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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, November 19, 1958

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stows underground explosions 1 i a blasts May unlock vast Reserve of Oil Makarios greeted in new York by Pauwell Garwood Washington up project Plo share May introduce the atom s greatest civilian Boon so far. The promising Prospect is that underground a blasts can release almost unlimited quantities of Petroleum from tar Sands and Oil whales that underlie the surface lock of almost every country. According to Gerald w. Johnson of the University of California radiation Laboratory there Are about 500 billion 42-Gailon barrels of Oil locked in the tar Sands of the Atha Ronska Region of Canada. And Atha Baska is Only a Small starter on the vast reserves of Petroleum project $1 million which in terms of Poweris As though int were available at $1 a. Ton. If Johnson s calculation is Correct the Cost of the explosive for releasing Oil at Athabaska would be 10 cents a barrel or about a fourth of a cent a gallon. The Cost estimate does not come out quite so favourably in the Case of Oil Shales which Are More com Mon and in which Johnson believes the same bomb might  one million barrels of Oil if that much. A supplemental method might be used to increase the yield from . Johnson explained that i scientists think they might provide the megaton bomb were set of a at costs rain King from a fraction of a depth of 3,000 feet the blast ref. Ass so sri  t. F non it rpm i if shafts Wele sunk oi1 Elthel Johnson one of the p0 � i Side of the column and fires Starte dentists. Said the world s deepest a he said the neat mining shafts which go Down e expected to distil much about 10.000 feat would corp lately remain up Petroleum from the contain an explosion equal to 30million tons of int. I column. That would be approximately twice the Power of the largest h bomb Ever set off. A bomb equal to a million tons of int could be contained at 3,000 feet while a 10-Mtnion-ton blast would be placed at about 6.000 feet. A of this is fairly shallow for Oil drilling. Moreover the radiation involved Washington a Secre can be confined to a Small per tary of state John Foster Dulles cent age of the affected area imme told the soviet Union ambassador Diatel surrounding the bomb that the . Wants a bigger pm Johnson believes the Petroleum Bassy in Moscow As much As Russia drawn off would be entirely free wants a bigger one in washing from radioactivity. The Athabaska tar Sands Are of special interest because Johnson s calculations indicate that a Mega ton bomb planted there would set up an underground flow of 10 Mil lion barrels of Oil. A million ton bomb costs about Pericles j. Lantzounis of new York president to Erato Ono hellenic american societies kisses the hand of Archt shop Makarios As the of Pilot prelate de planes at idl Ewud accompanied by father Papadopoulos. Associated press photo Dulles matches Russ bid for larger do. Embassy ton. This tit for Tat tack was taken by Dulles in a 25-Mlnute conference with ambassador Mikhail Menshi  told newsmen after Ward that the old Pullman Man Sion on Washington s 16th St. Is hot big enough As a soviet embassy building he said he wants to build an Annex in space now occupied by a Rose  the us. _ embassy quarters in Moscow too. That is All right he said but not by Tak ing Over More space in the present the ambassador said wants to enlarge its building. Long talks seen presidential dance in Manila Ili con card and his wife dec tic Osiol a birthday the mate two when. Of we member. Of Emow Natate Gareth. Topi the upshot was that Dulles and Menshikov appeared to be agreed in principle. But it May take longhand frequent talks to reach agree ment on  than a year ago the rus sians asked permission to put Upa five Story Annex. The District o Columbia s commissioners generally Are reluctant to permit such construction. The Canadian embassy had to argue a Long Tim before getting approval for enlarging its  . Embassy in Moscow now occupies a 10-Story building and one of its seven Story wings. Soviet citizens occupy apartments in the other seven Story Wing. Dulles is understood to have Tol Menshikov that the embassy would like to take Over the other  is said to have promised men Shlykov the . Would improve the building if allowed to have it All. Swiss males vote feb. 1 on women s suffrage Bern Switzerland up the Swiss government has set feb. 1, 1959, As the Date on which the country s male voters will have to go to the polls to decide if Switzer land s women should be granted political rights on the Federal level. A majority of votes from a majority of the 25 Swiss cantons i needed for the government pro posed amendments to the Constitution to come into effect and to give women the right to vote in National affairs As Well As to be elected to Federal offices. Gatt to meet in Tokyo Geneva a the member states of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade Gatt have decided to accept an. Invitation from the japanese government to hold their 1958 autumn session in Tokyo. Archbishop says greek cypriot not terrorists new yo1k up archbishop Makarios said the greek cypriots fight for Freedom cannot be called  of course violence in itself i condemnable the Cyprus Arch Bishop said in answer to a question whether the cypriots have renounced violence to achieve inde  the fight for Freedom cannot be called violence. Other Wise your american history of Independence against British colonialism would be a history of violence and your National heroes would have to be renamed terrorists. The archbishop said his latest Call for Independence of Cyprus rather than its Union with Greece was a Concession to the British because the status does not exp in scary. November 19, 19sh farm assets due to reach $200 billion Washington up the Agri culture department has predicted the total value of . Farm assets will reach $200 billion by Jan. 1, up7.1 per cent from a year earlier. Economists writing in the department s publication the 1959 agricultural finance Outlook said improved credit and financial Posi Tion is the result of higher income Farmers received in 1958, the fur ther Rise in farm real estate value Sand the larger inventories of crops machinery and livestock Farmers will have at the beginning of 1959. The estimated value of farm real assets for Jan. 1 compares with $186.7 billion on Jan. 1, 1958.the department said the equities of Farmers and other owners of agricultural property on Jan. 1 will be about $177 billion up 6% per cent from a year earlier. Farm debt on Jam 1 probably will be $22.6 billion up 11.9 per cent from the $20.2 billion of a year earlier. The real estate debt alone will be $11.2 billion up 6.7 per cent. Old forces at work explaining the predicted Rise in 1959, the department said most of the forces behind the Rise in Price sin farm real estate since the up turn in 1954 still will be  department said however the trend May lose some of its momentum in the last half of the year if farm income declines As expected. Economists have predicted a drop of 5 to 10 per cent in 1959 farm  department said costs too elude Cyprus remaining within the British Commonwealth. Are going up in 1959. It predicted total production expenditures Law the first of the year will be 6 percent greater than in 1957 and the trend will continue in 1959. Begum Aga Khan injured in scuffle Cairo a the Begum Aga Khan suffered minor injuries in a struggle Here with a saudi guard in a mix up Over rooms in shepherds hotel the guard attending a 5-year-old arabian Prince mistakenly entered the Begum s room thinking it was the Prince s. The scuffle Fol  Begum s Secretary Freda Meyer awakened by the Begum s screams called hotel attendants and police to her Aid. European edition thesta army  air Force col John d. Nottingham Usan it col t. J. Cunningham jr., Usa Nathan j. Mago Nawl editor in chief managing manager directory of new England South Ruislip a c Wallow 4300 a 271 and 291france  Bolz Ocoboc ext 468 Germany Law room c. C 84215 53 Athens c 046-445 armed forces circulation service Europe. Sydney Label directory of England Brandon Lakenheath a m 43 Gainsborough. Sturgate a m 30 London Bushy Park a. M it Ui-h5 Oxford Fairford b. M 43, Warrington Burtonwood a m 1067, Bedford Check hands a chateau Roux. 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