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Marshfield News-Herald from Marshfield, Wisconsin • 6

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Marshfield News-Herald Tuesday, October 9, 1979 Amtrak wins OK to half 3 trains Page 6 ij 1 Ci Himq; Y'iiiL WASHINGTON (AP Amtrak has won temporary permission to halt operations of the North Coast Hiawatha and two other Chicago-based passenger trains which it says are unprofitable. In a one-sentence order Monday. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White set aside a federal appeals court ruling that had forced Amtrak to keep the trains running. Acting on an emergency request by the National Railroad Passenger Amtrak's official name.

White vacated the stay issued Friday by the court of appeals pending the filing and disposition of a formal appeal, or until further order of the court. The trains affected are the Lone Star between Chicago and Houston, the Hiawatha linking Chicago and Seattle with several stops in Wisconsin, and the Floridian between Chicago and Miami. Amtrak originally wanted to eliminate the trains Oct. 1. The preliminary injunction had been issued Friday by the 10th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ordering Amtrak to operate the trains until the court held a hearing Oct. 26. The hearing is on a challenge mounted by Kansas. Minnesota and Nashville, enn. Presumably, that hearing on the suit's merits will be conducted and its result can be appealed to the Supreme Court.

An Amtrak spokesman said that after the three trains completed their Monday runs they would be eliminated. The last to reach its final destination was to be the Floridian. arriving in Miami at 1:10 p.m. EDT today. J3jnsfl FOODS Prices in Effect thru Oct.

13, 1979 QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED Family Pack Mir, xA ii if ir i Stalks 00 "Best of Chicken" Thighs, Drumsticks) Lb.1 (Breasts, Fryer End of The Amtrak Lone Star passenger train barrels into one of many small-town stops, Carrollton, in northwest Missouri. The recent DRUMSTICKS a $100 Lbs. I Fryer DDIClCtTC PEARS Red Delicious APPLES I Light of Amtrak's Lone Star fading Fryer THIGHS BANANAS Lb Pint DIM Bag 49 Super Valu Chunk Lite Ir.h Medium Yellow ONIONS Cherry TOMATOES Ocean Spray CRANBERRIES NEWTON. Kan. (AP) The Lone Star's light is burning out.

The highballing headlamp that signals the passenger train's travel through Kan- Vegetable fat called cancer causer, too MADISON (AP) Health-conscious diners who switch from animal fat to vegetable fat may just be trading the risk of one type of cancer for another, a University of Wisconsin researcher said Monday. Raymond Brown, professor of nutritional sciences, said he expects to have clinical proof in six months of his theory that vegetable fats can increase the chance of breast and colon cancer. It has become traditional to urge persons to replace saturated animal fats with unsaturated vegetable fats in their diets. Brown, however, said his preliminary experiments with mice indicate the risk of cancer types from animal fats may only be replaced by the risk of other types of cancer which may be caused by vegetable fats. 6V2 OZ.

Can Campbell's Tomato the line run was one of the last for the train, as Amtrak has won court permission to stop operating the route. (AP Laserphoto) sas has lit the Plains for perhaps the last time. To train cook William Harrison, who dished up fried chicken and hot biscuits on woodburning stoves for 31 years, the Lone Star meant the certainty that Tuesday nights he'd be home in Chicago and Saturday night he'd be in Houston. Now that Amtrak has won permission to stop operating the train, at least temporarily. Harrison.

60. says, "I'll never know when I'll go out or when I'll get home or which direction I'll be headed next." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White gave Amtrak permission Monday to stop running the Lone Star and two other passenger trains, the North Coast Hiawatha, linking Chicago and Seattle, and the Floridian, between Chicago and Miami. Amtrak, claiming the three routes lose money, originally intended to eliminate them Oct.

1. but that was delayed by lawsuits. A federal appeals court will hold a hearing Oct. 26 in Denver on Amtrak's decision to cut the trains. To Harrison, the end of the Lone Star also means the loss of a tight-knit family.

"Now I'll go on the 'extra' board," he said, meaning that he can be assigned to any train. Amtrak says "no significant environmental benefit would be realized by operating the Lone Star." But in a suit. Kansas argued otherwise. Inc. 10-ocan! 3 Flav-o-rite MASQAT From Historic Cool Springs Flowing From the Depths of Ageless Granite Ledges Wft' This Week's Feature: 141 SALAD 69 PLATE ml'm0 jV; Your Choic Ol Thru EaQUliltf Af Mm MA I tKm i Sumntff Thim Sptiitfl Tinw FoJe TDM I 1 w'- "jJrT'" TL I miz tmmm VMCMCMrctaCwivlctflSfflt Tytftl mF' JFJC.

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