs consecutively with a separate three year burglary term in New York.
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John A. Walsh Jr
Jersey City
N.d
Milford
William H. Timbers
Charles‘Batman’? Jackson
Brooklyn
N.Y
T Mvers
Pimbers
Supreme Court
Timbers
U.S. District Court
Walsh
New York
Ton
Man Charged Over Counterfeit $20 Bills In Hartford Case
A federal grand jury charged 21 year old Louis Hector Wood also known as Lewis Francis Woods of 45 Saddle Hill Road Newington with possession of 12 counterfeit twenty dollar bills. Secret Service agents recovered the bills near a Hartford area sales firm on Monday.
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Newington
Louis Hector Wood
Lewis Francis Woods
Saddle Hill Road
Ally
David Margolis
Secret Service
Mabe
Penn Central to Take Over New Haven Railroad
The ICC ordered Penn Central to operate the bankrupt New Haven Railroad starting January 1 and raised the price for New Haven assets to 145.8 million dollars. Trustees warned of shutdown without takeover as the merger with Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central seeks approval.
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New Haven
Washington
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Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
New York
Boston
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Penny Central
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central
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Fire incidents rise nationwide with 1966 building fires counted
The Insurance Information Institute reports fires nationwide occur every 14 seconds. Of 2,396,450 fires in 1966, 976,800 happened in buildings. The note mentions John Quincy Adams as the first president to wear long trousers at his inauguration.
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New York
United States
Insurance Information Instituté
John Quincy Adams
Aveullie Committee Sells Tickets for January Dinner Dance
Friends of Aveullie meet at Town Hall to distribute tickets for Bernard Aveullie’s victory dinner and dance on January 11 at 7 pm Foretin's Restaurant Naugatuck. Cost is $6 per person to cover dinner. invocations and benediction planned by local clergy. arrangements committee to disclose home list later.
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Town Hall
Bernard Aveullie
Naugatuck
Joseph Healey
St. Francis Church
Wilfred B. Langhorst
St. Michael's Church
Frank Klonoski
Democratic Town Committee
Paul Bessette
Champaign
Vincent Stadoinik
Ribicoli backs commission report from Chicago violence debate
General Abraham Ribicoff criticized a Violence Commission report on Chicago street disorders calling it a manual on how not to handle dissent and urging it as required reading for mayors and police officials. He cited Gestapo tactics allegedly used against demonstrators and urged better police training and resources.
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UPI
President's Violence Commission
Chicago
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Ribicoff
Richard Daly
Krupp Book Ban Sparks German court ruling
UPI reports author William Manchester refuses to delete passages from the German edition of The Arms of Krupp after Munich court banned sales citing distortions and indecency. Manchester, a Middletown resident and Wesleyan lecturer, questions which passages offend. His German publisher plans an appeal.
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UPI
Wiliam Manchester
Kennedy
Arms of Krupp
Munoich
Germany
Lves
Krupp
Manchester
Armit von Bohlen Und Halbach
Alfried Krupp von Balen Und Mathach
Hinzen
Middletown
Wesleyan University
von Bohlen Und Halbach
Aldor
Silver Worth $10,089 Stolen From Factory
Milford police investigate the theft of 10,089 dollars worth of 99.9 percent pure silver from a storage shed at Burnby Corporation on Wampus Lane. The theft was discovered Monday by an employee after two steel plated fire doors were pried open to reach 46 bars.
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UPI
Milford
Burnby Corporation
Wampus Lane
Five men convicted in Friars Club card scam case
In Los Angeles five men were found guilty on 49 felony counts for conspiring to rob wealthy Friars Club members through rigged card games over five years. A 22 hour jury deliberation followed four days of testimony and argument.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Friars Club Show Business
Martha Washington First Widow to Use Franking Privilege
Martha Washington became the first presidential widow to receive the franking privilege allowing free use of the mails by Congress.
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Martha Washington
Congress
Two Inmates Back in Haddam Jail
Two inmates from Haddam State Correctional Center briefly tasted freedom after escaping from a Middletown State Warehouse work detail. Walter LaRosa 17 Cromwell was captured near 6:30 p.m. and Stanley DeMaio 21 East Haven was found hiding near the warehouse about an hour later. LaRosa faced 90 days for motor vehicle code theft and related charges. DeMaio was serving one year for breaking and entering.
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Haddar State Correctional Center
Middletown State Warehouse
Walter LaRosa
Cromwell
Stanley DeMaia
East Haven
LaRosa
DeMaio
McGovern to Keynote Connecticut Liberal Caucus Convention
Sen George McGovern will be the keynote speaker at the founding convention of Connecticut s new liberal Caucus of Democrats to be held at Slade Jr High School New Britain. Rev Joseph Daley announced the plan while noting McGovern s 1972 nomination bid and support from Sen Abraham Ribicoff. Duffey McGovern scheduled to speak morning session and lead workshops on consumer rights legislation and the 18 year old vote.
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UPD
Comnceticut
George
McGovern
Joseph Daley
McCarthy
Forcus
Connecticut
Democrats
Duffey
Vote
Stratford Firms Win $38.9 Million Army Contracts
The U S Army Aviation Systems Command awarded Stratford firms AVCO Corporation two contracts totaling $33 945 200 to produce T 53 gas turbine lines and Sikorsky Aircraft Division a $1.2 million rotor head contract plus a $1.8 million main gear boxes contract for the CH 54 helicopter.
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U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command
Avco Corporation
Sikorsky Aircraft Division
United Aircraft Corp
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