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...riders will, without publicity, begin testing segregation in bus terminals in Alabama "to see if the law still exists in that area." The law is an ICC ruling which prohibits such segregation, but Gov. Patterson has recently said the law does not apply to his state. If necessary, Alabama will close its terminals and have the buses stop at telephone poles, he has said...
...Warning Whistle. The new ICC proposal is unlikely to get to Congress before next year, and when it does, the rails are apt to prove slippery. Already the warning whistle was blowing on Capitol Hill. Cried Ohio's Democratic Senator Frank Lausche: "Sweat on, you taxpayers. Let Congress take more money out of your pockets and pay it to those who imprudently run their businesses...
...down the land preaching that only Government subsidies could save the nation's railroad passenger operations from extinction. The Interstate Commerce Commission, historically opposed to rail subsidies, pretended not to hear. But last week, with the New Haven in bankruptcy and Alpert back at lawyering, the ICC did a roundhouse turn. After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer. Testifying before a Senate Commerce subcommittee last week, ICC Chairman Everett Hutchinson, with the support of nine of the commission's eleven mem bers...
Merely Temporary? Indignantly, ICC members denied that the gleam of nationalization was in their eye, pointed out that airlines and motor transport are both presently subsidized in one form or another-but are still far from nationalized...
Insisting that what it would really like to see would be reduced subsidies for the railroads' competitors, the ICC argued that this could not be accomplished in time to save the railroads. The rail subsidy, claimed the commission, would serve only as a stopgap measure until the day when subsidies could be trimmed all around to equalize competition for everybody in the business of moving people. This had a plausible ring, but even those who favored the ICC plan found it difficult to believe that railroad handouts, once begun, would ever...