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Quakertown, Pennsylvania 18951 MURLUS title company address city state zip Katy Industries Acquires Main Iron Katy Industries has reported that it has ac-quired for stock Main Iron Works, a Louisiana tugboat builder and barge and marine equip-ment repairer. Katy had earlier reported an agreement in principle to acquire the privately owned com-pany. With facilities in Houma and Harvey, La., Main Iron Works had sales of $4.5-million for the year ended July 31, 1968. Jacob Saliba, president of Katy Industries, said that Horace J. Guidry, president, and Lawrence Mazerac Jr., vice-president of Main, will continue to head the company which will be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Katy. Mr. Saliba said that Main Iron Works will complement the recently acquired Berry Broth-ers oil-well-servicing operations. This is the second of a number of intended acquisitions in the oil-field service and marine service and supply industry, he added. Katy Industries, formed in March, 1968, is a diversified holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It is the parent company of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rail-road. Pennington Forms Consulting Firm The formation of a company of consultants on ports, integrated transportation as well as on marketing, distribution and management has been announced by former Maritime Ad-ministration aide Maitland Pennington and two associates. The firm known as Muller, Fox & Pennington Associates will have offices in Washington, San Francisco and Millburn. N.J. Mr. Pennington, who served as head of port promotion in the government ship agencv prior to his recent resignation, will be located at 910 Seventeenth Street, N.W. in Washing-ton. Another office will be headed by Fred Muller Jr., at 55 Main St., Millburn, N.J., while J. Murray Fox will operate at 332 Pine St., San Francisco, Calif. Farrell Lines To Buy Two Cargoliners The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved the purchase of two recently built United States Lines cargoliners by a second subsidized carrier?Farrell Lines?and cleared the way for later purchase of three more ships. The vessels involved are of the "Racer" class that United States Lines built in 1964 and 1965. Farrell contracted to buy five of the ships for $6-million each and two?American Rover and American Resolute?have been acquired for the company's Australian service. The deadline for Farrell's purchase of the remain-ing three ships is now November 3. Maritime Arbitrators Elects Officers Ferdinand E. Sauer of Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp., has been elected president of the So-ciety of Maritime Arbitrators, succeeding John P. Besman, Sagus Marine Corp. The society also elected Hammond L. Cederholm as vice-president. He is associated with fames W. Elwell & Co. Other officers assuming responsibilities in-clude John M. Reynolds, secretary of the Association of Ship Brokers & Agents, Inc., as secretary, and Jones F. Devlin Jr., a mari-time consultant and retired officer of the U.S. Lines, as assistant secretary. Eric Skoglund, Lambert & Skoglund; Bruno Augenti, Marine Index Bureau, and Max J. Ramsden Wolfson, a maritime consultant, were named to serve on the board of governors until 1971. OIL PURIFIERS COMPLETE REPAIR AND RECONDITIONING SERVICE Largest inventory of genuine factory spare parts for all major makes of Oil Purifiers. Complete reconditioning repair and replace-ment service. Save time, reduce costs, re-pairs completed before ship's departure. PERFECT ELECTRONIC BALANCING OF PURIFIER BOWLS Exclusive Electronic Vertical Balancing equipment, custom engineered and con-structed specifically for this purpose only, balances quickly and easily in two planes with the highest degree of precision and accuracy. NORSE ELECTRIC MFG. CO. 57-59 Commerce SI . Brooklyn 31. N.Y. 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