THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1957.
SAHARA Calling All Dog Lovers.....
OIL
T
by
Stephen Coulter
Parls. say
the
HE Suez crisis hus spectacular.
turned French atten tion to the prospect of getting oll from the Sahara,
The National Assembly completed a two- day debate on the subject by voting a Government Bill creating the Common Or- ganisation for the Sahara Regions,
The object of this organisa- tion Is the economic develope ment, expansion and promotion of the Sahara regions of the French Republic, whose ad- ministration Algeria, Mauretania, the Sudan, Noger and Teted Territory have o share,"
new strikces are
at
400
Both the main oil strikes are in southern Algeria, ono Hasst Messaoud, south-east of Worgls, the other some
again, mes farther south-east t Edjele, near the Libyan order.. According to M. Fouet, chief drilling engineer at Hassl the talal oil deposit Messaoud. there may amount to 1,000 million tons-comparable to the richest Middle East oilfield, CAUTIOUS HOPES
deposit is
M. Pouet snys the at least 552 feet in depth ac- cording to the intest soundings, which have not yet reached the batton. French officials in Paris says the average produc- inve depth in the Middle East oilfielde
M. Is some 140 feet. Pouc
FACE has clearly been anxious the loose administrative framework to be cautious rather than of this vast area and the desire reverse.
are
The debate revealed French anxiety over the hitherto rather
"If our hopes
with 100
to protect French sovereign crowned we should, rights over it against foreign drillings, e getting 50 million claims, particularly by Morocco tens and Tunisia,
'SPECTACULAR"
French officials have no doubt been strengthened in this afti- tude by the reports now coming in the real extent of the oil discoveries In the Sahara. De talis are being kept confidential, but despatchen from the spot
„The lighter aldo,
By ARTIE
year and Hassi Messaoud is only a smail point in the sedimentary basin of the Sahara,"
M. Pouct has made it clear that the equipment and staff at Hassi Messaoud are for the moment extremely limited and that exploitation of this big oll strike will take years at the present rate, The engineer there are
using the petrol directly in their own cars after one simple ilter.
FRENCH CONTROL
AL Edjele soundings have
The
established an oil deposit 45 miles long with an exceptionally
content. high petroleumn French are not anxious to at- tract foreign capital to the developments yet and this is one reason why litte is being made of them publicly.
مان
鹽雞雞
by Giles
THE POLICE started something when a man was fined £1 for look- ing after someone else's dog and not holding a licence, although the owner had one. The dis- covery of this law places people like kennel owners, British Railways, etc., in a funny
position. You and all, constable.
A fantastic organisation that builds a bulwark against Communism among America's children
66
́Junior Achievement Incorporated”
Own
New York. Although formally incorporat.
and MERICAN
holding their children, ed
these companies go charters long noted for their
as a matter of out of business precocity, are be-
course in May when inventories coming capitalists from re solti, debis paid and stock- the age of 15 upwards. holders reimbursed, If business has been bad, assels are pro- rated among stockholders.
By WILLIAM FOSTER all stationery, Christ succes
During this month they are launching three thou- sand new businesses in the INCORPORATED and United States and Canada
fortunes with the
on
Madison
a
PET-
lamps, ashtrays, toasting forks, Records already show that ja ceding success. mas decorations, remote control Junior Achievement companden switches for television sets and aro paying
four barbecue grills. Non-manufac- cent dividend to stockholders turing companies enter the field who als receive their original of photography, secretarial, ad. Investment back. Profits, often verlising and do-it-yourself as much as twenty-five per- Services.
cent, are subject to "taxes", on scale as Federal in- Now and again they come to the same
Members of 2 Fort come taxes. gref.
Indiana Arm 2710121
Wayne,
factured 300 aluminium tele- CONSOLIDATED
a paid director. A hundred allowed to own more than five,
only Junior Achievement officers are This not
saves purents In 160 com- pockets but circumvents take already at work munities.
over bids in the grand Wall Street manner. The average company num- bers between 15 and 20 boys Forty-seven thousand young- aters have joined Junior Achlevo. girls, Thoy meet one night a week throughout the ment companies so far and they under the general are rapidly becoming a force to and will follow their Junior Achievement Inc. is school year
of advisera from be reckoned with, The aver phone book covers before dis- the organisation responsible for leadership
Although
imbued same these activities. It
scarcely 11s business firms. has
Once they are age gross sales of a company at covering the telephone company fervour which other children headquarters
end of a year amount to the lesued them free. Undaunted, with the moral tone of the Boy afloat, the advisers retire from
equivalent of £100 and it very
ry they salvaged the materials, Scouts, Junior The workings at Edjele are in
Achievement the hands of the Sahara Pertol reserve for the normal pur- Avenue, New York, in the heart the scene.
rarely ends up on the wrong converted them into memo pads Inc. con fairly claim to insuli of the American commercial Research and Exploitation Com-sults of childhood.
Companies are organised with side of the ledger.
What characteristic American thor would happen if they stayed in year,
youngsters. It also Ecis as a This extraordinary manifesta-entre and I soon discovered it was a far cry from "playing
business of free enterprise at
Another company lost all its springboard into the the nearest equivalent oughness. A board of directors, business all the year round is And Algerian company nomed
shops,
manufacturing labour force one of those glorious imponder mobey other is appointed, a
plastic world. children among Repal five percent and Shell 35 tender age is a peculiarly Ameri-
thought countries.
ables. recruited, a sales staff formed. can phenomenon. The
cigarette cases and had nothing Schoolroom capitalism is also percent. At Hassl Messaoud of returning to school
to console it at the end of the a bulwark against Communism, Decisions are taken on what the Etepal company is in charge September sweetened for The idea start with groups product is to be manufactured
from season apart
a sonorous Officials I questioned denieri of drilling.
teenagers
businesses which club and how much working capital
speech in full rolling periods of there was any ullerlar purpose prospect of of local It is considered feasible to forming thele own companies, together at this Ume of year to
is needed. Shop machinery can
regret delivered by its stripling in "catching 'em young" but rut pipelines from both these buying their own shares and start companies for youngsters be leased cheaply from head- Home fumiture and knick-
president,
In Hamilton, Ohio, admitted left-wing dogma would the Mediterranean holding "post-morlems" on the in their own communities. On quarters.
knacks are the stople products.
Christmas
standard fall with a dull thud on the ear tree of "participation fee
in the past conipanies hovo evolved By teehuge • ingenuity of a "teenager in whom the to Junior Achievement Inc.
Shares are marketed at half marketed children's Loya, has been patented and la al capitalist instinct had been they get help in the shape of a-dollar each and no teenager is wallels, candlesticks, table- ready in production.
carefully fostered,
of whose shares the
pany state owns 60 percent, tion
felds
coust.
10
TIME
by the
trade retune.
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MAN
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a
in
payment
of
William
Hickey
E
VERY
came.
night, the mysterious говед Six dozen red and yellow-richly boxed.
Every night 3. cryptic card came with them to 20-year-old Janet Pavek, sleek, black-haired star of "Fanny" at Drury Lane.
On the first card: "S—T—"! On the second; "SI — Tr -” After more than a week of it a trnialised Janet got the full nome; "Slivio Tricorr)."
We found Miss Pavek sitting among some of the roses in her dressing-room one night still not knowing Silvio Tricerri from a bar of soap,
"He's phoned me, though," she said, From Lausanne. Once on Tuesday, twice on Wednesday. Today, three times -of course.
"Szoms he was in the royal box one night. But I didn't Sco him. The rose-and-card game began the day after,”
We asked her what he said on the phone,
per..
"Oh, how he likes my formance, Could he get a SrGooed of mei' Stuff liko
that."
A MEETING?
No
romantic word? "Not one. Not yet. But he did bay he was coming to London again and would I meet him.”
not?
Would she? “Why After all, I love roses."
What else about him? "Well, He must be rich-and, oh yes, he is Argentinian and talks in broken English,**
..
the
ex -
president two years ago. He denies it.]
About Janet Pavck, Tri-
cerri suld;
no I no
"Ha! Ha! This not truc.
nd lowers. telephone, investi gate. Some- body play joke on me,"
Yes, he was at Drury Lane all right. About two weeks ngo, he thought.
And of course
1
Actress Janet Parck with admirer's roses and the last card
he
Kent
AND COMPANY
a
and enjoyed a record trading a sense of leadership among
from Silvio (but who is)
To Janet, roses from
·Janaury 16th, 1957:
Wishing you oreTY PROCESN..
was alleged to have bought for he saw Janet Pavek, but ho didn't meet her,
"No, no. This all too funny," Hickey will press on finding
out
ZANUCK y, KREMLIN
WE were on hand in the hotel
W suite the other day when
Darryl Zanuck doclared war on
As we left in pursuit of clues the Soviet Union.
messenger brushed past -us the corridor.
in and
Silvio.. :?
him for
"OK." he said menacingly, touted at 28 by male com- "that's
the end of not
mentator. Clung to brother, I'll muggle scenes out, protection till he said he was and shoot the rest in Turkey. petrified
by girls in No Russian's going to beat me, negligees. Fled to nearest
public We'll get whatever we want."
bar and safety among darts players.
Zanuck has another problem. He can't find a man to play Stalin.
saidi
too
CIGARS AND PEARLS
Muni 15 years ago, ho
"The guy I want is Paul WWE had a short private folk W the other day with Miss Joan thoughtfully, and wo left him Vickers, Tory MP, for Devon Lopicing like a man who was port,
She said: "I don't going to put the clocks back I usually smoke elgars in publle. Occasionally, I enjoy one after
noed be,
THURSDAY
dinner,"
This followed a longer public, talk at Esher by Miss Vickers="
In
a
OUR agent Thursday wandered a woman devoted to legalising to the Man from Lausanne 靄 It was in a towering roge Annocently into a nightio- a wife's right to get her hands gold-and-black silk end-negliges párado at Nor on her husband's pay packets
to a gathering of Indy Tories. dressing-gown. A mammoth man Hartnell's perfumed, mir-
talked to them about clear stuck out of his mouth rored, chandeliered salon. Ho loaded witha
She came out shaken, dropped in sorrie liko a six-inch gun.'.
powder-puft hat, a notes we` quickly consored, tiplilted, "They've banned it the and went off like a man, in a double-strand rope of pearls, earrings, and a matching shouted, almost stamping on trance! our too as he rampaged up and
Atting Black coat, down
| Janet,: from Silvio.
For
Ho was
half a
cwt, of orchids,
PERON'S FRIEND
WE
man in Lausanne telephoned:
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1
SIX girls swaying in and Her main theme-which wo "It is Zanuck's projected nightlos, negigees, and un- private members Bill she will
out in 3 varieties of
all roundiwns applause an hour later when our im masterpiece, "The Life of mentionables. Smashing figures: Introduce on March 1 calling
Jowoph Stalin,"
expressionless faces. Buddenly
Silvio Telcerri is a big Argen They refuse any collabora saw them through banks of for a law chabiing employen dine wheat operator on a world tion," he cried, rolling the cigar mirror 380 girls with, smashi- to deduct casts from wages pald
to hustands parted, from wives, 1. wido, scale. He is a friend of from, side to side of his mouth, ing" figures and expressionleja. Juan Feron, lives, now at a "And they won't let me take facem. Elleodk orchid-yellow. Bhere the parliamentary: picture-book, Lausjono villa þið ány exterior shots in Russia, number Intransparent: nylon spearhead too of the Married
Women's Association, pledged to support the Bill at a "Make- Husbands-Pay" rally in London
soon,
We'll be there.
About the cigars: Bir William Robson-Brown, Esher's M.P.. offered one to Miss Vickers at "Not in publi," question time, she said, pattig her hair.
92 M.P.G.
TRANSPORT
for
in
NOTE: TV's McDonald Hobley, pushed time, put his foot down his German glass-bubble runabout, on his first long petrol-saving trip-London to Manchester (184 miles).
"Left London 12.33 pi.” ho told us,
"arrived Manchester 5.25 Used two gallons of petrol, averaged 30 miles an hour. Drove right Into the studio for rehearsal with 20 minutes In hand."
AND GOSSIP
Ephraim Hardcastle
MR WAS
BILLY WALLACE guest at Sandringham all last week,
arrived there Monday and
Ho
on la not his London home until to MOITOW, Seven days is rather longer than most visitors spend at Sandring- ham.
expected back at
This visit is bound lo cause n flare-up nt rumours current for the past three months among Princess Margaret's close friends that Mr Wallace will become engaged to her this year.
The Princess recently helped him' choose tho furnishings for his new house. in.. Mayfair. And she will be there, the week. after next, when he has a house-warming party.
Mr. Wallace, 30 this year, works for a ̧· British air. transport company, but is a man of very, considerable privato means...
MP.
He is the son of the late Captain Eutin Wallace,
His mother is now: married to Mr. Horbort Agar, American author and publisher.