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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
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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.
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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. Some j
S160.000 will come from the
welfare commission.
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Dentist,
Wishes to Announce the
Opening of his Offices at the
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408 South Oakdal
- for the practice of
General Dentistry
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