Masonry Magazine June 1967 Page. 11
MCAA Insurance Report
(Continued from page 8) own expense you will be doing them a service, since the cost is often double on an individual basis.
Accident Claims reported by our members and their families include:
Date | Location | Status
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February 1965 | Texas | Paid $500.00
April 1965 | Oregon | Paid $1,000.00
August 1965 | Virginia | Paid $172.00
October 1965 | Texas | Paid $255.69
October 1965 | Kentucky | Paid $5,000.00
December 1965 | Arizona | Paid $321.50
January 1966 | Rhode Island | Paid $35.45
January 1966 | Ohio | Paid $721.42
February 1966 | Texas | Paid $600.00
March 1966 | Ohio | Paid $2,028.56
March 1966 | Missouri | Paid $546.45
March 1966 | Connecticut | No medical carried
July 1966 | Missouri | Paid $276.65
August 1966 | Georgia | Paid $1,000.00
October 1966 | Rhode Island | No medical carried
October 1966 | Colorado | Paid $1,228.56
October 1966 | Illinois | Paid $18.50
October 1966 | Pennsylvania | Paid $435.70
November 1966 | Ohio | Pending
December 1966 | Rhode Island | Paid $500.00
December 1966 | Rhode Island | Paid $500.00
January 1967 | Illinois | Paid $18.50
January 1967 | Minnesota | Paid $56.75
March 1967 | Connecticut | Payment Pending
Family Money Plan
MCAA's Group Insurance Plan providing cash benefits for each day in the hospital is only one year old, but already is paying an increasing number of claims to participants, including:
Date | Location | Status
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May 1966 | Illinois | Paid $200.00
June 1966 | Indiana | Paid $40.00
July 1966 | Texas | Paid $330.00
August 1966 | Illinois | Paid $660.00
September 1966 | Minnesota | Paid $240.00
October 1966 | Minnesota | Paid $330.00
October 1966 | Connecticut | Paid $320.00
October 1966 | Texas | Paid $150.00
October 1966 | Ohio | Paid $210.00
October 1966 | Minessota | Paid $50.00
November 1966 | Connecticut | Paid $540.00
December 1966 | Rhode Island | Paid $320.00
January 1967 | Michigan | Paid $513.00
January 1967 | West Virginia | Paid $44.00
January 1967 | Virginia | Paid $180.00
January 1967 | Texas | Paid $160.00
January 1967 | Massachusetts | Paid $220.00
January 1967 | Colorado | Paid $213.00
February 1967 | Pennsylvania | Pending
February 1967 | Illinois | Paid $80.00
February 1967 | Michigan | Pending
March 1967 | New York | Paid $60.00
March 1967 | Illinois | Paid $90.00
March 1967 | Rhode Island | Paid $10.00
April 1967 | Texas | Pending
April 1967 | Illinois | Pending
May 1967 | Missouri | Pending
May 1967 | Texas | Pending
May 1967 | Minnesota | Pending
May 1967 | Illinois | Pending
You can enroll in this popular plan right now, if you haven't already done so. Contact MCAA headquarters for full details.
Other Benefits in Progress
Work is currently underway to make possible additional advantages under MCAA's Variable Pension Program in the light of the latest Internal Revenue Rulings, as well as other benefit programs not currently provided. All of this takes time, since we want to get the job done properly, but within the next few months further announcements will be made concerning what has been accomplished.
If you have any questions in the interim or want to enroll in one or more of these programs, please contact the MCAA Executive Office, 208 South La Salle Street, Chicago, III. 60604 or Walter T. Derk, Fred S. James & Co., One North La Salle St., Chicago, III, 60602.
Some Facts About Lightning Rods
If you think lightning rods went out with the buggy whip and moustache cup, you just haven't been looking closely.
From the gantries at Cape Kennedy to the trees on the White House lawn, lightning rod protection is being provided by the nation's largest producer, Robbins Lightning Protection Company of Maryville, Mo.
"A lot of people aren't aware the business still exists," Norman Robbins, president of the firm, says. "But actually the industry has shown steady growth every year and is bigger than ever."
Despite what you may have heard, lightning does strike twice, Mr. Robbins says. In fact, chances are it will.
Even with such other opportunities as defective wiring, smoking in bed and open fireplaces, lightning still is one of the leading causes of fires and is the primary cause of church and barn fires.
The business has changed a great deal, Mr. Robbins points out. The lightning rod salesman traveling in his buggy from farm to farm the city slicker who had to be put up for the night was a favorite subject of jokes at the turn of the century.
Today, it is a precise technical business. Robbins engineering department spends its time working on government contracts and with engineers and architects to provide modern lightning protection systems for leading structures.
Probably the most famous lightning rod is the Washington Monument. An aluminum cap about the size of a man's head is connected to four gold-plated copper tubes which lead down to the iron stairway and elevator shaft to provide grounding. When installed in 1884, aluminum cost $1.10 an ounce, but was worth every penny by providing protection through the thousands of lightning storms it has experienced over the years.
Today's lightning rods bear little resemblance to those of yesterday. Although there is some movement back to ornamental balls and swirls and weathervanes, plain aluminum rods about a foot long ending in a sharp point connected by an aluminum cable are the basic elements of the modern system. Robbins winds its own cable and fabricator rods from wire and bar supplied by Reynolds Metals Company.
"Prior to World War II," Robbins says, "we used about 90 per cent copper and 10 per cent aluminum. Today it's about 75 per cent aluminum."
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