C.A.B.Ends Youth Fare
Many students' travel plans will be severely affected
by the elimination of discount youth fares, announced
Dec. 7 by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). The Na
tional Student Lobby (NSL) and senior citizen groups
are seeking to reverse the CAB decision through Congres-
sional action.
CAB voted 3-2 that domestic
youth fares are unjustly discrimi
natory and should no longer be per
mitted. The decision implied the
same fate for international youth
fares.
"The wolf is at the door," said
NSL Executive Director Layton Ol
son. "Although CAB has set no
specific date for terminating youth
fares pending a hearing early in
1973, on the effect of such a move,
the discounts could very well end
as early as March. Since Congress
can prevent CAB from eliminating
youth fares, students should ask
Congressmen Harley Staggers (D-W.
Va.), John Jarmen (D-Okla.) and
Sam Devine (R-Ohio) to insure
that the House Interstate and For
eign Commerce Committee sends
the youth fare question to the
House floor during the first half of
1973," said Olson. "Students can
also ask their own congressman and
senators to vote for youth fares
when the question comes up."
Senators Frank Moss (D-Utah)
and Charles Percy (R-lll.) and Cong.
James Harvey (R-Mich.) introduced
bills in the last Congress authorizing
discount fares for both youth (un
der age 22) and/or senior citizens
(over age 65). The youth and aging
groups made a powerful coalition.
The Moss-Percy bill passed the Se
nate but died in a House-Senate
conference due to a stalemate on
another issue. NSL will inform its
200 member schools and other stu
dents when such bills are reintro
duced.
"CAB will continue to defer
final cancellation of youth fares
if students and Congress start to
take action," said Russell Lehrman,
head of Continental Marketing
Corp., a Houston-based youth fare
sales concern.
In 1968 CAB reversed its own
examiner when college students
protested the examiner's decision
that youth fares were unjustly dis
criminatory. CAB has soured on
youth fares since then after receiv
ing mail from older travelers and
Power Blackout
Monday, January 8, in the
termath of a paralyzing snow storm
the power failed. At approximately
six fifteen p.m. Ron Keene, head
of the maintenance department,
watched as a lightning bright blue
bolt of electricity arched from a
faulty piece of equipment located
at Guilford's transformer station,
bathing the half darkened and snow
covered campus with an eery flash.
Lights went out all over the cam
pus.
Initially, at around 5 that even
ing, some areas of the campus ex
perienced dimmed lights, and the
boilers supplying Guilford with
steam heat entirely ceased to func
tion. Keene summoned Duke Pow
er repairmen to investigate the fail
ure. The repairmen replaced a fuse
located on Friendly Avenue. How
ever, the faulty piece, an oil switch,
after being repaired caused another
short out.
The repairmen briefly surveyed
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legal pressure from Continental
Trailways Bus System, which has
lost riders due to low air fares.
The majority of CAB members
admitted that the discount fares
undoubtedly generate more traffic
for airlines, but the board argued
that the fares are closed to people
who would otherwise travel dis
count fare and are open to people
who would otherwise travel full
fare to an extent that this age dis
crimination is unjust. The minority
argued that the discounts raise so
much added revenue that, rather
than burden full fare passengers,
i they benefit these travelers by con
, tributing to common fixed costs.
I Moreover, if any airline feels it's
> losing on youth fares, they can cut
or abolish the discounts, the
i dissenters added.
; As NSL points out, airlines
i make healthy profits on youth
fares except when guaranteeing re
i servations. Some airlines have sche
duled extra planes for youth fare
passengers while others have offi-
the situation and decided to shut
off power to the campus in order to
replace the faulty part. Consequent
ly, campus residents found them
selves in dark buildings which were
beginning to grow cold.
The weather, with temperatures
in the 20's and 5 inches of snow,
made repair procedures more diffi
cult. Replacement of the faulty
part was finally completed at 10:30
p.m.. If the power had been out
much longer the mishap could have
resulted in other more serious diffi
culties such as freezing and/or
breakage of steamlines.
The maintenance department
and the Duke power repairmen
concluded that the snow and cold
weather, with the accompanying
! heavy power demands, were possi
bly, but not necessarily, responsi
, ble for the failure.
Despite the dramatic night,
classes began as usual the next
I morning.
The Qtiiffordion
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1973
YFU Speaker
Carl V. Angelis, field director'
of Youth for Federal Union, will
speak today at 2:30 p.m. in 223
King Hall. The meeting is open to
cially offered reserved seats at
youth fare prices. Both de facto
and official guaranteed-seat youth
fares are unfair and uneconomical
in comparison to standby fares.
However, the board lumped both
kinds of fares together in its argu
ment that the fares are not suffi
cient in generating passengers and
revenue to warrant discriminating
against middle-aged passengers.
Youth fares were made to at
tract passengers who did not have
settled travel habits. The restricted
standby discounts were justified on
the grounds that young people have
more time than money while many
middle-aged travelers are business
men with travel expense accounts
and fixed schedules.
Guilford's "Old Faithful" back in service. Photo by Gerrity
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