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The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 10

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TEW Labor Day Message Is Voiced by Mayor Mayor Alan II. Jepson rnual Labor Day message, today asked that the residents of Mi fnrd "not forget tha true ing o( Labor Day which is symbol of the accomplishments of the Individual in the genera good of society." "Labor as we know it today Is the essential part ol our en tiro economic structure. The call Jier of the worker in the sys today is the hiarxst ever achieved in skill, his benefits a the highest in the world and his standard of living is comparable to none, the mayor sunt. The mayor said that hrate Labor Day in comn ation of the worker who does so much for the general society. "The services and general pro ducts the individual receives is the worker's way life in con tributing to our community and the world, lor which the Ameri can holds a special position of he said, Mayor Jepson also wished everyone and their famil safe and enjoyable holiday.

Bowlers Install The Junior Major Rowling league association conducted its first meeting or the season re cently at which time newly elected officers were installed. John Koch was seated as pres Ident; Lee Curtis, secretary and hhirley (jrm.n, treasurer. Bowling will begin Sept. 13 a 9 p.m. at the Devon Bowling lanes on Naugatuck avenue.

Mr Kock has urged all members to be on time as bowling will begin at 9 "sharp." West Main PTA Board To Fete Faculty The West Main Street school PTA executive board will conduct a luncheon for the faculty members of the school tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. in the school, it has been announced by Mrs. Charles Biggs, president. Mothers of all kindergarten children have hcen invited to a coffee hour Wednesday, while they wait for their children during the brief stay or the first session. Punch will be available during the afternoon session.

Dog Pound Addition Permit Is Issued Building Inspector Carl Viola has issued a $12,800 permit to the Animal Shelter commission for an addition to the present dog pound off East Broadway. The addition will house 10 new kennel runs, Mrs. Alan H. Jepson, chairman of the commission Other permits were Issued last week to Burton Cochrane, 178 West avenue, repair storm damage. $1,800: Harold Drevos.

48 Berkley terrace, erect dwelling, $14,000: Edward Granatin, 61 Point Beach drive, replace porch addition, $1,000: John Borknwash, 26 Morning Mist road, open patio and workshop, $2,500, and Ross Bersellin, 19 Goodchild road, erect one car attached garage 51,200. Also, Janet Piatt, 6 Seaside court, demolish garage, $25; Shoreline Plumbing, 4C1 Bridgeport avenue, demolish storage shed, $400; Willett-MiUer, 245 Naugatuck avenue, erect sign, S300, and Gerard LcBlanc, ISO Wampus lane, industrial buddings, 540,000. Real Kstalo Transfers The following real estate transfers have been recorded in the office of City Clerk Margaret S. Fgan. Prices are ba.sed on tax Mumps affixed at a rate of 51.

in per $1,000. Kdward D. and Marie R. lot and buildings. Senate avenue, to City of Miiford, Andrew and Marion K.

Chickos, lot and buildings. Oak avenue, to the City of Miiford, D. Prank and Mildicd M. jN'ourse, lot and buildings. Chapel street, to Gordon P.

man, Anthony F. and Eleanor R. Pino, lot and btuM-Cindy circle, to Laurence and Harhara J. Howe. and Carmine P.

and Ciarlelli. lot and buildings. Mansfield road. Id John and Pal ricia C. lurko $22,000.

Also, Walter' R. am! Marjorv Toll, to! and buddings. Map), -wood avenue-, to Cilv nf Miiford. no lax: Evelyn B. Marshall.

lot and Meadnwsidc mad. 1n Peter J. and Theresa Polak, Daugherty, lot nnd buildings. avenue, to Miehclina Ernie, Lawrence J. and Patricia A.

lot and buildings, Oak avenue, to City of no tax; and George W. and Mary E. Daniel, lot and buildings. Elgin road, (o Anthony V. and Josephine A.

Tuozzola. 522,000. Also, Longmeadow, lot and buildings, 52 Salem Walk, to Rosemary T. EM red. 522.500: Jose A.

and Ester Sepulveda, In: and buildings. Plains road, to Ronald J. ami Gloria F. Krvs-tofik, Carolyn S. Bruin, lot.

Salt Meadow, to State 'of Connecticut, no tax. Also, West Blake, lot. Driftwood lane, to Paul F. and Beverly S. Collins.

JVI.000; West Blake, lot, Driftwood lanc.l to Gerald F. and Judith A Stevens, West Blake lot, Gulf street, to John A Fazzone, $10,500. Also, Daniel J. and Jacquelini Spillane, lot and build ngs Mayflower place, to Michael and Roberta Yatsinko, Louise A. Westervelt.

lot anc buddings. Linden street, to Citv of Miiford, George and Ann AmDriseoe, lot and buildings. Highland avenue, to City ot Mil-ford, Thomas A. and Jo-Marie List, lot and buildings, F.lbon street, to Bernard F. and Dorothy Boulangerk.

and Joseph J. and Kathleen M. Wit-kewtcs. lot and buildings, Baldwin street, to Thomas A. and List.

$20,000. Also, Ry-Ben Building com pany, lot and buildings, Revere place, to Oliver J. and Anne J. Tenncy, Richard and bmclia M. Simons, lot and buildings.

New Haven avenue, to int E. and Margaret A. By-' $50,000, and John S. and Margaret Jaquith, lot and: buildings, Knobb Hill road, to Nicholas and Catherine M. Ver- $20,500.

WESTPOTtT road race for long-distance nors will get under way today at a.m. at the Compo Shopping center. After the 10-mile event ends at the libary green, trophies will be awarded to the first 10 finish ers and to the first three finishers from Westport. After the starting gun, the run ners will go west on the post road to Main street and continue to Easion road where they will turn left on Bayberry lane cros-ing the Weston Town line. file race will continue alone Lyons Plains road.

River road. Goodhill road. Weston road, Hr slu IV.T. Nrn turnpike, Wilton road. Highway, Canal street.

61 Youngsters Pass Swimming Program Tests Thirty-five children passed the Red Cross IJeginner's test, and 26 earned their Advanced Beginner 11" Swimming pro gram, conducted at the town pool on Black Rock road. Beginners are as Elila bcth Green, Terry Baksay, Jud hiary street and through thel002 feet Chris Kinner. Jona than Seaman, Alison Albrecht Alan Schults, Peter Gordon, Billy ifoyt, Kevin O'Connell. Cathy Mark Patty Condon, Gary Glaser. Steven Edwards, Mark Ecsedy, Peter Poogb, Curt Ollay- Mcven Koiand, Debbie stow-Gcorge Stowcll.

Gary Piluck, Lisa Lindaborg, Jane Kranyik, mmy Bcmola, Thomas Vecsey. Also, David Gordon. Chris Ma thews, Robert Christiani, Michele Booth, Pam Silva, Terry Mover. Jeffery Meyer, Timothy Prior, and Sharon White. Advanced Beginners are as fol lows: Leslie Hallcr, Debby Horn- Glen Swanson, Patricia Vogt, Joseph Pelaso, Robert Haugh, Stephanie Kasper.

Barbara Prior, Gregory Moore, Raymond Vessey. Vincent Battaglia, Mary Ellen Pelaso. Also, lliris Meyer, Jack Chris- Runners to Compete In Road Race Today The sixth annual Labor Day Parker-Harding plaza to tha li- Last year's race which attracted 61 contestants, was won by Norbert Sandci.s of Yonkers, who set a record of 54: IS. In preparation for the event, irse. The last event, Tor the height of i.s 28,028 feet.

Th Geographic Socict as won by EVEREST'S HEIGHT established vlt. Everest National cepted the new figure, bu many mountaineering grouosr still hold to the traditional 25, THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1958 liani, Gerry Einig, Susan Miran da, Joseph Concough, Lenore Ep stein, Roberta Uram, Leslie Bernstein, Judith Leader, Rudy Bratz Joseph Souza, Jane Miranda, Chuck Velro, and Jon Mayer. Veterans Tax Notice ine town Clerk reminds all veterans who have not filed for their 51,000 tax exemption thai they must do so before Oct. by bringing their discharge pap ers to his office at the Town hall, Scout Meeting Friday Alfred W. Hamann, Scout-aster of Troop 206, has an-mneed that the troon's first eeting will take place Friday mi umsis vnurcn.

All boys who intend to part pate in this year's scoutin program should attend, so roster can be made. Any mi" warns io participate bui it make the meeting is ask. ed to contact Mr. Hamann before Ttmrsdav. A Board of Review will be cunuueteo nc ine tirst sess nn all boys who have nualifieil for advancement should nolify Leslie B.

Warren, Sr. no later than Thursday. They are remind eo mat tncy must appear before the board in full uniform. At the second meeting, slated1 i me troop will be reorganized and all boys will be assigned to patrols in preparn- lon lor the first compout on Ipet. 27.

Church Notes Meetings this week at the Jes-e Lee United Methodist church will include the following: tomorrow. 8 n.m.. official tioard meeting in Bennett a.m.. I.eamir. of Women Voters in Bennett lall; p.m., all church school eachers, staff, and memhers of the Commission on Education in -'men nan: t-ridav ft senior choir rehearsal.

Marine Weather WINDSOR roaarunnmg races have been con- at 1 a.m. and ducted each week during the Seawater tc mer, OUllOing Up to the C7 Sunset Sunday was 7:25. Sunrise today is 6: 19. Boating weather for Long fs-land Sound: Winds northeasterly 10 to 15 knots today and north to northeasterly at 10 knots tonight, night. Cloudy with rain likely Cloudy with rain likely continuing into today.

Gradual clearing tonight. Visibilily 5 miles or better, but lowering to 1 to 3 miles in periods of rain. Monday thru Friday, 9 cr.tn. to 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. Miiford open daily 10 a.m.

to 9:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. Bridgeport: 900 Madison Avenue at Federal Stratford: Barnum Avenue at Main Trumbull: 925 White Plains Road at Center Miiford: Connecticut Post Center spiff and polish your fashion maneuvers with nyden elegant finishing touches! We've lively searched tho fashion fields from far and near bring you a new world ot tashion acconts. brighr pin-oolnts of umnm in country-rich textures, doop forest that are ready lippi" 4op. oi! lack, black. trover your fancy decrees! ladies accessories nyden's nyden's charge account brings you two convenient payment plans with NO INTEREST CHARGE 30-day 30-60-90 day plans or use our liberal lO-monrhs Option Credit Plan liom ol 100'i nylon, tan iHddei.

pntita, till. 2.50 DANBURY Cancer Fund Drive Nets Record $46,222 The Danbury dislrict, Amcr-can Cancer societv. has an nounced that funds collected in the 1B63 Cancer Crusade in this area reached an alltime high of The area Crusade is one of in the state to score such i acnicvement. accordine tc Mrs. Fred Parille and Mrs mglarden.

district co chairmen. The total surpassed the form Crusade record of $41,545.24 attained in 1967. Irs. Parille and Mrs. Bilar described the 1968 fund-raising effort as the reward of a dedicated job by scores of volunteers who shared in the as signment, and the desire ol their share profession groups businesses, industries, clubs and organizations to do more than The Danburv district includes uanbury, Bethel.

BrV.i-i'wa:,-- Brookficld, Kent, New Fairfield, minora, rvewmgron, Red Georgetown, Ridgefield Warren and Washing- Towns which exceeded their quota were Bridgcwatcr, Brook-field, Danbury, Newtown, Sher- warrcn and Washington. with Ridgefield more than doubling its quota. Bout Piloting Course Offered An Jl-weck boat piloting course emphasising boat safety will be offered fre area residents this fall by the U.S. Power Squadron, under aus pices of the Lake Candlewood Enrollment for th High tides along the Connecticut! will be Wednesday at 7-3n'n shore today will be from Cjat the Danbury Motor inn. a.m.

ana to 15 p.m. The first class will take Low tide at Old Saybrook is'ScPL at 7:30 p.m. Contract Awarded For Highway Repair The Bomard J. Dolan Co. of struction of the road will begin soon, and said it will include drainage work, asphalt curbing.

reconstruction of the roads with a gravel base and three inches ot aspbaltic concrete paving The roads are located near rne new Keaa department store nuw Doing constructed. Other bidders were: Waters construction New Miiford $153,050: JANE Construction Co Danbury, and Luke Sweeney, Danbury, $174, 829. King. St. Vols Sponsor Barbecue Saturday The King Street Fire company auxiliary unit will sponsor its annual chicken barbecue or Saturday, with servings at 5, 0 and 7 p.m.

at the firchouse. Reservations may be made with Mrs. William McKay or Mrs. Bernard Balon, both of Boyce road, A surprise package table will oe set up at the barbenue The auxiliary is also cur ly making plans for a fashion show to be presented Sept. 25 at 8 p.m.

at the firehouse. De tails of this event will be announced later. The annual chicken barbecue usually draws crowds from the King Street area as well from other parts of (he con nity and the area. Greek Premier Offers To Free Foes, Speech THESSALO.VIKf, Greece (UPI) Premier George Papadopoulos said Saturday he soon would set free political opponents to his strongman regime slill under de tention and restore freedom of speech to Greece. the former army general who nyd military coup April 21, 1987, and successfully quashed an attempted counter-coup last December further promised "on my oath" to restore a Parliamentary democracy to Greece.

Papadopoulos made the corn- Bethel has been awarded the'at Thcssaloniki, where he openly of Danbury contract to a trade fair and attended a construct about 3.900 feet of, dinner in his honor, highway on Nabby and Palmer The premier gave no date for Wecinp, the political prisoners or I he Do.an firm was the low, restoring freedom ol expression bidder, quoting $143,341, accord- but informed sources it Robert Hni-n Smg Agen'i before the Mr referendum on a new Greek Con- Mr. Bums indicated recon-1 stitution scheduled Sept. 29. NORWALK Rev.C.J.Dodds Begins Methodist Pastorate Duties The Rev. Carl J.

Dodds. Jr yesterday assumed the pastorate of the East Avenue Methodist church, succeeding the Rev. Richard R. Thomas, Jr. The Rev.

Mr. Thomas relin quished the post of spiritual head of the church to resume studies at a Texas university. The new pastor, appointed by bisnop Ltoyd c. Wicke, presid tng bishop of the New York area, United Methodist church, before coming to Norwalk was serving at the Searing Memorial Methodist church. Lone Island.

N.Y. He also formerly served tne Asoury Methodist church. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. and the ral Methodist church, Yonk ers. N.Y.

For the past 12 summers he has served English-speaking enurcnes in Bermuda, Nassau, Mexico City, Bcechamville, Jamaica, West Indies: Antwerp, Belguim, Rome, Italy, Milano, Venice, Italy and Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He is a former president of the New York tducalion sonetv anu served on its Doaru. He also a board member of the Home Tor (he Aged, Riverdals N.Y. the Kev. Mr.

Dodds received his early education in Georgia and is a graduate of the Young u. narris acaaemy anc Emory university. He took grad uate studies at the Union Thco logical seminary and Harvard university. During World War It, the Rev Mr. Dodds served as an Ail Force chaplain and took part it: Ihe invasion of Italy with the 15th Air Force.

Seeking Fuel Bids The Board of Educatio seeking bids from suppliers for turnisnmg ot met oil for all local schools. The proposals will be received up to 10:30 a.m.. Sept. 10 at the office of the director of purchases, 105 Main street. 100-DEATH CLAIM DAR ES SALAAM.

Tanzania (AP) Frelimo, the Mozam bique liberation front based here, claimed it killed 100 Portuguese troops in ambushes ami skirmishes the northern Mozambique provinces of Cabo, Delgado and Niassa in June-July. The motto of the U.S. Military academy at West Point is, "Du-ty, Honor, Country." Black Power Conference Group Supports Separate Negro Nation PHII.ADELPHIA (UPI) Creation of a "separate, free, independent nation for Black people" in five southern states "By arms if necessary" was adopted as an official recommendation Sunday by one workshop of the Third National Conference on Black Power. The idea, submitted to a workshop on black independence, was announced to newsmen at a news conference in a hotel called by; Milton R. Henry, Pontiac, first vice president of the Republic of New Africa, founded this year at a meeting in Detroit.

White reporters had been barred from all other news conferences and activities of the four-day black power meeting which ended Sunday. Art Pe-ters, city editor of the semi-weekly Philadelphia Tribune who, with other Negro newsmen, was allowed to attend one workshop and briefings, said. the more than 3,000 d-, formulated plans "aimed at achieving an independent black nation within the United States. Opposed To Violence Peters said Dr. Nathan Hare, the conference chairman, told the assembled delegates that black people were opposed to violence but would no longer allow themselves to be "mongre-lized, brutalized, patricized and ostracized." Hare, who was dismissed from the Howard University Sociology! Department because of his mill-' tant views, declared that "when black people arm.

it is to stop, violence against Diack people." Peters said militants Ron Ka-renga of the California Black Panthers and Leroi Jones, the poet and playwright, attended the conference along with such moderates as New York City Police Inspector Arthur Hill. An drew G. Freeman of the Philadelphia Urban League and actor Ozzie Davis. Listed as president of the Government" was Robert F. Williams, who fled to Red i in 1066 after the govern-sought him on kidnap charges.

Williams is founder of ine revolutionary Action move ment (RAM), a Peking-oriented Negro extremist group. Henry (Brother Gaidi), an at torney, said his republic is the only "viable alternative" because "The ten-year failure of non-violence proves the white majority in Ihe U.S. docs not want to change the status quo ana cannot De made to do so by the black minority." Henry said creation of a sep- erate government for blacks was an "alternative to continued racial violence." The mechanics of physically setting up a territory in lha South as a black nation were not spelled out in detail, but outlined in general terms. However, Henry said it would start with purchasing land somewhere in Mississippi on which to build a city for black people, ft would include encouraging negroes to emigrate lo Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, bama and South Carolina to gain political control. Elections Explained A booklet, explaining tho founding of the republic, said elections would be held "among ourselves before the eyes of the world with United Nations observers, to take our consent from the government of the United States and give that consent to the Republic of New It said that under international law government derives 'from the consent of the governed" and that blacks "have Ihe right to choose whether we want the old oppressive government of the United States or our own new government." The booklet added: "By arms if necessary." Rock Singer Released In Narcotics Arrest NEW YORK (AP) Rock singer Lester Chambers of Stamford, was released on $1,000 bond Saturday two days after being arrested on narcotics charges.

Chambers had sung at a benefit for starving children in Biafra shortly before his arrest Thursday night. Police said two other men arrested at the same time were still in jail Saturday. Police said officers were concealed in large carboard boxes Thursday night as they watched the actions of Chambers and the other two men from a parking lot next to the discotheque where Chambers had performed. The concealed policemen said they saw the 23-year-old Cham-actor from Ridgefield, a large sum of money. In turn Smith gave Chambers a box containing pounds of marijuana, police said.

Also arresled first Democratic convcu-.

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