Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 105, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 1, 1977 Page: 8 of 8
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IN NEW YORK HARBOR, tankers await their turn to unload fuel
at customer terminals. Clarence Johnson, New York marine
department branch manager of Exxon USA, said tanker needs
doubled because of record demand for fuel during the winter of 77.
Exxon Doubles Tanker Traffic
Into Frozen Northern Areas
HERE'S ANOTHER RAIN DAZZLER — a gun-metal trench coat that’s
slick, shiny, and handsome enough to double as an evening coat. It’s
made of cotton and polyester with a urethane metal finish, by Drizzle.
The gold lame saddlebag, by PhiUippe of California. The umbrella, by
Mespo.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - All ship
»nchorages in New York harbor
were filled and some vessels were
awaiting their turn at the southern
entrance or steaming at sea near
the Ambrose light tower.
More than 20 vessels dotted the
seascape all the way from the
Ambrose Tower through the Nar-
rows to a point north of Staten
Island. “It was like a holding
pattern at an airport,” one ob-
server said. Some of the ships
were tankers owned or chartered
by Exxon, awaiting their turn to
reach docks and unload.
Clarence Johnson. New York
branch manager of Exxon’s Ma-
rine Department, said the Exxon-
owned skips were on their way to
the company’s Bayway (N.J.) re-
finery or Bayonne (N.J.) terminal
with heating and fuel oil from
company refineries at Baytown,
Tex. and Baton Rouge, La. The
chartered Exxon ships, for the
most part, were bringing crude oil
to Bayway from the Middle East
and the Caribbean and additional
supplies of fuel oil to customer
terminals within the harbor and at
Albany, N.Y.. Long Island Sound,
and New Haven, Conn., he added.
“During the severe weather,
Exxon tanker traffic into the New
York area doubled,” Johnson said.
“From the middle of January we
averaged about 20 tankers a week
into Bay way and Bayonne to help
meet the fuel oil, gasoline and jet
fuel needs of the area.
“We were able to respond to the
need for additional supplies of oil,
but it required a total effort from
everyone in the company — re-
fining, supply, marine and mar-
keting,” he said. “Without this
coordinated effort, we simply
couldn't have done the job.”
A tight supply of barges and
tugs hampered fuel deliveries into
the New York area during the
recent crisis, according to John-
son. “Also, because of ice, barging
operations took longer and extra
tugs were needed to break paths'
through the ice for the barge*,”
Johnson explained.
Johnson said tankers normally
must be lightered of some of their
product to a 37-foot draft level
before they can transit the channel
leading to the Bay way dock areas.
When supplies became critical,
the company set a temporary 37-
foot draft restriction on crude
tankers coming from the Carib-
bean so that lightering would not
be necessary. One 66,000-ton ship
whose configuration prevented it
from being unloaded at the Bay-
way dock was totally lightered
while at anchor in the harbor.
“When supplies were critical.
the company went out and got
everything it could get its hands
on,” Johnson said. “The company
showed its ability to respond.”
Johnson said normal daily meet-
ings with coordinators turned into
hourly sessions.
“In juggling barge schedules
and tankers coming in from the
Gulf of Mexico, the Middle East,
and the Caribbean, one thing im-
pacted on another — like a string
of dominoes,” he said. “It was like
that starting at the end of De-
cember. I finally had to have
another home phone installed for
my family, the after-hour calls
became so heavy,”
Youth Employment Called
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Key To Success Of Plan
WASHINGTON — Secretary of
Labor Ray Marshall has called
proposals for dealing with severe
and chronic unemployment among
youths “among the most important
aspects” of the Administration’s
economic recovery package.
In testimony during his first
appearance before the Joint Eco-
nomic Committee of Congress
since becoming Secretary of La-
bor, Marshall said: “The Adminis-
tration's proposals represent a
first step along the road of what
we can do to improve the situation
of our younger workers.”
Marshall said progress in meet-
ing the employment problems of
young people in the 16-to-24-year
age group has been “negligible.”
noting that the latest figures
indicate there were more than 3.2
million jobseekers in this age
group.
He said the unemployment rate
for teenagers in presently 18.7
percent (compared to 19.4 percent
a year ago).
For blacks and other minorities,
it is 12.5 percent (compared with
13.2 percent a year ago). For
minority youth, however, the rate
is presently 36.1 percent (com-
pared with 35.0 a year ago),
Marshall said.
For veterans, 20 to 24, the un-
employment rate is 16.8 percent
(compared with 18.3 percent a
year ago), Marshall said.
For veterans, 20 to'24, the un-
employment rate is 16.8 percent
(compared with 18.3 percent a
year ago), Marshall told the com-
mittee.
“The continuing waste of human
and economic resources repre-
sented by these figures requires
immediate action,” Marshall de-
clared.
“The Nation’s young workers
represent our future. Their atti-
tudes and workforce attachment
are given "shape and direction
early in their working lives. Yet a
substantial proportion of the
young population continues to be
plagues by persistent unemploy-
ment which may have long-term
adverse consequences.". A-
Marshall pointed out the Ad-
ministration in its package pro-
poses that youth-oriented pro-
grams under the Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act
(CETA) increase by 154,000 train-
ing opportunities by the end of the
1978 fiscal year, with doubling of
the present 22,000 Job Corps
openings.
New Arrivals
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