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Captain Hjelde Named

VP And GM At Barber

Hans J. Hjelde

Capt. Hans J. Hjelde has been named vice president and general manager of Barber Steamship

Lines' newly formed Atlantic region, it was announced by Robert H.

Pouch, president of the steamship agency.

Captain Hjelde succeeds Frank

M. Cangemi, who left Barber Jan- uary 1 to assume his recently an- nounced appointment as executive director of the Carriers' Container

Council.

Associated with Barber Steam- ship Lines and its affiliates since 1969, Captain Hjelde most recently was vice president and general man- ager of the Mid-Atlantic Region, a position he held since he established the Baltimore office in 1979.

In his new position, he will be based in New York City and will be responsible for overseeing all Barber

Steamship Lines' agency operations in New York, Philadelphia and Bal- timore.

Johns Hopkins Awarded $24-Million Modification

To Previous Contract

Johns Hopkins University, Ap- plied Physics Laboratory, Laurel,

Md., is being awarded a $24,066,125 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee con- tract for research on tactical/strate- gic systems, space science, geophy- sics, biophysics, energy conversion, microelectronics and robotics. Work will be performed in Laurel. The

Naval Sea Systems Command,

Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-85-C-5301).

TeleSystems MCS-9100

Receives Japanese

Type Acceptance —Literature Available

COMSAT TeleSystems, Inc. an- nounced recently that its MCS-9100 maritime communications system has received Type Acceptance from the Japanese Ministry of Posts and

Telecommunications. The MCS- 9100 is one of the smallest, lightest, and most technologically advanced ship earth stations available today.

It is also the only ship terminal pro- duced by a United States manufac- turer to be type accepted by the

Japanese. All ship earth stations must receive Type Acceptance from the Ministry of Posts and Telecom- munications before they can be used aboard Japanese-flag vessels.

Located in Northern Virginia,

COMSAT TeleSystems, Inc. de- signs, manufacturers, markets, and provides worldwide support for sat- ellite-based mobile communications and advanced signal processing equipment and systems.

For further literature containing full information,

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Williams Named Marketing

Director For Bay And

Delta Towing Company

Bay and Delta Towing Company of San Francisco has appointed

Rees B. Williams as marketing director, according to an announce- ment by BDT president Magdal- ena Hoffman. Formerly president of Western Tug and Barge and Cali- fornia Launch in San Francisco, Mr.

Williams has more than 30 years of experience in the tug and barge industry.

Bay and Delta Towing is engaged in ship-assisting in San Francisco

Bay and Carquinez Strait, and oper- ates the 2,000-bhp Domar Com- mander and the 2,500-bhp Sonja V., providing 24-hour dispatch service.

HERE'S WHAT

BUYING LESS

THAN CROSBY

QUALITY CAN

COST.

You're looking at what could happen to products built to lower standards than

Crosby sets for its COMPLETE LINE.

Despite the fact that other products look like Crosby products, they're simply not built like Crosby That makes a big difference where it counts ... in performance.

The performance advantages of

Crosby's COMPLETE LINE of products are a result of designs and manufacturing processes developed by

Crosby R&D. Demanding quality control procedures that begin with careful inspection of raw materials and continue through every step of the manufacturing process help assure that every Crosby product meets exacting

Crosby quality standards.

You wall find the same quality and consistent performance characteristics throughout Crosby's COMPLETE LINE of fittings.

When you look at the difference in performance you will see there is only one way to get the real bargain - make sure all your products come from the

Crosby family of quality thcGrOSllllgroup.

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