Show Slick roads law officers busy — morning however Idaho State Highway Department officials uid Idaho 54 and 56 and US 91 from the By Christopher Williams and Robert Merrill staff writers Falling rain mixing with ice and snow on the ground created hazardous road conditions this morning And as usual law enforcement officers were kept busy rushing from one accident to Investigators survey the wreckage of an Air Force tanker today Officials look for cause of crash Texas (UPI) Military worked through the night ana investigators into today trying to determine what caused an Air race tanker to crash and explode on takeoff killing all 19 people aboard A witness said the plane may have been brought down by engine failure “They have been working at the crash site ' through the light ABILENE COLORADO KANSAS -- NEW identiMngthe pieces ofdebris withintheir investigation of the possible cause" Airman Lois Morrell a‘ spokesman tor Dyess Air Force Base said Wednesday team It usually “It is an takes 30 to 90 days to determine the cause and it will be released when flic investigation is completed" The report will be issued through the Air Force 'Inspection and Safety Center at Norton Air Face Base in California she said Officials at KI Sawyer Air Force Base near Gwinn Mich where the 5 tanker was based said 17 of the 19 victims boarded there with the two others boarding in Texas The tanker landed at D yen Monday took on 550000 pounds of fuel fa an refueling mission ova West Texas for 6 Jets It crashed Tuesday as it took off for Guam with a final destination of Hickam Air Force Base in ry KC-13- near the end of the sooth runway at Dyess He said the plane reached only treetop level before its left wing dug into the ground then the craft burstinto flames “It kind of got above the mesquite trees and turned back to the east a sharp d turn The left wing hit the ground and it just blew all to pieces It was loaded with all this aviation fold It was black like burning old tires with a fireball in it" There was no evidence that the crew had radioed for help before the crash Strategic Air Command spokesman LL Col George Peck said “I'm sine you can understand that any time you have any sot of accident of this sort it's a shock said Sgt Anita Bailey a spokeswoman at Sawya "The military is a very close-kn- it community These (victims) are folks we live next to work with These are the same people our kids go to school with It’s a shock to any community" The flight was en route to Hawaii Bicking said military dependants and retirees are permitted to take Air Force flights for a flat HO foe on a basis MEXICO Qulat 200 rales military retirees and four military dependents Base officials said the names of the victims likely would be released by midday Wednesday tanka at 12:10 pm Tuesday lifted off briefly from the Dyess runway It turned ana according to a witness experienced engine trouble One wing dragged the ground and then the aircraft aasned Hawaii and exploded in a giant fireball VI heard the engines backfire just like a CapL Paul Bicking said the 17 from Sawyer included all seven crew members car with a cracked distributor eap I knew and 10 of the passengers The passengers he was in lots of trouble" said witness included four military personnel tour Skeet Jackson who has lived for 25 years in-flig-ht F-1- -- day-to-d- a 2-- fa le Abilene Fire Department CapL Phil Sissel said no one could have survived the crash and resulting firebalL “There was no chance for anybody" he said “It was too dose to the ground and there was no way anybody could have parachuted out semi Road projects on agenda UDOT officials say inger laid UDOT will bg having other" Zollinger said effect proposed increased probability of and about the fact that togo Also in the planning stages is they would lose their front a proposal to widen Utah 165 yards to a highway UDOT engineers briefly from south Logan to the south discussed of limits Logan Canyon sayNibley Zollinger city ing the agency alternative will be mailed to concerned groups He said a last year gave within the next few weeks public hearing UDOT much valuable inThey also talked about sev-aformation about the desires of planned traffic lights goresidents along the route r ing into Logan one at 1400 North and 200 EasL one at 1000 As a result of that hearing West and 200 North and one at the agency will propose a 1000 North and 900 EasL four-lan- e road from the BlackSeveral at the meeting smith Fork bridge to Logan concerns about the expressed but through Nibley the road at the 1000 North being light will be three lanes with a lane intersection instead of the inin each direction and a tuning tersection of 1400 North and 900 lane EasL UDOT officials said both But the roadway will be as intersectkms are heavily travwide as a topical four-lan-e road eled and eitha one could use a because of sidewalks and curb lighL Both will probably have traffic signals m the future and gutter he said At the public hearing in said District 1 Director Clint October residents said they Topham supported the concept but t wo iPU"blicJJitopxcX “Because the road is in were concerned about the workshops "in March about the Wellsville Canyon (now)7that danger of a wida highway the Cache will see a County numba to Utah Department of '' Transportation highway pro jects begin in the next few years officials told a crowd to about 40 people Tuesday UDOT officials gave the agency’s annual report to those gathered at the County Council Chambers of the Hall of Justice Officials reviewed proposed road construction projects and funding mechanisms : This summer local residents will see construction commence on the widening of the stretch of US leu than from Green’s Coma to the mouth of Wellsville Canyon Also scheduled to be completed in the summer is the resurfacing of US 91 from Richmond to the Idaho state line ' UDOT engineer Lynn Zoll 89-9- 1 widening-o- f Wellsville Canyon will have on the environment The workshops were originally intended to be in January but had to be postponed because of delays Zollinger said the environment will definitely be impacted in some way because the road will have to be twice as wide with the addition of the median and the shoulders He said there has been much discussion about what alignment UDOT will choose forthe 1 widened US through the canyon Although the state is not yet prepared to make a commitmenL it appears it will stay with the Wellsville Canyon road instead of the old Sardine Canyon alignment Zollinger 89-9- said “What I can say is that there appears to be no reason to choose one alignment over the is probably the reasonable way - trucks 10-1- ay space-availab- MAlfabandimi Utah-Idah- left-han- MEXICO north to line were all snowpacked slick conditions extremely with Downey and plows were worflng this morning Heavy snow was falling ana there was some driftanotha As of 9:22 am ing in areas Mid the highway central dispatchers with the officials Cache County Sheriff’s Office Travel was hazardous on all had sent officers from the the highways in the area and sheriff's office the Utah extreme caution was urged the Highway Patrol and the Logan officials added City and North Park Police Dave Sanders forecaster for departments to 17 separate the National Weather Service traffic accidents in Salt Lake City said this Bui according to a Logan morning the rain Cache Valley City Ambulance spokesperson was experiencing was due in no one had been conveyed to part to a warm moist air flow Logan Regional Hospital from pushing northward against a any of the accidents cold airflow that is expected to And the rain which turned to hit the valley sometime this snow around 6:50 am in afternoon Franklin County this morning "The cold front is probably o changed Idaho area highways on the border right into'skating rinks” causing now and is moving very very more accidents than the Sanders said Franklin County Sheriff’s of- slowly” described it as a “typiHe fice could handle said a dis- cal" cold front in which tern- patcher behind the front drop Schools in both the Preston Siratures and West Side districts were “This will continue slowly canceled at noon today because southward moving about 5 of deteriorating weather conmph and probably won't reach ditions extremely slick roads Logan until 2 3” Sanders and drifting in some locations said School officials said the With the cold front 4 inches Franklin County Road De- of snow is also expected he partment asked administrators said As of this morning a at 11 am to dose snow advisory had been issued Travis Mitchell principal of Cache and Box Elder West Side High School said a Counties scheduled boys' basketball But as for the arctic air game tonight between West heading south from Alaska Side and North Gem has been Sanders said it probably called off due to the stormy wouldn’t reach southern Idaho conditions and northern Utah until FriUS 91 just north of the day As of this morning the Preston Airport was closed for arctic cold had made it as far a time this morning when a south as Great Falls Mail UPl v UtahIdaho acci-den- ts rig where temperatures had tractor-traile- r to minus 25 Sanders on the slick jackknifed digged highway Idaho State Police But because of the slow Officer Steve Kimpton’s patrol car slid off the highway as he moving air flow weatha foreresponded to the acddenl said casters still aren’t enct in officials Several otha vehicles their predictions of when the skidded off that section of road arctic front will reach the area “We know that it’s there and and other county highways we know what it’s going to do officials added No injury accidents had been but when tt will do u we’re not reported as of early this sure" Sanders said1 ' W t i well-attend- ed al Idaho to Pepperidge Farm and from being in a final draft state He said the state ageney Presto they said In addition Utah 239 and will be meeting again with Utah 237 provided collator county and city officials to Continued from page 1 discuss the plan ind across to a compensate local governments stitution USU from which In the meantime UDOT will for the total expense Logan City receives no pro- continue to be responsible for The criteria used to de- perty tax the roads in question and will termine which roads should go maintain them the same way it are does roads) “(Those back to the local communities other state roads said for the convenience primarily rests on the difference between of UDOT District One Director the campus" said Logan “major collators” — such as City Maya ClintTopham Newel Daines the Valley View US 91 Quick said the proposal is far “We will do the best job that — UDOT what and Highway calls “mina collectors” — the roadways Cache County representatives argued that each of those highways provide a vital link The northern stretches are used fa dairy transport Announces and commuter traffic from Roads state-owne- are can on there roads” Tppham said “If you hea that 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