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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, June 19, 1975
Energy office is reorganized
The analysis and monitoring of Kansas' energy resources will be the primary function of the Kansas Energy Office, which will begin operations July 1.
The new office replaces the Kansas Fuel Allocation Office, which will close June 30.
The new office will have different responsibilities from its predecessor, William Hambleton, acting director of the new office, said Monday.
While the primary function of the Fuel Allocation Office has been to allocate fuel, he said, the energy office will serve as an ancillary service for an energy management resources.
Kansas Senate Bill 13, which created the energy office, defines energy resources as "any recognized substance or process that can be used to obtain energy, or any form of energy."
Examples of these resources include coal, propane, electricity, gasoline, kerosene, agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel and solar, wind and geothermal energy. Hampton
The energy office will monitor and forecast the supply and demand of energy resources and provide information and assistance to alleviate any shortages that may occur.
Senate Bill 13, passed in the 1975 session, says the director will serve as a coordinator for the allocation of funding for fuel allocation programs in Kansas and for other programs of the Federal Energy Administration and similar organizations related to the allocation, support or enforcement of laws in Kansas.
Other items listed by the bill as the responsibility of the energy office director
— to provide a continuing liaison between other state agencies, private industry and the federal government in all matters affecting energy resources;
—to develop and promote conservation programs for consumers of energy
— to set up fuel allocation priorities for any emergency situation;
- to initiate, assist and coordinate
  applications by persons for federal funds and
  other assistance for energy resources
  development and conservation activities;
—to monitor and forecast the supply and demand situation of energy resources and to provide information and coordination to alleviate any shortages.
The energy office will conduct energy education programs as directed by the Federal Energy Administration, Hambleton said.
Besides a change in responsibilities, the energy office will be changing locations. The Fuel Allocation Office is in the State Office Building, Topeka; the Kansas Energy Office will be at 503 Kansas, Topeka.
Coleman savs Rock Island should merge
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)—Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman Jr. should back Jack Island but should be consolidated with other railroads.
Coleman, the Philadelphia lawyer who
caused transportation secretary three
months ago, talked about the Rock Island
Aspen interview with the Daily OKlahman.
Coleman said the Rock Island problem could be solved quickly, easily and painlessly if Rock Island officials would agree with him.
"It's only because the people that are running the Rock Island want to take a chance. If you don't solve the problem," he said, "Believe me, the Rock Island problem can be solved in six months without any loss of service, with the shareholder without a doubt, at the amount of federal money."
Rock Island filed for bankruptcy reorganization March 17. It now appears it will continue operating indefinitely under the federal court's usuridiction.
Two weeks ago, U.S. District Court Judge Frank McGarr authorized the line to go ahead with $11 million in negotiated wage increases.
The court-appointed trustee's attorney, Mr. Murray, said at that time, "We expect the judge to conduct the case."
Coleman said he cannot force the merger he wants because the line is privately owned. But under legislation that has subverted Court rulings, Coleman requires railroads seeking federal loans to agree to consolidation, merger or joint operation plans as a condition for receiving funding.
Coleman said too many railroads are duplicating the services of other lines.
"All of the Rock Island service is duplicated by other service, and so much so that a person in the Rock Island might shut down, I was informed that 96 per cent of the customers would be served by other lines and that there was room to require special arrangements," he said.
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Coleman said the line from Oroma to
six railroads, including Rock Island.
"I just can't imagine why it's in the public interest to say that all six railroads should continue to run that distance, or to say that if we had a program of fixing up the track that we'd fix up the track of all six of the railroads," he said.
Coleman said that although the Rock Island was the only railroad running through much of the nation's railroads, he would cost more than trucking the grain to other lines.
Rock Island officials told him grain supply problems forced to pay higher taxes to truck the grain.
Coleman's public affairs man said the transportation secretary did not mean that she disliked completely, but only that it would be taken up by other lines. Coleman agreed.
Other lines have looked at Rock Island's
other locations and have estimated it would
cost $100 to $2000.
Money will still have to be spent to revamp the Rock Island track so other lines
can use it, he said and the expenditure will be more economically justifiable.
"In the merger of the lines, you would perhaps eliminate the track so that freight would move over a different track," he said. "You'd have to spend money to fix it up, but you're fixing it up for a much bigger system, and it makes more sense."
Pacific, Union Pacific and Santa Fe have the money and would be willing to fix it up."
Coleman said a merger would lower the cost of revamping to the point where private firms could offer it.
"All I know is that it would lower the cost so that the government would not have to put up any money whatsoever, other than guaranteed loans," he said. "The Southern
Coleman also said the eastern railroad problem and the Rock Island problem are
"In the northeast, the bankrupt railroads serve 68 per cent of the manufacturing activity in the entire United States," he said. Railroads shut down, there be no institute to run them and island situation, there are other solvent railroads willing and able to pick it up."
The tragedy is that the shareholder们 mergered if it was intact, he said.
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