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Open-Boat Whaling Industry, Disappearing From Seas, May Depend on Adventure Writers By COLETTE BLACKMOOHE United Nations, N.Y.-IUPD-What probably is the most dangerous peacetime occupation-open-boat whaling in the raoDy uick style-practically has disappeared from the seven seas. Soon it may depend for its survival entirely on the fer tile imaginations of adven ture story writers and movie makers. This rather sad reflection on the growing security of modern life came from Dr, Robert Clarke, an Englishman who has tried his hand at open-boat whaling both in the movie studios and outside, He stopped by at United Nations headquarters early this week on his way from Europe back to South Amer ica where he is now advising the governments of Chile, Peru and Ecuador, under the expanded technical assistance program, on how to develop their whaling industries. Dr. Clarke was the techni cal adviser for the filming of Herman Melville's classic whaling epic, Moby Dick. He told a group of U.N. newsmen, to whom whaling was a pleas- ant interlude from discussion of the South African riots, how the scenes of Ahab's en counter with the white whale were skillfully shot in special ly constructed ponds in Lon ' don. i Moby Dick was constructed In three gigantic parts, Clarke explained, with a very realis tic head just as Herman Mel ville described it. The only thing omitted from the movie model was Moby Dick s crook ed jaw. "We didn't put one in because people might think it was a very badly construct ed whale," Clarke said In real life, sperm whales with deformed, twisted lower Jaws sometimes are encoun tered. But do white whales really exist? Dr. Clarke has never seen one, and he has no hard evidence that anyone else has. The closest color to white is found in old sperm whales which get more gray-headed the older they become. Dr. Clarke said he supposed that "in peacetime there ia no more dangerous occupa tion than open-boat whaling." Census Taker Gets Info Wrong House El Paso, Tex. Mrs. James E. Hammond, a eensus taker, was about to leave when no body at the two-story frame house answered her knock. Ai she turned to walk away, a man hurried out. "Can I help you?" he asked. "I wai Just going to ask how many rooma you have," Mrs. Hammond said. "Oh, we have plenty," he aid, and put a fatherly arm about her shoulder. "Now don't you worry about a thing. You come right in." He led her Inside and in troduced her to another wom an. "Hello, there," the other woman said. "What can we do to help you?" "I'm with the eensui bu reau," Mrs. Hammond said. The woman looked achock ed. "Oh, we misunderstood," she said. "This is the Salava tion Army home for unwed mothers." Neighbor May Aid In Census Count Washington-IUPD - Memo to working people: "A good neighbor" can help to get you counted In the 1960 census. Lots of working people just cannot be at home when the census taker rings the bell. This is true not only for city "live atones" but also for sub urban families where the wife works and the children are at school. If no one is home during the day, one way to make sure you will be included in the current nationwide popula tion count is to leave your ad vance report form with a neighbor. The neighbor can give It to the census taker for you. If the census taker doesn't get your form from someone else and finds no one at home, he probably will either: -Leave a note saying when he will be back, so you or another member of your household can be there. -Ask you to phone or write telling him when some one will be home. France Orders 50 Supersonic Bombers Paris-flTD-France has order ed construction of ISO super sonic bombers to transport French nuclear bombs, now being developed, the govern ment has announced. Ti;e Mirage IV bombers, de-si- .led by the French Dassault Co., will fly at twice the speed of sound. Delivery was sched uled to start in three yean. The only part of the world I Portugal. There whales are where it is still practiced is harpooned, chased, and lanc in the Azores and around Ma-1 ed to death much as they deira Island, off the coast of were in the 19th Century and the open boats, Clarke said "are smashed time and again." One of the few precautions is that now, according to Por tuguese whaling regulations men must be able to swim before they are allowed out in the boats. Dr. Clarke has eaten a lot of whale meat in his life and he described it as "very good indeed." Dr. Clarke, who said he "always wanted to go and see whales" since he was a small boy, has already spent two MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtsfare't Or, 4 Thur.d.y, Aatril 7, 1M C years helping Chile and Peru ' catch about 5,000 whalei an- put their whaling industry on nually; Ecuador, which had a scientific basis. j no whaling industry,, now Together these countries I wants to join the chase. COFFEE nd COOKIES Served To Our Vhitors FRIDAY and SATURDAY! 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