.. ;. •• AMOjor Need '"Serving the men who move th.e earth!" . * * * . Urban ReneWal Only ENGINEERS:f NEW.S 'Stopgap' Says IVP '\ PUBLISHED TO PROMOTE. THE GENERAL WELFARE OF ALL ENGINEERS AND lHEIR FAMILIES ~. l By KEN ERWIN The leader of this nation's largest local construction union, both in membership ( 31,782 ).and jurisdictional area (California, Utah, · Vol. 27-No. 5 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA May, 1968 Northern Nevada, Hawaii and the Mid-Pacific islands) said in an exclusive interview this week that unless there are dramatic. and revolutionary changes in this country's economic, domestic and foreign policies . that there would be a "continuing general decline in the American way of life as we have known it." International Vice President and Business Manager AI Clem of Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 believes the nation is ~oving from "a productive society engaged in upgrading the ' individual by providing increasing opportunities and just eco­ • nomic rewards" to "a society so busily engaged in studying its . e U. s. EconomY navel that it finds itself i!l constant conflict with what it wants to Middle East CrisiS and th .. do and what it is able to do." l'lF 11 In the following interview, Mr. yard-he has to have a job to pay Clem answers questions ~ that are the taxes and support himself and · R form generally on the tip of most of'his his family. Stop-gap work, like stop-gap skills, is not a long-term Labor La\V e, ,.. liii'' members' tongues. answer. He must have a market­ , P v··,,rfal1der State.• } / Q. As the leader of a union '·'AM presit,enr' H· · ·"., )'Jm;: '-·"/ 111r;g~:<.c able skill and there must be a mar­ that depends primarily on con· H : bi· .• lnim:sr Demanas .. ' . ketplace in which to sell it. The Pu .t.... pe,ae4 , struction to keep members em· marketplace in the construction in­ ployed, how do you feel about rnrnent dustry is where the jobs are and it . . 00 Billion Gove . possible cutbacks in Federal funds . st' ns on a $3 would seem to me that the num­ Maunce a . for highways, public works and Pa&e 1 ber of jobs will always depend on other major construction projects? the ability of an imaginative and A, I am against such cuts. Not productive America to plan big l. solely because they provide jobs and build with foresight. We must f()r the membership, but because continually increase the number many of, in· fact, most of ·these and continuity of jobs available. "".".~ 5.1353 projects - are well - thought - out Q. What role do you feel ~ the A, BiLL .. an.tl' ·Iong - term budgetary com­ To ll!lllld utll ~ of tl!. Unittd St1.tn C!od•, Federal government should play "Judieiary and J ud1t1tl Proaedur"tt and ' mitrnents. We' are already fifty illeorpon.t.e the"ltl proviaLoos ~ lati ll( to in accelerating the construction , thi_UnLtedStatni.aborCout1,nndforothtr years behind in. the consbuction .. ,_ industry? t of our highway system; experts .. '. By :.=.·M~.~~!::::~ir. r~c:=:: ~~: · have said A. Well, let's face it, sinc_e the Pucr,andMr. THUUIOli'D ' • ~' - • that America is some l thirty years behind in the con­ government is the originator of sbuction of dams and other power _most of our major public works projects and the well-documented · projects, they, the contractor and . blight that is evidenced in our 'the unions must coordinate. every ·· cities has its. unnoticed rural coun­ effort toward impressing upon the terpart in many sections of our na­ politician, and his handmaiden, tion . the Federal agency, the vital im­ portance of keeping major Federal Q. Won't the. millions of dol­ • and State construction programs. lars being poured into urban re· moving ahe_ad at full capacity. newal counteract, to some extent, There may be soft spots in these the reduction of these other proj­ budgets, ·but. construction is not ects? one of them. A. Urban renewal is a stopgap. We are moving in a forced direc­ Q. Speaking of politics, has tion that implies that a chro_ple­ your union gone on record to sup· plated ghetto will solve the prob­ port any of the current candi­ lems of social confrontation. Noth­ dates? ing could be further from the A. The AFL-CIO has indicated truth. I, for one, am in complete it will support Hubert' Humphrey agreement with a small, but grow­ . if he wins· the nomination. As for ing, group of planners that be­ myself, I d on't pretend to tell our lieve population dispersement and membership how to vote. Realis­ tically, there, is no longer -~ny • Kaiser To Second Union Health totally "new cities". with built~ in factors that provide for ethnic "union vote" as such. A number balance; equal opportunity and of political education and fund raising groups such. as the AFL­ Supervise Ce-nter In Santa ·clara· population expansion. Still, ~ny i, progress that involves expansion CIO's COPE' and our own Inter­ T. J. "Tom" Stapleton, Re­ degree of satisfaction. of services to increased popula­ national Union of Operating Engi­ cording- Corresponding Secre­ If you . or your family have tions begins with the availability neers. EPEC will coptinue to use ,_ .--· Huge Dam purely voluntary· funds to educate tary, has announced that for not yet registered for eligibility of transportation, water and pow­ er. We should not continue to our members on the issues and the OAKLAND - Kaiser Engineers the convenience of 0. E. Local phone the office nearest you: candidates; As · regards Local 3 · will provide dehiiled engineer and shortchange ourselves on basic 3 member~ who live in the. needs because of emergency social . members, we would hope they consbuction supervision for the SANTA CLARA COUNTY would examine fhe issues and the $95.5 million Bandama hydro­ Santa Clara County area or problems. · 4483 STEVENS CREEK BLVD. candidates, both local and nation­ electric project for the Republic vicinity, you and your family· Q. Won't ·urban . renewal pro­ al, register; and vote for those ·. of ·the Ivory Coast in Mrica, The can now receive your vision Phone: 244-3030 vide jobs for many who are now who offer the most substantial and ~~ _ · Export-Import Bank h~ made an unemployed as well as members · and hearing benefits at the new realistic· programs· for the nation ~ ;:~al loan of - $~6.5 for the pro- SAN FRANCI_SCO of your union? and the working man. Let me say offices of Bay Area Union Pro: 715 BRYANT STREET A. Let me put it this way. In this. I believe that both major , Slate<,! to begin producing elec- fessional Center, 4483 Stevens . the frontier days a man acquired · parties and the individual candi­ . trical ene~;gy in 1974, the project Phone: 391-2Q~O Creek Blvd., Santa Clara, Cali­ some acreage, .cut . down some dates must make some long-term includes building a rock and earth trees, built -pis ·home and· began . and far-reaching fornia. commitments to dam almost a mile long some 175 The examination for you and to use the land to provide his live­ America's skilled workman. I feel . miles northwest of Abidjan on The membership of Local 3 your family is at ~o charge ( ar­ lihood. -Today, a man may help that both parties must have realis- · ~ Africa's Ivory Coast. The World has ,used this Union Profes­ ranged for by your Union)-so build his own house, if he has the tic and meaningful labor and pub­ . . ~ Bank loan will be used to buy . skill. and a union card and a build­ lic works planks in their platforms sional Center service for more phone and take adva~tage of equipment and services in the ing permit, but he can't provide in order to win the votes of the United States. than one year and report a high this vital professional service. · for himself out of his small back see INTERVIEW page 2 ' ' ~ ,. I:,..., T ~ ._.. '·· Page 2 -May, 1968. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lll ll ll lllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllll ll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllll!llll!lllll ll ll!llll!ll ll!llll!llll!llll /11 11111 1111 1111 $1 ~ Million Interview ... Clem In Rinconada continued from page I C~tffecli ve/1 rank and file. Organizati0n-wise, The needs of the general popula­ we will support that candidate tion are ve1y great. Better hous­ Hills Project that we believe will work best for ing, medical care, wages, urban a productive construction and la­ and rural blight, vastly increased A Palo Alto building firm, ~rakin! bor program dedicated to creating service facilities, to name but a Brown & Kauffman, Inc., and one a better America. of the world's largest producers of few. We may have to rethink our forest products, Weyerhaeuser Q. Do you believe either party foreign policy and involvement on waft AI Clem a more realistic priority basis. Co., will join in the development best represents the labor move­ Right here, let me say I think there l lll l l llll lll ll llll l llllllll l llllllllllllllllllll l lllllllllllll ll lll ll ll ll lll llllllll l lllllllllllllllll l l ll ll !llllllllllllll l llll l l lll! l llllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llll l l ll ll l l l ll lll ll ll l ~lll lf lllllllll!llll l l llllllllllll!lllllllllll lllll of the $18 million Rinconada Hills ment? community in Los Gatos. is a great deal of blight within the • A. No. There are individuals in institutional framework of the na­ The new community will cover Since the work season is underway, the dispatch offices have each party who, though I am tion. We seem to be multiplying 106 acres and contain garden been extremely busy. I would like to request at this time that if against tags as such, may be called ideas and agencies without pro­ apartments, townhouses, luxury any of the Engineers who return to their previous Employer and pro and anti-labor. There are a ducing any substantial long-term homes and a private country club. have· registered on the out-of-work list to please notify the dis­ number of individuals who have results. I am not saying we should Using -advance techniques ad­ proposed restrictive labor legisla­ dynamite the existing institutions, patch office in order that . your name be removed from the list. vocated by the Urban Land Insti­ tion; however, we have worked, as many of our young people seem You would be surprised by extending this courtesy to the dis­ tute, the design will avoid deep and will continue to work, with to think we should do. I am saying, patchers how many hours of needless work you could save them cuts to preserve the natural beauty legislators who have proven rec­ however, that existing institutions and help to cut down on the telephone bills. Our telephone bills hillsides and will afford one major ords, or show bright, new promise should be restructured and refur­ loop street serving the community are astronomical and if you would cooperate with the dis­ of best supporting the goals of the bished to meet the expanded without hazardous intersections. patchers, in a way you will be helping yourself. general membership. needs of all our people. I am During the past month we negotiated an agreement with the The development will include Q. The war in Viet Nam has speaking both of government as Dillingham Corporation covering their operations in Guam. We 160 garden apartments, 240 town­ now reached the conference stage. well as private institutions. · also consummated an agreement with the Reno Employers houses surrounding a 17 -acre cen­ However, it is still expected to Q. In a general sense, what do • Council covering the employees of the Sierra Machinery Com­ tral park and 150 custom home­ . play a major role in the upcoming sites. you think your membership will pany, Inc., which was ratified by the members in a meeting in elections. What do you feel the expect of any new administration? Reno. general attitude of your member­ A. First, full employment. I I attended the district meetings in Honolulu and Hilo. The New Starts Up ship is toward international in­ have long advocated a coalition work picture in Hawaii seems extremely busy; however, there · volvement? of government, labor and man­ has been considerable rain and the Brothers have lost some time In R:es identials A. Well, I don't pretend to be agement experts to put together due to these weather conditions. I also attended the district an expert in foreign affairs, or for the elements of a long-term public .. Residential and non-residential that matter, an expert on the mem­ meetings in Oakland, Sacramento and Stockton and it was a works program that will. span the building contracts through March berships' thinking in this particu­ pleasure to visit with the Brothers there. gap between population growth indicate a dramatic increase in lar area. On a moral basis, I think and population needs. Secondly, We have held some preliminary talks with the negotiating residential ·· construction - some all free men support the right of we are very much involved in such committee of the Northern and Central California Chapter of 64%-and an equally dramatic self-determination for all peoples. things as environmental health, The Associated General Contractors of America, Inc. As you decrease in non-residential con­ At what point, how and where we safety regulations and a number of know, the contract expires June 15, 1968, and there are many struction, down some 82% over meet our commitment, I leave to other programs in which we would contracts hinging on the outcome of these negotiations. We are the same time last year. professionals in international af­ expect to get firm legislative sup­ hopeful of consummating an agreement prior to the expiration Residential future contracts · fairs. The present administration port. Thirdly, a sounder dollar date of the contract. Of course, as soon as a tentative agreement were pegged at $55,786,000 has said we must meet this re­ and a ~rm .economic policy to ha.lt • is reached, there will be a . series of meetings held for you to against last year's $34,011,000, sponsibility in Viet Nam. I, and I th13 spn·allmg cost of such basic · accept or reject the proposals. while non-residential contracts think most of our members, accept n~ eds as medical care, food, cloth­ this evaluation. On an economic We are now having a rash of jurisdictional problems and other were down from $177,717,000 in ing, rental, transportation and '67 to -$81,i8o,ooo: · basis, I feel th.at charity should general recreation. Inflation has problems that confront the officers of the Union in their daily begin at home. As I pointed out ·· demeaned the pension d_otlar and operations. As we have told you many times before; jurisdiction earlier, · this nation needs · to give continues to frequently offset the is the lifeblood of our organization and while the construction w ·ashiri.gton OK major priority to the vast array of wage and fringe gains \;Ve ne­ industry is automating at an ever increasing pace, we must always For Mad ·RJ'ver domestic problems confronting it. gotiate. be on guard in order to secure the job opportunities .for our members. With the out of work lists as large as they are, we all · . Dam, Res.ervoir_· must cooperate together so the Brother Engineer out of work FACTORY LABOR TURNOVER may secure his rightful share of the work. SAN FRANCISCO-The bless- The demand for factory labor eased up in March, the U.S. Depart­ We all know that some of the politicians are racing up and ing of the Board of Engineers for ment of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. This was reflected down and across the country talking out of both sides of their . Rivers and Harbors has been in seasonally adjusted declines in addition to factory employment and mouths promising you the pie in the sky. It seems that the given the $38.6 million dam and voluntary quits. national political picture is one that will take a great deal of reservoir · on the Mad River in studying and all of us in the final analysis will have to make the Humboldt County. Recommenda­ BARGAINING SETTLEMENTS • determination of the man we will cast our vote for who will do tions for the 350-foot high, 1,850 long, rock-fill dam and multiple Bargaining in the first quarter of 1968 was highlighted by settle­ us the most good. In talking to the Employers and personnel in purpose reservoir has been made ments in the copper, can and glass industries. Major agreements nego­ government and civic groups, we are always proud to tell them by the San Francisco-District and tiated during the quarter covered about 700,000 workers compared that the members of our Union only want a chance to earn a South Pacific Division Army En- with the 950,000 affected by settlements during the same period in . decent living by giving an honest day's work for a fair day's pay. gineers. 1967 . It is amazing the number of Brothers who are so disgusted with the people who are advocating pay with no work. I am confident, AGE BIAS though, when the final chapters of our history are written covering Hilton Tower The U. S. Department of Labor is alerting employers, employment these trying times, . we will find that the American people will agencies and labor organizations across the nation as to their responsi­ solve their problems as they have in the past. . To Be Tallest bilities under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Beginning We received several inquiries from time to time about reciproc­ A· 700-room, 43-story addition June 12, it will be a violation of federal laws to discriminate in hiring ·ity agreements and the different pension plans. We have reported to the San Francisco Hilton Hotel on the basis of age for workers between 45 and 65 years old. to you that we have held exploratory talks with other Engineers will make it the tallest hotel tower "Unions, padicularly in the Western United States, and we are in San Francisco. Cost has been hdpeful that in the not too distant future we can report to you estimated at $15 million and the that we have been 8.ble to effectuate reciprocity agreements with new tower will boast a rooftop restaurant and cocktail lounge. some of the Loc~l Unions. The new section will be air condi­ ENG I tioned throughout and will em­ ploy high-speed elevators. Your Good Name Credit unions around the world operate well because they base deci- LogiC? sions on integrity~ fhe i~·. · integrity and that of their members. . . Published each month by Local Union No. 3 of the ~·· · A " good n'

~ ~A.UL EDGECOMBE ...: ...... President •:.' I,! SAFETY VIOLATIONS . DALE MARR .... ·: .... :' ...... : ...... Vice-President T. J. STAPLETON .... Recording-Corresponding Secretary Violations of safety and health standards have been uncovered :.in . . . , ... ; ~~GI~EER·s : ~ew.s , .. Published monthly by Local Union No. 3 A. J. HOPE ...... ''... . . ·: . .' ..... Financial Secretary · 95 per cent of the industrial establishments inspected by the Labor of the lnternationa.l: ' Union of Operating . C t · t A t 1 t £ 1 F d 1 Engineers; 474 Valencia St., San Francisco, DON KIN CHLOE :-: ~ ...... Treasurer ' ' D epari: men t un d er th e P u blIC on rae s c as sea year ... e ~r~ . ",Ca.lif .. , 9~!PI. se.c.ond . class .. postage paid at engineers inspected 1,039 establishments and found 1,283 vwlahon·s. sa·n Francisco, C~lif. · · KEN ERWIN . . ... :...... Managing Editor of minimum standards. • May, .1968 Page 3 Conservatives' Anti-Labor Campaign Hangs on 1968 Election Results

Congressional conservatives and major elements of One article in the NAM series was penned by How­ right for conservatives, is a federal open shop the business community h·ave launched a twin thrust at ard Jensen, vice president and general counsel of Lone law, banning union security nationally. This • labor's throat. It involves: Star Steel C o. The fi rm has been described by the would certainly he welcome to the NAM and I. A softening-up process in Congress by way of a Texas AFL-CIO as "probably the leading union-busting Chamher, though their publications as yet have gradual build-up of sentiment for a series of anti-labor company in Texas." It is headed by E. B. Germany, a not emhrac_ed the proposal. proposals; and leader in right wing circles. ''Right to work" promoters have a draft bill ready 2. A massive grass-roots propaganda effort among Jensen himself has been on the speakers bureau of to promote in the 91 st Congress. Many conservative memberships of powerful business groups to line up the National Right to Work Committee and on the legislators have blessed it. The proposal would reverse support for the big push in Congress. Southern States Industrial Council, a rightist outfit that the_ situation under present Jaw. To legalize union se­ The conservatives' jugular instinct was whetted by adopts the John Birch line on UNICEF, wants the U.S. curity provisions in labor-mana,gement contracts, state election successes in 1966. Their hopes for the kill out of the United Nations and wants to abolish REA labor movements would be forced to go the referendum rest on the outcome of the elections in 1968. and TVA route or to prevail on state legislatures , to enact Jaws Their campaign, thus, is entirely political in nature. permitting the union shop. The thrust of Jensen's article is that oppressed union It relies wholly on election of a Congress willing to members arc unhappy with union leaders but unions Where does the joint anti-union drive of business • enact anti-union legislation. Deny the conservatives a shrewdly "clcflcct' ' members' resentment to employers interests and conservative legislator.s stand today? political victory in 1968 and their whole strategy crum­ in the form of strikes. In one . sense, it is standing still. There is little bles. Give them a political victory in 1968, and their prospect that the present 90th Congress-despite its, success is assured. The propaganda barrage picking_up tempo in the more conservative nature than the 89th-will enact Outside of Congress, the drive is spearheaded by the NAM and Chamber coincides with conservative efforts . I legislation to stifle trade unions. U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Associa- in Congress to build support gradually for specific leg­ Yet, in another sense the campaign is moving ahead. tion of Manufacturers. Each mildly refers to its cam­ islation tailored to the programs of the giant and power­ Conservatives in Congress and the Chamber and NAM paign as one for "labor law · reform." But there is ful bu sin ess associations .. are using time to build support. Congressmen are nothing mild about the specifics of their plan. This year. on the heels of conservative election vic­ sounding out and softening up their constituents. The tories in 1966, trial balloons were-launched in Congress NAM and Chamber are beating the propaganda drums, for a spate of anti-union proposals. Any one of these

90TH CO!\GRESS would be damaging to the trade union movement. 1ST SESSI ON Taken together, they are dynamite. Here are just some of the bills that have been proposed: Arndt. No. 283 Col"d" No . 5~ 00TH CO!\GRESS· ...,.. H.R. 333, introduced by Rep. Dave Martin (R.­ 1ST SESSIOX -· To limit and preYent ce rtain conceited activities s. 1880 Neb.)-This would destroy industry-wide by labor organizations which· interfere :l'l'ith bargaining or obstruct or impede t)1e free producti,on of by clamping anti-trust. laws on unions. It would .revive goods for commerce or the free flow thereof the discredited "_conspiracy" theory that dogged unions AMENDMENTS in commerce, and for other purposes. a century ago . It would leave local unions completely Intended to be proposed by Mr. WILLIAMS of Delaware to S. 1880, a bill to rH ise the Fed­ By ~1r . 1)-Iouroxo at the mercy of industrial giants. eral election laws, and for other purposes.

)fAY 10, 1967 ~ S. 1353, introduced by Sen. Robert Griffin (R.­ Read twice and re!ecred to the Conunittee on the AUGCST 23, 1967 · . Jndlclary Mich), co-sponsored by a cluster of conservative GOP Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed senators and one Democrat, Sen. Frank Lausche (Ohio)-This would abolish the National Labor Rela­ tions Board and replace it with a so-called "Labor • SURE·FIRE BET to come up again if conservatives AIMED AT JOII\T BARGAINING hy unions, this Court" comprised of 15 judges serving 20-year terms. hill has been win in 1968 is this proposal-defeated last month introduced hy Dixiegop Sen. Strom Nominations for the "Labor Court" would be passed on · Thurmond (S.C.). in the Senate-to prohihit COPE or international Its aim has strong hackin~ by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which now is, and unions even from collecting voluntary dollars to from the Chamber and NAM: to prevent a group for the foreseeable future will remain, under Dixiecrat­ of unions contribute to endorsed candidates. io coordinate their hargaining with any conservative GOP leadership. The legislation already employer. has received strong backing not just from the Chamber rallying their own memberships behind the thrust for and NAM but from individual businesses, among them Here's what they are proposing either outright or anti-labor legislation. the union-busting J. P. Stevens textile firm angered over by inference: The congressional conservatives and the Chamber recent NLRB decisions protecting union efforts at the and NAM don't deceive themselves. They know their • Antitrust law coverage for trade unions. firm 's plants. • Dismantling of the National Labor Relations campaign will rise or fall on the basis of 1968 election ..,... S. 1744, introduced by results Board and establishment of a so-called "Labor Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.­ . S.C.)-This would Court" in its stead. outlaw multi-union bargaining by Take away a few liberals from the present shaky a group of unions with the same • A prohibition against coordinated, multi-union employer at the same House majority and subtract a few senators from the time such bargaining. as occurred with Westinghouse last year. liberal ranks in 1968, and parts or all of the anti­ • Joint bargaining arose in the first_ place as a necessary union package become sure bets for passage. The Chamber already has sent out its road show to union response to the growth of conglomerate indus- So the 12 cities where "Labor Law Reform Workshops" have trial giants. answer is political. If they win at the polls, been conducted by teams . of management labor rela- they win their goals in Congress. If they lose at the ..,.. S. 1880, introduced by Sen. John J. Williams tions men. Purpose of the workshops, according to one (R.­ polls, if we add to liberal strength in Congress, it's a Del.)-This would undermine labor's political Chamber publication, was "to alert the business com- efforts different ball game . . by preventing National COPE or any international munity to the long-overdue need for (labor) reform Going for the anti-labor forces are all the weapons, union from legislation." collecting voluntary contributions from all the money and all the political savvy they . can union members to give financial aid to endorsed candi­ The NAM is following up with a series of 11 work- muster. The NAM's Business-Industry Political Acti~;>n dates. It was proposed as an amendment to · shops scheduled for October and November. The the cam­ Committee (BIPAC) already is cruising in high gear. paign financial reform bill and was clinics will be conducted by Charles A. Kothe, author defeated in the Sen­ . Now six years old, it has developed into a sophisticated, of an NAM-distributed book, "Industrial Freedom iii. ate in September. It will come up again if the climate well organized political force. the Non-Union Plant." changes as a result of 1968 elections. Lined up with it will be right wing political action Lengthy articles boosting the campaign for "labor ..,... S. 22, introd~ced by Sen. Paul Fannin (R.-Ariz.) groups. Anti-union by nature, and with plenty of other • law reform" have blossomed in recent months in the and co-sponsored by four conservative axes to grind, the rightists unquestionably will be back­ Republicans and publications of both the NAM and Chamber. southern Democrat Sen. Sam Ervin (N.C. )-This ing most of the candidates BIPAC supports. The Chamber has run three of a cont!nuing series would prohibit "card checks" and other informal meth­ . In 1968, the best bet to preserve your union and of articles on "Roots of Union Power" in its prestige ods of determining whether \'- union is the choice of a your security against the attack is COPE. Give to puJ;>lication, Nation's Business. The NAM has carried majority of employes ina· bargaining unit. COPE. Work with COPE in your union and your com­ three of a projected five-part series on "Labor Law Not yet introduced in tJ:te ,?.9Jh ~ongress, but munity. Make 1968 a "COPE year." ,!3--ef:'•.' • May,· 196.8 EN ·G:I-N E E:R:S NEWS · Pag~ 5 $21 Mi~lion St. Mary's Floating Rigs Dismantle.· Expans1on Program Set ld b. . d By~l~:~;~;;:gr:E•nd :r'~~";;o~:~:'e:;·~:,~:.::r:.::; 0 SanMateoDraw fl ge Work on BART is going ahead showpiece of architecture in the prove the at full steam and prospects for a fo~·m of a gigantic polyhedron Stu- By BILL RANEY, MIKE and cheer him up a bit. Rollers almost immediately dent Union Center. . KRAYNICK and DICK BELL . seem a simple machine but oddly desperate need of the continued . top work year in San Francisco Moshe Safdie, the 29_year-old the serious accident rate is high­ freeway to Half Moon Bay. are bright. Besides BART, anum­ The sap 1·unneth. ber of major construction projects Israel-born architect has designed ' The buds have swollen and er than any other machine. Another most serious bottle­ are cwTently in various planning the center-and the proposed build- burst into bloom. . We are happy to see Brother neck that is most incomprehen­ ing surfaces will consist mainly of is the new freeway oH the stages. The crab grass flourish eth Oran Brown up and around again sible glass and vegetation-covered con- after a second hip operation . San Mateo-Hayward Bridge that' A $21 million program for ex- crete. . again. The 28th International Con­ funnels 3 lanes traffic into a single of 11-year-old St. Mary's A three dimensional unit, based The contractor, resharpenihg pansion vention in Miami Beach was well lane at Norfolk in San Mateo and and on a measure and multiples of ten his pencil, sees an idle hand and Hospital has been announced attended by San . Mateo County a half mile away back to ·multi­ when ·it is completed will make {eet. · · throws a small fit. The .crane residents, Mr. & Mrs. Al Clem, lane 19th Ave. freeway to the . this institution the largest private A polyhedral, many-faced crys- operator notes a new bird.abuild­ Mr. and Mrs. Dale Marr, Mr. & lakes. Ditto ·the other direction in Northern tal-like enclosure with a diameter ing in his: boom; while his · oiler . and voluntary hospit~ Mrs. AI Boardman, Mr. and Mrs: · which is even worse when the California. . . . . of thirty feet. . - kicks the tires. The grease truck Marvin White, George Baker and Bay Meadows race track is open. Some $4,748,000 ..under the . . A basic modular ·unit, which Irian rue'fully notes his barrels Bill Raney. · ·· We see no sign of the division of Hill-Harris Act has been granted : . could be adapted to permutations emptying . much . quicker: nowa,- anything about it Apprentice Bruce Harwood is highways doing St. Mary's .and the hospital must of itself to create volumes of in­ ' days. The heavy duty repairman, · in the near future. Why? impatient with his tprque .wrench, the proud father of a very new no~ oqtain matching funds by Au- . definitely expanding capacity. In the recent past we have peens a nut with his hammer and baby girl recently . ·delivered to gust lOth. . ·These same modular units, in seen the members of · organized yells "Move it out." The scraper him by his wife who is also doing The San Francisco · firm of turn, capable of being stacked and labor ig-noring their political hand, having wallowed in mud well. Hertzka & Knowles has been interlocked with simplicity and, at friends and voting for their for months; now has a new gripe . Brothers who have finally mas­ named managing architects ·· for a . the same tirile, with superior sta­ · avowed enemies in spite· of re­ on which to vent his wnith, tered the long hard road of the new 17 -story building to be erect- bility an<;l. structural strength. peated warning in this and other "Dust!" The 988 . skinner says apprenticeship program and are ed on Grove St. behind the pres- An irregularity in the anange- periodicals. The resultant "Won't these trucks .- ever stop?" . now on the job as journeyrrien labor ent hospital. ment' of these forms which pro- of the offices of the The dredgeman throws away his engineers: We heartily commend emasculation A construction start is tenta- vides an endless variety of visual the di­ boots and slickers but knows he's and congratulate Br.others John State Labor Commission, tively set for July of 1969 with an pleasures. · vision of . consb·uction . safety, the in for a, bit . of wind and white Palou, Euel McClenahan, Fred estimated completion date set for · The union will be lo.cated at the Acciderit Commission caps on the bay. The engineer's Bandeo, Mike Rankin and Mar- Industrial ·late 1972. Application to close heart of the campus. It will rise in has seriously wife sighs "Thank God, he's out shall Leach. · and many others Grove St. between . Stanyan and. an area occupied by wartime huts hurt the worker and his family. Shrader in order to construct the · now used primarily for offices of · of the house." Meanwhile, back . Apprentice, Nick Rustad's wife yam endorsed high rise building ·is already on student organizations; on the bench, the still unemployed is now ·recovering .nicely from a Support COPE file . · A $2 million sewage treatment engineer is like a caged bear. recent serious illness. candidates .. A name change for the center, plant to serve the expanded needs The business agent says "Here All Engineers should remember St. Mary's Hospital and Medical of the San Francisco International we go again!" we now have a prescription drug Center, will reRec.t ·the many Airport has·been approved,by the ·. ·· The dispatcher calls his psy­ plan. Ask at the office or the busi- ­ broad 1:ange medical and commu- Public Utilities Commission. This chiatrist. The Department of Em- ness agents for the · forms. Send $·2 ¥2 Million nity services being oHered. 1 new plant will be able to serve a .ploymEmt clerk breathes a sigh of in the fonns at least ev·ery 3 A $4.7 million first phase in a terminal designed to process 25 relief. The creditors rub their · months if you have had any drug $43,050,000 San Francisco State million air passengers annually, hands. The computer, far away expenses. ForAFJobs 50,000 employees. College building program is cur- plus in its central office, receives a We are happy to have Brpther SAN FRANCISCO- U.S. Air Sl\dden surge of dispatch sliP,s Dick Bell working. as a business Force Regional Civ. il Engineer and develops a mild' cas~ of elec­ representative in the north end Col. George H. Andrews 'has an­ Benbow, Big. Flat Jobs ·· tronic indigestion. ·spring is upon of the county. Brother Bell has nounced the release of a $2,490,- the land. The last few weeks of pulled levers for years in the 000 Air Force Military Construc­ increasing activity in 'the San Ma­ Marysville area, served many tion Program to build an aircraft Keep Rolling In North teo area inspired the above. terms on the grievance committee paint facility, data processing I ' . • and a logistical. fa­ By RAY COOPER the operator, his son Bob Rankin Many jobs are at last -moving there and more recently as -an plant facility cility depot at McClellan AFB. Various jobs that were in prog­ is one of the two oilers. Brother again. We note in particular, a agent in Fresno. ress at the close of last season Jim Nevois is the other oiler. double shift going on the Free­ We have seen much transfer­ The aircraft paint facility w ill are beginning to roll again and Art · Burman has called back man Sondgroth section of Juni­ ring of ownership and resultant have a gross area of 55,300 square putting a number of Brothers his old. crew. They are starting on pero Serra Freeway. Piombo has name changes in the aggregate feet with approximately 32,000 back on the payroll, thereby their storm damage repair job be­ started on their new section just industry. Kaiser Rock and Sand is square feet of clear work ·space in dropping our large out-of-work tween Bridgeville and Alderpoint. south of Crystal Springs dam, a working the red rock hill on the hangar area. The facility will list down little by little. The Division of Highways are 2 million dollar link of Junipero Sharp Park Road that has been provide a modern environmentally Granite Construction. Company calling for bids on a number of Serra to tie into 19th Avenue, worked by hundreds of smaller controlled paint facility and will has started back on their Klamath jobs in the month of May, which Ralston Avenue and Canada operators for years. Kaiser also be capable of handlii1g six fi ghter Freeway job and should have all we have mentioned in our previ­ Road. They have about 5 other has taken over L. C. Smith's hot aircraft at mie time. their equipment going in a couple ous reports. The Trinidad to Pat­ jobs scattered over the county. plant oH 19th Ave. in San Mateo. The data processin g plant proj­ weeks. The long delayed -project rick Point job, which is approxi­ Peter Kiewit & Sons have started Roades & Jamison now oper­ ect consists of converting and re­ for the futme townsite of Klam­ mately 5 miles of 4-lane freeway the removal of the old San Mateo tes the Rockaway Quarry and hot habilitating 21 ,600 square feet in ath has become a reality, ac­ will be let on May 8th. The Gas­ drawbridge with about 8 engi­ plant which Howard Marks ran Building 269 for electronic data cording to Tap Fausey of the quet job on Hiway 199 will be neers on the two floating rigs, for many years. Howard's San processing equipment and logis­ Granite Construction Company. let on May 15th. Of interest to the Daniel C and the Jan B. Carlos hot plant is now called tical office space, and construction The Coi'ps of Engineers have the paving contractor will be' a Granite Construction Company Hillsdale Rock Co. and alleged­ of 3,054 square feet of new build­ awarded this job to Granite and $283,000 resurfacing of 26.3 is back at Foster City to do a lJf ly owned · by Matoza out of San ing area to house a relocated work will start immediately as it miles of state Highway in various million dollar job in neighbor­ Jose. defense automatic addressing sys­ will tie right in with their Free­ locations in Humboldt and Del hood 8. The various concrete plants tem. Remainder of conversion way project. The town of Klarn­ Norte Counties. This work will be Hydraulic Dredge Co. is pump­ owned by H. E. Casey Co. An­ work is for support facility areas . ath was completely devastated in Ferndale and· Fernbridge on ing again, this time at Redwood derson Bros. and the Mori's of such as relocated key punch • in the Rood of 1964. The new Route 1; in Eureka. from 15th Shores. The aforementioned jobs Penins.ula Rock & Sand have com­ equipment and toilet facilities. townsite will include 40 acres of and Broadway to 4th & H Streets, plus at least a hundred other bined to form the new company The logistical facility depot al­ dirt fill and will be raised approxi­ on U.S. 101; on portions of U.S. medium sized jobs are using hun­ called C.A.P. (Casey, Anderson terations provide for completion mately 10 feet above the n01mal 101 in Del Norte County from dreds of engineers. & Peninsula) . of 55,400 square feet basement level. Both of these projects will Wilson Creek to tl1e Oregon bor­ Your San Mateo office was ac­ All of these changes have re­ area in the logistical facility re­ be completed this spring. der; and on U. S. 199. corded the dubious honor of be­ sulted in little or no change of cently constructed. ing robbed recently. The hard personnel we are happy to say. Hughes & Ladd has three proj­ Once again we want to take The bid openings for the con­ working burglars made entrance We still see no activity on the ects going in the area at the pres­ this opportunity to reach all of struction contracts ·are scheduled in a bizarre manner and spent one remaining unstarted section ent time. They have started back you Brothers and thank you for to be held in June w ith work to hours attempting to enter our of Junipero Serra Freeway. We on their Benbow and Big Flat your recent vote for the delegates get under way in July. jobs and also getting started on to the 28th . International Con­ little safe. They managed to do see, however, hundreds of mil­ their new Mad River Bridge and vention of Operating Engineers. wreck it beyond repair- but they lions of dollars worth of much approaches on Hiway 299. This delegation was comprised of never quite got it open. They needed fr eeway standing idle be­ BART OK on Key Crooks Bros. will also be back Local 3 members from all areas of would have been even more frus­ cause of a silly dispute over rout­ E. Bay Sta.tion on their Forest Service job at Bear Local 3 and combined them­ trated if they had gotten in as ing. · The shortest, cheapest and Basin in Del Norte County. selves into a solid working team there wasn't a penny one in it. already engineered route parallels A bid by Fruin-Conlon of Hay­ Eugene Luhr & Company have for all members of Local 3. It was Brother Coy Truluck is in Pen­ Canada Road. The City of San ward was the lowest of seven bids • y seri­ Francisco insists that an untried, submitted for the earthwork and started back on the Orick Red­ a smoothly run and well con- insula Hospital .after a ver wood Creek Levee job and will ' ducted convention and we . were ous roller accidept on . the. Fisk, unengineered, longer and far structures on BART's Berkeley­ also have the quarry and crusher ·. very proud to see the fine recep­ Firenze & McLean Freeway, more costly route be studied. We Richmond line from Knott Avenue back in: operation ve1y shortly.· tion and compliments paid from widening· job in South Sa.n Fran­ . need the Freeway now, -we need to 21st Street. The Fruin-Conlon They have moved in their 4500 the Locals throughout the ·United cisco. His lower .Jegs were badly . the jobs now, not five years .from bid totaled $2,954,064 against an Manitowack and later on will States and Canada for our Busi­ crushed. At this 'writing it seems now, maybe. engineering estimate of $2,792,- work it two shifts. At the present ness Manager and Ninth Inter­ there is hope of ,SiJ.Ving t,hem, We .The opening of the final leg of 587. The award is expected to be time Brother Warren Rankin is national Vice President, Al Clem. . hope som,e. of~ hf~ ; h~~'nds will visit the Jtmipero Serra Freeway will made in mid-June. • • -. • I .1...:.. _,. - ,_; • '· _, Page 6 ·May, 1968 • Arroyo Mocha_Bridge Report Out $1.6 Million Bids Called By CHD By NORRIS A. CASEY, GUY A job that has put several of For San Joaquin Proiects JONES, TOM CARTER, the good Brothers to work has ROBERT MAYFIELD, ALEX finally started at Pittsburg. Mor­ By CLAUDE ODOM, cation for the future Route 180 four miles- of Lassen Avenue be­ CELLINI, and JERRY rison-Knudsen is the prime con­ KENNETH GREEN and freeway in Fresno between North tween Jayne Avenue and the ALLGOOD tractor here and they have ap­ BILL RELERFORD First St. and North Rowell Ave. , south city limits of Huron in Fres­ a distance of 1.1 miles, and has no County. Eight operators on job. Gallagher and Burk, Inc. of proximately one million yards of Construction ·projects costing excavation to handle. After this about $1.6 million for San Joa­ been allocated $61,000 for two The pumping plant and the first Oakland has submitted a low bid traffic safety programs in this area. 6.3 mile reach of the Pleasant Val- • of $1.38 million for the construc­ is completed American Bridge quin Valley and coast highways put in the new buildings Plans of the Division of Highways ley canal may cost $811,000 less tion of an interchange between Co. will have been advertised by the State that will eventually be a new call for the construction of an than anticipated. Interstate 580 a1;1d Hopyard­ Department of Public Works in steel mill for eight lane freeway and portions of The low bid on the pumping Dougherty Road East of Dublin the U. S. Steel Cor­ Sacl'amento. poration. the ramp connections with future station, from C. R. Fedrick and in Alameda County. A major project is the repair of Route 41 and 168 freeways at an The Peter Kiewit Co. at La­ M. M. Sundt, of Novato, came to Included in the interchange damage done to Route 33 by estimated cost of $10 million in­ fayette Ave. finally in full swing $5,231,253. That was $345,617 project are provisions for expan­ heavy trucks hauling building rna- · cluding light-of-ways. Start of on their Rapid Transit job at La­ less than the bureau of reclama­ sion to accommodate future in­ terials from a plant near Coalinga construction will depend on the fayette. This should be an excel­ tion engineer's estimate. crease in traffic volume which to sections of the California Aque­ availability of future state 'high­ lent job for the rest of the season duct under construction. Some 26 The iow bid on th~ . canal itself, may be generated by the en- · way funds. The State High~ay for both the dirt spreads and the from Clyde W. Wood and Sons, larged county roads. miles of the two-lane route wiil be Engineer stated there would be structures. repaired at an estiillated cost of of Burbank, was $2,819,185. About twelve months will be an overcrossing at Herndon and $960,000. That was $464,968 under the r-equired to complete the inter­ Martin Bros. and Gallagher turnouts at Madison Avenue and and Burke have several nice jobs engineer's estimate. No pre-jobs as change project, for which the Bids on a contract will be also turnouts at Toll House with Highway Commission has allocat­ scattered throughout the area and opened June 5 in Sacramento. a total cost of about $6 million, yet. • ed $1,580,000. both of these companies should · Another $387,500 project to re­ which is from a special fund the Guy , F. Atkinson's $5 million have a fine season. constmct and widen Sullivan Kaweah Delta Hospital is only 7.5 Also included in the contract State Highway has budgeted to The Bay Area Rapid Transit Road between Route 33 and the this project. per cent completed, but already will be provisions for erosion system today is a step closer to Interstate 5 Freeway in Merced the unique structure's shape is control, minor drainage struc­ The City Planning Commission being a railroad with the award County will be awarded soon after evolving. ture, steel sign structures, and has endorsed a proposed 376 unit of the first major contract to lay the May 29 opening date for bids. roadside signs. student oriented multifamily hous­ In the center of the construe-· track, and a note of confidence May 29 also is the bid opening This company also was ing development west of the Fres­ tion project is a huge, tower-boom from five San Francisco banks date for a $105,000 job to replace crane operated by Bill Wahath. awarded a $264,290 contract to no State College. Units in the willing to buy revenue bonds for obsolete signs, lighting and guard Fl'om his control panel; he can widen the bottleneck intersection hovsing project will range _from the purchase of 250 train cars. rails on State Freeway 99 between · studio apartments to two bedroom reach into any part of the four of Center Street-Grove Way at Workers today were easing the the Madera County line and the apartments. The project, which story, 237-bed. project with the Castro Valley. 26th section of the transbay Sacramento County line near Galt. will also have swimming pools and 100-foot long boom that sits 80 The California Division of rapid transit tube into place, end­ Safety roadsicl.e rest facilities recreation areas, is planned for feet above his head. Highways has called for bids on ing the work on the project from will be ·: built on State Route 101 about a 9 acre parcel on the west Work will be completed on the a project to widen the Arroyo the Oakland side of San Francis­ north of San Miguel in Monterey side of Cedar Avenue between hospital the middle of down­ Mocha Bridge on Route 84 in in co Bay. County. This $151,000 project East Barstow and Fresno State town Visalia sometime in the fall - Livermore from two to four lanes. Work is now being shifted to also has a May 29 bid opening Center. of 1969. · . • The job also would include the San Francisco side where the date. The State Division of Highways Hood Corp. at Three. Rocks will widening the approaches from first sections will be placed on Work is scheduled to start with­ has opened bids for projects total­ kick off their job on the 15th of Mocha Street to Holmes Comt. the floor of the Bay some time in a month on the widening of the ing more than $140,000 in Tulare July. This should be a good job Bids will be opened May 15 in next month. The tube now last remaining stretch of two-lane and Madera Counties. for the brothers as the job will be Sacramento. stretches nearly 2 miles out into roadway on Highway . 152 be­ In Tulare County, the project behind schedule due to lack of With the good weather the the Bay from Oakland. By 1970, tween the 99 Freeway and the involves reconstructing and wi­ pipe. grading and paving work is pick­ it will be finished between Oak­ Santa Clara County line. dening twQ miles of Road 68 about Lentz Constr. Co. on their ing up a great deal. land and San Francisco. It will The State Division of Highways two miles south of Goshen, The Westland Pipe Line Job is approx­ Lee S. Immec is re-surfacing take 58 sections, each weighing yesterday awarded a contract to job runs between Avenue 280 and imately 50% complete. The broth­ the old Franklin Canyon Road about 11,000 tons, to form the Brewer-Wunschel-Small of Carmi­ Higqway 198. The low bidder, at ers have missed very little time from Martinez to the New Free­ tube. In addition to the 26 sec­ chael to widen the highway from $111,173, is L. Williams Con­ due to weather. way. This job plus other grading tions stretching out from the Oak­ struction Co. and Porterville As­ two lanes to a four-lane express­ R & D Watson are getting their and paving jobs throughout the land side, another six have been phalt Co. of Porterville. way from about a mile east of the Kings River Project started. They area is keeping the crews busy. fabricated for the work from the Dos Palos Y to a point half a mile The Wells Construction Co. and San Francisco shoreline. will run three 631 scrapers and 0. C. Jones . Construction is west of the Madera County line, the L. B. Wells Construction Co. two 657' s on their dirt spread. presently excavating the Railroad Alameda County Supervisors a distance of 7% miles. were awarded a $917,708 contract Underpass on Barrett Avenue in yesterday approved the $1.4 mil­ Dicco Corp. of Bakersfield was We have received a report the to rebuild Highway 63 from two low bidder on the Parker Pass job • Richmond. This company is also lion widening of Hesperian Blvd. Fresno County road construction to four lanes between Highway out of Johnsondale. The contract working on several other projects between Ruth Court and the Cas­ needs over the next 10 years will 137 and a mile south of Visalia. went for $180,000 and should get in the area. tro Valley Freeway cutoff which be $194.6 million. The Kaweah Constmction Co. of started very soon. Conrac Engineers is erecting will require the moving of 33 Business Agents wish to thank Visalia was awarded a $75,947 their six story pre-cast concrete homes. The boulevard will be ex­ the members for their good at­ contract to build a bridge across apartment building on Barrett panded to six lanes to provide tendance at our recent meetings. St. Johns River at Avenue 328 Avenue. Bigge is doing the crane easy access to the rapid transit We think the members should northwest of Visalia. P. 0 . Box 31 and rigging work on the job. district's Bayfair Station in San be aware that our Blood Bank Construction Starts on San Luis Georgetown, California March 26, 1968 Several large building jobs are Leandro. The homes to be re­ is completely depleted. Anyone Drain. under way at the University of moved are on the east side of wishing to donate blood please Preparations for the first con­ Mr. AI Clem, Business Manager California. Hesperian Blvd.; those on the notify office. struction of the controversial San Operating Engineers Local No. 3 west side will not be affected. A Building activity in Fresno for Luis Drain got under way south 474 Valencia Street Lathrop Construction has 55 foot deep strip along Hes­ star.ted the new Library building; the month of March was up more of Mendota Monday. San Francisco, Califomia 94103 perian left over from the home than $1 million over March, 1967. Clearing of the seven - mile most of the excavating has been acquisitions . will be annexed to Dear Mr. Clem: ·' completed and they are now The entire half block on the route, which runs from 1.5 miles the City of San Leandro and de­ west side of Van Ness Avenue be­ south of Highway 180, south of • working on the foundations and veloped for multiple dwellings. I wrote you yesterday in reply footings. tween the Mariposa Mall . and Mendota, to Adams Avenue south­ to your letter of December 28, Merritt College Access Road to Fresno St. will be developed at west of Tranquillity. Rothchild Raffin and Weirick 1967, concerning my length of the New Merritt College was once instead of in two separate Darkenwald Construction Co. membership in Local Union has a large crew working on the awarded to Gallagher and Burke. projects. The double development has 300 calendar days to complete new Fine Atts Building, most of No.3. The bid price was $1,264,105. _ will be adjacent to a motel plan the $246,000 project, which calls After writing you and while the footings are in and they are The job is now started at this for construction next to the new for excavation of the canal route · now erecting the first walls. going through another box of my writing. Bank of America building now and construction of a test section mail which had accumulated Work in Eastern Contra Costa Work in the Equipment Shops under construction at Van Ness to determine the best method of County at the present time is while I was in Mexico, I found has picked up somewhat. With and Tulare St. . placing the concrete lining over the scroll and 25 year member­ pretty well booming but still the work season getting under Tri~Central Construction Co. of the clay soil of the area. ship pin which you had sent me. hasn't reached a peak for the sea­ way, Contractors are getting their Fresno was low bidder on a Fann The canal section will be lined I wish to thank all the Officers son. rigs ready to roll. With a very Machinery Exhibit Building on under a separate contract. It will and Brothers for same. I shall As of this writing, two major slow winter in all the shops, the the Fxesno Dist. Fairgrounds. The be eight feet deep, have a bottom cherish them, and the scroll of jobs that have been 'let but not Brothers and dealers are glad to submitted bid for the building was width of eight feet and will be de­ course I shall frame. started are a 4 million dollar see things starting to move. $11,490. signed to carry water about six Thank you and all the fine Rapid Transit job, at Walnut The Far Western Construction feet deep. The Scrap Iron Industry in the Officers and Brothers who · have • Creek, award'ed to Polich-Bene­ Co. has been awarded a contract The drain is scheduled to be made the retirement of us Old­ dict and 3 million dollar job to Oakland area is working but at for $135;000 for construction of operational to the Kesterson Res­ a very slow pace. Rock, Sand, sters possible. Dan Caputo Co. for channel im­ twenty additional guest rooms at ervoir east of Gustine by Decem­ With best wishes to our Union and Gravel Industry in Southern provements on the Walnut Creek the Del Webb .. Project is due for ber 1969. and all the Officers and Brothers. Alameda and Contra Costa Coun­ drainage. These two jobs should completion by,June 15. There are 8 engineers on the I am sincerely yours, take quite a few engineers and ties is in very good sh~pe with all . The California Highway Com­ job. jsj Arthur L. Thomas, bolster the work situation in this Brothers working and a very busy mission has taken under consider­ The Fresnq Pav~ng Co .. has a county. outlook for the future months .. ation th~ .adoppgngf a-revised lo- $232,236 ~ontract to reconstruct ~'h~·l · ·a ,~:':.·"'1'!"":!1''F'):{:-'-.&•J

~· • May, .1968

By HAROLD LEWIS, BERT, to shoppers lies adjacent to. the long dormant period. -The 1968- bridge is located · would be elim­ build a pump and valve shop at NAKANO, WILFRED BROWN, ~orld ; s largest : shopping •· center, 69 capital improvements budget inated and the channel would be the Pearl Harbor Naval Ship-' . KENNETH. KAHOONE.I, . the Ala Moami Shopping Center. · calls foi· $1.7 million t6 start pre­ widened to about 200 feet at the yard. WALLACE LEAN and It also commands a view of the paring the pastureland for resi­ bottom. The new ·bridge would .Other contracts . awarded by JOE REINERT ever awe inspiring Diamond dential and apartmerit construc­ be 52 feet wide, rail to rail, with the Naval Facilities E~gineering Head, the sceriic blue ·Pacific tion. four foot sidewalks, 10 foot Command at Pearl Harbor were GET TO KNOW AND Ocean and the majestic Waianae The six-year Waimanalo pro­ shoulders and 12 foot lanes. The $135,637 for security installations UNDERSTAND Mountain Range of Oahu. gram is outlined to modern de­ old bridge is about 30 feet wide at Waikele and $109,586 for an Not knowing could mean a Brother members who are em­ velopment of homes, apartments, with sidewalks only two feet aircraft maintenance shop at the great deal of problems for you. ployed on this project are Tower resorts and commercial and farm . wide. Marine Base at Kaneohe, both to • Get to know and understand the Crane Operator Delbert Jackson, sites. A long transmission main Podmore Construction Company. ... HAW AU LOA COLLEGE Union Dues Struct11re, Fringe Elevator Op<:,!rator Frank Bohol, along . the highway will be in­ Benefits, Contracts, By-Laws, Signalmen Norm an. Kumashiro stalled and a pumping station The proposed Mililani Town in WATER POLLUTION Constitution, Hiring Procedure and Frank Moniz, "Fighting" will be constructed soon. Drain­ Waipio would make an extremely The City received its first fed­ and all other procedures of your Frank Niihau and AI Burns who age and .flood control structures well-suited site for the Protes -1 eral money today under what Union. To obtain information arid is presently in the hospital re­ will be co11structed within the tant sponsored Hawaii Loa Col­ eventually' wilL:be a multi-million answers to your-many questions, covei'ing from an industrial acci­ next fiscal year. and low lands lege. Howevei', . the Pali site on dollar p,ollution control program. ask your busines·s representatives, dent. Brother ·. Frank Bohol. oper­ will be filled with materials ex­ windward Oahu is still favored The figure represents one-third _ . contact your union office, attend ates .t4e caged construction eleva­ cavated from surroundiri.g areas . by the parties concerned. The · the costo¥ . ~ater pollution control the general membersl1ip meetings, tor 'an hour and a half. each mom­ The· Department of Hawaiian development of Mililani Town projects in :.Waianae, Kaneohe, read your Engineers Newspaper, ing ".lhile it grinds up and down Home Lands .plans a new· Wai­ and· Hawaii Loa College would Kuliouou and ·Pearl Harbor East and GET TO KNOW THE the face of the building to rush manalo home development at a indeed represent a dream satellite Loch. All 'of the projects involve· FACTS! 250 .construction workers to their total .cost. of $2 million. Its 1968- city in rural Oahu; all the neces­ sewage and sywage treat19ent. "· ·' jobs in the monstrous building. 69 btrdget coi1tains . $690,000 for sary site improvements such as Under the J:?epartment of In­ VOTER REGISTRATION This project began in 1966 and . utilities and· iriterim construction wa,ter, sewers, storm drains, terior water pollution grant pro­ If you have moved, · changed will soon be completed by this for 450 lots. homes, apartments, a commercial gram, one-third of the cost of • site and other facilities. The esti­ your name or. have never voted fall. such projects are reimbursed to HAWAII-KAI BRIDGE mated cost would be ·well over before, please register to. vote. ISLAND OF HAWAII local govetnments upon comple­ . ' . ~ We have two voter registrars in J. M. Tanaka Construction, $6 million over: a period of two tion of the projects. With the new the Union Office. Please contact C~nsti-uction · of a n~w four Inc. was offered the apparent low years. . set of water pOllution control reg­ them and register and vote. The mile Volca~o Highway to replace bid of $730,000 to construct · the Trustees of the college recent­ ulations approved by the depart­ many things we strive for can be a stretch of the narrow Belt Road Hawaii-Kai Marina Bridge and ly agr_eed to support the 'Pali site il1ent recently, the City will have obtained only if we have strong iri the Glenwood area has been Channel. The . bid is .now being 'on land donated by the late Har­ to rely heavily on federal grants and e:f_fective support in our gov­ started by J. M. Tanaka Con­ studied by Kaiser.Hawaii-Kai De­ 'old Castle, provided . financial to 'complete sewage treatment ernment. This strong support can struction Co., Ltd ... who had sub­ velopment Company ~ · 'I,nc. who support is obtained from the city. and · storm mn-off problems in mitted the low bid. of $1,795.00 be obtained only by your VOTE, will .be payihg the entire' .cost of This hilly site would force -the order to comply with the regula- so please register and vote! for the pi:oject. The plan calls foi· th~ pi·oject undei: an ~greeine;1t college to pay high costs of im­ tions. _ a 24 feet wide pavement with 10 w'ith thk state. ' .·.. .•; >} < ..:_ proving the land with · grading, At least $1 million . of the fed­ ., DEMOLITION INDUSTRY foot' shou:lde'i·s. Motorists-will '· · Th~ ' he0 bi'i'cige:· w b liid . p~b~ide flood control, water and se\ver eral money will go to the $3 mil­ ~ >t ·' ' '.; ., . • . have a good ··road · betwe~,il Hllo ~ ' cl'~ ~i-rihck :of · a1so ift ·:.: 13J~ · feet system. The estimated costto de­ lion Waianae project,- which in­ ·; The'· contracts for the Demoli­ ; ' ', 1 I ' ' ; ' ' ' ~ ' • l • ., I I I ! .1 ' ) and the Volcario ~~heri this ·sec­ above sea level to permit boats velop the Pali site would nm well cluded a. 'sewage treatment plant tion Industry have been constim, tion is completed. The r1a~Tow to mo'v'e between . Kuapa· ' Por~&; over $11 niillion. · · interceptor .sewer and ocean out­ mated .,with Tajiri Lumber Go., road with 'dirt -shoulders has been Marina and Maunalua Bay. The fall. Other projects receiving • qq.,':berr10lition ·Engineers, Ipc.; the scene ' cf many· automobile NAVY AWARDS CONTRACTS pteseriE' :'briElge ~ : offer's :-: practically C. .; S. Onaga Trucking SerVic.e money ai·e ~ Pearl Harbor .. East ac'cidents in' the ·past.· no head'· i·obm; The :•project' prb ~ Hawaii:im Dredging & Con­ Loch lntercep~or sewe,r ~p.d W ai­ a!l4 l-Iirahara .. Jr~ctqr · Servi 9 ~­ Snow contiriues -to ' fall'~ kt: 'the vi'qes · for ~r i·ealigning · and' elevat~ struction Co., Ltd. has been malu pump station, $286,000; ad­ ';I'hen~ .'are: approl{imately 75, Q>p­ peak of the 13;796 foot Mauna ing abo'ut 1,800 Jeet of Kalaniac awar:ded a $439,4bO conti-act to ditional wm:k on the Kaneohe erating Engineers employed .in Kea Mountain arid is preventing naolt( High\vay; as well a:;_rephic­ iniptove 'runways at the Kaneohe sewage treabn~~1t plant, $224,000 the. D~molition Inqustry. Stewart-Berg,: Joiri,t:Venrui·e, from ing the pr'eseht · Kmipa Pdnd .t\1arine Corps Ait Station and arid Kuliouou pump station, new SHOPS getting ahead with the construe~ Bridge .with ' the hew one. . The THOHT Construction has re­ force main and interceptor sewer, tion of. the observatory for the sharp curve on which the present ·.diived a $445,800 contract to $140,000. )'he Shop Agreement with University of Hawaii. The observ­ E. E. Black Co., Ltd., Steel Pre­ atory and dome will house a tele­ fabricating and Tool Repair Shop scope 88 inches wide and will be has also been .consummated. Ne­ one of the fourth or fifth largest gotiations for a new Shop Agree­ telescopes in the world. The con­ ment with J. M. Tanaka Con­ struction of · this observatory will Job Picture Brightens As struction, Inc. is in progress and add another 54 feet to the height • should be completed shortly. of the mountain.· The National Aeronautics and Space Admin­ HOOK INDUSTRY istration will also use the observ­ Spring Comes To Marin Work is plentiful in the Hook atory for planetary study. Industry. Hawaiian Crane & Rig­ Dawson Corporation is pio­ By WAYNE "LUCKY" not ready to start. Marv Soiland ceremonies we_re scheduled to _be ging Co., Ltd. and Hawaiian Re­ neering the lumber industry in SPRINKLE is on our Apprenticeship Com­ held on April 22nd. A $995,400 inforcing Steel have both been Hawaii with Hawaiian grown mittee. contract for the building was MARIN COUNTY STARTING working on the Waikele Bridge trees. The mill is now on .a ten GHILOTTI BROS. - getting awarded to Olsen and Baum Con~ TO MOVE Project for the past five months. hour schedule busily supplying underway on a few jobs in the struction Co. of Santa Rosa. (See 'I':1is project should be completed Robusta L u m b e r for pallet With one freeway job at. the area. They have started a couple picture.) · the latter pmt of th]s year. making. Robusta logs are being Waldo Grade underway on High­ of small subdivisions in Tiburon Beck-Utah still going full blast United Crane Rentals has been trucked approximately 40 miles way 101 (E. A. Forde is conb·ac­ and in the Novato area. on their project at Greenbrae­ busy installing rock crushing ma­ from the forest to the mill. The tor) and another section to be let SYAR & HARMS - moving with a few brothers-The Tower chinery at Kapaa Quarry and As­ company is also planning to make on May 15th, and other jobs in along on their job out at the Ma­ Crane is visible for miles around sociated Steel Workers, Ltd. is Robusta floor lumbering for the the area to be bid on, the local rin Golf & Country Club-they the county-with Bro. Jim Fields working on the Lunalile Freeway construction industry. Donald conb·actors are starting to get ran into some hard rock, and at the controls. • Victorino is our steward at this back their crews. Some of the have 2 air tracks drilling. which starts from Waialae Ave­ McGuire & Hester of Oakland plant. brothers are being called back to nue to Lusitania Street. The brothers in the Rock, Sand was awarded a contract for sewer work, and we are dispatching . a On the west side of the ·Big and Gravel plants have had it real construction in City of Petaluma . few men. HAWAII'S TALLEST Island of Hawaii, new constmc­ tough this . past winter, due to at a cost of $773,517, and we are BUILDING tion activity has commenced. PACIFIC EXCAVATORS-fin­ lack of jobs in the area, but the waiting to hold a pre-job con­ Munro-Burris and Jackson Broth­ ishing up their dirt job on the work is starting to pick up, and ference with· this company. The 33rd floor penthouse of Memorial Building for Wright & the brothers are being called Hawaii's tallest building was re­ ers, Ltd. has started work on the Rice-DeMartini-Smith Inc. of second phase of the Kona Hilton Oretsky, and making room for back, and we hope that the Novato has the resurfacing of cently completed by Hawaiian · Duncanson and Harrelson to start quarries will stay busy. Hotel. J. P. Finan began work on roads and replacing of sewer and Dredging & Cons;truction Co., driving their piles. · We are dispatching a few Tech­ · Ltd. This condominium apart­ the Kealakehe School in -Kailua; drainage lines in Samuel P. Tay­ Kona and J. M. Tanaka Con­ MAGGIORA & GHILOTTI­ nical Engineers out to a few Civil ment at 1350 Ala Moana Blvd. lor State Park. struction Co., Ltd. · is moving down at the present time on their Engi_neers in the area, as they are dominates our city's skyline. This Bids to be called for site de­ ahead on the Honokahau Pipe Bret Harte sewer job, due to the starting some new jobs. We hope $10 million project will consist velopment of the Marin Co. Civic Line. lack of pipe-but should be un­ . they stay busy, and put a lot of of 353 leasehold apmtments; only Center Hall. of · JustiCe on April derway within a few days. They wood in the ground for the rest of 15th. a few remain unsold. Even the WAIMANALO also have a small job for the Ma­ the year. 13th Floor which is included in DEVELOPMENT rin Municipal Water District at With a lot of plans being put • the construction of the condo­ EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS Sewage and effiuent disposal Phoenix Dam. out for bid, we are hopeful that minium apartments, in spite of su­ problems, largely responsible for BROWN-ELY- finishing their all of the local contractors will The employment prospects for perstitions, have been · sold. stalling the Waimanalo develop­ job at Tiburon-and at present get their share of the work. 1968's record number of college The location of this new con­ ment have been solved. The working in Novato~ Bulldozers have just about graduates are exceedingly bright. dominium apartment is unique State's $8 million plan to trans­ SOILAND CO. -working completed their work on the new A Labor Department study says since it fronts the very large and form 7,000 acre Waimanalo Val- throughout the county on a small Tomales High School site-Braga­ the nation's 820,000 graduates most picturesque Ala Moana . 1ey into a major urban area ap­ scale at present. They have a lot to Paving was the contractor for may not fill all current openings beach park and as a. convenience pears-to be moving again after a of work to do; ' but · the jobs are the site work. .Groundbreaking offered. 'Page 8 ENGINEERs :~<> NEWS May, 1968 ~~~------~~~~------· Dredging $1 Million Navy Line School Bid To McGranahan Co. By BOB SKIDGEL, LYNN Drilling drilling the holes for the olition work and clearing on the By AL HANSEN MOORE, HARLEY DAVIDSON pile. The pile is set in at a depth Williams & Burrows 4.3 million and BOB LONG of 45 feet. The holes were drilled dollar job at Valley Medical Cen- COIUE MADERA CREEK DREDGING PHASE DONE-The to 35 feet and the pile was driven ter. This building is a 4 story ·first phase of the Corte Madera Creek flood control project-dredging R. J. Zipse Paving Company for the remaining 10 feet. Then building. There will be several • from the mouth of the channel to Bon Air Bridge-is nearly complete, from Campbell were low bidders at $350,000 for improvement of the excavation was started by good subs on this job. and second phase work will begin in late May or June. The project William P. Rus using a 966 and a is on schedule, and the Army Corps of Engineers will advertise for 41st Avenue. Carl N. Swenson are very busy 977 loader loading trucks and a on their jobs downtown, San Jose bids on the second phase on April 8th. Westem Pacific Dredging K. J. McGranahan General DB with a ripper ripping the Corp. of Portland, which did the initial dredging, is moving its equip­ Contractor from Santa Cruz were Library, County Jail, and the San ground. The excavation is 30 feet Jose Hospital addition. ment out because tbe second phase is an entirely new bid. The second awarded the Navy Line School deep. There was approximately Cahill Construction are about phase calls for dredging the creek from Bon Air Bridge to College Job. This project went for $1 ,- 200,000 yards of material re­ Avenue Bridge in Kentfield, and includes construction of a reinforced 000,000 and . is located in Mon­ to wind up their job on the new .moved. This area is to provide a Telephone Building. concrete channel along Tamalpais Creek, which cuts across College terey. 300,000 sq. ft. underground park­ The Redevelopment Agency of of Marin property to the east of the athletic complex and flows under Granite Construction Company ing area. M & M Drilling are drill­ the College Avenue-Kent Avenue intersection at the entrance to Kent were low on 6,400 feet of water ing the holes for the tie back sys­ San Jose are progressing at the Woodlands. That intersection will be torn up because a new and · pipeline and Wharf Hydraulic tem on the' foundation: The tie San Antonio Plaza project. We larger culvert must be built under the street. In two years of planning Assemblers at Point Lobos ' State back system is a tension .stressing hope this gets' a number of broth­ and channel work on the first phase, which is scheduled to end about Reserve three miles south of Car­ rod with a concrete anchor. The ers to work. June this year, the Ross Valley Flood Control Zone will have spent mel. The low bid· on this job was concrete used ori the job will The first unit at the Atkinson­ about $80,000, of \\:'Ji9h at least $60,000 will be reimbursed, said $26,381. come from Pacific Ready Mix in McKay-Villages are about to fin- • Frost. The state w~t~r resources hoard has spent about $700,000 to Frank Donovan Company Mountain View, and approxi­ ish. They will get started on Unit buy property. The second phase is expected to be completed by fall were awarded the Seal Coat Job mately 20,000 yards of concrete 2 by the 15th of April, so that of 1969. Overall cost of the flood control project, extending to Shady near Soledad. This project went will be used. Hillsdale Rock from will get the·underground and dirt Lane in Ross, wilr be about $3 ,5 million. The cost is }:>eing horne by for $28,751. San Jose ·will provide the rock spreads some work. federal and state. gq.vew~ents, except for 1.5 per cent of the construc­ Granite Construction Company and gravel for this job. Gilmore The Concrete Plants have been tion and engineering i::osts, which will . be paid by the flood control have sta_rted the North Mllin ·Steel is going to be handling the busy the last week. They have zone. Street Job in Salinas and have a ·steel for the building. been getting caught up on some The College of Marin· will pay for the cost of covering Tamalpais few members busy. · Granite Construction Company of their pours they couldn't do Creek channel, estim'ated . at $88,000. The Kentfield School District · during the rain. · T. A. Fellion has started the were low bidders on the Pinto has asked the Army Corps of Engineers to pave the service road along Soquel water improvement proj­ Lake job of $173,000, which will The Almaden Fashion Plaza Adeline Kent School as part of the flood control project. The school 'ect at $30,663. be a big improvement for the shopping center is now approxi­ has agreed to pay for this paving. Santa Cruz, Monterey and San mately 75 per cent complete. The Granite Construction Company Olympian Dredging Company of San Francisco has made the Benito Counties. This lake is one job covers 34Jf acres and the cost of Monterey have begun the apparent lowest bid to dredge about 30,000 cubic yards of bay mud of the most popular among boat­ . is in excess of 10 million dollars. $200,246 Seaside Assessment Dis­ near the Army Corps of Engineers terminal at Sausalito. Olympian ing people, which consist mostly There is 142,000 square feet of trict projecf, . Dredging bid $24,742 for the job. It will be the first dredging in the of the Operating Engineers. floor space in the tenant building Most ·of the Reick, Sand & Sausalito area in five years. It is expected to be completed in about McGuire and Hester were and the mall. The perimeter · is • 30 days. The Dredge "Holland" to start job this week-the balance of Gravel Plants are on a two-shift 110,000 square feet and the new basis at this writing. awarded the contract for the rifle bucket dredges tied 'up at Rio Vista for repairs. ranges at Fort Ord. This will keep Emporium is 90,000 square feet Carl N. Swenson ·has several for a surface. Dinwiddie Con­ Western Pacific Dredging in Corte Madera Creek-flood control jobs underway ·in this area. several ·members busy for quite project had a mishap and cut out service in parts of Marin County awhile. struction is the prime contractor. Williams & Burrows have L~o Piazza Paving did all of the for about 45 minutes-the dredge "Reidel" accidentally mangled a started their County Medical Cen­ . Granite Construction Company three-inch cable. Calls had to be re-routed over the three remaining picked up a small job in Salinas rough grading and landscaping ter Building with Jack Farnham with a 2Jf foot import fill; this cables. The cable mangled by the dredge cross the creek bottom in for $71,239 for widening and re­ doing the demolition and the · was accomplished with 2 scrap- about 15 feet of water. Phone company crews dug the cable up on dirt work. They are also making construction of North Main Street either side of the creek-spliced 900-feet of new cable into it find in Salinas. ers, 1 dozer, 1 blade and 2 grade good progress on their job at San checkers. Ruth Going and Beck draped it along the freeway as a temporary measure. A few days Jose State College. Bids will be open for mainte­ later, a mud geyser caused by a ruptured dredging line being used did all of the survey and layout. Pankow Construction are on nance dredging in Santa Cruz Dinwiddie dug the foundations by Western Pacific Dredging sprayed Highway 101 with muck, rock the finishing t~uches of their job Harbor around March 27th. This and debris near the Greenbrae overpass, causing af least five traffic and all of the footing with Broth- at San Jose College Student Resi­ maintenance will be from $25,000 er Ed Wood on the backhoe. Bi­ accidents before the mess was cleaned up near midnight. We are sorry dent Building. to $100,000. this had to happen, and wish them lot of good luck on their next job. lardi Construction dug and laid All the grading and paving Granite Construction Company all of the storm drains. E. T. Haas • Bids are to be open on May 14th for channel improvements Unit companies are getting work was awarded a COI}tract for brought in the water service. The No. 2, Corte Madera Creek, estimated cost: $1,000,000 and $5,000,- started. A. J. Raisch have several $78,894 for grading and surfac­ rock fill for the parking lot came 000. Work consists of construction of approximately 4,000 !ft. of crews busy. The paving crews are ing and also for installing signals by rail from The Granite Rock trapezoidal sect. earth channel; 2,000 !ft. of cone. rectang. sect. chan­ doing most of the resurfacing on on Canyon Del Rey in Del Monte Quarry at Aromas. Belt Crete sup­ nel; and 1,300 !ft. of cone. db!. box culv. bridge rmvl. and const., and City of San Jose streets. at Monterey. plied the belts for the pour for sanit. swr., incl. clear and grub, fencing and other rei. work. Heatco of Los Angeles is doing A. J. Raisch are busy setting up the first floor of the Emporium, Maintenance Dredging, Bodega Bay: Bids to be opened on May work on Leo Piazza sub jobs and their new rock plant at Gay Pit. with Century Concrete supplying 4th-by U. S. Army Engineer District, Corps of Engrs. The work resurfacing some of the streets They are also doing remodeling the concrete. They were able to . consists of dredging approximately 100,000 cubic yards instead of in the Willow Glen Area. at Guadalupe Pit . pour 1200 square feet a day every 70,000 cubic yards-this was extended by the Corps of Engineers­ John Sweeney & Sons are pres­ Leo Piazza are busy overhaul­ other day until the first floor was as they will be doing some work for the private owners in Bodega ently working on a job in Los ing their equipment and keeping complete. All floors and walls Bay. The dredging will be from the existing channel and turning basin Gatos and another at the IBM all the mechanics busy. above the ground floor were made and disposal of dredged material in the designated disposal area. Plant. Hillsdale Rock Plants are all by Dinwiddie's own crane with UNITED SAND & GRAVEL still going strong with their Dredge Hillsdale Rock are busy at both very busy. They have two crush­ Brothers Joel Peterson the opera- "Sandpiper"-all the crew working hard and going strong with their of _their plants, Hillsdale & Med­ ers going on Hillsdale Plant and tor and Charles Gordon the oiler. job in S.F. Bay for Trans-Bay Constructors. calf Road. They have also taken one crew at Medcalf Road. Sho Araki helped Rosindin Elec- • TRANS BAY CONSTRUCTORS DREDGE "Thelma" still keeping over the Hot Plant in San Car­ Kaiser Sand & Gravel are going ttic with the electrical under­ busy in S.F. Bay on their trench for the Tube-still have a lot of los. strong at Coyote. They are doing ground and underground through clean-up work to do. The Dredge "Tuney" also keeping busy helping Harms Brothers have started repair work on their plant at Don­ various other phases of the proj­ United Sand and Gravel "Sandpiper" to discharge sand for back-fill on their job on Highway 152- ner Avenue. ect. San Jose Crane & Rigging on the Tube. 156 East of Gilroy. McDonna-Harms are getting set all of the structural steel on HYDRAULIC DREDGING COMPANY-Dredge "Papoose" tied up Thomas Construction are mak­ ready to start their hot plant at the penthouse of the Emporium. at yard in Pittsburg. Dredges "D-R" Nos. 1 and 2 should be in the ing good progress on their job at Tres Pinos. shipyard by now or real soon. Dredge "Rogue" should be out of the Chittington Jet. Hollister Sand & Gravel have MANPOWER TRAINING shipyard this week sometime with practically a new engine overhaul Dillingham Corporation were started two shifts at their Hollis­ and a lot of other little incidentals that they wanted to do with her. awarded a contract in excess of ter Plant. Some 900,000 Negroes have From the shipyard, she is going to Belmont Slough to start her job 5 million dollars, for the construc­ E. Pestana are making good enrolled in various U. S. Labor for Redwood Shores. They have around 500,000 yards to dredge. tion of an eight story building progress on their job on Senter Department sponsored manpower SHELLMAKER DREDGING COMPANY-Dredge "Vanguard" is covering one block on Forrest Road. They have eight engineers training and work experience pro­ tied up at Lauritzen's Yd. in Antioch at the present time-should be and Ramona Avenue in.Palo Alto. working on this job. grams since the initiation of these out this week to start their job for the Corps of Engineers-Suisun Completion is expected about Ebelt-Sparton have two jobs programs in 1962. Currently more Basin. January, 1970. Harold MatzoH is going in Gilroy. They also have than 117,000 Negroes are en- • Dredge "Gypsy'~ has started to work on their job out of Tracy. This the project manager and Brother a good job going in Los Gatos. rolled. , is all that Shellmaker has at the present time. Bill Mullins is doing the Engi­ A. Izzi Pipelines are working five engineers on their Snell Road WESTERN PACIFIC DREDGING is doing a little work for neering and the layout work on JOB ASSAULT Schultz Development Company in Greenbrae-and are also going to the job. They are going to use a subdivision. · move their Dredge "Reidel" up at Lauritzen's yard in Antioch to get Linden Crane and a 25 ton Truck William Caprista have several President Johnson has reiterat­ it ready to go to sea for the tow to Portland, Oregon where they have Crane to set the pre-cast fi.ns on jobs going at this time. ed his urgent call to Congress for three or four months work for this dredge. Dredge "Pohlemus" with the building with the aluminum Sanco Pipelines are doing the a massive $2.1 billion effort for a very good crew up at Stockton are moving a lot of muck on their and glass spandrel walls. The job underground work on Mary Ave­ manpower training. The program Stockton Channel job. · was started with H. F. Lauritzen, nue and Stevens Creek Road. ' is designed "to help Americans. see DREDGING page 14 Inc. driving the pile with M & M Jack Farham is doing th~ dem- who want to work get a job." ~ . I • May, 1968 Page 9. Freeways Are Gateways To Backyards By WAYNE "LUCKY" SPRINKLE - On March 4th, a meeting was held at the Tiburon Lodge locat­ ed in Tiburon regarding highways in Marin County. Present at this meeting were the Board of Super­ visors of Marin County, members · .. ~. of the California Highway Com ~ mission, Alan Hart, Deputy Dist. l Engr. (Dist. No. 4,. S.F.); mem­ bers of the local and state cham­ bers of commerce, Don Frost,. De­ partment of Public Works ( Coun­ ty of Marin), and all depa1trnent ' and city officials of all the cities of Marin County. The main topic was the priofitY­ list for construction of Highway 101 in Marin. Everyone ·at this meeting was in favor of putting the San Rafael Viadluct into a No. 1 priority, and the Novato By­ pass to No. 2 priority, instead of the other way around. So, this .BROTHER "GOOD GUY" is the title bestowed on Operating Engi­ new diamonds for the East Vallejo Little. teague. The three new • means now that the San Rafael neer Clyde Plymell. The local No. 3 meniber recently donated his playing fields will serve the majors, rpinor,s and 'farm circuits this · Vi;J.duct will be advertised this time and the use of the equipment shown above to prepare three season. I . · year instead of in 1969 . or in 1970. We understood from Alan * * * Hart that they could go ;J.head . it should, *newcomers ·*' * can. expect that the distance a driver ·. can AFL-CIO URGES N~w SoLith:Chow! on this job this year, as this would 'to find ,more than enough mod- . cover 'in 30 minutes has length­ ,~, . . ; .' CONGRESS OK ON Southern cooking, family eliminate this bottleneck. em highways ' to get .around on. . ened·fivefold along some freeway .. . PROMOTION FUNDS stylk, is offered in 649 recipes The meeting was very interest­ By average, a good many of the routes. It has doubled or tripled supplied by women of the labor ' ing, and now we h:we a better people who , come to California ··aldng others .. WASHINGTON - A measure movement in the-So~th. understanding of our freeway sys­ to work during the next few' years · :Addition , :infom1ation . about that would permit joint labor and Proceeds of the sales of Our tem in the State of California. .. ~ill .be persons whose -livel.ihood California Freeway System can be management sponsorship of in­ Favorite Recipes will go toward Following is a: summary of this depends directly on cars and high- obtained by, writing: _. . dustrial promotions has received construction of a headquarters meeting on freeways: . · ae1=o~ Freewqy Support ,Co:q1mittee ways. Even .when there . are the support of the AFL-CIO. An­ in Raleigh for the North Caro­ space engineers, the efficie,ncy of c!' · California Chamber . . THE FREEWAY: St~te drew J. Biemiller, director of the lina State AFL-CIO. An effort freeways will ' be . vital .to their of Commerce federation's. Department of Leg­ is being made to sell ioo,ooo H6w MUCH .no You VALUE e?rning power. ·Any economy is 1000 Wilshire Boulevard islation, expressed the AFL-CIO's copies within the state, and it is · dependent· in every area on its ·Los Angeles, 90017 OUR CALIFORNIA WAY Califqrn~a support of a bill to amend Section hoped that many thousands • OF LIFE? transportation system. . Rundown cOn the work picture 302(c) of the Labor Manage­ more can be sold across the na­ Most Californians happily ded­ And yet, when· we stopJo count ' .in Nortp Bay Area: ment Relations Act in a letter to tion. ·icate a major portion of their our pleasures, what is iinpqrtapt E. A. FORDE was low bidder Rep. Frank Thompson (D-N.J.), Contents include 48 ways -to . wcitkllg oday to paying the mo1t- . to many of us is the opportunity ($261,000} on H~: lOl-.::-:widen chairman of . the Special House use ground beef as a main dish; ·gage, so their children can have for casual· -recreation that free- to 4 lanes-from Spencer Ave. to · Labor subcommittee. breads, including hush-puppies; the run of a backyard. All of us ways afford us. Californians in- Golden Gate Bridge: "Section 302 now prohibits all Southe1:n seafood gumbos; cas­ · tecogriize that .it is the freeway variably-, use, a freeway to take M.G.M. CONSTRUCTION-job ' payments by employers to union seroles; curries; stuffed fish and which places millions of bqck­ them where the "action -is." · And . at Greenbrae, , starting .to move 'representatives except payments "angels (1oy s ters) on horse­ yards within 30 minutes of ·a getting there, or coming home, along smoothly now, after some to' ce1tain specified exempted em- back"; corn fritters; ' candies; ~ downtown office. The freeway often becomes a valued part of problems of putting their pump­ , player-supported funds such as cakes; pecan pies; pralines; traveler bypasses "stop and go" the outing. Most people feel as ing stations in. This underground health and welfare funds," Bie­ puddings; salads; beverages; problems of the ·surface sh·eets, safe as they feel free when whip- job is in mud and the depth of miHer explained. The proposed relishes and more. leaving those streets to the driver ping along through scenic coun- thetninch is about 18 feet. amendment would specifically There are a "never fail" pie who · must use them. And, be­ try on a gently swooping free- GHILOTTI BROS. should have permit jointly administered trade crust, an· "impossible" pie, cause of freeways, a housewife's way. And their feeling is correct. the "go ahead" on their subdivi­ ·· and industry product promotion cherry torte, lemon chooz, kara­ I. round trip to a variety of shop­ The record shows that on cross- sian in Tiburon by the time this - programs. dopeta, finikia, leff kuchen, ping centers may take no more country freeways, there are fewer goes to press. They don't have all "These programs should not be scotchies, mom's chewy cake.; than 20 minutes. Indeed, free­ accidents per mile traveled than of their operators back to work p1!ohibited by law ~ecause they Swedish booze cake, porcupine ways are so important to the Cal­ on other rural highways. Driving as yet, due to ·lack of · work and have the desirable effect and pur­ balls, yarri chops, shrimp wiggle, l ifornia way of life, they could be is safest of all, though, on a big weather. But knowing _ Ghilotti pose of expanding business oppor­ hopping john, a hearty soup, l the state trademark. city freeway. Bros., they will get a lot of work tunities and employment in the $300 fudge, 24-hour pickles, Sometimes we forget another Freeways assure good jobs for and will have all of the brothers industries where they have been chow chow ... wow! I very special thing about the mod­ more Californians in years to back to work soon. developed," Biemiller said. "The Some of the recipes are de- em highways here-they are toll­ come. A growing economy will MAGGIORA-GHILOTTI have bill would permit, but would not . rived from generations back free. Many states, particularly in produce more jobs, of course. But started on their Bret Harte job­ require, collective bargaining on when impoverished Southerners the East and Midwest, charge a growing economy requires im- working on the sewer line first­ the establishment of such pro­ struggled grimly for survival on fees to drive ·on their limited ac­ proved · highways. Freeways add then will come back to the storm grams or funds." Enactment of such edibles as were at hand. cess highways. In California, we to an area~s potential for business- drain. This job is in the mud and the amendment, he said, "would Homemakers in the "New have paid for olir roads through es to move to a new location.' are shoring every foot of the 14 be an act of simple justice." South" serve beef instead of gasoline taxes. What's more, we Highway access determines their foot deep trench. raccoon, pork and shrimp and have kept up to date. There is no choice of sites about two-thirds SYAR & HARMS, getting off LIST VETERAN .oysters and lamb instead of • indebtedness hanging over our of the time. When manufactur- to a slow start at Marin Golf & 'possum, fatback, mudcat and ers move, highway location is Country Club due to the weather, completed freeways. BENEFITS IN sowbelly; But the ingenious At , the same time, freeways, most important about one-third and are running into some hard NEW BOOKLET cooking secrets that made those like most things, have some draw­ of the time, according to studies rock, but they will get the job crude poverty victuals tasty and WASHINGTON- The Veter­ backs. Rush hour tieups are a by Real Estate Research Corpora- done, as they have good equip­ made Southern cooking famous tion. · ment and a good crew of opera- ans Administration has released its problem, to be sure. Such tieups have 'been handed down, and 1968 edition of "Federal Benefits may never be completely elimi­ The density of motor vehicles tors to go with it! they're in Our Favorite Recipes for .Veterans and Dependents," an nated, but is is good to know that registered in San Francisco is the SOILAND COMPANY, work­ . . . $2.25, plus 25 cents for annual publication that reviews congestion is decreasing as the highest in the nation-7,500 per ing on a few small jobs at the postage and handling. Quai1- benefits available to veterans of freeway network grows. square mile. In the entire Ba;y present time in the area but will 'tity discounts available. military service. Of course, the faster we build Area, with its waterways and have bigger jobs to do once _the Nmth Carolina State AFL­ freeways, the quicker we will ex­ bridges, motor vehicle registra- dirt has been moved on some of The 1968 booklet includes de­ CIO, P. 0. Box 10805, Raleigh, perience a full measure of bene­ tions have grown by almost one the larger jobs. Soiland Company, tails of the Veterans' Pension & North Carolina 27605. fits. Our State Legislature has million over the last three years like all of the other local contrac­ Readjustment Assistance Act of planned a 12,500 mile system by to total more than 2.5 .million. · to~s, don't have enough work on 1967, which gives Viet Na'm vet­ 1980. Today that network is only Even with this much booming, their books for the year, but they erans the same benefits available about one-third complete. Over particularly in Santa Clara Coun- are bidding on jobs in the area, to other wartime veterans and ex­ $500 Million Project • the years to come, we may want ty, an .expanding system of free- as well as out of the area. pands all veterans benefits. The Princeton-by-the-Sea de­ to step up the pace of construc­ ways has increased the mobility As the picture looks from here, Single copies may be obtained velopment on the San Mateo tion. of residents. we will have more work than we for 20 cents each from Superin­ County coast is expected to start By 1980, at least' six million A travel time study in 1966, did in 1967. Let's hope so! _ tendent of Documents, U. S. late this summer with the con­ more people are expected to join when contrasted with statistics Our office will be open on Government ,frinting Office, struction of a 220-home unit. The the 20 million already living in compiled after the opening of the Mondays until 7 ·p.m. instead of Washington, . D.C. 20402. Dis­ county planning commission will California, and if the freeway and Golden . Gate and San Francisco- Thursday nights. Please note our count rates are. available, upon go over a preliminary map some­ expressway program proceeds as Oakland Bridges in 1931, shows change effectiv~ March 18th. request, for quantity purchases. time in May. ·Mad :: Ri:ver :. Br~ i ·cJge :\SJ:.>reag·' Gold Card Marks 1 • .~i~;y~~ -~ ~ $~~~~ce '"·\:1 ···•. ', uc :'st~idv Se~s Mil'! ion Inti. Vice President and Busi­ Gettin~Ready To Si,~rt . ness Map1;1ger AI Clem announced Acres DueCon.struction ·this .. we~k that Ope~ating -Engi­ By HAY COOPER 3. Three miles along Route 197 neers Local Union No. 3 had pre­ BERKELEY-University of California's Center for Real Estate This is the -tim~ -of the year from the Hiouchi Bridge, realign­ sented G. A. Matzek of 380 Per­ and Urban Economics has rep01ted that rri.ore than a million acres when we have what you might ment and improvement. 4. . Full · rymont "Street, San Jose, with a will be converted from farming and vacant~ unused land into hous­ freeway Highway 101, Wilson call "false spring:~' We have a few gold card ' signifying 35 years of ing and business use within the 13-county San Francisco Bay area weeks of beautiful sunny weather Creek to south of Trees of Mys­ membership in , the local union. in the next 50 years. tery, 2J~ miles. and everybody · is asking . "when Mr. Matzek was initiated into Lo­ The UC study is a part of the San Francisco-Delta Water Qual­ the heck are w~ going to work?" FULL FREEWAY cal45 in 1932. This local later be­ ity Conh·ol Program's planning for regional protection of high we' ask the copttactor the ' same ' came a part of Operating Engi- question, "Look at the good Group B-projects for surveys, . neers. The Gold Card gives Mr. quality water and arrived at its conclusions from use of a compu­ weather going to waste; when the . designs, and commencement for Matzek full rights arid privileges terized simulation model that has been three years in the making. • hell are you going to get this rights-of-way acquisition: in the union without further finan­ Sacramento County alone, the UC report said, is expected to lose increase by more than 100,000. equipment movi:ng?" l. Full freeway Highway .199 cial obligation. almost 200,000 acres of vacant or This high density will reflect the I'm sure that we are all aware three .miles from Route 197 to agricultural land to housing and scarcity of room for expansion and of the answer. ~: v\le , get a usual proposed interchange near Myr­ Why Borrow Elsewhere? commercial development before the continuing desire of people to average rainfall .. e~ch year and at · tie Creek. 2020. Santa Clara County's rapid live beside the Golden Gate. the present time': we· ar_e behind 2. , Complete design five miles Something happened t'oday consumption of land, already in The northern tier of counties­ . normal, so it is usually ...May be- U.S. Highway 199, Myrtle Creek and now you need to borrow progress, will continued with an­ Solano, Sonoma and Marin-will fore · any activity ~ 9ornmer\~es. to near Gasquet. money. You already have a loan other 150,000 acres, the uc report undergo relatively more growth Eugene Luhr '·& Company ex- 3. Complete design Route 199 atthe credit union. Yesterday's predicts. than the southern Bay area coun­ pected to start in May on the from new Pati·ick's Creek bridge mail brought an .ad from a Counties where conversion to ties. An example of the dramatic continuation of theii· Orick Levee to north of Bridge 166 (Trout "friendly" finance company that non-agricultural land use will ex­ change expected is Sonoma's in­ job. Granite Construdon Com- Haven) 2J~ miles. And ( 4) noted offered to solve your money ceed 2,000 acres per year include crease in single family units by the pany hope to .get their. Klamath as "not in the program," com­ problems. · Alameda, Contra Costa, San year 2020 to a total exceeding San job going within it. month. Hughes plete to state highway 12 miles . DON'T head for . the loan Joaquin, Sonoma and Solano. In Mateo's, which now has some & Ladd may take advantage. of up the Klamath River from Klam­ Sonoma, the 3,400 acres now de­ 70,000 more than Sonoma. •• company! See the credit union the present good weather arid ath Glen ,to Johnson. voted to residential uses will in­ Napa and Santa Cruz Counties right away. The credit union is start back on· thei'r Forest Service Group C-projects for long- crease to about 70,000 acres dur­ are expected to experience a com­ Big Flat job in Del Norte County - term planning: 1. Route 199, · YOURS ... .. owned and oper­ ing the next 50 years. Solano's paratively modest growth in popu­ and also their Benbow: 'job near . Gasquet to Collier Tunnel, 23 ated by you and your fellow figures will change from about lation and housing development Garberville. -. . iniles, complete portions of route membel's. We're here to serve 6,600 now to more than 70,000 during the 50-year period cov­ Hughes & Lad.d have been not already realigned as funds are members, not 'ma~ea fat profit acres for housing and San Joa­ ered by the Bay-Delta Program awarded the Mad Ri.;er bridge available. · off of the needs of others. quin's will go from 18,000 acres to report. job and equipment is on the job The fact that you may al­ about 83,000 in that time. Raymond Walsh, Program Di­ HUMBOLDT'S HIGHWAY Changes in population and in rector, said that copies of the de­ site ready to roll. This $819,87 4 . PRIORITIES ready have .a credit union lomi project consists of 1.3 miles of shouldn't k10ep you from apply­ residential land use are reflected tailed UC report have been serit grading a 2 lane Hiway and ap­ A-Projects for construction or ing for another. Having all your in the number and types of hous­ to planning directors in the 13 right-of-way allocations to permit ing foreseen. Multiple family counties (San Francisco, Mitrin, proaches, and a -b!·idge over the borrowing;.at your own organi­ prompt construction that are not dwellings m'e likeiy to increase Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Yolo, Sac~ North Fork of the Mad Rivei.· 7 zation can save you money. You miles east of Blue Lake on Hi way already budgeted: almost five tim'es in the next 50 ramento, San Joaquin, · Cohtra save on total 'morithly payments years arid singl~ family houses will Costa, Alameda, San Mateo, Sant~ 299; Dick Stimple will be the 1-Route 299 from Blue Lake and bn· iritetest ·charges. :. super and says he will be using to Lord Ellis Summit, 12.1 miles, increase two ' arid·' one-half times. Chira and Santa · Cruz) and to · ~Any ; ~~Y ' yo~ look : fit •it; : the ' In San' Francisco; sii1gle family planning directors in a dozer\. m1;1~ • TS 14 and 631 scrapers and Cat easterly extension as a two-lane & Cans. - expressway of the Blue Lake free~ credit union deal is ·the · best home's will decrease by. almost jo\· cities. None, however, . :are way. de~L' · _. .: •.. · · · · ·· · : ··c·'· 10,000 . v'vhile total housing units available for general distribution. ; ' ~ • ' • .' : ' ; ' ; ; --;··. . . !. . ' ~ l. Mercer Fraser Company has a •-:·(.~,: . , .-;. ~t' , . ~- · ~• ~' : .Li •.·.. L t crusher crew working at their 2-Route 36 from Bridgeville Essex plant making the filter ma­ to Trinity County Line, 23.1 terial for Hughes & Ladd on their miles, widen and improve curves. project. 3-Route 255 from Eureka to Tracy .Bypass Bid Is Out Todd Construction Company of Samoa, 2.0 miles, new crossing of Humboldt Bay between Route Santa Rosa was low bidder with By WALTER TALBOT, AL The contract calls for the place­ Co. meat packing plant near $533,500 for constructing a new 101 and the Samoa Peninsula. McNAMARA and JIM GENTRY ment of over eight million tons Stockton. D. W. Nicholson, Certi­ Gymnasium and Library at the St. 4-Route 299 from Circle Point, The placement of engineers on of impmted borrow. fied Sewer Service, and San Jose Bernards High · School. Excava­ 2.2 miles east of Redwood Creek, Langworthy Paving Co. of Steel also had operators working tion work will begin immediately. to Berry Summit, 4.7 miles, 2-lane the various projects throughout the district should get under way Fresno was low bidder at $414,- on this project. Bids will be opened next week expressway and completion of in earnest with a weather break. 630 for additions to the oxidation The mountain work continues for the removal of the remaining Route 299 improvements. Although some engineers are ponds west of Stockton. This con­ to be slO\y with very little work • portions of Yeager Creek bridge B-Projects for surveys, design employed through the winter tract will provide an additional anticipated on public works proj­ ai: Carlotta on State Route 36. :fnd commencement of right-of­ months, the bulk of the member­ 180 acres of ponding area on ects in the mountain counties for Because the new bridge will be way acquisition: ship in the construction industry Roberts Island. 1968. However, the private home constructed in the same location 1-Route 101 from Mendocino more generally are not recalled H. Earl Parker submitted the developers keep several grading as the old one, only 30 working County Line to 1.0 mile south of or sent to new jobs prior to April low bid to the U.S. Army Corps and paving contractors busy on days will be allowed for comple­ Benbow, 6.0 miles, relocate and of each year. Fortunately, this of Engineers for channel clear­ access roads and related work on tion; then a contract will be let construct to hill freeway stand­ district does have projects that ing, irrigation and drainage struc­ these housing projects. Claude for building the new bridge. ards. have been let and will have start­ tures on Mormon Slough and Cal­ Wood Co., Frank Fuller, C. L. Bids are now being advertised !A-Route 101 from Seventh ed this month. averas River upstream to Bellota, McLaughlin Co., George Reed, for the 6 miles of 4-lane divided Street interchange in Arcata to Polich - Benedict - Hess - Price, all in San Joaquin County. This and Horace Cooper have engi­ freeway from Trinidad to Pat­ Arcata overhead, 1.8 miles con­ successful bidder on new Inter­ adjoins the contract that R. P. neers working for them on such ricks Point on Highway 101, and vert to full freeway standards. state 5 in Stockton, has com­ Burruss Co. has about completed. projects. will be opened on May 8. The 2- Route 101 from Jordan menced operations on this four The Parker bid was $358,976 to Granite Construction Co., low 4-lane expressway north of Gas­ Creek to _north of the Paul Mud­ and six lane highway project. Tom complete the job. bidder ·on a half million dollar quet in Del Norte County will gett Bridge (Robinson Ferry), 8.7 Hess, Inc., will barge the fill ma­ Terry Construction of Stateline, job on Highway 16 in Amador also be let in May. These are the miles, extend Redwood Highway terial in from a spoil area down Nevada, is busy on their storm County, has not started as yet, • two largest jobs to be awarded in northerly through Rio Dell. river from Rio Vista to the job, drainage project on Garfield but should be under way some­ this district for this year. 3-Route 96 from Orleans to which borders the San Joaquin Street in Lodi. time this month. Somes Bar, 7.0 miles, widen and River in Stockton. The two barges Guy F. Atkinson Co., construc­ Burchett & Good on Higl1\vay HIGHWAY PRIORITIES realign route. tors of the New Don Pedro Dam, 88 at Red Lake Grade have ap­ REVIEWED with a load capacity of approxi­ C-Projects for long-term plan­ mately eight thousand tons will holed through on the diversion proximately three months work Humboldt County-Major im­ ning: make a complete · cycle every tunnel in March. This should left to be done to complete their provements to Highways 299 and 1-Route 101 from Elk River eighteen hours. With in excess of cause an increase in the placement contract. 36, along with the Humboldt Bay to north city limits of Eureka, 6.5 three million tons to be barged, of engineers in the near future, Cooley Bros. have been work­ bridge has been recommended by miles, Eureka freeway. the company expects to be busy whenever the embankment mate­ ing between rainstorms on their the State Chamber of Commerce 2-Route 96. from Willow Creek hauling material for eleven rial is placed for the new dam. Forest Service road job near Tuol­ to be presented to the California to Weitchpec, 23.0 miles, widen months. Projects in progress in Modesto umne City. However, it appears Highway Commission. and realign. Gordon H. Ball, Inc., of Dan­ at this time are the Del Monte that the bad weather is now be­ Here are the priority recom­ 3-Route 101 from north city ville, low bidder on the Tracy Plant construction by Robert G. hind us, and it should now be full mendations for 1969-70: limits of Eureka to Seventh Street Bypass, which entails fourteen Fisher with General Crane Serv­ throttle. Group A-projects for construc­ interchange in Arcata, 5.0 miles, miles of new four lane freeway ice of Fresno erecting the tilt-up Sonora Marble Aggregates Co. tion or rights of way allocations convert expressway to full f:J:ee­ and seventeen bridges, has also slabs, Valley Engineering Co. on at Shaws Flat all but shut down to permit prompt construction: way standards. the Modesto sewer job and Stand­ • broken ground. The company was their operations completely after 1. Full freeway four miles from 4- Route 101 from Mudgett granted a permit by San Joaquin ard Materials, George Reed and many years of op'eration. Three Crescent City on 101 Highway Bridge to Kenmar Road, 5.6 County to obtain fill material M. J. Ruddy & Son on small con­ engineers were all that remained to junction with Highway 199. miles, convert expressway to free­ from a borrow area they plan to tracts in and around town. after the cease operations order 2. Full freeway three miles from way. develop upstream from the Moss­ Arthur G. McKee Co. has kept became effective. However, a few junction 101 along 199 to North­ 5-Route 101 from Big Lagoon dale Bridge. The borrow pit is approximately fifteen engineers more engineers have been rehired, bank Road, including new Smith to Freshwater Lagoon, 10.0 miles, now a sand bar in the river bot­ busy most of the winter on the and we hope the company works River Bridge. convert to freeway standards. tom land near ·Wetherbee Lake. construction of the new Swift & out their internal problems. May, 1968 · ENGfNe!RS ·. NEWS Pag~ : 11 • ~I • • · Brookfrails Project Holds Work Promise By RUSS SWANSON and. Ebert-Spa1tan is primarily doing . BOB WAGNON . the underground work and sub­ bing the rest of the work to dif­ At the last writing of our paper, ferent contractors. Subcontractors we said the sun was shining, and are Thomas Construction Co., we were in hopes of an early who will be doing the road work; spring, but in the pasf month we H. Earl Parker and Joe LaMalfa have had several inches of rain" combined, who will be doing the fall, so evidently spring is still grading and paving, and Moun­ not here. About the only thing tain States, who will be doing the • we· can say for this 'is it makes sti·ucture-work. Also on the same the grass green and it helps the project there was another bid for farmers, but it certainly doesn't the water treatment plant, which ··help our "out of work" list. has already been let to the Frank Our overall outlook for District · Beach. So, all ' in all this should 10 ·is .v:ery ·favorable for the year ·· be a real good project for the next o£.19(?8. Around Sonoma County , year and a ·half for all the good . · - there is .con.siderable work . left brothers up in area ~· over from · last year to be com- This is going to be a beautiful . ple~ed, ·phis the new work, that retirement community, or just a should' take care of our brothei·s here. .\· lovely place to live in the Willits area. It is approximately three ·. New work to be let in the area miles frcim downtown Willits. within the very near future will · After talking to the developers it be the Highway 12 extension to seems they ·_ are going to attempt • · the freeway, and also the Ben- · to have this go on and on' from · nett Valley Road. - one bid to the next for approxi­ Bragato Paving has not been mately five years running. As we able to do much on their river are discussing the- Willits area, road job this winter, except get the Highway 101 realignment job it ready for grading and paving. However, they did accompUsh the below tow~ is to be let in May. clearing this winter, which was . This job is about a three mile done by Wagper, Borbe .and stretch of realignment, which will Adams. This should be a good · bypass the now existing under­ job for quite a few of our men pass, which has been the scene PICTURE PAUSE at Berglund · Tractor Company Mac Ingraham, Lloyd Hinton, Jim Ronsee, Clyde · as ·soon as the weather permits;. of many an accident. in Willits is made by (I. to r.) Operating Engi- _ Bean, "Butch" Norton and Shop Steward Larry Also, . . between rainstorms, Bra­ The job was to have been let neers Local Union No.3's Brothers Werner Carey, Hunter . gato has been working on. the . before this but due to a delay in "Moose" Karjali, Ray ·Cramer, Shop Foreman; freeway through Santa Rosa, plus acquiring right-of-way access, the the Farmer's Lane extension. · · bidding w~s postponed. When the~e jobs are ·finished, Traveling on up further on * *· * it will help relieve the traffic con­ Highway 101 to the Cummings clition for travel. Mr. Tap Fausey opers, they are expeCting to start not only help their production but • gestion considerably. Argonaut area, Morrison-Knudsen Co. is just is the general superintendent on this job this summer. also put our mechanics and weld­ Con.struction Co. has quite a lot · waiting for the good weather to this job, of which Turley & Son Across the lake at the Riviera ers to work. There are also ru­ of work left on their underground get here to enable them to finish are the capable crew on. the clam Development, which is already in mors that there will be a new construction project out in the the existing work. But due to th,e shell. Owner-operator brother progress with the golf course and 6,000 standard hot plant put up northwest section of Santa Rosa. size of the project, it will take Rowla-nd is on the backhoe. streets in, there is going to be to replace the' old orie which is This · is another job that will ~go the rest of the working year to Over in Lal5e · County, which two new units developed on this at Redwood Redimix location on back to work as soon as weather complete it. has l;leen low on work for the past project this year which will College Ave. in Santa Rosa. We permits. On the Guy F. Atkinson free~ · several seasons, the prospects are ·amount to around )f million dol­ know this would make some peo­ Up in the north end of the dis­ way job, just above this at Cum­ a little brighter. We have the lars. Lange Brothers at the time ple happy there, especially the trict-namely, Mendocino Coun­ mings there is a three year proj- . Newpmt Keys project to look for­ are developing one new unit. pla11t operator, who would natu- . ty-we have the Brooktrails De­ ect with the peak year being in ward to this year which will be They are in hopes that the other rally rather push buttons than velopment project, for which they 1968. The job employed a good over by Clearlake Highlands. two units will be ready to go when pull levers. finally got around to awarding the number of engineers last year, This will be approximately a two they finish this one. So all in all, Berglund Tractor Co. has evi­ bids . on. After the awarding, the and we know they are anxious to and one half million dollar real for Sonoma, Lake and -Mendocino dently enjoyed a more prosperous . contractors weren't too slow in see the good weather come so estate development project which Counties, the work picture is a year this year than last as they l e getting started. The Ebert-Spar­ they can start up and get the pay will have keys built out into Clear little brighter this year. - Napa . have not had to lay anyone off tan Co. from San Jose, the ·gen­ checks started to rolling again. Lake plus ·the regular land de­ · County is the only one of the and even had to hire a few new eral· contractors, took the job for Still further up Highway 101 velopment, consisting of streets; counties in District 10 which people through the winter. We $2,800,000 plus. This consists of there was a slip-out due to slide underground and lot leveling. We doesn't have an especially good have approximately 45 men work­ all phases of the work to be done, conditions and Granite Construc­ know this job has been in the outlook for the future. We are ing between the two shops, Napa which are: sewer lines, road work, tion Co. is removing the slide and cooker ·for some time but from hoping this will change and that and Willits. We are in the second water line and bridges. However, getting Highway 101 back in con- what we find out from the devel- Napa County will get some work year of our contract with Berg­ also. lund Tractor and our relations are excellent. The members employed Our plants and shops have there under Local No. 3 are reap­ been fairly busy this winter be­ ing the benefits attained by a Lo­ tween rainstorms. Basalt Rock cal 3 contract. (The accompany­ must think the prospects are good, ing photo shows -some of the men as they have hot plants in Healds­ in the Willits shop.) burg and Santa Rosa and are put­ Our Remco · Hydraulics plant ting up a new one in Petaluma. seems like it is holding steady Hope they are right! with approximately 150 members vVindsor Sand & Gravel plant working steadY: This shop has • is taking on a new look. This op­ grown since 1965 from approxi­ eration was sold to Kaiser Sand mately 60 employees to what it & Gravel last year along with Red­ is today. How-ever, at this time wood Redimix. However, they re­ it appears to have leveled off, but tained the same names. The first we are hearing rumors of possibly thing that showed was the new another expansion later. As this "hot pink" paint on practically company works primarily on con­ everything visible. They have tt·act work, it is very possible that ' done a considerable amount of there could be an expansion with work on plant one, plus at the Remco receiving new contracts, present time they are-completely as they are constantly bidding on revamping plant two. This will new work.

Don't Lose Money If your share account is inactive, you're losing money. -If that s~ ems • hard to believe, take a look at what an active account can mean to you. Regular saving means security, convenience and economy, through ready ' cash. Money you can get at a moment's notice-at no credit charge. That's money saved. True, your credit union can always provide emergency loans when S~IP-OUT ON 101 above Cummings caused by left Super Tap Fau~ey watches Brother. Rowland you need them. But a growing, active share account means a source heavy rains and resulting slide conditions ·. is put operate the loader . while furt:he~ along Brother of funds for those non-emergency, but "necessary" purchases. back iri shape by Granite Construction Co . .At Turley and his son operate th~ : c;la. m , ;;hell .. , ,; Time to wake up your share account? / Page 12 · May, 1968 • EarlyBuildersWere Men Of Vision By AL HANSEN the thirties, the business of Healy Tibbitts Construction Co. boomed Early oi1 a sunny summer morn­ because of the reconditioning and ing in the mid-1880's, two burly building of new waterfront facili­ men hurried out onto one of the ties and the construction of the new piers under construction · on Oakland - San Francisco Bay · · San Francisco's waterfront and Bridge. During the Second World went to work for "day wages" as War the company was extremely · h:borers. active with dozens of construction • No wi'itten history exists of projects under way in and around th~se two men, Bill Healy and one of the busiest naval ports on Bob Tibbitts, but it is possible the West Coast at Oakland, Cali- ·they were much like hundreds of . fornia. During W oriel War II, ·· · other hard-faced men-,-most of U. S. Navy Commander Robert whom were immigrants - who R. Helen was in charge of ma- fought each d.ay ·for the opportu­ . rine salvage and harbor clearance nity·to make a living at the work work in the combat zones of the • of. buildirig the riew piers · and Mediterranean and coastal ports docks of a fast-growing · port. of Africa. Robert R. Helen joined Redwood Empire 4-Wheel Drive Association Pres­ Cargo bound for Alaska and Pa­ the West Coast firm in 1947 and Typical action on the dunes. ident Jim Montelbetti poses with his souped up cific ports was ·swelling the was instrumental in moving the pride and joy. · waterfront facilities beyond ca­ company into foreign maritime pacity. .Codfish ·. arriving . from construction work in Central Northern California waters to feed America and the Far East. Bob the workers of the hungry New Helen today is the president of West .. had to be moved inland, · Healy Tibbitts Construction Co. and fast! Exports of timber, min­ Healy Tibbitts has constructed erals, flour and coffee filled . the. mm"ine structures, submarine · holds ·of. the four masted schoon­ pipelines and dozens of other . ·ers. sailing north and westward. types of waterfront facilities in . It was the year 1886, we know Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, for a fact, that Bill Healy and Bob Panama, the Azores Islands, Hong Tibbitts got their heads together Kong and other areas of the Pa­ and decided to go into their own cific. A salt loading pier was re­ construction business. It was that cently completed on the Coast of year that General Contractors li­ Baja California (Mexico) for Ex- . cense No. 40, the oldest active portadora de Sal; affiliated with license in the State of California National Bulk Carriers. Healy today. was issued to Healy Tib­ Tibbitts has long been active in bitts .Construction Co. waterfront construction in this It is evident that from the be­ area of Mexico, which is con­ ginning the two oldtin1ers on the trolled from an office in Southern waterfront performed the con­ California at Long Beach. struction work they obtained from In South San Francisco the the Department of Public W arks Healy Tibbitts waterfront "yard" to the satisfaction of the city so­ covers some 25 acres. At one time V.W. dune buggy by Bud Richie. Four Wheelers enjoying Humboldt County. lons. It is also evident that or another all of the company's through astute bidding, and a half dozen floating Whirley der­ close watch of the dollar, they rick barges, floating pile driver beat out much of their competi­ and dozen scows have been Dune Buggies Raise Sand tion, and their business began to docked for maintenance or repair. grow. And it is also said around the waterfront today that in those The central office in San Fran­ days much of the work was doled cisco contains about 15 employ­ In North Counties Craze ees, which includes draftsmen, out to those who thought along erage overall time wins. Next to buy or build a dune-buggy • the same political lines as the city engineers, superintendents, esti­ By RAY COOPER come the hillclimbs; a 300-foot until he has sampled the fun of fathers-which perhaps helped mators, and the usual complement Outdoor enthusiasts on the sandhill is perfect for this event. the sand. Once he has been ex­ Healy and Tibbitts to move closer of support personnel. In charge north coast have found new The start of the climb is at the posed to the elemental thrills and - and faster-to vvhere the butter of operations is Vice President "fresh air" excitement with 4- challenges of the drifting dunes, ,was. Ted G. Anderson, who holds a wheel drive and Volkswagens bottom of a giant sand hole. These B.A. degree from Colorado and dunes are brutally attacked and he quite often rushes into the de­ For the next twenty years the machine. Humboldt and Del who has been a registered C.P.A. Norte counties provide year conquered by many drivers; how­ cision. His decision sometimes is small company obtained many in California since 1937. Ander­ ever there are those who never reached in spite of very real con­ contracts to build piers and around mild weather perfect for son joined Healy Tibbitts in 1945 all season· participation in a fast make it to the top of the big hills sideration of finance and comfort; wharves and other structmes on after wartime service overseas or dunes and dig their own holes, it rarely is made with any real the San Francisco waterfront. growing sport of sanduning. Pho­ with the Radiation Laboratory of tos above were taken during an sending up streaming waves of understanding of the skills and After the disastrous earthquake M.I.T., for which he was awarded sand from spinning rear wheels. requirements peculiar to the sport. and fire of 1906, Healy Tibbitts excursion on the dunes from the the Sells and Forbes medals. mouth of the Mad River south H a driver fails to clear the hill The dune-buggy addict rapidly played an important role in the he is required to back down again task of removing the rubble and Healy Tibbitts, for geographic of Emerson's Mill on Samoa road learns the secrets of the sand if delineation, has the state of Cali­ and hills that climb away from between rows of wooden stakes he listens and observes more ex­ rebuilding the new city. so he can try again. In 1910, after 24 years of part­ fornia divided into two parts at our coastal area. perienced enthusiasts and studies • nm·ship, Bill Healy and Bob Tib­ a line drawn east to west across Four-wheel drive and Volks­ Many Brother Engineers use the seemingly hostile environ­ bitts came to a parting of the the state at San Luis Obispo. Han­ wagens (bugs) travel over rutted their jeeps or dune-buggies for ment he challenges. ways. A disagreement, the subject dling the southern area from an dirt and gravel roads to hold an­ hunting and fishing in the high There are decidedly different of which is not known today, office in Long Beach is Vice nual rallies. After being briefed country of Humboldt and Del techniques to ci·uise successfully President R. H. "Dick" Smith, caused the exodus of Bob Tibbitts on the rules concerning caravan Norte counties. thro~1gh the sand in the various who came to Healy Tibbitts after movement and electing a trail and left the company in the pos­ Brother Jim Montelbetti, presi­ types of dune vehicles. The 4- service as a Marine Captain in master the adventure will offi­ session of Bill Healey, who man­ dent of the Redwood Empire 4- wheel drive fan has special skills World War II and graduation cially get under way. aged the company m1til his death Wheel Drive Association, hosts and proficiencies to develo'p, as in 1931. Leadership of Healy Tib­ from the University of California The campsite at a dune rally many events here in Humboldt in 1948. that of the driver of a lighter­ bitts Construction Co. passed to is where the dirt ends and the county. At present Jim and his weight, lesser-power buggy. The Laying the submarine pipe­ sand begins. Here tents, campers, Charles C. Horton upon the death wife Donna are planning a pre­ division in technology and lan­ lines, constructing the loading trailer, house trucks and impro­ of Healy. run to Point Gorda Lighthouse. guage between these two basic In 1930 a young engineer from piers and working on a variety of vised lean-tos take over. Wives, The old lighthouse will make the groups of sand lovers is such that Pennsylvania who had graduated maritime structures are perhaps children, dogs and in-laws are 4-wheel drive club really test its a wall of animosity separates from the University of Colorado a hundred people who steadily there in force; from here on it's ability. work on the Healy Tibbitts pay­ strictly "Jeep and Bug counb·y." them. Thev are further subdivid- in 1927 joined the company. John Last January the club planned C. Mmthens had just returned roll from Hong Kong to Alaska. Brother John Myers is one of these ed into the two categories of • A permanet office located in Hon­ hill -climbing and sand dune fa­ a snow trip to high country of waterpumper and non-water­ from a stint in Central America Pilot Rock and Snow Camp, but building roads and was employed olulu to handle a wide variety of natics. John is the owner of a pumpers. contracts on the waterfronts of the factory-prepared job known as a sorry to · say the crew just never as a senior engineer. He held this did get to Snow Camp; the snow Evening and weekend of clean­ booming Hawaiian Islands is man­ Bronco. position until 1938, when he was was too deep. But it's hard not ing and repairing is a small price eleCted a vice president and as­ aged by Jim Lees. Rallies host many events. The The specialists of the Healy first is usua}ly a family run, a to have fun in the snow, with to pay for the opportunity to be sumed management duties. Mar­ snowball fights that everyone en­ out in the dunes measuring your­ thens was elected president in Tibbitts Construction Co. have in­ kind of shakedown, with the peo­ joys. self against the enormity of moun­ 1943. stalled submarine pipelines in 300 ple taking their rigs over a mm·ked tainous sand. During the depression days of see BUILDERS pagii 14 course.'arouri.d fhe'tarea, best av- A man seldom decides simply I • May, 196s Page 13_ LBJ Asks $4 Million F~rBullards Bar Dam.

By HAROLD HUSTON, manager Colin Handforth. Inter- 3. (a) Service Areas 2 and 3 be absorbed into the ground or of the projecfwhich·Piombo com­ W. R. WEEKS, DAN national designed the New Bul- same as alternative (2(a). will remain on the surface of the pleted this past year. CARPENTER and lards Bar project now under con- (b) Form a new district cov­ fields. A. Teichert and Sons have not DOUG FARLEY struction on the Yuba River east ering Service Area 1, which \.vould A number of them believe, been able to start their job on Work in the Marysville Dis­ of Dobbins for .the agency. The contract with the Agency for however, that· the flooding is Richvale Road clue to the winter trict is still extremely slow due to South . Yuba Irrigation Planning water, and with the government the result of water percolating storms we have had so much of Committee, consisting of water · financing aid to construct facili­ . the continuous bad weather. It through the bottom of the after­ the past month. This job should seems every time the contractors agency representatives and direc- ties. This assumes willingness on bay, traveling underground in the keep several Engineers busy for start to roll again we get another tors of reclamation and water dis- the part of the people in existing sand and ·gn1vel -layer and then a short while at least . downpour of rain and snow which tricts affected by the project, also districts and unorganized areas." surfacing in the· rice fields. "We Guy F. Atkinson Co. called • stop the job. We know this can't participated in the study. The Proposed irrigation system don't know how serious the prob­ back about 50 of the Brothers on last forever, and hope old man The proposed drainage- irriga- would use a "percolation gallery" lem is, but it is something we an emergency. state force account weather will show some consid­ tion system would utilize about dug into ground in the bed of the have to fix," the Department of project .at the . Thermalito After­ eration real soon. We appreciate 64 miles of existing drainage Yuba River above the Hammon­ Water Resources spokesman bay. Apparently the added pres­ the special consideration that has · channels and provide an .addi- ton dredger trailings. The dredg­ added, "We don't want to be re­ sure on surface strata water in been sliown by all tl}e Brothers tional 11 miles of channel. The er pom-Js would be connected by sponsible for any damages to the the afterbay caused a seepage in to. the new .dispatch pr'ocedure. · or~anizational basis for the pro- pipes and val'{es and used as stor­ farmlands." · neighboring farm lands when the All the Brothers who have regis­ ptised "South Yuba Water Devel- age r'eservqirs. From-one ·of the lake wa~ filled. Tl1e Department opment" could be provided by · ponds, a pump would lift water FUNDS REQUESTED _of Water Resour.ces drained the tered or been dispatched have FOR BEALE commented on how much· better creation of a "super district" from into a main canal of the. system, afterbay ana·' called· on contrac­ they like the new system. If you existing reclamation and water running along the west side of Construction funds totaling tor to assist in attempting an all have any questions, please feel districts, by conti·acts between Beale Air Force Base to the nearly one-half million dollars for out effort to excayate sand pock­ free to contact us at· the office. existing districts and the water Wheatland area. Unused irriga­ Beale Air Force Base were in­ ets and )flY ,in blankets of imper-. Many Brothers have requested we agency or · by amendment of the tion water would flow into exist­ cluded in the Defense Depart­ vious material. ;;; ;• again conduct First Aid Classes. legislation that created the water ing drainage channels then into ments military construction funds While this was- going on, over • Also, start an advanced First Aiel agency to give the -agency the ·the Bear River:. · request. The total construction at another · section of the reser­ Course. If you are interested, power to issu~ general obligation Laterals from the main canal funds requested for California is voir, a massiv·e operation of please contact us as soon as pos­ bonds, according to the study. -would service ... farms in Servi~e $98,846,000 for all branches' of Bentonite, a sealing compound of sible. We have some instructors According to recommendations Area 1. Water for irrigation in the military services for the next clay, was. done. Several helicop­ available now but we need at made irdhe study: "The inability Service Area 2 would be pumped fiscal year. The $498,000 re­ ters were used in transporting the least 15 in each class. Last time of .the agency to build and pay from the Yuba River upstream quested for Beale is for a con­ sacks of bentonite from truck un­ we had classes in Marysville, Or­ for the divei·sion and conveyance from Marysville, then 'into a con­ crete liner on the bottom of the loading docks over the water to oville, Chico and Paradise. facilities (New Bullards Bar proj- crete lined 3.7 mile long- canal three million gallon water storage the specified areas to seal. . ect) creates a · new ·project con- and subsequently into laterals. reservoir at the north end of B Also the contractor used a $10 . MILLION DRAINAGE cept, wherein every water user Water for Service Area 3 would Street at Beale, an Air Force slurry pump to mix the sealer PLAN HOPE in the service area is tied to every be pumped from the Feather spokesman said. compound being pumped into an A $10 million drainage and :ir- other water user by the need to River south of Marysville, then The department has asked Con­ adjutated pond and from there rigation system for southern Yuba guarantee repayment of facilities into a main canal 2,000 feet long gress to appropriate $1.87 billion into irrigation pipes to distribute Coui1ty is in a study for the Yuba required to serve all. Further- and subsequtmtly into three main for construCtion in the United' the bentonite evenlv over the County Water Agency. The sys- more, any benefiting area which laterals tQtaling 17 ~iles. .. States and Overseas. The appro­ ground. · ten{ would be designed to han_dle refuses to pay a share of costs priation for the current fiscal year The operation was on a two drainage problems created by a 111· k eepmg· wr· 'th r't s b ene fit s m-· LBJ ASK;S FUNDS was $2 rnillion. Also included in th 1 d th · d FOR AREA DAMS shift operation, seven days a • 10-year frequency Hood and to creases e oa on e remam er this is the amount of $309,000 week, with the Brothers taking for Sierra Army Depot. · irrigate about 47,000 . acres of o_f t~e service area. Simila:·ly, and President Johnson's budget re­ home some nice pay checks. The land for agricultural purposes. . srgmficant part of the servrce an~a quests to Congr:ess for fiscal year The state is also seeking bids P.G.&E. was hurrying the De­ ,-.. Its ·construction _would - add ~; to ,- .:vh_i~h - :L<:sts __ to" h9.~<.L b_:.wk.. _f .ro~ :.. 1.9.69-10 c.incbde $4;060,000 .for on the Butte County two laned partment of Water Resources be­ · h N · -B ll d B h · · :L the proJect, and nerther share m the New Bullards Bar Darri proj- Oroville-Quincy Highway. This cause of their need to start Unit t e . . .ew . u ard s d .ar .t e proJect. . t h e b ene fi ts nor contn'b ute toth e · ect, $800,000 for engineering f 1 1 1 will consist of approximately No. 4 at Thermalito to generate acr rhes me u e m rts ongma t f sts 0 ld b so . Th a· - d - repaymen o co , c u Y studies on the Marysville Dam '$376,000 for construction on a powei·. Unit No. 4 was also re­ c?nc~ptwn. e rverswn an rr- doing render the project infeasi- project and $11,011,000 for Oro­ mile of the two laned Oroville­ ngahon feat~res were deleted b~- ble for the rest of the service ville Dam. The $4 million r~ e­ versed and used as a pump when cause sufficrent funds for therr Quincy highway on new align­ the afterbay water level was low­ construction were not available. area." quested for New Bullards . Bar ment between two and three miles ered. The study divides the southern · represents the annual payment. of The local share of the project's north of Canyon Creek Bridge Oro Dam Constructors still has cost would be between $2.5 and section of the county into three - the federal contribution to flood about 15 miles northeast of Oro­ a few Engineers left on the proj­ $1.5 million, depending on how areas: Service Area No. 1, con- control features of the $180 mil­ ville. This will be opened March ect finishing the site cleanup. Also much money is available from sisting of the Brophy and Wheat- lion project The federal contri- 27, 1968. a few H.D.R. are working getting governmental grants. land water districts and the un- bution is paid each year on the organized Plumas area; Service basis of work completed during HUBSTREETIMPROVEMENT ready for another anticipated job. Present farming in the area is Area No. 2, the Dantoni Water the previous year. H. Earl Parker has been work­ • Widening and repaving of Fifth based on a water supply from District; and Service area No. 3, The $800,000 requested for ing between storms on the Oro­ wells. This supply is considered Reclamation District No. 784. Marysville Dam will permit con- Street from E to J Streets this ville Dam boat ramp and parking no longer adequate noi· economi- The study comments: "Assum- tinuation of pre-construction plan­ year was recommended to the area at the old quarry site. Even­ cal because over-pumping of ing that utilization of State and ning for the projectby the Army Marysville City Council by the tually the facility and several oth­ City Engineer. The project would groundwater during the past sev~ Federal programs would be made Corps of Engineers. ers will- create a lot of fine . recrea­ eral years has lowered the water in financing the South Yuba irri­ cost about $140,000 and over tion. table to the point where increased gation System, it appears that the THERMALITO AFTERBAY $145,000 in state gas tax reve­ pumping costs make it essential local alternatives are briefly as DRAINED nues are available, he said. Also to develop an alternate, more follows, as far as the requirements recommended that the city un­ The The1malito Afterbay here dertake this project immediately. economical source of · irrigation of such programs are concerned: is being drained to determine water. According to the study: 1. The Yuba County Water The Mayor said he thought the DOT Slates whether water is percolating project should be given fmther "Agricultural development in Agency acts as contracting agen­ through the bottom and affecting southwest Yuba County is re- cy for the project and enters study, and he appointed a com­ the water table in fa1mlands to mittee to study the proposal and strictecl until water supplies made (into) joint-exercise-of-powers to the west. State officials previ­ $3 Billion available by the (New Bullarcls contracts with districts within the report at the Council's next meet­ ously had announced increased ing. • Bar project) are utilized for irri- service area. This presupposes water releases from Thennalito gation. that the entire service area could into the Feather River because Traffic signals are being in­ To Roads The ·project would involve the · be organized into districts and of the apparent seepage problem. stalled at Fifth and H and Fifth improvement and use of existing that all districts affected would be No water is seeping through the and J Streets, and the Fifth Street The Department of Tr'ansporta­ canals and ditches and the con- willing to enter into such con­ afterbay embankment, but may Bridge · approach will be land­ tion has told Congress that $294.7 struction of diversion facilities tracts. be percolating out of the bottom scaped this spring. Also included billion will be needed to fund the from the Yuba and Feather Riv- 2. (a) Service Areas 2 and 3, through a sand and gravel forma­ in the over-all project will be nation's highway over the next ers, along with new canals and Dantoni and Reclamation District tion exposed during construction, placing power and telephone lines twenty years. ditches. The cost per acre of con- No. 784 could respectively, han­ a spokesman said. underground. He said the cost of Pointing out the need for an struction of the project would be die their own financing and con­ Contract Guy F. Atkinson Co. "undergrounding" the utility lines urban arterial system similar to approximately $217, and opera- struction and apply individually will attempt to seal the exposed was not included in his estimate the federal-aid primary system tion and maintenance costs of the for aiel under applicable govern­ layer of sand and gravel with a of the project's cost. Fifth Street now in use in urban areas, the will be widened from 56 to 64 system once constructed are esti- ment programs and guarantee layer of clay and if that does not Bureau of Public Works said that mated at $5 per irrigated acre. continuation of benefits through work; "we will just have to try feet and resurfaced if the council such a system could be upgraded Proposed financing includes gov- long-term water purchase con­ something else," the Departrpent approves the project. to meet continuing congestion dif­ ernment loans and grants and is- tracts with the Agency. of Water Resources spokesman OROVILLE AREA NEWS ficulties and that much of the sys­ • suance of local bonds, and the (b) Service area No.1, there­ said .. Whether or not percolation tem could be designated federal­ annual cost per acre of the pro- - mainder of the south Yuba Serv­ from the afterba:y is the cause, At the present tin1e, the Coun­ aid metropolitan system with local posed financing program totals ice Area, utilizes the Water Agen­ rice fanners in the area to the ty of Butte is calling for bids for area agencies helping to overcome $12.10. · cy as a -contracting area. This west of the . afterbay have . ex­ realignment . and surface job on jurisdictional controversy. The study was conducted by involves the same presuppositions pressed concern about flooding of the Oroville Qui.ncy Road north­ Work expected to be accom­ one of International Engineering · . as alternative No. 1 as to willing­ fields. The farme~s the~selves east of ·Oroville': . The estimated plished over the next twenty year~ Co. employees- who was on a ·ness · of 'all districts to enter · into _, have -said that it would take sev­ cost .of the project is approxi­ is expected to total about $67.9 · leave of absence from them, un- conu·acts, ·and of unorganiZed eral weeks of dry weather to de­ mately $600,000, that will be an billion, with $225.7 billion repre­ der the direction of water agency areas to form districts. termine whether the water will extension of . improved roadway senting unplanned needs. Page 14 ------·ENGINE-ER-S N:.EWS May, 1968 ®hituurirn Kiewit Sets Three Shifts Local Register Name -City Social Security No. Deceased

Bolton, Ivan H ...... 3 292562 4/7/68 On Siskiyou Dirt Spread Buela-Wife SS# 480-09-5421 4897 E. Pine St. By LAKE AUSTIN and LOU time the Brothers are just work­ ture of rock, ash and water but Fresno, Calif. BARNES ing 5-8's. mostly rock. There is one conso­ W ark in the sou them area of lation that the company is buy­ Crawley, Frank ...... 3 854238 4/23/68 HIWAY 99 NORTH DeLoris-Wife SS# 562-40-0963 District #7 has started with a ing all new equipment- most of 36 Dell Lane bang with the first sign of sun­ Fredrickson-Watson are busy the rubber is green TSS -14 and Mill Valley, Calif. shine. Some of the jobs from last on their 21.8 miles of interstate 24's. This is shaping up to be season are near finished on the 5 freeway job at Weed. The sub a go ahead job with over 3 mil- • Crockett, John S ...... 3 450022 4/9/68 on the dirt is the A. A. Baxter lion yards to be moved in 280 Stella-Wife SS# 520-12-4198 dirt spreads and some new jobs have just started. There are all in­ Corporation from El Cajon. Bax­ working clays. 250 Jennings St. dications that this should be a ter will take it clown to within Dillingham Construction Cor­ Lebanon, Oregon good work season this year. two-tenths of finish sub and Fred­ poration is getting a rather slow Cruz, Raymond ...... 3 959262 4/20/68 Harms Construction are getting rickson-Watson will do all the start on the bridge job on the Jean-Wife SS# 546-12-2660 ready to start the big crushing finish including the concrete Klamath River 35 miles below 22561 Poppy Dr. job for the canal near Corning. paving and structures which are Happy Camp. Cupertino, Calif. Rivers-Wesco has two scraper many. Work will be slow for the They have some drilling that DesJardins; Roberts ...... 3D 1251157 3/29/68 spreads going and the big drag­ Fredrickson-Watson crews this_ is 14' in diameter and goes from Anita-Wife SS# 553-56-0200 line is .starting to dig out the mud year but the 1969 season will be .'50 to 60 feet deep and almost 1700 Caramay Way that the scrapers had to skip. good. Fredrickson-Watson have at water level of the river-these Sacramento, Calif. The Company is about ready to moved their crushing plant into holes · have to be dry for the ship in the trimmer and liner. the W. H. O'Hair pit at Gazelle pours. The Brothers on this proj- Dilley, Allen ...... 3 888994 3/16/68 The paving season could be short and will crush all of the aggre­ ect vvill be busy the rest of the Katherine-Wife SS# 512-05-0102 so the crews will probably work gate for the project. This will Box 204 ~~ . long hours on this one. keep approximately 10 Brothers Mcintosh and McKnight from . Sedan, Kansas Purtzer and Dutton are still busy as amund 800,000 tons will Willow Creek have their plant Dippold, Darrell ...... 3 1117459 4/24/68 working on the syphon sections have to go through the plant. moved in and are crushing the DeLoris-Wife SS# 562-40-0963 on the canal and all the Brothers A. A. Baxter Corporation have concrete aggregate with 4 Broth­ 36 Dell Lane working on this job seem to be moved in-by the time this article ers working~they still have an­ Mill Valley, Calif. working good hours. · goes to press they will have ap­ other month to six weeks to go. Dryden, Chester ...... 3 . 287928 4/12/68 W. Jaxon Baker at'e going proximately 40 Brothers moving Vinnell Corporation are erect­ Ann-Wife SS# 534-05-9906 great guns on their hiway 44 proj­ muck (if you can call it that). ing the hoist house and gin pole ect-this consists of 4 miles of 4- c/o 2024 J St. The right-of-way that is running for the cableway in preparation Eureka, Calif. lane expressway. At the present out through the lava beds is a mix- for the concrete pour that they 4 hope to start the first of May. Eubanks, Herbert ••• • •.. 3 1171788 4/28/68 There is approximately 250,000 Myrtle-Wife SS# 434-18-7831 cubic yards in the dam. The com­ 790 Apple Ave. pany have finished the slurry Ukiah, Calif. Dredging (con tinued) trench and now back filling same­ Feley, Claude ...... 3 231259 4/1/68 continued from page 8 they are in the process of grout- Laura-Wife . SS# 523-03-9587 UTAH DREDGING-Dredge "Franciscan" at Bay Farm Islands­ ing the face of the rock cliff and • 2878 Lowell St. still moving right along. They are also pumping a lot of sand with a kiway. This has been a good job Richmond, Calif. big crew on the levee and dredge. They should go the rest of this year for the mechanics-they have 18 Hiatt, Lee ...... 3 748656 3/30/68 on this job. The Dredge "San Mateo" is still tied up in the yard at mechanics working in the shop Alice-Wife SS# 572-18-7537 Stockton which the company has, with a small crew getting things and on erection of the aggregate ready for when they hit their next job. plant. 3638 Judah St. San Francisco, Calif. DUTRA DREDGING COMPANY-have their "Sacramento" "Ala­ Peter Kiewit Sons' have fin­ meda" and "Stockton" all working down at and around Sunnyvale for ished the clearing and are instal­ Kelly, Tim (1. •••••• , •••••• 3 1219625 4/10/68 the county of Santa Clara. The Dredge "California" is working north ling the multi-plate and pioneer- · Mary-Wife SS# 559-44-0383 of Sacramento-up on the river. ing the big cuts ready for the 1590 Laverne Way MANSON GENERAL COMPANY have both of their Hopper 657's. This project is one of the Concord, Calif. Dredges tied up at their dock in Alameda. They are doing a lot of roughest in the Siskiyou county Lai, Kam Sing ...... H3 1229868 4/21/68 work on both rigs-Nos. 11 and 12. For the present time, they have with nothing but rock. The com­ Tulipa-Wife SS# 575-03-1184 finished up their job for Oakland Out-of-Harbor. Hoping it won't be pany will run three shifts on the 133 Hila Place too long before they will be going again. (Take note-Phil!) dirt spread and 3 on the me- _ Pearl City, Hawaii PETER KIEWIT COMPANY started their job at Santa Cruz with chanics. As of this writing we their 16 inch Portable, the "Sandstorm." have 51 Brothers working with • Mederios, Alex ...... 3 921430 4/22/68 a possibility of this many moi·e Johnett-Wife SS# 546-46-4523 to go . 33500 14th St. PERSONAL NOTES Union City, Calif. Best wishes for a fast and speedy recovery to the following mem­ Morris, John I...... 3 683205 4/24/68 bers on the sick list: Chuck Uerling at Mary's Help Hospital; Bob Hazel-Wife SS# 502-07-8589 Bynum-also his wife Joan who is confined at Marin General. Very 5848 Gorden Ave. sorry to hear about Bro. Frank Price's wife who was stricken with a Builders Marysville, Calif. slight heart attack. We wish her and Bro. Price the best. con tinued from page 12 Very sorry to hear about our Dredge member Dale Lewis who was feet of water that have extended Neal, James ...... 3 1075454 4/8/68 accidentally killed on Healey-Tibbitts job this month-our deepest as far as seven miles to sea. Other Florence-Wife SS# 544-01-7677 sympathy to his family. experts are now assigned to Trans­ 138 Orchard St. We received a card from Brother John Jensen who is on a six week Bay Constructors to lend their Salinas, Calif. trip with his wife, visiting places like Fiji, Australia and Tahiti. experience to the construction of Olson, Ola T ...... 3 447008 4/28/68 Expecting this month-Bro. John Camarra and his missus-John is the tube under San Francisco Bay IEmily-Wife SS# 440-07-2001 employed by Manson General. Who knows-will it be a boy or a girl? for the Bay Area Rapid Transit 999 Sonoma Ave. John, don't forget the cigars! project, of which Healy Tibbitts • Santa Rosa, Calif. is a joint venture partner. Pollex, Carl ...... 3 479861 l/21/68 Along the coast of California, 'Laurel Heintz SS# 554-03-6705 Healy Tibbitts is driving piles for 3 Yarnell Pl. Obituaries (continued) an oil loading pier, laying pipe­ Redwood City, Calif. lines or dredging with Whirleys, Swalley, George ...... 3D 1208738 4/9/68 Sargent, Harold ...... 3 576422 4/22/68 which run up to 50-ton 'rigs with Mary-Wife SS# 566-12-8439 Lavania-Wife SS# 534-10-5934 seven yard buckets. Two 1000- 100 Danvers St. 111115 Bodega Way cubic-yard hydraulic gate dump San Francisco, Calif. Sebastopol, Calif. scows, some 162x36 feet, haul the Toohig, Bert ...... 3 239221 4/26/68 silt to sea from San Francisco Bay Schupert, Gene ...... 3E 434354 4/10/68 and dump it out of the shipping Bernice Johnson SS # 566-03-7 444 Bertha Moore- Daughter SS# 564-05-1072 Rt. 1,. Box 569 lanes. Box 525 The office in San Francisco is Woodland, Calif. Crannel, Calif. Ward, Kenneth ...... 3A 549454 a busy place. The people tend to Shrock, Robert ...... 3D 1312961 4/13/68 4/22/68 Margaret-Wife SS# 547-14-1307 the duties of the business with Virginia-Wife SS# 352-28-9010 a seriousness and dedication that • 163 San Pablo 47 Nevada Way Marysville, Calif. seems to be a trademark of the Fresno, Calif. sons of the pioneers. The execu­ W oodden, Harry ...... 3 290780 4/11/68 · Smith, C ...... 3D 516231 4/8/68 tives, the managers, the operators J. Nadine-Wife SS# 542-09-5577 Ora- Wife SS# 558-01-3302 and those who "just work here" · 677 Almond Ave. 6067 Alpine Way seem to have an esprit de corps Marysvi11c, CaliL Yuba City1 ~ali£. that reflects pride and respect for Stephens, Wm. C...... 3 852251 3/4/68 the Healy Tibbitts organization. Melba-W ife SS# 454-22-4982 76 Deceased Members February thru April 1968 Maybe it's this attitude that made Box 11.'5 2 Deceas>ed.due to Industrial Accidents the West so great! If so, we .could ' · .:.~.. :, \ .. , ,., Eustace, Texas all use a little more of it. -, May, 19.68 · Pag~.. rs · • ··Labor -Leaders Seek .. Halt' SWAP SHOP CORNER: Free Want Ads for Enginee·rs '

14" METAL LATHE wfth 6' base. Old but 14 FOOT BOAT and ·trailer. 25 horse. FOR SALE in first-class shape. Call evenings 707- Evinrude motor. $285. 24 inch Huffy In Medical Care Gouging. 484-3267. Vacaville. Erwin Olivera. Rideing Lawn Mower, $75.00. Jim BLADE CAT 12, 1900. Series, 8-T, oil Reg. # 848296. 3-1: · Daigh, 2328 Orleans Drive, ·Pinole, Calif. 94564. 415/758-0765 . Reg. No. WASHINGTON-"Uncontrolled runaway escalation of medical costs clutch, sliding mold board .. Excellent 0394870. 4-1. condition, $6,000. Dan F. Heeney, 2068 19H6 P ARAMOUNT MOBILE HOME- must be halted," the AFL-CIO Executive Council said in a statement Mento Drive, Fremont. 415-656-2818. 20x55 2-bdrm., 2 bath. Furnished. Ex­ WANTED: · Tile Saw. W. J. Foster, 434 Reg. # 482414. 3-1. cellent condition. Frank Willis, Box East Walnut Ave., Visalia, Calif. 93277. warning that $100-a-day hospital charges "will soon be typical." E 114, Moss Beach, 728-3855. Reg. # Reg. No. 760666. 4-1. EL CAMINO 1965, deluxe cab, bucket 501146. 3-1. The federation said the "one ultimate ariswer" to price-gouging by seats, 4-speed, cover for bed, excel­ FOR SALE: Motor Grader, Cat. 12, Serial doctors and inefficiency in hospitals is national health insurance. But lent condition, . $1,650. Dan F . Heeney, 16"8' INBOARD RUNABOUT. Excellent No. 99E427. Excellent condition. Fred. condition. Pontiac engine. Fully ma­ . E. Burger, 1402 Henderson Way, Wood­ 2068 Mento Drive, Fremont. 415-656- land, Calif. 95695. Reg. No. 506363. it urged "immediate consideration" of a seven-point program ahned at 2818. Reg. # 482414. 3-1. rined with reverse gear. Custom up­ holstery & paint. Complete w / trailer. Phone 662-5054. 4-1. "reducing the cost while maintaining the. quality of n1edical care:" 5 YD. CHEVY DUMP TRUCK, 900~gaL 2893 Jordan Way, Pinole. Reg. lt21932. FOR ~ALE: Cabin, ~utte Meadows, fully I International Water Truck. Back hoe Melwyn B. D. Salee. 3-1. eqUipped and furmshed. 32 miles from It asked these "specific steps": · 1 • ' and loader. Buckets-12" - 18" - 24" - · Chico. 50 ft. lot, bathroom, hot and D2 5U SERIES, 7 ft. dozer, 50 in. gauge, cold water,. fireplace, electric heat. 0 Promotion of comprehensive group practic~ prepayment plans 48". Scraper 2". Mud hen gas engine 16 in. pads. 300 hrs. since overhaul. en­ pump, 100 ft. suction hose, 100 ft. dis­ Elevation 4350. $5,950, half down. gine and clutch. Extra rollers. Runs Terms. Fred E. Burger, 1402 Henderson which have proved their ability to provide quality health services at charge hose, 17-ft. International Van. real good. 916/357-2591. Curt Flowers, Way, Woodland, Calif. 95695 . Reg. No. Loren E. French, P.O. 6437, Clearlake Rt. 2, Box 5400, Anderson, Calif. Reg. 506363 . Phone 662-5054. 4-1. minimum costs. Highlands. Reg. # 623442. 3-1. No. 731140. 4-1. FOR SALE or Equity Trade. Lovely year e More efficient utilization of doctors, nurses and other health 1967 FAIRLANE 500 XL RANCHERO, FORD TRACTOR (NA) with overdrive. round cabin in Redwoods, Santa Cruz Cruise-0-Matic power steering, . air, "A" frame with 2-in. Bar and five Mou~tains, near Felton. 2 bedrooms. personnel, including improved training opportunities. · stereo tape. Assume payments, plus heavy Standards for lawn seedbed soil furmshed. Summer rental income $100 small equity. Contact David L. John­ preparation. Attachments. Fine toothed per week. C. Sloey, 282 Jayne Ave., e A negotiated fee schedule for all physicians participating in cultipactor. Disc. Harrow-leveller. H. Oakland. 451-6358. Reg. No. 736632. 4-1. son, 38167 Road 140, Yettem, Calif. W. Schellin. Reg. No. 484646. 19073 federal programs and preferably a system whereby patients pay set ~~~b~·llg· # 1.229853. 528-3696 or 732- Carlton Ave., Castro Valley, Calif. TRADE, buy or sell. Have 24 foot cabin Phone 582-4698. 4-1. boat. Want Loader, Dump Truck. Call amounts periodically for total health care, including physician services, AN 1-2315. J . Don Long, 3141 Herriott 1965 CHEV. ~2-TON PICKUP, Radio, WELDERS, 2 Lincolns 300 Amps. Elec. · ::~~ - · Oakland, Calif. Reg. No. 0997607. hospitalization and extended care. heater, B.ardon bumper, $1,350 or will driven. Excellent condition with leads trade for property. Robert A. Crow, $350 ea~h. Will trade for small trailer, e Reimbursement of hospitals foi· medicare and other govern­ 6421 Lupine Court, Newark, 793-3239. car or pick-up. AI Blevins, Reg. No. FOR SALE: C.P. lot in . Santa Monica, 630673. 12872 N. Jacktone Rd., Lodi, 17500 sq. · feet. Near hospital. Ideal for mental programs on an "average cost" basis which would reward the Reg. # 811868. 3-1. California. Stockton 931-2605. 4-1. small business or Drs. office. Price NEW PARTS FOR DW 20, 67C and 88E $60.000.00. Write Harry Mathwig, P.O. efficient and penalize the inefficient. 3% ACRES level land on Freeway 80. Box 95603. Reg. No. 408096. 4-1. series .. 5Q % off new price. Robert A. 5. miles north of Roseville. Ideal Home Crow, 6421 Lupine Court, Newark. sites. Near Sierra College on sewer 1963 CH.EVROLET V-8 5-6 Yard Dump. e Ending the artificiar'distinction between the hospitalization and 793-3239. Reg. # 811868. 3-1. line. Write to Dave Hanny, 2115 W. 9:00 Tires, 5 speed, 2 speed, 8 ton 3 axle Hearn Ave., Santa Rosa, Calif. 95401. International Trailer, $3,500. Vern doctor bill insurance by '.'establishing a single system of financing both, HOUSE IN REDDING, improvements in­ Reg. No. 284751. 4-L Serpa, 25900 Fairview Ave., Hayward, clude septic tank, water and electric­ Call£. Phone 537-2207 after 6.:00 p.m. requiring no additional out-of-pocket payment from beneficiaries." ity. 3938 Oasis Road in Buckeye Dis­ FOR SALE or trade, International Dump Ree:. No. 1199170. 4-1. trict. $4,500. Kirk McGowan, P .O. Box Truck, 3 axle, 10 wheeler. For sale, e Authority for the Food & Drug Administration to evaluate the l 656, Livermore, Calif. 94550. Reg. # truck tires, 825x20, 900x20, 10:00x20, $5 SALE or Trade for % ton truck. 1963 relative effectiveness of drugs and a requirement that hospitals partici­ • 1076604. 3-1. and up each. William Mulhair, 97 Rambler Classic. Two new National Southridge Way, Daly City 94014. Reg. first line tires, new battery. Partial BACKHOE CASE 530 Const. King, One­ No. 1157905. 4-1. new paneled upholstery. Engine needs pating in government-financed programs purchase drugs by generic ton Ford truck zeman 2-axle trailer, work $375.00 or trade. R. E. Pepper- name and by competitive bid where there is no difference in effective­ $6,5QO. 991-5494, Elverta, Calif. Virgil A NICE retirement home in the moun- !me. 14016 SP Ave, S"n Pablo, Calif. Moore. Reg. # 752821. 3-1. tains at 111 East D Street in Tehachapi, 235-7435. Reg_. No. 1305721. 4-1. . Calif. A walk in deal, all furnished. ness. LOADER, TD9 Drott International w/ 1 bedroom home, one block from UNIQUE, very comfortable house two bucket & dozer, $1,850. Phone · 209- downtown. Furnished apartment in bedroom, livingroom with heattorm e Hospital supervision over physicians using ·hpspital facilities. 826-0684. W. L. Maddox, Route 1, Box back. Nice redwood fence, new refrig- · fireplace and . gas furnace, kitchen 1202. Los Banos, Calif. 93635. Reg. # erator, new wall to wall carpets,- built with all electric builtins, large lot 70 Congress didn't establish the medicare and medicaid programs 1043556. 3-1. in laundry room with washer and feet by 145 feet, two blocks to schools dryer. New piano. Glassed in sleeping in the scenic, tall pine, high country and unions haven't negotiated for health benefits "to enrich physicians I 2 HEATHKIT CITIZEN'S BAND Trans­ porch with 2 beds. Turn the cover of Pollock Pines, Cal. John R. Gordon, ceivers. Model W-C B. 1. Total value down and be · at home all for $10,000. 1444 Carson Rd., Placerville, Cal. 95667. and other providers of medical care," the council declared. · approx. $200. Will sell for $100. E. Noel Wingfield, 3410 West Daisy Drive, Ph .. 916-622-6010. Reg. :Jtl178100. 4-1. The one-third increase in the premium cost of the supplementary 266 4302 · Dean, 5492 Ruth Ave., Oakland. 532- ~§~ira~· _le, New. Furnished. Joa­ qum Lemos, 721 Sunset Blvd., Hay­ ~~1fl$~~b~so~~!~J'et f..;~t~~1s~':r1:~~t~: NOV A 1966 Chevrolet 6 Nova II-radio JOB STEWARDS APPOINTED ward. -94541. Reg. · :f¢ 490976 . Phone lan, Jr., 24900 Santa Claras st., Apt. 20 , heater-automatic transmission-man~ 58~-2199 . 3-1. Hayward. Phone 415-785-2851. Reg. ual brakes and steering-low mileage April 5, 1968, through May 3, 1968 April 5, 1968, through May 3, 1968 No. 1243036. 4-1. · · -clean-in very good shape-call 837- BUSINESS LOT, · Industrial Park, . 1'/4 Dist. Name Agent · Dist. Name Agent acres ·Plus 2 1/2-acre Rancho for home. 1960 ELDORADO ·cadillac. Has bucket :;U~in ~~-a~~f:le, Don Kinchloe. Reg. seats, all power. Copper tone color and 1 Max E. Hamilton .... W. LeMoine 8 Bernett Dockter ...... H. Eppler Kingman, Arizona. $25,000 for both. 8 Clyde J. Henry ...... A. Garofalo • $500 down, $30 per month. Or $2·,300 white vinyl top. · Good condition, $795. BUCKET J_ohn Deere 440 Crawler with lA Henry Hahne .... W . A. Sprinkle Bobby G. Cooper, 29302 Avenue 13';2, $3800. 4j; ACRES, approx., 8 William Mendoza . . . A. Garofalo cash. Write Miles H. Carney, 123 Codo ripp~rs, lC F. H. Burlison ...... A . Smith Madera, ·Calif. 93637 . Reg. .No ·. 1058389: · heavily wooded, -year-round ponds, . 2 lC George Milliken ...... A . Smith 9 John Arnold . .. , ...... R. Skidgel St., Moss Beach, Calif. 94048. Reg. # 4-1. houses, 2 new wells-on improved 9 Winston Cossey ..... W. Davidson 787999. 3-1. . country .road, near boy scout camp 2 Bud Lampley ...... A . Cellini · cLEVELAND Trencher No. 92. Good . schqol· bu_s. $38,000. Terms .. J , Hoi~ 5 Robert Garcia ...... K. Green 10 Bernard Imsco ...... R.· Wagnon 1960 CHEV. 12-yd. Dump Truck,· $8,000. condition. Digs trenches up to 4 112 feef.- ! mger, P.O. Box 889, Willits, Calif. 5 Jack Burns ...... B . Relerford 11 C. B. Gearhart. .. ; .... G. Bishop 1961 Int. AC 180 6-yd. Dump Truck, '18 to 20 inches wide. Wheel type. Reg. #1216304 .. 4-1. 5 Rass Stark ...... B. Relerford 11 Raymond E. Rathbun. M. Parker $3,500. 1960 GMC %-ton Pickup, $760. Terms if desired. Write W. C. Huck- SCUBA !}EAR FOR SALE. Air tank, 11 Larry Simpson ...... M. Parker 1 6 Bernard J. Yates . .. W . R. Weeks 1961 Chev. !2-ton Pickup, $700. 1959 m~his: ~~~~J: ra~c3'i5Ca{!!:• or call regulator. spear gun. Complete, · .$65. 8 Leroy Daniels ...... A . Garofalo 12 Harley A . Gaskins ... W . Lassiter Int. 1-ton Flat bed, $800. · Roller %­ E\lgene Wagner, 518 Henry St., Val- . ton, $350. Roller .3/5-ton w/trail~r, JOHN DEERE 840 tractor and Hancock le]o, Cal., Phone 707-642-3780, Reg. . $650. '1948 Reo 1'12-ton flat bed , $2.50. .Tilt Trailer, $350. Develbiss Air Com­ ~ffi~~~r sZ ..r;~~dJ.e~~ ];~o'{r~~~~u,~. c~~ :tt454246. 4-1. _ SAFETY COMMITTEEMEN APPOINTED Sonoma Lane, Rohnert Park, Calif.8 1956 COOK BROS. 15 yard End Dun) p pressor, $175. Ph. 415-335-7991. Rich­ 94928. Phone 795-6251. Reg. No. 1163221. Trailer. $1 ,700 . or make offer. Two 1- April 5, 1968, through May 3, 1968 ard Liebenberg, P .O. Box 926, Felton. 4-1. acre lots, '6 miles ·out of Belen N M April 5, 1968, through May 3, 1968 Reg. # 1098560. 3-1. $1,600 for both. Harry Gales.' -Rt. 2: Dist. Name Agent Dist. Name Agent 24 ft. CABIN Cruiser, Ford Interceptor Box 31 , Morgan Hill, Calif. 95037. Reg. TRUCK CRANES, Lorain 20-ton, 115-ft. 170 H.P., Jet propelled. Fisher Radio :Jt841,528. 4-1. · 1A James Cavit ...... W. A. Sprinkle 1C Joe Almodova ...... A. Smith boom, WAU upper, Int. lower. S # 1 1A Fred L. Foss .... . W. A . .Sprinkle 3A T . E. Stover ...... J. Gentry 11381. Bay City 25-ton, 95-ft. boom, ~~af~~.s ~~~~;.n s1r~~f.;~~~1;,: ~'fi~~~ FORD 4,000 diesel tractor with Hydrau- 1A Larry Rist...... A. ·Hansen 5· John Johnson ...... B. Relerford WAU upper, Continental lower, hyd. Call for other details. Total price lie tilt scraper, loader, 14' · backhoe 1C Darwin Smith ...... ; .A. Smith 8 Allyn Green ...... A. V. D'alton outrigger. S # 255.7. Both 11:20 rub­ $4,500. Boat separate $4,000. D. E. "Pat" 12", 18", 24" and 36" buckets. 195S Patrick, 276-2291. Reg. No. 696733. 4-1. Internatwnal l'h ton duinp truck. ber. Don Lambert, P . 0. Box 401, Buhl 4 wheel tilt trailer, hydraulic Woodland. 95695. Reg. 313329. Phone ONE AND ONE HALF acre beautiful brakes. Septic Tank truck, vac. pump. Woodland 662-2093. 3-1. . pine covered level, private paved road Sell all together or separately. Fred entrance. 4000 ft. elevation, near Sly- Weber, Rt. 1; Box 271, Suisun, Calif. TWO BEDROOM HOUSE remodeled and TRUCK MOUNTED HY-HOE BACK 1965-10x46 1-Bdrm. Frontier, $800. Eq­ painted. Attached garage and work­ HOE-Model 380 with 2 buckets and ~- uity qr take over payments of $63.34, ;'ea;s~~;~~· !flefl~i'ad~r C~;:'a':J.t%,' ~'f,;~; Phone 425-4151. Reg, #750554. 4-1. shop, 50xl50' lot. Also large 80x30 ripper tooth. For sale or trade for or will trade for larger trailer with 687-7324. Roscoe Pounds, 2050-31 Mon- 1961 THREE BEDROOM expando trailer, garage industrially wired, rents ·for small back-hoe. R. E. Pearl, 19615 expanding living room. Reg 1143073. t Bl d PI t H"ll c n R 15x37. Wall to wall· carpets air con- $65/mo. $9,800 with $1 ,200 down. Mer­ Forest Ave., Castro Valley. Phone Phone 209--463-6980, Stockton. 3-1. *'.;'e~67255 . . ,945it.sat1. I ' a I . eg. ditioner, furnished, !Ox33 canvas awn- rill Galenski, 4436 Lewis Ave., Eureka , 2 14A DOZERS, 1 WH yd. RI"pper TD24 ing. $1,5001 my equity, take over pay- Calif. Phone 443-8935. Reg. #1087691. 538-3152 after 5 p.m. Reg. #1088533. 1967 STINGRAY, 4-speed, AM-FM radio, ments of ~88.13 . Ted Crain Plymouth 4-1. 5-l. 4-wheel disc brakes, 327 engine,. 8,000 Dozer, Let. K30 Rip., 125 LeRoi Camp., Calif. Phone 209-245-3388. Reg: 20.3 FT. DORSETT CRUISER-Sleeps miles. $3,950 or trade equity. Phone METRO VAN, 1963 Sno Cone Truck. ~1~~ iK~. 3~o. 25Jo~u~i~a~i~~~ -~-vifl~ ~:tt~I~I;-71~7~8;:;3'-. .;4;;;-~1;,-. =.---c:-::::---'-=---~- Ready to go. Holding tanks, hot and 4, galley, head, 100 h.p. Mercury, 388-6844, 111 Wisteria Way, Mill Val­ 732 Placer ille c J"f Ph 916 622 LAKE FRONTAGE, one acre, own pier tilt-bed portage trailer . Best offer. ley. Reg. # 0987276. 3-1. · 0723. Reg. "No.' 34B9h. 4-f.ne -- on Goodwin Lake below Tullock Dam: cold water, also waste. Sale or Trade; Payed road good for trailer, cabin, or Equity in 19(i5 American 10x55, two Phone 794-2511. David Cameron, 1915 MODEL "T" FORD Roadster, War­ CUSTOM, split level home. All electric retirement home. Good fishing. 5 miles bedroom, expando livingroom. Con­ 29280 N. Cameron Rd., Galt, Calif. ford speedometer, all good brass, red modern. 3 bedrooms, 2 .baths, large past Knights Ferry, $4800. Terms. A. sider camper or 8 wide, or ? ? . See 95632. Reg. #1175285 . . 5-l. body, black fenders, white undercar­ recreation room plus a hobby room. McConnell, 737 W. Center St., Man- in Oroville at Golden Oaks, .:t;t25. C. riage enamel. Ready for parade. Al Outstanding fireplace $33,000. H . C. teca Cal"f 95336 Ph 823 3734 R Peterson, 26794 New Dobbie Ave ., 1964 310 CASE ANGLE DOZER-Six­ Hakanson, 1695 Chaska Place, Reno, Wayne. 815 Second Avenue, Pinole. :Jt68B887. '4--1. · one - · _eg. Hayward, Cal. 94542. Phone 582-3498. way tilt, completely· majored, no Nev. 89502. Reg. 1187207. 3-1. 7oB-O!i27. Ree:. No. 32243 2. 4-1. COMPLETE SAW MILL. Diesel power Reg. :it826873. 4-1. hrs.; $3800 or trade for loader. Ray Ferraris, 1020 Crystal Springs Rd., BUSINESS LOT- And Trailer Lot in SEAMAN Pulvi-Mixer with 471 Diesel circular with. top saw. Two stamp gold 1956 SAFEWAY 8x29 one bedroom $5,500. Austin-Western Grade w / Dozer mill. Alexander Moorehead Box 458 trailerhouse, price $1,000. Stan Stacher, San Bruno, Calif. 415-588-8637. Reg. ''Christmas Valley, Oregon.'' Ernest .:l;t841471. 5-l. C. Hardin, 3415 Mayfair Boulevard, & snow r,low $5,000. Ford 9N Tractor Fort Jones, Calif. 96632. Phone 468~ Rt. 1, Box 66 A, Sp. 2, Byron, Cal. Fresno. 93703. Phone 209-268-6724. ~~~et~t~~~\~~~a~9~o.a'tf~~· ~~~it~~~lj,: 2441. Reg. :tt324039. 4-I. 94514, or call 415/ 634-3731. R eg. FOR SALE-20 H .P . Sea King, '67 Reg. # 307297. 3-1. assemblies and screed for 847A Barber PASTURE 80 A.-irrigated permanent. #1142867. 4-1. model. Used 30 hours. $349. R. La­ BACKHOE with loader bucket on 1954 Green finisher $500 . Dictaphone & 2 wells-30 hp 8" elec. pump-% hp MAYFLOWER MOBILE HOME 8'x40'. May, 55 Fairfax St., Apt. 11, San Transcriber $100. Fred Hodgson. 916- pump on domestic welL Plenty of Custom built. New Condition. Two Rafael. 456-5072. Reg. #841534. 5-l. Jubilee Ford tractor. Clean and per­ 991-~098. Elverta, Calif. Reg. . No. water. for irrigation. Corrals, good Bedroom. Full metal awning', carpeted fect running condition. Moving ··and 791480. 4-1. fence. Lone Tree Rd. $47,000. 3 bed­ throughout. partly furnished. A. G. D4 CAT DOZER, heavy duty. Excel­ must sell, $1,995 or best cash offer. rooms, 2 -baths.: Many closets-drapes Sanders. Phone 415/ 582-1156. Reg. lent condition. Call 793-3841, Eugene 209-826-0684. W. L. Maddox, Route 19fi5 NOMAD self contained camping -living room carpeted. Front lawn :it592939. 4-1. Lacey, 4987 Dowling Ave., Fremont, # 1, Box 1202, Los Banos. 93635 . Reg. trailer. 18 ft. very good condition. New sprinkler system. Fruit trees. 14x18 Calif. Reg. :it369816 . . 5-l. • # 1043556. 3-1. tires: Gas operated (propane or bu- storage bldg. Close to school and LODGE OR HOME, 20x40. Livingroom tan e) , refrigerator, stove and lights. store. 1'/2 blks. off freeway. $14,500. Fireplace, 3 bedrooms, electric kitchen, FOR SALE-10 acres on County road Sleeps six adults. Call 235-0663. Shower Herman C. Shields, 523 Nelson . Ave. bath. Large room for dormitory. RULES FOR SUBMITIING ADS near boat launching and recreation Garage. 5 acres, $22,500. Ed Walker, l\r~Br\~!~taltiW~"s't ..$ii~ggm;:'naJ'~~ k Oroville_, ~alif. Reg. #863930._ 4-1. ·, ' o Any Operating Engineer may adver­ area on Oroville Dam. $10,000. Phone Reg. No. 374915. 4-1. · 8 , .,_3 'BEDROOM IJ'OUSE; .: 10 .. acres, five P.O. Box' 67, Pollock Pines, Calif. 324-0485. Mr. Fred Jury. Reg. # miles south of Lockford. 2 car garage. Reg. :it868752. 5-l. tise in these. ,columns . without charge 751281. 895- 15th Avenue, Menlo · Park. WANTED: Fuel injection pump for Other out buildings. Cheap water. J . FOR SALE-Business w ith gross of any PERSONAL PROPERTY he wishes 3-1. Model A-1 Cummins Diesel Engine. N. Boatman, 12767 N. Hibbard Rd. over $18,000 to include the follow­ CLEAR LAKE OAKS COTTAGE-For T. R. Tenney, 2311 E. 3000 So., Salt Lodi, Cal. Phone 93'1-0817: Reg: to sell, swap or purchase. Ads will not z_a ~e City, Utah 84109. Reg. No. 1128348. :it766410. 4-1. · • ing equipment: 1 Ford Cab ov er · sale. Ideal for summer ·home or retire­ & Tilt Trailer, 1 Cleveland Trench­ be accepted for rentals, personal serv­ ment. Large living area with full fire­ 1 2 BEDROOM HOME, hardwood ' floors ices or side-lines ..- ·' GREAT DANES - Blues and Blacks, drapes, butane tank, carport, -garage: er #110, 1 Ford Tractor Angle Doz­ place; all electric modern kitchen; er Blade, all clear; spare motor for beautiful view overlooking lake; fully A.K.C. Sired by German Import. on approx. \12 acre. $13,000 .. Daryl Vose, • PRINT -OR--- TYPE .fhe wording you. Available April 9." Contact R. A. Ep- P .O. Box 177, Plymouth, Calif. 95669. digger (overhauled). Mro Armas F. enclosed porch; two bedrooms. Owner ,precht, 33 Montecito Rd., Woodside, Phone 209-245-6972. Reg. #1219723. 4-1. Sahlman, 1516 Scenic Drive, Mo­ want in yoctr"adveitising on a separate ,. ·will finance. Dn K inchloe. Ph. 933" .desto; Calif. 95350. Reg. #549365. 5-l. sheet of paper, limi.ting yourself to 30 4811 .. Calif. 94062 . Reg. No. 889001.

Page -16 ENGINEERS NEWS May, 1968 • - ·'' r • MEETINGS Gordon B:all .Wins Freeway Contract ·'' , .. ' ''·'' By WALTER TALBOT, AL .Vista;mnloaded on the levee and . 40,000 square foot operations; plans . to build ·a new $350,000 SCHEDULE McNAMARA and JIM GENTRY ;trucked- t