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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Barber Lines L6
Beaufort & Morehead Railroad 23
Carteret County 24
Carteret Towing Co., Ine L6
DuRant, O. E. Ship Chandler II
First Union National Bank 15
Heide Company II
Luckenbach Steamship Co., Ine Back Cover
fii-Page Co 21
Litho Industries, Ine 11
Maersk Line II
Morehead City Shipping Co 24
Morehead Citv Line Handling Co., Ine L6
New Hanover County K">
North Carolina Motor Carriers Assn 1
N. C. National Bank 19
Southern Overseas Corporation 14
Southern Railway Inside Back Cover
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co Inside Front Cover
Walker Taylor Insurance 17
Waters Shipping Co 24
Waterfront Services, Ine L6
Wilmington Shipping Co 17
Woodbury Insurance Agency 24
IF
YOU'VE
GOT
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A
TRUCK
BROUGHT
IT!
From Shipside
TO YOUR VERY DOOR
By Truck
The N C Trucking Industry
serves the fine North Corolino Ports
NORTH CAROLINA MOTOR CARRIERS ASSN
Stilt HlAOOUAtUIS, tlUCKINC IUHD4NG. lAKlCH
r BRUCE-"Hail and Farewell" after 10 years -i
Dear Advertisers and Readers,
This is my last issue of 40 successive efforts for
this periodical. After 10 years, I leave the Ports
Authority to seek more fertile fields and more
tranquil seas.
You have been great—your patronage, comments
and criticisms have been most helpful. I do not
mean to sound as if I am retiring from the human
race. I step aside only for J. Edgar Kirk to take
the helm and I hope you will stay with him.
He makes some observations of his own on the
next page. His picture has appeared here many
times. He has been chairman of the REEC and
president of N.C.W.T.A., both organizations in
which we have been closely associated.
If you should wish to correspond with me. my
home address is
L. C. Bruce
1522 Canterburrv Road
Raleigh, N. C. 27608
NORTH CAROLINA STATE I'OKTS
The Tar Heel of The Week
Charles R. McNeill:
State Port Manager
By Roy Hardee
Staff Writer
Charles R. McNeill,
operations manager of the
Morehead City state ports
terminal, almost entered the
medical field, but a desire to
"go to sea" won out and
marked a turning point in his
life.
A Whiteville native whose
grandfather and father had
been in the drug store
business in Columbus county,
McNeill naturally considered a
medical career.
But a stronger desire to
travel the world by sea was
finally realized with the start
of World War H. McNeill
entered the Merchant Marine
Academy at Kings Point,
N.Y.
His first voyage on a combat
cargo ship logged 15,800 miles.
His ship came under atack by
submarines while off the
Carolina coast. The ship was
not hit but one attacking sub
was sunk in view of the
convoy.
His ship was the first cargo
vessel to enter Hamburg after
the war.- "It was totally
wrecked," McNeill said.
McNeill says he still likes
the sea but adds that "it's a
life for a single man."
When his father became ill,
McNeill left the Merchant
Marine at a time when he
lacked only three months
before he could get his
master's license. He entered a
partnership with his father
and his brother John, the firm
trading as J. A. McNeill &
Sons.
While he was in the Merch-ant
Marine, McNeill developed
his interest in painting and
recorded scenes around the
world. That interest,
encouraged by his mother,
who is also an artist, led to his
job with the North Carolina
Ports Authority.
North Carolina port officials
first heard of McNeill when
the South Carolina Ports
Authority purchased some of
his coastal paintings to
promote the Port of
Charleston. McNeill was asked
to do similar work for the
North Carolina ports which
were undergoing many
changes. His paintings began
to appear on the cover of the
official North Carolina ports
publication and he was hired
as assistant manager at
Morehead City when the port
opened in 1953. He was
promoted to operations
manager in 1964.
McNeill has continued his
interest in art and has just
published a portfolio of eight
paintings, "A Watercolor Tour
Along the Carteret Coast." A
number of his paintings will be
used in a special pre-
Christmas edition of Southern
Living magazine.
"I still find plenty to paint,"
McNeill said, "but time is the
big factor. I usually paint at
night or on weekends."
The rapid growth of the
Morehead City port has kept
McNeill on the go.
Six general cargo ships and
one tanker can now be handled
at one time. About 100 persons
are employed directly by the
port. Longshoremen number
up to 500 when traffic is heavy
and there are also the harbor
pilots, tug boat crews, customs
employes and others.
"It's a changing picture with
increased handling of lumber
and phosphate," McNeill said.
Larger lumber shipments will
come in months to come,
primarily from South America
and West Africa. Phosphate
shipments already are at the
100,000-ton-a-year goal set
when the rich Beaufort County
phosphate fields were first
tapped.
At times it has been good to
have a Scotsman like McNeill
at the helm to butt heads with
the many problems which
develop:
"They keep popping up but
we keep knocking them down.
There are many new
important things in the
making for Morehead and the
state in general.
"Morehead's port is just
being discovered. More lines
and endless new products are
being shipped to and from the
port. This port hasn't even
scratched the surface yet. . . .
"Sometimes I think we are
more of a weekend port but
we work when there is work to
be done. Since we enjoy
service from both South
Atlantic and North Atlantic
lines, many U.S. and foreign
vessels use Morehead for a
liberty port."
McNeill believes growth of
fhe Morehead area will be
helped by development of deep
water transportation and a
marine sciences laboratory.
He said he became interest-ed
in marine science because
of love of the sea and "in self-de
fense." His son was
interested in the subject and
many of his friends are with
either the Duke Marine Lab or
the U.S. Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries. "I was
forced to learn in order to
communicate," McNeill said.
McNeill is active in
community and area affairs.
A sailboat enthusiast, he is
vise commodore of the
Morehead City Yacht Club.
His pride and joy is "True
Core Sound Sharpie," a 21-foot
sailing craft of considerable
age.
McNeill has served as
president of the Morehead
City Rotary and Carteret
County Chamber of
Commerce. He is a member of
the First Methodist Church,
Neuse River Development
Association, the county
industrial council, Carteret
County Marine Resources
Committee and the national
defense executive staff.
McNeill met his wife, the
former Frances Sansbury, in
Whiteville where she was
employed as a medical
secretary. Their daughter,
Jan, is a rising senior at
Merdith and 17-year-old Chuck
is a senior at West Carteret
High. Seven-year-old Angus
completes the family.
KIRK COMMENTS ABOUT BRUCE
It's fashionable, in this the second month of the
new decade, to reflect on the "happenings" of the
past ten years.
L. C. Bruce, editor of the North Carolina State
Ports, is relinquishing that role with this issue.
He burst on the ports scene about ten years
ago, billed as the "Savant of Siler City". The ports
at that time were 15 years old and suffering from
the usual problems of adolescence. . .not the least
of which is identity within the family, and recog-nition
from outsiders.
L. C, with teenage children of his own, recog-nized
the symptoms and set out to help his adopted
charges at Wilmington and Morehead City achieve
the recognition they deserved. He created the
North Carolina State Ports Magazine as we know
it today.
An examination of these early efforts is a study
in contrasts. On the one hand L. C. recognized he
had two sturdy siblings. At the same time, he was
perplexed on how to glamorize a pair of teenage
terminals that were growing so rapidly that it was
impossible to keep them properly clothed to make
them presentable for their public.
Months went by, as they inevitably will, and so
furious was L. C.'s efforts to sell the merits of the
ports to the public, as well as customers, he was
tagged by many as the "Peripatetic One." His
efforts began to pay dividends and as the ports
matured, so did this publication.
Today, with a circulation in excess of 10,000,
The North Carolina State Ports Magazine is con-sidered
one of the best of its kind. . .a crestomathy
if you will. . .something for everyone. Thanks to
L. C.'s efforts, his wards are clothed in respect-ability
and welcomed in the public as well as pri-vate
sectors.
To L. C. our thanks for making the transition
a smooth one, and our best wishes for "The ubiq-uitous
One", as he returns to private enterprise.
J. Edgar Kirk
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
WILMINGTON OFFICE
ADMINISTRATION
JAMES W. DAVIS, Executive Director
E. E. LEE, JR., Director of Commerce
& Exec. A88't.
RAY MATTHIS, Representative
L. L. LIVELY, Representative
H. C. JACKSON, Director of
Traffic
HUGH HARDAWAY, Director
of Engineering
WILMINGTON OFFICE
OPERATIONS
State Port Terminal
P.O. Box 3037-28401
Tel. 919-763-1621
TWX 510-937-0330
W. H. FRIEDERICHS, Operations
Manager
MOREHEAD CITY OFFICE
OPERATIONS
State Port Terminal
Drw. 648-28557
Tel. 726-3158
TWX 510-924-2983
CHARLES McNEILL, Operations
Manager
JIM EDMUNDSON, Tobacco Supt.
HAROLD KAHL, Supt., Bulk
Facility
SOUTHPORT OFFICE
OPERATIONS
H. A. SCHMIDT. Manager
Tel. 919-457-2621
P.O. Box 578-28461
NEW YORK OFFICE
TRADE DEVELOPMENT
WALLACE CLARK, Manager
Suite 767, 26 Broadway
New York, N. Y. 10004
(Area Code) 212-269-1843
AUTHORITY MEMBERS
Executive Committee
WOODROW PRICE, Raleigh, Chm.
L. R. BOWERS, Whiteville, V. Chm.
SYD DUNN, Greenville, Secretary
MEMBERS
E. G. ANDERSON, Robersonville
HENRY BOSHAMER, Morehead City
W. B. GLENN, Greenville
RYE PAGE, Wilmington
GEORGE PURVIS, Fayetteville
H. L. WEATHERS, Shelby
WILMINGTON OFFICE
FINANCE
P.O. Box 3037 28401
Tel. 919-763-1621
TWX 510-937-0330
RUFF A. DeVANE, Treasurer
(Comptroller), Assistant
Secretary
RALEIGH OFFICE
PUBLIC INFORMATION
10 E. Jones St.
Tel. 919-829-3855
Box 149 27602
Raleigh, N. C
EDGAR KIRK, Director Public
Relations, Administrative Aae't. to
Ports Authority
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
STATE PORTS
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WINTER ISSUE, 1970 SPA MAGAZINE VOL. 15. NO. 4
PAGE
CONTENTS
Bruce Departs 1
McNeill Honored 2
Visitors From Mexico 4
Motor Carriers Report 5
Harbors of the World 8
History Land Trail 10
Exportunities 18
Port Information 20
STATE PORTS
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COVER STORY:
The painting is an original water-color
for SPA magazine by Charles
McNeill (see opposite). The sailboat
is the last of the clubfooted Core
Sound Sharpies. It is an ancient rig,
and formerly used in large numbers
by fisherman near Morehead City.
McNeill owns the rig and has named
her "Idie," a nickname for his mother,
Whiteville resident who used to sail
from Swansboro to Morehead in a
Sharpie.
IN THIS ISSUE:
In this issue we present for the tenth time a
continuing feature culled "Roaming the > i
Seas with Betty Casey." The feature is being
written for us by Mrs. Casey oj Greenville, North
Carolina. Mrs. Casey has spent many near* travel-ing
particularly in the orient and the south seas.
The tenth feature is about Lisbon. Portugal. (set
pages, 8 and 9 1.
Photo credits should he given to: N. C. Dept of
Archives and History. Hugh Morton. Century
Studios, L. C. Bruce.
For information about: I III" NORTH ( VROl IN \
STATE PORTS write or call Edgai Kirk, Editor 6
Publishcr—State Ports Magazine, P.O Bon L49,
Raleigh -Published Quarterly. Telephone: (91
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NORTH CAROLINA STMT. PORTS
PORTS AUTHORITY/ 25th Anniversary
During the week of March 21, the Ports Au-thority
will celebrate its 25th Anniversary.
There will be an open house at Wilmington and
Morehead City plus big doings in Raleigh accord-ing
to J. Edgar Kirk, P. R. Director of the SPA.
Keep tuned to your favorite news media for
further details.
Left to right: Sam Boatright, Roberto Cevada,
Edmunson, James H. Felts, and Cipriano
Gouzalez.
FROM MEXICO-TOBACCO
PEOPLE
On September 16, 1969, representatives for
Tabacos Mexicanos,* S.A. de C.V. from the state
of Nayarit and the town of Tepic, Mexico visited
Jim Edmunson at Morehead City.
*Tobacos Mexicanos is an affiliate of the Austin Company.
, NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
A new and interesting photo of the phosphate shipping facilities at Morehead City—Top
right shows new property of SPA, acquired from Bunge Corporation and announced in
September.
N. C. MOTOR CARRIERS-USE
OF STATE PORTS
QUADRUPLES IN NINE YEARS
RALEIGH, N. C—Truck trailer use has quad-rupled
at the Wilmington's N. C. State Port
Terminal and tripled at Morehead City's -N. C.
State Port Terminal since 1961 according to a
state trucking official.
J. T. Outlaw, executive vice president of the
North Carolina Motor Carriers Association, re-leased
the Wilmington and Morehead City truck
trailer figures today.
The State Port Terminal at Wilmington in-crease
was 27, 634 truck-trailers in 1969 against
6,327 truck-trailers in 1961.
The Morehead City State Port Terminal used
9,327 truck-trailers in 1969 against 3,091 in 1961.
Last year's truck-trailer total of 36,961 for both
State Ports Terminals almost quadrupled the 1961
total of 9,4 18.
"An outlook for the 1970 State Port Terminals'
truck service seems optimistic and encouraging,"
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
Outlaw predicted. Although the overall truck ton-nage
index is down more than 7% for the last
three months, it is possible to anticipate some
increase in tonnage volume in SENCland because
of the expanded N. C. Port services and new in-dustries.
These totals for truck trailer use do not include
the thousands of trucks used at the Sunny Point
Military Ocean Terminal of the U. S. Army Head-quarters
located in Brunswick County, north of
Southport. Tonnage for the calendar year of 1969
was over one million measured tons, of which a
considerable portion was hauled by truck-trailer.
Sunny Point is under the command of Col. Robert
D. Reid.
Companies in the Wilmington area used thou-sands
of truck-trailers through their individual
company docks, in addition to the Wilmington
State Ports terminal. These include: Almont Ship-ping
Company, Swift & Co., International Paper.
Ideal Cement, W. R. Grace & Co., Carolina Nitro-gen,
Diamond Alkali, American Molasses Co., and
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.; the major petroleum
companies of: American, Citco, Gulf, Humble.
Phillips, Pure, Shell, Sinclair, Socony, Tenneco,
Texaco Travelers and Hess.
Some 160 major products were handled by
truck-trailer through the ports. They include:
from imports, cement, petroleum, fertilizer ma-i
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INTERCONFERENCE MEETING OF
NORFOLK MARINE TERMINAL ASSOCIATION
AND
SOUTH ATLANTIC MARINE TERMINAL CONFERENCE
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State Ports Authority (Left), newly elected Vice-
Chairman of the Joint Conference and Mr. Sam D. Adsit,
Jr., (Right), Chairman of the Norfolk Marine Terminal
Association, newly elected Chairman of the Conference.
For the first time in history, representatives of
the South Atlantic Marine Terminal Conference
and the Norfolk Marine Terminal Association met
at the Golden Triangle Motor Hotel, Norfolk, Va.
on December 16, 1969 to discuss mutual problems
that confront marine terminal operators in the
fast-changing maritime industry. The effects of
containerization on the movement of break bulk
cargo was the principal topic of discussion, along
with the common day-to-day problems of opera-tions
that affect the Marine Terminal operators.
The precedent set by this meeting by way of au-thorization
of the Federal Maritime Commission
permits the members of South Atlantic Marine
Terminal Conference and Norfolk Marine Termi-nal
Association, Acting by and through their
associations, to "confer, discuss and make re-commendations
on rates, charges, practices and
other tariff matters and on matters of concern to
the Marine Terminal Industry". For may years
the mutual problems were beyond discussion by
the various operators until an agreement was
authorized recently by the F.M.C.
Those attending the meeting were terminal op-erators
from ports in the states of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
with the N.M.T.A. serving as host. Pictured above
are Messrs. Harry C. Jackson (left) of S.A.M.T.C.
and S. D. Adsit, Jr. (right) of N.M.T.A., newly
elected vice-chairman and chairman respectively.
Mr. Ludwell H. Huxter of N.M.T.A. was elected
secretary.
Regular interconference meetings are planned for
the future so that all members can be kept in-formed
of developments in the industry.
TRADE OPPORTUNITIES IN PORTUGAL FROM
CASA DE PORTUGAL, NEW YORK, NEW YORK
PROCEDEX
Av. Julio Dinis, 10—
3
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Lisboa—Portugal
Letra C
CANARIO, LUCAS & IRMAO, LDA
Agueda
Portugal
CARVALHINHO & PERFEITO
Goncalo—Portugal
SULEI—SOC. ULTRAMARINA DE EM-PREENDIMENTOS
IMOBILIARIOS
(Divisao Industrial)
P. 0. Box 2069
Lisboa—Portugal
-Wants to represent American firms
interested in the Portuguese market
-Hardware:—Building & Luggage Indus-try
-Basketware
-Tomato Paste
Contact: Stephen E. Kelly
Mgr. Industrial Dept.
Raleigh, Chamber of Commerce.
(see page 8 & 9)
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
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WHAT TO WEAR: The type of casuals
and sports clothes you would wear at a
golf club or beach hotel suits shipboard
life perfectly. You'll need summer
clothing, but you'll probably want a
sweater or two because nights at sea
tend to be on the cool side. Bear in
mind that nylon, dacron, and orlon
blends are particularly good travelers.
WARDROBE ETIQUETTE: There's no
must about dressing for dinner, yet
you may feel more festive, especially
for the Captain's galas, if you don din-ner
attire. It is never customary to
"dress" on the first or last night out,
on Sunday evenings, or at the end of
a full day in port. Women do not ap-pear
in the Dining Room in short
shorts, and during the day they wear
sweaters or jackets over halter tops.
Men wear jackets in the Dining Room,
and do not appear after cocktail hour
sans ties. For sight-seeing: women do
not appear on the street in shorts,
slacks, or low-neck dresses; nor do men
go about in shorts or without jackets.
WHAT TO PACK: Soaps, detergents
and laundry gadgets for articles you
may wish to rinse out yourself; camera
equipment; sun glasses; prescribed
medicine and vitamin pills; binoculars;
travel clock; manicure set; sewing kit;
cigarette lighter; notebook for what
you see and buy on shore, and for ad-dresses
of friends you'll make en route;
suntan lotion.
Don't worry about a few personal items
you may forget to bring along as the
Tradewinds Gift Shop aboard ship
stocks a wide range of personal things
as well as a fine selection of gifts, many
of which may be purchased at duty-free
prices.
PURCHASE ALLOWANCE: Eachmem-ber
of a family, resident in the U.S.,
may bring into the U.S., duty free,
S100 worth of purchases made en route,
including 100 cigars. One quart of al-coholic
beverages may be included in
the duty free allowance for each per-son
over 21 years of age. Purchases of
many items may be made at a total
cost considerably below prices in the
U.S. even when you combine the pur-chase
price in Caribbean ports with
the applicable U.S. Customs duty.
Consult Purser for duty on purchases
over and above your duty free allow-ance,
and for information on restricted
items such as fruits, plants and pets.
BAGGAGE : Each piece should be plain-ly
marked with the tags supplied with
your ticket. In checking luggage through
to New York and pier, make a note of
check numbers and routing—helpful
if check is lost. Baggage will be ac-cepted
on the pier any day during the
week of sailing. Cameras and articles
of foreign make to Ik- taken on board
should be registered with the Customs
Office on the pier before sailing, in or-der
to avoid complications with Cus-toms
upon return to the U.S. Should
you plan to use air transportation to
the port of embarkation it is recom-mended
that you investigate the ad-vantages
of the newly liberalized do-mestic
airline policy on baggage.
INSURANCE: It is recommended that
travelers take out a floater policy on
baggage through their agent or a Grace
Line representative. For complete cov-erage
the policy should extend from
date of departure from home to two or
three days after return, for protection
in case of unforeseen delay.
S. S. SANTA PAULA-TO SAIL FROM MOREHEAD
Originally scheduled to sail from Morehead City on April 4th at the request of the North
Carolina Academy of General Practice. We expect that there will be about 50 doctors
and their wives from this organization and sister organizations in South Carolina and
Virginia sailing on this cruise.
GRACE LINE INC.
Paul H. Best
Regional Manager
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
Portuguese Sailfreighters
USBOAt City of Contrasts
"Roaming the Seven Seas
with Betty Casey"
Long before the present surge of
popularity for folk-singing now
sweeping the United States began,
the nostalgic strains of ballads,
called "fado", sung to the accom-paniment
of a special Portuguese
guitar were popular entertainment
in Lisbon (called Lisboa in Portu-guese.)
"Fado" singers and brightly
costumed folk-dancers still entertain
hometowners and the many tourists
who make their way to this scenic
city of pastel colored buildings built
on seven terraced hills.
Lisbon, with its million inhabi-tants,
is Europe's western-most
Capital and an important commer-cial
and tourist center. World fa-mous
modern resorts beckon from
nearby sunny Estoril, Cascais, Costa
da Caparaca, Sintra and Portinho
da Arrabida.
The city's seaport, spread along
the right bank of the Tagus river
estuary where the wide Lisbon Bay
narrows to a channel leading to the
Atlantic Ocean, is one of the Conti-nents
best natural, sheltered harbors.
Large liners and cargo vessels from
the world over bypass a sand bar in
the mouth of the Tagus to tie up at
Nineteenth Century Portuguese Gal-leon
Pictures courtesy of the Lis-bon
and Portuguese Propa-ganda
and tourism depart-ment.
modern docks along the five mile
long waterfront and to find anchor-age
in Lisbon Bay. The port boasts
the largest suspension bridge in
Europe.
The small country of Portugal,
with almost nine million inhabitants,
is a Corporative Republic and has an
area of more than thirty-five-and-a-half
thousand square miles includ-ing
the Azores and Madeira. It lies
along the western section of the
Iberian Peninsula which it shares
with Spain. A 500 mile long sunny,
sandy coastline along the Atlantic
Ocean is marked with occasional
lagoons and rocky bays interspersed
with popular beach resorts and
white washed fishing villages.
Most of the inland and eastern
part is rugged mountainous terrain
of scenic beauty crossed by gushing
rivers in deep gorges. The Tagus
river divides the country into north
and south parts. The arid south is
noted for its earthquakes. All in all,
however, the climate is mild and
pleasant and winters are not severe.
Wooded slopes of the interior fur-nish
Portugal's leading export, cork,
for which it is the world's largest
producer. The United States re-ceives
75% of this production. Other
leading exports are timber, chest-nuts,
fine wines—port, madeira,
sparkling, muscatel, and claret—as
well as brandy. Exports and imports
rose during 1968 following new
financial measures introduced by the
Minister of Finance.
About 60% of the hardy and vig-orous
Portuguese people are en-gaged
in agriculture which regis-tered
an increase in output in 1968
after government loans were used
to purchase modern agricultural
machinery and equipment. Some of
the crops are olives, cereals and
fruits. Fisheries and canneries for
sardines and tuna provide an im-portant
produce for foreign trade.
Portugal is rich in all kinds of
minerals, although only tungsten,
pyrites and cassiterite are mined to
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
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Overlooking the Old City and the Tagus from "Miradouro de Santo Luzia"
any extent. Other industries and
exports include the manufacture of
woolen textiles, silken goods, cotton
fabrics, chinaware, ceramics and
precious stones.
While the first permanent settle-ment
on the Tagus dates from Phoe-nician
times and Caesar established
it as a municipality, Lisbon's true
importance dates from 1147 when
Alfonso I recaptured it from the
Moors with the help of the Cru-saders.
Prosperity came with the
establishment of the Portuguese
Empire in Agrica and India in the
16th Century. During that historic-time
Portuguese ships and sailors
discovered and explored two-thirds
of the earth. Their revolutionary
"caravels", light, swift, sailing ships
with a high poop, were designed
and built there under the supervi-sion
of Prince Heniy, the navigator.
From Belem, a few miles down-stream
from the city center, Bartolo-meu
Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pedro
Alvares Cabral and other heroes of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
set out on their great voyages of
discovery and returned triumphant
to the same shores.
Portuguese colonies, since 1951
called "Overseas Provinces" include
Portuguese India (under Indian
military occupation since 1961);
Macao and part of Timor in Asia;
Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic;
Portuguese Guinea, Sao Tome and
Principe Islands; Angola in Portu-guese
West Africa and Mozambique
in Portuguese East Africa.
Although Romans stamped the
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
country with a language of Latin
origin, the original Portuguese stock
has received transfusions of blood
from many races: Romans, Goths,
Abrabs and Berbers, settlers from
Northern Europe, Jews and Ne-groes.
Portuguese is mother tongue
of 100 million people, the sixth most
used language in the world and is
spoken in Brazil as well as Portugal
and its overseas provinces.
In 1968, Premier Caetano suc-ceeded
Salazar who had served in
that office for 36 years. Some politi-cal
unrest followed but economic
development showed some improve-ment.
A great variety of picturesque
costumes are worn by the peasantry,
especially during pilgrimages or on
holidays, but in the cities most peo-ple
wear western clothes. Dancing
and singing play an important part
in the lives of the people. Bands
made up of "gaitas", or bagpipes,
fiddles, drums, accordions and Por-tuguese
guitars furnish gay music
for festivals and parades. Many of
these are held in connection with
religious celebrations for the pre-dominately
Catholic populace. Soc-cer
and bull-fighting, in which the
bull is not killed, are the most popu-lar
sports.
From its setting upon seven hills,
Lisbon has colorfully contrasted
buildings of modern hotels, office
buildings, and stores along broad
avenues lined with trees, as com-pared
to ancient, quaint houses
painted pastel colors with red tile
tops clustered over narrow winding
alleys—each house in itself a veran-da
overlooking the wide estuary of
the Tagus. In one part of the old
city a lane between buildings is so
narrow that a popular poet, Frederi-co
de Brito has written:
Your house is so close to mine
in the starry night's bliss
To exchange a tender kiss
Our lips easily meet
High across the narrow street.
Portugal was an ally of the United
States in World War I and remained
neutral in World War II, although
it leased Azores air bases to the
U.S. and England. She presently is
an ally of the United States' in
NATO and a member of the United
Nations, the European Free Trade
Association and other international
bodies. Portugal has always stood
for peace and progress in the inter-national
community.
By sea, Portugal's Companhia
Colonial de Navegacao links Lisbon
with Port Everglades in Florida
and the Greek Line, the Italian Line.
American Export Line and occasion-ally
Zim Lines and Chandris Lines
connect Lisbon with New York, Car-regadores
Acoreanos. a steamship
company which operates freighters,
can carry 12 passengers twice a
month from New York to Lisbon.
Portugal, with its sunshine and
blue sky; mountains and sea-shore;
stirring history and modern day
developments; mixture of ancient
and todays architecture, customs
and culture, extends a warm wel-come
to visitors to its friendly shores.
Historic Bath: North Carolina's Oldest
Incorporated Town
DOWN THE
HISTORYLAND
TRAIL
Elizabeth W. Wilborn
Field Services Researcher
Division of Historic Sites and Museums
State Department of Archives and History
Palmer-Marsh House, Historic Bath State Historic Site
The Kitchen in the Palmer-Marsh House
10
Double chimney of the Palmer Marsh House
Bath Town pre-dates English colonization, for
at one time Indian villages and town sites dotted
the banks of the Pamlico River; today the Texas
Gulf Sulphur mining operation is the most pro-minent
feature of the area. By an act of the as-sembly
on March 8, 1705, Bath became the first
incorporated town of the colony, later the State
of North Carolina. Three governors, during the
Proprietary period, made Bath the seat of govern-ment—
Robert Daniel, Thomas Cary, and Charles
Eden. The Assembly met in Bath from 1744 to
1752 and the Lower House of the Assembly, in
1746, made Bath the first permanent capital of
North Carolina—though this bill was never rati-fied.
Bath served as a center of refuge for the settlers
, NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
A view of the Bonner
House from the .Mem-orial
garden
during the Tuscarora Indian War (1711-1713).
It was later a haven for the notorious pirate
"Blackbeard," or Edward Teach. For approxi-mately
a year the pirate made Bath his home—and
some of its most prominent citizens, his accom-plices.
Stories of treasure buried by the buccaneer
have persisted to the present time, with many
disappointed treasure-seekers, for no one has ever
reported finding his booty.
St. Thomas Parish, established by the Vestry
Act of 1701, was selected by Dr. Thomas Bray,
founder of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts, to receive a library. Bray
was instrumental also, through the Society, in
sending missionaries to the parish—three of whom
made their homes in Bath. The building of St.
Thomas Church was begun about 1734; today it
is the oldest church in the state in continuous use.
The George II candelabra and the Queen Anne
Bell are among the more interesting items con-nected
with St. Thomas Church. The bell, pur-chased
many years after Queen Anne's death, was
bought with monies from a foundation, established
by the Queen, which is still funding charitable
causes. The church has been restored and is open
to the public.
The State Department of Archives and History
operates Historic Bath—including two historic
houses. The Palmer-Marsh House, built about
1760, is noted for its double chimney. Believed to
have been built by Michael Coutanch, it was ac-quired
by Colonel Robert Palmer in 1764. When
Claude Joseph Sauthier, mapmaker for the British
crown, drew his map of Bath in 1769, the most
outstanding dwelling was that of "Col. Palmer."
The house remained in the Palmer family until
the turn of the century; in 1802 the Marsh broth-ers,
Daniel and Jonathan, bought the property.
The house has been restored and furnished and
opened to the public. Here, as is true elsewhere
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
Dining room of the Bonner House with mid to late 19th
century ship's dining table-Atop is a rare pair of Canton
cider jugs.
in Bath, one sees the work of the Historic Bath
Commission, which has been instrumental in pre-serving
Bath.
The Bonner House, with a memorial garden and
dependencies, is also open to visitors. The Oscar
F. Smith Memorial Foundation played a large
role in acquiring and restoring this property. The
property was owned by the Bonner family from
1830 until it became a part of Historic Bath.
Bath, once a port town, sits quitely amid the
surrounding water—Bath ('reck and Adam's
Creek emptying into the Pamlico are on two sides
of the town. There is little today to remind one of
the bloody Tuscarora, but there is much to see.
enjoy, and meditate upon.
n
NOVEMBER NORTH CAROLINA WORLD TRADE ASSOCIATION
MEETS IN CHARLOTTE ELECTS NEW BOARD AND OFFICERS
NOVEMBER, 1969
SIXTH ANNUAL NCWTA MEETING A SUCCESS!
On November 6th and 7th, NCWTA members and
guests met in Charlotte for a most successful and in-formative
meeting. Representatives from eleven foreign
consulates and embassies gave reports on trade pros-pects
abroad, and banquet speaker, Mr. R. McLellan,
Deputy Asst. Secretary of Commerce, explained the
U. S. position in world trade. A report on the recent
N. C Far East Trade Mission was presented by several
Mission members. Also in attendance were the North
Carolina and South Carolina Regional Export Expan-sion
Council members.
New NCWTA officers and directors for 1970 were
elected as follows:
NEW BOARD MEETS
IN WINSTON-SALEM
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Left to right: Hans Mittemeijer, Leonard
Bauer, Joel New, Ernest Plumb, and John
Votta.
President—Chairman of the Board
John Votta, President
Votam International Company
Charlotte
First Vice-President
William Troxler, President
Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc.
Raleigh
Second Vice-President
Kenneth Thomas, President
Gravely Corporation
Clemmons
Secretanj-Treasurer
Ernest Plumb, Asst. Treasurer
Whitin International Ltd.
Charlotte
Directors for 1970: Richard E. Barker, Dr. Jack N.
Behrman, Anthony B. Brannock, L. C. Bruce, Larry
Carter, Carl Dawson, James H. Fryar, C. R. Harris,
Eugene E. Humphries, Sr., Paul Linney, Hans Mit-temeijer,
O. S. Moore, H. Banks Newman, Anthony
Winkler-Prins, Bruce Smith, Arthur Brown, Thatcher
Townsend, Clem Schrader, Adrian Shufford, Frank
Fishburn, John Palmer, Robert Sickels, James Loftus,
Morris Speizman, Robert Barker, Doug Ponischil,
Jurgen Meyer-Cuno, Leonard Bauer.
Assistant Directors: Joel New, Edgar Kirk
Committees for International Conference in
Raleigh Oct. 1, 2 include chairman of Public
Relations L. C. Bruce, Raleigh, with Leonard
Bauer of Pisgah, Robert Baker of Charlotte,
Hans Mittemeijer of Winston-Salem and Richard
Barker of Wilmington.
PIQUET IN RALEIGH SAYS
ONE YEAR AGO- work on the
ailment not the symptom
Howard S. Piquet, a native
of New York, is Senior Spe-cialist
in International Eco-nomics,
Legislative Reference
service with the Library of
Congress. In this position,
which he has held since 1956,
he serves as advisor to Con-gressional
Committees and to
members of both houses of
Congress.
Dr. Piquet is a graduate of
New York University and
holds an M.A. degree from
the University of California
and a Ph.D. from Princeton
University. He has taught at
Princeton and New York Uni-versities
and at the Universi-ties
of Oregon and Washington.
He has served with the U.S. Tariff Commission, the
U.N. Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture and
with the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.
He has also authored numerous articles in the field of
international trade.
12
HOWARD S. PIQUET
It is typical of our disposition, with respect to
economic problems, to concentrade on the symp-toms
of ailments, rather than on the ailments them-selves,
that one of the most important aspects of
all of balance-of-payments disequilibrium has at-tracted
little attention, namely, foreign trade
policy.
This is not to say that the narrowing excess of
exports over imports has not attracted attention,
for it has. But that attention has been confined
to deploring the fact that the "favorable" trade
balance has been narrowing and to insisting that
exports should be increased relative to' import.
Indeed, this narrowing is providing a convenient
vehicle with which to propagandize for intensified
trade restrictions. Already we are being told that
a comprehensive system of import quotas is neces-sary
to help eliminate the balance-of-payments
deficit.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
U.S. TRADE AND BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEMS:
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY
by Howard S. Piquet
The truth lies in exactly the opposite direction.
Liberal international trade policies are not merely
not inconsistent with solution of the balance-of-payments
problem; they are essential to it.
What are really inconsistent with a solution of
the balance-of-payments problem are the efforts
to bring about equilibrium in the international
accounts by such direct means as our halting the
outflow of private capital and restricting foreign
travel by Americans.
These efforts are not only mis-directed but, if
implemented with vigor, can only aggravate in-ternational
disequilibrium. The excess of the out-flow
of funds over their inflow from abroad is a
symptom of economic disorder and should not be
confused with the disorder itself. Application of
such direct measures to eliminate the balance-of-payments
deficit is comparable to trying to cool a
room by holding a piece of ice under the thermo-stat.
The room will only get hotter the balance-of-payments
deficit will widen. We need to concen-trate
on the malady itself and not on its symp-toms.
The malady is not the statistical "deficit" in the
international accounts, but the absence of a self-equilibrating
mechanism to stabilize outflows and
inflows of funds among the economically-devel-oped
countries. Governmental restriction of the
outflow of private capital and of foreign travel
have the same kind of contractive effect on the
international accounts as across-the-board restric-tion
of merchandise imports.
The persistent deficits in the international ac-counts
of the United States have been caused by:
(1) the fact that other countries have chosen to use
dollars as an important part of their monetary
reserves, (2) failure of the U.S. Government to
maintain the purchasing power of the dollar, and
(3) unwillingness on the part of the United States
and other industrialized countries to allow their
economies to adapt to each other through private
commercial transactions.
The use of dollars as monetary reserves will
continue as long as other countries are willing
to hold them in preference to using them to pur-chase
American merchandise or to coverting them
into gold. At what point it will no longer be feasi-ble
for them to use dollars as monetary reserves
is largely a psychological question.
The substitution of something else for dollars
as international monetaiy reserves can best be
brought about by international agreement. Such
agreement does not depend upon prior elimination
by the United States of its balance-of-payments
deficit, notwithstanding assertions to that effect
by certain foreign politicians and bankers.
Governments are prone to blame monopoly
—
both industrial and labor—for inflationary price
rises, while hiding the fact that they themselves
are the real culprits. The prime cause of inflation
is the over-issuance of credit by governments and
central banks. The balance-of-payments deficit of
the United States will persist as long as the Fed-eral
Reserve maintains interest rates at levels
lower than are necessary to equate the demand for
investment capital with the supply of savings by
the public. However, even is inflation were held
in check and a new international monetary unit
were agreed upon, there would still be deficits in
the international accounts as long as there is un-willingness
to allow national economies to adjust
to each other through the free international move-ment
of merchandise and capital.
There is danger in allowing the balance-of-pay-ments
deficit to become a statistical strait-jacket,
causing us to adopt policies that are antithetical
to the best interest of the United States. Most of
the autonomous items in the balance of payments
are inter-connected, and it is futile to try to bring
about self-sustaining equilibrium by applying re-strictionist
devices designed to increase the in-flow,
or decrease the outflow, of funds by direct
means.
For this reason, programs designed to restrict
U.S. private direct investment abroad and to limit
foreign travel by Americans are self-defeating.
Direct U.S. private investments abroad have al-ready
reached $55 billion and the annual dividend
return on them is much greater than the annual
outflow of new capital. (In 1967 Americans sent
$ 3.0 billion of new direct investment capital
abroad and received dividends, royalties, etc. of
$7.9 billion in return on existing investments, only
partially offset by the payment to foreigners of
$ 2.3 billion on their investments in the United
States). To restrict the outflow of private invest-ment
capital is to cripple the goose that lays the
golden eggs.
Similarly, curtailment of foreign travel by
Americans will be largely offset by a falling off
in the foreign demand for American aircraft equip-ment
and by retaliation on the part of foreign
enterprises that derive much of their income from
American tourists.
For 22 years, prior to his leaving the Government Service
on January 1. 1969 Dr. Piquet was the Senior Specialist
in International Economics of the Legislative Reference
Service of the Library of Congress. Prior to that he was
Executive Secretary of the Interim Commission on Food
and Agriculture (FAO) of the United Nations and Chief
of the Economics Division of the U.S. Tariff Commission.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE POUTS 1 1
SOUTHERN
CORPORATION
FOREIGN FREIGHT FORWARDERS
CUSTOMHOUSE BROKERS
F.M.C. NO. 469
P. 0. BOX 3745 . WILMINGTON, N. C. 28401
PHONES: (IMPORT) 919-762-9655
(EXPORT) 919-762-9651
TWX 510-937-0311 . CABLE "SOUTHOVER"
WILMINGTON
NORTH CAROLINA
MOREHEAD GITY
NORTH CAROLINA
(919)726-6825
CHARLOTTE
NORTH CAROLINA
(704)392-8161
BATON ROUGE
LOUISIANA
(504)343-9545
NORFOLK
VIRGINIA
(903)623-3717
PROVISIONS,
DECK AND ENGINEER'S SUPPLIES
BONDED CIGARETTE WHSE.
0. E. DuRANT
SHIP CHANDLER
Representative of
Columbia Rope
International Paint
Mobile Oil Co., Inc.
Wilmington, N. C.
Telephone RO 2-4232
Water & Market Sts.
LITH0 INDUSTRIES,
INCORPORATED
P. O. Box 12462
Raleigh, North Carolina
Serving North Carolina For
All Her Printing Needs
Telephone (919)782-1314
782-1315
PRINTING
PUBLICATIONS
CASEBOOK
MANUFACTURING
MAERSK LINE
Far East
Cargo Services
Frequent Sailings from Morehead City to
Manila, Bangkok, Saigon, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Indonesia
HEIDE COMPANY
A Division of Luckenbach Steamship Co. Inc.
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.
P.O. Drawer E
Telephone (919) 726-5080
MOLLER STEAMSHIP COMPANY, INC., General Agents
67 Brood Street, New York 4, N. Y.
Heide Company
A Division of Luckenbach Steamship Co. Inc.
WILMINGTON
&
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.
STEAMSHIP AGENTS STEVEDORES
INTERNATIONAL
FREIGHT FORWARDERS FMC NO. 69
WILMINGTON, N.C
North Carolina Maritime Bldg. Tel: (919) 763-8271
RICHARD BARKER, Vice-President, Luckenbach
Steamship Co., Inc.
W. MURLE TEACHEY, Assistant General Manager
E. MAYO HOLMES, Treasurer
A. P. BLAND, Operations Manager
P. C. WEST, Export Manager
JACK C. JOYNER, Traffic Representative
WILLIAM A. SUMMERLIN, Traffic Representative
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.
P.O. Drawer E. Tel: (919) 726-2511
JACK TILLEY, Manager
CARL ROWE, Assistant to the Manager
KENNETH SKINNER, Operations
I l NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
We'llgothe extramile
for yourinternational
bankingbusiness.
We'll go wherever you need us. To Paris,
London, Nairobi and all around the world.
We'll obtain foreign monies and write letters
of introduction to foreign banks for you.
We'll locate foreign suppliers for your busi-ness
and issue commercial letters of credit.
We'll help you arrange licensing of your
products in foreign markets. We'll be your
international business partner. Just call us in
the International Department at area code
704/372-3456. Or write us at Post Office
Box 1 0794 Charlotte, North Carolina28201.
First Union National *J
NORTH CAROLINA STATE FORTS 15
barber
Specialists in Handling Tobacco
Regular Sailings From
North Carolina Ports
TO
MANILA, HONG KONG,
BANGKOK, SINGAPORE,
DJAKARTA AND
JAPANESE PORTS
with
NEW FAST VESSELS
barber STEAMSHIP LINES, INC.
Agents 1 7 Battery Place. New York, N.Y. 1 0004 Tel: 1212) 944-1300
Cleveland—Tri-Coast Shipping Co., Illuminating Bldg.
Chicago—Tri-Coast Shipping Co., 333 N. Michigan Ave.
Detroit—Tri-Coast Shipping Co., 1814 First Federal Bldg.
Agent: Moreheod City and Wilmington, N. C.
WATERS SHIPPING CO., INC.
WS3 W,TH
CARTERET . . .
. . . along the south atlantic a tow with
CARTERET is a tradition of confidence
—where only the best serves you . . .
CARTERET TOWING CO., INC.
Radio Island
Moreheod City, N. C.
Charles Piner & Teen Piner PA 6-5440
Operators
AT ITS BEST !
New Hanover County, N. C.
Year 'round mild climate. Churches, Schools,
Theatres. Every recreation for happy workers.
1. Land-Sea-Air Transportation Facilities
2. Ample Housing—Quality Labor Supply
3. N. C. Largest Shipping Port
For detailed Industrial Information—
Write:
County Commissioners—Commission Office
Wilmington, North Carolina
CUSTOMHOUSE BROKERS
Telephone-919-763-8494 Teletype-510-937-0312
WATERFRONT SERVICES, INC.
2907 Burnett Blvd.
Wilmington, North Carolina
MOREHEAD CITY LINE HANDLING
COMPANY, INC.
Waterfront Service
A. T. PINER
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.
Phones: Day 726-5440 Night: 726-5549
Post Office Drawer 185
L6 NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
I
I AT' PRESS TIME
News Release—SEACOR
SEACOR, INC., port developers, terminal
operators and transportation specialists of
Wilmington, N.C., in a recent corporate re-organization,
acquired two company subsid-iaries,
ALMONT SHIPPING COMPANY,
INC., and EAST COAST TERMINALS,
INC. W. S. R. Beane, Board Chairman, an-nounced
the move as part of a long range
development program to place SEACOR and
the Wilmington port in the forefront of dry
and liquid bulk snipping on the Eastern Sea-board.
Ernest Ball, President, explained fur-ther
that SEACOR is gearing up for the
growth expected in the Southeast in the last
quarter of this century. ALMONT SHIP-PING
COMPANY, INC., is a stevedoring,
N. C. Motor Carriers (cont. from page 5)
terials, caustic soda, tobacco, liquors, lumber,
steel, asphalt, processed meat, jute, burlap, bag-ging,
fiber, iron and plywood—For exports, lum-ber,
blankets, hose, underwear, auto batteries,
furniture, fertilizer, textile machinery, leaf tobacco,
poultry, manufactured tobacco, fabricated steel
products, minerals, wood pulp, dairy products,
boilers and parts, lineboard, dry milk, nitrate
paperboard, scrap metal, asphalt, petroleum and
glycol.
It would be well to remember in rounding out
Wi/mingfon
Shipping Company
jddsMa am
STEAMSHIP AGENTS
&
STEVEDORES
North Carolina Maritime Building
State Port Terminal
Wilmington, North Carolina
P. O. Box 1H09 (able Address
Phone 763-7333 WILSHIPCO
TWX NO. 510 937-0311
Branch Offices: Morehead City Shipping Co.
P. O. Box 270N6
Charlotte, N. C. 2S20.H Morehead City, N. C.
terminaling and transportation operation
providing one of the largest bulk terminaling
facilities on the Atlantic Coast, with piers on
the North Cape Fear River in Wilmington.
EAST COAST TERMINALS, INC., is a bulk
cargo storage and transfer facility which was
recently selected as the site for the largest
imported fishmeal storage and pasteurization
processing plant on the East Coast. EAST
COAST TERMINALS, INC., is also located
on the Northeast Cape Fear River, north of
Wilmington. In addition to improving the
capability of its existing port operations,
SEACOR plans to develop additional deep-water
land tracts for use by port related
industries.
the truck-trailer usage, that the totals above do
not include the thousands of truck-trailers used
to supply jet fuel to Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point,
and Seymour Johnson Field from terminals at
Radio Island, Beaufort, N. C. Nor do they include
the barge petroleum traffic handled on the Cape
Fear River through the River Terminal at Fay-etteville,
where thousands of truck-trailers are
used annually in the area.
Jeff B.Wilson
Marine Insurance
Since 1878
EXPORT SERVICES
• NEGOTIABLE INSURANCE CERTIFICATES
ISSUED FOR ALL TRADES
• WORLD-WIDE SETTLING AGENTS
• FOREIGN CREDIT AND POLITICAL RISKS
INSURED
IMPORT SERVICES
• DOCKSIDE CLAIM FACILITIES
• GENERAL AVERAGE GUARANTEES
• DAMAGE PREVENTION ADVICES
Walker Taylor Agency
P. O. BOX 897 • WILMINGTON, N. C
WALKER TAYLOR JOHN METTS
EXPORTUNITIES for
INCREASED SALES AND PROFITS
BROAD WOVEN FABRIC MILLS, COTTON
Cameroon—Ten tons colored and white cotton cloth
for cleaning and dusting purposes prepared in 50 kilo
compressed and covered bales. No synthetic material,
hinges or ornaments; exelusing blankets, linings.
LOGGING CAMPS, LOGGING CONTRACTORS
Itah/—Logs of Douglas fir, hemlock, other types of
timber.
FOOTWEAR EXCEPT RUBBER
Australia—Men's dress shoes, made of leather; exclusive
styles preferred.
FARM MACHINERY
Australia—Horticultural and agricultural equipment.
METALWORKING MACHINERY
Portugal—Chain saws; chains and cutting blades.
MACHINERY
Portugal—Hydraulic hoists for use with truck bodies.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING, WIRING EQUIPMENT
Australia—Pole line hardware; specifically tapered alu-minum
lighting columns for street lights.
BROAD WOVEN FABRIC MILLS, COTTON
Switzerland—Cotton plain dyed, printed, finished fab-rics,
apparel, toweling, bedsheet, pillowcase fabrics,
jacquard woven cotton fabrics, plain, printed, colored.
YARN, THREAD MILLS, PRODUCTS
Lebanon—Textured, crimpted, or bulked filament
yarns.
PAPERBOARD MILLS, PRODUCTS
Hong Kong—Paperboard for making boxes.
SYNTHETIC MATERIALS
Itahj—Plastic materials, synthetic resins, nonvulcaniza-ble
elastomers; synthetic rubber; synthetic organic
fibers.
Joel B. New
I . S. Dept. of Commerce
P. O. Box 1950, Boom 40S
Post Office B!<1«.
Greensboro, N. (.
(919) 275-9111
DRUGS
New Zealand—Pharmaceutical preparations.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING, WIRING EQUIPMENT
Sweden—Connectors, all kinds.
FIELD CROP FARMS
Netherlands—Peas, beans, similar agricultural com-modities.
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Cyprus—Concentrated milk, shipped in bulk (barrels,
drums, and tanks ).
BROAD WOVEN FABRIC MILLS, COTTON
Canada—100% cotton corduroy and/or corduroy of
cotton/polvester blend with permanent press finish,
for purchase in quantities of 10,000 yd. lots or higher.
TEXTILE GOODS
Germany—New cotton remnants for manufacture of
polishing discs.
RADIO, TELEVISION RECEIVING SETS
Netherlands—Complete range of radio receivers, in-cluding
portable, automobile, home, etc.
AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS
France—Fertilizers of good quality, primarily products
suitable for fruit-trees grown in orchards in southwest
France.
FARM MACHINERY
France—Farm machinery equipment: sprayers (power
and speed ), other categories of light—and medium-duty
machines, attachments designed for preparing
vegetable and fruit crops for shipment to wholesale
markets.
"COMMERCE NOTES"
Greensboro Field Office
EXPORT DOCUMENTATION
STREAMLINED
1. Effective October 1, exporters are no longer
required to file shipper's export declarations for
general license shipments to Free World countries
when the shipments are valued at less that $250.
2. Effective November 1, high volume exporters
meeting requirements of the Office of Export
Control and Bureau of the Census have the option
of filing monthly export declarations rather than
separate export declarations for each shipment to
Free World countries.
18 NOBTH CABOLINA STATE PORTS
Honored in England
Through a smashing arrangement with one of
England's largest banks, BankAmcricard is
honored for traveling, shopping and entertaining
throughout Great Britain.
By the same token, England's Barclaycard is
honored here.
So now Barclaycard and BankAmcricard holders
can charge almost anything, from tote-bags to bed
and breakfast, at thousands of businesses on
both sides of the ocean.
And that's a bit of all right.
©BankAmerica Service Corporation 1958, 1967
©Servicemarks owned and licensed by BankAmerica Service Corporation
STATE PORT TERMINAL
WILMINGTON
YUu-i
W. H. Fricderichs, Operations Manager
DRY CARGO WHARF: 3,695 feet of continuous mar-ginal
concrete wharf with wide aprons. 34 feet of
water alongside at mean low water (channel pro-ject
now being deepened to 38 feet) capable of
working seven vessels simultaneously. Additional
1,045 ft. of wharf in 1969.
TANKER RERTH: T-head type with mooring dol-phins,
supported by tank farm and available unde-veloped
area.
TRANSIT SHEDS: Four fully-sprinklered, modern,
concrete, steel, and masonry buildings total 506,000
square feet.
OPEN RERTH: 800 continuous feet, as well as other
open areas between sheds and at ends of wharf,
backed up by 15 acres of paved open storage access-ible
by rail or truck.
WAREHOUSES: 522,962 square feet, fully sprink-lered.
RONDED WAREHOUSE space available
bv arrangement with management.
CARGO STORAGE SHELTER: 273,000 square feet,
open ends, concrete and steel, paved building,
equipped with overhead bridge cranes and served
by truck and rail access to all parts.
U. S. CUSTOMS SERVICES: All services for the
Port of Wilmington, including Classification and
Value Section, located on terminal property.
SCALES: Two truck scales and one railroad car scale
conveniently located on terminal. Certified weigh-masters
on 24-hour duty.
TRACKAGE: Double marginal tracks with crossovers
along full length of wharf apron. Depressed tracks
serving rear of transit sheds and warehouses. Stor-age
yard capacity—370 rail cars. (Four diesel
switching engines operated by the terminal.)
HEAVY EQUIPMENT: Two 45-ton capacity gantry
cranes equipped for 80-inch magnet and two or six
yard bucket operations. A 75-ton gantry crane (at
70 ft. radius ) can be used in tandem with either of
the 45-ton cranes for lifts up to 120 tons. The larger
crane is speedily convertible for fast single line lifts,
magnet or bucket, as well as container cargo opera-tions.
CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT: Forklifts of var-ious
capacities with accessories—cotton and paper
clamps, etc., tractors, cargo trailers, 5-ton mobile
crane, stevedore-tvpe cargo pallets.
LOADING & UNLOADING: Direct discharge or
loading between ships tackle and open top railcars
possible bv prior arrangement. Rail and truck docks
for loading and unloading at transit sheds and ware-houses;
ramps for easy access into sheds and ware-houses.
FUMIGATION: Modern fumigation plant with two
large vacuum chambers.
SERVICES: Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company
plus numerous highway motor carriers. Locally
domiciled Stevedoring Companies, Ships Agents,
Customs Rrokers, and Freight Forwarders.
SOUTHPORT
NORTH CAROLINA
ON INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY
BOAT HARBOR
Complete Modern Boating Facilities
In a Picturesque & Historical Town
Charles McNeill, Operations Manager
STATE PORT TERMINAL MOREHEAD CITY
SHIPSIDE SITES: Including existing rental buildings
available to private enterprise for specialized pur-poses.
WHARF: Concrete and steel, 3,625 feet long 45-foot
apron. Berth six 500-foot general cargo ships and
one petroleum tanker. Depth 35 feet at mean low
water.
BARGE TERMINAL: Four 300-foot berths complet-ed
1968.
TRANSIT SHEDS: Three total 220,000 square feet.
Two of steel, concrete and masonry, one of metal.
All sprinklered with deluge systems.
WAREHOUSES: Seven storage warehouses, totaling
588,000 square feet, sprinklered with deluge sys-tems.
Total 30 fire segregation sections. Bonded
warehouse spaee available.
OPEN STORAGE: 13 acres of paved open storage.
SCALES: Certified public truck scales available on
terminal.
TRACKAGE: Double marginal tracks with crossover,
full length of wharf. Single depressed track full
length rear of transit sheds and warehouses. Sou-thern
Railway freight car storage yard adjacent to
port property.
CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT: Fork lifts with
detachable accessories such as paper and bale
clamps, etc. Facilities for full palletization cargoes.
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Tractors and trailers.
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HEAVY EQUIPMENT: Berths and 7 have two 75-
ton gantry cranes with full crane services including
buckets, electromagnet, etc. Cranes ma) be used in
tandem with 150 ton capacity.
U. S. CUSTOMS: A designated customs port of entry
with permanent personnel assigned.
BULK FACILITY: 3,000,000-ton annual capacity
bulk facility for receipt, conveyance, storage and
shipment of bulk cargoes. Loading capacity of
3,000 tons per hour. Storage capacity 106,000 tons.
LOADING OB UNLOADING: Truck and rail docks
for loading or unloading at transit sheds and ware-houses;
easy access into transit sheds and ware-houses.
FUMIGATION: Latest, largest and fastest vacuum
cvanide and acritet fumigation facilities. Two 0.000
cubic foot steel chambers, full mechanized.
SERVICES: Served by the Southern-A c\ EC Bail-wax
System and the Beaufort-Morehead Railroad
plus numerous highway motor carriers.
SHIP-SIDE INDUSTRIAL SITES AVAILABLE.
SECURITY: Security force on duty at all times.
MYERS AND TEXAS
GULF SULFUR
Greensboro. X. C.—The world was the market-place
for his career as a salesman, but A. Nelson
Myers has come home to North Carolina to enjoy
retirement.
As senior vice president of marketing for Texas
Gulf Sulphur Company. Myers has been based in
New York City since 1946. but his responsibilities
for sales of TGS products, including fertilizer
materials, have taken him around the globe. He
retired January 1 to Greensboro, his boyhood
hometown.
Myers* success in the world of big business
failed to temper his southern manner. A co-worker
said. "Nelson will be missed. He has never lost
that fine, easy southern temperament. He has
always been accessible to everyone."
Another close associate said. "He's a wonderful
balance wheel, always has been. He has that great
trait of giving authority and responsibility to
people who work for him and letting them work
out the problems."
Born in Williamson. West Virginia, Myers was
six when his family moved to Greensboro. He
spent his boyhood there and was graduated in
1929 from Davidson College, some 90-miles away.
He is the eldest son of Rev. Charles F. Myers, a
prominent Presbyterian minister.
Many of his early working years were also
spent in North Carolina, in Wilmington and Greens-boro,
in addition to Richmond. Va.. Nashville.
Tenn. and Columbia. S. C.
Myers has been a Texas Gulf vice president
since 1959, first heading sales and then running
overall marketing beginning in 1964. He had been
a New Yorker for six years and was a vice presi-dent
for another large chemical sales corporation
when he joined Texas Gulf Sulphur.
Throughout the years, Myers has visited "back
home" in North Carolina as often as a busy sched-ule
would permit. His brother. Charles F. Myers,
Jr., Chairman of the Board of Burlington Indus-tries,
is a Greensboro resident. His daughter. Mary
Myers. is a nurse for the Guilford County Public
Health Service and also lives in Greensboro. A
second daughter. Mrs. Kenan
sides in Princeton. New Jerse\
L. B. Schenck. is a Davidson,
"North Carolina has a wonderful reputation
throughout the United States and abroad." said
Myers. "It's rare when countries where we sell
our products don't know something about North
Carolina and look upon it as a progressive state."
Van Yranken. re-and
a sister. Mrs.
N. C. citizen.
A. Nelson Myers, left, senior vice
president for marketing' of Texas Gulf
Sulphur Company, discusses shipping
of fertilizer materials from North
Carolina to world wide markets with
Dr. Guy T. McBride. Jr.. vice president
and general manager of the TGS phos-phate
division at Aurora. X. C. Myers'
retirement after 24 years with the
firm is effective January 1, 1970. He
will reside in Greensboro.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
BEAUFORT-MOREHEAD RAILROAD
Serves Radio Island
and the Deepwater Port, Nearest to the
Open Sea
IN MID-AMERICA
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N. C. Ports Authority General Cargo Terminal and Phosphate Complex
Beaufort Harbor at Morehead City
Radio Island
Land Lease Arrangements
Tank and Liquid
Import-Export Terminal Leases
Construction for all types of Liquid
Ocean Shipping, Planning and
Financing Available
Located within 500 miles of 50%
of the population of the United States
NORTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS
Write or Call
A. T. LEARY JR.
16 Broad Street
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
Telephone: (919) 728-2131
WOODBURY
INSURANCE AGENCY
Agents ajstd Brokers
OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE
• Ocean Cargo
• Tailor Made Forms
• Dockside Claims Facilities
• Personal Service
CABLE: WOODBURYINS
Louie E. Woodbury, Jr.. Pres.
Louie E. Woodbury, III Vice Pres.
Eugene B. Woodbury Vice Pres.
500 WACHOVIA BUILDING
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA 28401
TELEPHONE
(919) 763-5186
CARTERET COUNTY
NORTH CAROLINA
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Industrial Division
Carteret County Chamber of Commerce
OCEAN GATEWAY TO THE:
PHOSPHATE CHEMICALS, INDUSTRIAL PHOSPHATE
FIELD, CHEMICAL COMPLEX
All Weather Deep Water Port,
Morehead City.
Inland Waterway Routes.
Industrial Sites on Both.
Fast Freight, Rail or Truck.
Beautiful Vacation Area,
Atlantic Beach.
Closest Port, Direct Water
Connection, to Phosphate
Production Area in N. C.
P W Bullock, Chamber of Commerce
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.
waters shipping co.
F.M.C. No. 70
OFFICE: N. C. STATE DOCKS
Serving Wilmington & Morehead City
INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT FORWARDER
CUSTOMS BROKER
STEAMSHIP AGENTS
P. O. BOX 118 • PHONE AREA CODE 919—763-8491
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA
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CUSTOMS BROKERS
FOREIGN FREIGHT FORWARDERS
Douglas Municipal Airport
P. 0. Box 27143 — Tel. Area Code 704—392-3171
Charlotte. N. C. 28208
Citizens Bank Bldg. Richmond, Va.
Norfolk, Virginia Travelers Bldg.
Newport News, Va.
P Box 123
Alexandria, Va.
P. 0. Box 550
Member Nationol Customs Brokers & Forwarders Assn
of America, Inc.
Morehead City
Shipping Company
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STEAMSHIP AGENTS
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STEVEDORES
300 Arendell Street
Morehead City, North Carolina
P. O. Drawer 39 Cable Address
Phone 726-6151 MORSHIPCO
TWX No. 510-924-2905
Branch Office: Charlotte, N. C.
Serving MOREHEAD CITY
and serving it well!
The 10,200-mile Southern Railway System
connects Morehead City with major population
centers in the South and with all traffic gate-ways
to the rest of the country.
Southern innovations in equipment and
service are designed to meet specific shipper
needs with a dependable, one-management
transportation network that can save you time,
money and trouble.
On your next import or export shipment,
ship Southern—and see! Contact
the men in our Sales Office at
New Bern, N. C, P.O. Box 909,
or telephone (919) ME 7-6877.
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Today, Luckenbach serves the shipping
industry through a network of marine
terminals, stevedoring companies, and
agencies throughout the south.
Luckenbach
Steamship Company, Inc.
120 Wall Street
New York, N. Y. 10004
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