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I detbss . • Vol. 24-No. 11 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA November, 1965 Welfare Plan Adds Major Medical!; Pensions Raised to· $175 Monthly Hospital Room Rate Increases to R~tireme~t lncom!lncrea~~mbines • · - · · . - · · - . . · . · W1.lh Soc1al Secu rlly, Med1care The Pension Trust Fund Board For example, if a man retired of Trustees this month unani- two years ·early at age 63, the re­ $30; Medical Bills Paid to $5000 mously voted to raise the Operat' duction fa<;tor used would be six Two important Health and Welfare benefit changes were made by the Northern Cali- ing Engineers pension 40 per per cent less than the full pen­ fornia Board of Trustees this month. · . - · - · cent from $125. per month to sion of $175. ·This would amount This first change affecting nearly 26,000 California members and their families in­ $175 monthly, according to Board to $10.50 less· per month, or a creases the daily hospital room rate allowable from $20. to $30. for semi-private and pri­ chairman Business Manager Al total of $164.50. vate accommodations. Clem. Cui:fently, there are 731 Clem haStened to point out The · second i m-p o r t ant against the high ·co.St of illness Clem added that ihe increases pensioned Engineers. .that this revision does not apply change is the addition of a and accident care. "further assures ·our members In ad!lition a $250 cash death to t.Iiose already on' pension, and ·Major Medical program to As a further note, . Business · and their faril.ilies freedom from benefit has been added. This sar· is not retroactive. The: preseP.t Manager Clem said that eligible the dis\ll)trous effects of catas· the present basic h~spitaliza­ vivor benefit will. apply only to retiree will get $175 monthly. If tion plan. members and their dependents trophic medical and doctor bills those persons on the retirement he retired early, his pension will all participate individually in at a time of _income loss -due to list on the effective date of Jan- . be figured proportionately, The new benefits become ef· both medical health and welfare illness or acCident." ' fective January 1, . 1966,., accord· uary 1, 1966 and after, and _is in Clein pointJed out that with plans. · The general details of. the Ma· no way retroactive. Social·Security penefits to a pen- ing to Business Manager Al Clem. Major Medical expenses will · The Major Medical plan allows jor Medical plan \vill be explain­ At .the same time,. the Trustees sioned Operator and his wife, include reimbursement for all ed in the new benefit booklet lowered . Future Service Credits both 65 or more and under full • up to $5000. for a sl.Iigle illness, charges made by· a: lawfully con­ which will be available after the 'coverage, may be eligible to re­ and Wlll pay 8() . Per cent of hos­ sidered hospital: This , includes for pension participants age 60. ceive$374.10 monthly. ($175 pe. n· pitat, medical . and !lllrgical· e~­ first of.th.e year. .· and over s~ that ·1206 hours or the coot of physicians, ./:.. ·._ .. pense's sllt~n,s. ' · · sion 'from LOcal 3 and $i99.10 · after tlie . basic .benefit graduate nurses, anesthesia, di· more of-work will provide a full m:i.:t(imum from Social Security). plan of the Trust has been paid .. year of credit toward their pen· . agnostic, theral>el,lti~, radiology, Relatjve to "vesting rights" in Under , the provisionS of"the .. physiotherapy expens:es; .• supplies Information sion. Quarterly · credits w e·r e . · the _pension plan, Clem point(!(! new medical pl~h, tiie· first $HiO including ctrtigs, -ineclidne, blood, lowered proportionately. . . out that the . rules state that "a is a "deductible" fl.gure. How· . artificial limbs and eyes, crutch· Books Being Prior .to this lowering of credits participant who has attained 55 ever, ill 'combination witll the es, oxygen, wheelchairs and -iron the Engineer must have worked years of age and has earned at basic ho.Sp1tal benefit 'in · effect lungs. Compiled 1400 hours, or 350 hours of credit least 10 years of Pension Credit, for several Y!l'ffi"S, it is unlikely ·Clem, who is co-chai~ of quarterly. The quarterly credit or 25 years of Pension Credit re· that major medical expenses will Information booklets detai1ing the Board of Trustees for the the fteW advances in the Health is now 300 hours. gardl-ess of age, is . vested and be inCU1Ted. Health, Welfare Fund, hailed the and Welfare; Pension TrllSt Fund In calculating early retirement, cannot lose the credit he has ac­ It iS the same type hospital· . new increases as ''further evi· a.rtd Pensioned •Engineers' Health Clem said the reduction factor cumulated, even .if he has left the ization . many white ·collar em­ dence of the strength 'of collec· and Welfare fot Northern Cali­ ~ornla will be printed shortly. has been lowered from one-half . industry ' and iS no longer under ployees have been enjoying for tive bargaining" and the mutual The booklets are expected to per cent to one-quarter per cent covered employment." several years and gives the Oper­ confidence both employers and be available rig.ht after the first each month a retiree is under 65 It also becomes mandatory for ating Engineers. and their famil· labor have in arriving at these of January. If you do not receive years of age on the date of re- the participants claiming vested one, call your district office. ies further medical protection important decisions. tirement. -Continued on Page 2 Health, Welfare and Pension'Trustees in Session

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TRUSTEES - labor and management · repre­ at left, starting from left · are: Bert Jacobson, McCar'thy, Jr., P au I Edgecombe, William sentatives to the Health and Welfare and Pen­ from Martin Segal Co., trust advisor; Felix Siri, · Smith. Tom Stanton, Charles Hudson, Don sion Trust gathered earlier this month and Local 3 Business Manager AI Clem (also chair­ Kinchloe, ·A J. "Buck" Hope, Harold Huston voted· unanimously to improve benefits for Op­ man of the Trust Board); and Bernard Ploehn. and T. J. Stapleton. In back are Siri and Ploehn erating Engineers and their families. In picture At right: Dale Ma·rr, John Marthens; P. H. and C. W. Sweeney, standing .

•• ~. \ ./· • •"• 'I • Page 2 lfN G BN IE E R S N IE W S 'November, 1965 San Fran.dstO ~ HUb ·. ol AcJivit'j' ..., . .. -· · --. ·; ._ _.. , By .IU. ''BUCK'' HOPE and WARREN LEMOINE through th:e· efforts of Cupples Co., a subsidiary of ALCOA. SAN FRANCISCO - The ~t . pected to continue for another time you happen to be in the eight years. Cupples is hanging the alumi~ from the num and glass siding. All eon~ vicinity of Red Rock HUl in the Ten lanes of slip-form paving crete floor are complete;, ·The City; stop in fu see the multi- for 2.5 miles in the Daly City ·men are working six days, and million dollar development bY area is struting on the Junipero expect to be finished by April, Manager's Desk the William J. Moran Co. Serra Freeway under . the guid- 1966. • ance of Peter Kiewit & Sons. The Moran Go: is one of the Cleveland Wrecking eo~ ·has nation's oldest construction firms The project started in April, nearly finished its demolition of wit:.P headquarters in San Fran­ 1364 and is expected to ''top out'' Pier27 and the .J. H. Pomroy Co. cisco and Alhambra. A unique July of next year. . is driving pile with a floating rig: featU.re of the apartments and At the peak, Kiewit employed Completion is set for the end of Towne Houses under develop­ 40 Locill 3 men. Kiewit brought next year. ul I ment at Red Rock Hill is the fact in a portable hatcher for the pav­ Over at the Fox Plaza, where there is no gas power used. Every­ . ing job, and there are currently "the greatest show on earth goes With a great deal of pleasure at this time we can rep_ort thing is electric with heating by 12 operators on the job. on-every day," Sheedy Crane Go. to you our Local reached a very important milestone in its a one-sixteenth inch wire behind Guy F. At:kinson Co., which has is ~ hanging pre-fab concrete sid­ history during the past month. the sh~trock. the $9 million extension from . ing with seven Brothers on · .the Utah. The results have been AI Clem is shown greeting him, The Governor was here to and son all work in the shop ratified by the members, and at this time we have also com· discuss business with Local 3 and with the ~ Dept. of Labor which specializes in 24-hour' ser\r­ pleted negotiations with the Steel Erectors' Contractors .with concerning a Youth Corps program in GL1am. ice to heavy equipment in the a~ ~greement covering the four states of the Local 3 jllf!s· field and custom work in the diction, excepting contractors who are members of the Utah shop. AGC. . · Louie Katzenberger, · a · well· During December the Executive Board of the Building known fi gure in construction, is . Trades Department and the Metal Trades Department and · a welder in the shop. our own International Executive Board will be holding meet­ Michaelis says his firm is fully ings in the City of San Francisco and these will be followed . equipPed for all kinds of repair by the convention of the AFL-CIO. These meetings always ·· serviee ·on a 24'hour basiS, and ~ave a great bearing on the destiny of the labor movement gives overnight service in ,the m our country. · · 'field ...on cats, dozers pactors, WATCH fOR SAFETY MEETINGS ··cr:ushers, etc. In our last round of union meetings, we note that there . Their number in Grass Valley is 273-3482 and are located at were several deaths caused by on-the~job accidents, there- . fore, ·we are anticipating on accelerating our. Safety Meet- · Brunswick and Highway 20. ings in the near future. The time and place for the Safety Meetings will be announced in a special column of this paper. • We ~rge all of you to make a f!pecial effort to attena Rdi:reme~l in;ome !hese sru:ety meetings, whereby you may pass on valuable mformation to other members of our union regarding wages ,Uppe ·d 40 Pe,r Cent; and means of preventing on-the-job accidents. _ We are pleased. to report that within the jurisdiction of · ~ Register ·for Med·icare our. Union where the contract provides that Journeyman Continued from Page 1- Tramees be employed, the · program is progressing .as per interests.to me lllilJiame, address schedule. The most gratifying. thing about this is that we and Social Security number with are receiving the cooperation of 90 percent of those people the Pension Tnist administration involved. Of course, it goes without saying, there are those office every two yearS if.he is not who .take !1 diJ? view of the concept of up-grading and im· working in Covered Employment. provmg the skills of the· members of our Union and giving The increased pension was them an opportunity to earn a better living as well as becom- gained through the collective bar­ ing better operators. · . gaining negotiations with AGC · During the month of October there were 65 regular . employers in northern California Business Representative in L.L. (Tiny) Laux, whom I have '· and marks the ·second. increase known for many years. Tiny died quietly at his home, and· ·· since May of 1964. · • o~ behalf ?f Local 3 I e!'tend sincerest sympathies to liis . . Clem said that it is his sincere Widow, Mane, and many fnends. desire, and the officers of Local 3, to work for the improved eco­ LONG AND SHORT AGREEMENTS NEW FREEWAY-Guy F. Atkins.on Co. has started the south nomic status of retiring opera­ During the month of October there were 65 regular San Francisco freeway, and shown here is Soule Steel's truck tors after long years of faithful ·agreements signed and 750 short form agreements signed c.rane placing reinforcing steel in pillar. Note workman at top .. service to the industry and the making a total of 815 agreements signed. · • of .pillar. · Union. • ·L,_,.. .- ._, • November, 196S- ·· ~-~ · · ! · Shakedown

PubliShed each mo-nth by_Leeal ·Union No. 3 or-the · · liiterrialional ·Union ·of Operating Engmeei:s ; '(Northern california, ·Northern .Nevada, States of. utah _. I a.nd ,.Hawaii.) - Sabscr.iption price'$2-:50 per year. Office: 4!T4 Val~ncia St., San- Franeisee 3'; Calif, AL CLEM ______Editor and·Business ·Mana.g_l!r •·' PAUL EDGECOMRE ------:·------~------President DALE. MARR ------Vice-President W _ v-_!v11NAHA:N ____ Recording"Co.:rrespondmg Secretary A. J~ HOPE ------Financial Secretary OON KINCHLOE -'------'Freasarer S .. ef. Cult:acl- Bear Fruit . The seeds of Summer's collective barrgaining is bearing fruit for 731 Operatirrg~ Engin-eers dra\ving their pensions with the announcement this month of a 40 per cent increase in the pensio-n to a maximum 0f $175·. The primary-aim of Business Manager Al Clem .and Local 3 officers has been always to work for the economic better­ ment of Local 3 memhers, and particlliarJy fo:r those w:ho, through long service and devotion to the union, hav-e earned a respectable retirement p-ension to live independently in dignity; / lVIr. Clem has been through the :ropes o,f operating equip­ ment himself, and he has b.een through it during the days when you wot·ked seven full days from sun up until sun dovm for pennies a: day. · . , . He is very aware, and contj.~ua:lly conscious of the ha-rd­ ship' "that used to , be," and dnves hard to assure Local 3 membe:rs t-here will be no return-to those times. · _The inm:e:ased pensio-n and major medical benefits to ,pen­ sioners are pJfoduds of Clem's imagination and determina­ oon to· help the r.etrred Rrother:Engineer. ENl&Ll IN· MEDiGMt &¥ t.Ac~tf · ~t · The Sedal Security administration is cone-erned about the· apparent 1a~k of interest- shown by retired persons;. age 65 and over. ·in th'e ·reeenf adoptioo by C(};ngress of the • Medicare program. Haw to Buy They asked us to request alll retiied Engineers, and those expecting to .retire by July 1~ 1966, to visit the nearest Social Security office and ·enroll for the program prior to March 31 of n-ext year. DoR't put it off; times passes too qui.ckly. . \ ' - · MoonlighterS, Working Wives Your Health and Welfare Major ~Iedical for retirees is dovetailed w-ith Medicare, ana th-ere-fsre it is important to be indudei:l iri the pro~ram. . · TRAVfSTY Of 'REPRESallA.ltVE. GOVERNMatr ·Often Create More Big Problems The- ubstructionist . tacties o:f Sen. Everett Dkksen ffi Illinois, scored .::kmajpr·p.adiamentazy :rtroeedural victory in · BJ~ , SIDNEY MARGQLIVS "So· they get extra jobs or start sideline businesses live up : the U.S. Senate -by -bloGking;_' thls year's repeal (}.{ Section (First in a serl~ of two ar.tides ~n family or the wife works part time. But they ro :to 14(b,y of th~ 'Taft-!laortle-y biU, and c~nseque.ntly, bas. dolile an-d' fillimcial pr~blems ~~ moonlighting hus­ the .full two incomes. . Then if anything happens .grievous diamage to the basic principles of "representative bands aftd working wives.) the second income, they are in real troub.le." gove:rmnent.,. Two job&'--a husband's moonlighting or a wife's The effect on family life is one of the m-ost · -Dirksen has comp.ounded this travesty , by proclaiming j.ob and oometimes both_:are the- way families to­ ·serious. results revealed by· <}ur survey. Ruth; Ep­ that he inte-nds t£t continue to. prevent future Senate con­ day frequently try to wlve financial diiemmas, or peTson, of Family and Chiltiren's. Service of Tulsa. sideration of a measure whieh already has been passed by achieve a higher standard -of living, tells. about a coupole in th.eir eady thh·ties with. , reporie.d out by a Senate committee. . _ the House -and cases the extra earnings ckibble away, · three small children. The husband has both •a ,'day The AFL-CIO E;xeeutiv:e . Coun

Ot · oCthe · se·ason is the deer emploY some 200 people a't the ing ·their in'terstate· highway a-t & Sons- Co., sub-contractor for arid Teamsters. · hunt; tnis will be past history, pe~k, of which a good share wili Sn<>wville. This: has been a good the bridge crossing the Green As previously ··reported, · Guy also, but the stories will continue be operators. The intent is to job for· several of the .men: Fife · River on the same . prQject, has F : Atkinson is starting their until ne_xt ~ear...... complete the job in .· late .· Janu: Construction Company· still has.. .• finished · and moved out . nearly $10 m!lion highway job ary. or February. - . sever·al opera'tors· wqrking on . from South . San . Francisco to , f'he 1 ~alt L,ake B u i ldi n g is _ . NORTHERN AREA . progressing rapidly and .we may. their job-s at Harrison Blvd. and 20MILE PIPE Daly City. have a p·icture to submit to. "The Work in. the northern area has Cherry Lane. At another part of the Dino- Baldwin Warren has a nice ~ews" before too. long. ·. not been as good this year as R. ' A. Heintz Go. has been saur Park, Strong Go. is com­ size $123,000 job in Daly City. was 'expected. Most .of the work working long hours on the co''i- . pleting 18 miles of grade'and is .. ; Foster7Wheeler:. Co-rporatiop's Watkins & Sibbald is scheduled· as you sey Creek Dam: This has been .a in the process of moving in their job at Phillips Refinery, .in has been dirt work and to landscape some of the ·a~ many of the crusher . and crew. Tlie scraper Words Cross; surviyed"jhe Bi>il.· ~ know every . time it rains, arid very good job for · proaches to the· San Mateo : Itay~ · we have bad plE!nty of that, the for . the past ' three crew will soon be moved to an­ ermaker ~s · .strike ·· which · idled brothers · ward Bridge. t.h.~e~ . simiJar jobs in Utah. This jobs have . b~en slowed down or years; , however, the completion other job located near' G r e e n Peterson will in~ . L' . t N J st<;>pped. ·. date is drawing near. . River on I-70. Local No. 3 and C. Norman f B. Parsons on his job in. · in company, rom · tvmgs on, · ·•· . ' J. · Gibbons & Reed Co. has four Local No. 9 have wotked to­ stall ~ storm dt:ainage system is ~. at work to build·_ three addi- the Bay Road area in Redwood. tioni!l . ~riits at the refinery:. A · .Roy; had to discontinue pavmg . jobs in the northern area. Their gether on . this job as, half of because of the extremes in day ColoradQ. City for over $100,000. , Hydro-de-sulphering unit, a de- · Hot $prings job south of Ogden the project is in and night tempera-tures. has stabilized. T h e Y have ·· fin- Corn · Construction Co. · has . TOO MANY ACCIDENTS ~ Lost Creek Dam shut down moved their hot plant ft:om In- .L.C. Smith is back at. the air• · 'NEWS . ished the oil on the south side · ENGIN':imns over night, but a bid was re-let r Canyon ope_ning dt'an Canyon to the Manila Hie-h- · 1 t · · b - of · the Webe ~ port to do a stzeab e axtway JO • Published n{onthl.y by Local Union on · a ,small-section with Gibbons the fill on . w·a·y in the Unha_· h Mountains. No. , 3.· of. the lntm·national.:: Union . of. and have started on · Bragato picked up another one< bidder at. $37,- . 1 Operating Engineers, 47_4_Valenc_i a St., & . R~ed Co . 1ow the north side. ·Two weeks of .good weather half million dollar -job at Marin• San Fra.ncisco· .-3. Calif. Second class 198. postag·e ~aid at San Francisco, C~lif. should finish this job. ers Island which .nearly adjoins· jacob-sen Construction Co. 'has · ECHO JUNCTION ' · Other work in the Flaming Foster .City, · The job at Round Valley is · Gorg-e Area includes: L. A. Creer McGuire and Hester is back in still holding up b'affic in ·the Co., 'working on the ·Sheep Creek San ·Mateo County again with ·a narrows of· the ·canyon. ·This is Bay . boat rf!inp; L. A,. ·Young $1 million plus, . job for the Es· all rock ·and ii real slow process moving in to Dutch John Draw· tero Iv1unicipal· District to .do the because.' of" the highway, .- ra~l: with a' small rocJc job on ' a road imp1;oyements on Neighborho~d ~:oad and river all running paral­ for the forest service. ~ No. 4 at Foster ·City: · /.,__._, ' .ler to each other. · M. H. Cook Pipeline Construe- This last month saw a frighten~' ''--... ': The ·new job at ·Lost Greek is tion Co. has kept a good-sized · ing accident ·on the. high use ·see .. . · just getting sta~:ted and will only · being "erected by -Car{ ~ ' . . crew of Engineers woddng on · . building have about--a dozen operators on & . · · Linden I a 20-mile pipeline . from Ouray Ol s ~n · Son.s. Their , the job. _· . · · to ·'Bonanza. The ditch' -is . com- tower crane folded up with dra~:­ ·Morrison- Knudsen Construe­ pleted and the pipe. and dean-)lp' matic ~u'il.de 'ness - causing inten· .. ,. ' Ralph De lancey . tion Co . . at Echo Junctiori > h~s crews still have a few weeks sive physical c,lamage but ·. mir· been. a good, dependable .project left. aculously - no one -was injured,; ' . for the brothers 'this· year .. Th~y · The accident ·was of . a nature are waiting grade stakes from· NORTHERN l,JTAH . . that almost 'a-lways -causes death; the State arid hope to be able to Northern Utah County for the · or injuries,cFate· happ·ened to be: haul waste this Winter. · most part is held up indefinitely with eve~yone. . · of the. The . semi-annuai blood bank EASTERN UTAH at this writing because B()ilermakers strike.- dr-ive was held October 8. It was October provided good weather· · W. · W. Clyde has had two a success with members. of vari~ · __ j;o allow most contractors to put ·shifts :working on grade at Coal- ous crafts attending. However, the finishing touches· on grade · ville and this job also is ne•ar- . we feel that more of our Brother This ·offer gc;od ... only io Local 3 members. work in this area. ing completion for this season. Engineers · should put forth it' - . I and asphalt However, . work in general is They are racing the weather at little more effort to attend on the Bring this ad· with you to verify membership. starting to taper · off with the Wanshfp on the aspqalt paving. next · drive. Our attendance was out-of-work lists growing a lit- The company wants to at .least rather low at this drive. Ernest tle earlier than usual for this finish the first course. of asphalt Notback was honored that day his help and ·support to tha ' and tires ~ auto and trucks time of year. With fewer major to hold it through the winter for New ~ecap • projects to be let until next year, months.. building · tradesmen. . _ ~...._~. ~ · • 1 FRIENDLY ROAD SERVICE

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• Goodrich Sihrertown

2344 .·E . 12th. -· StreetII in Oakland BLOOD BANK-donors here

patched to the various contrac­ t~rs throught}u;t this district.

E;J:BJWELL BRIDGE OPE~S ~-.·a:,I. The nation's highest suspension • ~: ' ' • r t• ·-f r I a- bridge, often called the "Little Golden· Gate" was officially {]edi­ E.y HAROLD HUSTON, BILL WEJEI{S, prime contractor for construction The Atkinson 9o. \Vas awal'ded cated on September 25th. An -es­ .&ELL JI!IETTZ a-nd ·ERNIE SUTTON of the Thermalito Power Canal, a $14,425,·680 contract for con­ timated crowd of 400 witnessed linking MARYSVILLE-Business Rep­ When you give a pint of blood, t:he Diversion Dam and struction of the forebay and af­ this great occasion. Mere than 100 Fare bay. resentatives in the · 1\Iarysville be sure you credit it to the Op­ terbay dams, and w or k has years of history was linked to­ The 12,810-foot canal is the in­ District o f f i c e express their erating Engineers Blood Bank. started. More Brothers s~ould geth•er when a strand of c.able t.erc-mmectil1g vehicle between -dBepest sympathy to the fam· You may give blood, at the fol­ . be dispatched in the very near from the 1S55 Bidwell: Bar Sus­ the -Dam, on the F-eather River, future. pension Bridge was severed with • ilies -who lost loved ones in the lowing times and pla~es: and Forebay, located in flat land recent train accident at OroviB€. J'tlarysviUe - Second Tuesday JOURNEYMAN TRAINEE gold-plated cutters in "ribbon­ about a mile-and•o·ne-half north W:lond.ay aft.er­ Oxange Tr-ee, to be placed at.the ha.ve asked us to expl'€SS thanks dam will be lined with approxi­ . their skills ·on e.arth m o i n g ncon from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. 169 v main visit-ors' center of Kelley to. Business Manager Al Ci~m, mately 30;000 c.ubic yards of con­ equipment. Cohasset Road, Chico. Ridge. The bridge a·nd the tree and Vice-Preside-nt Dale I1fan' cr-ete. The canal will b-e 48 reet >.Ve appreciate tile e.ooperation will be the f~al poh1t of an for the way they assisted us in PRE JOJ:iS HELD wide at the top .and about 31 feet of the fm-,emen and know this outdoor display depicting the ·. e.very way possible. During the month we had pre­ deep. The miliBoo portion of .the "Teamwork" i:s thUnited States \Vith quite sometime. Some-classifica­ the road bed 627 feet above the tions of work are still slDw, but stream bed of the Middle Fork. the . majority of U1e Brothers · The main suspension span of have been given an opportunity the bridge is 1,108 feet long and to work. We again urge men the two cable towers rise mo·re registered on the out-of-work than 700 feet above stream bed. list to leom to supply the .asphalt for the INDUSTRIAL UNITS Base. It should he under con­ DA·LTON, CLEM HOOVER, 18th Street to the 29th-3.0th runways. Hardin & Thacher start­ We are happy to report that struction shortly. JERRY ALLGOOD and Street Freeway. It wm be mostly · ed erecting the Control Tower shop contracts throughout this HIGH COUNTRY ART GAROFALO a concrete job, so will mean some · with Raymond CDncrete driving area have been ratified ·by -a The Hardeman and Bedford ·SACRAMENTO - While· the good winter work for a few good piling. Pr-eston Constl'Uction is large majority. job is almost completed where construction season -as a whole c1:ane operators. This job should busy on the underground work We hope to have the building 10 or 12 engineers worked ihe has been very good to us this be under way by the time this that was part of the last contract materials contracts negotiated entire project. • year, we dread seeing it coming goes to press . awarded to F & W, which con- and ratified by the end of this Darkenwal.d is in the clean-up to V\l•in.ter's end. Contractm·s are ·wrecking crews are busy clear- sisied of access roads and under­ month. . stages of the Drum Forebay. This rushing along · to complete as ing a path through town between ground work. - Shops and equipment .dealers has been . a very good job and kept 15 or 20 brothers busy for much work as possible prior to . 2nd and 3rd Stre-ets for that fre.e­ COLLEGE APARTMENTS are overloaded with work for the' almost certain deluge of Win­ way which is in the near future. this time of the year. several months. ter.: rains. Snow flurries have This calls for a new bridge ac­ Homer Flint & Alexander Con­ Rock, ·sand and Gravel plants Harms Brothers finished the been flying in the Sierras, and cross the American River above struction Co. is gradin-g an un­ are still on tw.o and three shifts Drum After bay and is finishing · "it can't be long now". the old Jihboom Street Bridge. usual subdivision caUed College to meet the demands of custom­ a small drainage ditch along the At Monument Bend on the This will interchange with the Campus. All the units will be ers. road. Sacramento River, Hulse and Freeway that is presently under built well .above the streets to The scrap yeards are also on The American River job is Voudouris are putting in the construction by F. & W. near the eliminate the traffic noise. There a two shift operation to process r.!oving along rapidly. Hell Hoh finish-ing touches on the levee n e w County Metropolitan Air­ is also a levee bing built between the large amount of scrap that Dam is within 100 feet of the 'work; Teichert is rushing along port. This Freeway will later tbe Apartment units and busy is coming into the yards. top at this time. If the weather its: canal job off Mace Road, and cro-ss the river on a new bridge Fair Oaks Blvd. to absorb the The Sierra Bit, Drill and Steel llolds another few weeks this :Jround the Sacramento- College, to be built near the Elkhorn sound of traffic. There will also Corp.s, at Roseville, is building pr()ject will be finished. The Nichols and Nielsen are getting Ferry and then continue on to be a foot bridge from the project a new shop, yard and office project in general is in the final going with Atkinson well along. Woodland. across the American River to the which should be completed in phases. • Granite is winding up the under­ AIRPORT PROJECT Sacramento State College .. This February or March, 1!}66. The l?OLLOCJK PENES tround \Vork at Woodland. Things are really \:oming to a is the first apartment unit of this new shop will have an adjoining An exploratory nine-foot power NARROW l'ilARGiN . clo~e at the County Airport. The kind in this part of the country. steel shop where they will make shaft being driven at Loon Lake Stolte narrowly edged Kiewit sub-grade is almost finished arid Teichert & Sons is puttirig the 'drill steeL by Gates and Fox is progressing for the remaining sectio·n of the Granite Construction is well finishing touches to the Morris The Pacific Cement and Ag­ on schedule with approximately W-X Street Freeway. Stolte came along with the sub-base. Arden Creek job. This has been a good gregates Co. will build a new 300 feet excavated to date. in with a bid of $9,742,0GO., only Sand & · G_ravel is presently erect­ dirt job for several engineers for modern type rock plant at the The shaft is expected to be ex­ $1890 under Kiewit! ing a Hot Phmt at the airport site many months. l'ear of the Mather Air Force -Continued on Page 12 •• • · November, 1965 EN G. IN E E R S NEWS SILVER STATE -ROUNDUP Survey Notes ll i.les de t ·ew Hie · BY NORRIS CASEY, GAIL Bureau of Public Roads .proj~t rivers, and minO:r channel chang- opening is in the Button Point By BISHOP, JACK BUL~ARD, over ·:secret Pass. es on the Humboldt to eliminate . ·rarea, east of . Wdnnemucca; esti- DAVIE BOB VICKS. Included will be two concrete several curves. mated cost is $2.7 million. · REA RENO-Two bid o:peliings are bridges over.Humboldt rand Mary The second ,proj OOt.up for. bid The · route will· closely follow slated rthis month totalling near­ the present U.S. 40 roadwray, tying into a section of I-80 ·over ly $4 millions -in bilighway con­ Golconda Surim).it, · which •was • struction of 22,2 .miles of road. . completed in 1961. ·· 'Dhe Halleck-Secret Pass road, ·· . · 'This [!; the first major im­ east raf Elko, hid will be opened provement · of. the route since With the. coining of Thanks later this month at Department 1940. giving, Nov. 25, we will pause ,c)f Highway offices at Gan;on Meanwhile, northern Nevada is in our work routine to .give City. Gov. Grnnt Sawyer's ·of­ readY'ing itself to put on· its .an­ thanks fur the many benefits fice said the job would complete nual cloak of snow, ~nd curlail received. As we look back we work on ;providing ra paved route construction oper·ations for sev­ realize that these benefits have .through the Ruby Mountains, eval nronths. increased with' each new con­ and would add ran ·important link . The l'aiger jobs hlave curtailed tract,· and look. forward to con­ in the state's secondary system. ·· their two-shift operations in fa- . tinued strong leadershi•p. H Is estimated construction vor of one shift because of heavy WORK LOAD wiH cos·t $1 million to replace frosting in · the area. Smaller Oakland Distlict 2, over rthe the •pvesent gravel road with a . jobs, however, ~re still running past srummer is running at a high peak in all phases of sur­ paved 28-fo:ot w1de p~antmix true to nol"lllal for rthis time of .paved route. The oroodway :on · the year. . veying with the ·Rapid Tr:ansit • We had hQI>ed to rannounce survey work holding steady. .the west ,will tie into Interstate NEW-to Nevada construction area is t his Linden Crane in l:iefore this time the okay on the Land survey- and Subdivision 80 at Halleck, 'and on ~the east Reno. W ith more tall bui ldings going in this may d~wntown Lawtons to Keystone job, west work from Santa Cruz' fo Santa into · the ~ecently completed become a .fam i Iiar sight. of Reno; however, n{)'\v we un· Rosa has slowed down from this del'Stand •• · · gairi employment · is urged to . . STEWARDS make the move. This is a long To strengthen your union, to financl~g range job ·and has ra potential of minimize violations rand main· _,, . providing . -good , work. tain a strong jurisdiction, the · Your Reoresentatives will ne.lld Union has appointed Stewards. , ·' • < help in o-rganizing and you :help­ If there is not' a Steward . With­ for the good afthe Union;- in your ·Company; contact the . . .: ...... \ I \ Business Repr~entative .in your local office; for only through · . your continued support· can we effectively serve the member- S~·p. ;": .· ' .. . . , . . ORGANIZING . Your Business Representative spends a major part of his time in Organizing the un-orgimized, '· :·_. · · · and is happy to report ·the ef­ fort is bearing results. Survey · fil'ins -from Fresno to Reddillg Contra~ts · wrotfen are si-gning agreements with Lo­ "' " cal 3 increasing ·job opportuni­ · ··.,.,. up.to .,36 months for ties for all LOcal 3 surveyors. Agreement books are now 9 NEW '66 CARS .AND TRUCKS {!Vailable in all of the District Offices. • BOATS AND TRAIL.ERS Phone correction, Dave .Rea (rod~ . 408) .243-2163. lli .. ,M9Biie·,:HqMES (up to .: 7· year~) ~- :.-: .,•: • H0U5EHOLD APPLIANCES ·· Construction Equipment {TV SETS, ~TEREO~HI Fl, NEW .AN .D REBlHLT WASHER, DRYER, REFRIGERATOR) fer· Sale and for Rent! ·

NO EXTRA- CHARGE • CREDIT UNION INSURA~CE Mortga ~ ge insu.rance protects you and you11 f.a·mily in event of death EVERYTHING FOR CONSTRUCTION or tota·l . permanent disability. \ 'A•phalt Plants Drag lines Saws .Air Tools finishers Sca les

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PIPEl UNE-job for Shell Refinery for its new Contra Co5ta addition is providing work for Lacol 3 men. Shown here is a 130- foot sect ion be·ing placed in trench along street near • Lafayette. Pipeline will end at Oakland Municipal Airport.

COMMUTER COM FORT-is assured when the S.F. Bay Area Transit traif!S start rolling within a few years. All coaches are specially de~igned and air- conditioned. Tunnel work is carving out Berkeley Hills now whi le test track is down in Concord.

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• SKY HIGii-this truck-mounted crane is operated by Ken . White on new freeway construction going on in San Francisco.

TOURIST VIEW-visitors to Oroville Dam ra .·ely are permitted to get this close to-car dump­ . ing station. Cars are tipped over, emptying m:~terial into hopper and is taken by belt to stock- pile. ~ · •

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NEAR ACCIDENT - superb handling and keen awareness prevented a serious accident here on the Go rdon Ball Franklin Canyon Freeway project near Martinez. The right rear tire "blew" at instant this piCture was taken. The operator handled DIGGER-the San LU'is Dam "wheel" is still c:,urning away after nearly two years ~f continu­ his rig perfectly and avoided going over bank on downhill ous operation. Here it is shown biting into ba.1k. at one end while loading trucks at the other. grade. ENGINEERS NEWS Page 9 •November~ 1965 IScenes from San Luis Dam I ~

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the Gordon PROFi LE-here is a Cat 657 scraper coming down the hill in the background. at Ball Franklin Freeway job near Martinez. Photos below are from sa'me job. _

ENGINEERS AT WORK -:---- in top picture, Operator sits high and side-ways on Le Tourneau• Power-Packer on San Luis dam. Next down, an 11-yard Marion dragline churns away on canal truck. n here is project while, next down, · is a 15-yard shovel loading FREEWAY DIRT SPREAD-men and machines churn on Franklin Canyon job. ,Show ~ t'ire Canyon Shovel is an electric Bucyrus-Erie. At bottom is rubber a "nest': of 657 Cat scrapers and D-9 dozers. In left background is seen old Franklin Hough .dozer doing a days work. Note dust over bank. road which has become out-dated due to increased. traffic to Martinez.

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Page 10 ENGINEERS NEWS November, 1965•_ East Bay Wrap-up e s By ED HEARNE, STAN GARBER, J ERRY_ BLAIR, TOM CARVER, ORVAL PRESLEY, GUY . JONES OAKLAND-:-We are happy to in and out of Orinda and points gear on their Wrunut Creek· report that this time work is east. Canal Project. The 4500 Manifu. By AL HANSEN opened its new yard in Redwood · still quite good and the out of Traffic will still face congested woe and two Northwest Drag­ Another dredging job started City rtJo make sand avai:la.ble in work list small. Jobs throughout areas in Oakl;and until such time lines are working two shifts. · last week when the "GOlden that area to oontracfurs. The the area are plentiful and more as the freeway is finished as far Reeently, three more 631's • Gate" moved rinto the St. Fran­ company's dredge "The Sand­ . are being added each month. as the MacArthur Freeway. Bids several cats were added bring- cis yacht harbor to ·start "clam­ .·pi per" is supplying material for ·Guy F. Atkinson Co: is making on this phase of work have not ing the total to 18 rigs. Roberts mring" the anchorage prior to re­ the yard, an:d ·a round-trip takes good hea:dway on the Oakland been called. Bros. :has two cats and if:b.ree developing the club's yacht har- 18 hours. Looks like the crew Sports Arena ·and Coliseum and .. SOUTHERN ALAMEDA scrapers on the same job. bor in the marina distriot. · will be red-eyed a f t e r a few anyone driving on the Nimifu The California Highway Com- Cabildo CoJ:'!P. has completed The .barge, ":D an i e l C" ihas trips. · Freeway can see it for himself. about two-thirds of the 35 miles 1 been in the harbor for aoout Hydraulic. Dredging is still The •arena; whlch is the struc- mission allocated $ •115•362 to- of 10" pipe from the Shell Re­ tb.Tee .weeks "jetting" old piles, working its three rigs at Foster ture nearest to the freeway, is ward construction of tile $2.5 finery in Martinez to -the Oak· piers >and docks 1Jo dear the way City in San Mateo County. The ·going up fast, and before long land AiTport. Most of tile pipe for Olympic's "Golden Gate." righ, TR1 and 2 ;md "The the roof members wHl be put 1 has · been layed through steep Up north, Iacross the bay in Rogue" are working 'round-the­ ·in place. country from Moraga to Skylrine Sausalito, ·the United Sand and clock, and it appears there is Each member will have sever- Blvd. in Oakland. Some of these Gmvel Co. received romewhat of still two or three ye:~rs' work. al welds in its length, . and the hills are straight up and down a "reprieve from the city coun- Leslie Salt's dredge, "The Mai­ welds will :be made by a welder and ·have 1been a real test of cil. · - ~ard" ds working iwo crews, suspended 'in mid-air in a basket men and machines. It seems residents of this while Dutra Dredging Co. has at the end of :a boom which Sharp and Fellows Co. • "arty" community have objected ·all dredges working on snmll telescopes and jack knifes. It will nearly completed the laying of . to the council about the ·noise, jobs around the B;:ty. look 'like the trucks you see the track on the fill section of the dust and traffic · hazards -pre­ Shellmaker, too, is working telephone service men using ex- Diablo Test Track. Much of this sented by United Sand. The at· many hours at the S•acrnmento cept larger and capable of reach- work is done at nlght and early . torney for the firm said that if River job and in Richardson Bay ing a great deal higher. morning so that it won't inter- the operation should inadvertent- . in Marin County. On the Broadway-Caldecott fere with the B.A.R.T. equipment cause filling of the bay beyond Associated Dredging has two ·job, Atkinson :has opened all testing program. the bounds, the company would and three rigs working around lanes to traffic •and has moved Gallagher & Burk lms been remove the mill. The company iS the bay doing several small jobs. out everything but the office busy sub-grading Md paving still in its location there under The company is bui-lding up a if:!:'ailer. Traffic wa:S turned loose several large sub-divisions in the · a temporary pernmrt. "sucker dred_g~e," and should on November 1 and put an end Moraga area. and the Sears -Meanwhile, U nit e d S a n d have it :in operntiQn soon. to a major bottleneck heading Shopping Center in Pleasant Hill. Martin Bros. made a good start . on its 450,000 yard swb-division job on Alhambra Avenue in Mar­ On October 18, 1965, Broth­ tinez. This job 1s in hilly coun­ er IL. L. L. "Tiny" Laux try, and looks like it will ha. I passed away. "Tiny" had good drainage this winter. a Business Agent in Oakland PLANTS AND SHOPS for 15 years and a member of A new two-year agreement was Local 3 for almost ·25 years. · negotiated and ratified by the _, He was active in both the members of American Forge Alameda and the Contra Costa Co. in Niles where 125 engineers · Building an d Construction are employed the year around on / Trades Council and at the a three-shift · hasis. time of his passing was Presi­ The large work load of free­ dent "of the Contra Costa way and sub-division work iD. CounciL He has the respect the Alameda and Contra CQsta and admiration of all Labor county has created an excess of Representatives who k n e w work ·in fue Rock, Sand. and him. (lmvel plants, · h!Ot plant:!, .and Whatever "Tiny" set out to batch plants in the area. Most of · do, or whatever task was as- them have ~n W()rking tv. H Sl.lrnl~d him, he threw himself and three shifts and long holH'S into iit until it was completed. 1x> keep up with the demand. ' l!l!e never said ''how can I do A new three-year agreemellll: it," only "when do you want was negotiated for the Interna" it done." tiona! Harvester· Co. Newark , Our sincerest sympathies go plant. The pliant employs ap­ ; to luis widow, Marie, family proximately 25 brothers keeping busy ·the year GOLDEN GATE-harbor was invaded this month by Olympic dredge "The Golden Gate." and friends who will miss him. around. · Dredge will deepen harbor and other extensive improvement is planned. San Francisco is shown His 111ntimely passing has left Oakland office has cheeks for in background. a void that will be difficult the following men: to fill. E. Vaughn, Jll.. Thompson, l!IC. Fran· zen, Jll.. Bradley, B. C1lDlJiliDJI. D. Gould, L. McNeil. C. Whit~ E. Deloe, G. .JacobSOD, · P. Sulllvan. P. Whiteford and B •. Conn.

million first stage of the Hegen· _;,...__ berger Expressway Overpass. ______. At the same time the commis· sion allotted $100,846 toward the $224,103 widening of the South­ ern Pacific underpass at Pleas­ anton-Sunol Road in Southern Alameda County. The State Department of Pub­ lic Works awarded a $41 million contraot for the construction of a stretch of Interstate 580 free, way at the eastern edge of Ala· meda County. The award was given to Gallagher- and Burk, Inc. and Stolte ~nc. of Oakland. The project covers 5.3 miles of four-lane freeway, with a small wo s portion ex It e n d i n ·g into San Joaquin County. lfnU/Il e Gordon H. Ball. is now under- . way with the freewiay project wonders· from Highway 50 to Scott's Cor­ ner near SunQl with about 18 pieces of equipment on the job. GIVETHRU CLEA~IIJP-the barge "Daniel ~.·: owned by Peter Kiew;t Co. ~as been pulling and jetting out CONTRA COSTA UNITED CRUSADE old pde and docks at the Manna s Golden Gate and St. Franc1s yacht dubs. Eugene Lu.hr Co. ,is in high NEWS ~cvember,• 1965- ENGINEERS w .fipeline to· State W-indfall' G·er,ve Far ·mers ll illi to work Calif., is working on .three miles In kscn Va:lley Uy TOJ'I'l ECK, ED DU:ROS, LOU BARNES they may put tVi'O more later on to finish u·p. Bud Cox, of park roads at the Lava Na­ M. TALBOT, · amount tO construct by WALTER REDDING- Sb:ange things are .$885,090 the .Project Manager, has assurro tional Monum·ent. H€adquartei'~" McNA:MARA and i.v o bridges on Interstate 5 AL happening. Here it is the latter t . us he will be putting on two · Work in Siskiyou County has DOBYNS railr'oad tl'acks near Weed GLENN part ·Of October and no rains to ac-ross more pieces of equipment so slow.ed·down considerab1y. Peter area, and at Granada. .OCKTON:__Due to the faet speak of in the 'Redding . that we can place a Journeyman Kiewit and Sons, at Hilt, have a t:hat we are enjoying unusually which seems to be very unusual. The commission authorized Trainee there. one lane of the freeway .. com­ Most. C{)inpanies are taking ad­ 000 allocation to gi:ade 5:8 and· expects to shift the balmy weather for · this time of $1,650, D. B. Stutsman, who suhbed plete, vantage· of the sunshine and go­ miles of the future Highway 3 h·affic over and ·do the other year, work in the Stockton and ' part of t:he Baker-Anderson p-ipe­ ing "full blast" in . an attempt to north o.f Coffee Creek in: Trinity : If the weit:h.er does ·hold Modesto areas is going at a fast line, is nearly finished on the . lane get as much of their projects County. Almost ·three · miles will they expect .. to be calling for rate. Contractors are . hurrying j{>b . and , we hope "Stuts" will out compieted as possible before in­ be paved. The road lies between a few more Brothers. the work along· to acC{)mplish as get another big jo·b here. "Stuts" clement we·ather hits. Weaverville and Etna. R •& D Watson .are still going. much as possible before inclem­ is chairman of the Sub-JAC and and are making real pTog- ent weather arrives. At. _present we have no new In· :mother TJ.:inity County al­ is doing a fine job. strong major jobs breaking, but budg­ location, the commissioners or­ ' ress. This job has turned out to 0. K. Mittry and Sol'JS have Ferry Br.others. who have eted money for future wo·i·k dered $130,000 to complete fi, be a rock ,.pit. They are lo<;ated nearly completed the· Jackson moved to lone, forgot a few looks bright. Our "out-of-work" nancing for widening and sur­ at Happy Camp on the Klamath. Creek Dam project. There '"'ill checks 'for the boys on retroac­ is stable for the nioment as facing the Bramlot and Cold River-a r'eal ni~e par-t of the be a few Brothers around for Jist and vacation pay, .and we . The tive country. They ·have approximat~ doing the finish and there is not . too much turnover Creek roads f.or 9:6 miles awhile are "hustling" Mack, in St-ock- miles to go .and ·even, on the present jo·bs. Despite the roads are part of new alignment ly three _'; ..... clean up work. . ton; to collect these checks :for late start last spring, it has been for Highw·ay 36 between Duba­ with ~he long hours the boys are . and Craft have fin­ three or four membei·s. ~ttry a good season for -rriost ·of the kella Mountain and the Shasta putting in they ·expect to be moving dirt on Highway Co. J1a·s . is~ Brot-he·rs in this area. County. line. Granite Construction working for quite a whiie long.er. 124, between lone and Plymouth, a few laterals on the pipeline $2 or $3 mmion Shasta · County will receive The commission's budget calls There is still :md Ferry Bi·os. Construction they are doing with four by- . r k to be let some tiJ:n.e ii1 . more than $11 million for hlgh­ for $180 million in funds for of wo Co. has moved in ·a ·crusher and draulic backlwes. just beyond w·ay construction , n -e x t y e a r ; buying property .for ro·ads. Of the near future hot plant crew to lay base rock is still a·bout for continuing Interstate this amount, Shasta County will · Valley Engineers, in Corning, Happy Camp. There and black top. There is no .prob­ mostly · north of and Trinity County, should be finished with the main 20 miles of one-way road in this lem re-routing ttaffic on this 5· freeway construction get $554,000 said some of the pipeline by the end of the week. area to be constructed. job as it is a new road two Redding. $77,000. Miles funds Will be used to This will leave them with just · Trinity Construction Co. start­ miles east of lone to whete' it · The state and federal highway property expressway the laterals to do. ·Jim Scott, ed the r-oad job between Calla­ Highways 16 and 49. construction program for fiscal purchase a four-mile ties into project manager, is helping· the han and Cecilville with a small 1966, . budgeted for $652 million, ro-ute fo ~ Highway 44 between Beasley Engineering Co., ·of Journeyman T r a in e e go-ing · crew going- it wiH take about announced by the California Hilltop Road and the Airport Emeryville, was low bidder on · was days to complete this one. , Road. around and around. 80 tw o miles of 36-inch pipeline Highway Commission.. e)hnny Owens, !Brodie's, right­ :bridge .at Antler on Interstate -5 the C. Bak-er, J. A. Bat-e1nan, V. Bar­ t-tls, black top and tw'o over- mund Brown and the Interior ~ .. hand· man, iS helping with .tow, C . . Bru;g, A. Carey, R. G; Dabo - ,­ Gustafson, J. G. passes will not be let until some- for a traffic center barrier; $100 .ami Agrieulture ·depm:tments: canal;. which. is a Ucklish p.ro-p-osi­ ler: .J. Fellowell, D. channels. Gilbert, P · W. · Gillis, J. D. Griner, time next spring. 000 to construct traffic . · 'fhe bill authorizes $21.6 mil- tion because of a high water M . ·L . Gartky, R. D. Hutchinson. on Highway · F. James, J . H. Landgraff, M. -G: Fresno Paving Co., on H:fgh- into Sh:a~Ha . College lion· for land acquisition and tame~ Lindley, W. C: \!11iinges, 0 . E. Norris, a: Village to . 299 near the Old Oregon Trail of The Fadel job in Anderson R . .P elletier, I. R : Pierre, R. E. Pratt, -way 108 from Sierr $22.7 million. for development ·H. Ritchie; J. ·Ro.gers. M. K : .. -sol" four miles east of Long Barn, road; and $66,000 to land~ape recreation fa c i lit i e s around · promoted Jack Tiemman to berg. . T. B. Shannon, B. H. ·· Smith,- . - 299 for 1% miles ·from He has V. W. Stienielt, K. J. Stanko. :E ." is trying to 'get the black top. High-way Whiskeytown, Shasta, T r i n i t y Project Sup€rintendent. Thompson, JIL N. T riplet, ·R. L . \V·il­ down ·before the weather forces Liberty St. to the freeway in Lewiston Lakes in Shasta the • Wheel . and Ko-Cal Load:er lia ms, P . E. Willia ms on, ·E . Gibbs, and J. H. Lans dale, them to· move out. Redding. and Trinity counties. really loading the dirt with · tile G. E. N elson. E. E. PhillipS', J . B. $75,- help of Curtis F-lower. Nichols,- J . C. Thorp, B. Smith. ·B . L . Gallagher., Burk & Stolte, Inc. The commission allocated It got quick approval from the S irokman, ·0. E. Ellis, Vv. ··A. Brady, .-of the Balr<~r­ Boggs, M Oakland. have started work 000 for a proposed state-federal­ Senate after being presented by Dale. Anderson, G. D. jc;>b, is trying W. Stanton. ·w. F. Barnes, E. w. on their West Side Freeway job. county project to widen Placer Sen. Kuchel. The bill was ap- Anderson- Pipeline Bm:en, S. E: Davis, G. L. Drummond, four-lane to finish on .the low parts at the L . A'. Everett. E. N. F elst€t, L. L. This Pl'Oject starts where' Me- St. for an eventual proved by the .Senate Committee H a rney, I . C. H amilton , R. E. rains. We r Eagle­ Namara's job ended and contin- - highway between Wiseons:in Ave. on· Interior and Insular Affail's job b€fore the. heavy Rodgers, J. l\<1. Roth, Vi' a lte he· is another nlan, ues approximately 5.3 miles un- · and San FranCisco St.; in Red­ and then went to the. full Senate wish him luck as hand on the Sub- til it connects with Highway 50. ding. for final action. very helpful JAC Committee. .n the California Aq.ueduct, In Siskiyou County, the com­ Rep. Harold T. (Bizz)Johnson, Tlie G and A Salvage Co. is Western Conb·acting Corp. will mission budgeted $3 miUion for author of an identicai recreation · _tearing down half. the block on soon start two shifts on the trim- · Interstate 5 constructi(}n from bill already approved by the California St., between Yuba and ming machine to keep ahead of 11.1 miles north of Yreka for a House, expressed appr~iation to St. Crane work is by the paving machine. · distance of 3.3 miles .. Kuchel for shepherding the bill Tehama Commissr·oner·s approved an on the Senate side. Allen & Eastlund. in a · previous edi- As stated "Without a doubt it will be Our worthy Executive B9ard ' the "News", Western tion of . district are working at their· full most beneficial to the economies member. Joe Ames, tells the Corp., Wunderlich Contracting capacity supplying · the various of both counties," he said: story about the "smart aleck" Gallagher, Burk · and Co. and contractors with aggregates, Kenneth Waterbui·y, president kid coming up on a BlacksmitQ. Inc. are still employing MULTIPLE Stolte, One of the jobs to be let in of Western Evangelical Corp., who was pounding on a red hot the engineers in the the bulk of the near future is the Carson developer of the proposed 4,000 horseshoe; the B I a c k s m i t h Modesto areas. · Stockton and Pass job, better known as Red acre Kennedy Shores subdivision doused it in water and dropped SClEROSis will continue to op­ I These jobs Lake Grade, which will be let within tl1e boundaries· of the it on ·the ground; the "smart the Winter months erate during toward the· end of Noyember or recreation. area, said today · he aleck" kid picked up the horse­ the' gl'eat cripplell" as long as the weather p€rmits: i·t down to the first of December. will' get together with other shoe, slammed of young adults In the Modesto area, George STOCKTON members of his group . to decide ground. The Blacksmith said, .d, M. J. Ruddy and Standard · Personal Notes: what to do. "kind of hot!" and the "smad Ji),aterials are all keeping full The following Brothers were The Shasta and Trinity-Lewis- aleck" boy answered, "no, it ­ at crews busy on several miscel on the "sick -list" this past t,o n units of the recreation area, doesn't take me long. to look laneous jobs. month: Larry Carr, R. G. Stokes, embracing areas of the Trinity a horseshoe!" A. Teichert & S>On, S. M. Mc­ Daniel Hinchman, and Earl H. and S h a s t a national forests, The Charles Parker Construe­ Gaw, Stanfield & ' Mo·ody and White. . would be administered by the tion Co., of Portland, Ore., is Claud Wood Co. have many dif­ BLOOD .DONORS: We wish.-to Forest Service. The Whiskey- working in the lava be-tis in fer ent jobs going in the Stockton thank Brother Edgar A. Ste­ town unit would. be . under the Modo·c County. Parker is doing and Lo-di are•as at the present phenson for _donating blopd to National Park Service. the work on the electrical trans- tjme. the Operating Engineers' Blood Valley Engineers in Redding . mission lines, while Lindo-Gill · five rigs; however, Construction Co., of El ~Cajon , •All of the rock plants in this. Bank. ar e down to P~ge . 12 ENGI·N·EERS NEW·S Noveml>er, 1965• ,, SANTA .. ROSA REPORT .... Sier.ra -Projects ­ T·o· 'T:op .our -_ ~ .f te C-onsfr clio .u- ,At -Turn o.f Year ·continv-ed from Page 6- cavated to 1,200 feef at whicb, ors time further studies will be made edwoo on the feasibility of the under­ g_round powerhouse at the .() By RUSS SWANSON and W~IT WHITAKER _As those of you who have ()b· f·or benefits, . you will not be feet level and if feasible design tained benefits in this a r e a eligible until SANTA ROSA-The State of freeway for five · miles near you h~ve oorned · will proceed as, to size and type California know, we have been extended an amount equal has budgeted several Cummings. to five times of power house equipment. . rnilHons of doll~rs . for highway The project involves every courtesy, and complaints your norm a l -benefit. (EX­ construct­ A contract for $191,931 was inthe Redwood Empire for fiscal ing . the highest highway are non-existant concerning Op­ AMPLE: If you are eligible to em­ award to Brighton Sand and year 1966-67 to construct inter­ bankment in California at Squaw erating Engineers. (Incidently, receive $55 per week, then you should Gravel Company of Sacrament€! changes a{ Third, Fourth and Creek, about 900 feet long and ·you have a complaint, must earn $275.00 from a cov­ bring Lt for construction on Lotrobe Fifth Streets and College Ave­ 370 feet high. The Grizzly Creek to us and we will do our ered employer before you can best ·Road. n ue, in Santa R-os-a. embankment will be about 250 in settling the problem.) receive any benefi·ts at all:) N()W, to talk about the A word of caution, now that Three bids for the -project . · Included in the $4 ·million is feet high and 800 fe~t long: chang·es: First, any new claim you have been informed; be were opened Thursday ranging an undercrossing at Ninth Street. The project also includes con­ where the benefit · y~ar starts careful of quitting a job with-' as high as $232,275. The contract These changes will convert High­ structing foui: sidehill viaducts, totaling after October 1, 1965, the max­ out good cause 1ate in the year was awarded and the co-nstruc­ w~y 101 in Santa Rosa from one-half mile in length a imum benefit has been . raised when the weather is such that tion will extend from the new "road" to a full "freeway," and to carry traffic lanes because of the rugged nature from $55.00 to $65.00 per week, work is scarce. It may be a long U. S. 50 freeway interchange will alleviate ~he . bottleneck of the terr-ain ex­ which will in time increase the period before you earn enough near El Dorado Hills for a .olil.i.s· isting and will connect another at an estimated cost of $15 mil­ benefit of most Engineers. to satisfy the·requirements of the tance of 3.1 miles south to.d · link in lion; about $10 million is in the the ever-improving High­ The other change, which we new regulations. Latrobe Road. way 101. budget. feel is moot impoi·tant, concerns The White ~ock Two million doll~rs was .budg­ BLOOD BANK Powerhouse anyone qui• Ninety-five thousand dollars is eted to ex•tend the two-lane Route tting a job without We are going to need addi­ and PeJ;lstock should come up "good oouse.'1 budgeted to landscape Highway 20 expressway oost of _Highway F()rmerly, there· tional donors for our blood bank. for bid about January. White · was ·a five-week penalty i01 between Edwards Avenue 101 near Oa\pella; $210,000 al· for quit­ A few Brothers are sla.ted for Rock Powerhouse which will be ting. and . the Mendocino Crossing, lotted to straighten portions of serious operations. At this time­ a two unit 200,000 K.W. plant, Under the which · also includes ·· the Steel Highway 20. We should have our new regulations, we wish to thank both -Brother ·. will be the la1:gest Powerhouse shou-1d you quit Lane overpass in Santa Rosa. fair share of work. without good Ca-rl Nelson and Duane Ringler ·on the project, which is located cause, then when One hundred thousand dollars is It may not be the proper time you me with for their recent donations t'O the near Placerville on the ·south ' the department proposed to install underdrains to wdte aoout unemployment in- ' of employment bank. -fork of the 'American River. at various locations near Fort surance, but in as much as the The Powerhouse 'is . scheduied Ross. tq go on the line in eariy 1967. , laws h~ve been changed 'Ye N J L I Div.ersion Going north we find about $6 should like to give you informa- ew €haS c. omu1g • d) va II ejO• ·s 000 and retaining walls for million earmarked for construe, tion on the m o s t important · control of the river are under tion of Highway 101 into a 4-lane· construction, plus foundation ex· changes. , To Help Replace Finished Projects cavation for the 15-foot diameter 1,500 feet long penstock const·· By AARON SMITH phase of the Flood Control by tion of the · Powerhous_e and'' Equipment VALLEJO - This area has the time this goes to press. • installation are sched- · many new projects starting when u_led to begin in January. J . A. ·Parrish Bros. told us the other Jones old projects wind up for the com­ Construction Company has day_ they cannot finish the ing Winter. re­ the Powerhouse excavation and developement job before the first Penstock foundation conttact. ' Syar and Harms started the of April, 1966. There is some de­ '. Scheduled for future building clearing on the new project are a second ·72,500 lay on demolition work. K.W. unit at between Rockville and Fairfield. Camino Powerhouse, 190 feet Williams Construction Co. is In the near future, the ap, high Brush · Creek Dam, Brush making a showing -:>n the Colum­ proaches to the Napa river high Creek ' Tunnel and Jones · Fork bus Parkway job with Heims level bridge will be let. Sta.te es­ Underground Power Plant." Bennett Murray Bros. doing the clearing. timate for the one and eight­ Co. is still "''orking on the Road job at Elmer G. Wendt has the Uli­ tenths miles is $1,312,000. The tus Creek Flood Control job . . Gerrl:Y. Creek and making goo.d _ Sears Point Cutoff will finally . rolling and is employing abou·t progress along with all the s·rrtJ 15 Brothers. - have a good entrance coupled jobs in the county. · ·Joe Vicini Company Joe Richards still has a num­ with the new bridge Erickson, is trying to get the hot. stuff ber of members working through­ Phillips, & Weisberg is building.: down on all · the little jobs before the winter out the area, and the Ulltus pro­ Clyde Plymell has quite a bit sets in. · 1 NEW FREEWAY-Gordon Ball Co. is putting final touches ject is off to a real good start. of dirt to move in the Vallejo We are holding mail for the I to Ukiah freeway by-pass. Here is a Gunnert Willmoth housing project. Clyde Zimmerman slip­ Construction Co. will has em­ following men: [ form paver at work. have all the dirt moved ployed about 10 Brothers all on its Frank C. Beams, Jesse Bos­ through the construction year. well, James H. Clai·k, 0 . , L. Most major jobs in the Vallejo Crews, Bob Jinkerson, Kenneth area will be winding up around' A. Lawrence, Dave .Mitchell, John Christmas. The amount of new Arnold Moore, Owen Rundell, contracts let and new ones about J. M. Sellon, L. Strickland, to be let lead us to believe that Wayne Walk~r, Charles Webb; · 1966 will be better than 1965. Earl H. Whitaker. •

A TiPSY CRANE -this 70 Northwest keeled over the side of a low-bed trailer while being transported to !HIGHER LEARNING - new buildings Windsor Sand are shown at Sonoma State College at Rohnert Park, & Gravel plant. George Carr Crane crew righted north of Petaluma. Here foreman the rig with Hank Pacheco talks with Loyal Snodgrass and Bill McGrath no injuries incured. Note winery sign in · working for Arthur B background, which_ . Siri. (~rane in background is by Maino Construction. had nothing to do with the accident! • I

~ovember• , 1965 . ·B ·idwell Bridge- () ·p~r~ting _ Engin_eers Offici~l · Dire.ctory . Opened ·. t;f Public;· Business Representatives- of ·Officers and Highest in ·- N-alion Operating Engineers ~al No. 3 DISTRICT 8-SACRAMENTP Continued from Page 6- . 2525 Stockton Blvd. (Area 916) 457-5795 JURISDICTION: five .weeks w or k on under­ .. • ... _, ...... , • •.. 442-5322 :NORTHE'RN CALIFORNIA ER.NEST NELSON, Dist. Rep ... ,· ...... ground work in south .. Chico: A. . • , , , •. • , , • .•• . , • , , , •• , , ••• , ••• 644-2565 NORTHERN N.EVADA AL DALTON . , . ,., ~ .. .. , .• . 1 J'eichert & Son, -Baldwin · c(}ri· • ·•••• •• • •.. • • ..• • ••• •. ••.. 428-1458 UTAH; HAWAU.AHD CLEM HOOVER •...• • .••.•. struction Co. and Butte Creek •.• .• ...• , .• . ·. 966-2371 MID-PACIFIC· ISI,.ANOS JERRY ALLGOOD •. :. , ., , , •...... •... , .. , Rock 'are· still hurrying to "beat •••. 346-8836 ART GAROFALO ..• •• .•.• •,· ·· •• ~ .... ,, •••.•••••.•.• the weather" around Chico, as • ' MAIH OFFICE: 474 VALENCIA ST. is .Gr af-Vickrey, . Du~ach , Wuri- . SAN JOSE SAt.! FRANCISCO, CALIF. 94101 (Area 415) 431-1568 DISTRICT 9- schell and Small. · 295-8788 . :Mashil(}tto Enterprises is sup.. .:l 76Q Emory St. (Area 408) · OFFICERS plying material- for the Atkinson ,, Dist. Rep . • , , , ·; •••••• ,, •. , , •• , , , . , ; • , , , •. 269-84·36 BOB SKIDGEL Powerhouse. ]ob. B. C. Richter' CLEM, Business M~nager ..•••• ; •.•• ~ ., • • , : (Area .415) 697-6798 .• ,., , . , ., , •• , . , , , •••. . • , •• , •• . 724-54.90 At WM. HARLEY DAVIDSON Brothers have a . few EDGECOMBE, President . :• • , . : ••• • •. ~ - . .. '(Area 415) 648"3728 a nd Harms. PAUL LYNN MOORE :· ..•.. , . ..• . , , ,_, •. ·: • .· ... ; . . .'. , • ••· . , •. . 243-67 42 DALE MARR, Vice President . .. .• • , , .•• , • : ... (Area. 4 15) 359"5'351 men working ar0und , th,e pl a n~ . . • •' •.• ,"• .•• • , •••.. •.•• ~ .••.• •• . 241-6467-· W. . Y. MINAHAN, Rei:: .-Corr.' Sec .••.••.••••• . (Area 415) · 686-50.58 JAMES · N. HALL ... .••. o p eta t i o n s·outh of Oroville. ((\rea 415) 96.7-2942 , ; ., ., •.•.•. . . , , • , .•• , ••.. ·... , : . . 243-2163 A> J '. HOPE, Fin . Sec. & Dist: Rep . . ·; ... , •••• , •• DAVE REA, . Tech .. Eng ...• F r ari k Fuller Logging Co .. is Treasqrer &. Spec. Rep, __., ••• ,. (Area 415) 837~7418 •.••. .. •• •.•..•.••• ; ••.•••. 426-7865 D: R. KINCf:lLOE, LAKE AUSTIN ·.,, •. .. •:·.•·· .• •• burning debris on 40 . miles ot T. .[.STAPLETON, Trustee .&.Spec. Rep .• ·...... (Area 415) 479-088i clearing of the· Feather : and· Sac-. DISTRICT ,lO-SANTA ROSA r'imiento River . · '

3913 Mayetta .. (Area 707) . 546•2487 WEST SIDE FREEWAY DiAct 1-GUY. B. ' SLACK .. ' ' ' District 7 ~JOSEPH C. AMES 545--44.14 Di~d' 2_:_ERNESTW. MILLER .. · District 8 .,..,..,.W, ILLIAM WOODYARD RUSSELL SWANSON, Dist.· Rep . . , •.. • , , •• .. •...... Kiewit has finished all sub­ -AL PERRY. - District 3-MERLE W . . ISBEll: District 9 ASTER . WHITAKER •.. , ; . • . , ; .. , .. • .. , ..•...... :. : .226~340 1 grade on the Corning section: ' · 25.38 Washrngton Blvd. (Area·_ SOH . 394-1 011 - nect~ng .. RIP-RAP M. F. BOWMAN .' ...... "; '...... ; ...... :·... . 393-8728 . . . . LEVEE 415) 893-.il~O 1444 Webster'St. , (Area A. ·Teichert has finished -all tl1e E.EARN-E, pi st. Rep_. :·.;,: ~ ·•. .•• ·.•• : .. :. - ~ •• ,.,, .. : .... , 782-1J4.2 . dii.·t' movin/i: 6~- the ·C orps of.· Itn.~·. . , .. 538-8677 GERALD .BLAIR , . ; ; ; .. ,'. , ., .. . ·., •. ,.,,.:,. : ,, ... gihee1's. jobs .. ~n ' the S acramentq : . ~•.. ', ., •. , ;·, . ;,, ;· ... ·.. . ·~ . . . .. 782-618!3.. : -:._;:_; STAN GARB ER ...•• , . ;, and Feathei· ri¥ers: :· All that ·. re~ ·• ,.; .•. ,, •. ,. ;;. ,·; .-· '· .... \ r' . .·,., ....•.: ...... _ .. 682-6382 TOM CARTER . (Area 808) · 99-0084 . . malJ:]s . DD'N is , pJacing . ri];l-dp, j GUY ·JONES .. . , ...... •- .:. • . •.• •. •.• -; . , .. , ., .. , .· . . ·...... 525-5055 2305 S. Beretainia . , .• .• ~ ..... 254--1.1·86 . 'Eai:l P arkei' h as a ~ levee re~ ORVAL PRESSLY • .... .' ... , •.•... •..~ · • •.•••.•••• -•• HAROLD LEW.IS ·. .' . .• ; ... . . •. : , ...' : ~ .... .'; ; . : ~ :; ... . . 243-992 H air crew going soutll, Of Yuba BERT NAKANO ...... • ... .' .. ; . , .. : . • ,. .< ...... : .. Hllo 66-4886 p and ~ has completed the Sut-. . QISTRIC.T 3-STOCKTON . KEN KAHOONEI : :...• • ': . . ; -~ - . . .. . : ...... HOnolulu 8 i -1 093 ·· City, . , , , , . ... , . , .. 851-237 t er-Byp·ass job. !Area 209) 464c7~87 _ W ILFRED; BROWN . .. ·,; .. ; .•. . ; ..• , .... , 2626 N: California · Baldwin Constr uction finished WALTER TAU36T, DisfR~ p .• ... :, ...... , ..... ~ ...... 477~3210 GUAM the underground and paving on ;', . ·• , • ;', . '464 ~ 0706 •• • .. • , ..••••••• ; ·••• ·• • . ,';. ! • in Yuba City and AL McNAMARA ; • •. .. ,-. ~ , . . Market Street l . • .. AGANA ~ h as street wor k going in several subdivisions around the Twin Corn B·uilding - !>.0. Box 2521 724-222 , . ; ...... 326-121 Cities area: 1521' K St.;· · '\, . (Area 209) 522-0833. J . C. .YAMASHITA ...... •. . ..• .....• SAPP ...... : ...... 424-254 Stone; at Bea le Air Force GLENN DOBYNS ·; ,: ,: • ·'• ,· • . • ,. ,. ,, •. , , .- ••.. :; . . ·. ; . ,; . ·,. 522·7632 TOM JUAN BABAUTA ...... · . . .. ~ ...... ·...... , . . 335-290 Base, h ad .. an extension of its J~Y MARTI~ ••. . , • , •...• •.• ••••• •. •.. . • •••. . , .•. 477-8843 work anj moved in all available APPRENTICESHIP rubber-tired rigs to complete tlie DISTRICT 4-IEUREI:1ve small . jobs .goihg . . : (Area 408) 253-0662 3121 East Olive .!Area 209) 233-3.148 (S!Jn Francisco and· Peninsula .. . ..• ...... , at the b

• E N G I N E E-R S N E W S . . ~ . - Still:U"fiw Kinks'" . .-: , . ~ Marin .·Coun·ly - . 1 Ski I WOrk Peaks tO Fr8Sno Jo~urneyman r e slmpr · 5· .Ai'l .. Ti_me High bearings went ..By JOE MILLER, STAN BERGMAN, are .poured at the mile eighteen some of the main By AL. HANSEN ta shut down. UnHI ' CLAUDE ODOM, RAY PHENNEGER .. pumping pLant, this will weld out, causing and JIM JENNINGS ·· · the southend. of Reach No. 1. they-get 'all the "Bugs'~ out, ·they ·.. , · ·· and our · SAN RAFAE,L-Work picture .FRESNO __:: 'Activity in this thing for th~dndustcy When the inlet at the north- will suffer a few minor: s~ut · , in Marin County :has hit an ali- ·area. has remained · about the membership that wee have done end ing . the~ first . week of in· - ber; 1the.. more we ' taik about to end the hunt. chanic. Foremen •are: Brothers . Stituti.IJ;g the progtam but th!i!Se row home isaf.ety the less we · read or hear TUN ON m~asured 7 feet, 5 Russ Burke and Matt Cernac. have ·been resolved fo~ the most CRED -The Lion ··part: . · ,· . . about· accidents. ' · inches and w~ighed 148 pounds. H & H i'S also busy on their

~ ~ ' gathered new job at Terra Linda with ..We. _expect. fu have things ·op- SAN LUIS AREA DECEMBER . . Mter the Hunt, the took pictures · Brother Roy Drescher working evating . as they should -s o on . Work h) th:i,s :area is still pro- (all at 8 p.m.) at a ~ocal "pub'; the result of ·the as their foreman. · • (}&\y lby educating our. people 'as •gressing. at a fast rate. The San Sail Francisco, Dec.1 .. and enjoyed telling: NEW WORK . ".. as supervision ·on the joh, Luis Dam rontinues to grow. '474 Valencia St. · . J:i.unt-4:he is the Pier :and docking :f!acilities are can we remove the "kinks" ·that . On Reach No. l Guy F. Atkin- Eureka, Dec. 14 They tell us that this a· weekend! · · to 'be constructed at Angel Is-· exist. . son has .finished pouring· its loast 2806 Broadway ~ "only way.'~ to ·spend his own! land State Park at Ay·al'li. Cove, · · "W:1th (lOoperation by ail par- big .concrete •pour .on the siopes Redding, Dec. 15 All we can say-each are . exte~ded . to a-l:ong with other miscellaneous -ties concerned, theTe is no·re ~a 1S ' On and the many structures on this 100 Lake S;t. Syinpathies families · of ' Lim Bailey, Jr., £acilities to be installed. ·Sealed - ~liy, this <;~~t be the gr:eatest · project When the . wing. walls Marysvj.lle, Dec. 16 · the 1010 "I" St. and Don Herman~ . · proposals were to be opened· at ·Public Works Building in Sacra­ mento on October 20, how~ver, rthe date h'as bee'll set ·back to Nu­ vember 3---'Clue to an addendum Obituaries . tio this contract. · has been NAME CITY DAT:E DEATH · · Ghilotti , Brothers *Bailey, Leo, Jr._:_Gustine, Calif:- ...... :..... 9-13-59 10-15-65 awarded a sewer construction. Battenfield, J. B.-Dayton, Wash ...... ,. · 8- 2-47 10- 3-65 job in Tamalpafs Valley, north­ Berg, Harold-Fresno, Calif ...... 10- 3-53 10-23-65 west of Richardson Bay Bridge. Bisknell, Paul-Atwood, Kans...... 4- 4-53 10-18-65 Chas. I. Cunningham, of Oak­ *Boates; George c.__:_stockton, Calif ...... 4-12-64 10- 6-65 dale,". has been awarded street Paul...,...Gridley, ·Calif ...... 10- 2-60 10- 6-65 and road work on •the Fairfax­ *Callahan, . C'onstruction Qf ...... :...... 11- ~-55 10-10-65 Bolinas road and Craig, Harry-Fremont, Calif . *Crain, Royal E.-Crescent Valley, Nev. 4-11-65 10-10-65 a wate·r transmissi-on pipe Une · Cooper, Chas. A.-Marysville, Calif...... 9- 2-44 10-18-65 Ma:ggiora, Ghilotti & Madsen City, Utah ...... 4- 3-54 · 10- 4-65 were awarded a sewer construe: .Fox, Milo P.-Salt Lake system Guilianelli, Ralph-Pleasanton, Calif. .... 3- 8-37 10-18-65 tion and .water · supply ,. .. ,. .... 3- 7-53 10-26-65 job ·on Limita Drive and con­ Hackney, .Lott-Mill Valley, Calif. at *Hammerstad, Chas.-El Sobrante, _Calif. 2-16-54 9-30-65 struction of bank protection Donald_:_Los Banos, Calif ...... 11-25-44 · 10-11-65 San Jose Creek in Novato, · in, · Herman, additiQn to a sewer construction Calif ...... -,. ... 9-10"61 9-29~65 *Jave, Charles-Auburn, Point. Johnson, Clarence, Richmond, Calif ...... 10--4-52 10- 7-65 job at Harbor Calif ..... ,. 11-19-61 . 10- 2-65 A & J Shooter was awarded a King, Floyd B.-Castro Valley, job at Lagendorf Lauv, Laverne L. (Tiny)-Berkeley, Cal. 6- .-6-42 . 10-18-65 hl.ndsca-ping .....11-10-58 10-28-65 Park in Sausalito; Bobo's, uf Mollet, Orvan R.-Central Point, Ore a job 10.:- 7-50 10-18-65 Novato, has been awarded Mutter, Jack P.-Santa Cruz, Calif ...., .... tank ...... ,..10- 4-58 10-21-65 . for preJ)aration of three Phillips, L. C.-Bangor, Calif the· North Marin Coun­ *Pickney, Joseph F.-Paradise, Calif... .. 7-11-64 10- 6-65 sites for ,...... _ 9- · 45 6- 3-65 •ty W:ater District; Ghilotti Bros. Ross. Pat.-Eureka, Calif...... 'a sewer 3-18-37 10-10-65 recently was awarded Shaffer, Kenneth--;:Sebastopol, Calif ...... Marinda 7-17-41 10-28-65 construction j o h on Swails, Rob-ert A.-Phoenix, Ariz ...... San .. 11- 4-62 10- 9-65 Drive; W. K. -McClellan, of Swicegood, Wm. G.-Berkeley, Calif ..... and cul­ 5-17-47 10-27-65 RaJ1ael, awarded bridge Wiginton, Jack-Martinez, Calif ...... and 0. C. Calif. 4- 9-61 10- 6-65 vert job at Boyle Park, :J;Woolard, Fred~Marysville, Jones, of Berkeley, awarded a I·T TAKES GRIT-to stare a mountain lion down while sight­ -Contin~ed on Page 16 ing in with a bow and arJOW. See Fresno story for details. *Accidental.Deaths (8) _, : · '.

.·'· ''' . .~ . • Page 16 • ENGINEERS NEWS November, .196 t l Prospects Bdght for Eel River -OLDTIMERS Flood Contro-l' Project Shortly RAY COOPER and BUD awarded county storm damage Gas /rom a Prince Albert Can MALLETT ,.,.- repair job at at Mattole. EUREKA - Usually at this .Most smaller local contractors, time of the year. our report Tom Coy; J. L. Conner; Art Bur­ reads "rain" and the work load man; Mel Kadle; Acme Paving; Turn'er Over It's Rarin'g to Go starts to slow down; but here Spike Melohn and others are "Oldtimer" p i c t u r e s this we are with the _month of Oc- keeping the Brothers busy fin· _ month were provided· by Broth· tober nearly behind us and all ishing the various jobs. er Alexander Bone, of San Jose, jobs are going full blast. Other contractors, meanwhile, who has been a member of Local There are several rip-rap and are working long hours to com· 3 since amalgamation in 1939. bridge jobs that need a break in plete their jobs _before it rains. Brother Bone was initiated the weather in order to get out by of the river bar before the rivers Most jobs in the Crescent City Local 842 in December, 1936, area will be finished by the end and Dec. 1 will celebrate 29 ri~~e to the Boilermaker's of this month. However, Gibbon years of active union participa- & Reed was the low bidder on a tion. During rthe 29 years. strike we have had 'quite a few job let October 2oth, for flood Brother Bone has paid his dues brothers off work at the Crown damage between So. Fork Road annually and never missed an Siippson pulp mill, but presently Rt. 199 and Gasquet. · opportunity to support the their contract is before the prin­ membership for ratification and Fredrickson & Watson · moved ciples of Local 3. Today at 71 .· we hope everybody is back to most of the equipment out of years of age, he is still "a Local work within the week. At least Klamath. This was a good money 3 man." these Brothers can look forward job for inost of the brothers. An interesting -- side · note is rto all winter work. The work picture over . in provided by Brother Bone re- Arthur B. Siri co. had a good Hoopa~Orelans area -is about the lating -to the bottom picture at start on the new Junior College same ·as at Williow Creek. Mer- the right. It concerns the pro­ site, moving dirt while -it's dry. cer-Fraser was awarded ,a good- - cedure for "firing-off' the WHIRRING ROLLER-this is a Buffalo Springfield roll~r with Silberberger Construction co. sized job just east of Williow Austin-Western roller with the Brother Bone sta-nding at the controls in 1923. It was a 12-ton has a quarry going· at Bridge- Creek; Grainte Construction Co. big flywheels. · roller. - ville, furnishing rock for their was the low brdder fur removing "To start this monSter, you Fortuna-Eel River Levee job. the big slide behind Williow retard the spark, release Speaking th~ of the Eel River, we Creek. compression, operate -the hand , understand, from o f f i c i a 1 Arouil.d Bridgeville, Baldwin fuel pump to fill the mixing sources, that $17 ·million has & Warren is putting the finish- valve, pour one-half can of been allocated for flood control ing touches to bridges and ap- Prince -Albert with .gasoline on the Eel River for next year. proaches. down through intake v·alve and We certainly hope this project Seventeen million has been slosh another can full. of g.as gets started . right away as it is approved by · the Division of moo the clutches to cut down badly needed. Highways for next year. Over on the .drag. Now climb up to 0 s b 0 r n Construction Co. $650,000 has been allocated for flywheel and pull 'er over!" moved to the Rio Dell sewage another section of full freeway The "Enginee-rS News" appre­ disposal plant, and is finishing from Dean Creek through Gar· ciates receiving these "oldtimer" up the Rio Dell bridge repair berville. tid-bits, and we have received · b. many remarks from members JO • NEW SHOP AGREEMENT who· have followed the pictures Green Construction's Scotia We have recently s·gned an f · 1 and stories. Our t h ank s to you Breeway th Ejob iS progressing with agreemen. t w1'th E"rman's Tractor · Brothers whO!have made it pos- ro er ngmeers moving a lot Service (Moore Equipment) and . slble ·to bring these pictures to of di-rt and getting in good . hours .. This job will be. "moth· welcome these men -into our - · the rest- ·of 'our over 100,000 VINTAGE-judging the "sport balled" as soon . as the heavy great organization. Erman's roadster" at the. right as a '_2l.. A. C. readers . . T-model Ford,· the Buffalo Shop is located on Jacobs Ave., Next month, we will feature Springfi«:!ld in the background. arieL rains hit. three-legged roller, the Morrison-Knudsen Co. com- north of Eureka. eight-ton Austin W.e5tern in fore­ pictures and stories from two ground should be about the same vintage. pleted its freeway job at Dean We are sorry to report another Brothers, Vlayton Sivils, of Creek and is completing the accidental death from this area. Oneals, Calif., and Naz Reynolds, storm damage repairs along . Apprentice Darrell Lydick was of El Cerrito, Calif. WatCh for Highway 101. Most of the equip- a fine young lad, 20 years old, them, and if· you have pictures, ment is parked at this time, but and was just getting started as send them to the attention of we hope to see the company an Operating Engineer. The Don Thoms, "Engineers News,'' around next spring, truck crane he was on came in at the San Francisco office. In· Murphy Pacific encountered . contact with high voltage lines elude all information and as a number of problems on repairS and Darrell was electrocuted many names of Brothers as pos· to Mapel Hills Bridge at Miranda when he stepped out of the cab sible in addition to where the and getting their coffer dam onto the ground. equipment was used. · "in" and · keeping the · water "out." · . Alliance Construction Co. is . finishing 1!-P local jobs and will .~o,_:_ be moving on to a recently Marin ork MUII.E T RA iN - normally, this mud harvester required 12 ·its Peak High VALLEJO head of mules pulling and six pushing this excavator, but here is a 45 hp Holt Caterpillar, purchased Continued from Page 15- The Vallejo office in 1914. Dirt was ro!Ji.d extends sincere sympathies to Brother onto the belt by a single walking-type plow. rtennis and game court at Terra Henry Olson, whose wife recently That's Alex ·s• Linda High S-chool. passed away. We also ex­ on the Cat. tend an expresion of help to ·speed the recovery of our We are hohiing the following Brother Henry Franz, checks recently hospitalized for an operation. to be picked up: G. R. Congratulations . are in order for Brother Gentry, J. V. Crum, H. K. Bob Evans, Evick­ whose \\-ife recently blessed the family with a son, E. M. Gilson, P. S-. Montoya, baby boy. W. C. Tracy. T-his is for retro­ SAN JOSE act-ive pay due these -members Blood donors for the month. Our thanks to the following from Coxco, Inc. donors: Theresa Dye, James T. Kelly Jr., Vincent Jiminez, We have '-been successful in and Bill Dalton. obtaining 'V'acart;ion checks ·and Our condolences to Mrs. Jack Mutter, widow of Brother retroactive pay totalling $2,045. Jack Mutter, who passed away October (This 18. Jack was very also includes infringe­ well known and liked among the Brothers in this area, and ments on tile contract.) We will be missed by many of them. · would like to call to your atten­ Best wishes for a speedy recovery tion to J. H. Bradshaw, rthat if you have not received . convalescing at home, and to Reginald Bateson, recovering your rertroactive pay under the from an Industrial Accident.. Brother Bob Lyons new contract, contact is still hos­ the office pitalized due to an Industrial Injury, and we trust .that he -immediately. The office remains will be well enough to go home soon. open until 7:00 p.m; on Thurs­ days for your convenience. SACRAMENTO Our thanks to Brother Ray R. It is with deep regret that we extend sympathies to the Schunk, for his doll!ation to the surviving families and friends -of the six following Brothers HIGH RO LLE R~this is a one-cylinder Austin-Western Blood Bank. Brothers Bob Young road who passed away recently from .this district: Ted Brown, roller in 1922 near Whittier, Calif. Fly wheels were and Earl Bechtold are off nearly to August Deickmiller, Ernest Gassaway, Marion M. Imel, Char· six feet in diameter. Harry Johnson was operator, Saigon, and we wish them luck. from Ana­ lie Jave and John Walke:. · heim. That's Brother Bone standing by the wheel. •