Masonry Magazine June 1978 Page. 11
Mason Contractor News
# New Booklet Offers
# Masonry Business Tips
Successful business practices are explained in a new "primer" on common problems and solutions facing today's mason contractor. The 24-page booklet, How To Avoid Financial Pitfalls in the Masonry Contracting Business, is a digested version of a McGraw-Hill book, Profitable Management for the Subcontractor, authored by Robert L. Teets.
Teets, an authority on electrical engineering business operations, created a comprehensive business guide that is geared to the thousands of skilled subcontractors whose companies fail only because they lack sufficient business knowledge.
Copies of the booklet are available without charge from H. J. Newbauer, F. W. Dodge Division, McGraw-Hill Information Systems Co., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020.
# People & Events
The Orange Masonry Promotion Trust Fund, in the Los Angeles region, has appointed Frank Dave as its new staff director. Dave formerly was promotional representative for the Drywall Industry Trust Fund. William G. Lees, vice president, Building Products Division, Celotex Corp., has been elected president of the Gypsum Association. The Portland Cement Association has named Max D. Moore director of its communications department. Paul Ercanbrack, vice president of Ercanbrack Construction, Linden, is the new vice president for the South Area of Mason Contractors Association of Utah. Bend Industries, Inc., West. continued on page 26
# MCA of Atlanta Appoints
# Dahin Executive Director
John B. "Scotty" Dahin has been named executive director of the Mason Contractors Association of Atlanta and its affiliate, the Masonry Institute of Atlanta. He has been associated with the masonry industry in the Atlanta area for the past 20 years and was an architectural representative and vice president of a local distributorship specializing in burned clay products and their use in the construction field.
Dahin is a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a graduate of the Brick Institute of America Clay Products Engineering School. He holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a master's degree in industrial management from Michigan State University.
# Masonry Information
# Available Free
The primary purpose of the International Masonry Institute (IMI) is to provide useful information about masonry design and construction to architects, engineers, owners, investors, government agencies and builder-developers as well as mason contractors, craftsmen and others.
If you would like a free catalog listing IMI publications, free loan films and slide shows, and recommended information from other national masonry associations, contact: IMI, 823 Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, telephone: 212/783-3908. Mention you saw this announcement in MASONRY.
# $7.5 Million Shopping
# Mall Readied for Oregon
Plans for a $7.5 million, 185.000-square-foot shopping mall have been announced by the Salem (Ore.) City Council as a major urban renewal project. To be known as Nordstrom Mall, the project will be anchored by a 72,000-square-foot Nordstrom specialty store. The mall's exterior will be chiefly of masonry design.
# Ray F. Wimer Retires
Ray F. Wimer, long-time executive director of the Oregon Masonry Guild, retired effective May 1. Ray also had been MCAA's Northwest Field Representative for many years, with headquarters in Portland.
Ray and his wife, Betty, recently relocated to Aloha, Ore., which is in close proximity to Portland. Their address is 18065 S.W. Salix Ridge, zip 97005. Ray and Betty say they are looking forward to hearing from their many friends in the masonry industry.
Metropolitan Ceramics Robert J. Brower (left), vice president-manufacturing, and Walter P. Niblick, vice president, compare samples of the new IronRock split-tile ceramic pavers obtained from the first production of their new plant in Canton
# Metropolitan Industries
# Completes Expansion
Metropolitan Industries, Inc., Canton, Ohio, has completed its innovative, multi-million-dollar manufacturing plant to produce the company's new IronRock line of split-tile ceramic pavers.
The pavers combined the aesthetics and durability of architectural brick pavers with the convenience and ease of installation of thin paving tile. The innovative split-tile manufacturing process permits extruding and firing of thin, double-paver tiles of superior strength without warpage.
The new, 60.000-square-foot facility is the first totally new ceramic tile plant to be built in the United States in more than 40 years and is the latest step in Metropolitan's 75-year history of manufacturing brick and ceramics. Metropolitan Industries was formed in 1902 as Metropolitan Paving Brick Co.