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Thursday, September 7, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Bridge project completion date muddied
By BILL HIGGINS Staff Reporter
The river is not the only muddy water affecting the construction of the new dam. The river is also muddy.
Discrepancies exist between the contractor's and the county engineering consultant's estimates of how many working days should be allowed for completion of the project.
The county's consultants on the project, Finney and Turnipseed, Topeka, say that less than 90 working days are left for completion of the project.
But Anderson Construction Company Holton, the contractor hired by the county, thinks that more than 100 working days should be allowed for the construction.
At stake is the completion, on time, of the county's $3.75-million double-span bridge and a possible fine of $420 a day that Anchorage residents pay to each day after the deadline passes.
THE CONSTRUCTION company, on April 12, 1976, was given 500 working days to complete the bridge construction. Bad weather, flooding and other natural delays
were not to be charged against the time limit.
John Fratier, a managing partner of Finney and Turnipeed, said yesterday that, as of Aug. 28, 90 working days remained for Anderson to complete the bridge.
However, a spokesman for the contractor, Ron Anderson, said yesterday that he thought his company had about 100 working hours according to the county's working day charges.
Mike Doley, county engineer and public works director for Douglas County, said he
THE DISCREPANCY in working day estimates apparently has arisen from disagreements about the charging for problems that caused delays.
thought the contractor had about 90 working days left.
Anderson said delays had been caused by a bad winter in 1977, late structural steel deliveries and, more recently, a mistake made in the pouring of concrete for the northernmost pier of the Massachusetts span of the bridge.
The span crossing the river at Vermont street was opened on April 4 of this year. It
Anderson requested an extension of the deadline last December, but the County Commission denied the request, following the decision of the commission's counsel, Daniel Young.
originally was to have opened in the fall of 1978.
IN LATE JUNE, Finney and Turnipseed halted construction on the bridge because they had not been present for the pouring of concrete in the first pier of the Massachusetts Street span. The work was resumed mid-July.
Anderson said that the concrete pouring
"We notified the county that those days shouldn't have been charged to us," he said.
"misunderstanding" should not have cost his company working time on the contract.
"I I'm hoping that we can get the extension we'll continue to pursue it. It's an ongoing project."
Anderson said the extension was necessary to complete the project within the budget.
"IF WE'RE ABLE to get the days that we
reel were charged erroneously, we feel that we will finish the job on time," he said. "But we can't continue to lose days beyond our control and finish on time.
"There's no way we'll finish it in $6
working days."
Dooley, however, thinks that Anderson
can complete the bridge within the
allotted time.
"With the proper use of labor and good timing on the part of the contractor," Dooley said, "the bridge could be completed in 90 working days."
Buildings . . .
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said. "But there was still room for more improvement, largely in the areas of detail."
The University has a contract with American Management Services for the implementation of its programs.
Lawrence campus and the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. American Management Services received the Lawrence campus contract in April 1977.
BUT AFTER the first eight months of the CONTRACT, Mills said, KU was close to firing
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the company unless definite improvements were made in keeping the buildings clean. Mills said he had expressed the University's discontent at a meeting July 12 with American Management officials in Denver, Colo.
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At that meeting Mills listed areas that had to be improved: American Management Center, the Center for the Environment.
"We had many, many problems with areas not being kept clean," Mills said. "I told them that we expected major improvements."
The company said it would take several steps to improve its work. Purchasing more equipment and hiring more custodial personnel are two steps it has taken so far, Mills said. After the recent inspection, Mills said there was a noticeable improvement.
MILLS CALLED the improvement reasonable, but said he expects more.
James Moser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, accompanied Mills and Orok through Murphy Hall. Moser said it was hard to come up with a schedule would be adequate for the year.
Moeser said Murphy had weak昼夜 traffic, because many Saturday night and Sunday afternoon performances were held in the parking lot. The weather would be another determining factor.
"Last winter it got pretty bad with all the snow and sand we had." Moeser said. "Dirt came up every time."
Oroke agreed that the job would get tough as the weather worsened. He said that some problems last year definitely caused by the harsh winter of winter and early spring.
Orke said spot inspections would continue on either a monthly or weekly basis. He said the inspections allowed him and Mills to check areas receiving frequent complaints and to identify areas of outstanding work.
ASK...
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KU, and Washburn University, are members of ASK. Each university pays 25 cents a student in membership fees. Every member school has one delegate for each 1,000 full-time students to the ASK or ASK. There were 51 members last year.
THE DELEGATES for each school last year were: Wichita State University, 15 delegates; Kansas State University, 14; Emory State University, five; Pittsburgh State University, five; Fort Hays State University, seven; and Washburn University, seven.
If KU paid the entire membership fee, it would be about $10,000. KU would have 21 delegates, giving the University $24,750, or the vote in the legislative assembly.
Although KU will have the largest block of votes in the organization,
Hannes Zacharias, executive director of ASK, said KU's votes should not cause problems with other member schools.
"I DON'T think KU's size will have any effect on the other schools. I don't think they resent it," he said. "The issues we're lobbying for this year are of such a magnitude that we concern all students. There should be no problems with institutional voting."
"The only voting problem I can forsee is with the decriminalization of marijuana. But, even then, it will be each individual voting as his conscience tells him."
Harper said he was pleased with the outcome of the vote.
"I no doubt that KU will become a member of ASK, and I'm convinced that's best for the students at KU as well as those across the state," he said.
Fence . . .
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surcharge, the cost to each student pur-
use a ticket. Tickets would have been
less than one cent.
If the fence is replaced, Baker said, it will involve no expense to students and will instead be paid for by the athletic department.
NO ACTION will be taken on plans to replace the fence until approval is granted in May 1979 by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and will be completed as a work to be part of KUAC's fiscal 1980 budget.
"It's our opinion that the present fence is very unsightly, especially since the former is actually built."
He said a new fence probably would be a
solid structure, such as wrought iron, rather than the present chain link. It would be about the same height as the chain link fence, but would have greenery on top, he said, and would be "something that would be aesthetically appealing."
Trial delay sought
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A U.S. District court judge is scheduled to hold a hearing today on a federal government request for a delay in the extortion trial of two brothers.
Judge William Collinson said he will hear arguments this afternoon on the delay request in the trial of William Cammisano and his brother Joseph.
Somoza strikes back at enemies
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)—Heavily armed national guard troops surrounded the offices of the conservative Conservative Party on Monday after opposition leader yesterday, officials said.
Fernando Zelaya Rojas, a member of the Conservative party's executive board and a representative in the Nicaraguan legislature, said "at least a dozen" soldiers surrounded party offices in the morning but did not enter.
Workers were ordered home and the offices were closed "to avoid problems," he
Soldiers searched the home of Rafael Coraldo Rivas, a member of the Broad Opposition Front opposing President Anastasio Somoza, his wife said.
GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL guard officials said they knew nothing of the ac-
said. Helmeted troops left after remaining outside the building for a short time.
Letest guerrilla stormed the presidential palace Aug. 22, took hostages, and left after receiving $500,000 in cash, freedom of jailed comrades and a flight to Panama.
Zelaya Rivas and Cordova Rivas back a business strike that is trying to bring down Sonoma. The strike was slowing down the business, and Sonoma told reporters reported, and Sonoma told reporters he will wait out the opposition "until they get tired and go broke."
Commerce officials said businesses were beginning to open as anti-government
On Aug. 25 the opposition, angry at the way Somoza handled the occupation, called for and got the nationwide strike. Leaders said they were fearful that the longer he remains, the more the people will support him. The group takes its name from a Nicaragua who fought the occupation of Nicaragua by U.S. Marines in the 1930s.
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Inmate complaints spark protest
LANSING, KS. (AP)—Friends and families of inmates at the Kansas State Penitentiary demonstrated yesterday to unaware conditions" in the prison.
The protestors, nine adults and three children, read a list of complaints they said were common to them.
They charged that 106 prisoners were packed into a building which lacked ventilation and was intended to hold 30 prisoners. The protestors also said prisoners in the building were on a hunger strike.
and that 13 of those had been released and the rest held for further investigation.
OLIVER DISMISSED THE charge that the prisoners were on a hunger strike. He said inmates could be refusing prison food, but they have access to other food.
he said 45 other prisoners were under protective custody and the remainder were not.
Robert Atkins, deputy director of the 980-immute prison, said Tuesday that many of the inmates were placed in administrative segregation to avert violence at the prison.
Since these inmates have been removed from the general population there's been no impact on their well-being.
Racial struggle not over director of NAACP says
DENVER (UPI)—Americans wrongly think the struggle for civil rights is over, partly because newspapers and broadcasters have looked elsewhere for news in recent years, a national civil rights leader said this week.
Dr. Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, the 60-year-old civil rights group, said apathy has slowed the civil movement and could lead to renewed racial violence.
At a news conference Tuesday after Hooks spoke to Denver clergymen in preparation for this week's meeting of the National Baptist Convention of America, Hooks said black and white Americans think the civil rights flight has been won.
RECENT GALLIP and Harris polls. Books said show 80 percent of Americans believe the United States is the world’s largest democracy.
pressing"; problems such as those of environment, crime and breakdown of the
Hooks said those social problems are not nearly as important as civil rights, and he said some social problems were born of racial inequality.
He said reporters have looked elsewhere since the end of riots and firebombings, ignoring the movement's entrance into the quieter area of the courts.
Without the press and broadcasters carrying the civil rights struggle into the city's night, apathy has set in and thinned the ranks of NAACP membership, said Hooks.
He said at the height of the 1980s civil rights protests, the NAACP rolls listed 450,000 members. He said membership is 600,000 today.