European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday november 30, 1985 pointing by Willy Stower of Maiden voyage finking of the titanic. The great debate what to do with a sunken liner Louise Pope 77. Of Milwaukee Sal patiently Wilh a famed explorer a historian several government officials and a Texas Oil entrepreneur. She had her own ideas on what to Wilh the titanic the Ocean liner she escaped 73 years ago. If there s anything there thai could be put in a museum she old a House committee. But never she added should the ship where two of her relatives and 1.500 other people died be raided Lor commercial advantage. Robert Ballard the Navy explorer who discovered the wreck of the titanic put it this Way the great pyramids of the deep Are now accessible to Man. He can either plunder them like the grave robbers of Egypt or prefect them or the countless generations which Wil Mollow Fope was barely 4 years old on thai dreadful night in the North Atlantic when the titanic look its Maiden voyage. She remembers Little of ii except the things thai comforted her against he cold and the to right. The Cotton Blanket which was wrapped around me the shoes that were on my she Tes Lilied to the House merchant Marine and fisheries committee which is wrestling Wilh How and whether to protect the wreck irom scavengers. Pope s Mother and lather who jumped into the next to last Lifeboat As it was being towered Hall Lull survived with her. But an aunt and Uncle went Down with the ship. I think she told the House panel that my lather s sister and brother like others who died in he titanic would say do what you want with the ship As Long As what you do benefits All people " that is the intent but hardly the guarantee of legislation sponsored by committee chairman Walter b. Jones . The measure would declare the titanic a maritime memorial bar americans irom indiscriminate Salvage operations and urge negotiation of an International agreement along the same lines. Ballard gave the committee a slide and video tour of the wreck a presentation he said could be vastly improved if researchers Are Given the time to return Wilh improved cameras and deep sea vehicles. I strongly believe he said that it titanic is left alone thai within the next few years beginning As Early As next year robotic vehicles will be Able to enter its beautifully designed rooms and document in color its preserved splendor. No Salvage operation in the world could duplicate this at things now land he warned any fishing vessel could dredge the Ocean floor near the ship. 13.000 feet deep off the coast of Newfoundland and destroy 95 percent of what s there to recover 5 percent of it. Beautiful stained Glass windows China other things just lying Congress has no authority to bar foreigners from Salvage attempts since the 682-foot-Lorig ship is in International Waters. But a stale department official. Brian j. Hoyle. Said the United states will take the Lead in encouraging an International agreement to protect the titanic and that already the indications Are positive from great Britain France and Canada. Jack f. Grimm owner of the Grimm Oil co. Of Abilene. Texas protested to the committee that his own exploration team set the stage for pallard s discovery and. In fact staked a claim to the ship in 1981. His group he said plans to spend $1 million to remit an aluminium submarine to dive on the wreck in 1986 or 1987. Ii we Are Lucky and funds Are available and we do dive we might be Lucky enough to recover some of the debris on the Ocean he said. What possible harm can that do to this mass of twisted steel Grimm noted thai titanic survivors had told him they did t want the ship raised. We never even considered doing that he said. John Hollis. Head of the 2.500-member titanic historical society asked. Do we really want to see pieces of the titanic for Sale in Flea markets or in Cata logs Al grossly inflated prices if so. Gentlemen then perhaps our next step is to contemplate the raising of the battleship Arizona for souvenirs Hollis said. The Arizona a world War ii vessel lies As a memorial at the Bottom of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii where it was sunk on dec. 7, 1941. 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