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...Middle East. He was Special Assistant to Secretary of State Christian Herter before he fought his way to victory in Pennsylvania's largely Democratic Tenth Congressional District with a doorbell-punching campaign that stressed local issues, including his part in bringing new industries into unemployment-plagued Lackawanna County...
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Truck piggyback service for general freight has doubled in two years, become the rails' most profitable single freight operation. Last week six of the biggest U.S. trucking firms joined in a new company to cooperate with the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in building special piggyback terminals for general freight in Jersey City and Chicago...
BLOCKING RAIL MERGERS until job security is guaranteed is a new policy of railroad brotherhoods. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees filed suit in effort to stop merger of Delaware, Lackawanna and Erie railroads, which the brotherhoods claim will eliminate 2,000 jobs. With rail employment already reduced by one-third in past ten years, brother hoods fear that new wave of mergers (six are pending before Interstate Commerce Commission) will accelerate unemployment...
...Lackawanna Railroad's crack Phoebe Snow pulled out of Hoboken and roared west last week, a private Pullman car was attached to the rear, with a party of eight elderly Negroes aboard. The leader and bill payer of the group was a tall, spare man, duded up in a blinding sports shirt and necktie, a sharp-lapelled suit, jaunty Ivy League cap and high-button shoes. He was no potentate from Africa, but William Tyler, 78, a retired Pullman porter, and he was relishing the fulfillment of a lifetime dream...