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
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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.
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