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Todd Shipyards Corporation Appoints Nesbitt And Crutcher To Destroyer-Escort Staff Richard J. Nesbitt William R. Crutcher Todd Shipyards Corporation has named two deputies on its DX Project Management staff. Rear Admiral L. V. Honsinger, Todd's vice-president for shipbuilding, and the DX Project manager, announced the appointment of Rich-ard J. Nesbitt as technical director and William R. Crutcher as administration director. Mr. Nesbitt has been vice-president of Gibbs & Cox, naval architects, New York City, and most recently, vice-president of operations of Lockheed Shipbuilding in Seattle. Mr. Crutcher has been with Todd two years as assistant to the shipbuilding vice-president, and assigned to the company's destroyer-escort program. Prior to joining Todd, he was direc-tor of Undersea Warfare Development at Navy headquarters. In the proposed program, the Navy is start-ing design competition for the eventual produc-tion of a new fleet of destroyers. Todd Ship-yards is one of six firms qualified by the Navy to submit design proposals. The new destroyers would be designed and built in accordance with advanced systems management and ship pro-duction techniques, emphasizing life-cycle costs and reliability. Todd has teamed with Sperry Rand's Sperry Systems Management Division which will develop and integrate the weapons, electronics and communications sys-tems in the combined effort. George G. Sharp, Inc., naval architects, New York, and Hydro-nautics, Inc., hydrodynamicists, Laurel, Md., will develop the ship design. Todd presently is building 14 destroyer escorts and plans improvements at its Los Angeles and Seattle yards to facilitate large shipbuilding projects, such as DX. Garmatz Endorses Plans For Container Exposition Representative Edward A. Garmatz, chair-man of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the United States House of Representatives, has endorsed plans for the Second International Container Services and Equipment Exposition scheduled for the Port of Baltimore during the last week of October 1968. Mr. Garmatz, a veteran of over 20 years in Congress as the representative of Maryland's Third Congressional District, cited the "great importance" of the exposition to "the Ameri-can and international transportation industries and allied activities." In a recent letter to LoRee B. Rommel, man-ager of the Baltimore office of Mack-Brooks Exhibitions Ltd., organizers of the container services show, Congressman Garmatz said he was also happy that Baltimore had been chosen as the site of the exposition. "In view of its location, its modern facilities and its leading position as one of the top American ports, you have made an excellent selection," he said. At the same time, Mr. Garmatz accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the Steering Committee which will plan the symposia sched-uled to run concurrently with the exposition at the Civic Center at Lombard and Baltimore Streets, in Baltimore. The symposia will be held daily at the Civic Center and will deal with all aspects of the rush to containerization. The exposition is set to get underway on Monday, October 28, and run through Friday, November 1. In addition to a broad range of displays at the Civic Center, guests will have an opportunity to view a series of demonstra-tions and moving displays at an open-air dis-play area at the Dundalk Marine Terminal, one of the newest and most modern marine terminals on the East Coast, operated by the Maryland Port Authority. The exposition also has been endorsed by the manager of the International Group of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. In a letter to C. B. Schley, president of Trade Development International and consultant to the Mack-Brooks organization, Jay H. Cerf called the program "a tremendous contribu-tion" to the field of international trade. "Both in my experience as manager of the National Chamber's international activities and as an official of the Department of Com-merce," he said, "it has become increasingly clear to me that the biggest single problem in export promotion is what one might call the 'How-To-Do-It Gap.' The exposition you plan for Baltimore frontally addresses this vital need in a most effective and promising way." According to Robin E. Stupples, director of sales for Mack-Brooks, the Second Interna-tional Container Services and Equipment Ex-position has qualified for listing under the Department of Commerce's Trade Fair Act of 1959 and under the British Board of Trade's International trade-show program. Exposition headquarters in the United States are in Suite 440 of the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Md. 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