Minnesota Highways, August 1957

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VOL.  6,  NO.   10
1246  University Ave., St. Paul  4, Minn.
AUGUST,   1957
Marzitelli Becomes Deputy
State Highway Commissioner
Frank Marzitelli, for the past
seven years a member of the St.
Paul city council, and most recently its public works commissioner, on August 15 became
deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Highway department.
His appointment to the newly
established position by Commissioner Zimmerman was announced by Governor Freeman
July 26. His yearly salary will be
$12,700.
Governor Freeman said appointment of a deputy commissioner was advisable to help
handle the growing problems of
departmental admini s t r a t i o n
caused by the Highway department's rapidly expanding planning and construction programs
pnd the accompanying increase in
*he number of department employees.
Noting that Minnesota and the
nation are on the threshold of a
"new era in public works, the
era of vastly accelerated highway
planning and construction," Marzitelli said his new assignment
with the Highway department
"represents to me an opportunity to extend my work in this
field into a greater area and to
face a broader challenge."
Before  he was  elected to  the
Frank   D.   Marzitelli
St. Paul city council, Marzitelli
was treasurer of the St. Paul
Bakers and Confectioners union.
As a city council member, he
has served successively as commissioner of education; libraries,
auditorium and museum; and
public works. In these posts, he
was a prime leader in movements
to establish independence of the
St. Paul school board,  construct
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5 Major Appointments Made
to Division, District Posts
Five major Highway department posts, including two top divisional positions, are now occupied by newly promoted appointees.
The five appointees, named late in July, and their new assignments are:
W. S. Ekern, 48, formerly
district engineer at Detroit
Lakes, named construction
engineer. As head of the Construction division, he will direct all trunk highway construction in the state.
Dwight T. Burns, 54, formerly assistant construction engineer, now plans, surveys and
design engineer. He heads the
Plans, Surveys and Design
division.
Arne N. Wahlroos, 44, formerly assistant district engineer
in the Metropolitan district,
appointed assistant construction engineer to succeed Burns.
Lynn Carlson, 45, previously assistant district engineer at
Brainerd, named to Ekern's
post at Detroit Lakes.
Harold   W.   James,   56,  promoted  from   assistant   district
engineer at Willmar to maintenance    district   engineer   at
Marshall,   succeeding   Roy
Gilbertson, who died June
Ekern,   who   occupied  his
troit  Lakes   post   the   past
years,  succeeded John H. Swanberg, promoted June 1 to be chief
Fortnightly Pay
Plan Is Adopted
Pay periods for all state civil
service employees will be changed January 1 from a semi-monthly to a fortnightly basis. After
that date, pay days will be on alternate Tuesdays, instead of on
the fifteenth and last day of each
month. There will thus be 26 pay
days each year, instead of 24.
At the same time, all employees not so situated will go on to a
"delayed" pay basis by which
their checks will be issued two
weeks after the conclusion of the
pay period they cover.
In the Highway department,
the latter change will affect only
about 1,600 employees because
construction and maintenance
field workers have been on the
delayed pay basis for several
years. All people in the Highway
department  are   on   the   delayed
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Stan   Ekern
Dwight  Burns
Arne   Wahlroos
Lynn   Carlson
Harold   James