Wednesday, August 22, 1979 5C Bridge and road improvements slow down some county traffic By JIM BLOOM Staff Reporter Douglas County has been working on several projects this summer that will continue into the fall and that might affect KU students driving to and from Lawrence. One of the projects is the Massachusetts Street bridge above the Kansas River. The contractor, Anderson Construction Co., will continue to work throughout the summer to complete the bridge. The deadline for the project passed June 12. Since then, Douglas County has charged the contractor $420 each calendar day for liquidated damages. Calendar days are Monday through Saturday, according to Mike Doiley, county public works director. Ron Anderson, a vice-president of the construction firm, said earlier this summer, that the project has been plagued with problems since it was begun in 1976. The first setback, in 1976, delayed the project a full work season because a shipment of structured steel for the Vermont mill arrived four months late, Anderson said. BRIDGE WORK ALSO was slowed by unusually severe winters the last two years and high water levels in the Kansas River, he said. In May, high waters washed away a causeway the firm had built to aid in the bridge construction. The firm had to spend money to rebuild the causeway. Anderson said. In July, heavy rains raised the river level, again threatening to wash out the causeway. But the company dumped more waste and allowed it to add more support, and work continued. Dooley said earlier this summer that he hoped the project would be completed in the fall. Once completed, northbound traffic would travel on the Massachusetts Street bridge and southbound traffic would travel on the Vermont Street bridge. The Vermont Street bridge was finished more than a year and half a year and has been in use since then. Stull Road, which many KU students use when traveling to and from Topeka, has been closed mid-mid-July. The county is now under a curfew and a half miles of new road, Dooley said. TWO OTHER projects that might affect students are work on Stull and Sibleyville roads, Dooley said. "Students commuting to and from Topeka will find this road closed until late fall, when we should be done with the project," Dooley said. Stull Road branches off U.S. Highway 40 near Topeka, where the road becomes 48th Street. Douglas County is working on a section of the road east of the community. Now, the road is mostly rock and gravel. The section that will be worked on runs from County Road 1655 to the east. SIBLLEYVILLE ROAD, which is County Road 458, will be closed later this summer. The county is planning to grade the road and to save nine miles of it. Dooley said. On several other roads, the county has been replacing. Doody said that 19 bridges have been worked on this summer. Some are done now and the remaining ones will be completed next year. Another project Dooley said the county would begin working on this fall was repairing the dane at Lone Star Lake. In May, the county was notified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the dams fish gate was damaged and needed repairs. A second dam, built by severe weather last winter, Dooley said. The work this fall will be the first phase of the repairs that the county plans. Dooley estimated that all the repairs would cost $50,000. 'Hawks to play on hardwood court The Kansas Jayhawks will be playing basketball on a new court this season. A portable hardwood floor was installed in the gymnasium of the university, setting the five-year-old polyurethane court. The new court was installed for a number of reasons, according to Floyd Temple, physical plant director for the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation. materials. That figure would probably triple, if the cost of labor were included, Messer said. One reason was upleep, Temple said. The artificial floor had to be stripped and waxed every two weeks, while the wooden walls had been impregnated finish, will only have to be swept. "We might have to sand it down every two years or so and refinish it," Temple said, "but the normal maintenance will be a lot less." Doug Messer, KUAC business manager, estimated the maintenance cost for the old floor had been about $3,000 a year, just for Temple said he thought the new floor would improve playing conditions because wooden floors were better for the players. TED OWENS, KU men's basketball coach, agreed. "We don't have scientific proof," he said. "But we feel the artificial surface based on the concrete floor has been very hard on our players' legs. Their legs seem to be under toward the end of the season because there is continuous play on the artificial court." The artificial floor was installed when the field house was renovated in 1975. The old dirt floor was covered with concrete, and the architectural floor was anchored on top of that. "I had some reservations about the artificial floor when it was first installed." Owens said, "but we had to cover the dirt with something." Temple and Owens said there had been a trend toward artificial floors for a while, but now the trend seemed to have changed to wood. "ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTS all over the country are installing wooden floors on top of synthetic." Temple said. Owens said that about half the new arenas in the conference had wooden floors. "Iowa State, Colorado, and Nebraska have wood floors," he said. "Missouri and Oklahoma have artificial floors." KU's new wooden floor was manufactured by the Horner Floor Co. Dollar Bay, Mich., the same company that made the floor in Kemper Arena. The floor is portable, designed to be installed or moved in a room and is moved when the field house is used for concerts and similar events where a lot of people will be on the floor, Temple said. WELCOME BACK State sports hall reopens After 18 years in limbo, a much-improved version of the Kansas Alla Sports Hall of Fame, a tribute to greats in Kansas athletics, will find a permanent home this season. The floor of the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St. The $50,000 state-funded Hall of Fame renovation project will replace a display of photographs and photographs that has been kept in the Hall since 2012. Odd Williams, chairman of the Kansas Athletic Commission, said recently. The renovation was completed in 1978 and is scheduled to be finished by Oct. 1. The Hall of Fame was established in 1861 by the Kansas Legislature, Williams said. The state's highest court, Douglas County Commission, with met with Robert Lockkey and eventually got a bill to have him re-elected. Williams said he had become interested in the Hall and pursued its renovation when Gov. Robert F. Bennett appointed him chairman of the athletic commission. Williams said he credited the Hall's director, with much of the project's progress. THE HALL'S INDUCETES are named each fall at a Kansas Athletic Commission banquet and are based on nominations from the public. The Commission will be replaced July 1, 1980, with a new governor's commission All Sports Hall of Fame Some of the 61 athletes included in the hall are: Ira Pembridge, Phillipsburg, world champion trap shooter; baseball great Mike Pepin, who won games and pitched 113 out-of-seats; Jess Willard, Pottawatamia County, world heavyweight boxing championsi 1915; and KU greats such as John Hall, football; Al Gueys, Gate Sayers, football; and Jim Ryun track. Richardson, KU associate professor of architecture and urban design, each inductee will have a separate display, Williams said. In the new Hall, designed by Gaylord EACH DISPLAY WILL contain a copy-etching portrait by Mattion, a short biographical written and researched by Kevin Moore. He holds a graduate student, and prepares a portfolio. Richardson said space for the Hall was limited so he had to consider the display arrangements before he chose the three-dimensional display cabinets. Richardson he thought the exhibit which represents the lives and achievements of the inductees, would be of interest to the general public as well as sports fans. The wood and glass cabinet modules are portable, he said, so the arrangement will provide space for new inductives. Some sides of cabinets and all cabinlets also will be used for display. 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