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n 0 ICC Fed Up With By A. ROBERT SITJ Mail Tribune Cclg espondnt Washington Officials of the Interstate Commerce Commis- mission who have to wrest with the freight car shortage that plagues Oregon!& fgd up with also having to cope "with politic ians from both parties who are now demanding information and curative action. They refer specifically to Be imblican Gov. Paul L. Patter son and Democratic Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neubere er, whose aides have been dci ging the trail of ICC exper in quest of hopeful data they can make public in OreEon. "We need a special- taft Just . to supply both sides wi;h inftjr- mation, said one harafted of ficial. "That's what happens when damned politics et irv volved and you have tg satisfy aemanas 01 opposing candi dates." Pointed Rafarenea This was a pointed referencl to e prospect thataSen. Morse may be challenged in next year's election by Go,sPatterson. Of ficials cite the numerous confer ences they have held with the Washington staffs of the sena tors and with the emergency committee set up by the govern- m or to deal with the car short - age, plus numerous communi ques. It's not that the government officials resent being petitioned for the information they areQre spoivsible for compiling; but tfeey say Tit is that they find their workload unnecessarily burden ed by ignorant and publicity-in spired inquiries. They cite, as an example, a four-page communi que received this week from " P A1NT WITH Itetuufclciiei BURGESS PAINT ' & WALLPAPER SfORE Corner 6th & Holly, Diagonally Across from the Post Office We Give S&H Green Stamps PHCNE 2-9321 "Let Us Recommend a Reliable Painter" Cliffod Terjuacm, advisory ctansl for the jovernor's emer gency transportation committee. "There's nothing new in it," ICC Commissioner Owen Clarke reportedly declare after etudy inej f effcuson't letter. Clarke, who hails from Yakima, WmA., was backed up is his jmtg!it IPoIiUei by e ICC authorities. "I haven't een anything 4 tht letter that wasn't jon ovt in detail ia the hearings ve belli several years ajo en the Ore-son freight car " ehortajt," an ICC veteran taid. He ddl that ti e confident none e thoae now ppeUng (or hl& had ever read Seeuing lata m IrsgQi Iqkof Shortage tfee eeil pertinent data ac cumulated in that shippers sup fly committee ease. Jteporta filtering out et the ICC aay Charles H. Heltsel, Ore gon public utilities commis sioner, was rerbally ehastised durini" a conference here at the ICC. Kelteel reportedly eom- fOte Yr MEDFORDfe tniB it Tribune Second Section MIDfOI, CtlGQU. WSAV, SIPT1MBE1 10, -19JJ rage MO t ci ARRIVING at Capitol Hill, Vice President Richard Nixon is in serious mood as he pre pares to relieve aiSng Pres ident Eisetfiower of heavy re sponsibilities. (Internatimug) Charges Against Mother Dropped Portland (U.R) gharges of disorderly conduct and contribut ing to the dependency of a minor brought against 20-year-old Shir ley Bunnel were dismissed here yesterday by Municipal Judge J. J. Quillan. Mrs. Bunnel was found by police in a downtown women's ifiub Wednesday after she had abandoned her two infant daugh ters athe home of her employer and left two notes behind. Mrs. Bunnel told police when she was booked at headquarters that she had been seeking a job to finance medical care. She is separated from her husband. Judge Quillan said the charges ere dismissed for lack of a com plaint. BEND ENROLLMENT UP Bend (U.R) A record enroll ment of 290 students was report ed here yesterday by officials of Central Oregon College, a night extension class institution in Bend high school. IteeteB tea Hie fteus r tjvrris iuw Weny fe4 tt, ennouneinj that Tort Moto Ce. plans to spend 300,OO0,W9 fo espension in 1838 h cvidenee of its faith in the fuiure: "The eo-eaUed market of the future, the explosion we all antici pate for the early '80s, ie no longer a distant dream." Defease I ecreterf Charlee I. Wi?om aaneuaciaj that It still has not sssea tecUeft -eheiher to expan the Marine Corps to the 319,aSJ-aiea level seeemmenlea ay tae Demecratic-eteered Con gress: "There to me reel e e 1I,M if f e 'are foin back doejn ageia." o Walter V. O'Malley, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, at the start of theothird yarn of the World Series, on former Mayor William O'Dwyer't proposal to move the team to MexicoCity: "If we blow this thins- Mexico won't be far enough south for u to o." o Mrs. Mamie Bradley in replf to rumor that her son, Emmett Till hae been seea on the etceeie of Detroit atnce a jury in Missis sippi failed to convict two irkite men of kis murder: . "I e)m willing lo he raf bof's kodf exhumed from the vault for 0 thorough exeminetien it that woult lispel these wild rumore" 0 Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety council, on the higher rate of traffic death this year: "The rising tide of traffic deaths means that every driver must be his brother's keeper." - Deijoit patrolman Mahlon Craft after a breeze blew shut the door of a cell locking him in with six prisoners he had escorted to the cell: "The prisoners had a field day making jokes none of which I thought was funny." Mrs. Glenn G. Hays of Evanston, 111., president of the WCTU on liquor and alcoholism: "Nowhere is abstinence from alcoholic beverages suggested as a method of preventing alcoholism, as it should be." . Michigan Gov. G. Mennen Williams announcing he had de clined a bid to speak at a Democratic Jefferson-Jackson day din ner in Birmingham, Ala., because Negroes would not be allowed to attend: "When I learned of such an ordinance I talked to Alabama Democratic leaders. I told them I would not be able in good con science, lo attend the meeting if such a racial barrier existed." plained to the ICC that the As sociation of American Railroade was slanting its figures to pro tect the railroads as best it could against criticism of their in adequate supply of freight cars. Doing Same Thing While agreeing that Heltzel was -right about AAR tactics, ICC experts charged that he and the governor's committee had been doing the very same thing in order to make the severity of the car shortage appear as ex treme as possible. Whatever comes out of the rival shipping and railroad camps, ICC has to steer the mid dle course of statistical accuracy and it has concluded that the shortage boils down to just one thing: the railroads haven't built enough new ears of repaired enough old cars to take care of their business. . What burns up ICC ie that it gets urgent demands for action when the shortage is acute and everyone is crying for help, but it is forgotten by the politicians when it comes time for annual budget allocations by the ad ministration and Congress. The budget controls the number of field service agents ICC can hire to check up on where the rail roads move their cars, to locate empties hidden in freight yards, to see that shippers aren't die criminated against,' particularly in western Oregon where South ern Pacific has a monopoly. Whew aake wfceths ICC RcecVs more field Men, offi cial replied: "Ijtt me put It Vnie wey. In 1030 we had 120 service agents. Now we have 20. We have one man at Portland where we used to have thre. We have one at San Francisco where he had fouF er .five. We htd twoQ in Seattle, and now wt have none up there. We have on man at Spokane, but he has to cover all of eaatern Washington, Idaho and Montana. Wt really ought to havt 12 or 14 tent for the Northwest alone. "Theae men," he added, "are ouf eye tnd ear. When we don't Havt them, w can't do anything." 1 Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport DUIIT AMP PACKED by Gonoral Motors SCHMELING COMING TO U.S. Hamburg. Germany: (U.R) Max Schmeling, who was warm ly congratulated by the German press Wednesday on his 50th birthday, said he plans to visit the United States in No vember. "It will be just a private visit " he said. While in Ameri ca he" may purchaser some cattlerj and hogs for his large farm near Hamburg. 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