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Vol. 21 - No. 3 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFOR~IA ~ 151 MARCH, . 1962 -Safety, 'Feed' DraWs 6,31 Eureka Everit Has -Big Turnout . .._, The serious subject of saf~ty'· was blended with good fel­ low~hip .and exc.ellent food as a throng of 631 - Operating Engineers, their wives, contractors and others - turned out for a big event in Eureka. . . . . ·- · . I · It was the first Crab Feed_ and Safety Meeting -spon­ sored by the Humboldt-Del Norte Construction·safety Com­ mittee_for Local Unio:q. No . 3, with construction firms se_rvil1g as co-sponsors. .. There w~re talks by union ~nd management ·representa­ tives, plus the showing of the safety film, '~:Knowin·g . Is · Not Enough" - all in the interest of ad-vancing labor-employer efforts to cut back accidents and fatal- ities in highway construction and PROMO .f~:- SAFETY:-- He.re , are ·som·e ·of those who took part in -the big Crab Feed and Safety other p~ojects . . " r:n~eting at.· Eureka. Fr.dm left: Warren LeMoine, district representative, of Operating Engineers And i 1) sur an c e- companies Locai 3;- D,ale Marr>the local 's safety representative; John·O' Bi-ien, director of safety for Bec h­ - their ·inlerest through 1 showed tel C.or:p:,: Dilh M_ ilthers. ,·· tin1eke¢per· aAd safety inspeCtor:. for-Bechtel Corp., Eureka; AI Clem, - · · the attendance of representatives · • .busi:ne~ . s : m~_ nagel of kscal :3 / ·an'd ~oe . ~oberts, r;epresen~ing State. Di\ds !~_....n .of l,ndustri_al Safety. . _ . . . _ _ , .. ,... ,"-''-'""'-' ,. , .. , from . North~rnCahforma,South _ •.• .• • , _ .-.,_, 1, ·--F·, .. , .. , ~ y . "' .. -··--t~, as ~ far' ··" · ~ • ~~-~,.,_ ·:1 ~ '.<.~western are in. : In 1942, Brother Slack joined -F.riant Dam. He then ' moved to Force reserve officer, WqS kilhid POSITION .. ., "The rapid pace . of scientific the Operating Engineers' Local. the·.Bay· A\ea. wllere . h~ ··op~rq. ted · in a jet plane accident in· the He now· is sec.refary - tre~ su;er · -Continued on Page 7 Si~ri· a :r'oothilis - a-few- y~ars ago:· .. -· · :.._Continued on Page 3 -~ontinued on Page-2 -Continued on Page 7 _ . . .-. \ .

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ly t . u -alif rn-1a• . California eipployment in January was substantially higher than a year ago and unemployment was considerably lower, two State officials announced. John F, Henning, Director of Industrial Relations, stated that civilian employment totale<} 6,058,000 in January, up 143 ,000, or 21/z per cent, from a year earlier. Employment was report~d at the highest January level on record. • On a year-to-year basis, largest l~e: cal3 gairis we1;e made in manufactur­ ing,· up .47,000; government, up ,A·t Safet·y 40,000; services, up 32,000; and trade, up 30,000. In m'aufacturing, the· year-to­ Conference year gain has widened each Contimwd {rom Page l- month since employment topped and technological advance has year-earlier levels in September, minimized certain risks encoun­ 1961. tered by the working p~ople of AGRICULTURE the :r;J.ation ... (but) it has also Employment in. agriculture ON THE Guy F. Atkinson job in Ukiah, Operator/ Pat Furnish and Oiler Bob Schuman stand added new ·hazards to the old and. transportation-communica­ beside their big crane. Heavy rains have kept the projec;t bogged down in thick mud, as can ones," President Kennedy said · tion-utilities continued bel'ow a be seen by the deep tire ridges. ~ ~~ ·. · . · • .in a: letter to Secretm:y of Labor year ago .. .Nrthur J . .Goldberg last year. TOLL . - Between December and Janu­ Santa ·Rosa Report .. In citing the 1960 toll of ary, civilian employment dr()p­ nearly·14,000 killed and two mil­ ped by 134;000, which is less lion ' hurt at their jobs, safety .than "expected at this time of • exper.ts noted that only two, out year. Month-to-month declines included 'an 82,000 drop in trade ·roje.:l r ofr 10 accidents happened in• fac­ VI following curtailment of holiday I tories, whe~e the danger might peak ·activity, a 21,000 drop in By RUSS SWANSON and of the Army Engineers so that don't forge-t your time books so be·-expected to ·be the highest. LOU BARNF;S it will speed · the start of con- tha't you •Can keep accurate rec­ Thus the delegates to the construction, and a 20,000 con­ traction in manufacturing . At this writing, there ha·s be~n . struction. ., . , ords this coming season. · ..Was hington safety conference· We would like ·to remin'd the We have plenty of ·· forms in Within manu,facturin;, - sea­ noted only one call for 'bids in gave major attention to ways of brothers at this time not to for­ the office for those of you who sonal losses in canning, lumber- . the a1;ea in which we are .antici­ .reducing mishaps on jobs in ge_t to renew their original sign. have money coming due to over-. ing, and apparel, and slight de- . pating a good amount of, work. agriculture, construction;, trade ·up on the "out of . work" list. pa)iment of the. disability insur­ creases in ship repair and autos This, a poi·tion 'of the Santa and service fields, materiais Rosa dam job, was to be opened This is to be done at' any time ance. If you are not sure about handling and gover11ment. were partially offset by contin­ for bids on March 5. This por­ between the 76th .and 85th day this, contact us and we will· The comprehensive program ued gains in electronics .and ex-· tion will run in the amount of from the original si~n-up. Also, plain. mi_ssiles. considered research in safety, ; $400,000. - This $1,000,000 dam off-the-job safety, the role of the . Irving H. Perluss,.. Director of job has not-come up for bid as medical profession in a fully­ Employment, stated that unem­ } . ' yet }n roads~ and overpasses. integrated job safety·· program, ployment in C a 1 if or n i·a '-''as Other bids for the $11,000,000 and the role of the schools in 456,000 in January, 67,000 below s cts jobs are expected shortly. advancing worker safety among the year-ago fig_ure of 523,000. Argonaut has Been doing a its study group subjects.' .. Similarly, · the unemployment little work at Westgate, and tate in January, 1962, of 7.0 per-' ,· va'dous other sewer lines_: ' Cun­ --1 cent, was well under the 8.1 per- ningham is doing private dam · Me@sures on cent rate ill'January, -1961. ' work in Geyser.yille territory, By JERRY DOWD AND GEORGE BAKER C~ba Praised JOBLESS · and Carey ·Brothel'S are at Jen­ The AFL-CIO Executive Coun­ Perluss noted that seasonal ' ner. Due to recent heavy rains Work in the San Francisco Coms.tock Apartment Building. It cil of the Organization of Amer- factors accounted 'for the rise in there is only spofty work by the area has held up very ·well for ..seems the contractors are. favor- ican States in expelling Cuba unemploym ~ nt from 410,000 (6.2 various other cuntractors. this time of the year. Up to the --'ing this type of crane. from its ranks but warned that percent of the labor force) in Most of the jobs( in . ~he Lake · last_rain . spell, the w01:k has. been Charl;y Harney's Ate many. "sterner measures" are needed to December. Layoffs frOJ1l holi­ County m;ea are pretty well at;a comparable to ·what .1t was last , Freeway job has been ipactive isolate complet(;)ly that country's . day jobs in retail trade and standstill. The last report on ~he summer. Wi_th the clearing of the since the rains. Harney's crew Communist regime. other .industries were the pri- levee at Upper Lake is -good­ weather we can see no reason on the Bay Bridge is working The council called on aU- OAS mary . reason for this seasonal so far no flood damage. The why the work situation in the steady, and some of the Brothers members to put into effect as rise. As is usual for this time _of · Guerneville area did not fare as area· cannot continue to be very are making very good money on rapidly as possible diplomatic , year, unemployment also in­ well but the flood damage could good. . the night work. Would like to see and economic sanctions against· creased in construction and in have · -been a lot worse. One As has been reported ·in oth'er more jobs like this in the area. the Castro regime and expressed many manufacturing activities. thing.. is pretty well certain; issues of the Engineers News, $100 MILLION its firm support of U. S. action The California civilian labor Warm Springs ~ Dam would have the Federal Building is one of .. On information received in "to suspend 'corriplet~ly whatever _ force , total this January was prevented any damage whatso­ the better jobs in the area. This · this office, San Francisco con­ · trade was still being conducted . 6,514,000 compared with 6,438,- ever:· This is good because' it project , has furnished many struction passed the $100 million with Cuba.'! 000 in January, 1961. -~eeps -this big job in-the minds hours of good employment for mark in value of authorized pro­ our Engineers,· not only through jects for the third year _in a row. the prime contractor, . Roscoe, . Among . the largest · projects Ajax, l,(nickerbocker, but there authorized during .1961 were are numerous Subs on the job four· co-operative Apartments:. employing Engineers. To name a 1200 California Street, $4,250,000; . few of the'· Subs: Bethleh ~m the Royal Towers, $4,011,000; the Steel, Henry Robertson, Sheedy Nob Hill, $3.7 million, and the IIi­ Drayage and DevincenzL & Hask- ternational Longshoremen's ap.d .ins. Warehousemen's Union- Pacific SWEDISH CRANES · Maritime Association project and Haas and Haynie, with their the Western Addition, $3.1 mil­ co-operative apartment project lion. Other major projects were,· on · Sacramento Street, are going the Woodrow W i l s o n High to use two Swedish cranes to do School, $4.3 million, and the Bay their hoistings. They are re- View Federal Savings and Loan mote control, hammer head-type Assn. office building, $3 million. cranes: At present they have one Nearly $157 million worth of in operation', with the other to construction was authorized or be erected very shortly. under way at the end of last year. The Pacific Company, which is You can tell from the above erecting the Fontana Apartments report that a lot of money is at North Point, has one of its being spent on commercial con-· German cranes in operation, with struction in the area. If we had A SLIDE on Highway l near Fort Ross resulted in work for Carey Brothers, who put. Bud Lctri­ a second one to be put to work just half of this money being castE;r and Tom RiCh to work "daylighting" the rigs. They worked side by side, with the ocean in a week or so. These are the spent on dirt work, we wouldn't precariously near, cranes which were used on the need an out-of-work list. ..March, 1962 Page Three • ': Field Surv~y Notes . . '

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Is ·· bpi ined ,.r .. ... ;.. BY ART PENNEBAKER AND .HOWARD WYNN Another ·c~~leot;onic s~;rvey ~ i~stnime:ht has ·· c~m~ 'to \our . attention. It is called an electrotape. . · .... How it wor~s~An Eledrotape . system 'consists of two tripod-mounted · instruments : plac~d _at opposite .ends of a . b~seline to be measured. The s'ystem operates -on an jnter­ ••rogator-responder . electronic ·principle. Instruments are id~n­ tical and· can either be u'sed as interrogator or responder. Thus, measurements can be -made from each end of the bas~- line to provide- .. an- il;nmediate ' . . - check: of _-the distance obtained: ,carman on . In simplest terms, .Electrotape· measures the' time it takes ' f'or .'farm :Lab_o:r a radio wave to travel from .one unit to the other and back ag.ain. WORK THROUGH fhe summer· is assured for these Engineers on the A. G:. Raisch job ·for.l '· Commissio.n · Since.the speed thaLradio waves Eichier Homes in Lucas Valley. The crew shown here are (back row, from left) Brothers -Kirby · · · travel ,is known, it is easy.. to cal­ 'Mitchell, John ~atchett, Jim Holway, Bill Moungovan, Charles' Chandler, Peter Verhonik, Ray , .~qntinued from. Page 1---: .culate,.., the ·distance. Ultra:pre- Harvell and Pr.eston .Jones and (front row) Jimmy Moo·re, Clyde Anderspn, Dave Gordon, Art · . of ,both the' Califqrnia ,State Con- . cise phase. measuring equipment ·. Aze~edo and JohnnY' Presley._ 1 ' • . ~ · • · '

ference of Operating Engineer:s iS used to .make the actu~l de- . • • . I . ·.. .; I - . and the Western Cpnference of . termination of distance. H , R • B e M . .~!!lie -1 . Operating Engineers. And lie is .. "PUSH BUTTON" .. eavy . GinS rang ' any ~mlues, 1 a member of the' National De- ' This instrument weighs from . · · · · . ' fense Executive Res'erve. . This 25 to 35 pounds and is powered N' e'' w c=•v Is p1118Sn-e' ....I ... e .. ri#l i\.lll~v· ... .IIi! II _ P{J'a'IIIW -~,0. · appointment came in 1960 from . ·by a twelve-volt battery. . It r~- · . . . - Ill I · ~ . ll'IWII U ~~ ~D · b f the Secretary ·of Labor. ' . quires two men, to operate it; By T. 1· . STA.PLETON A .planned near Novato at· the ' d K ... 'th one ; as ' interrog·ator -and- one.. as . pre-JO con erenece was B . \Aft·er· ·a· n . exten.ded dt·y spell. · · 2000 acre Freitas C Ranch. Plans '·.·· G overnor rown name·· · e1 · · ·d held recently with Willamette 1\!ets of Hgltyille and ~ichard . respon er. we have had eight days of con- ·are novr in the ·· hands 'of the f th · t t 'll Tug and Barge, of Portland, Ore- J o l1nsen, J 1'., o·f S acramen·· t o • t o ·. so ar ese ms rumen .s WI tinuous rain~ and the reser.voirs cou~ty planning department,_but · d' t · b t th · gon, which .has started the . Sah reptesen' t agncu· lt · ure · on th e on1 y measure· 1s ance; u e . are filled to capacity. The' rain subject to some revis-ion. Six t d · th · · Rafael Creek. channel J. ob .• This Ca l1'f orma· · A gncu· ltura 1 'L ab or.. . .company th a pro uces · .. em we now are getting· is running . mon_ths mo& of planning remain Commission, clai~s ~o be developing_ an ele:- . off into tlie bay and ocean, .caus- went at a cost of $144,670. They befor~ this historic, p;~rtiall y ·t will use approximately 20 engi- ·mperial Valley . t rome _Ins t ru.m_~ .P t ..t 0 t u. rn ver l- ·' in,!! numerous slides and prop- ' wooded act'eage . is· broken by, Mets, an I 1 d h t 1 1 · - ~ 1 need; for a: P!3riod- Of · thl'ee farmer, is prE_!sident' of. the Coun- ,;,ca an onzon a ang es. erty darn age throughout, . the · bulldozers for .eventual conver­ cil of · CalifQ"imia Growers and ·_ Pushcb.ut.ton ·. engi~eeril}g . is county. The Nic·asio Dam, which months. · . sion into a community of 12,000 - · · was completed last· year, now · Shellmaker :lli·edge is 'still out people. the Imperial :Valley Farms ·As- ·· upon us! 1 sociation . . Johnsen . is executive During' th ~ last month your has ,its' share of water. .. -at Bla~k Point, with a good. Cl~ ew The 2000-a~re part lies · par­ · · · of Engineers. · · ·• .; secretary of the Agricultural .repres·entatives ··met' .:with the , Wh~ t work is in progr.ess· con- tially oil th.e valley floor border­ co·tmcil 9f Califoi·nia, a cobrdi- Nevada State Labor Commission sists of removing slides. . Marv Soiland · Pipeline is a ing. on Novato Creek and No­ nating ·bgdy_ for farmer. coopera- and were assu'red 'that the Oper- McGuire and Hester · almost new ,contractor starting up in. vato Boulevard. The main en­ tives. 7' ati:qg Engineer ·wages will be ad- has comp.leted underground . No_vato, with two Brothers at trance via Suh~o Aventle ft:om ~ With . Carman and . Pitts· . rep~ · . ;vertised as . the :pr:evailing rate work at, Belveder~ despite. the Pl'esent. Novafo. Boulevard is. about P/z cs othe ·s g! wages foi: Technica( · Engi- weather. · .. · ... A_ $100 "million "cit~" is bking ·miles frorp. downtown .Novato. t. labo a d th t t resen m, r n . e r .. b'd1 · .. 1 a 0Ticultu;.-e the fifth memlJer- neers ·· m . proposa s -pu . ou . t; be recor'umended _by the . four .. , by: ~ he State of N ev~da. • -is to represeiJ.t the publ~c at .· CO_NTRACT LET n ~.s· .. PE large. As an experini~nt, the State of ·' nsm Nevada has let a complete En- T ~ c~~\"l.H.et.~a gineering-Design co~tracC to a NORMA,L ..... v vn v ..-u\l» . ·n.ate of . l-abor Urges priV.ate ··Engineering f·irm. If Date of 8 this works they are planning to Name Eiltitfement Name Entitlement AprRg 11 ~1ora·toritl.BM on. use private ;engineers to· design ! Machi, Michael 6/62. Teronis, Peter . 2/62 . . · . -~ -· • ·.. Jt~il Merge~s · ni.ost.major highways. · Rinehart, Gail F. . 2/62 ·. White, Shirley _M:. 1/62 The '~fficial. call ~o . the pre-pri- ,. Appii~atiohs ·are comi~g in at REDUCED ' · ·ap·d· r/a't·e fo·r . the Appr·e·nt·ce' _ · · · · · · ··-, mary conv~t1tion of the Califor- !Vier g e r s · on u . s ~ · railroads a l 1 1 Bowle's, H;enry C. 12/60 Strange; Elmer , 3/62 sh0tlld corp.e to a dead stop p~pd: ship' pro'gram. It is anticipated ·colombo;. Henry 12/61 Thomason, George A. 2162 nia Labor Council on Political ing an overall survey of tli.e. na­ that a cut-Off date on accepting · Hans.en, Herbert J. 2/61 · Vest, Edgar D. 1/62 )!;ducation. has been.sent out to tion's .transp'ortation needs, the I application's will be set for the · Moller, ·Fred W. 12/6). - · all affiliated AFL-CIO organiza- AFL-CIO Executive Gouncil de- .> ll).gnt}.l. of June. - '.' ,.,. EARLY RETIREMENT tions in the state, ·cou_pled with a clared. · If you are presently a Chief Eikerenkotter,. G. S: 1/, 62 . Lenia, William .1:0/61 . warning by Secret~~-y-Treasurer AFL-CIO lea.4ers urged a inor- · of Party;· and want to 'be cei.~ ti- '" DISABILITY , · . . Thos. L. Pitts that organized !a- ato.rium on rail . merg'ers and fied. or if you ~re P.resently · . 3/60 · · bor's :stakes in the·· outcome of \ establishment of a · N a t i on a l working at any cla.ssification 'on . :,'Alexandei·,.Ernest " 3/62· Mm:ray, Kenneth 1962 elections command "full Transport · Commission to deter- · a survey, party~send your appli; . ~onzales; Ivy 2/61 . Stalnaker,-Gus 12/61 the mine the· kind of .railroad indus- ·· cation .in ~mmedi~,tely so that McN1~tt, Wiiliam :: H. 6/61 Terry, Rof.!ert L. 2/61 .mobilization . of labo~'s . political "' try required ·to serve the. public the Jojnt Apprenticeship·· Com= BASIC resources." adequately.:. mitt ~ e can be,gin ,prbcessing it. Bruce, A. Julius . 2/62 Hester, EdMr A. 2/61 The __ on~-day session will con- • , w ., . h • ·· ll • ' 'b. · .vene in San Francis.co, Wednes- 'd.a.y, Aprilll, 1952, at the To\vne . t er ·H. .Lts_v . .-a', I ~·J .o: , .,. Fr· e'_ e',· _w- ..,.~ .. ay _. . Jo·. : :Sta :.:_ · ·.. : ·r ':_•ts ' .-.;. . House to endorse candida·tes for ~a · ' . ' . I . . '... ,- . Gover .~or and . other state consti- '· By AARON SMITH MORE .WORK. . '. pany_ of: ·Oakland; at a · cosf·'oh : Petet's"on· Gi:uiidy Of S11n Fran '- ·· · . · - · · f offices, the United s _tatels The :muchr n~~ded "'t·ain .' has . Kaiser Steel has beerl" awarded ... ~64;443 :·:.. I . . ~. cisco.: af a-:· cosLof $5,653. . .. . tutiOl;a brought work in _' .the Valiejo ~ome more work, en~b~ing them The weed abatement pt•ogram ·.•:' Sewer · aonstr: u ~t ion ·at the House . of Representatives: and California Maritime Academy. in Stat~ Legislatpre in the June 5 I area to a complete standstiil, . to call back part of . the Engi- 'for the Ci.ty of Napa; cinitractor 'with Gordon Ball, McGuire and . neer;; previO\JSly laid off due to Allen . G. -McDonald. of Savador Vallejo; contractor is Rober t . statewide primary' election. - Murdock of Orinda, at· a cost of Hester, and .. .Wunderlich Com- · lack of work. They . will ·start. at a cost 9( '$4,545: · Involved, in addition t~ . the · of Building $3,384. . . . _ .· , pany closing down completely. three !lhifts in the very near Modif~c~tion 420 1:1tatewide offices, are 3~ Con~res­ • f .ree'- future. . ·. . · at Ti:avis Air -Force Base from Constructw~ . .of. a Reflector ·The Frederick-Wats~n sional seats, 80 State Assembly , • , way job at vacaville was -: to •star.t .. Several ,: mts:enaneou~ JOb~ ... ari Of.ficers ~ open mess to a cocJc- Tower· at Tr~v1s ~1r Force Base. ··March 1: This . is the'. Freeway have been. , let m ·• the ;past few , tail lounge with contractors Con!ractor· 1s Richardson and districts, and 20 of the 4.0 seats severi miles between Vacaville. ' w_eeks,' y.rhJch . ~re as !ollows: Krull and I Krull of Vallejo ·and Von. Raesfeld ··of ·Petaluma, at a in the State Senate. ·and -Dixon. Frederickson and - - Powe~ Developmen,t at the . Archie 'O. Smith of Vallejo, at' a'. cost . of ~5J3!7. I· . has_ subcontracted _the.. · .Y~untvtlle -yeteran.~ ~o~e --:- cost of $ - , . ConstructiOn of . a · ~ports . Watson 65 006 E.!-i'GINEJmS NEWS • dirt work to. Hess and Dubach·· contractor . IS N

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. . During the past month, I ~ttep.ded the Engineering< ana Grading ~ontractors Association cO'nve_ntion held in Sacra· , . mento. We heard several very interesting speakers from the ·' Department of Public Works. Everyone seemed optimistic. as to'the outlook for wbrk iJ1 the - Californi~ - Highway System in the coming years: This was a very order-ly and \yell:!'un .. convention. It was especially interesting, for there we met many of the members of Local 3 who are contractors or work· . . ing in a supervisory capacity. . ..:: · . .. . I -ac-·.·

' A Safety Conference. was held in San Fr~ncisco at the Fairmont Hotel on Thursday, February 8. Dale Marr, Safety Repr~sentative for Local~. m·yself, -and_other representative. AT THE. LAST Dis_trict meh_ing. in Redding, local offi~ers .and riewly-elec'ted gr.ieyance _com- of Local 3 were in attendance. This coilference was very in-­ mlttee members d1scussed d1stnct problems. Local off1cers are Manager AI Clem, Pres1dent tevesting and irifor t' · W · b. · .. ' d f th f t · Paul Edgecombe, Recording Secretary W . V. Minahan, and Financial Secretar'y A. J. Hope. ' . ma IVe> ~ can e prou 0 .~ sa e Y Grievance committee members are Wayne Co leman, Dale Bryant and Don Hart. , program bemg conducted m our Local. • • "t ' • ' \ . • • -ac-

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. .. County who are taking time ;off .,. from theit regular jobs to · devote themselves to betoming better engineers through our . . . . - ) ~ unlal'n.. ighw. y rojec:l ·· apprenticeship program. '· ' · -:;:ac- By J>B. JENNINGS . the. 25-mile ·unfinished . midsec- game departrpent, The $9~ Jllil- · a·nd S. N, _McBROOME tio:n; lion project was set back from D-anny 0, .Dees, fo):merly a Busine~s Repr~sentative out of FREEWAY its appointed. ~~t arting date in ~_ighway . 1089, running be; the San Jose ' Office, has peen. permanently assigned to the tween Weaverville and _Etna, . · Freeway -plans call for ramps June. when the fish and game apprenticeship ' program> :Hi is_ now :endeavoring' to set_ up f1:om Shasta and Tehama Streets - depai-tment protested to 'the Fed- · curricula ~"' ~rtd to develop· more claspes in other area.s 'llrid. will open up the .wilderness ar~as;. tO. span . Continenta-l Street and eral' P ,~ wer __dommissio D:~ that the ourjui·isdiet1on . .\ . . -,:. ~ ;··,:. -c . ·. .• - ~'\ . '\•. '• This road will' start at Weaver- join the highway on an emt>ank­ ·· hatchery_ questioii had riot been .,/ ~- ville and skirt th~ ~eastern ~lope ment. hear the south boundary of resolved. · · -ac-::- of . the Trinity Alps . .The road Redding cemetery. Easfpound The State and the company are .; •: wm Pcomihg il;lto . Redding divided over. which 'should build, ' After a seri~s of meetin'gs with-the: representatives -of the · would exit from a ramp _at the operate and maintain · a · fisQ Coffee Creek (\nd Carr:ville.: Two intersection of Tehama and-- Lib-­ Wells Cargo Company,_ on the evening 'of Wednesday, Feb­ miles of this road will be moun- hatchery- at ·genders Ferry on the erty Sti·eets. This means that Pit, River .. The hatcher-y would ruary 21, we consummated·· an- agreement which was sub­ tainsides that have 70 per cent Shasta and Tehama Streets will_ take care of displaced Kokanee mitted :to the membetship. iti the employ_of Wells. Cargo. It . slopes. ·be included in a one-way street salmon when PG&E .builds a sys­ was ac;cepted by an overwhelming- niajor~ty. - Present ,when . When this road is completed patter-n leading to and from a tem of dams, powei- holtses ·and tl:!e acceptance was voted were President Paul Edgecombe the tr:aveJer will be able to leave · bridge planned across the Sacra- tunnels to blockade water in the Highway 99 at Redding, swing mento River. ' and Representatives S_Rence and Eck. - . two-. i·ivers upstream from Shasta ' :ti ~ west on Highway 299, and be able Lake. · ·. to take Highway ,1089 at \yeaver-· BRID~E ·-ac- , ville, travel noi-th t,o Etna in Osborn Construction Company Constructi'on ~:ork of the Pit Siskiyou County and northeast of Redding - r~c eiyed the coi1tract River bddge· at Big -- Bend is ex­ Th~ total number of:men-.dispatched during the ·mont. -until he finds Highway 99 again· to build a concrete bridge over pected to start as soon as weather of Fehruary throughout' our territorial juris_dic-tion was 7,,63. at Yreka. . the A-CLD canal on I:.oci.rst Street. permits.· This job is_ ·part of ·the It goes withouf saying that the out-,Of"WOrk list is heavy due At present, ·Highway 1089 is a Osborn's bid ·was $32,993, · the county's long-range heavy capi- - tal investment bridge_ program. to the weather. We know that ·everybody is looking forward mixture·· of paved two-lane ex- lowest of 10 submitted . .. -The to a busy sea_son. · pressway and croOked, narrO'I'{, bridge '-'iill eventually join :east BRIDGE JOB · · ' d · B t · and west sections of Locust ·- rough n:rountain roa . u crews · Ray Kizer Construction Com- ~ac- are ptishing south from Callahan · Stn~ets near the Village Plaz~ pany ·was awarded the Pit Ri\;~r .. in Siskiyou county and north' shopping center. . _ Bi·idge-Canby Modoc county jqb. With o,ther- officers of the union I attended the regular from Carrville in Trinity com1ty. Some compromising over the · Kizer"s bid was $882,882.00, a-six- qua;rterly membership rneetings ih· Oakland, Stockton, San The motorist can travel the full . McCloud~Pit hydroelectric pro- month. job. This job is bridge 'a!ld Jose arid Sacramento ._at which Grievance Committee ere:c- 125-mile lenboth· oLHibcrhway· 1089 jecf appears to be- developing road, clearinbcr, pip_e and_.. gT _adirib"· · t·Ions were h el d . The Grievance Committee ·members now already. But the traveler must between Pacific 'Gas and Electric Approximately 30 Engineers Will . . · · h · d ser__ v . ing in Stockto.n . are':· M... erle Is.be___ll _,· -_-Forrest Pritcha;rd, b~ prepare~ for rough going on Company and the State fls an be employed on this particuhir ""'""'""'"""""'....,.,,;....,...,..,•...,._,..="""""""""'""""'""""'"'"" . ....,;"""".....,""""'" ....""""""""'""""'...... job. · Aaron Becker, Ed Hayes, and Walter M·. Talbo~t. In San' Josei Killer minerals flushed out of AI Ferry, .Robert A. Long, George Reynolds, Les Hodges, and the mountains by pounding rains A. J . Hope. In Oakland:"Ed1ie Miller, Bill Rogers; TomByar. ,'!· have again littered the banks of Robert Romitt, and Don Kinchloe. Ii:J. S<;!cramento: Tom Eaton. j{ ' /- I Died the' Saci· ~_mento Rivet wi~ll. ~ea_d ~ J_ohn 'R. Moore·, Clem A. Hoover, Biil 'woodyard, and E. M. Initiation 1 sa1mon and trout. The v1llam 1s N I - . k ll f th ·G · c ·tt N arne and City once· more th~ Spring CI"eek. 'As · e 1~01 ]!; persona11 y _ now a 0 . ~se _ nevan~e or:tml. ee . 'William Moore, Redwood City _ · - :5/18/36- 2/- 7f62 it·drains heavy rairis off'the hills · members- and I am sure they Will perform their duhes 1~ a Samuel W. Matthews, Salt Lake City . 3/ 1/47 2/ /62 around Iron Mountain which is conscientious and upright manner. Fred Schultz, San· Rafad . 5! 5/51 2/ 3/62 - la~ed with copper.· The stl' e ~'m is · · W. W. Barry · 2/ /62 so polluted wh.en . it enters the ..:....ac- Lot'rie Stone, Vallejo . 7/11/42 1/.19 /~2 Sacramento n~~: tp. of Keswick ' Owen M. L,ee, San Pablo 5/ 6/44 2/13/62 Dam that it kills fish. During the past month Patil Edgecombe, H. T .. Petersen; Troy Maxwell, Vacaville 9/11/60 . 1/29/62 The $3.2 million Spring Creek A. J. Hop·e, Don Kinchloe, 'Joe, Miiler ~ and myself, the com­ 10/ 4/58 1 3 62 Jo-e S. Pruitt, Oroville 1 / Dam, to be built by .1963, · will mittee . represertting Local 3, m~e_t with a larger committee John H_. Harris, Campbell 10/ 3/53 1 62 2/ 6/ cMtliol entry of the troublesome' from Local,12, headed .by Business Manager ..Joe Seymour Frank-A. Broda, Reno, Nevada - ·9/ 6/58 . -- minerals into the river. Until 12/13/5'8 ~~~~~~~ and President J~mes Twori:J.bley. We discussed problems of RusselLF.. Scott, Sacramento· . /15/62 such time fish will continue to · Clayton H . Koup, Richmond 3/6/43 2 m1.J.tual interest to the two ' l~cal unions~ The meeHng • waa.. 2/23/62 die. Tony l\'laniz, · Livermore 8/19/39. held in Fresno. · 1 • Oscar Let;oy Lewis, Salt Lake City 5/ 4/34 2/26/62 Winter ~ rains bring'·work in Glen G. Adams, Provo, Utah 8/ 1/42 21 /62 ... the Redding District. to a stand- -ac- Wilbur Goesch, Dutch Flat 11/15/49 1/15/62 still. A few new . .jobs about to : ' break are waiting foi: the weather Charles A. Seelig, San Carols 10/ 2/54 2/25/62 The numl~_er of contracts signed in·the past month was 60.· to clear. ., '

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Engineer Carl Wafden MRS. KEN BI!NSON. sigps inwith (from left) Mrs~ Bonville, ly\rs. George Me·achan:. -· was salad - m\~er. and Mrs.- Howard Nelson. Wives· got a lot of credif for the success of the event. · · Engi'neers, Wives, COntract rs E ·i 1 F llowship _ '• John (Ga il) ·. Burnsed, Continued from1Pti ge 1- hibor relations rept:esentau've for The co-sponsors included Fos­ time and effort contributed to Moine, Mrs. , potato· salad, 75 pounds of ·'spa- . Bechtel Corp., San Francisco; ter Drayage Co., Tom Coy, John Mrs. T om (Lais) Wilmerding, Mr>J. the success of the event: Roy (Jennie) .Stevens. · ghetti, 80 loaves of French Joe Roberts, labor. liaison rep­ B u r 'm an and Son·, Russell Mrs. Dan (Ann)· Mathers, Mrs· Joe · ·• Mrs. Aldo Guintoli, Mrs Aid() bread and. a quailqty of- tossed resentative of the State Division Melohn, Fred J. Maure:J; and Son, (Pat) Biasca,. Mrs. Joe (Hazel) (Francis) Guintoli, Mrs . Ben (Stella) Benzonelli, Mrs. Jim (Donna) Mantei­ gr~en salad (50 heads of lettuce of Industrial Safety; Al. Glem, J. L. Conner Jr., Arthur B. Siri, Swaner , Joe Biasca, Earl Horn, . Ben b etti, Mrs. Wm. (Alice) Pusch , Mrs. Binzonill, Jim Montelbetti, Mrs How­ Wm. (Norma) Clark, Ben B enzonelli,. · were used). Some i25 pounds of .- business manager -of_ Opeiating Inc., Chandler and Newman, ard (Rose) Nelson, Mrs. George Andrew Andersen. Art Cooper Ott() . · potatoes and a crate of eggs were Engineers -Local 3, and Dale Peter Kiewit and Sons, Slate and (Ma rie) Bonville, Mrs . G eor~·e . (Lois) Sheras ke, Walt R eed , Jim R eynolds • Meacham, Mrs. Otto (Lucille ) Sher­ Russell Medearis, T om Wilwerding., .team· cooked by the Bechtel Marr, 'the union's safety repre­ Hall, Ball and Simpson, Bechtel aske, Mrs. Newell (Kathryn) W aters, L . Abe _Sousa, Ivan Moulton, George Mrs. Carlton (Edith) Robertson, Mrs. Bonvrlle, Marving Roney E r n i e Corp. at the PG~E plant. sentative. Corp., Mercer Fraser Co.,_ Nor­ Harry (Susie) Metaxas. Waters, Phillip Crawford. Carlton SPEAKERS man . I. Fadel, Inc., ·Morrison­ Mrs. Bill (Teen) Tomberlin. Mrs. Robertson, Robert T ennant, Burl The general committee was Paul (Virginia) Mathews, Mrs. Al­ Bradbury, R ay Cooper, Dennie R ey­ - The evening's speakers in Eu­ headed by D ~ n - S . Mathers as Knudsen and ·Pacific Mechanical. fDI'd (Sue) · Dorris, 1\'Irs. John (Els ie) nolds, Dough Wilkinson, John Bul­ Sterret. Mrs. Fred (Alberta) . Card, lock, Mrckey Dillon. Hus ted H eint'ici, reka's Shrine . Park: w·ere John. ·chairman and included Howard' ·· THEY HELPED Mrs . Ea1·! (Marie) Horn, Mrs Ray Eugene L ake. · HaiTy Metaxas, Al­ (Evelyn) Cooper , Mrs. Carl (Fay) fred Arseneau. C. W. J enkins, R oland O'Brien, director of . safety and . Nelson and Ray Cooper. Here are some of those whose Walden, Mrs. "iYarren (Wanda) Le- Renfro, Carl \Vaiden. . - - •· 1 I Page Six . ENGINE· ERS NEW S I March, 1962

h n By DON KINCHLOE, L. L. "TINY" LAUX, NORRIS CASEY AND FRAN WALKER . The out of work list is quite long as.theoraifl has put a stop to much of the work in this area. Once the -rains are over we look forward-to a good year for the brothers. Southern Alameda County, like all others has received its share of}·ain.in the past eouple of w.eeks. At this writing just about all outside construction is shut dowri. About the only peopl~ that are happy about it are the farmers. · · __ About the biggest news here now is that General Motors has- changed its mind on the Fremont plan.t, and has ·stopped any -Give orders on most· of the construe- tion at this time. Blo.od at . CHANGED Originally this was planned­ Red~ -ing and the construction started early last fall - to be a Chevro-o Thanks go to the members c:nd let assembly plant, and a Fisher their wives who have shown so Body· plant. · It has all been much interest in our annual cha~ged now. There are no plans blood program. The response has . out a~ yet, but it is official that been terrific. ' · neither Chevrolet nor Fisher will be here. It will · be an assembly Here's our honor roll of blood plant for Buick, Pontiac, Olds­ donors: mobile and G.M.C. trucks. It was - :·:: John Amushastgin, Hubert An­ orginally planned as two separ­ Becomes· Career c:lerson, Carl Anderson, Tom Arm­ ·ate plants on the same 392 acres strong, Cal Barham, Warren of land. CHARLES GARDINER (left) was clea· r~d through the Oakland Bartlett, Bill Baumami., Lewis office (Dispatch No. 7849) by AI Clem on October 7, 1943, Now the building that is under Baum, Del Beiers, Jim Binkley, 1000 Carleton Street, Berkeley, to operate a construction, and was to be the to . Ed Tobin, James. Bradley, S. A. Buchtel,-· This was to f?e a ·one-.day job. He's still Fisher Body plant, will be wid· - . ·trenching machine. Ted Carson, John Carter, Mrs. · that one day jof;>s can pay off. He is shown here ened 130 feet· and extended some there-proof John Carter, Ed Closs, Bert Cor­ wi,th- Business Manager Clem. ' 0 1,200 feet to make the complete c:lell, Wayne Coleman, Ben Coro­ plant under one roof plus office valho Steve Collins, Fred Cran­ buildings. Of com;se, this causes c:lall, -' Mrs. Fred Crandall, Joe many changes. It is our under- Craig, Jim Darcy, Delbert Day, . standing that almost all the work this year will be better. ~ow under way but has not go~e Oswald Dusina, Jim Darvell, Ed­ tions R. Craighead ~ were omitted. They • that has been done up to now Peterson Trador has been go­ into full swing. The compressor­ c:lie Darvell, John DeJong, Al are worki!J.g on Standard Oil ·,will have to be done over- even ing exceptionally good this year. ~ house is now on three shifts. · Denning, Paul Eastley, Ed Fore­ Company's ; _Richmond · -Refinery to the niov'ing of the new rail­ Last year at this time they ha'd man, Wally Franz, lro Gois. In last month's issue of the En­ Udex Fractionating Tower. Low road spur. This will make much and ·their men-on .a fo~r-ciay week gineers · News 'the names of- . bidder. on this projeCt was Chi­ Al Gonse, Lester ·Gr-iffith', Ken­ · more work for the d1:illing com­ 1 the situation didn't look good. Brothers John Battenfeldi and W. cago . Bridge & Iron.· neth Griffith, Judie Griffith, Don panies, as _there will be approx­ This year everyoRe is · wor)Cing - Griffith, Alfton Haie, Bud Hasha, imately another 1,000 footings to ' fhll time and they have hired a Harold · Headrick, :(\'Irs. Lillian be dug. P&Z Drilling Co. just few extr~ . men. Which is ·a good Harty, Ernest Hull, Dr. Michael completed 500 on the 'original indication for· the equipment bus- Hamilton, Bob Ingersol, Ralph 0 plan. ·iness. , • , • ~ Jauch, Sam Johnson, Eric John­ . REPOURING ' REFINERY EXPANSION son, Robert Johnston, Orville Many -of the concrete slabs will , The Bechtel Corp. has the Tide­ Johnson, Harry Johnson, Mrs. have to. be taken out and i·e­ water Oil job at Avon under way Harry Johnson, Don Jennings, poured as they are now too light .and at this time they are setting Robert Jones, Dalton Krigbaum, for the ·new J:milding. All in: all, . the ves~ls in pl~ ce 'with the new Mrs. Hershel! Krigbaum, Leland it will be a big change, but it 4000 Manitowoc. We -now' have 14 Lucas, Ralph Lamar, Al Lampley, will· also make a lot more work brothers on th'is job. They-· are: Ernest LaFond, Vern Leete, John . for our brothers. ·· C. E. Wilkins, F. Cabral, T: .T. · Linebach, Mrs. Orin Montgomery, as . Perkins, F. F. Stfmac, J. W. • It wa~ originally· planned a Kenneth Martin, Mrs. Sid Me· $15 million job plus· equipment, Bankhead, E. Phelps, J. E. Piper, Broome, Sid McBroome, · C. L. and is now estimated as . approx-­ C. H. Johnston, R. J. Pacini, W.' McGettrick. imately $25 million plus equip­ A. Rogers, L. w_. Lyman, P. E. I. Miller, Bob McAlexande1:; A. ment Spencer, and T. Manzer. At th

Caesar Rogers, Mrs. Orde Robin- .0 has started as yet. · By the -ne~t <;ompletion of the steel erection son, D.an Roberts, Dave . Roben- ... writing we should have a good of the· Martinez-Benicia Bridge. kohl, Orville Sargent, F. M. report on this. Consolidated Western Steel on Scheimer, N. J. Sheeran, Merle All the dirt jobs .are down at the pipeline along with Young Sidener~ Bill Sl)1ith, James . this time. It has rained long and and Anderson have slowed to a Stevens, Jack Stevens, Pete Skin­ hard and ,will have .to do a lot of walk; as of this writing, because ner, Harold Stevenson, Billy · drying before most of it can go. of the ra.ins. Hims, Willie Vardanega, 0 Mrs. Oliver DeSilva boys at the Ala­ American Pipe is also at . a· Willie Vardanega, Don Woods, meda State College will go as standstill: because of the rains. -· Bar;1ey Word, Walter Wells, G. E. soon as it stops raining - as the Some of the brothers have in­ Wilmoth, Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. drainage is good up there. quired about the freeway from· C. Wilmoth. The Rock, Sand and Gravel in· Danville to Walnut Creek. The dustry is slow. Most of the fel­ information is that a budg~ t of SACRAMENTO lows are getting some time in, $12,900,000 has been set aside fctr Donor; since January ~9 in­ but very ·few are making full this project and it is the largest clu-de: Tony Azeveda, Robert L. weeks. They did have a good year highway budget in the Bay area.- DO N'T TAKE CHAN CES Briggs, Dennis Fenno, R. K. last year and from all indica- .The Broadway tunriel job is Froh, A. G. Lewis, Mrs. Mildred S. Potts, W. R. Potts, Mrs. Alice W mTH SMOOT"H l i RE S ! B. Stobert, Fi·ed Wachtel, James J. D. ENTERPRISES Williams, · Ray Wymore, Howard B. 'Green. INCOME TAX SERVICE OAKLAND IN YOUR HOME OR MINE Ray Halmick has been a donor. A B-rother Engineer 2348 - 14th Ave. and an Experienced Oakland SAN MATEO • 1 Income Tax Adviser An 1-7205 Our blood donors i n c 1 u d e 2344 E. 12th· Street Oakland Disability Return Forms, Filled Out Free Raftery, Keith Hayes KE 2-6323 Thomas For Members of Local 3 and Julius Hacke. I . M-arch, 1962 E NG INEE-RS NEWS Pag e S~ve n

. . I . . Brother Del Armer is still laid up with InJuries he-re· ceived while working at his home. Brother Dawson, a dozer ' operator· for the Granite Construction Company, was injured . by a falling oak tree, while clearinK.at the LaTorre chkken ranch · < · , .. ' B;o-ther Roscoe P~:mnds · has recently purchased ,_a com· i' bination Hough ; Lo ~ der H-2b9 7 ;Backhoe: '. · ~ - . < · ·. Brother Bud Price 'stopped iii at the office and reports that he is doing niCely in his new business at Salinas, Victo~:y • Bar Dini,ng Room, located at 126 M~in Street. ·· * * * ,- Fresno Brother J ~hn DeB rum has ~been hospitalized. Brother Ira-- Rhines has returned to work after his :ac- - cident. · · Brother Don Brewster has returned from South Amer· AT SAN RAFAEL, several brothe'rs gave to the· blood oank recently. . , Jeanne Parrish .rca, where he was employed with. Utah Construction . Com· . tests the needle for sharpness. It was approved. Among those who donated wei"~ Sid McBroome, pany for eight _years·. as lubrication Superintendent. He tells Wayne Coleman, Bud Hasha; AI La'mpley, .1ed Carson and Bill Palermo. us that Brother Richard .(Dick) Terry has also returned from the same.project. · * * * . More About Union 'Leaders Oakland . Brother Gunnar :r;rorberg returned re~ently from a·,week, . · ·' m Honolulu. · While the_re . he dropped ·· in the Oper,ating Paui _Edgecf)mbe ~ Union; to read all re~eipts ' fl:OII). (;uy.Slack .'. Engi~eers offiCe and was greeted ' with warm hospitali.ty. Continued from Page 1- the; General Secretary-Treasurer .. Contin.ued from Pqgd- · Brother Ruper. Teves, ;Business· Jtepresentative, took qim · · Union'· No. 3. l'L·ior ·'io'· that he around the island to different construction jobs. · equipment for various contrac- for funds sent to the General worked as For eman ·and Shiftelr . We are holding in the office W-2 forms for the following t ll t f t t. Office; to appoint all committees brothers.· Cl1'ff W. Horman, Johnni·e Johnson, Tom Laug·'nton' , ors on a ypes o cons rue wn th · " d d f t 0 in the northern part of Califor- un1 ess o erwise provi e or; , •· · Rob'ert Mavis, Ronald Ne\v-ell, Chuck L. Verli·ng· , Evan-Larson, - work. He ~as an Oper ating En- be .cust;dian of the quarterly nia. This makes him' a member gineer fqr the City and County password and examine .the· ere- of approximo,tely ..ZO years' stand- Raymond Kelsey, Calvi~ Bart~;s. * . of San Francisco· for 1!: years. . dentials of any member before · ing. . He is married ancr nas a so!). and . ·bestowing· th~: saiile; to fur~·lish During · World War· II he Stockton daughter. the GeJ;Ieral President full and worked as Superintendent ' 0 f · · A vote of .thanks to Brothers Henry Swarthout and :Roy . . t t' complete I'nfoi·mati'on on any sub- Equipment at Ma_r.in. -Ship for the W ll h . l t d th nr ll C I . b C As a b usmess represen a IV~, a ;:tee! ~ o p1c (e e . e vv e . s argo, nc., JO near op· Brother Edgecombe worked out ject within his control or knowl- BechteJ CorporatiO n. These were peropohs, m the worst kmd of weather. · of the San Francisco office from edge when requested; and to per- , the days when constr~ctio .n jobs . "Brothers Coy Sanden; and Jack Skinner are recuperating 1953 ~ntil 1955, when he was form: such other ·duties as .' were few and far between. from recent operations. . . ' - transferred to the Sacramento ·appertain to hi~ office' or which: Brother Slack has a! ways taken * * * Office as District Representative. may fr~ni time to time be dele- an .active interest in ) he affairs Marysville . During the period . of supervi- gated to him by action of the of his Local Union. He served on • Local Union or other· authorities . the By-Laws Committee and was Brother Earl Jensen of the R.C.A. Service Company, was sion, he was appointed to the in the organization. (Art XXIII, help~til ·in writing the By-Laws busy passing out the cigars the other day. The reason: ,His Executive Board, and in Febru- b h' h · u · · 'f ary of 1958 h i;) became tr easul·er. Subdiv. 2, Section ('a) . .. Y w Ic .your ~1,9n1 ~ .now gov- WI .e ~ave birth, ' Monday morning, February 19, to a boy All of which adds ·up t.o· a re ~ - erned. ~noL t ~ ·hrs elecho.n as an v.:e_Igtmg . 8. pounds, 4 ounces. The Jensens have one other In March, 1958, he was chosen . . 'bl ·t· h' h ~.. ·t .Executive. Board Member m 1958,. · child a daughter ,- '• to s~rve as president-in Novem- -sponsr e posr 1on w IC mus . ·.·.. : · . · . . ' . · . . . ber of ·1960, the member ~ hip, by . be administered in" a truly dem- - he served as a. .Gne y an~e Com- yacahon check~ are bemg held m t?e offfce for the fol· ·majority·. vote, elected him ·our-. ocratic ·manner. ... mdidt~et. ~ mtemh~e:r" mt. Distnct__ EL In lowmg brothers: Chfton Bakewell, Martm If. Barton, Charles a IIon o. Is ~u res as an xec- E. Elan, Wilson Low · O'Neal Miller. ·Contact the office either president. · · · utive Board m:-mber, he is <;~ai 'r- · iii person ·or ·by mail' to· pick up the checks or indicate where The office of President in- San ,Rafael . man .ef ~he Gn evance Committee to send them. In writing identify yourself by register, social eludes a multitude of duties and . l Distnct 1. security number, or both. . · . . responsibilities as indicated by ~ Br~ther Hur~+ . ' . I'.* '* :~:. . · the following excerpt from the St., are Monday, We_dnesday arid Constitution: Brother Lawrence Thomas is Friday. U.tab: It shall be the duty of the Pres­ recovering from a motorcycle ac- . SAN FRANCISCO ,· Brothers Art Irwin and Anci'i:ew Frandsen suffered heart ident to preside at , all meetings, · cident. TwelVe units of . blood We at e in need of three 'pints ·attacks recentlY, , Brother Charles Bateman injured l!.is back enforce the Constitution, Laws, were given to him. He now is out of blood ' f ~ r a 'member 's wife. An- on the Moab M.' K. job. · :· · • of the hospital. Our thanks to the ·other m_!:)mSer's. son has used .19 - · Rules, Ritual and customs of the * * * organization; to decide .all ques­ following who donated blood: pints and is still badly in need of San ~c:'Ji' e o · Haskell Thomas, John Kelly, Tom more. You ·. can see (his is a · · · tions of order subject to an ap­ · Thanks to Br othe. rs Bill Caufield, Dick Pfau and Charles peal to the, Local Union; to · cast Fenton, Gerald Arp, Faine Ray; "tea·m" projec,t. the deciding :vote in case · of a Robert Clements, Loren Williams SANTA ROSA . Nicholaisen 'for the 'contribution of'their labor on the play- · tie; to sign a1l orders : on the­ and Cha rles Brown.- Since our last writing, we have . grciul)d for. the emotionally-di~turbed children at Community " Tr.easure'r for the disposition of Days for donating blood at the' had one blood donor. Our' ul'anks Hospital. 'I ~ * *· funds authorized by . the Local San Raf a e~ Blood Bank, 506 4th · to Brother Rober t Johnston. Eur*e ka W-2 forms for the following Brothers a,re at the Eureka · Office: Albert Murphy, Earl- H. White, Gordon K. Gardner, William M. Bradley, and Arthur E. Keeler. . · · * * ':' . San .Rafael . . The following .·brothers are on the sick list: Ha] Martin at • . Marin General. He had an accident on the job, operating a d_ozer for Paradise Engineering. Brother Harry Cahill con­ . fined at Ross General; Brother AI Wicht back in Marin Gen· eral for eye imrgery. . · · ' · * * I* Nevada W,e are still holding the following vacation checks aLtha Reno office, 185 Martin Avenue: Erick Anderson, Myron :cAt· water, Ysac Bibayoff, James M. :Bragg, Joseph P. Briano, · Earl V. Burhans, John ·E. Burney, Earl R. Butler, Norman L. Crow, Richard .J; Dallen, Clatence·w ,,Dayton, Colma Dupree, Jack Ellis, Denton Fricke, Da1e. Fraser, Earl Gibson, Jesse A. Glenn, Wayne D. Hall, Dave Hansen, Robert Lyon, James Munson, Glenn Gillson, Felix .Ityrraran, Dell W. Lathim, Donald McGowan, Floyd Maricle, Henry F. Marsh, Edward L., Martin, William Martin, Dick Merritt, James G. Morris, Peter G. Morros, Lee B. Morton, Richard S. Myers, Kenneth BROTH.ER HUN.T and his son-in ~ law, Jay Browri, do a little gold dredging on their prop­ Nelson, T. L. O'Dell, Owen R Parker, Glen B. Parker, Albert erty, near Jenny Lind, in their spare time. Although Brother Hunt's equipment has h9d many L.' Pico, Edgar R. Rankin, Carl A. Roberts, Robert L. Stan,ley, break-downs, due to its lack of use, he has hopes of making it a profitable avocation before M. F. Summerbell, William P. Thomas, Peter C. Thomsen, too long. This piece of equipment has been parked at Double Springs since th,e cessa.tion of Robert A. Waller, Cedric Ward, James R. Walsh, James dredging activity in t[lat area. White-; D. H. Wilcox. ,

·p~ge Eight · E N G IN E E RS N E W S March, 1,962 -· .. .. Lef)s Get It on· the fl:_oad. ·' . . - ( .

Published each mon.th by Local Union No. 3 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (Northern California, -Northern Nevada, 'State of utah, the Hawaiian Islands) Office: 474 Valencia St., San Francisco 3, Calif. AL CLEM ______Editor and Business Manager PAUL EDGECOMBE ------c--President JERRY DOWD ------t·------·------Vice-President. W. V. MINAHAN .... Recording-Corresponding Secretary· .. A. J. HOPE -- ---·····- ···-········-·-··-····-···-····Financial Secretary H. T. PETERSEN ·:··············-:...... Treasurer Team Effort- And A Strong Union What makes a trade union strong and keeps it that way? The most important factor is teamwork. Webster defines this as "work done liy a number of asso­ ciates, all subordinating personal prominence to the effi- · ciency of the whole." •• The definition emphasizes the essential feature of good unionism as practiced by Local 3. · * * * A TRADE UNION is defined- as "a voluntary association of wage earners organized to further or maintain their rights and interests through collective bargaining with the em­ ployer, especially for improving wages, hours and conditions of employment." ~7A4 ·· · ~ ";..~t eto But officers and members of a healthy and efficient union ~.. must work as a team. The engineer who exercises his demo­ cratiC right · to cast a secret ballot, electing those_who wi!l Consumer Advice carry out the policies and obje<_:tives of his organization_, IS an "organization man" in the best sense of the term; He's an informed member of the team, a supporter of a Senator Watches Costs _continuing· effort to build and improve. • By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS · ing tableting, bottling and packaging, is only seven­ * * * MC) urine Neuberger hasn't the slightest reluc­ tenths of one cent. At three tablets a day, the typi­ THE LEADERS he!s selected are working for . "the effi­ tance to wear 79-cent nylons right on the floor on ' cal patient must pay $150 a year for dosage which ciency - Qf the wh0le," their day-to-day endeavors charted · the U. S. Senate. AI:ld that gleam in· her hair comes is actually_manufactured · at a total production :cost within the framework of the union's constitution and by-laws from no costly TV-advertised shampoo. The tall of about $14 . .-themselves a product of teamwork. slim lady Senator from Oregon, who is certainly The other immediate consumer legislation, Senator Estes Kefauver has recommended And this involves the rights of the individual- of each of one of the most attractive legislators this country which of green soap, that co-op, ·union and credit-union members sup­ us in an organization whose strength is a matter of pride, in ever had, uses inexpensive tincture theatrical cleansing cream port, is the Douglas "truth-in-lending" bill. · whose future there's no room for complacency. as well as unperfumed that costs 49 cents a pound. And when she gets ".Recently a girl on my staff wanted to buy a The potential is great. qack to her house in the evening, she makes her used ·car," the Senator reported. "She began to dis­ Your attE?ndance at unio'n meet'ings, with group diseuse own corn-muffin mix. She knows from her: own cuss the terms with, the salesman. Since she works sion· of problems, y our talks on the job, your personal contact and other women's experiemces how consumers l.n my office where we often discuss consumer prob­ with your officers and representatives - all are part of the often· are overcharged, and she minces no words in lems, she offered to pay cash if this would lower t eam effort. - telling about it: · the price, She got a real hard sales pitch abo. In fact, recently Senator Neuberger ca~didly easy credit; sim.ple weekly -or monthly payments, , told New York Times reporter Charlotte Curtis how they would carry· the insurance, etc., until it that "advertising contributes to the cost of prod­ became evident that they didn't want cash - the ucts"' and that she herself is "so conscious of this real profit on this transaction would coine from the Warren Doe·sn't that I deliberately try to buy things that are not carrying charges which figured at about - 32 . per highly advertised." To its credit, the Times printed cent." this extremely outspoken comment, and also what Knowledge of what credit really costs ·could must be some of the frankest statements on other save untold hardships, Senator Neuberger believes. Nixon View selling practices ever uttered by a United States "When a man goes to buy an appliance, if _the Share· . Senator.- clerk says "Cash or credit," the customer simply replies, "Cash, I can't afford credit.'' Chief Justice Earl Warren doesn't share Richard Nixon's ' For example, Senator Neuberger says: "The , ...... " · , · hardest thing to buy ~ ithout being gypped is tooth- A typical incident brought out by Senate hear­ Oplmon that Cahforma ISm a mess. paste. I don't like the salt-and-soda combination so ings on credit practices concerned a Government and needed three small Warren, who was Governor· from 1952 until his appoint- I have to s~ttle for _s~mething else. But I think employee who was moving $48. But because of ment .to the U. S. Supreme Court in 1953, had this to say to toothpast pnces ar_e ndiCulous. No matter what the pieces of furniture which cost his moving expenses,_he was strapped for cash. Tb.. The Sacramento Bee when he came hom~ ~rom Washington - ads say, my dentist tells me you have to brush help you · out. You pay, $2'111' for the holidays: · · · after every meal." salesman said: "Let's · . . Two situations that Senator Neuberger is espe- today imd the other $24 next payday.'' The sales­ "Every part of the state I've seen looks to be m wonder- ,cially determined to help correct are the high man added, "There will be a small _carrying fully good shape. prices of drugs, and- d·eceptiye credit fees. She charge." The small carrying charge proved · to be *- * * recently told a public_meeting in New York ·spon­ $10, and actually amounted to a true· annual rate sored by Mid-Eastern 'Cooperatives that in a drug -Of 160 per cent. · IT MAKES me feel good to see the way the State of Cali- store one day she waited while -a poorly-dressed Senator Neuberger feels that the single most f ornia is moving forward, not only in private industry. but in woman in front of her had a .prescription' filled. important, agency protecting consumers is the government. It is fine to see what' good the state governrpent "That will be seven dollars," the druggist said. The - Food a'nd Drug Administration but, she says with is doing for the welfare of the people. woman gave him a five dollar bill, imd then silently characte-ristic candor. "The . FDA's program is in- in many " I'm pleased to see the. state so conservation minded with fished in her handbag for her remaining nickels, adequate and it is unable to take action is warranted, bec ci.'use the idea of preserving resources for the generations to follow. dii:n ~ s and quarters to make up the "' rest of the areas .where it feels action is too small, -the laws under which it op­ ~~- ' its budget "She never uttered a word of complaint or pro- erates need clarif!cation, and it can't hire enough * * * test," Senator -:Neuberger recalls. "She just gave enforcer's.'' see what is happening statewide. in "IT IS A THRlLL to p all the money she had to get that prescription." Among recent protecti've actions taken by the College is develop- u the education field. The Sacramento State new oral drugs used by diabetes sufferers FDA, Senator Neuberger cited cases of- ·ocean watra_ - The ing into a fine institution. are a revealing example of the high charges for sold at $3.75 a gallon as a cure for arthritis a­ " Progress is being made at the University of California vital medicines, the Senator told the. Consum_er other illnesses and as a general pep-up tonic; campus in Davis and other UC campuses, and plans are being co-op representatives. Diabetics who can substitute · orang·e "juice" which contained up to 50 p:er cent m ade for three or f our new colleges and two more UC the oral drug for insulin injections pay a list price water ., and sugar, and many instances of short campuses. of 14 cents a tablet, for which the druggist himself weights. , · COPYRIGHT, 1962 "This is great c·onfidence in t he future of this state/' pays eight_c ents. But the cost of production, includ March, 1962 - ~N .GINEER. 's NEWS . · 'Page Nine ~ .,_

MEET' . -· . .!' . IN . ' . . Marys~ill~ - April 12, Thurs­ day; Elks C!ub, '920 D Street. July September: Novemb~r ·'·.-' , ....,.._ Semi­ .:May San· Francisco _: July 11, ,. . Fresno · - , Sept. 4, Tuesday, Stockton - Nov.< 1, Thursday, -Wednesday, San Francisco La- 3120 East Olive St. Engineers Bldg . ·~ · · I' .. . -.·. Sacramento - .May 3, Thurs­ . bori · f~mp le, . ~)6t~ ·. , and 'Capp _ ...> ..A -nntlal ···. . - d~~~ CELT 'Bldg., . 225 Stockton. Streets. · · * * *.' '· * * ' * * Ukiah--,--Sept. 6, Thursday, La­ Oakland _:_ Nov. 8, Thursday, . \~ :· ' . ·bor Temple, State Street. Labor 'f'emple, · 2315 Valdez. .Mee&g . < • Stockton ·- May 7, Monday,. Eureka Jiily:.:17, Tuesday . ~ngineers · JHd,~: ~ • ; , 2806 ·Broi:dway. · * * * * * .... ·*' '· 1i)?; *;.·c_ ' * * Salt Lake City-Sept. 14, Fri~ Sacramento Nov. _13, Tues- day; Teamsters Hall, 443 · So. 'hakland.,...:.May: 9, . Wednesday, ­ 'JULY 14~ f962' . Redding. - ;'J:uly_ 18, ;Wednes­ 6th East. day, CELT ·Bldg., 2525 Stockton. ··-· . . LabOr !emple;, 2,315:,Yaldez:· day, Retail Clerks , Bldg:, 900 ·

. SAT~RDA Y, l P:M~- ... _ Locust Sk. . ' · ' * ··-~. .,., .. * ...* * -· Reno - Sept. ' 15; Saturday, W~tsonville - Nov. 15, ~hurs­ -: ~an FranCisco (abor · : watsonville-May i1, Thurs- . * . * Reno Musicians Bldg.; 120 W. day, Veteran's Memorial Bld·g .. · 'day : ~- Vet'eran's Memorial Bldg., Oroville - July 19, ·Thursday, ' Temple, 16th & Cap~ - Sts: Taylor. - i Z15 Third Street. ·215 Third· Stre:et. · · · · Prospecto.rs Village, * June October December . _, .. August

··:-:.. -. ~ ,.,..... " .... - ., Fresno June 5, - Tuesday, San, Francisco-Oct. :?, Wed: Fresno-Dec. 4, Tuesday, 3120 \: . - '3121 East Olive. Stockton-Aug. 1, Wednesday, nesday, .-San Francisco ·. Labor E. Olive. Engineers Bldg. Temple, 16th and C~_PP . ·streets. san: Francisco · April 4, *· * • * * * * · Wednesday, San Francisco . La'-.· Santa Rosa June 7, Thurs-. * * * * Sant'a Rosa-Dec. 6, Thursday, bor Temple, 16th and- Capp ·day, ·veteran's Bldg, San Jose - Aug. 6, Monday, Eureka-Oct. 9; Tuesday, 2806 Veterans' Bldg. Streets. Labor . Temple, 45 Santa Ther: Broadway:' * * esa. * ' * -. • . S~lt Lake City- June 15, Fri~ * * *· * * Salt Lake City-Dec. 14, Fri. Eureka - April 10, T.uesdp.).< day, Teamsters Hall, 433 So~ 6th Redding-Oct. 10, Wednesday, day, Teamsters Hall, 443 So. 6tb 2S06 Broadway;' East · Oaldand Aug. Q, ·Thursday, Retail Clerks Bldg:, 900 Locust East. ·__ - 2315 Valdez. St. -· .. • * * Redding April 11, Wednes-. · ·· Reno - June 16, Satui·day, * * Reno-Dec. 1p; Saturday, Re· day, Retail Clerks Bldg., .900 Reno Musicians' Bldg., 120 W. ' Sacramepto Aug. _14, Tues­ Marysville Oct. -11, ' Thurs- no Musicians Bldg., 120 W. Tay. Locust St. Taylor. ' day, CELT Bldg., 2525 Stockton. day, Elks Club, 9_20 D Street. lor. · free want ads for ~-. SWAP SHOP: Opera.ting Engineers --~- • ., • ' • ,_ • • • • ' !" --.... • F.OR . ·sALE 7-ROOM HOUSE and carport. 2 baths·. 10,000 \sQ. FT.' . lot at Lake Tahoe. :i · MOUNTAIN HOME, 3 BR, LR, kitch- BUCI{ GOAT. R egistered, 9 month old Approx. 1 acre. 2 fireplaces, hard-. miles from State Line, 6 miles from en, pantry, bath downstairs, .1 BR , - Ntfbain.· $40 or will 'trade tor,. doe. TRENCHING l\IACHINE, 110 Cleve­ wood floors, brick patio. In canyon Squaw Va·lley, 1 mile from . Kings and · full attic upstairs. Ideal skiing, Write :· J. ' L . Bonney, Rt. 1; Box . land. Dig.s 18· to 24' ' .wide; 5%' deep . . highlands. Write: C. ,L. Laswell, Beach. $4000. Write: Jack Pool, 3635 hunting, fishing. $8500. Terms. 15 2197, . Applegate, Calif. Reg. No. • PO ,Box 54, Oroville, Calif. Phone: Brookdale Ave. , Oakland 19, Calif. miles E. · of Sonora. Write: Harold -- $3500 . .Write: James Hiner, 415 I m­ 918832. . - perial, Modesto. Phone: KE ·7-3572. .. _ ~E 3-4958. _-Reg. Np, 1054892. Phone: KE 4-1753. Reg. No.- 1062382. llicMillan, Gen. Delivery, Moab, , -Reg. No. 328847. lACRE . in Valleyv-iew acres. 4 .mi. 10 ACRES in Lassen Gounty Fenced. ~-tah. Reg,.:.·..:N=o:... ..:7.:.:72::8:.:6_:7:_. ___:_ __ TRAILER, 1958 Eastern Built, 31x&. north of capital in Sacramento level, · near electricity, road. Water THREE-QUARTERS ACRE, near L e- Thermal · windows , complete with' · FURNACE, forced -air. West!ern filter­ . county. Clean. $5000, terms . . Write: table 30 feet. -$1500 with 25 per cent moore ~ Air Base on Highway 41. T .V. Beautiful · condition, .$2750. ed · comfort. Apartment size, 250- C. E. Hoffmeyer, Rt. 1, Box · 548, down, balance $40/month. Write: Garage. Shade trees, 2 wells, 2 Vv):ite : .. Jack Brown,' 2335 Kirkham 000 BTU. A-1 shape. Automa.tic con­ Fort BI'agg, Calif. Reg. No. 745045. Ray Flaniken, 4409 Crestridge Rd., pumps, lh, acre, grocery store St:, - San Francisco,, ' Calif. ' Phohe : , trols.. $300 . .. Phone: Russ Gary, build·~ - OV 1-1754 or Morgan Hill, PR. 9- ELgin 7-2958, San L eandro.· Reg. 1956 BUICK, 3-door -hard top. Good · Fair Ooaks, Calif. Reg. No. 983216. ing, ·80x45, with equipment. 600- 3438. Reg: No. 434969: . · ·No. ~28045. ' · shape. Clean. Good tii·es. Write: gallon storage tanks, 2 pumps. George Brooks, 1442 E. 36th Street, l\IOBILE HOME, ABC custom built, Write: C. A. Menefee, 957 So. Main, DRAGLINES, · Lima Model, 34; %. 1ii5'6T'Iiuci{ CRANE, 25-ton moP,el Oakland. Phone KEllogg 4-5601. 8x50. 3-bedroom, Youngstown kitch- ~~ <_:rville, ·. C~lif. R:'.:g.:__l'~o. 386092. yards. Serial No. 2742. P & H Model 355, P&H. Excellent condition, 100- Reg No 293329 en, 45' awning, air conditioning, etc. TRUCK CRANE . a.nd bacl•l1oe com- 255-A, Serial No. 6380. $5,000 each. ft. boom, 30-ft ... jib. Write: Louis . · · Excellent condition. Write: _Ed. Pa- - ' ' STEEL HOPPER 8'x8'x10'. Write: Ed cini,. Box' 97, Port Chicago. Phone: bination fcir sale or consider trade Write: Vernon Dark; Paterson., Eck, 19943 Redwood Rd., Castro Calif. Phone: TYler 2 ~7921. Reg. No. Valley; Phone: JE 7C8194. Reg. No. · Wright, 1195 Hillside Blvd., Colma GL 8-2120. Reg. No. 879763. for house, lot or multiple dwelling. 381503. . . 346986. - 25, Calif. Phone: P:J:.,aza 5-6446. Reg. Write: W. H. Morison, 1231 Oxford No. 370309. · BLACI{ & DECKER valve refacer, St., Berkeley, Calif. Phone: T:J;Iorn- 3 HOUSES, six lots, income $147.50 1956-FORD V-8, % -ton pickup. 3-speed Black & Decker seat refacer, Sunnen ~all ~3-~~9. Reg.. ,No_:_1075452. transn1ission, new i r e s, "\"Trap­ FERGUSON tract o r with Pippin month, plus owner's two-bedroom t Backhoe and loader. Phone John rod aligner,'. Quickway boring. bar, 5 ACRES, house, w ell, electricity, on home '"Flowers, trees. lawns; $21,- around bumper. $600 cash. Write: Quickway power valve seat cutter, ney; -road to llit. McKinley. Good Duke Dooley, 3856 High St., Oak­ Martinson, Berkeley, Calif. YEllow­ 0DO ;, terms. Illness. Write: Frank stone 4-8863 or THornwall 5-7580 .. assorted shop 'tools. Phone: · Merrill · hunting, fishing. Also· 160_acre Dias, Box 392. Williams, Calif. R eg . land -19. Calif. Phone: 533-7964. Reg. Reg. No. 865574. · -- McCarthy, EL 7-2959 (San Lean- homestead relinquishment. Write: No. 249022. , - · No. 286146 . dro) . Reg. No. 402912. Charles Spiess, ·wasilla, Alaska. SCHULT TRAILER HOlliE, 1956. 42'x l'h ACRES, half-mile from. Grant Uri­ Reg .. _No. 964966. --~----,-,---:-:--'7"" · LOT, 67x91, Lake Tahoe, Calif. $3500. . ion High School on Fen· Ave., Del 8', Twin' .beds and full bed, excellent UPRIGHT FREEZER, 20 cu. ft. Ben 3 miles to State line near Y junc­ Paso Heights. Small down· or .swap condition. $2600 full price. Write: Hur Supreme. 2 years old. Excellent WHITE"iiFfARend reduction unit for tion . . School nad shopping % mile • Robert E. Powers, 5801 Robinhood condition . . Save '$270 .plus tax. $400 Calweld ·' rig's, ready to go. No ex­ for foothill prope'rty. $4000. Write·: from South Lake. Write: ' Floyd Dick H. L. ·Cooper, 5761 Redwood Drive, Ell Sobrante, Calif. Phone: cash. Write: H. L. Walker, 16471 change required. Reduced price. ' Dotson, 136 - 3rd Street, Richmond, Highway, Santa Rosa, Calif. Reg. CA 3-7346. Reg. No. 863917.----c;-;-- Bonnie Lane, Los Gatos, Calif. Write·: James M. Taylor, 2533 - 19th Calif. Phon~e: BEacon · 3-8013. Reg• . No. 292566. . .. ' ' Phone: ELga_to 6-4404. Reg. ·. No. Ave., Oakland 6, Calif. Phone:_ No. 915.680. _J{EN 'CAMPER for long wheel base 18135. . KE 6-6022. Reg. ·No . .912149. lPh ACRES, English walnut produc­ pickup. $375 .. Write: L. J . Tillman, ing. Large modern house, complete- . ' 575 So. Rengstorff, Mtn. View, Calif. 80 ACRES in Lassen County. $6,000. BAR BELL, 200-lb. plate-loading, 6-ft. ly furnished. Tractor and Imple­ Reg. No. 996036. · iO% down, balance at $50 per month. high steel ·bar with friction clamp TO SWAP ments. 2 .. wells. Family fmit trees. · CAJ\1ERA: 35 m.m. Bessamatic Voight­ Surveyed, cleared, level. Write: Ray . collars. $54. Write·: Chester Q ... Tee-­ Good hunting & fishing. $6000 'down. lander with case. Cost $250; will Flaniken; 4409"Crestridge Rd., Fair· , garden, 2225 Downar \Vay, Del Paso ROCKHOUNDS : Will swap rocks and Oaks, Calif. Phone: YO 7-6229. · Reg. Heights, Calif. Reg. No. ·976309. will .slab your good rocks on share Write: Al· Chapman, · Stonyford,- lake $125. Write: Jack Tull, 1215 • basis. Write: Eugene . Russell 2087 . . 'Calif. . Reg. No: 351266. . _ _ Alice Dr., Santa Clara. Reg. No. No. 983216 ~ . · · TWO--THIRDSA'CRE, with ~duplex 808175. . - . . 28th Ave., San Francisco. Reg. No. .. LE TOURNEAU; 4-yd. carryalL Cable 1954 FOR-D ··Station Wagon, auto­ and old-type home. Also excellent 1058913. . · · driveri, gciod -nibber1 $300. Also 12" . LARGE OCCIDENTAL STOVE, matic transmission, 'two new recaps. building lot, Highway 20 fqintage; American sticker and ·motor. Belt . chrome top. Grill never used. 1954 -$450. Also $1950 Plymouth Station overlooking the Noyo River .and the "1961 HONDA DREAlll", almost n ew , new proposed Noyo ~ Basin. Year­ for a late model B.M. W. motorcycle:· driven. Best offer. Write: Walter · model. -Like new. M).lst see to ap­ Wagon, $200. Write:' M. B. Rose. ·.round rental income. Write: Charles Young., 4300 Fraga_· Rd .• Hayward, preciate. $65 . \Vrite: Travis .Crain, c/o· Dolly-Mat:k Ranch, .416 Horn Write : Arthur Clark, 129 The Trees A. Haun, Rt. 1, Box 177, Ft. Bragg. Drive; Concord. Phone : MU 6-2036. Calif. Phone: LU 1-251-7. Reg; No. 78 Jes Ave., Petaluma, Calif. Phone: Ave., . Santa Rosa, . Calif. Phone: Reg. No. 620138. · · PO 2~'6491. . Reg. No . . 679094. Liberty 5-3746 evenings. Reg. No. • , Reg. -No. 437869. ·· · 732140 ...,.,.,.-====-==:---c::-::---:-:---;::-- 1059628. ,• . JIB 20' for wodel 150 P &. H Crane, lJi'RIG-irT FREEZER. 22-cu . .f.t. Car- ·'MODERN .HOME, :.3 .bedrooms, 2 5/8 good - condition, easy adaptable· to -GLASS CHURN and home health rier. Excellent condition. $300 cas!). acres, service station. Ideal place to .HALF ACRE,. with 20x22 building, on , any crane. $450. Write: Louis Eck, pasteurizer for a female burro. that ··write A. · Snyder, 42077 Mii·anda, · retire; Good fishing, 'ideal hunting. lower- Shennan Island in ·Neil tract, 19943 Redwood Road, Castro Valley, -is over 1'/:z years old. Or. will pur­ Irvington, . Cali!. Phone.: OL 6-2283. .- Can be bank financed. Write: % ·inile from Sacramento· River. Full Calif. Reg. No. 346986. chase one. Write: A. J. Davis. 181 Reg. No. 3692so: · ' · ·Marvin Breretori, P.O. Box 382, Fer- price, $4,000: Write: Royal' _Winfred',- Geyer -Road, · Santa Cruz Calif. 36-ACREFARM - on~sevi_e_r_R_i_v_e-r,-1 Phone : · EDison 1-7982.· Reg.' No. R<>'AD-OILER-:-100-gal. weed killer, ron; Utah. Reg. No. 967780. 1063 Capp . St., San ·Francisco 10. 915736. . . • termite control sprayer mounted on . UNFINISHED HOUSE, ·4-room, -. on . Phone: VA ·4-0718. · R 'eg. No. 423253 . ,_· mile southwest Elsinore, Utah, on 1950 Fo.:d pickup. $400. or trade for t-wo lots,· 150' by 300' in Roquoson, -Highway 89. 2&:i acres cultivated. 25.5 .\ · · · pickup. Write·: Manu<'!l · Si_mas. 22177. Virgina. \Vrite: W .· C. Shinn·, '1440 1956 CLEVELAND 95- T-RENCHER. shares water; $12,000. Write: F. L. RULES FOR SUBMITTING ADS Dig's 18" -24" wide, . 5 ft.· deep. Sq . Higgins, Elsinore, ·Utah. Reg. No. .Avam St., San Jose, Cahf. Phone: Carlos . Ave., Burlingame, Calif. buckets. A,1 condition. Write:. B\ll . ·cy. 5' 0217: Reg: No. 7073. ~3. ·-· , . Phone: DI 4,-3948. Reg. No. 836875: •· Barrett, 7728 Walerga Rd., No. 908570 - ' • Any Operating Engineer .may ad- .. , .. BLOCR MACHINE; -Wards. Makes - 121h-ACRE RANCH, 2 good houses, Highlands·, Calif. _Phone: PA 5-22?:7·! T\VO- JAEGER PUUPS, l'/2" and 2" ·, verotise' in these columns without charge 8x8x16" blocks. Like new. $60. Write pipelined, 2 wells, fruit, nut, ·citrus Reg. No. 688800. · · pumps. 2" pump on balloon tire trailer. Both in excellent condition. any · PERSONAL PROPERTY he wishes Frank Rees, - 3406 Somerset Ave., trees, aluminum shed 40x60. Write: · 23-FT. CABIN CRUISER. Trojan .1. Castro Valley, Calif. Reg. No. Howard· Winsett. 11813 S. - Temper- Vi'rite : Don Hover ~ 740 Farrington to sell, swap or purchase·. Ads wil.l _not 657828. · ance, Selma, Calif. Reg. No. 420996. family sedan. Eight foot beam: Ex- - · Lane, Burlingame, Calif. Phone : cellent condition. Rtin _ only 25 DI 2-4434. Reg. No. 845410. be accepted for rentals, personal serv• :JEE'r,'- 1945- Good condition, 19.j4 6· MODERN HOME,' 3-bdrs. acres hours. Write: · W. C. (Slim)- Went- 2% SAWliiiLL~Sacrifice for-$1500. Two- ices or si<;le-lines . · cylinder, Studebaker engine. ~ew land. Service station. Ideal place to . worth, 5'484 K Griffith Way, Fresno man operation. Cuts 3000 board feet · rings, _big radiator, 5 Army tires, retire. Good fishing, ideal hunting. 27, Calif. Reg. No."'4~6:,:8c::3.=:57:-;·-,------,---:- 6-ply. Warren hubs, tow bar, canvas Can be bank financed. Write: per day. 48" saw. T.D. 14 Interna_ · • PRJ N.T OR TYPE the wording ·you TWO NEW, UNUSED 1/:z-inch air tioi1al . diesel engine. Top running·- want in your adve-rtising on a separate top. Write: .Eugene Mendes, 5355 Marvin Brereton, · P..O. Box 382, Fer· drills, Ingersoll Rand, -value · ·over condition. Write: Ralph Kidwell, Radele Ct., Fremont, Calif. Phone: · ron, Utah. Reg. No. 967780_.-----o $300. Sell for $100 cash. No attach­ 215'75 Norman Dri:ve, Los Gatos, .sheet paper, '·limiting yourself to 30 SY 3-3155. Reg: No. 879752. 1957 CHEVROLET pickup, four speed . ;f ments. ·Write: Elmer C. Hansen, Calif. Phone: EL 4 ~ 2901. Reg, No. · w_ ords, or less, in'duding your NAME, TRAILER, 1956 · God entate. 2 bdrm. - transmission. $750 cash or $850 with ?:721 E. 11th Street, Oakland, 1, Calif._ 947108. . . . 8x40. New drape's, awning. Coo'ler, half cash. Write: W . C. Shinn, 1440 Phone: KEllogg 4-8770. Reg·. No. BUICR . LODGE. Huge oaks, fmit, complete ADDRESS and REGISTER plus other extras. Excellent condi- . Carlos Ave. , ~ Burlingame, Calif. tion. Write: Gary Burghardt, Rt. 1, Phone: DI 4-3958. Reg: No. 836875. 32453:-::4~-:-:-:::=----,;------;-----:--::-:--;:- lawn. One mile to lake. Electric NUMBER. 1958 WIZARD glass runabout, 14-ft. kitchen, tile bath, fireplace, patio, ~ Box 505, -AntiQcjl, Calif. Phone : 14'h ACRES river bottom land, under . New upholstery, 35 hp Johnson. carport, bedroom,- living room with - • Allow for a time lapse of several PLateau 7-5438. Reg. No. 939853. · cultivation (or will ·trade for Calif.' Just sandblasted and pai'nted. Dex- · beam ceiling, screened sleeping _ weeks between the posting of letters 16 FT. TRAILER, Go-Lite. Sleeps 5. property). House, barn, double . ter trailer, perfect ski boat. $675. porch. Write: Gus B. Laws, P.O. d f d b d Gas- lights, . electric brakes. $750. garage. 18 miles south of Salem, Write: J . Christens en, 738 Portola Box 956, Clearlake Highlands, Calif. an receipt o your a y our 'rea ers• Write: W. L. McElroy, 162 Duane Ore. $12,0.00, terms. Write : F.red A.- · Dr., San Leandro. Phone: EL 1-6053. 1 4 6530 St., Redwood City, Calif. · R _eg. No. Powell, Rt. E, . Box 1560, Auburn, Reg._ No. 863862. ~6~896. : WYman ' · Reg. No. · • Address all ads to: Engineers SwaP' 82 8 1 5 3 BEDROOJ1I stucco house, ·24x48. 35 ACRES beach .property, plus ~ Shop, AL CLEM, Editor, 474 Va lencia • 4-~ J~ ~, Hyster · winch, hyd•·aulic . · 30~~~~P~g~ r;:~: ....:.~r-,:..,:.::.~.:..r'-' -m-,t-ch~w-el"'d"'e-r . quonset bldg, cement floor, 220 - acres fertile soiL House, garage, Stree/ , · San Francisco 3, California. Bs blade.- Wide track. Logging cab, Sell account of illness. Sacrifice for wired, ideal shop, on tremendous barn-All newly painted. Pressure I A-1 condition. $4500. Write: Clyde $300. First class shape: Write.: W. lot, i'ncome potential.· Write:· Grover system, two new septic tanks. Near sure to inc ude your register number. M. Barnes, 2435 2Jst St., San Pablo, H. · McNutt, Route 1, Box 217A, Annstrong, 2168 N. F St., Stockton, Ft. Bragg. Write: Clyde M. Barnes, No ad will be published withou,t. this Calif Phone· BEacon 3 7657 Reg Suis-un, Calif. Phone: HA . 5-4312. Calif. Phone: HO 5-7738. Reg. No 2435--21st St., San Pablo. Calif. No. 1. 0""800."'' . . . - -·. . R eg. • N o. 26866 ._ 939579 .. Phone _233-7657. Reg. No. 1027800 ~ infqrmation. - ... 1962 \ Page Ten E NG I.N E E'R S NEWS March, San Jose Report. • it, 'J .sShut

By A. J; HOPE; :WM. HARLEY ing. During 1961, Heple, Inc., was Santa Clara ~ewage treatment. DAVIDSON and G. L. MO ORE responsible for the laying of over the award went to Fred J. Early 552,000 feet of pipe in Santa Co., Stolte, Inc., and M & K Corp., The rains have shut. down al­ Cla1·a County. Brother Harold a joint venture for $23,138,099. in the San most . al} of the jobs Binkley is the superintendent 'for A. J. Raisch Company are re- i list Jose area. -Our "out-of-work" Earl W .. Heple, . Inc., with Ralph pairing their Hot Plants and 1 soon as the has double'd, but as 0 . Wilson, assistant super. .- Crusher Plants. weather; permits these. new addi­ E. A. Hathaway have com-· the heavy rains, wor~ tions will return to their jobs. D_ue to pleted three stories of the gar'age has come to a complete standW Company has 0 . E. AnderSon they are building for the San still in the southern end of the and been kept busy this winter Jose State College and have one district. Only Kaiser, P.C.A. and lined up for has plenty of work floor to ' go. Brother Herschel Olympic Sand Plants are still 1962. They recently purchased a - Myers is the Operator on this running. Granite Construction 2 new M3225 Lorr aine 5 Ton _job, with Brother Dave ·McClel­ . have all their equipment in the Truck Crane. Brother Gordon land doing the oiling. This fil:m shops ·being repaired. Melton is operating this ne:w is also building a new building at In the Monterey area, most of piece of eq1,1ipment with: Brother Stanford. the jobs are not hampered by Johnny Estes doing the oiling. A construction combine from rains due to the sandy soil. Alcon Brother Bob Raynor operates San Francisco was . named low & Pacific aie· on schedule at the K-12 Insley, with Brother their bidder for the huge San Jose- Army Air Field at Fort Ord. Chuck Bowling the Oiler. This firm was the low bidder on a $7,750,000 contract for, the Santa Clara University for a stu­ I njure~ Member dent center and commons. . They have made good progress • • on their four story Education Says '-Thank You' Building at the San Jose State Colleg·e. They expect cqmpletion This is a thank you note . . of the $3,000,000 job at Fremont It comes tln·ough the San- Jose office at the request of High School in about three Harold Dodd. · months. Dodd, a man with a family, was severely injured when Earl W. Hope,. Inc., has jobs the crane he was operating went off a bridge. under way on Davis A venue, 'rhere wasn't much money. And Christmas was coining. Piedmont Road, Branham Vil­ The San Jose office had a milk bottle on the counter. lage and Branham -Lane. Brother · The engineers gave liberally - so the kids could have a John Kapatanich is operating the merry Christmas. ·Cleveland trencher ori the under­ The money was given to Dodd, who says thanks to ground job on Branham Lane the brothers for what they did for his family. with Brother Robert Harris oil- Labor Dept. • Cites Work A LL KINp S of rigs were in use on the Downer Avenue ·Hours Cut_ pipe job-in the San Jose area, where Earl W. Heple, Inc. ~ The spendable earnings and· had a contract for 900 feet of buying power of factory produc­ 30-inch pipe. A basket rigged tion workers in J anuary were on· a crane (above) carried a down almost 2 per cent from the · a worker up to the pipe that was month before, but were still at month, the U. S. suspended some 1.5 feet in record for the Bureau of1 the area across a creek- bed. Labor Department's Labor Statistics reported. At another time, worke rs Aithough some decline is usm. climbed into a bucket to work . between December and January, i <;>n the pipe. Brother Tony . this year the drop reflected a ,· O li ver is the foreman, Brot_her so_mewhat greater than usual cut­ Harold Ficke operates the back in hours of work. In addi­ Northwest crane, and Brother. tion, consumer prices and_hourly Rudy Rivas is oiler. Brother earnings remained steady over Michael Albanese is the weld­ the month. el and Brother Robert Conn Spendable earnings in January operates the- loader. -earnings after deduction .of Fe~eral income and social secur­ ity taxes-were $84.22 weekly for • the factory worker with thre.e 111011 mber ·1n Co gressional ac:e dependents, and $76.58 for the w o•r k e r with no dependent. William J. Keller, union mem­ "EXTREMISTS" ment, in government service, in against Soviet aggression, and he These figures were appr:oximl).tely ber, newspaper editor and mem­ And he ch'!rged that the' in­ teacl~ing and tr.ade .unionism. traveled extensively throughout ber of the San Mateo County cumbent has acted- "consistently He first came to San ].Vlateo the Middle East. a dollar,.. and a half. lower than in Democratic Central. Committee contrary to the will and best in­ County in 1947 after service in TRAVEL December. The decline· was Keller and his family has been endorsed as the official terest o.f the people, ofteri in con­ the infantry and fi~ld artillery, In 1956, caused by the reduc­ Eu_­ primarily Democratic candidate for Con­ trast to the mooerates in his own froi:r1 which he was discharged ~s traveled throug_h Southern a posi­ tion in the work week (shorte'r gress in 1962. party, and remarkably in agree­ · a sergeant. rope befo,re he accepted Rome, Italy, Daily by seven-tenths of an hour). Only Keller, who -branded the Re­ ment with the renegade extrem­ UNIVERSITY tion with the publican incumbent as "inept, in­ ists." He was graduated from the American. a small part of this drop resulted the San Francisco effectual and indiffer:ent," said.· Thus the challenge was issued University of California in 1950 He joined from the increase in the em­ Chronicle in 1957 and within a the people of San Mateo Coun-ty' for what could be the most and. }Vas immediately empolyed ployee's social security contribu­ had won a coveted State "too long have suffered from a heated campaign in· San Mateo by the Hayward Daily Review. year Bar of California award for out­ tion, from 3 to 3% per cent, ef­ hoarse whisper in the ro·ar of county. He. was news editor a_nd vice­ standing achievement. He was fective in January 1962. Congress. Keller, a World War II veteran, president of The Daily Review, City Editor at The Compared with a year earlier, desperately need a pledged "an unending fight Inc. Assistant "We now January, 1962, spendable earn­ · firm voice of leadership," he against those who would destroy In .1955, he was hired .by the Chronicle. .r a t i o n Keller has written fo-r numer­ ings of factory workers were said. us. Contrary to fhe expressed United States I n f o m pro­ ous national publications and is higher by about 6 per cent, • The 33-year-old editor charged opinions of the extremists," he Agency ·and, after a training C., was a lecturer in journalism at the $4.50. The purchasing power of that the incumbent has "drifted said, "I believe in my fellow gram in Washington, -. D. University of California. these earnings was more than 5 like a wisp of wind around Wash­ Americans - I believe they ' are · sent with his family to Baghdad, rmation With their children, Lisa Kay, per cent above a year earlier, and ington, enjoyiv,g his retirement loyal and love their country." Iraq, As Assistant . Info worked closely 10; Kristen Leigh, 8; and Michele 6 per cerit higher than the av­ while the President and the peo­ Keller brings to the campaign· Officer there he the Baghdad Ann, 3, they reside at 1035 Par­ erage during the 1957-59 base ple were urging leadership in a wide background in newspaper in formation of e of nations rot Drive in Hillsborough. period. Congress." reporting, editing and manage- Pact, an allianc ENGINEERS NEWS Page Eleven -.,.

J· '1 ..• !· he- ains Ca sville rls \ .,.·. ' .. By HAROLD RUSTON; ·, c:- R. will · be suspended, according to ...... ----~"""".__""""'""""'--- that a ' fe.~ days· ·of sunshine will diversion tunnel. Bids are to be . ·,VAN . WINKLE, R. WEEKS, our w. information, ~ until about the SA.F&'!'.. T ·Y . sta;·t th~s one up at full blast. ' opened, according . to this and JIM HALL first of' April. an­ !'b Baldwin Contracting Co. in­ . nouncement, ,June 27. During the month of February There are rumors ~f considet;_ MEE'T.IN·G , forms us that .they are 'only wait­ We would like to re-emphasize ' there hasn't been ,a day go by able additional wo~rk ~n this proj- ing for some' pry weather to start that advertising for bids doesn't 'that we haven't had rain. The Wednesday,· March 28, is. -the· _up that company's job at' Wicks', to- ect. necessarily mean that the con­ tal: 7.28 inches. The 'ground· W.' M. Lyles and Co. has just date; 8 p.m. ~ is the .time ·aJJ.d~ Corners and at Jarboe Gap tymg has tract or co:ntracts will be let · soaked' in about all the water it . · about completed that Company's the E n gin e ~ r s '.'Hall, 101'0 into the big bl7idge: and Harms (bids are occasionally rejected). · can take, and Feather River pipe line · job· from Gridley to "E y e " Street, Marysville; is . Bros .. et al. This should put a .few: has Also, even if accepted, it will be Chico. This would. ordinarily the place. · ... · . · , of the brothers back to wo·rk. . raised in depth . from levee .to have buttoned this one up for the some time after the contracts are ·. levee. We hope it has just\ about All members· of · Operating· Fra~ier ,and' Davis is very busy ·_ • · brother;;. awarded before the work starts •_ rained· itself out~ and However, the company : Engineers' Lo ~ ar : .3,· no· matter driving away on the di,iersion we can get and there are· enough men in this '· some good dry weather for a picked up the balance of the con- where employed, and the i i tunnel for the pi·ojected Oroville district at the ·p1;esent time to do : :change, . tract from. ~1: idley to 'eale Air wives imd any of your friends Dam .. after having _ overcome a , 1 tq . this amount of work and more. The out-of-work list·· is still Force Base. As this one has con­ of · other crafts are i~vited to ' serious high water problem, Mor- .. tiimed despite the weatl}er, this atten'd a safety Th~ South Sutter Water Dis­ ' growing meeting. There -rison and Knudson is proce.eding and at the present time should make considerable, imd will be a good· prog~·arn, " and a trict has taken no further action · - · ... with this_:companis tunnel, but we, have "approximately 1,100 ~- probably unexpected work for c6ncerning the Far Western and B. o·perators and o-ilers reg­ new s·afety film. - · ' the road jn _and out .is plenty da m _project. ·· (This work was bid , istered·. in -this office. Some of this crew. rough at the present time. . Chicago Bridge ,early' in 1961, but the -bi'ds were. ·the jobs ·that were working have and Iron Most p.f, the outside ·work on still averaging some good hours, : r.ejected as excessive). Since that had to shut. do·wn operations due picked off the' c>ontracb for the the Wyandotte project' being. tank · farms both but the end is .in sigpt. Comple~ · there have been · pers'istent re­ at Beale Air doiie tlie Ofoville Project 'Con­ to the extremely· wet weather.. Force Base 'and at the Chico com- tion of this work will put a num­ by ports of We had a- very good tracfo trys of reducing the . re­ safety ' · · ber of the brothers on the out-o{·, b :has .been practically shut · . me~ting ·in Paradise, February plex fo·r the ~to -rage of the fuel quired· work to a minimum and wo!·k-list, but . probably . after . down. However, the· undei·ground 14, All. the .brothel~ s and their that the pipeline written about neg'otiating a contract or calling the hdtirs . these brothers· have:· work is proceeding on schedule. .· wives who- attended were very above will 'transport. .- \ for new bids. Reports prevail .as · put in a coup~e of months off will'· SHUT-DOWN thi,s is . written that. a break­ . favorable in their comme!lts re- EXCAVATION , . !>e-'velcomed. . , · · :Williams and· Burrows on .Jhe . through on this :matter is immi­ •... " garding t)Jis meeting. The Busi- Taggart did. the excavation for The Western Pacific relocation Virginia ·Ranch dam have had to nent. -Cost of the project w~s esti­ ness Representatives in tJ.:!is .dis- the .tanks_fahrr at Beale, but- has ' job being don·e by Ball and Simp­ shi.1t down, .but tell us that they · mated· at' $6,1'02,000. -trict are happy at the interest had some tough luck with the son is all wrapped up. Some ad,di­ ai·e rm~ ing to go as SoOl), as t):J.'e :Bid·s· .· are to be 9penec1 March. shown by the members.who want compaction due to the pn;v_ailing tiprial work is anticipated ·be- weatlier . permits. Gates and. Fox 27 for work on appro:ximately six , to imp~o ·ve 'tp.eir safety condi~ dampness and this . lias held up . cause of slides in the cuts caused · are still busy .driving tunnel on · miles Of ' levee on the Yuba· and tions.. Chicago Bridge and Iron in start- . by the wet weather. ·- this ,project: Feather Rivers. Bids on the· Sac­ CONSTRUCTION JOBS ing. Harms Brothers, who have The road project between Oto- . The· big news .th.is month is the ramento River .bank prqtection Work ori the Black Butte Dam · the exc'avating at Chico, have . ville - and Wicks Corners )Jeirig - announcement · ~y · G. o v·e r n or · wm-k near Meridian will' · ·be has been suspended ~ by George been shut do-wn on account of the done by Ha1~ ms Bros. and Lord B1·own that the ·state will call for opened on March . 20, according has been_suspended by George M. . weather. . and Bishop and H. -Earl. Parker.. bids on·April :12 for the construc­ to the u :s. Army Corps of Engi­ , Brewster& Son except for a shovel ' · At the · missile bases,· weather has been shut dowh by the' heayy ,tion of the e~ban1unent -.for the ·_ neers. Cost 'is estimated .at ~nd . a coupl~ of cats: ,Work is ~p · obs'tacl~ and the .- crews are rains. The management tells us 0-toville Dam, and the remaining : $800,000. 1,1, Farmers ·Benefit · Fresno R-eport .. ... - .···..• . . '· . . .· It's a- _uddy A'round -· s·toc.kton / - \,~ By JOSEPH MILLER and work ·to be done 'and several Op- Constructi.on on the main plant ~y :WALTER M. TALBOT; San Joaquin River, from the ' . U. F. H~I}LING : ·· erat9:rs will be kept busy for sev- - sh?uld be. under:vay in_ the next AL MeN AMARA and '· mouth of. C>ld River to the Stock- During the.. past.' 'month the ·eral months. Spreckles· Sugar . thirty days, which Will create GLEN L. DOBYNS ton ' Deep , Water Channel ~ A. work in Fresno .has almost come Plant job· at Mendota is -slow at several . jobs . . L. E. Dixon is the Teichert.· .. . . present but the preliminary wo.rk prime· contractor. 'Although the month of Feb- & ·son,_' was ·1ow bidder · to a .. standstill. ·Heavy' and con· . I - · t' · ., h k is about complete and construe- Winston-Green at Lemon Cove ruary at -$683,845. Howeve{:; •·this job .;\, muons rams ave made· la _es ... tion was· th~ w_e t t e s t we in · ' ·-" .f. . ·. d of the ·buildfngs has started. on Terminus ·bam . has -~oved 11 , f out of, puddles and· excavatiOn . . . , . . Stockton have haQ. for several w~s ~peCL 1.:ca Y reserve _ or sites. Sharp and Fellows Construction four DW 20's to Baker( Califor- - ""· ' years, the members ai·e not com' ., si_nall. _busin.es,s by t_ he pte;sent_ M~st of the b_uilding and con- Company is putting in the rail- n,ia, ori a road job, an\! has a crew plaining . t_oo much. d b road ·:Spurs and has 'a crew of of mechanics t~aring d'own the Admmls~rabon, !, an .mall p~· o a- . struction j~b locations are .eithe,r ' OperaPors on the bur.ro crane lay:~ shovels and overhauling the This district ·is still bility will be awarded to the covered basically ,. · · · · ~ With water or · bogged · . · . N. d St E t en, tll.pment .. . : · ... . . mg ra1 1s. eva a ee1 . rec ors l':l fo· the next J'ob. . second 1 one of a g f i c u 1 t u r e, with the 'low bidder, ·who was M : · ~own m mud. For the first bme · has a crane crew on ;thej;b erect- . ·'-Gordon Ball will·· start ~ its • economy Qf its peopl~ predicated Malfitimo &' Son with . a bid of .. m . the , .P~s~ . s~yeral years ·the,_ ing steel· on· the first building. $800,ooo'. ·contract on Hammar ·· ·. . ' · rock. Plants m the area have had . · · ·· · on the success or failure of thos_e 7 5 33 · · Field as soon as weather clears. ' $ 0 ,6 · . to suspend operations "dtie to the .. , SITE READY: . ., This Comp.any· will extend the producing ".field crops, and .'with . The la_st of, the. three job_s was rain a·nd' mud ·-·· . · · . · · . - . ·., . At the Sun- Maid Raisin' Plant this amount . . runway 2000 feet anci put in the of ra!n :we expect th~ ~a_st BaY.: ,Municipal Utility . M & K-Westbrook fr~'e ways .' near Selma ·· the site prepai'atioii electrical work. Fresno Paving tlJ.e reser-~oirs to fill and the District co:ti.stniction of Coman- are shut down temporarily due :ls '- near completion and -mos.t 'of. has the sub-contrc;~ct' on excavat­ che Dam. Green Constructfon water table to rise. tci the weath,er but hav!l n"ot too the water and sewer 'lines al:e in. ing, I much time. 'The Brothers should . · PresenJ;ly, we are-mired do.wn Cp!llpa_ny, Inc:, ~f -. Des Moines, --..,.....,·"'::--~~------;:-;,------~--'--- be back on.cthe -job in a_ week but expect to get . rolling Io'wa, ., with a .California office - 'A . yo' uR J .L '·. 'just .and the dirt will fly:agaili.. They vn ' . Co •• -. 'as soon as the ground dri~s in San ~a · out. teo, was low bidder · at have . about 40 Op~rators · em­ · 'The onfy jobs·-that ~~ ·re not'af­ _$.l5.,047,36fl : _:This ~ project entails· ployed on the t'wo projects be- : -An'f'Wit.eM in fecfed by this delug~ of rain /V04ilt.e~ur. :· e~­ the construction ·of the. dam, h\'_een Fre~no and Fowler was" the ·shop work: at BACON IS C)l'·~ · THE JOB! --.. spillways, · dikes and relocation .. present and as· the paving opera- · . tions begLn _on th~ . PROJECTS of county roads with approxi-. -ffrst section· · _,.Stocking and _Service Ce more men will ,be put to work. ' Three~ major projeCts that: mat_ely 11,800,00_0 yards ..df exca­ ' San F · • wei·e bid since qu/ ·Iast. repar'r., vation and filC · · BIG CREEK are the L6di By-Pass,· San ·Joa- . . GRIEVANCE We a pre-iob '': quin River levee job ,and , Co­ h~ld c~ nfe1' e1J.c~ •·-· frhe wi_th ' th~ Bechtel Corp.)ast' l ,_; ,manche Dam. m'embership, . in attend­ week·, . anc.e at the Distfict Meeting· helc,l . covering its job . at Big Creek. · . A. Teichert & Son submitted February 1st, elected Brothers r: The- job consists of putting . a a · low bid of $2,823.,000 to 'the · Aaton Bechr, M. E. Hayes and steel' liner in 'the Big . Cre~k­ State Highway Engine~h ·for M. W . . Isbell.' to serve· on the Shaver-La.ke 'tumi.el ;for · about · the construction of approximate­ Grievari'ce Committee for Dis. 800 feet. The job' will work two ly 4.7 miles of four lane free­ trict No : ;?. This _Committee, to , shifts, six . days per week, 10 way,- to · be ,graded ·and paved · date, has' recommended that the hours a; day and must be com: - -wUh Portland cement over an Local Union Manager -appoint pleted on OJ'-.before $April 15 of equipmei]t, supplies, parl:s aggregate subbase, with 'frontage this · Brothers. Leonard Yound-Hea­ year. it won "U~st too lohg YOUR JOB.'_•• roads, ramps, . connechons;· and ly, Tibbetts on the San Joaquin but is a' very good job fot~ . about ' speed change lanes. This will ·.en­ Rive·r crossings; Fre_d . Njirich- 12 Operatot:s. B r o t .her Duke ' tail construction· of .. six over­ . George Reed Company, Sonoma; Martin is the foreman on this .· c;ei d 1/uun '. crossings, two underpasses, two Claud.. lVi:uns - Teichert Aggre­ project. . ' . -eparations, and a . p ~~ping gates; and Phillip Motrmann­ Pomero:l' -·Fishback- Nettles & EDWARD I ~~ant. R. BACON [OMPANY Claude Wood Company Rock Moore joint venture is still active CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT . Of the ten b i d d e r' s on the Plant, a Job Stewards. Our at the Armstrong Tire ' plant at Folsom at 17th Stree"t, stone protection and levee con­ .members should give these Job Hanford. The job is progres.sing San Francis ~o 10, Califo r~ia • HEmlock 1-3700-· Sacramento struction at various· sites along Steward~ their unqu'!lified sup­ · very well with the wet weather. · Oakta-nd • Fresno tb.e right and left banks of the port and assistance. · There is still a larg-e amount of _,

"'; Page Twerve ENGINEERS NEWS March1 1962 edical sr~: · w & lOU,----.---~---..---...-.....,....._,.;_u_. n.;;_,io~ label Family Long ~afety Record : Care .an1 ' Defended· ~ Is Broken S an Francisco Congressman · _A record of almost ·four years John F. Shelley has charged op­ without a lost time accident was at the • I ponents of hospital care for the spoiled on Febr~1ary 8 aged with using "scare labels" to Kaiser Sand and Gravel plant, · ~ fight the administration's pro­ in Oroville. For on that date posals. Brother Rosenda -(Shorty) Ber­ "The administration bill is a ennan ~ad his arm badly cut and far thing from the scare label broken in two places. • 'socialized medicine', "the con gressman declared, "and provides In the June )ssue of last year complete freedom for the patient Safety . Report :we ran a picture of the crew of in selecting both the liospital and the plant receiving a plaque for the physician of his choice." the outstanding safety: record of Slielley said his support for the vern~or! s C· nf tli.e- entire far flung Kaiser in~ ­ nreasm'e is b_ased on the fact that re dustries, of not having a lost · the expense of medical· care has all of you. Try to bring another "j'Lunped a giant 49 per cent over ~y- DALE MARR construct_ion i n d u st r y led time accident for three years.- employment In accident ' fre­ brother with you to the next the 1947 figures" and hospital . I Brother Berennan and the su­ The Twelfth Annual Gover­ meeting in your ar·ea. room charges have increased 105 quency. perintendent, according to. re­ nor's Safety Conference . was Brown's . We ar~ getting an increased per cent in the same period. We believe Governor held February 8 and 9 at the 'charge was taken very seriously number of calls from the field. ports; were making a routine. higher cos-ts must be "These Fairmont Hotel in San Fran- , by everyone in the industr-¥ and ana have been able •to ~orrect inspection of a small conveyor faced particularly and most fre­ ·cisco, with more than 1600 peo­ we hope to see an all out effort. many situations that we ·would belt when the conveyor, the sup. quently by our elderly citizens," ple representing - all areas o~ the )lave_ known about if it were made this year to correct not ports apparently having been ·• Shelley declared; ~' those whose labor and· management in Cali­ situation. ' · - not for your calls. So let's hear and those weakened by th~ recent rainfall, incomes are lowest fornia. We have been pleased with from you. who because of their very age Most in attendance felt that the riumber of brothers who. We are expecting to have the gave way causing it to collapse. uire more and longer medical req this was the best conference have been .attending the safety public hearings on · the tunnel Broth.er B_erennen received the care and hospitalization." held to date. meetings that have been held in - safety order revision sometime injuries mentioned abo·ve. How­ Hospital care, he said, is the We were pleased to see labor the -various areas. We hope as in March or April. We will get superintendent Marvin - citizen's "most haunting ever, ,the senior take a very important part · ·in time goes on that we will be ·the wot:d out on the date as soon problem," since "millions of our Larson escap(;ld with painful the program. It is safe to say . able to contact more and more as it is announced. older citizens have medical bills bruises ancl scratches. that labor was represented mqre twice those of persons under·· 65, Larson who but recently took income is less than they, have been· in the past, - -'A Em - c ll 0 ·c ~a H . when their annual charge of the plant after the · than half as much!' - The o_verall spirit of tne con- . ria• B ounch - as ference was one of cooperation · death . o{ Stanley Ford, _who between labor and inanagemeJ\t. served as its superintendent for years, express~d himself as very Of particular interest to the Corporate Exe cut i v e disappoint(ld that this accident Operating Engineers w9s Gover­ The AFL-CIO has called for an The Federation's close look at the occured, especially in light of Profits Zoom nor Pat Brown's charge to the "urgent ~eexami nation " of the Council took a nation's economic health in mid­ the former safety record and Zooming corporate profits in construction industry to join Administ{atiqn's "overly timid" February, found it "alarming," that a very serious effort was be- • quarter of 1961 may hands in an all out drive to cut e~onomic policies in order to the fourth and declared "a more adequate ·ing made · to rebuild the plant ·­ profits for the year to . down our accident frequency .", achieve· full recovery from the lift total arid aggressive program is "essen­ and to eliminate unsafe condi­ -sm as h i iJ. g levels when · rate. Governor Brown pointed -1960-61 recession and avert a new record ti_al."· tions. final reports a~ e in. out that again this past-year the - downturn. It urged an "aggressive collec- - He also expressed himself as . tive bargaining policy combined very appreciative of the cooper­ with vigorous efforts to cut ,taxes ation of the 'officers of Local 3 on low-income groups and initia- _ and the safety Engineer and rep. tion of a public works program" Fesentatives of Local 3 and the .,as essential to return the ecQn­ membership employed at the omy to full employment levels. plant. If unemployment i s not re­ "All" he said, "have cooper-' · duced, the council declared, Con­ ated and worked together and gress should "seri'o\.!Sly consider it is unfortunate that this acci­ enacting a flexible wgrk week dent should have occured to -program." A 40-hour week is ap- - spoil a perfect record, espe­ .. propriate at full employment, the cially under the circumstances • council said, but at anything less that · the Company, as well as than full employment "the work all others mentioned, were mak- week should be curtailed and ing a . strenuous effort to - re­ workers employed with no reduc­ build the plant. and to eliminate tion in take-home pay." · any hazardous conditions."

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A SAFETY BELT may have saved the life of Brother Bob; ' • Shields, who was operator of this L.W. 35-yard scraper when .the arm broke on Miners Ranch durin9 a job for the Or_oville Project Contractors. The firm recently installed safety' belts on all such equipment and has encouraged their use. March, 1962 .E .N G I N E E RS N E W S Page Thirteen ' Utah !(€port .: •l .. ~ - tah - ~_ eefb1gs ,_ 5-anMateq Report . OGDEN- Third Tue~day of the • month. . Snow, ~· a:1n-,_ ud . ·· LOGAN...,..:.Fourth Tuesday of.the . .Apprentice Cl iiiol).th. ·.. ~ , ss ' ' . ' ~- . · PRO:VO~First -Tuesday P,f t~e month. ,~. . Keep igS Still ·I : VERNAL-San F·rancisco· 0 _Under' Chemical Co., courthouse, 6 p.m: · CEDAR CI'fY-Thi~·d Tuesday By JAY NEElY, MERLIN mud. around· the pumps but are By BILL RANEY and ers. In years to come most of :BOWM.,.N, JOHN· TH_ORNTON, having quite a little difficulty as of each month-City' a~d County - ,J>AN MATTES9N Building. them will no doubt be master VANCE, ABBOTT, and-. LAKE _ the we-ather just won't cooperate. . _, · AUSTIN . KENNECOTT COPPER- First After BO ·;eiirs of speculation, . mechanics, foremen, superintend-' It has ~tormed every day since they .sta..r ted. The Strong Com- Thursday (}f each fuont:ll-12:30 20 y,ea.rs: of consideration and: a . ents and owners of companies. It - ' Snow, tain arid mud ar~ ·still pany · reports , that no decision and' 7:30 p.m • year :of hard wqrk by the offic~rs · ~ill he no- easy road, however. • . ·, keeping the jqbs shut down in · has . beenc given on the Layton an<:J. .members of Local 3, an· of- - They will be required to . take th~· Salt Lake area. Many of the - Canal job and it_ will have tQ ' ficially recognized apprentice: cpntr:actors have· work awarded on B-Pulls, Orville Warde! ' on two nights a week of two ' hours wait for at least five or six weeks .. : ship p'i·ogram lifted off the pad pushcat, . Glen Holt, Mer! Davis at' Co-yote Po1nt Campus .· e'ach .. night of related classroom . / but just can't get started~ before it can start up again on ' ·I> .... " • of the for th~ . At the Bacchus job, Leavel-M. · ·the Porcupine Dam. There is still · blades, Lynn Lar~en· end . College of .San Mateo on Febru- instruction and a minimum of Don Olsen on · the ·tampers and· ·. K. have ·been . able to work '! ·a great deal of snow up there: ary 13·: .. . 6,000 hours of on-the-job train­ Rapley Bird doing the servicing. couple of days a week: M: K. Whee r'w right Construction At .this w1;itt11g, the class This company wants to· coll'lplete like ing. This 6,000 hours of 'training ·· sent some of their equipment to Company is working on the Pipe- . Colonel Glerin, has · made this job af' the !'!arliest possible three is broken down into specific min- · Idaho. However, due to the ter~ line job at East Layton but has orbits under the able guid;p1ce date and move · the meri - and . imums for each type o.f wo1~ k that rific rains and floods, this· same onlY, a few op,erators on this job. of Brother Joe B~own. Brother equipment to their Jensen job, .. a journeyman must know. Each equipment is . working on the It pulled its crusher out of the . J?i·own's ability as a . which is still bogged dq_wn. - . journeyman apprentice must master each sec- flood damage. . , . yard _and may do .some _crushing . is well knowrt to most members tion before graduation . .. Every _ Nel~on Brothers opened iJ. in West Ogden. · This company also has an in: · in San .Mateo .. _He has followed brother in Local No. 3 is urged shorf run o( ditch in the M:i,nga Germer, Abbott an~ Waldrim complete job from -Greendale the. g?fne for more years than to help these appi·entices in Junction area and are able to lay a little have stavted their crusher but toward Vernal o.n the m'ost apprentice:; are old, as · a every way by showing them how • pipe. They also were awarded the at:e doing very little on this proj­ Flaming ·Gorge Pass. HD Repairman' Foreman and to get the vast knowledge he has . ' second hal£ of the . Redwood .· ect other than getting some . We l;lave had a· pre-job confer- Master Mechanic and is pres- acquired through his ' years of Trunk line. We hope this job will_ gravel on-their road job just out ence w·ith Tiago Construction ently working as 'HD Repairman · work at our trade. Company, successful bidders on fo1;eman for Piombo Construe­ start in Mar:ch. . · ·• ' of Ogden. Hilton and Can have Your local Sub-Committee Of the Bridgeland-to-Duchesne high- · tion Co . .Brothers Hannum, Eckes ''The Medi'cal Building project started on the waterline up in the JAC, composed of two · man­ way 40 ,job. It's now moving and Frias are watching the pro­ of Christiansen and Paulsen h(\s Brigham City but so far have agerrient and two union repi·esen­ equipment from Colorado to the gram and have agreed to act as started to roll and they. expect . only a Jew oper-ators on this job. . tatives, .will be grading the ap­ job site, - altemate instructors. Space delivery' of the Swedish "Lindon" -· Things at Thiokol are at a com­ 1 'does prentices constantly. cranes soon. There will be three plete standstill ·except for a few SOU'rHERN AREA no-t permit description of the of these rigs on this building, buildings, but as . soon as the There has been some. indica­ h~mdreds of meetings by the ., CHANNELS plus tWo or tl;;:ee truck · cranes. weather breaks there·will be lots --tion Qf Spring, some mechanics Joint, Apprenticeship Committee · Your representatives have. had The travel hatcher · is already or roads to be repaired and con- have been called out to help get and -its . various Sub,C'ommittees · k' _; · · II · 1 f . with-State and Federal Agencies, a pre-job conference with the -wor Ill<;, as we as a· coupe o · ~tr:ucted in thaf area. . the equipment 1'n shape an·d . d · · · · . with various 'schdol •districts the . officials of Associated Dredging 1oa ers. J. B ..:: Parsons Company has some of the contracto1;s are oe: "Employer Gr~ups, attorneys,' edu- Co. It 4s ".in:es·ently digging chan- ' BEELiNE JOB very little work in the state of ginning to line. up their crews .. . cators and applicants, 'etc. ·nels preparini{ for' 'the big A . 4000 . Manitowac · was deliv- Utah; .therefore he has ·moved ·We jo-b are-- happy· to report tl;lat . . - · - ~ of brip.giilg in ab~vt 11 million ' d t 0 R. f . th B I~ . . b. most ~-" his equi·pment an·d o..P . er- Utah Mining an'd ~- Construction ere e co at e . ee me ]O ·; VL Company ~t -the Iron Mines near REGISTRATION - yards o( sand to start 'with. This Thi.s 1'ig :-v.nl have two hund-ed · a tors 'into Idaho. This leaves only Cedar _City · has woi:ked to 'this.- " r • • • : - .oproject ~hould have a total· of • an'd sixty-ffve feet of boom to- ' a few mechanics in his . shop' at . Tlusth.i-stonc oc~asw~ .was her- ) 5 dredgemen workino- by early wai·d the end of the aided by the reg1strat10n job. al this' Smithfield .. Ma'ny of tlie .Coritr;ac: date without a: cut,back for the of the ._· summer. "' writing the mud is a big .problem . tol·s suc·h·· as· Br·ewster, MI'le· s and first ·time in several-years. - folloWing ·applicants fo·r inden- · - . ture on this project. , ... :i!;ife an~ -- re,fllly anxious . to get At this time we would like to to •the program: Negotiations are nearly com­ . ' Bob Weber has a job at Bing- their 'jobs going, but mud, rain · ·remind the members· on this job Warren:·Amrine, Wendell Bar- plete with Stanford .. University J;lam and the weath~l; is ' keeping ~ !'nd Sn?w-makes it quite discour' that their .contract ' is Up · thi~ den, Qsca.r Cameron, Larry Cha- and . A.B.A._, its .; contracting ' the Brot{lers fr:om working. ~ aging. , year.- We encourage you~· . attend- · ney,'- John -Edmondson, Lowell a'gency, . for comm:encement of ' Project Western· Knapp's job. in Wen- . The Sand and Gravel Com. , ance at the monthly·- ·meetings Jo)lnson, ' St~nley _ ·Milam, ' . Jim ' ' M.'~ dover has a couple of mohfhs panies, such as Fife, Parsons and held in_ Ced11r City on the t~ifd Piffero, Chuck Schindler, Je.ss . Another, Radar Tower i11. being . left. Del Bunnell is running a ·. Waterfal( have had a mighty Tuesday. O·f eacli. month, at-- which Whitsell, Dale Armstrong, Jim started to be part of the· :san _ Lorraine truok crane with Joo tough 'time- keeping theit~ old discussion should be held on the Bryan,< John Cammara, Billy, _~ Fra~cisco Airport system.· There Neilson oiling_ . Omar Conners is hands busy this past winter: ~ desired changes in the forthcom- Conn: •' should be some crane and pile _ runni11g ·an A-Fi· ~ me and -Keith 'ing contract negotiations. Gary FambhJini, Tony Keeble, driver wort on this one . . PROVO .AREA - Another building project at Ed McCuiston, Warren Pember- A 40-acre industrial pi:oject is Timms is on• the com~. ressors. ·s· tr·ong· Company· -s attempt·n=: · · 1 , 1 1 ;; Cedar. C.i ty is scheduled to be et ton, Frank Snow; Nels Blagen, being pro·posed for that area west NORTHERN AREA · · to start w01·k in its 13th South Februar~ 28th. T~is will · be _a Rtn1ald Buch, Howard Capener, by no{·ti1west of Coyote Point. • Here in the North, a few jobs . Orem , ac~ess road· to Interstate two· million dollar High School. Dave Drahos, Peter Favre, _Steve This jqb .,will necessarily be a · are tryi'ng to · get under w.ay. Out :J-.5 Freeway. Sonfe _of the mem- _.,· This should ~ iittr' act some moi·e ·. Kurtz: Jerry Oliver, David Spath, filled portion of the bay and 'will ·'on Willard Bay, :Gibb.ons and -: Mrs who are tieing call~d back · .fair trades building contractors . Jim Westphal. . take a lo-t of dirt with some levee . Reed are trying to clam out some are, Clyde Neilson, Paul Butfars ...... · to this area. ·Mark these names well, br~th- _•: work. -··:-.-:

.. ~ eva n 1!\B ,, J• ·. le f ter w· . . ' '. s By ·H. .L. "CURLEY;' SPENCif . St'i·_aight on .tbe Reno Iron Com- .. c~einent weather conditions. The and running to 'a point approxi- new building, two floors below and TOI\'1 . ECK _. P,an·y craf1e with hfs oiler .Brothe[ Isbell job at_, Wadswor'th a'n·d the mately nine miles east. · ·-- the street level . and two 'floors·· Aft.er a three-year dr-y speii we ,. "Rod" Rodney hoisting the· iron Dodge ·job and the . Wells-Cargo - ·wE·LL ALONG above sti·eet level. -... ·' _ . '· . . . ·. : . and.nmd for the Jen-J\{ar project. . 1 :fob, both o~ tlie latter- on -High- · McKenzie Construction and . .Stolte Company has its job well have received more IT1° sture m ' ...The C&H Construction Company, way No. 40 (Interstate 80) east Walker Boudwin's. joint venture along at the University of Ne­ the last two weelfs tha!l ·we can .. ~which is putting the rock ·on the of Lovelock, all try to run be- at the Earl Wooster High School vada. However, things are a bit . . , handle· in s.o,rne· portions of our road~ . into the p1;actice qombing tween .stonrts but it is a hit and job on East Plumb Lane in Reno, slow with Brother James Mott. g1~eat - Silver ,Sta~e. ~at:ts · o~ Hi;g~- ranges-,' south of • Fallon,-·also is miss affal1;. Silver State C011- ' '.is well ' along. Brotl1er . Frank the one drummer, in the_ho,spVal. . way ~40 and the SoutP.er.~ Pac.f1c hampei'ed . by the weather: . struction Company road in Coal Jakow.atz, the outstai1ding p·arie He will be back soon as you can't .track;s . had· ··to ·be '· cut open to · , ' · · · ·· ' ··. Canyon was rolling ~ al_ong . reaL · man_, , · has · done a ·lot.. o.f woi·k on: ~· keep a good man like. Jim down ' · · ·~ L'_· IGHT EFFECT ~ d1~ain • off the City of Battle-'· 1\!IOuri~ good until the storms moved in. thfs job with ~olcomb's rig. Is- for long_ taih where· wate1: had-backed up The inacb·rida · Qo1~1j:>·ne tionally·- slow _again due to in- ~ng at t}le '' Cafdo1:nia-Neva~a line where Hart:~ h ;·s ?lub is puttin~ a out-negotiation.

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·i- :J_ •• March, 1962 - ·~ Page SiXteen E N G r-N -E E RS N E W S Sacramento Report • ork ickup ith · Spril!g fficial •rectory• By E. M. NELSON, EDW. (}. Brighton Sand and Gravel · has · Thb is a good go-ahead crew of moving dirt in the plant . engineers. HEARN, BILL METTZ, C. E. been MAIN OFFICE-SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA COCKAYNE, and AL DALTON area. It lost time only when it Big "Red" Simpson is ~till go­ was raining the hardest. ing · steady with no lay-offs or 474 VALENCIA Tel: HEmlock 1-1568 In the Sacramento area, it has -turnover on -several jobs located· · AL CLEM, Business Manager .•• • ••••• •• ••••••• • •.•. WYman 2-0294 Teichert's plant at Perkins is Mission 7-4748 been the worst month we have in Placer and El Dorado coun: PAUL.EDGECOMBE, President...... •...... back in operation after being DOWD, V. President, Dist. · Representative; UNion_ 7-9369 (Saratoga) about four years. ties. · Jerry had in down for extensive repairs. The W. V. M INAHAN, Recording-Secretary ...... Fireside 5-2616 (San Mateo) a ESsex 7-61 OS (San Jose) The work is at a standstill but · portable plant, popularly known Roseville Dry Mix Products, H. T. PETERSON, Treasure r and Re presentative ... it looks like we will have a good recently organized concerri has ART PENNEBAKER; Business Representative .... Clifford 4-868 1 (Orinda) as the "Green Hornet," is in the . ... : . .. JUniper 6-4428·· · gets here. been going along with the ;gree­ GEORGE BAKER, Business Representative ...... year when .spring Manlove pit at Perkin~ but _has Safety Engineer ... , • ••••••••. Hil ltop 7-3668 (Livermore) . ment 100 per cent and has seven DALE MARR, C. J. Do-rfman Co. has been try­ been shut down for a while due DANNY -o. DEES, Apprenticeship: •.••••••••• -••••••. Klondike 2-0704 · pay roll. Pacific ing to take advantage of the brief to water·rising in the pit. engineers on the Ready _Mix has taken over the SAN. MATEO, California periods of good weather to finish Arden Ready Mix has been Roseville Ready Mix -plant and . - its se-iver job but it has been get' crushing rock. all winter and will : 1527 South "B" Street Fireside 5-7237 employed an· engineer to operate • .. EMerson 8-5690 ting little help from the w!:)ather through BILL RANEY, -Business Representative ... , ••••••••• be going straight on · . Representative .... ••• • •••• •• . J Uno 9-0790 man. Thei:e is still some pipe to the plant DAN· MATTESON, Business without stopping. · February •- go in the ground and ·all of the . -On_Monday morning, · The shop crew at Granite Con- _ in the SAN RAFAEL, California paving and cleanup is to be done. 12, ~ an era in go-ld dredging struction on Powe~ Inn Road has Feather Glenwood 4-3565 It should be able to finis"h in· Folsom area and on the 701 Mission Avenue been hard at it getting the equip- · at th~ , turn T. J. STAPLETON,' Business Rep resentative .. . _. •••• • , . Gl enwood 6-6259 about tl!irty days if the weather River wliich beg~n me-nt back in shape for the next · ended for the Na­ would hqld good for that long. of the century; VALLEJO, California . work· -season. closed the grading and pav­ tomas Company when it Most of . Midway 4-2667 und . SNOW PROBLEM down Dredge No.6, its last oper­ 2172'Springs Road ing contractors are sitting aro AARON S. SMITH, Busi-ness Representative ... •••••• ••. Midway 2-9634 . their offices, looking out the win­ ·ating dredge. stopped all Natomas has a considerable dows and watching it rain. Snow has -- virtually OAKLAND, California work on Highway . 40 and the acreage which could be dredged _ TWirioaks 3-2120• . TOO WET ·Lake Tahoe Area. Briggs-Conl(:!Y· if the:price was right, but Uricle 1444 Webster Street DON KINCH LOE, District Re_presentative ... •. .. VErnon 7-7 41 8 (Danville) Dennis are moving the equip- Sam has· failed to consider ·. the lberry 5-4341 (Concord) Teichert· and Son has quite a NORRIS CAS EY, Business Rep-resentative ..• -... MU - ment into Nevada but will have plight of the gold miner. The net L. L. LAUX, Business Representative ...... LAndscape · 4-4028 lot (}f work left on the storm it back on the Donner -Sum{Iiit result- is that increased opera­ HOWARD WYNN, Business Representative ..•...... KEllogg 2-4780 sewer job of the American Rivet" 1-2905 (Fremont for an early start. . · tional -- costs have finally reached F. 0 :, WALKER, Busi~ess Representative ...... GReenleaf but it has been too wet to worl):. has renovated its the point ·of saturation and re­ They also . have small grading R. J: Miles STOCKTON, ·california plant -on the Bear River to com- cently gone beyond for this com­ jobs all over the area that re: - · HOward 4-7687 with the state-safe_ty recom- pany. The result is that more o-p­ 2626 No. California St. to be finished including ply ER TALBOT, District Representative ..•••..•..• . . HOward 4-1092 main erating engineers are being rele- WALT work at the Aerojet plant. mendations. AL McNAMARA,- Business Representative. , ... , •..•.. , HOward 4-0706 Bear River at gated to the ranks of the unem­ Delta Construction Co. is Also on the Co. keeps · ployed. MODESTO, California working a couple of Brother En­ Colfax Sierra Milling producing Natomas Co. has had as. many gineers at Aerojet' on various - three brothers b~tsy 152LK Street LAmbert 2-0833 quartz rock for processing at the as ·· five .hundred -_operahtig en­ _ness Representative .•..••••.•••. LAmbert 2-7 632 small projects. ·H. C. Smith Co. GLENN DOBYNS, Busi mill, where we have five gineers· employed on the dredges has a steady crew of three that Colfax at the controls. Joe over the years. Several have EUREKA, California takes care of any work that falls Engineers has eight brothers spent -their entire working life Hillside 2-7328 under our jurisdiction. They are Cheveraux 2806 Broadway busy at the -plant on the Bear working there ap.d are in tl}eir _ WARREN .LEMOINE,- District Representative ...•.••••.. Hillside 2-8628 Brothers Virgil Capps, Richard in the shop at Auburn. early sixties. Byerum and Richard Pierce. River and FRESNO, California ADams 3-1981• 3121 East Olive · JOSEPH MI LLER, District Representative ..• • • . .••.•••. BAldwin 2-823'2 Hawq.ii Report B. F. HELLING, Business Representative .. , ..•..•••• ••. BA ldwin 7 -376~ MARYSVILLE, C;~lifornia ,

_1010 Eye Str~et' SHerwood 3-7321 ud t _ HAROLD HUSTON, District Representative ....•..•.•. SHerwood 2-1728 Interesting State C. R. VAN V'{ INKLE, Bus iness Representative .... •••.. SHerwood 2-27 47 W . R. W EEKS, Business Representative. , ... ..•.• ••. , SHerwood 3-9588 Hawaii · C.O.P.E. office not start for another five or six By HAROLD LEWIS, The JAMES N. HALL, Business Representative ..•.• , •••••. SHerwood 3-9204 -because months. The last -report from RUPERT TEVES, and has informed us that, and Haynie, REDDING, California BERT NAKANO of the overload of work due to the companl, Haas the sessions of the State Senate CHestnut 1-0158 . will not . . is that the detail drawings have '1054 Tehama Street The largest topic of public and Legislature, there J. B. JENN INGS, District Repres,entative ..••••.•.•.. ,. CHestnut 1-2773 as of this 3-4256 conversation and concern in be a c.o.P:E. Bulletin in Febru- not been started on SID McBROOME, Business Representative ...... ••• . . CHestnut the March issue will be ·writing. Hawaii is the Governor's pro­ ary, but SACRAMENTO, California posed budget. When his · public­ full of news.· · Your guess is as good as ours 7-5795 ity department sent the - job Construction is still slow. J. as to when the highway jobs :vm · 2525 Stockton Blvd. Gladstone • , ...••••... Gladstone 7-2471 schedules and proposed salary M. Tanaka was low bidder on ERNEST NELSON, District Representative. · b b t h t start. Your -central Labor Coun- C. E. COCKA YNE, Business Representative . .'SHerwood 2-3009 (Yuba City) increases for governm~nt work­ the Mt . K aa I a. JO , u as - no ve ...... GArden 8-2515 is doing everything in their ED HEARNE, Business Representati ers, someone forgot all about yet been given "the contract. Sub-~ cil W ILLIAM METTZ, Business _Representative .. YOrktown 715006 (Fair Oaks) the estimated income for the divider Treausdale has lost his power to build a fire under the AL DALTON, Business Representative ..... N_lagara 4-2565 (Pollcxk Pines) subdivide the Kawai- Governor's sea~ and get these State treasury. battle to SAN JOSE, California smiles of anticipation nue Swamp into home sites and and other State joJ:>s. started so The ~ CYpress 5-8788 turned to frowns when the pub­ the city wiU condemn the area 7 60 Emory Street for a park; knowing how the the unemployed can get the A J. HOPE, Financial Secretary and lic was informed that the State • , . YOrkshire 7-2942 (Los Altos) office WQrks, .this will work: , District Representative ...... , will be short by about $6 mil­ mayor's LYNN MOORE, Business Representative ...... -.CHerry 3-0410 to start. There is a inove on by the lion if the Governor's proposals take another two years W. HARLEY DAV IDSON, Business R ~ presentative .. PA 4-5490 ·(Watsorwille) Parker Ranch project will plantation managers to lower the were accepted. The SANTA ROSA, . California tax rate on sugar and pineapple. Liberty 6~2487 Their argument is that the pres­ 1186 Yulupa Avenue / RUSSE LL SWANSON, District Representative. , •. ••• •••. Ll berty 5-.d.4 14 ent tax . structure is gradually LOU BARNES, Business Representative ...... • , •••••••. Liberty 2-594. -MOVING? pricing their products off the RENO, Nevada market. .185 Martin Avenue FAir~iew 9-0236 So you will not miss one If this proposed tax reduction H. L .SPENCE, District Representative ..•••• • . ,··, ••••.. FAirview 2-1420 TOM EGK, Bu siness Representative ...... ; •••••...••••• ~ ••• •• issue of Engineers News, ·goes through, all the taxpayers in the State will have to contr_ib­ SALT LAKE CITY, U_tah BE SURE to advise us of - ute more to cover the $3 million 19.60 S. Main Street HUnter ·6-7401 •••• • • •.. CRestwood 8~9628 · your change of address. dollar . loss. If you have any JAY NEELEY, Distcict R~presentative :_. . , •. LAKE AUSTIN, Business Representative ....••..•••••. INgersoll 7-5724 _ friends in the State Senate or REG. NO. ______PROVO, Utah House, contact them anrl tell FRanklin 3-8~37 them to fight against such a tax 165 West 1st North JOHN THORNTON, Bus. Representative .. SKyline 6-4915 (American Fork) NAME cut. VANCE ABBOTT, Business Representative ...... 798-7123 (Spanish Fork) system improve- OLDADDRESS ______The water OGDEN, Utah ·ment projects for' Kona Hawaii are finally going to start. After 2538 Washington Blvd. EXport 4-1011 . CITY 393-87. being awarded the contracts M. F. BOWMAN, Business Representative .. -.••••••••••••••• NEW ADDRESS months ago, A. C. · Chock, Ltd. HONOLULU, Hawaii and J. M. Tanka have been told CITY 208 McCandless Bldg. HOnolulu 6-5418 to start on this much needed -HAROLD LEWIS, District Representative ..••••••••. , HOnolulu 775-038 Clip and mail to Engineers News, system for this dry area of the RUPERT H. TEVES, Business Representative., -..•... ,., HOnolulu 9-5140 474 Valencia St., San Francisco 3, Calif. island. BERT NAKANO, Business Representative . •• ••• ; •••••••• . Hllo 665-676