Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1967 Page: 3 of 4
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Fast Work Gets Asphalt Plant
Back In Operation After Fire
Electricians P. C. McHugh, left, and W. H. Boucher repair wire con-
nections burned out in an electrical fire at Asphalt Plant.
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Jules W. Knoul ton’s plans to
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Customers still wanted asphalt,
however, and they couldn’t get it
without the pumps. So the pumps
had to be returned to service in
a hurry.
Electricians W. H. Boucher and
P. C. McHugh started working
on the burned out electrical ser-
vice at 7:30 that morning. They
had to make temporary electrical
jumpovers from the ruined
switches on one side of the house
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Jins, Lori Beth Kristek, Becky Bordelon, Jana
Darlyn Lawrence, Cindy Lynn Bishop, Jeana
Kay Miller, Ann Chauviere, Terri Lynn Powers,
Robyn Ann Smith. Another little lady, Roilyn
Badgett, could not be present.
Friday at 4:30 p.m. is the end of dependent
ticket sales for $1. After that time employees will
not be able to buy a ticket until Humble Day
when the tickets will be $1.50.
worked for a ranch and a rail-
road company before moving to
Baytown.
These cuties are contestants for Little Miss who
will be chosen by a panel of judges from the
Houston area. Left to right, front row, arc An-
gela Brookfield, Mary Elizabeth Sorola, Dayna
Leah Goss, Melissa Ann Powers, Deborah Ann
Bergeron, Pamela Kay Williams, Stacy Lynn
Sibes, Katherine Louise Hardy, Tamara Michele
Lancaster, Kathleen Marie Mitchell.
From left on back row are Lora Louise Mul-
Shortly after 5 a.m. on April
11 a blue flash and smoke came
from the Asphalt Plant’s switch
gear box and transformer house,
indicating an electrical fire.
Although the fire soon burned
itself out, it interrupted electrical
service to the pumps, control
house lights, and the healing
cables which keep the asphalt al
a predetermined temperature.
To keep the asphalt from hard-
ening, Pipefiller J. W. Jones
worked hard through the morn-
ing and early afternoon to con-
nect the auxiliary steam tracing
lines. Then the steam was turned
on. Fortunately the unit was not
blending asphalt so this operation
was not affected.
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annuitant ranks
with more than
39 years of ser-
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are long over due.
A. There has been a lag in
evaluating CYI suggestions at
the Butadiene Plant, but the
backlog is being cleared up, and
it is expected that more rapid
handling will be accomplished in
the future.
Comment: I am honestly
and truly proud of our Hum-
hle Oil & Refining Company.
Having toured other in-
dustries and observed pollu-
tion problems there, I want
to say that we are ahead at
least ten years in our anti-
pollution program. Thanks,
Humble.
Q. This is on the subject
of pollution. We would like
to know about the spray
coming off the cooling
towers around the pipe stills.
This spray contains caustic,
oils, etc., and blows over
several blocks around the
area. Of course, some of this
is unavoidable: but I think,
also, that some of it could be
stopped.
A. The spray of vapor you re-
fer to is treated water and is not
normally a source of any pollu-
lion. Upset unit conditions or
leaking exchangers could cause
small amounts of oil to be in the
vapor. However, the operating
people work very hard to keep
oil off the cooling towers and the
water neutral. The quantity of
spray or vapor released in this
area will be greatly reduced this
year with an approved new cell
for Cooling Tower 46, and ex-
tensive repairs to Cooling Tower
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Q. This is an operator at
Cooling Tower 18 in the
Butadiene Section. We have
a very hazardous condition
on our chlorine system. We
have improper rotameters
to register the flow of chlo-
rine to our cooling tower.
These rotameters are sup-
posed to register gallons of
water per minute—not chlo-
rine. We also have steel
valves to control our flow to
these rotameters, and these
valves are eaten away in a
very short time. The dis-
charge line on the chlorine
system is patched with
epoxy, and when the chlo-
to operable switches on the op-
posite side.
By about 10 a.m. the jump-
overs were completed and the
unit had power again. All grades
of asphalt could now be loaded
into customers’ trucks. "We only
missed the sale of one truck load
of asphalt, thanks to the fast
work of M&C people,” said Op-
erating Supervisor A. R. Knox.
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He joined the Refinery Boiler-
maker Department in March
1925. After three months, he
transferred to Process.
Reading is While’s favorite
pastime and he plans to do a lol
of it now that he is an annuitant.
He also plans to spend more time
with his grandchildren and work-
ing in his yard.
He and his wife, Dimple, have
two daughters, Mrs. Mary Lureen
Manning and Mrs. Jane Louise
Zimmerman, and seven grand-
children.
vine is turned on the header
line gets dangerously hot.
This hazard has existed for
several months, and it is
time management did some-
thing about it before a group
of people get killed. Your
immediate attention to this
will be greatly appreciated.
A. The chlorinal ion system al
Cooling Tower 18 has been in-
spected and found to be of
proper construction and properly
maintained. There have been
problems with the operations but
these have been of a control
nature. A project is currently
being developed to replace I he
control system.
Q. This is a process em-
ployee around the Butadiene
Section in Chemicals. About
this CYI business you have
now, I understand that if you
turn in a CYI and you do
the job and it’s okay—it
works okay—but then you
wait for months and months
and never gel your money
for it. Now there has been
one instance like this over
here and possibly several
others. It doesn’t seem like
anybody is interested in pay-
ing for the CYI after it has
been okayed, installed, and
in operalion. I’d rather not
discuss any specifics, but I
would like for management
to have the CYI committee
look into the reason why we
can’t get our money after the
idea is okay and installed. I
don’t need an answer in the
Briefs — if management
would just look into the
matter, maybe some of us
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come an annui-
tant.
Knoullon retired from the Re-
finery April 1 as an instrument
technician with more than 24
years of service. He joined the
Refinery Instrument group in
1942.
Before joining Humble, Knoul-
lon was employed for 13 years
with a gas company in Baytown.
He and his wife, Elizabeth,
have two daughters, Mrs. Betty
While and Mrs. Joan Maddox,
and 11 grandchildren.
time clerk al the aVA
Butadiene Plant ggmLa
and later trans-
ferred to Accounting. In 1946,
he went to the Houston Office.
He returned to the Baytown Ac-
counting group in 1960.
Phillips, who was a school
teacher for several years prior to
joining Humble, is planning to
become a substitute teacher in
I he Houston area after he has
had some time to “play a little
golf.”
He and his wife, Nell, who is
also a school teacher, have two
daughters, Mrs. Richard Miller
and Mrs. Gary Burrows.
Harvey Joe White
Harvey Joe While, chief oper-
ator at Hydroformer No. 2, re-
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Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1967, newspaper, April 28, 1967; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1433422/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.