TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, May 21, 1958
ICC To Be Directed To Draft
Plan To Cure Box Car Shortage
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The tangible re
sult of the Senate's inquiry into
the freight car shortage which
perennially af
flicts the Pacif
ic Northwest is
that the Inter
state Com
merce Commis
sion will be di
rected to draft
a comprehen
sive plan by
which both in-
a. Robt. smith austry and gov
ernment can cure this condition.
This idea was advanced last
week by a representative of the
Western Forest Industries Asso
ciation, an organization of the
relatively smaller, timber oper
ators in the Northwest who are
among the hardest hit each sum
mer by the scarcity of boxcars.
It was quickly endorsed by
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-
Wash.), chairman of the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
which has been holding the in
quiry. And last week a resolu
tion was introduced in the Sen
ate calling on the ICC to map
out a long range program de
signed to eliminate future car
shortages. The resolution is spon
sored by Magnuson and Sens.
Wayne Morse, Richard L. Neu-
berger (D-Ore.), Henry M. Jack
son (D-Wash.) and Milton Young
and William Langer (R-N.D.).
In suggesting this approach to
the senators, Leonard Netzorg,
WFIA counsel, said it would give
the ICC the job of coming up
with a comprehensive package
plan which both shippers and
the railroads would help draft.
He said it might include ICC
requests for additional' authority
or other laws that might stimu
late freight car construction and
see to it that the cars are evenly
distributed throughout the coun
try. Amortization Certificates
After commending Netzorg for
making "a very justifiable" sug
gestion, Magnuson pointed out
that only two weeks ago the Of
fice of Defense Mobilization at
his request had issued rapid tax
amortization certificates to rail
roads for 49,000 more freight
cars under construction.
Netzorg, who previously was
assistant solicitor for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, likened the
ICC package plan to the program
requested by Congress some
years ago for integrating Amer
ican Indians into the main
stream of society. . The Indian
Bureau, as a result, came up
with a comprehensive program,
and Congress since then has been
enacting various bills to imple
ment the Indian plan.
When the boxcar resolution
was introduced this week, it was
explained to the Senate by Sen.
Morse that it would allow for a
"searching and intensive study
of the entire car shortage prob
lem by the ICC to be followed
by recommendations to the Con
gress for legislation which will
once and for all alleviate these
annual shortages in rail trans
portation.
Wealth of Experience
"The ICC," said Morse, "has
been in business since prior to
the turn of the century. It has
accumulated a wealth of facts
and experience and is ideally
equipped to make a penetrating
analysis of this problem."
During the boxcar hearings of
the past several months, sena
tors have been critical of the ICC.
for its recent order 910, which
will halt slow transit shipments
of lumber and fruit and veg
etables from the Pacific Coast
eastward. Many small lumber
men have protested that this or
der will put them out of busin
ess. While the order has been tem
porarily held up because of a
court injunction issued by the
federal district court for Ore
gon, the ICC intends putting it
into effect as soon as this legal
barrier is moved aside.
The main complaint against
this order from senators has been
that it came without prior warn
ing to shippers and it was ad
mittedly a stopgap measure in
voked by the ICC due to a rising
shortage of cars.
WoFmilYooDSi
ZyJlU STEVENS
Bigger Than Bunyan
No giant of Pacific North
west folklore measures up to
President Theodore Roosevelt,
and none is more neglected in
the honors of the region. His
time will come, when old hates
perish.
In the great day of "T. R.'s"
triumphs he made enemies of
James J. Hill and other great
private enterprise leaders in the
development and exploitation
of a region with boundless
wealth in natural resources -
the bulk of them in Federal
ownership or under public au
thority. At the same time his big-stick
swinging against all breeds of
social revolutionaries, particu
larly those who stood out as
fanatical agitators among day
laborers, made him enduring en
emies too.
"Undesirable citizens," was
T.R.'s description of the leaders
of the Western Federation of
Miners and the Industrial Work
ers of the World.
"Malefactors of great wealth"
was his label for the silk-hatted
gamblers in the stock markets
and the multi-millionaire purch
asers of the souls of U. S. Sen
ators and Congressmen.
The Fighting Heart ...
"I am against the man who
skins the land!" T.R. roared at
the nation's mightiest lumber
man, assembled at his bidding
on the White House lawn.
He, single-handed, by Presi-.
dential order, brought the eight
hour day into being -on Federal
public works. For, this Theodore
Roosevelt remains unforgiven
by many and forgotten by
millions who should do him rev
erence as a practical benefactor
of the man who is fated to live
out his days on an hourly labor
wage.
T. R. fought the damagogue,
Bryan, on the Income Tax Am
endment to the Constitution of
the United States. He lost in
1916, mainly because he had
thrown all his energies for two
years into the Allied cause in
World War I. This amendment
degraded the Constitution by re
ducing it to service an an instru
ment of taxation. It opened the
way to the 18th Amendment,
instrinsically a common policing
ordinance.
He fathered the Newlands Re
clamation Act of 1902 and led
it into action on the land, first
of all in the Yakima Valley. An
other Roosevelt infant was the
Department of Commerce and
Labor, a union of interests that
symbolized his hopes and plans
for mediation, arbitration, con
ciliation and ultimate peace be
tween employers and employees-.
The Interstate Commerce
Commission, as it stands today,
was created by Theodore Roose
velt. In 1906 he drove through
the Food and Drugs Act and the
Meat Inspection Act, after hor
rifying exposures of public evils
in these areas.
The Big Ditch ...
T. R. was the principal peace
maker of the Russo-Japanese
war, and he made our cheap vic
tory over Spain amount to
something by policies that put
Cuba and the Philippines in mo
tion on the ways of world pro
gress.
While Roosevelt's policies on
Latin American relations stood
the hair of many South Ameri
can dictators on end, they were
to, prove beneficial to all the
countries concerned in the long
run.
' The only chance for the free
and full completion of the Pana
ma canal was by precisely his
kind of forthright, vigorous and
fair" action in promotion of Pan
ama separation from Columbia
and the setting up of a Republic
of Panama in which the peo
ple of the region had for the first
time a real voice in their govern
ment. And thereby the West Coast
of the United States was given
an artery of ocean trade with
values that are yet incalcuable
in terms of timber trade. The
works of Theodore Roosevelt
brought Washington State and
the greatest agricultural county
of the nation Yakima. And
now the system of national for
ests that Theodore Roosevelt
founded is beginning to realize
the purposes that he proclaimed
50 years ago. All that is needed
is full - scale action in accord
with his national forest policies.
UN Narcotic Drugs
Group Ends Conference
Geneva, Switzerland (U.R)
The United Nations commission
on narcotics drugs Saturday re
ported that smuggling remains a
serious problem . and that there
are "many millions" of addicts
despite nearly a half-century of
increasingly strict international
control.
The commission wound up its
11th annual conference here.
The 15-nation body selected New
York as the site for its annual
session in 1957.- ' :
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What tBe Senate inquiry has
come down to is that the ICC
should draft an overall plan of
attack to wipe out the car short
age problem to the advantage of
everyone concerned shippers,
carriers and the public at large
instead of relying on stopgap
measures such as order 910. And
whether this means government
stepping in with new regulations
or subsidies for the railroad in
dustry, Congress is now calling
on the ICC to lay the facts and
its recommendations before the
lawmakers for action.
Anti-French Rebels Raid Algeria Village
Algiers, Algeria (U.R) Anti-French
rebels raided an east
Algerian village and slit the
throats of 17 loyal Moslems, the
French authorities announced
today.
Six women and seven children
were among those murdered.
Officials did not name the vil
lage but said it was five miles
east of Philippeville, a major
Mediterranean port in the Con
stantine Department east of Al
giers. The bold raid was the latest
of a series that has struck ter
ror into the entire Constantine
area and cost scores of pro
French lives and hundreds of
rebel lives.
Officials said rebels launched
a punitive expedition Sunday af
ter an increasing number of Mos
lem villagers asked the French
for protection in the Constan
tine regiou.
Grange
Shady Cove Grange
The Shady Cove Grange will
hold its regular social meeting
of the month Wednesday, May
23. A potluck dinner will be
served promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Ladies are asked to bring a main
dish and a salad or dessert and
own table service for the family
or guests.
Upper Rogue Grange
Upper Rogue Grange met
Thursday evening. May 17, with
Master Caroline Harding presid-
JOB PROSPECTS GOOD
Washington (U.R) The La
bor Department told high school
graduates today that job pros-;
pects this year and next "should
be good." But it also advised
them to get all the education and
special training they could get.
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ing. It was a social meeting and
little business was transacted.
Members were urged to get I
out and vote. Oscar Hansen, it !
was reported, had fallen and j
broken his ankle. It was voted
to give the Master her expense '
money as a delegate to state
Grange in Pendleton the first
week in June other bills were
ordered paid. An hour of games
was enjoyed and refreshments
served by Mr. and " Mrs. Carl
Richardson and Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Vaughn. .
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