Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 02, No. 05, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1954 Page: 3 of 6
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Holiday Pay Rule Term Broadened
His Specialty—"Fewer Moving Parts
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Normal Straight Time Rate’
Affected by Recent Change
The world's largest hotel if con-
verted into a mum moth storage
tank would hold only enough oil
to supply the nation for ten hours,
or 3.4 million barrels. The U. S.
requires over 8.3 million barrels
every day.
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EQUIPMENT WITH FEWER MOVING PARTS
Sam C. Cook, “hammer screw” (arrow) dial replaces complicated
machine at lower left, & conveyor tube
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1 Cuts Down Maintenance Troubles
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Baytown Briefs • February 5, 1954
On January 26, 1954, the
Baytown Employee Relations
Committee broadened the defi-
nition of the term “normal
straight time rate” which appears
in the holiday pay rule to include
shift differentials when applicable.
This will become effective with
the San Jacinto Day holiday.
THE TERM “normal straight
lime rate” is now interpreted to
mean the straight time rale of
the occupation, including shift
differential if applicable, on which
the employee works on the holi-
day or the straight time rate of the
occupation, including shift dif-
ferential if applicable, on which
the employee is scheduled to work.
The following information is
given to assist in the application
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Increase in Living
Annuitants Expected
According to a study recently
completed, Humble can expect an
increase of approximately 335%
in the number of living annuitants
in the next 20 years, and an in-
crease of approximately 152%
during the next ten years. The
number of living annuitants will
increase from about 876 at present
to 2,208 in ten years and to 3,807
in 20 years.
The story of Sam C. Cook,
। machinist at SR-43, and the
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he developed at the Rubber
Finishing Building is a good ex-
I ample of the ingenuity displayed
by Humble employees in improv-
ing job methods and equipment.
COOK, who maintains the
many complicated machines used
in drying and cutting finished rub-
ber, decided that he could cut
down on the maintenance troubles
by developing equipment with
fewer moving parts.
Early in January, he built a
“hammer screw” to cut up rubber
as it came out of the dryer. The
machine, which works somewhat
like a meat grinder, replaces an
expensive and troublesome ham-
mer mill and has 20 less moving
parts than the original model.
THEN COOK designed a lube
with a 12-inch screw inside to
carry rubber from the hammer
screw to the extruder which heats
the rubber and conditions it for
further processing. That tube re-
places a conveyor belt which re-
quired a great deal of maintenance
because of wear from friction.
All parts in both the hammer
screw and conveyor tube were
made in Plant shops.
Besides making maintenance
easier, the improvements aid in
housekeeping.
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IT’S THE FIRST TRIP for the super tanker ESSO
FLORENCE, which arrived here last Thursday afternoon from
Newport News, Virginia. Capt. J. G. Olsen, left, master of the
vessel, is shown checking bills of lading for the cargo of heal-
ing oil the ship look on at the Refinery. Looking on is Byard
Sooy, junior port dispatcher with the Marine department. Capt.
Olsen, the senior captain of the Esso fleet, lakes all new tankers
on their maiden voyages. The Florence was one of three tankers
that carried healing oil from Baytown lo the chilly East Coast
last week. The super tanker is more than two city blocks long
and is 42 feet deep from the main deck. Like her sister ships,
the Florence has a cargo capacity of 229,600 barrels.
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of the rule when sliding rates arc
involved:
1. If an employee slides both
the last day he is scheduled to
work before the holiday and
the first day he is scheduled to
work after the holiday, his holi-
day pay will be computed as
follows:
(a) If the rale for the slide
is the same for both days, the
holiday pay will be computed
at the sliding rale plus shift
differential if it is applicable,
(b) If the sliding rales for
the day before and the day
after the holiday are dif-
ferent. holiday pay will be
computed at the lower of the
two sliding rales plus shift
differential if it is applicable.
2. If the employee works the
holiday at a sliding rate, he will
be paid holiday pay al the
sliding rate plus shift differen-
tial if it is applicable regard-
less of whether lie slides the day
before or the day after.
THE Accounting Division will
continue to accept the respon-
sibility of reporting and comput-
ing holiday pay. It will determine
whether the holiday pay is to be
computed at sliding rales and will
include shift differentials.
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 02, No. 05, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1954, newspaper, February 5, 1954; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417437/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.