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Crutcher To Acquire

Duquesne Natural Gas

Crutcher Resources Corporation,

P.O. Box 3227, Houston, Texas 77001, and Duquesne 'Natural Gas

Company have announced that the two companies have reached a ten- tative agreement calling for the ac- quisition of Duquesne by Crutcher for approximately 1,000,000 shares of Crutcher common stock.

Duquesne is comprised principal- ly of four subsidiaries:

AWI, which operates six inland water barge workover and drilling rigs from Harvey, La.

Cherco Equipment, Inc., Long- view, Texas, which fabricates pack- age compressor units used in the handling of natural gas which it sells or leases to companies in the natural gas industry.

Hill Bros. Transport and Serv- ice Company, Inc., Kilgore, Texas, which cleans the bottoms of large volume storage tanks and provides transportation services to the pe- troleum industry.

Don H. Hartmann, president of

Crutcher Resources, and J.E. Har- degree, president of Duquesne, said the agreement is subject to further review and the approval of the boards of directors of both compa- nies, and the stockholders of Du- quesne.

Leslie Davison

Named To Board Of

London Graving Dock tS8SsS : *

The Thames and southeast coast ship repairers, The London Grav- ing Dock Group, have announced the appointment of Leslie Davison to the holding company board.

Mr. Davison will continue as managing director of the Group's electrical / mechanical engineering subsidiary, Ayrodev Processes

Limited, which operates plants at

Basildon, Silvertown, Tilbury and

Cardiff. Mr. Davison joined Ayro- dev in 1971, and took up his posi- tion as managing director in Au- gust 1972.

First Tug-Barge Title XI

Leveraged Lease

Financing Announced

The first Title XI leveraged lease financing of an oceangoing inte- grated tug-barge was announced by Salomon Brothers and Matrix

Leasing International, Inc. The tug-barge, costing approximately $20 million, will be chartered to

Bulk Food Carriers, Inc. of San

Francisco, Calif.

Salomon Brothers placed the

Government guaranteed Title XI

Bonds, while Matrix Leasing Inter- national, Inc. structured the trans- action and placed the equity funds.

The equity funds will be provided by the First National Bank of Min- neapolis, Security Pacific Leasing

Corporation, and Crocker National

Bank.

The 25,000-dwt tug-barge is ac- tually two vessels—a tug and a barge—which fit together into one unit. The unit will be used to trans- port rice, lumber and other com- modities between California, Flori- da, and Puerto Rico, pursuant to contracts with the 'California rice producers, and Pacific Northwest lumber companies.

Canal Barge Files

For Aid To Build

Towboats And Barges

A Title X'l application has been filed with the Maritime Adminis- tration by Canal Barge Co., Inc., 812 Gravier Street, New Orleans,

La., for mortgage loan and guaran- tee to aid in building one 7,000-lbhp river towboat, one 5,600-bhp river towboat, and two integrated four- barge tows. The vessels would be built by Dravo Corporation, Pitts- burgh, Pa., at a total cost of $8 million.

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