Lead Industries Association, Inc.
292 Madison Avenue

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New York, N. Y. 10017

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Telephone: (212) 679-6020

MINUTES

INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING
Lead Industries Association,
November 8,

Inc.

1973

A meeting of the Industry Development Committee of the Lead Industries
Association was held on November 8,
292 Madison Avenue,
September 24,

New York,

in attendance were:

PRESENT

C.

J.

Whelan

at the Association's headquarters,

in accordance with a notice of

1973.

Those

J.

1973,

New York,

MEMBER COMPANY

Buck,

Chairman

(representing
E.

American Smelting & Refining Co.
Amax Lead & Zinc,

Inc.

Frawley)

E.

A.

A.

Ash

Cominco Ltd.

R.

E.

Wallace

Homestake Lead Co.

R.

E.

Jordan

St. Joe Minerals Corporation

Robinson

Noranda Sales Corporation Ltd.

I. M.
D.

Serna,

V.

REPRESENTING

Jr.

Taylor (representing BHAS)

Asarco Mexicana,

C.

S.A.

of Missouri

Tennant Sons & Co.

GUESTS
P.

V.

Higgins

Lieberman Harrison,

Inc.

F.

W.

Doby

Lieberman Harrison,

Inc.

C.

Thompson

Hill & Knowlton,

Inc.

STAFF
P.

E.

Robinson

J.

F.

Smith

Secretary & General Manager

L.

E.

Gage

Asst.

Secretary & Dir.

D.

R.

Lynam

Asst.

Dir.

C. A.

Baker

Technical Service Engineer

Executive Vice President

of Communications

of Environmental Health Dept.

R.

Assadi

Manager, Association Services

E.

D.

Manager, Architectural Services

Martin

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CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 10:15
C.

a.m.

by the Chairman,

Mr.

James

Buck.

QUORUM
The presence of six members

and two representatives constituted a quorum

for the transaction of business.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
The Minutes of the previous meeting,

July 18,

1973,

had been distributed

and the Secretary reported that he had received no comments.

On motion made,

seconded and approved,

1973 were

the Minutes of

the meeting of July 18,

approved

as written.
BUDGET REVIEW

The Chairman noted that a budget package had been circulated to the
members and suggested that a review of the entire 1974 proposal on an item-by-item
basis was

in order.

The Chairman then called on the staff to present specifics

on each proposed item.

After a thorough review of the proposed 1974 program,

during which it was established that with the exception of the two extraordinary
items,

i.e.,

the Electric Vehicle

project—total $105,000,
same as

Project—total $76,000,

and the new lead film

the proposed Promotion & Development Budget would be the

1973.
Although the opinion was expressed that the entire budget package as

proposed was well conceived and soundly based,

it was felt that some

reduction in

the neighborhood of about $50,000 was necessary because the tonnage base
for the

available

1974 assessment would not realistically finance the entire package.

The

following action was taken by the Committee with respect to the proposed 1974
Promotion &

Development Budget:

PROMOTION EXPENSE

ILZRQ Contingency

Request

Proposed $5,000
Recommended by IDC

Motion was made,seconded and passed to eliminate the
of $5,000,

"ILZRO Contingency"

$ -0-

request

on the likelihood that this could be handled through a special

appropriation when necessary.

OSHA FILM

Proposed $12,500
Recommended by IDC $

Motion was made,

seconded and passed to eliminate the proposed OSHA

budget and to ask Dr.

D.

R.

Lynam to articulate the proposal

film from the

further,

with respect to a contractor and the method of handling prints

-0-

particularly

and to consider

presenting this item again in July.

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MOTION PICTURE EXPENSES

Proposed $113,000
Recommended by IDC $

With respect to motion picture expenses,
completion of the new lead film and

motion was made to approve

$8,000

83,000

$75,000

for

for continued distribution of the old

film until the new one is put into circulation.

ZINC AND LEAD INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

(ZALIS)

Proposed $23,000
Recommended by IDC $23,000

With respect to the Zinc and Lead International Service for which an appropriation
of

$23,000 was

recommended by

staff for 1974,

it was noted that the Zinc Institute

Board of Directors had expressed its intent to discontinue
gram beginning in 1974.
did not consider

funds

In view of this,

funding the ZALIS pro­

the ZI Industry Development Committee

for such a program.

Mr.

Robinson noted that the Lead

Industries Association Board had made no such recommendation,
recommending the same

funding

He read a letter from R.

L.

and staff was

for 1974.

Stubbs,

President of ZALIS,

in which Mr.

formed the Argentinian and Mexican centers of the intention to reduce
contributions from ZALIS to

$5,000 annually in 1974 and to

$-0-

in

Stubbs

in­

their

1975.

The

letter also proposed that the Brazilian center should be funded at the same
$10,000 in 1974 as was provided in 1973,

and that support would be dropped to

$5,000 in 1975.

In view of the obvious efforts
and in view of the
if

to try to make the ZALIS centers

fact that both the Canadian and U.S.

funds were available to help support these centers,

recommend to the LIA Board that
determined whether either U.S.
any event,

self-supporting,

Governments had been asked
the Committee voted to

it continue support of ZALIS until

it could be

or Canadian Government support is available,

or in

for at least another year.

BUDGET RECOMMENDATION

Motion was made,

seconded and passed to recommend to the Board of

Directors the 1974 LIA Promotion
Development Committee

& Development Budget as amended by the Industry

in the amount of $632,960.

ADJOURNMENT

There being no

further business,

the meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.

Respectfully,

JFS:lm
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