Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 02, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1954 Page: 1 of 6
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11 VOL. 2, NO. 41
Room 105, Commissary Bldg., Phone 2752
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, OCTOBER 15, 1954
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PETE THE PYTHON? No. The famous Pete,
Enough Sign To Practically Assure Club
probably know,
BULLETIN!
ed 1,681 applications for mem- bers to get the club started.
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ble employees have signed up
for the Recreation Club and it
looks like only a matter of lime
before it will become a realily.
The membership drive ended
Monday of this week.
LAST OFFICIAL count
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Al SR-10, the pumping and gaug-
ing employees, extra board, GF
and GK units, riggers, labor,
R & D, boilermakers, instrument,
tool and equipment and welders
hit the 100% mark.
EMPLOYEES at SR-43 in the
garage, riggers, sheet meltal, elec-
tricians, welders, boilermakers,
painters, insulation and tool room
also reached the top.
By the end of ihe second day,
about 45% of the goal had been
reached. A total of $31,257 had
been contributed, including cash
and payroll deductions. Most of
the departments in the Plants were
(See UNITED FUND, Page 2)
g Published Every Week by Humble Oil S Refining Company for Employees at Baytown Plants
back to his home after a few days of freedom from his cage
in the Fort Worth zoo. The men with the triumphant grins in
the picture above, quickly snapped by an alert Plant photog-
rapher, are simply smiling at the ease with which they can
pull a section of large four-inch hose used at the Docks for
loading bunker fuel aboard tankers. About the only thing dif-
ficult about capturing it is just its bulk and weight. A section
of this hose weighs around 700 pounds and is transported
from one location to another on dollies. Dock employees, with
their "captive" in tow, are from the left: Leonard Bond,
Charlie Gougenheim, Willard Thibodeaux, and H. G. Patton.
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I "THIS MAY BE THE LUCKY NUMBER,” says Hum
ble Service Station agent Stanley B. Renfro as he hands a
n numbered Oil Progress Week pamphlet to L. M. Early, asst.
I zone supervisor. Early was one of hundreds of Refinery em-
ployees who were slopping in at service stations in the Bay-
town-LaPorte area to pick up one of the pamphlets which con-
i' tains a number. Renfro’s station is at 3626 Market Street. A
‘ drawing is scheduled for Monday morning to determine the
lucky number. The number will be announced in the Bay town
P Sun, Monday afternoon, and over both KREL and KRCT at
I 12 noon. Holder of the booklet containing the number will re-
ceive an all-expense paid trip for Iwo to the New Year’s Cotton
n Bowl foolball game in Dallas. This includes round-trip train
fare from Houston and hotel and meals in Dallas for two
days. Booklets will be given out through tomorrow. For
more details on Oil Progress Week, see bottom of Page 2.
Refinery employees are liv-
ing up to their reputation for
generosity as the first week of
the 1954 United Fund Drive
ends.
ON THE first day of the drive.
Tuesday, 19% of the total Plant
goal was reached. Five depart-
ments in the Mechanical Division
were 100% in contributions io the
I F. They were Electric, Rigging,
Pipe. Sheet Metal and Tool and
Equipment.
Light hydrocarbon section of
the Service Laborlories was also
over the top, along with the cleri-
cal and maintenance departments.
bership in the club. That num-
ber is for the entire Houston-
Baytown area and not for the
Refinery alone. Refinery mem-
bership totaled 507 as of last
Monday.
It was estimated when the
membership drive began that it
would take al least 1,441 mem-
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 02, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1954, newspaper, October 15, 1954; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417473/m1/1/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.