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PAGE ONE HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY. JANUARY 2T. 195B i Culture, Arts, Knowledge Of East, West Joined As Skipper Pursues Hobby By KATHLEEN WARD i This entire letter will be devoted 4o a very important person In the lite of any passenger, on a ship, jnainly, a gentleman we all affec tionately refer to as "The Skipper." 1 I'm sure everyone is inclined to inward a captains' vocation as an ..interesting and exciting one. but in the case of Commander L. T. Tarter, it is his avocation that im presses me most. ,) His hobby embraces the children of the many, different countries, whore his ships have taken him i in the course of his duties) dur ing the years. He joined the British India Company, as a young cadet, some 37 years ago and has stead ily advanced to the captains berth during the ensuing years, i He has chosen the children of the intermediate levels as being at the most receptive age for the promotion of his Ideas. A prime example of the way bis hobby op- Japan. mis caused great excitement intnUeti steaming toward i our ten the port and all ships had to get dervous. Just in case the American up mcj nuiy mm given ; plane could not come at dayugnt. uiucis lu leave uie uuiuur uy mat afternoon. Our problem was not so much how to get our engines but in the meantime, we had con- pie, Chinese, Indians and Malays ready so quickly, as we are a motor vessel and can move on short notice, but we were worried about all our passengers, who were ashore. Luckily it was near the end of our stay in Japan and most of the passengers were in Kobe, doing their last minute shopping, so we tried to - recall the conversations at the breakfast table that morn ing, and we picked up a few clues. One gentleman was attend ing a Rotary luncheon, and we managed to reach him. by mes senger. Just as he finished eating. Others were located in the larger department stores, where I s a w the -manager and explained to him about the unexpected sailing and At midnight, two hours before we were due to nice, the Dutch vessel, we got filial answers from Okinawa saying that the sea plane would arrive at daylight. Once we not this message,, our help wits no longer necessary, so we sent some final advice upon treatment of the patient, until the plane arrived, and wished h 1 m good luck and then altered our course back towards Yokohama. We beard, over the wireless, next morning that the plane did turn up at daylight and took the cap tain off the Dutch ship, flew him to Okinawa where he was being operated on before breakfast. Such is the speed of modern rescue by aircraft!! , Incidentally, I heard later that the operation was "successful and looking at the elephants being loaded and wnen i baby ' elephant came strolling along Just to say. now no you ao" tnev all ran in different directions. This left a clear space, clear but tor one thing. There before baby's eves was a lovely Chinese banana stall! Did I tell you that elephants like ban- I'lD,. q' fir f 'i,-. COMMANDER L. T. CARTER of the Britlsh-Wcfta Company's ship "Sirdhana" it shown here xplaining tha infricacies of a Japanasa junk to a couple of eager schoolboy listeners at Snod land, Kent, England. The captain, a veteran with the BIC, makes his hobby in furnishing these lads and the students of a school in Kobe, Japan, presents from the different countries. Each - gitt becomes the property of the school. (See story) I erates, can be Illustrated, by what he Is doing to promote good will ; and the exchange of Ideas between . a school In Kobe, Japan and Snod- .' land, Kent, England. First off. these two schools have adopted - him and his ship (whatever ves ael he Is sailing at the time) and t he not only encourages the chrl ' dren to exchange pen-pal letters, I but he brings them objects of the arts and cultures of each country .he visits. He donates these to the schools in question; This way it acts as a perpetuating thing. the object become the permanent property of the recipient school You can see (In the photograph) the type of articles he brings these luckv children. An exact replica of a Chinese junk, beauti ful Japanese ' prims. dons, - etc. These are, naturally, not brought all at once, but the different ob jects are added on the occasions of his visits to the schools. While In port, he acts as hosl to the classes and their Instructors, having them on board the ship for a day of inspection and fun. You can well imagine how very eacerlv the children await the ar rival of "Their Captain and Their Shin." In addition to these personal contacts, he carries on quite an extensive correspondence with many different schools. Describing in his own Inimitable way, ty phoons, attempted rescue's, unus ual cargo assignments and other exciting facets of life as a sea cantaln and the problems it in volves. ' Captain Carter has graciously offered to allow me to quote ex cernts from conies of a few of his letters. I'm sure they will be of interest to you, as they were to me. Thev all start with the saluta tion, "Dear Children." (and the lollowlng is about the typhoon sea son.) "I have had my changes, of weather, especially during the last voyage were It flat calm, like a mill pond all the way up from Calcutta to Japan-thousands of miles of glassy sea with an oc casional spot of rain but other wise sunshine. While we were in "Hapan, we started to become in vblved in typhoons. That nice flat calm weather was too good to last, and we knew we would have to make up for it sometime, as this was the typoon season. We had been in Japan for some days and had nearly completed mir loading and were due to sail for Hong Kong at 7 o'clock the fol lowing morning, when we became verv concerned about a typoon called Louise. iThey always give typoons girl's name for some rea son.) Louise was tearing her way up from the China seas and was headed at 175 miles an hour, for he kindly announced on the loud speaker system for any of our passengers to please return to the ship Immediately. We finally sailed that afternoon with only one of our passengers missing he, a journalist, and able! to look after himself. Actually he came on by another company ship some days later. I am very glad we left when we did, because that gave me time to go around the storm and avoid the worst of it, although, I know my passengers thought is was bad enough as a lot of them were very sea sick." End quote In another letter he tells of dra matic attempted " rescue.' Quote, "We had Just passed through the Formosa Straits, that is the chan nel between the mainland ot China and the large Island of Formosa and . the high mountains of the north end of Formosa had Just disappeared below the horizon, when I received a message for help from a Dutch cargo ship. The help needed was medical, as her captain had become suddenly very ill, and 'she had no doctor on board. We were the nearest ship which had one and we were over 300 miles away. At the time, be sides our ship's doctor, we had two others on board, who were passengers. So all these doctors held a meeting in my cabin and discussed the case. They then sent off radio messages to the Dutch ship, giving advice what to do with the sick captain, as a temp orary measure until such time as our doctor could reach him. In the meantime, our navigat ing officer was busy working out courses, speeds and times to find out where the two ships would meet. You see, as soon as the first message was received, we turned around, then and there, so as to save time, which was the all im portant factor, we had received the first message about 2 p.m. ana although we were now steaming at our lull speed of 15 knots ana the Dutch ship was going at the same speed towards us. it was not going to be until 2 o'clock In the morning before we would meet. As the day .went on, further wireless messages were received about the condition "of the patient and our doctors became more anxious as they realised the Dutch captain must have surgery if his life was to be saved. We were without proper equipment to carry out the very urgent operation, so we began searching around 1 o r some other method of rescue. We finally cot in touch, by wireless. with the American authorities on Okinawa island (halfway between a fortnight later the captain was flown to Japan, where he rejoined his own ship again." From still another letter. Cap tain Carter writes about unusual cargoes si ship may sometimes carry. "While I was in Rangoon. I re ceived a telegram from my Shiga pore agents saying, "Can you carry a circus from Singapore to Hong Kong consisting of 33 ani mals, in fifteen cages, including lions, tigers, leopards, - giraffe monkeys, two loose horses and one loose elephant. Twenty attendants. 12 performers and 100 tons of bag gage?" ' . This set me a problem, because the "Sirdhana" is a passenger ship and' I couldn't risk any harm hap pening' to a passenger, 'yhlch with a circus would be so easy. You see. say a child of five strolled away from its parents and got fascinated by the tigers in their cages and wanted to stroke its paw hanging outside the cage!!! but still on the other hand, my can-vine a circus would mean a great deal of money to my com pany and these days, with the competition we are having to meet on this run, we have to look every where for freight. Carrying the circus meant both freight and pas sengers. So by working things out carefully, I found we could oarry the circus forward and the passen gers at the after end of the 'ves sel, Just by closing down fire doors at various parts of the ship, and all would be well." He also describes carrying ele phants and the many problems in volved. "I remember one occa sion where we carried three ele phants, father, mother and baby. To get them on board we had to lift them up with our winches., We had a special elephant sling for this which wns made to go under their tummies and had a large strap around their legs to make sure they didn't fall out. Actually, elephants don't like being lilted off the ground, but we couldn't help it this time, as the part of the ship where they were going to live was too high off the wharf to lake a gangway so's they would walk up. Anyway, father elephant had been lifted up on the deck all right and when mother's turn came, father helped her In with his trunk by taking hold of mother's trunk, as she was being lifted over the snips side, and pulled hard. In the mean time, great commotion was going on ashore. You see, baby elepahnt was quite loose and as she had alwavs stayed by mother elephant, (mother had Just been lifted straight tip into the air out of anas? Well they do, and baby (who weighed a ton) was no ex ception. She got down to it prop erly and didn't worry about tak ing off stalk or peelings. By this time the crowd came back and when they saw that the elephant wasn't going to hurt them, stood around laughing at poor stall own er, who was trying his best to push baby away." ' t And so the letters gol Bigger ana better experiences to amuse and teach his lucky classes about "Ships hat go down to the sea." It hvs been good fortune to have sailed with this very fine captain for some 26 days, and In my numoie opinion, na not only is do ing an outstanding thing In pro moting world citizenship and the exchange of ideas between youth, but he practices his philosophy in his - dealings with his passengers, IT'S TAX TIME! Dnt aend lh rlilnal, end ' phatatUi: IV ropy ltuoal nvlhinf. LEO'S CAMERA SHOP 116 Main " Ph. 2-3331 who represent a blending of the East and the West. Captain Carter, I salute you, as gentleman and "skipper." 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