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Railway Bankruptcy May Speed ICC Merger Cases
MedfordlWTribune
BY GEORGE C. HARLAN
ident Kennedy handed Con
30's. More than 30 big roads,
The ills of the New Haven
taken proportionately more
business away from the New
England roads than elsewhere
because trucks operate more
efficiently than railroads over
the short hauls in the region.
Unlike most roads, the New
Haven's freight traffic reach
ed a point where it no longer
could absorb passenger and
commuter losses. About one
third of the lines' revenues
come from the money-losing
movement of passengers.
gress last April. Two key pro
visions would grant the rail
roads greater freedom in set
ting competitive rates to re
capture freight business lost
to other carriers, and provide
grants to mass metropolitan
transit facilities such as the
New Haven.
First Since 30's
The New Haven is the first
major independent railroad to
become bankrupt since the
including the New Haven,
went broke in the depression
of that period. But they re
turned to solvency on the
heavy war-generated freight
traffic.
However, the economics of
railroading have drastically
changed since the war. Rail
freight revenues have steadily
declined while labor and
equipment costs have sky
rocketed. are symptomatic of those be
setting the rest of the indus
try. Since 197 rail freight traf
fic has declined an average of
five per cent but the New
Haven's has plummeted 33
per cent. This sharper drop
reflects the shift of heavy in
dustry from New England to
the South and the loss of busi
ness to highway carriers.
The trucking industry has
SECTION B
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2.. 1062 PAGES 1 to 10
Shopping Center Fire Injures 21
Tuesday afternoon.
There were no serious in
juries reported. Two firemen
were hospitalited, Gebhart
Schreincr with an ankle in
jury suffered in a fall and
John Smith from smoke in
halation. cash box in the safe at Norrfj
Brothers, Richfield Truck
St. Cloud, Minn. -W A
spectacular fire swept a shop
ping center Wednesday, in
juring at least 21 persons and
causing an estimated $3 mil
lion damage.
The blare burned through
the concrete first floor and
roof of a block-long building
housing retail stores and oth
er buusiness establishments.
It was out of control for 13
hours after it started in the
basement of the building late
Stop, 2390 North Pacific highway.-
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The theft, reported by Frep ;
Norris Tuesday afternoon, (a
believed to have occurred ear
lier that day. ' i -.
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. New York,-VPfr-The 26,000
daily commuters on the New
York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad are a hardy
breed, whose railroading
yarns have few equals. But
lor years they mostly swap
ped them among themselves.
But a year ago this month
they suddenly found a . re
ceptive listener in the entire
iution.'The relatively small
Northeast road had gained
national attention by going
bankrupt.
The--development came as
no surprise to the harried
riders of the line. But it
New York -JIT&- "It's just
' like Grand Central St a
' lion." So the song goes.
But under the proposed
' New York Central-Pennsyl-
Tenia railroad. Commodore
Vertderbllt's marble monu
.. merit to the Golden Age of
Railroad won't be quite the
same.
" The t vo railroads an
nounced last week thai 'If
' the merger is approred.
New York Central long-dis-'
lance trains will switch to
'-' Penn Station. Only commu
' ler trains would run into
' lhe handsome and historic
rwe-leTel terminal on Park
, avenue.
.. In. Chicago, central main
line trains also would aban
' den the ornate LaSalle
Street station, their present
. terminus, and join the
Pennsy at the more iunc
, lional Union station.
jolted the rest of the nation
.into the - realization that a
vital mode of locomotion was
in imminent danger of break
ing down. " ' , '
.- . Could it happen here?That
was the question asked . in
most communities. :
.The crisis atmosphere
created' by the New Haven's
bankruptcy is expected to
speed action on' rail merger
cases now before, the inter
state' commerce commission
(ICC). It also will likely prod
more' roads into taking the
merger route! in search of
solutions to their own finan
cial predicament.
:. ,'Currently, there are. eight
"control" applications and
four major railroad merger
cases pending before the ICC.
There are few areas of the
country which do not have a
stake in their outcome. The
major ones are:
; -Welding of the nation's
largest rail system in assets
by merger of the Pennsyl
vania and the New York Cen
tral. The merged system
would have 22,000 miles of
track stretching from Wash
ington to Boston on the east
coast and as far west as St.
Louis and Chicago.
; -Affiliation of the Chesa
peake and Ohio and the Balti
more and Ohio railroads to
form an 11.000-mile network
from New York to Hampton
Jjoads, Va., and westward to
Cleveland, Cincinnati, St.
Louis.and Chicago.
Three-Way Merger '
-The three-way merger of
the Norfolk and Western, Nic
kel Plate and Wabash roads
into a 7.400-mile system ex
tending from Norfolk, Va., to
Toledo and Chicago and on to
Omaha, Neb.
: -Creation of the longest
Tail empire - 24,728 miles -by
merger of three big west
ern' lines the Great North
ern, The Northern Pacific and
the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy: It would span 17
states from Chicago and St.
Louis to Portland and Seattle.
. -A two-way fight between
the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific for the 1,200-mile
Western Pacific for its "gate
way" route from the Pacific
Coast to Chicago.
: The plight of the New Ha
ven also is expected to im
prove chances for enactment
of at least some of the broad I
transportation proposals Pres-
Contract Awarded
for County Trucks
Crater Lake Motors. Med
ford, has been awarded a con
tract for two ton pickup
trucks by the Jackson county
court.
The trucks will be used by
the county road department.
The cost was $3,875.42. The
trucks will be 1963 models
and will be delivered in late
September or early October
when new models arrive.
The county engineer's of
fice said the bid met the speci
fications and recommended
the court award the contract.
Medford Woman Wins
'Coin Treasure Hunt'
-. Ruth E. Herbert, 1826 North
Riverside ave., Medford. was
named a winner of the "Coin
Treasure Hunt'1 featured in
the Family Weekly, fortnight
ly magazine distributed with
the Sunday Medford Mail
Tribune. She received a wrist
watch for ihe penny which
she sent to the contest.
The contest in which Mrs
Herbert won was in the July
I issue of the magazine. A
new contest is offered with
each publication of the section.
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