The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 179, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 2, 1962 Page: 4 of 24
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■OLD SALTS'!
HUMBLE'S TANKER FLEET DUE HONORS
nXSlblf^lte^yMnataM lee win be honored at a company
fc on tapkera and all of it for At
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compiled by Capt. Harold Grif-
fiths, master of the 49,000 dead-
weight-ton U. S. Flag Esso Balti-
more, newest and largest tanker
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, Cant Griffiths and four other
Humble Marine division veterans
with a total of 191 years of setv|
reception in Houston Thursday.
The others are: Adolv Larson,
manager of Humble's Port of New
York office, who Is retiring from
years at sea with the company.
He started his career as an able
seaman in the old Jersey Stan-
dard fleet on the tanker William
G. Warden. Working his way up
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sistant port captain
who has 40 years of service; Mil
ton Breece, manager of the com
party's operating department in
Houston, with 28 years of service,
who will replace Capt. Larson as
manager in New York, and Capt.
John Hnath, currently mate
master of the W. L. Steed in 1,934.
For the past 28 years he has been
at-the helm of a succession of
Jersey Standard ships. Among
them wen« the Em* -Aamneilw
Esso Lima, Esso Gettysburg,
which he took out on its third
voyage; Esso Jamestown, Esso
Dallas Oil Finn Buys
Track Lines Interest
and hag been on the company's
tankers ever since.
"It seems like yesterday when
I started," he reminisces in still
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Welsh-accented speech, "And I
boat rac
cing and was coach and the tanker with machine guns. The
n of the company's world- tanker returned firp «nd thp pan.
the company with 42 years of through the ratings, he was named ,llw*,he »ea more and more every
service; Henry E. Heffelfinger, “ -------- L ■ ~ • — ......
in Housti
day.
Is he giving any thought to re-
tirement? Not a bit.
"I can still make It up and
.fow^laddm —,fyt «e «W sea warden in 1933. He
man," he says with a brood griri,
nd is quick to prove it.
"I'm still crazy Hbout the sea
coxswain of the company's world-
championship crews in 1933, 1935
and 1936.
Capt. Helfelflnger joined the
company in 1921, as an able sea-
man on the W. J; Hamm. He
successively served as third, sec-,
ond and chief mate before being
named master of .........
tanker returned fire and the cap-
tain headed his ship for the sub
DALLAS (API — Purchase of
controlling interest in East Texas
Motor Freight Lines of Dallas, by
Rattlesnake Bites Need
More Than Pocketknife
the tug Esso New Jersey in New
York harbor, with 40 yea:
years of
service.
The record of Captain Griffiths
is unique in that he is the first
member of the Standard Oil Co.
three of Which he handled from ann'as 1 rhpm instantly im-
their maiden voyages. He has been P,wed 1 see my dreams fulfilled.'
captain of the Baltimore since she
went Into service in 1960.
In that service. Capt. Griffiths
has gone around the world. He
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(New Jersey) family to put in 40 has been through the Suez Canal
and around Cape Horn Abadan.
Iran; Southampton, England; Ras
Tanura, Saudi Arabia; Montevi-
deo, Uruguay; Tulura, Peru —
they’re all familiar port names.
A native of Barbados in the
British West Indies, where he was
born of Welsh parents, Capt. Grif-
fiths went to sea "In sail" at
14 He went all over the world as
...jprentlce on a sailing ship
and gained a love of the sea that
has never left him. The next two
years were spent on freighters and
two boats on the East Coast. In
1922, when he wasn't quite 18
years of age, he joined the Stan-
dard Oil Co. (New Jersey! fleet
During World War II Capt. Grit-
fiths sidled tankers to Europe and
South America. His ship, the Mo-
winckel was torpedoed early in
the war off Cape Hatteras on a
voyage (pom Aruba to New York
the summer of 1952 when he
was named expediter and-employe
relations assistant for the eom-
WF >n Aruba. He .was mimed
present
lir.w
Housto
in an effort to ram her. The sub | the Dallas oil firm of Bright and
had to crash dive to escape. j.Schlff, was announced today by
Capt. Breece has been manager'G' Pnschall, president of truck
of the operating department lnjlim’-
Houston since April, 1961. A grad- T*» price was undisclosed. ET-
uate of the Massachusetts Mari- MF operates in seven centra) and
B.v THE ASSOCIATED PRES* I tagged for the June 1 fishing ro-
You need more than a shoe deo. Rodeo arrangers had to use
lace and pocket knife to treaty a | ^ lake when the fish arrived
rattlesnake bite, warns the Game
Commission.
‘Venomous snakes come out of
their winter hibernation dens at
te before being uate of the Massachusetts Mari-!Mr operates in seven centra) and th<. same time spring fishing be-
prepared kit with your
fishing gear might save a life,”
said a warning. A suction cup to
shore berth. That included three-
and-one’half years of active j frvirk - trailer units oul of 17 ter- ..... .........^
Navy duly during which he at- itninnls in an area extending from:^move venom” from a bite area
tained-the rank of commander, I Quango, 8t. Ixstts and Memphisjjs ‘particOIarly Important, the
inj» Capl. Hnalh has spent all of his]l<> major cities throughout Texas;warnjng saj<j
and Louisiana. Last year the com-1
pany grossed $17.4 million.
last week and were too large for
a tank.
The Texas International Fishing
Tournament will be held at Port
Isabel Aug. 1-5. Alternate dates
are Aug. 8-12.,
to ft
1# , I company career as a mate und
capt. Heffe finger s wartime ex- relieving eaptain on Esso lugs
penences include an attack by a in New York harbor. He startl’d
lp?«!laSUhrnaI.lne °? Ult‘ «xistihis career in 1922 and is current-
The sub 1942, jly on the Esso New Jersey which
Four Heir County lakes have
been stocked with fish that range
The fertile fronds of the ostrich | from 4 to 13 pounds and include
attacked Ms based in Bayonne, N. J.
He quickly turned fhe ship around,
headed for shore and ran into one
fern resemble somewhat
trieh plume
os-: black bass, channel eats, crappie
land goggle eyes. The fish are
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of our own mines. The ship was
further damaged, but remained
afloat. The captain stayed aboard
and two days later the ship was
tewed into Hampton Roads. Va.
She was repaired, served all dur-
ing the war and is still sailing.
Married to a girl he met at i
boarding house across frum his
ship's dock in Staten Island. New
York, he has one daughter study-
ing nursing at Barry College in
Miami. He calls Flushing, N. Y.,
home.
The other men being honored
also have impressive records.
Capt. Larson has been manager
of the New York office since April,
1961. He started his career at sea
on sailing vessels as a deck boy.
He joined the Humble fleet in 1920
as a third mate on the Standard.
He was named master of the John
Worthington in 1931, and captain-
ed company ships until he went
ashore as agent for the company
In Baltimore in 1955.
During the war he commanded
Esso tankers on Transatlantic and
Pacific voyages. He received a
commendation from the War
Shipping Administration lor one
convoy trip to Reykjavik, Iceland,
with fuel and military equipment.
The convoy ran through dense
fog for 16 hours, encountering four
icebergs at night.
Capt. Larson is also well known
as an expert in the field of lifa-
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NEW YORK (AP)-A man who
was only hours away from death
in the electric chair a quarter
century ago has filed a Sl-million
damage claim against New York
City.
Isadore Zimmerman, now 42,
claims he was wrongfully con-
victed and imprisoned for 24
years, including a 9-month period
when he was "enveloped by the
icy chill of death" while await-
ing execution.
Zimme
terman was only 18 when
he and five other men were con
victed of the slaying of a detec-
tive during a 1937 Manhattan
holdup. They were sentenced to
death.
Zimmerman spent nine months
in Sing Sing Prison’s death house.
Seven hours before his date with
the electric chair, Zimmerman
won executive clemency from the
then Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, and
his sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment,
wen ceswimedwrthi.* ,
l his sentence commuted to
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During his years in prison Zim-
merman steadfastly maintained
his innocence. He contended that
a key prosecution witness lied in
pre-trial examinations and that
the prosecution suppressed that
fact.
Last January, an appellate
court ruled that the alleged sup-
pression had prejudiced Zimmer-
man’s right to a fair trial and
ordered a new one.
The following month, on petition
of his attorneys, Genera] Sessions
Court dismissed the original in-
dictment, and Zimmerman went
free.
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umn this item:
"Mr. and Mrs, Ed Clarke spent
Sunday at the Jefferson County
poorhouse visiting Ray Brownlee,
former local resident who tried to
publish a newspaper that would
please everybody."
Mr. Brownlee's domicile, a Fed-
eral Communications Commission
hearing indicates, awaits those
who would try to do the same
thing with a television station,
The FCC concluded this week
its investigation of the quality and
content of local live television pro-
gramming in Chicago. Station
managements got their chance to
reply to earlier testimony of pub-
lic witnesses.- •»
The public witnesses — i
men for religious, cultural,
and ethnic groups—generally crit-
icized the stations for, they said,
devoting too little time to their
special interests or providing time
unfavorable for reaching a large
viewing audience.
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spent four days and a lot of words
making dear that television is a
business venture, that it must
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 179, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 2, 1962, newspaper, May 2, 1962; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1057686/m1/4/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.