Imaginative Bookkeeper Helped Conceal Disaster
A federal ICC report highlights Penn Central's accounting memo praising manager C S Hill for "imaginative" work that helped disguise mounting losses. It details dividend payments, concealed troubles, and limited cash from nonrailroad assets as the railroad collapsed into bankruptcy.
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Washington
C.S. Hill
Penn Central
Hill
Interstate ‘Commerce Commission
House Banking Committee
ICC
W.S. Cook
David C. Bevan
Cook
Thomas J. Russo
Central
William L. Day
First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co
Stuart C. Saunders
Day
Dear Abby column readers share love and etiquette lessons
Letters reveal a wife confronting infidelity and a widow to engaged partner, a host’s invitation etiquette debate, and a piano student’s journey. Abby weighs truth vs bliss, courtesy in RSVP behavior, and personal choices in domestic harmony.
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Chicago
Trikene
M. Y. Mews Synd., Inc
Abby
Harris
Annexation trial opens after sightseeing tour in Roanoke area
The Roanoke Valley annexation case begins with a bus tour of the county as Roanoke seeks to annex all of Roanoke County. Judges and lawyers will hear first witnesses this afternoon as the court weighs whether the county joins Roanoke, Salem, or remains unchanged. A western county tour included the Catawba Valley and Roanoke Mountain overlook.
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Wilde Acres, Inc
E.H. Copple
Circuit Court
Frederick County
Virginia
Furnace Road
Mountain Falls
Salem
Roanoke Valley
Roanoke
Roanoke County
Fred L. Hoback
Catawba Valley
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Hazel M. Funkhouser
Cross Junction
W.E. Edwards
Charles R. Duvall
John Robert Andrick
Nancy L. Andrick
Frederick County Court House
Winchester, Virginia
Hillman Drive
Winchester
Back Creek
Lloyd P. Wise
Dabney W. Watts
Backcreek
E. H. Copple
David J. Burleson
Sarah E. Burleson
Edward T. Briner
Paul V. Ballard
Frederick
Stonewall District
Brucetown
Rt. 672
Lee Estate
Lot 9
Jobe
Billy J. Tisinger
Saunders
Penn
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Set
Los Angeles
Cal
Jimmy
Airport Road
Montgomery Ward
Lynn Anderson
Bill McKeever
Roanoke Mountain
Detroit
Mich
Strasburg
Lucy E. Spiker
Ford
Massey-Ferguson
Ferguson
Met
James M. Janney
William H. Orndorffp, JR
Buick
Sidays
Leggett
Greggett
Skylark Custom
Buick Motor Division
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