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Vo!. 111'0.3 TRA 'S-ARABIA. - PIPE LL-E April 1963
TAPLINE AND ARAMCO SIGN NEW AGREEMENTS WITH SAUDI ARABIA
Signmg the agreement betll:een the Salldi _-Irab Got'ernmmt and Taplme are frUIII I,!t to rrght 1I E. Zak.Yama"i. Mi"ister of Petrolellm and ,Uineral Re Ource a"d ,1/r 10/111 .Yoble, P,esidcnt of Taplmc. IV,ththem appear lIfessrs. Abdlll Hadi Taher. Governor of PetrolculII and .\IlIleral Orllalll::at,o" of 'alldi ,lrabiaand Henry Cattan. Tapli"e Con ultant.
Walter E. Locher, VicePre itlent Operations Jnd
halrlnan of the \Ianagement .'af 'tv and Fire ommince. has announcetl thatthc company-\\ Id ' safetyontest and .1\1 ard program
\Iill be continued In 1963\1 ith one 'hangc in the qualif~ing rulcs for thc Prcsident's Lctter of SafetyAchicI cmcnt. •
To bc a\\ ardcd . ueh aletter, a company unit mustno\\ achie\ c a minimum 20percent imprO\cmcnt in thcfrequenc~ and clerity ratcsof disabling work injurieo\cr the best record achicvedin any of the threc preliouscalendar 'ear,
Formcrly, thc minimum20 percent imprO\ement \\asrequired over the recordachie\'cd in the prccedingcalcndar year alone.
Safety ContestTo Be Continued
SIDON WINS SAFETY AWARD
.\la"ager of Operatlo"s Robert A. Pmsms/" addre ses the S,do" Opcrations group at the termi,wl allditorlUlII before pre entlllg thelll luth theJlanager of OperatIOns afety Trophy (al 0 shoun abot el. Sealed fromleft are Richard Khaltar, Fau::. Sajm, •.J""ibal Faddoul, TerllllllalSuperllltendent l. A. Brickhouse a"d Ilikmat B,da d. (Photo b\ • all silo
:\Ianager of Operations gineer Fawzi \1. .'aJm.Robert A. Prusinski pre ent- This i:; thc second year incd the \lanager of Opcra- a ro\\ that Sidon Opcrationstions . afety Trophy to the ha clinched the pecial. idon Operation unit at a a\\ ard.lunchcon held in the .\udi- According to the rules oftorium, ~Iarch 1. \10 t of Tapline'. safety conte t andthe 103 member of the award program, the :\Ianagergroup attended the function of Operation 'afety Troalong \\ ith Acting :\Ianager phy i awarded to any unitof Indu~trial Relation' John which, at the end of a calen-P, 0'Hagan and afety En- (Continued on page 6)
TAPLINE
The Trans-Arabian PipeLine Company announcedl\larch 26, that its negotiations with the audi ArabGovernment ha\'e been successfully concluded.
Under agreements igncdin Riyadh on larch 24 theSaudi Arab Government willderive re\'enues on oil transported by Tapline commensurate with transit fees beingpaid to Jordan, yria andLebanon as provided inagreements signed \\ iththose countries in 1962. Theoriginal Tapline conventionwith audi rabia, negotiated in 1947, exempted theComp,any from transit payment~· for a period of 15years.:"':
H.'E·. Ahmed Zaki Yamani,Iinister of Petroleum and
Mineral Resources, signedthe agreements for the audiArab Government and JohnNoble, Pre ident of Tapline,for the Pipe Line Company.
ARAMCO
The Arabian AmericanOil Company announced onMarch 25 that it is relinquishing to the audi ArabGo\'ernment 227,300 quaremiles of its exclusive concession area and 41, 00square mile of area in whichit has preferential rights,Including this relinqui hment, Aramco will ha\'e released to the Governmentall of it interest in the preferential area and approximately 75 0
0 of the area thatonce comprised the Company's exclusi\'e conces ion,
A new relinqui hmentprogram wa a part of agreement igned in Riyadh aftermonth of negotiation,
igning for the audi Arab(Continued on page 6)
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ing a r 'cLption at the houseof the Deplll \ CompanyRepresentatl\e and \1 rs. I I.F. I Iopper.
In Rafha, the t\\ 0 \ ISllor\\ere entertained In ;\1r.and \Irs. Ceorge 0'- Llnahun and \Ir. and \Irs.lame E. Drub.
1n Qaisumah, follo\\ ing(C"ntlnllcd on paRe 6)
\Ir. ;arrison unne \\ iththe Taplme guests to Badanah, Februan 19, \\ here asllntlar t.tlk ~\ as hdd anu"here .'tation .'upnintendent and \Ir:. (;. I I \rnolu\\ ere hosts at dinl1l r follo\\-
Daniel \ an der :\leulen,\\ell-kno\\ n Dutch Orientalist and \\ riter, accompaniedby his assistant P. (J. .'.Peppelenbo'ch, a ,'tuuent ofgeography at l trecht L niYersity, toured pump stations along the 'Line, Februan 1,'-23.
Author of se\ eral hookson ,'aud1 \rabia, \Ir. \.111
der :\leulen for a time startmg in 1926 \\ as a uiplomaucrepre'entati\ e to the SauuigO\'ernment and throughouthi long scholarh career hehas maintaineu an a\ id andsympathetic interest in theaffairs of th' :\ Iiddl' E<ISt.
:\Ir. \an der \Ieulen deli\ered a seri's of lectureson contemporary \rab Ilistory to Tapliners in Turaif,Badanah, Rafha and Qaisumah.
o orne fifty per'ons attended hi' lecture at Turaif'sBritton I lou e, Fehruan 1 .Both me' r'. \'an der ~Ieulen and PeppclenhO'ch \\ eredinner guc·ts of \Ir. and:\lrs. Dale E. Garrison thatsame e\cnmg.
Ju·t hO\\ doe, \Irs. Tapliner at the pump stations putin her time is a question that the folks hack home, or e\'enthe heau of her household, might ask.
Once the hou::-ehold chore,' are out of the \\ a\ anu theyoungsters sent off to school, \lrs. Tapliner on the 'Linewill no" he ahle to \ i::-it a beauty ::-hop \\ here she can "getthe works" \\ htle e'\changing the Iate:t ne\\ s \\ ith her sister'of the uL"ert.
I la:san :alam, a ladies' hair-dresser from Beirut hasrecently toureu pump stations along the 'Line on a trialbasis.
The ne\\ hair-do- of Tapline's distaff members inAr.lhia ha\ e prO' ed su h a success that it is likeh thatSalam \\ ill be on a permanent tour. .
JluhalT/mad .Han our (second from left) recen'es from StatIOn Superintendent Dudley 1'. Harbin the keys to his nett' SOlidi HOllie 01('nershipPlan hou e, recently completed in Qai umah tor(/!. Others from !Eft areConstructIOn Enllineer Joe Sayegh and I-Ja 111m .Hoh en, the represt!1ltatlveof contractor Abdullah Kohdari. (Photo by A. B. TOlllna).
Van Der Meulen Travels the Lines
HAIR-DRESSERPUMP STATIONS
LADYTOURS
.Urs. Kamal .Ioun tnJoys readlllg and doedryer at all.
Hassan Salam puts the final touches on a 711"/(' hair·do for .\1,s. E. R.Roberts07l.
TEN-YEAR PINS
mah some 484,000 barrels aday of crude oil, the largestdaily average e\'er shippedto that point in anyonemonth. The pre\'ious dailyaverage record was 474,899barrels and had been set inJanuary, 1962.
I\leanwhile, 4 1,637 BPDwere pumped out of Qaisumah during February.Slightly less than half-amillion barrels of crude oilwere pumped out of Qaisumah station on each of February 13 and 14.
idon port, on the otherhand, was closed because ofadverse weather conditionsfor a total period of 236hours during February.
During the period extending from Feb. 10 to Feb. 14,the total capacity of shipsstanding by offshore was2,648,000 barrels.
Two-star emblems forcompleting ten years of continuous company servicewere earned by the following employees duringMarch:
RafhaI. B. Dara'an, of Operations.E. L. Hutaimi, of Commu
nity Services.H. D. Shumari, of Opera
tions.Sidon
Jack H. Hanna, of Operations and Repairs.
Zahy W. Kaldawy, of Operations and Repairs.
TuraifF. Ilajji, of Operations.I. I\luhammad, of Opera
tions.1. B. Saad, of Operations.
Sidon Deliveries Reach New PeakThe cold pell in Europe
and a noticeable hike in thecosts of transporting oil inspot charter tankers causedcrude oil deliveries and receipts at Sidon Terminal toreach record proportionsduring February.
The Tapline system wasoperated at maximum capacity, \\ ith all auxiliary pumping units on stream,throughout the month except on the 9th, 10th and11 th \\ hen the pipeline wasoperated at a reduced ratedue to low stocks at the stations and on February 24,25 and 26, when Turaifoperated at maximum withone turbine due to port closure at Sidon. Qaisumah,howe\'er, continued to pumpat maximum from February24 through the end of themonth.
Total deliveries from Sidon Terminal to offtakers,Medreco and IPC reachedthe record average of 480,544barrels a day. The previousrecord average of total Sidondeliveries had been set inFebruary 1961 and stood at454,625 BPD.
Receipts into Sidon alsosoared to a newall-time highof 467,642 BPD - or 44,566barrels above the Januarydaily average and 5,764 barrels more than the previousrecord of 461,878 BPD received at Sidon in March,1959.
Receipts and deliveriesfrom, idon terminal during
larch are forecast at423,000 BPD.
In February, Aramco deli\'ered to Tarline at Qaisu-
Nl'tdy-elected .officers of the Turaij Srcimming Pool Association are,from left, H. J an Ot.·~rhagen, board member; James V. Foody, president;,Urs. Dale E. GarrISon, secretary; !lfike Rihan treasurer' and JoeSayegh, board member. (Photo by 'asr). ' •
On January 5 this year,Ilamad became the first Qaisumah Tapliner to receivethe Industrial Safety Training Institute Certificate forsatisfactorily completing thehome study course "Supervising for Safety." The correspondence course is offered by the United States ational Safety Council.
I n late 1961, Hamad hadcompleted Tapline's " hiftForeman Training Program" in Beirut headquarters and the Sidon Terminal.The program consists offamiliarization instructionsat the Oil Despatching Office; orientation in stationoil handling; shore control,tank control and powerhouseoperations at idon; as wellas training in gauging, sampling and manifold operationsthere.
After attending the company's Development Schoolat Qaisumah and taking acorrespondence Englishcourse for Arabic-speakingstudent, Ilamad becameone of Qaisumah's first Saudi Arab English teachers atthe Development School.
Happily married and theproud father of two sons,
luhammad and Batar, Hamad lives with his family inQaisumah town in a audiHome Ownership Planhouse.
F. C. Naiia
Moussa Soulban
Rose Sawdah
John Franjieh
R. M. Weeks
John Nehme
A. A. Khatib
S. S. Dabaghi
Richard Khattar
Mrs. Kamal Aoun
Reporters:
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Editor
Badanah
Beirut
Amman
New York
Qaisumah
Qaryatain
Rafha
Sidon
Turoif
(ptJlelille
PERISCOPE
/Jamad /Jathal, Shijt Foreman, QaislJlIlah.
Our spotlight personalityfor this month is a typicalexample of an energetic Saudi Arab employee who hasprogres ed with TaplineHamad I1athal, hift Foreman, Turaif.
Born in AAaj, Saudi Arabia, Hamad's career withthe company started in February, 1951, when he joinedthe Qaisumah staff as a laborer.
Ever since that date, llamad has been assigned to thepumphou e where he workedhis \\ ay up to become shiftforeman after serving as assistant operator, utility roomoperator and control roomoperator.
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Taplmer Saleh }'OLlSsef mlalam !l"e I' til/() h<lt e ((IlIIe III t I h II/III a happy 'Id Statedfrom lefl are Lafi SlIIf. LJahi,?e • 'allt/. II", an /.0"'. Sal:a ROllI/d. ,HIII/tlllllllatf Uti ::lIuk.lIarmos KhOllan. OYOId SOIf and I/mllld Jluhammad.
Led by Dr. A. Ghanma (fiflh from left), Ihe Badanah Base Hospllal physicians !Vere out inforce, Feb. 24, to ursh Saudi Arab employees a happy feasi. The group is shol"n abof:e upon0",.'0/ at the home of Loft Xaif. From lefl, Dr. G. S. Bridi, Dr . •\1. G. Khoury, Dr. J. D.Thaddeus. Loft Sai/, Dr. Ghanma, Dr. 1'.1. '. Prince. Dr. A. Saber and Dr. F. A. lliya.
eslivilies
(Photos by 'asr)
Performers '" the 'Ardah Sft'ing thnr Sft'ords to the rhythm of thedrums.
Company represenlatives and their families tvere guests of His Highness Amir 'Abd Allah ibn J111sa'ad at the 'Ardah festlnties In 'Ar'ar to celebralethe 'Id.
General "ietc of the traditional Saudi breakfast of stuffed lamb hostedon the occasion of the 'ld by His Highness the Amir of the NorthernFrontiers at his palace in 'Ar'or.
On Sunday, February 24, Saudi Arabia celebrated the 1uslim 'Id al-Fitr, the Arabic word for Lesser Bairam,marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
In the desert town of 'Ar'ar, located two kilometers east of Tapline's Badanah station, the populace commemoratedthe occasion with an 'Ardah (parade) in which the swish of sword blades mixed with voices of singers and the rhythmsof the drums.
His Highness Amir 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Musa'ad, Amir of the Northern Frontiers, invited neighboringtribesmen to the 'Id festivities. Many families from the station attended the 'Ardah, and company representatives wereguests of His Highness at a luncheon of stuffed lamb, held at the Amir's guest house.
Pari of Ihe '.lrdah IS a dar/ce III dllllr/beal.
Leading Sft'ord dancers at the 'ld festin·ty.
His HIghness ..111I" 'Abd Allah ibr/ 'Abd al·'A:::i::: ibn ,Husa'ad (right)tealches Ihe 'Ardah tdlh The COlllpany Represenlali.'e p,pe Line AreaR. E. ,Uar h (lefl) and Dr. Allljad Ghar/mo.
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BeirutTaplll1l.' Prcsllknt Johnobit- mad I.' short busll1L. s
t ripS to thl.' l nlted ~tates
and Jord,ln 111 I.ItC I'cbrllary,lI1d earh \ larch. \ ICI.' Prl:sident (,m crnml'nt Relation. \\'illi,lI11 \. Campbell,l'comp.lIlied \Ir ohlt- onhIs thrn'-da\ \ I. It to Jordan.
\\ ,Iltl r E. Lo -her, 0, C,lr'I' ,\\ anson, Rol ert \ Prusill. kl, I\.'-> :mlth, RobertI~ \ lar. h, John J. I dberer,lIld Ceorge F. Ilndl' compit-ted the four-d,l\ ,lI1nu.llinspe'tlOn of Q,lIs11l1).lh ,lIldRafha stations \Iarch 1.1.\nnll,d inspection of Badanah, Turaif and 'entral 1'.1cditil.', \\ ,ls e:-.pcctl'd to tartin late '.larch.
Ilarn Thielhdm, of\ ranK(;, RI hard R Burnell, U\\ood ;ra\ and Bill. e\\ inspl'ctcd thl.' p'l1l'lineroad during the second \\ eekof \Jar'h.
I .1\ Id S. I)Odgl', \1anagerof (;0\ ernmcnt Rl,latlon "returned to Beirut \Iarch 5from a on '-\\ eek Ita\' ofabsen . to .Htend an Important meeting III \\
York ell\ of the \ l B Boardof Tru. tees.
Qaryatain,\ssaJ \hmad I hatlb h,h
Just completed a corr~spon
dence course in \ II F telecommunlLations otferl'd bythc Bennell 'ollt-ge, .'htffield, England. ~I r. h.h,ltlb,\\ho is Qar\atain's radIO andin'trllmellt'techni lan, tl okthe course, \\ hi 'h started inJanuar~ 1960, und'r Tapline' tuition refund p1.ln foremployee' .
Qaryatain cmployees con\'e\ their sinccre congr,Hul.ltia'ns to ~Ir. and ~lr~. \ssad:\"ukho on the birth of theIrfirst chdd, daughter KhllIud. :\1r. . 'ikho is gener.tlmechanic.
Felicitations al. 0 to .\1IDeeb Za\ed, general -Ierk,Amman ()thce, on hi: rec 'ntmarriage to the former \!IssFatme \/uhammad \hdulFattah Za\·ed.
arc \\ ith u, ag,lin from long:t.lte. Ide \ acation.
You,'scf Ilonein, lusl.lLlK.l'sll1 ,lI1d Jllsl'ph (;l'orgl'Sarc otf to Lebanon on holida\. \ lu. t.ILI, \\ I.' arc told,\\ iii dl.'bratc his marriage\\ hile 111 Beirut. Iii: plansarc to seul ' \\ ith his bride inTuralf to\\ n.
TuraifThe Amir of Turaif play
ed ho t at a lIIansa! breakfast,February 24, in celebratIOnof 'Id al-Fitr. Among hisguests were Donald \r.Dreier, Jan ~l. Gysen, DaleE. Garri on, John'L. Koenreich, Dr. Rodolphe E. , abbagha, :\"azih 'heikh andDr. Kamal oun.
The E. R. Robert onsplayed host Feb. 20 at adinner party honoring Tapline gue t General ~lanager
A. G. oate and hief Engineer J. \'enning, both ofIPC , ) ria.
:\1r. and ~Irs. Edward01 en and daughter, Debbie,
10\\ retired rccently a. Tapline hlef .-\ccountant. Thccouple left thc field Fcb. 2:.
Annual in pection of , 1
don Terminal started Feb.25 lw \ralter E. Locher,Osca~ T. S\\an'on, Robert.\. Pru, inski, Richard R.Burnett, John J. Kelbererand I I. S. Smith.
The ne\\ control board atthe hore control room i:operablc, exccpt for remotepre urizing and control ofthree bunker plug \ ah cs.
Prof~SS1onal racqu~tur RIc/lard Horsl~' uas rn TurQlf dUTlng F~bruary ginn./( /('lIl1is lessons to Taplrners there.Abou h~ is shot'n rnitiating a group of TurQlf YOllnllsters to the gam~ (Photo by .vasr).
The annual ,upen i ingPhy icians Conferen e washeld in Badanah Februarv6, 7 and and was attendetlbv Dr. Frank J. luko kiand :\Iike Chehade, of Beirut; Dr. Hanna \Yanna, ofQaisumah; Dr. Rodolphc,abbagha, of Turaif; Dr.:\laurice Baroodi, of Rafha;and Badanah's Dr. JacobThaddeu , Dr. Fuad I1iya,Dr. l\larcel Prince, Dr. :li_zar Turk and :\Iiss lIiyamKaibni. Participants in theconference, reviewed anddiscussed many subjects andtook numerous decisions relative to coordinating, unifying and improving medicaloperations both from thetechnical and admini trativeaspect.
Congratulations to ClubSteward and l\1rs. IbrahimAhmad on the birth ofdaughter Leila.
Hassan 1uhammad Ghandi, supervising gate attendant patrolman, is with usagain from one-week training in Beirut.
tation Office upervlsorloussa oulban has al 0
returned to the fold frommid-contract vacation.
Vacationers are Ayedlashhour, Abdul :'.Ioh en
Ali and Lafi l\luhammad.
A hearty welcome i extended to Habib A alv \\ hojoined Tapline rank a assistant pipeline repairman,effecti\'c . lar h 1.
Language Training ,upen'i or ~Iike Rihan conducted judgement and tandard English test for 12Sidon supeni or betweenFebruan' 14 and 1 .
The ' Zahrani ountrvClub ga\'e a farewell part~'at the Auditorium Feb. 16to, Ir. and :\Ir . O. K. Bigelow. The merrymaking ofmore than 25 couple lastedtill the wee hours. :\Ir. Bige-
Sidon
Badanah
•
Painting by Chucri Georges
There she took painting asher major and sculpture andceramics as her electivecourses.
Badanah nurse ChucriGeorge is meanwhile keeping up his artistic endeavors.
ho\\ n here is one of hislatest painting reproductions.
SIDON WINSSAfETY AWARD
(Continued from page J)
dar year, experiences thebest safety record among theother units in the combinedresults of work injury frequency and severity rates.
idon Operations, TuraifCentral Facilities and Qaisumah station-all had completed the 1962 year withouta disabling industrial injury.The trophy was neverthelessawarded to Sidon Operations because it has beenkeeping this perfect safetyrecord since ov. 13, 1959.
}'ear 19634++,231
106413,884240,255
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REPORT
463,027243,777
Feb. 1963467,642
tions, 1\lrs. , amaha has beenpaintaing since she was eightyears of age.
I n high school, her artistictalents impressed her instructors and earned her athree-year scholar hip to theBoston chool of FineArts, Boston, :'.Iassachusett
OPERATIONS
\eragc BPD re ei\ed at idonShips loadedA\'erage BPD loaded on shipsA\'erage size of ships loadedA\'cragc BPI) deli\crcd to ships,
1\ledreco and IPC 4 0,5H 436,741rude oil rcceipts into Sidon Terminal a\'craged an
all-time high of 467,642 barrel' a day during February.Total deli\crie' from ,'idon al'O reached a record a\'erageof 4 O,5H barrels a day during thc month.
Dcli\erie from Sidon are e timated to a\'erage 423,000BPI) during :\Iarch.
Badanah has b come acenter of art as many hou e\\ i\es are improving theirartistic skills by taking painting lessons offered by 1\lrs.John . Samaha.
A \crsatile artist who e oiland water colors have embellished man\, art exhibi-
BADANAH BECOMES A CENTER OF ART
Afrs. 101m N. Samaha (secolldfrom right) supervises pail1tlTlg lessolls at Badanah's Senior Staff School. House(cives worklTlg at improt'lll./( their artistic skills are, from left, '\fesdames ,Uichel G. Khoury, Haskell Hargrove,Robert 11'. Bo,ce, Ni:::ar Turk, Harry F. Hopper alld Richard L. Crost/ncait. Oil paillting classes were startedsome four mOllths ago. A total of eler'ell "studettts" are preseT/tly attending the weekly 4-hour pailltillg class.(Photo by asr).
~ome IU Hadanah Taplmers defied bad Reather and a mild "shamal"to go out Oil a picnic orga",:::ed by 101m . Samaha all the second dayof 'Id al-Fitr, FebTllary 25, to a Stte located about 20 kilometers westof the stattOIl. Singmg alld dancmg ,,:ere enjoyed, especwlly by the pic",ckers talulIg the TIde ITl the bus dTlt'e11 by Statton Superintendellt 101mII. A mold. (Photo by Na r).
TAPlINE AND ARAMCO( Continued from page 1)
Government was II.E. Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Ministerof Petroleum and l\lineralRe ource . Robert I. Brougham, Senior Vice Presidentand Aramco's chief negotiator, signed on behalf of theCompany.
nder the new relinqui hment program, Aramco willretain a its exclusive concession an area of 125,000square miles. During thenext 30 years a total of105,000 quare miles will bereturned, reducing the concession to 20,000 squaremiles by 1993. At that timeAramco \"ill retain less than3°0 of the 672,900 squaremiles which once comprisedAramco's exclusi\e concession area and areas in \\ hichit had preferential right..
Other provisions of theagreements call for certainadjustments \"ith respect tothe deduction for incometa\. purposes of various exp 'nse items and \\ ill resultin larger ta\. payments to theGo\crnment. Explorationand de\ c\opment osts, fOImerly handlcd as currentxpen e will now be amort
ized ovcr a period of years.The Company al '0 hasagreed to an acceleratedschedule of income tax payments to the Government.
The Saudi Arab G v rnment has announced that theincome tax money recei\edin ettlement of past claimswill be placed in a pecialeconomic de\'e\opm nt fundand spent on public worksprojects such as road , dam ,and utilities.
Van Der Meulen Travels( COlltimud from page 3)
his lecture at the ommunity enter, 1\1r. van der
leu len was honor guest ata dinner party h sted byStation ,uperintendcnt and
'Irs. D. P. Harbin. Attending the function \\ ere 1\1r.Peppelenbosch, Local Company Representative andMrs. 1\luhammad Abdul-Rahman, John ehme, Dr.Hanna \Vanna, Irs. Ri-chard S. Sheehan, BadriHanna, I I. I I. Hoeksemaand Atnel B. Touma.
The two Tapline guestsftew to Dhahran Februarv23 on their way to Qatar andthe Trucial Coast.
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ter, Feb. 24, to wish him ahappy 'Id ai-Fitr whichmarked the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Following the traditional'Ardah dance, the group wasentertained at a mansaf heldat the Amir's gue t house.
Later in the day, the groupwas entertained bv the Amirof Hafr el-Batin, Fahad Abdul Wahid.
On the second day of theLesser Bairam, a group ofQaisumah Tapliners wereguests of Saleh amari, customs officer at Hafr el-Batin,at another luncheon party,followed by a drive to amari's plantation one milenorth of town.
In the e\'ening, Localompany Representative
and. Irs. l\Iuhammad AbdulRahman hosted a Lebane edinner to Qaisumah' expatriate .
tally, Qai umah's swimmingpool, which will be openedfor the 1963 ea on in April,has recently acquired a newun shade and diving board.
Word i around that Turbine Die el lechanic :\luhammad as er, now onholiday in • vria, will returnto u -married. ongratulations in advance from us all.
Other vacationers are;\Iansour l\Iuhammad andHassan Ali.
Temperature at Qaisumahranged during Februaryfrom a minimum of +6 degrees Fahrenheit, regi teredFeb. IS, to a maximum of 5degrees Fahrenheit recordedon the 25th.
'Id Festit'itiesStation Superintendent
Dudley P. Harbin, Dr. Hanna W;nna, l\luhammad .\bdul Rahman and John. -ehme called on Qai umah'sAmir . Iuhammad Khuwai-
General Manager A. G. Coates and Chief Engineer J. Venning, both oflPC, Syria, visited TaplinI' installations at Turaif, Badanah and Jalamid,Feb. / through the 20th. Auf Jubayli, of Beirut, escorted the visitors.Shown above out ide the company Base Hospital at Badanah are, fromleft, 1I1r. Coates, Dr. Jacob Thaddeus, Mr. Venning, Mr. Jubayli andStation Superintendent John H. Arnold.
Mrs. E. R. Robertson tvas recently elected president of the Turaif golfIf'oup for the year 1963. E. J. Wright (left) .ms named chairman andf1.11chel f1.1oussa, secretary-treasurer. (Photo by Nasr).
ucce sful Valentine partyorganized by :\Ir . RichardRagsdale and :\]rs. Jame F.Chaplin.
Dr. ;\]aurice Baroodiclinched top golfing honorsin the tring tournamentorganized at Rafha, Feb. 28.I Ie was followed by CharlesS. Babb, George O. Linabury and Jean Obeid. Mrs.John I I. Rosqui t outscoredthe lady swingers whileStanly Tracey topped thejunior golfers.
Welcome to Khalifa Abdullah and Turki Rabah ontheir Februarv tran -fer toRafha's pumphouse fromTuraif C.E. & I.
Vacation have started for,\\ ish Hamad and SuleimanSalloum, but they are 0\ erfor Ali Saleh a~d :\1 utniBunayan.
QaisumahThe Qaisumah welcoming
wagon happily receives Richard S. Sheehan, upervi ing Technician DieselGas Turbine, on return froma one-week medical leave inBeirut; Badri Y. Hanna, tation Radio Technician, onreturn from a holiday in
outh Lebanon; aleh Abdul-Aziz, Turbine Diesel
1echanic, on return frommedical treatment in Dhahran; IIamoud Fahed, Qaisumah' storekeeper, on arrivalin town with his family froma one m nth leave in I1ayel,Dammam and Riyadh; andRaafat Farah, general dutynurse, on return from ashort vacation spent amonghis relatives and friends in
orth Lebanon.Hearty ongratulation to
:\Ir. and Irs. :\Iajed l\Ioujib, on the birth of daughterIlossa, and l\Ir. and Irs.Badri I lanna, on the birth ofdaughter Rima.
1.0 al ompany Repre-sentative and Irs. Iuhammad Abdul-Rahman arewith us again from a threeday trip to Turaif, where
lr. Abdul-Rahman attended the annual meeting ofwimming pool a 'sociation
along the 'Line, Inciden-
Rafha
Jihad, -akad, son of :\Ir.and :\]r8. Said Y. ,'akad,celebrated his third anniversary, Feb. 16, by invitinghis man) friends to a birthday party.
Congratulations to SeniorPayroll Aecollntant and Irs.
hmad 1. Hifai on the birthin mid-February of daughter
10na.ongratulations too to
Publication Editor FawazC. ajia on his marriage,March 16, to the formerMiss Wadad A. Kronfol.
Miss Hiyam Kaibni, hiefur e, Badanah, was the
guest of the John II. Ro qui ts during her vi it toRafha Feb. 2-6. ,he wasentertained at a dinner hosted by the Rafha bachelors,with ~Irs. Ro quist and 1\Irs.E.•. Tracey attending.
The William R. Pickettsand son, Billy, of Turaif,were the re cnt guests ofMr. and Irs. Howard T.Jen en.
Dr. Iaurice Baroodi attended th I\Iedical Department meeting held at Badanah Feb. 6-9. Dr. AntoineSaber relieved him duringhis absence.
Joseph G. Sa1m was theguest of I\'Ir. and Irs. George O. Linabury during hisrecent trip to Rafha.
Rafha children entertainedtheir parents and friends at a
\\'elcome back to the Robert J. Quicks on their return from long stateside vacation.
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