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Page 87The Battalion/Wednesday, January 22, 1986
A&M prof: Government
should aid rail systems
University News Service
The government or some quasi
public organization should take over
railroad rights-of-way to rehabilitate
and modernize the rail system and
help improve services and profits for
railroad companies, says a Texas
A&M business analyst.
Dr. Warren Rose of A&M’s Col
lege of Business Administration has
examined the feasibility of the fed
eral government or some quasi pub-
railroad rights-of-way, while the rail
carriers continue to perform actual
operations.
While industry unions and man
agement don’t like the idea because
they believe it falls just short of com
plete nationalization — a bad word
to any capitalist — Rose believes the
plan actually would be to their ad
vantage.
“I’m talking about the tracks, tun
nels, bridges, signaling and commu
nication systems — the physical fa
cilities — not about equipment
owned by railroad companies,” he
said.
“Railroad tracks are deteriorating
and the facilities are in bad shape
from age, overuse and from the
practice of limited or deferred main
tenance. When it gets right down to
it, the companies just don’t have the
capital to make improvements in lieu
of other investment opportunities.”
Rose, who is refining his proposal
and plans to submit it for review to
federal transportation officials, says
the change would free railroad com
panies from maintaining the tracks
and facilities.
“They could spend the extra time
and money improving their business
and services,” he said.
To critics who say government
would be less efficient in running
the railroads. Rose points out that
during World War I when the gov
ernment took over the rail system
the lines ran as efficiently as when
private industry ran them, consid
ering the emergency nature of the
business at that time.
Rose said the initial investment
for purchasing, rehabilitating and
modernizing the facilities would be
anywhere frorm $16 billion to $26
billion — about half for purchasing
the rights-of-way and $8 billion to
$ 11 billion for improvements. He es
timates the annual maintenance ex
pense for maintaining the nation’s
railroads and facilities would range
between $2 billion to $6 billion.
He said funds for the investment
could come from appropriations by
the federal government if it takes
over the facilities, or from private in
vestors who would make a return on
their investment from user charges
both for freight and passenger serv
ice.
lieve it would cause problems with
scheduling and reduce services as
well as competitive inequities.
“TJte information is inconclusive
at this time on whether there would
be any scheduling problems, but
with mathematical modeling tech
niques, I believe someone, whether
the government or otherwise, will be
in a position to handle scheduling.”
Rose’s proposal also would mean a
change in pricing system for railroad
companies and he says it could actu
ally help reduce prices. The carriers’
pricing policies should become more
aggressive with the added competi
tion resulting from all the lines being
able to use the tracks, he said.
“The verdict on whether opera
tions would become more efficient is
mixed,” he said, “but I think with
proper planning and a good frame
work devoted almost exculsively to
modernizing and maintaining rail
roads, the government or some or
ganization could be just as efficient,
if not more so.
“Nationwide we’re having serious
Rail officials think it
would be nationalizing the
industry and believe it
would cause problems
with scheduling and re
duce services.
— Dr. Warren Rose, A&M
professor.
“Unions are concerned because
they believe it might mean less jobs,
but it would actually mean more
jobs,” Rose said. “Management in
the industry doesn’t like the idea
mostly because it doesn’t think any
body should be taking over its busi
ness. Rail officials think it would be
nationalizing the industry and be-
infrastructure problems with pro
viding public services, such as prob
lems with water systems, proper sew
age disposal systems, the interstate
highways, the rail system, all of
which were built many, many years
ago and have deteriorated.”
Utoh coupii
arrested by
FBI for fraud
Associated Press
DALLAS — A Utah maniL
his wife, accused of defraucl
South Dakota residents wiii
mail order vending machine:
ness, have been arrested in!
las, the FBI announcedTuesc
Roy Lee Cole, 61, and hisi
Virginia Cole, 46, had been!,
lives since their indictmenl
Aug. 30, 1984 by a Sioux!
S.D., federal grand jury. Tli(|
count indictment charged
with fraud by wire, mail I
and interstate transpomtio:
stolen property.
Bobby R. Gillham, spej
agent in charge of the FBIs
las office, said the couple wj
rested without incident Mo:
afternoon. They were empkj
by a Dallas physical funesscf j
he said.
The indictment said Coitj
his wife operated a firmlr.
name of International kl
ment Services Corp. from 1
City, Utah. The firm
vertisements in newsp:
throughout the United Staicj
vertising a second income:!
vending machine business j
furnished a toll-free numberl
prospective customers to oil I
ers ordered and paid for tlx
chines but never received
the indictment said.
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The vending machine busJ
was in operation from aboiiij
15, 1981 through March6..
the indictment said.
UT gets ‘foundation of English culture
‘
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The University of
Texas obtained Tuesday the Pforz-
heimer Library, a collection of more
than 1,000 of the earliest English-
language books, volumes university
President William Cunningham
called “the foundation of English
culture.”
The collection includes a copy of
the first book printed in English,
plus rare works of poetry, prose,
drama and essays by Chaucer,
Shakespeare, Bacon, Donne, Locke
and others.
University officials described the
1,100 books and 250 manuscript
groups — which span the years 1475
to 1700 — as being so rare it would
be impossible to assemble them to
day.
“This was truly a once-in-a-life-
time opportunity,” said Jess Hay,
chairman of the UT regents.
Cunningham said, “The Pforz-
heimer Library is the last major col
lection of works representing the
foundation of English culture re
maining in private hands. A similar
collection could not be gathered to
day since these books and docu
ments . . . are simply not available.”
Instrumental in the acquisition
was Dallas billionaire H. Ross Perot,
who paid $15 million for the books.
The university will raise funds to re
pay Perot.
Perot said he received an unsoli
cited phone call offering him the li
brary, adding that earlier contact be
tween the UT and the Pforzheimer
family helped clinch the deal. In
1978, UT purchased an original Gu
tenberg Bible from the New York
City-based Pforzheimer Foundation.
“They were very, very sensitive
about who the books went to,” Perot
said. “Just money wouldn’t get these
books.
“My role is that of an intermed
iary. We wanted to get these books at
the university. We want the greatest
university in the world here in our
state. We are in the process of build
ing it.”
Decherd Turner, director of UT’s
Harry Ransom Humanities Re
search Center where the books will
be housed, said the library is unique.
“On these items the contours of
our minds have been formed,”
Turner said.
Collected by Carl H. Pforzheimer
Sr. over a period of some 50 years,
the library includes:
• “Recuyell of the historyes of
Troye,” printed in 1475 by the first
English printer, William Caxton.
• The four folios of Shakespeare
from 1623, 1632, 1663 and 1685.
• The Cloverdale Bible, 1535, the
first complete Bible in English.
• Chaucer’s “Works,” 1532.
• Francis Bacon’s “Essayes,”
1597, the first edition of the renown
English essayist.
• “Poems, by J.D.,” the first col
lected edition of John Donne’s po
etry, 1633.
• John Locke’s “An Essay Con
cerning Humane Understanding,”
1690.
• “The Generali Historic of Vir
ginia,” by Captain John Smith, 1624,
the first sizable work in English
about North America.
“Exceedingly rare, each laterally
is worth its weight in gold — and
then some,” he said.
Perot said he bought the books for
UT so scholars could have access to
them and so inexpensive facsimiles
r
Turner noted that the collection
includes 15 Shakespeare quartos,
the earliest forms in which the play
wright’s works appeared in print.
Accused killer term
psychotic by witness
Associated Press
ODESSA — Arthur Lee Mac
Leod, a former elementary tea
cher who admitted strangling his
ex-Playboy bunny wife to death,
was described by a defense wit
ness Tuesday as a psychotic and
alcoholic.
But Lubbock psychologist
Richard Wall, who also described
the late Evelyne Feather Mac
Leod as a manipulative psycho
path, testified MacLeod would be
a good probation candidate if he
stopped drinking.
Testimony in MacLeod’s mur
der trial here focused Tuesday on
the mental health and psychologi
cal histories of the defendant and
the victim, whose head and hands
were found buried in the couple’s
yard last year. Their stormy
relationship has become a key to
what is now the trial’s central is
sue: MacLeod’s intent and state
of mind on the night he killed his
wife.
If convicted of murder, Mac
Leod faces life or from five to 99
years in prison. If convicted of
voluntary manslaughter, he
get no more than 20 years
Criminal District Attornej
Bob Darnell pointed out
Wall’s findings were based
what MacLeod told him la
gust, two months after the
not on police reports.
MacLeod is a repressivepei
who tends to deny problems
they become unmanageable*
explained. Mrs. MacLeod,
he saw in 1983, -was dqites*
suicidal and an alcohof and«
abuser who used other pet*
and then became angry*!
them, Wall said.
MacLeod accepted peculiat |
havior by his wife, Wall said,f f
he learned of her sordid pai
March. Their fighting inert
dramatically after that poin
said, and she became morel
terical when MacLeod
longer believe her.
MacLeod admitted
that he strangled his wife of: |
months during an argument
15 but testified he did not
member dismembering her 1»
in an alcoholic stupor.
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