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Trainman News
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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The Civil Aeronautics Board denied a motion by 69 railroads to intervene in setting a temporary 18.98 cents per ton-mile rate for airlines carrying West Coast surface mail, effective Nov. 22. Five major western railroads sued the Postmaster General, with a hearing set for Dec. 13 in U.S. District Court in Washington.
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WASHINGTON The Civil Aeronautics Board has slapped down a motion by 69 mail-carrying railroads to intervene in its setting of a "temporary rate" of 18.98 cents a ton-mile to be paid the airlines for flying three-cent "surface mail" on the West Coast.
After denying the railroads' motion, CAB ordered the rate into effect.
Meanwhile, a hearing has been set for Dec. 13 in U. S. District Court here in the suit filed by five major western railroads -- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific -- for a preliminary injunction against the Postmaster General.
The West-Coast service, which started Nov. 22, would be stopped if the injunction is granted.
Nov. 22 also is the effective date of the new temporary rate.
The final rate, which will be set later, may be higher or lower than the temporary rate, CAB said in its order.
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Washington
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Nov. 22
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motion by 69 railroads denied; temporary rate of 18.98 cents a ton-mile ordered into effect nov. 22; hearing set for dec. 13 on injunction suit by five railroads that could stop west coast mail service.
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Civil Aeronautics Board denied motion by 69 mail-carrying railroads to intervene in setting temporary rate for airlines flying three-cent surface mail on West Coast; rate effective Nov. 22; five major western railroads filed suit for preliminary injunction against Postmaster General.