MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1961
Railroad Industry Warns Oregon Legislators on 'PiggybacFTaxes
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pictures just released by the White.House. (UPI Telephoto)
Oregon Highway
Commission Asks
For Bids on 28 Jobs
Salem - IUPD - The Oregon
Highway commission Monday
called for bids on 28 projects
costing an estimated $4.1
million.
The bids will be opened
March 7 and the contracts
awarded March 10.
The projects by county in
Includes: Clalsop: North unit, Astoria-Camp
Rilea section of
coast highway 2.98 miles
grading. Fort Stevens state
park overnight camp; tables,
stoves and other equipment.
Columbia: Warren section
of the Columbia river high
way south of St. Helens; 1.8
miles paving.
Columbia and Washington:
Vesper -Mist and Columbia
county line-Pebble creek road
section of Nehalem highway
21 miles north of Vernonia;
9.72 miles paving.
Coos: Powers junction -Sugar
Loaf mountain section,
Coos Bay-Roseburg highway;
two bridges and an inter
change. Crook: East unit, Post
Camp creek section of Pau
lina highway 35 miles south
east of Prineville; 4.02 miles
of grading, oiling, two 120
foot bridges.
Curry: Port Orford-Euchre
creek rock project on coast
highway.
Deschutes: Sisters rock
project on three highways.
Douglas: Jaclc creek-Drain
section of Umpqua highway;
4.85 miles paving.
Grant: John Day - Prairie
City section of John Day
highway; 12.65 miles paving.
Hood River: Hood River -
Windmaster corner section,
Hood River highway; - 2.28
miles paving.
Jackson: Emigrant reser
voir section. Green Springs
highway 2.6 miles southeast
of Ashland; 4.54 miles paving.
Phoenix, grading and paving
on 4th St.; .23 mile grading,
paving. Clayton creek - Bear
gulch rock project on Pacific
highway three miles south of
Ashland,
Jefferson: Iris drive and
Jericho lane sections, Route
836 near Culver; 5.85 miles
leveling, oiling. Culver junction-Crooked
river section of
The Dalles - California high
way 10 miles south of Madras;
6.87 miles paving.
Klamath: Chiloquin paving
on Yahooskin st. and 2nd ave.;
.17 mile paving. Williamson
river-Modoc point section of
The Dalles-California highway
20 miles north of Klamath
Falls; 5.7 miles paving.
Lane: Leaburg dam - Dorris
park section, McKenzie high
way; 5 miles grading, paving.
Mapleton-Triangle lake rock
project on the Suislaw high
way. Honeyman state park
overnight camp on coast high
way; tables, stoves and other
equipment.
Linn and Benton: Albany
bridge lights.
Marion: Commercial st.
traffic signals in Salem.
Malheur: Ontario-Idaho line
roadside work on Old Ore
gon Trail highway.
Multnomah: Northeast 71st
ave. - Northeast 99th ave. sec
tion of Sandy blvd. highway
in Portland; 1.58 miles paving.
Tillamook: Clatsop county
Teamsters Want
Check To Help
Truck Business
By DOUGLAS GRIPP
United Press International
Salem - IUPD - The railroad
industry has warned that if
the legislature passes a tax on
"piggybacks," shippers will
reroute and avoid Oregon.
The teamsters union warn
ed that unless rail piggbacks
are checked, long haul truck
driving will become a "thing
of the past."
In railroad lingo, a piggy
back is a loaded trailer moved
on a flat car instead of over
the highway.
The piggyback operation is
relatively new, and business
is booming because shippers
find they can move trailer
loads of goods on flat cars and
avoid the weight mile tax.
Oregon would be the only
state having a tax on piggy
backs. The railroads are anx
ious to see Oregon's proposal
die so that other states don't
get the same idea.
The re-routing of trade
should the tax be enacted
would result in reduced em
ployment and a general bad
effect on Oregon's economy,
according to Randall B. Kes
ter of Portland, Union Pa
cific attorney.
He spoke for the entire in
dustry before the house tax
committee, opposing HB 1009.
Joseph Edgar of Portland
Teamsters Local 162 said his
P'g-
bill
for
local at this time of the year
usually has about 300 drivers
idle. This year it is 600. He
attributed much of this, "di
rectly or indirectly," to
gyback business.
Edgar endorsed the
along with spokesmen
Teamsters Local 81, local 37,
and the women's auxiliary of
local 37, all Portland.
Opposite Stand
Kester said that if purpose I
of the tax is to keep business
from the railroads and throw
it to the truckers, then the
state certainly should not levy
the tax because it would be
"discriminatory."
Railroad unions took an op
posite stand from the team
sters. A spokesman said rail
union members are "just as
concerned about their jobs"
as the teamsters. They op
posed the bill.
Kester questioned its con
stitutionality, since interstate
commerce is involved. He de
bunked teamsters' charges
that piggy-backs in Oregon
are frequently overweight,
thus cheating the stale out
of bigger fees.
Trivial Amount f
Donald M. Fisher of the
State Tax Commission's util
ity section estimated that at
Ihc outset the state would
collect only $8,750 a year in
tax revenue and he agreed
this isn't much.
Kester termed the amount
"trivial" and not worth ad
ministering. A number of big compa
nies which use piggybacks
backed up the railroads, de
scribing adverse affects the
tax might have on their op
erations. .
They included Omark In
dustries, Crown Zollerbach,
Universal Car Loading Co.,
and Western Paper Convert
ing Co.
Pear Disease To Be Topic of Meet
Washington - il'PH - Rep.
Harold T. Johnson (D-Calif.)
said Monday agricultural ex
perts from California. Oregon
and Washington will meet
Feb. 17 at Berkeley, Calif.,
to plan an attack on a disease
that threatens to wipe out the
West Coast pear industry.
Johnson said the three dele
gations would be headed by
leading university scientists.
The California group will be
led by Dr. Paul F. Sharp, di
rector of the division of agri
cultural sciences, University
of California.
Dr. F. E. Price will head
the Oregon delegation, and
Dr. M. T. Buchanan, of Wash
ington State University, will
head the other.
Johnson said other experts
attending the meeting would
include Dr. Marion Parker,
chief of the crop research di
vision, U. S. Department of
Agricuture.
Safe Driving
Awards Given by
State Department
A number of southern Ore
gon residents who drive equip
ment for the stale highway de- j
partment have received
awards for safe driving, j
Throughout the stale some
1,035 awards were made. I
The award is made annual-!
ly to members of maintenance
crews who have accident-free !
records.
Eleven - year awards were
presented to Alfred W. Over-
dick, Charles O. Cearley,
Thomas A. Bedingfield, Eagle
Point; Richard Troutfether,
Charles W. Denniston, John A.
Strahan, George S. Kincaid,
Donovan B. Ballenger, Grants
Pass; Richard R. Lawton,
Carl A. Petersen, William D.
Stanley, Chester W. Vreeland,
Medford; Richard L. Howell,
and Lyle E. Springer, Siski
you. ,
Other awards were received
by Lewis E. Robertson, Eagle
Point; Robert H. Badley, Si
mon C. Wingerd, Grants Pass;
Carol E. Converse, Lincoln;
Paul W. Robertson, Medford,
all 10 years; and Donald A.
Fulk, Cave Junction; Ray C.
Jones, Grants Pass; Bevely M.
Estes, Clarence Peterson, Lin
coln; Clyde D. White, Pros
pect; and Earl E. Bridgman,
Siskiyou, all nine years. .
Eight and seven year
awards were given William S.
Inman, Cave Junction; Carl
C. Christian, Harold A. King
ery, Eagle Point; William A.
Tuski, Ernest W. King, Stan
ley G. Rising, Grants Pass;
Jack L. Ross, Prospect; and
Ralph I. Robertson, Siskiyou.
Nineteen received awards
for five years and less of safe
training.
line - Washington county line
section, Sunset highway 13
miles east of Elsie; 2.5 miles!
paving.
Wasco: Dufur-Maupin rock
project on The Dalles-California
highway. South unit,
Shaniko-The Dalles Califor
nia junction section of Sher
man highway 7 miles south
west of Shaniko; 5 miles pav
ing.
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