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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1960 Jan 13 DOC OC435 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Minutes of Board of Directors of the National Insulation Manufacturers Association ey - MINUTES of Health Health program program : BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING of the MANUFACTURERS NATIONAL INSULATION Biltmore Hotel ASSOCIATION New York N. Y. January 13 1960 | x PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT 402d 402d 402d 402d The meeting was called to order at 2:00 P. M. by following Chairman with the in attendance EE.. H. Luchs a DIRECTORS E. H. Luchs Norman Barr Proxy for R. R. Porter R. E. Buckley F. T. Christenson Proxy for Frank Christenson G. J. Christner * T. T. S. Clousing J. W. Cordrey Proxy for J. C. Voiles A. A. M. Ehret Jr. . H. B. Hutten J. B. Jobe E. T. Johnson P. D. Kaley Ike Keith F. W. Muller H. T. Williams OTHERS PRESENT Mundet Cork Corp. Keasbey & Mattison Company Pittsburgh Corning Corp. Refractory & Insulation Corp. The Picher Company M. H. Detrick Company Fibreboard Paper Products Co. Baldwin Inc. The Ruberoid Company Manville Sales Corp. Union Asbestos & Rubber Co. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. . Forty Insulations Inc. Gustin Mfg Company Corning Fiberglas Corp. L. A. Hoff M. I. Ruddock Legal Counsel J. M. Barnhart APPROVAL OF MINUTES Manville Sales Corp. Manville Sales Corp. Cadwalader Wichersham & Taft National Insulation Mfrs Asen A motion was made seconded and passed That the Minutes of the Board of Directors Mecting of September 9 1959 as bulletined by the Associ ation office be approved TREASURER'S REPORT The Association's Balance Sheet and Statement of Income and as of December 31 1959 were outlined by Mr. F. T. ChristeEnxspoennditures The Treasurer's Report is attached to these Minutes and made part thereof - It was reported that the income for 1960 will be in the neighborhood of 82,000.00 82,000.00 82,000.00 ELECTION OF BOARD MEMBER Due to commitments within his company Mr. R. A. McLaughlin resigned as a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President and has asked that Mr. P. D. Kaley replace him on the Board of Directors A motion was made by Mr. F. W. Muller seconded by Mr. T. S. Clousing and unanimously passed , That Mr. P. D. Kaley be elected as his company's designated representative on the Board of Directors ELECTION OF VICE PRESIDENT & MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . Mr. J. B. Jobe reported that the Nominating Committee proposed the following names to serve as Vice President and Member of the Executive Committee to fill the vacancies in accordance with the NIMA Laws Vice President - H. T. Williams Executive Committed Member - Ike Keith There being no further nominations a motion was made by Mr. A. M. Ebret Jr. seconded by Mr. G. J. Christner and unanimously passed That the Vice President and Member of the Executive Committee as proposed by the Nominating Committee be elected SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORT ON ESTABLISHMENT OF A SAFETY PROGRAM Mr. J. B. Jobe reported that safety was a subject that was in conjunction with considered Manufacturing Committee and that basically a manufacturing program could be broken | wn into the following parto le 3- SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORT ON ESTABLISHMENT OF A SAFETY FROGRAM cont'd) a . Manufacturing Methods It was the consensus of the group that the diversification of manufacturing methods within NIMA was great and that the feasibility of such a program would be impractical therefore the subject should be tabled b Safety It was the consensus of the group that the reporting e . of statistics relating to accident prevention was adequately covered by the program that many of NIMA members parti- cipate in with the National Mineral Wool Association and therefore the subject should be tabled c Health The feeling of the group on this aspect was that the industry could benefit from such a program This subject will be studied further and a recommendation will be made at the next NIMA Board Meeting ' , STATISTICAL REPORTING It was reported that two letters had been received from members suggesting suggesting that benefit would be derived by reporting statistics on a geographical basis in addition to the statistics already received Discussion on the subject revealed that reporting on a state basis would be costly and impractical However reporting on a regional basis would appear to be feasible and will be investigated further In this respect Mr. Barnhart was asked to determine the individual company members regional sales boundaries in an attempt to see if there were five or six areas of the country that would be fairly common to the membership This will be done by mailing maps to the members upon which they are to indicate the sales regions for which they would have figures available in the normal course of business The estimated cost of handling such an enlarged statistical reporting service will be secured from Price Waterhouse & Company NIMA members were asked to look into their company costs in participating in such a program This subject will be discussed further at the NIMA Spring Meeting REVISION TO NIMA CONSTITUTION Mr. H. T. Williams reported that the Committee had met and discussed the expansion of the membership categorice in the NIMA Constitution include the foamed plastic manufacturers manufacturers Because of the fact that foamed plastic was a different product than those presently included in the Association with different problems it was recommended that no change be made in the Con- stitution at this time Following discussion it was the consensus that the