Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1959 — Page 8

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Nation's Smallest Railroad Is Struck Three Men Strike, Line Still Running KENILWORTH, N. J. (UPDThe entire track - mainteanance labor force of the Rahway Valley Railroad was on strike and picketing the main line trackage today. but President George Clark said he figured he could keep the line running without them. The striking workmen comprise one-fifth of the total employes of the road. Three men are on strike. Counting the president, the line hires 15 men. Its main line runs 7.2 miles. A branch runs three miles. Counting all the sidings, the total trackage is 15.2 miles. "Being here practically all my life, and having learned railroading from my daddy when I was in knee britches, and knowing my tracks are in good shape, I figure, we can keept operating,” Clark said. "We never operate more than one train at a time and we never operate fastr than 15 miles an hour. Anything goes wrong with the track, supervisory employes—including me—can pitch in and fix it.” Wears Work Clothes The president of the road stands 6-feet-3, weighs 265 pounds, goes to work in railroad work clothes (“I never dress up because if I did nobody would recognize me”), wears an old-time regulation railroad pocket watch, and generally putters around the engine before it starts off in the morning. He will be 58 in March. The Rahway Valley started business in 1904. This is its first strike. The walkout began Wednesday. The strikers, three recent Italian immigrants, are members of the United Railroad Operating Crafts, an Independent union. They are striking for higher wages. The road’s other union members are the five-man engine and train crew, who belong to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Cross Picket Lines Before the day was out the crew union men had crossed the picket line 13 times—once when they went to fWork and 12 times when they tan the train through it. The pickets stepped aside. The Rahway Valley Railroad rolling stock consists of two diesel

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locomotives and one caboose. Only one diesel is used at a time, and the caboose hasn’t been used in several years. The tiny road’s business is hauling freight cars from the Jersey Central and the Lehigh Valley railroads on the south, and the Lackawanna on the north, to and from local industrial plants. So it switches and shuttles back and forth. BAD Continued troin page on* Lionel Dobrino, 56, Miami, Fla., was killed when his car went out of control on slushy U.S. 25 near Delphi and crashed into a parked truck. 7 —- —-- — t At Hammond, Carl Bellenbach, 50, died of a heart seizure after shoveling snow in front of his home. Nick Pennington, 77, Madison, also died of a heart attack while fleeing flood waters. AREA from pag* on* and toll facilities were down, including those to Huntington and Decatur. Bluffton city mall carriers wore "creepers,” or shoes with snow spikes, and all rural routes were ‘late. In Van Wert county, 0., Willshire, Delphos, Jefferson and the Van Wert school system remained open, and the rest closed. A total of 31 toll circuits were out of order at Van Wert. About 15 electric lines were out there. Rain was only 1.48 inches until noon Wednesday at Van Wert. In Celina, Mercer county. 0., 2.61 inches of rain fell, and ice and debris in the creeks caused serious floods. The worst flooding of sewers, basements and streets in the city's memory was reported there. The fire department stood by at Gibbons hospital to pump water. Utilities in the north part of the county and in Van Wert county took a serious beating. Jay county was only lightly hit. About 75 telephones out of 8.000 were out Wednesday. Only a few accidents were reported. In Huntington, 2.12 inches of rain fell, and many rural telephone lines were out. About half of the county schoolswere dosed. Further north at Kendallville, extremely heavy damage was reported. Blackford county suffered some damage, also. REPORT EFFORT Continued from page one thunderstorms and tornadoes. Flash floods broke obt Wednesday night in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Yprk, Kentucky and Tennessee. "This storm 'has produced just about everything in the way of weather that is possible in this .country,” the U.S. Weather Bureau in Chicago reported. A United Press International count showed at least 33 weatherconnected fatalities, including nine in Indiana, eight in Illinois, four each in lowa and Kentucky, three in Ohio, two in New Mexico and one each in Kansas, Michigan and I Oklahoma. Fires in the storm belt killed 21 persons, 17 of them children. Cities Declare Emergencies Snow or flood emergencies were declared Wednesday night in at least 11 cities, including Mount Vernon, Kenton, Bucyrus, Hamilton, St. Marys, Leetonia and Newton Falls, Ohio; Decatur, Ill.: Lackawanna, N.Y.; Madison, Ind., and Sharon, Pa. Ohio was hit by its worst floods in 20 years which forced up to 10,000 persons to flee their homes and caused at least three deaths. At Buffalo, NY., a 450-foot grain boat broke loose from its moorings in the swollen Buffalo river land snapped a steel bridge “like a matchstick.” No one was injured. | Earlier Wednesday tornadoes and wind gusts up to 90 miles an hour ripped through parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi. Georgia, Louisiana and Kentucky. Three persons died tn Kentucky twisters, including a woman receptionist killed when an antenna crashed through the roof of a television station in Lexington. If you have something to sell oi rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad — They bring results

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