The Tacoma times. [volume], August 27, 1941, Page 23, Image 21

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Workers, from Engineers to Gardeners, Guide City Light
Columbia River Power Assured
PORTLAND—Yakima and Ben- |
ton, Wash,, Wednesday were as-/
sured of Columbia river power by
May 1, 1942, following approval|
by Paul J. Raver of funds te build |
transmiasion facilities |
The plan calls for twa substa
tions and 47 miles of transmismon |
Yinea linking the Bonneville faeili
tiss with the Yakima ecounty pub
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Douglas Miller’s Sensational
Best-Seller Which Leaders
of America Urge Every
American to Read
For 14 years commercial attache at Berlin, the author learnad
ot first hand, from Nazi leaders and lieutenants, from Nazi
regulations and documents and plans, how the Nazis do business
today—and how they plan to do business tomorrow.
M the Nazis win the war, they will put those plans into effect—
and if they do everything America stands for and has fought
for will venish.
Fantastic? Not when you kmow the facts set forth in "You
Can't Do Business with Hitler'—which Wendell Willkie, David
Lawrence, Raymond Clapper, Elmer Davis, H. V. Kaltenborn,
John Kieran, William L. Shirer urge every American to read.
By special arrangement, “You Can't Do Business with Fiodler™
now will be published as a series of daily articles
Typical
Taocoma Defense Worker “"Refuels”
'lie utility district and the Benton
{ Rural Electric association, '
| A double-circuit, steel tow
| e transmission line i« to be |
| built from a point on the |
| Midway-Fllensburg line near
| Moxee City to a substation
| on the Yakima river.
A lower voltage line will link
the mubstation with a smaller one
1o be constructed near the Wash
ington State fairgrounds at the
Yakima city limits. The Yakima
station will tranaform power for
delivery to the P.UD.
| Also to be constructed was &
;tnmmlnlm\ line from the Yaki
'ma river subsatation to a point
. near Grandview, This line will
serve the Benton amsociation and
will enable the Yakima P U.D to
obtain power at any peint along
the line in the lower Yakima val
ey,
C€he Cacoma Cimes
452 on Payrolls of Giant
Local Utility; More Will Be
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; More
Needed as New Dam Rises
Second Nisqually Project Under
Way: Electrical Workers Belong
To International Brotherhood
Tacoma Light means a lot more than just a monthiy bill
to a Jot of the city's \lnrkm{ folk
To 452 persons last month it meant paydays, and to the
city's business life it means monthly payrolls as high as
S£RBO.OOO,
With the system on the verge of another great expansion
of its power capacity in the Second Nisqually Power Develop
ment project, that sizeable payroll isn't iikely to diminish for
a while.
Last vear, before the development started, the Nm de
partment pumped a total of $763,305 into Tacoma's channels
of trade.
Spending those Tacoma Light payroll doliars is a work
ing force running through all the trades from nationally
known engineers to gardeners. - = L
Already the special force work.
ing on the Nisqually project is &
noticeable part of the total crew.
On that maff headed by Chief
Engineer J Verne Gongwer is &
group of 20 engineers and aix
clerical persons working on the
top floor of the Jones bullding,
two blocka from City Hall That
entire floor has been taken over
for their work. |
21 IN FIELD CREW ‘
In additlon, on that projeet
morommzlmumomn\
crew, survey men and chainmen
working on the project. Some are
at the dam site, others are work
ing out to fine degres the exact
point to which the waters backed
by the dam will rise. At the site
sre 23 laborers and Dbulidoser
operators Aalready at work
Nearly that entire staff is new.
Only half a doren enginesrs were
borrowed from other jobs in the
light department.
~ On the job in the City Hall of
fices there Are 16 engineerg on
the regular operating force di
rected by Richard Nightingale
CLERICALS DIVIDED
. The depariment's clerioal staff,
headed by iHarry J. C. Berg, is di
vided, Twenty membery of it
work on the fourth floor of City
;Hlll, where Utilitisa Commissioner
ilnhlrt D. O'Neil and Light Supt.
‘\'qmo Kent have their offices.
Twenty-four more work down on
the second floor, handling ecom
fmorflnl accounts Besides the
'elerieal group there are five com
mercial saleamen and two demon
strators on the job, and in the
lange depariment two more sales
men at City Hall and two at the
24th and Holgate sta #tore.
In the city's range department
¢ight range repairmen are kept in
constant eervice setting up new
appliances and keeping heavy
Auty equipment in working order.
INSPECTORS BUSY
An important phase of Tacoma
Light's big enterprise ia the in
spection department, numbering
five regular men and Chisf Inapec
tor William L. Gaffney. All except
Gaffney work eontinually outside
the City Hall
Another set of outsde workers
in the sorps of nine reguiar meler
leaders Bach has his dwtiriet in
which he makes his appointed
rounds like e postman, and reads
& specified nunther of meters sach
dey
Nead Borekespar C € Peter
aon. at the JMih and Molgate plant,
hae a busy staff of twe store
Yeepers and four assistanis keep
ing track ~f general stores of 'he
department He also has two
clerks
CAMPS CARED FOR
Bince Tacoma lLight has the
duty of keeping wup the weitys
street illuminating eystem, that
entalls retention of a special staff
of a foreman and four lamp
aloman e Ohs oneas oo =t et
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§ We ARE DOING OUR PART =
= Hardware and Toels
g for the
g National Defense Program
g ; % HEADQUARTERS rOR i
= Outing Equipment ’
_‘_s: i FOR OVER 30 YILARS j
g !
= Washington Hardware Co.
= 924 Pacibic PRoadway 1136
%tuummu||uummxuuum|lmuummummumumuuuuummnmé
[aally clsaning globes and replacing
carbons of the downtown M]
| mental lights |
[ At the main substation of the
{lght system on Mth ot mi
| aperators or load dispatohers have
heavy responsibility for keeping
the flow of power amooth to all
Iparts of the system at all times
| Weston DeMaria, foreman of dis
tribution, holda forth at that
plant. In addition to the four
|eparators working with him Mi
the division has 18 operators at
|other substations with 18 sasis
| tanta.
WORK ON LINES
Out of the distribution center
l‘nd the astorercoms seven line
erews work. In all that group,
lundor General Foreman C. A Mil
ler. includes & line foreman for
_'ncn crew, 38 linemen, 10 truck
| drivers and 22 groundmen.
. Each of those crews becomes a 8
| much & team as any group of men
lin an athietie sport. Each num
| bers one foreman, four Imemen,
|one junior Nneman, twe ground
men and a truck driver, as an
;lwrm Each man has his sep
[arate job but all are trained to
"lwork together in such team jobs A 8
; erecting new light poles and rig
| King power lines
| CRAFTAMEN NUMEROUS
| Another specialized force on the
| Tacoma Light payroll is the group
y| of naide wiremen. 18 men under
. |General Foreman William F
y | Thomaon
.| The miscellansous maintanance
| foree of the department has even
| wider variety of craftsmen than
.| the other sections, On mainten
, | #nce at all times are three junior
wiremen, five carpenters and twe
] wnm.
| The department gives all light
, | service to s own automotive
| equipment, and has thres men
{readily at work greasing and
making minor sdjustments. Re
| pairs of majwr nature go to the
.| municipal shops
METERS SERVICED
. There are five metar service
The American
Way of Saving
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SAFE
SURE
INSURED
WAY
Your Boviage Assount MHere
Cormias Poderel lnsuranse Uy
s 35,000
3% Curvomt Dividend Rete
American Savings
& Loan Assn.
158 11 M. M 2258
New headquarters of Tocome Toamete n’ union geing up on Wahetield dvive
men, kept busy servicing melers,
rhecking loads and complaints and
doing repair work. The departs
ment has hres apprentioss one
in the range department. one In
the wire department and one n
the metar ream, employed n line
with o poliey of tiraining men
fram the ground up In the de
partment.
Counting all parta of the sy
tem, Including the power plants
the arganiastion has 80 laborers a!
work in an average month
Three gardeners are on the
teguinr payroll working to heep
propertiss of the department in
the eity stiractive to the eyes of
the Tacoma citisens whe own
them
OFERATORS ON DUTY
Each of the three power plants,
Nisquaily No | and Cushman Noa
1 and 2. has A contsant foree of
four operators. Twelve assistant
operators are distributed o the
three planis in the same propor
ten.
. AL the three sight powar plant
watehmen are kepl on the job
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“For the past few days one of your men hes been pevaied high
on 1 telephone pole cutside the window of my homs .. .
“Seated at my desk ([ write my newspaper column ot home )
1 would from time to time glance out . . . Sometimes s wnile of
mutual understanding passed between ns.
“Since his position was above the roof of my house, he could
Yee that my radio acrial was down,
“Imagine my surprise when on his own time on his noon hour
this man .. . brought the company’s ladder, climbed up to my
rool and repaired the broken antenna
“Hecause of his kindness my wife and | are this night able 10
listen to our favorite pm‘ums.”
We suspect that it gave this telephone man much pleas
ure to render that courtesy. His job is linking voices
together. It’s a friendly business—
attracts friendly people. fi
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THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO‘IPANY
787 Fawaan Tolaphane MAn sl4l
‘walehing fow gates at the dame
Thers are sin wlility man, & pair
for sach plant, and one additional
wireman for sach Garfening
around the planis s 4one by ane
of the aborers al sach
| While sarpenters, painters and
[ mechanion. few in sumber In the
[ Hght department belong 1o thelr
| reapective uniona, thers are four
[mar groups of arganised e
| poyes
ENGINEERS ARE UNITED
| The large number of siectrieal
| workers, which Wmeludes he e
!unmd“h‘vfl.“
membearship in the International
Arotherhond of Elsetrical Workers
No. 4
Engineers - and Tacoma Light
undoubled'y has the largeat group
|of them in one offies in the oity..
| belong tn the Tasoma Amnciation
|of Teehnioal Engineers and Arehi
| teeta, Loeal 70
erioal workers have their
| group, The American Fadaration
|of State, County & Municipal Bm
ployes. Local 139 and the large
Lcorpa of labarers their membership
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in Leoesl 1352 of the Intarnational
Rrstharhood of Med Casviers,
Auilting and Comman [aberers,
- st
U. S. to Purchase
!AWJ&W
ture Department eansunced Weds
neaday that it =il Negin purs
ahase of apples far relisf Sistre
Bution a 8 sen as possibie after
Sept L
Opening prices guoted are B
tn 38 conte Abeve thate of & year
age, Wt wili be sulject 1a change
n accordance with markst sone
ditions, the department sald
Opening prices. fob shipping
point, ot whieh bl
muh“mm
s fallows
U, & Ne 1 Jessthane N
inches and uwp. 51 per buahal
U. 8 Ne | Grimes Golden 2%
inehas and up. 8 sents por Bushel;
U, & Ne | Waaithys 1% inehes
up. M sents per Sushel