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CONTAINER FACILITIES of Matson Navigation Company at Kobe, Japan, are expanded by the addition of a large building (center of photo) which will serve as freight station and equipment and maintenance shop. Loading at the pier is the Pacific Trader, one of Matson's two Pacific Coast-Far East containerships, which together have been carrying near-capacity loads to and from Japan in recent months. Note the tiers of Matson 24-foot containers on the pier. Matson began its unsubsidized intermodal container service to Japan in September 1967, first of its kind in the Far East trade. BIG CONTRIBUTOR to increases in flame-cutting capacity and productivity at Dravo Corporation's Neville Island (Pa.) structural shop is this tape-controlled machine which the company uses to cut plates and slabs for a wide variety of products. Since its instal-lation, flame-cutting capacity has increased by about 45 percent, and productivity of flame-cutting operations between 50 and 80 percent. Equipped with two master heads and eight slave heads on a 34-foot-wide gantry carriage, the completely automatic machine can handle plates and slabs up to 8-inches thick. Cuts are cleaner and produce less slag, thus reducing the number of descaling and cleaning operations. Cost of layouts is less because of automatic plate-marking punches on the machine. AIR COVER?Solitary seagull accompanies United States Navy's newest ammunition ship, USS Butte, as she leaves Quincy, Mass., shipyard of General Dynamics for sea trials prior to her delivery on November 29. She was delivered at the South Boston Naval Annex, where she was commissioned into the fleet on December 1 4. The Butte, 564 feet long and displacing 18,000 tons, is the second of her class to be built by General Dynamics. The first, Kilauea (AE-26), was delivered June 12, 1968. Raytheon Appoints McDuffie New England Marine Sales Manager Ralph E. McDuffie Ralph E. McDuffie has been named New England sales mana-ger for Raytheon Company's marine products operation. He will direct sales of Raytheon marine electronic equipment for navigation, communication, and safety in Rhode Island, Massachu-setts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Canada's Maritime Provinces. Mr. McDuffie will make his headquarters at 416 Cambridge Street, Allston, Mass. He joined Raytheon in 1967 as a marine radar maintenance engineer and has been service manager at the Fairhaven, Mass., service facility since March 1968. From 1960 to 1967 he was a radar technician with Marine Radio and Electric Co., Inc. and for four years prior to that was an aviation electronics specialist in the U.S. Navy. Water Transport Assn. Elects Charles Walker Charles E. Walker Charles E. Walker was elected chairman of the Water Transport Association at the annual meeting of the membership held in New Orleans. Mr. Walker is president of Union Barge Line Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pa. In addition to Mr. Walker, other officers elected are: Thomas B. Crowley, president of Puget Sound Alaska Van Lines, to vice-chair-man ; A. C. Sullivan Jr., president of Gartland Steamship Co., to sec-retary; A. B. Cozzins, vice-presi-dent of Columbia Transportation Division of Oglesbay Norton, to treasurer. John A. Creedy was re-elected president of the association. Members of the executive com-mittee elected, in addition to the above, are: George A. Peterkin Jr., president of Dixie Carriers, Inc.; C. G. Willis Jr., president of C. G. Willis, Inc.; Lew S. Russell, presi-dent of Tidewater Barge Lines; J. Scott Morrison, vice-president of Sea-Land Services, Inc., and Lewis H. Johnson, president of Pacific Inland Navigation Co. The Water Transport Associa-tion is made up of common carriers serving the Great Lakes, inland waterways, coastal and intercoastal trades. Hoines To Manage Fleet Oiler Program For General Dynamics Arnold H. Hoines Arnold H. Hoines, who played key roles in General Dynamics missile and aircraft programs, has been named manager of the U.S. Navy replenishment fleet oiler (AOR) program at the corpora-tion's Quincy, Mass., division ship-yard. Mr. Hoines was most recently site manager of the Convair divi-sion's Atlas Continental Ballistic Missile complex at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. He joined General Dynamics in 1955 as a Convair division flight test engineer. In 1959 Mr. Hoines became assistant test conductor for the Atlas ICBM program at Vandenberg. He held several man-agerial positions in the program, at various times directing missile site build-up, site sell-off demonstra-tions and Atlas launch operations. He was named site manager in 1962. In his new position, Mr. Hoines will coordinate Quincy division efforts in building six replenish-ment fleet oilers, a new type of supply ship, for the Navy. Three of the vessels are currently under construction. Mr. Hoines holds a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Minnesota, and also has studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. Survey Boat Contract To Paasch Marine Bids for the construction of a 55-foot diesel-powered aluminum survey boat were received by the Corps of Engineers, Chicago, 111., on November 6. The contract for the construction of this vessel was awarded to Paasch Marine Service, Erie, Pa., at a cost of $153,000. January 1, 1969 27