VAST SOURCES OF OIL KEPT SECRET
By Eric Bourne
Stalin, Bulgaria Later a pipeline is to AST hew sources of oil right down to Stalin,
Lensive prospecting and drilling in the northeastern corner of Bulgaria near the Rumanian border.
be Jald
are belleved to He be- Drilling, pumping and trans- KCC% on in shifts all neath the Russian-controlled porting
clock.
Newly-loft Black Sea as a result of ex-und the
rotiche were silvo through the day and far into the night with Austrian made six-ton new
Euch had its trailer of
tons live The
capacity. tankers.
were carrying the oil to They the Bulgarian refinery at Ruse, 120 miles to the west on the Danube, and to Soviet seu-golig Tinkers in Stalin harbour.
The area concerned is the Southern Dubruja, ceded an Hitler's borders to Bulgaria by Rumania in 1940. Work
the derricks Russia supplied has been going on for the and drilling machinery - on etish terms. I was past three years under con- striet
the Bulgarians ditions
the strictest told, becaure
refused Soviet terms for a joint when the Arst all KATALY strikes were made soine
SELTELY.
Western
have always
frequently
O SЯa diplomats
sought--tas! refused
JT - mission to visit the 3,000 square forsiden aral? miles tightly zone north of Stalin.
Stalin (the purl next door to the prewar millionaire satmmer playground of Varun) has so far kept the Por simple That dathrinement T the former Sofiet dictator.
The aren is so closely guarded that even when i shuwel MY permit from the central govern ment in Sofa for a tour of the whole oll urea, semel Ruards mache man and my Bulgarian
other escort awal! check-up.
1
First Let In
security
Prst The
was. In fact. Thus Westerner wolmitleri into Dobruja since the wa
The Arst oilfield lles along the coast north of the busy Httle port of Balchik, the main town
of the area O is converting nearby Kovarna, a dusty, smelly peasant village, to a minia- ture Mid-Western "boom town."
Between here and Shablu, further north.
only 50 yards from
faring where while breakers tumbird over the rocky shore, watcherf
Jord
years
Russia's Interest
Because
to bo Now Rumia lo snic showing more Interest. Why? prospecting is reveal- ung steadily increasing deposits of all--much of it less than 2,000 yards below the surface, which makes extraction reasonably cheap and easy.
Omeints refuse 10 disclose production figures, but it is be
loved (6 average 700 lung daily from the one small feld already in regular production.
Two more felts it is expected will be working before the yvir is out.
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This production in itself is a drop in the ocean of world oil ouljul, but ageurcing lo
thril the importance of the
Russians - that geologists → eluded are now convinced the a continuation of deposits are the vast resources in Rumonio, that and there is little doubt they stretch in a widening seam far out into the Block Sea,
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never
Bulgaria alone could tackle the costly operation of kelling the all up from below the
bodh, tra done, for example, in the Gulf of Mexico.
But Russla, it is belleved, w!!! thick step in with an offer of large- black crude oil being pumped scale help immediately the final from a dozen derricks into two surveys are completed inter this
central arvoirs. yetr. pipe-linked
The
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Madrid
me
N antiquated rattling taxi took
out of Madrid through some of the less salubrious suburbs Into the open country beyond.
After about 15 minutes' driving on the bumpy, dusty road I was at the Witch'a House,
AT THE WITCH'S HOUSE
with Ava
It's damp and the chimney smokes-but it's better than Hollywood, she says
roundabout with flamenco parties to 7 am, and breakfast at 5 p.m.
"Don't believe ail you hear about me.
Then Miss Gardner appeared not to occupy it. In a vibrant dress with her wet hops. It was so named because hair wrapped in a scarf, carry- it has a weather-vane in ing u glass of Coca-Cola. I "Look over behind the piano. the shape of a witch on a wondered if she had been using The damp is coming through the But I don't live it up all the
the roof the whisky as a shampoo.
She walls But the name perhaps is apologised for the delay "Hed doubly
for
to do something about my hair. appropriate,
on
By LOGAN bromatick GOURLAY 14115 In the house which it was o mest stin te
the spellbinding Ava
Gardner has bought herself.
(Why do women, particularly No one could call it a castle in Spain except actrees, always say their hair In the most figurative sense. It does not bring is a mess after spending time
undulating Spanish on (7)
beauty to landscope.
the
sparse,
"I'll have to drive Into town
At first glance it looks from the outside like
built by opulent to get it dried. public convenience
a
new
municipality.
Imperfections
"1 have a hair-dryer here but I found the front door-the witch on
the you can't depend on the elec- roof was pointing roughly in that direction-and tricity in this house." was ushered in by a ntaid. She Installed me in the lounge and left me to wall. The mistress
hair. was washing her
(Why are wonen, particularly actresses, always washing their hair?? While I waited was regarded suspiciously
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into a list of by a small gentleman carved in wood who sat by SH
imperfections Le fireside, looking like a cross between Frank the
of the Sinatra and an Indian fakir-probably a souvenir Witch's House which cost her of Mia Gardner's Alm "Ihowan! Junction," about £17,000. which was partly made in India.
A male servant crossing the hall passed the lounge door carrying a tray with a bottle whisky.
THE “THE
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N June 9 the Royal
yachi Britannia will anebor in Swedish
waters, Britain's
Duke of Edinburgh across
of
Launched
It was now when she moved in a few months ago, but it had been built to somebody else's specifications. Then they decided
QUEEN'S ISLE OF
"Of course I've just been to the festival at Seville, It was no rest cure. Some nights I Wisely per didn't get to bed at all,
"Sure to having fun. And I'm mad about flamenco pa.fles. time
There are other things.
"Like acting and work." "As you say I have to start atrother film soon. It might be an adaptation of "The Little Hut."" But I'm not too keen. The woman's part isn't going "I'm having trouble with the to be very big." Alter in the pool.
"The chimney amokes badly. Can't do anything about JE”
Sho pointed through the ceiling-to-floor windows to the swimming pool at the bottom of the garden,
"I've house
In the
I'm me П cables
no telephone I could
get one. told, but it would cost fortune-laying special and all that business.
"And
tablo
the furakure--don't talk to me about that,
"The dining room through there is cracked right up the middle."
["Don't you miss Hollywood at all?"
"No. Can't say I do. I needed o change. Life isn't a rat race here.”
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No details
SHI dented, as I had been
informed,
that her calory from M.G.M. who have her under contract, is about $700 a week for more than 40 weeks of the year whether she works or not. But she did not volun teer exact detalls.
Nor did she wax loquacious on the subject of Frank Sinatra, But there have been reports, who is currently in Madrid which I mention, that for Miss filming "Thre Pride and the Gardner it has been arionis Passion."
VISIT
THE
By Allan Carney
TO ΤΟ LOG"
"We haven't met yet. He can't phone here, of course.
"He's
well for doing very himself. Sounds like a good movie he's making.
"No. we ого not officially divorced yet."
(She establishel residenço in Nevada, quick-divorce state, but
lion is, of course, appointed by left without picking up the frat the King of Sweden.
magnificent
world's
having carried Queen and the approach、 is by a channel will attend divine service on ledged as one of the
called the Saltajo, the open the morning of June 10, a most
40 miles date which coincides with combining Swedlatı traditional sea being nearly the North Sea on a visit to distant. The city stands at the Duke of Edinburgh's Italian influences.
styles of architecture the land of the Midnight the junction of a great lake, 35th birthday.
Sun.
the Malar, and is sited on
is the Duke of Edinburgh's North." aunt. A picturesque Royal barge, the Vasaorden, manned by a score of lusty
It
THE OLD TOWN
Club does
Swedes, will bear Queen THE old
Queen Staden, town, Gamla of the buildings are not LONG
FRIENDSHIP
brance of Things Past."" Vivacious
д
трета.) The Royal couple from Bri-
She stood up suddenly and fain will also visit Stockhohn's old: "Look, I'll have to go splendid Town Hall, acknow- now, I'll drive you back to town. I really must Tel my buildings, hair fixed. And I want to take Cara to the kennels. I'I have with
to leave her for a week or so, I hate separaling her from Yachting Is ono
of the Rags." favourite sports of Stock- I both shores and on the in- Awaiting Elizabeth
Gamla Staden is
Cara and Rags are her the holmers, and the Duke of Edin-corgis
pet They has commercial heart of Stock-
ort happily and Prince Philip will be tervening islands.
burgh's keen interest in this
married. the King of Sweden and his become known, accordingly, holm, and its antiquity is particular sport dates from his
"The Venice of
We dragged Care through the the evident to the eye from the boyhood at Gordonstoun School consort Queen Louise, who as
Unfortunately the hall, in Scotland,
which is lined with book confined, tortuous streets annual regatta held by the and record shelves. Prominently
Yacht displayed the narrow-fronted, gabled famous Royal Swedish
are two albums of houses that are still to be June, but in early August.
not take place in Sinatra records labelled "Frank-
ly Sentimental," beneath, found there,
though mast
volume of Proust's "Remem-
Elizabeth and the
contains the very old. Frequent fines in from the stately yacht royal palace. Built on
an earlier days destroyed
interest of the Britannia to the Landing eminence, the palace dates many of the originals,
ANOTHER stage of their host's royal from
Royal couple from Britain- the mid-eighteenth
ITER and one shared by both of them HER steck grey Cadillac, a palace.
century, the original build- Beldges conneel Støden with a horsemanship, however; and present from Sinatra, gik
On the remainder of their [pver" the bumps ing having been destroyed Norrmalm, which is the finest during
the road What sort of city is
quarter of Stockholm,
of back to Madrid. Cara whimper- with stay they will have plenty by fire in 1697. Besides the broad straight streets, handsome opportunity of Stockholm? It is a bright, royal apartments. It con- buildings, open
enjoying thejed in the back seat. Her mis- spaces .and
world's best tress cooed, "You'll be all right, clear city in which the old tains a picture gallery, col- gardens.
Here are located the spectacle of the
Equestrian leve" me, you'll get used to it.” trast. It was founded in the ties, and a library in which.
Road workers welcomed on place in Stockholm. middle of the
thirteenth by decree, a copy of every
excuse to down tools, wave and eentury by one Birger Jarl book printed in Sweden had A gala performance
The Swedes and
Spanish of shout
compliments Opera House will
behind the was originally a kind to be deposited.
be attended British stock began a long and about the beauty by the Royal visitors from friendly association in the six-wheel. of fortress, located on the island
Its of Stadholm.
Britain. That gala performance teenth century, when thousands West of the palace are will be one of the highlights of of Scottish soldiers of fortune, tool uncommonly beautiful. The At 33, Miss Gardner can stiil name means "The Isle of the offices housing the the stay of Queen Elizabeth and and
of Englishmen namenco partles number
and carous~ the Log," and in olden times government ministries, and the Duke of Edinburgh. Another too, left their native lands to have left on trace so fr
the banner it withstood several sieges to the southwest is the will be the State banquet given enlist under
in their
Warrior monarch. honour at the royal Sweden's
still look the most memorable in Storkyrka, dedicated to St palace, where they and 150 Gustavus Adolphus, and fight in vivaciously happy at times. As 1501 when it was defended Nicholas — Stockholm's old- other guests will dine In a his Continental campaigns, though she hasn't a care in the prominently In his world. As though she had, never Aguring against the Swedes by eat church, founded in 1264 magnificent room with a white
experienced any emotional or Queen Christina of Den but almost entirely rebuilt colour scheme. A room specially victories.
celebrated world-famous in-
marital problems. As though mark,
during the period 1726-1743. deed for the ammusi Nobel The visit of Britain's attrac-{the lonely Witch's House - with,
dinner takes place here in con- five young Queen and her hand- the damp walls and the crack-
will add In this church, which is nection with the award of the some husband
one ing durniture was a glittering Stockholm is renowned
prizes given each year more memorable occasion to the golden palace. for its beauty. The coast richly adorned with paint five
great story of that long friendship, ΟΙ COUTRE, Miss Gardner thareabouts is dotted with ings and exquisite wood under the terms of the
octing chemist's will. "The forged in long-ago battles, con knows something about the carvings, Britain's Queen president of the Nobel Founda- tinued in times of peace. a myriad islands, and
for another,
the
and the new stand in con- lections of coins, antiqui. Palace of the Crown Prince, the riders competing against ono [honey. It won't be so bad. Be-
Opera House. Theatre Royal and the Royal Olympic Games will be taking
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