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DDQG3 0( PHONE MU 5-8771 3 cqpxoaQo S&H GREEN STAMPS ON ALL CASH PURCHASES Price 10 Cents MEDFORD 54th Year Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1959 Pages 1-10 Reasons for SjpDBl Among EtanDrbads On Car Shortage Situation Uncovered By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington- (Special) - As the Senate Interstate Coin merce Committee set out this week in quest of a solution to the grow ling shortage of freight cars e x pected to hit Northwest lumber and grain shippers this summer, i it discovered a. Kobt. SKitk some reasons for the sharp split within the railroad industry on what to do about the problem. t 1 i i VT A The 'split is so severe and, for the most part, so evenly balanced on either side, that the Association of American Railroads was forced to sug gest a do - nothing approach for the present until the rail roads can get together. ; Generally, there seemed to be no great enthusiasm among the senators for the legisla tion they were considering which would increase the per diem charges levied on rail roads when they use cars which they don't own. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion recommended this type of legislation. ' Senator Dubious A group of western rail roads are backing this con cept, but Sen. Clair Engle (D-Calif.) appeared openly du bious of its merits. Southern Pacific and Union Pacific split away from most of the other western railroads and came out against the bills. Essentially, the division within the railroad industry is between the railroads serv ing the west and the heart land of America, where most of the rail freight traffic originates, and those railroads serving the periphery, the so called terminal, railroads which lie chiefly on the At lantic seaboard and serve its major cities and ports. 4- HgJS mjf SSs ' 2 "" 'MISSILE MAIL Regains missile aboard U. S. submarine Barbero is elevated for firing at sea, off Jacksonville, Fla., in first successfid delivery of marl by gwded rocket. The missile was carrying official moA, and deiiserd it to Mayjat Maial AWtfation, at approximately tne speed of sound. 2sTp rest for this Ch the clock the engine never stops t fere's a Chevrolet Fleetside pickup that plays a key role in the fueling of over 300 planet a day at Washington's bus tling National Airport. Allied Aviation Fueling counts on its radio-equipped Chevy to get crews and tank trucks to the right planes at just the right time. Aside from occasional time out for the usual service, its Thriftmaster 6-cylin-der engine has been running 24 hours a day for the past 9 months'! Thafs stam ina in any man's book Chevy's own special brand! Once you've got that kind of endurance working you don't worry much about lost job time. Breakdowns go out of style the day your Chevy goes into action. The fact is, Chevrolet trucks are dead et on dropping the word "downtime" right out of the English language. And they just might, if precision engineering and top-quality materials have anything to say about it. Chevy trucks are put to gether to stay together incorporating the most advanced chassis developments, the most efficient 6-cylinder and V8 en gine designs. They're built to last, built to keep Chevrolet's hard-earned reputa tion for reliability flying high. Going into the real heart of Chevrolet advantages is -where your dealer comes in. He'll show you, in feature after fea ture, that you can't buy more truck de pendability at any price. ' Engine runs 24 hours a day as this 3134 Heettida directs Allied fueling trucks to planes. The popu lar Thriftmaster 6 is famous for its fuel economy. ll V 5 2 ,' ' i No job's too toiigti for a Chevrolet truck ! i Visit the General Motors Exhibit at the Oregon Centennial Exposition in Portland, and see your local authorized Chevrolet dealer 9th at BARTLETT v m MEDFORD SP 2-6115 Patrick McGInnis, presi dent of the Boston & Maine, pointed out that because his is a terminal railroad it is mostly on the receiving end of the traffic line. It receives four cars for every one which it "loads out." This means it must return three empties to ward the west or south whence they came.- Under ICC rules it must give prefer ence to loading cars that have come in from other lines, rather than its own freight cars. Said Uneconomic McGinnis claims it is un economic for his line to in vest in construction of new freight cars, yet this is the thing which the western rail roads complain against -that the eastern lines use their cars, paying the modest $2.75 per diem rental charge, rath er than building their own adequate car fleets. McGinnis argues that per diem charges constitute his company's largest single cost and that increasing it would bankrupt his line, rather than impel it to build its own cars, as the ICC contends. He said he often thinks Boston & Maine would be better off owning no cars. James M. Symes, wh o s e Pennsylvania Railroad1 (h as just invested $215 million in construction of 23,500 new cars, said it is not lack of incentive that stops terminal railroads from building new cars but lack of earning pow er and available credit. Mc Ginnis and C.,C. Shannon of the New Haven line echoed this financial plight. Federal Agency Favored The eastern railroads are united in favoring creation of a new federal agency which would order railroad cars from private manufacturers and lease them to the rail roads at a rate designed to cover the ' government's in vestment in each car amor tized over 20 years. Symes said it would take $2.5 bil lioij in government capital to do the job, with the agency being self - sustaining there after. He said the railroad in dustry couldn't do this itself because of inability to raise more than $400 million in capital. ' , Bills to create such a fed eral agency have been intro duced in both House and Sen ate in, the past. One is now pending in the House Com merce Committee. Contentions Pooh-Poohed , The western block didn't comment on the idea of a federal transportation agency, but it pooh-poohed the con tentions of the eastern , term inal lines. "Just so long as it is cheap er to rent a car than it is to own one - and that is the situation today - underbuild ing will 'be the policy of strategically situated r a i 1 -roads, and construction will Freak 'Twister' Strikes at Bend Bend-flJPD-A freak twister known as a "dust devil" swirled along the north edge of Bend at 1:30 p.m. Wednes-1 day and ripped apart a 100-by-34-foot storage building nearing completion at the Henslee Mobile Homes plant. Two men were working on the roof and one inside, but all escaped injury. The one - story building, largely of aluminum, was ripped from "its anchoring bolts, raised several feet, then tumbled against a fence and collapsed. The workers on the roof slid to safety as the worker inside fled from the structure. The workers said small bits of metal were sent spirling several hundred feet into the air by the force of the "dust devil." No immediate estimate of damage was available. No other building was reported struck. 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