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.....SHED TO ••OMOll , •• GENERAL WELfARE OF ... ENGINEERS ~N. THEIR FAMILIES Still Key To Entry By· AL CLEM International Vice President · Business Manager and Editor Employment of operating engineers is expected to increase rap­ Vol. 28-No. 3 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA March, 1969 idly, all through the 1970's assuming relatively full employment nationally and the continuing high level of economic activity needed to achieve this goal. An estimated 250,000 were employed as excavating, grading and road machinery operators in early 1967, and many thousands more of these operating engineers.held jobs as operators of other types of construction machinery such as cranes, derricks, hoists, diesel engines, air-compressors, trenchpipe layers and dredges. Thousands of additional oppor­ tunities will come in the years just as the best way to qualify for ·immediately ahead because of the journeymen status as an operating anticipated growth in consb·uction engineer. Many men with mechan­ ical aptitude do enter this occupa­ $ activity, and the growing volume of highway work along with main­ tion by obtaining jobs as oilers tenance and ·repair will be espe­ (operating engineers' assistant) or cially important in the develop­ as helpers to heavy equipment re­ ment of employment. pairmen. Workers on these jobs The trend toward the increasing gain a knowledge of the ma­ use of construction machinery chinery, how to keep it · in good shows every indication of continu­ running order and how to make ing. repairs. Oilers and helpers must We must also take into account perform their work well and dern­ technological development. The _onstrate initiative before they are increased size, speed, mobility given the instruction from experi­ and durability of construction ma­ enced operaters that is necessm·y chines has expanded operator ef­ for advancement. They also must ficiency. (Mobile tluck cranes are demonstrate interest in and ability now in use that can lift 125. tons to learn the correct methods of to a height of 330 feet, equivalent handling equipment and be able of a 33-story building; and scrap­ to recognize hazards that must be ers are in use that cai1 scoop up avoided. , · . Some men with mechanical ex­ ·' and carry 75 to 100 tons of dirt in one load. Emthmoving machines perience, such as that obtained now move many times the ·amount .from operating farm equipment, of · material that could be moved may get jobs operating the simpler by the largest machine just a few construction machines. years ago.) Still, operating knowledge of Operating Engineers operate broad range of related equipment WINNER of the "Apprentice of the Year (1968) (left) made the presentation of the trophy and various types of power-driven con­ and attachments is usually neces~ Award" for the State of Hawaii was Brother Alva war bond at a ceremony chaired by Ed Hulihee, struction machinery-power· shov­ sary to obtain continuous employ­ Blake (center). International Vice President and Chairman of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee els, cranes, derricks, hoists, pile ment, and this is best obtained Local Union No. 3 Business Manager. AI Clem in Hawaii. drivers, concrete mixers, paving through a formal apprenticeship ·------~--~------machines, trash excavators, bull­ program or, as mentioned earlier, dozers, tractors, pumps, etc.- and by working as an oiler or helper; must have a wide range of skills, although tl;lis usually takes more 0 even though they generally be­ time than to complete an· appren­ Rules Stay " Job as a craftsman ticeship. High Court come identified · Or ·Lose Pay with the one machine in particular Apprenticeship standards pro­ which they operate most often. vide b·aining in operation of each . So employment opportunities of the following types of equip­ Fringes Payable Says UIAB underscore trai·ning-and most ment: Universal equipment tr~ining authorities, including the (hoists; shovels, cranes and re­ The Supreme Court, reversing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of The Unemployment Insurance National Joint (labor-manage­ lated equipment); grading and plant Appeals at San Francisco, ruled that the National Labor Relations Appeals Board, which is an inde­ ment) Apprenticeship and Train­ paving equipment; and Board has the power to enforce a contract against an employer who pendent division in Human Re­ ing Cominittee for Operating En­ equipment (such as material mix­ These refused to abide by its terms, including fringe benefits. sources Development Department gineers, recommend the comple­ ing and crushing machines). The court, with Justice William 0. Douglas dissenting, upheld a of the· Human Relations Agency, tion of a three-year apprenticeship See FUTURE BRIGHT page 2 • 1965 labor board order against has issued a precedent decision in Joseph T. Strong, doing business ployer has refused to sign and which it held that an individual as Strong Roofing & Insulating honor, particularly when the em­ who terminated his employment Co. The board directed Strong to ployer has refused to recognize prior to the effective date of dis­ sign a conb·act with Roofers Lo­ the very existence of the contract charge voluntarily left his work. cal 36, Los Angeles, stop refusing providing for the arbitration on · In the case considered, the indi­ to bargain with the union, and which he now insists." vidual was informed by his em­ ·pay his share of the pension and To this extent, the court said, ployer on February 15 that he was welfare funds agreed upon by the the "contract is the board's affair, · to be discharged on February 29. union and the Roofing Contrac­ and an effective remedy for re­ The employer was willing to per­ tors Association of Southern Cali­ fusal to' sign is its proper business." mit the individual to work through fornia. February 29, but on February 26 Justice Byron R. White, who the individual told his employer wrote ·the majority opinion, said local 3 Rep that he was leaving work on that Strong sought to withdraw hom day in order to take care of some the employers' association a few At Safety Meet private business. days after it completed negotiat­ Local Union No. 3 Vice Presi­ The Appeals Board held that • ing a four-year agreement · with dent Dale Marr was among the the individual voluntarily left his Local 36 in 1963, and "refused 1,500 delegates from labor, in­ work because, had he so desired, repeated demands from the union dustry and business that attended he could have continued working that he sign the contract." the Governor's Industrial Safety at least three days more. In 1965 the NLRB ordered Conference in Los Angeles last Chairman .Robert , W. Sigg Strong to abide by the contract. month. pointed out that this case was The 9th Circuit appeals court Marr co-chaired the section on · somewhat different than a recently enforced the NLRB order. ex­ Mineral Industries and reports issued precedent decision in which cept for the payment of fringe that the conference was one of the employer told his employee benefits, which it said was ''be­ the most successful in the nine­ that she needed to work nQ longer yond the powers_of the board." teen-year history of the meetings. when the employee submitted her TECH ENGINEERS of Local Union · No. 3 get an in-depth reading The NI:;RB app ~aled. "Einar 0. Mohn, Director of resignation to be effective within on a new microwave distance ll!.easuring instrument at union-spon­ "The board is ~ not trespassing the Western Conference of Team­ a two-week period. Sigg pointed sored session in Oakland. Tech's came from all over to hear com- · on forbidden territory," the high sters, made an outstanding key­ out that in that case the employer pany experts explain the use of the new Tellurometer. Above Jim court ruled, "when it inquires note address," said Marr, "and continued the individual's salary Vick of the Lietz Company answers questions of Don Long, of whether negotiations have pro- Labor played a key . role in every through the effective date of her R. M. Towill Co., and Wallace Schissler of George Nolte Co. Ad­ • duced a bargain which the em- session." resignation. ditional pictures and story on page 7. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllll!llll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllll!llll!lllllllll!llll!llll!llll!llll!lllll!llllllllllllll Future Making You Money Bright CU Sav Crowi C"lfeclivef1 ings ng Continued from page 1 By JAMES "RED" IVY standards also provide for the A tremendous boost was given to the Operating Engineers Local training of heavy-duty con~truc­ Union No. 3 Credit Union by recent transfers of Vacation Pay tion machinery to ~rakint repairmen. The member's respective Credit Union share accounts. apprenticeship program for each These additional savings placed in the Credit Union have provided b·aining classification conSists of ample funds to enable the Credit Union to consider any type of fi­ waft AI Clem at least 6,000 hours (three years) nancing that a member might propose that is within the limits of of on-the-job training. State and Federal Laws govern ing the operation of Credit Unions. Apprenticeship applicants gen­ A brief outline of the legal limits that the lending operations of erally must be between the ages the Credit Union must be confined to, together with additional The month of February has not been too kind to many of the of re­ mem­ 18 a nd 25 and must be physi­ strictions that have been imposed by bers of our Union in mostly all parts the Credit Union Board of of our jurisdiction, but we are cally able · to perform the work of Directors, is as follows: hopeful that the politicians and those who appropriate money for the b·ade. A high school educatio n Unsecured personal loans are permissable under the law in amounts public works will take a good, long look at the flood conditions and or its equivalent is required to up to $1,000.00. Any unpledged shares in a member's account would near flood conditions that we have had and appropriate sufficient funds complete satisfactorily the related be considered as security and would increase the maximum personal so that we may never have to worry about such situations again. It classroom instruction. Applicants loan proportionally. The Credit Union Board of Direcctors restricts seems that if we can spend money all over the world for being do­ must also demonstrate. the ability this type of loan to members w ho have shown a prior interest in the gooders, we can at least take care of our own people at home, partic­ and aptitude necessary to master Credit Union by either ( 1.) Allowing their vacation pay to transfer ularly those who earn a living in the construction industry and many the rudiments of the trade. into their share account or ( 2;) Have increased th of their friends who own homes in the areas where flood contr eir share account ol has Hourly wage rates for appren­ substantially above the required not been developed as it should have been. minimum through direct purchase tices. sta1t at a portion of the jour­ of shares . During February I attended the General Executive neyman rate (at least Board meeting, 65 per cent . Secured loans are permissible under the law in amounts up to and was appointed to two committees dealing with in most cases) and jurisdictional prob­ increase peri­ $15,000.00 plus the value of the member's unimpaired shares in the lems, one relating to the Electricians and the other with the odically until the jowneyman Laborers. rate Credit Union. Almost any type of Real Estate or personal property. These committees cover the entire United States, and Canada is attained at completion and we of the having a tangible resale value that can be readily established by in­ are hopeful that we can work out the problems in an amicable apprenticeship. manner. voice or appraisal would be considered as security for this type of · Jurisdictional disputes are distasteful to everyone involved in them, The wage rate structme for op­ loan. The legal limits on loans secured by real estate (In however. as jurisdictions are addition to the very lifeblopd of our organization, we erating engineers is more compli­ the $15,000 1i1·aximum) are as follows: must continually be on guard against violations of work assignments cated than as for any other construc­ Loans secured by ist Deeds of Trust on improved resid set down by the American Federation ential prop­ of Labor. For every hour that tion trade. Hourly rates are estab­ erty must not exceed 80% of the appraised equipment under value. Maximum repayment our jurisdiction is operated by someone other than lished not only for operators of term; 20 yeafs. those people who are members of our Union , an hour is lost to our different types of machines, · but Loans secured by 2nd Deeds of Trust, made on improved residential brothers and consequently their families will suffer proportionately. also for operators of the same type prope1ty only, must not exceed 70% of the appraised value w hen com­ I was able to atten but of different ca d the district meetings in Sacramento, Oakland pacity. The bined with the outstanding balance due on the 1st Deed of Trust on and Stockton, and it was extremely gratifying to note that all the wage scale also -varies among dif­ the said property, Maximum term, 5 years. Grievance Committeemen ferent parts of the were reelected without Opposition, which country. Loans secured by 1st Deed of Trust on other than· improved resi­ tells me one thing; the Grievance Committeemen are doing a good job A word of caution to all young dential value of the property Maximum term, 20 years. for the membership men who may in the various districts. have a current or Personal property that is either owned or being purchased by the future interest in We would like to draw your attention to the meetings in March in becoming oper­ member, and that could be acceptable as collateral, includes but is Fresno, Ukiah, Salt Lake City and Reno, where the Election Committee ating engineers. There is a ten­ not limited to the following: dency to glamourize will be voted on, and I am looking forward to being at each meeting the life of the New and Used Motor Vehicles, Mobile Homes, Travel Trailers,. "rugged construction" and talking with members in these districts. man as one Pickup Campers, Boats, Boat Trailers,' Aircraft, Tractors and other of high pay, short hours, good Unfortunately I had to miss the district me'eting in San Jose, equipment. NEW ONLY: Householdfurnishings and appliances. due to working conditions and "jobs the General Executive Board meeting. However, during Other collateral that is acceptable as security for Credit Union the month aplenty." Nothing could be farther there was a meeting held in San Jose loans includes: where many of the retired mem­ from the truth. bers were in attendance and I deem it my good fortune Stocks, Bonds and Life Insurance Polices that have an assignable that the sched­ The life of the operator of heavy ule did permit me· to attend this most interesting and informative cash value. meet­ equipment has a number of dis­ ing. A man from the Social Security Administration We would also like to mention the Share loan or the loan that is was in attendance advantages: a. Frequent changes and brought useful and interesting messages , fully secured b y Credit Union shares (savings) on deposit. This has to "the retirees and those of job location; b. construction members who are anticipating retir is become one of our most popular loans as an increasing number of ement. · a seasonal occupation and the members, reluctant to dissioate their savings, become aware that As you will note in another portion of the paper (Gail Bishop's Re­ the mean average is nine months of insurance advantages usually more than offset the difference between port), one of our agents, Mont Parker, was killed in an automobile employment and three months of the dividend the Credit Union pays on their savings accident. It is with a great deal of regret that we report and the low this to our layoff; c. education and experience interest rate charged on this type of loan . members. Even with the millions of miles that have been driven by have become inseparable with the Your Credit Union loaned over 2 and 2j10 million dollars to mem­ your officers and agents, I suppose that the law of averages will c~tch sophistication of modern equip­ bers during the year of 1968. This was in excess of the total amount. up with us from time to time. It has not been detem1ined yet exactly ment and I cannot stress too loaned during the four preceeding years since the Credit Union was what was the cause of the accident. I extend my condolences to Mont's strongly the impoliance of the organized in February of 1964. The increase in savings coming into the widow and family. minimum of a high school educa­ Credit Union indicates the need for further expansion of our lending· During the month of February I visited the offices in Reno, Nevada tion and where possible, at least operations. and Salt Lake City, Utah as routine inspection. two years of college in technical Credit Union interest rates which have always been highly com­ engineering Your Union and the Engineering Department of the Stanford Uni­ fields if you aspire to petitive with the rates charged by Banks and Loan Companies have future versity are conducting a survey which will be beneficial -to the members leadership· in the heavy become even more attractive due to recent increases made by these and to the construction industry as a whole. Questioimaires will be construction fields. lenders while the Credit Union has held the line. In available in all the district offices in California, Nevada and Utah. The 'addition, there is a strong Your Credit Committee holds daily meetings to consider the appli­ indication survey deals with on-the-job safety and other pertinent matters which that the taxpayer is be­ cations submitted for loans a nd every effort is being made to ex­ relate to each member's welfare. We hope that you will take a few coming more and more resistant to pedite the processing of all loans being submitted. the high mirlutes to avail yourselves of the opportunity of filling out the ques­ cost of construction. Since Since there is no waiting period restricting a new member of the now, tionnaire and returning it as soon as possible to your disbict representa­ more than ever before, the Credit Union from applying fo r a loan immediately on joining, we Fe tive, for this is a most important survey and we would like to have as · deral and State are the prime suggest that any member or employee of the Operating Engineers contractors many questionnaires answered as possible. on a majority of con­ in need of financial assistance contact the loan officer in your District struction projects, we can foresee To those members of Local 3 who are also members of the Credit Office or your Credit Union office in San Francisco and compare • a strong effmt to keep wages Union, we report that the matter of availability of automobile insurance and costs before entering into any major contract with other lenders. fringes for purchase through the Credit Union is being the construction worker In addition to low interest rates for borrowers, your Credit Union pursued and we hope at a nominal level. that in the not too distant future this program will be established. The has made available, through your loan officers in your District Offices of many facets of this program take a great deal of time a~d attention to Local Union No . 3, an invoice service that gives_up to date infor­ perfect. Feb. 1, 1969 mation on Dealer's Cost and suggested retail prices of all domestic .Gentlemen, motor vehicles and factory The officers have been quite busy in this last month :with contract accessories. Members using this service and fin ancing fheir new car or negotiations. We have signed the following agreements: -26 Long My children and I would like pickup through the Credit Union have saved hundreds of dollars. Form Agreements and 105 Short Form Agreements. We had during the to acknowledge with sincere past month several special meetings with the people in· Rock, Sand ::md thanks your kind and thoughtful Save the Credit Union Way! expression Gravel, the dredging industry and equipment shops which were quite of syml?athy. well attended. We were able to discuss our problems in a more informal The Bible is very lovely, and will manner than we were at the district meetings. We intend to continue always hold a special place in our holding such meetings, as well as our Stewards meeting.s and Safety hearts for my husband was Committeeman meetings. · - very proud to be an operating en- gineer. It is with a great deal of regret that we report to you that B ill Wood­ May God Bless You, yard, Executive Board Member from· Sacramento area --has resigned Mrs. Lynn H. Coney due to ill health. Bill has served on the By -Laws Committee and on the and Children Executive Bo_ard for a number of years, as well -as on the Sacramento Published each month by Local Union No. 3 of the • Grievance Committee. He was very able and conscientious. Bill served International Union of Operating Engineers his brother engineers well. The officers met and replaced him, until the New Skills (No. California, No. Nevada, Utah, next quarterly meeting in Sacramento, Hawaii, Guam.)-Subscription with Johnny Highnote. Johnny Nearly half-or 49%-of the men price $2.50 pe! year. is an ex-member of the Executive Board and I am sure that h e will and women learning job skills in Office: 474 Valencia St., San Francisco, Calif. 94103 also represent--the Advertising Rates Available on Request members in the Sacramento area to the best of his the Labor Department's ability. classroom training projects this past summer AL CLEM.'"...... International Vice President had been unemployed for six · Business Manager and Editor months More Counselors · or longer prior to training. PAUL EDGECOMBE ...... President DALE MARR ...... : ...... Vice-President 'More and better-educated counselors at U.S . Employment Service ENGINEERS NEWS T. J. STAPLETON .... Recording-Corresponding · offices are helpmg unemployed individuals find jobs. Between 1965 Secretary Published monthly by. Local Un ion No. 3 A. J. HOPE ...... arid 1968; the'-number of counselors increased by 25 percent, to 5,325. of the International Union of Operating Financial Secretary · ~inety-ohe . per¢ent of those spending half or more of Engineers, 474 Valencia St., San Francisco, DON KIN CHLOE ...... Treasurer their time in Calif. 94101. Second class postage paid at :counselillg n~w ' hold bachelor's or advanc.ecldegrees, San Francisco, Calif. up from 83 per- KEN ERWIN ... , ...... _ , .. ·: . .. Managing Editor • 'centin i96!C · · · ·· ~ 1969 ENGINEERS NEWS Page 3

- '(c. 0.:- ;... -··)- . They Keep Wo r.king,! e e h s r VI a1n Hav n By DAVE REA, AL DALTON, mia Concrete Co. The 96" pipe a dam 426 feet high .and 1550 feet ART GAROFA_J-,0 and . was made by American Pipe Co. across and would hold 900,000 •H ERMAN EPPLER at Hayward and shipped to Sac­ acre feet of water from 436 square ( • ' ~ ' I_ > ramento. miles of the Cosumnes river water­ Most of the work is at a stand- Gran.ite has now completed the shed. The lake wo~ld be nine miles stil_l i~ . and around Sacramento additions 'to their Woodland plant. south of El Dorado-Aubum reser­ due to the wet weather. Only a This was a good job . and will in­ voir and eight miles nmtheast of few of the construction projects crease the volume of the plant to Plymouth on the south fork. Co­ continue to plug along. The shops supply the growing Woodland­ sumnes would have'a dam 197 feet continue to operate a regular pace. Davis area. high and 185 feet long with a stor­ International Harvester in Sacra­ Baldwin Construction Co. and age capacity of 120,000 acre feet mento has had a change in man­ R. C. .Collett are involved with of water.-Pi Pi on the middle fork agement, moving two Brothers projects on the Sacramento State would store 70,000 feet and would from the shop to Service Manager College Campus. be 294 feet high and 1800 feet and Shop Foreman. We are look" High water has affected many long. ing for good relations to continue proj ~cts in the district, but most The Geremia Concrete Co. are after this change. Tenco Tractor interesting is the underground about to finish up the pipeline job is still on a two shift operation at portion of Gordon -H. _Ball's 2nd in Fair Oaks. Also Charles F. Dorf­ their Sacramento Store and hope Street Freeway job. They had to man and Froritier Construction to be moved into \heir new center tum off a sei'ies of dewatering Co. are working two underground by mid summer. They have no pumps by order of the State and jobs ai·ound the Fair Oaks area plans at _this time to close the water seepage filled the excavated that will keep a number of our Op­ Woodland store and move these area. (Now called the Sacramento erating Engineers busy through­ men to the new location. _ ADMIN ISTRATOR of· t he Joint Apprenticeship Program, Danny 0. Bath Tub.) · -out the winter and spring months. Dees, is frequently called upon to sp_eak at major seminars and E~ployees of Madison . Sand Pollock Pines-Congressman High Country- We have the convocations by dent of -head ing one of the t~p apprenticeship and Gravel were off work for the Bizz Johnson has introduced leg­ heaviest snow pack and rainfall on programs in the nation. In tlhe- letter below, Local#3's Joint Pro· winter, but are now back on the islation to authorize construction the summit and in the foothills in gram is once again pra ised for high qua lity and dedication. job stockpiling for the summer. of.the $175 million Nashville Dam · over 30 years. Other than a few This company has a good record and reservoir and two upstream cats plowing snow, all the jobs in of keeping the Brothers on the job. units, the Auburn and Pi Pi reser­ the high counh·y are down and There are_ 27 Brothers working at voirs . will remain down for some time to Management· Lauds .their Madison location and most Johrison said he expects the Sec­ come. of these have been with the com­ retary of the Inteiior to refer to Raymond Murphy & Associates pany in excess of 10 years. local agencies fe~sibflity .studies are engineering a very large sub­ Apprentice PrOg'ram Granite Construction Co. is put­ recommending tHe project devel­ division in Perin Valley. This proj­ ting the last of the 96" pipe into opment and he expects the Secre­ ect -will be on the same order as the ground on River Road where tary to recommend construction to Western Lakes, but we are told it (Ed's Note: The following· is excerpted from a letter written by it connects with a pumping sta­ the Congress. The Nashville reser­ will be a larger project. A. Teich- Mr. James G. Westlake, Manager of the General Contractors tion which is being built by Cere- voir would be impounded back of -See PENN VAll EY p.age 10 a -Associ~tion of Hawaii to Mr. Richard Bowie, Director of the Man­ ,.. power'' and Training Division of the Associated General Contractors of America, in response to. a request for information regarding . the training of Operating Engineers in the State of Hawaii. We think the letter speaks for itself.-Al Clem.) Dear Dick, LAY This is in response to your-telegram of February 18. 1. -Regarding training o~ Operating Engineers. The Apprenticeship Program for Operating Engineers in the. State of Hawaii has been in full operation for just over a year, . but it is-already regarded in many quarters as the £nest apprenticeship program in our State. We cannot take full credit for this, as we are merely using · the centralized Program as developed by Mr. Danny Dees . • Mr. Dees' Program covers the entire area over which Loc~l Union No. 3 of .the. Operating Engineers has jurisdiction (Northern & Central California, Northern Nevada, Utah, and Hawaii). His Program never sits still. It is constantly being re­ vised, improved, and up-dated; newer and more efficient methods and techniques are immediately incorporated into the program; quality and safety are given continual emphasis; record keeping is centralized and compute1ized; instruction methods, both classroom and Iield, are con­ stantly studied with a view toward shortening the required time periods. etc.-and we could go on and on. In our books, Danny's program is tops-and the ad­ miration and respect we have for the job that he. and his • staff has done is of the highest order. - In addition to the Program itself, we are also bl~ssed wit~ the other essential ingredients that make for a "good" program. Namely: ( 1 ) a very strong and sincere Chairman; ( 2) an excellent committee that operates on a truly · joint basis; ( 3) a top-notch Coordinator; _( 4) extremely strong management interest and support; ( 5) absence of any attempt on the part of the Union to dominate the program or to otherwise ''use" it for their own ends. Their interest.in the program is just When you're working' with high­ as active as that-of management- and they are rising equipment, show a lot of • equally sincere. respect for power lines. I am not certain what type of speci£c information you Cranes, booms, scaffolding, drilling rigs; hay derricks and are seeking, but.ifyou write to Mr. Dees I am sure he has' irrigat1on pipe become dangerous sorrie mat~rial that he could send you~ His mailing ad" electrical conductors when they· dress is: touch overhead wires. Mr. Danny 0. Dees, Administrator"' So play .it safe. Operate your equipment with care. Never ·Operating Engineers Joint Apprenticeship move rigs with the boom up, or Committee for Northern and Central lift pipe without first checking California, Northern Nevada, Utah, your clearance. and Hawaii Look up- and look out for ' power lines. PG~dE • ~068 16th Street - San Francisco, California 94103 • Telephone: ( 415) 431-3S35 . .·.. . Page 4 :EN GTN EE 'RS .. NEWS · -. · ·.. ' :' ·· 'March~ -'196~. oms- ld ck lo dW ters · By HAROLD HUSTON, W. R. WEEKS, DAN CARPENTER and JOHN E. SMITH OROVILLE ANE> BULLARDS BAR DAMS ·SAVE VALLEY FROM SERIOUS FLOOD- We appreciate all the Brothers who attended our last district meeting held in Orovjlle on January 16, 1969. Your Business Manager and International Vice President Brother AI Clem and the rest of the officers are always happy to attend one of the district meetings held in this area due to the tre­ mendous turnout ·and support you have always given them! The Brothers in this district ex­ ercised their democratic right at the Oroville district meeting and re-elected Brothers Bob Gilliam, Jack Curtis and Woody Stewart to the Marysville District Grievance Committee for the year 1969. We have enjoyed working with these Brothers during the year 1968 and look forward to the same coopera­ tion this year. The dedicated effort given by these Brothers on the Grievance Committee, deserves a hearty thank you from all the Brothers in this district. · We have just concluded negoti- • ations with Diamond Steel Co. Inc. for the employees workii1g at their shop located at Yuba City, California. The Brothers have rati­ THIRD GREATEST flood £ed the new agreement, and are on rec~~d in the Yuba .River watershed has . a penstock opening at lower left. The gap in the dam through poured so much water receiving the increased wages and into New Bullards Bar reservoir that con· which water is pouring is 80 feet wide, and at the height of the crete pou ring ·on the new dam fringe bene£ts. Again thanks to all has been halted and water is storm the water pouring through it was 17 feet deep. Only the - pouring through a gap left in the dam for the Brothers in this shop for the that purpose. The enor· 1955 and 1964 storms dumped a greater quantity of water on the mous pressure of the water backed up behind Yuba River 100% support given to the Negoti­ the dam is shown watershed. (Photo by George lrizary) by the jet of water several hundred feet long ating Committee of your union. shooting out from We still have several negotiations pending which keeps us very busy. We are proud of the contracts 000 cubic *feet *per second* were spread *nationwide. * * The National lower reaches* * of *the Yuba River. Also to *be paved* *is a spillway which are negotiated in this dis­ being discharged from the after­ Broadcasting Company's "Today" It was estimated that the spill was road 3,330 feet in length. Esti­ trict, and know this could not be bay. However, an official said the show beamed pictures of water adding about 200 cubic feet per mated cost of the project is $400,- achieved if we did not have the canal between the forebay and the going down the spillway, but neg­ second to the river, but flow over 000. team effort of all the Brothers and afterbay only has a capacity of lected to mention the spillway. the Narrows was down to about · ~Hughes and Ladd of Redding their families . Thanks again for 16,000 cubic feet per second. Be­ Viewers got the idea that the wa~ 7,400 second feet so that New Bul­ have started the cleating on their your con£dence and support. tween 5,000 and 6,000 cubic feet ter was cascading over the top of lards Bar spill would have only a , Highway 32 job east of Chico. · per second were being discharged the dam. The state department of­ slight effect FIRST WATER RELEASED downstream. This project will have approxi­ through the canal. Bees here and i.'l Sacramento, the OVER SPILLWAY AT DAM AS STORM CLOSES ROADS IN mately 30 engineers at the peak As the spillway newspapers and other agencies LAKE LEVEL RISES RAPIDLY discharge is in­ AREA- The immediate Oroville of the job. creased, the capacity of were flooded with telephone calls. - Releases of the £rst water over the fore­ area received only 3.47 inches oL The office of Architechtre and • bay and afterbay canal One was from the general in com­ the Oroville Dam spillway began will be rain from the latest storm of the Construction; a division of the on the diversion dam will mand of the corps of army engi­ as the level of the lake rose rapidly be season, but was more than enough State of California department of reached and at that time the gates neers, who heard mmors of exces­ from the heavy mnoff from the t·) put the total for the year, start­ General Services has let one bid opened to allow the sive seepage. All of these reports heavy storms this season. Depart­ discharge to ing July 1, far ahead of normal for $140,000 on the Loafer Creek fl0w down the regular channel were unfounded. Oroville Dam is ment of Water Resources officials of and surpass the entire accumula­ recreation area. This is a start on the Feather River. the "most sophisticated and highly described the -"operational re­ tion of 1967-68. Total for the cur­ construction of beaches and parks instrumented" ever built, State on Lake Oroville leases" and said they were deter- TREES FELLED BY FORCE rent season is 22.86. Last year by which is esti­ personnel go into the dam every mated to cost $2,000,000 . mined under a rather complicated OF SPILLWAY_..,. The power of January 22nd only 8.76 inches had this year. day to inspect it, and the instru­ Parking lots for several schedule set .up by the U.S. Corps falling water was demonstrated at fallen here and the entire 1967-68 hundred ments are continually monitored. cars are to be constructed of Engineers. The schedule takes some moments during the £rst 24 season totaled only 20.75. Normal with Actually the dam is performing trailer spaces and into account the time of year, the hours of the "spillway phenome­ accumulation for January 22nd is camp sites to be better than its designers expected. made available. Several acres of amount of rainfall in th~ previous non." During that time at least 11.80 inches. The amount of seepage is less than lawn also wifl be planted in the 60 day pefiod and other factors £ve trees were felled in one small New earth slides developed re­ anticipated. "It's performing beau­ area in conjunction with the sandy that would have an effect on the area on the opposite side of the cently, one sealing off the tiny tifully and there is no basis for any beaches being constructed. rise of the lake. river and about 100 yards down­ community of Pulga and another of these, rumors. It's doing just Fredr & Under the present set of cir­ stream. At that point, which is' blocking the Stringtown Road pri­ ickson Watson of Oak- . what it's supposed to be doing." land were cumstances, the schedule calls for traversed by the state riding and marily used by £shermen as access successful. bidders on · FLOOD ON THE the section of Interstate the lake level not to exceed 848.5/ hiking trail, the slopes of surround­ YUBA to Lake Oroville in the Enterprise 5 south of foot elevation. When the releases ing hills form a deep pocket open RIVER - The recent series of area. Willows with a low bid in excess began, it was estimated at 845 foot on the river side. It is speculated storms dumped so much water on of $5 million. This project is a sec­ the Yuba River watershed that The receding waters that had tion of the famous "Blood Alley" level. that rushing air sent by concussion covered parts of most of the roads Officials explained that Elling as the sudden rush of water hit the concrete pouring ~t Bullards Bar that has claimed 22 lives since f)am has been temporarily halted. in the western half of the county September of 1966. The contract the lake is of no concern at this river entered that pocket, whirled left bridges choked with debris time and the lake 'level will be around and toppled the trees. One ·The storm produced the thu·d calls for a four lane expressway greatest flood in the Yuba River and a lot of backbreaking work with approximately 1,400,000 kept at the pre-determined depths big pine tree lies parallel to the for personnel of the county's de­ until April 1 and the £nal Elling trail. Then around the curve at the watershed on record - only' 1955 yards of imported borrow to re­ and 1964 storms were greater. partment of public works. Most of place unsuitable material. Project of the lake will be statted. Until bottom, a big live-oak b·ee had the roads that had been closed be­ There completion is set for 1970. April 1, the level of the lake will been snapped off near the ground. have been no reports of cause of flooding were soon damage be controlled for flood conh·ol pur­ The fallen trees point away from to permanent facilities at opened again. Access to Butte·Col­ MARYSVILLE SHOPS AND the project, poses and will not be allowed to the spillway. It is presumed that and the construction lege in Durham was open only by PLANTS-The shops and plants schedule will not rise above 875 feet. this occun~ed when the full force be substantially way of Chico for a petiod of time. in the Marysville area have been The heavy runoff from the last was turned on-54,000 cubic feet affected. The dam has reached a The heavier part of the rainfall very steady this past month. Dia- • height storm, the lake rose 16.85 feet in per second of falling water. This of about 550 feet, and a in this general area was in the foot­ mond Steel Co., Inc. has been gap was one 24 hour period, and is pouring was a sp..ectacular sight that left at a height of about hills with the watersheds of the picking up a few contracts and are 400 feet water into the lake basin at the brought scores of spectators from for water to flow through three forks of the Feather River working better now than they in the event rate of 137,000 cubic feet per sec­ near and far to see. of a major storm. At getting a 15 inch d~luge. have all year. They have picked ond. In a 12 the height of the storm, the water hour period, officials WILD RUMORS ABOUT up a couple of good tank con­ explained, this pouting through the 80 foot \vide NORTH AREA NEWS - The would amount to THE DAM- Water isn't roaring tracts. Yuba City Steel Products is 137,000 acre feet gap was 17 feet deep, but it dim­ Department of Water Resources of water. over the top of Oroville Dam, working steadily also. They have Releases inished to about nine feet deep. is calling for bids for work to be over the spillway be­ there aren't any cracks in it and picked up a little tank work also. gan at 2,000 feet The project east of Dobbins is performed across the top of Oro­ Marysville per second, the core block hasn't shifted. In Steel Co., Inc. is keep- Every two hours the about 85 percent complete, and ville Dam. Bids are to be opened ing releases were fact, the dam and its spillway are their men busy. Peterson Trac- increased by 10,000 feet per concrete pouring at the dam February 26th and completion is tor Co. in Chico sec­ functioning petfectly. A series of has been staying ond until a maximum of 65,000 should be back to normal in two expected in June of this year. busy all winter. According to Bill rumors started when . controlled feet per second was reached. \Va­ to four weeks. Work to be done includes earth­ O'Donnell they have been doing a ter from the .spillway was diverted releasing ·of water were made Water began spilling over the work, grading and paving, electri­ lot of overhaul work, a lot of it by the Thermalito Diversion Dam down the spillway for the Erst low block iri New Bullards Bar cal and guard rails along the rest for Granite Const. Co. Tenco through the power canal and the time. Because· of some sloppy tele- Dam, but the additional flow is not of the dam, approximately 5,400 Tech Center has been holding forebay and afterbay. About 10,- . vision news ·reportmg .the :rumors ·expected to have much -effect on feet in length. See MARYSVILLE page 10 • , J March, 1969 ENGINEE.R$ .- NEWS Page ·s

~. . ',..,, fL· J - -.ess _·o: s, r arks. eI' ' I --~~- -u:·. ~ . .. _,.._,, '•. ;· :"---·-_.-.. -. -::-:: By:NQERis'.t\.,.£.AsEY, . with s~~a~ ships waiting ~t H;ow­ scheduled for this year and about ' - ·' ,. ',, ..,~--- .:..'->· .. -: ·District Rep:'& o·uard.; . ard Terminal. The Brothers there the· same amount in a second phase Not~ing ~~ch·;; ti"£5 ~;~h:~~g~d in al'e ~brking two ( 2) shift~ · un­ next year. cars of scrl!p, which are the past month. At. this writing · loacling Jobs should also ,get a boost in bejng loaded at Schnitzer Steel the· rain is still coming straight sub-division work in the Pleasant Yard. The Scrap business in the down and all work is shut down. Hill-Pacheco area as sections there past few months has been a feast We have one project of great are now being surveyed. for riew • or famine, but, is still keeping a housing. In this one area alone interest to all of us. Utah Con­ number of the Brothers busy . .. struction Company is, trying to several thousand new homes are By DOUG EMMANS Rock, Sand and Gravel indus­ expected to be built over the next i / . get a permit for · a large .quarry try in the· area at last wi·iting had operation southeast of Sunol. This three to five years. As land be­ · In 1959 the Civil .Service Commission' introduced the Federal slowed down · on account of the is on the. Diamond A .Ranch and comes increasingly more scarce in Merit ~romotion Policy for a systematic selection promotion, according rainy weather, but at present it is referred to as Apperson Ridge. the relative flat areas rougher ancl to ment. The government"wide Policy arose out of a need, recognized has just about stopped in regards The original request went before more hilly areas have to be by th~ Commission and by Congressional interests alike, for improveo to harvesting material. However, the Alameda Planning Commis­ utilized. This seems to be the case ment m the promotion programs of individual Federal Agencies. there is some maintenance work sion on December 2, 1968. It was here and therefore large quanti­ Improvement came, ·but not on all fronts. Despite accomplishments that is being done. to get the heard· agai_n on February 5, 1969, ties of excavation must take place some U:stallations didn't ·come up to program goals. The process of plants in shape for the summer and again_ postponed to March to make these tracts a reality. I eval':ating and ranking c\'ndidates was . in too many cases just a rush, if and when the rain stops. 17, 1969. The greatest opposition As the weather will permit new l routme exercise, . pre-selection was practiced in many instances su­ Stock piles of material are big at to this permit seems to come from tract sections are scheduled to pervisory appraisals at times lacked reliability, and written tests ~ere present. the Sierra Club and· other con­ start in Pittsburg and Antioch. esometi.mes misused, Understandably, many employees were dissatisfied. The ·Equipment Dealer Shops servationist groups who want ' to Robert Brothers will start a new By and large,· the single most important cause of dissatisfaction in the . area have just about fin­ keep it for a park and recreation section at Antioch and the AI could be summed up in the _words "communications gap:" A sizable ished with most of their winter area. On February 5, 1969, I at­ Seeno Company will do several humberof Federal workers simply lacked confidence in the promotion work, with very few contractors tended the hearing at the Plan­ tracts in the Pittsburg area. In this program because they weren't properly informed, There was another working .in the area the picture ning Commission. This was also same vicinity a $400,000 pipeline reason, however, for some of

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By MIKE' WOMACK

• The mountain came to· Muham­ )urometers to give a simulated mad in Oakland last month when field demonstration of the instru­ experts from the· Tellmometer ment. Division of Plessy Electronic Romaniello pointed out that ten Corporation put on a demons tra­ years had passed "since the first tion, for Local Union No. 3 mem­ microwave measuring equipment bers; of the new Tellurometer, -a came into widespread use by the microwave distance measuring in­ engineers and surveyors through­ strument out the world. In this sho1t span Some forty Tech Engineers at­ of time, the manufacturers of tended the union-sponsored meet­ these instruments have kept ing and were given a two-hour abreast of the technology of the presentation by C. G. Romaniello, times by implementing both ease Field Sales Manager, on the use. of operation and the achievable • of the Tellurometer. accuracies by capitalizing on the Jim Vick and Harvey Lufi of the ever expanding advances in the Lietz Co. were on hand with Tel- field of electroriics. From these early devices (The Tellurome- ' THIS READING is accurate w,ithin ±1:5cm ·John A. Mancini; Paul Wise, Bryan & Murphy; ters), which originally relied upon ±3 p.p.m explains Jim Vicks (right) of the Lietz Art Chapman (behind Tellurometer); Antonio DESCRIPTION OF LAND the oscilloscope for r.eadout, used Co . to Local Union No. 3 Tech Engineers Jerry Gadda, Martin Ron. ON FILE IN A CERTAIN a different type instrument for Ellingson; Riffe, Peters & Jones; Mike Boskovic, CONNECTICUT COUNTY master and remote and which SEAT FOR A PARCEL OF could hardly be classified as mini­ LAND CONVEYED IN 1812- _ature, equipment has been pro­ One hundred and forty-seven duced which is light in weight, acres, 3 rods and 19 rods after ( 16 lbs. Tellurometer MRA101), deducting_whatever swamp, wa­ as accurate as ± 3mm (Tellurom­ ter, rock and road areas there eter MRA4), giving direct read­ may be including therein and all outs that are interchangeable ~nd other land of little or . no value, self checking. the same being part of said de­ "In addition to the foregoing, ceased's 1,280-acre colony grant, consideration should be given to and the portion hereby set 1off t/1e economic feasibility of dis­ being known as near to and .i on tance measurement It has been the other side of Black Oak Ridge estimated that the cost does not bounded and described more in warrant the measureme~t of lines particular as follows, to wit: Com­ shorter than 100 meters by elec­ mencing at a heap of stone about tronic .methods, although this is a stone's throw· from a certain possible both by direct and indi­ small· clump of alders, neat" ' a rect n~eans . .When conditions per- . o\'Q61< h!:t'miiig down off from .. a' mit it ·is considerably che.aper to . rather high part of said ridge, tape short lines, since set up time thence by a straight line to a ce'r­ must be added to operating time tain marked white birch tree. when electronic equipment is .about two or three times as far used, and since tapes in these sit­ from a jog in the fence going uations offer a high degree of ac­ around a ledge nearby, thence by curacy and speed . another straight line in a different "In long measurements the ef­ direction around said ledge and fects of high -relative humidity, • the Great Swamp· so called, long vaunted as a negative factor thence in line of said lot in part in using microwave, are measur­ ·and in part by another piece of able and computation of correc­ fence which joins onto said line, tive factors are done by simple and by an extension of the gen­ arithmetic. MICROWAVES AT WORK gained Hie rapt attention Antonio Gadda ; Martin Ron; Fred Gadda; Jim eral run of said fence to a heap. In the broad analysis of these of Mike Boskovil, John A. Mancini; Justine Wen­ Vick of the Lietz, (behi_nd the instrument); Daniel of stone near a surface. rock,_ considerations, the versatility of nerstrom, J. T. Hill; Paul R. Wise, Bryan & Mur­ J. Alameda, Richard K. Randles; and Don Ryan of thence as aforesaid to the Horn, microwave systems becomes mani­ phy; Jerry Ellingson, Rife Peters & Jones; Larry the J. Y. Long Co. Tech Engineers really enjoyed were so called, and passing around the fest. They are, by virtue of prop­ Fadness, Carlos E. Gonzales; Art Chapman, Del­ the Local Union 3-sponsored session and :':?..!Y!e ~s aforesaid, as far as the erties of the media of measure­ aware V & M; John E. Koch, Jones & Tillison; looking forward to other such meetings. Great Bend, so ·calieci, arid b~!!! !nent, applicable to many differ­ thence to a squarish sort of a jog ent uses; sue~! · -;;:; - !'! ~dro~raphi~ in· another fence, and so on to a and airbome work, and indeed· Tech marked black oak tree with stones the long range plus the short range piled around it, thence by an­ capabilities make their general ap­ Job Steward • other straight line in about a con­ plication in land surveying usage trary direction and somewhere most desirable. about parallel with the line . Tellurometer was. the pioneer in around by the ledge and the th e introduction of microwave Great Swamp, to a stake and systems. The advantages offered stone bounds not far off from the by this manufacturer are as fol­ old Indian Trail, thence by an­ lows: other straight line on a course Art Pem1ebaker, Assistant Ad­ diagonally paralleled or nearly so ministrator of the JAC arranged with Fox Hollow run, so called, the program .on behalf of Local 3 to a certain marked red cedar tree and response to this session may out on a sandy sort of plain, lead to a number of other presen­ thence by another straight line in tations on new instruments and <\ different direction to a certain methods. Techs at the Oakland marked yellow oak tree on the meeting . indicated that such ses­ off side of a knoll with a flat stone sions would be greeted with en­ laid against it, thence after turn­ thusiasm. If you have anything • ing arourid in another direction alpng this line that you special and by a sloping straight line to feel you and other Brother Engi­ a certain heap of stone which is neers might be interested in, by facing just e ighteen rods and please let:me know. about J~ rod more from the stump of the big hemlock tree where Philo Blake killed the bear, Prison Training thence to the corner begun at by Congress has authorized the La­ two straight lines of about equal bor Department's Manpower Ad­ length which are to be run in by ministration to give training in job John Duff; Gary some skilled and competent sur­ ALL ATTENTION are Tech Engineers Craig Lighty, skills to 10,000 prison inmates Riffe, Peters & veyor so as to include the area Lanterman, Mackay & Somps; D. Wayne Duarte, during the next two years. Upon was gen­ and acreage as hereinbefore set Jones and George Turner -of Mackay & Somps. Interest release from prison, the men will new instrumen­ forth. -George D. Whitmore erated by union-sponsored session in Oakland on step into jobs ananged for them by tation. Company experts gave a two-hour presentation on the Bill Lisa, Wilsey and Ham • the public employment service. Tellurometer. San Mateo Page 8 ENGINEERS NEWS March, 1969 Dredging Don't Overpay Taxes • Yo Are Iready urdened By SIDENY MARGOLIUS The other half of your health foods prescribed by a doctor and Consumer Expert for insurance premiums, plus the ex­ whiskey for a heart patient; eye­ Engineers News cess over the $150 limit, also is glasses, arch supports and other ByGUY JONES This isj:b,e year Congress finally deductible subject to the 3 per aids, and transportation costs to may enact-tax cent limitation. Keep in mind that get medical Dutro Dredging ·have placed their bucket dredgers on a reforms. It's also the care. "hurry­ you can include all hospital and up" sav.e the Delta levee job. They are year to make -sure you take all the (Usually husband and wife fare working around the clock, medical insurance bills, all over the Delta, at this writing. legitimate tax-savers available including better with a joint retum. But your payments towards any em­ sometimes Bay Salt Rock have two of their barge rigs when you file your own return. a working wife who has working the levees ployer or union-provided health ripwrapping to save the levee from the high waters. Because of the smtax you are pay­ large medical expenses one yem. ing higher insurance, and also, the medical­ can save taxes with Olypian Dredging is going full steam ahead with the levee taxes this year. Since a separate re­ work payments portion of your aitto in­ turn. That in the Delta area. This emergency due to the tl1e government is very generous can happen because of stormy weather of the surance premium. (That's a fast past months has kept a considerable number in the loopholes allowed oil-well the 3 per cent limitation on the of Brothers working. tip you probably won't get Shellmaker Suction Dredge operators, mine owners, wealthy else- medical deduction, and also the "Vanguard" is dredging Palo Alto where.) ' Yacht Harbor and this job investors in stocks and bonds, and $150 limit on the health-insurance should keep the men working three shifts If you support a relative for the next few months. real-estate speculators, you can who deduction if both pay for such in­ would qualify as an exemption on surance. B Healy Tibbits are keeping their bucket bust that it does not want you to ut check both joint and dredges busy on small your return except that he has tax­ separate jobs up and down the Bay. This overpay. methods to make sure, is mostly all mud-barge jobs. able income of $600 or more (so­ Hydraulic Dredging's Unions and other spokesmen before passing up the tax-saving equipment is tied up at their yard at this cial security is not taxable) time. for moderate-income families have , you of a joint return.) can include in your medical de­ WORK Leslie Salt Dredge "Mallard" been pleading and crusading with EXPENSES: You can, was up for repairs for some time and duction, any medical and health­ is now back increasing detennination for re­ of course, deduct union dues; ex­ in service again working two shifts on their levee main- insurance bills you tenance. form. Presently, some very pay for your penses of distinctive work uni­ · dependent. (Tip: wealthy people are able to get thus, it's some­ forms, special safety clothing and There is not much change in Manson General. They are bringing in 'times preferable away with little or no tax pay­ to pay medical shoes; tools and repairs; vocationa.l a couple loads of sand a week for ·sand Supply in Oakland with their bills ments at all. for a dependent than give him education expenses (under spec­ Hopper Dredge "No. 12." the same amount There even were 155 taxpayers in cash.) ified rules) ; technical books and United Sand and Gravel are keeping their Hopper Dredge "Sand­ Payments for Me with incomes of $200,000 a year dicare Part B publications, etc. piper" busy finishing up the B.A.R.T. Tube Job. They will be there for doctor-bill insurance or more who paid no federal in­ are health­ Ordinarily you can't deduct for a few more months. premiums and thus come tax at all in 1967, including deductible. expenses of getting to work. But Associated Dredging have the dredge "Orton" working on a road Deductible 21 who had incomes medical expenses you can deduct for car expenses fill job building a roadway for Burgess Sandblasting of over include and Painting $1,000,000. doctor, dental and hos­ if you have to carry heavy tools Contractors. They hope this road will be dry enough to use by pital fees; medicines Chief victims are the families and house­ or instruments to the job site. You August. The job is south of the Dum barton Bridge. hold remedies over 1 with incomes of $7,000 to $20,000 per cent of also can deduct costs of getting to California State Dredge "No. 4" still working all around the water­ adjusted gross income; special who usually pay taxes at full rates. See MARGO LIUS page 11 front in San Francisco on two shifts. The city of San' Francisco has They pay over half of all the fed­ taken this operation over and all the workers will now be on the city eral income taxes. These families, In Line of Duty! payroll. The supervision ~ill be changed a little. We hope this will be for the best. in fact, shoulder heavier taxes be­ cause of the estimated fifty billion Ideal Cement busy as usual with two shifts running about the dollars lost through various same operation. They are pumping barge loads loop­ of shell for their holes and rash Kills Reno B Cement Plant in Redwood City. special dispensations. Thus, you yourself will overpay Reno Office- District I Brother John Hull was seriously injured while working for Utah twice if you don't take the trouble By Gail Bishop, District Representative; Joe H~mernick, Dredging on Sherman Island levee repair. We all wish him a speedy to learn all the tax savers available Business Representative; Jack Evans, recovery and hope to see him back on the job real soon. Business Representative to you. and Bud Jacobsen CITY TAKES OVER S.F. PORT SETUP-The Pmt Apprenticeship-Coordinator of San Fran­ Especially pay attention cisco was officially turned over to the city today. to On the For the past 106 these three points: lOth of February, the members of Local #3 were years, the $400 million worth of waterfront land, piers, cargo shocked sheds 1- Choose the most suitable and saddened to learn of the untimely death of Business and railways has been operated by the State of California. The city's type of return. If you use the short Representative Brother Mont Parker. Brother Mont was killed voter's last November approved the transfer under an enabling act form tax return ( 1040A) in an automobile accident South of Reno. He served from the state legislature. The city assumes merely District #11 the pods debt of $61 because it's eas for 4 years as a dispatcher million .and pledges to spend ier, you may pass and fQr fue past lJf years has been . $100 million to improve facilities over up the next 25 years. savings available only on the a Business Representative. He lea~es a host of friends who will long fmm ( 1040) . These include greatly GOLDEN GATE TO STOCKTON-A DITCH miss him. IN NEED OF "sick pay" (which can be ex­ DIGGING- A persistent danger in our national preoccupation Starting March 6, 1969, the Apprenticeship Program in Nevada with cluded from taxable income under pressing international and urban crises is that we may will be open for registering every Thursday night between fall behind in rules listed in the tax instructions) ; the attending to necessary housekeeping chores. hours of 5:00P.M. and 8:00P.M. "moving expenses" (also under One such chore which certainly seems We have to have suffered from neglect specific rules); "employee business had numerous potential applicants , inquire about. is the $61 million project to widen and deepen the ship channel expenses" (if your work requires fue age limit and other qualifications of the Apprenticeship from the Golden Gate to Stockton. you to be away from home over­ Program, and hope to have a good turnout for the tests. The vanguard of a whole new generation of supertankers is now night or if working on a temporary Cortez Gold started producing late last month .. The traveling the world's sea lanes. Hundreds operation more are under construction job away from home). is the second of its kind in Nevada or are planned. Most of the mammoth . The mine expects its first crude oil ships, because of Too, you can itemize deductions gold bar this their deep draft, are month, according to General Manager, Don Duncan. too large to negotiate the trip to oil refinery only on the long form. docks at The short The mill is working 3 shifts and has put a few more. brothers Richmond, Oleum, Hercules, Martinez and Avon. Some are form allows so only for the standard to work in that area. large they can't even enter San Francisco Bay. Because it is deductions. almost three times as expensive Brother Frank Elliott, who is a steward af Cortez to deliver crude oil in the smaller 2- Choose the deduction me­ Gold, has tankers of the past, the construction been off sick recently. We hope, and use of the new supertankers thod yielding the largest total de­ at this writing, Frank is back is certain to multiply. on the job again. duction. On the shmt form, you ~ At best, Northern California's large oil refineries along the San have a choice of the "10 per cent ,Duval Corporation employees ratifi. ~d 3. ·ucw 3 year contract Pablo and Suisun Bay shorelines will end up at a serious compet, standard deduction" or the "mini­ with new fringe beil.~f! t~ and wage increases. Their old contract itive disadvantage. At worst, • :1 .,.._- crude oil will simply be dive1ted to mum standard." The latter allow.5 '3:-:p~!ea .tBacon Island, for $175,000.00. A. Teichert & Son was success­ Devil's Slide Drops Some Six Feet ful bidder on the two lane high- way job in Amador County-near SAN MATEO dollar freeway so sorely needed SUPERVISORS way of commerci~l building going PlymouthJor $200,000.00. ''HUB OF THE PENINSULA" for years, sits practically useless SAN MATEO COUNTY on and planned fo r the near fu­ Claude c. Wood Company of DEVIL'S SLIDE by stopping in north Woodside County Government Center ture, especially in and about the and again at the end of Ralston Lo d i gra bb e d t h e t h ir d jo b t h at The recent abnormal rain has JAMES V. FITZGERALD, San Francisco Airport. • Ave. in Belmont. We hear now Guy F. Atkinson Co. has finally was mentioned in the last issue of the Devil's Slide section of High_- 1st District · that it is settled and thatthe cor­ the NEws which was another two way #1 on the move again. Some ROBERT B. ST. CLAIR, started on their new 7 story.office recting link will take the higher lane highway job near Arnold in reports indicate that portions of I d 2nd District building on Orange Ave. in South - onger an more expensive route Calaveras County for $335,000.00. the area have dropped some 6 h d T. LOUIS CHESS San Francisco. It is scheduled to t at is not yet even engineere ·. cost about 3 million. With much Elliott-Scott Inc. and Moberly feet, causing temporary blocking Whereas the lower, shorter and 3rd District Construct_ion, a joint venture, was of traffic and much dan. gerous h 1 WILLIAM M. WERDER of Guy F.'s equipment only ~~ c eaper route was ong agQ. engi­ block away we find Buzz Haskins . low bidder on the grading and emei·gency repair work, mostly , neered and ready for bid. Why? 4th District .. paving of State -Route 132 between done by public employees rather The expediting of the foregoing MRS . J EAN FASSLER doing the dirt work for the found­ ation and pad; La Grange and Merced Falls than legitimate contractors who problems could come about if 5th District In addition to the United Air­ Road. Their bid was' $402,000.00. would, of course, hire Local #3 enough people would use the fol- Another serious situation is un­ lines 7 4 7 jet hangar building, they Standard Materials of Modesto operators, if they were given the lowing political directory. Our employment compensation. It is are also now starting a new ad­ has a $280,000.00 contract to wid- work. Many years- ago the old legislators are always impressed far too little and for too short a ministration building· at a cost of en Hatch Road between Carpen- Ocean Shore Railroad had to aban- by neatly written personal notes period for many building trades­ 2J~ million. ter Road and Crows Landing Road don their tracks that paralleled the from their constituents. men such as Operating Engineers. Happy Easter! near Modesto. same section of cliffs. Certainly There is a bill, (Assembly Bill • AI Haworth of Stockton nego- private enterprise could not afford Your influence does not end #295) coming up before the legis­ , tiated a contract with the Danish to maintain a road of any sort in with your vote, if you care enough lators this year, that if passed, Frisco Brotherhood of America to con- such a hazardous area. But with . to wirte to your elected officials! would lengthen the benefit period struct a Cultural Center near Cop- public money (yours & mine), it - U. S. SENATE from 26 to 39 weeks. peropolis. The first phase of con- has become a lucrative annual job Assembly · Bill #295 would in­ Report GEORGE MURPHY (R) stiuction will be on the street for state road crews. The obvious · crease unemployment compensa­ 807 N. Rodeo Drive work, small dam, a golf course and answer to the perpetual problem tion to $86 per week. $86 per Continued from page 5 Beverly Hills 9021 (1 housing site preparations. · Even- is to eliminate it by building a week is little enough when the and are doing a go~d job for this or tually this project will · develop new road a mile or so \nland, average weekly wage is $134 in company. Senate Office Building into a, 5elf-~ustained city with either over or thru the offending iri California. homes, shopping centers, . chapel, mountain rather than to keep Washington, D.C. 20515 CLEVELAND WRECKING & ALAN CRANSTON (D) Assembly Bill #296 would per­ FLORA CRANE-Just to name a etc. throwing good money after bad, . mit a person on unemployment Senate Office Building few Contractors who do a lot of Tab Construction Company Inc. trying to maintain a trail on a to earn $25 a week in addition of Las Vegas, Nevada was the low continually moving cliff. No doubt Washington, D.C. 20515 demolition here in the city. There to his weekly benefits instead of is a lot of this type of work going bidder for another portion of the such a new road could have been U • the present $12. built many- times over with the .S. REPRESENTATIVES on, tearing down the old and mak­ rimlti-million dollar sewer project tax money used so 'far. The pres- 11th DISTRICT Assembly Bill #297 would aid ing room 'for the new buildings. • eligibility and eliminate certain Jar the City of Modesto. The Tab ent road is still a dangerous 2- PAUL N. McCLOSKEY, JR . ~(R) The1:e have been a few Employers Construction Company Inc. bid lane trail, no better, now than it 490 El Camino Real unfair disqualifications. who have come ifltO the city from was approximately one half mil- was or 40 years agb. With the Belmont 94002 Assembly Bill #300 wbuld pro­ out of state, and this area, to do lion dollars. 30 vide that an employee not lose advent of increased commerce, or demolishing work. They have K W-Dart Truck Company and housing, recreation, population House Office Building his unemployment benefits during found out damn quick that there is Buran Equipment Company both 'and traffic that has more than Washington, D.C. 20505 a trade dispute if the employer more to it, than handling a ball on were found guilty of unfair trade have Engineers employed to make · doubled in the last 10 years and· California Legislature the cranes and start swinging. modifications on the Dart Trucks will no doubt double again in 5 practices. There is always a right method to that will be hauling fill material or 6 more years, it seems almost STATE: SENATE Assembly Bill :/1:301 would pro­ do everything and demolishing is from La Grange to the New Don criminal that a new bypass high­ 12th DISTRICT vide that an einploy~e would not no different. ' RICHARD DOL WIG (R) . lose his job if his wages were gar- Pedro Damsite on the .Guy F. At- . way has p.ot -al.ready been started. nisheed. The Engineers that work in this 181 Second Avenue, kinson Job. They will also do the We have just gone through a Assembly Bill #liS would, if field are very good and they know waiTanty work on this equipment. ·very bad year for Engineers and San Mateo 94401 or passed, effectively . eliminate pro- how to start tearing down a build­ It is anticipated that thirty Oper- other craftsmen and '69 looks lit­ fessional strike breakers. Both ing. With. the crane ci·ews and ating, Engineer welders will be tie better. We need jobs now! State Capitol, Room 3056 Sacramento 95814 "scabs" and employers of "scabs" loaders working together and employed before the modification Why does the J. Arthur would be in serious violation of watching each other, there is a lot • work is completed. Younger Freeway (19th Ave.) STATE ASSEMBLY the law and"subject to heavy fines less chance of someone getting The new contracts that have stop at Norfolk going west and at 26th DISTRICt and/ or imprisonment. San Fran- injured. been awarded, the jobs yet to be Grant go1ng east? This bottleneck CARL BRITSCHGI (R) .cisco has had such an ordinance Down on 16th & Mission St., the It bid and the resumption of jobs al-· has been a'cute. still is acute but 202~ Broadway, for years, with very little strife. picture shows a couple of rigs idle. ready under construction, but due _ do we see·· any indication of the Redwood City 94063 . Los Angeles does not and is con- This is Rothchild & Raffin BART to inclement weather are unable state doirtg · anything about it? or stantly involved in sedous work job and it has been raining so hard to pr~_ceed, should provide em- NO. , State Capitol, Room 3098 ·stoppages. ' that they had to knock off work. ployment for the·members of this What ·has happened to High- Sacramento· 95814 Again-if these things interest The Operating Engineers have lost district for the ensiling year. way #229 that would relieve the . 27th DISTRICT you, ,use the political directory very few days work on the BART GRIEVANCE BOARD - The terrible pressure on San Bruno LEO J. RYAN (D) and let your legislators know how system and that was because of incumbents, Brothers Gordon Bos- Ave. in San Bruno and eventually · -- 308 Lim;oln Avenue, · you feel. Or let "George" do it weather · conditionS. We under­ ley, Laurence Chapman and Ed give us a 3rd road to the coast? South .San ·Francisco .94080 . and nothing will be done. stand that M & K was the lo>v bid­ Hayes, were re-elected to set:ve This problern has been critical for .. or . . , Most large dirt jobs have been -der on the Dav'is Street § tation, another year as grievance commit- · . 10 years. Also Junipero Serr.a. State Capi~ol, . l{oom 2165 · mudded'in for some time. but at this time we have not had • ·. teemen for District 3. · · Freeway, a beautiful 200 ri:tilliorh ~ , Sacramento 95814 . \Ve find much, however,cin,the,c,:a-Pre-Job •. Page 10 ENGINEIERS NEWS Ma r~ h, 1969 ...... ~ ~ . .. -· . -· Red~ i ng's An Awful lot of Gl~s s I • CA ·ts ·Near • By LAKE AUSTIN and Spanish-Style Plaza Campbell LOU BARNES By BOB SKIDGEL, public on January 6th at 10:00 Santa Cruz will be coming up Robinson for his donation to the REDDING·CIVIC AUDITOR­ HARLEY DAVIDSON, a.m. The opening climaxed · the soon. blood bank. IUM IS RIGHT ON SCHED- · MIKE KRAYNICK and end of the 20 million, 9.6 mile Granite Construction This is an urgent appeal for our U.LE. Redding' s $2.9 million Company DOUG FARLEY, pi·oject which strE) tches from De was apparent low bidders on Brother Engineers to please make ·municipal auditorium and conven­ a Business ·Representatives LaCruz Blvd. in Santa Clara to Seaside redevelopment project a donation to our blood bank. As tion center is about one ~ third com­ San Antonio Ro ad in Mountain this week. The firm bid $962,000 of this date it has dropped down pleted and should be completed The big building project in View. The expressway has been on a project calling for the install­ to 2 or 3 pints and vve have had sometime in November. Most of Campbell is the news for this the source of political battles be­ ation of streets, walls, landscap­ many requests for blood which the work done so far on the build­ article. This is to be a 416,000 tween the City of Sunnyvale and ing, sewers, malls,. storm drains are going to be impossible to full­ ing has been .concrete-with Niel­ square foot Spanish style com­ the County of Santa Clara over and outdoor surfacing for the fill unless there are donations • sen-Nickles the:-main contractor mercial development proposed for the years. Differences over the Monterey Peninsula Automobile made. on this portion of the work. When Campbell Avenue at Bascom. It Route of the Four-lane thorough­ Shopping Center. We wish to express our con­ the structure is completed it will is to have an 18-story glass en­ fare and whether it should · be dolences to the families of the hold about 2,000 persons for thea­ closed office building as its cen­ More than $5 million for mili­ sunken below grade level through following Brothers who recently ter productions and special events. terpiece and is to be known as tary construction in Monterey the city were the chief sources of passed away: Claude Mason, The seating arrangement is unus­ The Pmne Yards. Pittsburgh Des County s proposed in a Defense differences. Sunnyvale paid $3.2 Jack Scogin, Jack Dundee, Den­ usal with the entire decks of seat­ Moines Steel is supplying the Department budget which was million as its share of the ex­ ver Gibson, <:;age Plemmons and ing in the main auditorium to be steel frame for the building and submitted to Congress Friday. pressway costs. Included in that Dale Caldwell. ' hoisted out of the way so the huge has become co-developer in the The bndget totaled $2.4 billion sum was money to build the road hall will be usable for trade or auto project which will construct the at 288 U.S. military installations below ground level so that it shows. The movable seat tallest office building between for the l969-1970 fiscal year. Re­ decks would not become a "Berlin will pivot on giant hinges. San Francisco and Los Angeles. quests included Fort Ord, $1.6 Penn Valley The Wall" separating the north from project is financed by a voter-ap­ A tile decked plaza will have million; Hunter Liggett Military Continued from page 5 the south side of Sunnyvale. The proved $1.8 million bond issue, a 300,000 square feet of one and Reservation, $1.4 million; and ert & Sons have a piece of equip­ expressway runs east/ west. $500,000 federal grant and an ap­ two story buildings clustered Presidio of Monterey, $2.2 mil­ ment working on this job. portionment fi-om other city funds around malls and served by more Cupertino Sewer Line con­ lion. We will have a bid opening for • approved by the city council. than a mile of arched pedestrian struction is to begin. Construction Nielsen-Nickles Company from Indian RidgeRoad. This road will ways. A 350 seat amphitheater will start about January 20th on Sacramento were low bidders on be a service road in conjunction CYPRESS AVENUE BRIDGE will be used for public events. a two-mile sewer trunk line from the Del Monte Manor. This proj­ with the Auburn Dam. Several of with Hensel-Phelps Constmction Hopefully construction will begin Saratoga to DeAnza College. The ect contains 25 frame buildings these roads have to be aligned be­ Company is attempting to put in March with completion sched­ 15-inch main will be installed consisting of 192 apartments, 2 fore any work can be started on concrete on the bridge through a uled for late this year and early by W. H. Ebert Corporation and laundries, one office and a the dam proper. tube. The idea had been to pump multi­ 1970. Spartan Construction for a cost use room. All are two story Emil Anderson Co. still have the concrete from a ready-mix except In connection ~ith ·the above of $ll3,04l. The line will run the office. Site is to be completely two shifts working on the explora­ truck to the desired location on development is a proposal for a from the vicinity of Prospect landscaped. Excavation tory tunnels and shaft. They lost the span through a network of and pav­ new full interchange Road along Stelling Road to Mc­ pipes. at Campbell ing on this project went for $2,- several days work due to high Avenue and Highway 17. It Clellen Road to lie in with a 050,464.00 and located in Sea­ water. The river raised and filled The pipes were laid, the pump would be approximately one-half sewer line there. The work in­ side. The clearing and grading the shaft and all the equipment pumped mightily - and only a drib­ mile south of Hamilton Avenue cludes a force mai~ from Sara­ can be started now due to sandy had to be removed to high ground. ble of concrete came out. The interchange and one and one toga-Sunnyvale Road to Stelling conditions. The Diamond Drilling crews also pipes were pull~d up, cleaned out quarter .miles north of the Cam­ Road along Prospect Road. Total lost several days due to weather, and the whole . job started over. den Avenue interchange. The cost of the three phases of the JUST A REMINDER! ! but they also are working again This time it worked, but the pipes proposal to the State Highway project is estimated at $700,000, The quarterly District Meeting today. • didn't stretch quite far enough and Commission hopes to hurdle any according to District Manager. will be held on February 5, 1969 Most of the jobs in the valley are workmen had to spread the con­ objections by the Division of The district has received a grant at the New Montgomery Theater, bogged down · with only the me­ crete into place the old fashioned Highways. from the Federal Department of San Carlos and Market Street, chanics in the shops. way - with shovels. When com­ Other commercial construction Housing and Urban Development San Jose, Calif. pleted - the bridge will help the now in progress is the new $500,- for $299,000. Gradesetting flow of traffic that has been a prob­ School com­ 000 building for the Chrysler DJJe to the last heavy rain lem for some time. the mences on Thursday February 6, .jMarysvi.lle __.. _,, Corporation dealership at 806 construction work has come to a 1969 from 7-10:00 p .'m. It will ' . . Continued from page 4 PETER KIEWIT SONS' still Capitol Expressway. The _Ford sudden halt. Madonna Construc­ be held at San Jose City College, st ~~ dy this winter. The Marysville have a sizable crew going on Plant in Milpitas is also being tion Company of San Luis Obispo Moorpark & Bascom Avenue, San shop had slowed down a little, but their Yreka Project even in the expanded with a 126,000 foot were low bidders on a County Jose, C<,1lifornia. is now working steadily. Kaiser snow and rain. Most of the equip­ addition being built by Carl N. Road Job in Santa Cruz County. Sand and Gravel at PERSONALS Orland is ment is going 9 hours with approx­ Swenson. The nearly 3 acres of This project went for $2.50,000. working. "Kit" Carson, plant su­ imately 40 Brothers working. The new plant area will be on the They will start as soon as weather We wish to express our best perintendent is hopeful of picking Company hopes to top out in south side of the plant and used permits. wishes for a quick recovery to the up some rock contracts on the west ~bout 45 d ays. · for warehouse area needed by Floyd Freeman of Salinas sub­ following Brothers who are con­ side work this Spring. Hydro Con­ changeover to production of Fair­ • POST-EL RIO COMPANY are mitted a low bid of $14,938. This fined to the hospital: Brothers duit at Orland has been very slow running the cmsher on their Doyle lane cars there. contract is to grade and realign­ Harlan E. Bothwell, Lloyd Ha­ and has a slim crew working. job and stockpiling for the road Central Expressway link is ment of the Alexander and Bren­ ven, Bill Phelps, George Curts Chico Aggregates has also been bed. The dirt spread is down at completed and open. Without the nan Streets connection across East and 0. F. Yeager, retired engi­ very slow but are hopeful of a present with a break in the customary fanfare the long Lake Avenue. This project will neer. good year. New York Machine weather they will be going back a~vaited Central Expressway leg get started soon. Plans for the We would like to take this op­ Shop has been keeping their en­ to work in a week or so. The win­ through Sunnyvale opened to the Sear's Store and Lipton Tea in portunity to thank Brother Robe1i . gineers working at 01:oville. ter has been quite severe. The Company is going to bid the over­ lay job at Herlong that is to come up in the near future. There will also be another bid to resurface from the end of the Post-El Rio job to Hallelujah Junction approxi­ mately 20 miles and various loca­ tions thruout M odoc and Siskiyou • counties in the near future. THE GR E E N COMPANY haven't moved in as yet at Made­ line- too much snow. We are look­ ing forward to this job- we hear the railroad may bid a sizable section of railbed realignment in this area. LAKE BOULEVARD job will be advertised in June and com­ pleted this year. This project goes right past the Union Hiring Hall­ a big improvement to t~1is road. Bids will be opened Febmary 26th on the 8 miles of Interstate 5 at Yreka . This section will extend • from the Kiewit Project to the City limits of Yreka. Another portion of the Interstate .5 project will open bids March 12th. This doesn't sound like much but in our area this will be a great help to some of the Brothers. · The Rock-Sand and Gravel plants are a hit and miss type of SPRAY SPECTACULAR as water bursts out the spillway at Oroville above sea level yesterday. Release of the lake water is started op·eration qnd depending_on Dam at a speed comparable to 37 miles per hour as it is released when the level raised to 845.5 feet above sea level, which occurred which plant the Brothers are from' the reservoir behind the huge dam. The spray and turbulence recently. The top of the dam is at 900 feet above sea level. State working on is the difference be­ at left is caused by concrete teeth called "energy dissipaters," officials said that the structure was reducing the flow in the Feather tween getting a paycheck or un­ which break the force of t he spillway water, sometimes shooting River to one seventh of what it would have been without the dam. employment check. it as high as .200 feet. The level of Oroville Lake was 850.86 feet • March, 1969 ENGINEERS NEWS • • Fresno Winter- ' Is Wettest In Almost A 100 Years By CLAUDE ODOM, new bridge, the Cottonwood Valley areas, it is expected that KENNETH GREEN, BILL Creek Overflow Channel Bridge the various groups of Public Em­ RELERFORD and WALT will be replaced by a culvert. Five ployees in this area will discover NORRIS culverts will be replaced and one the. benefits derived from repre­ culvert will be removed. A $15,- sentation under the sb·ucture of • So far the winter in this area 715 contract to the Martin Com­ Local3. has been the wettest in almost 100 pany of Coalinga to remove 44 We have had a very good turn­ years. Our rainfall to date is 15 walnut trees, which the Division out to our first Grade Checking inches against a normal of 5 inches reports restricts the vision of mo­ class on February 13th. This class for this season. Hopefully tb~ torists on Highway 198 near Go­ is scheduled at the Fresno Hall north winds will start blowing and shen. The contract also calls for every Thursday night from 7 to 9 things will dry up rapidly. One widening the highway and con­ P.M. We wish to thank.Brother· benefit derived from the flood con­ struction left tum lanes at the in­ Glen Bruckner for _donating his· dition is that it has created con­ tersection ·of Highway 198 and time to teach this class. siderable interest in flood control Road 68 near Goshen. A $10,844 work. We still have the spring run­ contract to Modern Alloys Fabri­ off to contend with which will cators, Inc., of Stanton to remove probably bring about some flood . unneeded posts and guard railings Margolius damage repair work. We are look­ along pmiions of Highways 99 and Continued from ing forward to a busy year with a page 8 198 in Fresno, Kern, Tulare, Ma­ a second job, or if you work at dif­ .number of fairly large jobs coming dera and Kings Counties. ferimt locations every day. up such as: the Master Drain, Min­ Due to the large amount of pre­ CONTRIBUTIONS: As well as eral King, Interstate 5, Westland cipitation; work has come to a cash, you can deduct ·ilie fair m~r­ Water District Distribution Svs­ standstill with the" exception of ket value of goods given· to char­ tem and hopefully Buchanan a~d pipe work and the asbestos mines. ities and churches, and out-of­ Hidden Dams. Salata Construction on the Olive pocket expenses and costs of uni­ The California Division of High­ Street job in Porterville has missed forms for Sl}rving qualified organi­ ways is going to build two bridges very little time because of rain. zations such as Scouts, hospitals, across South Van Ness Avenue This job should last another two · schools, Red Cross, etc. early next year and there they will months. Brother Gary Brookshire AND KEEP IN MIND: Other set, unusable, high and dry. The is the Job Steward and Brother potential deductions iriclude; other TWO SCENES above show meeting with Brothers at Remco Hydrau­ bridges are another link in the Joe Helton is Safety Committee­ taxes you pay; interest and finance lics in Willits, California. In top photo Trustee Fran Walker (right) eventual Freeway 41 which will man. Coalinga Asbestos was down charges on mortgages, loans and discusses Fringe Benefits as Vice President Dale Marr (center) and bisect Fresno as its 8 lanes of con­ a week due to the road being installment debts (within specified Bob Wagnon, Business Rep., look on. Below, Brothers take Union crete move from south of town to washed out. They are back in op­ , limits); child and disabled-depen­ Obligation admiJlistered by Dale Marr. North Herndon Avenue towards dent care (by working women and eration and running two shifts. Work Experience Pinedale. The two bridge project Altals Asbestos is still having me­ sometimes men, but within .is scheduled for completion some chanical problems and trying to limits); casualty and theft losses The Labor Department has approved a $2-miliion experimental con­ time in 1969. It will be necessary operate three shifts. They plan to over $100; bad debts; investment tract with the Watts Labor Community Action Committee to give to create a frontage road south of put in a new vacuum system and expense~ ; including costs of a safe­ work experience and job training to 500 young people from the Watts the freeway stub to provide traffic the sooner the better for everyone deposit box for E bonds or other area of Los Angeles. The youngsters will live and 'train in a rehabilita- securities. - movement to the east of Van Ness concerned. Hood Corporation is tion center 30 miles from their homes. · . for a few blocks. This will be a still in the proc~ss of testing their Bf mile stretch from M Street pipe line. Lyle Consb·uction has where the stub currently ends. The been unable to make any headway Me-dical Extortionists? new structure will veer to the on their section due to wet weath­ northeast across Ventura Avenue er. via an elevated structure ·. We have a Pre-Job scheduled The Division of Highways is with Granite on March 11th for Unions Must Fight Costs planning to realign Highway 49 their section and another pmiion By FRAN WALKER, Trustee exploration of the role of multi­ backed with "muscle" for con" in Mariposa County, a 5.1 mile is due for bids on March 6th. Lo­ Local 3 CCHPA Rep. phasic testing in encouraging sumers. stretch in the foothill country. The cal 3 presentiy represents a sub­ A "landmark" session of the Cal­ better health care and more effi­ Until now, Goldblatt noted, • $2 million project is scheduled for stantial number of employees of ifornia Council for Health Plan cient utilizatio,\Y of health care health plans have been handled on completion late 1969. With this the State of California in the De­ -Alternatives recently stamped' em­ packages. a "fire brigade" basis. Unions realignment, it is just another step partment of Water Resources, phatic approval on a broad-gauge Tl)e job of the Council, Mohn tended more and more to serve as of many to make Yosemite and the Civil Maintenance Section. Local program aimed at more and better said in opening the Board session, collection agencies for the provid- Mother Lode country more acces­ 3 is negotiating with Department health care for the state's two mil­ is to act as "the conscience and ers of health care. · sible for recreation and vacations. Administrators for upgrading both lion union members and their guardian of 'the union members Unless labo ~· pools its bargain­ The Allied Paving Company of classifications and salary-wise the families. whose wages go into health care ing power,-coordinates its bargain­ Fresno is the apparent low bidder maintenance personnel employed Delegates representing 17 city, and who have no other voice." ing objectives, it will not get the to widen four ·lanes of Palm Ave­ in this department. Some of the county, state and regional union The Council seeks to keep mileage it expects from the $750 nue north of the Fig Garden Shop­ problems involved are pay scales councils, along with 80 local un­ health care providers mindful of million it spends each year on ping Center. The project includes which do not equate to job speci­ ions, joine~ ·in backing the Coun­ how they are meeting the union health and welfare.- installation of flood drainage fa­ fications, working assignments and cil's program and in these members' needs, .Mohn said, to let Arywitz also underscored the cilities at San Ramon and Palm the application of salary data so additional developments: union members · know what is role of the Council in voicing the· Avenue. "Lord knows we need it!" _ that the employee will receive like • A 17-man executive commit­ coming to them and understand interests of the consumer, many of As it looks now, it will be at pay for like work. We requested tee was elected to lead the Coun­ the quality of the care iliey are whom, he said, seriously question least another month before they portal to portal pay for the Tulare cil's activities in the coming year. getting, to do in the health care whether they are getting their. .will have the slides removed and County Road .. Department. ·The (See below.) It named these men field what the people cannot do money's worth in health care. themselves. the washouts repaired. The Dark­ Road Commi.ssio;1er suggested a to the Council's top offices: Harry Polland, San Francisco The niost enwald Con1pany was just about 2% differential in lieu of overtime. Einar 0 . Mohn, director of the promising aspect of economist, highlighted the semi­ the Council's future, Moore to get under way on the next' sec­ The Cotmty Administrative Offi­ Western Conference of Teamsters, told nar on multiphasic screening, with · the delegates, is that it marks tion of the Tollhouse grade when cer recommended' one way on as chairman; a call to unionists to use collective Sigmund the movement into the m'ar ket they too were stopped by the rain. company time and one way on em- . Arywitz, secretary of bargaining as the "remarkable and the Los Angeles County Feder­ place of the consumer in strength. viable instrument" it is. The Oscar C. Holmes Company ployee time. which would be no ation of Labor, as vice-chairman; Organized labor is the biggest Collective bargaining does not was able to go right ahead with change from the situation the men are now working under. Last Tues­ Louis GoldbJatt, secretary­ customer for health care, second answer many serious questions; their work even though the rains only to government, day, February 11th, the Board treasurer of the In tern a tion al the Council's some bargaining decisions may not were shutting down jobs through­ new director said. The decided to go along with the rec­ Longshoremen's & Warehouse­ Council's be wise. But it can create sophisti­ out the rest of the district. aim should be to "shake" the ommendation of the Road Com­ men's Union, as secretary-treas­ mar­ cated results. It can create new A Pre-Job was held February urer. ket place, where until now the missioner effective July 1, 1969. programs, break away from tradi­ 12th with Carl W. Olson & Sons sellers pave been making most of We are 'going to be meeting with " Thomas G. Moore, formerly tional patterns. regarding the San Luis Di·ain. director of the the decisions: the employees concerned as to the Office of Legisla­ Polland cited the mobile testing Work is scheduled to start on or tion in the Office The Council is setting out to get course of action they wish to take. of the U. S. Sur­ program carried out over the last about February 24th.· geon General, was the information it needs as the Membership in all areas seems to · introduced as two years by the Cannery Workers the new executive found~tion for influencing effec­ • The State Division of Highways be increasing due . to the repre­ director of the as a demonstration of how collec­ Council, along with . word that tively the buying health care for will open bids here March 5th on .sentation·afforded to the member­ tive bargaining can produce the Council is in the process of the state's union members and ground-breaking a proposed $227,000 p;·oject to ship by Local 3. We have been new programs. establishing its second office their familie,s. construct "crib walls" to shore up successful ·in providing substan­ in The favorable products of the Los Angeles. Moore promised the Council program mountain highways in .Fresno tial bene:fits with the dues struc­ recommenqed it to other . e Delegates unanimously rati­ would capitalize quickly on the unions, Polland County. The crib walls will be ture, solving grievances success­ said. It should be fied bylaws that formally recog­ momentum already developed by . considered seriously built at 9 locations along a 7 mile fully and negotiating foi· improve­ in the frame­ nized the basis on which the the Council in initiating discus­ work of existing health stretch of Highway 180 west of ments in wages and programs. working Council quietly and informally sions_with the organized hospitals Cedar Grcive. conditions. Don Vial, chairman of the Uni­ has operated for the past several and doctors and with the large versity of California Center for The Division also announced We are instituting a concen­ years. The meeting was the first of insurance companies. Labor Education and Research, the awarding of a $174,136 con­ trated organizing program in Ma­ the Board of Delegates under the · The Council is "a going con­ co-sponsor with the Council of the tract to Hunsaker Consb·uction dera and Merced Counties. The new bxlaws. cern," Goldblatt told the second­ seminar, . called on unionists to of Clovis for widening drainage . programs are under way and from G A daylong seminar, following day luncheon gathering. It pro­ bring personal concern into their structures on Highway 63 between the initial response, appear to be on the heels of the Board session, poses__ to work with the construc­ health programs and, at the same V~sa lia and Cutler. St. John's Riv- on the way to success. As we grow brought 165 uni.onists, welfare tive forces among the health serv­ time, to health services in the en­ .r Bridge will be replaced by a and expand into all the Central · trustees, and others together in an ices, to form an effective voice tire community. Page J2 ENGINEERS NEWS mm rce 1ews uil r wth WASHINGTON, D.C.- The per cent last year over 1967. The U.S. Dept. of Commerce, through jump in starts of one-family hous­ - its Business and Defense Services ing units last year was only eight Administration, forecast that the per cent. value of new construction put in The estimated 610,000 multi­ · place would soar to the $91 billion unit housing structures started level in calendar 1969, an increase last year were the highest on rec-· of more than $6 billion over last ord, the govemment figures year's total. · showed. Enc~uraging as this is, the pro­ A further increase is anticipated jected rise would not equal last for this year. If the 685,000 units year's increase over 1967 which forecast are started, they will rep­ was in the neighborhood of $8 resent a 12 per cent increase over billion. 1968. Commerce expects 1969 out­ Commerce statisticians expect lays for privately owned construc­ 975,000 single unit starts this year tion to reach a point just over $61 compared with 915,000 for all of billion and says the public sector 1968. Significantly, only 59 per activity should account for an. cent of the 1969 housing starts outlay of $29.4 billion, mainly in are expected to be structures with state and local areas. single units. This would be the The impo1tant federal construc­ lowest of any year for which de-· , tion segment probably will con­ tailed starts data are available. tinue to drop this year because of The value of all new non-farm housing begun should increase CONTR OL BOOTH'S EYE view of the new District the shoulder of Bob Cowan, Public Relations and the budget policies initiated by Congress in 1968. The official from the $22.2 billion level of meeting Hall at Local Un ion No. 3 Headquarters Radio-Television Director for the Joint Apprentice· 1968 to a record -high of $25.4 the half-million forecast has some encouraging in San Francisco shows closed circuit television ship Council. New hall is part of billion, a 14 per cent increase monitors and camera equipment in action during dollar expansion program which is nearing com· predictions for the private mar­ ket: " .. . The federal surtax put . which reflects some cost increases. a recent District Representative, Business Agent pletion. The BDSA looks for little and Coordinator Meeting. Shot was taken over into effect during 1968 is expected . to relieve some of the pressures on change in the high interest rates of the money market caused by 1968 this year, it said; this will be heavy government borrowing in especially true during the first six the latter part of 1967 and early months. It made this comment: 1968. Thus, while money will still "The housing market appears­ be relatively expensive, its avail­ to have adjusted to the high ability will be somewhat-greater money rates of the past several during 1969 for private construc­ years, as indicated by the volume tion financing as well as the muni­ of sales of new one-family houses. cipal bond market." during 1968. While sales did not reach the levels of 1964 and 1965, The government at this .point they continued to advance from appears hopeful that fiscal policies the low levels of late 1966. of the past year will serve to ease "At the same time, the inven­ some of the inflationary pressures tory of completed new homes for and lessen the rate of overall con­ sale reached the lowest point since struction price rises in 1969. Gen­ statistics on sales became available eral improvement in the price sit­ in,' the early i960's. Another fa<;~ uation may help to bring more tor pointing to a favorable year moderate wage demands in con­ fbr new housing is the decline of struction as the new year de­ both homeowner and rental va­ velops. cancy rates to the lowest levels in Commerce Dept. was optimistic a decade." in forecasting private housing vol­ The only strong segment among ume. ~onresidential buildin~ types i?. With the official 1968 total re­ I968 and looked for m 1969 IS · 1 ported as 1,525,000 units, the out­ commercial buildings. The out- 1 look is for 1,660,000 in 1969. This look for industrial building con­ would about equal the production sb·uction is colored by a relatively in 1955, second highest year on low rate of use of existing plant ANOTHER VIEW of the New District Meeting Hall ments as well as placement of closed-circuit tele­ record. A total of 1.9 million units capacity. The dollar volume of provides a somewhat different prespective and vision monitors. were constructed in 1950. industrial building construction gives a wide-angle view of t he functional arrange- The most dramatic aspect of the put in place declined eight per strong recovery of new housing cent in 1968. A six per cent in­ ' starts in 1968 was the upward crease now forecast for this year Bookmaking I zpom in- multiunit construction, (in dollar value) represents al­ Scientific the report noted. Starts of two or most no physical volume increase unit structures increased 36 because of higher costs. Actuaries y ur Future more Life insurance companies aren't speaking this wife had better bet a month from the company, and iscrimination widely known as gambling insti­ she'll be a widow for 8.8 years. nothing from Social Security till • tutions, but there's a new publi­ How about a couple closer to I'm 62. Think what a cut like that cation that lines the odds up for "middle age"-let's say a husband will do to our standard of living. re Tightened them all the same. It's the latest who's just turned 50, his wife Now I want to wait till I'm 65 be­ edition of "Life Tables," a part of (whether she likes it or not) has fore I quit. That will give us more WASHINGTON - New inter­ nation in the wages he is paying the overall continuing studies of reached 48. If both are white, the pension and more Social Se­ pretations of the Age Discrimina­ another worker. the National Center for Health husband has a life expectancy of curity." tion in Employment Act ·have In -other interpretations, the Statistics. The Center, of course, 23.1 years, his wife 30.3 years. Is his wife convinced that their been issued by the Wage-Hour Labor Dept. ruled that: has a never ending job as it com­ Even if the wife were also age 50, "standard of living" is that impor­ & Public Conb·acts Division of • Age limitations for entry into piles i:he vital statistics of the na­ her life expectancy would be con­ tant? She would do well to have the Labor Dept. bona fide apprenticeship programs tion and analyzes them. siderably greater than her hus­ a look at the Life Tables. Putting The law, which was enacted were not intended to be affected law. You are a white male, age 37, band's, or 28.5 years. Take the off his retirement for another five by Congress in 1967 and became by the <» An employer is not required and your wife is 34, and you want same couple, husband 50 and wife years will increase his income ( re­ effective last June, prohibits ar­ to provide older workers with the to know how many more years 48, now assume that both ate member pension and Social Se­ bitrary age discrimination in em­ persons . pension, retirement, or in­ you have left? The Life Tables "non-white." Life expectancy for curity actuaries use these tables ployment with · regard to same e benefits he provides. can tell you what your chances both is slightly less ' than for also) but his life -expectancy will from 40 to 65. suranc younger workers if the differential are, and don't knock the figures. whites. The husband can expect have dropped from 15.9 to 12.9 One interpretation holds that commit­ does not violate any benefit plan. Thollgh you may do better- or 20.8 more years, his wife 26.4. years, not a full five years as you discriminatory activities extra money areas The law authorizes involun­ not as well, there's no guesswork Move the couple ahead another might expect. Is the ted within the geographic "' ll be getting by working an­ illegal tary retirement irrespective of age involved. The Tables reflect ac­ ten years-husband 60, wife 58, he' covered by the act are worth the proba­ is if such retirement meets the terms tual U.S. experience, "a snapshot and these figures show up. The other five years even though the discrimination e around th ree bona fide pension plan. The of current mortality experience" husband will live 15.9 years, his bility that he'll b applied to employment outside of a it? This is the authorization does not, however, as the Center puts it. "vife, 21.8. A non-white couple at years less to enjoy these areas. these same ages would find the kind of statistical Russian roulette Another interpretation will not apply to workers under 65 not Looking down the columns, the we all must play in making such allow an employer to duck the participating in the pension pro­ 37-year-old white male can expect husband living 14.9 years on the average, the ·wife 19.3 years. decisions. law by advertising or specifying gram. to live for 34.4 more years. His His wife's expectancy mean­ that he is hiring only persons re­ o Although use of a validated make another assumption. 34-year-old wife can anticipate Let's while will have dropped more ceiving social security benefits . employment test does not violate that she will be around for 43.2 The 60~year-old husband is hav­ than her husband's- from .21.8 A third makes it illegal for an the law per se, tests that are used years. Though this isn't listed in ing an argument with his 58-year­ years at age 58 to 17.8 years at employer to reduce the wage of as the sole tool or controlling fac­ the Tables, a little arithmetic will old wife. "Honey," he insists, "if age 63. Odds like these would one employe to cover up, or at­ tor in hiring will be carefully tell this . couple that statisically I retire this year I'll only get $400 drive a bookmaker crazy. tempt to correct, illegal discrimi- .scrutinized. • · Page·.lS ·

New'·Pqwer G~ab.! :Ban-kers ·Find. loo,ph·o.le THIS IS A REAL can of worms-. It can affect the whole capitalistic system in the United States/ The line betwe~n banking and commerce should not be erased. ' Those words come from the nation's Number One "money man," William McC. Martin, chairman of the Fedei:al Reserve Board. Mar­ tin was referring to a huge, swift; scarcely noticed new '~ power _grab by America's biggest pankers. . As reported recently by the Ne\y York Times: "The rush by the nation's largest banks to . diversify · through one-bank holding com­ panies has turned into · a stampede ·. . . So far, several dozen major banks, with total assets approaching $100 billion, have taken/the initia­ tive .· .. including the two largest in ~e nation...:the Bank of America in San Francisco and the First National City Bank ih New York." 'As Time magazine puts it, the big banks have "found a legal loop- ' hole" in llie Bank Holdirig Company Act that will let them branch out into any other .kind of business-"into retailing, manufacturing, trans­ portation or whatever else looks profitable" -and thereby acquire an ever-greater share. of our economy. "'-- . . Business. Week magazine describes this movement as "the most daring.'entel'prise that the banking world has ever undertaken," and says it has raised such · questions as these: "With all their financial muscle, will banks ruin other businesses 'competitively? Does bank­ ing's free-wheeling style today presage an economic disaster, as it did IF YOU RECOGNIZE this shot provided "Engineer this side of Sacramento, the dredge is barring dirt in the 1920s?" · News" by Brother N.C. "Red" Kazar, you've been from the tule bed for a levee in the old Pierson Ev~r since New Deal days, ~ s a result of the banking disasters of around construction quite a few years. Taken dur· District. Brother Kazar worked on same rig dur· the 1920s and early 1930s, the nationa] banking laws have forbidden ing 1906 of a 551 Dredger (steam) working in a ing 1915-16; Tiny white-shirted figure is Red's banks from controlling non-banking businesses. The Bank Holding slough behind Walnut Grove, about thirty miles uncle George Robinson. Company Act of 1956 applied the same rule to bank holding companies -with some unfortunate loophole exceptions. Several resaso_ns are cited for stopping banks from o~ing other b1,1sinesses. First, banks deal w~th other people's money. Their primary Other Side· of ·the Coin! \ obligation is to their depositors. Bankers should not be tempted to "milk" their bank by lending huge sums of depositors' money to some other ~fl;lliated business. , . ··second, banks ·are given very special privileges by the government I Sounds- B II to issue credit. The i:eason for these privileges is to supply all business with bank credit on a fair and equitable basis. But if banks own certain The labor press was ~ailed upon today by a national non-profit COVERAGE' IS DUPLICATED other businesses, they are apt to tie-in their credit in a way to favor research institute to join the effort which seeks to inform the pub­ ·4. Also of concern to the labor · their own businesses and to hurt the competitors. lic fully about insurance benefit w€aknesses that wot1ld exist if force is the fact that all · Third, the big banks already-through their control of credit · and e"no fault" compensation plans were ever to supplant the present motorists would be forced through the vast pension funds and trust accounts they administer­ court-jury method of determining damages for persons injured in to carry automobile insur- exert great power over all kinds of economic decisions. Allowing the automobile accidents. ance, much of which du- big banks to also buy direct stock control over other giant corporations, After completing an analysis, the Defense Research Institute · plicates that which many through the holding company device, would balloon the bankers' power (DRI), Milwaukee, Wis., criticized the limited payment plan of now have as fringe benefits even more. - · the American Insurance Association (AlA) which claimed that 19 such as medical and· hos- AN EXAMPLE OF this already exists. in the state of Florida: The to 45 per cent could be saved on automobile insurance premiums pifalization coverage. When duPont Estate, headed by financier Edward Ball, has enjoyed a special - injured, claimaints would exemption from the Bank. Holding Company Act, even though it oper­ if its proposal were adopte~ in place of the present method of collect two or more times ates the largest banking combine in Florida. Using this loophole, Ball determining repara,tions, bas~d upon negligence; DRI said that for the same injury, thus . built up' a<$2· billion financial-industrial empire, made himself the most the AlA ~'Complete Personal · Protection Automobile Insurance creating "windfall" situa- powerful man in Florida, and abused his power unmercifully-most Plan" is in fact "incomplete, .impersonal and its basic limits do tions at the expense of alf notably in refusing to settle the long Florida East Coast Railway strike. :riot offer the protection which many motorists have today through premium pfJ.yers. ·• · This same kind of combined financial-industrial power--

Page 14 ENGINEERS NEWS March,

®hitunrirn Weather International Vice President and Business Manager AI Clem and the Officers of Local Union No. 3 offer their sympathy and S @U Boss condolence to the families and friends of the following deceased:

Local Register Name -City Social Security No. Deceased n ar1n . "'Boyd, Sterling K...... 3 826793 12/20/68 By 'AL HANSEN June- Wife SS#572-05-2011 Close to 30 inches of rainfall 1205 Burkhardt Drive here in Marin County so far this San Leandro, California . season-this time last year, we Caldwell, Dale N ...... 3D 538820 12/4/68 had only 12.75-average to date: · Anna-Wife SS#554-05-4723 17.72. At this writing, practically 1634 Hicks Avenue all the jobs are down due to this San Jose, California adverse weather, and our out-of­ work list is growing! Dundee, Jack ...... 3 .279640 1/8/69 However, blue skies permitting, John Fagan SS#547-03-8036 we should look to a good year Route 1, Box 108 KEY JOB STEWARD with the San Francisco Port Authority is Local here in Marin. Gilroy, California 3 Brother Luther (Slim) Vines. Port of San Francisco was officially We have just learned that Ghi­ turned over to the city last week. A 27=year member, Sl:m has been Fodge, Travis A., ...... 3 292571 12/26/68 lotti Bros. was awarded a contract a Job Steward since 1944. Rated a "deckhand," he is now 57- Josephine-Wife SS # 445"03-1262 to add another lane going into years old and is looking forward to retirement at age 60. 5825 48th Avenue San Rafael off Highway 101 at Sacramento, California $75,865, which calls for widen­ ing of Irwin St. off-ramp of High­ Franklin, Ben .. . .. : ..... 3 543550 1/2/69 Dredgi g Edna-Wife SS#449-05-7663 way 101. The project, to take Continued from page • . 338 Bright Street about two months, includes wid­ decided upon, it is a project which San Francisco, California ening the offramp to two lanes, re­ Whatever amount is finally striping the northbound freeway should not be further neglected in congressional appropliations. ~ Freund, Emil ...... 3C 779379 12/29/ 68 from four to six lanes south of the SHERMAN ISLAND SALVAGE COSTLY-The U.S. A1my Corps George Eliades-friend SS #218-12-2650 exit and installing two overhead of Engineers estimates it will cost at least $2.6 million to save Sher­ 217 A Sixth Lane signs. Also coming up for bid soon man Island but a top official said, "We are confident that the island South San Francisco, Calif. will be the building of a viaduct. will be saved." 0. Haven Hart, chief of the construction and operations division Fronterhouse, Willie C. ... 3D 1235356 . 1/5/69' New Petaluma span goes to bid next-final plans and specifica­ of the Army's Sacramento District office, said the 200-foot wide, 40- Willie Jo-Wife SS#445-14-1190 foot deep levee break near Antioch Bridge will probably be closed P.O. Box 465 tions for the new Washington . within five weeks. Then it will take at least 90 days to pump flood Battle Mountain, Nevada Street Bridge have been apprvoed at estimated cost of $281,840. · water out of the island, whose surface is as much as 20 feet below sea Gibson, Denver .... ·..... 3 891956 1/13/69 Bids will be opened February level. The levee collapsed near Antioch Bridge on Jan. 20. Karen-Wife SS # 517-36-8573 '18th, and if contracts are awarded There has been heavy, in some cases severe, wave damage to the San Jose, California soon after that date, work could soft interior slopes of the 26 miles of levee which protected 10,000 begin in March with completion acres of prime peat soil farmland. Inglesi, Rocco ...... 3 643182 1/3/69 scheduled . for late Spring. Plans The work of 256 state prisoners from Division of Forestry Con­ Martha-Wife SS#019-10-5665 for the new span to be 105 servation Camps managed to prevent the interior erosion from cuttin. 39502 Sundale Court call long and 89 feet wide. Three new holes through the dikes, state officials said. Fremont, California feet lanes of traffic will travel west and A1my officials are trying to keep Sherman Island from becoming a Bay tidal waters James, Thomas . . . . ·..... 3B. 408999 1/13/69 two lanes east. During consh·uc­ permanently inundated section of the San Francisco Mabel-Wife SS#568-26-2074 tion, the old span will remain in - like Franks Tract, Big Break and more than a score of former fa1m 2826 Ridge Road operation- until at least two lanes islands in Suisun Bay where the sea destroyed reclamation efforts. San Pablo, California of the new bridge are completed. Hart said Army investigators said it would cost $600,000 to close The project cost includes the the break east of Antioch Bridge and at least $400,000 to make Johnson, Edwin C...... 3 845415 1/2/69 demolition of the southeast corner wave-damaged levees strong enough to hold back water when the Jean-Wife SS # 547-05-8224 of Petaluma Blvd. North and island is pumped dry. 2446 Tennessee Street Washington to enlarge the inter­ Pumping alone will cost $200,000, restoration private utilities Vallejo, California section. The cost estimate is $100,- $200,000. It will 'cost $150,000 to restore Highway 160, the "river road" to Sacramento, which is now under 10 feet of water where it Rosco ...... 3 873223 000 higher than the project con­ Jones, 12/28/68 crosses Sherman Island. Restoration of land and buildings will cost Lillie-Wife SS#566-14-1502 sidered a year ago to renovate the $800,000. There was no estimate on the cost of replanting the as­ P.O. Box362 old span and enlarge it to four paragus, grain and tmck garden crops. Gridley, California lanes. -The Army estimated the market value of the land to be $8 million. Facts to be faced: Keating, Jack P ...... 3A 879739 11/25/68 when reclaimed and because of this "repair is obviously economi" Ruth-Wife SS#543-03-4647 Few Americans have ever read cally justified," Ha1t said. P.O. Box742 the Declaration-only 1321 words However, hte Sacramento County Assessor's office listed the as­ Benicia, California long - even though it explicitly sessed value of land on the whole island for tax purposes at only sets forth the principles that are $1,003,478, with a total appraised market value of just over $4 Kister, Donald ...... Owner-operator 1/20/69 the cornerstone of our nation's million. · May-Wife SS#557-18-2686 freedom. The 13 gas wells on the island are assessed as land. Other as­ 601 Kister Circle Fewer, . still, appreciate that sessments are $105,000 for structures and $16,600 for personal prop­ El Sobrante, Cailfornia without the Declaration, which erty plus $9,284 assessed value on 35 boats which show on the Krugh, Paul ...... 3 620147 1/13/69 strongly affirms the divine origin Sacramento County tax records as six resorts on Sherman Island. Norman Harmon-friend SS#555-24-9050 of human rights, the Constitution The Army said it would put up $450,000 of the $600,000 cost of 4Mast . and Bill of Rights lack a clear, ~xing the big levee break, with state and local agencies each to pay Suisun City, California profound oasis. 12J~ per cent of this one cost. It is up to you to help reverse Les Hood, the Army's technical liaison officer, said the State Di­ Larsen, Lon A...... 3A 557541 1/ 14/69 this dangerous trend - to make vision of Highways-which first took the position that they couidn't Deyon-Wife SS#528-05-8451 facts like these known in your spend a dime on the levee repairs-has now agreed to let $150,000. 2965 South State home,· church, classroom, shop, of­ in highway repairs be counted as a state contribution .. Salt Lake City, Utah fice, organization: When our Officials of Reclamation District 341, which encompasses Sherman y will come Lowden, B. F ...... 3 386075 1/22/69 Founding Fathers drew up and Island, haven't indicated where the rest of the mone in statewide Joyce-Wife SS # 553-03-8216 adopted a Declaration of Inde­ Eom. The Army said it is authorized to spend $2 million 138 Sunset pendence in 1776, they made it flood disaster aid under Public Law 99 and another $2 million under Hayward, California unmistakably clear that God is Public Law 875. Hood said the Army expects to mn 200 investiga­ the very foundation of the free­ tions of applications for federal disaster aid in the Sacramento San Martinelli, Gerald ...... 3 808160 1/17/69 dom of "all men." They deliber­ Joaquin Valley alone, a fact which will reduce the amount of money Ada -mother SS # 564-42-8832 ately included in the Declaration available to save Sherman Island. - 821 Sixth Street four significant references to Him He said the repair of the levee break has been complicated by Petaluma, California -two at the beginning and two tides which flow in and out of the levee break just like the tidal Mason, Claude 0...... 3D 693876 1/1/69 at the end. · flow in and out of the Golden Gate. The tidal outflow at the levee Beulah F.-Wife SS#490-18-4929 What You Can Personally Do: break is 25,000 acre feet of water flowing through in a few hours. Garden Street 1. Read the Declaration. 2. Tell Two private dredges, the "San Mateo," owned by Utah Construc­ Aromas, California others about it. 3. See that the tion Co., and the "Polhemus" owned by Western Pacific Dredge, are Declaration is taught in the Class­ pouring river sand into the 40cfoot deep hole. Two rock barges are. McBride, R. A...... 3 322368 1/21/69 room. 4. Put its principles to hauling stone from Marin and Napa counties. Strong currents have Ellen-Wife SS#566-07-1358 work. repeatedly dragged away the barges, Hood said. Even when poured 5700 Stockton Blvd. into place, the stones cause the deep layer of soft peat soil to heave Sacramento, California about and whole loads of stones siinply sink into the peat like a rock McCarver, F. C...... 3 736370 1/1/69 Skill Eased dropping into quicksand. 1 Robert J.-son SS#717-14-2058 The shortage of skilled televi­ Hood said the Army has aided in restoring damaged dikes on Em­ Route 1, Box 223 sion repairmen will soon be eased pire Tract and Quimby, Webb and Venice Islands in the Delta in Crescent City, California as a result of a training contract past years. between Radio Corporation of 12/23/68 "'McDonald, Martin A ..... 3 1328184 America and the U.S. Depart­ Dawn.....:.Wife · SS#572-68-1748 ment of Labor. Four hundred of Unemployment 2551 Marin Street hard-core unemployed will The year 1968 closed with only six of the nation's 150 major man­ Napa, California · the enter training at $1.80 an hour; power centers remaining in the six percent or above substantial unem­ 111 Deceased Members November 1968 through January 1969>, upon successful completion of ployment classification. The Labor Department said this was the lowest "" 3 Industrial Accidents. . ' their training, they will earn up to number since it began its present system in 1955 of classifying the ex- $3.45 an hour. tent of unemployment in the·150 ·most populous areas. •

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FOR SALE CITY LOTS- Small town Hwy, 66 Ari­ FOR SALE-Racine Rapack Compactor, zona. Utilities, schools, stores, etc. 1 yr. old, used very little. 4-cycle $595; $25 down, $10 monthly, no in­ Briggs & Stratton eng. 995.00 new, CLEAR LAKE OAKS COTTAGE-For terest. E. E. Fatheree, Rte. 3, Box -:,!37, sale price tiJ!if¥ $750. Cecil W. Shelley, Rt. e•w sale. Ideal for summer home or retire­ Orland, Calif. Reg. #317453. 2-1. 1. Box 123J, Yreka, Calif., phone 842 - ment. Large living area witp. full fire­ 'CEMETERY LOT in a choice location; 3409, Reg. No. 1284794. 3-1. place; all electric ' modern kitchen; good drainage; in Sunset View Ceme­ LATHE, wood-metal comb. 8-speed, 28" SAN RAFAEL beautiful view overlooking lake; fully tery, Berkeley, Calif. · Cost in 1959, between center, 8" swing, with cabi­ enclosed porch; two -bedrooms. Owner $300.00. Will take $200.00 cash or will net, extras $45.00. %" ...drive · shap-on will finance. Don Kinchloe. Ph. 837- trade for what have you. Write to B. socket set $40.00. Call David Dickin­ Our thanks to following for their blood donations: Brothers 7418. G. Butterfield, 100 Rainier Circle, son 282-3190. Reg. No. 239&14. 3-1. Vacaville, Calif. 95688. Phone (707) 3-BEDROOM, 2 Bath, wall-to-w Richard Cole, and Duane Hope. ORGAN. Lowery console. Antique white. · 448-2920. Reg. No. 232961. 2-1. all car­ Excellent condition. $900.00. Assume peting throughout (new), fully wired payments of $39.00 monthly. Joe Frau­ WANTED TO BUY 2 ton 2 speed . Cab (220-specia l wiring), al urn in urn We received a letter from Brother Clarence Huffstutter who is enhofer, 1087 Tilton Rd., . Sebastopol, over or 15' over all Tractor to pull screened patio, 2-cm; garage, 11 years Calif. (707) 823-5782. Reg. # 1219774. 1-1. bouse trailer 12' x 60'. Write;. Whooley, (like new) located at 3050 Shane eworking for Bechtel Arabian in Lybia- sends his best wishes to 1740 Broadway, Vallejo, Calif. 94.590. Drive, Richmond. F'ull price $24,000. HALF-ACRE lot in Rio Rancho Estates, Reg. No. 482253. 2-1. Easy to finance. Contact: J ohn E. the brothers. · Albuquerque, N.M. New retirement de­ Straus, 3050 Shane Drive, ·· velopment. Roads & water. $1,250.00 FOR SALE-1923 1-ton Model T Truck, Richmond, running condition, $150.00 or Calif. 94806; Tele. 415-223-5307. · Reg, for quick sale. Contact Hugh Bodom, best of­ No. 921445. 3-1. Brother Joe Lovely and his wife are vacationing in Mexico­ Box 225, Elk Grove, Calif. 95624. Phone fer 1916 Model T Saw, $50.00. Robert 916-685~3091. 1-1. Dias, LaWrence Rd., Danville, Calif. 1965 BUDGER MOBILE HOME, 8' x 45' Phone: 837-5942. expands full length to 15'. where he writes temperatures are in the 80's. FOR SALE or trade for equity in 3 bed­ ·Reg. No. 0758228. 2-1. 2 bedrooms, WOODWORKING EQUIPMENT: utility rm. 1 bath, washer-dryer, gar­ room house in North Stockton. 1965- 8' air­ bage disposer, 16' Dorset run-about with skiing equip­ operated ·a u tomatic lathe; one pattern w .w . carpeting, cooler, ment. lathe; one 8' x floor . length drapes. Owner selling Fully loaded, only used very lit­ %" boring machine; $7,950. FRESNO tle. Lee Roy Jenkins, 2437 Eints in. 50 ft. redwood deck. Elevation BUILDERS LEVEL-David White. Tri­ . COLLECTOR' 2,100 ft. Write pints of blood for a brother engineer. Those donating to meet the pod and case. $100 .00. Wayne· Staale­ ·S ITEM. 1956 T-Bird. Port P .O. Box 402. Pittsburg, Ca. 94,65. Reg. Holes and continental kit. Origfnal N'l. 292566. 3-1. son, 216 B ancroft Rd., Concord, Calif. paint request were Brothers Roy Brawley, John Corbett, Ira 933-6576. Reg. No. 1181690. ICl. job. Has had good care. Best "Bud" offer over $2,000. Phone -335-4772 or FOR SALE: Tilt bed m cchinerv trailer, Herring, Glenn Johnson and Robert Quandt. COMPRESSOR for air conditioner, for write Vernon Chase, Box 478, Burney, 8' by 14' steel deckPd ".rith w inch and Our thanks as well forced-air heating unit. Holly-2 112 - California 96013. Reg. No. 935374. 3-1. electric bral5 Home Garden , Reno, N e­ 6 1D vada 89502. Reg. #1142707. 1-1. T . L. Campbell . J . Smith David K ama\ B. Nakano donations are made. 6 W. C. Ford ... J . Smith 2 Otto Mann D. Luba ·FOR SALE or trade. 36 ft. all metal life 2 Woodrow Redd A. Cellini boa't, 12 beam. Trade for house trailer. 5 Reo C. Mitchell . . K. Green 2 Roy VanBuskirk A. Cellini We wish to express our condolences to the families of the Partial payment on property or what 5 John Merrell B. Relerford 3 .Jimmie Pugh . . W. Talbot have you. L. J . Spegal. 410 Raymond following Brothers who recently passed away; Claude Mason, Stc, Martinez, Calif. Phone 228-6555. Jack Scogin, Jack Dundee, Denver Gibson, Reg . .:tt732185 . 1-1. Gage Plemmons FOR SAFETY COMMITTEEMEN and Dale Caldwell. SALE. Af.prox. 8 acres, secluded, APPOINTED ~~~e~~r~ ~1\n.sU'~"nl;?;:ct %~'f 1~Ja"~~ Week Ending January 24, 1969 Week Ending January _31, 1969 Year round creek, some deer .and Dist. Name · Agent Dist. Name Agent grouse, etc. R. Stubblefield, 5220 Tun­ 2 Robert A. McCampbell 6 Henry SAN FRANCISCO nel Loop, Grants Pass, Ore. 97526. M. Womack L. Evans J. E. Smith Phone (503) 476-3884. Reg. #473801. and B_. Larimer 6 Walter A. Fin0her J . E. Smith J-1. 2 David W. Lyndall . B. Larimer 6 Corvin Peach ·J . E . Smith Sherman Fletcher is in St. Luke's Hospital; FOR SALE. 3.1 acre trailer park. Reno, 12 Charles H. Dory . . I. J . Neeley 6 Everett! H. Foster J . E . Smith Fred Williams is Nevada. 46. permanent, 24 overnight 11 Gray Azparren M. Parker . in the French Hospital; Charlie · Massa car spaces. 1% miles from town. Across .is in French Hos­ street from Convention Center. $250,- Week Ending January 31, 1969 Week Ending February 7, 1969 pital. We wish a speedy recovery to the Brothers and are looking 000. Some trade and cash for $100,000 Dist. Name Agent Dist. Name Agent equity. Vernon L. Bowman, 4055 So. .. -2 .. JoeL. Parsons, Jr. .orward to seeing Virginia St., Reno, Nevada 89502 . ~ ' Yaac': £;j~UF~ .-. . · . Guy Jones them at the Dispatch Office. · ' · Phone 322-0507. ':: \.: : : : : :' ~-- If ' df·~~~ 12 Robert Bleazard ...... I. J . Neeley Reg, #994139. 1-1. 1A Ernest. Griblin ...... A. Hansen 1. Earl Heaps ...... A. J. Hope March, 1969 Page 16 ENGINEERS NEWS

Clip & Save ELECTION COMMITTEE Election of Grievance NOTICE OF ELECTION MEETINGS SCHEDULE T. J. "Tom" Stapleton, Re- Committeemeni!nm 1969 1969 Schedule of Semi-Annual, District and Sub-District Meetings cording · Corresponding Secre· Recording-Corresponding Secretary T. J. "Tom" Stapleton tary of Operating Engineers Lo· Article SEMI-ANNUAL MEETINGS 16 Redd ing, Wed., 8:oop.m. has announced that in accordance with Local 3 By-Laws, 17 Oroville, Thu rs., 8:00p.m. cal Union No. 3, announces that X, Section 10, the election of Grievance Committeemen shall take 23 Honolulu, Wed., 7:00p.m. JULY in conformity with Article XII place at the first regular quarterly distriCt and sub-district meet­ 12 San Francisco, Sat., 1:00 p.m. 24 Hilo, Thurs., 7:30p.m. Section 1, of the (C) Elections, ings of 1969. The schedule of such meetings at which the Griev­ By-Laws of Operating Engi­ AUGUST ance Committee members will be elected is as follows: neers Local Union No. 3, elec· DISTRICT & SUB-DISTRICT 14 Oakland, Thurs., 8:00 p.m. will be held at the first All meetings at 8:00p.m. except where time is indicated. MEETINGS 19 Stockton, Tues., 8:00p.m. tions 26 Sacramento, Tues., 8:00p.m. regular district meeting in each DATE DISTRICT LocATION MARCH 6 San Jose, Wed., 8:00p.m. district, beginning in March, for Mar. 4 5 - Fresno Engineers Bldg., 3121 E. Olive, Fresno 4 Fresno, Tues., 8:00p.m. Members of the Election Com· • SEPTEMBER Tuesday 6 Ukiah, Thurs., 8:00p.m. mittee which will conduct the 7 Salt Lake City, Fri., 8:00p.m. 16 Fresno; Tues., 8:00p.m. Mar. 6 10-Santa Rosa Labor Temple, State St., Ukiah 8 Reno, Sat., 8:00p.m. 18 Ukiah, Thurs., 8:00p.m. election of Officers, Executive Thursday 19 Salt Lake City, Fri., 8:00p.m. Board Members and Sub-Dis· Mar. 7 12-Utah 1958 W.N. Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah APRIL 20 Reno, Sat., 8:00p.m. trict Advisor to the Executive Friday 8 Eureka, Tues., 8:00p.m. Board in the month of August. Mar. 8 11-Nevada l'vfusicians Hall, 120 W. Taylor, Reno, Nev. 9 Redding, Wed., 8:00p.m. OCTOBER .m. Saturday 10 Marysville, Thurs., 8:00p 1 San Francisco, Wed., 8:00p.m. Article XII (C), 1(b) states: 23 San Francisco, Wed., 8:00p.m. 7 Eureka, Tues., 8:00p.m. "The Member [Election Com· Article X nominated; (b) unless he was 23 Honolulu, Wed., 7:00 p.m . 8 Redding, Wed., 8:00p.m. mittee] shall be nominated and continuously a Member of the Par­ 24 Hilo, Thurs., 7:30p.m. p.m. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEES 9 Marysville, Thurs., 8:00 elected by secret ballot at the ent Local Union for not less than MAY 15 Honolulu, Wed., 7:00p.m. Section 1 ~District and Sub-dis­ next preceding his 16 Hilo, Thurs., 7:30p.m. Regular Quarterly, or specially two ( 2) years 1 Watsonville, Thurs., 8:00p.m. trict Grievance Committee he is an Officer 6 Sacramento, Tues., 8: 00p.m. called District meetings by vote nomination; (c) if 8 Oakland, Thurs., 8:00p.m. NOVEMBER of those Members present (a) There shall be a Grievance of, or is on the full-time payroll 13 Stockton, Tues., 8:00p.m. 4 Sacramento, Tues., 8:00p.m. whose last known address, as Committee in each District and of the Local Union; and (d) if he 6 Watsonville, Thurs., 8:00p.m. of the Sub-district. It shall consist of five is an owner-operator or a contrac-· JUNE . shown on the records 11 Stockton, Tues., 8:00p.m - one ( 1) District 3 Fresno, Tues .. 8:00p.m. 13 Oakland, Thurs., 8:00p.m. Local Union ten (10) days prior ( 5) Members tor. 5 Santa Rosa, Thurs., 8:00p.m. to the first such District Meet· Executive Board Member, or Sub­ No Members shall be nomi­ 6 Provo, Fri., 8:00p.m. DECEMBER preceding the district Advisor, if a Sub-district, unless he is present at the 7 Reno, Sat., 8: 00p.m . ing in March nated 2 Fresno, Tues., 8:00p.m. election, was within the area one ( 1) District Representative or meeting, or unless he has filed with p.m . JULY 4 Santa Rosa, Thurs., 8:00 covered by the District. Each Sub-district Representative, and the Recording-Corresponding Sec­ .m. 5 Ogden, Fri. , 8:00 p.m. 9 San Francisco, Wed., 8:00 p three ( 3) Delegates, who shall be in writing, 15. Eureka, Tues., 8:00p.m. 6 Reno, Sat., 8:00 p.m. Nominee shall he a registered retary a statement voter in the District in which he registered voters in the District or signed by him, to the effect that is nominated, shall have been a Sub-district, elected by the Mem­ he is e ligible to be a Grievance & Sub-District Meeting Places member of Operating Engineers bers. Committee Delegate and will ac­ District Local Union No. 3 for one (1) cept the nomination if nominat'e\d. Francisco, Engineers Bldg., Sacramento, · C E L & T B 1d g. , Section 4 San year next preceding his nomi· Valencia St. 2525 Stockton Blvd. Section 10 ( 474 nation and election, and shall No Member shall be eligible for The term of office for the three Eureka, Engineers Bldg., 2806 Fresno, Engineers Bldg., 3121 not be a candidate, or nomina· election, be elected or hold the 3) Delegates of the Grievance Broadway. E. Olive St. tor of a candidate for any office position of Grievance Committee ( (a) unless he is a Mem­ Committee shall be for one ( 1) Redding, Engineers Bldg., 100 Ukiah, Labor Tem ple, State • or position. Delegate: ber in good standing in the Parent year, and the election shall take Lake Blvd. Street. "The Nominee for Committee Local Union and a registered voter place at the first District or Sub. Salt Lake City, 1958 W .No. Member in each District receiv· Oroville, Prospectors Village, in the District or Sub-district in district Meeting of the year in each Temple. ing the highest number of votes Oroville Dam Blvd. which he is a candidate when respective District or Sub-district. Reno, Musicians Hall, 120 W. shall be elected, and, in the YWCA Community Honolulu, Taylor St. event he is unable, or unwilling Rm., 1040 Richard St. Marysville, Elks Hall, 920 · D to serve, shall be replaced by Hilo, Hawaii Tech. School, St. the Nominee with the next high· Grievance Committee 1175 Manono St. Watsonville, Veterans Memo­ est num her of votes, and he, San Jose Labor Temple, 2102 rial Bldg., 215 - 3rd. under the same circumstances, by the next highest, and so on, Election Results Alameda Rd. Santa Rosa, Veterans Bldg., ing-Corresponding Secretary T. J. "Tom" Stapleton has until the list of nominees is Record Engineers Bldg., Bennett St. following results of Grievance Committee el~ction Stockton, 1351 exhausted." announced the 2626 N. California. Provo, 165 West 1st North. meetings: , Teamsters Hall, 2538 Oakland, Labor Temple, 2315 Ogden District Meeting Date Valdez. Washington Blvd. San Francisco January 8, 1969 Unanimously elected to Committee: Albert F. Please Note! George (re-elected), The 'Pill' Is Working! People age 65 and older have Herman C. Jensen I to sign up for • another chance has an estimated population of 202,254,000 at the start (re-elected), Edgar The U.S. Medical Insurance under Medi­ 1969, according to th e U.S. Department of Commerce. This was Davis (new member) of care. The first three months of of one per cent over the estimate for the preceding New an increase each year is an open enrollment Eureka January 14, 1969 Unanimously elected to and it marked the lowest annual rate of population Year's Day period, giving people a second Committee: E. W. LeRoy since 1940 when it was 0.92 per cent. growth in this country chance to sign up for Medicare's (re-elected), Harry E. s of the U. S. continue to grow at a faster Large metropolitan area Past B, Medical Insurance. Dillon (re-elected), rate than the rest of the nation. The most rapid rate of gain in what Robert Will (re-elected) to Leland Embrey, the Department classifies as Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas According J. Social Security District Manager January 16, 1969 Unanimously elected to (SMSA) was achieved by the Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove, Marysville in San Francisco, the period end­ - Committee: T. W. California SMSA, and it amounted to 75 per cent, or 527,300 more ing March 31, 1969 will be the Stewart (re-elected), persons than in 1960 when the last census was taken. last chance to sign up for Medical Jack M. Curtis The New York SMSA remains the · nation's largest with an esti­ Insurance for those people who (re-elected), V. B. Gilliam mated population of 11,555,900 in 1967, up from a 1960 count of were age 65 on or before October (re-elected) 10,694,633. The Los Angeles-Long Beach SMSA, with a 1967 esti­ 1,1966. mate of 6,770,700 in 1967, as the second largest. Redding January 15, 1969 Unanimously elected to Medical Insurance coverage Committee: Jake F. • will be effective July 1, 1969 for ·Cramer (re-elected), CREDIT UNION, FRINGE BENEFIT those who sign up for Medicare Francis S. Hempe during this open enrollment per­ (re-elected), John M. 478 Valencia St. SERVICE· CENTER iod. Melton (re-elected) San Francisco, Calif. 47 4 Valencia Street San Francisco, Calif. 94103 \ Unanimously elected to Phone: 431·5885 San Jose February 5; 1969 Phone: 431-1568 Committee: Dick Miller Fringes (re-elected), George Reynolds (re-elected), Continued from page 1 Ivan Cady (re-elected) glasses, that is, the Company will IMPO'RTA T pay for the prescription lens but Honolulu February 13, 1969 Unanimously elected to Detailed completion ol this form w ill the member must pay for the Committee: William Ko not only assure you of receiving your frames. (re-elected), Richard C. ENG INEERS NEWS each month, ir will Lacar (re-elected), . also assure you of receiving other im· There will also be a new. type portant mail lro m your local Union. seniority provision, along with a Shoichi Tamashiro (re- • Please fill out carefully and check progressionary system. This will elected), John K. Hooper closely before mailing. solve the problem we have had in (new member) the past of filling vacancies and Oakland January 22, 1969 Unanimously elected to the REG. NO. _____ getting the proper man in Committee: Tee Zhee right job classification. There will Sanders (re-elected), LOCAL UNION NO. __ be a completely new pay grade Ralph Prince (re-elected), structure, which in some cases Clarence Hazelwood SOC. SECURITY NO. will upgrade ce1tain classifications (re-elected) NAME ______. whatever wage over and above Ed Sharp will serve the increase that will be negotiated. Fresno NEW ADDRESS ______balance of the unexpired Our Stewards, Brother Lewis term of Kelly Blevins CITY ______and Brother Middlen, have been until March 4, 1969 when a fine job and have had a Membership meeting STATE_:_· ______Zl p___ _ doing pretty good cooperation from all will be held to elect new Clip and mail to Engineers News, 474 Valencia St., S. F., Calif. 94103 the Brothers on the job. We ap­ Grievance Committeemen Incomplete lorms w ill not be processed. preciate this kind of support.