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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-08-23, Page 7Key To The Suez Crisis OIL Vital oil pipeline terminal and refinery of British - American -French Iraq Pe- troleuni Co. recently seized by Lebanon. Tripoli SYRIA' S ...S R *„ will's. -ZOO r r #Arabian Sea tlExisting Pipelines Oil Fields AL Refineries 1953 Production (In Barrels) Behind all the international uproar sparked by Egyptian Presi- dent Gamal Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal is one key word—OIL. Sixty-seven per cent of all shipping transiting the canal consists of oil tankers. Pipelines shown on Newsmap above carry some 800,000 barrels a day, Tess than a quarter of total production. As Russell B. Brown, of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, recently pointed out, "Today it's the Suez Canal that's been, seized ... tomorrow it could' be a pipeline to the Eastern Mediterranean•." This was borne out by usually pro-Western Lebanon's seizure of the Iraq Petrol- eum Company pipeline and terminal at Tripoli. The United States imports (mostly through, the Suez Canal) some 1.4 million barrels a day. This is 1.05 ' million barrel more than they export. If the Suez Canal were dosed to Middle East oil tankers, they could reach European and American ports by going around Africa. But it would take twice as long, enor- mously increasing the expense. Digo; g of an alternate Med- iterranean -Red Sea canal has been proposed by Rep. Emanuel 'Celler of New York to "help cut President Nasser down to size." The route, shown in map at left, would cross Israel diagonally from Ascalon on the Mediterranean to Elath, on the Gulf of Akaba, an arm of the Red Sea. Elath is in Jordan. Getting a Hair -do in Russia I've had my first professional hairdo in Russia — and it was something! Since my own hairdresser, Nellie Cavallo of Akron, Ohio, had asked me to find out how Russian hairdressers work, and Because long days and nights on trains, planes, and boats had left my hair in a sad state, I decided to try a hairdresser in Yalta, swank Russian resort -town on the Black Sea made famous by the conference of the Big Three powers, writes Helen Water- house in The Christian Science Monitor. The hotel combination inter- preter and desk clerk, a woman of course, admitted she wasn't too sure where I could find one. "Most of us do our own hair here," she said. However, down on the "board- walk" which corresponds to the one at Atlantic City, I found a busy shop, with customers wait- ing—and seven operators work- ing at seven chairs with four manicurists' tables at the side. A cashier sat in an inclosed booth like a theater -ticket booth. It could have been any Amer- ican beauty shop at first glance. Then I began to notice the , weird equipment. Strange antennalike coils and wires were sprouting from the heads of the women who ap- parently were getting perman- ents. 1 found even in Moscow "cold waves" are unheard of and the old machine waves, plus plenty of old-fashioned marcels done with a curling iron, are the rule. These machines, however, were strange and amazing looking ap- paratus So were the hair dryers Zander which I sat later. They are cheap tinlike affairs, around which the operator drapes a cur- tain of sheets or heavy material similar to dishcloth. You sit swathed like mummies until you are dry. I was getting only a wash and a wave. The wash was •per- formed with a teakettle. filled with hot water at a nearby sink and poured over my head as I tat against a tin wash basin af- fair. I tried to explain "bobby pins" but they were unheard of. My blond young operator used old- fashioned curlers with elastic bands. I noticed each operator kept • her own utensils, curlers, etc., in a small suitcase. Women swaddled in the sheet dryers were gossiping I suppose, as all women do in beauty shops. They soon discovered I was un - Ole to catch a word and fol- lowed me curiously back to my ;hair as the blond girl began Bombing out my locks. First thing I knew I had an admiring audience surrounding hie, two deep. And much to my amazement, the operator was catching on to my poodle cut and doing a cred- itable job at it, despite the fact that alI Russian women wear their hair 14ng, or fairly long, and mostly combed smoothly back or hanging in frizzes around their faces. I'll choose hairdressing Amer- ican style I'm sure -but at least I was "queen for a night" when I went to a restaurant later for dinner and was given a seat of honor at a table alone, close to the three-piece orchestra. Incidentally, the hairdo is the . one thing I've found reasonably priced in this country. Peering into the ticket booth I asked the ' operator what was my bill. "Four rubles, 18 kopeks," she replied. That's about $1.25 in my money. Incidentally, Soviet women use no cosmetics, not even a touch of lipstick. They work in shifts in the beauty shop which stays open until late in the evening. Sheep Shearing In Wales Sheering can, of course, be done mechanically. In Australia and New Zealand the vast flocks are shorn in long sheds with .. power -driven clippers run off a length of shafting. In this coun- try many farms use electric shears.. I obtained an electric shears once for trial. John Davies is surprisingly open-minded ab- out new-fangled method s, though a little clumsy. We tried the shears on about a hundred sheep without any trouble, ex- �r cept :that- Thomas gave himself an electric shock by feeling for the lightpoint with his finger when he was plugging in.. The Welsh wool is coarse' and wiry, and blunts the blades rather quickly, and the small angular ' body of the sheep does not al- low for making sweeps with the machine, so not much is gained by the modern way. .. . . There is still some shearing to be done after the big day. Stray sheep come in from other farms, sometimes twenty or thirty at a time. And the rams have to be done. John Davies allows no one to touch these" • but himself. He drives the pat- riarchal flock of forty or so. in- to a building and sets his bench on the roadside, while Thomas carries for him and stamps the the shorn rams with pitch. Cars stop to watch, and Davies poses for photographs with a depre- cating smile. John Davies has a great fac- ulty for introducing his photo into the daily papers. Once Esme and I took a long winter holiday. One day we became snowbound in a hut in the Aus- trian Tyrol at six thousand feet. In a box I discovered an Eng- lish daily picture paper which was a month old. On the front page was John Davies driving sheep with Bett through deep snow along the road in front of Dyffryn cottages. He looked quite ingenuous. In the old 'days when wethers were kept in the hills the bulk of wool was large, and the price was reckoned to pay the rent of the farm. . Welsh wool is shot with a fibrous, wiry thread . known as kemp, and it is this which ren- ders the fleece resistant to cold and wet. But the kelp does not readily take . dye, and remains white and bleached in the cloth. Thus our wool is used chiefly for rugs, blankets, and carpets, though now.. and again ladies' fashions lean towards very rough tweeds. In those years Welsh wool sells at a higher price, and many a remote mountain both has extra win- ter luxuries because of the vag- aries of some leading dress -de- signer have decreed hairy tweeds.—From "I Bought a Mountain," by THOMAS FAIR - BANK, Marksmanship Were William Tell to show up at the Hollywood baseball park some smoggy night, the legend- ary. Swiss marksman' would be more lavish than that town's traditional royal reception. Since putting up their $100,- 000 hole in the wall, the Holly- wood manageinent hardly can wait for some gimlet-eyed fan to come along, pitch a baseball through the aperture and walk off with the swag -an, attitude not shared by. Lloyds of London who have insured the Stars vs. financial loss in this publicity stunt to end all publicity stunts. In the Pacific Coast League where $100,000 knotholes dot the landscape like so many gouges in a slice of Swiss cheese, the Hollywood club re- mains the first to offer the op- portunities of financial inde- pendence to the fan. Both the Portland and Seattle parks boast $100,000 knotholes in their outfield fences' but those are for •the players' amusement. League hitters have fired at 'them for some time without appreciable letup or success. According to rumor, an inter- nationally famous physicist has just emerged from his labora- tory with figures to prove the possibility of throwing a regu- lation size PCL baseball from home plate to second base, a distance of 12'.' ft. 5% in. through the 3.3647 inch aper- ture in the center of the seven - foot -square Hollywood target. To get a 2.8647 inch baseball through the hole would require the talents of a man exactly 3 ft. 91/4 in. tall and capable of throwing a baseball 151.3 miles an hour. No one but such an extraordinary specimen would be able to drive a baseball through that size aperture with a hammer — at least not at a distance of some 40 yards, Nevertheless it is gratifying to see that at least in one park in the country the customer is being given an even break, Marksmanship of this nature is nothing new .,or the PCL, a region long grown accustomed to the uncanny and the bizarre tk. say nothing of the unnatural. Mickey Livingston, a hot- tempered South Carolinas who caught in the major leagues for a variety of teams including the Cubs, Giants, and Phils, once knocked. L, house painter off his -scaffold at Hollywood's Gilmore Field with a well -directed line drive during an exhibition game. Rip Russell, who gained undying fame as an actor by portraying Babe Dahlgren in a motion picture about Lou Geh- rig, once went Livingston one better. During the 1933 season the Oakland baseball park featured a small bell atop the left field fence. Located in fair territory, a hitter ringing the bell was supposed to receive $500 for his marksmanship. No one came close so, one the last day of the season, the management gener- ously doubled the prize. Los Angeles was playing at Oakland and in the ninth in- ning Rip Russell went looking for his manager, Bill Sweeney. Russell, who was out of the lineup with an injury, pleaded for a crack at the $1,000 'prize and Sweeney sent him up as a pinch hitter. According to Sweeney, Rus- sell took dead aim, at the bell . from the batter's box. He sight- ed along his bat like a rifle marksman zeroing in on a tar- get. Will Hafey was pitching for Oakland and Russell promptly whacked his first delivery squarely off the bell which rang noisily while the astonished Oakland owners toppled in blanched horror off their chairs. Will ,Sweeney got so excited he still cannot remember who won the game. Rip Russell, to his credit, at least remembered his party manners. They say he tipped Oakland pitcher Hafey $50, presumably for co- operation. And there was a less- er cash reward- for Hafey's catcher, Bi]l Raimondi, who also was a Tarty to the plot. Unfortunately for Rip Russell, that Oakland bell was one of the few he ever rang. Dollar A Bottle The Canadian Meteorological Station at Departure Bay, Van- couver Island, will soon launch 15,000 bottles on the Pacific Ocean. They will be used for a survey of ocean currents and the launching will be done. by about 3l ships at various points, the most distant one being about 1,500 miles from shore. It is said to be the most important bottle - releasing project in history. Dr. J. Tully, in charge of this experiment, has been collecting old bottles for more than a year. New bottles are somewhat fra- gile. The number of these that re- turn to Departure Bay is not expected to exceed 2 per cent, or 300 bottles. Some will be pick- ed up a few days after launch- ing. Most of the others are ex- pected to be found in six months or more. A few more will remain floating in the ocean for per- haps as much as 10 years. The remainder will have gone to the bottom. Cards inside the bottles re- quest the finder to forward these to Departure Bay, with de- tails as to where and when the bottle was found, For this infor- mation, he will receive a dollar bill, The bottles are tightly corked and heavily coated with wax. 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Instead of one sweetheart, she had four, and she just couldn't decide which one she' loved the most. Then she had an idea. "I'11 marry the one who can write me the most affectionate love letter," she told them. A week later she read the letters from her four suitors and had no difficulty in decid- ing which one would be her future husband. His letterwas fifty pages long—written in his own blood! They say marriage is a gam- ble. It certainly was for Lorna Douglas, of Houston, Texas. One night she called her six suitors together, wrote their names on separate slips of paper, put them in a hat and married the man whose name was on the third slip drawn. An equally unusual method of selecting a husband was used a few years ago by an excep- tionally pretty Glasgow school- teacher who had no fewer than twelve proposals in as many weeks. 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W have weanling sows and boars sired by this boar, also guaranteed in pItg sows bred to this boar. Send for folder and full details. FERGUS LANDRACE SWINE FARM FERGUS ONTARIO which to learn their "home- work." When the appointed day came, the suitors arrived at the pretty schoolteacher's house looking pale and haggard after so many hours of study. Then, one by one, they began to recite . The first eleven failed. But the twelfth suitor recited the whole 1,500 lines without a mistake—then fainted from ex- haustion! He later explained that he had been so busy learn- ing the lines that he hadn't been to bed for the past seven nights. Another novel method of choosing a husband was that used some years ago by a South African beauty who had no fewer than eight suitors. She decided she might as well have a husband who could defend her, so she made them fight for her—with bare fists. Drawing up a set of rules, she handed a copy to each wooer. The contest started with four fights, then a semi-final, and a final The fights took place in a secluded valley, the only spec- tators being the girl and her father, and the eventual winner was a tough, handsome rancher. He won the final on a knock- out—but lost three teeth, had his nose broken, and received a black eye and broken thumb doing so! A good-looking Brighton girl had four sweethearts and, as they were all expert swimmers, she promised to marry the one who could remain longest un- der water. The contest was easily won by the youngest of the four suitors. The other three were hauled unconscious from the water; and one spent ten days in hospital. Hamida Banu, of Mirzapur, India, says she is looking for a "tough -guy husband," but so far none of her suitors has proved tough enough. She is a profes- sional wrestler, and says says she will marry the first man who can defeat her. She has already eliminated over eighty suitors, and it looks as though she is doomed to re- main a spinster. Her last vic- tory was over the 252 pound heavyweight champion of Patia- la. DRIVE WITH CARE UP, ZIP AND AWAY -- A few flips of his powerful tail and Algae porpoise with a purpose hurls his body 16 feet into th( air. Algae is the star porpois( athlete at the Marineland, oceanarium.