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Ten years, a leg openBy BILL MERTENS The first leg of the US 534 freeway through Burlington was opened for traffic from MacArthur bridge to Cen-tral Ave. at 10 a.m. Tuesday.Nearly a decade in the planning and half that in construction, the new portion of highway will provide bridge access from US 34 for motorists andSubpoena is lost in mailLOS ANGELES (UPI) — A certified letter containing the first state court subpoena of an American President apparently has been lost in the mail. The judge who issued the historic order said the error left him speechless.Superior Court Judge Gordon Ringer, the judge in the Watergate West trial, was said to be incredulous when he first learned Monday that the subpoena of Richard M. Nixon had not yet arrived in the District of Columbia court..Judge Ringer's clerk said federal postal officials have put an im-j mediate tracer on the missing envelope. but they said they wouldn't begin to worry until the delay exceeded 15 days.The subpoena was sent to Washington by certified mail a week ago Monday in an attempt by a state court judge to get President Nixon to testify in the conspiracy trial of three former White House aides.When informed the certified letter had not reached its destination. Judge Ringer is said to have exclaimed. * * I* m rendered speechless.The judge’s document, upon receipt by District of Columbia court officials, is expected to be [ served on the President at the White House.Attorneys for Nixon’s former I aides. John Ehrlichman. David Young and Gordon Liddy. contend I they need Nixon’s testimony to prove that they were government agents authorized to break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist to get evidence which might pertain to the national security.truckers without necessitating a swing through downtown Burlington.The $2.5 million ramp will mean new approach patterns for those now accustomed to the temporary wooden ramp which has handled Iowa and Illinois bridge traffic for the past year. The wooden ramp is to be tom down.Illinois traffic can board the freeway at Central Ave. or Front street from the south. Front street from the south. Front street traffic from the north will not be allowed.Iowa traffic can leave the ramp at the bridge or the current end of the freeway at Central.(See map. Page 3)City officials said the new ramp will speed up crossing traffic — normal traffic, that is. Wide loads cause a special problem for MacArthur bridge.Wide loads will have to cross on the south side of the new toll booth on the ramp, meaning other traffic will be halted.A test was made Monday with a 12-foot-wide mobile home. The home could not easily squeeze past the booth on the north side: a 14-foot-wide load would be an impossible squeeze.The ramp was designed this way. officials say. as was the old toll booth set up on Main street. Widening the north side lanes would have added additional costs.This situation, however, causes a problem the original setup didn't have.Wide loads now would have to be taken down the southern on-ramp to Columbia street, then on Main to the northern freeway on-ramp — almost a complete circle.City Manager Ken Y’anderslice said the city may ask the Iowa Highway Commission to remove about 100 feet of new center railing and curbing west of the toll booth so the wide loan can swing from the east bound to the westbound lanes of the freeway, and avoid the circular motion.The toll booths are equipped with coin drop chutes. Motorists throw in their quarters and a traffic light registers the deposit and allows crossing the bridge.One of the first motorists to cross Tuesday got away for a nickel, however. something the tolltakers will watch for in the future.
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Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa, US
Tue, Feb 12, 1974
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