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Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 78, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fred Harvey, Inc., mid-and-far-western restaurant and hotel chain; of an intestinal blockage; in Chicago. Born the year his father opened the first Harvey restaurant at the Santa Fe Railroad station in Topeka, Kans., Byron Harvey grew up with the chain, watched it flourish as his father staffed it with the best-looking waitresses he could find. He succeeded to the presidency himself in 1928, in 26 years tripled the volume of business, served 30 million meals a year in Harvey restaurants, hotels...
When the New Mexico Commission on Youth invited the press on a conducted tour of the state reformatory last spring, only one reporter took advantage of the offer. He was Neil Addington, 30, police reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican. Addington, a cigar-chomping exmarine, went on the "routine inspection" trip because the paper thought it might be helpful for a series that they were planning on juvenile delinquency. What Reporter Addington found was far from routine. In the state reformatory at Springer (The New Mexico Industrial School for Boys), he discovered that 1) some boys were as young...
PIGGYBACK TRANSPORT of truck trailers on railroad flatcars is working so well that Santa Fe and Chicago & North Western, which previously offered only limited service, will expand it greatly. Santa Fe is adding a Chicago-Kansas City run and a Los Angeles-San Diego service; Chicago & North Western will extend its Chicago-Milwaukee run to Minneapolis...
Extinct Animals. On vacation a few days later, he went to Santa Fe and told Anthropologist Fred Wendorf of the Museum of New Mexico about his bones and points. Dr. Wendorf was so enthusiastic that Glasscock gave him the whole collection. Soon Wendorf and a group of learned colleagues were digging a trench at the Midland site. They found a few more bone fragments, and six months later, in a full-dress expedition, found a selection of ice-age animals, most of which were probably extinct before the period of Folsom man. It looked as if both human and animal...
Victor R. Ortega, Santa Fe, Applied Science...