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Martinolich Provides Western Alaska With 700-Ton Capacity Marine Elevator Port of Long Beach Promotes TJ. Thorley To General Manager Tom J. Thorley has been pro-moted to general manager of the Port of Long Beach, Calif. He suc-ceeds Charles L. Vickers who re-tired on June 30 after 11 years as general manager and 44 with the port. Mr. Thorley was previously assistant general manager. Raymond F. Berbower has been named to the post of assistant gen-eral manager. For the past 10 years he has served as assistant chief harbor engineer. The port also announced the as-signment of Dean Petersen to the position of traffic manager. Mr. Petersen, for the past 20 years, has been with the Union Pacific Rail-road as district director of UP's in-ternational trade office. Martinolich Shipbuilding Corp. of Tacoma, Wash., recently put in-to operation at its Kodiak, Alaska yard a new marine elevator. Meas-uring 140 feet by 34 feet, the facili-ty can lift 700 tons. The platform can be lowered to 15 feet below the water level on an average high tide. The elevator is operated by eight screws on each side, 20 feet apart. Each screw is 24 feet 7 inches long and is capable of lifting 75 tons. The elevator has a vertical speed of 6-inches per minute. The 414-inch diameter stainless steel screws were cut by the Philadelphia Gear Company. The beams between the screws are designed to lift 100 tons each. Synchronized posts, operated by electric winches, center the vessel exactly in the middle of the plat-form and hold the vessel on an even keel until it has been landed. Automatically adjusted bilge blocks fit any vessel. The platform has rails on 10-foot centers which make it possible to move vessels along the platform. Anthony C. Martinolich, presi-dent of the firm, stated that this installation provides western Alaska with one of the finest fa-cilities and practically the only one in that territory. R.D. Vechorik Rejoins Cairo Marine Services Cairo Marine Services, Inc. has announced that Richard D. Ve-chorik has rejoined the firm's staff and will represent the firm as vice-president and chief resident sur-veyor at Greenville, Miss. Mr. Vechorik was born and edu-cated in St. Louis, and was with an electric firm in that city for 14 years. Part of this time was spent as a draftsman and loftsman and he later served as plant manager. He joined Cairo Marine's staff at Cairo, 111., in 1963, remaining until the spring of 1968, when he joined the staff of the American Bureau of Shipping. Fluor Ocean Services Names P. F. Stolpman Manager Of Purchasing Paul F. Stolpman has been ap-pointed manager of purchasing for Fluor Ocean Services, Inc., Hous-ton, Texas, offshore engineering and construction division of Fluor Corp. Prior to being assigned to his new position, Mr. Stolpman was purchasing supervisor for Fluor's Houston Division. He joined Fluor five years ago as senior buyer. Mr. Stolpman has over 30 years experience in international pro-curement of refinery, petrochemi-cal, pipeline and oil field equipment supplies, negotiation of marine transportation contracts and han-dling of customs clearance. Fluor Ocean Services engages in offshore engineering and construc-tion activities throughout the world. The company maintains of-fices in Athens, Greece ; Anchorage, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. Domestically the company's oper-ating affiliates include Aquatic Contractors in New Orleans; Ryan Contracting in Santa Barbara, Calif., and the New Orleans Con-struction Division. Blue Water Marine Issues New Bulletin On Towing Bridles A single-page bulletin available from Blue Water Marine Supply, Inc., 1000 Broadway at Channel-side, Houston, Texas 77012, de-scribes the firm's make-up of tow-ing bridles with breaking strengths through 1,500,000 pounds. Among special features cited is that stud-less, non-detachable end links and specially constructed safety shack-les utilizing an extra cotter pin are standard components to provide extra measures of safety. The dia-grammatical presentation shows all components including optional nylon rope linkage and the bulletin states that the towing bridles are furnished with or without A.B.S. certificates. August 15, 1969 45 Martinolich Shipbuilding's new 700-ton marine elevator in Kodiak, Alaska Total capabilities in power transmission systems design and manufacturing IMo Pit Stops Twenty-five years ago, talk began about how nuclear energy would revolutionize the world's power sources. Today, it enables USN attack submarines to patrol the world months on end without surfacing. The Buehler Corporation's interest and participation in this field is natural since its own nuclear credentials go back to 1959. Currently, Buehler is building mechanisms and structural parts for fuel cores of nuclear reactors used aboard naval vessels. The precision and reliability required in this area call for the com-plete capability in design, development, testing and production that is characteristic of The Buehler Corporation. Whether solving high precision, high load power transmission prob-lems for aerospace, marine or commercial applications or supporting the success of nuclear energy, Buehler has experience and capability that began years before the nuclear energy revolution talk started. When you need a full service source with facilities to handle the toughest problems, turn to The Buehler Corporation. ?THE BUEHLER CORPORATION 9000 PRECISION DRIVE, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 4B236