Masonry Magazine July 1970 Page. 29
Aid Minority Youths
The Spokane, Wash., area construction trades unions will prepare 30 minority youths residing on both sides of the Washington-Idaho line to pass apprenticeship tests in the building trades, under a U.S. Department of Labor contract.
The Northeastern Washington-Northern Idaho Building and Construction Trades Council has agreed to start its first Apprenticeship Outreach program, the 66th to operate in the United States.
Apprenticeship Outreach provides for up to 10 weeks of preparation, using the "tutor and cram" technique, to help minority youths pass specific trades examinations.
GPC Sales Increase
General Portland Cement Company reported an increase in sales but a decrease in earnings for the first quarter of 1970 as compared to the corresponding period in 1969. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer L. James Wade, Jr. said that sales for the first quarter reached $19,948,000 as compared to $18,887,000, and earnings totaled $825,000 compared to $1,034,000 for the previous year. Net income for the period was $.16 per share compared to S.20 per share earned during the first three months of 1969.
Tile Industry Forecast
Declaring that by 1976, more than 65% of America's shelter will be factory assembled, William Brangham, Executive Vice President of the Behring Corporation predicted that the future of the ceramic tile industry is in production of unitized tile components for factory assembled housing.
Speaking at a luncheon of the Tile Council of America during its annual spring membership meeting in Princeton, New Jersey the factory home building executive said the factory assembled housing industry will be the biggest single source of income of the tile industry. Using his own firm's Fort Lauderdale factory which has the capacity to turn out 20 homes per day as the yardstick, Brangham said the annual per plant requirement of tile for bathrooms alone will be more than 450,000 square feet.
Each year motorists drop 16,000 pieces of trash on each mile of primary highway, according to a study by the Highway Research Board, National Academy of Sciences.
Don Carpenter
# MORGEN
# 26 Towers Saved Him $15 Per Mason Per Day
# He Switched from Tubular Frame to Morgen Scaffolding and Increased His Net Profit 75%
Don Carpenter, masonry contractor of Denver, Colo., had a chance to test the promise of 20% more production on Morgen Scaffolding.
He was doing the masonry work for the Coronado Apartment complex, 186 two-bedroom units being built by American Builders, Colorado Springs, for L. C. Fulenwieder, Denver.
The project involves 840,000 face brick on exterior veneer walls, plus fireplace faces in each unit, and hoods and arches over all the windows and doors.
The first three months Carpenter used tubular frame scaffolding with 8 to 10 masons. Then, on the promise of a 20% increase in production, he switched to Morgen Scaffolding. He bought 26 towers 20% feet high and used them the last 2 months.
This was enough scaffolding so the masons could keep working on one building while a second set of scaffolding was being moved from a completed building to the next to be veneered.
Carpenter immediately cut his scaffolding set-up and stocking time. One laborer and one forklift operator could move scaffolding from one building to another, set and plank 13 towers and stock them with enough brick to complete the building all in just four hours.
"I'd say that Morgen's promise of a 20% increase in masons' production is a very conservative figure," Carpenter reports. "I saved over $150 a day with 8 to 10 masons-at least $15 per mason per day. And that, combined with the saving in scaffolding erection, moving and tear-down costs, increased my net profit by over 75%. I just wish I'd had Morgen Scaffolding from the start!"
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