Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1964 Page: 2 of 4
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Here Is Information For Humble
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Frank Gaines. Jr., has been
named assistant manager of the
Employee Relations Department
of Humble Oil & Refining Com-
pany. He succeeds James N. Gor-
ringe, who has moved to New
York to become assistant Em-
ployee Relations manager of
Standard Oil Company (New
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50 to 75 trucks a day, in addition
to performing a variety of other
duties.
The operators must be espe-
cially skilled in order to meet the
Texas Highway Department’s
close specifications through the
plant’s line blending facilities.
The unit provides eight major and
several lesser grades of asphalt to
customers. In addition, unit op-
erators pump some 2,000 barrels
a day of refuse furnace oil to a
customer located near Mont Bel-
vieu, and also pump a variety of
oil products to the docks for load-
ing into ships and barges. These
include rubber extender oils,
plasticizer oils, ink oils, and other
blends.
Baytown Briefs
Telephone 2752—2539
Published every Friday by the
Manufacturing Division of Humble
Oil & Refining Company for em-
ployees and annuitants of Baytown
Refinery and the Research organiza-
tion. To report stories and features,
please call or come by the Briefs
office, located in Room 129 B of
the Main Office Building. U. S.
Mail should bo addressed: Editor,
Baytown Briefs, P. O. Box 3950,
Baytown, Texas.
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The SDU staff members who
operate the lube tank farm have
their hands full. They must con-
stantly make decisions which
affect operations at all the lube
units. They handle most of the
charge slocks to lube units, inter-
mediate tankage between units,
product tankage for paraffinic oils,
and also pump lube products di-
rectly to ships and barges. Their
records must also be accurate and
up-to-date.
Employees concerned with As-
phalt Plant operations are now
getting ready for the spring and
summer rush, when highway con-
struction is at its peak. During the
rush season the unit’s operators,
two per shift, normally load from
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Included in busy scene at Asphalt Plant control room are Electricians
W. L. Collins and W. H. Boucher, foreground, working on meters which
indicate quantity of products being line blended into trucks, and plant
staff members A. J. Anders, operator and L. E. Roesler, operator 1st.
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W. R. Jones, operator, makes notation on the blackboard, located in the
SDU control room, which shows all of the oil movements in progress in
the lube tank farm just south of the unit.
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The two local elections held in
Baytown during the last week
showed good voter participation
as evidenced by the large turnout
at the polls. It is hoped that this
outstanding participation will con-
tinue in the three important Fed-
eral and State elections that are
also slated for this year.
The first of these, the Texas
primary elections, will be held on
Saturday, May 2. In these elec-
tions, candidates will be chosen
by both the Democratic and Re-
publican parlies for important
Federal, State and local positions.
Following the primary, there will
be a runoff primary on June 6,
and a general election on Novem-
ber 3.
Any qualified voter may vote in
the primary of either the Demo-
cratic or Republican party, re-
gardless of his party registration
Transportation Costs Low
Oil Facts reports that the cost
of transporting a gallon of oil
from Texas to New York is about
half the cost of mailing a post
card.
or affiliation, but anyone who
votes in the primary election of
one parly may not vote in a runoff
primary of another party.
Qualified voters who will not
be able to vote in person on May
2 can vote by absentee ballot as
follows:
1) If you expect to be away
from home on Saturday, May 21,
you can cast an absentee ballot
at the County Clerk’s office on
the 2nd floor of the County
Courthouse during regular office
hours, April 13 to April 28, in-
clusive.
2) If you are going to be away
during the absentee voting period
and also on election day, you can
vote by applying to the County
Clerk in writing, enclosing your
poll tax receipt, exemption certifi-
cate, or affidavit of loss, slating
that you are entitled to vote and
asking for an absentee ballot.
3) Voters who arc physically
confined and unable to vote in
person can vote absentee by
written application to the County
Clerk, enclosing poll tax receipt,
exemption certificate or affidavit
of loss, plus a certificate of sick-
ness or physical disability from a
licensed physician, chiropractor
or accredited Christian Science
practitioner.
Business is picking up at the
Specially Development Unit and
the Asphalt Plant, two of the units
in the Lube Finishing group. Op-
erators of those units must stay on
their toes constantly, exercising
considerable skill in order to cover
the wide range of their duties.
The SDU operators, for in-
stance, essentially operate three
different units, in addition to
handling pumping operations for
the Lube Finishing tank farm.
The SDU itself, one of the most
versatile in the Refinery, consists
of two units which can be op-
erated completely independent of
each other—a hydrofiner and a
vacuum fractionator. In addition,
Clay Treating Unit No. 2, which
is now running wide open produc-
ing insulating oils, is operated
from the SDU control room.
After being in operation for a
year, the SDU schedule became
so busy early this year that a
third operator per shift was added
to the staff on a permanent basis.
It manufactures a wide variety of
specially products which arc in
high demand.
Vacuum Fractionator
The vacuum fractionator sec-
lion of the unit is used to
fraclionale lube grade oils and
produce spray oils to a tight
specification, to help produce
plasticizing and rubber extending
oils, cut specially oils to a speci-
fied viscosity, and make Viadon,
Humble’s colored asphalt.
The hydrofiner section treats
lube oils for color, and finishes
light color plasticizers and rubber
extender oils.
The SDU also recovers oils that
have been used lo displace lines.
This eliminates expensive re-
processing through distillation
and lube finishing units, which
are needed for maximum lube
production at the present time.
The unit is also used frequently
in special services for develop-
ment of new projects which are
expected to contribute signifi-
cantly to the Refinery’s market-
ing efforts in later years.
SDU towers are shown behind Blaine Corman, R & D, who serves as
research adviser for rubber extender oils produced at the unit, and Jake
Weisinger, SDU and Asphalt Plant operating supervisor.
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At the same lime Billy M. Van
Eaton, assistant secretary, was
named coordinator of organiza-
tion planning and executive de-
velopment, and Lester M. Grotz
succeeded Van Eaton. Grotz had
been serving as administrative
assistant in the company’s South-
east Esso Region.
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Editor.................O. B. Lee
Associate Editor......W. A. Read
Staff Assistant.....Anna Killough
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A. E. Griffin, “B” breaker, is at panel board from which SDU and CTU No. 2 are operated. Howard C. *
Dunkerly, operator 1st, makes recording in unit log as he follows tank farm pumping operations. In right
background are tools used to make minor or emergency repairs on the unit.
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Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1964, newspaper, April 10, 1964; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417959/m1/2/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.