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{< j . . ' ~ . .- ·_ 90· P-er Cent of . Ne-w Hospital-:Med f.irst 'ManpoW:er--. Trainees~~ Hired· Ben€/its /or Retirees WASHINGTON -In 'the· first Operating E_ngineet·s Local ·_ Union 3, already in the fore group of workers retrained under front for wages and conditions of its worl{~ng membership, the new Manp~·wer - Dev'elopment is taking~two giant steps for a better life for its retired mem· 4-ct, 96 .per cent have_been ~ plac_ed hers and their wives. " ( · • in actual jobs, Labor Sec. W. Wil. --~ Ef_!'ective January 1, 1963, a $100 monthly pension ~ax- lard Wirtz announced ln a "prog - imum_will become a reality for all retired members. drawing ress· 3 epor~." benefits from .the Operating Engineers Pension Trust Fund. The group was small, Wirtz Also on January 1, retired membe1;s and their spouses pointed out, covering only 28? will begin to enjoy hospital and medical protection won trainees in· Connecticut and Cali through their UJ1ion. - . - . fornia, of whom.253 r•romptly get Announcement of the new benefits was made early this jobs for ·which .they had - been month by Local 3 Business Manager AI Clem, as co-chairman specifically trai~~d. - of the Pension Board of Trustees and of the Retired Operat- "We r-ecognize this is too pre- . ing,Engineers Jrust ·Fund.· - - . liminary a return" to allow ·con · Co-chairman of the Trustees for botla funds are Brother clusions ·about the future opera- · Clem for the union ·and contractor Felix Sirf for the em· tions of the -program, the. secre- ployers. - - tary toid a news conference. TRUSTEES . Nevertheless "it . is .. obviously a . The. other union trustees are Pres. Paul Edgecombe, Vice JP.atter of --~licou~ a g~in ~;{t; ' - and-it Pres. Jerry D_owd, Rec.-Coi'r.· Sec. W. V. Minahan, Fin. Sec. A. is the government's hope that· the J . HQpe·, Treas. H. T. Petersen-and Conductor Don Kinchloe. I . - :. f~t~re p~ tter~ . ~· w~ll ,_\l~Y~l?P iz:t F.-, Ames Jr., W. Nicholson, A. G. l{aisch Jr-., • :w_ - J. _. t ·su:m-lar (e:rms." · -r· Bt~li- ~'l)~~,ct · P-~~ii~t- J ohtn ~_1fart~ eh_s . ~n·~- _C_!la :r,.Ies "H \!~~~~ - ~re _ the . - ·- Wi~tz ~n ~q~; ~gd Jl). at: 279 : train- . ,.o .. er.. emp 1oyer rus ees. . ,_ . . ing . proje c ts ·-' h ~ve . ;o~ ~:oe1 n .ap-· ·- .··· (O'uf :p_ehsion in emb~rs krio~ better than ·anyone· else cari proved under terfns of' :_ fiie'~ new tell them· ,how valuable the ,::$1<00 monthly "normal" pension s'tatute and -that 10~-601 workers · will be to them in their years of well-deserved retirement, are· enrolled or/ have· - ~ompleted - ~ ari'd how much security their families can derive from the training. The projects -involve a 36-month p~nsion guarantee, :_whkh means that the checks ·goveni.inent corinintment of near will continue going to the wife up to three years after the ly $13. millipn of -the $70 'million member _qualifies for pension, even if he· should pass away Congress appropriated . ·Jor the during tbat time. first year of the_-,:>ro.?;ram -and are WORTH $13,593 spread a'ci:oss 36 states. But'it is useful to note that if our _member had to pay for this protection himself by' buying a standa!'d $100 per month annuity poli~y, starting at 42 yea.rs of age, which is the aver age age 'of the Local 3 membershtp, he would have to pay /Local3 - $49.25 per month from age 42 -to age 65, a total of$13,593 . •• Profiles Als(), the new hospital and-medical benefits for the 1~ etiree and hi_s ·wife actually mal{e his pension worth at least '$115 a - month, as our union's welfare consultants say it wQuld cost at least $15 a month for a medical insurance policy that would not be quite as goo'd. r . . The commercial health insurance policies which are avajl· able· to senior cit,iz~ns, for example, contain a lifetime max- irpum limit oil ben·efits Which .goes as loW as $800. Our Local 3 hospital-medical policy for· pensioners pays· on each dis ability, without a lifetime·maxlmum amount. _ _ PAYABLE"' FOR JANUARY. . Under. the new scale of Pensidn b~nefits, all those ~etired -members" now ·receiving -'$B:Q.--a .month, will get $.100 a month starting January 1. 'Those now ·receiving $30 11 month will · get $50, and those getting amounts ,i,n between these sums v;;ill receive proporti~mat~ - ~ric't~ea_~es ..in their· monthly .pen· • SlOllS~ - . - . - . - . - . -_ ( _The new J?ension ag10unts .h~v~ --: been compl!ted for each , re~1ree and w1ll be included in -tfie checks received in the -last- week of December. · ' :___ -: -- . - - The'· new health prot~ction..for ·r~tired members ·wilJ pay $.12 a· day towa·rd·hospital board and :room for a ·maximum of 'GARTH A.'PATT-ERSON
Business Manager Al Clem of Operating Engineers Lo~al No. 3 and Park L. Verner, president, Bay Counties Cfvil--,_ Engineers & Land Surveyors Assn., -presented certificates of - competence to 76 surveyor Chiefs of Party at a dinner meet ing at Villa Peluso, Oakland, Friday night, November 2nd; · Chcg:les F. Hanna, Chref, State . . ' . . · Division of Apprepticesh.ip Stand- Eugene B. Schaufler • ards, was keynote speaker at the . Charles Jacob Shallenberger ceremony~ . Hubert W. Webb I. The certificates establish a_new SAN JOSE AREA standard of Certified Chief of Thomas F. Burgess Party: Certificate holders must James B. Clark pass a. written examination and Willard E. Colson an oral review before an examin- lVfartin E. Coorpender . ing b0ard of two representatives ·Myron G. Crooks, Jr. of the union and two employers. George R. Dunbar A state-supervised labor-man- John K. Fisher agement appr.entice training pr.o- Lawrence Giraudo gram has been in operation ' a Dar1:ell L. Jelljson _little more than a year, but not John A. McG.::;:tth long enough for new trainees to Ed Middleton have achieved Chief of Party Melvin C: Mortimer status. Howard C. Payne • The certificates in this grottp Rqbert S . .Reilly went to people who have- bee!]. Gene H. Scott working in the surveyor field for Walter Strate sufficient periods of time· and John A. Toney - who satisfied the examining John Davis Williams board that they -· were fully com- SAN MATEO AREA petent. Carl Louis Ackerman , The Northern California Land Donald Glemt Thorrias Surveyors apprenticeship pro- SAN.FRANCISCn/MARIN gram covers 49 counties. Robert Alsdurf Following are the new Chiefs John G. Austin
10f Party: Alvin J. Baptist OAKLANJ) AREA J?onald R. Bengston Norman Ash ·Kenneth Booth Paul Henry Betz Jean Chary Earl R. Bozigian Allen M·. Harry- . -Harold D. Braze 1 Arner Hermanson • Jame-s C:Bui"netf Kem:i.eth F. Knutsen Garth M. Cross William Lisa , Harry Edward Cummings Seymour Miller Daniel C. Curry · Mark Munson Donald F: Davis Alex Shkapsky Chas. ·A. Daniel John G. Stuber George· M. De Vaney SACRAiUENTO AREA -Gly.de 0. Douglas Phillip I. Barnes ·Charles W.. Fleming,. Jr. Arnold E. Comer c Dale ·H. FOlJTtner Darrell R. Davis Clyde E. Gann Donald E. Davis Clyde A. Hewitt Harold B . .Farmer - Calvin T. Hill · _Orville R. Hastings William M. Hill - Aaron F. Jones Richard Kier Eugene McKenzie Edwin Lanterman Walter J. McMahan CHIEFS OF P-AR"('Y: Ha-ppily .facing the .camera in ~the top two pictures, some with their brand Dewitt .Markham Charles-c. P~rker - new. State' certificates in hand, are the men who were awarded Chief of Party Credentials' at a -· Harry A. Mitchell Robed S.'Rathoone · dinner meeting in Oakland, Nov. 2. Bottom photo shows part of the dinner crowd; composed Eugene Laird Oller Jack V. Ryden mainly of the new Chiefs and their ladies and representatives· of Local 3, the Bay Counties - Dennis . J . Ry\}n Henry E. Seira Civil Engineers & Land Surveyors Assn. and the St,ate Division of Apprenticeship Standards William F. Sanders Jerry Terry who participated in the completion ceremony. Mere About S rvey les: Start First Apprentice Class Wmo Woodyard . I Cont-in 1,_~ ed f1·om Page 1---' By ART PENNEBAKER and , tempt to develop a set of stand for field- notekeerilig on the wor:k. This will be one more· tool . California since he was four HOWARD WYNN ard· forrps covering all survey op· party chief. to _help upgrade the pool of men years old. f!e got his schooling in . Southern California, erations thaf would be acceptable 1 and his first The first class of Apprentice ''When the information in this doing survey work and so . 11p- job was as a refinery worker in Chiefs of Party was started at to ap surveyors becal.1se, even manual is" understood, the reader uie 1 grade the: survey industry.. a Standard Oil 1:efinery, where Laney Campus of the Oakland though· certain operations in· sur- . will be able to devdop· notes to he ·j o in e d the · Boilermakers suit any survey problem and will TEST FOR CHIEFS City College on November 19. veying may lend themselves to Unign. · also be able to adapt himself • standardiza_tion, surveying in In order to know the aptitudes He was initiated lnto Locaf 3 This well-attended course of in- gen easily to any forms or systems he - of a ~uccesSft;l Chief Of Party it in March 1952 and has worked . struction is being taughfby Lan eral does not. Furthermore, the 1 may be required to use.'; will be necessary. to rim some -of mostly __ in road construction, op survey situations· don D. Barnes, a certifi!)d Chief und~r which the We have completed anothei· test the presently-employed . success: .. eratirtg '!- Gradall, ·and in gravel of Party employed by Kenneth. individual-party chief is required · and are now in the process of ful Chiefs of Party through the ·plants loading materials with Q. Volk & Associates at Du1llin, to exercise personal. judgment evaluating-both potential appren test battery: The' _l'estilt ·of fhe clam sheli and bucket loaders. are so varied that to attempt to tice ~ and-certified Chiefs Calif. The text being used of Party. tests .are confident~a1 · with the ; His longest spell with one finn is stereotype the presentation, that · "Handbook of Survey Notekeep State of . California,· an_d neither -. was 10 years with A. Teichert & is, the field notes, would impair SECOND TEST your- emp1oyer, ing" by F. William Pafford. .you·r Amion nor Son. the development of the surveyor's In conjunction · with the- State anyone else has access to. them. His first union responsibility \ The following, from the preface most important attribute; ju!fg- 9f California, we are no'w · If you. should be one of those - was of the text, sems to sum up-the d ~:wel as an elected member -of' the ment. · oping an aptitude test battery ·de asked to participate iJ:l. helping direction of this course. to ·· By-Laws Committee. He subse "The information contained signed for the young man with no upgrade your survey industry, "It is an impossible task to at- · quel}tly was el_ected District herein is addressed to the party experience to determine if he has please offer to spend the. two Exectitive Board member_ from chief. Even though the recorder, . the potentiality for developing hours necessm'y to' get this in- his area. ', E.'NGINEERS NEWS or notekeeper, of ttraditional sur- . into a qulflified surveyor. It can fopnation. It will be to the bene- Brother ·Woodyard served in Published monthly by. Local Union veying still exists"- on - ~ertain not give an absolute answer:, but fiLof every man on No. 3 of the International Unioll of the survey the Army in Europe during • Operating Engineers, 474 Valencia St., types· of survey parties, modern · it can give _a ·person an excellent . crew if we can insure adequate world War II, in ·a Tank :. De· .San Francisco 3, Calif. Second cla1 Fresno Congratulations are in order for Brother Jeff Cathey, proud father of a 7-pound girl. Work in this disb'ict 'is begin . By HAROLD LEWIS, CLA~ENCE FRIEND and * * * BERT NAKANO ning to slow down, causing OUI' Santa Rosa / out-of-work _lists .to grow. How- Many thanks to our recent blood donors, John Dawson A new procedure in settling grievances has been worked ever, we are happy to .state that and El~ery Marsh. Duane Ringler and Ralph Bowman are new out with the employees of Perinanente Cemenf Co. and State the. work load both in the stock fathers of bouncing baby boys, and the Richard Wilkersons Tile. The business representatives of the union, .stewards and tori and Modesto area has been are recent parents of a · charming baby girl. Congratulations. • committeemen will meet once each month to discuss griev- · better this year than it has been We , would like to say: we hope· your Thanksgiving was a ances and the good and welfare of the union. · for the . past sever a~ yeats. · bountiful one and that your Christmas holidays ' will be There will also be four quar- This same . condition should especially bright and happy. terly meetings held during the prevail for the ·ensuing year, as fii"st week of _January, April, July Hawaii Office at most of the larger jobs will carry * San *Jose * and October to coordinate think over until next winter. ing in respect to grievances and New locatiQn As this report go.es to press all Bill Strong; paver oper.ator for Granite Construction, also to answer any question a The Hawaii offiCe of jobs east of Highway 4!} (sub injured his foot, when it got caught in a conveyor belt on the member may have. Local 3 has moved to a sistence line) undoubtedly will paver. He will be laid up at least a couple of months. Joe - The duty bf the stewards will new location. be closed down foi· the winter, Givens injured his foot on the dredg~r, while working for be to police the contract and dis It is now in the Electri with the exception of Granite Shellmaker in Santa Cruz. Brother Knight, a blade operator cuss any grievance brought to cians' building, 2305 South Construction on the eastern slope for Conrad Franks, has been confined to the hospital. It was them by a member and also . to Beretania St., Honolulu. of the Sierras, 0. K Mittry & necessary to amputate a firiger he injured on the blade work with the committeemen o{ There is ample parking Son on the Twain Harte grade control. the· variou~ departments. The · space for members' cars. and the Clancy M. O'Dell tunnel * * * ·duty of the committeemen is to job in·Cherry Valley. These· con San Francisco discuss any problem and work' tractors expect ----to work through to kokua the unemployed to that Ed Frisbie found that one of those "minor" scratches can ing condition with the member.') -the winter . really cause a lot of trouble. He barked his shin and thought within their ·departmentk and if .their families may enjoy the sea • NEW JOBS son that is meant for happiness. nothing of it, but it became infected and sent him into St. any grievance is brought to them, The only significant change in Francis Hospital. He's recovered and out now. Claude ("Pop") the grievance should be pi·esent When terminated frore employ new jobs going . on in the district ment, please report to the union's Scantlin, · injured a while ago, is up and around with only ed to the stewards. from last month's report is the the "horse collar" on his wrenched neck as visible evidence ELECTED office to sign your name on the Roy Price, Inc., pipeline job from unemployment list before signing Of the accident. L. J. ' McClintock is back on the job after a Stewards and committeemen the vicinity of Stan-Pak, west of six-week spell of illness. Jack Lathrop was in the hospital nominated and elected by the em- . for unemployment compensation. Tracy, to the new natural gas with pneumonia and cured that, but developed blood clots in p-loyees of the Permanente Ce Also, your medical insurance. wells located 'in -the French his legs and will have to convalesce a while longer. ment Co. 'are: · with Hawaii Medical Service As Camp-Lathrop area. The Price Disptach in San Francisco made a real mistake. It sent STEWMWS: sociation (HMSA) can be con outfit has approximately 27 En George Hussey tinued at a special rate that has Mike McCord out OJ). a night job, and now he's in the hiring gineers on the job at this time, hall most of the day, heckling old-timers like Tom Helean, Emmanuel K. Flores been negotiated fo·r you by your with the following . sub-contrac union while you are unemployed. Jack Lloyd and Bob Terry . .. and the Dispatcher. When Adrian Silva tors, M. J. Ruddy & Son, Parrish, Please come in. or inquire by does that boy ever sleep?!!! COMMITTEEMEN: Inc ., Dutra Dredging, Siller & Wallace Berry, Packhouse phone . . Take advantage of this Whisenant, W i 11 i am s Boring * * * Albert Gild.ing, Garage, Quarry benefit! ,.. Service, Nick Chambers Trench- Sacramento Stephen Dutro, Kiln, Mill, BUILDINGS iN WAY ' ing Co., Musgrav~ C{,ane S,ervice . Our deepest sympathy goes OJ.lt to the family of BrqQler · • ·Crusher E. E. Black's Fi!'deral Highway and _Big.ge Drayage, employing Oscar "Bud" Anderson in their time of sorrow over the loss David"Kaiue, M . Fresno:. -Lots. .~. of·- - y / . . Jobs, More. - •Men. ~ . . . Of Jobs in By JOE MILLER, - . the North Ave. job and well along B. F. (TIN~T HELLING · with it. and GLENN' MULLOWNEY . Valley Engineers has two pipe Nevada line jobs (sewer and' s t 0 r m The Fresno area is ·very. active . ByH. L. (CURLY) SPENCE · drains) going in .Fresno at pres with many jobs-· of all kinds go and BU BARKS - ing and with more work coming ent. They have been · on these out, _but our number of men un .projects only_ a short time and · Isbell Constructioc1 Co. is well employed is also growing every have a lot of work to do in both along with their freeway }ob on day . thB Chestnut Ave. and Clovis Interstate 80 from the California Ave. jobs. Nevada State line to Verdi, Nev.' The reason for ~he out-of-work M & K and Moseman are still They have most of the concrete • list increase is two-fold. First, ~it busy on the .structures on the in for the bridge across the is brought about "by the s~asonal freeway. proje~t Fresno and Trucke·e River and -for the over influx of men from the mountain in will have the job far enough pass over the So uti1ern -P!J.cific jobs and ·northern areas where along to start moving dirt a~ai]l railroad tracks. work is closing down for' the win early in the spring. Isbell's operations at the 2nd ter. The second'reason, of c;ourse, NEW AND .1\ofEAT: The Local 3 brothers running it a're · proud of this ·new Barber-Greene Street pit and aroui1d Reno have · is the influx of .men ir.to the area WEBB CENTER plant at the Miles & Sierra job at Lemoore Air Force Base. Ray Rutledge is the operator, been good most-of the year; with because of the $an Luis ProjeCt The Del Webb Center #nally is Oscar 'Ciar~ the oiler. - Brother Bill Boegle, the super due to the wide publicity given \ starting to grow. 'They have been intendent, and Brother Norman to_ the project. pouring .c o n c r e t e and placing ' very remarkable 1naJmer and are . subbed the Bailey pushing the operators, it . Bids will be opened on the'-Ban steel in the basement section, and dirt-to Fresno Paving. being observed by these visiting They were low for approximately just has to be good or else! . the first floor sho~ld get ·under contracto-rs. We have heard J:l!any $2 million and have started mov The George Griffal Co. has two way very soon. This p r 6 j e c t ·compliments from these people ing dirt. This backhoes· digging the basement should last about tvio years. job will be on High Fresno Che~ks on our members' abilities. way 198 - and foundations for replacement We expect to have a very good through V1salia. Mose Checks are McGuire & Hester on their Ma man will do a ll of the G o 1 a·e n Hotel, which being beld. in the season this year , ~ and beginning 13 structures and Fresno office for, the following dera Canal job have sub-contract will start about January 1. burn~d down in Reno. It will be • next year this area should -be in an outstanding ho•el and casino members: Fred ed the poured-in-pJ(lce pipe to B·timett, Edward "hfgh gear" w1th a lot of work ONE-YEAR JOB Marshall, Cecil Sand & Gravel ·co. They · , when finished. Halvo~·se n Co. has Wes Bowm:m, Carl Har and a l a r g e increase in the are going to start Gordon Ball was low. bidder at the general contract. mon, Joe_ Haslowe f , Tony amount . oj members working. moving dirt on Hunsaker, five miles - of open ditch this $1,700,000 for the Highway 190 . DARRAH'S George Jobe, Kenneth In the Merced arec>, Peter Kie Trammel, Floyd Welch, LaveCL. week, using A. L .. Craft's ·cats. job in-Porterville. This Will be a Stolte Co. is well along with witt has started to move on their the new Harrah's Club building Davis, John Faria, Mcrel McLau T. M. Page . Co. will finish the good dirt job for about one year. freeway job. Standard Materials, at 2nd and North Center Sts. in ry, John L. · Vierra, Herschel levee job in Merced county in Griffith Co. has finished their Inc., will furnish ;:.ll of the base Reno. i'hey have ·the steel in for Goodman, D'an Carpenter, Frank · Deeember, but have another con job at Tipton. Fresno Paving has rock a:nd co ncr etc aggregate. the second ·floor/below the street Williams, Phil Ser]:)a and R. · i. tract c·oming up at Mendota that started putting crushed - ~ ock on They are going to locate a crush level. The other two · stories will Scruggs. · should keep this equipment busy their job at . Five Points, and ing plant on Bear Cre-ek to make .start real soon. , ~ These checks mu~t 1 be called the material for this job. till next summer. blacktop will start January 1. for American Bridge & Iron has ' in person, as tl-e company . Hatcher Pipeline Co. has a Miles & Sierra at Lemoore have Brothers, the Holiday Season is ~ wants the topped out on the 16-story First signature of each man. $9,'000,000.00 water Hlpply job at started the blacktop at the gate here once again, and all of us at 1 National Bank building at First of the Le~oore A-irbase and also the · .Fresno office- Joe, Tiny, El Portal for the Park Service. & No. Virginia Sts., Reno. L. E. have the cement treat crew ahead Glenn, Jerry and Shir1ey- wish Luis Project December iS, ·but They are having to drill and Dixon has the general contract. - shoot about of the blacktop crew. This com you and your families the Merri -this \..doesn't mean. that the job half of their trench Robert Helms Construction Co . but are ·-making pany has 35 Operating'Engineers est Chril?tmas and mo_st prosper 'will " get rolling full blast rigl)t · good progress . has all of the grading· of street~ • with - their -hydrahoes. · working imd will IJe good until ous New Year and thank you all ~~ay. There is much preparation and foundations and basement for about March · of next year. . for your cooperation and assist to be done before the Sproul Housing project on W. the actual dirt COMPLIMENTS Richard Moseman & Co. have ance during the past year. 7th St., _work starts. We don't expect the A. Turrin & Sons have a small -- ' Reno; dirt moving sprea\fs tri be on :the cont~a~t for the-U.S. B. R. at the Utility Construction Co . has al most finished job for at least six months, as San Luis Dam site to open up a their part of the In there will be a lot c£ drilling and quarry face on top of Basalt Hill.' · The Inco me Gap- cline Village project at Lake 'l'a gFouting that will hiJ.Ve to be This -is a very interesting job hoe. Just a couple of pumping stations done and a concrete core must be· due to the fact that there will be to complete. - in before the dam can be started. 14 million yards of l·ock taken out RICH RI'CHER, PIOOR _POORER C. Dietrich Co. has the full crew working on the gas main in TRANSFERRING for the rock zones of the dam. WASHINGTON- While most A U. -S. · Dept. of Commer~~ · the 1:1proul Homes project. . · Stockton Construction Co. ·is\ In the last month representatives study on family income distribu Americans are better o·ff finan Bechtel Corp. are· _laying ·ap nearing completion on "their of all of the major contracting tion "establishes these major cially than they were five years proximately 37'2 miles a day · of North Ave. sewer project and firms in the U. S. have been on points," the AFL-CIO analysis ago or 15 the 16-inch -pipeline from are well along on the Marks Ave . the job site to estimate their cost" years ago, 'the gap be declared: the project. They have some new . to move this mountain. tween those at the top and bot- Idaho border to Reno. 1\_bout 40 ._ -• "While postwar family.income of our brothers work in the Sacramento area, and Turrin & Sons operaTors have tom of the econom1c Jc,d der shows , · have been mak • no signs of narrowing.-In fact, it averages have been· nsing signifi ing good pay checks on this hi some of the operators are being given I Local 3 and themselves a cantly and all income brackets ball ,job· since transferred to the other jobs. Val- lot of good publiCity because has widened slightly in recent the first part of have benefited, the gain of_the September. '- ley Excavation ~1as been paving they are moving this rock in a years. neediest has b e -3 n shockingly Industrial Construction Co. of This ui-Iequal division of U. S. small and the income share of the Las Vegas have the 10 miles at wealth is - analyzed in Labor's groups at the bottom of the scale Brady Hot Springs u:pder way Econoll1Jc Review a feature of actually has ,been going down. with a small cr'ew. The rest of the the November is~ue of the Amer- • . "About two-fifth of all Amer-. "'- ican -Federationist, official AFL- equipment and c 1' e w will be . - CIO magazine, prepared by the icans live in ·families with in- moved from the Eureka job in --~ Dept. of Research. The analysis comes still too low to provide the the next few days. This job will - is based on the latest available minimum essentials oi comfort- occupy abol1t 20 of the brothers able a~d decent living~ " through the winter. data, including a new govern- The AFL-CIO analysis a Is o ROADS ment survey. _cites a-study of wealth accumula- Silver State Construction Co . is Despite stat is tics showing tion by Prof. RobO!rt Lampman working on the FenJley to Silver steady growth in "average" fam- of the University_ of Wisconsin Springs road, a 14-mile stretch. ily income, the ,sa ins -have been dealing with the percentage of · This one will keep 2o' to 25 of our • unevenly distribute ·d, the .study the nation;s personal wealth -held people w o r k i n g through the shows. ,' This name plate stands Neither high tax rates on by the richest 1 per cent' of u. S; winter. · for quality equipment, high incomes nor the impact of adults; Anaconda Co. is . still mining. machines, tools and supplies! welfare legislation llas brought While the personal wealth of copper at full scale. The brothers about any leveli{lg of the ex· the top 1 per cent dropped 1 from here are enjoying - On a six-day work YOUR.job this means top performa nce, tl·emes. a ,high of 36.3 per ce;nt in 1929 to week. We have ·had a few minor In- 1955, back~d by competent field service and a good_ for example, the high a low of 20.8 per (!ent in 1949, the beefs-in this operatwn, but from 20 per cent of the nation's fam- percentage has been moving up -an overall standpoint, this opera stock of parts. ilies received 43.2 pe': cent of the since then. In ·1953, it was 24.2 tion keeps about ~50 men work tot a I after-tax family income, per cent, in J-956, 26 p~r cent, and ing on a year-round basis. A new · - while the lowest fifth had only in 1961 the ::ichest 1 per cent addition is being made to the · 5.2 per cent. - ·owned 28 per cent of the nation's· flotation plant, the rr:achinery be-/ By 1960, · the family income of personal wealth. ing moved from Montana. the bottom 20 per cent had gone This has been arcompanied by The Leviathan mining job has up $205, CO-NSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT :while that oJ the top 20 a rise in the number of million come to a close. Thi.§ has been a per cent had risen $:!,485. As a, aires .from 27,000 in 1953 to"about good job since April for several • ,. folsom at 17th Street, San Francisco 10, Cali~ornia HEmlock 1-3700 result, the top fifth · 1 eceived 43 .8 . 100,000 by 1961. and an increase of the ·brothers. per cent of ~ac r amento Oakland - • Fresno the total income, in the "very rich," with wealth Wishing everybody a Happy while the '·share of the bottom of.$5 million or more, from 2,000 Holiday Season and a very Pros fifth had slipped to 4.9 per cent. to 10,000 during i.he s&me period. perous New Year. , i I + ,-..' I ) f: j. . <...: '-· :!." Page ·Eight '·, "' •• J EN G-1 N E E R S 'N E WS ' · December,-1962 ' ' Oakland: LivermOre -. / Canal in Full Swing .. -...... By DON KINCHLOE, L. L. (TINY) LAUX, NORRIS CASEY, ., FRAN WALKER and "RED" IVY .. I The downtown Oi!kland area is 84-inch pipe used a:> siphons un picking up with Guy F. Atkinson der the road crossings and· creek· There wi.ll be numer getting approximatelY two miles . crossings. ous structui·es and bridges to of the MacArthur ~:reeway to the put in. tune of some $5 i11illion. This Brother Ben Sandkulla is the company is now in the process project manager._He has the job of setting up o£fiee3 and shop going real smooth at this time. If it doesn't get too wet, they should area. The equipment is now be • be able to work through the ' ( ing moved in.-This proj.ect should yrfnter. supply work for some 15 brothers Under the direct supervision of at the start with ntore being Brother Ben are Brothers Clint added as the job gets under 'l_¥ay. Reed, · Virgil Guptill and Cliff The Naval Air Station in A la ~ Winistoerfer, foreman. · -meda should be going soon on the Brother Bill Crowder will be - $2 million Capehart Housing Proj. superintendent in charge C?f the eel · · trimming and lining. At this time . The equipment dealer shops in he has Brother Jaek Armstrong the area are working very well. assembling the trimmer. The new agreement has been signed, and the ~mployers ·have THE CREW A SP,ECTACULAR VIEW of the construction of the Block Butte Dam, located about nine paid the retroactive ray alid are The mechanical crew consists miles northwest.of Orland, being built as a' cooperative venture between the State of Califor looking forward to having a good of Brothers Garland ("Tex") Bed nia and the United States government as a combined flood_control and irrigation project. It year in 1963. ford and .Clarence Peterson, me is being constructed under· the direction of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and is located chanics, and Brother Everett Van on Stony Creek. It is scheduled to be completed next year. Structure in the foreground will SMAI,L JOBS - MANY · Tassel on the grease truck. be the control tower. · · · · The following Brothers are em / There is no end to the number / / of small jobs around the area ployed on-this job: G. L. Bedford, Redding Report with McGuire & Hester, Inde mechanic; Clarence Peterson, me pendent Construction. Gallagher· chgnic; Everett Vantassel, grease & Burk, Bashnick. Co., . Ransome monkey; Cliff Winistoerfer, fore Co. and many others doing under man; Turner HayE,s, DW-20;-Wil PG &E LetS Pitt-McCloUd Tunnels ground and street work. Weather lian Hawley; DW-~0 comp. oper- \ permitting, we should have a ator; Lawrence Mor .~an, D-8 oper- By J. B. JENNINGS through the winter on the keeping our fingers crossed, hop number of the brothers working. ator; James McGuire, D-9 oper- and S. N. 1\i{!RRObME bridges. Vinnell Dnrersion Dam- ing th·ey can do some winter work Work in Southern Alameda ator; Thomas ~hanklin, D-8; is still £oine- e-reat ,'!uns on their on this project. F k S bl ·' G 0 d Pac1'fl'·c ..Gas & Electric Co. ~ ~ ~ - County is still holding up excep ran now, aue: e r"" e dam · at Red Bluff-the brothers - We are still holding checks for J. Sllea G.o.-the tionally well. Most anywhere you Huntsman, grade checker; M. F. · awarded contracts for access and ~u·e working 5-8s. the following: look in the downtown areas there O'Dale, grade checker;· Clint two tunnels on its $01.6 million brothers are still working on the Edwa~d J. Evans, Charles Pier- · Reed, foreman; Dale Johnson, M Cl d p·t h d l t . . t Dersch road . J·ob, with approxi- is a new apartlllent house being DW-20; Frank Enright, . DW-20; c . ou - l Y roe ec nc proJec son, Keimeth Coonde, E. J:?· Bak. . built. In · the open areas new Harold Cornelius, D·olfz; Leo Pul- in Shasta county, ~· ' · ' - ·: mately ·two weeks. r<:maining . er, Frank Skala, J. G. Gray; W. housing tracts are going up, In COME THE RAEll'-As of this Mcintosh, B. Plunkett, A: B. John Ian, D-8; Alfred Jensen, blade; . J. F. Shea Co., I PC., H enry J . the Livermore area two major rain has begun to fall son, Wm. Hancock, ' F . K. Corbit; S. D. Pyle, blade; .felix Coronado, Kaiser· Co., M.ornson- · I"1..nu d sen c o. writing the ones have s t a r t 0 d in recent grade checker; Otto Fink, grade · and Maceo Corp. were given a -many of the jobs wlli be down Ralph Major and C. H. Flowers. months. · of the winter. Merry Christmas and a Happy checker; Fred Learl:e, dragline; joint contract f or seven-rm'l e t un- for the remainder We are hopine- some of. the broth- New Year to all ~he members .of McGuire & Hester are ·in full 'Henry Anderson, oiler; Keith nel/ 17 feet in dia;nete:· an d a ~ swing on their canal job in Liver Nelson, Gragline; Chuck Wash- three-mile tunnel 13 feet in di- ers will be kept busy \vith w·ork Local 3 and their families from more. This consists of approxi burn, oiler; Kenneth Wilson, load- ameter. on the PG&E project. We are the Redding offi.:::e staff. mately seven miles of canal. ~ It er; Virgil Guptill, foreman; Hor- Harms Brothers of Sacramento . r------''------. l)tarts at the Patterso,n Pass Res-' ace Stone, grade checker; Leo and Piombo Construction Co. of ervoir and runs to the Veterans Lemanski, loader; Richard--Wei- San Carlos will build access roads Hospital. This job is being done don, backhoe; E :i gar Rankin, ~ 0 the two tunnel ;1reas. Work on Deaths for the State of California Dept backhoe; and Edwin Card, oiler. these roads should begin very ·of Water Resources and is known Initiation soon. as the Alameda Division Canal, Name Date Died . South Bay Aqueduct. Completion :HOlmNG CH!ECKS Gibbons & Reed Co .-Lewis Debris ::-...... _.. 6/16/41 date is approximately August 1, IN SACRAMENTO ton-Whiskeytown and Jack Reasor, Pittsburg 9121162 1963. dams .nearing completion. The Charles W. Sears, Eureka ...... 11/19/61 91 4/62 Checks are being held in the brothers are nearly done on the C. R. Corn-ier, Josephine City, Ore. · 6/ 7/57 91 ,6/62 BIG DITC'H Sacramento ·office for the follow pyramiding of rock and earth at Jess B. Naegle, Ceda.r City, Utah.... ll/ 1/52 9128162 . There are_ some 500,000 ·yards · ing brothers: · Lewiston and Whiskeytown and Charles E. Garn, ,Sandy, Utah --·····- 8/ 8/61 9123/62 ; of dirt to ,be moved in the e_x C. S. Bradley, J .. Clark, JoJm E. Spring Creek Debrjs Dam. Jesse Reidinhour, 'Mader,a ...... · 5/ .3/52 9110162 cavation for the canal. This will Completion dates for the Theodore R. Garrison, Vacaville .... 5/ 4/57 8/31162 l Cm·burn, Richatd J. Dallen, Rob ! be · roughed-out with the eartl:). ert L. Findley, D. Garrett, Wayne . Spring Creek tunnel and project's Joseph Camnbell, El Cerrito ...... 1/ 5/46 10/ 7162 - moving. equipment, then finished M. Hausauer, James W. Harrison, three powerhouses w ill come Darrell J. White. Murray, Utah ____ 8/ 1/42 10/11162 1 with a dragline. The final touches Alvin Kirby, B en n i e Lovett, · within the next 18 months. The Floyd L. King, Fresno ...... 9/ 2/50 10/ 3162 will. be done with a trimmer, then James Maupin, Wm. F. Robblee, powei:house projects under con John E. Silva, Livermore ------·-- 3/ 2/46 10116/62 the whole thing will be lined witlt Don M. Randall, Eric Risley, Law- tract with Gunther-Shirley and M. M. Watson, Grass Valley ______10/ 1/39 101 1162 concrete. rence Scheeler, Michael W. Stark, I Lane, which is Installing electric R. E. Stowell, Sacramento ...... 6/ 3/44 10118162 There will be some 1380 feet of J.· E. Thom31s, Kenneth Wheeler. turbir!es -made in Japan, England William R. Lloyd, Smith River ______3/10/39 10/10/62 and the United States. · C. L. Casebolt, Lafayette ...... ____ 11/19/23 101 8162 At present, Whiskeytown dam Arthur A. Thorne, Dunsmuir -----·-· 7/15/38 10/25/62 is 95 per cent completed. Some Allen M. Harry, Vacaville ...... 10/ 5/57 10118/62 • 200 men were working three . Robert L. Morris ------·-·--- 7I 1/57 ,10/-7/62 ens1ons shifts at Whiskeytown to com Don E. McCleary, San Jose ----···--·-- 4/ 5/41 10/26162 plete a barrier containing over G. R. Limbach. Oroville ...... 51 2/53 10124162 . Effective Effective 4 million cubic 'yards of rock and H. Steffens, Salt Lake City, Utah.... 12/ 4143 10/31/62 Date Date earth. Alexander Sukalo, San Leandro .... 81 2159 l0/17162· NORMAL At the $13 million Spring Thomas T. Fujimoto, Hi1o, HawaiL 9/11/60 8123/62 .on, Ariz ...... 6/42 162 Cross, Charles N.. 12/62 Creek tunnel project, workmen B. M./Stewart, Tucs 6/ 111 are busy with an intake siphon to R. R. Corrie, Burlingame ------··-- 8/ 5105 111 9162 RED,UCED Leroy R. Morse, Man,te_ca ...... 41 5 I 4 7 11112162 2163 · ~ichelsen, H ; 2/63 collect tunnel segmmts. This will _ Caton, Manuel F. A. G. Farmer,. Los ·Gatos ·------·---·-- 6/ 7/59 11113162 ·coker, Al 2/63 Stover, G. M. 1/63 finish about the 1st of May. Jack Cook, Antioch -- -~ ------...... 101 1155 11/14/62 Goldie, Grover 10/62 Sunderman, L. G. 2/63 Ransome Co.-The . boys have 0 . A. Anderson, Carmichael ...... 31 7142 11116162 Holtz, Emil .. 2/63 Welter, Peter 11(62 been :Working great guns. At pres Fra'nl{ A. McKav, San'Francisco .... 8/ 6141 11119162 on , EARLY RETIREMENT ent .they are starting to pave E. D. Bractley, Stockton ...... 5124/48 11124162 Fred_rickson & Watson's 9-mile Russell, H. G. 2163 -Whitehm·se, P. C. 12/62 Clark R. Evans, Snringville, Utah .. 8/ 6155 111 162 hill fr~eway job. This job shoula DISABILITY Ike l\1. Bennett, Kimberly, Idaho ____ 5/13/57 11120162 be completed by Christmas James Leroy Todd, Orangevale ...... 12/31142 11110162 Beckwith, A. D. 7/62 Kieper, Eugene 2/63 · perm1ttmg. Stolte & weather E. A, Devereaux, Belmont ------8 I 7I 43 11127162 Cahill, H. J. 9162 Nedrow, L. A. 2/63 Stephens have appl'OXi mately five CroJ!,:en, L. R. 5162 . Nichols, J. H. 4/62 Rot>ert H. Johnson, Newcastle ______81 3/46 11/19/62 operators working - these mem· _ C. K. Davenport, San Francisco .... 8/19/39 11129/62 Isaak, E. L. 10162 bers will con t i 11 u e working December.,-1962 ' ,;" -' i; -· :; ' Page Nine ~ - -ENTO -SHIP ·CHAN·NEL -~ SACRAM . -.· Sacramento I . - / , _'::,~ $farting To Slow Down- \ s I - By E. M. NEL~ON, - Some- time lat? next · year or ~ some 16, ye'ars in the making. The - ED HEARN-E, · early in 1964 an observer stand .Sacramento -Yolo Port District W. E. METTZ, - ing in a rice field 'in the flat, was formed and the initial bond - . AL ~ALT_ON f~rtile Sacramento - delta area is/)ue passed by the voters in and CLEM HOOVER 'think he is seeing a l!ig - 1947. ' The S a c r a m e h t o area has may vessel steaming acro_ss dry "" Ground was broken in August, started. to slow ·down. .Some of 16cean the~- rriountain jobs are through, ' land_ in ·the dir~ction of , Sacra- 1949, and 12 miles of harbor and arid others are cutting back. The mente.-.. channel levee's ~-=re · constructed Subdivision work is· still holding He will not have to have his - and four · miles · of Ghaimet com- up. eyesight or his head E)Xamined,-" --. - · We still are ha;lng so~e bad . It w-ill be truly an ocean-going J?let~d ~efore t~e l\01·ean War accidents. Brother Bud Anderson vessel, -sailing -up the Sac;ramen- h,alt~d construction in 1951. Work ·was killed Friday, ;Nover_nber 16. to-Yolo deep water: ship ch~mneL was resumed in 1956 . He was starting a blade. The . For landlocked Sacramento, -40 The ship· channel will be 43 inaih motor was in gea-r and still miles irom de~p watei'._in Suisun miles long and-dug to a depth of hot, so when he pulled in th!l Bay,imd 80 miles-from the. Gold- 30 feet. Already completed is Stc:(rtii,rg ~moto·r . dutch, the main · en Gate, is· in process ~f becom- California's first and· only nagi motor. .- started and ran over him. :· ing one of the world's<'great sea- gation lock, 86 feet wide and 600 Brothers, you cai.inot work· too -- · ports. feet long, connecting the ·sacra safely"' so be ·careful. · · And 'dredgermen members of mento 'River and-the Port Term inal, to permit shallow-draft Anyone who can give blood, operati~g ~ngineers - Local· 3"will . barges to bring cargo from inland ·Please do so, as we are'.in need· have had a major role in making _,?reas to the terminal. . of it.- - - 0!1'0 WIE, a Ieverman - on the dredge Papoose, bas b.een -- this engineering and · construe- possible. The terminal will incJude 3,000 Granite Construction Co. is go - on tbe. tion -'miracle manipulating these controls for jusf over three .· years ·... - lineal feet of wharves, with berths ing strong, with 20 En-gineers at . deep water channel job. "I lhink -I've h;;~d Sacramento-Yolo HYDRAULIC DREDGING CO. for dee.p sea vessels and 180,000 Sunset ~ity working on undei· all -that time/' says Otto, -a ·25- ye~r only two. weeks off io of Oakland-is now winding up the . square feet of cov0red sheds ad- · ground, and street work. They meml>er of-Local 3. · pla:n -to have it largely finished.' - job of digging the ship. chamiel. joining, a barge slip and gi·eat before the first o.f the year. In the -final phase of the wor.k, · grain- elevators vdh· co.nveyor .Beasley Engineers have com which 7 has- been going on . for . loading systems . pleted the sprin,kling· systems for three years, Hydraulic Dredging PRINCIPAL FREIGHT ,_- Malbaff Landscaping. -Grading r has removed over 21% million -THE and seeding the golf course is be- !. · yards of. material from one ·9:1 - going out o_f the port is expected ing done by ,Eli Browh, -: an old . . mile 1>tretch· of the channel and . to be rice and other· grains. The timer at this type of work. · ov.er ,18 million yards fro-m an- - Sacramento Va,Uey produces 90 ROCK PLANTS BUSY · other - 8.9 mile section, which pei· cent of the rice grown.in -the , The rock plants around Auburn were·- awarded. as-·scparate con- 11 Western states. are -still going sood. Jo'e · Chev tracts totalling over $10 inill!on. · Other crops grown in the more reaux at Meadow. Vista keeps .l Tl_le dredges recently .broke than 2% million acres of culti . nine _Engineers busy. California through one "plug1' in the chan- va'ted lanas surrounding Sacra . Rockat Pilot Hill has seven oper: nel and have only to dig out the mento make it the r.ation's larg ators. Miles at Cqlfax has five En- other ''plug" . a~d do some clean- est fr(;!Sh fruit and vegetable • gineers at the-plant on the Bear· up work before the entire _chan- . shipping point and home· of some :.-River- Hansen Bros, __screening nel job is finished, probably early of the, world's largest canneries. -plant (Jri thir Bear -Rive1: keeps next year. · - Lumber and forest products and two and sometimes tliree broth Full use of the waterway proj- petroleum and cement will also ers on the payroil. ect will have . to wait, however, constitute a large bulk of the Clements Rock at' Truckee are upon. completion of docking and cargo. . . r' in -the process of closing down materials-handling facilities at its Consultants estimate that the' their ope1~ation for the winter. ONE FINGER UP is the hand signal for 31 feet, as Gene Sul- Sa-cramento terminus, which will port will handle more than three- This plant worked two shifts -livan, deckhand on the Papoose, takes sounding out on the take some time lo1.1ger . .· . quarte1' million tons of cm~go by of .the an<.. looks like most s~ason catwalk over the area. where the dredge's hydraulic intake 1 1968 and that much additional place to go to for the next a good head- is-churning up the bottom ,of the deepwater channel and . WJ!EN- COMPLETED, tl!_e en- shipping, including 4 million tons couple of years. · pumping away the muck. Gene is al·so a 25-year me~ber of the tire project will bear a $55 mil- o"f petroleum and cement win Parker may get caught H. Earl !..tnion. \ - lion price tag and will have been transit the deep water chan~el. short trying to finish the Truckee' Brockway jpb. We hope the weather holds for ti·lem, as this is the· last section to be finished _on the .. short-cut. to the north Lshore area. ·. B~iggs -Conley- De)fnis · h a v e ·. holed through to Donner Sum -mit. They still . ha_~ e a full crew of Engineers . ..This j_ob will go · again next year on the sub-grad ing. Guy F. Atkinson ,at Emigrant Gap has paved the downhill lane · and are using it for. two-way traf fi~ while excavating the uphilr lane at Rancho Sierra. Briggs-Conley-Dennis are goirig two shifts at Cisco Grove with all · top producers at the controls. · GOES IN J:IERE:· The hydraulic e Papoose fs shown D IT COMES OUT HERE: A black stream of mud pours out Fredrickson & Watson have here at work in a stretch of the deepwat er ship cnannel where of the "snorkel" specially designed and built by Hydraulic close·a down their structure oper~ . a plug has just been cut tliroughr in the Cache -Slough area . . Dredging Co., disposing of muck- pumped up by the dredge. • ation for the winter but will be The A :frame boom controlling the suction intake is at the 'Papoose .from the bottom of the Sacram~nto-Yo lo deepwater back next ·year to finish up ~ front (right). Several hundred feet of flexiblerjointed- pipe on ship 'charnel. Th_e spoil is being placed on §._portion of Lower Fredrickson & ·8atson and Lew pontoons carries the .muck away at the _rear (left). ~Three shifts Prosp~ct Island acquired for this purpose by the Sacramento- Jones have shut most of their man the dredge on a 24-hour basi_s. Yolo Port District. jobs down on the Yolo Causeway. / . · u: ·c. DAVIS _ pleted the steel on the Retire- Donald M. _Drake Co. are still Lake dam are still e,mploying a thank Bob Baxter for his quick . Over · in Davis., · at the Univer- ment Building at 9th and 0. ·Con working on their power plant job lot l?f ,the prothers._This job will thip.king. He 'held Lloyd down on sity;-several ·contractors are busy. dnental -& Heller wie start th-;;ir at Union _Valley Power House . . ·go until bad weatl_ler stops them. the ground and smothered .. the .. Lathrop Co., Baldwin Construe- part of the building and complete ~ts-Hokin · & Gal van will be set- fire. the pe-nstock - - thl's J'ob. Sch\itt Const. Co. are still-clear- tion co·. and. Rothschild, Raffin it some time_ i~_19!34. · _ t1·ng 011 Le.rftz Constr. Co . . has started & Werrick are ail -busy on vari:--" Lentz Construction Co : are real- ~ M & K Corp. are making_good ing-for the Loon Lake area. ·on the new Rio Americano Senior , ous buildings. Baldwin has start- ly tearing up 3rd Street with their progress. on their power house ...... Fredrickson ·& Watsol)- are still - High School. Campbell Constr. __r ed their underground job for the pipeline job and will keep some job. The Deer borne Co. are set- on · their freeway - job west · of . Co. is the prime contractor, a:qd new .married student housing of the brothers busy for part of ting the penstock. Place~v~lle on Highway 5d, with · Lentz is subcontrac.ting the ex- unit. the ·:winter. At this 'writing, Hardiman Con. crusher .at Coon .Hollow ·and hot cavation and fill. - · In Woodland several small jobs ' The Peter Kiewitt Sons job in Co-. have over 1200 ieet of tunnel plant at Coloma. The Northeast Sewage Treat::- · are going, mostly job.:; that the 1Jnion Valley is near completion. and are drifting fast. They have I::.loyd Maxam was very .. badly ment Plant is just a Lout finished • c.ontractors are. trying to finish They have been 'moving· their also made _good progress on their· bunied -while he was working on but will see -only limited service up before the winter . ral.ns. e9-uiprri.'ent out before the snows . road-job into Bucks Island: the -grease. truck at Peter Kie- until the main trunk line is. com R; c: Mahon Co. · have com- · come. -.· J. A. -Jones· Const. Co. at Loon · wi~t's UniOJ! Valley . dam.'. Let's · 'pleted some time 11_cxtyear. · Page Ten E N G'l N E E RS N E W S December1 1962 Good Weal-her Hastens - - End of Jobs • Utah By JAY NEELEY, MERLIN-BOWMAN, JOHN-THORNTON, VANCE ABBOTT and-LAKE AUSTIN The largest highway contract out-of-work lisLhas been reason" - be held ·in Salt Lake City on De- ever to be let by -che Utah De -:-ably low .. At this -;;.riting there. ce1pber 14. - · partment of Highways is more are 70 "A" .operators and oilers .. The . btisirtess . representatives than half completed and ahe~d on the list in the Provo office. and office personnel here in Utah . of schedule, accordmg to the Gib Arch Dam Constructors .placed , wish to extend to all of our mem bons & Reed Co., · ccntractor on the last bucket of concrete on· -· b~~s ~nd their families the s·ea the project. the main part of the dam this son's best.. Mayyou and yours en,_ . Sixty per cent of the grading week, which means more I En- joy a •' joyous Christmas, and may and drainage contnwt · between gineers will be laid off. However, the New Year be filled with hap~ 8th and 18th South on Interstate there :Should be· work till late piiless, good health and prosper- Highway .15 west of downtown spring completing tJ!e dam struc- ity. · · Salt Lake is finished. This project ture over the spillway tunnel and required some 2.5 million cubic dismantling . the b a t c h plant; yards of borrow, a'nd the .road cableway and aggregate plant. contract· calls for completion of There is a race against the Ye·ar-End the project in 400 viorking days. weather by Witt ConstruCtion Co. This job has been supervised and Ralph Child Co. to complete by one of our brothers, Dave War boat ramps on either side of the nick, project superintendent un reservoir a couple of miles above .Slump der Ron Jones, area manager for the dam. This work wrll pr,obably I G i b b o n s & Reed. It started be held over till spring. around July 20, 1961, and' they SAFETY PROGRAM expect to be finished by autumn, The joi!'it safety program be 1963. tween the Union and S. F. Chern: At Vallej~ INDIAN SUMMER ical Co. is proving a success. An By AARON SMITH Due to the wonderful Indian on-the-job safety meeting is held Summer here in Utah, many of on the second Tuesday of each With the closing of the" year the brothers have been able ._to month, at which many construc 1962 almost in sight the work pic get in some extra hours; usually, tive suggestions are made by the ture ·for Vallejo is sfowing .dO:wn, at this time of year, the weather members, and accidents since with many jobs completed / and is .mighty cold and miserable. they began .have been minor. - many near completion. Many of the contractors in town Members working for the San D. D. Altermatt, and McGuire were able to finish a lot of work Francisco Chemical Co. should & Hester on the Solano Irriga that wasn't expected, and as a remember the union . meeting ;is tion District jobs have finished result, the out-of-work li!;it is not held the up. second Tuesday of each SCRAPER Sf'RtAD: This is part of the scraper spread on the nearly as large as ·in previous month at 6:00 p.m. in the Uintah Wunderlich job on. Highway 40 Vinell· job at Beaver, Utah. Good weather has allowed t he years. County Courthouse Auditorium. still has a little dirt work left ·and crews to make dirt fly, and like many other d irt jobs, it In downtown Salt Lake we have For the construction is still running with a skeleton members in should be finished by 'the yea r's end. the Federal Building, Prudential the Uintah Basin area, at s;oo crew. This job is about 90 - Savings Building, Mountain Fuel p.m. on the .second Tuesday ~ cent finished. Marin· ..Rock ; ~ wnC., Supply addition jot, hospital jobs Engineers, on the payroll for ore. About are doing the sub work and pav as well as the new gym going on Consolidated Western at Geneva · Best Gift lor ing· on the Wunderlich job; is · at this time. Yet with this work are now receiving the new wage about 80 per cent finished. J. M. and the alterations going on in rates. and conditions negotiated ·Pitcher Co. is doing the drilling, the other buildings, we still only under the Steel Erection Agree Family-Healthy PQJtterson keeping three rigs running. have about 35 brothers working ment. We wish more of our Continued from Page 1- Kaiser Steel, by the time this on these jobs. brothers could benefit by this goes to press, will be back on University in 1947 w1_t):J. a degree The road jobs are making hay agreement. I Wage Ea.rner - single shift operation, due to com in mathematics. right now, with scme of the The very fine weather in the "KEEP '63 ACCIDENT FREE" pletion of their contracts. scrapers and dozers working full southern area this fall has re We are passing on to you the After college he worked sev IRRIGATION JOBS blast from early morning to sun- duced the out-of-work list, but slogan that has been adopted by ·eral. years in "white collar" em' Joe Richards ls ;;iill doing sev-. down. also hastened comp1e1ion of some the National Safety Council for ployment, then switched to con . eral short jobs in cc.nnection with On Tiago's freeway job most of jobs. However, there has been the Solano Irriga this coming year. struction and joined Local 3 in tion Disthct our brothers are getting in some some new work !ct in the ex We hope to be able to step up projects. · 1950. good hours to beat the weather. treme south that will provide our safety efforts to further this Syar & Harms are runnin On the 24th South Freeway there work for a few people. goal of the National Safety Coun He now operates a dragline and full crew on their senior citiz\J s is some equipment on the clear- JOBS CLOSING cil. loader, is married, with a daugh Leisure Town project at Vaca- · ing, and if the snow doesn't get Grade work on W. W. Clyde's As more and more of our men ter 13 and son 9, and resides at ville. They have model horhes too deep the job should be able job at . Moab is down into the start taking an active interest in 487 Mark West Station Rd., Wind ready for showing. Syar & Harms' to work this wintel·. Gibbons & weeks, ·with the gravel going on. our safety problems, we are be sor. .is also busy on severnl other proj- Reed'~ job al(lo should be able to This is the access road to Potash. ginning to see results. And from his owr; account, he ects in Vallejo and vicinity, keep work this winter, M. K.'s job is . .vinding up the We are getting more calls from lives a busy and happy life, wor'k· ing the brothers bnsy. Bob Weyher Construction has lining of the tunnel at Moab. · people in the field a~ time goes · ing at a craft he enJoys and fill The Gordon Ball/Syar • & some pipe work goir.t on around They are well ahead on the D & by~ and we have . been able to ing his leisure with varied and Harms job at Vacaville is still town. · R G Railroad alignment at Cisco. straighten out most of the prob rewarding hobbies. going, but they have slowed down Utah Sand & Gravel plants are The pumping station b e in g lems that have heen brought to "As a hobby," Patterson says, considerably and laid off several starting to reduce th£: working built by Fluor Corp. in the Book brothers. our attention. We apprec;iate the "I O\vn a one-half interest in a force and their equipment is Cliff area of Eastern Utah has calls from our members who . en Luscomb airplane which I have Shellmaker Dredge is just . headed for the r_epair shops. The _smoothed out and is going well counter safety problE-ms, and we been flying for several years about through on the dredge por prestress yard is still working, with approximately eight En hope that there will be even more from the Sonoma county airport. tion of the Vallejo Marina Vista hopes to go on at le::!st- another gineers on the job. of them. ' ..~. I enjoy flying to Mexico on vaca project. Syar & Harms are ~ · month. The Cottonwood plant Vinnell's project at Beaver is Last month this report in our tion for swimming and fishing. ting in the levees. • has had some breakdown prob- finally in full swillg, and the paper asked the fellows to Fredrickson & Watson, Lentz, send "I am also very interested in lems recently:.._ brothers are making the dirt fly. in suggestions for changes in the Hess and Dubach, V'Jeather' per KENNECOTT LAYOFF If , the weather holds there is Greek history, literature and. phi mitting, should finish the heavy State's construction safety orders. . losophy as well as the contempo At the Kennecott Copper Mine enough work to iai>t until near We have received_ some sugges work on their freeway job at rary writings of Aldous Huxley in Bingham Canyon, because of the end of the year. tions already, and we hope to Dixon by Christmas. and George Orwell. the reduced work week, some of Work in the N01thern area is hear from lots more of you in the George Slinson in N a p a is our brothers have been laied off, holding up very well in spite of near future. "By comparing my income as a keeping the brothers busy with but fewer than the other unions. the heavy rain we had. W. W. As we approach the holiday white collar worker c:fter finish several jobs from Vallejo to We are hoping that the mine will Clyde Co. is still working about season, we would Like to ·remind - ing college and mj income after Napa. go back on a ;:;even-day week 100 brothers ,on the Willard Bay you that the best present you can joining Local Union No. 3, I can Basalt Rock thus far has not soon. project. Most of this will shut give your family is a healthy reaaily appreciate the value that had ' any layoffs. They are still Our Chief Steward, Reed Erick- dowri when the weather gets bad. wage-earner, so be alert! a good union has for its members. running the hot plant and are son, and Tom Bills, shovel stew- $tl·ong Co., from Springville, · "As our society increas·es its paving all over Nap·a and Solano ard, K~y Stewart, crane steward, have moved in on their Weber pressure· upon us to conform, all counties, trying to bP.at the rains. and Joe Badovinatz, dozers, have Canal job west of Ogden. They FREE HEARING A§DS to the same pattern, it is . ever Congratulations LQ Brother Ed \ been doing a very good job on the are planning to work all winter ·NEW YORK- F.r e e hearing more important for every mem Russell who recently signed R safety -program with full coopera- while the water table- is low aids will be supplied retired mem ber to attend his union meetings agreement with Local 3, u tion of the company weather permitting. ' bers of the National Maritime Un and participate in both the. gov purchasing Hal's E q u i p m en t Work in the Provo area gen- Don't fol'get the monthly meet- ion under the NMU Pension & ernment of his union and of his Rental in Napa. Ed is the only erally is coming to an end, but ing in Ogden, December 10, and Welfare -Plan, Pres. Joseph Cur country by expressing his indi rental in Napa who has search due to the beautiful weather our the quarterly meeting :which will ran has announced. vidual voice." lights available. Good luck. .,,) __ o.;l.•li- .. , , • . )'l.o'r;J;"!~r .,.,,, ; .. ,.:; _-.~/f;· F~ 1>i.ll ;. 1· ·r .• ~ f_ ]._~ .. -·~----~,. ·~- ... ~ .u .,,, ·:··· • - •'J ~ Page Eleven ::-anta ~ Ret,sa.- ' ' -.. ~·~::,. OperatinCJ Engineers + + + Rain. I fficia·l D·i-reclory -But Still ' ' /~ '· MAIN OFFIC,E-SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 47 4 VALENCIA Tel: HEmlock 1-1568 Working AL CLEM, Business Manager ••• •••• •••_ , ••••••••...... 697-6798 --. PAUL EDGECOMBE, President ..•.....· ..•..•.••.... DElaware 4-0419 :By RUSSELL SWANSON Jerry DOWD, V. President, Dist. Represe-ntative; UNion 7-9369 (Saratoga) · and LOU :BARNES W. V. MINAHAN, Recording-Secretary ...... Fireside 5-2616 (San Mateo) H. T. PETERSON, Treasurer and Representative ... ESsex 7:6 1 OS (San Jose) lila Work in the Santa Rosa-Ukiah ART PENNEBAKER, Business Representative .... Clifford 4-8681 (Orinda) ~rea is 'still going along even GEORGE BAKER, Business Representative ...••...•... .. JUniper 6-4423 · though we have had a few rains. BOB SKIDGE L, Business Representative ..••••...... VA 4-1374 · · P e t e r Kiewit DALE MAR'R; Safety Engineer ...... • ; •••••.- Hil ltop 7-3668 (Livermore) 'Sons are· still DANNY 0. DEES, Apprenticeship ....•••.•... ' •..••... Plaza 6-3432 busy on their freeway job. Ar- ' thur B. Siri, Bob Rapp, Argonaut SAN MATEO,· California Construction Co. and v a r i o u s 1527 South "B" Street Flres·ide 5 -7237 other contractors in the area are BILL RANEY, Business Representative .....· •.••..•.... EM e rson 8-5690 still worktng. Ball & Simpson DAN MATIESON, Business Representative ...•••• , •••... JUno 9-.0799 ' and Guy F. Atkinson Co. are SAN· RAFAEl, California finishing up on · their freeway 701 Mission Avenue jobs at Windsor and Healdsburg. GLenwood 4-3565 FACE-LIFTING FOR . SANTA ROSA: This is the start -of T. J. STAPLETON, Business Representative • • • • • • • • • . • • . • 479:0881 Up to this writing we have demolition for the Santa Rosa Urban Renewal Project. Old been going very ,well, with most houses and stores. are crushed like match sticks to· make room VA-llEJO, California of the brothers still work~ng on for the new public library to be built on this site. 2172 Springs Road Midway 4-2667 a multitude of jobs. Our out-of- AARON S. SMITH; Business Representative .. , , •••••••. M ldway 2-9634 .ork list has been small for this rains coming this will certainly for this ~to be approved, and this OAKLAND, California •time of year, and we' certainly be one for next year. is only on·e in a ·series of steps hope this continues, at least to 1444 Webster Street TWinoaks 3-2120 0. C. Jones were successful to be taken. Of. course, we are the holidays. DON KINCHLOE, District Representative , ••... ;: . 837-74 18 (Danville) bidders' on a county secondary hoping for the coming season. NORRIS CASEY, Business Representative .. ••• . MUibe.rry 5-4341 (Concord) NEW YORK road job at Santa Rosa for -$413,-· Total Redwood ·Empire road L. L. LAUX, Business Representative ...... LAndscape 4-4023 HOWARD WYNN, Business Representative ...... KEIIog 2-4780 In Lake county two projects 000, due to start in the spring of construction job· outlay for the · JAMES' IVY, Business Representative ... '. .. . ACademy 8-2968 (Martinez) have been approved by the State '63. Also there will be approxi year · of 1963-64 will be about F. 0. WALKER, Business Representative.. ... GReenleaf 1-2905 (Union Cify) mately one-half mile of two-lane $11,000,000 for the four counties. STAN LEY GARBER, Business Representative ... ·. • • • • • • . . • • 53 8-4069 Highway Commission for the . - coming year-one in the High highway for surfacing and grad . Demolitioi1 sta~·ted last week STOCKTON, California lands, approximately 2 miles O·f ing along with drainage facilities _for the Urban Renewal program on the· Longvale road, east of in Santa Rosa, the first phase of 2626 No. California St. HOward 4-7687 Lakeshore drive; the second, WALTER TALBOT, District Representative .. • ••• ~ ••.•.. HOward 4-1 092 about 9.3 miles designated to Dos Rios. This .job was awarded which included .the wrecking of AL McNAMARA, Business Representative ...... •...1 HOward 4-0706 . become freeway, running be- to John M. Blair Consti·. Co. of four houses and small1businesses MICHAEL KRAYNICK, Business Representative ..•...... 465-4961 tween St. Helena Creek to 5.9 Hayward for $117,850. by the Cleveland Wrecking Co. · ' MODESTO, California miles north of Putah . Creek ATOMIC PLANT to make way for the .new library building. As this program pro 1521 K Street LAmbert 2-0833 roughing and resurfacing two The P. G. & E. Atomic Power GLEN I'{_ (20BYNS, Business Representative . .•• , , •• , , ••. LAmbert 2-7632 lanes - will run approximately Plant to be constructed at Bo gresses· with realignment, park ways, etc., it will mean more EUREKA, California -~3~~~~~t:;he~e ~re __ in. th~ 1~63- dega Head at a cost of 61 million dollars has gotten State a.pproval work for the Engineers. 2806 Broadway /' Hillside 2-7328 WARREN McN amara Construction ' Co. and will _file. LEMOINE, District Repr-gsentative ....••.••. ·. H II Iside 2-8628 nexLfor final.. clear- · SPECIAL ELECTION RAY COOPER, 'Business Representative .... .' .••.••.•. . HIII dide 3-1814 of Burlingame were· low bidders , ance from the Atomic Energy · at $2,108,572 for the 3.6 miles of Coinimssion for a construction William Grader, the late Con FRESNO, California · freeway at Cloverdale. Wi~h the permit. It will take several weeks gressman .Clem . Miller's field 3121 East Olive ADams 3 ~ 3148 representative, has won the nod JOSEPH- MILLER, . District Representative ...... ••••. ; .. BAldwin 2-8232 from the Democratic party and B. F. HELLING, Business Representative ...... ••••- ; . BAldwin 7-37 64 the· majority of the Labor move GLENN MULLOWNEY, Business Representative ..•••... BAldwin 2-0288 ment in Sonoma county to run MARYSVILLE, California for congress in the special elec 1010 Eye Street SHerwood 3:7321 tion to be held in January. Mr. HAROLD HUSTON, District Representative, ...•.••• • . SHerwood 2-1728 Grader has promised to work on C. R. VAN WINKLE, Business Representative .. :- .••... SHerwood 2-27 47 the platform of the late Clem W . R. WEEKS, Business Representative ...... ; •..... SHerwood 3-9588 Miller and push through Con · REDDING, California gress the various projects which 1054 Tehama Street CHestnut 1-0158 are now being processed t~rough J . B. JENNINGS, District Representative ..•••.•••••... CHestnut 1-2773 the House. These entail approxi · SID McBROOME, Business Representative . ••.....• ..•. CHestnut 3-4256 mately $73,000,000 for the Red TOM ECK, Business Representative . ·.....•••.•.•••. CHestnut 1-5338t I wood Empire and most certainly SACRAMENTO, California mean work for the Operating En 2525 Stockton Blvd. Gladstone 7-5795 gireers. ERNEST NELSON, District Representative ...••••••... GLadstone 7-2471 · Mr. Grader is · well known in ED HEARNE, Business Representative ...... GArden 8-2515 WILLIAM METTZ, Business Representative .. YOrktown 7-5006 (Fair Oaks) political circles, but less well to AL DALTON, Business Representative ..... Niagara 4-2565 (Pollock Pines) ,the pubJ!c, so · we urge everyone CLEM .HOENER, Business Representative . ... YUkon 8-2178 (Orangevale) ~o vote; and those who haven't registered, please do so and help , SAN JOSE, California us do a selling job' to tbe public. 760 Emory Street CYpress 5 -8788 A. J. HOPE, Financial Secretary and District Representative ...... •...,YOrkshire 7-2942 (Los Altos) LYNN MOORE, Business Representative ...... ·...... : . 243-67 42 W. HARLEY DAVIDSON, Business Representative .. PA 4-5490 (Watsonville) Labor Sets L.A .. JAMES N. HALL, Business Representative ...... 241 -6467 (Santa Clara) SANTA ROSA, California Organizing 3913 -Mayette Liberty 6-2487 RUSSELL SWANSON, District Representative ...••••••.. Liberty, 5--d414 LOU BARNES, Busine ~s Representative .. . .. • .• •.•• .... Liberty 2-5948 Plan RENO, Nevada 18S .Martin Avenue FAirview 9-0236 WASHINGJ'ON-The AFL-CIO H. L. SPENCE, Di strict Representative ...••••.••.•... FAi rv-iew 2-1420 Exec'Utive Council har: approved BUFORD. BARKS, Business Representative . . • • . • . . • • 355-9523 (Sparks) funds and manpower to launch a· pilot organi~ing drive in the SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Los Angeles inetropolit<)n area in 1969 S. Main Street HUnter 6-7 401 JAY NEELEY, District Representative . ...•• •• ••••.. . CRestwood 8-9628 D-ON'T TAKE ~ CHANCES 1963.' ' LAKE AUSTIN, Business Representative .••••••••.•••..... 467-5724 The drive's objective is . 5,000 I WITH SMOOTH TIRES! unorganized firms employing PROVO, Utah more than 750,000 workers. 165 West 1st North . . FRanklin 3-8237 Pres. George Mean:' reported JOHN THORNTON, Bus. Re presentative .. SKyline 6-4915 (Ame~ican Fork) VANCE ABBOTT, Business Representative ...... 798-7123 (Spanish Fork) that AFL-CIO affiliates cooperat we use ••• rrl!ffjt®<'<<<<<<<<<<< ing on the ddve have ·reached OGDEN, Utah una~imous agreement· on alloc-at 2538 Washington Blvd. · EXport 4-1011 f7mut ing 400 organizing targets and M. F. BOWMAN, Business Representative ....••••• : •••..... 393-8728 1/ ~;, ~ ~di- that a joint . committee of local· HONOLULU, Hawaii and international union officials 2344 E. 12th. Street Oakland 2305 So. Beretania St. HO.nolulu 565-418 KE /2-6323 is working out targets among the HAROLD LEWIS, District Representative ...... HOnolu lu 775-038 other firms. · BERT NAKANO, Business Representative ..••• ; ••••.•..... Hllo 665-676 .; I P~ge Twelve £ N G I ,N E E R S N E W S December, 1962 1 ------~~------~----~------~~------' When Doctors Agree Published each month by Local Union No. 3 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (Northern California, Northern Nevada, States of Utah and Hawaii.) .Offjce: 474 Valencia St., San Francisco 3, Calif. · AL CLEM , _____- _,_,_, _,_·_c_,_,_,_.__ Editor and Business Manager . PAUL EDGECOMBE .... : .. ~ .. :-~ ...... President • JERRY DOWD ------·-----: __: ______Vice~President : W. V. MINAHAN ____Recording-Corresponding Secretary ' A. J. HOPE ------·-'·---'------·-·------· -Financial SecretarY. H. T. PETERSEN ... :.-:.~------·-·--- - ·"----··----~------·- : .. Treasurer A Time to Be Merry THE-HOLIDAY ·SE-ASON is fast approaching. Soon the familiar carols will be .heard again ..• " 'Tis the season to be jolly ...". . We hope that everyone will be merry indeed. But at some time or another, Ulis holiday season, we think most people will be thoughtful, too. For this year, as in too many of the recent years, ·when we utter the seasonal phrase, "Peace on earth and good will toward men," we will be ,unc9mfortably aware of the inter national problems and tensions and know that it is a wish for the future and not a · fact of the present. In our country the~e are problems, too . .The economy has rallied from its' allarming drop in midsummer. · But while there -are more people at work than ever before in our history, the "hard core," long-term unemployment lists have not been reduced materially, and there has been no real sol~tion found to the problems of automation and techologi cal unemployment. * * * YET THERE IS GROUND, too, for thankfulness and hope. Consumer Advice We can be grateful that our national leadership met' the recent international crisis with all necessary firmness, yet 0 with moderation when the firmness had won its point. And , ., we can be hopeful that as long as the lines of coml!lunications ter liB I . w uc remain open between nations, peace may be ach1eved. · • * * * By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS The record changers fourid on moderate-price THE YEAR-END is also a time for stock-taking and It's no longer a simple matter to buy a phono- players are · reasonably satisfactory, like the late resolution for the coming year. And when we turn our graph. Whether you are seeking one -for yourself models of the _v-M changers, found on many of thoughts in this direction, we in Local 3 can indeed be happy. or Christmas giving, you walk into a store -or look the well-known brands of record players.- Our collective bargaining this year produced solid wage gains at the ads and you're swamped in a sea of strange Quality of speakers, however, is likely to be less and many improvements in fririge benefits and· conditions new words and claims. depend-able,· although · improving. Large speakers in , our major agreements. We are already enjoying these "Stereo" has become the big word in sound cannot operate on higher tones; small speakers do gains and can look forward to an even more prosperous new equipment. Stereo recof'd players and radio re- not operate well on lower tones: Manufacturers try year as the future negotiated improvements come due. ceivers are being heavily promoted with_no actual to solve this by providing several speakers of vary All of us in Local 3, as a union, have the respect of our standards of quality they must meet. Stereo phono- ing size. employers, of the business world as a w hole, of government graphs are advertised for as little as $60. Yet, some However, numbers of speakers provide volume agencies we deal with-in sum, of the entire community hi-fans may spend $200 just for an amplifier-one but ·not necessarily better · quality. Nor is size because there is general recognition that the responsible component of a stereo sound system. necessarily dependable, since a manufacturer ca:n leadership' of the union .seeks to follow, in serving the inter extend the. cone of a 4-inch speaker to 15 inches ._ and magnet, W' ests of the membership, the same balance of firmness and · Stereo is a system of surrounding you with if he wants to. The size of the cone coil and motor efficiency are ·an im moderation that is serving the nation so well in this difficult soun-d from two or m~re speakers, as contrasted to the voice time. · "monaural" sound- from one speaker. The separate portant. A high-quality speaker feels heavy be speakers, ·usually placed some distance apart, de- cause it usually has a heavy magnet and is housed . * * * wood cabinet to minimize vibration. SO LET THE YULETIDE joy enrich us all at this season, pending on the size of the room, are supposed to in a thick and let the bells ring out a year that was good on the whole provide_a "live" effect. The only alternative fo~ . families who ~ant both and ring in one that we hope will be even better. And to all, As a result of the pell-mell advertising with no stereo and real high fidelity is to buy good,quality a Very Mer:[y Christmas and a Happy -and Prosperous New standards of quality, many families now confuse components and have them assembled in a sound Year. · · · stereo with high-fidelity. Hi-fi means good-quality system. However, complete stereo systems, includ, reprod.uction electrically amplified. You can, of ing radio receiver, are expensive because you need course, have high-fidelity reproduction with either two of almdst everything. It is difficult to assemble monaural -or stereo playing equipment, although a good-quality complete stereo system for even as Victory stereo is considered to be a further development much as $400. A complete system requires a stereo Well-Merited FM-AM radio receiver, stereo-amplifier, two speak- I of hi-fi. le and a cartridge for the pick-up 6 the experts with sharp pencils The problem of the low-priced "stereo" record ers, a turntab EVER SINCE November players is that they are not hi-fi to start with, and arm. has been going over the election results. adding a speaker or even several as some sets do, Some discount houses and mail-order suppliers • Actually, there should be no room for argument about produces some stereo effect but not actual high- d 'Eureka-July 16, Tuesday, ~806 Broadway, 8:00 p.m. • Notice of Redding_c_July 17, Wednesday, ' S•n -·I day, S.Fi~::~~~~!. F. Labor Temple, Widno~ 16th & _- Engineers Bldg,, Lake Blvd., 8:00 Capp Sts., 8:00 p.m. ·' S·e·m:i-Annual p.m. Eureka-Jan. 15, Tuesday, 2806 Oroville ...:..o... July 18, Thursday, ; Bro-adway, 8:00 p.m . . Prospectors Village, ·oro vi 11 e Redding-Jan. 16, Wednesday, , eting . ,Dam Blvd., 8:00 p.m. Retail Clerks Bldg.,/ 900 Locust January 12; Saturday, St., -8:00 p.m. S a-n Francisco l a .b or \· Oroville..:...... l;an. 17, Thursday, ' Temple • . 16th & ·capp . , _ Prospectoi's· c:Village; 0 r o vi 11 e August _.~ Sts •• '·1 :00 p.m. ' II.Dam Bivd., 8:00 ~.m. - Stockton-'- Aug. 1, Thursday, Marysville_____; April ll, · Thurs· Engineers Bldg., 8:00 p.m.' ar- - Februa·rr day, Elks Club, 920 D st., 8:00 · San Jose~Aug. 5, .1\'Ionday, La~ p.Jll.. bor Temple, 45 Santa Teresa, 8:00 Stockton-Feb. 1, F:dday, · En~ p.m. · -, HALF. SAFE: One engine of this special two-engine rig was_ gin~ers Bldg., 8:00 p,m. - M Oakland·..:,- Aug. 8, Thui:sday, turned off when -Brother George Wilburn Of" the Eu reka area San Jose-Feb: 4,-Monday, La-, ·. f:JY · 2315 Valdezi-8:00 p.m. : · ~tarted to fill the tank witn gasoline, but the other e~gine was bor ,Temple, 45 Santa · Teresa, -- ·. · · · Sacram,ent07May 2, Thursday; Sacramento..,.,..:Aug. 1~ , Tuesd_~y, running. Brother Wilburn received second and third degree 8;()_0 p.ni. . . . . CELT Bid' g., -2525 .c:tock-ton. B. lv· .. d., ·:.. C8:EOOL 'I: Bldg., 252fi !)toc:kto_n Blvd., burns,· and the ·rig was a complete loss. : Sacramento.,.,.. Feb. ·12, 'fties~ay, ~ _ .. _ - CEL'l;' Bldg., -2525 stockton Blvd., s:oo p.m. · · p.m. 8:00-p:m:· · · .. 'stockton-:-May 6, -Monday; E~- . Oa}iiand- Feb. ·14; Thursday-, gineers Bldg., 8:00 p,m. . . . Nove,mber Notictrof Labor Tempie, 2315 Valdez; 8: 00 · Oak,hind _:May 8, Wednesdi!Y, Se-ptember_ 'Stockton- Nov. 4, -Monday, En- _ p.m> - ··_ · - · · · · , . . Labor Temple, 2315 Valdez, 8:00 . gine~rs. Bldg:,· 8:00 "p.m. ~ Declaration ". - r.: . p.m . .. . Fres~o-S ept. 3; Tuesday,· 312i - ~ - Eas(.Olive St., 8:00 p;m. · Oakland- Nov. 6, Wednesday, w3tsoit'ville :.:i. May 16, Thurs - _ .. ___ , ..' . . Lab~r Temple, 2315 Valdez, "8:00 11·· · {;~ Mclrc. h ~ day, Veten!ns ·• Qkiah__;Sept. 5, Thursday, J:-a :Of Capdldacy ~~moriaf Bl~g., p .m. ~ ,_, -~ ~ .. The_ By-Laws of · Operating · ·= F(:re~no ·': i....;_ _,, March 5; Tuesday, 2~5 'l;'hird St., 8:00. p.m. bor Temple, State St., 8:00 'p.m. s ·acramento-Nov. 12, Tuesday, Engineers Lo-cal Union 3 pro- 8:00 p.m; Salt' Laked)ity..;.cSept:. 13,' Fric :naf.:E~s.t O~ive ' St., CELT Bldg., 2525 Stockton Blvd., - vide as follows: ' . Ukiah :• March 7, Thursday, La day; Teamsters Hall, 443: s: 6th. 8:00p.m. . "Article XII ' ·(B) Secth)n 1 (a)..:.. bor 't~ll:li;>te, State St.,-8:00 p.~. East,:8:oo: p.m. .·.· Declaration of Ca.ndi \ FOR SA,LE - . ADAl\IS GRADER, 512, . International JOHN DEERE LOADER & ATECO DEEP FREEZE, 'Chest T ype Frost D.f Grievance 1 . Dun1p Truck,' K-7, Roller, Tandem _o_n_e-·"'HD 11, with Hydraulic RIPPER, 1400 hrs, $3000, terms:· H . Master·: 3:06 cu. ft. :Make offer. H. D~o.,.z""E'"R~. Buffalo · 5-8 tons, T railer, Home G. Lloyd, 1755 Oak Park Blvd., M. Stone, 477 Jean Stl·eet, .Oakland - Tilt, and Unit on rear. TRACTOR, made. W-ater Wagon Tank, 1.000 Pleasant Hill, Calif. Ph. 934-6602. 10, Calif. Phone:- TEmple bar 6-4315 . . - one, D 2. with mounted·· Highway Gals., oth,er Miscellaneous .. . Henry Reg. No. 369919. Reg. No. 999191. -Committee Model Auger. Digs to 16 . ft.· .deep. . Faber, ,2254 Williams. Palo Alto, 'Yepe Yeghoian, 964 Scott Lane, Calif. Phone . DA 2-1293. Reg. No. , TUBELESS TIRE, · 7x17-5 (6 - ply) HOlliE, 2 bedroom, hard1-·ood floors: Walnut Creek, Calif. Phone: YEl· 239629. Monitor .Washer, Fireplace Screen, 6 ·years . . old, newly painted, real In accordance . with the By lows time 5-7053 or ~ YEllowstone 5- Barbells, Trailer Hitch, Electric . cute, extra lot, furnished or un Laws of Local 3, election of · - • 4875. Reg. No. 403912. ··· · y·- 12 FOOT. BOAT, A-1- co,;dition; Sea . heater, Clothesline reels, Desk and furnished,. many extras, r easonable: three members of the District TRAILER-14' Teardrop . . Sleeps _two. King, 7.lj2 Horse' Power Motor, only chair, Tool boxe·s, storage cabinets, Edward ·D , Sylvain, 1609 Stinnyva:le Cooking Facilities.· Excellent for used once, 2 Wheel Trailer, Like etc. - Edward D . Sylvain;- 1609 Sun Ave., Walnut Creek,' Calif. Phone Grievance Committee ·will be 7 hunting and fishing. Best offer. BilL New. Emil Hollingsworth, 36229 nyvale- Ave., Walnut Creek, Calif.' 935-2904. Reg. N·o. -819275. , held in ,-·each district at the · .Adams, 2215 Stuart St., Berkeley, Magellan .Dr., Fremont. Calif. Phone Phone· 935-2904. Reg.. No. 819275.- • ----- ==-~----:-;;- SY 3-1849. - INCOME PROPERTY, 5 . years old, Calif. Phone: TH 3-7342. Reg. No. JIB 20-F:OOT. Mak~ offer. Lou Eck, first District Meeting of the ' 1067 411. - ...... 2 & 3 bedroom duplex, elec kitchens, HOME, Esp:i:rto, _Calif: - $18,000. 3 19943 Redwood Road, Castro Valley, sun decks, basements. ·-Larger unit first calendar quarter. " . FORD LOADER · & SCRAPER,' 48 ·. In ·. bdr. adobe . block constr., 2 baths, Calif. Phone JE 7-8194. Reg. . No. also has fireplace, bar-b-que, . large ternational. 5 yd . . dump-'-$175.00. radiant heat, blt.-in kitchen, , fire- · 346986. . covered patio, fishpond, waterfall; The ~ foliowing. pertinent sec 406 . BUCKEYE DITCHER, 10 . ft. place, 2 ca'r garage. Lot. 50 x 150. DIGliT PLANT-M;-:o-:cn-;-tg"'o"'m- e"'r"'y"'-w=a"'rd3 , ideaL climate; 15 min. to Richmond. tion of the By-La:ws .should be boom""'$1,550.00. Louis A.- . Wood,. . 30 .mi.. from . Sacramento. Write Jim .. 750 W - Aircooled motor, self-start-. May be sen at 535 Vaqueros Ave., ··noted: · 2525 West Ave. 133rd.; San Leandro, Hiltori,. Box 297, Esparto, Calff. Reg. 'ing. Also '12 -volt .· battery starter, · Rodeo, · Calif., .Robert Bennett, No. CaliC Phone: EL 7-2445.· Reg. No. N o. 745041. $75 - E: E. Spittler, ' 865 E . 5th, 74285. "Article X, Section 3- No 1\Iem 572750 . . so ACREs=--=F=-A=-=R=lliLAND - Lassen Hanford, Cali(. ·. Ph: I.,U 4-5120. . ~E:w·=--:""c"'o"'N=T=IN=E"'Nc.,TT"'A-:-=-L-=D-=I=E"'S"'E=L Electric G'enerator, AC 3 HP. En- · ber shall be eligibl" fox electi.on, 14" CHROli-IE WHEELS - $70.00. 3 County - sudveyed, cleared, level. 10 ACRES near planned resort and be elected or hold lhe ' JIOsition of $8,000.00 total price with 10% down closed with panel-can be used in TWO'S ALUMINUM VALVE COV retirement community of ·Christmas Roller - $1600 - - Chris Holst, 2262 ' Grievance Committee Delegate un ERS-fits 277 to 318 cubic inch and $72 per month at 6%. Ray Vailey, Oregon. Only $115 down and , 'less he is a. j}[ember in good stand . Plymouth- $80.00 .. Harry Guynn, 202 Flaniken, 4409 Crestridge, Fair $2D per mo. Write: Gordon Call, ~t~·-atJ63~b. Dr., San Jose, Calif., ing in the pa1·ent Local Union, a Glen Parkway, ·Brisbane, Calif. Oaks, Calif. Phone: 967-6229. Reg. 653 So. 11th St., San Jose, Cali!. r~g·istered ~voter in t he :Disfrict in . Phone: JU 5-8525. Reg. No. 987347. No. '983216. No. 939855. PUMP, 15 H.P. with 150 ft. setting. whiclt , lie·. is a candidate when '' . ~ 4 LOTS, 1 h'"o"'u-:-:s~e~m~o-:;d~e=rn=-,-::::fu=r=nished - Good · condition. $400. Roy Scar nominated, and shall have be.eii • 3 cabins partly furnished, sell or brough, P. 0. Box 156, Victor, Calif. continuously' a 1\Iember of the trade for '2-bedroom mod. trailer, Phone ENdicott 9-2963. Reg. No. parent Local Union for not less - . . ·some cash. Husband is bedfast. Otis 285495. -- . . than two yea.rs . ne~t preceding.~ his Gardner, Local 3, No. 698485. Red CLARINET, '1961 :Model, wooden like noniination; is .not an Oiificer or on ding, California. the full-time payroll of. the . Loca_l MOV. IN ~G? new. ' $85.00 or best offer. Also Union, and is.... not" an owner-oper.:. l\IODELl5iJ-TC .P&H TRUCK CRANE Portable .Emerson Record Player. ato.r or contractox:_. _ or ~trade fo·r Bucyrus Erie Hydro_ with records. $15 .00. William Spel\ Crane or equaL Also 1951- Chevrolet cer, 563 Lisbo.n St:, Daly City, Calif. "No. member sl•all be nominated . ;, s(. you-- will not miss one l'h Ton COE Trailer Tow-Er. Very Phone: PL 5-7586 .. Reg. No. 373510. unless he is present at the meet good condition. $350 or trade on-flat ing or unless he has filed ··. with bed dump. C. M. McGinty, . Rt. 1; ~IO.BILE HOlliE, 1958 Paramount, 2 the Recording-Corresponding Sec ,/ issue of Engineers News Box 1581, Shingle Springs, Calif. Bedroom, F .K. 10' x 47' Cooler, retary a statement in 'vriting, Ph: 4881. Washer and Alum. Awning Incl. -21h - signed by him, to the effect that years to . pay. Move right iiJ, corner he is eligible to -be a Grievance BE SURE to advise us of GOLDENRE.TRiEVERPUPPIES _space. Just the thing to work on Committee Delegate . aml will ac AKC registered, finest show and Oroyille ·· Dam. George Bone, Al's cept the non1ina.tiou :if· nOmina.te___!l." change of addfess. obedience champion stock. Whelped Mobile Oasis, Palermo, Calif. . Space .·your· Nov. 27; · see and select around No. 32. Phone: 533-4630. Reg. No. Christmas. claim in January, H. 1027804. REG. NO. Rossman, 2 Meadow Way, Fairfax; FiSHING~B~O~A~T~---~24~ft-,,~1~l~O-h~.p.7 TO SWAP Calif. Phone: GL 3-0892: Reg. No. Chrysler marine eng., ",Apelco" 2- 1113124. ~ . . 'GLASSPAR FISHING BOAT, 25 hp\ way ·radio, double planked . mahog -'Johnson Motor and· T-railer, for car HOj}JE & INCOME, 1-2 and .1-3 bed any hull, cabin-sound. $1,800.00 cash, or guns. About $350 value, Richard room house and garages, on half ·firm, no trade. See at Kappas Boat Cox, P.O. Box 122, · Groveland, Cal NAME acre. In sight of new Veterans Hos· Harbor, Berth No, 26; Sausalito. ifornia. Ph: WOrth 2-7293. No. pifal in Martinez. $16,000.00. Terms. J. Naughten, 1127 Kearny, San ' 1011135. ' . VI' .. A. Seemann, 139 Clipper Lane, Francisco, Calif. Phone: GA 1-8697. · OLD ADDitESS Martinez, Calif. Phone: 228-1101. :fteg. . No. 1051539. · . · Reg. No. 251068. 'l'RA:I:N;--Lionel,""H.O gage, complete WANTED To· BUY -CITY BEAUTIFULBICYCLE .- Never been layout Cost over $30.0.00. Sell for ridden, built for - two. Will take $125.00c Frank· Rees, · 340G Somerset EJ;,ECTRIC HOIST, one-half or one • NEW ADDRESS $59.00. Marvin Thomas, 211 W. 2nd Ave., Castro Valley, Calif. · Phone: ·. ton capacity. Single phase current• Ave., · Olivehurst, Calif. Reg. · No. LU 2-5259. Reg. No. 657828. , 1 AI Pierzina, 1054 Lindell Drive, 540447. TRAILER -=-sparfun-:-43' x_' 8'~ Richmon·d, Calif, Phone 'LA 5-2165. CITY __:.___~-'---~--"'--'----'-__;_---:---- SAWJ\UL.-::L:--,""'$1:-",5;;-;00.00. Diesel Engine bedroom, 1954 model, pccupied . by Reg; No. 754237. for power. · ·2 man milL ·wm- ·cut older couple, no childre·n. New vinyl Clip and mail: to Engineers News, 3,000 fee.t per . day.. W_jH · trade._.for plastic Awning. Make offer. W. A. CEDAR RAPIDS CRUSHER; Port •real estate: Ralph Kidwell, 21575 Seemann, 139 Clipper Lane, :Mar able. Walt Robinson, Route 2, Box .474''vaiencia st., San Fraiidsco 3, 'Calif. Norman Drive; Los Gatos, Calif. tinez, Calif. Phone: 228-1101. Reg. 97, Crescent City, · Calif. Reg. No. Phone: EL 4-2901~ Reg. No. 947108 . No. 251068 •. 1006648. ..;,, ... ,;;,;_:~ May 1963. The dirt and rock will be finishea about December -15th, the con crete is -about half-way done. At this time .we have 35 brothers , .,:. working at this tunnel. Mor:rison-Knudsen freeway at Fields Landing is working every ' day that it doesn't. rain, moving Operating Engineers Local 3 members working on the right along. Art Meyers is fore final stretch of Bechtel's 255-mile man on this job, Frank Wright natural gas pipeline in on D-7, Lew ..Redden on the North~rn Nevada had a really new and unusual experience blade ~ NOrman Weller ' is the -commuting to and from work every day in chartered grade checker and AI Boehl on planes. ·his backhoe. Natural gas is due tq reach Nevada Northern Gas Co. NUCLEAR PLANT consumers in the Reno-Sparks area about Christmas time, Bechtel Corp. will complete via tran$mission line of 230 miles of 16-inch pipe and 25 their nuclear power plant at miles of 12-inch J>ipe. _ Eureka by the time we go to The final 45 miles of the line, leading to the Idaho press. This has been a good job border, travers_ed a wild, uninhabited desert region without for many brothers here in the roads and inaccessible overland. Eureka office. As the pipeline pushed on, Bec.htel transported its work A rundown on this ·pI ant; crews in three DC-3 aircraft from Winnemucca to dirt land· work at the Eureka site 'began ing strips constructed at three locations in the" desert each November 1960. Ben C. Gerwick morning and back again each evening. The men were trans ~~-- Co. having the task of building ported by truck between the la_nding strips and the w~rk and sinking to a depth of 85 feet ,areas. the massive reinforced copcr~te From -180 to 2QO men, variously, were moved daily in caisson that will house the reac the airlift. · - · ·.' · · · . ' tor and pressure suppressor sys- tern. Top photo shows ·pipeliners as 'they came off theplane Building and sinking the cais in Winnemucc.a after a day's work: At right, our m~mbers son was a ·six-month job. After on a D-9 ripper being pulled by a D-8 tractor rip rock for the site was excavated to a depth the pipeline, trench out in the desert. · . of 17 feet, forms defining the . rim were set in place, with a cut ting edge at the bottom to open have c arb on steel walls 4% the path for the sinking. The inches thick, lined with stainless first concrete pour formed 18 vertical feet of wall. The weight steel for protection against corro Most Workers Don't Know of this assembly, combined with· sion. / By A. G. BOARDMAN make e)'cavation of earth from inside sucll claim and files a ing man is faced with the diffi . .. HOW IT WORKS Education & and with water jetting, caused Research Director, · claim with the Labor Commis- cult decision of ins1sting to hi~ The · reactor-a it to sink. ' · single cycle, Calif. State Conference of sioner within ten days after be· employer that he will. not w'lfrk b Q i ling water unit-will hold Operating Engineers ing laid off or discharged." · under hazardbus . conditio1;s THICK WALLS , _ 21,200 gallons of water, and HEARING thereby __ jeo~ardi Five ad.ditional concrete pours its There is . a section of the Cali· ~i;lig-- his --standlrtg · f u e l will be slightly· enriched At a re'ceJ!l.t hearing of the raised th~ walls to the required - fornia State Safety Code-Section Leg- as an emplo~f~;Z:oi· to ignor~ tl1e uranium dioxide. Its first load islative Interim dimensions, and the structure was · 6604--which is de3igned to pro Committee on In-. ~-%1'--m:tu incur the favor of · ing, expected to last dustrial ·sunk to the prescribed depth. approximate- teet the workman who refuses to Safety, under its chaV the boss. . . " ...... ly thi·ee years, Th-en the:) bottom was sealed with will consist ·Of 17.3 use de f e_c t i v e ami dangerous mah, A~semblymmi'" :E~~}Gaff- · ~t . \Va~ brougnt-~at at' the hear tons of uranium a layer· of concrete several feet and will have equipment or to work ip. unsafe ney of San F~~ner'3fo 's. 18th ,As- ing of _the · .state Ass~mbly Sub an energy equivalent thick. of 750,000 areas under unsafe •conditions. sembly DJ_stdct, a p r.o p·o sed committe.e on Industrial Safety The caisson has an outside di tons . of coaL The core will con· Following is th~ text of this amend~E'mt to extend the ·filing t}1at this law is ieldom used, and ar~eter of 60 feet for the lower tain 172 fuel '.'bundles" of 49 seCtion of the Code: time for claims to the ·Labor Com- that faCt is significant. The work 70 feet, and its exterior walls are fuel rods each. "No employee shall be laid . -missioner from 10 to 30 darts; ·was ing man is either uninformed as · Jom: feet (hick E x t e n d i n g Steam will be delivered to the off or discarged for refusing to given a full heayr.g. <. to the law's protection; or, ff he . through the center for the full turbine at a pressure of 1000 perform work in the perform- Dale Mati, Local No.3's Safety is informed, the average worker length of 85 feet is an inner ring pounds per square inch and ,a ance of which this code ()l' any E~g'ineer, and ~eorge Ba!).er, Dis- fails. to tak~ ~dvantage _of . thE21;_- with walls four feet thick and an temP,erature of 546 degrees Fahr_- safety order of the DiviSion of h·Ict No. 1 Busmess Representa- law's protechon; • - inside diameter of 19 feet. Three enheit. After passing through the Industrial Safety wil(be vio- , tive, testified to the urgency of NEED PROTECTION radial walls, conn·ecting the outer turbine, the spent steam will be lated, . .whi ch such v':iolatio:n< such legis:ation; pomting up the . Everyone, I .am sure, :agrees and inner walls, are three feet condensed· into water, which will -would ·create a real and appar· -f~ct_ that 1~ remote_areas it was that if the worker felt that his thick. ' be demineralizectAo remove any :-ent hazard to the e!]J·pioyee. or . d1f~1cult _f01: workmen to ~ile job security was · protected 'by Between the outer and innff .. corrosion products, and-. then re:/· nis fellow employees. An:)T'-'em· c:a1~s w1thm ~he 10-day hme law, and that he would not be walls is the suppression cham turned to the-reactor, thus com- / ployee wh...,· is laid off ·oo: dis· hmlt. It .. ~ ~s pomted out by the discharged if he refused to work ber, which will contain· 20,900 pleting the cycle. · ' c:t:J.iy•ge( for 'refusjni( to p'er· c~airman that · this amendment with defective equipment or un- ... cubic feet of water and 31,400 we wish the brothers and : 'iorm work in th~ ' performance . h:_d ~assed the assembly w it~ a der hazardous conditions-many . ' cubic feet of air space. The their families the most sincere / . of wh~~ll this· co"de or any safe· uuammous vote, but had fa1led of the fatal accidents could be cyclindrical inner ring, contain and happy greetings for t.b.~RtiTi- ' ty order of .the Division of In· to - ~et ?ut _of the Senate Labor prevented. ing the dry well vessel, will be day Season. ', . , dustrial Safety will be violated C~ ,~ mitte;~::: . The law giving this protection connected to this chamber by/ 48 and where such violation would ~ NEEDS PUSHING has been on the books for several vent pipes. create a· f eal .and anparent hiz. ~-~ feel that this is an impor- years-but the" records show . it - The drywell vessel wiU be: ffiV~ 'TRAINING AiDE ard to the employee or his fel tant camendment, and it should be has heen little used. The reasons feet in height , B.lJ.df 171i2 feet in WASHING '1' 0 N-James J. lo~ employees shall have a pushed as part of the legislative . may be many; but those who/_ ~ --.t3.i..:am-e'tH;~ niade of carbon steel Clarke, editor of the Ironworker, · rigllt of action for wages for program of the California State work in construction will tell yot• . -' .- %-inch thick. Grouting will fill official publication of the Iron·. the-time such employee is with . Conference of Operating Engi- . that not 10 per cent of the work. the space between the vessel and - Workers, has been Hamed assist~: out work as a- result of. such neers, in the 1963 legislative ses- ing force are aware that such a the inner. walls of the ring. In-. ant for manpower training- by layoff or discharge; provided, .. , sio11 }ri~, Sacramento. It is impor- . law exists. It is up to Labor to side this container will be placed Health, Education & Welfare Sec. that such emiJloyee notifies· rhis _· tant b}cause, at best, this is a dif· inform the membership they have the reactor vessel, which will Anthony J . . Celebrezze.-- employer of his intentio ~t to .~ fic1,1lt law to enforce. Every work- this protection. ' ,•. ! .. ' ' . ' q···-~-~-::1.; December 1. Brother Gates is 15 to 18 stories high. Called Big with adequate space for traffic make a lot of difference to be dealing at such a time with ~up e r on this project. Six Towers, it will be a "limited- within the community. The your friends and fellow-members rather than with strangers. GRANITE BUSY p·rofit" development permitted by · _ground floor of each building will And the. cost of using botrowed money-which is what in· Granite Construction is keep state law and operated by I. D. · be reserved for lobbies, offices terest is- is lower. on many Robbins for the union under su- and community rooms. Outdoor . ing the brothers busy be able to r,eport : They have star ted pervision of the city Housing & parking will be provided/ It gives me satisfaction, therefore, to good-sized jobs has approved of- the' principle of t:teir Highway job in Santa Cruz, Redevelopment Board. that your· Executive Board fore CORPS' a Credit Union for Local 3, and we have our technicians with Brother Rockwell as All 'the suites will be coopera- . HOME '!PEACE have any 1,225,000. tively owned at $550 u. room, and working out the details. If any of you members man; t his job went fo r $ them to me at the e low bidders on a $156,- tenants wm pay a monthly .car- NEW YORK- The Un i te d . ideas about a Credit Union, please address They wer St., San Francisco. 682 road job at Soquel. Granite rying charge of $21 &. room. Plans States needs a home front p~ ace . Local 3 office, 474 Valencia picked up a good wmter . job at call for 208 three--bedroom suites, corps and "our people need the -ae- Seaside repairing streets, curbs 472 with two~ bedrooms, 270 with challenge of volunteer service," and sidewalks for $280,000. one, and 31 efficiency.type suites . . Dir. Leo Perlis of the AFL-CIO At this Holiday Season, I would like to express my . per Granite ConstrucLion -is mak Of the 981 units, 755 will be pro- Comm_unity Service Activities ad sonal greetings and appreciation to all of the officers and ing good progress on the small vided with a private balcony. vised Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy members of Local 3 for their help and cooperation during-the Harbor in Santa Cruz. Nine The buildings will cover less in response to a q uestionnaire. year that is ending. Craft ] ,.; ,.•, ~:) ) j )}( "f ~ ·. ~ f } J :,.' ( . ,f.. :· - .,ii i 1h