Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-10 | Page 9 | Data on Wool to be Given in Rate Hearings

DATA ON WOOL TO BE GIVEN IN INRA RA RATE TE HEARINGS Growers Will Protest Boost Over New Duties Imposed Last Year Voluminous testimony gathered by byj bythe bythe the National Wool growers growers' association j and state associations will be given at the railroad livestock freight rate hearing in m Salt Lake May 1 23 25 before th th interstate commerce commission examiners F F. R. R Marshall executive secretary of the national organization tion said Tuesday The are arc ready to tomake tomake tomake make a vigorous fight to retain the rates which were granted ranted by the commission commission commission com com- mission and md became effective January January January Jan Jan- uary 25 1932 declared Mr Marshall UTAH SAVINGS GREAT Rates which are arc now in effect are arc saving thousands of dollars for growers growers growers grow grow- ers compared with the unreasonably high rates which were in effect and to Utah alone mean savings of approximately approximately ap ap- ap proximately a year on en lambs Iambs he asserted Mr 11 Marshall said that the association association association tion will ha have witnesses from wool associations in Idaho Montana Utah and Wyoming to give testimony to show cause why the rates should not be changed but should even be low low- ered cred Mr Marshall and Hal W. W manager of the Traffic lc Service Bureau Bureau Bureau Bu Bu- Bu- Bu reau of ot Utah will appear for the national organization Similar hearings are being held in various sections and Mr 1 Marshall will attend one in Portland Ore May 1 20 17 when he may offer testimony OLD CASES CASUS CONTINUED I The cases being heard according to Mr Marshall 1 are continuations of rate rale cases begun in 1927 and decided in June 1931 b by the interstate commerce corn com com I merce commission which resulted inthe inthe in the new rales rates in January I He said the I. I C. C C C. is calling for or testimony upon changes and conditions conditions conditions condi condi- since 1928 as a basis of determining determining determining deter deter- mining whether the new rates rales should be continued He said savings savins range from 5 to 50 per car Utah sheep shipped from Ogden to Chicago now go for 34 a car less than heretofore Mr 1 Marshall reported Similar savings savings sav say ings logs are arc made on cars going from Ogden to Kansas City Mo 1 and Omaha Neb he added