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. MAIL TRIBUNE, Mcdford, Oregon, Tuesday, February 24, 1959 ,1 n ! if 1 '12 J 2 DETERMINE GRADE - Darrell L. Fariss, tank with an evaporation type of drainage of the Sanitation Service, assists Jackson field at the Hoover home. Effluent from , County Sanitarian Orie Moore, far 'right, the septic tank will " be carried through in getting a rough estimate of the grade pipes to gravel spread 18 inches deep on near Bud Hoover's house in the Camp top of the ground and will be allowed to ' White area. Looking on, at left, is Bud evaporate. Usual method is to carry the Hoover. Strictly on an experimental basis, effluent to drainage fields below the ground the Sanitation Service will connect a septic surface. SP's Net Income Said Higher; Neuberger Opposes Curb By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington-(Special)-None of the western railroads, the Southern Pacific included, has ap p 1 1 e d for any benefits provided b y the Smathers railroad aid act passed by the last Con gress. A number of eastern railroads, such .... V. a Mw v A. Robt Smith " j Haven and the Boston and Maine, have applied for fed eral aid to deal with what the railroad industry as a whole last year told Congress was a financial crisis. A congressional staff speci alist in railroad problems of fered this explanation for the failure of the western rail roads to take advantage of the Smathers act: "The western roads dont need it. They are making money. They have those long freight hauls, which are prof itable, and they haven't been faced with as much loss of passenger service as the east ern roads." He added that eastern rail roads were more hard pres sed by mounting terminal costs, congestion and loss of passenger revenue. The extra income some ' western rail roads enjoy from non-railroad investments, derived from public lands granted the rail roads when they were open ing the West, was another fac tor, he said. Act Guarantees Loans The Smathers act provided that the government would guarantee up to $500 million in loans to railroads obtained from private banking sources. Meanwhile, Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) lodged a detailed protest with the In terstate Commerce Commis sion against the proposal of Southern Pacific for reducing its Shasta Daylight passenger run between San Francisco and Portland from a daily op eration to three times weekly. Neuberger pointed to finan cial statistics showing that the profits of Southern Pacific have been rising over" the past year. He said Railway Age magazine reported that SP'S total net operating income from the first nine months of 1958 was $34,686,000 com pared with $34,106,000 for same period of 1957. -Union Pacific also showed an increase for the same pe riod from $27,700,000 to $28, 167,000. Great Northern in come dropped off from $18, 953,000 to $15,812,000 and so did that of Northern Pacific, from $26,961,000 to $23,742, 000. "According to information provided to me by the ICC, Southern Pacific's net income for the first 11 months of 1958 aggregated $40,175,799 com pared with $36,925,952 in the like period of 1957," Neuberg er said. "This certainly does not indicate justification for curtailing service on account of any adverse earnings situation." Neuberger criticized SP for not prbviding a street-level ticket office for passengers in Portland, requiring them to go to the sixth floor of an office building "certainly a cir cumstance to discourage wide spread passenger patronage." He pointed out that the other three railroads serving Portland all have accessible ground-floor ticket offices in the city, yet have less revenue than the SP. The senator also argued that it is significant that "the SP serves the principal timber-growing areas of Oregon thus the SP taps the cream of Oregon's lumber-producing counties from the standpoint of extensive freight tonnage; yet it is now proposing to re duce to three times a week the operation of one of its two passenger trains between Ore gon and the population cen ters of northern California." Public Obligation Neuberger told the ICC he thinks a railroad enjoying this profitable freight business has certain public-service ob ligations, among them provid ing daily passenger service with both overnight and day time trains. "Furthermore, I think the SP might well emulate the1 progressive attitude of several other western railroads,' in re ducing passenger fares recent ly as a move to attract addi tional business," Neuberger told the ICC. - He pointed out that the Rock Island line in January cut fares on some trains as much as 28 per cent. On Feb. 25 the Union Pacific and the Milwaukee Road plan a large reduction in passenger fares between Chicago and Denver, he added. Moreover, the Bur lington Lines and the Mis souri - Kansas - Texas railroad have announced they will re duce rates in areas where they are competitive with the Rock Island. When other lines can "stim ulate patronage by lowering rates for travel on passenger trains, it is reasonable that the ICC should suggest the SP se riously consider doing like wise," Neuberger said. He added that "many hun dreds of my constituents feel that reduced passenger - train service between two great population centers like Port land and San Francisco would represent a backward step in the economic and transport tion development of the Pa cific seaboard, which is one of the fastest-growing sections of the nation." ROBERT GUTHBERLET Idaho Minister Her Change Taken From . Kitchen Cabinet . Approximately $5 in change was taken from a kitchen cabinet at Jackson Hot Springs . some , time Sunday night, sheriffs - officers re ported. The money was taken from the home of Hollis Lloyd Howell, 2253 Highway 99 south, and the money was used for change in operation of the pool, it was explained. St. Luke's Church Schedules Mission A Lenten Preaching mis sion will be held this week beginning tonight and con tinuing through Sunday at St. Luke's Methodist church, 2940 Siskiyou blvd. The services will begin at 8 p.m. with seasons of prayer at 7:30 p.m. There will be no Saturday service. Friday a covered-dish supper will, be served at 6:30 p.m. Colored slides of Australia will be shown following the meal. The Rev. Robert Guthber- let, minister from the Meth odist Australian conference for the past four years pastor of the Weiser, Idaho, Meth odist Church, will be the guest evangelist. The general theme of the messages will be: "Plain Talks for the Peo ple." The ( public is invited to share 'in all of the services. Pastor of the church is the Rev. Melvin.' Dixon.. . Moscow - (CPU - Dmitri Z. Manuilsky, 75, former Ukran ian foreign minister, died Sunday in Kiev, . Russia, ac cording to Pravda, the offi cial Communist Party newspaper. VETERINARY PENICILLIN 300,000 units per c.c 10 c.c. vial Ask for Free Veterinary Booklet . S&H GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central TONIGHT! Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00 p.m. Allen L. Crabtree Evangelist Special singing ... orchestral music ... personal testimonies. (No meeting Friday night) APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH LOYCE C CARVER, Pastor Phone SP 2-2757 3rd and Central, Mcdford . Experiment Being Tried With New Type Sewage Disposal Plan An experiment is being tried in the Camp White area with a new 'type of sewage disposal idea.- The. work is being conduct ed at the Bud Hoover resi dence with Orie Moore, Jack son county sanitarian, -and Darrell L. Fariss of the San itation Service, which will do the installation work. The project consists of mov ing effluent from a septic tank to approximately ' 900 square feet of. gravel spread on the ground. After the sew age reaches the gravel the air starts evaporating ' it. It has been tried in other areas and does not leave an odor, Moore said. . It has been reported highly successful in' areas of sticky type soil and where, a high water table exists forcing the sewage to the surface. Under these, conditions, the typical sub-surface drain-field would not be practical, it was point ed out. Experimental Stage ' Moore emphasized that this is still in the. experimental stage "for this area and the Jackson County Health de partment .would not : recom mend that everyone with drainage problems adopt this new method. Several differ ent soil types in the county will be tried and constant checks made before this meth od is approved . by the local health department, "Moore said.- . . Under the new plan, a shal low trench is dug six inches deep and two feet wide. This is filled with small rock. Tile is laid on top of that, round ing over the top of the tile with more ' small rock. This cover of rock is from 18 inch es to two feet deep. - t This small plot of gravel could be put anyplace but it should be placed on land that cannot be used for anything else. The bottom of the bed should be level, the sanitarian advised. Conventional Tank A conventional septic tank is used fwhich carries the ef fluent into a distribution box. From' there three or four lines carry the material into the distributing bed Moore "recommends- use of a small re tainer wall to keep the soil in and the water out. This system will not work in a "real wet climate," Moore said.' However, evaporation occurs at least every three days in' this- area, the sani tarian added. A field of sawdust has been experimented with in this the Camp White area. How ever, the sawdust is only a temporary thing and must be '. changed, - Moore said. . T h e i gravel can be left without changing. The gravel field evapora tion field method has worked well with the Elk City Cafe for four years, Moore noted. There should be an 18-inch drop from the septic tank to the top of the distribution box to prevent any backing up of the effluent, Moore recommended. 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