Masonry Magazine January 1966 Page. 55
PEOPLE AND EVENTS
Annual Construction Conference Citation Award. New member of the Minneapolis Chapter is Hollenback & Nelson. Don Rose of Northwestern State Portland Cement Co. was elected an associate member.
Featured speaker at the Milwaukee Chapter's December meeting was James Sheeren, Marblehead Lime Co. The Nov./Dec. 1965 issue of Brick & Tile is outstanding. It features in full color St. Anastasia Church, Waukegan, III. If you have a chance, pick up a copy and see the full, rich beauty of this structure. When a wife buys things on credit, she is merely displaying her confidence in her husband.
Indiana Concrete Masonry Association will hold its 8th Annual Meeting at the Speedway Motel, Indianapolis, Jan. 9-11. Program Chairman is H. E. Young, President, Spickelmier Industries. Robert L. Moore, Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co., was presented with a Distinguished Service to Safety Award during the recent Congress of National Safety Council. A secret method for returning from Las Vegas with a small Fortune is to go there with a large one.
S. H. McNall announces that SCPI will hold two Sales Engineering Training Classes in 1966. Dates set are January 3 to February 4 and February through March 18. The Houston Chapter held their Annual Xmas Party on Friday, Dec. 10th, at the Willowisp Country Club while the Chicago Chapter held their Xmas Party at the Martinique-Drury Lane Theatre. Janis Paige was featured in the play "Remains To Be Seen."
ELECT DIRECTIORS
Three new directors were elected and five were reelected to the Board of Directors of National Wire Products Corporation at a special meeting of the stockholders held Friday, October 29, 1965. The announcement was made by Ray C. Faust, President and Chief Executive Officer. The three directors elected were Ray C. Faust, Jr., G. Ross French and Gerard A. Seling. The five directors who were reelected are E. Clyde Grimm, Ray C. Faust, Clifford Faust, J. A. W. Iglehart, and B. D. Williams. National Wire maufactures welded wire reinforcement for concrete and masonry, and is the largest independent producer of welded wire concrete reinforcement fabrics in the United States.
KOEHRING REPORT
In a closed-circuit television program originating in Milwaukee and viewed by representatives of the press and the financial community in Cleveland and New York, Koehring Company President and Board Chairman Julien R. Steelman released the results of his firm's most successful year.
Steelman reported net shipments for the fiscal year ended November 30 of $146,398,000, with net earnings after taxes of $8,231,000. Shipments for 1965 were 28% over those of 1964, and nearly three times the total recorded by Koehring for 1961. Net earnings exceeded the 1964 performance by 26%. Despite a 14% increase in the number of shares outstanding on November 30, Koehring's earnings per common share increased 20% to $3.75 for the year. Koehring paid dividends of $1.50 per common share in 1965. Steelman spoke from the Milwaukee Studios of WTMJ-TV, and was viewed at WEWS-TV in Cleveland and at the Bankers Club in New York.
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Omark Industries, Inc. has officially opened a new Southwest distribution center in Dallas, Texas, its third expansion in the city since first opening offices there in 1960. The center will distribute Omark's diversified lines of cutting and fastening products and systems to factory branches and distributors in a 13-state area. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Omark operates 32 factory branches and sales offices in the U.S. Plants are located in Portland, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Adelaide, Austrailia, and Worcester, Mass. They say our memory power is unlimited and the Post Office Department and Telephone Company are trying to prove it.