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DirectoryOf Officials

FOR THE

Port of HoustonPORT COMMISSIONERSHOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanJOHN G. TURNEYJ. P. HAMBLENW. M. HATTEN

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTJ. P. TURNER, General ManagerVERNON BAILEY, Assistant General ManagerJ. L. LOCKETT, JR., CounselSAMUEL B. BRUCE, AuditorTRAVIS SMITH, Engineer and Planning ManagerRICHARD LEACH, Chic/ EngineerROBERT W. RORINSON, Accounts ManagerKENNETII W. STEPHENS, Personnel ManagerT. E. WHATLEY, dd’ministrative AssistantVINCENT D. WILLIAMS, Administrative

Assistant

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENTLLOYD GREGORY, Director o] ln]ormationTED SUMERLIN, Editor o/ MagazineVAUGHN n. BRYANT, Director o/

International Relations

SALES DEPARTMENTGEORGE W. ALTVATER, GeneralSales ManagerEDWARD P. MOORE, District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant

25 Broadway, New York, N.Y.HUME A. HENDERSON, District Sales Manager

Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Ill.CHARLES A. BARROWS, District Sales Manager

Board of Trade Building,Kansas City, Mo.

JOHN R. WEILER, District Sales Manager1519 Capitol, Houston

OPERATIONS DEPARTMENTC. E. BULLOCK, Operations ManagerW. F. LAND, Terminal ManagerT. H. SHERWOOD, Manager of Grain ElevatorWALLACE J. STAGNER, Manager-Storage

WarehousesD. M. FRAZIOR, Marine & Plant

Protection Mgr.D. P. WAr.sit, Maintenance Superintendent

WORLD TRADE CENTEREDWARD J. FAY, Director

EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street

Telephone CApitol 5-0671P. O. Box 2562, Houston 1. Texas

JANUARY, 1963

Official Publication

of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 5 January, 1963 Number 1

Telephone Directory Uses Picture of Port On Cover ........... 9

The Olive Is Symbol of Major Import At Houston ............ 10

Leche For Lima ......................................... 12

Visitors See The Port From The Sam Houston ......... 14

News In Views Around The Port ........................ 16

An Aerial View of the Port’s Construction ............... 17

Foreign Port Officials Learn How We Operate ............. 18

The Houston Port Bureau Reports ........................

Houston Steamship Agents ..............................

Port of Houston Shipping Directory ................

Sailing Schedule of General Cargo Ships ..........

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THE COVER

The Port of Houston’s busy Ship Channel is beautifully portrayed in this

month’s cover picture which was taken by Bert Brandt. The color transparency

was loaned to us by the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which used this

scene on the cover of its 1963 alphabetical directory. For more about this see

Page 9.

The PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine is pub-lished monthly and distributed free to mari-time, industrial and transportation interests inthe United States and foreign countries. Itspurpose is to inform shippers and others inter-ested in the Port of Houston of its develop.ment, facilities, plans and accomplishments.

This publication is not copyrighted and per-

mission is given for the reproduction or useof any material, provided credit is given tothe Port of Houston.

Additional information or extra copies otthis magazine may be obtained by writingThe Port of Houston Magazine, 3005 Louisi.ana Street, Houston 6, Texas.

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8PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

J. C. Denneny, division manager of Southwestern Bell Tele-phone Company, presents Navigation and Canal CommissionChairman Howard Tellepsen with a framed print of the colorphotograph which graces the cover of the company’s 1963

alphabetical directory. At right holding a directory cover isCommissioner W. N. Blanton and at left CommissionersJ. P. Hamblen and W. M. Hanen are holding a print of thephotograph as it appears on the ,’over of this month’s Magazine.

Telephnne Hireclnry UsesPiclure nf Purl un EuverNEARLY THREE QUARTERS of a million color prints of the

busy Turning Basin of the Port of Houston went into distri-bution in late December, throughout Houston and over muchof the nation as well.

It was not a Navigation District promotion effort, however,but rather a door-to-door delivery by the telephone company.

The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company this year chosea Port of Houston activity scene (see cover of this issue)for the cover of its 1963 alphabetical directory arid unveiledthe new cover at ceremonies in the Houston ~’orld TradeClub.

J. C. Denneny, division manager for Southwestern Bell,presented a framed print of the photograph to Navigationand Canal Commissioners Chairman Howard Tellepsen. Alsopresent were Commissioners W. N. Blanton, J. P. Hamblenand ~’illiam M. Hatten; General Manager J. P. Turner;Assistant General Manager Vernon Bailey; J. L. Lockett, Jr.,counsel, and Vaughn M. Bryant. director of internationalrelations.

Denneny said the port was selected as the cover subjectbecause of its contribution to the growth and welfare of theHouston area. "I believe everyone realizes that Houstoncould not have attained its pre.-:ent size and stature withoutthe Port of Houston," he said.

Denneny also lauded the Commission’s efforts in publi-cizing the activities of the Port. He said that "everyone inthe community benefits from the information being dis-

JANUARY, 1963

seminated throughout the world dealing with the Port’sfacilities."

In accepting for the Navigation District, Chairman Tellep.sen said the photo would he displayed with pride by theCommission and expressed the Board’s appreciation. Headded that lie was in agreement with l)enneny about thePort’s importance.

"We all know how xital and necessary the telephonecompany is in our every-day liw’s arid especiall) in ourbusiness activity," he said, "bul ! believe you will agree thatif we didn’t have this great port there might not he anygreat telephone operation in this area."

The striking photograph was taken from the bow of theNavigation District’s inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON,looking toward the Turning Basin and shows both sidesof the channel lined with ships.

The telephone company printed 745,000 copies of thenew directory, which has 1,074 pages with more than415,500 listings. Of these copies 597,000 have been deliw~reddoor-to-door in Houston. About half of the remainder arebeing distributed throughout the nation and the others keptin Houston for spares.

There are 55,000 more listings and 54 more pages in the1963 directory than the 1962 edition.

Inside the directory, on page 1. is the message:"Since its beginning in 1915, the Port of Houston has

shown steady growth and thus has complemented the ex-pansion of Houston itself. More than one sixth of the Port’stotal tonnage is in foreign trade. Ships of all sizes andnationalities use the modern, and ever expanding, Portfacilities. The man-made Houston Ship Channel providesdeep sea traffic with access to the Port of Houston. Unlikesome American ports, wharves here are both publicly ownedand privately owned but operated for public hire."

~.~V_~ yT~/~ olive tree is the sign o/peaceand plenty, o/ health and strength, andthe pledge o/ happiness and [reedom."

So the Greek goddess Athene, said ingiving the tree to the city of Athens.

And so it still is in the United Statestoday where from 60 to 70 millionpounds of olives a year are importedfrom Spain to graee festive boards andadd color to the liquid fire known as amartini.

The Port of Houston is one of theleading ports of entry for Spanish greenolives, receiving on the average a shipload a month, or a total of 971,037 gal-lons in 1961 with a value of $1,24’k787.

Originating in Asia Minor, that areaof the world that streehes from Syria toGreece, the olive has been cultivated formore than 4,000 years. The Bible re-ports that it grew on Mount Ararat and

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OLIVESThe Tree Is Ancient Symbol of Peace

And Plenty... The Fruit Is Modern

Symbol of Major Import At Houston

By CARL D. BONDInternational Relations

Representative

its branch was the symbol to Noah thatthe great flood was over.

Throughout history ever since theolive branch has been synonymous withpeace and calm.

By the 19th dynasty, the olive hadmade its way to Egypt and mummiesdating from tile 20th to the 26th dy-nasty were surrounded with garlands ofolive leaves.

The Greeks had a speeial reverencefor the oliw" or "elaia." Offerings to theGods were made of olive oil; winners ofthe Olympic (,ames received wreaths ofolive branches, and a good part of theGreek’s diet consisted of olives andfoods cooked in olive oil.

In the great period of migrations bythe Greeks following the breakup of theMyeenaean civilization in 1100 B.C. theolive was spread throughout the Medi-terranean world, reaching Italy by 627B.C. and Gaul by 600 B.C. and the far-

The fancy pack olives are placed injars by highly skilled women workers,many of whom have spent years learningand practicing this demanding task. Theexact placement and careful selection foruniform size and color gives the olivesadded shelf appeal to the shopper.

thest parts of North Africa about thesame time.

Spain, now the world’s greatest pro-ducer of olives, received the fruit bothby way of the Arabs from Africa andthe Romans from Europe as evidencedby the names given it in various partsof the country. In the North of Spainthe tree is known by the Greeo-Romanname of olivo or oliveira while the fruitand the oil are known by the Arabicnames of aeeituna and aceite, respec-tively. In the South, where the Moorishinfluence was greatest, the tree also hasthe name of aeeituno, steming fromthe Arabic Zeitoun.

The olive has many peculiar charac-teristics. Although it is not suitable forusing without a certain amount of proe-essing, it can be picked and used atany stage of its development. There is

Barrels and casks of olives wait in thewarehouse of a Houston bottler for proc-essing. The larger casks have a capacityof 160 gallons and the smaller barrels48 gallons.

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An acre of olives wait on a Houstonwharf on their way to tables and martiniglasses all over the Southwest. More than14,312,706 gallons of this fruit, with atotal retail value of $79,210,000 wereimported in the United States in 1961.The Port of Houston handled about sevenper cent of this total.

no starch in the olive, but 80% of thefruit is oil. The trees grow to a greatage, developing a very close-grainedwood that resists disease and insect at-tack. However, sustained frost will killthem. The fruit is first a dull greenishyellow in color, then changes to red, topurple and then to black.

Most of the olives imported to theUnited States, (97%) are grown on theAndalusian Plain along the Quadalqui-vir River within a 20 mile radius ofSeville in Southern Spain.

As the olive comes from the tree, re-gardless of its stage of maturity, it hasa bitter taste that makes it unacceptablefor eating. It must be hand-picked,sorted and graded and then put intolarge vats and covered with a soda solu-tion for about eight hours to remove thebitter taste.

The exact formula for this soda solu-tion and time of immersion varies witheach processor and is a closely-guardedsecret.

The olives are then washed and putinto a brine solution and left to fermentfor several months. The brine solution isvaried to meet the characteristics ofeach crop and is used to gain a uniformtaste.

Olives are shipped either whole orstuffed. Stuffing is all hand work andis done in Spain. The seed is pushed outand the stuffing, which can vary frommushrooms to anchoives, but which isusually pimiento, is put in.

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Plain olives are shipped in 160 galloncasks and the stuffed olives in 48 gallonbarrels. A light brine solution covers theolives to help preserve them and tocushion them against bruising. The bar-rels and casks are hand-made of chest-nut wood. Because the cost of returnshipping is greater than the cost of newbarrels in Spain, the shipping contain-ers are used only once.

The majority of the olives importedthrough the port of Houston are thegreen variety from Spain and go toBelle Products Co., Inc.; SafewayFoods; Spencer Food Co.; and Whole-some Products for bottling.

Packing of olives by U.S. bottlers isusually done in one of two ways . . .random pack or fancy pack. Randompacking is accomplished simply by amachine pouring the olives into the jars,washing them and putting a new brinesolution over them.

For the fancy pack, highly skilledpackers, using special wooden tongs,carefully place uniform sized olives inorderly rows in the bottles. From thispoint on the handling procedure is thesame as for random pack olives.

In the more modern plants, washing,brine addition and bottle capping isdone by automatic machines.

Although the majority of olives im-ported here do come from Spain, thereis some traffic in Greek olives.

The black "ripe" olives seen on manytables are generally domestic olives pro-duced in California and packed in cansinstead of jars or bottles. Olives werefirst introduced to the Americas by theSpanish during the colonial period.Many of the original strain still grow inLatin America and the U.S. West butmost olives for commercial use are fromstrains introduced in relatively recentyears.

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Random packing of the green olives isdone by this machine with the workersquickly and carefully removing olivesdamaged in shipment from the conveyorbelt before they go into the packing hop-per. The conveyor of filled jars moves onto automatic washing machines that filland drain the jars with fresh water andthen cover the olives with a light brinesolution. The jars are then capped andplaced in cartons for shipment to thegrocery wholesalers.

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Cattle loading is a smooth running operationat the Port of Houston where the big vans

back up to the ship and then send theircargo through a chute onto the vessel.

Passengers for Peruvian dairy barns maketheir way up the special cattlegangway to the M. V. ALONDRA, aship which was designed to carry cattle.

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LECHE FOR LIMABig Shipment of Cattle Will

Mean More Milk on The Hoof

For Expanding Population

THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR passengers in a holiday

mood boarded the M. V. ALONDRA of the Clausen Line lastmonth for a fortnight’s voyage to Peru. They were givenever), courtesy by crew members and dock-side workers be-cause these, were carefully-selected immigrants . . top-grade, registered dairy cattle vitally needed Io rai,~ milk pro-duction for the country’s expanding population.

This operation, "Leehe (milk) For Lima," to provide milkon the hoof is a project of the Peruvian government whichsent a team of experts to Wisconsion, Ohio. and Michigan todo the buying.

Dr. Luis Silva and lug. l Engineer) Ramiro Mereado of thePeruvian Agricultural Promotion Service and Fernando Lima,representative of the Bank of Cattle and Agriculture of Peru.assembled /he Holstein, Brown Swiss, Santa Gerlrudls andCharolais cattle at Houston’s Port Cily SIockvards. an ap-proved [i.S. Quarantine Slation.

This was the second such shipment for the Peruvian govern-merit through the Port of Houston. Previously shipments weremade through Northeast Allantic ports or Northwest Pacificports.

However, since cattle art, subject Io seasickness much thesame as humans, the shorten: sea route through the Port ofHouston holds promise for more efficient shipment and the ex-pectation is that more and more caltle for South America willbe shipped through Houston.

Seasickness is especially bad for cattle because they tend torefuse to drink water and suffer from dehydration. Youngcattle, "yearlings," will normally drink from 20 to 30 gallonsof water a day, while full grown dairy cows will drink up to50 gallons per day.

The Clausen Line, a German steamship company, special-izes in livestock shipment. The ALONDRA has made voyagesto Australia, India, South America and other ports of callCarrying everything from hogs to sheep to cattle. Normallythe crew of 24, cares for the cattle as well as operaling the shill.

The ship was specially constructed Io haul livestock, havinga forced ventilation system, feed storage areas, inclined rampsbetween decks and, for the current trip to Peru, a fullyequipped operating room to take care of any emergency surgi-cal problem that might arise among lhe registered animals.

Before sailing the ship had to be provisioned with hay -each animal is alloted 20 pounds a day plus food concentrates---water, and approximately $1,500 worth of medical supplies.

The shipment was handled by the Houston Freight For-warding Co. Biehl and Company uerc the ship’s agents.

JANUARY, 1963

The night before sailing Ing. Ramiro Mercado and Dr.Theodoric Terry of the Peruvian Agricultural Service make afinal inspection of their 334 charges at Houston’s Port City.~tockyards.

Cows for Peru are welcomed aboard the ALONDRA as theycome off the truck. They moved down a companionway to their’specially buih stalls.

It takes a lot of hay to feed 334 hungry cows and the.4LONDRA had to take on some 45 tons of it. Here are someof the bales going aboard.

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VISITORS SEE THE PORT FROM THE SAM HOUSTONThe 1962 Philippine Industrial Real

Estate Study Team sponsored by the U. S.Department of State visited the Port ofHouston as a major stop on its tour ofthe U.S. Hosts in Houston were theSouthern Pacific Lines and the HarrisCounty Houston Navigation District.Shown aboard the inspection vessel SAMHOUSTON, left to right, are RupertoTalatala, general manager, Monta-MonteRealty, Inc., Manila; Mariano Vera,branch manager, Pasay Realty, PasayCity; Conrad Leviste, sales manager,El Dorado Plantation, Inc., Escoha,Manila ; Antonio Leviste, team leader, andexecutive vice president, L. P. Leviste &Co., Inc. Escoha, Manila; Walter VanSickle, Houston realtor; Conrado Yuvi-enco, Jr., general manager, Trece Mar-tires Development Corp., Manila; Fran-cisco Tantoco, realtor, Quezon City;Rosendo Donida, Donida Estate Exchange,Quezon City; Oscar Gonzales, executivevice president, C. S. Gonzales & Co.,Eseoha ; Mrs. Demetria Swan, SwanRealty, Manila; and Richard T. Murphy,U. S. Department of State, Washington.

Members of the Mexico City RotaryClub were in Houston for a special meet-ing with the Downtown Rotary Club lastmonth and made a trip on the inspectionvessel SAM HOUSTON. Kneeling in thefront row in the picture are Silas Rags-dale, Dick Proctor, Buddy Brock, LeeBlocker, and Everett Christensen. In theback row are Eugenio J. Loperino, freightforwarder, Mexico City; W. F. Wilson;Felix Tijerina; Juan Sayrols, publisher,Mexico City; Ramon Salcedo, realtor,Mexico City; Ed Brachere; ErnestoMaurer, President, Rotary Club of Mex-ico City; Warren Leach; Erwin Heinen;Fernando Sayrols, publisher, Mexico City ;and Virgil Lee. Later President Maurer ad-dressed a group in the World Trade Clubon trade between the United States andMexico.

The first official voyage by the cadetsof the new Texas A & M Texas MaritimeAcademy was made in November aboardthe Navigation District’s inspection vesselSAM HOUSTON. Seventeen of the firstclass of 21 cadets and academy superin-tendent, Captain Bennett Dodson, USNR,spent part of tile day inspecting vesselsin the harbor. Cadets at the Academy,one of six maritime schools in the UnitedStates, will attend classes at the campusat College Station during their freshmanyear and then will spend three years atthe school’s Galveston base, plus makingsummer cruises.

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Members of the local chapter of theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineersassembled aboard the Navigation District’sinspection vessel SAM HOUSTON fortheir November field trip to view ship-ping facilities for the chemical industryalong the Houston Chip Channel.

Thirty-five Ecuadorean high sehoolstudents from the capital city of Quitotoured the Houston Ship Channel aboardthe SAM HOUSTON last month while inthe city on a two week’s visit under the"Operation Amigo" program of theScripps-Howard Newspapers. Here seenon the fantail of the inspection vesselwith Ecuadorean Consul Col. Jose Saurezbefore the Battleship TEXAS, the "AMI-GOS" were guests in Houston homes andattended high school classes with theirstudent hosts, football games, receptions,Thanksgiving parties and other events ina full program before returning home.

Members of the Houston Navy League’sSea Cadet and Navy League Cadet pro-grams saw the Houston Ship Channel andits busy complement of ships during avisit aboard the Port of Houston’s inspec-tion vessel SAM HOUSTON. Ranging inage from 12 to 14 for the Navy LeagueCadets and 15 to 17 for the regular SeaCadets, some of them are shown here onthe bow of the vessel with Lt. Mary L.Weiss, U.S.N.R., who is one of the spon-sors. The cadets make sea cruises, week-end field trips and meet weekly in tileNaval Reserve Training center under theNavy League program.

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NEWSIN

VIEWSAround The Port

A seven-mile length of pipe has beenplanted through the highly-lndustrializedHouston Ship Channel area to connect asteel mill directly with its supplier ofoxygen. High purity oxygen, produced ata plant in Deer Park by Linde Company,a division of Union Carbide Corporation,is sent directly through the pipeline tothe Sheffield Division of Armco SteelCorp. To reach its destination, the oxy-gen has to cross under the busy ShipChannel. Here the busy crews and bigmachines are completing the pipeline onthe banks of the Channel. Linde also sup-plies gaseous nitrogen to steel, chemicaland petrochemical companies in tile areaby pipeline.

Yorck von Wulffen of Hamburg, in charge of the Gulf serviceof the Hamburg-America Line, center, delivers a framed water-color painting of Hamburg showing the company’s offices, toVaughn M. Bryant, director of international relations for thePort of Houston, accompanied by T. E. Dugey. vice president ofBiehl & Co., agents for Hamburg-America. The painting wasgiven Bryant in recognition of his visit on behalf of the Port ofHouston to Hamburg and the Company last July and now hangsin the hall of the Houston World Trade Club.

The Managing Director of the North Ireland CommercialTelevision Network, R. Brumwell Henderson, viewed shippingactivity at the Houston Turning Basin last month. Hendersonalso attended a program on international television commer-cials at the Houston Advertising Club meeting and said thePort of Houston reminded him of his own Belfast harbor inNorthern Ireland. He was touring the United States under theForeign Leaders program of the Department of State and hisprogram locally was arranged by the Institute of InternationalEducation.

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Earle Gallagher of McAllen drove a distance equal to threetimes across the nation to attend the ten sessions of the Execu-tive Export Training Program in Houston. The salesman, right,is being awarded a certificate by Professor Vernon L. Engberg,left, department of foreign trade at the University of Houston,and George L. Malherbe, manager of the Houston field office ofthe Department of Commerce. Gallagher was one of 51 businessmen and women to receive the certificate for completion ofthe course

Chow Tien Kou, head of the government information officeof the Republic of China, visited in Houston last month to studynews operations and to bring greetings from Houston’s sistercity of Taipei, Taiwan. While here he inspected the Ship Chan-nel aboard the work boat PORT COMMISSION No. 1, stoppingto board several Chinese ships in port, including the M.V.UNION CONCORD and the S.S. CHING YUNG. Here, Chow,left, is shown with A. L. Sporn, crewman of No. 1; Mason Lin,State Department interpreter; and L. O. Deshazo, Captain ofNO. 1.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

Channel in tile $9 million im-proveu|ent progralu nearing eonl-pletion by the Harris CountyNavigation District. This strikingaerial view shows tile new con-slruetion, while immediately aboveit are new Wharves 21 and 22,flanked by Shipside Storage Ware-house 21-A which were built aspart of the new improvementsunder the $12.5 million programcompleted more than a year ago.Still farther up the channel on theright are Wharves 18, 19 and 20built under the $7 million ira-

Statistics are statistics in any language, andChief Statistician Chang found much to discusswith Administrative Assistant Vincent D. Williamswho is in charge of keeping and interpretingstatistics at the Port of Houston.

CHANG VISITS HOUSTON

Foreign Port Officials Learn How We

Operate And Take Ideas Home

By VAUGHN M. BRYANTDirector of International

Relations

With the Port’s International Relations Repre-sentative, Carl D. Bond, Chang was interviewedin Television Channel 11 (CBS) and sent photosback home to his campaign manager in his racefor Mayor of Keelung.

FOR THE LAST several years the Port

of Houston has cooperated with theU.S. Maritime Administration in pro-viding on-the-ground training for a con-tinuing series of key overseas port per-sonnel sent here to study Americanports.

From Malay and Manila, Taiwan andPakistan, Indonesia and Yugoslavia,Korea and Thailand they have come--keen, bright, highly selected people forwhom their governments have biggerjobs in mind.

They are interested in all phases ofport operations and ask incisive ques-tions about cargo-handling, warehous-ing, engineering, maintenance, financ-ing, construction, accounting, statistics,

George Wilson of the Operations Departmentshowed Chang the board listing vessels due andin port during a day-long session by the visitorat the Terminal Office.

At the Public Grain Elevator Chang showedinterest in the car dumping operation explainedto him by Kenneth Roden, assistant elevatormanager.

public relations, stevedoring and a hostof other subjects.

From office to office, division to divi-sion of the entire port operation theygo; an hour here, a day there, perhapstwo days in another area until they havespent a week to ten days studying andobserving. Often they visit other termi-nals and local steamship and stevedoringcompanies as well.

Typical of these visitors, recently,was Chin-cheon (Chester) Chang, chiefof the statistics division of the KeelungHarbor Administration of Taiwan.

An ubiquitous traveler, Chester hadalready visited a half dozen U.S. portswhen he reached Houston and had an-other month’s tour on the West Coastahead of him. His questions were intelli-gent, his interest keen and his energy

Chang proudly told the Central Lions abouthis own Keelung Lions when Houston Lion W.W. "Bill" Crouch introduced him. Trophies wereawarded at the luncheon to Houston high schoolsportsmanship winners.

seemingly unbounded in his search forthe answers to the many things he hadon his mind.

At home, Chang is president of theKeelung Lion’s Club and a leading can-didate for mayor of that important sea-port in the 1964 elections. He is alreadyrunning hard, however, even though thevoting is more than a year away.

Chang’s Houston program was typicalof that given these overseas port traineesunder the Maritime Administration’sprogram which is carried out under theoverall direction of the Agency for In-ternational Development.

For five full days he talked withHouston port officials from GeneralManager J. P. Turner on down throughall the departments--executive, sales,

public relations, operations and WorldTrade Center.

He checked in at the Houston Con-sulate General of China and was inter-viewed on television. He addressed theCentral Lions Club and presented abanner from the Keelung Lions Club,and the Institute of International Edu-cation here arranged hospitality byHouston families interested in further-ing Sino-U.S. relations.

Next on the list of Houston traineevisitors is Syie Harto of Indonesia. Hisprogram will be essentially the sameand there will be others as the monthsgo on in this peope-to-people, grass rootsendeavor by American ports to pass onto developing sister ports over the worldthe benefit of their experience.

Whether in Keeluug or Houston, port talk isport talk and Chang talked shop during a coffeebreak with Wilson and W. F. Land, right, Ter-minal Manager, during his visit.

WtlEAT-H,OUR RATE reductions published by the railroadsfrom the Plains arid Southwestern states to Houston and otherGulf ports are expected to arrest tile trend toward truck move-ments at this port. In calendar 196l, trucks for the first timedelivered a greater amount of export grain to the Public Ele-vator (See Photo) than did the railroads--37,361,648 bushelscompared with 36.388,800. For the first eleven months of1962, the truck percentage stands at 61~)/c. Representative oftire January 1 rates are 104 from Amarillo-Lubbock-Enld.

from Wiehlta Falls, 471/2¢ from Wichita, 48e fromAbilene, 491~4 from Hutchinson, 50¢ from Omaha-CouncilBluffs, and 684 from Denver. Carload minimum weights are100,000 lbs. on bulk and 90,000 on bagged wheat-flour. Noticehas been received that rates from all origins are being post-poned until March 1.

TWENTY-ONE WITNESSES representing industries and com-mercial groups testified to the necessity of restoring the Hous-ton commercial zone, at I.C.C. hearing on Deeeber 10. Motorcarriers also gave strong support to the Port Bureau’s petitionin this proceeding (I.C.C. Ex Parte MC-37, Sub. 6), whieh isdesigned to restore for-hire and drayage truck service to irr-dustries in the Baytown-La Porte area of the Ship Channel byoffsetting a June 20, 1962 contraction in the Houston eorpo-

rate limits which sew, rely curtailed truck service in the af-fected areas.

STRH,:I.: DE.~IURII~CE rule published by the railroads for ap-plication at Texas Gulf ports has been protested by the PortBureau with the purpose of insuring that Port of Houstonshippers whose loaded cars might be immobilized during awater front strike would not pay demurrage charges to anygreater extent than would be applicable at other Gulf ports.

]{ALL LINES have approved reduced export rates, on cleanrice from Texas origins to Houston. The new rates representreduction of 2-21/2¢ cwt. and are designed to facilitate thesale of Texas rice in competition with other areas. Houston isa major port for exporting rice and has a particular interestin Texas rice.

Expansion of the Port of Houston’s Public Grain Ele-vator is nearing completion as the aerial picture belowshows. The new silos on the left at the top of the picturehave a capacity of two and one-half million bushels,giving the elevator a total capacity of six million bushels.Egles Construction Company will finish their work earlyin January.