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o G 1$ MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, May 5, 1958 el 8 ny Famous Raiiro s Passenger Use 37 HEHJtT J. BECHTOLD Vnited Press Correspondent New York ' IP) Famous railroad runs are falling by the wayside as the financial plight of the railroads grows. Listing declining passenger revenues as their main rea sons, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and the Baltimore & Ohio last week descontin ued two of this country's fa mous trains. The B&O did away with its Royal Blue Line (Baltimore to New York) citing a 46 per cent drop in passenger reve nues since 1946. The B&O began its New York service in 1860 when ferries had to be used at sev eral points. Its first through service to Jersey City, N.J., began in 1863, but connec tions to New York by ferry or bus have been necessary through the years. After 88 years, the M-K-T's "Katy Flyer" made its last run last week between St. Louis and Parsons, Kan. Consolidate Runs The New York Central, while not doing away with a tun, consolidated its crack Commodore Vanderbilt and Twentieth Century Limited trains between New York and Chicago. . Central President Alfred Perlman said the move was taken because of the decline in number of passengers and the anticipated further de cline in the summer months. The Pennsylvania Railroad also has cut some of the trains on its Washington to New Jfork run. Eastern railroads are more Offected by declining passen ger volume since 50 per cent of their business is accounted for by passengers. Western oads depend on passengers for only 10 per cent of their volume. Competition from other means of travel automobile, bus and plane has been a big thorn in the side of the rail roads. The railroads contend they Oould better compete with buses and airplanes if given nore lenient rate-making pre cedures and if the 10 per cent passenger excise tax were re pealed. These measures are includ ed in a Senate subcommittee's eht-point program to aid the railroads but only time will tell what effect they will have on passenger operations. The decline in the nation's ftconomy has dropped railroad freight revenues sharply, making the huge" passenger deficit, particularly among Oastern railroads, a much heavier burden. The passenger deficit for you WONT EIND YOURSELF IN" HOT mTER... i t - " f f Si's; V&h-'P bits . . Jfjou hye expertly planned protection You wouldn't expect to have sound protection if you bought your insurance like groceries off a shelf ... a little of this a little of that maybe a so-called "bargain" now and then. To be properly insured, you need the professional ad vice and careful planning which can be best accomplished through your Independent Insurance Agent. Our long training and experience gives iis the skill to analyze your insurance needs and recommend the right coverages and proper amounts for dependable protection. 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ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Congress is rolling in high gear now, with hearings and floor debates Mfmamtm&!?' scheduled for km coming two weeks on a hatful of major bills affecting the Pacific Nortb west. Most im portant of the coming week a. Root smith is tne wam- ath Indian bill, which won unanimous approval of the Senate Interior Committee last week. It is expected to come up for Senate debate some time this week. The, National Lumber Man ufacturers Association is re ported to be lobbying quietly against the measure. But it has bipartisan support from the Eisenhower administra tion, through the Interior De partment, and Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), its chief advocate. The bill would preserve sustained-yield cutting of the Klamath Indian timber, whether it is bought by pri vate operators or the govern ment, to satisfy claims of trib al members who want their shares of the tribe's assets. The bill would cost the gov ernment, if it bought the tim berland, a maximum of $90 million. Would Authorize Cost Neuberger has had prepared an amendment that could be added to provide that timber revenues from the sales that would be made by the Forest Service in the future in man aging this new timberland would all go into the U. S. Treasury to amortize the fed eral purchase cost. Suggested by ex - Gov. Charles A. Sprague, this amendment might make the bill less ob jectionable to senators who dislike its price tag. Neuber ger found it unnecessary to Insurant U AGENT tltTQ, - A. ' nues Mergers have been sug gested as a way to meet the railroad plight. The Pennsyl vania and New York Central, the nation's two largest rail roads ,are actively consider ing a consolidation, as are the Erie, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and Delaware & Hudson. Both these proposed mer gers are aimed at cutting costs sharply through the discon propose this feature when the Interior Committee approved the bill last week Hearings by the Interior Committee will be resumed on the upper Columbia river dispute with Canada this week, with Douglas McKay slated as final witness. The House public lands sub committee , headed by Rep. Gracie Pfost (D-Idaho), has scheduled action this week on the bill to create Ft. Clatsop national monument. The bill passed the Senate last month. Northwest senators and congressmen are now prepar ing to testify before the House Appropriations subcommittee on public works to make a strong bid for increased funds for Northwest power, flood control and irrigation proj ects. President Eisenhower has already revised his orig inal budget estimates upward for the Bureau of Reclama tion and Corps of Engineers. Senate Democrats last week pushed a resolution through the Interior Committee calling for an even bigger reclama tion program. Oregon Proposal Due Showdown on the size of the public works program will come in the next few weeks. Oregon Democrats are work ing on their proposals, to be unveiled May 15, before the House Appropriations unit. Hearings by the Senate In terior Committee on the pro posed power agreement be tween Bonneville Power Ad ministration and Idaho Power Co. begin May 14. That same afternoon, the House is tentatively scheduled to take up Alaskan statehood. The bill has been bottled up in the House Rules Commit tee since last June. Speaker Sam Rayburn Has agreed to allow the bill to be called up as a matter of special consid eration May 14, if the Rules Committee hasn't approved it by then. Scheduling the statehood bill, along with other contro versial issues, is '. a problem these days because of the many primary elections this spring. Traditionally, Con gress doesn't schedule bills on which there is likely to be roll call votes on days elec tions are being held. . The statehood debate Is sup posed to be sandwiched be tween the May 13 primaries in Nebraska and New Mexico and the Oregon primary, May 16. If a final vote cannot be taken by Thursday, May 15, it will be deferred until the following Monday, day before the primaries in Pennsvl- Cellist Would Play For Disarmament San Juan, P. R. (IP) Span ish cellist Pablo Casals says he would be willing to play in the United States "and even in Russia" if the two nations reach an agreement on dis armament. The 81-year-old refugee told a group of young foreign mu sicians attending the Casals Festival here that he endorses medical misionary Albert Schweitzer's appeal for an end to the nuclear arms race. "I hope the United States and the Soviet Union will overlook temporary political differences in the name of mankind's long-range inter ests . . . "h'e said. Casals, who fled to France when Francisco Franco emerged victorious in the Spanish Civil War, has con sistently refused to play in the United States or any other country friendly to Franco. Contl Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Oowii tinuance of many stations, trains and thousands of miles of duplicate trackage. The financial plight of the railroads is pointed up by ex ecutive salary cuts by a num ber of eastern roads. Pennsy executives making $10,000 or more per year received a 10 per cent cutK while Central executives earning $15,000 or more annually took a similar cut. vania and Maryland The following week, the Senate Public Works Commit tee has scheduled hearings on the bills introduced by Neu berger for a regional power corporation in the Northwest and for giving industrial con cerns a higher priority in ob taining electric power from the Bonneville system. 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Went for Bike Ride Police said Reich admitted taking Kathy "for a bicycle ride" last Wednesday. He told police he took Kathy to an abandoned house, tied her up, tore off her clothes and left. Police Sgt. Frank O'Neill, who questioned Reich, said the boy showed on a map the two-mile route he took with Kathy to get to the house. "I led her up some steps I the West's most powerful TUNE IN: THE 76 SPORTS CLUB EVERY WEEK ON TV ASK FOR: Long-Time School Administrator Dies Portland p Arthur M. Cannon, 81, Toledo, long ac tive in school administration in Oregon, died Saturday. He had been superinten dent of schools at Hood River and Lincoln county and later was personnel manager for the C. D. Johnson mill at To ledo. He retired about 10 years ago. had noticed when I was there at another time," O'Neill quoted Reich. "While Kathy was looking out the window I tore her ,dress up the back When she started to cry I slapped her and she stopped." Reich said he tore the girl's clothes into strips to bind and gag her. Hidden by Linoleum "After she was tied, I put her in the corner and hid her with a piece of lineoleum that was in the house, then I went home." . "My grandmother read the newspaper stories about Kathy to me," Reich said, "but I was afraid to tell her what I had done or go back to the house." "I am sorry for what I did." Kathy's disappearance set off the most intense St. Louis police search in 25 years. At the peak of the investigation, 150 policemen and detectives took part in the hunt. TO TRY COLLABORATOR Caico (IP) The govern ment may demand the death penalty for a Port Said laun- Are Gas Pumps JB j Keeping You Broke? ig ESgnainiIbBEP- in Sales Success! I , k.jzzs&... i))irani'llMmiiii ----...iu - & Only Rambler no other American car is selling faster than ever before! Sales are up 70 over last year. Because only Rambler costs least to own. Only Ram bler gives most miles per gallon. 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