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Volume 11

Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

JULY, 1969 No. 7

Directory OfPort Commissioners

And StaffFOR THE

Navigation DistrictHOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanR. H. PRUETT, CommissionerE. H. HENDERSON, CommissionerW. D. HAVEN, II, CommissionerFENTRESS BRACEWELL, Commissioner

J. P. TURNER, Executive DirectorGEORGE W. ALTVATER, Deputy DirectorC. E. BULLOCK, Director o/Port OperationsJ. L. LOCKET’r, JR., CounselHEN,V M. BROADNAX, General Sales ManagerS. G. FULLEBTON, County AuditorVAtJCHN M. BRYANT, Director o/International

RelationsLLOYD G,ECOSY, Director o~ ln/ormationRICHARD P. LEACH,

Director of Engineering & PlanningJOItN ROBERT SPOLLIN, Chie/ EngineerJ. R. CURTIS, Terminal ManagerK. P. ROUEN,

Manager o/Grain ElevatorW. J. STAaNER, Manager, Storage WarehousesRICHAn, J. SHIROSKY, Superintendent,

Bulk Materials Handling PlantJ. K. HtNDERSON, ControllerL. T. FRITSCH, Purchasing AgentA. B. LANDR~’, Personnel Manager and

World Trade Building ManagerC. L. SHUPTRINE, Chie[ Security O~icerW. E. I~DMON, Maintenance SuperintendentT. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantV. D. WILLIAMS, Administrative AssistantSALES OFFICESEDWARD P. MOORE, New York District

Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant

25 Broadway, New York, New YorkHOME A. HENDERSON, Chicago District

Sales Manager401 E. Prospect, Mount Prospect, Illinois

JOHN R. WEIL~R, Houston DistrictSales Manager

C. A. ROUSSER, JR.,District Sales Representative1519 Capitol Avenue, Houston, Texas

EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street

Telephone CApitol 5-0671P. O. Box 2562, Houston, Texas 77001

JULY, 1969

ConlentsSoybeans: The. Wonder Legume ...................................... 8

Scene At The World Trade Club ............................. 10

Ships On Maiden Voyages Presented Plaques ..................... 12

Meet John Templet, Charter Specialist ............................... 13

Visitors See The Port of Houston ................................ 14

Houston Consular Corps Changes Registered ............... 15

Trio Christened In Turning Basin ........................... 16

News In Views At The Port of Houston ................................. 17

Surinam Navigation Co. Has Shown Great Growth ............... 18

The Houston Port ’Bureau Reports ................................. 20

Houston ’Steamship Agents ................................... 29

Sailing Schedule of ’General Cargo Ships ................... 30

Port of Houston Shipping Directory ................... 32

THE COVER

’Resting at anchor is the. ’Surinam Navigation Company’s CORATIJN, one ofthe ships serving Houston and other Gulf ports. For more about this interestingcompany see Page 18.

The Port o~ Houston Magazine

TED SUMERLIN, Editor

Published monthly by the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Naviga-tion District, the PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine is distributed free to maritime,industrial and transportation interests in the United States and foreign coun-tries. This publication is not copyrighted and permission is given for the re.production or use of any original material, provided credit is given to thePort of Houston. Additional information, extra copies of the magazine oradvertising rates may be obtained by writing the PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine,1401 South Post Oak, Houston, Texas 77027.

THIs ~’E.Xl{ the worht’s most sophisti-

cated and experhmced planter--the [ .S.farmer-has worked up, planted andnourished one of the oldest crops evergrown by man . . . the soybean.

As the big machines rumbled ontothe fiehls over tilt’, nation early thisspring lo seed what would probably bean all-time record crop, the soybean was ...............................already overshadowed by a toweringsurplus.

But whether the current soybean pro-duction in this country today is toomuch or too little, nothing dims the longand illustrous history of one of tim oldestrecorded foods cuhivated.

The first written mention of the high-protein legume was by a Chinese em-peror ahnost 5,000 years ago in 2838B.C. Other ancient Chinese literature in-dicates the soybean was a widely culti-vated and highly regarded crop evencenturies before this.

In fact, the soybean was one ofChina’s "five sacred grains"--joiningrice, wheat, barley and millet--con-sidered essential to the contilmed exis-tence of tile Chinese civilization. One

authority even went so far recently asto say that "The Chinese nation exists

today because of the use of soybean asa food."

The word, "Soybean," is a corruption

of tile m’iginal Chinese woM, "chiang-3u," meaning "sauce of tim bean." Fromthis came the Japanese "show-yo," fur-ther contracted to "so-ya," and finallyshortened into "soy."

Tile versatile soybean has been called"Chinese pea" and "Manchurian ])can,"after its natnral growing area in EasternAsia. l~efore being domesti(:ate(I, it prob-ably grew wild as a rim’-like I)lant.

During the last quarter-century ill theUnited States. the crop took on a Cin-derella-like appeal because of its Ire-mendous growth in production and utili-zati,m. Today growers wonder if it is tolwcome an’,~lher of the eript~led crops ofsurphts.

The utilization of the soybean isalmost endless. Basically tile bean vMdstwo products oil and meal. Some 95percent of tile oil is used for human foodproducts, mainly shortening, margarineand cooking oil. The meal is ttsed pri-marily for livestock feeds, except inJapan x~here such ITaditional foods asSho)u..lliso and To/u are made fromthe ground-up bean.

For ninny years soy thmr and so3grits have been used in such foods assausages, soups, baby foods, pancaketlour, spaghetti and noodles to increasethe protein content and add to the prod-ucts’ consistency. A soybean by-productis a basic ingredient in such conveniencefoods as coffee ~hitener. dessert toppingsand candy.

Beverages also take a hlrge part oftile soybean crop. It is used in this coun-try as a substitute of several milk prod-ucts. and. in tile newly emerging colin-tries of the world, it is the basis for a

A soybean harvester combine loads a truck with its produce after stripping each bean from the plant.

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nnmber of hnx-cost, high energy bever-ages reeently developed that fit in withthe traditional diets of these nations’protein-starw,d peoples.

In recent months and years the soy-bean has been spun into fibers thatsimulate the look and texture of variou,meats and. with the proper flavor added,the taste as well.

In industry, the soybean’s uses arelegion: eosm~tics, gasoiine anti-knockeonlpounds, glue, paints and many, manymore. Nevertheless, less than five pereentof the soybean crop is used in such non-food industries.

I r o n i c a 11 y, Japan--from which Ad-miral Perry’s expedition in 1851 securedsmeral soybean varieties and broughtthem back" to the United States--is the

Olargest single importer of this c untry ssoybeans . . . almost 7l million bushelsiu 1968, worth almost $185 million.

Continentally, Europe is the U.S.’sbiggest market. In 1968 the Europeancountries imported U.S. soybeans to theInne of 164 million bushels, and an ad-ditional 57 million bushels of meal.

Meal--which is the Port of Hous-ton’s main export in the soy family-- isprohably the greatest opportunity forgrowth in exporting, especially in Europewhere the rapidly expanding market forli~estoek feeds is still a wide open poten.tim . . . particularly in poultry and pigrations.

The United States in 1968 produced] billion and 80 million bushels of soy-beans on some 40.6 million acres. Oftllis, more than 266 million bushels weresent to other lands.

The [i.S. soybean production value of$~}~ billion in 1950 has increased steadilyto the 1968 evaluation of more than

JULY, 1969

Ships and barges in port are loaded down with soybeans.

$2,~/~ billion. Illinois, in 1968, was thenation’s t<~p producer with more than200 million bushels, followed closely byIowa with almost 180 million bus]Ms.Of the 18 states growing soybeans iuany quantity, Texas ranks 16th, aheadof Georgia and Virginia.

One of the soybean producers’ biggestproblems--as indicated earlier in thestory--is what appears to be an ap-proaching surplus problem . . . as hashappened in the United States with othercrops.

Leading up to this is a spiralingdomestic production and increasing com-petition for international oil and proteinmarkets which experienced watchers of

The young soybean plant is carefully cultured, nursed and cultivated.

agricultural products feel may glut themarket and lower prices.

The only alternative to this is to in-crease market demand, a plan which hasalready been inaugurated with a marketdevelopment program through theauspices of the American Soybean As-sociation (ASA) and paid for by in-dividual growers contributing to thecause a fraction of a cent for each bushelof soybeans placed in marketing chan.nels.

The ultimate goal of the Associationand its member-growers is $1 millionfor a long range market development,with an important part of the programbeing the stationing of technMans andpromotional personnel in the high-poten-tim Western European market areas.

Another phase of the ASA is to in-crease the base of its membership.

To the layman, probably tim mostinteresting thing about the soybeangrowers’ do-it-yourself marketing de-velopment plans is that it is being doneand financed by the people directly in-volved- rather than through tim controlsof the Federal Government.

Spokesmen for the ASA bhmtlv ex-plain that virtually all its menlber’s arepainfully aware of what happened toother such crops, as cotton and rice.which were allowed to fall under govern-ment acreage restrictions, two-pricesystems or lower price supports.

With this in mind, memhers of ASAmeeting last fall decided on the "Self-help" plan for increasing their market--all on their own--thus reaffirmingin at least in one segment of this cotm-try that one of the basic characteristicsso inherent in building the nationthrough the ),ears--helping one’s self--is still alive¯

SEENEAT THE WOBLI3TB.AIIE ELUB

In the World Trade Club conferring over theappointment of Dalton Steamship Corp. as agentsat Houston for the Alcoa Steamship Co., are fromthe left, R. H. Blair, manager of Dalton’s Houstonoffice; George Leslie, southern reglonal sales man-ager for Alcoa, of Mobile, and W. H. Pruitt, vicepresident of Dalton.

Among the recent guests at the World TradeClub were, left, M. H. "Bill" Landes, vice presidentof Transoceanic Shipping Company, Inc., andJoseph Simon, president of the New Era ShippingCompany, Inc. of New York, foreign freight for-warders~

Stig Nordborg, right, director of Swedish EastAslo Company (Blue Sea Line), conferred recentlyin the World Trade Club with Joseph S. Gumina,Houston manager for Furness, Withy & Company,Ltd., agents for the maritime company.

Pausing long enough for photos at the WorldTrade Club recently were Joseph E. Davies, left,vice president and Houston manager for StatesMarlne-lsthmlan Agency, Inc., and Dick LeGrand,right, of San Francisco, where he has been man-ager of that city’s States Marine activities. Le-Grand moves to Houston this month to take overas assistant manager under Davies.

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The annual observance of the birthday ofQueen Juliana of the Netherlands was held lastmonth at the World Trade Club with membersof the consular corps and Houston’s internationalcommunity in attendance. Shown from left to rightare Miss Wilhemlna van Burken, staff secretary;Consul General F. A. Hoefer; Vice Consul M. H.de Bruijn who received the Medal of Ridderordefrom Queen Jullana at the function, and MissDorine Steffens, staff secretary.

These Strachan Shipping Company officials re-cently paused long enough at the World TradeClub to have their photograph taken. From theleft, they are Houston Vice President L. W. Hom-burg, New Orleans Vice President H. H. Collins,and Houston Manager John W. Allan.

Enjoying the facilities recently at the WorldTrade Club were, left, Frank van Heugten ofBiehl & Company’s operations department, withhis guest, Captain D. K. Sarkar of the M/VJalagir~ia of the Scindia Line of India. Biehl & Co.are agents in the gulf.

J. W. "Jack" Lewis, right, of Southern Steve-doring Company, Inc., had as his World TradeClub guest recently Tokimasa Yanagisawa, foreignrelations agent of the Sumltomo Chemical Com-pany, Ltd., Osaka, Japan.

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Ships onMaiden Voyages Presented Plaques

The flying bridge of the M/V SABOGAL was the setting recently for thepresentation of a laminated aerial photo plaque to this brand new vessel,owned and operated by Comp~i6 Peruana de Vapores, S. A. (PeruvianState Line), making her maiden voyage to the Port of Houston. From theleft are Jerry Marfinez of J. M. Cook Company, agents for the line; Peru-vian Consul General Roberto Bonifaz Larriategui; Captain Carlos MontoyaB., master of the SABOGAL; John Daily, Houston Junior Chamber of Com-merce representative making the presentation for the Port of Houston andthe Jaycees; and J. M. "Jack" Cook, president of the J. M. Cook Company.The 494-foot, 14,600 d.w.t, ship is the first of 12 such vessels that theCPV is having built in Finland and Spain.

Jaycee John Roland, center, presented Captain Ignaclo Ferreira H.,master of the MTM (Transportacin6n Marltlma Mexicana, S. A.) Line’s brandnew ship, M/V AZTECA, with a maiden voyage plaque on the 610-foot-longvessel’s first call at the Port of Houston. Attending the presentation cere-monies, from the left, are Vincent Esparza of Strachan Shipping Company,owners’ agent; Capt. Ferreira; Roland; Luls F. Orc~, Mexico’s consul inHouston; and Captain Kai Weflesen of Transatlantic Shipping Agency, Inc.,charter agents.

H. S. "Hank" Bonney, right, International Relations Representative forthe Port of Houston, presents Captain Y. T. Kim, center, master of the new,692-foot M/S KOREA RAINBOW, with the traditional maiden voyage plaquefrom the Port and the Junior Chamber of Commerce on the flying bridgeof the 47,210 d.w.t, ship. Looking on is Chester Canada of Hansen &Tidemann, Inc., agents for the vessel.

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The master of the M/V KOREAN PIONEER, Captain H. K. Choi, center,was presented the traditional laminated plaque showing an aerial viewof the Port of Houston recently by the Port and the Junior Chamber ofCommerce when the new vessel called here for the first time. In the photo,left to right, are C. E. Bullock, director of port operations; Junior Chamberof Commerce Representative John Daily; Capt. Chol; Korean Consul GeneralKwan~l Soo Ahn; and S. J. Chang, representative for Korea ShippingCorporation, Ltd., owners of the ship.

The M/V NORMANNIA’S flying bridge was the scene last month of themaiden voyage presentation of a laminated plaque showing an aerial viewof the port. The presentation was made jointly by the Port of Houstonand the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce. Shown, left to right, areHans Sunder, Biehl & Company, agents for the vessel; Clyde Perrere,Junior Chamber of Commerce; Captain K. Focken, master of the NORMAN-NIA; D. V. Flores, president, Junior Chamber of Commerce; and Pat Jasekof Intercontinental Motors Corporation, Volkswagen importers. The sleeknew ship is owned by Christian F. Ahrenkiel and is under charter toVolkswagen.

The laminated aerial plaque presented to the M/V NOSHIRO MARUon its maiden voyage to the Port of Houston is being accepted by CaptainI. Nakanosono, left front, from Houston Jaycee Robert Bacon in ceremoniesaboard the new 494-foot, 12,958 d.w.t, vessel. Others observing, fromthe left, rear, are R. E. "Bob" Patton and Ray A. Boenlng, both of DaltonSteamship Corporation, agents for the ship, and James Bacon, Junior Cham-ber of Commerce.

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Another In A Series

John V.. TempletHe’s A Eharter ~per.ialis!Fur E. J. Thihndeaux & Eu.

By LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director

C, J. THIBODEAUX and Company, marine chartering

brokers, on an average day will have moving on thewater half a million barrels of petroleum products andpetro-ehemicals.

This figure indicates the far-flung operations of a com-pany started June 1, 1931, despite the Great Depression, byC. J. ITibby) Thibodeaux, one of the Port of Houston’smost colorful operators.

Company officers are: President J. H. Chadwick; Ronald P.Cuenod, executive vice president; Mrs. Martha MunhausenGross, Mr. Thibodeaux’s first employee, secretary-treasurer.

John V. Templet specializes in "blue water", or ocean-going charters for dry cargo in steamships and huge barges.

Traditionally, New York is headquarters for marine charterbrokers. A visit to the company’s attractive new quarters,940 Esperson Buildings, convinces one C. J. Thibodeaux andCompany is one of the country’s leading charter brokers. Fivenation-wide watts telephone lines and a "magic caller" pro-vide virtually instantaneous communication, 24 hours a day.

Mr. Templet was born in Houston November 18, 1931.After graduation from St. Thomas high school, he workedfor Lykes Bros. before going into the Navy, where he servedfour years in Japan and Korea. He worked 12 years forHansen and Tidemann, seven years in New York as traffic andsales manager. He joined Thibodeaux and Company in May,1968.

Mr. Templet is a member of Delta Nu Alpha, transporta-tion fraternity, and of the Houston Traffic club. He marriedMargie Kronenberger of Bremond. They have two children,Laura, six; and Julie, five. Mr. and Mrs. Templet are mem-bers of St. John Vianney Catholic Church. They live at 12578Westerley Lane.

The company charters tugs, towboats, barges, tankers, drycargo ships, in domestic and foreign trade; also serves asa broker in the sale of petroleum, petro-chemicals, and marineequipment.

The company serves as agent for an average of 45 tankersmonthly, with Cleo Gray in charge.

The vast system of the Mississippi river and its tributariesis served by huge barges, chartered by the company, whichhas 30 employees in the Houston office, and five in the NewYork office. The company has virtually world-wide connec-tions, with correspondents in Europe, South America, and inthe Far East.

C. J. Thibodeaux and Company in 1967 merged withMorris-Glenney & Co. of Houston, real estate investment firm,specializing in land management primarily in Houston.

Although Mr. Thibodeaux died in November, 1962, the firmkeeps alive the memory of this legendary figure. For ex-ample, it staged here last April a dinner at which 3600pounds of Louisiana crawfish were consumed. This dinnerwas an annual affair when "Tibby" was alive.

His friends in the trade used to say "Tibby" started hisbusiness with a pencil and a hat." He had one interestingquirk: about the only time he took off his hat was to geta hair-cut.

Chances are "Tibby" now would take off his sombreroto his friends who are expanding the company he foundedand loved !

Men Who Make The Port of Houston Hum

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Visitors See ThePort of Houston

This Italian Trade Mission of engineering experts in the field of household~ --

appliances, were guests aboard the Port of Houston’s Inspection VesselSAM HOUSTON recently. From the left are Maria Locatelli, representing ABOARD THEUtentra Appliance Company; Filippo Caratl, Vortlce Company; Dr. ItaloFossen, Italian Ministry of Foreign Trade, Rome; Guido Ciminaghi, Societ6General Lux Manufacturing; Mrs. Mariuccia Mayo, Houston Italian TradeDelegate secretary; Dr. Andrea Baronchelli, Italian Institute of ForeignTrade, Rome; Giuseppe Cane, Germi Appliances; and Dr. Pietro Milone,Italian Trade Delegate in Houston.

SAM HOUSTON

These lovely ladies, photographed on the upper deck of the NavigationDistrict’s inspection vessel, SAM HOUSTON, were selected by the HoustonTraffic & Transportation Club as representatives for the various fields oftransportation. Shown with the general chairman for National TransportationWeek, 1969, are, left to right, Janis Young, "Miss Land;" Kay Martin,"Miss Sea;" Chairman Charles K. Hutchinson, also traffic manager forWanda Petroleum Cc~mpany; Sharon Hardy, "Miss Transportation;" andJanis Hoover, "Miss Air-Space."

Two Japanese marlne insurance officials from Tokyo visiting the Port ofHouston’s wharves and facilities last month were, left, Takeshi Yoshimura,liaison, and, right, T. Nagata, assistant manager of the foreign department,both of Talsho Marine and Fire Insurance Company, Ltd. of Tokyo.

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Guests aboard the Navigation District Inspection Vessel SAM HOUSTONrecently were members of the national Equipment Interchange Associationholding its annual Spring National Convention in Houston. The organizationconsists of railroad, steamship, container and other nationwide commoncarrier freighters. Shown form the left are George Brlggs of Eau Claire,Wisconsin, F. M. Winterholler of Charleston, West Virginia, Robert Foster ofStaunton, Virginia, Donn McMorris of Denver, Colorado, Kenneth R. Hauckof Washington, D. C. (managing director of the Association), and FrankCampbell of Springfield, Missouri.

This group of University of Texas students and their advisors were guestslast month aboard the Navigation District’s Inspection Vessel SAM HOUSTONand made the two-hour trip down the Houston Ship Channel to Green’sBayou and back.

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HOLISTON CONSLILAR CORPS CHANGES REGISTEREDSweden

Hon. Tore Hoegstedt. Consul Generalof Sweden and Dean of the HoustonConsular Corps, has been named hiscountry’s Ambassador to Uruguay andwill depart for his new post shortly.

He will he replaced ill Houston byHon. Bengt llosio who comes here fromhis previous post of Swedish charged’Affaircs in Khartoum. Sudan.

Hoegstedt is a career diplomat withnearly thirty years of service, some of itin Latin America. having held posts in

tirely different businesses. In addition,he has been serving his country’s Min-istry of Foreign Relations since 1966.

In 1962 Castro was instrumental inestablishing the Castro & Salazar Land& Cattle Company, Ltd., a ranchingenterprise in his country. By 1964 healso had actively entered Costa Rica’sradio field with the founding of theMusical Network Radio BroadcastingCompany, Inc. Today he still has in-terests in both enterprises. In addition,from 1952 until he took his present post,he was an agent for his country’s Na-tional Insurance Institute.

last month with his wife and two daugh-ters, Jill and Anne, 16 and 13, afterhaving been assigned to the HoustonConsulate General offices from his for-mer post in training in London.

They came from England on themaiden voyage of the liner QE2 (QueenElizabeth I[) and then entrained toChicago and southward in order to seesome of the country they had never beenin hefore.

Rameaux said he was impressed bythe vastness of the Plains States but thatHouston was the most impressive sightof all. Particularly outstanding, Ra-

TORE HOEGSTEDT

the Swedish Embassies at Mexico City,Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile intile mid-19~0’s. He later served in theForeign Office in Stoekhohn and thenthree years in Madrid and three inPrague.

He came to Houston from Berne,Switzerland. where he was Counsellorof Embassy. in January of 1964, replac-ing Hon. Karl Hendrik Anderssou, andwas named Dean of the Consular Corpsby his (’olleaones in 1967.

He is a native of Vanedshorg in west.ern Sweden. hut was educated in Stock-holm and calls tim Swedish capital hishonle.

Costa RicaThe consul general of the Republic

of Costa Riea in Houston, Carlos Castro.is young, d~namic and congenial--anda strong, firm believer in the advantageshis Central American country has to of-fer to visitors, retired Americans and,especiall}, to business and industry.

Not yet 10, the young diplomat al-ready has hehind him the establishment,nmnagement and partnership in two en-

JULY, 1969

CARLOS CASTRO

Born in San Josd where he: had hisearly schooling, he also attended highschool in San Francisco and studied lawat the University of Costa Rica, findingtime to take a [rosiness course, as well.After finishing school, he was assistantsecretary of the nationally owned Elec-tric Railway of the Pacific.

Maintaining his consulate general of-rices at his ’home, 5530 Ardmore, theCosta Riean diplomat is very earnestabout his country’s facilities for retire-ment, tourism and establishing foreignindustry. He points out that Costa Rica’sclimate, scenery, labor market and stablegovernment all add up to an ideal situa-tion for light-hearted tourists or hard-headed businessmen.

Married, the Costa Rican consul gen-eral has three children, two hoys andone girl.

Great BritainHer Britannic Majesty’s Vice Consul,

Frederick Leon Charles Rameaux, is oneof the newest members of the HoustonConsular Corps.

H. M. Vice Consul Rameaux arrived

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meaux said, was Houston’s large andmodern outlying shopping centers, theHouston metropolitan advantages ofwater sports and recreation, and theparks, trees and other greenery.

Entering Great Britain’s Foreign Ser-vice, he was first posted to New Delhi,India, from 1948-1950, where he servedas Passport Officer, a task that involveddeciding who would be United Kingdomcitizens and who would be Indian citi-zens when India and Great Britain werehreaking their centuries-old ties.

After serving in the London ForeignOffice from 1950-1951, he was sent toTel Aviv, Israel. as Communications Of-fleer from 1951-1953. He then served asvice consul in Shanghai 1954-1956.

After a stint from 1957-1961 back inthe London Office where he worked onthe publication of White Papers, he wassent to Frankfurt, Gernmnv. during1962-1964 as vice consul doi~g genera/consulate administrative work.

In 1964 he received the promotionfrom vice consnl to Her Majesty’s viceconsul and was assigned to Naples,Italy, until 1968 when he returned toEngland.

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ONE OF THE cargo lines serving thePort of Houston on an irregular scheduleis based in, and owned by, one of SouthAmerica’s smaller countries.

The line, bearing the name of itscountry, is tbe Surinam NavigationCompany, Ltd. The nation, havingslightly more than 350,000 people andsome 55,000 square miles, is located onthe Northeast coast of South Americaand is a territory of The Netherlandsalthough it has been handling its owndomestic affairs since 1955. It was onceknown as Dutch Guiana.

The Surinam Navigation Companyhas its home offices in the capital city ofParamaribo in a small three-story clap-board house that fits perfectly into thepicturesque background of this tiny,colorful country.

Although this South American mari-time company flies the flags of a smallcountry, there is nothing small about itsapproach to its services.

Begun a third of a century ago as theprivate enterprise Surinam CombinedNavigation Company, the steamship line

big on service-

SURINAM NAVIGATION CO.has shown great

growth, vitality

has steadily expanded from its initialbeginnings as a limited coastwise carrierof cargo and passengers to its presentocean-going service to Caribbean way-ports and to U.S. Gulf ports.

Surinam is a nation of many differentbackgrounds. Symbolizing this are thethree flags always flown by the SurinamNavigation Company’s vessels. They arethe horizontally striped red-white-and-blue standard of The Netherlands; thered-white-and-blue diagonally stripedflag of the maritime company, whichalso bears one vertical orange stripe onthe right edge; and the national linked-star flag of Surinam.

This latter flag’s different colored starsrepresent the different races and cul-tures that have gone into the nation’scurrent population make-up. The redstar stands for the Amer-fndiaus, firstinhabitants of the land; the white starstands for the Spaniards who pushedtheir high-prowed galleons into the areacenturies ago; the black, for tl~e AfricanNegro pressed into slaver): on the coun-try’s great plantations; and the brownand yellow stars for the Chinesc. In-donesian and Hindu Indian workers whotook over a large part of the plantationlabor when slavery was abolished.

From the beginning, Surinam hasbeen blessed with an abundance ofnatural resources: bauxite, teak, ma-hogany and other hardwoods, bananas,cocoa, maize, fruits, coffee, rice andsugar, among many others.

Prior to World War lI Surinam Navi-gation Company gave its parent coun-try a needed boost in developing its ex-port economy by providing a means ofcarrying rice to Guadalupe. The Germansubmarine attacks of World War II af-fected the firm which, however, man-aged to continue with shipments of oil

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This quaint three-story clapboard building inParamaribo, Surinam, an the northeast coast ofSouth America is the main headquarters ofSurinam Navigation Company.

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Aboard the new Surinam Line vessel M/SCORANTIJN are, from left, Capt. Frans Vegter,master: J. W. Grissom, executive vice presidentof Haesen & Tidemann, agents; Assistant TrafficManager R. M. Balderas, Vice President-SalesB. W. White, and Vice President A. J. Rafferty,all of Hansen & lidemann.

maritime firm is P. G. Chin, generalmanager, and the company’s shippingmanager, Jules C. Cronie.

Needless to say, Surinam NavigationCompany, with its modern vessels gearedto service tile expanding economy of astill young and growing nation, is fillinga major and xital role in its country’spromising development.

and fats to Brazil and Trinidad by theexpedient of sending its vessels virtuallywallowing through the shallow coastalnmd . . . safely out of reach of the NaziU-boats.

In 1948 the Surinam government tookover the company and began moderniz-ing the fleet. First to be added were theALBINA, PERICA, TAPANAHONY

and the GRAN RIO, all of which be-

came well known carriers throughoutthe Caribbean area. Other vessels added

later included the WAHAMBA, theS[ I/INAME. the WAYOMBO. MAR()-

WIJNE, and the latest, shmvn in coloron the front cover, the H00 I).W.T.

~OI/ANTIJN.

Service was also expanded into U.S.

(;nil ports and into Haiti. Surinam Navi-

gation dexeloped its own shipyard for

maintenance of its growing fleel and ex-

panded its interests }.y building a ply-

wood faclory. Passenger/cargo servicesalso were begun and expanded for

Sminam’s interim, ineluding barges,

latmehes and ferries.

Represented in lhe Gulf 1,v Hansen &

Tidemann, Inc.. Surinam Navigation

Company officials consider their mari-

lime firm just one o[" the "arms" of a

~towing nation that. in reeenl years, has

conslrnch,d a number of modern hotelsIo attract nlore tourists, increased pro-

motion of the land’s natural beauty, builtup its sports and recreational facilities,

and -- for luring industry -- constructeddams for electrical power, built many

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new roads and jungle air strips, andopened a number of new bauxite mines.

Overseeing the progress of Surinam’s

Coffee is another of Surinam’s major exportsto the United States aboard vessels of the SurinamNavigation Company.

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SENATOR QUENTIN N. BURDICK (D-N.D.) hasintroduced a bill (S. 2355) which proposesthe establishment of an advisory commissionto make a study in depth of the transporta-tion freight pricing situation. The billis co-sponsored by several other senatorsin addition to Senator Burdick who ac-knowledged the "rising tide" of interestin the matter of freight pricing by whathe termed the nation’s second largest in-dustry. The Senator stated before theSenate that the industry operates in afreight rate environment which, governedby thousands upon thousands of freighttariffs, are meaningless to nearly everyoneinvolved in their use, including carrierpricing officers. The Commission is pro-posed to be comprised of 13 members fromthe following fields: agriculture, indus-try, transportation, general public, theD.0.T., I.C.C., C.A.B. and Department ofAgriculture. The bill is broken down intofour component areas: (i) ascertaining thefactors contributing to the fixing oftransportation charges; (2) reasons fordifference in transportation charges asrelated to place of origin or destinationor commodity; (3) whether or not all fac-tions of government are properly carryingout the National Transportation Policy asdefined in the Interstate Commerce Act andthe Federal Aviation Act; and (4) whetheror not the National Transportation Policyas stated in these acts is adequate in viewof modern conditions.

CHAIRMAN WARREN G. MAGNUSON (D-WASHING-TON), Chairman of the Senate CommerceCommittee, has introduced the NationalTransportation Act of 1969 which proposesa regional approach to developing a newand coordinated transportation system inthe United States. The bill proposes thatregional transportation commissions be setup composed of one member of each partici-pating state and one federal member. Thesecommissions would be authorized to holdhearings, prepare legislative proposals andformulate programs designed to improveinterstate and intrastate transportation.The bill is cosponsored by Senators Hartke,(D-Indiana), Long, (D-Louisiana), Hart,(D-Michigan) and Pearson, (R-Kansas).

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LOADING AND UNLOADING CHARGES affectingpatrons of the Port of Houston were reducedeffective July l, 1969, on Paper, Printing(Other Than Newsprint), Pulpboard or Fibre-

board, in rolls measuring 36 to 54 inchesin length and 36 to 50 inches in diameterwhen that charge was lowered to 12¼¢ percwt. and on Paper, Printing, Pulpboard orFibreboard, Other Than in rolls, whenunitized on pallets with maximum dimensionsof 54 inches in width by 66 inches inlength by 48 inches in height, minimumweight 1,600 pounds per unit when thatcharge became 10½~ per cwt.

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, inresponse to congressional urging to takesome action toward a solution to the na-tion’s chronic freight car shortage, hassubmitted a 15-page report to the SenateCommerce Committee. The June 1 report callsfor: (1) realignment and expansion of theI.C.C.’s car service activities; (2)increase in personnel for both Washington,D.C. and I.C.C. field offices; and (3)new legislation that would: (a) permit theI.C.C. to assess penalty per diem byamounts of $100 per day or more; (b) givethe I.C.C. the authority to order cars toa region in which a shortage is threatened;(c) permit the I.C.C. to impose heavierfines for violations of service orders;and (d) give the I.C.C. emergency authorityto directly control the practices of ship-pers (subject shippers to fines underSection l(17) of the Act, for each carheld each day). The Congressional appealto the Commission for action was broughtabout by a recent meeting of the Commis-sioners before the Surface TransportationSubcommittee in which requests were madeby the Subcommittee as to advice of prog-ress being made in implementing provisionsof Public Law 89-430 which amended Sectionl(14) of the Interstate Commerce Act andauthorized the Commission to impose so-called "incentive per diem" rates for theuse of one railroad’s freight cars byanother railroad. There has been no imme-diate public reaction from either SenatorMagnuson, Chairman of the Commerce Com-mittee, or Senator Hartke, Chairman of theSurface Transportation Subcommittee on theI.C.C.’s special report.

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