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Gene M. Woodfin

Elected President

Marathon Mfg. foot stern door, and 12 interior cargo doors in sizes up to 24 feet by 15 feet will be supplied for each ship.

All cargo doors have individual electro-hydraulic power units to permit simple push-button opera- tion. The equipment follows the designs developed over the past 20 years by Walz & Krenzer, Inc. and already in service on the majority of roll-on/roll-off vessels built in this country.

Hitachi Building Yards

For Very Large Vessels

In Japan And Singapore

In order to meet world demand for larger ships, Hitachi Zosen is now constructing the Ariake Ship- yard, which will be capable of building UDGCs of up to 400,000- 600,000-dwt. Ariake is located in

Kyushu, Japan, and is scheduled to be completed in April 1974. With construction still under way, the shipyard started test operations in

April 1973, and will lay the keel for the first ship this autumn.

In Singapore, Hitachi Zosen

Robin Dockyard (Pte.) Ltd. — a joint venture between Hitachi Zo- sen of Japan, and Robin Shipyard of Singapore—is now building a repair yard which will be capable of accommodating VL'OCs of up to 300,000 dwt when it begins op- erations in the first half of 1974.

Gene M. Woodfin

Gene M. Woodfin has been elect- ed as president of Marathon Manu- facturing Company, Houston, Tex- as, one of the world's largest producers of drilling rigs for the offshore industry. He succeeds

Wayne D. Harbin in that capacity.

Mr. Harbin will continue to serve the company as a director and chairman of the board. A spokes- man for the company stated that

Mr. Harbin will remain as an inte- gral part of the management of the company and will work with

Mr. Woodfin in directing the com- pany's operations. Mr. Woodfin was also elected a director of the company, along with J.R. Butler of Houston, chairman of the board of Butler, Miller & Lents, Ltd., oil consultants.

Mr. Woodfin has been a partner in Loeb, Rhoades & Co., a leading investment banking firm in New

York City, since 1959. Before go- ing with Loeb, Rhoades & Co., he was a partner in the firm of Vin- son, Elkins, Searls, Connally &

Smith in Houston, where he spe- cialized in oil, gas and corporate law. Mr. Woodfin was an officer in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945 and is a native of

Paris, Texas, and a graduate of the University of Texas and the

University of Texas Law School.

Mr. Woodfin is currently a director of Apco Oil Corporation, Susque- hanna Corp. and Jim Walter In- vestments, as well as other Corpo- rations. He is also the president and a director of the University of

Texas Foundation at Austin,

Texas.

Mr. Harbin stated : "I am pleased to have a man of Mr. Woodfin's business experience join the com- pany, and I am looking forward to working with him in continuing the success of Marathon."

Bath Iron Awards $1-Million Contract To

Mock/Walz & Krenzer

Julius Mock & Sons, Inc., in as- sociation with Walz & Krenzer,

Inc., has received contracts in ex- cess of $1,000,000 from Bath Iron

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