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Volume 3 December, 1961 Number 12 Directory OfOfficials FOR THE Port of Houston

PORTCOMMISSIONERS Visitors Throng Houston’s Hospitality Room ...... 8 HOWARDTELLEPSEN, Chairman W. N. BLANTON,Vice Chairman JOHN G. TURNEY Houston Named Space Research Center ...... 13 J. P. HAMBLEN W. M. HATTEN EXECUTIVEDEPARTMENT On Board The Sam Houston ...... 15 J. P. TURNER,General Manager VERNONBAILEY, Assistant General Manager J. L. LOCIqETT,JR., Counsel Consular Corps Entertained on Sam Houston ...... SAMUELB. BRUCE,Auditor 16 TRAVlSSMITH, Engineer and Planning Manager RICHARDLEACtt, Chic] Engineer RORERTW. ROmNSON,Accounts Manager Delta’s Modern Ships Carry Cargoes on Fast Schedules ...... 18 KENNETtlW. STEPHENS, Personnel Manager W. E. GOYEN,Purchasing Manager T. E. WtIATLEY,Administrative Assistant VINCENTD. WILLIAMS,Administrative Assistant Port of Houston Shipping Directory ...... 3l PUBLICRELATIONS DEPARTMENT LLOYDGREGORY, Director o/In/urination TEDSUMERLIN, Editor oJ Magazine Sailing Schedule For General Cargo Ships ...... 32 VAUGIIN M. BRYANT, Director o] International Relations

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WORLD TRADE CENTER The PORT OF HOUSTONMagazine is pub- mission is given for the reproduction or use lished monthly and distributed free to mari- of any material, provided credit is given to the EDWARD J. FAY, Director time, industrial and transportation interests in the and foreign countries. Its Port of Houston. EXECUTIVE OFFICES purpose is to inform shippers and others inter- Additional information or extra copies of 1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street ested in the Port of Houston of its develop- this magazine may be obtained by writing The Telephone CApitol 5-0671 ment, facilities, plans and accomplishments. Port of Houston Magazine, 3005 Louisiana P. O. Box 2562, Houston 1, Texas This publication is not copyrighted and per- Street, Houston 6, Texas.

DECEMBER, 1961 7 VISIIOIISIHRONG HOUSIOArS HOSPIIALIIY ROOM

MORE THAN 1500 shippers, importers and other The Port of Houston’s receptions were in the nearby friends of the Port of Houston engaged in foreign trade vis- Sheraton-East Hotel. ited with Port officials and executives in the Port of Hous- Others from Houston present in the Navigation District’s ton’s hospitality suite at the 48th National Foreign Trade hospitality room to help greet the hundreds of guests daily Convention in New York October 30-November 1. were Alfred Bessell, Jr., chairman of the board; Burke Baker, The Harris County Houston Navigation District played Jr., president, and James H. Branard, Jr., executive vice host to their customers and other friends both noon and president, all of the Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Long evening during the three-day convention, with a delegation Reach Docks); George 7{7. Ebanks, vice president, National headed by Port Commission Chairman Howard Tellepsen and Bank of Commerce; Harold C. Hix, president, Manchester including Commissioners J. P. Hamblen and W. M. Hatten, Terminal Corporation; Sydnor Oden, executive vice presi- and Port General Manager J. P. Turner. dent, and Norman T. Ness, secretary, Anderson Clayton & Co. Also on hand from the Navigation District as hosts, were and Charles Celaya, vice president of First City National Bank. General Sales Manager George W. Altvater and his assistant, Also, Greg B. Perry, general manager, Houston Port Bu- Thomas E. Davies; District Sales Representative John A. reau; Felix Prieto, manager, World Trade Department, Lala of New York and his assistant Frank Ward; World Houston Chamber of Commerce; Herman F. Weber, vice Trade Center Director Edward J. Fay, and Vaughn M. president, Stone Forwarding Company; A. O. Evans, traffic Bryant, director of international relations. manager, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport; Doyle David, Assisting the Navigation District hosts were other Houston International Export Packers; and Preston J. Ellis, president, foreign traders, forwarders, shipping, railroad, bank and ter- Ellis Forwarding Company. minal men attending the ammal national meeting in the Wal- dorf-Astoria Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Portocarrero of New York. Mr. Porto- carrero is vice president and traffic manager for the United Four representatives from Union Carbide ]International Co., States Navigation Company. gather before the Port of Houston banner, from left to right William Hosking, Ray Hardy, H. Henke and B. Eggers.

Thomas Judkins, president of Judkins Maritime Service, left, with R. A. Condy, traffic manager of Nippon, Yusen Kaisha John J. Branti of the Chilean Line’s of NewYork office with E. A. Hammond,export division traffic manager of Joy Manu- Steamship Corp. facturing Co. and Bauer Band, also of Joy Manufacturing.

Warren Lippen, right, vice president of ChemoleumCorp., Mr. and Mrs. AdamHunter. Mr. Hunter is with the American NewYork, with Frank ~’ard, Port of Houston assistant district Smelting and Refining Company of New York. sales manager in New York. 8 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE ForeignTrade Convention (Continued)

Presidents of ltouston’s Manchester and Long Reach Ter- minals, Harold C. Hix of Manchester, left, and Burke Baker, Jr., of Long Reach, right, with James H. Branard, Jr., vice Port Commissioner J. P. Hamblen, right, hmks over the the president of Long Reach, who helped as hosts. November issue of the Port of Houston MAGAZINEfeaturing Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., with William J. Squicciarlni, traffic manager, and T. L. Gusman, general traffic manager, eastern division, both with Lykes in New York.

Frank J. Adams, export manager of the Jaegar Machine Company, Columbus, Ohio, with J. R. Aston, manager of the foreign trade development division of Lykes Bros. Steamship Directors of the world trade departments of three chambers Co., Inc., Houston. of commerce met in the Houston hospitality room, from left, V. J. Bruno, New York Association of Commerce and Industry, Linwood B. Law, Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, and Robert L. Bean, Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry.

John H. Faunce of John Faunce, Inc., shipping agents and R. Meikeljohn and Bob Connell of Bendix International customs house brokers, with J. Sherman, Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation, with James P. Ford, export department of Linde- and D. Britton Faunee, vice president of John H. Faunce, Inc., teves, Inc., New York, and Charles Celaya, vice president of all of Philadelphia. Houston’s First City National Bank.

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Philip M. Aivarez, port director at Pensacola, left, and Felix William F. Kroog, assistant traffic manager of the Prudential Prieto, head of the world trade department of the Houston Steamship Corp. with Everett T. Vroman, executive vice presi- Chamber of Commerce, right, with Elwood R. Anderson, spe- dent of the William H. Muller Shipping Corporation, both of cial assistant in purchasing and traffic of the Ethyl Corpora- New York. tion, New York.

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!i!ii~ Frank J. Quinn, right, assistant manager for export sales William H. Longsworth, Jr., and G. Parsons West, both of of the Hooker Chemical Corporation, New York, and l)irk Foster Wheeler Corporation, New York. Frazee, also of Hooker. DECEMBER, 1961 9 Foreignlrade Convention(Continued)

John A. Lala, distriet sales manager in New York for the Port of Houston, with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Dearer, Mr. Dearer is with the Livestock and Dairy Division of tile U. S. Depart- R. L. Dausend and Claude Fornell of the Pan-Atlantic Steam- ment of Agriculture. ship Company’s Sea-Land Service, New York, left and right, respectively, are with Greg B. Perry, general manager of the Houston Port Bureau.

C. R. Cuddy, retiring from Cahex Service Co. where he was assistant export traffic manager, receives a gift from George ~.’. Ahvater, general sales manager for the Port of Houston William Seeley, Henry Lange, Rod Seidel, all of Mobil In- and John A. Lala, the port’s district sales manager ill New ternational Corporation, New York, under the Port’s banner York. at the hospitality suite.

R. Vonnahme of National Lead Co.; E. Whitehouse of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., and R. Fairlie, Jr., of Standard James Gallagher, left, and John Wentworth, right, both of Vacuum Oil Co., at a Port of Houston hmeheon in the Black the traffic department of Pillsbury Mills, and Bernard Young, Angus Restaurant. center, export traffic manager for Pillsbury, all of New York.

Wilton Barger of Spencer Chemical Co., Kansas City, with Doyle David, International Export Packers, (lnterpack), Frank Ward, assistant district sales manager of the Port of Houston. Houston in New York with Aaron Gross and Harry de Vries of Gottesman & Co., New York.

A. M. Alvarez, Houston, Gulf representative of Nopal Line, George Campbell of the Kerr Steamship Co., New York, with A. O. Evans, Jr., traffic manager of Dow Chemical Corp., with Thomas Wills and William June, both of the American Freeport, Texas, and R. A. Morris of Standard-Vacuum Oil Trading Co. in New York. Company, New York.

10 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE ForeignTrade Convention (Continued)

M. M. Charnley of the Godfrey L. Cabot Corp., Boston, chats Dick Noel, vice president, and Malcolm W. Heron, president with Edward J. Fay, director of the Houston Y~:orld Trade of the Gedney Electric Company, New York, with Houston Port Center. Commissioner J. P. Hamblen ant| J. P. Turner, general man- ager of the Port of Houston.

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George J. Harig of Mohegan International Corporation with Mr. and Mrs. Don Anderson, Washington, D. C. Mr. Andcr- Harry K. Barr, president of the Barr Shipping Co., Inc., both son is director of the Livestock and Dairy Division of the U. S. of New York. Department of Agriculture. On tire left is Mrs. Cecil Deaver, whose husband is also with the Department of Agriculture.

Ed McConnell of Union Carbide Co.; John Cassom, United States Rubber Company; A. T. Marrubio of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and J. Pisarra of the Cahex Corporation at Under the Port of Houston banner are H. G. Seymour, presi- one of the Port’s luncheon meetings. dent of Mohegan International Corp., A. G. Roy, assistant traffic manager of Cerro Sales Corp., D. F. McCarthy of Rich- ardson-Merrell Corp., and George Sampson, traffic manager of Geigy Chemical Corp., all of New York.

In the Houston hospitality room are Michael A. Guarraia, assistant traffic manager of tire Torm Lines; William B. Cran- ston, traffic manager, international, for Standard Brands; Fram’is X. McKenna, Torm Lines’ general freight agent, and John Premus of the Funch, Edye & Co., Inc., all of New York. Watson F. Motley, American Vermiculite Corporation, left, with Henry Lange, Mobil International Corp., anti Elmer Mann and Ed Jacohus, both of International Minerals and Metals, New York, at a Port of Houston hmcheon.

Thomas J. Seedor, manager of public relations service for the Public Relations Society of America, left, and Kenneth L. Baldwin of the traffic department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, right, with Vaughn M. Bryant, director of international rela- Two representatives of E. I. du Pont tie Nemours, Interna- tions for the Port of Housten. tional, are Michael Miele and Anthony De Lnca.

DECEMBER, 1961 11 ForeignTrade Convention (Continued)

W. M. Hancn, Houston Navigation and Canal commissioner, George W. Altvater, general sales manager for the Port of with Gonzalo Abaunza, president of the Abaunza Steamship Houston, with Charles Bodeman, export manager of Owens, Corporation, agents for several lines operating out of Houston Illinois Glass Co., New York. and other Gulf Coast ports.

Houston Port Commission Chairman Howard Tellepsen, N. Curcio and T. Carmody of tile Bunge Corporation, New second from right, and George W. Ebanks, left, vice presi- York, with Herman F. Weber, vice president of Stone For- dent of the National Bank of Commerce, Houston, with Morton warding Co., Houston. M. Charnley of the Cabot Corporation, Boston, Mass., and A. D. Duyfuizen, right, freight representative for the Holland- America Line in New York.

Port of Houston’s General Manager J. P. Turner with Don .... ,~,~,~ Brain, right, export traffic manager for Goodyear Tire and T. Piaget and R. Gallagher of the American Cyanamid Co. Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. are surprised by the camera as they sign in on the Port of Houston’s register at the hospital suite.

Representatives of tile Osaka, Shosen Kaisha (O.S.K. Line) Steamship Company are, left to right, Goro Taketami, freight traffic department; AI Klami, freight traffic manager, and E. H. Crosby, General Traffic Manager for Balfour, William- Takashi Matsui. son, Inc. and A. Kenyon, export traffic manager for Air Re- duction Sales Corp.. New York.

Morris S. Abe, traffic, International Division, Diamond Alkali W. I. McLaughlin, Sinclair Oil and Refining Company, with Co., left, and John Muhlbach, also of Diamond Alkali, right, Jesse Sherman of the American Paper Export Company, both with Frank Ward, New York, assistant district sales manager of New York ...... i--~ ! for the Port of Houston. 12 PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE SPACECiTY

Houston Named Research Center For Exploration In Outer Space

Astronaut Shepard awaits blastoff.

SPACE StilPS -like ships of the solmel about 1500 scientists, techni- sea--will soon be using the Houston claus and the seven astronauts -will be Ship Channel. moved from Langley Fiehl, Virginia, as soon as Project Mercury orbits a man Houston has been seleeled as the around earth. ’;CommandPost" for the [’nlted States’ exploration of outer space. It is here By late 1964 there may be as many lhat the astronauts will be trained and as 3000 to 3500 at work in the NASA the space ships developed for the Na- program here. Beyond that, predictions tional Aeronautics and Space Admin- are not possible, except that it seems istration projects. reasonable to assume a continuing growth as NASA’s mission grows. A A complete space laboratory will be round trip to the moon bv 1970 is only erected on 1000 acres on the shores of the first step to outer space exploration. Clear Lake, 22 miles east of downtown Houston. The NASAfacilities will include four buildings. An eight-story structure will NASAoflieials picked Hous{on after house central offices, accommodating surveying 20 cities from coast to eoast. administrative and engineering [aeill- A criteriou for the selection was the ties plus electronic computing equip- availability of water transportation. ment, ,auditorium, library and confer- The space laboratory will haxe access el/ee rooms. to a barge canal that emmeets ~Hth the I,arger than two football fields, an Houston Ship Channel in Galveston environmental t e s t i n g building will Bay. NASAcontemplates bringing parts enable technicians to test space craft of the nation’s first moon rocket, the under a wide range of simulated opera- Apollo and its Saturn booster, as well tional conditions. as the space capsule here and shipping Testing and training devices will be them to Cape Canaxeral. Florida, by housed in a three-story flight operations barge. building. The barges xdll draw sc~en feet of ]n the equipment-cxaluation center water and support loads ranging from ~ill be included an administrative, 250 to 300 tons. The Corps of Engi- maintenance and procurement annex. neers said these were some of the larg- est barges in general use today. Other facilities will be added as the need arises. Some 20 of the largest cor- The space laboratory has an initial porations in the country were invited to price tag of $60 million on it. but that bid loward becoming prime contractor is said to be on[v a down payment. After the moon Jhots. the laboratory on this space research center. Alto- gether, some 5000 firms probably will will be used for exploration of deei~ be involved in this NASAproject. .pace. NASAhas already established tem- Rising from a fountain of flames, porary olfices here. The nucleus of per- ~.stronaut Shepard is airborne. DECEMBER,1961 Trade union leaders from affiliates of the Confed- eration of Transpnr! Workers spent three days in Houston last nmnth. While here riley talked with Navigation District officials and touk a trip on the inspection vessel SAM HOUS- TON. From the left are Martin lbaneez, union secretary of tile Social-Democratic Party; Luis Jose Cantelli, third vice president of the Railroad Union; Marcel|no Ricardo Maturann, Yamashita Steamship Co., Ltd., Director T. Akiyama, right, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers; Oscar manager, Liner Department, Tokyo, toured tile ltouston Ship Americo Salvatierra, member, Board of Directors of the Channel during a visit to tile Houston area last month. He is Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers; Pablo Alarcon, secretary- shown here on board tile inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON general of the Executive Board of tile Association of Merchant with Frank T. Matsuura of tile cnmpany’s New York ntlice. Marine and River Boat Captains; and Ricardo Mira, ioter- preter, U. S. Department of State.

Three businessmen from across the country representing firms engaged in foreign trade stand here on the inspection Pierre Ferenczi, chief of publications for the United States vessel SAM HOUSTONprior to a trip down the Houston Ship Information Service in Paris, stands here on the bridge of the Channel last month and a look at the Port of Houston. From inspection vessel SAM HOUSTONduring a trip on the Houston left, Robert A. Condy, export traffic and sales manager, Nippon Ship Channel. Ferenczi spent three days here in November Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), New York office; N. D. Brickman, gathering information which be will use in a four-part series traffic manager, Kaiser Aluminum International, Oakland, Cali- based on Houston, Chicago, New York and Charleston, South fornia; and William J. Meehan, assistant to general sales man- Carolina, for a USIS Paris-based publication of 150,000 cir- culation. ager, Ryder Truck Lines, Jacksonville, Florida.

on the bow, from left, Pedro Morales, second vice president, Mexico City; Alberto Aviles R., president, Mexico City; A. T. Two and a half years ago some fifty members of the Traffic Leigh, president, Houston; Ed Stebbins of the Houston Traffic Club of Houston were heartily welcomed by tbe Traffic Club of Club who acted as host interpreter; and Jose Teufer, acting Mexico City in that capital city. They invited the Latin opposites secretary, Mexico City. On the right, Mexico City club members to come to Houston some day on a similar visit and in November seated on the bow, from left, Oscar Ramirez M., General Popo the Houston Club got its chance to return the hospitality when S.A. ~ Carlos Cuevas J., MFT, General Electric" Rnmeo Gutierrez, their Mexican friends visited here. One afternoon was spent en- Sea-Land Service, Inc. (Laredo) ; Rene G. Garcia C., Cerveceria tertaining the Mexico City group on the inspection vessel SAM Cuauhtemoc S.A.; and Juan M. Bautista, Celanese Mexicana HOUSTON.In the picture at the left, officers of both clubs stand S.A.

14 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE Visitors See The Port of Houston

Holland-America Line’s C. Vas Dias, center, Rotterdam, toured the Houston Ship Channel aboard tile Navigation Dis- ABOARD THE SAM HOUSTON trict’s SAM HOUSTONduring a recent visit here with Texas Transport and Terminal Co., Inc. Witb him on the bridge are Philip E. Kuntz, manager liner division, Texas Transport and Terminal Co., and R. F. Keyworth, acting general terminal superintendent, The Texports Stevedore Co., hn’.

National and local officers of the English-Speaking Union Polish Ambassador to the United States Edward Droznik, took a trip on the Port’s inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON center, made a two-day visit to Houston recently where he ob- along with delegates from all over the nation to the E-S.U. Na- served local foreign trade activities including a look at tile tional Conference in Houston last month. Here on the bridge Houston Ship Channel aboard the Navigation District’s inspec- are, from left, Brigadier J. W. S. Treadwell, C.B.E., national tion vessel SAM HOUSTON. Ashley W. Lon, second from vice president of the E-S.U. in the United States; Hon. Allen right, vice president traffic, West Gulf Division of Lykes Bros. Price, Counsul General of Great Britain; J. E. Lowe, executive Steamship Co., Inc., accompanied Ambassador Droznik on the director of the E-S.U. Houston branch; Robert C. Stuart, chair- Channel trip. Embassy officials, are from left, Andrew Szcze- man of the Anglo-Texan Society in Houston; Hartley E. Howe, panczyk, attache; Dr. Edward lwaszkaiewiez, eommercial coun- deputy director general of the E-S.U. in the U. S., of New cellor; and Kazimeirz Terepeta, far right, chief of purcbasing York, and Marlin E. Sandlin, president of the E-S.U. Hons- department. tort branch.

Gulf Oil Corporation welcomed several prominent business- Mirko Zekulic, general manager of the Port of Ploce, Yugo- men front the Republic of tile Pbilippines to Houston last slavia, spent a week in Houston recently studying port opera- month aboard the Navigation District’s SAM HOUSTON. Shown tions and administration ~ith thc Navigation District. Spon- here on tile bridge with Gulf Oil representatives including sored by the International Cooperation Administration with B. B. Pettitt, center, southwest region marketing vice president, are from the left, Ramon del Rosario, president, Filoll program planning by the Maritime Administration, Department Refinery; Emilio Abello, businessman; Washington Sycip, sen- of Commerce, Zekulic will visit American ports on three coasts ior partner, Sycip, Gorres, Velayo and Company; and Jose before concluding his four months’ stay in this conntry, tie B. Fernandez, Jr., chairman of finance commission, Filoil, all stands here on the bridge of the inspection vessel SAM HOUS- of Manila. TON while viewing the Ship Channel.

DECEMBER, 1961 15 Consular Corps Entertained On Sam Houston

MEMBERSof the Houston Consular Corps and their ~. M. Hatlen, and Port General Manager and Nlrs. J. P. wives were guests of the Navigation and Canal Commis- Till’tier. sioners of the Harris County-Houston Navigation District Heading the (:onsular delegation ~ere (:onsular I)can Allen aboard the inspection vessel SAM HOUSTONlast month for Price of Great Britain and Mrs. Price. Others included an evening buffet-reception and trip down the Ship Channel. Mr, and Mrs. Oscar Carlos Ataide, Argentina; Mr. and Mrs. The consular officers represented twenty four countries in J. Frans Herpin, Belgium; F. D. de B. Berenguer. ; Europe, Asia and Latin America and, in addition to the Port Mr. and Mrs. Wei-liang Yin. China: Dr. Ah’aro Munevar, Commissioners, were greeted aboard by several Port of" (kflomhia; Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard l)augbjerg, Denmark. Houston executives and their wives. Also. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Rauvh. Dominican Republic: Port Commission Chairman Howard Tellcpsen and Mrs. Col. and Mrs. Jos6 Su~rez M., Ecuador; Serge LeGoff, Tellepsen headed the welcoming committee with Commis- France: Dr. and Mrs. Ludwig A. Fahel, Germany; Dr. and sioner and Mrs. W. N. Blantom Commissioner and Mrs. Mrs. John Reuben Sheeler, Haiti; Mrs. Carmcnza Calix, Honduras; Mr. and Mrs. Ryuji Sakamo/o, Japan; Mr. and Mrs. Alherto Reyes Spindola. Mexi,o. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Jan P. Engels, The Netherlands; Major and Mrs. Florencio Mendoza, Nicaragua~ Mr. and Mrs. Thor- leif B. Jorgenscn, Nor~ay; Mr. and Mrs. Augustin R. Chiari, Jr.. Panama; l)r. and Mrs. Mar/in CaltonL Paraguay~ Mr. and Mrs. Karl Henrik Andcrsson. Sweden; Mr. and Mrs. G. Herzog, Switzerland. and l)r. and Mrs. Luis Alherto Padr6n, Venezuela. Also aboard for the Port of Houston were Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn M. Bryant, director of international relations: Mr. and Mrs. Ed~ard J. Fay, director of the Houston World Trade Center; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bailey, assistant gen- eral manager; J. L. Loekett, Jr., eounsel; Mr. and Mrs. The three Gran Colombiana countries, Venezuela, Colombia, George Altvater, general sales manager. Lloyd Gregory, di- and Ecuador, are represented in that order from left to right rector of information, and Mrs. Teofilo S. de Villavicencio by their consuls. Fromthe left, Dr. Luis Alberto Padron; Lic. and Robert I,. Brannon of the department of international Alvaro Munevar,and Col. Jose Suarez M. relations.

Wives of several consuls from countries of Latin America cbat in the after salon of the SAMHOUSTON, from left, Mrs. Consul General and Trade Commissioner Jan P. Engels of Florencio Mendoza, Nicaragua; Mrs. Luis Alberto Padron, The Netherlands, left, and Acting-Consul Ryuji Sakamoto of Venezuela; Mrs. Jose Snarez, Ecuador, and Mrs. Alberto Reyes Japan, right, are with Port Commission Chairman Howard Spindola, Mexico. Tellepseu in the forward salon.

Mexico’s Consul Alberto Reyes Spindola, center, stands with On the forward deck of the SAM HOUSTONare Mrs. John Fernando D. DE B. Berenguer, Consul of Brazil, and Wei- Reuben Scheeler, wife of the Consul of Haiti; Mrs. Ryuji liang Yin, Consul General of China. Sakamoto, wife of the acting consul of Japan, and Mrs. Wei- liang Yin, wife of the Consul-General of China. 16 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE German)’s new Consul in Houston, Dr. Ludwig Fabel, with Mrs. Frans Herpin, wife of the Consul General of Belgium, Mrs. Fabel. left, and Mrs. Allen Price, wife of the Consul Gen- laughs with Bernhard l)au~bjerg, honorary consul of Denmark. eral of Great Britain and dean of the Houston Consular Corps.

I)r. Martin Cattoni, right, consul of Paraguay, with his Port General Manager J. P. Turner, left, chats with Sweden’s brother Adolfo, visiting him in Houston at the lime. Consul Karl Henrik Andersson.

Major Floreneio Mendoza, vice consul of Nicaragua, left, with Argentina’s Consul Osear Carlos Ataide hefore the port Serge l,eGoff, vice-consul of France, with his guest, Mrs. mural in the after sahm of the SAM HOUSTON. C. l,ee.

DECEMBER, 1961 17 Modern Ships Carry Cargoes

From Gulf To South America and

West Africa On Fast Schedules

A BRIGHTGOI,DEN TRIANGLEset in a field of sham- programthat calls for reldacing Ihe entire fleet of 13 xcsscls rock green identifies the vessels of Delta Line. in the next 12 years at a cost of about $130,000,000. By design or symbolic coincidence, the trade routes served Sparked by an intensive research and development program by Delta Line form a triangle to connect the three major under the sapervision of Capt. J. W. Clark, Delta president. areas served: Gulf ports, the East coast of South America the companyhas completed and placed in service three nc~ and the West Coast of Africa. $i0,000,000 cargoliners -the 5.5. DEL RIO, S.S. DEL 50L and S.S. DEL ORO. The Delta Line is an American-flag service operated by the The new ships were launched in 1960 and made their Mississippi Shipping Co., Inc., of NewOrleans. Offices arc maiden voyages in the spring and summerof this year. Built maintained in Houston and other principal Americancities. A network of Delta offices and agencies serve the line in along trim, modernlines, the new vessels are fast at sea and South America, West Africa and Europe. versatile in the handling of cargo. They feature fully ah’- conditioned staterooms, crews quarters and dining areas. They Delta Line vessels started calling at Houstonin 1928, with have broken speed records between Gulf ports and Soutix the sailing of the old S.S. WESTSEGOI/IA. Nowevery ship Americaby a v e r a gin g more in the fleet calls regularly at the busy Texas port. than 20 knots each way. The Delta fleet consists of 10 cargoliners and three combi- Vertical-lift cargo-handling nation passenger-cargo vessels (capacity 119 passengers gear, including the revolu- each). Delta ships depart weekly for South Americaand every tionary 60-ton heavy lift two weeks for West Africa from Gulf ports. Stulcken boom. have im- Delta Line is in the midst of an extensive fleet replacement proved cargo safety and greatly minimized damage to shippers’ cargoes. L The newcargoliners can lift 8600 tons of cargo at the de- sign draft of 28 feet. Each CAPT. CLARK has 22,500 cubic feet of re- frigerated space and provisions for 1890 tons of bulk liquid cargoes. The years of intensive research by Capt. Clark and his group t~ave paid off in a finished product that is designcd specifically for the type of cargo that is loaded and dis- charged on Delta Line trade routes. Forty-three years ago another group of menwere thinking about ships and a shipping problem. It was 1918 and World WarI had just ended, ~hen Brazilian coffee exporters and NewOrleans importers began to seek a solution to the prob- lem of transporting large amounts of Brazilian coffee to the Gulf area. A series of meetings resuhed in the formation of the Mississippi Shipping Co.. Inc. on March2/., 1919. The nc~ corporation was organized primarily to serve the Brazilian coffee trade and eoffee inlerests uere heavily represenled on the company’sfirst t,oard of directors. The S.S. Del Mar, one of lhree Deha Line passenger-cargo Prominent in the organization of the Mississippi Shipping vessels, plys her way through the Gulf of Mexico to South Companyuere M. J. Sanders, T. F. t’unningham. R. S. Hecht, America. TheodoreBrent, William B. Burkenroad, George G. \Vcsffeldt, 18 PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE William P. Ross and N. O. Pedriek, all New Orleans business- in the loss of °1 lives, not including Naval Armed Guard Ineu. personnel. Mr. Sanders was tile first president of tile company. He Toward the end of World War II, officials of Delta Line was followed bv Mr. Cunningham. Mr. Pedrick, Mr. J3rent, set about acquiring a new fleet. A total of nine cargo vessels Mr. Harry X. l~elly, and Capt. Clark. huilt duriug the war were acquired. Then, the company was The ne~ service was inaugurated with the sailing of the given permission to convert three C-3 cargo hulls into combi- S.S. BOUNDBROOK from New Orleans to Brazil on August nation passenger-cargo vessels. They became the famous Delta 7, 1919. Ports in and Argentina were added to the Liners--DEL NORTE, DEL SUD and DEL MAR--that today Service in 1920 to create a more equal balance of import and sail from New Orleans and Houstmi on cruises to the East export cargoes carried. coast of South America. During its early years, the "~Iississippi Shipping Company Delta Line, in extending its operations in 1947 to include also operated vessels between Gulf ports and Western Europe as the Mississippi Valley-European Line. At the request of the old U.S. Shipping Board, this service was transferred to Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. in 1930. Mississippi Shipping Company’s service between Gulf ports and South America soon became known as the "Delta Lir, e," a designation that gained formal approval of the Shipping Board and has been used extensively by the company during its 42-year history. As early as 1929, the directors of Delta Line recognized the need to offer passenger service between Gulf ports and Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. The first passenger-cargo vessels were commissioned in 1931 and 1932 as the DEL NORTE, DEL SUD, DEL MUNDO,and DEL VALLE. Each was designed to accommo- date 36 passengers. The four combination ships were among 12 Hog Island-type vessels purchased from the U.S. govern- ment by Delta Line in 1929. Each was re-conditioned to accommodate passengers. Contemporarydesign gives a modern, spacious look to slate- In 1932, the Delta Line fleet was cut to nine vessels and rooms aboard the new Della Line Cargoliners. three ships were turned over to the Maritime Commission. The company embarked on a replacement program in the service bet~een Gulf ports and West Africa, was a pioneer in late 1930’s, in which all nine Hog Island vessels would be this trade. It recently speeded up this service to include two replaced by six new cargo-passenger ships of greater capacity sailings a month from Gulf ports to ~-est Africa. Develop- and speed. ment and expansion of this trade in the future is one of the The first three new ships DELBR.4S1L, DELORLEANS principal objectives of Delta Line. and DELARGENTL¥O were commissioned in 1940. Each As more of the new cargoliners arc’. built, Delta Line service had accommodations for 6~ passengers. A contract for three to all ports will be faster, more frequent. more vessels of the same type had been signed just prior to The new Delta ships are easy to spot. The design is unlike the [.’niled Stales’ entry into World \Var II. This contract was lhat of any other American-flag vessel. The 506-foot-long eventually cancelled l~v the Maritime Commission and tile cargoliners are distinctive by their streamlined hulls and their three new ships were requisitioned for government use. great mid-ships expanse of’cargo cranes and hatches. Super- l)uring World War II, Delta Line acted as general agents structure, painted white, is located far forx~ard and far aft. for the War Shipping Administration and manned and Next time you’re in the harbor at Houston, look for the operated a total of 58 vessels on more than 500 voyages. A bright golden triangle set in a field of brilliant greeu you’ll total of eight ships were lost due to enemy action, resulting know that another Del{a lane xessel is calling. 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THEFACTS ABOUT

iii!ii!7iiiiiiii iii~ilil MARCHESSINILINES iii!iill iiiiiiil INDEPENDENT-EXPRESS !ii!iiii FAREAST SER VICE ili:iiii iiiiiiiiMarchessini Lines operates the fastest, most depend- able independent express service direct (via the iiiiiiiiPanama Canal) to the Far East, maintaining more than two regular scheduled sailings per month from the U. S. East Coast and Gulf Coast Ports. Vessels arrive in Yokohama 24 days after sailing their last Atlantic Coast Port and 28 days after sailing from the last Gulf Coast Port. Marchessini IJnes operates a modern, up to date cargo liner fleet with the latest safety, navigation and cargo equip- ment obtainallle. Two new 18~-knot vessels, the ’’~ ~iiii "’Eurvbates" and the "Eurygenes have been added WHITE HOUSE AWARD CEREMONY--President Kennedy to the fleet in 1961. adds his personal comments after presenting the Merchant The average age of Marchessini Lines’ twelve- ~¢[arine Achievement Award, at center, to Solon B. Turman, vessel Far East fleet-1~ years old. Marchessini right, president of the Lykes Bros. Steamship Company. The award went to Turman in recognition of his company’s con- Lines regularly loads in all major U. S. East Coast tribntion to the growth of the mechant marine through a huge and Gulf Coast Ports for Japan, Korea, Formosa, ship replacement program. Philippine Islands and Hong Kong. Deep tank and refrigeration space is available on all East Coast vessels. New York vessels load their cargo in un- congested Port Newark at Shed 145.

MARCHESSINILINES MODERNCARGO FLEET Speed DdweightBale Cap.Deep Reefer Vessel Built (Knots)Toonage(Cubic Feet) Tanks Space Eurygenes 1961 18.5 13105 607045 Yes Yes Eurybates 1961 18.5 13105 607045 Yes Yes Eurymachlls 1960 18.5 13105 591153 Yes Yes Eurylochus 1960 18.5 13105 585464 Yes Yes £uryalus 1957 15 130’26 586836 NO NO Eur.~edon 19’57 15 13026 586836 No No Eurydamas 1956 15 13031 598080 No No Eurytan 1956 15 13031 598080 No No Forfurther facts and figures that wouldbe of interest to the prudent,cost-conscious shipper, please call on

P.D. MARCHESSINI & CO., INC. GeneralAgents for MarchessiniLines 26 Broadway, N. Y. 4 WHitehall 3-7550 * The S/S "’Eurvt~enes"Marcbessinl Lines" newest addition to it~ fleet, arrived in ~ewYork on her maidenvoyage on Nov. 17, 1961.

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