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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 28, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 55 Page 8 RAILROADS OPPOSE IT Morgan, OTA Favor Rate Regulation Bill .,M: 111:1:4.. . . L . Public Utility Commissioner Ho ward Morgan joined Wednesday wtin representatives of the Oregon Truckers Assn., and barge line operators in urging passage of Senate Bill 301 regulating mini mum rates on all carriers. Morgan appeared before the Sen ate Committee on Commerce and Utilities, as he put it, "in the in terest of the public." This was the second hearing on a series of bills introduced by Sen. Phil Lowry (Ft), Medford, and others, and a third hearing will be held next Tuesday to allow witnesses an opportunity to be heard. Opposition Expressed Opposition to the bill was ex pressed by Roy F. Shields and Frank C. McColloch, railroad at torneys representing the Oregon Eailways Assn. Sen. G. D. Glcason, committee chairman, gave proponents and op ponents 30 minutes each, with the proponents another 10 minutes for rebuttal. This was in contrast to the first hearing when he cut off railroad representatives with a bare 10 minutes. William Ellis, attorney for the truckers, said Oregon's public util ity commissioner lacked power to make rates or regulate such rates. "At present the rate men in PUC are serving as little more than glorified rate clerks." he said. He contended that unless the power sought in the bill was grant ed by the Legislature, the railroads would be free to reduce freight rates to such an extent as to eli minate competition. Paul Follett, Columbia River barge operator, whb also is head of the Albany Barge Lines, Inc., said that after his company had expended $200,000 in building a dock near Albany and constructing a shallow draft barge, the rail roads lowered freight rates to Al bany, Eugene, Springfield and Shedd. As a result his company has but one customer in Albany at the present time. Previous Stand Morgan said he had appeared before a legislative committee in 1953 advocating minimum rates for railroads. He then represented the Oregon State Grange, he said. As long as competition between the carriers is constructive and there is no destructive tactics used, competition is better than any regulation, Morgan said. He held that the legislation sought would provide a proper tool for protection of the people's rights. Nanette Fabray Collects New Fiance, TV Series and Emmy By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD (UP) Nanette Fabray has collected a new fian ce, a new TV scries and an Emmy award that, she sadly sighs, has kicked up "an embar rassing fuss." The pert-nosed singer arrived here from New York fresh from getting engaged to screenwriter Ranald MacDougall, signing for an NBC scries and taking the "best comedienne" award for her work during the first half of last year's Sid Caesar television show. But Nanette was met by the dull thud of a controversy in TV circles as to whether she should have accepted the Emmy because she left the show in June, Flattered by Award "All this fuss has been embar rassing," confessed Nanette. "1 was flattered and thrilled to win. I was sure people would have forgotten my work on Sid's show. "But to read all this to-do be cause I was on the show only half of last year! Pat Carroll of Caesar's show, who won the sup porting Emmy, was on only part of last fall, less than I was. "Actually the TV awards are set up cockeyed," she continued. "The TV year begins in Oc'ober and ends in June, os the Emmy's should be judged for the season, not the calendar year, 1 think they j should launch the fall season with a bang by handing out the awards in September." Return to Caesar Possible Nanette's Emmy might play cupid and bring her back to Cae sar's show, now that Janet Blair is "divorcing" the comic. If an opportunity came to work with Caesar again, Nanette says, "I wouldn't pass it up, although I don't know whether I would want to do an hour show every week again." Meantime she is busy with her own projects. She plays a lady pitcher who joins a male baseball team on NBC's "Kaiser Alumi num Hour" April 23. Come June, she'll begin filming a TV series in which she'll play a Calamity Jane-type, sometime this year "when we're both free from work" she and MacDougall will tie the knot. Clashing Views Over Ragweed Control Heard A House Ways and Means sub committee heard conflicting state ments Wednesday night whether ragweed can be controlled. But there was general agree ment that unless something is done about it soon, Oregon's 175 million dollar annual tourist busi ness is threatened. The committee heard testimony on a bill to appropriate $50,000 to set up a pilot control program in Western Oregon, where ths weed is spreading. It would let the Department of Agriculture enforce control meas ures, and require every property owner to eliminate his ragweed. The weed is the primary cause of hay fever. Dr. Frank Perlman, Portland, said that 10 per cent of the na tion's population is allergic to the weed. He estimated that 35 per cent of the people who come to Oregon do so for relief from hay fever. Frank G. Mackaness, agricul tural consultant for Portland Gen eral Electric Co., said the weed can't be controlled, and that the bill is too drastic. He suggested that doctors might develop a serum so that people wouldn't be bothered by the weed. Beck Attorney Dies in Seattle SEATTLE IS1 Tracy E. Grif fin, 65, Seattle attorney who di rected government prosecution -in a Communist conspiracy case, died Thursday after a long ill ness. As a special assistant to the United States attorney general, Griffin was chief counsel at 1954 Smith Act trials here at which five persons were convicted of con spiracy. Griffin was personal attorney to Dave Beck, president of the Team- FSOs Are U.S. Eyes. Ears, Backbone Abroad Bv BEM PRICE WASHINGTON 11 Fred Sack steader was vice consul of the United States at Lyon, France, in 1955. Until Sept. 1 of that year, life had been fairly routine visas, import-export licenses, looking af ter lost or wayward Yanks. But on that day Sacksteader, now serving in Washington, had an opportunity to demonstrate the payoff of the State Department's careful selection of each Foreign Service officer, this government's eyes, ears, right arm and back bone overseas. Lyon, a heavy industrial center, was subjected to a severe storm. Hailstones shattered nearly every skylight in town. Millions of dol lars worth of machinery was ex posed. Sacksteader said in an inter view, "The consul was out of town when I got a call from the French asking if we could contact our military and obtain canvas tent ing for covers. "We started an airlift of tents and tarpaulins. Then we hauled it in by truck. In all we provided about 500.000 square feet of can vas. In Lyon it was a Page 1 story. The tone of those stories was that 'other countries may talk of what they do for us. The Americans act.1 " Often humdrum, the life of an FSO does have its dramatic and dangerous moments. Since the department was founded in 1789 some 75 FSOs have lost their lives, some in. earthquakes, some in shipwrecks and some by bullets and bombs. On Nov. 1, 1948, the Bamboo1 Curtain descended before the : American consulate at Mukden, ! uuna, neaded by Angus Ward. The staff was imprisoned, threat ened, accused of being spies and finally deported. Ward himself was beaten by a Chinese servant trying to curry favor with the Communists. Despite 28 days of intensive questioning, Red-style, none of the staff members cracked. In the State Department's com mand setup, which closely paral lels that of the armed services, the FSO is under constant scrut iny. His personnel folder is exam ined by experts yearly. If he is classed with the bottom 10 per cent in proficiency for three con- from Egypt at the height of the secutive years, he is tired. His beginning salary is between ing upon marital status and back ground. He can look forward to promotion about every two or three years and possibly the title of career minister at a salary of $17,500. If he becomes a career ambassador his salary will be $20,000. The job of an FSO is varied. The consular and embassy staffs in Italy provided housing and cars for Americans evacuated Suez crisis, even supplying Thanksgiving dinners out of their own pockets and often in their own homes. The Austrian and Hungarian staffs worked around the clock during Hungary's October revolt to rescue Americans and then to provide visas and transportation for thousands of refugees. Until 1954 the department was divided into two services civil and foreign. The civil' group func tioned exclusively in this country on policy-making jobs. There was no provision for interchange of jobs. The net result was the practical exile of the FSO, while important jobs in the United States were held by men with little or no actual foreign experience. No oth er country had a system like it. In 1954 a committee headed by Henry M, Wriston, former presi dent of Brown University, exam ined this setup and found that among 197 FSOs with more than 20 years experience, 67 per cent had not served more than three years in this country.' "Men immersed continuously in other societies," the report noted, "inevitably tend to lose touch with the circumstances and attitude! that chanA nnlirv at hmtt " This observation cut two ways. Men here permanently could not fully understand foreign problems. Wriston's committee recom mended a merger of the two services and a rotation system, This recommendation is being carried out under Deputy Under secretary Loy Henderson. Ideally an FSO will come home for duty after every six years overseas. Last year 12,595 young Ameri cans applied for FSO jobs and of these about 5,500 actually took the extraordinarily stiff written and oral examinations. Only 20 per cent of those making top grades were selected. stcrs Union. Beck has said that it was because of Griffin's illness that he engaged former Sen. James Duff of Pennsylvania as his chief counsel in Senate com mittee investigations of Beck's handling of union funds. Born in Wasco County, Ore., Griffin attended the University of Oregon and was graduated from the University of Washington Law School. He practiced law here more than 40 years. Drug Rushed To Alaska to Save III Boy ANCHORAGE, Alaska W A 4,000-mile mission of mercy end ed here Wednesday when a drug so new it is not yet on the market was administered to a critically ill, month old boy stricken with meningitis. Capt. L. E. Ainger, head pedia trician at Elmcndorf Air F o r c e Base here, read about the drug. "Fungizone," in a professional journal and decided to try it as a last resort in an effort to save little Ronald Stenerson. The boy is the son of S. Sgt. Edgar J. Stenerson of West Far go, N.D. The drug is an antibiotic being developed by the E. R. Squibbs and Sons Institute for Medical Re search in New Brunswick, N.J. Ainger called the company and requested that he be allowed to use the dn:3 on Ronald. The company agreed and rushed some of the drug to Idlcwild Air port at New York, where it was placed aboard a Seattle-bound plane. At Seattle the drug was placed aboard an Alaska-bound plane. On the plane's arrival here Wednesday afternoon, the drug was picked up by a special Air Force car and whisked to the El mondorf hospital, where a first dose of the drug was administered to the boy wihtin two hours of its arrival at Anchorage. Hi on the W. T. GRANT CO. CHARGE IT ' PLAN! 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