Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, June 29, 1962 Page: 1 of 4
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June 29, 1962
Published weekly by Manufacturing Division of Humble Oil & Refining Co. for Baylown employees
Old Filter House Area
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HUMBLE ST.
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Being Razed; Compound
Facilities To Be Added
Job Well Done' As Boilermakers
Retube Bundle in 35 Hours Time
New Humble Director Venn
. Former Refinery Employee
June Safety Slogan
Housekeeping
Promotes Safety
Vol. 10, No. 26, Community Bldg. No. 1
Extension 2752, Baytown, Texas
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NEW PRODUCT TANKS
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HOUSTON ST.
Next Wednesday Is
July 4 Holiday
Wednesday, July 4, 1962, In-
dependence Day, will be observed
as a holiday by employees at the
Baylown Refinery.
Hourly employees and salaried
employees subject to limited
hours will receive holiday pay
and pay for time worked in ac-
cordance with the established
rules.
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The line drawing above shows
the location of the old Contact
Lube plant and the old Filter
Houses in relation to the area that
will be occupied by the new Com-
pound office and warehouse. The
new warehousing facilities will be
used to provide the Southwest
Region Marketing area with Re-
finery products. The drawing was
made for Briefs by Taylor J. Miller
of Reproduction department.
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PARKING AREA
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COFFESE
Boilermakers don’t get many
opportunities to measure their
work in reference to records, but
operators at Phenol Plant No. 1
are pretty sure that a new boiler-
maker record was set recently in
getting a tube bundle retubed
and back in service at the unit.
The C-9 exchanger at the Phe-
nol Plant started “acting up” on
Sunday, June 17. Operators de-
cided the exchanger tube bundle
would have to be pulled out and
retubed.
Now the Phenol Plant is a
highly critical unit in our lube
processing picture, and demand
for lubes is high these days.
Which means that the operators
needed lo gel the exchanger back
in operation as quickly as pos-
sible.
The tube bundle was removed
Monday morning, June 18, and
hauled to the Central Shop about
noon. Boilermakers said, “We’ll
work three shifts straight through
on it until it is fixed.”
Pictured are Karl, with bird on shoulder, and Jeffy, sons of John R.
Martin, Reproduction as they feet! Peewee. The baby mockingbird was
found several weeks ago by the boys who arc giving' him a home until
he is big enough to care for himself. Peewee eats three medium size
worms per meal, and the boys enjoy feeding him. They buy worms for
Peewee out of their allowance.
(CONTACT LUBE PLANr)
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(FILTER HOUSE)
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Singing Convention
The Baytown Quarterly Sing-
ing Convention meets at Rose-
land Park Pavilion in Baylown
on June 30 and July 1. Singing
Saturday night will be from 7:30-
10, and Sunday from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. with a basket lunch at
noon.
J. D. Reavis, Distillation, is
president of the Singing Con-
vention, and Happy Walker,
Lube Finishing, is secretary.
who comes near him.
When Peewee grows older
and stronger, Karl and Jeffy are
going to let him go free. They
hope he will stay in a bird house
which they are building for him
in the back yard where he will
be able to come and go as he
pleases.
Peewee is taken out of his
cage daily and let out in the
back yard for sun and exercise.
When the other mockingbirds
see him they come down to chat
and bring him grasshoppers and
bugs to eat. The older mocking-
birds also try to protect Peewee
by trying to scare off anyone
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Mailing Of U. S. Bonds
Has Been Speeded Up
Due to a change in payroll ac-
counting, mailing of U. S. sav-
ings bonds to those who buy
them through payroll deductions
has been speeded up.
Purchasers will now receive
their bonds during the month in
which the deduction is made.
Previously, they were mailed the
following month.
Because of the new mailing
method, those employees pur-
chasing a bond a month will
receive two in June—one for
* the May deduction and another
for the June deduction.
Speakers From R & D
R. S. Manne and C. E. Zer-
wekh, both of R & D, spoke at
the University of Houston’s fifth
annual petroleum workshop re-
cently. Manne’s subject was “Pe-
troleum Products in the Space
Age” and Zerwekh discussed
“Elementary Organic Chem-
istry.”
Karl and Jeffy Marlin, sons of
John R. Marlin of Reproduction,
have a fine feathered friend
named Peewee. Pewee, a baby
mockingbird, was found near a
lumber pile shortly after a strong
windstorm a few weeks ago.
When the boys found Pewee, he
had very few feathers and was
so weak that he could not even
lei out a peep.
Karl and Jeffy look the young
mockingbird home and asked
Mrs. Marlin if they might keep
and care for him. Consent was
granted. The first meal Peewee
had was the while of bread
soaked in milk and fed lo him
with a toothpick. The food had
to be almost forced down Pee-
wee’s throat until he became
used to his new diet.
A week after being adopted
by the boys, Peewee was fed his
first worm which the boys dug
out of the family garden. Peewee
easts three medium size worms
at a feeding, and soon the supply
of worms in the Martin’s garden
was used up. The boys then
pooled their allowance money
and bought some worms for
Peewee.
Dismantling of the Contact
Lube plant and Filter Houses 1.
2 and 3 is now underway. When
the site has been cleared, a new
Compound office and warehouse
will be built on the location.
Only the pump rooms of the old
Filter Houses will remain.
The new warehouse for Re-
finery packaged finished prod-
ucts will extend from a point
near Humble Street on the north,
to Crosby Street on the south.
The building will be approxi-
mately 225 feel wide, and will
be located east of the railroad
tracks on Baytown Ave. To make
room needed for the 225 foot
width, 19 tanks - from the 200
lank grade are to be relocated.
A parking lot is to be located
on the north end, Humble Street
side, of the warehouse. A ten
berth loading dock for railroad
boxcars will be provided on the
west side along the existing track
facilities. Accommodations for
loading and unloading of van
trucks will be at the south end
of the warehouse. Cargo trucks
will enter and leave the loading
area by way of Baylown Avenue.
Humble Street is to be used in
entering and leaving the Refinery
via the East Gate.
The new Compound office will
be located in the northwest corner
of the warehouse building. While
construction is underway, the
The board of directors of
Humble Oil & Refining Company
has elected R. H. Venn a director
of the Company. Venn will trans-
fer to Houston from New Or-
leans where he has been serving
as vice president of the Com-
pany’s Southeast Esso Region.
Venn began his Humble career
at Bay town, when he joined the
Refinery as a junior chemical
engineer in 1934. In 1938 he
was promled lo section head in
the Technical Service division,
and was named senior project
engineer in 1942.
In 1945 he became technical
assistant to the director in charge
of refining in the Houston Office.
Prior to his promotion to man-
ager of the Refining department
in 1955, Venn served as manager
of operations of the Refining de-
partment for five years.
Named manager of the Mar-
keting department in 1958, he
was appointed to the board of
management of the Humble Di-
vision on December 1, 1959. He
was named vice president in
charge of the Southeast Esso
region late in 1960.
C. G. Herrington, who has
been general manager of the
Southeast Region, has been
elected a vice president to suc-
ceed Venn. A. A. Diffey, who
has been serving as executive
assistant to the Humble board,
will transfer to New Orleans to
succeed Herrington as regional
general manager.
The changes are effective
August 1, 1962.
personnel of the Compound of-
fice are doing business in the
old Distillation offices. These of-
fices are located on the second
floor of the building now being
occupied by the 2K tool room.
Dismantling is scheduled to
be completed by August, and
construction of the warehouse
will start immediately thereafter.
Materials from the dismantled
buildings will not be wasted. The
concrete and bricks will go to
the Refinery’s shoreline for rip
rap. The piping and fittings
are to be processed by the Re-
clamation department. Those
items found to be serviceable
will be reconditioned and stored
for future use. Unserviceable
items will be junked.
The new Compound facilities
are scheduled for completion by
late this year. The warehouse-
will be used to serve the South-
west Region Marketing area re-
quirements.
Retubing a 1,000 tube bundle
is no simple matter. A number
of critical operations are in-
volved in removing the old tubes
and putting in new ones.
By working straight through
on the bundle for about 35 hours,
however, 11 boilermakers had the
bundle re tubed and ready to
go back into place Wednesday
morning. On the average, they
dismantled, replaced and ex-
panded a lube every two minutes
during the period, which, as
M & C general foreman Maurice
Jennings says, is “good boiler-
making.”
The boilermakers who worked
on the bundle are J. W. Andress.
J. A. Sivek, F. S. Russell, J. C.
Mullins, 0. 0. Welch, S. M.
Gosch, E. F. Holder, L. A. Wil-
liams, Eugene Rogers, N. B.
Bryant, and Preston Bounds.
Bob Macke, general foreman
of Lube Extraction, said, “The
boilermakers did a fine job for
us getting the tube bundle re-
tubed. I also want to commend
the Phenol Plant operators for
keeping the unit operating while
C-9 was out of service.”
NEW COMPOUND
WAREHOUSE
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