Philadelphia Daily News from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 14

14 Thursday. March 26. 1981 Philadelphia Daily News SEPTA Votes to Trim 2 Rail Lines By KEN LOCKERBY Despite the pleas of the chaplain at Pottstown's exclusive Hill School, among others, the SEPTA board yesterday voted to cut service on two commuter rail lines. The SEPTA board made the cuts because four of ihe counties served by the two lines Lehigh, Northampton. Schuylkill and Berks have refused to help subsidize them.

As of April 1. unless the counties offer to help SEPTA financially, service will stop on the Quakertown-Bethlehem line to Centre Valley, Hellertown and Bethlehem. Quaker- -i 2 Men Held In Ruiz Death Two North Philadelphia men were arrested yesterday in the murder of Heidy Ruiz, 26, whose bound body was found on a vacant lot in the Hunting Park section on March 2. Wilfredo Carbonell, 30, of Waterloo Street jiear Lehigh Avenue, was charged with murder as well as weapons offenses and conspiracy, and held without baiL Wilson Santiaj go, 29, of 4th Street near Susquehanna Avenue, was held in $50,000 bail on a hindering apprehension charge. Ruiz was found fully clothed and shot twice in the head and once in the buttocks on the lot on 8th Street near Bristol.

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THE REV. JOHN W. RIEGEL said the 450 students at the Hill School use the train for trips into Philadelphia and to make connections for home on vacations. There are students from 20 states and eight foreign countries, Riegel said, and for some "SEPTA provides their last impression of this area." But, noted board Chairman David Girard-diCarlo, the "grim realities" are "if nothing dramatic is done, there will be no rail service at all in the five-county area." The also board agreed reluctantly to buy 450 buses from a statewide pool. Members said later there were a number of problems with warranties, the right to refuse the buses, the right to stop payment and, in fact, Girard-diCarlo said, "I can't even tell you we will save money this way." But board members said that if SEPTA did not participate, it would jeopardize chances to go back to the state legislature for more funding.

The board also voted to raise rates on the Sportsmen's Special buses from 77th and City Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard and Welsh Road to sporting events at the Broad and Pattison complex. Fares will jump 50 cents, making a round trip from the NE Pols Rip Conrail Plan WASHINGTON (UPI) The chairman of the House surface transportation subcommittee said yesterday the Reagan administration plan to break up and sell Conrail was "bizarre." Rep. James Florio, joined several key Northeastern congressmen ranging from liberal Democrat to conservative Republican in blasting the plan outlined Tuesday by Federal Railroad Administrator Robert Blanchette to sell piecemeal the best lines of the railroad that serves the Northeast and Midwest. "The Reagan administration's plan to sell Conrail is bizarre, at best," Florio said in a statement. "No private railroad has expressed the slightest interest in buying pieces of the Conrail system, and it is highly unlikely that any will." IN PHILADELPHIA, Conrail chairman L.

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