277 Freight Cars Thefts Tangle Small Illinois Line
U. S. Attorney Bechtle says more than 1 million dollars worth of Penn Central freight cars were stolen over the past year and moved onto the LaSalle & Bureau County Railroad in Illinois. Cars were repainted and renumbered. 277 cars have disappeared this year. FBI seized records and prepared to inspect rolling stock as a federal grand jury prepares to convene.
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Philadelphia
Penn Central
Illinois
U. S
Louis C. Bechtle
Bechtle
LaSalle
U.S. District Court
Chicago
LaSalle Line
Carus Chemical Co
FBI
Ferguson probes Natural Resources land deals amid 200 percent profits
Ohio State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson announced a probe into land purchases by the Natural Resources Department under the prior administration. He cited three Geneva on the Lake area transactions in Ashtabula County and a 1.8 million dollar price for 212 acres, with a 253 thousand profit in one case. He questioned motives behind record transfers and calls for broad checks of eight years of land deals.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph T. Ferguson
Natural Resources Department
Ferguson
Natural Resources
William B. Nye
Geneva on-the-Lake Park
Ashtabula County
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Director of Public Works
State Emergency Board
Migrant Worker Housing Bill Heads to Ohio Assembly
Ohio House introduces a bill to require licensed migrant worker labor camps with minimum health standards and injunctive powers for enforcement. Penalties up to 100 dollars daily per violation. A separate war bonus proposal for Vietnam veterans seeks up to 400 dollars in benefits, funded initially from Korean War bonus funds. The House also honors Whitney Young Jr. and advances a bill on abandoned motor vehicle disposal.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Assembly
Casey C. Jones
County Boards of Health
Ohio House
House
Whitney Young, Jr
Senate
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Mao
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Gerald Scarfe
London
National Gallery
Tater
Middletown
Natural Resources Dept
Burlington House
Armied Forces
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