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CN wants to close

PLESSISVILLE, QUE. (CP) -
For the last 60 years, Gilles Croteau's
company has been shipping maple
syrup by train in huge, sterilized
tank cars to U.S. markets asfar away
as San Jose, Calif.

Indeed, it was the railway that
lured maple-syrup producers to
Plessisville in the first place.

Now Canadian National wants to
close the branch line that serves
Plessisville one of more than a
dozen money-losing branch lines the
major railways want to abandon in
Quebec within the next year.

Plessisville Mayor Madeleine Dus.
seault predicted a bleak future for
her town’s fledgling industrial park if
the line is abandoned.

She said companies won't settle in
the region without guarantees of
low-cost, bulk-material train trans
port

“We already feel terribly isolated
and neglected — as if we were
unknown territory,” said Dusseault,
whose town of 10,000 lies halfway
between Montreal and Quebec City.
“The psychological impact of losing
the railway will crush us.”

CN would like to abandon one
third of its track in Eastern Canada.
CP says about half of its tracks in
Quebec bring in only a “minuscule”
amount of business.

CN spokesman Jean-Guy Brodeur
says he sympathizes with businesses
that might suffer when branch lines
are closed.

“But CN is not a charity,” Brodeur
said in an interview. “And its
vocation isn't economic expansion
and development either. If the gov-
ernment decides we should play this

Record car sales
for half year

By The Canadian Press

Trucks drove Chrysler's sales up in
June, while Canadian sales for the
other Big Three North American
automakers eased off after several
strong months

But all three topped their 1987
record sales for the first six gponths
of the year

General Motors and Ford said they
weren't troubled by sharp sales
drops in the month of June, com
pared with the same month last year
Underlying demand remains strong,
spokesmen said

Chrysler said its combined car and
truck sales climbed 10.9 per cent to
25,822 vehicles compared with the
same month a year ago, while Gen
eral Motors said its sales fell 11.3 per
cent to 53,681 vehicles and Ford re.
ported a 10.5-per-cent decline to
35,215.

“There was some expectation that
June would be a relatively slower
month, simply as a temporary respite
following the past three-months—of
exceptionally strong vehicle sales,”
said Bill Atkinson, vice-president of
sales service and marketing with
General Motors. .

“We're not surprised that- this
June did not match last June's
unusually high record levels,” said
Udo Kaul, Ford's vice-president of
sales

Chrysler's truck sales increased
27.6 per cent to 11,191 this June
compared to last and for the first half
of the year truck sales were up a
whopping 54.9 per cent to 62,586
vehicles.

HIGHER SALES

The Big Three all reported higher
sales for the first six months of 1988.
GM's sales were up 4.1 per cent to
298,878 cars and trucks, Ford sales
rose 2.8 per cent to 190,413 vehicles
and Chrysler was ahead 20.7 per cent
with sales of 149,397 vehicles

Elsewhere in business Tuesday

Housing starts in May rose by
3.6 per cent to 229,000 from 221,000
in April, Statistics Canada said. De
clines in starts in western provinces
“were more than offset by increases
in eastern and central Canada,” the
federal agency said

Derek Oland, chairman of the
Brewers Association of Canada, said

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brewers should be able to buy barley
at world prices from other countries,
rather than be tied to the Canadian
Wheat Board. Brewers would then
be in beter shape to avoid steep
increases brought on by drought or
other circumstances, he said, adding
consumers can expect to pay $1 more
per case of 12 beer within months
because of the drdught on the Prair.
ies.
A record number of Canad

special role, then CN should be
compensated.”

“CN isn't only a corporation, it's a
public service,” replies Croteau,
whose maple sugar co-operative
stands to lose $1.75 million in
business in the United States if the
rail line goes.

“Bell Canada and Hydro Quebec
don't make money when they bring
phone and power lines up North and
into Gaspe, but they still do so,” adds
Croteau, who says trucks are just too
expensive.

In the last 18 months, CN \and
Canadian Pacific have filed. requests
with the National Transportation

Agency for permission to close 60
branch lines across Canada, most of
them in Quebec and eastern Ontario,
The annual average used to be 10
requests a year,

Paul-Andre Fournier, in charge of
rail transport at the provincial
Transport Department, said Quebec
is worried that branch-line closings
will leave taxpayers picking up the
tab for extra wear and tear by trucks
on the province's roads.

In many cases an alternative to
abandoning the branch lines may be
to sell them to private, short-line
operators, as many U.S. railway
companies have done, he said.

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