Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1963 Page: 3 of 4
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Bay town Briefs • July 5, 1963
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June 1 Retirement
Personnel Changes At Baton Rouge
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Here's How We Can Boost Business
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Last Rites Held For One Refinery
Annuitant, One Former Employee
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George S. Bays, former assist-
ant process superintendent at
Baytown Refinery, died in Syd-
Foster was em-
ployed in the Re-
finery Labor de-
Gail Shelley
Pipe Department
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ney, Australia
last Sunday.
Bays joined
1 Humble in 1937
| as a member of
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Headquarters
Mighty Deep Holes
The world’s most prolific oil
and gas wells range from 5,000
to 12.000 feet deep. The deepest
reach more than 20,000 feet—
about four miles into the earth.
Funeral services were held
Monday in La Porte for annui-
tant Harry A. Foster, 69, who
died at his home
xasgg.. in that city the
4800" preceding Fri-
$ day. Interment
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/ Point Cemetery.
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ployees’ Thrift Fund to fi.
Safety Slogan Puts Stress On Strain
The importance of proper and safe methods of lifting and handling equipment and materials is being
emphasized in July Safety meetings. Tips from experts are illustrated above. They point out that whether
the job is being done by hand or with the help of a machine it is important to remember to do the job cor-
rectly. In other words, as the above slogan suggests, use your head to save your back.
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Cier Granted Patent
Harry E. Cier has been granted
a U. S. patent that covers a proc-
ess for converting aromatic
hydrocarbons to oxygenated ma-
terials. These oxygenated deriva-
tives may be processed further
to produce numerous useful
products, including fibers such
as Dacron. Cier is a senior re-
search specialist in Humble’s
Baytown Research and Develop-
ment.
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to management
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Q. Since Standard Oil of
New Jersey has entered the
fertilizer business in a big
way, will those of us at Hum-
ble be able to buy fertilizer
on our credit cards instead
of buying a competitor's fer-
tilizer?
A. Standard Oil Company
(New Jersey) will not market
fertilizer in the United States.
The fertilizer plants being built
by Jersey Standard are to be
located in Colombia, Costa Rica.
El Salvador. Aruba, Spain and
the Philippines. These plants
are to manufacture fertilizer for
use within the country where the
plants are located, with a pri-
mary purpose of helping these
countries achieve more efficient
agricultural production for their
developing economies.
Q. I would like to know if
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of La Porte, a daughter, Mrs.
I. A. Hunt of La Porte, a sister,
Mrs. Irene Dickerson of Wichita,
Kansas; four grandchildren, and
three great grandchildren.
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rowed, and what is the inter-
est being paid?
A. I hrift Fund trustees advise
that no monies from the Thrift
Fund were invested in the new
Humble Building project.
Jersey Stock Favored
According to the Wall Street
Journal, Jersey Standard has
now replaced International Busi-
ness Machines as the favorite
investment for American college
endowment funds.
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Prices Listed For
Items Sold By Bid
Here are selling prices or
other disposition of items pre-
viously listed in Briefs for sale
on a bid basis:
One 1959 1 set la, Model 300
(inoperable). HOR No. 4178—
S52.50.
One 1958 Cushman Scooter,
Model 781 (no engine or trans-
mission). HOR No. 3787—
S15.50.
Two disappearing stairways,
wood, 18%2” x 5'2"—no bids
received.
One 1958 Ford. 1-ton pickup
truck, HOR No. 3948— $444.44.
Three 1958 Ford, 1-ton pick-
up trucks, HOR Nos. 3945,
3946, 3947—all bids rejected.
A campaign to stimulate travel
by car is now under way by
Humble and other members of
the American Petroleum Insti-
tute.
Support and interest by em-
ployees of the industry can be
of real assistance in attaining
the business-building objectives
of this campaign.
If every motorist look just
one additional 200 mile trip this
year, total gasoline consumption
would increase about five per-
cent, or some three billion gal-
lons a year, and would boost not
only gasoline sales but all other
types of service station business.
And those making trips in our
area woud be getting a first-hand
knowledge of our Texas heritage
that has been handed down to
us from generation to generation.
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We are seldom aware of the
fact we are living in the cradle
of Texas Independence, and how
much we would enjoy touring
these places. Just a stone’s throw
from us is the San Jacinto Bat-
tlefield where General Sam
Houston and his meager force of
some 700 to 800 men pitted their
strategy and strength against
powerful odds, the army of Gen-
eral Santa Ana, who boasted
a force of 1600. The Texans
were the victors and freedom
from the tyranny of the Mexican
Government was theirs.
Going on a little farther north-
east, we find the Museum and
Home of General Houston in
Huntsville. It was here the Gen-
eral spent his last years after
serving as President of the Re-
Four Refinery Men Are
On Humble CC Ballot
Humble Country Club will
elect four new directors this
month from a list of 12 nomi-
nees. Two of the positions will
be filled by employees from Bay-
town. one from Headquarters,
and one from Houston Research
Center.
Refinery employees on the bal-
lot are Victor Dias, Technical;
Dale Fridley, Technical, R. J.
Idoux, Research and Develop-
ment; and Delma M. Gillespie,
Research and Development.
Names of the candidates
have been posted on the bulletin
board at the Humble Country
Club.
Each director is elected for a
three year term of office begin-
ning August 1, 1963.
Ballots were mailed lo mem-
bers July 2 and deadline for re-
turn of the ballots is July 19.
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partment on April 28, 1925.
After three and one-half years in
Labor, he transferred to the
Cracking Coils in November
1928. Except for one month dur-
ing 1934 when he worked in
Distillation, Foster’s remaining
work career was in Cracking.
He was an accumulator in that
department when he retired on
February 1, 1953. His total Hum-
ble service was 27 years and
nine months.
Born in Attica, Kansas, Foster
attended school in Oklahoma
City. Before joining Humble at
Baytown Refinery, he was self-
employed as a farmer at Cleo
Springs, Oklahoma.
His survivors include his
widow, Mrs. Clara May Foster
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merly head of the Construction
Department.
The new assignments were ef-
fective June 17, 1963.
Turpin served on a one-year
rotational assignment at Bay-
town Refinery as superintendent
of Cracking and Light Ends Di-
vision, returning to Baton Rouge
Refinery in August 1962.
public of Texas from 1836 to
1838.
Near Navasota we can visit
Washi n glo n-on-lhe-Brazos, the
first capitol of our state. In this
city the Delegates met and drew
up the Texas Declaration of In-
dependence on March 2, 1836.
Texas is chuck full of history
that has contributed to the foun-
dation of our Slate Government
and has also cast its reflection
on our Federal Government, in
that Texas as a state was admit-
ted to the Union in 1845, se-
ceded in 1861 and was readmit-
ted to the Union in 1870.
These tours can prove to be
educational, enjoyable and bene-
ficial to the people making them
—and trips like these help boost
business at Humble service sta-
tions.
Key personnel changes at
Baton Rouge Refinery were an-
nounced last month by IL J.
Voorhies, Humble vice president.
R. A. Winslow, formerly as-
sistant general manager at Baton
Rouge, was appointed assistant
general manager for planning in
Humble’s Ma nu fact u ring Divi-
sion in Houston. O. R. Menton
was named to replace Winslow
as assistant general manager of
Baton Rouge Refinery.
Frank G. Turpin, formerly
head of the Petroleum Opera-
tions Division, was named petro-
leum products manager, succeed-
ing Menton. Turpin’s replace-
ment was R. D. Andi ng, for-
merly head of Technical Divi-
sion. Former assistant head of
Technical Division, H. E. Mc-
Brayer, became head of Techni-
cal Division, and was in turn
replaced by F. P. Barrow, for- |
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ices Division at
G A Baytown. He was
-- A a Humble em-
ployee for more than 19 years
prior lo his resignation in 1956
to accept a position with Inter-
national Petroleum Company, a
Jersey Standard affiliate, in Bo-
gota, Colombia. For more than
a year prior to his death, Bays
had been on assignment with an-
other Jersey affiliate in Australia.
He received bachelor and mas-
ter’s degrees at the University
of Texas, and a PhD from the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology.
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