• Clem ScoreS NAHB Resolution "Serving the rnen who rnove the earth.'" * * * ENGINEERS"' NEWS Says Labor Must • PUBLISHED TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE OF ALL ENGINEERS AND THEIR FAMILIES Provide Training In a s ly bid to create an "open shop situation," the National Association of Home Builders have called on President Johnson to establish an "independent" emergency Commission on Man Vol. 26- No. 9 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ~® September, 1967 power Training in the Construction Industly. Citing an "increasingly severe shortage of craftsmen and skilled labor" in the construction trades, the NAHB, meeting in Buffalo, International N.Y., would themselves "launch a massive program of accelerated training among unskilled groups" Convention and "broaden job opportunities ELECTION COMMITTEE for them in construction." • Corresponding Commenting on the resolution, Secretary T. lntemational Vice President and J. Stapleton announced this Local Union #3 Business Mana week that in accordance with ger Al Clem said, "This mythical Article XIII, Section 1 (c) of shortage of skilled craftsmen is the Local Union By-Laws, rel not borne out by the facts. Every ative to the election of Inter construction trade union has men national Convention Delegates on the out of work list." and Alternates, the Election Clem went on to point out that Committee shall be nominated any program to b·ain construc and elected at regularly sched tion workers "outside of the tra uled District Meetings during ditional union apprenticeship pro the fomth quarter preceding grams would meet massive mem bership resistance." the election. (See "Meetings Schedule" on page 3.) "It is sheer stupidity on the part of the consb1Jction industry There will be one Election • to even imply that a government Committee member elected and industry coalition can pro from each district by secret bal vide any meaningful b·aining pro lot of those members present gram that will produce a pool of whose last known address 10 skilled workers. What government days prior to the first District and industry can do is join hands Meeting in October was within in an imaginative public works the area covered by the Dis program aimed at full employ trict. ment; they can also devote some Nominees for the Election time and energy to correcting seasonal unemployment in the Committee must be registered construction industry-a situation voters within the respective which costs the working man tax districts; must have been a payer billions of dollars each member of Local3 for one year year," stated the union leader. preceding their nomination and Clem noted that the resolution shall not be a candidate or the • did not take into account nominator of a candidate for mem bership supported pre-apprentice Delegate to the International Convention. PRE-APPRENTICESHIP Training Contract is of General Contractors looking on. Commenting on programs to upgrade the skills of San Francisco and Honolulu signed by Jack Howard, Deputy Manpower Admin the program Clem said, " Hopefully this will pro the culturally deprived now un meetings will be held simul istrator, U.S. Department of Labor, with AI Clem, vide a much needed incentive to induce the der way. "\Ve are not going to taneously with telephone com International Vice President and Business Man government and the construction industry to stand idly by while either indus munication between officers in ager of Local # 3 and Harry R. Erickson, Executive mount a full scale public works program aimed at try or the government set up some charge of the meetings so as to Director, Northern California Chapter Association full trade employment for all." kind of sub-standard construction trades b·aining program-we now coordinate the nomination and have and/ or will produce the voting for the Member from craftsmen just as quickly as gov District l. A Special Called emment and industry produce the Meeting for this purpose is jobs." scheduled to be held in Hono Labor, Loca/3 Sign New lulu on October 4, 1967, at 6:00 p.m. The San Francisco • Prince Will Fill meeting will start at 8:00 P.M. Pre-Apprenticeship Pact Hamernick Term In District No. 2 Age Discrimination The U.S. Department of Labor ship Committee. Both organiza consist of two twenty-six week Testifying before a House Sub and Local Union 3 of the Interna ticms have the same administrator. sessions of fifty-six students, eight At its regular quarterly meeting committee in support of legisla tional Union of Operating En Actual training will be done at een to twenty-one years old, last month, the Oakland member and tion to prohibit age discrimination gineers signed an ~833 , 063.00 the Porter Creek Road facility of will combine classroom ship elected Ralph Noel Prince, subjects in employment, Labor Secretary contract to provide pre-appren the Marine Cooks and Stewards with equipment 1139 Rincon Avenue, Livermore, familiarization W. Willard Wirtz said that appli ticeship training for one-hundred in Santa Rosa, California. and on-project-training. California, to fill the balance of Ernest cants over 55 are barred from half and twelve ( 112) culturally dis International Vice President and Ernst, the unexpired term of Joe Ham a nationally known of all private job openings. He advantaged youths from the hard and Business Manager Al Clem erick who resigned from the of management consultant firm said this was "inhuman, indecent core employment areas of Ala Local3 Grievance Committee. and Jack Howard, Deputy worked with the Apprenticeship and unnecessary." meda county. Manpower Administrator, U. S. Committees in designing the cur Dubbed Project PAT (Pre Department of labor signed the ricula. Apprenticeship Training), the formal agreement at the Federal Selection of the candidates was New Aid Funds Work Stoppages program, • first of its kind nation Building here. done jointly by the Alameda Cen SAN FRANCISCO-The U. S. Time lost because of work stop ally, will come under the Nmthern In making the joint announce tral Labor Council and Depait Departments of Labor and Health, pages during the first half of 1967 California Chapter Association ment, Howard said, "We believe ment of Labor. Candidates and Education and Welfare have ap amounted to 0.21 percent of total General Contractor's and the this is the first major step in an alternates will be chosen on the proved $750,000 in federal funds working time. Since 1953, the Union's Joint Apprenticeship in-depth program to provide basis of testing and those that it to conduct skill training courses January-June rate was ranged Committee, 46 Counties Nmthem prideful! and marketable skills for is determined will best benefit for 250 jobless workers in various from .11 to .23 percent, averaging California and Northern Califor the culturally deprived young men from the six-month training ses public and private training facili .17 percent, according to the Bu nia Surveyors .Joint Apprentice- in our midst." The program will sions. ties in California. reau of Labor Statistics. Page 2 ENGINEERS NEWS September, 1967 Editorial • IUOE Talks e C~ffective/1 On Safety Only Suggest~ IMPORT ANT NOTICE! On August lOth, in Tampa, Washington ecrees ~reakiufl Florida, a climbing tower crane parted at the h1rntable and fell Dear Brother Clem: waft AI Clem 150 feet to the street. The oper This is a letter that I vvould like to have put in the Engineers' ator, Brother Floyd Masterson of N ev.: s and a few questions answered if they can be answered. You 1 l li::lll[:lllll l ll !l llll ! l lll! lll ll lll li lll ll llllll l ll ! l llllll l!illl l ill illlli:illli!li~ :,l!!i; II: :I!U!I : 1 1il 'l ll!; lli !i lli i i l li[[ l li i lll llll l ll! ll ll llll ll ll ~l 1 1 1 1[1 11[1! 11111111111111 1 111 ! : 11 1 1 ! 111 1! 1 1 1 !1 1 1i l l llll ! l l lll ll lllllilll l lll Local Union No. 925, IUOE, was sent each of us brothers a card to fill out on what we are. I'd like killed and three women who were to know if we can be fined by law if we don't tell them. in an automobile which was sh·uck $10,000 During the past month we have devoted considerable time in • by the jib were injured. The crane It's about time that someone who wrote that law comes up vvith preparing a proposal and negotiating a construction agreement in was a Liebherr, and was swinging the word "WHITE!", in or on this slip of paper. Just to check if Honolulu. with no load when the accident I was right, I pulled my Honorable Discharge to see what the other The carpenters went on strike, and it goes without saying, that occurred. meant on its so-called question and answer slip and on it (the dis An investigation suggests that charge ) it has the word WHITE first on the list. most of the Employers' effort was diverted towards arriving at a the immediate cause of the acci Since when has a man that has paid his taxes and all his bills settlement with the carpenters; however, we have made consider dent was the failure of 24 hex have to be questioned as to who or what he is . What are they doing able progress in adjusting the administrative clauses of the agree head capscrews which are to this land of ours? They might hire a few men and have them ment, and we hope to arrive at a settlement in the not too distant screwed into tapped holes in the slewing ring-gear. There is no way come around and have a look at us . I am a paid up member and future. of determining now whether or not have only worked 7 days this year and you tell us we have to an Our organizing campaign is going along as well as can be the capscrews were tight at the swer these questions. expected. We were successful in winning two ( 2) elections in time of the accident when they I'd like to know why the government don't spend some of our the past month. sheared. However, inquiries made tax money to give us some work? To hell with all that they send by this office disclose that it is overseas. I won't answer this questionaire as I've been out in the We have over 500 members out of work due to the copper strike common to find one or more of • sun. I am white in the winter and tan in the summer and I'd hate in the Kennecott Operation in Utah and Anaconda in the State these capscrews loose during reg to be fined $10,000 for that little mistake. of l\'evada. We sincerely hope that there will be an agreement ular inspections made on similar reached very soon; however, these are multiple union negotiations cranes. Fraternally yours, The purpose of this letter is to and Local 3 is the smallest in number at the Kennecott Copper Brother Harold A. Otcen call attention to this fact and urge Mining sessions, and in all probability the pattern will be set by all operators of similar cranes to P.S . If those men would like to look me over they'll find me out the steel workers. include a tightness check of these picking fruit and vegetables in the valley as I've used all my unem The unfortunate part of this whole thing is that jobs are not too capscrews in their daily inspec ployment up. I make as high as a $1.60 an hour. tion. plentiful in related industries, so unfortunately many of the broth ers are unemployed. FIGHTING FIRES We still have pickets on Stuart Radiator Company in Merced, The Answer . . . Fire, man's greatest servant, can California and their other locations throughout California. This sometimes seem like man's great Dear Brother Owen: is the firm we recently organized and it seems as though the est enemy. The unwanted, unfore If you read last month's issue of your Engineers' Netcs (editorial, Employer is not interested in any labor contract which we could seen and uncontrolled fire is the page 2, cols. 4 & 5) you will know how your Business Manager recommend to the members involved. vVe hope that somewhere greatest destroye r our civilization feels about full employment-first-for all our brothers. • knows. Our best weapon against along the line there will be a meeting of the minds and a contract However, though business managers may suggest, it is vVash destructive fire is prevention, by will be acceptable. which is meant control of the sur ington, and your representatives there, that decree. They make We are busy also in negotiations with the various Employers roundings to reduce the probabil the laws. in the lumber industry where we have been successful in winning ity of a fire starting and continu I agree with you wholeheartedly that the core of the race rela elections, and hopefully we can arrive at a satisfactory contract in ing. We should always be con tion in this country is basic bread-and-butter, not color of skin. scious of this possibility and use this industry without having to resort to strikes. That instead of high-paid theorists and pseudo-experts playing forethought as our first line of de with a grab-bag of hit-or-miss programs, our government should fense. Part of this advance plan Vi'e have completed the signing of a majority of the independent turn its attention toward a vastly accelerated, and I might add, Rock Sand and Gravel Producers to appropriate agreements. ning should be to make sure that fire extinguishing equipment of badly needed program of public works. The out of work list in the various offices is somewhat larc:re r the proper kind is available, and Such a program in the hands of grassroots labor-management for this time of the year, but in some areas they are short in various that you know hate to use it. experts is the quickest and best solution to full employment and classifications, so if you are unemployed and there is not work The National Fire Protection the only time-tested answer to our minorities problem. in your district, you might contact your dispatcher or business Ass ociation has adopted a method I would ask you to do two things: of classifying fires and recom agent and possibly you can locate work in other areas. First, stay active on yo ur register and in contact with your dis • mends certain types of fire extin I attended a session of the 0Jorth Central States Conference guishers for each one. The classi patch office, and if you run into any difficulty here, let me know. held in Duluth, Minnes ota. Certain sections in their jurisdiction fi cations are as follO\:vs: Second, write your congressman and senator and let them know have considerable work and other areas are about the same as Class A-Wood, paper, textiles. of your feelings in this matter. we are experiencing here. There seems to he considerable work Class B-Oil, grease, chemicals. Fraternally yours, Class C- Electrical. Al Clem in the State of Ohio for those people operating earth moving equip Class D- Combustible metals. ment, bnt it is getting a little late in the season to think about The various kinds of water ex- migrating to that part of the country. tinguishers and the soda-acid type Cost of Living Due to the fact that there has been so many mixups, and that are recommended for Class A fires only. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the June Consumer Price some of the brothers do not have the correct social security num Foam type extinguishers are Index rose 0.3 to 116.0 up 2.7 percent over a year ago. Consumer prices ber, we are requesting at this time that you check your social recommended for both Class A in the Los Angeles area also climbed 0.3 percent in June while San Francisco-Oakland co nsumer experienced a 1.1 percent climb from security number on your dues identification card with your origi and B fires. i\:farch. nal social security number. If you do not have the original card, Carbon dioxide and dry chemi cal extinguishers are recommend • you can write to the social security office in Baltimore and secure eel for either Class B or C fires . your correct number. This is becoming more and more important Class D fire s are the most diffi as in this computer age, the machines are all programmed to keep cu lt of all to co ntend with and spe records hy social security numbers. cial arrangements for each indi ENGINEERS " vVe hope very soon to be able to furnish you with a permanent vidual case must be worked out beforehand in order to combat embossed card carrying your social security and registration num them successfull v. For tun ate I y, ber which will be used for dispatching purposes. such fires are not commonly en countered except in certain indus tries. Published each month by Local Union No.3 of the International Union of Operating Engineers It cannot be emphasized too (No. Califon1ia. No. Nevada, States of Utah Wife Lauds New Fringe strongly that the most important and Hawaii. ) - Subscription price $2.50 per year. Gentlemen: factor in fighting fires , after assur Office: 474 Valen'cia St., San Francisco, Calif. 94103 ing that there are a sufficient num Advertising Rates Available on Request We would like to take this opportunity to thank Local 3 for one ber of the correct type of properly of the many benefits that it offers. Last Saturday we took advantage maintained extinguishers avail AL CLEM ...... Editor and Business Manager of the eye examination at the Bay Area Union Health Center able, is that you should take the PAUL EDGECOMBE ...... President • ( Don's eyes proved to be better than normal, 20/15, mine haven't trouble to find out how to operate DALE MARR ...... Vice-President changed since I purchased my glasses one and a half years ago ). them before the fire breaks out. T. J. STAPLETON .. .. Recording-Corresponding Secretary Thank you again for all your services. ENGINEERS NEWS A. J. HOPE ...... Financial Secretary Yours truly, Published monthly by Local Union No. 3 of the International Union of Operating DON KIN CHLOE ...... Treasurer ~1rs. Donald J. ( Roberta) Pimentel Engineers, 474 Valencia St., San Francisco, KEN ERWIN ...... Managing Editor Calif. 94101. Second class postage paid at San Mateo, Calif. San Francisco, Calif. September, 1967 ENGINEERS NEWS Page 3
.------~------~------~------0 • I ~ I Mining Starts Show Slow ! \rJJaskinglon I I I Progress j o\"ews 1Jesk I In Silver State I I 1 From the International Union of Operating Engineers I By I I GAIL BISHOP, BUD told. Anyway, the average trailer their tail with the paving. At the ~------~------1 MALLETT, ED DUBOS house paid about $25.00 a week present time, Fresno Paving has and JOE HAMERNICK for electricity. There were about two plants at Deeth and one at Labor 110 men officials in Washington, including AFL-CIO President George RENO working on this job at Wells. Meany, were inclined to scrutinize President Johnson's request for a the peak. Nevada Rock & Sand are still The construction picture re 10 percent surtax before giving it their unqualified approval. Helms at Brady Hot Springs is working two shifts on all opera mains dim in the Silver State. We There was, however, general agreement in the last stages of their highway tions trying to stay ahead of the among them concerning sev hear rumors of jobs to be let, but • eral of President Johnson's proposals. job 14 miles long. They have the C.T.B. and paving crews. nothing in print. second First, any tax rise must affect only those lift for about 9 miles to Silver State Construction is al financially able to pay addi A new 3 year agreement was tional income tax. pave; some of the men were trans most finished with the Palisade job negotiated and ratified at the Car ferred to Ring Rd. in Reno. They and have moved their crusher to Second, there must be a recognition of the fact that vital domestic lin Gold Mine. This contract was also have a small subdivision, Idle the Carlin Gold programs must neither be terminated nor reduced. Mine Rd. job. scheduled to be opened for just wild district. They expect to be finished with And third, there can be no reasanable dispute with the sound principle wages and one fringe benefit for Stone & Webster at Wabuska this one by the last of Sept., which that all citizens of the United States, not merely the members of the the last year of the existing 3 year have just about got all the iron will be appreciated by all the boys aimed forces, must share in the sacrifice necessary to conduct success agreement. By negotiating for the frame work, now they will start to working at the Carlin Cold Mine. fully the defense of freedom in VietNam. full 3 years, we gained a good deal put the boiler together which will Industrial Con stru cti on h as Most observers in the nation's capital, including organized labor, in contract language, Health and place some men on their job. moved a scraper spread back to recognize that it is both difficult and painful for an American president Welfare increases, dental plan, Nevada Barth have ceased their Imlay to complete the excavation to feel that he must call for a tax increase just before an election year. wages, an additional holiday, new operation near Lovelock. there. buses Many members of the Congress have refused to commit themselves , etc. Brother George Chap Donavan-Commonwealth & Allied Paving has about four to on the issue. As the House \Vays and Means Committee this week pell, Job Steward at the mine, sat Hughes have started their power six weeks left with the paving . opened hearings, no consensus has appeared. Nevertheless, congres in on the negotiations and was line operation which is 290 miles They will then move to Reno. • sional leaders believe very helpful. The new agreement long and have little over 18 mon that, while the President won't get all he wants, ths Brother Lyons , the Steward on this was Congress, after much huffing and puffing, probably will pass some kind ratified by better than a 3 to 1 to do the job. job, told us the crusher will be of tax bill. vote. The right of way road is being moving to Reno in about two or Probably it will be less than 10 percent-perhaps closer to the 6 per A new 3 year agreement was built by Pete Haumont and have three weeks. cent he t
• San luis Dam Nearing End Billion Dollar Highway Budget Set For Dirt Men By California State Commission By KENNETH GREEN Construction on the 21 miles of By CLAUDE ODOM tendent of the Dravo Corp., build The House Appropriations Com canal, the San Luis drain and the sewer in the Metropolitan Area The first California highway ers of the project, said 15,000 cu mittee today approved allocations San Joaquin Valley East Side ca have been under way the past few budget ever to top $1 billion came bic yards of material, mostly a totaling $70.739 million for Cen nal have not yet been authorized weeks. The completion for these before the State Highway Com mixture of red cl ay, is being tral Vall eys Project construction. by Congress. projects will be October. mission today . poured in the V between the old Included is $8.7 million for the Work will continue on the San The sewer project is broken up The budget totals $1,002,667,- and the new Exchequer Dams. Auburn Dam, $2.750 million for Luis canal and $5 .45 million will • into three groups. Haskell-Ellis 000. The new dam was raised 180 New Melones and $400,000 for be available for the interceptor Inc. the low bidder on one portion The 1968-69 fis cal year budget feet above the o ld cl am, con Hidden Dam. drain w hen the state, federal gov for $639,863 is now working in the contains a total of $4 15,050,000 structed in 1926. The new struc Califomia's share was part of ernment and local agencies re vicinity of Olive Ave., Sierra Vista for major highway construction in ture, 490 feet high, adjoins the old the $4.6 billion congress ion a I solve their differences . Some of Ave. its introductory form . The nmth one; however, leaks were discov money bill which vvil! finance dur the money also would be spent on Kovick Bros. Constr. Co. has ern counties, which receive 45 per ered l ast March in several spots ing the c urrent fi scal year a vast recreation facilities and operating one portion with a low bid of cent of construction funds, are along the concrete face of the public works program throughout headquarters. $661,846 and W. M. Lyles Co. scheduled to get $189,961,000 in rock-fill dam. Hardhat divers were the nation of tl1e An11y Corps of Other items included are for received the third pmtion for major construction funds, with sent down to caulk the leaks, but Engineers, the Reclamation Bu work on the relift pumping plant $_447,263. They are also under $225,089,000 going to the more were called off when pressure in reau and several other agencies. and the San Luis canal turnouts construction at this date. About populous southern counties . creased the leakage faster than The San Luis Project appropri and completion of the Pacheco half of th e services of the 21 proj The record-breaking budget is repairs could be made. ation of $49.883 million includes tunnel inlet. ects located in the widely sepa up from the $930,573,000 total of Later, a closed-circuit television $14.022 million from the State of A sum of $1. 4 73 million is ear rated parts of the community is 1967-68. camera was lowered into the water California for additional work on marked for the raising of the free in the County. Final adoption of the budget is to locate the leaks, which were the San Luis Dam and forebay, board along the Delta-Mendota then patched by a remotely con the forebay dam, reservoir and The contract has been let on not expected until the September canal and water rights investiga • meeting in Sacramento. It will be trolled dump bucket. Again the wasteway, the Dos Amigos pump tions. the Chestnut and Clinton street job vvas not being done fast ing plant and the San Luis reser widening. A contract of $552,499 a prime agenda subject at the For the rivers and harbors and enough. voir pumping generation plant. for the widening of Chestnut be August meeting in San Diego. flood control programs of the Chances are, said Reub en The total money package, th e Army Engine tween Jensen Ave. and Tulare Arizona forces suffered defeat ers, the committee Schmidt, assistant engineer of the annual so-c a II e d "pork barrel" recommended Street and between Clinton and in an attempt to block new recla $1.26 billion, a re Merced Irrigation District, two measure, is $3 14.4 million more duction of Dakota has been awarded to Hun mation projects in California until $45.8 million. The shifts a day working seven days than provided last year but $243.2 Atomic Energy Commi sacker Construction Co . and J. J. they have the votes to pass the ssion was a week will be employed to lay million less than the administra Jurkovich a Joint Venture. Central Arizona Project. allotted $2.49 billion, a cut of $153 The House Interior Committee, down the 25-foot high impervious tion requested. million. The Reclamation Bureau There will also be sewer by 19-2 vote, approved a Senate zone. About $114 million of the cut budget was cut from $3 15.5 mil branches installed along these por passed measure to authori A mixing operation has been set was in the nature of a bookkeep lion to $304.4 million. tions of new construction. This ze the San Felipe division of the Central up at the ungated spillway, from ing transaction or deferral of items The Bureau of Reclamation is portion of the sewer branches is Valleys Project at a cos where the material is hauled in that may be financed in a later bill. building the Auburn-Folsom south about $18,220. t of $92 million. concrete trucks to the top of the The money measure was sent to project and the Army Engineers North First street widening has San Felipe will extend CVP dam. the House floor for consideration are constructing the New Melones been underway. Allied Equipment water delivery to Santa Cruz, San From atop the dam, the mate next week. and Hidden Darn. have moved onto the project at ta Clara, San Benito and Monterey rial is chuted into a special un The committee made plain in Among the other California al • this time and are in the process Counties. detwater dumper and remotely a report to the House that it would lotments for the current fis cal year of removing old pavement and Rep. Sam Steiger, R-Ariz., of spilled over the space between the have voted more money except for are: $500,000 for deming the some of the curbs and gutters. fered an amendment which would two dams. demands of the Vietnam war. channel of the Kings River; $ ll.5 Completion date is about the mid have held up construction until Meanwhile, work is continuing This year's CVP appropriation million for the Westland distribu dle of October. Congress approved the Central on the repair or replacement of a total is less than that of las t year tion and drainage system in the Valley Excavation is busy re Arizona Project. 96-inch valve which disintegrated - $100.592 million-but Reclama San Joaquin Valley, and $750,000 moving the old pavement and Committee Chairman Wayne last week at the recently com tion Bureau spokesmen said there for Buchannan Dam on the Chow widening Olive Ave. the past week N. Aspinall, D-Colo., ruled Stei pleted Exchequer Dam power is no apprehension about a slow chilla River for land acquisition. between Nmth First Ave. and ger's motion out of order. house. vVater since has been re down on big works. Advanced also on the loan pro Millbrook Ave. California congressmen had giv leased through the six-gated spill They said the San Luis unit is gram to local irrigation and water Standard Materials is busy en notice they will oppose the way. The sudden 9,300 second nearing completion as well as districts for the construction of around Merced with street widen Central Arizona Project as long as feet of water washed out about work on the Trinity and Sacra distribution systems is $15 million. ing and improvements. They have no provisions are made to replen 1,000 feet of newly completed mento River division and that The program in California in just completed a parking lot at ish the flow of the Colorado River roads. other units, such as the peripheral cludes Arvin-Edison, $9 million. the new General Electric Plant in and assure California a permanent • Merced. annual guarantee of 4.4 million Crooks Bros. on Bootjack Rd. acre feet of water. at Mariposa have finally gotten A bill without these assurances, California's New Guile underway the past few days. The backed b y Arizona and Interior weather has had them at nearly a Secretary Stewa1t L. Udall, has standstill. cleared the Senate Interior Com Regressive Taxes Hit "Mr. Average" The work on the San Luis Dam mittee but is given little or no is a ll but completed. There are chance of making any headway in California's new billion doilar resulting from the payment of The sales tax is expected to the House. a few mechanics repairing the increase in state taxes will have higher state taxes . provide the state's largest single Rep. Manis K. Udall, D-Ariz., equipment but as far as moving an impact on the average Operat The table below will give you source of revenue, some $397 mil dirt all that phase the secretary's brother, joined Stei ing Engineer. is over with. an estimate of the tax increase and lion. So, the regressive sales tax ger in opposing the San Felipe bill A typical engineer with two its impact on a family of four at Some of the work the Brother alone will produce 39' percent of Engineers can after the Arizona 1ider attempt children and annual income of different income levels . look forward to is the 1968-69 fis cal year revenue. the Bonadelle Sub-division. He is failed. $8,500 who spends about $3,100 Note that the sales tax hits the Add the additional regressive going to sub-divide 240 acres California's Rep. Harold T. on taxable purchases, smokes a family o f four with an income of north of Clovis 20 acre lot parcels. Johnson of the 2nd, Mountain Val pack of cigarettes a day a nd an $5,000 for $23 a year while a fam tax hikes on cigarettes and liquor • ley, District, disclosed h e opposed ounce of bourbon (or its equiva ily with ten times as much money and you come up with 50 percent The new public improvements in subcommittee an amendment lent ) and in the redevelopment center is es branch water will be ($50,000 ) pays $107, or less than ( $508.7 million ) that will hit Mr. sought by Pacific Gas & Electric timated at a total of $637,492 paying an estimated $57 a year five times as much. Sales taxes are Average Guy in the pocketbook. for Co. to limit the government's right sanitary sewers storm drains and more. called regressive taxes because Of course, you can always give to build its own power transmis electrical lighting. State Department of Finance they take proportionately more up smo king and drinkin g, be sion lines for San Felipe. says these figures take into ac from low income families than the healthier and save yourself a fat The Travel Lodge is planning to Johnson said such an amend count federal income tax offsets higher income group. $57 a year. build a motel in the CentJ·al Dis ment has "no place" in an authori trict of the Redevelopment Area. zation bill. The most economical Estimates of Added State Taxes Facing a Family of Four The Board of Supervisors have way of providing transmission $5,000 $7,500 $10,000 $12,500 $15,000 $20,000 $25,000 $50,000 indicated they will permit a neigh lines, he said, s hould be left to Sales Tax • • • ••• ••• 0 •• •••• borhood shopping center at the the decision of the appropriations $23 ~ $39 $45 $5 1 $64 $75 $107 Personal Income Tax ...... Nmth East Corner of Ashland and committees . -6 25 65 107 217 353 1,153 Cigarette Tax" ...... 26 26 26 26 Chestnut Ave. But the PC & E backed amend 26 26 26 26 Distilled Spirits ...... 1 ment remained in the bill cleared 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 Total State Taxes ...... $50 $53 the committee. Only House ap $92 $139 $188 $3 11 $459 $1,292 Percent of Income ..... 1.0% 0.7 proval is necessary to send it to % 0.9% l.I% 1.3% 1.6% 1.8% 2.6% • Quotable Quote Change in Fed. Tax ...... -3 -4 -11 -20 -34 -68 -ll7 -563 President Johnson. Net Effect after Fed. Tax .. $47 $49 "If Negroes today had the same The leak-by-leak patching of $81 $ll9 $154 $243 $342 $729 Percent of Income . . .. . 0.9% 0.7% 0.8% 1.0 skills as other Americans, and if the Exchequer Dam has been % 1.0% 1.2% 1.4% 1.5% they were free from discrimina abandoned in favor of construct NOTE: The above computations reflect the full year effects of the tax changes, and the resulting offsets tion in employment, our Gross ing a wall of impervious material in Federal income tax liability. They assume that the taxpayer itemizes deductions on both the federal and National Produce would become some 280 feet beneath the sur state returns. · $30 billion higher." face. " Includes 3c tax for local governments. Some 38 charter cities now levy cigarette taxes varying from 2c - President Lyndon B. Johnson Mike W ahlin, general superin- to 4c per pack. Page 6 ENGINEERS NEWS September, 1967 • Apprent icesh i II T rm Apprenticeship Administrator Danny 0. Dees said this week that hundreds of apprentices would be back in classrooms for the fall term in the next few 'Neeks. New applicants were reminded that they must be prepared to take First Aid and must have a Class 1 Drivers license after being accepted into the Pro-gram. Dees said that classes must be attended r egularly a nd that "school cards" must be sent into It's A Small the administrative office by the • fifth ( 5) of each month. Apprentices were also remind Small, Small ed that they must attend all Safe ty meetings and that stringent Small World penalties were in effect for those not attending and that tbe o nly A young Fresno Army sergeant excuse for not making a meeting was finding the quarters more than was "death, in the hospital or a little cramped aboard the heli working." copter he was in during an assault Schedules for fali classes and operation in South Vietnam. The safety meetings, along wirh a list Viet Cong was splattering the ma of coordinators are below: chine vvith bullets. "What the hell you trying to do?" shouted Sgt. John Vindish to A pprentice the pilot over the craft's intercom. ''I'm trying to land this thing," • snarled the pilot. Coordinators "Yeah? Well, land it someplace else. There's VC all over the place CRAWLER-TYPE RIG uses mats to cross a canal 1925, before merging with Bucyrus. Operator is Area Coordinator bridge near Monroe, Nebraska in 1936. The rig Brother Troy Manzer. down there." Dredgers ..... Ed Middleton was one of the five or six made by Monighan in "Who is this anyway?" 1 San Francisco . . .. Ed Hearne "Vindish. Sgt. John Vindish. lA San Rafael/ Who are you?" Vallejo ...... Lee Hunter "Thornton. Warrant Officer lC Dean Thornton." Half Million In Fo rest Work lB San Mateo ...... Ed Hearne "From McLane?" By BILL RELERFORD pected to last another 6 months. more if they can get more money. 2 Oakland ...... Lou Jones "From McLane." are 12 engines on the job. They are repairing huge washouts 2A Contra Costa ..... Lou Jones 'vVork in the mountain areas has There Small world (Vietnam style ) : Fred Galente, Taylor Construc of the road system in the park. 3 Stockton .... Roy Scarbrough been picking up this month. Mur Vindish, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe tion, C & H Crane and Kimko The rock, sand and gravel busi 3A Modesto .... Roy Scarbrough Vindish, and Thornton, son of Lo phy Construction out of Lodi was Construction are still working on ness seems to be moving right 4 Eureka ...... Cliff Martin cal 3's Brother and Mrs. Burt low bidder on a forest service job the repair of the road between along. L. D. Folsom and Owl Rock 5 Fresno ..... Glen Mullowney Thornton, were members of the near J ohnsondale. The job is Kernville and Johnsondale. It are extremely busy with Owl 6 Marysville ...... Joe Reinert same 1964 McLane High School 400,- • somewhere in the vicinity of looks like they still have a lot of working 12 to 14 hours per day. 7 Redding ...... Cliff Martin graduating class. 000 dollars. From the looks of repair work to do if the govem There being no rock producers be 8 Sacramento .... Clem Hoover Also helping make things more things it will run the rest of the ment keeps paying the bill. tween Coalinga and Bakersfield 9 San Jose ...... Ed Middleton at home in Vietnam is the new season. The job starts at Johnson This past week Tulare County the companies do not see any let 10 Santa Rosa ...... Lee Hunter · Bear Flag hanging in a 9th Infan daie and runs toward Hiway 190. got another 175,000 dollars from up in business for a couple of 11 Nevada ...... Bud Jacobsen try Division mess hall, placed Cooley Bros. are moving right Uncle Sam for Rood damage work. years. 12 Utah ...... Merle Bowman there by Spec. 5 Joe Archuleta of along with their job above John Triangle Construction is work Sequoia Rock on the other side Education Fresno. It was sent to him in ages sondale. They have 3)~ miles of ing in Sequoia Park. They have at of the valley has been busy also Coordinator: Jack McManus ture of international understand Forest Service road and it is ex- least 2 months of work and maybe this season. ing by Dale Seiders of Del Webb's Assistant Administrator TowneHouse, chainnan of the and Coordinator for Tech. Chamber of Commerce's military Program ... A. A. Pennebaker affairs committee. Administrator . Danny 0. Dees Copper Strike Still Slows Child labor Hit SAN FRANCISCO-Farm em ployers were reminded by the • All Work In Utah Area Journeyman Educational U. S. Department of Labor that Committees youngsters under sixteen, when By ASTER WHITAKER, JAY Inc. job. This job has been a life of Salina received a low quote of school is in session, may work only NEELEY, TOM BILLS and saver for the state at this writing. $4,509,387 from W. W. Clyde Marysville ...... 1st Monday outside school hours as the new JOHN THORNTON Morrison-Knudsen Company job Construction Company, Spring Sacramento ...... 2nd Tuesday school year starts. The reminder is in ville. The other in Grand County The most vital news at this at Echo should be completed Stockton ...... 4th Wednesday in accordance with the child labor $1,549,070 time is that concerning Kennecott the fall. This has been a vety good east of Cisco was set at Modesto ...... 4th Thursday provisions of the Fair Labor Copper Corporation. The strike at job for the past 3)f years, and we by Wilbur Christensen Company Eureka ...... 9/19/67 Standards Act. are going to hate to see it end. out of Auora, Colorado. Ket~necott doesn't look at all good 11/14/67 Regional Director Frank J. as it is now in the second month Fife Construction Company has The Sevier County job, 10 miles 12/19/67 Muench of the Wage and Hour gotten a good start on their job at between Gooseberry Junction and and Public Contracts Divisions and possibly the third month by Fresno ...... 9/20/67 Monte Cristo. Springville Canyon, is described observed, "a youngster's future the time this is printed. There has 10/31/67 been little progress made, if any, The Gibbons & Reed Construc by Highway Department Officials success depends on the education to 11/29/67 at this time. We sincerely hope tion Company is now coming as requiring removal of massive he obtains today." He added that in 12/ 20/67 we can get a new contract with an end of their freeway project quantities of rock. Several compa the "law helps the migrant young Ogden with Brother Grant Calet Redding ...... 9/12/67 ster as well as the local child" and • Kennecott as soon as possible. nies bid for the contract under a as superintendent. preliminary engineers estimate of 10/10/67 urged the public's cooperation in The effects of the strike are far We would like to say a few $5,610,875. This project is sched 11/7/67 encouraging young people to re reaching. Stauffer Chemical Com good words concerning Brother uled for 360 working days. 12/12/67 turn and stay in school. pany in Garfield is beginning to Calet. This is one job where if the shut down. This is due to the lack The Grand County Interstate Brothers will go to Grant, he will 70 project received 9 bids. It was of acid they need which is sup do his very best to correct the plied by Kennecott Copper Cor expected to cost approximately Safety Meetings problems before they get out of $2,143,000, the Highway Depart poration. Date Area Location Time hand. ment reported, and has 240 work Also, the mine in Vema!, San Vinnell Corporation has gotten ing days for completion. Francisco Chemical Company, a good start with their work on Sept. 13 6 Yuba College, Marysville 8:00p.m. will be limited on their produc Interstate 70 which is one of Work in Cedar City on Inter Sept. 20 2 Operating Engineers Hall, state 15 by the W. W. Clyde tion because of the strike. They Utah's two east-west freeways. It 1444 Webster Street, Oakland 8:00p.m. Company will finish will be able to stock pile for about is progressing through sections of Construction Sept. 26 11 120 W. Taylor St., Reno, Nevada 8:00p.m. time this fall. two or three weeks. However, if the state never before served by some Sept. 28 12 1958 W. No. Temple, the strike continues they will have paved road. Work has been slow In the Vernal Area, McGregor Salt Lake City 8:00p.m. to curtail their operations. getting started on this job due to Triangle Company has completed • The Salt Lake and Provo Offices the lack of water, as they are out their job at Jones Hole. The road is now completed into Jones Hole. Oct. 5 9 Operating Engineers Hall, have been called upon by the Og in the desert some 40 miles. 760 Emory Street, San Jose 8:00p.m. den Office for many of the Broth The State Highway Depart Arthur Higgins Construction 10 Labor Temple, 1701 Corley Ave., ers to fill the jobs in the northern ment advanced work on Central Company was the low bidder on Oct. 10 area especially at Promontory Utah Interstate 70 opening ap the fish hatchery job which is lo Santa Rosa 8:00p.m. Point and Little Mountain for the parent low bids on two construc cated in Jones Hole. Now that the Oct. 24 3 Stockton Labor Center, Gibbons & Reed, Ashbury Con tion projects totaling over $6,000,- road is completed this job should 2626 California St., Stockton 8:00p.m. tractors, Chadwick & Buchanan, 000. One job in Sevier County east move right along. Oct. 31 5 3121 E. Olive Ave., Fresno, Calif. 8:00p.m. • September, 1967 ENGINEERS NEWS Page 7 Lay Last Link In San Mateo Bridge * * * Wet Winter Still Hampers Most Work • By BILL RANEY, MIKE As predicted, the final sections KRAYNICK and GEO. BAKER of the high rise San Mateo-Hay By all prior standards we have ward bridge were set in place reached the peak of the season of recently. (see photo.) E. R. Foley, a very poor year for construction Chief Engineer of the State Divi in San Mateo County. sion of Bay Crossing has predicted the bridge to be open for traffic in The expected marked increase October. in jobs has arrived but is marked, not by full employment, but by The City of Half Moon Bay will only a moderate increase and an soon have a batch plant to be actual slow down of many jobs. erected by P.C.A. Cement Con The net result is unemployment tractors have "talked" about this for some and only sporadic em since the "year one." Finally it ployment for many. There are seems such will be a fact. The well still some 66 journeymen living in known high cost of hauling con the San Mateo area who are out crete "over the mountain" will no • of work. doubt soon be a thing of the past. The very wet winter, coupled We expect the new plant, possible competition with the tight money, the state and resultant lower costs, austerity program, the near total should spur the lagging coastside lack of new subdivision work, has building industry. combined to make this a bad year American Airlines has started a for many Brothers. Even the Viet new n Million dollar airfreight nam war has not brought many terminal at the San Francisco Air jobs for engineers to this area. port. The facility will be partially Were it not for the various small automated and will be capable of highway jobs, the Redwood Shores handling 4 enormous jets at one project with adjoining Marine time with a total loading and un FINAL LINK in the $70 million San Mateo-Hayward State Division of Bay Toll Crossings said the new World, it would be indeed rough. loading time of 50 minutes. This Bridge goes into place. The two girders, longest bridge will be ready for traffic in October. The old Numerous indicators show a very project will be relatively small and and heaviest on the bridge, weigh-in at 520-ton bridge, shown below will be demolished. probable increase in housing starts barely noticeable if the freight and are 380-ft. long. E. R. Foley, chief engineer, next year and even better the year depots on the drawing board are after. By 1970 we should be in ever started. One such depot is re • another housing boom which will, ported to cost 500 million dollars. of course cause a boom in roads A bizarre plan to place a four and a multitude of services that lane expressway in San Franciscito are always a necessary part of such Creek is on the drawing board. Humble Oil Deal Will Bring a boom. The creek waters are to be carried We note numerous smaller jobs in culverts below the depressed (up to 2 million) being awarded freeway. This winter has seen San S V2 Million Dollars To to a number of local contractors Franciscito Creek flowing over the Benicia banks as in the past. It that should at least keep the en seems that gineers such a depressed freeway might By AARON SMITH produces the largest diameter line Alex Robertson recently started presently in their employ going for make a rather good channel for BENICIA-HUMBLE OIL pipe in the West. It also turns out the 14 miles of 14 inch gas and a few months. We also note that Granite Con flood waters but a poor highway in WATER PACT READY subway liner rings for the B.A.R.T. oil line from Suisun to Benicia. struction Co. has $216,000 such times, however, it would be project, pressure vessels, compo This project is sponsored by the of sur The Benicia City Council has facing to do in three counties a good job for engineers. In any nents for off shore drilling plat Southern Pacific Pipeline, Inc. in agreed to consider execution of a cluding San case, a direct multilane access to forms and other specialized fabri Mateo . contract with Humble Oil Com Floyd Terrace is finally getting El Camino is and has been a dire cated steel items Piombo's Junipero Serra Free • . The bulk of the a new face lifting. A long time eye need for years. Let's hope pany for water service and to way section has the heavy dirt they do Operating Engineers consist of adopt specifications and issue sore in the city of Vallejo. Cleve moved and something soon. a Fork lift and overhead crane op will be some months call for bids for construction of a land Wrecking of San Francisco finishing the frontage roads and erators. At the present time, Kaiser 36 inch water transmission line is demolishing the old buildings. detail work. This compan is working a three shift operation. y has from Cordelia to Benicia. The new Clyde Plynell has several small however, picked up 2 or 3 other Basalt Rock is employing two pipeline, a pumping station at projects in Vallejo, including the jobs that will help engineers con Project OK shifts at the Napa quarry anci Cordelia and a water treatment excavation of the new Elks Club, siderably-a $850,000 fill job at Napa junction plants. Napa Quar and distribution facilities in Beni Church property at the end of the Cabot & Cabot Forbes site in Hydro Power ry is furnishing the base material cia, a re to be financed by a $4,- Tennessee Street and the Granada South San Francisco and a 2 mil for several construction projects 650,000 bond issue. The bulk of Heights sub-division. lion plus job of filling the bay for SAN FRANCISCO-A contract throughout the area. Their prime for the construction of the Belden the water will be sold to the Hum Syar & Hanus has been picking extended runways at the San Fran co ncern is furnishing the Basalite Powerhouse structure has been ble Oil Company. up a number of projects in Solano cisco Airport. Work on this job is plant with material. One of the awarded to Rothschild, Raffin & County. They have excavating expected to start this month. On th e refinery s ite the booms newest fun ctions is the manufac Weirick Inc., San Francisco, Pa are crews presently working at Napa L. C. Smith's Junipero Serra sticking up all over the place. turing of pre-stress concrete for cific Gas & Electric Co. president Square sub-division, Silver Heights Freeway spread has been plagued C. F . Braun have a good number structural work. The N apa junc Sh ermer L. Sibley announ ced sub-division in by much heavy and troublesome • of New Americans working a t the tion plant produces light aggre Vallejo, and the here. present time. The G eorge F. Ca new location of St. Patricks School rock. Numerous s mall jobs have gate material for cement plants The contract is part of the $3 sey C ompan y a re drilling the between Vallejo and Benicia. In helped to supplement the resultant 2 throughout the area. Rip-Rap from million Belden hydroelectric proj foundation holes for the large stor Napa, Syar is in the completion slow down such as a $130,000 the N apa quany plant is being ect on the Feather River. The out age tanks. C. B. & I. are e recting stages of the sewer farm oxidation street job in San Mateo and no w crushed and trucked to Fremont door type powerhouse will be lo the new storage tanks. Eandy ponds. Their paving crew is put we hear that L. C. will furnish a for the Alameda Creek project. cated adjacent to State Sign Route Metal Works are building the new ting in the approaches to the new lot of "hot stuff" for some bayshore C. . Norman Peterson is working 70 about 50 miles from Oroville in administration building. E. E. Ein Mare Island bridge. resurfacing very soon. on the $1,500,000 water treatment Bragato has numerous jobs the Feather River Canyon. boden are furnishing most of the Syar & H arms, Erickison, Phil plant in Jamison Canyon near Red going all over the county. One of The powerhouse is scheduled to small backhoe, etc. At the present Top Dairy. Pittsburgh-DeMoines lips & Weisburg are the apparent time there are about six survey their biggest spreads is at the Red be in operation by Nov. 1, 1969, Steel are e recting two small stor low bidders on the Sonoma Creek adding crews working. Brothers Eel Ra~ wood Shores Site. We see at least 117,000 kilowatts to PC age tanks. American Bridge will bridge. Although the $1,500,000 40 rigs all over the salt flats belong &E's system generating capacity. kin and George Massey are the commence work on the large stor low bid submitted by them has not ing to many contractors. The contract award announced Stewards on the erection crews, age tank in the near future. been awarded, it is expected to be The mammoth Junipero Serra includes the 80 by 88 foot power with Brothers George Graves and Huntington Brothers have com awarded in the very near future . Freeway from Woodside Road house structure, equipment foun Ed Morgan on the survey end. pleted the excavation on HiWay The completion of the Sonoma south to Page Mill Road is being dations, and related structures. Kaiser Steel has employed more 12 between Fairfield and Rio • Creek bridge will be the final ob generaled by Freeman Sondgroth. This work will begin by Oct. 1, Operating Engineers this year Vista. Syar & Harms is doing the stacle A. A. Baxter is however the large Sibley said. than any other time of operation. paving with the material coming before the Sears Point free sub contractor doing most of the Work awarded under previous Kaiser Steel first began its opera from Madison Sand and Gravel. way can be awarded. dirt work at this time. This has conb·acts is under way on two IS tion in Napa in 1955, when the Independent Recent contract awards are as Construction Com allowed Freeman Sondgroth to do foot inside diameter pressure tun company purchased the steel divi pany has moved follows: Carl J. Woods, $142,965 back into Napa a number of other lesser jobs in the nels totaling approximately 6.5 sion from Basalt Rock Company, to complete canal improvements, the housing project Vacaville area, such as the nearly $200,000 miles in length. The two tunnels Inc. Since that time, the plant has between Brown Street and the area, and $1,750 to Larry Johnson Farm Hills Blvd. job in Redwood are connected by continually a steel pipe si expanded and today river. for drainage on Mare Island. City. phon. Page 8 ENGINEERS N EWS September, 1967 • Dredging San Rafa I as ork Backlog By WAYNE A. (LUCKY) all their men have been back to time. Fisher Bros. from Rio Vista SPRINKLE work for quite some time, and they has 2 draglines on this job. Wendt All local contractors are picking are using a few men from time to has 4 or 5 pieces of equipment of up a few jobs-and it seems like time, from our out-of-work list. their own, with Brown-Ely still as the year comes to a close, that Following is run-down on jobs hauling import to the parking By AL HANSEN they are getting busier, and we are in the area underway at the pres apron and parking area and to the hoping they will have a back log ent time : main rumvay, keeping quite a The Army Corps of Engineers has plans for beautification of the few of the Brothers busy. for the follo wing year, which will e McGuire & Hester's job at Corte Madera Creek channel upstream from Bon Air Bridge as be good-not onl y for the contrac Corte lvfaclera-movin g along at a In the Novato area, Argonnaut part of the creek flood control project. L t. Col. Frank C. Boerger tors, but for the Operating Engi- slow pace clue to form ation of has finished their Wilson School reported, District Engineer for the Corps' San F rancisco District. neers. rocks in certain areas , but going site job for the present, and has moved into the High School job • Colonel Boerger said the first phase, expected to cost $750,000 to We have two major jobs at pres along smoothly. Their other job at $1 million, should be completed next year. Plans call for award of ent in the area - which are not Hamilton Air Force Base is start at San Marin . This job is under a contract next Julv for the stretch from Bon Air Hoad to College underway as of yet; hut should be ing to move now-hoping to get the supervision of Bro. Snyder of Argonnaut Construction. Avenue, which will include a stilling basin 180 feet long by 40 feet within the next two weeks. some more men in the near future. wide with w alls 18 feet high. lie hopes final contract, for the por One is Darkenwald Construc This job has been slow due to o We have 7 pieces of equip ment working on this job, with a tion from College Avenue through Hoss , can be awarded in :tvlarch, tion Co. located at Pt. Reves Na mud. very capable crew. Argonnaut also 1969. County Supervisor Ernest N . Kettenhofen said he will con tional Seashore-the late ~st a rt is e Moberly Construction with has a Drive-Inn Theatre job be tinue to press for a speedup of this schedule. H e pointed out the clue to the fact that they are wait two jobs in the area - have kept ing for the clearing contractor, tween Novato and Petaluma off first phase will do little to alleviate flooding in such hard-hit areas quite a few of the brothers busv. Gravelle and Gravelle, to get out Highway 101-which is nearly in as Granton Park and College Park. At the present time he is movi1~g the completion stages. When all in front, so when they do get their out some of the equipment to Dan WESTERN PACIFIC DREDGil\G CORP. OF POHTLAND dirt spread moving, they will be utilities are in, they will move back ville area to start a new project in and do the sub base and paving. OREGON, low bidder for first-stage dredging in the Corte Mader~ able to continue their operations. there. Creek Flood control project with a bid of $455,450. The first-stage At the present time, we have 5 • Bobo has been going real • Robert E. McKee at the Civic dredging, from the creek mouth to Bon Air Bridge, is to be com men on the Darkenwald job get good on Wild Horse Canyon sub ting the equipment ready to go. Center is going real good. They division with most of the lots and • pleted by next summer. The dredging will widen the creek to a are putting the third deck on now streets- down to sub-grade now. bottom vvidth of 80 feet and a depth throughout of 12 feet. The The other major job is the Reed with Bigge setting the pre-stressed Finishing stages will be starting channel right of way is 380 feet wide. An estimated 726,000 cubic Highlands job at Tiburon. Con tractor is Brown-Ely Company. At coming from Ben C. Gerwick's soon. yards of material will be dredged. The project includes removal of Yard in Petaluma. The county will the present stage, clearing is un o Soiland Company has all their the abandoned and bulldozed arks along the creek below the be advertising for bids for the new derway with Heim Bros. Soilancl underground crews back to work, autotorium which is part of the bridge. Company is moving in the first of and adding a few Brother engi Civic Center complex-September the week to start their big 54 inch neers as they need them. They UNITED SAI\'D AND GRAVEL-Hopper Dredge "Sandpiper" 26th at an estimated $4 million. hauling sand for Trans-Bay Constructors running one 12 hr. shift. storm drain, and vvhen this is com have a good work load at the pres All phases of the operation are running very smooth. pleted, Brown-Ely will be able to o Morrison-Knudsen tunnel job ent time throughout Marin and start their dirt spread, and there still has three shifts in operation Sonoma. Brother Lou Paysse job S. F. PORT DREDGE running 2 shifts-still plugging along is 25,000 yards of dirt to go into at this particular time, but are steward and mechanic - also with lots of work around the waterfront in San Francisco. this one area where the storm starting to cut down for their final Brother Dalton have kept busy drain is to be laid. completion date scheduled for UTAH DREDGING still going strong at Bay Farm Island with keeping the equipment in top some time in September. This has shape, working in the field. the "Franciscan." "San Mateo" is tied up at So. S. F. where they In the last issue of the E:--~cr NEERS NEws, we stated that some been one of the better jobs for the are changing the ladder-putting on a short ladder for a job in • The work in the Petaluma state work was to be let in the area Brothers in our area because they area is starting to move with Siri Oakland, for about 6 weeks-will be in drydock for about 6 weeks. -the proposed widening of Waldo have worked this tunnel job rain • coming in finishing up their sub Also all the crew is at the So. S. F. Yd. at present. Grade to 4 lanes-and the overlay or shine within the past year. \Ve division and Argonnaut Construc SHELLMAKER COMPAi'\Y "Explorer" will probably be in from Greenbrae to San H.afael Via would like to say that the Operat tion taking care of their encl. ing Engineers have had a very ex the Sacramento area in the next week or so, and the Dredge "Van duct. As this goes to press, we o Hein Brothers Quarry in Pet cellent relationship with this com learn that Ghilotti Bros. were the aluma is back to normal operations guard" is at Elk Horn Ferry pumping sand for the approaches for pany, especially to their Project low bidder on the overlay between with a lot of short and small jobs the new overpass crossing the Sacramento Hiver. They have about Manager Jim Duggan and their Greenbrae and the San Rafael via in the area. 800,000 to one million yards on this job at the present time. duct at approximately $189,000. outstanding safety record - also • Ben C. Gerwick' s pre-stressed ASSOCIATED DREDGIJ\G "Orton" is in Corte Madera Creek They also were the one and only their capable personnel - no lost yard in Petaluma has been going working on pipeline-should be out of there soon. The Dredge bidder on the Waldo Grade, ap time accidents on this job. We have had very capable operators, full blast and some of the Brothers "Truckee" is working at Richardson Bay and will be moving out proximately $80,000 over the En gineer's estimate, and the State an excellent job steward and safety are getting overtime clue to the probably the first of the week to finish up their job at Loch Lomond has this job under advisement at committeemen throughout this commitments of pre-stressed Harbor in San Rafael. Altogether they had about 70,000 to 80,000 the present time. job. beams for the Civic Center Build yards to pump. Ghilotti Bros. also was the only Brown-Ely Airport job in No ing-Robert E. McKee's job in San Rafael. DUTRA DREDGING "Liberty" is down in the lower end of bidder on the widening of Bridge vato is starting to move at a good pace. The dirt has been subbed • Holtzinger Bros. has quite a • the bay-still working, quite a bit to go yet. The "Stockton" is way Blvcl.-$30,000 over the En few jobs throughout the area down there also. The "Sacramento" is there, too. The "California" gineers estimate. This job too is out to Elmer G. Wendt under the under advisement. This firm has supervision of Ed. Van Meter and keeping quite a few of the Broth is up at Colusa-will be there for another two or three weeks. various jobs throughout the area- is going real good at the present ers busy. WEST COAST DREDGING COMPANY- Floyd Crites-not too busy at the present time, but things look pretty good for the future. IDEAL CEMENT CO.-still going strong with 2 shifts down at ~JUST A Whether It's A Hot New '68 Redwood City. ,REMINDER LESLIE SALT CO. still working all around the Bay- building Or A Hoped For levees and keeping 2 shifts busy. CHAS. HOVEH DREDGING-have been a little slow, but look Winter Vacation ing forward to a few jobs in the near future. HYDRAULIC DREDGING CO. have their "Papoose" up at • Benicia Industrial Park, and will be finishing up the end of this Don't lust week, looking for another job. With a little luck, may get it this month-if not, they will probably take the "Diwamash" back to Foster City and move the "Papoose" over to their yard in Pittsburg Dream About It! with the "Rogue" which is still tied up over there. OLYMPIA!\ DREDGING CO. not too busy at prese;.1t, but looking forward to a few jobs in the near future. Something To Think About! Take People Where You Find Them. Few men in history have hcen shrewder judges of human nature than Benjamin F ranklin. The following tips he gave deserve thoughtful attention: "The hes t thing to give your enemy is for Contact Your Credit Union giveness;- to an opponent, tolerance;-to a friend, your ear;-to your child, good example;-to a father, reference;-to your mother, For Quick Cash • conduct that will make her proud of you;-to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." For Easy Terms Taking people where we find them is far more arduous in fact than in theory. Such a continual attitude, multiplied over and over by millions of people, could bring about a heartening renewal in We Make Your Dreams Come True! individuals, the family, as well as public and private institutions of all types. And it all begins with you! • September, 1967 ENGINEERS NEWS Page 9 SURVEY NOTES New Proiects Slow As
By Old Proiects Ending MIKE By WALTER TALBOT, AL Total cost of the West Side free McNAMARA and JERRY way is expected to exceed $290 ALLGOOD million or more than $1 million a The prospect of work in this mile. district continues to lag behind Cooley Bros. of Victorville have Like most growing cities, Napa last year, with no change antici moved onto their nine miles of has developed a serious sanitary pated for the immediate future. new road for the Forest Service • sewer problem. Some of the exist New contracts awarded so far on Cottonwood Road approxi ing sewer system dates bade to the this year have not made the de mately hventy miles from Tuol 1870's when the original sewer mands for engineers that was ex umne City. lines were installed. Of the Dis pected. This is clue in part to the Lewis-Nicholson of Eureka also trict's present 115-mile system, completion of large projects that have opened up their road job into more than 50 miles of these orig have been under construction for Beardsley Reservoir for the For inal lin es are still in use. Their the past two to three years and to est Service. 100 YEARS OF MEMBERSHIP in LOCAL #3 is represented by deterioration has led to street cave the lack of enough new contracts Arthur McKee Co. of Chicago, these members who attended a recent Job Stewards and Safety ins and other problems. to absorb the surplus. Needless to Illinois, sub contracted the paving Meeting at San Rafael. Shown (1. to r.) are 0. S. "Red" Wilson, The obsolescence of much of say, many factors enter into the and grading work on their Swift Safety Committeeman; Bill Pacheco, Joh Steward; Yates Hammett, the District's sewer system has lack of new work. & Co. contract to Standard Mate Crane Operator; L. B. Hancock, Oiler. been compounded by the connect Guy F. Atkinson Co. have a rials Co. of Modesto. Standard ing of storm waters to this net small crew working on the prelim subbed the excavating to Lind work. By 1953, 450 inlets were inary work at the New Don Pedro quist and Rapp of Turlock and the carrying storm water into the Damsite. However, the Modesto Held engineering to Paul Burming sanitary sewer system. The effect out-of-work list is growing quite ham of Modesto. The McKee Co. • was that this system was flooded large due to this project, and with also will have operators and tech beyond capacity during heavy the number that continue to sign nical engineers employed on this (JsrEwAiilJS SPoTLITE rains. Raw sewage was backing up each clay, it will be several months new meat packing plant facility onto city streets or was being before any balance can be ob that will cost over $6 million to ~~:::~-~~------··· =-·It!-- carried into the Napa River. tained. constmct. J.JJ~.Je_n_n"::"'"in_,gs;:::_ __ Ground waters were penetrating Fredrickson & Watson have Claude Wood Co., Stolte, Inc. the system through leaking sewer completed the concrete paving on and Hydrox Corp. have engineers mains, manholes and laterals for Highway 132 and new Interstate employed at the new Bear Valley long periods after storms and pro 5 leaving only the shoulders and sub-division and Mt. Reba ski re longing the burden on the sanitary miscellaneous work to complete sort. This work must be completed Attendance At Job ~ewer system. both projects. The completion of before the snow flies this winter. As the situation worsened, the this segment of Interstate 5 now S. & Q. Constmction was the Napa Sanitation District sought provides a four lane divided high successful bidder on the Tesla ways to correct it. In 1965, con way from Altamont Pass (High Portal tunnel relining job south of Steward Meets Up sulting engineers and planners way 50) to Los Banos (Highway Tracy and also secured a contract were retained to study the prob 152). However, this is not open from Spreckles Sugar on plant ad Your International Vice President and Business Manager A! Clem lem comprehensively, to recom to through traffic as yet. The West ditions and modi£cations at Man has combined the meetings of Job Stewards and Safety Committee • mend remedial measures, and to Side freeway (Interstate 5) will teca. men. Clem pointed out that by holding the meetings jointly it would estimate their cost. It was recom speed traffic between Southern Elmer Wendt, Inc. of Rio Vista give the steward and the safety committeemen the opportunity to mended 1) that the sanitary and California and the San Francisco has resumed operations on his San exchange ideas and work together on the job as a team. Meetings were storm sewer systems be separated bay area by routing traffic through Joaquin River levee job near San held in the following districts during the month of August: San Fran completely, and 2 ) that a number the west side of the valley and Joaquin City. This job has been cisco, San Rafael, Santa Rosa, Eureka, Redding, Marysville, Sacra of old sewer lines be sealed and away from large cities and towns. down since last winter due to rain mento, Stockton, San Mateo, Fresno and Vallejo. At the various repaired to restore their capacity The freeway will begin at and the unusually deep snow pack meetings, both the Job Stewards and Safety Committeemen brought and to halt the infiltration of Wheeler Ridge at Highway 99 that has kept the San Joaquin out and discussed some very important issues on various kinds of jobs. gro;_mcl water into the system. south of Bakersfield and run River higher than average for the The San Mateo Job Steward and Safety Committeemen Meeting It was estimated that these pro through the west side of the San year. Although the job is now brought out the largest group for the month of August. A lot of the jects, together, would co-'t $2.4 Joaquin Valley to a point south underway, the operators are en Stewards reported on their jobs and different issues discussed, then million. They were approved as east of Tracy. countering many bog holes and the meeting was opened for a question and answer session when some part of a more comprehensive, $8- The north end of the freeway soft footing. very constructive issues were brought up. million improvement program ap will branch there. The north A. Teichert & Son has new and We would like to call each member's attention who accepts the proved by the electorate in 1965. branch will serve Stockton and old jobs scattered throughout obligation when he is appointed Job Steward or Safety Committeeman Heid & Reid, civil engineering, Sacramento; however, these con Stockton, San Joaquin, Calaveras to make every possible effort to attend meetings in his area, as these • tracts have not yet been let with meetings are set up strictly for them. We would also like to call the planning and land surveying firm and Amador Counties that should of Napa, h2.cl participated in the the exception of the bridge con keep their engineers employed for men's attention to the fact that they keep a record of any complaints long-range planning effort com struction that has been in progress the remaining construction season. made by the members and to forward them immediately to the Dis pleted in 1965. In 1966, the firm by Lord & Bishop. Gallaven & Tompkins was the patch Office or give it to the agent servicing the area. Also, check each was retained to design the separa The above mentioned company successful bidder on the Ham new employee for a proper referral. tion project, to compile the neces has three bridges under construc Lane drain and sanitary sewer job sary field data, to prepare plans tion at 14-mile slough, Calaveras in Lodi at $99,000. School Dropouts and specifications, to assist in the River and Smith Canal. They were Stan£eld & Moody of Tracy and The proportion of school dropouts among young people in the U. S. awarding of contracts, and to also the successful bidder on the Stockton have several engineers labor force is decreasing. In 1966, 71 percent of the 10.3 million 16-to- supervise the construction. sub-structure of the new bridge employed at various locations. 24 year old workers possessed at least a high school diploma compared Working under an agreement to be erected on the San Joaquin R. Goold & Son of Stockton was with 69 percent a year ago and 63 percent in 1960. with the District, Reid & Heid River at the Pmt of Stockton. This low bidder at $107,000 to con provided continuous supervision later project is just getting under struct a sewage pumping plant at during construction, assuring com way at this writing. Lincoln Village. Purchasing Power pliance with the specifications in The average paycheck reached a record in June-$101.88, but its • terms of materials and workman purchasing power was slightly below the level for June, 1966. Gross ship. Before construction was pay of production and nonsupervisory workers came to $87.83 when begun, a closed-circuit television measured in constant dollars. Higher living costs and shorter work camera was run through all of the weeks are blamed for the decline in purchasing power. old sewer lines to locate and chart live service laterals for the guid ance of the contractor. After con struction, the new lines were JOB STEWARDS APPOINTED tested under air pressure to de Week Ending A ugust 31, 1967 Week Ending· August 10, 1967 termine tightness. Dist. Name Agent Dis!. Name Agent The initial phase has been 3 Art Paisley W. Talbot !A Oran Center Al Hansen 5 Pete Paolericio _ K. Green lA Freddie Cargile " Al Hansen satisfactorily completed and with 5 Bobby Cooper K. Green lA Phil Durnford Al H a nsen 6 Ken Burns _D. Carpenter 1B Joe E. McGee M. Kraynick three more phases to go will pro 6 Wm. Zitelli .. D . Carpenter 10 William Gilson .B. Wagnon 8 William Dunn J . Gentry 11 George Chappell B. Mallett vide employment for many Local 10 G. K. Gardner B. Wagnon 3 Brothers. 12 Wynn Wood _ W. Mertz 12 Clair Doyle H. Bodam For Week Ending August 3, 1967 12 Wayne Maupin _ H. Bodam 1 Thomas Kennedy W. L eMoine Labor Turn over Week Ending August 17, 1967 !A Henry Hahne W. Sprinkle • !B Ed Davis M . Kraynick The major indicators of labor 4 Russell Amy L. York lC Dale Walker .. A. Smith 4 Maurice Kelly L. York !C Ed Rankin A. Smith turnover-the new hire, quit, and 4 Wesley Kenny L. York lC Edgar Morgan A. Smith 5 Kenneth Hasley K. Green 2 Cleve Pipkin R. Mayfield layoff rates- in June were un GOOD TURNOUT FOR San Rafael Job Steward and Safety Meeting 5 Joe Harper G. Blair 2 Ed Dempsey R. Mayfield changed from the previous month. included (staonding I. to r.) Yates Hammett; C. W. Gubka, Vern 8 Dale E. Richardson M. Womack 4 Thos. Crawford R. Cooper !) John D. Foster R.Long 4 Vemon Chase .. L. 'York And, the Labor Department says, Thomas, Allen McClure and Wayne "Lucky" Sprinkle. Back row !) Leo L. Pera R. Long 9 B. L auderdale R. L0ng after seasonal adjustment, June !) J. G. Kemmer R. Long 9 Fred Carrier R. Long (sitting) Charles James, Len Genetin; 0. S. "Red" Wilson, Bill 11 Marian Klingaman B. Mallett 10 Richard Tucker .. B. Wagnon was the second most favorable Pacheco, L. B. Hancock and (front row) Sandy Mills, Sr., William 12 Warren Thompson W. Metta 10 Terry Hines B. Wagnon month since 1953. Taylor, Harold Rygard and AI Guion. i Page 10 ENGINEERS NEWS September, 1967 • apid Trans1 S I ey ak and Job * * * Blood Bank Empty Seeks Local elp By NORRIS A. CASEY, TOM ecutive board did act on a request • CA RTER, A. A. CELLINI, to demand a grand jury investiga. FRED GONSALVES, BOB tion of BART. i\IA YFIELD, GUY JONES Toborg said today he was or \ \'ork in the O akland Area has dered by James Perley, chamber no t been subject e d to muc h president, not t o reveal the deci change in the past month. The sion "because it is subject to final dO\m town area looks like a boom approval" by the chamber's 75- farm. hut it is mostly confined to member board of directors. All the Rapid Transi t Project. vVith members of the executive board the \\·ork as s low as it has been, were told not to reveal the con there is li ttle turnover in men. Jobs tent of the decision made a t the are bard to come by. It is of course meeting, Toborg said. a real tough situation to have good Meanwhile, Contra Costa Coun 11·eather and so li ttle work, but we ty representatives were platming hope to see a change soon. strategy on the 18 miles of cut The Oakl and Blood Bank is backs proposed by the BART man • emptl·. \ \'e have many calls fo r agement because of financial prob blood. We have to tell them we lems. M ost of the cutbacks would cannot help . The onl y way we can be in Contra Costa. impr01 e this s ituation i s by the Representatives from Walnut help of you Brothers. Please help Creek, Richmond, C oncord, El your Br oth e r b y g iv in g some Cerrito and Pleasant Hill met and blood . drafted a r esolution asking BART A Bay Area Rapid Transit Dis to finish the 75 miles promised to trict director recently said he wel the voters in 1962. comed a grand jury investigation The resolution urges all 75 SCALE MODEL shows plan for new $3 million with children; each "mini-neighborhood" will have of the p roject's fin ancial problems miles be built whether it can be Rancho Verde garden apartment community on a its own swimming pool, play area and other rec as long as it would not delay con placed in operation or not, rather 20-acre site in Rheem Valley. Robert Goetz Asso reational facilities. Rheem Caliiornia Land Co ., the struction. The statement came than trying to get only 57 miles ciates, Oakland, is proceeding with final design owner, has received an FHA-207 commitment for from George Sillman of Newark in operation. It also calls for the for the 168-unit complex. Separate areas will be mortgage insurance. Construction is set for early after the Fremont Chamber of state legislature to help. Concord set aside for single people, couples and families 1968. Commerce executive board held and El Cerrito have taken similar a closed meeting on BART, then stands. said he also will press for a con Waldie said he would oppose Hensel Phelps Construction Co. • refused to reveal what action had The Contra Costa County Board gressional investigation into BART more federal aid of BART made This is a 6Jf Million Dollar project, been taken. of Supervisors also has summoned finances. cutbacks in Contra Costa County. and will take three years to com Sillman said he would welcome its two representatives to a meet "A BART delegation assured us B. R. Stokes, BART general man plete. Ramond Concrete Pile Co. a grand jury investigation "be ing Tuesday to explain BART's a year ago that the entire plan ager, told the hearing that the is on the job driving test piles at cause it would settle in the peo problems. would be implemented as prom financially hardpressed project this time. ple's minds once and for all that The actions came as two state ised. The cutbacks constitute a needs state aid to finish the con Rock, Sand and Gravel people there is n oth in g w rong with legislators held a special hearing breach of promise to the tax struction program. have new agreement. Most of the BART." in Richmond on BART's prob payer," Edwards added. Edwards If BART cannot get state aid, Sand and Gravel plants are work There vvere eight members of lems. said he would back another bond only 57 of the 75 miles promised ing two shifts. Kaiser in Clayton the Fremont chamber board pres A Second Congressman issue to help BART "but only if said he to voters in 1962 will be fini shed. has also started a two shift opera ent at a closed door meeting last will oppose any federal aid to bail Fremont is guaranteed inclusion in Without state aid, chances of tion. Pacific State Steel is work night at a r estaurant near Niles. out the Bay Area Rapid Transit the system." finishing the 57 miles would be ing three shifts seven days a week. Sillman said he would welcome system "unless they build the The other congressman taking much less, Stokes said, because The Equipment Dealers are work Manager Donald Driggs also at Hayward-Fre mont section as a similar stand is Rep. Jerome chances are small the voters would tended, but left the meeting early. promised. Rep. Don Edwards, D Waldie, D-Antioch. A statement approve more bonds. ing. Peterson Tractor is w orking a • two shift operation. According to Tom Toborg, the San Jose, whose district includes from Waldie was read to a hearing However, if BART does receive chamber general manager, the ex- Fremont, Newark and Union City, on BART finances in Richmond. more federal aid-and there is a good chance of this, more than 57 miles would eventually be built, OUR WAR DEAD the district has said. I am sure I speak for all Stokes' statement came in re the officials and the Broth sponse to a question by Assembly erhood of Local 3 in offer man John T. Knox, D-Richmond, ing our heartfelt condolences at an informal hearing called by to Mrs. Ida Petersen, widow Knox and fellow Assemblyman of our late Brother, Henry John Foran, D -San Francisco. T. Petersen, on the death of Del Valley Dam i n L ivermore her gallant son Private First is beginning to take shape. At this Class Raymond A. Petersen, time, a little over three million who w as killed i n action in yards have been placed on the fill. Vietnam. • This job has been working two Young Petersen, only l 9 shifts all summer and t hey are years old, was a member o f moving about 40,000 yards per Lo c a l 3. P rior to bein g day. The job is scheduled t o con drafted, he was working as tinue at this rate for another t wo a heavy equipment operator months. while studying at West Val Fredrickson & Watson Con ley College in San Jose. struction is busy on the A ltamont Brother Petersen attended Pass Freeway Project. This job St. Christopher's Parochial consists of eight miles of eight lane School and Del Mar High divided freeway with nine bridges School and had been a E'lem and structures. At present there is ber of the swimming team. about 50 pieces of equipment on He is survived b y two the job and they are moving about brothers , Henry T. Petersen lOO,OOC yards of dirt per week. and John W . Petersen, of The Gordon Ball Freeway Job San Jose; his grandparents, in Sunol is about 80% completed. A. 0 . Petersen of Lorna Mar • This job is the connecting link be and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph tween Dublin and Mission San Deini of Greenfield. His fa Jose Freeway and is scheduled for ther died some 10 months THE FOUR-STORY office building shown here is the center will include extensive landscaping and completion this fall. ago. the first phase of the $6 million, nine-acre Oak free parking for 190 cars. It is scheduled for com The Contract for the new Oro A. J. "Buck" Hope land Airport Office Center being developed by pletion in the fall of 1968. Lorna Treatment Plant in San Financial Secretary. Stolte Inc. Designed by architect Robert W. Kite, Lorenzo has been awarded to • September1 1967 ENGINEERS NEWS Page 11 Brother rrHam ' ' Aids Eye-Bank Network * * * 2001 Gain New Eyes Through Unique Plan • (EDITOR's NOTE: In a recent letter gives the preamble and then asks to the Engineers' News, Brother Art for any needs for eves and then Clark of Lafayette, California said k ' . . ·1 b',l' · ' that he and his wife were ham oper- as s 1OI any avm a 1 1t1es. ators and that "in our shack you can Let's assume that there are get a new set of eyes." He thought needs listed and no availabilities his item m ight make a good fi ller f or the paper. Fascinated by Brother -then all of the members of the Art's terse understatement, tee called net call our local Eyebanks or w ife Beth for m ore details o n what ophthalmologists through which looked like an exciting feature, but we work and give them the needs let B eth tell yo-u the rest of the story in her own tuords. ) and then if they have eyes become Dear Mr. Clem: available they call the place of I will try to give you a blief need collect and give them the in review of our Eye Bank Network. formation on the eyes they have. Dr. Braley (one of the foremost If the place needing eyes ac- Beth Clark Brother Art Clark • ophthalmologists in our counh·y, cepts them then the place of avail and the head one in the Iowa Citv ability makes the travel arrange where you can help through your tions in the North & West branch too lengthy, and have told you Eye Bank) had a very good friend, ments by Jet airlines and they are "Engineers News." The removal of this network and control the what you want to know, I am, who was also a patient and he shipped in a polyethylene con of the eyes, in no way mutilates net at least one day a week. My Sincerely, the corpse, as you never see a husband pinch needed an emergency corneal tainer by the fastest lines. After hits for me when "Beth" Elizabeth Clark corpse with his eyes open, and transplant. There is only one Eye the control station gets all of the I cannot be at the station at net WB6BSE Bank in Iowa State and it is in needs or availabilities he repeats even if the eyes aren't removed time. One of us always makes it Iowa City. There are some 64 sub- it for the benefit of all net mem there are many, many cases where a point to be there. This is all vol P.S. My husband's call is WB6 stations throughout Iowa that all bers and then calls roll of the sta the eyes have to be padded to untary work-we are not allowed BSD-"Art" Arthur V. Clark. We funnel into the one Bank. This tions on net. make them look natural. And to (by F.C.C. regulations) to accept have been in Amateur Radio since way Dr. Braley had the whole A sample of this I will give you leave instructions in one's will to any monetary remuneration what late in 1962 and feel it is the most State of Iowa at his command and is one where Anchorage, Alaska have their eyes given for use as ever, and if we should be caught rewarding hobby a person can also he called Washington, D.C., got ahold of me and reported the transplant is not useable, for by doing so could be fined from have. In case of any disaster where the International Eye Bank need for a pair of eyes on urgent the time the will is read it is too $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 and im "Ham" operators are the first to is located as well as several other basis (meaning there was neither late to use the eyes for transplant. prisoned in a Federal prison for the rescue, and manv times the States. But he was unable to locate a ruptme nor perforation). They All anyone has to do is to write from 5 to 10 years. The total mem first to know of the disaster, such eyes in time to save the vision of gave me the name of the doctor to the "Lions Eye Foundation for bership of the Network now runs as in the case of the Alaskan earth • his patient. and phone numbers where he Children Inc." at 2018 Webster close to 200 members. quake-we were the only means of Eyes, to be used for penetrating could be reached day and night St. , San Francisco, Calif. 94115, I am sending you some of the communication with the outside transplant, must be taken within (two numbers in that case-but and ask for donor forms and they different articles that have ap world for Alaska for five davs. 4 to 6 hours of the death of the sometimes they give a hospital will be sent to him. I would like peared in some of the papers Radio was my husband's idea ' in donor and must be used for h·ans- number where one number is good to state right here that eyes can about the Eyebank network and the first place, but we are both plant within 48 hours of the death for day or night). We never know neither be bought nor sold. This is also about the traffic we run for very much involved. of the donor, and if a person's cor- the name of the patient. I got this true in all states. The charges are servicemen overseas. We feel that B. C. nea is either punctured or perfo- information at 4:00 p.m. so I put all for hospital and surgeons also is a very important link with rated (then he is considered to it on the 6:00p.m. net and again never a penny for the eyes them the families of the men who are need an emergency transplant) he on th e 9 : 00 p.m. net. By 9 : 00 a.m. selves. I am enclosing some litera fighting for our country. Please re must have the transplant within the next morning he was offered ture that may give you some ideas turn all of this as we do like to Apprentice 48 hours of the puncture or per- a pair of eyes from Phoenix, Ari also. keep it. I have given about 30 foration. Thus you can readily see zona (which he accepted) and Also here are some figures that talks to different civic organiza the fact that time is the most im- again by 11:00 a.m. was offered may stagger you: tions about our network, but am Named NG's portant item of concern. another pair from Miami, Florida just sending you one of the no • There are Dr. Braley found out several (see they had no way of knowing 90 million in the tices. The dates are all on the dif U.S. today who have some sort • days after it was too late to save Anchorage had received the eyes of ferent ones. Top ocular disorders. Soldier his friend's vision that there had from Phoenix as it was still before At first I was net control station been a pair of eyes a vail able in the next net time) . • 3,500,000 of these are non most of the time on the Nmth & CAMP RILEA, ORE.-A Local San Diego at that particular time, correctable with science knowl \Nest net, but now we have it so 3 apprentice engineer, Staff Ser and these eyes had gone for re- It just so happened that An- edge as of today. there is a different net control sta geant David N. Roberts search. chorage had, in the meantime had , has been another need arise so they ac " 1 million a1·e tion for each night of the week. named "Guardsman of the Year" Now Dr. Braley is an amateur functionally cepted the second pair of eyes. blind-cannot read a paper even Also one of these gives our address in Nevada National Guard's 22lst radio operator and so is a friend Then they let me know and I noti with glasses. in Concord which is where we Artillery Battalion. of his, Mr. Ted Hunter, who is fied the net at 6:00 p.m. and the lived at the time, but now live in Sgt. Roberts was presented a the President of the Iowa City Eye • 30,000 lose sight each year. need was taken off the net. Right Lafayette. trophy by Governor Paul Laxalt of Bank and also the Editor of the at the present we have a need for • 8 out of 10 cases of blindness To receive the services of our Nevada. His unit also received a Eye Bank of America Publication. two eyes listed for Oakland, Calif. the causes are unknown with sci Eyebank Network, if a person trophy that will be displayed in These two got together and con This is also an urgent need. ence knowledge as of today-this needs a transplant he should con the office of the battery until a ceived of the idea of the Eye Bank An emergency includes cataract, glaucoma, de tact a registered ophthalmologist new Guardsman is chosen next Network. need is one where they must have the eyes within tached retina, diabetic, etc. and have him contact us by call summer. The Network was first staJ.ted 48 hours of the need or the patient Cost of blindness in U.S ing us on the telephone and we The Local 3 apprentice works • in December of 1962 and by the . today loses his vision permanently and is 1 m illion dollars a year, and will list the need on the net. Our for the Nevada Aggregate Co. end of the first year had a total phone number is 939-7 440 (area Officers of his unit described him membership of 15 operators, of irrevocably. Now, I don't know much more needed for study to how much you want, Ken, so am get at more causes and cures. code 415) . But it must be a regis as "a fine soldier who displays which I was one. We had placed tered ophthalmologist who con giving you some infonnation you Between 18,000 and 20,000 in initiative and always finds extra a total of 139 eyes through the tacts us. likely won't use. But if the need the U.S. today need corneal trans time to make certain the job is net, of which we were very proud. Hoping I have not made this done properly." By the end of the second year the for eyes is from a clouded, scarred plant and only 10% of these will total membership had risen to or diseased cornea then a person receive transplant due to lack of close to 100 members represent can be completely blind even for supply. I think it is so wonderful ing many more Eyebanks, and we many years and still regain his to know that when I am 6 feet had placed 445 eyes the second vision when he receives a trans underground part of me is still year making a. running total of 584 plant. going to live and see what is going eyes since its beginning. One woman we got eyes for had on in the world through someone To date now (July 31st total gotten lime thrown into her eyes else's eyes. since inception) , we have placed as a 3 year old child and had been I am sure that most of the lack a grand total of 2001 eyes. These completely blind from that time of donors is due to lack of infor are eyes that could not be placed till she was 38 years old when she mation as to how to donate eyes. • in any other way due to lack of got eyes through our net and sees I would also like to say that even adequate communications in any today 20-20 vision. She was mar if a person has not signed a donor other fi eld. Our net meets four ried and had two teenage daugh card the next of kin can give the times a day at 5:00a.m. and again ters she had never seen, so she eyes at time of death. The only at 7:00 a.m. and again at 6:00 had a wondedul experience when problem here is that most often ~/ p.m. and the final net of the day she received her vision and for the the next of kin is too upset to think I at 9:00 p.m. All of these times are first time saw her husband and of it, and if they have signed a Pacific time. The way the net children. donor card someone else will works is that the net control sta Now, to get to the part where probably do the thinking for them. 1/lt _Your Leisure tion calls the net together and we are very interested and the part I am one of the Net Control sta- wrrr·w·rrvr·wnnrwu·w··w•·-w'' U'M!W"P gnqmm""""'""'"* • p III!!H!Vpii!MI WdiJMIM Page 12 ENGINEERS NEWS September, 1967
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FOR SALE MOBILE HOME, 8' by 35', 1957 Beacon FOR SALE, two and one third acres. 2 bdrm, 18-gal water heater, butane or two acres standing timber, two bed n a t. gas F.A.U. heater. $1,300. Kent room house, good well. Price $12,500. 14' SKI BOAT, inboarded, old type Armer, 701 Carr Ave., Aromas, Ca lif. L. H. Harlow, P.O. Box 313, Fort Bragg, speed hull, 60 h.p., engine good con Ph. 724-0854. Reg. 1091245. 7-1. Ca lif. Phone: 964-4495. Reg. 429142. 8-1. dition, skis, life b elt and ropes. For 15-FT. MERCURY sale or trade. Dav id L . Johnson, 38167 trailer, elect. brakes, 10 ACRES, $3,200 full price. Hunting Road 140, Yettem, Ca lif., Reg. 1229853. 2 b u ta ne tanks , clean, good cond. $600. la nd, small cree k , private road, fishing 6-1. G erald Hammerschmidt, 4453 S. Bethel, creek nearby, near Mt. H amilton, San SALT LAKE CITY Del Rey, Calif. 93616. Ph. 805-543-1079. Jose. Anthony Goularte, 455 Oak St., 61-W POWER, Sewing Machine, $100; Trailer loca ted at 1229 Mill St .. San Mtn. View. Phone : 961-3399. Reg. Whirlpool electric range, eye level Luis Obispo, Calif. Reg. 1072423. 7-1. 622749. 8-1. Our sympathies to the families and friends of Brothers Art Irwin, oven, rotisserie, periect condition, 15-FT, CENTURY boat W/ 70 h.p. mere. FOR SALE, two wooded acres, pond, David L. Brown and Douglas T. Price who have recently passed $195. H ealth condition forces sale. engine. Clarence Schriner, 492 105th Avenue, Trailer. All 1959. $650. Like new very good rebuilt well, new cut flat Oakland, Calif., Phone: 562-2405. Reg. Z enith maple stereo w I AM-FM radio, road, small, n ear new trailer. $8,500.00 away. 608068. 6-1. 2 yrs. old. $350. George Cairo, Ph. cash. J. H. Hollinger, P. 0. Box 889, 447-5432. Reg, 1006588. 7-1. Willits, Calif. 95490. Reg. 1216304. 8-1. Our best wishes to Brother Dean Braithwaite who was pinned WOODED VIEW lot, !.2 acres, water system, pa ved roads and power. Near FOR SALE, Placer gold mine. Sierra iOOO OLD BOTTLES, 46c each. See at under a frontend loader, and to Wanda Hansen, long-time secre • Pine A cres Resort. 10 miles above County. About 60 acres, old cabin and ;tt50 Helms, near Jolley Cone, Willits. Jackson, Calif. $5,500-$3,100 down, plenty water. $12,000 or $3,000 down. J. H . Hollinger, P.O. Box 889, Willits, tary for the Operating Engineers, who is in the hospitaL $30 per month. John W. Foote, Route W. W. Whitman, 5852 Green Glen Way, Ca lif. 95490. Reg. 1216304. 8-1. 2 Box 103 K-19, Oakley, Calif., Phone: North Highlands, Calif. 95660. Ph. 332- 415-625-2394. Reg. 1121927. 6-1. 6111. Reg. 381862. 7-1. FOR SALE, by owner; !-Davis chain SAN JOSE type trencher, $300; !-Jaeger l'h-in. VIEW LOT, 50 x 100 ft. 28' OWENS cabin cruiser, 1965 model, overlooking Half pump with hoses, $65; 1-Dietzgen We would like to extend our condolences to the families of the S-S Radio, Moon Bay breakwater. Cypress trees survey transit, $75; set of Victor Dep. Finder, Compass, on one side. $5 ,750, $2,000 hard top, other extras. $8,500. Andy dn. w ill carry gauges, hose, bra zetips cutting torch, following Brothers who recently passed away: Paul M. Bennett Schultze . second for balance. R. J. Cranston, 128- $20. Please call H erb Hefstead at SE 1- 1283 McKinley Avenue, 5th Ave., Sunnyva le, Calif., Phone: 961-7264. San Francisco. Ph. 221-9431. 2048. 2667 - 18th Ave., San Francisco.· and Raymond A. Petersen, who was recently killed in Vietnam. Reg. 512587. 6-1. Reg. 1219771. 7-1. 8-1. HOUSE TRAILER, 24 ft. 3 rm., toilet, WILL Our thanks to the many members of Operating Engineers who EL DORADO COUNTY mounta in, sub TRADE Hopto beckhoe mounted cooler a >r, a wning, alum. 8-ply tires. on I V2 Ford truck, $2000 as part pay division bordering Na tional Forest. 1.6 Good c ond. $1,250. donated to the Engineers Blood Bank in San Jose. acre corne r location, utilities and paved Barry Britton, P.O. ment for 977 Cat loader or small Box 143, Brisbane, Calif. Ph. 467-9138. crawler backhoe. Bill Yates, P.O. Box streets, close to rivers a nd lakes, see to Reg. 1142679. 7-1. apprecia te. Offer. Stoney L. Marlow, 1418, Colfax. Phone: 346-2~00. Reg. MARYSVILLE 598651. 8-1. 712 Duke Circle, Pleasant Hill, Calif. TAHOE PARADISE, level, wooded '/• Phone: 689-3257. R eg. 1115417. 6-1. acre lot nea r golf course. Unit 7, water FOR SALE or trade, 7 1hxl6 ft. 1966 self A hearty thanks to all the brothers and their families who have 2.5 WOODED ACRES, 500 ft. on 101, 6 and power. W. P. Wickham, 115 W. contained Travil trailer, for 8x35 ft. miles North McArthur, Sonoma, Calif. Ph. 938-2106. A. S . Chapman, Fair Oa ks, Calif. taken time out from their busy schedule to donate a pint of blood of Willits. 2 creeks, flat Reg. 1062039. . areas, small house, 2 garages, need 7_-l;c. ______Phone: 961-9630. Reg. 581468. 8-1. work, $5,700, terms. J. H. Hollinger, A special thanks to Brother Clair F. Bacon, our latest donor. 22 FT. COOK SEMI-TRAILER. 18-40 FOR SALE, Cat 10. Good condition. Also P.O. Box 889, Willits, Calif. Reg. yds., complete with new pump, 1216304. 6-1. tank 705 B Barber Green mobile ditcher. You never know when you yourself may need help! We urge all and bolt-on s ides, new brakes, excel just rebuilt. A. S. Chapmen, 5113 2-4 ACRES WITH POND, 700' on road, lent 1100 x 20 tires only $1,650. Rick Illinois Ave., F a ir Oaks, Calif. 961- of the Brother's who have not as yet donated a pint of blood to 'h mile Wesi ' of 101 on Steele Lane, Seim, 701 Pepper Dr., San Bruno, Calif. 9630. R eg. 581468. 8-1. • (near Scenic Motel, cafe 2 miles south Ph. 589-1225. 7-1. please contact the Marysville District office as to of Laytonv ille) $6,500, terms. J . H. Hol- WILL TRADE equity in three bedroom the times and linger, P.O. Box 889, WiJl.its, Calif. Reg. 1956 CHEV. 2 ton Tractor, 5 and 2 speed, home for 8x35 ft. mobile home. A. S. places this can be done. This is the Marysville 1216304. 6-1. sleeper cab, saddle tanks, 265 v8, 5th Chapman, 5113 Illinois Ave., Fair Oaks, District Blood Bank wheel, new paint clean, haul semi trail c~lif. Reg. 581468. 8-1. LIKE NEW 1967 F-250 pickup w / 4x4 ers or mobile homes. H. S. Martin, 1728 for the Brothers and their families who live in this area. Let's keep custom cab, m e ny extras, 3,400 miles. Santa Barbara St., Seaside, Calif. Ph.: 5 ACRES, house, arena, barn with stalls $2,900. J ess Fitz_hugh, P.O. Box 414, 394-6485. Reg. 309676. 7-1. and tack room. 'h acre irrigated lots of blood in reserve for any emergency that may arise. Brookings, Oregon. Ph. 469-2721. Reg. pasture. Fred Wilberg, 3645 Primrose 1281272. 6-1. 1964 ALLSTATE motor scooter, 60cc, exc. A v e., Santa Ros", Calif. Phone: LI 5- REDDING 1966 BUICK Riviera, silver green, black cond. extra sprocket, 1,200 mi. $115.00. 1493. Reg. 1152925. 8-1. int., buckets, console, P /S, P /B, trans. 1966 CUSHMAN TRAIL BIKE, 8 h.p., FOR SALE. 28 acres. 14 miles from the Our deepest sincere sympathy to the family and many friends of radio. Sickness forces sale. 5,600 mi. exc. cond., $200. Robert L. Murphy, heart of Chico on highway 99E, $18.000 R. W. Frey, 3015-169 Bayshore, H a rbor 742 Dartmouth or best offer. John McCanless, 1020 Village, Ave., San Carlos, Calif. our late Brother W. P. "Pete" Skinner and Brother Jim Knight. Redwood City, Calif. Ph. 366- 94070. P hone 593-4305. Reg, No. 118!781. Sar• h Ave., Chico. Calif. Phone: 343- 5674. R eg. 468838. 6-1. 7-1. 4852, after 4 o 'clock. Reg. 524687. 8-1. Both Brothers have worked in and around Redding for a number CASE 430 backhoe-loader, diesel, rubber tired, less than 700 hrs. $3,750. Gene 2\2 ACRE LOT in Calif. Valley, 45 miles i4ACRES WALNUTS for sale in Marys of years. Whited, 79 La Prenda, Millbrae, Calif. east of San Luis Obispo. Will sell or ville area. Old t y pe home and nearly Ph. 415-697-8619. Reg. 1036941. 6-1. trade for Pickup or 14 or 16 Camper finished new home. Will sell ell or p:ut. Brother Roy Rogers is still in the hospital recuperating after his Trailer for part or cash , $1,500. W. H. Bruce C~meron. Phone 916-743. Reg. 5',2 ACRES on main h wy, secluded, Rus 1059689. 8-1. sian River Grather, 825 17th St., Eureka, Calif. unfortunate accident. We all wish Roy a speedy recovery and area, 2 bdrm, 2 b ath home, .Reg. 1199249. 7-1. hope 4 rental or guest cot t ages, trout stream, 22' STREAMLINER Trailer fully self to see him around no flood . $29,500. M ay trade part for 2V CAT with 13A Kit, Wet Deck, L. P. conta ined with twin beds, with D"rling before too long. bare land. Robert J. Ferreira, 268 West Scraper, 12 to 15 yards. Shelter Cove circulating h eater and air conditioner, Blood Donors lake Ave., Daly City, Calif. Ph. WY 2- Lot, single home lot, on ninth golf tee, 2 axles. Call 448-9325. area code 707. for the months are: B. L. Hazzard, Lorraine Mar 2677. R eg. 993927 . 6-1. almost level ground. Ron Gilardi, 604 D a nny 0. Dees. Reg. 272441. 8-1. shall and Robert Marshall. 66 DODGE % -ton, 318 4-speed, 17 ,000 mi, Elm Dnve, Petaluma, Calif. Ph. PO RETIREMENT HOME, located above 1 3-0824. ready for cab-over camper. W ant h Reg. 1124510. 7-1. flood level on Klamath River at Or ton 8-cyl. auto. Ford, Chev or GMC , 60 TOOLS FOR CAT Mechanic or Auto Me leans. New, modern, all-electric, 2 FRESNO to 62. W . L. McElroy, 19071 Barnhart chanic, rolaway box gauges calipers bedrooms, 1'12 b ath, 1/3 acre. Sports Ave., Cupertino, Calif. 95014. Ph. 257- sockets from 3/4 drive 3 man's p~ · r;~dise & year 'round We wish to extend heartfelt 4375. R eg. 1082358. 6-1. to /a drive and living, sympathy to the families of Charles micrometers. Fred H. Noble, 110 Stan $17.000. F. Delaney, Orleens, Calif. Ph. •5 K.W. LIGHT plants, good ford Kirkwood, Georg cond. $250. Ave., Santa Cruz, Cahf. Reg. 916- 627-3319. Reg. 1219553. 8-1 e Dwyer, William Branch, James A. Gordon and Elmer W. Hicks, Rt. 2, Box 1450, Grass 805882. 7-1. FOR 1 Va lley , Calif. Ph. 273-2426. Reg. 6&2797. FOR SALE-64 Ford Major 5000 14 12 ft. William A. Bernard. 6-1. SALE, Lathe, 6" L e Blond; Quick Ford Hoe. With 12", 18", change metal lathe, good shape, ac 24", 30", 36" MARKED PEDIGREE A.K.C. Beagle curate; Buckets & Loa der. 65.10-ton Buhl Tilt m ak e offer. J. Hollinger, P .O. T reiler. SAN RAFAEL pups, top blood line. $50 each. Elmer Box 889, Willits, Calif. Reg. 1216304. 57 Chev. 2-ton dump truck. W. Hicks, Rt. 2, Box 1450, G rass Valley, 8-1. $8.000.00 . Reg. 773001. Gay Weir, 3504 Calif. Ph . 273-2426. Reg. 662797 . 6-1. Q St., North Highlands, Calif. 95660. The Job Stewards and Safety Committee meeting was well WILL SELL or trade 5-car garage & Phone: 332-9736. 8-1. D-K CAT 14 A excellent cond. $14,000. vacant lot, Burbank. J. Hollinger, P.O. attended in San Rafael on August 2nd. It was good to see a turnout John E scover. 19970 Herriman Ave., Box 839 , Willits, Calif. Reg. 1216304. Saratoga, Calif. Ph. 4Q8c867-4425. Reg. 8-1. FOR SALE-22-acre parcel choice river of stewards and safety committeemen at 408040. 6-1. front property (Bear River), 3 mi. this meeting. FOR SALE- % Acre, wooded lot near Sta te Highway 10cWHEEL 20-7 mi. Interstate 80. Best wishes to Hopto 360 for sale, 42-inch Airport in T a hoe Paradise. Zoned mul Big trees, electricity, water, hunting, following brothers who are on the sick list: buckets, sacrifice at $5,300. H erold tiple, up to 14 units. W illiam A. John fishing. Les Woody, 2609 L earn ed A ve., Stockton, s than $1,000.00 an acre. Brother Wm. "Junior" Green- was propping his plan s on, 4000 E ast Ave., H ayward, Calif. H a rold W. Sousa. 205 Posh ard St., e - didn't C" lif. Ph. 464 -3030. Re. hlin St .. Richmond, Calif. o x ard Bucket with teeth. S7 ,500.00 . Crank Hay ward. Ph. 782-5177. Reg. 1112931. 94805. Ph. 234-2576 . Re