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BR.l Told of New Community of Homes, Set in Foresf, None Higher Thon Tree

Organized as a trial balloon to test the pattern of future Building Research Institute multi-subject conferences, the 8th annual meeting of the Institute at Pittsburgh's PennSheraton hotel on April 7 and 8 was the first BRI meeting to hit a total registration of more than 675. BRI offrcers are enthusiastic over the turnout, which was composed of a real cross-section of the building industry, including architects, contractors, engineers, building owners, building products manufacturers and distributors, appraisers, government building officials, financiers, and building research specialists from colleges and universities, as well as private consultants.

Robert W. Dowling, who had just been appointed chairman of the Advisory Committee for a National Cultural Center in Washington by President Eisenhower, and who is president of City Investing Company of New York and an international expert on building finance and urban planning, directed his remarks toward stimulating an increased awareness in the building industry of the need to keep our country beautiful. He cited the new development of Sterling Forest, 30 miles from New York, as an example. This community, he said, will have no building higher than the trees no building visible from any angle except the air, until you approach it immediately.

Golqveros Promotes Hqll

The appointment of Evan Hall as technical assistant to Plant Manager Orrin Weeks is announced by Grant W. Metzger, vice-president in charge of production for Calaveras Cement Company. Hall will continue also as mill superintendent, in which capacity he has served for a number of years.