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

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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

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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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