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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1969
Page
7
FTC investigators report deceptive practices in grocery and gasoline prize games. Chances of winning cash prizes averaged 3.4 per 1000 visits while merchandise prizes averaged 14.9 per 1000. Some winning pieces were steered to favored stores and customers.
After a five year legal battle the bankrupt New Haven Railroad has merged into Penn Central. The ICC required Penn Central and New York Central to take over the failing New Haven as a condition of their merger. Penn Central pays $145.6 million for the New Haven which has lost money in 22 of the last 30 years. Richard Joyce Smith, a New Haven trustee, says without the merger the railroad operating in New York Connecticut Rhode Island and Massachusetts would have shut down at midnight.
In Galway City Ireland the AP notes little success for 1968 matchmaking by a church backed bureau led by Father Michael Keane. About 50 bachelor farmers remain on the books while 328 men and 432 women applied. 250 introductions were made with 45 rated successful, reflecting slow courtship and emigration trends.
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