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AC,E 10 A HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY. JUNE 20, 1958 V '4 IB. f -jL . ' -l ii'irni.m. linn'i Sl , U&im My"- 'Z River Flood Threat Seen VIS'CENNES, Ind. UPD Ma jor flood throats from the ram paging Wabash River shifted tem porarily from Indiana to neighbor ing Illinois today. Levee workers in the Vincennes area, exhausted from three days' efforts in reinforcing possible dan ger spots along the flood wall, were confident the river would not make a breakthrough here. Officials said, however, heavy rains in the north could alter the whole picture. The river was expected to crest at 27 to 27',i feet this afternoon. Across the river, at Russellville. III., the situation was more criti cal. State police and volunteers maintained an around the-c lock patrol, plugging weak spots. "We're still in good shape," one official- said. "Usually when it gets this high, the river finds a hole. It hasn t yet. YA Wi A FRIENDLY CHAT between representatives of management and labor preceded Tues day'! press conference at the Willard Hotel, held during the Northwest Association Meeting of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Left to right are J. W. Corbett, vice president for system operations .of the Southern Pacific; Harry See, national legislative representative, 6. of R. T.; R. R. Robinson, superintendent, Shasta Division, Southern Pacific; and W. P. Kennedy, president, B. of R. T. Officials Blame Controls For Decline In Rail Income By LAMAR HOOVER The Northwestern Association meeting of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, held this week nt Klamath Kalis, brought high representatives of labor and man agement logethcr, and their pub jc utterances showed an unusual degree of agreement. Reasons for this agreement arc jot hard to find, at a time when Ihe future of the railroad industry s Being more seriously discussed throughout America than it has jeen at any time in the past 20 years. Ihe industry, hy and large has been making reasonably good money during the postwar boom, hut it showed a marked sensitiv ity to the general prosperity of the economy when Ihe recession hit, and earnings dropped alarmingly. The result has been a reaction of alarm, best summed up by President W. P. Kennedy of Ihe B. of R. T. on Monday night, when he cried, "The house is on ire, and labor and management must work together fo save the industry! The principal management spokesman at the convention Vice President J. W. Corbett, chief of Ihe Southern Pacific's system op erations, expressed less alarm, and even a certain optimism, hut he also oonceded that Railroads were not in particularly good shape, even before the recession." The best evidence that the rail roads' problems arc now being taken seriously are the legislative proposals resulting from an in quiry into the industry undertaken hy a senatorial committee headed by Senator George A. Smothers, Florida. Bills now introduced in Congress,' or contemplated, call for: (iovcrnment guarantees of loans negotiated by railroads, es pecially for improvements and maintenance; liberalization of reg ulations governing rate-setting so that the Interstate Commerce Com mission (which was long ago vest ed wilh almost absolute . power over the Industry) can more easily approve rate reductions; more au thority for the I.C.C. to allow rail roads to discontimic unprofitable lines and services involved in in lerslate commerce; and repeal of the excise tax on transportation, begun during the war to discour age civilian use of trains. "There has been some opposi tion to these proposals from the cabinet Ihe post olfice depart ment and Ihe commerce depart ment, particularly." Kennedy said. "We of railroad labor," he de clared, "must support the Smath ers report, with a lew slight ex ceptions, one hundred per cent. The anliqualcd rules and regula tions ol the I.C.C. should be scrapped!" Corbi'lt, too. saw hnpo for the industry in the great interest aroused by (he Smathers hearings. He said lhat public opinion was beginning to grasp the fact that the railroads, which are essential U (lie country, are hcing handi capped hy regulations, lie urged his listeners In write llwir repre sentatives and senators, urging support of the Smathers proposals. "I'm confident we'll get help from legislation now pending," Corbett said. Both Corbett and ' Kennedy agreed, at a press conference held Tuesday morning, that the essen tial need jof the railroads is to be placed on an ctpial competitive basis with other means of trans port. "There is a place for all kinds of transportation." Corbett said. Kennedy, in his talk, was bitter about government subsidies to competing terms of transportation. He said that (he airlines were not only subsidized by the federal gov ernment, but that even their tor minals are financed by the public. ripe lines and cargo ships are also subsidized, and railroad work ers, whose jobs arc taken away by these subsidies, have to pay the taxes that make them possible. just like everyone else. Now tho government is plan ning a new, $;i5 billion highway system, Kennedy said. You can het there'll be plenty of trucks on those highways, and tho rat! roads, which are the biggest lax payers in most stales, will have lo pay to build them and will then have to pay to build over passes for them." Both sides regretted the decrease in railroad employment (B. of R. T. figures show that it was down to MM. 114 in January, 1!B8. against 1W5.270 in January, 11157, but the situation is somewhat more favorable in the Northwest). Cor bett predicted the volume of busi ness would pick up the latter part of this year, or early next year, and said that the future in the West looks pretty bright, but he also said that gross revenues must bo substantially increased before there can he an increase in em ployment. He said that despite Ihe drop in employment, wage in creases and a decrease in busi ness had combined to increase the percentage of gross revenues go ing for wages. Kennedy, whose 2ir.0tl0-mombcr union groups Hi different crafts ami classes of railroad workers, said at the press conference that there is considerable overlap be tween the 21 different railroad un ions, and even between the B. of It. T. and the three other principal brotherhoods. However, he em phasized lhat the four brother hoods have on enviable reputa tion for clean unionism, with au dited hooks, and no communists or rocketeers. In Monday's talk, Kennedy had stressed Ihe need lor unity of railroad labor, and scored quar- elmg, between unions, between railroads of different sections of the country, and between labor and management, as detrimental to Ihe industry. . If Ihe members of the indus try don't work together, we'll have government ownership, which no body wants, he said. "The diflerences among us are family differences, which can lie Blt and OPEN TONIGHT TIL rkena TU 4-11 M ?. 0 o (- and Evry M MIGHT o SAVE MOW 4T WlOt CHECK kQ J taken care of in the future. Now we must work together." Harry See, national legislative representative for Ihe B. of It. T., spoke at both Monday s meet ing and Tuesday's press confer ence on the need for an internal railroad safety campaign to cut down injuries to workers, which are now increasing, according to B. of II. 1. statistics. See ex plained the increase of 15 per cent in injuries and 2li per cent in deaths, in the first three" months of l!lf8 over last year, while em ployment was down 13 per cent, by the fact that maintenance em ployes had decreased 170.529 by 1(157, from the 5H7.653 figure of 1(152. See suggested that Ihe expenses occasioned railroads by accidents would warrant keeping more main tenance personnel on the payroll. lie said lhat Western railroads in general have better safety records than Eastern roads, and that both the Great Northern and the South ern Pacific, serving Klamath Falls, are cooperative on the accident problem. In fact, local railroaders have particular reason to be proud of their safely record, according to the statement of R. R. Robinson superintendent of the Shasta Divi sion of the Southern Pacific, who said that bis division had the least injuries of any division on the Pa cific lines at present, with only four injuries among transportation personnel in all of 1957. Corbett, Kennedy and See all had kind words for Klamath rails, where Corbett was a telegrapher in 1915, when See was also an S. P. employe in this area. In a town like this, where rail roading isn't easy, you find real cooperation between management and. labor," Kennedy said, adding lhat railroad money is important to Ihe towns in which railroad workers live. Wheat Farming Is Like A Crap Game Sometimes HUDSON, Kan. (AP) Wheat farming is like a crap game. That's the opinion of Dean Hitz and he should know. He lost $0,500 in a hail storm that lasted just six minutes. About a dozen of his neighbors are in the same fix. They were looking forward to harvesting their best wheat crops in years Then black clouds boiled out of the west, and in a few minutes the hail shattered their prospects. "I saw the storm coming, out there wasn't anything I could do except get under a roof," Hitz told a newsman. His crop was leveled Saturday, and Tuesday another storm wrought damage to other farms of this central Kan sas area. Gloom has spread to Hudson, a town of 226 residents and 12 business places. "This isn't a very happy town," said Hitz. "But we've got to feel fortunate we didn't get a tornado. We've still got houses io live in. "It's (farming) the biggest gam ble in the world, bigger than any crap game I was ever in. It makes you want to leave the country, but you don't. 'You've got to figure maybe you can make it on cattle, if they don't go too cheap." BUSINESS Dr. D. R. Thorsness, owner of the Standard Optical Com pany, Klamath Falls, is opening an office one day a week in Tulelake in the office building with Dr. De Van Robins, dentist. The two are located in the building on Main Street formerly occupied by the late Dr. Earl Spry. THIEF MEMPHIS. Tenn. (AP)-Police needed a five-ton truck yesterday to haul to headquarters about $8,- ,000 worth of goods a woman is accused of shoplifting. The merchandise included cicht fur coats three of them mink 153 dresses, 80 skirts, 50 handbags 76 sweaters, 43 pairs of curtains. 88 silk blouses, stacks of men's clothing, sheets, towels, radios and clocks. Detective Chief Charles Young said the goods were found in the home of Mrs. Saddy Mae Draner 29, Negro. She was charged with grand larceny. BASIN BRIEFS Card Party Midland -Grange Club will sponsor a card party Saturday, June 21, at 8 p.m. in the Midland Grange Hall. The pub lic is invited. Song Henry Kirkpatrick, Mon tague mus'e teacher, and Al Stiles from Southern California have written a song, "That's Our Dad," which was presented for the first time publicly at the Mon tague Junior Rodeo and Barbecue Sunday, June 15. Jerry Ditner, Montague, sang the song in honor of fathers as a Fathers Day trib ute. Dorris A daughter, weighing 8 lbs., 4li ozs. was born to Mr. and Mrs. Roland Hirsch, Dorris. in the Siskiyou General Hospital, Yre- OUTLOOK GOOD ' JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The outlook for the total recovery of actress Suzy Parker from brok en arms received in an auto-train crash June 7 is good, a hospital spokesman said yesterday. Her admission to the hospital was disclosed by her physician who asked that his name not be used. She was moved Sunday from the East Coast Hospital at St. Augustine where she had been since the accident which claimed the life of her father. 'The hospital spokesman said Miss Parker probably would be eligible for release in about 10 da's. JUNE IS IONUS MONTH ot OLDSMOBILE! 30 CARS t. Be S.IJ during June & July Large Selection - Larger DEALS! DICK B. MILLER CO. ka. June IS. Mrs. Hirsh is the form er Shirley Burkhart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Burkhart, Dorris. Signal School Pvt. Jimmy L. Crutchfield, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Crutchfield, Dor ris.' recently completed the eight week radio relay and carrier oper ation course at the Army's South eastern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Georgia. Crutchfield attended Butte Valley High School. At Merrill Tom Cole, Corval- lis, having finished his junior year at Oregon State College, is now working in Merrill for the sum mer months. Bible School The Shasta Val ley Methodist daily Vacation Bible School is scheduled from June 23 through July 3 in the Montagu Methodist Church from 9 a.m. te 11:30 a.m. Classes will be Monday through Friday in the first week and in the second week from Monday through Thursday with an evening program to be presented on July 3. DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 S.W. Morrison St. Portland, Oregon All Tromient Gutiti. All th who com return. Rales nor too high, nor low. Froo Garage, TV'i ond Radio'i. Reputation for cleanliness. Reservations by L.D. 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