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Such products as Sinclair Diesel Fuels and Sinclair Lubricants RtmXLE~E® and TESOL® have made Sinclair a great "It will pay you to contact your local Sinclair Representative or write Sinclair name in marine oils. Refining Company, Marine Sales Dept., 600 Fifth Avenue, NewYork 20 , N. Y." SINCLAIR MARINE LUBRICANTS 2 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE MANCHESTERWELCOMES THE NEW PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE At Port Houston Manchester Offers Complete Warehousing-Berthing Facilities Manchester Terminal provides complete water-rail-truck handling of cot- ton and all types of general cargo. Manchester’s modern plant features: ¯ Concrete wharves ¯ Wharfside storage facilities ¯ Large outdoor storage area ¯ High-density cotton compresses ¯ Automatic sprinkler system ¯ Rapid truck loading-unloading facilities ¯ Modern handling methods and equipment For complete cargo-handling service, use Manchester Terminal Manchester Terminal Corporation Houston 1, Texas P. O. Box 2576 General Office CA 7-3296 Terminal WA 6-9631 JANUARY, 1959 3 Bunker fuels* MARINE ¯ Essomarine Deep Draft lubricants PRODUCTS ¯ HumbleLube HD (High speed diesel engine oil) at Texas Ports ¯ Marine paints and solvents *Readily available at shipside at Houston, Baytown, Galveston and Harbor Island. f See The Port From A HELICOPTER Roll out the red carpet. Whenyou want to showa good customer the Port of Houstonor the city, a helicopter offers the fastest and best way. Hovering in the air, you can check plant sites, look over any installation or watch progressof work. Whetherit’s a job that needs to be donein a hurry or accessto remoteloca- tions, helicopters are today’s answerfor quick, safe and economicaltransportation. Landings can be madeon land or water. HELICOPTER AIR LIFT, INC. P. O. Box 9353 Phone ORchard 4-8488 4 PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE Offical Publication of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District Volume1 Numbert JANUARY, 1959 Directory WEWOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE OURSELVE TOYOU Of Officials THE PORT OF HOUSTON ~]’t(;~Z1NF magazine will make it possible for u- I, FOR THE makes its bow with this issue Volume publish more nexxs about the Port ,,: I. Number 1. Houston. This magazine is the official publiea. We appreciate the eonfidem.e the ad- Port of Houston lion of the Harris County Houston Ship vertisers have shown in this- our initia! Channel Navigation District. and is a llUIIlber. PORT COMMISSIONERS ,’ombination of The Houston Port Bul- We are confidenl that this ne~, Por~ Ibm ARD"l’t:H.t.:es~:t,. Chairman letin, formerly issued twice a month, and W.N. BLA’,’ro’,. Vice(,’tmirm~m of Houston Magazine will be ~orthv ,,f The Houston "Port Book. formerly issued .I.P. flavmA:\ the Port of Houston and it will proxe t,:, twice a year. ,IolIn (;. TI Rx~-:Y be more interesting to all segments ,,i R. \;I,~RNt)N ’~711[TES]I)E The larger physical format of the the shipping trade. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT JERI{Y P. TI RNER.(;eneral z],tanager VERN()N]]AII,I]Y. A,~sistant Genertl[ Mamtgcl J. 1,. LocKirrr..Jr.. C,mnsel El)rrll HAN’,I’:R.Fxeeutive Assi.stant (;uI:t; B. ]hmrv. Executive A,s.~i,stant SaMUEl.B. BRI I:l-;, Auditor ROnERTW. ROI;INSON.Busir~ess O/rice Munage~ T. E. ~,"IIATI,I]Y. Administrative AsMstant VINCENT]). WllAAAMS.Administrative Assistant Construction of New Docks ..... 7 lA,o’~i) GRIXiORY. Director o~ In/,rmati,n "l’l.:l~ S[ ~II:m.I’,.Editor o/ Magttzinc NornlaxE. Ht i.:’,L (.’hie/ Engineel Port Contest Wins Friends ......... 8 VAI GII N ~1. ~RYAN’I’, Director of ]ntern:ttiontt/ Relati,ms World Trade Center Plans Studied ........ SALESDEPARTMENT 9 NI{ HOI,ASPA’IT()N. (;etteHzl 5ales :$1ttn~tgt’r .loll,, A. L~.I.A. Eastern Manager Consular Corps Members Feted ........ 10 25 Broad~ay,Ne’~ York. N. ’~. Ht "qE [lExm:rso>.. ChicagoArea Manager Boardof Trade Building, Chicago.Ill. Brass From India ............. 13 (hlaRLES A. B~rmeas. Midwestern Manager Board of Trade Building, KansasCity. Mo. People In The News .......... .](IIIN ]{. ~,~:I:II.ER. Southwestern Manager 15 616 Gihraltar 15re Bldg., Dallas, Texas OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT Sailing Schedule .................. 22 W.F. I..~.:’,D. TcrnHnalManager T. H. Slli m~OOD.Manager o] GrainElerat, r Lasting Impression Made By Port Contest . 1). M. FRAZlOR.Maintenance Manager 25 EXECUTIVEOFFICES 1519 (:apitol A~enue at (ha~ford Sn’eet THE COVER:This is an architect’s drawing of the proposed World Trade Center rI’eleldmne CApitol5-0671 I’. O. Box2562. Houston1. Texas for the Port of Houston. SeePage 9 for a complete story. Till: PORt"()F Hol SlONMagazine is l,ub- ested in the Port c,f F[ouston of its develop- Port of Houston. lished monthly and disn’ibuted free to mari- ment, facilities, plans and accomplishments. Additional information or extra rot,ie- (.{ time, industrial and transportation interests in 3"his puldication is not copyrighted and per- this magazinemay be obtained by ~ritin~ tt>’ the United States and foreign countries. Its mission is given for the reproduction or use office of publication, The Port of Houst,,~:. purposeis to inform shippers and others inter- of any material, provided credit is given to the Post Office Box2562. Houstonl. Texa,. JANUARY, .1959 5 6 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE By LLOYD GREGORY Director of Information Port of Houston DRILLED-IN SHAFTS with belled footings have been substituted for con- NEW DOCKS ventional concrete foundation piling in three new marginal docks now under construction at the Port of Houston. The newfacilities are scheduled for comple- tion by mid-year. NormanE. Hueni, Chief Engineer for UnusualConstruction Due the Port, believes this to be the first ap- plication of this interesting construction feature for marine dock facilities along the Gulf Coast, possibly within the entire ForMid-Year Completion country itself, although this type founda- tion has been used for building struc- tures for the past several years. Construction of the new docks, all to be utilized as public wharves, is part of a $7 million Port bond improvement program approved early in 1957 by where special blades are extended out ings provide secure shaft anchorage and Harris County voters. Estiinated con- from the cutter at the lower end of the support. struction contract cost of the three new drilling shaft. These blades cut a "bell" Another attractive feature of the docks is $3,307,866. at the bottom of the hole approximately drilled-in shaft is that the cost is actually Transit sheds will be erected under three times the diameter of the concrete lower than for conventional concrete pii- separate contract on two of the docks, shaft to be poured, providing a footing ing, as indicated by comparablebids re- while the third will have an open con- area approximately nine times that of ceived on both types of foundations, Mr. crete pavement over its entire area, to the shaft itself. A cage of reinforcing Hueni said. One reason for this lower facilitate the handling of heavy cargoes. bars is lowered into the drilled hole and cost is the fact that drilled-in shafts do The new wharves are numbered 18, a tremie pipe is then set in the hole, not require construction of forms, as do 19 and 20 in respective order of location through which the concrete for the shaft conventional piling, the engineer ex- downstreamfrom existing facilities on and footing is poured. The belled foot- plained. the north side of the HoustonShip Chan- nel. Wharves18 and 20 will be 600 feet in length, with Wharf 19 to be 577 feet long. The width of all will be the same, Concretewas being poured on Wharf19 as this picture wastaken recently. Withgood weather 267 feet. ahead,construction work is expectedto proceedrapidly. Apron areas of Wharves 18 and 19 will extend 52 feet in front of full-length transit sheds 200 feet in depth, leaving 15 feet of platform area at the rear for loading railroad cars and trueks. Wharf 20 will be open concrete paving, with no transit shed. Face construction of the wharves will be of reinforced concrete slab and pave- ments, supported on the drilled-in con- crete shafts with belled footings. A bulk- head of steel sheet piling will be placed at the rear of the front platforms of Wharxes 18 and 19 to support fill at rear. A similar bulkhead with top edge at channel water level will be located at the ship-side face of Wharf20. Aninteresting construction feature of Wharf 20 is the fact that the concrete floor of the dock was poured atop its foundation shafts, with the earth beneath removed afterwards, marking the first operation of its kind here for wharf con- struction. In the drilled-in shaft operation, the hole is drilled to the desired depth, JANUARY,1959 7 THE PORT OF HOUSTON Episode 7: MATCHINGFEDERAL FUNDS [ Typical of the cartoon strips which provided the basis for the Port Contest is Episode 7 above. PORT CONTESTWINS FRIENDS Prizes Valued at Thousands of Dollars Awarded During 12 Exciting Weeks By VAUGHNM.