JULY, 1961

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YEAR ROUND CARGO SERVICE

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TRANS OR TION¯

b "t8 our us mess

is our only productPORT OF HOUSTON OFFICES ARE AS NEAR AS YOUR TELEPHONE

HOUSTON

GEORGE W. ALTVATERGeneral Sales Manager

JOHN R. WEILERDistrict Sales Manager1519 Capitol Ave.Telephone CA 5-0671

NEW YORK CiTY

JOHN A, LALADistrict Sales Manager

FRANK WARDAssistant Sales Manager

25 BroadwayTelephoneBOwling Green 9-7747

KANSAS CITY

CHARLES A, BARROWSDistrict Sales ManagerBoard of Trade BuildingTelephone Victor 2-5732

CHICAGO

HUME HENDERSONDistrict Sales ManagerBoard of Trade BuildingTelephone WEbster 9-6228

we otteR YOU. ¯ Always Speci/y, via¯ Six Trunk-line Railroads ¯

THE PORT OF HOt STOOl¯ 58 Common Carrier Truck Lines ¯¯ 120 Steamship Services ¯¯ Heavy Lift Equipment¯ Marginal Tracks at Shipside ¯ Executive Offices: 1519 Capitol Ave.¯ 28 Barge Lines; 90 Tanker Lines ee¯ Prompt and Efficient Service ¯ P.O. Box 2562 Houston, Texas

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Manchester Terminal offers the convenience and economy of

"ship-side" warehousing at the Port of Houston. With complete water-rail-

truck handling of cotton and general cargo, Manchester’s one-stop service

helps shippers save time and money.

Manchester’s modern convenient facilities include:

¯ Concrete wharves

¯ Two-story transit sheds

¯ High.density cotton compresses

¯ Automatic sprinkler system

¯ Large outdoor storage area

¯ Rapid truck loading and unloading

¯ Modern handling methods and equipment

For complete cargo handling service, use Manchester Terminal.

Manchester Terminal CorporationP. O. Box 2576 General Office: CA 7-3296Houston 1, Texas Wharf Office: WA 6-9631

JULY, 1961 3

INDEPENDENT FREIGHT SERVICEFROM U.S. GULF PORTS TO

MEDITERRANEAN- NEAR EASTINDIA-FAR EAST

DIRECT SAILINGS FROM HOUSTON TO

YOKOHAMA, KOBE, PUSAN,KEELUNG, MANILA AND

HONG KONGFrom Mobile New Orleans

King M~nus ...........Thais Hope ........... July 23 July 25

DIRECT SAILINGS FROM THE GULF

HoustonJuly 15July 29

Tripoli, Benghazi, Alexandria, Aden,Jeddah, Beirut, Karachi, Bombay

and SingaporeFrom Tampa New Orleans Houston

North Viscountess .......... July 8 July 14 July 12Eurymedon ................ Aug. 4 Aug. 1

GENERAL AGENTS, U.S.A.

P. D. MARCHESSINI & CO.(NEW YORK) INC.

26 Broadway, New York 4, N. Y.

Other AgentsP. R. Markley, Inc.Lafayette BuildingPhiladelphia, Pa.

Hobelman & Co., Inc.221 East Redwood St.

Baltimore, Md.Sumter Marine Corporation

2 North Adgers WharfCharleston, S. C.

Marine Chartering Co., Inc.310 Sansome Street

San Francisco, CaliforniaTransmarine Navigation Corp.

812 Wilshire Blvd.Los Angeles, Calif.

Agents U. S. GulfP. D. Marchesslnl & Co.

(Texas) Inc.326 Shell BuildingHouston 2, Texas

P. D. Marchessini & Co.(Louisiana) Inc.

Cotton Exchange BuildingNew Orleans 12, Louisiana

Gulf Steamship AgencyFt. of Dauphin St.Mobile, Alabama

Interore Shipping Corporation521 Water Street

Tampa, Florida

YOURWORLD-

WIDEBANKING

CONNECTION

Bank of the Southwest maintains awide network of correspondents inevery major market in the free world.You are provided direct service plusfast, efficient handling of every typeof foreign bank transaction throughour international facilities. It will bea pleasure to serve you.

Merle R. Crockard, Vice President & Manager,International Banking Department

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BIEHL & COMPANY, INC.STEAMSHIP AGENTS

HOUSTON NEW ORLEANS GALVESTON213 Cotton Exchange Bldg. 401 Sanlin Bldg. 312 Cotton Exchange Bldg.Phone Capitol 2-9961 Phone 529.4211 Phone Southfield 5-5085

DALLAS MOBILE BEAUMONT MEMPHIS413 Cotton Exchange Bldg. 805 Milner Bldg. 305 Goodhue Bldg. 520 Cotton Exchange Bldg.

Phone Riverside 8-3318 Phone HEmlock 2-1605 Phone: Terminal 2-8418 Phone Jackson 5.8725

FERN-VILLE LINES ..................................................... GULF/FAR EAST SERVICENOPAL LINE ................................................ GULF/EAST COAST SOUTH AMERICAGULF/WEST AFRICA LINE ............................................ GULF/WEST COAST AFRICANORTH GERMAN LLOYD )HAMBURG AMERICAN LINE

I .....................................GULF~CONTINENTAL EUROPE

OZEAN/STINNES LINESIDARMA LINE .......................................................... GULF/MEDITERRANEANMAMENIC LINE ............................. GULF/WEST COAST, EAST COAST, CENTRAL AMERICASCINDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD ............ GULF/EGYPT/SAUDI ARABIA/PAKISTAN/INDIABARON.IINO LINE ......................................................... GULF/SOUTH AFRICAJUGOOCEANIJA LINE..

}GULF/MEDITERRANEAN

................................. GULF/WEST COAST OF SOUTH AMERICAL. SMIT & CO.’S ............................................. INTERNATIONAL TOWING SERVICE

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Cable Address

TERMINAL HOUSTONTel: CA 5-5461

(Established 1895)

STEAMSHIP AGENTSHOLLAND-AMERICA LINE

ToHavre/Dunkirk-Rotterdam/Amsterdam

Antwerp/Ghent-Bremen/Hamburg

CREOLE LINENavigazione Aha Italia)

ToGenoa, Naples, Venice, Trieste,Savona, Leghorn, Rijeka, and

Mediterranean and North African ports.

OFFICESNew York, N.Y. Charleston, S. C.Philadelphia, Pa. Savannah, Ga.Baltimore. Md. New Orleans, La.

Chicago, I11.

Cotton Exchange BuildingHouston, Texas

SHINNIHON LINETo

Yokohama-Kobe-OsakaNagoya-Yokkaichi

VENEZUELAN LINE(C. A. Venezolana de Navegacion)

ToLa Guaira, Puerto Cabello, Maracaibo,

Guanta, Puerto La Cruz, and otherVenezuelan ports.

OFFICESGalveston, Texas Corpus Christi, TexasHouston, Texas Brownsville, TexasDallas, Texas Memphis, Tenn.

S. Louis, Mo.

Dalton Steamship CorporationSHIP AGENTS AND OPERATORS

TERMINAL OPERATORS AND STEVEDORES

Agents for:

COLDEMAR LINE ¯ CONCORDIA LINE

CUBAMAR LINE ¯ N.Y.K. LINE ¯ POLISH OCEAN LINE

CARGO TRANSPORT LINE

FIDELITY BANK BUILDING

Cables "DALSHIP" ¯ Teletype HO-17

KVARNERSKA PLOVIDBA LINE

HOUSTON 2, TEXAS¯ Telephone CA 8-8661

10 LINESOffices in GALVESTON, BEAUMONT, DALLAS, NEW ORLEANS, MEMPHIS and MOBILE

JULY, 1961 5

itoyal Netherlands Steamship Company25 Broadway, New York 4, N. Y.

Regular Sailings/tom

Mobile, Houston and New Orleans

WEEKLYto La Guaira, Pto. Cabello, Guanta, Curacao

and Trinidad

EVERY TWO WEEKSto Maracaibo, Aruba, Pto. Sucre, Carupano,

Georgetown and Paramaribo

EVERY FOUR WEEKSto Pampatar

Agents

STRACHANSHIPPING COMPANY

New Orleans--Houston--Mobile--Chicago--St. Louis

Cincinnati--Dallas--Kansas City--Memphis--Atlanta

FUNCH, EDYE & CO., INC.New York- Detroit

TheBANK LINE Ltd.Regular Service from

U. S. Gulf Ports to

Australiaand

New lealand¯ Brisbane

¯ Melbourne

¯ Auckland

¯ Lyttleton

¯ Sydney

¯ Adelaide

¯ Wellington

¯ Dunedin

mum

General Agents

BOYD, WEIR and

SEWELL, Inc.New York

mmm

Gulf Agents

STRACHAN

SHIPPING CO.

Houston - Galveston - Mobile

Memphls-New Orleans-Dallas

Chicago - Atlanta - St. Louis

Kansas City - Cincinnati

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C

DirectoryOf Officials

FOR THE

Port of HoustonPORT COMMISSIONERS

HOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanJOHN G. TURNEYJ. P. HAMBLENW. ~,{. HATTEN

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTJ. P. TURNER, General ManagerVERNON BAILEY, Assistant General ManagerJ. L. LOCK’ETT, JR., CounselSAMt’EL B. BRUCE, AuditorTRAVIS SMITH, Engineer and Planning ManagerRICttARD IJE~,CII, Chie/EngineerROBERT W. RORINSON, Accounts ManagerKENNETtI W. STEPI1ENS, Personnel ManagerW. E. GOYEN, Purchasing ManagerT. E. WItATLEY, Administrative AssistantVINCENT D. WILLIAMS, Administrative Assistant

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

LLOYD GREGORY, Director o] InJormationTED SUMERLIN, Editor o] MagazineVAUGHN M. BRYANT, Director o]

International Relations

SALES DEPARTMENT

GEORGE W. ALTVATER, General Sales ManagerJOHN A. LALA, District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant

25 Broadway, New York, N. Y.HUME A. HENDERSON, District Sales Manager

Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Ill.CHARLES A. BARROWS, District Sales Manager

Board of Trade Building, Kansas City, Mo.JOHN R. WEILER, District Sales Manager

1519 Capitol, Houston

OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT

C. E. BULLOCK, Operations ManagerW. F. LAND, Terminal ManagerT. H. SHERWOOD~ Manager oJ Grain ElevatorD. M. FRAZIOR, Maintenance Manager

WORLD TRADE CENTER

EDWARD J. FAY, Director

EXECUTIVE OFFICES

1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford StreetTelephone CApitol 5-0671

P. O. Box 2562, Houston 1, Texas

JULY, 1961

Official Publication

of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 3 July, 1961 Number 7

Conlen[3World Trade School Prepares Students

Swedish Ambassador Visits Houston . .

Visitors Tour Port on Inspection Boat

World Trade Center Takes Shape ....

He Anticipates Opening of World Trade Center

World Trade Association Is Planning Active Program .....

Directory of Steamship Lines and Their Agents

Minneapolis Shippers Are Honored .......

News In Views .............

Port of Houston Shipping Directory ....

Sailing Schedule of General Cargo Ships

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THE COVER

The largest signboard in the South’s largest city is advertising the Gulf of Mexico’sleading port. The spectacular sign, at the Clinton Drive entrance to the Port ofHouston, was recently completed at the direction of the Port Commission.

The PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine is pub-lished monthly and distributed free to mari-time, industrial and transportation interests inthe United States and foreign countries. Itspurpose is to inform shippers and others inter-ested in the Port of Houston of its develop-ment, facilities, plans and accomplishments.

This publication is not copyrighted and per-

mission is given for the reproduction or useof any material, provided credit is given to thePort of Houston.

Additional information or extra copies ofthis magazine may be obtained by writing ThePort of Houston Magazine, 3005 LouisianaStreet, Houston 6, Texas.

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Practical CoursesPrepare Students AtWorld Trade School

By ROBERT L. BRANNONInternational Relations Representative

HOUSTON FOREIGN TRADERS looking for young mento take over responsible jobs both abroad and at home needsearch no farther thau 12 miles northwest of Phoenix, Ari-zona, where they’ll find the nation’s only institution exclu-sively devoted to the practical training for careers in U.S.commercial foreign trade.

Since its beginning in 1946, the American Institute forForeign Trade has trained some 3000 students with a thirdof this number now serving in management capacities in78 different conntries, another third training in this countryfor eventual assignment abroad and most of the remainderworking domestically in the international trade field.

The annual enrollment at AIFT, its familiar name, is 250students and more than 90 per cent have a previous BA or BSdegree. A large number have completed military service.

Normally, 50 per cent of the student body is married, andwives may enroll in the language and area studies with noadditional charge in tuition.

The placement record of AIFT stands unusually high. Lastyear, 75 per cent of the class had jobs by commencementtime.

This high record is due, primarily, to the more than 500international business concerns filling the active placementrolls and more than 100 of them recruiting on the campuseach year.

School building in thunderbird shape

Students see wood samples of the world

Founded by General Barton K. Yount and Finley PeterDunne, Jr., in 1946, the privately-operated AIFT purchasedits present location, an old Army Air Corps training baseknown as Thunderbird Field, from the government. Thunder-bird and Thunderbirders are now commonly used when re-ferring to the school and its students.

AIFT aims at the real and practical aspects of foreigntrade and living abroad and seeks to dispel any dreams ofcomfortable hammocks, rum collins and lovely Polynesianmaidens familiarly presented by movies and television.

Its students work under a hard-hitting three-part curricu-lum: foreign languages, area studies and the business admin-istration of foreign trade. They receive the post graduatedegree, Bachelor of Foreign Trade.

The language course, offering the student either Spanish,Portuguese or French, is unique in that the oral-aural methodis used almost exclusively and the students learn from nativeinstructors. They spend one hour a day, five days a week, inan eight-pupil conversation class, talking and listening to aninstructor, who, in the Spanish course, for example, maycome from Mexico, Peru, Colombia or Venezuela.

Every four weeks the instructors rotate classes so that in

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the course of a semester, the student might learn from a nativeof all four of the countries listed above.

Additionally, the students devote two hours a week togrammar fundamentals when the oral drill is put to use to in-still the basic rules of the language.

Another two hours is spent weekly in language laboratorylistening to recordings and repeating phrases and sentencesto perfect pronunciation. Each student is monitored in thelab and his defects and troubles corrected on the spot.

The second semester of the course also includes reading andwriting the language utilizing the latest periodicals, essaysand short story forms available. Thus, a cycle of reading,writing and talking about particular subjects is established.

Dr. William L. Schurz heads up the area studies and herethe student finds down-to-earth reality.

Schurz spent some 37 years all over Latin America andserved in a multitude of capacities ranging from U.S. TradeCommissioner and economic advisor to journalist and lecturer.

Some of the subjects in the Latin American area cover, forexample, the Spanish Conquest, the colonial period, and thewars for independence while the greater part is devoted tocurrent manners, modes, trends of thought and specifics even

Student and wife take tune out for swim

down to the location of streets and suburbs in major cities.Sehurz maintains a bulletin board covered with current

news items and magazine articles, knowledge of whicheach student is held responsible. Exam questions might in-elude the location of a waterfall, the ethnic make-up of Ro-sario, Argentina, the name of the Honduran president or askfor the student’s reaction if caught in a Communist demon-stration in La Paz, being stranded in Cochamba, Bolivia, orwhat steps he would take on arriving in Lima, Peru, towork his family into the daily life as he begins a three yearassignment.

The Foreign Trade Department boasts academically trainedinstructors with practical experience in the internationaltrade field.

Campus life contributes to the international flavor of thecurriculum. Every Wednesday is language day and studentsare encouraged to speak only in the language they are study-ing. Films, speakers and activities revolve around interna-tional themes.

The library stocks a broad category of books, periodicals,and newspapers covering foreign economic, political, socialand cultural matters.

To maintain its up-to-date and current approach, AIFTplans to inaugurate a new course into the curriculum entitled,"Nationalism and the Soviet Trade Offensive."

JULY, 1961

C. R. Smith, left, chairman of the board of American Airlines, wasintroduced to students by Carl Sauer, right, president of AIFT.

It hopes to establish a foreign marketing-research labora-tory for comparative studies of U.S. offerings and those offoreign competitors.

Also planned is an expansion of its present Key ManCourse, a six-week offering to middle-management faced withoverseas assignment, to seven weeks, adding one week of in-tensive work on area background and the types of businessproblems facing the U.S. businessman overseas.

Its National Advisory Council lists a number of prominentAmericans, among them, William L. Clayton of Houston;Clare Booth Luce, former U.S. Ambassador to Italy; LewisW. Douglas, former ambassador to Great Britain; LowellThomas, author and commentator; and Howard Pyle, formeradministrative assistant to President Eisenhower.

Dr. Carl Sauer, prominent in Latin American affairs formany years, is AIFT’s current president.

Today the United States faces increased competition bothat home and abroad in the marketing of goods and services.The American Institute For Foreign Trade long ago assertedthe only solution is to strengthen American competitive pro-duction and meet that challenge, and its training is gearedto this objective.

New language laboratories

VISliORS FROM SWEDENS \VEDEN’S AMBASSADOR to the Uifited States, Dr. Gun-nar Jarring, spent a busy day ill Houston in June, toppedby a visit to City Hall, an address to the Houston WorldTrade Association and a trip down the busy port’s ShipChannel as a guest of the Navigation District.

Accompanied by Baron C.-H. Nauckhoff, commercial eoun-sellor of the embassy, and Swedish Consul in Houston KarlH. Andersson, Ambassador Jarring also visited a Texas ranchand had earlier journeyed to Austin to meet Governor PriceDaniel and preside at festivities marking the centennial of thefirst Swedish eolony in Texas, established nearby in 1861.

In his remarks to the World Trade Association, AmbassadorJarring eited Sweden’s healthy foreign trade and high stand-ard of living and urged worldwide lowering of trade barriersand a r~,ciprocal policy of buying and selling between nations.

Port Commissioner J. P. Hamblen, second from right, and Chamberof Commerce Executive Vice President Marvin tfurley, greet Am-bassador Jarring and Baron Nauckhoff ahoard Inspection Vessel SAMHOUSTON.

New exeentive secretary of Houston’s World Trade AssociationSherman Kendall, center, makes first trip on Ship Channel along withSwedish diplomats. Kendall will he in charge of the Trade Associa-tion’s headqnarters and club facility in new World Trade Center whencompleted at year’s end.

Consular Corps Dean Allen Price, Consul General of Great Britain,second from right, chats with Ambassador Jarring and CommercialCounsellor Nauekhoff before World Trade Association hmcheon, ac-companied by Swedish Consul Andersson.

At City Hall, Ambassador Jar-ring meets Mayor Lewis Cutrer,right, and is given symbolic keyto city.

At the wheel, veteran sailorJarring takes over on the SAMHOUSTON along the ShipChannel.

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VISITORS TOUR PORT ON INSPECTION BOAT

Five chief executives of oil producing states and leaders in thepetroleum industry from all over the nation gathered in Houstonduring June for the mid-year meeting of the Interstate Oil CompactCommission On ttle first ~]av of the session the group held a luncheonat San Jacinto Inn, then ]marded McCullough Tool Company’sQUEEN OF TEXAS and the Navigation District’s SAM HOUSTON,pictured above, for a trip up the Houston Ship Channel.

Here, chairman of the conlpact this year. Governor Price Daniel ofTexas, center, pauses at the SAM HOUSTON wharf for a chat withGovernor Frank B. Morrison of Nebraska, left, and Governor JohnAnderson, Jr. of Kansas.

A contingent of Canadian goodwillambassadors from Winnipeg, Manitoba,arrived in Houston last month on a tripthat carried them as far as Galveston.The group included some 15 officialsfrom the Canadian city and boasted apiper from the Winnipeg Police Band,Donald Morrison, pictured above on theNavigation District’s SAM HOUSTONduring an inspection trip of the Hous-ton Ship Channel.

Visiting from New Orleans, BobFriedly, right, port and martime editorfor the New Orleans States-Item touredthe Ship Channel last month whilespending a day studying Houston’sshipping and port facilities. Here heis with Vaughn M. Bryant, the Port’sdirector of international relations, onthe bridge of the SAM HOUSTON.

Representing the 53 million bushel grain elevator, the woHd’s larg-est, belonging to Union Equity of Enid, Oklahoma, Chester Robbins,center, manager, Trucking Department, inspected the Navigation Dis-trict’s export grain facility recently and is shown on board the inspec-tion vessel SAM HOUSTON with public grain elevator officials, T.H. Sherwood, left, elevator manager, and Ken Roden, assistant toelevator manager.

JULY, 1961

Viewing the Ship Channel from the bridge of the SAM HOU~’TONBritish Minister of State to the Board of Trade, Frederick J. Erroll,right, is shown with, from the left, H. Niblock. Consul of Great Britain ;N. S. Belam, secretary to the Minister, and Allen Brice, British ConsulGeneral in Houston. Mr. Erroll, a member of Paliament, addressed theHouston World Trade Association and Wm’ld Trade Committee of theHouston Chamber of Commerce while here.

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World lrade Cent~er lakes ShapeTHE FIRST PANES of tinted glass were installed recentlyon Houston’s new World Trade Center and the eleven-storysteel, glass and marble building at the corner of Texasand Crawford is running right on schedule with completiondue in mid-December.

Rentals, too, are moving at a fast clip with 75 per cent ofthe space already leased and another 10 per cent spoken foraccording to Edward J. Fay, World Trade Center director.Tenants will be shipping companies, foreign consulates,freight forwarders and others in the foreign trade field.

Latest shipping company to sign is Biehl & Co., which tookthe entire sixth ttoor. The Dalton Steamship Corporation al-ready has the entire seventh floor. The full ninth floor, partof the remaining 15 per cent of the building’s space stillavailable, is also being kept intact for a single tenant, Faysaid.

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The imposing Center will have nearly 51,000 square feetof the tinted glass around it with the transparent glass fur-nished by the Franklin Glass Company of Butler, Pa., andthe span~trel glass by the Virginia Glass Products Corp. ofMartinsville, Va.

Glazing contractor on the job is Dixie Glass Co., Inc., ofHouston who represents the two glass manufacturers. Thebuilding’s unique curtain wall is provided by Reynolds Alu-minum Co. of Louisville, Ky., and is being erected by Build-ers Service Co. of Houston.

General Contractors for the $3 million building are John-son, Drake & Piper of Houston. It is being built by the HarrisCounty Houston Ship Channel Navigation District and willfeature a world trade service, international restaurant andclub facility, showcase corridors and a meeting hall for audioand visual presentations on subjects of foreign trade and in-ternational interest.

PORTOF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

No. 20 in a Series MEN WHO MAKE THE PORT OF HOUSTON HUM

M~et E Ca,tw, lgkt

lie ~,nlicipales I]peninqOf World Trade E enler

By LLOYD GREGORYDirector of Information

The Port of Houston

STALWART, handsome Frank Edward Cartwright, generalvice president and director of Dalton Steamship Corporation,awaits with keen anticipation the opening, around the firstof the year, of the Port of Houston’s World Trade Center.

Dalton has leased the entire seventh floor, 7,200 squarefeet, of the world trade center.

"We sorely need more space now, and we have definiteexpansion plans when we get into the world trade center,which should prove a tremendous boon to the Port of Hous-ton," Mr. Cartwright said.

In 1956, when Mr. Cartwright opened Dalton’s Houstonoffice, he had a girl secretary as his sole aide; the Houstonoffice now has 27 employes. The company also has otfices inNew Orleans, Galveston, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Mobile,Dallas, and Memphis.

Mr. Cartwright is 6 feet, 4a~ inches tall, weighs 230pounds, and has the appearance of a one time All-Americatackle. However, his only football was rugby, which he playedin his native England. Mr. Cartwright now is a fan of theAmerican variety of football.

Born in Birkenhead, England, in 1905, Mr. Cartwright waseducated at the University of Liverpool, and he was for fiveyears a crewman aboard Cunard Line passenger and cargoliners. His mother, Mrs. Mary E. Cartwright, a lively 89, stilllives at Birkenhead.

In 1948, Mr. Cartwright came to Houston and went to workfor Hansen, Tidemann and Dalton, steamship agents, asassistant to Mr. Tidemann.

In 1956, J. H. Dalton formed the Dalton Steamship Cor-poration, of which he is president. Mr. Cartwright and Roy F.Frantz are vice presidents.

Dalton Steamship Corporation is agent for these lines:Coldemar, to South America; Concordia, to Persian Gulf;

NYK, to Japan; Polish Ocean to Europe; Yugo-Slav toMediterranean.

Mr. Cartwright feels that General Manager J. P. Turner"has furnished much of the push and drive for recent im-provements at the Port of Houston. Mr. Turner is an old pro.

"We still need more berths, and I am hopeful that in timethe Port of Houston may be able to offer steamship operatorspreferential berthing."

Mr. Cartwright gets his exercise in his Tanglewood gardenand in his woodworking shop.

Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright have three children and twograndchildren.

JULY, 1961FRANK E. CARTWRIGHT

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S. Sherman Kendall, new executive vice president of the HoustonWorld Trade Association, seated, discusses space the Association willoccupy in the new World Trade Center with Edward J. Fay, Associa-tion vice president and director of the Center.

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AFTER MORE than a third of a century of service to the

port’s foreign commerce, Houston’s World Trade Associationhas incorporated with a full time executive vice president andstaff to launch an aggressive membership drive as it preparesto move into quarters in the new World Trade Center.

Sidney Sherman Kendall took over as executive vice presi-dent in June and will head the program to bring in moremembers from Houston’s world trade fraternity and fromallied activities. He returns to his native state and city with awide experience in the world trade promotion field.

Under its reorganization the 200-member World TradeAssociation, founded as the Houston Foreign Trade Club in1927, will be divided into five classes of membership--regular, junior, sustaining, associate and honorary. Initiationfees and dues will be increased, at the same time, to helpfinance the Association’s expanded program.

This program, which in the past has specialized in meetingson foreign trade, sponsoring addresses by foreign tradeleaders and working for better legislation and improvedprofessional services in foreign trade, will now include:

Benevolent and educational services; advancing the knowl-edge of foreign trade; promoting the practice and develop-ment of high professional standards both social and economic;taking an active part in civic affairs requiring foreign tradeknowledge such as furthering better international relations;

Also, fostering and promoting or sponsoring the formationof arbitration proceedings and arbitration systems and gen-erally improving the methods of settling world trade disputes;continuing to improve methods and conditions and to estab-lish standards for the various phases of operation of theforeign trade industry;

Also, promoting education and distributing scholarships aswell as organizing seminars and encouraging foreign trade asa profession and generally sponsoring undertakings involvingforeign trade as an activity of the community; and

Finally, to conduct and sponsor the promotion of educa-tional campaigns for the people of the community and gen-erally acquaint the public with the role played by foreigntrade in the economy of the community and the benefitsderived therefrom.

The Association’s ’:new look" also involves leasing of theentire fourth floor of the new World Trade Center withoccupancy by January 1. This will provide a club and restau-rant facility for the Association as well as its working offices,with the discretion to sublet space in areas it does not use.

Tile World Trade Department of the Houston Chamber ofCommerce has been closely linked with the World TradeAssociation in the past, its director serving also as theAssociation’s secretary. The Association has sponsored twoworld trade institutes and organized, and for five years spon-sored, the Houston International Trade and Travel Fair.

Its officers through the years read like a list of "Who’sWho" in Houston’s foreign trade fraternity, and the Associa-tion is presently headed by Ben L. Golub, with R. L. Debnerand Edward J. Fay vice presidents, William S. Patton, treas-urer and A. F. Prieto secretary, in addition to Kendall.

Executive Vice President Kendall is a graduate of the Uni-versity of Texas and following World War II worked in themilitary government in Germany handling imports andexports. He later entered the foreign trade business in theU.S. He rejoined the government in 1952, working over awide area from Thailand to the Middle East to France duringthe ensuing nine years before returning to Houston.

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READY REFERENCE

I louston Steamship AgentsAND LINES SERVINO THE PORT OF HOUSTON

ABAUNZA STEAMSHIP AGENCY CORP.203 Marine Bldg., Houston, TexasCA 2-9601

China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.China Union Lines (CULNY)Stevenson Lines

CENTRAL GULF STEAMSHIP CORP.302 Marine Building, Houston, TexasFA 3-1428

Central Gulf-Mediterranean LineCentral Gulf-Persian Gulf LineCentral Gulf-World Wide Full Cargo Service

AMERIND SHIPPING COMPANY110 Marine Building, Houston, TexasCA 7-5335

Fabre LineIndependent GulfIsbrandtsen Co., Inc.Penn Shipping

AYERS STEAMSHIP CO.1312 Petroleum Bldg., Houston, TexasCA 7-3261

Cresent LineMediterranean Star LinePhilippine Maritime

BIEHL & COMPANYCotton Exchange Building, Houston, TexasCA 2-9961

BaronJIino LineFern-Ville Far East LinesGulf West Africa LineHamburg-American LineMamenic LineNopal Line (Northern Pan America)North-German LloydOzean-Stinnes LinesScindia LineSidarma Line

BLOOMFIELD STEAMSHIP COMPANYCotton Exchange Building, Houston, TexasCA 8-1451

Berth Agents--See States Marine-Isthmian Agency

CANADIAN-GULF LINE, LTD.P. O. Box 5355, Houston, TexasWA 1-4196

Canadian-Gulf Line, Ltd.Levant LineMontreal Shipping Co.Stockard Shipping Co.

DALTON STEAMSHIP CORP.205 Fidelity Bank Building, Houston, TexasCA 8-8661

Cargo Transport LinesColdemar LineConcordia LineCubamar LineKvarnerska Plovidba LineN. Y. K. LinePolish Ocean Line

EAGLE OCEAN TRANSPORT, INC.301 Cotton Bldg., Houston, TexasCA 7-0215

Orient Mid-East Line

E. S. BINNINGS, INC.1114 Texas, Houston, TexasCA 5-0531

American Indian LineC. T.,O. LineFlota’Mercante Grancolombiana, S.A.

(Grancolombiana Line)French LineHansa LineO. S. K. Line

FOWLER & McVITIE, INC.Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, TexasCA 4-9795

Chemical-CarriersFern-Ville Mediterranean LinesIino LinesWest India Line

FUNCH, EDYE & CO, INC.427 Shell Building, Houston, TexasCA 2-9106

Cunar, d Steamship Co., Ltd.Malaya Indonesia LineScandinavian American LineThos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd.

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I louston Steamship AgentsAND LINES SERVINO THE PORT OF HOUSTON

LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO., INC.Cotton Exchange Building, 3rd Floor, Houston, TexasCA 7-7211

Gulf & South American S.S. Co.Lykes African LineLykes Caribbean LineLykes Continent LineLykes Mediterranean LineLykes Orient LineLykes United Kingdom LineUnited States Line (American Pioneer)

MISSISSIPPI SHIPPING CO.201 Fidelity Bank Bldg., Houston, TexasCA 7-5101

Delta East.Coast South America LineDelta West Africa Line

SEA LAND SERVICE, INC.8402 Clinton Dr., Houston, TexasGR 2-6651

Truck Trailer Coastwise ServiceRICE, KERR & CO., INC.Clegg Building, Houston, TexasCA 7-0165

Hoegh LineKawasaki "K" LineLloyd BrasilieroNervion LineWest Coast Line

STATES MARINE-ISTHMIAN AGENCY, INC.Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, TexasCA 7-3374

Bloomfield Steamship Company(Berth Agents Only)

Isthmian Lines, Inc.States Marine-Continental ServiceStates Marine-Far East ServiceState’s Marine-Mediterranean ServiceStates Marine-World Wide Full Cargo Service

STRACHAN SHIPPING COMPANYCotton Exchange Building, Houston, TexasCA 8-1431

Bank LineChilean LineDodero LineMexican LineMitsui LineNedttoyd LineRoyal Netherlands LineSwedish-American LineWilhelmsen LineZim .Israel America Line

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TEXAS TRANSPORT & TERMINAL CO., INC.Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, TexasCA 5-5461

Holland-America LineNavigazione Alta Italia (Creole Line)Shinnihon LineC.A. Venezolana De Navegaci6n (Venezuelan Line)

UNITED FRUIT COMPANYShell Building, 609 Fannin Street, Houston, TexasCA 5-3597

United Fruit Company

VIKING STEAMSHIP AGENCY1508 Capitol Ave., Houston, TexasCA 8-8439

Viking Steamship Company

WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORP.Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, TexasCA 8-9424

Waterman .Steamship Corporation

HANSEN & TIDEMANN, INC.Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, TexasCA 3-4184

Corporaci6n Peruana de Vapores, S.A.Deppe LineHellenic LinesMitsubishi Shipping Company Ltd.South African Marine CorporationSurinam Navigation Co.

P. D. MARCHESSINI & CO (TEXAS), INC.330 Shell Bldg., Houston, TexasCA 2-2381

Insco LinesMarches~ini Lines

DREW STEAMSHIP SERVICESLegal Arts Bldg., Houston, TexasCA 5-1805

Cobelfret LinesDaido Line

LE BLANC-PARR, INC.Cotton Exchange Bldg., Houston, TexasCA 2-2259

Harrison LineSabre LineTransmarine Line

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Min,neapolis Shippers FetedSHIPPERS in tile Minneapolis area were entertained at a

reception and dinner at the Radisson Hotel by represent-atives of the Port of Houston recently. Although many milesto the North, this is considered prime trade territory for ship-ping through the Port of Houston.

Originally the dinner was set to follow the Chicago WorldTrade Conference, but it had to be cancelled due to snow.The Houston delegation reported that this was one of thefriendliest trade trips ever made.

J. P. Turner, general manager of the Port of Houston, ledthe group to Minneapolis. Others in the delegation includedPort Commissioner J. P. Hamblen, Harold Hix, president ofManchester Terminal; J. H. Branard, Jr., vice president ofLong Reach Docks; George Altvater, sales manager of thePort of Houston; Hume Henderson, district sales managerin Chicago, and Charles Barrows, district sales manager inKansas City.

J. P. Turner, general manager of the Port of Houston, center, with.from left to right, Mrs. William J. DeWinter. Jr., A. B. Sparboe, presi-dent Overseas Division, Pillsbury Mills, Inc.; Mrs. Sparhoe; Mrs. HumeA. Henderson and Mr. Henderson. the Port of Houston’s district salesmanager in Chicago, and Mrs. 1,. W. Walden.

Harold C. Hix, president of Manchester Terminal Corporation andchairman of the board of the Houston Port Bureau, second from left,and J. P. Hamblen, commissioner of the Harris County Houston ShipChannel Navigation District, right, visit with Minneapolis friends L.E. Penn, left, assistant director for traffic of General Mills, Inc., andEllis English, president of Commander-Larabee Milling Company.

J. H. Branard, Jr., vice president of Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Corp.(Long Reach DocksJ, right, and Charles Barrows, Port of Houstondistrict sales manager in Kansas City, second from ]eft, chat with K.M. Seaman, export traffic manager for International Milling Companyand J. Miller Brown, export manager for pioneer Engineering Company.

L. D. Compton, assistant to the president at Commander LarabeeMilling Company, with Mrs. Compton, left, and Mrs. Joe Frisz at thePort of Houston Minneapolis dinner.

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Port of Houston General Sales Manager George W. Altvater, right,with left to right, William J. DeWinter, Jr., export manager of Russell-Miller, King-Midas Milling Co.; L. W. Walden, assistant export trafficmanager of International Milling Company, and Joe Frisz, director ofexports for Minneapolis-Moline Company.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration operates overa broad area of the globe and not only in the United States as wit-nes~d recently at the Port of Houston by this shipinent of Jet Pro-pulsion Laboratory equipment to the Union of South Africa. There,tile unit will go into a complex missile tracking system involving agiant radar antenna. NASA maintains inonitoring sites throughout theWestern Hemisphere and over much of the globe. The USNS’ SHO-SHONE loaded the unit designed by California Institute of Teehnology’sJet Propulsion Laboratory whose research and development has con-tributed much to this country’s space program.

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Two giant rock crushers weighing 60,000 and 50,000 pounds eachwent aboard the DEL NORTE in component parts in early Junedestined for public works project in Argentina. The plant, built byAllis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, has a "jaw crusher" capableof crushing 300 tons of granite an hour. The DEL NORTE is ownedby the Mississippi Shipping Company, Delta Line.

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Off-Loading some 800 Volkswagens in the biggest automobile ship-ment of the year to date at the Port of Houston, the M/S CON-STANTIA docked here on its maiden voyage recently from Hamburg,Germany. Time-charted by the manufacturers of Volkswagen, the

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sleek, new vessel carried a total of 1,225 automobiles and left Houstonfor other Gulf ports where she discharged the remainder while takingon additional cargo. Biehl & Company is Gulf agent for the vessel.

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The largest single shipment ever loaded at the Port of Houston wentaboard the giant TITAN of the Kulukandis Maritime Industries attile Navigation District’s public grain elevator last month where the29,278 gross ton vessel took on 1,212,598 bushels of wheat for Brazilweighing 32,480 short tons. The previous largest shipment was on theTRANSEASTERN last February which loaded 1,116,000 bushels. Grainshipments through the elevator, nearly all wheat, were up 20 per cent

over the same period last year as of May 31, according to ElcwltorManager T. H. Sherwood, with 37,126,545 bushels shipped at thattime as compared to 30,921,019 through May of 1960. The shipmentsmoved in 104 vessels against 90 a year ago. Dalton Steamship Cor-poration is Gulf agent for the TITAN and Stone Forwarding handleddocumentation. George Tarnas is port captain in Houston for Kulu-kandis Maritime Industries, which also own the Bull Line, Mediter-ranean Star Line and Crescent Line operating out of HoustoT~.

The former Governor of Colon, Panama, and Panama’s Honoral:yConsul in Houston, together with their wives, hear Vaughn M. Bryant,the Port’s director of International Relations explaining the advantagesto Panama in having its consular and trade development offices in thenew World Trade Center, background, now under construction. Fromleft to right, Honorary Consul James Salterio and Mrs. Salterio; Mrs.Jos6 Maria Gonzalez; Bryant, and ex-Governor Gonzalez who was hereinviting Texas capital to invest in his country.

Editor of the house organ for the West German steel producers,Phoenix Rheinrohr Corporation, Eduard Gerlach. right, visited in Junehis firm’s Houston agents, Hans Kayem, Inc. Gerlach is on a twomonth tour of the United States and is shown on the NavigationDistrict’s boat SAM HOUSTON with H. Schuchart who is assignedto Phoenix Rheinrohr’s New York office and who accompanied theeditor on the two month tour.

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A truck-crane excavator weighing 35,950 pounds left the Port ofHouston in early June destined for heavy construction work in Ar-gentina. The Harnischfeger Corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,shipped tile equipment, the 19,000 pound heavy lift shown above goingon board the Delta Line’s DEL NORTE, Mississippi Shipping Companyis Gulf agent for the vessel.

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South Africa?

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Regular Sailings from Houston, Galveston, NewOrleans, Savannah, Charleston, Baltimore,Philadelphia and New York.Direct To Capetown, Port Elizabeth, East London,Durban, Lourenco Marques and Beira.AGENTS AT: Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, S.C., Chicago, Cleve-land, Detroit, Jacksonville, Fla., Los Angeles, Milwaukee, NewportNews, Norfolk, Panama City, Pensacola, Philadelphia, Portland,San Francisco, Savannah, Seattle, Tampa, Vancouver, B. C.GULF AGENT: Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.Corpus Christi, Dallas, Galveston, Houston, Memphis, Mobile,New Orleans, Sabine District.

South African Marine Corporation (N. Y.)2 Broadway ̄ DI 4-8940 ̄ New York 4, N. Y.

TEXAS NEWSPRINT FOR YUGOSLAVIA is being shipped outby the Southland Paper Company of Lufkin and these three executivesof the Southland Division of Perkins-Goodwin Co., N. Y., handlingsales, were in Houston to view the Port from the bridge of the in-spection vessel SAM HOUSTON. Left to right are James G. Clark,John W. Bait and Lloyd G. Schenck, vice president.

\SWEDEN’S NEW COMMERCIAL OFFICER in Houston, Chris

Ragnatz, center, toured the Ship Channel recently with two leadingmembers of the World Trade Committee of the Houston Chamber ofCommerce, Robert L. Debner, left, partner, F. J. Herbelin-Bay TransferCo. and George P. Kosub, terminal manager, Central Freight Lines.A native of Halsingborg, Ragnatz was educated at the GothenburgSchool of Economics and the University of California, from which heentered the consular service and was assigned to the local ConsulateGeneral.

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