Court to study Greyhound appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme
Court says it will take a look at part of a
$14.4 million antitrust award against
Greyhound bus company in 1973 in favor of
an Oregon bus line.
The justices said they will study one of
three arguments presented in an appeal by
Greyhound contending its alleged antitrust
activities had been approved by the Inter
state Commerce Commission and therefore
were immune from legal attack.
Attorneys for Greyhound and Mount
Hood Stages, the Bend, Ore., company that
won the award, said it appeared the court's
consideration would focus on $5.2 million of
the $14.4 million award.
“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry,”
said Mount Hood Pres. William Niskanen in
Bend.
The trial jury voted to award Mount Hood
Stages $13.1 million in triple damages and
$1.2 million in attorneys fees after finding
that over a 20-year period Greyhound had
acquired bus companies whose routes cir
cled those run by Mount Hood.
The jury agreed that the encirclement
deprived Mount Hood of the profits of providing
connecting service.
The Supreme Court said today it will con
sider Greyhound’s contention that Mount
Hood Stages is precluded from collecting
any damages allegedly suffered before
1964 because of a statute of limitations in the
dispute.
“It may be a bit premature to predict ex
actly what effect the court’s limiting its con
sideration will have, however,” warned
Greyhound attorney John Reese in San
Francisco.
Since 1943, Mount Hood has done busi
ness as Pacific Trailways and has been a
member of the National Trailways Bus Sys
tem, an association of some 50 bus com
panies competing against Greyhound.
Mount Hood’s principal routes run bet
ween Portland, Eugene and Albany in the
west; Salt Lake City in the east; Klamath
Falte in the south; and Biggs and The Dalles
in the north.
It features through service to other parts
of the country through Trailways connec
tions.
Mount Hood sued Greyhound for its ac
quisition tactics, even though each of the
acquisitions had been approved by the ICC.
Mount Hood won in federal trial court in
Oregon, and its victory was upheld by the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
last June.
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Brennan treated for cancer
WASHINGTON — Justice William Brennan Jr., senior
member of the Supreme Court in terms of age and service, is
being treated for a cancerous tumor in his throat and will miss the
next 10 days of work, a court spokesman said Monday.
Brennan, 71, has been under-going cobalt radiation treat
ment since three days before Christmas and will continue receiv
ing the five-day-a-week medication for the next seven weeks,
said Barrett McGum, the court’s press spokesman.
Hamilton Jordan, wife split up
WASHINGTON — Hamilton Jordan, Pres. Carter’s top aide,
and his wife, Nancy, announced Monday they are separating.
In a three-ltne statement distributed by Carter’s spokesman,
Jody Powell, the Jordans gave no specific reason for the separa
tion and mentioned nothing about their future plans.
“We have decided to separate,” the statement said. “We
know that our families and our friends will understand and respect
our mutual decision.””
Shah gives Sadat support
ASWAN, Egypt — The Shah of Iran plunged into a more
active role in Middle East diplomacy Monday, giving his unqual
ified support to Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat’s peace offensive.
“I have come to express my feelings of admiration and
friendship to Pres. Sadat... We hope what your president is doing
will bring peace,” Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi said on his
arrival in this palm-lined Nile resort city for talks with Sadat
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Portland site of mini-stamp test
PORTLAND,(AP) — Portland is one of five
American cities where the U.S. Postal Service plans
this Wednesday to begin test-marketing a miniature
postage stamp.
Kenneth Johnson, the Postal Service’s acting
customer relations director for Portland, said Mon
day the experimental stamp wiii be sold at all Port
land, Milwaukie and Tigard post offices for a five
month test period.
The experimental first-class postage stamp,
which bears a picture of an 1877 Indian-head penny,
is two-thirds the size of a standard stamp, he said. It
is being introduced as an economy move designed to
save on printing and other expenses.
It will cost just as much —13 cents — and “we
will be using it for our regular postage stamp,” John
son said. “If someone comes in and just asks for
some 13-cent stamps, that’s what we ll give them —
unless they object.’’
He said customers will be asked to fill out survey
forms and the Postal Service plans random tele
phone calls to determine the public's reaction. Simi
lar tests will be run through May in Kansas City, Mo.;
Richmond, Va.; Memphis Tenn.; and Hartford, Conn.
“If the cost factors prove favorable and if the
public accepts it, the smaller stamp size would prob
ably be applicable to most common denominations’’
of stamps, Johnson said. “We hope it is going to help
keep us from raising and raising and raising our
rates.”
A sheet of regular first-class stamps now con
tains 100 stamps. Johnson said the smaller size will
permit 150 stamps per sheet, with a corresponding
reduction in printing and paper costs.
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Pro-Nazi shoemaker hides
in farmhouse for 38 years
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia (AP)
— A man who hid for half his life
fearing punishment for pro-Nazi
wartime activity says he used to
cry when he heard happy voices
DEQ fines
Wah Chang
PORTLAND (AP) — The
Oregon Department of Environ
mental Quality (DEQ) assessed
$5,500 in civil penalties Monday
against Teledyne Wah Chang of
Albany for alleged violations of
water quality standards.
The DEQ said unauthorized
discharges into Truax Creek were
detected by the agency’s staff on
Nov. 30 and Dec. 7. The company
was assessed $2,500 for each in
cident.
"The notice of civil penalty
states that these discharges could
have been prevented or
minimized through good surveil
lance and immediate corrective
action,” the DEQ said in a news
release.
outside, and dared not show him
self even at his mother’s funeral.
Janez Rus was a 32-year-old
shoemaker when he went into hid
ing at his sister’s farmhouse in
June 1945, he told the Belgrade
newspaper Politika in an interview
published Sunday.
Now 64, Rus was discovered
last week after his sister bought a
large supply of bread in the nearby
village of Zalna, in the northwest
ern Slovenia region, and a sus
picious resident alerted police.
Rus learned then that no
charges ever had been filed
against him and that he was free
to resume normal ife, PoStika said.
“If I had not been discovered, I
would have remained in hiding. So
I am happy that this happened,”
Politika quoted him as saying.
“Throughout these years l did
nothing, and I never left the house.
Through the windows I looked
down to the village in the valley.
People seldom passed by our
house, which is isolated in the
hills. When I heard happy people
singing in the village I cried,’’ Rus
said.
He added, “There was no way
out and I reconciled myself to the
fate of a vanished man.”
Politika said Rus had served
for three months in 1943 with the
Communist partisans of Josip
Broz, now Yugoslav President
Tito. Then Rus was captured by
occupying German forces and
joined the White Guard, a pro
German group that fought the
Communists. But Tito’s partisans
won.
When his mother died in 1966,
Rus said, friends filled the house
after the funeral but he remained
hidden.
“When the Germans withdrew,”
Rus recalled “I was afraid of what
would happen to me. My brother,
Joze Rus, was a well-known parti
san and I decided to hide until he
returned home. I believed it would
be easier for me, with my brother
present, to surrender. But, my
brother did not come and the
years passed.’’
After Rus was found last week,
he learned that his brother had
been killed in action in the partisan
ranks in March 1944.
Politika commented that Janez
Rus had “sentenced himself to a
punishment which no court could
pass on him,” hiding in his work
shop and the attics of the house
and bam.
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