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Naval Engineers Schedule Annual Meeting For May 1-2 The American Society of Naval Engineers will hold the eighth ASNE Day Program, in-cluding the 52nd Annual Banquet, on May 1 and 2 at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. On May 1 the Society will hold its annual business meeting and hear three technical pa-pers during the afternoon. The papers are: "Topside Design for Electromagnetic Effec-tiveness" by Capt. M. Eckhart Jr., Ship Con-cept Design Division, Naval Ship Engineering Center; "The Ship-Sonar Interface" by Isidore Cook, Naval Ship Research and Development Center, and "A Study of the Operational Inter-face?The Coastal Hydrographic Survey Ship System Concept Formulation" by Gary L. Jayne, Oceanographic and Instrumentation, Ships Acquisition Project, Naval Ship Sys-tems Command. During the morning session on May 2 three technical papers will be presented. These are: "Ship Design Automation in the Pre-Contract Definition Period" by Dr. Robert S. Johnson, Ship Concept Design Division, NAVSEC; "Ship System Design Analyses" by H. D. Clarke Jr., Ship Concept Design Division, NAVSEC, and "Major Subsystem Interface" by T. D. Hobart, Acquisition Engineering Di-rectorate, Naval Electronic Systems Command Headquarters. At the May 2 afternoon session there will also be presented three papers as follows: "Solid State Control for Shipboard Power Plants" by A. Nitsch, General Electric Com-pany, Industrial Control Department; "The Effect of Electronics on Deep Submergence Design" by Capt. W. M. Nicholson, Deep Sub-mergence Systems Project Office, and "A Na-val Architect Sums Up" by Owen H. Oakley, Ship Concept Design Division, NAVSEC. Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom, chairman of the executive committee, board of directors, Radio Corporation of America, will be the principal speaker at the luncheon to be held on May 2. Adm. Bernard A. Clarey, USN, vice-chief of naval operations, will be the speaker at the banquet to be held on May 2. German Liberty Ship Well Received By Owners Three German shipyards ? Bremer Vuikan Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik, Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft, and Rickmers Werft, have announced that they had received, up to the end of 1968, a total of 30 orders for construction and delivery of their new design 'The German Liberty Ship.' As previously announced, the three shipyards, in free cooperation, designed this type of vessel as a replacement of the old war-built ships. The design resulted in a multi-purpose vessel with special features for handling all types of general cargo as well as bulk cargo. The high number of orders received?as far as it is known, the group of the three German yards is in second position, behind the Japanese yards and their Liberty replacement?is regarded as a positive reaction of shipowners to a real multi-purpose vessel for worldwide trading. More than half of the vessels have been ordered by German shipowners, while the remaining orders came from other European customers. As several letters of intent have been signed by prospective customers, the three yards expect further orders within a short time. During 1968, three ships of the above-men-tioned 30 vessels have been delivered by Flens-burger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft. and about 25 will be put into service during 1969 and 1970. Hall, Hargrave, Kersey And Pulley To Head New Depts. At Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., a major component of Tenneco Inc., has announced the organiza-tion of a new computer center. According to E. J. Tanner, vice-president finance and comptroller, the center has been organized into five departments: Computer op-erations, computer programming, computer systems and procedures, general systems and procedures, and data collection and control. J. L. Pulley will head the computer opera-tions department. He was previously assistant manager of the data processing department. A native of Ivor, Va., he joined the shipyard in 1940. He was made assistant chief of data processing in 1956 and chief in 1960. R. F. Hall Jr. has been named head of data collection and control, which combines the ac-tivities of three former departments, piece work counting, labor cost reporting and data processing. Mr. Hall has had continuous service with the company's accounting division since 1936. Prior to his new appointment, he was manager of the labor cost reporting department. The computer systems and procdures depart-ment will be headed by E. F. Hargrave, who joined the shipyard's tabulating department in 1939. He was made chief of the data program-ming department in 1966, and assistant man-ager of data systems and programming in Jan-uary 1968. A native of Newport News, Mr. Hargrave studied advanced accounting at Newport News Business College. J. E. Kersey Jr. has been appointed head of the general systems and procedures depart-ment. A native of Lynchburg, Va., he joined the company in 1942 and has worked in vari-ous accounting and cost engineering depart-ments. He has also served as subcontract ad-ministrator. D. W. Boyce was named to the staff of the computer center. A native of Elizabeth, N.J., he came to work in the Newport News ship-yard in 1941. Prior to that he worked for I.B.M. and Westinghouse. Director of the computer center is E. T. Prince, who recently came to the shipyard from Ernst and Ernst, in Richmond, Va. B&W Buys Canton Plant Of E.W. Bliss Company The Babcock & Wilcox Company has agreed to purchase the Canton plant of the E. W. Bliss Company, a Gulf and Western company, and other available property in the Bliss Industrial Park at Canton, Ohio, it was announced joint-ly by George G. Zipf, president and chief ex-ecutive officer of Babcock & Wilcox, and Carl E. Anderson, chairman and president of Bliss. "The purchase provides us with immediate manufacturing capability to meet the require-ments of our Power Generation Division," Mr. Zipf said. "The present work force of about 300 at the plant will be retained by Babcock & Wilcox and in all probability will be expanded in the near future." The transaction, for approximately $8-mil-lion, became effective on March 31. The 68-acre facility, which includes approxi-mately 700,000 square feet of heavy manufac-turing space and a large amount of equipment, will be converted from the manufacture of heavy machinery to the fabrication of com-ponents for steam generating equipment such as used by the electric utility industry. Babcock & Wilcox plans to operate the fa-cility as the Canton works of the Power Gen-eration Division which has its headquarters at Barberton, Ohio. c*PTAin NO BRAG, JUST FACT A fleet of fast, seaworthy sup-ply vessels and tugs with ex-perience in the world's roughest seas. Operated and staffed by our own experienced crews. 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