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PORT OF HOUSTON

JUNE, 1965

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MAR GINA L TRACKS A T :SHIPSIDE EXPEDITE :

HA NDL ING OF CA RGO A T :THE PORT OF HOUSTON :

SERVING AMERICA "S HEARTLANDThe Public Wharves alone at the Port ofHouston offer more than five miles of marginaltracks to serve you --to be exact, 28,805feet or more than 90 per cent of thetotal wharf frontage.

The marginal tracks are just one of thereasons your cargo is expedited at the Port ofHouston, with the minimum of expenseand damage.

PORT OF HOUSTON OFFICES ARE AS NEAR AS YOUR TELEPHONEHOUSTON NEW YORK CITYGeorge W. Altvater Edward P. MooreGeneral Sales Manager District Sales ManagerJohn R. Weiler Frank WardDistrict Sales Manager Assistant Sales ManagerC. A. Rousser 25 BroadwayDistrict Sales Representative Phone BOwling Green 9-7747P.O. Box 2562Telephone CA 5-0671

CHICAGOHume HendersonDistrict Sales ManagerBoard of Trade BuildingTelephone WEbster 9-6228

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PORT OFHOUSTON

Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 7 June, 1965 No. 6

Directory Of OfficialsFOR THE

Port of HoustonPORT COMMISSIONERSHOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanR. H. PRUETTE. H. HENDERSONW. D. HADEN II

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTJ. P. TURNER, General ManagerVERNON BAILEY, Assistant General ManagerJ. L. LOCKETT, Ja., CounselSAMUEL B. BRUCE, AuditorTEAVIS SMITH, Engineer and Planning ManagerRICHARD LEACH, Chic] EngineerROBERT W. ROBINSON, Accounts ManagerKENNETH W. STEPHENS, Personnel Manager

and World Trade Bldg. Mgr.T. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantVINCENT D. WILLIAMS, Administrative

Assistant

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENTLLOYD GRE6ORY, Director o~ ln/ormationTED SUMERLIN, Editor o~ MagazineVAUGHN M. BRYANT, Director o~

International Relations

SALES DEPARTMENTGEOR6E W. ALTVATER, General Sales ManagerEDWARD P. MOORE, District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant

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

Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Ill.Joan R. WEILEE, District Sales ManagerC. A. ROUSSER, JR., District Sales

Representative1519 Capitol, Houston

OPERATIONS DEPARTMENTC. E. BULLOCK, Operations ManagerT. H. SHERWOOD, Manager o~ Grain ElevatorJ. R. CURTIS, Terminal ManagerWALLACE J. STAGNER, Manager-Storage

WarehousesCARL L. SHUPTRINE, Chic[ Security OgicerW. E. REDMON, Maintenance Superintendent

WORLD TRADE CENTEREDWARD J. FAY, Director

EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street

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

Big Kansas Delegation Shows Appreciation .............................. 8

Port Bureau Elects Officers ........................................... 10

Ambassador Of Thailand Is Welcomed Here ............................. 12

Meet Herbert Sbilstone ............................................... 13

Copenhagen Harbor Officials Visit Houston ............................. 14

The Houston Port Bureau Reports ...................................... 16

Martitime Day Audience Hears of Future Ships .......................... 17

Central Gulf Lines Adopts Plan Of "Ship A Year". ...................... 18

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

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

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

THE COVER

Sometimes called the Green Fleet because of the names of its vessels, Cen-

tral Gulf Lines has had a tremendous growth in its short span of years. To

learn more about it, see Page 18.

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

This publication is not copyrighted and per-

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

Additional information or extra copies ofthis magazine may be obtained by writingThe Port of Houston Magazine, 3005 Louisi-ana Street, Houston, Texas 77006.

JUNE, 1965 7

Big Kansas Delegation

Shows Appreciation

Govcrnor William H. Avery of Kansas led a group of morethan three-score Kansas business and industrial leaders toHouston for a one-day "appreciation visit" last month torecognize tthe city whose port serves much of his state’sforeign trade.

During a trip down the Ship Channel on the SAM HOUS-TON as guests of the Navigation District the Kansans wereimpressed by the Public, Continental and Goodpasture GrainElevators which handle so much Kansas wheat and set a newrecord for wheat exports in 1961. of 136 million bushels.

"Bul wheat isn’t thc only tbing we have in Kansas," Gov-ernor Avery was quick to insist. "We manufacture airplanes

and parts, oil field machinery, are blessed with an abundanceof minerals and have a large and diversified manufacturingcomplex."

Commissioner E. H. Henderson and Commissioner W. D.Haden, II, along with Assistant General Manager VernonBailey welcomed the Governor and his party aboard. Alsopresent for the Port of Houston were Public Grain ElevatorAssistant Managers Kenneth Roden and Mike Warren, Opera-tions Manager C. E. Bullock, General Sales Manager GeorgeAhvater and Vaughn Bryant, director of international relations.

"We simply want to express our gratitude to the Houston-bascd industrial and financial firms that play such an im-portant part in the economy of Kansas," Governor Avery saidin explaining the one-day visit. At an evening reception inthe Hotel America he presented the State of Texas, City ofHouston and Port of Houston with commemorative plaquesbearing a replica of the Geodetic Survey marker near FortRiley, Kansas, which marks the geographical center of theUnited States.

"Welcome Aboard, Governor," is the greeting from PortCommissioner E. H. Henderson, as he shakes hands withGovernor William H. Avery of Kansas as the latter and hisdelegation of Kansas business leaders board the Port ofHouston’s inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON.

Commissioner W. D. Haden, II, with Governor Avery on thebridge of the SAM HOUSTON tells of the petro-chemical com-plex located along the Ship Channel.

Captain Roy Faulkner received a medallion of the Great Sealof the State of Kansas which Governor Avery presented to theSAM HOUSTON as a memento of the Kansas delegation’svisit.

Port of Houston’s Operations Manager C. E. (Chuck) Bullocktells Governor Avery about some of the Port’s operations asthe latter listens interestedly.


Commissioner Henderson stands withGovernor Avery as he tells several of theKansas leaders about the Port and theGrain Elevator (background). From leftto right are, Harlan M. Potter, presidentMidwest Conveyor Corp.; Walter V. Co-burn, Administrator of Bethany Hospital;Governor Avery; Commissioner Hender-son; Henry G. Blanchard, President ofCommercial National Bank of KansasCity; Carl V. Rice, attorney of KansasCity, Kansas; and V. C. Cavin, PhillipsPetroleum Co. of Kansas City, Kansas.

Port of Houston’s assistant generalmanager, Vernon Bailey, left, chats onthe bow of the SAM HOUSTON withthree of the Kansas delegation. Fromleft are H. W. Reece, Reece ConstructionCo., Scandia; Dave Evans, City Commis-sioner of Chanute, and Owen C. Mc-Ewen, president of Steffen Dairy Foodsin Wichita.

Gordon Turrentine, general managerof the Houston Chamber of Commerce,righb which worked closely with Gov-ernor Avery’s offlce in arranging theHouston visit, on the bridge of the SAMHOUSTON with Phillip J. Zeller, Jr., ex-ecutive vice president of the Kansas Cityarea Chamber of Commerce, and HowardGoodrich, district sales manager of TransWorld Airlines in Kansas City.

The Port of Houston’s two assistantmanager of Public Grain Elevator, Ken-neth Roden, left, and Mike Warren,right, chat with Charles Potuchek, Jr.,director of Products Division of FarmersCooperative Commission of Hutchinson,and Harrison F. Johnson, president ofthe Union Gas System of Independence,Kansas.

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James H. Branard, Jr., newly elected president of the Houston Port Bureau, withR. B. Wilkens, Jr., regional manager of Waterman Steamship Corp., and the Rev.Robert L. Johnson, curate of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, who gave the invocation.

Port Bureau General Manager William E. Fincher, left, with newly-elected secondvice-president E. C. Leutsch, Jr.; R. H. Anderson, president and general manager ofthe Houston Belt & Terminal Railway, and Ashley W. Lott, vice-president of LykesBros. Steamship Co., Inc.

Railroad and truck men got together at the Port Bureau meeting. Here Kelley M.Fogg, executive representative of the Santa Fe Railway, left, is with Joseph Maxwell,assistant freight traffic manager of the Burlington Lines, and George Kosub, terminalmanager of Central Freight Lines.

Norman B. Avenell, outgoing president of the Port Bureau, left, laughs with SamD. W. Low, U. S. Collector of Customs, and J. E. Davies, vice-president of StatesMarine-Isthmian Agency.

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.lames H. Branard, Jr., vice presidentof the Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Com-i)any (Long tleaeh I)oeks) has elected t)rcsident of tile Houston PortBureau succeeding Norman B. Avcnc]l,who retired recently as agency and ma-terials coordinator in the marine divisionof the Humble Oil & Refining Co.

The now I)resideut and his otherofficers were presented to members ofthe Bureau at the organization’s annualmeeting last month at which Harold D.Ward, regional traffic manager of Hum-ble, and a member of the Port Bureau’sExecutive Committee. ~as the principalspeaker.

The Houston Port Bureau is con-cerned with the practical aspects oftransportation to market of the variety ofgoods and products in foreign trade. Itassists users of the Port of Houston intheir transport problems.

Other new officers announced wereJ. S. McDermott, vice-president of Rice,Kerr & Co., first vice-president; E. C.Leutsch, Jr., president of H. L. Ziegler,Inc., second vice-president; Merle R.Crockard, vice-president of the Bank ofthe Southwest, secretary-treasurer.

W. E. Fineher is general manager ofthe Port Bureau and Carl S. Parker, Jr.,the assistant general manager. Membersof the executive committee, in additionto the officers and Ward, are Hans Bohl-mann, president of Reinhart Co. andJ. P. Turner, general manager of thePort of Houston, and S. A. Dunlap, re-tired former vice president of TexasTransport and Terminal Co.


Two former presidents of the HoustonPort Bureau, John Mayfield, left, and

Harold C. Hix, president of ManchesterTerminal Corp., second from right, withVernon Bailey, right, assistant general

manager of the port of Houston, andJohn Dee, former vice president of the

Bureau and retired general trafficmanager of Anderson, Clayton Co.

Port Bureau Executive CommitteemanS. W. Dunlap, center, retired former

vice president for Texas of TexasTransport & Terminal Co., is shown with

that company’s present vice presidentfor Texas, G. W. Meerburg, right, andLewis W. Homburg, vice-president for

Texas of the Strachan Shipping Co.

Henry E. Schurig, president of H. E.Schurig & Co., freight forwarders, left,

with Frank Kenfield, right, former assis-tant manager of the Port Bureau and

now manager of the transportationdepartment of the Chamber of Commerce,

and E. M. Altemus, center, Port Bureauassistant.

Harold D. Ward, manager of thetraffic department of the Southwest

region of Humble Oil & Refining Co.,and a member of the Executive Com-

mittee of the Port Bureau, told membersthe key to lower transportation costs

lies in maximum utilization oftransportation equipment.

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AMBASSADOR OF THAILAND IS WELCOMED HEREThe Ambassador of Thailand, His Ex-

cellency Sukich Nimmanheminda, ac-companied by his daughter Aurasa andtwo members of his Embassy staff touredthe Port of Houston aboard the SAMHOUSTON as guests of the NavigationDistrict last month.

Here to address a gala dinner bene-fiting the Houston Speech and HearingCenter, Ambassador Sukich also touredthe Manned Spacecraft Center, DomedStadium and Medical Center in additionto the Port of Houston.

With him were Hon. Nibhon Wilairat,first secretary of the Royal Thai Em-bassy, and Lt. Gen. Fong Pramualratana,the Embassy’s educational counselor.

On the SAM HOUSTON for the Portof Houston were Assistant General Man-ager and Mrs. Vernon Bailey, WorldTrade Center Director and Mrs. EdwardJ. Fay, and Vaughn M. Bryant, directorof international relations. Dr. Jack L.Bangs and Dr. Tina Bangs, his wife, di-rector and assistant director of theSpeech and Hearing Center, were withAmbassador Sukich.

Also with the Ambassador were Mr.and Mrs. Joseph Cullinan II (Mr. Culli-nan is chairman of the board of thecenter) and Board Member Pat Ruther-ford, Jr., and Mrs. Rutherford; Mr.and Mrs. Bernard Sakowitz, Mr. andMrs. William S. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs.James Moroney of Dallas, and Dr. andMrs. James Jerger, head of the SpeechCenter’s research department.

Sakowitz was a co-sponsor of theAmbassador’s trip to Houston.

Ambassador Sukich Nimmanheminda of Thailand with Vernon Bailey,assistant general manager of the Port of Houston as he journeyed downthe Ship Channel.

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The charming Aurasa Nimmanheminda, daughter of Ambassador Sukich,is shown with Dr. Jack L. Bangs, right, director of the Speech and Hear-ing Clinic, and Bernard Sakowltz, a sponsor of the ambassador’s trip.

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In the wheelhouse of the SAM HOUSTON are It. Gen. Fong Pramual-ratana of the Royal Thai Embassy with Speech and Hearing Center BoardChairman Joseph S. Culllnan, II, and Mrs. Cullinan.

Board member Pat Rutherford, Jr., right, and Mrs. Rutherford are shownwith the Royal Thai Embassy’s first secretary, Hon. Nibhon Wilairat andJames Moroney of Dallas, left.

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Dr. Tina Bangs, Ambassador Nimmanheminda, Mrs. Bernard Sakowitzand Vaughn M. Bryant, director of International Relations of the Port ofHouston on the flying bridge of the SAM HOUSTON.

PORTOF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

No. 60 In A Series Men Who Make The Port of Houston Hum

Meet Herbert ShilstoneHe Is ltuard EhairmanIll Te,slinq Lahuralury

BY LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director

HERBERT SHILSTONE was horn and rcared in N-e’~v Orleans

within earshot of steamship whistles on the Mississippi River.It may well be that his affinity with the sea was foreordained.

A commander in the U. S. Navy during the second worldwar, Mr. Shilstone was active in construction of several navvbases, and devised the name SEABEES and the SEABEES’insignia. He helped to organize and train the constructionbattalions.

Mr. Shilstone is now chairman of the board of the ShilstoneTesting Laboratory, Inc., with offices in Houston, New Orleans,Baton Rouge, Corpus Christi, Galveston, and Freeport. Thecompany here headquarters at 1714 West Capitol, and em-ploys 55 people. Associated with Herbert Shilstone are hisbrothers, Cecil M. and James M. Shilstone.

Since its founding in 1901 at New Orleans by Dr. H. M.Shilstone, the firm has been actiw~ in matters relating toforeign trade, performing vital functions little known to thoseoutside the trade; for example:

CARGO SURVEYS--Inspections and tests to determinecause and extent of damage, leading toward fixing of liabilityand realization of best salvage.

SCRAP STEEL INSPECTION--Since the early 1930’s, thisfirm has been widely engaged in scrap steel inspection ~forexport, and is probably the largest in this field.

FERTILIZERS--Shilstone is engaged by the governmentof India to sample, inspect and test all fertilizers shipped toIndia from the United States. India, hard pressed to feed itsteeming millions, imports annually more than one million tonsof fertilizers.

IMPORT-EXPORT INSPECTIONS--For quality and quan-tity, inspections are performed upon a wide variety of prod-ucts and manufactured articles involved in foreign trade.Banking documents often require: "Certificate of quality andquantity by Shilstone Testing Laboratory."

Before a car of scrap iron and steel is loaded on a ship atthe Port of Houston, it is inspected by a Shilstone man. Mostof the scrap iron and steel, exporte~l from Houston, goes toJapan. Turkey, Spain, and Italy are good customers, and asteel pipe mill at Vera Cruz, Mexico, ahsorbs a large amount.

Mr. Shilstone was graduated in civil engineering fromTulane University in 1932. and came to Houston in 1.933 totake charge of the recently opened office of Shilstone TestingLaboratory.

The urbane Mr. Shilstone, brown-eyed, his iron-gray hair ina crew cut, is a member of Houston Engineering and Scien-tific Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, NationalSociety. of Professional Engineers, and many other technicalorganizations.

His hobby’.) A comprehensive collection of stamps of theBritish isle of Barbados in the West Indies, where his fatherwas born.

Mr. Shilstone is married to Virginia Bryant, daughter ofJ. Guthrie Bryanl, deceased, who was a well known Houstoncotton broker. The Shilstoncs have two children, Margaret, 15,and Max, 10. They liw ~ at 3019 Ella Lee Lane, and are mem-bers of St. John the Divine Episcopal Church. HERBERT SHILSTONE

JUNE, 1965 13

Count C. Moltke, head of the Port ofCopenhagen group, receives his Texashat from Mrs. Bernhard Daugbjerg, wifeof the Danish Consul in Houston, asConsul Daubjerg looks on approvingly.

Mayor Louie Welch presents on hon-orary citizenship and Houston Ambassa-dor certificate to Copenhagen Port Man-ager Aage Hendrup at the Port ofHouston reception in honor of the Danesat the World Trade Club.

What the well-dressed Man On TheMoon will wear is studied by Copen-hagen’s Chief Burgomaster, Urban Han-sen (foreground) and, from left to rightby Messrs. L. Estrup, Palle Christiansen,Axel Kristensen, C. J. Berring and NielsMunck.

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Imagine the Danes’ surprise to find aformer Dane working for the MannedSpacecraft Center when they visitedthere! Here N.A.S.A. engineer CarlAppelberg, right, who was born andraised in Copenhagen, points out facetsof the space capsule used by AstronautWalter Schirra. From left are C. J. Ber-ring, J. Christian Aschengreen, andCount Moltke.


Copenhagen Harbor Officials Visit HoustonSixteen members of tile Copenhagen

Harbor Board, together with the generalmanager of the Port of Copenhagenand his three-man staff, visited the Portof Houston for three days recently aspart of a port dcw’lopmcnt survey tripto the United States.

Led by Count C. Moltke, their chair-man, the distinguished Danes numheredamong their group ministers of state,members of Parliament and of the citycouncil, burgomasters and former bur-gomasters and a cross-section of Danishindustry and commerce.

Purpose of the visit was to study thethree largos! ports in the United StatesNew York. New Orleans and Houston--and to note their operations and newconstruction preparatory to an expansionprogram for the centuries-old Port ofCopenhagen.

Aage Hendrup, general manager ofthe big Danish port, brought along hisassistant general manager, harbor-masterand technical secretary in the groupwhich will make recommendations basedon what they saw in America.

The Port of Houston’s Navigation andCanal Commissioners and staff joinedwith Honorary Danish Consul BernhardDaughjerg al~d members of Houston’sDanish colony to giw~ the overseas

visitors a Texas welcome which rangedfrom cowboy hats to a baseball gamein the Domed Stadium.

There was a lot of port-inspection,warehouse-visiting, facilities-touring anda trip down the Ship Channel involvedin the visit, also, as well as a battle-ground tour of San Jacinto. There wasalso a peek into the future at the MannedSpacecraft Center of the National Aero-nautics and Space Administration atnearby Clear Lake as well as at the Portof Houston’s and Humble Oil’s dramaticnew port and industrial site complex atneighboring Bayport.

The Danes took it all in stride, butAmerican baseball puzzled them. Evenso, by the end of the fourth inning theywere cheering on the Houston Astrosfrom their sky-dome boxes in the world’seighth wonder, guests of Port Commis-sioner W. D. Haden, II.

"We were most impressed with thePort of Houston’s construction programand its modern facilities," said CountMoltke for the group. "The splendidopen wharw~s, the huge, light and roomytransit sheds, your Sea-Land containerservice, grain elevator, dry bulk ma-terials handling plant and plans for con-tinuing improx.cment have all given us

"Now in Houston, we have the following program," MayorLouie Welch tells Chief Burgomaster (Mayor) Urban Hansen Copenhagen in Houston’s World Trade Club during the recep-tion in honor of the Denmark group.

valuable material suggestions for ourown development."

Those in the group, in a&fitiou toCount Mohke and General ManagerHendrup were C. J. Berring, indus-trialist; Palle Christiansen. permancntundersecretary of State; L. Estrnp, for-mer burgomaster of Copenhagen; HenryL. W. Jensen, wholesale merchant; O.Weikop, burgomaster, member of Parlia-ment and former minister of Commerce;Christian D. T. Saugman, chairman ofthe Merchant’s Guild; J. ChristianAschengreen, vice-chairman East AsiaticCo., Ltd.; Axel Kristensen, member ofParliament and former minister ofSupply.

Also, Egon Weidekamp, mcmber ofthe City Council and an insurance execu-tive; 121ermod I,anmmg, solicitor of theHigh Court of Justice and former men>ber of Parliament; Otto Muller, perma-nent undersecretary of State: NielsMunck. business executive; Ib Kolbjorn,alderman and member of Parliamcnt;Urban Hansen, chief burgoinaster;Henry Stjernqvist, chairman of the citycouncil; Eigil Andersen, assistant gen-eral manager of the Port of Copenhagen :Captain Robert Hcdegaard, harbor mas-ter and Frode Henrikscn, Port TechnicalSecretary.

Three cheers for the Port of Houston are led by Count Moltke,at microphone, as the Copenhagen visitors wave their newTexas hats in the air.

From the bow of the SAM HOUSTON a group of the DanishHarbour Board members view the Houston Ship Channel andthe facilities of the Port of Houston which line it.

JUNE, 1965 15

FLOUR, ALFALFA MEAL, GRAIN and grain prod-ucts, in packages, from points in Texas andLouisiana, will export through Gulf ports~ cheaper beginning June 17. Removal ofa ½¢ penalty from rail tariffs governingthis traffic will be accomplished on that

date. During the year 1964, 335,401 shorttons of flour and 53,001 tons of baggedwheat moved outbound through Port of Hous-ton. These important items rank high in thelist of commodities that make Houston No. 3cargo port in the nation.

IN ITS ANNUAL REPORTr the Port Bureau hasadvised its membership that 1964 transpor-tation activities of the Bureau includedparticipation in an increased number ofdiversified subjects before the InterstateCommerce Commission, involving Houston’scompetitive position with all port rangesof the United States. One hundred andeighty six rate adjustments were carried tosuccessful conclusion and approximately2,295 direct service requests were handledduring the year.

PROMISCUOUS LOADING PRIVILEGES on directship-to-car transfers of import freightwill be further considered by the carriers.The proposed rule change, which was ini-tially approved by Southern Ports railroadsand later withheld from publication,would eliminate present two-car-for-one

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privilege at Southern ports, when cargo ishandled direct to car by ship’s tackle orship’s labor. At a conference in Chicago onthe subject, Gulf port representatives ap-pealed the decision to the carriers, sup-ported by numerous protests from importers.The situation is unsettled, however, it isexpected that it will receive a careful re-view before any action to progress the rulechange is taken.

EXPORT-IMPORT RAIL EQUALITY with Gulfports on canned foodstuffs and meats fromthe Midwest is sought by the South Atlanticports. Generally, rates on this traffic areestablished observing differentials at Gulfunder South Atlantic and Florida, reflectedin the domestic rates. The Port Bureau ap-peared at public hearing before the rail-roads in Chicago, May 25, to support ashipper’s application on this traffic andalso to defend the present basis of differ-entials.

FIVE DAYS MAXIMUM FREE TIME for in-carstorage of export freight at all U.S.ports, has been requested by the railroads.All U.S. railroads, jointly, have filedthis new reduced provision with theCommission, showing an effective date ofJuly i. At the same time, they requestedthat the matter be suspended and in-vestigated under a consolidated proceed-ing with I.C.C. Docket 34522, a similarseven day maximum provision, now under con-sideration. In the initial proceeding, re-spondent railroads have filed their veri-fied statements and exhibits with theCommission and protestants will file re-plies by June 17. Houston Fort Bureau andothers have asked the I.C.C. to rejectrather than suspend the new publication andissue an order prohibiting the railroadsfrom making further changes in the presentfree time until final disposition of Docket34522.

THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS at Houston an-nounces that antique furniture may now beexamined and entered free at the Fort ofHouston. Formerly a few ports only, ofwhich Houston was not one, could handlesuch imports.


Daily Research Brings Improvements From Bow To Stern

Maritime Day Audience

Hears Of Future Ships

Officers and members of the board ofgovernors of the Propeller Club, Port ofHouston, are from the left, seated, J. M.Cook, treasurer; Ted Sumerlin, first vicepresident; O. C. Webster, president; Mrs.Edna Lancaster, executive secretary, andE. Prince Renouf, secretary. Standing areFred Strowbridge, immediate past pres-ident; W. C. Reynolds, G. R. Hethering-ton, L. R. Westerman, Captain L. R.Murray, Jr., Captain Robert Flockhart,Arthur S. Gladwin, Jr., Edward J. Fayand Harvey J. Borgen.

A ship’s captain will press a buttonand within one second he will know hisexact latitude andlongitude as well asthe correct time.

Although thissounds impossible,Stuart W. Thayer,manager of tile newconstruction divi-sion of Lykes Bros.Steamship Com-pany, says this islikely to be the next

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big advance for American ships. Speak-ing on Maritime Day before the Pro-peller Club, Port of Houston. Thayerkept the interest of his audience withhis predictions of things to come.

This navigation system will be pos-sible because of an orbiting satelliteand bank of computers. And as a bonus

to this system, T’hayer said, a ship indistress could automatically clear allchannels and give a shore station itsexact location instantly.

The greatest recent advances in shipdesigns have been in the machinery cate-gory, although many improvements havebeen made from bow to stern.

"Experiments are going on every dayon ahnost every ship with new types ofequipment, new piping materials, newtypes of paints and coatings and manyother applications," Thayer said. "Some

of these tests arc large and some aresmall; some are successful and some arefailures; however, each produces sometangible result and leads the way foradvancement in our future AmericanMerchant marine vessels."

J. M. Lykes, Jr. introduced thespeaker.

Ted Sumerlin, editor of the Port of

Houston Magazine, was cleeted presi.dent of the Houston Propeller Club, ac-cording to a report by George Altvater,chairman of the election committee.Arthur S. Gladwin, Jr. of Lykes Bros.Steamship Company was elected firstvice president; J. M. Cook of J. M.Cook Company. second vice president;Mauriee Casey of Marine FumigationService, Inc.. secretary, and Robert T.Lester of Bloomfield Steamship Com-pany, treasurer.

New members of the Board of Gov-ernors include Daxe Holman of Blomn-field; Joseph Andrea of Humble Oil &Refining Company, and {;us A. Sehill,Jr. of Royston, Rayzor and Cook.

Vice Admiral Ralph E. Wilson, na-tional president of the Propeller Club,was an honored guest at the meeting.He was introduced by E. D. Vickery ofHouston, national first vice president.

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The S.S. GREEN VALLEY isone of three jumbo-ized

victory ships operated byCentral Gulf Lines.

CENTRALSHIP A YEAR’ TO BUILD

GULF LINES ADOPTS PLAN OFITS FLEET

in 1957 and has played a major rolein the expansion of Central Gulf’s linerffcet. Erik F. Johnsen is vice-presidentfor Gulf operations, headquartered inNew Orleans, where the tempo is one ofconstant growth, too.

Under the x~atchful eye of "N.F.,"the company increased its fleet andwidened its scope of service. Followingthe opening of its New York office, thecompany established offices in Houstonand Galveston and instituted a completenet~.ork of agents in domestic andforeign ports.

In 1963, Central Gulf opened a ncwoffice in Bombay, India, to coordinateits service in the Asian areas. NewOrleans remains the home office andN. F. Johnsen, Nicls and Erik headthe company’s board uf directors.

Houston Office Busy

The Houston office at 908 HoustonFirst Savings Building is one of thebusiest in the company’s operationalprogram. W. J. Toomey, a companyvice-president, supervises operations andstevedoring in all Gulf and Atlantic

Twenty ~essels in 18 years. That’sthe growth record of Central GulfSteamship Corporation, unsubsidizedU.S.-flag w’sscl operator providing reg-ular liner service from Houston, otherGulf ports, and Atlantic ports to theAzores, Mediterranean, Middle East,Persian Gulf. India, and Pakistan.

In 1917, NMs F. Johusen. lifelongmariner and a &’scendant of sea-faringancestors, acquired one of the then-plentiful Liberty ships and commencedthe steamship operation that today isknown as Central Gulf Lines.

Mr. Johnsen and his sons. Niels andErik re-chrislcned the old "IIOR,4TIOALLEN" as the "GREEN IVAI/E" inhonor of the )oung men’s alma mater,Tulanc University, and initiatcd servicefrom the Gulf to ports in the Far East.

Mr. Johnsen today continues to serveas president of the company; Niels W.Johnsen is vice-president in charge ofAtlantic operations from New York,where the company’s principal sales andchartering activities are conducted un-der his direction. The New York op-eration was begun by Niels W. Johnsen

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coast ports. E. C. Faerber is traffic man-ager for West Gulf ports.

Harold S. Grehan, Jr., a veteransteamship traffic man, joined CentralGnlf in 1958. He was ch’eted vice-president and director of the companyand, until this year, supervised trafficoperations in New York. He was re-cently assigned to New Orleans to as-sume additional administrative dutiesand to head up company-wide trafficoperations.

Captain George K. 1)uke is generalmanager of the company’s marine divi-sion, and Thomas E. Vetter is opera-tions manager. George J. Fanning istraffic manager in New Orleans andCharles F. Monninger is Eastern Trafficmanager.

Central Gulf has compiled an im-pressive growth and development recordin the 18 years since its founding. Thetteet has grown from one vessel of lessthan 10,000 d.w.t, to 12 company-ownedU.S.-ftag vcssels and eight charters onfull-time basis, aggregating total ton-nage of 250,000 d.w.t.

During the past eight months, Cen-tral Gulf has spent $5 million to acquire


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four new xessels for its tteet--two C-3’sand two C-$’s.

Called the "Green Fleet"The tteet, which might appropriately

be titled the Green Fleet, includes th(~GREEN WAVE, GREEN DALE,GREEN LAKE. GREEN VALLEY.GREEN BAF. GREEN COVE, GREENIIARBOR, GREEN POINT. GREENISL 4NI). GREEN PORT, and GREENRIDGE. Its make up includes four C-2"s.two C-3’s. two C-,l’s, and three jumbo-ized Vich)rvs.

The t~o C-I’s were a~arded to Cen-tral Gulf by the U.S. Maritime Admin-istration in exchange for two of thecompany’s C-2 vessels, and about$3 million was spent by Central Gulfto convert and refurbishthese ships forregular cargoliuer sorx.riee.

Central Gulf has pioneered an ex-press serxice to the India-Pakistan area.and last year logged more sailings tothat area than any other line. Opera-tions include a nlinimum of tlve sailingsmonthly from both Gulf and Atlanticcoasts to and from the Mediterranean.India, and Pakistan. as well as to Per-sian Gulf ports. A special homewardservice from Calcutta and Malaysiaserves Houshm and other Gulf andAtlantic coast ports on a regular monthl~schedule.

Cenlral Gulf has dexeloped a reputa-tion for fast service and sxxift turn-

Ingots are being unloadedat the Port of Houston

from a CentralGulf Lines ship.

arounds at its ports of call. Erik Jolm-sen explains that the company attemptsto achieve a maximum degree of servicetlexibility. "We pride ourseNes on beingable to shift our vessels rapidly to meetschedules and cargo commitments, whichis essential when regularly schedulingw~ssels and particularly to Pakistan andIndia.

To facilitate its flexibility of opera-tion, Central Gulf has formed its ownstevedoring company, Mid-Gulf Steve-dores, which handles vessel operationsin Gulf ports, under the direction ofMr. Toomev.

Although vessel purchases and theexchange, agreement with the govern-ment have resuhed in a general upgrad-ing of the Central Gulf fleet, the com-pany is looking ahead to the eventualreplacement of its growing t/eet.

New Trade Routes SoughtTo maintain its American-flag stalus

and to be able to meet the high cost ofconstructing new vessels in the U-nitedStates, as presently required by law forAmerican operators, Central Gulf hasapplied for subsidy on Trade Route 18and Trade Routes 10 and 13, covering

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service hetween U.S. Gulf and Atlanticports and the Azores, Mediterranean.Red Sea. Persian Gulf, IMia, East and\Vest Pakistan. Ceylon. and Burma.Both applications arc pending hcforethe Maritime Subsidy lh)ard.

Erik Johnsen told the chief examinerat a subsidy hearing in New ()rleansrecently that granting of subsidy toCentrai Gulf was "vital, if wc are tocontinue to grow and to compete withother lines on our established tradeFouIes.~

In direct testimony filed for the hear-ing, which concerned Central Gulf’s ap-plication for subsidy on Trade Route18. Mr. Johnsen said: "Central Gulfhas achieved a most remarkable recordof full utilization over the past threeyears and its history has shown COll-iinued growth, not only of the com-pany itself hut of its [(.S.-ftag service.By its service it has contributed to thel!~S. balance of paymenls and providedemi~loyment for seamen and shore per-sonnel in the United States."

Despite certain handicaps vis-a-vis itsstatus as an unsuhsidized American-flagoperator. Central Gulf is one of the fewAmerican steamship operators to up-grade its th’et and continue to grow ata time when critics are predicting ageneral worsening of the AmericanMerchant Marine.

The accent is on growth at CentralGulf, a company-wide feeling that istypified by a recent remark by companypresident Niels F. Johnsen, who said."We have added a ship or more to ouroperating fleet for every year that wehave been in operation and we plan tocontinue our expansion program on asotmd business basis."

Flour is going aboard aCentral Gulf Lines ship atthe Port of Houston

W. J. Toomey, vice president,West Gulf, stands before

a painting of the S.S.GREEN VALLEY.


The human kindness of the Houston policeforce was recognized recently by L’EcoleRoyale de Gendarmerie (the Belgium Police)with the presentation in the World TradeClub of five specially made cutglass vasesby George Elliott, right, Consul General ofBelgium, to the Mayor of Houston and rep-resentatives of the Police force for theirassistance to Nadine Denis, daughter of aBelgium policeman. Recipients of the vaseswere: left to right, French-speaking patrol-man George Bourque who acted as guideand translator for Denis; Mrs. H. A. Zoch,president of the Police Wives’ Association;Police Captain Earl Maughmer, president ofthe Houston Policemen’s Association; Chief ofPolice Herman Short; and Houston MayorLouie Welch.

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New British Consul General ArrivesGerald Simpson has taken over duties as (’onsul General

for Great Britain in Houston. succeeding C. Peter Hope,reeently transferred to the United Natious in New York.

A long time career officer in tile Foreign ()ffi(’e. Simpson Deputy Consul General in New York for three years beforebeing assigned to Houston.

He served in the Royal Artillery with rank Ull to LieutenantColonel between 1939 and 19d6. seeing service with tilt’British Expeditionary Force in France from September 1939until the evacuation of France in 1940. Following that he wasposted to the planning sial[ in India and saw service on theNorthwest Frontier of India between 194"1, and 19/1.6.

In 1956 he joined the British Ministr} of Labor and wassent to Germany to work in the Control Commission for Ger-many in the reconstruction of a demoeralic German lra&’-union movement.

Entering the Foreign St’nice ill 1948, he worked in lhcAmerican Department of the Foreign Offiee until 1919 whenhe was appointed Second Secretary at the British Embassyin Ankara, Turkl’y. Three years later he was posted to Buda-l/est, Hungary as First Secretary.

Relurning’lo the Foreign Office in 1954, he serw’d first inthe Southern ~Europel Depamnent and later as AssistantHead of the Information Policy l)epartment.

In 195t’ he was transferred" to /he British Emhassy in San-tiago, Chile, as head of tilt Commercial and Economic l)epart-menl. Three years later he ~as posted Io ~:ashinglon. In ]962he received Ills appointmen! to New York.

SimllSOn married Miss Peggy gilliams in 1943. He met her~hih" both ~ere serving in the military forces in Dover. Shewas a meml,er of the \Vomen’s Royal Naval Service (~’rens).

SINCE 1914

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NEW SERVICE STARTED

A nm~ steamship service, the Gulf Lines, operating be-tween Gulf of Mexico ports and Continental Europe overroutes formerly covered by the Norge Line, has been an-nounced by [’iterwyk Shipping, I,td. of Nassau. Bahamas.First vessel" in the new service ~.ill Ire the M. V. Leiv Eiriks-son. a modern, fast Norwegian w~ssel of 12,500 I)WGT, sail-ing’Houston and New ()rleans to Rotterdam arrd Hamburgaround the middle of June. Agents for the ne~ line will bethe same as for the Norge Line service, inchlding Lone StarShiplfing Co. of Hotlston.

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between the Gulf and North Europe

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