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Gordon Furth Elected

Exec. Vice President

Marcona Corporation

Gordon Furth has been elected to the newly-created position of executive vice president of Mar- cona Corporation, San Francisco- based resource development, ship- ping and mining concern. The an- nouncement was recently made at the company's annual sharehold- er's meeting by C.W. Robinson, president.

Mr. Furth has served as senior vice president since 1965. Prior to that time, he was president of

Ocean Services, Inc., a principal marine operating company of the

Marcona group. He first joined the firm in 1956, as administrative manager of the Peruvian subsidi- ary, Marcona Mining Company.

His career also includes 12 years of audit management experience with the accounting firm, Arthur

Andersen & Co.

A 1942 graduate of the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley (A.B. degree in economics), Mr.

Furth also earned an M.B.A. de- gree from Harvard Business School in 1947. He is a director of Soule

Steel Company and a member of the Pan American Society, World

Affairs Council of Northern Cali- all bronze... and 10 yards uiide lbs

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Accountants, and American Insti- tute of Mining and Metallurgical

Engineers.

ACT Appoints

V.R. Vincent Manager

Container Services

V.R. Vincent

V.R. (Pete) Vincent has report- ed for duty as manager of contain- er services for Associated Contain- er Transportation, it has been an- nounced by Michael B. Northen, president of ACT in North Amer- ica.

For ACT, he will be in charge of container booking, positioning, maintenance and repair and ac- counting control of all equipment within the system.

After wartime duty with the

Royal Air Force, Mr. Vincent joined Cunard Steamship Company in 1946 and moved through the auditing, cashier's freight sales and freight operations departments in London and New York. In 1966, he was assigned to container serv- ice development involving docu- mentation, simplification of paper work, computer data processing and freight planning. In 1967, he joined Atlantic Container Line as executive assistant to the presi- dent, and later as terminal adminis- tration manager.

Charles H. Black

Named Treasurer

Of Litton Industries

Charles H. Black has been ap- pointed treasurer of Litton Indus- tries, it was announced by Joseph

T. Casey, Litton senior vice presi- dent.

Mr. Black brings to his new posi- tion almost 14 years of extensive experience with Litton operating divisions in the defense and com- mercial areas. For the last five years he has been vice president, finance, for the Professional Serv- ices and Equipment group.

Mr. Black was graduated from the University of Southern Cali- fornia with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Currently, he is a director of the university's

Commerce Associates of School of

Business.

Litton Industries, headquartered in Beverly Hills, Calif., is a major multinational corporation special- izing in products, systems and services for business, defense, ma- rine, industrial and professional markets.

The propeller shown is 90,000 lbs., 23 feet in diameter and will be installed on the

DOCTOR LYKES—world's largest dry cargo commercial ship—being built at General

Dynamics Quincy Ship- building Division, Quincy,

Mass. new Ferguson Propellers finished to 100,000 30 foot diameter - in all bronze alloys 38 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News