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...police lectured their fathers in vain. Once, after the boys broke into an auto-parts store, County Judge George Roane summoned the fathers before him and demanded that they make their sons obey. The fathers shrugged, and the boys carried on as usual. They broke into the Greyhound Bus station, later cracked a food market for candy and change. It was then that Judge Roane decided to invoke a new law. "We decided to try the parents," says he, "not the children...
...your Christmas list is long and your wallet thin, bus service is the answer. Greyhound and other standard bus lines serve, all major cities, and the trip can be made in relative comfort and with relative speed for less than half the cost of a railroad coach ticket. But drivers know their business, and even in holiday traffle they manage to stick close to tight schedules. For many thrifty easterners, this is the best...
...GREYHOUND Corp., which was once forced to get financing from the railroads to build up its bus lines, is buying out its partners to have a freer competitive hand. It plans to pay $22.5 million for the railroads' stock in three of its biggest bus lines, Pacific Greyhound, Pennsylvania Greyhound and Tennessee Coach Co., is also dickering for big Blue Ridge and White Star Lines, whose 142 buses cover 1,130 miles of routes between Cleveland and Washington...
Some 80 years ago, a German dogcatcher named Louis Dobermann determined to breed a new strain of dog that would combine the agility of a terrier, the strength of a shepherd and the grace of a greyhound. Assisted by two friends, a gravedigger and a bell ringer, Dobermann interbred pinschers, shepherds, rottweilers and black and tan terriers, to get an intelligent, powerful new breed that won distinction as a war dog in both World Wars and as a "seeing eye" for the blind...
...show originally won a spectacular Nielson rating: but has since slipped behind ABC's rival Super Circus, a children's program with no discernible cultural level. But Omnibus has scored remarkably well with advertisers. Last week Scott Paper Co. joined four other sponsors (Willys-Overland Motors, Greyhound Corp., Remington Rand and American Car & Foundry Co.) to make the show completely selfsupporting. This means that Robert Saudek can now use most of the $2,000,000 to produce another culture-flavored series for the approval of the nation's viewers...