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Stow Introduces New

Remote Valve Control

Flexible Shaft

Stow Manufacturing Co. has just put on the market a new standard 3/8-inch-size remote valve control flexible shaft, which is ideal for manually remotely controlling all types of small valves in sizes up to those with 2-inch-diameter handwheels. This new flexible shaft will transmit a maximum torque of 120 in./lbs. in a radius of bend as small as 7 in., and it has a torsional de- flection of only 42 degrees per foot of length when at maximum load. This 3/8-inch "V.C." flex- ible shaft can be put up to any length desired.

By using this flexible shaft, it allows valves in congested areas to be easily controlled from a safer more convenient location manually. It is often used on ships, in nuclear powerplants and industrial plants. This new 3/8- inch "V.C." flexible shaft is much safer than other means of remote operation as there are no exposed revolving parts, and because it is flexible it is very easy to install, even in areas with very compli- cated paths of transmission.

For more information on the new Stow standard 3/8-inch "V.C." flexible shaft, write to

Thom Holland, Stow Manufactur- ing Co., 86 Bump Road, Bing- hamton, N.Y.

U.S. Navy Officers

Assigned To Kings Point

Capt. Robert Marshall

Two U.S. Navy officers have been assigned duties at the U.S.

Merchant Marine Academy, Kings

Point, N.Y.

Capt. Robert Marshall, a resi- dent of Kings Point, has been se- lected to head the Department of Naval Science. Comdr. James

Perdew of Garden City, N.Y., has been assigned as Protestant chap- lain.

Comdr. James Perdew

A 1952 Academy graduate,

Captain Marshall is in charge of the naval training which each

Academy midshipman receives.

The naval science program, ex- tended over the normal four-year college curriculum, leads to com- missioning as ensign, U.S. Naval

Reserve.

Captain Marshall most recently served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations as Head, Sea- lift and Maritime Affairs Section.

His 21-year active duty naval ca- reer has included shipboard as- signments aboard destroyers and various auxiliary vessels, as well as a tour with Military Assistance

Command in Vietnam.

Captain Marshall sailed with

Farrell Lines Incorporated before going on active naval duty, and attained a chief mate's license.

He holds a master's degree in business administration from the

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

Commander Perdew's most re- cent tours have been aboard the

USS Enterprise (CVN 65), and at the Navy Chaplain's School in

Newport, R.I.

He attended William Jewell

College, and completed theologi- cal studies at Midwestern Baptist

Theological Seminary at Kansas

City in 1963. He entered active naval duty that year. comor

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Law-abiding no-lube oil to cause pollution

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision con- firms that past fines assessed for oil pollu- tion of federal waters will have to be paid.

More than $1,000,000 in all.

With Cutless water lubricated rubber bearings designed by Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc., you'll never have to worry about oil pollu- tion fines. There's not a drop of lube oil or grease in a Cutless propeller shaft bearing.

Only lube water.

An exclusive "Water Wedge" design molded into a tough B.FGoodrich rubber liner keeps plenty of lubricating water flow- ing through a Cutless bearing. Keeps shaft friction and horsepower losses low. Without oil or grease.

On your new construction or when you haul out for maintenance, install Cutless bearings. And eliminate one big source of oil slicks . . . and a large fine. Available in a full range of shaft diameters and load capacities.

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