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Artist's rendering of the new Sun Ship engineering and administrative building. Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Chester, Pa., recently announced that they are proceed-ing with engineering and planning for the construction of an addition-al modern, two-story office build-ing. Definite plans to proceed will not be concluded until contractors' bids are received and financing is arranged. Speaking on behalf of Sun Ship, Robert Galloway, vice-president-operations, said the new building would house the com-pany's executive offices, engineer-ing division offices, sales and ad-ministrative offices and associated clerical personnel. When completed, over 300 shipyard employees will work in the building. The existing office building of the company lo-cated at the foot of Morton Avenue will be renovated for the operations and financial divisions. Sun Ship's decision to proceed with the engineering of this build-ing at the corner of 4th Street and Eddystone Avenue followed a three-year company study of the capability of present yard facilities to accommodate the steady increase of engineering and technical per-sonnel within the shipyard. Mr. Galloway pointed out that this growth is, to a large extent, the re-sult of the increasing technical so-phistication of the shipbuilding in-dustry and the many other large projects being undertaken by the company in the aerospace and hy-drospace industry. Groundbreaking for the new building will take place sometime this spring with a scheduled oc-cupancy date in early 1970. The new steel and glass structure will cost in excess of one-million dol-lars, and when completed, will add 70,000 square feet of working space to the shipyard. Landscaped grounds, a cafeteria and off-street parking for all the building's oc-cupants have been included in the plans. The architects and engineers for the new building are the Ballinger Company of Philadelphia. Dravo-Built Locks To Accommodate 16 Jumbo Barges And Towboat Sun Ship Announces Plans For New Engineering Building Aerial photo shows the newest locks in a series constructed on the Ohio River. R. Kaufman Joins Deepsea Ventures As Vice-President Michigan, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from New York University. He is a registered professional engineer, a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and a mem-ber of the Society of Aeronautical Weight Engineers. Raymond Kaufman Raymond Kaufman has joined Deepsea Ventures, Inc., Newport News, Va., as vice-president-tech-nical, according to a recent an-nouncement. Deepsea Ventures, a subsidiary of Tenneco, Inc., is a contract research and development firm set up to find and evaluate un-dersea resources. Prior to assuming his responsi-bilities with Deepsea Ventures, Mr. Kaufman was vice-president and technical director of M. Rosenblatt & Son, New York naval architec-tural firm. Mr. Kaufman has degrees in me-chanical engineering from City Col-lege of New York, naval architec-ture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan, mathe-matics from the University of T.C.O. Acquisition Of Delta Steamship Approved By MSB The Maritime Subsidy Board has cleared the way for T.C.O. Indus-tries Inc., to exercise control over Delta Steamship Lines Inc., which it has by virtue of its ownership of 98 percent of the subsidized line's common stock. The Maritime Subsidy Board, in effect, approved the acquisition of Delta's shares, and ruled that T.C.O., formerly Transcontinental Bus Lines, could assert control over the company once it agrees to comply with all of Delta's obliga-tions under the 1936 Merchant Ma-rine Act and its subsidy contract with the government. Delta, about the ninth largest of the 14 U.S. flag subsidized berth operators, maintains freight and combination freight-passenger serv-ice between the U.S. Gulf and the east coast of South America and between the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic ports and West Africa. It makes between 63 and 80 subsidized sail-ings a year. Final inspection of construction work on the $24.3-million New-burgh Locks, located between Evansville, Ind., and Owensboro, Ky., on the Ohio River, is sched-uled this spring by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The contractor, Dravo Corpora-tion, Pittsburgh, expects to com-plete final clean-up and site work on schedule early this year. The locks consist of two 110-foot-wide chambers, one 1,200 feet long and the other 600 feet long. The two chambers are formed by a land and guide wall 1,638 feet long; a middle wall 1,644 feet long and a 3,843-foot-long river wall. Bidding for construction of the high-lift dam at Newburgh is scheduled for May. Both projects are part of the Corps of Engineers' long-range modernization plan for Ohio River navigation. The program calls for 19 lock and high-lift dam installa-tions to eliminate 46 obsolete facili-ties. After Newburgh Dam is built, Lock and Dam Nos. 46 and 47 at Owensboro and Evansville will be removed and Newburgh Locks and Dam will be the only navigation and flood control structures in a 120-mile stretch of river from Uniontown, Ky., to Cannelton, Ky. Newburgh Locks will provide for an 18-foot lift to river traffic. The longer lock will permit locking a towboat and as many as 16 jumbo barges in one maneuver. This one-time locking compares with two or three lockings required at older, smaller locks, saving barge tows considerable locking and naviga-tion time. Some 540,000 cubic yards of con-crete and more than 4-million pounds of reinforcing steel were re-quired for the new locks, according to Dravo Project Superintendent Frank E. Blake Jr. Fifty-five percent of the concrete ?296,626 cubic yards?was placed during the four month period of July-October 1967. August 1967 was the project record month, when 80,928 yards of concrete were placed. Common excavation of 514,000 cubic yards and rock excavation of nearly 200,000 cubic yards was completed in January 1967. Miter gate erection was finished in July 1968, and the cofferdam was flood-ed the following month. 32 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News