Vol. 14 • 1'\0. 2 • TRAl S-ARABIAN PIPE LINE CaMPA. Y, BEIRUT, LEI3AKO :\larch 1965

Top yt·inners at Qaisumah's Open Golf Tournament face the camera. From left, Stl"l:e Booth of Qaisumah (lo,e net), ')Irs. F. H. Giesehing of Rafha(I01e net), }\,frs..VI. Rutherford of Sidon (low gross) and Ed Ritter of Qais/llllah (low gross).

Ritter, Booth, B. Gieseking and B. Rutherford Share Golf Honors

TAPLINE WILL SE PARTICIPANTIN CAIRO PETROLEUM EXHISIT

Ed Ritter and Ste\'e Booth ofQaisumah, :\1 rs. F. II. Giesekingof Rafha and i\lrs. M. Rutherfordof Sidon walked away with topprizes at the first annual OpenGolf Tournament sponsored byQaisumah's al-Hilal Golf Groupon Feb. +.

Participating in the tournamentfrom pump stations along the'Line, Beirut and Sidon Terminalwere a record of 25 entrants in themen's division and II contendersin the ladies' group. Fifteen othervisitors crowded the station tocheer their favorite swingers.

Distaff members \\ere accom­modated at the Guest 1louse,dubbed the Out-of-Bounds Hallfor the occasion. The men wereaccommodated in two portablehouses-the Sand Trap Hall andthe 1n-The-Rough Hall.

Bad weather, featurIng trickywinds and a bIting cold, greetedthe golfers \\ hen they teed off at8 a.m., Feb. +.

Scores posted later in the after­noon ranked l\1r. Ritter m first lowgross place with 77 strokes for 18

holes. He nosed out R. 1I. Put­nam of Turaif who came up witha 78. Chuck Hardwick of Badanahfinished third with a low gross of

81.In the ladies' division, :\Irs.

Tapline \\ ill have three obser­vers at the Fifth Arab LeaguePetroleum Congrcss and \\ ill alsobe a partIcipant in the SecondArab Petroleum Exhibition whichopen in Cairo on ;\Jarch 16. Thecongress closes on :\-larch 23but the exhibition is scheduled tocontinue through April 7.

Attending the congress as ob­sen'ers \\ ill be \'ice President­GO\'ernment Relations Robert 1\1.lIenry, :\Ianager of Publtc Rela­tions Salih al-As'ad and Ad\·isor­:\Jiddle East Affairs Joe Breidi.

The Tapltne exhIbIt will behoused 111 the Aramco pavilion inthe Gezira Fair Grounds, site ofthe First Arab Petroleum Exhlbi-

RutherforJ led the field with a 10\\

gross of 9+. :\1rs. Putnam was aclose second \\ ith 95, followed byMrs. \Y. J. Lud\'igsen of Sidonwho grossed 98.

An 18-point handicap gave

tion held 111 April 1959. I ts themewill be Tapline as a natural re­source to the four Arab transitcountries- audi Arabia, Jordan,Syria and Lebanon.

The Tapline sho\\ \\ III includelarge panels of photo murals de­picting the pipeltne crossing thedesert, a pumphouse operator, atanker-loading operation, employ­ees on the job and a map of thepipeline route \\ ith the main pumpstations, the auxiliary pump1l1gunits and the SIdon Term1l1al.The map \\ ill show the longer­run \\ hich has to be made by thetankers transporting Saudi Ara­bian crude around the Arabian

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Steve Booth a W1l1ntng low net of65 in the men's dl\·ision. :\-rr·.Giesekmg captured the 10\\ netprize in her di\'ision with a simIlarscore (65).

Other less successful but bat­tling contestant m the tourna­ment \\ ere:

.Hen's Dit'ision: A. aid, II.Janotta, :\1. :\loussa, J. Torres,E. \\'right, H. Jen en, B. E\\1I1g,C. Booth, E. Tracey, G. Ilearn,e. ndrcws, B. Maples, R.Thomas, 11. Slotboom, K. oun,E. Gray, \\'. Despa1l1, X. A\\ad,J. \'an Ilattum, J. Grimbergenand D. Despa1l1.

LadieS' Da'ision: G. E\\Ing, D.Tracey, X. Despam, B. Aoun, A.Jensen, . Booth and P. Janona.

On the eve of the tournament,all golfers and \'isitors were enter­tained at dinner by '\lr. and 1\lrs.Clarence P. Booth.

Prizes \\ ere pre ented by :\Ir.Putnam at an enjoyable partyhosted by Qaisumah tation u­perintendcnt and :\lrs. George A.Hearn. The party was precededby a dinner at the Ritters'.

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:\Ianager of Pubhc RelationsSalih AI-As'ad made a trip toBadanah Feb. 23-24 to presentthe Youths' Sports Club of' r'arwith a gift from Tapline.

:\lr. I-A 'ad made the present­ation on the company's behalf toClub ChaIrman Bakhlt Saleh J a­rallah at a gathenng- on the clubpremi.es In 'Ar'ar Feb. 23. t­tending the functIOn were the 25members of the club a. well asBadanah Taphner' Ed \\'nght,Robert \\'. Bowe, :\IuhammadAbdul Rahman, Ahmad Shamland :\1Jke .1hhaI.

The company gIft consisted ofa cheque of 6i5 Saudi Riab andsports outfit. including- footballs,"olleyballs, ba.ketballs, boxing­gloves; ping-pong rackets, balls,nets and po.t.; tnck track tables;shIrts, shorts, socks and whistlesas well as a referee untform.

In maklllg the presentation, :\Ir.AI-As'ad told the youthful clubnlembers:

"... You are thus the basicfoundations of this town and abridge between its past and Itsfuture. Your hands arc the handswhich wIII build and erect andyour minds arc the minds whichwill enlighten the road for achieve­ment of that prosperous future,As long as your mental and phys­ical strength increa es, your con­structi"e potentIals increase be­cause sports plays a bIg role in thisrespect espeCIally that 'a healthymind IS in a healthy body.' Phys­ical and mental health IS the ob­Jective of the upcoming genera­tions in the nations striving forbetter futures. Keep along thispath with God's blessing.

"In the name of Taphne, itsmanagement and employees, mycolleagues and I who are amongyou now, present you with thisgift which includes sports outfitsand a cheque of 675 audi Rialsas a token of our friendship andencouragement to you in the fieldof sports which we hope will bringyou continued success and pro­gress."

In answer, the club chairmanthanked the company for its ma­terial and moral support, reiterat­ing that "sports and education arethe basic factors in the future ofthis generation. JI

'AR'AR CLUBRECEIVESGIFTFROMTAPLINE

Arabian crude through the SuezCanal, its modern and efficientmethod of operation and its con­tributions to the transit countries.

The scope of" ork to be cO"eredby the movie cre" includes fieldphotography at all pump stations,Sidon, Tyre, Baalbeck, Beirut,Riyadh, Damascus, Amman, Je­rusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho andPetra.

Aside from "local color," scenesof company installations, opera­tions and employees, both on andoff their jobs, will be shown inthe film.

John Sabini of GovernmentRelations, Beirut, will act as co­

ordinator for the movie ere" dur­ing its si..x-week assignment in thearea.

of \\"ashington D.C. It empha­sizes Tapline's remarkable engI­neering and transporta tion a­chievements, its direct competi­tion with tankers moving Saudi

Lights, action, camera-thisfamiliar lingo of the mO"ie indus­try will be heard by Taplinersalong the 'Line, from Sidon toQaisumah, for six "eeks startingMarch 15.

A four-man movie crew fromMcConnachie Productions of NewYork City will begin in mid­March the shooting of Tapline'snew 30-minute documentary

sound-color motion picture "Jour­ney Through Ancient Lands,"which will depict the company asan efficient private enterpriseoperating through the ancientlands of the liddle East andcontributing to the progress of themodern Arab \Vorld.

The movie script was preparedlast year by Cae-Peacock, Inc,

Alembers of the Youths' Sports Club in 'Ar'ar vie'w the sports outfits donated to them by Taplh,e.

SIX-WEEK SHOOTING OF TAPLINE'S NEWCOLOR MOVIE WILL BEGIN ON MARCH 15

Club Chairmau Ba!<hit Saleh larallah (second from left) disCl/sses /uture plans of the }'ouths' Sports Club in'Ar'ar tt'ith his Tapline guests, including, from left, .llana/?er of Public Relations Salih AI-.ls'ad, Ed Wright andi'vluhammad Abdul-Rahman.

,HI'S. E. R. Robertson and George Hanna.

Finding more beauty and charm in yester-years dresses, the TurOl! COm­munity rer·i..ed the "Gay J890's" in lanuary at a party hosted by Jfr. and')frs. Robert L. Ames, The first costume pri:::e tcent to .111'. and .'\.frs. R.H. Putllam. The Barber Shop Shan' (belo«') staged by .1Irs. R. H. Putnam.lJrs. C. H. Feldman, A, ,1[. Christlllan, Carl Scharn, .'\.Ir. Putnam, Dr:R. Sabbaglw, Dr. K . ..loun and George [Janna teas "oted an outstandingsuccess.

continuous sen'lce with Tapline,stockholder and affiliated com­pantes.

It was on July 29, 1925, that1\1 r. wanson joined the oil in­dustry as a marine departmentemployee of Texaco Inc. in NewYork City. lie had graduated witha degree in accounting from PaceInstitute, N.Y.

In 1934, 1\1r. Swanson trans­ferred to Texaco's Philadelphiaoffice, returning- a year and a halflater to 1\ew York as Chief Ac­countant of the Foreign Opera­tions Department.

The lure of foreign employmentcaught his fancy in 1941, when hefound himself in outh Americaworking as Chief Accountant forthe olombia Petroleum Co., anaffiliate of Texaco Inc. The fol­lowing year he transferred to theTexas Petroleum Co., CaracasVenezuela, in the same capacity:

Back to 1\ew York in 1944, Mr.Swanson travelled back and forthto South America as AssistantDepartment Agent of Texaco'sForeign Operations until 1951­the date of his transfer to Aramcoin Dhahran as Assistant Managerof Accounting.

Mr. Swanson joined Tapline inOctober, 1952, as Assistant Trea­surer and Assistant Comptroller.He was promoted to the positionof Comptroller on June I, 1957,

lie is the father of two sons­Robert Oscar and David Theo­dore,

F. C. Nojia

Mike Nahhal

Rose Sowdah

John Franjieh

R. M. Weeks

I. Abdul,Rahman

A. Kawar

S. S. Dabaghi

Kamal Abu-Zeid

Mrs. Kamal Aoun

PERISCOPEEditor

Reporters:

Badanah

Beirut

Ammon

New York

Qaisumah

Qaryatain

Rafha

Sidon

Turaif

SpeTLIGHT

Comptroller O. T. Stwnson tdlOse retlYement from Tapline becomeseffecti"e June J. (Photo by Louis Fattal).

A 40-year petroleum career thatstretches from \'enezuela's Cara­cas to the l\Iiddle East is enteringa new phase. Soon it will be OscarT. Swanson of "somew here in

Torth arotina."

For about 111 days, startingFeb. 10, Oscar and Ruth Swan­son will be vacationing in Beirut,the date of Mr. Swanson's retire­ment from Tapline as Comptrollerbecoming effective next June 1.

After April, :\1r. Swanson'smailing address will be 31 GuyerRoad, \Vestport, Connecticut.

A nati"e of Ashland, \Visconsin,:\1r. Swanson would by then ha"ecompleted almost 40 years of

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Distributed• DIck Dudley, \\ inner of the

July 196+ monthly medal.• O. T. :\\ anson, \\lnner of

the September anu December196+ monthly medals.

• :'olrs. J. J. :'olakklOJe, \\lOnerof the October 196+ monthlymedal.

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OIL EXHIBIT

peninsula and throu~h the RedSea.

A 9! ft. tall turblOe tratler tire\\ ,th a pIcture of the lratler haultnga turblOe yan across the uesertwill also be on dIsplay, as well amodels of a pumphouse and themarine terminal.

1'\\0 automatic projectors \\ IIIbe runnlOg a total of 2+ color sltdesof pump station and termlOal actl­\ltie at the exhIbit.

Thousands of copIes of t\\ 0 ne\\company brochures "ThroughAnCIent Lands... Tapline: :'.10­

uem Traue Route of Steel" and"Tapltne: A PIOneer 10 PIpelineTechnology" \\ III be made a\­atlable to \Islrors to the TapllOeexhibit.

Chief Otl D,spatcher EmileAyash and Sentor ShIft ForemanLafi :"ayef \\ ill be in charge of theexhibit Aoor and receptIOn.

Awardsz. C. C. GolfThe Zahral1l ountr~ Club

sponsored a troph~ banquet at Itsclubhouse Feb. 6 for the present­ation of a\\an.ls to \\ inners of its196+ golf tournaments and month­ly medal competitions.

:\ laster of Ceremol1les \\ asCapt. :\lartin Rutherford, assistedby Capt. Edward Green\\ood.:\Irs. Ian Ross made the presenta­tions before a packed audIence to:

• Roy Fleming, \\ "'ner of theP. E. Cole Trophy.

• :\1rs. K. I. Tronstad, \\ innerof the :-\orah Cole Trophy.

• Howard J anotta, \\ inner ofthe J. Byron Bro\\n Trophy.

• apt. E. Greenwood, \\ in-ner of the :\Iedreco Trophy andthe January 196+ monthly medal.

• Dr. .\mJad Ghanrna, \\ lOnerof the Dal PlOckney Trophy.

• Ian Ross, winner of theCharles :\ lartm • hleld and theFebruary 196+ monthly medal.

• John Creecy, \\lOner of theaybolt Shield and the monthly

medals for April, August and:'\O\·ember.

• Capt.:\1. K. :'\esheim, Iiole­in-One Trophy.

• :\1 rs. D. A. SchIpper, \\In­ner of the :\ larch 196+ monthl~

medal.

• :\Irs. ". E. J lopen, \\ lOnerof the:'. lay 196+ monthly medal.

• i\lrs. l\lartin Rutherford,winner of the June 196+ monthlymedal.

Ted Greellfl'ood, rdllner of the lI-fedreco Trophy alld the 1II0ntMy lIIedal forJail. 196-1.

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Dr. A. Glwnllla (right) rmlks Q1eay rrith the Dal Pincklley tnphies. Onleft is Capt. E. Greemt'ood. (Photo by Soussi).

lI-lrs. J. J. l\1akkinje (right) recei.'es her golf prize from .\Irs. Iall Ross.

O. T. Swanson (left), 196-1 golf winller of the September alld Decembermonthly medals, recei.'es the felicitations of Capt. ,Uartin Rutherford,president of the Zahrani Country Club. (Photo by SOl/ssi).

Surface treatment of the road ISslated for completton in early1967.

SidonBechara Baradi, of :\Iarine.Joseph •. Geha, of :\lotor Trans­

port.Yussef Ghafari, of :\larine.:\Iohamad Y. Hashem, of Opera­

tions & Repairs-Station.:\likayel Kardachian, of :'.Iarine.:'\icolas Kirdahi, of Operations­

General.Habib Khoury, of Operations &

Repairs-Station.Joseph . Safi, of Operations­

General.Adnan Shehab, of Operations

& Repairs-Station.Hassan Yarnani, of Marine.Elias Zaboura, of Marine.

TuraifA. B. I\l0hsen, of torehouses.

Beil'lltSalim I. Doughan, of P & T.:'\icolas II. lIarmouche, of P & T.:'.Iohamad K. Itani, of Opera-

tions-General.Hrant Zeitountzian, of P & T.

Qaryataill:\1. A. Youssef, of Operaticns­

General.

Se\'enteen Tapliners were a\\­arded three-star emblems in Feb­ruary for completing 15 years ofcontinuous conlpany service.They are:

SERVICE STARS

ROAD PROGRESS CONTINUES

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F. \Y. :'\l'\\, Coordmator-RoadProgram, returned to Beirut Feb.22 from a four-day trip to Dhah­ran \\ here he con,·eneu. with con­tractors and Aramco's ProductsDistnbutton Department to co­ordinate crushed rock productionand asphalt supply for the RoadImpro\'ement Program.

"'ork progress on the programcontinues unabated.

The company embarked on theprogram to impro\'e the 826­kilometer main line road parallel­ing its pipeline between Qaisu­mah and Turaif shortly after sign­ing a ne\\ agreement with theSaudi .\rab Go\'Crnment in :\Iarch1963.

By Feb. 22 this year, the RoadImprO\'ement Program crew hadapplied the first armor coat on200 kilometers westward fromQaisumah. The prime coating hadbeen applied on 2+3 kilometersand initial shaping and gradinghad been completed on 2+9 kilo­nle-ters.

The mobile camp accommodat­ing employees directly il1\ oh'edon the Jobsite \\ ork and currentlylocated at Km. 206 \\ III be mO\'edto Rafha :'.larch I. The campcomprises four li\'ing trailers anda portable house.

More than 43.4 million gallonsof water were used for earthworkand final surfacing compaction byFeb. 22. Another 1,109,000 gallonsof asphalt \\ ere also consumed inthe application of the prime andfirst armor coats by then.

A baby-doll fashion short' rt'as organized at Turaif Jan. 19 by KathyKoenrelch and her mother, 1'vlrs. J. L. Koenreich, for the yOllng girls at thestatlOIl. Tea and cup cakes rt'ere served at the function attended by frontroft', frolll left, Kathy Koenreich, Linda Lamplllan, Mei ,Hei Overhagen,Joan Stephen~ and June Christman; and back rOfl', Lyn Stephens, CharlottePIckett, .lImon Robertson, Carolyn Crosthwait, Linda Scharn and LynPlltnam.

DII'-20 tractor scrapers foll07ud by rmter tallker applying rmter to filllI:atenal.

TIllS lIIobtle camp, cOlllprisillg fOllr Ii"ing trailers aliI a portable hOllsemOllIlted 011 rubber-tired dollies, rrill be lIIo.ed {rolll Kill. 206 to Rafha011 .\larch I. .

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The nerdy-asphalted stretch of the pipeline road is open for traffic.

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BadallahAbdul Rahman, son 01 :\Ir. and

:\Irs. :\Iutlaq KuwaI1lt.Joza, tlaughter of :\Ir. and :\Ir .

O. Falla).Yolande Chnstlne, daughter of

:\Ir. and :\Irs. Atlnanus \'er­hoeyen.

Bel/litlIani, son of :\Ir. and :\Irs. Henry

Helou.\\'assim, son of 1\Ir. and :\Irs.

:\ Iahmoud Iialab..

igning Idon Terminal's vis­itors regIster 10 January and earlyFebruary \\ ere F. L. DIxon, Ro­bert Scholl, George Lawrenceand Robert Carlson of StandardOil ompany of :'\e\\ Jersey.

\Vlth a 30-polt handIcap, J.lleerholdt of :\Iedreco was toogood for T. Green\\ood 10 a play­off to deCIde January's monthlymedal golf \\ inner. IllS nct 70 for18 holes earned hIm the trophy.

Sidon Terminal employees con­,'ey their sincere condolences toGauger-Tester Boutros Sayah onthe death of h,s mother Jan. 22and to Alcolas I\lakhoul of MotorTransport on the death of hisfather, Feb. 8.

SidonHearty felicitations to Fuad

Bou-Abboud on his recent pro­motion to storekeeper.

Good luck to :\loonng :\lasterHerman Fikenscher \\ ho left theterminal Jan. 25 on return toCaltex.

James F. haplIn, AssistantSuperintendent Shore Area,made a t\\o-day busmess tnp toDera'a in January.

The fnends of Electrical andInstrument Supen'isor Abdel­:\lassih Iladdad and GeneralElectrician Abdel-Rahman Akrawere glad to hear that they es­capee! with superficial wounds andminor bruises from a car accuJentJan. 28 \\ hile enroute to the Beau­fort VHF station on companybusiness.

Traffic uperintendent George1\1. Hajjar on a short trip toDhahran.

Dr. A. P. GelPI, of Aramco'sMedical Department, viSIted theBeirut climc in early February.

:'\icolas Ilarmouche, of P & T,left for Turalf Feb. 22 to assistMechanical I\Iaintenance Super­intendent Ilaroid Krapp 10 thepreparation of a parts IOterchang-e­ability list for Ing-ersoll-Randcompressors. The duratIon of :\1r.Harmouche's assignlnent is onemonth.

Beirut employees cOO\'ey theirheartfelt condolences to :\luham­mad lIambali on the death of hisbrother Shafik Feb. 2+.

Beirut\\'. E. Locher, R. 1\1. Henry,

D. S. Dodge, J. J. Kelberer, G. F.Heide and D. :\1. Falconer ofBeirut; R. E. Clausen of ="ewYork Engineering; and Capt. A.A. Brickhouse, J. F. ChaplIn, E.Habib and II. Baasiri of SidonTerminal inspected the pipelineright of way in Lebanon, from theHasbani River to the Sidon Ter­minal Tank Farm, on Feb. 16.

John A. Sabini, Coordinator­Government Relations, returnedFeb. 17 from a short business tripto Jordan.

Assistant Chief Accountant Ka­lim !\. Saliba visited Badanah andRafha on Business Feb. 15through the 17th.

D. :\1. Falconer, \\". \'. Iiall andG. F. Heide met '\lth unit super­"isors and Central Stores person­nel in Turaif Feb. 9 and 10 todiscuss procedures and guidelinesfor the annual "Order Point­Order Le"el" re"ie\\ of all stand­ard stock items carried In Tap­line's materials systenl.

Robert Scholl, Director of Pub­lic Relations, George La" renee,Deputy Director of Public Rela­tions, and Robert Carlson, adVIsor,all of Standard Oil Company of1\"ew Jersey, were in Beirut on afour-day visit Fcb. 13-17.

Traffic Representative J. J.Menichino, of P & T, New York,was in Beirut in early February fordiscussions with P & T, Beirut.He accompanied Purchase and

d 'D 11' . t of Ed'icatioll Ullhammed SOllri Shafik (right), "isiled Tapline's marille termillal atJar all s eplltl'. III/S er . ' . ... 1 I d. d • of I I 071 J'ftar part)· there on Jail. 22. COII/1111111/tl' AJJOIrs Represelltat"'e .1 a 1II1011SIdon 071 fms gllesl OJ IOnor a . . . . - S.)

K. Saab escorted the Jordanian official on his tOllr of the lermlllal faClhtus. (Photo by OIlSS'.

The list of Qaisumah vacation­ers comprises Hassan Essa, BashirOnaizan and Muhammad Nasser.Holidays are meam' hile over forAhmad Muhammad, Bateh Jab­han, Dr. Shukri Soulban andSaadallah Yacoub.

Jl1. T. SOl/I

Badanah\Velcome aboard to luham­

mad T. Solh \\ ho joined ourhospital staA' in January as labor­atory technician. Mr. olh com-

pleted his training in basic labor­atory technique at AU B's Schoolof Public Health last year.

John N. Samaha, our formerLocal Company Representative,left the field permanently withMrs. Samaha and the children atthe tail end of January to returnto the United States. Mr. Samahahas been replaced by MuhammadAbdul Rahman, formerly of Qai­sumah.

Before their departure, theSamahas were entertained at afarewell dinner hosted by StationSuperintendent and Mrs. JohnH. Arnold and a farewell partygiven by the Dale Garrisons, Ha­skell Hargroves, lIarry J. Soleys,Robert \V. Bowes and Ed \\'rights.

Mona, Rima and alma Turk,daughters of Dr. and :\Irs. )lizarTurk \\ ho are studying in Beirut,spent the 'ld al-Fitr holiday inBadanah with their parents.

Ed Wright ha resumed hisfunctions here as Foreman-Op­erations following stateside vaca­tion.

Others who have returned to thefold from holiday are Jean AbuKhalil, ElIe Azar, Khalil Jamalud­din, Muhammad uleiman, MissAnahid Koukeian and Saleh Ab­dallah.

A two-day Supervising Physi­cians Conference was held inBadanah Feb. 18-19. Attendantswere Dr. Jacob Thaddeus andDr. Amjad Ghanma from Beirut,Dr. Rodolphe Sabbagha fromTuraif, Dr. Hanna ~'anna fromRafha and Dr. Shukri Soulbanfrom Qaisumah.

Mrs. George A. Hearn recentlyplayed host at a tea party wel­coming Irs. Charles E. Andrewsto the station and bidding fare­well to Irs. Muhammad Abdul­Rahman on her departure to Ba­danah. Effective Feb. I, Mr.Abdul-Rahman assumed newfunctions at Badanah as LocalCompany Representative. Sta­tion Superintendent and Mrs.Hearn had entertained the Abdul­Rahmans at a farewell dinner Jan.23.

George O. Linabury, formerlyof Rafha, has transferred here asLocal Company Representative.

The welcoming mat is out forMajid Mujib on return from athree-month training assignmentwith Aramco in Ras Tanura.

Congratulations to the M. Sa­lehs and J. Saads on the bi rth ofbaby-girls and to the M. Muham­mads on the birth of a baby boy.

Qaisumah

rnan.

Duplicate bridge is again infashion at Turaif. A four-tableMitchell movement held Feb. 8resulted in a triumph for MauriceNasr and Jean Obeid, North-

outh winners, and MesdamesJudy Rosquist and Mary Crosth­wait, East-West winners. On Feb.IS, a five-table Mitchell resultedin the victory of the L. T. Nor­tons, North-South, and the R. H.Putnams, East-West.

Rafha is Senior Radio TechnicianFred Kruyt, \\ ho replaces Maarten,"an Oosten. i\1r. Van Oosten hastransferred to Rafha.

Mrs. Edward C. Olsen of Turaifis wished a speedy recovery fromher recent illness which neces­sitated hospitalIzation in Badanah.

Congratulations to Harold L.Krapp, Saad Abdallah, FahdOsman and Jassem Muhammad\\ ho recently chalked up IS yearsof company service.

Dr. Fuad Iliya visited Turaif inlate January for audiometrics andeye examinations, mainly to ne\\­hires. During his stay here, Dr.I1iya was entertained by :\1r. and:\Irs. Richard L. Crosthwait, Dr.and !\oIrs. Rodolphe Sabbagha andDr. and l\Irs. Kamal Aoun.

Another Turaif visitor, C. E .Bea ley of Badanah, was the guestof Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Lamp-

.\1. J. Zakkak

G. C. Sallolllll

S. J. Kiami

• George Cha'ya Salloum wasenlisted in January as multiplemachine operator.

Vacations recently ended forthe Charles S. Babbs, Alfred M.Lampmans, Laurence T. Nor­tons, Ismail Muhammad, AliHilal, Matroud Busayes, Naif Ab­dallah and AlI Said.

General Duty Nurse YouhannaYouhanna has transferred to theTuraif hospital from Badanah.The Youhannas are in the processof setting up housekeeping inTuraif town.

Another transferee here from

G.•-1. Baltaji

C. R. Meyer

• Masad J. Zakkak was enrolledin January as construction engi­neer. lie had obtained his B.S. incivil engineering from AUB in1962.

• Samir Jamil Kiami, a formerAUBite who had been teachingat the Brummana High School,joins as Teacher-English.

sity of Beirut and an ex-teacherat the ItalIan School for Boys InBeIrut, was hIred Feb. 5 asTeacher-English.

• John B. Godkin, who hadsen'ed \\ ith Tapline as dieselmaIntenance engineer from Feb.1950 to Apnl 1953, has been re­hired as coordInator, diesel enginemaintenance. A graduate of theGni"ersity of California and theU.S. 1\1erchant :\Iarine Academy,1\1r. Godkin had been affiliatedwith Tidewater Oil Company'sAvon Refinery, Martinez, Cali­fornia, as senior engineer. wlr. andwIrs. Godkin have t\\ 0 sons-CarlBurke and :'vlatthew Anthonv.

• Christian R. 1\1eyer, of 1101­land, joins as lead diesel gas tur­bine technician. He was thirdengineer \\ ith ="ational Bulk Car­riers. The i\Ieyers have a three­year-old daughter, Sandra Bianca.

•-1. J/. 110m

• Nassib :\luhammad Fawaz wascontracted the same day as super­vising technician - refrigerationand electrical instrument. OfLebanese ongIn, Mr. Fawazholds U.S. citizenship. He hascompleted courses in basic theoryand application conducted byMinneapolis-Honeywell and ISmember of the U.S. NationalAssociation of Practical Refrige­rating Engineers.

• Ghassan A. Baltaji, a formerstudent of the American Univer-

N. 1\11. Fawaz

• Afif :\Iustafa I tani joined ourranks Feb. 7 as senior technician.:\Ir. Itanl holds a Bachelor ofScience degree In mathenlatics,chemIstry and physics from East­ern :\Iichigan Cni"ersity, a B.S.m electronIc engineering from theAmerican Institute of Engineeringand Technology and a diploma intelevision and radio, instrulllcnta­tion and control, and comnlunica­

tions from the Devry TechnicalI nstltute Inc.

Our hats are tipped in honor ofeight ne\\ comers to the station:

Turaif

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FAMILY SAFETY: Children Lived, Another Child Died/I

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Jt's impossible to say, but I canonly feel that except for that quickstop to put on belts, my children,too, might be dead. Jeff wasthrown against the left rear doorwhich was sprung open. n­doubtedly, he would have fallento the pavement. And Gloria wassitting approximately in the sameposition as the dead girl in theother car. \Vithout a belt to re­strain her, might not she too havecrushed her neck in a head-firstflight over the front seat?

ha"e never talked to thewoman dri\'er of the other car.Therefore, I do not know whybelts were in the front seat and notin the back. But I can only guessthat she was like most parents;\'ery few of us realize the need forbelts in the rear.

It's easy to visualize whathappens to people in the front seatduring an accident - they gothrough the windshield. But mostpersons I\'e talked with believethat the front seat provides a softbarrier which contains back-seatyoungsters in the car during acrash. How wrong they are, as Inow know. :\"ot only did I see thatfallacious thinking refuted firsthand, but I have recently learnedthat little Sharon's fatal flight overthe front seat was not a freakoccurrence.

Researchers at Cornell Univer­sity, using remote controlled carsand dummies, have found thateven in low speed crashes the backseat passenger is often hurled overthe front seat and strikes otherpassengers or the dash or flies outthe front door. Their studies showthat a person held inside the carby a belt is five times more likelyto survive than someone ejected.

As for me and my wife, we wereextremely lucky to survive withoutbelts. Her face was swollen, andshe lost a tooth from hitting thedash, which fortunately was pad­ded. My face was black and bluefor a month, my chest was injuredand doctors tell me I will alwayshave a disability in my leg.

\\'e now have another stationwagon with four seat belts, ofcourse. We wear them faithfullyeverywhere, even around theblock. The children strap them­selves in automatically. Gloriasays, "Better get your belt on. \Vemight be in another crash." It'slittle disconcerting to hear themtalk so morbidly, but I don't dis­courage them. After all, they areright. Two seat belts, that cost me

4.95 each, kept them a]jve whileanother little girl died.

Jan. 6.J457,090

60454,983239,000

Jan. 65471,143

50409,847251,300

After an hour I was taken to thehospital. i\ly wife and childrenwere already there. The doctor

examined me and told me thatmy son and daughter had only afew bruises on their foreheadswhere they had bumped againstthe front seat during the crash.Then he said: "The little girl inthe other car died." I was strucknumb. "Apparently," he said,"she was hurled over the frontseat and hit her head on the dash­board. She died only 15 minutesafter they brought her in-of abroken neck."

had been rammed almost to thewoman's feet. Iler leg wa soentangled In the metal of thewreckage that it took 40 minutesto pry her out. She was wearinga seat belt, as was the other wo­man in the front. Both were badlyhurt, but without belts, patrol­men said, they would have beenkilled. The baby in the back seatsomehow bounced around withoutserious injury. But what of littleSharon, the seven-year-olddaughter who had been asleep onthe back seat? She did not have aseat belt and it was she who hadbeen rushed to the hospital in theambulance.

I thought of my own two chil­dren in their red striped T-shirtsplaying happily in the waitingroom and then of the cold bodyof a little girl who was then lyingon a table in the hospital morgue,and of her mother in one of thehospital beds-undoubtedly over­come with grief if they had toldher yet. The whole thing gave mea chill I cannot describe.

"And if she had been wearing aseat belt' \Vould she be alive'"

"In all probability," said thedoctor.

PERATIONS

glanced momentarily in the backseat when the baby cried. The cardidn't cut back, but came towardus. I automatically swung to theright, but there was no place to go.Only a log railing separated usfrom a plunge into the canyon.

\Ve struck head on in an awfulcrash. There was a huge blur be­fore my eyes and a horrible jolt asthe car buckled. All I rememberis being thrown this way and that,feeling the crush of the steeringwheel against my chest, and hear­ing the screams of my children.

As the car settled, my firstthought was to get out of the carin case of fire. I yelled at my wife,but she sat there in shock, holdingher face. I pushed her out the doorand struggled out myself. Icouldn't stand up and collapsedon the gravel. 1y knee had beengouged bloody by the shaft of theemergency brake. I just lay thereon the stones, listening to thesounds of crying children and themoans of women coming from theother car. I called to my wife, butshe didn't answer. Dazed, shewas wandering unknowinglyaround the wreckage. Gloria andJeff, still strapped in the car, weresobbing: "Daddy, Daddy, let usout. "

Soon another car stopped.omeone put a pillow under my

head and told me the kids wereall right. From the sound of asiren, I knew an ambulance hadarri\'ed and they had taken some­one away.

saw people walking aroundand caught snatches of conversa­tion. lCThere's a WOOlan still in

there. They're trying to get herout." It was the driver of theother car. During the violentimpact the left wheel and engine

A\'erage BPD received at Sidon.ShIps loaded.Average BPD delivered to ofhakers.Average size of ships loaded: bbls.Average BPD delivered to ships, Medreco

and IPC. 420,998 470,599Pipeline throughput rallied in January to finish at 471,143 barrels

daily, or more than 27,700 barrels abo,'e December's daily a\·erage.Deliveries from S,don to ships, 1\1edreco and IPC dropped, how­

ever, averaging 420,998 barrels per day during January against 476,327barrels daily in December.

Delivenes from Sidon were estimated to a\'eragc 470,000 barrelsper day during February.

HI don't know.funny feeling."

Reluctantly, I put on the belts,although the children were tiredand fussy, and not happy aboutbeing strapped in. I had boughtthe belts for the rear seat a coupleof months before. The childrenwere always leaning against thedoors, and I was afraId they wouldfall out. At that time I din't wantto spend the money for seat beltsin the front, so my wife and Ididn't wear them. Besides, Iwasn't convinced we needed them.

\Yhen I look back on the provi­dential stop we made, it gi"es mean eerie feeling. At that very mo­ment, about 10 minutes away,another car was coming up thecanyon toward us. In the frontseat were two women, and in theback were the dri,'er's two chil­dren-a baby and a se"en-year­old girl. They were all on theirway to spend a week at their cabin.

As we came down the hill atunder 40 mph, I noticed the tancar coming around a mountainturn just ahead of us. Its wheelswere slightly over the center line,but I thought it had taken thecun'e wide and would recover.Little did I know, as police learnedlater, that the driver's attentionhad been diverted. She had

(This is a father's story of deathon a mOl/ntain road. H'ritten byRonald Slllli~'an, the story is areprint from Family afety, 1I';n­ter 196./.)

On the afternoon of August 17,a year ago, I was involved by fatein the death of a little girl. :\"otmy little girl. he lived, as did myson. But it was only a miracle,and one I will never forget.

\Ve were dri"ing from our homein Everett, \Yashington, throughTumwater Canyon, on our \\ay toa wedding in \\·enatchee. Theroad is treacherous-a windingtwo lane with hIgh cliffs on oneSIde and a steep drop into a ri\'ercanyon on the other. \Ye haddri\'en It many times but it alwaysmade my wife, Sandra, slightlynen·ous. That day she was parti­cularly on edge. She was holdingO.1r two-year-old son, Jeff, on herlap, and Gloria, age six, wasasleep in the rear of the stationwagon.

Several miles past the summitof Ste\'ens Pass, my wife uddenlyaid, "Stop the car at the next

pull off, Ron. I want to put thebelts on the chJ1dren."

UBut \\hy?" 1 asked. U\'"e're

almost there."