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From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came a 121-page prescription for restoring the health of the nation's railroads. Rejecting a prognosis by ICC Hearing Examiner Howard Hosmer that if the present rate of passenger-traffic decline continues, Pullman service will end by 1965 and coach service (except for commuters) by 1970, ICC hopefully insisted that railroad passenger service "is, and for the foreseeable future will be, an integral part of our national transportation system and essential for the nation's well-being and defense." But it conceded that if the railroads are to continue...
Died. Arthur Stassen, 49, director of the petroleum division of the Minnesota state tax department, who left his job as a milkman to take a position in the state government when his 31-year-old brother Harold Stassen, sometime Pullman conductor, became Governor in 1939; of a heart attack; in St. Paul...
...millionaire benefactor of St. Charles, Ill. (TIME, Nov. 10), heir of his sister, the widow of John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who earned his fortune in barbed wire and once-so they say-bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad will cut sleeping-and parlor-car round-trip fares 28% for nine months to see whether lower fares will attract new riders. Sample: Chicago-to-Denver round-trip fare, including Pullman Roomette, will be $84 v. $123 for first-class air travel...
...RAIL TRAVEL by 1970 is predicted by ICC Examiner Howard Hosmer, head of commission's investigation into rail passenger problems. He says that if passenger drop continues as expected, all Pullman service will be out by 1965, all coach service by 1970, and commuter trains will go later...