NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1984
Page 9
United Press International
WASHINGTON — McDill "Huck" Boyd of the Mid-State Port Authority, left, and John Riley, administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, sign an agreement providing low-interest loans to purchasers of the former Rock Island Railroad. Kansas Republican Senators Nancy Kassebaum and Bob Dole look on.
Uncle Sam to help firm buy rail line
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The government yesterday agreed to provide low-interest loans to the Mid-States Port Authority trying to buy a 462-mile portion of the former Rock Island Railroad line in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska.
The low-interest loans — a major hurdle in a 14-county coalition's attempts to buy the line — will finance $12 million of the $13 million purchase price and $6 million of the $9 million needed to rehabilitate the track expected to carry an estimated 10,000 carloads of freight annually.
THE LINE RUNS north from Clay Center and south from Hallam, Neb., to Belleville where it proceeds west-
southwest through Goodland into Limon, Colo.
Federal Railroad Administrator John Riley and McDill "Huck" Boyd of Phillipsburg of Mid-States — a coalition of counties from the three states — signed the agreement at a ceremony witnessed by Kansas Republican Sens. Robert Dole, Nancy Kassebau and Rep. Pat Roberts.
"The completion of this agreement is a great accomplishment for Mr. Boyd and the Mid-States Port Authority," said Kassabauer. "It directly benefits Kansas farmers and shoppers who will market to market their grain and produce."
"I am extremely pleased with the Federal Railroad Administration's tentative decision to sign this financing agreement," Dole said. "Many of us have worked long and hard to make sure that those Kansans who depend on rail service in the northern counties were not abandoned.
and agreement on leases for some portions of the line.
"FOR A TIME, we were even told by the trustees of the Rock Island Line that the tracks might be torn up and the scraps may not be heading to the scrap heap."
Remaining hurdles to the sale include approval of the bankruptcy court, Kansas State University approve loans, guarantee loans for low-interest loans, approval of a rehabilitation plan
At its peak, the Rock island owned 10,000 miles of operation in 13 states. The Rock Island filed for reorganization in bankruptcy court in 1975. In 1980, the bankruptcy court ordered the line's trustees to abandon the system and sell its assets to pay off debts.
BORJA, Spain — A U.S. Air Force transport plane on a training mission crashed into a snowswep mountain in Spain while attempting an emergency landing all 17 Americans aboard and a Spanish officer, officials said yesterday.
By United Press International
The wreckage of the plane, a
Hercules C-130 turbo-prop, was found
by a search team some 12 hours after it
went down about two miles northwest
of the village of Borja, Air Force
officials said.
Air Force plane crash kills 18
The plane was part of the 433th Tactical Airlift Wing based at Rhein Main Air Force base near Frankfurt, West Germany and was flying a nighttime parachute drop training mission at the time of the crash.
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The crash site, accessible only by helicopter, was reported about 35 miles northwest of Zaragoza and some 10 miles from the plane's parachute drop target.
Lt. Col. William Johnson, spokesman at the U.S. Air Force's European headquarters at Ramstein, West Germany, said rescue workers recovered four of the 17 American and one Spanish victim from the wreckage of the plane.
THE AMERICANS KILLED in the crash were not identified pending notification of their relatives. They included 10 Air Force officers, six combat controllers and an air rescue specialist. The Spanish victim was
identified as Capt. Francisco Guardiola Davo, 30.
Johnson said the the snowfall at the time of the crash was not heavy enough to cancel the operation.
U. S. officials in West Germany said they would not know the cause of the crash until an official investigation was completed.
The plane made radio contact with the military control tower at Zaragoza shortly after 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Air Force officials said. They said the plane apparently crashed into the mountain about 20 minutes later.
The Spanish air base at Ablitas in Navarra province reported hearing a bombing in the airspace.
The crash Tuesday was the eighth of a U.S. military plane or helicopter in Spain since March 1978.
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