Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, April 25, 1963, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextBright Young Men Make Money For B& 0 By Efficiency Campaign (Fourth of Five Articles ) By RAY CKOMLEY BALTIMORE (XEAl Jems Lanadon Jr.. president of the Bal timore and Ohio Railroad, works In a big room reminiscent of an old-fashioned parlor. There are or derly stacks of paper, notes, fold ers and documents all over s large table behind him, on the desk in front of him and n neat piles on the floor around him LaiiKUun is one of the most coolly efficient, analytical, deter mined men in the business. Yet I rode up to his office in a creak rlevatur that did not stop pre cisely where it was supposed to. Where Bill Brosnan of the Southern rams through and builds sensational new equipment, the money-short Langdon organizes to; get the last ounce of efficiency out I of the men and equipment he has. Langdon studies his managers. I his white and blue collar men to see if each isn't capable nf doing j a little bigger job than he's do- ' MR. He looks tor bright young j men who tan do a little bit more , '. than other men. He looks to see if he can get more use out of each car and if he can combine trains for part of their runs so they'll re "ouire fewer men. : To do these things he has changed his hiring and promotion policies and is changing a major part of his top organizational setup. I know Langdon's organizational ability from personal experience. In World War II. he had a job I to do in making order out of the impossibly chaotic problem of get ting enough gasoline, bombs and supplies all by air over the Hump from India so Maj. Gen. Claire ChciinauU and his patched up Flying Tigers could hold off the Japanese air force in China. I . Was one of the men. at the end of the line depending on Langdon. He did a magnificent job. 1 Less than two years ago, Lang don took over a railroad on the verge of bankruptcy. It lost $11 million in 19fil. This year the B. and 0. will be comfortably in the black. . Two years ago. B. and 0. pas senger runs lost $8 million a year. In 1D63. the B. and 0. may become the first Eastern railroad to make money on its passenger service. Langdon systematically went through the passenger operation. He found he could save $800,000 a year by hacking his passenger trains into Chicago instead of heading them in. He found he could save a considerable sum by dropping a fistful of idle passen ger representatives in New York, Washington and other major cit ies. He dropped unprofitable pas senger runs, but aims at develop ing a plush service for the runs he has left. Langdon is working on the idea )f super freight trains that would cany 23,000 tons of freight as con trasted with his 9.000-ton capacity trains today. This would mean big savings in train crew payrolls; he would have lwo-and-a-h" (rains in one. Langdon already has speeded freight runs and eliminated cost ly yards by setting up his trains so that they'll drop freight cars grades and shortening main lines. jquently by developing a system He's clearing tunnels so they'll take the profitable -three-level au tomobile carrier and other modern freig.it loads. Langdon found he could stretch along the way w ithout having to his equipment further and use the slop and regroup. He's cuttingjsame cars over again mure fre- 4-H NEWS LANGELL VALLEY CHAMPS ; The fourth meeting of the Lan Bell Valley Chomps was held Jrfai-ch 31. . He discussed our community project. ; Two reports were given. Betty Landon gave one on the feed for our lambs and Linda Fcrnlund gave one on proper health habits ,' Mr. Landon then talked about feeding our lambs. Linda Fernlund, ' News Reporter f COUNTRY KNITTERS Attending the eighth meeting of the Country Knitters was Bev erly Bower, 4-H agent. She gave a ery fine program on good Brooming. Booklets were handed out concerning regular diets and everything connected with groom ing. Everyone enjoyed the pro gram and wishes to thank her. ( The club also wishes to thank the Merrill Beef Club for the movie. Everyone attending en Joyed it very much. The Suty (jirls served refreshments, i The next meeting will be on April 15 at the Community Hall. Nine members and one visi tor were present. Mrs. Edwin Stastny was a visitor. Linda Stastny, News Reporter. lUW'll. 4HIU.HIM iMtiniiiymiMmi t rrr?r-- - - .. ..ws (or continuous unloading of coal trains without their having to slop. Such a system was so much cheaper that he could cut his rates and get more business. Langdon's B. and 0., like many roads, has been starving for capi tal to make improvements and buy new equipment. He says: In the 12 months ended Aug. 31, l'JBI. we had 13.000 cars, over 1.0(H) cars a month, go bad because funds to repair them were unavailable. We had a real short age of locomotives. ' Langdon s solution was to join with the richer Chesapeake and Ohio Hailwav. which has the mon ey to pav for many of the im provements Langdon wants. The ICC approved tins joining: the Ad ministration is now trying to de- lav it tor a new look at all mer gers, Langdon s approach to railroad ing resulted m an unorthodox per sonnel recruitment program Aides argued with him, but in a new booklet aimed at attracting college r.icr. Us jviu the B. and 0., Langdon insisted on the sentence: If your one goal is security, you should look elsewhere." Langdon bluntly emphasizes to prospective employes the tough changes and rugged challenges the B. and O. laces in the years ahead. He pins his faith on the kind of bright, determined and tenacious young men he thinks this approach will attract. His general superintendent of trans portation is 3ti. Six of his superin tendents are under 40. Langdon has built up a develop ment committee, 10 young men specially selected from various de partments, wuo run a continuous study of operating methods to fin: better ways of doing things. He is revamping his accounting and building up a rate department with young men who will stand off and take hard, untraditional looks at B. and O. rates. The B. and O. president hopes that within 10 years his young men will be running the line and tradition will be out with the wind. What bothers Langdon even more than tradition is unused brain power. He found featherbed ding on tlie highest levels of the B. and O. when he took over. Some bright management men had only four hours' worth of real work to do a day. He gave these men extra jobs, used them to develop some of his new ideas A friend of mine tells of going in to one of Langdon's major of fices about the time tlie B. and 0. skipper took over. The office was crowded with officials, as sistants, clerks' and secretaries. He visited the same office about a year later. The same manager w as there doing the same job, but he was almost alone. (Next: Commuting the Head ache and Some Pain Killers.) HERALD AM) NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Thursday, April 23, 13 PAGE 7 A HARD WORK Getting the most from men and equipment is the Langdon formula. At top is one of the B&O unit trains which run as many as 120 cars carrying 9,000 tons of coal. At bottom is the line s Development Committee of specially selected young executives who conduct a continuing study of operating methods. QfflttM NEGRO STUDENT HONORED PRESIDENT GUIDES GROUP ATHENS. Ga. (UPD -Hamil- ton Holmes, one of the fust Negroes admitted to the Univer sity of Georgia, has been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. The university announced Wed nesday that the pro-medical stu dent's high academic standing made him eligible for the honor. Holmes was admitted to the uni versity under court order in Jan uary, 1961. 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