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James H. Cottrell Joins

Ogden Corporation

As Vice President

James H. Cottrell has been named vice president of Ogden

Corporation, it was announced by

Ralph E. Ablon, chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Cot- trell joins Ogden from the Lum- mus Company.

James H. Cottrell

He will direct Ogden's expan- sion into equipment for process and energy-related plants. Em- phasis will be placed upon utili- zation and expansion of fabri- cation capabilities at Avondale

Shipyards and Yuba Heat Trans- fer. State-of-the-art techniques will be offered for fabrication of engineered process equipment, pipe spools, and plant modules.

In addition, Mr. Cottrell will coordinate Ogden's activities in coal transportation, where the skillls of several divisions are available for the manufacture of specialized railroad cars for coal transportation, handling of coal at ocean ports, and construction and operations of ships for coal movement.

Mr. Cottrell's industrial career commenced with Cities Service in 1958 on work associated with the

Athabasca Tar Sands of North- ern Alberta, Canada, and it in- cludes over 15 years with C.F.

Braun & Co. in various capacities to vice president, and Science

Management Corporation as ex- ecutive vice president.

Guralnick Associates

Awarded Design Contract

By MSC-Pacific

Morris Guralnick Associates,

Inc. (MGA) has just been award- ed a level-of-effort design con- tract by the Military Sealift Com- mand, Pacific (MSCPAC), under which the San Francisco firm of naval architects and marine en- gineers will be called on to assist in design and engineering work associated with MSCPAC opera- tions during the coming year.

In making the announcement of the new contract award, Hugh

F. Munroe, president and chief executive officer of MGA, said: "In the past, occasional design tasks were issued by MSCPAC to design contractors only when an urgent need arose, and we have at times been engaged by MSC-

PAC to supplement its ship de- sign staff. Recently, however, con- ditions have developed in which more formal and continuing as- sistance is required by MSCPAC, resulting in solicitation and award of the type of contract just award- ed to our firm. Under this con- tract, we will provide on-demand services to MSCPAC throughout the year."

The Military Sealift Command,

Pacific, headquartered in Oak- land, Calif., is the shipping arm of the Department of Defense, operating many classes of ships, including dry and bulk cargo types. In addition, MSCPAC op- erates support ships (underway replenishment and scientific) for the United States Navy and other customers. The maintenance of these vessels requires frequent modification to conform to chang- ing conditions, and MGA will pro- vide design and engineering as- sistance as required.

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Morris Guralnick Associates, largest naval architectural and engineering firm of its type on the Pacific Coast, was founded in

San Francisco 34 years ago. Pres- ently engaged in several long- term projects for the maritime industry, the U.S. Navy, and other commercial and government clients, the organization in addi- tion to its headquarters office in

San Francisco operates a branch office in San Diego.

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