Merger Talk Circles Around CNW and Great Western Railways
Unconfirmed reports say Chicago and North Western and Chicago Great Western may merge. Ben W. Heineman comments on possible negotiations with Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific. Analysts link the merger to potential Rock Island control via shorter routes and stock exchanges of preferred and common shares.
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Chicago Great Western Railway
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Union Pacific Railroad
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Great Western
Rock Island
North Western Preferred
Wirtz condemns hiring preferences for unqualified workers
Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz rejects any policy favoring minority status over qualifications. He warned true equality in employment would be harmed by temporary bias toward less qualified applicants at a President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity panel.
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Chicago
Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Weather note for central regions and lakes spillways
The record notes a weather brief covering lakes and river valleys from the Mississippi to the Gulf Coast and southern plains. It lists Friday low 68 high 8, Saturday low 3 high 42 with trace to .03 inch precipitation. Sunrise 5 37 am sunset 5 17 pm. Crab Orchard Lake spillway and Devil's Kitchen Lake spillway mentioned.
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Tennessee Valleys
West Gulf Coast
Southern Plains
Nile Diverted Aswan Dam marks Africa development high point
The Aswan High Dam project in Upper Egypt shifts Nile waters, paving way for a main dam and hydroelectric power under President Nasser's industrialization drive. The plan aims to open about a million acres of land, yet faces rising populations, growing economic gaps, and debates on foreign investment and secrecy as Africa seeks faster progress and new financial institutions like a regional development bank.
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Egypt
Nile
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Aswan High Dam
Africa
Court bans voter discrimination in Panola County
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a permanent injunction against discrimination toward voter registration applicants in Panola County Mississippi. The suit began October 16, 1961, against Leonard C. Duke and the state, after the district court denied relief finding no evidence of prejudice. The appellate ruling reverses that decision.
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Sth
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U.S. Dist. Court
Mississippi
Panola County
Miss
Leonard C. Duke
Dist. Court
District Court
Stevenson Papers To Go To Princeton
Adlai E Stevenson announced he will donate a large portion of his personal papers to Princeton University. The collection, housed in Firestone Library, includes records from his presidential campaigns and service as U.N. ambassador, with access restricted during his lifetime.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
United Nations
Princeton University
Aleady
University
Firestone
Stevenson
Center
Bernard “‘M. Baruch
Illinois
Proposal favors constitutional amendment for vice president vacancy
A Senate subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments favors allowing the president to fill a vice-presidential vacancy with Senate and House approval. They also back delegating powers to the vice president when the president is incapacitated, with Congress finalizing the disability decision. The plan mirrors American Bar Association ideas and outlines a three step process for disability and a majority vote to select a vice president.
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Bireh Bayh
D-Ind
Thomas Dodd
D-Conn
Kenneth B Keating
R-N.y
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
James
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