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"11MARGINAL TRACKS EXPEDITE MOVING OF HOUSTON!

In the picture above, cargo is being lifted hom tile freight cars into the hold of the ship.

Marginal railway tracks at shipsidc are standard equipment at all first rate ports.

The Port of Houston on its public docks has an aggregate of more

that three miles of marginal trackage- 18,928 feet in all.

Just a~zother reason the Port of Honstolz is NUMBER ONE

ill the (;,lf of Mexico in tonnage.

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4 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

DirectoryOf Officials

FOR THE

Port of HoustonPORT COMMISSIONERS

HOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanJOHN G. TURNEY

R. VERNON WltlTL’SIDE

J. P. HAMBLEN

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTJ. P. TURNER, General ManagerVERNON BAILEY, Assistant General ManagerJ. L. LOCKETT, JR., CounselSAMUEL B. BRUCE, Auditor~FRAvIS SMITH, Engineer and Planning ManagerEDITH HANNER, Executive AssistantNORMAN E. HUENI, Chie/EngineerROBERT W. ROBINSON, Business O/rice ManagerT. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantVINCENT D. WILLIAMS, Administrative Assistant

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

LLOYD GREGORY, Director o~ ln/ormationTED SUMERIAN, Editor o/MagazineVAUGIIN ~I. BRYANT, Director o/

International Relations

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

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

Board of Trade Building, Kansas City, Mo.JOHN R. WEILER, District Sales Manager

1519 Capitol, Houston

OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT

C. E. BULLOCK, Operations ManagerW. F. LAr~D, Terminal ManagerT. H° SHERWOOD, Manager o~ Grain ElevatorD. hi. FRAZIOR, Maintenance Manager

EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street

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

Official Publication

of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 2 Number 3MARCH, 1960

Port Accepts Three New Docks

Meet Louis Homburg .............

Caballos For Colombia ..............

This Month’s News In Views ...........

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New Dutch, Italian Ships Visit Here

Our Miss Harmer, An Editorial .......

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Visitors See Houston’s Thriving Ship Channel

Steel Made In Houston Supplies Southwest

Port Manager Predicts Growing World Trade

Port Directory .......................

Sailing Schedule ...............

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THE COVER

White hot steel is poured from an open hearth furnace at the largest inte-

grated steel plant in this area to meet the demands of metal-hungry industry

in the Southwest. For a full report on this interesting operation see Page 18.

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

This publication is not copyrighted and per-

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

Additional information or extra copies ofthis magazine may be obtained by writing ThePort of Houston Magazine, Post Office Box6278, Houston 6, Texas.

MARCH, 1960 5

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THE PORT ()F HOUSTON formally

accepted its $1.5 million worth of nm.~docks and transit sheds at ceremoniesattended by vity, county, state and portofficials early this month even as crewsa few hundred yards away were busyat work on still two more adjoiningwharves.

Located on the north side of the ShipChannel, Docks ]8 and 19 of the hugenew facility are lot)ped with giant, full-length transit sheds 600 by 200 feeteach. while Dock 20 is a modern, con-crete-paved open wharf with rail cross-over and 577 by 267 foot area. Docks 18and 19 have 5:2-foot aprons at ship-sideand a 15-foot platform area in the rearfor loading rail ears and trucks.

Ship movement has been so heavv atthe Port of Houston that the three newdocks were pushed into operation im-mediately when they were completed-as far back as last june for Dock 20-and even though the transit sheds werestill under construction during the Fallof 1959. Docks 18 and 19 were also lintin use.

Increased tonnage at the Navigationl)istricl’s wharves during 1959 ~as duein some part to this partial use of thenew facility, and full 12 month useshould contribute greatly to a heaviertonnage total for 1960.

Chairman Howard Tellepsen of thePort Commission presided at the cere-monies held at the east end of the newshed where Docks 19 and 20 join. Hecalled completion of the facility "a greatstep forward in our building program,"and cited continuing work now under-wav on Docks 21 and 22. renovation ofl)oek 1. the hulk handling facility and

PORT ACCEPTS THREE NEW DOCKSPublic Officials Join PortCommissioners For Ceremony

other improvements in the new buildingprogram.

It was a $7 million tax-supported bondissue approved January 31, 1957, by thevoters of Harris Cotmty that made pos-

More Photos on Pages 8 and 22

Three ",essels are moored at the Port ofHouston’s newest wharf facilities City Docks18, 19 a~d 20 in the photo above. A huge1,200-foot-long transit shed covers l)ocks 18and 19 while Dock 20, partially hidden in thebackground, is an open facility. Howard Tel-lepsen, below, chairman of the Port Commis-sion, looks mer the new docks from the bridgeof the Port’s inspection boat, Sam Houston, ona trip immediately following the acceptance[)rogram.

sibh’ the three new docks and two shedsat a cost of $4.615,000. R. P. l:arns-worth and Co. of New Orleans >.as thegeneral contractor on the three docksand Metallic Btiilding Comlmuy of Hous-Ion buih the s[teds.

The tie,t, r constructioncr~O’ll~Dl o- Oil at |he

Port will be paid for out of an addi-tional $12.5 million rexenue bond issuevoted by the Port Commission, itself, inmid-1959. Still more docks are t’ontem-plated under vet another rmenue bondissue in the fuiure.

County Judge Bill Ell|oil spoke forHarris County and Mayor Pro-ternJolmny (;oyen. in the out-of-town ab-sence of Mayor Lewis Cutrer, spoke forthe city at the ceremonies. Port Commis-sioner W. N. Blanton gave the invoca-tion. Also present were Port Commis-sioners J. G. Turney and J. P. Hamblen.State Representative William Kilgarlinrepresented the Houston delegation inthe State Legislature and Senate.

Also present were County Commis-sioners E. A. Lyons, Kvle Chapman, andV. V. Ramsey" for Harris County andCouncilmen Louie Weh:h. Bill T. Swan-SOil, W. H. Jones, and Bob Webb for thecity.

Following the ceremonies, which werebroadcast bv both radio and television.the group was entertained with luncheonand a short harhor trip aboard the Nax-|gallon District inspection vessel JI.V.Sam Houston.

MARCH, 1960 7

l)esm’ibing the new facilities as "a great step forward," Port Com-mission Chairman ]toward Tellepsen tells city, chanty, state and portofficials of still further eonstrtwtion both planned and underway dur-ing the formal aeeeptanee ceremonies for I)oeks ]8, 19 and 20. On theplatform of l).ek 19, behind (~hairman Te]lepsen are, ]eft to right,County (’,ommissinner Kyle Chalmmn, City Councilman Louie Welch,

Against the backdrop of a British merchantman. Chairman Tellep-sen stands on l)oek 20 and chats Mth Mayor Pro-tern .lohnny Goyen.~iounty Judge Bill El lintt and State Representative William Kilgarlin.

County Comndssioners E. A. l,vnns, and V. V. Ramsey, State Repre-sentative Bill Kilgarlin, Port Commissioner John G. Turney, MayorPro-tern Johnny Goyen, Port Cnnmfissioner J. P. Hamblen, City Coun-eihnen Bob Webh, Bill T. Swanson am| W. H. Jones, Port Commis-sioner W. N. Blanton anti (’.nunty ,Judge Bill Elliott.

(iitv Councilman l~nuie Weh’h. left. ¢’hats ~ith Port Comndssionerllamblen. En~lneerm~ and Plannin~ Manager Smith and Frank New-ham of Mason. l,oek~ood and Newnam. ~’onsultin~ engineers on DocksIg and 19.

Port Commissioner Bhmton and Cnunty (iommissioner Kyle Chapmanexchange pleasantries on the ,qam Houston. Assistant General Manager\:ernon Bailey ix at right foreground and Maintenance Manager (2. E.Bullock in background, left.

(~ounty Judge Bill Elliott, in the photo helo~, left, and Rei)resenta-ti~e Kilgarlin chat in the foreground while Chief Engineer Huenidiscusses a point with Mayor Pro-tern Goyen, in the background,after the buffet hmeheon wax served on the Sam Ilouston.

With part of the ne~ transit shed on l)oek 19 and most of nl)enl)oek 20 in the background, County Judtze Elliott, Chairman Tellepsenand Mayor Pro-tern (;oyen nbser~e Houston’s Ship Channel front theSum Houston’s flying bridge.

Metalli(" Building Co. of Houston built the huge transit sheds onl)ocks 18 and 19. Here on the Sam Houston with Port CommissionerJ. P. tlamhlen, second front left, are C. R. MeDaniel and Gilbert Leachof Metallic Building, ttouston, and (2 V. Blackburn, Metallie’s execu-tive vice president from Grosse l’ninte, Michigan.

Meet Lewis Homburg

A Bright Future Is

Predicted For Port

No. 5--Men Who Make the Port of Houston Hum

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As a boy, Lewis W. Homburg roamed the docks of the Portof Galveston, fished and hunted ducks in the near-by bays

Lm~.is grew accustomed to lhe merchant ships calling at thePort of (;alveslon. and made t|p his mind then he wanted to

go into ocean shipping.

Mr. Homburg now is vice president West Gulf of theStraehan Shipping Company. with his headquarters in theCotton Exchange Building.

The Straehan Company was founded in 1886. Savannah.Georgia. is the home port. and F. 1). M. Straehan is president.

Stra(’han is in the steamship agen(:v and slexedore business.

"’When a ship comes into port. we stand in place of theowner, performing all the functions an owner would perform,"\Ir. Homburg explained.

"’1 just don’t know ho~. we (’ould operate ~.ithout the im-provenmnts the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Naviga-

tion ])istriet has provided in lhe lasl few years." Mr. Horn- ~ burg said. "We need many more ~harves to take (’are of theever expanding (’ommeree.

"The Port of Houston is only about 15 years old. and mayhandle 60 million tons in 1960. It’s going to require great .....................vision to prepare for 25 years front today, when the Port ofHouston may well have a potential of 100 million Ions a year."

Mr. Homburg was born in Galveston April 29. 1909. Onhis graduation from Ball High School. he went to work as an

office boy fro the H. Kempner Cotton Conlpany. After a year,he got a job as filing eh’rk with the Santa Fe Railway. and

stayed with that railway until going with Straehan in 1929.He served as (,alveston manager for Strachan before comingto Houston in 1919.

"In Galveston. everyone is conscious of the Port, becauseit is so (’lose at hand." Mr. Homburg said. "It would be won-dm:ful if the Houston Turning Basin ~.ere where the NorthMain Viaduct is. Too man)= of our people never see the vast ~-activities of the Port of Houston."

Mr. Homburg is past president of the Houston Maritime As-sociation; a member of the Houston Propeller Club, of theWorld Trade Association, of the World Trade Committee ofthe Houston Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. and Mrs. Homburg live at 3831 N. MaeGregor. Theyhave tuo teen-age youngsters. Bill. 16. and Beth, 11.

MARCH, 1960

LEWIS HOMBURG

Major Rios ++ith one of the hh~oded quarterhorses from Texas +~ith ++hich he ttol~eS t+~itnpro~e the breed ill (iolonlbia.

CABALLO$

FOR

COLOMBIA

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l)o~n the chute from truck to the hold ofthe .qinu <.z’o a couple of rehn’tant chargers, ol+f<lu tile hilzlzest ad’+entul+e of their tiles.

SAILORS t~IECAME C()WBOYS and a ship a corral atssome 320 horses were loaded aboard the M.V. Sinu of theFlota Mercanle (.;ran Colorntfiana at City Dock 3 last monthfor the nine-day trip to I<)uenaxclitura and uhimate duty asremounts for lhe (]olombiau Cavalry.

D(qeillliiled 1o "’(7o Texall’~ iti ltie be.~i sphii of HOil.~tOil".~Ull-eomhl 7 Fat Stock $tio~. the S/nuL~ crew [ronl SkipperI/alllOl/ Saenz o11 do’,’+n ha,~leued to }lily iell-gai]oll huts and

fhimhoyaut +hirls alld ])e(’olne .-ilre-eiioilgh ,~eagoilig <’o+~boy,~as liter loaded lheir ch;.ugcs.

The Sinu is u +ttiall vessel especially equil~ped x~ ith threedecks of l+uilt-ilt eorral.~ heh>~v and is used to ti+au.,,l~ort horses

Next stnp, t;f tlella’+ ell tll Fa.l:’art of the shipment standspatiently in stalls I>reparator++to sailing, unmindful of theseasickness to fo|lo~. Twoquarts of penicillin and fourquarts of serum /~ere on handto combat eohts, colic or otherI~ossillle illness that ini~htoe(+llI’.


Ole Houston ! Sea-going eo~-boys of the Sinu line up withCaptain Ramon Saenz. [eft.along the ship’s taffrail towave a greeting before sailinghome with 320 "’cahallos’" forthe Colomhian Cavalry.

and cattle on the Gran Colombiana Line’s runs. Her last pre-vious load had been some 4,000 sheep from England to Co-lombia.

Major Nicolas Rios Mesa of the Colombian Cavalry was incharge of the shipment ~.hich was rounded up from EastTexas, Oklahoma and Arkansas and trucked from Fort Smith,Ark., to Houston’s Port City Stockyards before final sea ship-ment. A similar shipment was gathered in states further Easta monlh ago.

Colombia’s military force has found the American horsesadaptable to the rugged demands placed on the cavalry inpatrolling thai country’s backlands against marauding bandit

Trucks full of horses from Port City Stock-yards were busy all day shuttling the mountsfrom feed-lot to ship.

forces which have preyed on villages for the last decade.Major Rios purchased three full-blooded quarter-horse studswith this shipment as part of plans to improve the breed inColombia.

Hernando Parra of the Comptroller’s office of the Colom-bian government in Bogota aeeompanied Major Rios to han-dle the purchase. Dr. Carlos A. Ortega of Venezuela, doinggraduate work in veterinary medicine in Houston, was veter-inary for the shipment and Don Enrique Ocampo Berrios,Consul of Colombia in Houston, handled all official docu-ments.

[,eft to right, Captain Saenz. Consul ()cam-po, Major Rios and Dr. Ortega.

MARCH, 1960 I 1

THIS MONTH’S NEWS IN VIEWS/ A sky-blue electric typewriter with all the latest innovations ~as the

surprise "’going-away" gift from the Navigation and Canal Commission-ers of the Port of Houston to Miss Edith flanner, executive seeretary,who left the Port at the end of February after 32 years. She is shownabo~e ~ith Assistant General Manager Vernon Bailey, left, and GeneralManager ,]. P. Tm’ner shortly after presentation of the machine .at themeeting of the Board.

Memhers of the special Haneh Training(’ourse at Texas (ihristian University in Eo)’tWorth toured the Ship Channel in Februaryas part of field trip under the training pro-grain. The group is composed of young nlenfrom all over the United States and fronl someforeign countries who study ranch operationsboth in classrooms and in on-the-job training.They are seen on the top deck of the Port’sinspection vessel Sctrn I]ollston. with tl~t~ hat-tleship Texas at the San Jacinto ]~attIcgrotmdin IllP background.

Houston transportation interests got ofi"Texas-size" letters to Congressmen John l)ow-dy and Jack B. Brooks of the House JudiciaryCommittee recently, urging passage of a bill toproclaiin a National Transportation Week. The(5ommittee is holding a hill from the HouseInterstate Commerce (i o m m i t t e e sponsoringsuch a ~roelamation and will decide whetherto vote xt on to the floor of Congress. Holdingthe three-foot by five-loot missives are, left toright, LeRoy VChittredge and Jo Newton, co-chairmen of Houston Transportation Week:Charlotte Woods, past president of the Hous-ton Women’s Traffic Cluh: and John Scottand Paul Lawrence, presidents of the HoustonFreight Carriers’ Association and the HoustonMen’s Traffic Club, respectively. Transporta-tion Week originated in Houston seven yearsago from an idea hy Mrs. Woods, and sincethen the observance has spread on a localscale from coast to coast and to Mexico. Trans-portation groups now want to make it nationaland official.


I~.T THE BUSY PORT OF HOUSTONOne of two giant bull gears weighing more than 34 tons and measur-

ing 17 feet across is loaded aboard a flat car by giant gantry crane onHouston’s Public Dock 17 following arrival from West Germany anddestined for the Gulf States Tube Corporation’s plant at nearby Rosen-berg. It ~as part of a 471-ton extrusion press made by the Mannesman-Meer Manufacturing Company in West Germany and represented oneof the largest pieces of machinery ever handled here. The movementwas another indication of how Houston’s paekers can handle an importproblem and Foreign Trade Export Packing reported 5,000 feet of12x12 hardwood hlocking, and 2,000 feet of l-ineb wire cable andthirty-five 36-ineh turnbuckles were needed to secure the gears in theraih’ar.

3"he Port of Houston was described to listeners of Radio Free Eu-rope in Poland recently, following a visit here to make tape recordingsby Wojciech Trajanowski, center, commentator for RFE, while enrouteto Squaw Valley to cover the Olympic Games. Mr. Trajanowski spentan afternoon covering the port from docks to grain elevator and ishere shown with friends from Poland, now living in Houston, "~honl tievisited, Mr. and Mrs. Bodan Szmeyko. Mr. Szmeyko was Minister ofPoland to Spain, before World War II. Mrs. Szmeyko has been act,rein international travel circles sinee the war and is head of HoustonInternational Travel here.

A new grain loading record was set at the Public Grain Elevator onthe last day of January when the President Brand, above, sailed forRotterdam with 926,000 bushels of milo. This was 105,000 bushels morethan the previous all-time single loading record at the elevator set

September 5 of last year by the Chloe. a sister ship of the PresidentBrand, which carried its cargo of wheat to the Far East. The 592-foot.22,000-ton converted tanker took up space at two docks and was draw-ing 34 feet of water.

MARCH, 1960 13

The M/.~ Lorenz,, Marcello. a brand neu10.700 ton addition to the Sidarma Line ofItaly. tied up at nm~ City Dock 19 recentlyon her maiden voyage to ltouston enteringservice between the Gulf and South Atlanticports and ports of France and Italy in theMediterranearl. She has an average speed of18 knots, 18 fNe-ton derricks, one 30-ton andone 50-ton heavy lift derrick. MacGregor-typehatch covers and other modern cargo features.She is the fifth ship to enter the Sidarmasemi-monthly service m~ this route, and carries12 passengers.

Port officials joined ship officers and localagents in celebrating the maiden voyage of theLorenzo Mnrcello to Houston. Here in theluxurious passenger dining and recreationsalons with Captain Carl. Liannazza tire, leftto right, C. E. Bullock, operations manager,and Vernon Bailey, assistant general managerof the Port of Houston, and T. E. Dugey, vicepresident of Biehl & (~ompany. agents.

New Dutch, Italian Ships Visit Here On Maiden VoyagesMoored at City I)ock 9 on her maiden trip

to Houston is the 12,600 ton M/5 Nchie Lloydof the Nedlloyd Line which links Houston

~: ~Ywith Mediterranean, Red Sea and Indonesianports in the line’s Java-New York service.

\ With six hatches equipped with MaeGre~zor-type meehanical covers, the vessel boasts adouble set of cargo booms on hatches 2-3-4and 5, single sets on hatches l and 6 and aJumbo hoom forward with a 240-ton lift. Builtin Hamburg, she has a service speed of 18knots and measures 544 feet ~ith 69 footbeam. She carries no passengers.

The St,’achan $hiplfing (iompany. localagents for the Nedlloyd Line, observed the.’~chie Lloyd’s first visit to port with a recep-tion for port officials and users of the line.Here on the bridge with Captain l. .]. L.Sisseeuw are, from left, Sydney Webster,manager of Straehan’s Galveston offices, R.M. Wilkes, manager in Houston, Lewis W.Homburg, Strachan vice president in Houston,and right, J. P. "l’urmq’, general manager ofthe Port of Houston.


Our M/ss Hanner- An Editorial

THE NAVIGATION DISTRICT looks to 1960 for new records along all fronts--earn-ings, tonnage, construction begun and improvements made.

Paradoxically, however, it will go through 1960, and the years thereafter, with-out the services of "the good right hand" of every general manager the Port ofHouston has ever had.

Miss Edith Hanner, after 32 years of dedicated service, left the Navigation Dis-trict at the end of February for the very best of reasons- to become the wife of J.Russell Wait, former general manager of the Port from 1931 to 1947.

Edith Hanner came to the Navigation District in August of 1928 when the Portwas 12 years old, its tonnage was 12 million, there were 12 docks at the TurningBasin and the general offices were in a wing of the Harris County Courthouse.

She leaves at a time when the Port’s tonnage has reached 58 million tons, itsearnings better than $2 million, with 23 wharves, two more a-building, still moreplanned under an extensive construction program, and its own office buildings bothdowntown and at the docks.

Through those years, in addition to her future husband she has been secretary tothe late B. C. Allin, first director of the Port, General Wm. F. Heavey, Col. Warren D.Lamport, the present general manager J. P. Turner and, during interim periods,Vernon Bailey, assistant general manager.

Every pilot on the Houston Ship Channel has been approved at a Board of Com-missioners meeting where Edith Hanner was taking the minutes.

Every bit of construction, every auditor’s report, every hiring of new personnelover the last 32 years has been recorded in her swift shorthand and neat typing.

To Houstonians and to friends of the Port from coast to coast and overseas, EdithHanner has become a symbol, indelibly linked and identified with it.

And she has been a nice symbol, a grand "corporate image" for this Port to havewith her charm, gracious manner, friendly character, pleasant disposition and un-failing wit. Visitors have remembered Houston and the Port favorably for her hav-ing met and greeted them. Wherevej; she has gone, she has spread the same warmfriendship for the Port of Houston.

Her fellow employees still find it difficult to think of the Executive Office withoutEdith Hanner there. To each she has been friend, advisor, counsellor, and helper.Executives, from general managers on down have come to depend on her ability,judgment and experience.

With it all she has found time to bring credit to the Port in her outside activities,as well. President of the Houston Business and Professional Women’s Club, she hasheld nearly every other office in that group as well as in the Women’s Traffic Club,of which she is a past president. In 1955 the Women’s Traffic Club named her"Woman of the Year."

Widely traveled, widely read, Edith Hanner also has an artistic talent known toher friends in the field of ceramics, where her amateur efforts could challenge thoseof a professional.

The Navigation District will miss Edith Hanner. An eloquent resolution by theBoard of Commissioners and her friends’ mingled protests of regret at her leaving,and of happiness for her happiness, attest to that.

We know Edith Hanner will miss the Port, too, but we also know that wherevershe is, wherever she goes, there, too, still will go the same ambassador of friend-ship and goodwill for the Port of Houston that has ever been our Miss Edith Hanner.

MARCH, 1960 15

From Far and Near

Visitors SecThriving

Executives from Judson Sheldon International Corporation from Ne~ York and Los Angeles.toured the Ship Channel recently as guests of local officials of the organization. Here ma theupper deck of the ,’4am Houston are, left to right, l)a~id E. Grieve, manager, import department.Houston: T. K. Koerner, assistant vice president, National Carloading Corp., a division of Jud-son Shehlon, ttoustnn: A. G. Zimmerly, ~iee president, Ne~ York; George 1)~yer. assistant vicepresident, l,os Angeles: L..l. Barherot, manager, Ne~ Orleans, and .I.F. Marulh~, mana~rr,Houston.

Two officials of British Overseas Air~aysgave Houston a long look last month to studythe existing and potential market in the areainsofar as future service by BOAC might heconcerned. They ~,,ere R. A. l)oust, seniorplanning officer, western routes, and B. Thorn-good, market research officer, ~ho are seenhere, center, in the after-salon of the Port’s in-spection vessel Sam ttou.stor~ flanked, on theleft, hy ,Iuhn Miloy, assistant manager of theTranslmrtation l)epartment of the Chamber of(innamer,’e; lan Alexander, information officerof the British (:onsulate General, and .losephFoster, director of a~iation for the City ofHouston: and on the right by .lames E. Gas-ton, hram’h manager in Houston for Reming-ton Rand Univac: Rohm’t 1). Ahel, manager ofthe Area 1)e~elopment I)epartment of the(ihamher of Cmnmerce, and William Burks.cargn manager for B()A(Ts Southwest l)ivisicm.

Ruen Viriyaporn, left, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bangkok, Thailand, and Felton O~m’hv,Shipping and Storage Assistant, office of port representative, Gulf Coast, Commodity Cred’itCorporation, U. S. I)epartment of Agriculture. looked over the Port of Houston recently.Viriyaporn is in the U. S. under the auspices of the Food and Agricultural Organization ofthe United Nations to cheek methods of handling food surpluses in this country, especially riee.He will enroll in Texas A. & M. during the spring semester for several courses in agriculturalmarketing.

Francisco L. Rodrigo, memher of the l’hilip-pine Senate and a leading Catholic layman inhis country, is traveling in the United Statesand the (;ommonwealth of Puerto Rico underthe attspiees of the State 1)epartment. SenatorRodrigo stopped over in Houston to look atthe Port and the rice gro~ing and 1.roeessingfacilities in this area.


Houston’s

~hip Channel

Aboard Sam Houston Stars of .lack Bailey’s "Queen For A l)ay" telexision sho~ toured the Ship (]hannel during ~eek’s appearance in Houston. Among those ~ho made the trip are, left to ri~zht, Betty White.(,ene Baker and .linny Benjamin. Boh Marieh, right, is a director on KPR(I-T\, the nriginatingstation.

Koidfi Nishika~a. managingdire~’tor of the Japan Trade(ienter in Chicago ~as m Hous-ton re~’ently making arrange-ments for a trade fair to behehl here in August I~y the sixlar~zest cities of Japan. Mr.Nishika~a said this ~ouhl hethe first time the fair has heenin Houston and that he plans[fl make it an ann/lal e’,ellt.

Memhers of the Oklahoma Wheat Research Foundation and a group of 4-H (:lubhers theFoundation sponsors visited here last month to take a look at grain handling facilities of thePort of H.uston and toured the Ship Channel. Here, ahoard the Sam Houston. at the San Ja-cinto Battlegrounds are: Harold Yoakum, Edward Schoenhals, Kenneth Roden, assistant grainelevator manager: Carl Nicholas, R. E. Page, Elvie Lassiter, Art Hill, Wayne Cinnamon, GaryBaker, Clarence l,amle, Benton Thompson, Keith James, Jerry Lamle, Bud Nelson. Earl (~in-namon, Keats Soder and R.naht Hill.

Norman R. Wittkamp, president of InlandForwarding Company in Chi~’ago ~as in |tous-tort recently investigating the possibility ofopening a new office here. Inland Forwardingpresently has offices in New York, Baltimore,Toledo, Cleveland and Ne~ Orleans.

MARCH, 1960 17

AS ONE OF THE cornerstones of

Houston’s expanding complex of indus-tries, the Houston plant of Sheffield Di-vision, Armco Steel Corporation, takesseriously its slogan: "New Steels AreBorn at Armco."

For example, shipments of "SheffieldSuper Strength 100"--a new special,high strength, heat treated alloy steelplate--started a few days ago fromSheffield’s mill to some of the nation’smost advanced missile launching bases.

"This new steel was developed in ourlaboratories and is being produced onlyin our Houston plant, to meet the De-fense Department’s demand for plate formissile launching bases," said K. P.Campbell, operations manager of theHouston mill.

"We’re actively exploring other newspecial steel demands of the defense es-tablishment, as well as looking after theneeds of our customers for high strengthsteel in the Southwestern aircraft and oilindustries."

W. S. Newell, Armco’s vice presidentin charge of Sheffield Division sales,sounded the keynote of Sheffield’s con-tribution to the industrial picture ofHouston and Texas:

"Our plant on the Ship Channel wasbuilt, nearly 20 years ago, to serve Hous-ton, the Gulf South and the Southwest,"Mr. Newell said. "Our growth and de-velopment has been geared to the South-western industrial economy, and we lookforward with confidence to the future.

"To keep ahead of steel demands,Sheffield carries on a continuing studyof needs in our market area, and we arecontinuously planning expansion andimprovement of our facilities.

"When we can definitely foresee aneed for additional capacity or newtypes of steel, we are ready with planswhich enable us to meet these demandsin a minimum amount of time."

Mr. Newell said present prospects in-dicated that Shcffield’s Houston millwould continue to operate at full capac-ity :for the first six months of 1960.

"The historical pattern is that ourIhird-quarter demands will ease off afterconsiderable inventory buildup by ourcustomers, and that the fourth quarterwill show a rise in production over third-quarter rollings."

Sheffield’s huge Ship Channel planthere is always on the move.

About 18 months ago, the mill putinto operation special heat treating fa-cilities which produce special high-strength alloy steels to the rigid specifi-cations of the mill’s customers in the oil,

Teeming steel into ingot molds is a spec-tacular job.

aircraft, and other Southucstern indus-tries.

These facilities ~ in ~+hich tempera-ture and quality are controlled by thelatest electronic devices uere designedand constructed under the direclinn ofSheffield’s metallurgists and engineers.

"Completion of these facilities was animportant step in the industrial expan-sion of the Southwest," Mr. Newell com-mented. "Formerly, manufacturers usingthese special steels had to seek themfrom Eastern mills. Our plant in Hous-ton has created a dependable nearbysource of alloy steel for the entire South-west, and it provides an additional in-ducement to the oil, aircraft and otherindustries to locate in this area."

Other recent pace-setting develop-ments at the Houston plant include mod-ification of its blast furnace, and addi-lion of ore bedding and sintering sys-lems which have increased pig iron pro-dttction to 1,500 tons a day.

Sheffield’s Houston plant, completedin 1942, was the first integrated steelmill to be constructed in Texas. It is stillthe largest.

Its eight open-hearth furnaces and

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two electric furnaces can produce an-nually 1.365.000 ingot tons of steel when

they are operating at capacity, as theyare at the present time.

This steel is produced in more than225 standard grades, as well as in anumber of special grades of heat-treatedalloy steel.

Metal from the blast furnace is "’charged"into an open hearth furnace.


An aerial view of the huge Sheffield Steel plant shows the Houston Ship Channel in the background

Tile Houston mill is fed with about 1million tons of ore annually- from EastTexas, Mexico. and Central and SouthAmerica. About 70 per cent of the oreused is mined in East Texas. Tile Shef-field furnaces here also consume morethan .100,000 tons of locally-purchasedscrap each year.

Some k000 employees keep this iIPdustrial giant on tile move.

ILL terms of dollars ahme. Sheffielddirectly contributes over $10(t millioneach year to the Texas economy undernormal eircumstances.

This includes its purchases of iron oreand other raw materials for steel-mak-ing; the wages and salaries of its em-ployees; its exl)enditures for scholar-ships, educational projects, and othercommunity and charitable causes; armfor all lhe services, such as transporta-/ion of raw materials and finished prod-nets. which are needed to keep its opera-lions moving.

E~en more impressive is the prosper-ily-generating power of the Sheffieldplant. The Federal Reserve Bank’s "Busi-ness Review." discussing in its Decem-ber. 1959. issue the Southwestern steelirMustry, remarked :

" . . . The steel industry is importantto the eeonomy of the Southwest in anumber of ways. It provides for a sig-nificant share of the existing steel re-quirements of the region, and . . . facil-itates the growlh of other industriesthrough its impact upon regional in-come. and by providing local steel sup-plies."

In an exhaustive analysis of Houston’seconomy made in the same publicalionlast April, the following comment on the

MARCH, 1960

imporlance of the primary metals indus-Irv was made:

"’A eorollarv to the Houston oil indus-try is the metal and metal products in-dustries of the area. Employing ahnost~0.000 ~orkers. the primary metal, fab-ricaling metal, and machinery concernsaccount for about $200 million of wagesand salaries. Most of the produels ofthese firms are directly related to the oilindustry through Iheir utilization frydrilling, production, refining or trans-porlalion sectors.

"’However. to ;.Ilk increasing exlenl, themetal irrdustries of Houston are braneh-ing out inlo other types of products, par-ticularly those associated with consumerdurables and other non oil-related ])rod-IIUtS.

"This move may he expected to ac-,’elerate as the Southwestern marketsexpand and the new producls find theirway into nal ional and international mar-kets."

According Io tire latest available fig-ures compiled by the Houston Chamberof Commerce research departmenl, pri-

mary metal producing and metal usingfirms in the Houston area have an in-vestment of al)proximately $400 million,and annual sales amount Io apl)roxi-mately $800 million.

To understand how basic Sheffield’sHouston mill is to the Houston-ar,’aeconomy -and why steel- making is"heavy industrv" at its heaviest let’stake a look at some of Ihe products ,,fthis mill, which are distrihuted prima-rily in the Houslon area, and through-out Texas, Nm~ Mexico. Oklahoma.l.ouisiana, and Mississippi.

In addition to its high-strength, heat-Ireated special alloy steels, Sheffield’sproduction ]isl includes heavy plates;structural steel: reinforcing bars andmesh for the builders of Texas homesand highways; wire products of all kindsfor fencing and binding; an infinite va-riety of nails in all shapes and sizes;tank heads for" various manufacturingindustries--and many other productsfor the thousands of the steel-using in-dustries, fabricato rs. and warehousefirms throughout the Southwesl.

Heat treating facilities supply special steel requirements.

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Port Manager Predicts Growing WorlIt ~as International Relations night for

nearly 200 memt)ers of the Houston Businessand Professional Women’s (~luh and their~uests at the February meeting and the Navi-gation l)istriet played a big part in the pro-,’eedings, with Executive Secretary Edith Han-net. right, president of the (’luh, and GeneralManager J. P. Turner, the guest speaker. Theladies in I)ut(’h costumes are Miss Shadie Bag-gett, left, and Miss (3co Sums. (’o-hostesses the Holland table. Mr. Turner told of thePort’s active program in developing better in-ternational relations, predicting a grm~ing~orht trade for the "’Sensational Sixties" and :cited ,’onstruetion completed, underplay andplanned at the Port to provide the addeddocks and other facilities needed to meet thisincreased international eommer,’e. He de-s,’rihed it as "Racin’ the Tide" i.e.. raein" tobuiht adequate new facilities to keep ahead ofthe tide of worht commerce looking to Hous-ton. The meeting featured tables of other landswith memhers dressed in native costume. Mr.Turner ~as introduced hy Mrs. Mildred White.Texas Transport and Terminal Co.. head ofthe B&PW International Relations Committee.

N.F.T.C. DATES SET

Dates have been set for lhe 17th and18th National Foreign Trade Conven-lions, 1960 and 1961 respectively. IheNFTC Board of Direclors have an-nounced. Both meetings will be at IheWaldorf-Asloria, in Neu York. Dalesfor 1960 are November 14. 15 and 16and for 1961. Oct. 30. 31 and Nov. 1.

d Trade In Sixties

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HOUSTON

MARCH, 1960

TERMINAL CORP.Address Inquiries To: NEW ORLEANS

P. O. Box 52, GALENA PARK, TEXAS

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Spacious Transit Sheds Are Opened At Port of Houston

When the Port Commissioners formally accepted the three new docksat the Port of Houston recently, the huge transit sheds on Docks 18and 19 were already loaded with inbound and outbound cargo. Widespans and a high roof with many skylights make these transit sheds

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among the most modern in the United States. Railroad tracks on theapron of the dock as ~ell as at the rear and special truck loadingfacilities make it pnssihle to mo~e cargo with speed and safety.

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