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Humble Club committee chairmen and assistant chairmen for 1962 pic-
tured above arc, from left, R. T. Donnelly, Accounting, constitution and
by-laws; R. M. (Dick) Johnston, Instrument, membership; T. A. Polley,
Compound, assistant membership; J. T. Strawn, Machinist, participation;
E. A. Sheffield, Service Laboratories, assistant participation; Joe L. Cates,
Utilities, chibs and boy scouts; Jack Rogers, Sheet Metal, assistant clubs
and boy scouts.
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R. J. Lawrence (right), outgoing
Humble Club president, is pictured
turning over gavel to R. L. Parker,
Labor, 1962 president who was
elected at meeting of directors last
week.
Chairmen and assistants pictured above from left arc C. A. (Chuck)
Harrison, Technical, entertainment; John L. Bailey, Storehouse, assistant
entertainment; W. F. Poe, R & D, finance; T. L. Prigmore, Cracking and
Polmerization, assistant finance; O. L. Ostrum, Rigging, athletic; Bill
Miles, Electric, assistant athletic.
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football game sponsored by the
club in August—$717.
Expenses of the club for the
year were as follows: Humble
Day—$16,142 (this was some
Along with the consolidation
of Thrift Fund accounts in Hous-
ton on January 1 have come
changes designed to reduce ad-
ministrative costs and, at the
same time, provide advantages
for employees.
The latest of these changes is
the "dollar range” system of
keeping slock records, explained
in a record letter to all partici-
pants in the Thrift Plan. To re-
view briefly, this system groups
together, in an employee’s Thrift
Fund account, those shares of
stock which fall within the same
dollar range—for example, from
$43.00 to $43.99—striking an
averaged price for all shares
in that range.
The new method makes it
possible for the Thrift Account-
ing Office to reduce the volume
of slock records by about two-
thirds. With this reduction, it
becomes feasible to change over
Bird Gets Gold Key
Electrician L. R. Bird is pictured receiving the first gold key to be
presented by the Humble Employees Federal Credit Union from manager
W. S. MacKinnon. The credit union mailed letters to members recently
pointing out that after financing an automobile at the organization and
bringing the letter in, a member would be presented a gold key for the
car. Bird was eligible, so he brought in his letter and promptly was
awarded the shiny new key for his new auto.
CLUB FINANCES. .
mately $29,558. This is derived
from the following sources:
vending machines—$18,180 (the
club’s income from this source
for the last two months of this
year is estimated); membership
dues—$6,316; sale of depend-
ent and guest tickets on Humble
Day—$2,760; ballroom dances
$1,595; the Houston Oiler
U. S. Biggest Pipeliner
The United Stales has 76 per
cent of the world’s crude oil and
petroleum products pipeline mile-
age.
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Humble Club officers for next
year pictured above arc T. L.
Bishop, M & C, vice president,
and B. L. Beck, R & D, assistant
secretary-treasurer. Taylor Miller,
secretary-treasurer, was unable to
attend meeting where photographs
were taken.
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$2,000 higher than last year due
to a larger crowd); ballroom
dances—$2,400; Baytown Re-
finery Club and Sociedad Mu-
tual ista (proportionate shares of
vending machine receipts) —
$1,400; Sports—$1,213; Miscel-
laneous —$ 1,094'; sponsored
cl u bs—$787; secretary-treasur-
er’s salary—$480.
The expenses total $23,516,
which leaves the club some $6,042
in the black for this year’s ac-
tivities. The club began the year
with some $5,000 in the bank,
which means that it will begin
next year with approximately
$11,000 in the kitty.
At their January meeting, next
year’s directors will discuss and
approve a budget for the club’s
1962 operations.
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eral use such as receiving mate-
rial from wheelbarrows. If you
have trouble getting material
from wheelbarrows into the larg-
er pans, notify your supervisor,
and one of the smaller pans will
be provided.
Q. A group of us would
like to know who qualified
as having reported to work
on the morning of Hurri-
cane Carla? We understood
that having reported to work
and having been sent hack
home constituted a day’s
work and that we would re-
ceive pay for that day. What
constitutes legally reporting
for work? Would you have
had to check in with your
immediate supervisor? Or,
would reporting to the gate
and being told by a call from
the superintendent’s office to
return home have been suf-
ficient? Wouldn’t that con-
stitute as having reported for
work? In the case where
your immediate supervisor
was absent, to whom would
you have had to report?
Thank you.
A. Employees who reported for
work on the morning of Hurri-
cane Carla and were sent home
were given four hours pay. To
he eligible for this pay it was
necessary that the immediate su-
pervisor, or some other person
in authority, be contacted. Em-
ployees who called from the gale
and were properly identified were
paid. Under these unusual cir-
cumstances, we are aware that
an employee reporting for work
could have difficulty in deter-
mining to whom he should re-
port. However in this instance,
the Company’s decision to pay
four hours for reporting was
based solely on the employee’s
being identified by someone in
authority as having reported for
work.
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ble Regular in our Gulf Coast
area increased in octane number
from 85 up to 90. It was further
increased up to 92 in December,
1959. Prior to the introduction
of the three-grade system, our
Enco Regular averaged about
92.5 research octane number.
Since the introduction of the
three grade system, Enco Regu-
lar averages about 91.8 research
octane number. This gasoline is
designed to satisfy over half of
the automobiles on the road on a
knock-free basis at full throttle.
Enco Plus should satisfy in a
similar manner 85-90 per cent
of all cars, and Enco Extra
should satisfy even the most
critical cars manufactured.
Estimating the range of com-
pression ratio versus satisfactory
performance on Enco Regular
cannot be defined too closely. In
general, the regular fuels should
satisfy cars with compression
ratios of 8.5 to 9. However, other
factors such as varying compres-
sion ratios from cylinder to cyl-
inder, combustion chamber de-
sign and the level of deposits in
the combustion chamber can
have a large effect on whether
or not regular gasoline will sat-
isfy a particular engine.
Q. I am in the Labor de-
partment. Could something
be done about the lug-loader
pans with wheels on them?
They are too high to dump
into, and too much of a haz-
ard to run a wheelbarrow
onto the crow’s nest or ramp
you have to use to dump a
load. And, too, the load lug-
ger trucks have a hard time
dumping them.
A. Efforts are made to locale
the six larger lug-loader pans
equipped with wheels in loca-
tions where they will receive
paper and other such trash. The
Refinery’s approximately 200
smaller pans are for more gen-
from the individual card record
to a magnetic tape system that
saves lime, manpower, and stor-
age space.
For employees, the “dollar
range” system offers these ad-
vantages: Stock withdrawals and
sales can be handled more rap-
idly than in the past, because it
will no longer be necessary to
pull out and work on stock rec-
ords by hand. Also, it will be
possible to give each employee an
inventory of his stock each year
as part of his annual Thrift state-
ment. Employees will still be able
to select the cost of the shares
of stock they wish to sell or
withdraw.
As promised in the letter
from the Thrift Accounting Of-
fice, a stock statement will be
mailed early in 1962. This will
give each participant as of De-
cember 31, 1961, a record of his
stock under the new system, com-
pared with the old system.
Q. I wear a size 14 shoe. I
would like to know why the
Company doesn’t stock the
large size shoes for men who
wear them.
A. There is not enough de-
mand to warrant slocking the
larger (and smaller) size shoes.
They can be obtained, however,
by special order. The Safely
Warehouse tries to order shoes
about once a week, and it ordi-
narily requires about three weeks
to get the shoes.
Q. There is a telephone
located just across the street
from Tank 797. It is a little
metal box. This is a handy
telephone for people work-
ing out in the yard, for the
laboratory personnel, and
for Pumping and Gauging
people. However, the num-
bers on the dial are not read-
able—especially at night. It
would be very good if this
was looked into and cor-
rected.
A. As a result of your call,
new numbers are being put on
the dial.. However, we believe
that repair needs in general
should be handled with the ap-
propriate supervisor.
Q. With the advent of the
new grade of Enco gasoline
and possible changes in the
old grades, it would be help-
ful to see a list of octane rat-
ings for all three grades and
recommendations concern-
ing what grade should be
used for what engine, rela-
tive to the compression ratio,
horsepower, and anything
else that might determine the
required grade.
Q. How many octane
points did Humble drop in
regular gasoline rating when
it came out with Enco Plus
gasoline?
A. Between the end of World
War II and May of 1956, Hum-
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