High court approves rail merger
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court stamped unanimous approval Monday on a merger of five northern and
western railroads which will create the longest rail empire in the United States.
The system, to be known as the
Municipal information begun as KU project
The University of Kansas will be part of a project which will work to develop a unified municipal information system. The project will work to encourage standardization of data and data inventories at the successive levels of government.
R. T. Aangeenbrug, acting director of the KU Governmental Research Center which will coordinate work on the project, said the project is to develop a transferable model information system
The primary objective of the system will be to increase the capacities of the information and decision-making systems of specified urban districts.
Also involved at KU will be the KU Schools of Business, and of Engineering, the departments of geography, economics, human development, psychology and political science.
Important in the project at KU, Aangeenbrug said, are Herman D. Lujan, chairman of the political science department; Philip Gary, assistant to the Chancellor for urban affairs; David Welborn, associate professor of political science, and Aangeenbrug.
Aangeenbrug said because participation in the project assumes a commitment to move into computer usage, the cities in Kansas decided they were not ready to join the system. By the time the project is completed, however, the municipalities of Kansas should be able to benefit from the results of the project.
This project, Aangeenbrug said, which is expected to take about three years to complete under a negotiated contract for about $3 million, will bring KU national prominence and encourage campus interdisciplinary activity.
Environmental crisis was topic of meeting
Students and legislators from the state of Kansas met to discuss the environmental crisis at the Conference on Environmental Problems Jan. 26 at Washburn University.
The conference was the second of its kind sponsored by the state of Kansas.
Three hundred student representatives from all Kansas universities and colleges and six
Two arrested for negligence in train wreck
BUENOS AIRES (UPI) — Two railroad employees were arrested Monday pending investigation of Sunday night's express-local collision 22 miles from Buenos Aires, the worst train accident in Argentina history.
The National Railway System said at least 130 persons were killed and 300 injured when the 10-car express roared at more than 50 miles an hour into the rear of a stalled suburban local.
Police said they took into custody two workers at the Benavidez rail station who thought the suburban local had gone through and signaled the express onto its tracks.
Railway officials said the death toll might go higher. Unofficial estimates ranged as high as 140 to 200 deaths.
Provincial Police Chief Col. Eduardo Anibal Nava said the suburban local pulled out of the popular riverside picnic area of Zarate on Sunday, bound for Buenos Aires with 1,090 passengers. It stalled with engine trouble on the tracks along a field outside of the General Pacheco station.
Alfredo Amoroso, the express engineer, was in near shock as he talked to newsmen.
"I saw the stalled train but I saw it too late," he said. "It was only 300 feet away."
The express slammed into the back of the stalled train, shot into the air and crashed down with crushing force on top of the local.
The bulk of the victims were aboard the sardine-packed suburban train.
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private colleges, legislators and Gov. Robert Docking participated in the one day meeting.
The program began with speeches by five resource speakers on water, air, insecticide and feedlot pollution. The students then divided into discussion groups to decide on questions to direct toward the politicos, members of the legislature and Gov. Docking. After talking with these representatives, the students went to the legislature to convince representatives of the urgency of the environmental problems.
Marvin Harder, special assistant to the governor and organizer of the conference, said the meeting showed the legislature there are many interested and concerned people in the college generation.
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Burlington Northern, will operate 26,500 miles of track in 17 states and two Canadian provinces. It will provide service from the Great Lakes to the Pacific and from Canada to the Mexican border. Its assets are estimated at more than $2 billion.
that the advantages of the merger outweighed its competitive effects.
The 7-0 decision by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger rejected anti-monopoly arguments by the Justice Department and upheld the right of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to okay the controversial merger.
The ICC approved the consolidation in 1967 and a special three-judge federal court approved the action in November, 1968. The Justice Department filed suit on grounds that the commission had not established
But Burger said in his ruling that the court found "substantial" evidence to support the ICC
finding that the conditions agreed to by the five lines and service improvements to shippers and the public "outweighed the loss of competition between the northern lines."
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Saul Alnsky, criminologist and sociologist, is a leading figure in the civil rights revolution in America. Director of the In-Service Program for the Department of Law at several law books, including "Revelille for Radicals" and "John L. Lewis: An Unauthorized Biography." He was photographed in New York.
-'professional radical'
"THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION-ACT II"
tuesday february 3 8:00 p.m. union ballroom