摘要: |
CEN YEARS AGO, the Vicksburg Engineer District proposed service cutbacks at Ouachita River locks; all crew escaped safely when the mv. Altro Donna struck a piling and sank in the Lower Mississippi River at Mile 100; and Eymard Marine Construction & Repair delivered the mv. Barbara Ann to Bertucci Contracting Corporation. CTWENTY YEARS AGO, the Tulsa Port of Catoosa reported its best tonnage month in two years; a southern Louisiana pipeline rupture spilled 75,000 gallons of oil into Little Lake near Barataria Bay; and the mv. Omaha opened the Missouri River commercial navigation season. CHIRTY YEARS AGO, Kirby Marine subsidiary Dixie Carriers Inc. completed its purchase of Vicksburg, Miss.-based Ole Man River Towing Inc.; two vibration-resistant "concept" boats, the Cindy Celeste and Elizabeth Dewey, were christened by National Marine Inc. in Paducah, Ky.; and the St. Louis Engi-neer District won the Federal Design Achievement Award for its design of bendway weirs. |