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HAROLD B. CUMMINS

Harold B. Cummins, 57, long-timetraffic manager of the Houston Port andTraffic Bureau, died of a heart attackin his Houston home, August 10, 1952.

A distinguished figure in traffic: andrate matters, Mr. Cummins was anardent leader in the field of traffic edu-cation. He helped found the transporta-tion department at the University ofHouston and for several years was aninstructor in the University’s downtownnight school.

Mr. Cummins came to the Bureau asits traffic manager in 1935. He was amember of the National Industrial Traf-fic League, the Association of InterstateCommerce Commission Practitioners,the Houston Traffic Club and the Traf-fic Committee of the Houston Chamberof Commerce. He served as a director ofboth the Texas Industrial Traffic Leagueand the Southwestern Industrial TrafficLeague.

His closest associates recall vividlyhis keen sense of humor, his remark-able ability to express himself. His wasan unusual mental capacity to grasp andpreserve in memory the most detailedtraffic brief.

He made friends wherever he went.His co-workers, his colleagues in thetraffic fraternity, the business men withwhom he dealt daily, and even the wait-ress who served his morning cup ofcoffee all say, "I miss him.’"

This able Kentuckian was a dedicated,constant student of traffic affairs. Heserved the Port of Houston brilliantly.The port mourns his untimely passing.

"Thermos bottle" barges like this one keep sulphur in molten form during shipment.

COYLE LINE GETSNEW SULPHUR BARGE

A (’ompletely uew service for the com-mercial barge shipping industry was re-cently unveiled by Coyle Lines Incor-porated. The service ceuters about agiant floating "thermos bottle" to beused exclusively in the transportationof molten sulphur from the Moss Bluff,Texas, mine of Texas Gulf SulphurCompany to the Consolidated ChemicalIndustries’ plant on Brays Bayou, justoff the Houston Ship Channel. The$160,000 craft was built by BethlehemSteel Company in Beaumont.

Sulphur has long been an article ofcommerce, but never before has it beenmade available to inland water-way in-terests in its molten form, just as it isextracted from deep beneath the earth.Designed to transport a gross load of1,000 tons at a temperature of 300 de-grees Fahrenheit, the 220-foot barge willcarry its own giant centrifugal pump forunloading the sulphur. The "thermosbottle" characteristics of the barge willmaintain almost constant temperature,and the temperature of the sulphur isexpected to fall only one degree in eachtwenty-four hours.

A steel tank 167 feet in length restingon specially-designed insulated-steel sad-dles will contain the sulphur. The hugetank is completely insulated with fibreglass and the saddles insure against heattransfer from tank to barge. Emergencyheating coils are provided to preventsolidification of the sulphur.

WHARF 2 WILLGET NEW SHED

Navigation District Wharf 2, on thesouth side of the Turning Basin, willshortly have a new shed to replace theold one torn down several months ago.Covering approximately 57,000 squarefeet, the structural steel and sheet metalsiding building will be built by the Tel-lepsen Construction Company.

BRITISH CONSUL IN HOUSTON- J. S. Bennett,one of the newest additions to Houston’s Con-sular Corps, was First Secretary of the BritishEmbassy in Sweden prior to his Houston ~>po[nt-ment. A London lawyer before World War II,he served with the Army in Yugoslavia and theMiddle East, later ran the British InformationOffice in Turkey/ From 1946 to 1948 he wasFirst Secretary to the British Legation in Bucha-

rest, Rumania.

U. S. CUSTOMSCOLLECTIONS SETNEW IMPORT RECORD

Another all-time high in Customs col-lections at the Port of Houston was setduring the fiscal year ending June 30,1952, when duties charged on importedgoods soared to over twelve million dol-lars.

Collector of Customs Sam D. W. Lowreported that the $12,224,599 collectedreflected an increase of more than $3,-500,000 over the previous year, itself arecord-breaker, and a hike of 50 percent above duties paid in the 1949-1950fiscal year.

An increasing flow of steel and steelproducts through the port was largelyresponsible for the gain, according toMr. Low. Marshall Plan aid has facili-tated the increasing movement of steelto this country.

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The Terrific Twin

MINNEAPOLIS and SAINT PAULMinneapolis and Saint Paul, each the

other’s favorite enemy, have battledtheir way to positions of national lead-ership in the fields of manufacturing,marketing and distribution.

Sparked by the most virile competi-tive spirit, they have built on oppositesides of the upper Mississippi mightyconcentrations of trade and industry.

Striving to reach the markets of theworld, they have bridged more than athousand miles of real estate--in eachof three directions--to make of them-selves busy centers of export and importtrade.

Sharing as they do the prosperity ofa six-state upper-midwestern area richin agricultural production, the famedTwin Cities are centers of a hummingrail and highway distribution and mar-keting network.

Each owes a debt to the great riverwhich enables it to tap a vital artery ofinland water transportation. And eachis strategically situated to reap the tour-ist dollar-harvest in a land blessed byten thousand twinkling lakes.

Ties linking the Twin Cities area withHouston are clear-cut. Houston andvicinity, boasting nearly a million popu-lation and with correspondingly strongpurchasing power, constitute the bestsouthern market for products manufac-tured by Minneapolis and Saint Paulindustries.

Port of Houston, the nation’s secondlargest in tonnage, with unquestionablysuperior rail connections with the TwinCities, is superbly equipped to servethem as the logical port of entry andexit for import and export movements.

The barge waterway link of the Mis-sissippi River and the Intracoastal Canalserves to strengthen further the com-munity of interest binding the two greatareas.

The good-natured struggle for su-premacy which characterizes the rela-tionship between Saint Paul and Min-neapolis has apparently been a stimulusto both initiative and energy, for eachhas ample ammunition founded-in-factto back up the incessant war of words.

That most glamorous commercial en-terprise of youthful America, the furtrade, was responsible for the initialsettlement of Saint Paul at the Missis-sippi’s headwaters. Today, the city is stillan important fur-manufacturing center,but a wealth of agricultural and forestproducts and processed articles swell thecargoes shipped daily to national andworld-wide markets by rail, river barge,motor truck and airplane.

A flour mill was one of the first struc-tures to be erected in the tiny settlementthat later became Minneapolis. Today,the towering, massive grain elevatorsare a monument to the enormous part

the milling industry plays in the life ofthe city. The nation’s leading flour mill-ing center, Minneapolis is headquartersfor the five largest wheat flour millingcompanies in the world--General Mills.International Milling Co., PillsburyMills, Russell-Miller Milling Co., andCommander-Larabee Milling Company.

Saint Paul’s first newspaper, TheMinnesota Pioneer, originated in 1849the printing and publishing businesswhich is still a most important com-mercial activity. America’s largest law-book publishing firm makes its home inSaint Paul today. The city is head-quarters for Brown and Bigelow,world’s largest advertising specialty andcalendar-printing company. Paper prod-ucts are manufactured at the huge plantof Waldorf Paper Products Company.

Long an important producer of agri-cultural machinery, Minneapolis ishome to Minneapolis-Moline Co., farmimplements manufacturer. Constructionequipment, pumps, refrigeration andair-conditioning equipment, and out-board motors are on the list of productsbearing the stamp, "Made in Minneap-olis." The Minneapolis fabricated-metalproducts industry produces everythingfrom furnaces to snow plows.

Saint Paul’s Minnesota Mining andManufacturing Co. makes commercialadhesives and abrasives. Refrigeratorsare produced at the tremendous Seeger

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Refrigerator Co. plant. The city’s widelydiversified industrial establishment canalso point to major producers of motor-vehicle glass, farm implements, railwayequipment, heavy machinery, fire-fight-ing apparatus, hardware, clothing, auto-mobile accessories, telephone equip-ment, plastics and cosmetics.

Minneapolis boasts a long list of elec-trical machines and appliances includ-ing motors, generators, transformers,battery chargers, controllers, hearingaids, thermostats, and electric irons. Tt~eMinneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.manufacturer of electric controls, pro-duces automatic pilots for modern jetaircraft.

Minneapolis blushingly refers to itselfas "Lingerie Capital of the World." Itis home city for the plant of Munsing-wear, Inc. Linseed oil products are alsothe basis for an important segment ofMinneapolis industry. Several big plantsproduce paint, industrial preservativesand finishes.

Saint Paul gives credit for much ofits early prosperity to the presence ofJames J. Hill, dynamic railroad and em-pire builder. Nine railroads, three ofthem transcontinental lines, serve thecity. Half a million rail cars movethrough Saint Paul’s switching and in-terchange yards annually. Two of thenationwide carriers make their head-quarters in Saint Paul.

Five major airlines serve Saint Pauland one of them, Northwest Airlines,Inc., calls Saint Paul its home port.Proud Saint Paul points out that onlyNew York and Chicago handle moremotor-carrier freight than the 33 mod-ern truck terminals in Minnesota’s capi-tal city.

Twenty-five barge lines serve SaintPaul on the big river, bringing in coal

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and petroleum products and carryingaway grain and other commodities.

Equally well advertised is the trans-portation network which radiates fromMinneapolis. Ten trunk rail lines, fourof them transcontinental, serve 21 stateson nearly 60,000 miles of track. Six air-lines have made the Minneapolis airportseventh largest in the U. S. air-trafficvolume. Sharing with its neighbor theircommon waterway, Minneapolis has fivedocks with rail connections and regularand frequent barge service down-riverto Gulf Ports via the Intracoastal Canal.A multi-million-dollar upper river har-bor will further project Minneapolis tothe van in the struggle for greater riverand foreign movement. Approximately120 motor-freight carriers serve the city.

Pointing a proud finger at its culturalachievements, Minneapolis acclaims themagnificent University of Minnesota, aglobe-trotting symphony orchestra, finemuseums and art galleries and the Min-neapolis Aquatennial, dubbed "theworld’s greatest summer festival."

Saint Paul has eight colleges, theJames J. Hill Reference Library, thesummer symphony Pop-Concert, ice-shows, the State Fair, museums of sci-ence and history, sporting events, theFestival of Nations and a week-longSaint Paul Winter Carnival, a sort ofnorthern Mardi-Gras.

For a thick, smacky frosting to topoff their three-layer economic cake, theTerrific Twins share equally the bene-fits of scenic surroundings amid theten thousand lakes and a climate whichthey describe as "pleasingly mild" insummertime and "stimulatingly brisk"in the winter. Continuously attractivebecause of its recreational opportunities,the Twin Cities area has now become"the native habitat for several species

of midwestern and Canadian tourists."The Twin Cities rivalry has been a

healthy one. It has bred strength andcreated productive capacity. The smoke-stacks and silos of Saint Paul are sturdymonuments to prosperity. The "breadand butter skyline" of Minneapolis hasinspired the creative genius of an artist.

Prosperous, progressive and forevercompetitive, Minnesota’s Twin Citieshave every reason to expect an expand.ing future.

HOUSTONIANS URGEDTO ATTEND FOREIGNTRADE CONVENTION

Leading event of its kind amongworld traders is the National ForeignTrade Convention, set for November17-19 at New York’s famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Sponsor of the convention is the Na-tional Foreign Trade Council, Inc..whose directorate boasts officials ofmajor U. S. firms, including two Hous-tonians, A. D. Simpson of the NationalBank of Commerce and Sydnor Odenof Anderson, Clayton & Company.

As usual, the Port of Houston willhold open house twice daily in Rooms4N and P in the Waldorf during theconvention, and delegates are cordiallyinvited to visit the Houston suite.

Houston port officials are hoping foran increased representation at the con-vention by local world traders. Virtu-ally every large U. S. shipper, and manyfrom foreign countries, will be repre-sented. Speakers are capable and inter-esting and contacts are invaluable.

The convention presents an unexcelledopportunity for Houstonians to sell theirport to the nation and the world.

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are al waysathospitable

PORT OF HOUSTON

PRUDENTIAL VICE PRESIDENT Charles Fleetwood, right, in charge of thebig insurance company’s Southwestern Home Office in Houston, chats withGen. W. F. Heavey, Houston Port Director, left, and Adm. G. A. Eubank,

Assistant to the President of Pruder~tial, Newark, New Jersey.

PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO OFFICIALS S. S. Gorman, Assistant Chief Engi-neer, left, and William A. Geary, Chief Wharfinger, center, inspect theHouston Ship Channel aboard Port Inspection Boat SAM HOUSTON withEero A. Korpivaara, representative of the Finnish Consulate General in

New York.

KING RANCH OWNER Robert Kleberg, second from right, watches severalhundred head of King Ranch horses and Santa Gertrudis cattle go aboardS. S. NANCY LYKES bound for a new Cuban home. With Kleberg are JamesM. Lykes, Jr., Vice President, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Houston, right;Dr. J. K. Northway, King Ranch veterinarian, second from left; and J. D.

Sartwelle, Port City Stockyards, Houston, center.

DELAWARE’S GOVERNOR Elbert N. Carvel, left, enjoys a laugh while tour-ing the Houston Ship Channel during the annual Governors’ Conference.

Governor Lee E. Emerson of Vermont is at right.


TRIM YACHT~One of the most beautiful craft to visit Port of Houston in recent months was theYacht DANGINN, owned by D. K. Ludwig, President of National Bulk Carriers, Inc. The vessel’s

home port is Monravia, Liberia.

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS---V. C. Clinger, left,Service Agent Supervisor, Interstate CommerceComrnissian, Houston, and J. E. Kelley, DefenseTransportation Administration, Inland WaterwaysDivision, Houston, view the Houston Ship Chan-nel from wheelhouse of the SAM HOUSTON.

CARROL SHANKS, President, Prudential Insurance Company of America,Newark, New Jersey, lends an attentive ear to Ben Sosland, newsmanfrom the Wichita, Kansas, BEACON. President Shanks was in Houston for

the opening of the company’s new Houston office.

DURING GOVERNOR’S CONFERENCE, Mrs. Val Peterson, wife of the Gov-ernor of Nebraska, discusses points of interest on the Houston Ship Channel

with Governor Forrest Smith of Missouri.

II~I~JUSfKfAL OFFICIALS T. P. Burke, left, District Manager, Jeffrey Manu-facturing Company, Houston, and Lincoln Kilbournre, Sales Manager, Con-veyor Division, Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio, visit thePort of Houston with John A. B. Simpson, Assistant Cashier, City National

Bank, Houston.

GERMAN COMMERCIAL ATTACHE Dr. Werner Seldis, right, from the WestGerman Consulate in New Orleans, studies Port of Houston activity withAndre Crispin, President of the Crispin Company and Consul of Belgium,Houston, and Ed Fay, Assistant Manager, World Trade Department, Hous-

ton Chamber of Commerce.

DAME CAROLINE HASLETT, left, the only woman member of the BritishElectricity Authority, visits the Houston Ship Channel with J. S. Bennett,H. M. Consul in Houston and Mrs. Mildred White, Texas Transport andTerminal Company, Houston. Dame Haslett, a professional engineer in herown right, has had numerous honors conferred upon her by the British

Government.


THE PORT AUTHORITY

Created by the Texas Legislaturel un-der the provisions of the State Constitu-tion and Acts providing for the develop-ment of ports in municipalities with aminimum population of 100,000, theHarris County Houston Ship ChannelNavigation District is a governmentagency of the State of Texas.

Under the provisions of this legisla-tion, authority is granted such naviga-tion districts to acquire, construct, main-tain and operate wharves, warehouses,grain elevators, belt railroads, bunker-ing facilities and other installations in-cident to or necessary to the operationor development of the ports and water-ways within the district.

Fullest powers consistent with theConstitution of Texas are granted forthe regulation of wharfage and othercharges and for operating the port fa-cilities. The port authority can, uponapproval by the qualified voters of thedistrict and as provided by the creatingAct, issue bonds for the purpose of pur-chasing property, constructing facilitiesor otherwise improving and developingthe port.

A board of five Navigation and CanalCommissioners manages, governs andcontrols the Navigation District. Twoof the Comissioners are selected by theCommissioners’ Court of Harris Coun-ty, two are selected by the Council ofthe City of Houston, and the Chairmanis appointed by both the City Counciland County Commissioners’ Court meet-ing in joint session.

With their terms expiring on alternateyears, the Navigation and Canal Com-missioners serve for a period of twoyears. The Port Commissioners, as theyare generally known, have jurisdictionand control over the use of the HoustonShip Channel from its beginning inGalveston Bay to the Houston TurningBasin. fifty miles inland from the Gulf

of Mexico, and over all streams tribu-tary to the channel in Harris County.

The Commission may legally exercisethe right of eminent domain in connec-tion with property acquisition for thedevelopment and operation of the port.Both the Navigation District and theCorps of Engineers, U. S. Army, whichis charged with channel improvementand maintenance, must approve all re-quests for construction along the shipchannel.

The Navigation District’s GeneralManager is appointed by the Port Com-mission to supervise all the work and ac-tivities of the District. In addition, heserves as Director of the Port and Sec-retary of the Port Terminal RailroadAssociation.

POLICY AND PROGRAMA broad policy has been adopted by

the Port Commission of cooperationwith privately owned terminals in pro-moting commerce through the port as awhole and with other private interests inencouraging industries to locate on ornear the channel.

The District operates according to apublished tariff, the terms of which ap-ply equally to all; the tariff is general-ly concurred in by the private terminalslocated within the District.

The Commission also serves as theNavigation, Canal and Pilot Commis-sion, appoints the Houston Pilots, andfixes the rules and regulations underwhich they operate.

World-wide attention has been fo-cused upon the Port of Houston with theincreasing volume of cargoes movingthrough this relatively young deep-seaterminus during postwar years. Over43.7 million tons of commerce valued at$1,639,000,000 moved over the HoustonShip Channel during 1951. During1948, 1949 and 1950, the latest threeyears of record, Houston ranked as thesecond busiest American Port accord-

ing to official U. S. Corps of Engineersstatistics. Over 40.8 million tons movedover Houston docks in 1950.

A long-range program of moderniza-tion and expansion of terminal facilities,plus deepening and widening of theHouston Ship Channel, has been under-taken to accommodate the greater vol-ume of commercial traffic.

The first of three entirely new facili-ties to be constructed, $2,000,000 Wharf9, entered Navigation District service onApril 6, 1950. Rebuilding of Wharf 4and the Manchester Wharf was finishedin 1948. On March 5, 1951, new Navi-gation District Wharf 16 was dedicated.An open-type wharf designed to handlelumber, pipe and other cargo not de-manding shed storage, it has a shipsidefrontage of 600 feet, a width of 200 feet,and paved storage areas totaling 123,-070 feet. Built at a cost of approxi-mately one million dollars, it featuresmarginal rail tracks and roadways to fa-cilitate truck service.

The District’s new Manchester DockNo. 3, a 500-foot open-type creosotedpile and timber structure has also beencompleted in recent months. A contractwas recently let for construction of newmillion-dollar Wharf 8, a concrete andsteel open-type dock to be located adja-cent to Wharf 9. Construction work isin progress.

The second phase of a five- to 10-yearprogram of widening and deepening thechannel to a minimum depth of 36 feetis now in progress. In order to enablePort of Houston, leading global oil port,to accommodate giant new super-tankersnow operating and under construction,the Port Commission has recently offi-cially requested authorization by Con-gress of further deepening to 40 feetfrom Bolivar Roads to Sims Bayou.

Representing local interests, the Navi-gation District cooperates with the fed-

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WARRENGAS TERMINALHouston’s NewestShipside Facility

Newest deepwater facility on theHouston Ship Channel is WARRENGASTERMINAL of the Warren PetroleumCorporation. Located at the mouth ofHunting Bayou, the new terminal willhave a 36-foot-deep slip faced on eachside by 90-foot-long T-head timberwharves. It will be the successor to War-ren’s old terminal at Norsworthy.

Best known for shipment of LiquefiedPetroleum Gases, Warren has been inlocation on the Houston Ship Channelsince 1930, although it was not until1946 that plans were laid to transportLPG products by water.

There were neither tidewater facili-ties nor ocean going vessels in 1946 de-signed to transport propane or LPG ex-clusively. Warren, in cooperation withthe U. S. Coast Guard and the AmericanBureau of Shipping, commenced workon the conversion of a C1-A dry cargoship into the world’s first LPG bulkcargo carrier. The job was finished atPennsylvania Ship Yards in Beaumontin November 1947, and the new shipwas christened the Natalie 0. Warren.

During the conversion of the Natalie0. Warren, tidewater storage facilitiesfor LPG were designed and installed atthe Warren terminal, with capacity for50,000 barrels of propane and 12,000barrels of butane. Provisions were madeto receive natural gasoline and LPG bytank car, tank truck, and pipeline.

To meet the tremendous expansion ofthe LPG industry since the war, Warrenhas added four 10,000-barrel spheres forbutane service. Special barges designedto transport propane or LPG to otherWarren tidewater terminals have beenplaced in operation. And even greaterquantities of natural gasoline have beenbrought in, blended to specifications,and shipped both export and coastwise.

Late in 1951, Warren purchased ap-proximately 400 acres (which includestheir terminal site) with about a mile ofship channel frontage, and began con-struction on their own docks. Initialdredging work involved diversion ofHunting Bayou so that the swampy landat its mouth could be used as the siteof the new slip. With a 275-foot bottomwidth and a 36-foot depth, the new slipwill provide berthing space for the mostmodern deepsea bulk carriers. Bunker-


WARRENd TERMINAL. Aerial view shows last phases of construction work on Warren PetroleumCorporation’s two new deep-sea docks at their Warrengas Terminal on the Houston Ship Channel.

ing facilities are being provided on eachof the two docks. The new facility isscheduled for completion in mid-Octo-ber, 1952.

Prior to 1946, Warren’s operations onthe Houston Ship Channel were con-fined to loading natural gasoline car-goes. Their first pressure tank was builtin 1933, at a time when spheres andspheroids, now in common usage, wereundeveloped. This first tank, with itsscalloped appearance, was known as aconical-roof tank because its roof andbottom were made up of longitudinalsections of cones. Since that early date,Warren’s pressure-storage facilities atHouston for natural gasoline have ex-panded to one-half million barrels. Pres-ent plans call for the addition of threemore 100,000-barrel pressure-spheroidsin the coming year.

Both products which Warren manu-factures and markets (gasoline andliquefied petroleum gases) are extractedfrom natural gas. Gas, the force in thenatural reservoir which brings the oilto the surface, may occur in the naturalreservoir without any oil but the reverseis almost never true. The majority ofbutane and propane as well as some ofthe vapors of the gasoline fractions, areto be found in gas, which is gatheredfrom individual leases by pipeline andtransported to the processing plantwhere it is compressed and liquefiablefractions are extracted. Gas transmissionlines transport the remaining "dry" gasto every section of the country.

Processing plants, often called nat-ural gasoline plants, then separate theextracted liquefiable portion into naturalgasoline, butane and propane. Naturalgasoline is used by the refining industry

where it is added to the motor fuel basestock distilled from crude oil in orderto give finished motor fuel sufficientvolatility and the required octane num-ber. While crude oil is the raw materialfor a refinery, natural gas is the rawmaterial for a gasoline plant.

Both propane and butane as well asmixtures thereof are called liquefied pe-troleum gases. A gas at atmospherictemperature and pressure, propane isstored and handled as a liquid under150 to 200 pounds pressure at atmo-spheric temperature. Butane is moreeasily liquefied and requires only 50 to75 pounds pressure for storage as aliquid.

Cylinders of LPG or "bottled gas" arenow commonly used in suburban andrural areas. Wherever a truck can go,bottled gas can be delivered, and citygas companies frequently use bottledgas in their own service area as a re-serve for peak loads.

The high octane number and clean-burning characteristics of propane makeit highly attractive as a fuel for farmtractors, and in buses and trucks. It isa principal raw material of petro-’chemical plants which crack and treatit to produce everything from anti-freezeand grain alcohol to nylon and plastics.

Butane is an esential raw material inproduction of aviation gasoline, andmost of the butadiene polmerized tomake synthetic rubber is produced bycracking butane.

With the completion of the facilitiespresently contemplated at WARREN-GAS TERMINAL, the Port of Houstonwill handle more natural gasoline andlighter petroleum products than anyother port in the nation.

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NORSWORTHY TERMINAL GROWSUNDER HESS MANAGEMENT

Hess Terminal Corporation, new own-er and operator of the Norsworthy Ter-minal, is one of the newest and fastest-growing corporations on the HoustonShip Channel.

The 2,150,000-barrel bulk liquid stor-age terminal, occupying approximately200 acres, was acquired by Hess lastSeptember, and a major modernizationprogram was started.

Sparked by its young president, LeonHess, the new corporation hardly waitedto get settled before entering the petro-leum marketing field in January. Deal-ing primarily in fuel oils, such as kero-sene, heating oils, Diesel fuel and Bunk-er "C" fuel oil, from the interior re-fineries of Texas and the Mid-Continentarea, this firm has purchased andmoved through its storage facilities atthe Port of Houston approximately 15,-000 tank ear loads of petroleum fuelsalready this year.

While the majority of the oils pur-chased by Hess is received in tank cars,a considerable portion is moved intotheir Norsworthy Terminal via transporttrucks, barges and tankers from localrefineries in the Houston, Port Arthurand Texas City area.

Tank car loading facilities had to beexpanded rapidly to take care of theincreasingly heavy flow of cars into theterminal, and these facilities now enableHess to unload 200 cars of oil at onetime. A new barge dock was completedin July and its use has greatly facilitatedloading and unloading of barges at theterminal.

With the advent of Hess Terminal

Corporation into the petroleum market-ing field, the number of ships handledat the terminal has steadily increased,and for weeks ships have formed asteady procession to the Hess berth. Tospeed up the movement of these vesselsand to render a prompt and efficienthandling of customers’ tank cars, bargesand ships, Hess embarked on a programof taking up all underground pipelinesin the terminal, reconditioning them andrebuilding the entire pipeline systemabove the ground.

New high-volume electric rotary andcentrifugal pumps have replaced the oldlow-volume electric and steam pumpsformerly serving the pipeline system,and records at the terminal show thatship loading and unloading time hasbeen greatly reduced. Last January fueloil was loaded at the terminal at therate of 2,000 barrels per hour. Today,with the completion of the pipeline sys-tem and the installation of new pumps,this is being accomplished at the rateof 6,500 barrels per hour.

Part of the storage capacity of theterminal is utilized by the company forhandling its own materials. However,a large part is devoted to serving theterminaling requirements of other oiland chemical companies requiring bulkstorage and shipping facilities. Thou-sands of barrels of tank storage spaceare under contract to the United StatesAir Force and the United States Navywhich use Hess Terminal as an accumu-lation, storage and distribution facility.Many nearby air bases are supplied withaviation gasoline and jet fuel through

transport truck and tank car shipmentsfrom the Air Force and Navy stockstored at Hess Terminal Corporation.The modern new truck loading facility,now under construction, will make itpossible to load six large transportssimultaneously in 10 to 12 minutes.

Leon Hess, 38-year-old president ofthe corporation, who lives in Perth Am-boy, New Jersey, has had a meteoricseven-year rise in the oil business. Heowns and operates another company,Hess, Inc., in Perth Amboy, New Jer-sey, where he also is in the fuel market-ing business. In conjunction with thePerth Amboy terminal facility, he oper-ates a fleet of transport trucks, bargesand three oil tankers through his PerthAmboy organization.

In direct charge of Hess TerminalCorporation’s activities in Houston isH. W. McCollum, 38-year-old vice-presi-dent, who was in charge of sales andtraffic for American Republics Corpora-tion for 16 years.

It is the earnest desire of the man-agement of Hess Terminal to take itsplace alongside the older industries onthe Houston Ship Channel in civic en-deavor, community pride and civil de-fense.

Hess Terminal Corporation is ayoung company, but in the few shortmonths of its life it has added measur-ably to the business handled throughthe port, and its continued growth willbe an asset to the industry it serves, thecommunity in which it is located, andthe Port of Houston.


COL. VOGEL BECOMESDIVISION ENGINEER

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COL. VOGEL

Colonel Herbert D. Vogel is on thejob as the new Division Engineer of theCorps of Engineers’ Southwestern Divi-sion with headquarters in Dallas.

He supervises the civil works andmilitary construction programs in theFort Worth, Galveston, Albuquerque,Little Rock and Tulsa Districts. Also, heserves as chairman of the Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Commit-tee which is making a study for anoverall soil and water development planfor the three basins. Since arriving thelast of June, he has been appointed tomembership on the Board of Engineersfor Rivers and Harbors.

"I consider it fortunate to be assignedto the Southwest, for I know of the

progressive and self-reliant spirit of thepeople here," Colonel Vogel said. "Thewide variety of terrain, climate andwork in the Southwestern Division con-stitutes a challenge and I am preparingfor some hard work." His territory in-cludes the Texas coast and reachesacross eight states from the backwaterof the Mississippi River to the Conti-nental Divide.

Although known as a thorough tech-nician since he introduced experimentalhydraulics into this country, ColonelVogel advocates the practical approach."Academic knowledge is of value onlywhen it has an ultimate application inthe service of humanity," he says, mini-mizing his extensive training which in-cludes engineering studies at the Univer-sity of Michigan, the University ofCalifornia and the University of Berlin,Germany, with master’s and doctor’s de-grees in addition to his service educa-tion, including West Point (Class of1924), the Engineer School, and theCommand and General Staff School.

Immediately before being assigned asSouthwestern Division Engineer he wasLieutenant Governor of the PanamaCanal Zone. During World War II hesaw service in the South Pacific andPhilippines and in Japan after the war.Previously he was District Engineer atboth Buffalo and Pittsburgh.

Colonel Vogel succeeds Colonel LouisW. Prentiss who went to Washington tobecome Assistant Chief of Engineers forPersonnel and Administration.

DICKSONGETS NEW

Major Armand L. Bellavance, Ord-nance Corps, is now in command ofDickson Gun Plant, replacing MajorVernon L. Packard, former commandingofficer, who has returned to privatebusiness in Maine.

Prior to his new assignment, MajorBellavance was Arsenal and ArmamentAdvisor in Iran with the Imperial Iran-ian Army.

He received his Regular Army com-mission as Lieutenant, Ordnance Corps,in 1947 and was assigned as WorksManager at Watervliet Arsenal. He leftWatervliet in 1949 to take an Ordnancetraining assignment for one year withU. S. Pipe and Foundry Company ofBurlington, New Jersey, manufacturer

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of centrifugally cast alloy steel and castiron products.

HUMBLE’S BAYTOWNREFINERY PLANSEXPANSION WORK

Humble Oil & Refining Company’srefinery at Baytown completed construc-tion of its Effluent Filtration Unit earlyin 1952, and the refinery expects tocomplete an addition to its Administra-tion Building in the latter part of 1952.The company has announced plans toconstruct a Paraxylene CrystallizationUnit and a Catalytic Light Ends UnitNo. 2.

The refinery’s Effluent Filtration Unitseparates the chemicals from spent chem-ical wastes, and purifies, filters, and re-oxidizes the remaining water before itjoins the treated effluent from the re-mainder of the refinery. The whole sys-tem produces a water effluent of satis-factory quality. Work began on this unitin 1948, but the unit has been builtmore or less in a step-wise operationand was not considered complete untilFebruary of 1952, when the final filterswere put into operation.

Completion of the Addition to the Ad-ministration Building at the refineryabout November, 1952, adds nearly 38,-000 square feet of floor space dividedamong three floors to existing facilities.Work on this project began in the latterpart of 1951.

The Paraxylene Crystallization Unitis being built to manufacture a specialproduct, Paraxylene, which is one of theprincipal ingredients used in the manu-facture of the synthetic fiber Dacron.Construction of this plant is scheduledto begin about December, 1952, and itis expected to be completed in May,1953.

With equipment of the Catalytic LightEnds Unit No. 2, operators will takestock in the form of light hydrocarbons.principally from Numbers 1 and 2 Cata-lytic Cracking Units, and fractionatethem into raw stocks for the manufac-ture of synthetic rubber, aviation gaso-line, LPG, and motor gasoline. Actualconstruction of this unit will not get un-der way before the first quarter of 1953.Officials in charge estimate its comple-tion about the middle of 1954.

Rail Cars ImportedThe first of 57 Swiss-made railroad

cars bound for Mexico moved throughthe Port of Houston recently. Represent-ing the first such shipment in port his-tory, the sleekly-streamlined cars will beused by the Mexican National Railways.Heavy-lift facilities at the port, plus theshort rail route to Mexico, dictated thechoice of Houston as port of entry.Southern Pacific Lines will supervise thedelivery of the cars which were shippedaboard a Lykes Line steamer.


From Bolivar Roads~ where the Gal-veston jetties poke granite fingers into~he heaving blue waters of the Gulf ofMexico, the Houston Ship Channel ex~tends through the calm reaches ofGalveston Bay and fifty miles inlandto the Houston Turning Basin. Herelies the head of deepwater navigationat America’s second busiest port.

Inward bound vessels, having taken apilot aboard at the sea buoy, proceedon a north-northwestward course acrossGalveston Bay for 241~ miles to MorganPoint, where the 36-foot deep channelenters the mainland. For 9 additionalmiles they follow the broad, windingcourse of the San ]acinto River to apoint where it converges with historicBuffalo Bayou. Then proceeding alongthe lazy, meandering Bayou they pro-

-gress generally westward for 16 milesto ~the upstream head of the Ship Chan-nel. at the Turning Basin.

When a salt-encrusted steamer grate-fully makes fast to Houston’s broadwharves, it lies a mere four air-line milesfrom the very center of downtown Hous-ton. All of the Port of Houston, includ-ing the 25-mile upper section of theswarming Ship Channel, lies within Har-ris County, ninth largest in the LoneStar State.

Houston was founded in 1836 in theinfant days of the Texas Republic andshortly after General Sam Houston’savenging Texans walloped Santa Annaon the battlefield of San Jacinto. A.C.and J. K. Allen, founding fathers, namedthe city for General Houston, and thehistorical records indicate that Hous-tonians have from the very first dedi-cated their energies to the creation ofan inland, deep-sea port.

Regular ocean service between Portof Houston and the Atlantic Coast wasinitiated on August 17, 1915, when thesteamship "Satilla" of the Southern

Steamship Lines called at the port.Thirty-six years have passed since thatepic occasion, and the turn of the half-century found the hustling young portfirmly entrenched in the nation’s secondposition.

Since 1948 she has trailed only mam-moth Port of New York in volume oftonnage shipped over her channel; 1950was a record year for local port opera-tion with 40.8 million tons handled inHouston and 1951 hit another all-timehigh with a total of over 43.7 milliontons.

For half a hundred years, Houston’sShip Channel has undergone constantwidening and deepening. Current Con-gressional authorizations prescribe aminimum depth of 36 feet throughoutthe entire course of the channel andwithin the Turning Basin. The TurningBasin, 1100 feet in diameter, is ade-quate for turning the largest moderntankers and freighters that navigate thewaterway.

The present channel improvementproject is now in process of completion,and when finished, it will provide a min-imum bottom width of 400 feet fromBolivar Roads to a point 5000 feet aboveBaytown, 350 feet from that point toBoggy Bayou, and further upstream 300feet to the Turning Basin.

Port authorities have requested theelimination of previously authorizedturning basins at Sims Bayou and atBrady Island and that a new one be con-structed at old Clinton Island. An aux-iliary turning basin at Hunting Bayouis already authorized. A light-draft chan-nel behind Brady Island is scheduledfor deepening to 10 feet and wideningto 60 feet.

Above the Turning Basin, a 10-footlight-draft channel, following the tortu-ous course of upper Buffalo Bayou, ex-tends to Main Street in the virtual centerof metropolitan Houston. A number of

other streams, tributary to the mainchannel, are navigable for small craftand shallow-draft vessels. Offering greatattraction to industries concerned withwater-borne commerce, this intercon-necting network of waterways has con-tributed greatly to Houston’s amazingindustrial development.

Total net expenditures on widening,deepening and maintenance of the Hous-ton Ship Channel had reached 36.5 mil-lions of dollars by June 30, 1952. Thepresent dredging program calls for anadditional expenditure of approximately$4,301,000 by estimated time of comple-tion in 1955.

Local interests have now officially re-quested Congress to authorize deepen-ing of the channel from 36 to 40 feet,and there is no question in the mindsof Houston’s progress-minded citizensthat the heavy volume of tonnage mov-ing over the channel, a major portionof which is carried and will be carriedin the future by new, deeper-draft de-fense super-tankers, justifies the pro-posed increase in depth.

The Navigation District and the fourprivate terminals-for-hire alone are re-liably estimated to have invested somefifty million dollars in erecting the splen-did wharves, docks, warehouses, andcargo handling facilities at the Port ofHouston. The Port provides berths alongits wharves for 83 ships and up to 25barges. Approximately 2.5 millionsquare feet of transit warehouse spaceare available, plus additional open spaceat shipside and in storage yards adja-cent to the waterfront.

Wide wharf aprons, conducive to theexpeditious handling of cargo, areequipped with railroad trackage forquick and efficient movement of freightfrom rail car to ship or vice-versa. Themost modern and efficient cargo han-

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One of the three fast Coast Guard patrol boats surges up the Ship Channel on routine safety patrol.

COAST GUARDINCREASES PATROLSON SHIP CHANNEL

Comparatively new to the Port ofHoustml is the U. S. Coast Guard PortSecurity Unit, which by presidentialorder is charged with protection of theharbor, vessels and waterfront facilitiesagainst loss or destruction by sabotage.accidents, fire and other causes.

Quietly efficient, twenty-four hourpatrols have been maintained for morethan a year both on the water and onthe shore facilities. Port authorities be-lieve the patrols have substantially re-duced potential hazards.

Personnel of the ever-growing unit

are quartered aboard the ex-CoastGuard Cutter MOCOMA, veteran of 18years" service, decommissioned andmoored at the Dickson Gun Plant, hersea-going career at an end. The MOCO-MA was commissioned as the CAYUGAin 1932. and in 1941 became the H. M.S. TOTLAND when she was lend-leasedto the British. Assigned to convoy duty,she attacked and sank an enemy sub-marine off West Africa in November,1941.

Commanded by Lt. Cdr. C, eorge I.Garner. the unit sends patrol boats onregular Ship Channel runs, charged withmaking safety cheeks on all small craftin the area. Volunteers of the unit haveserved creditably in fighting severe in-dustrial fires.

GREG PERRY NAMEDTRAFFIC MANAGER

Greg B. Perry has been appointedTraffic Manager of the Houston Portand Traffic Bureau, succeeding the lateHarold B. Cummins. Mr. Perry, whocame to the Bureau recently as assistanttraffic manager, is well known in South-western traffic and rate circles.

A member of the Association of Ie-terstate Commerce Commission Prac-titioners, he was formerly manager ofthe traffic department of the AmarilloChamber of Commerce. Prior to thathe served fourteen years with the SantaFe Railroad and from 1944. to 1950was Santa Fe’s chief clerk in E1 Paso.

During his tenure with the AmarilloChamber he was a member of the Na-tional Industrial Traffic League, a di-rector of the Texas and SouthwesternIndustrial Traffic League, a member ofthe Executive Board of the Southwest

Shippers Advisory Board and Chairmanof the Traffic Committee of the WestTexas Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Perry is a native Oklahoman.

Greg Perry, left, new Traffic Manager of theHouston Port and Traffic Bureau, discusses portproblems with Vernon Bailey, Director of Port

Operations.

COL. MORRIS COMMANDSORDNANCE DEPOT

COL. MORRIS

Colonel Thurmml W. Morris. Ord-nance Corps, recently assumed commandof the San Jacinto Ordnance Depot.Houston. A natixe of Quitaque. Texas.and a graduate of the Irnited StatesMilitary Academy, class of 1936, ColonelMorris came to Houston from the RedRiver Arsenal, Texarkana. Texas, wherehe served as Executive Officer.

Prior to this assignment he was withIhe Field Service Division. Office of theChief of Ordnance, Washington, D. C..in the capacity of Executive to the Chiefof the Operations Branch. He had pre-viously seen duty in Kyoto. Japan, in19.1,6 and 1947 with I Corps.

From 1936 to 1939 Colonel Morrisserved in the Hawaiian Department !In-fantry}, later graduated from the Ord-nance School at Aberdeen Proving(;rounds, and was assigned to service atWatertown and Picatinny Arsenals.

Rapidly changing assignments be-tween 1942 and 1944 took him fromthe Command and General Staff Schoolto Rock Island Arsenal, to command ofthe 18th Ordnance Batlalion in the Cali-fornia Desert Training Center and laterto Headquarters Second Army.

Participation in the New Guinea.Southern Philippines and Luzon cam-paigns during World War If as a mem-ber of Headquarters Eighth Army wonhim the Bronze Star and Air Medals.

PORT DELEGATIONSOUTH OF THE BORDER

Port Commissioner Sewall Myer, ac-companied hy Mrs. Myer and WilliamW. Richards, Eastern Representative ofthe Houston Port and Traffic Bureauhas been in South and Central Americafor a month-long trade promotional tripfor the Port of Houston.

Designed to interest our Southernneighbors in shipping through the Port.the trip took Commissioner Myer throughPanama, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uru-guay, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, andCuba.

HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1952 49

Port of Houston Service to World Ports(For steamship lines and agents serving each port, check Key Numbers with

corresponding numbers in table on pages 52 to 54)

COUNTRY and PORTS KEY

ANGOLA (Africa)LobitoLuanda

ALGERIAAlgiersArzew ................Oran ...............

ARGENTINABuenos Aires

AUSTRALIAAdeloide ...........Brisbane .............Melbourne .............Sydney ...........

BELGIAN CONGOMatadi ......

BELGIUM

2121

26, 555526

21, 29, 72

¯ lb, 6lb, 6lb, 6lb, 6

21

Antwerp 3, 8, 30, 35, 41,43, 54, 73,75a, 87, 94, 99, 103

Ghent 3, 8, 30, 41,43, 54, 73, 75a,87, 94, 99, 103

BOLIVIAPuerto Sucre .... 81

BRAZILBahia .................. 21Belem .................... 21Fortaleza .................. 21Paranagua 21, 52, 72Porto Alegre ........ 21Recife ................... 21, 52Rio de Janeiro ........... 21,52,72Rio Grande ........ 21Santos .... 2i , 52, 72

BRITISH GUIANAGeorgetown 81

BRITISH WEST INDIESPort-of-Spain, Trinidad 81

BRITISH HONDURASBelize ............ 96

BURMARangoon 71

CANADAHalifax, N. S ......... 94Montreal, Q ................ 94St. John, N. F .......... 94

CANARY ISLANDSTenerife ........ 70, 83

CEYLONColombo ....... 39, 44

CHILEAntofagasta .......... 12, 34, 102Arica .................... 12, 34, 102San Antonio ............. 12, 34, 102Talcahuano ............ 12, 34, 102Valparaiso 12, 34, 102

CHINAHongkong .......... 28, 56, 88Shanghai ......... 88

COLOMBIABarranquilla ....... 33, 59Buenaventura ........ 12, 33, 34, 102Cartagena .............. 33, 59Tumaco + 33


CUBACardenas .................... 31Cienfuegos ................... 18, 31Gibara ................... 18, 31, 92Havana ..................... 31, 59Marlel .................... 18, 31, 59Matanzas .................... 31, 59Pastelillo .................. 18, 31, 59Santiago ..................... 31, 59Manzanillo ................... 18, 59

DENMARKCopenhagen ..... 82, 94, 103

DOMINICAN REPUBLICCuldad Trujillo . 59

EAST AFRICADares Salaam 53Mombasa .............. 53Tanga ................. 53

ECUADORBahia de Caraquez .......... 33, 102Guayaquil ........... 12, 33, 34, 102Manta .................. 33, 102

ENGLANDAvonmouth ................. 58Hull .................... 58Liverpool .......... 37, 58, 79, 87aLondon .................. 41, 58, 79Manchester ........... 37, 58, 79, 87a

EGYPTAlexandria ......... la, 39, 44, 45, 55Port Said .............. 39, 44, 45, 55Suez ............... 44, 45, 55

EL SALVADOR{Via Puerto Barrios, Guatemala}

FINLAND

Abo ............... 94, 103Helsinki 94, 103

FORMOSAKeelung ........... 8, 28, 56, 88Takao 56

FRANCEBordeaux ............ 30, 54Cherbourg ......... 30, 54, 87, 99Du:lkirk .3, 30, 41,43, 54, 87, 99Havre ...... 3,8,30,41,43,54,87,99La Pallice ............... 8, 30, 54, 87Marseilles ................ 26, 54, 86

FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICAPoJnte Noire ....... 21

FRENCH INDO CHINASaigon ............... 28, 44, 56

FRENCH SOMALILANDDjibouti

GERMANYBremen

Hamburg

GOLD COASTTakoradl

GREECEPiraeusSalonika

44

3, 8, 30, 35, 41, 43, 5473, 75a, 87, 94, 99, 1033, 8, 30, 35, 41,43, 54,

73, 75a, 87, 94, 99, 103

21

38, 68, 8638


GUATEMALAPuerto Barrios . . 43a, 96

HAWAIIAN ISLANDSHonolulu ........... 44Hilo ............... 44Kahului ............ 44Port Allen ........... 44Nawiliwili ......... 44

HONDURASPuerto Cortes ......... 43a, 50, 96, 97Tela .................... 96, 97

INDIABombay .......... 39, 44, 69, 88aCalcutta .......... 39, 44, 69, 88aCochin .................... 39, 44Madras ........... 39, 44

IRANBandar Shahpuhr ...... 44, 69Khorramshahr ......... 69

! RAQBasra ......... 44, 69

IRELANDBelfast ............ 58Dublin ...................... 58, 79Cork .................... 58

ISRAELHaifa .............. 44, 44a, 55Jaffa ........................ 55Tel Aviv ............... 44, 44a, 55

ITALYGenoa ......... 8, 26, 38, 55, 68, 83, 86Leghorn ................ 8, 55, 68, 86Naples ............. 8, 38, 55, 68, 86Venice ........... 8, 55, 68, 86

JAPANKobe ........... 8,28,47,56,66,71,

75, 88, 99, 103aMoil ..................... 56, 88, 99Osaka ......... 8, 28, 47, 56, 66, 75,

88, 99, 103aYokohama .......... 8, 28, 47, 56, 66,

71, 75, 88, 99, 103aYokkaichi ........... 56, 88, 99

KOREAPusan .......... 56, 88

LEBANONBeirut ........... I a, 39, 44, 55, 69

LIBERIAMonrovia ......... 21

MEXICOCampeche .......... 71 aCoatzocoalcos ................ 5, 85Laguna del Carmen ............. 85Progreso .............. 85, 95Tamplco .................. 63, 85, 95Vera Cruz ............... 5, 63, 85, 95

MOROCCOCasablanca .......... 26, 55, 70, 86

MOZAMBIQUE, AFRICABeira .............. 23a, 46, 53, 90Laurenco Marques . 23a, 46, 53, 90

NETHERLANDSAmsterdam ....... 8, 35, 41, 43, 54, 73,

94, 99, 103Rotterdam ...... 3, 8, 35, 41, 43, 54, 73,

75a, 87, 94, 99, 103



NETHERLANDS WEST INDIESAruba ..................... 80Curacao ..................... 81Puerto Cabello ................. 80

NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES (INDONESIA)Balik Papan ................. 45Belawan, Sumatra .......... 44, 45, 56Cherlbon, Java ......... 28, 44, 45, 56Djakarta, Java ........ 28, 44, 45, 56Makassar ................. 28, 44Palembang .................. 45Pangkal ..................... 44, 45Pladju ....................... 44, 45Pula Sambu .................. 44, 45Semarang, Java ......... 28, 44, 45, 56Sungel Gerong ............ 44, 45, 56Surabaya, Java .......... 28, 44, 45, 56Tegal ...................... 44, 45

NETHERLANDS GUIANA (Surinam)Paramaribo .............. 81

NEW ZEALAND

Auckland .................. 6Dunedin ................. 6Lyttleton .................. 6Wellington .................... 6

NIGERIALagos ................. 21

NORWAYBergen ................ 54, 94, 103Oslo ....... 54, 82, 94, 103

PAKISTAN

Karachi ................ 39, 44, 69PANAMA CANAL ZONE

Balboa ................. 59, 102Cristobal ............. 59, 102

PERU

Callao .............. 12, 34, 102Mollendo ................. 34, 102

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

Cebu ...................... 28, 56IIoilo ................... 28, 56Manila ............. 28, 44, 56, 66, 99


POLAND

Gdynia ................Gdansk ...............

PORTUGAL

Lisbon .........Leixoes .................Oporto ..........

PUERTO RICO

Mayaguez ..........Ponce ...............San Juan ...........

SAUDI ARABIA

Aden .........Bahrein ..............Damman ........Kuwait ....................Jeddah ..................Ras-Tanura

SCOTLANDGlasgow .Newcastle .....

SENEGAL

Dakar

SPAIN

94,10394,103

26,54, 7054,7054, 70

595959

44,4544,69

6944,69

39,44,4544,69

5858

21

Barcelona . 26, 68, 70, 83, 86Bilbao ............. 70

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS

Penang .......... 28, 44, 45, 56Port Swettenham . 28, 44, 45, 56Singapore ...... 28, 44, 45, 56

SUDAN

Sudan 39

SWEDEN

Gothenberg .......... 54, 94, 103Malmo ............... 54, 94, 103Norrkoping ................. 103Stockholm ............ 54, 94, 103


TAHITIPapeete ........ 56

THAILANDBangkok 28, 44, 56

TRIESTETrieste 8, 55, 68, 86

TUNISIATunis 55

TURKEYIstanbul ........ 1 a, 55

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICACapetown ............ 23a, 46, 53, 90Durban .......... 23a, 46, 53, 90East London ..........Port Elizabeth .....

U.S.A.*Alameda

BrownsvilleBaltimore .....

*Los AngelesNew York

*Oakland ....Philadelphia

*Portland ........*San Diego ....*San Francisco*Seattle .......

URUGUAYMontevideo

VENEZUELACarupano ....Guanta ......La Guaira ....MaracaiboPampatar .....Puerto Cabello

YUGOSLAVIARijeka .......

23a, 46,53,9023a, 46,53,90

106105105106105106105106106106106

21, 72

8133,59,81,98

33,59,81,83,9833,59,80,98

8133, s9,98

¯ 55, 68, 86, 104*Service temporarily discontinued.

ADMINISTRATION OF THEPORT OF HOUSTON

¯ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 44eral government in maintaining and im-proving the Houston Ship Channel. Itprovides, at no expense to the UnitedStates, all necessary and required spoilgrounds, and dredge pipeline and chan-nel right-of-way easements.

Earnings from operation of the Navi-gation District are continually plowedback into the further improvement ofthe channel and publicly owned port fa-cilities. In addition to its wharves anddocks, the Navigation District owns a3.5 million bushel grain elevator, whichin the 1951-1952 fiscal year handlednearly 64 million bushels of grain.

The District also owns an excellentsystem of interconnecting railroadtracks, rights-of-way, and engine andtool houses. Operated jointly by thesix trunk-line railroads serving Houston,this switching agency, the all-diesel PortTerminal Railroad Association, providesswitching services, at low cost to all rail-roads, for port and industrial facilitieson the channel.

New Shipping ServicesStrachan Shipping Company, agents

for the Ropner Line, recently advisedthe addition of Liverpool to the list ofUnited Kingdom ports served by Ropnervessels. Service will be monthly.

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Limited ofKobe, has announced the resumption ofservice between U. S. Atlantic and GulfPorts and Japan and the PhilippineIslands. General agent in the U. S. forthe widely known "K" Line is the KerrSteamship Company, Inc. Thomas Riceand Company will act as agents in Hous-ton. Four modern motorships, "Kami-kawa Maru," "Kiyokawa Maru," "Ki-mikawa Maru," and "Kunikawa Maru"will operate the conference service on amonthly basis.

Still another Japanese steamship con-cern, the Yamashita Line, Tokyo, has re-ported the inauguration of service be-tween Far Eastern ports and West Coast.Gulf and Atlantic U. S. ports. AbaunzaSteamship Agency, Inc., has been ap-pointed Gulf agents for Yamashita.

Initial sailing for the new service will

be the "Yamafuku Maru." Additionalsailings will follow at monthly intervalsas other Yamashita Line vessels comeoff the ways. The fleet will consist ofturbine-driven cargo liners with 10,800-ton capacity and 17-knot speed. FarEastern Conference Regulations wiltgovern their operation.

General U. S. Agent for Yamashita isNorton Lilly and Company of Ne~York.

A new service between Houston andSouth and East African ports was ini-tiated by Louis Dreyfus and Company.Houston agents for the Dreyfus Line areThos. Rice and Company. Three vessels,the "Philipe L. D.," the "Cordillera"and the "Charles" will operate themonthly service. Each of these modernmotorships is rated at over 8,500 tons.

Thos. Rice and Company, steamshipagents in Houston for 25 years, haverecently expanded their services with theopening of new offices in both Houstonand in Dallas.


OPERATING THROUGH

PORT OF HOUSTON

STEAMSHIP SERVICES BETWEEN HOUSTON AND FOREIGN PORTSCORRECTED AS OF OCTOBER 1, 1952

KEY TOTABLE LINES PORTS OF CALL HOUSTON AGENT OR OPERATOR

pp. 48-49 __

l Alcoa Steamship Co., hm. Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co.

la Alexandria Navigation Co. Egypt, Turkey, Syria and other Mediterrean Thomas Rice & Co.Ports

lb American Pioneer Line Australian Ports Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents

2 Argentine State Line South American Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

3 Armement Deppe, S.A. French and Belgium Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.

4 Arrow Steamship Co. Various Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

5 Aztec Line Mexican Ports Biehl & Co.

6 Bank Line Far East: Australian and New Zealand Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

7 Blidberg Rothchild Co., Inc. Various Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

8 Bloomfield Steamship Co. Netherlands, Trieste, Japan, Formosa. Belgium, Bloomfield Steamship Co.French, German and Italian Ports

9 A.L. Burbank & Co., Ltd. Various Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

10 Canadian-Gulf Line, Ltd. Canadian Ports (Full Cargo Only) Canadian-Gulf Line, Ltd.

11 Central American S/S Agency, Inc. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

12 Chilean Line Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chilean Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

12a Cia. Colonial de Navegacao Portuguese Ports Fowler & McVitie

13 Cia. De Muelles de la Poblacion Vergara South Ameriean Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

14 Companhia Nacional de Navegacao Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

15 Concordian Line U.S. Gulf and Mediterrean Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.

17 Counties Ship Management Co. Various Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

18 Cubamar Line Cuban Outports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

19 F.L. Dawson & Co., Ltd. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

20 Frank S. Dawson, Ltd. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

21 Delta Line (Mississippi Shipping Co.) Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and West African Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., AgentsPorts

22 Dodd Thomsen & Co., Ltd. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

23 Dover Steamship Co. Various Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

23a Louis Dreyfus Line (U. S. Gulf-South Mozambique, Africa, Union of South Africa Thomas Rice & Co.

and east Africa Service)

24 S.G. Embiricos, Ltd. Various Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

25 Empresa Naviera de Cuba, S.A. Cuban Ports Abaunza Steamship Agency, Inc.

26 Fabre Line Algeria, Morocco, Italy, Portugal. Spain and Strachan Shipping Co.French Ports

28 Fern-Ville Line Japan, China, Philippines, Straits Settlements Biehl & Co.and Indonesia

29 Flota Argentina de Navegacion Argentine and Brazilian Ports Strachan Shipping Co.

Ultramar (Dodero Line)30 French Line French North Atlantic Ports E.S. Binnings

31 ] Garcia Line (Linea de Vapores Garcia) Cuban Ports Garcia Line Corp.

32 I General Steamship Corp. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

33 Grancolombiana, S.A.(FlotaMercante) South American Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

34 Gulf & South American Steamship Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and other West Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents

Co., Inc. Coast South American Ports in the BuenaVentura and Valparaiso range.

52HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1952

363738

FOREIGN SERVICES--ContinuedKEY TOTABLE LINES PORTS OF CALLpp. 48-49 HOUSTON AGENT OR OPERATOR35 Hamburg-American Line Netherlands, German and Belgium Ports Biehl & Co.

HANDT Lines Various Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.Harrison Line England Wm. Parr & Co.Hellenic Lines, Ltd. U.S. Gulf Ports to Mediterranean Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.

39 Hoegh Line Various Ports Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.40 Hogarth& Sons Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.41

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Hopemount Shipping Co., Ltd.Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.

(Guatemalan Service)Isthmian Steamship Co.

Holland, Bel~um, French, English and Ger-man Ports

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Various Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.Continental Europe Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.Guatemala, Honduras, and Continental Europe Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.

Mediterranean, Red Sea, India, Persian Gulf Isthmian Steamship Co.Ports, Republic of Indonesia, Malay States,Far East, Hawaii, Philippines and Pakistan

Israel American Line, Ltd. Israel Wm. Parr & Co.Java New York Line Egypt, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Straits Settle- Strachan Shipping Co.

mentsJava Pacific Line Union of South Africa, Mozambique, Africa Strachan Shipping Co.Kawasaki "K" Line Philippines, Japan Thomas Rice & Co.Kokusai Line Japanese and Far East Ports States Marine Corp.Lancashire Shipping Co.Larrinaga LineLloyd BrasilieroLuckenbach Gulf S/S Co., Inc.Lykes African LineLykes Continent Line

Lykes Mediterranean Line

Lykes Orient Line

Lykes U. K. LineLykes Caribbean Line

Maersk Line

Mamenic Line

Various PortsVarious Ports

Fowler & McVitie, Inc.Fowler & McVitie, Inc.

Brazilian Ports Straehan Shipping Co.World Wide (Full Cargo Service) Luchenbach Gulf S/S Co., Inc.South and East African Ports Lykes Bros. Steam~hip Co., Inc.Netherlands, Portugal, German, French, Bel-

gium, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish,Danish and other North Continental Ports

Portugal, Spain, South France, Greece, Italy,Tunis and Algiers, Egypt, Israel, Morocco,Trieste, Turkey and Syria

Formosa, Korea, Sumatra, China, Japan, Phil-ippines, Hawaii, Malay States, Straits Settle-ments and Netherlands East Indies, FrenchIndo China

England, Scotland, IrelandCanal Zone, Colombia, Venezuela, N.W.I.,

Trans-shipment to West Coast Central Amer-ica via Cristobal, C.Z., Puerto Rico, Cuba,Haiti, and Dominican Republic

Marina Mereante NicaraguenseMar-Trade Corporation

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.



Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Various Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.Matson Navigation Co. Hawaiian Island Ports Isthmian Steamship Co.Mexican National Line Mexican Ports E.S. Binnings

Philippine Islands, China, Japan, Indo-Chinaand the Straits Settlements

Cuban and Nicaraguan Ports ] Aba,,nz~ Steamship Agency, Inc.Nicaraguan Ports Abaunza Steamship Agency, Inc.

All ports along coast of West AfricaMississippi Shipping Co., Inc.Japan and Far East PortsMitsui Line

Naviera Aznar

Lykes Bros. Steamghip Co., Inc., AgentgStraehan Shipping Co.

North Spain, Portugal Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.NavigazioneAhahalia (Creole Line) Italian and Mediterranean Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., IncNedlloydLine Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Strachan Shipping Co.

East and West Coast of India, and PersianGulf via Suez Canal

NervionLine Spain, Portugal, Morocco, and the Canary Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.IslandsNippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line) Japan and Far Eastern Ports Fowler & McVitie, Inc.Noca LineThe Northern Pan America Line A/S

(NOPAL)North German LloydOrion Shipping & Trading Co.Osaka Shoshen Kaisha Line (OSK Line)Ozean LinePalmer Shipping Corp.Polarus Steamship Co., Inc.Ropner LineRoyal Netherlands Line

Cuban and Mexican Ports Aba,mzn Steam~hip Agency, Inc.East Coast of South America Biehl & Co.

Netherlands, Belgium and German Ports Biehl & Co.Various Ports Strachau Shipping Co.Japanese and Far Eastern Ports E.S. BinningsNetherlands, Belgium and German Ports States Marine Corp.Various Ports Strachan Shipping Co.Various Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.U.K.--Continent, London and Bremen Straehan Shipping Co.Venezuelan and Netherlands West Indies Ports Strachan Shipping Co.


FOREIGN SERVICES---Continued

KEY TO ITABLE I

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838586

87

87a8888a89

9090a91

LINES

Royal Netherlands Line

Scandinavian-American Line

Sidarma LinesSmith & Johnson LineStates Marine Lines--

Mediterranean Service

PORTS OF CALL

Venezuela, Bolivia, British Guiana, BritishWest Indies, Netherlands Guiana and Neth-erlands West Indies

Denmark and Norwegian PortsMediterrean PortsMexican PortsGreece, Spain, Italy, France, Trieste, Yugo-

slavia, Morocco and the Persian Gulf

HOUSTON AGENT OR OPERATOR

Strachan Shipping Co.

E. S. BinningsBiehl & Co.Strachan Shipping Co.States Marine Corp.

States Marine Lines-- Netherlands, France, Belgium and Germany States Marine Corp.

Continental ServiceStates Marine Lines--U. K. Service England States Marine Corp.

States Marine Lines--Far East Service China, Formosa, J apart and Korea States Marine Corp.

States Marine Lines--India Service India States Marine Corp.

States Marine Lines--World Wide All World Ports States Marine Corp.Full Cargo Service

South African Marine Corporation Mozambique, Africa and Union of South Africa States Marine Corp.

Stevenson, Inc. Various Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.

Various PortsStockard Steamship Corp. Bloomfield Steamship Co.

Transportes Maritimos y Fluviales,S.C.L.

92 Surinam Navigation Co. Cuban Ports Thomas Rice & Co.

93 Svend Hansen& Co., Inc. Various Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.

94 Swedish American Line Belgium, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Strachan Shipping Co.Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Baltic andScandinavian Ports and Canada

94a Texmar Lines Mexico, Cuba, Central and South America Texas Marine Transport Company, Inc.

95 Mexican Ports Abaunza Steamship Agency, Inc.

96 United Fruit Co. Guatemala; British Honduras and Honduras(Transhipment to E1 Salvador)

Collin & Gissel

97 United States Lines Australian and New Zealand Ports Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents

98 Venezuelan Line Venezuelan Ports Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.

99 Waterman Steamship Corp. Waterman Steamship Corp.Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Eng-land, China, Japan, Philippines and Hawaii,Mediterranean and Adriatic Ports

100 Watts, Watts & Co. Various Ports Fowler & McVitie, Inc.

102 West Coast Line Canal Zone, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.and Bolivia

103 Wilhelmsen Line Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Nether- Strachan Shipping Co.lands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and otherScandinavian and Baltic Ports

103a Yamashita Line Japanese Ports Abaunza Steamship Agency, Inc.

104 Yugoslav Line Mediterranean Ports Fowler & McVitie, Inc.

COASTWISE SERVICESThe following table shows the various steamship lines operating between Houston, Gulf Ports and Atlantic Coast; corrected as of October 1, 1952


pp. 48-49

105 Newtex Steamship Corp. Brownsville, Texas to Port Newark, New Jer- Newtex Steamship Corp.sey; Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.

INTERCOASTAL SERVICESThe following shows the various steamship lines operating between Houston and Pacific Coast Ports; corrected as of October 1, 1952


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106 Isthmian S/S Co. Alameda, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran- Isthmian S/S Company

(Service temporarily discontinued) cisco and Oakland, Calif. ; Portland, Oregon,and Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.

107 The Union Sulphur Co., Inc. I West Coast Ports Tidemann & Dalton, Inc.


RIVER BARGE LINE AND INTRACOASTAL SERVICEThe following table shows the various barge and ship lines operating in and out of Houston through the

Intracoastal Canal; corrected as of October 1, 1952.

LINES PORTS OF CALL HOUSTON AGENT OR OPERATORAmerican Barge Line (Common Carrier) Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and their tributaries R.P. Dee, General AgentAnderson Petroleum Transportation

Company Intracoastal Canal Points Anderson Petroleum Transportation CompanyArthur-Smith Corporation Intracoastal Canal and Mississippi River Points Arthur-Smith CorporationCommercial Petroleum & Transport

Company Gulf, Mississippi, Ohio, and Illinois River Points Commercial Petroleum & Transport CompanyCoyle Lines, Inc. From Brownsville, Texas, to Carrabelle, Florida,

(Common Carrier) and all intermediate ports Coyle Lines, Inc.Crown Central Petroleum Corp. Intracoastal Canal Points Crown Central Petroleum CorporationDixie Carriers, Inc. All Intracoastal Canal Points between Baton

(Common Carrier) Rouge, New Orleans, Houston and Brownsville, Dixie Carriers, Inc.Texas

Edwards Transportation Co. (Oil Trans.) Gulf and Mississippi River Points Edwards Transportation Co.J. S. Gissel & Company Intracoastal Canal Points J.S. Gissel & Company

Mobile, Alabama, New Orleans, La., Brownsville,Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc. Corpus Christi, Houston and Harlingen, Texas,

(Common Carrier) and all intermediate ports on the Gulf Intra- Gulf Canal Lines, Inc.coastal Waterway and its tributaries

H. W. A. Harms Towing Co. Gulf, Intracoastal Canal and Lower MississippiRiver Points H.W.A. Harms Towing Co.

Mississippi and Illinois River Points and all Intra-Jno. I. Hay Co., Inc. (Common Carrier) coastal Canal Points between New Orleans and Jno. I. Hay Co., Inc.

Brownsville

Cornelius Kroll & Company Gulf, Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi and OhioRiver Points Cornelius Kroll & Company

Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co.(Common Carrier) Mississippi River and Ohio River Points Virgil J. Angell, Southern General Agent

National Oil Transport Corp. Intracoastal, Mississippi and Ohio River Points National Oil Transport Corp.Texas Towing Company Intracoastal, Mississippi and Ohio River Points Texas Towing CompanyUnion Barge Line Corp. Intracoastal Canal Points and Mississippi and

Warner J. Banes, Houston Agent(Common Carrier) Ohio River PointsWilkins Barge Line, Ltd. Gulf and Mississippi River Points Wilkins Barge Line, Ltd.

NOTE: Besides the above services, approximately 90 tanker lines serve Port of Houston, operating to all principal world ports;additionally a large number of tankers are operated exclusively in handling products of local refineries under private agreement.

CROWN MARNE LAUNOR Y24 Hour Marine Service

4911 HARRISBURG

Phone W0-0410

Personal Laundry and Cleaning SolicitedPRICES REASONABLE

SOUTHERII COMPRESS & WOREHOUSE CO.TURNING BASIN PLANT

HOUSTON, TEXAS

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OFFICE LOCATED AT PLANT--PHONE OR-6326

GUY D. GRAVES A.J. SUBERBIELLE

General Stevedores, Inc.Operators

HOUSTON BARGE TERMINALStevedoring and Distribution ot

Barge Cargoes

5401 NAVIGATION ¯ WE.3232 ¯ HOUSTON, TEXAS

HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, q95255

PRIVATE WHARVES ANDTERMINALS FOR HIRE

BerthingOwner Length Capacity Type of Wharf and Use

PRIVATEArmour Fertilizer Works ...................... 50 ft.

Arrow Mills, Inc. (Formerly Houston Milling Co.,Inc.) (Using Navigation District ManchesterWharf No. 2) ................................

Champion Paper and Fibre Co .................. 200 ft.

Coastal Oil & Transport Co.(Leased to Humble Oil & Refining Co.) ...... 150 ft.

Consolidated Chemical Industries ............... 600 ft.

Crown Central Petroleum Corp ................. 150 ft.

Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc.--Plant 1 ..... 40 ft.




Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc.--Plum 2 ..... 40 ft.

General American Tank Storage Terminals ...... 600 ft.

Gulf Oil Corporation (’Light Oil Terminal) ...... 590 ft.

Gulf Refining Co. (Houston Pipe Line Uivision). 200 ft.

Warren Petroleum Corp. (Warrengas Terminal) 98 ft.

Warren Petroleum Corp. (Warrengas Terminal) 98 ft.

Hess Terminal Corp. (Norsworthy Terminal) .... 150 ft.

Hess Terminal Corp. (Norsworthy Terminal-) .... 40 ft.

Houston Lighting & Power Co .................. 24 ft.

Humble Oil & Refining Co ..................... 2,200 ft.Ideal Cement Company, Gulf Portland Division. 200 ft.Lone Star Cement Corp ........................ 387 ft.

Magnolia Petroleum Corp. (Leased to EasternStates Petroleum Co.--Plant 1) ............. 73 ft.

Mathieson Chemical Corp ...................... 143 ft.(2 docks, 1000 ft. frontage) ................ 153 ft.

San Jacinte Ordnance Depot ................... 1,500 ft.

Sheffield Steel Corp ........................... 480 ft.

Shell Oil Company ........................... 2,600 ft.Sinclair Refining Co. (3 docks, 1,550 ft. frontage) 348 ft.

Southern Pacific Lines (Clinton Dock) ......... 1,250 ft.

Southern Pacific Lines (Leased to Mayo ShellCo.) .................................... 600 ft.

Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company ..... 400 ft.

The Texas Company ......................... 1,400ft.

Todd Shipyards Corp ............................ 2,000 ft.

( Slip

( Slip

(Slip)

( Slip

WHARVES1 Vessel Creosoted timber fitted with hopper and conveyor

belt for fertilizer.

3 Bargesor lightvessels

1 Vessel4 Barges

1 Vessel2 Barges1 Barge1 Vessel

1 Barge1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vesselor several

barges4 Barges1 Barge6 Vessels2 Barges2 Barges3 Barges

or1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel3 Vessels1 Vessel

4 Vessels3 Vessels

3 Vessels

4 Barges1 Vessel3 Vessels6 Vessels

Grain loading and unloading berth for elevator.Creosoted piling, wood and steel decking--handling

paper, pulp, salt, caustic and oyster shell.

Creosoted piling; oil wharf.Sheet steel piling, paved deck, handling chemicals

and sulphur.Creosoted piling; oil wharf.Creosoted piling; oil wharf.Creosoted wood piling.Creosoted piling and clusters; oil wharf.Fire dock; creosoted wood piling.Creosoted wood piling.Creosoted piling; oil wharf.Steel bulkhead, pile clusters; oil wharf.Creosoted piling; oil wharf.Creosoted wood piling.Creosoted wood piling.Creosoted piling; oil and bulk liquid wharf.

Creosoted piling; oil wharf.Creosoted piling; oil wharf.Concrete piling; oil wharf.Timber bulkhead wharf; unloading clay and shell.Creosoted piling and clusters; unloading oyster shell.Creosoted piling and clusters; oil wharf.

Creosoted timbers and piling with concrete deck.Bulk cargo docks.

Concrete; cargo shed.Steel sheet piling backfilled; incoming materials

and shipment of steel products.Creosoted piling; oil wharf.Concrete and creosoted piling and timber; oil pipe-

line and case goods.Concrete; general cargo.Wood piling--unloading shell, sand and barge

material.Creosoted piling; handling steel products.Steel bulkhead; oil wharf.Shipbuilding and repairing (2 dry docks--3,600

and 12,500 tons capacity).

TERMINALSHouston Wharf Co. (Long Reach Docks) ........ 3,428 ft.

Manchester Terminal Corp ..................... 1,600 ft.

The Sprunt Corporation (Sprunt Dooks) ........ 800 ft.

Houston Barge Terminal(General Stevedores, Inc.) ................. 900 ft.

Phillips Terminal Co. (Adams Terminal) ....... 2,600ft.

FOR HIRE8 Vessels Concrete; apron tracks; cotton and general cargo.4 Vessels Concrete; apron tracks; cotton and general cargo.2 Vessels Concrete; cotton and miscellaneous cargo.

5 Barges Concrete and creosoted timber; general cargo.5 Vessels Steel bulkhead; bulk and general cargo.

TOTALS ............................... 26,614 ft. 65 Vessels and 26-32 Barges

HOUIETON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 195256

PORT OF HOUSTON PUBLIC WHARVESCoveredWharf Length Berthing AreaFeet Capacity Sq. Ft.

Open R. R,Area Car Wharf ShedSq. Ft. Storage

No. 1

No. 2

No. 3

No. 4

No. 9

.......................... 826.45

.......................... 521.33

........................ 801.80

...................... 779.42

......................... 500.00

2 Vessels

1 Vessel

2 Vessels

2 Vessels

l Vessel

1 Vessel

1 Vessel

I Vessel

1 Vessel

1 Vessel

1 Vessel

1 Vessel

I Vessel

1 Vessel

1 Vessel

59,298

36,523

66,840

75,500

72,709

66,638

97,276

80,927

66,638

198,736

87,520

No. 10 ................... 600.00

No. 11 .................... 530.00

No. 12, two story ............... 530.00

No. 13, two story t ............. 460.00

No. 14" ...................... 480.00

No. 15" ....................... 480.00

No. 16 ......................... 598.50

Warehouse Distribution ...........

Manchester No. 1 (Coal Dock) ... 253.50 21,800

Manchester No. 2 (Cake Dock) ... 500.75 15,300

Manchester No. 3 ................ 500.00 20,470

Cotton Shed ..................... 269,813 62

TOTALS ..................... 8,361.75 18 Vessels 1,178,418 631,176 709

56,776 32 Wood Concrete

77,487 44 Concrete None

52,295 52 Concrete Steel

32,324 39 Concrete Concrete and Steel



28,260 60 Concrete Concrete




14,800 45 Concrete Concrete


56 None Concrete

20 Wood None

30 Concrete Steel

Wood None

None Wood

Equipped with 45,264 cubic feet refrigerated space.* Also can serve as a grain berth.

HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1952...... 57

Description of the Port¯ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 48

dling equipment is available at the Portof Houston, including a 300-ton derrickbarge, locomotive cranes up to 50-toncapacities, 75-ton stationary crane, 12-and 20-ton mobile cranes, magnets andclam-shell buckets, lift trucks and pal-lets, escalators and conveyors, tractorsand trailers, hand trucks, electric pow-er shovels, electric bulk trimmers, andother items.

Operated for transit inovement pri-marily and for storage only to a lim-ited extent, the Port’s giant 3.5 millionbushel grain elevator serves two ships’berths at Navigation District Wharves14 and 15. Its three receiving legs andfour shipping legs, each with a 25,000-bushel-per-hour capacity, can simulta-neously load two ships at a combinedrate of 80,000 bushels per hour. Ves-sels seldom spend more than 24 hoursbeneath the 15 automatic loading spoutsin the grain berths. A new truck dump-

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er will go into operation this spring.Ship-to-car or car-to-ship loading of

copra and other bulk materials is madepossible by Sutorbilt vacuum machines,while two Link-Belt car unloaders at theElevator can tip fully loaded grain carslike toys, unloading seven each hour.A new $56,000 gas-fired, direct-heattype Hess Grain Dryer with a 1500-bushel-per-hour capacity is a valuableadjunct to the Port’s grain handling fa-cilities.

A bulk outloading plant for chemicals,fertilizers, etc., is maintained by the

----Navigation District at its ManchesterWharf, and can handle the unloading ofcars or trucks to shipside.

Forty-five thousand cubic feet of re-frigerated space is available at Wharf13, and several wharves are equippedwith bunkering facilities.

Largest city in the South, humming,hustling Houston is America’s Indus-trial Frontier. Second most activeUnited States Port, she confidently looksforward to greater growth, multiplyingtrade, higher production, and a con-stantly increasing flow of maritime com-merce.

COMMISSION MARKSTHIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY

¯ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 31

growth were rosy when Congress au-thorized the 36-foot channel deepeningproject.

A new peak was attained in 1948when Port of Houston laid claim to thetitle "America’s Number Two DeepseaTonnage Port," based on official recordsof the Corps of Engineers. It is a dis-tinction the port has held without abreak.

Present Port Commission Chairman isWarren S. Bellows, prominent builder,and president of Bellows ConstructionCompany. Serving with him are SewallMyer, well-known Houston attorney;Lawton E. Dears, civic-minded oil man;W. L. Walker, cotton man and presidentof the Houston Cotton Exchange; andR. B. Hemphill, retired Baytown auto-mobile dealer and rancher.

Since mid-1950 the present Commis-sion has seen the inauguration of a newopen dock and initial construction onanother.

Record-breaking is now all annual af-fair at the Port. With a site purchasedto accommodate seven more docks, theimprovement program continues un-abated.

Houston’s Port Commissions, past andpresent, can be justifiably proud of theport’s thirty-year record. They havecombined with Houston’s other maritimeinterests, private terminals, railroads,steamship companies, forwarders andbanks to make an unbeatable team.FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION


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