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Volume 8
Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District
November, 1966 No. 11
Directory OfPort Commissioners
And StaffFOR THE
Navigation District
HOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanR. H. PRUETT, CommissionerE. H. HENDERSON, CommissionerW. D. HADEN, II, CommissionerW. C. WELLS, Commissioner
World Trade Club And Association Merge .............................. 9
Houstonians Entertain At Trade Convention ............................. 10
He Boosts International Days at Livestock Show ................ 15
Three New Members of Consular Corps ................................. 16
Scene At The World Trade Club ................................... 17
J. P. TURNER, Executive DirectorTRAVIS L. SMITlt, III
Director o] Engineering and PlanningGEORGE W. ALTVATER, Managing Director o]
Trade Relations and DevelopmentC. E. BULLOCK, Director o] Port OperationsJ. L. LOCKETT, JR., CounselS. B. BRUCE, County AuditorVAUGHN M. BRYANT, Director o] International
RelationsLLOYD GREGORY, Director o] In]ormationRICHARD P. LEACH, Chie] EngineerJ. R. CURTIS, Terminal ManagerK. P. RODEN,
Manager o/ Grain ElevatorW. J. STAGNER, Manager, Storage WarehousesJ. W. HATCHETT, Superintendent,
Bulk Materials Handling PlantV. D. WAFER, Accounts ManagerJ. T. WALL, Purchasing ManagerK. W. STEPHENS, Personnel Manager and
World Trade Building ManagerC. L. SHUPTRINE, Chie] Security O~icerW. E. REDMON, Maintenance SuperintendentT. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantV. D. WILHAMS, Administrative Assistant
SALES OFFICES
EDWARD P. ]~OORE, District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant
25 Broadway, New York, New YorkHUME A. HENDERSON, District Sales Manager
Board of Trade Building, Chicago, IllinoisJOtlN R. WEILER, District Sales ManagerC. A. ROUSSER, JR.,
District Sales Representative1519 Capitol Avenue, Houston, Texas
EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street
Telephone CApitol 5-0671P. O. Box 2562, Houston, Texas 77001
NOVEMBER, 1966
Journalists Visit Port of Houston ................................... 18
News In Views At The Port Of Houston ...................... 19
Houston Port Bureau Reports ................................. 20
Houston Steamship Agents ................................ 30
Port of Houston Shipping Directory .............................. 31
Soiling Schedule of General Cargo Ships ........................ 32
THE COVER
The Port of Houston is a busy place these days, not only with cargo movingat a record-making pace, but with the construction of three new docks and twotremendous transit sheds. The cover photo this month is looking upstream towardthe world-famous Turning Basin, in the background.
The Port o] Houston Magazine
TED SUMERLIN, Editor
Published monthly by the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Naviga-tion District, the PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine is distributed free to maritime,industrial and transportation interests in the United States and foreign coun-tries. This publication is not copyrighted and permission is given for the re-production or use of any original material, provided credit is given to thePort of Houston. Additional information, extra copies of the magazine oradvertising rates may be obtained by writing the PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine,2332 W. Holcombe Blvd., Houston, Texas 77025.
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CLUB AND
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ARE MERGEDby Vaughn M. Bryant
Director of International Relations
AFTER THII/TY-NINE years of dedi-cated lmblic service as Houston’s
principal authority and spokesman inthe field of international trade, theHouston World Trade Association lastmonth officially merged with the WorldTrade Club of Houston.
The new organization will be knownsimply by the latter title, but all of thefunctions and services of the WorldTrade Association will be carried on bythe new organization.
The merger was voted on in lateAugust by the membership of bothorganizations, there being a nearlyninety per cent overlap and duplicationof membership in tire two groups Theformal merger eame on October 17with eh’ction of officers of the newClub and official adoption of the new,single nanw.
J. E. l)avies, vice president of theStates Marine-Isthmian Agency and hmgactive in both the Association and theClub. is the new president of the com-bined enterprise, succeeding Mex Fin-ney, marine sales regional manager ofthe Humble Oil & Refining Co., withWilbur Smith, president of B. W. Smithand Co.. first vicc president.
Vice-president for Club activities isJulius Skaaren, manager of the exportdivision of Stran-Sleel Corporation. andVice-president for Association activitiesis Clarence 1)upre, senior vice presidentof the Houston National Bank. JohnHazard, president of the InternationalBank. is treasurer and Robert Fchner,attorney, is secretary.
Elected as directors for three yearterms were A. A. Crispin, first presi-dent of the Club and president of theCrispin Company, and J. P. Turner.executive director of the Port of Hous-ton. For two year terms, directors areH. R. Matrisciani, Southern PacificRailway, and Sam Sorrell, Gulf Pub-
New officers of the World Trade Club of Houston are Robert Feltner, secretary; John Hazard,treasurer; J. E. Davies, president; Julius Skaaren, vice president for Club activities, and ClarenceDupre, vice president for Association activities. Wilbur Smith, first vice president, is not shown.
lishing Company. Directors for one yearare Edward Andrews, Tifco Inter-Amer-ica Corp., and Ben Cornelisse, K.L.M.district manager. Mr. Finney will serveex-officio as immediate past president.
The Houston World Trade Associationover the years served the communityand Port in developing and promotingforeign trade in all its aspects, includ-ing sponsoring of legislation, workingwith the Consular Corps, sponsoringmeetings and seminars with interna-tionally-known speakers, assisting com-panies in their export and import con-tacts, and in a variety of other ways.
One of its most dramatic successeswas its successful effort two years agoto obtain a Customs District in Houstonunder the Cnstoms reorganization pro-gram, which in its original form hadnot included Houston as a regionalcenter.
When the World Trade Club wasorganized in 1962, the World TradeAssociation was the parent organizationand sponsored and nursed the fledgingendeavor located in the World TradeBuilding. Now, with more than 600members, the World Trade Club ofHouston is a strong, thriving institutionand the dovetailing of Association andClub activities has been carried outsmoothly.
Actually. the Club has just con., fullcirch’. The first name of the HoustonWorld Trade Association. when it ~asfounded in 1927. was thc Houston For-eign Trade Club. It became the HoustonForeign Trade Association in 1933 andin 1950. when the word "foreign" wasconsidered to haw’ an unfriendly con-notation, tire word "x~orht" was suh-stiluted.
New directors of the Club are H. R. Matrisciani; J. P. Turner; Alex Finney, immediate past presi-dent, serving ex-officio; Edward Andrews and Sam Sorrell. Not shown are A. A. Crispin and BenCornelisse.
NOVEMBER, 1966 9
More than a score of Houston leaders in shipping andforeign trade helped the Navigation District act as host tohundreds of friends of lhe Port of Houston during the NationalForeign Trade Conference in Nm.v York recently.
Port Commission Chairman Howard Tel]cpsen with Com-missioners E. H. Henderson. Y~. D. Hadcn II and W. C.Wells headed the deh’gation. Included from the Port of
Port Commissioner Chairman Howard Tellepsen, second from right, withC. L. MacCumber, left, and Alex Franco, right, both of Stauffer Chem-ical Co., and Henry Menechino, Celanese Corporation.
Houston were Execulive Director J. P. Turner. (;corgc W. All-
rater, managing director of trade promotion and development.and Vaughn M. Bryant. director of international relali,ms.
gd Moore. the Port of Houst¢m’s New York district sales
manager, and Frank Ward. assistant distri¢*t sales manager,planned the hospitality affairs and gr,.eted their many friends.
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Houston Port Commissioner W. C. Wells, second from right, withCharles Batta, Indussa Corporation; and Basil Verlangieri and CharlesCuffs, both of Carbon Black Export.
James H. Branard, Jr., vice president, Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (LongReach Docks), Houston, at left, with Harry Smith, General Foods; WilliamHennelly, Oasis Oil Co. of Libya, and George Eline, Luria International.
J. P. Turner, executive director of the Port of Houston, second fromright, with Maurice Middleton and Louis White of American InternationalOil, and Harry Washburn, Johns-Mansville Corp.
Frank Ward, right, assistant district sales manager in New York of thePort of Houston, with, from left, Watson Motley, American Vermiculite.;Henry Pohl, Associated Metals & Minerals, and Russ Vaning, CornProducts.
George W. Altvater, managing director of trade relations and develop-ment of the Port of Houston, second from right, with Paul Kline, SulphurExport Co.; Carl Moberg, Westinghouse Electric International, and HenryGraebner, J. M. Huber Co.
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Houston Port Commissioner E. H. Henderson, second from left, w~thJames McCabe of Cerro de Pasco of New York; Henry Olmeda, ContinentalEmsco; and James Canosa, Babcock & Wilcox Co.
From left to right, Gerald McGrath, Mitsul & Co.; John Sullivan, H. J.Baker Co.; Robert Morris, Mobil Oil, and August Bohler, Amerlux SteelProducts.
Ed Moore, the Port of Houston’s district sales manager in New York, right,with Hector Vazquez, Champion Paper Export, and Rod Seidel and HenryTonyes of the Mobil Oil Co.
From left to right are Thomas Kelly, Morrison, Knudsen Ca.; H. Schnei-der, American Can Co. John Breunig, M. Gottesman & Co., and RaymondAuwater, The Madden Corp.
Houston International Banker Charles Celaya, second from left, vicepresident of the First City National Bank, with Albert Sheedy of Mit-subishi International; Morris Abe of Diamond Alkali and Charles Guerinof Asiatic Petroleum.
Port Commission Chairman Howard Tellepsen, right, with WillardWalbridge, manager of Houston TV station KTRK-TV, left, and Eugene VanSanten of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Burke Baker, Jr., president of Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co., Long ReachDocks), Houston, second from left, with Terry Rees, Robert Hilpert andJoseph Wade, all of International Minerals & Chemical.
Houston Port Commissioner W. C. Wells, left, with Karl P. Wendt, WestCoast Line, New York; John L. Minihan, Lever Brothers, and Wayne White,Hansen & Tidemann, Houston.
Ted Kurek, left, of Babcock & Wilcox, with Ed Eber, John Roman andRoy Evans, all of Gulf Oi~ Corporation.
William J. Squlcciarini, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., N.Y., center,with R. J. LaBau, Mobil Oil, left, and J. J. Ratz, Socony Mobil Company.
NOVEMBER, 1966 11
Alan Newhouse, left, Behring-South Ports Forwarding Co., Houston, withLewis C. Boney, Behring-South Ports vice president and Edward H. An-drews, Tifco Inter-America Corp., Houston.
O. V. Portocarrero, United States Navigation Co., with Mrs. Porto-carrero, and Howard W. H~lt, of American Hemisphere Marine Agencies,with Mrs. Hilt.
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Port Commissioner W. D. Haden, II, right, with Mrs. Haden, and, atleft, Richard Paddon, Hansen & Tidemann, Inc., New York, and SvendHansen, Jr., also of Hansen & Tidemann, N.Y.
Louis Schneider, vice president of South African Marine Corp., NewYork, is flanked by Mr. and Mrs. MerLe Crockard of Houston. Mr. Crock-ard is vice president, international, Bank of The Southwest.
Neil J. Carey, Anco, Inc., left, with Thor Eckert of Thor Eckert & Co.;George Dwyer, Harber Robinson & Co., and Tump Leman, manager ofOverseas Distribution, International Minerals & Chemical Corp.
L. L. Nettles, left, of Judson Sheldon International, Chicago, and A. G.Zimmerly, right, Judson Sheldon International, Oakland, Cal., flank Nor-man J. Ralthel, executive secretary of the American Maritime Associationand H. H. Graebner of the J. M. Huber Corp.
Stanley Malabud, right, Gillespie & Co., of New York, with threeofficials of Church World Service, from left, George R. Culbert, Mrs.Anne Gryder and L. Brett White.
Joseph Simon, left, president of New Era Shipping Co., with W. D.Haden, II, Houston Port Commissioner, and Howard M. Simon and Alex-ander P. Brick, also of New Era Shipping.
Thomas J. Wolff and C. A. Christie of Phillips Petroleum with John V.Templet, Hansen & Tidemann, Inc., New York.
Werner W. Stern, left, Ayrton Metal & Ore Corp., with Doyle David,Houston freight forwarder, and G. E. Wieckhoff, Hellenic Lines, Ltd.
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From left to right, Joseph G. Srour, United States Navigation Co.; A. C.Sant’anna, Petrobras, New York; Fredd Selgas, Continental Emsco, andVincent P. Viscardi, also of Petrobras.
Port Commissioner E. H. Henderson, second from left, with EugeneSparaco, Corporacion de Fomento de Chile, New York; and AnthonyMareski and Thomas Kennedy of Esso International.
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Maher of M. G. Maher & Co., New Orleans, center,with, at left, Harry H. Benedict of M. G. Maher in New York and H.Zol~ikofer, Volkswagen of America, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.
Anthony De Luca, left, and Kenneth Baldwin, right, both of E. I. DePont, with B. Young, of B.N.S. International and Paul Jones of GeneralMills.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry X. Kelly, Delta Steamship Co., New Orleans, withMr. and Mrs. Henry Schurig, Jr., New York, of H. Schurig & Co., freightforwarders, Houston.
George W. AItvater, right, managing director of trade relations anddevelopment of the Port of Houston, chats with, from left, Morris Renertof A. C. Israel Co.; Aaron Gross of M. Gottesman & Co., and JosephRavener of Connell Rice & Sugar Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Donovan, of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, St. Louis,left and right, with H. W. Jervis, Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del.,and B. Young, of B.N.S. International.
John Crooks, Central Resources Corp.; andHarold Smith of Asiatic Petroleum Co.
Robert Butterworth and
From left to right are Stanley Newhoff of J. Aron & Co.; Hall Mulford,Cities Service Corp.; Robert Vonnahme of NationaT Lead, and WilliamBurns, also of Cities Service.
Port Commissioner W. D. Haden, II, second from right, with, from left,Charles Ulrich of Kurt Orban Co.; Ed Turncliff of Bunge Corp. and AIMarubbio of Firestone International.
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From left to right are Galen Brathwaite of George E. Failing Co.; JohnWaHin, of Texaco; and Carl MacDonald and Joseph Lockwood of U. S.Steel Corp.
Bryon Wilson, left, of J. R. Michels, Inc., Houston freight forwarders,with J. F. Gonden, Steuber Company; Robert M. Shotland of Cooperativefor American Relief to Everywhere, Inc., and Sydnor Oden, Anderson,Clayton, inc., Houston.
The Port of Houston’s district sales manager in New York, Ed Moore,left, with Harold Nickelsberg and Harry Shoemaker of Rozell Packingand Jack Jacobs of Balfour, Williamson 8. Co.
Port Commissioner E. H. Henderson, center, with Dr. A. D. J. Brantenaar,Rotterdam, The Netherlands, left, and D. C. Scott, Cobol International,Houston freight forwarder.
Port Commissioner W. C. Wells, second from left, w~th Peter Schmidt ofJames Fyfe Co.; left, and Gerald Egand of Chemoleum Corp., and HaroldHolden of George E. FaiJing Co.
From left to r~ght are Robert Simmons, S. S. Stelner, Inc.; Harold Sutterand Edward Konopka, both of Bechtel Corp., and Edward H. Stann, Metal-lurg Alloy Corp.
Frank Ward, right, assistant district sales manager of the Port of Hous-ton in New York, with, from left, Donald Sloane, Bethlehem Steel Co. andCharles Hornboestel and Peter Arabia, both of Continental Grain Co.
From left to right are Fred E. Moore, Tennessee Eastman International;Fred C. Danforth, Mississippi Barge Line, and Gene J. Devlin and LouisC. Stein, Norton & Ellis of New York, Inc.
From left to right are N. J. Rodney, Westinghouse Electric International;H. S. Dorf of Doff International, Ltd.; John M. Barry, Okaya (U.S.A.),inc., and S. D. Percola, Spector Freight System.
Ed Moore, district sales manager in New York for the Port of Houston,center, with J. yon Roemer, Crystal International Corp., left, and HarveyI. Watson, Alcoa Steamship Co., New York.
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Another In A Series Men Who Make The Port of Houston Hum
George O. puig
lie Buusts lnternaliunalHays At LiveslurJi Shuw
By LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director
GEORGE O. PU1G, president of Houston Freight Forward-ing Co., Inc., has marked in red Feb. 22-26 on his
1967 calendar! These are International Days of the HoustonLivestock Show and Rodeo~Feb. 22-March 5.
Mr. Puig has made many trips to Latin America, andhas shipped via the PORT or’ HOUSTON thousands of pedi-greed cows and bulls.
"I believe we will have at least 500 visitors from LatinAmerica to the Livestock Show," Mr. Puig said. "Theirattendance will be a boon not only to the show and tothe Port of Houston, but to the entire Gulf Coast.
"Mario Nufio, director of the National Bank of Develop-ment of Honduras, tells me he will bring a delegation of26 all potential buyers of pedigreed cattle.
"Under leadership of Vice President R. T. (Bob) Herrinand Jim Sartwelle, the Livestock Show is going to providea royal welcome.
"I should like to see a pretty girl from every countryriding in the Livestock Show parade, and presented at therodeo. All members of the Consular Corps should be askedto help."
Mr. Puig each year ships around 5,000 cattle, 75 per centby cattle ships, cfiartered from the Clausen Steamship Com-pany of Copenhagen, and by Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.;the rest by air.
Among ranchers for whom Mr. Puig has handled largecattle shipments are:
Gus Wortbam and Sterling Evans of Nine Bar Ranchnear Houston; Winthrop Rockefeller of Morrilton, Arkansas;Vernon Frost of Houston; J. D. Hudgins, Hungerford; Boband Jim Sartwelle. Palacios; Howard C. Parker, Center;Andrew Askew, Richmond; Guy Jeanes, Crosby; Cecil Boyt,Liberty; Roy Seaburg, Dayton.
George O. Puig was born in Havana, the son of Mr. andMrs. Jos6 Puig. His father was a customs house broker, andocean shipping early got into his blood. Of Spanish, French,Italian and English ancestry, George is a versatile linquist.
At 18, George entered the University of North Carolina,staying for four years of pre-med, and one year of medicine.He then spent five and one-half years in the air corps, serv-ing in combat intelligence, and attaining the rank of captain.
Early in his air force training, George was stationed atEllington Field. He married a Houston girl, Miss Evelyn M.Linnenberg, whose father, Louis F. Linnenberg, is presidentand a trustee of Scanlan Foundation, a charitable organiza-tion.
After working three months for Lykes Bros. SteamshipCo., Mr. Puig opened his own company in 1946. He owns90 per cent of the corporation.
George is a great football and baseball fan. Another hobbyis raising cattle on a small "spread" near Arcola. He is amember of the Downtown Rotary, World Trade Club, anda number of social clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. Puig have one son, Michael, 15, a studentat Memorial High School. They live at 605 Longwoods. GEORGE O. PUIG
NOVEMBER, 1966 i5
Th,ee New ~Nembe,.s of ConsuL,. Co,.psHonduras
The youthful new Consul Generalof Honduras, Rend Becerra, typifiesthe new era of his country’s governmentwhich is primarily composed of youngermen. Becerra, the first career consularofficial assigned to Houston by his coun-try, said the activities of the Amigosde las Americas from Houston in pro-viding medical aid in Honduras duringthe last two summers, had sparked hiscountry’s interest in the port and city.
Becerra, 22, was horn in La Ceiba,
RENE BECERRA
on the north coast. He attended schoolsoperated by a U. S. company in Hon-duras and then cntercd the TechnicalInstitute in Monterrey, Mexico, wherehc studied for thrce years.
In May’, 1965, he was named Chan-cellor at the Consulate General in NewOrleans. At the end of the year he waselevated to Vice Consul.
He was posted to Houston in August1966. His offices arc at 1925 SouthwestFreeway.
Beeerra is married and has a four-months old son. He expects to enter theUniversity of Houston to earn his Busi-ness Administration degree.
Previously Honduras was representedin Houston by an Honorary Consul,Mrs. Carmenza Calix DeJeffress.
Great Britain
a wide background of experience inEurope, Africa and Asia, and most re-cently was British Consul for nearlyfour years in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
A native of London, he was educatedat the Davenant Foundation and joinedthe staff of the Royal Mint in 1939while in his early twenties. He servedsix years with the British Army from1940-46, and then returned briefly tothe Royal Mint until late 1946 whenhe transferred to the British ForeignServicc.
Mr. Kettles’ first post was Marseilles,France, in early 1949. hut before theyear was out he was posted to Tehran,]ran, where he stayed until 1952, whcnhe went to Baghdad, Iraq. In early 1953he was in Rouen, France, hut in Hayof that year was named Vice Consul atMogadishu, Somaliland (now Somalia),whcre he remained until 1954 when
ANDREW L, KETTLES
he was posted to Hanoi, and later toHaiphong, where he served 15 months.
This latter assignment was during theperiod of the French withdrawal fromNorth Viet Nam.
In September of 1955 Hr. Kettleswas transferred to London where heremained for two years until he wasposted to Athens. Greece. as SecondSecretary at the British Embassy. Heremained there until early 1959, whenhe was sent to Berne, wl~ere he serveduntil his Yugoslav assignment beganin 1962.
Coineidentally, Kettles discovered anold friend when he arriw’d in Houston,dating from his Berne assignment. ToreHoegstedt, Consul General of Sweden,was his neighbor in the Swiss capital.
Mr. Kettles is married to the former
Andrew L. Kettles has assumed hisduties as Consul in the British Con-sulatc-General, succecding Harry Lewtywho has returned to London for re-assignment after more than four yearsin Houston.
Mr. Kettles brings to his new post
Alice Wren, aud thev have two sonsand a daughter, all of whom are inEngland. The eldest son is married whilethe youngest son is at school and willspend his forthcoming vacations inHouston.
NicaraguaA twenty-year veteran of government
service, Jos6 S. Pdrez, the new Consulof Nicaragua, was born in Managuain 1928. After attending the Miguel
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Bamircz Goyena Institute at Managuawhere he also worked part-time in theMinistry of Foreign Affairs, he wasposted as Secretary of Embassy at Cara-cas; Vcneznela.
He later served in the DiplomaticSection of tbe Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs until in 1958. when he was namedSecretary of the Ministry of PublicEducation. In 1961. he was made Dircc-tot of the Consular Department of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs.
He al’so pcrformed a variety of specialduties during this time. such as servingas secretary of the Nicaraguan delega-tion to the meeting of Ministries ofForeign Affairs in 1962.
Pdrez’s appointment to the HoustonConsular post marks his first officialduties in the United States. ahhough hehas visited the West and East Coasts ofthe country as a tourist.
He is married to Ihe former MarinaLopez, who has been named vice-con-sul, and thev have four daughters, aged11. 9, 7. and 4.
The Nicaraguan Consulate is locatedat 1925 Southwest Freeway. Pdrez re-places Arturo Raskosky.
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SEENE AT WOl~Lfl TFIAI~E ELLIB
A high-ranking group of Marylanders, led by Mayor Theodore McKeldinof Baltimore, spent a day in Houston last month studying the Port of Hous-ton’s World Trade Building and Center and the World Trade Club, prepara-tory to their own plans to build a World Trade complex in Baltimore. Above,Mayor McKeldin, second from right, presents a key to Baltimore, flags ofthe state and city and a history of Baltimore to Kenneth Fairchild, executiveassistant to Mayor Loule Welch, who was in the hospital and Joseph E.Davies, president of the Houston World Trade Club. At left is Gerald S.Wise, chairman of the Maryland Port Authority Trade Center Committee, andat right Edward S. Corcoran, Commissioner of the Maryland Port Authority.
The pace-setting Houston World Trade Building and World Trade Clubwere visited recently by executives from the new Mobile, Alabama, Inter.national Trade Center and International Trade Club. Sampling HoustonWorld Trade Club hospitality are, seated, left to right, Lother Wenger, execu-tive chef, and Cecil Rohrberger, manager, Mobile Trade Club; and standing,left, Dale McMath, Skyline Country Club, Mobile, and Joe A. Killian, right,manager, Mobile Trade Center.
The Maryland group was tendered a luncheon by the Port of Houston inthe World Trade Club and here W. Gregory Halpin, second from right,deputy director of the Maryland Port Authority, is seen with Travls Smith III,second from left, director of engineering and planning who supervised muchof the construction of the Port of Houston World Trade Building. At left isWilliam Boucher, III, executive director of the Greater Baltimore Civic Com-mittee, Inc., and .lames J. O’Donnell, director of the planning for the Stateof Maryland, is at the right.
Commander Enrique B. Camino, director of the Port of Callao (Lima),Peru, center, was a luncheon guest of Hansen & Tidemann, Inc., agents forthe Peruvian Line, at the World Trade Club while in Houston last month.With him are, from left, Allen B. Hollett, vice president of Cerro Develop-ment Corp., New York; Svend Hansen, president of Hansen & Tidemann,Ronald Smith-Gillesple, director general of Cerro Comerclal, Lima, and B.Wayne White, vice president of Hansen & Tidemann.
Bryan J. Shillinglaw, center, senior sales representative of the Blue SeaLine serving Gulf ports and the Far East, was honored at a luncheon in theWorld Trade Club by Funch, Edye & Co., their Houston agents. At left isJoseph S. Gumina, Houston manager of Funch, Edye, and at right, GeorgeMcDonough of Blue Ribbon Rice Mills in Houston.
International Bank of Houston President John W. Hazard brings happysmiles to the faces of several of the Bank’s customers as he reads the Bank’sstatement of worth at a reception celebrating the firm’s fourth anniversaryrecently. Among the several hundred guests at the World Trade Club were,left to right, J. J. Patton, vice president, The Crispin Co.; Mr. and Mrs.Jack Walton, Walton & Son Barge Terminal; Hazard; and J. M. Cook, vicepresident of the West Coast Line.
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On the foredeck of the SAM HOUSTON passing cargo vessels at Wharves23 and 24 are, from left, Keong Slew Tong of Singapore, Jason S. Chengof the Republic of China, Lt. Col. Lonzie Dukes, U.S.A., S. J. Tilak of Ma-laysia, and V. P. Ramchandran of India.
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PORT OF HOUSTONA group of ninolecn journalisls represonting fifteen nations
of Asia and Australasia visited the Port .f Houston lass monthduring a two-day tour of Houston and the Manned SpaeocraftCenter as guests of the Nalional Aeronaulies and SpaceAdministration.
XVhile here they journeyed aboard the Port’s inspectionvessel SAM HO[~TO,’~ do’all the Ship Channel to sec the $3billion industrial complex ahmg its sh.res, and loured theHumble Oil and Refining Company’s refinery at Baytm~nto conclude the trip.
Their United States tot, r was under the auspicos of theDepartment of Slate and included military installations,industrial eomph.xcs and government researei~ and develop-ment centers.
On the bow, with the Lone Star flag, are Watt Kachapanand of Thailand,Klaus Loewald of the U.S. State Department, Tesoro G. de Guzman of thePhillipplne Republic, Narayan Damodar Prabhu of India and AmnueySukcharoen of Thailand.
From left to right are Lindsay Reid Shelton of New Zealand, ReginaldGordon Heyzer of Ceylon, Jean Young-Hak of Korea, Ramesh Nath Pandeyof Nepal and Nguyen Viet Khanh of South Vietnam.
On the upper deck by the SAM HOUSTON’s stack are Kim Buyng-Dae ofKorea, Robert MacDonald of Australia and Michael Levy of the MannedSpacecraft Center of N.A.S.A.
Harold Bigler of the United States Information Agency, second from left,on the SAM HOUSTON’s bridge with Tran Tu Huyen of South Vietnam,Adira Nagata of Japan and Hul Shun Chl of Hang Kong.
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News In Views at the Port o[ Houston
Diplomas of Merit, attesting to having finisheda two-month’s course in oil phases of port op-erations under the supervision of the Port ofHouston, were presented by Port CommissionChairman Howard Tellepsen, right, and ExecutiveDirector J. P. Turner, to Edgardo Rosales Z. op-erations manager of the Port of Barranquilla, andJamine Pieschac6n R., assistant to the chief of op-eratlons of the Colombian Port Authority head-quarters in Bogota. The two Colombians werehere under the Puertos Amlgos Program of theOrganization of American States and the Ameri-can Association of Port Authorities.
Texas Transport & Terminal Co. honored Cun.ard Line officials at a reception last month ob-serving their appointment as Cunord’s agents inthe Gulf effective October 1st. From left to rightHarold Roberts, Texas Transport & Terminal’sexecutive vice president, from New Orleans;Elmer EIIsworth, Cunard Line, New York; Hon.Gerald Simpson, British Consul General in Houstonand Charles A. McEniry, vice president, Texas, ofTexas Transport and Terminal Co.
Friends of Belgium’s former Consul General inHouston, Hon. George Elliott, center, honoredhim with a farewell luncheon before his depar-ture for Brussels and then to his new post asBelgium’s Ambassador to Cuba. Hon. BernhardDaugbjerg, Danish Consul, (hand outstretched)made him a Harris County Deputy Sheriff on be-half of Sheriff C. V. (Buster) Kern and the grouppresented the Texas hat and badge to go with it.From left, Hon. Jorge Ben6quen. Consul Generalof Peru; Hon. Aleiandro Caride, Consul of Argen-tina; Hon. Hideho Tanaka, Consul General ofJapan; Elliott, Daubjerg; Albert Liedts, presidentPort Houston Transport Co., and Hon. JohannesBeekman, Consul General of The Netherlands.
A bevy of lovely girls from the British ConsulateGeneral were on hand to see off Hon. HarryLewty, British Consul here for more than fouryears, when he left for London and a new as-signment. From left are Mrs. A. Dillon, Miss A.Carroll, Mrs. D. Wegener, Mrs. D. Chalfan, Mrs.J. Yould, Mrs. S. Field, Mrs. J. Thompson and Mrs.M. Hingle. Also on hand were Hon. Gerald Simp-son, British Consul General, and several membersof the Houston Consular Corps.
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REDUCED HANDLING CHARGES at Port of Hous-ton are under consideration on two com-modities, wire, including barbed wire, andpotash, when shipped unitized on wing-typepallets. Potash, sulphate of potash,
THE GULF PORTS ASSOCIATION, in a meeting
held October I0, in Pascagoula, Missis-
sippi, approved a resolution opposing adop-
tion by the I.C.C. of proposed car service
rules now under investigation in Ex Parte
241--Ivesti~ation of Adequacy of Railroad
Freight Car Ownership, Car Utilization,
Distribution, Rules and Practices. The as-sociation cited as reasons for its position
the fact that the proposed rule change
pertained more to demurrage and restriction
of free time than to improve car utiliza-
tion. It was the association’s judgment
that the proposed rules would thus place
penalties on shippers without consideration
of railroad delays or disabilities.
muriate of potash, and sulphate of potashmagnesia will be handled for 9¼¢ cwt.when unitized on wing-type pallets, min.base dimensions 48 inches by 48 inches,max. base dimensions 54 inches by 66inches, gross weight not less than 1,600ibs. per unit. Wire will be also handledfor 9¼¢ cwt. when unitized on wing-typepallets of max. dimensions 54 inches by 66inches, not exceeding 60 inches in height,gross weight not less than 1,600 ibs. peruni t.
W. M. Scottx who entered Houston PortBureau employment February i, as a trans-portation analyst, was promoted to Assist-ant General Manager of the Houston PortBureau. Mr. Scott’s previous transportationexperience includes work with several railcarriers, a Chamber of Commerce Transporta-tion Department, and most recently as Traf-fic Manager of a grain and milling firm.
IN OCTOBER, THE PORT BUREAU rendered di-rect transportation services to and in be-half of port patrons in 153 instances. Thestaff is at the service of customers of theport in providing assistance in transporta-tion-marketing questions.
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THE FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION has can-celled a hearing tentatively set for Novem-
ber 7, in New Orleans on the investigation
of Overland and 0CP rates and absorptions--
Docket 65-51. Purpose of the investigation
is to determine the lawfulness of ocean
rates on traffic to or from the Far East,destined to or originating in territory
east of the Rocky Mountains in the United
States via the Pacific Coast ports. Hear-
ings on this subject have been held previ-
ously at San Francisco, California and Chi-
cago, Illinois. The FMC contemplates that
the next hearing will be held at New York,
New York with witnesses from the Gulf area
probably appearing at that hearing.
REDUCED FREIGHT CHARGES are becoming ef-
fective in November on several important
commodities moving to or from the Fort of
Houston. Railroad rate reductions to Hous-ton are scheduled on multiple car load
rates on linseed meal from Minneapolis-St.
Faul, Minnesota; dried beans or peas from
Montana; motor reductions are slated on
cottonseed flour from Ft. Worth, Texas;and calcium carbide from Pryor, Oklahoma.
PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
Gulf Atlantic Co.Merges With Dixie
The merger of Dixie Cartage & Ware-housing, Inc. of Charlotte, North Caro-lina, with Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co.of Houston has been announced by For-rest R. Wilkerson, Jr., president ofl)ixic, and Burke Baker. Jr., presidentof Gulf Atlantic. Dixie, one of the largestand most modern merchandise ware-house operations in Charlotte, willremain under the management of Wilker-son, serving as Charlotte manager forGulf Atlantic.
Gulf Atlantic. which operates eightand a half million square feet of ware-housing and distributing facilities inseven states, is a wholly-owned subsid-iary of Anderson, Clayton & Co.. world-wide firm engaged primarily in theprocessing and distribution of agricul-lural-based products and services.
The Long Roach Docks. an eightberth deep water terminal at the Portof Houston. is among the fac’ilities oper-ated by (;ulf Atlantic.
Advisors HonoredAt Northwestern
Three former chairmen of the advi-sorx committee of the TransportationCcnler al Northwestern UniversiQ werehonored at the October meeting of thevommittec in Evanston, I11. They arcJ. W. Hershey of Houston. chairmanof the Cmerican Commercial Lines, Ine, ;Fred G. (,urh’y, retired chairman of theSanta Fe System. and Cyrus R. Osborn.retired executive vice president of Gen-vral _Xlolors Corporation.
Hershey was presented with a plaquein recognition of his leadership from1962-65 by D. W. Jenks. president ofthe Missouri Pacific Railroad Coml~anyand present dmirtnan.
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The 30th Chicago World Trade Con-ference will be held February 15-16,1967 at the Palmer House, Chicago,said Robert G. Biescl, vice president.Cmwral American Transl)ortation Corp.,chairman of the conference.
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~,’]ore than 1,000 executives from allparts of the world are expected to par-ticipate. The purl)ose of the conferenceis the exchange of views and ideas onthe l)robh’ms of export, import and in-ternational operations.
Humble NamesC. P. Bermann
Clifford P. Bermann has been namedcoordinator of marine sah’s in HumbleOil & Refining Company’s MarketingDepartment.
In his new position. Bermann ~ill co-ordinate from Houston all phases ofHumble’s domestic fuel and lubricatingsales to the inland and coastwise ma-rine trade throughout the United States.
Bcrmann will also coordinate the SUl)-ply and delivery of marine productsin Humbh"s seven marketing regionsto the international marine trade so-licited bv Esso lnternalional and theother worldwide affiliated companies ofStandard Oil Company (New Jersey).
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