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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
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the nation's railroads is esti
mated at $700 million a year.
Some railroads are cutting
the dining cars from their
trains to meet rising costs,
while others are offering buf
fet style meals or increased
vending service.
Drop Commuter Runs
Many commuter runs are
being dropped, with proposals
for additional cutbacks up
before regulatory agencies.
Congress To Consider Several
Bills Important To Northwest
By A. 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
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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.
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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. They
are scheduled May 21-23.-
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Retarded Youth
Admits Taking
6-Year-0ld Girl
St. Louis (IP) A 15-year-old
mentally retarded boy
whose abduction of Kathy
Hampton, 6, touched off a
three-day kidnap search, told
police he didn't know "why I
did it, I just did."
The boy, Robert Martin
Reich Jr., was arrested Satur
day shortly after a woman
found Kathy wandering along
a city street. The little girl
was scratched and dirty, but
otherwise unharmed.
Kathy, whom physicians de
scribed as a "very tired little
girl," rested at home today.
Doctors said she had not been
attacked.
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
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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.
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