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HOUSTON, TEXAS
6610 Harwin Drive
Suite152
Phone: 713-781-0600
Telex: 76-2678 0
Cable: "Luffo" Houston
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Published to promote friendship and goodwill among
its customers and friends and to advance the interest
of its products by Lufkin Industries, Inc., Lufkin , Texas.
Produced by the Public Relations Department, Virgin ia
R. Allen , director. Member of IABC, International
Association of Business Communicators.
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music boxes (visitors often crowd the interior to watch the Eternity, to merge with Highway 101 for the journey through
owner demonstrate one of his treasures) . The town is small; redwood country.
one of the chief pleasures for the visitor is simply walking The giant redwoods, tallest of living organisms and perhaps
through the streets, absorbing the atmosphere of Maine in the most majestic, grow only in these northern California
California. (It was here that "Summer of '49" was filmed .) coastal regions. Their somber serenity, their link with the past,
The headlands have become State property, and it's wonder- most surely inspire deep feelings of kinship with earth and sky.
ful to picnic on the windswept, grassy bluff, to hike up from While Highway 101 is an express route to Eureka now, the
the beach on trails through canyons overgrown with towering former route, Avenue of the Giants, runs parallel and takes you
trees and lush ferns. One trail leads past a blowhole to the through miles of redwood splendor. You can even drive through -
edge of the headland cliffs. During May the bluff is rich with one of the trees.
wildflowers, and frequently deserted. You can look out toward Although Victorian architecture thrived with vigor in most
some tiny, nearby islands, and be alone with the flowers, the of northern California, nowhere did it reach the proportions
shore birds, and the pounding surf. it has in Eureka. Lumber is what everyone had plenty of, and
Fort Bragg lies ahead, and the Skunk Railroad . builders didn't stint. Many homes display lavish use of heart-
The "Skunk" rides an old logging railway that cost almost wood lumber, and one downtown building was built by simply
$2 million to build in 1885 (when things were cheap), and was nailing two-by-fours together, the 4" sides touching .
26 years in construction, one arduous step at a time, through Second Street is the heart of Eureka's old town near the water-
a winding canyon and thick redwood groves. In the 40 miles it front. One of the most interesting things to do in Eureka is to
travels from Fort Bragg to Willits, the small diesel-powered stroll this section of once-grand Victorian buildings and browse
train crosses 33 bridges and trestles. (Reservations made by through art galleries, second-hand emporiums, antique shops.
writing Western Railroad , Fort Bragg 95437.) Seafood from Humboldt Bay is considered by gourmets
Beyond Fort Bragg , Highway 1 clings to the ocean, passing (especially Eureka gourmets) to be the best in California. And
through tiny half-deserted lumbering villages. The foamy Lazio's restaurant, on the waterfront, knows what to do with
green surf bangs against a thousand rocky coves and doghole the seafood once it gets into the kitchen . There's nothing fancy
ports where schooners came crashing to grief in heyday about Lazio's, but the cold seafood platter, with its coldwater
lumber days. It looks more like Maine than sunny California, crab and tiny shrimp can't be equalled anywhere.
but locals still call it the Banana Belt. It's all relative. The curve Perhaps Eureka epitomizes the spirit of northern California
of the coast gives protection from howling northwesterlies that as well as anything. Along the northern California coastline
could be devastating. fishing is important. Lumbering is important. The sea is im-
Then the highway dips into the tree-studded hills, taking portant. Nature is important. There's a simple natural quality
stomach-tilting hairpin turns through forests as endless as to the land and to the people who occupy that land.
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Five LUFKIN TC5424 Triple Reduction Gear Units with five LUFKIN C-6400-304-144 and LUFKIN A-6400-120-36,
LUFKIN N1800C sing le reduction high speed gear units driv- Texas Petroleum Company, Oritupano, Venezuela.
ing sugar mills at Kohrogo, Ivory Coast, Africa.
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Last August , a crowd of 500 people which provides more clear deck space
gathered in Seattle, Washington for the for handling fishing gear compared to
christening ceremonies of a 160-foot conventional trawlers. The forward third
fishing vessel appropriately named the of the upper deck includes the galley
"American No. 1." and quarters for the crew of 21 fishermen
The gleaming red , white and blue ves- and processors.
sel is the first American-built ship de-
signed for all types of fishing , even deep- Designed to provide versatility, econ-
water trawling , and is equipped to pro- omy and dependability, the American
cess catches at sea. No. 1 propulsion system consists of two
The American No. 1 was designed and 1125 HP D399 Caterpillar engines driving
constructed by Marine Construction & through a LUFKIN RCS-2S-7209 two-
Design Co. (MARCO) for Seattle fish- speed forward and reversing gearbox
ermen , Kenneth Petersen and Carl Pero- coupled to a nine-foot , five-blade
vich , and Pan-Alaska Fisheries, Inc. at a Coolidge propeller.
cost of over $7 million. This propulsion system allows the ship
It is the largest privately financed to steam at high speed on two engines
American fishing vessel to date but both in the higher gear ratio (5.9:1) , run at
the owners and builders say it is the first an economical reduced speed with one
of a fleet of at least 100 similar fishing engine in the lower gear ratio (4.9:1) , or
vessels which will be built in the coming trawl with both engines at full power in Propulsion system for the American No. 1
years. the lower ratio. consists of two Caterpillar engines driving
According to MARCO president, Peter This versatility permits the American through a LUFKIN RCS-28-7209 two-speed
Schmidt, the American No. 1 is a unique No. 1 to operate efficiently in all types forward and reversing gear coupled to a
of fishing - deep-water and mid-water nine-foot, five-blade Coolidge propeller
vessel. Over 20,000 man hours went into
the design and development of the ship trawling or shell-fish catching .
in order to incorporate the finest equip- Auxiliary power for the ship is pro-
ment into all the ship's systems, includ- vided through four diesel Caterpillar
ing over $500,000 in electronic fish- generator sets. Power for hydraulic sys-
finding and navigation equipment. tems, including two Rowe 8-ton tele-
The American No. 1 is the first U.S. scoping cranes, is provided through
fishing boat to be equipped with "Rapp MARCO DC20 hydraulic pump drives.
Autotrawl" automatic trawling and "Sim- The American No. 1 will be watched
rad Situation Display," a computerized closely during its first year of operation
fish-finding system. by the rest of the American fishing in-
The Simrad system visually displays dustry. A multi-million dollar investment
the position of the school of fish , the will have to produce a large amount of
vessel and the net during the trawling fish . Owners Petersen , Perovich and
operation using information from sonar Pan-Alaska Fisheries expect the Ameri-
scanners, speed log, and gyro compass can No. 1 to gross $10 million annually
equipment. due to its versatile, year-round operation .
The vessel has five operating decks, According to a study by the state of
with a processing room on the forward Alaska in 1978, U.S. vessels accounted
main deck which can be equipped to for only one per cent of the 1.5 million
handle heading and gutting, filleting or metric tons of fish caught in Alaskan
crab processing operations. The vessel waters. The study also stated that the
can butcher, cook , freeze and box 5000 potential yield of fish in Alaska's waters
pounds of raw crab an hour. could be as high as three million metric
Five Vilter compressors provide re- tons of fish per year.
frigeration for chilling or freezing proc- They recommended a fleet of at least
essed fish in the ship's 25,500 cubic feet 800 boats and 111 processing plants
dry storage hold or chilling in the 3,100 would be needed to realize the full poten-
cubic feet holding tank. tial of Alaskan fishing resources. The
Over two-th irds of the upper deck is American No. 1 is an innovative first step
for fishing operations and machinery. toward developing the resources in
The vessel has a wide, 40-foot beam American waters off the coast of Alaska.
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HANS-JOACHIM
SCHOLZ
Mobil Oil AG ., Celle
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GUENTHER WAPNITZ KONRAD KLINGER
Mobil Oil A.G., Celle Deutsche Texaco, Hamburg
German Federal Republic German Federal Republic
MR . SAVARY
TOTAL Companie Francaise MR. LABAT
des Petroles Elf-Congo, Point Noire •L.:J~.........-
Paris, France Peoples Republic of Congo
MR. KREDER
Elf-Congo, Point Noire
Peoples Republic of Congo
JUERGEN SCHULZE
Deutsche Texaco,
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German Federal Republi c
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MR . GAMGIT MR . M'BOUYOU
SN.E.A(P) Elf-Congo, Point Noire
Paris, France Peoples Republic of Congo
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ANTONIO MOSCHELLA
Lukiven
Elf-Congo, Point Noire
Peoples Republic of Congo ''!
MR . FORO
Elf-Congo, Point Noire
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Maracaibo, Venezuela Peoples Republic of Congo
MR. BOYER
Elf-Congo, Point Noire
Peoples Republic of Congo
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CORRECT COUNTER-
BALANCE WILL MINIMIZE
TORQUE LOADS AND
SAVE ENERGY COSTS.
NO HEAVY COUNTER-
WEIGHTS TO ADD OR
MOVE. JUST SET THE
PRESSURE SWITCH DIAL
TO THE DESIRED AIR
PRESSURE --- THAT'S
ALL THERE IS TO IT.