University Daily Kansan
Monday, November 7, 197
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Staff Writer
Kansas River Bridge progress linked to weather
Bv HENRY LOCKARD
More rain or a drop in temperature could delay progress on the Vermont Street bridge over the Kansas River, representatives of Anderson Construction Co., Holton, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and J. F. Gmcrien Inc., Tooneka said Friday.
Roscoe Fields, foreman for Anderson Construction Co., said the bridge would be structurally ready for vehicle use by Dec. 15. The bridge would farewell happened that would halt work.
All that remains to be done to get the roadway structurally ready for use is to finish construction of a three-foot-high wall that runs the length of the bridge on each side. Fields said the wall would be finished in about 20 days if the weather held up.
He said that about 1,650 feet of the wall remained to be built. Construction of the wall was not complete.
Gerald Johnson, job superintendent for Anderson Construction Co., said the temperature of the concrete was the best. Fahrenheit for the concrete to set properly. He said after a section had been poured it could be covered with insulated blankets to protect it from freezing if the temperature was too high.
ALTHOUGH FIELDS SAID he thought the bridge would be structurally ready within 20 days, Johnson said he did not think it would have been completed by Dec. 15, the target completion date.
After the concrete walls are finished, other contractors must complete the jobs of installing a gas line and telephone lines and hooking up a water line before the project is finished. The brickwork of the Brushwood Dam to a Kansas Power and Light substation needs to be rerouted.
"Everybody else seems to think they can
do it. But I don't see how that's
possible." Johnson
Ed Jacobs, construction foreman for
public communication.
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JANET FRY, assistant instructor of Western Civilization, said that most other universities she knew had of need few waiers and did not understand why KU did not have such a waiver.
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She said she thought that many graduate students might not realize that they were supposed to be a class of undergraduates.
Waiver . . .
Bernard Williams, a member of GradEx and an assistant instructor of Western Civilization, said that the fee waver would, in effect, enable students employed by KU.
However, he said, the waiver would be better than a salary increase because it would not be considered salary and therefore would not be taxable.
KATHY DUGAN, adjunct assistant to GradEx, said the state would save a small amount of money by granting the waiver instead of a salary increase.
Once the bridge is structurally ready and the underside work has been done, Anderson workers will begin tearing down the old Massachusetts Street bridge.
The state now takes out a Social Security payment from a graduate student employment agency. The state also makes a Social Security payment for that month. Because the fee waiver would not be taxable, neither the student nor the employer have to pay Social Security on that amount.
Les Greenberg, spokesman for the GSC, said that a non-taxable fee waiver would be more efficient for the state because it would save itself the trouble of collecting the tax
If the state granted a salary raise it would
to make municipal security payments on
these workers.
Williams said a graduate student fee waiver would be more convenient for
Dugan said that graduate students are on the poverty level without the fee waiver.
FOR EXAMPLE, he said, he did not have enough money to enroll this fall. So he had to sign a statement for the University to hold his pay check until he could pay his tuition. A fee waiver would eliminate these problems, he said.
GRADUATE STUDENTS who take fewer than six hours pay the same tuition fee as undergraduates. Kansas residents pay $798.85 an hour and out-of-state students pay $818.85 an hour.
However, there may be further delay in that process if there is delay in the underside work on the new bridge. The old gas, water and telephone lines cannot be disconnected until the new equipment and telephone company also plan to save material from the old lines, which could slow the tearing-down process.
Graduate students taking more than six hours pay tuition on a scale according to the amount of time they work at KU and the amount of time for which they enroll, Williams said.
HE SAID HE ESTIMATED installation of the telephone lines would take 900 man-hours.
A 30-inch water line already has been installed under the bridge. An emergency plumbing system is installed.
The job could not be completed before January 1, Jacobs said.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., said that Southwestern workers had to install three telephone lines to serve north Lawrence and rural north Lawrence but that Anderson Construction Co. wanted the steel work underneath the bridge painted first.
Whether the painters could work with traffic using the bridge is up to Anderson.
He said Utility Enterprises, Raytown,
Mo., had contracted to place the conduit for
the lines and that Uility Enterprises would not work under the bridge in icy conditions.
Bill Sloane, vice president and general manager of Kansas Public Service Gas Co., said workers could install the gas line because Anderson would whenever Anderson gave them the chance.
McGivern said his painters were waiting for Anderson to call.
John McGivern, president of J. F. McGivern Inc., which has been contracted to paint the steel work, said he hopes his firm will be installing the bridge within the next two weeks.
used would be on top of the bridge and a hose
would reach over the side to the painters.
re said they would paint two coats each of a red-lead chromate primer coat, an intermediate maroon-colored coat and a final coat of green.
THE IDEAL CONDITIONS would be to have 85 to 90-degree weather and a slight breeze blowing under the bridge, then could recoat each coat the next day," McQuiver said. "In cooler weather we'd have to wear, maybe even a week between coats."
McGivern said that he planned to have the bridge painted in 30 days but that the surface temperature of the steel had to be at least 40 degreesahrenheit.
He said the bulk of the painting would be done by spraying, the hydraulic equipment
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