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Vol. 24--No. 6 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ~ 151 J~ne, 1965 I ' -I .,Greater Security Utah Scores Major Health, Welfare Gains - each month for the Health and provide insurance during periods Spouse: ...... $1,000.00 Benefits · Welfare plan, and for a longer of unemployment (previously, a Children: -Pension·I@Us · -Broader "' period of . tim.e. Here. are · the · maximum of 900 hours was· al 14 days to 6 months.. 100.00 major changes drawn up through - lowed.) This change now makes 6 months to 2 years.. 200 00 _ Include Change in the pooled efforts df Union :l.nd · it possible for members to con 2 years to 3 years...... 400.00 Accelerate Employers Board of Trustees: tinue insurance .for a full year, a years to 19 years.~-- 500.00 • Hours ·~ Eligibility (1) _Effective June 1, new par- if necessary, while unemployed. Under the revised rules mvre · Utah Engineers will be . ~ligible To "708 Reii rees SALT LAKE CITY- Greater ticipants· will be eligible in the (3) Members whose insurance Since the inception of the Op for benefits, and benefits will ·security and· broader insurance . trust after completion of 300 . ·has lapsed may now be rein Engineers Local 3 Pen · continue for a longer period of erating : benefits for utah Operating En hours of employment in. a three- stated within 12 months from the plan in 1960, over $624,000 · time dui:ing months of umim- · sion gineers and :their fan;ilies _were .month period. Participants ·and ··last month Of ·eligibility by ac been paid to retirees through · ployment. Mor'eover, it will ·. be· has announced by Al Clem Business former participants ·will - be cumulating 100 hours in thejr December, 1963; more -than one · easier for Engineers to re-estab ·Manager; -at· a meeting ~held here . chal'g·ed · lQO hours ·each month , reserve bank (Formerly, the half was paid -out during 1963.- etwe_en Union and em- . from thei.r "bank of hours" re- - maximum period for reinstate lish eligibility under the new . recently, b According to the latest report, serve. (Formerly, ·115 hours were . ment was slx ·· mon~hs . ) · rules. ployer _ trustees and insurance · there are 708 retired .Engineers carriers. charged.) ( 4) For an additional premi- The · administrator was in on the pension rolls, with - 411·~ of ·the new meas·ures (2) ·Members are now allowed urn of $.17 per month depend . strycted to prepare a new bene A study cently added, according · to Busi to accumulate up . to hours ent life insurance will now be fit booklet outlining the revi- .shows that a gi~eate1: number of 1200 . ness Manager. Al . Clem . Brothers will become eligible . in their i·eserve ):>ank . which will . provided to Local 3 members on . _sions in the benefit schedule and · the following · basis: ._ the eligibility rules. · .. Clem is chairman of · the Pen sion Trust Fund Board of . Trust ees. · Serving with him on- the Board are: P.au( Edgecombe, A. Local 3 ·J ,. Hope, . H,aJ;old- B:uston,- Don Membership J: Kin<;hloe, _ Daleo. Mar:r ·and · T. Stapleton, £rol_l1 the _Union. Here is the list · of . men who have recently been add"eq: .. ~: M~·~~il19c, Qpefl to ,~ll ·. Albei'f ' Goss/ '(Y:U.bii"~Consoli C,. Goddard · Lee Only' '-tWice ·a_ 'year the 30,000 dated), WU!i'am -~ :H,iatt, _P~ul Ihrig, _·cuta'h), '. Guy -·. members of Local 3 have im op- Ainnud-Meetin,g· · .Mattingly, ·_A lpert Perry, _Ge~n·ge -portunity to attend . ~ gerier~ l V. Sa, Joseph Sitra, ·James T. _membership meeting to air their Walker, G.ernand Carpentier. Of Credit. u -.nion . ~- views and· to. listen to the prob Ira. A. Cox, Mike Day, George lems of the Union. Hardwick, James Johri, Earl B. There is such a meeting sched Set for July 10 · Muns, Elmer J. Nielsen (Utah), ·Orville Paul, George. D. Smith, uled for July 10, a Saturday. · The annual m·eeting of the Business Manager AI Clem, Ben Wel;>ster, Elmer J. Williams, Ci·e_dit Union membership wl.ll L. D. Wright arid Buford Wycof-f. President Paul Edgecombe. Re- be held ~uly 10 at the S. F . Early retirement: Jack Al . cording. Secretary W. V. Mina Labor Temple, one hour aft~r - meida, F 1 o d ·Anderson T ~d han, Financial Secr'etary A. J. the regular semi-annual meet y Buck Hope, Vice President Dale ing of the Union. A~ha (utah), Frank Davis: He'r Don Kinch bert M. Farrester, William B. Marr and Treasurer Cret!it U n i o n members loe will be on the presidum. Liyingston, Laurence McElroy, numbering some 34oo, ~viii re: Ellsworth Powless, E 1m e r. A. The meeting will .~ start at 1 ceive a financial report, elect Rastetter-, Dewey Stoddard -and p.m. in the Labor Temple at 16th directors, credit committee SHOP IDENTIFICATION-this colorful card identifies Local and Capp Streets. Reece Sutbblefield. 3 organized_ shops. It is a:-ailable throug~ the courtesy of a nd supervisory committee Disability P ens ions: .Lewis the International Union,· in_ all . districts. Have you seen it? All . members of Local 3 are members. · Austin (Yuba Consolidated) Leo invited to attend this meeting. The un i o n membership K. Burl~e, Lawrence B{llebault, An hour after the meeting_ the meeting starts a.t 1 p.m. and 0 -r ·m on d · Buchanan,- .John B. College Sch:olarships A-warded; 3400 members of the Credit Un an -hour . after ·adjournme-nt Harris, Gene Lambley Williafu ion will meet for its annual meet- the Credit meeting will start: Silvester (utah), and ' Lloyd C. • Wi~~ers Top Field of ~~7 ~ntries ing. · Smith. Chern Lynn Lukasko, 17, ambitions mclude a major in daughter of Brother Paul Lukas-- ' chemistry · and post- graduate ko, Rio Linda, Calif<, and Rob-" work in radiochemi&try. -He was ert John Vicks, 17, son of Broth- . president of both his junior and senior classes a Churchill County er Robert William Vicks, Fallon, High School in Fallon; and lists Nev., have been na'med winners among his many interests foot- of the Operating Engineers Lo: ball and photogi·aphy. ' cal 3 College Scholarships for · He was selected to member the coming acad-emic year 1965- ship in the National Hono1· So- 66. ciety, a nd participated in the Cherri Lynn, .who - will enter National Science Foundation's the University of Califo"rnia at Summer School at Clarkson Col Los Angeles in the Fall, was n!- lege of Technology ·last summer cently selected "Teen of the in Potsdam, New York. Week" by the Sacramento. Union Both Robert and Cherri are • from a host of entries, bringirtg straight "A" students and were to four the total. number of · selected by a panE:l of impartial awards for all-a'round excellence judges from the University of. Cherri has won this year. She California Undergraduate Schol will major in physics at U.C.L.A. arship Committee. and plans ultimately to be· a There were 127 entries, how- physicist or physics teacher. ever, 89 were adjudged in the ~EW MEM_BERS---. B_usiness- Managerr AI Clem is show~ here answering questions at ·meet- Robert has applied for admis- final competition. Nearly two . mg of T.enc? Tractor Co. employees. o:h.e:s, left to right: Busi!1ess Representative Jerr . : sion ·to . Stanford University and thirds were in the top scholastic Allgood, Trustee T. J . Stapleton and D1stnct Represen~ative Harold Huston seated at ri h{ ·.the . University of. Nevada. His bracket. · Ther~ are about 120 T ~nco employees. ' g -· • --Page 2 ENGINEERS NEWS June, 1'965• Saii Mhteb ·worklOad Steady e10o BY ·BILL RANEY and MIKE KRAYNICK -· from the SAN MATEO - Through peri-' ods of "boom or bust," San Mateo district is one of the more stable Manager's Desk work areas throughout the juris diction of Local 3. By AL CLEM There has been a steady in crease of bigger jobs and hun • dreds , of s m a 11 e r "bread and butter" projects which have sys As previously reported, we are still extremely busy ·in various negotiations. The contracts with Utah Mining Co. of tematically lowered the out-of work list. This steady.· growth Cedar City, Utah, and the Tenco Tractor Company of Marys indicates a " f u II employment ville were consummated and ratified by the members during Summer" which sho-uld carry ' M~. over into the new year. · We know many of you are wondering how we .are pro gressing with. negotiations with AGC, EGCA, .Home Builders . CREEK BRIDGE and other employer groups. We would like to report we have Dan Caputo Company's $7 mil had a series of negotiating meetings and we are still hopeful, ~ lion concrete bridge just off Sky in our thinking, we can secure a contract to submit to you for . line at the Crystal Springs dam ratification prior to the end of the month. . is under w:ay. Superintendent, . Those of you· who have read the construction agreement . Jim Blake, will have his hands know it is long and most complex, and in order that youi· in full with fourteen different sub terests are protecte~l to the "nth degree," it is necessary in . contractors on the site at vari / • these negotiations to be extremely cautious in all our actions . WHE·ELHOUSE CHAT- Business Representative Bill R
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Published each month by Local Union No. 3 of the International. Union of Operating Engineers (Northern California, Northern Nevada, States of Utah and Hawaii.}- Subscription price $2.50 per year. Office: 474 Valenc'ia St., San Francisco 3, Calif. AL CLEM ------~------Editor and Business ,Manager ..PAUL . EDGECOMBE --~- : ...... President . DALE MARR ------Vice-President •• W.. V. MINAHAN .... Recording-Corresponding Secretary_ A. J. HOPE ...... :.... .: ...... Financial Secretary DON· KIN CHLOE ...... :.. :...... Treasurer L -abor~ u~zling Repeal of · . Taft~H · ar.tley _Needs H_elp . Nearly tw~ .dec~ des · ha,ve passed since the "labor-~uz zling'.' Taft-H~rtley Act _ be~ame law; thus, the longest piece .of. labor -legislation in hist·o.ry is still pinching where it hurts . most.. . · • lt was in 1947, l fL.Years ago, that Congress enacted this law, containing a 44 word claus-e which subsequently proved so menacing to free la:bor unions across the nation. . . SECTION 14(b) The la~v , with its devastating Section 14(b), violated la bor's right of collective bargaining; it created havoc by open ing the door to passage of misleading, immoral "right ;to work" laws in many states by anti-labor interests, It tng gered more than 40 bitter and costly labor disputes through- .out the country. . . This year Congress has an opportunity to repeal this trouble-making clause and restore to labor its basic right of colleCtive bargaining. · · ·. · How To Buy · But Congress is not going to repeal Section· 14(b) out of hand. There is plenty of -p r essure b~ing applied right now to block ~uch r~peal. T~e National Right-to-Work Com!flittee, The John B1rch Society and a host of other reactionary, · Super Markets Get .Costlier • . special interest groups have launched an all-out drive to keep the clause on the books. By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS But the point Mueller emphasizes is the ro1e LETTERS NEEDED NOW What this department has been warning about trading stamps have played in pushing up prices. "Trading stamps may prove an effective promo To counteract the tactics of such groups, the most ef for some time-that rising supermarket profit margins are pushing· up food prices-has now been tion technique for an individual store because they fective weapon is private citizen's letters to Congressmen and · expand its de.mand," he testified. "But they lose Senators, urging support on this vital issue. Without such demonstraied by the Federal Trade Commission in testimon;y before the National CommisSion on most of their effectiveness once a ·majority of food letters, and plenty of them, labor's cause is seriously weak retailers in .·an area adopts them. They tend to in· ened. Never has the old adage been more true; the squeaky Food Marketing. · Knowledge of these revelations can help you crease costs by an amount nearly equal to the wheel gets the grease! Here are several rules of thumb to fol cost of stamps (to the retailer) ." low when writing Congressmen and Senators. defend your family against excessive payments for (1) Be sure of names and addresses. When in doubt, con- · food, especially in the current period of rising One of the phenomena we have ·observed about tact your district office o··r business representatives. They'll prices. stamp"giving chain·s compared . to non-stamp, is be happy to provid.e this information. These facts contradict the U. S. Department of that whiie both have some prices much the same, (2) Do not follow a set format; one's own words and ex Agriculture's persistent campaign claiming ''f1lod the stamp givers tend to feature the costlier high pres_s'ions are best for believability and impact. is a bargain," because, among other reasons as margin foods, such as expensive chunk tuna in • . (3) .Establish as quickly as possible the fact that you are serted by Agriculture Secretary Freeman, "food stead of the. cheaper grated tuna, or costlier meats. the city supermarket, writing in .support of the repeal of 14(b), an~ ~gainst "right marketing, from the farm to Not only retailers but grocery ·manufacturers to work" laws. · · has grown in efficiency." have played a role in pushing up f ood prices un ' (4) Letters should be short, reasonable and polite. Even The comprehensive· testimony by Willard Muel necessarily. In their drive . to get more shelf space, a postcard will suffice. · ler, Director, ·FTC Bureau of Economics, shows grocery ma]lufacturers have created "a prolifera- (5) Each letter must be signed, and a return address that, in fact, supermarkets are now taking an . tion of products, promotion deals, coupons, etc., given . . increasing percentage of the consumer's food dol· many of which ultimately spell higher operating lar, while the consumer is having to pay more, costs for retailers," Mueller points out. . LIVHNG STANDARD LOW · ge. work" laws, and farmers are getting a smaller percenta So when the Agriculture Department boasts that or the 19 states which still retain "right to ·Here are the facts affecting your pocketbook: nearly all are at the bottom of the list in living standards. American consumers enjoy a . great · abundance, Back .in 1947-52, superma1:kets had reached their such as 262 different brands, varieties and can None matches the $1.25 federal ·minimum wage. Only two the case of 19 fall shqr t of best efficiency and were taking, in sizes of vegetables found in one supermarket, keep have $1.00 per hour minimums, and 15 out of . three large food chains, only 15 cents of the dollar the international standards for child labor. in mind that you pay· for this variety whether you you pay for food. Thereafter, the "margin" taken need it or not. The re-peal of Section 14(b) is a matter which transcends ,by these chains began a steady rise, reaching 20.6 While the de "new" items the specific interests of the labor movement. cents in 1963. This is an increase of 37 percent, Actually, many of the so-called s really offer nial of union security agreements to workers and e_mployers and a leading factor in toclay's higher prices. brought out by grocery manufacturer new. Many has weakened unions and has hampered the operation'of free Another survey, based on figures from both no genuine benefit and are not really collective bargaining, the farther-reaching. consequences in large and small chains, shows ·an incl'ease from are nothing more than deals designed to entice clude: the purposeless waste of money and manpower, the the retailer. • 18.1 percent in 1955 to 22.2 percent in 1963. baseless antagonisms which are the inevitable by-product of The curious aspect, directly affecting you, is What these facts mean to you when buyil1g fo od « . Page 4 ENGINEERS . NEWS June~ 1965 • have sub-contracted their p~e ~$8.6 Million Facelifting liminary work and are now ready to start on the erection work. This will mean the addition pf many good crime jobs to this ·· Crane on .Coliseu i lest Track is ' 0' project. Ralph . M. Parsons is doing all the pipe work and is By ED HEARNE, "TINY" LAUX, STAN GARBER, keeping a large crew busy, and . JERRY BLAIR, TOM CARTER, BUD MALLETT will continue to do so this year OAKLAND- Franklin Canyon The plant is capable of ship and part of next. Winton Jones Project ~ is being constructed for ping by truck, rail or water. Cur has a crew of about 15 or 20 the State of California, · Division rently they are producing con e_ngineers working on the dirt of Highways by contractors Gor: crete piles and miscellaneous portion of this job, and the way don H. Ball, . Syar & Harms and products for the Army Street it · looks they will be working. Talbot D. Bailey on a joint ven Terminal in San Francisco; the · · there most of the summer .. ture basis. Shell Oil Wharf Facility, and sev Gallagher and Burke ~as sever . The cpntract is for $8.62 mil eral major contractors through .··· al subdivisions under way in the lion to constrl).ct 5.2 miles of out California. .. ..area ... O;ne of these jobs is ;in asphaltic concrete div!d~d high The following Brothers are Moraga and involves about a half way near Martinez. The project employed: Bob Powers, . Niles million yards of dirt. There has i~ · 'ir hew alignment of State High 'Cox, Hal Burlison, Les Dalen, been talk of puttir!g soine 6f t):lis way 4, beginning .one-half mile Willie Covington, Bob Weather work on two shifts. . . west of Cumming~ ·skyway and ill and D. Kasper. Martin Bros. at ·present are ending, at Howe 'Rd. The Kiewit Marine and Cast . working ' big crews at several lo · The ~ontl: act working day limit con Inc. Annual Safety Award .~ cations· throughout the area. The is 450 days anALAMEDA concrete pillars into place at the Bay Area Rapid Transit Dis Eugene L u h r Construction which will lift water from the The personnel on the project: trict test track near Concord. Sam .Martinelli, Dennis Ball, Ad· started on the channel job on the San Joaquin delta into the Cali drien Smith, Cari ·Genian, Alan bottom . end of Alameda Creek. fornia Aqueduct. Lohr, Bill Martin, Cy Stewart, J. This is the first contract let on One of the big projects in the and will keep quite a few op- . Piombo Construction Company area is the Walnut cr'eek Canal erators busy this year and next. T. Smith, Jim Fehilly, Milt the channel which will take ap is getting started with "the canal Job. It was let in three sectious, Moore, and Roy T;roberg. proximately 5 years. The flood Over on the Rapid Transit site, job near B~ron. Brother Biil. and there are. three diffe1;ent & . The following equipment is . on control channel will go from Sharp Fellows finished the Kinney has a spread going of the · project: 12 650 scrapers, Niles Canyon to the. bay and methods of moving dirt. Western test section of tract and B.A.R.T. three new .632's, a couple of 2irs, Pacific Dredging got the first three 657 scrapers, two 631 scrap come out at the Dumbart.on has starte.d testing the lab . car two cats and a blade, and a section, and is pumping on a a1id . equip'ment. ; Massman Con ers, two TS-14 scrapers, eight D-8 Bridge. . r?rthwest .6. Backh?.e . and a ~0:0 structicm ' (;ompany .· is moving.: .tractors, one C-6 tractor, six D-9 . The Luhr job consists of 750,- three-shift operation with ideal -wrth a d1'ag: Also, _on :the·. same right along · n:ow .. after fighting tractors, four sheepsfoot, one 000 yards of channel excavation: material. project is a"new company in thi~ pactor roller,· one Hyster roller, To start with, dirt will be moved Eugene Luhr Company was bad· luck arid weather. TheY have ·area. called Transpacific Tractor added more equipment and put one Model 6 dragline, and one with trucks and . loaders . . There low bidder on· the other two con Inc. The foreman on this job is 25 ton truck crane. will be five new D-4 dozers tracts a1~d at present have a 4500 their crew on overtime; so this Brother Tom Blair and · Stig knocking the fill . down. The date Manitowoc Dragline. plus a should help put the job bark on Gruen is General Manager. :so WORK ACCELERATES for completion is set at Novem couple ·of smaller machines work schedule: far theY ·have six pulls and three · ,,. W.ork has picked.. upr: consider ing on the first job. · Ransome Company is working .· cats- and. .one new 16 blaqe. They ably during past month. There ber 1, 1965. The pre-job conference was a big crew on the fill section of have approximately 1.5 million are many underground jobs in Silva Brothers are moving the held for the second contract and tl1is project. They infend · to com ya_rds_fo move. . the downtown area keeping some dirt for the-new Catholic School the company should start on this plete their work some time in of our Brothers working. in Hayward ~ith seven brothers _The Wund~ri_uch -:c;o., ·of .Palo keeping busy. · · job this month. The bulk of the July: . Atkinson has five cranes work . - .Alto, -}Vas awarded an· $11.1 mil-· dirt here will be moved with · The Shell Refinery at Martinez ing on the Coliseum job. Some of Aberthaw Construction is push lion contract· for ·construction· of scrapers. Roberts Brothers has is . still the ·big prQject in the you old crime operators should ing the Montgomery Ward job 18 miles of canal which covers a at the "Fremont Hub" along with the sub-contract for that portion area.' Fluor Company along with line .. from the De.lta Pumping see the new 3900 T Manitowoc! It of the job. This project will take Braun Company are builqing the is · a 145-ton crane with 130 feet a number of sub-contractors and Plant in eastern Alameda Co.: td another two years to complete niain refiJ1ery. ·Both companies of tower and 120 feet of boom. owner-operafors keeping busy. the south of Tracy. The. ·same company is about ready for C.T.B. at the tunnel aP proach. Hydraulic Dredge over in Alameda are down to two shifts· with the big dredge: 3 Gallagher and Burke at the quarry on Mt. Blvd. is crushing igh ay, nrport, am rock for Gordon Ball's job. They should soon be ready to start · By TOM ECK, ED DUBOS, LES CHAPMAN not appreciate the conditions will .complete the . f r. e·e way paving. Soon Kaiser, Shea and which we have built up over a through Dunsmuir. The dirt .work ville to Cedar Creek w h i I e Maceo are going two shifts with REDDING ...... : Activity in the period of years. and paving of t~e frontage roads. Rainey and Ruda Construction of their loader, and will start on the Redding Area has picked up nota The same problem arises every is subbed to W. H ... O'Hair. L. A. east side of. the tunnel within bly in the past month. Some 240 Paso Robles picked up a contract time an out:of-state contractor Lauritzen of Antioch lias pile three weeks. L. C. Smith Com Brothers of a II classifications for $139,295 for a Forest Service does· his · first job in Northern driving on the job. pany is still digging out mud on have· been dispatched to the vari campg1:ound at the south end of Calif01;nia. Business Represeiita· W. R O'Hair is finishing the the Mountain Boulevard freeway. ous projects throughout the, dis . Bagle Lake. tives. are -kept hopping; one dif paving and cleanup for Fredrick Castcon, Inc. was formed as a trict, while many others were re E. R. Cummins Construction ficulty being the inaccessibility son and Watson on the Mt. Shasta company in July, 1963, to pro called to jobs they were on .last got a $94,152 nod for construc of the _territory where many of freeway and the job will be com duce precast, pre-stressed ron Fall before the wet winter closed tion of an Eagle Lake Water Sys ~ -these projects are located. -Broth pleted within a week. tern. The K. S. Mittry Construe: crete units. After the completion operations dow~ . Still, the out-of· ers cai1 help the Union by turn AIRPORT, tion Company is doing a $51,785 of the San M a t ~ o-Hayward ·work list seems to ·remain sta ing in, · to their local office, all ADMINISTRATION BUILDING Bridge trestle it was decided tl:at tionary, since a number of Broth job on the Scherrea A v e n u e information they come across re Work at"Siskiyou County Air the volume of work in this area ers are drifting in from other dis- Bridge in Dunsmuir. An d, at garding. names and locations of ' port in Montague is going full warranted another pre-cast plant. . tricts. Whiskeytown, C. L. Fogle Inc. these outfits. . · · swing, The U. S. Navy is spend was awal:ded $75,852 for water The plant has as its main op HIGHWAY 99 IN THE NORTH ing $2 million on . this project, erating equipment one Noble There have been ··a· .number of and sewer facilities. Allen and Sturgess should be with C. R. Fedrick having the batch plant capable of turning contracts awarded around the Business a g en t s have been finished with their clearing job·at lion's share of the job. Bill Gat working hard contacting and or: out 1,000 yards of ~onci·ete per countryside such as the piece of O'Brien on Highway . 99. T h e tung of Fairfield has the dir. day. It is operated by Brother · Highway 99 at Mears Creak which ganizing the small construction clearing was done for Ray Kizer work which consists of lengthen Don Hokett with Brother AI washed out last Fall. · The con: and logging companies who were Construction Company which is ing the runways and connecting Chambers oiling. · tract to repair the section' for awarded jobs by the U. S. Army expected to · start its $4.4 ·million all runways with the new taxi Concrete is delivered to one $_249,915 was awarded to Hughes Engineers for repair of darriage Highway 99 job shortly after July ways. 0. Hall Construction Com done by last winter's storms . . of three 40-ton gantries which · & Ladd Inc. i, 1965. pany of Seattle has $300,000 for operate on 2600. feet. of track. Myers Construction Company OUT-OF-STATERS J ohn Gist is coming along nice construction of an administration These gantries are operated by · was awarded a contract in amount Organizing becomes quite a task . ly on -his. bridge and .frontage puilding on this same job. Brothers Gene Bruner, Curly $2Z2;722 · for bridge repairs and with people who have nofworked road at Dunsmuir. This is a $1.4 Peter Kiewit Sons', on the Phelps and Bill Jones. channel improvement from Carr- with a Local 3 Agreement and do million Highway 9fJ job which · ~Continued on Page 6 • ,.. ~··,.· .. . ~ . ' · By:ROBER'f'SKIDGEL, HARLEY DAVI-DSON, G. L.~ nn'-"'''~"'· ··JAMES HALL; LAKE. AUSTIN SAN . JOSE ~ Sun-~hine~ h a~ . Construction are busythr~ughout • finally, -arrived in the Santa Clara the area-working on· the greatly . · · _ Valley; _and with ·it a· 1lluch-wel- · expanded telephone system:-T~le- - comed.burst of activity that has pttone pipe is stacked . all -over - :reallY sM'Wli ' ENGINEERS NEWS Pnlllishetl monthly by Local Onion No. ~ o'i the International Onion ot Operatinl!.: Engineers, 474 Valencia St., San - Francisco 3, Calif. Second class postage paid at San Francisco, Calif. MIGHTY POWER ·- It's not too often the casual observer look at the load! The· scene is the Green-Winston J.unipero • witnesses- four D-9 dozers pushing a 641 Cat scraper, and Serra freeway near Foothill College, Los Altos . Page 6 ENGINEERS NEW S June, ~965 • ·Redding ·Report STILL ON MEND l.ooks Favor~ble · • • Continued from Page 4-. ridge ork 0 inates Eureka ctav ety I{igpway 99 freeway, is going full thi·ottle with 2 shifts on the pulls By RAY COOPER and rapid progress on the new four let to Baldwin Warren Company, crew of Engineers busy putting and 3 shifts on the mechanics. CURLY SPENCE • lane South Scotia bridge. Arthur San Francisco. This project will . in the approaches to the Wiliow B. Siri is doins approaches and The bulk of the dirt on this $1.45 Work in the Eureka area has replace the Thirteen,Mile and Creek bridge and rip-rap on the ,, firially started to .'.nove at a "Barney" Barnhill pounding pil million job is scheduled to lle Pepperwood Falls bridges. Fred Trinity river near Hoopa. · moved away by the middle of faster pace after a lull from the ing. The old bridge which with J. Maurer & Sons will be sub Fredrickson and Watson has .• July 1965. winter floo.d clean-up work A stood torrential flood waters will bing the excavation · and pile Morrison-Knudsen has several number of new jobs have been handle the traffic until the new driving. started on the finishing of the . let and more are still to come. one is completed. of the Brothers working on their Granite Construction Company Klamath Freeway, H. C. Hou_t- The big job that you_ "rubber Two more bridges have been $2.5 million job repairing the has started to roll again, and in man and Arthur Construction · skinners" · are waiting for will be awarded by the Division of High flood damage on Iron Gate Dam addition to finishing the free have the sub for moving the awarded June 9: 8 miles of four ways in Del Norte County on · and spillway. way at Blue Lake, has picked up lane freeway between Scotia and Hiway 199. These bridges along dirt and are going two shifts at M. L. Cross has a contract for a couple more nice jobs.- On Hi 23 miles of road and five bridges Englewood - bypassing Pepper with 1.8 miles of highway· are the present time. Fredrickson · wood and Redcrest. way 101 to the south they have between Etna and the Forks of located about . 5 miles north of three locations of flood damage and Watson is moving in two The last detour in . the Red Gasquet on the Smith River. Salmon. This is more of the De repairs at Greenlow Bluff, Shive crushers, a C.T.B. plant and Hot wood · Highway 101 was elim Traffic will continue to use the cember flood damage work that ly Bluff and Dyerville. · They plant. This job will be good the Army Corps of Engineers has inated last week with the open Bailey Bridges until neW bridges were recently awarded the Red hours for the brothers because let recently. . ing of the Paul Mudgett Memo are completed· and the contract wood Creek job, on Hiway 299, of the short time limit for com Ray Kizer is working his way rial Bridge north of Rio Dell. requires completion by Decem - four miles of finish gra:ding, pletion. Tied in with this Klam- up the Salmon River road repair' Skilled Engineers and other ber. Fredrickson and Watson base and surfacing. ath job is the· new bridge and ing flood damage. Kizer has been crafts completed the project for Construction Company of Oak Hughes and Ladd are making · approaches across the Klamath working on t h is back country Morrison _Knudsen Co nip any a land was low bidder at $L538,- good progress on the Redwood flood damage· since the first of month ahead of schedule. 700. More work will be coming river. • Creek bridge, which is part of the year and will be in this coun The Rio Dell-Scotia bridge up in this area later this month. Granite Contruction Comp:my this project. We hope to see try for several months more. still has one-way traffic on the has most of the approaches com MORE NEW BRIDGES more work corning up on Hiway Teichert and Son has started north approach as Ferry Broth pleted and C. K. Moseman is well 299 soon, as well as in the Wil the widening of Highway 299E ers continues their work on the On State Route 36 two more along with the bridge. low Creek and Hoopa area. through Montgomery Creek. The other lane. new bridges and approaches on Lew Lincoln keeps adding Art Tonkin is keeping a full job consists of widening 299, six Fruin & Colnon is making the Van Duzen river liave been more equipment :ind men to his . feet on each side over a span of Tierra Construction Company nine miles. and keeping them busy around Carl Woods has finished his Klamath and Crescent City. flood damage work at Eagleville V & R Construction Com -a job which kept several of the pany of Crescent City will soon Brothers busy for the past three complete the new air-strip at months. ' Klamath Glen which was totally Bill Davis Construction has a washed out by the December sub-contract from Souza Con floods. struction of Marysville for all the Morrison Knudsen Company is dirt work and rock base on High still keeping a crew busy on the • way 395 at Likely while M. W. debris clearing along the Eel Brown is paving seven miles of River, as well as moving back in shoulder for Harms at the Cedar on the Dean Creek job north of ville Pass on Highway 299. Redway to . complete this section Wiechmann Engineers of Reno of freeway on 101 highway. have started again on their Mo doc County road job. This $333,- RAILROAD JOB 000 contract . calls for 9.8 miles The Morrison Knudsen Com of county road 17 miles north of pany ra-llroad division is near- Canby. ing completion of their restora- Peter Kiewit Sons' fill job at tion of 100 miles of railroad, but McCloud Dam is underway but still have a big job completing moving slowly because of the bridges. The three main cramped quarters. Most of the fill bridges under construction now • · will be hauled by the W. H. are located at South Fort, Cain O'Hair Company in trucks. Peter Rock, . near Alderpoint, and Kiewit Sons is working two shifts Island Mountain: on the job. Sub- contractor American TWO SHIFTS Bridge Company encountered Granite Construction Company · many problems not normally con of Watsonville is now running nected with bridge construction two shifts on the Iron Canyon projects because of the inacces Dam. The weather has delayed sibility into the canyons far from the job almost six weeks and it's any highways. Roads had to · be going to be a tight squeeze to built to truck the steel into the cQmplete the fill by November locations and during the wet RECONSTRUCTION- This rai lroad bridge in the Eureka District is receiving final touches of weather cats had to pull the 1965. Granite bas approximately construction after being washed out during Winter floods. 35 Brothers working now. The loaded trucks over the rough terrain. Completion date is now aggregate plant that is to furnish Baker-Anderson is working on country. It is rumored that in Weirick and Piombo is doing the for the end of June. the rock for the dam is also work After bay. About half of the After its $2.66 million pipeline project the near future an airpo-rt will ing two shifts. The contract with Brizard bay work will be put off until · and to date they have- two back be installed in back of the shop Shea, K a i s e r, Morrison and August when the water goes hoes and three cats working. The Matthews "Cat" Dealer has been • for the convenience of contrac• signed and once again we wel Maceo have portals 1, 2, and 3 d o w n. Lake Shasta has them job is a tough one, as the ground come the employees of this Com just about finished. Work on flooded out. is solid rock. Most of the hill tors with airplanes. portals 4, 5, 6, and 7 have slowed pany into the membership of Lo Walsh Construction is moving country will have to be drilled Valley Engineers is going full- . up a bit because of the concen cal 3. When you see them out on right along on t h e i r penstock and shot. tilt on its $4.2 million project. trated effort on portals 1 and 3. the jobs, take a minute to extend work. Portals 1, 2, 3, and 4 plus Gordon Ball Enterprises is put Approximately a dozen Operat The Pit-McCloud Aggregate Plant your congratulations and wel Walsh Penstock brings the water ting the final touches on their has cut back to one shift because ing Engineers are at work on come them into our great or out of Iron Canyon Dam into the freeway project here in Redding of the slow down at Shea, Kaiser, this Corning job. One would need ganization. Powerhouse at Pit No. 5. and a few Brothers still remain Morrison and Maceo portals. a map to locate all the pipe, main MEETINGS Marvin Nelson suffered an eye on the job. ' Peter Kiewit Sons' powerhouse Granite Construction Cori1pany line and lateral, which is spread . crew at Pit No. 5 is moving out injury while working f o r Ray To all of you who are mem· has begun its $860,000 project over this job. Valley Engineers' and Owl Constructors have taken Kizer at the Fork of Salmon and bers of the Credit Union and to it is not known yet if the eye cim known as the Buckeye County $3.5 million Cow Creek Unit wa those who wish to become mem over. Owl has a $493,000 contract Water Distr:ict. At present ap for the mechanical and electrical be saved. He was slapped in the ter district system has operators bers-keep in mind that June 15 face by. a limb while doing clear proximately 10 Operating Engi well dispersed over this area. is the date for your quarterly work on the powerhouse. neer are on the job. The com Morrison-Knudsen Corporation ing with his cat. Mike Ga:ge lost Normal I. Fadel has a number meeting to be held at the En 3 fingers · in a shive while work pany is making some of the well of the Brothers working on · its gineers Building at 8 p.m. The at Pit No. 6 has some extra work pipe on the job. • cleaning the Afterbay. Otherwise, ing for Lauritzen Crane at Duns Anderson Bypass. The job has next District meeting will be they are pretty much finished. muir on the John Gist job. Fel FLY-IN SHOPPING been a good one for the Brothers held on July 13, 1965. Ets-Hokin Electrical Corp.oration lows be careful. Sales are booming-at the Peter and close to home. We are holding checks and is busy doing the electrical work Hubert Hyden is progressing son Tractor Company since the Fredrickson-Watson is busy on mail for the following br others on the powerhouse here. At Pit .as well as can be expected from loggers and construction workers both of its jobs - one at Reu in our office: No. 7 Morrison-Knudsen is finish his sei-ious stomach operation. are going full swing. The Peter Bluff, doing finish work; the D. L. Steele, Eugene Trulove, ing up with Ets-Hokins again do However, the Doctor says it will son Tractor shop and office here other: the Corning Project. A Frank J. Martin, L. Bellinger, ing the electrical work on the be at least September before he in Redding is one of the most number of the Brothers are work Woodrow Shaw, S. G. Rue, powerhouse. Rotl:)child, R a f f in, can return to work. spacious and modern in the north ing on both of these jobs. Harold Stevenson. • ENGINEERS NEWS Page7 Commun·i·ty lss~ ue: Big ·organizing Push ·· Plan·ners Mull Marincell:o FreSno. Tackles ·20 . ile freeway. Job .· BY AL. HANSEN . By' JOE !\'IlLLER, STAN BER~MAN, plagued by tlie weather. The Along came a couple of· heavy SAN RAFAEL - Contractors GENE FORTH, CLAUDE ()DOM ·Brothers working the graveyard duty repairmen, ciimoing in ·and'' with Operators are building up· around the dozer blade to deter· FRESNO - The arrival be coming up soon, and hopes shifts are wishing, because of the a storm all over Marin County of mine why it w~n't go down. Afte~ ··· with spring weather has for success are high. cold, they were an;yplace but on · jobs and equipment scat· started the about two trips in and around· There is a great deal ·Of or· tered from one end to the other! seasonal booni in this are~ with graveyal'd, w h:i 1 e first shift the dozer blade, they finally got · ganizing to be done With unor J. H . Pomeroy and Ben C. jobs of every type everywhere. ~ Brothers open their umbrellas the "wide picture" and blocked • Gerwick are driving The out-of-work list is rapidly ganized shops and plants in six pile for a . to ecape the hot sun. The wind it up until they found where the bridge 1 i n k i n g dwindling and if . counties. Full-time organizers 2nd and 3rd men continue here 'is another problem, ·blow problem was. Just remember-one Streets in San to be dispatched are expected in the area iri. the Rafael at the Irwin at the present ing as it does throughout the thing, "THINK!" Working with ' Street entrance rate, the list near future to assist in this re· into town. should be l!lmost day. ·As the late Will Rogers a dozer blade in tb.e air one: Ghilotti Brothers exhausted by next · gard. Shouid the venture be suc· h a s been month. said: ''Everyone talks ab()ut the could lose his head and hair. working New cessful it will mean a great deal on a new road her~ and projects are being award ·weather, but .nobody does any· to Loc~l - 3 and its membership. 20 ~ILE FREEW the project is to be completed ed and advertised for bid. These thing about it!" 1\ Y some time before fall. Ghilotti projects range from small pav· POLITICAL ACTION The surrounding hills have The southern area is booming. Broth~rs was recently awarded ing or building pJ;ojects to large During, the present session of shrunk and settled over the years There is more work .in the area · contracts for resurfacing portions ·· excavating contracts like the San Congress, action will be taken letting the prevailing westerly this year than eyer before. ·of Novato Blvd. and other roads Luis Canal and Pailoche _Creek on a variety of bills that directly winds -penetrate fart~er .into the Peter Kiewit and Sons has · in the county, and at the same Dam. affect all people in Labor. The valley. On some days last Winter, started on Reach Three of the : time, picked up a contract for Generally speaking, every in Operating Engineers Local No. when the westerly fog ··bank canal with two shifts. In addi~ drainage improvement of Ricardo dustry in the area is highly ac 3 and the International Union, came in, it would just reach the tion Kiewit was awarded the . Road in Strawberry Cove. tive with the surprising exc£p along with the AFL-CIO -are prevailing _peaks and .stop. Other West-Side freeway job here The · • E. A. Forde· of Corte Madera tion of the rock sand and gravel strongly supporth g those bills days, backed by a little wind, job is 20 miles long, starting at · was award:d a contract calling industry which is erratic. 1 favorable to Labor. the fog would spill over into the Manning A venue and running · fot~ the installation of a sanitary The rock industry has been Two va.Uey and cover it. to .the easte. rn ·north along the canal Work will sewer for the Community and up and down, active one month Bills of major importance are the Common Situs Picketing slopes. begin on this job about June 15. Youth Center of Mill Valley. and . in a slump the next. This Bill, and the Bill to Repeal Sec· Work pr-ospects in the San The Asbestos Mines west of . Bids are being called for a situation should improve during tion 14-B of the Taft Hartley Act. Luis Area look excellent again Coalinga is working full . swing string of smail projects .connect the next month and we .look for We strongly favor passage of this year, with some of the exist with about 60 men working in ed with rehabilitating old lines the industry to stabilize itself. both of these important meas- ing work going full bore. Darken the two mines. in the water district. Optimism runs high for the ures. We can help a great deal wald, M. K. is starting ori the Fresno Paving was low bidder Work on the site of San Ra future, work picture in the Dis toward· passage of this Legisla, Little Farioche Dam. The job is on the freeway job at Visalia. fael's new City Hall should be trict with the expectation of full tion by stepping up our political situated about three ' miles west The project ($2 million) will be starting shortly. Wright and ·oret employment. . _;1ctiv,ity as rank and f~le mem" of South Mercy Springs Road on a good one for the Brothers. Gor sky'--6f Santa Rosa were awarded ORGANIZI~G :hers. - ·Shields Ave. · · don Ball, presently winding up the contract at a cost of $1,031,- Fresno Brothers are happy_ to It· is very important that each A ·mile away is the office of its work on the freeway, also 800, including site work. repqrt they . :were_ successful• in elected Congressman and Sen, Peter Kiewit So-ns; low -bidder ·on provided a good many jobs for Coxco is back in operation at the NLR13 ·election at the C. Jim a tor know of .labor's feelings re- the West ·side freeway job just the Brothers. Scottsdale in. Novato with a good · Quinn . Company · operations on garding these bills. It would help .. ·north of the Gordon Ball job at There will be a good deal of crew of operators. M.G.M. Con- May 14;. • . . . . . · Newman. The pt'oject was award- op.erati'n!t Eng.r'nee· r .~ N'. · . _won . greatly if each membeJ;. and _his work in the high country this • struction Company is a 1 s o . in . ~ ,, 0 3 - 'f · · · ed to Peter Kiewit last week. At operation in Novato .. this election by a three to one Wl e wrote a personal letter to present Kiewit is looking for an summer with some six jobs to . b~ . vote. ·· · · · their Senato~s and _Congressman let in the next 30 days. The jobs . Kirkwo.od-Bly Inc. was recently . . - asking for · s~pport in the pas: offfce site in Gustine or · New- :will not be big, but' they will be . awarded a contract for sewer co·n- . The company IS an eqmpment f th. . t. · B. . · · mart The· joti incli.Ides nearly l4 · , · . . · · · . .. .sage o ese wo 111 s. . ""· . good. · struction at. Gallinas Yillage. dealer emplqymg ap.proxtmately· -.,· S·h · ld F."'· .--....B ; t.h .. . ,, ...... _.. ,.-_ . - ·: - - ~· · · ·. ou .resno.· . ro ers -·--"-"'neea · · miles ,oJ·highway·and 1'5 - bt'idges ~ OTH•ER WORK 20 -BJ.·others m ··vrsaha, Tulare "': .. · .. . f. ·:.t. ·. - - ·· .. · ·th'- The cost ·. will . ·· ' · ~ · · ·· any m orma wn ·concermng e ap·proach··.$6 m· I'l· Slater Electric Company has and Portervtlle. B. . · · th' - · ·· · dd • . . .. · • • · 11 1s or e proper a resses. of . lion. Additional work is forecast started a job in Marin City on Neg.obabons are commg up m th . . a· . - · · . etr Congressman .. • ·... an Sena t.ors, · . · for this area: · CR:EIJIT ·SAfETY Barrett Construction Company the near fqture and ~o real pr~b· just contact the· office for. assist~ . Here is a note on safety. I talk job. lems are contemplated for arnv· . .. . ··. . · · • · .'ance. · ..Th . ere are- commr· . ·· ttees · · ac-· with a number· of brothers who MEETINGS Floyd J. Gadt Company at Bel mg at a fair and JUSt contract t· · . · t·h. . · ~ - - · · . ... · -· ·. · , Ive m ts area· m a. 1 p1 h ases. · o· f have a ..good idea· on the "wide Ail meetings at 8 p.m. Marin Keys. Eugene Luhr-Elmer for these employees. · . -.· : - · . . th·e .L . a b.or movemen· · - · t · an· d. th ey· picture.~· One·Brother was telling Wendt job with 2 men. A. cttve work contmues, San Jose, June 1 . . . " . . ·· organ-. ·.are· · wor·k' mg · . d"l'I tgen - . t.l y ·f or· . pas-. -- of a· 46 .-A with the dozer blade . Brown-Ely is hard at it with Izmg others m this ·area and ex' Jamestown, June 8 a · - . · · . . . ·.sage · o·f ·th·ts· 1egts - • 1 a· twn.· -· · · -' in a two-blo.ck position, or -fully Colfax, June 22 good crew of operators at Tibur cellent progress ts bemg made •· . . _ .. _ ...... raised for those 'who· don't-under- Hayward, June 24 on Highway with abOut 200,000 with -certain operations. Peti~ ~AN LUIS _AR~A stand the two block -position. Check district office for place • yards to move, with about four tions fo~· ele<;tion on others will The San Luis· Area lias been There· was no one in attendance. teen men. .•' Piombo Brothers at Northgate Industrial Center with abol\t 16 Redwood Empire operators with 25,000 yards to mo.ve. ~inscott Company started on :2 M·1·1···· · a new . job . at San Rafael Park, $4. . ·· ..·.• . 1 ·o t ··. ·1n a· ·· · s· · Lucas Valley, aon manned by abou · .t a• ·ooms usrest eason 16 .operators-tD handle 200,000 By RUSS SWANSON, LOU BARNES County ·Flood Control District, the Lake County job at Kelsey- yards. . . \ . · .-will· call .· for bids sometime in ville for approximately A community issue in which ~ANTA ROSA - The waters highway and bridge job at Cas s:x miles • June. This ~s the phase of two of two organized· labor has a paramount have receded, the dust is flying per. : lane expressway f r o ·m: projects a n .d there is approxi Lakeport to ·Kelseyville. interest-the building of Marin and the Redwood empire is get Huntington Brothers is j us t · T h is · ·mately $500,000 ·appropriated for ·project went for $1.5 cella-is s'cheduled for a public ting ready for the Summer tour· starting their stretch of highway million and .· the job. is in flat hearing before the Marin County ist season. No. 1 near Stewart's Point while country. Kirkwood-Ely · were low bidders on installing • Pla~ning Comrn~ssion on June 7. Morrison and K n u d s e·il has Crooks Brothers is just getting Top pdorities were listed in the water system at Spanish Flat T h ~ - s constructwn development been repairing the railroad be· started on the $800,000 job near this order: 101 Freeway through tween Willits and Eureka. The Manchester. Syar & Harms is now Santa Rosa gets top priority from at Lake Berryessa. Bid was $156,· wiH cost approximately $300 mil 265. ., lion and will take approximately American Bridge Company is in -in initial' stages on road work near State officials. It is possible funds A REIUlNDER 4 million man-days of union labor the final stages of repair on Is Monte Rio on the Russian River. may be made availabie in Octo June 30 is the deadline to file · over an estimated period of con land Mountain Bridge, and b~fore 0. C. Jones resumed work on ·ber and they have indicated this for disability tax refunds. If you struction of 15 to 20 years. We the month is over the work tr'ains the streets of Santa Rosa. Arthur is possible; the project could be have worked for more than urge ev.ery member in the. county should be able to travel the entire B. Siri Co. has scattered work. advertised for bids in. January, one contractor during 1964, and· to write the Planning Commis · 100 miles, which haq been wiped Their portable cr:usher is being 1966. earned more than $5,100, and ex sion recommending a "yes" vote out. · set up near Ukiah. Absco Paving In the Geyserville a r e a, 3.3 cess deductions have been made for the Master Plan for Marin In the meatitime over 100 En working steadily at'the plant a.nd miles of Freeway_from Lytto~ to towards -your disability insurance ·cello. gineers have had steady employ presently at Brooktrails Resort. south of Geyserville for $2.1 mil then you should file for a refund F r ·a n k Moberly Construction ment, a far cry from conditions Argonaut, Don Dowd Co lion and another 4.5 miles south ., Wise' with the State. Forms are avail· C-ompany has a g o o d crew of . of the past ·few years. For In & McGinty are working of Geyserville to Zanzi Corners a number able at our office or at the operators at present time those years the Employment of of at a 'cost of $4.3 millions. High De;. ·· in Peta Engineers around Santa Rosa. partment of Employment. · luma fiCe was busy processing claims way 12 is being considered, but on McDowell Blvd. install FUTURE WORK MEETINGS ing flood cdntrol ditches to from many who they have not nothing definite as yet. · the There is a great deal of opti Once again we want to than .Petaluma River. · - · 11een this year. k mism in- the county that we will Bids will be called for·in June · everyone attending the various ·Freeman P a v i n g is moving WORK IN PROGRESS have s o me action. on the Dry at· the Sonoma State College site meetings. The last· meeting was · right . along · at Harbor Pt. along Gordon Ball is going strong on Creek D·am in the 1965-66 fiscal for Development work consisting on Safety, in :Santa Rosa. Notices with the Charles T. Hover dredge. the $2.5 m i 11 i o n road .job in year. There is a good·chance Fed of street and underground work. are always made in the various There are men on a two -shift Ukiah. Hughes and·Ladd is·in the eral Appropriations will be boost-· .From talking- to the State people sections of this paper so when operation. final stages of the Ukiah-Boon · ed from $933,000 to $1.6 milion. this project should go ·. for ap you read that a meeting is to be Williams Construction still at ville road work. . H. Earl Parker The total project will cost $42.5 proximately $2 million. held in the area, please mark the Strawberry Town and ·Country is now employing a number of million. Hughes and Ladd and Arthur date on your calendar so you· Shopping Center in Mill Valley . Engineers on t h e $2.5 million Piner Creek, under the Sonoma · B. Siri Co. were low bidders on won't fo rget. • \ . ' ' -. '---..__~ . ··._ . "»: E N G I_N EE R S .. N EW S.... : ·June/1965 $21.5 Million to Bid irds for Sum er Jobs By HUGH IWDAM, MERLIN BOWMAN, JOHN THORNTON ond explosion is triggered. The '"\ L ' VANCE ABBOTT, JACK SHORT, TOM BILLS ~ · cleft part disintegrates info tons ' • of rubble. · Scrap·ers, shovels and· SALT LAKE - Nothing was . Directly west over .the moun- trucks take the debris away. The more disappointing than the' May tai-n, in Tooele, L. A. Young Co~:· cliff face is intact, ready for weather this year. Thousands of pany is building a . dam. About further splitting. · dollars were lost by neavy snows 10 or 12 engineer's are 'working and freezing tl~mper' atures that here. New equipment also is at hit utah's fr11it crop and threat Gibbons & Reed Company stil~ work: . On th.e river · bank, one ened the lives of cattle and machine extends i_ts shovel: -· has road work going on at BI::ick lambs. As · a result, many work~ Rock . but this win be finished mounted arm into the surging ing hours were iost 'to construe ~ soon. A little work remains in water. The arm goes under, sec tion; however, we have now dug Bingham Canyon as well. onds later emerging with a giant boulder in its fist. The fist out and look forward to a good Operations at . Kennecott Cop: WOl;k season. . swings around . . The boulder is per's Bingham . Canyon mine are placed on top of other boulders By Fall, 1966 most of the Salt moving ahead nicely. The. Com and the sides of a . new river Lake Comity · Freeway will be pany, still involved in its expan: . channel are created. finished. This will be _a relief sion program, is adding shovel after the long agony of disruptec! crews .and bull-dozer operators The Weber River · is fed ·by highways. _ . . . . frqm _ time to . time. Kennecott Lost Creek at Morgan. Upstream The entire Salt Lake· Belt stewards doing a fine job are: on both are two major' dam c'on: GUSTY -. This is what a gust of wind can ·do to a long, high route will be finished in 1968; Reed Erickson, chief steward; struction jobs. To the south, at boom. Larsen's Insley at Eagle Canyon on 1-70 wbile setting . and by 1972 the entire 935 miles Nyle Evans, shovel; Joe Badovi- the head of City Creek Reservoir, the south tower for the highline, was hit by a strong unex~ _ of Utah freeway will be in use. natz, dozer; Carl Hatfield, crane L. D. Shilling Co ., Inc. and E. W. pected gust of wind and blown over. · By Fall of 1967 the complexes in and Henry Galvan, irackshifter. Construction Compan~ are creat- Ogden .and Provo will be fin W e . would like to remind all ing a new dam. The structure two joqs in Price Qanyon . . A Unions, recently completed a ished. The state now has so:ine the members at Kennecott that lies just east of an older _da1ll good-sized crew is at work. Be: s e r i e s of negotiation meetings $71 . million in interstate work the Saving Eond Drive ·is about and will be built to a height of cause of rock for111ations -in this with utah Construction and Min- under contract and expects that to get started, · and we urge about 260 feet-:-roughly . 40 feet area,_ there has_ be_en some cori~ ing Company . ori its Iron Mine figure_ to _reach $90 ·million by everyone to participate in this higher than the old dam. The troversy over safety, .but through operation near Cedar City, Utah. next year. program. Let's make it 100% arch dam be a thin wall of a _will the efforts of members on the The Committee secured impor With the urban sections com, success for the Operating . Eil- concrete built to hold back ~hout job, the State Indu;trial Commis- tant contract improvements af pleted the big drive. will be on gineers. 52,000 acre-feet bf water in the sion has caused the state and the fecting a fair wage increase and rural mileage and move .. much There are a few member·s whO reservoir. Capacity of the 'pres: employer to .correct much of the additional fringe benefits. faster . without the block-busting hav,e n·ot signed the new check- ent dam is 28,000 acre-feet. Shil problem. . . · The most important is a Pen- necessary through cities ~ off fdr'm for deduction of ·dues: ling, 'yvorking with three. shifts ' At Joe's Valley .the mild is iri sion plan for this unit. which has Also, ·a number are behind on of men around the_clock, expects BIDS TO LET j:>}ace, and the. contractor is mov- been an issue for several years. dues. · Be sure . to check your to wr_ap up the $2 million job by The following is a schedule· of l.ng in fill . .· Two shifts are The members employed here are membership card and if .you have ·.. . May, ..1966. . projects (more than $21.5 - mil planned;--which will provide em: to be commended for their par··· lion which will be let for · bids any questions, contact your steW' Lost Creek has never had . a ployment for more of the J?roth- ticipation and support in obtain before -September, 1965' · ard or union representative. · dam. Steenber.g Con-struction Co. ers through the se_ason. ing this, in addition to other By June 16, 1965 . Our next Kennecott Member' resuined woi·k on the project in LOCATION TOTAL COST . The canals and less'er dams-in ·. parts of the agreement. Mills J ct, Channelization ...... $ . 20,000 ship Meeting will be July 1, at . mjd~April after the -winter shut- this system are prqg.ressing ·well. Other conditions of the con- 1000 No. Jn B ountiful, I -15.. 60,000 _the . :Pioneer Hall in West Jordan . doWn . ended . . The CLost Creek ...... ( . . . . . Cheny Lane to Uintah Jet. 950;ooo __ 1 and sh~~ld . 1?~; re ~dy:~ for ~er,yice~j tra~.t. ~av ,e o~en~ -~ th~ doo~· ~or . Santaqu-in to Payson, 1-15.... 2,101,000 at _9 a.m. and 7 p. .m. Please phm . D· ~'{nc will -- be . a .- ea~: thfill str.uc7 San Rafael to SR 24, 1-70.... 1,300,000 .later thrs _year. Hemtz. and NV: W. ·: addrtronal operatwns m thrs Ill l 38th So. to Draper · to attend. ture, 1,140 feet long at the crest Clyde are the major contractors dustry which could provide more Crsds, 1-15 ... ,...... 500,000 and· rising 190 feet above the 1-80 from 1-15 to State NORTHERN. . UTAH. and both have' good crews going. and longer employment and help St., SLC .... :...... 1,400,000 Southeast of Ogden, where bed of the creek. The dam em· Redwo.od Road to 9th Freeway work in the area is improve economic co'nditions for West, 1-80 ·:...... 1,500,000 construction is in progress ori bankment will contain 1,900,000 .providing jobs for. many · mein· this area. The new three-yeal" 'Veber River at Uintah Jet:; · c~i'tlfc yards of · !lJaterial . . The I -SON ...... 150,000 the Weber Basin Project a bers. Seven sections are. in vari· agreement which goes into ef• 1st So. to 14th No. 1-15, SLC .. 200,000 dramatic site is developing 9n firm is now placing material on ous stages of completion and omi feet June 1, 1965 was ratified May TotaL ...... $ 8,181,000 seven miles of ruggea canyon· cut the embankment and resuming more to start soon: A compaction 19, 1965 · by an overwhelming By September 16, 1965 concrete pouring on 'the spillway. Low to Delle, 1-80...... 1,500,000 by the Weber River. Two major problem -on the Payson section majority of the employees pres, Fom· Structures on dams are going up. Design in the of I-15 has resulted iri temporarY ent. Again we thank the mem- C & D System ...... · 600,000 SQUTHERN ·UTAH Layton to 3Jst St. Signing & narrow Weber Canyon has had H. E. Lowdermilk and its sub lay-offs. · hers ·for ·their confidence and. L.S., I -15 ...... 250,000 "'th E . Signal System, SLC.. 150,000 to accommodate the disciplines contractors have iron s-pread · _Local 3, iii conjun'ction with support in these very important 1-80 State to 13th E., SLC.... 1,600,000 of the Interstate freeline two the Laborer's and the Teamster's union affairs. 1-80 13th E. to Parley's...... 1,300,000 over most of the length of the 53rd So. to 33r -Pa_g"-e~- ~ ~ ._n_e;_·1_9_6s_,_ . ______...... ______E_ N_.;_. G_.:..:.J_N....:.. E:.;;..E_R.:...~..::.·~ N..::.· · -~·....:.W...:.'-;;.;..S_. ------:---:------ ANNIE-this is the name given to Local 3 ., .ULL HOUSE-· -at a recent district meeting Business Representative AI Hansen at San Rafael RESUSCITATION used in .demonstrating correct mouth-to-mouth resu.:. . packed the house with 112 of the Brothers. See picture at right of Fran Walker instructing model safety man Fran Walker, left.. Brothers in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. · c itation by ·DB STRICT MEETINGS .. JUNE . ·DistriCt 12 · Salt · Lake City; June 11, FrL, Teamsters Hall, 443 So. 6 St. 8:00p.m. 11 District . . Reno, June 12, Sat., _Musician's ~all, 124 W. Taylor 8:00p.m. JULY District 1 ...... Sa_n Fnu;~ciscp, . Jqly._7: JVe~., "La boJ; Temple, ~6th ar;id ·capp Sts., 8:00p.m. District 4 .. Eureka, July 13, Tues., Engineers Bldg.,. 2806 Broadway, 8:00 p.m . .·:. •. _CRUSHED-. This is what a Jeep pickup looks like atter an ' District 7 eight-foot boulder rattled over a 400-foot bank at Hell Hole. . Redding', ·July 14, Wed., Engi Brother Jack O'Brien suffered severe injuries, and is still . neers Bldg.~ 100 ·L a k e Blvd., .. under doctor's . care after nearly one year. The s_afety note .:00 p.m. here is that the bank should have been scaled to prevent this type of accident. District 6 · ·-Oroville, July 15, Thurs., Pro~ peci(n;s · Village, Oroville - Dam _ BlV:~· :_ 8:00, P·Il1: .., ~ ' . Sub-District l . Honolulu, July 21, Wed., (B.E;.W. Hall, 2305 S. Be1:etania St. 7:00 - . . p.m. Francisco, went .into· r.etiremen-t HELL· HOLE-. -p ~oject ~n American ·River's Rubicon fork is seen here from helicopter loaned RETIRED-Bill Hook, of San City Departme nt. Here he by Ets Hokjn Construc_t ion .Co. Earthfi ll d9m gave away during December floods and is being recently from the Sa n. Francisco dating from 1946. . . ., re-filled. Same completion elate i?targ~t of contractors. proudly displays Local 3 buttons • '.I Page 10 ENGINEERS NEWS Jun e, · {t9~ city and county wrangied over · whose responsibility it was to re· p 1 a c e the structure. The city maintained it was . the County's.' . responsibility because the span is ' e illion Generators or Oroville located in the county. ' By HAROLD HUSTON, NEW RECREATION PLAN BILL WEEKS, A bill to increase ~ - state ree RAY PIIENNEGER reation grant for development BILL WETZ around the Camp Far West Reser MARYSVILLE - During the voir on the Bear River was ap past month the Marysville Dis proved 'by the Senate Finance trict has been busy negotiating Committee. The measure, by Seii,. the many contracts that will soon ator Paul i. Lunardi of Rosevil• expire in this area. Negotiations now goes to the Senate floor for have . been completed with the action - probably in the Iiear · concrete pipe plant employers, future. The bill would increase and the employees will ratify this from $960,000 to $1.32 million agreement before the end of the .. the Davis-Grunsky grant for rec month. A series of meetings were . reational development · around held with the representativ.es of the reservoir, which is a South . the-Yuba Gold Dredge Industries, Sutter Water District project. but to date no agreement has The reservoir is on the Bear been reached. Tlie employees of Riv,er in Placer and Yuba Coun Tenco Tractor shops have been ties near Wheatland. most understanding ·and patient DAGUERRE WORK during the lengthy negotiations which still have not been com The Senate passed 31-0 a bill pleted. Officers, under the guid· appropri:;tting $210,000 to the D~ ance of Brother Al Clem, Busi partment of Water Resources f. ness Manager, have made every repair a n d restoration of the·· effort to speed up negotiations, WELCOME- _-- to new members of Tenco Tractor Co. in Marysvi ll e district, recently indoctri Daguerre Point debris' dam on Yuba River. The bill went to the and have told the employer they nated into Local 3 at a special meeting. Bus i ness~ Manager AI Clem officiated. will meet continuously with his Assembly. The work is a joint project of the U. S. Army Corps representatives in order to obtain crossing road to serve the shop undercrossing road will go be weather, will be completed about of Engineers and the state to re- a good agreement to present to ping center will be constructed neath the lOth Street Bridge to mid-July - unless we get a wet . pair damage done by high water the brothers foi· ratification. in the vicinity of lOth and I provide access to city streets and summer! There may be brlef de· in the riv.er last December. The, T Streets. The city and state will the shopping center. h e Marysville City Co!lncil lays between· 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to project, expected to cost $500,000, finally annDunced they will put share in the cost of the ramps permit the equipment to cross and undercrossing. RESURFACING · is expected to . go to bid t h i s around the Marysville District the two lanes now in use. When month. Temporary work to repair Resurfacing of Live Oak High Office, instead of going through On E Street, left-turn lanes and finished, -this project will con an abutment washed out by high way north of Yuba City is our present location; thus, our three-way traffic signals will be nect on the west side to a com water has been completed by the planned u n d·e r a project for Office will remain where it is. provided at e a c h intersection. pleted expressway providing four H. Earl Parker C o m p a n y of · which bids Thme work picture has bright Currently, E Street has no left· · were opened at the lanes between Onstott freeway Marysville. ened up considerably in the past turn lanes and signals are operat Marysville office· of the State and Township Road, a distance of few weeks, and we hope to have ing only at Third, Fifth, Seventh Division of Highways. Low bidder about five miles. The bid on this STORM DRAINAGE PROJECT . on the job, and on resurfacing 21 job $224,000. most of the Brothers working in and Ninth Streets. A r aised cen was · A contract for construction - t\'le very near future. Thus all ter dividing-strip will be added miles of other highways in Colusa a storm drainage NEW BRIDGE main from Fifth Brothers s h o u 1 d be available b e t w e e n Second and Sixth County, was A. Teichert and Son, and G Streets to Ninth and I · when the dispatcher calls. Streets. Inc. of- Yuba City, with an offer Jack L. Adams Company, Ban-· Streets was awarded to A. Tei The way the Brothers are re On lOth Street, the present two of $148,105. The project involves ning, was awarded a $94,592 con chert & Son Inc. by the Marys porting contract violations, and lanes in each direction will be resurfacing of the highway from tract by the Chico City Council ville City Council.-Teichert's bid unsafe conditions on the m.any widened to three lanes each way. Pease Road north to Lomo cross for the construction of a new of $102,593 was the lower of the · jobs in Jhis area is greatly ap The grass pla11ted center stdp · ing, a n d a section in Colusa Longfellow Bridge o v e r Lindo two submitted. The engineering , preciated by the business repre will be retained an d existing County on Highway 20 between Channel. The company's bid was cost was $131,085. Work will com sentatives. The best way to keep curbs will be set back. In addi Williams and Colusa. Work will $100,592.80, but the city hit a snag mence on this project in the very J1ocal Union No. 3 the strong un tion to the existing signals at F begin in the immediate future in its agreement with the county near future. ion it is today is by working to- · and H Str.ee~s, another signal will and will provide employment for resulting in the removal of a $6,- GENERATOR BID APPROVED gether as a team. be installed at G Street. Street many of the Brothers. 000 item in the contract. The item parking will be prohibited on called The State Department of Water ONSTOTT WORK SET COLUSA HIGHWAY PROJECT for the removal of the old both sides between Ninth and I structure. Butte County Bo~rd of Resources opened bids for · fu~· Baldwin Contracting Company, Streets and a.t other locations. A. Teichert and Son, Inc. of Supervisors agreed to pay up to nishing and installing one ge~ Inc. of Marysville was the low The traffic signals will be inter Yuba City has resumed work on $40,000 as the county's share of era tor and, t h r e e motor ge1., bidder when bids were opened by connected to provide for contin a one-mile section of Colusa High the basic structure, but based on erators in the Thermalito Power the State Division of Highways uous fuow of traffic at a speci way just west of Yuba City where the bid price, the county's esti Plant. The low bidder for the for the widening of Onstott Free fied speed. The signals will have a four-lane expressway is under mated share was $46,000. Con project was Allis-Chalmers Manu- · way in Yuba City. The Marysville left-turn arrows. A ramp will be COJ!struction. The project, sus struction of the bridge was de· · facturing Company with a bid of . firm submitted a bid of $103,993 constructed at I Street, and the pended in January because of wet layed for several years while the -Continued on Page 12-'- ' on the project, which will involve widening the highway from two t o four lanes for a span of one / mile near Bridge Street in Yuba City. In addition to the widening, A mall obs, Keep Stockton Busy the project will involve installa tion of three-way traffic signals By WALTER M. TALBOT, AL McNAMARA, GLENN DOBYNS are to be opened July 2 for this ·grading in Tuolumne County. and left-turn lanes at both Bridge third contract of the West s·ide , Edwards and McCammon, Street and Franklin A venue. The STOCKTON - ·The work pic more contracts must be forth Freeway in the. district. Construction of a youth camp at • ~ew lanes will be constructed ~ ure conti~ues to brighten in this coming to complete the West The mountain jobs should all Yankee Hill. . · · . .. ~e st of the existing highway, and district with each passing day. Side freeway, which parallels the be underway by early June, and two-way traffic w i 11 be main Claude Wood Company-Roa~.,. Although the multi-million dol- Aqueduct. they will give a real boost to the t~ ined at all times during con placement of engineers froin jobs at Camp Connell and Ar· . Jar projects are not numerous in J. W. Vickrey and M. L. Du nolds on Highway struction. Work is expected to both the Modesto and Stockton 4 . this area, many smaller projects bach of Alamo have their con start in about two weeks and be offices. The contracts creating Granite Construction- Realign - some which have been awarded crete crew busy preparing the ~o mpleted by December. this employment are as follows: , ment and n~w construction, also ·, and others to be bid, should keep base for paving the McNamara pn Highway 4. BIG HUB the membership of the district Corporation's 8 miles of West Toston and Raymond - Re alignment and new construction Harms Bros.- Highway. 88 near Bids are expected by· Fall on a busy throughout the season. Side Freeway. onH ighway 120 near the en Silver Lake. major highway improvement . The 1 a r g e s t job bid this Peter Kiewit Sons was award trance to Yosemite Park. .Mittry and Craft - Highway project through Marysville which month was the 18 miles of Cali ed 13.8 _miles of West Side Free 124 construction and realign will i n c 1 u d e construction of fornia Aqueduct from a H. Earl Parker-Approximate point way construction by the State ment near lone. ramps to the W e s t Marysville south of Tracy to the new pump Dept. of Public Works for .$6 mil ly six miles of realignment and shopping center. Cost of the proj ing plant near Byron · Hot lion. This job will run between new construction on Highway 0 . K. Mittry and Sons - Jack ect will be approximately $335,- Springs. The Wunderlich Com the intersections of Stuhr Road 120 near Hardin Flat and ·two son Creek Dam near Buena 000, according to city and Divi pany of Palo Alto was low bid- . in Stanislaus County and a point miles near Buck Meadows. Vista. sion of Highways officials. The der at $11.2 million for this last south of Los Banos in Merced Peter Kiewit Sons - Canyon Fresno Paving and Larry Aks mile long project will run on E section of Aqueduct that passes County. This marks the second P o w e r h o u s e construction at land were low bidders at $900,00. and lOth ·Streets f r om the E through the district. F.our con contract let to date in this dis Early· Intake. to the U. S. Army Corps of En- . Street Bridge to ·the lOth Street tracts now cover 66 miles of the trict on the new route and con Crowell and Larson-Highway gineers for the realignment of Bridge. 11 major intersections Aqueduct, with portions at either necting contracts will follow. 108 near Long Barn. F~resno Pav Bear Creek. from Highway 88 · are involved. Left-turn lanes will end falling within the jurisdic The State will call for bids on ing to crush and pave. near Lockeford to a station east be added along with traffic sig tion of the Fresno and Oakland 13.1 miles of four-lane highway Gibbons and ;Reed - All new of the Clements-Linden Road. nals while lOth Street itself will offices. The Wunderlich job com between Del Puerto Canyon alignment of Highway 108 near The job will complete the widen . be widened to six lanes. In addi- · pletes the Aqueduct contracts Road and the San Joaquin Coun Twain Harte. ing and deepening of Bear Creek tion, access ramps and an under- for this district although several ty line in Stanislaus County. Bids George Reed - Paving and -Continued on Page 12- • Pa,ge 11 ••• ENGINEERS NEWS June, 1 9~5 SILVER STATE 'REPORT H .ork Sl ·rts Sl ly; ~~ NORRIS CASEY . SAN JOSE . . . Bon voyage and· best of luck to Brother Peter B. Blanta. : ·· GAIL BISHOP He and Mrs . Blanta are flying to Brazil; where he will be JACK BULLARD on a two-year contract as Construction Maintenance : '1lirking R,ENO~WorkEUFORD BARKSin this area· has · lllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllli;j J!ll'gineer for Brown & Root. Pete will· be headquartered at • Porto Allegro, and has promised to send some pictures on not picked up to any large de- the road job going there. gree; howeyer, small jobs are Best wishes for a speedy recovery to the following running locally1 with contractors b11others who are hospitalized: Brother Red Matzek, Tom keeping all crews and equipment Clif- Smith, Norman · Gates and Leroy Hartsaw, to Brother WOl'king ste'adily. , hospitalized as the result of an industrial injury, . ford Jensen We have been asked many and to Brother· Richard Vandergrift. If you know any of these brothers give them a telephone call or a visit. Nothing times when the job-from .Lawtons helps the morale more than to know that some one does care to Keystone Avenue on Highway when you 2re ill. 40 is to be let. At this point, it Brother John Stephens, who ha~ been ill for some time, will be from July, to the Spriqg was in the office to see us the other day. John may have to of 1966. No one knows fo r sure, but it doesn't look like it will re.turn to the hospital a little later on. We were pleased to seen here as Nevada Operating go this year. . BEEHIVE OF .ACTiVITY-is see him and hope that he will drop by and say hello again. "making the .dirt fly." In background Isbell Construction was the low Engineers are 2aught Russell is recupera_ting at home and combination. • Brother Gordon on the South Virginia is "big train," scraper-belly dump like some of the brothers to stop by or give him a calL bidder would Street widening job and will start . Veteran's Hospi~l. Brother·'Foster H~lt is in Palo Alto right away on this $331;000 proj the recent winning of the NLRB the best clearing job seen in the Brother Charles Law is home after a severe hand injury; ect. election at the Newmont Mine in area. They are leaving the job result of anindustrial injury. We trust he is doing better at Underground Construction Carlin. Local 3 won by a vote of site cleaned and leveled . . From this time. · from San Leandro has started 29 to 14. This is a big victory as this job, they go back to the High Brother Leo Butler, injured on the job, convalescing at lowering lines on the project al it gives the members an opportu School job. home at present, but who may be returning to tfie hospital ready.-TAB Construction was low nity for other work besides con Helms Constr uction is busily irt the near future. Hope all goes well for you, Leo. bidder on a $176,000 Sewer proj struction. Organizational drives widening -the intersection of · and Highway BLOOD DONORS FOR MONTH ect on Niel Ro ad in Reno. are going at other mipes and Kingsbury grade 50. They hit a gas main with the · three months we have been inform L. E. Dixon Company has start plants in Nevada so, with any ·For the past two or its way dozer blade and the local resi of the low supply of blood, appealing to ed the Arlington Towers, a Multi luck at all, Local 3 is on ing the Brothers house organizing Nevada. dents were without fuel for about each one who could possibly do so to go in to the Blood Bank Million Dollar Apartment to further to be at First and Arlington Avenue . 12 hours. Paving has started at · and make a blood donation. It is indeed ··gratifying LAKE TAHOE- CARSO N CITY - Tahoe · · br others and in Reno. the Del Webb- S:ahara able to report in this issue that some of the e again and to these we wish Dixon & Tiberti Company were The good days are her Hotel. their wives have made their donation, Sierras where the Dinwiddie has a "mil the Brothers listed below, who .do low bidders on.a $2 million dorm in the High Stewart taextend our thanks. To 1:oar of equipment can be heard. . lion plus" Shopping Center in pastmonth, our thanks to you, also. itory at the University of Nevada. ll!l!ted this has the New Martin Brothers is about through Carson City in addition to the E. Haney, Vince Ji This same firm . Bill Dalton, Ralph Bokeno, Allen Ryland and clearing on Highway 89. This was sales pavilion at · Tahoe Keys. and last but not least, Bob County Library at minez, Dan Crow, Fred Jacques, the new Sears Ware working on his third gallon). Center and Sandow (Bob is now house on Glendale Road under NOTE: Those of you who have been inquiring for Brother at this time. has construction Harley Davidson, will be pleased to know that Harley The big news in Nevada was fi nished his task at Camp Roberts, and is now back in his old stamping ground. For A Tire Deal VAU.. EJO Sears P~~ Bridge Uni n Brother Albert Hall is back on his feet .after being in jured on the job while working for Rush Construction in Benicia. Is Taking Form RALPH DE LANCEY AARON SMITH see A "BIG" thanks to Brother Don Kruger for the l;>lood BY donation in the Engineers Blood Bank. We are hoping more VALLEJO - The dirt spread 532-6323 (days) his lead. Brothers in the Vallejo area will follow on the Vallejo Redevelopment or phone 731-0499 (nights) • . SANTA ROSA , project is rapidly conchiding. · Brother Joe 'Lipary wanted some publicity and finally Parish Brothers has "\ few small made the grade. He is now the top mogul for Murphy Pacific rigs in the finishing stage. working at the Seaview Ranch · on the coast. The publicity Pomeroy-Gerwick has complet is made justifiable because of Joe's special ditches. He has ed its ,project of d_riving seawall FREE ....tire balance · pipes for water, g9s, electricity, telephone and television, piles on the waterfront, and has and also for "wine." We feel sure that property will be sell moved over to the Highway 37 with ·purchase of a set of tires ••• ing fast. Contact Joe for particulars. Sears Pt. bridge where the crews . the approach Babies: Congratulations to. Brother and·Mrs. Harvey Irish, are driving pile for This offer good only to local 3 members during who for the first time are grandparents of a dal).dy little 'boy. es. Our special congratulations go to their daughter and son-in Erickson, Phillips and Weis the month of April. Bring this ad wi-th you to law, Mr. and Mrs. Ogen. berg is the main contractor on STOCKTON the Sears Pt. bridge. Footings verify membe ~ ship. men are Brother Marvin "Jack" Abernathy recently pulled the are · lined out and the pin stateside and headed to Australia for M. K. Brother working full shifts. .ernathy spends mo:r;e ·time on foreign jobs than he does Syar and Harms has sub-divi New and recap tires - auto and trucks at home. · sion and street w or k keeping · Brother Clyde Dunsing returned home from Johnson Is sever(\! Operators busy. land where he completed his contract with Holmes & Narver. F:urther up highway 40, be FRIENDLY ROAD SERVICE Jack Beckwith is recuperating from pneumonia, tween Fairfield and Vacaville, Brother a r and which necessitated hospital confinement for a week. Gordon Ball and S a y Harms art) finishing their free OAKLAND job. However, there He way widening Brother Paul Caupinen is out of the hospital now. is still a lot of dirt to move had been in due to a back injury. Hope to see you back on around east of Vacaville. the job real soon . . \Vilmouth Construction is work on , the job accident & suffered an on a flood CELLI Brother Louis Beggio ing the Dixon area COCHRAN and will be off for about one year. control job that w i 11 require Br9ther Dick Allwein also had an industrial accident and several more miles of work. at present is at the Eden Hospital, -castro Valley. Darkenwald a nd Morrison We wish· to extend our heartfelt sympathies to the fam Knudsen are making sub-grade Tl E CO. and putting in detours on the ~ of Brother Alvin Krueger, who was recently killed in an Wcident on the job. Cordelia Freeway. Westbrook and The office staff of Oakland wishes to extend their sym M-K are crushing base· rock while Goodric~ SUverto\vn and . pathy to Brother and Mrs. Walter Grant who · recently lost Rush is making material fo r the one of their children due to illness. Brother Grant has as.ked plant mix fo r Industrial Asphalt ·Kelly .Springfi ~ e!d Ti~~es that we extend his thanks and appreciation to Brother. Scotty and Golden Company doing the Jorgenson anc;l all the other Brothers working for Robert paving. Mulloy, for their help and consideration during this time of Kaiser Steel Plant in Napa sadness. · have a heavy ye11r ahead of them, their EUIR~~A they have had to increase The Eureka office sends its sympathy to the family of crews to keep up with their pro - Continued on Page 13 duetion . • • Page J2 · June, : 19~•• 27~ ·Brothers 'Still ~isSing , From:.. IB N1: •· Rietotds ';i~ H · elp!'::j~. ·Over 270 members are ~ot re Q11igg, Harold ceiving full services from the · Rabe, T . · Rama~·. Walter union office because there is no Rector, Chas. L • . Renfro, Charles address for them. Reyes; Albert Richards, Benjamin The IBM record department Richardson, C. needs help in locating · these · Riggs, G. E. Rivera, E . Brothers. Some h,ave no address; Roberts, Harold for others the office is holding Robinett, C. B . · Robbins, Geo. R. • mail, which · may include im l~o Page u - r:•e,·l96,_s E:t-4 G I N E.E RS · N E W S More·· --P-ersonals 'You and YoUr Motley' Radio Skeel , .""" ,,. .? Sitrvey .JM'Qt~~~r . Continued fro~ Page 11- . ' .Brother Robert S. Reveal, who was killed in an accident on Mancige r~p;, · MoneY April 28, 1965. _ · . . Our sympathy is also extended to Brother Vern Car penter who lost his wife on April29, 1965. Our thanks to Brother Ellery A. Marsh who donated On Credit Union Alf blood to our account at the Northern California Community Blood Bank. _ · I CITY .. STATION ON THE DIAL MARYSVILLE Bakersfield KPMC 1560 4:2ii p.m. p.m. ·· . a Ferris Anderson is currently in Weimar Sanitarium. Best Eureka KINS 980 1:30 1510 :00 a.m. ~hes for a speedy recovery. Larry Whitten, Yuba Con Fresno KIRV 10 solidated employe·e, suffered a heart attack recently and is Redding KAHR 1330 4:40 p.m. in the Rideout Hospital. We are happy to see Doug Yorton Sacramento KGMS 1380 . 2:00 p.m:. and Cy Shephard up and a·rouhd again. We hope to see both San Francisco KKHI 1550 .3:00p.m. - Techn~ ical Agreen1e~f (FM) . .. 95.7 . . . of them back to work real soon. San Francisco · KKHI 3:00 ·p:m FRESNO Ne.go·tiations-. · Local 3 went into to the families of the following brothers .W.e are· still holding ch~cks from Ferry Brothers in the .· · . May 26th, Sincere sympathy the Bay _Coun recently:· Jess Porter, Thomas Akers and Redding Office for the . following men: C. '!'. Burg:, ·p. E. - . negotiations with who passed away a.nd Lan·d Brothers ·charles' Agard and C. H. Heath are ~rewse, Jr., R. G. Dabl.er, K. Donovari, E. Gannon, ~c. : Ha:(ll-·_ ties civil Engineers Claude Evans. on,the·ne'w ·well after their _operation and we wish them a speedy 1lto:rt, R. . E. Holc~mbe, A . . Holmes, J. Landgraf£ , _- ~; Mont- sui·veyors Associatfon doing on past meet- We are holding a check for Clarence Clark, Jr.,. gomery, J . Mumford, G. P. Nelson, H. E. Pearsori, E. ·Pettis, . agi·eement.' Based recovery. the jurisdiction in our office. We wish f WHATZ_IT ._See if you can identify the old t ime rigs shown above and at right. Here's a clue: Ray Austin is in all photos. Name equip ment and date, if you can! Drop us a line and see how WIRED FOR SOU ND-here is a closeup of a modern Survey _ close you come, arid watch Engineer ·at Golden Gateway· project in San Francisco. Note the next issue for answer. . . " walkie-talkie." · · CAREFULLY-that's how San Francisco Bmther Herm Jensen STUMPER-here is a D-icat routing out _trees and stumps· in the Stockton district up in the is handling this forklift while stacking pile-dr i vi~ pipe Yosemite foothill,s. Long protrusion at rear - g ·at of cat is stumper to split roots of trees. Perini's Golden Gateway job. · - · · .;._ SEMAPHORE-AI Dodini, San Francisco pile-driver MAGNA operator, -FLUX . .. checking engine connecting rods and pistons is Brother Don Robertson' talks with semaphore hands. Brother Dodini s typifies rugged job at Peterson Tractor. Rods are checked for stretch, warping and invisible cracks Eng ineer, doesn't he? prior tore- building an engine. · •