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Marine Section, NSC

Meeting In Chicago

October 29-30-31

The Marine Section of the Na- tional Safety Council will conduct three days of meetings at Chicago's

LalSalle Hotel, 'beginning Monday,

October 29, at the 61st annual Na- tional Congress, sponsored by the

National Safety Council.

There will be one half-day ses- sion each on stevedoring, ship- building and repairing, ship opera- tions, 'barge and towing, and a one- day session on the U.S. Coast

Guard.

On Monday morning, chairman

Albert R. Alff, safety director of

Nacirema Operating Co. (NYC), and co-chairman Albert W. Cash, safety director of International

Terminal Operating Co. (NYC), will oversee meetings devoted to stevedoring safety. James J. Dick- man, president of New York Ship- ping Association, Inc., (NYC), will discuss the association's role in "longshoring" safety. Capt. C.H.

Waring, manager of the Accident

Prevention Bureau at Lykes Bros.

Steamship Co., Inc., New Orleans,

La., will discuss "A Human Link —The Stevedoring Safety Super- visor." "OSHA Ahead" is the top- ic of the Honorable John H. Sten- der, Assistant Labor Secretary for

OSHA.

Monday afternoon's shipbuild- ing and ship repairing session will be chaired by James R. O'Donnell, maritime safety consultant, New

Orleans, La., and co-chaired by

John W. Sansing, general mana- ger, Mainstream Shipyards & Sup- ply, Greenville, Miss. "Safety and

Production" will be discussed by

Sigmund A. Solares, production systems manager, Avondale Ship- yards, Inc., New Orleans. Dr.

Clifton O. Istre Jr., department of otolaryngology, Tulane University

Medical School, New Orleans, will discuss "Safety and Industrial

Noise." "The Marine Chemist and

Shipyard Safety" is the subject of

George A. Hale, Marine Inspection

Engineers, Gas Testing-Consult- ing-Hull & Cargo Surveyors, Sko- kie, 111. During the reception, Best

Paper awards will be presented by the Section's general chairman

Capt. Hewlett R. Bishop, presi- dent, National Cargo Bureau, Inc., (NYC) ; Bruno J. Augenti, presi- dent, Marine Index Bureau, J.nc., (NYC); and Rear Adm. William

A. Jenkins, Chief, Office of Opera- tions, USCG, Washington, D.'C.

The annual breakfast business meeting to be held on Tuesday morning will be presided over by

Captain Bishop. The agenda in- cludes election of 1973-74 Section officers, and reports of the chair- man and the standing committees.

The U.S. Coast Guard session will be chaired by Admiral Jen- kins, Chief Officer of Operations,

Washington, DC. During the meeting, Comdr. Ralph C. Hill,

Chief of Vessel Traffic Systems

Branch, Washington, D.C., will discuss "Increased Safety Through

Vessel Traffic Systems." Develop- ments in vessel operational safety is the topic of Lt. Comdr. Kenneth

W adman, Chief, Rules of the Road

Branch, U.S. Coast Guard, Wash- ington, D.C. Capt. Clyde T. Lusk

Jr. Assistant Chief, Merchant Ves- sel Inspection Division, U.S. Coast

Guard, Washington, DC., will dis- cuss 'the Marine Casualty Review.

The Tuesday afternoon meeting will be chaired by Capt. R.J. An- derson, manager, loss prevention,

Prudential-Grace Lines, Inc., New

York, and co-chaired by Robert

Kratzert, manager, vessel person- nel and service, Oglebay Norton

Co., Columbia Transportation Di- vision, Cleveland, Ohio. Mark

Brauer, research assistant, depart- ment of industrial engineering,

Texas A & M University, will ex- amine a "Safe System for Reduc- tion of Tanker Cleaning Hazards and Pollution." Marine safety will be viewed by chief engineer James

Eustice, S/S Frank Purnell, Co- lumbia Transportation Division,

Oglebay Norton Co., Oglebay,

Cleveland,, Ohio. Contrasting ma- rine with aviation safety will be

Donald J. Schumacher, senior transportation advisor, logistics de- partment, Exxon Corp., New York,

N.Y.

Barge and towing topics will be aired on Wednesday morning und- er the guidance of chairman John

Kern, vice president, A.L. Simms

Brothers Towing Co., Inc., Mobile,

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