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...Louis-San Francisco Railroad and the Central of Georgia is finally in the works after about two years of effort by Frisco President Clark Hungerford. For more than $15 milhon Frisco has bought 239,709 shares of Central stock (47% of the total), is filing application with the ICC for permission to buy control of Central making a new system stretching 7,000 miles from the Midwest to the Atlantic Coast. The two roads will be operated as separate divisions under their current managements, have a combined value of nearly $500 million...
...lengthy finding last week, the ICC outlined how its decisions had consistently reflected the thinking of the Supreme Court and the trend of the country. The ICC had noted soon after its inception in 1887 that in Washington, the capital city, "white and colored children are educated in separate schools. Congress votes public moneys to separate charities . . . Trades unions . . . maintain and march in separate organizations." Accordingly, the ICC defined its 1887 segregation policy for railroads to "aim at a result most likely to conduce to peace and order and to preserve the self-respect and dignity of citizenship...
...Self-Respect & Dignity." "It is hardly open to question that much progress in improved race relations has been made," said the ICC, "and that more can be expected . . . We are therefore now free to place greater emphasis on steps 'to preserve the self-respect and dignity of citizenship of a common country,' which this commission in 1887 balanced against 'peace and order...
...ICC ordered that the Southern rail and bus companies be "required to cease and desist, on or before Jan. 10, 1956, and thereafter to abstain from practicing the undue and unreasonable prejudice and disadvantage found to exist...
Railroad and bus companies have a right to test the ICC ruling in the federal courts. After the Jan. 10 deadline, individual Negroes or the ICC may bring suits demanding compliance with the order. It may take years, in some cases, for appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court; but there is little doubt that the ICC and the courts are moving in the same direction...