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Company Sponsors Two Local
Junior Achievement Groups
Chemical Plant Announces
New Assignments For Seven
Effluent Better
Than Ever In '73
Seth Mitchell, Mechanical De-
partment head at the Baytown
Chemical Plant, has been pro-
moted to manager of Mechanical
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University College of Medicine.
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said. "We think it is important
that this information have the
same acceptability and credibility
that is afforded statistics on gross
national product, employment,
population and cost of living.”
“Exxon USA stands ready to
participate in efforts to devise an
information system that solves
this credibility problem, while
meeting the respective needs of
the government and industry for
appropriate and timely informa-
tion on energy supply and de-
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Hitchcock Center in Hanover,
New Hampshire, for five years.
He practiced internal medicine
in Bellows Falls, Vermont, for 15
years.
Dr. Buttrick has been presi-
dent of the local county unit of
the American Cancer Society in
Concord prior to coming to Bay-
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Increased This Year
The base on which employees
pay social security taxes has been
raised by the U. S. Congress
from $10,800 to $13,200 in 1974.
Individuals earning $13,200 or
more will pay $772.20 this year
compared to $631.80 in 1973.
The rate of deduction will re-
main at 5.85 percent—only the
base will change.
The Social Security laws re-
quire the companies to match the
Social Security taxes paid by
each employee.
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George Ferguson, former head
of the Chemicals Operating De-
partment at Baytown, has be-
come Mechanical Department
head succeeding Mitchell.
Charles Seay, a former Bay-
town Chemical Plant employee
has been a man-
ufacturing co-
ordinator in Ex-
xon Chemical
Jerry Alexander gets paycheck from Teenpower Advisor Sherman Glass.
Others standing are Paul Estis, George Hadnot, and Joe Barth.
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Advisors for EN-JA, sponsored
by the Chemical Plant, arc
Arnold Dixon (Chief Advisor),
Engineering Technical; Sam
Mowrey, Chemical Technical;
Paul Livaudais, Management
Services; Marva Nelson, Elasto-
mers Technical; and Duke Ad-
cox, Plastics Technical.
Each of the Junior Achieve-
ment companies manufactures
and sells a variety of products.
For the first part of the school
year, Teenpower members have
been packing and marketing
Christmas paper. They are now
making football helmet paper-
weights. EN-JA members have
been producing and selling four
products—hot plate trivets, deco-
rative candles, penetrating oil,
and an antifogging spray for
automobile windshields and win-
dows. Currently, they are manu-
facturing stamp holders and
customized name plates.
Photos of the Teenpower and
EN-JA members and their ad-
visors are shown on this page.
Operating Department succeed-
ing Ferguson.
Dennis Dowling, formerly a
supervisor in the Chemicals
Technical Department at Bay-
town, was promoted and succeeds
Seay as manufacturing coordina-
tor in the Chemical Raw Mate-
rials department in Houston.
Marvin Chlapek, a supervisor
in the Chemicals Operating De-
partment at Bay town, succeeds
Dowling as supervisor of the co-
ordination and economics section
of the Chemicals Technical De-
partment.
Roy Wolcott, training super-
visor in the Chemicals Operating
Department, was promoted to op-
erating supervisor at the Linear
Paraffin and Naphtha Rerun
units succeeding Chlapek.
W. D. Whitted, formerly an
operations supervisor in the
Chemicals Operating Depart-
ment, succeeds Wolcott as train-
ing supervisor.
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Working on EN-JA books at a reg-
ular meeting are Marva Nelson,
Robert Dunlap, Kacey Cuthbertson
and Paul Livaudais.
During 1973, discharge of bio-
logical oxygen demand from
Lagoon No. 3 to the Houston
Ship Channel was at the lowest
level ever recorded. The average
discharge was 12 percent better
than in 1972, a previous record-
setting year, and 39 percent
better than in 1971.
Continued improvement in Re-
finery and Chemical plant efflu-
ent quality is mainly credited to
better in-plant controls through
excellent effort and cooperation
between process, mechanical, and
technical personnel.
Exxon USA would welcome a
government-sponsored system for
collecting and publishing timely,
credible oil data that would both
serve the Federal government’s
energy policy-making needs and
meet the needs of industry, ac-
cording to W. T. Slick, Jr., a
senior vice president of Exxon
USA.
Testifying in mid-January be-
fore the Dingell Subcommittee on
activities of regulatory agencies,
Slick said that petroleum com-
panies, such as Exxon, already
supply more than 150 regular
reports to numerous different
Federal agencies. These reports
include detailed operating data,
often broken down by product
and location, as well as financial
and other data.
The oil industry also has de-
veloped its own data system,
Slick noted. The API information
system, for example, covers a
fairly broad range of data on
total industry operations, includ-
ing inventories of crude oil and
products, Refinery crude runs,
Refinery output by product, and
imports of crude oil and prod-
ucts. Such information is avail-
able on an equal basis to indus-
try, government, and the public.
“In the minds of some, exist-
ing energy data lacks one key
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Walter W. Buttrick, Jr., M.D.,
has assumed duties as head of
the Medical Department at Bay-
town. He succeeds C. Hunter
Montgomery, M.D., who will co-
ordinate medical activities for
the Minerals Department, Carter
Oil Company, Monterrey Coal
Company, and Exxon Pipeline
Company in the Exxon USA
Headquarters Medical Depart-
ment.
Before coming to Bay town,
Dr. Buttrick was vice president
of research and development for
New Hampshire-Vermont Hos-
pitalization and Physician Ser-
vices (Blue Cross and Blue
Shield), and medical director of
Blue Shield. He was headquar-
tered in Concord, New Hamp-
shire.
He is a native of New Hamp-
shire, and received his M.D. de-
town. He has also been active in
civic and school activities in
areas where he lived.
He and his wife, Barbara,
have a son and a daughter in
college, and another daughter
who graduated from college in
1973.
Dr. Montgomery has been
head of the Baytown Medical
Department since September
1971. He was an assistant medi-
cal director on the Exxon USA
Headquarters Medical staff be-
fore coming to Baytown.
He is a native of Lynchburg,
Virginia, and received his M.D.
degree from the University of
Virginia in 1953. He was em-
ployed with the U.S. Public
Health Service and practiced in-
ternal medicine in Houston prior
to joining the company as an
internist in 1960.
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Susan Jones, Jim Poepsel, Keith
Thompson and AI Bahler paint
football helmet paperweights dur-
ing a work session.
Members of two Junior
Achievement companies spon-
sored by Exxon USA and Exxon
Chemical USA at Robert E. Lee
and Ross S. Sterling high schools
have closed their books on busi-
ness for 1973.
Keeping the books is just one
of the important things students
who make up Junior Achieve-
ment companies learn about op-
erating a business. They also
learn the other phases—produc-
tion, management, and sales—by
actually setting up and running
the business during the school
year.
They are guided in these ef-
forts by employees from the
sponsoring companies who serve
as advisors to the student groups.
Teenpower is sponsored by the
Baytown Refinery. Advisors for
this company are Jim Poepsel
(Chief Advisor), Oil Move-
ments; Joe Barth, Coordination
and Economics; Al Bahler and
Sherman Glass, both of Process
Engineering; and George Had-
not, Mechanical Engineering.
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