Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1963 Page: 1 of 4
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^^aytown Briefs
No. 15
April 11, 1963
Vol. 11
Easter Holiday Is Oldest Christian Observance
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Modernization Of LEFU, Alky
Plant Slated To Start Soon
April Safely Slogan
Protection Is A Must
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Pictured above are members of the LEFU-Alky Plant project committee
looking over a blueprint. Seated from left are Percy LaFosse, project
engineer; Newt Felps, project manager; Joe Barker, process designer.
Standing are A. L. (Slip) Lewis, M & C; Houston Schweitzer, Purchas-
ing; L. C. Smith, project engineer, and George Sewell, process designer.
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into the 4th century; the West-
ern churches generally celebrat-
ing Easter on Sunday and the
Eastern churches following the
Jewish tradition.
In the year 325, the Emperor
Constantine convened the Nic-
aean Council, where the decision
was made that Easter should be
observed by all on the same Sun-
day. But the problem was still
not solved because of differences
in the systems of chronology fol-
lowed in various places. More-
over, the Gregorian correction
of the calendar in 1582 intro-
duced still further discrepancies.
Throughout Western Christian-
dom the corrected calendar is
now universally accepted, and
Easter is solemnized on the first
Sunday after the full moon fol-
lowing the vernal equinox. How-
ever, in the East the calendar
has not been brought into accord
with the Gregorian reform, and
When Refinery employees
start the Easter weekend tomor-
row by observing Good Friday
as a holiday, it will be in com-
memoration of the most impor-
tant event the Christian world
has ever known—the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
To the earliest Christians,
Easter—not Christmas—was the
all-important holiday. Relatively
little notice was taken of the an-
niversary of Christ’s birth; as
far as the Gospels are concerned,
Jesus commanded men to remem-
ber not His birth but His death.
Therefore Easter is considered
the most ancient and most im-
portant Christian festival.
One of the great disputes
throughout history has been the
setting of a fixed dale for Easter.
Early Christians celebrated
Easter at the same lime as the
Jewish Passover feast, since
Christ’s death fell upon the day
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efficiency of operations, the new7
column will also improve alky-
late product quality as a result
of higher fractionating effi-
ciency.
The Alky Plant modernization
program will include a complete
re-vamping of the unit’s reactor
section. This program will be
accomplished in two major proj-
ects.
One of the projects will in-
volve modernization of the unit’s
four stirred reactors. Additions
included in this project will be
16 new mixers, a new7 settling
vessel for each reactor, and eight
new7 emulsion pumps.
The settling vessels will be
horizontal drums 13 feet in
diameter and 40 feet long. Each
will weigh about 180,000 pounds
empty.
In carrying out the moderni-
zation program, the reactors will
be re-vamped one at a lime so
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First Quarter Stock
Shares Distributed
Employee Thrift accounts have
been credited with 54,673 shares
of Standard Oil Company (New
Jersey) slock as a result of dis-
tribution of the pool for the first
three months of 1963. Cost per
share of the stock is $60.58,
which was I he average price of
I he shares in the pool al the end
of the quarter.
Total allocations by the ap-
proximately 10,500 Humble em-
ployees who purchased company
stock on regular schedule dur-
ing the quarter added up lo
$3,312,090.34. These employees
have been mailed individual noti-
fication of credits to their ac-
counts.
of Aries,” it is the point at which
the center of the sun moves
across the celestial equator from
south to north. This occurs about
March 21, and marks the begin-
ning of spring in the northern
hemisphere. On this date, in all
parts of the world, night and
day are equal in length.
Easter has not always been
celebrated on Sunday. Early in
the history of the church, a dis-
pute arose between the Jewish
and the Gentile Christians. The
Jewish Christians maintained
that Easter should be observed,
like Pesach (Hebrew word for
Passover), on the 14th of Nisan
—regardless of the day of the
week upon which it fell. On the
other hand, Christians of Gen-
tile descent insisted that the holy
day be observed on Sunday,
since it was on that day of the
week that the resurrection had
occurred. This dispute persisted
that the unit’s production will be
maintained at all times while the
project is going on.
The second project in the Alky
Plant program will be replace-
ment of the unit’s time tank
reactors with a more efficient
horizontal reactor. The new7 re-
actor will be 12 feet in di-
ameter, 105 feet long, and will
weigh approximately 200,000
pounds. Equipment associated
with this reactor will be a settler
13 feet in diameter and 40 feet
long, 11 new mixers, and four
pumps.
The Alky Plant is one of the
Refinery’s key units in the pro-
duction of aviation and motor
gasolines.
Both the LEFU Column 15
and Alky Plant projects are
slated to get under way about
the middle of May, and scheduled
for completion about the last of
this year.
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of the feast of the Passover—
the 14th day of the month of
Nisan (first month of the Jewish
religious calendar, corresponding
to March-April).
The Jewish calendar consisted
of 12 lunar months, or 354 days,
with periodically an extra month
inserted to bring it in line with
the solar calendar. So the date
of the new7 Christian festival,
like that of the Passover, shifted
from year to year in relation to
the Julian calendar, then used
by the Romans, which was cal-
culated according to the solar
year. Consequently Easter has
remained a moveable date, fall-
ing anywhere between March 22
and April 25. This year we will
celebrate Easter on April 14th,
which is the first Sunday after
the full moon following the ver-
nal equinox.
What is the vernal equinox?
Known also as the “first point
An extensive construction and
modernization program is slated
to gel under way in ihe LEFU-
Alkylation Plant area within the
next few weeks. The project is
designed to improve efficiency
and further increase quality in
manufacture of Humble’s avia-
tion and motor gasolines.
One phase of the project will
be construction of a giant LEFU
Column 15, just west of Column
14. The new7 column, when com-
pleted, will be the largest frac-
tionating tower of its kind in
the U. S. It will reach 243 feet
into the sky, and will be 20 feet
in diameter. Column 14 is 155
feel tall, while the lowers of
NRU Column 9 are about 220
feet tall.
Column 15 will replace oper-
ations of six present LEFU col-
umns, making these columns
available for other operations.
In addition to providing more
Anxious For Easter
While O. B. Lee, editor of the Briefs, is out of town this week, his
two young daughters are keeping close watch on an Easter project their
dad helped them start before he left. They arc hoping to have a lively
Easter surprise for him when he returns this weekend. Shown from left
as they make a periodic checkup for signs of a breakthrough are Janet,
who is 10 years old, and Dena, who is six. The project they are so dili-
gently watching is the incubation of two eggs that are extremes in size.
One is a large goose egg that is claimed by Janet, while Dena’s proud
possession is—or was, rather—a small bantam egg. It hatched this past
weekend, right after the picture was made, to complete part of the
project.
The girls “hatched” the idea of hatching the eggs instead of coloring
them for Easter after obtaining them from an aunt who lives on a farm
near Aldine. That’s when O. B. got assigned to the project. He was given
the job of providing the youngsters with a small incubator. He scouted
around, and finally borrowed one from Charles Zerwekh, R & D, whose
children had used it to hatch some hen eggs a year or so ago. Apparently
size makes no difference to this mechanical “mother,” and if the gosling
arrives on schedule, O. B. will be greeted by two new dependents when
he arrives home—only neither of these will be income tax deductible.
MacKinnon Named
To Texas CU Post
Wilfred S. MacKinnon, man-
ager of the Humble Employees
Credit Union, has been elected
first vice president of the Texas
Credit Union League.
MacKinnon has been manager
of the Baytown employees credit
union for 10 years. He served as
a director of the stale league
last year, and is a past president
of the Houston Chapter of Credit
Unions.
Three others from the Humble
credit union in Baytown attended
the annual meeting at which Mac-
Kinnon was elected. They were
John P. Henderson, Business
Services, director and president;
Jack Taylor, R & D, director,
and Wendell Traylor, assistant
manager of the credit union.
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the day for Easter still seldom
coincides with the Western date!
The name “Easter” was pro-
posed by the 8th century histor-
ian Bede, who is said to have
derived it from Eostra, a Ger-
manic goddess of dawn or
spring. In many languages, the
Greco-Latin title taken over from
Pesach is retained.
Although events of the first
Easter are sometimes treated as
if they were a mixture of myth
and legend, Dr. Oswald Hoff-
mann, noted theologian, said re-
cently, “No event in history has
been so clearly substantiated as
the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It was recorded by eyewitnesses.
This is primary source material
of the highest credibility, writ-
ten by men who had never had
an idea before that first Easter
morning of spending the re-
mainder of their lives telling a
story like this one.”
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