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:__ __ .rj ENGINE:ERS -LOCAl l o- OPERATlNG - . . . • Vol. 19 No. 7 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA . ·,AUGUST, 1960 rs-- til e_ t
• • ·· lfSI c I N. • e-v. -- -· _·. . by AL CLEM, Business Manager 1 UTAH AGREEMENT .· . .A three year contract between Operating Engineers Local No. 3 and the utah Associated General Contractors has been ratified overwhelmingly in a· series· of mem· . bership m,eetings in Salt Lake· City, Provp, Ogden, Vern~l and Cedar _City. · -- . . · / Th~~ Agre·einent,_ effe~tive as ?f July l8th, 1960 and m effect until July 1st, 1~63 ~I!l br!ng • our Utah membership raises rangmg from .67c per hour. to $1.21 per hour. (On P1ledn~ng and Steel Erection the increase ,·valuable assistance. - · \__ . has been established at 476 Val_· amounts to more). The wage The _members of the Nego-1 encia Street, San Francisco 3, ! s,cales- and special cqnditions ap- t~atirig Committee - ~hich .con- California in conjunction ~i~b pear on page 3 pf this issue; and sisted of myself, President Paul i the _Health & Welf~re admim~ · :the entire contract is now being Edgeco_mbe and District Repre- t;ra~wn ~ T~e latest _m electrome • . . - . · _ 1 sentative Tom Stapleton appre- office eqmpment will re.cord t~e pnnted m booklet form, for ! ciated the assistance they re- work record of each member m- distri_buti~n to the members ceived, and in particular want dividually, for proper computa- First members of Local. 3 to receive p~nsions under the n~w workmg m the -State of Utah to thank the -members for their tion of · your benefits· when .you. Nm·thern California- Northern Nevada ·pensfon_ plan wert;) these who · will be _. cover~d under the confiqence and SlJ.pport! · · choose to retire. agreement. · - - h · · · f th 1 Stockto-n members sbo\vn getting their checks on Aug. 3. Pr~sent - new. - . IN. CALIF. - N. NEVADA . . As t e expenence o e p an ing the first checks here and in' the pictures below was ·Bro. AI The utah A.G.C. negotiations PENSION PLAN OPERATING -_ develops it will be studied and · Cie1i1, Local 3 Business Manager. Shown in this group are .6ro. covere_d a period of approxima- First pension payments this , it_ is anticipated th~t this plan - · · P~ m ; 'Pres. Paul Edg~comhe and the· following pensioners: wn-- .te~y eight weeks ~nd the com- month to construction membe-rs Will be revised and lmpro_ved as- . limn Bacon, Henry Brown, EriC Edenholm, John Eutaler, and m ~t.tee we ,dea~t With was. very of Op~rating Engineers Local 3 circumstances. war~ant ~n fu- Walter fi'Iills. ,_ fan . .. but, like all _ employ~rs . are the climax of several years ture years. It IS my mter;twn, as . .. watchf:Xl of their own m- time.and study to work out the I well as that ~f the officers ot te~~~ts, so I~ was a hard bar- best possible provisions. Local 3 to ultimately cover ev- gammg sesswn all tl!e way! Th .. . . · h' 1· ery single member in the Union. · . e mam pensiOn ac Ieve- . · . · STEEL ERECTION AND PILE- ment is the plan now activated, All members covered -~Y this DRIVING PAY SCALES NOW which covers all construction in- plan have been mailed cqpies of ~O ~W,1¥,7: B!c~]~0. ~0 • , Cc~LJ~: :- ctustry__ mt)mbers. ~ in~ Nm:tpern-: _a booklet , describing, th€;;Jnany : Because til:e wages of the Op~ California and Northen Nevada._ features of the. plant. I _would eratino· Engineers · in utah had Five· types of pensions ate suggest that you read this·book ~all e n ~so f~r behinq thos~ paid presently provtded: · NORMAL Ilet carefuily. If you d_on't have m Cahforma and Nevada, It was PENSION of $60 a month, pay- a copy you may obtam one at our aim to try to equalize them able to retiring members aged , the nearest office of Local 3 OR as 'nearly as possible. Although J65 . with 25 years of service; RE- ' by writing t o OPERATING EN we were unable·' to accomplish DUCED PENSION, for those r e- GINEERS . PEN$ION PLAN •• this fully, we did· equalize the tiring at. 65 with less t,han 25 ADMINISTRATION OFFICE, at wages for two classes. of work years' service; EARLY PEN- 4 76 Valencia Street, San . Fran~ Sacramento' ar?a's .new pensioners included Harry S. Cole, . .. steel erection a:nd pile _driv- SION, on r ~t irem ent at 60 or cisco 3, California. -Alvin J. Verser, King W. Walters, and Ray O'Kelly, shown her2 ing ... and we were success- over; DISABILITY . PENSION, · '· with Bros. Al Cle~, at left, and Paul E dgecombe at right. Checl>:s ful in closing the gap; to a great available after age 50 for. mem- . You may request a~ apphca were presented on A11-g. 4. ' degree in other categories. We, bers who qualify for Social Se- t~on f?rm for the ppnswn atany were ~lso able to .convince ·the curity . Disability Benefit; BA- ~Ime rr?I?- that_ office .. Your Un· employers that ·the Operating SIC . PENSION provided for I?n offiCla~s w~l~ be glad to as ~ Engineers were entitled·. to a members who retired during the SISt ~ou ll1 filll_lg for. proper good increase -because of the in- six years immediately preceed- benefits u n~er this Pe_nswn Pl~n creased efficiency of the equip- I ing Jan. 1, 1959. and to yrov1d~ you With anh ~I1- . ment and th~ special , skills of . The past pension credit ~ov~r- ~o~r.natwn whi_ch may be e P· . the· operators. --· . mg many or Local 3's old timers u · There was agreement in prin- ~ho will ret~ e on _reduced pen- In closing I would like ~o ac· I, ciple also on a modified hiring swn_s was wntten mto the plan knowl ~dge a letter received arrangement details of which ?eca11se the Trustees, both un- from Bro .. King Walters one or will be speil~d out by a commit- wn and employer, felt th!J.t they our old-timers. Bro. Walt~rs . tee of equal number from the were · entitled _to a pension-for · sent a personal letter .thankmg I union .and the . employers. the long years they have worked the Officers an~ members of ~- 1 - in the ·construction industry. cal 3 ..lor makmg the penswn _This was all brou~ht . about It is anticipated that 600 plan possible. In his own words . , . " · . · 1 w1th only -. one - sma~l JO? shut-- members wUl qualify for retire- he expresses his gratitude as fol- San Jose aiea s fnst pens:on~rs were John T. Banmster,; down for a very b~Ief time, af- rrtent this year and that, ulti- lows: "My head l~ghts have -i\lexander . Bond, Jame~ P~ttm, Albert Sharon, John. VanDorn, ter the Comp(,lny withdrew from mately, P-ension checks will be dimmed and my fuel pump runs O~car F. yeager. . Also. 1_n-p1ct?-re were Bro. AI Clem, at .left, and the A.G.C. and r:efused to nego- sent to 2,5oo retirees monthly . . slow ~ .. I sure need this pen· VIce-President J:.m·y Dowd, m background. Presentation took tiate with our union; the job The Administration Office sion for my work is done!" place Aug. 9. was picketed and nine of . our · · -- · brothers refused to cross the . TO ~AlE' t..ADI\eB.S Ipicket lin_es even though a great OFFICIAL NOTIC: ~ m : ~nn;.r\- · ·- • deal· of pressure was applied by SEPTEMBER the .Employer, Jor . whom many - · d. of them had worked exclusively 7 (Wednesday) Frisno, Labor Temple, 631 Kearney B1 v · the past twenty years. Ever-y 8 (T~ursday) · Ukiah, Labor _Temple; State Stret. • . member·of Local 3 in Utah owes 14 (Wednesday) Salt Lake, Teamsters' Han, 443 S. 6th E. _ this group a ·debt of /gratitude 15 , (Thursday) . R2no, Reno Musicians' Bldg., 120 W. Taylor and respect, as their ·actions HAVE YOU CAST YOUR VOTE ON THE PROPOSED BY- helped our cause a great deal. . · . · .. . ~ · . . . _ · . LAWS? ? ? If we are to preserve the democratic Processes w1thm Our gains were· 'the . achieve- ~ Loc~l No.' 3 an!l make ·the11.1 ~or~ suc~~ssf~liy it is. ~he ~uty of ment of · !JNI0N .TEAMWORK every -member · of Local No. 3 to exercise his Amen can nght to of the members vote on' .all issues presented to· you. THE MEMBERS . WHO 1 w)Jieh C()ns ~s te'd 1 in the bargaining unit, first of . SERVED ON THE BY-LAWS .COl\'IMITTEE WERE ELECTED BY _ . . _ __ ·' . ~11, lhe_n the 9fficer~ _of the U~ YOU. _Many months of thei'r time and 2ffort were devoted _to · , . Oakland- San Francisco area had the .largest· ~roup of_ firSt wn·, the r_epresentabves . and t~e comp-osing .this set of by-laws to protect. and benefit the member . pensioners. Shown here are George FreeJl1_an, Archie Vandewark, technical · staff. 'J;'hrough this ship, ... HQ:wever, the job-is not complete UNTIL YOUR VOTE Bm JK:Hb; L~s Mears, Lucius Bake~;~ Jot;) C1n-:rea, Joseph Guilmette,,; team_work.,, we developed a IS CAST! We urge you to protect your rights as a .membar' by . • Ca'!t'l Thomason/~illiam Jackson, Joe ~asler, K L; ' "Toby'~ Davis,-,-smoot_h· ~YC!,rking ma<:~ne with studying.. thes~ · proposed by-laws and marking and mailing your .. · H~!l'!l'Y :Oise!J., .George. '\V: ~t~vens, .. Chns, Inup~l, Charles. Plumb, t~e : d1stnc~ repr_eseptatwes.pro- ballot so that'it :Will be receivedin the post-offi~e PR~OR TO 19 __ James Jor.da~ , .W· E. Williams. . At extre,me ~~~h t _are ~us. Mgr. . vidi!J~ data< to ~t)~.Pgthe;t O).lr - ~ J\'I ; MONDAY, AUGUST . 2.9th~ 1960, at wbich_:tlme the Certified . AJ Cl~m, ·_ 'l:ho pres,ente!l t~~ J:rrst checl{,~ 1 . a~d ---~res:. Pau!. Edge-[ a;gumen._tl;i .. 'apd .. ~osa~ , ~ -s
RATES PER HOUR PILE DRIVING CI.ASS Effective Dates WAGE SCALES, CREWS, RAISING iiFICATIONS 7-18-60 1-1-616-1-6 STEAM 1 1-1-62 _6-1-62 1-_1-63* The following wage scales shall be effective on the GROUP I ------·--· --·------da.tes indicated:' ------:______$2.59 $2.66 $2.79 $2.87 $3.00 $3.16 GROUP I Chainman, Gradesetter, Partsman - Perma~1t Shop, Eepairman , . 7-18-60 7-i-61 !Helper--: Permanent &hop, ~dman Apprentic~ , (Fireman, Diler, Deddmnd) ------$3.36 $3.54 Apprent.i.ce (Fireman, Oiler ) Group 5 (equipment only) __ __ 3.46 3.69· · GROl.I"'P II ------...... 2.68 2.77 2_89 2.98 3.11 - 3.27 Apprentice (Fireman, Oiler) (Groups Asphalt Phmt Fireman, Bralieman-:-Locomotive, Elevator Opera- 7 & 8 (equipment only)3.51 3.69 GROUP IT ...... :...... _ tor, Fireman, Mat erial Loa-der or Conveyor Operator, Oil ...... - ~ ------...... 3.80 4.0Q er, Parts- Ope1·ator of Tugger man,-Fiel.d, Rep_.!lirman Helper-- Field Hoist (hoisting material only) GROUP ill ...... GROUP ill .: ...... 4.01 - 4.23' ...... ____ ------2.8! 2.92 3.06 3.15 3.28 3.47 Air C{}mpressor Opemtor, Boxman Deck Engineer or Mixer Box Operator .(con- GROUP cret-e o-r aspha-lt plant, batch plant), Concrete Mixer Operator IV ------4.31 4.54 ( ~kip Operating EngL"leers in lieu of ap . ype)-, Concrete Pump or P umpcrete Guri Operator, Engineer, Din- prentice tending boiler or compressor attached to i;:ey Operator, Generator Ope.1·ator (100 KW or over), Greaser, l\'lo- Crane piiedl'iver torman, Pump Operator, .Screedman Operator of PiledJ:iving rigs, skid or floating· 'and derrick . barges GROUP IV (A) ------· (appr entice required)' ------'------2.88 · _2.96 3.10 3.20 3.34 Heavy Duty Repa.iman & Weldei' (Permanent 3.51 - (BOOl\iS AND/OR LEADS LESS THAN 80 FEET :UV Shop) LENGTH!) GROlJP IV (B) · ------· ------~--- --·-- - 2.89 2.98 :5.12 3.21 3.35 3.53 Front End Loailer, rubber tired (Under 1 yard), °( p~rator of. diesel or gasoline powered Crane piledr iver 4.31 Hoist Operator- Without !boiler) 4.5~- 1 drum, Slip Form Pwnps - , · up to and including 1 cubic yard ratin..- (apprent.ice required) (BOOMS, INCLUDiNG JIB GROUP . V ------ANDi ------'--- 2.9! 3.0! '3.17 3.26 3.41 80 Au· Co-mpressor Operator (two or more compi'essors), Paven1ent 3.59 z:oLJ:DS, LESS THAN FEET IN LENGTH) V ------·------·------· 4.41 4.69· Breal(er Operator (Emsco & siltlilar type), Signalman, Small Rub- Operator of Piledriving rigs, skid or floating and derrick . barges( Apprentice required) · ' ~~rn~~~ Tractor, Towermobile Operator, Welding M:achine (t\VO GROUP VI ______: ____ ~ ------4•43 4•6'( _ GROUP VI ------Op~rator of. diesel or gasoline powered Crane piledriver · ------·------·------:... 3.10 3.20 3.3ropelled E leva-ting Grade Plane, Tractor leaders shall be the length of the leader column (tandem B. On diesel, or gasoline • crapers), Tu:rnapull, jeep, D'\V. 10, 20, etc (or similar operator) crane rigs with boilers attached the ere'': shall .c?nsist of two (2) Universal Equipment Oper:.ttor (Shovel, backhoe, dragline, d errick, Operating Engineers, and they 'shall derrick barge, clamshe r~celve a m_m.unwn of one~ ha-lf n-2) hour at double il, crane, gra.dall, etc.) (Under 1 'l4 yds.) 10 time (in addi· _(Oiler required) · ~ ? to their. yay fo1· stra;_g·ht time work) for raising steam on t.he ooiier and Oilmg the GROUP IX ------crane, ·when required before t.he start of the ------...... ,... :.,...... 3.31 3.!2 3.57 3.68 3.84 4.04 ()ftiief of Party, Motor Patrol, l'v!ucking Machine r~gular shift. 0~1 crane rigs with boilers detached, the Employee as« Operator, Sam·- Slgned to the nian Type Dragline (under 5 yds.) (Oiler b?Iler sha-ll receive said one-half ( ¥2) hour. required), Uni-versal C. On eqwpment Equipment Operator (Shovel, back'h.oe, dragline, derricl{, with a detached boiler, the crew shall consiSt de~rick of th~ee <3) Employee~ An Operating bar ge, clamshell, crane, grailaH, et.~ .) (1% yds. to 5 yds.) (Oiler : E-ngineer and an Appre ntice- ~ x•equired) and eith~r an Apprentice Engineer or, when the Employee in charge of the boiler O}Jerates-the hammer valve, a Group 4 Oper atin GROUP X ------.------g Engineer-. ------~------: ...... ------·------· 3.36 3.47 3.62 3.73. 3.89 4.11 D..,~v 10; 20 etc .. {tandem), Hig'hline Cableway Signalman . D. For an_:y -classification of work covered by this Agreement -fol!. whwh a classrfica.tion ·and G.-ROUP XI ------rate has not been specified the l'ate paid ------,------·------·--·------·--· 3.42 3.52 3.69 3.8(} 3.97 4.17 for such work shall be the prevailing- rate for such classificatioi1 JE[iit>-b. line C:ihleway Operat.ur (sig'na.lman · required) Foreman, L. 50 the area in which the work is being performed. in (T;ndem) Saurman type dragline (5 yds. and over) (Oiler requii·ed) E F · · · or raismg steam on any equipment , oo ...-..u ... u XII ------before a shift begins G·1"-" ------. ~------· ------3,57 3. .S9 3.85 3.97 4.14 4.37 Julyexcept 1, as1960, otherwise $3 provided, effective July 1, 1959, $3.13; Multiple .Engine E:i-rth Movers, Power Equip!)ient \yith .36; and effective July 1, 1961, $3.54 shall be paid.~ffoofive 1 shovel- F. Whene.ver !_1-n type •CQJltrols (5 yds. and over) "(two· oilers required), Remote Con- ~I~ployer -covered by this Agreement is requir• .rolled. Cranes .and Derricks (oiler ·required), ed to work Wlth plledrrvmg crew, he shall receive the same subsi~ Rubber Tired Scrap- tence and ers (35 yds. and over) . rate of overtime as is paid to the Piledriver. , . G. The Individual Employer agrees . . *-Five -cents- (5chper hop.r, .ol.' a portion of such amount, of the to accept the wage rates nego• increase in rates .effective on J:muary.J_, tiated July 1, 1962 between the Piledriving 1963 m'ay, a,t the (}ption of the u~on; ~ applied to Individual ~mployer payments Contractor Association for FUnd for Operating mto t?-e PensiOn .Tru~t Northern California and -. Operating Engineers IA:.ca-1 . Engineers, a'nd/or into· the Operating Engmeers Trust Fund for Utah No. 3 as the existilig to mmntam rates for the -period from July 1, 1962 to July 1, 1963. Health ,&.· Welfare benefitS. .· . · (a.) . The· straight time . rate . H. Employee shall be paid double his straight time of _all . Employees in a crew perfornung work With power eqmpment on rate for all which the bo.om, including fib, work before the shift starts and aft.er it ends,· and for all hours work• is eighty (80) feet or more in length, shall be fifteen (15) cents per hour over and , ;:tbove their rllgular· rate. e~ on ~tur~ays, Sun~ys) and Holidays. Except for all repair work ,. . (rncludmg (b) The straight time mte- of aU Employees engaged bmler. washing) one and one-half times the regular hourlJ: m underground work shall be twelve and one- _rate s~all be pmd for all half (12% )cents per hour over th~ above listed rates. work performed before a shift begins and · after It ends and for all REMOTE AREA WAGE SCALE: Saturday work. '· ' On any work performed STRUCTURAL STEEL & TANU: ERECTION - ~ distance greater than a 45 mile ~a.dius from any county seat, t_here be paid 40c per hour extra; shall WAGE SCALE & SPECIAL CONDITIONS exception Daggett Cow;ty. All work m Daggett County shall be pard 40c per hom:- extra. This Sub-Section "G'' to bectlme effective June 1, 1961. , Effec- Effec• tive tive 8-16-60 8"16-Gl' n.;.:~~ L Dotnft~ (lf>ftn~'d ~ I project for lVI. K. They are: ing cou_ntry. 1 : ~!~Y!. ~r;:~ ~~ --;;,;~d--t.;~~i~---~~:~~~~--- UhaU n~fPYd 6 t.v ll JJ James Beveridge, 65---t~~--~~:--j~-~~--~~j;-~~$4.335 $4.565 Harold Brat-~ Flammg . Gorge Dam stlll ity)- (Oiler-..._required) ,ol.ltinued from preceding pa,g-e) \ton, " tugger hoist, single drum hoist, • carl Briggs·, Robert Bruce, needs exper~enced cableway ?P· A Frame or Boom • . 'John Burdick Milan Burton Truck, Handi Crane, Boom Cat and Garff's erators so If you can qualify Chicago Boom · JOb at the B.Y.U., a skel- M Ch . t· ' H C d' please get in touch with the I e1 ns Iansen -arry o11 ar , . Salt GROUP · II ------4.555 4.795 eton crew a t Cws , Geneva. We 0 c· R' Crawler crane and truck crane (over 15 t-on capacity) haven't been able to find out mar C t Lake office. , D . k (O"l . d) Hi hi' onner, o~coe oun ry- R!~~fre~) 1 er c hen the next furnace will reqmre , g me ableway (Signa-lman man; Frank Chronmger, Harv~y SOUTHERN UTAH GROUP m ~art -Damelson, _ Clark De Long, Alvm Work in the South is going Truck Crane Oiler ------Rosenloff 3.505 . 3.695 M~x Construction ~~~~~,H~~~i~;~:,i~o~:;d ~~~~ ver~ good ne,w 3 385 3 56 wit~ se~eral_ j?b~ Oiler ______: ______:·------, SPEciAL- coNDiTIONS------,------' ' ri Company was low bidder on one rison, Joseph Hatch, Thomas gettmg starte the freeway . . umswn s J_O . 1. Operating Engine~rs and Oilers handling all equipment 0£ overpasses in H ft R L St at Jensen is going good With witft. owcro , oy awson, an- I b?~m (including jib) in excess of 80 feet in length shall receive an ada. Orem and several Brothers on this job. w. ditronal fifteen (15) cents per hour. Prichard Canst. Co. ford (Pete) Lunt, Burton Me- W Clyde and James Reed Com-! of Provo got the other. More 2. Employee shall be p~d . double his straight. time rate for all . Niel, Kay Mecham, Lewis Merk- · , . hours worked work on the Utah County sec- l E 1 M'll tt L 1 d lVI'll tt before the shift starts, and after rt _ends, and for all pany should oe gomg good on hours worked on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. ' ey, ar I e ' e an I I e ' their ]. obs at Moab and Mexican repair Except for at! tl··on of the free·way sho·tlld be R · l\rr·11 tt · K th M ' work (including boiler washing) performed before a shift be- ' oger ·1I e , enne oore, Hat. These two jobs should be gins and ' let this Fall. . · Vernon "Banjo" lV1orrill, Earl after it ends and o~ Saturday, one and one-half times the Brimhall-Rasmussen . d . . b L A y . cr' regular hourly rate shall be paid. has the Neumeyer, Neldon Nyberg, ~00 wmter JO_ s .. · : , ·.ade ·on Cox Bro·tlle·r·s ' ]'ob at D R J ou~o s 3. Employees covered by· this Agreement shall be compensated S h ltl ]Ob south of RIChfie-ld IS gettmg at the rate of $7.00 per each working oug · eeves, ay c u les, started and going good at this ula-r straight day (in addition to their reg· eber with a good crew of Un· Leonard Schultz, -time rate) when employed on any job more than thirty.. Andrew Shep- ·writing. Strong's job at Gien- five mile~ from the Individual ion men on this spread. We are herd, John Spickler, Bernard . - E!nployer's per1~1anent ya-rd or shoiJ- hoping to have . or fifty miles fl·om the Salt Lali'e City Hall. Co-x's men under "Red" Stewart Edward Stewart, ldal~ IS Bgomthg good wthrth. thbe Tfold· contract also in the near future. 4. An Individual E mployer within. the bargaining unit who per· ' W. J. Wiliamsen, George Woolf owmg ro ers o n e JO : e forms Strong, B. E. Troy, less than four (4) hours work in a day will be excluded from w, J. Smith & So~n has cut to Rapley Bird, these P~?visimJ.? . . _ " , and Bo-b ZeUer. lVI.K Co. has Keith Hepworth Errol Robin- . 5.• .iae ~ d C k D I been satis-~'ied Indivrdu~ E1:1ployer ag-rees to accept t':e wage rates -nego- well •¥ith the . J one. shift on theRe 1 t1ated oy tJ1e St-eel i
. -~ ~-••. .· ' ' By DON 'KINCHLOE, "TINY" LAUX, WARREN LeMOINE, NORRIS CASEY, TOMMY THOMPSON and DALE MARR, Business Repres~ntatives ) The Oakland· Area has finally picked up and started to -roll. soon as he picked up his scrap- '·; ,We have had many jobs that were of shott duration, ·still elinii er he was gone. , Hi~H;tin g'et·,~ hit : :nating the ·possibility of depleting the out-of-work list. There the upper bank and threw:'-thre _- were 550 men cleared in the month of July. _ tractor over the-side. · ' The· outlook for this area looks very good _for the-rest of the. Fortunately Brother Ed .. .was '' year. _ thrown clear of the rig. Be,-of . -·. Peter Kiewit was the low bldder on the MacArthur Freeway course, hit hard and often::: In . , with a contract of-nearly $4,000;000. As- yet we ·have not had a -the process of all this he s'W~l~ < pre-job conference but expect to very soon. lowed his tongue and by tlie-; . ·_· : Again we -wish to-- urge you and your family' to make .an effort time_ the other brothers . real!n..i... to donate blood to the Engineers Blood Bank Appointments may ed h1m he had no pulse aqd 'v;a,. · be made by calling OLympic 4-2924. The Engineers Blood Bank purple. ·Had it not been for is depleted! three of our qui c k thinkirJ:g · :.;: These conditions have caused · * brothers . who had en 0 ]1 g h . them first to bring in pumps to Gallagher and Burk has chang knowledge of first aid, to fore~ .. dry, . and second ed their quarry operations from keep the ciitch his mouth open, pull up his excavating pipe the Rock, Sand and Gravel to keep the tongue and give him artificial back filing equip agreement to the A.G.C. con placing and respiration. Bro. Swan would bunched up together. struction agreement starting ment not be with us today. He started the first of July~ This has re- Such circumstances, of course, breathing again an d natura]ly suited in a very nice increase in- mean slow progress but even so was taken to the hospital where pay for most of the men em- Young and Anderson have been he was x-rayed all over. No crawler with a 4 112 yard bucket. played there. Brother Harold able to stay close to schedule. THIS HOE is an American 995 broken bones were found and a The operators Burk is in charge of the opera- To open up the ditch Young It is run seven days a week and three shifts a day. week later he was back to work J. Is ley. The oilers are Howard tions with the following meri in and Anderson are using the are J. R. Curtis, R. C . Hans and E. with a very sore tail bone and. t A E 1 t b 1 h ·1 bl · th Reed, B. C. Perry and M. Strable. h1g11. ' gear., D an 'Stree , . . arges ac c oe avm a e m e ------a few faint scars. Peach, Paul Waznick, Jim Kecy, country. This backhoe is an from the last writing. The * ~ Le slie Kayte, George Arlett, Vir· American 995 crawler with a Canal and one over Grayson much Brothers, this .man was lucky. will call bids work is good, however, there gil Armstrong, Earl Baxter, -4% yard bucket. Creek. The state Please observe your safety reg are no big jobs starting. There Jack Bilodeau, Tom Brown, With the large bucket it takes in August and award the con ulations and stay with us! You s m a 11 jobs J ohn Collins, ·Tony Castro, Duke the backhoe just minutes to tract in September. Construc are a number of may not be so lucky. Ferreia, Alvin Foster and De- open up the 16 feet wide l2llz tion will take about a year. around. You can look almost and see 0. C. Jones, * * * wayne Johnson. feet deep ditch. After the ditch '' ~' ''' anywhere Fessenden is busy as a beaver 1 Immel or Ransom Co. * * ~' has .been brought down to ap- The Board of Supervisors Lee J. up on Skyline Blvd. doing the couple blocks of street Brother Lowethen Scott, Shop proximate grade a crane with a awarded the second of three ma paving a excavation and grading for a or a parking lot. These compa Supt., at Bay Cities Equipment clamshell moves in to bring the jor contracts in the $642,000 new "country club." About 15,· nies are not doing any big work, - has a crew of ten men busy in bottom to final grade and to emergency flood control proj 000 yards to be moved with Ir managing to keep all their yard at ·the present time also place filter material in the ect fof Walnut Creek. The con but are vin Hadenfeldt, Carl Riblett and hands busy. and it looks as though they will areas where - ground water tract went to Parrish Brothers their old , John Preddy doing the work. be busy for some time to come. makes this necessary. Company of Benicia It covers * :;: * .Brothers Thomas Beatho, J o e The pipe sections are being : channel reconstruction f r om The Bechtel job at Hercules, Independent Construction Co. Campbell, Bob Caruth, Marion placed with a 1201 Lima 70 ton Arnold Tndustnal Highway to seems to be going along smooth- with Neal Taylor as superinten. Ciochon,_ Henry Klinkhammer, which is laying 25 to 35 joints Willow Pass Road. ly. There are a lot of stories as dent, are moving some 75,00'i'l Allen Koivisto, Walter Levings, a day. Brothers Johnny Hunter The board previously award to how long this job will last. yards off 82nd Avenue. Brother Stan Lewallen, Herb Post and and G. w. Smisek are the op- ed a contract to Winton Jones, No one seems to know for sure Feuer he 1m, Scott Swanson, George Severe are bustmg nuts ' erator and oiler. I Concord, for channel work be how long it will run. The fo llow- Squfl,rzino and McGary on the 1 uipment. and keeping things humming 1 The 87 inch pipe is made of tween Bancroft and Wi~low Pass ing brothers are on this job. eq along at a -steady pace. steel plates which are being fab- i road t_o a pomt six miles from Ray Butterfield, Johnny Piper, ''' * (' ~, * * ' ricated in South San Francisco I YgnaciO Valley Road. - Cliff Wilkins, Harold Craig, At this writing a prejob con- Fredrickson and Watson's by the Consolidated Western * * Floyd Johns and Jim Bankhead. ] ference is being sched'uled for shop, under . the direction of Steel Division of U. s. Steel. VOLK-McLAlN ,, ,, ,,, · the Peter Kiewit job on the new master mechaniC C. W. Stephen- After the cylinders have been COIVIIVIUNITIES Standard Oil is still s 1 0 w. McArthur Freeway in Oakland. son is running along smoothly formed and welded the pipe is Volk - McLain Communities , Badger still has a few months This section is the portion of with the crew apparently happy transported to American Pipe Inc., one of the five largest to go. With the exception of the .Freeway b et~een the 1\'!0se and busy. The crew consists of and Construction Co. at Hay- builders in the country, have a Badger there is little other man and the Atkmson sectwns. Brothers Clark Yarough, Sandy ward where the interior is con· development called San Ramon work. Of course, George Peres .At the peak of the _j ob t here Sanders, John Davis, Pat Patter- crete lined and the exterior is Village. The location of this de Co. and P.M.C. have their usual will be about 20 engmeers on son, Okie Crandell and John Re- first wrapped with reinforcing velopment . is in Alameda and amount of off plot work. the payroll, according to J.
1960 PAGE F~ AUGUST, ..... ·- • ., . fitkSt . .. ~~ : Jose , Oistriet : . J' b s B_y A;.J. HOPE, DANN\' 0 . DlEES and WiVI. HARLEY DAViDSON; Busin:ess.· Rep!·esentatives a ·0; s,' . fa\( in_ High The demand for m~n ' cturing the past month bas been good. The Newell Dam, lQcated at Ben .P. eninsu J . / ,Lomond .has put .o.n .the seco!).d shift again, which took a nu.mbe.~; of the· Brothers off the "Out-of- vVork'l list, and · several large projects have been started which 'have also helped to shorten the c All R'" A~- ~A · = · - list. :ve still . h ~ ~~ e too long a .list of unemployed Brothers for this time of the .year, but' the pic- ea~~~ .~~ ig\: : · re· ( mou~n g . · . . . ture rs . much. bnghter t han rt ...... G i .J · t V. E near the hrgh ·gear on . their by-pass JOb . _ · • . • · • . - . - tl · ·· cr , . their new sub-divrsron 1 Johri Delphia are By BILL RAN~Y an~ DAN MATTESON, Busmess RepresentatiVes was a, m~m_. _1 : ~ ~o . . . . : I.B .M. Plant on Monterey Road. I in Gre.~n r"ield . 1 11 1 paving or: their job at So~ e _; _ ~he _ ~a st tw? weeks prior to this writing has shovyn ~~~tle. ~ctiv- j ~razz~. f~ \l n~g bha~et~l: encr: e ~ I Tl1ey al~o are doing the grad ~ng still on the Branden JOb dad but expect to b~ completed . ·· ~t~ m dispatclung. It seems as though everyone Is strckmg to 1 ar: e~ u.Ip~~entf _ps:,. - lOl~~· lOU land pavmg recent.) P.l!f· \ ar Tropicana V illa g~. in the near future. _·. · .their job, and tha_t employers have had every rig manned. I ai_e area. ·· _us ~~p) 1 expect •• Berger Coastwide have. susp.ended mas~ o~ their w a r~ and have I ~~a~e~ the l~rgest . and. mos: u~ I P& E _Con.str uctwn Co~12any Madonna (:qns~ruction . 0 work on their _job at Qnly a very small crew frms~m g up their JObs. Their problem . . : e Ssenu ~pe · serv{Ge tr.uc_\. are puttmg m the sewers and ~o start very soon. This job seems to stem from . underwnt- ~ · , · _- . - ~ m t · e p.nta l~r~ Va ley._I ,t IS,tstnrm sewers for Branden Con- San Juan 011 put a : n~tmber of _· "in_g .· · at p: :rery ·high couldcr cl~e.v ~he, San. Mate~ ~apable of c~nymg. ,~ ufflCl en: struction. At th.e present time sliould qui~ e pro~lems Brothers to work. . level. This company's very good ' ~?lleae Job. It didn t seem pos oas . ~ nd fuel to senrc~. then ; Branden are usmg three D.W. the Building srole, that 9Iey ~auld comp-lete I ~qm~~e;lt fo~ - t~- o. da~s withou: i -21's, tvio. IO 's and five cats ni . recor.d ~v ith ~he Tr~des BROTHERS been· du'e· to very: able ~uper- on trme;, Thrs yomts out an old r efld~n 0 . , T+1I$, r,s ~mt~ an ac , constructmg the house pads. . ·ABOUT THE has Bright eiijoy· vision. It is ·,obvious ·to . this adage,_ that rf Y?U treat y.our c?mphshment consrdenng the Oscar Holmes of Menlo Park Br'otlJ.er Ver~on extremely Happy Birth writer that their current prob- men, nght, th:y ~vrll prod uc~ for size of_ the co1~pany's spread. were the low bidde·rs on a $738, .. ed · an Brothel' Bright has bee:n lems stem from some . ·other you. Brother Jim Kelley oa~h- Brother Pete Bun.Jm rs _the com- 460 contract for the construe- day! by the Ed Keeble sources. It is probable that ;they ered a fme. cre_:v around hun. petent _greaser on ,,the remarl_{-. tion of Permanente and Stevens employed co: e P?-St 25 years. . On his will be going into the Building and saw_to rt tl~at they s~ay:d. a.b l~ piece of .eqmpment. Tlus Creek Outfall. This consists of f~r th Mr. Keeble pres ~nted · and Real Estate Business rather !he ma]?l~ ,portion of tlus JOb firm was Igw bidder. ?D a $20 5 , ~, the widening and rerouting of b~rthd~y, 1 a new G.lVI.C . pickup than to continue in the dirt :should ~'llla up m a couple of 924 co ntract-for the resurfacmg the existing c hannels. hl!ll wrth I watch. Many more Happy moving. vveeks. , and emprove,ment of 3.5 .miles - and a The brothers on L. C. Smith's I of Highway No. 17, betweenLos· SANTA CLAR_;\,;, MT. vmw Birthdays, Brother Bright! Phil Marquiss stop- • ' Buzz Haskins crew has !Jeen freeway job are really _produc- Gatos and the Summit. They AND PAL~ ALtO. Brother ). ob on this spread is plan _t_ o use n_1ostly blades and A. J. Raisch Pavmg Company ped into the office last week. ' moved a few hundred yards in£. Every d d 1 t t from the Callan Tract to a two- ~ s 1Brother Marquiss has b,een con· . a ~ld-a -h alf - million job for Stone- extremely hazardous. Six lanes compactors em this job, which 1 :ve:e a war e s.. eve ra con r~ c basis, u_n- 11_n chis area. At che p~esent tune 'fin_ed . to the_ hospital for the of high speed traffic is dusting will go. on a two. s. hift "" son. It seems there is quite a tl 1 $32 250 and it was ~ a pleas· row -over which City this tract their pants off every second of der the supervision of Brother: 1 ley are -vvor nn~ on a , . .l-' ast month see him on his feet should be in. It is hoped by -the the day. So far no serious ac- John Matus. All equipment I contract forgi:admg a_nd pavmg ure to cidents to any engineers. Keep must be off the highway by 4 of the playf1el_d for girls at the again. . r· A. C. Lambe-rt llas time that this is printed the an- p.m. o-n "l<'r·r·da"s, dlu e· to the Santa Clara Hrgh School. They Brothe ... -, J 1 tl 1 b'dd nexation problem__yvill be solved, y our eyes open. from the hospi- and it will be full. steam ahead Lowrie got a surfacing job heavy week end traffic. They a so were le ow I ers on a been released is feeliri.g fine again. again. If" so, it looks like Buzz $150,000 dow'n near San Gre- also are putting il1 the base ma- contract for the. Improvement of tal and sorry to report that will have to buy more rigs and gorio and it will be- interesting terial on Hillsdale Ave. , and ex- Arques Street m Sunnyvale m We are Tony Nunes, Ezra hire more engineers. to see how they keep the hot pect . to start paving on this job the amount of $272,485. Brothers and John Moore are still , Nick Ratkovich has finally stuff hot. · in a couple of weeks. Piazza A. M. Campbell of Santa Ana Smith ick list and hope that gotten started on his airport. He· L. C. Smith picked up a half Paving also working· on the,w!d - have begun work ·on therr $4,· on the s will be well on their was moving the dirt with two million dollars runaway job at ening of Aluri1 Rock Ave. , and 934,045 _.contract on_ th~ Bay- soon they recovery. Brother Rich- 54 B's and one model ·6. Now it the San Francisco Airport. This the New Almaden Freeway in shore Highway. ~his wrll ex- way to , Conn and Robert Rigglefo-rd . • seems he is going to try a couple should keep a lot of engineers addition to numerous sub-divi- tend .6.1 1:mles, With the con- arc! still in the hospital. - of Kolman Loaders. We also going for awhile. I sions throughout the area. They structron of acces_s roads and are FORGET THE BLOOD hear that some disgruntled bid- 0 . C. Jones of Berkeley were recently started work on . their overpasses. The drrt work has DON'T ! During the month of ders are creating roadblocks on low bidder f~r road \V o~·k for new qtiarry, which ·will employ been subbed to V. R Den.ms. BANK did not have a donor" this job. . . . the Aragon Hrgh· School m San four men. They already have Br~ ther Pat Callahan rs operat- July we Brother Gordon Blaine is still Mateo. three . other quarries in opera- mg the . n,ew 25 ton P & H pushing his utah spread at San Mateo Office was mighty tion. Truck-Crane for Campbell Co., South San F~ancisco .Ind~!st~·ial !oH y~ :-? _see ,Bro. qeorge. Baker A. J. Raisch Paving Comp~ny :~ith Brother Charles Beebe as 0 Job Awards Tract, on a. lui and mrss basis. a.? to. tne 1'l_lam office .. ~Ie have started _work on their JOb I : ler . . . ba~k ENTO, contract was The utah Dredging Company's did a fme JOb_ while he was WI~h at the San Jose Airport. Santa 1 °· E. Anderso.n and Wrlhams SACRAM d to Peter Kiewit Sons' Dredge FranCisc'an is finally in I us and t,here Is no ~oubt he wrll Clara Sand & G1:avel ,;,;ill fur- ; & Bu.rrows, a ]Omt venture, are awai·de 0 F. $3 ,806,235, for abt. 1.:1!. from Long Beach. They ran into I d? equa1:Y as well m San Fran- nish the base material on this I v;ork~ng ~ the ~onstructl~~ ?f Co., S. tog. w-frtg. rds., strts. some extra . work down there Cisco. Bro. Da~ Matteson, who project from the City Pit to ' trle Foothill Jumor Colleoe m mi, fr.wy. . for 4 b ridges & that held them up. By the first I~as b.een a Busmes~ Representa- Alum Rock Ave. Brother .Al Los Alto~. , . etc. subst:t:uets wnUs, in Oakland, of September there should be a trve_ I~ Sa n_ ~rancisco for two Dalton is the chief operator i~ Bahr . Cl ~edoyen . ar~ domg 11 retain vmg and gradmg on the ALAMEDA co .. (IV·Ala-5-0ak' crew of or 60 Encrineers years rs now m San Mateo and the p"t "tl1 111 . - D-8 t A the pa 1 50 "' "ll b d · I · b t t th t I WI s new ca · · · k. l t f tl P l A ' contract was around the clock widen- wr e mng us e~ o se~ a J.· Raisch are also working on par mg o ·or le ~ o Ito . SACRAMENTO, • working to Stolte, Inc., Oakland, . ing the Redwood City Harbor. you mem?ers . gee . con~Im~ed · · ., Club House on Page Mrll Road. awarded .97 con- 106 965 for abt 0-8 mi A 4· Months ago it seemed as good service, m tlus distnct. . . . . They also- have a $57,3 :n1 " ' I 1 M t D ·work m additiOn to therr work t f h · f · 1 ' ' ' ' rade &• brdg. c• onst., Com- vv e come .o s_an a eo an. . . . . _ ract ~r t e e~tensw n o Vrlla lane rdwy. g t ~ ough the Wunderlich CO. : pany had bit off more than they Your Busmess Representa- week. :hrs will. be atv the regu I Street m Mt. VIew. HUMBOLT tives have just completed necro- lar sti aight · tune ~ate. The I Sondgroth Eros of Mt View tiating a contract with the B~r- check will be made o~t to t~le are making good progress. in the . ~~N FRA,NCISCO , contract Ave. , now aided to s. MaCOJllbler, -.Oak Ia nd .Repor _t . ber Greene Company in So,uth employee and the Umted Cru-1 widening of Mathilda a\~ ~red San Francisco. This is a nice sade and maybe earmark~d for ' that all the Public Utilities have FI esno, $1,0. 9, 900, for const.. • d new shop that will no doubt any one of the 23 agencres by Ibeen .removed. altus. _to ~- F. ~tate Bldg., 359 .·.C Qn 1•tnUe gro.w. W~at with. all the resur- the man_who 'Yorked. . ' The Dutra :predge Company, Mc~ll~stet St., City & Co, of San tinued from preceding page facmg gomg on m the County, '£he boss Will t~en send m with their dredge the "Alame- Fra Cisco. Con t by _such Contractors as L. C. ?O l'o of whattever tl~~sb mt.en mNak~ . da;" is bu ~ y opening up - the M?dUdNTtAINW~lli~W, C&ont!ac e o I Iams our~ . knocked the almonds with his Smith, Douglas & Woodhouse, m a separa e con ll u ron. o_r-. channel for t he two flood con- awai_· d b 1 rows, 500 Harbor -Blvd. DelmQnt wi r~gs, wrecked one nice air- Lowrie Pavincr Fisk Firenze & mally there are no hours _avarl- t 1 . t b . 0 0 without ro Hprlo]ec sThemAgl oned ~ b, s- & 0. E. Anderson Inc., (JV) P.O_· . .. ;!Jlane, broke his .nose and· near- McLean Brag'ato :Pavincr and able during. th~ week I car o mes·. e a me a IS e- · · ·· · · . , . o · . Box 2.51, San .fose (BASE & ly put the dusting Co. out of many others they will probably It comn_1g out of your regular . . d b f' d . " · ' · . t· S t lmg manne y a me crew an ALTS) f or const., 'of . Foothilll ... usiness. He woke_ up half of wear out their paving machines c1 1ec 1 {, 1:.0 we 11ave se up a ur- sk· , b in Los Altos Hills. $1,· . 'J3rentwood and gave an ambu- and Barber Greene will sell day morning, September 17th lpper. College CRUZ, SALINAS 891,576. 'lance some business. 1 them some more and hire more as "C" Day. Please set aside this.-! SANTA FRANCISCO, G_ontract B.RO.- FRAN WALKER IS engineers and s~ on and on ad day for this worthy cause anrl AND IVIO_NTEREY . SAN awarded ta L. C. .Smith Co ., San : ~LECTED TO EXEC. BOARD _infinitum. teU your employer you will be Work. m S~nta _ Cru~ at this , $555 ,043, for pvmt. re- · At the Oakland district meet- Fisk Firenze & McLean Bra- there so that he can program report rs gettmg m h~ gh gear. Mateo canst. & runway ext. at S.F. Int. ~.~g, on . August 11, 1960, Bro. g(!to Paving· and many others, the ~ork . Let us show the com- The Newe~l Dam has put on the Cor:.tr .. No . 265 . . , , ·wl·an Walker was elected by a they will probably wear out mumty and the other crafts that seco.ncl shift and Ed K~eble IS Airport. 0 . JOSE, Contract w as ·large, majority to ·replace Bro. their ' paving machines and we can keep up our end. gettu?g a go?d start on hi~ High- SAN awarded to Oscar C. · Holmes ;~orr is Casey, newly-appointed Barber Greene will sell them BLOQD DONORS FOR THE way JOob, wrth more eqmpment Inc. P. 0 . Box 788 Menlo Park r ·business repres~ntative, on Lo- some more and hire more en- MONTH OF JULY: Julian Olsen, coming in. Valley Engineers , . for . const. Perman: · ,eal 3's .· Executive Board. The gineers and so ~ and on ad in- John R. Nolan, Richard J. Nolan , have begun work on their pipe- $73S,460 0 Stevens Creek Outfall: ,Tellers reported the following finitum. · · Jr., Joseph Aguilar, Carl Warner Iline job which extends from ente and View Slough, Zone NWcl _e]ectioil resui.ts to the meeting: San Mateo's "C'' Day, Sch~duled and James E. Simmons. Wate1~ Sh:eet in Santa Cruz to Mtn. -West) Proj. No. 1 & por- _ Fran ·walker, 186; Ira Jon~s, 75; for Saturday, a.m .~September DE P 1} T Y REGISTRAR 1 t~e f1ltenng Pl.an on Grah~m (North No. 11 of Santa .R. M. ."Bud" Rich, 12; E1nmet · · 17th! AVAILABLE IN THE SAN Hill Road. Gramte ConstructiOn tion of Proj. Co. Flood Control & Kelly, 7; Jerry Cook, 7. Construction Division of the MATEO OFFICE . . . ARE YOU is showing good progress . on Clara ervation District. Our sincere congratula'tions to Vnited Crusade in conjunction REGISTERED TO VOTE IN their pipe-line job from the fil- Water Cons ER AFB, Contract was .l!lro. Walker. We know he will with all the Building Trades THE FORTHCOMING GE"N- tering plant to the Newell Dam. MATH to Southern & Harvie~ be a credit' to our district a'nd Crafts will again dri_ve for 100% ERAL ELECTI0N? P & E Construction are putting awarded Beach, $689,762 fOr will serve the members faith- participation of the industry in For the convenience of the the finishing touches to- their Co ., Long t. SAC Missile Facils., .fully. this most important _community members, their families and pipeline job in Santa Cruz, and cons * ''' ''' endeavor. This is the one \'lay friends, your San Iviateo office expect to start on their new un- Mather AFB. Spec. 2678. Contract . award· Due to ·an error on our part I that everyone can give a large n ow has a p ermanent Deputy derground job at Aptos · in a ALAMEDA, James E: · Roberts Co·., we omitted Brother Earl Know- . generous amount to · 23 worthy :f\egistrar ·;,vho can register any- couple of weeks. ed to , $529,700 for Co-nst. les' nanie on the list of broth- charities without one cent com- one eligible to vote, in. San Madonna . Construction have Oakland Lum El. School, Ala· working in Walnut Creek ing out of your weekly check. Mateo County. Take advantage started their Plant Mix job at Donald D. ers , for Vinnell U. y. K. Brother We must all give to those less of this facility and IF yo u or Big Sur. This job will last about meda. AFB. Contract was Earl is the oiler on an Ameri- fortunate than ourselves, and anyone kno\:V n to you is n6t one month. The Brothe-rs are BEALE to Southern Waldrip & • can truck crane, while Brother we never know when we may be properly re'gistered . ' .. have making a lot of o\T-ertime on this awarded in the job but as there is no place to Harvick Co., Long Beach, $700,~ Troy Manzer operates. one of these unfortunates. Here them contact the girls 1 Missile Fa· ''' ''' -, is the way 'to do it. The em- San Mateo Office between the !live in this a re~ , they are sleep- 000, for const. SAC Eng. 04-167: BLOOD DONOR p~oyer \Vill rr:ake available to hours of 9 ~.m. and 5 .p.m. l\'I on - ~ ing in t?eir cars. . , cil. at Beale AFB. . . Bro. . '\Cactus Jack'-' Johnston. h1s employees four hours of day thru Fnday. Frednckson & Watson are in 60-38. AUGUST, 1960 ENGINEER'S NEWS PAGE SEVEN ROSA-UKIAH AREA WORK JUST FAIR By RUSSELL SWANSON Business Representative This area has not been so for• tunate as many of the oll1er • areas, in that we do not have• numerous million dollar jobs. However, we do have a number of smaller jobs with just a few· of those big jobs thrown in. I would imagine the most inter esting job which has just been awarded in Lhis area is the Guy F. Atkinson freeway job be twee11 Santa Rosa and Wil:dsor which should start any time. The bid was just short of $4,· 000,000. But this sounds a l_ot better than it actually is so far Ias Engineers are concerned. Presently it is our understand• ing that a small spread 0£ jeeps will be used with tb.e majority I, of tile hauling to be done witb trucks. Naturally there will be a number of Engineers; but Brothers, please don't coma flocking in, for this same com• j pany is just fh1isbing a job at. Healdsburg and the same broth ers in all probability, will be Imovlng right over to this new job. It is reported that Hien Broth• ers from the East Bay will be doing the clearing with Atkin son doing the rest of the work. At this writing we have not ha :.it u a,. I~n a" sh1)ve . Durmg the month a total of 389 men were dispatched from this office, which is pretty good shape. 1 ------_a recotd or some sort. or th2 other for the lVI.arysville area. . · The Ruth Dam has been let i Plant is working a full cre w, . . , . Despite the gi·eat increase in . · -~ at last, as we stated . last hours. Their plant 1 111 gooc~ is fur- (llspatchmg, the list of "A" Op- ready-mixed concrete plants are 11111 bl k t erators remained a ·m_ ost at tlle ·1 9 · .:. b r - 1 t dl month's article this job was let ms 1L •Meef• ; ' n~~ .N 11% t"~r@s ow mg a ong a a goo y pace in fOllr parts. " !e do not have Companyg wac_ho IS?P resurfacingto the H9oker Hi- : sa~ ed height due to many men u · . ~u~ V gfw~ and the prospects are, accord- the figures yet, v~ut we do know way 101 between ~lamafh . an.s1., ' ou sr e the area · registering in; REGuLAR QuARTERL y ing to Feports made to us , that Norman L Fadel is the low bid- the 199 & ~01 J.unctron north • Many of these, of course, will be DISTRICT:- this will continue as long as the der oil three parts which r'n- Crescent Crty. reported as workmg before we . . wea~her permits. get around to giving' them a, .MEETING: "The next _ineeting GOLD DREDGING: dude the dam itself an(j all the McDonald Young & Nelson; call. __ _ J wrll be held Thursday, October Tl - roads_ .to be conl?t.ructed,. The general contractor, is worl.~_·ine: _ 1ere isn't much new to re- tl ~ _ At the presellt, although we 13th at 8 p.m. in Marysville. · · port in this industry. The com- othei· part is the cleadng on on 1e Safeway building at Cres· are "(ml· tim_istic ab_out tl·te worl' C 0 M lV'r I TTEE·. pa . " t'll . l t f which Trisdale _ , GRIE~ VANC E , ~ m"s are s 1 movmg a 0 0 • lo w. These jobs ofhave Redding not been is 111g~ent tCityhe . excavation,Arthur B. SiriwhiCh is- do-is ' - GUtbl l oukf :now and in the foresee- 'I;his very important committee dirt and we are sure that occa- awarded at this time but we do , nearly compelted at this. ti.me. a · - ~ :nture in this area, we ai·e which is now up to full strength sionally J hey glean a litle gold not 'anticipate any change, 1 but ~ercer-FFaser did the piledriv· advmng the !mmy who inquire .meets every Thursday at 7 p .m. in the process. Natomas Com- anything can happen when a mg for this job. · not t o move mto this area. We in the Engineers Hall 1010 pany is expanding their shop b" d · 1 D 1 1 do this because although· the ."Ey e" Street, Marysville.' i work at Folsom by bringing in . I lS et any one part or all b '+ t' . 4 schedules where in e P lia-Early & Crow at Trin· . the owner idad is in the finishing stages _l ~ _s i . ~:~-1 0 1; Is mudl improve~, : Y_ UBA CONSOLIDATED GOLD I1 som.e, outside work, but these ma? take each one separately of completing their job, with a t he1e Mll oe only a cert&-m : FIELDS· Th ·b , . , · doesn t help us as c:nother un- t t 1 b' ll · number of jobs ai1d we have no j : llr·s ·.t ~11 . memterMsmpd of., ion has the bargaining rights to or 111 o a com mation which sma crew still employed. _ ... . L1 um - WI mee 1 on ay 1 ever way _it comes out you can Me_ rcer-Fraser Company assm- ance b at there Will lae · A t 22 19 0 . ' the shop. t d tt i. _jobs £ ~r everyone whQ desire to I a1~ldgu7s30 ' - ~ taht 1E0:3~ a.m. IPETERSON TRACTOR. NEW' res assure we have a lot of ~u 111g on sub-base in pr epara: come P'to the ~rea - . p.m. 1n e ngmeers- YOR!'( l'iii\CHINE SHOP wo rk to do here. · twn for laying -the cement .• ·.' a • . Hall Marysville - • - " - · ' ~ Mercer-Fraser and Morrison treated base. e ter walt, B t -vve say, until you . ' · · 1 AND OTHER SHOPS: · are· assured .a job -before going ROCK,_SAND AND GRAVEL, 1 Peterson Tractor is banging Knudson (join_t venture) ·were Mercer-Fraser Company set ~o · the expense of moving. Also E!C: Thrs membership-meeting along at about the same pace, the low bidders on the Fields off the coyete holes in their 1f we r un short the word will will be held Friday, August 26, which means, apparently that Landing Freeway, already have quarry, from which they will se· get out and-then it will be time 1960 at 8:00 p.m. in the En- the· height of business is good. three (3). cats in there doing the cure rock for the jetty job at enough fo r such moves. gineers Hall, l\~arysville. · Anyway we know that you find stripping and taking off t h e the entrance to Humboldt Bay. wo. ~K STARTING OR NATOMA.S COMPANY· Meet- the brothers working out of this brush, by the t ime this goes to The various gravel plants in Al\'h.RDED: ing cancelled on acco ~nt of shop about everywhere we have press they should have some the Arcata area ar ,wor:king, Frazier and Davis started Labor Day. · work going. . . rubber tired rigs on the move. slow but part time. T unnel No. 1 on the Western New York lVIachme are optr- The Fortuna by-pass is to be Eureko Sand & GravelJ1ave Pacif_ic Railroad relocation job GLAD D ING, lVIcBEAN AND mistic that the upsurge of work let the 24th of August which installe da new crusher . and Monday, Aug. 7. Howard O'Dell C~I\'J:PANY : Industrial S_ouncil is going to mean a good season will put some more of the broth- washing plant. It is now i~1 op· is to head up the job. Baldwin Jomt ·Board meets Tuesday, for them. They report a good ers in a good state .of mind for eratron. to better serve the Ar· . Contracting co. of Marysville September ,_6, 1960 at 4:15 p.~1. amount of work has come in some time to come. cat a and Eureka plants. ' 1 .awarded the construction of a 1 m the ~fn ce of the Council, from . the Oroville-Wyandotte Morrison Knudson going along Mercer -Fraser Company s~ wa ge disposal plant by the' j. L~1c o l n . THE _GE NE:aAL IVIEM; project.· full blast at Weott on 101: Hi way, keeping a full crew busy at Es·i. LE1C-. a Water District. Bid price B.!!.;RSHIP metmg will be hela The contractors shops are Stolte likewise on the bridge at sex crushing rode and makincr \ vas $414,165. This company f :uesday, September 13, 1?60 at about the same level with the Myers Flat. black topj at their batch planL was also low on 4.3 miles of · 2 :.30 p.m .. - a~d 4:15 p.m. 111 the exception of H. Earl Parker, Westbrook - lVI.K. 9-lso going 1 Several engineers are em· r oad on the Butte County High- Crty Audrtonum, Lincoln. which has . been slowing down along fine with 2 shifts at ployed on rented equipment on way between Datton-Buran Rd. CONCRETE PIPE PLANTS: for months, although some of Bridgeville. Too bad this isn't the Honor camp job on Lord El· and Chico. Bid was $264,298. Th!s unit meets Monday, Sep- the brothers are still hanging a biger job, it's going to be way ~ is mountain on Hiway 299. G. S. Herrington of Auburn tember 18, 1960 at 8:00 p.m. in on and Walsh Construction Co. too short, but every little bit Tnmty Construction Co. have was low at $177,632 on 1.1 mi. the. Engineers Hall, Marysville. in Oroville which has experienc- helps. completed removing slides west -?f 2 lane highway and bridges ALL OTHER lVI E E TIN G s ed a slump recently. · The rest of the work in the I of Willow Creek and are now m G lenn County. Shanley Con-I SUBJECT TO CALL. PERSONAL NOTES area is rati1er small and scatter- ! on the finishing of the job. struction Co. and W. J. Nichol- During the past month we ed to all points of the winds. At Martins Ferry on the Pe- son of San Francisco were low t' f . have had only one death report- Gibbons & Reed are moving ter Kiewit bridge job they are at $470,523 on a sewage dispos- me~/ng le a 11:~ 1 0 ~ t 1Jal durpose eel to us of a member who us- in their TC-24's in preparation setting steel, last information al plant, Chico. · 111 _ 1nco n, e propose settle- ually works through this office for starting their excavation obta111ed they plan to have all . B oy ~es Brothers of Salt Lake ~~~\~ as acce~ted b~ a s_ec~et or who resides in this district. work on the northern approach steel set by the end of _Auguste <:rty l5ld $244,937 in an _explora- v~t~~ Y a goo soun maJonty That is that of Brother lVI ike ~o the Oregon Mountain _Tunnel . Slate Hall & Hamilton is mov h_on tt~nne l on the Oroville Dam Briefl the et tl t _ . _ Keenan on July 20th and we JOb. ~uesey B:·os. 1 ~ domg the mg along goo~ on their road job s1te. (Hope we are luckier on ed for Y tl , s _ emenc:r provi~L know that all of you join with cleanng on tlns proJect. between Wertchpec and Or- t his one, than the last one they 'th -,a rr v~t ~~~~ abreemeu the officers and us in extend- SMITH RIVER leans with a crew of about 27 had. ) Murphy Universal (form- ~~"t "~ges es da IS cd dfor the ing to the family of Brother At Smith River Pelican Bay engineers. erly the Murphy of Murphy, g~~d lNlm;~~~~ ye:r ?11 I~ v~~h Keenan our sincere sympathies ' . Mcintosh & Mc~night ~ keep- Cherf and Sa_ndka~) picked _up and Welfare. T~=~~hir~ ea:ath~ ·' ') ':- Brother Bishop Lawyer injury ·:. -:' ·) Brother Tony Avila mg busy with their gravel and a . couple_ of JObs m. the Chico agr-eement is open fo/ wa es has undergone a hernia repair of t~e same company is out of cement plant east of Willo-w ~n ea. One, a s_ewer JOb. at $44,- welfare and pensions. g ' since our last report and has s~rvice because of an injury to I Creek. 298 for the Cit~ of Chr~~' and We would like to take this done so well he is back on the ~:rs, ~nee (what happen~d Tony?) I The weather is around 100 the other, a. storm sewer JOb at means of expressin our a re- job * ., .. ,.Brother Harry Hocke~t ·· ·· ·· Brother Bob Davis, also of , degrees or over every day in $218,961_ fm the Pleasant . V~l- ciation to our brot~ers at Pth of Glad~mg, McBean and Co. rs the same com~any ,. is back 1 ~he Hoopa-Orleans area which l e;v Dramage ,Assessment Dis· , plant in acceptin<>' the settle~ off the JOb on account of a back h?me a_fter a siege 111 the hos- lrs rather on the warm side. tnct. . . . . 'ment. To us it indi.cn-ted t = p1tal w1th a scalded foot ,., * "' Brothers, it looks like that is 1 0 . Above Is JUSt a partial llst of of confidence and th t • a ~ ~ J o Bl'l ,J Brother Fred Arruda is home I about It for this time we'll -be. JObs awarded, 1 s~a_rted or about that your negotiator al y;u ei 0 ur -IOOu nors I rec~per at ing from a stroke talking to you next m'onth. t o start. In additiOn to the list . s la mace , ·' -. ·: Brother Cliff Smith is above Southern Waldri and anal out effort m your behalf. 1 NOTICE ON APPEARANCE OF back - on th . b - Rarvick Co. of Loner Bea~1 was I The ann~al picnic is being ., MOBILE ,BLOOD U1'7IT: months off ~n JaOcco~~:~f s:~C:c~~ - REGISTEB-l. NOW- awarded a $700,000 "'job for con- pl:n~e~ thrscr year for Sat~rda_y MARYSVIL~E: Thursday, injury. · I TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER struction of SAC MISSILE facil- e\ e_nm"' , Au"'ust 27th, whrch IS I August 11th, li1 the basement of - - ______..:__ _ __~------___,.. ities at Beale Air Force Base I a little later than th~ last cou- the Elks Club between 11 a.m. and Fred S. Macumber of Fres-1ple of. }:ea~s .. We flg_ure (and to 1 p.m. an~ 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Balloi Box for Those Who Don't Rcgi!llter! ____"'! ! no was low at 1,363 ,252 for con - ~ hope) Lhat 1L w1ll_~e a little cool- OROV~LLE: ll'Ionday, September struction at Chico----&.ate College. er by .th...,en. It will b~ held at 12th_ m the Elks Club between Add this to a number of state t~e McB~an Memon~l . Par~ , the hours of 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. road jobs of various sizes slated I Lmcoln. i \ cordial mvitatwn IS and 2 p .m. to 6 p.m. -to be bid in the near future and I extended to all the brothers at CHICO : lVlonday, October 3rd t he 14 miles of railroad grade the pl:n~, to come and . bring between,ithe hours of 12 a.m . .in t'he Western Pacific Railroad your famllles and appetltres. and 6 p.m. and Tuesday, Octo relocation job which we are re- CONCRETE PIPE INDUSTRY: ber ~th between 8 a.m. and 1 liably informed is to be bid in _· The usual summer activity in p.m. m the Elks Club. the near future and yo u can un- these plants is the rule, which Remember, do not eat for • de1'stand \vhy ·we are reserved- means that everybbdy is very four ho~~·s before going to give l y optimistic. busy making pipe and moving it blood (It you do you are not INDUSTRIAL REPORT: out into the fields. Of course, it only :vasting your time but also Gladding, 1Vk8 ean a·nd -Co. goes without saying, if they the tune of the :mit and your In -our last report in the En- weren't using it out on the v ari- b l oo~). P~ea~e designate the Op . gineers Nev1s we indicated that ous jobs, they wouldn't be mak- eratn~~ Engmeers Blood Bank. we were at a point in our neo-o- ing it. . Il~cmently -and for your infor- . tiations with the· Company that 1 The sta:rt of the Oroville-Wy- matwn we will be notified )fry we could- report back to the • andotte project and the number the Red Cross of epch donor membership and recommend of other jobs in the area has ~vho doe~ designate the Operat t he · negotiated settlement and created a much brighter atmos- mg En:gmeers Blood Bank and possibly get tha.t ball -Of yarn ·phere for all. these plants that yO l\.V~Jll-, h_ave rour generosity wound up. . are in any way related to the pub.Iclzea m this column. •• Our feelings on the matter construction game. Come un now. Let's have a ·were ~onfirmed on Thursd~y , IROCK ,-SAND, -GRAVEL, ETC. lot of generosity to acknowl- July 1-:.th when at a specral These plants including the i edge. . · · .AUGUST, 1960 ~GINEER'S NEWS PAGE NJ'NB - . !T:· :·. _. .. T· ~N~ r ·iou·· ·•ENS s-LRE ·N ort hb·ay Workload. at Season Peak·· · C0 · I · : . . · 0·.. By F. A. LAWRENCE, L: C. SOLARI and A. S. SiVIITH, Business Represootatives B~ WALTER M. TALBOT, ~~ B.- 1\'fcNAMA.!tA and . Here_in the North_ Bay Area" wo~~ h~s just abo_ut reach~d its peak. Our qut-of-work list i$ . · GLENN L: DOBYNS, Busmess Representatives · n~ht at the b?ttom m many classifiCations; and It.looks like the Brothers will be busy until the , . . .. , .rams shut the ']'obs down - - · - .. T~ere _. has. been _!!o ~ appr.eciable change in1 the work picture' in ·· · Cherf . San k & · · · · . - . · . :-, . . · . t~1s d.Ist:Ict. smce. o~r- last i'e?ort. The_jobs c?ntinue. to ~e of short .. employed·. Ha~n~Y Gra~~~ne~r:; ~Icaslo l)am w~_rkmg three shifts With approximately 90 brot~~rs- ~~ra~on; t~th/· feth~x~ep}~?ns,.thus ! creatmg a Situation where h·as equipment on this· p~oject. of ~ea!s Roeb!-1-ck & Co., in re- $683,121 and Valley Engineers- . : · >~ e . ay e 1spa c I~g o Ice Is -short of men·, .the · next wJth E. A. Forde is mo· ·ng · ·t··h pud_Iatw.n of -t.he fitm's· an.ti-la- Section No.· 2 at.$96,-500. By. t-he,. •;. m:anyr · Tlie . only · prospects ·for .· .. . . - - . . . . _ . , VI . !n~ WI b <~:· a:ny long term employment in _at ,the - ~l:Iff IJouse;- · ~ave j_ust I theu . portabl: rock _plant to or policy which was s~artl!lgly time· thfs pape;r is out,. both jobs' ,,_ ~ob will be completed before the P. O. Box just finished a paving j;b at Tf-J Fresno .rains .set in. · - 1002 Rlc:hmond buron Road. - San 'Ardo Construction ·Com- _Western Drive BEacon 2-5198 we are asking all members I ~,... pany, working ·-on Highway -120 to support the consumer boycott!· ______:_ _ _.:..... ______~~..;... - PAGE TEN ENGINEER'S NEWS s CRA SE S , By ERNIE NELSON, EDW. G. HEARNE, Wi'ti. E. METTZ, ' . HAROLD HUSTON and JOHNNY SCALES, Business Repr esentatives We are at the peak of our work now ai1d hope it stays that way until the rains come. Our out-of-work list is at minimum in most classifications. The subdivision work is s till slow, also shop work, but we have some large jobs that will last all next year. We are in hopes of getting another good-sized dredging job on the deep water channel and there should be some more freeway work left this year. Again our Blood Bank is depleted and we are asking you and yom family to donate to Operating Engineers' Blood Bank. The hours are: . d . th t . Monday-1 p.m. to 6 p.m. IS 11~ c1 eanmg out e unung Tuesday-9 a.m. to 12 noon. basm ?n the Port of Sacramen- Wednesday-2 p.m to 7 pni. to proJect and are abo~t rea~y Friday-9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ' to start dow~ th.e mam ~ h.1 p Saturday-9 a.m. to ll:ao a.m. channel cleanmg 1t up. Tlus JOb . · has been a real tough one for SAC'i'O CHAN NEl AHOY-A view here , shows construction on the Sacramento Deep Water The Blood Bank IS located at the levee hands as the mud has Channel on the section being done by Hydraulic Dr.edg.ing Co. In foreground, working among 3230 "J" Street an_d they have no bottom to it and a lot of the discharge lines, is Bro. James "Red" Gorham on the D-7 . ln . the background can be seen the asked that we remmd you t~at pipe has to be removed by man dredge Papoose, busy pumping mud at the rate of about 4,000 cubic yards a day. They have you should be on a fat-free ~1et power alone. pumped about S 1h million yards so far and must pump another I 0 milli on within the next year. for four hours before donatmg I H d l' D d d blood Y r~u 1c _ re ge 1evee 11an s WESTSIDE SACRAMENTO ar~ a. little more fortunate at on this job. The "Coaster Der- on this job and at present he a new shopping center. • 'th tl t· this tune as they are able to by" was a big success with our has · 11 engineers working B th for J. w. Briggs and J. N. Con~ . ro ers, Wl 1e excep wn move the discharge line with good neighbors from Nevada him. This has been a rough job ley of Redding, Shasta County, of the Sou~h $acramento Free- boom cats most of the time. In taking most of the ribbons. This with just the placing of 1 foot were low bidders on the reloca way, work _Is abou~ the sa_me on spite of how you_do it, though, worthy project was built with of D.G. material on the 2.4 tion of Donner Summit road. the west side as It was m last working on the levee is still Teichert's supervision and tenths miles of highway and a The bid on this job was $7,500,- month's report. _ work. equipment and Local No. 3 en- scaler coat left to do. Comple- 000 and consists- of relocating Madison Sand & Gravel is ~ 11 and _ around Sacramento gineers at the controls. Calla- tion date should be around Sep- 10.5 miles of u.s. Highway 40 back in full swing but they are the K. & W. Excavators are han Construction are down to a tember 1~ '1960 . as a freeway over Donner Sum- not being swamped with orders. keeping their rigs busy on sub- one man crew with no improve- Fred J. Early Construction \ mit. The four lane, divided fre& It is strictly a case of staying divisions and swimming pools ment in sight. Company have made real good way will sweep over the summit even without any of the crew and various other jobs. Every- MATHER FIELD progress on their construction on a new location two miles to being laid off. where we go we see their equip- Charles Alexander is long of the sewer disposal seAugust 1, 1960. job but hope it will get opened Teichert's Woodland rock The way they are goine: they job of Hal B. Hayes. Rossi Bros. G ·t C t .. . C up real soon. Work on the re- · niant l·s going good "'l'tb all tl1e ~ . t t ' tl d d ram e ons ructwn om- L~ - · " • . · will have most of t he dirt moved 1s s ar mg 1e un ergroun I b t t d f Fr , mammg. ·- . 3 .5 1111- 'l f W t . 'brothers getting es rom es . their 40 hours b £ 11 work for Sheraton & Murray ~a nly su -ctohn ~ac te t~·om ·f- ea Lakes to Soda Springs and sur- 11 1011 a week at least. This is not good Y · a · with a full crew of No. 3 men. · ~r Y a" e ms _a 11 a 0 20 facing of the route will come for this time of year but with SUB-DIVISIONS T · h rt h f 11118· h d tl 0 f£ miles or sewer lmes to be lo- under future contracts construction as slow as it has A. Teichert is taking the lead eic e as e le cated in the north and north- · . · beeri it is not too bad. The hot in the sub-divisions with twen- area work and have the, out east of Auburn. The bid on this HIGHWAY 3 50 HI GEAR plant is going pretty steadily ty-nine different contracts un- street to Ga~e N?. ~ea_dy to job was around $750,000, and Work in the Highway,50 area supplying plant mix to their derway. This includes site prep- pave. G~o. Miller Is haVl~g trou- by the lO-oks of it, it is going to has picked up a lot 1 the :pas t several small jobs throughout aration, street and underground ble w t h the und~Iground ·be real tough digging. Most of I three weeks and we have · been the area. and paving. This company em- work for Wherry Hou~mg. The the ditch they dig they hit rock ~ble to send out a lot of men. It P.C.A. at Yolo is still crush- ploys a large number o£ our old sewer. and wat~r lmes have and have a back-fill and shoot Is a late start· but should last ing rock but like the rest, they brother engineers on this type been leakmg _for trle past sev- and then re-dig. Brother Gus I until rough weather sets in. • are not too busy. They manage of work each year and they are ~~ala~:~~s wh:ch ~~ea~e~ ~ sub- Coates is the foreman on this SMUD project-There will be to keep the crew busy most of all top hands. Lentz Construe- r_r oas:s. orm . Is re- job and at present has 16 of our tunnel wo•rk that will probably the ·time but then they have a tion Co. follows by a close sec- qmred at all times and the tur.n brothers ·working with him. go all winter 'if it doesn't snow good crew and they are worth ond and are getting more jobs over · of labor employees IS They are 50 per cent completed too much. keeping. Brother Chris Berg by the week. McGillivray Con- great. on this job at present. Comple- _ W a 1 s h Construction have does the mechanizing and Ted struction Co. have all of their ROCK, SAND .& GRAVEL . [ tion date is the latter part of started the surg _chamber on Berg runs the loader around the rigs going now with the hot P.C.A. at Fa1r Oaks are gomg October, 1960. I Camino tunnel and are making various stockpiles. B r 0 the r s plant working on a day to day t:vo shif~s .with no let-up in John Northrop Co. have got good progress. They have also Floyd Duncan, plant operator, basis. The crushing plant on Sight. Tlus IS the home of the started on the construction of holed in on the adict and will Donald Macaris, batchman Jack 14th Avenue is going steady old -timers~anybody with less the new V.O.R.T.A.C site to be start three shifts in a few days. Croll, dragline operator,' and again after a short overhauling. than te~ yea~s is considered an loc~ted at the peak of Squaw They will drive it ·approximate Bill Luck, his oiler, make up the Granite Construction Co. is get-. apprentice. T~tan Rock Products Valley The bid on this job. was ly 1,000 feet and start two head rest of the _crew. ting a rfair share of the local on Blue Ravme Road have all $64.000 and it will be a test site ings that should put a few more Teichert & Son has gotten un- work and manage to keep the the bugs out of their plant now for 'the Federal Aviation. There engineers to work., derway on the Cache Creek shop cre~w busy and the crush- a~d are producing .n:ate~·ial that are 40 to 50 thousand yards of Gibbons & Reed have theL. levee job. They started on the ing plant going six days a week. Wl~l pass all spe?Ificatwns. A. excavation to be moved on this I keyway excavation about com- . first section right where the Erickson Construction Co. keep Teicher.t ~t. P~rkms, Del Paso job with about 75 per cent of it plete. The 88-B shovel is being creek crosses Highway 99W at several crews going on building and MISSISSIPPI B~r keep ~he tQ be shot. Completion date will readied for shipment and they Yolo. In case anyone noticed the erection, excavation and site sall}e ere~ of engmeers gomg be in August, 1960. will start pouring concrete ·as bid price that we had in the ar- work. They also have some steady. N_o turnover at these A. Teichert & Son, Inc., are 1 soon as they get their batc h tfcle last montli, we wish to cor- street work. pl~nts With everyone happy. 70 per cent completed on their plant set up, which will- be in ~ect it. The amount is $528,000, 1 AERO-JET Bnghton_ Sand & . ~ravel a~e $4,7-87,000 job at Baxter. There 1 about three weeks. They plan to and not 528 million as it said. A. Teichert was successful in gradually remodelmg the Kil- was 2 million cubic yards of 1 run all winter if weather per" ~nee -Bros. bf San Jose are Igetting the seven miles of rail" ~ore Plant. to the extent of be- dirt excavation on this job a..'ld ! mits. - A.E.C. was supposed t~ close to completion on their road grade from Gate No. 1 via mg the big produ~er for t~e five bridges to construct, which have poured the concrete but sewer job in Woodland but they' the main road to the liquid area c_o~pany. The Perkms pla~t ~s Iare now completed. Over % G~bbons .and Reed wound up will be around for a while yet. C. D. E & G. This spur line was gomg ~teady but ra-v~ matenalis million tons of 1% -inch base w1th the JOb. They have had slow going due needed due to the excessive becommg scarce. Enckson Sand rock will go on this job. At the Pacific Bridge is making good· to the type of ground they are weights of the motors being & Gr~~-el on · _Ard~~OWay hav~ present time they are working · progress on their .pin stock and working in. They · have to dig transported out of Aero-Jet. every mg gomg per cen two shifts on the Whitmore power house job. They are set- _ · one length of pipe, lay it, and Conventional heavy duty truck now. maintenance station slide which ting steel for the overhea4 dig another and so on. This is and trailers are not big enough Voudouris and McEwen have will consist- of moving another crane in the power house and the only way they can be safe to handle these large ro.ckets. just about finished their job on 250,000 yards of dirt. They pouring concrete, too, so it .and avoid the threat of cave-ins. Wismer & Becker are maintain- Placer Hills Road in Meadow should start pouring concrete wont' be long till they will set ' At Davis, Stolte, Inc. is doing ing a crew of two worthy broth- Vista. The bid on this job was August 3,. 1960, with a total of the overhead crane. They are preliminary work on their job. ers on their time. and material $90,000 and consisted of grad- 30,000 cubic yards to be poured. setting up a stiff leg to set the Yost-Alscott Co. of Sacramento contract. Baldwin Construction ing and paving 1% m i 1 e s of At t he present time there are 86 pin stock and will soon be ready is drilling the f.ootings for the Co .. are well along with approx- road. The following brothers of our brothers working on this to start on it. buildings. They have had a drill imately 2 million dollars worth are still working there finish- job. ComQletion date is sched- Frazier-Davis have about com- rig in there that would drill of work Teichert's crews did ing up the shoulders- Charlie uled for December 13, 1960. pleted the Jaybird tunnel. They footings 54 feet deep and on an the grading a:nd revetments. Lloyd on the blade and William C. "Doc" Reynolds Constmc- are still pouring invert but that angle. Sheldon Polock have all of the Simpson on the roller. tion C o .. have just about com- won't last much longer. How- Teichert has finished laying underground finished on their The bonding company took pleted their dirt excavation on ever they have another job at th~ plant mix on the freeway "F" area contract and are ready over the job Flores and Perry their job located on Douglas Oroville to go on so maybe som~ job at Davis and are about .to start the structure. This will started at Pilot Hill last year Street in Roseville. There was a of the Brothers won't lose too W()und up with the entire proj- be a combination of concrete and gave it to Harms Bros. Con- total of 80,000 cubic yards of much work. · - ect. block and pre-fab concrete. struction to complete. Brother dirt_excavation for Contract En- Any of tlie brothers who may \ Padfic Dredge is about fin- TeiChert will also do-the re-vets Kenneth Little is the for~man I gineers who are going to' buil ·.· n .. Engineers ork n Trinity r ~oj.ec ·t By J. B. JENNINGS and S. N. 1\'l:·eBROOME, Business Representatives Mucking machines took the last rock out of the 11-mile Clear ·.Creek Tunnel on July 28th. Wben the mucking machines ap : pro ached from east and west and met five miles inside and 2500 I · irieet under the summit of Hoadly Peak it completed tbe holing :through operation started in 1957. It was a big day,for John Shea, Project Engineer for Shea, Kai- ;sei:, Morrison, with officials from ·n-=ea""I"". ~~;;:;;' lu""·'"'ni.;;;e=;;;;c;:;r-:oee~k~."'"- ~B~ro~t~h~er the company, representatives George Schaeffer, who is run . froin the Bureau of Reclamation, ning a shovel on this job as he ' newsmen and the men who did has in various other U.S. 99 jobs 1 tii~ l!ctual work on hand to wit- for a good many years, claims ness the final blast: Although he is still moving dirt he moved this was not an easy job due to 15 years ago. This project will underground rivers, crumbling employe some 125 Engineers and :~,; ock s, and granite faults too nu- will hit its peak in 1961. We an- . . merous to count, running the ticipate the job using 75 Engi j'ob a year longer than originally neers this season. Gibbons & FAST FREIGHT-Operating Engineers Don lindberg and George McMahon her-e load their :.anticipated it was a better than Reed is near completion on their OW-20's from the bunkers at the end of a fiv e-mile belt line on the big Trinity pro.ject. Each load average job for the Operating job out of Castella which will consists of 90,000 to I 00,000 lbs. It takes approximately 9 seconds to load and 4 1h minutes to 'Engineers, providing work add another four mile section. make the trip to the fill ' and return to the bunkers. :throughout the long winter Gordon Ball has moved in on 'months when work lags. There the Wunderlic job at Dunsmuir still remains some two years to lay the first concrete high BLOOD DONOR•-S work to be done on this project. way in the northern part of the U.S. 299 w: state. This will be a three and-a- HONOR ROLl Winston, Drake and Green half month operation and is due SAN FRANCISCO for completion by the middle of M. Kennedy has put on a second shift to com- November. When this section is Elsie plete the necessary access roads Jim B. Johnston leading to various locations of comple~ed it will take _the b_ottl~- By HAROLD LEWIS & wa~ th,eir coaches have been Paul R. Etter the Spring Creek tunnel. The neck .01't of the traf~rc through RUPERT TEVIS Bus. Rep. callmg the plays. SAN MATEO company expects to start driving u:~ crty ~f .~utsmut ~n~ P~~- Seasoned politicians are hav- Another thing that s~t the 1 1 Julian Oisen tunnel very shortly but a defi- ~ -~~g rodu ~ ~ ?· t. ing a hard time deciding where coaches back was the fact that ~~eta 1 John R. Nolan nite date has not been set. Prep- . as a. d . onsl an h ee ~s bge - to pla(>e their bets especially they didn't think from tl:le A.F. Rjchard .J. Nolan, J f . . aration for setting up shops and tmghr~a _Ybto ayf twe sdu -1 ~she where ~the labor vot'es are con- of L.-C .I.O. had such a large . . on t en· JO out o ee w uc ; - t o . t · t d f th Joseph Aguilar compr~ssors 1are under ~ay with will take another bottleneck out cerned. Two teams are playing Se~F· . t~ _eam c~n~~s e P~ ..,. e Carl Warner approxrmate y 60 Brot ers em- of US 99 Morrison alid Knud- the game; The I.L.W.U. is on Mar ?IS _mon Ol0'11e a~;~:c, James E. Simmons ployed on the project already. : · · · d one side and the A F of L -C I 0 anne Frreman I ers & vv rp- . . sen Is well un er way on t 11 e · · · · · · M · c k & st ' tl Qro.o· t is· on the other. A few scrim- ers, anne oo s . ewarns,. OAKLAND Grbbons & Reed rs well . under COPCO . b 0 11 1 t 1 t akers, way and making extremely good 1 . Altl)o tl .e . • ~tb~ntls a e mages 11 ave already been held Iron w o k e r s, Bmlerm Jack Johnston · . m 1 e. 1oug1 1 us 1s s nc y an · M t tt · R t ·1 c 1 k • , progress on the new road JOb on . 'I1 h . f d . t' 011 Sand Island docks. The long- ea cu ers, e ai e r s U.S. 299. This section will be fe ig tth . om, Iveth ay okpera twhn ·sharemen won the first game Teachers, Elecricians, .. Roofers, VALLEJO t d . h or Is season, e wor . on e ' L b . c . t . A F f L Ed Kirk comP. 1e !- m 1~ 61 . . T e~ are tunnel is on a two shift opera- but the second and third were Ca i Oorers, a!p~n ersd,- . . o .· :rumung a two shift operatwn on . f' d k ur 'crht won by the A.F. of L.-C.I.O. . . . orgamzers an even our th d ' t d d t1 . 1 'ft bon, rve ays a wee · vvno State Legislator' David lVIcCluncr · e . ~ sp~eath an 1 a ~eeks ~ · Bros. has moved back into Etna On the surface it looked as We now have a team that j'~ 1 110 1 i~ra ~on ~. t e ~ f'f ac J -ij- and is near completion on their t~o this was just another juri~ - hard to beat and any op~onent some- B~~~ ~~enn tnS e~ 99 o~r:_ B 1.: job between Etna and Callahans. dictional play, but we kn?w 1t will have to ~ome up wit!{ h~~;; srvl~un~~~l~ 's t~tes . tl~is ~~v~ EAST OF REDDING - I got~s deeP.etr ttl:an that. An mlter- thing better if they expect to es mo· sr ua 1011 arose vv.1en1· . . FOSSATI !\'I ~ t -mil. e sectwn. will. .ehmmate . . I ~he ~:ew state ·pnson . . JOb I someb of the I.L.W.U. players wm a game. . JACK - ay 2 S·- :roughly 30 curves and is due wlnch wu~ run from ten to four- were paid by the coaches for On the construction front, ne- Reported July, 1960 · for completion by November of teen mrllwn ?ollars w01:th ~f their nart in the crame and the gotiations be't-vveen the General Placerville, California this year. Baldwin Construction work before , Its completw~ rs substitutes were n"'ot. When the <;:ontl:actors Association and the JACOB SIMONSEN-June 16 subcontractor for the paving under :vay near Susanv_1lle. substitutes o·ot wind of - this four basic crafts are nearly ·com- Reported July, 1960 • is 1 on this job. Work on the huge rr:here Will _be two mor~ pnson curious set-u~ they put up their 1 pleted as of this writing, and it Sunnyvale, Calif. Trinity . Da m proje~t i~ near s_I~es ~stabh~hed bu! tlus _work own protest line and prevented I is. qu~te P?Ssible that a c?ntract NEW MAN C. POUNDS completwn on the dirt f1ll but Will_probably not gel U!Ider ~~ay their own teammates from re- i V~nll oe signed by the tune of d t 1 t F Pa cr · tl · bl' t' Tl · b July 1, 1960, Redwood City, Cal. h as approx1ma· t e 1 y a year an ~ a- ;m 1 nex season. re~no. vm., turning to their jobs. on the .us pu rca 10n; 1e me~ er~ half more work to be done. M. and _Joe Lema ~onstr uctr on are docks. From last inside reports 'Of Bert Nakano s FederatiOn of OTHO NELSON W. Brown is in full operation neanng completiOn on the short- the majority of the I.L.w.u: Hawaii Workers, and independ- July ·5, 1960, Oroville, Calif. on their job out of Trinity Cen- cut ?etween ~at Creek _a nd S~- players are dissatisfied ·with the ent union on the Island of ANDY S. PADILLA r ap- July , , Oakland, Calif. ter. . sanville and nope to wmd tlus · Hawaii have voted thei 10 1960 · ·To give you a brief idea of job up before the end of this proval ·for affiliating with ·the the work in Trinity County season. Rosa m Uk~@h {con Operatilig Engineers L 0 c a 1. FLOYD A. ~V ES 'T ~lone, · ther~ are a~proximately SOUTH OF REDDING (Continued from Page 7) I Union 3. This ~~v~s_,us ~ good J~ly 18, 1960, Petalt~ma, ~alif. 900 Operatmg Engmeers work- Teichert has started laying the . . d'l b tl . . foothold on t he Big Island, as FOREST TESTERMAN ·· th · T · · · ground work for the quarter of can 1 ea 1 Y e seen lat t 1lei e IS this unit consists of app ~oxi .-~ c -·) ~ mg_ on . e entlr~ muty ~ro) ect d quite a bit of activitu.- even t ., b . - " - July 19, 1900, Haywaru, alL which mvolvec m the neighbor- a million dollar groun -to-air tl I tl 1 . tJt 11 ma e1 y £ 30· mem ers. MIKE KEENAN . . h d f $125 000 f communication center. Although 1oug l 1e wor c IS pre Y we K . d d K . I f · oo o . - ' .· ' 000 wort1 1 o it is not using many Engineers scattered. . mser's" re gel, aiser . ' or- July 20, 1960, Oroville, Calif. \V,Ork and we still expect to em- mer~y the Judah s~n k on ~uly THOMAS FAULKNER · . ploy some 250 more men before at this time we expect to start Register to Vote- Brothers, 31, m the cha~nel It . had JUSt Jul 21 1960 Sacramento, Calif. the season comes to a halt this dispatching to the job very soon. there is no use in trying to ex- completed frontmg Kaiser's new Y , ~ , year. The outlook on further Frederick & Watson's access plain how important it is to be home at Koko Head. Efforts _are ERNE:sT GAGLE . ~o.. nstruction for the northern road to the Black Butte Dam able to vote. If you have not al- being made to salvage her, but July 23, 1960, Tagus, Calif. - part of t he state is extremely project out of Orland is going ready registered, please come the turbulent waters may prove CHAS. E. GREEN . " gopd at the present time. The along nicely and they expect to into the engineers office and w~ too much for complete recovery. 1July 23, 1960, Los Altos, Cahr. ··r:dhity project will continue for finish up this year. Hood and will see that you get registered: Work at the Standard Oil re- ERNEST A. MUELLER . ~P,proximat ely 5 years before the Case bas just about finished up Remember the deadline for reg- finery is slowing down and our July 27, 1960, San Francisco, Cal. en~ire program is completed. their pumping plant job. The ' istering to vote this fall is Sep- out of work list is growing, but H. G. ALLEN ''Tpe Bureau of Reclamation plant is completed and all that tember 15. . it is expected to be back to nor- July 28 1960 Santa Rosa Calif. ~laims that_ it will be_ one of the remains is the clean up work Boy's Club-The new Boy's mal when M. & K. star~s their CHARLIE LEE ' m ost beautiful areas m th tate and the- finishing of the intake Club in Santa Rosa is certainly work at Kahuku Wmmanalo · · · · · e s ditches fr·om the rivPr to the ' July 30 1960 Yerington Nev o£ California with the huge ~· comirig along. Mr. McKenzie, and Honolulu Airport. ' ' - ' ·· · lakes that will be formed by the pumping plant which should run who i's the regional director for Our state -officials of the ni;lw dams. Shasta county is in another couple of weeks. the Boy's Clubs of America tr.ansportation division still have the planning stage now for mak- Well, Brothers, that just about made a statement that I believe not approved the access roads ing the Whiskeytown reservoir wraps up the news in the Red- speaks for itself. "Labor has for the Hawaii-Kai Project and for another rrionth. k 1 ·1 h t · k d one· of t h e nicest recreation- dingWe District would like to . urge , done more for our group than wor t 1ere sti l as no p1c e 11 areas that any county can offer. eac 1 any group in the country." The up. This lake will maintain a con- and everyone of you to register The building tradesmen have I We will again ask all of ~ou stant water level and will be and vote in the November elec- been very faithful in their at- to do your share as a muon only a fifteen minute drive from tion. tendance on week ends. How- member to organize the unorg- the center of Redding. ever, $35,000 is still needed .to anized. Don't forget your forth U.S. 99 N. --· RIEG~STER NOW - insm~e completion. Enough said. quarter dues and the No: 11 As- There are five major projects SACRAMENTO, contract was sessments which are due before under way on U.S. 99 with $16,- awa·rded to Guy F. Atkinson STOCKTON Contract was the end of this month. 000;000 involved on the five Co., So. S. F. $3,993,744, for 9.6 awarded to Geo. Roeck Const. Congratulations to Brother projects. John Gist's bridge job mi. four lane div. frwy. tog. w-! Co., Stockton, $1,908,432, for Ed Ulmer on his new "Cat"_ .across the Sacramento River in front. rds., ramps & conn. grad- const. SE Jr. High School. 1 dozer. Brother,Ed, a civilian em~ the Redding city limits is well ed & paved w-PCC on cem. t.r. · SAN FRANCISCO, contract ployee at N.A.s ~ Barber's Point, Ull.der way and drawing crowds base, etc. etc. & 14 cone. strucs; awarded to rra H. Larsen Co., S. has been on the same "2U" for of interested citizens daily. const. betw. 0.6 mi. S. of Men- F. $1,227,711, for addns. & altns seventeen years and the danged · ••• AT PLAY . Slate, Hall and Hamilton are docino Ave. & Grant Crk_., _SO- _ to 'Steinh&rt Aquarium, ~()~_den tl,ling still runs . . . . - ~. . ~ . ' -Aidl1a . · :~~ .• ON THE WAY J !11\