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hfrt in August, 1956. She
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normal requirements of her
post," Callan announced.
She was originally employ
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9mL later transferred to the
Columbia Basin project head
quarters at Ephrata, Wash.
The award is part of an
employees' incentive program
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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.
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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.
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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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be held to minimum require
ments," said Eldon Martin, of
the Burlington speaking for
the western block which in
cluded Great Northern,
Northern Pacific, Western Pa
cific and Santa Fe.
As cries for freight cars be
come louder from shippers,
the pressure on Congress to
resolve this problem will
mount. But as of now no clear
line of legislative action is in
sight. . . '
Ofice Building Being Constructed
A $73,000 office building is
being erected at 1307 West
Main st. for Lumberman's
Realty, Inc., according to the
Medf ord building department.
A permit for the structure,
at the intersection of West
Main and Lincoln sts., was is
sued yesterday. The site is in
a multiple family zone, which
according to an interpretation
of Medford's zoning ordin
ance permits professional of
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