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Thursday. JuJr 23. 19ST MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Many Questions Remain Unanswered as SL Lawrence Seaway Work Goes Ahead Editor's aot.: Following it th fourth in . five-part lerin on the t. I.wrenre Hnwir. The ..rl.t prepared y Kobert E. Jaekion, I ntted Pres Correspondent who toured the beaway route. By ROBERT E. JACKSON United Press Correspondent Along The Creat Lakes W Controversy is a permanent pas senger on the St. Lawrence Sea wav. , What tolls to charge?. Will Canada build its own parallel seaway? Will the project pay for itself as planned? Will the chan nels have to be deepened again? Will industry really shift from rail to water? Few issues stirred such hot debate as that six-letter word "seaway" in the half-century be fore Congress, afraid Canada woud "go it alone," finally ap proved the project In 1955. ' T'u, railroads' and eastarn ports, fearing competition, had been the main opponents on grounds it was a waste of money. But when the steel companies saw the opportunity for cheap transport of Labrador iron, they threw their support to the Sea way. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey was an iron man and in the cabinet. Opposition i crumbled, construction began, j In the words of N. R. Daniel ; ian, chief pilot of the Seaway on its voyage through the Washing ton political rapids, "the Sea way is not a magic wand which will make the desert bloom." Many Problems Remain j There remain problems as big and deep as the new channels. ! And w here there are problems, I there are arguments. The open battle against the ; Seaway has ended. Some east j ern railroads like the New York ' Central and Pennsylvania are j climbing aboard the gravy boat I with expansion plans near the l lake ports. j But sniper fire can be heard all over the lakes as the "men of i the seaway" blast each other. Target for most of the pot shots is Danielian, a 50-year old former economics professor at Harvard, Massachusetts-born of Armenian extraction. He is pres- ' ident of the Great Lakes - St. i Lawrence Association, repre ! senting industrial and farm in ! terests, and chairman of the j Seaway Users Committee on 4 una. Along the lakes men accuse Danielian of "undermining" the project he helped pioneer. By speaking of its limitations, he is going to scare away potential foreign trade, they fear. For Industrial Use Danielian replies that he is only being realistic. The Sea- I way is going to be used mainly ' by industry for bulk cargo ' : .e . yi " ',J 0 iv. a V Hi fz i for removing raw materials. While the Seaway can clear 32 ships a day, the Welland Canal i between Lakes Ontario and Erie I can handle only 28. This, says Danielian, means only 21 mil lion tons of NEW tonnage most of it domestic. Danielian also fears that the j tolls will be so high that the I Seaway may price itself out of competition. On the other hand, ; if the tolls are kept low enough i to foster trade, then, he warns, j the Seaway cannot possibly pay for itself in 50 years. Lewis G. Castle, the Duluth banker who moved over from Danielian's association to be come administrator of the, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. in Washington, retorts that the tolls will be low enough to insure use and the corpora tion will pay off its 140 million dollar debt to the U.S. Treasury on schedule. The cost of the Seaway has doubled since the first estimates in 1953, due to rising construc tion costs, extras tossed into the ENCSID IN A HAPPY PORTRAIT A bea ;roand her at Santa Marinella, Italy for th ei hfir twins, little Ingrid, 5. The other twin .fcnrry Ann Lindstrom, 19. Jenny Ann, da I. Fet Lindstrom of Hollywood, is visit rtaicK were circulating that Ingrid's bus lm, tteairetl to bring home with him an In s&gbMaaUy linked. ming Ingrid Bergman gathers her children is happy family portrait. Ingrid holds one sits between Robertino Rossellini, 7, and ughter of the actress previous marriage to ing her mother for the summer. Meanwhile, band, Italian movie director Roberto Rosel dian beauty with whom he has been rc- Prison Garden Club Declared Beneficial Joliet, 111. HP) One of the most exclusive garden clubs in the United States is at State ville Penitentiary. "Gardening helps the time pass," Warden Joseph E. Ragen explained. Ragen believes gardening, with its closeness to nature, "changes the attitude of even the most hardened men." "Working in the gardens makes them feel good because they are doing something constructive many for the first time in their lives," he said. He said many convicts train ed in gardening and horticulture have turned to professional gar dening as a livelihood when they were released. "It has turned many towards profitable,' law-abiding lives," he added. Ragen, himself a veteran gar dener, began Stateville's Ilower raising program 20 years ago because "men were silting around with nothing to do but get into trouble." Now Slateville raises half a million flower plants a year. Arizona has a total area of 131,956 square miles and is smaller only than Tebas. Calif ornia, Montana or New Mexico. project and the necessity to cor rect an oversight which failed to provide navigational aids for shipping in the original plans. Original calculations were based on estimated tolls of 50 cents a ton for bulk cargo like iron and $1.25 for general package cargo. Deficits Inevitable According to Danielian, these tolls would have paid -for the Seaway on schedule only if the original costs had held. But with the doubled cost, he says, "defi cits are inevitable" in the early years and the corporation will have to lengthen the pay-out, defer payment of the principal or refinance at lower interest. .P. M. Shoemaker, president of the New York State Chamber of Commerce and also presi dent of the Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western Railroad seized on this to declare "the pattern for ,the lake ports, fol lowed by subsidy-hungry ship pers and shipping interests . . . points toward tolls being eli minated and American taxpay ers paying the entire bill." Seaway administrators, who must collect S24-S28 million a year in tolls, insist there will be no shift to the taxpayer's pocket. Other problems: Chambers of commerce along tlie lakes traditionally opposed the Seaway and have been forced to turn turtle to support it, not always enthusiastically. Port directors and harbor com missioners in many cities have been caughf in a local political musical chairs game. They are caught between cries that "you are spending all our money for nothing" and "you're' doing nothing while (Jthers grab the gravy." Need New Rates The lake ports need new export-import rates for goods mov ing by rail to their docks. At present, a Springfield, 111., heavy machinery maker spends SI 8 a ton shipping to Chicago what he can send half way across the nation to New York forS15.80," American shippers will need subsidies to -compete against the lower costs of foreign ship pers on the two new 'essential trade routes" established from the lakes to northern Europe and the Caribbean. The Midwest complains that so long as Canada controls the Welland Canal. Canadian goods will get priority over American shipments. There is talk of an all - American canal cutting across New York state from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Canada has already served official notice that it probably will build new locks on the St. Lawrence opposite the American ones at Massena, N. 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