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George H. Blohm Elected Chairman Of American Waterways Operators George H. Blohm George H. Blohm, vice-president and general manager of Cities Serv-ice Tankers Corporation, New York City, was elected chairman of the board of The American Waterways Operators, Inc., at the annual meet-ing of directors of the nationwide trade association of the barge and towing industry held in Washing-ton, D.C. He succeeds G. W. Gladders, president of G. W. Gladders Tow-ing Company, Inc.. St. Louis, Mo., who has served as AWO chairman for the last year. Mr. Gladders con-tinues as a director of the Associa-tion. Braxton B. Carr was elected to his 13th annual term as president of the Association, which has head-quarters in Washington. D.C. and field offices in New York and New Orleans. William E. Cleary was elected to his 14th annual term as secretary-treasurer. He operates the Associ-ation's North Atlantic regional of-fice in New York City. A native of Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Blohm has been associated with Cities Service since 1945. He has worked in some depth with all forms of transportation, including rail, motor, air, pipeline, and since 1961, deep sea. He has been direct-ly involved with inland waterways transportation since 1947 when he was appointed assistant traffic man-ager of Cities Service Oil Com-pany. He was named manager of the traffic department in 1957, and manager of the Inland Waterways Division of the company's marine department in 1961. He transferred to Cities Service Tankers Corpora-tion in 1963, where he served as treasurer and manager of marine business until his election as vice-president and general manager in 1966. The new AWO board chairman attended the Academy of Advanced Traffic. Operations Research Insti-tute. He was admitted to practice before the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1946. Mr. Blohm has served on The American Waterways Operators, Inc.'s, board of directors since 1964. He has also worked actively as a member of the Association's Legislative Committee. He is a member of the Ameri-can Petroleum Institute, Associa-tion of Interstate Commerce Com-mission Practitioners, Commerce and Industry Association of New York, National Industrial Traffic League, the Traffic Club of New York, Propeller Club of the Port of New York, The National Water-ways Conference, and the White-hall Club. The following new directors of AWO took office at the time of the annual board meeting in Wash-ington : E. E. Ahlemeyer, vice-president, National Marine Service Incorporated, Engineering Services Division, Hartford. 111.; T. F. Ellis Jr., president, Ellis Towing & Transportation Company, Galves-ton, Texas; Capt. S. V. Gardner, manager, Baton Rouge Branch, Ma-rine Department, Humble Oil & Refining Company, Baton Rouge, La.; Robert A. Guthans, vice-presi-dent. Southern Industries Corpora-tion, Mobile, Ala.; Earl C. Rose Jr., chairman, Rose Barge Line, Inc., Clayton, Mo.; Capt. C. C. Rasmus-sen, president and general man-ager, Bay and River Navigation Company, San Francisco, Calif.; Howard A. Watters, vice-president-transportation, Central Soya Com-pany. Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., and John W. Weaver, vice-president of supply and distribution. Standard Oil Companv (Kentucky), Louis-ville. The AWO board is made up of 38 water carrier executives from throughout the United States. Re-elected to the board were: J. Frank Belford Jr., president, Seaboard Shipping Company, Divi-sion of Moran Towing & Trans-portation Company, Inc., New York. N.Y.; Gresham Hougland, executive vice-president, Crounse Corporation, Paducah, Ky.; Robert F. Lynch, manager, Inland Water-ways Operations, Mobil Oil Cor-poration, New York, N.Y.; James P. McAllister, president, McAllister Lighterage Line, Inc.. New York, N.Y.; E. W. McCarthy, executive vice-president. Gulfport Shipbuild-ing Corporation, Port Arthur, Texas; D. L. Mechling, vice-presi-dent-operations, A. L. Mechlmg Barge Lines Inc., New Orleans, La.; F. A. Mechling, executive vice-president, A. L. Mechling Barge Lines Inc., Joliet, 111.; Jerry L. Page, president, Southern Barge Line Corporation, Paducah, Ky., and William S. Streckfus, vice-president, Streckfus Steamers, Inc., St. Louis, Mo. Additional AWO directors, in addition to Mr. Blohm and Mr. Gladders, who continue in office are: F. T. Ainsworth, manager, Southern Region, Distribution and Traffic, The Dow Chemical Com-pany, Freeport, Texas ; William F. Akin, vice-president, Nashville Bridge Company, Nashville, Tenn.; Marvin Bacon, president, Bacon Towing Co., Inc., Houston, Texas; Feter J. Brix, executive vice-presi-dent, Knappton Towboat Company, Portland, Ore.; Francis B. Bushey, president, Spentonbush Transport Service, Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y.; John Buursema, vice - president - opera-tions, G. B. Zigler Company, Mor-gan City, La.; Alex S. Chamber-lain, Producers Towing Company, Louisville, Ky.; Thomas B. Crow-ley, president, Crowley Launch and Tugboat Company, San Fran-cisco, Calif.; John M. Donnelly, ex-ecutive vice-president, Ingram Barge Company, New Orleans, La.; Frank M. Garavelli, Frankie & Johnnie's Boat Store, Memphis, Tenn.; James G. Hines, presi-dent, Hines, Incorporated, Bowling Green, Ky.; Robert J. Hughes, president, James Hughes, Inc.. New York, N.Y.; William C. Mc-Neal, vice-president, Oil Transport Company, Inc., New Orleans, La.; T. Truxtun Morrison, manager, Barge Department, Peavey Com-pany, Alton, 111.; Frank T. Steg-bauer, vice - president, Southern Towing Company, Memphis, Tenn.; H. G. Williams, president, Gulf At-lantic Towing Corporation. Jack-sonville, Fla.; B. E. Williamson, secretary-treasurer. Marine Weld-ing & Repair Works, Inc., Green-ville, Miss.: C. G. Willis Jr., presi-dent, C. G. Willis, Inc.. Paulsboro, N.J., and J. Knox Woodruff, senior vice-president, Puget Sound Freight Lines, Seattle. Wash. Marco Announces Staff Changes Peter G. Schnrdt, president of Marine Construction & Design Co. (Marco), Seattle. Wash., has an-nounced the appointment of Robert F. Allen as vice-president-general manager of the multi-faceted firm. Mr. Allen has been witli Marco since 1957, and lias been vice-presi-dent-sales for the past four years. Mr. Schmidt also appointed D. W. Lerch as vice-president-engi-neering; Eilif Kuhnle as vice-presi-dent-finance, and John R. Logan as manager-sales. Marco's facility in Seattle in-cludes shipbuilding, repair, and manufacturing services for the ocean science as well as the fishing industry. JACKSONVILLE - Container PORT of the Southeast;! r Jacksonville's publicly owned docks and termi-nals . . . presently using a great portion of nearly a mile of new marginal wharf construction . . . built a modern containerization facility in 1965 as its first step toward modernization. THE PORT OF JACKSONVILLE IS HUB OF SOUTHEASTERN/WORLD MARKETS Jacksonville, the nation's largest city in area, is within overnight distribution into areas in which 25 million people live. After putting a 240,000 square foot warehouse in use in December, 1968, to start a new marine terminal on 1600-acre Blount Island, the Jacksonville Port Authority is now building an additional container port and bulk handling facility as depicted in the rendering at left. J JACKSONVILLE PORT AUTHORITY 2701 Talleyrand Avenue P. O. Box 3005 Phone (904) 356-1971 Direct Inquiries to: Dave Rawls, Managing Director, Jacksonville, Florida "J 14 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News