FHA Accepts Quality Certified Aluminum Windows Standard

The FHA has accepted the "Quality Certified" Label of the Architectural Aluminum Manufacturers Association. Inc. as evidence that aluminum windows carrying the label meet the requirements of the FHA Minimum Property Standards.

F;ist public reference to the label acLLptance was made by Joseph A. Woods, General Underwriting Advisor, Federal Housing Administration at the annual AAMA meeting in San Francisco.

The AAMA Quality Certified Label (or an alternate program satisfactory to FHA) became mandatory on aluminum window units after January l, 1964, if buildings were to be eligible for FHA Mortgage in' surance.

George O. Radford, President of Radco Products, Inc., Santa Maria, California, and newly elected President of the Archi' tectural Aluminum Manufacturers Associa' tion, hailed the FHA action as a giant step forward for the aluminum industry.

"The fact that FHA will demand the "QC" label, or similar evidence of quality, on all prime aluminum windows and sliding glass doors in FHA-insured homes and apartments means that the consumer will be more fully protected than ever before," said Radford.

Radford pointed out that the AAMA, Inc., Quality Certified label will appear only on the products of manufacturers which have been pre-inspected to assure ihat they meet AAMA specifications and standards. As part of the policing of the program, all Quality Certified licensees' factories are inspected three times each year. The independent administrator, Electrical Testing Laboratories, Inc., New York, checks the manu{acturers products to see that they have proper strength of members, water'tightness, wind-resistance, and other qualities. Products that fail the standards are eliminated from the program until necessary corrections are made, Radford explained.

Approximately 56 manufacturers, rep."."nt1ttg over 5O/o of the total national output are placing the QC label on their prime aluminum windows and sliding glass doors.

The Nation's prime producers of aluminum also are backing the AAMA Quality Certified Label Program.

O. M. Mader, Manager, Building Products Sales, Alcoa, declared, "Our industry believes the consumer can be conditioned to look for the Quality Certified Label on the prime aluminum windows in the home he buys. Vte are entering an era of a neu' type o{ consumer; a consumer who will demand quality, whether in clothing, an automobile or his home. We must increasinglv think quality and ofier quality. We believe this trend toward quality is so important that our new Alcoa advertisements feature the Quality Certified Label of the Architectural Aluminum Manufacturers Asso' ciation."

Heroic Secret Service Agent

Wos Once Honored by NLMA

Rufus W. Youngblood, Secret Service agent who received special commendation for shielding then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson during the assasination of President Kennedy Novem' ber 22 in Dallas, was once honored by the National Lumber Manufacturers Associa' tion. The occasion was the 1956 annual meeting of NLMA, at which Youngblood and his wife were declared the winners of a $16,990 "Value House of 1957," located in Franconia, Virginia.

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Tonook Nqme Chonge?

With the increasing use of tattoak. re' oorts the Northwest Hardwood Association, .o*e of those promoting to itrcrease commercial applications have suggested chang' ing the name of the species.

The association has requested its members to send their suggestions to the group's headquarters.

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