Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 5, 1964 Page: 2 of 4
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Baytown Briefs • June 5, 1964
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New Type Furnace Coils Built From Surplus
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New Use For One Of Our Products
Butyl Roof Installed In Refinery
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Final Rites Held For Hollis Brown
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part menu in 1930 he transferred
Two Employees Credited For
Quick Action In Injury Case
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struction for several weeks on the
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has been completed, and now is
being readied for installation at
Hydroformer No. 1. There, it
will become the coils of a new
furnace that will replace the unit’s
old B-3 furnace. And much of
the material in the replacement
will be making a return appear-
ance at the unit, although it will
be serving in an entirely differ-
ent capacity this time. The new
coils were fabricated from sur-
plus piping, part of which had
been removed from Hydroformer
No. 1 during a previous simpli-
Two members of a roofing firm, Bob Million and Moody Adams, are
shown from left as they spray a rubber coating on the roof of Sub Sta-
tion 15 at the Butyl plant. Watching the application of this new type
of roofing material, at far right, is W. C. Morris, Chemical Products.
While white was the color used here, other colors arc also available.
Funeral services were held
Sunday in Baytown for Hollis
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reared in Trent, where he at-
tended school. Before moving lo
Baytown, he was a blacksmith in
Trent for 15 years, and also op-
erated a truck line there for sev-
made a quick examination to de-
termine the extent of the opera-
tor’s injuries, and found that
his left leg was obviously broken
just above the ankle. Instructing
the others to stay with the in-
jured, Roy ran to a nearby phone
and made the call that was a key
factor in the fast action that fol-
lowed.
First, he dialed Extension 600,
the refinery emergency number.
This got an immediate answer
from the refinery PBX switch-
board, and Roy proceeded to
give the operator a brief but ac-
curate report. He told her what
the emergency was, exactly
where it had occurred, and that
an ambulance and doctor was
needed at the scene.
With this information, Alla
Partin, the PBX operator who
look Roy’s call, went into action.
She is the other employee
gun. The second, or top coat is a
thin sprayed-on coating of a
special plastic which seals and
protects the softer butyl surface.
Total thickness of ihe two coats
is approximately 40 mils, or .04
of an inch.
Because of butyl’s excellent
weathering characteristics, em-
ployees at the Butyl plant are
confident that this new use of
the product they make will “go
over the top” as a successful com-
petitor in the roof covering mar-
ket.
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Born in Abilene, Brown was
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butyl rubber and butyl latex
roofing has been installed. Al-
though Enjay Chemical Com-
pany, through its Synthetic Rub-
ber Division, is developing and
promoting butyl latex roofing
nationally, this is the first such
installation in this area.
The Sub Station No. 15 job is
a two-coat application. The first
coat consists of butyl latex and
chopped glass fibers sprayed
simultaneously on the roof sur-
face through a special applicator
fication program.
In replacing the old B-3 fur-
nace, which would have required
extensive and costly repairs to
remain in service, the new fur-
nace has a two-fold purpose. It
is an original design by Hosea
Smith and Charlie Harrison, both
of Fuels Technical, who planned
it for greater efficiency, but with
less ground space needed for its
construction. As a result, addi-
tional room has been provided
for a waste heat boiler that is
being considered for installation
in the furnace.
Other features of the design
include simplicity of erection and
maintenance; air-tight construe-
Fiat 500, Located At Garage,
Now For Sale On A Bid Basis
A 1960 Fiat 500, located at the Carage, is for sale on a bid
basis. Its HOR number is 5174.
The car can be seen next Tuesday, June 9, from 7:30 a.m. to
4 p.m. by contacting B. E. Franklin, Extension 2570.
Bids should be addressed lo J. G. Traxler, Purchasing Ofice,
and should be in sealed envelopes with the item bid on marked
on the outside. Information included in bid must give home ad-
dress and name of bidder.
To be considered, bids must be received at the Purchasing Of-
fice by 4:30 p.m. on June 12, 1964, or, if dispatched through
U. S. Mail (P. O. Box 4019), must be postmarked by that date.
Sale is made as-is-where-is. Terms are net cash upon acceptance,
and sale when made is final. Humble reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
credited with doing an outstand-
ing job in getting help for the
injured in a hurry. Her first call
was to Plant Protection which, in
turn, called for an ambulance
and stood by to lead it to the
scene of the accident. Next, she
called Medical for a doctor to be
sent to the scene, and then re-
ported the accident to Safety.
The fast action activated by
these calls by both Roy and Alta
is pointed out in a lime log kept
by Plant Protection. The dis-
abling fall occurred at 8 a.m.
Roy made his emergency call to
the PBX switchboard at 8:02,
and four minutes later the ambu-
lance arrived at the Corral Gate
where the Plant Protection patrol
car was waiting to lead it to the
accident. At 8:08 a.m., the ambu-
lance arrived at the area where
Dr. R. W. Pipkin and Dr. H.
O. Sappington were already pre-
paring to put the patient’s leg in
splints so he could be moved.
W. B. Patterson of Safety was
also already on the scene to assist
in investigating the accident. The
patient was then placed in the
ambulance and taken to the First
Aid building for X-rays. He ar-
rived there at 8:12 a.m.—just 12
minutes after his unfortunate
fall.
As soon as the X-ray work was
completed, the injured was taken
to San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
to receive further treatment and
to recuperate. This week he re-
turned home and is able to get
around on crutches.
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M & C craftsmen made good use of surplus material in fabricating this
tall, pipe “cage” which is the coils for a new furnace being installed at
Hydroformer No. 1. Shown working on the coils while they were being
fabricated on the west side of the Central Shop are, from left, riggers
H. L. Tate (in crane cab) and Clarence Pillow, boilermaker L. O.
Musick, welders J. S. Dillard and Emil Doskocil, fabricator W. L.
Welch, rigger R. L. Cutbirth, and J. W. Timmons, area supervisor.
lion to eliminate air seepage;
and arrangement of coils to give
minimum pressure drop. Heat
will be provided by three burners
which will operate on 10 per cent
excess air and will have a 60,-
000,000 BTU-per-hour output.
About 2,500 feet of surplus
pipe was used in fabricating the
24 tall U-bends that serve as
coils in the design. The walls of
the furnace will be seven-foot
sections of prefabricated refrac-
tory material that will be bolted
together for easy assembly and
dismantling. The stack from the
old B-3 furnace will be used on
the new one. Installation prepara-
tions were started last week.
Quick, accurate and efficient
action of two employees played
an important part in getting an
ambulance to the scene of an ac-
cident in record lime when a
disabling injury occurred in the
Refinery on Thursday of last
week. As a result, the injured
employee was receiving profes-
sional medical attention in less
than eight minutes after the ac-
cident, and had been delivered
by ambulance to the refinery
First Aid building for further
examination in just 12 minutes
after being hurt.
The accident that set this fast
action in motion occurred when
an operator in the Light Ends
area lost his fooling while com-
ing down from a portable step
platform. Members of a Rigging
crew working on the unit saw
him fall and ran to bis aid. One
of the riggers, Roy Cutbirth,
Brown, 68. re-
finery annuitant
who died the pie-
ced i ng Friday
in a local hos-
pital. Burial was
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A building at the Butyl plant
has been covered with rubber!
Sounds like something got out of
control, but quite the contrary.
It was done on purpose to prove
a new use that has been found for
butyl.
Using the roof of Electrical
Sub Station No. 15 at the Butyl
plant as a testing ground, a
promising new application of
to the Blacksmith shop as a
helper and worked on that job •
until May 1, 1933, when he
transferred to the Machinist de-
partment as a helper. He re-
turned to the Blacksmith shop in
January 1935 and continued to
work there until his retirement, ,
May 1, 1957. He was a black-
smith 1st class at retirement.
His survivors include his
widow, Mrs. Alva Lee Brown, * .
Baytown; four daughters, Mrs.
Merle Wilkins and Mrs. Marilyn I .
Evans, both of Channelview;
Mrs. Jane Stephens and Mrs.
Barbara Little, both of Baytown;
a sister, Mrs. B. C. Hamner of * *
Breckenridge. Nine grandchil-
dren also survive him.
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Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 5, 1964, newspaper, June 5, 1964; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417967/m1/2/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.