Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 06, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1958 Page: 1 of 4
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MARCH SAFETY SLOGAN
Published Every Week by Humble Oil & Refining Company for Employees at Baytown Plants
March 14, 1958
Pet Show Without Incident—Almost
37 Dogs Take After 1 Cat Who Hides Atop Tire
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Gain In Employees
There was an average of 19,-
819 Humble employees during
1957, a gain of 692 or 3.6%
over 1956, while payroll of
about $138 million increased by
9.4% reflecting primarily the
general wage increase made
early in the year.
Turning Cluster Completed
The new turning cluster at
No. 5 Dock has been completed,
but will not be used for several
weeks until concrete sets up.
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Tom Harris, son of E. B. Harris. Service Laboratories, proudly
hugs his pet dog which won first place ribbon in the Ugliest Pet
contest in which the dog was entered.
Also assisting at the show were
C. T. Jones and Mrs. A. L.
Lewis, who registered the pets.
A majority of the pels were
dogs, officials said, and included
37 canines of all sizes, shapes
and varieties. Other pels in-
cluded cals, a red rooster, a pig,
a hamster, a snake, rabbits, and
several lizards.
The only incident to mar the
otherwise smoothly-executed
judging events was caused by the
traditional cat-dog relationships.
Forty-six Cub Scouts from 12
packs paraded their favorite pets
before judges Sunday afternoon
at the Cub Annual Pet Show,
held in a grassy area across the
street from the ball park.
Officials Niles K. Brill, George
Ferguson, and F. E. Kelly said
every boy won either a first,
second or third place ribbon in
at least one of the various cate-
gories selected for pel judging.
Judges were Lee Robertson,
Eldon Berry and Dick Worth.
four-hour sessions on two con-
secutive days. It is believed that
this new arrangement will per-
mit better scheduling of man
power.
The plan calls for at least
ten per cent of employees in each
department to lake the instruc-
tion with the exception of those
in Electric and Pumping and
Gauging. Each of these two de-
partments will send one-third of
its employees. About 600 em-
ployees in the refinery will lake
the course.
Instruction will be given in
artificial respiration, control of
bleeding, care of burns, shock,
fractures and dislocations, and
proper transportation of injured
persons. The course will be given
in the Safely Training building.
A cat contestant look one look
at her 37 arch enemies in evi-
dence, got loose from her leash
and look off like the frustrated
feline she was. Of course, dogs
arc not given to standing still
while a cat is gelling away, and
a number of them with leashes
flying, gave hol pursuit. It look
practically all hands to retrieve
the cat, which was finally found
perched on lop of an automobile
lire, out of sight under the
fender.
Sickness Is
Highest In
Plant History
A new record was set in the
refinery during January and
February. Although not an envi-
able record, it can serve as a
forceful example of the import-
ance of taking extra precaution
to prevent illness, especially dur-
ing an epidemic.
According to the la lest sick-
ness and non-industrial accidents
report, 220 equivalent hourly
employees each day (5.6% of
the roll) were ill during this
two month period and had to
stay off the job. This is believed
to be the highest sickness loss
period in the history of the re-
finery. The influenza siege helped
to increase our severity from
3.0% in February, 1957 to the
5.6% loss this year.
Employees in Utilities had the
lowest sickness record for the
two month period with only
2.4% of their group being hit
by the flu bug. Process with
4.1% and Technical and Re-
search with 4.2% were the only
other divisions below 5.0%.
Departments of 50 or more
men losing 3.0% or less of their
employees to sickness were:
Light Ends, 2.2%; Lube Extrac-
tion, 1.9%; and Solvents, 2.1%.
Members of refinery Medical
(See SICKNESS, Page 2)
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Crude Runs Reduced
Again This Month
Humble Oil & Refining
Company has reduced its
crude oil runs at Baytown Re-
finery during March by an-
other 10.000 barrels per day
to 185,000 barrels. The re-
finery has a capacity of 282,-
000 barrels a day and proc-
essed an average of 234,500
a day during 1957. At the
end of last year, runs were
averaging 220,800 barrels a
day and were reduced to 195,-
000 barrels a day by the
middle of February.
Humble Sponsors Tractor
Training For 4-H Group
Tractor Training for adult
volunteer leaders is the theme of
a series of 2-day schools now
being carried on across Texas.
As sponsor of the 4-H Tractor
Program in Texas and New Mex-
(ico. Humble also provides funds
and assistance to carry on this
worthwhile training in co-opera-
lion with the state’s Agricultural
Extension Services and the Na-
lional Committee on Boys and
Girls Club Work.
Checks To Be
Issued Twice
Each Month
Central Coin Your Ideas
Committee has announced a
new schedule of paying ini-
tial awards of §50 or less.
Instead of issuing checks
every three months for ac-
ceptable ideas on initial awards,
beginning immediately awards
for $50 or less will be issued
twice a month as near the 1st
and 16th as practicable.
Initial awards above $50 will
be handled on a quarterly basis
as in the past.
This new schedule for initial
awards of $50 or less will enable
the local refinery committee to
forward these suggestions to the
Central Committee immediately
after being reviewed by the refin-
ery committee which meets semi-
monthly. The Central Committee
can review these recommended
ideas without delay and checks
for cash awards will be issued
twice a month to the authors.
With this new schedule, there
will be a minimum of delay in
examining and recommending a
larger number of initial ideas.
So, if you have an idea or sev-
eral suggestions, jot them down
now on the convenient suggestion
form and send it to the refinery
Coin-Your-Ideas Committee. The
committee welcomes your sugges-
tions and urges more employees
to lake advantage of this quicker
method of recognition and ex-
change of ideas that will help
our company and its operations.
Remember the cash awards
for acceptable initial ideas run
(See CYI CHANGES, Page 3)
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Classes in first aid starting
Monday, March 17, will be con-
ducted by the Safety Depart-
ment for the ninth consecutive
year. M. E. Bramlett, on loan
from the Garage, will be the in-
structor.
The course is designed to pre-
pare employees to meet emer-
gencies requiring immediate on-
the-job first aid. In the past, the
course consisted of four two-
hour sessions per person on ;
four consecutive days. This year,
the classes will be held in two
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Woman Chemist Describes
Use Of Radio-Chemistry
Mrs. Annelle von Rosenberg
was in charge of an exhibit, pre-
pared by Humble Oil & Refining
Company, at Texas Woman’s
University in Denton this past
weekend. She was invited to
demonstrate the use of radio-
chemistry in the petroleum in-
dustry at the University’s Science
Day, a program staged each year
for high school juniors and
seniors.
Mrs. von Rosenberg’s hus-
band, Dr. H. E. von Rosenberg,
accompanied her to Denton to
assist with the demonstration.
They are both members of Re-
search and Development Division
at Humble’s Baytown Research
Center. Mrs. von Rosenberg is
a chemist engaged in research
employing radio-chemistry in the
analysis of petroleum. Her hus-
band, a chemical engineer, is
engaged in process development
research on fuels processes.
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