PORT OF HOUSTON

NbkY, 1966

A CHAIN OF

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Always Specify the

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Via Manchester

Ample Storage SpaceLarge concrete warehouses and gentlehandling insure the best of care foryour cargo.

Ample Unloading SpaceIt’s easy for ships, trucks and rail carsto load and unload cargo with no delay.

Quick HandlingExperience, modern equipment and con-crete wharves conveniently located towarehouses mean quicker service.

Manchester’s modern convenient facilities include:

¯ Concrete wharves¯ Two-story transit sheds¯ High-density cotton compresses

¯ Automatic sprinkler system¯ Large outdoor storage area¯ Rapid truck loading and unloading

¯ Modern handling methods and equipment

For complete cargo handling service, use Manchester Terminal.

Manchester Terminal CorporationP. O. Box 52278 General Office: CA 7-3296

Houston, Texas, 77052 Wharf Office: WA 6-9631

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Ship TL and LTL on the Sea-Land

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Consult your directory for the, Sea-Land office nearest you.

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SERVICES FROM HOUSTONand other Gulf ports

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NEW YORK67 Broad StreetWHitehall 3-9600

ZIM ISRAELNAVIGATION CO.

Regular Israel Flag Service

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SAILS

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MAY, 1966 5

Our stack markand a lot more has

changed for the betterat Alcoa Line

For more than twenty five years thefamiliar blue circle, white stars andred stripes have identified AlcoaSteamship Company vessels sailingthe Caribbean. But starting immedi-ately, Alcoa Line ships will identifythemselves with the distinctive Alcoatrademark shown at the bottom ofthis ad.

Behind this change is a lot morethan just a new identification. TheAlcoa Line is currently in the midstof a growth cycle and serviceimprovement program that makes achange to Alcoa a change for the bet-ter. Here are some "for instances"...

1. Containerization! Now offeredbetween Philadelphia, Baltimore andPuerto Rico, using 20 and 40 foot con-tainers. Similar container service toadditional Caribbean ports will be

available in the future. (Smaller 275cubic foot containers, which havebeen available in the past, will con-tinue to be offered in most AlcoaLine services.)2. Extended Services! General cargoservice from Houston and bulk cargoservice from the West Coast, is nowoffered by the Alcoa Line to manyCaribbean destinations.

3. Expanded Sales Coverage! Alcoahas opened new offices in Houston,Texas, and Portland, Oregon, makinga total of ten offices serving shippersfrom coast to coast. In addition AlcoaLine sales representatives now workdirectly with shippers in the Pitts-burgh, Atlanta, and Buffalo areas.4. Worldwide Steamship Line Repre-sentation! Alcoa representatives canhelp you move cargos to many parts

of the world through an impressivelist of leading steamship companiesfor whom Alcoa line acts as agents.

The Alcoa Line’s new look willcontinue to feature the experienced,dependable, highly personalizedservice that has made it the choice ofknowledgable shippers for so manyyears. It’s another of the importantreasons why a change to Alcoa, is achange for the better.

ALCOA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, INC.711 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas 77002

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Volume 8

OfFicial PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation Di.~trict

May, 1966 No. 5

Directory OfPort Commissioners

And StaffFOR THE

Navigation District

HOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanRo H. PRUETT, CommissionerE. H. HENDERSON, CommissionerW. D. HADEr¢, II, CommissionerW° C° WELLS, Commissioner

J. P. TURNER, Executive Director

TRAVIS L. SMITH, IIIDirector o/ Engineering and Planning

GEORGE W. ALTVATER, Managing Director o/Trade Relations and Development

C. E. BULLOCK, Director o/ Port OperationsJ. L. LOCKETT, JR., CounselS. B. BRUCE, County AuditorVAUGHN M. BRYANT, Director oJ lnterrmtional

RelationsEDWARD .]. FAY, Director, World Trade CenterLLOYD GREGORY, Director o/ In]ormationRICtIARD P. LEACH, Chie/ EngineerJ. R. CURTlS, Terminal ManagerK. P. RODEN,

Acting Manager o/ Grain ElevatorW. J. STAGNER, Manager, Storage WarehousesJ. W. HATCHETT, Superintendent,

Bulk Materials Handling PlantV. D. WAFER, Accounts ManagerJ. T. WALL, Purchasing ManagerK. W. STEPHENS, Personnel Manager and

World Trade Building ManagerC. L. SHUPTRINE, Chiej Security O[JicerW. E. BEDMON, Maintenance Superintendent

T. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantV. D. WILLIAMS. Administrative Assistant

~on[en[sTulsa Shippers Entertained by Houston Delegation ......................... 8

Battle of San Jacinto Heroes Memorialized ............................... 9

Camera Views Dramatize The News ..................................... 10

The Houston Port Bureau Report ........................................ 12

Romance In Job For Red Ball Manager ................................... 13

Scene At The World Trade Club ....................................... 14

Visitors See The Port of Houston ........................................ 16

ZIM Israel Has Grown Big In Only 20 Years .............................. 17

Houston Steamship Agents .......................................... 30

Port of Houston Shipping Directory ...................................... 31

Sailing Schedule of General Cargo Ships ................................. 32

THE COVER

Loaded down to her marks is the M. V. DAHLIA, one of the modern ships in theZIM Israel Navigation Company’s fleet. For a story of growth see Page. 17.

SALES OFFICESEDWARD P. MOORE, District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant

25 Broadway, New York, New YorkHUME A. HENDERSON, District Sales Manager

Board of Trade Building, Chicago, IllinoisJOHN R. WEILER, District Sales ManagerC. A. ROUSSER, JR.,

District Sales Representative1519 Capitol Avenue, Houston, Texas

EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street

Telephone CApitol 5-0671P. O. Box 2562, Houston, Texas 77001

The Port o] Houston Magazine

TED SUMERL1N, Editor

Published monthly by the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Naviga-tion District, the PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine is distributed free to maritime,industrial and transportation interests in the United States and fcrreign coun-tries. This publication is not copyrighted and permission is given for the re-production or use of any original material, provided credit is given to thePort of Houston. Additional information, extra copies of the magazine oradvertising rates may be obtained by writing the PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine,2332 W. Holcombe Blvd., Houston, Texas 77025.

MAY, 1966 7

Tulsa Shippers Entertained By Houston Delegation

The Port of Houston entertained shippers and importers ofthe Tulsa area at a reception and dinner there last monthwith George W. Altvater, center, managing director of traderelations and promotion, the host. With him, left to right,Houston District Manager John R. Weiler; Mrs. AItvater, andMr. and Mrs. Jack Smith, Kerr Glass Manufacturing Co.

Mrs. John R. Weiler of Houston center, with Mr. and Mrs.John Donnelly and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haas, Phillips Petro-leum Co.

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Mr. and Mrs. John Cash, Loffland Brothers Co., and Mr.and Mrs. Ray Brinkman, Industrial Fabricating Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Duveal, W. C. Norris Division of theDover Corp., and Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Born, Born EngineeringCo.

Mr. and Mrs. John Cash, Loffland Brothers Co., and Mr.and Mrs. Clarence Fiveash, Jones & Laughlin Co.

AMr. and Mrs. Bob Johnson, Loffland Brothers Co.; Mr. and

Mrs. John Smith, Oklahoma Tire & Supply Co., and HerbPowell, E. H. Powell & Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Christie, Phillips Petroleum Co., andMr. and Mrs. Melvin Black, Continental Oil Co.

John Manley, Corragard, Inc.; Mr. and Mrs. Roger Sprecker,Seismograph Service Corp., and Mr. and Mrs. George Gaul,Corragard, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Hicks Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Waymon Ray,D-X Sunray Oil Company.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Knisch, Crane Carrier Corp., and Mr.and Mrs. Jack Knox, Dowell Division of Dow Chem.ical Co.

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Battle of San JacintoHeroes Memorialized

The Texas Naxvl c.mposed (,f prixatcly-o~m’d vesse]sof less than 100-h’et ill length, passed in r~.~ivw to openan all-day memorial service in the memory of tl:w heroes,,f tin, Battle of San Jacinto ¢,n April 21. Marking the 130tha,mivt.rsary (,f one of the most dc(’isiv~’ battles in history.approximately 100 boats braxed tho threatening weather.Hundreds of spectators croudcd the banks of the HoustonShip (2hannel and ttw ch,cks of the I~atth’shil~ TEXAS. whichis retired to a lmrmanvnt berth at the Batth,grmmd. to ~atcha., Texas Secretary of Stale John Hill reviewed the Texas.Navv from the Port of Himston’s Inspection B,>al 5.4.11IIOUSTO:\.

The LEONIE, owned by Commodore and Mrs. Homer J.Moore, Sr., passes the reviewing officer while other boats,in the distance, make their approach.

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Texas Secretary of State John Hill and Mrs. Hill have asmile for the cameraman, despite a passing shower.

From the Battleship TEXAS, Mrs. Eva D. Wrenn of NewOrleans, national commander of the Navy Mothers Club,tosses a wreath into the water in memory of the U. S. Navy’sdead. To the right is Lloyd Gregory, chairman of the Battle-ship Texas Commission, and Commander Vincent Hurley,Naval aide to the secretary of state.

On board the SAM HOUSTON en route to the observance,are from the left E. E. McAdams, member of the StateBoard of Control; Secretary of State John Hill, William J.Burke, executive director of the Board of Control, and Dr.Andrew Hunt, president of the San Jacinto Chapter of theSons of the Republic of Texas.

High school bands played while selected military personnelposted the colors, including the six flags which have flownover the area that is now Texas.

MAY, 1966 9

Camera Views Dramatize The News

A shipment of five British-made "O.K." class one-man rac-ing dinghys recently arrived at the Port of Houston aboardthe S.S. THOMPSON LYKES. Built by J. C. Rogers of Lyming-ton, Hampshire, England, they were consigned to membersof the Seabrook Sailing Club for racing on Galveston Bay.Seeing them safely aboard a truck to be hauled to theclub are E. Graham Chidzoy, commercial officer, British Con-sulate-General’s office, left, Fred J. Struben, center, andRobert E. Kunetka, owners of two of the boats.

Master Mariner Ren~ L~vy, captain of the ZIM Israel Navi-gation Co., Ltd.’s M. V. DAHLIA, was recently presented aplaque honoring his ship’s maiden voyage to Houston byJohn P. Dennis, Jr., left, in the name of the Houston JuniorChamber of Commerce and the Harris County NavigationDistrict. On the right is Shmuel Socher, Consul of Israel,with Michael Sachs, representative of the Israel Trade Com-missioner next to him.

Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. has been named Gulf Coastsales agents for Moran International Towing Corporation,according to a joint statement made by executives of thetwo companies recently. Here in the World Trade Club aftermaking the announcement are, left to right, Svend Hansen,president, H. & T.; Robert S. Reid, vice president, H. & T.;R. M. Loftus, manager of sales, Moran; and B. W. White,vice president, sales, H. & T. Moran is the owner of theworld’s most powerful ocean going tug, the 9,600 BHP ALICEL. MORAN, which is expected to be in the Houston areaby early summer.

Burwell B. ("B.B.") Bennett, Jr., an assistant freight trafficmanager of the United Fruit Company, has been transferredto Houston to head the local office. Bennett comes to Hous-ton after two years in United Fruit’s Chicago office and hasbeen with the company 35 years, both in domestic and over-seas service. A native of New Orleans, he is well knownto Houston shippers and others who have attended the Chi-cago World Trade Conference in recent years as he wasalso in the Chicago office from 1947-1955. He is marriedto the former Joyce Snider of Houston.

The fifth big grain elevator will soon be added to the ing berths and will be able to unload boxcars, hopper carsdeepwater grain loading facilities at the Port of Houston and trucks simultaneously, according to W. B. Saunders, vicewhen Cargill, Inc., builds a 3.5 million bushel facility on a president of the Minneapolis firm. The Port of Houston will60-acre tract at the Jacintoport industrial park on the Hous- have export grain elevators with a total capacity of 27.5ton Ship Channel. The installation will have two ship load- million bushels when the Cargill unit is built.

At The Fast Moving Port o£ Houston

The Houston area is rapidly developing as an ocean-ographic center as evidenced by the headquartering of theAmerican Society for Oceanography in the city and by themany firms engaged in underwater exploration and "hard-ware" development, including the "Mohole" Project. Featuredspeakers at the American Society for Oceanography’s recentannual meeting, were George T. Coene, left, manager ofOffshore Resources Development for the Westinghouse ElectricCorp., and Lt. Commander Don Walsh, USN, right, holderof the record for the deepest underwater voyage, seen herein the World Trade Club. Walsh is now doing advance studyin oceanography at Texas A & M University.

Korea Shipping Corporation’s M. S. JIN DUEK made itsmaiden voyage to the Port of Houston recently and hermaster, Captain Choe Hyun Koo, was presented with aplaque honoring the event by the Harris County NavigationDistrict and the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce. Atthe ceremonies were, left to right, C. E. Bullock, directorof port operations, Navigation District; Captain Choe; TomSoriero, Junior Chamber of Commerce; and Captain WilliamE. Warren, Jr., Ayers Steamship Co., Inc., ship’s agent.

The new Swedish Commercial Officer for Houston, JosephRosenblom, left, conducted Ake Myrl~v, vice president ofthe General Export Association of Sweden about the cityrecently as one of his first duties, while Myrl~v was hereas part of a tour of the United States. Rosenblom was withthe Swedish Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. in NewYork before coming to Houston.

Myung Yul Lee, center, of the Bureau of Foreign Procure-ment, Office of Supply of the Republic of Korea, recentlyvisited the Port of Houston to study cargo handling methodsand observe grain loading. With him for discussions in theWorld Trade Club on port procedures are D. C. Holmanof States Marine-Isthmian Agency, Inc., left, and John Weiler,district sales manager, Port of Houston.

The Marine Office of America, marine insurance under- York; Hardin Ellis, vice president, Houston; Don Town, sta-writers, recently held their national department-heads meeting tistical department, New York; Emmet Cummings, assistantin Houston. Here in the World Trade Club are, left to right, manager, San Francisco; Tom Dashlell, underwriter, Houston;Walter Wells, vice president, Production, New York; John Stanley Bodman, vice president, Chicago; and WeldonPotts, vice president, Toronto, Canada; E. Otis Jenkins, vice Schramm, assistant manager, Houston.president, New Orleans; John B. Ricker, Jr., president, New

SHIPPERS TO BENEFIT from reduced porthandling charges at Houston which arescheduled to become effective April 30,1966. The Commodities scheduled to receivethe reductions are: Brass or Bronze; inbars, cakes, cathodes, ingots or slabsunitized or banded together in such amanner that they can be handled by fork-lift trucks, maximum dimensions 25 inchesby 56 inches not exceeding 35 inches inheight, gross weight not less than 2,000pounds per unit will be subject to the9¼¢ per i00 pound rate and Silica GelCatalyst unitized on wing-type pallets ofmaximum dimensions 54 inches by 66 inchesnot exceeding 75 inches in height, grossweight not less than 1,550 pounds per unitwill also be subject to the 9¼¢ per i00pound charge. Furthermore, Brass or Bronze;Viz.: anodes, bars, blister, bullion,cakes, cathodes, ingots, pigs, precipi-tates, residue, slabs, smelter and sulphatewill receive a reduced loading-unloadingcharge of 13¢ per i00 pounds and an exportwharfage charge of i~~ per i00 pounds onApril 30.

MISSOURI PACIFIC AND Kansas City SouthernRailroads have cancelled some highly con-troversial trainload rates applying onexport shipments of whole grains fromKansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and EastSt. Louis to Beaumont and Port Arthur,Texas and Baton Rouge, New Orleans and PortAllen, Louisiana. These rates were pre-viously suspended for investigation pur-poses by the Interstate Commerce Commissionunder I&S Docket 8296. Under this newconcept of rail grain transportation toGulf ports, the rates were subject to aminimum shipment of 75 covered hopper cars,were severely restricted as to transitprivileges, switching, and subjected tohigh demurrage charges. The rates were alsoconditioned to ownership of equipmenteither shipper owned or rail owned, andalso the rates were conditioned as to theapplication or non-application of mileageallowances. The rates were originallyproposed to apply also to Houston, Gal-veston, Texas City and Orange, Texas andLake Charles, Louisiana, for the purpose ofthe rates being to meet unregulated bargecompetition. The application under whichthe rates were proposed was disapproved by

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a majority vote of the railroads andMissouri Pacific then concluded to estab-lish these rates on independent notice toNew Orleans, Baton Rouge and Port Allen,Louisiana, not withstanding the fact thatthe distance to Houston in most cases isconsiderably shorter than to the Louisianaports, and the rates would discriminateagainst many shippers not in a position touse them. Kansas City Southern followedsuit and published rates to Beaumont andPort Arthur only. Houston Port Bureau withnumerous shipping interests filed a peti-tion for suspension which was granted andas a result of the emphatic shippingprotests, the railroads have concluded tocancel the rates.

THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING on the contro-versial Chicago Rock Island and PacificRailroad merger case is scheduled for May4, before the Interstate Commerce Commis-sion in Chicago, Ilinois. Presding overthe hearing will be Examiner Paul C. Albus.This case involves conflicting applicationsfor the acquisition of control, merger andpurchase of the Chicago Rock Island andPacific Railroad, generally known as theRock Island, by several railroads. Theapplications before the ICC of the rivalrailroads are: Chicago and NorthwesternRailway’s attempt to obtain complete con-trol of the Rock Island; Santa Fe’s attemptto purchase from the C&NW all of the RockIsland property south of Herington, Kansas,except the Kansas City to Tucumcari, NewMexico line which the C&NW would retain;Union Pacific’s effort to acquire and mergethe Rock Island into its system; and theattempt by the Southern Pacific to purchasefrom the Union Pacific all the Rock Islandproperty south of Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas. The purpose of the May 4 hearingis to allow cross-examination of witnessesof the UP, SP and Rock Island on directtestimony distributed by them on Februaryi, 1966. Houston Port Bureau is an inter-vening party in this proceeding supportingthe continuation of the present Rock Islandsystem. However, if the Commission findsthat there is a financial need for mergerof the Rock Island, we support the applica-tion of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-way Company to acquire and operate all ofthe properties of the Rock Island.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

Another In A Series Men Who Make The Port of Houston Hum

Meet Otho Taste,.Rumance In Juh Furlt,ed Ball Manaqer

By LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director

AS 1-~,1t ~,S OTttO }"OSTER is concerned, one of the prettiest

sights is a huge diesel-powered Bed Ball truck highball-ing it down the highway!

"I’ve been in this husiness of moving freight nearly 30years, and something m.u comes up ewwy day," Mr. Fostersaid. "h is exciting, challenging work."

Mr. Foster. a stocky, affahle gentleman, is the managerof the big Bed Ball terminal at 4004, Irvington Bouhward,Houston. General offices of Bed Ball Motor Freight, Inc.are at 3177 Irving Iloulevard. Dallas. Henry E. English ischairman of the board; O. B. English president; J. R.Moore executive vice president.

Red Ball is a system of 10.000 miles of certificated routesbetween the Rocky Mounlains and the Gulf of Mexico,with 92 terminals serving 12 states.

Mr. Foster points to the growing volume of cargo RedBall handles in and out of the Port of Houston. "Lastyear, we handled 18 million pounds of imports, virtuallyall general cargo," he said. "Y{e also handle a large volumeof exports carbon black, synthetic rubber, chemicals, ma-chinery, oil tleht supplies.

"Our dock supervisor at the Port of Houston, RolandSpivey. says he gets good cooperation from port officialsand employes."

The Houston Red Ball terminal has 280 employes. Theterminal is open 23 hours a day from 1 a.m. to midnightto handle daily an average of around 75 trucks--Ford, GMC,International and \Vhite. all with diesel engines.

Red Ball truck drivers, shop men, platform men, citypickup and delivery men hehmg to an independent unionthe Union of Transportation Emlfloyes.

Mr. Foster was born and reared in Sawe. Oklahoma. Toolight for his high school foothall team, l(e siarred in haskct-hall. In 1936. he moved to Amarillo and went to workfor Acme Fast Freight. atlending at the same time FlemingBusiness College.

April I. 19:11. he joined Red Ball. He came to Houstonas managm" July 5. 1960.

Mr. Foswr’s job gi~es him little time for hobbies, hulhe do~’s like 1o hunt and fish.

Mr. amt Mrs. Foster. ~ho lixe at 1751 Maux Drive, havet~n children:

Delhert. who is now all exchange student from Tulancat the University of Bristol in England. Delbert was thevaledictorian of his Spring Branch kligh School graduatingclass, and ~ants to he a surgeon. \Vith his scholastic record,he’s a good bet to realize any amhitinn, however lofty.

Chesna. 13. is a student at Spring Woods Junior High.The l"oslcrs are menfl)ers of the Fairhaven Methodist

church. OTHO FOSTER

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SEENE AT WOFILEI TflAflE CLUBNavy brass graced the World Trade

Club when the commander of the U. S.Naval Reserve Training Command, RearAdmiral D. C. Lyndon, recently headedan inspection team that visited the Hous-ton area Naval Reserve Training Center;the reserve training ships USS HAYNS-WORTH and USS HOWARD D. CROW,and the submarine USS CABRILLA. Fromthe left are Commander Walter Staight,USNR, Commanding Officer, ReserveTraining Center; Commander Harvin R.Lewis, USNR, Commanding Officer, USSHAYNSWORTH Reserve Crew; Rear Ad-miral Lyndon; Captain Joseph Peek,USNR, Assistant Chief of Staff, EighthNaval District; Captain Philip Koelsch,USNR, Commander Naval Reserve De-stroyer Division; Captain F. E. Kinne,USN, Staff, Commander, Naval ReserveTraining Command; Lt. Commander Con-rad Arnold, USNR, Anti-Submarine War-fare Officer, Eighth Naval District; andLt. Commander L. C. Holder, USN aideto Adm. Lyndon.

The Federal Government was wellrepresented at the World Trade Clubrecently by H. Tucker Gratz, director,U. S. Department of Commerce, Hono-lulu, Hawaii, left; Edward T. Fecteau,Jr., director, Houston Field Office, De-partment of Commerce, center; and Don-ald D. Grose, regional director, SmallBusiness Administration, Houston, right.

Tulips from Amsterdam were flowninto Houston for the recent Travel Nightgala at the World Trade Club as partof a presentation featuring attractionsof foreign lands for the members. HereBen J. Cornelisse, regional manager ofKLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and master ofceremonies for the evening, shares someof the blooms with Mrs. Raymond Ed-monds, wife of the honorary consul ofFinland; Mrs. Walter Farnsworth, andMrs. Cornelisse.

Arthur B. Johnson, left, Great LakesDivision manager of the American Com-mercial Barge Line, Chicago, was theguest of lan Boyes of the Crispin Co.recently in the World Trade Club.

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SIZENE AT THE

A towering piece of ice-sculpture withthe numeral "4" and the famed insigniaof the Houston World Trade Clubgreeted members at the fourth anni-versary celebration of the Club in mid-

April. At left Andre Crispin, president of the club during its first two years, chatswith Alex Finney, right, now in his second term as president. Proud of the elegantbuffet and the ice sculpture, executed by Chef Rheinhold Lukas, right, are AlfredWalzhofer, cook; Harry Pfeiffenberger, the club’s maitre d’, and Benito Giurintano,club manager, who wears a happy laugh for the occasion.

Women’s World Trade Associationmembers with F. J. Spencer, HoustonResearch Institute, in the main diningroom of the World Trade Club aftera recent association meeting whereSpencer spoke on his experiences inthe international trade field. WithSpencer are, left to right, Mrs. WilliamS. Crawford, publicity committee, Mrs.B. E. Steadman, president, and Mrs. Hal-lie Tucker.

Thomas M. Coyne, center, interna-tional businessman, being interviewed bynewspaper, radio and television report-ers, after speaking before the HoustonWorld Trade Associa¢ion’s April meetingin the World Trade Club. Coyne, whohas close ties in Indonesia, spoke onthat country’s political and business ac-tivities. Interviewing him are, left to right,AI Prince, Houston Post; Morgan Jeffery,radio station KFDR, Rosenberg, Texas;Nick French and Robert Harrison, KHOU-TV, Houston.

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Recent visitors on the inspection vessel SAM HOUSTONwere John L. Paxton, executive vice president, Frank PaxtonCo., Fort Worth; Merrill Yoh, national sales manager of theA. Leitz Co. in San Francisco, and Bob Nolan, regional salesmanager of the Import Lumber Co. of Houston.

Walter B. Moore, editor of the Texas Almanac and anassociate editor of the Dallas Morning News, right, checkedover the latest issue of the famed compendium factbook onthe Lone Star State while aboard the SAM HOUSTON for aharbor trip. With him is Vaughn M. Bryant, director of inter-national relations of the Port, and a Moore colleague on theDallas News in the early 40’s.

Visitors See ThePort of Houston

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ABOARD THE SAM HOUSTON

The Honorable Ahmed Adel, executive assistant of theAmbassador of the United Arab Republic to the United States,left, and his wife were guests of the American Arab Societyof Houston recently. Shown here on the Navigation District’sInspection Vessel SAM HOUSTON are, right to left, AtefGamal El-Din, secretary of the American Arab Society; Mrs.El-Din; Mrs. Adel and Adel. The Arab states have shown aninterest in developing their own merchant fleets and a portionof Adel’s time in Houston was spent in observing port andshipping activities.

Byron Wilson, left, president of J. R. Michels Co., freightforwarders, Houston, is shown on the SAM HOUSTON withguests L. W. Hanson, assistant manager of distribution ofthe Union Carbide International Co., New York, and WillardG. Reynolds, manager of distribution for Union Carbide.

Two Swedish visitors to the Port of Houston recently wereTormo StrUm, center, harbor chief, Grangesbergsbolaget,Oxelosunds, Sweden, and ~ke Karlstrom, vice president,Grangesbergsbolaget, Eskilstuna, Sweden, shown on the SAMHOUSTON with Lewis H. McLure, left, senior consultant ofSanderson & Porter, Inc., New York.

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ZIM

ISRAEL

HAS

GROWN

BIGIN ONLY

2.0 YEARSff~_ ~TEA).ISHII’ ()}MP.~N’~ that was horn three years before its ships had a recog-nized nati{}na] flag to fly. ZIM Israel Navigation’Co.. I.td. ]]as grown from nothingin 19|5 to an important factor in the worm shi|}ping trade.

Today, with 70 modern company-owned vessels totalling nearly 800,000 d.w.t.,plus an average of 50 mr}re foreign-flag vessels under charter, ZIM maintainsregularly scheduled services on 20 world-wide routes.

ZIM cargo ships haul virtually every known commodity, from bulk oil to bananas.

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Bales of cotton are being loaded on board a ZIM Israel ship in Houston.

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lumber to liquefied gas, citrus juices tosacramental wines. At the same time.ZIM passenger liners, aggregating some50,000 gross tons, transport mort" than75.000 passengers a year.

When Israel received its independencein 1948, ZIM was the country’s lifelineto the worht. Its ships, old and few innumber then, brought in food. buildingmaterials, machinery and other neces-sities of lifc. They carried tens of thou-sands of immigrants across the Mediter-ranean in one of the greatest massmovements of history.

By 1950, ZIM had passenger andcargo services well established on theMediterranean. a cargo line to westernEurope. some service to West Africa.and a parlm,rship in the Israel-Americanlane, running to North America.

At the same lime thc company startedits fleet modernization program with thelmrchase of two newly built cargo shipsfor Israel’s all-important citrus trade.Two similar ships were ordered in Hol-land. the M.S. "FAMAI{ and the M.S.RIMON, the first ocean-going w’ssels tobe built specifically for Israel’s tlag.

In 1952, Israel’s principal maritimeservices were consolidated under singlemanagement. The ZIM Lines boughtcontrol of the Israel Ameri(’an l,im, and

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Flag ship of the fleet is the 25,320passenger liner.

lhe American-Israeli Shipping Co., Inc.,of New York which became the ZIMrepresentative in North America. ZIMalso purchased the M. Dizengoff Co.(Shipping) Ltd., which had also beenoperating cargo vessels between Israeland North America. These purchascsgave ZIM an established line to theUnited States and Canada.

The Bonn-Israel reparations pact,signed in 1952, gave the line its greatboost toward fleet modernization. Thefirst ship to be delivered to Israel underterms of the reparations agreement wasthe modern cargo motorship DAGAN,which entered the ZIM Lines’ NorthAtlantic service at the end of 1951.

From then until mid-1961, the ZIMLines took deliw:ry from ~est Germanyards of 35 ships of 269,400 d.w.t.These included four passenger liners of19,291 d.w.t., 26 dry cargo carriers andtwo refrigerated cargo ships totaling230,400 d.w.t., two oil tankers totaling38,300 d.~..t., and a 700 ton tanker forthe transport of liquefied gas.

A fifth new passenger liner, buih inFrance, joined the ZIM fleet in July,1961. The company is also part ouner

gross ton S.S. SHALOM, a trans-Atlantic

of a 46,000 d.w.t, supertanker built inJapan in 1959. Of all ZIM’s 70 ships,only nine were completed before 1955.

Flagship of the ZIM fleet is the 23,000

The M.V. TIMNA, afrequent caller at Gulf ports.

Bagged rice is one of the major cargoes picked up at the Port of Houston.

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gross t(m liner SHALOM, meaningpeace, which entered service in thespring of 1963. During the summermonths she runs between New York andHaifa by way of the major Mediler-ranean ports. For the other five monthsof the year she is employed on de-luxecruises to the Caribbean, South Amer-ica, the Mediterranean and around theworld.

The ten-deck, fully air conditionedSHALOM accommoddates 1100 passen-gers . . . 900 in Tourist class . . . all intwo-berth staterooms.

An innovation in the passenger busi-ness that has proved successful for ZIMLines is the one-class thrift ship. De-voted exclusively to tourist class passen-gers, the M. S. MOLEDET, completedin 1961, sails ew’ry 12 clays the year-round between Israel, Italy and France.She accommodates 620 passengers inair-conditioned lwo, four, and six-berthstaterooms at fares 20 per cent lowerthan fares for (’omparable aecomoda-

umbo-sized bulk carrier of 28,000 deadweight tons, is a

tions aboard other ships plying bet~’enEurope and Israel.

ZIM vessels started c,ming to thePort of Houston in the early 1950’s,primarily on charter t- mo~e grain.Regular liner service was started in1962, with once a month sailings fromthe Gulf to Barcelona. Piraeus, Tel Aviv,and Haifa.

Some of ZIM’s newest vessels, theM.K. 31AZAL, the M.V. QESHET andthe II.17. NOGA, all built in 1964. areon the Gulf of Mexico run. These air(’onditioned vessels are modern in everyrespect and have a service speed of 17knots. They have a crew (,f :{6 and l)as-

scnger space for four.ZIM’s 22,954 ton bulk carrier M.I:.

TIMNA is a frequent visitor to the Portof Houston as a charter v,~ssel. The

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The M.S. SHOMROM is typical of the cargo ships operated

Jl.I. DAIILL4, stnmn on the cover, isa combination bulk carrier, genera],:argo vessel which was calling at Hous-ton for the first time when photographed.She was built in 1961 and has a speedof 14 knots.

Inbound cargo liner ~essels bringIsraeli wim,s and foods and some manu-factured articles. Most of ZIM’s inboundcargo to Houston is picked up fromother countries, however, such as winesand olives iu Spain and coffee in Mexico.

Most items outbound from Houstonare destim,d for Tel Aviv or Haifa, how-ever. Heavy movements of bagged rice,chemicals, petroleum products and ma-chinery make up the major portion ofZ1M’s outbound Houston cargo.

In addition to the Gulf of Mexico-

Mediterranean route, ZIM has threeother routes serving North America.These include monthly sailings fromCalifornia and the Pacific: Northwest,sailings every three weeks from GreatI,akes and St. Lawrence River ports, andmatching service on the Atlantic Coast.

Another ZIM cargo service, the Sc~enStars (Africa) Line, links U. S. andCanadian East Coast ports with WestAfrica monthly.

Other ZIM lines sail from Israel Med-iterranean ports to Scandinavian andBritish ports, to North Europe and toMediterranean and Black Sea ports.From Elath, Israel’s new port on theRed Sea, ZIM cargo services branch outto East and South Africa, to the PersianGulf, to India and to the Far East.

The lights of Haifa make a beautiful background for the passenger liner THEO-DOR HERZL, which accommodates 571 people.

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by ZIM Israel.

Another ZIM serxice, the (;old StarI,ine, Ltd., sends ships between HongKong, Japan, and West Africa.

Ahhough primarily concerned withthe development of Israel’s own shippingindustry, ZIM offers asqstance to otheryoung nations in getting their "sea legs."In 1957, ZIM entered into partnershil~with the West African Republic ofGhana to establish the Black Star Line,a Ghanaian.flag steamship company.ZIM provided 40 per cent of the initialcapital, lent its deck and (mgine otfieersto man the Ghanaian ships and sent in-structors to establish a Ghanaian nau-tical school modeled after Israel’s Nau-tical College at Acre.

Under terms of the agreement. ZIMagreed to relinquish its interest in theBlack Star Line whenever the Ghanaiansfelt they could continue on their own.In the autumn of 1960, the Ghanaiangovernment purchased full equity in theBlack Star Line. Howew,r, they retainedthe ZIM Lines as managing agents atleast until 1967.

The ZIM Line is similarly serving theAsian state of Burma as rnarm~crs of theBurma Five Stars Line, xdfict~ @cratescargo serxiccs from Rangoon to otherFar Eastern ports.

The principal partners in the founda-tion of the ZIM Lines were the JewishAgency, responsible for immigration toIsrael, and Histadrut, Israel’s labor fed-oration. The word "ZIM" is derivedfrom the Hebrew "Zi Misehari," whichmeans merchant ttect.

The Line is represented in Houstonby the West Coast Line. Th~ hmal man-ager is J. M. Cook.

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Stran-Steel buildings that were shippedto South Vietnam through the Port ofHouston are shown being erected byVietnamese erection crews 10 milesNorth of Saigon. Manufactured in Hous-ton by Stran-Steel Corp., which hasnational headquarters here, the buildingswere processed last October and Novem-ber. The shipment of 462 packagedbuildings valued at $3.6 million was thelargest shipment of buildings ever to beshipped through the Port of Houston.

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