Whaling Goes Bigtime
As World Hunts Fats
By JAMES D. WHITE
Auoeltu4 Pim NewjftalurM)
A modern industry is chasing
the world's largest animal the
whale.
Several countries use whale
oil as a margarine base, and the
high prices paid by a fat-hungry
world keep the modern equiv
alent of "thar she blows" crack
ling over whaling fleet radios in
several different languages.
The prospect of quick-frees-Ing
whale beef for human eon
sumption is another lure tor the
businessmen in Europe who are
sinking millions Into whaling
fleet operations.
Ninety six per cent of today's
boat-based whaling now goes on
in the Antarctic.
' The new look in whalers is
one of highly organized effici
ency developed by European
whalers and engineers. No Am
erican ships take part. Today's.
whaler is an ultra-modern float
ing factory, expressly designed
to process and preserve the haul
of satellite catcher boats, all co
ordinated by radio-telephone.
One of the most modern whal
ing ships is a 21,000 deadweight
ton behemoth named the Balae-
na, built in England since the
war at a cost of about $6,000
000.
Her flensing deck where the
whales are carved up is slightly
longer than an American foot
ball field and half as wide. She
has hangers and catapult for
three amphibian planes to spot
whales and scout weather and
icing conditions. Power winches
haul the whales up and power
derricks and saws help the flen
sers handle the huge carcasses.
On the deck below are pre
ure boilers for rendering the
blubber and extracting oil from
whalebones, a liver - extraction
plant, a meat-meal plant, and
an oil purifier plant. There Is
a quick-freezing plant to pre
serve the best meat for human
consumption.
The Balaena's tanks carry 19
000 tons of fuel oil on the way
out, and whale oil on the return
trip. She is entirely electrified
and carries a crew of 444 men
Today's catcher boat also is
bigger, stronger, faster, and bet
ter equipped than before the
war.
However the total whaling
fleet of all nafions dominated
by Norwegian and British ves
sels is smaller than before the
war and may stay that way be
cause of increased efficiency
Whaling reached a pre - war
climax in the 1938-9 season af
ter a way to make margarine out
' of whale oil- had been discovered
in 1930.
As World War II opened, the
m iinr"IM , V
Target Whales like this boost world supply of meat, oil.
fleet had 36 floating factories.
14 land stations, and 353 catcher
boats operating with 12,000
men.
The oil yield of the 1938-9
season was more man nan a
million tons. Governments al
ready had begun stockpiling it
as edible fat, and during the war
it became a top priority item.
The value of whale oil is en
hanced by its keeping proper
ties. One cargo of British whale
oil stored in the United States
in 1941 was not made up into
margarine until 1947, when it
produced enough to supply the
fat ration for the entire British
population for five weeks.
Whale beef also looms an an
important commodity, although
like the oil, its use for human
consumption does not extend to
the United States. In 1947 one-
fourth of all red meat in Japan
was whale meat, and in the same
year 20,000 tons were readily
sold in England for human consumption.
NO FOOTBALL TEAM
Dubinsky's New Labor College
To Give Each Grad a Job
Washington, Nov. 18 (U.R) Dave Dubmsky's new labor college
may not have a football team, but it will have one advatnage over
other schools every graduate will be guaranteed a job.
Dubmsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Work
ers (AFL), said all students completing the one-year course will
be offered a job with his union-
at a $3,000 to $4,000 a year
salary.
The 57-year-old labor leader
said the union set aside $100,000
to start the new school which
will train new leaders for the
labor movement.
Farm Bureau
Ends Session
La Grande, Nov. 18 (. The
Oregon Farm Bureau Federa
tion wound up its 18th annual
convention Thursday with swift
approval of 21 resolutions on
widely varied subjects.
The 500 members voted to ex
tend a membership drive; sup
ported the bi partisan foreign
policy and the United Nations;
lauded U. S. help for Europe's
displaced persons, but called for
an end to "wasteful govern
ment spending.
They also recommended taxa
tion of government bonds; ask
ed repeal of transportation and
communication federal taxes;
opposed a government tax on co
operatives: asked a state's rights
control measureX in CVA; rec
ommended co-operative banks
for more credit to co-op associa
tions.
Other resolutions proposed
continuance of the FHA, partic
ularly for veterans; urged ex
panded rural electrification;
urged that the interstate com
merce commission include an
agriculture member; favored la
bor laws for the public welfare;
advocated a co-operative health
association and opposed nation
alization of medicine; urged a
study of present federal aids to
education; called for a study of
the improvement program for
rural roads; back the school
lunch prgoram and recommend
ed state grass seeding of road
rights-of-way.
Annette Sings 20 Songs a Day
But Nobody Has Heard Records
By VIRGINIA MACPIIKKSON
Hollywood. Calif.. Nov. 18 U.R Sinccr Annette Warren woundiMi" citY Charter Voted
iCapifal Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, November IS, 1949 1
time. I don't know how they
come out. Who's got time to lis
ten to 2000 records?"
backed by the evident approval
of the residents, plan to go ahead
with several proposed projects.
up her 2000th recording today and said there is just one reason
she isn't the most famous soprano in the world; nobody has
ever heard those 2000 platters.
Nobody, that is, except the song writer and Annette. And if
that doesn't qualify as a thank
less iob it will do until some-1 Annette said. "But now I'm get-
thing better comes along. ting pretty fast at it..I can scan
Annette is chief vocalist for a the notf and ,ne word!1 while
wnrHin rr.mrw.nv lhat rater. : the orchestras playing the in-
iiuuuiuuu. x iii ii i lane u deep
Mill City, Nov. 18 Accept
ance of the first city charter was
voiced 11 to 52 by Mill City
citizens at a special election here
The city incorporated about
three years ago. City officials.
to amateur songwriters These
would-be Gershwins send in
their lyrics and music, Annette
sings them and the boys in the
control booth fix up two records.
Just two are made, one for the
amateur and one for the office
files. They never get on the disc
jockey shows, they never hit the
juke boxes, and you can't buy
them in the record stores.
"The idea," explained An
nette, who has dark curls, dim
ples and tired vocal pipes, "is to
breath and go into it cold
It works out fine. The pub
lisher gets his $50 per song; the
songwriter gets his recording,
and Anne gets a handsome sal
ary for overworking her vocal
chords.
She also gets the giggles.
"I can't help it," she said.
"Sometimes I come onto some
real funny lyrics and I just go
all to pieces. One about a 'Ham
mock Built for Two' almost
killed me. And there was one
give these amateurs something! called 'In the Land of the Cow-
to help sell their songs. Instead bells and the Squirrels.
of putting them on paper or
plinking them out on a piano for
the publishers, they can take in
these recordings.
Annette has been batting
these out at the rate of 20 a
day for the past few months.
And that's a lot of singing for
something that probably never
gets out of the front parlor.
It was kind of hard at first.
union s
Their
to 40.
"We are getting old," he said.
"Some of us are dying. Who will
succeed us? That is one thing
we have neglected.
'It is our hope that from our
school new leadership will be
found."
Dubinsky said the first group
of about 40 freshmen will begin
studying early next year. Some
will be union members, some
children of members, while
others will have no union con
nection at all.
There is no tuition. Students,
who must be high school gra
duates, will be chosen by the
education committee.
ages will vary from 18
,The one-year course will in
clude general labor law, eco
nomics, labor history, collec
tive bargaining and other relat
ed subjects.
Each student will start with
4 months' classroom work
New York, go into'the field for
four months, and return to the
classroom to complete the course
Long Awaited Check
Received This Week
Dallas The Polk county
court breathed a sigh of relief
this week.
The long-sought $104,080
check from the U. S. Treasury
arrived to pay the claims for
damages on Camp Adair roads.
Arival of the check culminated
several months of governmental
investigation, legislation, rou
tine procedure and "red tape."
Judge C. F. (Jack) Hayes
states that the check was made
out to the county court and the
treasurer. It will be used to
start a separate fund to be de
voted exclusively to roads in the
former cantonment area. One
bridge construction project will
take about $40,000 of it, he said
Another dilly was a little ditty
about a gent who was sorry. Real
sorry. One line alone had 14
"sorry's" in it.
Another one raved on about.
"My wife's a Valentine thanks
be to God Divine."
"I don't know if any of my
2000 songs have been publish
ed," Annette said. "But some of
Uhem sound real pretty at the
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