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Baytown Briefs • August 15, 1969
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tation of man and is widely used
in textbooks and illustrative art.
A well-known U.S. computer firm
uses it as part of its symbol for
a series of nationally-televised
Editor.........
Assistant Editor
O. B. Lee
Jerry Gott
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transferred to Enjay Engineering
in 1966.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Lucille Plocheck; a son, Russell
Earl, Baytown; two daughters,
Mrs. Pat Hardesty, Houston; and
Tammy Kay Plocheck; and his
mother, Mrs. Annie Plocheck,
Baytown.
of the tire to become the base
upon which the state sales tax is
computed.
. Q. This is a question. Why
is it that the Butadiene stack
and torches in the back of the
refinery smoke like every-
• thing from about 2 to 5 in the
morning? We suggest that
they do it at 2 p.m. so all the
public can see it.
A. We believe that you have
confused the Butadiene Plant
Final Rites Held
For Enjay Man
Chemical Plant employee L. L.
Plocheck died July 29 at his
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plastic — then I don’t want
this magazine delivered to
my house anymore. This is
one of your employees at
Enjay Chemical Company.
A. The art director of Enjay
Magazine joins us in apologizing
for offending anyone with this il-
lustration; that certainly was not
intended. This illustration by Le-
onardo da Vinci is historically
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Three Refinery employees, and a Chemical
Plant employee were presented certificates re-
cently upon completion of the Instrument Train-
ing Program which qualifies them as Instrument
Technicians. Pictured with their training super-
visors K. P. Turner, Enjay, (second from left)
Bay town Briefs
Telephone 2752—2539
Published every other Friday for
employees at Humble Oil & Refining
Company's Baytown Refinery, Enjay
Chemical Company's Baytown Plant,
and Esso Research and Engineering's
Baytown Research Division, and an-
nuitants of the above organizations.
To report stories and features,
please call or come by the Briefs
Office, located on the second floor
of the First Aid Building. U. S. mail
should be addressed: Editor, Baytown
Briefs, P. O. Box 3950, Baytown,
Texas 77520.
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fixed on IHB Unit.
A. A check of the IHB safety
shower and eye fountain installa-
tions revealed that they were all
in working order except the one
to which you refer. It is located
on the elevated walk way be-
tween the caustic tanks and was
indeed torn apart due to a bad
order regulator valve. It has since
been replaced by a new fountain.
Thank you for your concern for
and interest in safety.
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A. The Texas Sales and Use goz
tax law requires that the federal p—
excise tax be added to the price E
A. Since January 1. 1966, all
payments to the annuity fund
have been made by I he com-
panics, with no payments by em-
ployees; therefore, no payment
into annuities appears on any em-
ployee’s check stub. The total
amount paid into the annuity
fund by each employee through
December 31, 1965, appears in
the annual annuity plan state-
ment mailed to each employee.
Q. This is an electrician.
There has been an awful lot
of confusion lately about the
wearing of long sleeves. I
have heard pro and con on
it, and I just don’t know,
some supervisors say we
must have long sleeves on,
regardless of what job we do
or what area we are in per-
forming this work. If so, if
this is the case, does this
apply to the Central Shop, to
Enjay, and also to the bosses
and contractors, and also the
women ?
A. Clothing which covers and
protects the body must be worn
when working or visiting in areas
home in Bay-
town. Funeral
services were held
i July 31 with bur-
L ial in Cedar Crest
‘ Cemetery.
Plocheck join-
ed Humble M&C
in 1947, and
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obtain the pollution control we
want to have. In this particular
case, the H-S rich sides! reams dis-
charging from the pH instruments
have been routed to the sewer
temporarily to alleviate back pres-
sure problems on the instruments.
Modifications arc in progress to
put these streams into the knock-
out drum where the H,S will be
vented at a height of 50-69 feet
in the air where it should present
neither a safety nor a pollution
problem.
Oldest Annuitant 91;
Wrote 'Come Visit Me'
G. B. Massey, Baytown’s oldest
annuitant, celebrated his 91st
birthday July 25 by writing a let-
ter to his many friends in Bay-
town.
Massey lives at the Gunter
Home for the Aged, and invites
acquaintances to drop by and see
him any lime they might be in
that area.
He says he is “going every
day,” and helps in the devotion-
als held at the home.
Massey retired from Refinery
Pumping and Gauging in 1942
after working 33 years with the
company.
at Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Hydro-
finers they have a knockout
drum and they moved it
away from the unit and put
it right under the nose of
No. 5 Boiler House. This is
not the first time we have re-
and R. Z. Mills, Humble, (second from right)
arc John C. Hopkins, Carl E. Hoover Jr., Freddy
A. Railsback, and Fred Ernst. The men received
in-plant training, and also attended Lee College
for special electronic training. Hoover works in
EMD, and Hopkins, Railsback, and Ernst in M&C.
where the probability of exposure
to hot liquids, flash fires, or skin
irritants exists. Such clothing is
not required in nonhazardous type
areas such as offices and certain
portions of the Central Shop. Con-
sequently, short-sleeve shirts may
be worn in nonhazardous type
areas if the protective clothing re-
quirement is met prior to enter-
ing any hazardous areas. Thisap-
lies to all Humble employees.
Q. I would like to know if
the company is discrimina-
, „ r. ting against its employees by
specials and one European firm someof thenewcontrol
, . ... .. uses it as its corporate symbol. centers automatic dishwash-
ported this; it s.going to be Enjay did not consider it offens- ers and refugin other places
the last time though. The ive, and deeply regrets that it af- this same advantage?
next time I’m going to find fronted anyone. , . .1
out and call somewhere be- A. Recent modernization of old
sides 3113. Q. Why does the company control rooms has included auto-
A. Steps will be taken to allevi- furnish monthly people with malic dishwashers. However, it is
ate the situation. The stack on the amount paid into annui- planned lo merge most old control
the blowdown drum will be ex- lies on each paycheek slub houses into control centers by
• tended from 15 feet to 50 feet, and not furnish the hourly 1972, and in such locationskitch-
and the sewer seal made tight, people with the same infor- en facilities will not be modern-
This should, under normal oper- mation? ized.
ating conditions, eliminate the
odors from the Boiler House 5
area.
Q. Is the Texas retail sales
tax of three per cent figured
on tire purchases before the
federal excise taxes are add-
ed, or is the tire purchaser
required to pay the three per
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Q. Dear Sirs: This is a
complaint about your Enjay
magazine and your article on
plastics. If this is the kind
of advertisement you plan Lo
use—a nude man advertising
cent state sales tax on the
federal excise tax?
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Q. I would just like lo find
out about the possibility of
gelling some of the lighting
and things fixed around the
No. 1 Booster Station.
A. A work request has been
turned in to relamp and repair
the lights at No. 1 Booster Sta-
tion, also a request has been sent
to Engineering requesting a sur-
vey of lighting in the general area
to see if it can be improved.
Please notify your supervisor
when repairs need to be made to
equipment in your work area.
Q. I am a Humble em-
ployee. I would like to know
if the paved parking lot
south of the company hos-
pital is reserved for Humble
employees or contractors. If
you will investigate, I believe
you will find that the con-
tractors are taking it over. I
would like an answer in the
Briefs,
A. The paved parking lot south
of the hospital is used by both
Humble employees and contrac-
tors. It is not reserved specifically
for either group. This parking lot
does not appear to be overcrowd-
ed, as vacant parking spaces are
usually available.
Q. Over here at the Girbo-
tol and Sour Water Unit,
could something be done
about the H,S to the air from
the pH instruments? The
water is going to the sewer
and the H,S to the air. I won-
der if the gas could go to the
torch or somewhere so we
wouldn’t have to breathe it?
I understand that the com-
pany is doing all it can about
pollution, but I think this
should be looked into.
A. We appreciate your interest
in pollution because only through
the efforts of everyone can we
flare slack with that of another
company directly behind it. There
has been no excess flaring of gas
during the hours you mention
and no record of smoke emis-
sion. It is suggested that when
you see a Hare slack smoking you
report il immediately to the night
superintendent's office so that the
smoke emission may be investi-
gated and conlrolled.
Q. I wonder what happen-
ed to the clean-up. The com-
pany used to be pretty good
about keeping the outside
clean from litter, beer cans,
whiskey bottles, etc., but
here lately it seems that it
has been neglected. What has
happened ?
A. This litter is picked up once
each week.
Q. I am one of the suf-
Q. Does Humble have any
plans to modernize its Thrift
Fund similar to those an-
nounced by AT&T on May 5,
such that we could invest
either in Jersey, federal gov-
ernment obligations, or in a
company-o p e r a l e d mutual
fund? I think the mutual
fund would be a very de-
sirable addition.
A. The company has no plans
al the present time to change the
Thrift Plan.
Q. This is an operator at
the IHB Unit. We have some
eye wash showers that should
be fixed. A man got caustic
in his eye—it wasn’t much,
but il could have been bad—
and he didn’t have any eye
wash shower to get to in a
hurry that would work. One
of them was torn apart. We
need our eye wash showers
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Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1969, newspaper, August 15, 1969; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1433519/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.