Masonry Magazine May 1969 Page. 8
Select Heslip
John A. Heslip has been selected by the Masonry Institute of Michigan, Inc. to take over the newly-created post of Executive Director, G. (Joe) Forte, President of the Institute has announced.
Heslip, in his new position, will initiate and co-ordinate the planning and development of masonry promotion on an industry-wide basis throughout the Metropolitan Detroit Area. According to Forte, he brings to the Institute a broad background of experience in masonry-related advertising, promotion, research, product development and technical services necessary for filling the expanding needs of the industry.
Until assuming his new post, Heslip was, for the last six years, employed by the Huron Cement Division of the National Gypsum Company, Detroit, where he served as Masonry Sales Representative and later as Masonry Products Manager, working with a 60-member sales force serving a 10-state market.
Prior to his joining Huron Cement, he headed his own mason contracting firm in the Saginaw area. A resident of Plymouth, Heslip attended Michigan State University and later served with the United States Army.
225 X 112.5 X 77 mm
Structural clay products manufacturers in Britain propose to "go metric". As a result of a practical examination of the factors involved in the change to metric carried out in conjunction with the National Building Agency, which included a series of field trials, the brick industry is proposing to those committees of the British Standards Institution that are concerned with the change to metric that the whole industry should go over to metric dimensions as from the 1st January, 1970, and that the new format size of 225 x 112.5 x 75 mm. should be adopted.
Celebrate 100th
Vaughan & Bushnell Mfg. Co,. Hebron, Illinois, has commissioned a special painting by famous illustrator and painter Luke Doheny in commemoration of its 100th anniversary.
The artist's works have been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and have appeared on the covers of such popular publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Chicago Tribune Magazine and others. He was requested by Vaughan & Bushnell to give his interpretation of a tribute to those who buy, use and appreciate fine tools the carpenter, the farmer, the mechanic, the builder, the do-it-yourselfer, etc.
The resulting heart warming painting depicts an obviously long experienced craftsman building a dog house for the boy (and his dog), and tells the story of teacher and student in a way that can't be matched with words.
During the past 100 years, Vaughan & Bushnell has been recognized as a manufacturer of quality hammers, hatchets, axes and hand tools, and is credited with many outstanding improvements in tool design and construction, as well as consistent introduction of entirely new tools.
AIA Honors Six
The Board of Directors of The American Institute of Architects has announced that 6 foreign architects have been elected Honorary Fellows of the AIA.
They are: Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, England; William Dunkel, Switzerland; Werner Duttman, Germany; Preben Hansen, Denmark; Norman H. McMurrich, Canada, and Joaquin Ordonez Alvarez, Mexico.
The six will be invested during the 1969 joint convention of the AIA and The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada June 22-26, in Chicago.
National Wire Expands
National Wire Products Corpoгаtion will make a major addition to its Baltimore plant of office and manufacturing space totaling some 80,000 square feet of new area under roof, it was announced by Ray C. Faust, president.
This expansion, the company's third at Baltimore in less than a decade, brings the plant's total space under roof to more than 235,000 square feet.
Mr. Faust reported that National Wire will use a major portion of the addition to increase production of wire mesh, pipe mesh and masonry reinforecment for the construction industry. He stated that demand for these products has been "moving up rapidly" over the last several years.
In addition to its headquarters facility at Baltimore, National Wire has three other plants throughout the East. They are located at Savannah, Tampa and Kearny, New Jersey.
LMRDA Publication
The U. S. Department of Labor announced the publication of a summary of its operations under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) during Fiscal Year 1968.
The publication, contains an account of civil and criminal actions brought during the year by the Department, and reviews private court actions instituted under the Act. Also included in the summary is a report showing the fidelity experience totals of surety companies in their first two years of reporting to the Department on their bonding experience under the LMRDA and the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act.
The 88-page publication, entitled Compliance, Enforcement and Reporting in 1968 Under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, is available at $1.00 per copy from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402.