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- . STATIONARY: ENGIN .. EERS LOCAL 39 . SAN ·FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA APRIL,1960

1 Clarify Procedure ,on New .. Local 3 Mel11bership ld,ntification · Cirds ·

. . _SANDWICH ·:BJJL~I.NG _ _:A~pile of 13 . co~crete ff;ors .is _shown bere .on its way up the pr~-built .368-foot'stairw'ay and elev.ator .tow~rs to creaf~ a. I :t: story apt-: bldg. at Pacific and. _Franklin in - ~:~ . ,Atop ·t_he ·up.per sandwich of·:4>slabs y~u ca11 . see th~ hydraulic · e·quipmeM, irclu'ding 10 synchronized iackS; pi aye·~ like . ari organ, .to lift . each 600 ,000-.lb> Hoor .. upw~rd. This) s t.he first . lift-slab . ifi N. Ca!jf., and the tallest ever -at­tempt.e:4 ~ · S m~!l ~steeH61ock s w.elded to each of the 20 deel c.olumns': pre-v~~~t·+fi~": sld'b'{ ffoiii·' falling:. ~--r:h~ 5i~!5-s (to~t-i~~ll . _wirir;~g .::a_n~ "':p.ii~e·s ' ·a:!! cr ate m'u~fl ithinner than ordinary ) f9drs. · .Geo; ~cBei!=H e~)~ . cont~~~to.r wi!h Pre·scori ··& · Yagfbor-g Lif} .. :SIJ b ~·orp, : The , building _.wilfha ve 7-3 ~pts. and 82. auto_ spaces. · ·

.• OFFICIAL NOTIC:E' TO MEMBERS

The left hand portion · (A) is your Membership Identification card ' and also 'your receipt. for pay. · inent madz. This portion of the card remains in the member's possession· at all times. ("TRANS" on this ·portion · ·of the card indic;ttes last · transaction: into the Local, such as "transfer in," deposit . of withdrawal card;'' "depo~it of · se],'vice withdrawal card"· or "rech1ssification.") ·

.. The right hand .portion·(B) is your billing for payment of next qua~ter's dues. It shows.th~- amount of your next payment (X in SeCtion B of.diagram ·below)-and the date payme.nt is due (Y hl' Sect!Qn B .of-. diagrall,J.): This · portion . is to 'be sent along· with yo).ir check or money order to cover "Amount bu~." · · - · · ·

. Numerous ~quiries have been received regar ding the manner in which the member's naine .ap­pears on _his dues card. In order 'to print the information appearing on yom• duzs card quicldy, ac· curately and at · the least possible cost we are using a punched card system. District Meetings Scheduled for May, 1960:

MAY ·• 5 (Thuriday) · Sacramento, C;E.L;T.'· Bldg.

9 (Mo~day) . Stockton, Engineers' Bldg. U (Wednesday) O~kland, Labor Temple,· 2315 Valdez.

Under any system there a1~e limitations, and in this instance_ we are limited to eighty items of information~ Each.h .tter or number counts as· one item. Because Of the need of all- items appear·

' ing in the card t'he fh·st name has had to be limited to 7 letters. If the first name is 5 letters or bss we c.an then also use . a middle· initial. If the firs-t Iiame is more than 7 letters then all letters

·• _._ 19 · (Thursday) Salinas, Labor T~mple, 117 Pajai'o. · . . ) . Forms on which toapply for -Tefund of ex­

JUN~ 30th IS · cess contriputions for disability insurance in

:~ .. ,.EAD_._.Lf"t•.lf fO.-R 195\) are available at all local offices of the l'i · D~J?artment -of E'mploymerit.

D I 'REfUMDS Persons who work for two or ·more em-~ - - ~- : : . . i'!J · players during the year niay coi1tribute 1 . . more than the statutory maimum . nf $36

• per cent~~£ t_he first ,$3,600) beca·us~ each employer, in' turn, 1\ J!lakes the Lpef cent withholding as he is required to do by law. · .• 1 The amount in excess of $36 w1ll be refunded to the employee,

biJt~ohly. if he applies lOl' it. . ,, ;;,T,ii~(ctedctline ·for applying for 1959 excess contributions is J11i1e '30, ,,-1960. _· · . . .

ql!forni~'s . di§ability lllSUtai1Ce and hospital ·benefit . system ~- , for rip'tloccupatio~~l ·uin~ss ~r' injury, under either the state' plan :', or a ,yolun~ar~f:-Plan, is supported entirely by worker contributions.

· ~qJ.,Pl.9'Y~rs :p;iy· ~11 the costs of unemployment insurance.

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after the seventh have ~o be dropped. ·

We are not overlooking the fact that Iiiany inenth2l'S have first names which. appear misspelled. We are continuing our research to eliminate this problem. However, please be assured your name is properly spelled on your permanent r~cord in .the main office of Local No. 3.

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M. F. EDWARDS Napa, Calif .. , Feb. 28, 196_0

't\.L GRANDY .. San Jose, Calif., March 1, 1960

.GEORGE STEW ART Nevada City, Calif., Mar. 2, 1960 - OTTO KRIENS

Benicia, Calif :, Mar. ·4,. 1960 .:J~:.:· • · ·· · · · · · · · · · DONALD K MARSING

· ~()NOR- ROlL , OF . B-LOOD DONORS Orinda, Calif. , Mar. 6, 1960

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c·' SACRAMENTO

Waltor Gano . SJ)phie Billebault Eugene T. O'Neill Alonzo. R.. Allen Opal J. Allzn Jack B. Hutcheson Stinley R. Hansen· wz:J. Shelton _: Carl Stine· .

,_l(u~h Oswald · ? :1:-rank Kuhre ~Claude n.':Griffith - _ •. Alfonse Vercruyssen

SAN JOSE

, · Leonard '\Vhitmire · -.. Chades :Bray '.

· J.iWvMQtar.iand He~y-;;ZljiP~9w :: . ..

Roscoe Pounds Ruby Pounds ·

SAN MATEO Hugh Meara

· Joe Aguilar Frances Droesch , Janies Simmons

~ · FRESNO B. H. Hueston E. Turner

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-~~ ~Toc~:roN =· ,._ ~ _ ·> Lloyd A: I:i:~rring · ·

REDDING · · ··· Al Gonse James Binkle,)' , . .

-· , SAN FRANCISCO · · -, , , Grlenn·:Hfrith:>';- ·' ;·: : :.>

' FRANK PURDY · Fortuna, Calif. Mar. 6, 1960 . \. ~ .

RILEY B. CRENSHAW Modesto, Calif. , Mar. 7, 1960

CHAS. V; ERICKSON Irvington, Cali{, ¥ar: 7, 1960 · JOE T. CAMPUS

Santa Clara, Calif. ; Mar~ 9, 1960 . ' '-'-...:·

· JOHN E. VEZZASO Centra:·I Valley;·C(!.L, Mar. 11, 1960

CHARLES YARNELL no::;uuJ.H,<;, Calif., Mar; u , 1960

-FRED.-PADIA · San 'Jose, c_alif., Mar. 12,.1960 . MELYIN J. BEHNEY . .

CALIFORN.IA'S ~EAUJY is r~vealed to tourist and resident on. its fast--growing highw·n network. On a va~ation trip you . will fi 'nd great improvements made and under way, north on th~ Redwood 'av.e'nue of giants, in the T rinit'y Alps, south on coast and in!'and, a·nd east in the mounta·ins. The $104 million dc;?uble-tracking of No .. 40 over Sierras is movin.g fast, speeded by the recent Olympics. This view shows new and old road~ just east of Colfax .

Sacramento, Calif., Mar. 12,,1960 .'G'.: D. SHAw· . . ... . , FER.D A. JOHNSON·

Sanger~ Cali-f., Mar. i7, 1960 . ' -' San ~ose, Calif.; Mar. 19, 1~60 7;· ,;< LEE KEELS. - , , "' .. · .. , , .. . ,·,:EDWARD E. -~McHENRY .. :: : .w(:i~dlai:ul;.,~ca4£>M~r: · 19, ·ri960 .••:-i' Chlco, ·calif. ; Mar.) 9, 1960·,

.' GEORGE W. JOHNSON Hayward, Calif., Mar. 21; 1960 .. GEORGE ·SOUZA

'" Hayward; Calif., Mar, ~0; 1960 ,

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·· Published each month by Local Union No. 3 of the International.:..Union of Operating Engineers .. · .. ·

(Northern California, Northern -Nevada, State of Utah, the Hawaiian, Island~ )

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NEWELL J. CARMAN ........ Managin~ Editor and Local Union Mgr.

PAUL EDGECOMBE -------------------------:------·---------'--------------------------- President H. 0. FOSS ............ -----------------------------·---------------- ·----··-----------------Vice,President W. V. MINA.HAN ...... --- ~---- - ----- ::: ........ Recording-Corresponding Secretary

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. ''·ENGINEER'S -NEWS . . - ' ::- ~ . . . . .. ·· . ' . ·:~ ~ ·. . •,. . APRIL; . :.1;96.0

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. JOBS' S~OW .. Jhe·OutlookJs.Good fora BusY · • !~,~!~&~~!~~!, Spring in the San· Mateo Area ·

· Business Re!lresentatives . : . . .. .. . . , . · · · · I By BILL.RANEY and GEORGE BAKER, Business R~presentatives

Job drspatc~es- have been very IT'S APRIL AGAIN! With the beautiful weather· we'have had slow. There rs a small out of . · · : · · work list especially for Chain: on the Peninsula the last few days, it looks like _V:/e lJave left. 01~ ·.

men . ' . . . . Man Winter far beh~nd. The prospe_cts for a good ~usy _spring •

The Crvrl Engmeenng offices the weather stays wrth us lS exceptwnally good. ·

seem to be doing a good bit of The Healy - Granite breakwater job at Half .Moon Bay has design work on subdivisions for started again, arid the company . ·.

the future; although . t~e tight plans to extend their operation ! brought in some -Eucs from Sac-money policy of the Ersenhovver early this month. It is expected ! 0 t Administration is still holding that there will be two shifts on ,

1 a~:~a~~tion and trucking of up the a_ctual start of const~ouc- the derrick and barges. They 178 000 cubic yai:ds of earth ~wn. W~rle there .are many small propose to load the core rock fro~ the Summit · Heights sub­JObs gomg on, one survey crew with the stiff leg derrick, then division site in southwest San can take care of seyeraL to unload these barges with Mateo has started. This is a 12-

~ o~r rd·eprf~sentathryehs _recleld1tldy dozers. Healy used t~is. method acre parcel and the dirt will be , orgamze a rrm w Ic_ me u e a few years back on Mrsswn Rock removed from this subdivision ·both surveyors and mspe~t~rs . in San Francisco Bay with a to the Los Prados subdivision .FRA CISCO HAS The em~loyees ~:ere recervmg ~reat deal of succ~ss. Onething site east of Bayshore and the $3.00 yer hour, sti ~rght time for IS for sure, one slip on the part Hillsdale overpass: Fisk Fir en.

. . . . . . . overtime and no_tlung more. Af- of the dozer hand and -he will and McLean have bought a

. . . . ter several meetmgs your repre- have his laundry done without N tl t h 1 and will start

Bl .. (i HOMES PROJECT sentatives weroe able to convince the .necessity of r~movi?g his th~:r;~:.~o~ ~~~s'project. . the Employer that he not only clothes. The water ui this area

, · ·· . · · - . sign the agreement, but alsp pa~ is mighty- cold at this time of PROPO$ED NEW WORK

B,y JERR~ DO~D a~d _DAN 1\'IATTE_SON, Busi~ess Represe11tati_ves j ~:.te~;$t~~eto : ~ef~b:~~k ~~~·o:~~ the year. . . The initial step in the devel-

- ':!;'he Fifty-five lVhlhon Dollar Diamond Heights home proJect cation, etc. These brother~s are Th~ C. J. W?o~s Co. are still opment of the San Carlos air-

h;;ts finally gotten under way. Grading was started last week by to be commended especially workr~g on)heir JOb on Melendy port Marina has been taken with •

~M:Y ·F. Atkinson to . con~ert three hundre~ and thirt~-one amoes since the organizing'and the bat- Lane m San Ca~los . • :we ha~e the awarding of the contract to

m,to,_ a hrgh:class residential area. ~nformatwn we received at the tle for the · back pay took. piace been told _thatthrs compa~y wrll the Dutra Dredging Co. for. pro- ­

p~-~--Job conf~ren~e was that Atkmson hoped .to have the dirt 1 with snow on the ground and move thei~ shop a_nd o£1Ice to vidiri.g a . deep water channel ·

~~we~ sometime m Octo_ber. T?e . - little work going on. Th~ boss ?an Antomo Road m P~lo Alto, I from the bay to the· pro_p~sed JQJ> Will be -on a on~ shrft b~sis, rigs. a.re on a two-shift basis. even held · a meeting with the m the yery near future . ~ , three hundred berth Manna. :

- fq,r:ty-hour~ · pe_r week. · At_ the We'd like .to see this operation men to try to g~t them to back . Willoie _Fra~k has. be_en work- This is scheduled to _be a. lo?g : .

p~a~ of operatiOns there will be continue as is for awhile as it off on their demands. Our bro- ~ng on Ius Lmda Mar JOb when term development, which.willm­

b~twe~m thirty-five and fo~tY- el_l- ~1as helped ou~ o_tit of wo~k list ther~ stood fast and together, weather permitted, ke~ping ' sev- elude a three_: hundred. ro?~ g~:q(2ers employed. · T?e JOb IS I Immensely._ This JOb and the ~ne with the aid of Brothers Board- era! of the brothers off the un- 1 motel, plus van_ou~ other un_It•

:S~.t up a~ a rubebr tire spread at the Fau·mont Hotel . which man Pennebaker and Minahan employment rolls. . . Kaiser Foundatwn Hosprt~l

with DW 2l ~nd 29 ~oving most · Casey is also doing, ha~ - finally won 'what was ·rightfully theirs. The Utah C~ns~ruction Co. plan·s to build a $25?,000 clinic

o~ tP,e matenal. At the· present I depleted our list in driller Again we remind you that it have started bmldnl:g the new in· South San Francisco. Ther.~ ·

t~e there 'are ·f_our do_zers, · ~wo I classificati_ons. H~wever, ~he way is becoming . increasin_gly ~ im- plan~ for the Armour Meat Co., will be 's?me demolition v~ork on

ca. ts,_ and ~ carryall pwneermg the work IS sh_apmg up_, rt looks portant that you obtam some puttmg ~ few men to work on I this pro]ect for lot gradmg.

tl1e JOb, with the D~ 21 sched-1 hke . we'll be short m many method of . getting to the job. the gradmg. They have used a ·rt has been announced that

u\ed to g_o to work ~h1s week: i cla~sifications by the time sufii, I The work _is spre~ding out more few operators .for short .intervals. Federal Funds in the amount . of

. The Dramond Herghts proJect mer rolls around. • and more m,to the countr:Y. Many We have placed some heavy ·duty $17,860 have been granted to

CC).lls for 2200 dwellings; units to ' HURRICANE ALLEOY of our_ brothers must pass up mechanics and welders · in the the Granada Sai).itary District f?t

· hQ~_s~ , be.tween 6?00 and 7000 ! The demolition contra~tqrs good JQbs bec"ause they can't s~o.p . to o~erhaul ~orne large construction Of ne~. sewer drs~ , _, ersons. There will be a mix- ' are still hard at work in the get to them. . . . dre~el motors thilt will pr?b~bly posal t:eatment fac_Illtles for ~he

p .-- . . . I Western Addition and in the Th_ere have been questwns re- go mto use on one of their Jobs 1 coast srde commumty of El Gra­

t~r:e of smgle family homes , du- · area of . Third and Howard gardmg the use of a car at work back east. _ . . . nada, with the total cost of the

P!exes and apartmei).t houses. 1 Streets. When they start rebuild- _to ha~1l men or equ!pment. ~he ! . Brother Brl_l HI~key rs movmg project_ estimated at ~406 , 080 . ·

· · _Yo~l · can see, Brothers t~at 1 ing these areas we doubt that rate rs 10c per mrle, . startm~ nght along, wrth _hrs cr~w of men It wrll be mterestmg ~o ~· . this 1s _gomg ~o be q_mte a JOb we'll have enough hoist men to fro~n the employers ot_fice until on Doelger s Umt 11 JOb. These .the outcom: for an appllcatwn

<!nd m turn, will furmsh a great I do the job. Ba. yshore Wrecking arnval back to the office at the , ):>r?thers are ?usy gradmg, and for a permrt to dredge 22,000,-

_de?l. ~f · employment for mem- Company have both their cranes end of the work day. I do~ng_ foundatwn and cat work. 000 yards of sand out of the b?Y-

~ers _of Local No. 3: T~is area in the yard getting repair made · j Tl:Is JOb has \(ept many of the More iriformat~on will be forth-

. has ne~ded a good dirt JOb, and between jobs. Cleveland Wreck- B 1 br~ther~, steadrl_Y employed. · commg on thrs ·one when we .

we believe we have one now! ing have only one crane operate 1 , ~uzz . Haskms has mo?ed have more to pass on to you .

. HILTON HOTEL SET ing on demolition · as do KTK. .

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. most of hrs ngs to an9ther JOb. Contract was ~ward~d to the

. At this writing Cahill Bro- , Ballinger is busy on demolit!ori ·,As soon_ as the P.G.&E. get the Payne Constructwn Co. of Oak-

.. tp.ers have called' for bids on ! work, with two cranes operating . ?~wer !me out of the way they land for improvements to San~ the excavation work for the Hi!- ! 011 Howard Street. ' wrll be able to move the rest of Mateo-Hayward Bndge on Brew,

ton Hotel on Mason & Ellis. ; Buz Haskins is grading · the I the yardage in this area. So . far er's Island. .

This will be a $27 000 000 oro- , Crocker-Amazon area for a new we have ·been unable to obtam Contract awarded to· the 0. C.

j'ect of L-shaped de~ign' and 'Wm home area for about 1200 .homes i a definite da~e as to when this Jones Co. of Berkeley, for the

. ~tUize approximately three quar- to go in, when the grading· is : c_ompany_ will start the brg Sky- paving and site 'Nork at the Lake- -I ters ,of a block. Anwng the un- completed. The Doublerock 1 lme ProJect. I shore School, San Mateo. . a l,l~ual' features will be automo- Housing project has not, at this J COAST JOB · · Bids are in for sewage lm~ 'QiJe ramps enabling guests to time, been ofti~ially awarded but . Berger Coastwide nave started and septic tank work at Huddart

9-,rtve up the center core or the the low bid .Contractor informs their highway job down the Park, Memorial Park and Coyote .

s;tructi.1re. to park their cars on us they will be re·ady to start Coast, and l~ave hired some men. Point Park. Contract awarded to·

' tl;:l~ .floor where their rooms are 1' in about a month. · They are running the shovel off . Cortelyou & Cole of Palo Alto. _

located. The hotel is to be eigh- The Shipyard work has I Ralston hauling to the project I On street and road wotk calls,

~een -stories high with ~ Iand- I dropped off cqnsiderabl_Y- Be~h- ' at the end of -the Hillsdale over- are out for bids on highway ~nd_ ~~aped courtyard occupymg the 1 lehem'~ yard are operating with "I UNDERSTAND THE OL' pass. They have also started the I re-allgnment wo~k on Hillsrde. __

t()p fou~ floors . It looks li~e only 40~ of their · normal MAN IS GOING TO PUT UP A under g r o ~ n d_ work on the . Blvd. _ai).d a portion of Ch_estnut

there Will be some · good hoi~st crews. Tnple A Shop have. a REAL FIGH . Enchanted Hills JOb. · · 1! Ave. m South San }francisco. _

jpbs,, h_ere, for the Brothers: ~ifeboat Contract that is keep- ION ASK l vVHEN THE U~~ . Wunderlich Co .. i~ moving Award was made to ~eoneth Cahrll a~so. have the Alll:enca_n mg _o~e cr~w on a_ crane and the b Stur i~L OR THAT RAISE. nght.along with th~rr JOb at San Bros., Inc. , o~ San Francrsco, for

Trmt _Bmldmg on. Cal!form~ lj Paci~Ic Ship Repair are only o_p- Y g 1 ~ateo College. It will be a_ sh?rt site preparatiOn at the Jeffer~o~ ~treet m full operatiOn. Amen- eratmg on an off and on basis. - ~ · 1 time before they have this JOb ' Elementary School, Daly City, ·

Cl!,n . Bridg~ are placing the I Hunters Point- Naval Shipyard is·i Tex~ns are convinced that .opened up tq the extent that '.as well a~ the George Washing-

~tr_uctural steel . pow, We haye I on a short W?rk wee~ also. So when all the snow and . ice in they can start the rest. of the i toll' Elementary School. •

qqite _a f~w . members employed

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.Alaska melts it will be no big- DW 20's. We have been mfo~m- 'I · DONORS FOR MARCH o,n thrs site at present. . to ship repair IS not good. · ger than Rhode Island. ed that when they are runnmg BLOOD h ~'I

~he same _ Compari~'s jo~ in Brothers, if you get a chanc~ · * * ,,, - ,full crew they will have twelve ! . Hug , ~::: · ·

Chmatown IS movmg nght please make an appointment For some of us roughing it 20's operating. I Joe Agm · h

along. We should see a tower go- thru the Dispatcher in the San means turning the electric Tony Leone Co, have just I Franc~s _Droesc

ing up ip the near future. . Francisco Office to donate blood. blanket down to · medium. started their fourteen acre site I Jam,es Simmons.

There:s a lot of activity on Tl~is is an important ~nd worthy ::: : * ,,, development in Linda.Mar. When . JUST A REl\'IINI_lE~! The first

Callforma & Kearney . Streets tnbute . . 0 you never know There · is nothing wrong in the grading is finished on the I Saturday of Julie IS JUSt ar(}und

where Dinwiddie Construction when you or your family might 1 having nothing to say unless first seven acres of this site they the cor:ner. As you know, this

Com~any is in t~e proce~s of have to make use' of the Blood you insist on saying it. , will star.t the buildings. We were ,day will be designated as o?r .

erectmg the Amencan President Bank ''' ''' ::: shown the plans for this devel- Blood Bank Day. Full details

L~ne Buildi~g. ~eorge ~- Casey A true music lover is the man opment and when it is completed i'wm appear in the next issue of

has four dnll ngs workmg; two Two rabbits were being chas- 1 who puts- his e:1·r to the keyhole it will be exceptionally nice. the Engineers News. This year,

t~~ger h_oists and a compressor. ed vigorously by a pack of dogs wl).e~1 he hears a soprano in the Oscar Holm,es was low bidder, 'more than ev~r, we are in ne.

Dmwiddie has a truck crane, when one yelled to the other: shower. · and has started th~ grading on .of donors for the Engineei"r'

loader,_ cat a,nd a compressor_ i? "Why are ·you running? Let's * ., '' the site for th~ San Carlos Ele- .Blood Bank Keep ·the d~te in

op_er~bon. Its a pleasure _to VISit stop and outnumber them." A honeymoon is sort of a va- 'i:nentary. School, off Meleqdy mind, and watQh for the . next

this JOb as one sees nothmg b?t "Keep running,'? the . other yell- ~ation a. man takes before go- ,Lane in ,Siln_Ca_rlQs. Joq !:?id was ~ ;~ssue o! the paper for more in-

Local No. 3 l:mttops. Tl:t_e - d~rl.l ed. "We're bl'Otbers." mg to. . work for a .new·.boss. . .$99,750. Thrs c Q m pill} y ·has ,formatiOn. . ·

APRIL, 1960 ... ENGINEER'S NEWS PAGE THREE

S~nE:u~~~e~n~~tR~:Lq- 1 Northbay· Jobs Are Getting .•. Ou'tof row·,·; G-e. ~:r: ed Western Well Dnlhng Co., · . - - · . . · . U ,

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AREA StOW TO Ltd., · P. 0. ,Box 47, Sail ··Jose By H 0. FO~S,. F. A: :LAWRE~CE, ·L. C . . SOLARiand A S S!ViiTH, Bl_!.siness Rep1·esentatives $52,268 (plus $4,146 add. , $56,_- The weather IS JUst nght:-the JObshave_open.ed up good . and in a few weeks should be going 414-total) for drill & dev. new full · blast. As you read tl11S report, you can see how work has gotten started. GET-STARTED wtr. well, incl: pump hse., eqpt., . ~iombo Col}~tructio!l ~ave gotten under way on the site preparation for the new l\!Iarin County wtr. & elec . . distrib. & apP\trt. ClVlc Center. J,Im Loms Is the super, and Brothers Paul F. Bach, Paul Price, c: B. Cminirigham

b R F. SWANSON wk. at Golden _Gat-e National and Howard Sampson are on the I _ · . , . . y Y 1 ·t f t l b th . _ 'Cemetery, San Bruno, San Ma- dozers. . · . ed a; few blocks in San Rafael · ~ -drel with sand, withdraws the

W ke~, ga bo to th le . :ro ers are teo Co. . · . Kirkwood-Ely Inc. of Santa_ for excavating, paving, etc. fin- mandrel and .the sand is forced · or m , u ere .are a very · · R h t t d tl · - · · h. · · ' · b · 1 '11 · · large numqer of the brothers San Francis·co -Contract· was o~a a~e ~ _ar e 1eir sew~r Is mg up JO m . t 1e Va . ~JO out the hing~ gate _with air pres· who will still remain on the out awarded to Payne Gonst. Co., constructiOn _Job along 4th and area . . Between _house. wreckmg sure. (See p_Icture). The open· of Work list. There is some work 689 Louisia,na, Oa_kland $40~528 2nd Str~ets I~ San Rafael. . and other van?us JObs, they tors are Brothers Ira Jones and

• anticipated so that ·eventually for canst. field ofc. bldg. for Valley E~g111~~rs. hav~ JU~t seem to be go111g along very V~rnon ~ellah, F~reman Jack we _will be able to put most of impvts . to San Mateo-Hayward s!'arte~ their pipelme JOb . 111 good, prospects ~re very goo~ I Pickard, and Loader Operator those who are not working to Bridge on Brewer Island, San ~ent~Ield an.d Ross and com111g for ~he y~ar. . Clarence Weaver. Raymond Con· work, · providing that they are Mateo County. · 111 with equ_Ipment. _are Brothers Bid~ w:ll be c~lled _ soon for crete plans to put dawn. 2,300· able to ea:t until that time comes. : San . Jose-Contract awarded LeRoy Dum_gan, Side __ Boom ?P- th~ .b1g JOb makm~ the three

1 such sand drains, which will .

JOBS ARE ONCE . A-GAIN to Ince Bros. , $3'1,325 for constr. erator; Loms A. Bennett, Lmk bm;lges over Greenorae Creek make a solid foundation for . SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE AF- Bollinger Road -storm sewer sys- Belt Operator, To~ Roach, Oil- which will run ii1to a lot of both the bridge and the road TER BEING SHUT DOWN BE- tern. er. Joh-nny- Butler IS the super. money. that is to be build there. CAUSE OF WINTER San .Jose- bmtract awarded This CQntr_act · was originally Bids will be received on April , The Momarc Missile Base at

. The Guy F. Atkinso~ Company to Petersen Bros. , $46,124 for a\~ar~ed to ,the Engineers Ltd.l1~th ~or the cons~ruction ~f ~he Dixon has been cut off by the . who started to _work last year . instl. of small c.hildren's area & Pipelme last.' June, ancl , due tq NicasiO Dam _ProJect, consistmg government. At present time,

on the Healdsburg bycpass have courts at .Willow St. Park, Wil- the steel.stnke_ work was p_ost- o_f 115 foot hi~~ earth and ro~k we have no idea when or if it begun once again after a couple liam St. Park · & River Glen pon~d, and at th_e pre~ent time fil~ dam, a re~nforced _col:).crete 1 will be resum~d . Apparently the. of tries in which sonre of the Park. - Engmeers Ltd, Is_ domg large spillway, a re111forced concrete - Momarc. Missile was obsolete brothers received only one or Stockton -:-9ontract awarded pipe jobs_ only. Contraet pric~ sloping inlet structur_e, a .36" di: before the base was eve_n com·

. • two days work e~ch week. to Carver~ C?nst. .Co., ~56,2~0 -for the ·JOb, $1,067;8_91. . Esti- J ~meter steel _outlet pip~, app~ox- pleted. · (Those of you dtawmg .unem- (grandst~ni:.l) $1,450 (Storage mate_d length of the JOb Is ap- · Imately 3 - ll.ll~es of co_u11tY. high- In the Napa area~O. c. Jones

ployment insurance . know what Room) for constr. o~ grndstjl. ·& proximately two months. way, a re_mfon;ed c o ncr e t e has four engineers working at this means, ..:..... well anyway it extns. Billy Hebert Field,· Oak L. C. Smith going like mad bridge, and other work required present .:on their job at fhe Vet-didn't help .-) ' Park, Stockton., . . clearing, etc., at McNear's Road, . to construct the Nicasio Dam, eran's Home in Yountville. "·

Atkinson has about com- ·MEN L 0 PARK, Contract known as "Chinese S1,1nken Gar- . complete and ready for opera- George Slinsen has certainly pleted half of the work, and awarded -to Mid County Canst. ·dens. " Quite a spread and mak- tion. The' jobsite is located ~p- done a lot of work . to their yard, should be going · a greater part i Co., Inc. , San. Mateo, $201,228_, ing wonderful progress. · Bro. proximately 14 miles west of it doesn't look like the same of the season. With "all of the 1 (ba~e) plus $~ ;610 (alt) for constr. P?il Dunn is very' pleas~_d with the_ town of Novato and aliout place. They r emodeled the yard work that Atkinson has been a pollee bldg. . _ · . , 1118 heJp. , . · · 17 miles· northwesterly of San and oil house, built a new shop

· low bidder on lately, and so far 1 _SAN FRANCI~CO, ~ontl:a,c~ Marin_· Roc~ a~Q. Asp_l)alt, · a£- Rafae_L 'f:he damsit;;, is _ loc~ted and · put in new gas pumps. It 's with the lack of work in this 1 awarded to Lowne Pavmg Co. ; ter a wmter s hibernat~on , _get- on _Nicasio Creek. lhis proJect one of the nicest yards aro1.md area; we are kind - of hopeful In~., 174 ~an Bruno Rd .~ So. _S.F., ting the equipment in order t? will require the relocation of a anywhere. that a lot of the brothers of $10_2,563 for pave & l!tii, et~ . of furnish the hot sjuf! for "Ron- portion of the Petaluma-Pt. .Rey- Talbott Br_os. is busy on their . this are~ will be a?le to follow ma~n entr. -~d .. area at S.F. Inter- est"_ Cha. rles Harney, for. the I e_s_ C~unty Highway: This ~o- unds Berryessa Marine R~sort. the . eqmpment: which they are I natwnal An port. . . p~vmg of run-ways at Hamilton like It will be a _"h_I-ball'_' J9b on

1 ·Basalt has just about finished

presently. runmng, to one of .the SAN ; FRANCISCO, Contract Au· Base. · · • . . account of the limited time and their paving at the r e s_o-r t at • o~he~ jobs ~hi~h a~e ~ut of_ t_hi$ awarded to · Chas. · L. Harney~ · _Little "Clem" ~lemen~ino the am?unt of .. earth involved. Spanish Flats.

distnct but still within dnvmg Inc., $49,390 fo: _pavement_ re with his spread of "Nits & Lice" _Surely It Will be at least a dou- George Slin~en has completed range. Frederickson and Watson l const. &: curb ralSlng on vanous -we fi~d - him .all over Marin ble shifter.- excavations at Spanish Flats for

· still have a few months work streets 111 S.~. . Comity, particularly heavily in- . It appears that Brothers Lee· c. E. Strotkamp, Inc. ~ and a,re working every dry day. . San Fra.ncisco -~on_tract was valved ·at _Hamilto_n Air Base, Cox and Jess Hare doing a great Personal · i10tes · about tihe Theit job_ is lo~ated on Trenton awarded to Healy-Tibbits Canst: running quite a ·spread. job of demolishing. The ·.wrHer Brothers: Bro. Ted Hicks, op,er·

. Road which Will eventually be . Co., 411 Brannan St., S. F. for Bobo Co:p.struction at Ignacio watched them for a good hour- .ator at Ben C. Gerwick's Yard . . one ?f th_e :q1ain routes. to the $37,126 for _reconst.. Southamp- also getting , underway, calling well forked out by the loader. . -in Petaluma __ is laid up at the

_Russi~n Rive.~-, ~r_ea. Gram~e Con- ton Shoal Light Stat~on-: . , _ back some-of his old hands. Has Frederickson: & Watson are present time with a slipped disc st~uctwn h~s been worki!lg o_n · _ . . . . . : , 1: as his foreman Bro. Bill ~ussell, underway ~t Terra Lind~ and -seems he stepped off his rig

.. wmter -· n::amtenance on . their . . about 12 mnlwn-dollars wort? and a balance ,of good crew. Hwy. 101 . 111terchange with a I and stepped on a piece of con• ~Qngvale JO,b. -j\~ we ~n?erstand Is schedule~ .to start next yea~. A. G. Raisch at Marin Golf & good ·crew ()_£ Engineers. ·. Bro. ~rete and twiste_d his leg. !Best 1t, there are a lot of slides and Most 9~ the nght of way for tlie Country fr_ee~wheeling with two "Tex" 'Strick:Iand is the Asst. wishes, Ted. . e;xtra workl, , so the brothers ten m~le by-pass has already subs -helping out at the present Supe1'. Weather conditions ma~e - Bro. Les Peterson just r e-should be fairly busy most of been pqrchased. i time. Torn:Himna and Paul Vin- it impossible for this job to get cently returned from South Gar·

• the se~son . · !here are a lot. of .BOYS CLUB · , . cilione. ~his shoul~ be an all started as sch~duled Feb. L olirta where h: wa~ driving for

· smal~ JObs 111 the area which Those of you who have , boys summer Job. · · ·I THE VALLEJO AREA --~ Ben C. Gerwick- and by the provide work for the smaller in· the Santa . Rosa ar·ea, : and Syar and Harms on the finisl~ 1 Granite Constructiop. Co. have time this issue is released; he cpntrac~or but· the abov_e men~ there -are many of you-I have e!ld of iio~sing pad job af ·Ma~

1 started th:ir j_Qb on. th~ Suis_un will be on the way to Arabia for

honed_ ]obs are .the ma111 --one~ . good news {or you. ·Plans are r111wood With Bro. Jack Bean on Valley lrngatwn Pre-Cast pipe Gerwick. Brother Peterson tells for thiS area. under way to ~uild a 1:eal Boys the job. . job .near Fairfield. Darkenwald us· ho'N lucky our .brothers are NEW WO~K. . ·· . . Club in the· city of Santa Rosa; We learn authentically that and Vinsoi1 is still working full 1 working under union conditions

Tqe mam JOb w_hiCh ha~ been one that is affiliated with the· Carey Bros. have finally:pinched blast on boththeir Fairfield and here- he tells us there are :15() a~~r~e? ~0 f~r dthi: ~earNis that .National . Or~aniz~~ion . of Boys of~ _a big one in the deep so':lth Dixon pipe line jobs. . men waiting on the banks on w _Ic IS oca e . a . e

1 ava_r;o · Clubs. At this .wntmg It may be -111. 1_2's area. They have a JOb Gordon H. ~all was lo'_V bid-

1 Monday morning for 10 men's

Bn~~e ~nd/o~tm~es 1 Vzf ~Iles ne:ws to you .but I am sure that to· .fmish when the snows melt der on the Highway 40 JOb at 1 work. Conditions are not good sou_ ·

1, un ~~Jd on ro~. 0 apa you will be reading a lot about in the Sierras, and a j9-b to fin- Cordelia at $3,812,194. We look I at all.

wer: d ~w t 1 t ers. ant · ~fe (~x- it very soon in the _ l~cal paper. ish on· Lucas yalley Rd. in Ma- for them to move in-by the 1st Brother ·Charles Adkins, suro r:c ~- 0 s ar mo:-~~- ar;:- . b Now comes the "pitch-:we are all rin Counly, .besides o_ther stuff of May. . . I veyor for Schultz for ·n any.

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hime ytou treda Th ~s 1

e Jb~d expected: to do our share, so they · keep picking up· in the Frederickson & Watson is still years has · gone ilito the Lami· WI ave s ar e . eir ow I h th 1 d. ·d . h ·t · · · · f 1 f · b h · h · · · · . , $309 000 D' k C .nh w en e p e . ge car s or w a - area. working ul orce on ot t e dromat bus111ess 111 Novato-'---1io· • ~~lsl h ' · 'biC f u_nm amk ever is requested comes along- Carroll Madsen hq.s now as- Benicia Freeway job and the ing rugs fa_mily wash also dry · Wl ave anum er o ngs wor - · . · . . . ' ' · ing on this projeCt · please, for the sake of _the boys, sumed complete control· of his Sears. Pomt Road ]ob. _ 1 cleaning. The address is: 1224

· Th b. d · 'll b · d f do your part. I'll have more to orgai1ization, and. gettipg off to Raymorrd Concrete have ·a Grant Ave. We wish Bro. ' Ad· th. Be. IRs. WI B ~dope~eb or say ori: this subject at a later a good - start-good prospects sand drain . rig \v01·king at the kins 'much success' in his new· e . Ig Iver nge]o ondt. Th ftl '· b - th h. . - . . - . A .1 13th Th' . b h · ld . a e. ose o 1e ro ers w o and many jobs in the bag. Northgate of ·Mare Island where venture

.Pdn · IShJO s doud prok- ·live in Santa Rosa, please send Hutchinson Quarry at Green- - . ; Broth.er -S H Cervantes Sr Vl e some muc nee e wor d t t' th t · · · · · ., · · ' • for . the broth~rs, especially m_ell'a ca~t s a mg .t athyouBare bra,e n?t m o~e.ratwn for qmte is displaying . his right . arm in a th h . 1. · th t ·· i ~-t WI ~ng o suppor e oys- some time, waitmg for parts for cast at the present time. Best . ose w o . Ive 1n a vic.m y

1 Club: . , 1 .. · . 1 · · · · -and have been out· of wo'rk for .· · t_leir l?nm~r~ crus Jer-st~rti~g

1 wishes for a speedy rec9very. so long. The job is estimated at NEW OFFICE GIRL time mdefi~Ite. H_ot plant 111 . Attention members residing $735,000. . · · When you call :into the Santa slow operations. _ . in Marin County and viciL'ty: · On April 27th the bids will be Bosa Office you . will be ans~ Basalt ~ock at. McNear's Po111t The Monky-Ward's new store ·in opened for an estimated $102,- wered by a new "cherry" . voice, seem to fmd _ wo:r_k for the bo~s, Corte Madera is "non-union." 000 of slide removal and road re- namely . Elinor Jones (providing at least gett111g 111 four 0~ five ' Member;; please take note! pair along the Boonville Road. I . don't a'nswer f~rst).' Elinor has days . a week .. They . have f111ally i I Ih conclusion, Brother "Heio

. There is still no defili.ite . date been working in . our San Fran- day-llgh~ed the qu~rry so t~ey ! , nie" Foss ·wishes to expre~::! his .. • for the Highway job between cisco Office for the past nJne can get ?n off the hrgh~ay wi_th- . • appreciation and thanks to the

Sa~ta :Rosa, a~d · Healdsburg years so she ·should have all the out teanng over the hill, ·w.hich-· 1 . Bro~hers who · suppor~ed him --which Is due this year; but the answers. . sould make all truck dnvers • durmg the recent electiOn, as a un-official rumor is tqat the bids NEW O,FFICE · happy. . . . . . I delegate · to the International· will be op_ened _some time in This is just a · reminder for Pullman.- Bldr~. still m t_he j Convention. June with the calling :for bids those of you who may riot Ii.av~ process- of work111g at Paradise ------being the month of 'May. This is been to the new office location Cay and are now selling off a -t he job we need for if amounts il1 Santa Rosa, the address is: few lots ·and b1Jilding expensive NEW JOB A WARDS to a -lot of . work for the engi- -1186 Yalupa Aye. If you get lQst, homes. Members should , not in- Berkeley- Contract awarded neers and is estimated to go just phone us and we will- give vestigate owing to the price of to Branagh Canst. Co., 42 La for around $5,000.00. y6u further · directions. The lots , which would · probably re- the new bridge across the Mare Salle Ave., Piedmont, 351,50()

After a conference with legis- phone number is still the same, quire five years' earnings. 'Islcind . Straits is going to . be. for canst. parking. struc. "C" ·at lators and the Ukiah Represent- Liberty 6-2487. · E. A. Forde appears to be in 'This sand drain rig drives a the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley. -

•.. atives in Sacramento the Direc- BLOOD BANK · hibe1'nation, and advises us no'th- mandrel into the mud in the -- Daly City_ -.,..- Contract a ward~

tor of the Division of Highways No new -names on the blood ing in the bag at the. present straits. This mandrel is 65 feet ed to Leonetti Bros. , Inc., 51 Leo ordered a review of the plans doners list again from thi.s ·area .. time, but you can't . tell when long and 18 inches -in diameter, I land Av_e. , S. F. $67,950 (base) !orthe U~iah ·Fr~ew~y- by·p~ss. T~is is not g~od; please do som~- they· ~ig~f get a. windfall. · , with a hinge g?te .a_t_ the bottom. for site prep. ·at Georg~ W:=.sh· ConstructiOn of the f1rst sectwn thing about It. , · . .. Ghilottl Bros. recently award- 1 The loader then fills the man- ·ington Elein. School. -• • • ,. . • + •

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ENGINEER'S NEWS

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By DON KINCHLOE, BILL BARR,aTINY" LAUX, WARREN LE MOINE and TOMMY THOMPSON, . Busin~Ss Representatives

' The ?akland Area is pickin~ up . For the month_ of M?rch there I tion building will pe steel frame 1 ----'-------,------~-----------

wer~ 38;> men cleared. On Apnl 5th we had a pre-Job with Guy F. · with concrete block walls. The · _

Atkinson on the M?c~rthur Blvd. freeway. The fre~way w_ill start cafeteria will also be steel fram~ I c N'' v·o· u· A:FFOR'D . ·ro at Broadway and flmsh at Grand Avenue. There will be SIX over- . . . . . · _ .. :. · _ · ·

· passes and the total length of the freeway is 2.1 miles. Most of and concrete block with a large 1 - • _ · • •

the work w:ill be concrete and the most we will· have on this job is patio on the west side. . _ . • , . .. · . - · : _. _ - - .

ten engineers. The jobs in the Oakland area now are for short pe- . -~ .:, -~ . ·B-E -·65'-w·R· IJ'-=· ,y-o-·;o-A-v----- -l'IOds. We would like to make a request and ask all of the B1~others · . The F. P. Lathrop Construe- ' . . : · · · 8 · · - It · · · - _ . • · · that can to donate to the Blood Bank. ·. Our Bl?od Bank IS now tion Co. of Berkeley California I · · . · · ·. -. ·. _-. empty and we n~ed blood very badly. The Bank IS located at 6?~0 . · . -- . ' _ . ?nly hope for securmg enactment ··.of the _Forand ~ill, :gmng-, _ Claremont Avenue, Oakland. The tel~phone number is OLympic wa_s awarded t~e contra~t to ~ -mmill1Ul1J heal~~ care for _the aged under social secunty, . 1~ -by _a -_, . 4·2924. Please call and make reservations to donate. bmld the -new -Livermore-Pleas- mass letter-wntmg campaign to show grassroots .support-for tlus .

'~ '~ * I anton Hospital at a cost of $1,· j vital measup. · The Badger C?. ~n Richmond I ark, California_ ·had their · survey 126,000: This hospital is being

1 The_ Gali~oinia Labor-Feder~tion .~rg~~ every membe~ t()_ wri~e ·

have started thmr JOb at Stand- party ·do the layout work. Bro- t-built on a 12 acre piece . of j a lettei to his congressman askmg a . yes -vot~ on H.R. 4t00. This ·. ard OiL Le Beouf and Dougherty I thers J L Duffner and Jos Mi- / · d d t d b th H J

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will help combat the American Medical .Assn. drive to kill ibis bill' . are doing the piledriving as this . · · · gr~un ona e ·. Y e enry ·- and, -thus d~prive our senior citizens of minimum health care job gets under way. We hope to I lam and Frank Mamone made Kaiser CorporatiOn located on under social security. . . see a lot of Brothers working on up the survey -party. The Hay- the . edg~ ·of ·Livermore on the - . This ·-~easure is organized labor's number one legislati:ve go~l _. t his project. ward Concrete Construction·· Co. Livermore- Pleasanton Highway. for this year. It may not succeed ,without your help. Write today!

/ * '~ * is putting .in the foundations and I George Hall · Pav~ng: Co. has the . . Foll~wing Js t~~ tet of ;m AFL-CIO leaflet entitled ''Can You . 'Martin Bros. was low bidder slabs. They employed Brother · sub-.G?ntract to do~ all of -~he ex- .Afford t~ B~ 65?

.on the Royal Vi'llage in Concord Sam Davis operating the ba~k- c~vatw1_1 and , pav1p~. This, .h?s·. __ . . _ . _ . where there are fifty-four new hoe with 'FrankLapacek as oiler. pital .wJll be · a mulb-_story _rem- · ., : . -Are you retired, or :ne.ar r.etlrement? homes being · built. Martin Bros. Brother Don Fargo was on -the forced conc~ete hospital .With a ~ .. · ··_· • :. Do ·yop. ~ave aging parents whose health and happiness have all of the sewer contracts I loader. Herrick Iron Works is sp~f~rat~11bfiler ho~fe .. The hosf rs your concern? . - _ _ .• of ·17{)0 ft. of 6" sewer pipe and doing the steel erecting. _ I a "":1 mve 9- oor area o _ : .. Do you agree that workers wbo hav~ ea~ned ho?orable __ 2_;000 lateral. At_ the present i Brother N. K Jones is the approximately 30,500 sq: feet. rehremept should be prot~cted from the crushmg costs of1llness?

- time _we have_ ~~veral Brothers oiler and Brother Lewis Eck is _ '~ . ':'. :~ - - , Then y_qu have a stake m the.. - - _ . . .~ _ _ workmg on this JOb. operator. Ross Peoples is taking . _ Th~ nego_tlahons for ·:the Forand Bill (HR . 4700). llem of med_ical CiJ,re _for the

* ··· ·-· care of the welding .machines. Am_enca?- _Forge .. plant at Niles, The Fo_rand bill atta~ks the aged. It does guard agamst total _ · Willamette iron Go. at yard 3 Ransome Co. is going to do the Callforn~a has been co~pleted. most tragiC unsolved social wel- disaster. - _ _ _ ..

have been very successful in re- paving. Brother . Carl Prince is A m~etmg wa~ _held with. -th_e :fare .problem ?f o~r da~-the The bill would: ceiving several ships on ship re- operating the blade preparing members ?f t~Is plant on .Apnl huma? and . fmancial disaster . • Pay in full for 60 days o£ . pair in the past . three months. SUb-grade for the railroad spur. 7th. at WhiCh time they appro~ed that ' Illness Imposes upon the I hospital care for all -- persons -W ~ hope t~ see s~veral more Then he will start preparing sub- the proposed agreement whi~h aged. eligible for old-age and surviv- • ships come m t? t~Is yard. The grade for the, paving. The pav- - ~as the ~esult of long negotia- -This problem can no longer ors benefits. (Note that this . Brothers on this JOb have had ing covering about 12 acre's twns. This agreement was com- be.-brushed aside. ld · 1 d th d d t

- - • • • • 1 · 1 t 1 'tt ft 1 1 wou me u e e epen en . -a little bit of difficulty-:-which 1 should start about June 15, 1960. P_ e e Y rewn ~n a _er an e ec- THIS CONGRESS must act. children. of widows.) we have straightened out very · · · tion was hel_d 111 Whic_h L_ocal 3 THIS IS- WHAT HAPPENS

h t th . t · f t· - A d The factory. bmldmg will have won we· wish at this time to - · • Meet the costs of combined

muc o eir sa IS ac wn. n f ' f t 1 ·~h · · · . . . . TODAY I t1 t 'f th . Ive ee 1I~ wamscoatmg pre- express our thanks and grati _- : - . . nursing-home and hospital care : f~ 10dp_eff' lalt Ith er~llis tar~y coat concrete walL The balance tude to all of the ·Brothers wh~ ·Let's see what a pensioner or 1 up to 120 days a year and cover -. 0 er I ICU Y ey WI ge 111 of the 25 ft of wall will be · · · · · t' d l c d t t · · 1 S · 1 touch with us immediately so

1 . . : · . . @Ve us so much .help m thiS a re Ire coup e an o now o· -cer am surgica expenses. ocia . .

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th a ummum sidmg and ample wm- negotiation · and election guard against _ "medical indi- security record~ would be tised a we may __ ep ... em. dows. There will be four acres * * * · gence," as the doctors call it. to establish the rights of appli-

·•· ·•· ., under the roof. -The administra~ · B·UY PRIVATE, COMMER- cants.,The bill includes ·standard -McGuire & H-ester in Danville News About the ·.Brothers

have the 24" ,~ater line from NEW .. BOB AWARDS · Brother Fred Biven has been CIAL HEALTH INSURANCE, safeguards as to the quality qL' t he center of Danville to the sA C.R AM E NT 0 contract in the Eden Hospital in Castro says the insurance lol:)by. care, negotiation of rates and -water tank by Castlewood Coun- a'ijarded to Lentz Const. Co. , P. Valley because .oL an operation It is true that such insurance 1 the freedom of cooperating in- · try Club. We have at this time I 0. Box 7538 Sacto . . $92,557 for on his knee. Brother Fred is do- is now-available for the 65-plus s-t~~ions from gc;)V(;~rnment in- . about_ n!ne Engineers working Walnut Riviera Assess. Dist. ing nicely now and -we wish him: ·group. But one fact stands out: te erence. · on this JOb. . - sA 'CRAM EN T 6 contract a sp~edy recovery. · · - - Where the .cost of private in- . The program would cost about ·

* ':' * .awarded to Frederick~on Bros., · •:• * ·~ surance .is within reason, the $1 billion a yearcat · the start. · NEW PETERBILT PLANT $447,829 for abt 9 ri-ii, hwy. In- Brother Don Meifert, a mel)'l- benefits are in eager; where the This would be met by a -rise of :

. ·.Peter built Motors Co. is build- terchange to be constr., .grade, ber of Local 3 for -many years is benefits are adequate, the cost only a quarter of one -per_ cent mg a new $1,500,000 plant at 1 pave AC ovr aggr, base & RC & selling tools of aU types. Brother is out of. r.each. . 1 in social security, taxes on em, · , Newark, California. B e ~ h t e 11· prestr, cone, bridge and instal, Don wiil be stopping by the-jobs This is bound to be true of a ployers and employees, and 3/8 · • . Corp .. of 22? Bush St. . m ~an drain facils., & hwy. ligtg, sys, and if any ·of the Brothers need plan 'under which the aged are per cent on the self-employ-(;d;; ' F)·ancisco . did the engmeermg. at Nimbus rd., 13 mi E of Sacra- tools of any· kind ·give .Don your insuring themselves. To be workc The most any worker . would pay ­and is the -general contractor. j mento. Sacramento Co. . business: Brother Don can be able, · any .- insurance plan must (if he makes $4,800 or more) Bechtel is represented in the I sAcRAMENTO contract reached at 2384 Lincoln Avenue, be broad enough to include would be $12 a year. . field by L. T. Tuttle, Project awarded · to A. Teiche~t & Son, Richmond. The telephone num- good risks as well as bad risks The Forand bill puts this pro- _ Manager and Brother David E. j Inc. ; 1931 Stockton blvd., Sacto. ber is BE 4-1118. We allwish·the -the .youngg as well as the old. gram where it belongs-in the · -Bourne, . Field Engineer. Site I $55,791 forPark Woods Unit No. best of luck to Don. Private insurance can supple- I social security system. preparatiOn was done by Hay-

13 assessment district. Sacramen- ment a federal program; it can- YOUR LETTER MAY DECIDE

ward Rock Co:, Brother "Red" ; to Co. NE\V .. lOB AWARDS not replace it. e Whether retired wor~ers, _ - Russell, f oreman. The site work ' S A cR A ME N T 0 contract SAN FRANCISCO, Contract ASK FOR PUBLIC ASSIST:. nDw or later, must seek public

was done in November of 1959. 1 awarded to Thori1as Canst Co·., awarded to Swinerton & Wal- A:NCE, says the doctors' lobby. I relief or · become burdens - to--. The area was stripped to · a . P. 0. Mox 683 , Fresno, $146,536 berg, $152,000 for United Air- Public a$sistance is the free their c~ildren when severe ill· _

depth of 12" and then 50,000 ! for bridge &approach to be con- lines, S. F. for office bldg., re- care available to the poverty- ness stnkes. • yards of select fill material was ! st on Watt Ave. Extens, near model, invlg., elect. work, stricken through state and fed- @Whether those who have imported. Construction . started j Fair Oaks Blvd. , E of Sacto City lteleph., ducts, air conditioning eral funds. It is necessary, it is earned the right to independent _ on February 1, 1960. Wm. Dutra I limits. Sacramento Co. · I & tile work. · worthy and . it s~1ould ·· be im- retirement will lose that right . • Co., Vicil Engineering of New- S AC R A !VI E N T 0 , contract LEMOORE, Contract awarded proved. Many doctors , to their because of illness. · _ - ,;_ . awarded to N. P. Valkenburgh to L. E. Dixon & :W. E. Keir, credit donate heavily of their 1 Ql Whether you, in your turn,

NEW :JOB A WAJ'-tDS I Co. Inc & Gunther & Shirley Co., Gabriel, $7,612,000 for oper., servic~s to this work. - [can look forward to retirement S AN R A FA E L, contract .' const, Whale Rock Conv. person & admin., facils. 1 But public assistance is public 1 without fear of illness ..

awarded to John H. McCosker, SACRAMENTo, contract OAK~AND, Contract awar~ed 1 relief . . Th?se who get it must1

. Will Congress vote it intoJa_w? _ Inc., $43,410 for instl 7,800 -lft, awarded to Continental Const. to Kaiser Steel CorporatiOn, prove ·their poverty- often to The answer to that questwn. RC vvtr, pipe, Terra Linda sub-. Co., P. 0. Box 2551, Sacto. $2,~ 1956 Webster St., ·.oakland, ; the point of taking a pauper's is in your hands. division. . , 250,000 for 160,(\00 sq. ft. 3-floor $145,567 for breasting camels at I oath. They must exhaust their Your letters, to your Congress-

- SAN RAFAEL, contract basement, penthouse, Dept. store Nav. Air Sta., Alameda. savings and ·in many states sell · mim and your two Senators; will award~d to Consolidated West- ~· for Weinstock Luben Dept. CARSON CITY, . NEVADA - their modests possessions-their I decide the issue. . ern Steel Div., 120 Mtgy., . S.F. Stores, Sacramento. . Contract awarded to Silver State cars, their TV sets, even their If YOU tell them that. YOU $297,820 for furn & er-ect 25,- CARSON CITY NEVADA Const. Co. , Fallon, Nevada $278,- I homes:-to. become eligible. want the F.orand bill, it will pass . . 000,000 gal, weld, stl, water r contract awarded t~ v. C. Men: 525 for 0.404 mi. , const., por., I GET THE CHILDREN AND I To Your Congressman: tanks, L. S. bid. denhall Canst. ·co ., P. 0. Box of PSH, ON . SR No. 5C, etc. GRANDCHILDREN . TO PAY House Office Building, Wash· · OAKL~ND, contract awarded 2551 , Sacto. $320,469 for constr,

1 CLARK CO. . , THE BILLS, say the reaction- ington 25, D.C. · ·

to, McGmre & Hester, 796 66th portion of PSH in Lincoln & I CASTROVILLE, Contract : aries. . To Your Senators: - . • ave., Oak~and,_ $1,081,081_ fo~· White Pine Co's., N~vada, U_SR awarded to Cecil ~ightfoot, 71 1 . Unquestionably t_here are m~l-1. Senate Office Building, Wash-steel watei mams, locat~d m VI· No. 93 between 42 mi & 55 mi N, Pesante Road, Salmas, $36,845 hons of emergencies solved m mgton 25, D.C. __ ~inity of Richmond, Contra Cos- of Pioche. I for yard work, .grade & pave, of this way . . But a medical cato~- .. ta Co., Calif. . OAKLAND, Contract awarded I Fire Sta. at Moss Landing. trophe to the parents is in m?st J ~ girl doesn't have mucn

SAN FRANCISCO, contract 1 to Ince Bros ., 625 E. Taylor St., ·SAN LUIS OBISPO, Contract cases beyond the means of will- choice these days-most of the

awarded to Tho_mas Const. , ~89,- i Sunnyvale, $40,825 for constr., I awarded to Baun Constr. Co., ing children. At best, such help eligible men 2re either _ old and 796 for Yosemite-Merced River trunk sewer lines & appurt. , Box 4057, Fresno, $77,000 for is a sorry reward· for pensioners bent or young and broke . .Brdg_ & approach_es at Railro~d strucs. & facils . in Alameda Co. I compl. of four lane divided who have earned their indepen- A Texan who owned a late Flat, Route 100, Sierra & Stams- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Contract Highway, MONTEREY CO., be- dence. laus National Forests, Mariposa awarded to E. T. Haas Co., P. 0. tween Carpenter St. & South Clearly, none of these alter- model, small-sized sports car County. Box 95, Belmont, $231,025 for City L_imits of Monterey. . natives is acceptable in a free was asked if it .were air condi·

tioned. "No," he -replied, "but I .... SACRAMENT 0, contract water sys., impvts. SAN FRANCISCO, . Contract1 society of free independent .citi-awarded to Bald-win Contrg, Co. . SAN JOSE, Contract awarded awarded to Stenmark Const. Co. zens. alway~ keep a ~ouple ~~ cold-Inc., $1,188,123 for 5.1 mi, 2- to Guy F. Atkinson Co., 10 W. 2190 Folsom ,St., S.F., $44,676 BUT IT -COULD BE LIKE ones m the ;ef;Ig~rator. • lane _hwy., grade, pav_e, AC etc. Orange St., So._ S. F. $507,326 for exterior alterations & win- THIS: . · · · -. Advertisement by a young 10 mi, ~ o~ Do_u~las City & Shas- f~r San ~ ose Airp. ort-Guadalupe dow ·installation at Bay View t The F.orand ·bill does not ore- ,·psychiatrist: "Satisfaction · guar· , ta Co. line Tnmty Co. · River Bndge Parkway. Elem. School, S.F. - . tend to solve the .whole prob- anteed or your mania .back;:' .

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. .NEW,·JOPAW·AtlD!i·: .. < CORTE' . ·1VtADERA ' Cohti·a'~t

awarded to LM Mac 'Paving .C'G; Inc., 5·760 Paradise Dr. · Cor te

\ 1Madera, $30:856 for imp~. Para-

. . .. ··· · . I dise Dr. CortR Madera. . ·

By T. J. STAPLETON, IVIERUN BOWMAN, JIM HALL, JOHN : mg the slag and b .. ~lly ~umps for I directly benefitting the · Ogden EL CERRITO , Contract award-·

THO.RNTON, ~EP.H. I NEMELKA; . Business Representa_ tives.. th h 1 At -- t th · -. ,,, '-' ,[, . . . _ · e . au . . any ra e, ey area was approved by. the Utah eel to C. Overaa, . 526 16th st. ,,

, , . .., , . .. , .. . . . should employ. a goud numb·er of R,oad Commission yesterday~ The Richmond, $87,5.51 for . const., .

: Its SPR.INGTIM.i!.i IN ~HE ROCKIES here . m Utah, which. IS oper.ators . · . · work includes six projects at an pub. library, addn. Stockton &

the mos t •welcome pl).rase ~n many. a month for our constructipnl. W a . · . 11 b f t' · d · Lexington Ave., El Cerrito

men: The wheels of machinery are starting to turn and with them.! . e: gam urge a mem ers 0 es Imate cost of $968,00. . . · ·

our hope· that each and ever'y members. will enjoy a busy a.nd pros-.

1

:0perating / Engineers to make The .Projects will widen Har- ~· ~A J;t Y S VI LI~ E, Contract ·

eerous season. . , . . . . . . sure that . the .Contractor ,for rison Bivd. between 20th and awarded to Baldwm Contrg . . co.

· . . . · . · · : . whom he is· working is signatory,• 30th r ' · . . . Inc .. P. 0. Box 269 Marysville ·

· As you ·all know, this IS the. y~ar m ~h1ch we m~1st negotiate \ to ~ the AGC A . t d .. · ' re Ieve traffic c~n_g~stwn ' $145,765 (Grand Total) for City

,a new AGC Agree~1ent. Negotr~tr.ons will ·soon begm and much . ,. a . green;en an 1~ al?ng_ y. S. 91 m the ~ICimty of of ·Mansville Im vt. Dist. 42·

of the succes? de~ends on_ our uh.Ified effort. Whatever diffeteh'ces l .faa;mF .~~dto 1he Healbh._andf~~l Hill AJr _:oz~e .Base, gi~e Grant storm d~·nge. sys. Etreet paving

of qpmwns and petty gnevances \ve may have had in the past, · T ~ 1 1 · ~ s mem eis ? · e Avenue cl new surface between curbs & utters etc ~

politically and otherwise , should all be ' forgotten in an endeavor lmon,yo~ should~e gettm~ aU 21st ,and 36th, resurface Patter- .. . . g -. ~ ' · ·

t o -solidify bur stand for better wages benefits and conditions for the benefits the . !Jmon provides. son and 31st between Wall and }VI~THER .c:~F ~' Contract

the entire membership. · ' · . · · · . If you are not receiving these Washington and resurface the awarded to Shendan, & Murray,:.

· · · ' · . · .. benefits let us know· and wi'th insi·de ·lanes f u s 91 b t 236 No. Lake Ave. Pasadena

·. The . negotratmg comm1ttee who will be negotiating .for you . ' _ . ' . o · · · e ween · .:1 • • ' ·

'

·11 d . h 1

d f'd w f · , - t· . your help we have a chance of Layton and Death Curve in Roy $3,66 A,OOO f01 const., 230 umts ·

VI nee you! e p an con 1 ence. e are open or sugges 101!-S tf tl f . t 1. Capehart Housing Mathe AFR .

and welcome your opinions Aoain let's all J·oin hands in the spirit ge mg 1em -or you. 0 re Ieve vvhat has become a OR ·' r : ·

. · .. b ' • · B. ~h B b F d b k .. ~h. . serious traff' c · t' b. OVILLE Contract awnrded

of unity,- which after all, is the true meaning of Unionism. roL er o . . or ro e IS I . conges IOn pro - t R . ' . a :

- · · . · , ·. . ·. • . . . a . hand a few days ago, with a lem. $610,000 IS earmarked for 0 oads, _ Inc., 3353 Mago~an

We would hke to stress, at this time, the Importance of Sibn- . · 'bl 1 . f h. l'ttl f' . this proJ· ect · Dr. , Santa Rosa $102 635 for . -.

· · · 'tl th · · ff' · h . h · h t b d. t h j possi e oss o rs I e mger . . . , , ,

mg m wr. 1 e vanous o 1ces m w IC you WIS o e Ispa c er · B b . k' f R R:d ' Th A' ·F · 0.43 mi. , constr . & surf. , road.

from. If you are ·called back 'to work, please call . the office and 0 w,as ,_wor mg or ay I ~r ~ . Ir orce has alloca~ed Waggr., 'base matl. , & bldg.,

.1ave your name removed from the out of work. li~t Also, list and ~ e ."ruly r~gret that h~ IS $1,840,0?0 for the reconstructmg br'ctgs. acrs. Butte Creek &

only those classifications which you are qualified to do · 'l'his is to be l ~ud up nght at the time of 27 miles of highway from Co~ B tt. 'c 1 fl N 1 · ' · · · work is starting to boom We rinne to Thi.ok 1 Cl · 1 c ' u e ree < over ow on e son

very imp?rtant -not only to you as an o~erator but to .the whole . . , a · . . . . , 0 1emica o~p- I West R. , BUTTE co. .

orgamzatwn. The Contractors are dependmg on l;lS to. send them hope .It won t be too lonb before oratiOn_ we:,t an~ north of Bng- ~ S AN L E A'N D R 0 . contract:

a qualified ma.n. to operat~ their ma9hines. If we fail, there will he wrll be back to work. ~~~n City .. Tl11S IS to rebm~d the awarded to Glanville Pldg. co. ,'

be much skepticism on callmg on 1:1s for the next operator. Protect . . - ---· -- hd, modi~Y some curves, Ihstall l 2900 Barrett, Richmond $310 _

yourself as well as your fellow member. N:§W HOURS FOR THE PROVO a ea~Ier . oase for truck traffic I 000 for const d t' & . d '

AROUND SALT LAKE . · ----- . . ·. - .. . OFFICE apd give It a heavy asphalt ar- t . I · t t ., tomes IC m us-

. . . a ·d N t . ll ll . .. . . mor coat B'd f th f . t . na was e rea ment works en-

. Th. orn 's river job is going two \ · war · a yra Y we are a an~.- The _ Provo Office will now ·be . · . I s ?r . e Irs nme . largement. · .

shifts with quite a few of the wus to get the good word but It O}Jerr oil a part~time basis Office mlles sectiOn will be called for I SAN CAR 0 - .

Brothers beiiig called bacl< . . looks as tho. ugh .we will just holirs ~- Monday thru Frid~y will I in about a week. The balance of I d d 0 L S, Contract .

W W Clyde ·Company 1s. ~tart- have to be patient until such be from 8 am to 10 am ~nd 3 the project will be .Jet in two aiwar Pe 0. toB scar . C: Holmes,

· · · · time th · c ) d ·d t · · · · part·s T g t d t f 1 nc.,· . . ox 788; Menlo Park .

ing their job at 21st South and , n e omr ~n:y eel es 0 re-· p.m. to 5 p.m: The office will be · · · · ar e.· a_ e 0~ comp ~- , $99,750 for· slide .repr. work &. Wasatch Blvd This J·ob is· just !lease the news. · · \ · closed on Saturdays untif fur- tlon of the entire highway IS 1· ·t 1 t s ·

· · · · . . I All th ~ 1 t . · . . ' this Summe T t f' -1 SI e f ev., e c. at an Carlos 7th

gettmg started; however m twQI. . . .~ ~rna 1 col! ract<;>r~ are ther notrc.e. r_. . wen y- Ive !1?-I es Elem. School. Melend Dr. San

~ or three weeks should be in fu~l active and our CI~cumstanc~s . of the ro~Jte JS from the Connne Carlos Estates. Y . '

swing. This will help our Bro- would be greatly rmproved If IN SOUTHERN UTAH to the Thwkol h\adqu.arters . The OAKLAND C t t ·d d

.. hers ,.considerably. , we had a :hiring hall with this . Work in the southern part of I r?ad extends tw.o miles . to !he to Ranso~ ' C~n ra~ a war ·lf : . : group . . , - . . · . - first stage .engme production e. ., meryvL e,,

Trago ~s ~,ree~ay JOb m North . · • ·. · ·· ·· . · Lhe St~te . rs lookmg ~ _httle bet- plant. · . · _ · $228,371 for Impvt. West Grand

. l;).a;lt La.ke 1s gomg full blast. Sev- IN THE PROVO ARE~ . . ter, · With Floyd Wlutmg Com~ Ave. , Betw. Brush & Myrtle,.

· ~ral of the ,Brothers ·have been Th.e. o~tlook for . this area rs pa.ny . starting on his· job's .at . E. H. Knudsen Company of 1 Oakland.

· dispatched~ to the job along .with Lbetter · t,his year, t_han las~~ ;.The; ~~lp~r and ·· .Thist!e . . These two . ~gel en w~s. awar:~e? the contract. . · · . . . . .

~ ,number of the old hands be- .roa.d cont~actqrs ar:~ ~tartipg tq I JQbs . should ~ ta~e, several good ' { R~f City/ouncil for th: co~- surance. The additional coverage

mg called . back. . · call back tl}e operators th·ey; Brothers. Sumswn .Construction str~c 10d11 .0 _wate~, sewer .~nd, is: Hospital Board · and Room

· turned loose last year When au · c · · t 11 · · b t s or m rams m this commumt" · .

. .L . . Pl.. Yoimg .has .hiscrusher .· ~··· · . · , ... · .. . :· .,,:·'··, .c ... ·:. omp~rw _ go . a sma )O a . Knudsen' . lfd . f$ 162 '0 . ,;·· rateswereincreasedfrom$13.00:.

<~· going .with L. T. Johnson. iloing. thes~ l~a,J1ds .. , ~et. ba~k • t.o ,work · ~J,andmg; a~~:Lh.aye called back a . consider·a~l II' 0

· ' 30

was per day to $15.00 per day. The;

. t he -hauliirg ·of..the . fill oil the ·· ~-n t~eu ~ld JOI;ls-.I~ Will he~p- ~o.~- few- 9f their , o.perptors. It won't ·other . b·. d . Y · owe; 1 th:n , th~ ~O remainder ·of new coverage is­

... Cudahy :Lane to .Pages,Lane job>' Siderabl~,.howey~~~ ,.~~ wlll:stlll be lo:ng before they · mqye to th c 1 s : opene . as -wee . . y for . dependants. ·we now have

-· This . will be a.nother .good jo_b as . have q~Ite a f~w 011· the .out·--Qf MexiCan Haf't(dinish the oil job . e ountci: . Tltlel_Company v~Ill. a ·$300.00 suppl€miental accident' -

, • . . . . . . . . . . . . ; . !·work. list. . . . \ · · there - use . mor ar-eas me steel pipe· . . ·

. , s?on .• as ·It gets :u:~tp}full ,pl_ ~d,~,~.:: ?:;,. ·.·':\} : ~· ,~ .• ,,-..,: :..··: . .i.. : .·: ·~ ·•·', .· ·'. : ':.· . .:' .. ., . .. · 1 ·.. • • . • ·: . . , on the proj.ect, exce t for ·a- -3'00 coverage for .. dependants and-

.. tron. ~ Followrt]:g~: ·ar,e;~ so~j:;: .9~'. j ·•, ":.:W~ :il:te ~II: dee~ ho:p~~f·:th~t.; !h"7. ·;. There ar~ several -~ons~ruc7 fi: ,extension. under/The r~ilroad $50.00 per year X -Ray , a,n~ ·Lab:.­

, !he ,:Brothers ;.woi~~'lnwof! :this::JP~.' J J;1 ~W ,J,ob~ .~ ~t~ .. r,trr1~ :. N1..y;~h~ :area t~o~. compames. 'Yho ·have. 011 to . t racks .to ,27oo West. The ext'en- oratory fees also for .d~p-~ndal1ts~~

. eat~·~ .the .·. present~;.:,~IIli~ ; .. ''·}~~qY.Q '' I . wll~ h;;tndl,~ >'$?$t :p.~;;J. t.fi_e~e _men f;msh . thi~ _SJ?rmg . . · Olof . I'l' elson, .sion 'wHL be of cast iro1l~pipe . Under the, old provlSlons, the

. Hatch;dozer oper~to~:· i-~!eri. Dr~~ ~}~o ~ ar.;? ~~~;!;,~P~~t.):,~f>;!f?Fk.- ·... . . "· east o~ Pnce; L. A. Young, so~th . .. Genet~i A · . . : ·' · , · ·: plan woul? only pay ~or the first

··. : p,er, dozer, Kay Es_plp1; :cws~_ei:,:) : · ?u~- ~t. ,Y:er.~~l~,~~~t:r.~n K~~~l} of · Pnce: . _Ge11e~·aJ . Con~r~~tmg t~ti'on Coni m~n~aF Transpor _ 24 ho.urs _ t~e~tment .ot ---depen­

. · Lopn / Je.ssen, mecJiai1Ic,. ·.olc.k L:9o!llga,.~r. . ::;v~s.~:a~~,~~~P~. a -:J Ob CorporCJ..ti()n, ''~· Pmte -C o.u .n t y ~ ceiv · pan~, 0 Or em,. re d~nts on .accide11ts. Now the pl~n

- Tayl<w.dozer, Garn .Jeff~ty,: •. ·qpC btii~d:~g_ am~I~ fQ~: §;~:~r/ffancisco . Strong ~ _Compa,ny,. >~atch .an?. thm e~.j?e co~{l-ac: for c~nstruc- ':"Il~ ~ay up to $300:00_ f~r any

z~~.· I) a~- :Evap.~, G_olegJ.~h' 1()~.~~1;'; ·.:~h.~JX:l~al..~oJPP,.f,~Y- . _/A~t_E~-, C~ptra~tmg Corpm;~.twn a! ZI~ tank ~ese~:v~u ~on ·gallon. ?teel accident . -~reat~ent : withm . 90,

Cliff J,ones, pab:o.h)~.a:~n~y ·'. Y.:~f~':'~~,ll: :,~pc·~~lJ?~El).t~9.,,~, •'~ : f}:\rt Is,n.ot-1 011 s Pa1: .. k. These .JObs: ·should 35 543 · in : ~r ~sed on .a bid of .days·.?f : tl~e acci~ent .. . . . ·,

· _fery; dozer; . Gordon Baket, •grea-'·t; unknow!l ''l n: ·-Htah· d~"'has beeq take several.bJac.k top op,erators .. $ ·• ,- . ·• oy, Ut~l:. . .. In m;:~py ca~es 1tmay be. neces-

set: ·and Hal $eeley,. front-ertd ·j· very cooperati~e .with. ~ Loc~~ ~:In Whitii1g ·· anq. Haymond . h(\ve . Tl)e _Willard .Bay JOb IS slow sary. for · dependants to go to a

.. loader. . · . .the past. He Just . completed a called all thew - operators back m gettmg started. Brewster has hospital for X-ray and labora-

. · Thihgs at Flaming -Gorge , siinilarjob ~()n tb,~ Ereco _l\II.iH iit . to work who we~e wotki~g ~or calle_d back a few men· with H. ~ory diagnosis but if such , serv-·

should really get moving before I Moab last f. all.· .. with little o~ no I them last ~umm.er, · qn th.elr JOb V. Goedert ~n cat, James Broc_k IC~? are re~dered at the doctor's

. long; however at this date we probl~ms.yen1aLS.a~~d& Gravel at Mt.Carrnel. F1f~ Const~uction on the Sauerman _(slusher) as ~s off1ce the msurance will .pay up­

. h'aven't received . any additional Qo~.r;any; .h.av~ . the .contract for Co~p~ny at Huntmgton . started ~afl Beac~1 : James -Don ova?. IS to $50.0.0 a year ..

6rders for men. There . was .'• a . blul~mg abo~t a .. mile and . one~ I their ~ob ·a!J.d have called most oomg to lUll - a .Tc - 12 staitmg We, · m ~peratmg Engineers,

•good deal of excitement' up at I' h_alf ?f roa~ m.to .. tl.;.e .. ~.an !fran-. . M. th.ei.r oper_~tors .. ·.?acJ,<. Tf:lis job Mon~ay, Paul Mitchell has been endorse the ·company Program'

· .. Dutch :John . and vicinity · a .. few cisco Chemical pr_oJect. w~s· Ol(lY d?wn sixty days . all ~l~nmng .the . cran_e for Yuba on Saf~ty and urge al'l members:

weeks··ago when ice-bergs jam-... At the · Stanaker Dam · thincis .. 'i'l!nter. - ·, . .. . · · construGtwn erectmg the to.w- to avail themselves of safety

. med the riyer and . destroyed ! should ~e g .• ~tt_ing in.to ~i.Jll swii~g· .. _!V?e~Iw:ig?t_ s u 'n ~s t ~ · ~ ct~on ::nf?I~ t~. ~c~u~hers ~ . Este~ Chip- glas.ses and 'other . protective

- several PfOJects .. and .bridg~s ... by the ~!!d oft4_e m<?n.thanq.also .Company Is. pu~tm_gthe fmis~.mg .Ja Pentz i s mec~amc and eqmpme,nt. . . .

·Evei,ything · s·~ems .. ~Q be , under .. ,th.e.:sub,eo~~ractor , :~~o.is:the: In: touches , on-tl).~l~ ,J Ol)atS~. G_~o- Y . . .. s greaser. . . . We c~nnot be .too emphatic m

control at tl).Is wnt~ng: .•. : , ·I term.ouptar~_ Gonc_r.ete .. ~IPe · Co':. rge· . . This has :15een - ~ g?od J~b .Miles & .sor: ~ave put on · a 1 our ct.n:e to . work safely., . As

. · '!3'ids \yere ·opened. by the. utah T.he~ ·}VIH be loadip:g_ ~.I:9~~, 'f.F<?m for .the ~rother~ ·tius . wii).te~ 111 sma~l cr~w , wit~ L. T . Garrett I mai~Y of you know, ~o. 6. shove~.

$,tate Road c9,:run.is~ion on April a ,mrl~ w~st?f ~he;~ dl:l~;proifee.t:: :th~t -!hey: )o~t: ;Y.ery · lit~le time. and_Der~m . IVIurray on the_ P~- ~as b~dl~ , damag.e!f Ia~t ~onth . .

5tli"' on tJie> sixAahe· --interstate .-··-S_tron~: .. Company .·h.~? : sta~:,~e:d' :W:~ns Carg?> 1s_ · runnmg., ·two trqhR:qnal~}Wopson and. Willie I_ll a shde. _H~~. B~other D~n AI:- -·

•· '" l;)fidg·e spahriing:the· J:>rovo,RiV..er' ~he~r.·. ~pFea,~:·ea~t'}>f 'V:e.r:.t;ral w1~J;i; .s~r(ts&I\ · t~eu:_,s~u~he.r a~· :Bea¥ef:· . ~e~_ue;r~~., on: , ~p.t,, ~a]lles ~ologna, le~ been sittmg m ~he back .uf

. ·'--·~a.·--key ·tetur.e · ih. the state's;[ m_~~t; of th.err ·otd h.and.s : ba .. ck, m ... :n.I_th;:f!re ,_foil_. ow~ng·~ __ Brothers: p.il- o,rea~er~ ~a:. I ~ar _dmger . as me' th_J.s . shovel .~e ·would ·have . un-:-·

' i:b'ettopolit'ah· :. freeway. plans;. ~~1~ _sad~le, . · ·· ·· ·. . ... ·: .!1].g ,, up ._ the . Eo~k: .. Jac~ Cyrus, ejarnc . and -Leroy Dowdle on a ~o:ub~ly received ":z;nore senous.

· Bettilyon's .Inc . . of Salt . Lake . Peterson Construc.,t~on . ·CQm,. me,~hamc, , Ca~gent Shu·a, . wel- Kolman loader. . mJunes than he did. All m~~-~

' 'Cily "';as apparently l<;>w; ainon~g ,pany p~obably won't ~~t · starte~ ,cter,_ Ved Scott and Don Scott ?n KEN_NECOTT COPPER : be:s are requ~sted t? th~nk,

l-4' bidder's With a $151,036 ·p,ro- ,on ·. their.· Red 9reek· J?b . u~trl the Cru~her , _ Charles Nelson, . T~e contr~c~s. have now been ~wicebefore sitrmg or lmger~ng:

,.. · posal;· $3;800 under tlie estim~fe. May o! Ju_ne:_ All ofot?eir' equ.lp'. Herman ~{oger., and Leland Be~u- signed and ~t IS hoped that . ~he· m the ?ack . of -~ ~ovels,· especial-· ·

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· · mentIs still m Phoemx: . · . mont · on cats, on ·the day shift. Cqmpany Will have . them pnnt- ly so wit.h conditiOns of the bank

n ano er m ers a e · pro- · · c I'd t· d ·w · · B M. t ' d E. d · b kl t f 'b ·. · th · t d · ~ ·

·ect inN rth S It L k G'bb ··. . onso I a e · _ e.ste~n · Steele . : e11~ a Ice .an . ar~ Clayson on e m oo e orm : efore long: as _ey are . o ~Y- . . .

~ Reed ~om a~ · :as\ I e ons .at Geneva have lai'd ()ff a ,_few · Crusher, Henry Willesen and- As s~_on a~ . they are received I Our last meetm·g was well at_. '

11 b. dd . . ~tl y, $

69 7~~ . slf of tugger and compre~sor -operators;. Powell :Benson on cats on the b~ tl11S office they will be ~is~

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er~. WI 1 a •. 0 er and are nearing the process · of swing shift. This Company is tnbuted ··immediately. terest. It is hoped that all future

orre oca Ing a f ilter lu~~ - . jacking the. furnace . We hope hoping, to get the grade started In the last issue of the En- meetings will be even better .

·,_We · are now m . negotiations that when this is completed ·;;,1 bout the 15th of April. · gineers News, the grievance Brother H. W. (Chick) Mitchell

:VIth the Roc~, Sand &; GI:avel some of these operators will be There is not ,too much to · re- procedure was pi-inted. At this retired on the 1st of this month

m~ust~y · ~nd It l.ooks ·as thoug:h 1 called . back. . . , ·port on the I:ron Mines other time it may be well to point out ·and we wish him much enjoy-

p us w1ll be a go.od year for this Morrison Knudsen Company than that the ' Compariy.is ,goirig that unl~ss a violation of the ment in his - leisure. Brother '

mdustry as at present· they are was· the , lo.w bidder_ and ·.was, to. have to. lay. off .some of' their contract IS brought to either the Leon Miller finished school this

. ,all busy. awarded the contract for . the_ rnen . due to the fact . that the . steward's or business agent's at- last quarter and is now em-

' Dowl1 at the ~al?-g Coippa?y, 1 Oremo_to · Ain.eric~m ·li'Qrk Free~ '.>rders .have·slowed down till Ge- tentio~, . not~ing ca~ be done plOyed-in the Salt Lake office .

• our truck shop, IS m full swmg 1 way. ]ob.. with Tuffey ~qnes; '1eva . Steel ; ge_ts . the furnaces about It. ·~~am w~ wish to point We have had ?everal griev-

and seem _to ~e bu~y. _We have , movmg m for ~the . supennten- back. m · operatiOn ... We are -glad out .that · If any of our members ance meetmgs With· the Com­

~ad -o_ur fir.s_t negotiatiOn ' meet.,- I denqobr rhis contract C<l.lls -for .,~o see .,June Hunt~:r: ba~~. on the feel _the~· .. hay.e a grjevance get in pany and are greatly encour-

. mg. With th1s . Company.. . the f.IH tb be hauled from' the. lOP after a long illness. . touch w1th your ' steward, · I ;;tged ·by the results of these·

· - .,,Up on .the ·Bing.J;tam StF·ipping,\siag dump·· .at ·Geneva: ·At :this':I·'I.'HENORTHERN. AREA ·. . . . Many of -our members ha:v.e meetings.·- · · '

· ~here ,is stilL no. definite .word · as 1 time , we :understand"'. t·heY: will' . , .Almost . one .. million dollars asked . about the· l1ew provisions ALL iVIEETINGS ·. WILL BE

· .t o which Company received the use Coleman loaders for· Ioado worth of highway ~onstruction of the Health arid Welfare· Iri' .CAJ.LED·IVIEETINGS.

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r rained Volunteers, Heart Of ~,~22 L ~~!~tx .. , ~~!~m

One of Lile surest signs of decadence in any organization is its ailure to conllnuously upgrade-to look for and make use of its ,pportuuities. CerJainly, we must exp)ore· what others have tried ,nd proven beneficial. We must see where their successes can be 1lted into our needs.

Certainly accidents happen lo JS where we liv:c, where we ,v.ork, where we play, and w4ere .ve raise our families. To meet ).Ur, gro11~h challenge we roust :ake our program there. To ac­?omplish 'this e(fectively takes :ompetence, cobcsiveness and :ommunications on the local

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level-not haphaiard an!i topsy­turvy spurts and starts.

Every local organization must be vitally interested 1n growth through the use of properly re­cruited and adequately indoc­trinated volunteers. W it ho u t them and their help we can ac­complish but a small pottion of our responsibilities.

li il should ever become epi-

SAN JOSE SALINAS demic for all the people in the , world to become concerned with

& WATSONVILLE lthe removable evils of the

;~~~pe!~_ese evils would soon

by RIC~ARD A. CHRIST~NSEN, U should be emphasized the Busmess Representative. I use of propetc volunteers-vol-

During the month of March I unteers capable of giving s.ta­several meetings with the em- Lure a-nd in!lueuce, volunteers ployees of t he Commercial Sol- able to do the job that needs vent Con1paiiy, Agnew, Calif., being done and willing to tackle have been held with a view lo the job and carry it through. obtaining support at the pend- Perhaps our relerence lo the iug N. L. R. B. electioJ1. To date term "Volunteer" is wrong. matters seem to be progressing I Maybe the term itself is .wrong; favorablf. However, nothing can maybe its connotation is .wrong. definitely be assured until such Al least we have pointed to tlie an election has beei1 held: The

I need r~r people carefully se­

management at the plant is n_ot lected or cultivated, pr,operly asleep and 1s endeavormg to dis- trained and then used where courage the members from un· their abilities fit the needs. ionizing the plant. .Bros. Gordon I Tbis must alert us lo Ule need MacDonald,. and Intexnalional for planned recruiting apd de­Repres~ntallve Fra~k Brantley velopment of our volunteers an\f have given the same much at· I their integration into our pro­tention and. our office all t he I grams. support possible. It is pointed out we must

Jn addition we are striving to train these volunteers and use get matters going wm1 the West· them. Would li~e to add one em Forge & Flange Cqmpany of note of caution jl/rre. In our Santa Clara, Calif. To date no ac- work it seems important that w.e tion toward a settlement !1!is never e.xpec( our volunteers to been advanced. The Crown By-1 become safety experts and du­Products 'has been settled and plicate the abilities of lhe ex­demands submitted to the dried perts that a1·e available. Rather, fruit industry sent oul. No ac- we must provide experts 11s COi\· Lion as yet. Notice for reopening I sultan~s and use the volul?teers have been sent to the Central to do the job they are really ca· Ice & Cold Storage, S311 Jose, pable of doing. Calif., and the Pa~mc Mfg. Co., I It does seem that one of the Santa Clara, Calif. The latter best advantages we in saiely company has been reported as have is the wealth o{ safety i.i;t contemplating closing. It is so many other organizations. hoped the same will continue in Sure it Is often raw and un­effect or that a succe~or will trained-pointed toward low· come forth to . kee,P tlus large priority, o1· even non-priority, plant m ?Pet'ation. objectives-but il is there! May-

Whtie 1t was ho~ed progress be one of our real challenges is was bemg made with the Stan, to make eCfcctive use of this ford-Palo Alto Hospital. it ap- volunteer material i11 batches-­pears that there are s~,U mal· the whole organization, with its ters to be corrected, which seem own organizational mechanics. to center. a bout_ th~ supervisory Through providing facts, priori­staff. 'rlungs. mdicate an un- ties, programming and train ing. healthy s1_tuation lh~re. Sellilig of the enlire organiza-

. Plants m the Salinas-Watson- lion and doing an adequate job ville area, ice industry, are of coordination. ready to go foll blast at a~iy I 'fhtough all these implica­b_me. The hospitals have n_ot m· lions can see a thread or doubt d1cated what mcre_ases ,wiU be runuing. In this busy stage of made but some will be given. our movement with all its We desire a three step advance. c1·asb demands isn" it so often

Have concluclecl the Commu- eas·e . and q i~kcr ~o go do the nity Sei·vice classes conducted job1 ~urselve~ than to take tl:ie for ten weeks and they have . . . proved educational. l am on 8 tm~c and ef(m t _Lo recruit an~ committee of the Cenh'al Laboi: tram. an~ su pervise volunte~rs. Council to screen applicants for I This is . certain I:, ~ . uruque tlie positioll or Business Repre- age tn which w~ a1 e l~vmg. To­sentative £or the Council. This is day we are so filled with atoms a bit trying. Happy to have had a_nd bombs, m1ss1le.s and satel­a fair attendance at our regular ' h~s. sputniks, ex~lorers, super­montbly meeting in San Jose ' science. super-bram, space· and at which Mr. Gilbert Hayes, the the stars. . administrator for the pension We sh_ould l:)e c?11~er11ed with plan addressed us. It is regretted these thmgs, but 11 1s even b_et­that those really inter~ted l~r we a!·e today c~ncerned with showed ,heir interest by being rust th1;t1~s-making our 01~n absent. Remember - it's your I commuml1es safer places m Union and doesn't belong lo any whlch to ~1ve. to wo,·~ .. to pla)' particular person or group. May and to ta1se our fam!hes. We I hope tbat you all had a Happy c:m only a cc om Pl Is h this Easler. Thal is one day we through spreading our useful· should not forget and also visil nes~. . . . the church o( your choice. Do We must improve 11ur gmde· not Jorget your union dues are lines and our tools to help make always due on the 1st of each our safety organizations more month.. effective in reducing accidents.

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ST· By H. L. "Curley" . SPENCE and TOM ECK, Busihess Representatives ·

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What with the spring wea-printed and distributed to all the ing their , registration so we hy WALTER l't'I. TALBOT & AL. B. ITicNAl\'IARA; Bus. Reps . • t'her, some new work being brothers concerned. · · · I take this opportunity to inform The work for this district is slow in gettl.ng under way due awarded and the addition of new OUT OF .WORK LIST you 'who have not done so, to re· largely to the fact that the only hold-over jobs from last year are . · k l l E.d p· A remmder to all the brothers new as soon as possible other the work at Cherry Valley-Pmverhouse and Tunnel-and the ey personne sue 1 a..s me 1 . ··cr · . 0 t f w k L' t · . ' · . . . .. w 10 Sl"'n our u 0 or lS s · wise you may find your name I. L. Cr oft job at Luther Pass. This creates a springtime lag until our former State H1ghway En- Tl t p . h h'l 1 · • . - . . - . 1a any erson w 0 w 1 e ; stricken from the list and have new work can be bid and let to provide jobs for the unemployed gmeer who res1g.n~d h1s post registered for emp~oyment,. ac- 1 to register fresh on the tail end engineers . w1th the State to ]Om the Isbell cepts employment 111 the high· / of the Out -of Work list. If you The I. L. Croft & Son, I~c. job, : tween' J ones Point and Mather,. staff, · things are beginning to , way, gen~ral b~ilding and heavy . re-register within t he 84 days near Lut her Pass, 1s gettmg an i in the amount of $86 535 look up for the brothers in , constructw n. mdustry, other 1 you still. retain your same po- early star t for . . that elevation, j . 99 OVERPASSES. . : . · Nevada. By the time . this ap- ; than under our Agreement, s?a~l sition on the list. and sho~ld be ~01ng .at full blast! Proposed jobs for this district pears in pr"int the Isbell Con- ! notify th~ ETployme.nt O~f.rce THE VACATION PLAN by the time th~s a~tlcle reaches I tllat will be let soon are the $1,-struction Company will have of. t~e Ul~lOn n1 Reno m wntmg Again we want to stress this the P.ress , barnng ~dverse wea- 700,000 overpasses on Highway .. commenced work on their two · vnthm forty-eight (48) hours af- thor m the mountams i1ew projects . They will have ter such acceptan~e to ?tr.ike his point to all the brothers , to be. " · . J99 at ~remont St. and Waterloo ~ about seven or eight engineers . nal?e fro1~1 the hst or lists on sure and keep an accurate rec- Claude C. Wood Co., of Lodi, . Road. Bids for this project will on the small flood control dam-i which he JS r egistered. ord of all your hours with all was the successful bidder, at ; be opened in Sacramento . on N.W. of Reno on Peavine Moun- i Also be reminded that .regis- employers. Get a Daily Time $340•568• on approximately five ' May 11th. The work also in-·

I · Book (lOc or 15c) and keep your miles of road grading and pav- ' dudes a bridge to carry the · fain and their Htghway job north • tr ation of Lists A" and B shall be own records. One never knows ing on Highway 88 from a point . Stockton Terminal and Eastern <if Hawthorne at Walker Lake : valid for 84 days (12 weeks) 1 f · {_.vill employ about thirty-fi\'e en- . fro ni the date of reg_istration. when this record \.vill come· in I no~·t 1 o the Mokelumne River Railroad t racks, between t he handy in r eference to Health I ~n. dge to the Amador County t'wo intersections over the high-· gineers on a two shift, five day I Such r egistration can be re- and WeLfare , the Pehsion Plan line. . . way. , . -l)asis with possibilities · of some newed betwe.en the 7~th · ~nd . .. • . . SSt! d f g t t n or the Vacation Time. John Delphia and Fred Early, 'The Patterson City Council overtrme. Arnold Blair is Project . 1 ay a ter re-re rs ra 1~

Manager on the road with Bro. , and such r enewal shall be valld JOE MILLER MOVES . Jr. , of. Patterson, were low bid- hopes to advertise for bids for Jim Blair as foreman and Bro. / for an additional 84 days from The Reno Office and all the ~ers on f?~r miles of.ne:.v road construction on the Patterson .;r. . · M 1· t . tl1e 01-1· a·1·11al re·gi'str·ation date brothers in the Northern Neva- and r ealignment on Highway , $360 000 sewer project. Tenta-... ony o me as mas er me- 1 b · . . . . 120 f . th c ·d H · . ' . · . chc:mic . Pierre LeGuirre will be ' An employee may r enew his reg- da D1stnct take this opportu.mty 1 ,

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to c?ngratulate Bro. Joe ~Illler ! Yo~e~Ite Junctwn, for $729,638. i been set for April 26th. - ' Dam Proj ect. Meanwhile, back . until his name is stricken from 1 o~ hrs transfer and p~omo.tw~ to . This JOb, although sh_orter .,111 ,_ Another section of the Sonora­at Frenchman Dam are the bro- 1 the list by reason of dispatch, 1 D1stnct Eepresenta~lve 111 the 1 1~ngth than th~ Wood JO? m vn- 1 Tuolumne Road has been sched­thers who were laid off last win- ~ accepting employment in the i Fresno area an~ WISh hlm Ute honed above, lS ov~r. twice the,

1 uled for this summer. The new

t er when this job was closed ' highway, general building and best 9f luck and success, but cost due to the addrtwnal yard- P /2 mile stretch will be extend­down due t'o weather conditions . heavy construction industry, or meanwhile we regret the loss of age to be mo~ed pl~s a. rocky ed east from Ralph Station to NACON winds up and moves out Failure To Renew His Registra- ~is smiling face and I'm sure ground formatwn which rs com- ~ the Turnback Creek bridge,' fmm Pea vine Dam. tion ·within The Time Provided. rnany of the local contractors mon t~ tlus area. M .. J. Huddy & west of Tuolumne City. Esti-. · · · · Quite a few of the brothers will miss his antics and strat- Son will do the pavmg for Del- i mated cost of the pro]· ect is-OL T FALLON WAY ' G · phia Early · : Dodge Construction eompany have bee.n rather lax on renew- egy. Our Loss-Fresnos am. - .. · . . . . , • $250,000. . reaclv t ·t·l th h t t ff A. Te.Ichert & Son, of Stock- ~ San Joaquin County is going. : "' . o g~ Wl 1 e 0 s u -- ton, 'v1ll · resurface Mathews . · · .. on their Highway No 50 relo- OH.lY TWO MOVI·N·G PAR.TS' R d f H' 1 · . 99 t tl ahead wrth plans . to widen and . • cati on job east of Falion Judg- , .. · , ·. . .· . · . . · · . . . . ' . · , · Coa t rHom · rgFlwayf . b0.d lef_ :1m prove the Jank To'ne Road for · _. .- . . . . oun y onor arm or a 1 o ·

1 · • ·1 th · f t"h E·. ht M:.l. m g frol? thei~ b1d ~n the Haw- $42 OOO. , · · ! six mr es ~o~ o . e · 1g I e.

thorne ]ob; this outfrt really has ·~H· THIS ,~. 6' AS ENGINE. ' · . . !Road._ This IS estimated to cost. sharpened their pencil and giv- . . . . . . - . . . . Chalmers & Bortol1, oLHut.ch- ~400 , 000 . Progress was h~lted~ ()n i'ng some competition to their · . · . . · · .. · · . · ·' ~ · . . ·. · ' . ·· mson, Kansas, >yho ~re erectmg it his project wh'en the questiO'rr; cm:ipeting competitors . Mechanics may have to . forget a lot .they have lea'rned about twenty-two gram sr~o~ a! . the 16f tight-of-way width showed: ·a·.

S:i,lver stat e. Construction gasoline engines. _ · . . . . . . ~ort of Stockto11 Gram Te~m- 1 discrepancy oL20 feet between' . Comp·any winding up the two : That. is ti:e · outlook i.f a revolJ:l~l~ma~y, gasol~I:e engn:e. wrt h mal, have _lO e~gmee_rs :·mam;mg r ;vhat the property _owners -~lafrn-; job:o they have in the Schlecker I only two movmg parts d~es all that Is claim~d fm rt, accordmg to the matenal ~01sts on an around.' ~d and that claimed by : the; .. Dit.t rict just out of 'Fallon. This I talk in shops and factones across the co~tme.nt. . . . ~he clock basis . . I County. However., the ·· Go,unty: · firm has a -tough one · facincr ' Curtiss-Wright Corp. has an11<mnced ·It . will start productJon . Stanfield & Moody, of Tracy,.! has hen instructed to proeeed: :· them. in So~1thern Nevada wh~r~ o. f tl~e n. ~w ~ngin~ this year. . . I_: are bu. s_y crushing- _1.7,090 to11s I a_nd .settle the tight-of.)vay, q1leS~~ -thE~ left Eighty thousand laymg _ ~he _m~n _m the· shop ,do.es. n~! 1··. .ro~4 rock · ~~r ~~-n Jo~qum .- ~~_.on later,._ ; . . . · ·. , _ . ~ : . · on rhe table on a three hundred have enoug11 facts yet to est.- at therr pit. south -of . .- The road JOb to be let m· con· · anc fifty thousand dollar · job. mate· the impact of the ·new en· r- acy. - · ju'hcUon with the new Asbes.tos : · · ·· Nothing 1~ew except a bunch $ine. on.,. au~omotive, .aircr~!t, · ·,; . Pittsburgh - Des Moines Steel J)lant near Coppero~oli.s wi~f • . · of rumors m respects to new fai'm._eqmpmen,t and . othe~ ~n- Company. have a truck crane _ at probably . be before th1s rtem ~s : ·wm k at t he Fallon Naval Air dustnes now usmg conventional 1 the Heinz Plant in Tracy on the printed . as· the ; bids have been . Station. inter i1al c·ombustion engines.' ... ca'tsup cannery enlargement job. submitted to the Engineering: lN THE FAR NORTH Application extends to· all . MODESTO WORK . firm in. Texas and·· the bidder s·

The Wells-Cargo State High- forms of transportation and to a . .. In the Modesto area the Malfi- are anxiously awaiting notifica-, Wa}'~o . SA Project west of De- ~viae i:ange of · industrial tis_es; tano and Vega Engineering levee tion of the award, - . .. n io still .going strong consider- according to t he announcement

1 · • job near · Crows Landing, have Last, but n:ot least, is the . re- .

~ng . Seems as though somebody when Cmtiss-Wright took 't h e busti?n engines_. a~e carr_red on. approximately 18 engineers and location ... of county roads in th~ , m2cle Qff with all those shiny vvraps off the· engipe last week. . The ne'N. engme requrres 1_10 oilers on the. job at this time, vicinity of Hogan Dam. As pre­~le"·'' DW-20's and left Jack and Impoitant details on operation valves , spnngs, . camshafts, prs- with more to be employed as the viously reported in last' month's · the other brothers some old 2- of the new engine a~e being tons or co'nnectmg rods . ·company intends to subcontract issue of the News, the. Dam U 'E, etc. to finish up with. Al- withheld by Curtiss-Wright. The.· I· .. Models in , the , range from more of the levee construction . proper is scheduled · to be let thcugh they did ~ind up with compa~y has . published . this ioo t'o 700 horsepower will . be ~o othe1; contractors. The · report this. fall . The new ~am . will :~~- : tw~ of ~~ose new fr?ger ~Ip con- , much 'lnformatw~ : . :, . 1 ma~e_ next . year . at Curtiss- m the :ast. is~ue of the News ~es_srtate the relocatn~g of exrsk . t.ro1 ~lt2 s. Real m~e prece of 1 . ·Fuel c'onsur_nptwn :s less t.han . Wright's engme plant at Wood f.rom th1s distnct was erroneous mg · roads, due to lug~1 wa~~r; ; • ~nachme. No gear sluft or master 1 4·5··pounds per brake ' horsepow- ·Ridge, N. J. in that the Macomber Company, and Calave!as County 1S takmg. . -d 11:tt ch to fool with also a foot er. Diesels alone among conv~n- . A model in the. rancre from of Fresno, was low bidder on the bids to be opened Apr-il- 28th for . ~ccelerator in addition to hand tional i11ternal combustion ~p- , 750 to . 5,000 horsepow~:t is in new high school in Modesto. The ~his work. The budget allocation th:;~t~le: . gii1es .have . a lower fuel __ ,co~- 1~ development. Curtiss-Wright de· · H~rris Construction · Compa!ly, Is $600,000. _ ; :_his JO_b has been .a goo~ one sump~10~1 . It does not . neea .veloped the engine jointly \vith of Fresno, was awarded ·the ·Job BLO_OP-BA.NK C:LU13: . . _·. . ~n :oome respects, as It carn~d - a- premmm fueL ·. , , NSU Werke of West Germany. for $980,300 (ba-se plus alter- Brother -Lloyd A. Hernn.g .. do­m:~::n b~r of the br?thers throu~h ! . Selli~g p,rice of . the new · en-.i ~. The Gerrnan firri1 is expected nate). .A. Turrin & s _ons, -of ~on· nated a pint of ~lood d?:· th~ {h;,;;. wm_ter, but It al~o- h<:~s rts I gme will be "low." · .. . . , .l;to make it for automobiles and cord . . have the gradmg contract use ?f ~ny O~er~tmg ~ngmeer , ~ . ~aJ pomts (as all Jobs have · The ne;'v engine operates on · · . t · · e i.i;· W 'crht 1 on this job :or his rmmedrate- iam1ly: . Our- · ~?::1e) _!~cation, ;-v_ea.ther ·.·· condi~ ! a mix_ti.tre of _-gas?li?e -~u~pl'i~~ : ~~~~i:~,~~l~l~ts I:~-m~~e ·it ¥o~ :~j :. George Reed, o'f Modesto, is t~anks to Brotber'-Her~ing: .. :. , . li.?:i'S, hvmg c6nd1twns, etc ., ·et~., i by a· cai·buretor and air t?keil.: . -ur ->oses "il'l t he u. · S. and fm busy on the small graqihg and . .PERS~NAL NO.'J'ES.: . .·. · · : ·· · : .~ , ew. Some of the brothers w1ll

1' in throu!!h a side wall port · P. P f .. t ld. 1 · surfacin!:! ·l·ob on Yosemite Blvd · · Recerved . .a letter from .Brother ; · J · ~ • an·cra so anyw 1ere. ~ · . ., - · · _ . · · s,oc:n be transferred back to .the i Turning of a rotor compress- . ... . between South Santa Cruz·· ~nd ·Goy Sanders, who IS pr~esently, )V-eils-Cargo job in Beaver, Utah i es the gasoiine ancf air whiCh is .. The new el!gil!~ ·promrses to La Loma Avenue: ·· . working for Morrison -•Knudsen;

?nd the men who complete the ! fired by a single spark p.l u g. 1 be th~ most _sign_Ifrcant devel?P· The rock plants in Stanislaus Company near:: . Williams, . A.ti7 . :Pe:1io job will ~e transferred to : t11is propels the rotor w h o s·e l mel?-t of_ the ~nternal combust: on County ai'~ btfsier tha~ th'bse il? ~,ona . ,coy . ask~d us ~ to say, th£ Owhyee ProJect. Wells-Cargo .movement allows exhau.st fumes· en~me ~n this century. G~.~~Ieb San Joaqum County wrth .no te-.. Hello to Jus fr.Iends. . : • ~ri';:> loyees have a bright future : to escape througli another port 1 ~.armler p~t~nte? i he ~Ib~~lal duction in force as .they con-?~ '!._his firm has numerous pro- in the chamber wall. . , _ ug~ spee u:terna

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110f tinue to grind· out sized rock, SAN JOSE, .Contract awarded ·

Jects to look forw_ard- to. . . Three such power sequences e~gme back 111 188 · u 0 . P 1 sand and gravel. to Leo F. Piazza .Paving Co., 985 · ~N TH~ IRON RANGE occur each revolution .9f the. ro- · D~esel de~onstrat~~98 tl~ }~~st The Bob Long Construction Downer Ave. , San Jose, $203,190 A satisfactory agreement has . tor. Curtiss-Wright claims this Drese~ _en';';ne 111 . ( le Company, of Fresno, was low for impvt. of Hillsdale Ave.'

]?em reached by all three firms, I gives the new engine remark- Maclumst. ) bidder to the Board of Supervis- from Ross Road to Almaden Rd. T bs Standai·d Sl~ Company op- able smoothness . This means al- oi·s foi· the nevv wing to be SAN JOSE, contract awarded ~:rf'.:. ion at Waouska and the 1 most continuous intake, com- NEW JOB AWARDS constructed at the County Hos- to Fairbanks Morse Co., 630 3rd: J?odge and Mineral Materials . pression, ignition, expansion MONTEREY, Contract award- pita! at French Camp for $1,- Ct., San Francisco, $33,397 for· ~p~ra~io?s out of ~ovelock. The i and e~hatist. eel to Granite Const. Co., P . 0. 457,600. However , at this wr.it- I urn. and install. 2-ea. 24' mixed-:t:~-egotiatmg Committee . present- ! The engine's r.otor moves on Box 900, Wats~nville , ~232 ,834 ing a controversy exists as the flow pumping units for. San Jose ed the amendments to the broth- ' a crankshaft by means of a cam for . 334 berthmg facils. , for second low bidder GoTdon H. sewage treat. plant. , . ers em~Ioyed on this operatto? /1 t hat g1.·ves . the rotation an ec- small boat harbor. Ball Company, is ~~·otesting th_e i_ OJ:\KLAND, Contract awarded • wh-2re rt was accepted unam- centric course. . . OAKLAND, Contract awarded Long Company brd because rt ! to Silva Bros. , 26'775 Castro St.,­~1mi:s!Y· These aniendm.eJ.?-tS are ! The engine block consists _of I to p. Nm;man Peterson, 2832 was delivered · hv? minutes past-! Hay:.v<~rd, $88,005 for imvt., of : nm;;; m the process of bemg re- 1 a fo ur-sided chamber with 1 9th St., Berkeley, $189,900 for the bid time dedlme. · 1 portwn of County -Rd. (Blossom. writ ten into the agreements , and rounded corners. ·The corners la:ddn., to sewage trint., plant, Paul E. Woof, of Fresno, was I Way) from Central Pacific .I_t;R afu_~~~on ~s they -are si~ned ?Y all ! form. compartmen~s in ·which· e~ist. Lift Station to be modi- low. bid?er ·on 8 miles of road 1 Co. (SPRR) to \yestern Blvd.,· JP~L les m volved, copres wrll be I functions of the mternal com- f1ed, etc. pavmg m Tuolumne County be, 1 So., Eden Townshrp.· .

APRIL,. 1980 · ENGINEER'-~ NE\VS·

-'"Spring' ork·lsSiowdn.the SanJase'Aretr·.:, SUNSHINE_INJHE REDW DS , By A.-J. HOPE, DANNY 0. -DEES and· WM. ·HARLEY DA~TIDSON, Business Repri'seil.tatives · by .KEN BROOKS &BILLTOM.BE~LIN, Business Representative§ •. ; · Brothers the sunshine is here for the moment --anyway but W.e ar:e sorry to report that contrary to· our e. xp.ectatioi1s; work has not picked up this· spring for how long we are not sure. We· would all be real happy if it ' as we had .anticipated . We had predicted that the demand for men this yeal; \Vould be greater than were here to stay, let 's hope it is. Not only the brothers are itch- ' ev.er,' buLfor soine reason the work is . slow in · op ening up. Several good,sized .jobs have been let ing to go but the contractors also. Bill Hudson, -Project Ma-nager . in this area and maybe when these jops get going, ,our long "out-of-wotk"Jist will b_egin to shorten. for Morrison Knudson at Weott on their Hiway 101 job is pawing Santa Clara . Sand & Gravel · . . - - · . · . . . · · the ground like a bull, wanting · i D:9W ha_ve :_plants at_ three _ -Ioc~-- 1 tates_. in Milpitas . . A. -J. ~ais~h i -·N:EW~ JOB __ ·AWARDS· . to get going, in fact as th!s ar- Brothers here is another eJJ.e tl"'ns Brother George Dorsa IS p ~"' k l t.hat :ffia. k~s u~ all ieal happy. · . J!l _,.. . . · · · · · avmg ..,ompany-·are wor mg I!l SANTA · ROSA- · Contract ticle ·is being written he called tb..eGenera-lSupter!ntendentof i t~is vicinity ._on ?ub-divisions,

1 awai.·d~U to : Ray '·A.n:denion, t50 back four of his old hands· we Mad River ~ob . . . , the three pl~nts. located on Ste- ·w1tl'\ Tony. Re1s domg. the land- Kawana· Spgs. · Rd:, .'Saqta Rosa, wcmld · like· to · see -him can: the Tb'e road relocation plan for . v~ns Greek . ~oad, . Coyote. and scape ·.work · and P&E- Const:r~uc- $35,98.5 for co:nst.· j;mmping sta. · rest, which will . ·be about .sixty ,the Ruth res~rvoir a~e~ has be~n ­fa'ldalup~, .. J\1I_ne:· Brother · Al ; tronha~ethe - undergroun?work; 1pA; Sect. 3, ' S0". Park Go. --s~nit. gr so . • This company sure .,has a approved by th~ Truntycoum:y _. P!lton·: li.as been transferTe!f. by. , Cupertmo Grave~ are dmng the Dist. · - · " . ' .. dill~y of a slide to take care of ?oard ,of s':perv.Is~rs , thus clear~ '; th_is fii.-ru ;to.Lake Co1,1nty, where graging and ·pavi'ng on the· Curt- SANTA _ ROSA, .· ,C 0 n t-ract

1 o:n the sol,lth end wllen it let mg on~ ~ o~ .- the . b1ggest · hurd~es t~eY:- ~l're ~til~rgip.g thei-r pl(lnt. , ! ner ,:Estates ~ ; ·'·. awarded· to ·McOlure-' Coi:isV Co., . go it took: the :vhole right-of- to reallz,a_h?n o~ tlle Hu_mb?l~t -. Guy F;· Atki!json .Company of , SANTA . CRuz · SALINAS 11375 Elvessa .. St:, Qa]{land, .. $32;- : way; about sixty feet of fill_ and Bay 1\;lumclpa~ .Water Distnn s • S~n-·. ]'r~n9iseo h~ve started their·.; & MONTEREY . 77fJ' for consL portion o! · reil)f . . I a nice lot of big R~dwoods below Mad nver pro)ect. !h: ·board ~t~- : ca:n:a~joD :on Guadqlupe Cree){.-j. Work irt the Santa Cruz area cone.• bridge ori · Warm ~ Spdrigs I the road. Well it all pays the proved·· the .rel~ca~w,I; - plan Wlth : ·T:b,lisjob ' _J.llu'st be co~p~leted \by is still siow bilt.the' future looks Road;. Co.' Rd. No .. 6602-A,. across same, the brothers will make the~statement It l~ . . as good .or . $~ptem1Der; .196?. This JOb . went promising . for . this . . area. Wil- Sonema Creek -in 'SONOMA co: that dirt fit some place. - , better than . tha,~ ongmally ,as:kedl: r for.·$570,.326. Hmes of Berkel~y Iiams &· Burrows have started · - · · '- . · · , . · . . by the·· county . . d · th 1 · tl . . CHICO, Conb;act aw.arged:·to" . ' :'Babe'~ _Crow of E>elphla"E·arly - , ._· : . . . .· . . ., arce , mng~ e c earmg on . us work on the Ne~ell Dam at ~en Butte . Creek Rock Co.,-·P . .O. ·BQX & Crow back in the area -look<- . ~he - distnct · ~ust replace ~~:dl : . pro].ect. . . . - . Lomond·. :Had~ock Constr~ct10n_ 512_, .JChioo, .$41,763_ for install ing o~er_ the situa~i~n so _he ca_n re:ro~·~e .ro~ds m th, e r:ser> v-Ili' ; .. ;.:1\ . .J: Raisch ;Paving Compa1iy Con;p~ny of Pasad~-~a. w1ll d_o. storm draii1age system." . _ . . get his JOb at Tnmdad -sold so . area. Det~I~-~ were, _worke? ~ut a.n~ worj{i~g on several- Sub-Di- ~he dirt w~rk_con . tlii.~ JOb. This I _SAN , FRANCISCO Contract Mercer-Fraser . ·can -- get at ., the· am_ ~n~ . Tr_ m1ty off~cials,_ ~~s~r1ct : VlS!lons . l-ti. addition to stl;eet JOb -w11en It gets gomg should I . , · l .d . G ·F ·At'k· , ··c .. , base and ·paving, : engmeers and -the U. S. ·For<::st -'~k for -the City of San Jose. k · 't b f the a\\ an e ,to . uy · · mson o., · · ·· - , · · · - . Servi.ce· · 'I l

·Is :fi'rm· 1·s w· _ork1·ng on a ·scl1o· ol B~eptl - qu.~be ... a num er 0

· J $2;ilt7,297 .. Jor: Diamond· Heights We, had a pre-job· confererice , · . ro 1ers usy. 1 d 1 · . . . 1 th th d · 'th Sl t H 11 & - Original · specifications asked . jop ·off · €ypress Ave:,· and also. · . . C · approved re eve op. pr~J.: · area e o er - ay .wi · . · a e- a - , doi_ng·_ the grading and paving . M. , J. - B: -Constructwn om- ~ B~l!OR ·.Calif.: 2-1 -site ·prep;,, 'ind. , Hamilton of Portland , Oreg?n, by Trinity · w~re_ . alter~d- S?:Cl:· ~ pan_y_ .are_ -tT_ymg. to g_e. t .started o_n ... gr_att·I._Ilg,·-· st.reet impvts;, _.cu. __ r_b_· s,· . the low bidder _on t_·he ·road' JOb wha, ~ - at negotlatwn~l m_. eetu_.'~,-g __ .s. ,· near . the . Almaden Golf .Coin'se. H N 1 b tl f n t f th d t t h ..;! They ·, were the ·Jow bidders on then I way . 0 · .JO nor 1 0 ; gutters,:· stairs, · walls, pavmg, at 9r1ean?· The~r bid was $940;--, vire~ ors 0 · e IS nc, ·. al::~ : a· $121,880 contract for ·the im~ Santa Cruz underway. I drainage sys.; etc. . . 000 which mcludes three 'I the actwn as on~ t!1at :vi~ cL a:rt ·. Granite-Healy have shut -down C t t d d t 1 bridges. This job is mostly · a the way to callmg for .bids. on .. provemenf of a portion of Cole~ their two-shift Cat-spread at Dav- Agne~'- .o~ rCa.e a$w38ar50. eO. f ~ . rock . show which :is . -goi.ng;. to . the res.ervoir section of the $10.'7 : man Ave: iti San Jose. . . . d I Bragato Pavmb 0 :,- ) . or - . ' . 0 milliOii project. . --'Piazza Paving have called enport Qu_arry. They have move_ . constr. ·entrance road east area mean at least 2 shov€ls and . . . . . · - ,_ . -back most of' their former em- the ~aclunes ·and ·men on -van- 'I Agnew's State Hospital, -Agnew; maybe _ m~re . It really is a_ tough Lettmg. of bids : to enable .che -P

ta. y' ees and are working on var- . ous JObs s~attered _around Santa Santa Clara Co. . one. all sliver cuts, there lS only s~art of . con?tructi_o~ of the E:il· ; Cruz .and· Wat_sonville. • 0

kl -:-. d· · C ·t· t · d d a]:>out 500,000· yards but- the'y all tire pro]ect .. rs .envislOned by the . ious jobs throughout the City. .. . . a an - .on rae awar e 1 d d t k t' - t t · b d c t t' . f 1-1 · · They were the low bidder on a . A _10 million dollar sub-dlVls- i to Elmer- J .. Freethy, 1432 Ke~r- cl omdel ' 1ar an a e Ime -, o i w.at_er oar .. t~Il:s rue wnto l "~~ -wn IS proposed for the Boulder 1 , S . El C .t $25 117 f J1an e. I en Ire pro)ec Is · expec ec v!~ -contract in the amount of $203,- . . . . ne) t. , ern o , . or · . . . . . take two seasons. . · 196 for the improvement of a Creek ~rea. This l_llay develop I canst. outdoor . type pumpmg. . We_ recently_ got a pleasant . . . . 0 • soon . . Bids amountmg to rnore 3 b . 'bl · . · d sut·pnse on the Fortuna by-pass, . It ·Will mclude ·. the dam a.t -section ·of Hillsdale· Ave: They . . . .. . .f . d 1- plant · su _m~r.sr e . Pu~ps a~ _. · · . .- , . . . .1· _ Ruth · road . and airport relcca- . e.ect to start very shortly 011 than 5 mil_Iwn dollars or ~ve controls furiilshed by the Dis- ongmally we VIer e only _al oca I , . ' . . . . ~· -. . . . . . R k A opments m the San Lorenzo . . & I t d . . 2. . N . ted money for the structure but . tlon , constructwn of a diver~dH1 the w1denmg of Alum oc ve. _ . tnct oca e approx . .. mi . . . . . . - . ' d t E e Bl e L ~ Jre in San Jose. Their Rock Crush-·, ParR Renewal proJect · were E. of Danville. _ _ \ the State dug mto ~notlier po~- am a · ... s~ex n ar. - u . .:.; : -. . . . .. . . . opened by . the Santa Cruz Re- . . . - ket .and came up with an add1- and a pi-pelm~ to .pulp mill s~ts . mg Plant on Pehtencia Creek d .1 . t A .b t t tl . 1 Sacramento-Contract _ award- t ·· !. 2 3 .11. .11. . t on Samoa penmsula · .11 f . · h the material for eve opmen gency, u a 11s d M t C t C . 4801 wna·. . mi Ion so we wr ge · . . . . · . w~. . . urm;s · .. . 1

· d d writing we do not know to whonf e to · arwar " ons · o. , four lanes from Alton to tie into · The distnct has contracts to ··. t~1s JOb .. fhe matena nee.de the bid's· were .let . . 24th ·St., SaGramento, $32 ; ~88 the four lanes north ;of Fortuna·. supply : water ·to .two pulp_ mills : f~:~r the approaches on Alma en . . . for canst 25 600 sq ft· parkmg - . · · d · .· 1 t· " . - · ·. · . · . · Work Is slow m the Watson- . · - ' · . · · We are not only happy .to have an Is neanng camp e wn o~ a -f\oad will come_ ·from Ctheirt. p~t j ville a-re<:i. Valle_ Y Engineers have I\ lot, ·for Crocker,A~glo ~atl. Bk., the :work but .are glad to see i .contract to supply water to the ~ oh Downer Ave. Dan. apu o. IS · . - : · · Sac-ramento , . " . . . ' . · ·t f -E 1 N t' t' · •J · doing · the- structil'taJ ·work ·011 : started - work •On then~ -out:fall , K ·tf' 1.d:- C . t - t . d d th!s 1:nuch need~d Improvement C1 Y .o .d· ure- ~a. ' te

1goAia 1tons c. so -. . . .. _ · I ]ob at the mouth of the Pa3ara ·. en -1e ---;- on rae ., a war e on HI way 101: are un erway WI. 1 rca a. . tVJSJOb. , - , - . . . River . . Ed - Keebie has ··started j to Zoellner Const C?·· 'Ivy Dr., The State seems to be taking : . Concer~mg act~on _of tl~e Trn1- ~ . ,J: _C .. - ~ateman Compa_ny . are 1 work on'>their · road job but are \ Ross' $122,44:1 ~base; pl:!Js ·$1_3,- their tinre in calling for bids on Ity supervtsors, distnct·direcwrs ~ :~:prk~ng m several. sub-qivislons I hampered :by the' dal!l~ness. . 54_4"add:')· f?r .Jst '?\:ldn. , .t~ W. o- I~e : tl_;.e .,big- structur:-e ai:-d app:o- commented the_ road plan _u.p-.: II). this area. · · . .

1 Ted Ba-un Constructwn Com- 1 ~I ade :Ell~_m . , School· on_ Su," Fr an- aches at Myers Flat which Pr_ovaLdemon_str ates the co~p~:r-~ ~ ) "Contractors-have been named par\.y have started to make a·1 CIS Drake: Blvd~, ·--Kentfield: · · crosses the Eel .river, also on the ati0n bemg. given by the Tm~1ty , r. build United Teehnology showing on .their ,Carmel Hill I . PleMa:nton~ Contra:ct awa.rd-· Beatrice bridg·e and .. g;rading and hoard. _ Fi:>'s. new Sunnyvale Engineer- 1

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job. Good luck to all concerned_. ed • .. t6 B ._ K ... Ferguso:n Co. ; 120 paving south of. Fields Landing·. . A~other: relocatio~ st:ill _to IJ~ ing ce_nter and Its Rocket Fuel _ . A check for ,back pay claims . ~ontgomery, -st. ;:. S . . -F. (no · ~mt. They · >~iilt coi11'e this year bwt cno · put mto. fu~al form IS movmg or Test site near Coyote. Construe- : totaling $20,436 believed to be g-nr.el,'lh ·for ,canst. . matallur~y; dope yet as to when. Well- bro- the Ruth ::nrport. tion costs were not made pub- the largest single· payment ever .chem:. ~bldg. · : at ·So . . -1st St. &· thers here is one we have been The · location has ·been deter· . He. Carl Swenson. & Sons was I received by. the State. Labor Stone ' Awe,; .. P.teasantou for Gen- \vaiting fot a long time. min.ed and ·lhe water boarc. is awarded the research center Commissioner's Office in this eral Elec: Co. , involving abt. 25,- Bay ·Jetties · expe.tted to make a decision -job. It . will be built on a 25 . area -\¥ill : be -distr~buted to ti:e 11

000 s~ . ft. of l~b faCil~ . · for . Bids for a $2.5 million ~ep~ir soon on whether the distr~ct wH ~ -acr.e Sunnyvale site at Law- men tlus week. Tlus amount will chem1cal & general research. JOb to the Humboldt Bay ]ett1es do the · actual constructiOn 01 · rince Station and Arques road. be . distributed to approximately San Jose_:_ Contract awarded will be advertised by the _ U. s. whet-her funds · will be t~u·m.edl Completion of the three build- 37 former employees of Fisher & I to Leo F. Piazza Paving Co., 985 Army · Corps of Engineers. · over to Trinity county for t lis lrn ings is expected in September. Stokes for unpaid wages during 1 Downer Ave:, Sari Jose $63;546 Opening· of the bids will be to do the "":'brk. The latter has , ROCKET STATION the construction of the Carm~l for impvt. of Happy Hollow, Kel- sometime in May,. \"'ork would been favored in board meetiEgs . . Contract to build a Rocket Hill job. ley Park, etc: begin this summer. Something new. A low bid of· Propellant Mixer Station oi1 a ·. A $1,270,586.60 government 1 Eureka-Contract awarded to · Beginning of the· job will be $118,875 has been submitted by -3,200 acre mountain test site contract for _the . construction of James 0 . Johnson, Box 356; Gar- tinanced by a $243,750 appro- Arthur B. Siri Inc., Santa ·Rcsa, e_. of Coyote went to Swin~r- J aviation facilities a t Fort Ord bervill~ $40,975 for .canst. Vets priation voted by Congress last for construction of an ~a­ton· & Wallberg of San FranciS- ! has been awarded to John Del- IVIemonal Bldg.,· Phase 1, at Gar- fall, Congressman Miller said weather quarter mile out-door co. The Mixer Station is the first phia of -P atter son and Fred J. berville .. Calif., Humboldt Co. · the funds for beginning the job running track and related fadH- ~ od' 60 buildings projected for the I Early of -San FranCisco, a: joint' . COLOMA, · Contract -awarded had not been included in the ties· at Humboldt State College. -site. · I venture. Work on this project to Briggs & Weston, $127,444 for Presid-ent's budget. last year but Work, in addition to the track, . SANTA CLARA, MT .. VIEW is expected to· ?tart'in a couple M_useum at Gold Discovery Site, was adcled by Congre?s after h~ includes widening the fo_ot~_al~ & _PALO ALTO , of weeks :and. IS scheduled for D1v. of BCHS & PARKS, Coloma. told House and Senate -a.ppropn- field mstallatwn of . a spnnb.lei : . E. T. Haas v.iere the low bid- ' completion by Spring · 1961. ELDORADO CO. · a tion committees that .the ·work system,· installation of conduits . d,ers on a $231,025 contract for Granite Construction -Company .SAN MATEO. Contract.award- was his number one · priority for a future automatically eon- : 4nder-ground improvements for was the low ·bidder on -the ce- · ed . to l\!_anuel Silva, P , 0. Box public . works project in the. ·en- trolled scoreboard, a public ad- · the City of Mt. View. , - · ment pavement contract in the .403, Hayward, $47;925 for pave, tire North Coast d-istrict. dress .. syst-em ,flnd field trs!.e-' Bragotta Paving . are showing amount of $1,334,097:64. _ · curbs, gutters , etc. on Grove De- The Corps has repor ted last phones, bank excavation, fene:~ng . good progress on their street job We would ~ like to advise the velopment. · winter's stoFrns :caused $500\000 and landscaping, instalation cf a Qn North Bailey Extension in Mt. Brothers living in the ·southern I additional major damage to both drainage-system, a flag pole ::::nd. : View. Monolithic Pipe Company area that we are trying to estab- W . . McFar~and, - Henry Zamzow, jetties. Previous estimate of removable goal posts . q-re ·doing the . underground Iish a Blood Bank in the area of Ro -scoe Pounds- and Ruby cost for the enUre job was $2 Construction of a retair;ing wak on this job. · · Salinas Watsonville and Mon- P~unds . Mrs. Ruby Pounds, wife million wan is also .provided, and sev~ :~ondgroth . Bros. are busy on terey. 'we have contacted the of . Brother Ros~oe Pounds , has . The first district lawmaker is eral jumpi-ng pits with appro::tch ­v,.arious jobs through-out the Blood Center in Monterey, which the distinction of being the fi-rst P.xpected to testify before the 1 runways. a-rea. is located at th~ y. S: 0. Cent;r. lady to donate to the Blood Ho~se appr?~riations - committee I . The track,_ belie:ed to ~e ~I-ne : Barr.ett & . Hilp are showing The Brothers llvmg m the atea Bank. - · . urgmg suffiCient funds to keep first of Its kmd,-will be cr eaced go.od progress on the El Camino· around San Jose have responded 'I May we call your (lttention the work moving at top· speed from a ruberized, resilient as- ­Hospital on Grant Road in IYit. satisfactorily_ t~ our appeal for that you must r_e-register for d~ri~g the 1961 fiscal year be- pha;lt composition consisting ?f' Vie-w. blood donatwns and we hope work between -the .76th and 85th 1 gmmng July 1. · nearly- equal parts of asphatt, . - Bahr & Ledoyen are busy on that the members living in the 1 day or your ·name · w ill be .

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New photographs of the Ia- rubber and sand.- There will be about 11/z miles of street work Southern area will do Iikew~se . , ~rapped from the "Out-of-Work" test storm da~1age to the jetties 150 tons of r~bb. er buffi~1g p~rti-­for the City of Palo Alto. Please remember when donatmg hst. . . · were sent ·lVIlller ·by the Hum- cles · from tire recappmg FOI· . McGuire & Hester of .Oakland blood to mention that you are . We would like to take this boldt Board of Trade, according cesses used in the mixture. were the low bidders on a $183,- . giving it to -the Operating En- i oport unity to extend our · sym- to George Cole, chairman. 207 contract for construction of 1 gineers, Local Union No. 3's I pathy to the family of Chas. Ed- · The pictures, sent as an aid OAKLAND, Contract awan:ied(. wer lines for the City of Palo ~ Blood Bank. The following were singer, who passed away on to Miller in his testimony, were to Underground Const. Co. fo:r . Alto. . - _ f Blood. Donors during the ·past .April3rd of ·a heart attack. Bro. taken by James Shaw, local rep- inst. 8,000 1ft. 8" mort.lnd. weld. · ;_ Pisano Bros. have completed- t month: Leonard · . Whitmire- 1[ E;dsinger was · a .· Foreman for \ r~sentative of the U. S. · Army \ s.tl. water main & appurts. in their work on the C~trtner Es- ! (secqnd dono;r), Cha_rles Bray, J. ~ose-Matoza. · - . , · Corps of Engineers. . , .· _ Berkeley. · . ·

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. Aloha to You! I SACT RE IS A GOOD START • HA All pACE by ERNIE N.ELSON, HAROLD HUSTON, EDW. HEARNE and BILL METTZ, Business · Representatives.

The work m the Sacramento of the season · will be spent lay- This has been · a rough job _pio- produce concrete. mix for their

QUICKEUS area has started in good shape ing rock and paving. neering with a lot of it having I own use at Folsom and Roseville.

· 1 . 11 for this time of year. The Sacra- Madonna Construction has to be shot. - · · This is a new plant and will take

• mento office dispatched 441 men opened the detour from Monte The bid on this job was time to get. everything adjusted BJH 1UflUX in March and there have been a Vista to Alta and are working on

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around · $700,00 and completion right. I I g-, . I number of men called back to the rock cuts again with the Co- date should be about the first of READY MIX PLANTS

their last employ"ers. The sub- bras. They started up about the June.There are presently 16 of Sacramento Ready Mix is one

By HARIOLD LEWIS and division work has opened up all first of March but have ·been off ·our brothers working _orr this of ·the top producers with an

· RUPERT H. TEVES over town. and on again due to the wea- job. , able operator at the controls

Aloha from Hawaii, the new . . ther. Maybe they will get going Walsh Construction Company working long hours. Teichert's American State. · Pacific Dredge Company had good soon. has 20 of our brothers working plant on 67th Street has a full

Hawaii is slowly but steadily some bad luck. ~hey lost a Fred J . Early Company has I on the Camino tunnel. All the crew of engineers producing te

l osing its well known spirit of transformer and will be ~own I gotten started on the sewage dis-~ hE)avy rains and snows have quality mix. The Brothers here " 1 d , 1. . T'l. for about a month for repairs. posal plant at Auburri and really put this J'ob/ to almost a d 'ff t 1 t th h

s ow an. easy . Ivmg. . 1~s, . . . . I . . . . .. . go to 1 eren p an s roug . • however, 1s speakmg of the IS· _ Hydraulic Dredge Is makmg should be pour~ng concrete soon. 1 standstill. · {he _b~d on this JOb out the area when needed for

land of Oahu only. The islands of good headway on their part of They h~ve their own cat l-oader was ?ver 6 V2 . mllliO!l dollars and special orders. 'They have plants

Kauai Molokai Lanai Maui and- the chanel. The next bid on the on the JOb and have ?- backhoe consists of 26,500 feet of tunnel at Perkins, Mississippi Bar, Del

Hawaii are. still "~nspoiled." chanel should be coming up rented ~rom G. S. Her~ington. 14' by 15' in size: The last 2,000 Paso, West Sacramento and

Honolulu has, because of all the soon. . Gramte . ConstructiOn h a~ feet of tunnel Will be lmade lar- Woo'dland. Granite Construction

construction influx of new . \ made a good start 011 the under- ger for the outlet portal. They keeps both of their plants going

building methods and thousand T~Ichert &: Son has been e!l· ground porti~n of the. job an~ I d~n't know just how large this -one at Fair Oaks arid the other

<>f visitors a week, become a fast largmg. their rock plant m j have about ~Ight or m~e Engi- Will have to be as yet. .They also on Power Inn· Road. Folsom

moving city that has lost a lot Woodland. 1 neers worlnn~ steady. The~ have started constr~ctwn of the Ready Mix is getting more work

of its much advertised hospital- The following donated blood should be gomg strong until 266 feet . steel ~Irder,. wood by the day with a competent

ity. The beauty of our low hills during the months of Febi·uary about November. decked bndge.' which, Will · be a crew of operators. Roseville

i;; mared by new subdivisions for and March: , Roads, Inc., has no~ started perm<:~nent br:Id~e gomg to t~e Ready Mix keeps their engineers

the rapidly increasing popula- W It G S h' B'll 1 yet on Colfax Street m Grass tunnel. CompletiOn date of th1~ at the controls on a full sca.M. t ion Th~ highways that were b .

1a Eer anTo, O'Nop .1I1e Ali e- 1 Valley and we have not heard job is scheduled for January, basis · · ••

. · . . · aut, ugene . e1 onza f them t 1962 · · bmlt eight or ten years ago are R. Allen Opal J. Allen,' Jack B. rom . ye · , , . · , . · _ . . . , I AEROJE~, MATHER FIELD . already overcrowded The hotels H t h ' St .I R H Parnsh Brothers are diggmg I For the flfSt time m history, I There Is not much work . m

- · u c eson, an ey · ansen, · th 1 t 1 1 t th T't B ff t f th · · t hat were b~i.lt last y~a~, to take w. J. Shelton, Carl Stine Ruth

1 m e as 10 e a. . e 1 an_ as.e run o wa er ro~ . e snow ne~ construction at these places. ·

care of anticipated visitors are I 0 ld F k K h Cl ' d .D I and should be flmshed With It covered range of th" Sierra Ne- I Teichert has a small crew . ' swa ran u re au e · b th d f tl · th d · b · 1 d f th ·

already inadequate. Victim~ of Griffith, Alfonse Vei:cruyssen. TahoutB teh e,n oh- liS lmdon .I vba asf 'tls femCgl_lfarn~sse, ~odr te _ punching a new road thru the _ peptic ulcers are increasing in ·.. · · · · _e . ro, ers w o wone on ene 1 0 a 1 or~Ia res~ en s. co!:Jbles. Asta Construction at

number. When we had only the HIGHWAY 40 SLOWS UP . I th1:~ JOb nave had a real good The; water already ~s bac~mg up Mather is finishing building site

p ropeller driven airplane no- Br?the~s: we have had qmte a sprm~ season as ~hey w?rked behmd . the 150 foot 1::\Igh Ice 1 pads for Gordon Ball. Robert 'E.

body was nervous out, W-ith the few mqumes about the Prosser si~ nme hour ·shifts, ram or H-ous~ n!.m on the South Fork L. Parker has sold most of his

addition of jet aircraft flying Creek D~m to be constructed by shme. . . . 0~ the ~Ilver Creek North _of equipment but keeps a me·

all over the place, we are al- R ~- ~emt~of Portla~d , Oregon. ~eter Kiewit has three shifts RIV_erton, El Dorad.o County, s1g- ch1mic, blade, roller, and dozer

ways looking upward hoping the Th1s JOb w1ll b~ serviced ~Y the gomg_ at yresent and they · are nalmg the operatwn~l. start ?f I man on the payroll. D. w. Nich·

plane is climbing steadly and not Sacramento of~1ce but t_o date we muck_mg m one of the shafts all ! ~he S~cra_mento Mun1Clpal ~til- olson has two operators going

descending too fast. With all have had no mformatwn a~ to the time. They have enough of 1t:y D1stncts Up~er A.mencan now with nothing new in sight •

. these frustrating conditions, who 1 the s.tart~ng date but we be!1eve the shaft? opened. up so that the RIVer Hyd~oelectnc P~·~Ject. Calahan Construction is bidding

has time to "take it easy?" · that It ~111 be around the middle mucker ·operator .Is· muck ·bou~d Lat~r th1s year add1tl~nal wa- for work at a firm price wiJII._·'

Kaiser's , Hawaii-Kai project. of ~pnl. . _ on_ all three shifts. They will ter ":Ill be stored behmd the Aerojet and has a couple t~

will be back in full swing at ~1d opem~g date for the relo- probab~y put on at least one Junctwn ~am below the conflu- ~ hands getting checks each :w·eek.

the time of this publication now 1 catwn of H1way 89 a~o~nd th.e I more ng before long. ence of Silver Creek and . the Granite Construction has the

that the land owners and the Prosser Cre~k r~servmr IS Apnl H~rms Brothers have b_een 1 S~uth For

1k of the creek, ~1ght stree~ rep~ir and maintenance in

government are of the same 2.0, 1960. This :~nll be a tw~ lane makmg rock at the .Bear RIVer miles norL1east of Pollock Pmes, AeroJet with one operator. Lup·

mind regarding the proposed hi:Vay, 6.6 m1l~s long w1th 1 plant east of Shendan for a El Dorado County. ¥(ater_ from pen & Hawley and Sacramento

highway route. Kaiser's Perma- . bndge t? be bmlt. It should, ~e couple of months now. T~ey t~ese storage reservmrs Will be- Tr~nching haVe finished . their

nente Cement Plant in Nanakuli a good JOb for the brothers m have the same c~·ew workmg g~n tQ produce power at the Jay- job installing . w~ter mains . and

is running a neck and neck race I the area. . that .was on the .Job last year bird Powerhouse by the end of services at Wherry Housing.

with its future competitor, the We have heard nothmg_ at all1 and they. have qmte a few tons 1960. UNDERGROUND . . .

Hawaiian Cement co. at Bar- abou~ any mo~e work com1~g up -of mate_nal to_ ~urn out. . . At the same time a vast recre- Krpan Brothers have a full

her's Point. Construction of Kai- on H~way 40 1~ the near future. Lowne Pavmg Company IS ational area is in the m~king in crew of operators off Antelope

ser's new hotel building at the Nothmg that IS, e~cept a flock ~b<:mt woun~ up on t?e1r sewer ~l ~orado Count~ to m~~e~se Road in Citrus Heights on a

Hawaiian Village is being speed- of rumors that don t seem t.o ad.d ~ob at Rocklm a~d ~111 be mov- fishmg and campn:g fac11It1e_s. storm drain job. These men

ed up with the importation of a up. Now that . the. OlympiCs 1s mg out so?n.This ~as been one 1 Whe? complete~ m ~he m1d practice safety to the hundreth

German built crane, (the same o~er the pressu.re Is off so they of the fa1r~st outfits that has 1960 _s, t~e proJect Will have~ degree. A. Teichert's top no­

as was shown in the February might not be m any hur~y to ever bee~ m the are~ and we created e1gh~ new lakes a~d ~n- e·ngineers are getting good fo~

issue of the Local 3 paper). Bro. comp~ete the four la~e ~Iway. want to give our spec~al thanks larged the s1ze of two ex1stmg. age on Arden Way with traffic

Silver Pili wale has a hard time I We smcerely hope this IS not ~o Gordon Wynn, the JOb super- lakes. .. , . creating some hazards. Richard

walking straight after putting in the c.ase. . . 1~tendant and we. hope to see · ~s more u~Its o! t?e proJect Cox lost a plumber due to faulty

eight hours on the pitching and Ee1chert 1s . s1owly gettmg him. back soon. This was a mean go mto operatiOn Withm the next shoring -on -the Carmichael Irri·

rolling "ftoating" rig. Kaiser's 1 started at Emigr~nt . Gap and 1 proJect an~ the company few years, more. of the flood gation job. The engineers on this

dredge "Judah" is back in serv- sh?uld have ~ fair siZed cr~w dropped. qmte a bu~dle but they run:off w~ter will be st?red, project are old hands at the

ice after extensive repairs and gomg b~ the hme you read this. never tned to t~~e It out on the thus creatmg ~he recreatl?nal game and putting out good work.

it is hoped that it will hold up They expe~t to have _ no rubber 1 me.n as. so often Is the case on a ~akes a11:d turm.ng the turbmes Capital and Sacramento Trench·

t hru the five million yard job at all unt!l June 1 or there- losmg Job. . . . m a senes of five powerhouses 1 ing are scattered out all over the

without too many breakdowns. . abouts. There is not much dirt Gordon H. Ball .1s gettmg a t~ produce more than 40~,~00 . county getting their share of the

Speaking of dredges, our un- left on the job this year so most ~ood start on .the Sierra College kil?watts of low-cost electnc1ty.l work. K, & w. Excavators ··are

ion has won a very long sought . _ 1 JOb at Rocklm and .they have Th1s stored water also . can aug-

1 going along steady with engi·

•unit" at the Hawaiian Dredge & your local has been brought ~uther_land Constructwl} on the ment water. supply systems at needs at the controls.

Construction Co. The N.L.R.B. · about by such · members as El- JOb. domg some foundatiOn exca- lower elev.atwns. . SUBURBAN SACRAMENTO

·election was won by a vote of rod and it is hoped that many vatwns for them. The proJect covers many miles Harms Brothers are well ••

42 to 7, after many months of 1 more of you will develop into, 1 PLACERVILLE AREA of .waterways from upper Deso- der way. at Lincoln Village with

hard work by many brother 1 and gain the title of, "A Good Larry Green Paving was the lahon Valley. at the 6500 ~oot the grading and . street work.

members of our dredge division Union Man." successful bidder on the new level, east 0~ Y' entworth Sprmgs They plan to do all underground

and also. by Brother Dan MoUes, We want to remind all bro- Placerville Elementary School. down to Chili Bar Po.werho~se, and pa-ving. Teichert has three

International Representative of ther members, especially those This consists of 70,000 cubic belothw 1f,OOPOl feet ~Inld aEfew mildes crews gojng now in several lo· I .U.O.E. whose expert maneu- with poor memories, that your yards of rock and dirt excava- nor 0 , · acervi ~' 1 Dora 0 cations. These are fast movers

_ vering · and knowledge of labor second quarter dues are over- tion and quite a bit of blacktop- County. rhe ar~a lies north and and hard to keep up with. Lentz

la~, convinced the N.· L. R. B. due. Many members have been ping when the weather permits. west of U. S. Highway 50· i have their dirt men going with ·

that there is always a crew of1 suspended for non payment of Brother Joe Romel · is the -fore- ROCK -& SAND PLANTS some overtime each week. Brigh·

dredgemen employed by the dues and it was not because they man on the job and has approxi- A. Teichert's Perkins plant is ton Sand and Gravel is getting

company and that they should are not working. If we do ·not mately twelve engineers work- on a two shift operation now and off to a slow start this season

be represented by your union. It get to you because of your fre- ing with him. Completion date will be, we're told, the rest of with the excavating crew, but as

is with regret we cannot, at this quent .changes of jobs, you can is sometime in June. the year. Brighton Sand and of now have all of the equip·

time, · mention those brother always_ have someone in the fam- Joe Vicirii Construction has a Gravel has all their ·plant men ment rolling. Granite Construe·

members who worked day and ily bring the dues in or have it lot of small jobs going in and on the payroll again and it looks tion Company has a go ahead

night helping your representa- 1 mailed. We also want to remind around Placerville. He just re- like a good year ahead. P.C.A. crew in the shop and rock p.

tives organize · the company's you of the fact that the con- cently finished all the grading at Fai-r Oaks finished an exten- trying to keep up with the op·

dredge division. Mahalo Broth- stitution states that a member and excavation work for Davis si~e repair job on the plant and erators working in the outside

ers, Mahalo Nui Loa! must ·be up · to date with his Construction on the new muffler added one more Simons cone area. McGillivray Construction is

Organizing of Lakeside De- dues to be covered by benefits 1 factory being l;>uilt in Placer- crusher. They are on a two shift starting off with a complete new

velopment Co. in Kailua has at the time of death or illness. ville. Four-Way Inc. has moved ! basis with all the old timers at paint and overhaul job on all of

been hindered by the anti-labor Don't wait till it's too late. one of their Lorain truck cranes ! the controls. Fair Oaks Gravel the equipment. Looks like . a

attitude of the company and Mahalo to you brothers who in to set all the pre-fab walls. I on the American River have the good season for · the brothers.

several of its employees. ·unfair I have been convincing the unor- 1 Brother · Wally Arnall is doing same crew of capable engineers Brandon Equipment has a fast

l abor practices on the part of I gani_zed to organize. M~ny po- th~ operati~? with ~arvin Fox I going at a fast clip. Teichert's mo~in.g crew of engineers on

t he company should be bared by tential .groups are askmg for domg the oilmg for lnm. I Del Paso plant on Watt Avenue their JOb off Folsom Blvd. They

the tirrie of this publication. representation and it is regret- UPPER AMERICAN RIVER is on and off with brothers on pl~m to finish ten houses a day

These practices have been re- ful that your representatives 1 Archie Till Construction . is , the loaders getting in full time. when they get in full produc·

vealed thru the unselfish efforts cannot contact all of these about 52% completed on their 1 H. A. Anderson at Folsom has tion. ·,

of Bro. C. H. "Bob" Elrod of groups all at the same time. 11 miles of road in Pollock Pines completed their remodeling job · Safety First comes first. P&. California who acce~ted a j_ob as I Don't f?rget to a!tend the reg- starting at the end of the paved and the plant is ready to go. Tri- ~ tice safety every day and teach

truck spotter to gam the mfor-1 ular mettmg .on Fnday, May the I Fore bay Road and extendmg to tan Products Company on Blue others · to do - the same.....,th~y m ation we ·needed. The unity of -20th. Aloah! · - the addit of the Camino tunnel. I Ravine Road have started to m~y save your life!

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