Show Prairie Holders Oppose Oil Oi Merger FORT SCOTT SCOT Kan Feb 19 P iP- iP Legal egal battles bates may prevent early consummation con- con summation of a proposed mer merger er of or orthe the ic Prairie Oil Oi rind and Gas and Prairie Pipe Line companies with wih the Sin Sin- Si- Si clam clair air Consolidated Oil Oi corporation A suit hi in i equity was filed in federal fedral fed- fed ral eral district court here yesterday by Lionel lonel F. F Straus New York holder of f 1000 shares of Prairie Praire Pipe asking a receivership for tor the Prairie Pipe PipeLine PipeLine Line company removal of its president president dent ent and three directors and cancellation cancel cancel- lation laton or postponement of a meeting March larch 1 to effect the merger In I New York W. W F. F Gates president president dent ent of at Prairie Pipe Line whose re removal removal re- re moval was asked characterized the suit uit as based ased on unfounded allegations allega- allega I alega-I ions ons and said it i would woud be resisted 1 |