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I fag I I TRANSPORTATION 'CRISIS' CONTINUED-I This nation's transportation system is in a state of crisis because of a chotic patchwork of inconsistent legislation and obsolete restraints on free competition among the different types of freight carriers. David I. Mackie, chairman of the Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference, charged in an inter view in this column a while ago. A solution is "greater reliance on the forces of competition and less reliance on the restraints of regulation," President Kennedy told Con gress in 1962 and again this spring. Specifically what the . railroads want is removal of the Interstate Commerce Com mission's minimum rate regulation on bulk commodities and agricultural products shipped by rail (these are largely car ried without regulation by barges and trucks). ' Immediately after my interview with Mackie appeared, the roads' irate competitors barges and trucks demanded "rr.ual time" to give their side on this vital and controversial subject. Here, therefore, is the view of the barges, as present ed by Jacob W. Hershey, president of the Inland Waterways Common Carries Assn. Porter: Do you agree we have a transportation crisis? Harihey: There is no crisis from the standpoint of re quiring panic legislation. However, from the standpoint of the railroads operating with less than 2 per cent profit on their investment and in some cases with hardly more than 2 per cent on their operating revenues, the problem is critical. Why shouldn't transportation have the same level of profit and the same pricing policies as industry generally? Until they do, railroads will have government-guaranteed loans, maybe government takeovers and deterioration of service. Portart What's the source of today's railroad problem? Harihay: The source is that when railroads were a mo nopoly it was decided rightly or wrongly, that they should move agricultural, bulk and food products at less than cost and move high value manufactured products above cost. This is the "value of service" theory of rate making. But then came trucks, offering great service, and they picked up much of the high rate traffic. Then came barges, which when hitched together in modern tows can move as much steel pipe as 200 railroad cars and at a fraction of the rail roads' cost. The truth is the monopolistic structure is at an end, but we're still acting as if it existed. Porter: What do you propose to ease the transport problem? Harshty: We are in thorough agreement with President Kennedy about the necessity for removing present inequities. But the legislation offered last year and again this year has completely inadequate descriptions of the safeguards against a possible cut-throat rate war between the S10 billion rail road industry and the quarter billion dollar water carrier industry. If all regulation is removed, no one seriously ex pects the small, low cost water carrier to remain afloat. We would rather give up our present exemptions and have all means of transportation regulated equally. This legisiation has been defeated year after year because of op position from shippers, who prefer a situation in which there is a maximum of confused competition. . Potter: Are American taxpayers currently subsidizing water carriers, another of Mackie's charges? Hershey: U.S. Corps of Engineers studies show that many federal expenditures on waterways go for harbor improve ment and flood control rattier than navigation. Many more waterway projects have a multiple purpose. User taxes for barges have been proposed for years but communities have fought against the taxes because of the general public bene fit which barges have brought through reduced electric ' utility rates, low cost grain shipments to livestock producers and the like. While railroad shipping rates have increased from 50 to 110 per cent since World War II, the inland barge lines actually have reduced their revenues slightly per ton mile. Barge transportation has played a key role in keeping down prices of basic commodities and in helping exporters reach foreign markets in an economical way. Porter: So you're against Kennedy's transportation rem edies"? Hihey: This is slapdash legislation. Next: "Equal time" for the truckers. Court Records JUSTICE COURT Cold Hill Dlitrltl James Bertlum Hobinjon. viola tion of basic rule. $25. Glenn Lee Weill, no vehicle 11- ,eSu!.neS'Aldn Wolte. violation ol b"j!.Cme."!6e.l.nd Shepherd, vlo lauon ot bailc rule. $20 Ray John Sweeney, violation o "'Clyde" Jo'ph Truuell. violation of basic rule. 110. Robert Bruce Fosbers. violation "'eVrU "a' Chandlre, disobeyed 'toJohnWll"'.n Bullette, failure to flredVeR0h.'n'D.mv.ndl. viola- UovV.' bJ.n rsUu.emto- no vehlc.e UCwmiam5' Victor Kidson, truck ,PArnold C.rl Thompson, truck ,PBertnfionald Wilson, violation ot taWUm "rtoyd Charley, violation of basic rule, $23. Gerald Garth Johnson, violation of basic rule. $15. .... Obeyed stop sign. $10. Eugene Burke, truck specdlns "Raymond Otto Schumacher, vio lation of basic rule. $10. Robert Clifton Brown, no opera- E-rKi Wampler. d obeyed stop sign. $10. Everett Thomas Lawless, no "Robert E.rl Neet. failur. to dis- ; play PUC permit, $100. MEDFORD MUNICIPAL COURT David Earnest Clurg Jr.. defec tive equipment. $10 upended. I Industrial Group Reelects Officers i - i Grants Pass-Officers of In- j dustrial Development, Inc., were reelected at the group's I annual meeting here recently with about 65 per cent of the ; itockholders represented. i Officers are Len Grover, president; Jack Brownell, vice president; James Basker, secretary; and Elton Dunken, treasurer. , Elected board members for the coming year were Tyler, Cudd, Earl Hall, Keith Row-; land, Gene Whittier. Gene j Brown, AI Lent and W, Stew-; art Orr. i Stockholders were unani mous in approving board ac-; tlon during the past year and were encouraged to learn that several prospects have indi cated interest in the aira1 pending final decision on sites and financial arrange-. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicat. Inc. tinunrd Harrv Dunlan. no oocra- tor's license, 5 suspended. Whlteman Keegan Tounsend. violation ol basic rule, $10 sus pended. William Derrell Williamson, vio lation of basic rule. $20. . George Lawrence Johnson, dis obeyed stop sign, $10. Ted Ravmond CrHndell. dis obeyed traffic stcnal S10. Marvin A. Wilsbacher, violation of basic rule. S10. Alethea Dale Furcuson, dis obeyed traffic signal, $10. Dan Stanford Whisonant. defec tive equipment, $10. Kenneth Martin Fletcher, viola tion of basic rule. $25. Charles Meredith McHcnry, vio lation of basic rule. S2.V Anna Pearl Sieg. driving wrong way on one-way street, $10. Harriet Josephine EitemiHcr, failure to yield right of way. $10. Eugene Howard Vincent, viola tion of basic rule. $10. James Ralieehey Cratty. viola tion of basic rule, $15. Frank Carter Price, defective equipment, $10 suspended. This way out! Call 773-7103 TV CREDIT EQUITY, INC. They Can Help You Without Borrowing Credit Equity. Inc. was founded for ttt purpose of aiding fam ilies overburdened by debt, tt'i service ere available to anyone in financial d i f f iculty wtio sincerely wants to pay his creditors end regain his credit stand in. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. Gem, Mineral Show Scheduled at Local Armory on Week End The Southern Oregon Gem and Mineral show sponsored lv Roxy Ann Gem and Min- ! eral club scheduled Saturday and Sunday in the Medford Armory will include a display of nature's crown jewels which have been publicized for their rare beauty through out the nation. In the collection is a car ousel of rock, including 752 pieces of agate and 16 pounds of sterling silver. Made by Glenn Moreland of Grants Pass, the carbusel is described in detail in tne March Issue of Gems and Min erals, leading gem and mii eral hobby magazine. The frame of tho carousel is described as an engineering feat in itself. A year was spent in designing and building a mockup in order to determine the proper proportions. This was followed by 18 months of concentrated work to achieve the final carousel. Seven Agate Varieties In the 24 horses there are seven varieties of agate, five of petrified wood, four of jas per, and wonderstone. Eyes are round cabochons of zebra agate and black Bruneau jas per. The saddles and blankets on the horses are made of jas pers, bloodstone, petri tied wood, bog and turtlcback and Brazilian agate. The stirrups are sterling silver and the bridles and reins are made of leather lacing. Yreka Teachers To Attend School Yreka-Four teachers of the Yreka Union High school have received scholarships to at tend summer school sessions in their areas of specialty. Warren Doty has been giv en a grant under tho National Science Foundation to study chemistry at the University of Montana. David Korwin will attend Humboldt State college with a National Science Founda tion award in biology. Gerald Kubli has been awarded a National Defense Education Act Fellowship in counseling and guidance at the UnivcrsHy of Kentucky. Dennis Ray has been given a grant under the National Science Foundation in the field of mathematics at Ore gon State university. ' Other faculty members indi cating their intention to at tend summer school are Miss Ronnie Mae Barnard, John Ravenscroft, Daniel Soares, Mrs. Audrey Tyler, Robert Berg, Mrs. Vivian Wilson. Robert B u c k n e r, Michael Grensted, William Kleaver, Mrs. Estclle Greene and Ralph Akana. James Elsea will attend the annual conference of agricul ture teachers at California Polytechnic school and Mrs. Gloria Loudon will partici pate in a social science con ference at Stanford univer sity. STILL A YOUNGSTER Augusta, Ga. -lUPli- The ocal Young Republicans club, laced with a membership shortage, Monday said it had signed its 36th member - for mer President Dwight D. Ei senhower, 72. "In this pre dominantly Democratic area," the group explained, "mem bership is open to anyone up to 88 years of age." Mail This Clipping For Further Details No Obligation Name .... Addrtnt . Phone ... AM Information Confidential 201 Medical Center Bid?., Medford Licensed and Bonded in Oregon MEDFOHD. OREGON Moreland, in reviewing the construction feat for the maga zine, revealed the many prob lems encountered before the carousel was completed. Sev eral times he seemed to be go ing up a blind alley in search ing for the particular tools and parts required. Each time, persistance won out. Then when Moreland and friends had the carousel turn ing, a child picked up a brass rod and stuck it in the special ly geared motor and shorted it out. Moreland could find no one willing to tackle a repair job on the motor. After much run ning around, he reported, he found another type of geared motor and rebuilt the reduc tion train completely to obtain the speed of four revolutions per minute. He now has a spare motor. The carousel is supported by and turns in a front auto mobile hub and bearing. The framework is made of brass rod and will support over 500 pounds without springing out of shape. The crank rods to make the horses move up and down are also made of brass rod. There are 13 pieces in each crank rod and they are silver soldered together. Two contacts spaced on op posite sides pick up the elec tricity for the lights. There are 104 sixteen -volt bulbs used for lights and a special transformer to provide proper brilliance The carousel was exhibited at the Seattle show in Octo ber. It is scheduled for show ing in New York City in 1964 and at the '63 Gemboree in San Jose, Calif., July 12, 13 and 14. It will be here this weak end only with many other dealers and commercial ex hibits, the viewing of which is schedule! for 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Blowdown Timber Being Harvested Portland - The U.S. forest service has sold more than 40 per cent of the timber blown down in the national forests of Oregon and Washington by the Columbus Day storm. Sales to April 1 totalled 484,147,000 board feet involv ing 533 sales on the forests of the Pacific Northwest Region. Approximately 709 million board feet remains to be sold. The forest service will sell the bulk of this volume by July 1, according to J. Her bert Stone, regional forester, Portland. Actual harvest of the blow down reached 145,769,000 board feet on April 1, Stone reported. Salvage logging has been aided by mild weather in many areas, and a prepon derance of small sales in ac cessible areas has speeded up the effort to remove the dam aged timber. An estimated 1 billion, 192 million board feet of timber was felled in 17 of the 20 na tional forests of Oregon and Washington where the Octo ber storm struck. The forest service goal is to remove all salvable timber from the woods by May, 1964. An additional 40 million board feet of timber was downed by a storm on March 27, Stone said, but this is little more than would result from a "normal" winter storm. Budget Squeeze? FOR EXAMPLE If You Pay You little Owe: at: $500 $12 WK $4000 $37 W K Ralph Browning has returned from an extended birding trip covering the perimeter of the United States. The Mc Camant Bird Society and the Rogue Valley Nature club are sponsoring a program that will permit the public to hear Browning lal.i about his trip and to view the colored slides he took en route. The program will be given at 7:30 p.m. Thursday eve ning. May 9, at the Medford High school lecture center. Everyone is welcome. No admission will be charged. There was a fine turn-out April 12. when David Marshall told aoout wildlife in the Northwest and Hawaii. His color i slides of sandhill cranes, pelicans, owls, ducks and geese were outstanding. Also of special interest was his trip on a LST and helicopter to the Hawaiian Islands of Nihoa and I Laysan. Color slides were shown of the very rare Miller bird, endemic to Nihoa and the Laysan duck and blue faced booby which are found on Laysan Island. My notes show that there were migrant spring birds in late March and April, although the first three weeks of April were cold and stormy. On March 24 there was a log gerhead shrike on the Rogue River rd. On March 25 the ospreys returned to the nest along the Rogue that has been used by ospreys for almost 20 years. A ringbill gull was seen on the game commission pond March 26. At Hoover lake, Mrs. L. Tompkins saw three greater ycllowlegs and a horned lark. An early migrant orange crown warbler was Between April l and April 23 there were unusually large flocks of pine siskins, white crown sparrows, and band tail pigeons sighted at various locations in the valley and foot hills. Also early in April, F. Sturges reported a Dair of Townsend solitaires evidently mils west of Ashland, tach spring someone reports sight ing a mockingbird. Last yopt a mockingbird stayed near O. Bendure's home for about three months. This year in mid April, R. Browning reports seeing a mockingbird near Phoenix, and hearing its beautiful evening song. , Some of the spring nesting species hatched out their young very early this year. At Klamath Falls, young Can adian geese were seen on March 9. During the first week in April, young feathered doves were seen in the nest. On April 6, W. Cavanaugh and Mrs. L. Thompkins both re ported young killdeers that had already left the nest. On April 18, F. Sturges reported hearing the song near Ashland of a warbling vireo. On April 22 at Hoover Lake, A. Butler and I saw cinnamon and blue wing teal, white fronted and Canadian geese, western sandpipers, a dowitchcr, i minim ana i greater ycllowlegs. The biggest surprise to me was finding a Townsend's solitaire at Hoover lake acting almost like a shore bird. It was working the edges of for insects and bugs. Normally this bird lives in the moun tains, canyons and brushy hillsides. It is reputedly our finest singer; however, they are so scattered in inaccessible locations that they are rarely heard. - At Switzerland the following day, there were pine sis kins, Audubon warblers, a pair of pileated woodpeckers. and a pair of red crossbills. the crossbills are nesting in that area. Mixed flocks of migrating Savanah sparrows and vesper sparrows were seen along Rogue River dr. on April 25. In one location where the mixed flock was feeding on new field growth, I noted a few finch and a pair of Cassin s Many times when I am take slides of them. However, of these flowers for fear that of the public will induce their gathering of them. It is. of course, against the law to My own feeling is that the deprive our children and their children from ever having them to enjoy. A. Butler tells me that formerly the April flower called red bells (fritiilaria recurva) was profuse around the valley. Each year they are less abundant, there fore, this beautiful flower should be conserved or in time we may lose them from this area. April and May are excellent months for wild flowers on the valley floor and around the edges of the valley. In addition May is probably the best month of the year to find birds. Migrants arrive throughout the month and birds are busy establishing nesting locations. For birding during May I recommend trips to the Hoover lakes, Grcensprings-Howard lake, Hyatt lake, Mt. Ashland, Klamath Falls,, the Oregon coast at low tide, and Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The small yellow green birds with the cheery songs that you will sec during May are the return ing migrant warblers. Oldsmobile sales EoingOlOS Is the EoingJhingi Nearly 1,700 people a day are discovering what a thrill it to step out in an Oldsmobile. Reasons? Plenty! Sleek looks. Sensational V-8 performance! Plus the kind economy that made the Olds Dynamic 88 Class "G" winner in the Mobil Economy Run! ' 'V.S V-M tTAflOH WAGON .WMS' Sfei; DYNAMIC M GOMVCKTiail THERE'S SOMCTHINO HTM' HOUT OWNING N OtOiMOIIlEI HE TOUR FRIENOLY OlDSMOME 0EUER1 J.R.'s WHITNEY OLDSMOBILE, 415 So. Riverside Ave. BiRDING By JOSEPH HICKS seen in Medford on April S. planning to nest in the foot- the lake presumably hunting From their actions, I believe chipping sparrows, some house finch. birding I find wild flowers and I am hesitant about writing calling1 them to the attention pick or dig up wild flowers, taking of these flowers may are ROCKETING! : The Medical Tht Abui of Beit Years ago, when I was a young physician, the rule was to keen frail or sickly per- Pr""t3""" sons in bed f - I for weeks or "! months. Also, j persons who Jf 1 hd been ou- f Jm t -01 usually kept I ' -r ' ij I in bed for two or three weeks or more, and .iivarei women who , had been confined were kept in bed for perhaps two weeks. Then it was discovered that i an uncomfortably large num-1 ber of the people who were kept in bed - especially after an operation or a confinement - developed a phlebitis (in flammation of the big vein in a thigh and leg) and if they survived, they had to wear i an elastic stocking or bandage for the rest of their days. A few who got a phlebitis died suddenly because some of the blood clot in the vein washed off and went up ! through the heart to plug up I a big artery in the lung. j Fortunately, some 20 years i ago a few drugs were found which tend to prevent this clotting of the blood in the veins after an operation. These drugs have helped much. But, along the way, many physicians and sur geons decided to see what could be done by getting their pationts out of bed quickly. For instance, after my big operation 3 years ago, I was up and walking around on the third or fourth day. Sis ter Kenny did much to get children with polio out of bed and moving around the ward. Activity Preferred When I was a young man, the Weir Mitchell "Rest Cure" was often prescribed for women with a "nervous breakdown." Today, I think most psychiatrists would pre fer to have such a woman sit ting out in the garden or play ing tennis. A good article on this sub-1 ject is by Dr. Sedgwick Mead of Vallejo, Calif., who speaks of "The Abuse of Rest," Dr. Mead thinks that the .old ten dency of physicians to order must ailing people to bed was a fart ojlili'li fnrlitnntnlv ie I now on Its way out. Obvious ly, ii is oi course unavqioaoie in the cases of m&ny serious diseases; but we now know how much harm bed rest can do to some people who do not need it; it interferes with the circulation of the blood, and changes for the worse the chemistry of the body. As Dr. Mead said, when In 1938 ha was a medical stu dent, a woman was supposed to stay in bed for 18 days aft er a confinement. Today, as he says, she may be sent home in three days. And, perhaps as a result of this, her chances is of ' ; Vi J v TUESDAY. MAY 7. Roundup Emeritus Consultant In Medicine Viyo clinic Emeritus Pt oft nor or Medicine Mayo Clinic (Register and Trlbuns Syndicate, 1963) of getting a milk leg (phle bitis) are small. Today, when a man gets a heart attack, many doctors will order him to stay abed for weeks; but a distinguished heart specialist may say. "Get him up and into a chair, or even let him move around in his room." FUN -TIME SPECIAL FREE! ROLLABOUT STAND M(Ut you iMj t&l htW. BCAVlCTOilSportaboutTV "The Pick uf the Portables" MORE PEOPLE own rgaVsctor TELEVISION THAN ANY OTHER KIND... BLACK AND OR COLOR The ROOMMATE ' Series 94-A-064 19" tube (overall diag.) 172 sq. in. viewable area TV & STAND-BOTH Sensational 2-for-l offer! 18,000 volt chassis , , Built-in telescoping antenna . 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The boy at one time threat, ened the girl with a knife and hit her on the head with a rock near Savage creek. She had been riding her horsa through the woods. A 14-year-old boy Friday in juvenile court was released on probation for attempted rape, according to juvenile authorities. WHITE FOR ONLY $1498? $695 $495 1
