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Ashland Petroleum

Establishes Marine

Services Department

Ashland Petroleum Company,

Ashland, Ky., has established a marine services department as part of its Marine Transportation

Division, headed by G. Ward Dis- brow, vice president.

Group vice president B.W. Da- vis said the new department en- compasses the facilities of Ash- land Petroleum's former river operations department and a number of new operations. These include all maintenance responsi- bilities for Thomas Petroleum

Transit, a subsidiary of Ashland

Petroleum.

Robert L. Gray has been named manager of marine services. He has been manager of river opera- tions since 1960. Mr. Gray, a grad- uate of the University of Louis- ville, joined the company in 1941 and has held a number of impor- tant positions in the company's river transportation and river op- erations departments.

Ben F. Tracy has been ap- pointed chief engineer for marine services. Mr. Tracy joined Ash- land Petroleum in 1946, and most recently has been manager of maintenance for repair for river operations.

Michael W. McFann and Robert

A. Bradford have been promoted to assistant managers of the ma- rine services department.

Mr. McFann is located in Baton

Rouge, La., and will supervise the newly established Marine Serv- ices Division there. He is a grad- uate of Ohio University and joined the company in 1970.

Mr. Bradford has assumed re- sponsibility for the Catlettsburg,

Ky., Division of Marine Services.

He came to the company in 1972 upon graduation from the Uni- versity of Kentucky.

Ashland Petroleum is a division of Ashland Oil, Inc., and operates the largest fleet for transporting liquid cargoes on the inland wa- terways.

Heath/Liquid Promotes

David Prosser In Sales

National sales manager Walt Skogg (left), points out features of Heath/Liquid flame cutting unit to R. David Prosser.

The promotion of R. David

Prosser to assistant national sales manager for Heath/Liquid has been announced by Walt Skogg, national sales manager.

Formerly employed by Liquid

Carbonic Corporation, a subsidi- ary of Houston Natural Gas Cor- poration, Mr. Prosser was trans- ferred to Heath Engineering

Company in August 1973. Most recently, he had been serving as

Northeastern regional manager.

Heath, located in Fort Collins,

Colo., offers a complete line of flame cutting systems with guid- ance equipment, ranging from single torch versions to computer- ized multi-torch units, and is na- tionally distributed by Liquid

Carbonic Corporation, 135 South

LaSalle Street, Chicago, 111. 60603.

Graham Manufacturing

Opens New Jersey Office

Graham Manufacturing Co.,

Inc., designers and manufacturers of vacuum and heat transfer equipment, has announced the opening of a sales engineering office at 1373 Broad Street, Clif- ton, N.J. Ed Fiorentino and John

A. Oleyar, who have been serving

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