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106 THE BAYTOWN SUN Monday, March 31, 1975 Gulf Plant Here Biggest In U.S The Cedar Bayoa Olefm Plant, located on a tract off Interstate Highway 10 near Bay- lown.ls- the largest chemical facility operated by Gulf Oil Chemicals Co. in the U.S. Since the plant began operating in late 1963, its history has been one of continuous expansion. This trend is continuing two expansion projects are being constructed at the site. A new ethylene unit is going up on the east side of the plant and scheduled for completion in early 1976.

John Strausser, plant manager, said when the unit comes on stream next year, it will near- Brown Elected Director Baytown Sun Editor and Publisher Leon Brown has been elected to first three-year term as a director of the Baytown Chamber of Commerce. Leon has been a Baytonian 11 years, and in that time has become actively involved in the growth of the community and in plans for the future. Brown was born in Coushatta, and attended schools there. He was graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, with a.BA degree, and taught at South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas after graduation. He came to Baytown in and was with the school district before joining the staff of The Sun in 1965.

He was classified manager and business manager at The Sun be. fore taking the reins as editor and publisher in May 1971 Leon is a deacon at Memorial Baptist Church and is superintendent of the and 12th grades in the Siuiday School Department. He is a member of Rotary Club and is on the board of directors of the organization. He is also on the board of the Baytown Opportunity Center and the Baytown Museum Board, plus being involved in the Cancer Society in Baytown. Leon is married to the former Mary Hartman, and the Browns have one daughter, Laura Kathryn, who is six-years-old and a student at Pumphrey Elementary.

They live at 5001 Inverness. iy quadruple the facility's output of high-purity ethylene, raising the capacity to 1.6 billion pounds per year. The second oc- curing on the west side of the site, and when completed in late 1976. it will double the plant's lowdensity polyethylene capacity, raising' to 500 million pounds per year. "Although ethylene is our largest volume the plant actually makes four distinct products.

In addition to ethylene and polyethylene, Cedar Bayou produces annually 150 million pounds of high-purity propylene and 130 million pounds of normal alpha olefins." Distribution of the plant's ethylene and propylene is made via pipeline, operated by Gulf Refining a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corp. The ethylene pipeline system is over 200 miles long is the largest of its kind in the U.S. Both ethylene and propylene pipelines are connected to underground storage wells at Mont Belvieu. About 350 workers are employed at the plant 250 by Gulf and 100 by Brown and Root. Another 1,300 are employed by the contractor who is building the new ethylene unit and during the third quarter of this year, Strausser estimates that both contractors will have total peak employment of about 2,500 workers.

Cedar Bayou is not the largest petrochemical complex in the Baytown area, Strausser acknowledged, but "'the plant plays an important role in the overall economic well-being of the" community." The majority of the labor force associated with the expansion work at the plant are area residents and the project itself is Leon Brown RENT TO OWN MERCHANTS T.V. 1101S.PRUETT 422-3083 THE PROBLEM SOLVER NORTH MAIN RENTAL 1610 N. MAIN 427-5629 Flowers make any occasion brighter. Especially flowers from Mallory's Arrangements and catering by Pat. Mallory's Florist 222 E.

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