Masonry Magazine October 1970 Page. 28
NADD Report
By: Jeffrey L. Brock
Washington, D.C.-The NADD Annual Members Meeting is scheduled for October 17-21, 1970.
Woodrow R. Eshenaur, President of the Structural Clay Products Institute, will deliver the traditional industry greeting. Mr. Eshenaur has been an active member of the structural clay products industry for many years.
Also on the program is Thomas F. Murphy, President of Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union of America, who will speak to the members at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, October 18th.
Some 280 NADD members and their wives are expected to attend this years Convention.
The Board of Directors will discuss and consider the plans and programs for the coming year.
In a NADD Newsletter Editorial, H. Rodes Hart, President of Franklin Builders Supply Company in Nashville, expressed confidence in the immediate future of the masonry industry.
Mr. Hart said, the housing starts rate for July on a regional basis are encouraging to everyone. The Northeast had 260.000 starts, up 49 percent from June; the North Central, 323,000, up 8 percent; South, 655,000, up 11 percent; and the West, 347,000, up 13 percent. This is the trend for which we have been waiting.
The non-residential market is moving upwards, too. The federal construction freeze of 75 percent of Public Works Projects, which went into effect last September, expired July 1. Jobs that had been suspended can now go ahead providing they don't contribute to local inflation. The government's 1971 budget includes $4.5 billion in direct federal public construction. The recent major revision of the Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act carries a price tag of $2.8 billion. It authorizes appropriations over the next three years in grants and loan guarantees of at least $900 million a year.
Mr. Hart continued, although the costs of building are still rising, it is encouraging to see that brick is still "the thing" to use the durable unit which gives unlimited plasticity of form. Contractors are more and more taking advantage of the cost savings by using oversize units. Those of us connected with the brick industry know that the oversize units result in lower in-the-wall cost. Brick load-bearing construction is one the increase with its two-fold blessing of returning some of the lost market to the brick industry and providing the owners with a less expensive type of construction. Brick panels and system construction with brick will probably become reality in the very near future.
The prospects for housing and most commercial building are bright. There is justification for optimism and the belief that our Industry is again becoming healthy and will remain so for many years.
Alen G. Wyss and William J. Rudolph have purchased the builders' supply division of Old Fort Industries. Wyss will serve as president, and Rudolph as executive vice-president of the new company which will operate under the name of Old Fort Supply Company, Inc., in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Goodwin Companies changes corporate name to Can-Tex Industries-Brick and Tile Division. The new company will maintain the same offices and operate the same plant facilities as before.
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