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...going has been so rugged for U.S. railroads that the Government has not authorized the building of an all-new road since 1924. And that one, the Wenatchee in Washington State, never got off the planning boards. But last week the Permian Basin Railroad Co. of Odessa, Texas, announced that it will begin construction in the spring and hopes to open track from Odessa to Seagraves, Texas, by early 1970. Construction costs will be a modest $9,000,000 because the all-freight Permian Basin will be only 78 miles long...
Every mile has been bitterly contested. Incorporated in 1960 by businessmen in and around Odessa, the Permian Basin petitioned the ICC in 1963 for approval to begin construction. Backers argued that their road would provide vital services for farmers and merchants in lonely West Texas. They argued that the line would show profits in only five years by hauling grain, sugar beets, iron ore, oil, castor beans, peaches, potatoes and cotton to Odessa and Seagraves for transshipment to major markets...
...Jewish. Prince could not resist the temptation to try to fashion a sequel to his own Fiddler on the Roof, thinly camouflaged with a Greek accent. The resulting musical play is sleek, professional and synthetic, a brassy bit of Broad-wayana that is as far from the Mediterranean basin as is Shubert Alley...
...Congress created a 58,000-acre Redwood National Park in California, a 505,000-acre North Cascades National Park in Washington, a National Water Commission to study national water-resources problems. It also ended decades of interstate controversy by authorizing a $1.3 billion plan to develop the Colorado River Basin...
Promise and Backdown. The La Brea y Pariñas basin has long troubled Peruvian pride. IPC, owner of the fields since 1924, has tried to appease various governments by agreeing to several tax increases. It now is the country's No. 1 taxpayer...