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"Vista Pacific"?Los Angeles Section Announces Program For SNAME Spring Meeting Officers of the steering committee for SNAME Spring meeting ore: (top row) D. A. Ball? liaison, H. D. Ramsden?budget, P. Bukunt?hotel arrangements, L. M. Dingier? social activities; (bottom row) R. G. Rados?publicity chairman, H. P. Rumble?tech-nical sessions, N. Friedland?chairman. A varied program, both technical-ly and socially, has been planned by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers for the 1969 Spring meeting of the Society. Using as a title for the meeting "Vista Pacific," the steer-ing committee has arranged for in-teresting luncheon speakers, har-bor tours, fashion shows and movie studio tours for the ladies, and an excursion to Disneyland besides the usual president's reception and dinner-dance. The Spring Meeting will be held in Beverly Hills, Calif, on May 21-24. The technical sessions will con-sist of the following papers : "The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Con-quest of Inner Space" by E. M. MacCutcheon, ESSA; "A View of the Present and Fu-ture Hydrofoil Industry" by Wil-liam H. G. FitzGerald, Supramar ; "Weight Considerations for Deep Submersibles" by E. H. Nickell, Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.; "The Design and Certification of DPA To Acquire Burton Shipyards According to a joint announce-ment by John B. Tuthill, president of DPA, and J.C. Garner, president of Burton, Inc.. DPA, Inc. of Dal-las has agreed in principle to pur-chase for cash all of the common stock of Burton Inc. of Port Ar-thur, Texas. Burton operates Burton Ship-yards, Inc., which constructs ocean-going tugs, support boats and structures for the offshore drilling industry and other vessels. DPA leases data-processing equipment, sells motor fuel conditioners and oils and greases, and also sells ad-vertising space on protective text-book covers. Submersibles" by Charles G. Ko-sonen, North American Rockwell; "Design of a Dynamically Posi-tioned Support Platform for a Tethered Unmanned Submersible Vehicle" by Donald Hall, Ocean Design Engineering Corp., and D. A. Kunz, Naval Undersea Warfare Center; "Anomalous Behavior of Mer-chant Ship Steering Systems" by Robert Taggart, Robert Taggart, Inc.; "Vertical Ship Motions and Deckwetness" by M. F. van Sluijs, Netherlands Ship Model Basin ; "A New Hull Form for High-Speed Volume-Limited Displace-ment-Type Ships" by Reuven Leo-pold, Litton; "Marine Reheat Cycles and Sys-tems Evaluation" by Chester W. Stott Jr., General Electric Co., and "Design and Construction of the Dynamically Positioned Glomar Challenger" by John R. Graham, Klemme M. Jones, G. Dayton Knorr, and Thomas F. Dixon, Global Marine, Inc. Combustion Engineering Appoints Fortier To Managerial Position Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, Conn., has announced the appointment of Robert J. Fortier as manager of product advertising and sales promotion. He is respon-sible for the promotional com-munications programs of C-E's Windsor-based Utility Division, Industrial Group and International Operations. In his new assignment, Mr. For-tier will report to James L. Rich-ardson, director, public relations and advertising. He was recently associated with Veeder-Root Com-pany, Hartford, Conn. Luckenbach Steamship Announces Three Executive Promotions Robert F. Weiss Announcement of the promotion of three executives of the Lucken-bach Steamship Company, Inc., was made recently by Edgar F. Luckenbach Jr., president of the firm. Robert F. Weiss who has been controller of the company will be-come vice-president-administration, a newly created post. Mr. Lucken-bach said establishment of this area of responsibility was necessitated by the recently broadened scope and size of the 119-year-old com-pany, as well as further plans for diversification and expansion. Also, Capt. K. F. Jensen and T. P. Hanssen were named assistant vice-presidents. Captain Jensen, who has managed Luckenbach's Tampa. Fla., terminal and related operations for the past three years, will be associated with terminal and stevedoring operations at the company's New York headquarters. Mr. Hanssen, a veteran of 25 years experience in the maritime indus-try, will coordinate traffic and trade development activities . Half-Height, Open-Top Containers Being Built By York Trailer Co. A half-height (4-foot high) open-top container, designed to carry high-density cargoes like machin-ery, engines, steel stock, etc., has been introduced by York Trailer Company Ltd., Corby, Northants, England. The new unit, available in 20- 30- and 40-foot lengths, is an all-steel ISO container with a nylon-plastic tarpaulin. It is built to T.I.R. specifications. Production of the new units is under way at York's big new con-tainer plant in Northallerton, York-shire. They will, like all steel con-tainers built by York, be given the elaborate Alchem corrosion-inh'bit-ing pre-treatment which, with after-assembly painting, gives an excep-tional degree of corrosion resis-tance. The standard range of ISO con-tainers now marketed by York in-cludes dry-freight boxes, refriger-ated boxes, open-tops, flats, tanks and half-heights. The standard boxes are available as all-steel or all-aluminum units or, as recently announced by the company, as a combined aluminum-steel unit that is tougher and cheaper than an aluminum unit and lighter than an all-steel one. Newport News Names Taylor Chief Designer Of Hull Fittings Thomas T. Taylor Thomas T. Taylor has been ap-pointed chief designer of the hull fittings design department at New-port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., a major component of Tenneco Inc. The announcement was made by J. R. Kane, director of engineering. Assistant chief designer since 1965, Mr. Taylor replaces A. W. Womble, who recently retired as head of the department. After joining the shipyard as a designer in 1940. Mr. Taylor was promoted to junior design super-visor in 1954 and senior design su-pervisor in 1962. He studied civil engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Currently, he is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Propel-ler Club. A native of Stem, N.C., Mr. Tay-lor was raised in Richmond, Va. Fiat Diesels Ordered For Bulk/Car Ships Building In Germany The powerplants for three 33,-000-dwt bulk/car carriers being built at Lubecker Flender-Werke Shipyards A.G. have been ordered from Borsig A.G., Berlin. These engines will be of the Fiat B-759S type which develop 13,500 bhp at 135 rpm. Lubecker is building two of the ships for August Bolten Wm. Mil-ler's Nachfolger of Hamburg and one for Schulte & Bruns of Emden. The ships are designed to carry grain or automobiles. Recently delivered ships with Fiat engines have been a 102,000-dwt ore-bulk-oil carrier of 23,000-bhp, the Vittorio Valletta, built by Italcantieri shipyards; a 15,000-dwt liberty-type vessel built by Flens-burger Schiffabau with a 7,200-bhp engine, and a 3,150-dwt tanker, 2,700 bhp, constructed by Cantiere Navale Apuania. NSSC Awards Contract To Sewart Seacraft Naval Ship Systems Command, Washington, D.C., awarded con-tract RFP N00024-69-R-0588 to Sewart Seacraft Division, Tele-dyne, Inc., Berwick, La. The con-tract is for the construction of six 40-foot twin-screw aluminum-hull diesel launches. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News