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"World Trade — Priority And Challenge"

Outstanding Schedule For Propeller Club Convention —

American Merchant Marine Conference Of 1974 Set For October 16-18

Exploring the challenge of world trade in the light of today's changing technologies and politics has been set forth as the key issue for the 48th Annual Pro- peller Club Convention and Amer- ican Merchant Marine Confer- ence. However, the speakers, pan- elists and members will not stop at just exposing the problems but will analyze them in order to set priorities in meeting this chal- lenge.

This year, as in previous years, this Convention is the annual focal point of the U.S. maritime industry where management and labor, shippers and ship opera- tors, ship designers, and the gov- ernment meet for one common cause — the advancement of the industry as a whole. This 48th

Annual Convention will be held on October 16 through 18 at the

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New

York City. It is sponsored by the

Propeller Club of the United

States, which has a membership in excess of 12,000 maritime ex- ecutives from 60 American ports and 13 foreign ports, and will be hosted by the Propeller Club of the Port of New York.

The National Propeller Club will hold its business meetings at the following times:

Tuesday, October 15 at 12:00 noon the National Board of Gov- ernors and the National Execu- tive Committee will meet at a luncheon to be held in the Wal- dorf-Louis XVI Suite. Arthur E.

Farr, vice-president, Northwest

Marine Iron Works, will chair this meeting and Jasper Baker, national president, Propeller Club of the United States, will preside.

Wednesday, October 16 at 9:00 a.m. the first Convention business meeting will be held in the Wal- dorf-Jade Room. James P. McAl- lister, chairman of the board,

McAllister Brothers, Inc., will serve as chairman. Welcoming addresses will be given by Na- tional President Baker and the

Hon. Abraham Beame, mayor of the City of New York.

Wednesday, October 16 at 10:00 a.m. the Women's Propeller Club meeting will be held in the Wal- dorf-Jansen Salon. Mrs. Jimilee

Knepper, national president,

Women's Propeller Club of the

United States, will serve as chair- man.

The Port Secretaries Breakfast

Meeting will be held on Thursday at 7:30 a.m. in the Waldorf-Park

Avenue Center. A.C. Filiatrault

Jr., national secretary, will serve as chairman.

Thursday, October 17 at 10:00 a.m. the Women's Propeller Club will hold its second meeting in the Waldorf-Jansen Salon.

Friday, October 18 at 10:00 a.m. the Women's Propeller Club will meet in the Waldorf-Jansen

Salon.

Friday, October 18 at 2:45 p.m. the final Convention Business

Meeting will be held in the Wal- dorf-Jade Room.

Merchant Marine Conference

The American Merchant Ma- rine Conference, based on the theme "World Trade — Priority and Challenge," will hold its first session on Wednesday, October 16, at 2:00 p.m. in the Waldorf-Jade

Room. This session will be chaired by Edward J. Heine Jr., president of the United States Lines, Inc.

The topic for this session is "Prospects for World Trade in the Coming Decade." The panel will describe the changing trade patterns and business opportuni- ties.

The second session of the Con- ference will be held in the Jade

Room (as will be all the following sessions) at 9:00 a.m. on Thurs- day, October 17. The subject to be discussed by the panelists at this meeting is "American Tech- nology Can Meet the Challenge."

The panelists will describe how ocean traders and the domestic shippers can be the beneficiaries of an expanding maritime tech- nology.

Also on Thursday at 10:30 a.m., the third session will be held.

How "The Finance and Business

Communities Respond to the In- dustry's Needs" will be covered during this session. This panel will address itself to the means and methods available from priv- ate and government sectors to satisfy the industry's financial requirements and the important role of the insurance market.

The fourth Conference session will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Fri- day, October 18. The theme will be "Regulatory Help and Hin- drance." The discussion will high- light the statutory and regulatory climate both domestically and in- ternationally.

The final and fifth Conference session will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday. This session will have as panelists top executives from the liner, tanker, bulk and domes- tic segments of the industry who will respond and relate the previ- ous discussions to their particu- lar fields. The theme of this ses- sion is "Priority and Challenge—

The Industry's Response."

Special Functions

While the Propeller Club's busi- ness meetings and the Confer- ence sessions are the focal points of the Convention, the special functions are equally important to the attendees.

On Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. the Port of New York/New

Jersey luncheon will be held. The chairman for this luncheon is

Roger H. Gilman, director of plan- ning and development, The Port

Authority of New York and New

Jersey.

The Labor/Management/Gov- ernment luncheon will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. Thomas

W. Gleason, president, Interna- tional Longshoremen's Associa- tion, AFL-CIO, will serve as chairman.

On Friday the American Mer- chant Marine Conference lunch- eon will be held.

Social Activities

An outstanding round of social activities has been planned by the Propeller Club of the Port of

New York. Heading the list is a golf tournament for men and ladies at the Westchester Country

Club, home of the Westchester

Classic, starting at 10:00 a.m. on

Tuesday, October 15. Jerry Scully, vice-president and secretary, Na- tional Cargo Bureau, Inc., is chairman for this affair.

On Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. the early arrival cocktail party will be held in the

Jade Room. At this time the golf prizes will be awarded. Lloyd

Graham, vice-president, Moran

Towing & Transportation, Inc., is serving as chairman for this activity.

At 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday the Ladies Luncheon will be held at Mamma Leone's Ristorante and followed by a Broadway matinee — Angela Lansbury in "Gypsy" at the Winter Garden.

The National President's Re- ception will be held on Wednes- day between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. at the New York World Trade

Center. Buses will leave the Wal- dorf at 5:45 p.m. The chairman for this affair is James J. Dick- man, president, New York Ship- ping Association.

At 3:00 p.m. on Thursday a cruise, on a Circle Line Cruise ship, will take the attendees to the Statue of Liberty, South

Street Seaport, U.S. Merchant

Marine Academy and thence to a Clam/Oyster Bar Reception and buffet dinner at the State Uni- versity of New York Maritime

College. Co-chairmen for this function are Rear Adm. S.H. Kin- ney, USN (ret.), president, State

University of New York Mari- time College, and Rear Adm.

Arthur B. Engel, superintendent,

United States Merchant Marine

Academy. Those attending this affair will return on the cruise vessel to Pier 83, North River, after a moonlight cruise.

The final affair will be the

Annual Reception and Banquet on Friday night, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom. Adm.

John M. Will, USN (ret.), is serv- ing as chairman for the banquet.

In order to plan and execute a

Convention and Conference of this magnitude it takes the efforts of many dedicated people. Just a few of these are: Convention chairman — James P. McAllister;

Conference chairman—Edward J.

Heine Jr.; coordinating commit- tee chairman—Francis J. Barry, president of Circle Line; Confer- ence vice-chairman—Capt. Thom- as A. King, eastern director, Mar- itime Administration; deputy

Convention/Conference chairman —Capt. Robert E. Hart, president,

Marine Index Bureau, Inc.; fund solicitation—Edwin K. Linen, sec- retary, Todd Shipyards Corpora- tion ; finance — Leonard Nichols,

Eastern Region, Maritime Admin- istration; transportation — C.W.

Wilson, manager marine sales,

Babcock & Wilcox; registration—

John B. Blackeby, secretary,

American Bureau of Shipping;

Conference sessions committee—

Michael Klebanoff, president, Og- den Marine, Inc., and women's activities—Mrs. Jeannette Spidle, president, Women's Propeller Club of New York. Overseeing all these activities was Capt. Adrian P.

Spidle, president of the New York

Port Propeller Club and vice- president, Prudential-Grace Lines,

Inc., and Col. James B. Soden

USA (ret.), secretary-treasurer,

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