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Navy Will Award $4-Million Carrier Work to Commercial Ship Repair Firms AUGUST 1965 Jacksonville Shipyards Buys Aerojet Facility -0 - Also Takes Over Shipyard At Charleston, S. C. YOUR GATEWAY It TO THE SOUTHEAST JACKSONVILLE POPULATION: A metropolitan city of 560,000 persons, largest seaport on the South Atlantic range. TRANSPORTATION: O nly Southern port served by Atlantic Coast Line, Florida East Coast, Seaboard and Southern Railways; all major truck and air lines. FINANCE: Home of three oldest and largest Florida bank groups. Insurance capital of the south. INDUSTRY: 20 miles of industrial harbor along 34-ft. channel, soon to be deepened to 38 ft. “Your Key To Southeastern Markets” JACKSONVI LLE PORT AUTHORITY Write or telephone: DAVE RAWLS, Managing Director, Port Authority Docks, 2701 Talleyrand Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida 32206, P. 0. Box 3005, Telephone: ELgin 6-1971, TWX: JK 68, Cable: JAXPORT including 25,000 square feet of processing area. From 250 to 300 persons will be em- ployed by the firm to process a total of 150,000 pounds of frozen shrimp daily. The freezer warehouse will have capacity to store 2,000,000 pounds of shrimp. REAL COMFORT CONVENIENT HOTELS IN JACKSONVILLE &HotelMayflower * Ho telJefferson Ground was broken for the Brownsville shrimp plant by L. C. Ringhaver. Attending, (l-r) were Adolph Brooks, Ringhaver, Sydney Herndon, Don Sahlman, W. Boudreaux and J. C. Fergu- son (not shown.) National Shrimp Processors was organ- COMMERCIAL CHEMISTS INC. ized last April by 75 shrimp fleet operators P. O . Box 6 7 6 6 in Texas and Florida who have about 500 Jacksonville, Florida Ringhaver Builds trawlers working in the Gulf of Mexico. Sidney E. Herndon of Corpus Christi is president of the firm. He bought the Trawl- JV .F.P.A . Processing Plant er “'Southern Princess” christened June 19 Certified Marine Chemists by Mrs. Haydon Burns to become the 1200th shrimp trawler launched by Ring- For Gulf Shrimp haver at his Diesel Engine Sales Inc. yard SONIC THICKNESS GAUGING in St. Augustine. non-destructive, fast Other officials of National Shrimp Proc- and accurate essors include Virgil Versaggi, vice presi- BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS dent; Adolph Brooks, assistant treasurer, A $750,000 shrimp processing plant—the and Wallace Boudreaux, director— all of RADIOGRAPHIC INSPECTIONS most modern in the industry—is being Brownsville. Lionel T. Hodgson is general welds, pipes, castings, etc. built here by L. C. Ringhaver of St. Augus- manager of the plant. tine, Fla., for lease to National Shrimp Ground-break ceremonies for the freezer ANALYTICAL & CONSULTING Processors, Inc., which will begin marketing and processing plant were conducted June SERVICES frozen shrimp under its own brand names. 29. A second plant is planned for construc- The plant is located on a 10-acre tract Phone 356-0751 tion in Florida at a later date. and will be 100 feet wide by 425 feet long, ALL GRADES BUNKER FUEL ~~ DIESEL EQUIPPED BARGES PETROLEUM COMPANY, [A S T E R N SE A B O A R D INC. 6531 EVERGREEN AVENUE * JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA * ELGIN 5-9676 * CABLE: EASTPET Jacksonville Seafarer august i 9 6 5 1 President D. A. Watts, Vice-President-Florida, Strachan Shipping Company Vice-President E. L. Boucheile, Jacksonville Shipyards JACKS NVILLE Secretary-T reasurer Spencer Robinson, Pres., Buccaneer Line Directors Floyd Cagle, James W. Coppedge, President, Diesel Ship- building Company Dr. Wayland T. Coppedge, Vice President, Flor- ida Tow ing Corp. David W. Jackson, President, Jackson Marine Sales, Inc. % Martin E. Kirwin, President, Jacksonville Ship- yards S. W. Marshall, Jr., Secretary. Commodores Point Terminal Corp. Vol. 14 August, 1965 No. 8 Carl R. Opper, Vice President & Treasurer, Southern Shipping Co. David A. Howard, Editor Kenyon Parsons, Insuror, Kenyon Parsons & Co. Gray C. Ramsaur, Attorney Jacksonville SEAFARER is published on the first day of each month by Howard Publications, L. C. Ringhaver, President, Ring Power Corpora- tion and Diesel Engine Sales, Inc. Inc., 218 West Church St., Jacksonville 2, Florida, USA. Accepted as Controlled Circulation Pub- Willard F. Walter, lication at Jacksonville, Florida. Subscription, $5 per year with FLORIDA JOURNAL of COM- William M. White, Asst. Vice President, Barnett MERCE. Telephone ELgin 5-2601. National Bank Leadership in Public Service T he past 30 days have been packed with more action involving- the Port of Jacksonville —and its progress—than we have been used to witnessing. Inexorably, the tempo of events seems to be catapulting Jacksonville into a position of unchallenged dominance among the ports and commercial centers of the Southeastern United States. The Seafarer is especially proud that so many of our Board of Directors have been in the middle of the action and, in fact, have been the leaders. It is because of their leadership that the magazine has been able to represent the Port of Jacksonville for the past decade, keeping our eye on the ultimate goal to establish this Port as one of the great cities of our nation and the world. Take a look at the action during the past 30 days and you get a fair notion of what members of our board are about: In his capacity as Chairman of the Jacksonville Port Authority, President D. A. Watts disclosed that discussions are underway with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to build a phosphate elevator here. This would be the second phosphate terminal in the port, matched by Occidental Corporation of Florida’s new facility at the former Gulf Oil Ter- minal. In his capacity as President of Jacksonville Shipyards, Director Martin E. Kirwin made two major announcements on the expansion of Jacksonville Shipyards—now one of the Big 4 in America. His substantial annual payroll for 2,350 skilled workers is believed to be the largest industrial payroll in Duval County. In his capacity as a public-spirited citizen, Director L. C. Ringhaver was named Chairman of the Canal Authority of Florida. He is also Vice President of the Florida Wa- terways Association—a statewide group which was organized after the Seafarer pointed out in September 1954 that the supporters of waterway development in Florida should band together and work as a team to develop an integrated waterway system serving all sections of Florida. In his capacity as a private business man, Director David W. Jackson has been in- volved in negotiations to bring a major new industry to the banks of the St. Johns River. Working with such active leaders is a privilege which cannot be matched. 2 Jacksonville Seafarer august i 9 6 5 Propeller Club Hears Docks Generate Employment Plea For Cooperation On Pollution Problems FA r. Gene Jones of Jacksonville Univer- Economic Survey Points To -L'sity, in a talk delivered to the Port of Jacksonville Propeller Club, offered the as- sistance of a future marine research facility at the school in solving the growing prob- lem of pollution in the St. Johns River. In a plea directed at representatives of riverside industries who were present, Jones Need For Port Improvements said, “We can help you and you can help us.” He said the St. Johns is presently “noth- ing but a cesspool of industrial effluents” killing the life of the river. O peration of Jacksonville’s Talleyrand eluded improved mechanization of Port He said “sewage is less important (in the Docks & Terminals during 1964 gener- equipment, replacement of existing deterio- pollution problem) than industrial wastes” ated a combined direct and indirect revenue rated facilities, and the construction of addi- because the acid content of these wastes in excess of $150,000,000 for the communi- tional docks and new warehouses. “kills off the shellfish which thrive on sew- :y, according to an independent economic The report listed some typical industries age.” itudy recently completed by Jacksonville which might be attracted by such improve- Jones told of plans for JU’s first course University. ments. These included phosphate handling, in oceanography to be offered next Fall. The report, prepared by Professors Nor- petroleum processing, concrete and cement, He said that the school is in an ideal posi- nan E. Weir and Stuart W. McFarland, textile plants, fertilizer plants, salt process- tion for marine research due to its location Concluded that investments in Port improve- ing facilities, steel and other metal-working on the bank of the St. Johns. nent “would return in direct dollar benefits plants, barge construction and mainte- He noted that there is no such facility o the citizens of Duval County much in ex- nance—all in addition to the expansion of in this area at present and indicated that :ess of what would be invested.” present industries Of chemicals and paper the Mayport area would be an ideal spot It was established iby the study that each products. for the JU sponsored marine station. on of general cargo, such as paper pred- icts, coffee, steel, automobiles and food iroducts moved through the Port of Jack- Exporting? Importing? onville leaves $23.81 in the economy of Duval County. The report also showed that during the last 12 months, the operation of the Talley- and Docks & Terminals by the Jacksonville ’ort Authority provided employment for a otal of 10,026 persons in Jacksonville and Duval County. The study showed that only small portion of these jobs were actually seated along the waterfront, most of them This is the man at The This is the man at The This is the man at The eing located in offices and industrial plants Atlantic who can advise you Atlantic who can arrange Atlantic who can handle the tiroughout the county. on expanding your overseas banking connections for you financial needs of your im- markets. abroad. The Jacksonville University study was port or export transactions.