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BAYTOWN BRIEFS
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No. 4
April, 1974
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New System For Blending No-Lead
Gasoline In Operation At Baytown
April Eventful Safety Month
For Chemical Plant Personnel
After Whispering For Six Months,
Richards Now Feels Like Shouting
10,000 Expected On May 4
Exxon Day Planning In Final Stages
Chemical Plant employees watching Hal Ricketson, Plant Security,
change board to reflect a year of safety are Mechanical Craftsmen Ralph
Conway and Burch White, and Process Technician Norman Batterbee.
CHEMICALS
. memento for the occasion.
One million man-hour goal has
heady been achieved by Refin-
has been installed at the Refinery
Laboratory for continuous moni-
toring of product specifications
while no-lead gasoline is being
blended. This includes a segre-
J. M. “Rags” Richards can talk
again after Teflon paste injection.
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retired from the Refinery Pump-
ing and Gauging Department in
1962.
In his natural voice, Richards
says. “Now I’m looking forward
to finishing that new-employee
orientation lecture I was giving
when I lost my voice last Sep-
tember.”
Exxon Company, U.S.A.
Baytown Refinery
gated no-lead sample pump and
a new boiling point analyzer. The
analyzer has an automatic read-
out at the Oil Movements Con-
(See NEW ..., page 7)
Exxon Chemical Company U.S.A.
Baytown Chemical Plant
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Contestants for the Little Miss and Little Mister contest on Exxon Day are, front row from left Susie
Estes, Delores Shivers Missy Kaase, Anita Harmon, Robin Moore, Angclia Singleton, Kathy Horton, Krista
Fosse, Christy Elsey. Back row,. °n Heintschel, Eric Twardowski, Darrell Stanley, Keith Lohkamp, Gene
Bird, Charles Johns, Larry Miller, Gene Bevel. Not pictured are Tommy Fyfe and Stacy Henry.
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property just north of Baytown
Junior School.
The first feature event on the
program, beginning at 10 a.m.,
will be the two contests to select
a Little Miss and a Little Mister
Exxon Day. The pre-school-age
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cry employees this year—on Feb-
ruary 4. The current string of
safe days began after a Refinery
employee sustained a disabling
injury at work February 23.
youngsters who are relatives of
Exxon Club members will vie for
the titles of the contests. Contes-
tants are pictured below.
Kiddie rides, which will oper-
ate throughout the day, will also
begin at 10 a.m., according to
Exxon Day Chairman Harry
Combs, M&C. Barbecue beef
plates will be served continu-
ously from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m..
Combs says.
Also on the program will be
a concert by the Robert E. Lee
High School Band from 11:30
a.m. until 12:30 p.m. A fashion
review featuring both male and
female models will be held at 2
p.m. Other events during the day
will be bingo games, plant tours,
sack races, and egg-throwing
contests for youngsters.
Barbecue tickets for depen-
dents of Exxon Club members
will be available at S2.50 each
through April 30, and S3 after
that date, according to Exxon
Club President Horton Bridges,
Chemical Plant Technical. They
are available from any Exxon
Club director, at the Exxon Em-
ployees Credit Union, and at the
Baytown Mutual Benefit Asso-
ciation.
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The Exxon Club’s board of
directors are in the final stages
of planning this year’s Exxon
Day, May 4. Some 10,000 people
are expected for the big family
picnic for Bay town Exxon em-
ployees to be held on company
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history at midnight April 22
when they completed 1,000 days
since their last disabling injury.
They worked approximately 1.5
million man-hours during the
thousand-day period. Their cur-
rent goal is to complete three
years on July 27 without a dis-
abling injury at work.
Chemicals Operating employ-
ees, who were honored in Febru-
ary after completion of 13 years
without an on-the-job disabling
injury, have now passed two ad-
ditional safety milestones. On
April 15, the 112 members of
the department attained two
years without a reportable injury
of any kind on the job. Then,
on April 22, they completed a
year without a disabling injury
off the job.
During April, Chemical Plant
employees have achieved several
outstanding milestones in safety.
First, at midnight April 23,
the entire Chemical Plant com-
pleted a year without an on-the-
job disabling injury. During the
365 days, Chemical Plant per-
sonnel worked a total of 1.7 mil-
lion man-hours.
This was the third time since
1969 that employees of the Bay-
town Chemical Plant marked up
a year or more without an on-
the-job disabling. The longest
period was 693 days, completed
April 20, 1971. Then, Chemical
Plant employees completed 563
days April 23, 1973.
As a memento for completion
of the full year without anyone
being disabled on the job, each
Chemical Plant employee was
mailed a gift certificate redeem-
able for merchandise at a local
store.
Employees of the Chemical
Plant Mechanical Division made
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“After whispering for six
months, I feel like shouting since
getting my voice back,” says
J. M. “Rags” Richards, ma-
chinist training coordinator in
the Refinery Employee Relations
Department.
Richards lost his voice last
September when the vocal cord
in the left side of his throat be-
came paralyzed, possibly as the
result of a virus. Paralysis of the
cord prohibited it from moving
close enough to the vocal cord in
the right side of his throat to
produce sound.
“After my voice didn’t come
back within six months, my doc-
tor injected Teflon paste, a petro-
leum derivative, into the para-
lyzed vocal cord,” Richards says.
The paste enlarged the cord, he
explains, so that it is near enough
to the right vocal cord to make
talking possible.
The physician who made the
injection was Dr. Bob Stout,
whose father, Luther W. Stout,
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Refinery Employee's Next
Safety Target Is May 16
Refinery employees arc aiming
at a safety target of midnight,
May 16 and completion of a
million man-hours since I he last
disabling injury on the job.
Upon achieving this goal, each
Refinery employee will be mailed
a gift certificate redeemable for
merchandise at a local store as
When the Exxon Gettysburg
left the Bay town docks April 8
bound for the East Coast, the
ship’s cargo included two million
gallons of a brand new product
made at Baytown—Exxon Un-
leaded gasoline.
This was the first shipment of
this product from the Refinery
following the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency’s requirement that
one grade of unleaded gasoline
be available at service stations
by July 1. Exxon Unleaded will
replace the Exxon Plus currently
marketed.
Besides the initial shipment by
tanker, additional quantities of
no-lead gasoline have been pro-
duced for movement by pipeline
to locations throughout Texas.
Getting into the no-lead gas-
oline business involved a lot more
than just leaving the lead out of
one grade of gasoline. Existing
motor gasoline facilities could
not be used because of the resi-
due lead they contained, so a
segregated system for testing,
blending, and cargo-loading was
required.
Putting a segregated system
into operation cost about $800,-
000. It includes a mile and a
half of new lines, a giant 7,000
gallon-per-minute pump, and in-
strumentation and other special
equipment needed for the seg-
regated operation.
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Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 04, Ed. 1, April 1974, newspaper, April 1974; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1433591/m1/1/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.