Beaumont High School - Pine Burr Yearbook (Beaumont, TX)

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Community, mont, and Industry Grows ,Lf ..,f - in 1 5 1 ,. ' fasa.,Qg':.253Twtf'f J-3141? lf, ' ' atrial- ,, am 'J N f 'fAiwQ3L.,f5'faeIfgt,A , A If ' ., f, we ,fr , Q, ti ,M , Z -th. f ie, ,je - ..,, 'S 1 597213 Steel Magnolia Refinery Beaumonfs largest industryhand one of the first big plants in Texas-is Mag- nolia Petroleum Companyds 190,000-ban rel-a-'day oil refinery. Built in 1903, the plant today employs more than 3,000 people-representing a wide range of crafts and professions that include machin- ists, carpenters, painters, engineers, clerks, sailors, gardeners and a photographer. lts payroll is responsible for circulating more than a million dollars a month through the Beaumont Community. Operating day and night, the refinery produces a multitude of products to help meet the world's petroleum needs. The tall structures in the background. abme, are 25-story Thermo- for 'iCal Crackers, employed primarily in the manufacturing of gasoline and heating fuels. The first such unit was built in this plant in 1943.

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This Is Our Be Where Oil Flows 'AA GEYSER OF OIL,', the headline on the front page of the Beaumont Enter- prise of January 10, 1901, said. At ten o'clock that morning on a rise known as Spindletop just south of Beau- mont, Captain Anthony F. Lucas brought in the nationls first oil gusher. With it the modern oil industry came into existence and soon after the gas industry. Oil companies were organized rapidly. Official records show that nearly 600 were formed in those early days. Some sold out. others failed and some were frauds. but from among the companies formed came the Texas Company. Gulf Oil Corporation and Magnolia Petroleum Company. ln a few short years the boom was here to stay. For the first time in history a great source of fuel was available. lt was close to ocean transportation. This com- bination made a new industrial revolution possible. There is little wonder why Beau- mont calls itself the city 'fWhere Oil Be- Oil Wells Blending with Beaumont's downtown skyline where the Neches River curves lazily toward the Gulf of Mexico some 42 miles distant is Bethle- hemls bustling shipyard pictured at right where some 2,000 people from the city and surrounding area earn a living. This is where off-shore drilling for oil was pioneered and where strange-looking craft still rise to towering heights along the building ways before the tremendous resources of oil in the Gulf can be tapped. Bethlehemls Beaumont shipyard is more than just a shipyard. lt is a steel fabrication plant where steel beams and trusses for highway bridges and buildings are put togetherg where huge refinery pressure vessels and towers are built: where weary ships of the nation's maritime fleet come in for remodeling and repairsg where new technical advances are made every day in what is still a comparatively new industry-off-shore drill- 1ng. came an lndustryfl

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A rtculture, Trcmsportatron, Government, anal Rrce F lelds The most Important agrlcultural crop ln the CIIVS trade area IS rlce Jefferson County IS one of the leadlng rlce produclng COUHIICC Not only IS It a leader ln total produc tlon but also ln per acre yleld This 1S evldenced by the fact that the county produces 127 per cent of the Texas rlce crop on 118 per cent of the states rlce growlng land The snx southeastern parlshes of Louxslana consxdered to be ln the Beaumont trade ter rltory produce 60 per cent of that state s r1ce crop Beaumont IS served by four ma W gf lor ra11 lmes Southern P8C1flC Kansas Clty Southern Rallway and the Santa Fe System ln ad dltlon t numerous frelght schedules ten dally passenger schedules are provlded mclud Ing the extra fare Sunset Lxm lted Through car pullman SCYVICQ IS provlded to Los An geles San Franclsco New Or leans and Washmgton DC Rallroads Three commerclal a1r lmes Eastern A1r Lines Delta Alr Lmes and Trans Texas Alr ways provlde Beaumont with 18 scheduled fhghts dally wlth dlrect SEFVICC to New Orleans Atlanta the Eastern Seaboard, and the R10 Grande Valley QEYVICC IS through Jefferson County Alrport thlrty mlnutes drlvlng t1me from or to downtown Beaumont w1th hmousme servlce to and from hotels and connectmg taxr QCYVICC to other locatrons Fac1l1t1es 1nclude a modern restaurant and coffee counter ln the termlnal bl111d1Ilg There are three dlrectlonal concrete runways 5000 feet 131 length the prmclpal runway now belng engthened to 5750 feet and equipped with lnstrument landing system and hlgh 1n COILH tenslty llghtlng Q O ,. t K Nh, ., ,V .1 , ., nf, , V' ,. - gn. 5 l f , L 7 J, i . . . . . . . , . . . , . . . , . I A I , , I , K H .L .. . . , . . Wye ,,,ff V' , t my t krr- ,Q Q, . . . . . . f . M 1 e ' - f f ,g,,Lg,, llnes, Mxssourl P8C1f1C Rallroad, 'Hy-C' k 'f 1915352-'ffz,-:H . . V . . ' . ' o V ,,,xz 1 , . Y 5 - , , . . . . . . Q 9 -1 - I , , , , - . I . M . , w . , . l , . .