Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 02, No. 09, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1954 Page: 3 of 6
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CLAUD CAUTHEN DISPLAYS PRODUCTS OF WOOD CARVING
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Operator at No. 2 Power House
Owns Refinery's Smallest Band
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Plants to Get
Safety Awards
The Texas Safely Association
awarded Baytown Refinery first
place in the Texas Safety Asso-
ciation, Group 3, Contest for
Refineries for 1953, and SR-43
first place in the Rubber Pro-
ducing Section. The presentation
of these awards will be made to
Baytown representatives at the
annual meeting of the Texas
Safety Association in Dallas on
Tuesday, March 30.
James Harrop, general super-
intendent, will receive the award
for the Refinery and C. E. Carl-
son, superintendent, Rubber
Plants, will receive the Rubber
Plant award.
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WHAT NEXT?
You’ve probably had days
when everything seemed to go
wrong and you wished you had
stayed home in bed. Such was
the case last week for W. S.
MacKinnon, manager of the
Baytown Employees Federal
Credit Union, and Mrs. Helen
Driggers, also of the Credit
Union.
IT ALL started on a Mon-
day when Mrs. Al Sanders,
Credit Union clerk, became ill
and had to miss work. Mrs.
Anna Mae Johnson, former CU
employee who helps out in
emergencies, was called in.
Then an emergency in her
family prevented her from
working on the following Tues-
day—one day after the payday
for monthly employees and
while hourly employees were
still bringing payments from
their Friday payday. On top of
that, Thrift checks were flowing
into the Union office. Which
gets things right hack to Mr.
MacKinnon and Mrs. Driggers,
who had to handle the great
amount of business alone. But
there’s more: The time-saving
bookkeeping machine broke
down early in the day and the
two had to write out cards by
hand until a hastily summoned
maintenance man from Hous-
ton got the machine repaired
later in the afternoon. Then all
the cards had to be run back
through the machine.
"ONE THING could have
happened during the day that
would have pleased me very
much,” said the perspiring Mrs.
Driggers. “The front door
could have jammed so no one
else could get in.” But it was
a bad day clear to the end—the
door didn’t jam.
carving knife about 15 years ago
when he took up wood carving as
a relaxing hobby. Since then, he
estimates that he has whittled his
way through several hundred feet
of scrap lumber.
STANDING ABOUT seven
inches high, Caulhen’s figures are
carved from solid blocks of wood,
usually pine. The lifelike mu-
sicians in his six-piece orchestra
are fashioned out of a piece of
1x4x8 and are complete in
detail including the puffed-out
cheeks of the trombone player as
he tools away, A piano made out
of balsam has a keyboard the
exact replica of a real piano—
makes you want to push one of
the keys. A large while horse
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To Claud Cauthen an old
board lying on the ground
isn’t something to be stepped
around or picked up and
thrown away. In his eyes it lakes
the shape of a sleek, lifelike race
horse, a brawny cowboy, a
musician, or a powerful team of
mules with rippling muscles
straining against a plow guided by
a sun-tanned farmer. Caulhen is a
wood carver.
A VISITOR to his home in
Highlands is apt to stare in wide-
eyed amazement when he sees the
many objets d’art that Caulhen
has sitting on his coffee table and
television—all carved from scrap
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At completion, the figures are
self-supporting and perfectly
balanced, a tribute to Caulhen’s
skill with a knife because he works
entirely from a mental image of
what he wishes to carve—no posed
models, preliminary drawings or
sketches, or any marks whatso-
ever on the wood. “I just let the
chips fall where they may, but
make every stroke count,” Cau-
then explains.
CAUTHEN, operator at No.
2 Power House, has several pieces
of scrap lumber stored away in
his small work shop at home. He
has just finished carving a horse
and plans to start soon to add
more musicians to his orchestra.
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 02, No. 09, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1954, newspaper, March 5, 1954; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417441/m1/3/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.