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Colt Industries'

Power Systems Div.

Promotes Phillips

The promotion of E.J. Phillips to manager of renewal parts mar- keting for Colt Industries' Fair- banks Morse Power Systems Di- vision was announced by B.W.

Feldmiller, vice president, custo- mer service.

Mr. Phillips joined the company in 1935 in the apprentice training program. He advanced through manufacturing management posi- tions in the Beloit, Wis., plant and was later involved in field sales and service. Before returning to Be- loit in 1968, he was manager of an

Eastern region customer service office.

In announcing the promotion,

Mr. Feldmiller pointed out that additional emiphasis is being placed on expanded customer service as an important factor in ctompany growth. He stressed the extensive background and management ex- perience of Mr. Phillips as being of extreme value in the implemen- tation of an expanded customer service program.

In his new position, Mr. Phillips will be responsible for all renewal parts sales nationwide, as well as the foreign export market and

Canada.

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Bethlehem Names Leaf

General Manager

Beaumont Shipyard

Ralph A. Leaf

The appointment, effective Sep- tember 1, of Ralph A. Leaf as gen- eral manager of the Beaumont,

Texas, shipyard of Bethlehem Steel

Corporation, was announced by

Walter F. Williams, vice president, shipbuilding, for the corporation.

Mr. Leaf, who is advancing from assistant general manager of the yard, will succeed J.O. Crooke, who retired August 31.

A native of Baltimore, Md., Mr.

Leaf studied mechanical and civil engineering at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, as well as ship production and management development courses sponsored iby the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Baltimore.

He is a professional engineer in the state of Maryland and a mem- ber of the American Society of Na- val Engineers and The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers.

He joined Bethlehem Steel as a draftsman at its Baltimore ship repair yard in 1937, and through the years was promoted to naval architect, technical superintendent, assistant to manager, and assistant manager. He was transferred to the Beaumont yard as assistant manager in November 1965.

Mr. Leaf is a member of the

Rotary International and a board member of The Propeller Club of the Port of Sabine, Texas. He is a member of the Beaumont Cham- ber of Commerce and serves on its waterways committee, industrial development transportation com- mittee, and advisory council for technical-vocational education. He also serves on the board of direc- tors of the YM'CA, is chairman of the board of trustees of All Saints

Episcopal School, and was a divi- sion chairman in the United Ap- peals Campaign in 1970, 1971 and 1972.

Oskarshamn Shipyard

Wins $124,000,000

Order For 7 Tankers

The Oskarshamn Shipyard in south

Sweden has won an order valued at approximately $124,000,000 for the delivery of seven tankers to M.A.

Karagforgis, a Greek shipowner.

This order brings Oskarshamn's total order book to 13 tankers, all of them in the 30,000-deadweight-ton class. Three of the first six ships were ordered by a Swedish concern earlier this year, while the remaining three have been ordered by Poland.

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