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PORT OF HOUSTON
THE PORT OF HOUSTON SERVES THE MIGHTY
MIDWEST
WYOMING
NEW MEXICO
OKLAHOMA
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The white, section on this mapindicates the states served
The Port ofHouston is
most economically by the Port
competitive onof Houston, first in the guff,and second in the United
many commodities States in total tonnage. Theoriginating Port of Houston truly servesin this area. the "heart-land" of the United
States.
PORT OF HOUSTON OFFICES ARE AS NEAR AS YOUR TELEPHONEHOUSTON ¯ NEW YORK CITY ¯ KANSAS CITY ¯GEORGE W. ALTVATER ¯ JOHN A. LALA ¯ CHARLESA. BARROWS ¯
¯ District Sales Manager ¯General Sales Manager ¯ District Sales Manager ¯JOHN R. WEILER ¯ FRANK WARD ¯ Board of Trade Building ¯ ̄District Sales Manager ¯ Assistant Sales Manager ¯ Telephone Victor 2-5732 ¯1519 Capitol Ave. ¯ Room 442, 25 Broadway ¯ ¯Telephone CA 5-0671 ¯ Telephone ¯ ¯
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CHICAGOHUME HENDERSONDistrict Sales ManagerBoard of Trade BuildingTelephone WEbster 9-6228
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PORT OF ltO[ISTIIN
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THE¯ Heavy Lift Equipment ¯
¯ Marginal Tracks at Shipside ¯¯ 28 Barge Lines; ¯
90 Tanker Lines ¯ Executive Offices: 1 519 Capitol Ave.
¯ 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
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4 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
Official Publication
of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District
Volume 2 Number 7JULY, 1960
DirectoryOf Officials
FOR THE
Port of Houston Houston Port Bureau Elects Officers .....
PORT COMMISSIONERS
I|~Am) TLLLEP~EN. Chairman~:. N. BI.A’~’ro’,= }’i,’e Chairmatt.Iota", ft. ’l’Hc,~:’;][{. \’ERNO_’~ \Vll]flisllll:
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
.1. P. T~ RN t:m f, cneral ManagezVI:R’.,O~ B.~.H.~:Y. Assistant General .lJtzaager.I.L.I.OCKH’r..hL Cau.t~selS~..’,tvEI. B. BRVI:I.:. ,4uditarTRAVIS S.Xll’rlL Engineer and Plantting Manage~N(~R~.IA.\ E. Ht E:X[. (,’hie/ EngineerROBERT W. RI~[:I_NSON. Business Office ManagerT. E. WHArt, EY, Administrative Assistant\1"~ i-:XT 1). WII,IA ~Ms. Administrative Assistant
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
IJ..Yt~ Gin:cony_ l)ire,’tot a/ ln/.rmatianT1,:I) SC_~H,:RIJX. Editor af Magazine\,~t ~;n~ M. BnY.~x r. Direct,. .f
lnternatianal Relation.~
Industries Find Oyster Shell Vital, Versatile .......................
European Editors Tour Ship Channel ......................
Port of London Manager Visits ...................................
Grain Elevator Attracts Visitors From Many Lands .................
Meet Leslie Canion ..........................................
How Houston Supplies Industrial Water ........................
Port of Houston Moves Ahead .................
Industrial Map of the Houston Ship Channel Area .................
Houston Shipping Directory ..................
Port of Houston Sailing Schedule ...........
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SALES DEPARTMENT
(;J:~IO;T,: ~;. ~l.r\~rJ.:P,. General Sales Manager.I,~H", ~. I.AL’,. District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, ,4ssi.stant
25 Br~ad~,av, New ~ ork. N. Y.Ht ~rt.: A. HI:NDLRSI~N. District Sales Managc~
Board of Trade Building, CJficago, Ill.(’,I[ARI.ES A. BARRO~~. S. District Sales Managez
Board of Trade Building, Kansas City. Mo.,]oH x R. WHIa:R. l)istrict Sales Manager
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THE COVER
Along the Houston Ship Channel is one of the great ndustrial complexes
of the world and each plant has an insatiable thirst for good water. How this
demand is met is an interesting story you will find on Page 14 which describes
the water processing plant on our front cover.
OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT
(:. E. BULI.(,:K. Operatian,~ ]lanagerW. F. LAXD. Terminal Manage~T. H. SH~:R~ ~oD. :ffanager o/ Grain Eletao,rl). 3[. Fn~ZH)R. Maintenance .~lanaget
EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 (:apitol \’,enue at (:rauford Street
’[’eleldmne (:Xpitol 5-0671P. O. Box 2.562. Hmt~,ton 1. Texas
THE PORT (IF HOUSTON Magazine is pub-]ished 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 lmblieation is not copyrighted and l)er-
mission is given for the reproduction or u,eof any material, provided credit is given to tlwPort of Houston.
Additional information or extra eopie~ olthis magazine may be obtained by writing ThePort of Houston Magazine. Post Office Box6278, Houston 6. Texas.
JULY, 1960 5
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6 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
H. C. Hix of Manchester TerminalCorporation was elected president of theHouston Port Bureau. htc.. at the an-nual meeting marked by enthusiasm andoptimism for the future of the Port ofHouston.
Mr. Hix succeeds John C. Mayfield,long a Porl of Houston booster.
N. B. Axeuell was elected first vicepresident; J. J. Dee, second vice presi-dent: Merle R. Crockard, secretary-treasurer. The three other members ofthe executive committee are: S. A. Dun-lap, St.. Joseph S. McDermott; GeneralManager J. P. Turner of the Port ofHouston.
The new hoard of directors:Navigatiort District: Jerry P. Turner,
Navigation District; Howard T. Tellep-sen, Tellepsen Construction Co.
Private Terminals: Alfred Bessell, Jr.,Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. ; H. C. Hix,Manchester Terminal Corp.
Bank.s: Merle R. Crockard, Bank ofthe Southwest; Geo. W. Ebanks. Na-tional Bank of Commerce.
Petroleum: N. B. Axenell, HumbleOil & Refining Co.; John G. McLean.Continental Oil Co.
Cotton Exchange: J. J. Dee, Ander-son, Clayton & Co.; C. B. Fox. LykesBros. Steamship Co.
Maritime Association: Joseph S. Mc-Dermott, Rice, Kerr & Company.
Pilots Association: Capt. L. R. Mur-ray, Jr.. Houston Pilots Association.
Chamber of Commerce: Wm. MarvinHurley.
Freight Forwarders: B. D. Hancock.W. R. Zanes & Co.
At-Large: S. A. Dunlap, St.. TexasTransport & Terminal.
The directors commended Mr..May-field for his services.
President Hix stressed the importanceof keeping the Port of Houston’s ratescompetitive.
Mr. Dunlap warmly praised the Nax i-gation and Canal Commissioilers of the
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Newly elected President tL C. Hix, .John C. Mayfield, out-going president: Pm’t (’.omluissi,merJ. P. tJake) Hamblen.
Houston Port Bureau
E&e~ New O[do.
Alfred Bessell, Jr., County Judge Bill Elliott, General Manager J. P.Turner of the Port of Houston. Port Commissioner W. N. Blanton, S. A. Dunlap, Sr., General Man-
ager Greg B. Perry of the Houston Port Bureau.
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The Haden No. 9 ~ilh Capt. George Martinm command is typical of Ihe bigger dredge~working on Galveston Bay. ]’his vie~ fr~,m,’enter tower shm~s operating hridge and cot-ling head projected out into the bay.
E. P. Magee, chief engineer on the Haden No. 9 stands by huge turning screws that feedshell onto feed belts. Shell is washed and screened at anywhere from 1~ to 11~ inches. Wholeshell goes into barge in background while fragments drop through screen and feed to bargeon opposite sides.
Closer view of cutting head mechanism~hows it thrust into bed of bay where it movest,ack and forth in gentle arc, grinding out andsucking up shell to he washed, sifted, sortedand loaded.
Shell fragments feed onto this barge on opposite side of dredge front barge with ~holeshells. Fragments arc much used by paving industry but rejected by cement companies becauseof sand content which forms silicates under heat. Loaded barges in background, left, awaittug for trip up channel ~hile barges on right wait to move up to dredge for loading.
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INDUSTRIES FIND 0 YS TERSHELL S VITA L, VERSA TILETHE LOWLY SHELL Of the lowly
oyster is high on the list of importanceto the Port of Houston and its ShipChannel industries--and if you will fol-low it along the tenuous path from oceanfloor to finished product you’ll find it’simportant to you, too.
Oyster shell is in the concrete and ce-ment of the highways and homes, in thepaints and plasters of the hardwarestore, in the eggs and beef and soap ofthe groceries, in the aspirin and otherdrugs of the pharmacy, in the anti-knock gasoline and anti-freeze and syn-thetic tires of the garage.
It is in lime on the farm, drillingmud in the oil fields and in fact, it findsits way into so many diversified lineswhich use its almost pure calcium car-bonate that it is easy to understand whysome 9 million tons of it moves upchannel every year from Galveston Bayfor use by Houston industry. The shellis dredged by W. D. Haden Company,Horton & Horton and Parker Bros. &Co.. Inc.
Every year the number of huge bargesloaded with shell increases on the ShipChannel. Two huge cement plants and
two large construction materials plantshungrily take up their loads. Other loadsare processed for animal feeds and tomake the pure chemicals needed by in-dustry.
Houston industries are fortunate inhaving unlimited deposits on the floor ofGalveston Bay which are being workedbusily day and night by huge dredgesloading giant barges two at a time. Thebarges hold about 2000 yards of shellapiece and the dredges load them in fivehours, spewing out shell from eitherside.
Thousands upon thousands of yearshave gone into the production of theserich oyster shell deposits which havebeen worked commercially since 1880with no sign of depletion. It was in thatyear that the enterprising John Young,founder of the John Young Company oftoday, took his little sloop to Red FishReef for his first load of shell.
He had little trouble disposing ofthem at the Galveston docks as roofingmaterial for insulation against the blis-tering Texas sun. Soon he had a con-tract with the city to provide shell forroad paving, and oyster shell to this day
Viewed from water, dredge resembles giant,crab-like monster with claws on either sideloading barges. Cutter head is out of waterand has 300 yard swing, moving gradually tofind new beds. Dredge has 33 man crew, 22on duty and 10 off. Men spend 10 days ondredge, then five ashore with pay.
is still a standby for alleys, driveways.country roads and other access wavsthroughout the Gulf Coast area.
Oyster shell will assay anywhere from98 to 99.4 per cent pure calcium carbo-nate through a simple process of heatapplication. Calcium carbonate is one ofindustry’s vital heavy chemicals, andfrom this has been born a new industry.
That the shell industry has provedvital to the overall industrial develop.ment of the Gulf Coast and as it hasgrown so have methods been perfectedfor the harvesting and processing ofthis once ignored but now valued ma-rine life adjunct. Today’s diesel-powereddredge worked by 22 men at a time asit gobbles up shell from the reefs is afar call from the laborious hand oper-ated implements of half a century ago.
Only dead or lifeless reefs are workedand they vary in size from relativelysmall areas to those stretching for milesand measuring as much as a mile wide.Wherever there is a current of brackishwater, there oysters live and multiply.and there is no greater natural habitatthan the bays and coves of the GulfCoast.
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EUROPEAN EDITORSTOUR SHIP CHANNEL
Eleven publishers from cities and towns over West Ger-many, together with a Danish newspaperman and a Turkishcity planning engineer recently toured the Ship Channelaboard the inspection vessel Sam Houston. The German pub-lishers were touring the United States under the auspices ofthe Office of Cultural Exchange of the Department of State,accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. Victor Grove of the Departmentof State as interpreters. Their Houston program featured visitsto homes of local citizens arranged by the Leaders HospitalityCommittee of the Institute of International Edueation, and atrip through the Houston Post in addition to the visit to IhePort. The Danish visitor was Georg Andresen, editor ofAarhus Stijtstidende of Copenhagen and from Turkey wasNehmet Komureuoglu of Ankara.
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.Mrs. Guenther Stalter, wife of the acting German Consul; Mrs. FordHubbard, chairman of the Leaders Hospitality program of the HoustonI.I.E., and Frau l)r. Brigitte Weyl, assistant manager of Duedkurier ofKonstanz/Bodensee.
Alice Reynolds Pratt. in charge of the Houston office of the Insti-tute of International Education: Dr. Fritz Schulze. puhlisher of theRhein-Xeckar-Zeitung in Heidelberg, and Georg Andresen, editor of_4arhus Sti/stidende in Copenhagen. Denmark.
Frau Kaethe lppen of Essen-Werdem I)r. Grove and (’.hristian Wulff,puhlisher of the 5egeberger Zeit,T~g in Bad Segeberg.
Guenther Stalter. acting German Consul in Houston with PhilippRiederle of the Bundesverbandes Deutscher Zetungsvergleger of BadGodesberg: and l)r. Bernhard Boll. publisher of Solingcr Tageblatt ofSolingen.
Ford ttubbard of Houston and Florian Lensing-Wolff, puhlisher ofthe Ruhr-3"achric/Ttelt in 1)ortmund.
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Bernhard l)aughjerg. Consul of l)enmark, ~ith tlans-Horst Ziegler,puhlisher of Remscheider General-Anzciger in Remseheid.
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Nehmet Komureuoglu. city architect and planner from Ankara, Tur-key, with Arthur Lenk. business manager of Rhei1~p/alz in Ludwig-shafea/Rhein.
PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
POI¢ T OF LONDON MANAGER VISITSTHE POIIT OF HOUSTON was given a thorough and in-terested inspection by Sir Leslie Ford, O.B.E.. General Man-ager of Ihe Port of London Authority. during a two-dav visituhieh he and Lady Ford made here last month as par’t of anation-wide swing to see ports on both East and West Coasts.the Gulf and the Great Lakes.
A man with a lifetime of experience in port operations. SirLeslie uas in charge of Fngland’s--and also one of theworld’s greatest port during the war and has directed itspostwar growth to the pre-eminence it holds today. His portexlends over a 63 mile area up and down the Tl~ames withdiverse operations that range from stevedoring to the agingand bottling of wines and liquors.
British Ministry of Transport figures show that 89.190,715net tons entered and departed the Port of London in the yearended March 31. representing 22 per cent of the aggregatearrivals and departures in the U.K. Last year’s 89 milliontons represented an increase of 11 per ee~t o’,er 1958 andcompares to some 31 million Ions in 1916.
Sir Leslie’s lrip coincided with the opening of the BritishTrade Fair in New York where his porl had a display. HeIhen Ioured successively the porls of New York, Philadelphia,Bahimore. Norfolk and Ne~ Orleans and from Houston xis-iled the porls of San Diego, Long Beach. Los Angeles andSan Francisco. on the Wesl Coast. and Cahnnet City at Chi-cago on the Great Lakes.
In Houston Sir Leslie conferred with General Manager J. P.Tttrner and other port executives and expressed much inter-esl in lhe Port’s program while totn’ing the docks and view-ing the ne~ ~ttarves. sheds, maintenance shops and docks stillt!llder eonsttuelion.
The aceompan?’ing phologral)hs were taken during a lunch-eon and inspection Irip for Sir Leslie and Ladv Ford ahoardthe inspeclion vessel Sam lto.s¢o, on the seeotid day of theirvisil.
(hatting about the Port of London, W. N. Blanton. left, ’,ice chair-man of the Houston Port tlommission, recalls to Sir Leslie his ~isit tothe Port of l.ondon anll tour of the facilities as the pair stand on theblidge.
J. E. Lowe, right, regional director in the Southwest for the EnglishSpeaking Union. and Mrs. Lowe, discuss with Sir Leslie the forth-coming visit to London of a group of 86 members of the Southv, esternESU, the majority from Houston, ~hich they will lead late in .lulv.
(ommissioner .I.P. Hamblen chats interestedly with Lady Ford inthe after salon of the ",essel.
Sir Leslie pauses from a taped intervim~ recoF(ted for his station andthe BB(" by Timoth.~ Matthew, s of Houston’s KItUL-FM to make anaside as Michael Morrell. center, District Manager for l,ucas ElectricalServices, Inc., of I,ondon. listens. Broadcaster \latlhe~s formerly ~aswith the BBC.
JULY, 1960
Adams Terminal Manager Ed~in A. Stebbins, left, and Peter R.Phillips, director of LeBlanc-PaFr. agents for the ltarrison lane ~hiehser~es London from Houston, vie~ the Channel ~ith Sir l,eslie.
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Grain Elevator
Attracts Visitors
From Many Lands
THE PORT OF HOUSTON’S public grain elevalor, whictlin 1959 shipped more wheat (34 million bushels) than anyother U. S. port has in recent months been the source ofstudy and information for leaders in the wheat and millingindustry of five countries on two continents who have cometo see and study methods of handling, sorting, storing amlshipping.
Sponsored by the Great Plains Wheat Market DevelopmentAssociation, the visitors represented England, Austria, Swit-zerland, Germany and Brazil and in earlier months, over thelast two years, the elevator has also had similarly sponsoredvisits from groups representing The Netherlands, Peru andPortugal.
"We feel pleased that the Port of Houston and our elevatorhave been chosen by the Great Plains Association in theirprogram to sell U. S. wheat overseas and exchange informa-tion with these other countries," says T. H. Sherwood, man-ager of the Port of Houston elevator. "Actually, there is noneed for them to visit any other port as they can see the bestof everything in the handling and shipping of wheat righthere."
The Great Plains Wheat Market Development Associationis made up of groups from the plains wheat states of Ne-braska. Colorado, Kansas and North Dakota and maintainsrepresentatives in other lands to promote the interests of U. S.wheat. In bringing groups of foreign wheat and milling lead-ers on tours of the plains states they seek to show the qualitiesand advantages of U. S. wheat and in doing so use the Portof Houston elevator as an example of how the exported wheatis handled and shipped.
"These trips help us become aware of the needs of the mill-ing industry of other countries," says Sherwood, "and also~ive us an opportunity to exchange ideas of nmtual interestwith these people. We are able to show them what we canfnrnish and they can judge for themselves our methods andfacilities."
Houston is the only port used by the Great Plains WheatGrowers in their program and is the principal wheat port forthe entire great plains area.
Shipments of all grain through the elevator are runningstrong this year with 36 million bushels in the first sixmonths. If the present average of 6 million bushels a monthholds up throughout the rest of the year 1960 could well sur-pass the nearly 70 million bushels of all grain, including the3¢ million hus}lels of wheat, handled in 1959.
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Typical of the ~heat and milling teams visiting the Port of Houstonis this delegation from Austria shown on the bow of the inspectionvessel Sam Houston flanked by T. H. Sherwood. right, elevator man-ager, and Jack Cheatham, left, federal grain inspector in Houston. Thegroup includes, left to right, Dr. Heinz Stuehlinger of the Ministry ofAgriculture: Dr. Hans F. Fuehs of the Ernst Wiener Walzmuehle Von-willer in Vienna: Hehnut Aberham, Milling Research Institute; JohnH. Becket of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and tour man-ager for the Great Plains Wheat Association: Dr. Kurt Waltl, FederalInstitute for Plant Production, and Hehnnt Binder of the AustrianGrain Equalization Board.
Carl H. Allam, left, assistant chairman of the Kansas Wheat Comlnis-sion in Hutchinson, Kansas, stands with Brazilian wheat and millingmen during a recent visit to the Port and elevator. With him are ZenoRicaldo, Brazilian representative for the Great Plains Wheat Growers:Mario di Pierro, president of the Pasta and Biscuit Manufacturers ofSao Paulo. and Danilo Savassi, of Belo Horizonte, State of MinasGerais. president of the Brazilian Baking Industry Association.
PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
NINTH OF A SERIES: Men Who Make the Port of Houston Hum
Meet Leslie B. Canion
He Says Future of PortOf Houston Is Unlimited
By LLOYD GREGORYDirector of Information
LESLIE B. CANION is a custom broker, who handles onlyimports at the Port of Houston.
"If I looked the world over, I couldn’t find a better spotfor my business than the Port of Houston," Mr. Canion said.
"I believe the future growth of this port is absolutely un-limited. Here is just one example:
"In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, dutiable consump-tion entries (items for immediate delivery) at the Port Houston totaled around 2,500. For the fiscal year endingJune 30, 1960, dutiable consumption entries will be around15,000, a six-fold growth.
"With our depletion of resources and population growth,there is bound to be a continued growth of imports into thiscountry."
Mr. Canion says he is in "a personal service" business. Inhis work as a custom broker, he prepares entry papers, ar-ranges for inland shipment of cargo, samples and weighs im-ports, and at times even makes collection of monies.
The improvement program of the Harris County HoustonShip Channel Navigation District has been a boon to ship-pets. Mr. Canion said. "Once the cargo is unloaded on thedocks, we arc under tremendous pressure to get the cargo toits destination," he added.
Mr. Canion was born in Port Lavaca in 1910. As a boy,he fished, swam and sailed in Lavaca Bay, little dreaming thatone day he would make his living from water-borne coin-merce.
After graduation in 1927 from Port Lavaca High School,he entered the University of Texas, graduating with honors10 years later with a B.A. in economics. He taught in countryschools, and did much of his university work in summerschool, and by correspondence.
Upon receMng his university degree, Mr. Canion taughtthree years in Port Lavaca high school, and in May, 194,0,went i~to the U. S. customs service at Laredo. He enlisted inthe U. S. Navy in June, 1944, and was discharged in Decem-ber of 1945.
Mr. Canion came to Houston in 1947 and went to work forR. W. Smith and Company. In October, 1949, he opened hisown office as a custom broker.
Mr. Canion’s offices are in the Fidelity Bank & Trust Com-pany building. His bookkeeper is his attractive wife, the for-mer Mae Jean Fitzpatrick. Their daughter, Mrs. Larry Sontag,also works for the firm.
"I don’t want to get too big, for fear we will lose the closepersonal contact we now have with our clients," Mr. Canionexplains.
Gary Cation, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Canion, grad-uated from The Rice University, and is now studying for theministry in the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest inAustin.
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Water is brought into the water purification plant through this con-crete-lined canal.
Chemicals by the carload are put in storage tanks until used in thepurification process.
Frank Applin, filter operator, cheeks the meter readings which showhow much water is being taken into the plant.
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INDUSTRIES along the Houston Ship Channel are assured
an adequate supply of good water because the City of Houstonhas built one of the most modern water purification plants inthe world.
Thousands of engineers and students from around the worldhave visited the plant and hundreds of them have remainedfor as long as a month to learn the construction and opera-tion details. One of the engineers to study the plant was awoman, the sanitary engineer from Cairo, Egypt.
"This is probably the best known water plant in the [!nitedStates because it has been so widely publicized in all of theprofessional journals," said Clyde R. Harvill, superintendentof the San Jacinto Water System. "It is on the ’must’ list forpeople from other countries to visit when they come to theUnited States to inspect water and sanitary facilities."
The beautiful plant, which was constructed at a cost of $6lnillion processes 85 to 90 million gallons of water daily. Itsupplies 25 per cent of Houston’s drinking water and mostof the water used by industries on the Ship Channel. Manyplants which had their own wells are now using San JacintoWater because they have found it more economical.
The plant, which is located on the North bank of the ShipChannel at Clinton Drive and Federal Road at the entranceto Washburn Tunnel, takes water from Lake Houston, whichwas formed by damming up San Jacinto River. The water ismoved by gravity through a 14 mile concrete lined canal tothe processing plant. A special tunnel under the Ship Channel¢’arries water to industries on the South side.
As new firms settle in this great and growing industrial~:omplex along the Houston Ship Channel, this same plantwill be able to increase its output to meet the demand. TheCity of Houston has a permit to take up to 150 million gallonsof water per day from San Jacinto River.
Not satisfied with this huge amount of water, Houston isnow in the planning stage for taking 1200 million gallons perday from the Trinity River. This will require a salt waterbarrier at Anahuac, a dam at Livingston and a processingplant at Liberty, all of which will be completed within fiveyears. The present plant and the proposed plant will be ableto furnish Houston with enough water for expansion of indus-try and population for many decades to come.
Some industries prefer to take untreated water because theSan Jacinto River water is low in hardness, alkalinity andturbidity. However, water that is fully treated is first chlori-nated, impurities coagulated with alum and settled out in largebasins and then stabilized with lime. Activated carbon andchlorine can be introduced occasionally in dealing with ob-jectional tastes and odors.
Raw water is taken from the forebay to measuring flumes
PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
¯ iod~,rn Pro~,~ssin.q Plant
.~uppli~,s Good tl~at~,r At
An E~’onomi~.al Pri~.4,
A permanent record of the water plant’s operation is made in thiscentral chart room.
and rapid mix units, where the coagulant is introduced. Floc-culation and settling is then accomplished in three basins,from which the water flows to 12 filters. With treatment com-pleted the water is adjusted to the proper acidity/alkalinityand then pumped to storage and distribution mains.
The chief operator maintains primary control of the plantfrom the filter operating gallery, where he controls the rawwater and the filtered water transfer pumps and the filtersproper, constantly maintaining sufficient clear well storage.The flow of settled water to the filters is automatically pro-portioned by rate controllers. Automatic chemical feed is con-trolled by the flow of raw water through Parshall flumes.
Chemical dosage is varied by an operator in the chemicalbuilding, on instructions from the laboratory. Continuouslaboratory control of the entire treatment and sterilizationprocess is maintained in the laboratory, where seven continu-ous flow sampling lines provide water from different steps inthe process.
Operating information from each step in the process isindicated and recorded at a central chart panel in the admin-istration building. Large graphic panels are located over thecentral chart board and the filter control board. These panelsshow a complete flow diagram, color coded to each instru-ment, to simplify training of operators and give visitors aquick and comprehensive understanding of the plant func-tions.
The laboratory is as spotlessly clean as a hospital. Everytwo hours the water from every corner of the plant is tested.In addition to this, three men make daily collections of sam-ples up the San Jacinto River to check on the quality of in-coming water.
This large, modern and efficient water purification plantdemonstrates again why industries find it to their advantageto locate their new plants in the Port of Houston area.
In addition to this outstanding supply of water, industrieslocating here find plenty of electric power, raw products ofmany kinds and a large pool of skilled and unskilled labor.So obvious are its advantages, Houston in the last decade hasshown a greater percentage growth than any other large cityin the United States. And there is still room for plenty ofexpansion.
Chemically treated water is pumped into these settling basins whereimpurities are removed.
Clyde R. Harvill, superintendent of the San Jacinto Water System,is inspecting the pipes and pumps for distribution.
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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS
Building For The Future
PORI OF HOUSTON MOVES AHEADTHE PORT OF HOUSTON ranks today first in the Gulfand second in the United States in point of tonnage handled(57,845,000 tons in 1959) and is presently engaged in busy building program which will enable it to expand its ton-nage even further.
Opened to deep sea traffic in August of 1915, the port hasgrown steadily since that first year’s cargo of some 1 milliontons to its position of pre-eminence today.
Incongruously enough, the port is an inland city on thesea, lying some 50 miles from the waters of the Gulf of Mexicoand reached by a man-made canal which runs twenty-fivemiles through Galveston Bay and then up through the dredgedand deepened course of what originally was a shallow, muddybayou.
As a Port, Houston differs from some of its sisters in thatwharves here are both public and private and in that thePort authority is a local city-county rather than a state agency.It also has an exceptional amount of industry located alongits channel banks to help swell the flood of commerce.
With a channel 300 feet wide and 36 feet deep, Houstoncan accommodate all major freighters of the world and some120 steamship lines maintain regular service to every portof the free world.
Some 4500 or more ships call at Houston annually (4621in 1959) and are about equally divided between foreign andAmerican in registry. However, foreign vessels outnumberAmerican vessels more than two-to-one insofar as merchantfreighters (1984 to 846 in 1959) whereas American tankers
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are far more numerous than foreign (1476 to 315 in 1959).In the Port’s deep-sea tonnage, the heavy predominance of
bulk cargo is notable with 34,735,000 tons in this categorycompared to some 3,831,000 tons in general cargo in 1959.This included foreign and coastwise tonnage in both instances.Petroleum accounted for almost 85 per cent of the bulk move-ment and of this 27,720,000 tons was coastwise.
Barge traffic is also heavy at the Port of Houston, and in1959 totalled more than 19 million tons, with about nine mil-lion of it local and 10 million tons with interior points. Inthe latter movement bulk again prevailed by about 85 percent over general cargo.
The more than $2 billion worth of industry along the Hous-ton Ship Channel is responsible for this tremendous bulk andbarge movement. It involves a multi-complex of plants whichrun the gamut from refinery to papermill, from steelmill tocement plant, with all types of petrochemical variations inbetween.
It is in the movement of ocean freight general cargo, how-ever, that a Port makes its mark and Houston is right amongthe leaders in this important category. Three new wharveshave just been completed at the public docks to give 23 berthsnow in operation by the Navigation District which combinewith 18 private wharves for public hire to give the port berth-ing space for 41 merchant ships.
Two more wharves are being built by the Navigation Dis-trict, and another five more are scheduled after that to meet
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ALL AROUND THE PORTthe growing demand for space as trade increases. New stor-age and transit sheds are also under construction and railroadand truck access routes to improve movement and handlingof freight.
In its expansion program the Port of Houston is also build-ing a bulk handling facility which will fill a long felt needfor this type of operation and future plans (’,all for an ex-pansion of its busy grain elevator.
The elevator with a capacity of 3.5 million bushels handled70 million bushels of grain in 1959 to rank the port secondin grain shipments in the nation and first in wheat, with 54million bushels of (lie latter.
Tonnage totals at the Port of Houston reflect all cargohandled over both the Navigation District and private termi-nals as well as all that handled at the various industries whichreach from Morgan’s Point, where the channel enters Galves-ton Bay, to the Turning Basin.
The Turning Basin is the head of the channel, located aboutfive miles south and east of downtown Houston, and it ishere that most of the wharves for public hire are located.Ships come up to the Turning Basin, which measures 1200feet across, in order to swing and head out to open sea again.
Houston’s import movements are growing steadily and in1959 the port led the Gulf in the importation of foreign auto-mobiles with 74,000 units--more than the rest of the Gulfports combined. It also had a heavy movement (three quar-ters of a million tons) of imported steel, and more than twomillion bags of coffee to rank third in the nation in thiscategory.
Customs collections at the Port of Houston in 1959 reached$28 million for an all time high and 41 per cent increaseover 1958. In all. the government has collected some $188million in customs at the Port of Houston over the ~/5 yearsthe port has operated.
On the other hand, cost of the Port of Houston to the gov-ernment has been but $4,0 million since dredging first beganin 1908. Congress has approved an additional expenditure,now, of some $19 million for widening to 100 feet and deep-ening to 40 feet as well as straightening certain bends. Workon this shouH be,~,in in 1961.
The official name for the Port of Houston is the HarrisCounty Houston Ship Channel Navigation District, and it wascreated in 1910 under a charter granted by the State of Texas.It is run by five commissioners, two named by the City ofHouston, two by the County of Harris and the chairmannamed by those two governing bodies jointly.
The Navigation District maintains wharves, grain elevator,warehouses and other facilities but so do private interests.In addition to the l)ublic wharves the 18 private wharves forpublic hire are operated by the Gulf Atlantic WarehouseCorp. (eight docks), the Sprunt Terminal Corp. (two docks),the Manchester Wharves Co. (three docks) and the AdamsTerminal Corp. (five docks).
In addition, the various industries along the Ship Channelhave their own docks for handling their specialized cargo andthese come to another 47 in total. However, these docks donot handle general cargo and for the most part are bulk-handlers.
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EXAMPLES:
H-4n -- Coordinates H and 4, north sideH-4s -- Coordinates H and 4, south side
Ada Oil Co ......... O-17sAdams Terminal (Phillips) L-29sAmerican Can Co ....... H-10nAmerican Chain & Cable Co., Inc. K-11sArkansas Fuel Oil Carp .......... O-17sArmour Fertilizer Works ..... K-14sBaash-Ross Tool Co. H-10nBaker Oil Tools, Inc. K-11sBayou Barge Terminal & Whse. Inc. J-29nBe~t Fertilizer Co .... O-16sBethlehem Steel Co ....... 1-12nBig Three Welding Equipt. Co., Inc. 1-11nBludworth Shipyards, inc. N-15sBrown & Root, Inc. . H-8nBrown & Root Marine Operators, Inc. K-29nBuffalo Whse. Co. (M & M Bldg.) . H-4nButler Chemical Company O-21nByer’s Barge Terminal 1-27nCarwin Co ...... P-44sCelanese Corporation of America N-42sChampion Paper & Fibre Co. .0-24sChannel Shipyard H-43nChicago Bridge & Iron Co .... H-11nChipman Chemical Co., Inc. P-23sCity Wharves (Fannin St.) H-4sCoastal Oil & Transp. Co.
(leased to Humble Oil) O-21nCoffield Warehouse Co. I-9nColony Wine Co .... O-17sColorado Fuel & iron Co .... M-11sColumbia Lessors, Inc. H-6sCommercial Barge Lines (Brady Isl.) O-16sCommercial Iron Works K-11sConsolidated Chemical Inds. (Stauffer) O-16sContinental Can Co, Inc ....... K-11sContinental Grain Co. (elevator) O-17sContinental Oil Co ...... N-18nContinental Supply Co ...... J-10sConverted Rice ...... H-11nCrown Central Petr. Corp. (refinery)¯ 0-25sCulbertson, Syd E., Co., Inc ....... K-11sDeere, John, Plow Co ..... K-11sDiamond Alkali Co. (Deer Park) N-39sDiamond Alkali Co. (Greens Bayou) 1-30nDickson Gun Plant (Hughes Gun Co.) M-18nDixie Chemical Co .......... I-9sDrumex, Inc .... M-22nDu Pont, E. I., de Nemours & Co .... S-49sEddy Refining Company ...... 0-15sEthyl Corporation .... L-30s
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Federal Steel Products Corp.. H-6sFire Boat Station (Manchester) ....... O-17sFlint, Howard, Ink Co .............. H-10nFolger, J. A., & Co ................. K-11sFord Motor Co ............. 1-11nGaylord Container Carp ............. K-11sGen. American Tank Strge. Terminals N-22nGen. American Tank Strge. Terminals N-25sGeneral Tire & Rubber Co .......... J-S1nGeneral Warehouse Co ............... H-4sGoodyear Synthetic Rubber Carp .... Q-18sGrand Prize Brewing Co ........... L-lOsGulf Atl. Whse. Co. (Clinton plant) O-20nGulf Atl. Whse. Co. (Long Reach Docks) L-15sGulf All. Whse. Co. (Terminal plant) N-15sGulf Chemical Co ................... O-21nGulf Oil Carp ............. M-22nGulf Supply Co., Inc ............... H-11nHamilton Supply Co ................. N-21nHaden, W. D., Co. (Marine Dept. Shop) O-15sHaden, W. D., Co. (Shipyard) .... P-19sHarrisburg Math. Ca. (ship repairs) .... 0-15sHartwell Iron Works. Inc ............ H-5sHess Terminal Corporation .......... L-26nHorton & Horton .................. H-SnHorton & Horton (Material & Shipyard) M-26sHouston Barge Terminal ........... J-10sHouston Blow Pipe 8, Sheet Metal Wks. O-15sHouston Central Whse. 8, Cold Strge. Co. I-7sHouston Compressed Steel Co ....... 1-27nHouston Export Crating & Constr. Co. K-14sHouston Lighting 8, Power Co ......... H-SsHouston Lighting 8, Power Co ...... O-23sHouston Lighting & Power Co ......... N-45sHouston Marine Service ............. O-15sHouston Marine Ways, Inc ........... O-16sHouston Packing Co .................. I-7sHouston Paper Stock Co ............ H-6nHouston Shell & Concrete Co ........ H-6sHouston Term. Wbse. & Cold Strge. Co. H-4nHughes Tool Co ................. L-10sHumble Oil & Refining Co. (storage) J-1SnHumble Oil & Rfg. Co. (storage) .... K-13sHumble Oil & Rfg. Co. (refinery) M-52nHumble Oil & Rfg. Co. (wharves) N-51nHumble Oil 8, Rfg. Co ............... V-$4sIdeal Cement Co. (Gulf Division) N-19nInternational Harvester Co ............ J-9sJackson, Byron, Co ................ K-11sEarle M. Jorgensen Co ............. H-10n
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Kaiser Gypsum Co ........ L-27sLa Porte Yacht Basin, Inc ......... V-54sLayne 8, Bowler Co ............... G-13nLee Construction Co ................ L-14sLiquilux Gas Services, Inc ........... P-17sL. K. Pump Valve Co ................ J-9sLone Star Cement Carp ........... O-17sLong Reach Docks .............. L-1SsLubrizol Corp., The ........... P-38sMagnolia Petroleum Co.
(leased to Eastern States) ..... O-17sManchester Terminal Corp. (wharves) P-20sMarco Chemical Co ............ K-14sMaritime Oil Co. (Drumming Plant) O-17sMayo Shell Carp ................. O-20nMerchants and Mfgrs. Bldg ......... H-4nMerichem Div., Jefferson Lake
Sulphur Co .................... H-28nMid-Contlnent Supply Co ............. K-1 lsMontgomery Ward & Co .......... H-6nMorris Sewall & Co., lnc ........... H-6nMurray Rubber Co ............... I-9sMyers-Spalti Mfg. Co ............... H-6sNational Biscuit Co .................. N-4sNational Petro-Chemicals Carp ........ L-42sNational Steel Products Co ............ 1-10nNational Supply Co ................ K-11sNay. Dist. Bulk Commodity Plant .... K-31nNay. Dist. Manchester Wharves ..... O-17sNav. Dist. Public Grain Elevator .... K-1SnNay. Dist. Public Wharves J-14, L-15n, K-14sNay. Dist. Railroad (Elevator Yard) K-1SnNay. Dist. Railroad (Manchester Yard) P-18sNay. Dist. Railroad (North Yard) .... H-13nNav. Dist. Railroad (Pasadena Yard). O-26sNewlin, J. L. Roy, Inc ............ J-29nOlin Mathieson Chemical Carp ........ L-27sPacific Molasses Co., Ltd ........... K-14sParker Bros. & Co., Inc ............ J-lOsParker Bros. & Co., Inc ............ O-15sParker Bros. & Co., Inc. (repairs) 1-28nPatrick Shipside Warehouses ....... K-14sPeden Iron 8’ Steel Co .............. H-4nPennsalt Chemicals Carp ............ J-28nPeterson Const. Co., Inc .............. J-12sPetro-Tex Chemical Carp ............ Q-18sPhillips Chemical Co. (Adams Terminal) L-29sPlatzer Shipyard ..... J-30nPort City Compress Warehouse Co. 1-15nPort Houston Iron Wks. (shipbuilding) L-32n
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Port Houston Iron WkPritchard Rice MillingReed Roller Bit Co.Reichhold Chemicals,Republic Steel Corp.Republic Supply Co.Rheem ManufacturingRiesner, B. A., & SonRohm 8, Haas Co.Sam Houston, InspectSampson MachinerySan Jaclnto Battlegro,San Jacinto ChemicalSan Jacinto OrdnanceSea-Land Service, In4Sheffield Division, ArShell Builder Co.Shell Chemical Corp.Shell Oil Co. (refinerShip Channel Compr.
(Sprunt Docks)Signal Oil 8, Gas Co.Signal Oil 8. Gas Co.Sinclair-Koppers CherSinclair Refining Co.Smith, A. 0., Corp. 1Smith, A. O., Corp.Smith, Wm. A., ConsSouthern Barge TermiSouthern Compress &Southern Pacific RR CSouthern Warehouse (Southwestern Sugar &Sprunt DocksStandard Asbestos Mf
Insulating Co.Standard Concrete Pr,Standard Oil of TexaStauffer Chem. Co., (
Chem. Inds. Div.Stauffer Chem. Co., (
Chem. Inds. Div., IStauffer Chem. Co., fSunshine Biscuits, IncTennessee Coal & Ira,Tennessee Gas Trans.Tennessee Oil Refng.Tenn-Tex Alloy & Ch~Texaco, Inc. (StorageTexas Alkyfs, Inc.
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airs) K-13sH-7n
K-11sH-28nJ-lOsI-lOn
H-lOtH-10nN-39sK-13nK-15n
ment J-42sH-32n
;y) H-32nK-15r~
~rp. J-27nJ-10~P-36sP-35s
M-15sO-16sO-19sP-22sP-21 s
rks) 1-26nJ-27n
Texas Butadiene & Chemical Company A-40nTexas Packing Co .......... H-4sTodd Shipyards Corp. (Houston Div.) K-30nTrinity Portland Cement Co .......... I-7sUnited Gas Carp. J-9sUnited Rubber & Chemical Company L-52nU. S. Army Engineers [boat basin) V-56sU. S. Customs Appraisers Stores K-14sU. S. Gypsum Co ...... O-20nU. S. Industrial Chem. Div. of
Natl. Distillers & Chem. N-44sVelsicol Chem. Carp ..... N-22nWalton & Son Barge Term. 1-27nWarren Petr. Carp¯
(Warren Gas Terminal) L-26nWater Purification Planl,
City of Houston M-24nWestern Electric Co., Inc. J-9sWestinghouse Electric Corp. H-11nYoung, John Co., Inc. H-4s
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1-12nG-27n
Co. J-13nO-19n
H-6nO-17sM-15s
H-11nJ-14nV-53s
O-16s
M-54n. Div. 1-28n
H-SnSteel) N-19n
M-32sV-54s1-28n
N-23nP-45s
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SINCE 1914
Export and Domestic Crating
OFFICE MOVING AND STORING SPECIALISTS
TRANSFER & STORAGE CO.812-20 Live Oak St. Phone FA 3-2323
N. Y. K. LINE
JAPANESE PORTSTwice Monthly Service To
DALTON STEAMSHIP CORP.Gulf General Agents
Cable Address: "Dalship"
Offices In
Houston ¯ Galveston ¯ Dallas ¯ New Orleans ¯ Memphis
Phone: SO 2-3191 Nite: SO 3-4090SO 2-3861 SO 2-6501
GULF COAST SUPPLY CO.Mechanical Equipment
Spare Parts -- Marine Specialties
16th and Water Streets Galveston, Texas
HOU-TEX LAUNDRY& CLEANING CO.
6835 Harrisburg Phone WA 6-2644
BIEHL & COMPANYAgents for
Baron-lino Line North German LloydBull-Insular Line, Inc. Nopal Line
Fern-Ville Far East Lines Ozean-Stinnes LinesGulf West Africa Line Sclndia Steam Navl-
Hamburg-Amerlcan Line gation Co., Ltd.Mamenlc Line Sidarma Line
NEW ORLEANS MOBILE MEMPHISHOUSTON GALVESTON DALLAS
AN AMERICAN FLAG FREIGHTER
Every 10 Days
Fast, efficient cargo handlingfrom Gulf Ports to Panama*, theWest Coast of South America.
GULF & SOUTH AMERICANSTEAMSHIP CO.
821 Gravier Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
In other cities contact Lykes or Grace*Southbound New Orleans/C.Z. cargo subject to special Booking arrangements
capable handsat the helm
¯ . . of Port Houston arebringing outstanding progress.
Low cost electric serviceis also a key factor
in growth of the portand this area.
HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY
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For Quality Export Packing
INTERPACKSKILLED TECHNICIANSmEXCELLENT FACILITIES
Near Port of Houston Turning Basin
INTERNATIONAL EXPORTPACKERS
WM. L. BREWSTER, GENERAL MANAGER
818 Aleen ORchard 2-8236
WARREN PETROLEUMCORPORATION
NATURAL GASOLINEWARRENGASGULFTANE
Tulsa, Oklahoma Houston, Texas
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