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A boom to shippers is this transit shed -- 1,000 feet long and200 feet wide. Cargo can be stacked 20 feet high. Note theorderly fashion in which each item is arranged.

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FOR THE

Port of HoustonPORT COMMISSIONERSHOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanJoriN G. TURNEYJ. P. HAMBLENW. ~.{. HATTEN

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J. P. TURNER, General ManagerVERNON BAILEY, Assistant General ManagerJ. L. LOCK’ETT, JR., CounselSAMUEL B. BRUCE, AuditorTRAVlS SMITH, Engineer and Planning ManagerROBERT W. ROBINSON, Business Office ManagerW. E. GOYEN, Purchasing AgentT. E. WttATLEY, Administrative AssistantVINCENT D. WILLIAMS, Adnzinistrative Assistant

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

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Official Publication

of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 3 May, 1961 Number 5

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Governor Leads Texans’ Tribute at San Jacinto.. 8

World Trade Center Building Space Being Filled ........... 9

Japan, Looking To a Brighter Economic Future ........... 10

News In Views ........................... 12

He Takes Off His Hat Only To Port of Houston . . 13

Visitors See Port From The Sam Houston ....................... 14

Lone Star Cement Company Was First Ship Channel Industry .... 16

Port of Houston Shipping Directory ....................... 31

Sailing Schedules of General Cargo Ships ................... 32

THE COVER

The first industry to settle on the banks of the Houston Ship Channel is this month

celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary. On this occasion we salute the Lone Star

Cement Company and its leaders who foresaw the possibilities of an area thatnow has industries valued at more than $2.5 billion. For details see Page 16.

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.

San Jacinto Monument

I~,nvernnr LeadsTexans’ TrihuleAI San Jar.inlnTexas won its freedom from Mexico

in 1836 in a short, but decisive battle atSan Jacinto, on the banks of the Hous-ton Ship Channel. On April 21 eachyear, Texans pause to celebrate the vic-tory. Governor Price Daniel and hisbrother, Bill Daniel, the newly-appointedgovernor of Guam, and their party,boarded the port’s inspection boat SAMHOUSTON for the trip to San Jacinto.

The Governor’s Flag flies at the bow of the SAM HOUSTON. Leftto right are Mayor Lewis Cutrer of Houston, Gov. Bill Daniel of Guam,Gov. Price Daniel of Texas and his 13-year-old son, John.

3"his smart yacht, Leonie, leads the review of the Texas Navy as partof the San Jacinto festivities. This craft is owned by Mr. and Mrs.Hoiner J. Moore of the Lakewood Yacht Club.

Gov. Price Daniel crowns Jo Faith Hutton as the Queen of SanJacinto. John Sehuhmaeher, president of the San Jacinto chapter ofthe Sons of the Republic of Texas, is on the right.

The beautiful Princesses of San Jacinto were on board the Betco,owned by tile T. J. Bettes Company.

Members of the State Board of Control were guests on the SAMHOUSTON. Left to right are C. F. McAuliff, Judge L. H. Flewellen,Lloyd Gregory, chairman of the Battleship Texas Commission; Chair-man’ E. E. MeAdams; William J. Bnrke, exe{utive director, and W. N.Blanton, chairman of the San Jacinto Battleground Park Commission.

Gov. Price Daniel confers with his naval aide, Commander VinceHurley.

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State Senator Culp Krueger of El Campo presents to the BattleshipTexas museum the uniform of the late R. H. (Bruce) Hancock,admiral in the Texas Navy.

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Wnrld Trade Eenter Buildinq

Space Fleinq Filled RapidlySEVENTY FIVE per cent of the space in Houston’s new

World Trade Center has been spoken for, twenty per cent ofit is already signed on the dotted line, and the remainder israpidly filling up as work on the building progresses onschedule.

Edward J. Fay, director of the center, said that steamshipagencies, consulates, freight forwarders and world tradershave all taken or asked for space in the I1 story glass, mar-ble and steel structure at the corner of Texas and Crawford.

"Our construction is right on schedule and when we openour doors the first of January next vear every office will longsince have been taken" Fay said. :’Before the building wasever started we knew of the great interest and desire for it bythe world trade comlnunity here.

"Now rentals--in several cases covering entire floors forsingle companies--are proceeding with the same speed as theconstruction and reflect Houston’s importance as an interna-tional trade center and world port", he added.

The $3 million building is being built by the HarrisCounty Navigation District and is the first building of itskind in tile country built specifically for the purpose of aworld trade center. Similar world trade centers in New Or-leans, Sail Francisco and other port cities to date have beenmade over from old buildings converted to the new purpose.

The Houston structure was designed by Architects Wilson,Morris, Crain & Anderson and will offer world trade servicesto importers and exporters, house leading foreign consulates,and have exhibit space, a lecture hall and a club and res-taurant facility.

"Tile World Trade Center will be a focal point of interna-tional activity to bring Houstonians together with worldleaders of commerce and government visiting our busy portcity," said Howard Tellepsen, chairman of the Port Com-mission.

Port General Manager J. P. Turner echoed his words withthe observation that the building "will provide services forthe world trader which will encourage him to use Houston’sport and international trade facilities, both in his dealingsoverseas and with firms of the vast 23 state inland area weserve."

First to sign for a full floor in the new building was theDalton Steamship Company, whose vice president, F. E. Cart-wright, has taken the entire 7245 square feet of the seventhfloor for his firm’s operations.

Others signing early for space include the South PortsForwarding Company, Transoceanic Shipping Company, G.E. Posey Corporation, Intraeoastal Towing & TransportationCo., Leslie B. Canion Customs Broker, the Bernuth LembekeCompany and Alberto Reyes Spindola, Consul of Mexico,whose country has taken a spacious suite of offices.

"Several other firms have also signed hut want to maketheir own announcements," Fay said, adding that "three fullfloors are also already committed to three major companies inthe foreign trade field which are presently negotiating forleases and will have statements soon."

The British Consulate General has announced plans to takeoffices on the tenth floor of the building and five other con-

MAY, 1961

Vice President F. E. Cartwright of the Dalton Steamship Company,signed the first lease for space in the new World Trade Center. Look-ing on are J. P. Turner, left, general manager of the Port of Houston,and Edward J. Fay, right, director of the World Trade Center.

sulates likewise have spoken for space with a dozen others yetawaiting commitments from their governments, Fay said.

"The Center will in effect be just that--a center," Fay said."It will concentrate in one building the various activities thatmake up foreign trade, such as the freight forwarder, thesteamship agency, the customs broker, the consul, the im-porter and exporter, the trucker and barge line operator,marine insurance and others."

The steel framework of the building was topped off in midFebruary and flooring, stairs and concrete framing is now inprocess.

JAPAN LOOKS like a quiet, green, miniature-mountaintoyland if your first glimpse of it is by air, but once on theground this impression disappears amidst a wave of motionand activity generated by one of the world’s most vigorouspopulations.

World War II left 44 per cent of the nation’s manufactur-ing facilities d~troyed. Today, the standard of living topsthe best pre-war year by 30 to 40 per cent. Personal consump-tion has jumped by 30 per cent over the largest pre-war level.Japan boasts the highest per capita income in Asia with $300.

This remarkable recovery from war-time devastation hasseen Japan become the United States’ second best customer inforeign trade for the first six months of 1960, according tothe latest figures released by the United States-Japan TradeCouncil.

Terraced Farm Land

This amounted to $1,203 million in trade between the twocountries with $646 million representing exports to Japan togive the United States an $88 million favorable balance in thesix month period.

While U.S. exports to all countries were 21 per cent greaterin the first half of 1960 than in the same period of 1959, ex-ports to Japan were 48.2 per cent higher.

Although figures for the Port of Houston covering the sameperiod are not yet available, 1959 statistics rank Japan thirdhere in total trade, accounting for some $70.5 million to puther behind the United Kingdom and West Germany, with$115.8 and $103.7 million, respectively.

Exports to Japan for 1959 amounted to 69 per cent of thistotal trade with a value of $48.5 million and giving Houstona favorable balance of $25.6 million.

Of tatal exports, unmanufactured cotton accounted for$15.3 million with chemical specialities and synthetic rubbersnext at $g.7 million, each. Other important items were pig-ment, paints and varnishes, iron and steel scrap, industrialchemicals, alcohol, and copper, both alloy forms and refined.

Imports from Japan to Houston valued at $22.9 million in1959 consisted primarily of steel mill products at $7.1 mil-lion; tools, basic hardware, iron and steel semi-finished prod-ucts, $2.1 million, and plywood, veneer, lumber and shingles,$3.9 million.

As for Houston-Japanese trade, it will undoubtedly increasein the future as six more trading firms established officeshere last year, making a total of seven. K. Iseri & Companywas joined by American-Japanese Export-Import Corpora-tion; Atake N.Y., Incorporated; Mitsubishi International

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Countryside Like a Toyland

Great Industrial Progress WillLead Nation to Even BrighterEconomic Future

BY ROBERT L. BRANNONInternational Relations Representative

A Japanese Steel Mill

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Corporation; Mitsui & Company; Nichimen Company, In-corporated; and Toyomenka, Incorporated.

Already serving Houston and Japanese ports are the follow-ing steamship lines: Fern-ville Far East Line, Kawasaki "K"Line, Mitsubishi Line, Lykes Orient Line, Mitsui Line, O.S.K.Line, Shinnihon Line, States Marine-Far East Service, Water-man S.S. Company, Isthmian Line, Inc., Nippon YusenKaisha (N.Y.K.) Line, and the Maritime Company of thePhilippines.

Consul Shigedaki Yamashita heads the Japanses Consulatein Houston. He was born in Tokyo and graduated fromTohoku University in Sendai City where he studied law. En-tering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1940, his first as-signment took him to Manchuria, then the embassy in SovietRussia. He later served in eastern Europe intermittently be-tween tours in Tokyo. He came to Houston in 1958, his firstassignment in the United States.

A Large Spinning Mill

Japan was Houston’s biggest cotton export buyer in the1959-60 cotton year receiving shipments totaling 63,025 tonsor more than double the amount of the second biggest buyer,Great Britain, which bought some 30,210 tons.

This figure fitted in with a national trend for the first sixmonths of 1960 when Japan led all purchasers of U.S. exportcotton, buying two and a half times the amount of the secondlargest buyer, France, and accounting for nearly a fifth of allU.S. cotton exports.

Strikingly, because Japan bought more than four times asmuch raw cotton as it sold the United States in cotton manu-factures, the United States, in this period, established a near$102 million positive balance on this item.

Cotton typifies Japan’s economic condition. Though hercotton textile industry is internationally famous, she grows noraw cotton in her own territory.

Nature blessed her with abundant scenic beauty, butstopped short when it came to natural resources. Almostwithout exception, Japan lacks self-sufficiency in any rawmaterial.

She must import 20 per cent of the basic food necessary tofeed her people, 95 per cent of her crude oil, 80 per cent ofher iron ore, 100 per cent of her raw wool, and so the listgoes--on and on.

Thus, the only way for Japan to survive under these condi-tions is to further develop her industrial capacity and foreigntrade with other countries. It must be a large and reasonablybalanced trade for a country cannot be just a buyer or just aseller and remain economically healthy for very long.

As Japan’s economic expansion increases, the demand forimported raw materials will increase which can only be met

MAY, 1961

100,000 Ton Tanker Launched

by greater export earnings. Already she feels the need to ad-just her economy and foreign trade to the trend toward afreer trade policy which will move her to further open hermarkets to foreign competitors.

While import liberalization is inevitable, a balanced eco-nomic growth is also important. Therefore, specialization inhighly efficient production will provide the means by whichher economic activities remain competitive. Such specializa-tion would be largely in the production of machinery, chem-icals, synthetic fibers, petrochemicals, and iron and steel.

Though Japan has westernized her everyday life as well asher economic production, her people still retain much of theirtraditional culture. This mixture of the East and West, theold and the new, is one of the most distinguishing character-istics of the country today.

In Tokyo, the drama goer may choose to attend a modernAmerican play or the Nob drama with its history of approx-imately 1300 years. When one walks the streets of the largecities, he sees people dressed in the traditional Kimona ap-parel walking side-by-side with people dressed in western-style clothing.

Popular sports range form judo and sumo to baseball,basketball, rubgy, and American football.

Television emotes such popular United States TV fare asHighway Patrol, Whirleybirds, I Love Lucy, and nmnerouswesterns--with Japanese dubbed in, of course. However, thesame Sumo wrestling match, a truly home-grown sport, isoften carried on all networks, simultaneously, attesting thesport’s still fervent popularity.

Monorail In Tokyo

NE WSIN

VIE WSBLOOMFIELD COMMENDED--Ben

Bloomfieht, right, president of the BloomfieldSteamship Company, is accepting the thirdcommendation from the Department of Health,Education and Welfare for maintaining a sani-tation rating of 100 per cent on his ships forthe year of 1960. All four ships in the Bloom-field fleet received the 100 per cent rating.Making the presentation is William E. Holy,center, regional program director for the U. S.Public Health Service. Watching is Capt.IT. H. Rose, master of The Lucile Bloomfield,on whose ship the presentation was made. J.Paul Bowers, chief of the Interstate CarrierSection of the Pnblie, Health Service, said thatmore than 166 items oa shipboard are checkedby the inspec~tors and that Bloomfield is to becongratulated for maintaining such high sani-tation standards.

DELTA LINE’S NEWEST The $10 million eargoliner DEL RIO of the Delta Line(Mississippi Shipping Co., Inc.) docked in Houston in April on its maiden voyage. The newvessel will be in thc U. S. Gulf/East Coast of Sonth America ser~uce, Capt. J. W. Clark.president of Delta Line. said. The navigation bridge, passenger facilities, crews quarters, withthe exception of engineering personnel, and dining and galley facilities are located well forward.Machinery and quarters for engine room personnel are aft. Capt. George W. Sinith. right,master of the new ship, hoisted a Texas flag, upper right, as the DEL RIO entered the HoustonShip Channel. The ship is 506 feet long and has a 70 foot beam. Cruising speed is 18 knots.

SISTER CITIES--Houston and the capitalof Free China moved closer together recentlywhen the 14.000 ton freighter HAl SHANGdocked here bringing messages of friendshipto Mayor Lewis Cutter from Mayor HuangChi-Jui of Taipei, Taiwan. At the ceremonieswere, left to right, Raymond S. H. Hoo, Con-sul General of China; Mrs. Cutrer, MayorCutrer, and Capt. Ou Chung-Kung, master ofthe ship. Consul Hoo told the group that heand Mayor Huang wish to see a sister-cityrelationship established between the two cities

both approaching a million in populationand growing industrially. Mayor Cutter ex-pressed warm personal friendship for Taipeiand dispatched a key to the City of ttoustouto the mayor of Taipei. The board of directorsof the Houston Chamber of Commerce hasofficially endorsed the relationship.

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No. 18 in a Series MEN WHO MAKE THE PORT OF HOUSTON HUM

C J. ThlbodeauwH,n Takes Hff His HalHnly Tu Purl nf Huuslun

BY LLOYD GREGORYDirector of Information

Port of Houston

C.J. THIBODEAUX, one of the few old-timers left aroundthe Port of Houston, has a pet superstition:

About the only time he takes off his hat is to get a hair-cut.Even old time friends, such as Johnny Dee, John C. Mayfield,Dr. E. M. Cuenod, and Allan H. King, can’t ever recall seeinghim with his hat off. Figuratively, however, Thibodeaux takesoff his sombrero to the Port of Houston--its past, present,and future.

"The progress just now at the Port of Houston is fantastic,"Thibodeaux said. "I’ve been around the Port 37 years, butthe opportunities are even greater than when I started. I’dadvise young men to become connected with the shipping in-dustry around the Port of Houston."

The colorful, talkative Thibodeaux has been in and out ofhospitals fives times within the last 12 months. He is muchimproved now. In his extensive suite of offices in The CottonExchange Building, the rail-thin "Tibby" shows the old hus-tle, and talks in staccato sentences.

Thibodeaux and his associates are oil and chartering brok-ers, ship agents, ocean freight brokers and forwardingagents. They specialize in the chartering and sale of liquidpetroleum products, and, as agents, handle a tremendous vol-ume of American tankers.

The career of Thibodeaux would astound even HoratioAlger. Born in New Orleans July 19, 1905, he grew to boy-hood in Burnside, Louisiana. After finishing the fourthgrade, he went for three months to Soule Business College inNew Orleans, quitting because of lack of funds.

When 12, "Tibby" became an office boy for a New Or-leans law firm for $2.50 a week.

In 1919, the youngster was the first office boy for theMississippi Shipping Company in New Orleans, and when hequit, in September, 1924, he had earned the title of "bill oflading collector."

A few days later, "Tibby" moved to Galveston, and wentto work for Kilpatrick, Hay and Company, freight for-warders. In December, 1924, when only 19, Thibodeauxopened offices in the Houston Cotton Exchange Building asmanager of the freight forwarding concern of Watters, Hayand Company.

In 1927, "Tibby" took over as Houston manager of Cald-well & Company, ocean freight brokers and forwardingagents.

Braving the Great Depression, Thibodeaux on June 1,1931, opened his own business with three employees. His far-flung operations now require 32.

Thibodeaux is chairman of the board of C. J. Thibodeauxand Company; A. Macy Smith is president; J. H. Chadwick,J. E. Kelley, and George L. Oser are vice presidents; Mrs.Martha Munhausen, who has worked for Thibodeaux since1928, is secretary-treasurer.

Before his illness, Thibodeaux played golf, fished, sailed.He still likes to go to the races at Fair Grounds, New Orleans,and still backs to the limit his favorite football team, theTexas Aggies.

MAY, 1961C. J. (TIBBY) THIBODEAUX

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Visitors See Port From The Sam Houston

Forty senior students majoring in agricultural economics and ruralsociology at Texas A and M College recently made a two-day inspectionof the financial and commercial institutions serving agriculture inHouston, including a trip on the busy Ship Channel aboard the SAMHOUSTON. Besides the Port of Houston, the guests visited the Bank

J. M. Wallace, senior construction engineer of the Maritime ServicesBoard of New South Wales, Australia, right, evinced interest in ShipChannel deepening and widening when he made a trip on the SAMHOUSTON last month with O. D. Nesmith, U. S. Corps of Engineers,Galveston, who is showing him plans for the work around Boggy Bayou.

of the Southwest, Southern Pacific Railroad facilities, Anderson-Claytonand Port City Stockyards. Dr. Tyrus Timm, head of the Department ofAgricultural Economics and Sociology, accompanied the group alongwith Drs. A. B. Wooten and K. R. Terfertiller, professors of agricul-tural economics.

Undergoing training in Houston at the Goodyear Tire and RubberCompany plant, these five Australians will return down-under to takeover the soon-to-open Australian Synthetic Rubber Company, of whichGoodyear is part owner. The visit included an inspection trip on theSAM’HOUSTON. From left: R. Bond, P. H. Hoxley, B. A. Noack,R. C. Gillham, and C. R. Meares.

Katsuyuki Enomoto, right, Houston representative of Nichimen Co.,of Osaka, Japan, right, showed four businessmen-countrymen fromOsaka around the Port of Houston on the inspection vessel last month.Left to right on the bow of the SAM HOUSTON are Kihati Koshida,Osaka Foreign Trade Institute; N. J. Yamazoi, National VacuumBottle Mfg. of Osaka; Kitisaburo Oba, Fuse Municipal Art Institute,and Sanpei Kakimura, Osaka Foreign Trade Institute.

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Captain J. H. Simpson, vice chairman of the Maritime ServicesBoard of New South Wales, right, and R. J. Wyllie, administrator ofthat body, toured the Ship Channel on the SAM HOUSTON duringa three months’ tour of the ports of Europe and the United Stateswhich brought them to Houston last month. The principal port of NewSouth Wales is Sydney, although the board has several other portsunder its jurisdiction in the populous Australian state.

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Frank A. Cisar of the Bureau of the Budget, Washington, D. C.,was a guest of the Research Department of tire tlouston Chamher of(iommerce on a trip down (ihannel to hi)serve the multi-billion dnllarindustrial complex. Itere he is seen with John Orton. chairman of theChamber’s Resear,’h Conmfittee, and tloward Martin, departmentnlanagt’r.

Robert W. Tyrrell, right, traveling the United States on an EnglishSpeaking Union Ford Foundation fellowship, toured the Houston ShipChannel with R. C. Poston, left, l~vke~ Bros. Steamship Co., andofficer of the Houston Worhl Trade Association. Tvrrell is in charge ofnews hroadcasting for tire lndet~endent ’l’elevisioi~ News of Enghmd.

The Southern Arkansas Development Council spent two days inllouston in late March making a study of Harris County commercialand industrial development. The Houston Chan/ber of Comniereeplanned the group’s tour which included an inspeetion trip of theShip Channel aboard the SAM IIOUSTON.

The fifteen Japanese newspaper executives pictured above on theSAM ttOUSTON spent two days here in April visiting The HoustonPost and The Houston Chroni/lc- Idants. Conducted hy the InternationalCooperation Administration, the group is visiting newspapers in allparts of the country during their two months’ tour of the United States.

Arnot Broadhent, right, New Zealand TradeColmnissioner for tile United States and Com-mercial Officer of the New Zealand Emhassywas a recent visitor to Houston where he metwith investors and business interests, ffe isshown here on the bridge of the .’;AMIIOUSTON during a trip down the ShipChannel.

Under supervision of the Navigation Dis-trict, Hai-Chuen Hsieh, left. ehief of shippingand port operation within the Taiwan Provin-cial Government, worked and studied withport officials here recently as part of an over-all study tour of selected American portsplanned by the U. S. Maritime Administra-tion. Here, Hsich stands on tile bridge of theinspection vessel, SAM HOUSTON.

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Pioneer Firm Built Unique Plant

On Buffalo Bayou As Vanguard

0/Giant Industrial Complex

LHNE STAR EEMENT EHMPANY WASFIRST SHIP EHANNEL INHUSTBYLONE STAR Cement Corporation’s plant, which was thefirst of hundreds of industries to locate in the Houston ShipChannel area, is this month celebrating its forty-fifth anni-versary.

This pioneering firm was alert to the possibilities of thearea and the proximity of raw materials, so the Board of Di-rectors in 1914 allocated $500,000 for the construction of aportland cement plant in Houston.

Since that time, the great industrial complex along thebanks of the Houston Ship Channel has mushroomed into a$2.5 billion investment, making this one of the most impor-tant industrial areas in the world.

It is interesting how this cornerstone of industry cameabout. Lone Star Cement had a mill in Dallas and the em-ployees there would fish and hunt around Galveston Bay. Thecement men frequently would find their fish hooks fouled onoyster shells at the bottom of the bay. Knowing that oystershells were pure lime, the men kept talking about an "inex-haustible" supply of lime which did not require an expensivestone quarry operation.

The fishermen learned from the guides and local fishermenthat the deposits contained many millions of tons of shell, allof which was uniform and satisfactory for making cement. Aprospecting expedition verified their hopes, so the first ce-ment plant in the world to use oyster shell was authorizedby the Lone Star Board of Directors.

The engineers selected a plant site on Buffalo Bayou, asmall stream that was being dredged out with the hopes ofattracting cargo ships to the City of Houston, which was animpossible 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.

The accuracy of judgment those far-sighted men exercisedhas been proved again and again. The Lone Star plant hasbeen expanded many times and today is one of the company’simportant installations; and the Port of Houston has firmlyestablished itself as the second largest port in the UnitedStates in point of tonnage moved.

Lone Star constructed a dock on the Ship Channel for the

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delivery of oyster shells and Southern Pacific built a rail lineto the plant to move the finished product inland.

The use of oyster shell as its principal raw material wasnot the only unique feature of the new mill. It had one ofthe first reinforced concrete chimneys in Texas, and the con-structors had their first opportunity to use the sliding formsystem for the construction of the concrete storage silos ina cement plant.

The story of cement manufacture is one of fascinating in-terest. Temperatures higher than the melting point of steel,hundreds of tons of rock or shell ground finer than face pow-der, giant machinery handling enormous quantities of ma-terials with ease and precision, all play vital roles in thedrama of cement making.

In 1756, an English engineer named John Smeaton foundthat a limestone containing clayey matter, when burned andreduced to a powder, possessed the property of hardeningunder water. At that time Smeaton was engaged in buildinga lighthouse on the Eddystone rocks off the coast of Cornwall,and the new cement was used in erecting a structure thatstood for many years.

Other inventors experimented with cement, and in 1824,Joseph Aspdin, an English stone mason, patented a materialhe called "Portland Cement" because when it hardened, itresembled the natural stone quarried on the Isle of Portlandoff the southern coast of England.

It was nearly a half century after Aspdin’s invention beforeportland cement was first produced in the United States. LoneStar had its beginnings in Texas at the Dallas plant, morethan a half century ago. First used in Texas, the well-knownLone Star trademark~a Lone Star within concentric circles--is today recognized throughout the Western Hemisphere as asymbol of quality.

The term "portland cement" is not a brand name; it desig-nates a type of cement and a degree of quality that is fixedby an accepted standard.

Through the efforts of the U.S. Bureau of Standards and

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other departments of the federal government, the AmericanSociety for Testing Materials, the American Society of CivilEngineers and other similar organizations including the Port-land Cement Association, a standard specification was estab-lished in 1917.

The requirements of this standard specification have beenraised from time to time as improvements in manufacturingmethods kept pace with demands for higher strengths. Astandard specification for high early strength cement wasadpoted in 1930.

Portland cement, the principal ingredient of concrete, con-sists essentially of compounds of calcium silicates, togetherwith other compounds of calcium, iron, and aluminum. Thesecompounds are formed in the manufacturing process, usingvarious combinations of raw materials such as limestone,shell, marl, chalk, or blast furnace slag with clay or shale.

In general, two methods of cement manufacture are in usetoda)~the wet process and the dry process.

Here at Houston, Lone Star uses the most modern wetblending process of manufacture, which assures control ofquality and maintenance of uniformity because it results in athorough mixing of raw materials and permits close chemicalcontrol of the resulting clinker an cement.

Each day the Lone Star plant produces approximately 11,-500 barrels of cement. To do this, the following raw materialsare needed: Oyster shell, clay, iron ore and sand, 3,750 tons;gypsum, 130 tons; lubricants, 250 tons; natural gas, 14 mil-lion cubic feet; power, 200,000 kilowatt hours.

Each barrel of cement is equivalent to four sacks of 94pounds each. Approximately 660 pounds of raw materials arerequired to make a 376 barrel of cement.

It is with respect and gratitude that the Port of HoustonMagazine salutes the Lone Star Cement Corporation, a pio-neer on the Houston Ship Channel and an industrial giantwhich retains its youthful vigor.

LONE STAR’S original plant, as it looked in 1916, is shown abovein a treasured photograph which is in sharp contrast with the coverphoto of today’s installation. Below, the rotary kiln is impressive inthis unusual view looking skyward.

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New Conference Rates RevealedThe River Plate and Brazil Confer-

enees announced an increase in rates ap-plicable to both contract and tariff ratecommodities, effective June 1, 1961. Theconferences issued a newly revised tariffon May 1 containing the new ratesalong with certain rules and regulationschanges¯

Copies of the new tariff are availableon a subscription fec basis, $25¯00 forthose outside New York City, $25¯75for people there¯ The subscription willrun to June 1, 1962, when, if no new

tariff is again made available, correc-tions and supplements will be obtainablefor a one year period at $20.00 (820.60within New York City).

Those interested in the new tariffshould write the River Plate and BrazilConferences, 17 Battery Place, NewYork 4, New York.

Members of the conferences operatefrom Eastern Canadian and UnitedStates Gulf and Atlantic ports to Brazil,Uruguay, Argeutina and Paraguay.

AUSTRALIAN VISITOR--The City ofNewcastle in New South Wales, Australia, sentits Chief County Planner, E. (:. Wilhnot, ona study tour of the United States and he spentfour days in Houston ;n April with the cityand county administratit ~s including a tourof the Navigation Distrie/~ engineering depart-ment. llere he is shown ~vith the Port’s Travi,~Smith, right, manager, cmgineering and Plan-ning, at a drawing hoar,

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MEETING THE TRADE--Sal Jordan,right, traffic manage of the Marehessini Line,New York, was hon .red at a reception heldrecently so he could neet people in the ship-ping l~usiness in lie ]ston. Capt. George J.Salter, general mana~. ~r of the Crown Steve-doring (:ompany, is or, the left. Pete Grana b-manager of the Houston office for Marchessini15ne.

Pedrick PromotedDcha Line (Mississippi Sb!pping Co.,

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BULK PLANT NEARS COMPLETION--The Navigation District’s new dry bulk han-dling plant, located on Green’s Bayou adjacentthe Ship Channel, is nearing completion andwill go into service early this summer. Fullvautomatic and equipped to load and unloa~lores and other dry bulk materials at the rateof 1000 tons an hour, the new facility liessome ten miles from downtown Houston withits own rail lines and access roads adjacent aninterstate highway system to assure the promptmovement of cargoes. The new plant willhandle any type of vessel with draft up to36 feet and has a 650 foot long dock. It isfitted with a moving loading tower having aboom reaching 76 feet and a traveling un-loader with a boom of 61 feet, with loadinghoppers and surge bins served by both truckand rail. An additional 650 foot wharf can bebuilt between the new dock and the Channelas future expansion demands. This view look-ing westerly shows the Todd Shipyards acrossGreen’s Bayou from the bulk plant and theHouston Ship Channel running along the upperleft corner. The tear-drop shaped railbedvisible in the foreground will be able to handleup to 80 railcars for loading or unloadingwithin the plant.

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Wheat Shipments From Houston Set New Record In MarchRecording one of the biggest months

in its history during March, the publicgrain elevator set an all-time record inwheat exports and its second bestmonthly mark in total grain shipments.

Elevator Manager T. H. Sherwoodsaid March wheat shipments totalled8,682,240 bushels for a 70 per centjump over the previous high for the

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month of five million bushels shipped inMarch, 1952.

Total grain shipments for the monthamounted to 9,611,687 bushels slightlyunder March, 1952, when a record of10,43,564 bushels was set.

Grain shipments for the first threemonths of this year total 23,739,034bushels--nearly equalling the record

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23,896,020 for the first three months of1959, and substantially above the 17,-285,863 for the first three months oflast year.

"In 1959, we averaged seven millionbushels a month," said Sherwood, "andthis year it’s almost eight million. Ifthe activity continues it could be a rec-ord grain year."

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