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ing which the excellent prepared comments of seven discussors were presented. The authors were then given the opportunity to comment on the discussions prior to the meeting's adjournment. Goal Of $250,000 Set By Kings Point Fund A target of $250,000 has been set for the Sixth Annual Giving Drive of the Kings Point Fund, Inc., it was announced by Fund President James H. Yocum. Even before the drive was formal-ly launched, Mr. Yocum disclosed, over $50,000 had been donated. This includes two anonymous gifts of $25,000, plus contributions of $600 from the Women's Propeller Club Port of New Orleans, and $500 from the Foreign Commerce Club of New York. The two last amounts are speci-fically earmarked for the Midship-man Loan Fund, which is main-tained to assist deserving Academy undergraduates with expenses they cannot otherwise meet while they continue their training. Unlike students at other service acade-mies, Kings Point Midshipmen are unsalaried. The Fund now has $250,000 on loan. One $25,000 gift is to be added to the sail-training endowment es-tablished by the Kings Point Fund in 1968. The other is restricted to a number of specific uses. While restricted gifts are wel-come, Mr. Yocum said, the Fund is particularly interested at present in unrestricted donations for the sake of greater flexibility in meet-ing an increasing range of trustee-approved needs. The Kings Point Fund is fully accredited as a non-profit educa-SNAME Chesapeake Section Discusses Determination Of Ship Service Margins Principals at the recent Chesapeake Section, SNAME, meeting were, left to right: Robert Taggert, Section chairman; George H. Levine, co-author; Jacques Hadler, moderator, and Seth Hawkins, co-author. Attendees at the May meeting of the Chesapeake Section of The So-ciety of Naval Architects and Ma-rine Engineers, held at the Wash-ington Navy Yard Officers' Club, heard an interesting paper entitled "Comments on Service Margins for Ships" written and presented by George H. Levine and Seth Hawkins of Robert Taggart Incor-porated. The authors presented a method which they felt would afford a more rational determination of service margins for ships. They de-scribed the present sources of data and methods with recommenda-tions for the areas requiring furth-er research. The authors contend that the method to estimate serv-ice margins is simplified to the point where one might be suspici-ous of its validity, and whether or not such a margin is economically justifiable. They propose a method of determining service margins which would take into account ship route, long-term average speed, time period over which speed is averaged, age of ship at which average speed is required, and ship displacement for normal operation during this time. This would es-sentially provide a division of the service margin into two parts, a speed margin and a power margin, representing the environmental ef-fects and the deteriorative effects which are to be expected during the operation of any ship. Jacques Hadler acted as the mod-erator of the technical session dur-Spend Money and Labor To Clean Fuel Oil Screens? Forget It! Matson's container ship, the S.S. Pacific Trader With a Vokes Filter on the job you get automatic . . . positive . . . continuous filtration to 25 microns. Matson does it on the S.S. Pacific Trader and on the S.S. Pacific Banker . . . their newest express ships on the Far East Trade ... on hot fuel oil ... a proven cost savings over time. Vokes Filters are completely automatic . . . and self-cleaning. A proven filter for your full range of requirements?automatic filtration of fuel oil, and other petroleum products. You can throw away your strainers. 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While the cost of living, and learning, con-tinues to rise, we dare not be. Rela-tively, the needs of the Kings Point student community are greater, rather than less, as the years pass. As they enlarge, so must the Fund's ability to meet them." Donations and inquiries may be addressed to the Kings Point Fund, Inc., U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y. 11024. M. Rosenblatt Names Chiang Technical Dir. Basic Ship Design Wei P. Chiang Lester Rosenblatt, president of M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers of New York and San Francisco, has announced the appointment of Wei P. Chiang as technical director of the Basic Ship Design Division of the company. Mr. Chiang, a graduate of Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology in 1946 with a MS degree in naval construction, joined M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc. as a naval architect in 1955. His previous position with the company was as head of the Scientific & Tests Section. Prior to joining M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., Mr- Chiang was connected with the Tai-Koo Shipyard in Hong Kong and the Kiangnam Naval Shipyard in Shanghai as shipyard superin-tendent and hull superintendent, respectively, for the period 1949 to 1953. Mr. Chiang is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Sovereign Marine Lines Opens New York Office F. W. Mark, president of Sover-eign Marine Lines Inc. of New York, has announced that the com-pany has opened its new office at 17 Battery Place. Also announced was the appoint-ment of D. N. Aruta as manager of the office. Mr. Aruta has previ-ously been associated with Ameri-can Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Ma-rine Transport Lines, National Bulk Carriers and A. Fronsdal and Co. 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News