The Ingleside Index (Ingleside, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1973 Page: 4 of 18
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Area's Largest Employer Makes
No Exceptions for Women Workers
who-wo
ave-thought-of-it’
Christmas gift.
Telephones are so useful, you start to
think the only thing they can he is useful.
And you forget how beautiful they can he.
That’s why some people completely over-
look phones as a Christmas gift.
Well, General Telephone has phones that
are absolute knockouts—a joy to look at
and to use.
For instance, (that supermodern Style-
line® phone. T he dial is hidden till you pick
up the phone; then it’s right in the palm of
your hand.
We have Candlestick phones with styling
straight out of the Roaring Twenties. We
have old-fashioned phones. And phones that
hardly look like phones. And phones so ele-
gant they look hke^hey belong ltj^a castle.
Most likely you havcYfietr pictures in full
color right in your own h()iH^r-fThey come
in a variety of lovely colors.) Just look be-
tween the White Pages and the Yellow
Pages of your phone hook.
To order, call the Gift Specialist at your
phone company’s business office.
Give the kind of gift that makes people
think only you could have thought of it.
GEflERAL TELEPHOnE
ENERGY
CRISIS
REALLY A
REALITY IN
SOUTH
TEXAS?
The energy crisis. You’ve
read about it, heard about it. and
perhaps even wondered about it,
lust like Mr. Cris Vela of
Mission. But those were other
people’s problems.
This year, however, the
energy crisis could hit us right
here is South Texas. Here’s why:
Like all electric power
companies in the Southwest,
Central Power and Light uses
natural gas to produce electricity.
And knowing there was a
shortage of natural gas. CPU
took definite steps to avoid a
potential crisis.
A firm, long-term contract
was signed with our
major supplier of natural gas to
meet our requirements through
the year 1992.
But a supplier can’t fulfill
his contract if he can’t get
the product.
And it appears that we have
just that problem. Best estimates
indicate that our suppliers will
not be able to deliver all the
natural gas we need.
What does that mean to you?
Will your lights suddenly go out
one night because CPL did not
have enough natural gas for the
production of electricity? Not if
we can help it.
CPL is doing everything
possible to see that^plectric
service is not interrupted. We’re
not just sitting around wringing
our hands.
We’re searching for other
sources of natural gas, and
for alternate ways to generate
electricity.
We’re doing our best. . . and
there is something you can do.
Conserve electricity.
If every CPL customer
makes an effort to conserve, it’ll
help stretch our supply of natural
gas . . . and save you money on
your electric bill.
If you’d like to know more
about the energy crisis in South
Texas... what we’re doing
about it, and how youcan help,
write John Speaker. P.O. Box
2121, Corpus Christi. Texas 78403.
Women have in the last year
begun to be employed in larger
numbers m positions formerly
reserved lor men only and this
is becoming more evident in the
local area where industries are
employing women as laborers
The Reynolds Metals Com
pany plant between Ingleside
and Gregory is making no
exceptions when it comes to
hiring, there are currently 15
women working at the plant
These women are employed in
clerical work as well as in the
actual operations ot the plants,
as laborers
One of lfie first women
employed at the plant was
Joyce Graumann of Ingleside.
She was employed in July, 1952
as a clerk typist in the
technological department She
was recently promoted to staff
assistant at the Sherwm Plant.
Her main duty being to
represent the plant in the
scheduling o| alumina and
bauxite shipments
Women are employed in other
positions, including the pur
chasing department, employ-
ment, personnel and opera-
tions One male employee
candidly said that when he sees
a woman doing some heavy
shoveling or such he feels that
he should help but refrains, they
were employed to do the work
and they knew what they were
getting into, he said
The women are part of a
complex which is the largest in
the world The two plants, one
for reduction and the other for
production are the Sherwin
Plant and the San Patricio
plant The first plant was built
m the early 1950's and now
employees 1800
Reynolds, with its Sherwin
and San Patricio plants and
Marine Division is the area’s
largest twn governmental em-
ployer
The year 197.9 marked the 20th
anniversary of the Sherwin
plant The plant when it was
first constructed had two units
and by the end of 1953
production was at about IKK) tons
per day Today the production
is more^Uldn 4,t»00 tons a day.
The Snerwm plant is the
largest iMummia plant in the
world and supplies alumina to
four Reynolds reduction plants
and has shipped alumina to
plants in Canada, Venezuela,
and as far away as Africa.
Sherwin plant manager, G L.
Suffredine stated that the plant
produces 1,385,000 tons of
alumina per year.
He explained that the bauxite
is brought m by sell unloading
stops with a capacity ol 7,500 to
l.i ooo long tons Ores used at
these plants are Jamaican and
Haitian bauxite They are
carried by semi-covered con-
veyor belts u/o the plant The
semi-coverea conveyors help to
SHERWIN ALUMINA PLANT ^ Tills part of the Reynolds Metals Company plant
on Hwy. 361 between Ingleside and Gregory celebrated its 20th anniversary this
year. In the background the San Patricio Plant can be aeen.
POWER PLANT — This view of the engines at the San Patricio plant at Reynolds
Metals show a few of the !M engines which generate power. The engines u$e
50 million cubic feet of gas per day, about four times the average daily consump-
tion of the city of Corpus Christi.
The INDEX — Ingleside, Texas
PAGE FOUR — THURSDAY, DEC. 11 1973
Board Drawing Plans
For Proposed Park
control red dust seen in the air
around the plant
The Sherwin Alumina Plant Is
a modified Bayer process plant
designed for refining bauxite to
produce aluminum oxide The
primary function of the plant is
to separate aluminum oxide in
as pure a state as possible, from
other materials with which it is
associated in the ore stages,
explained Sufferdine
The bauxite leaves the
Sherwm Plant in a pure white
powder like substance Mark
Handlemann, technical assi
stant of the general manager of
the plant said this substance is
99 and one half per cent pure
aluminum oxide, the other half
per cent being sodium.
The red mud from which the
aluminum oxide is taken is
placed in pits Two pounds of
the red mud produces one pound
of aluminum oxide
The San Patricio Plant
general manager said his plant
which produces 114,000 tons per
year of aluminum, takes the
alumina and through chemical
processing and heating molds it
into ingots (pigs) Some of the
ingots may be as big as
24”x72"xl88" and weigh 33,500
pounds or as small as 50
pounds These ingots are
shipped out of the plant for
further processing.
Oth'er Reynolds Company
plants are located in Houston,
where beverage cans are made,
Eagle Pass, fluorspar plant
which makes the cryolite used
in the production of alumina,
and the El Campo mill The
Marine Division headquartered
in Corpus Christi is in charge of
ship hauling the ore, red mud.
The energy crisis is of yet
having little effect on the two
plants here Handlemann said
Tuesday the plants are turning
off unnecessary lighting in
areas where it can but in areas
which are hazardous they are
being left on He said anywhere
light can be spared it is being
spared. Operations is the only
area of the plants where
lighting has not been curtailed,
these are the actual manufac-
turing areas.
Social Security
Representative
Available Dec. 19
A representative of the Social
Security Administration will be
at the County Tax Office In
Aransas Pass on December 19,
1973, at 9 00 a m
You may obtain information
about your rights and duties
under the Social Security Act
Gene Howard, plant indus-
trial engineer at the San
Patricio plant said they use
much natural gas and like most
industries are concerned about
the energy crisis.
Work on the proposed city
park for Ingleside continued
this week as the City Park
Board met with a representa-
tive of the Coastal Bend Council
ol Governments.
John Franklyn of COG who
tias worked closely with the
Park Board since the park
project was conceived showed
Board members new aerial
photos of the park, a park road
layout, and proposals for the
park entrance.
II was proposed that the park
entrance be located on Sherry
Avenue with a one way street in
and a one way out. The first
phase of construction of the
entrance would be a road seven
tenths of a mile in length.
Members of the Board
present at Wednesday's meet-
ing were Tom Nichols, Board
chairman, Dick Tolin, E. B.
Lee, l,ou Hempel, and Burl
Bowden.
The work that has been so far
outlined by the Board will be
presented Thursday to the City
Council tor their viewing and
consideration.
For the right gift, for any
occasion, shop at Stewart's
first. Wa gift wrap free.
LIVE A LITTLE
RED A
TOP
RED
TOP
THURSl
BANANA
SPLIT
COFFEE 5* TO GO 10<
OPEN 10 ca.m. - 11 p.m. DAILY
"FOOD FOR THE FAMILY"
CALL IN VOUR ORDER
Highway 361 Phone 776-2506 Ingleside, Texas
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The Ingleside Index (Ingleside, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1973, newspaper, December 13, 1973; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth996702/m1/4/?q=a+message+about+food+from+the+president: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.