1956-05-21 — Page 4

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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Life

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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