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Brown & Root Promotes

Akin, Sides And Muellner

Brown & Root, Inc., Houston,

Texas, a Halliburton Company, has announced the promotion of two new vice presidents, and the addition of another.

Frank A. Akin, formerly man- ager of Business Development-

Marine Services, was promoted to vice president-Business Develop- ment, Operations Services.

Curtis M. Sides, formerly gen- eral manager, Manufacturing &

Process Industries Group, has been promoted to vice president-

Manufacturing & Process Indus- tries Group.

Frank E. Muellner, formerly vice president and director of en- gineering for the NUS Corpora- tion, a Brown & Root affiliate, has been employed by the parent com- pany as vice president-Nuclear

Engineering, Power Group.

Mr. Akin, a 10-year veteran of

Brown & Root, has over 20 years' experience in various petroleum- related fields. He has served as project manager on jobs around the world, and for the last three years has planned, directed and controlled activities related to sales of marine services and the supervision of Business Develop- ment personnel overseas.

Mr. Sides has 17 years' expe- rience with Brown & Root and more than 21 years of diversified experience in the design, plan- ning and management of projects in petroleum, petrochemical and related industries. A graduate of

Southern Methodist University in 1960 with a degree in mechani- cal engineering, Mr. Sides has served in assignments in Spain, the Middle East, North Africa, and South America. He is a reg- istered engineer.

Mr. Muellner comes to Brown & Root with a wide background in nuclear engineering dating back to the Shippingport, Pa., nuclear power plant project in 1956 as mechanical core design engineer.

For the past 14 years he has been employed at the NUS Corpora- tion, Rockville, Md., and before that with Westinghouse Electric

Corporation, Bettis Atomic Power

Laboratory. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and completed work on a master's de- gree at the University of Pitts- burgh. 500th Raytheon RAYCAS

Capt. Peter Boele, master, S/S President

Hoover, American President Lines, and

Capt. John Millard, marketing manager,

Commercial Marine Products, Raytheon

Marine Company, at console of the 500th

Raytheon RAYCAS computer assisted radar collision avoidance system recently installed aboard the S/S President

Hoover.

Raytheon Marine Company,

Manchester, N.H., manufacturers of a wide range of Marine Elec- tronic Navigation Equipment, has recently installed, in conjunction with Redi-Marine Electronics Co.,

South San Francisco, the 500th

Raytheon RAYCAS aboard the

S/S President Hoover, a contain- ership owned and operated by

American President Lines, Inc.,

Oakland, Calif.

The Raytheon RAYCAS sys- tem is a computer assisted radar collision avoidance unit which aids high seas navigators in guid- ing their vessels safely through congested waters in all weather conditions.

American President Lines, Inc., owns and operates a fleet of 22

U.S.-flag vessels trading between

North America and North Asia/

South Asia and the Middle East on a regularly scheduled basis, and is installing Raytheon RAY-

CAS units aboard their vessels.

For further information on

Raytheon products,

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ON FOR SIZE

We've added the 185 foot and the 203 foot tug/supply vessels to our line of quality boats.

It's what you've demanded from us and what we can deliver.

At our new seventeen acre shipyard we're building larger vessels for our old friends and some new friends too.

THE 185 FOOT

CHARACTERISTICS

Length overall 185'

Beam 40

Depth 14'

Design water line 10'

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