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OPERAtiNG ENGINEERS LOCAL 3
~38 I Vol. 25- No. 1 ~151 January, 1966 • SAFETY RECORD WOR T IN HISTORY; ACCE ATE M E IN S D . . ,. Attitude-the 'Right Attitude' Settlement Agreement Okay For Guam-based Company Key to 1966 Better Record . ' Hawaiian Rock Products, Inc., "We will nat in any manner and but they will be employed to the • By AL CLEM· that will determine whether, a large Guam-based J.llanufac- interfere with, restrain or coerce fullest degree only if we have the Business Manager to what extent, we shall make turer, supplier and contractor of -cour employees in the exercise of . progress towards greater safety right attitude mentioned . earlier. Since the beginning of man, . building materials r e cent I y · their rights to self-organization · ori the job." · The answer, therefore, to the agreed :to a Settlement A~ee- to form, join or' assJ.st any ·labor every- He added, "philosophy and at· problem of safety is: "Attitude-- safety -in performing his ment with Local 3. The firin em- organization to bargain collec· day tasks has be~n uppermost titude are most important in de- the right attitude"! · ploys more than 100 Guamanians. tively through representatives of in his mind. Yet, there are strong termining whether any endeavor Busin~s Manager AI Clem sa[d their own choosing, and to engage indications that he has . talked will succeed or fail." that . according to the Settlement in concerted activities for the more about safety 'than he has . Philosophy, if sound, gives us Practice Safety Agreement, whi~h was initiated, purpose of collective bargaining the platform on which . we can recommended and approved by · or other mutual aid or protection, practiced it, and PerhaPs the build much of value to us all. the National Labor Rela:tions or to refrain from any or all such basic underlying problem is in Attitude determines whether his "attitude" toward safety. Working Habits; Board, a governmenta>l agency, activities. · we will do our best. to live up the company agreed to the fol- "All our employees are free to The record speaks for itself: to the philosophy. lowing: become or· remain, or to refrain If our attitude is passive, and Attend ·M·eetings this year Local 3 set a dubious "We will not discourage mem- from becoming or remaining consists merely of "lip service," record · of 32 industrial deaths The cartoon below wasn't in· bership in, or aSISistance to, I'hter- members of any labor organ[za,. if our at· while performing .routine daily we will do little; but tended to humor or frighten any national Union O SAFETY MEETINGS (all start at 8 p.m.) • Lake Tahoe , (Bijou) Jan. 18 Carpenters . Hall Rerio, Jan. 19 Union Office, . 120 Taylor· St. - Oroville,Jan.20 · Prospector Village San Rafael, Feb. 1 701 Mission Ave. Ukiah, Feb. 2 Labor Temple, on Kuki Ave. Hayward, Feb. 4 .Carpenters Hall San Mateo, Feb. 16 • 50 North "B"St. San Jose, Feb. 23 NEW VICE PRESIDENTS-when AFL-CIO elected eight vice Pressman· Ralph Helstein, Packingh ous~ Workers. Back row; 760 Emo:ry St. presidents to Executive Board, Hunter P. Wharton, IUOE Gen' from left: George Burdon, Rubber Workers; Wharton; David Vallejo, Feb. 24 eral President was named. All are presidents of their unions. Sullivan, Building Service Employees and Paul Jenings, Elec 316 Virginia St. Front row, from left: I. W . Abel, Steelworkers; P. L. Siemiller~ trical Radio and Machine W orkers Union. They were elected Machinists; President George Meany; Anthony J. Andrade, at recent San Francisco convention. ' • Page 2 E N. G I N IE It .R S N E W S January, 1966 • from the Manager's De k By Al CLEM • . As we look in the future for 1966, the' officers and mem bers of Local 3 have a tremendous job to do. While all the major negotiations are behind us for at least another year with the exception of the, AGG contract in the State of utah, we have many accomplishm,ents which I hope we -will be able to achieve in this coming year. . G·OOD NEWS- was received here by Genera I President Hunter P. Wharton that he was One of the most important is the field of safety. It IS elected AFL-CIO vice president. Identified are General Secretary Newell J. Carman, Vice with a great -deal of regret that after revie,wing our record.s Presidents J. C. Turner and Charles Paluska. for the past year we find 32 Brothers passed on due to acci dents of one nat{rre or another. This is a situation, where if 1 we all work togethe·r in the coming year, perhaps, Wf5 can SETTLEMENTS Hiring Han Bid Upheld alleviate this ~ to a great degree. An accident is an extremely. ~ · expensive' happening in many ways.- First, and most · impci·rtant, is that the loved ones who OK INGUA 'M In Face of ·work' Law · Continued from ~ge 1- are left · behind bear the greatest burden of an accidental · State "right to work" laws Hartley Act does not P·rotect a death as these things happen so, fast. As the saying goes are to receive their back pay as "death is so instantaneous"; we do not have time to put our determined by the regional di cannot be interp,re PulHi~hed each; month by Local :l..Jrtipn No. 3 of the I Internation San Francisco, hub of Norlhern California's communities,. still cannot make up its mind about its freeway problem, which anyone will tell you leaves a lot to be. d~sired between the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges. and the peninsula area. For s0me time the Board of Supervisors has be~n squ;:J.b . ·.. i bling over the route a proposed freeway ¥:'-ould take, and, among others most talked about, are what IS known as the ."Golden Gate and I:anl_J.andle free~vays.". . . . . Federal authorities have patiently, and are now Impa tiently, standing jn.. the wings with a $250 millio~ check_ ear• marked for local construction of the ·freeway while a mmor ity has ,fiddled to save. tr~es ; shrubs,. their p~n~rama view, etc,, and has been very vo<::al and vociferous m ~ts protesta tions. Busi'ness Manager AI Clem and other officers and rep- .. ,, resentatives· attended. meehngs -of the city's Transportatio~l committee and appealed for a decisio_n on the freeway pi:OJ· ect over one . year ago. This means JObs for our red by_· the- Cali-. ·. said. the new la.~v "will have· .the buHhne is' rt.mning but! . ;,., ' . .. ' . ••'"' ' ~ ··, ·' compcns_at!Qq:_ p r .o g . ~' ~ ~ · ~ ; ~~~i. 2,0 ·.: fornia:--·Labor' Feder a Uo.n .and the-: effect of improving a ven >ex•· ' W.e.' b'(jpe "th'tit' the Tecerit expenditure ·.Of $102,000 · froril · years - was explored. in de.tail _ Industrial..Accident Commi·ss1on, "cellent· workmen~s •· comper~sat.ion" city :Omd stite division of ·highway :furids to hir;e more "ex> at two day-long corifeninccs ' in ~ pointe<;! out at the.outset ·of each ,system in·Califotnia:'1 · perts" will produce iesults-a start on the freeway and Los ·Angeles .and San Francisco· cgnference that the_new law was . Re said of ·the thi·ee major prospects for jobs for Operating Engin,eers and other trades. this week b-y. more than 5'00 par-· fully in accord with policy state- components of the workmen's SEN:ATE'S 'RIGH·l' TO VOTE-' AT ISSt:JE . ticipating union officials. ments adopted at the California . program in California-'a·dminis• ·. The hottest domestic issue to face the second sessio.n of Among the most :-· · k"~ : ~-:~ : ve e ti . BY HAROLD HUSTON, BILL . WEEKS, BILL. METTZ AND ERNEST SUTTON goi~g when ·the weather permits. at the Thermalito Power Canal A. Teichert & Son, Inc. has a and all highway jobs. the The state announced plans to installed at 9th and D_ Streets ·-MARYSVILLE -During crew of. mechanics busy in the C. J. · Langenfelder. & Sons, to facilitate the use of D Street past month we have completed relocate a sightseers' overlook Yuba City shop and a few en· Inc. are burning and clearing on by traffic now · crossing the me negotiations with Diamond Steel at Oroville bam 325 feet higher gineer operators. La m on Con the South Fork and Middle Fork dian at lOth and E Streets . . Company, Inc., Yuba City, and o~ a hillside·. Bids have been struction Co. have several jobs of the Feather River which is the Yuba Sutter Scavenger As called for on the estimated $125,- The ramp at I and lOth Streets going in Colusa and Sutter Coun .part of -their contract for clear· •ciation ·in · .Marysville. These 000 job which will include an in· and ·the undercrossing beneath ties. ing the Oroville Reservoir. ·~ve been real tougn negotia· the lOth · Street bridge west of J a 1 form~tion centei:, . parking area Boyle Bros. Drilling h a v e Guy F. Atkinson Company at tions but we are happy to report to city Of drill working and restrooms. Completion is for Street will provide access . new type case 'the Thermalito Power House has . the Negotiating ·committee May. The move to a higher van streets serving the 23-acre shop for the Department of . Water a few operators working· steady brought back real good contracts ta o·e-point is caused by construc ping ceilter now under develop Resources west of Willows in the on concrete pours. 'which were submitted to the em· ment south of lOth Street next Paskenta Meadows area. They ti;n of the ~no -foot' dam, which McNamara-Fuller Co. are still ployees for each employer, and to the levee: will drill and case a six-inch hole will soon' block . the u'pstream p r o b 1 e m s, but going they were overwhelmingly ap· to a 1000' depth, case with a 3" having vie'.Y of Feather River. WATER TANK CONTRACT with the job. :proved. diamond bit to 3500' and reduce ahead Yuba Consolidated Industries, Mastellotto Enterprises Inc., Our goai in' all negotiations is A. Teichert and Sons, Inc. of to a 2%" case to a depth of Inc., Benicia, was the low bidder B. C. Richter Contract Co., R. E. to. obtain the best wages;. work Yuba City has been awarded the 4500'. This will be im exploration for completion of the penstock Marler & Sons and Mathews Con . ing C!:mditions, and fringe bene contract for construction of two hole for a proposed tunnel to intake. in the left abutment of 'tracting Company, Inc. plant are . fits p 0 s s i b 1 in this district. one-million gallon water storage transfer water from the upper e Oroville Dam for the Oroville moving very slow owing to the · Business Representatives follow tanks in Yuba City. Teichert bid region of the Eel R i v e r into powerplant of the "state Water weather. itp to · determine that each em· · $264,037 for construction of the Grindstone Canyon and Thomas Project. The firm's bid was $4.42 two tanks. INDUSTRIAL UNIT ployer lives up to the contract .million. The job consists of · con Creek, thence into the west side • signed. It always is a pleasure The"' two t a n k s to be con canals of the Sacramento Valley . The Hydro Conduit-Corp. has struction of two temporary bulk 'structed for · use next summer, .10r us to be able to help any heads, two penstock intake gates, Hydro Conduit Corporation moved all of their personnel and • member who comes in with a are part of the · city's $3.25 mil· have the new plant in full pro equipment to their new plant in one intake· gate lifting beam, one lion water improvement project, problem: We know that by wo1'k· ·penstock intake gate gantry hoist duction at Hamilton City ·with Orland. It is now under full op. for which $3.25 million in bonds : irig together we will get the job and a control room. Operating Engineers enjoying eration. with production being done. was approved by the electors in the new improvements made for increased considerably. The State Department of Gen September. The tanks are needed their comfort. tour of . · The out-of-work lists are be ·eral Services has a w a r d e d a We recently made a to supplement the city's existing Baker Rock Co. has started and . giiuiing to grow each· day due to $307,340 purchase order to West this new automated plant wells and storage · faciiities dur· to produce again. A. Teichert & to find that none . excessive wet weather we have Corp., Sacra- was· surprised inghouse Electric ing the summer months when Son, Inc. have r e d u c e d their had for the past month. We wel . mento, to furnish control switch· of the engineers had lost theil.' water. pressure · drops consider crew to maintenance nt Hamilton come the ·New Year 1966, and boards fo1! the Oroville power jobs as a result of automation. ably: City. Believe it or not, they h a v e 'hope •it will be the best year yet plant of the state water project. Other parts of the project in· OTHER JOBS hired five new engineers. fot every brother engineer and The work to . be performed in cl~de a water treatment plant, Rain and foggy weather has back in his -family. The work picture ·is cluded fabricating and deliver The Baker Rock Co. is pumps' and lines to take · w~ter most of the work in this area production after a lengthy shut . real healthy with many new jobs ing six- generator control switch from the Feather River, storage shut down, such as Guy F. Atkin down. The problems have been ·to 'start in the ;Spring. Please be boards, s i x turbine c o n t r o 1 facilities at the treatment plant son ·Company ·at the reservoir, should available when the dispat'ch'er switchboal'ds, six turbine corrected and pi:oduction and main transmis-sion lines. in Morrison & Knudsen Company • • lis you for a job or leave word. switchboards, one e m e r g e n c y . continue, weather permitting ..,here he Cflll reach yol;. We do the city. Work will commence at control switchbe'ard, one switch once with completion date sched· not Want · any brother to miss a yard control swit~hboard a n d o. job when his turn comes. uled for July 1, 1967. three annunciator panels. T h e The same . em-ployer was also LBJ Reviettt~s Economic .Gains - . PIOMBO COMBINE BIDS LOW . work is to be completed by. NO· . successful in •submitting a, _low " ·· FOR· FORK JOB ' ·-rn a talk'to the Bus ! ne~s .Coun . ·--:T-he unemployment r a·te SOUTH veinber: i966. . ' . . tor 'widening 1 bid of ' $i62,!;120.50 cil, Pnisi'deiit'Joh:nso_n cited many Piombo Constructio~ - i C~. ·'and . '. . HUB STREET BIDS 'among mm;l:ied Ipen fell to '2 p ~r an·d r~constructing a 2.3-mile sec dramatic economic gains recorded cent, the· lowest since we b-egan Rothschild, Raffin and Weiricks, The State Division of High tion of Riz Road in Glenn County during the past 58 months of un to keep monthly records for them Inc., of San Carlos, submitted the ways is advertising for bids for seven miles southeast of Willows. bl;oken prosperity. Since e a r 1 y back in 1954. · low bid on a bridge to be con- reconstruction and improvement The section to be improved is 1961, he said: -The rate of unemployment structed over the South :~fork of of portions of · Highway . 70 (E between 3.8 and 6.1 miles east 1 · -Ou1:. gross natior..al product among teen-agers is 12.5 per cent, the Feather ._ River. . TP.!i. Hid'. was · Str:eet) in Marysville. Bids wili df Interstate Higliway 5 and wHI has risen more than 35 per' cent_,.. significantly down from Novem· $2,733,336. The bri'Oge; ·alfot\t 12 · be opened January 5th with and paved be graded, widened $174 billion. ber a year ago when it was 14.3 miles from Oroville, will be part $459,600 available i n c 1 u din g with minor correction in align -Our consumers are spending per cent. of the relocation of the Oroville- $182,600 to be paid by the City fuent The project will take about . -U-neniployed non-whites de Falls road. The present of Marysville. $104 billion more a year. Feather five months to complete. creased by 75,000, or 10 per cent -Our unemployment rate has .ad wiil be under water when The mile-long project calls for A. Teichert & Sons, Inc. has from November a year ago. the Qroville Dam reservoir is dropped from 6.9 per cent to 4.2 completed work on a State high -The number of persons qu·t full. widening lOth Street from four per cent. While we have added way contract in the Chico area of a job for 15 Weeks or longer The bridge will be a 1,056-foot to six lanes with construction of almost 4.75 million workers . to 1 widening · a 1.3-mile section of has declined by 30 per cent since cantilever, steel truss s-tructure. an undercrossingJ.of lOth and .I our civiliim labor force, we are US 99 from two to four lanes a year ago. By now, more than 440 Eleven major intersec- employing almost 6.5 m i 11 i o n The central span will be feet, Streets. between Lindo chan n e I and half of the unemployed in th!s tions on both highways, between more people. 300 feet· above stream-bed, and Shasta Avenue. The State high country have been out of work the side spans will be 308 feet. 2nd ,Street and the bridge over way division planned this work -The number of people with for less than five weeks. The job will require 1,200 tons the Feather River on lOth Street ahe.ad of anticipated: completion jobs, at 72.8 million, was a No -Disposable personal income of'· structural steel, · 2,300 cubic will be improved with traffic of the third unit of the Chico vembe!: all-time high, and 2 !f!il has been lifted from $1,950 to yards of reinforced concrete and sign a 1 modifications ~md new freeway some time next year. · lion above the same month a_year . $2,40{) per capita, a rise of 25 per ~ 1.5 miles of paved r 0 a d w a y. left-turn lanes. When the freeway east of the ago. cent. _ Abo~t 300,000 cubic yards of On E Street (Route 70) left- existing r o u t e is in full use, .-The number of unemployed -Wages and salary incom e earth and .rock will have to be . turn lanes and three-way traffic about eight miles of the present totaled 3 million in November, have increased 33 per cent. excavated. At this· time we have signals will be provided at each . Highway 99 will be relinquished the lowest figures .have been -And corporate profits after quite 'a few engineers working, intersection. At the present time ·to local agencies . since the .middle of 1957. taxes have increased 84 per cent. • d hope to add more as the job there are no left-turn pockets, BEALE AIR BASE progresses. · and signals at two-block intervals ORO ROAD JOB only. A raised center dividing Stolte. Inc. are in the clean-up stage of their runway extension The stat~ D e P a r _t m:en t_ of sti'ip will be constructed between job· and parking aprons. B i h g Water Resources a w a r d e d a 2n:d arid 6th Streets extending $2,347,oo'o_ cont~·a~t to · o. K Mit- the median divider; which . al· Consti·uction Co. have finished h'y & ·Sons of Gardena, ·for re- ready . exists . from 6th to 9th the concrete and paving opera loc~tion of a 7.5 mile section .oL Streets-. tions. United Nations Constn'!c· the Oroville-Feathei· Falls Cotin- Tenth street (Route 20) will tors, Inc. have all ·the i.uider ty :Road near Oroville. The relo- have three lanes in each direc- ground facilities 'completed and ' cation will begin ·west 'of Lake tiori. The grass -planted center wili be goirig to the w_ est side Wyandotte on· Olive Highway to _ strip will be retained ·and exist near "Arbuckle to start a job for the South · Fork Feather River ing side curbs will be set back. the Bureau of Reclamation in Bridge mider ·construction. In addition to the traffic signals stalling· water lines to distribti te : · The · roadway excavation wiil at. F and 'H'Streets, a~nother will irrigation water to· tlie ranchers. ·be approximately 900,000 cubic- . be. installed at G Street. .All 10. Baldwin ·· Contracting Co., Inc. aards. · One three-bench cut ort signals . ~il( be inter-connected and A. Teichert & Son, Inc. both .e roadway 'alignment will ip- ori. a· fixed " ti~e-speed sequence have grading and. paving jobs . elude about 22o;ooo cubic ·yatds, and left-turti' arrows will provide and ·wiil ni'eastu'e ;117 feet . high safer, more (lfficient ' left . tti~·n ENGINEERS NEWS rio longer fits t n~ on ceritei·Hne.· The job is pai't of movements. Publ;slu~d monthly by Local ~ni!m duty repairmen and working for Oro No. 3 of · the International Union of job, heavy Dam ihe Sfl:tte · ·.witer Project, and - At the. curve where lOth and - Operating Engineers; 474 -Valencia·St., · Contractors,· start.ed from scratch and: came up with this 100~ . com'pletion :··is set foi; November, . :E Streets irite~sect, . the nie.di'an San Francisco· 3, Calif. Second class . ton roller. This ·compactor is fab~iCated with one-'itich maferi~~~ · 196'i; ~ . ' · : •. ·. ' · · ·· · · ·· ' win be· clos.ed·.- A signal will be Postage Paid at san_ Francisco, Calif. and empty weight is' 96;285 pounds. . ,_ ...... l.. ''·; EN GJ N EE R S N _E W S January, l%6 Capitol City V-aUejo Engineers • " To. 'M~diiate' "''1-- - - rd d e free ay Wh ile it's Raining BY ERNIE NELSON, AL DALTON, CLEM: -HOOVER, ART GAROFALO, J ERRY ALLGOOD, and JERRY MARTIN By AARON SMITH SAGRAMENTO - Stolte, Inc., They have passed the half-way VALLEJO - Operators in the h(ls started work on its 10 mil mark to completion. Vallejo district appear to have lion_do-llar W-X St. Freeway Due to the weather, Brighton plenty of time to meditate t11e Project and has several hundred coming_ 1966 construction year. feet of pipe to lay to start off. Gravel Company and Waldon Ag The -piling has been subbed to greg(l.tes have slowed operations Rains have "grounded" all equip Raymond C on c r e t.e Pile Co.; to practically nothing, however, ment, and it may get wetter be-. ddlling .- to Myhren- Drilling, and they should fire up again in the fore it gets better! near future. clearing to Gravelle & Gra-velle. In i·ecent contract awards,-Jor St-olte will be hiring more men Work is going at a normal don Co., of · Failiield, was as th.e jeb pwgresses. pace at Tenco's Sacramento .a-nd awarded. a project to install an Kiew-it hopes to have the south Woodla.nd shops. Our Brothers "oxidation ponding" system for bound lanes of the 29-30th St. l1ave been busy most of the year the city of Fairfield at a cost of Freeway from A St to P St. w or k i n g on caterpillar equip '$482;000 and Arntz Construction open-to traffic by Christmas. ment. Congratulations are due was given a $768,000 job for a Aiso, this company is making to Brother Dale Schultz on his waste . treatment plant in the gaud: -progress on the P St. to r-ecent appointment to shop fore same city. B-roadw_ay ·section_ On its portion. man. The partsmen working for Syar & Harms was awarded a of the W-X St. Freeway, finding Tenco are extr emely busy be paving job in Va1lejo's new Foley suitable fill' material is still· a cause of increased repair work park and Alex Robertson, of problem. Sevoeral I~onths of. .pile necessary. Bakersfield won a \vaterline job driving must still be eone on this Morgan E quip me n t Co. is in Vallejo for $77, 262. project. probably as busy as they have Elsewhere, Darkenwald, · M.K. On - Ka-iser's W-X S·t. Project, ever been. Its shop is. full of .and Westbrook companies shut the steel· is finished on the_east equipment awaiting repairs and down the Benicia-Cordel-ia proj side of the river -and has moved· our brothers should have a very ect until Spring. lucrative over -to the west side. Winter. Gordon Ball has a· few Brothers Fruin-Colnon has also moved Work has increased consider working; Ray Breshears is stew all but the deck crew to the west ably at Clarks. Automatic Weld art on the Ball project between side of the .river. These crews ing Shop as cat tracks and !~ oil Fairfield aild Vacaville on high l1ave been losing very little work ers begin to come in for re- - way 4D. because of weather. building. There are about 10 en A. Teichert and Son-is trying gineers_ working for Clark now Bids-should be let for the twin to "mud- in" the sub-divis,ion at and they, too, should have a very Vacaville; Elmer Wendt and Joe four-lane b r i· d g e s across the good winter. American River at Jibboom St. Richards companies closed op by the time this goes to press, P OLLOCK PINES erations on Ulitus Creek flood control. Most of the Brothers will and will include interchanges at Gates & Fox . is still working return here "weather permitting". Richards Blvd. and Garden Hwy. SCRUBBER-deadly exhaust fumes in tunnel construct ion are on · a 1200-foot, nine-foot diam Future contracts will be let the fatal, and this weird-looking "box" on the end of the Euclid eter, exploratory shaft at Loon In Vallejo, Clyde Plymell is early part of 1966 on this Free dozer is calied a "s _,..- ( ' I l_ ·~- Page 8 ENGINEERS NEWS January, 196~ ree Wan Ads for Engineers Medicare Talk Given - ····---·------A.ccoitnioN,'-Ladies' 120 Base Fron • FOR SALE POWER DRILL with stand, 'hhp. $60, and . '55 T-Bird, · two tops, . talini · 26" six-speed bicycle; Amer ELDORADO Cadillac convt, '55 , per chrome wire wheels, cherry tllrough ican Flyer electric train-trade for fect throughout. Also, "cherry" '36 out, $2000. Stan Maksim, 24 Desvio comparable guitar w/amplifier. C. Ford and '35 Ford pickup, $500 Crt., Pacifica. Phone evenings 359- W. Young, 38149 Glenmoor Drive, each. Don Thoms, 5 Sunnyhill Dr., - ~?8 9: Reg, No: _11~ 7~5__ . _____ Fremont. Phone 793-5449. Reg. No. Petaluma. Phone days at S.F. of 997636. fice, 431-1568 or evenings, 762-9238. GRADALL, Model 2460, with boom Reg. No. 1154357.______extension, 1-ripper, 1-24" bkt, 1-60" MI-CHIGAN-LoA.DER:--125-A, extra bkt, tires, like new, ex. cond. Paul motor• & parts with low bed trailer, ROCK CRU1\H;ER, jaw & roll, db!. W. 'l.'epsa, 1070 Happy Valley Ave., tractor. Will take $12,000. Paul deck, vibrating screen, feeder con San Jose. phone 408-252-0540. Reg. Hurs·t, 5425 Kirkland Way, Car veyors, Henry Sand, Jr., 42342 Os No. 53876.:..0.______michael, Calif. Phone 487-7697, Reg. good, Fremont, phone 656·5649. Reg. No. 1133415. No. 1101983_. _ __· ______'55 FORD liz ton P .U. $200. John Fur 's4-GMC, %. ton-with ·spart_Oi!Traile_r, rer, 221 Milton Ave., San Bruno, LOADER, D-6, equipped for logging, Engine and Butane eqmpped, Will 2'h yd: bkt., ex. con d. worth $12,- _P~~Il_L~~~~~~2~ . --~~~- :_!0~495. sell as unit- $4500. A. M. Dewey, 000 will take $10,000. Milton Veer JEEP P.U. '56, 1 ton, 4 wheel dr., 155 Thamal Vis·ta Drive, San Rafael, kamp,.. Garden Valley, Calif. Phone 6 cyl. Warne hubs, neater, good phone 456-9708 . Reg. No. 386708. 333-4o14. Reg. No. 1059637 . . tires. $800. Giuseppe Tomatis. 6245 ;57 .. DORSETT . Cabin- Cruiser:-- 50 - hp. Moiii .ii -o 111 ii -61·. --a:.iif-.~.c-. -ru711-l y. Dry Creek Rd., Napa, Calif., pl:one Evinrude Outboard, Gator Trailer. equ ipped, $1995 . Bobby. C. Cooper, 996-6511. Reg. No. 635795. New N aug a h y d e Upholstery. LOADER-D-6;· .2',2--yd:, overhauled, SHARP. $1800. Ray Lawrence, 3526 phone 674-5457, 29303 Ave. 13'h, Ma El Camino, Space 40, Santa Clara, dera, · Ca!!_f.__ ~~g:_l:'i~..:._1~58_3~--- roller & tracks good shape. $8000. · Fred Biolsi, 11191 Farndon Ave., phone 244-6241 . Reg. No. 1118323. • JIIOBIL HOME 59', Majes•tic, ,10x57, Los Altos, Calif., phone 967-2157. coMIIIERciAL- FisHING, 25 ~ ft- ):>Oat. 2 bdr.,· furn. $3200. W. Coppler, __Reg. No. .. 7~ 4891. ··.,---,---=---c--=-c--,. Chrysler Crown eng., 2-1, red. Com 5715 Santa Cruz Rd., Sp. No. 10 plete ready to fish, $2000 cash or Atascadero, Calif. Reg. No. 911132. CUMMINGS Model A, 6 cyl. 84-hp, ------· ------·- rebuilt at Cummings including ~2500' finance. George Wilson, 1875 64' CASE CRAWLER, Backhoe/load shaft, pistons, s·leeves, generator, Buhne Dr., Eureka, Calif. Reg. No. er, gd. cond. Larry Clonz. 101 Suf fuel pump, $300. Lloyd Bulger. 5008, 1011211. field Ave., San Anselmo, phone Feather River· Blvd., Marysville, DRILL. BiG8;(2):-Buda and custom _!5~~5288. ~-eg.:_ _~o._ _!~~~952_. _ _ _ Calif. Reg. No. 758343. with extras. Also, AC tractor. with Baker Blade. I llness forces sale for DAVIS TRENCHER T78 and Back- . col\IP:R'EssoR, - 3- -pilaSe:-2zo-449v.5 hp, Model TV451 Cochin, !ike new. $5950. Jim Taylor, 2533- 19 Ave., hoe with Trailer- nearly new. Wil $450. Bill Cullen, 3218 FitzpaL 1ck Oakland, phone: 536-6022. Reg. No. liam H. Voth, 1289 Brown Ct., San Dr., Concord, phone 689-3141 . Reg. 912148. _L~andro_ :_l't~g:_N'c:-_~~2_1~-- No. 892450. - LoT-;-rie!Paso Heights, 162 by 300 CHAIN SAW, Homelite, completely BACKHOE; ·wa_r_n_e_r..,s"'w_a_z_e-on_·_,l..,.r;,--,t-on 2 ft., $3000. Dick Cooper, 1451 Mer rebuilt, 28' blade, extra chain; %, Chev. truck, heavy duty, good ced Ave .. Oroville, Calif. Reg. No. stanley drill; H.D. Modelh Bruce shape. $1850. Trade or finance. Bucj 95965. W. Gregory, Box 197, Frenc Camp, Wells, 124 Hermosa Ave., Oakland, Calif. Reg. No. 870940. ENGiNE LATHE; 24" by 108". with OL 4-4591. Reg. No. 557433. 24" four and three jaw chucks, PLUMB TOOLS, full set, heavy duty, CAT DW - :io~ 67c with 456 scraper, quick change, wet head, 7'12 hp, eX three-quarter drive. 24" Crescent, good cond. $12,500. Bob Crow, 6421 cellent. $6000 or trade for Calif. chest, $85. Glenn Parish, 5315 Lole Lupine Crt. Newark, Cal. 793-3239. property. Will deliver. Darrel Al St., Oakland, phone KE 4-4349. Reg. Reg. No. 811868·--,------,~-~ termatt, PO Box 34, Kentfield, No. 3022_14_·-----'--- -- Calif., phone 461-5219. Reg. · No. IHC truck motor, trans. $100. also 1047032. SCOOP, Ford Ferguson rear lift, re four 6-ply tires, $50. Warren McEl verse "A" frame; 20" blower attach roy, 10355 Beardon Dr. Cupertino, to Ford power takeoff; hearing aid, Cal. Reg. No. 1082358. WANTED TO BUY $250 off. H. W. Schellin, 19073 Carl· MOBILE HOME, -: Paramount, ton Ave., Castro Valley,- 582-4698. 12XGO~ 2 bdr. clean, 447-8269, L. A. Christ BACKHOE with loader, '64 or ·s5 _ R_eg_:__ No:_~~4646. ______man, 1306 Via D'este, Livermore. case on rubber. Require Serial No. ROCK CRUSHER, 12 x 20 Champior, Reg. Nb. 589221. hours, buckets·, price. Also payoff. No. 41;2 , good roads machco, $550. ·CAT D2, hydra-dozer,-ca-t:b4, trac D. W. Lane, Rt. 1, Box 4117, 24 x 14 rolls, Traylor eng. $650. son loader, with/without Hyster Redding, Calif., phone 243-5764. Wendell Knight, 1459 R. St. New winch. Morris Foss, 21772 Westfield Reg. No. 635722. man, Calif. phone 862-2430. Reg. No. Ave., Hayward, 581-8150. Reg. No. TRUCK--- CRANE, 5-Ton capacity. 404029_. ..:: •·------476995. George Duralia, 917 Warburton HUBER ROLLER 5-8 ton, •Cat Blade '57 - FORD- v;=-tOiiP-iC"kup, 4-spd. util Ave., Santa Clara. Cal. 244-0414, or 212, Int'l. water wagon L . 170, 1500 ity body, two 30-gal. oil tanks, evenings~ at 867-1550. Reg. No. 117- gal. $6,750. E . Saljack, 4032 May $450. Jay Crownoble, 3911 Cayente 4998. belle Ave., .Oakland, Phone 532- Way, Sacramento, Reg. No. 870831. JEEP, older model preferred. Bob 8274. Reg. No: 592951_. _ _ ___ 14• ... NUNEs :- lioat, - 25-hp .. Evirirude, McLaughlin, Jr. 543 Sawyer· St., , San Francisco; phone: 333-9255. VACATION TRAILER, '64 Sundown trailer, $450. See at 2328 Orleans Dr. Pinole or call Jim Daigh, 758- Reg. No. 1182200. er sleeps 6, Dan E . . Carpenter, . ------· 21021 W. McSwain Rd., Steveson, 0765. Reg. No. 384970. CASH for self-contained travel trailer, Calif. phone 632-3263. Reg. No. 'i'ROJAN-- 23--ft~-- boat :-· 170::-hp inter 20-ft. within 500 miles of Redding. 955056. ceptor, clean. many extras, $2250. B. C. Belue, 5162 Oas•is Rd., Red Hank Thompson, P.O. Box 21234, ding. phone: 243-5778. Reg. No. l\IOBILE HOME, Paramount. 50x10 533547. Ft.. fully equipped. plus extras. phone: 686-1418 in Concord, Calif. . ·------Reg. No. 1175164. TED WILLIAl\IS type tent, trailer. $3000. Walt Ponsler, Rt. 3 Box ·-· ------93-A-10, Woodland. Calif. Phone · OROVILLE, 2-bdrm. home, overlook Willis Dearing, 551 Culp Ave., Hay 662-0030. Reg .. ~.O.: _:l08758.__ -,-- ing forebay, sprinkler system, air ward, phone: 581-1668. conditioned. near new school, bal. D4 CAT, with hydra-dozer, chisels $8800, payments $70, normal down. and sub-soiler tools, good condi John Vandevier, 6109 Coyle Ave. RULES f OR SUBMITTING ADS tion. G. M. Cooley, Box 161, San Sacramento, Reg. No. 750551. · · Carlos, Calif. Reg._ _~o :__53~~~-· _ 0 , />i~y Operating Engineer may ad· sKi-;-:F:isiCboaC.14'~-witi:i'40=-ilp BACKHOE, John Deere Model 51. At Mere. outboard, s€ats 6, $450. Ken •ertise in these columns without charge tachment can be offset. 100 hours Wilson, 1397 Searcy Dr., San Jose, any ''PERS.ONAL PROPERTY he wishe' since new. L. G. Sparks, Big Sur, phone 266-1033. Reg. No. 160914. Calif. Phone Big Sur 5311. Reg. No. to 'sel l. · swap or purchase. Ads wil l not 640903. LoT;-·near Lake--Donner-;-view, exc. :be accepted for rentals, personal so rv location, all .utilities. 6000 gal. sep ROAD GRADER, $3500. Blade tire, tic tank, must sacrifice due to ill •ces or side-lines. · 1400x24, like new. $125. H . M. ness, $5000. Nicholas Sardo, 115 e PRINT OR TYPE the wording yeo Simpson, 1196 Libert Rd., Petalu Greenfield Ave., Vallejo, phone: ma, Cali!., phone 763-1448: Reg No. 642-2362 after 6 p.m. Reg. No. 103- want in your advertising on a separate 664005 . . 6021. sheet of paper. limiting yourself to 30 WELL DRILLING rig, big 6x6 truck; 's5- SPEE-n:-o:-PRINT.- -Copi'e;·Mach ine words, or less, includin g your NAME. _with extra paper & fluid. Like new. 1000 feet drilled !ine and pir.Kup complete ADDRESS and REGISTER truck, $5000. Charles W. Criswell, $125.00. Ken Bird, 1948 Union Ave 240 North A. SL, Tulare Ca1if. nue, Fairfield, Calif. Phone 425- NUMBER 4471. Reg. No. 1128266. Phone: 686-5fj~~:_R_e!l:: _ !'~18845 C!l Allow for a time lapse ot severa• 3 BDR-; NEW - HOME~ 2--bath, w)w . 1964 CAMPER, Magic Touch, 10 ft. wee·ks bl)tween the posting of letters Also kingsize bed. ice box. Stove carpet, fireplace, dbl. garage, one with oven and broiler, like new. acre, C. C. Conner, Box 131-A, and receipt of your ad by our. readers • Butler Road, Grass Valley, Calif. 11 Glen C. Derrington, 36466 Charles Phone 273-8131. Reg. No. 1075413. Please notify Engineers Swap Shop - -~~-~ - ~~~~.:_k, Ca~: -~g. No. ~~3728. '57 liiOBlLE- "Transahome" 35x 8; - 2 as soon as the property you have ad· TURRET LATHE, Pratt & Whitney bdr., dinette, large water heater. •ertised is so ld. . hexagon. 22x72 inches, gearhead exc. cond. C. C. Conner, Box 131-A, 0 w ith four jaw chuck. Sacrifice for Butler Road, .Grass Valley, Calif. Because the purpose should be se•ved $995. Doyle Smart, 4316 Bidwell Dr., Phone 273-8131, Reg. No. 1075413. within the period. ads henceforth will Fremont, Calif. phone' 666-6660. 2• BDR~-HOUSE,- I(£ -112x150~nice be dropped from the newspaper after Reg ~-l'i~:_!_0~~?_2._.._ _ _ .__ _ garden, 5 miles from · Oroville, $12,- three months. LORAIN . TRUCK CRANE, 12 ton, 500. Leo H. Morrison, 84 Crane, good condition. E. F. Butler, 1120 Oroville, Calif. Phone 8841. Reg. e Address a ll ads to: Engineers Swa p Carroll Ave., San Francisco, phone: No. 518617. Shop, AL CLEM. Editor, 474 Valencia 824-051!5. Reg. No. 2674_76_.__ _ _ 2 BDR:- HOUSE~ good Ford--Tractor or nice Trailer House would make Street. San Francisco 3. California. Be MOBILE HOME, Fiarmont, 55x10 good down payment, bal. $30 mo. sure to include your register number feet, $1800 for equity. Air condi · Floyd E. Gorrell, · 6547 N. Shaffer, No ad will be published without thi• tioner, $600 in awnings, carpets·. Winton, Calif. Phone 358-8181. Reg. Lovell Walden, 2995 Lafayette St. l':'o. 592880. information. Sp. 52, San Jose', Calif. phone: 241- 2721. Reg. No. 1112002. 16' CHIEF B,OCKHOLD boat, 283 Chev. eng. Trade or sell for out board. Price: $1100. Roy Ledbetter, 5879 Park Ave., Marysville. Reg. M No. 535751. • 3-BDRM, home, 1 acre remodele(l, 1700 ·feet. close to shop center, So you wm not miss ODf $17,000. Roy Ledbetter, 5879 Park Ave., . Marysville. Reg. No. 535751. issue of Engineers News SEAVIEW LOT, 25x125--feet, --Castro BE SURE to advise us o1 Valley, $2000. Jim Standley, 2150 Somerset, San Leandro. Phone: 266- vour change of address 1042. Reg. No. 598698. CATTLE TRUCK, '49 Int. wit·h racks; also 0-M generator jeep, 4 cycle gas REG NO. engine, trailer. Howard Sampson, 1196 Liberty Rd. Petaluma, phone: 763-1448. Reg. No. 664005. LOCAL UNION NO. 049 FORD - pickup, '52.-Merc. eng. looks, runs good. Radio, he.ater. $190. Faun Willden, 980 S. 8 St. SOC. SECURITY NO. Ea&t, . Salt Lake City. phone: 364- 7107. Reg. No. 105852_1.____ _ 1\JAME RET~RES--:-·a series of meetings t o explain n,ew provrs1ons of ')LD ADDRESS Social Security under tlhe Medicare program has proven highly popular with Operating Eng ineers on retirement income. Most ·• CITY bring their wives to the Local 3-sponsored meetings. Shown here in Oakland Is partial view of the 90 persons who attended ~EW ADDRESS this meeting and heard Business Manager AI Clem welcome CITY · the group; a short pension speech by Fran Walker and inter Clip and mail to Engineers News, 474 Valencia St., S. F. 3, Calif. esting explanation by a representative of the Social _Security UNION lABtt AND SERVICE TRADES DEPT., AFl·CIO Administration. More meetings are being . planned. - I Page 9 January, 1966 ENGIN' EERS NEWS ... --. The U.S. Social,Security Administration has ·just issued a detailed explqnation to the nation's hospitals, nursing homes and home health care agencies on how the new Medicare program will work. The · facts are contained in a 32-page booklet, "Questions and Answers on Health Insurance for the Aged." The booklet. answers questions on how Medicare's hospital insurance and supplementary medical services plan will work. Between the two, Medicare is designed to . pay most of the hospital and. medical biUs_ of persons 65 or over. To • let union members in on what the povernment is telling hospitals and other health agenCies ·in· preparation for the start of the program next July I; here are e~cerpts: institUtional Hospital Insurance Program hospital insurance plan when' they ,are a necessary part sultation, .and home, office and of the cdv,l!red inpatient hospital services a patient re care. be paid a wheelchair, crutches What sei-vices · provided in a hospital Will ceives . . For example, the use of (b) Services and supplies of the kind which are be paid for as part of for under the hospital insurance program? or prosthetic appliances could incidental to physicians' services furnished for hospital services hospital services but payments in their offices or in hospital outpatient services ordinarily pro- patient for use The reasonable costs of the would not cover furnishing these to the departments. .,ided to . in-patieQts by hospitals, including new services after his discharge. and_, and techniques as they are adopted in the future will (c) Diagnostic X-ray and laboratory tests be' paid for. The patient is responsible for the· $40 de Will the entire cost of blood transfusions be covered? other diagnostic tests . (the first $40 of the bill) and any coinsurance ductible The patient may be charged for the first three pints ( d J X-ray, radium and radioactive isotope amounts. · (Coinsurance under the plan is the first $10 - of b,JoOd · furnished him during a spell: of illness unless therapy. (,p_~y~ ,. a.Jt~r . _he, has ~en hospitalized a da. ~ .;·tl.H~;,"'P,ll,ti~ri he. arranges for donors to replace· those,,first three pints. i"pays the balance up through (e) dressings, . splints, casts, and 'other qO days. The. Goven,lmeh .· t "I Surgical the 90th day after which .the patient. is on his own:) What services provided in an extended care facility devices for reduction of fractures arid 'dis will be paid for under the provisions· covering post locations. ordinarily furnished by hospitals Nursing services . hospital extended care services of the hospital insurance but private duty nursing will not be (f) Rental of durable medical equipment, such wiH be ' paid for-, program? cover~d. ' as iron lungs; oxygen tents, hospital beds, furnished by extended and wheelchairs; Hospital room and b6ard wili .be paid in full in semi Items and services generally be paid for by the program. These private accomn10dations - accommodations containing care facilities will (g) Prosthetic devices (other than dental) which and . board in semi-private accommoda from two to four beds. Payment would also be made include room replace all or part of an internal _body organ; care; physical, occupational and .speech .for private accommodations where their use is medically . tions, nu~sing and such · drugs as are ordinarily furnished by (h) Ambulance service with limitations; indicated-<>rdinarily only when the patient's condition therapy; the · facility to its inpatients. requires him to be isolated, beca~se he has a communi ' (i) ·.Braces. and artificial legs, arms and eyes. cable disease, for example. In addition, payment can be made·· for the medical"' (2) Home health services for up to I 00 visits during Services furnished to inpatients by parties other than services of interns and residents in training and other a calendar year (without a requirement of prior physicians under arrangements "with a hospital will also diagnostic and therapeutic services furnished inpatients hospitalization). be covered if the arrangements call for billing for the of the extended care facility by a hospital with which services to be through the hospital exclusively. it has an agreement. Physicians services include certain services performed by a doctor of dentistry or of dental or oral surgery. not be made under the hospital plan Payments will What services .will be paid for as. home health care Only surgery related to the jaw or a contiguous structure,., of physicians, except services provided for ' the serVices visits? and the reduction of fractures of the jaw or facial bones "' interns and residents in training by medical and dental will be covered . professionally approved' teaching programs. under . The posthospital home health payments wiil meet services of aide~, etc., that are inci (ervices of part-time or intermittent nursing services; Items, supplies, Under the law, the exclusion .of physicians' the c_ost will be covered and speech therapy; and other dental to physicians' personal services also excludes the services. of radiologists, anesthesiolo- · physical, occupational of whether furnished by visiting nurse in the hospital, clinic, or office and regardless • gists, pathologists and _phys~atrists-their services are related home health- services 'or health programs and the bills are rendered by the hospital, the physician, . covered under the medtcal msurance plan. The law, agencies, hospitai-based· home nursing care both. ' however, provides that the service of nonphysician tech- · similar agencies. More or less full-time permitted in regula nicians aiding such hospital-based physicians will be will not be paid for. To the extent For example, the law makes it clear that a laboratory services of a home covered under the hospital insurance plan. tions, the. part-time· or intermittent test will be covered whether performed in the physician's duties of the home health aide are also covered ... The office or whether the physician sends the specimen to in the hospital be paid for? are comparable to Will •drugs administered health aide which will be covered an independent laboratory, regardless of whether the 'those of a nurse's aide in a hospital. the patient. Drugs and biologicals fum,ished to hospital patients physician or the laboratory bills will be paid for. The for their Mse while inpa,tients Diagnostic t~sts performed in a laboratory which is determining which drugs intent of the provisions for independent of a physician's office or of a hospital will red is to permit payment for Medical Insurance Program and biologicals are cove be -covered under the medical insurance plan only if- the drugs and biologicals which medical and medically all medical expenses will be paid for under the laboratory i~ licensed under applicable state or local Jaw, have_ evaluated as· being proper . What related organizations 01edic2l insurance programm? or meets standards for such lic.ensing. for use in the course of good patient care. (Note: 'fhis medical plan is voluntary. Persons 65 or""' es and appliances used by a patient Benefits .under the medical insuranc·e _plan will cover: How about suppli over must. sign up. They pay $3 a month plus the first covered? ( I) Medical and other health services. These include: • in the hospital; will their cost be $50 of their annual total bill, plus 20 per cent of the con- $50.) · Supplies and appliances will be paid for under the (a) Physicians' services, including surgery, amount above I . . P.age 1(; ENGINEERS NEWS January, 1966 Injure o~rker II ene it e:vised • r Continued from Page 3- . riers had become very sloppy in BY JOSEPH MILLER, STAN 1,\ERGMAN, CLAUDE ODOM, .RAY PHENNEGAR processing claims and that there were cases wher • -- !Page 12 ENGINEERS NEWS San Jose Report ready to start. The Doreing Co of Woodland, is contractor, and : completion is set for August. , This gives you some idea. o£ the ! .e . eX p ~c t'e d WO•rk load 'f0r -i!J66. ' There is agreat deal o:f work out : for bid, w h i c h has not been · By: BOB SKIDGEL, G. L. MOORE, HARLE¥ DAVIDSON, JIM HALL, LAKE AUSTIN awarded. With incompleted work · HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's time left when the rains started, cou Completion date will be approxi Mt. View, in the Moffett Field venture basis with ?gain to look ahead to try to Lew Jones pled wlth 'the work that we know mately September, 1968. area . Construction Co. Concrete . prognostica:te the New Year for work will start in Spring; we feel justi At present, will the Brothers in the way of work they are awaiting Ebert Spartan started s tor m be done by Gordon Ball. Civil fied in saying that the New Year Engineering for 1966. orders to go ahead with the sHe drain projects in Santa Clara and by the State. This should bring with it a bumper ·. · :rYiost work in progress when development. Some of the out will be a no t h e r one-year job, crop of jobs. · Mt. View . . Here, also, will be a which will start the first of next t he rains hit is at a standstill, standing feature will be an olym ~ On behalf of the Officers, Bus ~ new job working on a weather week, with a termination with the exception of a little road pic-sized swimming pool and div date of ness Representatives and offic. permitting basis. December, 1966. W{)rk. Between the rain, and a ing pool, plus two gyms. A two Personnel of the Operating Engi Vince Rodriguex is about ready severe cold snap, the ground has story library will be included. The now existing ·onion plant neers Union in San Jose-A n ot dried enough to allow equip The prime contractor will be do to start on a 24-inch water line in King City will have a $250,000 VERY HAPPY AND PROSPER ment to be operated. ing all its own construction work, from Reed Ave. to El Camino on new processing plant, w h i c h is OUS NEW YEAR. Many contractors were unable such as the grading and paving, Wolfe Rd. in Sunnyvale. ·to finish projects on . which they the civil engineering etc., at the site. . Hewlett-Packard has two build were w or king, and are now ings nearing completion in the Juicy '66 ~ construction Work Near; putting in a day here and there More on this item when we Stanfo·rd Industrial Area, and is i n order to '.'winterize" the proj have further information regard· starting still two more buildings ing the exact Redrv~ood Empire· Brothers Await ects. we may have to wait and amount of dirt wo·rk on the Mt. View-Alviso Ro ad in By RUSS SWANSON and 1£ you worked hope' for an early Spring before expected to be done in the devel Mt. View which is included in for two o·r more I oping, WHIT WHITAKER the Brothers will be "back in the ihe expansion program. employers during 1965 and have / groove" again. C. Norman Peterson of Berke SANTA ROSA- Compliments earned more than $7500. during ! Work in the San Jose-Morgan are in order to Redwood "· , NEW JR. COLLEGE Empire the year, or more than: $5600 1 ley, started the city of San Jose Hill area is much the same: just sewer disposal members for -their excellent turn prior to August 1st, 1965.fm: work.: , All indications show prospects project. This is too wet to work! A few of the over one million out at various meetings held in in California then you will have . for a busy year for Operating dollars, and con brothers are getting in a day or this area during the year. For an a refund coming, provided you ! ,Engineers. There is quite a bit sists of the alteration of the exist so, but that's about all. Sondgroth example, i n the District meeting apply for it by June 30th; 1966. i of good work in the offing. ing sewer plant with the installa Bros. has. pI en t y work ·if the tion of four held in Santa Rosa there were Forms will be available in OtJ.r 1 The new $10,566,516 De Anza concrete tanks, 100 weather allows. 'L. C. Smith's hot 120 members present. Your con office. 1 .: J r. College, will include a com feet in diameter. Civil Engineer plant and many small jobs have ing will be tinued support is appreciated . 'FOREIGN' VISITOR / plex of 42 buildings, parking done by the Corps of been able to work so fa r, with The work picture presently is Bro-ther areas and roads, site development Engineers. This one too should a 'small crew busy. Leo Piazza Jack Blakeney was in I keep the brothers busy for a little not too bright because of a nor the office a shoi't time ago, after i and all underground utilities. It Paving job on Stevens Creek Rd. mal seasonal shutdown. Antici while, weather permitting. Com having been in West Pakistan for J , is a joint venture project for is nearly completed on the black pation for pletion date on this job is set lor a good start in 1966 is 30 months working for Guy F. i B a r n h art Construction Co. of top phase. questionable because bids have November of this Atkinson. Thin b~en Santa Clara and the Dillingham year. A. J. Raisch has a line of short gs must have 1 not been called on some o.f / the real good because both Jack and I Corporation of Hawaii. The Stanford Industrial Tra~t jobs with which to start the sea- . projects expected to mature early Location will be at Stevens is showing a little activity at this son. his wife toured Europe for ·4 i in the season. months prior Creek and Stelling Rd. in Cuper time with Ervin Varwig starting G r a n i t e Construction w a s to coming home; · We are still waiting for a bid · Jack has promised tino. The .college ·will be the sec the new west coast home of the ~warde d a contract for $1,:300,000 us pictm•es date on the Cummings job, .and so we will make it a matter o£ ond campus for Foothill College, Wall Street Journal newspaper. . for the construction of a by-pass there have been plenty of rumors; record, which kind of forces: him with facilities for 4500 students Murphy Bros. recently started f r e e w a y near Castroville. The 1 but nothing concrete. However, to comply. in the north Santa Cfara area. its new sto:rm drain project in contract was awarded on a joint • it is understood that this 22 miles BLOOD DONORS· ' stretch of highway will be let in Please do not · forget our : two-or three stages with the first coming blood bank drive,Let us stage beginning in Spring this know if you will be able to do ·c uterl 1 n year. .· nate-Keep c''B" day in mind. Further highway 101 work will A safety·,meeting will be held A g i a n t "missing persons" membership record, but our of any. of the following, let the be done in Santa Rosa, and as in Ukiah on ·. February 2nd at h unt is being · waged by the members ( 401 of them) have not Business Representative know in anyone who. tr:avels this area can 8:00 p.m. -Labor Temple Checks ·elech'onic computer in the San always let the computer know your area. If your name is listed tell you, it is greatly needed. This fo·r the following: Jack Crum, Francisco office. their latest address, and conse· below, use the handy "change freeway project is also expected Bill -Gregory. · ,. Since one year ago this month, quently the search is on for these of address" form on the "Swap to go early in the year, but once HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU the computer has been k~eping "missing persons." Shop" page and fill it out and again we have nothing on it that ALL. records of all members. It has If you know the whereabouts mail to the San Francisco office. is factual outside of information been responsible for a quicker that bids should go in the vicinity of $4 million. The rock plants NO ADDRESS Martin, Henry B. Barger, Willis Galliher, E . K. Malcolm, George Rivera, E . have continued to operate pretty Last Name F irst · Ma!·s·hall, Joseph Barron, Kelvin Gates, David Maples, Wm. M. Roberts, Roy W. Arnold, Jam es McCook, Dan W . Batts, David E. Glimane. U. Mar s, Paul Roberts, Harold well at maximum output, but at Barrows, Ray Mcintos h , J. E . B echtold, Albert Gomes, Louie F. Martinez, Tommy Robinson, Calvin this writing the weather has B eaulieu, Onil Miner, J ames B ell, Andr ew Gonzales, Jose G. Massey, Norm an R odrig ues, Wm. Begay, Freddie Murphrey, D . E . Bento, . Gerald Goodell, Chas. L. forced most of them to curtaH • Masson, John Ross, Walter Bell, Roy F. Neighbors, J. E. Berry, W, B. Goodwin, Kenneth Massey, Ernest Ross , Geo. V. operations. Bennett, Bonsai Noble, Gr an t Binning, Jay L. Goss, W iliiam Mason. Chester Rue, Stanley Berndt, Ron E. N ye, (C leo Bishop, W . E . Grady, Everett Masion, Pedro Ruffo, Stephen . In the past few issues we have Birch, P e ter L . Oclair, Virgil Boggs, M. H. Grigg, L eslie McCollough, E . Sa bando, B. F. tried to be informative on s~me Bjerke, Vern D. Petersen, C. R . Bowers , Robert Habash, George McCullah, Willis Santos, Don Brooks, Carl Pierce, Blythe Brady , Wm. A. H a lemano, John McMann, J ames Santiago, Maximo of the new changes in unemploy- · Brock, Claude Power, J ohn Brawley, T. J . H ah1ilton, Jack McKay, Peter J. San Agustin, C. Brown, Antonio Reiners, H. D. Jr. Bradfield, D. :J. Hanzlik, Slanlei' McNeill, E. E. Saylor, James P. ment insurance , which directly ·:Broughton, L. 0. Roque, John D. Bradbury, J . T . Hanna, Tom McQuilla n. Robt . Seipel, :Joseph affects you; and find in the field ~rown , Geo. M. Rothman, Marson .Bri ggs, James A. Harrah, Art McVay; Robt. H . ' Shaffer, Kenneth Butler, E. F. Scott, Wm. F. Bria na, Joseph Hargrave, Leroy Mead. K enneth Shores. Elmer that the information is well re ,- Campbell, Shirley .Sherman·. W esley Brown, :Johnny Hart. Miles Medeiros, Antone Sill, Harvey ceived. Now to defer from un Carsten, Glenn H. Shepherd, J esse Brown, W. H. H arbin, Earl Meyer, Eugene Simonni. John Carrier, Fred R . Simmons , L . D. Brown, Johnny Harvey, · James Mig·ita, Harry S. Smith; Wm. J. employment; let's talk about the Carg· ile ~ .Jackie . larenceP .dlames Brookshire, Paul Hatch , Wm. R. Milton, A. R. Smith, Cecil L. Chamber lain, G. Smart, Robt. J . Burns, Albert H eath , R oy Mills, T . R. Smith, A. Craig 1965 Disability Insurance refund C haddock, John Smith, Andrew Butler, I van V . Henry, -Ernest Miller, Wm. E . Snoolc, W. F. which many of you have coming. C hristman, L eroy . Smith, Clyde W. , Calvert, Lloyd G. Hernandez, G. C . Mook, Paul K. Salus, Jack C i'apponi, C. Smith, Jay C. · Campbell, John L . Hickman , B . G. Morton. Geo. W . Stapp, Wm. C. Just remember these simple .qift on, E zra Stearns, R. E . Cantrell, J. L. H inkle, R. M . . Morris. Lloyd Stage, K elsey Cobb, Oran Stewart, D. E. Caples, Jas. H. Hogue, Willie Mori M S tevens , M. Dale rules: Cockburn, Andy Steele. Robt. E . Carlson, J erry B. Hoohuii, ·W. A. Myri'ck. ·Fred Stockton. Calvin Colwell, Walter Storage, Frank Carey, Alois 0. Hughart, Elmer Murray, John F. Sundem, Robt. L. Cooper, H. J. Stowe , Nelson Caton, E. A. Hunt. Ervin C. Nair, L eyston Swanson. Darold Copeland, W. Summerbell , M. Childress, Lyle F . Hussey, Richard Naleieha, James Tabor, Agapito ·costa, Frank A. Tafolla, Tim Ching, Richard Ingraham, H a rry Narcomey, Jackie Tavares, :John M. Obituaries Covey, M. 'E ; • · Tate, Harry F e Chong, W. P. J acobs, Seth 0 . Neal. Max Tacla, Venanci Daly., Mark Thomas, Wm. W. Chris tensen, G. Jaime, G.-. Nelson, Harold T erry, Donald Name City lnit. Da.te Deceased Davidsen, Geo. J. Thomson, Adrian Chris tian, C. III. J am es. Me'lvin Nelson, Bryant T oland, Arthur Dearkland, R. D. Toplak, John Church, R ussell .Jeppson, J. D. Nelson , John Q. T om. Herbert Alyea, Marvin, Vallejo, Calif. ··-····-··-··· 7-12-52 12-21-6.5 Dejane, Eugene Torres . J erry Cla rk, James Jessop, Paul M. N ewman, Dean S. T oorinjiah, A. :J. Berard, George D eros, Peter Uslanghi, Albert Cline, Daniel Johnson, Don L. Nichols, Lar ry D. Turner , H. S. Jr., Honolulu, HawaiL. 5· 5-63 . 12-15-65 Dibbern, H arold Vandenburg, M ! Collins, Sam .Johnson, Oscar N ick ell, Geo. C. Turner, Rolldo Beitz, Herman, San Francisco, Calif.. __ _· 5- 5-51 12- · 2"65 Drain, H ein·y Victor, ·wilson Compton. F. R .. Jonas, :r. M. Nicomedes, J . Va ldez, Dave '!)river, Robt. N . Vogan, Eugen e, Conn, John J. Jones, Robt. N. Nolan, Jr. E. . Tuttle. Kenneth Bishop, Clarence, Fresno, Calif. --~ - ~ ...... 11- 6-48 11-30-65 Dusky, Glenn Walra.th , C. H. Craig, Thos. F . Jones, Rodney Novite. John Vasconcellos, D . .Edmonds, C. C. W ebb·, Charles Darneal, K enneth Jordan, Glade Nye, Gerald Vicente, H. D. Brower', Fate, O'Brien, Calif: ---- -· ··--· ---·· 7- 9-55 12-10-65 Elliott, Gordon .Weekly, Jon Cruz, Paul Jordan, J. H . Octuck, John R. W agnon, H. T. Crow, Herman, Castro Valley, Calif . .. :. 7- 7-54 12-10-65 Ellsworth. A. H. · W eltori, Don E. D eLuna, ·Juan A. K aha, P eter On1 ega, Win. B . W alker. Luther Fire'nze,. David White, Don A. :Pe;LaCruz, F . K ai. William . , Palermo, Gene Walters, Chas. :r •. Gallagher, Sam, Redding, Calif. ----· ----··· 5~20-39 12-22-65 Forrest, Richard Williams, Jack Dennis, R . F. Kalaukoa, Francis Oshiro, Harry M. Ward, James - Hansen, Harold, Oakland, Calif. -- --...... Forsterling, F. W. Wilson. Howat'd Dunbar, Jack w, K ama. C. L.· Pai'sons, Victor W aym an, Wm. L . 2-17-40 12-23-65 Gaines, E. W . ·wolf, John H . Dutton, Vern W. Kamanu, Joseph Patricio. S. W ebs ter. Russell Kalb, Wm., San Francisco, Calif. _.. __ ___ . : 10~25-07 12"11-65 Garrett; Don' S. Wood, A. W. Emerson, Eber · K a ln, Henry P ena; George W eston , Gerdon ...... Gqtgg, .Melvin Workman , .T . v. Dwyer, Edw. V. K ealoha, Frank . P etersen, C. Don . White, Herbert King, George W., Sacramento, Cali£...:___ 10- 4-52 12-10-65 . Graves, Ronald Yasue; Wayne L . Emm ett, Chas. G. K !'ao, Wm. E ,' . Phillips, Vando Wiederspan, Sam Markley, Howar'd, Santa Rosa; Calif...-~ .. · 4- .3-43 12-18~6 5 Hammer, Fred H. Zenor,. H .·A. · Estrella , •Alfred· K ellogg, Win , R . Phillips. Ray E . Wilson , Ralph L . Heal, Archie Zuniga. .s aul G. Evans, E lbert K ennedy, Chas. Poland, H . B. Williams, J. W . McCarty, Richard, Oakland, Calif...... 2- 6-43 12-23-65 H ickman, L ee RETURN 'lliAIL. Favi·e, P. J. Kimsey, George Polston, Clifton Williams, Frank -!Jackson, Archie Last Na.me First. Fitch , Jeri~y T. Lam bert; A, C.· Prather, T, C. · · Williams, Romey *O'Conner, Arthur; Fresno, Calif.:·-··-···- 7~ 9-55 11 -26 ~ 65 .Jars haw. Ronald AC<)sta, Rafael Flores, E. K . L a nge, H . Poulsen, Wm. E . Wilmoth. Clarence Ottoson, John, Comptche, Calif. ·_:.. :.______7- 3-43 12- . 5~6 5 Jenkins; T: I. ·Ahtou, Adria n · F lynn, John·B. Lapp, John · Rabe, T. · . Wils on, Ralph L. .John, Carl Akui, Wayne , . :r'<;>ronda, Richard. L ehto, K em1eth Pritchard, Albert Winkle, Richard Rippy, Benford, Watsonville·, Calif ...... 8- · 5-39 12-25 ~65 Kalanui, W esley Andersoti, H . · ' Fotheringham; W . L eighton, G·erald Prewett, Arthur • Winnop, Bill S. . Kelly, James, E . · Auld,. H .' .u. . F .ox, John ·A: L ewis; C. F . . · R eyes, Albert Winnet t, Tommy Rodda:il, R. J., Roseville, Calif. __· ...... ,: .. 9-18-43 . · 11:: 25~65 . I.,each,. Jim A. Awaa, .Andrew Fras S . er, W. . Liebe. Marvin presley, Bill L. Wohlgemuth, M . Shaffer, Kenneth, San Anselmo, CaliL. · 8~20-40 12~24-6 5 . L~beali, Philip· Azbill, D elmar Fdmier : Antoine . Lincoln, Dale 'E. Richey, H. L. _Walking, L. ·w. ·Lee.' R ' J. Baker, Ronald ,. Frederick , L . L. Long, Mac . i Richards, B. Wong, Vl' ilfot'd Walker, John, Yuba City; Calif. -· -·- .. -,-·· 6- 2-51 . 12~25-6' 5 Lewis, Joe Barber. Floy d P . Froscher, Earl L . · -L o1iez, Arthur R ichter, AI an Yamasaki, ·Jtsue Linton, H . L. · -Sai'nett,· Andrew" ·. Fl1i·tado, Ezra E: · L - • NEWS Page ll Janu'ary, 1966 ENGINEERS • ' •. '! .SILVER STATE NEWS New Dock_ing ~ facility For., • .- ~ uval ·· 1nes es illion Job S: F. Harbor and By NORRIS CASEY, GAIL BISHOP, JACK BULLARD, BOB VICKS BY A. J. HOPE, piledriving, finally closed opera LEMOINE were revealed at - WARREN RENO-Plans pitched in with is nearly frozen out. The last dirt meeting Brother AI Clem, tions when the temp era t u r e SAN FRANCISCO - Pier 27 a Humboldt County civic of· spread shut down on. Industrial help from the San Francisco dipped to 20 degrees below zero! in San Francisco is the scene of for a $22-million development by Construction Co. job east of Win· fice. ll a lot of activity, rain or shine. Duval Corp. at Copper Basin • -.·_ Page 16 EN G iNEERS NEWS January, 1966 · .Qldtimer's Picture Parade • :syo:CKTON Brother Clifford Niblock, (not AI Nibloc as was inad vertently reported P1 last m onth's n ews) suffere~ a. seve~e stroke, and is recuperating at Bret Harte Sarutonum m Murphys. Brother Roy Pierce is on his way to Arabia to work for Bechtel Corp. as a superintendent. Brother Ernie Dugan is recuperating frqm a crushed hand and arm, and Brother Leroy Kidwell is · recovering from burns received from a gasoline explosion on the· Serv- ice Construction job. . The following brothers were sick or hospitalized for the past month: Louis Silveria, Louis Wenger, JoeL. Brun and James E. Glenn. We extend our deepest sympathies to the family of our .late Brother Jack Whitehouse. OAKLAND Our deepest sympathy to Brothers James R. Cook and his family upon the sudden death of his wife, and Elbert Trost, who also lost his wife. ·SAN :RAFAEL Brother Curt Richardson (apprentice) entered the Armed Forces Dec. 1 and we wish him the best of luck. Brotner Paul Bach recently confined in Novato General Hospital for eye surgery-we wish him a fast recovery. . Best wishes Ito Brother Stewart F. Orchard, Jr., on his recent marriage. Also congratulations to Brother Robert Timmel who also ANTIQU ES-·t hese ol.d time shovels were standard e quipment 40 years a go in Nevada and said "I Do." Cal ifo rn ia, according to B rother Harry Hanson, o f Sa n Francisco. Note hoist chai ns used in Brother Vic Nielsen was recently confined at Marin center picture t o load ra il road c ar. At ·right is a 220 Marion w it h 90 feet of boom and 55 Ge~eral Hospital and from latest reports received, Brother feet of stick, used for strippi ng in Nevada with Hanson as operator . . Vic is back conducting his business. , . Congratulations to Brother Carlos Talamantez (a proud father of baby boy born on Thanksgiving Day-weighing in at 9lbs. 4-oz. EUREKA We of the Eureka office send our sympathy to the family of Brother William J. Crabtree, who passed away Novem ber 27, 1965. We of the Eureka office also wish a speedy recovery to Brother Donald Lewis who was injured on the Fredrickson & Watson job at Gasquet on November 22, 1965. MARYSVILLE Brother Emmett Jacobs is in the Fremont Hospital in Yuba City recovering from his recent automobile accident. Hope he has a speedy recovery. Brothers Harry Carte and Noel F. Dennis are in the Rideout Hospital in Marysville. All reports from them are that they are getting along fine. Special thanks to Charles Newman for his blood dona tion this month. VALLEJO Many of the Vallejo Broth,ers were hospitalized recently; among them were Jack B rown, John Teter, BaUard Clark, Virgil Maj ors, Bill Hennigan, Lester Stultz, Stanley Brown, and Russell Pyle. We wish a speedy recovery to these Broth ers and trust they will be in good health soon. Sincere sympathies are extended to the family and friends of Brother Cliff Cotter, whose wife passed away RAILROAD-Brother Hanson w orked many years in mines and laying railroad t racks. Here recently. . is a Bucyrus working fo r Western Power Co. near Minden, Nevada. Charlie DeBay was the op- · We thank all Brothers who donated blood, .and who will erat?r. Notice iron-wheeled belly dumper in right background, and what appears to be a Hol t be donating blood in the future. 45-hp caterpillar behind t he shove L · SAN JOSE Blood donors for the month include: Leona Webb, How ard Spurlock, Tim' Jacques, Marciano Rodrigues and Bob Sandow. Please notice: to those wishing to give blood to the en· gineers blood bank: The Blood Bank is in the process of in· stalling IBM equipment. In the future, when blood is do· nated, please call the office and leave your names, as we will be unable to obtain the names from t he Blood Bank in the future. U'f.AH Our sincere sympathy to Brother and Mrs. Douglas Whit· . ney over the death of their infant daughter. . Condolences to Brother Glen Hyatt over the loss of hzs wife and a speedy recovery to him in his illness. · Brother Lew Hamilton has been: confined to bed with an illness . .. we wish him a complete recovery. . GET WELL WISHES TO THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS: Dave Braegger, Charles E, Pierce, Melvin Hayes, Mel Kram· bule, Arland Morrell, Dick Strange, Murl Johnson, Lester " Hunnell and Douglas Price. Congratulations to Brother and Mrs. Joe Yardley over the birth of a baby boy born on December 11. Also to Brother Rickie Bryan and wife who received a baby girl on Decem ber 15. VISIT BLOO BANK; TRAIL 8 LAZING--Brother Hanson is shown h ere at right on t he de~k of t his huge track mounted Vulcan shovel while laying track f o r the Union P-acific near Salt La ke City, Utah in 1919. He said he then enlisted in t he U.S. Navy as a "patriot ic drunk" but always came back GIVE FOR ENG NEERS to operat ing shovels. · •