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Menday, August 17, 1958
Prison Editor Asks
For Sporting Chance
Sioux Falls, S.D. 0J.B The
prisoner-editor of the South Da
kota penitentiary magazine be
lieves that a parolee isn't given
a "sporting chance."
The editor of the bulletin said
there are five major defects in
the American parole system:
1. "The almost total lack of
educational, vocation and recre
ational programs in a vast num
ber of penal institutions."
2. "Insufficient parole per
sonnel -to supervise the pro
gram." 3. "The almost total absence
of a plan which enables men
due for parole to begin to learn
to adjust themselves to life in
a free society while still in
carcerated." 4. "The failure to provide
employment for the parolees so
he can go directly to work after
release and not be forced to face
the extreme difficulties of find
ing a Job himself."
5. "Believing that the five or
ten dollars given parolees by
sfates at the time of their re
lease is adequate to sustain
them until they can find em
ployment." AMSBY GETS RIBBON
Laporte. Ind. (U.R) Mike
Amsby, Orange, Calif., picked
up his second blue ribbon in
the 14th annual national water
ski championships today.
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Oilmen Playing Expensive
Game in Australia Wastes
Learmonth (U.R) Americans
and Australians are playing the
most expensive game of hide-and-sek
in the world hre in the
Exmouth Gulf country of West
Australia.
It's being played with Mother
Nature; -the cost runs about
$1,850 an hour and the prize is
oil.
The playground consists of mil
lions of acres of shrivelled-up
land bordering the Indian Ocean
where the mercury bubbles up to
1 24 degrees in mid-summer, and
Florida-type hurricanes scythe
their way across th land each
year. Perhaps nowhere in the
world have oil men faced great
er problems, particularly logis
tic, than in Western Australia.
Already $30,000,000 has been
spent in the search.
The West Australia operation
is unique in that oil was hit by
the first well, the Rough Range
No. 1. Since then 13 more wells
have been drilled, all dry.
The sarch, being conducted by
the West Australian Petroleum
company, is of the greatest im
portance to Australia. Although
traces of oil have been reported
as far back as 1854, Australia
never produced a gallon of its
own until Rough Range No. 1
was brought in three years ago.
Sharas. Up and Down
Coal has been the source of
Australia's power, and her lack
of petroleum her greatest weak
ness. Like Japan, she has been
forced to import all petroleum
supplies. Thus when the first
drilled well struck an excellent
quality paraffine base crude at
3.600 feet, it was the California
Gold Rush all over again, i
Oil share stocks that were sell
mg for $1.12 a share were
grabbed up by enthusiastic bar
gain-hunters at $12.00 a share,
They are now back down to a
realistic $1.75.
Investors were not the only
ones fooled by the new gusher.
WAPET engineers visioned a
great new oil field in West Aus
tralia, and moved rapidly to de
velop it. More and heavier equip
ment was brought in from the
United States, the permanent
headquarters was built here on
the Exmouth Peninsula and a
corps of engineers, drillers, ge
ologists and technicians was im
ported from both the United
States and Europe. There were
no holds barred, and the budget
went out the window as the Aus
tralians and Americans moved to
exploit their find.
Where and How Much?
So far their enthusiasm has
been premature and expensive.
Hole after hole has been drilled
with out success. New locations
were mapped, and wells were
spudded in at the most promising
spots. In one area it was neces
sary to build a highway deep
into the Rough Range mountains
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WHERE KIDNAPER ABANDONED BABY Police van, containing tiny casket,
parks at the exit of the Northern State Parkway near Plainview, N. Y. near the spot
where the tiny body of kidnaped month-old Peter Weinberger was found. The body
was found in wooded area off to right of where road turns in background. Confession
by Angelo John LaMarca, 31, led police to the site.
Truck Driver Strike
Idles Produce Crews
Watsonville, Calif. (U.R) A
strike of AFL truck drivers Sat
urday brought the Salinas valley
produce industry to a standsill.
Drivers and other union work
ers connected with the move
ment of lettuce from the fields
to cooling plants struck at 12:01
Saturday, following a day' of
married negotiations. Some 400
teamsters and 80 industry grow
ers were involved in the dispute
which has been under negotia
tion for three months.
The major issue was reported
to be wages. Drivers, who now
make $1.80 an hour, were asking
for a 20-cent-per-hour raise.
Jack Bias, president of the
grower-shipper association, said
his group had offered a 10-cent-an-hour
raise, plus another five
cent raise to become effective
July 1, 1957.
OUT AND IN
Omaha, Neb. (U.R) Douglas
County deputies rushed to the
police headquarters when they
discovered three prisoners had
escaped the previous night. They
didn't have far to look for two
of them. The men had been
picked up for routine question
ing by city police and had been
in the city jail for eight hours
before anyone even knew they
were missing from the "escape
proof" county jail.
before drilling could begin. The
highway alone cost $100,000,
and the well turned out to be
a duster. Another well cost
$938,000 and was dry.
Every scientific device for the
detection of oil is being used by
WAPET, but the engineers frank
ly admit the structure of "the
country has them stumped. Land
contours which usually follow a
set pattern for thousands of feet
below the earth's surface are
shifted all over the subterranean
area of the Exmouth Peninsula.
This year should tell the story.
A total of nearly $10,000,000 has
been budgeted by WAPET for its
West Australian exploration in
1956. This is the "go for broke"
effort. Caltex, which owns 80
per cent of WAPET'S stock,
probably will continue its oil
search in Australia even if this
year produces only anothr as
sortment of dusters, but it will
be on a much smaller scale.
The geologists insist that there
has to be oil in West Australia,
and they have the producing
Rough Range No. 1 to prove it,
but there are two big questions
Where is it? How much of it
is there?
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SAFETY BELT SAVED THE DAY Gus Ehrman flips his MG-TF into hay bales on first
lap of feature race in national MG championships at Marlboro, Md. Ehrman's only in
jury was a scratched elbow. His seat belt and safety helmet prevented serious injury.
CASK OF HERYEt
Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.R) Vir
ginia Somers, 17, pulled her car
up at the county building to take
a driver's license test and
smacked right into the fender of
Deputy Sheriff Gilbert Russell's
car. Russell awarded Miss Som
ers her license anyway, saying:
"She was a very good driver
once she got over her case of
nerves."
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Coast Guard Searches For Man on Life Raft
San Francisco (U.R) The
Coast Guard continued its search
Saturday for a man reported
drifting in a life raft 200 miles
out in the Pacific ocean off San
Francisco. ' t
No trace of the raft or any
wreckage was reported. The
Coast Guard said the search by
the cutter Ewing would prob
ably continue at least through
Sunday, depending on weather
conditions. A Coast Guard plane
also searched the area Satur
day. The man was sighted Thursday
on a life raft, amid what appear
ed to be wreckage, according
Church Declared Winner
Over Toyor in Idaho
Boise, Ida. (U.R). Frank
Church, 32, has been declared
official winner of Idaho's Dem
ocratic Senate primary, defeat
ing former Senator Glen Taylor,
the ballad singing lawmaker
who deserted his party briefly
in 1948 to become Hendy Wal
lace's running mate on the Pro
gressive party ticket.
The State Board of Canvassers
gave Church a 200-vote lead over
Taylor.
-Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Insecti
cides are deadly to insect pests
and to humans too unless
handled with care. Safety ex
perts at the University of Neb
raska said the manufacturer's in
structions should be followed to
the letter, even if the insecti
cides are being used for just a
few seconds.
to a report by an armed forces
radar plane. The Coast Guard
said Friday, after a night and
day of searching, that it appear
ed doubtful there had been a
man of the raft.
Price Daniel Leads
Texas Democrat Runoff
Dallas, Tex. (U.R) U. S.
Sen. Price Daniels, a Democrat
who bolted to Dwight Eisenhow
er four years ago, held a modest
lead Saturday in a Democratic
runoff primary for Governor of
Texas. ,
. The election may serve as a
guidepost to how the state will
go in the presidential election
two months from now. In 1952,
it followed the lead of Daniel
and Gov. Allan Shivers and went
Republican.
A tabulation by the Texas
election bureau of returns from
231 of the state's 254 counties, in
cluding 203 complete, gave: Dan
iel 682.946 and Austin lawyer
Ralph Yarborough 686.610. '
Novel Method Used
To Cheat Executioner
Chelsea, Vt. (U.R) Mrs. Re
becca Peak, sentenced to death
here in 1836 for the poison mur
der of her stepson, used a novel
method to cheat the gallows. For
several nights prior to the execu
tion day, she was allowed small
doses of opium because she com
plained she could not sleep. She
saved all the opium and, on the
eve of her hanging, took it in a
single dose and died.
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