Masonry Magazine March 1965 Page. 9
Mason Contractor News
Published by The Mason Contractors Association of America, 208 S. La Salle St., Chicago 4, III.
Here is a continuation of the photo review of the '65 MCAA Convention appearing in last month's Masonry.
127th Dividend
The Board of Directors of Skil Corporation, Chicago-based international power tool firm, today declared the quarterly dividend of 20 cents per share of common stock payable March 19, 1965, to stockholders of record at the close of business March 5, 1965.
FORM NEW MEXICO CHAPTER
The Mason Contractors Association of New Mexico was organized Friday, February 26 at a dinner meeting, all of Albuquerque, were Word H. Payne, president; Jasper Johanson, vice president: Kenneth P. Thompson, Secretary; Vincent J. Lardner, Jr.. treasurer; and Irby Downey, state chairman. Other organizing members were Leonard Faraona, Jean W. Spencer, George Morris and Arthur C. Darnell, all of Albuquerque.
The group has applied for a charter to affiliate with the Mason Contractors Association of America. Masonry contractors throughout New Mexico will be invited to join the organization which intends to function on a state-wide basis.
Bearing Wall Conference
The first "National Brick Bearing Wall Conference" ever held will take place May 27-28 in Pittsburgh and some 500 of the country's top architects and structural engineers are expected to attend.
The Conference will be sponsored (continued on page 11)
Blueprint reading course started by Local No. 5, Dallas, covers a variety of subjects designed to make journeymen better qualified foremen. Instructors for the course were Luther H. Hill, J. and John Groo.
Start Journeymen's Course In Dallas
Local No. 5, Dallas, Texas, has started a Journeymen's Blueprint Reading course in cooperation with MCAA's Dallas Chapter and the local AGC association. This related training course, the first of its kind in the southwest, is designed to take the young journeymen and make him better qualified to be a foreman. The class covers such subjects as 1. Basic reading of blueprints 2. Orientation and methods of finding those parts of blueprints that are needed and that pertain to their particular type of work and how they work in conjunction to other segments of the prints 3. How to lay out a building with an instrument 4. How to correlate mechanical, electrical, steel, structural plans and shop drawings with architectural drawings 5. How to operate a slide rule 6. How to interpret specifications.
The classes first project was that of a simple shopping center. It advanced through schools and other structures and is now completing the course with an advanced plan of a multi-story building.
Instructors for the course were Luther H. Hill, Jr. and John Groo. Both of these men work for Henry C. Beck Co. Mr. Hill is the Project Manager for the North Park Regional Shopping Center while Mr. Groo is an estimator.
The contractor who trims himself to fit every bid, soon whittles himself away!
We may not be the first nation to reach the moon, but you can bet we'll be the first one to send it foreign aid.
200,000 PEOPLE DAILY
SEE NEW YORK DISPLAY
The lively and sometimes ingenious questions posed in the public mind are driving attendants at the Metropolitan Brick Masonry Council's Grand Central Terminal brick exhibit to the telephone and the library several times each day.
The exhibit, located in the lower level rotunda of the terminal, is seen by some one million weekly, and 200,000 people daily according to Transportation Display Industries who operate the terminal exhibits and advertising concessions. Of this group, some 5,000 to 7,500 daily take time to go through the 600 square foot exhibit consisting of brick walls, a Federation Bank and Trust Company office, brick and metal grill work, curved surfaces (continued on page 10)
1966 MCAA Convention & Show
Washington, D. C.
February 19-22, 1966
MASONRY
March, 1965