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Michael Peterson Named

Marketing Manager For

Fairbanks Morse Division

T.V. O'Sullivan, vice president and general manager-parts and service of Colt Industries' Fair- banks Morse Engine Division, has announced the promotion of Mi- chael Peterson to the newly es- tablished position of manager- marketing for the parts and serv- ice operation of the division in Be- loit, Wise.

Mr. Peterson will be responsi- ble for developing and implement- ing marketing and sales programs for both parts and service. These areas have been expanded re- cently to better serve the domestic and foreign markets. He has been with Fairbanks Morse since 1980; his most recent assignment was sales project manager.

Westinghouse Awarded $112.8 Million By Navy For

Propulsion Components

Westinghouse Electric Corpora- tion, Plan Apparatus Division,

Wilkins Township, Pa., has been awarded a $112,803,000 face-value- increase to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for na- val nuclear propulsion compo- nents. The Naval Sea Systems

Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024- 77-D-4002).

Lorain Electronics

Introduces New Direct

Dial Radiotelephone

After some seven years of re- search and development, Lorain

Electronics Corporation of Lorain,

Ohio, has introduced, at an afford- able price, the M.A.P.-10, the Ma- rine Auto Phone direct dial radiotelephone.

The M.A.P.-10 will allow mari- ners, both commercial and recrea- tional, to make and receive direct dial calls through Lorain's 14 au- tomated transmission sites located around the Great Lakes. The new unit is also a 55-channel VHF ra- dio, making it a total communica- tions installation for Great Lakes boaters. Lorain Electronics plans to expand its facilities to provide even better VHF coverage of the

Great Lakes area.

For further information on the

M.A.P.-10,

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MarAd Approves Title XI

On $4-Million Tanker Refit

For Falcon Tanker

The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an appli- cation by Falcon Tankers, Inc. of

Houston for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the conversion of the 37,000-dwt tanker Neches to meet the requirements of the

Port and Tanker Safety Act. The

Neches is a 12-year-old, diesel- powered vessel built by Ingalls

Shipbuilding at Pascagoula, Miss.

The conversion is being done by

Bender Shipbuilding and Repair

Co., Inc., at Mobile, Ala. The ap- proved guarantee is for $3 million, and represents 75 percent of the cost of conversion. The Title XI guarantee is designed to assist the applicant in obtaining favorable financing for the project.

Hearing Scheduled On

Barge Fleeting Facility For

National Marine Service

An application for a permit to establish a barge fleeting facility near the confluence of the Illinois and Upper Mississippi Rivers is to be the subject of a public hearing in Portage Des Sioux, Mo., on Jan- uary 26 this year. The U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers, St. Louis Dis- trict, has scheduled the hearing on an application by National Marine

Service, Inc.

The location of the proposed fleeting facility is between Mason

Island and Island No. 526, just downstream, opposite the town of

Grafton, 111. The facility, as re- quested, would be able to accom- modate up to 150 barges and would consist of 12 fixed anchor-points to which barges could be moored by means of chains and cables.

Jacksonville, Florida 32202 (800) 874-8368 or (904) 354-8242 *90 days from installation and subject to other conditions on request.

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