RED VEST Issue Campaign

The in this RED VEST issue Campaign = * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION WEEK A New Look at Railroading VJHTl.lALLY eve'l'ything Ame1'icans FACT 1Ise mores by rail at some point of its formation ancl along the d'ist1'ilmtion Railroad rolling' stock owned 01' leased j'oute to consumej·s. The bed a pe'l'son as of Dec. 31, 1963 included 28,600 locomotives, 1,515,139 freight cars and Vol. 52 May-June 1964 No.2 sleep.~ in, the ala'l'm doc/,; that alvak ens llim, tlle b'reak/ast he eats, the 25,800 passenger cars. The freight conreyrmr.e he 1I8e8 to get to ·1COI'I.' car fleet, placed end to end, would all, in oue form 0'1' anotltp,j', depend form a solid train 14,348 miles long, on tl'ansp01·tation fOj' n/'ll' rn(lte1'irlls spanning the continent more than 4 and luuls basic to pTodllction. lVith times. ouf. it the1'e isn't a r.ity in the ~'nited States tlwl; lcouldn't come to a .r;rind FACT in!} pconomic halt. MARIE HOTTON N (I tional Transportation lVeek Hf'l'e are some of the things the rail (In roads do erej'Y 24 hours: Managing Editor "May 10-16 ott'el'ed oppoTtunity to '1'('111 inr7 the p/(blic of how that 'role is * Movr. about 9 tons of freight a dis played in 1964. The fol101cing high tance of one mile for every man, PUBLIC RELATIONS /il/hts (Jj'p, fj'om a "facts" bj'oc)ml'e woman and child in the United DEPARTMENT leh ieh was rlist1'ibutecl dW'ing that States. period to '[I(lssenge·rs on ow' commn * Pay nearly $14 million in wages. tel' trains 'in the Chicago (lj·ea. * Pay about $2.4 million in taxes. Union Station-Chicago * Spend ubout $6.7 million for equip FACT ment and supplies. The Milwaukee Rood Magazine is pub * ;\'1ovc more than 22 million pounds lished for active and retired employes of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Approximate]y 20% of Olll' t.otal I\n of mail, or more than 75% of all the 6- Pacific Railroad Company, to whom nation's domestic mail. it is distributed free. It is available nual expenditures for goods and sen' to others at $1.00 per year. Retired i<.:es, 01' our Gross National Product, employes may continue to receive it without cost by 'sending their address is made either directly 01' indirectly FACT to the circulation deportment. 824 Union Station, Chicago, III. 60606 for transportation of one kind 01' lInother. In 1962 this amounted to To feed the nation, the railroads $112 billion. transport more than 150 tons of agri cultul'lll products a year, approxi contents FACT Illlllely 9 million tons of animals and animal products, and llbout 15 million Red Vest Campaign Steps Up Traffic - 4 Transp01·tntion is a heavy user of tons of foods in cans and packages. other inclustri€',,' product", (;on~uming Total shipments by railroad in these Junior Achievement Advisers Honored ---------------------11 of the tata l ou tpu t : three catr.gories alone average nearly Rnbber 62% a ton for every "C nited States citizen. Aberdeen Division Again Wins Safety Contest ---------------12 Lead 50% St!'!'1 29% FACT Government by the People; Profiles of Employes Active in Civic Affairs---13 Aluminum , 23% Petroleum 50% Siner WOl'ld War II the railroaus Appointments ------------------15 Zinc 33% have invpsted $18.4 billion in modern Reservation Bureau Personnel Train Cement 21% ization of plant and equipment-more for New "One Call" Travel Service-IS COpppl' 19% t.han half again as much as the entire CYBERN ETlCS-A Clue to the Thinking Among Railroads Around the World -------------------16 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Standard of Service in Dining Cars Rates Fourth Public Health Citation ------ ·-------------17 THE COVER Retirements ------------------- -18 Chico.lJo to SpattIe-Tacoma. in 55¥z llOlII'S-81'lT• ice /.lICIt pj'ovides fo·1' l.hi·l'd mo·ming delin'j'Y of About People of the Railroad· ----- 20 freight thro'/!!Jllout the Puget Sound arca-is the pace being maintained he'l'e by XL Special 261 on a twisting ascent of a mountain gmde 1:n 11'1!st• e'l'n iHontana. Sow1.Cling a "Red Vest alej·t" to ow' j'oael's ne10 higllballing fj'aigllt schedllles be• tween (]hicago an(l the Pacific Northwest, a 56• man task /01'CC spent t11'O 1cceks in April selling ..~ slll:ppe1's in the Chicago rnetj'opolitan distj'ict on the merits of t'l'ain 261 and its eastbound running ~' mate, Thl/nclerhawk 262. For the St01'y of the ({tell and sell" campaign, ttwn to page 4. r -. net income of all railroads in that period, and more than one half the Member of Milwaukee Road Family Wins total investment in all U.S. railroads today. Furthermore, it was done with Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning out increasing the total a.mount of railroad debt and securities outstand ing. The total of this new investment is expected to be close to the $20 bil lion mark by the end of 1964. FACT Statistics of tons of freight and num ber of passengers do not tell the full story of how railroads help sustain the highest standard of living in the world. They do not show how rail roads each year ... *Contribute a total of about $9.6 bil lion to the national income. *Pa.y some $886 million in taxes into federal, state and local government treasuries. A recent family portrait of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Conrad with their sons. From left are *Spend nearly $2.5 billion for fuel Paul J., the famous cartoonist, Robert Jr., Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, and James, Paul's and a host of materials, supplies identical twin, Denver, Colo. and equipment. *Pay $382 million in dividends to investors in railroad properties and THE 1964 announcement of Pulitzer first over a hot telephone wire from his $410 million in interest payments to security holders and in rents for Prize winners May 4 was the cause of son Jim, Paul's twin, who operates an property. great elation to R. H. Conrad, our re art agency in Denver. The Conrads tired district freight and passenger have an older son, Robert Jr., living in FACT agent in Mason City, Ia., and his wife. Puerto Rico, where he is the manager America's 101 Class I railroads in Cited for the top award in editorial car of Foremost Dairies. 1963 hauled about 2.4 billion tons of tooning for 1963 was their son Paul J. Paul, who is 39, saw World War II freight a total of 622 billion ton-miles of the Los Angeles Times. action with the Army in the Pacific, fol ( Continued on page 10) Paul received the $1,000 prize for lowing which he enrolled at Iowa State "his distinctive work throughout the University. Later he transferred to the entire year rather than for anyone car University of Iowa as an art major, and toon" while he was with the Denver there drew editorial cartoons for the It Happened On • Post. Before joining the Los Angeles Daily Iowan for two years. He was • The Milwaukee Road paper in February he had been a mem hired by the Denver Post shortly after ber of the Post staff since 1950. graduating. From Dr. U. S. Geiger, Company Sur "Naturally, we were delighted by the last year he received the national geon, North English, la.: Back in the news," said Mr. Conrad, who got it award for editorial cartooning of Sigma days when small town section gangs Delta Chi, national professional journal were section gangs, Clyde Henson was ism society. Of his own profession, he the foreman in our town and Noah is quoted as saying, "You have to wrap Miller was his right hand man. up the point of a drama that may have In some way Clyde and Noah ac One Christmas day Noah had a big been playing for months, or even years, dinner for his relatives, and there were quired a dog. He was a short-haired on a stage as wide as the world, and black and white dog, a little larger than many leftovers. The little brown dog ate you've got to apply the 'needle' in places average, with bones very much in evi and ate, but it was too much. He walked familiar to everyone-but in such a dence. But with eats from the' men's out to the front of the house licking his dinner pails and from the back door of chops, looked back at the pan of food, manner that even the person needled the local hotel, he soon looked better. To g'ot a faraway look in his eye, and trot has a laugh at himself." His cartoons, the men he was known as "Sport", but ted off down the street. Soon he was characterized by a unique style and in people around town referred to him as back with Sport, and "The Milwaukee cisive wit and humour, are syndicated in "The Milwaukee Dog". Dog" took care of the situation without 81 newspapers. His big pleasure in cold weather, after any trouble. With his wife Kay, a former society helping the men with their lunch, was to Noah tells it for the truth and Noah ec!itor on the Denver Post, and four lITap himself around one of the potbel is an honorable man. And neither clog children, Paul visits his parents in has ever denied it.

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