Show V j MAY 15 SUNDAY MORNING OGDEN (UTAH) 1955 V STANDARD-EXAMINE- R - Free Railroads of U S Regulation? Presidential Group Says Yes Partly Lines Face Hottest Fight Since the Iron Horse knocked Out the Stagecoach f CA LADIES May we help you stop M 'HD ir£ iae i drinking? i Alcoholics Anonymous ' Ladies Group Jjuvajfixv General Arthur E Summerfield gave the railroads 131 million accepted there is going to be one iiri' FVa’na 1m 1288 Ogdaa Secretary of Agriculture Ezra acres 80 per cent of which the real wing-dinfight Dirailroads subsequently sold Taft Benson Budget Bureau rector Rowland R Hughes and By the end of the Civil War the Arthur S Fleming director of railroads found their only real the Office of Defense Mobiliza- competition was from each other tion Titanic financial battles took There wasn’t much in the com- place for monopoly mittee’s report that truckers and Where lines paralleled rate cutwaterways operators liked ting was fierce When a monopoly In addition to proposing a was obtained the shipper was change in basic policy it assigned squeezed by high rates Eventualto railroads the major role in de- ly pressures from angry railroad fense transportation While truck- users led to strict government ers and waterway operators aren’t regulation arguing that in time of war the Left With Monopoly railroads should play a minor While resulted in regularole they are unhappy over be- tion the this railroads still were left ing assigned as a matter of pol- with a virtual monopoly until the icy to a seemingly secondary gasoline motor started making role its full potentialities known on the As to rates the committee rec- highway and in the air At first ommended that they be "allowed the railroads were permitted to to reflect cost advantages when- operate in these new fields as ever they exist and to their full well as on the rails This was freedom other dustry: Truckers airlines barge competition! setting up truck extent” The report added that halted in the 1930s when the govoperators buses even pipeline barge bus and even airline serv- nothing should be hauled below ernment started Micliael 25 of operators regulating motor cost Mrs Betty-Jdeem ices as fit carriers and airlines they The big issue is whether and to Long Beach Calif says good-b- y what extent The railroads maintain that Didn’t Like Approach should railroads Today wherever the railroads the to Pretty' Boy a pet para- be unleashed of con- their competitors are subsidized of the water- look their monopoly is broken — head Thompson government keet after a judge awarded trols are ways operators didn’t like this 141255 buses 37 certificated airdesigned to keep them from by the government since they airtemporary custody of the! bird monopolizing use of highways permitted the industry approach Railroads he said lines operating and thousands of to her estranged husband built with and inwould determine their own costs big trucks Waterways ports For 68 years the transport George pending ttfial of their dustry lias been operated under public funds and they might argue that it costs The railroads are trying hard divorce suit They had agreed federal hem about as much to haul 100 to streamline operations which contrast the goes Congress argument By and cut regulation on division of other property said should be so administered as railroads not tons 500 miles as it does to haul losses Last year they abandoned and build must only but each wanted the bird to "recognize and preserve the in- maintain their own tracks and 000 tons the same distance 1000 miles of track Since World The truckers were particularly War II the average has been 500 herent advantages” of each seg- stations but they are prevented ment by government regulation from unhappy over the following com- miles annually Freely translated this means competing for business on an all parison by the committee of the Everyone inside the industry — espective roles of the truck and bus truck waterway and that each segment including out basis airline YOURS FOR trains buses and all others has — agrees that a healthy Everyone else in the transpor- the train: operators COMFORTABLY ONLY trans“In case the of in niche the railroads and railroad system is essential to the its own special tation field has sought to confine Help motor carriers economic to their and CUSHIONED OUTDOOR METAL GLIDER the railroads to the tracks portation field nation’s welfare It means also that no one seg- maintain tight federal controls characteristics are virtually oppoThe is they say Deep-dowcomfort for the summer season! Enamel finished steel construcW site the one characterized by whether question ment should be permitted to rate making the be railroads should tion with thickly padded cushions upholstered in colorful plastic for extra another out of business or to Indulge in Rate Cutting heavy investment and large ele- made healthy at their expense as wear arms serve as head-res- t Tilted for stretch-ou- t relaxation Seats 4 conments of indirect and fixed costs a matter of SPRINGFIELD III (UP) — A create a monopoly by taking of fear other The policy government now Make and save! selection Other biggest people easily your splendid gliders $75 JUST $t DOWN while the other requires little introl of another segment The truck and waterway operasegments is that the vestment and encounters bank cashier who said he was "a a high Want Policy Changed 50 Hammock Swing of comfort and a protec- - $£? leavily financed railroads will be proportion of direct and variable tors feel that this is what the very foolish man” was freed recoman advisory jermitted to step into new fields President’s has committee however Now costs The one is capable of long mended tion from direct sun rays due to large adjustfrom his token onejday jail sen- committee set up by President and then in rate cutting haul mass indulge tence yesterday after he testified Eisenhower hs recommended They argue that this would re- low costs transportation at very is certain: Before any One able canopy Seats 4 $i2SDWa?k while the can af- of the thing recommendations are ache made irregular oans to help that the "recognize and preserve” sult in bankruptcy for everybody ford superior serviceother Our In conducted Greatest Value Steel Gym Setsl ut the railroads language be stripped from govfinance his Boy Scout work in relatively small units but at cepted by Congress if they are in the set as forth ernment of the industry Other phases Frank J Acardi 37 Collins-vil- e Interstatepolicy high costs beyond Commerce Act contention that they comparatively the $3 Down $125 Week dispute the shorter distances 111 Clearly they PROTECT YOUR pleaded guilty Friday You get all 10 Plays: 2 Swings Trapeze Set of Rings 2 Instead the committee recom- are given unfair advantage over are fitted for different roles in to making false entries in the mended last month that the pol- the railroads by government sub- the Chin Bars INVESTMENT IN Sky Glide Basketball and Shower efof most the development and pro- sidies Units Imagine a complete playground actual set has Each segment argues that fective and coordinated book of the Troy Security Bank icy read: "To encourage transporPLEASURE ' mote full competition between it more than pays its own way more equipment than picture for only $2995 ” to cover the loans tation system at METAL TABLE of modes is regulated just as for serv- METAL CHAIR it and that transportation famous "I have been a very foolish charges not less than reasonable snaeka or on in Fear Haul Role lng Shott Weather and rust Long garden as the railroads strictly your patio Choice resistant Tubular steel While the committee said it is man" he told Federal J b d g e minimum charges or morf than This industrywide struggle and color Charles G Briggle "Whatever reasonable maximum charges the report itself are products of impossible to define the role each ALUMINUM CHAIR OUTDOOR SHADE UM- economic must in regulareduce "To the total revolution economic play the economy wrought Wtth Saran plastic seat BRELLAS Choice of may come will be the best for ana back A real buy of the transportation indus- by the automobile truck and the the truckers fear this may evention green or rust duck Pole J me” try to the minimum consistent airplane each of which has cut tually lead to a policy in which the public interest to the deeply into business which the the long haul role is given to railwith Note Left Personal LANE end that the inherent economic railroad once considered its own roads Federal officials said 'Acardi advantages including cost and Takes Passenger Trade To fully understand the fight borrowed about $5000 leaving a service advantages of each mode Other means of transport have one has to go back fb some rugSO MANY THINGS CAN HAPrealized be of loans may transportation chapters of PEN Outboard motors and largely taken the passenger trade ged personal note to cover the its "Much of the proceeds” officials in such ajnanner as to reflect ” away from the railroads And al history For it has been going on boats are a lot of fun buf full competitive capabilities though railroads are carrying in one form or another since the so many can said were used to help the comrehappen to Who liked the committee’s more tonnage than ever before in Baltimore and Ohio Railroad went them Bethings sure have the When you Scout was programj quickly peacetime their percentage of into the common carrier business munity Boy port and who didn’t of OutFinancial Protection William 1828 in statements smallwithreflected in the total freight business is the loans which were made We are overstocked with samples Motor board Insurand Boat Assn of the As railthe nation er The railroads earned 325 per grew the out bank officers’ knowledge T Faricy president ance of the famous Lane Cedar Railroads said it was cent return on their capital in roads became the lifeline for were discovered Acardi made of American CALL TODAY! US cities states have railand a Without but vestment last year Chests There are just a few ‘‘distinctly encouraging” they restitution immediately the gov-- : executive wound up many years in the loss road civic doom was almost cerChester Thompson to go at $4995 Pictures chests ' Blachburn-Jone- s director of the American Water- column during the past three tain As the railroads thrived eminent said are similar actual chests canal and stage coach operators "It’s a long story”j Acardi said ways Operators Inc said: “It is decades was cent 100 per It In the passenger field 86 per suffered They fought back but "I’ve worked with the youngsters Company conceived by and for the rail- cent of all inter-cittravel is by the iron horse could not be since 1941 and tried to expand roads” 14 automobile leaving only "Men Who Know Insurance" per stopped the Boy Scout program We orThla modern design available in To mass the of to divided cent be encourage by development Competition Dial 319 24th Street blond oak or American Waeither ganized summer trips' for the Destroy West the the federal industries government transport of the lnut — a spectacular value Neil a J me in president Curry each and trip put boys A measure of what is happenAmerican Trucking Assn said As advertised In LIFE deeper hole than I realized” ing is the fact that airlines pas Attorney Arthur !R Wondler ihat "in the guise of attempting business is up 300 per DO YOU HAVE Who represented Acardi and is to improve competition in trans senger World War II The bus since cent recommendations the bank MONEY TO BURN? also counsel for the Troy portation and the train are being replaced told the court that "the bank had ultimately would destroy effective by the car Where —of course not! DOWN speed is no desire to prosecute Acardi for eompetition”- is toward wanted the air trend DELIVERS Then ANY of the Buy Generally the language the false entries” committee’s report is broad and vague but if and when it is sent to Congress with specific White House recommendations the fur will fly in earnest This is the public beginning of an intense fight which long has been stewing inside the industry The skirmish lines have extendcarriers) j ed from the White House through Congress and state legislatures to By BEM PRICE highway cops Since 1920 some WASHINGTON (AP) — A 250 million dollars — and that showdown such as hasn’t been probably is a low estimate — has spent by the industry to inseen since the iron horse knocked been fluence voters and achieve comout the stagecoach is building up petitive advantages through rate dollar making and legislation in the nation’s multi-billio- n transportation industry Wanted to Throw Off SThe iron horse — at least a In essence the railroads have streamlined dieselized version of wanted to throw off nearly all the iron horse — is again a major government regulation and open participant in the battle on a basis of devil the up industry On the other side are all other the hindmost take They want segments of the transportation into enter fields of (Editor's Note: A desperate fight for survival is shaping up in the vital transportation industry If you ride or ship by train bus plane— or even the family auto— you have a stake in the battle Here's the story of the ancient and bitter rivalry among the nation’s common L 63 g J Farewell -- -- o Bank Cashier Took $5000 to Boy Scout run-©v- n cr trans-jortatio- n $oo95 at -- S395 $495 $1295 half-forgotte- GRADUATION n j - pro-railro- ad y 01 - Moving Toward Crisis The industry has been moving steadily toward a crisis since World War I when trucks began taking to ihe highways in num bers As competing forms o transportation came into being the railrokds began a steady drumfire of criticism agains longstanding government regula tion and subsidies One result was the appointmen of the President’s committee which had as members Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks Secretary of Defense Charles E Wilson Secretary of the Treasury George M Humphrey Postmaster LANE! 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