The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 36

Mtof A-4JfJfs i i Pag A-10 Tba Knoxville Nsws-Smtlasl Tum 990 oayoor Wocr ft AsW HkTko Sunday August 9 1M3 Overpass Design 0 State Still Wafting for Plans on Span I Shortage of Engineers Blamed for Snag in Completion of Vital Eastern Portion 1 By WAYVE RANGE people up there must need that bridge pretty badly Talking was the private design engineer from Nashville hired by the Tennessee Highway Department to de- Overpass sign the Southern Hailway-Oak Avenue eastern link of Magnolia Avenue extension Jessup the engineer Angus That needed link i STARTING This map shows a beautiful street plan for Magnolia Avenue extension as far west as unaka Street But State Highway Department officials say they don't know when the eastern link (broken lines) will be started With-' out it the completed middle portion (from 0 0 Tulip west to Unaka) Is of little use so far as traffic flow goes Most of the proposed delayed eastern section is an over-0 -0 0 0 1 pass Traffic could move from Burlington to Unaka on wide streets if the eastern connecting portion was completed to get onto It is in the milL Backgrsand Given The background of that slow-churning mill Is this: Mr Bailey Charles Wtylsnd former state highway commissioner and Mynatt former city service director ssid they understood that construction on toe eastern link was to have started as i as the center link was com-oleted Plans for toe eastern link were to be completed while construction on the other wee under way But It work out that way When the existing link was completed plans for the eastern link simply ready Target Dele Set And ft seemed problem of plans only Mr Mynatt and Mr Wayland said there wee never any dispute over money for the project or whether it was to be done It seemed a smooth settled matter The city went ahead with its work of getting the necessary right-of-way It even got the state go-ahead to condemn some 35 parcels of property where the owners wouldn't sell The target date of an April eon-tract-letting was set by toe state soon after completion of the middle link Presumably plans were then at last completed Springtime construction talk was batted about This Summer Then In April that date was moved to "probably some time this by State Highway Commissioner Leach while on a visit here About a month later Service Director Barker and Mr Bailey returned from a Nashville trip on the project with a startling truth No work on the plans for the overpass had been started The state Just two weeks before had hired Mr Jessup and he then started to work The construction target date then was reset at months and possibly next Route Debate Started That wee about the time that the debates started over which route the western link of the extension should take But toe east-link has no connection with that western portion and was unaffected presumably As it la now east-west treffle moves over heavily-traveled Kingston Pike or takes the narrow West Knoxville streets out by toe Western Euclid and Sutherland Avenues way Bale Play la Buildings we had that connecting link from said Mr Barker "traffic could move directly through from Burlington to Unaka on new wide streets designed to handle heavy traffic flow Traffic could then go out Euclid and Sutherland if going further west or cut across Fort Sanders if not going aa tar out aa Meanwhile rats play in empty buildings and a new expressway stands beautiful but Idle for lack of an integral connecting link Nobody seems to know when that over-delayed link will he started But unless someone can put effective pressure on the state authorities it wont be soon Here's Timetable for Magnolia OVERPASS START Looking to the west from atop a building at Gay Street and East Magnolia Avenue the arrow shows how the Southern Railway-Oak Avenue overpass will go when and if finally started It would connect East Magnolia with the completed middle link of the extension (hopping North Broadway) providing good westbound traffic flow PRETTY BUT NOT USEFUL This completed middle link of the Magnolia Avenue extension was a decided improvement in area looks but serves little useful 0 0 0 purpose so far as traffic movement goes It needs a connecting eastern link like a hand without the necessary arm to give it use Boy Scouts Learn To Shave Donkeys Down (and Up) Trails keys on trips caring for horses Flour Explorer Scouts now have been more right alerts Gees Nowhere State delay on the Gay Street-Tulip Street link of the extension leaves the city in this shape: The completed middle link (Tulip Street -Unaka Street) starts nowhere and goes nowhere It was completed last November hut lays Idle adding virtually nothing toward clearing up east-west traffic congestion Plans for eastern link completion forced removal of many business firms and residences as necessary right-of-way property was bought Many had to move hurriedly having po place to go as they made way for Writes State Engineer Other businesses are still looking for some spot to which to move Those are on a stove' 4 May notice arrangement with the city Jdany of the houses and business buildings stand empty and unused When Is the eastern link to be completed? At this time It seems a matter of pure conjecture City Law Director Clarence Blackburn seeking a definite moving date for the firms left on the right-of-way wrote Peeler attorney and engineer for the public works department When will you need the right-of-way? Mr Blackburn asked Deslg Delay Cited replied that they (the state) were not in a position to say when it would be Mr Blackburn said Apparently most of the delay on the project sterna from design of the 1300-foot overpass that will start at Gay Street and lift across the Southern tracks and North Broadway Until about May 1 nothing con- structive was apparently done about design of the overpass It makes up moat of the eastern link all except about a block of Schedule1 after much urging on the part of Mayor Dempster the state agreed to let an outside engineer do the Job since the state was without sufficient design engineers to do it The Job went to Mr Jessup feel that we are a little ahead of he said when called in Nashville The contract with the state calls for six months' for the Job and about three months of that lie's doing the structural steel portion of the bridge and the highway engineers are to do the foundation designs and the approach plans Preliminary Work Started JYed Grove of the bridge section said project plans should be' ready for contract-letting so far as the bridge portion Is concerned within a "month or so from the time Jessup finishes He said he could have the foundation designs ready within month after Mr Jessup finishes but must have the Jessup designs first Mr Grove said his section had started preliminary work on the overpass design some two years ago but work was brought to a standstill when the department lost the majority of its design engineers Herbert Bates highway department chief engineer said simply that he was to say when a contract can be Honey Not la Question would hate to make an estimate of the he said It's several months off After all toe plans are completed they have tar be submitted to the 8 Bureau of Public Roads In Washington for approval and that takes timer The over-all Magnolia Job is be-fog done on a city-state-Federal basis with the state matching Federal fends Mr Bates said so far as he knew the only delay now was completion and approval of toe plans That money for the project was not fa question' He further said he was not sure if ap-sch plans for the overpass had completed Needed Link In Mill Mr Bates said state delay on the project had been caused by critical shortage of design within the highway department City Engineer Leonard Bailey said he was told earlier that approach plans for the overpass were already completed That's how toe project stands an idle link doing virtually no good because It lacks an eastern connection tor traffic mending fences and serving meals for three weeks and then Juat enjoyed the camp facilities for the fourth week Several other area boys went on an 8-day hike from the camp experts In shoving donkeys down New Mexico are home after an exciting and sometimes exhausting month at Philmont Scout Ranch Hie 15-and-lS-yearold members of Explorer Scout Troop 39 came home this week end They an: Dick Laurence son 'of Mr and Mrs Robert A Laurence 320 Kingston Court: Bill Walker Jr son of Mr and Mrs William A Walker 1423 Kenasaw Avenue: John Jacobs Jr aon of Mr and Mrs Jacobs 1017 Cedar Hill Road and Michael Greeley aon of Mr and Mrs Greeley 4212 South Garden Road The boys worked at such occupa-tions aa encouraging the pack don- RUPTURE DISAPPEAR MU Semple Sand hi It Tedev iMak nXATlSS HOW MISERY MAY BEGINNING NOWHERB-The car at left is turning onto Tulip Street off the completed middle link of Magnolia Avenue extension The completed link lays idle for ENDING This is the (Unaka Street) western end of the completed part of Magnolia Avenue extension The middle link ties in with no major street to provide good east-west traffic flow needing the connecting eastern Gay Street-Tulip Street link lack of the long-delayed eastern part that would join at Tulip after a Gay Street start making the over-all project beneficial If Your Old It II Leave This Judge Cold IMS Lochner Plan survey Including Magnolia extension started ISM Based on Lochner survey overall Magnolia plans submitted and approved last OCT 39 Work started on middle link lass MARCH 3 Eastern fink plana reported on drawing board AUG 1 Contract completed for middle link DEC 39 Middle link completed DEC 31 State go-ahead given on right-of-way condemnations for scheduled spring construction1 eastern link 19BS APRIL 16 this construction date set fay state MAT 1 Private design engineer hired by stale for overpass MAT 14 "Several months and possibly next year' construction date aet AUG 9 to say when contract will he Often when a name la called she will yell without even bothering to walk before the Judge or hear toe charge against her After years of listening to all the alibis and variations upon okl alibis Judge Kelly is a littla bored with them alL But when come imaginative soul walks In and hands the Judge truly original tale the Judge's eyes light up with amusement and he leans forward to listen intently School Row Probed Sr AnariaM Puna CHATTANOOGA Aug S-Rauls-ton School field Criminal Court Judge announced today he la calling the Hamilton County grand Jury Into special session Monday to Investigate the' current county school controversy The controversy broke Into the open last week when a delegation appeared before the County Council to present a petition signed by 67 persons demanding resignations of members of the echoed board and Supt Roy Smith because of a transfer of 13 county school principals Judge Kelly listens to toe ex cuses farfetched though they may be Sometimes he is able to verify them Then he dismisses the case Some excuses are obviously nothing else especially those from persons who have been in court more than 25 times and have become of the -Judge Hardly listening the Judge thumbs Ms left shoulder to the By WILLIAM COLE What will your excuse be if you are nabbed on a minor traffic chargs or for drunkenness or possessing whisky? Better make It good or It win fall on deaf ears (Sty Judge Charles Kelly has heard every alibi In the book and would welcome a littla originality Tor Instance only had two beers your is not very good and win get you nowhere except to toe Workhouse unless you have your fine and coats be surprised at the trouble bottles of cause in tills says City Trial A tty Hugh Simpson WALLOP MUST BE TERRIFIC These two bottles of beer (brand unspecified) must pack a terrific wallop for the drunko-meter test almost invariably Indicates a reading above 15 per cent alcohol in the the point above which a man is considered drunk Drunk drivers will often say they were not drinking they had only been taking medicine while under the care of a doctor or dentist One man charged with drunken driving did offer a novel excuse He hadn't been drinking of course It was only that ha had been stung several times while robbing bees and he stlU had the poison in hia system -GAS ABOUT GONE It's no good to say you were sick suffering an epileptic attack or prostrated by the heat unless rou can prove it These alibis ars wary with age Judge Kelly recalls "one man who offered tola excuse for speeding: gas was about gone and I was in a hurry to reach a filling station before I ran THESE WORK Other speeding excuses which result in speedy convictions are: was hurrying to tba hos Teeth of Missing Link' Skull More Like Man's Than Ape's Did You Know where prisoners are kept during the trial he says knowing they pay their fine It means another five on ten days in toe Workhouse And the Judge knows he will see the culprit in court again aa soon as toe sentence is finished i WOMEN OTTER FEW r' woman onanocrit mrpnsnxiy enough are the least likely to make excuses i usually1 plead guilty and take tHeir said Judge Kelly pital to visit my dese old sick mother" was going to get medicine fbr a 3 was late for 4 was hurrying to catch a train" many says Judge Kelly say they were only running 50 miles per hour which by sheerest coincidence happens to he the speed limit" Those who run red light! always sty the light was yellow Those who pass a atop sign say I see "it was covered by or a sign and 1 know It WEg JBT PLATING One man caught with a stolen sack of flour on his shoulder pleaded not guilty know how got he said must have put it on my shoulder' On numerous occasions men who have been charged with knife fighting are brought into court till wearing bandages and the cars of battle "We wuzzn't fightin your honor" they say Jist SOME VERIFIED One woman charged with possessing whisky gave Judge KClly a good reason why tha charge was all wet don't possess drink ltc Too cm makes singlo purchase of lie to 00000 scientists Despite toe feet tost they were baby teeth they already showed algna of wear fat the typical human pattern Now two British mathematicians Prof Bronowsld and W-M Long have applied a complicated mathematical technique to toe problem They studied four carefully chosen dimensions of eight baby canine teeth from the Taungs skull and from other Australopithe-cine remains found in South Africa The little fossil milk teeth- they found are quite similar to one another And as a group they are very similar to the milk canine IANDON Aug Freeh evidence that the very human-like fossil skull found In a cave In South Africa was really human or the missing fink between the ancestors of the apes and of man will be presented in a letter to the British Journal Nature issued today The place of this little in family tree has been toe subject of much discussion among anthropologists for years Some have thought that toe skull was that of one of the South African great apes Others sug- Builders Supply Compftny JOHN LOliAS GO PLUMBING and HEATING CONTRACTORS na-iss Lamar It Phona 44M HEATING EQUIPMENT SPRINKLER SYSTEMS POWER PLANT PIPING PLUMBING FIXTURES YOUNGSTOWN KITCHENS j- ooooooaBsooCoaooaooaaoaeoaoaoata Sted that It might have be- teeth of modem Eropean man oooooooooasoaaaooeeaoeeateaaoOOOoooaotoioooaooaswoBooMWsb I a AMw ptaOM MBS FRIDAY NITI Til 9 Pike Open Friday TO IP MSU They are unlike those of modem anthropoid apes kmged to an early Bushman But tot teeth were of grog interest to JL.