The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1954 Page: 8 of 16
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THE SILSBEE BEE
THUBSPAY JUNE U, lt54
oCocaf and f^eri>ortci£ fjeu/3
PHONE EV 5-S7J1
Willard Reddell was returned to
his home Sunday from St. Mary's
Hospital in Port Arthur where he
has beer. under, treatment ?t>r
Injuries he received while at. work
several weeks ago.
Rev. and Mrs. H. Wayne Read
and children, June, Glenda and
Joe, of Hornbeck, La., were visi-
tors in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
G. H Read Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Dorris Neyland, daughter
of Mr and Mrs. A. R Neyland,
and Miss Doris Oldham, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs J W. Oldham, will
leave by Pan American Clipper
from Houston. July: 3 for three
weeljs vacation to Mexico City
Silsbee’s Gasoline Plant Is Major Area Industry
Choate, Sr., Sunday.
Derrell Colleps, son ot Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. Colleps, is spending: the
SUEIMti i® H‘*rr>pstpad when* he is
employed as a carpenter's helper
at a new high school under con-
struction there.
Danna Ho lmes, 12-year-old
daughter of Col. and Mrs. R. W.
Holmes, is leaving Saturday for
Huntsville where she will attend
the Sam Houston State Teachers'
College summer marching and
twirling school which begins June
28.
Mrs. Cliff McKay returned home
Monday after visiting several day s
with relatives in Corsicana, Ennis
While in Mexico City, they will|and Mineola, Texas. She was ac-
stav at the Del Prado Hotel. companied on the trip by her sister
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Jones and and family-. Mrs. Carroll Hendrix
Marilyn Kay of Daiselta visited
in the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie
Jones Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Roebuck
and daughter, Wanda, and Mr and
Mrs. W F Isbell and children of
Call visited in ihe home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Miller in Joaquin, spending tins
of Deer Park, Texas.
Gladys and Lynn Ester, children
of Mr and M rs. Louis Ester, left
Tuesday morning to spend several
weeks with their sister, Mrs. W.
W. Daly in La favette, La.
Mr and M i s. R. L. Read are
week in Floy dada
Texas, last week.
Miss Barbara Ann Isbell of Call
is spending this week with her
grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. W. J.
Roebuck.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Barrington
and children of Port Arthur visit-
ed in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd E. Swinngy Sunday.
Mr and Mrs. Weldon Richard-
son and family of North Dakota,
visited in the home of his mother,
Mrs. Mary Richardson, and with
his brother and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Fletcher Richardson, over the
week-end.
Bobby Akin of Beaumont is
visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Phillip Earnest.
Mrs. Pearl Droddy of Elizabeth,
La., is visiting in the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Bertie Mae Earnest.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Mathis and
children attended the Sewell re-
union at Evadale Sunday. There
were approximately 100 people
present at the reunion.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Richard-
son and children of Aletha, Kan ,
visited in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Mathis, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. L C Avery and
DeBarry and Mr. and Mrs. Jack, . ln,,1T-v
Avery and family attended the j hnrCi, '
Bowlin reunion at Teneha Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Avery '
visited in the home of Mr and
Mrs. Elmer Bush in Center over
the week-end.
Mrs. S. C Choate, Jr. is spend- .
ing thus week in San Leon with
Mr. and Mrs. U. T Alexander. i
Jimmy Hazen returned home I ,. .,,
Sunday afternoon after spending
two weeks with relatives in Cen-
ter.
Misses Bobby Walker and Inez
Hughes of Houston spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Bryan
Walker.
Miss Myrtle Skinner is visiting
in the home of her grandparents,
Mr and Mrs. C. D. Colleps.
James Martin of Houston is
visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Choate.
Mr .and Mrs. Griffin Wheeler of
Kirbyville and Mr. and Mrs Mar-
shall Thompson of Arkansas were
guests of Mr. and Mrs S
land Lubbock with friends and
relatives. \
Mr and Mrs. Phillip Earnest at-V
tended the funeral of Mrs. Earn-
est’s aunt, Mrs. Rosa Hajovsky, in
El Campo, Tokens, Saturday.
Mr and Mrs. A. L. Almond of
Minden, La., a nd Drew Almond of
Casper, Wyoming, are visiting in
the home of Air. and Mrs. M. H.
Almond.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E Jackson re-
turned Tuesday night from a 10-
day vacation t rip to Tennessee* and
Kentucky. They were accompanied
on the trip by Mrs. Cliff Edge erf
Brvan
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Neal and sons
of Barling, Ark., visited recon fly-
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Har-
vey Ashcraft.
Mrs Edward Hargraves and
daughter, Mary Jane, of Cotulla,
Texas, left "Wednesday after a
week's visit i n the home of Mrs.
Andrew Hicks, Sr
Miss Shirley Bob Moore is visit-|
ing relatives in Bellville, Texas,
this week
Don Roy, 12-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Huy, is reportt-ci to
be recovering nicely from a brok-
en shoulder. Young Hoy recoived
when he fell from his
horse, June K
Mrs. C A. Lincoln left Wednes-
day fur Holland, Michigan, for a
visit with in-1- daughter and son-
in-law and new granddaughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Pctroelje.
Mr. and Mrs. Marrel Conway
and daughter. Linda, and Mr. and
Mrs Jerald I"Vveto and son, Jer-
of Orange, were x-isit-
ors in the to »me of Mr. and Mrs
J 11 Richardson Sunday, Mr. arid
Mis Wick Nolen of Beaumont
were visitors Tuesday night in the
Richardson home.
By TOMMY READ
Probably the largest and one of
the oldest industries in the Silsbee
area is the oil industry. The first
of many wells here were drilled
long* before this -'Writer catv re-
member.
The development of this great
industry which has only in recent
years come to this area, however,
has been the breaking down of
crude petroleum and natural gas
into their more useful components
and by-products.
The American Republics Cor-
poration gasoline plant north of
town is the result of this develop-
ment. It is there that raw- oil and
gas from surrounding fields is
“cracked” into gasoline, propane,
iso-butane, normal butane, and
kerosene.
Gas and oil are piped in the
plant and sent through the first
series of operations necessary to
break it down The first unit is
composed of the absorbers. Lean
or cleaned oil is sent into the top
of the absorbers and raw gas
under different pressures is fed in
at the bottom. The oil removes
the hydrocarbons from the gas
as the oil travels to the bottom of
tank.
Rich oil, as the oil is called that
absorbs the hydrocarbons, is now
sent to tlic second upit of the dis-
tillation process. In the first tower
called the high pressure still, the
oil is divided into two products—
one containing keroso n e and
naptha, and the other, gasoline,
normal butane, iso-butane, pro-
pane, and ethane.
The second product, containing
gasoline, is sent to what is called
the raw make tank for further
use. Kerosene and naptha are
piped tw the next tank, the eva-
porator, for more distilling. Lean
oil is sent from the evaporator
back to tin' absorbers to be re-
cycled again. Remaining products
are sent on to the dephlegmator
where the naptha and kerosene
are split.
Naptha from this tank is pugnped
to storage tanks to be mixed with
gasoline for stability. Kerosene
is sent to the kerosene side stripper
to have any remaining naptha re-
moved. The kerosene is then
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Five tovyers make up the third
and final unit in thg, distilling
process. In this unit, the product
sent to the raw make tank are dis-
tilled and separated and purified.
They are sent to storage tanks, or,
in the case of gasoline, piped to
the loading rack to be loaded inot
trucks and tank cars.
All of the products distilled in
the towers are run through a cool-
ing tower to remove the heat and
condense the vapors. From the
cooling tower, the cooled products
are piped through a series of
scrubbers to" remove moisture and
distillate.
Next, they go into the com-
pressors to tie turned to a liquid
state in which they are stored and
shipped. Storage is in one of sev-
eral large tanks which are kept
under pressure to preserve the
liquid stale of the products.
Total daily production of the
different products seems to run
into pretty" big figures to an out-
sider. Gasoline, for instance,
readhes almost 80,000 gallons per
day. All of this is piped to the
loading racks to be sold by the
tank truck or tank car.
DuPont of Orange buys most of
the 30,000 gallons of propane pro-
dueod every day. Iso-butane, at
the rate of 17,000 gallons a day,
is piped to the Texas Company for
use in chemical processes. Normal
butane is sold to Cities Service at
19,000 gallons a day for a gasoline
addativc. Kerosene is stored at the
plant and sold to local buyers.
Only 5,000 gallons of it are pro-
duced per day.
All of the processes carried on
at the plant are controlled by a
central panel. This panel regulates
pumps, which in turn, regulate the
flow of the products through the
distilling towers and to the other
components of the plant.
JUL WoJJ
of
Political
Announcements
The Bee Is authorized to an-
nounce the following candidates
for office subject to the action of
the Democratic Primaries in July.
Announcement fee for any of-
'ice is $20 00
l or Commissioner. 1'rmncLNo. 1:
FRANK S PAYNE
(I 'e-election)
D. J. KNIC.1ITKN
lor Count' Clerk:
CI.AP ENCF. Mi NFF! Y
(Re-election >
For State Representative
District 19
FRANK H. CARPENTER
(Re-election)
For County School Superintendent
NEAL HOUSE
(Re-election)
Mr. and N1rs. James Cry»-r
Sildx-e arc t ho parents of ;i son.
Wesley Lee, Ixirn June 4 in "Vidor
Hospital. Di; Ensign was tin- nt-
teiuling physician
Mi. ami Mrs. H. V. Whiscnn nt of
Sil'hev a i m< nil ice • the birth of -a
•■on. Jack St i - veils innn Juno 16 in
"iiiiiii .,n Hospital
Donna Clay is the name < »f th“
o.iiidi'ci ton ii t«, Mi am I Mrs. I).
11. Stanley < d Buna June 17 in
Trjmio.n Hospital
Mi and Nli. Marvin I! 111 y of
KelltllZi- ale 1 1111 pnii'llts of .1 son
hum June l ft ;n Hardin County
lie pit-, 1. He has lio n i laiiio 1
Thomas Wayne.
("1 i.ii !es A iidrt'W )■ tlu• name
mvi'U iii ihe son burn in Mr. and
Mr. Andrew A. Ciawfonl of Sd -
Many gasoline trucks pass through this loading rack every day
to buy most of the 80.000 gallons of gasoline produced per day. The
trucks rome from companies all over this area. When this pieture
was taken, there were five trucks besides the two shown waiting to
be filled.
For Assessor-Collector of
STOUT COLLIER
(Re-election)
Taxes:
For Justice of the Peace, Pet. !
LOUIS SELLERS
(Re-election)
For Sheriff
W. “Whit” WHITAKER
(Re-election 1
EDGAR A. EAVES
For State Senator
OTTIS LOCK
(Reelection)
For District Attorney
EVERETT H. CAIN
For County Attorney
R. A. (Dick) RICHARDSON
(Re-election)
HERMAN REYNOLDS
For Constable:
I. W. “Sug” GORDON
For District Clerk
75th and Mth Districts
W. L. (Doc) SILMAN
(Re-election)
For Justice ot the Peso*,
Preeinet *
JACK A. LLOYD
(Re-election)
JERRY Y. BURES
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ih an . A T is. |\ i r lVti 11. ! j i ■ "f
Hull,upi. Ml.-higall, iinnnum > ■ the
. u-ival < -f a «1 n ugliln born J u tv• 21
ii !!..!!.md F I<ispital. The y < >un,:
i li .iiv i- ti.e s_fi uniId.iii lit.■ i' i >f Mr.
Mrs . V'. -A. Liniuln of Silsbee.
Marian I.< .tnsc is Hie name of
liic daughter born In Mi. am i Airs.
I Alfred Ch.am Dless nf Kmint/< • June
' 21 in Bardin County Hospital.
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First Baptist Circle
The Mary Hill Davis Circle
the First Baptist Church met
with Mrs. Ftobbie Jones June 21
with six members and one visitor
present. Mrs. A. W. Dnirtwood,
chairman, was in charge of the
meeting. Opening prayer was led
by Mrs. R- E. Barclay.
A stewardship lesson was Riven
by Mrs. McDaniel and the devo-
tional was taken from the twelfth
chapter of J eremiah.
Closing prayer was led by Mrs.
Dainwood.
The next meeting will bo July
5 in the home of Mrs. Mary Mc-
Daniel.
Refreshments of cake and drinks
were served to those present.
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Village Creek H.D. Club
Meets In Jones Home
The Village Creek Home Dem-
onstration club met June 17 in
the home of Mrs. J, S. Jones with
13 members and two visitors
present.
A program on making cancer
bandages was given with Mrs.
Paul Keith ho charge.
The next meeting of the club
will be July 1 in the home ot Mr*.
Keith.
T,mk ears are loaded from this long rack with gasoline, pro-
phane, iso-butane, and normal butane to he shipped to large
refineries and plants throughout this area. Most of the products
go into the making of gasoline hut some are used for other purposes
such as synthetic rubber.
USED BY
THOUSANDS
FOR
OVER 40 YEARS
PARKE-DAVIS
KRES0 DIP
Standardized
• Use Kreso Dip for all livestock and
poultry-barns, houses, rnnways,
drinking vessels. Profits depend on
strong, thrifty animals. Kreso Dip i*
dependable, always uniform, easy to
Thor* (a only mm
ase and economical. A _
disinfectant, deodorant and
A “Farm Sanitation" booklet ie yours
far the sdrtsg. Be auq^gsr Kreso
Dip Standard!red.
CSO DIP—
Hardin Drug Co."
TOUt BKXA1X ITOU
This panel of instruments is the heart of the gasoline plant. Pumps controlling all of the proe-
resses are run from here. The instruments keep an accurate day by day arrount of production of
each product.
Distillation and absorption of hydrocarbons from erude oil and natural gas take place in these
towers. The process of producing refined products begins in the left foreground with the absorbers
and runs to the right through the final distillation processes.
Gasses and hot vapors are run through this e,piling tower to remove the heat and condense the
vapors into liquids. Water is circulated through the tower by large pumps to speed the cooling
process. Fans aid in the evaporation of the water.
—. —.—— .,,,t, __ ii|u, MBMW, the moisture tinwanted distillate front _________
gas. Similar to won are used throughout the distillation process fa remote extra i
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