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ZIGKT MTOTORD (OMOOW) MAIL THIBTTHB Sunday, July 31. 19SS PROPOSED LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN An artist's conception of the train planned by General Motors is shown above. The train will be unveiled late in August. It was de signed at the request of a committee of rail road presidents, and will be tested on major railroad lines. Revolutionary in concept, it is light in weight with a low center of gravity, and has a springing system adapted from those used for automobiles, which are sup posed to give it an exceptionally smooth ride.- ICC Blames Railroads For Persistent Short Supply of Rail Cars By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Interstate Commerce Commission is ma king no bones about blaming the railroads for the current boxcar shortage that has plagued Pa cifc Northwsst grain and lumber shippers this spring and threat ents to become acute this fall A special Senate subcommit tee headed by Sen. Warren G Magnuson (D-Wash.) opened an investigation of the freight car situation this past week, and im mediately heard a Northwestern member of the ICC, Owen Clarke of Yakima. Wash., tag the railroads with failure to or der sufficient new cars and re pair damaged cars. "Since the first week of May we have had a steadily increas ing freight car shortage," Clarke testified, "and it is inescapable that it will become even more acute during the next 90 days." He said the factors contribu ting to the shortage included the heavy increase in loadings, strikes in the trucking industry on the West Coast and currently in New England, movement of old grain from storage by the department "of agriculture and failure by shippers and railroads to utilize existing equipment ef ficiently. But mostly he pointed to cut backs in railroad car orders and repairs last year when the na tion appeared to be headed into a recession. Yet for the entire three year period from 1952 through 1954, Clarke said the roads junked 68.204 cars and ordered only 31,771. 'The only remedy for the re curring shortages is an increase in the supply of serviceable cars." Clarke told the commit tee. "This can be accomplished In only two ways: 1. by the pur chase of new equipment and, 2. by the repair of bad order cars." After conferring with railroad leaders May 27, Clarke said he advised them that the ICC thought '"the large number of unserviceable cars could not be justified by any standards and that the number should be im mediately and drastically re duced." Clarke said he would "wel come" legislation giving the ICC power to compel the railroads to build adequate new cars. He said: "The ICC on numerous occa sions warned the railroads. But all we can do is try to persuade them." The railroads see it different ly, and through the Association of American Railroads they gave the committee their slant. Arthur Gass, chairman of AAR's car ser vice division, said figures that show a declining number of don't tell the whole story. He freight cars in service today claimed that faster service with diesel engines, centralized traf fic control and new material handling practices have made possible increased car loadings. To support this argument, Gass said in 1926 they carried 486 billion ton miles and in 1944 carried 785 billion ton miles with 24 per cent fewer cars. Gass pinned the blame for the shortage on shippers and re ceivers of cars. He claimed that inordinate delays were keeping cars out of service. He said ship pers today are detailing 19 per cent of all cars beyond the 48 hour period normally allowed for unloading, while last year the average detention was 16 per cent. Oregon's Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger urged the committee to take steps to stimulate freight car construc tion, approve charters for more intercoastal ships, provide com petitive rail service to western Oregon shippers and study the nation's transportation needs to take into account the plight of western Oregon lumbermen who must depend on one railroad, Southern Pacific. Commissioner Clarke said the shortage of boxcars in the North west has been temporarily over sion of "sufficient rough cars" come this month through diver- to the region from other areas. But he warned that the situa tion would become acute up until loadings decline in October. The Senate committee ended hearings without indicating what action it might take to help correct the situation. Committee Named For Water Study Yreka The Yreka city coun cil has named a committee of seven men to make a study of this city's "desperate" water shortage, and to make recom mendations for a solution. The group will study costs and feasibility of using Shasta river water, or that from other sources. The council also considered a plan that increased water rates would be used to' pay for water development, rather than gen eral taxation. It was told that the new quarterly irrigating system is working better than the old plan, and that water pressure is better, with wells holding their own. Water Superintendent C. M. Potter was instructed to prepare a weekly written report on water conditions. The city now obtains all its water from wells, which have been far below normal this vear. leading to fears they would not be sufficient for future years. A strict system of water rationing has been in use this summer. Fewer Oregonians Buy Liquor Permits Portland (U.R) The State Liquor Control Commission said Friday that for the second straight year, since liquor by the drink became available, Ore gonians had purchased fewer permits to buy liquor by the bottle. During the fiscal year which ended June 30 there were 294,- 897 permits issued in Oregon, a decrease of 1,700 from the previ ous fiscal year. The OLCC said it sold 846,376 cases of spirits and wines for a total of 542,918,476. tj:v lower feed prices AT SAMSON'S Whole Corn cwt. $4.30 Cracked Corn cwt. 4.40 Wheat cwt. 4.25 Hen Scratch cwt. 4.30 Ground Barley cwt. 3.00 Rolled Barley 70 lb. 2.25 Ground Oats & Barley ..cwt. 3.15 Whole Oats cwt. 3.25 Rolled Oats 70 lb. 2.40 HAY FOR SALE Top Quality 2nd Cutting Alfalfa By the Ton or Truck Load Samson Feed fir Seed Co. Poultry and Dairy Feed Hay Fertilizer 4TH & FRONT MEDFORD Phone 2-5295 Centennial Group Waits Site Choice Portland (U.R) Two commit tees indicated Friday that plans for a 1959 Oregon Centennial celebration depend in large part upon selection of a site for Port land's proposed exposition-recreation center. The committees were the Gov ernor's nine-member Centennial Commission, and the 45-member Centennial Committee headed by James Mount of Portland. The Mount committee recently made public a study by the Stanford Research Institute on the feasi bility of such a celebration. Anthony Brandenthaler, Ba ker, was elected chairman of the newly-formed commission at its meeting Friday. Morris Sharp, Portland, was elected secretary. Action by the Mount commit tee included recommending a Free world Industries theme for the centennial, and urged coop eration by the exposition-recreation commission, the Pacific In ternational Livestock Exposition and the Multnomah County Fair Board. Klamath Grand Jury To Get Cases Again Klamath Falls (U.R) Circuit Judge David R. Vandenburg Fri day allowed a motion by Dis trict Attorney Richard Beesley to resubmit to the grand jury the case against Leon Pearson and Melvin Chiloquin, both of Chiloquin, on grounds the pres ent indictment contains insuffi-1 cient facts to constitute a crime. Pearson and Chiloquin are be ing held in Klamath county jail in connection with the death of j John Nadrueno, 25, a railroad i worker, whose beaten body was j found in the snow last winter. ' An original charge of man-1 slaughter against Pearson and Chiloquin was later changed to assault with a dangerous weap- j on. j Judge Vandenberg set Sept. 1 j as date for the grand jury to reconsider the case. i About 150 different species of ! trees grow in the Great Smoky mountains national park, as con j trasted with about 85 varieties j in all of Europe. Use Tribune Want Ads ( HEMORRHOIDS ) OtMU MCTAl PtmPf TKATID WITHOUT HOSPITAL OPt RATION 4150 STOMACH AND COLON CONVtNUNT CMOff 2 iooicurr v.uc PHONE 3-UiO M. SEYNOLDS The REYNOLDS CLINIC Naturopathic and ChifOpreb'c Physician NOUSS 0 0041 t. 5 MM CtNTta tTKCr Financial Hurdles For Columbia Bridge Outlined in Report Astoria (U.R) Financial hur dles to be overcome before a highway bridge across the mouth of the Columbia river becomes a reality were outlined in a fi nancial feasibility report re leased Saturday by the Port of Astoria. The A. C. Allyn Co. of Chi cago told the port that, at pres ent costs, the project would re quire about S12,715,000 to be raised through sources other than bonds. A recommended pro gram calls for a bond issue of some $14,800,000, to finance a bridge more than four miles long from Astoria to -Point El lice, Wash. Ultimate cost of the project would be more than $29, 000,000. The report concludes that rev enue bonds can only be market ed for maturity between 25 and 30 years at most and, as a con sequence, the amount of financ ing that can be raised now is limited. The Chicago bonding firm sug gested that copies of its report be put in the hands, of the con gressional delegations from Ore gon, Washington, and California, as well as state highway depart ments, to press for allocation of federal funds to the project. The company also suggested that current records of traffic and tolls from existing ferries be maintained so that trends could be watched continuously. Possibility of forming a district such as the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway district should also be studied, the company said. The report urged that bridge designs be completed to be ready for any contingency. An engineering feasibility re port on the bridge was received by the port commission in April from the Tudor Engineering Co. of San Francisco. Cottage Grove Man Killed in Tiller Mishap Roseburg L'S) John Leroy Stafford. 26, of Cottage Grove, was killed outright Thursday night when a pile of lumber fell on him. Stafford, a fork lift operator, had worked for only one week for the Scott Lumber Co. of Til ler when the accident occurred. Survivors include his wife and two children. Oregon Welfare Commission Books Show Over $305,000 Portland U.R) The Ore gon State Welfare commission ended the last biennium with a balance of more than S305.000 on its books, according to a re port submitted at the regular meeting Friday by Administra tor Mrs. Loa Howard Mason. State share of 1953-55 wel fare expenses totaled $29,661, 490. Total for the current 1955 57 biennium is $31,690,792. Umatilla and Lane county commissions submitted protests at the meeting for slashes order ed in their budgets and Mrs. Mason urged them to examine possible outside sources of aid such as veterans administration payments, old age and survivors insurance disability payments, railroad retirement and others. Mrs. Mason objected to cost increases announced by the State Board of Higher Education and private hospitals after the com mission's budget had been drawn. The board of higher ed ucation has announced it will begin charging the commission for welfare patients cared for at Doernbecher hospital in Portland and the state intends Red China Drug Sales Said Building Army Washington (U.R) Chair man James O. Eastland of the Senate Internal Security Sub committee charged Saturday that Chinese Communists are push ing the sale of narcotics in the free world and using the pro ceeds to build their war machine. The Mississippi Democrat made the statement in releasing a volume of hearings on the role of Communist China in narcotics traffic. He said the subcommit tee has suspended its hearings while another panel from the parent Judiciary Committee in vestigates the domestic narcotics problem. "While the Red dictatorship I enforces a rigid ban on the use j of narcotics in China," Eastland j said, "it has established a huge ' business in the illegal sale of j drugs in Japan, Indochina, Ma-'. laya, Ceylon, and other free na- j tions." Insurance Identification Cards Needed in Canada Special insurance identifica tion cards should be carried by peaole planning to travel to Canada this summer, according to Byron B. Carter, represenla thive of the All-state Insurance Co. Five Canadian provinces, New foundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia and Manitoba, have strict finan cial responsibility laws. Carter pointed out. He "added that the necessary card should be ob tained from an insurance com pany before the trip is started. According to the U. S. Geo graphical Survey it is estimated the Great Salt lake contains 400,000,000 tons of salt. to collect some $400,000 from i patients cared for in the newj teaching hospital at University j of Oregon Medical school. 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