Lago Welcomes Employees Families Through Family Tours




































TRIAL TOUR Members of the Public Relations Committee and Public Relations De GRAND OPENING Friday Nov 14 the Reception Center at the Main Gate was officially
partment staff and their whes took part in a test run of the Family Tour Program opened by 0 S Mingus general manager in his address of welcome to Lago families
The trial tour was conducted to discover in advance any difficulties or problems that Gathered together for the opening were members of the Lago Employee Council For
might preent the family tours from being completely successful eign Staff Employees Council Special Problems Advisory Committee and Management

HABRIMENTO OFICIAL Diabierna 14 di November Centro di Recepcion na Porta
PASEO PA PRUEBA Miembronan di Public Relations Committee y Public Relations Mayor a worde habri oficialmente door di O S Mingus gerente general den su adres
Department y nan esposa a participa den un prueba di e Programa di Paseo pa Familia- di bienvenida na familianan di Lago Reuni hunto pa e apertura tabata miembronan di
nan E paseo como prueba a worde haci pa descubri en adelante cualkier dificultad of pro- Lago Employee Council Foreign Staff Employees Council Special Problems Adrisory
blema cu por preveni e paseo di familianan di bira un exito rotunda Committee y Directiva



New Reception Center Opens


Family Tours Start Dec 1


Members of the Lago Employee Council Foreign Staff Employees

Council and Special Problems Advisory Committee joined with management

representatives Friday Nov 14 in the formal dedication of

Lagos new Reception Center at the main entrance of the refinery The

opening of the Reception Center marks the beginning of a program

whereby Lago families will have the opportunity to see where their

husbands fathers brothers and sons work

VOL 13 No 24 PUBLISHED BY LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO LTD No ember 21 1932 O S Mingus Lagos general ma
nager opened the brief but impressi before the tour guests will hear an
ve ceremonies with a welcome not introductory talk and will have time
just to the gathered guests but to all to see photographs models and other
Candidatonan Martin Re elected School di Ofishi Ta the families of Lago Every em informative displays of the oil business
ployee will be host to our visiting Following the tour they will
Nombra pa Eleccion Sport Park Board Cuminza Programa families Mr Mingus continued stating return to the Center for refreshments
I am saying welcome to all our Presentation of souvenirs and
di LEC Chairman Di Landamento families not to just those of us who an illustrated folder will round out
are gathered here today We are very the visit The inside of the Reception
Ocho candidato a worde nombra Robert E A Martin was re elected Programa di enseyanza di School proud for our families and friends to Center is cheerful and bright Over
como candidato pa eleccion di LEC chairman of the Lago Sport Paik di Ofishi di Lago a worde expand pa visit our work home the soft drink bar in the rear of the
cu lo tuma lugar dia 10 11 y 12 di Board at the groups turnover duna e discipulonan tur ventaha po Following Mr Mingus introductory Center is a mural of the refinery
December Manera a worde anuncia meeting Thursday Nov 13 Hugo de sible ora nan ocupa nan puestonan welcome Manager of Public Relations scene One wall is adorned with a
door di Comite Nominativo dos no Vries was re elected vice chairman respectivo den refineria E si man aki B Teagle explained the object panel of 10 colorful drawings show
nacional y seis nacional a worde and Damian Tromp was elected secretary un programa nobo di landamento a of the family tours to the guests He ing where oil comes from how it is
nombra woide inaugura cu e discipulonan di explained that the tours will give the removed from Mother Earth how it
E no nacionalnan ta Sydney E The remaining members of the promer anja employees families a chance to see is refined and transportation to its
Howard di Training Division Relacio Board are Jose M La Cruz Maximo E piograma nobo ta conecta cu sa where the employee works the conditions many many markets throughout the
nes Industrial y Joseph A Butts di D Kock Herman S Figueira C A lud educacion fisico y instruccion di under which he works to meet world The opposite wall has a panel
Mechanical Department Administra Brown Mateo Reyes Juan Briezen salba bida cu ta un parti di estudio the people with whom he works and of 10 photographs depicting the many
tion Nacionalnan ta Zacharias E De and Andiies Geerman di e muchanan Ademas di sinja lan to learn more about Lago We hope areas where oil comes from and two
Koit di Light Oils Finishing Julio da e muchanan lo sinja principionan the tour will be a pleasant experience of its many uses
Boom di Light Oils Finishing Johan elementario di salbamento di bida for the family and that this in A bus will transport the visitors
H Nunes di Utilities Frits E Ma Belot Refinery Man Nan lo sinja com nan mester landa itself will give pleasure to our em through the plant The tour leaders
duro di Mechanical Department Ad We also will the guests as they
bon y prepara esnan cu despues lo ployees hope to get to know accompany
ministration Fiederick Ritveld di Instructed in Job traha den Marine Department y rond our employees and their families bet cover the main parts of the refinery
Cracking y Hose L H Engelen di di awa Ta e opinion tambe cu landa ter through these visits which should and make a number of stops at departments
Catalytic & Light Ends E nombernan Training Procedures mento lo desaroya manipulacion coor result in a better mutual understan All along the way the
a woide anuncia pa Bertie I Viapree dina di braza y mannan cual lo ta di ding and appreciation of each others two tour leaders will point out the
presidente di Comite Nominativo No gran valor pa e muchanan den traha problems Mr Teagle said many units that make up Lagos extensive
Nacional y Simeon Tromp piesidente Orlanda Pita process job trainer at mento cu hermentnan Upon completion of his address operations In addition to the
di e Comite Nominativo Nacional the Belot Refinery of the Standard Cada mucha lo haya dos ora di instruccion Mr Teagle introduced Henry Nassy regular stops whenever it is possible
Candidatonan adicional por laga in Oil Company NJ in Cuba recently cada siman durante seis coordinator of the tours who in turn a visit will also be paid to the department
clui nan nomber ariba papelnan di completed five weeks of training at luna Majoria di e clascnan lo ta presented Bennett Rombouts and Se where the husbands of most
vota pa proximo eleccion presentando Lago in procedures used here for landando y practica na Sea Grape veriano Luydens the two tour leaders of the group work
un peticion por escrito cu firma y training employees During his stay Grove Beach Tambe nan lo haya instruccion Mr Rombouts is formerly of the Tour Schedule
number corecto di ficha di a lo menos here he was assigned to job trainers den klas pa medio di pcli Training Division while Mr Luydens
100 votador eligible den giupo di na in the Piocess Department cula Ties instructor lo guia e pro worked in the Cracking Plant and is Present plans call for morning and
cionalidad di e peticionista mes na The various job trainers instructed grama di landamento Actualmente best known for his many years of afternoon tours lasting about two and
Comite Nominativo E peticion mester Mr Pita in the procedures and material muchanan di promer anja ta tuman service on the Lago Employee Coiyi a half hours including a half hour
worde presenta na e grupo nominativo used in job training at Lago do e curso pero ta woide spera cu e cil the Reception Center before and af
concerna nacional of no-nacio-nal With the material gathered during programa por worde expand mas Initial Tours ter the tours Explanatory talks at
pa mas tarda Diahuebes November his stay here Mr Pita will set up despues the Reception Center and along the
25 similar job training programs at the Four tours were conducted this tour route will be in Papiamento
Cuba refinery Mr Pita visited Lagos week Members of the Lago Employee English or Dutch according to the
many refining units and operators Ora di Oficinanan Council and the Special Problems Advisory preference of the group making the
Promotions Made duties to familiarize himself with Committee and their wives trip Tours will be arranged several
operations here Di Gobierno joined for one tour Foreign Staff weeks in advance through a system
In
Mechanical Mr Advisory Committee members and of cards sent out to employees On
Pitas five week at
stay Lago their wives made up another tour these cards the employees will give
Marine Departments was arranged through Neil Griffin Pa conveniencia di nos empleado and the District Representatives and the names and ages of family members
superintendent of the Belot Refinery nan ora di oficinanan di Gobierno their wives were divided into two who want to visit the plant
Promotions in the Mechanical and and brother of Frank Griffin Lago tanto na Oranjestad como na San Ni groups for two additional tours Prior lower age limit on visitors will be
general superintendent Some of the
Marine Departments three units colas ta indica aki bao to the formal tours and the opening 12 and their language preference
affecting
that Mr Pita studied
were non Tur oranan di oficina na Oranje
of the Center members of From the language information
men were announced effective Nov 1 reconstructed Combination Units Reception sup
Promoted in the Mechanical reconstructed stad cu excepcion di Ontvangerskan the Public Relations Committee and plied tour groups of approximately
Depart Combination Units Viscosity
toor ta for di 8 am 12 merdia
pa y the Public Relations Department 50 will be made accordingly
ment to the up
respective positions of Breaker Units Gas Oil Crack
for di 130 te 430 di Dia
assistant zone supervisor and pm pm staff and their wives took part in a When employees have filled in the
zone ing Unit Central Pump House No luna
te Diabierna Diasabra mainta
trial tour The test conducted information will
foreman run was requested they re
pipe were William K Dono
11 Crude Still and No 10 Vacuum
Oficinanan di
Gobierno
na Oranjestad to discover in advance turn the cards to the Public Relations
hue and Hale M Honey Martin L any pro
Atmospheric Crude Unit
ta habri for di 8 am te 1230 am
blems that lessen the interest office where
Brennan of the Marine Department might Department groupings
was promoted to the position of division He observed classroom training in Ontvangerskantoor na Oranjestad comfort or convenience for the employees by division number and language
head Haulage Coordination Receiving and Shipping Catalytic ta habri for di 8 am te 12 merdia families when they start preference will be made A card will
and Light Ends and Utilities Along y for di 130 pm te 330 pm di
Mr Donohue has been with the their tours Dec 1 then be returned to each employee
Company seven all in with job training classes he observed Dialuna te Diabierna Diasabra main The Reception Center will be used giving the day and hour his family is
years spent
on-the-unit training methods See ta Ontvangerskantoor ta habri for di
as the starting and finishing points invited Employees themselves will be
Continued on page 5 picture on page 3 Continua na pagina 4 of the tours At the Reception Center Continued on page 2



AKUKA ESSO NEWS
November 21 1932



Paseo Familianan ta Vocational School Starts

pa Student Swimming

Akiua53Nbw Cuminza Dia 1 di December Program


PUBLISHED EVERY OTHER FRIDAY AT ARUBA NETHERLANDS The
curriculum of the
WEST INDIES BY THE LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO LTD Lago Vocational
Printed the Curacaosche Courant Curasao NWI School has been further
by expan
Miembronan di Lago Employee Council Foreign Staff Employees ded to give its students every possible

Council y Special Problems Advisory Committee a participa hunto cu advantage when they take their

representantenan di directiva den habrimento oficial di Centro di Re respective places in the refinery This

ception nobo di Lago na Porta Mayor di rcfineria Diabierna 14 di week a new swimming program was

Meet Your Tour Leaders November Habrimento di e Centro di Recepcion ta marca principio inaugurated with the first year students

di un programa scgun cual familia di empleadonan di Lago lo tin opor The new program is tied in with

tunidad pa mira unda nan esposo tata ruman y yiunan ta traha the health physical education and
O S Mingus gerente general di life saving instruction that is part of

Lago a habri e ceremonia cortico bishita lo worde haci tambc na e departamento the boys study In addition to lear
pero impiesionantc cu un palabra di unda esposo di mayoria di ning to swim the boys will also be
bienvenida no solamente pa e bishitantenan e grupo ta traha taught elementary life saving They
reuni hunto pero na tur fa will learn how to swim safely and
milianan di Lago Cada empleado lo Arreglo di Paseonan thereby prepare those who later will

ta huesped pa nos familianan bishi Segun plannan actual lo tin un paseo work in the Marine Department and
f tante Sr Mingus a sigui bisando den oranan di mainta y uno den around water It is also felt that
iK Mm JHB JBflK
swimming will
Mi ta duna bienvenida na tur nos oranan di tramerdia y cada uno lo develop coordinated
v familianan no solamente na esnan cu dura mas of menos dos ora y mitar manipulation of the hands and arms
Hi P IH which will be
im of great value to the
ta reuni aki awe Nos ta masha orgu incluyendo un ora den Centro di Recepcion
nos familia bin bishita e despues di boys in working with tools as
yoso pa promer y e paseonan craftsmen
lugar unda nos ta traha Comentarionan di splicacion na
Despues di e bienvenida introducto Centro di Recepcion y durante e pa Each boy will receive two hours in
ry di Sr Mingus Diicctor di Rela seo lo ta na Papiamento Ingles of struction a week for six months The
ciones Publico B Teagle a splica ob Holandcs segun prefeiencia di e gru majority of the classes will be swim

heto di c paseonan na e bishitante po cu ta participa den e paseo Paseo ming and practice at Sea Grape
Grove Beach There will also be classroom
nan El a splica cu e paseonan lo duna nan lo woide ariegla varios siman
familia di empleadonan un opoituni en adelante pa medio di un sistema instruction with the use of
films Three instructors will
dad pa mira unda empleadonan ta di caichi cu ta worde manda pa closely
traha e condicionnan bao di cual nan empleadonan Ariba e caichinan aki supervise the swimming instruction
ta traha contra e hendenan cu kende nan mester yena nomber y edad di At present the first year boys are
the but it is
taking to
course hoped
nan ta traha y pa sinja mas tocante nan miembionan di familia cu ta de
expand the at later date
Lago Nos ta spera cu e paseonan sea di bishita refineria minimo edad program a

lo ta un expeiiencia agradable pa fa pa bishitantenan lo ta 12 y tambe
milia di empleadonan y cu esaki solamente mester indica ariba cual idioma nan
lo ta un placer pa empleadonan ta prefera For di e informacion tocante
mes Nos ta spera tambe di sinja idioma gruponan di mas of St Martinite Gets Boats

conoce nos empleadonan y nan fa menos 50 hende lo woide forma di For Islands Service

TOUR LEADERS One of the highlights of the opening ceremonies of milianan mehor pa medio di e bishi acuerdo

the Reception Center was the introduction of the tour leaders Shown tanan loke lo resulta den un mehor Ora empleadonan caba di yena e L B Scott well known St Martin
being introduced to the assembled guests by Henry Nassy coordinator comprendemento mutuo y aprecio pa informacion suplica nan mester de contractor businessman and Esso
of the tours are Soeriano Luydens left and Bennett Rombouts light problema di cada uno asina Sr bolbe e carchinan na Departamento di agent who was a visitor here in
Teagle a bisa Relaciones Publico na unda giupacion
September assisted at the launching
GUIANAN DI PASEO Un di e sucesonan mas importante di e ceremo Despues di completacion di su des segun division cantidad y preferen of his newly built motor launch
nianan di apertura di c Centro di Recepcion tabata introduccion di e dos curso Sr Teagle a introduci Sr cia di idioma lo worde haci Un carchi Ailsa last month This news comes

guianan di paseo Ariba e retrato nos ta mira ora Henry Nassy coordi Nassy coordinador di e paseonan lo woide debolbi despues na cada fiom the St Martin weekly news
nador di e paseonan ta introduci Seeriano Luydens banda robez y kende na su turno a presenta Bennett empleado munstrando e fecha y ora paper Herald published in Cuiagao
Bcnnct Rombouts banda drechi na e bishitantenan cu a reuni hunto Rombouts y Severiano Luydens ariba cual su familia ta keda invita Built on the French side the boat
e dos guianan Antes Sr Rombouts Empleadonan mes tambe por bini was moved to Philipsburg three days
tabata traha na Training Division hunto cu nan familia si e paseo pa after the launching wheie it was
Bonus pa Costo di Nom Committee mientras Sr Luydens tabata traha nan familia ta cai durante nan va met with proper ceremony by the Lt
den Cracking Plant y ta mehor co cacion of ariba e dia cu regularmente Governor

Bida ta Cambia Names Eight Men noci pa su cantidad di anjanan di ser nan ta liber of den caso di trahador The Ailsa which will be used for
vicio den Lago Employee Council nan di warda na ora cu nan ta liber traffic with neighboring islands as

Durante un reunion conjunto special For LEC Election Cuatro paseo a woide haci e siman di warda well as for ferrying passengers and
dia 15 di November Lago aki Miembronan di Lago Employee Pa cantidad di e familianan cu ta freight ashore at Philipsburg has a

Employee Council y Representante Eight men have been nominated as Council y Special Problems Advisory bishita Lago lo ta nan piomer vista speed of ten knots and accomodates
nan di Compania a repasa resultado candidates for the Dec 10 11 and Committee y nan esposa a participa di acerca ariba towers forno y un la 20 passengers
nan di e estudio pa costo di bida cu 12 Lago Employee Council election den un paseo miembronan di Foreign birinto di linea di tubo y edeficio di
a worde haci cu entrada di dia 1 di As announced by the Nominating Staff Advisory Committee y nan esposa Lago Cantidad di e familianan di
November Committee two non nationals and a forma un otro grupo y e Representantenan Lago formando casi mitar di henter

E estudio a indica un aumento den six nationals were nominated di Districto cu nan poblacion di Aruba lo tin e
index di costo di bida for di 101243 The non nationals are Sydney E esposa a woide paiti den dos giupo opoitunidad adicional pa mira unda N B Stahre Chief

pa 101567 Di acuerdo cu resultado Howaid of the Training Division Industrial pa dos paseo adicional Promer cu e e ganador di pam di nan familia
nan di e estudio un bonus di 1567 Relations and Joseph A paseonan formal y habrimento di e ta traha Designer Retires

por ciento pa costo di bida lo woide Butts of the Mechanical Department Centro di Recepcion miembronan di

paga cu entrada di dia 1 di December Administration The nationals are Comite di Relaciones Publico y personal Recepiion Center Nils B Stahre of the Technical

na tur empleadonan permanente regu Zacharias E De Kort of Light Oils di Departamento di Relaciones Continued from page 1 Service Department who for the past
lar y di staff E bonus aki lo worde Finishing Julio Boom of Light Oils Publico y nan esposa a participa den able to accompany their families if four years served as chief designer
paga ariba ganashi total di cada Finishing Johan H Nunes of Utilities un paseo experimental E paseo como the scheduled tour falls during their left Lago Nov 8 on retirement Mr
di staff durante Frits E Maduro of the Mechanical prueba a worde haci pa descubri di
empleado regular y vacation or regular day off or in the Stahres complete Lago career was in
lunanan di December 1952 Januari y Department Administration Frederick antemano cualkier problema cu lo por case of shift men at a time when TSD
Februari 1953 Boy Ritveld of Cracking and reduci interes comfortabilidad of they are off shift He started in April 1938 as a
Hose L H Engelen of Catalytic and conveniencia di familia di empleado and
For many of the families visiting draftsman 1 In February 1940
NEW ARRIVALS Light Ends The names were announced nan ora nan cuminza e paseonan dia Lago it will be their first close look August 1944 he was promoted to
by Beitie I Viapree chair 1 di December at the towers furnaces and mazes of Group Head Designing and Group
November 1 man of the Non National Nominating E Centro di Recepcion lo worde usa pipelines and buildings of Lago Head Designing and Drafting respectively
PYLE Walter A M & C Welding A Committee and Simeon Tromp chairman como punto di salida y punto final di Many of the Lago families who He later became Group

COWIE son Ernie Ewart Esmond M Esso Dining Hall A of the National Nominating e paseonan Na e Centro di Recepcion make up nearly half of Arubas population Head A Designing Drafting and
son Philmore Anthony Committee promer cu e paseo bishitantenan lo will have the extra opportunity Field Engineering In Maich 1948
November 2 Additional candidates may have tende un comentario inicial y nan lo to see where the breadwinner he became chief designer the position
GUY A Cat & Ends A
Joseph Light
son Dennis Fulton- their names entered on the ballots of tin tempo pa mira letrato modelo y of the family works he held at the time of his retirement
JOHN Hand Port Steward A daughter the forthcoming election by presen otio exhebicionnan informativo tocante
Janet Ursula ting a written petition bearing the industiia petiolero Despues di e
DIRKSEN Enchridt Lourens Teiese- Shipyaid A daughter signatures and correct payroll numbers paseo nan lo bolbe na e Centro pa tu

PELLEGRIM Alejandro N LOF A of at least 100 eligible voters ma refiesco Piesentacion di souvenirs
daughter Rose Ellen Marie in the petitioners own nationality y un folder ilustra lo completa
November 3 bishita Banda di Centro di
e paden
to the Nominating Committee
GEERMAN Dominico Rec & Shipping group
A daughter Vera Sylvia The petition must be presented to Recepcion ta haci un impresion agradable
November 4 the nominating concerned na Na muraya di e soda bar banda
LEWIS Ambrose L M & C Electiical group
di Centro tin mural di
patras e un
tional national
A son Michael Ambrose or non by Tuesday
PETERSON Benjamin M Acid & Nov 25 enscena di refineria Un muraya ta
Edeleanu A daughter dorna cu un platchi di diez pintura
November S di color munstrando di unda azeta ta
THOMAS Eusebio C Esso Trans Co E Walsko Former
A son Hubert Maitino bini com nan ta sakele for di den
LACLE Pedro A M & C Machine A Lagoite Retires terra com ta refine y com ta transpose
son Carlos Martinus hiba su mercadonan inume
BURGOS Vincent A Shipyard A daugh pa
ter Arnoldina Maria Ernest Jake Walsko former properties roso den henter mundo E muraya na
November 6 accountant in the Accounting otro banda tin un platchi di 10 retrato
HERNANDEZ Stefano O TSD EIG Department at Lago retired Nov 1 ilustrando e cantidad di areanan

GEERMAN A daughter Dominico Dalila Coromoto- Cracking Plant after completing a period of loaned for di unda azeta ta bini y su cantidad
A son service with Standaid Vacuum Oil di usonan
RAS Agustin -November TSD Lab 7 1 A daughter Company in Indonesia Un bus lo transporta bishitantenan

COOMBS Clifford W Esso Dining Hall Mr Walsko started with Lago as door di planta Guianan di paseo lo
A daughter Synthia Norma a clerk in the Accounting Department acompanja e bishitantenan mientias

PATERSON Patrick November Storehouse 9 A in March 1929 He was promoted nan ta cubri paitinan principal di re
son
Gideon Bridgewater Glenn to senior clerk in January fineria y ta para na algun departamento
WILLIAMS Denton Colony Commissary 1934 and later became division chief Durante henter camina e dos

DABIAN A daughter Candido Hulma- M Udora& C Welding A clerk Property Records and section guianan lo indica e cantidad di plan
daughter Mariska head II Construction and Property tanan cu ta forma operacion exten
DE PALM Anselmo H N Medical A Records before he assumed the sivo di Lago En adicion na e parada
daughter Norma Jeanctte of accountant LONG RULE Nils B Stahre of TSD will hae little trouble computing
position properties
oficial ki cu ta posible un
nan ora
November 10 figures during the days of his retirement thanks to the giant size slide
He was loaned to Stan Vac in Indonesia
BOMBA Mario B M & C Welding A
rule presented to him at his retirement party Inoled in the problem
son Wilfred Avelino in December 1949 His loan
WERLEMAN Luis M & C Garage A period ended Nov 1 1952 the date Recently Married shown are left to rifiht J Dowling W B Cundiff Mr Stahre S Sery

ITGAROA son Andres Leonardo Evalino- M & C Boiler of his retirement He retired with Mario L Gomez of Receiving and and J Opdyke
Twin sons Andres & Martin service of 23 years and 4 months Shipping Docks was married to
November 11 Lagoites will remember Jake as one Dora Margaretta Hidalgo Oct 8 at SLIDE RULE GRANDI Nils B Stahre di TSD lo tin poco dificultad
MADURO Candelario J M & C Noord Following computando cifranan aw or cu e laga sericio di Lago gracias na e slide
Foundry A son Rosario Joseph of the most avid and enthusiastic Santa Cruz Church in
DE CUBA Johannes E Colony Mainte Softball and handball players during the ceremony a reception was rule Rigantesco cu el a recibi regalo na ocasion di su retiro Inoli den
nance A son the Thnties as well as a great horseshoe held at the home of the brides parents e problema munstra ta di robez pa drechi J Dowling W B Cundiff
LOOPSTOK Juan M M & C Welding
S J Opdyke
Stahre
Sr Sery y
A daughter Mena Francisca and cribbage man in Noord



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ARUBA ESSO NEWS
Noember 21 1932



Government Office Martin Re eligi Como


Some Sunday Afiernoon . Hours Listed Presidente di Junta

Di Lago Sport Park


Try Catching A 30 Pound Conger Eel For the convenience of our employees Robeit E A Martin a woide re
Government office hours in both
eligi como presidente di Junta di
Oranjestad and San Nicholas are
Lago Sport Park durante reunion di
listed below
cambio di Diahuebes 13 di
e grupo
All Government office hours in
Some pleasant Sunday afternoon SEA MONSTER Oranjestad with the exception of the November Hugo de Vries a woide
le eligi como vice piesidente Da
Constable B Zijl y
Tax Collectors office from 8
and are am
when the surf is inviting you
mian Tromp woide eligi se
a como
stra of the Lago
to 12 noon and from 130 to
pm
have nothing better to do try Brigade holds the cretario
430
pm Monday through Friday
catching a Conger eel Better yet 30 pound Conger
Saturday morning the Oranjestad E otro miembronan di e Junta ta
try catching one that is about five eel he speared at Goernment offices are open from Jose M La Cruz Maximo D Kock

feet long and weighs in the neighborhood Sea Grape Groe 8 am to 1230 pm Herman S Figueiia C A Brown

If hunt beach Constable The Tax Collectors office in Oranjestad Mateo Reyes Juan Briezen Andries
of 30 pounds your y
ijlstras catch was is from 8 to 12
fl open am noon Geerman
is successful exeicise for that ***** ^^^
your not the result of and from 130 pm to 330 pm

particular afternoon will be moie sport but a case Monday through Friday Saturday

than you bargained for to say of self piotection
morning the Tax Collectors office
nothing of an expeiience you will The eel attacked is open fiom 8 am to 1130 am Promoiions Announced

long remember the Government There aie branches of the Census
And just to keep it sporting your policeman while he Tax and Water offices located in Continued from page 1

engagement with Mr Conger Eel was fishing for
should take place at a depth of 10 lobstei san iNicnoias ine uensus oince is the Mechanical Department He start
open fiom 845 am to 12 noon Mon ed subforeman Labor in Nov
feet Your only weapon is a steel as a
day thiough Fiiday This office is
spear with the pointed barb worn
not the afternoon
open in or on
off Befoie you set out on such a
Saturday The Tax Collectors office
mission however Constable B Zijl MONSTRUO DI

stra of the La go Brigade can give LAMAR Constable is open mornings only fiom 845 am
to 12 noon Monday thiough Friday
you fiist hand information on what B Zijlstra di Bri
On Saturday it is fiom 845
takes place during such a battle He gada di Poliz na PP7li5 S fcMf IB Hi open
am to 11 am The Water office is
knows he caught one not as a Lago ta tene e
from 8 to 12 and from
open am noon
sporting venture though it was a congla di 30 liber

matter of defense Heres his story cu el a harpuna na 130 pm to 430 pm Monday

Never again The further I can Sea Grape Gioe thiough Friday Saturdays hours aie filfjrr X fl JljMi
fiom 8 to 1230
am pm
stay away from those things the Beach Constable

better I will like it Spearing the Zijlstra no a mata

Conger eel was not planned I had e bestia pa spoit

to do it because I was so scared I sino pa su propio

didnt know what else to do It all defensa E congla mKSKhmM ft W

came about a couple of Sundays ago a ataka e poliz di

while I was hunting lobster at Sea Gobierno mientias H M Donohus W K Honey

Giape Giove Beach I was in water el tabata sambuya

about 10 feet deep when I spotted a kieef Sr Scott a Obtene Boto

nice sized lobster half under a rock

I down the bottom and Pa Servicio Insular
went to
spear I grabbed rt and hung on It I pulled him to the surface with 1945 He was later IbffHHHraK
leached under the lock for the
was still thiough the eel because I my spear and struggled to the beach piomoted to zone
lobster That was about as far as I could feel his tremendous tugs to When I leached the welcome shore I L B Scott prominente comerciante foreman Con aST Vlr ill
in of the lobster for
got my pursuit fiee himself I didnt daie move the was completely exhausted I never contiatista y agente di Esso na St crete in August

at the very instant I put my hand spear The barb was worn off the thought my heait would stop pounding Maarten kende a bishita Aruba na 1946 He later be i Hfeil

near the rock out shot this monstious tip and I knew it would pull out if Never was I so glad to leave September a asisti luna pasa na came zone foreman KlgjVsX t J J

eel Spuned on by fright I grabbed I moved it at all Finally after about the ocean inauguracion di su boto motor Ail and then assistant

my spear fiom my left hand and 10 minutes and after fiequent trips The next time I go outside the reef sa E noticia aki ta bini for di e se geneial foreman
plunged it in the diiection of his
head to the surface for aii the water at Sea Grape Grove Beach you can manario di St Maarten The Herald acting of the Ma MZA

cleaied Theie was the eel the spear bet your life I am going to make cu ta worde publica na Curasao son and Insulators

still in his head his long ugly sure that the lobster is the only thing Traha ariba e parti Frances e boto prior to his recent "" -am tr j-

The Battle heavy body lesting on the sea floor I reach for As far as the Conger eels a worde hiba Phihpsburg ties dia piomotion -A />

He looked dead are concerned never again despues di lanchamento na awa un Mr Honey stait
It fi antic thrust
was a hopeful
Thats Constable Zijlstras story of da e boto a worde recibi cu ceremonia ed as a subforeman
Foitunately it tine blow and M L Brennan
was a
Return Engagement his battle with an eel Still feel like propio door di teniente gobemador Pipe field in
the his head I had the
pieiced
spear spearing Conger eels One word of Ailsa cual lo worde usa pa tra December 1948
eel impaled I pushed desperately I pulled the spear out That was a
caution Dont make mistakes fico entre e islanan vecino y tambe with non ci edited service
any pievous
down on the spear to hold him as he mistake he was very much alive The
with Mr Conger he plays for pa caiga pasaheio y carga tiece ter He seived as rotating night foreman
his head he
thi ashed violently around with tie minute the spear left
keeps ra na Phihpsburg tin un velocidad di acting in the Mechanical Department
mendous strength My arms ached attacked again The viciousness of
diez milla acomoda 20 pasaheio
y por Administration Before his recent
fiom the strain of holding the eel the eels attack is almost unbelievable

down my lungs were bui sting for He shot at the spear as I piomotion he was zone foreman Pipe

air Finally I had to let go I shot rammed it in the diiection of his Rodulfo
82
Berg Mr Biennan has over 10 yeais
to the surface gasped for air and mouth He snapped at the steel lod SERVICE AWARDS
Marine
seivice in the Department
returned to the scene of the battle with raging fury The power of his Former Lagoite Dies
He started with Lago as a ship
I had to go down again because I jaws was such that I wras able to opeiator Lake Tankers in February

was afiaid to leave All sorts of hear the ping of his teeth they
as
20 Year Buttons Rodulfo Berg died Nov 2 at his 1947 He was piomoted to ship
thoughts laced thiough my mind clamped dowTn on the spear home in Oianjestad Mr Berg a operator in June 1949 Mr Brennan
Suppose I made mad dash for In I rammed the
a shoie desperation spear
former
Lago employee woiked in also held the position of shift supervisor
and he freed himself Andies Romeio Marine Dept
fiom into his head
my spear continuously My the
Marine Department until 1939 acting and Marine assistant A
then what He would be after me in draining energy at this point was Louis Koolman Boiler
He was 82 Survivois include his befoie his Nov 1 piomotion
a minute and I would be defenseless uplifted by fright and fright alone Christoffel W Thielman Yard
wife four sons Obdulio and Nicolas Mr Brennan has service with
I faced an adveisary in his habitat I knew I had to kill him or I would Jaciento Vries Pipe
both of the Shipyaid Adrian of the Standaid Oil Company NJ at
not own suffer the shower of blows Austin S Elscoe Machinist
my Finally
Caipenter Shop and Francisco of the Bayonne and the Canal Zone from
When I reached the bottom again and pierces I had inflicted on him Jacobo Boekhoudt Welding
Marine Department and three sisters May 1941 to January 1947
the water swirled with action It was took their toll His actions giadually Roman Cioes Laboratory 1

muddy and bloody and the only thing became less violent until he lay still Lambert Weer Cat & L E

I could see was the veiy top of my dead Leonaid A Pounds Maiine Dept



10 Year Buttons Siudeni of Photography



Ephraim G Neptune Marine Dept
Eleazor D Roberts Marine Dept
James A Scott Marine Dept
Cecil C Phillips Marine Dept
Jose M M Paulina Commissary
Jarvis Babb Dining Hall
Gershon J Porter Dining Hall
Rufus C A Pembertson Dining Hall
Clifford W Coombs Dining Hall
David C Burgin Stewards
Alva R Morgan Commissary
Robert A Da Costa Dining Hall
Samuel Richards Dining Hall
Horsa Glasgow Dining Hill
Everal Delpeche Dining Hall
George Medica Dining Hall
Stephen Olivierre Commissary
Robert Lewis Dining Hall
Henrique D P Boye Commissary
Abraham van Woerkom Lago Police Dept
Albert M Jack Lago Police Dept
Albert Carr Medical Dept
George F Lovell Shipyard
Joseph Williams Marine Office
Guillaume Kenson Electrical
Jacinto Rosel Garage
Henry Johnson Garage
Dalton Hull Pipe
James E Kirton Storehouse
Jemnott E Hazlewood Storehouse
Matthew Baptlste Carpenter
Fred Allen Yard
Olivero F Montero Paint
Josa N Rodriguez Yard
Luis Medina Pipe
Maximo Maduro M & C Adm
Joseph De Freitas Carpenter
JOB TRAINERS Piocess job trainers joined with Orlando Pita for a Guillaume A Berend Instrument

linal photo before Mr Pita returned to the Belot Refinery in Cuba Mr Lloyd E Carmichael TS D Lab
Pedro Heide TS D Lab
Iita recened -
instiuction on the procedures used here in training Mario M Fingal T S D Lab
employees Shown aie left to right II Patist Julio Van Dinter William Otto K Joseph Rec &. Shipping

On Gaivis Koby Mr Pita Thomas Kelly and James Van Rite John G Richards Rec &. Shipping COMPLETES COURSE James A Carty of the Lago Commissary

Arthur Davis LOT recently completed a correspondence couisc in photography at the Ame
Wilco
Engelbrecht Rec <.
Shipp -Wharves
INSTRUCTORNAN DI TRABAO Instructornan di trabao den Process Francisco Croes Rec & Shipp Wharves rican School of Photography in Chicago Mr Cartys certificate shown
a leum hunto cu Orlando Pita un retrato final Jose D van der Linden
pa promer cu Sr Pita a Cracking with him was awarded July 12
regiesa pa Refineria Belot Cuba Sanford L Gibson Cracking
Sr
na Pita a recibi instruccion
tocante David L G Eustace Utilities COMPLETA CURSO James A Catty di Lago Commissary recientemen-
e procedirnientonan cu ta worde usa aki den entienamento di empleado Owen Hadaway Rec & Shipping te a completa un curso di corespondencia den fotografia na American
nan Anba e retrato di robez pa drechi ta II Patist Julio an Dinter Allan Da Silva Cat & L E
School of Photograph na Chicago Certificado di Sr Carty munstra
William Sylvester Francis
Orr Garvis Cracking
Roby Sr Pita
Thomas Kelly y James Van Rite Diego Monah LO T hunto cu ne a wotdc duna dia 12 di Juli



ARUBA ESSO NEWS
November 21 1952



Un Diadomingo Tramerdia Catalog di Libreria

Publico ta Desponible


Purba Coi un Congla Un catalog gedruk di Libreria Publico Outstanding Workers

di Aruba ta desponible awor

ariba suplica sea na libreria di Oran

jestad of na e afiliado na San Nicolas
Cualkier Diadomingo tramerdia cu bon tempo ora lamar ta invitante E introduccion contenido y spli

y cu bo tin nada mehor di haci purba coi un congla Of mehor ainda cacion di procedimientonan di libieria

purba coi uno cu ta mas of menos cinco pia largo y cu ta pisa como ta na Holandes Ingles Spanjo y Pa
piamento
trinta liber Si bo tin exito bo ehercicio pa e atardi aki a resulta mehor
Material
pa leza ta desponible na
cu bo por a pensa pa no papia nada di un experiencia cu lo bo keda ambos libreria na idioma Holandes

corda hopi tempo largo Ingles Papiamento Spanjo Aleman

Y pa keda deportivo bo encuentro cu Sr Congla mester tuma lugar Frances Italiano y Frisiano Tambe
inclui den e catalog ta algun poesia
hundura di 10 pia Bo unico
na un den e idiomanan menciona ariba bu
arma ta un harpoen di staal cu un sa den cabez di e congla pasobra mi ki di school y un seccion tocante mu
haak gasta Sinembargo promer cu por a sinti su esfuerzo tremende pa
sica E bukinan ta enlista nan
segun
bo cuminza un mision asina Constable libra su mes Mi tabatin miedo pa autoi

B Zijlstra di Brigada di Poliz move e harpoen E haak tabata gasta

na Lago por duna bo informacion for na punta y mi tabata sabi cu e lo

di experiencia personal tocante loke sali cu e minimo movecion cu mi haci

ta socede durante un combatc asina cu ne Por fin despues di mas of menos
TEN YEARS
El sabi el a coi uno no pa sport 10 minuut y varios vez cu mi a AGO

sino pa defende su mes Esaki ta e bin laria pa tuma aiie e awa a cla In The Esso News
storia ria Y ey bao mi a mira e congla e

Nunca mas Mas leuw mi por ke harpoen ainda den su cabez su cur

da for di e bestianan ey mas mehor pa largo pisa y mahos sosegando ari
Mi no tabatin intencion pa harpoena ba vloer di lamar E tabata parcc A former Lagoite made world
haci asina morto wide news in November 1942 Cecil
e congla pero mi mester a
pasobra mi tabata tanto spanta cu Petty onetime instrument man here

mi no tabata sabi kiko otro mi mester Segunda Encuentro survived a crash landing and ten
Dia days afloat on a small Pacific lagoon
haci Tur esaki a socede algun
Mi a saca e harpoen afor Esaki
the pilot of transport
mi tabata rondia Petty was a large
domingo ora
pasa tabata un equivocacion e tabata bibo
plane ferrying 20 wounded Ma
Beach
Grove
kreeft na Sea Grape
masha bon E momento cu e harpoen
rines out of Guadalcanal A few hun
Mi tabata den awa mas of menos 10 a sali for di den su cabez el a bolbe dred miles from Guadalcanal the WELL DONE Eight first year students of the Lago Vocational School

pia hundo ora mi a mira un kieeft ataka Vigor di atake di e congla tabata pose with the prizes they won for the best shop projects constructed dur
had to buck storm and in
plane
mediano mitar bao di un bai anca casi increible El a bula bin den a so ing the year Left to right the boys are D Kelly M L Tromp S Kool
the drained and
Mi a sambuya bai abao y a saca mi direccion di e harpoen cu mi a manda doing gas was Petty man F Pasch J V Croes J Noguera L Tromp and T A Figaroa
had to crash land his plane in about
kreeft Esaki ta
man coi c mas
pa pa su boca Furiosamente el a coi e three feet of water off small coral
leuw cu mi a yega den persiguicion di harpoen Forza di su cachetenan tabata atoll The and wounded a Marines BON HACI Ocho discipulo di promer anja na School di Ofishi di Lago
crew
e kreeft pasobra na mes momento cu asina tanto cu hasta mi por a ta posa cu e premionan cu nan a gana pa e mehor proyectonan traha
10 later when
mi a pone mi man na e baranca e sinti kraakmento di su dientenan com were picked up days den taller durante anja Di robez pa drechi e muchanan ta D Kelly 31

congla monstruoso aki a bula afor nan ta hala cerra ariba e harpoen they were found by a United States L Tromp S Koolman F Paesch J V Croes J Noguera L Tromp

Anima door di susto mi a saca mi destroyer y F A Figaroa
Den mi keda suta
desesperacion a
The RCA football team won the
harpoen for di mi man robez y a
e harpoen continuamente ariba su
championship of the Aruba Football
di animal
den direccion
stoot e e su
cabez cabez Mi energia a aumenta na e Bond for the fifth consecutive year Ora di Oficinanan
momento aki solamente pa motibo di The championship team defeated the
E Combate susto Mi tabata sabi cu mi mester DIEZ ANJA PASA
Aruba Juniors 4 1 for the title Continim di vagina J
Tabata un tiro frenetico y cu spe matele sino cos ta malo pa mi Por Members of the 1942 squad were

ranza Afortunadamente tabata un fin e awacero di golpe cu mi a laga Damian Tiomp Modesto Oduber Jr den Esso News 8 am te 1130 am

bon tiro y e harpoen a drenta den su yobe ariba dje tabatin efecto Su ac Victor Henriquez Jossy Quant Carlos Tin afiliadonan di Registracion Civil

cabez Mi tabatin e congla teni cionnan a cuminza bira menos te ora Holsman Antonio Morales Daniel Ontvanger y oficina di Water

Desesperadamente mi a pusha e harpoen cu el a para keto morto Kelly Nicolas Pimienta Betran leiding na San Nicolas Oficina di Re
abao pa tenele mientras e ta Mi a hale trece ariba cu mi har Odor Frans Kelkboom Menelio Loop Un empleado anterior di mundo Lago a gistracion Civil ta habri for di 845

bata bati den awa cu forza tremende poen y a lastre bin terra Ora mi a stok Pedro Quant and Angel Chirino haci nomber den henter na am te 12 merdia for di Dialuna pa
Mi brazanan tabata haci dolor di e yega terra firme mi tabata morto November 1942 Cecil Petty un vez Diabierna E oficina aki no ta habri

esfuerzo pa tene e congla abao mi cansa Mi tabata kere cu mi corazon un instrument man na Lago a scapa den di meidia ni ariba Dia
oranan
pulmonnan tabata ceica di laga bai lo no stop di bati mas Nunca mi ta C-of-L Bonus for di un aterizaje forzoso y diez dia sabra Oficina di Ontvanger ta habri

Por fin mi mester a laga bai Mi a bata asina contento cu mi a sali for di aiiba awa den un lagoen chikito den den di mainta solamente for

sambuya bin laria coi poco aire fresco den lamar Changes Announced Pacifico Petty tabata piloto di hi un di 845 oranan am te 12 merdia for di Dia

y bolbe bai abao pa enscena di Otro biaha cu mi bai Sea Grape aeroplano grandi di transporte luna te Diabierna Diasabra e ta ha
for di
combate Grove Beach bo por pusta bo bida At a special joint meeting Nov bando 20 mariniers herida bri for di 845 am te 11 am Kan

Mi mester a bai abao atrobe paso cu ta kieeft sol lo mi rondia En ember 15 the Lago Employee Council Guadalcanal Algun cientos di mila toor di Waterleiding ta habri for di
bra mi tabatin miedo di huy cuanto ta toca and leuw for di Guadalcanal e aeroplano
puiba congla nunca mas Company Representatives le 8 am te 12 merdia y for di 130 pm
Tur sorto di pensamento a pasa den Esaki ta storia di Constable Zijlstra viewed the lesults of the cost-of-living tabatin di traversa un tempestad y te 430 pm for di Dialuna te Dia
mi cabez si mi haci batalla Ainda bo tin conducted of November haciendo asina bezine a caba y Petty
Supone cu un su cu un congla survey as bierna Oranan di oficina ariba Dia
esfuerzo pa yega terra y e congla deseo di harpoena congla Un pala 1 mester a haci un aterizaje forzoso sabra ta for di 8 am te 1230 pm
libra su mes for di mi harpoen Den bra di spieitamento No haci ningun The survey indicates an increase in den mas of menos tres pia di awa

un instante e lo ta mi tras y e ora error cu Sr Congla el ta hunga the cost-of-living index from 101243 den vecindario di un isla chikito E

mi no tin ningun defensa Mi tabata pa bida of pa morto to 101567 Accordingly a cost-of-living tripulacion y mariniersnan herida a

enfrenta un adversario den su cas bonus of 1567 per cent will worde salba diez dia despues ora un Juniors 41 pa e titulo Miembronan

no den di mi Schedule of be paid to all permanent staff and destroyer di Estados Unidos a haya di e equipo na anja 1942 tabata Da

Ora mi a yega abao atrobe e awa Paydays regular employees effective December nan mian Tromp Modesto Oduber Jr

tabata lemolina cu accion E tabata 1 This bonus will be payable on Victor Henriquez Jossy Quant Carlos

color di lodo y yen di sangre y e Semi Monthly Payroll each staff and regular employees Team di futbol RCA a gana cam Holsman Antonio Morales Da
Nov 1 15 Nov
unico cos cu mi por a mira tabata e Monday 24 total earnings during the months of peonato di Aruba Voetbal Bond pa niel Kelly Nicolas Pimienta Betran

punta ariba di mi harpoen Mi a cohe Monthly Payroll December 1952 January & February di cinco anja consecutivo E team cu Odor Frans Kelkboom Menelio Loop

tene y a wantele Ainda e tabata pa Nov 1 30 Tuesday Dec 1953 a coi campeonato a derrota Aruba stok Pedro Quant y Angel Chirino





Presentation of Prizes at Lago Club and Lago Sport Park










































KORFBALL WINNERS V Morgan of TOF and P Vol POST GAME MERRIMENT F W Switzer and J M BEST AT BILLIARDS Winners of the with recent their billiard prizes

kerts of Sparta accept the korfball trophies for their Whiteley exchange kidding remarks to the delight of tournament held at the Lago Club outstanding pose billiard players

teams following the completion of the Lago Club tourna athletes and spectators following the final match of the From left to right the clubs and Pedro Brook
Fook Albus Leung
ment Sparta defeated TOF 20 for the championship Sport Park football tourney Mr Whiteley had the last word are Arthur Tiam the taken
when picture was
Also shown are Bertie Viapree and N M Shirley since Cracking Catalytic defeated the Machinists 20 B Bisram was absent


GANADORNAN DI KORFBALL V Morgan di TOF y ALEGRIA DESPUES DI WEGA F W Switzer y J M MEHOR DEN BILLIARD Ganadornan di e torneo pre
Club ta cu nan premio
teni Lago
sente di billiard na posa
P Vlkerts di Sparta ta accepta e trofeonan di korfbal pa Whiteley ta cambia remarcanan di chanza na gran alegria robez hungadornan prominente di

nan equipo despues di completacion di e torneo di Lago di atleta y mirones despues di e wega final den e torneo nan For di drechi Tiam pa Fook Albus Leung y Pedro Brook
Arthur
Club Sparta a ence TOF cu 20 pa campeonato Tambe di futbol ariba Lago Sport Park Sr Whiteley tabatin ultimo e club ta retrato a worde tuma
Bisram tabata ausente ora e
ariba e retrato ta Bertie Viapree y N M Shirley palabra como Cracking Catalytic a derrota Machi B
nist 20



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AIIUBA ESSO NEWS
Nov ember 21 1952



Ancient Hindu Numerals


You Make It

PatternTodaysComputations




Apron 17 j v x 7 -* *-.

Materials Plain Indian Head and is v 8

one pack of contrasting bias tape
Directions Cut two gores 20 inches P i iO

by six inches and one 15 inches by
six inches Bind the bottom of the U V 51

Bags of Sun two longer gores and turn them up
five inches to make pockets Bind the > v r o

The blue water of the Lake of Thun reflect the beautiful little village long gores with bias tape Join the

of Werligen with its red roofs and delicate steeples Here once upon gores edging together with bias outlining tape Gather seams and together h V 8 b

a time a fool sat in the great mayors chair and carried on the business and sow to a band long enough ' i
t s n h V B b
of the village to tie at the waist Make pair of

Of course everyone knew that he was a fool but just the same because gingerbread men potholders and put i 5 ti j h b A I \> *
in
he was a good talker and a wise looker and had such a serious pockets

face he was elected to office year after year and was obeyed as i -z u y h u \ 8 9

perfectly as if he had been a much

wiser and greater man He sat in his huge chair and scratched o ^ 8 7 t-

When the time came to build the his head first on one side and then
new city hall of course the fool sat on the other At he spring up bio A 8 5 t ?

at the head of the table and rapped I have it he cried Get you
for order and did all the talking and gone at once and bring back each phWMft P A l > Sift

planning himself When anyone offered of you a big grain sack
a suggestion the fool meiely So saying he smiled wisely and 1 A x 5
lifted his voice and went on talking nodded his head for an hour until

So overwhelming were his words that every one of the councilmen had returned t 9
in the end everyone nodded a sleepy with a sack I J ,;*

head and agreed to whatever he proposed It is the simplest thing in the
Thus it came about that when world said the mayor to light this HINDU ARABIC NUMERALS It was the symbol for zero and the

the plans were all made no one noticed or any other dark place Why did I numerals developed by ancient Hindu mathematicians of the 10th to the
that not one window was called not think of it before How it would 16th centuries that started our current place value system of computa
for in the contract Since windows have saved candles in my own cellar tion Without them the remarkable computing machines of today could

cost money and since the builder But alas that is the way it is Great not have been invented

thought the councilmen at least knew thoughts are slowly born like mountains NUMERAL HINDU ARABICO Tabata e symbolo pa zero y e numeral
their own business he said nothing and deep seas But all is well nan desaroya door di matematiconan Hindu antiguo di siglo 10 te 16 cu

about the matter but went right on now Pick up your sacks and come Lantera a cuminza nos sistema actual di computacion Sin nan e mashinnan
putting stone over stone until at with me remarcable di calculacion di awendia lo no por a worde invent a
last the roof was laid in place and The mayor led the councilmen out Material Panja di catuna lizo y

the great city hall was finished even of the city hall thiough the crowded diki y un paki di tape di pega panja When you add your golf score total your grocery bill or use a

to the laying of the long carpet in street into the fields beyond Direccion Corta dos pida panja modern office calculator for billing or accounting please remember to

the council room Now open your sacks and fill triangular di binti inch pa seis inch give thanks to Aryabhata Brahmagupta Mahavira and Bhaskara
On the day of the grand opening
di 15 inch seis inch Mara
the mayor and his councilmen went them to the very brim with sunlight y uno pa These ancient Hindus were the first mathematicians to use both
Then close the tightly and parti abao di e dos pidanan mas gran
early to see that everything was shone in all caiefully into top the dark chamber carry di y dobla nan cinco inch pa forma the numerals that developed into the Hindu Arabie system and the

order but without though the the chamber sun within What soit of business if this saco Tene e dos pidanan laigo cu e symbol for zero which made possible our current place value methods

brightly daik cried one councilman But he filled tape Uni e pidanan hunto cerrando e of computation
was as pitch
Throw open the windows order his sack just the same and followed naat y cantonan cu tape Pone nan Their zero staited it all With this far cry from todays fantastic

ed the mayor the rest hunto y cose un bandchi bastante new symbol for zero and the numerals electronic brains which solve in
Theie are no windows said the Now cried the mayor when they grandi pa pasa rond di bo Centura na for one to nine addition subtraction seconds problems that might have
had all entered the dark room here dje Traha dos figura chikito di hom
builder multiplication and division stumped Pascal for hours even days
No windows repeated the fool are foity big sacks of sunlight You ber y pone nan ariba e saconan as Western civilization knows them pei haps a lifetime Yet in its way

How is that filled them yourselves with sun today began to be widely used Pascals work made a direct contribution
No windows aie called for in the enough to light a whole city I promise Aryabhata about 475 550 AD to the smooth efficiency of

plans said the builder you in one moment we shall lived in or near the present city of modern business for our adding
What he said was only too true have all the light we need or I am Patna on the Ganges to the east of machines operate on the same general
Though the mayor and his council no mayor from this day forth Open Rodulfo Berg Empleado Benares His works covered arith plan as Pascals with vast improvements

men looked over the plans with a and let out the light Anterior di Lago a Muri metic and geometric progressions to be sure
magnifying glass no trace of win Of course the inside of each sack and quadratic and indeterminate Inventors of multiplication machines

dow could be found anywhere was as daik as the outside and a Rodulfo Berg a muri dia 2 di November equations He also computed astronomical included Leibnitz in 1671

This is a sad mess sighed a groan of dismay spread from throat na su cas na Oranjestad Sr tables which contained a table Thomas de Colmar in 1820 Leon

councilman to throat Berg un empleado anterior di Lago of sines Bollee in 1889 and Otto Steiger in

It is what we got for being guided Alas cried one man at last this a traha den Marine Department te Brahmagupta circa G28 AD 1892

by a fool said another comes of listening to a fool Let us anja 1939 Sobrevivientenan ta inclui lived at Ujjain where a renowned Sweden

You got us into it said another duck the miserable wretch in the su esposa cuatro yiu Obdulio y Nicolas astronomical observatory was located
Sweden became center of calcu
addressing the mayor Now show waters of Lake Thun ambos trahando den Shipyard He contributed successfully to a
lating machine in the late
your great wit by lighting this chamber But when they struck lights to Adrian di Carpenter Shop y Francisco solving problems of barter interest 19th progress number of inven
so that we will no longer stumble look for him the mayor was gone di Marine Department y tres ru progressions and shadow reckoning century as a
tors and engineers in that
over our own feet leaving wiser but sadder men to undo man muher El tabatin 82 anja di He gave the rules for negative numbers country
devised
Of course the mayor was worried his miserable folly edad in his algebra solved quadratics accurate practical computers
One famous Swedish inventor was
and also considerable attention
gave W T Odhner who completed his
to indeterminate equations
lever set calculating machine in the
Mahavira lived at Mysore about
middle 1880s Odhner type calculating
two centuries after Brahmagupta
machines now employed
are
His works discussing operations with
widely in practically country
every
treated division having
zero by zero as
in the world
effect the dividend something
no on
The engineering genius behind the
schoolboy knows today
every Facit machine was Karl Viktor Ru
but a genuine contiibution to mathematics
din Production on Swedish calculating
then
machines in general has been
The last of our Hindu mathematicians
based on his inventions
Bhaskara 1114 1185 AD
In the late 1920s seeking a faster
was another resident of Ejjain He
to set calculations than by
way up
was noted for his tieatment of ne
the use of Odhner type levers Karl
gative numbers which he considered
Viktor Rudin hit a revolutionary
upon
as debts or losses He named his
idea for Facit calculators
tieatise on arithmetic and measurement
which led to the construction of a
for his daughter Lilavati
simple and efficient ten key keyboard
Contributions which anyone could learn to operate

Their contributions advanced the after a few minutes practice
science of mathematics notably The The Facit thus became the first
TWO DEPARTURES TWO WEDDINGS Mrs Vita years 3Ir Stuart above right retired Nov 1 after Hindu Arabic numeral system gra ten key calculator As it made possible
31 Gloria of Lago Hospital and William B Stuart of service of 18 years He received a check from his dually replaced the Babylonian high speed calculations by an

the 3Iechanical Department 3Ietal Trades left the fellow 3Ietal Trades workers 31 r Werleman below Egyptian Greek and Roman numbers easily learned touch system it soon
service of the Company recently while Johan Werle left married 3Iiss Augustine Kelly of Santa Cruz system used by the ancient world became popular throughout the

man of the 3Iechanical Department Storehouse and Oct 30 Fellow employees gave him a wedding gift The computing methods made possible world Today Facit is used in all
Laurino 3Iaduro of the Acid & Edeleanu Plant became of siher 3Ir 3Iaduro below right received a silver by their work made obsolete types of offices in 102 countries
newly weds 3Irs Gloia aboe left departed set from his fellow workers prior to his marriage the abacus the counter reckoner and When accountants billing clerks

with her husband for Canada Her associates pre to 3Iiss Jacinta Curiel of Santa Cruz Oct 30 Gre other primitive type devices such as tellers or seci etaries operate Facit

sented her with a train case She had sen ice of four gorio Willems makes the presentation the Sand Reckoner of Archimedes calculators today they may not realize

As mathematics became more that they are continuing in the

scientific improved computing devices tradition begun when Aryabhata
were perfected In approxima 3Iahavira Brahmagupta and Bhas
tely 1597 the Italian physicist Galileo kara Hindu mathematicians of long
devised sector compasses to aid ago first started to use the symbol

in solving many problems Napiers for zero But they are whether they
Rods also called Napiers Bones know it or not Rudin realized that

weie invented to facilitate multipli if the principle of mathematics established
cation by the Scotsman John Napier by his Hindu predecessors
in 1617 The first slide rules were fifteen hundred years ago could be
invented by the English mathemati applied to twentieth century mecha
cians Edmund Gunter and William nical computations he would elimi

Oughtred in the early 17th centiu y nate the need for more than ten

Finally the first calculating machine numeral keys on a calculating mach
was made by Blaise Pascal in ine As the Hindu scholars before
1G42 Based on the now familiar him Rudin solved his problem with

principle of a series of wheels each the zero The Facit keyboard
having ten teeth for the numerals therefore consists of only nine num

zeio to nine Pascals machine was a eral keys and a zero key



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GHOSTS AND GOBLINS Youngsters of the La go Elementary School parade through the
school courtyard proudly exhibiting their Halloween costumes Animals story characters COMIC SKETCH Launie Rocks comical antics was one of the highlights
ghosts goblins and many other get ups were on parade in keeping with the Oct 31 custom of an evening of entertainment sponsored recently by the British
West Indian Association Held at the Excelsior Brass Band Club the
program also included songs choir band and instrumental renditions



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LONE PALM ACTION Mem
bers of the Aruba Field Hockey
Club divided into two teams
and put on a fast moving exhibition
z at Lone Palm Stadium
V06 Sunday Nov 2 Made up of
both men and women the
teams very capably demonstrated
the skill and speed that
makes up the exciting and
popular sport
and
ACCION NA LONE PALM
Miembronan di Aruba Field
Hockey Club a parti den dos
equipo y a demonstra un ex
hebicion rapido na Lone Palm
o ai Stadium Diadomingo 2 di November
E equiponan cu tabata
consisti di homber y muher a
demonstra capablemente e ha
bilidad y rapidez cu ta forma
e deporte excitante y popular
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OUTSTANDING PERFORMERS The Aruba Concert Players are fast
becoming one of the islands most popular groups They recently put on
a highly entertaining show at the NWIWA Club E V Manuel of Powerhouse
No 1 right is the groups founder







PUZZLED No youre not in a well looking up nor are you looking into a tunnel Its nothing
more than the inside of a compressor plus a little camera trickery The interesting effect
was attained by placing a lone flash on the bearing rings without additional outside light

CONFUSION No bo no ta den un poos ta mirando na laria y tampoco bo ta waak den un
tunnel No ta nada mas cu banda paden di un compressor y ademas un poco triki di camara
E efecto interesante a worde obteni poniendo un solo flash ariba su bearing rings sin otro
claridad adicional di pafor


GIRL SCOUT TOUR One of the highlights of the week long series of
activities commemorating Girl Scout week Oct 26 was a refinery tour
The girls are shown during their tour Saturday Nov 1 Pointing out
the interesting sights are Henry Nassy Severiano Luydens and Bennett
ii i mlVmuimM ilUy Rombouts tour leaders


PASEO PA PADVINDSTER Un di e sucesonan importante di un siman *
largo di actividad conmemorando Siman di Padvindster di dia 26 di
October tabata un paseo den refineria Aki nos ta mira e muchanan durante
nan paseo den refineria Diasabra 1 di November Munstrando ariba
puntonan interesante ta Henry Nassy Severiano Luydens y Bennet
Rombouts guianan