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Uncommitted Crime. In Albany, teen-agers with transistor radios went from house to house advising residents to turn off appliances. The people of Burlington, Vt., in response to a prankster's plea aired by a local radio station, took 200 flashlights to De Goesbriand Memorial Hospital?where the lights only dimmed momentarily...
...employment and construction in the Chicago area are rising. Last week the state of Indiana sought first bids for a new port at Burns Harbor that will cost about $100 million, will handle ore boats carrying iron ore from the Mesabi and from similar mines in Upper Michigan. The Burlington Lines railroad recently decided to add 100 covered gondola cars to carry finished steel, later revised the total upward to 200 because of the rising volume of traffic. The New York Central System is planning to build a 4,100-car marshaling yard near the new mills, is shifting three...
...been uncommonly successful in meeting that challenge moved on to new and bigger jobs. Louis W. Menk, 47, will leave the $100,000-a-year presidency and board chairman ship of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. to take over as president and chief executive of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., succeeding Harry C. Murphy, who is retiring at 73. Jack E. Gilliland, 56, who has been a vice president of the Frisco since 1958, will move up to become its president and chairman...
...into railroading as a telegraph messenger when he was 19, be came president of the Frisco in 1962. By cutting back passenger service and automating freight yards, he raised earnings to an eight-year high of $7,123,356 last year - a performance that won him the attention of Burlington directors. In moving to the larger Burlington (8,546 miles of track v. the Frisco's 5,054), Menk measurably increases his challenge. Though the road's freight and passenger revenues rose last year, income fell $1,012,306 to $20.3 million, is down another...
Those operations may soon become considerably more complex: the Interstate Commerce Commission is now studying a proposed, long-pending merger that, if it approves, would stitch together the Burlington, the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific into the nation's longest railroad...