THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1979
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United Press International
TOPEKA, Kan. —The Kansas at-
imey general — lead counsel in a
3-state action to recover back taxes
to the bankrupt Rock Island Rail-
oad — will file a motion this week
liquidate the strike-bound rail-
ay, a spokesman said Monday.
The Kansas official also plans to
isk that other railroads be com-
elled to operate the Rock Island
ystem until the sale of its assets is
omplete.
The action by Attorney General
lobert Stephan followed a meeting
riday in Des Moines between offi-
ialsofnine states who agreed to the
wrse of action. Also Friday, Rock
iland’s major creditor filed a mo-
tin for liquidation of the line in
deial court in Chicago.
Stephan’s spokesman, Neil
Woerman, said the motion for liq
uidation is a long-term solution.
“In the short term, we also will be
asking that the court order the
bankruptcy trustee to request that
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion come down with a directed
service order,” Woerman said.
“That would divide up the Rock Is
land on a temporary basis among
other railroads for operation.”
Woerman said the other railroads
cannot be forced to operate the line
at a loss. He estimated it would re
quire a $10 million per month sub
sidy from the Federal Railroad Ad
ministration during the short-term
action.
The spokesman said liquidation
appeared to be the only answer for
the troubled railroad.
“It appears now it would take
some $30 million to $40 million to
go back into operation if the strike is
ended and Rock Island doesn’t have
the funds to do that,’ he said.
U.S. District Judge Frank
McGarr has set an Oct. 5 deadline
for any other motions related to
those filed by creditors Friday.
Woerman said he expected several
of the other states would file
motions similar to the Kansas ac
tion.
Rock Island, under the control of
a trusteeship, has resumed paying
its property taxes to the states since
1978. However, it is still locked in
litigation with the 13 states over re
covery of millions in unpaid prop
erty taxes and interest between
1974 and 1977. Woerman said it had
been estimated the railroad owed $4
million to Kansas alone.
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United Press International
MIAMI — Hurricane Henri
stalled in the middle of Mexico’s
Bay of Campeche Monday, send
ing hundreds of Mexicans fleeing
from coastal lowlands and halting
“Project Sombrero” at the site of
a huge oil spill that has polluted
beaches as far north as Texas.
Henri, the season’s eighth
tropical twister, was packing
minimal hurricane-force winds of
75 mph, but forecasters said it
could strengthen.
At noon Monday, the hur
ricane was centered about 150
miles northeast of Vera Cruz,
Mexico, near Latitude 20.5
north, Longitude 94.0 west.
Forecasters said any movement
for the next 24 hours would be
slow and erratic.
At midday, Henri was cen
tered 123 miles northwest of the
huge Petroleos Mexicanos
(Pemex) runaway gusher that has
been spewing oil into the -Bay of
Campeche and Gulf of Mexico
since June 3. The 125-mile
radius of Henri’s strong winds
was sending gales over the
gusher site.
Rough seas caused postpone
ment of “Project Sombrero,” an
attempt to put a 30-ton bell over
the gusher to capture escaping
oil that polluted beaches along
the Mexican coast and as far
north as Texas this summer. The
bell had been scheduled to be
put in place Sunday, but a
Pemex spokesman said ships car
rying it were buffeted by 9-foot
waves and 50 mph winds, and
were unable to anchor solidly
enough for the job.
However, work continued on
the drilling of two relief wells
from heavy platforms that can
ride out high waves and winds.
Warned by Mexican officials,
about 200 families began
evacuating from the shores of the
rising Papaluapan River at Al
varado, a shrimp fishing port of
6,000 people about 30 miles
south of Vera Cruz.
All Mexican navy and army
units at Vera Cruz were ordered
back to their barracks to be ready
for storm assistance if needed,
Mexican authorities reported.
Forecasters at the National
Hurricane Center in Miami
warned that “the closeness of
Henri to the Mexican coast
means that even a small move
ment could bring hurricane con
ditions to that area.
Henri, however, posed no
threat to the United States
coastline Monday.
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United Press International
TOLEDO, Ohio — William
iehous, the high-ranking Owens-
llinois executive kidnapped in
fenezuela by Marxist terrorists,
londay fulfilled a dream of his 40
eidonsol pths in captivity in the South
tid that)! iraerican jungles — he returned to
-e enteriiil fork-
Niehous, 48, has been named
wmemta ke president and director of ad-
d into tk linistration for corporate technol-
gywith Owens-Illinois in Toledo,
le said after his rescue last June he
id not want to return to Venezuela.
Niehous was the glass and plastic
ompany’s highest-ranking repre-
ntative in Venezuela when he was
idnapped from his Caracas home in
ebruary 1976. That began a more
an three-year ordeal spent mainly
kdense Venezuelan jungles.
[“It was a political act,” Niehous
aid of the kidnapping. “They were
lot assassins or murderers.
“There were times when I gave
ip hope, but it was only tempo-
ary.”
The ordeal ended June 29, when
ie escaped his captors.
|| Donna Niehous had filed suit
gainst Owens-Illinois during her
lUsband’s captivity, charging the
bn didn’t take the proper steps to
ecure his release. The suit has
inee been dismissed.
In his new job, Niehous will be
esponsible for technical planning
nd business analysis functions,
echnical information services, ac-
ounting projects and budget con-
rol and personnel.
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Other states include Arkansas,
Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee
and Texas. Henry Crown, president
of Materia] Services Corp. of
Chicago, Friday filed a motion cit
ing record first-half losses approach
ing $50 million, nearly exhausted
cash reserves, the current strike and
“catastrophic” management
policies.
Crown’s motion said trustee
William Gibbons “ought to abandon
immediately his ill-founded and
hopeless game plan of a traditional
income-based reorganization” and
asked for liquidation.
“The course of action pursued by
the trustee has proven catastrophic.
The Rock Island’s 1979 losses are
out of hand. Putting it bluntly, the
trustee has lost control.
Brennan back
at work after
slight stroke
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Justice
William Brennan, at 73 the oldest
member of the Supreme Court, had j
a “slight” stroke on Sept. 4, his of- j
free disclosed Monday.
The court information office said
Brennan “returned to work here at
the Supreme Court Monday and is
fully participating in the court
schedule.”
The announcement said the jus
tice “suffered an apparent slight
stroke causing a mild impairment of
the use of his right hand.
He was hospitalized at the
Bethesda Naval Hospital from Sept.
10 to Sept. 13 and is exercising “to
restore the full use of the hand,” the
announcement said.
Brennan was appointed to the
high court in 1956 by President
Dwight Eisenhower.
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