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World Dredging Conference

To Hear 30 Technical Papers

Nov. 30 - Dec. 3 In N.O.

The worldwide community of dredgers and dredge builders are making their plans to con- verge upon New Orleans November 30, 1971, for the Fourth World Dredging Conference (WODCON). An elaborate field trip has been planned for the first day with a tour of the

Mississippi River dredging projects, past, pres- ent and future, on the river boat President.

Luncheon buffet Louisiana-style, a Dixieland combo and a fully narrated tour of the river by a representative of the Port of New Orleans will make the river trip a valued event. That same evening there will be a cocktail reception hosted by the Gulf Coast Dredging Associa- tion, followed by a "Miniature Mardi Gras

Ball" theater presentation by one of the lead- ing theatrical groups in the city.

Following the first eventful day and evening, the conference will get down to business, with technical papers and industry exhibits begin- ning the morning of December 1 and running through the afternoon of December 3. All events will be held at the Jung Hotel Conven- tion Center. Each day there will be formal speakers at the luncheons. The luncheon speak- ers will be: December 1—Lt.Gen. F.J. Clarke,

Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army; December 2—

Patrick H. O'Neill, president, International

Mining Corp., and December 3—A.L. Quinlan, vice president and general manager, McNa- mara Marine.

There will be 30 technical papers presented on subjects ranging from pipeline hydraulics, pumps-designs and maintenance, dredge de- signs and operations, to ecological effects of dredging. Industry exhibits will be presented by a cross section of companies serving and active in the dredging industry. The Hall of

The Americas of the Jung Hotel is expected to be filled with full-scale equipment and mod- els depicting dredges, operations and the sup- porting equipment.

The sponsor of the WODlCON IV is the

WODCON Association, an international non- profit organization representing the leading dredging contractors from over 20 countries, six foreign government dredging organiza- tions, builders and engineering companies. It was formed in May 1967 at the occasion of the first WODCON meeting in the New York

City Coliseum. Co-sponsors of WODCON IV include the World Dredging Association (WODA), which is a technical society of in- dividuals involved in the dredging industry from over 35 countries, Texas A&M Univer- sity and Oregon State University, who are helping with the technical paper program.

This year's chairman of the WODCON As- sociation and for the conference is O.M. Gau- treaux, president of Wil'liams-McWilliams Co., headquartered in New Orleans and one of the oldest dredging firms in the United States.

Chairman of the board of directors of both

WODCON and WODA is Bill Bauer, inter- nationally known as a leading figure and pio- neer in the dredging industry. He is the found- er of Bauer Dredging Company of Port La- vaca, Texas, which is now owned by the Texas

Gas Transmission Co.

For more information on registration and participation in WODCON IV, contact WOD-

CON, M.J. Richardson, Executive Secretary,

P.O. Box 20810, Long Beach, Calif. 90801, tele- phone (213) 832-4291.

Alco Offers Brochure On

Heavy Duty Marine Diesels

A 16-page brochure on heavy duty marine diesels is available from Alco Engines Division of White Industrial Power, Inc. The full-color brochure gives information on engines from 6 to 18 cylinders, offering from 550 to 3,960 hp. Gen- eral specifications of the Alco 251 four-cycle engine, as well as its ratings and characteristics, are included in the brochure.

To obtain a copy of this brochure, write Alco

Engines, 100 Orchard Street, Auburn, N.Y. 13021.

MOBIL GRANT TO KINGS POINT: The Mobil Founda- tion, Inc., has made an educational grant of $1,000 to the Kings Point Fund, Inc., for the benefit of the United

States Merchant Marine Academy and its midshipmen.

At informal ceremonies recently held in New York, Rear

Adm. Arthur B. Engel, USCG (ret.), superintendent of the

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., is shown accepting the $1,000 grant to the Academy from

Mobil Oil Corporation, represented by Henry J. Luck Jr., general manager of marine transportation. The picture of a Mobil tankship in the background was presented by the company to the Academy on the same occasion.

The gift will be applied, according to fund officials, in areas of maritime education and undergraduates need not fully funded by Government training appropriations.

For many years, the Fund has conducted annual giving drives to assist the Academy in these and other fields, including student loans, betterments to buildings, grounds and equipment, sail training, and extracurricular activities.

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