Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1963 Page: 2 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Humble Bee and Baytown Briefs and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Sterling Municipal Library.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Baytown Briefs • March 8, 1963
Page 2
7 1
f
: 4
L
#
A
Four Hew ESCON Grades Available
Fire-Fighting Teams Honored
March 1 Retirement
I
"ma
"7
for
5
{
.HUMBLE
•44:
M
CYI Awards For $2,855
Presented 25 Refinery Men
4 Employees' Children Finalists
For National Merit Scholarships
. . .0. B. Lee
.. W. A. Read
Anna Killough
-- .
- -
Pat Souther, Cracking foreman, is shown at left as he presents J. H.
Parker, operator at No. 1 Cat, a CYI supplemental award check for
$690. Looking on at right are two of Parker’s co-workers, S. O. Ryals
and W. W. Power.
Employees pictured above who received CYI awards, are, from left, Leo
Wotipka, Machinist, $210; Tommy P. Evans, Instrument, $200; Charles
A. Davis, FHB, $200; Claude Havard, Machinist, $200.
Editor.........
Associate Editor
Staff Assistant..
Refinery Club Meeting
Baytown Refinery Club direc-
ors and members will meet next
Thursday, March 14, 7 p.m., at
their regular meeting place at
the Main Office.
B. A. Moers
Material Accounting
33 years
PF
Oil Payrolls High
Oil industry payrolls in Texas
exceed 81.2 billion annually, or
almost the cost of running the
stale government in 1961.
geni
(gey
1
1 4 <
2/1
N
: 7
Like all Escon grades, they
offer outstanding resistance to
chemicals and to environmental
stress cracking.
ku__K '
J—
s»" *-
$—- g-
•3}tp
< > 5- , a
~)
I
Maytown Briefs
Telephone 2752—2539
Published every Friday by the
Manufacturing Division of Humble
Oil & Refining Company for em-
ployees and annuitants of Baytown
Refinery and the Research organiza-
tion. To report stories and features,
please call or come by the Briefs
office, located on the second floor
of the Medical Building. U. S.
Mail should be addressed: Editor,
Baytown Briefs, P. O. Box 3950,
Baytown, Texas.
22
' 1 i' 7
NN
9
r n,%
‘‘va
, 3/7
2, #
y p
nuitant who died
the preceding
Tuesday in a
Baytown hospi-
tal. Interment
was in Cedar
opek, 840 each (these three also
received initial awards of S60
each); Elwood J. Lewis, Jesse
W. Adams, 825 each.
Others receiving initial awards
listed by departments, are:
Polyolefin—James W. Fry-
mire, 8150; Louis L. Matysiak,
S25. Butyl FHB—Leroy Single-
ton, 825. Cracking—M. J. Saw-
yer, 820. Distillation—James W.
Griffin, two awards, 875 and
850. Lube Extraction—Thomas
J. Claud, 850. Docks—J. E.
Fountain, Jack M. Goodson, 845
each; H. A. Morris, 820. Pump-
ing and Gauging—Leo C. Olive,
820. Equipment Repair—Chester
A. Tallent, S50.
P A
( ,
Four new grades of Escon
polypropylene, manufactured at
Baytown, are now available from
Enjay Chemical Company. They
are: Escon 276, a special-pur-
pose impact grade; Escon 512,
a food grade for sheet extrusion;
Escon 612, a food grade for
pipe and blow-molding; and Es-
con 622, a long-term heat-aging
grade for pipe and blow-mold-
ing.
Appreciation dinners were held
recently for members of the Re-
finery fire-fighting team and their
wives. Some 325 firemen and their
wives attended. Members of the
fire-fighting group were commend-
ed by H. H. Meier, general man-
ager, and by I. D. Hall, assistant
general manager, for the fine work
they are doing as Refinery fire-
men. Truett Smith, Utilities head
who serves as head of Fire Pro-
tection, was master of ceremonies
at the dinners. In top picture
Smith (right) is pictured present-
ing a “fire chief” plaque to Glenn
Barber, annuitant, who served as
fire chief and helped organize the
present fire-fighting teams prior
to his retirement. Bottom picture
shows a group of firemen and their
wives who were honored at the
dinners.
88
1 7 K
8
heV‘u4
2*,.] K
”e
of study and their parents, are
as follows:
Ginny Bethea, Rice Univers-
ity, biology, daughter of Sam
R. Bethea, R & D.
Kirk Franklin, University of
Texas, liberal arts, son of Joe
L. Franklin, R & D.
Jack Halter, undecided on
school, history, son of Richard
C. Halter, R & D.
Martha Strauss, University of
Texas, foreign languages, daugh-
ter of Homer C. Strauss, Boiler-
makers.
strips. Use of his suggestion pro-
vides belter cooling of rubber
and increases the capacity of the
FHB.
Claude Havard, Machinist, also
received a 8200 initial award.
He suggested converting avail-
able governors to control gas en-
gine compressor speeds instead
of purchasing new governors.
Other supplemental awards
went to the following employees,
shown by departments:
Lube Extraction—J. C. Cole,
8180. Pipe—Finch B. Cobb, 890.
Electric—0. L. Callaway, 880.
Machinist—John E. Lind-
strom, 880; Marvin L. Sutton,
Dale S. Henson, George E. Zat-
The National Merit Scholar-
ship Corporation has released
the names of 23 children of
Humble employees who are final-
ists for 1963 scholarship awards.
Each received a certificate of
merit. Four of the finalists are
children of Baytown Refinery em-
ployees.
Open to all secondary school
students—high schools and prep
schools—nationwide, the schol-
arships are administered nation-
ally. Standards of the National
Merit Scholarship Corporation
are widely recognized and re-
spected for selecting truly top
rank students deserving of every
encouragement to get a higher
education.
The four local students,
along with the schools they plan
to attend, their planned courses
Iak
c.
A 7
Crest Cemetary.
Henderson was born in Jewetl,
Texas, and allended school in
White Rock. He farmed in Lime-
slone County before moving to
Baytown in 1926. Prior to join-
ing Humble he worked for a
construction company in this
area. He was employed in the
Refinery Boilermaker depart-
ment in 1927. After a year in
that department, he transferred
to Distillation. He was a helper
in Distillation at the time of his
retirement September 29, 1953.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Mattie Lee Bell Henderson, Bay-
town; two daughters, Mrs. T. L.
Jacob and Mrs. Bernice Adams,
both of Baytown; Iwo sons, W.
L. Henderson and C. L. Hender-
son, both of Baytown; Iwo sis-
ters, Mrs. Alberta Cailouet of
Baton Rouge and Mrs. Effie Wil-
liams of Houston; nine grand-
children and three great-grand-
children.
A total of 82,855 has been
presented 25 Refinery men in
initial and supplemental Coin-
Your-Ideas awards.
A whopping 8690 went to
James H. Parker, Cracking. He
devised a means of reducing
caustic consumption and im-
proving efficiency of the caustic
system at No. 1 Cat unit. His
idea previously brought him a
$20 initial award.
A supplemental award for
$210 went to Leo Wotipka, Ma-
chinist. He suggested installation
of mechanical seals on hydraulic
pumps at Cat Unit No. 3 to re-
duce leakage, effecting a savings
on hydraulic fluid. His idea paid
him $65 initially.
Tommy P. Evans, Instrument,
received a $200 supplemental
award. He devised a method of
quick identification of safely
valve springs. His method in-
volves painting the number on
the spring, then dipping it in
clear epoxy. The epoxy serves
a double purpose in that it also
retards corrosion of the spring
increasing its life. Evans re-
ceived a $25 initial award for
his suggestion.
A 8200 initial award was pre-
sented Charles A. Davis, Butyl
FHB. He suggested removal of
fresh air ducts in the Finishing
Building attic which were block-
ing cooling air from rubber
\eh
ae
M/RE
Funeral Is Held For
James W. Henderson
Funeral services were held
Thursday of last week for James
W. Henderson,
. adddobhdp. 60, Refinery an-
gag'
S 19
1 n
1
FnF.
mdp8aE
M#meA
y M/urte
28 -1 —2
d.2 34
i < 22
" 6S.4bA
i s AA
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View four places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1963, newspaper, March 8, 1963; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417904/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.