Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 09, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1961 Page: 3 of 6
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About 700 Attend Dance
Pictured above is part of the crowd of about 700 who attended the Humble Club dance last Saturday
night at Sylvan Beach dance pavilion. It was the first of six dances scheduled for this year by the Hum-
ble Chib Buddy Brock and his orchestra furnished the music with Betty Cole as vocalist appearing as an
added attraction. Another big event scheduled by the club is the Humble Day picnic on May 13. Direc-
tors will start selling Humble Day dependent tickets at 50 cents each about April 1. The next dance,
however, is scheduled April 15.
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Carl Illig Elected
Carl Illig has been elected as-
sociate general counsel in the
headquarters organization of
Humble Oil & Refining Company.
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Editors Note: A few weeks ago ^Miss 3113", an electronic
secretary, went to work in the Main Office recording employees'
messages to management. Since most of the questions and com-
ments that have come through Miss 3113 arc of general interest.
Briefs this week begins publication of the questions and answers,
with the exception of those of a personal nature, which arc an-
swered in a personal manner if the individual is identified. In
any event, the individual will not be identified in Briefs.
If you have a question or comment, just dial Extension 3113.
and your message will be recorded on tape and heard by man-
agement. Where the interest is broad enough, the messages will
be answered in Briefs.
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A. R. Stark Is Moderator
A. R. Stark was moderator of
a session at the Houston Confer-
ence on Statistical Quality Con-
trol and Statistical Methods held
recently. The session was on
“The Big Picture.”
A senior research chemist at
Humble’s Bay town Research
Center, Stark is chairman of
South Texas section, American
Society for Quality Control.
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Distinguished visitors from Monterrey, Mexico, toured Baytown
Refinery last week. They are shown above as they watch a con-
tinuous white mat of butyl rubber emerge from the drying ovens just
prior to extrusion. From the left arc: Jose Mareno, Baytown, who
served as host for the group; Lie Alvaro Reyes, judge of the regional
court of criminal appeals for the state of Nuevo Leon; Emilio S.
Cazares, tax collector for the city of Monterrey; Jesus Valdez-Perez,
tailor; Enrique Bravo, Monterrey businessman; and Norman D’Olive,
Baytown Refinery public relations.
C W. Lubbock Is
Named Chairman
For ASME Group
C. W. Lubbock has been named
chairman of the relining-gas
products-petrochemical commit-
lee of the Petroleum Division,
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. A senior staff engineer
in the Refinery’s Technical Divi-
ion, Lubbock is now assigned to
the economic analysis section at
Baytown.
Chilean Students Also Visit Refinery
Another group who also visited the Rubber plant on their tour
of the Refinery recently were Chilean students (below) who arc shown
watching a bundle of butyl rubber wrapped in plastic film as it
travels along the conveyor system in the Finishing Building. The
students arc attending the University of Texas. Dr. Louis Capurro,
shown on the right, accompanied the student group to Baytown. He
is head of the Department of Biology, University of Chile, Santiago.
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in San Antonio. He worked in
that plant from September 21,
1927 until August 29, 1950 when
he transferred to Baytown Re-
finery upon the closing of the
San Antonio plant. During his
years of service at Baytown Re-
fienery, he worked in the Pipe
department. He retired on April
1, 1958.
Survivors include his wife,
Mary Torres Casas; one son, Joe.
Jr.; a sister, Tita Casas; and a
nephew, Louis S. DeLeon.
use the same parking lots they
now use.
When the gales arc consoli-
dated there should be very little
difference in getting-home-time
for employees using the new
gales as opposed to the present
gates. To help keep traffic mov-
ing, a traffic light will be in-
stalled at the intersection of
Franklin street and the Wooster-
Cedar Bayou road, where traffic
can turn either right or left. By
reducing the number of entrances
onto the county road, and with
the traffic light, safely will be
improved.
According to all available rec-
ords and recollections, the Butyl
Gate has never been closed since
the plant went into operation in
1943. It has always been the
only entrance and exit to the
plant.
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Q. I am the mother of two
school children, and I want
to know why it is that my
husband has never had a va-
cation in the summer. Every
year his vacation comes in
January or February.
Q. (In same call) Why
can’t my daddy have his
vacation in the summertime?
We have had winter vaca-
tions for five years and not
ever in the summer.
A. It is necessary that vaca-
tions be scheduled over 11
months of the year on a fairly
even basis in order to keep work
on schedule. There are approxi-
mately 450 employees taking va-
cations each month. If a larger
group was gone at any one time
it would be impossible to main-
tain the schedule. Not knowing
which departmental group the
above employee is in, your ques-
tion can only be answered in
general terms. Each departmen-
tal group uses a variation of one
of three basic methods of de-
termining vacation periods for
employees: 1) a rotational basis,
by which an employee is assured
of a vacation for any given pe-
riod of the year every third or
fourth year; 2) drawing for a
specified vacation period or order
of choice of a period; and 3)
departmental seniority with the
first choice of periods going to
senior employees. Of course,
even* employee is given as much
choice as possible in determining
when he may take his vacation.
In those departments which
use one of the latter two plans
(as most M & C departments do),
employees themselves decided by
majority vote on the method
used.
Within each group, employees
are allowed to trade vacation pe-
riods with each other by mutual
agreement, insofar as possible.
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Q. I want to make a sug-
gestion on closing the Butyl
Gate. This was tried once be-
fore in 1944 and 1945. It
takes about 30 to 45 minutes
longer on each shift to go
home. Would appreciate it
very much if the Butyl Gale
was left open.
A. The Butyl Gate will be
moved from its present location
to Franklin street, east of die
Finishing building, where one
guard post will be used to handle
both Butyl and Refinery West
Gate traffic. Butyl employees will
be permitted to drive through the
Butyl plant and will continue to
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Q. Recently I attended a
school on pumps. Class was
scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m.,
but let out a little early. This
was no fault of anyone; how-
ever the men were paid for
1.6 hours of overtime instead
of the two hours they under-
stood they were getting. Do
you think this is right? The
men don’t.
A. It is Humble’s policy to
pay wages for actual overtime
worked rather than on a basis of
an estimate of the lime involved.
Had the class lasted 2.5 hours,
the men would have been paid
for 2.5 hours of overtime.
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Q. Here comes the voice
of gripes. I work at the Dis-
tillation department. Hum-
ble has some warehouses and
shops that they keep closed
up. Now why can’t they leave
these open for the other two
shifts so they can be used
during those shifts as well as
on the day shift?
A. It is assumed the questioner
is referring to the practice of
closing area shops and tool
rooms on the 4-12 and graveyard
shifts, when there is not enough
business to warrant keeping the
buildings staffed and open. In
such cases, the standard Refinery
procedure of locking buildings
not in use is carried out to pre-
vent loss of expensive tools and
equipment.
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Baytown Briefs • March 10, 1961
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 09, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1961, newspaper, March 10, 1961; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417802/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Oil+and+Gas+-+Refineries%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.