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26 HOUSTON PORT BOOK, FALL, 1956

PORT BOOKOfficial Publication of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

toreworct:The HOUSTON PORT BOOK is published inthe Spring and Fall of each year under con-tract and authority of the Navigation andCanal Commission and through the coopera-tion of shipping and industrial interests ofHouston.

As official publication of the Harris CountyHouston Ship Channel Navigation District,this magazine is intended to carry authorita-tive descriptions, notices and articles regard-ing port activities and development. How-ever, the Commissioners cannot be respon-sible in all respects for the contents thereof,or for opinions of writers to whom expressionis given.

The HOUSTON PORT BOOK is distributedfree to maritime, transportation and indus-trial interests in the United States and foreigncountries. Its purpose is to inform shippersand others interested in the Port of Houstonof its development, charges and other mat-

~ters of interest, and inquiries will at alltimes be welcome.

Additional copies may be had upon appli-cation to the PORT OF HOUSTON, P. O. BOX2562, HOUSTON 1, TEXAS, or:

TED SUMERLINEdltor

P. O. BOX 6278, HOUSTON 6, TEXASPhone JAckson 6-1071

LEE M. WEBBBusiness Manager

P. O. BOX 1283, HOUSTON 1, TEXASPhone MAdison 3-2356

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The Port of Houston is the golden key toworld trade and commerce to thousands ofimporters and exporters. The cover dedicatesthis issue to those people who use the Portof Houston and to those additional peoplewho are learning each day that the Port ofHouston can best serve their needs.

Volume Thirty-Four ¯ Number Two

FALL * 1956

Directory of Port Officials .............................. 28

Work Started on New Dock ................................. 29

Houston Pilots ....................................... 31

He’s The Man Who Juggles Ships ............................. 32

Challenge For Houston ...................................... 33

International Trade Fair Grows Up ....................... 34

H. M. Crosswell, Jr., Appointed to Port Commission ............... 35

Industrial Map of the Port of Houston ....................... 36

Harnessed Horsepower For Houston Industry ................... 38

Port Bureau’s Junket to Kansas City ........................... 40

A Tribute to Jesse H. Jones .................................. 41

Increased Trade With Latin America Forecast .................... 42

Interstate Commerce Commission Visits Port of Houston ........... 43

News of The Port in Pictures .................................. 44

Ships and Shipping ................................. 45

Gen. Itschner Named Chief of Engineers .................. 47

Port of Houston Administration .......................... 49

Port Movie Shown in Puerto Rico ................... 51

Port of Houston Public Wharves ......................... 52

Shipping Services Operating Through Port of Houston ............. 54

Private Wharves and Terminals ............................. 60

Houston Pilotage Rates and Tug Boat Tariffs .................. 65

Houston Maritime Interests and Foreign Consulates ............... 66

Freight Forwarders and Brokers ......................... 67

Mooring Charges and Port of Houston Tariff ............... 68

Terminals and Industrial Facilities ......................... 69

Index to Advertisements .............................. 48


A DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS OF THE

Port of Houston

PORT COMMISSIONERS

The Navigation and CanalCommissioners are the appointedofficials who govern the operationof the Harris County Houston ShipChannel Navigation District. ThePort Commissioners are, left toright, seated, Howard Tellepsen,chairman; W. N. Blanton, vicechairman; standing, H. M. Cross-well, Jr.; R. Vernon Whiteside,and John G. Turney.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERSVERNON BAILEY, Director o/Port Operations

J. L. LOCKETT, JR., Counsel SAMUEL B. BRUCE, Auditor

G. P. SIMPSON, Chie] Engineer JAMES W. MARTIN, Executive Assistant W.F. LAND, Terminal Superintendent

W. J. PmCE, Maint. Engineer T.E. WHATLEY, Right-o/-Way Agent T.H. SHERWOOD, Grain Elevator Mgr.

VAUGHN M. BRYANT, Director o] International Relations W.H. NUCKOLS, JR., O]]ice Manager

EDITH H~’tNNER, Execllti~e .qe(’retar~’

PORT OFFICESTERMINAL SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE .... ...... North Side Turning Basin

Telephone ORchard 2-9421

North Side Turning BasinGRAIN ELEVATOR OFFICE ....................Telephone ORchard 2-0576

FIREBOAT "CAPT. CROTTY," CAPT. A. O. HEATON, Master ........................ Telephone WAlnut 6-7620

INSPECTION BOAT "SAM HOUSTON," CAPT. THOMAS GIBSON, Master ............... Telephone ORchard2-7612

HARBOR PATROL CRAFT, CAPT. LOUIS O. DESHAZO, Master ......................... Telephone WAlnut 6-7620

HOUSTON PORT BUREAUNICHOLAS PATTON, General Manager, Cotton Exchange Building ............... Telephone CApitol 8-7447

}<~RI: GRI313I. Manager Tra//ic Departmeltt, Cotton Exchange Bldldil~g .................... Telephone CApitol 8-7447

LLOYD GREGORY, Director o/ ln/ormation, 3005 Louisiatut .................Telephone JAckson 6-1071

JOHN A. LALA, Eastern Representative, 2440 Sheraton-Whitehall Bldg., New York, N. Y. Telephone BOwling Green 9-7747JOHN R. WEILER, Southwestern Representative, 313 Cotton Exchange Bldg., Dallas, Texas .... Telephone Riverside 6894

CHARLES A. BARROWS, Midwestern Representative, Board o/Trade Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Telephone Victor 2-5732

EXECUTIVE OFFICES:1519 CAPITOL AVENUE (at Crawford Street)

Telephone CApitol 5-0671

P. O. Box 2562, Houston 1, Texas

¯ 28 HOUSTON PORT BOOK, FALL, 1956

THE BIG Number 17 marksthe location of a new dock whichwill be constructed as the first itemof a $10 Million program.

Work §larledOn New Dock

~)t’IAGLINES and bulldozers are busydigging away excess dirt to prepare

the ground on the North side of theHouston Ship Channel for the construe-tion of a big new dock.

Localed adjacent to the Public GrainElevator and adjoining Dock 16. thenew Dock 17, port officials hope, willgive some relief Io the great demand fordock space.

This is tile first phase of a $10 mil-lion expansion and improvement pro-gram that is being considered bv thePort Commissioners, who are now nego-tiating for the sale of revenue bonds tofinance the projects.

At a series of meclings which weredevoted to long-range plans for build-ing up the Port of Houston. the PortCommission decided that the immediateneeds include three new docks, two ofwhich will have transit sheds and one~hieh will be open to handle large car-goes; two warehouses, a marine leg forhandling grain; a gantry crane; newcargo handling equipment; rehabilita-tion of Dock No. 1; development ofGreens Bayou; additional dredging andspoil areas; and new machine shops.

Port Commissioner John Turneypointed out that the Port should experi-ence no difficulty in selling the revenuebonds at 4 per cent interest because theycould be relired at the rate of $74,000

per year per million dollars borrm~ed.Port Commissioner W. N. Blanton is

exploring the possibility of establishinga foreign trade center in Houston tostinmIale foreign imports and exports.This. however, is not included in the $10million program now being considered.

Port Commission Chairman Hm~ardTellepsen has hailed this as the begin-ning of a new era in Houston’s interestin its port and he foresees increasingprosperity for the entire territory.

HEAVY EQUIPMENT of all kinds is rip-ping into the earth in preparation for theconstruction of a new dock which willconnect with Dock 16 and the gantrycrane.

HOUSTON PILOT F. A. Parker climbs the Jacobs Ladder to board the S.S.Frank Lykes at the Sea Buoy.

CAPT. G. C. KIDSTON, master of the Frank Lykes, watches as Capt.Parker pilots the ship.

CAPT. PARKER frequently uses binoculars to keep a close watch on theShip Channel.

INSTRUCTIONS are amplified through the megaphone which Capt.Parker used during the trip up the Ship Channel.

HOUSTON PILOT No. 3 is a sea-going hotel for the pilots while they are waiting for ships to cross the bar at entrance to the Houston Ship Channel.


By TED SUMERLIN

~’APTAIN FZRA SHERMAN. who piloted ships u1)and down the Houston Ship Channel in the days

before modern navigational aids were installed, leftone nervous ship captain in a state of frenzy, accord-ing 1o a story that is still being told by Houston pilots.

An English merchant ship was headed up the 53-mile Ship Channel that connects the City of Houstonwith the Gulf of Mexico. Capt. Sherman was the pilotwho drew the assignment.

When the Channel became narrow and cluttered~dlh obvious sand bars. the English captain asked."’What is your course, Pilot?"

"+1 don¢t knox,." Calm Sherman replied. "1 go treebv tree and bush by bush. and damn it. Male, give mefull speed ahead !"

If that seems like ~reekless abandon, you are in fora snrprise because, like every good channel pilot, hekneu exactly where to maneuver the ship in order todeliver it safeh to its dock -he just didn’t have timeto explain his orders. Today, however, everything isdone with scientific exactness. But the pilots still haveIheir sense of humor.

Captain F. A. Parker tells about the time he ~asbringing a ship up the Ship Channel and a fishermanwas paying more attention to the fish than he was toship traffic’. After several toots of the whistle and sloxv-ing the ship to a snail’s pace, Capt. Parker becameexasperated.

The ship skimmed bv the fisherman and as theypassed. Capt. Parker yelled through his megaphone:

"Don’t you kno~ that’s a good uay to get your boats~ amped ’/"

The fisherman replied with anger: ’*You run thatship . .. 1’11 run this skiff."

Another story told by Captain W. W. Steinhart. whois no~ a pilot but who was formerly captain of thepilot’s bar boat. He called one of the pilots who ~antedto shave before boarding the incoming ship.

That particular dav the seas were running high andthe pilot boat ~as p~tching mightily. He heard a fe~

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IT’S NO CINCH to keep 21 steamship agencies, 39freight forwarders and custom brokers and no-

body knows how many shippers happy at a big ma-rine terminal, but that’s the job of W. F. "Bill"Land, terminal superintendent of the NavigationDistrict at Port of Houston and he works on it nightand day.

Says three-time grandpa Land, "I consider it myfirst responsibility to provide berths to steamerswhere their cargo can be handled in and out rapidlyand at the least cost, and to see that goods movingto and from the wharves at landside are handled asspeedily and cheaply as possible. Only if we devoteour full efforts to this aim can we hope to hold thegoodwill of steamship people, brokers, forwardersand the thousands of inland shippers who patronize|he Port of Houston."

Mr. Land, a long-time veteran of railroading andocean shipping, has been slaving away at this ob-jective for slightly more than eleven years. His prob-lems have multiplied manyfold since those post-wardays when Houston’s deepsea traffic was only a per-sistent dribble.

Prior to World War II, vessel traffic at the Navi-gation District was largely coastwise, and the ter-minal operation department offered no carloadingservices. During the war, marauding GermanU-boats forced the port into virtual oblivion, andthe wharves became construction sites for tugboatsand storage warehouses for shipbuilding equipment.

The global conflict over, Houston turned onceagain to ships and the sea, but for the publicwharves business was molasses-slow . . . almost non-existent . . . until the port’s latent vitality brokethrough the war barrier and once again acceleratedinto high gear.

Gone then was the pre-war practice of berth al-location to specific steamship companies . . . in itsplace a first-come, first-serve plan, dictated by boom-ing traffic and limited wharf facilities.

Gone were the outmoded hand trucks and anti-quated equipment . . . replaced by modern lifttrucks and powerful diesel loeomotive cranes¯

Gone was inactivity . . . swept away by a waveof feverish activity along the waterfront.

No longer could the terminal superintendent sayto a steamship company, "This dock is yours . . ¯yours the worry of making the space fit the cargo¯ . . yours the job doing your own carloading."

Now, harried Bill Land sometimes feels like ajuggler keeping 19 hot potatoes in the air at once,trying to make Houston’s 19 public berths fit theneeds of the swarming ships and mounting tonnage,straining to keep just a jump ahead of shippers’needs, trying to judge the ability of the NavigationDistrict’s facilities to handle the cargo offered.

Sometimes it just won’t fit. Then he has to turncargo away, and believe him, that hurts.

And when the ships tie up in berth, it’s the taskof Mr. Land’s hardworking terminal operation de-partment to furnish many items of modern mechan-ieal equipment to stevedores, to handle all carload-ing operations, to police the wharves against pilfer-age, fire and accidents and to handle the over-whelming detail work that piles up around the move-ment of cargo across a port’s wharves.

Like we said, "giving berth to ships" is no picnic,but it has to be done, and graying, good-naturedBill Land does it well, so well that steamship execu-tives say this about him, "Even when he tells us’No,’ we know he’s trying his best to help us, andwe appreciate it."

BILL LAND

He’s the Man Who

By JAMES W. MARTIN


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N By F. M. LAW

(F. M. Law, distinguished banker and one o/ Houston’selder statesmen, delivered a memorable address to the Hous-ton Downtown Rotary Club on June 14, 1956. It was Mr. Lawwho suggested that Harris County Rotarians adopt the Porto/Houston as a major project. His suggestion has been/ol-lowed with the appointment o/J. R. Aston as chairman o/an84-man committee that has already gone to work. Mr. Law’stalk/oUows.--The Editor.)

THIS CLUB has adopted as a permanent project the Port of|Houston. You are tackling a big job and, for that. I amglad. It will be a challenge, and I realize that it would behard to interest this Club in a petty thing.

We are told that presently ten industries are spending$150,000,000 in plant facilities on the channel and that thevalue of the industrial investments in this area, through theyears, runs into two and one-half billion dollars. By far thegreater part of this was brought here by the ship channel.

Albert Thomas has just asked Congress to appropriate fif-teen to twenty-five million dollars to deepen and widen thechannel. In the same breath, we must see and realize that, withgrowing world trade and competition among ports gettingtougher and tougher, there will be a necessity for aggressiveand well-planned effort to keep the Port of Houston abreastand ahead. Here is where we come in. "He who moves notforward, moves backward." Goethe saidthat two hundred years ago. It applies tomen and cities and ports.

At the outset, allow me to emphasize thatmuch credit should go to the Chamber ofCommerce, which has through all the yearsvigorously and effectively supported thePort. Today it has strong standing commit-tees that are doing yeoman service. Creditmust go to the members of the Port Com-mission who give so freely of their time.The only pay they get is the satisfactionthat comes from doing a worthwhile andunselfish job. And there are the news-papers. Never have they failed to go all outfor what they thought was for the best in-terest of the Port.

President Jaworski has appointed JakeAston as Chairman of a standing commit-tee on port development. This is an admir-able selection. Jake, in turn, has appointedabout 50 Rotarians to serve on this PortCommittee with him. They have all ac-cepted the appointment. Jake has invitedme, knowing that I would make this talk, F. M. LAW

to make suggestions as to what his committee and this Clubmight do for the Port.

1. The first suggestion is that we acquaint ourselves, eachman of us, with the history, activities, needs and futureplans of the Port. It was a happy day when the counciland commissioners appointed Howard Tellepsen asChairman of the Port Board. Very recently the Naviga-tion District issued what they call, "The Houston PortBook." It is an illustrated exhibit of seventy pages, brimfull of information about the Port. Howard has author-ized me to say that each and every member of this Clubwill receive a copy of this book.

An hour which you might give to reading it would bea good investment. Did you know that last year 3,485vessels called at the Port of Houston .9 Did you know thatan average of $15,000 is spent by each one of theseboats .9 That runs into real money.

Knowing that there are a good many people in Hous-ton, maybe more than half of the population and includ-ing perhaps a good many members of this Club, whohave never been on the Houston Ship Channel, Howardhas authorized me to make this offer: Any Rotary-spon-sored group of twenty to fifty who desire to see thechannel and the improvements thereon will be welcometo use the Port’s boat, the air-conditioned Sam Houston,

for such a trip without, of course, anycost. Wives are included in the invi-tation.

2. Every member of this Club can talkthe Port of Houston. We are told thatNew Orleans is a "port consciouscity." Houston should, as a port, haveatmosphere. Talk to your friends inHouston about the Port, especiallynewcomers; talk to visitors who cometo Houston; and talk to people wher-ever you visit. My own experience isthat people are interested in what youtell them about the Port. Our port isnot as well publicized as those in NewOrleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore orSan Francisco. Rotary advertiserscould effectively mention the Port intheir ads.

3. A great many men in this Club haverepresentatives who travel and, there-by, many contacts are made. If theserepresentatives of yours would talkPort of Houston where they think itmight get some business, the results

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More people did more business than they ever expeeted at the thirdalmual Houston International Trade Fair ~hieh was held ai the Sham-rock Hilton Hotel’s Hall of Exhihits. It proved among other thingsIhal Americans like to buy imported merchandise and the exhibitorswho oueupied more than 100 booths were pleased with the reception.Closing night of the show x~as spiced with talk that exhibitors weregoing to come hack next year with larger exhibits and shcm officialsimmediately started looking for a larger place to hold the Trade Fairin 1957. The nations displaying in the 1956 Trade Fair includedBelgium. China. l)ominiean llepublie. France, (;ermany~ (;real Brit-ain. Guatemala. hal,,’, Japan. Mexico. Netherlands and Sweden. Msorepresenled were [)enmark. Philippines and Colon Free Zone ofPanama.

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|i. t;rossweii, Jr.is AppointedPor| t~ommtsstoner

By LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director

Port of Houston

H. M. (MARK) CROSSWELL, JR. (on the left)is sworn in as a Port Commissioner by CountyJudge Bob Casey. The ceremony took place inthe Commissioner’s board room.

THE PORT of Houston is in the blood

of H. M. IMark) Crosswell, Jr.. nm~-est and youngest member of the Boardof Navigation and Canal Commission-ors. Harris County-Houston Ship Chan-nel Navigation District.

Mr. Crosswell’s father, for whom he~as named, was the Houston managerof Alexander Sprunt & Son. cotton far’-tors. and served on the Harbor Board.forerunner of the Port Commission.

\h’. Crosswell is something of a rarityin booming Houston. He was horn herein 1915; attended Allen ch’mentarxschool. Kinkaid. San Jacinto. arrd wasgraduated from the University of Texas~ith a bachelor of business administra-tion degree.

Mr. Cross~ell is a builder and headsH. M. Crosswell Co.. with offices in theTexas National Bank Building. He de-veloped 10 residential subdivisions, andhas built around 1.500 homes, most ofthem medium priced.

Blond, tall. gray-eyed, handsome Mr.Crosswell is modest and retiring, butvery pol)ular with those who know himwell.

Immediately after his graduation from

the University of Texas. Mr. Crosswell.desiring to get married, found he couldmake the most money working as an oilfMd roustabout. He held down such ajob for a year and a half. he and hiswife living in \Voodville or Silsbee. In1939, they mo~ed to Houston. whereMr. Crossue[1 uorked in a lumber yardfor a year before gelling irdo building.

"~,lv x~ork on tire Port Commissionhas been most irfleresting and reveal-irrg.’" Mr. Crosswell said. "1 have beentmrtir’ularly impressed h~ lhc dedicationof mv fellou commissioners, all of ~homhave been on tire Commission longerthan l have.

"THE PORT has been arr(t is the big-o est single faclor in making Houston ametropolis, l belime the Port and Hous-Ion are just on the Ihresho]d of unparal-Died growth."

Mr. Crosswel] belongs to ]{ixers ()aksan d Houston Count rv Clubs ; shoots golfin the middle eighties, likes to hunt deer.quail, arrd ducks.

Mr. Cross~ell is a deacon in the FirstPresbyterian Church. Hc arrd Mrs.

Crosswell have three sons. They ]he al3756 Knolh~ ood.


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H-4n ~ Coordinates H and 4, north side channelH-4s ~ Coordinates H and 4, south side channel

Ada Oil Co ...................... O-17sAmerican Can Co .................. H-lOn

American Chain & Cable Co., Inc ...... K-11s

Arkansas Fuel Oil Carp ............. O-17s

Armour Fertilizer Works .............. K-14s

Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Co ............ H-43n

Baash-Rose Tool Co .................. H-IOn

Baker Oil Tools, Inc ................. K-11sgama Co., The .................... H-1OnBayou Barge Terminal & Whse. Inc ..... J-29n

Best Fertilizer Co ................... O-16s

Belhlehem Steel Co .................. 1-12n

Big Three Welding Equipt. Co., Inc .... 1-11n

Bludworth Shipyards, Inc ........... N-15s

Brown & Root, Inc ................. H-Sn

Brown & Root Marine Operators, inc. K-29n

Buffalo Whse. Co. (M & M Bldg.) ..... H-4n

Butler Chemical Company ........... O-21n

Byer’s Barge Terminal .............. 1-27n

Celanese Corporation of America ..... N-42s

Champion Paper & Fibre Co ........ O-24s

Channel Shipyard ............. H-43n

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co .......... H-I1n

Chipman Chemieal Co., Inc .......... P-23s

City Wharves (Fannin St.) ............ H-4s

Coastal Oil & Transp. Co.(leased to Humble Oil) ....... O-21n

Coffleld Warehouse Co .............. i-9n

Columbia Lessors, Inc ................ H-6sCommercial Barge Lines (Brady Isl.)..O-16sCommercial Iron Works ........... K-11sConsolidated Chemical Industries, Inc..O-16sContinental Can Co., Inc ............ K-11s

Continental Grain Co. (elevator) ...... O-17s

Continental Oil Co .................. N-18nContinental Springs Co ................. I-9sContinental Supply Co .... J-lOs

Converted Rice .............. H-11nCrown Central Petr. Corp. (refinery) .... O-25sCulbertsan, Syd E., Co.r Inc ......... K-11s

Deere, John, Plow Co ............. K-11sDiamond Alkali Co. (Deer Park) ...... N-39sDiamond Alkali Co. (Greens Bayou) .... 1-30n

Dickson Gun Plant (Hughes Gun Co.)..M-18nDixie Chemical Co ................. f-9s

Drumex, Inc .................. M-22n

Du Pont, E. I., de Nemours & Co ...... S-49s

Eastern States Petr. Co. (Plant I) ..... O-16s

Eastern States Petr. Co. (Plant 2) ...... O-19s

Eddy Refining Company .............. O-15s

Ethyl Corporation ............... L-3Os

Federal Steel Products Carp ............ H-Bs

Fire Boat Station (Manchester) ........ O-17s

Flint, Howard, Ink Co ............. H-10n

Folger, J. A., & Co ............. K-I1s

Ford Motor Co ................. 1-11n

Gaylord Container Carp ............ K-11s

Gen. American Tank Strge. Terminals..N-22nGen. American Tank Strge. Terminals. N-25sGeneral Tire & Rubber Co ............. J-51n

General Warehouse Co ............... H-4s

Goodyear Synthetic Rubber Carp ..... Q-18s

Grand Prize Brewing Co ........... L-lOs

Gulf Atl. Whse. Co. (Clinton plant)... O-20nGulf Atl. Whse. Co. (Long Reach Docks). L-15sGulf Atl. Whse. Co. (Terminal Plant)...N-15sGulf Chemical Co ................... O-21n

Gulf Oil Carp ..................... M-22n

Gulf Supply Co., Inc ................. H-11n

Haden, W. D., Ca. (Marine Dept. Shop) O-15sHaden, W. D., Co. (shipyard) ......... P-19s

Harrisburg Math. Co. (ship repairs) .... O-15s

Hartwell Iron Works, Inc ............... H-Ss

Hess Terminal Corporation ........... L-26n

Horton & Horton ................. H-Sn

Horton & Horton (Material & Shipyard) M-26sHouston Barge Terminal ............. J-lOsHouston Blow Pipe & Sheet Metal Wks. O-15sHouston Central Whse. & Cold Strge. Co. I-TsHouston Compressed Steel Co ......... 1-27n

Houston Export Crating & Constr. Co.. K-14sHouston Lighting & Power Co .......... H-5s

Houston Lighting & Power Co ...... O-23s

Houston Marine Service ......... O-15s

Houston Marine Ways, 1no ........... 0-16s

Houston Packing Co ........... I-7s

Houston Paper Stock Co ............ H-6n

Houston Shell & Concrete Co ...... H-6sHouston Term. Whse. & Cold Strge. Co. H-4nHughes Tool Co ..................... L-lOsHumble Oil & Refining Co. (storage).. J-15nHumble Oil & Rfg. Co. {storage) ....... K-13sHumble Oil & Rfg. Co. (refinery) ...... M-52n

Humble Oil & Rfg. Co. (wharves) ...... N-51n

Humble Oil & Rfg. Co ............... V-54s

Ideal Cement Co. (Gulf Division) ...... N-19n

Index Chemical Company ............. J-29nInternational Harvester Co ............ J-9sJackson, Byron, Co ............... K-11s

Earle M. Jorgensen Co .............. H-IO~

La Porte Yacht Basin, Inc ............. V-54sLayne & Bowler Co .................. G-13n

Lee Construction Co ............... L-14s

Liquilux Gas Services, Inc ............ P-17s

L. K. Pump Valve Co .............. J-9s

Lone Star Cement Carp .......... O-17s

Lubrizol Corp., The ........... P-38s

Magnolia Petroleum Co. (leasedto Eastern States) ................. O-17s

Manchester Terminal Corp. (wharves)...P-2OsMarco Chemical Co ................. K-14sMaritime Oil Co. (Drumming Plant) 0-17sMayo Shell Carp ...... .......... O-20nMerchants and Mfgrs. Bldg ......... H-4nMerlchem Co~, Inc .......... H-28nMid-Continent Supply Co ........ K-11sMontgomery Ward & Co .......... H-6n

Morris Sewall & Co., Inc ........ H-6nMurray Rubber Co ............. I-9sMyers-Spalti Mfg. Co ............. H-6sNational Steel Products Co .......... I-1OnNational Supply Co .............. K-11sNay. Dist. Manchester Wharves ..... O-17sNay. Dist. Public Grain Elevator ....... K-15nNay. Dist. Public Wharves...J-14n and K-14sNay. Dist. Railroad (Elevator Yard) .... K-15nNav. Dist. Railroad (Manchester Yard). P-18sNay. Dist. Railroad (North Yard) .... H-13nNav. Dist. Railroad (Pasadena Yard). O-26s

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Newlin, J. L. Roy, Inc.Nyutex Chemicals, IncOil & Chem. Products,Olin Mathiesan ChemilPacific Molasses Co., LParker Bros. & Co., IrParker Bros. & Co., In~Parker Bros. & Co., InPatrick Shipslde WarePeden Iron & Steel Co.Petersan Const. Co., IrPhillips Chemical Co.Platzer Shipyard ..Port City Compress W~Port Houston Iron WklPort Houston Iron Wk~Pritchard Rice MillingReed Roller Bit Co..Republic Steel Corp.Republic Supply Co.Rheem ManufacturingRiesner, B. A., & SonRohm & Haas Co. .Sampson Machinery &San Jacinto BattlegrouSan Jacinto ChemicalSan Jacinto Ordnan’-eShamrock Broadcastin.~Sheffield Steel CorporlShell Builder Co .....Shell Chemical Corp.Shell Oil Co. (refiner3Ship Channel Compr.

(Sprunt Docks) Sinclair Refining Co.Petro-Tex Chemical CISmith, A. O., Corp. (Smith, A. O., Corp. oSmith, Wm. A., ConstSouthern Barge TermiSouthern Compress &Southern Pacific RR CSouthern Warehouse (

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Southwestern Sugar & Molasses Co. O-17sStandard Asbestos Mfg. &

Insulating Co ......... H-11nStandard Concrete Products Corp .... J-14nStandard Oil of Texas ..... V-53sSunshine Biscuits, Inc ........ H-SnTennessee Coal & Iron Div. (U.S. Steel)N-19~Tenn-Tex Alloy & Chem. Corp ....... 1-28nTexas Butadiene & Chemical Company A-40nTexas Co., The (storage terminal) ..... N-23mTexas Packing Co ............... H-4sTodd Shipyards Corp. (Houston Div.).. K-30nTrinity Portland Cement Co ..... I-7sUnited Gas Corp ......... J-9sUnited Rubber & Chemical Company L-52nU. S. Army Engineers (boat basin) .... V-56sU. S. Army Engineers Field Office ..... O-15sU. S. Customs Appraisers Stores ...... K-i4sU. S. Gypsum Co ............ O-20nWarren Petr. Corp. (WarrenGasTerminal) L-26nWestern Electric Co., Inc ....... J-9sWestinghouse Electric Corp. ¯ H-11n

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HARNESSED

SAM BERTRON generating plant on the Houston ship channel near the San Jacintomonument is the site of Houston Lighting & Power Company’s giant new 240,000 kilo-watt generator ordered for installation in 1959. The recently completed 165,000 kilo-watt unit, shown here, went into service this year, and a second 165,000 kilowatt unit

is new under construction.

WEBSTER PLANT of the Houston Lighting & Power Company, located south of the Hous-ton ship channel near Clear Lake, was constructed in 1954. The two new generating

units here have a capacity of 110,000 kilowatts each.

DEEPWATER’S new 165,000 kilowatt outdoor type unit, completed in 1955, more thandoubled capacity of Houston Lighting & Power Company’s plant located on the ship

channel in the Pasadena area.

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RACING AHEAD of the ever growingdemand for electricity in the Hous-

ton Port area, Houston Lighting &Power Company plans to install thelargest single shaft generator in Texasand one of the largest in the nation onlhe banks of the ship channel near theSan Jacinto battlegrounds.

The giant new 240,000 kilowatt gen-erator, to go into service in 1959, has acapacity greater than that of the entireHouston Lighting & Power system in1942. If operated 100 per cent of thetime, this single unit could generatemore than two billion kilowatt hours ofelectricity ammally, more than enoughelectricity to have supplied the combined1955 requirements of San Antonio andAustin.

This generator will be the third unitat Houston Lighting & Power Com-pany’s new Sam Bertron plant on thechannel. One 165,000 kilowatt unit wentinto service this year, and another 165,-000 kilowatt unit is now under con-struction.

To be manufactured by the GeneralElectric Company, the new 2,10,000 kilo-watt turbine-generator will be the largestconductor-cooled unit in the nation andthe first of its type on the HoustonLighting & Power Company system. Thespecial cooling system was devised forthe generator in order to maintain de-sirable physical dimension and weightsfor a generator of this large capacity.

A liquid cooling solution is circulatedthrough the hollow stalor conductorsand hydrogen gas circulated through thehollow rotor conductors. To completethe cooling cycle, both coolants arepiped through" cooling devices locatedon the outside of the generator, beforestarting on a new cycle.

By circulating a liquid coolant throughthe hollow stator conductors, this typeof generator can produce 75 percentmore power than a generator of similarsize whose bars are cooled in the con-ventional manner--by hydrogen gas.

Steam u-ill be furnished to the turbinefrom a boiler to be manufactured byCombustion Engineering, Incorporatec[.The boiler will produce 1,550,000pounds per hour at a pressure of 2,225pounds per square inch attd total steamtemperature of 1,005 degrees Fahren-heit.

The new boiler will be designed toburn either natural gas or fuel oil andis to be constructed so that it can beconverted into a coal burning unit. Pri-mary fuel will be natural gas, which will

HOUSTON PORT BOOK, FALL, 1956,

HORSEPOWER

For Houston Industry

GENERATORS at Green’s Bayou plant north ofthe Houston ship channel have a capacity of364,000 kilowatts. The 110,000 kilowatt gen-erators were added to the plant in 1953 to sup-plement the first two units of 72,000 kilowat;s

each.

TWO NEW 110,000 KILOWATT generators, left above, were added to the Green’s Bayou plantnorth of the ship channel in 1953 to increase the total capacily of the plant two and one-half

times. Cooling towers of the plant are shown in the upper portion of the picture.

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be burned at a rate of about nine to ten cubic feet for every kilowatt-hour generated--or approxi-mately 2A00,000 cubic feet of gas per hour at maximum steam production.

Staying ahead of industrial needs, with a plentiful power supply to attract other companiesto this center of the petro-chemical industry, has made Houston Lighting & Power Company thefastest growing industry along the ship channel. J

The new Sam Bertron plant is only one of four in the Houston Port area serving the 175 majorindustries located in the Port of Houston industrial district with a total valuation in excess of $2.5billion.

Two of the generating plants, Sam Bertron and Webster, have been built since 1953. and theothers have been expanded to more than double their capacity since 1952.

The Webster generating plant, located south of the channel near Clear Lake. went into op-eration with two new generators of 110,000 kilowatt capacity each in 195’1. Capacity of theGreen’s Bayou plant, located north of the channel on Green’s Baw,, ,~ ; ........ ahalf times with the installation of two 0,000 kilowatt units that went into service in 1953, and11

- -~--, .............. two and one-the capacity of the Deepwater generating plant, long a landmark on the channel, was more thandoubled by completion last year of a new 165,000 kilowatt unit there.

But this is only the beginning of the company’s expansion program for the Houston areawhose growth has been sparked by the Port of Houston.

Two other 165,000 kilowatt generators are under construction at a newly acquired site atSmithers Lake 20 miles southwest of Houston to increase and strengthen the electric power sup-ply to the western and southern sections of the Houston Lighting & Power system. These two gen-erators will connect to a grid serving Houston, West Columbia, Freeport, and Rosenberg.

Continuing studies being made by power company forecasters indicate a need for a totalgenerating capacity in excess of two million kilowatts by 1960 and in excess of three million in1965. Houston Lighting & Power now has either in design or under construction 735,000 kilo-watts of generating capacity scheduled to be placed in service by early 1959--bringing totalsystem capacity up from 1..421,000 to 2,156,000 kilowatts in just three years.

Construction expenditures budgeted for the five year period 1956 through 1960 total at)proxi-mately $230 million or an average of $46 million a year to help set the pace for the amazinggrowth of this area in the heart of the "Golden Crescent of the Gulf Coast."

BOOK, FALL, 195639

LOOKING OVER HOUSTON "BUCKS"--W. S. (Whip) Newell of Sheffield A HAPPY GROUPIBill Brewster, Lee Construction; Don Morse, SheffieldSteel; Howard Tellepsen, Robert L. Swe.et, president of the Kansas City Steel; M. H. Booth, Rock Island Lines; Phil M. Alvarez, freight forwarder

chamber of commerce, of Houston; Ray Sager, Rock Island Lines.

OLD FRIENDS GET TOGETHER~W. N. Blanton, George Catts, executive AN ALL-HOUSTON DELEGATION--L. R. Westerman, Gulf Atlantic Ware-manager Kansas City chamber of commerce; George Owens. house; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dunlap. Mr. Dunlap is vice president of Texas

Transport & Terminal Company; T. H. Coley, Gulf Atlantic Warehouse.

Around 300 turned out for a dinner sponsored by the Kan-sas (’,il~ Chamber of Commerce. Chairman Howard Tellepsen

of the Houston Port Commission ~ as the main speaker: Corn-missioner W. N. Blanton, masler of ceremonies.

A TRIO FROM HOUSTONIJ. M. (Buddy) Lykes, Nick Patton and C. Fox, chairman of the executive committee of the Houston Port Bureau.

AT KANSAS CIT’I- MEETING

FOR HOUSTON PORT BUREAU

TALKING ABOUT THE BIG DINNERIGeorge Kublin of Kansas City who A GOOD YARN--Sam Sosland, managing editor of the Southwesternwas dinr~er chairman. He is with Continental Grain Company; George Miller; Frances J. Fitzpatrick; A. M. Alvarez.Ebanks, National Bank of Commerce; Charles A. Barrows, mld-westernrepresentative of the Port of Houston, with headquarters in Kansas City;

Don Heath, publicity man for the Houston chamber of commerce.


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