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MAtLg!BfNr. M4for!, Or. Senate Bill Aimed Af More Ownership 0 Uoilpoad Cars 7 V OB1JIT 9VITH Trifeun Gfshington Correspondent Washington - The Senate Interstate Commerce Com mittee has made the first legis 1 a t i v e move design- -s ea 10 suuiu- a. i : . . 1 late greater 2 i ; construct 10 a I of new freight r cars by . east- era railroads, 1 in order to mitigate f u ture box car a. Kobe smith snortages. The committee has approv ed S. 1789, which would give the Interstate Com merce Commission the authority to set per diem rental rates which railroads pay for the use of freight cars they don't own. The per diem rate, now fixed at $2.75, is currently set by the railroad industry itself through the Association of American Railroads. The ICC is supporting this legislation, for ICC Chairman Kenneth H. Tuggle told the committee he thought it would "embody the ultimate objective of the commission s recommendation No. 1 of in creasing the national owner ship of freight cars." Because the railroad in dustry is sharply divided on this issue, with many eastern lines resisting any increases Graham Delivers Sermon on Ship Aboard The S. S. United States - (UPD - Billy Graham delivered a sermon to the passengers and crew crowded into the main lounge of the liner United States - in mid Atlantic Sunday. The American evangelist is en route home from a six month tour of Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Europe, including a week in Moscow. ' He told the audience he had sensed during his tour "a deepening of; world tension. Yet I have also sensed a deep ening hunger for God that penetrates even behind the Iron Curtain." . He is due in New York Tuesday. CUSTOM KILLING ' CEAN - REUABIE at Yeur-Plac and Delivery to Your locker Aging reem available. Expert cutting, wrapping ft marking or your meat .for. locker or home freeser. . PHONE SP 2-6219 MEDFORD ICE &. STORAGE CO. THERES i 71 At":' A Monday, Junt 29, 19S9 in per diem rates, the indus try is slow to increase rentals in line with requests of west ern railroads. The AAR em ploys a formula which takes into account the depreciation, cost of repairs and book value of the cars in determin ing the per diem rate. Backed by Oregcaians The bill approved by the Senate committee, sponsored by 19 senators from, the Far West and western plains states, including Oregon Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger, would do this, in Tuggle's words: "S. 1789 would give the Commission an alternative in setting the per diem rate as between the elements of own ership expense involved in owning and maintaining freight cars, including a fair return on value, or of com puting the per diem charge on the basis of elements re flecting the value of use of freight cars, or upon such basis or combination of bases as in the Commission's judg ment will provide just and reasonable compensation to freight car owners, contribute to sound car service prac tices, and encourage the ac quisition and maintenance of a car supply adequate to meet the needs of commerce and the national defense." First Choice ' This bill would not . give the ICC any power to in crease the per diem rate tem porarily on an emergency basis, as other bills introduc ed but not acted on would do. The bill" favorably reported out of the committee headed by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) is the first choice of a bloc of western railroads whose spokesman, Eldon Mar tin, vice president of Burling ton Lines, appeared in recent hearings. The bloc included 14 rail roads, among them the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific and the Santa Fe. Martin said they own a third of the Nation's box cars. Opposition was voiced by another larger block of rail roads, mostly operating in the East, but including Southern Pacific and Union Pacific. Represented by James M. Symes, president of the Penn sylvania Railroad, they claim ed ownership of nearly half the country's freight cars. "The only sound incentive for an adequate freight car ownership on the part of in dividual railroads is protec tion of customer require ments, attraction of "new vd dustry and future growth, and prevention of ' other modes of transport obtaining business because of car short ages," Symes said. "In short, the incentives have to do with revenues from traffic handled and not from an artificial per diem rate." AIR CONDITION j Wta tfo temperature goes up, do you go out to be comfortable? Make your hom? ai appealing as your neighborhood theater of yew favorite air conditioned store. AIR CONDITIO yovr home and live in the cool com fort of elogr) dry air . . . thermostatically-controlled to just the riah temperature insfdo no matter how hot and muggtf getf outside NO MAC IHaUHOME! Arizonan Killed In Curry Accident Gold Beach (UPD Herbert Eugene Sample, 21, McNary, Ariz., died Sunday in Curry County General hospital here of a gunshot wound apparent ly inflicted accidentally by a friend. The sheriffs office said the shooting occurred in a cabin on the Sixes river. Sample's companion, John Lopez Durran, also of Mc Nary, told deputies he and Sample had a rifle and pistol, both .22 caliber, and were at tempting "fast draws" on one another. Durran said he then picked up a .30-30 rifle. He said he thought the rifle had but one shell in it, and removed a shell. He pointed the rifle at Sample, clicked the chamber and the gun discharged, he said. The wounded man was rushed here where he died. Durran, was held without charge in the Curry county jail and a coroner's inquest here was scheduled today. Phone Directory Recalls Memory New Orleans, La. (UPD A burly amnesia victim, who was found roaming around at a train station here two days ago without his wallet, Sat urday recovered his past by browsing through a telephone directory. "He had to read every name into the O's until he remem bered that he is Richard Hen ry Ohnemus, 26, an electrical worker from Waltham, Mass. Ohnemus said he decided to go to Fort Worth, Tex., earlier this month to apply for a job in an aircraft plant. He drove to Savannah, Ga., then start ed on the train to Fort Worth. Ohnemus lost his memory shortly after he arrived in New Orleans and didn't know who he was until he looked through the telephone book. "I must have looked through a million pages in that phone book before it came to me," he said. Portland Airport Work Under Way Portland - (UPD - Work was scheduled to begin today on a 1,000 foot overrun and arrest ing barrier to be used by mili tary jets at Portland Interna tional Airport. Alan Mills, assistant gener al manager for the Port of Portland, said the work will be at the southeast end of . the main instrument runway. He said the stretch will be able to support a military jet plane overshooting the run way for any reason. The over run will also form a basis for extension of the runway to serve commercial jet airlines which are slated to start oper ating in Portland in Septem ber. Lake Tulainyo in California has an altitude of 12,865 feet and is believed the highest lake in the U.S. fiwi! -Iff U rP cr A , MM III . ) STANDING STARCH-STIFF, these honor Canadian guardsmen get the inspecting eyes of Queen Elizabeth II and President Eisenhower at St Hubert's Airport in Quebec. Queen and President participated in the dedication ceremonies of St. Lawrence Seaway. Reverse Split of French Franc Recalls Use of Big Numbers By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York - (UPD - France is making a reverse split on its franc, effective July 1. (r"1""" On that date a new franc will be in operation a t a rate equal to 100 old francs. To find out how inuch things cost in terms of the new franc the Elmer Walzer French customer knocks off two zeros from the price in old francs. For example an article now selling for 2,000 francs will cost '20 new francs. This puts the franc back to its old par ity and doesn't change any thing but the dignity of the currency which it raises by 100 fold. Would Start Presses Meantime, there are some senators here who are talking about starting up the print ing presses to take care of our government bond maturi ties. They don't say print money to pay off the matur ing bonds, but it's the same thing. They want the Federal Re serve to buy them. If the Fed does that it would have to print dollar' bills. And that same thing ruined currencies of many a country in the past. And it called for the use of some big numbers. The latest French move reduces the size of the numbers to be used there. Germany ran its printing presses to turn out marks after World War I. The final total on marks outstanding looked like this: and stay cool 496,585,346,000,000,000,000. That reads 496 sextillion, 585 quintillion, 346 quadril lion. Or it could be read roughly: about 496 and a half billion billion. Savings Vanished And then the mark expir ed. And with it all the sav ings of the people. That's the inflation that comes of using the printing presses. France suffered similarly before Napoleon took over with a sound currency. There lis no count available on the French francs outstanding be fore they expired in a print ing press inflation in the early 19th century. Perhaps, if the inflation senators have their way here we ought to brush up on big numbers to count the dollars we'd need for a loaf of bread. Archimedes some 2,000 years ago devised some big figures - and he didn't have the nice little gadget which we call a zero. He gave King Gelon an answer to the ques tion: How many grains of sand would be required to fill the universe. Since we have eros to work with our job would be simpler than the Greek math ematician's. We could add zeros on and on until we got up to what the late mathematical expert Edward Kassner called a goo gol. A googol is the figure one with 100 zeros attached. Kassner - figured that the grains of sand on the Coney Island beach didn't come to a googol. They amounted only to the figure one with 20 zeros attached. If we needed to go above a googol, we could go to a googoplex which is the figure ten raised to the googol pow er. It could also be expressed 10 to the 100th power of 10. It would be a heck of a big number. The dollar would be gone before we got to that monstrosity. The Old Shell Game Editorially, the Wall Street Journal calls the senatorial suggestion an example of the old shell game. In that game the trickery is concealed by the patter of the spieler. The Journal notes that no one would pay attention Jo a Col. Ralph Phelps ' Guard Commander Spokane-IUPD-Col. Ralph S. Phelps, commander of the 161st National Guard Infantry Regiment here, has been nam ed assistant commander and brigade commander of .the 41st Oregon and Washington National Guard division. Colonel Phelps receives the promotion following the re tirement 'of Ma j. George Cook, commanding general of the division. Brig. Gen. Alfred R. Hintz, adjutant general of Oregon and presently assistant divi sion commander, will fill Cook's post upon Cook's re tirement Sept. 30. WITH SQUADRON ' Earl G. Robbins, airman ap prentice in the U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey E. Robbins, route 1, box 3, Rogue River, is serving with Light Photographic Squadron 61 at the Miramar Naval Air Sta tion, San Diego. senator's suggestion that we print dollar bills to provide the government with billions, but we pay attention to one who suggests having the Fed eral Reserve System buy go v ernment securities in what ever amounts are necessary to "hold down interest rates." The editorial notes that the Treasury and the Federal Re serve have explained what will happen if we try to .take the seemingly "easy" way out, and adds: "But these complexities are not easily understood by high school students. Nor hsve the American people yet had a bitter enough experience to see that the Federal Reserve ban would be as efficient an engine of inflation as the old fashioned printing press." smooth roDDBng It's always smooth rolling with a JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL sav ings account in the family. Your Jackson County Federal savings ac count assures you of a secure future . . . means you'll always have all the good things in life. No matter what you're saving for . . . you'll reach your savings goal sooner at Jackson County Federal because Jack son County Federal pays you MORE to save. i ' OUR CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE IS PLUS AN EXTRA SAVE where you are PAID MORE to save! What Is This column is prepared as a public service by the Colleae of Law, Willamette University, Salem., to explain basic legal principles, not to provide legal advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for differing facts may change the outcome. To Establish Possession. Control Must Be More Than Fleeting During the prohibition era it was unlawful to "possess" alcoholic beverages. These laws raised many interesting questions regarding the legal meaning of the term "pos session." For instance, Joe and Sam met on a street corner and Joe offered Sam a "shot" of whiskey. Sam quickly swallowed a tub stantial quantity of the con tents of the flask and handed It back to Joe. Soon there after Sam is brought before the local court on the charge of possessing intoxicat i n g liquor. JJid he ever possess liquor? Control Temporary It is quite evident that Sam was in possession of the whiskey that he drank. How ever, the courts did not feel that the statute making the possessing of intoxicat i n g beverages unlawful was in tended to cover the consump tion, of such liquids. In ad dition, most courts "did not believe that Sam ever had possession of the flask since his control over it was only temporary and in order to possess an item a person must intend to control it for more than an instant. Although the opinion o the judiciary may with the prohibition laws, Lthese cases represent a basic rule of law relative to pos session to the effect that the control cannot be "fleeting" for possession. In addition to the reniiire- mpnt nf nprmanont nrint-rnl a 1 person must have the neces sary attitude or intent toward an item to possess it. Would Be Acquitted If Joe dropped a small flask of liquor into Sam's pocket unknown to Sam and Sam was arrested for possess ing liquor; Sam would again ., 3 DIVIDEND AT THE RATE 9' The be acquitted. Sam did not possess the flask because he did not know that it was within his control. A person cannot possess what he does not intend to possess and he cannot intend to possess what he does not know exists. 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