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FILE NAME: Trade Publications (TR) DATE: 1949 Nov DOC#: TR051 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Journal Article - Twelve States Pass Legislation Increasing Workers' Compensation Yol. 42 NOVEMBER 1949 No. 5 published on the first of ta c k month for producer an d m anu facturers of C e m e n t , Crushed Stone, G ypsum , Lime, S a n d , G rav el a n d other fionmetaUic m iner als. Copyright 1949 by Complete Service P ublishing C o., 5 3 8 S. Clark S treet, C hicago 5 , Illinois. H. W . BAUMGARTNER President JAMES E. MONTGOMERY Vice-President end Advertising Manager RAY t . SMITH, JR. Vice-President and Circulation M anager W . T. KLUSSMAN Secretary WALTER E. TRAUFFER Editor WULIAM M. AVERY Senior Field Editor EOWARD J . BRUNENKANT Field Editor HAROLD R. ORIMIUA Field Research Editor HARRY f . UTLEY Pacific Coast Editor M. E. ANSEL Assistant Editor WOLF G , BAUER Contributing Editor FRANK J. CORNYN Production Manager CHICAGO BUSINESS OFFICE 538 South Clark Street C hicago S, Illinois Telephone HArrison 7-B5S8 EARL C. KAYE Representative GEORGE P. GRANT Representative NEW YORK OFFICE Room 1235, 101 P ark A venue N ew York 17, N ew York Tel. M U rray Hill 5 -4438 a n d 5 -4 7 1 4 W. A . WILSON Eastern Advertising M anager JOHN R, DUBLE Assistant CLEVELAND OFFICE 465 The A rcade Cleveland 14, Ohio Telephone CHerry 4432 CHARLES H .8U SSM A N N Central Advertising Manager PACIFIC COAST OFFICES 820 N. M agnolia Avenue Whittier, C alifornia HARRY F. UTLEY HARRY ABNEY McDONALD-THOMPSON Terminal Sales Bldg. - Seattle 1, W ashington * D. R. EGBERT Special Representative Coronado Court Tucson, A rizona PIT AMO QUARRY IS INDEXED 1M THE ENK5IUS'' On tOte cd4ue E d ito ria l....................................................................................66 News of the In d u s t r y .............................................................69 Thirty Years A g o in Pit and Q u a r r y ............................................ 79 Eliot Plant-- Newest Titan of the In d u s t r y ................................ 81 West Lake Quarry Achieves Low Power C o s t ................................ 85 Washington News L e t t e r ........................................................ 87 Canada Cement Company Expands Belleville P l a n t ........................88 Shaped Charge Demonstration a S u c c e s s .................................... 97 The Multiple-Jet Shaped Blasting C h a r g e ....................................... 99 New Company Expands Perlite 1500 Miles from Source of Material . 103 How to Depreciate E q u ip m e n t .................................................. 105 Missouri Construction Man's First Commercial Stone Plant. . . . 1 0 6 Jet Piercing at K i n g s t o n ...........................................................108 S c r e e n in g s ...............................................................................112 Modern Pumice Plant Has Capacity of 500 Tons D a i l y ................ 113 Report on Current Labor Developments . . . .........................114 N.S.G.A. Directors Discuss Important Industry P r o b le m s .................. 115 Superior Insulation Introduces Dark Mineral W o o l .......................... 117 Mechanics, Techniques and Economics of Expanded Clay-Shale Aggregate Production -- V .................................................. 119 Announce Eight Regional Directors of U. S. Bureau of Mines . . . 1 2 2 Twelve States Pass Legislation Increasing Workers' Compensation . 124 The Concrete Manufacturer News of the In d u s t r y ............................................................... 177 First Aglite P l a n t .......................................................................182 N.R.M.C.A. Board Meeting at A s h e v ille ....................................... 186 Logical Tieup Between Block and Sand-Gravel Operation . . . . 1 8 7 Krumhaus Installs New Type Automatic Block M a c h i n e ...................189 Personal M e n tio n ............................................................................................................ 12S O b i t u a r i e s ............................ .... ........................................................- ....................... I2L New M a c h in e ry ............................................................................................................ I*8 Mora Information P l e a s e ................................................................ .... 141 Trade N o t ................................................................................................................. *46 Legal Decisions . . . . ..................................... .................................................. ISO Traffic N ew s..................................................................................................................... IS7 Index to A d v e rtise rs........................................... - ...................... .... 240 To subscribe**' D ata on low er right-hand corner e f envelope indicate* issue w ith w hich y o u r \n wT5*inq to hav# ad d ress changed, give old ae w ell a t n e w addreee.  Sine the (all of 1946, three Modal 36 FD roar-dump Euclid powered with Cummins die sels have hauled 1,750,000 tons of rock from quarry to crusher for Cumberland Quarries, lne,, near Albany, Ky. These hauling units are now working three 8-hr. shifts a day and each of the Cummins-Powered Rear Dumps moves 100 t.p.h. over haul roads that average threetenths of a mile one way. All aggregate produced by Cumberland Quarries is used in con crete construction at Wolf Creek Dam, 12 miles away. Pacific Carbide & Alloys Co. Buys Quarry Through R.F.C. Pacific Carbide & Alloys Company of Portland, Ore., has acquired the old Black Marble limestone quarry near En terprise, Ore., from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Included in the sale were three shaft kilns and other equipment. The deposit comprises about 240 acres. According to James H. Jensen, com pany engineer, immediate plans call for only sufficient quarrying and crushing to supply the limestone needs of the two Elleman calciners now in service at the concern's calcium-carbide plant located in Portland. Midwestern Perlite Corp. To Make Lightweight Material Midwestern Perlite Corporation will utilize Oklahoma gas and Nevada ore to produce a new lightweight building material called Panacalite in a plant to be erected in Oklahoma City, accord ing to an announcement made by the Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board. The plant will have three sections-- a raw material storage building, a second structure for housing equipment, and a finished material warehouse. Basic patents for ^the firm's manufacturing process are owned by the Combined Metals Reduction Company of Salt Lake City. conducted by E. L. Conwell & Company, Philadelphia, it was shown that " the physical properties of North American anti-bacterial cement more than meet standard specifications for portland ce ment." Among the uses of this new product are the following: dairies, bams, gymna siums, locker rooms, swimming pools, bath houses, plant cafeterias, restaurant kitchens, hotel kitchens, etc. Zonolite Company Reports Increased Profits in 1948-49 T he Zonolite Company, largest pro ducer of vermiculite in the United States, with plants in Blue Island, 111., Dearborn, Mich., Libby, Mont., Albany, N. Y., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Travelers Rest, S. C., reported earnings of more than $520,000 for the year ended March 31, 1949. Last year during the comparable period, the figure was $356,000. In June the company declared a 10-ceat dividend on its 984,112 outstanding shares. / LaSalle Materials Co. Reopens Sofvay Quarry At Winnfield, La. Operation of the quarry at Winnfield, La., formerly owned by the Solvay Proc ess Company of Baton Rouge, has been resumed under the ownership of the La Salle Materials Company, Inc., of Alex andria, La. The quarry had been closed since Solvay disposed of its holdings at Winnfield about a year ago. LaSalle Materials Company has been affiliated with Solvay for a number of years in the disposition of materials from the quarry at Winnfield, but has not un til this fall installed equipment at the plant. Due to the recent death of John Royal, who was to have managed the quarry at Winnfield, work at the plant is being supervised by O. R. Stephens, presi dent and general manager of LaSalle Materials. Permanente Men Celebrate 1000-Day Safety Record This Earth, attractive company pub lication of the Permanente Cement Com pany and related firms, carried in its September issue a full-page candid shot of five Permanente workers celebrating 1,000 days of work without a lost-time accident. The " picture of the month" showed Art Miller, Jim McAmally, Harold Brown, Jimmy Via and Superintendent R. Joliff, enjoying cigars to mark the completion of the 1000-day accident-free period. Frontier Stone Products, Inc., and the Louisville Cement Company of New York won recognition for no lost-time ac cidents in the Tenth Annual Accident Reduction Contest for Buffalo area firms sponsored by the New York State In surance Fund. The firms were honored at a banquet held at the Hotel Statler, Buffalo. New Anti-Bacterial Cement Offered by North American An important new" product of the North American Cement Corporation of New York is its anti-bacterial cement. According to the manufacturer, "bac teria and fungi cannot grow on the sur faces of damp or wet concrete floors in which this cement is used." North American anti-bacterial cement conforms to the physical and chemical requirements of American Society for Testing Materials specifications for portland cement, C150-47, Type II. In tests 78 In December, 1947, Kelley Island Lime and Transport Co., at Clay Center, O., replaced a 65-ton steam locomotive with a 50-ton general Electric diesel-electric unit. Since then, two 8-hour shifts for the steemer have been cut to one 9-hour shift for the new locomtive; fuel costs heve dropped from $15 a day to $14 a week; availability has risen to nearly 100 percent; end total savings of $1000 a month have been estimeted by company officials. The diesel-electric operates over 7 miles of fairly level track, hauling up to twelve 30-fon cers loaded with lime, by-products, residue, or water. `i ' i D U _____I A . W*V--* - T w e lv e States Pass Legislation Increasing W orkers' Com pensation ?v p%ILLS liberalizing w orkm en's ' 1 ^ compensation laws have been widely enacted by state legisla' tures this year in continuation of a trend which has spread rapidly in r recent years. Although complete data are diffi- j cult to obtain at this time because ; of the large number of bills relating to workmen's compensation which y,, flood state legislatures, a survey refr- veals that states enacting bills boostT ing benefits or otherwise liberalizing such laws include Alabama, Mon tana, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsyl vania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Alabama's legislature enacted a measure calling for an increase in workmen's compensation payments to $21 per week and an increase in maximum payments from $6,000 to ' $8,400. It also raised medical and hospital payments. A bill providing for a $2.50 week ly increase in workmen's compensa tion benefits was enacted in Mon tana. Under the new law, the maxi mum will be $20 for a single man and $26 a week for a man with five " or more dependents. Another new Montana law increased maximum medical aid and hospital benefits under the workmen's compensation act to $1,000. New Jersey's legislature enacted a bill providing "full coverage" for workers under the workmen's com pensation law. It extends workmen's compensation, either for injuries or r death arising from employment, when such injuries or death arises from "compensable occupational dis--> ease." New Jersey law heretofore C,' defined a specific list of occupational diseases which were compensable, g?.; T hat list is abolished by the new SC jaw, which defines compensable ocfC cupational diseases as follows: "All V' diseases -arising out of and in the i course of employment, which are due to causes and conditions which' . - are or were characteristic of or peculiar to a particular trade, occu pation, process or employment, or which diseases are due to the ex posure of any employee to a cause thereof arising out Nof and in the course of his employment." Enacted by the Ohio legislature was a bill boosting workmen's com pensation benefits from $25. to $30 - weekly and increasing death pay ments from $7,500 to $8,000. Maximum weekly workmen's com pensation benefits have been raised in Pennsylvania from $20 to $25. The new Pennsylvania legislation also boosted occupational disease . benefits 15 percent, and increased allowances for medical services from 60 to 90 days and from $150 to $225. ' A number of bills related to work men's compensation, including one adding to the list of compensable occupational diseases disability aris ing from silicosis and asbestosis, or disability arising from any cause concerned with the peculiar charac teristics of employment, and repeal ing that part of the state law which provides specific and lower compen sation for silicosis and asbestosis. Passed by the South Dakota legis lature was a bill raising the work men's compensation ceiling from $20 to $25 a week, and boosting the minimum from $7.50 to $10. A new Tennessee law increased workmen's compensation allowances from a lump sum maximum of $6,500 to $7,500 for total disability, and increased maximum weekly benefits from $20 to $25. Vermont's legislature increased minimum weekly workmen's com pensation benefits from $10 to $12 and the maximum from $20 to $25. It also doubled hospital and medical benefits, raising the ceiling from $375 to $750. Enacted in West Virginia was a bill increasing weekly workmen's compensation benefits from a maxi mum of $18 to $25, widows' bene fits from $30 to $50; it also makes occupational diseases other than sili cosis compensable. A bill enacted in Wisconsin in creased maximum workmen's com pensation weekly benefits- from $28 to $33.55. It also increased pay- ments for death or major injury. The Wyoming legislature also ap proved a bill increasing, benefits. The new liberalizing law was de scribed by its sponsors as the most important piece of Wyoming legis lation affecting workmen since the original enactment of the state work men's compensation act in 1915. An Idaho bill which would have broadened provisions of the state's present silicosis law and added other respiratory diseases as compensable under the state workmen's compen sation act was vetoed by Governor G. A. Robins, who pointed out that other legislation provided for an interim legislative 'study of Idaho workmen's compensation and occu pational disease laws. Bills to liberalize workmen's com pensation in various respects were still pending in several states at this writing. Proposals to broaden workmen's compensation statutes to include em ployees of small firms now exempt were introduced in a number of state legislatures, but no new enact ments of such bills have been re ported thus far this year. Tom, Dick and Harry Get The Low-Down on Marquette Something new and unique in simplified annual reports was mailed recently by the management of the Marquette Ce ment Manufacturing Company to the homes of all employees of Marquette and its subsidiaries. Designed to make company financial statements understandable and attractive to all, this special report on the cost of and returns from 1948 operations is presented in colorful comic-book format. Entitled Tom, Dick and Harry-- the Marquette Team, the report brings out the facts in lively running continuity in conversation between characters repre sentative of wage-earner, management and investor groups. Printed in four colors, readability and understandability of the 16-page report is further increased by breakdown of all figures to a per-employee basis. Thus a high degree of personalization is achieved in each item. Autobiography Tells Story Of LeTourneau's Career A vivid record of the life and ac complishments of R. G. LeToumeau, president of the company which has four manufacturing plants located in the United States and one in Australia, is told in a new biography just off the press: Moving Heaven and Earth (The Story of R. G. LeToumeau). It traces the career of a man whose inventiveness created machines which have revolutionized the earthmoving world. Written by Donald F. Ackland of London, who flew 16,000 miles with Mr. LeToumeau in the course of as sembling material for this book, Moving Heaven and Earth contains many inter esting anecdotes and incidents which re veal the industrial and spiritual philoso phies of this manufacturer of high-speed rubber-tired construction equipment. Pub lished by Iverson-Ford Associates, New York. Officials of the National Sand and Gravel Association recently issued the 1949 edition of the Year Book, which contains a list of officers, members of the board of directors and active and associate members. The book also car ries a brief account of the association's work since its organization 33 years ago. 124 P i i tinti OiinrfV