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Show vesday Utah-Regional July 14, 1961 The latest developments in Utah and around the Intermountain West Union Pacific's Merger Plans Draw O WASHINGTON (UPI) — Describing Union Pacific railroad as ‘embarrassingly rich the Southern Pacific said today it total- ly opposes Union Pacific's plans to merge with two other Western railroadsinto a 2l-state network “There is no public benefit asSociated with transferring revenues fromother ratiroads to the already embarrassingly rich Unior Pacific said Southern Chairman Benjamin Biag Paci rema!‘s prepared for an Inter 0 25 billion before administrative law « Id span 22800 miles in the western two-thirds of the United ate souri Pacific and Western Pacific yetween Northern ; Southern Pacitic and Union the West Coast and the southwest and south-central United St the chief opponent of the merger. Pacifi € operated the central Overland Route” between San contends it would facea $32 scheduled to testify in opposition Salt Lake (i California in competition with Southern Pacific Southern Pacific, which serves Biaggini led off a list of about 35 witnesses from Southern Pacific Francisco and Omaha. Neb... since 1869 when the first transcontinental lion annual loss of revenue Western f =. e ti Pacific would link the new system pressed opposition. in Mare h In joint applications filed last September, Union Pacific Mis judges Angelo Nicchitta and Paul Cross Several other railroads also have ex States. The merger hearings began Commerce Commission hearing THE HERALD, Provo, Uiah—Page 5 rail route was completed. partnersh Paeifie Rai 1864 in a dated by the cts of 1962 and These acts were the birth cer. lificateof the Union Pacific and re quire that Union Pacific and Central Pacific (Southern Pacific's predecessor) be operated ‘as one continuous line,” Biaggini argued Court Hears Media Arguments paign contributions funneled to didates through Creer ing thehigh court to open a closed Third District Utah Power officials have admitted Creer acted as a go-between to donate more than $1 15,000 to candidates pnor to the utility's es tablishment of a political action committee last rendered no judgementin a news mediasuit askCourt hearing involving the Salt Lake CountyAttorney and prominent Salt Lake lawyer John Preston Creer Lawyersfor KUTVTelevision, KSL Television and the Salt Lake Tribunetold the justices that Judge Dean Conder’s order closing his court to thepublic is unconstitutional. Conder ordered the news media and publicout of a hearing on a civil suit Creer filed against County Attorney Ted Cannon. The complaintalleged that Cannon improperly handled an investigation into Utah Power & Light Co. cam- ALYCE HUGHES political can SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The Utah Supreme Court Monday heard arguments but summer. Creer andtheutility deny any criminal wrongdoing Cannon has been investigating the contribu: tions since late last year, and recently said his office is prepared to file criminal charges against at least one person in connection with the probe. Creer however, obtained an injunction prohibiting Cannon from filing charges in the case until a hearing on the County Attorney's ( oduct of the investigation is completed reer wants Conder to halt the investigation on the grounds that Cannon violated a secrecy order issued by Fifth Cireuit Court Judge Homer Wilkinson when Cannon sought court authority lo issue Subpoenas to witnesses. He claims the county attorney has laked in formation to the news media about aspects of the ongoing investigation. Those discussions Creer said, violate the rights of the subjects of theinvestigation In oral argumentsbefore the high court Mon: day, news mediaattorneys urged the courtto lift Conder’s order closing the Creer hearing to the public ALMA HUGHES Would-Be HughesHeirs Reason for Thunderbird Crash Revealed Try for Estate Share HOUSTON (UPI) — The late Howard Hughes left no wives children, parents. brothers or sisters who could claim a share of the reclusive billionaire’s estate, a probate judge has ruled. But plenty of would-be relatives showed up Mondayfora circus-like 2%2-hour session in Probate Judge Pat Gregory's courtroom andall of them claimed a shareof the Hughes’ estate. Gregory summarily rejected the claims of two women who said they were surviving wives of Howard Hughes, a man and a woman who purported to be unacknowledged children and a young man who said Hughes cheated his father in a businessdealbut included him in the infamous will of Utah gas station operator Melvin Dumar. The hearing opened the latest phase of the 5-year-old case that eventually may divide up the millions left by Hughes when hedied in ‘Thejudge,a jury andthe 20-plus lawyers involved will move on to claims by relatives of Hughes’ mother on Aug. 10 and then to claims by relatives of Hughes’ father on Aug. 24. Two years ago, Gregory's court declared Hughes a Texanfor estate purposes, butfinal division of the Five NORTON AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI) — ‘The apparent reason that a Thunderbird T-38 Talon Hughes fortune — variously es- crashed and killed its pilot at Hill Air Force Base timated at $163 million to $1.2 billion on May9 is that thejet stalled. says a report issued — dependson appeals analitigation by the Air Force. The documentsaidthecraft ‘‘wasin or close toa in otherstates. stall for the last 30 secondsof the recorded flight."” Gregory Mondaydismissed Claire Hudenburg of Las Vegas, Nev. who Capt. David L. “Nick” Hauck died when the jet cited the novel “The Carpetbaggers” as evidence she was Hughes’ Plane Crash Hughes’ was not Ms. Brings Suit daughter, after lawyer Wayne Fisher said her mother had sworn Hudenburg’s father. The claim of Donald McDonald, also known as Richard Robard Hughes, of Los Angeles who claimed Hughes adopted him in 1953 in return foraid. wasalso dismissed after Fisher said a full search of California records turned up no legal adoption. Gregory dismissed the claim of Alyce Hughesof Atlantic City, N.J., who said she met Hughesas Richard Bennett and married him in a 1946 ceremony she thought was a movie rehearsal, after Fisher said there wasno record. The claim of Alma Hughes of Houston — who said she married Hughes in 1973 while both were in the hospital and bore him a son by artificial insemination — was dismissed after Fisher said a search had turned up norecord. Neither the alleged son nor the purported daughter waspresent. By Plumber SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) —A Salt Lake City man has filed a $25.000 federal court lawsuit against the U.S. crashed into a Layton, Utah, farm field and then tumbled end-over-end on the ground before coming to rest. Stess damageto portionsof the aircraft and data ona flight recorded aboardthejet led to the conclu- sion that the T-38 stalled the report said. A plane “stalls’’ when its air speed drops below the level needed to keep the craft in theair. The report was issued by the Air Force Safety and Inspection Center. Thousandsof witnesses watched Hauck crash to his death during a Thunderbirds demonstration at the northern Utah base. Someof the witnesses told investigators that the jet was at low altitude and was making a turn during most of the last 30 se- condsbefore it hit the ground. MERVYN’'S Air Force, claiming the crash of an old B57 bomber damaged his plumbing business. Karl W. Winsness Jr. filed the suit Monday,al- leging the bomber which crashed in a west Salt Lake industrial area on July 16, 1979 was “‘old, dilapidated and unfit for flying” and wasoperated ina “negligent manner.” The jet bomber smashed into building owned by Anderson Development Corp. JULY 24th Face Carters Put baby in CelaneseFortrel® polyester sleep fashionsby Carter's®. Buy for your babyorgifts. A. Hibernator® sleeping bagsin zip frontstyle with grow feature for longer wear. Of polyesterin yellow, aqua or pink. Newbornto 26Ibs., 8.00 B. 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