Vol. 9 o. 3 TRA Y, BEIRUT, LEBA TO April 1961

ARNOLD HEADS ZAHRANI CLUB

John P. O'Hagan (right), Acting Manager, Industrial RelatiollS, con­gratulates Edmund J. Weber, Supervisor-Wage and Salary Adminis­tration, r<'110 completed fifteen :years of serr'ice reith Tapline and Aramcoon March 15. (Photo by Issa).

He moved to Beirut headquar­ters in March, 1959, and was ap­pointed supervisor-wage andsalary administration a fewmonths later.

pipeline road as well as functionalsupervision of all Tapline motor

transport activities. (There are388 units of mobile and workequipment In Tapline, ranging

from light cars, heavy trucks,cranes, bulldozers and carryalls to

welding machines and air';:com­pressors).

A native of Medford, Oregon,Mr. Grimes is married and has afive-year-old son, Clifford Frank.

Mr. Weber, who rounded outfifteen years of service on March15, 1961, is from New York City

and is a former student of the Col­umbia Law School. Also a trans­feree from Aramco, where he was

in accounting and shipping from1946 until October, 1950, Mr.Weber was in on the beginningof operations at Sidon Terminal.He brought with him a staff ofmen he had personally trained atRas Tanura. Starting off withTapline as supervisor (documen­

tation), he was made administra­tive assistant to the terminal su­perintendent at Sidon In May,1954.

James H. Grimes, Superinten­dent Transportation, Turaif, andEdmund J. Weber, Supervisor­Wage and Salary Adminstration,Beirut, have been presentedthree-star service pins, represent­ing fifteen years of service withTapline, parent and affiliated com­panies.

A graduate of Oregon StateCollege in Corvallis, Oregon, witha B.Sc. degree in mechanical en­gineering (with an automotiveoption), Mr. Grimes' first contactwith the oil industry came on Feb­ruary 12, 1946, when he joinedStandard Stations, Inc. as a sales­man in the Portland Division.From September, 1948, until histransfer to Tapline in November,1951, Mr. Grimes worked forAramco in Dhahran as an automo­tive engineer.

Du ri ng a th ree-year sti nt inBeirut headquarters, Mr. Grimesserved as transportation engineerand coordinator. He transferredto Saudi Arabia in June, 1954, andwas named superintendent-trans­portation on May I, 1955. In thiscapacity, Mr. Grimes has res­ponsibility for the Turaif centralgarage, maintenance of waterwells in Saudi Arabia and Jordan,repair and maintenance of morethan 850 kilometers of the main

Wreathed in smiles, Superintendent of Transportation James H. Grimes(right) receives the congratulations of General Superintendent George F.Heide, reho presented him reith his fifteen-year service emblem. (Photoby S. ]1.1. Siddique).

James Grimes and Edmund WeberReceive 15-Year Service Awards

Central StorehouseSets Safety Record

ZCC clubhouse, inaugurated lastSeptember. A vote of thanks alsowent to the entertainment com­mittee, headed by Vern Thunem,on its record of accomplishmentduring the past year.

Under the supervision of Co­ordinator of Stores and Com­munity Services Robert J. Quick,Central Storehouse employees atTuraif pu mp station set on Feb­ruary 2, 1961 an enviable safetyrecord by completing two yearsof service, or a total of ISO,OOOman work hours, without a lost­time industrial accident. Duringits 731 accident-free days, theCentral Storehouse handled anaverage of 1,000,000 pounds of

cargo per month.The Central Storehouse per­

sonnel complement of 35 iskeeping up its remarkable safetyvigilance to set an all-time highof th ree accident-free years inFebruary. 1962.

John H. Arnold has succeededCaptain Martin Rutherford aspresident of the Zahrani CountryClub for 1961. Election of officersand executive committee mem­bers highlighted the Club's fifthannual general meeting in theSidon Terminal auditorium, Feb­ruary 18.

Walther J. Ludvigsen was elec­ted vice-president. Karl I. Tron­stad and Mrs. Paul E. Cole werenamed treasurer and secretary,respectively. Selected as execu­tive committee members werePiero M. Boiral, Anibal A. Fad­doul, Edward Greenwood, Rich­ard E. Khattar and Captain Ruth·erford.

During the general meeting,which was preceded by a bounti­ful pot-luck supper, the Club'sfinancial report for 1960 was ap­proved; past achievemenu werereviewed and plans outlined forfuture activities.

In the discussion that followedthe meeting. tribute was payedto the outgoing officers for theirefforu--especially in building the

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While fOf( blanketed !""de areas ofBTltalll and DCllmark and cloudshindered obsert'ation in Jl,loscow,,'Wadrid and Athens, exeLlent at­mospheric conditions at TapLine'spump station in Badanah allowedPeriscope photographer Rafic J.Fanous to talu this pictllre of thesolar eclipse at 0733 GAlT, Fe­bTl/or)' 15. The S/III !<'OS onLy par­tially obscured at Badanah. !~'here­

as in France, for instance, theeclipse t<'OS the first totaL one to beseen since 1912.

Other revealing statistICS, re­cently compiled by the Opera­tions Department, indicate that,during 1960, only 12 per cent oftankers calling at Sidon were be­low 18,000 DWT. However, 43per cent were of 18 to 30,000DWT; 27 per cent were of 30to 40,000 DWT; and 18 per cent,of 40 to 50,000 DWT.

During the first two monthsof 1961, 1.89 per cent of tankerscalling at Sidon were of the T-2type. However, 24.53 per centwere of 30 to 35,000 DWT;10.38 per cent were of 35 to

40,000 DWT; 7.55 per cent, of40 to 45,000 DWT; 13.20 percent, of 45 to 50,000 DWT; and3.77 per cent of the tankersloaded at Tapline's terminal dur­ing January and February, 1961,were larger than 50,000 dead­weight tons.

When Tapline started opera­tions in 1950, the T-2 type tankerof about 16,600 deadweight tonswas the most common type in theworld fleet. This is no longer so,since the present world tankerfleet includes about 300 tankerslarger than 35,000 deadweighttons, which was the size of thelargest tanker ten years ago.

Tapline's average barrels pership figure has increased from118,533 barrels for 1951 to 206,440barrels per ship in 1960. Over thesame years, the average nu mber ofships loaded per day has decrea­sed from 2.52 to 1.13.

SIZE OF TANKERSKEEPS ON GROWING

THE CRADLE ROW

BeirutAhmad, son of Mr. and Mrs. Khalil

M. HassanAntoine, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Iskandar G. Azar

SIdonBashir, son of Mr. and Mrs. Muha­

mmad M. NakibBassil, son of Mr. and Mrs. Has­

san A. SafieddineNajla, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Beshara T. Assaly.

Turai(

'Awudh, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.M. Shumri

Munirah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Dawas Ibrahim

Othman, son of Mr. and Mrs.Muhammad Othman

Suleiman, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.I. Sikhan

Wafa'. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Mussalem Muhammad.

Badanah

Abdullah, son of Mr. and Mrs.Ghurmallah Abdullah

Hajj, Joseph Safi, Anibal Faddoul,Fouad Dandan, Chafic Nasr, AliMouaket, Habib Saba, AntOineFayyad, Butros Bumefleh, ElieConstantine, Maroun Younan, Ab­del-Massih Haddad, Jan J. Mak­kinje, Dirk A. Schipper and FuadChamieh.

The conferences covered a widevariety of subjects and includeda series of lectures, delivered byMr. Foody, on the followi ng to­pics: "Worker to Supervisor,""Effective Discipline," "GivingOrders," "Handling Complaints"and the "Supervisor's Job." Inturn, Training Coordinator Ken­neth E. Parr, Supervisor-Wagesand Salaries Edmund J. Weberand Safety Engineer Fawzi M.Naim gave valuable talks in theirrespective fields of training, wagesand salaries, and safety.

SUCCESSThe successful man

is the one who doeswhat he has to do atthe time he hates todo it most.

Hussein el-Dada

H. E'·Dada Departsfor U. S. Education

Hussein Bassam el-Dada, Qai­sumah's office supervisor, depar­ted early in March for the UnitedStates, where he will work forhis Master's degree in finance andbusiness administration at NewYork University.

Mr. el-Dada has been granteda one-year leave of absence foreducational purposes as of March3. He joined Tapline in June,1959 - - one year after receivinghis B.A. in economics from theAmerican University of Beirut.First assigned to Turaif as stationaccounting office clerk, Mr. el­Dada was transferred to Qaisu mahin October, 1959. He was pro­moted to office supervisor therenine months later.

Prior to his departure, Mr.el-Dada was guest of honour at around of parties given by his manyfriends at the station.

direction of James V. Foody, co­ordinator of employee relations.They were Hikmat Bidawi, Yous­sef Geha, George Jacobs, KhalilAbu-Zeid, Said Makhoul, Nakhleh

Base Hospital StaffGet Honorary Trophy

The plaque for the "best main­tained hospital on stream" for theyear 1960 has been awarded to thestaff of Tapline's hospital at Bada­nah. This circulating trophy, ini­

tiated three years ago, had beenawarded to Rafha hospital for theyears 195B and 1959.

The factors considered in mak­ing the award include cleanlinessand general neatness inside andoutside the hospital; progres­siveness and efficiency of medicalfunctions; and general coopera­tion and harmony among hospi­tal personnel.

SIDON TERMINAL GROUP COMPLETES SUPERVISORY COURSETwenty Tapliners from Sidon

participated in a group of Super­visory Development Conferencesheld at the marine terminal Feb­ruary 28 and March I under the

Effective at 00:01 a.m. (12:01)Friday morning, April 7, companyclocks in Saudi Arabia and Jordan,the Sidon Tank Farm Control,Shore Control, and Marine Office,and the Beirut Oil Dispatch Officewill be advanced one hour, plac­ing all oil operations on summerdaylight saving time (GreenwichMean Time plus three hours).

Working hours in lebanon andSyria will continue on the basis oflocal standard time.

CLOCK WATCHING

Among the twenty Tapliners who compLeted a sllpert'isory dl'1.·elopmelll cOllrse held at Sidon FebrtlQl y 28 andMarch 1 under the direction ofJames V. Foody (left), coordi,1Qtor of employee relations, are, from light: XakhlehHajj, Said ]\-1akholll, Khalil Abll-Zeid, George Jacobs, l'ollssef Geha and Iiilvllat Bidaw. (Photo by I'i-Sollssil.

Badanah

Hamed Saleh, of Motor Trans­

port

Ra(ha

Mutni Buniyan. of Administra­tion and GeneralNassir Muhammad, of WaterWellsMuhammad Mulchlif, of Admi­nistration and General

SidonKarim Daher, of Marine

Tura;(Abdullah Ibrahim. of MotorTransportIbrahim Rashid. of Main LineRoadClarence G, Rush. of Adminis­tration and GeneralFaleh Sud. of Motor Transport.

BeirutVartan M. Bezdikian, of Engine­eringBoutros A. Hamamji, of Engi­neeringHabib S. Sidany. of Travel andAir Transport

Qaisumah

Salim bin Abdel-Aziz. of Store­houses

TEN-YEAR PINSTwo-star emblems for complet­

ing ten years of continuous com­pany service were earned by thefollowing employees duringMarch:

has another relative, Nick Ha­yeck. Hospitality of the souther­ners, she says, cannot be matched.In Columbus, she visited every­thing-from Fort Benning to theIda Cason Garden. She also droveto Tallahassee in Florida. On herway back from Georgia to Wash­ington D.C., Mary stopped overin Atlanta to call on Mrs. GilbertW. Carnahan, the former MissEmily E. Dagher of Tapline Ac­counting in Beirut.

Christmas and New Year werespent in Binghamton, where afeature article was written aboutMary by Alan leWin. of the Even­ing Press Endicott Bureau. There,she also appeared on a 'IS-minutetelevision program as a guestspeaker from lebanon.

Before leaving the States inmid-January, Mary made a trip toChicago. where she stayed forfour days. On her way back toBeirut, she stopped over in lon­don for six days to visit her cou­sin, Nellie Wiggins. Mary also cal·led on another relative, Mrs.Jean Irani, of Manchester. Sales.

Summing up her impressionsabout her trip. Mary asserts:"No matter how much you readand hear about the United States,you'll never appreciate it untilyou visit it '" And whatever yourtaste is, you can always enjoy astay in New York City."

From the top of the ft'orld's tallest structure, the Empire State buildingin /"1(' l'ork City, TapLine secretary ]\ltary Khoury smiLes broadLydllring her recent !:acation in the United States. The United Nationsbllilding (right) and the East Rit'er can be seen in the background.

hired by Tapline during construc­tion days.

Then came New York City.Keeping an almost round-the­clock pace for six days, Mary de­voted her day to sightseei ng andher evenings and early morningsto niteries (including a cocktail­dinner at the "latin Quarter.").From the top of the world's tal­lest structure, the Empire Statebuilding, she was photographedby a lebanese university studentworking in photography on part­time basis. On identifying hernationality, the young man ex­empted her from the usual 3charge for a picture taken 1,472feet above the street and look­ing out over the most fabulousskyline of the world.

Other high spots of her visit toNew York City were the Statueof Liberty, Trinity Church, St.Paul's Church, Brooklyn Bridge,United Nations headquarters,Times Square and RockefellerCenter, the largest privately­owned business and entertain­ment center in America, compris­ing Radio City, Radio City MusicHall (the largest exclusively in­door theater in the world seat­ing 6,200 people, where Mary sawa Yule program), and the CenterPlaza (used for ice skating in thewinter, and for an outdoor cafein the summer).

Tapline's New York Office of50S Park Avenue also was onMary's schedule. "Everybodythere was so cooperative," sheexclaimed.

From New York City, Marymoved to Forest Hills on an invi­tation from her former boss atUnesco, Beirut, Dr. John Furbay,TWA General Director, and Mrs.Furbay. Then came two "verylovely" days at one of the mostbeautiful houses in the area-thatof Mrs. J.O. Kleber, sister ofEdmund J. Weber. of IndustrialRelations, Beirut, in Whitestone,Queens. N.Y.

Washington D.C. was next withits National Capitol and WhiteHouse, its National Gallery of Artand its Lincoln Memorial as wellas the Pentagon, the world's lar­gest office building, housing per­sonnel of the Department ofDefense.

December 13 found Mary inColumbus, Georgia. where she

Michel Salome

Rose Sawdah

John Franjleh

R, M. Weeks

John Nehme

S. S. Dabaghi

Dr. G. M. Stephan

!S. M. SlddlqueM. Sulton

Reporters:

Badanah

Beirut

Jordan

New York

Qaisumah

Turaif

Rafha

Sidon

IN THE

pipeLilLe

PERISCOPEResp. Director: M. K. Saab

Staff Reporter F, C. Najia

Artist Vartan Bezdikian

A few family ties can reach along way. For Tapline manage­ment secretary Mary T. Khou ry,they recently stretched all theway from her home in Beirutover much of the United States.

On Friday, Januray 20, in fact,Mary returned to the lebanesecapital after spending a two­month vacation with the familiesof her cousins Emile and GeorgeH. Coury, natives of lebanon,who Iive next door to each otherin Binghamton, N.Y., and whoown a furniture store in nearbyEndicott. Mary has a third cousin,George G. Coury, who is also afurniture store owner in JohnsonCity, third of the "Tri-Cities."

The diary Mary kept of herregular travel and weekend ex­cursions in the Eastern UnitedStates reflects the mad-whirl na­ture of her trips. About her firstten days in Binghamton she pen­ned: " ... Visited Niagara Falls andWhirlpool Rapids ... Over 212,000cubic feet of water per secondpasses over the Falls ... Crossedthe U.S. Border into OntarioProvidence in Canada ... It's aparad ise."

On December 'I, her entry re­vealed: "Visited Syracuse and itsuniversity... It's a small NewYork with its modern departmentstores ... Had dinner at Lorenzo's."Two days later, Mary travelled toPlainfield, New Jersey, where shetelephoned Dr. Jacques Makari tosay hello. Dr. Makari, who is nowhead of the Plainfield Hospital,was one of the first physicians

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SEAT BELTS SAVE LIVES

.-1 In'dralllically e\lelldable "rd('boom alld me of a wft I)' .,wl "I'll \/It('ddri"er Tbraillm Saleh from almosl ee,'alll illjllry "h(,11 IIIIS comp,my Pa.\­loader lIpped O"er Imt fall at Km 4l)O, betlum Rafha ,md QllIlltmah.Damar:e to the Payloade, ,to III1110r and I' timaled 01 ahollt 100. (Pholoby Roberl D HOllollr).

T,,·o California high"'ay patrolmen in pursuit of a lawbreaker ran theircar off the road to at'oid hitting another car. Both of them stepped out ofthis total "'reck completely uninjured. They both "'ore seat beTts.

Accident tati tic how that. with the continuous increasein the number of vehicles on public streets and highways. therehas been an alarming increase in the number of personal in­juries and fatalities resulting from traffic accidents.

Studies made on vehicle injuries and fatalities in the Uni­ted States by Cornell University's Automotive Crash Injury Re­search Program revealed that personal injuries could be les­sened. and even prevented. when vehicle accidents occur, ifthe driver and car passengers were not thrown forward towardthe dashboard or out of the car. To accompli h this, seat bellsare recommended. According to safety experts, their use offera greater potential for reducing injury and saving lives than anyother available automotive safety device. It is believed the tra­ffic accident toll would be reduced by as much as 60 per cent ifsafety bells were universally used.

Early in 1960, Tapline Safety Engineering tarted a programfor the purpose of encouraging all Tapline drivers to use seatbells, and almost all company vehicles in service along the'Line have been equipped with such bells.

The tendency of the drivers has been to use the automotivesafety bells only when driving at high speeds. In order to gua­rantee maximum po ible safety, Tapline drivers have beencautioned to wear seat bells whenever the car is in motion.Besides saving live in crashes, eat belts are very useful asfatigue fighters (since they reduce the physical driving ten­sions). They also serve as constant safety reminders.

(Except for one photograph, pictures on this page are fromthe February, 1%0, issue of Traffic afety, a ational afetyCouncil publication in Chicago, Illinois).

A Pennsylt'ama dri"er lost control on a slippery road, lilt a tree, and hiscar .cas wt in half. Bllt becallse he .cas .cearlllg a safely seal bell, Ihe dri­t'er escaped ft'ith only a minor Cllt ot'er one eye.

The .coman dri,'ing this car had seat belts in the t'ehiele, bllt they .cerelying on the seat. IInfastened, ft'hm a "minor" collislOlI Ihretc her alit ofthe car. The other car rail O"er her alld hilled her.

In January, 1958. Roy Camponella. star catcher of the Los Angeles Dod­gers. skidded on a ,eet pat'ement at a speed of 30 m.p.h. and hit a pole. Hewas ""edged under the dashboard. His injuries left him permanently pa~a­

Iyzed from the shoulders dOt,,,,, ate the minor damage done to the uh.cle

itself·

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418.075

Year 1961426,943

106403.970224.851

REPORTFebruary445.229

54+40.494228.405

454.625 * ,

Dr. lIlarcel N. Prince

gave Dr, Prince top low net hon­ors of 129 for the 36-hole event.Dr, Edmond J. 5efri was closebehind at 130. Making a comebackto golf from a year's absence.Ahmad Baluchi finished with a lownet score of 133.

Topping off the tournamentwas a steak dinner served in theCommunity Center by the RockyAcres Golf Group.

A will to win. backed up byfrequent practice. paid off forBadanah surgeon Dr. Marcel N.Prince in the 'Line InvitationalTournament. played over Bada­nah's Rocky Acres Golf courseFebruary 16 and 17. Dr. Princeplayed top-notch golf all the wayto lead the field with a phenome­nal low gross of 14 I. the best anyplayer ever scored in any 36-holetournament played on the 'Line.

Otis E. Ritter was second with156; Raymond H. Massey. third,with 158; and Charles S. Babb(of Rafha), fourth, with 159.

A handicap of 6 for 18 holes also

Prince Sets 36-HoleRecord of 141 Strokes

OPERATIONS

contri buted to the success ofthe event.

Nor have T.S.C. officers andcommittee members wastedany time in implementing thegeneral clean-up and improve­ment program in the club. Withthe resurfacing of the tenniscourts came also the refurbishingof furniture. replacement of di­van slip-covers, and an extensivebroom-and-mop treatment of theclub premises. Another shot-in­the-arm was the streamlining ofthe coffee service, which is opera­ted by the club in Tapline officesin the Arida building.

Average BPD received at SidonShips loadedAverage BPD loaded on shipsAverage bbls per shipAverage BPD delivered to ships

and Medreco"New Record.

With lifting forecasts running high during the month of February.each of the auxiliary pumping units on the Tapline system was put onstream for some 600 hours-boosting throughput of the pipeline toits highest level in almost two years of operations.

The daily average throughput of 445,229 was 34.800 barrelsabove the January average and only 16.649 barrels a day below therecord throughput reached in March. 1959.

While all other operation figures followed a similar upwardtrend. a record boost in average total deliveries to ships and Medrecowas also reported. This new record exceeds the previous high setin March. 1959 by more than 4.000 barrels.

On February 10. six tankers were loaded with 1.476.188 barrelsof oil-the largest amount of crude ever lifted from Sidon in oneoperating day. Last record was 1,174.963 barrels. lifted by six shipson December I. 1959.

.Hiss Shalamtala Den'

and Rackets Ball. A buffet, musicby a live orchestra, dancing thatloosed any tennis kinks, orientalentertainment, and dozens ofprizes, including air tickets toNicosia and Jerusalem, all

TSC ACTIVITIES ARE ON THE ROLL AGAINTapline Sporting Club activi­

ties are again at peak level. Em­ployees, their families and friendsflocked to the club premises onMarch 6 to see, hear and chal­lenge Miss Shakuntala Devi, ofBangolore, India. Dubbed the"Human Calculating Machine,"Miss Devi gave a thrilling per­formance. An audience of severalhundred persons came to see heroutdo a fast calculating machine.Miss Devi has confounded theworld's leading mathematicianswith her outstanding ability tomake the most complicated ma­thematical calculations in herhead.

Another gay, capacity crowdturned out March 25 to eat, drinkand be merry at the club's Tennis

Three laborers and a conlractor ,corhed ''''oll((h milch of .lIarch 10 resllrface the TaplinI' porn'nl(calirI. The fmce is 10 be cOf'ered ,cilh darh-grem bllrlap for beller ,·isibility. (Photo by Issa).

Re-upholstering one of the sofas at the Tapline Sporting Club is Lebanesecontractor Sami Matta (Photo by Issa).

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Time, once again, has taken itstoll, and Harry H. Walker,Advisor, Methods and Organiza­tion, will leave us for the StatesApril I on retirement at the ageof 52. A native of Illinois, Mr.Walker has spent more thanthirty-two years of continuousservice with Tapline, affiliatedand parent companies.

About May I, Robert E. Marshwill leave the field for vacation,following which he will report toWashington, D.C., for a one-yearrotational assignment to Aramcoas Assistant to the Vice President.

About April IS, R. G. VanPeursem will transfer from Ara­mco to Tapline Beirut headquar­ters. Upon Mr. Marsh's depar­ture, Mr. Van Peursem will re­lieve him as Company Represen­tative-Pipe line Area.

President John Noble re­turned to Beirut early in Marchfrom a business trip to the UnitedStates.

Vern Tietjen, Public Rela­tions Representative, will reportto Aramco-Dhahran, early inApril, on a ten-week assignment.

Executive Vice President WH·

(Colltil/lled lIext paffe)

Beirut

surgery at the American Univer­sity Hospital in Beirut,

Mr. and Mrs. Jan J. Makkinjeand sons, Anthony and Bernard,are with us again from long leavein Holland. Despite all the frostyweather, the Makkinjes reporthaving had a wonderful time thereamidst friends and relatives.Frans F. Van Eysden, who wasrelieving Mr. Makkinje here, hasmeanwhile returned to BeirutCommunications.

A number of Zahrani CountryClub members attended a dinner­dance at Beirut's Alcazar Hotel,February 25, at the invitation ofthe Beirut Sporting Club (Golf).All those who were there agreedthe event was a big success.

The man who has been takingall the golf balls home added amedal trophy to his loot in Fe­bruary by winning the second ofa 1961 series of monthly golfcompetitions at the Z.c.c. Who!-Why, Oscar T. Swanson ofcourse. Mr. Swanson posted anet 69 to edge Orvis K. Bigelow,who netted 70.

Congratulations to Hassib D.Baassiri on his recent marriageto the former Miss Nada Ah­mad Bsat.

DII'ecled b\' COillclis Vall D,.,. K/inll, lead diesel gas turbine lIIee~lOnie,

a replllr r~ef" of Saudi ,·/rab Taplillers succeeded, February 13, tn re-, I okell PI'SIOII in a Wortillnglon dIesel engllle at the QOIsulllah1/101'1 fig a Jr "

pUlllphollse l/lld in illstallillg a neft' aile, alom: mth the .eon~,ectlllg rodd I , d ' I "all ,',1 Ihe record tllne Of 3 !tours alld 4~ nllllliles. Thean cv 111 CI h- I 'J • •

job lI;rmally toiles 1II0,e thaI/ si\' hours., ShowlI abot'e Itlllllg "I' Ihe eo~~, dIl," PI'StOIl are lssa JaSS/m (left) alld ,UII!tammad Gha_1.lIeetlllg 1'0 all • " D

-'lalliplllalillg all ot'er!tead cralle is -'Illhamlllad l\ass~r, ,lIr. I all ,crKlillil is III the bacllgroulld f('atclllll~ progress of Ihe Job. Others taklllgpart III the operatioll fare Hamad Hathal and Tahn JJassOlI. (Photoby Hendrik C, I 'all PI/lIen).

To protide l'aSler alld .Illfer access to IlIgh poillts, a boolll alld platforlllattad'lllt'llt, c11'.H~nccl ill the field, hau beell 1II0ullted earh on TurOlj'sIll'''' 1J0u~h Payload",. arqnlled last year by Taplllle as part of Its 1II0demplpelllle lIIaintfllallc/' proWalll, .Uaklllff good n.,e of the boolll to replacea . tred Izlfht bulb III Turmf is Sudki }'OIlSSef, of C,E, & 1. Bellllld thefdlul of till I'ayloader I D.B Suleilllall, of -'Tatar Transport. (Photoby John .1. 1I'00d),

Qaisumah

Sidon

house built under the Saudi HomeOwnership Plan. Mutlaq's homerepresents the first outright cashpurchase of a house under thePlan.

There is an air of quiet aroundQaisumah, due in the main to thedeparture of Mrs. Louis J. Fore­aker and children to the U.S. Theonly youngsters in the station,Louis Jr. and Gertrude Fore­aker will spend about I" monthsin the States with their mother,before they return here to joinour foreman-general services andrelations. A farewell dinner partywas given by Station Superinten­dent and Mrs. Horace C. Davisin their honor as well as in honorof Hussein B. el·Dada, the sta­tion's office supervisor, who alsoenplaned to the States on a oneyear educational leave of absence.

Station Operations ForemanWilliam R. Pickett and Fore­man-General Services and Rela­tions Louis J. Foreaker recentlyawarded two-star service emb­lems to Hamad Hathal, shiftforeman, Fahed Mutlaq, assist­ant maintenance foreman, Mu­hammad Mansour, shift ope­rator, Abdullah Khalaf, seniorshift operator, Abdullah Saad,water well mechanic, and Abdul­lah Rashid, general craftsman.

Ahlon Wo Soh/an to John Neh­me, on return from holiday inlebanon; Muni'i bin Nasser, onarrival from Badanah on a reliefassignment in the accounting of­fice; and Muhammad Hassan,Ali Muhammad and Ali Ha­shem, on return from local leave.

On the vacation list are Mr.and Mrs. Horace C. Davis,Muhammad Omar, Ayed Du­ghaiman and Rashid Fahed.

Temperature at Qaisumah du­ring February ranged from a mi­nimum of 36 degrees Fahrenheit(or 2 degrees centigrade), regis­tered at 2400 hours on the 22nd,to a maximum of 78 degrees Fah­renheit (or 25 degrees centi­grade), recorded on February 27at 1700 hours. Statistics here showthat total rainfall for the seasonin the Qaisumah area reached5.0S inches to date.

Energetic as ever, CaptainAbner A. Brickhouse, TerminalSuperintendent, returned to hisduties February 20, following

The following personnel movesand organizational changes havebeen announced at Turaif: Cla­rence P. Booth transferred fromTuraif Motor Transport to theCentral Mechanical Shop. effec­tive February I; Rhea H. Put­nam transferred from BadanahOperations and Repairs to Tu­rait's Central Mechanical Shop, tofill, upon return from his longvacation, a new Job of Coordi­nator Turbine Maintenance; DanD. Reynolds transferred fromBadanah CE & I to Turaif CE & I,effective March I.

Wedding felicitations are dueto D. H. EI-Hazza, who cele­brated hiS marriage while on ho­liday in Jordan.

During February, Tura,f hap­pily received Joseph T. Samia,on return from a holiday in leb­anon with his wife and child toset up housekeeping in Turaiftown; Moussa C. Soulban, onreturn from a memorable leavein lebanon and the Egyptian re­gion of the U.A.R.; Abdul Hadi,on return from an emergencytrip to Dhahran to visit his bed­ridden father; Clarence G. Rush,James H. Grimes and GeorgeF. Heide and their families, onreturn from a week-end trip toJordan; and Sayyed Baharoon,Dukhi Sulaiman, IbrahimYoussef, Muhammad Abdul­lah and Ahmad Muhammad,on return from local leaves.

The welcome mat is also out forthe Robert J. Quicks, who re­turned to the fold from longstateside vacation. The Quicksreport having spent most of theirtime in Texas visiting with theB. T. Dunlaps, of Baytown, andMrs. Marie Quick, of longview.While in the States, our Co­ordinator of Stores and Com­munity Services attended an Am­erican Management Associationseminar in New York and spenta few days at Tapline's New YorkOffice at 505 Park Avenue, oncompany business.

Off on holiday to the Dhahranarea are Salah Abdullah andObaid Fershah.

Othayeb Mutlaq will soon bemoving into a new two-bedroom

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A branch of the Riyadh GasCompany has been opened at'Ar'ar to supply the busy andthriving community with butanegas for domestic use, stoves andother gas equipment.

The siren donated by Taplineto the Municipality of 'Ar'ar hasbeen installed on the police bar­racks to be used in emergenciesand as a fire alarm. During thefasti ng month of Ramadan, how­ever, the siren was used as a timesignal.

Fifty empty barrels have alsobeen donated by the com pany tothe Municipality of 'Ar'ar, to beused for sanitary purposes in thetown streets.

Shift Operator MuhammadOmair received his two-star ser­vice insignia February 7 fromSaleh Mansour, senior shift ope­rator. A five-year service pin wasalso presented in February toHamsan Abdullah by EverettR. Robertson.

While leaves are over for K.Hamad, M. Suleiman, F. Hu­layel, S. Abbad and M. Hamad,they have just started for A. Mar­zook, H. Musailem and A.Fraih.

Dr. Joseph Aur and Dr.George W. Luttermoser, of theA.U.B. School of Public Health,visited Badanah during the firstweek of March too. Aside fromtouring the company's Base Hos­pital facilities, the visitors assistedour medical staff in studies alongtheir lines of specialization.

Dr. Ahmad Shalabi, ChiefMinistry of Health Representativein the Northern Frontiers, wasa recent patient at Badanah BaseHospital. He was greatly impres­sed by the Hospital's cleanlinessand the excellent medical andsurgical care it brings to hundredsof men, women and children inSaudi Arabia.

A meeti ng of assistant rela­tions representatives from pumpstations along the 'line was heldhere, March 12 and 13, underthe direction of Robert E. Marsh.

Dr. Marcel N. Prince flamed

his way around the station's

golf course, February 3, to win an

eighteen-hole tourney organized

by the Rocky Acres Golf Groupwith a low gross score of 73. OtisE. Ritter was runner-up with75. John R. Terry netted 64 toedge out John Samaha (65). Inthe ladies' division, Mrs. Terryled the field with a low gross totalof 50 for nine holes.

The lau~hter of happy rhildrell alld the crillklr of lil cardcd ~Ift "1'01'1'11111paper t.ere the ollllds heard Febmary 24 at till' hOllll of .\11'. lmd -'Irs.JollII R. Terry, "hl'll son GIl'T1II (kllcclill~ ill forc~r"'lIId) ulcbratcd IIInth allllltersan f('lth, frolll left, .\10110 Turk, CYlltllla 'alllaha, CarolYII

Crosth,,'mt, c~elle Thaddeus, JOllies Terry alld Tllla Willte. (Photoby Rafic J. Fallolls).

Badanah II

Harry Hopper, formerly ofAramco Government Relations,reported to Badanah February26, following his transfer to Tap­line. He will replace John G.White as Deputy Company Re­preSentative - Pipeline Area.upon Mr. White's departure forlong vacation and transfer toAramco·Dhahran 'n May.

Celebrating birthdays with par­ties during the past few weekswere Marjorie Ritter (twelve),Glenn Terry (SIX), CarolynCrosthwait (seven) and GillWhite. who became a big girl offour on February I.

Mrs. John R. Terry recentlywas elected to the presidency ofthe Badanah Women's Group.Miss Salwa Nabti was namedvice-president and Mrs. NizarY. Turk, secretary-treasurer .Mesdames Jacob Thaddeus,Michel Khoury and EugeneWood will head, respectively,the program, entertainment andpublicity committees.

The station was the scene of ageneral meeting of the RockyAcres Golf Group to elect offi­cers and committee members for1961. John R. Terry was electedpresident; Dr. Marcel N. Prin­ce, vice president; George A.Li nabu ry, secretary-treasu rer;John N. Samaha, entertain­ment chairman; Raymond H.Massey, team captain; Otis E.Ritter, handicap and tournamentchairman; and Eugene L. Wood,chairman of the rules and greenscommittee.

The baby shower hosted byMesdames Raymond H. Mas·sey and Haskell Hargrove forMrs. Otis E. Ritter proved anoutstanding success.

Congratulations to Ghurmal­lah Abdullah on the birth, atBadanah Base Hospital, of son,Abdullah.

Aramco's R. A. Hattrup, chieffire protection engineer, andCharles Homewood, chief safe­ty engineer, made an inspectiontour of the station early in March.They were accompanied by Gen­eral Superintendent George F.Heide, of Turaif, and Safety Engi­neer Fawzi M. Nairn, of Beirut

headquarters.

PIPELI E PERISCOPE

E OIL DUSTRY IN THE NEWS

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Middle East Aramco has pur­chased a 1,359,000 drilling bargeto replace the Queen Mary, whichwas swamped off Safaniya in the

rablan Gulf during a severestorm. December 20. The repla­cement barge will be towed fromthe United States and will arriveIn the Gulf about June I. Severesalt water damage to the ali-elec­

tric Queen Mary forced the com­pany to abandon attempts to sal-

age and recondition the barge.

Aramco relinquished 33,700square miles of its exclusive con­cessIon area In 1960. for a total of

28 per cent since 1948. The com­pany also has given up 76 per centof ItS preferential concessionarea ... The Caltex Dutch tanker"Del th" was the 20.oooth shipto load at Ras Tanura since1947 Aramco's Saudi Develop-ment Committee has selectedt enty one employees to enterBeirut's International College inJuly, making a total of fifty threeemployees now assigned to col­leges in Lebanon or the United

States

Suez Canal authorities reportthe canal will be deepened tothirty-seven feet by the end ofApril and will be able to accom­modate tankers up to 30,000deadweight tons. The canal ishandling fifty-three ships daily.compared to forty-two in 1956.

John W. Mecom. a Texas in­dependent, has been granted a10,ooo-square mile concession inYemen .. In 1960, an average of88.200 BD of crude entered theUnited States from Saudi Arabia.

Demand for Oil: In a recentreport the Organization for Euro­pean Economic Cooperation(OEEC) predicts that demand in

Europe. up 50 per cent in the pastfive years, will double by1957 ... Standard Oil of Califor­n a forecasts a 35 per cent In­crease this year in the demand forturbine fuels.

Persian Gulf production hasincreased two million barrels dai­ly in the past four years ... Russianow is producing about 14 percent of the world production. upfrom 7 per cent ten years ago ...Britain consumed 42.000.000 tonsof 011 ,n 1960. of which 80 per centwas from the Middle East ... Ar­gent na. long an oil importer, willexport some 4.4 million barrels ofcrude to Uruguay in the nextthree years.

The oil industry's new capitalinvestment in the United Statesthis year is expected to reach6.5 billion dollars. up 6.3 per centover 1960. This figure includes77.2 per cent increase investmentin petrochemical proJects. Ofevery capital dollar. 57.5 centsgoes Into drilling and production

Pipelines: France plans a 400­mile, 30-inch gravity-flow lineconnecting the Hassi Messaoudfield in the Sahara and the mainpipeline to Bougie on the Medi­terranean with th ree newer fieldsfarther south .. A major, H-inchline from the Mediterranean nearMarseilles to the Rhine. a dis­tance of 475 miles. is scheduledto go into construction in July ...The trend in Europe is towardinland refineries; pipelines willconnect them with marine ter­minals.

Shareholder Companies:Mobil Oil Company, which scoreda worth-while oil strike in Turkeylast year, is setting up a seconddrilling rig in the south centralpart of the country. In the Carri­bean. the company has acquireda 1,200 BD refinery in Barabdosand is expanding its gasoline mar­keting operations to that island.Mobil's financial aid to educationthis year will total ,70 millionand include seventy universities.

Standard Oil Company of Cali­fornia has developed a safety de­vice that warns motorists of dan­gerous highway turns ahead andis particularly effective at night.Areas known as "rumble strips,"composed of stone chips beddedinto asphalt, are built into thehighway ahead of the danger spot.They have a washboard effect andcan be felt instantly by the driver... Steward Coleman, StandardOil Company (New Jersey) vice

SAFE DRIVINGTapl iners who, because of the

nature of their work duties, haveto drive company vehicles, willbe competing in a Safe DriverAward Program during 1961. Adop­ted by the Management Safetyand Fire Committee, the programcovers company-wide recognitionin the form of safe driver awardpins, presented for safe drivingperformance during a stated pe­riod of time. Both "regular" and"occasional" drivers will be eli­gible for awards.

president and director, retiredApril I for health reasons.

New Developments: The U­nited States Army has experi­mented successfully with under­ground ice oil storage reservoirs.In the Greenland ice cap, reser­voirs 100 feet under the surfaceand at temperatures 17 degreesabove zero stored gasoline with­out evaporation.

Geologists are finding the scien­ce of palyology increasingly valu­able in analyZing structures. Bythis method pollen spore spreadover the earth millions of yearsago and imbedded in rock areanalyzed under the microscope.

Iiam R. Chandler and Vice Pre­sident of Operations Walter E.Locher headed a nine-man Tap­line group that inspected theJordan Petroleum Refining Com­pany Ltd. refinery at Zarqa onMarch I. John Creecy, GeneralManager of Medreco, also ac­companied the party.

During Henry S. Smith's one­year loan assignment to SOCAL,John P. O'Hagan will take Mr.Smith's place as member of theField Salary Committee, Presi­dent John Noble announced. Ed­mund J. Weber has also beenappoi nted secretary of the FieldSalary Committee, replacing Har­ry H. Walker.

Gerhart H. Gossens is reti­ring July I. As of the same date,Robert J. Quick, of Turaif, willreplace Mr. Gossens as Superin­tendent of Purchasing and Traf­fic, reporting to Manager of Ope­rations Robert A. Prusinski.

Joe J. D'Angelo and CarmineF. Meo, staff auditors fromHaskins and Sells, have leftBeirut, on completion of theirannual audit of Tapline records.

Andy M. Sims, ex-Tapline ac­countant, was here in March, onholiday from the Oasis Oil Com­pany in Tripoli, libya.

The wedding of Crystal Bram­kamp, former secretary to Exe­cutive Vice President WilliamR. Chandler, to William Bur­leigh, of Aramco, was ceJebratedMarch 20 at Beirut's CommunityChurch. The bride was given awayby Mr. Chandler. Miss PaulineHodo served as the bride's maid

They are far more numerousthan fossil remains and oftenreveal more.

Plastics delivered from oil findever wider uses. A United Statescompany has developed a plasticcalled celcon, hard enough to usefor nails.

N othi ng-I ike-bei ng-ahead-of­the-times department: AnAmerican research institute isdesigning a special drill for prob­ing the surface of the moon, wherethere IS no air and the tempera­tures range from 200 degrees a­bove zero to 184 below. The de­vice probably would be operatedby remote control.

of honor, while Arthur Valpey,also of Aramco, acted as best man.The wedding ceremony was fol­lowed by a reception at the St.George. Before returning to theDesert Kingdom to set up house­keeping In Dhahran, the newly­weds will spend a brief honey­moon in Capri, Italy.

Congratulations too to MissSeidi H. Gabro, of T & A T, onher recent engagement to Johnlssa, of Middle East Airlines.

Tapline employees convey theirdeepest sympathy to Salih Al­As'ad, Assistant Manager. PublicRelations, on the death of hiscousin Ahmad AI-As'ad, M.P.,Speaker of the House of the Leba­nese Chamber of Deputies in1953. and popular leader in SouthLebanon.

Flag TourneyUndaunted by tricky winds

and shomollsh weather, membersof the Turaif Never Green GolfGroup opened the 1961 golfingseason with a "flag tournament"played February 16 and 17.

Ismail Agha holed out with hisexact number of allowed strokes,39. He placed his flag in the cupof the true but fast oiled sandninth green and won top honorsin the men's division. Robert H.Lewis ran a very close second,finishing only two feet from thepin at the ninth.

In the women's division, Mrs.Everett S. Tracey placed her flagat the foot of the ninth green withher forty-eighth stroke, outdis­tancing all other contestants.