b'iMRCA CONVENTION .f,\' WITHGLORY" CROWNED AHUNDRED YEARS AGO,whenThe result was a drama portraying a Kansas City was in its youth, the citytrue-to-lifesituation,fromwhich wasin swarmsandeveryone learned the graphic interplay knee-deepof locustsofeach,tothecompletionofa the Missouri Governor called for a daysuccessful roofing job. ofprayerfordeliverancefromtheThefullcomprehensiveprogram plague.coveredtopicssuchas"Reroofing Thisyear,earlyinNovember,Revisited",analyzingthetopicto up-to-datemodernKansasCitywasdetermine whether the roof should be invaded again, this time by more thancovered overortornoffcompletely, onethousand,threehundredregi_s and what type of insulation was needed trants at the newly completed Crowntoupgradeenergyconservation CenterHotel,forthetwenty-sixththrough the useof additionalinsulaAnnualConventionoftheMidwesttions,suchasthetaperedsystems, RoofingContractorsConvention.Soetc.,aswellasthemeritsofcold heavywastheattendancethatprocess roofing.Panelists were:A.B. confereeswerequarteredinhotelsPadon,Jr.,Omaha,Neb.,Stanley aroundthecity,attestingtotheHoselton, Chenoa, Ill., Rodney Naucke, drawingpoweroftheexcellentFt. Smith, Arks., and Craig Plummer, business programs as well as the hugeAnderson Indiana. tradeshowfeaturing112exhibitOf major interest was the session on boothsshowingmanynewproducts.the savings of both money and energy (Our next issue will carry more detailsthroughuseofroofingequipment. on this facet of the show.)Covered alsowas the questionasto MarshallRoy,RoyRoofing,Ltd.,whether to rent the equipment or to Leeds,England;BernardBlake,purchase. Copies of the ~RC~ Rental Imperbetl, Brussels, Belgium; RomoloRateGuide-1975wered1str1buted,a Gorgati,Derbit,Bologna,Italy;andcircular showing costs under average KeithPearson,D.Anderson&Son,conditionsof every sizeablepieceof Ltd., Manchester, England;addedanequipment used by contractor~ ranging International Touchtotheprogram,fromair compressors to various roof presenting asessionon"NewEuro topequipment,trailors,tractors, pean Roofing Products: A Prologue totrucks,vans,etc.Contractorswere Industry Progress."cautionedtoanalyzetheirown An especially interesting session wasoperationstodetermin_eyouro"\'.n entitled"DissectionofaJointspecificrate.Anyonemterestedm Venture", in which a panel of expertsseeing a copy may write the Midwest representing various segments of theRoofing Contractors Association, 1000 analyze a 45-acre industry proceeded toPowerandLightBuilding,Kansas roofingjobintermsofthelegal,City, Missouri 64105. financial, accounting, technical, safety,Thissessionalonewasworththe environmental,labor andotherprob costofattendingthemeeting,said lems encountered and . many contractors. It was discussed by surmounted in applying the joint roofing venture.panelmembers:JohnBradford,BillRepresentingthevariousindustryings,Montana,LowellLangland, groups were thetalents of:Ottumwa,Iowa,andMichaelJ. noteworthy John Harrington, Tom Manson, GeorgeMooney, Hutchinson, Kansas. Moellerand \' PaulMorris,astheThe Insurance Seminar was headed contractors in the joint venture.by James Metzler, R.B. Jones, Inc. and The ConsultantwasW.D.Wright,W.F.Rosenow,Chicago.Taxand Roofing Consultant, Royal Oak,Mich.AccountingwasdescribedbyTom Accountant wasRoyHodson,ElmerMcKittrick,ArthurAnder!-on&Co., Fox, W estheimer & Co.; OSHA repre and Cyril Tilson,Madison, WiSonsin. sentativewasRobertBorchardt,Moistureeffectsoninsulation, OSHA Area Director; aided by Jack L.condensationandspaceventing,and Whitacre, Attorney. NIOSHARegio~alvapor barriers w~re discussed by!\'~ul IndustrialHygienist,RayHervm,Morris, Kansas City, and C.W. Griffin, representedthisarea,withJosephDenville,N.J. Wiederkehr,BusinessAgent,Local"Thekeytopounds-per-plyin No.20,coyeringtheareaofLaborinterplymoppings is theviscosityof relations. 6ABC-American Roofer and Building ImprovementontractorNov. - Dec. 1975 C'