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i"| --....... f'<t* BUSINESS HEMS * APPOINTMENTS WASHINGTON NOTTS NEW DEVELOPMENTS COWtNlJsj Alfred Iddles, Noted as Engineer, to Head B & W BaoCock & Wilcox Co director* re* cent)/ elected Alfred iddlca president and chief executive officer. Widely known (or engineering contributions in the power held, he succeeds A C Proit, with the company tor 45 fcarw and president for the past 24, who bocones chairman of the board. Long identification with the interests and problems of power-equipment users fits IddJes to carry forward progres sively the activities of one of the major and staff engineering, providing the functional design of boilers and fuelburning units. In his many paper* be fore power-engineering group*, he has evidenced a clear understanding of the need lor designer* and users to work together to solve technical problems. W T McCullough Jr, in charge of stationary boiler sales and former Chi cago office sales manager, was elected a vice-president and W C Dryden, for mer treasurer, was made secretary and treasurer. C W Middleton, v-p and sec retary, has withdrawn from full-time service but will continue as a director and in a consulting capacity. ASIDE Oil and Gas Power Conference on May 20-22 W Ths 20th ARituat. coNvtaanc* t Oil and Gas Power Div of American Society of Mechanical Engineer* is to be held on May 20-22 at Hotel New Jefferson. St Louis, Mo. Thi* year i* also the 50th anniversary of the diesel engine in America, a fitting theme wound which the conference program is centered. Registration, planned fay pjg Thursday, May 20, will be tel !0:30 am by a technical M which papers on Grin|<order and computation ol loriJanaJ-Tuni systems will be presented. At thttl noon technical session, expens, d/i from large- and small-engine fields? probe diesel engineering program.^ At technical sessions on Friday ing, diesel application* el ao lad and marine nature wiU be diy-, Then, in the afternoon. Inspection are arranged, including Bascb-Si Bros--diesel div of Nordberg Mfj St- Louis Shipbuilding aod Steel Fulton Iron Works, McDonald AV. Corp, Shell Petroleum's Research oratories and Aluminum Co of Am. At Saturday morning's technics, sioa, tail application of the dime glne and centrifugal blowers for engines will be reviewed. As in the pest, there will be s Mbit of products mode by leading l er* of diesels and accessories Continuing ao engineering feature first instituted si the 1M (Cofltin/teri on page 170) ALFRED [DOLES manufacturers in the field. A graduate of Michigan State University, he taught in the M E Dept (here from 1914 to L91Q, after two years of utility operat ing experience. As an Army captain in World War I. he had charge of power at the poison-gas plant of Edgewood Arsenal. Me entered the Fuels Divi sion of the Bureau of Mines in }919. Later, as vice-president of United Engineers and Constructors, Philadel phia, Iddles directed design and con struction of oil kinds in the U. Canada, and South America, gaining the brood engineering background that was to prove so valuable when he went with fl & W in (957. A vice-president since 1945, he has had charge of service -COMING EVENTS- May fr7--Sixth Annual Anthracite Conference, Anthreehe Institute and Lehigh University, held at Lehigh Uni versity, Bethlehem, Pa. A Copetsnd Callen, dept of mining eagrg, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. May 1M6---Engineer** Onb of Philadelphia, junior members, engi neering progress show, Frsnkiln Uai) io Franklin Institute of Ps., 1317 Spruce St, Philadelphia 7, Pa. Joseph J Quinn Jr, chairman, 1317 Spruce Su Philadel phia 7, Ps. May IB-21--Notional District Heal ing Assn, 39th annual meeting. Hotel Sutler, Sl Louis, Mo. John F Collins Jr, Kcrelary-tressurer, 827 N Euclid Ate, Pittsburgh, Pa. May 30-June S--American Society of Mechanical Engineer*, semiannual meeting, Schroedtr Hotel, Milwaukee, Wit. Ernest Hartford, executive assist ant secretary, 29 W 39ih St, New York. Juns 7-IO--Smoke Prevention Assn of Americanist annual meeting. Hofei Commodore, New York. N. Y. Coluaihus D Behan, publicity director, 139 N Clark St Bldg. Chicago 2. 111. Juno (0-11--Prlmo Moron Cony mittee, Pennsylvania Electric An, spring meeting. Hotel Casey, Sctiahn, Pa. R L Hallman, chairman, Prim Movers Committee, Pennsylvania Elec tric Assn, Hsslcton, Pa. Juno 10-12--National Steam 3pe> daily Club, annual meeting, tha Homestead, Hoi Springs, V*. Frank H Jones, secretary-tieasuies of tba elub c/o Sehsde VaN Mfg Co. Philadelphia, Peatvsybsnla. June 21-25--American Institute of Electrical Engineer*, summer general meeting. Mexico City. Me*. H H Ilealine, secretary, 33 W 39ih St, New York 18, N. Y. July 12-21--National Mechanics! Handling Exhibition, Natiottsl HalL Olympia, London, England. Joarusi Mechanical Handling, Donat H*** Stamford St, London, S E 1, Eogls*- 02 |)IS| NOWft Msy