Subway Route Change Sparks Confusion Across New York
New York City faced a day of widespread subway disruption as an 800 passenger train was diverted far from its expected destination and a 4 000 rider tunnel entrapment occurred during a power failure. Transit Authority officials called the changeover about 90 percent effective and noted impacts on roughly 200 000 daily riders amid unfamiliar route lettering and a 27 year first major reorganization.
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New York
East River
Authority
John J. Gilhooley
Gilhooley
Daniel T. Scannell
Deacon Jones Named to Sterling Library Board
Deacon Jones a longtime Baytown civic worker was elected to the Sterling Municipal Library board. A New Mexico native who moved to the Texas Panhandle at age 12, he later settled in Baytown in 1926 and spent four decades in the electrical industry while teaching electrical courses at Lee College. He retired in 1965 and has since been involved in community service and church with Mont Belvieu Church of Christ. He is married to Lyle Fisher with a son Glenn who played football at Baylor and a daughter Mrs. James R. Laird, plus six grandchildren.
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Beverly Threadgill
Deacon Jones
Baytown
Sterling Municipal Library
Pfeiffer Electric Co
New Mexico
Dea
Con
Texas Panhandle
Deacon
Gunter
Denton State Teachers College
Cole
Tex
Lee College
Lyle Fisher
Glenn
Baylor
James R. Laird
Alaska
Mont Belvieu
Tony Rome at Brunson Sets Entertaining Stage
Frank Sinatra stars in Tony Rome at Brunson through Monday as a tough private eye in a sunlit Miami caper. Sue Lyon Jill St John and Gena Rowlands tempt him as he probes a tycoon family’s deadly secret amid nightlife scenes.
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Frank Sinatra
Tony Rome
Sinatra
Humphrey Bogart
Sue Lyon
Rome
Jill St. John
Gena Rowlands
Miami
Tony
Jet Travel Allows Two Collections For Salons
Rep H R Gross Iowa exposed how some junketeers double billed daily living expenses by collecting $50 in two countries during a single day. Lawmakers moved to bar the practice while defending congressional travel as a necessary expense and criticizing proposed inspections as wasteful junkets.
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Joek Beckler
Associated Press
Washington
Rep. H. RB. Gross
Iowa
House
Gross
Rep. Durwards Hall
R-Mo
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Wellington
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Arthur Porritt
Richard Wild
Arthur
Royal College of Surgeons
International Olympic Committee
Fortres
Sterling Library Board
Tacon’ Jones
Brunson
Jim Kyle
Roy G. Miller
BR. L. Clift
Crow Road
Fort Campbell
Vietnam
Miller
Robert E. Lee High School
Sun
Hall
Europe
Subcommittee
Arnold Olsen
Mont
Pentagon
Baufain
Hollywood
Nesegay
Calais
Petticoat
Iace
Bay Fair
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