4 Yes’ vote urged to save rails
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Voters
in at least nine Maryland
counties have their vital
interests on the ballot in the
form of Question 16 which
would allow the state to step
in and save nine rural rail
lines.
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The Maryland
Agricultural Commission
has unanimously gone on
record urging all
Marylanders to vote “Yes”
on Question 16 which ap
pears on the November 2nd
ballot. The proposal would
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ammend the Maryland
Constitution to allow the
state to spend funds on
railroad improvements.
But, as Commission
Chairman William Klein
wachter of Preston says,
“The question, as worded on
the ballot, does not make it
clear what is at stake. The
legal wording refers to
“internal improvements”
and does not mention
railroads.
“What is involved,”
Kleinwachter said, “is
authority for’the Maryland
Department of Tran
sportation to spend funds for
desperately needed repair
work on the nine rail lines
involved. At present, the
Maryland Constitution
forbids the state or its
agencies from spending
money for such proposes.
“The lines, eight on the
Eastern Shore and one that
comes from the Penn
sylvania State Line through
Carroll County to Frederick,
are presently so badly
deteriorated that it is im
possible to provide adequate
service over them, much less
think about providing more
service.
“If they can not be quickly
repaired they will die from
not being able to- do the
amount of business needed to
keep them viable. The state
has contracted with the new
Federal rail operation, Con-
Rail, to operate them and to
as low as
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help subsidize the operation
<on a day to day basis, but no
provision has yet been made
to do vitally needed repair
work. Con-Rdil doesn’t have
the funds to do it and unless
Question 16 is approved by
Maryland voters, the state
won’t be able to do the
repairs.
“The state money involved
would not come from bonds
but would come from the
regular transportation trust
fund which is administered
by the Maryland Depart
ment of Transportation. The
long range goal is to get the
lines upgraded so that they
can be operated at a profit
and then turned over to
solvent, private rail firms.
“Loss of these lines would
pose a great threat to
agriculture and many
related agri-businesses in
Frederick, Carroll, Kent,
Queen Anne’s, Caroline,
Talbot, Dorchester,
Wicomico and Worcester
Counties which now depend
on these lines for heavy
movement of bulk goods
such as fertilizer, feedstuffs,
chemicals, equipment and
packaging materials. There
are other, non-agricultural
businesses which now use
these lines and would prefer
to use them more if they can
provide adequate service at
reasonable speed. Condition
of much of the trackage of
these lines now is so poor
that a bare minimum speed
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staffers attend PSU seminar
WEST CHESTER, Pa. -
Virginia Bush, chairman of
Home Economics Advisory
Committee, and Katherine
Smiley, member, Executive
Board of Directors and
Home Economics Advisory
Committee, were among
nearly 300 volunteer and
professional leaders all
across Pennsylvania who
were invited guests of the
Cooperative Extension
Service of The Pennsylvania
State University at
“Seminar on The Family -
1976”.
The conference, held at the
University Park Campus of
Penn State October 13 and
14, included leaders from the
and service can be provided.
“It is a question of spen
ding a reasonable amount of
money now on the part of the
state in a gamble to save a
vital service that would cost
much more’through higher
transportation costs, in the
future to replace.
“Consumers have a stake
also. Loss of agricultural
production in the areas
served by these lines, or high
unit costs for food produced
in these key Maryland
agricultural counties
brought on by higher tran
sportation costs, will hurt
everyone,” Kleinwachter
concluded.
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Chester County Extension
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Service staff, civic groups
and governmental agencies
interested in improving the
welfare of Pennsylvania
families.
Katherine Smiley par
ticipated in a panel
discussion on her function as
an advisory committee
member in “Designing
Programs for the Future.”
Trudy Dougherty, Chester
County Extension home
economist, presented a slide
presentation on “Learning to
Live With Inflation, It’s Here
to Stay.” The slides
described the many
workshops, newsletters, and
multi-county efforts to help
families evaluate their
financial security.
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seminar included James M.
Beattie, Dean of the College
of Agriculture and director
of the Cooperative Extension
Service at Penn State;
Thomas B. King, associate
Extension director; Helen E.
Bell, coordinator of
Extension family living
programs; Emory J. Brown,
assistant director for
Extension programming;
Mary Allen Jolley, director
of public affairs, American
Home Economics
Association; and Richard C.
Hyde, senior vice president
of Hill and Knowlton, Inc.
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