a. o. smith builds pressure vessels for

A. O. Smith BuildsPressure Vessels ForNation’s Industries

From a tiny manufacturer of partsfor baby carriages and bicycles to sec-ond largest steel user in the UnitedStates that is the 80-year advancementof A. O. Smith Corporation of Milwau-kee.

The company which had its humbleorigin in a small Milwaukee machineshop now has plants scattered from NewEngland to Los Angeles and as far southas Houston, manufacturing a steadystream of steel products for industry,farm and home.

A call from the United States Navyin early 1942 told of the urgent needfor more high-pressure air flasks, andA. O. Smith stepped in to supply thegoods by establishing the necessaryplant near the Houston Ship Channel.

A year later the nation’s mushroom-ing shipbuilding industry was criticallyshort of welding electrodes. Again A. O.Smith helped meet the crisis by addingan additional plant onto the HoustonWorks for the war’s duration.

Still another building was added afterthe war for producing oil refinery equip-ment and welded products.

Today A. O. Smith’s Houston Worksmanufactures LPG motor fuel tanks,pressure vessels and heat exchangers ofall sizes for the oil and chemical indus-tries plus large-diameter penstocks fortransporting huge volumes of water tocreate electrical power.

Fabrication of pressure vessels illHouston ranges from 2 by 2-foot"babies" to giant vessels 24 feet in di-ameter, 70 feet high and weighing 454,-000 pounds.

Exclusive A. O. Smith products aremuhi-layered pressure vessels fashionedby wrapping and welding successivelayers of steel plate around an innershell. The finished product is a light,strong, thick-walled vessel able to with-stand tremendous pressures.

Gigantic hydraulic presses used forextrusion of airplane sections use A. O.Smith "accumulators" made by thewrapping process.

A. O. Smith "firsts," which includethe original welded pressure vessel(1925), are the result of ceaseless re-search in the field of industrial science.A. O. Smith engineers continually de-velop manufacturing techniques to trans-late new knowledge of steel and how touse it into practical service.

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A 92,500-pound, 100-foot pressure vessel is loaded aboard the motorshlp BAWEAN at Port of Hous-ton. Made by A. O. Smith’s Houston Works, vessel is destined for the Iroqul Refinery, Baghdad, flag.

Vacuum tower, weighing 299,000 pounds, departs A. O. Smith’s Houston Works, on first leg of tripto Asiatic Petroleum Company refinery in Curacao.

This is one of three bays comprising principal manufacturing area of A. O. Smith’s Houston Works.In center foreground are heat exchangers in several stages of completion. Further back storage

tanks may be seen.

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A Fort Worth-built B-36 bomber releases and retrieves a "parasite" RF-84F reconnaissance fighter. The Air Force has ordered an undisclosed numberof B-36s converted for this operation in the Fort Worth plant of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair|.

FORTFamous "Cowtow,,For

WORTH"Now Major Center

Nation’s Growing Aivcvaft IndustryFew cities in America are blessed

with a diversified economy as is FortWorth.

For some cities it’s manufacturingthat makes them click. Others owe theirstrength to agriculture.

Fort Worth has both.Today aircraft manufacturing is the

blue ribbon industry. Convair continuesturning out the giant B-36 bomber forthe Air Force, has a development con-tract for a supersonic bomber and isdoing research and development in con-nection with nuclear-propulsion of air-craft.

Bell Aircraft’s future apparently isunlimited with the company finally in aposition to start filling a huge backlogof helicopter orders for commercial andprivate use.

Scores of subcontractors and sup-pliers are turning out parts and equip-ment for these and other aircraft manu-facturers in the area. Fort Worth’s air-craft industry is paying $15,750,000 amonth to more than 42,000 workers . . ¯not counting the airlines which head-quarter and operate in and out of thecity.

Fort Worth’s industrial payrolls todaytotal $165,000,000 annually.

And behind all these manufacturing

plants is the investment in property,equipment and materials of thousandsof stockholders and owners an invest-ment averaging $6,500 per worker.

But with all this newly founded in-dustrial riches, Fort Worth, the citymade great by cattle and farming, stillclings fondly to its agricultural economy.

Fort Worth today is the largest live-stock marketing and processing centersouth of Kansas City with close to $200,-000,000 worth of cattle, sheep and hogspassing through the stockyard gates an-nually.

The stockyards, packing plants andallied industry provide employment forupward of 10,000 people with annualpayroll of between $18,000,000 and$21,000,000.

Fort Worth, too, is the south’s capitalof grain milling and storage.

More quality package candy of the$2 a pound variety is manufactured inFort Worth than in any city in thesouth. Ditto for uniform type of workgarments.

Oil, another factor in Fort Worth’sgrowth, is a major economic artery-pumper. The city has two big refineries,is a keystone in a huge pipeline network,and is headquarters of a dozen majorand large independent operators.

Fort Worth, too, is the home of the8th Air Force, which mans the hugeB-36s and is the only known atomic air-craft bombing team in the world.

And Fort Worth literally is burstingat the seams with new citizens. Here’sthe picture:

The population for the city of FortWorth in 194,0 was 178,662. The esti-mated population for the city on Febru-ary 1 was 335,336. This is a percentageincrease of about 88 per cent since 1940.

Population of Tarrant County in 1940was 225,521. The estimate as of Febru-ary 1 was 477,382. This is a percentageincrease of about 111 per cent.

Practically every trunk line railroadoperating through the Southwest entersFort Worth. From these nine trunk lines16 additional outlets radiate from FortWorth in every direction. Six airlinesserve Fort Worth with around-the-com-pass feeder service available for shortertrips from its new International Air-port--Amon Carter Field. Scores ofdaily flights provide direct services tothe most important cities of the nation.And you can drive comfortably overwide, safe highways to Fort Worth fromeverywhere.

Fort Worth enjoys a national reputa-

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Greater Fort Worth International Airport, Amon Carter Field, is said by aviation experts to be the "finest in the land." This shot, taken from the rearo~: the beautiful terminal building, affords a good view of loading areas at the $15 million airport.

tion of making conventions and salesconferences memorable, boasting 12major hotels and 40-odd other smallerones downtown and in the suburbs.Courteous personal service and reason-able rates are combined with comfort,convenience and luxury. A keystone inFort Worth’s unexcelled convention fa-cilities is its magnificent civic center--the Will Rogers Memorial Auditoriumand Coliseum and Exhibit Buildings.The vast arena of the Coliseum is thesetting for rodeos and horse shows, auto-mobile and home shows, and for largerconventions and sales conferences. Seat-ing capacity is 6,000 which can be ex-panded comfortably to 9,000. The audi-torium will seat 3,000.

Hotels are convenient to fine theatersand glittering night spots. Bright lightsand music, dancing, road shows, opera,and concerts enhance Fort Worth as anentertainment center.

The city’s dining spots are known farand wide for their sizzling steaks, goldenfried chicken and Chinese and Mexicandishes.

For spectator sports there is baseballin the summer--The Fort Worth Catsof the Texas League--and football inthe fall and winter--the Texas ChristianHorned Frogs of the Southwest Con-ference.

Fort Worth, because it stands sentinelat the Gateway to the West, always hasfelt an affinity with nature. That’s whythe city boasts half a hundred parkscovering an area of nearly 11,000 acres--most of them as virgin and naturalas when they were fashioned by nature’shand. Trinity, Forest and Rock SpringsParks, interlinking within the heart ofthe city, provide a woodland wonder cutthrough by the waters of the TrinityRiver. Miles of scenic drives . . . a Bo-tanic Garden famed from coast-to-coast

Here is the mile-long Fort Worth division of Convair. Completed B-36 bombers leave the finalassembly llne at far end of the 4,000-foot building. Interesting pattern in foreground is "resolution

target" used in testing photographic equipment an B-36 reconnaissance bombers.

¯ . . one of the finest zoos in the South-west . . . swimming pools . . . tenniscourts . . . baseball diamonds . . . picnicfacilities . . . horseback riding and cy-cling. With one acre of recreationalspace to every 28 citizens, Fort Worthcan always find time to play . . . anddoes.

In addition to its great park system,Fort Worth is a city of big inland lakes.Like fishing? Boating? A week-end ona breeze-swept shore? You’ll find it alljust a hop-skip-and-jump from the down-town area. More than 40 square miles ofwater cover the three municipally con-trolled lakes north of the city--Worth,Eagle Mountain, Bridgeport--lakeswhich rank among the 10 largest reser-voirs in the country. Teeming with crap-pie, bass, perch, bream and catfish, they

are dotted with boats, both sail and mo-tor powered. Hundreds of camp sites andsummer cottages lie along the beautifullytimbered shores. And still, that’s not all

two more great lakes have just beencompleted: Benbrook reservoir south ofthe city; and Grapevine Lake, a 20-minute drive to the northeast.

At least a dozen dude ranches arewithin easy driving distances of FortWorth. These ranches offer modern ac-commodations and still are in keepingwith the traditions of the Old West.Trails through timber and open plains,camp fires, chuck wagon meals, round-ups, square dancing and just plain re-laxing are offered.

Fort Worth is also a golfing town.In addition to the four 18-hole munici-pal courses, are three beautiful country

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HOUSTON PORT BOOK, SPRING, 1954 41

THE PORT AUTHORITY

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

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

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

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

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

Basin, fifty miles inland from the Gulfof Mexico, and over all streams tribu-tary to the channel in Harris County.

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

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

POLICY AND PROGRAMA broad policy has been adopted by

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

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

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

World-wide attention has been fo-cused upon the Port of Houston with theincreasing volume of cargoes movingthrough this relatively young deep-seaterminus during postwar years. Over44,144,000 tons of commerce valued at$1,983,650,445 moved over the HoustonShip Channel during 1953. From 1948until 1952 (the last official year of rec-

ord) Houston has ranked as the secondbusiest American port according to offi-cial Corps of Engineers statistics. Morethan 46.6 million tons moved over Hous-ton wharves in 1952.

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

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

The District’s new Manchester DockNo. 3, a 500-foot open-type creosotedpile and timber structure has also beencompleted in recent months. Construc-tion is nearly complete on Wharf 8, amodern, million-dollar, steel and con-crete, open wharf, located adjacent toWharf 9.

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

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TRUCKS ARE BIGBUSINESS AT THEPORT OF HOUSTON

Modern port operators gear theiroperating procedures, plan and designtheir new facilities, with one aim inmind--to give shippers the best pos-sible service.

This means that docks must be con-structed high enough and long enoughto accommodate modern cargo vesselswith ease and efficiency, that aprons andrear loading platforms must be servedwith adequate rail facilities, and thatwharves and warehouses must also bebuilt to provide easy access to another--steadily growing -- means of land trans-portation -- trucks.

Trucks are big business at the Portof Houston.

Statistics don’t reveal just what per-centage of the port’s general cargo isbrought in or carried away in trucks.But on a busy working day, the harriedterminal operator is beset with a swarmof roaring, back-firing highway mon-sters. Flat-bed trailers coming in to pickup foreign steel, giant vans arriving toload canned goods or leave carbonblack, cotton trucks from interior com-presses, grain trucks bringing exportwheat or milo to the public elevators,and innumerable other trucks, big andlittle, for long-haul or local deliveryand pickup.

They roll onto the open docks, backup to loading ramps, ease into the bigtransit sheds, or stop alongside a vesselitself to load or discharge.

Hardly an item of cargo exists thatisn’t in some way susceptible to trucktransport. Even trucks themselves--oilfield specialty equipment, for example--are hauled in by other trucks for export.

It’s an important, growing movement,and the highways that radiate from theport, linking it with its interior tradingareas, are vital to trade communications.

So it is that the Port of Houston mustkeep its eye on the trucks -- in orderingtomorrow’s dock labor force--or inplanning its future docks and ware-houses.

WORLD’S TALLEST SKYSCRAPER?If all the major buildings that have

been constructed in downtown Houstonsince World War I[ were placed end onend, there isn’t any doubt that Houstonwould have far and away the world’stallest skyscraper, towering a gigantic340 stories into the air.

That’s just one way of saying thatmighty, metropolitan Houston is grow-ing like a beanstalk.


On the broad apron of Dock 9 at Port of Houston, a Central Freight Lines’ van-trailer finds plentyof space to get alongside vessel for direct ship-to-truck delivery.

Over Texas OvernightWith Central Freight Lines

One Model T truck was all W. W.Callan of Waco had in 1925 when hedecided to start his own freight haulingbusiness. Callan himself was the driver;he made the Waco-Dallas highway hisroute, and on this slim beginning wasborn Central Freight Lines, Inc.

Today more than 450 Texas cities,towns and villages are served by Cen-tral’s trucks, operating over nearly 5,000miles of highways.

When the more than a quarter-centuryold, Texas-owned motor freight line cele-brated its silver anniversary in 1950,its service reached from the Port ofHouston to the Panhandle, from SanAntonio to within shouting distance ofOklahoma.

Its latest acquisition was the purchasein 1952 of Southern Motor Lines, serv-ing Houston and the Sabine-Gulf Coastarea.

The year 1948 saw the company em-bark on an immense, state-wide buildingprogram to provide ultra-modern ter-minals throughout the Central system.

Central maintains six major stations,each equipped with complete loading,warehousing, maintenance and officeactivities, twenty-nine company-ownedstations with complete customer service,and sixty-five commission agency sta-tions.

Other communities on the Centralroute get daily pickup and delivery serv-ice from truck to store door. Only atenth of the people served by Centrallive in communities of less than 10,000population, yet this 10 per cent receivesmore than a third of all Central-handledfreight.

On an average day, Central movesroughly 6,000 shipments, rolling anaverage 165 miles to destination, witha fleet composed of 213 truck-tractors,332 van trailers, 38 flat-bed trailers and255 trucks in city pickup and deliveryservice.

Central’s Houston terminal incorpor-ates in its 35,000 square feet all thatis safe, efficient, practical and time-saving in motor freight handling.

Its most interesting feature is theFloorveyor system in the truck dock. Anendless chain installed in the dock floorpulls a stream of pallet-sized carts.Freight unloaded from an incomingtruck is assigned a number by the check-er over inter-com, loaded on a Floor-veyor and the number is chalked on asmall blackboard on the front of thecart. When loaded, the cart is hookedinto the moving conveyor chain andcontinues its circuit of the dock untilit arrives at the truck destined to recei~ethe load, as indicated by the number onthe blackboard.

A broad canopy, extending the fulllength of the dock, permits all-weatherloading, and floodlights provide fullillumination for night operations. Ga-rage service is provided for repair andoverhaul of both gasoline and dieseltrucks.

As Central’s service expands, so doits facilities. Building to meet today’sneeds, it keeps a weather eye on thefuture as well. The Houston terminal,like Central’s other new facilities, is builtfor years to come.

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At the earth’s middle m latitude O°O’O"m stands this monument on the equator-- a few

kilometers from Quito, capital of Ecuador.

Natives shown here are drying cocoa in the streets of the port of Guayaquil.

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Native boats line the beaches along the Bay of Caraquez on Ecuador’s Pacific coast.

ECUADORBy

CARLOS RENDON CHIRIBOGAConsul of Ecuador in Houston

In the northwestern part of SouthAmerica, where the Andes meet theequator, lies the beautiful country ofEcuador, its name derived from its loca-tion astride the earth’s middle dividingline.

One of the most picturesque and fas-cinating countries of the world, Ecuadoris crossed from north to south by theCordillera of the Andes, forming tworanges which at intervals entwine andinterlace like towering, snow-coveredknots.

The rugged nature of its interiorterrain and the geographical accident ofof its location in the lower latitudesgive Ecuador a climate that varies frommoderately cold in the high plains totropical heat on the Pacific Coast.

Quito, capital of the Republic andseat of the democratic government, issurrounded by mountains that seem tobe watch towers, jealous guardians ofthe city that nestles in their bosom.Built 9,500 feet above sea level, Quitois second city of the world at this rari-fied altitude.

For the enormous quantity of worksof art it contains, the city has rightfullybeen called "Quito, Shrine of Art." Itschurches, each of which represents adifferent architectural style, are builtwith enormous blocks of massive, pol-ished stone. Profusely gilded, they aretrue marvels of Byzantine art and ba-roque with Moorish or Spanish influ-ence. Each contains its own excellentpublic museum of relics and religiousarticles. Two, especially, may be singledout--"San Francisco" and "La Compa-nia," where complete collections can befound of paintings and sculptures ofthe "Quito School."

Guayaquil, principal port of Ecuador,is situated on the banks of the RiverGuayas, 60 miles distant from thePacific Ocean. It is a modern city offer-ing to its visitors varied and pleasantentertainment as well as a pleasant tropi-cal climate. Most of the country’s grow-ing export and import trade passesthrough Guayaquil, where extensive portimprovements are being planned tohandle the daily growing commerce.

Principal exports from this countryof four million citizens are cacao; cof-fee; bananas; rice; india-rubber ; crudepetroleum ; sulphur ; palm ; hard woods ;


balsa wood; ivory nuts; unfinishedhides; fiber of the ceiba or silk-cottontree ; pineapple; cinchona bark; quinineextract; sisal; oranges, juices and con-centrates; banana meal; various vegeta-ble gums; straw and the world-famous,so-called "Panama" hats (made in Ecua-dor with Ecuadorian straw and by ex-pert Ecuadorian workers.) Additionallythere are hand-woven cotton and woolentextiles, including beautiful rugs andsashes made by the native Indians, hand-made silver filigree, leather manufac-tures and specialties and pharmaceuti.eal products.

Ecuador imports heavy machinery;road and highway equipment; wheat;petroleum derivatives; motor vehicles;chemicals; tires; surgical, medical andscientific equipment and all classes ofmanufactured goods.

Movement of Ecuadorian productsthrough the Port of Houston has in-creased more than 500 per cent in thelast five years, and it is still on theupgrade. Even so, it has not yet reachedthe volume which may eventually beexpected, due perhaps to the fact thatthese products are still relatively un-known in this market, and because theywere originally introduced through olderports.

We are confident that Ecuador’s ex-ports entering the U. S. market willcontinue a gradual upward movementtowards an eventual balance with im-ports.

Acknowledgment: All pictures usedhere as illustration /or Mr. Rendon’sarticle are ]rom the book "Nieve ySe/va en Ecuador" and are printed withthe permission o] the book’s publisher,Editorial Bruno Moritz, Guayaquil. This is Quito, looking towards the Cathedral from the Government Palace.

Silhouetted here in a white, fantastic world of snow and ice is thismountaineer on the towering Ecuadorean peak, Iliniza.


Here is the commercial center of busy Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest port.

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

Inward bound vessels, having taken apilot aboard at the sea buoy, proceedor. ~. ~orth-northwestward course acrossGaheston Bay for 241/~ miles to MorganPoint, where the 36-foot deep channelenters the mainland. For 9 additionalmiles they follow the broad, windingcourse of the San Jacinto River to apoint where it converges with historicBuffalo Bayou. Then proceeding alongthe lazy, meandering Bayou they pro-gress generally westward for 16 milesto the upstream head of the Ship Chan-nel at the Turning Basin.

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

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

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

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

Since 1948 she has trailed only mam-moth Port of New York in volume oftonnage shipped over her channel; 1950was a record year for local port opera-tion with 40.8 million tons handled inHouston and 1951 hit another all-timehigh with a total of over 43.7 milliontons. In 1952, a new high of 46,607,179tons was set.

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

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

Still in the hands of the Corps ofEngineers is the Navigation District’srequest for a 40-foot channel as farupstream as Sims Bayou. No action hasbeen taken as yet towards official ap-proval of this project, originally re-quested to allow the deep-draft supertankers to navigate the waterway in theareas occupied by refineries.

Port authorities have requested theelimination of previously authorizedturning basins at Sims Bayou and atBrady Island and that a new one be con-structed at old Clinton Island. An aux-

iliary turning basin at Hunting Bayouis already authorized. A light-draft chan-nel behind Brady Island is scheduledfor deepening to 10 feet and wideningto 60 feet.

Above the Turning Basin, a 10-footlight-draft channel, following the tortu-ous course of upper Buffalo Bayou, ex-tends to Main Street in the virtual centerof metropolitan Houston. A number ofother streams, tributary to the mainchannel, are navigable for small craftand shallow-draft vessels. Offering greatattraction to industries concerned withwater-borne commerce, this intercon-necting network of waterways has con-tributed greatly to Houston’s amazingindustrial development.

Total net expenditures on widening,deepening and maintenance of the Hous-ton Ship Channel had reached 37.5 mil-lions of dollars by December 31, 1953.The present dredging program calls foran additional expenditure of approxi-mately $3,627,300 by estimated time ofcompletion.

The Navigation District and the fourprivate terminals-for-hire alone are re-liably estimated to have invested somefifty million dollars in erecting the splen-did wharves, docks, warehouses, andcargo handling facilities at the Port ofHouston. The Port provides berths alongits wharves for 84 ships and up to 25barges. Approximately 2.5 millionsquare feet of transit warehouse spaceare available, plus additional open spaceat shipside and in storage yards adja-cent to the waterfront.

Wide wharf aprons, conducive to theexpeditious handling of cargo, areequipped with railroad trackage forquick and efficient movement of freightfrom rail car to ship or vice-versa. Themost modern and efficient cargo han-dling equipment is available at the Portof Houston, including locomotive cranes

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T. H. SHERWOOD

SHERWOOD NAMEDPORT GRAIN CHIEF

T. H. Sherwood of Dallas has beennamed as superintendent of the Port ofHouston’s public grain elevator, replac-ing Robert H. Jordan.

Mr. Sherwood, formerly head of thegrain division of the Commodity CreditCorporation in Dallas, assumed his newduties May 17. Widely known through-out the trade territory served by the Portof Houston, Mr. Sherwood has beenidentified with the grain and millingindustry in the Midwest for 38 years.

For 13 years he was associated withthe Flour Mills of America in KansasCity as mill manager and later as salesmanager. He later became vice presi-dent and general manager in charge ofthe Walnut Creek Milling Company ofGreat Bend, Kansas, and was with thisfirm for 15 years.

He has been in charge of the Com-modity Credit Corporation grain stafffor the past 18 months.

In announcing appointment of thenew superintendent, Port Director War-ren D. Lamport said, "Mr. Sherwoodis highly regarded by the grain tradein the Midwest as an expert in his field.His entire working life has been in thegrain business. He is a skilled executivewith highly valuable contacts among thePort of Houston’s grain customers andpotential customers."

"As superintendent of the Houstonpublic grain elevator, Mr. Sherwood willhave full and complete management re-sponsibility in operating the facility,"the port director added.

Mr. Sherwood is married and hasthree children. He is past master of theMasonic Lodge in Enterprise, Kansas,and past president of the Great Bend,Kansas, Rotary Club.


EGYPTIAN VESSELSOFFER NEW SERVICETO NEAR EAST PORTS

The American Mideast Line has an-nounced initiation of regular monthlysailings from the U. S. Gulf and Atlanticports to the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden,Persian Gulf, Pakistan and India.

First vessel to sail in the company’snew service was the Egyptian motorshipPort Said. All vessels operating the newroute are modern fifteen-knot motor ves-sels, some of which have accommoda-tions for 40 passengers. Each ship willhave deep-tank space for liquid cargoand compartments for refrigeration.

The joint service is composed of theAlexandria Navigation Company and theSociete Misr Navigation Maritime ofAlexandria, Egypt. Owners have ap-pointed Fowler & McVitie, Inc. sub-agents at Houston and other Gulf ports.Messrs. T. J. Stevenson & Co., Inc., ofNew York are general agents for theUnited States.

HOUSTON’S HARBOR SEESDAILY PARADE OF FLAGS

Twenty-one foreign nations, led by theNetherlands with twenty-three vessels,sent ships to the Port of Houston in themonth of January, 1954. Norway, withnineteen ships, was second, and GreatBritain with 17 was in third place.

The resurgent German merchant ma-rine sent fourteen and Japan, also com-ing back strongly in foreign trade, sailedseven.

Other nations joining the parade offlags at Port of Houston were Argen-tina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Den-mark, Ecuador, France, Greece, Hon-duras, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Nicara-gua, Panama, Sweden and Venezuela.

Over the entire year 1953 a total ofthirty-five countries were represented inships visiting the port. Even land-lockedSwitzerland, a country without a sea-port, had vessels at Houston.

Of 1,898 steamers docking in Houstonlast year, 1,120 were of foreign registry,and of 1,700 motor vessels a total of1,659 flew foreign flags.

In January of this year, 206 UnitedStates flag ships made Houston a portof call as compared with 137 foreignvessels.

Ship Through Portof Houston

CHARLES A. BARROWS

BARROWS TO REPRESENTHOUSTON IN MIDWEST

Charles A. Barrows, formerly exportmanager for one of the Midwest’s larg-est flour mills, has been named regionalrepresentative of the Houston Port Bu-reau in Kansas City.

Mr. Barrows began his new duties inApril, and filled the vacancy created inthe Bureau’s Midwest trade solicitationoffice by the recent resignation of LloydL. Leonard.

For the past nine years Mr. Barrowshas been export manager of Flour Millsof America in Kansas City. Previouslyhe was associated with the MidlandFlour Milling Company in the samecapacity.

He has lived in Kansas City since1941 and is a member of the Chamberof Commerce, foreign trade club, andother organizations.

Port Names WilsonCivil Defense Head

The Houston Port Commission hasannounced the appointment of Jack E.Wilson as supervisor of civil defense forPort of Houston. Mr. Wilson assumedhis duties on February 15, and repre-sents the port on the planning staff ofthe director of civil defense for the Cityof Houston.

Mr. Wilson’s initial responsibility willbe to help organize a disaster plan forship channel terminals and industrieswhich will be integrated into the overallcivil defense plan for the city. He is ex-pected to work closely with the PortDisaster Committee, composed of indus-try representatives, and the Port Secur-ity Council, composed of coast guardand port operating interests, toward thisend.

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

with corresponding numbers in table on pages 50 to 53)

COUNTRY and PORTS KEY

ANGOLA (Africa)Lobito ......................... 28Luanda ........................ 28

ALGERIAAlgiers ...................... 33, 64Arzew ......................... 64Oran ..................... 33, 64, 94

ARGENTINABuenos Aires ............... 28, 35, 80

AUSTRALIAAdelaide ....................... 2, 6Brisbane ...................... 2, 6Freemantle ..................... 2, 6Melbourne ................... 2, 6Sydney ...................... 2, 6

BELGIAN CONGOMatadi ........................ 28

BELGIUMAntwerp ...... 11, 29, 36, 42, 47, 50, 63,

79, 83, 91, 100, 107Ghent ........ 11, 29, 36, 42, 47, 50, 63,

79, 83, 91, 100, 107

BOLIVIA (Trans-shipment viaPuerto Sucre, Venezuela)

BRAZILBahia ........................ 28Bel,em ......................... 28Fortaleza .................... 28Paranagua ................... 28, 80Porto Alegre ................... 28Reclfe .................... 13, 28Rio de Janeiro ........... 13, 28, 35, 80Rio Grande .................... 28Santos ................. 13, 28, 35, 80

BRITISH GUIANAGeorgetown ................... 86

BRITISH HONDURASBelize ..................... 51, 104

BRITISH WEST INDIESPort of Spain, Trinidad ........... 62, 86

CANADAHalifax, N. S ..................... 99Montreal, Q ..................... 99

S:. John, N. F ................... 99

CANARY ISLANDSTenerife ..................... 76, 89

CEYLONColombo .................. 14, 45, 55

CHILEAntofagasta .............. 18, 40, 108Arica .................... 18, 40, 108San Antonio .............. 18, 40, 108Talcahuano ............... 18, 40, 108Valparaiso .............. 18,40, 108

CHINAHongkong ................. 34, 65, 92

COLOMBIABarranquilla .............. 39, 62, 103Buenaventura .......... 18, 39, 40, 108Cartagena .................... 39, 62Santa Marta .................... 103Tumaco ........................ 39

COSTA RICAGolfito ........................ 105Puerto Limon .................... 51Puntarenas .................. 67, 105Quepos ........................ 105

CUBACaibarien ...................... 21Cardenas .................... 21, 37Cienfuegos ............... 37, 41, 98Gibara ........................ 21Guantanamo ................... 21Havana ................... 23, 37, 62Manzanillo ................... 41, 98

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Matanzas .................... 21, 37Pastelillo .................. 21, 37, 62Santiago .................. 21, 37, 62

DENMARKCopenhagen ........... 11, 63, 87, 100

DOMINICAN REPUBLICCiudad Trujillo ............... 62, 103

EAST AFRICADares Salaam ................. 31, 61Mombasa .................... 31, 61Tanga ....................... 31,61

ECUADORBahia de Caraquez ............ 39, I08Guayaquil ............. 18, 39, 40, 108Manta ...................... 39, 108Salinas ...................... i 08

EL SALVADORAcajutla ................. 62, 67, 105Amapala ....................... 67La Libertad ............... 62, 67, 105La Union ................. 62, 67, 105

ENGLANDAvonmouth .................... 66Hull ...................... 66Liverpool ......... 24, 43, 60, 66, 85, 95London ................ 24, 47, 66, 85Manchester ....... 24, 43, 60, 66, 85, 95

EGYPTAlexandria ........ 1, 12, 44, 45, 56, 64Port Said ............. 1, 12, 45, 56, 64Suez .................. 12, 45, 56, 64

FINLANDAbo .......................... 63Helsinki ..................... 1 O0

FORMOSAKeelung .............. 34, 65, 92, 107Takao ...................... 65, 92

FRANCEBordeaux ................ 11, 36, 63Cherbourg .......... 11,36, 63, 91, 107Dunkirk . . .11,29,36,47,50,63,91, 107Havre .... 11, 29, 36, 47, 50, 63, 91, 107La Palllce .... 11, 29, 36, 50, 63, 91, 107Marseilles .............. 11, 33, 63, 94

FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICAPointe Noire .................... 28

FRENCH INDO CHINAHaiphong ...................... 65Saigon .................. 34, 53, 65

FRENCH SOMALILANDDjlbouli ...................... 45, 56

GERMANYBremen ...... 11,29, 36, 42, 47, 50, 63,

79, 83, 91, 100, 107Hamburg ..... 11,29,36,42,47,50,63,

79, B3, 91, 100, 107

GOLD COASTTakaradi ..................... 28

GREECEIraklion, Crete ................... 44Patras ......................... 44Piraeus ........... 7, 11,44, 64, 74, 94Salonlka ....................... 44

GUATEMALAChamperico .................... 105Puerto Barrios ............ 51, 69, 104San Jose ................. 62, 67, 105

HAITICiudad Trujillo .................. 41Port au Prince .............. 21,41,62


HAWAIIAN ISLANDSHilo ....................... 54, 68Honolulu .................. 54, 65, 68Kahului ...................... 54, 68Nawiliwili .................... 54, 68Port Allen ................... 54, 68

HONDURASAmapala .................... 62, 105Puerto Cortes .............. 51, 69, 104Puerto Limon .................... 69Tela ...................... 69, 104

INDIABombay ............ 1,45, 55, 75, 93Calcutta ............ 14, 45, 55, 75, 93Cochin ...................... 45, 55Madras .................. 45, 55, 75

IRANAbadan ....................... 1, 75Bandar Shahpuhr .............. 57, 75Khorramshahr .............. 1,57, 75

IRAQBasrah .................. 1, 57, 75

IRELANDBelfast ...................... 66, 77Cork ........................ 66Dublin ..................... 66, 85

ISRAELHaifa ............ 44,52,56,64, 110Jaffa ....................... 52, 64Tel Aviv .............. 52, 56, 64, 110

ITALYGenoa 7, 11, 33, 44, 64, 74, 89, 94, 110Leghorn ............ 11, 64, 74, 89, 94Naples ....... 7, 11,44, 64, 74, 89, 94Venice ............ 11, 44, 64, 74, 94

JAPANKobe ..... 8, 25, 34, 48, 58, 59, 65, 72,

77, 82, 88, 92, 107, 109Moji .......... 58, 65, 77, 92, 107, 109Nagoya ......... 25, 58, 59, 72, 77, 82,

92, 107, 109Osaka ....... 25, 34, 48, 58, 59, 65, 72,

77, 82, 88, 92, 107, 109Shimizu ...................... 25, 58Yokohama . 8, 25, 34, 48, 58, 59, 65, 72,

77, 82, 88, 92, 107, 109Yokkaichi ..... 25, 58, 59, 65, 72, 77, 82,

92, 107, 109

KOREAInchon ........................ 65Pusan ................. 65, 92, 107

KUWAIT (Saudi Arabia)Khor-aI-Mufatta ................. 75Mena-aI-Ahmadi ................ 75Kuwait .................... 1,57, 75

LEBANONBeirut ........... 11, 44, 45, 56, 64, 75Tripoli ........................ 44

LIBERIAMonrovia ..................... 28

MEXICOCampeche ...................... 5Coatzocoalcos ............. 5, 90, 101Laguna del Carmen .............. 90Progreso ...................... 5, 90Tampico ................... 5, 70, 90Veracruz ............... 5, 70, 90, 101

MOROCCOCasablanca ....... 11,33, 64, 75, 76, 94

MOZAMBIQUE, AFRICABeira ................... 31, 61,97Lourenco Marques .......... 31, 61,97



NETHERLANDSAmsterdam ...... 11, 29, 42, 47, 50, 63,

79, 91, 100, 107Enschede .................... 29Rotterdam ....... 11, 29, 42, 47, 50, 63,

79, 83, 91, 100, 107NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES (Indonesia)

Balik Papan ............... 53Belawan-Deli ............ 12, 53, 65Cheribon .............. 12, 34, 53, 65Djakarta ............. 12, 34, 53, 65Makassar ............ 12, 34, 53, 65Palembang .............. 12, 53, 65Pangkal ........................ 53Pladju ...................... 12, 53Pula Sambu .................... 53Semarang ............ 12, 34, 53, 65Sungei Gerong .......... 12, 34, 53, 65Surabaya ............. 12, 34, 53, 65Tegal .................... 12, 53

NETHERLANDS GUIANA (Surinam)Paramariba ..................... 86

NETHERLANDS WEST INDIESAruba .................. 86, 103Curacao ............. 62, 86, 103

NEW ZEALANDAuckland .................... 6Dunedin .................... 6Lyttleton .................... 6Wellington ................. 6

NICARAGUACorinto ............. 67, 10SSan Juan del Sur ............ 67, 105

NIGERIALagos .................... 28

NORWAYBergen ............... 11, 63, 100Oslo ................ 11,63,87,100

PAKISTANChalma .................... 14Chittageng ................ 14, 55Karachi .............. 1, 45, 55, 75

PANAMA AND PANAMA CANAL ZONEBalboa, C. Z ................... 108Crlslobal, C. Z ......... 62, 108Colon, R. P ........... 103, 108Panama, R. P ........ 101, 103, 108Puerto Armuelies, R. P ............ 105


PERUCallao ................... 18, 40, 108Mollendo ................... 40, 108Paita .......................... 108Pimentel ..................... 108Talara ...................... 108

PHILIPPINE ISLANDSCagayan de Oro ................ 53Cebu ..................... 34, 53, 65Iloilo ................... 8, 34, 58, 65Manila ...... 25, 34, 53, 58, 65, 72, 107

POLANDGdynia ........................ 100Gdansk ....................... 1 O0

PORTUGALLisbon ................. 11,33, 63, 76Leixoes ..................... 63, 76Oporto ...................... 63, 76

PUERTO RICOMayaguez ..................... 62Ponce ......................... 62San Juan ...................... 62

SAUDI ARABIAAden .................. 12, 45, 56, 75Bahrein .................... 1,75Damman ..................... 1, 75Jeddah ................. 1, 12, 45, 56Ras-Tanura .................... 75

SCOTLANDGlasgow ...................... 66Newcastle .................... 66

SENEGAL (French West Africa)Dakar ........................ 28

SPAINBarcelona . 11,33,44,64,74,76,89,94Bilbao ......................... 76

STRAITS SETTLEMENTSPenang .................. 12, 53, 65Port Swettenham ......... 12, 34, 53, 65Singapore ............. 12, 34, 53, 65

SUDANSudan ....................... 45

SWEDENGothenberg ............... 11,63, 100Malmo ................. 11,63, 100Narrkoping .................. 11, 100Stockholm ............... 11, 63, 100


TAHITIPapeete ...................... 2

THAILANDBangkok .............. 34, 53, 65

TRIESTETrieste ................ 11, 64, 74, 94

TUNISIATunis .......................... 64

TURKEYDerince .................. 44Iskenderon ................... 44Istanbul ................ 7, 11,44, 64Izmir ......................... 11

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICACapetown ............... 31, 61,97Durban ................... 31, 61,97East London ............... 31,61,97Port Elizabeth .......... 31,61,97

U.S.A.*Alameda, California .............. 112

Baltimore, Maryland ............ 111*Los Angeles, California ............ 112

Port Newark, N. J ................ 111*Oakland, California ............. 112

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ....... 111*Portland, Oregon ................ 112*San Diego, California .............. 112*San Francisco, California .......... 112*Seattle, Washington ............. 112*Tacoma, Washington .............. 112

URUGUAYMontevideo ..................... 28

VENEZUELAAmuay Bay ..................... 106Carupano ...................... 86Guanta ............ 62, 86, 106La Guaira ......... 62, 86, 89, 103, 106La Salina ....................... 106Maracaibo ......... 62, 86, 103, 106Pampatar ................ 86Puerto Cabello .......... 62, 86, 106Puerto Sucre ................... 86

VIRGIN ISLANDSSt. Thomas ................ 103

YUGOSLAVIARijeka ................ 11, 64, 74, 94

*Service temporarily discontinued.

FIR AND YELLOW PINE LUMBERAND

RED CEDAR SHINGLES

W. H. Norris Lumber Company710-15 First National Bank Building

HOUSTON, TEXAS

LOCKWOOD & ANDREWSConsulting Engineers

Ports, Harbors, Navigation FacilitiesPublic Works, Airports, Earthworks, Roads

Structures, Mechanical and Electrical

Reports ~ Design ~ SupervisionSurveys ~ Valuations

CORPUS CHRISTI -- HOUSTON m VICTORIA, TEXAS

SOUTHERN BARGE TERMINALSOUTHERN BONOfO WAREHOUSE COMPANY

Barge Stevedoring ¯

PoolField WarehousingBarge Distribution

Terminal Office13161 Market Street Road Houston, Texas 2606 Niels Esperson Bldg.

GL-3-2056 CA-6471

¯ Pipe Storage


OPERATING THROUGH

PORT OF HOUSTON

STEAMSHIP SERVICES BETWEEN HOUSTON AND FOREIGN PORTSCORRECTED AS OF APRIL 1, 1954

KEY TOTABLE

pp. 48-49LINES PORTS OF CALL ~ HOUSTON__AGENT OR OPERATOR

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American Mideast Line

American Pioneer Line

- Mediterranean, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, PersianGulf, Pakistan and India

Australian Ports

Fowler & McVitie, In(:.

2Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.

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

4 Arrow Steamship Company Various Ports Strachan Shipping Company

Aztec Line

Bank LineBauer Steamship CorporationBauer Steamship CorporationBauer Steamship CorporationBlidberg Rothchild Co., Inc.

Bloomfield Steamship Company

Blue Funnel Line- Java New York Line

Lloyd Brasileiro

Brocklebank’s Cunard Service (Gulf)

A. L. Burbank & Co., Ltd.

Canadian Gulf Line, Ltd.

Central American S/S Agency, Inc.

Chilean Line

Cia. de Muelles de la Poblaeion VergaraCompanhia Nacional de Navegacao

Condor Lines, Inc.

Counties Ship Management Co.

Mexican Ports Biehl & Company

Australian and New Zealand Ports Strachan Shipping Company

Italy, Turkey, Greece and Mediterranean Ports

Daido Kaiun Kaisha, Ltd. (Daido Lines~

23 i Cubamar Line

24 Cunard Line

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Japan, Formosa and the Philippines

Red Sea/Persian GulfVarious PortsNetherlands, Trieste, Belgium, Yugoslavia,

French Morocco, Greece, Italy, Turkey,France, Germany, Denmark, Norway,Sweden, Portugal, Lebanon and Spain

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Straits Settlementsand Indonesia

Brazilian PortsIndia (Inbound cargo only)

Various Ports

Canadian Ports (Full cargo only)

Texas Marine Transport Co., Inc.Texas Marine Transport Co., Inc.Texas Marine Transport Co., Inc.Strachan Shipping Company

Bloomfield Steamship Company

Strachan Shipping Company

Thomas Rice & Company, Inc.

E. S. BinningsStrachan Shipping Company

Canadian Gulf Line, Ltd.

Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chilean Ports Strachan Shipping Company

South American Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Cuban Outports, Jamaica and Haiti

Various Ports

Cuba

United Kingdom Ports

Texas Marine Transport Co., Inc.

Japan and the Philippines


Cubamar Agencies, Inc.

E. S. Binnings

Hansen, Tidemann & Dalton SteamshipCompany, Inc.

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

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

28 Delta Line (Mississippi Shipping Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.

Company) West African Ports

29 1)eppe Line (Armement-Deppe S.A.~ Netherlands, French, Belgium and German Ports Hansen, Tidemann & Dalton SteamshipCompany, Inc.

30 Dover Steamship Company Various Ports Strachan Shipping Company

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.31 Louis Dreyfus Lines South and East Africa and Madagascar

32 S.G. Embiricos, Ltd. I Various PortsStrachan Shipping Company __

33 Fabre Line North Africa, Portugal, Spain and Strachan Shipping CompanyWestern Mediterranean Ports


FOREIGN SERVICES m ContinuedKEY TO

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TABLE LINES PORTS OF CALL HOUSTON AGENTOROPERATORpp. 48-49

34 Fern-Ville Lines Japan, Formosa, Indo China, Hong Kong, Siam, Biehl & CompanyPhilippines, Straits Settlements and Indonesia

35 Flota Argentina de Navegacion Brazil and Argentina Strachan Shipping CompanyUltramar (Dodero Line)3637

French LineGarcia Line Corporation (Agents for

Naviera Garcia, S. A.)

French North Atlantic PortsCuban Ports

E. S. BinningsGarcia Line Corporation

38 General Steamship Corporation Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.39 Grancolombiana, S. A. (Flora Mercante) South American Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.40 Gulf & South American Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and West Coast Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.Steamship Co., Inc. South American Ports in the Buenaventura

and Valparaiso range41 Haiti Line Cuba and Haiti Biehl & Company42 Hamburg-American Line Netherlands, German and Belgian Ports Biehl & Company43 Harrison Lines Liverpool and Manchester, England Wm. Parr & Company44 Hellenic Lines, Ltd. U.S. Gulf Ports to Mediterranean Ports Hansen, Tidemann & Dalton

Steamship Company, Inc.45 Hoegh Line Mediterranean Ports, Pakistan, India and Ceylon Thomas Rice & Company, Inc.46 Hogarth & Sons Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.47 Holland America Line Holland, Belgium, French, English and Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

German Ports48 Intercontinental Marine Lines, Inc. Japanese Ports Garcia Line Corporation49 Intercontinental Shipping Corp. Cuba Texas Marine Transport Co., Inc.50 Isbrandtsen Company, Inc. Continental Europe Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.51 Isbrandtsen Company, Inc. Guatemala, Honduras, British Honduras Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.

(Guatemalan Service) and Costa Rica52 Israeli Judges Lines llaifa, Tel Aviv and other Israelian Ports Texas Marine Transport Co., Inc.53 Isthmian Lines -- Far East Service Malaya, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Isthmian Steamship Company

French Indo China and Thailand54 Isthmian Lines--Hawaiian Service Hawaii Isthmian Steamship Company55 Isthmian Lines- India Service India, Pakistan, Ceylon Isthmian Steamship Company56 Isthmian Lines--Mediterranean and Lebanon, Egypt, Israel and Red Sea Ports Isthmian Steamship Company

Red Sea Service57 Isthmian Lines-- Persian Gulf Service Persian Gulf Ports Isthmian Steamship Company58 Kawasaki "K" Line ~hitippines, Japan Thomas Rice & Company, Inc.59 Kokusai Line .Japanese and Far East Ports States Marine Corporation60 Larrinaga Line British Ports Fowler & McVitie, Inc.61 Lykes African Line South and East African Ports Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.62 Lykes Caribbean Line Cuba, Colombia, C. Z., Dominican Republic, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.

Haiti, Puerto Rico, Venezuela (transship-ments for West Coast of Central Americavia Cristobal, C. Z. )

63 Lykes Continental Line Netherlands, Portuguese, German, French, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.Belgian, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish,Danish and other North Continental Ports

64 Lykes Mediterranean Line Portugal, Spain, South France, Greece, Italy, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.Tunis, Algiers, Egypt, Israel, Morocco,Trieste, Turkey and Syria

65 Lykes Orient Line Formosa, Korea, Sumatra, China, Japan, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.Philippines, Hawaii, Malay States, StraitsSettlements, Netherlands East Indies andFrench Indo China

66 Lykes U. K. Line England, Scotland and Ireland Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.67 Mamenic Line West Coast Ports of Central America Biehl & Company68 Matson Lines Hawaii Isthmian Steamship Company69 Maya Line Central America Biehl & Company70 Mexican National Line (Transportes Mexican Ports E.S. BinningsMaritimos, "Ceimsa" )71 Mississippi Shipping Co., Inc. All Ports along the coast of West Africa Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.72 Mitsui Line Japan and the Philippines Strachan Shipping Company73 Naviera Aznar North Spain, Portugal Thomas Rice & Company, Inc.74 Navigazione Alta Italia (Creole Line) Italian and Mediterranean Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.


FOREIGN SERVICES-- ContinuedKEY TO ITABLE Ipp. 48-49/_

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Nedlloyd Line

Nervion Line

Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line)

North Atlantic and GulfSteamship Co., Inc.

North German Lloyd

The Northern Pan America LineA/S (NOPAL)

Orion Shipping & Trading Co.

Osaka Shoshen Kaisha Line (OSK Line)

Ozean Line (Ozean-Stinnes)

Palmer Shipping Corporation

Ropner Line

Royal Netherlands SteamshipCompany (Bi-weekly)

Scandinavian-American Line

Shinnihon Steamship Co., Ltd.

Sidarma Lines

Smith & Johnson Line

States Marine Lines--Continental Service

States Marine Lines--Far East Service

States Marine Line--India Service

States Marine Lines--MediterraneanService

States Marine Lines--U. K. Service

States Marine Lines World WideFull Cargo Service

South African Marine Corporation

South Cuba Line

Swedish American LineSwedish American/Wilhelmsen Line

Texmar Lines

Dodd Thomsen & Company, Ltd.

Three Bays Line

United Fruit Company--CaribbeanService

United Fruit Company--W.C.C.A.Direct Service

Venezuelan Line

Waterman Steamship Corp.

West Coast Line

PORTS OF CALL

French Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia,Persian Gulf, Pakistan and India

Spain, Portugal, Morocco and the Canary Islands

Japan and Far Eastern Ports

Various Ports

Netherlands, Belgium and German Ports

East Coast of South America

Various Ports

Japanese and Far Eastern Ports

Netherlands, Belgium and German Ports

Various Ports

U. K.--England and Ireland

Venezuela, West Indies and the Guianas

Denmark and Norwegian Ports

Japanese Ports

Mediterranean Ports

Mexican Ports

Netherlands, France, Belgium and Germany

China, Formosa, Japan and Korea

India

Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Trieste, Yugoslavia,Morocco and the Persian Gulf

England

All World Ports

Mozambique, Africa and Union of South Africa

Cuba

CanadaBelgium, Netherlands, Germany, Norway,

Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Finland andother Scandinavian and Baltic Ports

Mexico, Central and South America

Various Ports

Cuba, Dominican Republic, Virgin Islands,Netherlands West Indies, Venezuela,Colombia and Panama

British Honduras, Guatemala and Honduras;E1 Salvador via Puerto Barrios, Guatemala

Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras,E1 Salvador and Guatemala

Venezuelan Ports

Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany,England, China, Japan, Philippines andHawaii, Mediterranean and Adriatic Ports

Canal Zone, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru,Chile and Bolivia

HOUSTON AGENT OR OPERATOR



Fowler & McVitie, Inc.

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Biehl & Company

Biehl & Company


E. S. Binnings

States Marine Corporation




E. S. Binnings


Biehl & Company









Cubamar Agencies, Inc.

Strachan Shipping CompanyStrachan Shipping Company

Texas Marine Transport Co., Inc.


Fowler & McVitie, Inc.

Collin & Gissel

Collin & Gissel

Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.

Waterman Steamship Corporation


109 I Yamashita Line Japanese Ports Wm. Parr & Company

110 [ Zim Israel America Line Israel and Italy Isthmian Steamship Company

COASTWISE SERVICESThe following table shows the various steamship lines operating between Houston, Gulf Ports and the Atlantic Coast; corrected as of April 1, 1954

KEY TOTABLE LINES PORTS OF CALL HOUSTON AGENT OR OPERATOR

pp. 48-49

lll Newtex Steamship Corp. Port Newark, N. J. (a part of New York Newtex Steamship Corp.(Weekly Southbound Service) harbor) ; Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.


INTERCOASTAL SERVICESThe following shows the various steamship lines operating between Houston and Pacific Coast Ports; corrected as of April 1, 1954

KEY TOTABLE

pp. 48-49

112

LINES

Isthmian Lines--Intereoastal Service

The Union Sulphur Co., Inc.

PORTS OF CALL

*San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco,Oakland, Alameda, Portland, Seattleand Tacoma

HOUSTON AGENT OR OPERATOR

Isthmian Steamship Company

113 West Coast Ports Hansen, Tidemann & DaltonSteamship Company, Inc.

* Service temporarily discontinued.

RIVER BARGE LINE AND INTRACOASTAL SERVICEThe following table shows the various barge and ship lines operating in and out of Houston through the Intracoastal Canal; corrected as of April 1, 1954

LINES PORTS OF CALL HOUSTON AGENT OR OPERATORAlamo Barge Lines Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers Alamo Barge Lines

(Petroleum and Chemical Transportation) and tributariesAmerican Barge Lines (Common Carrier)Anderson PetroleumoTransportation Co.Arthur-Smith CorporationB & M Towing Company (Bulk Liquid

Transportation)Commercial Petroleum & Transport Co.

Mississippi, Illinois and Ohio River Points R. P. Dee, General Agent

Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi River and itstributaries

Intracoastal Canal Points Anderson Petroleum Transportation Co.Intracoastal Canal and Mississippi River Points Arthur-Smith Corporation

B & M Towing Company

Gulf, Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois River Points Commercial Petroleum & Transport Co.Coyle Lines, Inc. (Common Carrier) From Brownsville, Texas, to Carrabelle, Florida, Coyle Lines, Inc.

and all intermediate portsCrown Central Petroleum Corp. Intracoastal Canal Points Crown Central Petroleum Corp.Dixie Carriers, Inc. (Common Carrier) All Intracoastal Canal Points between Baton Dixie Carriers, Inc.

Rouge, New Orleans, La., Houston and Browns-ville, Texas

Edwards Transportation Co. Gulf and Mississippi River Points Edwards Transportation Co.(Oil Transportation)J. S. Gissel & Company Intracoastal Canal Points J.S. Gissel & CompanyGulf-Canal Lines, Inc. (Common Carrier) Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc.Mobile, Ala., New Orleans, La., Brownsville, Cor-

pus Christi, Houston, and Harlingen, Texas,and all intermediate ports on the Gulf Intra-coastal Waterway and its tributaries

Intracoastal Canal, and Mississippi River as faras Vicksburg

Gulf States Marine & Mining Co.(Petroleum Transport)

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

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

Houston Barge Line, Inc. Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi River and its trib-(Petroleum Transport) utaries

Cornelius Kroll & Company Gulf, Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi, Ohio andIllinois River Points

Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co.( Common Carrier)

National Oil Transport Corp.Sioux City and New Orleans Barge Lines,

Inc. (Common Carrier)Texas Towing Company

Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois River Points

Intracoastal, Mississippi and Ohio River PointsServing all Missouri River Ports

Intracoastal, Mississippi and Ohio River PointsIntraeoastal Canal, Mississippi, Missouri and

Ohio River PointsGulf and Mississippi River Points

Union Barge Line Corp.(Common Carrier)

Wilkins Barge Line, Ltd.

Gulf States Marine & Mining Co.

H. W. A. Harms Towing Company

John I. Hay Co., Inc.

Houston Barge Line, Inc.

Cornelius Kroll & Company

F. E. Thompson, General Agent

National Oil Transport Corp.Sioux City and New Orleans Barge Lines, Inc.

Texas Towing CompanyWarner J. Banes, Houston Agent

Wilkins Barge Line, Ltd.NOTE: Besides the above services, approximately 90 tanker lines serve the Port of Houston, operating to all principal world ports;

additionally a large number of tankers are operated exclusively in handling products of local refineries under private agreement.

Naviera Garcia, S.A.

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Weekly Service To

HAVANA

MEMBERS Gulf-South Atlantic Havana Steamship Conference

JSamiago de Cuba Conference

GARCIA LINE CORPORATIONGarcia Line of New York, Inc. 910 Cotton Exchange Building

82 Beaver Street ATwood 4548New York City Houston, T~xas

Cotton Exchange Bldg. Garcla Line AgencyPhone: 2-8431 Lake Charles, Louisiana

Galveston, Texas Phone: 6-9571

CHOICE SHIP CHANNEL PROPERTYFOR SALE-95 Acres

Located about three miles from Turning Basin, be-

tween Gulf Oil Refinery and General American

Storage. 2120 FT. FRONTAGE ON SHIP CHANNEL,

1018 FT. FRONTAGE ON RAILROAD, and 1128 FT.

FRONTAGE ON CLINTON ROAD.

OWNER ~-DALE W. MOORECITY NATIONAL BANK BLDG. HOUSTON, TEXAS


PRIVATE WHARVESand

TERMINALS FOR HIREBerthing

Owner Length Capacity Type of Wharf and Use

PRIVATEArmour Fertilizer Works ...................... SOft.

Continental Grain Co. (Formerly Arrow Mills,Inc.) (Using Navigation District ManchesterWharf No. 2) ...............................

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

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

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

Crown Central Petroleum Corp ................. 150 ft.Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. Plant 1 ..... 40 ft.

Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc.--Plant 1 ..... 16 ft.

Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc.--Plant 2 ..... 500 ft.Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc.--Plant 2 ..... 6 ft.Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc.--Plan~ 2 ..... 40 ft.General American Tank Storage Terminals ...... 600 ft.Gulf Oil Corporation (’Light Oil Terminal) ...... 590 ft.Gulf Refining Co. (Houston Pipe Line Uivision). 200 ft.Warren Petroleum Corp. (Warrengas Terminal). 98 ft.Warren Petroleum Corp. (Warrengas Terminal). 98 ft.Hess Terminal Corp. (Norsworthy Terminal,) .... 15g ft.

(Also operates as terminal for hire)

Hess Terminal Corp. (Norsworthy Terminal,) .... 40 ft.Houston Lighting & Power Co .................. 24 ft.Humble Oil & Refining Co ..................... 2,200 ft.Ideal Cement Company, Gulf Portland Division.. 200 ft.Lone Star Cement Corp ........................ 387 ft.Magnolia Petroleum Corp. (Leased to Eastern

States Petroleum Co.--Plant 1) ............. 73 ft.

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

San Jacinto Ordnance Depot ................... 1,S00 ft.Sheffield Steel Corp ........................... 480 ft.

(Slip)

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

Southern Pacific Lines (Clinton Dock) ......... 1,250ft. (Slip)Southern Pacific Lines (Leased to Mayo Shell

Co. ) ..................................... 600 ft.Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company ..... 400 ft.The Texas Company .......................... 1,400 ft. (Slip)

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

TERMINALSHouston Wharf Co. (Long Reach Docks) ........ 3,428 ft.Manchester Terminal Corp .................. 1,600 ft.The Sprnnt Corporation (Sprunt Docks) ....... 800 ft.Houston Barge Terminal

( General Stevedores, Inc.) .................. 900 ft.Phillips Terminal Co. (Adams Terminal) ....... 2,600 ft.Houston Compressed Steel Corp ............... 1,850ft.

Southern Barge Terminal ...................... 310ft.

WHARVES1 Vessel Creosoted timber fitted with hopper and conveyor

belt for fertilizer.

3 Bargesor lightvessels

1 Vessel4 Barges

1 Vessel2 Barges1 Barge1 Vessel

1 Barge1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vesselor several

barges4 Barges1 Barge6 Vessels2 Barges2 Barges3 Barges

or1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel3 Vessels1 Vessel

4 Vessels3 Vessels

3 Vessels

4 Barges1 Vessel3 Vessels6 Vessels

8 Vessels4 Vessels2 Vessels

5 Barges5 Vessels5 Barges

2 Barges

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

paper, pulp, salt, caustic and oyster shell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and 12,500 tons capacity).

FOR HIREConcrete; apron tracks; cotton and general cargo.Concrete; apron tracks; cotton and general cargo.Concrete; cotton and miscellaneous cargo.

Concrete and creosoted timber; general cargo.Steel bulkhead; bulk and general cargo.Creosoted piling and clusters, creosoted timber

pier; general cargo, bulk, steel.Sheet steel pile bulkhead; iron and steel products

and pipe.

TOTALS ................................. 28,774 ft 65 Vessels and 34-39 Barges


PORT OF HOUSTON PUBLIC WHARVESCovered Open R.R.Wharf Length Berthing Area Area Car Wharf ShedFeet Capacity Sq. Ft. Sq. Ft. Storage

2 Vessels 59,2981 Vessel 58,0002 Vessels 36,5232 Vessels 66,8401 Vessel .....1 Vessel 75,5001 Vessel 72,7091 Vessel 66,6381 Vessel 97,2761 Vessel 80,9271 Vessel

1 Vessel 66,6381 Vessel

1 Vessel1 Vessel1 Vessel

198,736

87,520

No. 1 ........................... 826.45 56,776 32 Wood ConcreteNo. 2 ........................... 521.33 19,487 44 Concrete SteelNo. 3 ........................... 801.80 52,295 52 Concrete SteelNo. 4 ........................... 779.42 32,324 39 Concrete Concrete and SteelNo. 8 ........................... 624.00 93,600 36 Concrete NoneNo. 9 ......................... 500.00 45,317 60 Concrete SteelNo. 10 ......................... 600.00 39,300 59 Concrete SteelNo. 11 .......................... 530.00 28,260 60 Concrete ConcreteNo. 12, two story ................ 530.00 26,640 50 Concrete Concrete and SteelNo. 13, two storyt ............... 460.00 25,530 43 Concrete Concrete and SteelNo. 14" ......................... 480.00 51,191 23 Concrete NoneNo. 15" ......................... 480.00 14,800 45 Concrete ConcreteNo. 16 .......................... 598.50 123,686 34 Concrete NoneWarehouse Distribution ........... 56 None ConcreteManchester No. 1 (Coal Dock) ... 253.50 21,800 20 Wood NoneManchester No. 2 (Cake Dock) ... 500.75 15,300 30 Concrete SteelManchester No. 3 ................ 500.00 20,470 Wood NoneCotton Shed ..................... 269,813 62 None Wood

TOTALS ..................... 8,985.75 19 Vessels 1,236,418 666,776 745

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

$OIITHE811 COMPRESS & WIIREHOIISE (0.TURNING BASIN PLAN[

HOUSTON, TEXAS

Located Adjacent to Wharves 8 and 9of fhe Navigation Disfr~ct

OFFICE LOCATED AT PLANT--PHONE OR-6326

Serving Industry in Houston and Trade Territory forMore Than 48 Years

FOUNDERS MACHINISTSENGINEERS

HOUSTON FOUNDRY& MACHINE CO.

200S While Street Houston, Texas Phone CApitol 9781


Description of the Port¯ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 46

up to SO-ton capacities, 7S-ton stationarycrane, 12- and 20-ton mobile cranes,magnets and clam-shell buckets, lifttrucks and pallets, escalators and con-veyors, tractors and trailers, handtrucks, electric power shovels, electricbulk trimmers, and other items.

Operated for transit movement pri-marily and for storage only to a lim-ited extent, the Port’s giant 3.5 million

bushel grain elevator serves two ships’berths at Navigation District Wharves14 and 15. Its three receiving legs andfour shipping legs, each with a 25,000-bushel-per-hour capacity, can simulta-neously load two ships at a combinedrate of 80,000 bushels per hour. Ves-sels seldom spend more than 24 hoursbeneath the 15 automatic loading spoutsin the grain berths. A truck dumper isalso in operation.

Two Link-Belt car unloaders at theElevator can tip fully loaded grain cars

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like toys, unloading seven each hour.A new $56,000 gas-fired, direct-heattype Hess Grain Dryer with a 1500-bushel-per-hour capacity is a valuableadjunct to the Port’s grain handling fa-cilities.

A bulk outloading plant for chemicals,fertilizers, etc., is maintained by theNavigation District at its ManchesterWharf, and can handle the unloading ofcars or trucks to shipside.

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

HOUSTON HOLDS FIRSTFOREIGN TRADE SESSION

Houston’s first World Trade Institutewas held May 17 to 20 at the Univer-sity of Houston.

The institute, which served as a train-ing course for executive personnel in theforeign trade field, had a number ofoutstanding speakers, including EdgarR. Baker, managing-director, Time-LifeInternational, New York, who addressedthe closing banquet.

Dr. Marvin Fair, professor of eco-nomics and transportation at TulaneUniversity and director of that univer-sity’s Institute on Foreign Transporta-tion and Port Operations, was on theinstitute faculty. Also serving as a facul-ty member was E. E. Schnellbacher,director, Office of Intelligence and Serv-ices, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, U. S.Department of Commerce, Washington,D.C.

Sponsors of the institute were: WorldTrade Committee of the Houston Cham-ber of Commerce; Houston World TradeAssociation; Houston Maritime Associa-tion; Propeller Club of the UnitedStates, Port of Houston; Port of Hous-ton; Houston Port Bureau; Texas OceanFreight Forwarders Association; TrafficClub of Houston; Women’s Traffic Clubof Houston; and the World Trade Com-mittee, East Texas Chamber of Com-merce.

NAPLES WILL HOLDITALIAN TRADE FAIR

An International Maritime Exhibitionis scheduled to take place in Naples,Italy, from May to October, 1954. Pa-vilions will be assigned to house exhibitsconnected with navigation, shippinglines, port authorities, the fishing indus-try, water sports, and other related mari-time activities.

American firms, agencies and organi-zations related to shipping have beeninvited to participate in the Exhibition.Details are available through the ItalianTrade Commissioner, 131 InternationalTrade Mart, New Orleans.FEDERAL DEPOSIT


FORT WORTH¯ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 41

clubs Colonial, River Crest, and GlenGarden. Colonial was the scene of oneNational Open . . . then there’s the an-nual Colonial Invitation tourney.

Fort Worth’s many luxurious depart-ment stores and smart shops have satis-fied customers over a three-state area.Five are of block-square dimensions.Stores keep abreast of style trends andFort Worth’s shopping district is asmetropolitan as that of cities many timesits size. An ever-increasing popular ex-pression among prospective visitors is,"Let’s wait and shop in Fort Worth."

There is no better way to judge thepeople of a community than by theirhomes. Fort Worthians like to plan andbuild their own. Whether they live inmagnificent mansions, or in medium orlower-priced residences, they take greatpride in their lawns and flower gardens.And Fort Worth homes meet the mostexacting requirements. Many are lo-cated within easy reach of business.Others are in the quiet of the countryaway from it all . . . near schools, parks,and playgrounds for children . . . allare convenient to good up-to-date shop-ping centers. There are acres and acresof the most modern apartments.

And Fort Worthians are very muchin love with their city. Over the deskof a top-flight business executive is thissign: "If you don’t live in Fort Worth,you are camping out."

ADMINISTRATION OF THEPORT OF HOUSTON

¯ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 42

gation District cooperates with the fed-eral government in maintaining and im-proving the Houston Ship Channel. Itprovides, at no expense to the UnitedStates, all necessary and required spoilgrounds, and dredge pipeline and chan-nel right-of-way easements.

Earnings from operation of the Navi-gation District are continually plowedback into the further improvement ofthe channel and publicly owned port fa-cilities. In addition to its wharves anddocks, the Navigation District owns a3.5 million bushel grain elevator, whichin the 1951-1952 fiscal year handlednearly 64 million bushels of grain. This~olume fell to 51 million bushels in thecalendar year 1952.

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

CROWN EXPANDSEarly in 1954 Crown Central Petro-

leum Corporation announced plans tobegin work on a Houdriformer catalyticcracking unit, estimated to cost well overa million dollars.

The new unit will be an addition toCrown’s Houston Ship Channel refinerynear Pasadena and will have a daily ca-pacity of 5,000 barrels.

The new facility is designed to maketop quality motor gasoline from lowgrade crude stocks. It is also capable ofproducing aromatics and aviation gaso-line blending stocks.

Present capacity of the Crown refin-ery is about 30,000 barrels of crude oilinput per day.

GENERAL AMERICANADDS NEW TERMINAL

General American Transportation Cor-poration has purchased and is operatingthe tank storage terminal formerlyowned by Phillips Petroleum Companyon the Houston Ship Channel.

The Pasadena terminal becomes thefourth terminal in Texas and the seventhin the United States operated by GeneralAmerican.

At the time of the purchase the ter-minal had a capacity of 510,000 barrelsof storage. General American is build-ing additional tanks (all equipped withfloating roofs) to store 1,170,000 morebarrels. A deep-water tanker dock willbe constructed to serve the terminal.

25.ooo .-. o.,-.,.o ,x.,..,.,,ARE BEHIND YOUR ELECTRIC ,~ERI/ICE

The 2,700 men and women of yourelectric service company’s employee familyhave rolled up the impressive total of25,000 years experience in the supplyingof your electric service. This is an averagelength of service of more than 9 years--many records of faithful and efficientservice extending over a’ quarter-centuryand more.

This vast reservoir of operating expe-rience is an important community asset.To city and rural homes alike electric serv-ice brings greater comfort and conven-

ience, by efficiently performing myriadtasks. Business and industry use hugeamounts for increased efficiency and pro-ductivity.

And, 24 hours a day, experienced handsguide and guard the flow of electric power,from giant generating plants where it is"born" through far-flung distributionlines, to each user. Thus the day-by-daydependability of your electric service isassured, and electric power remains asignificant force in the building of abrighter future for all.

Houston Lighting & Power CompanyDEPENDABLE LOW-COST ELECTRIC SERVICE


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M A R ITIM E IN TERE S T Sand Foreign Consulates

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UNITED STATES SERVICESCORPS OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY

Engineer Officials in Charge of the Constructionand Maintenance of the Houston Ship Channel:

COL. JAMES D. LANG, Corps of EngineersDistrict Engineer, Galveston ..................... Telephone 2-8621

W. C. RETTIGER, Corps of Engineers

Chief, Operations Division, Galveston ............ Telephone 2-8621

I. J. DIVER, Area Engineer

Houston Area Office ............................ WAyside 1583

U. S. CUSTOMS SERVICE

JAMES W. BINGHAM, Collector of CustomsDistrict No. 22Houston office: 404 Federal Olfice Bidg ............. CApitol 7201Galveston Office: Customhouse ................. Telephone 5-7464

GEORGE L. C. PRATT, Assistant Collector of Customs

office: Customhouse, Galveston, Texas ......... Telephone 5-7464

JAMES M. JEFFERIS, Deputy Collector in Charge

office: 407 Federal Office Bldg ...................... CApitol 7201

E. C. WALTERS, Customs Inspector (Deputy Collector)Outside DivisionBarge Office: 7300 Wingate St ................... WAyside 4107Long Reach Docks .............................. WOedcrest 4061City Dock 12 ........................ Extension 18, ORchard 1651Airport ......................................... Mllby 0796

PHILLIP H. DANIEL, Appraiser of Merchandise7300 Wingate St ................................ WEntworth 9361

A. B. PIGEONNE, Deputy Collectorc/o Humble Oil & Refining Company, Baytown, Texas

ALVIN F. SCHARFF, Customs Agent in Charge902 Federal Office Building ........................ FAirfax 1757

U. S. NAVY

COMMANDER n. a. FISCHER, U.S.N.R., Inspector

of Naval MaterielMafrige Building, 411 Fannin ........ Extension 36, CApitol 7201Inspection Admin. Dept ............................. CHarter 0389Communications ............................ CHarter 0063Production Department .............. Extension 061, CApitol 7201

U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICEOuT-PATIENT CLINIC

W. H. GORDON, Medical DirectorMedical Officer in ChargeRoom 216. 7300 Wingate St ................... WAyside 5424

FOREIGN QUARANTINEW. H. GORDON, Medical Director

Medical Officer in ChargeRoom G-5, 7300 Wingate St ................... WAyside 7953

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBUREAU OF FOREIGN COMMERCE

BUSINESS AND DEFENSE SERVICE ADMINISTRATION

OFFICE OF FIELD SERVICES

WARREN G. BROWN, ManagerRoom 2, Federal Land Bank Building430 Lamar ................ Extensions 4 and 5, CApitol 720l

WEATHER BUREAU

E. A. FARRELL, Meteorologist in Charge1002 Federal Office Bldg ..................... CApitol 6919

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE

DR. DON B. STRICKLER, Inspector in Charge

ANIMAL QUARANTINE BRANCHRoom 204. 7300 Wingate St ........... WEntworth 8178

If no answer, call ...................... FAirfax 3000

MEAT INSPECTION BRANCH907 Federal Office Bldg ................... FAirfax 3000

BERTRAN L. HENDERSON, In~vpector of ImportedMeats and Animal By-ProductsRoom 204, 7300 Wingate St ............... WEntworth 8178

If no answer, call .......................... FAirfax 3000

DR. WM. F. EGAN, Veterinary Livestock InspectorRoom 204, 7300 Wingate St ............... WEntworth 8178

If no answer, call ........................... FAirfax 3000

DIVISION OF PLANT QUARANTINES

O. D. MORRIS, Inspector in ChargeRoom 206, 7300 Wingate St .................. WOodcrest 7880

ELTON E. HOOSER, Principal AssistantRoom 206, 7300 Wingate St ................. WOodcrest 7880

OLEN E. HUNT, Plant Quarantine InspectorRoom 206, 7300 Wingate St ................. WOodcrest 7880

JOHN L. WARD, Plant Quarantine InspectorRoom 206. 7300 Wingste St ............. WOodcrest 7880

MITCHELL SLOBODNIK, Plant Quarantine InspectorRoom 206, 7300 Wingate St ................. WOodcrest 7880

EDWARD J. McNERNEY, Plant Quarantine InspectorRoom 206, 7300 Wingate St ................ WOodcrest 7880

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

L. L. McCABE, Engineer in ChargeDistrict No. 9Room 324, 7300 Wingate St ...................... WOodcrest 1906

WOodcrest 3975

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICETAYLOR C. CARPENTER, Acting Officer-in-Charge

Office: 520 Federal Office Building.. Extension 46, CApitol 720lMailing Address .............. P. O. Box 4059, Houston 14, Texas

LT. (J.G.) W. R. FLYNN, U.S.N.Branch Hydrographic Office FOREIGN CONSULATES402 Post Office Bldg., Galveston ................. Telephone 5-9732/

MILITARY SEA TRANSPORTATION SERVICE JARGENTINA: RICARD0 SCHMIEGELOW, Consul

LT. CDR. E. J. MACDONALD, U.S.N.R. /7315 South Main St ............................ MAdison 2915

Room 901 Milam Bldg., 803 Texas Ave ......... BLackstone 3289 BELGIUM : A. A. CRISPIN, Consul1611 Bank of Commerce Bldg ........................ FAirfax 0338

/ BRAZIL: MILTON FARIA, Consul/ HUGO VERGUEIRO, Vice Consul

1303 Rosalie (Suite 3) ............................ Linden 9953

CHINA: YuN-AN MAO, ConsulEDWARD Y. KUAN, Deputy Consul

4808 Austin ....................................... JAckson 1177

COLOMBIA: LUIS RESTREPO O., Consul1655 Richmond Rd ............................. KEystone 10577300 Wingate St .............................. WOodcrest 9407J

CDR. WILLIAM J. WILLMAN, Personnel Officer JCOSTA RICA: CARL G. STEARNS, Consul(Licensing and Certification of Merchant Seamen) Second National Bank Building (12th Floor) ........ CHarter 6811

7300 Wingate St .............................. WOodcrest 9407 MRS. SOLEDAD H. DE JASTROW, Vice Consul

CDR. WILLIAM T. SMITH, Senior Materiel Officer1820 Bank Street ................................ LYnchburg 8566

(Vessel Inspection) CUBA: ENRIQUE MORALES DE LOS RIOS, Consul7300 Wingate St ................................ WOodcrest 9407 3717 Audubon .................................... JUstin 7624

SCLK. ROBERT L. GLENN, Shipping Commissioner DENMARK: HOLGER JEPPESEN, Consul

7300 Wingate St .................................. WAyside 5000 416 Cotton Exchange Building ...................... CApitol 6534

U. S. COAST GUARDCDR. WARREN DAVID, Captain of the Port

7300 Wingate St ................................. WAyside 7062

CAPT. LEO A. WELSH, Marine Inspection Officer inCharge7300 Wingate St ................................. WOodcrest 9407

CDR. CHAS. F. KAMINSKI, Investigating Officer


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