HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-11-16, Page 7Arctic Isles May
Be Rich Oil Bastin
Canada's remote Arctic is-
land research program now has
shaken down into what is not
exactly a routine assignment
but has become what the
northern expert, Dr, Peed Roots,
described as "regular:".
After its second full summer
of activity — the first was a
trial run—a government party
of 89 natural scientist s, se>
veyors, and technicians has
yielded the fruit of finding the
outer edge of a potential oil
sedimentary basin.
It spreads across the islands
themselves and their straits,
but extends only tens of miles
offshore, It stops far short of
the Soviet side of the north
polar regions, although Dr.
Roots, the head of the Cana-
dian party, doesn't know full
details of any work the Soviets
might have done on their own
Arctic geological formations,
This has been only one phase
Cf the 'activities of the govern-
ment team's present 15 -year
program on the vast island
archipelago, a program which
will change in emphasis with
the years and extend in differ-
ent form beyond such a tenta-
tive time limit.
Other scientific expeditions—
nongovernmental in nature but
co-operating with each other
and with the Roots party, also
have been at work in these
islands and off their shores this
summer.
One of them, the Arctic In-
stitute of North America, with
headquarters at Montreal but
United States, has left five men
on Devon Island to study wea-
ther, ocean, and glacier reading
aver the harsh polar winter.
Commercial oil company ge-
ologists also have spread across
this ,vast ice -,snow -,and rock -
covered island northland to add
the details they wish to the gen-
eral outlines already provided
by the government maps.
What is said to be the most
northerly oil well drilled any-
where in the world was spudded
in on Melville island 1,700 miles
north of Edmonton.
For purely scientific knowledge
to see what is there, another hole
is to be pushed down within a
year or two by an expedition on
Axel Heiberg Island 2,000 miles
north of Winnipeg. It will be the
most northerly sub -surface prub-
ing in the Western Hemisphere,
In this strange cold land of the
midnight sun, government, uni-
versity, and business teams have
been strung out over many hund-
reds of miles gathering the data,
making the surveys, and starting
to drill beneath the surface where
no mad has drilled before, writes
Robert Moon in the Christian
ae,
ISSUE 45 — 1981
PEN DOOR OPEN — Gambler
Mickey Cohen, above, has
found a way of leaving Alca-
traz where he is serving an
income tax evasion sentence,
Supreme Court Justice Wil-
liam 0 Douglas has ruled
that Cohen could be freed on
a $100,000 bond pending the',
outcome of his appeal,
Scisnce Monitor.
The scientists have gone out
onto the ice beyond the island
shores again to continue the in-
vestigation of the continue the
shelf which extends up to 600 feet
below before plunging sharply
deeper.
The first atomic -powered wea-
ther station in the world has been
shipped north by icebreaker dur-
ing the summer for installation
at Graham Island 700 miles from
the North Pole.
As this vast scientific operation
slows down at the approach of
the long winter freeze the oil
team hopes to continue for an-
other m o n t h. Then • the three
drillers, nine roughnecks, and one
tool pusher, a group which in-
cludes four Eskimos, will shut
down for the winter.
They will not start again before
spring. They will not know for
some time after that, when they
reach the 10,000 - foot level,
whether they will strike oil. The
drilling crew knows the chances
are slight.
But they would not be drilling
at all if the formations were not
right. The geography and the
climate are against commercial
production so a find must be a
good one. Surface tankers, if not
immediately piping or subma-
rines, would have to move
through parts of the legendary
Northwest Passage. '
What takes it all out of the
aura ofscience fiction is the very
fact of its commercial origin and
the necessity for oil companies to
look far ahead. The pure science
and the goverment teams are in
these island, too, but elsewhere.
Player -Pianos Do a
Makers Can't Keep
By WARD CANNEL
Newspaper Enterprise Assn,
NEW YORK -- (NBA) Can
it be that a screwhas come loose
In the supersonic, stereophonic,
all -transistor modern American
mind?
After five years of reincarna-
tion, the pianola appears to be
back to stay.
Today, pianolas are rolling off
assembly lines at 300 per month
— not quite fast enough to keep
up with the demand. Two piano -
roll makers are now in full pro-
duction. Large department stores
are carrying inventories of about
500 different titles with another
1,500 available on request.
To complete the scene, there
are now two full generations of
young Americans extant who do
not know what any of those
words mean,
Well, kiddies, in your language
a pianola is a cross between a
piano and a computer, program-
med by a pre -punched roll of
paper which avtivates the per-
cussion mechanism, and powered
by a treadle and a servo -mech-
anism called the foot.
Or, in ancient words -- good,
old-fashioned low-fi.
Between 1901, when it was in-
vented in Germany, and 1921 the
player piano was standard oper-
ating equipment in expensive
living rooms throughout the
country, But with the perfection
MERRY MENAGERIE
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"A nearsighted cow mistook
ane for a haystack!"
Come -Back
Up With Demand
of the crank -up gramaphone and
records, player piano popularity
declined and finally died by the
early 1930s.
By and by, of course, electrons
replaced the crank, woofers and
tweeters replaced the horn, and
so on until today when a mag-
net has replaced the needle and
fi is so hi that only another ma-
chine can really appreciate it.
In the pianola days, however,
it was the mark of success for a
professional pianist to be invited
to punch a master roll His cop-
ies, sold for upwards of $4 each,
went home with thousands of
people who could hardly wait
to pump them through their
$1,000 players.
The only alternative- in those
days was the music box. But its
prissy tinkle was really no com-
petition for the whirring, click-
ing, honky-tonk grandeur of the
pianola.
Today, th,e roll.costs 89 cents.
But nothing else has changed.
More and.. more major perform-
ers are punching out master rolls
and thousands of people are
rushing home to pump copies
through new piatiolas that cost
$1,000.
Why? Nobody really knows.
The closest approach to a rea-
son comes from the Elardmann
Co., the biggest pianola maker
today;
"People seem to be tired of
sitting, listening, watching," a
spokesman said. "They want to
be part of it, whatever it is. We
could probably put a motor in
our pianola and make it work
by remote control, But why
bother when nobody asks for it?
"The only thing they want to
assured of is that the music is
going to Sound ricky-ticky-ticky,
and not like a concert grand hi
thrilling stereo,"
Under these' circumstances,
you could expect a revival in al-
most anything , . . say, music
boxes.
And you'd be absolutely right.
Dealers say the music box mar-
ket hasn't been this good hi a
couple of centuries.
The White Rajahs
Of Sarawak
Sir Alexander Waddell, Gov-
ernor of Sarawak - a British
colony on the large Southeast
Asian islandofBorneo— took a -
delectable biscuit oflf the plate
and tossed the biscuit through
the open doorway of his office
into the tea -time sunshine,
"There you are," he said, An
elegant peacock, bowing low ---
low enough to pick up the of
faring - walked away as proud
as a peacock.
This enterprising bird calls
on the Governor unannounced
whenever there is an apparent
opportunity for informal re-
freshment. And he minces in for
his brief visit from a riverside
parkland sloping up to a tow-
ered stone mansion, which has a
romantic place in history as the
home of the "White Rajahs,"
The White Rajahs were the
Brookes — English rulers of
Sarawak who ceded the _land
to the British Government in
1946.
Suppression of head-hunting
and piracy, the latter with the
aid of British naval ships, was
a major accomplishment under
the Brookes' paternalistic regime.
This country — still only on the
threshhold of development —
has an atmosphere of .satisfied
apartness.
Today this apartness faces
,change because of a proposal that
Sarawak should link itself in
a new anti-Communist union
with its immediate neighbors,
Brunei and British North Bor-
neo, and its more distant ones,
the Federation of Malaya and
Singapore, some 450 miles away
across the South China Sea.,.,
James Brooke became the first
Rajah on September 24, 1841. He
never married and, when he
passed on in 1868, was succeeded
by his nephew, Charles Johnson,
who changed his name to Brooke
Sir Charles was followed in 1917
by his son, Sir Charles Vyner
Brooke, now well along in years
and living in England.
In 1941 the third Rajah cele-
brated the centenary of his fam-
ily's rule by abrogating his own
absolute powers in a new con-
stitution, setting the people of
Sarawak on the road to demo-
eratic seltf-government. This is
being approached faster today
than previously, owing to the
propulsive effects of new poli-
tical forces.
Before the 1941 constitution
Could take effect the Japanese
occupied Sarawak in World War
II, and when the Rajah returned
afterward he decided that he
did not possess the resources
necessary for developing the
territory. So, despite.' the bitter
objections of a nephew who
wished to succeed him, he turn-
ed it over to the British Govern-
ment and Sarawak became a
Crown colony on July 1, 1946.
He did this in return for a pen-
sion and handed over to the new
colonial administration Sarawak
reserves of 13,000,000 local dol-
lars (3 to 1 American) as well
as 6,000,000 local dollars in cash.
He also donated the equivalent
of 140,000 American dollars from
his own pocket for educational
development,
Sir Alexander and Lady Wad-
dell talked interestingly about
the Brooke family in the dining
room, of the residence, where
there are oil paintings of the
three Rajahs, One portrait Shows
James Brooke in India in 1803 ---
looking every inch the dashing,
resolute sailor he was when he
first came to Sarawak in 1839
in his own small ship, Royalist,
bought with a legacy from hie
father, an official of the British
Bast India Company, writes Ron-
ald Stead in the Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
Out east from England an a
personal map -making expedition,
James stayed only a few weeks
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on his initial visit to Sarawak.
But he came back a year later,
found a local rebellion still go-
ing on, helped to suppress it,
and was asked by both sides to
take the Rajah's job,
At this time Sarawak was a
province of the Brunei sultanate
which, although now shrunk to
a little enclave of 2,226 square
miles inside Sarawak, once ex-
tended over virtually the whole
of Borneo (307,000 square miles)
as well as overseas to part of the
Philippines and the Sulu Islands,
In 1846 James retaliated
against hostility from the Sultan
of Brunei by capturing his capi-
tal with the aid of some British
naval ships. Allowed to return
to his palace, the Sultan gave
the whole of Sarawak to Brooke
and his heirs.
When James went to England
in 1848 he was knighted by
Queen Victoria and found him-
self a national hero, Then radical
politicians, opposed to imperial
expansion, attacked him. And the
ending of Part One in the con-
tinuing Sarawak story is that
for the remaining years of the
first Rajah Brooke's reign he re-
ceived no assistance from the
British Government in maintain-
ing the country he had so re-
markably acquired.
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