Masonry Magazine October 1978 Page. 26
New Theme for IMI Ad Campaign
The International Masonry Institute's 1978 national advertising campaign features a strong new theme stressing the pride and quality of craftsmanship exhibited by mason contractors and bricklayers. The first ad in the series is titled "You Set Stone with Your Hands and Your Heart" and features the new addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The project was designed by internationally renowned architect I. M. Pei.
Seen above at a ceremony at IMI headquarters in Washington during a presentation of framed copies of the new ad are (from left): Hubert Stockhausen, business agent, International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen (BAC) Local #2. Washington, D.C.; Thomas F. Murphy, president of BAC and a founding advisor on the Board of IMI; Rich Jarboe, the stone mason featured in the ad, and Sam Menlow of Atlas Tile & Marble Works, the marble contracting firm for the National Gallery project.
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Nelson Hails House Tax Bill For Aiding Small Business
Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) has praised the compromise Ullman-Jones tax bill introduced on July 18 as the "most progressive tax legislation for small businesses since 1909."
The bill, developed by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman and Rep. James Jones, is designed to break a log-jam of nearly three months between the Administration's 1978 tax proposals and the position of House and Senate members after extensive hearings. It would make permanent tax reductions for corporations with less than $100,000 in annual taxable incomes.
Nelson, chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, developed a similar bill, introduced in the Senate as S.2669 on March 6. It proposes to extend permanent rate cuts to corporate taxable incomes up to $150,000.
Nelson told the Senate: "The House compromise bill, which would target almost 50 percent of the tax cuts to small and medium-size companies, is a dramatic display of support for the nation's small businesses. This would be 2½ times the share of relief which the Administration's bill would have allocated to these companies."
UNCLE SAM'S APPETITE GROWS
The Department of Commerce reports that total government expenditures have soared from 19% of the gross national product in 1939 to 34% today. In 1939, the average production worker had to devote only 1% of his time-less than half a week per year-to federal income and Social Security taxes. Today he must relegate 14% of his time-almost eight weeks to pay these same federal taxes. And the administration has proposed upping the ratio, at least as far as Social Security is concerned, to cope with that system's growing insolvency.