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The program also included family tours of displays
and exhibits set up in 21 R & D work areas, movies
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In the picture at left above, the Joe Satterfield
family receives souvenirs given at the Open House
from R & D employees Katie King (standing) and
Amy Currie. The family group includes Mr. and
Mrs. Satterfield and their children Joe, Jr., Mary and
Will. The picture at right shows part of the crowd of
some 1,200 which enjoyed the barbecue feast served
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November 21 to celebrate a new safely record set by
the group. In setting the new record, employees of
R & D racked up 4,074,000 man-hours, covering a
six-year period, without a disabling injury. Their last
injury was October 14, 1958.
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marketing area.
The agreement provides that
China Light will operate the new
installations and will purchase
and distribute through its own
facilities all the electric power
generated by Peninsula Electric
Power Company. Esso will sup-
ply all the fuel oil required by
both China Light and Peninsula
Electric.
Implementation of the new
agreement will result in an im-
mediate reduction in charges to
many China Light consumers,
and a commitment that, barring
increased costs, these rates will
be maintained.
The agreement between Esso
Standard Eastern and China
Light is the result of discussions
conducted over the past several
years and of intensive studies
which began in 1963. The pro-
posal for establishment of the new
company has received the sanc-
tion of the Executive Council of
the Government of Hong Kong.
Lawrence Kadoorie, chairman
of the China Light board of di-
rectors, hailed the Esso invest-
ment as “a contribution which
should add substantially to con-
fidence in Hong Kong’s future
prosperity.”
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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 in Room 129 B of
the Main Office Building. U. S.
Mail should be addressed: Editor,
Baytown Briefs, P. O. Box 3950,
Baytown, Texas.
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Baytown, before joining the Re-
finery on a permanent basis
early in 1925. (His accredited
summer work dates his refinery
service back to November of
1921.)
He joined the refinery Insula-
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tion Department in 1925. then
transferred to Pumping and
Gauging later that year. Since
that time he has held just about
every job in that department up
through operating supervisor, his
present position.
The Cales family is well known
at Bay town. Cates’ son, J. C., Jr.,
is a member of the Light Ends
Department; and his daughter,
Mrs. Willard Dickerson, is a
former refinery employee. Cates
also had two brothers who re-
tired from the refinery—Robert
R,. now deceased, and J. L.
Cates is a sports enthusiast. He
likes hunting, especially, and has
just returned from a successful
deer hunt at Gonzales, where he
bagged a nice buck at 7 a.m. the
day deer-hunting season opened.
He also likes baseball and foot-
ball, and enjoys working in his
yard and gardening.
Mr. and Mrs. Cates have a
home in Creekwood addition. In
addition to their two children,
they have four grandchildren.
R & D Celebrates New Safety Record
R & D employees and their families gathered for
Family Day Open House at the Research Center
Esso Standard Eastern, Inc.,
and China Light and Power
Company, Ltd., have announced
an agreement to form a jointly-
owned company to increase the
supply of electric power in Hong
Kong.
China Light will have a 40 per
cent interest in the new venture,
•and Esso Standard Eastern, a
wholly-owned affiliate of Stand-
ard Oil Company (New Jersey),
will have 60 per cent.
New generating facilities to be
built by the new company, to be
named Peninsula Electric Com-
pany, are expected to quadruple
the Crown colony’s supply of
electric energy in the ten-year
period beginning in 1966.
The first phase of the con-
struction program, costing about
$90,000,000, includes installa-
tions adding 720,000 kilowalls of
electric energy, tripling the exist-
ing supply for Kowloon and the
New Territories of Hong Kong.
The first of these generating and
other facilities are to be ready
for operation in 1966. More gen-
erating units are to be added
later to keep pace with the de-
mand for electricity, which now
is increasing about 20 per cent
■annually in the China Light
and door prizes for the children, and an exhibit of a
variety of gifts from which each R & D employee who
helped set the safety record could select one for his
own use.
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Baughman might be the cham-
pion “graveyard worker” in the
plant. He points out that he has
worked graveyards for about 42
years, including his service with
another oil company in Mexico.
This totals almost 3,400 grave-
yards. “I adjusted to shift work,”
he says, “and had just as soon
work graveyards as days.”
The Baughmans, who live in
Lakewood, have two children, a
son and a daughter, and five
grandchildren.
His hobbies are duck and
goose hunting and fishing. He
also likes sports, especially foot-
ball and baseball, and follows
the Ganders, as well as keeping
up with college and professional
leagues.
“My wife and I have have a
place at Smith’s Point,” Baugh-
man says, “and I guess slaying
there is our favorite hobby. We
go down there on vacations and
off days, when we just get lazy
and relax with no telephone to
bother us.”
J. C. Cates
“Humble has been real nice to
me,” remarked J. C. Cales after
he had put in forty years with
I he company. “If I had it to do
over, I would go with them again
I don t think I could have bet-
lered myself anywhere else.”
A native of Angelina County,
Cates was reared on a farm near
Lufkin. He worked for oil com-
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Two more well-known Bay-
town men have been added to
the growing ranks of refinery
employees with 40 years of Hum-
ble sendee.
Ralph A. Baughman, Sr., night
superintendent, completed his 40
years of service November 8,
while J. C. Cates, Sr., operating
supervisor in Pumping and
Gauging, racked up four decades
of service November 24.
Each was honored by co-work-
ers at a coffee and cake party.
Also, each has the distinction of
having worked the entire forty
years without sustaining a dis-
abling injury.
Ralph Baughman
Baughman was born near
Hutchinson, Kansas, which, as he
points out, is located “on the
road to Dodge.” He moved to
Texas when he was seven, how-
ever, and was reared at Eagle
Lake, Breckenridge and San An-
tonio.
After completing a business
course at San Antonio, he worked
for three years with an oil com-
pany in Mexico, most of the
lime as a stillman.
He became a Bay town labora-
tory employee November 8, 1921,
and a shift foreman in the labs
three years later. He transferred
to the SO, Plant No. 1 as a
chief operator when it was com-
pleted in 1929. He went to the
Contact Dewaxing Plain a year
later in the same capacity, then
became a chief operator at the
Propane Plant when it was built
in 1937. He moved to So, Plant
No. 2 just before World War
II began, and was a chief opera-
tor there until 1918, when he
became an assistant night su-
perintendent. He was made night
superintendent a few months
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