Masonry Magazine August 1973 Page. 18
BLOK-TRUS
ADJUSTABLE ECONO-LOK®
STONE-LOK
TYPE S ADJUSTABLE TIE
BLOK-TITE CONTROL JOINT
BLOK-LOK®
AA
WIRE PRODUCTS COMPANY
All AA Wire reinforcing and wall tie systems save labor costs. Many of them solve other mason problems such as Adjustable Econo-Lok for tying together double walls where the joints don't line up. Then there's Stone-Lok the fast way to tie random shaped stone to a backup wall. Select the system that saves you more money and speeds your jobs. Send for your handy free Guide to AA systems. AA Wire Products Company, 6100 South New England Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60638.
Beauty Picks Brick Planter Winners
In a unique masonry promotion program in Oregon, Miss Gresham of 1973 is shown here selecting the two winners in a drawing for having a duplication of one of these two planters built at their homes. The contest was a joint effort of the First National Bank of Oregon in Gresham and the Oregon Masonry Guild. The planters were built by two bricklayer apprentices in the bank's lobby, drawing attention to the building boom going on in nearby Portland and showing bank visitors the skill that goes into a masonry project.
Koehring Equipment Sales Show Increase
Shareholders attending Koehring Company's annual meeting in Milwaukee recently were told that better than 65% of the firm's $288 million total sales during the 1972 fiscal year, which ended November 30, were to the construction industry. This percentage included sales made overseas. Lending emphasis to the importance of construction to Koehring was an exhibit of several different new machines ranging from PCM Division's 1510 Skytrak, a low-cost utility forklift, to Bantam Division's T-451 hydraulic backhoe. Speaking to shareholders, Koehring president Orville R. Mertz stated that 1972 sales represented an all-time high for the company, while earnings improved substantially as demand for products recovered rapidly from the 1971 recession. Inspecting the new equipment are Koehring shareholders and executives.
The higher men climb, the longer their working day. Any young man with a streak of idleness in him may better make up his mind at the beginning that mediocrity will be his lot. Without immense, sustained effort he will not climb high. Even if fortune or chance were to lift him high, he would not stay there; to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there. There are no office hours for leaders.- Cardinal Gibbons.