The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 18

18 THE TENNESSEAN, Thurtdoy, Morth 3, 1981 State Takes Blame for Faulty Ellington Bridge r. 'ff and drainage of the 2.8Thiile Ellington extension was let to Oman Dec. 16 1977. New access points for Ellington beyond Trinity Lane include Hart Street (new Ben Allen' Road) going all the way from Dickerson Road to Gallatin Broadmoor and Briarville Pike (Briley Parkway). a Transportation Department engineer said.

1 Miss Pickens said Oman will receive a substantial additional payment from the state for remodeling the 240-foot bridge. The original $5.5 million contract for the bridge and grading Oregon Officials Fear Horse Disease Spread Leonard Kunzman. director of with limestone chips bound with asphalt. SEVERAL Transportation Department engineers said the Ellington Parkway extension was built to relieve severely congested traffic on 1-65, Dickerson Road and Gallatin Road, eventually tying into the long-delayed western leg of the Hendersonville bypass. Consulting engineers, for the Transportation Department are now busy selecting the final route of that bypass, and Monday the department awarded M.C.

West Co. of Columbia the contract to complete the $2.5 million eastern leg of that bypass. However, the contract had not been signed yesterday. Residents of the Ben Allen Road neighborhood said yesterday they first noticed at least eight months ago that the new bridge over Ellington Parkway was sinking. MISS PICKENS said state bridge SALEM, Ore.

(AP) State agricultural officials, worried about the possible spread of an incurable horse disease, say they will begin a month-long detection project. the state Department of Agriculture, said Saturday that horses in two counties adjacent to the vation in Eastern Oregon will be tested. The disease is spread by mosquitoes and other biting, or sucking insects, generating symptoms similar to those of anemia, said Dr. Ramsay Burdett, acting state veterinarian. 0 By NAT CALDWELL The state Transportation Department accepted yesterday responsibility for its own bridge designers for "the faulty design" of a $1.5 million bridge as it opened the Ellington Parkway extension.

The long-delayed 2.8-mile parkway extension from Trinity Lane to Briley Parkway was designed, eight years ago as the initial step toward relieving one of the state's worst traffic bottlenecks from the new Cumberland River bridge on Interstate 265 to where 1-24 splits from 1-65 north of Trinity Lane. TRANSPORTATION Department spokeswoman Renae Pickens said yesterday the contractor, Oman Construction Co. of Nashville, has been absolved of responsibility for the Ben Allen Road bridge failure. But she contended that "repair of the bridge that amounts almost to rebuilding under a corrective design" was not the cause of the long delay in opening Ellington Parkway. Completion of the entire extension was set by the state for September 1980 two years, ago.

Miss Pickens said yesterday the final delay, from Dec. 1 to March 4, was caused by a late-arriving federal Transportation Department requirement that shoulders be paved The disease, known as equine infectious anemia or swamp fever, has infected 35 horses on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and could spread to horses off tribal lands, officials said. Woman Awarded $500,000 In Loss of Mate's Relationship 4 hIi i $375,000 in punitive damages. North American said would ap-peal. Mrs.

Hammond said her husband developed a lung disease from working around asbestos sold by North American to a Bloomington-area plant between 1953 and 1D71. Her husband still requires frequent hospital treatment for his disease, she said. designers naa planned lor a bridge that contained neither expansion joints nor the two or more standard heavy steel and concrete piers indicated for minimums. Instead of that, one heavy pier and a foundation of limestone rock set in concrete were supposed to support the bridge. "As might have been expected, there were signs of settling before the bridge was finally completed," BLOOMINGTON, 111.

(AP) 'A woman who said her husband's work-related illness cost her years of companionship as well as his sexual services has been awarded $500,000 by a Circuit Court jury. A McLean County jury ordered North American Asbestos Corp. to pay Charlotte Hammond $125,000 in compensatory damages and wtofiiitrj- AP Laserphoto i nil i fr-x 1 1 i it i I 'l 7 i I fill ft rs Wanted in the Office' OHATCHEE, Ala. Tim McKelvey, assigned the task of putting up a new message every two weeks for Ohatchee High School, may have nothing new to announce, but is not at a loss for words. He makes news with no news.

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The defendant was not located at his home on Saturday, the day of the slaying, but surrendered himself the following day, Lilly testified. He said Smith had gone to the emergency room at Fort Campbell Hospital to receive treatment for a cut hand. THE DETECTIVE said Smith's wife, also a Fort Campbell soldier, was on vacation in Florida at the time. service" VCE ah TZ'W OR just ono sale has our Se: al during tno lA.llb. lu ULlCllC.

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