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Henderson Daily Dispatch
Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina
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North Carolina Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne denies carriers' claims of discriminatory intrastate freight rates in response to their ICC petition for increases, following a 7.8% rate reduction.
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Raleigh, Oct. 23 (AP)-State Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne denied today North Carolina's new intrastate class freight rates are discriminatory, as charged by carriers in a recent petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission for increase of the tariffs.
"We do not deny that rates may be lower within the State since the change, but we challenge the statement that North Carolina's intrastate rates are any lower than other states". Winborne said. He added the Utilities Commission would confer with the I. C. C. before the hearing on the petition.
The carriers said in their petition the new rates caused "undue and unreasonable preference and prejudice as between persons and localities in intrastate commerce in North Carolina on one hand and interstate commerce on the other hand, bringing undue, unreasonable and unjust discrimination against interstate commerce."
Following a hearing last spring, the commission granted a 7.8 percent reduction in intrastate class freight rates.
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Oct. 23
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the commission granted a 7.8 percent reduction in intrastate class freight rates following a hearing last spring.
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State Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne denied that North Carolina's new intrastate class freight rates are discriminatory, as charged by carriers in a petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission for an increase. Winborne stated that rates may be lower within the state but challenged claims that they are lower than in other states, and the Utilities Commission would confer with the I.C.C. before the hearing. The carriers claimed the new rates cause undue preference and discrimination against interstate commerce.