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typed letter now busy merging or trying to merge with the Switchmen's Union, the Order of Ry. Conductors and the enginemen - after all the sell-outs wherein the BRT ran out, selling the other orgs out and breaking strikes no end. There is a progressive trend nowdays, now that the horse is gone from the stable - loss of jobs and conditions,viz, the Rock Island operates with only two switchmen, whereas there were always three switchmen during the past 50 years and more.

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Thank you also for the informative clippings you sent me. Though no baseball fan, I enjoyed this world series, and for no good reason I can give, was quietly rooting for Detroit this year, and I was for St. Louis last year.

 I have never seen a color TV set that I liked, the colors never

seem natural and I used to think I'd like to have color TV. I've seen some expensive color sets, in fact, my son bought us a colored set that never got delivered. Folk Bros. (they of the big, loud claims) were suppose to deliver a 475 buck set to us last Christmas, but I was against this expense by my son, who did it, I think, because he realized my wife (so ill then) might never be able to live a normal life, and was bed-ridden at the time. I headed Folk Bros off, but they couldn't deliver anyway. Two months after cancelling, Folk Bros wanted to deliver, but I had already turned back the cashier's check my son had left for them, with me. Folk Bros are in court plenty a/c their wild, unfulfilled promise - something like Madman Muntz used to be in So. California, where he was in the used car biz. Forgive typewriter, going to repair shop (B/O) tomorrow. The "h" has never been the same since living in England. And thanks for the Irish travel literature!

                                                                                                Sincerely,
                                                             written in blue ink  F. Mead

written in blue ink P.S. Made the trip over to Bound Brook, N.J., where Upton Sinclair is in a sanitarium. Can't walk now, is not both words underlined rational, though he hasn't lost his intellectual mannerisms. Nearly died last year in Calif, so his son had him come to N.J., where the son has a good job. I only spent a few minutes with him. I worked in the jungle both words underlined