The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-08-31
FUEL SITUATION
MORE ENCOURAGING
100000 TONS EXPECTED TO,
REACH THE NORTHWEST
EACH WEEK .
FEDERAL RED TAPE CUT
MUST CONSERVE FUEL WHEN.
EVER POSSIBLE-DANGER
NOT PASSED

Washington, Aug. 29.-The North
vests prospects for getting coal
frightened measurably late today
when the Interstate Commerce Com
mission issued a new priority order
that is expected to move at least
100000 tons week to Lake Erie
ports.
While the order puts Lake coal in
Class 2 priority, an explanatory state
ment issued by the commission says,
deficiencies in the capacity of the
docks at Erie ports will be made up
by special Class 1 permits. Anywhere
from million to a million and half
tons week can be handled on the
Lakes, it isssaid ~.
Donald D. Conn, chairman of the
Northwest governors commission, is
well satisfied with the new order. He
said: :.
Amendment No. to service order
No. % issued by the Interstate Com
merce Commission today places all
Lake coal in Class 2. If Class 2, does.
not move at least 100000 tons a
week to the lower Lakes then a
Glass l permit will be issued for the
difference in tonnage between the
amount which does move onT Class
and the capacity of the Lowers lake
docks. ... IS,
"It should be understood that's
while this turn in affairs is encourag-
ing, that the public of the Northwest
must not discount the seriousness Of
their fuel situation and every method
possible should be instituted by the
individual user to conserve"
In some quarters the new order is:
declared to be even more drastic than
service order No. 10, which Commits
sioner Atchison refused to put in
force again. The suggestions was
made that so much coal probably
will be diverted to the lakes now that
attempts will be made to halt the
order Through the courts. =.
Explaining its order the Commits
sion issued the following notice to-
the press: =
"The increase in production Of
bituminous coal, and the opening of
field recently closed, near to impor--
tant markets, have made it possible:
for the Interstate Commerce COM
mission to re-ararnge the list of pri-
ority uses embraced in service under
No. %, as previously amended. By
further amendment today the emer-
gency uses are all embraced in Class
2; Glass 1 is reserved for such ex-
traordinary cases. as may be desig-
mated from time to time by the Com
mission; all other uses fall within
Class 8.
Certain pressing needs Of the rail-
roads and of the portion of the
Northwest which virtually must be-
served by water before the close of
Lake navigation will be met by
proper assignments of particular.
shipments to Class /. "
Certificates from state fuel adj
ministrators or committees as to the
character of use and bona fides of
the transaction will be deemed suf-
ficient evidence for the carries in
carrying out the direction for priori-
ty as to coal for domestic and build-
ing heating purposes, as well as 9th
er evidence of the right of a par
ticular shipment to be placed within
the priority class.
BLINDED TRACTOR EXPERT
A North Dakota young man, blinded
by gas during his service in France,
has become a tractor expert.
The United States Veterans Bur-
can rehabilitated him by giving him
a course at The Evergreen School for
the Blind at Baltimore, where he
learned to read and write Braille,
which is the system of writing in use
among the blind. He also learned to
use the typewriter. He was then
given course in State Auto School,
specializing in tractor designing, and
later was given placement training
in big tractor factory. Being nat
urally of mechanical turn of mind
and an alert young man he not only
became a good tractor mechanic, cap
able of making ordinary adjustments
and repairs, but real tractor ex-
pert.
s He is now devoting great deal of
his time to what is apparently a
well-conceived plan for a new type
of tractor. At present he has only
one or two problems to be solved be-
fore his design is completed.