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Gladding Corporation

Names Tourtellot

VP Of Cordage Div.

J. Gerald Mayer, president of

Gladding Corporation, Syracuse,

N.Y., has announced the appoint- ment of Carl T. Tourtellot Jr. as divisional vice president and gen- eral manager of Gladding Corpora- tion's Pawtucket Works Cordage

Division.

Mr. Tourtellot, Columbian Rope

Co. marketing vice president for the past three years, will report to

Nicholas J. Christakos, Gladding corporate vice president, Mr. May- er said.

Mr. Tourtellot's experience in- cludes positions as a management consultant, a national sales man- ager, a new products development- marketing executive, and a foreign marketing coordinator with various companies since 1947, the year he graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege with an economics degree. He earned his master's degree in 1954 from Harvard Business School, where he specialized in marketing and sales management studies.

His new responsibilities will headquarter him at Gladding's

Pawtucket Rope Works, 420 Pine

Street, Pawtucket, R.I., where fa- cilities have been expanded to manufacture ropes and lines up to 10 inches in circumference.

Gladding's Rope variety now in- cludes hawsers of nylon, poly- propylene, polyester, and line made with a combination of polyester and polypropylene yarns. "We now .manufacture the most complete line of synthetic cordage in conventional twisted ropes, dou- ble spliceable braids, solid braids,

Catalinas, hollow braids, and nylon- covered shock cord," Mr. Mayer said.

Carl T. Tourtellot Jr.

Por the individual consumer market, Gladding manufactures shrink-packaged dock lines in twisted and braid for sale in sport- ing goods and marina stores.

The 10-inch lines are for the steamship, towing and barge busi- ness. Gladding also makes numer- ous Government braids and ropes to conform to Federal specifica- tions for use by the Navy and

Coast Guard.

Gladding's other cordage plant at South O'tselic, N.Y., also manu- factures fishing lines and Gladding-

South Bend Tackle Division lures.

America's oldest recreational products company, Gladding began as a cordage manufacturer in 1816 at South Otselic, but soon expand- ed into fishing lines for which it 'became famous. Now a public cor- poration and widely diversified within the leisure field, it also man- ufactures full lines of Gladding-

South Bend, Glen L. Evans and

Horrocks-I'bbotson fishing tackle;

Gladding - Del - Rey recreational vehicles; Aqua-Float water safety products and water skis; Gladding inflatable boats, sleds and tobog- gans, sleeping, tennis and bowl- ing bags, camping equipment,

Gladding-Claricon home stereos;

Pearce-Simpson marine VHF ra- dios and citizens band radios, H.W.

Carter ski and hunting clothing and men's outerwear, and Gladding-

Vitro garbles.

St. Philip Towing

Asks Title XI Aid

For 2 Tugs, 2 Barges

The Maritime Administration has announced that St. Philip Towing &

Transportation Co. of Tampa, Fla., has applied for a Title XI mortgage guarantee to aid in financing the con- struction of two 5,000-hp oceangoing tugs and two 22,500-dwt dry bulk cargo self-unloading oceangoing barges.

According to the applicant, each tug will cost about $2.5 million and each barge $5.6 million—a total of $16.2 million. The units, when completed, will be used in transporting phosphate rock west from a terminal in Tampa

Bay to facilities on the Mississippi

River. No contracts for construction of the vessels have as yet been given.

Our man in Savannah is your man in Savannah.

Meet Jack Harrison, one of our ship superintendents.

His job is your job. We pay his salary, but he works for you. He sees to it that the rest of our people stay on the ball and on your job.

It doesn't matter if it's a major conversion or a voyage repair. He makes commitments to your port engineer and keeps them.

He doesn't like apologizing or explaining. So he makes sure he doesn't have to do a whole lot of it.

We do good work. This is a good town. We have a good climate. And we've got good men like Jack

Harrison working for us.

Come on down and let us show you why they ought to be working for you.

Savannah Machine and Shipyard Co.

P.O. Box 787, Savannah, Ga. 31402

Tele. (912) 233-6621 5 World Trade Center, Room 6237

New York, N.Y. 10048, Tele. (212) 432-0350

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