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P laza Hotel, Houston, Texas Ju ly 5, 1936 Mr. T. 1. Honan Atten tion : My. Harry Kuhe Bear Harry: In respon se to your l e t t e r o f Jun e 26th , regardin g in sp ect ion o f boat shipments o f flu id to gu lf p o r t s, i t i s my r eact ion t h at Mr. Sch aefer h as made an accu r ate estim ate o f th e time n ecessary to super v ise th e shipments a t th ese p o r t s. In th e p a st J have spen t about four days per month on t h is work and have su pervised about twenty per cen t o f th e sh ipments* i f i t i s im perative t h at a l l sh ipments, or even more than twenty per cen t, be su per vised, we c e r t a in ly .w ill need an oth er man to take care o f t h is work. I do n ot th in k t h at one man * should be assign ed to take car e o f both Gu lf i'o r t s and West Coast, as I fe e l a gr e at d eal o f tim e.an d money would be wasted in t r av e lin g back and. fo r t h between th e two p oin t s., i'he man lo cat e d a t Houston could take car e o f a l l Gu lf P ort shipments and an arrangement sh ould be made whereby he would be av ailab le to th e sa le s department i f be h as any spare time from t h is work* I t would work in very n icely to have him take car e o f r ou tin e mixing p lan t in sp ect ion s, i f he has any spare time, leavin g more tiate fo r u s t o con cen trate on sa le s promotion work. Judgin g from p a st experien ce, i t would appear t h at twenty per cen t su per vision o f th ese shipments i s probably su ffic ie n t to in su r e safe h an dlin g. Sin ce I was assign ed to Houston in 1951, we have not had a sin gle dangerous acciden t due to th e improper h an dlin g o f th e drums. There have been sever al case s o f slig h t le a k s, but on ly th e one r ecen t case which occurred wh ile un loadin g a Sin c la ir sh ip can be properly blamed on car e le ssn e ss in h an dlin g th e drums. About a year ago, a shipment ar r ived a t Galveston on th e Morgan Lin e s with a l l o f th e drums badly b at t er ed and sever al leak in g badly, a con dition which could have r e su lt e d in se r io u s con sequences. Th is was caused by th e drums breakin g lo o se a t sea during a storm and th e h azard was gr e at ly in cr eased because th e drums were loaded below deck. During th e p ast year , a l l shipments ar r iv e loaded on th e top deck and t h is reduces th e h azard o f clean in g up any p o ssib le s p i l l s to a very gr eat exten t . I fe e l th e steamsh ip and r efin er y person n el r esp on sib le fo r t r an sfe r r in g drums have been properly in st r u ct e d and, con siderin g th e time av ailab le fo r su per vision , ar e doing a good jo b . There i s no qu estion in my mind t h at one hundred percen t su per vision i s d e sir ab le and would r e su lt in s t i l l b e t t e r con dition s, elim in atin g completely the chances we ar e now takin g when i t i s im possible to be pr esen t and su per vise th e work. $hen a person con sider s t h at one ser iou s accid en t could have an extremely adver se e ffe c t on th e fu t u r e o f our corpora t io n , i t appears th e ad d it ion al expense i s e n t ir e ly ju st i fie d , 608000a / 2- esp eciaU y sin ce t h ese shipments ar e st e ad ily i n c r e a s in g . Very tr u ly yours, Sign ed - RUSSELL SCHILL HE 0000810