Masonry Magazine February 1963 Page. 20
CONTRACTORS!
PREVENT
UNSIGHTLY
CRACKS
USE
WAL-LOK
MORTAR JOINT REINFORCING
BECAUSE:
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF REINFORCING IN MASONRY WALLS DEPENDS ON THE AMOUNT AND TENSILE STRENGTH OF THE STEEL IN THE MORTAR AND THE BOND OF THIS STEEL TO THE MORTAR.
WAL-LOK puts 19.2% more steel in the mortar where it counts.
WAL-LOK is double deformed for maximum bond.
TENSILE STRENGTH of steel is retained.
PROJECTING CROSSRODS give 4 mortar locks at each weld.
CROSSRODS hold WAL-LOK up for complete embedment.
WAL-LOK, in all grades, complies with or exceeds Government specifications.
Write for New Descriptive Brochure and Name of Distributor nearest you.
WAL-LOK
DIV. of LENAWEE PEERLESS, Inc.
P. O. BOX 516
ADRIAN, MICHIGAN
People & Events
(Continued from page 16) district representative for the Koehring Co., Milwaukee. Harold Schaefer, Streator Brick Co., is recuperating in a Streator Hospital from a recent illness.
At the Tuesday session, the men were treated to an unusual, but highly delightful event a young lady taking a shower on the stage. To illustrate the waterproof characteristics of vermiculite insulation the demonstration was extremely successful. It's scheduled for '64 already... Those going through the show were treated to many gifts. From fascinatinig balloons, useful targets, colorful vests, thoughtful shoe shines, beautiful glasses and banks. Exhibitors made sure that members went home with many mementos of the Pittsburgh Convention.
Lee Churchill was honored by the Arizona Masonry Guild for the outstanding job he has done as President of that organization.. Charles L. Hickman, Mesa, Ariz., is the new President of the Arizona Chapter. A.I.A. Latest issue of SCPI, Brick & Tile, features the Brick Idea Home exhibited in the 1962 Parade of Homes in Denver, Colorado.
The promotion of Ashton Marcus to Gramweld Stud Welding Product Manager and the appointment of James E. Rudnick to fill Marcus' former position of Marketing Services Manager, has been announced by Guy E. Sabin, General Sales Manager of Omark Industries, Inc., Portland, Ore. John W. Bruce, Jr. has been named President and General Manager of Larsen Products Corp., Bethesda, Md., according to Mrs. Phyllis H. Larsen, Board Chairman and Treasurer.
Maurice L. Burgener has been appointed Assistant to the Vice President for Promotion and William V. Wagner, Jr. named Manager of the Farm Bureau for the Portland Cement Association. The Carborundum Co. has announced the creation of a new subsidiary which has purchased the Ty-Sa-Man Machine Co., Knoxville, Tenn. Charles T. Richards, Richards Brick Co., Edwardsville, III., is the new president of Region 5, SCPI. Buel M. Wallis has been appointed Assistant Director of Marketing for Kochring Co... George E. Detzel was elected president of the Cincinnati Chapter of AGC at the annual meeting Jan. 16th.
Construction Cost Rise Se
NEW YORK Construction may rise faster in 1963 than the in 1962, according to a forecast on Engineering News-Record's struction and Building Cost In covering 20 major U. S. cities. Current indications are for a 3.4 per rise in the ENR Construction Index from December, 1962, to jected level 909.81 (1913-100 December, 1963. This forecast is on estimates of the cost of steel ber, cement and common labos components of the ENR Constr Cost Index.
A rise of 3.5 per cent is ex for the ENR Building Cost Inde the year ending December, 1963 the year end index level estima 604.31. This index is based o same "Big Three" materials companion Construction Cost but uses three skilled trades (ca ters, bricklayers and structural workers) in place of common
Vice-President Speaks
At Installation Banquet
Vice President Edward J. Flicker, Director of Marketing and ning for the Fastron Company, at the Installation Banquet e University of Illinois Chapter Ch National Advertising Fraternity, Delta Sigma at Champaign, I January 11.
Flickinger has a master's deg business administration from the versity of Chicago where he ma in marketing. Fastron is a ma turer and distributor of ind threaded fasteners.
Apprenticeship Training Fallis
Behind Needs of Economy
WASHINGTON, D. C. training of skilled workers is behind the needs of our burge economy at a "shocking" pace, las Whitlock, chairman of the of the Structural Clay Produc stitute, told members of the Na Association of State and Terr Apprenticeship Directors in the note speech at the opening sess their three-day conference in ington, D. C.
In the construction industry only 10 per cent of the deman skilled help in the next 10 years filled through apprenticeship present rate of training, he said He called for the stepped-up on the part of management and working with State and Federa ernments, to expand apprenti programs on a voluntary basis t ply the trained labor that he saic build a whole new America end of the century."
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