The Egged Transportation Company, Jewish-owned cooperative bus system, set what may become an expensive precedent today when it presented a life-time pass to a baby girl born in one of its busses. The child was born to Mrs. Aaron Stricker, Kfar Haim, in a bus en route to the Beilinsohn Hospital here. Her parents named her Egedah in honor of the bus line.
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