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Nichols/Pittman/Choate

Purchase Cox Interest

In Mississippi Marine

John Nichols, president of Mis- sissippi Marine Towboat Corpo- ration, Greenville, Miss., an- nounced recently that he and partners T.R. Pittman and Mrs.

Lilie M. (Skeeter) Choate of

Greenville, have purchased the

John H. Cox family interest in

Mississippi Marine for an undis- closed amount.

John H. Cox, founder, estab- lished the firm in the mid-1960s under the name Mississippi Ma- rine Corp. The late Walter L.

Choate, and T.R. Pittman joined him later as partners. In 1972,

Mr. Nichols joined the firm as president and the company name was changed.

Mississippi Marine, one of the largest shipbuilding operations in

Greenville, is located on Lake

Ferguson, and specializes in all phases of marine construction and repair.

Messrs. Nichols and Pittman and Mrs. Choate plan to extend

Mississippi Marine Towboat Cor- poration specialties to the con- struction of offshore supply boats and tugs. An additional 2,500-ton drydock and expansion of the present repair facility is also planned. Mr. Nichols will remain

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Mr. Pittman, a custom agri- cultural machine operator and planter, has extensive agricultural operations south of the city, as well as being active in speculative petroleum prospecting. He is also owner of Pitcox Barge Corp. and co-owner (with Mrs. Choate) of

Cox Towing Corp.

Mrs. Choate, in addition to her share in Mississippi Marine and

Cox Towing Corp., also owns

Chocox Barge Corp. and Choate

Furniture Mart.

Mr. Nichols is co-owner of

Nichols Propeller Company.

Japanese Shipbuilders

Association Elects

Dr. Shinto President

Dr. Hisashi Shinto

The Shipbuilders' Association of Japan recently elected new managing directors.

Dr. Hisashi Shinto, president of IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima

Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.), be- came president of the Association, while Gakuji Moriya, president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,

Ltd., Tsunesaburo Nishimura, president of Sumitomo Heavy In- dustries, Ltd., and Kageki Minami, president of Osaka Shipbuilding

Co., Ltd., were elected to the posts of vice president.

Dr. Shinto is one of the leading authorities of Japan's shipbuild- ing industry. He took his doctor- ate in engineering in 1958 with a thesis entitled "A Study of

Production Control of New Ship- building." Representative among his writings is "Japanese Ship- building Industry after World

War II" (written on May 15, 1967).

Dr Shinto graduated from Kyu- shu Imperial University (naval architecture), and also received his D. Eng. degree from Kyushu.

In November 1970, Dr. Shinto was awarded a Blue Ribbon Medal from the Japanese Government.

In May 1973, he became a Meri- torious member of The Society of

Naval Architects of Japan. In

November 1975, he was com- mended by the Minister of Trans- port of Japan in recognition of his services in the development of modern shipbuilding techniques, and in May 1977 he was awarded the "Legion d'Honneur" by the

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