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nr•1· ··· :n~'-Ol''' Dl'"·nt·,,oc a c-a}ti"t ,ner l peal UOm the. . {Cl\osen Local . No. 3 a;; thelI' col- I . . . . 1· f, tartfa<\·· anythii{g· "becaus·~' they ,iH•t .ir:u~e lx'.gainin;crepT~Sent '.'ti,ve. I .5rn111rF ·\/:/~THDDA\,A/A,l. ,,s·· k1.1~ w ~h~tol'.'map: ~~~-athei:is rif.; l~t \\Ve · believe tha,t .the 1ssua:n,ee of ,.. tr1 Vl ~.,.,. .,Vl l I ,A VY . L . ::u m,mn th~ cor'uer. . ( ; _ complaint b:( _the B{,mrrl will BRUNO SCA.TENA . · · · · ·· · - The . big , h4cklqg ·of work ,is Ilie of pal'ticu1ar b1t,e r cst t:o·· ~~o.se . , ..G~RAL.l) '., L . STAL~\' . . ·' prn~1P.~U:g al'l, \o lal,e ,atlvantag~. of of ~Ur rea{1yrs. ~vll~ have -;temfri,e;:1 I;: ' ~.QE 'V~GQ . . . . e,;e~:r gpo.c;l clay .. of .\~ood \\ eathe1/ \ - · ,,ij'rHe~ :of , a; .· ci~t 1:11~~ si~neil Oj' I , ~q,BERT ~'. pJ.'i~Il\"l Eyw1 :.far,· o,uv· ·un_deJ: t)l €{ h,i g-, blue -, . ·. . CRO~SR~ADS OF THE ~EST.-Th'.clrnst iayer 'of concrnte sand- ..} ly ~ '· ·' "· ~ -.· · _ A BIG·YEA·R ·:A,HEAD~---' . ,, 1 ca dero .,aml Bays,nore freewii,ys mix 1t up with B1ghways 101, 4Q; .;md · . ·., · · ·. ·· . -~ ·~·· -··· · . p ',, a ·· . a -.·· : · :.t· . t I 50, ,vith half_ a. doz~n _assorted, 1·ai11ps lending moi·e co1I1\1sion tlf;;ffie "·, •• ,, • ''· .c< ·· , .'. , \)[: , . en nge . WOi'l, . \Y€ 11 l'! . "., " _ .. . . · outlook_ on the work and waaes0 I Dec .. 15 19"6 · H 11tsv ·11 M'ssot ,· 1 D- ', ge--tures· a man or woman can ma_ke , . . . . . '/ , u , u ~-e, 1 111. ec. 26, 1956, ,san Francisco, Calif: _:,, · · , . • . · . , c . s1<;lf as far as the new year is con- 1 · · _ ,,, . · l i toward the welfare of brother. workers oerned. . · :.· · JOHN A. QmN.1ARA JOSEPH N. PEABODY 1' and their,, families. , : / · Fo]io~ing is' a , rou; ·a-up of 'Ll)e Dec,. 16, 1956, :·Itio )l.'\sta, .,Calif: 1 Dec. 26, 19:'j6'. Cuperti_!10 ,,, Cs)it . i . .. . , All: vou have fo do is con.tact the situation as ~een- by the vari9us F . P~0KHA:M , ,_ ., . , ·JOE" 'W. BARNARD _ 9 · · - · ·.. . · · " · ' · · · ·. ; ' · .. ,. branch officer- 0f Local · a- of D · i7 1956 N. 0 ·s ·, . ._, t.0 ' c· 1 D" ' · 98 1·9-53 c 0 1 1 · c J'f1 b::anch offic~ s_eyving the area_i n \Vr;~ch:you-\vork. . The off.ice eai·It Ja_nuary:"'. .. : . ,.-, . :-'' ~- ·. ec . . ' '." · · , ~c~,~rr:i,e\~ , , · 1_a ·'. . Y\ ;:,J ,, .., : sa, a · 1 Wlll be~glad tQ; make an appomtment for YO)] : . · ,,,.· . i · ptali·:' 1ke- si.gps $76.0 millio11 ;bill [ _f>AM _S~OVILLf . .. , '· 1.· ~R~~J':.' S~YI>~R.. ,. ·· . \ 19 95 nd 31 19 6 I · And YOU . wilt be glad _you took this. action! fpr Upper Colorado river project, Dec . . : · 1 6.: Oa~l.!J. • Calif; 'PE:'.S::·. , ;i , Wmters, , Calif. 1> , . J • . . ' , C~~ntinued.. 9n P.'.:ge 12) · . · i/ /J RO~s:E. WAtirn~- Jan. 5, ,1_957, ; . . · CARQUINEZ VS. CULEBRA.~Here you see the first ·.jumo~ 'mo'untai~, and .arrow at left, sho~s where Ferry . . background. Presen,t highway wJrids its w,.i~ behind the slices being: takQn :·o',i the biggest· wh,ack' at M other :Ea,rth . Bro~: and Oro·w contracto1's' ·.55 big ,rigs are. now.. chinving hill at left, ·o,ver th~ . notorious Selby hill stretch ;vhere . since'tl~~ Cuieb1:a ,nut fo ' Pai1ama Canal; the 3.00-foot .ca1l.- ; the suiiface: S0n1~ rigs : can be., s.een at· _upper. left. Nearly .. , fraffic deaths are a regular occurrence. Hig,hway· 40 is get- yo1i ..- thru · v.;liich High\\iay · JO · stints a· new · career fron~ · all of the material is being· mov{ld t(!· the left to fill in ting .the overpass, non-stop treatment wher.e it paf;ses ~\e sti,a:its to Bay Bridge, E ngineers· are siJ1king .300-foot · · cai1yons behind Rodeo .and Pinole · with huge dam-like through Va.ilejo in the background, before heading east id.ts of 9oncrete foto the r i,er-tidal currents clo,WJ) .there · siruetur es.' .Tall, browir hills . in. that areaAiav~: ·big. slices into the sunri§e. , Soon it will be merely a niatter ·of min- ito el'f Cy . a ,,'fo,in ·to the · pl'e,sent ~ridge;, \Vhose dogleg· ~ ,. ill . , ct~t. i:r;t t,he111_ also .. a.s the.J ,40 mylion 'bridg:e:freeway- -)ob .-utes from the Ray Bowl to the Sierra fo~t,hllls, and the ioe ~t:ra.ig1hte1'ied a bit and nm.· pa-l'alle,l to t he nev;, stn1c moves- tlu·u ·that a re.a,; . . , ., :,. ., . " .. ~millions of drivers who iiave waste~ bill.ions of hours on . itu1,e ,-' .,yliose . gia1,f, w:P,ite pma.rs, can be seen . a.t_ lower . . Piih1re ,1,~s taliini. .k oin top of. cut, looki1ig, across to - th.e dangerous !tichmond-Ci;,oclrntt bottleneck will ,_i:ise . a.s ~:ighii, )1e:ir ·tlre· towll' 01 Crockett and· the ,C-H: sugar plant. · the -~tlu~ r ·· side· wher~> PG&E. cross-channel power-line ,·-011~ to- give a mighty che.cr: (Staff photo,r '·' . Aiirow · aJ . rJgli;t ·.shows where tJ1.ey smack into thEi · an<;lior ·masts.. ar~ l oca.t_e~. yauejo, aml J.'Viar e. Island lie ii~ ~~- '· ' ';:,,,. ,,.11Je City}y t~e ~ldeJt!_G[Jt~ S FR CISC SEES By CHE'l' ELLIOTT & BILL RANEY, Business1 Representatives 0 The general trend on construction work has been slow in 5-7 EST ·vE R E E ·the San lVIateo office. However, that is not unusual for thk time of year. Generally we engineers have to stay home 'fL By PAT CLANCY & HARRY METZ, Business Representatives a short time each winter due to the rains. One contractor was . Dry weather this winter has worked to the advantage of complaining the other day that he could not get enough water both contractors and members. However, as of this report to get compaction on the fill ~ -- v,rork in. this area has started the usual seasonal· slowdown. was working. It would surely be the big Bayshore Freeway job, in ·n k . 1 ed h b f d t ironical if our brothers had to stay Redwood C(ty. :"'ith Brothe~· ~hi! , .li'Iore wor IS contemp at t an ever e ore, an we expec home because it didn't rain. Dunn workmg m the_ capacity " the year of .1957 should be the best year we ever have had. Thino-- have taken a turn in the job superintendent bemg ably 1.. In the vicinity of Gough and Oc------t1•••·········· ;[;j •); right ditection with the starting of sisted by Jim Lewis, Rosie Shelton tavia Sts., blocks of apartment tractor in the city ls the Cahill - ··1and Jim Hawkins as foremen. houses 'and large buildings are be- Const. Co. They have new building . Work orders have been coming in· il'tg wrecked and torn down to projects in the process of construe- S·eabees Wanted Isteadily for this project and we. piake- r:0om for the new freeway tion in e.11 parts of San Fnancisco. __ have at present about twenty of' · · a qross town. H. E, Rahlmann Co. has been The following communication ·our worthy brothers baling dfrt;. MacDonald, Young & Nelso!l are awarded.. a. contract· for construe- has been received from the Twelfth and the project has barely started: :fii;tishing their job for. Fireman's Uoµ of a ,storage yard at _the South- Naval District: · Piombo plans t~ barge in a):Jo1 Fu.· nd~ Insurance Company's. ne_\_1/. . ·east Sewage. Treatment Plant near 200,000 yards of sand, and tr_i.1ck J Id · d Q · t St · "Skilled constructiO'n men are· over a million yards; of dirt from h1tme .. at Laurel. and Ca\iforn\a er~9 ,an · µHJ s;_ . needed fo1·. San Mateo's new Sea.- S treets.r Also, they are ~ak' ·mg; , P10mbo. . .Const : · · Co · s two· "ater· J u- d ge J ames J • w esI h · bee Resene Unit· now, being Crestmoor, in back of San Brunq. good progress on the riew., Ma$0n!s r~servorr Jobs have- also had· the I . . . formetl at-the local ·Naval Reserve They will probably have 75 or so· Temple building.' at-California, and. benefits of: good weather .and are Jud~e Welsh 1s a native of S~n Trainin.,. Ceiiter, Baldwin Ave., sets·of-doubles on the road at one· Tiyior and are' still ·wo_rlciri ,g on_· a progress\ng very, ,\_•ell. . Franc1s?o. He . att~nded ·- publlc ., 124 . time. This one project will create·· n d as San Mateo, CaJit Former Se, abees t d f k. f sGction of . the Embarqa,dero. Free- W_ oi'k f o_r. E ngmeers at H enry sc h oo 1 m S an F ranc1scn '."n ,~ a grea ea1 O wer or ol'- w;ay. . Doelge.r's Wes~la.ke. tract has been· graduated frum St. Ignatrn~ Hig_h and veterans are especially desired. worthy brothers, as soon as t; ·M· _ very slow. · Bmld!ng. of new homes Sch~ol. He attended Stanford Um- "Some sixty _ v.ai:,ied Building preparatory work· is finished. · & K Corp: is k~ping a goo_d- has been held back due to the Fed- versity and Stanford Law School, Trades are represented in the Sea- The Pacific Heights Develop~ )J.lanv members workmg off var1- . . · · h f . h' h I · d d · 1940 · · · d -: - · ei.al Reserve· ·,application of h1g 1om w ic 1e gra ua t e m bees known also as the Fighting ment job, on Sneath Roa between ous Jobs around town-the largest· . (AB LLB ) H · · . · d d j ' · d Sh p k · . ' . · . . · mterest rates. It costs -y<;>u more to .., , . . e rs ma1ne, an Builders of the Navy's Construe- San Bruno an arps ar , 1s ?-r~Jects a_re loca~ed . at HuI1ters buy a J:iome · now-larger do,,m the father of four children. · I tion Battalions. going along steadily. RA. "Pete'.' nd ?omt a tlle widenmg and ex- pavments and larger monthly pay. Farish has Brother Barney Farm- tension of Upper Market Street. , I J . From Law School Judge Welsh "Men joining the new Seabee · . , ments. · entered private practice· of t I1e Unit will receive pay for weekly quist· as building superintendent L. C. Smith Co. has had. the ad~ Braga to Paving Co. has been Ila w in San Francisco and was and Boyd Cable as equipment a: .. ·anta Of ood eather m grad d d · b f d' d ' drills, retirement benefits, ·and pro- J'ob superintenderit, with the . fo1- v ge ~ w , . • aw~r e ~ JO or g~',ac mg an · then employed · by the Federal motion opportunities \vhile gaining h1.g. and pavmg the new Bay~ho1e paving vanous streets m the Slin- 1 Government. In 1943 he became lowing worthy brothers eating the Gausewa ove 1· the water d' · B t 0 l h · up-to-date training in modern dust: Guy Walton, .. Joh. n Rhodes, . · .. Y · · set . rstnct. r~ga . a so as. a Governor Earl Warren's secretary building techniques. They may also " Six hundred ho1:1es have. ?~en gradmg and pavmg JOb at the Ens- I in charge of extradition and clern- take t wo weeks' annual training Glen Ward, "Red" Haley, Bill bought by the Callforrna D1v1sion bane School Brisbane t' L t Miller, the Trimble boys, Ray, r 1 1 (J-f Highw.ays to establish a right · ' · ~:~:l~le~~p ~cpap;~n~~ents erto Jepu~l~~ with full pay and allowances dur- Boots and Bill· Russ Clark Lloyd f for th n S uthern F.ree in~" the 'sla,ck periods.' • , Watson, Cryl Evans, Al B1'. ossari(. ~;,a;,ay e ew O . - COMSJ~filc11ou 'WARD<' office. In 1953 Governor Warren "Men inte1·ested may obtain full I Carl Canjines and "WOO di JmMBARCADERO f!J l'n.ll l'l z.\ ..; appointed Judge Welsh a member details . at the San lVIateo center Woodeams. . The Charles Harney Co. has STOCKTON, contract awarded,,· of the State Industrial Accident any week day, or l'IIonday and SCRAP METAL YARD s tarted work on the seven million to R. Goold & Son, P.O. Box 190, Commission, where he served as Tuesday evening·s." Things are really booming at t he 0 dolla,· E mbarcadero Freeway. This Stockton, $178,301, for const. sani: ~re_s_idii:g Commissioner b : li~~e Any of the members that wou'd South San -Francisco Scrap Metals .. project will run fro_m Harrison St. trunk line sewer & storm water l Nor tllernPanel. rnr:ecem er,_ , ' be interested in the above article, Three new spur tracks have been to Fisherman's Wharf. Harney ;also trunk line sewer in Nightingale I at Governor fGohod wcm J .. ~mghtds may contact the Seabee h eadquar- laid in the new yard, and they has a new job constructing a sewer, Mar1or subdiv. , STOCKTON. request he le t, t e · ommision an ter; directly. have contracted to scrap manv from Market St. to Broadway St. SAN LEANDRO, contract award- I became pers?n,al legal counsel to J ======steam locomotives. They have fo: They also are keeping a good many ed to 0. C. Jones, 1520 - 4th St., Governor Kmgh~~ . cranes working at present, two oi loi:others b usy on the B.G. & G. Berlceley, $11,147, for const. walk- Governor Knight a pp o 1 n tea the State Bar, the San Francisco which they are converting from project at· Hunters Point. way at Eastshore Park in City of Judge Welsh to the Municipal Bar Association, the Stanford steam to diesel. Brother Russ Work on the streets of San San Leandro. ALAMEDA CO. Bench September 22nd, 1955 and Alumni Association, the Elks Club, Powers is general superintendent, Francisco has been very good· for SAN FRANCISCO, contract he has been presiding in the Worn- the Commonwealth Club, the Law- with Brothers Miller, Gene Garri 'i:he contractors and members. This awarded to Bragato Paving Co., en's Division of the Criminal De- yer's Club, the San Francisco Fed- sort, Jack Leitch, Pete Rice, Jim vrnrk involves track removal, street 500 Bragato Rd .. Belmont, $209,- par tment of the Court at the Hall eration of Munici~al . Employe~s, O'Shea, Arden Gregory, Joe Biano. i::epair, nevi sewers and water lines, 405,. for resurf: var. sts. in the Sun-. of Justice. On December 13th, 1956 Touchdown Club, Distnct Commit- Henry Anderson, Jim Fountai 0.,11.d new asphalt repaving. set District, city of San Francisco. Judge Welsh was elected Presiding tee lVIembe-r Lake Merced District ably assisting as nut busters and Meyers -Const. Co. has had. good HILLSBOROUGH, contract Judge by his colleagues to head San Francisco Council Boy Scouts magnet operators. There is a pos- l uck t his winter on their excava- awarded to the Lowrie Paving Co., the Municipal Court for the year cif America, Godfather's Club, St. sibility that they will be working tion job at Civic Center. Meyers is 174 San Bruno Rd., So. S.F., $15,- 1957. The Judge is a member of Vincent's School for Boys. two shifts in the very near futuri!: .3,.lso finishing up the .addition to the 526, for grade. pave, util., etc., in ------Guy F. Atkinspn's yard is also a {J. C. Hospital. Stanford Subdiv., town of Hillsbor- · M hubbub of activity t hese days. Bro. The most active building cone ough. .Report of Last eet_ing Red Bentley is master mechanic, Bro. Bob Whitfield is welder for man, Bro. Ray Mullens is rriecl1an,_ T.he meeting was called to orde1· at 8:00 p.m., Vice-President foreman, with the following 30 ex ·Quotable Quotes· F oss presiding. President Clancy and Treasurer Vandewa.rk were pert craft~men doing the work: excused.· Brother Clem acted.as Vice-President. - . . The rung of a ladder :was. never ine~nt to rest upon, Brothers Garlock, ·campi, Reinert, lb.pit only t0 hold; a man's foot long ~ough to enable him to A Synopsis of .the Regular Meeting l\liputes of December 1 was ' Hawk, Wisdom, Holder, Larsen, put the other somewhat higher.-Thomas Hurley. , read imd by motion approved as rea.d. Umphery, McQuenery, Vilotti, Hall, A Synopsis of the Exeoutive Board l\Iimites of December. 12 Cruse, W~ssell, Jqhnsoen, Boltii;i, . . . Some people grow when given responsibility, others -· and of Ja1ma,ry 2, read, and the a:cts and r~-<>mmendations· -Of- the Greeri, Morris; Cannion,. Sard, . merely swell.-'-Victor, Boariwere by motion approvoo' as ·read.: B-i·usatori, Heyneman, Eehes, Be,,, : . Cards of· tha.nks·were received·· rrom the.family. of Oscar:Ha1'.ris; ger, Garrett, Ellithorpe, Scot( the family ~(,Ciifford.Wilson; Mrs; Li!lian 1\I,_Justice .~nd farajly; Heimsoth, . Stoi.\t, Green, Heath? 1'1ae and Virginia, Donovan; Ml-s. Walla,c-e , B. Boggs; 1\1:rs. Jiicl,( Ali in all, · the prospects· for the So1n.merv.ill'e° and' farriily; 'Mrs: •1Hap" · Cronnvell alld ..ta:1i1Hy-, a:nd·· new year of 1957. ·are· very goop.:-, weather conditions permittingf ·, fDRts Ec©nomic _BiH R· ls Mrs. l\~. \Vhitfi~ld and family. Aii were -recei.veu.:-an anuary 15 1 1957 ENGINEERS' NEvVS Pao-e Three J------'-----,------·----·------i:? ____ ., What's Doin· -in · the Oakland· rea By AL CLE]}I, BILl, BARR, TTh"Y LAUX, DON lUNCHLOE HAROLD HUSTON and TOM: STAPLETON, Business Re1iresentatirns Again we come into another.January. We are rather for- type mixer furnish the low s!ump . 1 PAR·TS [):E'.POT SIGNS CONTRACT tunate in having an umisua.l spell of good 'Neather in the concrete used on the pre-stressed montl1 o_f December. We find that in spite of this the "out of iteri1s. Pile driving in the field is During the past month ,ve \Vere successful in concluding acc-01nplished by ,a huge S-J4 Ham- · · work" list grew considerably, due no doubt, to the fact that mer, the~ ha:mmer itself" weighing a labor co11tract with the firm known as INDUfjTRIAL traditionally contractors are rushing to finish· jobs in-prog- 1<1 ,000 lbs. The piles a re di'iven with PARTS DEPOT located at 2041 ,E. 1.J.,:h S~.ree-t , Oakiantj, ress and ai~e . hesitant fo open up ·ne\v ones." We also notice the · gigant_fc barge crane "Judy phone nmmber 1>E· 4-0360. This-firm specializes in furnishing that there has been a considerable slacking off of ,vork in Ann'' whicl:t was used extensi~ely parts for the equipment: used by the earth moving contrac th st 1 the various housing pro1J·e-cts, with the Industrial plants rock- on e supeR_r fructBur~dof tlTeh_Ric_hg-l tors. They handle the West tract line, rnotor kits, full bearing ~ • , monc1 -3an a .ae 1 n ,ge. 1s ri , " _ . . • . . lng along with no new 2.dditions startfag at the present time. with a 75-ton lifting capacity 250' nne, _cuttm~ ectges tor ctozers _and blades ~1:d Mr. _Dee Hicks Hmvever, these thing:'! are all take·n into considetation by the i1! the .air, i_s fitted ':'"ith five --sets Ia~ V1ce Prs1dent tells u~ that 111 a not too msta_nt futu~e- rl:ey c.=~:inembers of the hoisting and portable. local, due to the fact -0~ le~ds wluc:h ,pepmts ,all of .the will_ be able to secure parts for any . type of earth movmg h · tli.at the work _pe1~fori11ed by members of these unions are of piles m -~ bent to be drive_n wi.t - I equipment. Tvvo of the salesmen for this company are ,vell . · out movmg the barge, Piles- are . · _ . . , _ .. . · 11 1 _a ·necessity in a seasonal nature. All in all; ,ve are lookii1g cli·iven _ to a · Gearing of 9o terns,. mown m the bay area, they are \ ern Graff and ,.;on L!On?S. forward to ai1 exception9-lly b_usy year in tlJ,e coming months. 1,,·hicJ:i in some cases means driving j In _the Parts Depart1J1ynt they- have "Brick" Stone al'l_d Tom Dredaina in thP . Oakland · area 1·' · ~- through an extremely hard lensed I Marshall. . • J Jd:' "' · an·l ~1 ~t ·11 kee 1·11 a · area to "' n1ore solid bottom. The I '-· · · ., is 10 mg up c s ~ 1 . . • . P g i weight µeek. All this ,,vork is being ~ •.: ,good ,m, any ?f the,, Engmeer~ buw. I accomplishecl by the joint v~nture pile bents are made u~ _.of. c°'mbin- have sub"let all their' di'rY~v-ork'oirl .. Foothilt .- mv·ct ··· in' Ifayward: .. a:nd - Th Franc·scan 1° , ·orkmg at ished by the :\}_rst .?;c;.k of Ja1)uary, ·1 s.t.eam system including; fully aut_o- Howard Wmtty is the Res1d:nt_En- , emiJloye·d in tli.e shop, Brother 1' Galbi·aith Constni"ction Co: . is- - . . . . •· .. ".. --· --. . . . matic ]ow-pressure Ste.am plant, I gmeer for- the, s~,'."te.. of Ca!Jforma. Rictiiier Bergquist and D .. P. Buslvl keeping . pretty busy . Ol; tract jqbs Bob lVfulloy 1s contractrng a Job steam distribution · lines _- and : in- ., ··· ·· . _- _ · ,, J · · I, ' - . _ -: . throttghout -the area. T hev-are also fo_rD~ .. I1_ud_son __onan _:_e,\_' Sl,lb-div1_···j c1i_vid_uallypiped, st.eam_ hoodswhich , -Roy_ Price_, In_c . . is_ _ ;,ta_rtih_g_ · h!s Tl ' Cl - B -, - S C · .. - . St d d 1 1 Th . . . 1~-. . ose . UL"1 m_ g _· u_pply . .- o .. i st,art:ing .. a__ - n e_W- j_ob oi_.1 Ban_ croft s_1gn b emg put.m off of 11{artha D_r. i are set in place wilh 'a crane after an a r - 01 . pipe . me. Job; - · ey l l h • - . ' . ,1y,pa:11n~ -~:l( C eamng ~lp ~n .JO~_s l. and Q_:0e, .i_i_1 _Cei1terviJJe .cl o_ing _ an in:, Orinda. There./; approximately: i .1: -member . is poured'. With cure a1'e. st~[l:ing at the old M_ountam _tha_t it ch.di,t p]a_n . to_ d_o l!ntll. next ·1 the pipe work ·on the Dans tract. . 10_0;000 · yd~ of ..c\. 11:t_ to be · :~ 0 ?ed i temperatures in the -range ot-160 house _:porth· .of Tracy_ .wrth one sprmg." Along with its many track . ·' - · · * * * · _ w1th ·a .n_o tnn_e ln:ru t_. The1:.e w,;U· be 1deg_rees: and using ,a 7 ½ sack mix crew to Oleum, and w1_th another_ ·. b th. · - t·ii· , k' - I - · - ~ JO _s · e.Y, are _ s. 1 wor ·mg on _. l\lcGl\ire _&_, _ H_es ter ac·e _tfoing __ a ab.~ut 1.00 h~mes bu~rlt ?1:' the_ tract. i1 witli maximum .. slump of_ P /2 ", crev.r _to _1:laker sfield. _Brother J.ake -,~------~- 1 - Br.othe1 J oe Fanra is foreman, ! strength is reached overnialit The Qhee\·es is the proJect· manager I '· I .iob for the Bu'.·eau of P.cclama,tto~ B th " T - N d - d T d 1 · . • • • "' : and J -B T .. • • d · • for a water !me to come ouc O.L _ ro _ e1:s eezee ::;an .ers an e I yard has it's own fac11Jt1es for test- · . · ·uones is sprea superm- 1 Tavlor on the DvV?l Brot'her· J hn ' · t - 1· d "- · · a tendent They plan to lav 8 000 ft · N Ab -4 the Canal. Brothel, . F,al1LlS.. ,· ,.·~ oper.- , . · ,- ~ _, · - o' 1 mg concre e cy m ers 111 or er to · · . , ' - ' e WS · · OU, I · · · , Willi"ms 0_1_, DW 15_ B1_·ot_her Chuc1• ! a· , · ·_ · l f · - h- of pipe a day' with· approximately·· · , · atmg the trencher w,th Bro,her E. - .a.i _ ,_, " i · -ecermme w 1en trans· er strengt " _ , 'J , Baldwin a11a · J'oe lV'otio oir'D8 ahff ' . - - h ' ' Th .. ·.. . . - .. d - - t 60 miles of 16" pipe to be com I Clemmon» as o1 er ana Brother ·" - _- 1,is .rea'c- ec,. · ,e cappmg an · ·tes - , .- · - T-.. h·. B- th · · F. ,I· s 10 ,,. 0 ti 1 j- t t- Brother Carol -Moore ,on a TD24 11' ing ' devices were fabl'icated right pleted w1t!11.n _90_ days. The~e are .. e ' ro ers . I ' . ~. · .~ /~on: ca seh f pushcat ti . b - -1 th t· - . ' . about fifteen ·engmeers·workma on f tin.~:n,., p.pe.', : This Jobi_ .o-aLd on t e 0 1 · • ~· . ,, ,, - 1_ dn . e JO -anc e _tes mg is bemg I side b'ooms· doze· rs trenche~s "'a-nd Brother I(·enny Cline should be : Oakley hiqhway about two · miles , I. one by · contractor forces under . , , · . ,. . - · · - . , , · ,., . St . ,· , any ot-her equipment that . miaht, m Flo.Ida by the time this b in,\\ est of Oa,"e, . 1 N'orthbay Bridge I _ate supen1s,on. - , be needed "' I print for a much needed vacation I ~ .,. x ' [ Handling of the large members · * * * . , from all those \vood butchers at ) Fre,J J. Early \·,as awai;ded a Approaches·· _ / in the yard is done by a team of . the J::a]ma Ceia Village. i $145,000 . contract from t.J;e Cali· . As _the finishing tol\ches .are .be- I two 30-t on truck crimes, · moving -_ During _the past 1:nonth we. s~gri-, . _· *. · ! fornia Wat.er Ser\'ice Co. fo1· a. mg made orr the new Richmond- i the items with great ease. A spe- e~ an agreement :v1t~ the William Brother AL:gustus Page has just : filter trcntment plant to be pl.it in San Rafael bridge, spanning San i dally built railroad car was made .,N. Box shop which is _located at recently . retiree!. Brother Page : near Wa:1rnt Creek. Btother ,t\1 Francisco Bay betwetn· Marin ·and i 'to move the longer piles to the I Decoto Rd. and 10th St. in ~ecotQ_. worked for the· Pacific Coast En- I Holmes is o;;eraling a. Fordson hoe Contra ._C9sta. counties, vrnrk- is I clock ·and barges, while ordinary Mr.. Box has the dealership_ a!1d ginecring Company since July , of ! and Alfred Ol 'icn is the oiler. Cal · progressmg ,accordrn~ to ,. schedule I flat cars handle t~e bulk .o1' th_e service for all the Ferguson eqmr 1942 .. You can tal start the, big freeway near Duns- widening- of H1·-g·h,.,ay 44 for· one Laboratory and others, the .pres- program Doticrlas0 Aircr·aft's new - " · " • • . • · • operation is truly ar)preciated. ' muil'. This looks like ;about a two half mi'le east · f th·e ·sacr·am· ·ento ence bf these . great scientists, the plant I s tinder a th - 0 c w Y m · e same vi- Remember this office is one:ct nd a half year job as ther.e are riv.er in Redding was let for con- adjacency of the world's leading cinity. George . 1'.'uller Co. was every Thursday until 8 p.m. and fo .,ver $4 million involved. tr.act in November, but has not education,al and research institu- awarded the bmldmg contr~ct and closed all day on Saturdays! J. w. J;l.riggs is going full speed been completed. tions as part of the development has :8~lbert & Muffly Co. d~mg. the F or those interested in the High·• · ahe_ad on th. e Salt Creek Project. _ Pr·oJ·ect 1·11 t·he two counti·es that and our unparalleled climate and . p r·el i rn m ary g1a· di ng f or th is si t e. - ·a - and Leve Cons:tructio:m Trans Ocean Engineering is also have been completed are: better living. Activity at Mathe:· Field is nil ; Ji.se, these classe~ will ;;-egin 0 6.P , going full speed with a 'fair size 1 .. Two projec.ts on the west side now .but contr~cts will be let soon January Sth from 7 to 10 p.m. ancl crew on the Lewiston to Miners- -of Hatcbet Mountain- $1,200,000. between Vitzhums ai1d Tom Lang for the extens10n .of the runways will be held every Tuesday evening ville Ro.ad. Mr. Hudson, G~neral 2. Highway 44, a paving job from Gulch was built-'$600,000. .. . and building fac1lities on this ma- .for 16 weeks at the American -: uperi~tenden_t, Heads the llst. . Palo Cedro -~overing eight miles I 6. From ·We,averville to· Douglas jor air base. River .Junior College, 1333, Gran(I , J:Iastmgs ~10thers are about .~o toward Recld111g-$49,000. City,. t:he. last 1:8 mile section was · Other building projects in the Avenue in Del Paso Heights. fimsh the · dirt wor~ on_ the big 3. In ·Redding, Eureka way was completed-$185,000. . area include a ·couple· of apartment Bureau of Reclamat1o_n Camp at widened from the Southern Pacific 7. Between Weaverville and houses · a·nd the new· telephone Lewiston. . . overhe.,ad crossing west for 1 ',{, Helena, ·14 miles of ·hJghv,,ay was building, .with a couple of ,proposed . 'D·ECEMBER 13, 1956 Gates & F~x ha".'e the dwerswn miles-$186,000. . seal-coatJd~$30,000. State buildings to be started this SACRAMENTO, contract av--arc1,• · tunnel at Mmersv1lle about 75% 4. Three Contr~cts on the relo- I1 8. Flood repair on the highway year. ed to James H. ciack, 1288 - 47th' com_pleted. . cation of· Highway 99 .around I between ·Prairie Creelt and Oregon The old Sacramento B:otel is al- Ave., Sacto., $3212, for emerg. leveo- · . Rich~rds Constructro~ Co~p,~ny Shast~ Lake arrd a ne:v bridge, all Mount~in w.as co1;1pleted~$800,000 .. most a memory as J . R. Reeves will repairs right bank of Mokelumn4? ,ho aie.-no,w engaged .m .bm_ldmg of wluch co~er 6½. miles-~4,000. 9. R1prap repair at Vitzhums-1 ~ave the last ·of the concrete foot- River, vie. of Victor, SAN JOA-,, t h: . Bureau Camp _at . Lewiston,.. 5. A 31-mile sect10n of highway . $240,000. mgs removed soon. Emsco Con- QUIN COUNTY. 1 !!~~~:;. a~:~nta:i:/:~:eto:~;0 STOCKTON s·LOWS DOWN TO A TROT !;!i~7t~;~h~ ~::ritiri~ ~~:~:!r~~ : : - . · · . . . . , - · . / · . 1. un9er the equipment agreement. - ' We ha\'e 175 men on the out of By ED DORAN, WALT TALBOT, ALBERT McNAMARA Ithis ~ame general direction, Jack man is the only man left on the fork list but ,ti.at is small oo!I} & c,. L, CASEBOLT, Business, Representatives Scheuer- keeps six members busy job. pared to the amount of men that cleaning dite'hes on the islands and C. Norman Peterson has started are now working. In spite of the unusuaJly dry weather we have had so far some r€pair work. To the north on the pumping plant job in Webers-· . '57 TURNING POINT this winter, the work here in the Stockton area is very slow . Staten -Island, E. H. Rider & Son town. Stockton Construction C::m,-· 'fhe year of .1957 will be the turn have six rigs _working. The bulk of pany has been doing the excava~ ing point in the construction field This condition exists due to the fact that very little work is the land levellers, however, are in tion for Peterson. This job ti~s :in · · in Northern California, with t]:Je being let at this time of year and practically all of the old the south part of .the county, with the storm sewer line that . ¾uilding of new highways, free- which is sandy, in anticipation of Stockton Construction put 'in Jas'l, · 1ays, tunnel jobs, g_ams and new jobs have. been completed with-two exceptions-the Tri Dam the rain to come. Dave Price, Fer· ·summer. sub-divisions. Project and Teichert's road job be- ini & Gomes, Jenecke's, Ed Aba- -Brother Carroll Stedman, . whcl The population of Northern Cali tween Mossdale and French camp, M. Malfitano· & Son are subbing tangle, Joe Alldrin, The Akslands, works for Malfitano, is lucky to be fornia is expected to incre,ase tre which is in extremely · s a 11 d y the. excavation and bank sloping Stanley Alldrin and Joe Meyers among those pre§ent today. ~{; ground. work from Basalt Rock ·company. ' mendously in the next four to five are in this area. seems that they were using '?I years, due to the amount P age Eight ______,. ______E_ N_G_,, _IN_ E_E_R_S_'.'_N_._E_W_. _S __--,-- ______.._J_a_n u..;..a_'r"-y_1_5"""", _1_95_7i THE E Bay By R L. "CURLEY" SPENCE and JOSEPH "JOE" MIL~ER, Business Representatives North District oves James H. Klack's rigs have start- order. Brothers . Al Montrose and . The Iron Mines out of Lovelock, ed to clean out the Truckee River ,Leonard Mill.er are, as usual, , on Nevada,. are still in high gear. the Blades. This pair is getting 1 Dodge and Mineral N[aterials are Right Into aBusy New ·Year -· throng]} Reno, Nevada, to try and . as famous as the well-known "Gold busy every day. Weather has been By H. 0 . FOSS, F , A. LAWRENCE, L. C. SOLARI-& AARONS. SMITH avoid another flood in case of high Dust Twins." \i\Th ere you find one, cold but not too much snow to Business Representatives water. Klack has two Dozers and you find the other, and everything slow up the · action. The Dear a Northwest Drag1me in the river, 1 is nice and smooth in the Drumm Brothers can stand the cold, but We wish to thank the members all over this world who and I mean they are right in the tradition. they don't like those short checks. sent cards and wishes to us. May we wish the same double .river. Brother Wayne Strait is on LAKE TAHOE- I understand that Hunt Construe- t ' · o you. . 1 the No1ihwest Dragline loading Gibbons and Reed are well along tion, under the able supervision of A th , . . 1 tor fpr electrical work on .struc- trucks ·and. Wayne does a fair job on both portals of their Tunnel job -Brother Zane Hunt, will soon be s · e J eat 1957 opens, it shows tures Portable generators to be with th,at rig. Brother Qlend Crab- at Lake' Tahoe, ~evada. Brother moving into this area to ti:y their so far 10 million over in construc- used ·in field work This project is· t ree is the Oiler and part time Guy Billeter is on the Northwest ·1uck with the old iron ore. Best of tion in this _ area. So with the now under way. · R unner. That _OJ.end can really' Shovel and is really digging that luck, Brother Zane, · in your new smaller contracts added to t-Otal, Manuel Cunha of Vacaville wast .string .. the Drag ·:sucket around. : tunnel. Brother Guy hasn't dug, venture. we ,look forward to . even better awarded contract installirig 12-inch th 1956 .Brother_ Roy Gorton .is 011 the Do- too many tunnels in his Shovel Congr_atulatiop.s are in order to employ~ent an · . cast iron pipe )ine between Rich Z;E, and; .Ro.r tells. me that's the: r~nni.ng career, but h_e is doing a ,Brother Joe Miller and his- lovely We wish to thank al.I members ardson Bay and Waldo at ·.::t· -cost J::mgest.· push,:h·e · has - ever had. It fine JOQ. He moves from one end_ wife, Juanita. Yes, ,yes, they are and ei_nployers for their fine co- of $10,200. They ,als Hard Money }! . ah N.ews u ndu p ·~ Ike Cites labor ~ By MERLIN BOW,iViAN, _CHA~~ES COCHAYNE, GLEN FULLMER, GEORGE FARRELL & JAY 1 NEELEY, Business Representa.tives Schedule of Meetings for Construction, Lang Co., $760 million dollars is a lot of morn~y in anyoneis language. for Living Costs: BL1t that is the · amount that -Congress approved, and Presi Sand and·Gravel, Iron Mines, Vitro Uranium Corp.; A new drive to· keep wages down dent Eisenhower signed into law. for, the construction of the and .profits up now appears in the• making. Upper Colorado River Project to be divided between the Up and· Kennecott. Copper Corp., and State -Road · With the election out of the wayr per Basin States of Utah, Wyoming; _Colorado and New Mex Construction, San.cl and Gravel Membership, 2nd 'Thursday of each month, Engineers Hall, 1969 South Main St., S.L.C. the "hard money", supporters in , ico. the Administration have sounde~ We start the ne,v year of l9;F with ,confidence, as some ,of Construction and Sand and Gravel Membership Meeting, 3rd a warning that the price rise must thiE>·work has alr.eady begun·and:rp.or.e: is being-ady,edised;for Friday of eaeh nionth, Labor Temple, Ogden, Uta,h. halt, that labor is the ~hief guilty · bid every month. The project itself: will take t),,venty-five Construct_ion and Sand and Gravel Membership Meeting, 3rd one . in any inflationary spiral and Tuesday of eaoh month, Labor Temp.le, P.rovo, Utah. · · that the needs of capital for in, ·. years in the building. . vestment come first in the think- . Actual construction has begun at Glen Canyon irr North Vitro Uranium, Lang· Compa.ny, State Road ~ml Western Phos ing o(the Eisenhowe·r Administra- : ern Arizona, ·which is a part of1this . great project Bids for phate i\Ieeting·s to be called. tion. · the tunnel work and Townsite -. for the start of the Flaming . Cedar Iron l\·!ines l\Iembership Meeting to be held Thmsday, A variation of · the old Benson -- January 24, 1957 at the El Escalante Hotel, Cedar City. charge that "soft wage increases" . Gorge Dam in Utah will be advertised about March 15. for industrial labor are to blame,. , ; In addition to the four large Kennecott Copper (lorp., meeting to be h eld. Tuesday, January for the plight of the farmer is be- . · mainstream dams known as "Stor- tion Company of ·Murray submitted 29, Bingham _Civic Center ~!·1 :00 p,m. a:nd 3:00 p.m. ing revive.ct in a new form- that ·:. age Units," there are eleven "par- the low bid of $953,088 for the wage boosts are to blame for the ticipating projects." The Stanaker widening, realigning and surfacing ploy a goodly numb. er of opera- shi,pments of ore and we are hope- 2.8 per cent increase in the· cost of. ·. : Draw Dam, five miles north of of five miles of highway 30 be- tors. This job. will r un into next ful that future l)rosr)ects are· good living that has taken place dur-" Vernal, .Utah, is one of these a:1d I. tween Devil's Slide and Henefer. summer. in that regard. ing the past four years. ,·,, will probably be one of the first to I This job consists of. a river change,f d We hear once again the rumor The Rex Myth seenis to be fa.d- Here are the·warning signals for . be bi.d s_ometime af_ ter April 1957 . . 695,000 _cubic Y_ ards ofd uncla_ss i ie t. of the long talke.d of power plant ing out-maybe our off-spring will organized labor that can now be 1 1 1 · 'Nord was received here last I excm atwn, giave an hot Pan at the H·ale locat1·on 1·n tl1e mouth 11v· e to see the day, but it doesn't noted: week of the intention to constr uct Imix. T R · d 1 of Pr·ov' o. Canyon. _Vue•v hope tl·11·s 1· s 1oo k as 1'f th'· 1 s generation will- NAM: THEORY .a $3 million dollar lime mill ·and he voters of .tver a e ,have ap- the real_ McCov.. h d $140 000 b d ~ , for O we ope we're ver y wrong. President Eisenhower hi ms e 1 f plant a t Delle, Utah in Toole Co. I prove. . a ' on }, sue . Our. sympathy is extended to the nd pretty well laid down the lines of · By Marblehead Lime and Gypsi.:m sewer impr~veme_nt a . work JS Bingham Area survivors of Joe Cowan, the La- st 111 the Administration's general econ Co. of Chicago. After much testing scheduled to art early F ebr_u- At Utah Constrnction Comp'any's borers' business agent at the mines. omic philosophy at his last press and developing work by the com- ary. . _ Stripping operations, momentum We've known Joe quite a long time conference. It was very much . P·anv,, the 11·1,1, esto11e 111ater1·a1- i·n . Morrison and_ h.nud_ sen Construe- 1s. pie . kmg' up an d a good size. d and wi!I miss seeing him around. along the lines of the thinking of this area has proven it to be feas-· ti~n Company is gettmg 1: nder way crew, in the neighborhood. of one At . Weste.rn Phosphate at Gat th th th the National Association of Manu ible and constru,ction of the mill Iwi e actu~J cons_truct.wn ~f e hun_dred and_twen ty~five op~rating . f!el? we have just concludeq nego facturers and the U.S. Chamber shoulcl begin early this spring. Lucme . cut-off proJectl afterbl en- engmeers, are workmg there. tiat10ns for a new two -year agree- 1 of Commmerce. Work in and around Salt Lake countering· · the normah · bpro · emsth· Favorabie weati1er has been ment which provided 23.l cents in The gist of it is that there is a is moving at a snail's pace at pres- which arise on_sue a JO of 1s ent, with most of. t1 e calls for· m en nature. A considerable number of quite consistent up there and- for- wage increases and fringe bene- shortage of capital and that bu.si 1 . b t t 1.u.nately very little time.. ·has been {its putting those operations in the ness and . investors must have• from the Bl·ngham Str-i'ppi· 11 g and e_ngmeers are. _usy at he pr_·es·en · Jost ·on account, of the weather. top earning brackets of the. area. : nd greater profit incer,tive to invest the Promontory job. time _ a additwna_J men will be Right now we have a sno.wstorm The boys accepted the package by in new. factories in order to tTe<1te J. K. Thayn Co. exnect to get required, as ,the Job pro_gresses. _ '-"· Th' · b 1 ·th d bl raging and som_ e time will be Jost, an almost two to one vote last new jobs. To provide this· capital started later this month on the air-1 is JO , a ong w1 cons1 era _e port job. - · other . work_ schedµled for this but take it all in- all the project Saturday, December 29, 1956. labor must not demand to.o big a M. K. Co. have started on the area, mcludmg_ the Federal Roa_d has been a life saver for this area. Sand and Gravel negotiations-are.· slice. of tne pje. · Labor was st1ed 1 Garfield. Dike under . the super vi- Program, should kee_p the eng1- The f_ourth shovel -arriv.ed yester- n,ot too far-. away, als9 the Lan. g fically ·signalled out by · the Px;esi .day, J anuary 3, from Arizona and. Co.1;np1,lny and se,1eral others _and b f t t de,nt as a factor in inflation. sion of, Mead Harkel'. iristead of neers usy or some 1me ·o come. should be digging. in about. two.· we . hope to be able to raise stapd- · Asked by a correspondent fpr the Dean Rule as \3/e mentioned in last Southern Section weeks...... 1ards . i,ri these various plants to a highly .,· conservative Ne,v Yori( , month's news. · The Christmas :;ind New Year An_ ·urtfortunate accident __occur- Ipq~ition ~oi:newhere· _equitable with Heral'd-Tribune whether he felt It was -a .. great· sho_ck last month holidays are past once again. We red 111 early December takmo- the the oth~rs m the area. that "the :-price increase must .be to hea'r of ·. the accidental c;!eath of expect that 19 56 will be remem- life of a Euc dri· ver when he "went W e . h ave h a d some d',s.cuss10n · checked in the coming years,'' the · Bro. Bill .Bumpus· while at work bered as a banner· year by Local over the dump. W. e extend our sin~ Iwith Gov.ernor. Cl_yde ~nd expect President sai.d "Yes." He then for Yopng and Smith ·op 'the ·Davis · · t ·th h' No. 3. The prospects are for more cere s_y111_pathy to his survivors. _o· get w_ 1 · '.m soon to_· de_term_ine went into a little lecture· on· econ- - Aq1.teduct. Our heartfelt sympathy of the same i11· 1957. Dams, ro ad s, u_tah's Bingham Tunnel has pre.- . w... h a t J1 _1s co_ ur ·se o f act10n 1s g01_ng omics that left little doubt that the is extended to his wife and fam- po'.,1/er plants. mills are all on the sented- Duke Miller ., \Y!th some_. I.t P: .b e reJ at1ve .to S_ tate Road mam- "hard money" advocates in the Ad ily. Bi,11 was a great guy, we shall agenda for the coming· year. The touah proble.ms righ,_t. . ,·, from the t ~.1;i.ance_, and w_ e J1ope t o h ave ministration now have his ear. , 0 all miss him. Glen Canyon area will' be a scene first shots but he appears.. to have sqme th. mg to b ring to you brothers He said that there are. two kinds, Two of our good Bros., Earl Ne- of much and varied -activity. we them whipped and is starting to by ~he_ ne_xt issue. This morning's of inflation, one that comes from. . beker and Leon Yates, have been have had a portion of road in our make headway. In another week or p~per m d 1c~t<:;s _ th a t the G overno_r government pollcies of d e f i C i t incapacitated the past few weeks, A 12 11 ti R d Ch · se?tion ad_vertiz€d recently. .· _ 1 so he will have the motors i.n ·and w1 . anno~nce · 1e new oa a1r- spending and the other caused by but expect to be back in the har- ,mile stretch from Utah, Auzona we'll be able to clear a few more man today. the efforts of all people "to gain ness soon. If you must take time state line toward Kanab has been men to that job. ------a bigger portion of the results of. out for a little, rest, Brothers, we advertized for bi.ct. This contract Morrison Knudsen has a small tour great productivity." · can think of no better time than will include 700,000 yai·.ds· of un~ crew at Highland Boy . finishing CONCERN FOR CAPITAL - · during this freezing weather. Best classifi ed excavation, some 200 :- their job. They will be out of Bing- I He continued that this could ,' wishes for a quick and complete 0.00 tons of gravel and 2 1/2 inch b1- ham when this article reaches you. ' reach the point where capital recovery. tuminous surf.acing. We are pl€ased Kennecott Mine is continuing its would not be · attracted, that be- If you have had occasion recent- to notify the membership of a sub - pace of productions of the past hind -. every job was $15,000 to $17,- ly to visit Gibbons and Reed shop sistence of $4.25 per day work e d , J three years in spite of the efforts 000 . in investment and· that this - in North Salt Lake and found for each member on this job. This of some. of the other big copper money has "got to be accumu- . something m1ss111g after many addition was acquired from t h e producers urging them to cut back. lated." years, it is our good friend and A_GC lab_or committee for th_i· s_ par- Phelps Dodge and Am_1aconda have I "Consequently." he continued, · Bro. Bill Taylor, the welder, who t1cular Job . We €xpect no t10u bl e already cut product10n about a "if you raise prices, I mean if you has found means to retire to a nice in collecting it. We feel that our sixth in their ·properties and are continue· going up too rapidly in · motel and business in Fillniore, agreement with Isb_ell Compari_Y really pressing Kennecott but Mr. o·ne area, · say the labor area, then Utah. Any of the Bros. passing and Stearns-Rogers Company 111 Pett informs us that they intend pri,ces go up and finally- · you get to · that way look Bill up. He will the four corner area was a con- to hang on to their rate .of ·prod. uc- llillllllllil~ Ill~.ifllll a point where you just simply· ·c ·an't· really treat you right. I think the tributing factor in gaining this sub- tion- and we believe the rumors of keep· tla.ings-· in order, ancr some dif-. place is called "The El Raricho l','lo- siste~ce. As this is. the first time 0-oing to four days can be scratch- ficulty is established, o.ccurs:'• . 0 tel" and should be easy to find in· subsistence has been paid to oper- ed right here and now. ~liiidW~l!llliiilli6iilllllriilWiiiiii11#- "The President then added that· · Fillmore. Best · of luck to Bill and· ators on a road job in Utah, we feel In the last issue we said agree- ~ · he was sure the United · States had··.· · Mrs. Taylor in their new adven- some pride. ment had been reached on several A n en t1· reI Y new provisw· · n was reached the.. point where_ it· has de-' · t ure. · The list of unemployed Local No. matters ,.,,;.hich we had before the added to the Soci~l Security Act. veloped· "business and labor leag-1 Northern Ar~a_ . 13 members is gr.owing in the Pr o- Company, The matter of trailing by" the 1954 Amendments· which· ership that. is sufficiently_,wise arid_ As tl:ie New, Y€ar begins and we vo area. Although the work in this 'for night work was one which was rriade · it possible whe.n ·computino-' far-se.~ing' to ~elp _sol~e this · pro~:~ 0 take a look at 'tl'1e 0 prospects, we area is still above average, this un- to be settled and. still .stands w;here · · • • · · "' Ilem and ke€p it withm bounds." find the situation about the same employed list at this time of ye11,r w.e sai.d it was in -the last issue. Be- one's · beJ1efit pay ment to d:fop-out What I~ sio-nifi0 darit · is that the as in previou,s : years . . We have a seems inevitable. The members cause of the. absence of Ernie some o~ the ye~rs il;l. which . earn- I Pre;,ideIJ.t in ' a'gr,e:~ing ti (Conn.}iled_ bv. P . K Ynmlc1Yarl, ·1 -,J101·-c HI"'.,. .,..,· P~ e r,,'el ey, -~--"J," "° 9"?,,;_, , f or ei· Devlpmt.. Cherrv Po1-v er Tun- Yellow for Hunters; Not Red! a11<1 R. F . Swanson l J const. of Line A from vie. of Arden- nel , I"ci e•c C!l• T,'I etchy " Water Supply Tlrn " re d b ngal. 1 e, " that host of crimson-clad hunters, some 600,00:© DECE1'IBJ<:R il, 1956 ii· ivood Court to Hesperian Bivd. in Contr. ""' Haywarcl. r.'RESN1 ' O C t ·t d of whom annually seek game in California, may not be much in evi LIVERMO· . .l - -"'~, contract awarded : · i· ' · , on rac s a war ed for to Payne Const. Co .. 689 Louisiana ' DEC. l!J, 1%H · grade, pave, curbs, gutters, side- clenc~ n~xt year. Instead, California 111ay be invaded by a "yellow army," St., Oaklci.nd. $25,987. £or const. ·: SA C:RAMENTO. contract award- wa_lk s, \',alley gutters, drain wells, that is if the results rnlcase(l this week on the field tests conducted at struc. steel from cone. b!k. walls.! eel to Precision DrilJin o- Co Dnv_·eway apron, in-.ig. pi pelines, ·Fort Lewis and on the Olympic Peninsula in '-Vashington are heede:i!I ' I o ·, -po, . Idns .. . R.C. slab. inc;·ement No ... 2, i B_qx Gl:1;3, Santa Rosa, $87,389. for :an1. se;;yers, st. signs & tree plant- I Purpose of the tests was to dis Blog. 190, 18' x 48' x 12' abt. 3½ drill & test water wells, comprising mg on Viladobe -subdiv., Fresno, , cover the safest color for the na.- mi. E. o{ Livermor,,. · 11 t.est hole 500' deep & compl. test R.I. No. 477-(1) Roadwork: to : tion's 25,000,000 nimrods to wear. SAN FRANCISCO, co n t ra ct ' hole to 500' deep gr. envelope water Doug-Lynn, Inc., 3360 E . Cornel The huptmg safety project was di awarrl ecl to Michael Murphy, Jr., wel l, in cl. conrluctor casing & Ave., Fresno, $43,241-(2) Sewers I rected by Dr. A. C. Hemsen, J r., 30S Up()er Terrace. S.F.. $63,108 sealanl', ,1·ell casing, gravel, elec. to W . M. Lyles Co., 3.306 Winery I or San Jose. for lay 16_" cnst iron main· in : Jog & develop. & testi ng. Ave., Fresno, $13,468. "Results fav0r yellow even more l ct .. F'i-anklin St., hc!:w. Market & Ellis , PORTERVILLE, Contract a 11-ard- SAN JOSE, Contract a warded to I, ecis1vely than did the experiment·; Sts., City of S.F. . Leel to L. R. Henderson. 675 Van A. J. Raisch Co., 900 W. San Carlos I on Fort o)·d's brushy terrain 'la, DECEMBER, l ·l, Hl;i6 I Dalia, Por!erville, for drill & case St.. San Jose, -$9,751 , for resurf. I July,'.' said He,nsen. REDDING. contn1ct' awarded to , 1n1tc r- well, city of' Porterville, ?evens Creek Rel. bet\\·. city of - _ T~,-o 10-man teams of Fort Le,vi.s Osborn Const. Co .. P.O. Box 1034, ' TULARE COUNTY. :::,an ta Clam and city of Cupertino. 1 ~old,~rs were used in the latest Redding, $37,850, for const. sewage TURLOCK, Contract awarded-to I DEC. 27, 1956 ' t tests. On e squad had normal vision _1'r eat. p1ant. faciL. in vie. of Shas- Standard Materials, Jnc., 1411 . 9th SAN .JOSE, Contract awarded to I Jand the other group had varying ta County Hospital. St.., Modesto, $7,328 for reconst. Ince Bros. Pipeline Const. Co. 616- j degrees of color blindness. Thev '.went through five clays of testi,/ DECJDi'ifBER 17, 195.6 . .-. . . South. sid e of Hwy. 99, hetw. RLlbY E. Taylor, Sunnyvale, $23,907'. for 0 EUREKA. rontract awarded to . St. & Canal Dr., ci ty of Turlock. const. Saratoga San it Sewer uni't : in . which they tried to spot i!,$ John _w. J. P etersen. P.O. Box 22, : · DEC, 20, :lfl:3fi No. 1A, city of San Jose SANTA qmcl~ly as possible and correctly Be~tnce, $53,562, for const. r evet- : SAN FRANCISCO, Contract , CLARA CO UNTY. ' tdentJJy the color of cloth-covered ;11ent _wo rk on Mattole River at · a war-cled to Kennon Paving c o., I OAKLAND, Contract awar ded to E. G. GUNDERSON, fish hatch panels ol' different shapes,, at dis-- ,-Ioneyclew, HUMBOLDT COUNTY. 2255 N. Main, Walnut Creek. $89,- Manuel Marques, Jr., 1735 _ 85th ery as,sistant, displays a king sal tances of 25 to 300 yards in typical , DECEMBER- 18, 1956 2,n, for const. bit. pnv.on ex. access Av e., Oakland, $17,249, fo l" const. mon cap);ure,d for tagging during a deer, bear and elk terrain. The ~ests w~re held dur ing early rnorn SAN RAFAEL, co'l!tract awarded rds., in cl. new stab. nggr. base. r e- reinf. cone. pipe cond~it in Edes salmon utilizat.ion survey 011 the ,mg, midday and twilight houn to _E. T. Haas Co., Box 95, Bel- .n1i x, ex. aggr_ -,vear. sud.. bit. ~ur£. Cary & Douglas Ave., city of Oak~ Trirdty Inver. Departn1ent c:re,vs and the weather produced the mo,:t, $930,457, for street impvt., . c-rs. & cl rng'. strucs., San Fl'.a ncisco land. . recently completed salmon tagging whole range of huntin" condition:;; rn1:1t. - sewers, ~t~1·m __ drn., incl. : De i' : nse Ar~a, CONTRA COSTA, _· OAKLAND, Contract awarded to and other field work on that pm,ip. sta,., watc1r d;stno. sys., levee , SAN MATE-0 & l\1ARIN COUN- Manuel Marques, .Jr., 1735 _ 85th -rain, snow, heavv rni;t and some strnam, aimed at obtaining data to clear days. · • const. & reinf., E. of San Rafael, ! TIES. A\·e ..- Oakland $10135 'or' CO llSt determine hovi ·-iai:ge the futur e MARIN "OtTNTV I ' ' ' ' ' i, . Net 1;esul ts of t]Je tests, conduct \:_r . ':;- ·1 ' ·. ~ . , RENO, NEVADA, Co n tr a _ct sanitary sewe_r, in pot·. of, Ciaremont hatchery at Leivist on sho111rl be ed' against a background oJ' Doug , -~A_i , FRANCISCO, contract . awarded to LaGrange Cunst. co., Ave. aclj. t o Garber Park, Oakland. 'and w1ia-t flow relea~es are need las fir and brush, rated vellow fo, n: ~hatdecl to Michael Murphy, Jr., J P.O. Box 1,!87, Reno, $28,150, for OAKLAND, Contract awarded to ed from the Trinity Dam, now un 1 to fiv e times ahead of· any oth~. .:,08 Upper Terrace, S.F., $60,960, j const. sanit. sewer in ImpYts. Dist. McGuire & Hester 796 - 66t'1 Ave der constrnction. The upJ)er Trin color as the one most easily seen for lay 16'' c_asts iron mains in : No. 3. city of Reno, Ne\·acla. Oakland, $34,076, for grade & sub~ ity is a major salmon spawning and most often correctly identiiied. 1ar~'.21:z & Stern er , Sts., betw. 17th : DEC. 2G, 1956 base, curbs, gutte-rs, sidewalks, area and preliminary reports huli For the color deficient squad (i n mght . St~.. S.F. · ! HAMILTON AFB, Contract Cary Ave., betw. Edes & Doug1as cate tlle J 956 run of kini.s was one ., DALY CITY. con ti-act awarded to . awarded to Brown-El_v Co ., P.O. Ave., Hale Ave., betw. Edes & which classification at least 48.000 of the larg·est in J'ea-rs.-Photo by California hunters belong) , yellow _b . T. Haas Co., P.O. Box 95, B.el- ! Box 474, Corte Madera. $1E 950 Douglas Aves. & Dou" las Ave E. P. Pist-er. · 1:1:ont, $10,371, for const. 18" trunk- ' for resul'f. approx. ll,000 sq'.yds'. betw. Edes & 'Hale Ave~ ., citv o.f was 80 times more correctly and ]J '.1 e Se~ver lH Alemany Blvd., Daly access taxiway, Hamilton AFB, Oakland. • easily seen. C1ty, S,-,N MATEO COUNTY. :MARIN COUNTY. DEC. 28, 1956 The t_e_sts list yello,v, multi-C'olo.' · PALO ALTO. Contract aw_arcled RENO, NEVADA, Contract SAN FRANCISCO Contract WHY IS IT? , pla',d, or·ange, · blue? feel ·and greeri i o S0n~lg1_·och Bros., P.O. Box 1055_, awarded to LaGrange Const Co. awarded · to Baldwi~ Contracting S54 C_opydghted ~- labor Fiiat iiro:s _ . -111 ·the order bf decreasirig percep-- tihlITT~ · · _ JV, rt · V1p~' ···1 ,. ~$QO''vJ,), 639 , ror const:. of P .0. Box _1487, Reno, $252,324,. for' Co., P.O. Box 269, Marys'ville, $65;~ IQads, sam. sewers. storm sewers c:o nst. sa111 . sewers in city of Reno. 132, for-const.._2 _- 51' & one 65' o-lue, ·· The 'three groups co11ducting the & app_:trts. inc:lu cl i1_1g s icle\:alks, SAN FRANCISCO, C O n t 'r a Ct lamin,ated timber girder brido-es tests plan a firial'lest series a o-a i11st - el~c-~ro11ers &_ 1.1 nder- tr. ba~e & const. ·welded steel gir const. North Point Collec. Sewers, reactor, ine~t gases, such as he ·visor . made 'the mistake '.Of' trying ·1 p6.wer lines on . every_ · job ,-Vhere Fortun;tely, · no -One . w_as ~urt, to· lift- the girder .. on a·· tiited posi- . there·. is this ~xppsure~ w'e could but I sht(ddet to think What njight tion. ·_Whe'n . it · ciear,ed tl;Je ' ground prevent a · lot of out tr.ouble:-But have hapi)ened had thei:'e been it drifted · down . toward tl'1e . io~er Hiis .isri't ahhays possible·. workmen there :~t' ·the· time. levei, and.ti,e,)ide-'swing'; aild twist ,' We have many small jobs wl:)ere · ~---~· ~-~-- caused two ·,of thi crane . booms to tne cost of· moving or · killiIJ.g the SACRA-MENTO, contract· award- fail; and ' they ' dr·opp.ea';: the girder. lines would involve far m01'e than .ed to Gibbons & Reed; 820 W. 9th They' : sh·oulel; 'have· arra,_'iiged . their the price of the job. NaturaUy, we N ., Salt Lake City, Utah, $4,605,488 ,, -riggih'i:( sd . 'that,.' the gfrde1;. would must deperid on th'e frane operator for 6.'9 1'ni. 4-lane div. h,vy, graded have, been: ofr_a:1~~i'J:' 11ft. ,/ .: · and his driver to- keep- a· saf~ dis- &.·surf. ,v/plbnix sud. on cem. tr. ~ ! I 0 nd illiosn fo~ es·(alif )~o,r,Yeyf ;,r.~. ~::r:o;i;;]s 1,~:te ~:~ ~FJS· a11s et· 1uy· ·. ~ate ~··r· UA;:~v (C 0 t 'I f p l) rll\ AH U11o] .. . C, .. _· ~... ! ·. . fl' . .. ' 1fn. ii~' rh, · I) I a big ~o:me:ir:~on:.e :~e already 12~~0· ,DA._V LIIJF 1 ~ore than $80 millior'. for cons!ruction oK 1~e\V highway I . ' ~-. . ·. ~ started at Glen Canyon, assuring I ~~..i5'1 .. r I mI .:,l fJ ~~ . )i')fOJects has been set up m the 19;:,7-58 state highway bud- I J•GNT ,o, UE-'' abig year a h.ead. Cal_ls f~r ~ en II - Br J. K. WAnVAI~E; .?e~ for varfou.s North~rn California counties,, ...a figu~·e. which j i · 1 m . ~· ,, 1,~.I . a r_ound Salt Lake: from Bingham Bu~ines.,- Represent.at!.ve 1 li.S included m .the all-time record budget of $050 rmlhon .for I By AL BOARDl'\ NEVADA, PLACER: Squaw Val- for 20 years in the future and ! approx. 19.200 sq. ft. oi parking John R. Lovett; Hydesvill e. 1$9230, struction Co. is also looking tmvard · ley Rd. t o Truckee W ye, $1.4 mil- would specify the spencli. ng of lot & aprox. 4300 sq. {t. oI parking , for multi-pit. arch. culv. canst. & the island of Guam fo r some ,vork lion; US. 40, I-I~mpsl:i1'.e R.ocks to Imore tha_n ten billion to achie:7e lot adj. to Bldg. T -3 & ·T-6, et., I rdwy. grade_ rai~ed & surf. w/ pltx. that will be Jet out by the ·Navy . Soda Spnngs, $0 .l'- rn1 lh on. that level. If passed by the Leg1s- Vets. Admm. Hospital, Palo Aho.0 I surf.. abt. o mi. E . of Alton at arid the Air F orce that would cost PLUMAS: US 40 Alt .. west of lature a c_ommittee would thE:n I PERKINS, contract a,rnrded to Wilson Creek, HUMBOLDT CO. nearly $20,000,000. This, the $35,-. Spring Garden. $1.3 million. I'" ·ork on the master plan and prob- I Gm·el & Glanders Const. Co. , 229 SAN. JOSE, con ract awarded to 000,000 project on Midway Island, · SACRAMENTO : .S a cra me n- 1 ably could come up wi th at least / "W'' St.. Sacto. , $102.,34 5. for const. A. R. Bodenhameh, 1365 Glen Dr., and other locally shows the am_ount · to_ 1:-iyer bridge a ~ Rio Vista, $1.1 a "skeleton network" in two years. IS egi:egation ljnit. at- No. Cai.if. Re- S.an Lean_d ro, _$31.072. for .Flood of work to be handled by one gen m1l110n. The master plan then would be cept101i Center & Clm1 c, Perkrns, Control Dist. Silver Creek Impvt., eral contractor only. SAN FRANCISCO: Central free- pr esented to the Legislature to be ICalif . , Unit No. 2, East Zone, S,.\NTA The second bore along the pres- . way, S. Van Nesi:; to Turk, S5. 2; I included into t he State highwa y CARSON CITY. Ne,·., contract CLARA COUNTY. ent Kalihi Tunnel is scheduled to freeway, Lyon St. to SR 1·, $3 .9 system . The plan would r eplace the Iawarded to Jack B. Parson Const. - - - - - be let out for bidding some time million. .,. . present practice of the Legislature Co ., Smithfield, Ut ah, $612,192, for RICH FISH WATJl~p.,._-: this year. It is assumed that J. M .. SAN , JOAQUIN: US 50 east of approving new state roads one at 15.189 mi. grade.- rdmix. por. of About 98 pet' cent of the world's Tanaka who is now building the Tracy, $1.1' rhillion, and Rich,'.rds a time. Usually in i11dh·idual bills. \ SHS on SR r:o. 11, be~1~. jtc. ~R ; fi sl: catch comes from· :he. waters P ali tunnels is also interested · as. Ave. to Charter Way, $1.1 m1lhon. The master plan, as seen now, No. 18 & 1o m.1. N 1) , ELI<,. O ! which are locate d w1thm the is the present 'Nilson tunnel con SAN lVIAT~ O: El Camino · Real,. ,vould list general routings of COUNTY, NEVADA. northern hemisphere. tractor, E. E. Black. Ltd. · 31st Ave. to P oplar, $1.3 mi11 iori. l1ighways and freeways and would ______:______Foundations for Kaisers Alumin SANTA CLARA: Los Gatos free- not us.urp the sta,te highway com- · um Dome Auditorium . have just way, $5.7 million'; Ba:vsho1' e fwy., mission's job of establishing spe been· completed and the actual Stevens Creek fo Ellis St., .$1.1 dfic routes. dome constr uction starts immed·-. miili-on. Beginning J anuary 8th, 1957 the iately. It will be of some interest SHASTA: US 99, north of La- Junior College of Santa Rosa will locall y to watch it progress as it moine, $4.5 million. have a class in "Supervision of will be the first of its kind in the . SOLANO: US 40, interchange Pipeline Construction.'1 The 1rnr isl~nds. B{·other Miyas_hire handled.· west of Fairfield, $1.1 mifro.n. and pose of the course ls to train fore- the' backhoe for Kobatke . Const. I Vallejo 1vVye to Redwood St .. ' $4.3 men and superintendents · in. the co: on the foundation .digging. 1 million; Vacaville-D unnigan cutoff, supervision of pipeline construe- 'I11e Jwo hoist. assemblies on· $1 millio11. ' tion jobs. T he <;ourse wUl consist Kaisers 14 story hotel are riow. STANISLAUS : US 99, 1\{odesto of two session per ,veek fol' a pe- complete a nd operating w.i th freeway, $1:3 m ilUon. riod of _15 vieeks. ·Mr. Harold P el- Brothers J enah K ~nolio on the 'ma- SUTTER: K nights Le.ndi ng to etz of the Peletz Co. I1ic. will be terial and passenger: hoist and Dick Onstott Rd., S700,000. the _- instructor. Richards on the cement dump. . TEHAMA: ·East of Lassen Camp · The follov.ing brothers have pai-d M1·. Learner, .of Flyn an'c!Learn - to Mineral, $980.000; eas( of Tedoc their dues for the" year of 1957: "r is i1;i _town aii'd was contacted b·e-_ Rd. io Dry Creek,. $775.000. Elbert Gard, Paul B-ristqw, Wil- fo re . th~ . new year for an inter-, TULARE: Ccil1nty . Rd. 81} to 1iam ·F. Brown,' Bob· T. Mangum, view on- conl:.rait possibilities. H e · Mooney Bl:v_d., Sl.l 1J11 illion. James A .. Humphreys, J-i:enry N. ~ ith held meeting with us until.his _ TUOLUMNE : 7 mi. E . of Su,n- Pa checo and· J ames .Johnson. local manager ·was .back in fown- islaus C:O . .lin e to l\fontezurna Rd., Brothers ,X. VV. ·Patteson a nd L. c1fter the holidays. · $1.5 mUlimi. P. Eller were bot h injured wh ile The ne~v Safety Code for the ter· YOLO: Vaca,·ille-Dunnigan cut- working on Coyote Dam . \Ve are ~itory: went into eff ct last 'I'ues- off, $3 million. glad to report that they are both \day, January 1. Although a little o ut. of the hospital and doing fine. I late· for t hose who haYe passed on,. RED\IVOOD CITY, c ont r a ct Brother VV-illiam E . Simmerson .j neYerth.eless _ it is comforting to awat'c1e:c1 · .to B_elle ,Hanin Realty ,,·.ent ilitq the hospital on Decem - IKn ow that the code will _gi ve the Co., 1420 E. 3rd Ave., _San Mateo, ber .6th fo1' an opel:ation on his · Di'iision of Industrial Safety some $199,885, for canst. of new Police wrist and on December 31st the \ teeth in policing the islands _indus- Bldg. a cross from the City Hall, doctor released h im as well agairf. tries. This code will also , make Redwood Ci ty. B.l'other "Buck" Liberty is in the m anagement more cognizant of