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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 25, 1959

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tua iday to Golf 25, the stars and strips Pennsylvania site of first Well to throw party age of Oil to celebrate Centennial Titusville a. A a rollicking birthday party has begun Here for one of the priest 100-year-Olds in the business world the Oil Industry. The Climax of Oil s Centennial week comes Early thursday morning on the outskirts of this Northwestern Pennsylvania Community where the Wold s first Oil Well brought in the age of Oil. A new Well will be drilled and shot to prove that what Pennsylvania did 100 years ago Pennsylvania can do again. The shoot ing with nitroglycerine will be covered Ona nationwide television program and if All goes Well the drillings will produce Oil i addition to a spectacular show. Just now no one is absolutely certain the Well will have anything in it besides Sand Rock Loam and Lime. However a Small two barrel a Day experimental Well came in Las week near the site of the television Well so chances for Oil thursday Are , aug. 27, is the most significant Date in the history of Oil. It was 100 years ago that col. Edwin l. Drake finished punching a 69-foot Hole in the Earth and found a puddle of Oil at the  Well gave up Only eight to 10 barrels a Day but the news that Oil had been found near Titusville soon circled the Earth and setup a Rush equal to anything the Klondike splitters Mill or Northern Canada Ever saw for Gold or uranium. The Center and heart of the Oil Industry Long ago moved away to the Middle East Venezuela Romania Texas California and Azerbaijan but Titusville is still Home an that s Why the big party is going on Here. After the new Well is shot and televised Pennsylvania gov. David l. Lawrence will Seal a time capsule near Drake s old  next will be read from governors in 33 . Oil producing states. The Novelty is that the messages came to Titusville in Cap Sules floated through Oil pipelines running from the various states. The remainder of the historic Day will Seea special commemorative stamp issued luncheons dinners banquets for hundreds of visit ing Oil and political dignitaries a lot of speech making and fireworks. Cunard fires liner skipper Over incident Liverpool England a Britain s big Cunard shipping line has fired the Captain of its 27-000-ton liner Britannic. Confirming his dismissal  d. Armstrong said it s All because of an alleged incident atthe Captain s table during an at lactic  the 55-year-old Captain due next year to take Over either the Queen Mary or the Queen Elizabeth re fused to say More. The matter was in the hands of his attorneys he said. But a Friend added it is a Cap Tain s duty to entertain passengers at his table on Board ship. This of course includes women Pas sengers. It is not easy to know when you Are overstepping the Mark in some people s  understand there was a com plaint following the Britannic crossing from new York to liver Pool in  Given Choice Armstrong a Gray haired Irish Man was summoned to the general manager s office in Liverpool hews Given the option of resigning or being dismissed. Armstrong re fused to  served Cunard for 30 years and had another eight to go before retiring. He was to take Over command of the 35,000-Tonliner Mauretania in october then a Queen liner next year. He was one of the most popular of liner captains. Twe years ago his seamanship was praised after longshoremen at Southampton England blacklisted the Queen Mary and left it stranded at the French port of , then master of the Ivernia mane Vered his ship along Side and took off the Queen Mary s 1,100 passengers. Center lines Cross so judge relents Letchworth England a parallel lines Are not supposed to meet but on the Jack s Hill Highway Here they were inclined to Cross each  against 16 motorists who drove improperly past line painted on the Road were Dis  lines must be parallel says the Law. These weren to so they were not a valid sign for the regulation of traffic a judge ruled. First lion then Bear hold that Tiger Valletta Malta a ital Ian lion Tamer Blanco Zampella clawed and injured by a lion earlier during his act at la veg Lia circus in Malta was rushed to a local Hospital for the second time 111 24 hours during a matinee of the show he was attacked and wounded by a Bear. Just the thing for Paul Bunyan Robert Grubbe 18 months of Omaha neb.,pulls his rocking chair into position beneath a chair described As the largest in the world. The huge chair was on display at the Midwest Furni Ture Market in Omaha. The $4,000 chair is 14feet Long 11% feet wide and its legs Are 6% feet High. Eighty Yards of cloth went into the upholstery and the chair can seat 40  6-year-old heart patient finds a Friend German girl arrives at Mayo for care Rochester Minn. A a Little German girl her life depend ing on the skill of heart surgeons at Mayo clinic is glowing in the warmth of a new Friendship and family. Carola Lorenz 6, of Muench Weiler Germany shed shyness that marked her Long flight Here in an air Force transport when she found another Little girl from he Homeland to play with. She and the other Little German girl Margarita Silbereisen seemed to take to each other immediately the operator of the Rooming House in which Carola and her Moth Eranna Are staying said. They com pared dolls and talked As  besides Margarita 7, Carola quickly made friends with Man of the boarders. She was tired after the flight . Lends $12 million to car for purchases Washington a the .made a loan of $12 million to the United Arab Republic car the government s Export import Bank said it had extended the credit for the Purchase by the car of 58 diesel electric locomotive with spare parts and shop tools. The purchases Are to be made inthe . And took a Nap on arrival her Mother said. But she Felt Fine an seemed to enjoy the other boarders at dinner. And they liked  Carola does t understand that unless surgeons can successfully close a Hole in her heart Wall she probably will die soon. She will have Margarita s companionship for at least 10 Days when her new Friend also a heart Case is tentatively scheduled for surgery herself. American soldiers at three Ger Man bases contributed $5,970 to help finance Carola s trip and sur Gery. Her condition developed at birth. Satcho voted top jazzman at Russ fair Moscow up Louis Sattimo Armstrong is far and away the favorite american jazz musician among russian visitors to the american National exhibition Here. A voting machine on which rus sians voted for their favorite jazz Man showed Armstrong at the to of the poll Armstrong got 767 votes. Runner up was Duke Ellington 568 Fol Lowed by the late Glenn Miller,453 Stan Ken ton 329 Benny Goodman 215, and dizzy Gillespie,94. I i a favorite too on another question submitted to the russian voters for the first time the i i exhibit was selected As the favorite technological Dis play with 685 votes. It was followed by a plastic machine with 587, and a Polaroid camera 410. An upset also turned up in the latest figures for an old question the favorite among All  television moved into first place with 3,415 votes nosing out previous front running Auto mobiles which polled 3,368 votes. Mental Home rioters caught Lapeer Mich. Up seven mental patients who escape d the Lapeer state Home and training school have been rounded up. The inmate prisoners fled at the height of a minor riot at the school late saturday night during which furniture was torn up and one guard was slightly injured. County sheriff s deputies an state troopers called in to help quell the uprising captured the escapees walking through Fields along Railroad tracks and through the City of Lapeer. They were Allback in custody a few hours after the riot. Escapees in cells authorities at the institution said the trouble makers had been separated and the escapees were being held in separate cells. An attendant guard Ford Lake was slightly Cut Over one Eye Dur ing the demonstration which authorities said was caused by group of  it took More than 40 state police men and attendant guards at the institution to restore order. New Ica chief for Korea Washington up Raymond t. Moyer far East regional director for the International cooperation administration was sworn Inas director of the Ica Mission to Korea. Moyer 60, replaces Williame Warne who resigned. A anglican priest blasted by his Bishop London a the anglican Bishop of South Wark sat before a High altar in a locked Church to denounce a 72-year-old Clergyman he had ousted for practising roman Catholic rites. As the Bishop attacked him the Rev. Rice Alfort Harris for 33 years priest in charge of St Andrew s Mission Church in suburban Carshalton was on his Way to a vacation in the West of  Bishop of Southwark or. Arthur Mervyn Stockwood went to All saints Carshalton s Parish Church to preach at morning , sitting in front of the High altar on a red and Gilt chair he denounced the Rev. Harris for doing grevious damage to the Church of  of the Rev. Harris protested outside and hammered on the locked doors but they weren t allowed in because their names were not on the Al saints Church Register. Their own Church of St. Andrew s also was locked against  Stockwood in whose diocese Carshalton Falls announced it would remain locked until a new priest is appointed. For Many years he said the clergy of this Parish openly and flagrantly disregarded the teach Ings and rules of the Church they were committed to serve. Unfortunately some in spite of their undoubted personal Virtues behaved As though the reformation had never  the Bishop Chai ged that at St. Andrews Church goers had at times to hear doctrines proclaimed that were at variance with the Faith of the Church of England Aud to witness practices that were contrary to its rules and  Stockwood told newsmen the Rev. Harris announced a procession with a dressed up statue of the Virgin Mary and a High mass for aug. 15 for the feast of the Assumption a feast not recognized in the anglican prayer Book. In spite of warnings lie persisted in holding  the Bishop later drove Back to London and Wenton the air to Appeal for funds for a society Advocat ing birth control. His Appeal was broadcast despite protests in parliament and by roman Catholic organizations i Britain  
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