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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-
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1 late greater
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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 '
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
One exception to this rule
arises in the case of con
tainers where it is generally
held that when a person con
trols a container he intends
to control he possessed what
is normally found within such
a container. A person who
buys a safe thinking it is
empty will normally possess
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