Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 08, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 18, 1960 Page: 1 of 6
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November 18, 1960
Plant Chemical Production Will Be Expanded
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Refinery Lumber Yard Will Be Moved Soon
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Date For OCAW-BEF Runoff To Be
Decided At Meeting Next Monday
November Safety Slogan
Why Don't You Wear
Protective Equipment?
No Briefs Next Week
Because of the Thanksgiving
holidays that start Thursday,
November 24, there will be no
Baytown Briefs next week. The
next issue of Briefs will be Fri-
day, December 2.
They'll Be Counting 'em This Week
Ballots For Election Of 18 Humble Club
Directors Due In; Al Harrison Honored
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New Facilities Needed To
Meet Demand For Aromatics
Plans were announced this week for expansion of Refinery
chemicals production facilities.
Approval has been received to install facilities which
will increase the Paraxylene unit capacity from 65 to 105
million pounds annually by the first quarter of 1962. This
program will also provide for a substantial increase in ortho-
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used for Asphalt plant expansion.
A portion of the storage yard
will continue to be used for pipe
and other storage. However, re-
duction in pipe inventory makes
it possible to locale the lumber
yard there, also. Locating the
lumber yard at this site will save
an expenditure of $26,000 which
would have been necessary had
the present paved lumber stor-
age area not been available.
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Chemical Group
Presents $250
To Memorial Fund
The Chemical Division of the
American Society for Quality
Control last Wednesday pre-
sented $250 to the C. T. Shewell
Memorial Fund for the Baytown
Public Library.
Mrs Shewell received the
award from Jerrold H. Moyer,
Champion Paper and Fibre
Company, Pasadena chairman-
elect of the Chemical Division.
In his presentation, Moyer
cited Shewell’s interest and hard
work in promoting an adequate
public library for Baytown.
Shewell, a senior research
Ten Receive Cash For
Their CYI Suggestions
Ten Refinery men were pre-
sented cash this week for ideas
submitted under the Coin-Your-
dea plan.
Five awards went to employees
o the Machinist department,
ahese men are L. A. Wilder,
830; L. L. Woods, $25; S. Q.
Hancock and S. T. Patillo, §15
5mh, and A. R. Kirtley, $10.
Other awards went to Edward
p• Rowen, Electric, $15; C. C.
arrish. Crude Assay Labora-
Pory, 815; R. V. McDaniel, In-
Al’rument, $10; R c Wishart,
DU, $10, and J. E. Gross,
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V. J. Cavarretta, left, is shown as he presented a Polaroid Land cam-
era to Al Harrison, outgoing president of the Humble Club, as a gift
of appreciation from the club at the annual directors’ banquet last
Saturday night. A dance was held following the banquet.
'Veterans' Set New
Record On Vets Day
A group of “veteran” employ-
ees at the IHB (Butyl) cele-
brated Veteran’s Day on Novem-
ber 11 by setting a new daily
production record of 3,029 bar-
rels of isobutylene. The previous
record of 2,903 barrels has stood
since last March 28.
Eighteen of the 26 employ-
ees assigned to the unit have
been there since the IHB started
up early in 1944. The remaining
eight men are all long service
employees.
According to G. W. Wilson,
superintendent of the Solvents
and Polymers division, this in-
crease in isobutylene production
was particularly timely since op-
eration of the Butyl plant at near
record production rates had de-
pleted isobutylene inventory.
ties will be added at the Para-
xylene unit. However, an import-
ant part of the paraxylene project
includes construction of addi-
tional feed preparation equipment
at the Naphtha Rerun unit and at
Hydroformer No. 1.
The benzene-toluene expansion
program would involve a substan-
tial increase in these products.
Benzene is used in the produc-
tion of one type of synthetic rub-
ber, and in the manufacture of
plastics, resins, detergents and
insecticides. Toluene is used as
an ingredient in dyes and other
chemical compounds, and is find-
ing important new outlets as a
chemical raw material.
In the interest of expediting
completion of the above chemical
expansion programs, C. A. Han-
sen, general foreman of the Sol-
vents department, has been
named project manager for both
projects. G. A. Armer, assistant
general foreman of Solvents, has
been placed on a rotational as-
signment as Solvents general
foreman.
Electrician Is
Severely Burned
An electrician at the Polyolefin
unit sustained a disabling in-
jury last Tuesday. As he was
preparing to install a new circuit
at the power sub-station, a
wrench slipped and came in con-
tact with a bus, causing a short
and flash.
The injured sustained severe
burns of the hands, wrists, face
and head.
This is the Refinery’s 16th
disabling injury so far this year.
and other detailed plans for the
dale and conduct of the runoff
election will be finally deter-
mined at a preliminary confer-
ence among representatives of
the unions, the Company, and
NLRB on Monday, November 21.
In order to serve the con-
venience of employees and to re-
duce confusion concerning vot-
ing locations, it is planned that
each eligible employee will se-
lect the location at which he will
vote, and the various voting lists
will be prepared accordingly.
Further details will be given
in a future issue of Briefs.
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Vol. 8 No. 46, Community Building No. 1 “
Extension 2752, Boytown, Texas--Published weekly by Humble Division of Humble Oil & Refining Company for Baytown
Because of the failure of either
OCAW or BEF in the NLRB
election November 10 and 11 to
obtain a majority of votes for
representation of the P & M unit,
it will be necessary to have a
runoff election. The Technical
n unit, which selected BEF to rep-
U •. present it, will not be involved in
I the runoff. As the “No Union”
preference was eliminated in the
primary election, receiving only
37 voles, it will be deleted from
the runoff ballot, leaving only a
choice between OCAW and BEF.
Proposals have been made
to provide an additional voting
location at the East Gate. This
be returned by Monday so they
can be counted early in the week.
It has been requested that the bal-
lots be returned through the
Company mail so they can all be
collected at the Main Office mail-
room.
$ ) ' b The 18 new directors will each
-serve a two-year term, and will
meet with the club’s holdover di-
rectors next month to elect offi-
cers and committee chairmen for
the coming year.
This year’s directors, their
wives and other guests were
feted at the annual directors’
banquet held at the Tower Res-
taurant last Saturday night. The
banquet was followed by danc-
ing to the music of a combo di-
rected by Chet Brantley.
V. J. Cavarretta, Storehouse,
served as master of ceremonies
for the gala event, and high-
lighted the evening of entertain-
ment by presenting Al Harrison,
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Insurance
Deducts To
Be Changed
Beginning in January, 1961,
Group Life Insurance deductions
will be made during the first
half of each month.
Under the present Humble Di-
vision system, payroll deductions
for Group Life Insurance pre-
miums arc made during the lasl
half of the month, based on the
earnings class in effect on the
first of the month in which the
deduction is made. However,
under the new Group Life In-
surance Plan effective January 1,
1961, premiums will be com-
puted on the basis of normal
monthly earnings, and deductions
cannot be made in advance.
The change in deducting
Group Life Insurance premiums
during the first half instead of
the last half of each month will
level out payroll deductions,
especially since annuity deduc-
tions will be made from each
pay check instead of once each
month.
An insert, describing the
change, will be attached to De-
cember pay checks of employees.
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The Refinery lumber yard,
presently located on Airhart
drive near the East Gale, will be
moved to No. 2 storage yard in
the near future.
Part of the old lumber yard
site will be used in the Asphalt
plant modernization program,
while the remainder will be used
by Riggers to store equipment.
Part of the storage space for-
merly used by Riggers is being
specialist in R & D, died last
spring. He was nationally known
for his work in mathematics and
statistics and his publication,
“Statistics for Everyday Use” has
been used as a college text.
xylene production.
Expansion of benzene and tolu-
ene facilities is also receiving
serious consideration and a de-
cision on this expansion is ex-
pected shortly.
The expansion programs re-
sult from current high demands
for aromatics, plus a favorable
outlook for these products in the
foreseeable future. The Enjay
Company, chemical marketing di-
vision of Humble Oil & Refining
Company, handles the sales of
these products.
Engineering work on both pro-
grams is already underway, and
construction of new paraxylene
and orthoxylene facilities is ex-
pected to gel underway early next
year.
Paraxylene is the petrochemi-
cal used in the production of the
intermediate raw material for
polyester fibers and films, used
principally by the electrical, tex-
tile and recording tape indus-
tries. Orthoxylene is used pri-
marily in manufacture of paints
and resins.
A portion of the new facili-
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