Railroad War Tale Involving Bat Masterson
A 19th century clash between the Rio Grande and Santa Fe railways features Bat Masterson leading hired guns in a right of way struggle. Spying, kidnapping officials, sabotage, and wire-cutting marked the conflict until peace in February 41880 with the Denver and Rio Grande securing the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas corridor.
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Isabelle McCaig Washington
UPI
Bat Masterson
Dodge City
Rio Grande
Santa Fe
Denver and
Grand Canyon
Arkansas
Penn Central Merger Battles at the ICC Court
In a high stakes clash over the Penn Central railroad merger the Interstate Commerce Commission faces a fierce legal battle between top lawyers as it weighs the 1970s consolidation wave. The Penn Central pairing of Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central follows a broader trend reducing 1 912 railroads to 393.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central
Penn Central
Major U S Rail Mergers Transforming the System
The ICC began approving mergers in 1957 with Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis joining Louisville and Nashville. By March 1965, twenty three more approvals and seven pending. The Penn Central merger would create a system with over 65 000 miles of track, with conditions to absorb the bankrupt New Haven Railroad and pay indemnities to three parties.
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ICC
Nashville, Chattanooga
St. Louis
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Penn-Central
New Haven Railroad
Merger Tug-of-War Over Penn Central Rail Lines
Eastern carriers Delaware and Hudson Erie Lackawanna and Boston and Maine seek compensation as hearings reopen before ICC in November. Norfolk and Western plans a different merger path with Chesapeake and Ohio before absorbing the three via Reading and Central of New Jersey. The case draws Supreme Court review scheduling for January amid a dispute over a coast-to-coast east gateway system.
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Delaware and Hudson
Erie-Lackawanna
Boston
Maine
Penn-Central
ICC
Norfolk and Western
Muter
Supreme Court
High Court
Baltimore
America
Silas Whitney
Driverless car on horizon says Ohio professor
Ohio University researchers describe an automatic car system that drives on freeways without a driver. Dr. Robert L. Cosgriff outlines a stick control replacing steering wheel and pedals, with roadway cables guiding the vehicle.
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Robert L. Cosgriff
Ohio State
Communications and Control Systems Laboratory
Cosgriff
WHO plans vast smallpox eradication drive starting 1967
The World Health Organization prepares a multi million dollar campaign to eradicate smallpox within ten years. In 1967 the effort targets Africa first, vaccinating about 220 million people while facing vaccine supplies, acceptance, and logistics challenges.
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John A. Calecott
Geneva
UPI
World Health Organization
WHO
Africa
United States
92 Million in U.S. Now Living Alone
Census Bureau figures for August show about 9.5 million people in the United States lived alone last year in houses or apartments. Two thirds were 55 years or older, double the number from 1950, reflecting more older persons maintaining their own homes rather to move in with relatives. Also notes Sequoia National Park touts the General Sherman Sequoia as the world’s largest living thing.
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Census Bureau
Sequoia National ‘Park
Calif
UPI
Sequoia
National Park
Widow funds aid for troubled women in Fort Worth
Elizabeth Ambrose, a 71 year old widow, dedicates her life to helping women in trouble. She houses and counsels alcoholics, addicts and prostitutes, offers meals and care, and provides a path to employment. Since 1961 about 125 women have stayed up to seven months in her small Fort Worth home, seeking recovery and spiritual support.
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Bert Campbell
Fort Worth
Tex
UPI
Elizabeth Ambrose
Texas
Ambrose
High energy society visioned by atomic scientist Seaborg
Dr. Glenn T Seaborg head of the AEC says the world is entering a high energy society driven by rapid energy use and advanced technology. He envisions an interconnected system where work is no longer central, yet humanity pursues healthy growth and intellectual activity with harmonized nature and technology. Concluded on Page 4 Co 8.
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William. J.perkinson Washington
Nana
Glenn T. Seaborg
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Council For the Advancement of Science
Seaborg
Dr. Seaborg
Iman
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Chesapeake and Ohio
Reading
Central of
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New Haven
Com
Beacon Hill
John Stevens
Hoboken
U.S
Horatio Allen
Delaware and Hudson Canal Co
Honesdale
Andrew L. Rothman
Columbus, Ohio
Ohio University
Wunkless Sociely
George Raft
Colony Club
London
Britain
UPI Telephoto
Washington
Browning
Mrs. Ambrose
Alcholics Anonymous
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