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i ~ Y & VOL 18 No 2 PUBLISHED BY LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO LTD Januaiy 26 1957




1956 Rainfall


Third Heaviest


In TSD Annals

Total Fall of 3610

Less Than 55 50

Although it seemed to a lot of
people tnat a lot ot rain iell on
Aruoa last year they were only
J pamally rignt A lot of rain did
> iall on Aruoa but not quite as

^ mucn as many suspected
^ Aruba was on the underside of
^ 3610 inches of rainfall the third
HP:> largest fall since 1929 Last years
IN THE not too distant future Arubas Palm Beach will front one of the DEN FUTURO no muy lejano Palm Beach di Aruba lo posede un di e figure was some two plus inches
most ultra modern hotels in the Caribbean Pictured here is a model of hotelnan mas ultra moderno den Caribe Ariba e retrato aki ta un re less than the year before 1955
the hostelry created by Architect Morris Lapidus of Miami On the left trato di e model projecta door di Architecto Morris Lapidus di Miami when the total fall was 3842 And
is the beach and on the right is the new boulevard The second lane has Banda robez ta beach y banda drechi ta e boulevard nobo E segunda this figure although a rather sub
jet to be added According to Mr Lapidus the hotel should be ready avenida ainda mester worde agrega Segun Sr Lapidus e hotel mester ta stantial one stands as somewhat
Jan 1 1958 at a cost of approximately Fls 3000000 cla Jan 1 1958 na un costo di mas of menos Fls 3000000 less than the leading year of 1950
when Aruba felt itself pelted by
a rainfall of 4416 inches
Arturo Tliijsen The year 1956 put one record in
Jersey Company Aiding Commissary Announces
Arubas rainfall record book Janu
Dates Wins Spelling
Inventory ary the month that got itself and

Hungarian Ex Employees Lago Commissary will be closed Championship the year off to a wet start expe
Jan 31 for inventory Other dates rienced a fall of 895 inches This
Standard Oil Co NJ announced Jan 11 an emergency program for the monthly inventories in the Arubas Arturo Thijsen was a was the heaviest January fall ever
for assisting toward a new life in the United States any refugees immediate future are as follows first round winner in a seven noted by the Technical Service De
coming there from Hungary who were employed by the companys Feb 28 March 28 April 28 May county spelling contest according partment laboratories since the observations
Hungarian affiliate which the communist government seized more 28 and June 27 to a news clipping from the Allen were started in 1929 The
than eight years ago Patrons of the commissary are town Call Chronicle Arturo is living January fall was also far in excess
Employees of MAORT the expropriated company will be aided in urged to keep these dates in mind in Allentown as one of the vocational of the average first month fall of
finding and building new careers and avoid inconvenience school scholarship winners 221 It was also the heaviest of 1956
Jersey Standard said MAORT had By winning the championship of February came through with 469
some 4000 Hungarian employees A committee of Jersey Standard his home room in Allentown High inches the second highest total as
when the company was taken in employees who have worked for 38 Employees School Arturo won a bronze medal did August with 170 inches and
1948 Thus far four former employees MAORT and who now serve at company In the next round of competition October with 773 inches The De
have reached the United States headquarters in New York will Taking Clerical he will spell against other home cember observed fall of 812 proved
and are participating in the program counsel all employee refugees One room champions in his school and to be the third largest fall on record
committee member is Paul Ruede Training Course from that winners will go on to and the second heaviest of

Under the Jersey Standard plan mann American born geologist who Thirty eight employees embarked semi finals and finals Thus he has 1956 trailing January by 083

former employees obtaining refuge was general manager of MAORT on a clerical training program Jan the opportunity of winning more Interestingly enough while the
in the United States will receive when it was expropriated and a 14 offered by the Training Division honors and more awards year 1956 was the third wettest in
150 cash on arrival subsistence re victim of communist torture before The course of instruction scheduled In the first week of the old TSD history only five months exceeded
lief up to three months duration and his release from Hungary in 1948 to last nine months includes fashioned spelling bee more than the average fall The rest
assistance in finding permanent employment Mr Ruedemann under whose man typing shorthand and English 38000 students competed in the entire were far below the average and

The subsistence scale agement MAORT developed Hun Classes are scheduled every morning area gave Aruba months of near arid
based on each employees marital garys first commercial oil production Monday through Friday Mrs Doro weather And those months were
and family status ranges from 35 has served in Jersey Standards thy OBrien is the instructor from March through August when
to 55 per week Those needing lan producing coordinating department Assignment to the classes was New Director Here the best Aruba could muster in the
instruction will be assisted in in New York since then
guage of water from above was 081
made on the basis of employee way
aptitude XSIVZS fFtZfc?^ ?* _" J j8jMf
learning English Announcement of the employee and need Departments represented inches March was the driest month
Recognized relief committees and assistance plan followed two corporate in the enrollment are Accounting with a bare 036 fall The only other
the United States Government authorities contributions to Hungarian Colony Service Executive month to fall below the average was
have been asked to contact relief in general When American
Office Industrial Relations Mecha November It had a very weak 250
the company immediately the agencies first undertook a i
upon program I nical Process and TSD practically two inches under the
arrival of former MAORT employees of providing asylum for Hungarians
Mrs OBrien has taught commercial average fUl and a woeful 12 inches
the company made a special contribution subjects at Lago High School under the record fall for one
Employee relations executives of to the International Rescue
and in other Training Division programs month of 1466 established in the
the company said it is impossible to Committee and shortly after joined in the past 11th month of 1955
predict how many Hungarian refugees with its domestic affiliates in a special
Classes run for an hour From
would be assisted by the pro grant to the Red Cross for Hun
seven to eight beginning typing Koolman Angela
gram garian relief
from eight to nine beginning shorthand
From 10 to 11 advanced Boekhoiult Ta Bai

typing from 11 to noon advanced
Cu Pension
shorthand Bussiness English train
ing is given with each course Un homber cu ta bai cu pension

na Januari y dos mas cu ta bai na

38 Tumando Februari lo cerra tres servicio largo

na Lago Matheew Koolman kende
Curso Clerico Warren A Murray
a retira Jan 1 como corporal C

Trinta y ocho empleado a princi Taking over as general manager in wharves ta na cabez di e trio cu 31

pia un curso den trabao di oficina the near future will be Warren anja seis luna di servicio

Jan 14 cual ta worde ofreci di A Murray Mr Murray recently arrived Mathias Angela tabatin casi 25 an

Training Division in Aruba with Mrs Murray ja di servicio y Jan T Boekhoudt 15
and their two childien He left Im
E curso cual lo tuma nuebe luna Sr Koolman a cuminza traha na
ial Oil Companys Winnipeg Re
ta inclui typemento shorthand y Ingles pel April 1925 y a traha como laborer
finery where he was general man
Tur mainta for di Dialuna pa truck driver y pusher Na 1937 el a
ager to come to Aruba Mr Murray
Diabierna tin les Sra Dorothy has been made a member of Lagos transferi pa wharves y a subi di

OBrien ta e instructora Board of Directors and Executive wharfinger pa corporal C

Hendenan pa atende e curso a Committee Sr Angela a pasa henter su care

worde select ariba base di abilidad ra cu Lago den departamento di

y necesidad Departamentonan cu Tumando over muy pronto como ge-i-cnte verf trahando como chipper labor

tin empleado ta participa den e curso general lo ta Warren A Mur er helper painter helper y painter

LOOKING OVER the work of her clerical training students is Mrs Do ta Accounting Colony Service ray Sr Muiray a yega Aruba re C Na tempo di su retiro el tabatin
cientemente cu Sra Murray nan
rothy OBrien Thirty eight emplojees are taking the course scheduled Executive Office Industrial Rela y e ultimo ocupacion
dos yiunan El a laga Winnipeg Re
to last nine months Typing shorthand and English are taught tions Mechanical Process y TSD Servicio di Sr Boekhoudt a cu
finery di Imperial Oil Company un
MIRANDO trabao di su discipulonan den programa di entrenamento pa Sra OBrien a yega di instrui ra da el tabata gerente general pa bini minza na Januari 1942 tempo cu el
trahadornan di oficina ta Sra Dorothy OBrien Trinta y ocho empleado monan comercial na Lago High Aruba Sr Murray a bira tambe un a cuminza como laborer den car
ta tumando e curso cu ta dura nuebe luna E lesnan ta den typing School y den otro programanan di miembro di Junta di Directiva di penter craft Su status na tempo di

shorthand y Ingles entrenamento den pasado Lago y Executive Committee su retiro tabata carpenter helper A



ARUBA ESSO NEWS
January 26 1937



AinAss5NWs OIL and the Middle East


One of the most enchanting areas za Strip and then the Sinai Penin Arabian American Oil
Company
of the world is the Middle East sula have thrust the Middle East of
one the largest concession
PUBLISHED EVERY OTHER SATURDAY AT ARUBA NETHERLANDS replete with mystery customs hotbed of teeming life into world holders in the picture with
ANTILLES BY LACO OIL & TRANSPORT CO LTD that know no like anyplace in the view Complete with history that approxi
NV Neth Ant mately 440000
Printed by the Aruba Drukkerij square miles hold
world numerous religions for dates Christianity come countries
ings in a huge swath of land that
this is the land from which sprung that for years have gone practically extends from Jordan through northern
the men and words that set down unnoticed by the
cs e average person eastern and southern Saudi
y the moving epistles of the Bible There is Israel a country esta Arabia

Tablets of Moses and the Koran blished by a United Nations edict Iraq Petroleum
Company loca
c7iediano rlente polyglott cities underground wealth Jordan a land that for years thrived ted in northwest section of Iraq east
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oceans of hot cutting sand and at
on a British maintained
of the
economy Tigris River one of the oldest
Un di e areanan mas encantadora di mundo ta Mediano Oriente yen present turmoil and since the dismissal of British holders in the area with original

di misterio costumbernan cu no conoce igual ningun camina na mundo Premier Gamal Abdel Nassers recent leaders becomes a question to the concession dated 1925

numeroso religion pasobra esaki ta e terra for di unda a sali e attempt to Egyptianize as Arab states as to whom will continue Basrah Petroleum Company

hombernan y palabranan cu a establece epistelnan di Bijbel manda he called it the Suez Canal prompt the support of this country Sy Ltd holdings in the southern section

mentonan di Moises y Koran ciudadnan poligloto rikeza di bao terra ing the invasion of British and ria reportedly receiving military aid of Iraq

oceano di santo araienie cu yama French forces and later the entrance from Russia and allegedly directs Mosul Petroleum Company Ltd

desierto y awentempo intranquili Israel pa hiba azeta for di su camponan of United Nations forces to avert its sympathies to that country and holdings located in northwest sec

dad den parti norte puertonan major military action and the Israeli-Egyptian the
pa land across which extends three tion of Iraq west of the Tigris River
E rcciente esfuerzo di Premier Ga di lamar Iran a massa grandi cu clashes over the Ga- huge pipelines from the northern Trans Jordan Petroleum Company

mal Abdel Nasser pa Egypciona ta forma frontera cu Russia parti Iraq oil fields to the ports of Banias Ltd concessions cover entire

manera el a bisa Suez Canal cau norte y tin reservanan y refineria seccion noordwest di Iraq pariba di and Tripoli Iraq landlocked except land area of Jordan and Qatar and

sando invasion di trupanan Ingles y nan grandi manera Abadan Kuwait Rio Tigris un di e promer concesionistanan for a small strip on the Persian the
areas of Oman Aden and Hadhramaut
Frances y mas despues entrada di un terra chikito na Golfo di den e area cu concesion Gulf and a land that must depend
in Saudi Arabia
trupanan di Naciones Unidas pa Persia cu ta existi strictamente ari nan cu ta origina na 1925 upon its pipelines through Syria and

averti accion militar na escala gran ba azeta di cual e tin numeroso re Basrah Petroleum Company two through Jordan and Israel to Anglo Iranian Oil Company

di y e pleitonan entre Israel y Egyp serva y Saudi Arabia e terra cu Ltd posecionnan den seccion sur carry oil from its northern fields to Ltd holdings located along strip of

to tocante Gaza Strip y despues Si ayera tabata un pais fabuloso pero di Iraq open water ports Iran a huge land land in western Iran

nai Peninsula a pone e bida turbu cu awe ta biba bao di e gobierno sta Mosul Petroleum Company Ltd mass that borders Russia in the Khanaquin Petroleum Compa

lante di Mediano Oriente dilanti vista biel y sabio di Rey Saud y ta florece concesionnan den seccion noordwest north and boasts huge oil deposits ny small area in Iraq on the Iraq

di mundo Completo cu historia cu un economia rikisimo door di di Iraq pabao di Rio Tigris and refineries such as Abadan Kuwait Iran border

cu ta bini for di tempo di Cristiani azeta Trans Jordan Petroleum Company a tiny country on the Persian Bahrein Petroleum Company

dad e paisnan aki durante hopi anja Esakinan ta e paisnan mas impor Ltd concesionnan ta cubri Gulf that exists strictly on oil of Ltd holdings located in Bahrein

no tabata captura atencion di e per tante den Mediano Oriente cu ta henter e area di terra di Jordan y which it has untold deposits and and waters around Bahrein

sona promedio existi primeramente di petroleo E Qatar y areanan di Oman Aden y Saudi Arabia the land that yesterday
Kuwait Oil
Ltd
Tin Israel un pais establecl segun mapa abao e mencion breve di e Hadhramaut na Saudi Arabia was Lawrences with flashing Company

un edicto di Naciones Unidos Jor paisnan nomber di e companianan Anglo Iranian Oil Company sabers raiding tribes and gallant holdings cover entire area of Ku

dania un terra cu hopi anja tabata di azeta tur liber di implicacion of Ltd concesionnan ta keda canto di stallions but today maintains life wait

florece ariba un economia manteni interpretacion politico ta worde un repi di terra den parti west di under the very stable and sage government American Independent Oil Company

door di Inglesnan y desde cu el a presenta como un estudio liher di Iran of King Saud and flourishes concessions in neutral zone of

corre cu e lidernan Ingles ta bira un geografia Podiser e storia aki y e Khanaquin Petroleum Company with an oil rich economy Kuwait on Persian Gulf

cuestion den e estadonan Arabe ta mapa por yuda soluciona e proble area chikito den Iraq ariba frontera These are the major countries in International Marine Oil Co

kende lo sigui mantene e pais aki manan si bo no sabi exactamente di Iraq Iran the Middle East that exist primarily Ltd holdings are located off shore

Syria cual segun informenan ta re unda cierto paisnan ta keda Bahrein Petroleum Company on oil The map below the brief mentions around the Qatar Peninsula

cibi ayudo militar for di Russia y Den e companianan mas grandi di Ltd concesionnan na Bahrein y den of the countries the names of

segun informenan ta simpatiza cu petroleo den Mediano Oriente ta in awanan rond di Bahrein the oil companies all void of political

e pais aki y e pais atravez di cual clui Kuwait Oil Company Ltd concesionnan implication or interpretation -are Frederick O Illidge

ta corre tres grandote linea di tubo Arabian American Oil Company ta cubri henter area di presented as a light study in
Frederick O Illidge training
for di camponan di azeta den norte un di e concesionistanan mas grandi Kuwait geography Perhaps the foregoing
instructor Lago Police Department
di Iraq pa puertonan di Banias y cu mas of menos 440000 milla cua American Independent Oil Company and the map will help untie the knotty
died Jan 11 A native of
Tripoli Iraq encerra entre terra dra posesionnan den un terreno concesionnan den zona neutral problems that can arise in not
St Martin Mr Illidge had 23
excepto pa un strip chikito na Golfo grandisimo cu ta extende for di Jor di Kuwait na Golfo di Persia knowing exactly where certain
years of service with Lago He
di Persia y un terra cu mester de dan door di parti norte ariba y sur International Marine Oil Co countries are located
is survived by his wife and two
pende ariba su lineanan di tubo door di Saudi Arabia concesionnan ta keda den lamar Included in the major oil companies
daughters
di Syria y dos door di Jordania y Iraq Petroleum Company den rond di Qatar Peninsula in the Middle East are




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7 Januarj 26 1957




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Every January publications radio stations and others list the Tur Januari publicacionnan stacionnan di radio y otionan ta

best of the preceding year Milt Campbell the Indiana Olympic nombra e mehornan di e anja anterior Milt Campbell e estiella

decathlon star has just been named Athlete af the Year the Associated di decathlon di Estado Indiana na Olympiada a caba di worde nom

Press has listed the ten best news stories of the year bra atleta di anja Associated Press a selecta e diez mehor arti

and so on culonan di anja etc

Not to be outdone the Aruba Esso News has now entered the Pa no keda atras Aruba Esso News awor a drenta e mes ocupacion

field and selected the three best pictures which appeared in these y a selecta e tres mehor retrato den su paginanan na 1956

pages in 1956 Nan no a worde selecta arbitrariamente pero den un eleccion

They were not selected arbitrarily but in a wide open election in abierto den oficina editorial y seccion fotografico E votadornan a

the editorial office and photographic section The voters were asked worde pidi pa indica e tres letratonan cu nan tabata kere tabata

to list the thiee pictures they thought to be the best of the year mehor di anja E retratonan nombra anba mayoria carchi tabata

The pictures which were named on the most ballots were to be e ganadornan
the winners E carchinan a worde habri y conta door di Redactor Bill Hochstuhl

The ballots were opened and counted by Editor Bill Hochstuhl Mucho hopi hende tabata na fabor di diferente portret pa por tabatin

surrounded by a cordon of Marines and suspicious Copperheads Too cualkier konkelmento Despues di hopi contamento cu pasenshi en

many people were in favor of different pictures for there to have tre gritamento di referenda manera enganjo y mal smaak e Comite

been any collusion After much patient counting and recounting amid Electoral a declara e retratonan aki e ganadornan como e Tres Mehor

shouted references to dishonesty and poor taste the Election Committee Retratonan di Anja den Aruba Esso News durante 1956

declared these pictures the winners as the Three Best Pictures
1 Mascot di Process su equipo di futbol te
in The Aruba Esso News During 1956
niendo trofeo imediatamente despues cu e equipo
1 Mascot of Process Football team holding
a gana e campeonato na Sport Park
trophy immediately after the team won the

football championship at the Sport Park 2 Hungador juvenil di baseball forzando pa

2 Little Leaguer digging hard for first alcanza primera base durante jugada anja pasa

during play last summer in Lone Palm Stadium na Lone Palm Stadium

3 Mucha muher chikito gozando di fiesta di
3 Little girl enjoying the Lago Colony
Scout
Lago Colony na April
Scout party in April

It was everyone agreed a difficult choice to make considering Tur hende tabata di acuerdo cu tabata un seleccion dificil con

the uniformly high grade of photograhps that come from the photo siderando e grado uniformemente halto di retratonan cu ta bini for

lab Many good pictures lost out simply because some little thing in di photo lab Hopi bunita portret a peide solamente pasobra cualkier

another caught the voters eye cos chikito den un otro a cai den vista di e votador





Dies Momher Promovi LEC Re Eligi Book Orders SERVICE AWARDS


Den Mechanical TSD IR Oficialnan den Close Feb 1 20 Year Buttons

Jan 1 1957 a bini cu ocupacion ting Gioup II Stills and Treating Reunion di Cambio There aie only five days left in Jorge Boekhoudt Mech Garage

y titulo nobo pa 10 homber E vuel Section El tin mas di ocho anja di which employees can sign up for Leonardo Hernandez Mech-
Lago Employee Council a reuni cu
ta di anja nobo a trece promocion servicio their copy of The Resurgent Machinist

pa C K Rodkey W M Fisher L Sr Chapman tin mas di 21 anja representantenan di compania Jan Years the second volume of a pro Luis Werleman Mech Garage
4 den un reunion special di cambio Federico E Wever TSD Lab
jected four volume study of the
N Stanley y S C Chapman di di servicio cu compania tanto den
di esaki LEC
Despues a re eligi Standard Oil Co NJ The book William F Hughes Mech Admin
Technical Service Department H J Mechanical como den Technical Service ta bini tres
e anja cu nan princi
pa
is being offered to employees at the John J Pfaff Mech -Mason
Richardson E C Lennep Jr J M El a worde promovi senior oficialnan F H Ritfeld
pa pal president special price of 450 Slips authorizing Alfred P Post Jr TSD Eng
Maxey D B Wood y K A Sutton engineer den TSD Engineering E D Tromp vice presidente payment by payroll deduction Edward 31 OBrien Jr Ind Rel

di Mechanical Department y L D Na cabez di e lista di promocion y M Vrres secretaiio L Dirksz di may be picked up at the Reception Jerome R Howdeshell Medical

Dittle di Industrial Relations Department nan di anja nobo di Mechanical Department Marine Department a baha y a worde Desk of the GOB John J Mardenborough Mech Pipe

tabata Sr Richardson cu reemplazd den Council door di B Persons who wish to buy the first Marco Hill Mech Pipe

Den Technical Service Department mas di ocho anja di servicio El a Luydens di Colony Service volume may sign a second authorization Invencion C Thode Mech Paint
Sr Miembronan di Council ademas but with of delivery Juancito Vrolijk Mech Boiler
Rodkey a worde promovi worde promovi pa assistant zone su no guarantee
di e cuatro aki ta G E Fernandes Frans Pieter Croes Mech Machinist
assistant Orders for the first volume
pa supervising engineer pervisor den mechanical field coordination
G Giel V C Figaroa M I Fran
den Stills and Treating Section Sr will go to New York along with 10 Year Buttons
ken J W L A I
Thompson
Volume II orders and there is a possibility
Rodkey su servicio cu Lago a cumin Promovi den posicion di assistant Chance B K Chand J H Lake y Ceitico E Capriles Tin
both books are available Sstanlislao Koolman Garage
za na Januari 1949 Anteriormente supervising den Mechanical
engineer J N Maduro Orders close Feb 1 Lourens Croes Welding
el tabatin como seis luna di servicio Administration Planning tabata Edwin F A Stuart Electrical
Carel H Berkel Scaf folder
cu Standaid Oil Development Co El Sr Lennep El tin mas di cinco anja ton kende a avanza pa e posicion di Tourist Trade Idelfoncio R Raphaela Yard

tin gradonan den chemical engineer y mei di servicio tur den Mechanical assistant supervising engineer den Shows Profits Ovid Miss Juddan Carlota Thiel Medical Medical

ing y business administration di Department technical and administration Sr Movimentio Economico and of Alpheus M E Chase Medical
Sydney W H Brathwaite Ind Rel
Kansas State College Sr Maxey cu mas di cuatro anja Sutton tin mas di ties anja di servicio ficial publication of the Common Miss Beryl A Hazel Col Serv
Sr Fisher a move den posicion di di servicio Ernest C Muller Lago Police
a worde piomovl pa utility wealth of Puerto Rico has just released
John H Brown III Marine Agency Oper
assistant supervising engineer di supervisor den Mechanical Department Den Industrial Relations Sr Dittle figures on the Caribbean tourist Albert J van Moatfrans Medical
Process Engineering Group I El ta trade Miss Henriette I Maccow Medical
Storehouse
a worde promovi pa division head Mrs Anna J Y Stroud Medical
un graduante di Purdune University Sr Wood a worde promovi pa as Actualmcnte el lo sigui ser division During 1955 visitors to the area Mrs Myrtle S Keur Col Serv

y tin mas cu dos anja di servicio cu sistant zone supervisor den mechanical head di Employment and Benefits totaled nearly 1000000 and they
spent about 140000000 here this Schedule of
Lago field coordination Su servicio Section SR Sr Dittle tin mas di Paydays

Sr Stanley un graduante di Lago cu Lago a cuminza na April 1953 nuebe anja di servicio El a bini La is an average of 140 a person To
attract these travelers the various Semi Monthly Payroll
High School y Georgia Tech a wor den Mechanical Administration go na January 1950 despues di tres
governments of the Caribbean region January 16 31 Friday Feb 8
de promovi pa senior engineer y ac E di cinco promocion den Mecha anja di empleo na Tropical Oil Com spent about 3077800 in promotion Monthly Payroll

tualmente ta den Process Engineer- nical Department tabata pa Sr Sut- pany na Colombia advertising and other endeavors January 1 31 Saturday Feb 9



ARUBA ESSO NEWS January 26 1957




Pedro Greaux Saqs Goodbqe



























CARE OF lab equipment was a
big part of Pedros job He was
custodian of a great deal of ex
pensive glass apparatus and other
delicate items as well as some
heavy ones Here he tightens a
connection on a cylinder

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bao di Pedro El tabata waidador

di un gran cantidad di aparatonan
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and when those 30 years have spanned such a period of Jan 9 his birthday--he started working on the new dock the
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development as Lago has seen since 1926 he can carry Kk URL **" XuHBs3iaBHEHi R3iL '1
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1956 as corporal in the laboratory As a sort of guide he has the blacksmith shop then back to the dynamite gang The
shepherded literally hundreds of young engineers and chemists reason for this movement was that Pierre in these days was
through the burners and retorts and in effect sent them one of the few men around who could speak English Today

on their way up some of the younger men he worked with he speaks Spanish and Papiamento in addition to English
before Dec 31 might well be sons of those he knew in 1927 and his natve French He went to the lab in March 1929
His name is Pierre but there are those who call him Pedro The men he worked for and with there form almost a

and still others who call him Peter But Pierre it is and a Whos Who in Lago Foremost among them was Frank
fine name too It is like the man himself unmistakably Gallic Campbell at that time chief chemist and later general man C3CttfBn an sP MHxBBB Jfc lBa9Eia

The hair is gray and unruly hanging in straight shocks over ager of the company Then there was Dr Broz now in Bay
his forehead Below a hawk nose his mustache is a brother way and some others who have since gone on to other posts

to the hair on his head gray unruly Brown eyes set off a at Lago Jim Rosboiough assistant division head LOF T F BBBBfla lB iflH
tace lined and seamed by 60 years of Caribbean sun and Hagerty executive assistant Harold Ashlock operations coordinator i-jMMKjBnTvr-t

storm A slight figure with a gentle stoop possessing full and Hans Gregersen CYI secretary
measure of pride in himself and in his nearly 30 years of In his years in the labs Pedro grew into an institution
work he knows he has done well For a long time he worked by himself in the days when the

He was born in St Barthelemy a citizen of France and labs werent as extensive as they are now Because he was

for sixty years he has carried a fierce French pride that had an observant man and more important because he remembered IMBBBgfifaiHl rjh* rar
its outward manifestation every Bastille Day when he would everything he made himself immensely valuable beyond
come to the laboratory and sing The Marseillaise the his job For example he was often able to help new

French national anthem in what a witness recalls even after engineers by teaching them the technique of taking pressure

many years was a gruesome voice samples
Mr Greaux pi onounced gray o left his island in 1920 and In the early days he was the right hand man of Dr James
started to work First it was fishing in St Thomas then Reid now retired who was one of the first men in the
laboratory operation here It was then he developed his re

BEFORE LEAVING the job Pedro stopped at the Industrial markable memory Unable to read English Pedro was able
Relations Department to fill out some of the papers to remember equipment by its shape or number On one occasion
relative to his annuity and thrift plans when it was needed he was able to go to the attic aBt VEBBBiBe
and immediately put his hands on a piece of chemical ap
PROMER CU el a stop di traha Pedro a pasa na Industrial
Relations di paratus that had not been used in two and a half years
Department pa yena algun e papelnan
en relacion cu su pension y thrift plan He had a special way of making coffee that had the right JBBflBBflBBBBBflBEa2 i
taste for everybody a considerable achievement in a community cBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBfluErcxciEkii BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBMg3L M
where coffee drinking is a rite H Chippendale TSD
superintendent always came by the lab for his his trademark
in dominoes which he played with a single minded intensity

during lunch hours was slapping them down with The Partq
resounding cracks He was never late never AWOL and went

through his long Lago career without a single disciplinary Pierre Greaux caused the middle distillate room of the Lag

action being taken against him laboratories to be turned into a big party on the last day of hi
He was a man given to hard work and paired it with an Lago employment But it wasnt really his fault It can be blame
honesty so complete that it could only be his nature For on the scores of his friends and fellow workers who were unwillm
many years he held the only master key in the laboratory to let Pedro leave Lago without having a chance to say goodby
it would open any door or any lock The only people to whom en masse

he could give the key were Frank Campbell and Dr Reid So while lab apparatustubes hoses beakers and the rest werl
no one else Once a high official asked Pedro for the key
pushed back out of the way tables were spread with cloths cup-
and Pedro true to his instructions refused to give it to him a large cake At three thirty on the last day of 1956 Pedros lasl
After a long debate the official gave up and Pedro kept his day at work the room began to fill up with the men who workej
integrity and his key He was easy to get along with but with Pedro and had known him over the years
del ended himself against all when he was right and someone
Mrs Greaux was brought in too and looked over the plac
else wrong where her husband had spent so many years and met the peopl
Safety never had a more ardent practitioner in the labs
who had previously been only names to her then took a sea
than Pedro He kept his eye alert for various violations of
proudly by a table
safe and than his of It aint safe
practices more once cry
In the midst of the cake and Cokes there came the speeches an
ty has startled a group head or junior engineer or lab assistant
presentations D P Barnes spoke and so did H Chippendale Ro
on a test And heaven spare the man walking up
mano Croes chief tester gave Pedro a check and made his speec
stairs with a bottle of liquid in each hand if Pedro saw him
in Papiamento so Mrs Greaux wouldnt miss a word At the sam
He was a precedent breaker When it came time for him
time C R Greene chief chemical engineer gave Pedro his 3
to receive his watch for 25 years of service he insisted on a
year service pin and ceitificate It was from first to last his da
Continued 071 page 8



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Ora un nomber traha casi 30 anja cu un compania y ora smaak na gusto di tur hende loke ta un acomplecimento
e 30 anjanan aki ta atravez di un tal periodo di aesaroyo grandi den un eomunidad unda trahamento di koffie ta un
manera Lago a mira desde 1926 anto el por retira cu algun rituo H Chippendale superintendente di TSD semper ta
sentimento di caluroso satisfaccion pasa laboratorio pa bebe koffie ; su costumber den domino
Un tal homber ta Pierre Greaux kende a retira na cerra tabata pa dal nan abao duro Nunca el tabata laat nunca
mento di 1956 como corporal den laboratorio Como un sorto AWOL y a pasa hent3r su carera cu Lago sin cu nunca un
di guia el a guia literalmente cientos di hoben enginiero y accion disciplinario a yega di worde tuma contra dje
quimico door di e burners y retorts y en efecto a mira nan El tabata un homber di trabao duro y tabata haci esaki
bai laria algun di e hombernan mas hoben hunto cu kende cu un frankeza asina completo cu por ta solamente un indi
el a traha promer cu ultimo Dec 31 por bien ta yiu di esnan cacion di su naturaleza Hopi anja largo el tabatin e unico
cu el tabata conoce na 1927 master key den laboratorio esaki ta habri cualkier porta of
j EfinBBBBBBBBBBBtf kSBSP IBBrSif Su nomber ta Pierre pero tin algun hende cu ta yamele cualkier slot E unico hendenan cu el tabata por a dune yabi
stf BBBBBBBSSPBMhBBP y test _?* iIBhI Pedro y otro ta yamele Peter Pero Pierre e ta y un bon tabata Frank Campbell y Dr Reid ningun hende mas Un
nomber tambe E ta mescos cu e donjo mes inequivocable vez un oficial halto a pidi Pedro e yabi y fiel na instruc
mente Gallico Su cabei ta bianco gekrul y colgando den cion Pedro a nengele Despues di un debate largo e oficial
trente Bao di un nanishi para su mustache ta mescos cu a duna pa perdi y Pedro a tene su integridad--y su yabi El
ruman di e cabei ariba su cabez Wowonan maron den un tabata un persona masha facil pa trata cu ne pero tabata
cara cu a mira 60 anja di solo y storm den Caribe Un figura defende su mes contra tur hende si e tabatin razon y un otro
delega lentamente dobla cu ta posede un orguyo den su mes tabata robez
y den su casi 30 anja di trabao cu el sabi el a haci bon Seguridad nunca tabatin un practicador mas ardiente den
El a nace na St Barthelemy un ciudadano di Francia y Lab cu Pedro El tabata tene su wowo alerto pa varios vio
durante sesenta anja el a carga un vivo orguyo Frances cu lacion di practico di seguridad y mas cu un biaha su excla
tabata worde manifesta cada Dia di Bastille cu el bini laboratorio macion di Esey ta contra Seguridad a spanta un hefe di
y canta Marseillaise himno nacional Frances grupo un junior engineer of un asistente di Lab haciendo un
den un voz pisa Continud na pagina 8
Sr Greaux pronuncii gray o a laga su isla na 1920

y a cuminza traha Promer tabata piscamento na St Thomas SON WILLIAM helps his father work in the cornfield With
despues corta canja na Cuba y finalmente Aruba Na 1927 one or two acres at his disposal Pedro can raise most of his
Jan 9 su fecha di nacemento el a cuminza traha ariba needs and the plans to keep busy farming
e dock nobo cu e refineria tabata traha Despues di algun
WILLIAM ta yuda su tata traha den cunucu Cu un of dos
luna el a cuminza traha pa Lago na varios lugar Dining
Pedro cultiva
-?':.;.
-;< bender na su disposicion por pa su mes nece-
V' *^i Hall dynamite gang unda el tabata djies un hacidor di sidad y tin idea di sigui traha cunucu
respondi blacksmith shop y atrobe pa dynamite gang E
motibo pa e movemento aki tabata cu Pierre den e tempo
tabata un di e poco hombernan den cercania cu por a papia
Ingles Awor el ta papia Spanj6 y Papiamento ademas Ingles
y su idioma nativo Frances El a bai laboratorio na
Maart 1929
.
E hombernan hunto cu kende el a traha aya ta forma un
E Fiesta lista prominente den Lago Promer entre nan tabata Frank
Campbell e tempo chief chemist y despues gerente general
Pierie Greaux a causa middle distillate room di laboratononan di e compania Anto tabatin Dr Broz awor na Bayway y
Lago di bira sitio di un fiesta ariba su ultimo dia di trabao algun otro cu despues a bai pa otro posicionnan den Lago
Lago Pero no tabata su falta Esaki ta falta di su multiple Jim Rosborough assistant division head LOF T F Hagerty
ligonan y companjeronan di trabao cu no tabata desea pa mira executive assistant Harold Ashlock operations coordinatoi
dro kita for di Lago sin cu nan hanya chens di dunele un des y Hans Grcgersen secretario di CYI
Jida en grande Den su anjanan den laboratorio Pedro a bira un institu
Y asina mientras aparatonan di laboratorio tube hose y lo cion Hopi tempo el tabata traha sol den e dianan cu laboratorio
mas tabata worde hala for di den camina mesanan a worde no tabata asina grandi manera awor Pa motibo cu
bri cu panja koppi y un bolo grandi Pa 330 ariba e ultimo el tabata un homber cu ta observa bon y mas importante
i di 1956 e ultimo dia di trabao di Pedro e lugar a cuminza pasobra el tabata recorda tur cos el a haci su mes inmen
na cu e hendenan cu ta traha hunto cu Pedro y cu a conocele samente valioso den su trabao Por ehemplo hopi vez el por
rante anjanan a yuda enginieronan nobo door di sinja nan e metodo di coi
Sra Greaux tambe a worde tree paden y a mira e lugar unda muestra bao presion
esposo a pasa tanto anjanan y a cerra conocir cu e hendenan Den e promer temponan el tabata man drechi di Dr James
promer tabata solamente nomber pe despues el a cai sinta Reid awor retira kende tabata un di e promer hombernan
n di satisfaccion na un mesa
den operacion di laboratorio aki E tempo el a desaroya su
Entre Cokes y bolo a bini e descurso y presentacionnan D P
memoria remarkable Como e no por a leza Ingles Pedro
rnes a papia y tambe H Chippendale Romano Croes chief
tabata recorda hermentnan pa nan forma y number Na un
5ter a duna Pedro un check y a tira su descurso na Papiamento
ocasion el a bai zolder derecho bai coi un aparato uso
Greaux hera ni pa
Sra no un palabra Na mes tempo Sr C R
eene chief chemical engineer a duna Pedro su certificado quimico cu no a worde usa den dos anja y mei
El tabatin un modo special di traha koffie cu tabatin e IJMS



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RINA LUCKHOO holds a beautiful position during her performance THESE PERT little majorettes are Marlene v Blarcum Henna
of The Doll Dance v Windt Lia de Vries and Pamela Brook

RINA LUCKHOO ta tene un posicion bunita durante su fun E MAJORETNAN chikito y gracioso aki ta Marlene v Blarcum
cion di e Baile di Popchie Henna v Windt Lia de Vries y Pamela Brook


BALLERINA ALICIA MacDonald dances to
The Moonlight Sonata
BAILARINA ALICIA MacDonald ta balia
The Moonlight Sonata



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SHIRLEY NICHOLS Freddy Dirksz and Rudy McDo
nald play The Brave Husband while below Miss
MacDonald dances The Fire Dance
SHIRLEY NICHOLS Freddy Dirksz y Rudy MacDo
nald ta hunga The Brave Husband mientras pabao
Srta MacDonald ta baila The Fire Dance


TO THE tune of The Bells Are Ringing Miss MacDonald
goes through her steps accompanied by M A
Bislick below

NA E WIJS di The Bells Are Ringing Srta MacDonald
ta munstra cu e sa e stapnan accompanja door
di M A Bblick pabao















THREE LOVELY young ballerinas gracefully executed their
steps in The Copelia Dance They are Rina Luckhoo and Ingrid
and Arlene Mondinho
TRES BUNITA bailarinas hoben graciosamente ta haci nan stapnan
den The Copelia Dance Nan ta Rina Luckhoo y Ingrid y
Arlene Mondinho


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For Those Less Fortunate

Aruba children in Curacao hospitals published in the Beurs en Nieuw-
enjoyed one of their finest berichten that 50 of the children
Christmases last December And there never receive a single thing
they owe the best part of their from Aruba Christmas or any other
enjoyment to a 13-year-old girl time She read in another paper
who sought to sauve their plight where Mrs Nathaniel Lancaster Jr
in a most Christian like manner befitting wife of the United States consul
the Christmas season general in Curacao had opened a
The saint like young lady is Alicia playground for the crippled and
MacDonald daughter of Mr and backward children of Monsgr Ver
Mrs C Miles MacDonald Mecha riet Institution Alicias very alert
nical Department and her story is and benevolent young mind asked
undoubtedly one of the most heartwarming the question Why cant the child
little epics to grace the ren in Aruba do something for the
pages of the Aruba Esso News children in Curacao less fortunate
J BBBbBV PHAjiCi&???????? bHVBBBs W ulHBc ftl4H L M MM BBBBBK Alicias Samaritan gesture took than we
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FOLLOWING ITS successful performance on the SIGUIENDO SU gran exito ariba stage di Lago read of the unfortunate 100 Aruban with plans for a variety show There
Lago Club stage the entire group of the Variety Club e grupo henter di e Variety Show a reuni pa children in five Curacao hospitals was no reason why the children here
Show gathered for a curtain call acepta aplauso di auditorio Her attention was called to the fact Continued on page 7



January 26 1937 AKUBA ESSO NEWS



Na Pascu Koolman Angela


Boekhoudt Retire


anan After Long Service


Gracilis na Mucha Muher A retirement in January and two

more in February have ended the

Muchanan di Aruba den hospitalnan di Curacao a goza un di nan Lago careers of three Aruban men

mehor Pascunan December pasa Y e mehor parti di e celebracion nan Matheeuw Koolman who retired the

debe na un mucha muher di 13 anja kende a trata pa suaviza nan suer first of the year as corporal C

te den un manera altamente Cristian cu ta pas cu temporada di Pascu wharves led the trio with 31 years

E mucha muher aki ta Alicia MacDonald yiu di Sr y Sra C Miles six months of service

MacDonald Mechanical Department Mathia Angela

y su storia indudablemente ta entusiasmo di Alicia pa yuda e afor had nearly 25

un di e mas caluroso epiconan chi tunadonan Sr Dinnissen a solicita years and Jan J

kito cu ta dorna pagina di Aruba fondo for di otro fuentenan El a lo T Boekhoudt 15

Esso News gra haya Fls 1250 na tur cu cual el Mr Koolman entered

E gesto samaritano di Alicia a cu a cumpra regalo pa e muchanan di service in

minza forma poco despues cu el a Aruba den hospitalnan na Curacao April 1925 and

leza di e inatortunado 100 mucha Poco promer cu Pascu Alicia y worked as laborer
\ yR
amhm TIM '/v
nan di Aruba den cinco hospital na Freddy Dirksz un otro pilar di e y truck driver and

Curacao Su atencion a worde hald show a bula bai Curacao cu nan re pusher In 1937 he

ariba e articulo den Beurs & Nieuws galonan Nan viaje pa e hermana is went to the wharves

berichten cu 50 di e muchanan aya la tabata posible door di cortesia di v--r 5 s JteixfiiJjS and rose from

nunca a recibi nada for di Aruba KLM como su parti den pa e muchanan m &*** wharfinger to corporal M Koolman

ni den tempo di Pascu Den un otro door di e muchanan FISHERS AND friend Jose Dirksz right and R Boekhoudt left hold C

corant el a leza unda Sra Nathaniel Alicia personalmente a mira com up the stingray center they shot off the baby lagoon recently The two

Lancaster Jr esposa di consul ge pletacion di su projecto den entrega men active and energetic skindivers spotted the 150 pound monster

neral di Estados Unidos na Curacao mento di e regalonan na esnan me about a half mile off shore and dispatched him with four shots from

a habri un patio di recreacion pa e nos afortunado Indudablemente tabata a spear gun

muchanan mancaron di Institucion un Pascu cu e hobennan na Curacao
PISCADORNAN Y NAN AMIGO Jose Dirksz banda drechi y R
Mgr Verriet E tino alerto y bene lo recorda hopi tempo Alicia
Boekhoudt robez ta tene un chuchu centro cu nan a tira den lagoen
volente di Alicia a puntra su mes
tambe
recientemente E do3 hombernan sambuyadornan activo y energetico
Pakiko e muchanan na Aruba no
a mira e monstruo di 150 liber mas of menos mitar milla afor y a des
por haci algo pa e muchanan na Curacao
tiro di
pachele cu cuatro harpoen
cu ta menos afortunado cu
nos I For the Kids

El a contesta su mes pregunta cu Continued from page 6

plannan pa un show No tabatin couldnt help the children there and CYI Has Bici Month M Angela J Boekhoudt

ningun motibo pakiko e muchanan a variety show was a good way of

di aki no por a yuda esnan di Cor doing it For Alicia it was the way Air Angela has spent his entire

sow y un show tabata un bon medio best she 56 Accepted Suggestions
she knew being an accomplished career in paint working as chipper
pa haciele Pa Alicia tabata e me dancer albeit a young one laborer helper painter helper and

hor medio cu e tabata sabi el ta un The young lady quickly rounded painter C He held this job at his

bailarina bon maske un poco hoben up all her dancing friends gained Earn Fls 4880 for Winners retirement

E mucha muher pronto a busca the support of her brother and listened Mr Boekhoudts service began in

tur su amiganan bailarina haya to the sage advice of her mother Fifty six ideas were judged good enough to win cash awards under January 1942 when he started as

apoyo di su ruman homber y a scu Before long the show For the Kids the CYI plan during November and the winning suggestors cut up a laborer in the carpenter craft His

cha e conseho di su mama Pronto e Fls 4880 melon
By the Kids was ready for its open status at retirement was carpenter
show Pa Muchanan Door di Mu ing performance at the Lago Club This included the Fls 2700 award made to J J Arrindell described nelper A

chanan tabata cla pa e promer pre There were dancers there were in the last issue of the Esso News Another big winner was G F

sentacion na Lago Club singers there were comedy acts All Ritchie who was awarded Fls 300

Tabatin bailarina tabatin cantan were directed by Alicia all were put as a supplemental award on his suggestion Machinist
NEW
te tabatin acto di comedia Tur a on by the kids for the kids The to sandblast hulls of launches A P Larez Fls 130 ARRIVALS

worde dirigi door di Alicia tur a show scored such a success that it and tugs during drydocking Five MechMachine Shop Grind center

worde presenta door di e muchanan was repeated in the Surinam Club employees received Fls 100 or more drill to required diameter to drill January 3

pa e muchanan E show tabata un Following the second showing The complete list of November AAR 1 jets GUEVARA Francis P Moran Mech
Storehouse A daughter Genevieve De-
exito asina grandi cu e mester a winners follows R Colina Fls 60
Alicia took the proceeds of the two nise
worde repeti den Surinam Club Mech Machine Drill & PORRITT William S Am Bureau of
performances Fls 278 in all and Accounting Shop tap
Ship A Richard Lloyd
di son
Despues e segunda presenta turned it over to W J Dinnissen of W E Arends Fls 25 hole in the housing of the lapping January 4
cion Alicia a tuma e retorno di e the machine LANDE Rene J Mech Garage A son
government police Colony Service
dos actuacionnan Fls 278 Cien llarrold
na tur -a With this sum and moved by Alicias A L Buckmire Fls 50 J Werleman Fls 50 GEERMAN Juan De D Machinist A
entregele na W J Dinnissen di son Sotero Angel Moreno
contageous enthusiasm to help Mech -CZ-Machine Shop Office
departamento di CS Hosp Kitchen Provide an CROES Frans M LOF A daughter
juvenil poliz the unfortunate Mr Dinnissen solicited Extend a walkway from present
exit at N or S side of kitchen employees Benita Forentina
Cu e suma aki y impresiona pa e funds from other sources He rest room platform in the toolroom to the top BOEKJIOUDT Tito Jose Mech Pipe A son

got together Fls 1250 with which O C Dellimore Fls 25 of machine shop office BISHOP John Utilities A daughter
Five Employees Win he purchased gifts for the Aruban R A Colina Fls 35 Soma Diana
Lago Police January S
children in Curacao hospitals L E Benne Fls 25
WILLIAMS Alfred Col Maint A
Service Watches H Thomas Fls 25 U -
Shortly before Christmas Alicia J Hodge Fls 20 son narel liubert
Five J C Lewis Fls 20 GOMEZ Dominico L Mech Boiler A
more employees who completed and Freddy Dirksz another main 3Iedical Mario
son Jossy
25 years of Lago service in stay of the show took off for Curacao Marine L A Henriquez Fls 25 January 6
G F Ritchie Fls 300 STATIE Ricardo B Lab No 1 A
December were awarded suppl son
anniversary with their gifts Their trip to the R Grossman Fls 20
Nasser Luciano
Max
watches in the Reception Center sister island and back was made possible Marine Shipyard Sandblast hulls Process JAP SAM Alwien E Mech Admin A
Jan 2 of marine launches & small tugs son Kenneth Alwien
through the courtesy of the Acid & Edel
HEJNRIOUEZ Hendrik F Col Maint
C F Smith presented the watches Royal Dutch Airlines as its part in during drydocking H Irausquin Fls 30 A son Rey Reynaldo

to D Van der Linden Mech for the kids by the kids C A Naloop Fls 35 P Nicolaas Fls 25 GEI Mariano M Mech Boiler A daugh
Yard H S Geerman Fls 30 ter Cicitia Maria
Ellis Mech Blacksmith L
Alicia personally saw the completion E C Hassell Fls 25 JANSEN Daniel A Mech Pipe A son
Kock Mech Pipe P J Wever Process-Utilities of her project in the handing W de Vries Fls 30 CLE Amando Acardio

and E Yarzagaray out of gifts to those less fortunate Mechanical J J Arrindell Fls 2700 HAVERTONG Johan January J -7 LOF A daugh

Col Serv Operations It undoubtedly was a Christmas the Admin P-CLE-LO & Butane Plants ter Yvonne Johanna
MARflJN Albino Rec & Ship A
son
Through 1956 service watches were youngsters in Curacao will remem R Kux Fls 100 Relocate control houses Jacobo Luciano

presented to 434 Lago employees i ber a long time Alicia will CS Hosp Keep periodic inspection J E Francis Fls 30 ERASMUS Jose LOF A daughter Ma

and maintenance to all piping A Helder Fls 30 ritza Ludwina January 8

under 1st floor at new hospital J F Lacle Fls 30 SMIT Gerardus CAcLE A daughter

F W Raveneau Fls 50 Monique
Cracking RASMIJN Johannes S Rec & Ship
PR LSP Improve conditions in S B Francis Fls 50 A son Ronnie Seferino
WILLEMS Jose Medical A son Mi
the mens rest room P Cracking Change tube bundle guel Arcangel

Miss L D Every Fls 30 of recirculating gas oil flux ex MLnGO Ronaido T Mech Electrical

Miss L D Every Fls 25 changer at every normal turn A daughter Russine Ann
RAS riorencio Rec & Ship A son
Storehouse around shutdown Severino
January 9
G W P Robertson Fls 40
Williams Fls 25
HASSELL Alex A S Ind Rel A son
W Ho Sing Loy Fls 25 W C Schoop Fls 30 Eugene Patrick
WESTER Encarnacion Acid & Edel
S Moniz Fls 30
Electrical
A daughter Nueva Elvira
A M Arends Fls 30 M S Chan Fls 30 riGAROA Mario Storehouse A daugh
R de Cuba Fls 25 ter
F R Maduro Fls 20 TEARR Alfred U Mech Yard A son
M Emanuels Fls 20 J Gordon Fls 25 Dennis Oscar
D Werleman Fls 20 PHILLS Selwyn Lago Police A son
Cleanout Godfrey Rudolp
E Findlay Fls 25 LOF January 10
H V Besselink Fls 30 IIENRIQUES Pablo Storehouse A
Paint daughter Theresita
Rec & Ship DIRKSZ Bergilio Cracking A daughter
H V Tromp Fls 25
J Daniel Fls 25 Dorothy Edith
Mason FLANDERS Ambrocius A G Mech
Utilities Garage A daughter Linda Francisca
F Geerman Fls 25 J T Smith Fls 30 MOLENAAR Cornelia T Storehouse A

Garage & Transp P Tromp Fls 30 son Raymond Ildifonso

RETIRING WITH 28 years of service Leslie Lynch third from left C C Bristol Fls 30 F E Groenveldt Fls 30 PEREZ Dominico January- Rec 11<, Ship A son
enjoys a farewell luncheon with some of his fellow workers From left Instrument A Alex Domingo
they W L Limburg Fls 20 CROES Inocencio Mech Pipe A
are Edge L F Moritz Mr Lynch G Ernesti
L C Bac
L L McGrew Fls 100 TSD EIG daughter Henriette Regina
chus and A Marvel
January 13
Purchase Bradley automatic hand O J Mauricio
Fls 90
RETIRANDO RYSON Gustave J A Mech Yard A
CU 28 anja di servicio Leslie -
Lynch tercer di
robez banda washing basins Use on G I shut TSD EIG Use tracings when daughter Ileen Clotilda
ta goza un comemento di despedida cu poco di su companjeronan downs January 14
di trabao Di robez nan ta W L Edge L F Morilz Sr making EIG master sheets RUIZ Eusebio B Machinist A son Do
Lynch G Er
L R Gumbs Fls 25 Lab No 3 nald Filomeno
nesti L G Bacchus y A Marvel C M Semeleer Fls 25 H R Wolfe Fls 20 SEMELEER Eduardo C Rec & Ship
A son Arsenio Benjamin



AKUBA ESSO NEWS January 26 1957



Bright Future Pictured Comissario a Anuncia Thijseii a Gana



Water Plant Work Begun Fechanan Comisario di Lago Inventario lo ta cerra Di Canipeonato Spelmento

Jan 31 pa inventario Otro fecha

nan pa e inventariohan mensual Arturo Thnsen di Aruba tabata
Arubas economic potential took a major upsurge last week when pany and still have a substantial den futuro cercano ta manera ta un ganador den promer rond den un

work on the new water distillation plant at Balashi was begun in the quantity for new industry It has sigui Feb 28 Maart 28 April 28 concurso di spelmento entre siete

presence of hundreds of government and business leaders of the area been designed to be easily expanded Mei 28 y Juni 27 parokia segun un articulo den Al

Scheduled to go on stream in 1958 the plant will provide water for to take care of future needs Cumpradornan na comisario ta lentown Call Chronicle Arturo ta

the islands needs at about half the present price With its capacity Mr Yrausquin saw in the opening worde pidi pa tene e fechanan aki biba na Allentown como un di e ga

of 2700000 gallons of fresh water ~~ ; ceremonies the beginning of a new na memoria y evita trastorno nadornan di beca di estudio di Lago
quuiiLiuy uj wuier trie piam win nave
a day the plant will rank among
the to 12500 kilowatts era of progress for Aruba so that vocational school
capacity
generate
the largest of its kind in the world
of electric enough to we may proceed with confidence as Ganando e campeonato di su klas
As a by product the plant will generate power Hospital ta Reporta Allentown
pa High School Arturo
supply its own needs supply some a truly autonomous member of the
enough electricity to handle to the present electric power com- realm Cifranan di Nacemento a gana un medalla di brons Den e
of the islands needs
some proximo rond di
el
competicion mester
Si hende
pone banda di otro tur
Finance Minister J E Yrausquin contra
spel algun otro
who backed the project told the e muchanan cu a nace na Hospital nan di klas for di aki campeon
y ganadornan
Planta
Trabao obo di
Lago durante 1956
anto lo tin
existence
crowd that the plants pa mester di bruki lo sigui pa e semi final y final Anto
e mas grandi di
would guarantee the basic need of in
el tn di
e oportunidad gana mas concurso
mundo
dustry cheap water and would serve Di Distil avion Cuniinsd y mas premio
Esaki ta un conclusion for di e es
as a means to diversify Arubas economy Den e siman di
promer e concurso
tudio di
The minister touched off a E potencia economico di Aruba a crece considerablemente siman pasa cifranan di nacemento pa e di spelmento mas cu 38000 studian
blast which the trabao cuminza ariba nobo di distilacion Balashi den anja 892 nacemento den tur Taba
dynamite signified ora a e planta na te a competi den e districto henter
beginning of the actual work on the presencia di cientos di representantenan di gobierno y comercio tin 468 mucha homber y 424 mucha

plant E planta cu mester cuminza opera na 1958 lo furni awa pa necesi muher tabatin siete set di morocho

On the program with Minister dadnan di e isla na mitar di e prijs actual Cu su capacidad di 2700000 Di esakinan cuatro set tabata mucha
di dushi dia homber dos mucha muher y e I Despues 30 Anja |
Irausquin was W H Finkelday president galon awa pa e planta
of the engineering firm of lo ta entre esnan mas grandi den cu a combini tambe pa cumpra can otro un mucha homber y un mucha Continud di pagina 5

Singmaster and Breyer builders of mundo Como un producto secunda tidadnan grandi di awa y na e Pen muher Pa esnan cu ta gusta cifra test Y Dios spaar esun cu subi e
e incidencia di morocho den
the plant and Deputy O S Henriquez rio e planta lo genera suficiente sioenfonds di Gobierno cu e presta Hospital trapinan cu un hotter di liquido den
di Lago cada 100 caso ta bao
who traced the development of water electricidad pa cubri un parti di ne placa ariba un termino largo pa hopi cada man y si Pedro mirele
di e cifra di Estados Unidos 785 aki
supply on the island cesidad di e isla Den su observacionnan Sr Finkel Tambe el tabata kibrador di prece
contra 105 Estados Unidos
na
Lt Gov L C Kwartsz offered the Ministro di Financia J E Yrausquin day a splica e desventahanan di e dentes Ora a yega tempo pa el rici

official thanks of the government to kende a apoya e projecto a bi sistema di awa actual e tabata el bi su oloshi pa 25 anja di servicio

those who supported the new plant sa e multitud cu e planta su exis a bisa apenas bastante pa satisface Pierre Greaux el a insisti pa haya un oloshi di sa

Mr Yrausquin who instigated it tencia lo garantiza e necesidad ba demandanan di boso poblacion y e co sino el a bisa el lo drenta

the engineering firm Lago who of sico di industria awa barata y lo tabata como un bara den camina Continued from page Jf den tentacion di duna e oloshi di man

fered technical assistance as well as sirbi como un medio pa amplia eco di establecimento di industria nobo pocket watch otherwise he said he na un di su yiu hombernan el tin

agreeing to purchase large quantities nomia di Aruba E ministro a oca door di cual economia di e isla por would be tempted to give a wrist tres y el sabi cu lo e tene y usa e
of water and to the Government siona un explosion di dynamiet cual watch to one of his sons he has oloshi di saco
worde mehora
Pension Foundation and Lago Thrift a significa principio di e trabao ariba three and he knew hed keep and Y ora cu tempo di bai cu pension
Ora e ta cla el a bisa e lo tin
Foundation which made funds available e planta use the pocket watch a yega tabatin un otro precedente
on a long term loan Otro orador ariba e programa hun capacidad di como cinco vez mas And when retirement time came cu el a kibra Manera costumber el

In his remarks Mr Finkelday to cu Ministro Yrausquin tabata W tanto cu produccion di e planta actual around there was one more precedent a worde ofreci un comida na ocasion

pointed out the drawbacks of the H Finkelday presidente di e oficina Hunto cu produccion di e can to break He was as usual of di su pension cu e privilegio di invita

previous limited water system it di engineria Singmaster & Breyer tidad aki di awa e planta lo tin capacidad fered a retirement luncheon with the dos huesped Pero Pedro kende a

was he said barely enough to meet contratistanan di e planta Depu pa genera 12500 kilowatt privilege of inviting two guests But desea di celebra e ocasion aki cu su

the needs of your population and tado O S Henriquez kende a co di forza electrico bastante pa cubri Pedro wishing to share the occasion amigonan kende ciertamente tabata

it stood as a bar to the establishment menta ariba desaroyo di e planta di su mes necesidad furni un parti na with his friends asked if he mas cu dos a pidi cu envez el por
of new industries through awa na Aruba might have a party in the lab instead tene un fiesta chikito den Labartorio
e actual compania electrico y ainda
which the islands economy might Gezaghebber L C Kwartsz a of The request was granted and Su peticion a worde concedi y ariba
retene un cantidad substancial
have been improved rece gradicimento oficial di gobierno pa on his last day at work for Lago su ultimo dia na trabao pa Lago
industrianan nobo El worde
When completed he said it na esnan cu a apoya e planta nobo a projects friends all over the refinery came to amigonan di tur parti di refineria a

will have the capacity roughly five Sr Yrausquin cu a instigele di tal forma cu e por worde see him off bini pa bisele ayo

times that of the present plants production e oficina di enginieria Lago cu a expandi facilmente pa percura pa It was a good memory to carry Esaki tabata un bon recuerdo pa

In the production of this ofrece ayudo tecnico y financiero y necesidad mas grandi den future into his years of retirement hiba cunele durante su pension




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FINANCE MINISTER J E Yrausquin above left speaking at the

groundbreaking ceremonies of the islands new water distillation plant

saw in it the beginning of a new era of progress for Aruba Mr Yrausquin

and Deputy O S Henriquez center set off electrically a blast

of dynamite that dug the first hole for the plants foundation Lt Gov

Kwartsz right told the crowd of the pressing need for the Fls 20000

000 plant and told how government and industry alike had cooperated

to bring it into being The crowd of nearly 2000 people left gathered

around the temporary speakers platform to hear the brief addresses

on the important day in Arubas history


MINISTRO DI FINANCIA J E Yrausquin ariba banda robez pa

piando na e ceremonianan marcando principio di e planta nobo di distilacion

pa Aruba ta mira den dje principio di un epoca nobo di pro

greso pa Aruba Sr Yrausqiun y Deputado O S Henriquez centro

ta cende electricamente un explosion di dynamiet cu a coba e promer

buraco pa fundeshi di e planta Gezaghebber Kwartsz banda drechi

ta conta e publico di e gran urgencia pa e planta di Fls 20000000 y

conta com gobierno y industria a coopera pa trecele na existencia Un
multitud di casi 2000 hende robez a uni rond di e plataforme tem

porario di e oradornan pa tene nan discursonan ariba e dia impor
tante den historia di Aruba