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4 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

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DirectoryOf Officials

FOR THE

Port of HoustonPORT COMMISSIONERS

HOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanJOHN G. Tt:RNEYR. VERNON WH[TESIDE

J. P. HAMBLEN

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

J. P. TURNER, General ManagerVERNON BAILEY, Assistant General ManagerJ. L. LOCKETT, JR., CounselSAMUEL B. BRUCE, AuditorEDITH HANNER, Executive AssistantNORMAN E. HUENI, Chie/EngineerROBERT W. RORtNSON, Business O][ice ManagerT. E. WnATLEY, Administrative AssistantVINCENT D. WZLLIAMS, Administrative Assistant

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

LLOYD GREGORY, Director o~ In/ormationTED SUMERLIN, Editor o~ MagazineVAUGHN n. BRYANT, Director o/

International Relations

SALES DEPARTMENT

GEORGE W. ALTVATER, General Sales ManagerJOHN A. LALA, District Sales Manager

25 Broadway, New York, N. Y.HUME 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

(i~. E. BULLO( K. Operations ManagerW. F. LAND, Terminal ManagerT. H. SHERWOOD, Manager o/Grain ElevatorD. n. FRAZIOR, Maintenance Manager

EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street

Telephone CApitol 5-0671P. O. Box 2562, Houston 1, Texas

OCTOBER, 1959

Official Publication

of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 1 Number 10OCTOBER, 1959

Houston Ranks as Second U. S. Port ................. 7

Meet Chuck Bullock, Operations Manager ................ 8

Argentina and Brazil Revisited ....................... 9

The Saga of Black Pepper ............................. 10

Why Do We Need World Trade? .................... 13

News In Views ............................. 15

Champion Paper, A Ship Channel Resident ................. 16

Visitors See the Port of Houston ......................... 19

Big Shipment Moves to Iraq .......................... 21

Reduced Rates on Export Grain Requested ..................... 23

Port of Houston Shipping Directory ....................... 27

Sailing Schedule ............................. 28

THE COVER

The huge plant of the Champion Paper and Fibre Company is ideally locatedon the banks of the Houston Ship Channel. At the bottom of the picture maybe seen the roadway entrance to the Washburn Tunnel which goes under theShip Channel that may be seen on the right side. To learn the workings of thisgreat industry, 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 theoffice of publication, The Port of Houston,Post Office Box 2562, Houston 1, Texas.

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GENERAL CARGO GAINS AS NEW FACILITIES COMPLETEDThe Port of Houston in 1958 was

second only to New York in total ton-nage, according to records of the UnitedStates Army Corps of Engineers.

Here’s how the five top ports ranked:New York, 145,531,300 tons.Houston, 55,258,046 tons.Ne~ Orleans, 51,711,671 tons.Philadelphia, 46,663,736.Baltimore, 41,703,309.In 1957, the Port of Houston was

third, ranking behind New York andNew Orleans.

Chairman Howard Tellepsen of theHarris County Houston Ship ChannelNavigation District had a pat on theback for the voters of Harris County,and for General Manager J. P. Turner

in connection with the Port’s remarkableshowing.

"The Port’s resurgence dates back toJan. 31, 1957, when the voters of HarrisCounty passed by more than two-thirdsmargin the $7 million bond issue to pro-vide badly needed facilities," Mr. Tel-lepsen said.

"General Manager Turner has pro-vided much of the drive and know-how."

During the first six months of thisyear, the Port of Houston handled 29,-466,249 tons, giving basis for the hopethe Port in 1959 may experience itsfirst 60 million ton year.

Although petroleum and petroleumproducts make up about 60 per cent ofthe Port’s total tonnage, steady gainsare being registered in general cargo.Tremendous increases have been record-

ed in importation of automobiles andsteel, with the steel strike acceleratingshipments of steel from Japan, Germany,Holland and Belgium.

Heavy machinery, oil field equipmentfor South America and the Middle East,synthetic resins and synthetic rubber areamong major export items.

For the first eight months of 1959, thePort exported 56,741,163 bushels ofgrain, compared with 31,612,185 for thesame period last year, T. H. Sherwood,manager of the grain elevator, reported.

"Wheat and milo, mainly from Texasand Oklahoma, are our big items at thePort of Houston," Mr. Sherwood said."1 note that feed grains--oats, barleyand corn--are the big grain items mov-ing through the St. Lawrence Seaway."

MEET

CHUCK

BULLOCK

NEW OPERATIONS

MANAGER KNOWS

CARGO HANDLING

General Manager J. P. Turner right,is telling Chuck Bullock about his newassignment as operations manager.

C. E. (Chuck) Bullock, a husky 225-ponnder with 22 years experience in rail-roading and steamboating, has been named operations manager of the Port of Hous-ton, General Manager J. P. Turner announced.

Mr. Bullock resigned as general manager of the Port Terminal Railroad toaccept his new post.

"Mr. Bullock will have charge of the operation and maintenance of all theNavigation District’s expanding facilities," Mr. Turner said. "His backgroundqualifies him for this important job."

Mr. Bullock’s office will be in the new terminal office building near the docks.He is the first employee to hold the title of operations manager. Mr. Turner pointedout the tremendous growth in the Port’s facilities and cargo made necessary Mr.Bullock’s appointment.

Born in Mississippi, Mr. Bullock came to Houston in 1933 and went to workas a clerk for the Universal Newtex Steamship Company. After five years, he servedtwo years as assistant dock superintendent for the Newtex Steamship Company, andthen for a year was pier supervisor for the Clyde Mallory Lines.

In August, 1941, Mr. Bullock went to work for the Port Terminal Railroad asa switchman, and worked a year before enlisting in the U. S. Marines, with whomhe served four years, being promoted to a sergeant in the Pacific area.

Discharged from the Marines in 1946, Mr. Bullock worked three months asdock superintendent for Isthmian Steamship Company before returning to the PortTerminal Railroad. He was named assistant superintendent in August, 1949; super-intendent Dec. 1, 1950, and general manager Dec. 1, 1956.

The Port Terminal Railroad Association, which serves the Port of Houston, iscomposed of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District and ofseven railway lines.

The executive committee is composed of B. S. Sines, Southern Pacific; K. M.Fogg, Santa Fe; V. A. Gordon, Missouri Pacific; C. T. Williams, M. K. & T.; L. B.Pritchett, Rock Island; R. Wright Armstrong, Fort Worth & Denver; J. T. Alex-ander, Houston Belt and Terminal.

PORTOF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

I EDITOR’S NOTE--Mr. Bryant has justreturned/rom two and a hal/months inSouth America. His trip, originally in-tended to include the west coast SouthAmerican countries o/ Chile, Peru andEcuador as well, was interrupted by ill-ness requiring surgery and hospitalizu-tion in Buenos Aires "e bus nou, reeo,,~red und is l,~ck his desk in ~/o,,ston.)

By VAUGHN M. BRYANT ..........

Director of International Relations

"Drive carefully," says the card. "Theperson you hit may be a TEXAN."

The card is handed out in BuenosAires by Barry Bishop, former Texasnewspaperman, now press and informa-tion officer of the United States Em-bassy. But although he does happen tobe a loyal Texan, he is not being face-tious and it is not just a Texas joke.

Indeed, one’s chances of hitting aTexan in Buenos Aires--or in marl):other parts of Argentina today, for thatmatter--are, to quote the late DamonRunyon, "more than somewhat."

The Argentine capital and the bleakand barren land of Patagonia stretchingsouth of it down toward the Antarcticare full of Texans these days--and otherSouthwesterners from Kansas, Oklahomaand Colorado who are busy searchingand drilling for oil.

They are a welcome sight to the Ar-gentine leaders who are banking onthem to find and produce the oil thecountry needs to meet its growing de-mands.

And they are a welcome sight to peo-ple from (he Port of Houston, too, astheir activity means thousands of tonsand millions of dollars worth of oil fieldequipment of all kinds shipped overHouston’s wharves to the far-away portsof the South Atlantic.

This steady and growing oil equip-ment trade to Argentina was one of thebright spots of my recent trip to theeast coast of South America to meetwith importers and exporters of Braziland Argentina in an effort to promotemore tonnage for the port. It representsa whole new field of welcome cargodevelopment with that great countrywhich is fighting its way out of the leanyears of economic chaos into which itwas plunged by seven years of Peronism.

Under President Arturo Frondizi, Ar-gentina has done an about-face on manypolicies in the last year, including itsprevious stand on foreign oil explora-tion. Freeing of certain domestic pricesand a severe austerity program whoseend is not yet in sight have also com-bined to help the country’s economicposition. The first half of 1959, for ex-ample, saw a favorable balance of tradefor the first time in nearly a decade

Oil field machinerylike this is going toArgentina via the Port of Houston.

AR6ENIINA AND BRAZILCreate Stories Bigger Than

t$126.8 million favorable as comparedto $104.3 million unfavorable in thesame period of 1958).

However, it is the prospect of petro-leum independence at home and evenfuture exportation of oil to other coun-tries that is giving hope to both Argen-tines and to friends of the country wholook for its return to the economic forceit has traditionally been. Leases in Pata-gonia below the 42nd parallel to PanAmerican Petroleum, Union Oil, Shelland others have brought feverish activ-ity in this cold and rugged area oncekt’mwn principally for sheep raising.

Ports formerly used only for ~oolshipping--Comodoro Rivadavia, PuertoDeseado, Puerto Ushuaia on the Straitsof Magellan are now handling theheavy machinery of the oil fields andgetting regularly scheduled steamshipservice. They lie more than 9,000 milessouth from Houston--farther than Mos-cow to the east or Tokyo to the west--and are plagued by frigid temperaturesand high winds.

My Argentine visit followed threeweeks spent in Rio de Janeiro, SaoPaulo and Santos, Brazil. While thatneighboring country to the north of-fered nothing so dramatic as a colonvof Texans and a booming oil develop-ment with its attendant Houston-shippedcargo, I found it still presents encourag-ing trade prospects.

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Brazil continues to tear along at atremendous construction pace facto-ries, offices, highways, governmentbuildings and others. In fact, it is evenrushing to completion an entirely newcapital, Brasilia, located several hundredmiles west and north of Rio in the tem-perate, fertile state of Goyaz.

Brasilia is like nothing ever under-taken by modern man--a huge andmodern metropolitan center hewn fromthe jungles and pushed to completion ona rush, rush, night and day, 21 hourschedule. There are already six hotels,a population of some 65,00t5, jet airportand the city still isn’t completed. But itwill be on April 21st, next year, whenthe whole government will move frontRio with all buildings in readiness--presidential palace, congress, ministries.tribunals attd others.

Amazing Sao Paulo, the world’s fast-est growing city, puts Houston to shameonly in the size and number of its newbuildings and its rate of growth. Nowmore than 3 million and Brazil’s largestcity, there’s an air of Houston to SaoPaulo. But for once Texans find they"have run up against something evenbigger. Sao Paulo is building skyscrap-ers three to one, just as glass and stain-less steel modern, and twice as tall!

Its industry is tremendous. From¯ CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

OCTOBER, 1959 9

BLACKONCE WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOI.

Harvesting ripe pepper ber-ries in an Indian garden. En-tire spike is broken off thevine and the berries are sep-arated later.

Bound for the U.S.A. is an-other lighter load of blackpepper as it is taken on boardship in India.

ONE DAY in the spring of 1797 a small American schoonernamed "Rajah" sailed into New York harbor with a hold fullof wrinkled, black berries. Her captain, Jonathan Carnes,would not say where she’d been, but word soon leaked outthat the voyage had netted a 700 per cent profit. The cargo,150,000 pounds of it, was the most valuable berry in theworld: black pepper.

The Rajah, which had sailed from Salem, Massachusetts,started a fascinating chapter in American history. In the next50 years, Salem’s pepper trade with the Orient did much toestablish our young nation’s merchant marine. Hundreds ofships were built for this trade alone and they brought backmillions of pounds of the pungent black spice. More than$5 million in pepper duties were added to the U. S. Treasury.At one point Salem contributed ~mostly from pepper) dutiesequal to about five per cent of the Federal Government’s totalbudget.

The Salem story is but one incident in the amazing diaryof pepper--a history that covers at least 5,000 years. Onceworth its weight in gold, this king of spices helped ransomRome. Some 3,000 pounds of pepper was demanded by Alaricthe Goth, under threat that the city would be sacked andburned. Pepper was also a strong influence in the Age of Dis-covery. Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama and the otherexplorers of their period sought pepper as avidly as any othertreasure. Columbus first thought he had reached his goal

the West Indies. They turned out to be allspice, but to this day thJwhen he found small, dark berries similar to peppercorns, growing ispice is known in the Caribbean as pimento, which means pepper iSpanish--the name given it by the great admiral. Henry Hudsmwhose discover of the Hudson River 350 years ago is being celebratethis year, was also looking for a new and shorter route to the peppecountries of the East.

When Vasco da Gama reached the Malabar coast of India in 149~he found the home of this precious spice. There, where the annulrainfall averages well over 80 inches and the temperature never fallbelow 50° F., the vines that bear pepper berries have been flourishinsince long before the Christian era. India is still by far the large~pepper producing country in the world, although cultivation of thspice has since spread to other lands; chiefly Indonesia, Borne~Ceylon and very recently, Brazil.

The Malabar area is on the southwestern coast of India. From it ~receive two main varieties of black pepper--Tellicherry and Alleppe--which take their names from the ports through which they are e~,ported. Traditionally, these Indian peppers command the highest priceof any on the market. Long acclaimed by gourmets, Malabar pepper iused today in our finest food products. Characteristically, the Indiapeppercorns are large, evenly shaped and rich in aroma and tang.

Black pepper is the fruit of a vine whose leaves resemble philodmdron. At time of harvesting, the berries are cherry red, but aft~thorough drying in the sun they turn to a deep brown or black anbecome shrivelled and hard. At this point they are peppercorns. Th


PEPPERLIIS BERRY IS GAINING POPULARITY

’he King of Spices mayravel in picturesque riveroats (called Vallomst be-~re it reaches the greatepper marts of Alleppey,’ellicherry, Cochin or Koz-ikode.

The 1959 model of the his-toric bullock cart is frequent-ly used in India to bring pep-per to market.

Nearing its final destination,this pallet of black pepper isbeing unloaded from the M.V.Tocansa, a C.T.O. line ship,at the Port of Houston.

Photos courtesy" American Spice Trade Association.

epper producers send their spice to the U. S. in the whole form and~ost of it is ground by spice packaging companies here before it is~ld. However, the whole peppercorns have become more familiar tomericans in recent years as a result of the new popularity of tableeppermills.If you look closely at the black pepper in your shaker, you will see

lat it is really a collection of small dark and light particles. This isecause the peppercorn is composed of two parts; a dark colored outerusk and a light colored kernel. For the spice we call black pepper, the~tire peppercorn is used. However, if it is to be sold as white pepper,~e growers let the berries mature longer on the vine and then removew outer covering so that only the kernel remains. When this isround, we know it as white pepper.Last year the U. S. imported about 38,000,000 pounds of pepper,

~ore than 34,000,000 of which was black pepper. Americans have al-avs been partial to the slightly more pungent black pepper, where asle reverse is true in Europe and certain other parts of the world.piees in general have shown a resounding increase in popularity in~e past 10 years and pepper has followed the trend. During the firstalf of the last decade, our average yearly pepper imports totalled5out 28 million pounds. In the past five years, the average has jumped, 37,000,000--a 30 per cent gain in a period when population has1creased only 19 per cent.What makes pepper so popular? Why has this particular spice domi-

ated the trade throughout history? Why is it that in homes where

little other seasoning is used, pepper is found in the cupboardand at the table ?

The late Louis Diat, one of the most famous chefs of alltime, once explained that pepper’s importance stems fromthe fact that no other spice does as much for as many differ-ent types of food. He noted that pepper will frequently beused three times in a dish before it is eaten; first as an in-gredient in preparation; then, to "correct" the overall season-ing of the dish during or after cooking; finally, at the tableif the diner prefers more seasoning.

The American Spice Trade Association believes that today’sincreasing demand for pepper is part of a more adventurousattitude toward food. Between wartime experiences andgreater tourist travel, more Americans have been tasting thefoods of foreign lands and have brought back new enthusiasmfor good seasoning.

The peppermill is an interesting sidelight in this picture.Up until a few years ago the American dinner table rarelvsaw one. Now there are millions of people who swear by theexquisitely fresh flavor that comes from grinding pepper asyou use it. Millions more are staunch adherents of coarsepepper, a relatively new grind of pepper. This is particularlypopular with the outdoor set because it is easily handled. Fineground pepper often blows away before it hits the steak, butthe coarser flakes zero in nicely and the "chef" becomes ahero.

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WHY DO WE NEED WORLD TRADE?TEXAS INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATIONAWARDS PRIZE TO WINNER OF NEW CONTEST

More than 70 members of the TexasInternational Trade Association wereguests of the Port of Houston on boardthe Inspection Boat Sam Houston. High-light of the quarterly meeting was theawarding of a $25 prize to William M.Hall, winner of the essay contest spon-sored by the association and The Hous-ton Chronicle.

Mr. Hall wrote on the importance ofworld trade as an integral part of Hous-ton’s thriving economy and he stoutlydefended imports as essential.

This contest was the first phase of aneducational program being undertakenby the association. At the same meetingthe members voted three scholarships of$100 each to students of internationaltrade at the University of Houston, Uni-versity of St. Mary’s in San Antonio andSouthern Methodist University in Dal-las.

Plans were also made to prepare anddistribute a brochure on foreign trade.The brochures will he sent throughoutthe state.

The association voted to sponsor aJunior Import Association, similar inoperation to the Junior Achievement

group. It will be tried in Houston andif it is successful it will be expandedthroughout the state. Under the plan,high school students would operate animport business on a small scale, withthe support and counselling of the asso-ciation.

A drive for new members for the as-sociation has been started. Anyone in-terested in joining the state-wide asso-ciation should contact the secretary,George Krohn, 1614. National Bank ofCommerce Building, Houston.

In his prize-winning essay, Mr. Hall,a commercial artist, pointed out thateveryone, regardless of his business, isbenefited in many ways by foreign trade.

"Without the Port of Houston, andthe imports that it handles, the city onthe bayou would not be where it is to-day-industrially, commercially, cul-turally or otherwise. Without the in-

AWARDING THE PRIZE to the T.I.T.A.contest winner are, left to right, George Alt-vater, general sales manager of the Port ofHouston; William M. Hall, the contest win-ner; Alan Newhouse, president of the group,and R. M. Bazzanella, eontest chairman.

fluence of imports on the economic lifeof the city, its institutions of learning,its great Medical Center, and its cul-tural and artistic pursuits would havebeen greatly lessened, many of themperhaps dying completely for want offinancial support.

"As an important gateway to theworld, the Port of Houston has much tooffer residents of this fast-growing city.The port attracts a vast number of peo-ple to our city. Airlines, railroads andthe family automobile follow this greatinflux of activity, swelling the pleasureand profit of individuals and businessenterprises alike to an amazing extent.

"No longer do we live in an age ofisolation, separated by lack of contactwith foreign nations. Rather the worldhas been reduced in size to an extremescarcely dreamed of a generation ago,"Mr. Hall said.

"Because of this diminishing of timeand space, we are the more dependentone upon the other. Thus are we madepartners, in a very real sense, in theprogress and advancement of everysphere of life and activity. This beingtrue, it is easy to see how the increasingimport trade contributes to the wellbeing of those who come within theprovince of this vast enterprise."

Mr. Hall also brought out in his es-say that the "many millions of dollarsinvested in private enterprise in the ShipChannel area, the great number of em-ployees who promote such enterprise.and the gigantic payroll that accrues,is an impressive indication of the reallytremendous impact of imports on theCity of Houston.

"This has given Houston a cosmopoli-tan outlook and standing," Mr. Halladded. "Houstonians have learned thereis an affinity between themselves andthe people of other lands. This culturalgrowth has been hastened by the cos-mopolitan influence effeeted through im-ports. Every person who comes withinthe range of this city’s influence is a di-rect beneficiary of its success. And thatsuccess is definitely greater because ofthe influence of imports on the City ofHouston."

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Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc.. is shippinga duplicate of the world’s largest portable oil drilling rig

to the Mobil Oil Company of Canada, Ltd., Libyan Branch, foruse in Libya. The first of these two giant rigs were shipped

through the Port of Houston in June. This is the 128,970 pounddraw works trailer which was loaded on the deck of the

Almeria Lykes. The entire shipment, which went on threeships, totaled 742,000 pounds in 53,000 cubic feet. Both of

the giant rigs were fabricated in the area. They were preparedfor export by Lee Construction Company and the forwarder

was Lee Shipping Company.

The World Trade Committee of the East Texas Chamhcrof Cmmnerce held its first Fall meeting oil board thePort of Houston’s Inspection Boat Sam Houston.Fred J. Drew, past president of the Propeller Club of ltouston,is chairman of the committee and H. E. Nance of Long, viewis vice chairman.

Proving that avocations do pay off, Ann Caliva gets aguided tonr of the S.S. ALCOA CLIPPER during a 16-day

Caribbean cruise she won for her essay, "The AmericanMerchant Marine and Its hnportance to My City and My

State." A June graduate of the Incarnate Word Academy,ttouston, Ann was one of twenty-two national student winners

of the Propeller Club of the United States’ 24th annualessay contest. She and her cousin took a luxurious prize cruisedonated by the Aleoa Steamship Company to Caribbean ports.

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Moving between mountains of logs, this giant crane easily picks up twodozen logs at a bite.

(Jharnpion workers feed the huge digester where x~ood chips will be"’pressure cooked" into pulp.

This superealender for producing coated paper was world’s largestwhen it was installed at Champion.

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THE TIME was the mid-30’s . . . the country ~as just re-covering from the depression . . . its economy was taking thefirst halting steps back to health after its prolonged illness."Positive thinking" was not as widespread as it is in theselatter--and more prosperous -days.

So it took considerable optimism on the part of TheChampion Paper and Fibre Company to make the decisionto establish a new plant on the Houston Ship Channel.

But the decision was no hasty one. Since the early 30’sChampion engineers had been eyeing the Houston area. Whatthey saw here pleased them. There was pulpwood in abun-dance from the forests of nearby East Texas. There was anample supply of natural gas to furnish economical fuel. Andperhaps most important, Houston’s fine port and its railroadnetwork offered excellent transportation to any domestic orforeign point,

This, Champion decided, was the place to locate. And ithas never had reason to regret that decision.

Ground was broken in March, 1936. By 1937 the plant,located on a 162-acre tract on the Ship Channel in Pasadena,was cmnpleted. At first it produced pulp only, at the rate of200 tons a day and the entire output was shipped to theHamilton, Ohio, plant for manufacture into fine papers.

Gradually, however, pulp-making facilities were doubledand in 1940 paper-making facilities added. One by one, newproduets bearing the Champion label began to come off theproduction line at the Texas Division: paper for magazines,letterheads, envelopes, tablets, food containers. Today thetdant’s monthly output is 21,300 tons of pulp, 1,050 tons offinished paper and 9,900 tons of food container stock.

Much of this production is shipped to other points for con-version into finished products, and adds considerable to thePort’s tonnage figures.

From Pine to Paper

The paper-making process is a complex one thai actuallystarts back with the growing trees. Champion’s Texas Divisiongets its supply of raw materials from the pine and hardwoodforests of East Texas. To assure a continuing supply for thefuture as well as the present, Champion practices and encour-ages careful conservation. This means selective cutting atregular intervals to thin out culls and allow better trees roomto grow. And it means a regular program of reseeding to keepsuccessive "crops" of trees coming along year after year.

After the trees selected for pulpwood have been felled theyare cut into five-foot lengths and loaded onto trucks or flat-cars for their trip to the mill. In the wood yard giant claw-toothed cranes snatch up and deposit on a conveyor enoughlogs to supply an ordinary fireplace for a week.

Up the steep incline the conveyor carries the logs hvo,three, four stories high. Then, with a crash, they enter thethundering barking drums to be tumbled over and over unli]they are stripped completely of bark.

Unlike the "squeal of the pig," the bark is not wasted.While it is recovered to be used as fuel, the logs inove on tothe chippers. Here, within a fraction of a second, giganticknives slice each log into bils the size of a nickel. A carefulscreening removes sawdust and splinters and leaves only theuniform sized chips to be conveyed to storage bins or (iirectto digesters.

Each batch of chips pours through king-size funnels to thedigesters where chips are "pressure cooked" until they are


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soft and pulpy. After a series of rinsings to wash out thecooking liquor, the pulp is screened to remove any knots oruncooked fibres, which are later recooked. Chemical bleachesthen turn the brown pulp to a brilliant white.

On it goes to the "Jordans," whose rapid whirling actioncuts fibres to the proper length and brushes out the ends.This helps fibres interlock like bristles of hairbrushes stucktogether.

The pulp is now ready to be made into paper. This is ac-complished by flowing the liquid pulp--actually 991/2%water over the long moving screen called a Fourdrinier wire.As the water drains off rapidly, the flowing sheet of meshedfibres compacts, flattens out and becomes recognizable as thebeginnings of paper.

By the time the web of paper reaches the end of the longFourdrinier wire, it is strong enough to jump the gap to thewet felts. Supported by the felts, the wet paper passes througha series of rollers where the combination of pressure and suc-tion squeeze out more water.

The paper by now is about one-third dry and it moves onIo the dryer section to be passed up, down, over and understeam-heated rolls until it is dry, firm and strong. For everyton of paper produced, about 195 tons of water must be re-moved, a big reason why an ample water supply is a "must"for a paper mill.

From here on out, the amount of processing depends onthe final use to which the paper is to be put. For uncoatedpaper a simple ironing on the calender stack is all that isneeded. For "slick" or coated paper, like the cover of thismagazine, an additional super-calendering process is neces-sary. It takes more than 100 tons of polished steel rolls, op-erating like a series of irons, to "press" the paper to the re-quired high gloss finish.

The final step is the trimming of the enormous rolls intosmaller rolls and sheets to fit printing presses. And, of course,the last careful inspection that screens out any paper with theslightest defect ............

People and PayrollsStarting with 462 people, the Champion Texas Division had

grown to total of over 2,000 by the end of 1958. This includes1,984 in the Pasadena plant and 71 who work as foresters orother Champion representatives in the woodland areas. Al-together, their annual payroll amounts to some $12,500,000.

And this does not take into account the business Championdoes with local suppliers and hundreds of others throughoutthe East Texas area where Champion has field organizations.For instance, Champion buys some $8,500,000 worth of pulp-wood and wood chips annually from East Texas tree farmers.And it is an important customer for Gulf-Coast-producednatural gas, electric power, chemicals and other industrialsupplies.

The Champion FamilyMost of Champion’s employees live in the Houston-Pasa-

dena area. As a group, they have an outstanding record forparticipation in community activities. One Champion hasbeen mayor of Pasadena. Another was chief of the PasadenaVolunteer Fire Department, which has numbered many otherChampions as members. Scores of Champions serve in civic,church groups and on community service committees.

To make sure no round pegs are put in square holes, Cham-pion tests new employees on aptitude and ability. The com-pany feels that its people work better and are happier whenthey are doing what they can do best, and they make everyeffort to fit the man to the job. Special company-sponsored

training courses help employees step up the ladder just as fastas they are capable.

Through its profit-sharing program, Champion provideslife, hospitalization and surgical insurance and retirementbenefits without cost to its employees. Thanks to an aggres-sive safety program, the company has an exceptionally finesafety record. A credit union and a cafeteria where wholesomemeals are served at low prices are among other employee ad-vantages.

Champion is a Community CitizenChampion is concerned with making itself an integral part

of its communities. For example, when Champion decided in1957 to build a pulp mill in Brazil, one of its first concernswas with people, its own American families who would betransplanted to a strange country and the Brazilians whowould form the bulk of the work force of the foreign plant.The result was an indoctrination project unique in industrialhistory.

The company scoured the country for leading figures whocould orient the Champion specialists and their families, notonly in the Brazilian language, but in its weather, housing,transportation, schooling, social life and native customs. Dur-ing the 12-month program, Champion families saw movies,slides, pictures, maps, magazines and newspapers presentedby men and women with an intimate knowledgc of Brazil. Asa result, North American Champions departed well-equippedwith the knowledge and understanding quickly to fit them-selves into the life of the new community and thus becomegood ambassadors for Champion and, of course, the UnitedStates.

Wherever Champion establishes itself on the Houston ShipChannel or abroad its first aim is to make itself a welcome,useful citizen of the community. So far, it has succeeded.

I)own the Ship Channel by steamer or barge go (:hamlJon papers,and pulp for later reproeessing.

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FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Visitors See The Port of HoustonABOARD THE SAM HOUSTON

JAPANJapanese industrialists and representatives

of Mitsui & Company, Ltd., of Tokyo, thelargest trading company in Japan, visitedHouston recently to inspeet the new Mitsuioffice and during their stay toured the Port ofHouston. Seen on the inspection imat SAMHOUSTON above are left to right H. Shim-ada, manager of the machinery division ofMitsui; Akira Takahashi, chief engineer of theplastics division of the Toyo Koatsu Indus-tries, Inc.; Tadao Yamada, chief of the foreigntrade department of the Tokyo Seiko Kaisha;Shimchiro Miura, director of Mitsui and man-ager of the company’s iron and steel depart-ment; and Ryoji Matsamoto, chief engineer ofthe planning division of the Toyo Koatsu In-dustries, Inc. At the extreme right is KajimieKobayashi, manager of the Houston office ofMitsni.

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MEXICOMore than 40 engineering students from the

National University of Mexico visited Houstonin September and took a trip do~n the Hous-ton Ship Channel aboard the SAM HOUSTONas part of their tour. The group was makinga trip throughout the southeastern UnitedStates studying engineering projects and ter-minated their" tour at the Tennessee ValleyAuthority.

JAPANFour .]at)anese trading companies have been

established in Houston in recent months, andtouring the port recently aboard the inspectionboat SAM HOUSTON was F. Takeiehi, above,representative of the Gosho Trading Co., Inc.,who ~as here investigating possibilities olopening an office in tlouston for his firm, also.

UNITED KINGDOM"1"~o representatives of the firm of Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., of Glasgow,, Birmingham and

London were in Houston recently to investigate the port as a base of operations for" lmthdomestic and international marketing of oilfield easing and tubing. Here. aboard the SAMHOUSTON, Robert Mayhew and William Foster of the United Kingdom firm, left to rightrespectively, with William E. Moffett. center, of the sales department of tire Port of Houston.

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TWO SHIPS LIFT EQUIPMENT FOR 315 MILE PIPELINE IN IRAQ

Equipment valued at more than $3.5 million was moved through thePort of Houston by Turriff-Burden, Ltd. for the construction of a pipe-line in Iraq. Loaded on two ships, the Orizaba and the Monterrey ofthe Stevenson Line, the equipment ranged from trench diggers to am-bulances. The 30 and 32-inch pipeline will consist of two sections, onesection 250 miles long from Kirkuk in northern Iraq to the Syrianborder will enable the oil to be pumped to Tripoli, and the secondsection will be 65 miles long to transport oil from Zubair oil fields tothe Persian Gulf. At the left is one of the many Caterpillar tractors asit was lifted by the Port of Houston’s giant gantry crane. At the rightis a crow’s nest view of the Orizaba showing part of the cargo stowedon deck. Bennett and Patton were forwarders for the cargo, HoustonExport Crating and Construction Co. crated the equipment. AbaunzaSteamship Company is agent for the Stevenson Line.

TUGS TAKE INTO TOW the S.S. James Lykes, just after the 495-foot-long cargoliner for Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., slid down thelaunching ways at the Pascagoula, Miss., yard of Ingalls ShipbuildingCorp. It is one of 53 up-to-the-minute equipped cargo vessels that LykesLines is having built to replace its entire fleet, a program that will cost$500 million. Right after she was waterborne, the cargoliner was shiftedto an outfitting dock at Ingalls to ready her for her maiden voyage inMarch 1960. Sponsor of the Cargoliner James Lykes, named after thefirst president of the 59-year-old steamship company, was Mrs. EvaHassell Hackney Bonner of Washington, N. C., wife of CongressmanHerbert C. Bonner, who is Chairman of the House Committee on Mer-chant Marine and Fisheries. In addition to the five vessels being con-structed at ]ngalls, four other ships in Lykes’ replacement programhave been contracted for with Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., SparrowsPoint, Md. Lykes Lines’ fleet transports foreign-trade cargoes along sixessential trade routes between the U. S. Gulf and 156 world ports.

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Port Bureau Requests RateReduction On Export Grain

The Houston Port Bureau in a publichearing Oct. 6 in Chicago will ask thatproportional rates on grain and grainl)roducts from Kansas City and Omahato Gulf ports he the same as now fromthose points to Chicago.

The hearing will he before South-~estern and Western trunk line repre-sentatives, and other Gulf ports willjoin in the Houston Port Bureau appli-cation, General Manager Greg B. Perrvof the Houston Port Bureau said.

The Houston Port Bureau, recentlyreorganized, is now devoted entirely toimprovement of rates and conditimls on(’argo moving through the Port of Hous-ton. President John C. Mayfield said.

"’When the St. Lawrence Seawayopened, raihvays reduced rates on wholegrains to North Atlantic ports," Mr.Perry pointed out.

"’To meet this reduction, the IllinoisCentral cut rates on whole grains fromChicago to New Orleans.

"’Thus far. the reduction has not beenapplied to milled products. It is hopedthe historic relationship between grainsand milled products will be restored. Ibelieve that millers will support our ap-plication."

Mr. Perry is optimistic over the ahil-it}, of Gul( ports to meet competitionfrom any source.

"The Houston Port Bureau is con-stantly analyzing the rate picture," hesaid. "We believe that fair inland trans-portation rates, coupled with superiorsteamship and terminal services, willkeeI ) the Gulf ports ve;’y much in thepicture."

Importers of cotton bale covering willreceive reduced rail rates to Texas des-tinations under a Bureau proposal to

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establish a distance scale predicatedupon known private trucking costs.Through this proposal, the Bureau seeksto assure a fair marketing opportunityto Houston importers by rates at a com-mon measure to all Texas destinations.Under the present rail rate structure,private trucking and selective rail reduc-lions have effected a disturbed situation.

IN THE RECORDAn article on "How Houston Became

a Port" in the August issue of the Portof Houston Magazine was reprinted inthe Congressional Record for August 12as an extension of remarks of SenateMajority Leader Lyndon Johnson.

"Because of the historical interest ofthis article and because of the light itthrows on the current difficuhies of ex-panding urban areas, I ask unanimousconsent that it be reprinted in the ap-pendix of the Record," Senator Jotmsonsaid.

to the four corners of the earthThe position of The NationalBank of Commerce at the Port ofHouston, its experience andreputation in international bank-ing, and its world-wide networkof foreign correspondents canmean faster collections andremittances for you when shippingthrough the Port of Houston.An officer of our International Banking Department will beglad to visit with you and explain how our services cansave you both time and money.

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Argentina and Brazil-. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

toothbrushes to television, razorblades torefrigerators, Brazil is making its own--mostly in Sao Paulo. Brazil now makesbuses and trucks there, too, for all itsown needs and is even exporting toother countries. It has begun to makepassenger cars as well--the only LatinAmerican country to do so.

Like Houston, Sao Paulo is a hub ofboth agriculture and industry but couldnever have grown to its present emi-nence without a port. This it has illSantos, 40 miles down the mountainsto the east t Sao Paulo is on a 3.000foot plateau). Busy Santos is tire world’s

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leading coffee port and has just addedt~o new wharves and a new transit shed--both styled after U. S. ports followinga visit two years ago of its director, Dr.Eduardo Gama, to Houston.

Storybook Rio de Janeiro, too, is bus-tling not only with tourists but thethrum and throb of industry. Improve-ments and expansions are scheduled forits excellent harbor including a bulkhandling facility for shipping Brazil’srich iron ore.

While Brazil has known oil reserves inseveral areas, government policy con-tinues adamant against foreign explora-tion and the country still spends up-~ards of $300 million of its dollar re-serves for petroleum and products overand above what it produces domesti-cally. Oil interests in both the U. S. andEurope look hopefully for a change inthe future, especially if neighbor Ar-gentina’s present oil experiment lmysoff. Such a change could mean still moretonnage for Houston as the leading portfor oil well machinery!

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Houston Area Industries PromisedAdequate Water For Next 50 Years

A compromise Trinity River plan, adopted by the HoustonCity Council and the Trinity River Authority, promises anadequate supply of industrial water for the next 50 years.

"This agreement may well bring new industries to the Portof Houston," Port Commission Chairman Howard T. Tellep-sen said. "I congratulate all parties in coming to agreementon such a vital matter."

Mayor Lewis Cutter of Houston said:"This agreement will solve the water problems of Houston

and its nine-county area for at least 50 years. It promises un-limited industrial growth."

Under the agreement, a dam will be built at Livingston anda salt water barrier at Wallisville. The facilities are due toyield 1.2 billion gallons of water daily for Houston and thelower Trinity counties, with Houston getting 70 per cent of thedaily yield, and the TRA getting the other 30 per cent.

Victor Bouldin, the city’s special counsel on water prob-lems, said :

"’This is the greatest boon to Houston’s growth since BuffaloBayou was deepened to provide a deep water port in Hous-[OU.~’

President Mason G. Lockwood of the Houston Chamber ofCommerce commented :

"[t is a double victory for the TRA and the City of Hous-ton. Supporters on both sides have good cause to go out andtear down the goal posts."

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STEVEDORESGENERAL STEVEDORES, INC.

5401 Navigation Blvd .............. WAlnut 3-6678

UNITED STEVEDORING CORPORATIONCotton Exchange Bldg .............. CApitol 7-0687

and CApitol 7-3374

MARITIME TRANSLATIONSWINSTON I. KOOMEY, M.A., French, English, Spanish

610 Avondale ................... JAckson 9-0808

HOUSTON EXPORT CRATING & CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.7414 Wingate ................... WAlnut 3-5527William Peacock, Jr., Vice President

INTERNATIONAL EXPORT PACKERS818 Aleen (Zone 29) .............. ORchard 2-8236William L. Brewster, General Manager

LEE CONSTRUCTION CORP.1600 North 75th Street ............. WAlnut 3-5551

INTRACOASTAL CANAL ANDINLAND WATERWAY SERVICES

Common Carriers

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BARGE LINE CO.1714 C. & I. Life Bldg ............... FAirfax 3-4156Roger D. Winter, Manager of Sales, HoustonRobert A. Knoke, Traffic Representative

UNION BARGE LINE CORP.Suite 304-N, Adams Petroleum Center JAckson 6-3908Warner J. Banes, District Traffic ManagerDennis L. McColgin, Traffic Representative

TOWING SERVICEBAY-HOUSTON TOWING CO.

811 Cotton Exchange Bldg ........... CApitol 2-6231

INTRACOASTAL TOWING & TRANSPORTATION CORP.1302 Texas Ave ................... CApitol 7-2297

SUDERMAN & YOUNG TOWING CO., INC.708 Cotton Exchange Bldg ........... CApitol 7-0830

HAULINGImport - Export

LONGHORN TRANSFER SERVICE, INC.7112 Avenue C .................. WAlnut 6-266110 Years Serving The Port of Houston

PORT HOUSTON TRANSPORT CORP.7005 Griggs Road ................. WAlnut 1-1113


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

Regular Sailings [rom

MoBile, Houston and New Orleans

WEEKLYto La Guaira, Pto. Cabello, Guanta and Trinidad

Separate WEEKLY SailingsTo MARACAIBO and CURACAO

EVERY TWO WEEKSTo Aruba, Pto. Sucre, Carupano,Georgetown and Paramaribo

Agents

STRACHANSHIPPING COMPANYNew Orleans--Houston--Mobile--Chicago--St. Louis

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

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

|he

BANK LINE ltd.Regular Service from

U. S. Gulf Ports to

Australiaand

New Zealand¯ 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

Memphis - New Orleans - Dallas

Chicago - Atlanta - St. Louis

Kansas City - Cincinnati

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POSTMASTER: if not delivered in fivedays, return to P. O. Box 6278, Houston6, Texas. Return Postage Guaranteed

BULK RATE

U. S. POSTAGEPAID

Houston, TexasPermit No. 5441

THIS IS LONG REACHOne of Long Reach’s locomotive cranes loads part of a shipment ofreinforcing steel to a truck belonging to the importer and consignee,Industrial Steel Warehouse Co. of Longview, Texas. The sh pment ofseveral hundred tons of steel was from the SS IRENE. Custom clearanceand forwarding was handled by Patrick & Graves.

~ ¯ Berthing for 8 vessels ¯ Locomotive cranes, 75-ton derrick

i ¯ Marginal rail trackage 3428 ft. ¯ Modern freight handling equipment

¯ Simultaneous handling 200 cars ¯ Covered area 1,400,000 sq. ft.

Wharves ¯ ¯ Cotton Compresses~

Owned and Operated by GULF ATLANTIC WAREHOUSE CO., Houston 1, Texas

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