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St. Louis Club To Celebrate AWO's 25th Anniversary At Luncheon On May 22nd The American Waterways Operators, Inc., and The Propeller Club of the United States, Port of St. Louis, will jointly sponsor a lunch-eon in St. Louis on May 22 in observance of National Maritime Day and in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of AWO in St. Louis in May, 1944. The announcement was made by Braxton B. Carr, president of AWO, and Willard B. Fouts, president of the St. Louis Propeller Club. The luncheon celebration will climax a se-ries of meetings of AWO directors, members, and committees. A mid-continent AWO mem-bership meeting and navigation conference with officials of the Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Coast Guard partipicating will be held during the afternoon of May 21. The Spring quarterly meeting of the AWO board of directors will be held the morning of May 22. All events will be held at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel. David A. Wright, president, National Ma-rine Service Incorporated, St. Louis, is chair-man of a special committee of AWO handling arrangements for the Association's anniversary celebration and joint arrangements with the St. Louis Propeller Club for the National Maritime Day celebration. As part of the observance, winners of the 1968 Barge and Towing Vessel Industry Safety Contest, which is co-sponsored by the National Safety Council and AWO, will be honored and receive appropriate awards at the luncheon on Mav 22. RODERMOND repairs them all Drydocking ? 4 floating drydocks to 4000 tons capacity 24 Hour Pierside Service Machine Shop Structural Steel Construction RODERMOND INDUSTRIES RnnmiNi Mmmm Mi ^^hcy ^^otdxszy / ^esieSva£ c y/tfafusve /^Lcuk^ FOOT OF HENDERSON STREET, JERSEY CITY, N.J. 07302 201 ? 332-3300 AWO represents the national interests ot the barge and towing industry. The Associa-tion was incorporated in the State of Delaware on May 22, 1944. The first meeting of the membership of the Association was held in St. Louis on May 26, 1944. Gotaverken Forms Subsidiary? Reassigns Top Management Anders Linden Erland Wessberg 34 Gotaverken has formed a new subsidiary company for the sale and design of products in the heat engineering fields, involving steam-raising plants for pulp mills, power stations and marine applications, heat exchangers, nu-clear engineering components, equipment for environmental management applications, and so forth. The new subsidiary will intensify the activities hitherto pursued by Gotaverken's Boiler Department and which have widened steadily in scope in recent years. The manu-facturing of boilers and other related products will continue mainly at Gotaverken's own en-gineering works. The present deputy managing director of Gotaverken, Anders Linden, who is also head of the Gotaverken Engine and Heat Engineer-ing Departments, will leave his present post on June 30, 1969 in order to become chairman of the board of the new subsidiary. Mr. Linden remains as the representative of Gotaverken oil the board of directors for certain of the sub-sidiary companies and for United Diesel AB (UDAB) and Associated Cargo Gear AB (ASCA), the latter two companies being own-ed jointly by the major Swedish shipyards. The principal executive of the new company, and its managing director, will be Erland Wessberg, while the present manager of the Boiler Department, Per Wedel, is appointed member of the board of the new company. Mr. Linden will be succeeded as deputy man-aging director of Gotaverken by the com-pany's financial director Sven Mansson. Other changes announced by Gotaverken are the appointment of the present resident direc-tor at Oresundsvarvet, Landskrona, Ivar Nor-den, as managing director of that subsidiary; while the yard manager at Gotaverken's City Yard in Gothenburg, Karl-Eric Christianson, has been appointed a director of Gotaverken. Mr. Christianson retains his present duties. Gunnar Hellstrom has also been appointed as a director and will assume the role of mana-ger for the Engine Departments. Sven Bjor-kenstam has been appointed a technical mana-ger and will assist the managing director of Gotaverken in matters concerning the affiliated companies and the investigation of new proj-ects. Equitable To Build Twin-Screw Tugboat Equitable Equipment Co., Inc. was awarded a contract for the construction of a twin-screw tugboat by Andrew Martin, Inc., Galliano, La. To be equipped with twin 2,000-total-bhp die-sels, it will be of the 95-foot standard design type. The tugboat will be named Rhonda Mar-tin. Maritime Reporter/Engineering News