Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 09, Ed. 1, September 1974 Page: 1 of 8
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Plants United Fund Drive
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Safe Operations Index Audit
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"Industry plays a major role
in Baytown’s economy and com-
munity life,” Chemical Plant
Manager John Costolnick told
members of the Baytown Cham-
ber of Commerce recently on the
11th anniversary of the cham-
ber’s weekly luncheon meetings.
Costolnick is chairman of the In-
dustrial Committee of the Bay-
town chamber.
More than 5,800 industrial
workers earn a combined total of
$85.7 million in payroll dollars
from 12 industrial installations
in the Baytown area, Costolnick
said. This is estimated to be one-
third of the income of Baytown
workers.
“The 5,800 employment figure
represents only the regular opera-
ting and maintenance jobs for
Baytown area industries, and
does not include contract con-
struction people,” he said.
Employments of the 12 indus-
tries in Baytown range from 37
to nearly 2,200. “There is also a
diversity in the kinds of indus-
dustry in Baytown,” Costolnick
noted. "We have basic steel, pe-
troleum, petrochemical manufac-
turing, and major power genera-
tion.”
Industrial employment rep-
resents approximately 30 percent
of the total Baytown employment
picture, Costolnick told the more
than 100 persons at lhe luncheon.
“This high level of industrial
payrolls is a major factor in Bay-
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United Fund Cashier Mary Dudley takes contributions on first day of
drive from John Lee, Refinery field maintenance zone.
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ployees at ER&E had reported
$9,779 or 93 percent of their
$10,490 goal. Although no con-
tributions from the 30 Baytown
Exxon Marine employees had
been turned in at Briefs press
time, Chairman Carl Northcutt
reported that Marine employees
were at about the half-way mark
toward their $800 goal.
In discussing the plants’ drive
at solicitors’ meetings on the two
days before the drive began, Wil-
son said, “The Budget Commit-
tee for the Baytown Community
Chest has done a good job in
keeping this year’s budget needs
as practical as possible.
“This committee had a tough
job, since inflation has hit the
22 Bay town agencies serving
Bay town the same as it has hit
the rest of us,” Wilson com-
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town’s high per capita effective
buying income and above aver-
age household cash income.”
He listed some of the effects of
100 new industrial jobs to Bay-
town. These include: a total in-
crease in personal income of
$1,036,000, one more retail estab-
lishment, an increase in retail
sales of $565,000, increased bank
deposits of $490,000, an increase
of 68 non-industrial jobs, and a
community population increase of
351.
A second major role of indus-
try in community contributions
is payment of taxes which help
support local governmental and
educational activities.
In 1973, Costolnick noted,
cities, counties, and school dis-
tricts in the Baytown area re-
ceiver! more than $12 million in
taxes and industrial district pay-
ments from industries.
These included $1.17 million to
the City of Baytown, $3.59 mil-
lion to Harris and Chambers
counties, and $7.5 million to the
Goose Creek and Barbers Hill
school districts.
“It is significant lo note,” he
said, "that the cost of govern-
mental services is less to industry
than to residential areas. In fact,
in many cases no services are
supplied at all to local industries
by cities and counties. Thus the
average citizen gels a substantial
tax break through the presence of
industry.”
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ing more than 300 different items
which have been established by
Exxon USA as guidelines for
safety in design, operations, and
maintenance, Smalling says.
"The score for a particular
area, when compared with the
score for that area on previous
audits, is expected to indicate
changes or trends in operational
safety in the area from year to
year.
“The audits, which are to be
repeated each year, give equip-
ment owners a basis for making
safety improvements,” he points
out.
The items to be audited are
divided into nine categories. The
categories are audited by the in-
dividuals most familiar with the
item. To assure uniformity, a
“cookbook” procedure is followed
(See SAFETY AUDITS, page 5)
Another area where benefits
result from the presence of in-
dustry is in ihe availability of
human resources for community
activities. “Industries participate
constructively in community-life,
both as corporate citizens and
through its employees,” Coslol-
nick said.
Significant contributions are
made by industry to fund drives,
such as the United Fund, and to
charitable institutions. Industry
also supports youth and cultural
activities such as Little League,
the Youth Fair and Rodeo, the
Community Orchestra, and the
Art League through sponsorships
and through program advertis-
ing, he remarked.
“Perhaps more importantly,”
Costolnick said, “industry pro-
vides a large pool of talented
people for a wide range of com-
munity activities such as govern-
mental boards, working with
United Fund agencies, Boy and
Girl Scout leadership, and par-
ticipating in functions of civic
organizations.
“In the next few years,” he
commented, “industrial expan-
sion in Baytown will be signifi-
cant.
“The economic impact of new
industry and expansion of exist-
ing industry is identical. Both
mean the addition of jobs and
payrolls for Baytown,” Costolnick
said.
Shortly after the Uni led Fund
drive in the plants began Sep-
tember 18, solicitors from
throughout the Baytown organi-
zations began bringing in con-
tributions and moving rapidly
toward the employees’ combined
goal of $105,700.
When the plants’ drive was
eight days old, employees had
contributed a total of $70,020 or
66 percent of the combined goal.
Glenn Wilson, general chair-
man of the drive among Re-
finery, Chemical Plant, ER&E,
and Baytown Exxon Marine em-
ployees, said Thursday, “The
response from employees at this
point in the drive is excellent. I
am sure we will reach our tar-
get before the end of the three-
week drive in the plants.”
By Thursday morning, Sep-
tember 25, Refinery employees
had contributed $44,510, or 63
percent of their $70,808 goal;
Chemical Plant personnel had
turned in $15,730 or 67 percent
of their $23,602 goal, and em-
Approximately 80 employees
from Refinery Process, M&C, and
Technical are conducting a Safe
Operations Index audit of Re-
finery units and other operating
areas.
The Safe Operations Index was
adopted by Exxon USA refineries
late last year as a uniform
method of scoring the safety en-
vironment at operating areas
throughout the company.
Jack Smalling, operations as-
sociate in Fuels who developed
procedures for applying the in-
dex at Baytown Refinery, says
the current audit will be com-
pleted about the end of Septem-
ber.
An audit for a specific area is
being conducted by a team of
four or five employees not nor-
mally assigned to the area.
The procedure involves audit-
mented.
Work of the Budget Commit-
tee actually started in the middle
of the summer, he noted. The
committee worked several days
with representatives of the vari-
ous agencies to come up with an
overall budget based on total
needs of the 22 agencies which
serve the Baytown area.
The goal for the Baytown area
in this year’s drive is $292,500.
The United Fund drive in the
community will be completed
about the end of October.
The companies’ contribution
this year will be handled dif-
ferently than in past years, Wil-
son noted. “Instead of giving a
specific amount, the companies
will contribute 30 cents for each
$1 given by plants’ employees.”
(More photos on page 2)
Oscilloscopes Given Civil Defense
Baytown Exxon Research and Engineering Company recently
gave two oscilloscopes to the Baytown Civil Defense. The instru-
ments will be used in maintaining Civil Defense communications
equipment. Shown with the oscilloscopes, from left, are Oscar
McCullough, Civil Defense Director Fletcher Hickerson, and Ralph
Connor. McCullough and Connor are senior instrument technicians
at ER&E, and Hickerson is a Refinery Laboratory supervisor.
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