Masonry Magazine July 1969 Page. 11
Mason Contractor News
Acquire Brick Plant
General Dynamics announced today that it has acquired the Powell & Minnock Brick Works, Inc. through purchase of its outstanding stock. Powell & Minnock, located in Coeymans, N.Y., near Albany, will operate as a sister company of Darlington Brick & Clay Products Company, also a General Dynamics subsidiary. The announcement was made by Frank Nugent, Group Vice President, Resources Group, which is headquartered in Chicago.
Prusa Joins BTEA
Norman R. Prusa has joined the Building Trades Employers Association, Cleveland, Ohio, as Director of Labor Relations effective August 1 it was announced by president George B. Bodwell.
In this new post Prusa will supervise and coordinate all labor relations activities of the BTEA and will serve in this capacity until he relieves the present Executive Manager John A. Hull, who will retire in December.
Prior to joining the BTEA Prusa was Assistant Regional Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board where he served for ten years covering every phase of regional office work including the investigation and trial of unfair labor practice cases. He held the responsibility for all decision writing in the Northern Ohio region.
A native of Garfield Heights, Ohio, Prusa holds an AB degree from Baldwin-Wallace College. He graduated with an LLB degree from Western Reserve University in 1950. He is a member of the Ohio Bar and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1958.
To assure a smooth transition of office John A. Hull will remain in his (Continued on page 33)
Steinhoff Receives Lead Man Award
Guy Apple, MCAA Secretary, right, presents to Fred Steinhoff, left, the Association's Lead Man Award at a recent meeting of the Arizona Masonry Contractors Association. Center is Blaine Warner, MCAA's State Chairman for Arizona. Mr. Steinhoff, long associated with Industrial Publications and Cahners Publications, has retired and now lives in Sun City. He was active in the formation meetings of MCAA and an avid booster of its objects and principles.
Form New Company
The owners of Roth & Ellis Masonry Contractors, Inc., Allentown, have formed and incorporated Union Metals Industries, Inc.
Leon H. Roth of Allentown and William E. Ellis Jr. of Douglassville R. 2. Berks County, announced Union Metals has temporary headquarters in Allentown and plans a manufacturing plant on seven acres in Berks' Amity Township.
Union Metals is described as a successor to Union Metal Products, Inc., of Memphis, Tenn. Roth and Ellis said they recently purchased from that company the manufacturing and patent rights covering the United States, Canada, Australia, England and West Germany for "Hoist-O-Matic" automatic raise-up masonry scaffolding.
Product manufacturing will continue in Memphis. On completion of the plant in Berks, scheduled for later this year, the entire facility will move to Amity Township.
Roth and Ellis became involved with the Memphis company through their firm using "Hoist-O-Matic" scaffolding.
Siderits, Sell Promoted
In a realignment of the sales and marketing staff at PCM Division of Koehring. Port Washington, Wis., Robert T. Siderits has been named general sales manager and Raymond C. Sell, Jr., has been appointed administrative marketing manager, according to H. P. Mueller, Jr., PCM president and general manager.
Siderits will assume responsibility for all sales and marketing activities. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he had been mixer/material handling sales manager for the past two years. For five years prior to that, he had been a product manager for a construction equipment manufacturer. (Continued on page 34)