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Show ICC HEARS PROS, CONS ON UP MOVE TO ABANDON TRAINS Hearings on the Union Pacific Pa-cific request to abandon trains Nos. 9 and 12 have been completed com-pleted by the Interstate Commerce Com-merce Commission, and the re quest taken under advisement No decision is expected to be announced fo;- several months. Public hearings were held in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Testimonial was very similar at all three hearings, with the railroad contending loss of money on the trains, and admitting ad-mitting hazard and inconvenience inconveni-ence if the trains were consolidated consoli-dated with other trains which run at about the same time, and opponents of the consolidation consolida-tion citing numerous instances when seat space was not available avail-able on either train; also contending con-tending that if trains 9 and 10 were to run at a time several hours earlier or later the passenger pas-senger revenue would be materially ma-terially increased. Milford Mayer Ray Kizer, also representing the City of Delta and the Legislative Committee Com-mittee of the Order of Railway Continued on Page Three HERE'S MORE ABOUT U P HEARINGS Continued from Page One Conductors, appeared at the Salt Lake hearing and pointed out that at present railroad employes em-ployes and othr Milford residents resi-dents who travel to Salt Lake for medical services or for other reasons are able to make the round trip in one day, but if the trains are consolidated the new schedules will make it a three-day trip. He pointed out that several families would be affected by the change, and he felt the railroad, had a moral obligation to their employes, after encouraging them to build homes in the communities communi-ties along the railroad, to continue con-tinue offering them gainful employment and economic security. |