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PORT OF HOUSTON
NOVEMBER,1965
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Thisis anartist’s conception
of howthe industrial parkat the Port of Houston
maylook in a
few years. Thehigh-rise bridgeover the Houston
ShipChannel
is expectedto be completed
by 1970andwill be an importantfeature of Interstate Highway
610--theinner loop around
the City of Houston.
THEPORTOF HOUSTON
OPENS
200 CHOICE
ACRES
FORIHDUSTRIAL
PARK
For industries needingan outlet to the sea, the Port of Houstonis makingavailable
21 sites, ranging from 1.5 to 20 acres. Tracts maybe consolidated.
This land is ownedby the Port of Houston,is on the north side of the HoustonShip
Channel, and extends along a strip to the rear of Public Wharves17 through 25, and
eventually future wharves26 through 32.
This area is ideal for warehouses,fabricating and processing plants, and other
light industries.
Areawill haveamplerail and truck access,and all utilities available.
For further information, call or write
VERNONBAILEY
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER
PORT OF ][IousrlION
P.O. Box 2562¯ Houston,Texas
Serving America’sHeartland
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Through an aggressive program of trade
development, Delta Steamship Lines,
Incorporated,
has increased its
shipments to more than fifty
export
per cent
of cargo tonnage. The firm successfully
promotes American products and tourism in Latin America and Africa, aids
manufacturers to sell abroad, and has
developed the first floating exhibition
in the Mobile Trade Fairs
program.
These energetic and imaginative efforts
reflect
credit
on the Companyand its
employees and contribute
materially
to the export expansion program of
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the United States.
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uponconferring the. President’s ’E’ Awardfor Export Service
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UNDERTHIS
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why Delta
wear the
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There’s a Delta liner sailing every week to South America,
every ten days to West Africa, and Delta Line’s network of
offices at homeand abroad is anxious to assist you.
Frequent
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ExpressService
to andfromthe
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P. O. Box 50250, New Orleans, La. 70150
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NEW YORK ¯ WASHINGTON
HOUSTON
OFFICE--1300 Texas Avenue, CApitol
HELLENICLINES LIMITED
319 International TradeMart
NewOrleans 12
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Houston Agent
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616 Cotton ExchangeBuilding
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Regular Service
TO THE CONTINENT
AND SCANDINAVIA
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Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Miami, Port Everglades, Jacksonville,
Savannah, Dallas, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City,
Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati
New York Agents
Furness, Withy & Co., Ltd.- Barber Steamship Lines, Inc.
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Manchester, London, Glasgow
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Funch, Edye& Co. Inc., NewOrleans:
Gulf GeneralAgents, 442 CanalStreet, Sanlin Bldg.
Offices
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and Agents in all
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Galveston Norfolk
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PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE
Official Publication
Of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District
Volume 7
November, 1965
No. 11
Directory
OfOfficials
FOR THE
Contents
Port of Houston
PORT COMMISSIONERS
HOWARDTELLEPSEN, Chairman
W. N. BLANTON, Vice Chairman
Gala Ball Honors 35 Consuls Here ....................................
R. H. PRUETT
E. H. HENDERSON
W. D. HADEN
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
J. P. TURNER, General Manager
VERNONBAILEY, Assistant General
J. L. LOCKETT,JR., Counsel
SAMUEL B. BRUCE, Auditor
TRAVIS L. SMITH, III,
Manager
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Huge Oil Rig Is Shipped .............................................
10
NATOCrew Mans Missile Destroyer Here ..............................
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Houston Port Bureau Reports ..........................................
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Houston Pilots’
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Managerof Engineering and Planning
RICHARD LEACH, Chic~ Engineer
DARRELL WAFER, Accounts
Manager
KENNETHW. STEPHENS, Personnel
Manager
and World Trade Bldg. Mgr.
T. E. WHATLEY,Administrative
Assistant
VINCENT D. WILLIAMS, Administrative
Assistant
PUBLICRELATIONS
DEPARTMENT
LLOYD GREGORY,Director o/In/ormation
TEDSUMERLIN,
Editor o/Magazine
VAUGHN
n. BRYANT, Director o/
International Relations
Agent Retires After 27 Years ...........................
Scene At The World Trade Club ......................................
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Wives of Wo,rld Traders Have Party on Channel ..........................
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ALCOAHas New Service From Port o,f Houston ..........................
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Houston Steamship Agents .............................................
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Port of Houston Shipping Directory .....................................
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Sailing Schedule of General Cargo Ships ...............................
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SALESDEPARTMENT
GEORGEW. ALTVATER. General ,Sales Manager
EDWARDP. MOORE, District
Sales Manager
FRANK WARD, Assistant
25 Broadway, NewYork, N.Y.
HUME A. HENDERSON, District
Sales
Manager
Boardof TradeBuilding, Chicago, IlL
JOHN R. WEILER, District
Sales Manager
C. A. ROUSSER,JR., District Sales
Representative
1519 Capitol, Houston
OPERATIONS
DEPARTMENT
C. E. BULLOCK, Operations Manager
T. H. SHERWOOD,
Managero/Grain Elevator
J. R. CURTIS,Terminal Manager
WALLACEJ.
STAGNER. Manager-Storage
THE COVER
Sailing into the sunset is an ALCOA
ship of the type that will be calling at
the Port of Houston. This is a new service into the West Gulf. For more about
it see Page 16.
Warehouses
CARL L. SHUPTR1NE, Chic/Security
O~icer
W. E. REDMON,Maintenance
Superintendent
WORLDTRADE CENTER
EDWARD
J. FAY, Director
EXECUTIVE OFFICES
1519 Capitol Avenueat CrawfordStreet
Telephone CApitol 5-0671
P. O. Box 2562, Houston, Texas 77001
NOVEMBER,1965
The PORTOF HOUSTON
Magazine is published monthlyand distributed free to maritime, industrial and transportation interests in
the United States and foreign countries. Its
purposeis to inform shippers and others interested in the Port of Houstonof its development, facilities, plans and accomplishments.
This publication is not copyrightedand per-
minion is given for the reproduction or use
of any material, provided credit is given to
the Port of Houston.
Additional information or extra copies of
this magazine may be obtained by writing
The Port of Houston Magazine, 2332 W.
HolcombeBlvd., Houston, Texas 77025.
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BALLHONf]RS
EONSULS
HERE
OUSTON’SFOURTEENTH Annual Consular Ball honoring
the thirty-five
members of the Consular Corps and
their wives was the most gala ever this year. Graced by the
presence not only of the Corp’s distinguished
members but
also Italy’s Ambassador and Signora Ferloahea. Ambassador
Lloyd Hand, U. S. Chief of Protocol and personal representative of President Johnson and Mrs. Hand, as well as by state
and local government and civic dignitaries, the Ball set a high
point for Houston’s international social life.
The annual white-tie affair is sponsored by the Houston
Junior Chamber of Commerceassisted by the City of Houston,
the Houston Chamber of Commerce and the Navigation District (Port of Houston). An Italian motif in the decorations
presaged the fortnight-long "Splendida Italia" celebration in
Houston featuring Italian imports and trade through the Port
with that country.
A toast to the President of the U. S. is proposedby Italian
AmbassadorSergio Fenoahea, with Signora Finoaltea.
Port Commissioner and Mrs. W. D. Haden, II, with Commander ThomasE. Fortson, USN, commandingthe destroyer
USS CLAUDE
V. RICKETTS.
Congressmanand Mrs. Bob Casey were in from Washington
for the occasion and are shown with Consul General of The
Netherlands Johannes Beekman.
Port General ManagerJ. P. Turner; Miss Karen Tellepsen,
daughter of CommissionChairmanand Mrs. HowardTellepsen;
Mrs. Turner and Junior ChamberBall Chairman D. V. FIores.
Hon. Yves Rodriges, right, Consul General of France and
Consul of Colombia and Mrs. Carlos Lopez Narvaez, Mrs.
PanagangelosKouruklis, wife of the Consul General of Panama, Dean of the Consular Corps, with Mrs. William W. Bland,
chairman of the Patron’s Committee, and Mr. Bland.
and Chilean Consul and Mrs. Ben Rencoret.
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PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
Port Commission Chairman and Mrs.
HowardTellepsen
Hon. Louie Welch, Mayor of Houston,
and Mrs. Welch
Argentine Consul and Mrs. Augusto
Juan Lertora
Jewels AndMedalsGlitter In BrandMarch
Consul General of Great Britain
Mrs. Gerald Simpson
NOVEMBER,1965
and
Consul General of China T. H. Chou
Norwegian Honorary Consul and Mrs.
and daughter, May
Thorlief B. Jorgensen
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HELARGEST
land oilwell drilling rig
for Europeanoperations ever rigged
out and shipped from the Port of Houston was recently fabricated at the portarea plant of the S & R Tool and Supply
Co. for the Reading and Bates Offshore
Drilling Co. for shipment to Denmark.
System design and unitizing of components was planned by the S &R engineeri~ag staff and the entire rig was
assembled and tested t)efore being
shipped.
Three large diesel engines provide
the rig with 4500 horsepower for the
mud pumps, the draw works for handling drill pip(,’, and the rotary table.
Other, auxiliary engines provide electrical power and air pressure.
Freight forwarding for the 1320 ton
shipment of rig and drilling mud to
Aarhus, Denmark, was handled by
James Sierra and Co., Houston. Cubic
measurement of the shipment equaled
3250 tons.
The draw works, pumps and rotary
table are rated to drill wells to 20,000
Thecompleterig wasassembled
before
shipment.
10
feet and were supplied by Oilwell Supply, division of U. S. Steel Corporation,
of Houston. The rig was shipped with
a 142-foot Lee C. Moore derrick which
is to be used for drilling on land. Plans
nowcall for the rig to be put in offshore work later, at which time it will
be equipped with a taller mast.
The entire shipment was made aboard
the M. S. ECUADOR
of the Scandinavian American lane ownedby the United
Steamship Company,Ltd., Copenhagen,
Denmark. Funch, Edye & Co., Inc. are
ship’s agents.
The Reading and Bates Offshore
Drilling Co. will be working under a
contract to the Gulf Oil Companyof
Denmark. Reading & Bates have domestic and world-wide drilling operations.
S & R Tool and Supply Company,
which has been located in the Port area
since the late 1940’s, handles rig preparation for manyof the oil and drilling
companies that ship through the Port
of Houston. Their annual shipments
through the Port reach an average of
15 million pounds.
TheNavigation
District’s No.1 GantryCranelifts a unitizedportionof a drilling
rig aboardthe M.S. ECUADOR
for shipment
to Denmark.
Therig, the largest land
rig ever shippedthroughthe Port of Houston,wasassembled
andtested by the
S & R Tool andSupplyCo. for the ReadingandBatesOffshoreDrilling Co. who
will useit to drill undercontractto the Gulf Oil Company
of Denmark.
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Her crew at attention, the CLAUDE
V. RICKETTS
prepares to
moor as the Port’s inspection vessel SAMHOUSTON
gives her
a welcome.
NATO Crew Mans Missile Destroyer Here
The missile
destroyer
USS CLAUDEV. RICKETTS with
a mixed man crew from five NATOcountries as well as the
United States visited the Port of Houston for Navy Day and
Weekin October. Nearly half of the 335 officers and men were
from the navies of West Germany (2 and 47) ; Italy, (2
30); Greece (2 and 24); The Netherlands
(1 and 17)
Commander Thomas E. Forston, USN, Commanding Officer
of the CLAUDE
V. RICKETTS,receives the plaque presented to
all vessels calling at Houston on their maiden voyage from
Junior Chamber of Commerce President Jordan. Consuls Simpson and Beekman look on approvingly.
the United Kingdom, ~2 and 24). The RICKETTSis the first
example of a multi national mixed-manned modern, complex
warship and the experiment, which derived from an idea of
President Kennedy, terminates on December 1. The RICKETTS
at all times remained a ship in the U. S. Navy with her
Commanding Officer and Executive Officer U. S. Navy men.
To welcomethe RICKETTS,left to right, W. D. Haden, I1.,
Port Commissioner;Jack Jordan, president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce;Hon. Johannes Beekman,consul general of
The Netherlands; Hon. Gerald Simpson, consul general of Great
Britain; Hon. Arnulf Mattes, vice consul in charge of the Consulate of West Germany;the Rev. Geo. E. Kalpaxis, rector of
the Greek Orthodox Church of The Annunciation; Hon. Rose
Marie Bagnoli, honorary vice consul of Italy; H. G. Vedder,
general managerof Hamm’sBrewery who was host to the crew,
and Bill Dorman, president of the Navy League of Houston.
Capt. Duncan Francis, USN, commanding the Naval ROTC
at Rice University and liaison officer and coordinator for the
visit, greets the ranking foreign officers, from left, Lt. William
M. Kelly, United Kingdom; Lt. Uwe Marxen, West Germany;
Seamen from West Germany, the United States and Italy
lend a hand with hawsers to moor the missile destroyer at
Lt. Maarten Schfurkogel, The Netherlands; Lt. Dimitrius Lysrnanis, GreeceandLt. RenatoSicurezza, Italy.
Wharf3 for her visit.
NOVEMBER,1965
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TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE TRADE and to
satisfy the heavy movement of import tonnage, Port of Houston is happy to announce
that ten days free time will be allowed
on import cargo at this port on and after
November 10, 1965. This liberalization of
the previous seven day rule is published
in Item No. 60, Paragraph (e) of Port
Houston Tariff No. 8, to become effective
on that date. Free time commences on the
following day after vessel completes
discharge.
A TEMPORARY INJUNCTION against equalization of cotton rates to Corpus Christi
with rates to Houston and Galveston, has
been granted by a Federal District Judge in
Houston. The enjoined case, I.C.C. Docket
34409, involves an order of the Interstate
Commerce Commission commanding the railroads to equalize cotton rates to the
above ports from certain origins in New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, which were
scheduled to become effective on November
2, 1965. The injunction, issued October l,
1965, will cause the case to now be tried
on its merits before a three-judge
Federal Court.
THE HOUSTON PORT BUREAU appeared before
an I.C.C. examiner in New Orleans on
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October 26-28 to present new evidence and
also for cross-examination of evidence
previously presented in I.C.C. Docket
34522, free time for in-car storage at
U.S. ports. The New Orleans hearing concerned Gulf ports only in this proceeding,
which was earlier divided into four parts
(Atlantic, Great Lakes, Gulf and Pacific).
Atlantic and Great Lakes hearings were
held earlier and Pacific hearings are
scheduled for Portland, Oregon, on November i.
REDUCED HANDLING CHARGES at Port of
Houston are under consideration on two new
unitized commodities and dimension restrictions are liberalized on two other
unitized commodities. Hides or skins, not
dressed or tanned, will be handled for
9¼~ cwt. when unitized on wing-type pallets
of minimum base dimensions 48 inches by
48 inches, maximum 54 inches by 66 inches,
gross weight not less than 1,600 pounds.
The same charge will apply on copper, in
bars, cakes, cathodes, ingots or slabs,
when unitized and banded together for forklift truck handling, maximum dimensions
25 inches by 56 inches by 35 inches, gross
weight not less than 2,000 pounds per unit.
Maximum height restriction of 54 inches
will be increased to 65 inches on unitized
shipments of rubber, artificial, neoprene
or synthetic, also maximum dimensions will
be increased to read 40 inches by 40 inches
by 40 inches on aluminum ingots, pigs
or slabs, to allow a more liberalized
application of the 9¼~ cwt. handling
charge. These four proposals are now before the carriers for their approval and
should become effective the first part
of December.
REDUCED FREIGHT CHARGES are scheduled to
become effective in November on six various
commodities moving to and from the Port
of Houston. Commodities scheduled for rail
rate reductions to Port of Houston are
power boilers and parts from Paris, Texas;
bagging and bale covering from Hollis and
Muskogee, Oklahoma; and sulphur from ten
Texas origins. Truck rate reductions will
cover electrical equipment from Mankato,
Minnesota, and machinery from Mossville,
Illinois. Reduced truck rates are scheduled
on oakum from Houston to Des Moines, Iowa.
PORTOF HOUSTONMAGAZINE
No. 65 In A Series
Men Who Make The Port
of Houston
Hum
HuuslunPilnls’ Aqenl
Retires After Years
By Lloyd Gregory
Information Director
THEBOOMING
LAUGHTER
of Robert Sidney Smith is heard
no more in the impressive quarters of The Houston Pilots.
6302 Gulf Freeway.
After long and distinguished service, ’Bob" Smith retired
October1 as the Pilots’ agent.
"Bob Smith did a fine job for the Pilots, and we miss
him," Captain Roy Murray, head of tile Pilots, said.
Others also miss Mr. Smith, for he was one of the most
popular and friendly figures on the Houston water front,
serving as intermediary between the Pilots and the ships’
agents.
GeorgeP. Fegter, Mr. Smith’s assistant 20 years, has succeeded him. Charles F. Johnson is Mr. Fegter’s assistant.
Membersof The Houston Pilots are an elite group most
of them former ship or tugboat captains. They work on rotation, with fees determined by draft of the vessel they are
piloting.
The Houstonoffice of the Pilots operates ’round the clock,
and is always in touch with the Pilots’ boat on the Galveston
Bar, where the Pilots get on or off the ships.
Bob Smith’s father, R. S. Smith, became the first agent
after the Houston Pilots was formed in 1921 by these captains: J. W. Weikerth. J. Birch. Charles O’Brien, and George
Allien.
The pictures of 35 men. dead or retired, hang in the
Pilots’ Hall of Fame at 6302 Gulf Freeway. Included are
the four founders, and the Smiths, father and son. H. C.
Cage, still living, served the longest, 1929through 1962.
Robert Sidney Smith was born in Galveston, Nov. 2, 1901.
He was graduated from Old Central High in Houston in
1920. After attending Texas A & M in 1925 he went to
work for Wilkens and Biehl, steamship agents and chartercrs.
For two years, he worked for Moore-McCormackSteamship
line, and then in 1938 joined the Pilots as his father’s assistant.
"Bob" was appointed agent when his father died in 1941.
"h has been a wonderful experience," Mr. Smith said.
shortly before his retirement. "I’m retiring because l want tO
have a little fun. I’ve never had time to play."
The handsome, hlue-eyed, ruddy-faced Mr. Smith, looking
younger than his years, married a Houston girl, Frances
Reeves Brown, Jan. 2.5, 1927. They have one daughter, Mrs.
Thomas J. Baker. Jr., and two grandchildren, Cindy and
Tommy.The Smiths live at 3103 Freshmeadows.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith are active in the Memorial Drive
Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Smith belongs to the Propeller Club. Arabia Temple
Shrine. and the York Rite bodies.
Mr. Smith indicated that once he tired of loafing he probably would seek another job along his l,eloved water front.
"But that will be a good many months from now," he said
smilingly.
NOVEMBER,
1965
ROBERT
SIDNEYSMITH
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S EENEAT THE
WflBLF!TBAFIE
CLUB
Miss Olive Reynolds, comptroller for the thirteen offices of
Arthur J. Fritz & Co., custom house brokers and freight forwarders, recently spent several days in Houston training perAllen Boyd, Under-Secretary of Commercefor Transportasonnel on the company’snew standard accounting system while
tion, right, was a special guest of the South Texas Regional on a tour of all the Fritz offices to install the newsystem.Shown
Export ExpansionCouncil during their October meeting, shown with Miss Reynolds at the World Trade Club are G. E. Posey,
here with Ray R. Brimble, regional chairman of the Council.
vice-president of Arthur J. Fritz & Co. and manager of the
The Council discussed plans for a Decemberseminar on export Houston office, and J. E. Davies, vice-president, managerof
training for the agricultural and cattle industry.
States Marine-Isthmian Agency, Inc., Houston.
George I. Fernandez, general freight agent of the United
Fruit Co. in charge of the Houstonoffice (third from right) was
honored with a luncheon in the World Trade Club by Port
Commissioner
W. D. HadenII (third from left) before departing
for Washington, D. C. to becomeexecutive assistant to the
assistant vice president of United Fruit. Othersfrom the left are
Miguel Prats, United Fruit Co.; VernonBailey, assistant general
managerof the Port of Houston; Ted Heidbrink, United Fruit,
and Walter J. Fernandez, superintendent of Bay Houston Towing Co., of which CommissionerHadenis vice president.
Dr. Guenther Jantzen, center, director of the foreign trade
department of the Chamber of Commerceof Hamburg, Germany, was a recent guest of Acting GermanConsul Arnulf
Mattes, left, in the World Trade Club. He is shownwith former
GermanConsul in Houston, Dr. Ludwig Fabel, looking over a
model of a Hamburg-American
Line vessel in the Club’s Board
of Director’s room.
Captain S. Szworc, right, of the MamenicLine’s S. S. EL
SALVADOR
recently met Bay-Houston Towing Co. executive
vice president R. J. Walesat the World Trade Club to talk over
old times. Between the two of them they can count almost a
century of nautical experience. Captain Szworc, a native of
Poland, holds Polish, British and Americanmaster’s licenses,
plus an extra master’s license from Great Britain. Now74 years
old, he first went to sea at 15, working his way on a sailing
vessel to Australia. Waleswill be 70 in December.
Cheng-vei Liu, a visiting news writer from Taiwan, was a
special guest of the Houston-Taipei Sister City Relationship
Committee at a luncheon meeting held at the World Trade
Club recently. Shownhere are, left to right, Cheng-vei Liu,
Harvin C. Moore, Mrs. Albert Gee, Republic of China Consul
General Tung-Hua Chou, Committee Chairman Ewell E. Murphy, Jr., William Rubey, Robert Gordon,Francis J. Hickey, Jr.,
and Professor C. J. Huang.
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Have party On Channel
Wives of Houston World Trade Club and World Trade Association memberstook
a trip downthe Ship Channel for themselves last month aboard the Navigation District’s SAMHOUSTON
to see at first hand some of the activity in which their
foreign-trade-minded husbands are involved.
The World Trade Club and Association women’sauxiliary is a lively adjunct of
the two trade groups and has taken an active part in sponsoring sew~ral activities
since its organization a fewyears ago.
The Ship Channel trip was organized by Mrs. DesmondBarry, with the Navigation District as host, and some75 membersand their friends made the two hour
Mrs. StewartFelvey wasa guest from
tour to see shipping activity and the Ship Channel Industries. Mrs. B. E. Steadman SanAntonio on the trip and tried her
is president of the group.
hand at the SAMHOUSTON’s
wheel.
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Mrs. ClarenceDupre,former presidentof the women’s
group,
Mrs. Steadman,center, and Mrs. Barry, right, along with
right, broughtalong a radio to listen to the last game
of the William Brooks were in the bow of the SAMHOUSTON
as she
WorldSeries and is telling the score to Mrs. RobertMercado, traveled downchannelto have a better vantagepoint to see
left, honoraryvice consulof Bolivia, and Mrs. NancyMaywald, theactivity.
executivesecretaryof the Navigation
District.
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Mrs. A. J. Howethbroughtbinoculars for a better view of
the loadingoperations.
Photo Courtesy The Houston Tribune
NOVEMBER,
1965
Consulof Chile and Mrs. Rencoret, along with Mrs. Nick
Gearhart,left, werethrilled to seea ship fromhome
flying the
lone star bannerof Chile.
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