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McNeal Elected Board Chairman Of AWO

Officers Reelected — New Directors Named

William C. McNeal, executive vice president of Oil Transport

Company, Incorporated, New Or- leans, La., was elected chairman of the board of The American

Waterways Operators, Inc. at the annual meeting of the nationwide trade association of the barge and towing industry. He succeeds

Peter J. Brix, president and general manager of Knappton Towboat

Company, Portland, Ore., who has served as AWO chairman for the last year. Mr. Brix continues as a director of the Association.

William C. McNeal

Braxton B. Carr was elected to his 15th annual term as president of the Association, which has head- quarters in Washington, D.C., and field offices in New York and New

Orleans.

William E. Cleary was elected to his 16th annual term as secretary- treasurer. He operates the Associa- tion's North Atlantic Regional Of- fice in New York City.

A native of Altoona, Pa., Mr.

McNeal has been associated with

Oil Transport Company, Incorpo- rated since 1953. He began his em- ployment with the company as a deckhand, and today, in addition to serving as executive vice presi- dent, is a director of the company.

The new AWO chairman was graduated from Altoona public schools and, in 1951, from Cornell

University in Ithaca, N.Y. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a transportation officer in the Unit- ed States and in the Far East dur- ing the Korean conflict. He is now a member of the Retired Reserve.

Mr. McNeal served as a director of the Association in 1964, 1965, 1968 and 1969. In 1965 and 1969, he served as vice president of Re- gion 3 of AWO, which encom- passes the Gulf Coast and lower

Mississippi River. Mr. McNeal al- so has served as chairman of

AWO's Coast Guard liaison com- mittee since 1968. In 1963 and 1964, he served as chairman of the

Association's safety committee, and as a member of the legislative committee since 1965.

The new AWO chairman has been a member of the Western

Rivers Panel, Merchant Marine

Council, an industry advisory group to the United States Coast

Guard, since 1968. He is a director of the National Waterways Con- ference and a member of the traffic advisory and pollution advisory committees of the Water Resources

Congress.

Mr. McNeal is a member of The

Propeller Club of the United

States, Port of New Orleans, The

Plimsoll Club, Marine Club, Delta

Safety Society and Timberlane

Country Club, all in New Orleans.

The following new directors of

AWO took office at the annual board meeting, which was held in

Washington, D.C.: Jack W. Camp- bell, president, Mobile Towing

Company, Mobile, Ala.; J.R. Fer- guson, transportation manager,

Tenneco Oil Company, Houston,

Texas; Howard Guttman, of Mon

River Towing, Inc., Belle Vernon,

Pa.; Bruce D. Hobbs, president and general manager, Albina En- gine and Machine Works, a divi- sion of Dillingham Corporation,

Portland, Ore.; Ralph W. Hooper, of Interstate Oil Transport Co.,

Philadelphia, Pa.; E.H. Jensen, vice president of Supply and Dis- tribution, Standard Oil Company (Kentucky), Louisville, Ky.; John

H. Lee, president, Alaska Hydro-

Train, Seattle, Wash.; Glen W.

Maxon Jr., executive vice presi- dent, Maxon Corporation, Dayton,

Ohio; Jack D. Minkler, vice presi- dent of administration, Foss

Launch & Tug Co., Seattle, Wash.;

Thomas E. Moran, president, Mo- ran Towing Corporation, New

York, N.Y.; Arthur A. Riedel, president, Willamette Tug &

Barge Co., a division of Willa- mette-Western Corp., Portland,

Ore.; Ed A. Smith, president, Ala- mo Barge Lines, Houston, Texas;

T.J. Stahl, of A.L. Mechling Barge

Lines Inc., New Orleans, La., and

William J. Wolter, president,

Waterfront Services Co., Cairo, 111.

The AWO board is made up of 47 water carrier executives from throughout the United States.

Re-elected to the board were:

Capt. J.R. Ayers Jr., vice president,

Loumiet Enterpries, Inc., Harvey,

La.; Capt. C.V. Gearin, manager,

Inland Waterways Operations, Ma- rine Transportation Department,

Mobil Oil Corporation, New York,

N.Y.; A. Giallorenzi, Marine De- partment, Humble Oil & Refining

Company, Bayonne, N.J.; James

P. McAllister, president, McAllis- ter Lighterage Line, Inc., New

York, N.Y.; F.A. Mechling, execu- tive vice president, A.L. Mechling

Barge Lines Inc., Joliet, 111.; Jerry

L. Page, president, Southern Barge

Line Corporation, Paducah, Ky.;

Capt. William S. Streckfus, vice president, Streckfus Steamers, Inc.,

St. Louis, Mo.; L.P. Struble Jr., group vice president, Dravo Cor- poration, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J.W.

Von Herbulis, president, Pittston

Marine Corporation, New York,

N.Y., and Howard A. Watters, vice president, transportation, Central

Soya Company, Inc., Fort Wayne,

Ind.

Other AWO directors, in addi- tion to Mr. Brix, who continue in office are: F.T. Ainsworth, mana- ger, U.S. Area Marine Distribution and Traffic, The Dow Chemical

Company, Freeport, Texas; Lester

C. Bedient, general manager, Har- bor Carriers, San Francisco, Calif.;

Jesse E. Brent, president, Brent

Towing Company, Inc., Green- ville, Miss.; Francis B. Bushey, president, Spentonbush Transport

Service, Inc., New York, N.Y.;

John M. Donnelly, executive vice president, Ingram Barge Co., New

Orleans, La.; C.C. Ellisor, Texaco,

Inc., Mount Vernon, Ind.; J. Mel- ton Garrett, vice president, Avon- dale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans,

La.; T.E. Garside, vice president,

Pacific Inland Navigation Com- pany, Inc., Seattle, Wash.; Capt.

Noble L. Gordon, president, Mid-

South Towing Company, Tampa,

Fla.; Walter F. Hagestad, execu- tive vice president, Canal Barge

Company, Inc., New Orleans, La.;

Robert J. Hughes, president, James

Hughes, Inc., New York, N.Y.;

John W. Lambert, president, Twin

City Barge & Towing Company

St. Paul, Minn.; William E. Law, president, Allied Towing Corpo- ration, Norfolk, Va.; M.E. Midg- ley, executive vice president, Nilo

Barge Line, Inc., St. Louis, Mo.;

Capt. C.C. Rasmussen, president and general manager, Bay and Riv- er Navigation Company, Rich- mond, Calif.; Edward Renshaw, president, St. Louis Ship, St. Lou- is, Mo.; Thomas J. Rohs, vice president-treasurer, M/G Trans- port Service, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio ;

William R. Saul, president, Steuart

Transportation Company, Piney

Point, Md.; George H. Shaver, ex- ecutive vice president, Shaver

Transportation Company, Port- land, Ore.; Frank P. Silliman, president, Hillman Transportation

Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., and

Paul Walker, president, Walker

Boat Yard, Inc., Paducah, Ky.

Paper On Contrarotating Propellers

Presented At SNAME Chesapeake Meeting

Attending the Chesapeake Section meeting were: (seated, left to right) F. Ebel, R. Schu- bert and R. Falls, all of the Maritime Administration; (standing, left to right) J. Strom-

Tejsen, Naval Ship Research and Development Center; P. Eisenberg, Hydronautics, Inc.;

M. Pitkin, Maritime Administration; R. Mende, national secretary of SNAME, and L.

Hoffman, Maritime Administration.

Over 100 members and guests at- tended the fifth scheduled meeting of the season for the Chesapeake

Section of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers which was held at the Washing- ton Navy Yard Officer's Club on

February 11, 1971. Included among the guests for the buffet dinner and technical session was Robert G.

Mende, secretary of the Society.

Following the dinner, Philip Ei- senberg, chairman of the Chesa- peake Section, introduced Capt.

Richard T. Miller, USN (ret.), who presented an overview of the ac- tivities of the marine systems com- mittee. Mr. Mende then briefly ad- dressed the meeting, commenting on, among other things, the forth- coming spring meeting in Hawaii.

The paper "A Comparison of

Contrarotation Propellers with other Propulsion Systems" was presented during the technical ses- sion. This paper outlines the de- sign changes necessary for the con- version of a containership from a twin-screw power plant to a contra- rotation power plant. The costs of the two ships are compared, and an economic analysis of the differ- ences in fuel costs is given. Most importantly, the results of a series of model tests with the same basic model are included —• the original twin-screw ship, various contra- rotating propulsion tests (with a new single-screw-type stern) at different torque ratios, single- screw tests, and overlapping pro- peller tests.

Three of the four authors made the presentation. R. Falls, of the

Maritime Administration gave the introduction and background to this project. R. Schubert, also of the Maritime Administration, pre- sented the section on the various propulsion systems arrangements studied, while J. Strom-Tejsen, of the Naval Ship Research and De- velopment Center, presented the results of the model experiments.

C.H. Gross Jr., of the Mardeg Cor- poration was the remaining author.

Frank Ebel of the Maritime Ad- ministration acted as moderator for the technical session. Com- ments on the paper were given by

T. Simpson, General Electric Com- pany; W. Budd, DeLaval Turbine

Company; R. Kiss, Maritime Ad- ministration, and J. Hadler and R.

Boswell, both of the Naval Ship

Research and Development Center.

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