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Newport News Names

Via To New Duties

G. Guy Via Jr.

L.C. Ackerman, president of

Newport News Shipbuilding and

Dry Dock Company, Newport

News, Va., has announced the ap- pointment of G. Guy Via Jr. to the newly-created position of manager of marketing for commercial ships.

Mr. Via has been manager of the ship repair sales department since

August 1969. "We are consolidating our pres- ent ship repair sales organization with our recently-established mar- ket development division," Mr.

Ackerman said, "as a further step in our stated objective to capture the lead in all facets of the com- mercial ship market."

Mr. Via, who will report to di- rector of market development Jo- seph D. Deal Jr., will continue management of ship repair sales in addition to his new marketing re- sponsibility.

Mr. Via joined Newport News in 1947 as an estimator in ship re- pair after graduating from the Uni- versity of Michigan with a degree in naval architecture and marine engineering. In January 1966, he was named assistant manager of the department.

A naval officer during World

War II, Mr. Via served three years in the Pacific on the destroyer

Smith (DD-378), the last 15 months as chief engineer. He was engineer- ing inspector on the staff of Com- mander Destroyers Atlantic Fleet when the war ended in 1945.

A native of Newport News, Mr.

Via is a member of The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine Engi- neers, National Defense Transpor- tation Association, and the Ameri- can Society of Naval Engineers. He served as president of the Newport

News Propeller Club in 1962-63.

Currently, Mr. Via is a member of the board of directors of the New- port News Savings and Loan

Association and chairman of the administrative board of Trinity

United Methodist Church.

Holland-America Line

To Acquire Interest

In Westours, Inc.

Holland-America Line has an- nounced that, subject to approval of

American and Dutch authorities in- volved, the company will acquire a majority interest in Westours, Inc.,

Seattle, Wash. A provisional agree- ment has been reached by Holland-

America officials and Charles B.

West, president and partial owner of Westours, Inc. The management of Westours, Inc. will continue under

Mr. West.

Westours, Inc. is a leading Ameri- can tour operator involved in the organization and marketing of pack- aged tours and in the operation of tours and cruises. The company owns several cruise vessels and hotels and a fleet of touring buses.

Since 1946, Westours, Inc. has of- fered cruise tours from the U.S.

West Coast to Alaska. Last year, the company developed a new cruise area in the Pacific and is currently offering cruise tours from Tahiti and the Fiji Islands on the cruise ships

Pacific Star and West Star.

SOCIETY OF MARINE PORT ENGINEERS: A general membership meeting: and dinner was held on January 20, 1971, by The Society of Marine Port Engineers, New York,

N.Y., Inc., at the Commuters Cafe and Restaurant, New York City. After dinner, the meeting was called to order and ballots received for the election of officers. Thomas M.

Finnican, vice president of Marjet International, Inc., presented a paper entitled "Rea- sons For Boiler Slag And Corrosion Problems in High Pressure Marine Boilers And A New

Approach To Their Alleviation." Shown above with the Society banner in the back- ground are, left to right: Jack MacDougall, president, Marjet International, Inc.; John

Antonetz, manager of technical services, marine sales department of Texaco, Inc.; Mat- thew E. Carroll, sponsor of the paper and member of the board of directors; Thomas

M. Finnican, vice president of Marjet International, Inc., who presented the paper; John

C. Fox Jr., president of the Society; Edward English, chairman, entertainment and pro- gram committee, and Joseph Thelgie, chairman of the board of directors.

German Shipyard To

Enter Large Ship Field

Blohm & Voss, the third largest

West German shipyard, with approxi- mately 7,000 employees and a pres- ent output of about $140-million, plans to turn to large-sized ship- building. The announcement was made by the board of directors in

Hamburg during the recent discus- sion of the annual report. The ship- yard has an outstanding reputation in the building of special-purpose vessels.

The present volume of orders is approximately $205-million. This in- cludes two large container vessels for

Hapag-Lloyd's East Asia service, a special-purpose vessel for cars, and a general cargo/bulk vessel of the

Pioneer type.

According to the Blohm & Voss management, it will turn to large- sized shipbuilding in the future be- cause of the substantial economies that can be achieved. In their dry- dock Elbe 17, Blohm & Voss have the capacity for building bulk car- riers and tankers up to 235,000 tons and can guarantee short delivery.

Wall Rope Offers

Specification Chart

A new rope specifications wall chart is offered by Wall Rope Works.

Tensile strengths and weights per 100 feet are given for a complete range of rope sizes from 3/16-inch diameter (5/8-inch circumference) to 4-inch diameter (12-inch circum- ference). Both diameter and circum- ference are listed for all sizes.

The chart permits easy comparison of tensile strengths and weights per 100 feet for all sizes of the following rope types: Manila, Polypropylene,

Poly-plus, Poly-cron, Nylon, Dacron,

LST Mooring Line, LST Work

Boat, and Super-8-Braid. Wall Rope

Works is located in Beverly, N.J. 08010.

Rudder Club To Honor

Teddy Gleason Of ILA

Thomas W. Gleason

Thomas W. Gleason, president of the International Longshore- men's Association, AFL-CIO, will be guest of honor and principal speaker at The Rudder Club's

Seventh Annual International Mar- itime Night Dinner, on Wednes- day evening, March 10, which will be held this year in the main ball- room of the Statler-Hilton Hotel,

New York, N.Y., it was announced by James L. Bailey, of Wedemann & Godknecht, commodore of the club.

Executives of American and for- eign flag steamship lines serving the Port of New York/New Jersey, will also be honored that evening for their tremendous contributions and untiring efforts in making this port, which is the hub of interna- tional trade, the world's greatest for world trade.

Thomas J. Giardino, traffic man- ager of the Marchessini Lines, will be general chairman of the affair.

The cost per guest is set at $15 each, which includes gratuity. Re- quests for tickets and reservations should be made to Anthony D'Am- brosio (Atlantic Coast Industries,

UL 8-8910) or Robert J. Hannon (Marchessini Steamship Lines, WH 3-7550). Checks should be payable to Rudder Club, Inc., 518-26 Col- umbia Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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