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| Title: | Hallikainen hi-lights - Volume 3, Number 12 - December 31, 1963 |
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| Body: | Application Item! Hallikainen analyzers are
now on stream at Standard Oil's refinery at
Pascagoula, Mississippi. The crude oil comes in
by pipeline from the nearby oil sources in the
gulf area and this completely new refinery,
designed and built around a computer controlled
operation turns out 100,000 barrels per day.
Three of our instruments have been incorporated
into the system.
In the gasoline blending operation, the master
station provides a blend rate and running total
of the blend. Our Kinetic Vapor Pressure Anar
lyzer located just upstream from the booster
pump permits a continuous record to be made of
the gasoline vapor pressure. General practice
is to add only some 90% of the calculated amount
of butane required in the blend. If the analyr
zer finds this insufficient, a control valve
operates to add trimming butane downstream from
the pump_
In the fuel oil blending unit, a Hallikainen
Continuous Viscometer measures the viscosity of
the "preblend" after it comes out of the mixing
chamber, The signal from the Viscometer resets
the cutter stock ratio on the flow-ratio con-'
troller whenever the viscosity becomes too high
or too low. The preblend is either sold as a
high-viscosity fuel oil, or it is used as the
main component in the fuel oil blender.
;n the alkylation unit, our Acid Analyzer pro-
vides a reliable close control of the spent
acid strength.
(Ells
information is from an extensive article
in the Oil and Gas Journal of November 1963.)
Hallikainen Building Corporation. Since some
people like to invest in real estate, the Hol-
likainen Building Corporation has been estab-
lished to allow any of the company's present
stockholders to invest in the new building if
they wish. All stockholders were informed by
letter, and requests for stock were accepted by
the corporate secretary until the end of the
year. Sometime in January we expect to have a
definite date for the contractors to start
digging.
Annual Audit. Our energetic Egon Von Kaschnita
has been dashing in and out of late getting q
things organized for the annual audii by Arthur
Young & Company. This will be his third year
in charge of auditing our books, so by now his
travels through the plant attract no more notiae
than if he were a regular employee. This year
John Gibbs will be assisting Egon.
Bright Yellow Scotch Tape! Bits of it are
sticking to just about everything since t?e
inventory team went through-
counting. This
year we counted everything once, and only once!
The two men in business suits who were ii;
?hs
stock room counting 7/16 14x2" socket `_,eads
one by one were the auditors spot checking the
count. We noted that they picked the large,
easy-to-count kind. I guess nobody told thm
about the clever little weighing machine that
Fumi Takeshita was using to count thousands
of screws. It seems that one just dumps P
quantity of items on the scale and reads how
many there are from the indicator. We didn't
think it could possibly work, so we counted a
few. It was correct to the piece!
Good Cheer! The music was loud, the food was
good and the company Christmas party was a
real success! The proof of the success rests
in the fact that nobody thought about going
home until the orchestra packed up at two in
the morning. Although the music was somewhat
avant-garde, the boys were good musicians,
and our own Eero Vasankari with his accordion
provided a welcome balance of waltzes, polkas
and schottisches during the intermissions.
Everyone agreed that it was the best party
ever, and they were all glad of the week-end
to recuperate. As nearly as we can figure,
we had a ,record attendance of 112. Special
thanks to the committee, Hans Bockenkamp, Ken
Harris. and Jewella Deffebach for a fire iob
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of organizing the party plans.
Ho! Ho! Ho? The children's Christmas par-:?;
was attended by 41 children who shoutl?d
a? -he
puppet show, laughed at the magician, consumed
5 dozen ice cream cups and 6 dozen cookiesj,
received a gift from Santa and scrambled for
candy from the pinata. An equal number of
accompanying parents shouted at childrsn,
laughed at the magician, consumed 3 gallons of
coffee and 12 dozen cookies, took pictures of
children with Santa, and confiscated the candy
from the pinata to be doled out after dinner.
Our special thanks to the party committee,
Shirley Ramacher, Rose Hendrickson, and San-t;.
Pictures! We have finally come through with
a few pictures as we promised, courtesy of
John Chin and Nellie Kvasnicka. WePre all
crying over Opal Taylor's movies. M.R.'s
camera mechanism was faulty and nothing cs;?le
out, even' though it worked perfectly lest
summer.
Picnic area in Temescal Park May 26, 1963 Noon volleyball game at the company June 1963 Music! Music! Music! Christmas party, December 20, 1963 Volleyball game at the picnic in Temescal Park, May 26, 1963 Children's Christmas party December 15, 1963 Michael Chin and Santa at the Children's party, December 15, 1963
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