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Miller And Nivin Promoted

To Vice Presidents At ACBL

James E. Nivin

D. Ray Miller and James E. Nivin have 'been elected vice presidents of American Com- mercial Barge Line Company (ACBL). Mr.

Miller has also been elected vice president of

Commercial Transport Corporation (CTC), an affiliate of ACBL.

Announcement of the new positions for

Messrs. Miller and Nivin was made in Jeffer- sonville, Ind., by Floyd H. Blaske, president of both companies, and chairman and chief executive officer of the Inland Waterways

Services Division of Texas Gas Transmission

Corporation, their parent company.

Mr. Miller, who has been director of dis- tribution services for ACBL, will continue to head that phase of the company's operations.

Mr. Nivin has responsibility for engineer- ing under his ACBL assignment. In addition, he will continue as vice president, engineering, for Jeffboat, Inc., shipbuilding affiliate of

ACBL in the Inland Waterways Services Di- vision.

Following his 1949 graduation from the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh with a degree in trans- portation, Mr. Miller joined the organization that evolved into the Inland Waterways Serv- ices Division of Texas Gas Transmission Cor- poration. In 1960, he became chief dispatcher for American Commercial Barge Line Com- pany, and since that time has also served as assistant manager of operations, director of terminals, and director of distribution services.

Mr. Nivin, holder of a degree in naval ar- chitecture and marine engineering from the

University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1951, joined Jeffboat in 1965 as manager of special projects. He became direc- tor of engineering in 1967, was elected vice president of Jeffboat—operator of one of the nation's largest and busiest inland shipyards— in 1968, and was made engineering vice presi- dent in the 'Inland Waterways Services Divi- sion on January 1, 1972.

Taylor Divinq & Salvage

Announces Three Appointments

Hugh W. Gordon Jr., has been elected presi- dent of Taylor Diving & Salvage Co., Inc., an affiliate Of Brown & Root, Inc., succeeding

Mark P. Banjavich, who has resigned.

Ken W. Wallace will remain as senior vice president in charge of operations, and Jerry J.

Jones has been elected vice president-adminis- tration of Taylor, a New Orleans, La.-based subsidiary of the Halliburton Company. Tay- lor is one of the largest international underwa- ter engineering, construction and salvage com- panies in the world. 'Mr. Wallace served in the U.S. -Navy from 1943 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1964, when he joined Taylor. He was graduated from the Na- val Deep Sea Diving School in 1952, and was designated a Master Deep Sea Diver, U.S.

Navy, in 1961, and appointed master driver of the First Nuclear Submarine Squadron. In 1962, he was assigned to the Naval Experi- mental Diving Unit as master diver in charge.

Upon joining Taylor, Mr. Wallace was in- volved in the company's research and develop- ment work pertaining to diving, ^e was elect- ed vice president-special assignments in 1970, and senior vice president in 1972.

Mr. Jones comes to Taylor from Brown &

Root, Inc. of Houston, Texas, where he was manager of the company's Electronics Divi- sion. Mr. Jones joined Brown & Root, one of the largest engineering and construction firms in the world, in 1968 doing research and de- velopment work for the Microwave Survey

System and computer controlled systems for dynamic positioning of offshore construction barges.

Prior to joining Brown & Root, a Hallibur- ton subsidiary, Mr. Jones attended Washing- ton State University, served in the U.S. Air

Force from 1957 to 1965, and worked as engi- neering supervisor of Welex Electronics doing underwater sonar development and testing, serving as test director of the Seneca Lake (N.Y.) Experimental Test Facility for the

Navy.

Mr. Gordon is executive vice president-ma- rine, and a director of Brown & Root, and is in charge of the worldwide marine activities of the company. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Gordon joined Brown & Root in 1951 as an engineer, and later served as project engineer in various locations. He was named vice president-foreign marine op- erations in 1968, senior group vice president in 1970, and executive vice president-marine in 1970.

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