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Agribusinessman
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also taken other FFA
projects that have included
pigs and beef. Last year, Jim
won the Jaycee steer and has
showed the animal at the
Ephrata Fair and the
Keystone Livestock Ex
position.
He has received all the
FFA degrees and this year
won the FFA Regional
Agribusinessman award.
Jim has served as Chaplin
and treasurer for the
Cloister Chapter and has
been on many committees
including the scholarship
committee as well as the
Earnings and Savings group.
As a sophomore, he was a
member of the FFA’s Meat
Judging team and went to
Kansas City for competition.
He has been a member of the
Ski Club in school and has
also been involved with the
boy’s physical fitness
program. As a member of
the Stumptown Church he is
also active in the youth
group.
Jim, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin B. Felpel,
RD2, Ephrata, is not only
talented but sincere in his
work and projects.
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overhauling a truck that he
needed to transport his steer
to the Farm Show.
“I hope I get it finished,”
he explained “because I
want to show my steer."
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the Farm Show with not one
FFA project but two.
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In two different actions
Penn Ag Industries
Association, Ephrata,
responded recently to
proposals advanced by the
United States Railway
Association, a quasi
govememental organization
charged by Congress to
restructure bankrupt nor
theast rail lines. Both actions
related to branch or light
density rail lines needed for
bulk agricultural com
modities such as grain, feed
ingredients and fertilizer in
rural Pennsylvania.
The state-wide trade
association of agribusiness
firms who buy from and sell
to agricultural producers
suggested an amendment to
proposed standards ad
vanced by the USRA for
interim rail abandonments,
defined as those aban
donments permitted before
final plans are developed.
The suggestion, advanced by
Penn Ag executive-vice
President Donald W.
Parke,of Lancaster would
require rail carriers which
file requests for interim
abandonment to show the
reason why such hasty ac
tion was necessary and could
not wait for final plans to be
developed by USRA,
sometime in late 1975.
“Although there have been
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very few branch lines ap
proved for abandonment by
USRA under this section of
the Law, it is always a
possibility and we are at
tempting to insure that
branch line customers won’t
be out-maneuvered by some
technicality,” Parke said.
The other statement was a
response to the USRA An
nual Report by Penn Ag’s
president, Ned L. Clark of
Shamokin. Reaction to the
report Was requested by the
Rail Services Planning
Office, a division within the
Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Clark criticized the report
for its lack of specific in
formation and its emphasis
on branch lines.
“Branch lines do not
deserve this much emphasis.
Cutting so-called un
profitable branch lines is
only one drop in a very large
bucket,” Clark indicated.
“In spite of the thousands of
testimonies presented in last
spring’s rail hearmgs on the
devastation widespread rail
abandoments would have,
the USRA report, the
remarks by its represen
tatives and additional
branch line studies by USRA
staff indicate very little
change in basic attitude.
“Branch lines have been
the whipping boy of rail
bankruptcies. We suggest a
positive and creative ap
proach to branch line
management. Must branch
lines have the same track
standards, the same rate
structure, the same service,
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the same profit as main
lines? Why aren’t
profitability studies run on
other phases of railroading?
This continuing emphasis on
curtailment of service is one
of the factors leading to
bankruptcies in the first
place and there is no reason
to think the new Conßail
corporation could make it
work either.
“Branch line rights-of-way
are an important asset in our
national transportation
system which should not be
cast off easily. No business
ever operated which was
profitable in every single
division every year. We
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believe many branch lines
can be profitable if negative
thinking can be changed ”
Clark concluded. ’
Previously the state-wide
organization had called on
shippers of different types ot
organize and exchange data
in preparation for the
Preliminary System Plan
announcement due February
26 frohi USRA. This is the
date when specific details
and recommendations by the
full USRA will be presented
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