Aruba Esso news ( January 4, 1952 )

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VOL. 13 No. 1

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Schooner Grounds on Ree



Above, the stranded schooner ”Surprize” lies heeled over as Lago’s. tug

"Colorado Point” (out of picture to left) tries to get a line to it. Below,

Gordon Owen readies his Snipe sailboat to take the schooner captain, third

from left, out to watch salvage operations. Others in the picture are

Leonard McReynolds, Community Council representative, ‘yril Bryan
of the wrecked schooner’s crew.

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The normally-mild Caribb
victim this week when the
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effort to claim another
ed schooner ”Surprize” went

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> afternoon of December 29 bound for Curacao
next morning it piled up on the hidden fields
of coral that lie like a trap between the end of the reef and the mainland.
On a shoreward tack the lookout delz
about, and it struck bow-on just as it
men were aboard, with Captain

and St. Martin; at m.





rted to turn.

n Thadeus Hodge, a 65-year-old
an, in command. They > after daylight, and through the
day moved the ship s Beach and attempted to seal breaks
in the hull while preparations were being made to tow her off into deep
water.

The cargo of 200 drums of gasoline |
was left aboard, to increas the
buoyancy of the ship if it took in
much water after being refloated

Efforts began Sunday (December

(Cont. on page 2 3)









New Asst. Ed. Added

col.

Director di Surinam Ta
Bishita School di Ofishi
Siman pasa Director di Schoolnan

di Ofishi na Surinam, J. H. Stebenit-
a inspecta e School di Ofishitdi





I



o. El a worde accompanja duran-
te su bishita na School door di E. F.
Welch, Hefe di School di Ofishi di
Lago.



Tambe presente durante e bishita
tabata G. Kok, Inspector di Enseyan-
za na Aruba y G. Amelink, Director
di Ambachtschool di Aruba.

Sr. Stebenitsky a bini Aruba pa
haci un estudio tocante enseyanza di
ofishi y a bishita e schoolnan di go-
bierno y tambe e School di Ofishi di
Lago. Aunque Surinam tin schoolnan
di ofishi ya 16 anja caba, esakinan ta
ariba un base limita. Oficialnan di
gobierno 2z awor tin plan pa me-
hora e enseyanza aki

E obheto di e bishita di Sr. Stebe-
nitsky tabata pa por mira ki curso ta
worde duna door di otro schoolnan
technico grandi den e bicindario y pa
haya sabi e metodonan cu ta worde
pa sinja e varios ofishinan









A. M. Brodine, above, joined the staff
of the Aruba Esso News last month

us as assistant editor. A aduate of



Director di Surinam a parce di tate College with a degree in
ta favorablemente impresiond ariba technical Journalism, he has had









loke el a mira y tabata particular- nee with both newspapers and
mente interesd den e programa di| magazines. During the war he spent
trainmento den shop na Lago. Awor six years in the U.S. Air
el ta spera di traha tallernan na Su- as ground and aerial photo-

rinam segun e mes metodo, grapher and laboratory chief.

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hundred yards west of the Esso Club. The |

ed too long in ordering the ship |

January 4, 1952

(R&S Man Makes Third
Rescue at Harbor

”Man Overboard!” The shout went
bout 1 a.m., December 28, on
Finger Pier No. Working the
12 to 8 shift ne was Max-
well E. Pantophlet, man who has
twice before acted heroically to save
the lives of othe





up











He raced to a spot on the wharf
where lights were flashing and
looking o the side of the con-|
crete pier he saw a man floating face

down in the water. Without hesitat- |
ion, Pantophlet jumped down to save
him.





At the scene of the accident, a
system of pipes and I-beam girders |
runs parallel to Pier No. 2. The}

pipes are four or five feet above the |
water. It was onto these structures |
that Pantophlet leaped. In order to
reach his man, he had to hang on
| like an acrobat, with one arm and a
leg wrapped around an I-beam.

| From his precarious position,
|Pantophlet was just able to reach
{his quarry, although he skinned his
| forearm in doing so. Then other men
|} up on the pier joined the rescue and
|by grasping Pantophlet’s belt while |
he held on to the unconscious victim,
both men were pulled to safety.
Later, when asked if Someone had |



used a rope to wrap around his|
middle in order to haul him up,|}
Pantophlet looked at his belt and

with a soft smile, said ”No. This is
a good belt.”

Still thinking only of saving the
victim, Pantophlet began applying
artificial respiration until, a few
moments later, he was relieved by
the chief mate of the Esso Reading,
a ship docked nearby.

After several anxious minutes
during which time there appeared to
be no life in the man, the victim
began to breath again. Pantophlet
thinks the man might not have sur-
vived if he had been pulled from
the water and artificial respiration
as he says, "five seconds |





lice, the Lago ambulance took the
|man to the Dispensary where he was
treated and then transferred to the











n Pedro Hospital in Oranjestad. |
At the Dispensary, the victim was
identified a L. Allen, 30, from|



County Cork, Ireland, an able sea-
man from the British-owned tanker, |
Busen Rollo.

Allen had been on shore leave for |

the evening and was returning to
his ship when the accident took
place. His ship was to sail that

evening for an extended voyage into
the whaling grounds of the Antartic
where it will refuel whaling ships
and then take on whale oil for ship-
ment to market. Allen signed on the
ship in England last December 3.
(Cont. on page 3, col. 1)





Govt. & Lago Employees
Join in Annual Party

be hard to believe, but}
. large baskets of ’'good-

It

may





before the Christmas holi-
*t exactly easy at the La-
go party for more than 300 Aruba





}

government employe The first door
prize given away, for example, was
a food basket containing a turkey,
fresh fruit, and candy, but there
were no takers until the ninth num-
ber was called. The prize would have
been given ry on the first number
drawn, however, if only someone with
the right number had just shouted, |
Here!” |
Winner of that first hard-to-give-

y prize was Sam T. Croes, of the
n Nicholas Post Offic Other
winners included Marie Palm,
toms Offic who won a set of beer














mugs; L. Leenheer, n Nicholas
Police, a food basket; W. G. Van du
Weide, Post Office, winner of a ca-

me V. Mierlo, Chief of Detectives,
San Nicholas Police, a food basket;
Henny Leeder, Customs Officer, who
won a large ham; C. Lopez, Customs |











Office Ronson cigarette lighter; |
and C. Riem, San Nicholas Police, a |
set of poker chips. Several other |

| where he was to spend 17 days in





| : : apes 2
spending his vacation in Chicago and

| Guinea and is now a member of the



On hand at the airport to greet Gregorio Frank on his return from a
radio course in the United States were his wife and four sons; from left,
Roderick, aged 4 months; Edwin, 512; Albert, 8; and Nelson, 3.

Presente na aeropuerto pa saluda Gregorio Frank na su regreso for di un
curso di radio na Estados Unidos tabata su esposa y cuatro yiu homber. For
di banda robez: Rodrick, 4 luna bieuw; Edwin, 512; Albert, 8; y Nelson, 3.

Dia Gregorio L. Frank, Staff Foreman den Instrument Shop, a sali
pa Estados Unidos den luna di September pa tuma un curso den radio
comunicacion (recepcion y emision), el no a pensa di mira un cara
conoci sino te dia e bolbe back na Aruba. Viajando cu aeroplano pa
Miami, Frank a tuma un trein pa Ciudad di New York unda un repre-
sentante di compania a bin contre’le kende a haci ultimo arreglonan
pa su permanencia na Estados Unidos. Despues di a pasa varios dia
na New York, durante cual el no tabatin mucho oportunidad pa mira e
lugarnan principal, Frank a bula pa Chicago na unda el mester a keda
E ii dia den eyplanta dieMotorolar Gor

When Gregorio L. Frank, staff |Poration studiando metodonan di fa-
foreman in the Instrument Shop, left | bricacion di lampi di radio. Na Chi-
last September for the United States | a0 Frank tabatin e sorpresa agra-
to take a training course in two way | dable di a contra cu dos amigo bieuw.
radio communications, he didn’t ex Un di su Ae Onay for di Aruba
pect to see a familiar face again|â„¢es tabata M. King kende tambe ta
until he got back to Aruba. Traveling | Un empleado di Lago. King tabata
by plane to Miami, Frank took a|Pasando su vacacion na Chicago y
train to New York City where he was | Wor a bolbe na su trabao den ofici-
met by a company representative who |na@ di Accounting. E otro amigo cu
made final arrangements for his stay | Frank a contra na Chicago tabata
in the States. After spending several | James Viapree di Guyana Britanico
days in New York, during which time | CU awor ta un miembro di Fuerza
he didn’t have much opportunity for | Aerea di Estados Unidos. E dia ey
sight-seeing, Frank flew to Chicago |¢l tabatin algun tempo liber na Chi-
a cago. Frank a pasa mayoria di su
hora liber hunto cu su dos tercionan
y asina el tabata leuw di ta solitario.
"En realidad”, el a bisa, "Mi a pasa
un bon tempo”.

Mientras Frank tabata studiando
e metodonan cu Motorola ta usa pa
traha aparatonan di radio, el a mira
cu tur cos ta bai ariba un linea di
armamento ariba cual piezanan ta
ponj mientras muhernan tabata haci









the Motorola Corporation’s plant
studying radio manufacturing meth-
ods. It was in Chicago that Frank
had the pleasant surprise of meeting
two old friends.

One of his friends, from right
here in Aruba, was M. King who is
also a Lago employee. King was



e returned to his job in the





Accounting office. The other friend | mayoria di e trabao di armamento.
|Frank met in Chicago was James Despues cu e fase di su training
Viapree who hails from British | aki a caba, Frank a bisa ayo na su

amigonan na Chicago y a tuma un
trein pa bai back New York.
el a yega New York el a re-
Mobile Communications
Newark, New Jersey, pa com-
pleta su estudio. Na Newark tambe
|Frank a topa cu un otro amigo
| bieuw, e biaha aki Han” Hansen di
Surinam, un persona cu Frank "pa
casualidad tabata conoce’. Hansen
awor ta traha pa un compania di
“air conditioning” na Newark.

Na Newark Frank a sinja hopi
ariba aparatonan mobil di radio di e

U.S. Air Force. At the time, he was
on leave in Chicago. Frank spent
most of his spare time with his two
buddies, and so was far from lonely.
"In fact,” he says, "I had a very
good time.”

While studying the ways used by
Motorola to turn out radio equipment,
Frank learned that everything is on
an assembly-line system, with women
doing most of the mbly work
After that phase of his training w




























over, Frank uid goodbye to hi 1
Chicago buddies and took a train|tYpo cu a worde recientemente in-
baciactoe Newmans stala na Lago. Entre otro el a cera
B st, he reported to the |Conoci cu e ultimo metodonan y apa-
Mobile Communications Inc., in New- | '@tonan di test. El a bisa cu e infor-
ark, New Jers to complete his | â„¢Macion aki lo ta valuable pa busca



defecto y pa "aline
nan mobil di comunicacion, cual ta un
paso necesario pa asegura cu tur e
aparatonan di e systema mobil ta tra-
ha bon hunto.




training. In Newark, Frank ran into ” tur e aparato-
another old friend, this time, ”"Han”
Hansen from Surinam, an old ac-
quaintance whom Frank "just hap-

pened to know.” Hansen is now work-










ing for an air conditioning concern Dia el a yega na aeropuerto na
in Newark, Aruba, Bigz su es ay cuatro yiu
In wark, Frank learned a great homber sperando pa salude’le,



A
I

unque el tabata hopi ocupa na
ados Unidos y a pasa un bon tem-
po , Frank no a lubida su fami-
lia. El a trece regalo for di Merca
pa cada un di nan, incluyende "prin-
cipalmente traje di cowboy y zapato
halto” pa e mucha hombernan. ”Nan
ta mes interesa den Hopalong Cassi-
dy cu e muchanan na Merea.”

deal about mobile radio equipment of
the type recently installed at Lago.
Among other things, he became ac-
quainted with the latest testing
equipment and methods. This inform-
ation, he says, will be valuable in
trouble-shooting and in ”aligning”
the entire mobile radio set-up, a step
ne ry to insure that all units of
the system work properly together

When he landed at the airport back
in Aruba, his wife, Bigala and four
sons were waiting to greet him. Al-
though he had been very busy in the
es and had a good time besides, | ca,” he s:
ank didn’t forget his family. He Frank, who is 84 years old, has
brought presents from Ame for | been with Lago eighteen and a half
each of them, including "mostly cow- | y



















’ for the boys.
interested in
s kids in Ameri-



1ey’re
Hopalong



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| Stranded Schooner
Ki Ee W $ | (Cont. from page
30) to salvage the schooner. Starting
2 in mid-afternoon and going on until

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WEST INDIES, BY THE LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO., LTD.
Printed by the Curacaosche Courant, Curacao, N.W.1.

Irene Home After Successful
Series of Operations in U.S.

Smiling and healthy, Irene Jacobs is

shown with her mother, left, and her

sister Juliata shortly after she arrived at Dakota field upon her return

from the States. Also on hand wer
Lions Club, and Monte Maduro, h

e Carlos L. Juliao, president, Aruba
ead of the Irene Jacobs campaign.

Aki nos ta mira Irene Jacobs, hariendo y gozando di bon salud, hunto cu
su mama, (na banda robez) y su ruman mohé Juliata, poco despues cu el
a yega na Dakota vliegveld fo’i Merca. Tambe tabata presente Carlos L.

Juliao, presidente di Club di Leones, y Monte Maduro, cu a encabeza e cam- |

manin pa Irene Jacobs.

Completely recovered, pert little

Irene Jacobs is back in Aruba with

full use of her once badly damaged throat. She came back December
23, just in time to celebrate Christmas at home after getting special
surgical treatment in the United States.

At the airport, Irene was greeted by officials of the Aruba Lions
Club, sponsors of the fund-raising campaign that sent her to the States
for the operations that brought her back to full health. Irene told

the Lion Club officials that she
Club,” and will "pray for them
every night.” Then, before going
home, 13-year old Irene went directly
to church.

At her home — which she found
freshly painted and flying the Dutch
flag to mark the happy event —
Irene found the first Christmas tree
she had ever had in her own home.
(Most of Irene’s Christmases have
been spent in hospitals.) Under the

tree were many presents from friends |

and relatives.

In the United States, Irene had
been under the care of the world
famous throat specialist Dr. Che
lier Jackson. Dr. Jackson had figured
in another famous operation on a
girl’s throat, and that girl, too, lived
under the flag of Holland. The girl,
from Amsterdam, was getting ready
to be married and accidentally swal-
lowed an open pin. When no one was
able to remove the pin, Fls. 11,000
was quickly sed and the girl was
sent to the United States where she
was operated on by Dr. Jackson.

The doctor devised a unique method
for the operation and was able to
remove the pin quickly in an operat-
ion that received widespread attent-
ion in the medical world. For his
vices, all the doctor would accept as
payment was the pin, which he kept
as a souvenir.

At the Temple University Hospital

_ in Philadelphia, Dr. Jackson perform-
ed a series of delicate-operations on
Irene. These completed a long train
of treatments begun here in Aruba
by Dr. A. A. Schlacter of Oranjestad,
whose ir ance that she could be
fully cured started the chain of
events that finally placed Irene in
the care of Dr. Jackson

Fiv ars ago, when Irene
only n, she tripped and fell
while car ng an opened can of
Klim. The force of her fall ripped
away the protective ring which
ordinarily cov the sharp metal
edge of the can. It was this razor-
like edge that severed tubes in Ircne’s
throat, making it impossible for her
to swallow or breathe properly.

A special opening to her stomach
by-passed the wound in the
phagus, and a metal breathing-tube
was inserted in the trachea, but after

(Cont. on page 5, col. 4)

was

eso-

"will always remember the Lions

New V.P. and Board
Member Elected

Election of a new vice president
and an additional member to _ its
Board of Directors was announced
last month by S. O. Co. (N.J.).

The new vice president is Emile
E. Soubry, who has been a director
since January 1949. The new director
is David A. Shepard, who has been
executive assistant to President Eu-
gene Holman since October 1949. The
Board of Directors now numbers
fifteen.

E. E. Soubry D. A. Shepard
Mr. Soubry started with the Com-
pany in 1911 a clerk in the ship-
ping department of the affiliate in
London. Before becoming a director
he was foreign marketing coordinator

for the parent company.

Shepard joined the Company
a research engineer after
Massachusetts In-
Before becom-
nt to the presi-
as chairman of the
Oil Com-

2 from

te of Technol
ing executive as:
dent he served
Board of Anglo-American
pany

DEATHS

Joseph da Silva of the Catalytic &
Light Ends Department died Decem-
ber 30 at the age of 37. Hailing from
British Guiana, he had twelve and a
half years service, and was an assi-
stant operator. He is survived by his
mother and five brothers.

ARUBA ESSO NEWS

, |Mother of Six Gets

dark, the tug "Colorado
| terap ed to get a tow line to the ’Sur-
pri but without success. Since
launches could not reach the wreck
because of shallow water over the
|coral outcroppings, a small boat had
to be used to bring in the first light
rope, and men on the schooner were
{unable to pull in the heavy hawser
needed for the tow job. The tug went
|out Monday for renewed attempts to
save the schooner, and whether or not

sful is not known as the

roes to press.

k has heartbreaking
pects for Captain Hodge, who is s
to have all his family’s resources tied
up in the craft. His son, Pierre Hod-
a Receiving & Shipping Dept
dock corporal who acts as sub-fore-
man, is part owner in the enterprise,
and with his father has been exerting
every effort to build up the
ner’s business.

The capt

Trappenberg,
Relations but

Point” at-

ge,

schoo-

Mrs. Carmacina Croes is shown
with four ef her six children
the day she got her new wheel-
chair. Others in the pictu
officers of the Doreas Welfz
Society of which Mrs. 5
Klingbeil, R. N. is the Director.

son-in-law is Jose
formerly of Industrial
now a shopkeeper in
San Nicolas. One member of the crew,
Cyril Bryan, worked at the Dining
Hall here from April 1948 to April
1950. Most of then men in the crew
are from St. Martin.

are

FLASH Jarmacina Croes

P

now has a

rs.

Disaster wrote Finis to the story

when the schooner sank in deep

water after being pulled clear of the
rocks.

20 x0 and now is the mother
Mrs. Croes might still be without
some good fortune that came to one

Are You a Palindrome?

Mama di Seis Yiu Ta
Haya un Wielstoel

| If your name is Hannah or Otto,
you're a palindrome. That doesn’t
mean you like bicycle racing, which

is done in a velodrome — it means : :
\ "| Carmacina Croes awor tin un wiel-
your name reads the | a

same whether | > ;
a stoel. E tabatin mester di u osde
you spell it forward or backward. 36 anja pasa caba, A Tees ceade
pe Rar UIS Fs seanenys a see on | bata paralitico desde su edad di siete
| 8 Perens i rf DE P ee a anja, sinembargo el a casa mas o
constructing clever sentence that menos 20 anja pasa awor e te
read the same both ways. The best Acne aS eee
: Sree *- |mama di seis yiu. Su yiu di mas bieuw
known, and one of the earliest, is C :

"Madam, I’m Adam”. Here are some|~ bibs eae
otheraipenionevonés: | poso y yiunan ta biba na Macuarima,

| Santa Cruz.
See, slave, I demonstrate yet arts | : q pe <
= s Te ainda qui Senjora Croes por
no medieval sees. . i ;
se or a keda sin su wielstoel, si no tabata
Not New York .
: a pa motibo di bon fortuna cu a yega
No. I save on final _ 2 ,
EVaRiOn cerca un di su amigonan mas fiel, e
Tsar desserts clidinodemong. alas | sociedad bienhechora ’’Dorcas Wel-
hs ce : ©") | fare Society”. Mas o menos dos luna
no melon; distressed was I. - . Fj
, | pasa e sociedad a habri nan clubhuis
Are we not drawn onward, we few, - cores ate :
9 nobo. Uno di e invitadonan na e inau-
drawn onward to new era? |
I — Hearst Feature Service |

, Roy went on.

plan if no

(Continua na pagina 3)



Prior to his wedding December 14, Conrad Welch of
the Cable Office was given a Mix-Master and a silver
dish by friends and co-workers in the Accounting-
Service Division. The presentation was made by Etta
Williamson. His marriage to Veronica Dash took place
in the Dutch Reformed Church, Oranjestad. The newly-
weds will reside at Generaal Majoor De Bruijne Wijh
No. 40 Sabaneta.

Commissary, was

Members of the Executive Service Division Office got

together December 11 and good

wishes to Dulcie Gazendam (right) before her departure

December 15 for Montreal, Canada where she and her
husband will make their new home.

to present a check
ember
the Methodist

make their home

wheel-chair.
alyzed at the age of seven, she

yea
her husband and children, Mrs. Croes lives in

Welfare Society. About two months ago, the Society opened their

|tin 15 anja. Senjora Croes cu su es- |

Co-workers of Joseph Pet
presented him with a check prior to his marriage Dee-
14 to Mildred Ju
Church

at Essoville 49. Harry Gordon (right)
made the presentation on behalf of the M&C employees.

January 4, 1952

Wheel Chair Gift

Den e portret nos por mira
Sra. Carmacina Croes cu cuatro
di su seis yiunan e dia cu el a
haya su wielstoel nobo.
hendenan cu ta
portret ta oficialnan di e ’Dor-
cas Welfare Society” di cual
sociedad Sra. A. Klingbeil, R
N. ta Directora.

1 otro
aparece den e

She has
nevertheless

needed for 36
got married about
of six children. The oldest is 15. With
uarima, Santa Cruz

chair if it hadn’t
staunchest friends, the

one

her whe
of her

been for
Doreas
new
club house. One of the guests at the
inauguration was Mrs.
other was Ernst Finck,
Medical Department.

Croes;

of

an-
Lago’s

Finck became interested in provid-
ing Mrs. Croes with a _ wheelch
and he talked with Lago officials

able to provide a surplus
r which was given to the Dorcas
The Society, in turn, put
chair in A-1 condition and pre-
ented it to Mrs. Croes.
Croes and her family consider
air "a great blessing.” Now,
| for the first time since her pa
| thirty x years ago, she is ab
travel a fair distance without
During the past holida she
busy paying Christmas visits
friends and neighbors. And that
one of the most striking things
about Mrs. Croes. Almost always
pleasant and smiling, she thinks
about others more often than herself.

help.
was
to

is

Jacques Ellis, fork-lift truck operator at the Wholesale

presented with a decanter sei and a

set of silver by his fellow employees in a presentation
made by D. G. Richards (right) on the eve of his
iage December
ceremony took place at the Methodist Church in San
Nicholas with the
The couple will reside in Rooi Hundo.

15 to Adeline Le Grande. The

Rey. Robert A. Kirtley officiating.

rson of the M&C Storehouse
at
will

Williams in a ceremony

San Nicholas. The couple







January 4, 1952

Cat Cracker Again
Becomes Vast Tree



Transformed again into of the
world’s. tallest Christmas trees, the
Catalytic’ Cracking Unit. wwith+ its
hundreds of colored lights stood as &
Christmas beacon forall the eastern
end of Aruba and for ships at sea.



A new and striking feature of the





refinery’s 1951 Christmas decorations
was the floodlighted manger scene
facing San Nicolas on the roof of the
check building at the Main Gate.
The decorations will be lighted

through Sunday, January 6.

Wielstoel

(Continua di pagina 2)
guracion di e clubhuis tabata Sra.
Croes y un otro tabata Sr. Ernst

Finck, empleado di Departamento Me-

dico di Lago.
Finck a haya, masha interes pa
busca un wielstoel pa Sra. Croes y el



. a papia cu e oficialnan di Lago, ken-

denan por a duna un wielstoel cu ta-
batin di mas na e Sociedad Dorcas”.
E sociedad di su banda a laga drecha
e wielstoel completamente bon y a
duné na Sra. Croes como regalo.

Sra. Croes y su familia ta consi-
dera e wielstoel como "un gran ben-
dicion”. Awor, pa di promer biaha
desde su paralisis di trinta y seis
anja caba, e por pasea un distancia
razonable sin mester di yudanza. Du-
rante e dianan di fiestanan, e tabata
ocupa den hacimento di





Sra. Croes ta cu semper e ta contento

y tin un sonrisa ariba su cara y e ta|

pensa mas ariba otro cu ariba su mes.

Rescue
(Cont. from page 1)

this was his third

For Pantophlet,
took place in 1937

rescue, The firs





on Finger Pier No. 4, when he
rescued a sailor in much the same
manner. The man shortly recovered
from the accident. Pantophlet’s se-

cond rescue attempt, about five
ago, did not have such happy 1
as the victim was too severely
jured and died before help
reach him

Pantophlet, who is acting Corporal
A on the docks, has been with Lago
for 21 years

in-
could



Theater Players Debut
With Successful Revue

Pictured here in their last general
rehearsal before staging their first
show are some of the members of the
newly organized Aruba Theatre Play-
ers. Organized about 4 months ago
under the leadership of B. H. Rom-
bauts, an instructor in the Training
ivision, the group draws its mem-

ership from all over Aruba, includ-
ing Oranjestad and San Nicolas. So
far, how all the male member-
ship is made up of Lago employ













First performance by the new
theatrical group was a musical co-
medy, "Varieties of 1951,” given
December 19 at the de Veer Theatre





with a second showing December 21
at the Principal Theatre in San Ni-
colas. A sell-out was reported after
the f. performance, and seats for
the second were said to be "pretty
well filled up.”

Already the players are planning
their next show which they expect
to present "in five or six months.”
Although different from the first
show, the organization’s next offer-
ing is also scheduled to be a musical
comedy.







bishita di;
Pascu na su amigonan y bisinjanan. |
Un di e cosnan mas sobresaliente di |



Promotions Announced|



T. H. Harrod J. E. Keller





ARUBA ESSO NEWS



A concert and dance put on by the| Performers gather for a picture after the’ variety show staged by the

| Aruba Amateur Dramatic Club was |

N. A. DeFrees B. S. Whitney

|
|

E. A. Molzer



Promotions were announced late
last month for three in Light Oils
Finishing and one each in Labora-
and Clubs.

T. H. Harrod was named process
of Distilling and
ions. Mr. Harvod














joined — the Company September
7, 1912, and transferred to Aruba in
May 1929 z ater. He had been



maintenance foreman since March
1949.

J. E. Keller has been promoted to
shift foreman in LOF. He served as
an operator from his arrival March
12, 1935 until March 1949, when he
made assistant shift foreman.
A. de Frees was promoted to
ant shift foreman in LOF. He
has been with Lago since July 31,
1937, with three years out for mili-
te service. His last position was
operator.

B. S. Whitney has been promoted
to group head B, No. 2 Laboratory,
filling the vacancy created by E. C.
Johnson’s transfer to the New York
fi i y came to Aruba
in February 1945 as a student chemi-
cal engineer; before the present pro-
motion he was a chemist A.

E. A. Molzer was promoted to the |
position of supervisor — Esso Club.
He joined Lago in March 1946 as a
maintenance inspector in Colony }
Service. From December 1949 to |
March 1951 he was assistant club
manager, and since then was night
supervisor.



was





















Ariba e portret aki nos ta mira algun di e miembronan di e *Aruba Theatre



| here

a feature of the early Christmas sea-
son, with over 25 young actors and





es in a va y show at the
Theater December 16.
Musical numbers on the piano,

trumpet, accordion, and harmonica,
songs, jok dialogues, and Christ-
mas plays made a well-rounded pro-
gram. B. Riley was chairman of the
committee organizing the show, |
which was followed by dancing to |
the music of the Lucky Strike or- |
chestra. Part of the proceeds for the |
evening will be donated to the}
orphanage that is being planned for |



Aruba.
E. V. Emmanuel of No. 1 Power-
house organized the society and is

its president. Chief purpose of the | |

group is the development of talented |
young people. |

Surinam Educater *

Visits Voc. School

Lago’s vocational training
yas inspected last week by Surinam’s
director of vocational schools, J. H.
Stebenitsky. He was accompanied on
his tour of the center by E.F. Welch,
principal of Lago’s vocational school.

Also on the tour were G. Kok,
Inspector of Education for Aruba;
and G. Amelink, Director of Aruba’s
technical schools.

Mr. Stebenitsky came to Aruba in
order to survey vocational teaching
and visited both government
schools as well as the one at Lago.
Although Surinam has had a vocat-
ional training program for the past
16 years, it has been on a limited
basis. Officials now are planning to |
expand the program.

To se» what courses are covered
by larger technical schools in the
area and to learn about the methods
used in teaching various subjects,
s the purpose of Mr. Stebenitsky’s
t |








Vv. .
The Surinam Director seemed fav- |
orably impressed by what he saw
here, and was particularly interested
in the shop-training program at La- |
go. He hopes now to set up shops in
Surinam along similar lines.



Players” recientemente organiza den nan ultimo ensayo general promer cu |
nan a haci nan promer presentacion dia 19 di December. Mientras e orga-

nizacion a lamta mas o menos 4 luna

pasa bao di direccion di B. H. Rom- |

bouts, un instructor na Training Division, e grupo tin miembro for di henter
Aruba, incluyendo Oranjestad y San Nicolas.

Shown in final rehearsal just before staging their first show December

19 and 21 are eight members of the newly organized Aruba Theatre Players. |

center | f

Aruba Amaieur Dramatic Club at the Cecilia Hall December 16.

Three Office Parties Mark Yuletide



| Some of the 50 guests who attended the Executive Office Staff Christmas
_party are seen here watching one of the slide-song entertainment events.

| Miembronan di Personal di Executive Office y nan invitadonan tabata pre-
| sente na un Christmas Party na eas di Jim Lambert ariba e anochi di 18 di
| December. E arte cosmopolitico di e grupo tabata refleha door di e programa

di fiesta nobo cu tabata contene exhibicion di retratonan di color di varios
lugar, sigui door di canciones canta door di nativonan di cada un di e lugar-
nan munstra ariba e retratonan.

Members of the Executive
staff and their guests attended a
Christmas Party given at the home

jof Jim Lambert the evening of Dec-

ember 18. The cosmopolitan nature of
the group was reflected by the novel
entertainment program which featur-
ed color slides of many lands follow-
ed by songs by natives of each of
the countries pictured.

Following a series of slides on
Trinidad, well-known Calypso singer
Lucius Henry Foote sang sev ]
songs about the famous island. Siid
showing her homeland were folloy
by songs about British Guinea
Mrs. Terry Pimento;



by
and Carmen
Illidge sang about St. Martin and St.

Kitts following slid
Windward Islands. Slides of Europe
and the United ites were aiso
shown, including some about Te
following which Sherre|l Jacksor
sang a ballad redolent of the Lone
Star State

The slid

s depicting the













showings we in-
terspe rvings of refresh-
ments. Approximately 50 people

attended.

Office |





The Industrial Relations depart-
ment held its annual Christmas party
the afternoon of December 22 in the
American Legion Home. More than
70 employees and guests of the de-
partment were on hand.

Christmas carols, led by a choral
group of women employees of the de-
partment, were sung by the guests,
and sandwiches and soft drinks were
served. Songs, from American _hill-
billy to Latin love songs, were
presented by various entertainers,
and several management represent-
atives spoke briefly to the group.

With George Hemstreet as chair-
man, other committee members in-
cluded Oliver T. Rock, decorations;
Mrs. Mildred Chung, catering; Car-
men Gravenhorst, finance; E. M.
O’Brien, sound system and refresh-
ments; and Hubert Richardson and
Fisher Chichester, entertainment.

Several days previously, the in-
structors in the Training division en-
tertained guests at a Christmas party
at the Winter Garden. Dancing enter-
tainment, and refreshments made the
occasion a festive one.

| Oliver Rock leading the women’s choral group in a number of Christmas

| songs at the Industrial Relations department’s annual Christmas party.





Government and Lago Employees Bow in Christmas Season

Govt. Party
(Cont. from page 1)

prizes were awarded to holders of
lucky, free tickets, but in the excite-
ment their names could not be
obtained.

J. J. Horigan, p dent of Lago,
started the festivities with a short
speech welcoming to the party mem-
bers of the Aruba government with
whom the company has had close
contact during the past year. Noting
that the party was again back at its
old site, the Marine Club, he said
that last year the Golf Club was
tried as a place for the party but had
been found to be "too roomy.” After
thanking the government workers for
their cooperation with Lago during
the past year, Horigan introduced Dr.
L. C. Kwartsz, Lt. Governor of
Aru

Taking note of the traditional
nature of the party that has been an
annual event for a "couple of dozen
years,” Dr. Kwart aid, in part, "It
may be a coincidence that this
gathering always takes place a few
days before Christmas, the day on
which we have to remember there
must reign peace on earth and a
good unde anding between our
fellow ci and ourselves.”

Dr. Kwartsz, however, said he did
not believe it to be a coincidence, but
*that this day is deliberately chosen,
as this traditional party is based on
a sound mutual understanding and on
the conviction that nothing worth-
while ever is achieved without an
open-hearted mutual confidence in
each other.” ;

After the serious portion of his
message had been given, the Gov-
ernor started the entertainment by
telling several humorous stories. Fol-
lowing the Governor’s speech, the
anthems of three nations were sung,
”Wilhelmus Van sauwe,” "God
Save the King,” and "The

ngled Banner.”

Several groups of entertainers
furnished songs and humor with an
international flavor. Syd Tucker

his impre m of an English
icatur Val Linam and

ale teamed up as cowboy

singer and guitar player, with a
rendition of several Western songs;

, TOP LEFT — If this candid shot is ,

any judge, the entertainment pro-
gram was enjoyed by the guests at
Lago’s annual Christmas party for
Government employees. TOP RIGHT
— A well-filled food basket is col-
lected by V. Mierlo, chief of detec-
tives at San Nicolas, after his num-
ber was drawn by J. J. P. Oduber
(Accounting) of the party committee;
the smile at right belongs to Wm.
Porter (Marine), master of ceremo-
nies. LOWER LEFT — Latin songs
by H. Gordon (Storehouse) with
guitar accompaniment by Speziale
(Dispensary) were the hit of the
evening. LOWER RIGHT — These
interested spectators a Lt. Gov.
L. C. Kwartsz, Lago President J. J.
Horigan, Captain J. Dourlein of the
| Netherlands Marines, and Chief De-
partmental Assistant H. Hessling.

ARIBA BANDA ROBEZ — Si nos

por huzga for di e retrato aki nos ta}

mira cu e huespedes na e Christmas
Party Anual di Lago pa empleadonan
di Gobierno a goza di e programa di
fiesta. ARIBA BANDA DRECHI —
V. Mierlo, Hefe di Detectivo na San
Nicolas, ta ricibi un macuto bon yena
di cuminda despues cu su numero a
worde saea door di J. J. P. Oduber
(di Accounting), miembro di Comi-
sion di Fiesta; e sonrisa na banda
drechi ta bini di Wm. Porter (Marine
Dept.), Mae: di Ceremonia. ABAO
BANDA ROF — Canciones Latino
canta door di H. Gordon (di Store-
house) accompanja cu guitarra pa
S. Speciale (di Dispensario) tabata
e “hitt” di e anochi. ABAO BANDA
DRECHI — E observadornan inte-
resd ta Gezaghebber L. C. Kwartsz,
President di Lago J. J. Horigan, Ka-
pitein J. Dourlein di Marina Holandes
y Hoofdecommies H. Hessling.

"De Neus” Oppenhuizen sang a
Dutch version of "The Thing,” and
He Gordon wound up the formal
ente inment with several popular

son in Spanish, including Bula |

Wa :

Refreshments were served through-
out the party, and music was _ pre-
sented by the Lago Colony Band
under the direction of the Rey. Don
R. Evans.

ARUBA ESSO NEWS

_ NEW ARRIVALS

December 12
RICHARDS, Nicolas E.; A son, Hernandez
do.
Christopher; a daughter, Betty
Christabelle.
December 13
KROZENDIJK, Efigenio; A son, Luciano

E.; A daughter,

A son, Richard

December 14
A daughter, Mirtha

cisio; A daughter, Nicasio.
2, Simon; A daughter, Nalinare
December 15
VAN DER BIEZEN, Florentino M A son,
erardo Maximiliano.
LEMIN Luis H.; A son, Pedrito Alfonso.
MOHAMED, Jozef P. A.; A son, Hug

RIDDE TAP, Francisco; A son, Maximo

Everaldo.

December 16
Je

dela Albina.
er Fernando

PHILLIPS, Cecil C.; A son, Winston Eric
Alexander
KELLY, Agustin; A son, Julian Antonio
December 18
VAN DER LINDE, Damaso; Twins
oA

a daughter E

A daughter, Madeline
trix

December 19
DE CUBA, Maximo; A son, Walter Simon

December 20
DIRKSZ, Maximo; A daughter, Filomena
VROOLIJK, Norberto; A daughter

Dominica Magdalena

December 21
BACCHUS, Elan; A son, Bildaran
WOUTERS, Juan; A daughter
GONSALVES, Emmanuel A.; A daughter

ARENDS eng »; A daughter,” Calista
Maria.
December 22
GOUVEIA, Eugene I.; A son, Wayne

Apolinio Demetrio
Franciseo; A so serto
Francisco
December
MADURO, Alejandro; A son, Mirto Arturo.
December 25
GEERMAN, Severiano; A daughter, Esusita
Frederika
December 26
DI Hendrik; A son, Hendrik
SILBERIE, Leonardo F,; A son

December 27

| GIEL, Pedro P.; A son, Eric Rudolf

Retiring from Lago in mid-Dec-
ember after long service were Tru
man Dossey of Acid & Ede
Ed Har Light Oils

ssey was employed at Wooc
River, i s from May 1920 tc
Januar, 93) when he came te
Aruba as a . helper at the Acic
Plant. He later became an operator
and in July 1948 ; made shif!
br_aker for shift foremen and oper
ators. At his retireme 2 shift
foreman (tempc . 2 has tent
ative plans to settle in St. Thomas
of the Virgin Islands, but will scout
around some neighboring places be
fore making up his mind.

Mr. Harris also joined the Com-
pany at Wood River, Illinois, in Sep-
tember 1915. In February 1929 he
came to Aru s a stillman in the
Light Oi Finishing Department,
and on May 1 of the same year was
promoted to shift foreman. Since
January 1949 he had been process

foreman.
Mee lame 2

Gifts and scrolls, farewell picnics
and luncheons, were in order last
month for Truman Dossey (below)
and Ed Harris (right) as they joined
the ranks of annuitants. R. V. Heinze
is making the presentation to Mr.
Dossey, while J. A. pe did the
honors at the LOF office.

January 4, 1952











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January 4, 1952



Irene Ta na Cas Despues di un Serie di

Operacion Satisfactorio

Completamente restora, e mucha muher chikito y spierto Irene Ja- |
cobs ta atrobe na Aruba y por usa completamente su garganta cu ta- |
bata hopi mal corta. El a bolbe dia

na Estados Unidos

23
23

di December, juist na tempo pa

celebra Pascu na cas despues di a haya tratamento surgical special

na Estados Unidos.

Na aeropuerto Irene a worde saluda door di oficialnan di Aruba
Lions Club, cual a cuminza e campanja pa colecta placa pa mande’le
na Estados Unidos pa e operacionnan cu a trece’le Aruba completa-

mente salud. Irene a

recorda e Lions Club




"lor





cu bai ¢

Na su cas cual el a haya geverf
nobo y cu bandera Holandes ta bula
como senjal di e suceso alegre
Irene a haya e promer Kerstboom cu

e] tabatin di su bida den su mes cas.
(Mayoria di Pascunan el a
pasa den hospitalnan) Bao di e Kerst-
boom tabatin hopi regalonan di amigo
y amiganan y su familia.
Na Estados Unidos Irene
bao cuido di e specialista di garganta
Chevalier Jack-

Irene su



tabata





di fama mundial, Dr.

son. Dr. Jackson a distingui su mes
den un otro operacion admirable den
garganta di un mucha muher, y ¢
mucha muher ey tambe tabata biba
bao bandera Holandes. El ta di Am-







sterdam y tabata cla pa bai ca

accidentemente a guli un preke habri.
Ora ningun hende por a saca e preke,
Fls. 11,000 a worde colecta rapida-
mente y e mucha muher a worde
manda na Estados Unidos unda el a
worde opera door di Dr. Jackson.

E dokter a inventa un metodo nun-
ca conoci pa e operacion y a logra di
saca e preke liher den un operacion
cu a hala atencion di henter mundo

Pa su servicio e dokter kier a
preke como pago

médico
accepta solamente e
cual el a tene como un souvenir.

Na Hospital di Temple University
na Philadelphia Dr. Jackson a haci
un serie di operacion delicado cu
Irene. Esakinan a completa un cade-
na largo di tratamento cu a cumir
aki na Aruba door di Dr. A. A.
hlachter di Oranjestad ariba kende
su insistencia, cu el por worde com-
pletamente cura, e cantidad di suce-
sonan a cuminza cu finalmente a pone
Irene bao cuido di Dr. Jackson.

Cinco anja pasa, tempo cu
tabata solamente siete anja, el a
trompeca y a cai mientras el tabata





carga un bleki di Klim habri. E peso |
rand protectivo | parti

di su caida a kita e
cu ta cubri e canto skerpi ariba di e
bleki. Ta e canto skerpi aki manera
nabaha cu a corta e pijpnan den Irene
su garganta door di cual e no por a
guli ni hala rosea bon.

Un buraco special pa su stoma ta-
bata pasa banda di e herida pa bai
den e gulidé y un tubo di metal pa
hala rosea a worde poni den e lucht-
pijp, pero despues di varios siman den
hospital Irene a bai cas ainda sin por
usa su garganta.



Solamente un serie di operacion de- |

bisa oficialnan di Lions Club cu "’semper lo el
2 pa nan tur anochi.’’ Despues, promer
, Irene cu awor tin 13 anja a bai directamente na Misa.

y cu un accento distinto di Philadel-
phia. Awor cu e ta na cas trobe, Irene
ta insisti pa papia casi solamente In-
gles pa e no perde su comprension di
e idioma.

Muera di school y mira vista di e
lugar, Irene tabatin hopi visitante y
a atende varios fiesta. E Club
di Noord Philadelphia a tuma over e
trabao di nan ruman aki na Aruba y
keda constantemente en conec-

lions

nan a
cion cu né. Dia 25 di Mei nan a pone
un fiesta grandi di cumpleanos pa
Irene y ora el] tabata cla pa bin cas

nan a dune’le un fiesta di despedida
cual tabatin 125 hende presente.
Pa yuda tene su curashi halto y pa
mira cu el tabatin tur tabatin
John Jardell y Ruben

loke e

Dr.

Frank di Philadelphia tabata bin
mire constantemente. Su familia aki
na Aruba no a worde lubida. Sra.

George Ferguson, kende tabata biba
na Curacao en lo pasado, tabata haci
dos bishita tur siman cerea Irene y
despues di cada bishita el tabata
scirbi Irene su mama pa bise’le kiko e
tabata haci, com e ta sinti y kiko el
tabata bisa.

Cinco of
bata nece

eis operacion delicado ta-
arlo pa cura Irene su gar-
ganta corta, pero awor solamente un
cicatriz a keda pa munstra e lugar
unda pa tanto tempo tubonan di me-
tal tabata necesario pa por permiti e
mucha muher come y hala rosea. Des-
pues di poco tempo hasta e cicatriz-
nan lo worde kita pa medio di yena e
lugar cu carni for di otro parti di su
curpa.

Pa e Lions Irene su curamento ta








Irene; un bon demonstracion di loke nan ta

pensa cu por worde cumpli ora hende
ta trata pa un yuda otro. E Lions
Club di Aruba promer a tuma un
activo den e caso di Irene na
anja 1948, un ocho luna despues cu e
accidente a socede. Na e tempo ey
Monte Maduro tabata president di e
Club y tempo cu el a worde sigui den
e puesto ey pa Carlos L. Juliao, un
otro comerciante bien conoci na
Aruba, Maduro a worde nombra como
miembro di comité special encarga cu
e campanja Irene Jacobs.

Incita pa e pensamento cu maske
nan ta un grupo chikito nan por con-
tribui na e bienestar di e isla y su
habitantenan, e Lions Club di Aruba

licado por a cure’le, pero su mama|a organiza caba hopi comité pa yuda

sintiendo cu tabata un milagro cu

hubentud, pa yuda promove bida civil,

Irene tabata ainda na bida — no ta-|y fuera di esey nan a yuda hopi hen-

bata gusta pa haci mas operacion cu
né. A lo largo, despues cu e situacion
di e mucha muher a yega na conoce-

mento di Aruba Lions Club, Dr. A.}

A. Slachter a haci varios
cu a mehora su condicion.

Sinembargo, Dr. Schlachter a rea-
liza cu e operacionnan final no por a
worde haci aki y ora nan a haya sabi
esaki, Lions Club a cuminza cu un
campanja pa haya placa pa manda
Irene na Unidos pa_trata-
mento. Como resultado di cartanan y
suplica directo, casi tur hende na
Aruba a contribuf den e Fondo pa
Irene Jacobs.

Gruponan atletico y civil a tene
programanan special pa cual nan a
cobra entrada y a manda e ganancia
pa e Fondo pa Irene. En total mas di
Fls. 9000 a worde colecta y prepara-
cion final pa e operacionnan necesa-
rio a worde haci door di Lions.

Na tur camina, mannan carinjoso
y corazonnan di bon voluntad a ofrece
Irene nan ayudo. Dos linea aerea
— Pan American y KLM — a ofrece
pasashi liber pa Irene bai Estados
Unidos. Y ora tabata parce cu arre
glonan haci di antemano pa contra cu
Irene na New York probablemente lo
bai robez, oficialnan di Lago a tele-
grafiad na Merea avisando pa larga
representante di compania contra cu
né, Como cu tur cos a bai bon, e arre-

operacion







Estados









glonan cu Lions Club a haci a worde der, as the Lt. Governor used to be

completa na tempo y Richard Naar,
un miembro bieuw di Lions Club aki,



a contra cu Trene y a acompanje'’le pa also of all the animals. In this docu-

Philadelphia.

Na Philadelphia Irene no a keda
solamente den cama di hospital y
kamber di operacion. Ora cu e no ta-

batin mester di keda na cama, el a/| Realm”. It say

bai na un school Catolico

mirando e lugarnan principal.

|de. Pesey ta un

milagro chikito cu
Irene Jacobs, dia cu el a bolbe for di
Estados Unidos, a bisa cu nunca e lo
lubida e Lions.

Ce

Be nan



hit





ARUBA ESSO NEWS

| Maxwell Pantophlet Ta
Salba un Marino

"Un Homber a Cai na Awa!” Esaki
tabata e grito cu a resona banda di
1 ’or di mainta dia 28 di
na Finger Pier No. 2. Trahando wor-
da di grave-yard den cercania tabata
Maxwell E. Panthophlet, un homber
cu dos biaha promer caba a traha he-
roicamente pa salba bida di otro.

El a corre bai na un lugar ariba
waf unda luznan tabata ilumina y
mirando na banda for di e dock di

concreet el a mira un homber ta drief
cu cara abao den awa. Sin duda un
momento, Pantophlet a bula na awa
pa salbe’le.

Na e lugar di e accidente, linjanan
di tubo y balkinan ta corre den e mes
largura di Pier No. 2. E tubonan ta
como cuatro 0 cinco pia ariba awa. Ta
na esakinan Pantophlet a bula tene
y pa por a yega na e homber, el mes-
ter a colga mescos cu un payaso cu un





man y pia lora rond di un balki.

For di su posicion peligroso, Pan-
tophlet net por a yega su victima,
maske el a pela su bra’ haciendo
asina. Despues hendenan ariba e dock
a bin yuda y teniendo Pantophlet na
su faha, mientras el tabata tene e vic-
tima foi tino, nan a hiza tur dos y a
pone nan na siguridad.

Despues cu nan a puntre’le cu ta
un ecabuya nan a marra rond su bari-
ca pa halé trece ariba, Pantophlet a
mira na su faha y a bisa cu un son-
"No, esaki ta un bon







suave:

risa
faha.

Pensando ainda solamente pa salba
e victima, Pantophlet a cuminza duna
respiracion artificial te ora algun
momento despues el a worde cambia
door di Promer Stuurman di Esso
Reading, un bapor cu tabata ancla ey
banda.

Despues di varios minuto ansioso
durante cual tabata parce cu no taba-
tin bida den e homber, e victima a
cuminza hala rosea trobe. Pantophlet
ta pensa cu e homber lo no a keda na
bida si el a worde saca for di awa y
si respiracion artificial a cuminza
"cinco seconde mas laat”, el a bisa.

E ambulance di Lago, cu a worde
yama na e lugar door di Lago Police,
a hiba e homber na Dispensario unda
el a worde trata y despues a trans-
porte’le pa san Petro Hospital na

Oranjestad. Na Dispensario, e victi- |

ma a worde identifica como L. Allen,
30 anja di edad, di Country Cork, lr-
landia, marinero competente di e tan-
ker Britanico Busen Rollo.

Allen a haya liber pa baha tera e
anochi ey y tabata regresando pa su
bareo ora e accidente a tuma lugar.
Su barco tabata pa sali e anochi ey
pa un viahe largo na e lugarnan di
|caza bayena di Antartico unda el lo
|hiba azeta pa e bapornan di bayena
|y despues tuma azeta di bayena pa
|hiba mercado. Allen a subi como tri-
| pulante na Inglatera dia 3 di Decem-
ber.

Pa Pantophlet esaki ta di tres bez
cu el a salba hende. Promer biaha ta-
bata na anja 1937 ariba Finger Pier
No. 4, tempo cu el a salba un mari-
nero den casi e mes manera. Poco des-
pues e homber a bira bon di e acci-
dente.



7
*





Above is another historic
loaned to the
tog from his

history.

research in
It seems that the



Comman-

called, had to keep statistics not only
on the 1,700 people living here but



ment Commander Thielen, writing
with a feather pen in 18 has re-
corded his "Survey of Male and
Female Donk Belonging to the





and the total is 358.

one per family).

1 gem
Esso News by J. Har-
Aruba’s



I ys that since the prey-
; | y a haci ious survey no donkeys died, 71 were
hopi paseo rond di e ciudad historico sold, (This
any e El a seems to work out pretty closely to
sinja papia Ingles bastante corriente

Aki riba tin un otro pida di historia
precioso cu J. Hartog a presta na
Esso News for di su estudio ariba
historia di Aruba. Ta parce cu e
Commandeur, manera nan tabata ya-
ma e Gezaghebber e tempo ey, mester
a tene statisticonan no salamente di
e 1700 hende cu tabata biba aki, pe-
ro tambe di e animalnan. Den e do-
cumento aki Commandeur Thielen, cu
tabata scirbi cu un pen di pluma na
anja 1825, a scirbi su "Registro
Burico Perteneciendo na e Reino”.
E registro ta munstra cu desde e re-
gistro anterior ningun burico a mu-
ri, cu 71 a worde bendi y cu e total
ta 358.





December |





BETTER MAKE SURE
THEY'LL FIT!





Irene (Cont. from page 2) |
several w in the hospital Irene
went home, still unable to use her
throat.

Only a series of delicate operations
would cure her, but her mother
— feeling that it was a miracle that
| Irene vy still living — was reluctant
to have further surgery performed.
Eventually, after the girl’s plight had
come to the attention of the Aruba
Lions Club, Dr. A. A. Schlachter
| performed several operations which
| improved the girl’s condition.

However, Dr. Schlachter realized |
that the final operations could not |
be performed here, and when they
became aware of this, the Lions be-
gan a fund-raising campaign to send
Irene to the United States for treat-
ment. As a result of letters and direct
appeals, nearly everyone in Aruba
contributed to the Irene Jacobs fund.

Athletic and civie groups held
| special programs with paid admission
|assigning the proceeds to Irene’s
| fund. In all, over Fls. 9.000 was rais-
}ed and final preparations for the |
necessary operations were made by
the Lions. |

All along the way, friendly hands
and willing hearts offered Irene their
|help. Two airlines — Pan American
and KLM — offered free passage to
the United States for Irene. And
when it looked as though previous }
arrangements to meet Irene in New
York were likely to go awry, Lago
| officials cabled the States to see that
|she would be met by company re-
| presentatives. As it worked out, the
Lions Club arrangements were com-
| pleted in time and Richard Naar, a}





former member of the local Lions, |
met Irene and escorted her to Phila-
delphia.

In Philadelphia, it wasn’t all

hospital beds and surgery rooms for
Irene. Not confined to bed, she went
to a Catholic high school and made
|many sight-seeing trips around the
historic city. She learned to speak |
English with a thorough-going fluen-
cy that includes a distinct Philadel- |
phia accent. Now that she’s back |
home, Irene insists on using English
almost exclusively so she won't lose
her grasp of the language.

Besides school and
Irene had many visitor
parties. The North Philadelphia Lions
Club: took the work of their
and kept in constant |
25, they |



















ove
Aruba brothe
touch with her. Last May











threw a huge birthday party for
Irene, and when she was ready to
come home, they gave her a going-
away party which more than 1

people attended. |
To help keep her spirits high and |
to see that she had everything she |
needed, John Jardell and Dr. Ruben
Frank of Philadelphia kept in con-
stant contact with her. Her family
in ruba wasn’t forgotten. Mrs.
George Ferguson, a former resident
of Cur ), paid two visits each week
to Irene and, following each call,
wrote to Irene’s mother to tell her
how Irene w: what she w doing,
how she felt, what she was saying
Five or six delicate operations were
necessary to repair Ivene’s damaged
throat, but now only a i remains
to mark the place where, for so long,
metal tubes were needed in order
that the girl could eat and breathe.
Shortly, even the sears will be re-
moved by skin grafts, which are to
be performed when the doctors think
the time is right. Meanwhile, Irene
kept the metal breathing tube and
other paraphernalia as a momento
of her long illne
To the Lions,























Irene’s recovery is



| active in

ROW LARGE NOUSH

WILLIT BE? FOR MY FAMILY AN?
AFEW OF THE
NECESSITIES

OF LIFE.

Hearst

Mar Caribe Coge
Un Otro Victima

Feature Ser

Mar Caribe, normalmente suaye, a

purba coge un otro victima siman
pasa, ora e golet di 65-ton, ”Sur-

prize”, a pega ariba rif algun cien
meter p’abao di Esso Club. E golet a
sali fo’i Oranjestad dia 29 di Decem-
ber atardi, pa bai Corsouw y St. Mar-
tin; pa dos or su siguiente madruga,
el a core subi ’riba e rifnan scondi
bao awa cu ta drumi manera un
trampa entre punta di kaai y tera.
Haciendo un tek pa tera, e homber na
“look-out” a tada pa canta bira di
boordo, y e barco a dal cu steef net
el a cuminsa bira.

Nuebe homber tabata aboordo, cu
Capitan Hodge, un veterano di 65
ana, na comando. Nan a disembarca
despues cu dia a habri, y durante e
dia nan a pasa tur cos di e barco
hiba na Rodger’s Beach, y a purba
cera e buraconan den curpa di e bar-
co, mientras preparaciénnan tabata
worde haci pa touw e golet saca.

E carga di 200 drum di gasolin a
worde laga aboordo, pa yuda drief e
bareo si e por coge mucho awa, des-
pues di worde saca atrobe.

Diadomingo dia 30 di December, es-
fuerzonan a worde cuminza pa salba
e golet. Cuminzando atardi y signien-
do te hasta dia a cera, e tow-boot
"Colorado Point” a purba di tira un
cabuya na "Surprize”, sin exito. Sien-
do cu lanchanan no por a yega e golet
naufraga, pasobra e awa ’riba rif no
tabata basta hundo, un boto chiquito
mester a worde usa pa trece e prome
cabuya fini, e hombernan cu tabata

|aboordo di e golet no por a hala e

cabuya mas duro cu tabata necesario
pa haci e touwmento. E towboot a
sali Dialuna atrobe pa purba di salba
e golet pero despues cu nan a hal’e
pafor di e rifnan, el a zink den awa
hundo.

one very good demonstration of what
they think can be accomplished when
people try to help one another. The
Aruba Lions Club first took an
active part in Irene’s case in 1948,

‘| some eight months after the accident
| occurred.

At that time Monte
uro was the club’s_ president
when he was succeeded in that post
by Carlos L. Juliao, another well-
known Aruba merchant, Maduro was
named special committeeman in
charge of the Irene Jacobs campaign.

Since then, both men have been
the work of aiding Ivene
back to full health. When she arrived
at Dakota field early in the morning
on the Sunday before Christmas,

Mad-

and







both men were there to meet her.
At present, the Aruba Lions Club,
which was formed in 1947, is small,

with a membership of 30. But for the
past two y the International
Lions association has awarded _ the
group its Merit of Honor

Prompted by the belief that even
as a small group they can contribute
to the welfare of the island and its
people, the Aruba Lions Club has
already organized many committees
for aiding youths, prompting civic
improvements, and in addition the
Club has helped many _ individuals.

ars

Small wonder, then, that littie Irene
Jacobs, upon her return fromthe
United States, said that she would

never forget the Lions.

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S.N. Scouts Do Well
In Benefit Lottery

lottery sponsored
Scouts in
San Nicolas and the Tarabana group
of the Netherlands Girl outs be-
fore Christmas was a solid success,
with the thousand tickets sold in
less than a month.
While the exact amount made in
the lottery will not be known until
2 stion is settled, the Scouts
red several thousand guilders.
rojects the money will be applied
against include completion of fencing
the grounds surrounding the two

Joseph Halley of the Shipyard Office

needed a car’ and the Scout raffle

provided a Buick at an investment of
only Fls. 10.

clubhouses in San Nicolas, furnishing

Something unique in home-furnish-
ing merchandising came to Aruba
with the opening of a model home
on Kamerlingh Onnes Street, Oranje-
stad. Each room has been completely
furnished, each in a different basic
style, and the house is open for in-
spection. Above is a view of the
comfortable combination living room-
dining room, and at the right is a
partial view of the modernly out-
fitted bed room. Open until January
15, the house was furnished by the
N.V. Mesker Furniture Store.



drinking water, and the addition of
toilet facilities.

The lottery proved to be very
popular and the tickets sold easily
The group may repeat the project
after a year.

Winner of the first prize, a Buick,
was Joseph Halley of the Shipyard
Office, with No. 657. He had been
intending to buy a car, and the
Scouts made it easy at the reason-
able purchase price of Fls. 10. The
electric refrigerator went to George
McCoy of the Cracking Plant, and
the washing machine was won by
Juan Kock.

Dutch Marines Feted
In Party at Golf Club

Nearly 200 officers and men of the
Dutch Marine detachment stationed
at Sabaneta were entertained by the
Lago Community Council at a Christ-
mas party December 21. Held at the
golf club, the party included refresh-
ments, entertainment and presents
for all.

A committee, headed by Bill Koop-

The Victoria sports club girl’s basketball

ARUBA ESSO NEWS



team which participated in

man, M & C, included Chief Gilbert | Christmas Day competition in Curacao is shown here. Back row, from left,

Brooks, Lago Police; Jan Hamelers,
TSD; Paul Grodijn, TSD; Lt. H. Op-

of Oranjestad. In addition, as a sort
of ex officio member of the commit-
tee, was Jaap Hulsbergen.
known for his cullinary skills, Huls-
bergen, who is in charge of the mess
hall and the colony club at the Eagle
Oil Company’s refinery, cooked food
for all the guests.

Although the fine food and the ge-
nerous refreshments comprised the
"main eevnt” of the evening for
many, other entertainment was abun-
dantly provided. Mrs. Ina van de
Winkel, of Oranjestad, well known
under the name Ina Verwoerd to
radio fans in Holland, sang several
songs in Dutch.

A chance to match their strength
against a trained weight-lifter was
given the Marines by T. Frederick of
the Storehouse. In a unique demon-
stration, Frederick invited the Mar-
ines to compete with him in an im-
promtu contest, a challenge they
cheerfully accepted. They lost out,
however, in the face of Frederick’s
training, practice and conditioning.

Accordian music was presented by
W. Tuk, of Oranjestad; and with
M « C’s Karel Eg acting as em-
cee, a quiz program was held.

More than 600 presents were give
to the Marines; 500 of them donated
by Aruba merchants. Lago’s Safety
Department gave the visitors 100
leather wallets, and in addition, each

guest received a Lago calendar.

Well |

|are M. Reyes, F. Hartogh, P.

Winterdaal,

P. Geerman, Sara Geerman

: : e 4 (Captain), and Simon Geerman (Manager). Front row, from left, R. Lewis,
penhuizen, Lago Police; Nick Schin-| yj, Frank, Olga Arindell, and D. Langedijk. Reyes and Langedijk did not
deler, TSD; and Dr. Robert de oeoe | make the trip, and not included in the picture is Celia Winterdaal who
| did go. Also not shown is team coach, Alphonso Paula.

Rotary’s Playground Party
|Draws Many Merrymakers

| The dance and casino staged by
the Aruba Rotary Club December 22
to help comple two playground
projects for Aru children scored
a success both in amount of proceeds
and in pleasure for the guests. Over
|300 thronged the Palm Beach Club
| to combine pleasure and good will,
;with most dividing their time about
equally between the games of chance
inside and the dancing outside.
Refreshments and raffles rounded
out the evening.

An unusual coincidence was the
winning of the door prize, a brass
smoking stand donated by Ch. J.
Neme, by a visiting Rotarian, R.
Pugh, from Spring Valley
York. In the raffle Kan won
the coffee maker given by M. Viana,
and Mrs. Godfried Croes won_ the
electric iron donated by Aruba Trad-
ing Company. A feature of the
evening was the Rotary group’s
mass congratulations to Mr. and

s. R. V. Heinze, who started cele-

ating their 34th wedding anniver-

at midnight.
srett Biddle of the Medical De-

Caribe Girls Invade
Curacao, Take 2 Games

To celebrate their eighth anniver-

ry, the girls basketball team of the
A.S.V. Victoria sports club chartered
a plane for Curacao where they
played two games during the Christ-
mas holida

The first game
Ts p.m., December

m of gi from Surin
Vv £ won handily
score of 11-6. Playing the
game on the Rif at 7:30
Boxing Day, the girls from
won again, this time at a score
12-1.

As a token of its victories, the
Aruba team was awarded a cup by
each of the host teams, and in addi-
tion, they were entertained by the
Athena sports club in Curacao. Taken
on sight-seeing trips to ious places
on the island, the gir were also
guests at several danc

The Victoria girls say they
soon to entertain Athena here.

m, and the
with a
second
p.m. on
Aruba
of

hope

partment was chairman of the com-
mittee that arranged the party.

January 4, 1952

The Story of The Tin Soldier

There were once five
tin soldiers who were brothers, for
they had all been made from the
same old tin spoon. They were very
grand in their new red and blue
uniforms, as they shouldered their
guns and looked straight before
them.

The first thing the soldiers ever
heard were the words, ”Tin Soldiers!”
shouted by a little boy, who clapped |
his hands with delight when the lid

s taken off the box in which they
lived. ‘

It was the little
boy’s birthday, and
the soldiers had
been given to him
for a birthday pre-
sent. The little
boy took the sol-
diers out of the
box, and stood
them on the table
They were exac
alike, except one,
who had only one leg. He was the
last one to be made, and there had
not been enough tin to finish him;
but he stood as firmly on one leg as

and twenty |

| the others did on two.

There were many other playthings
on the table where the soldiers stood;
but the most attractive one w a
pretty little paper castle. The win-
dows were very tiny, but. still

inside of the rooms. In front of the
castle stood little trees around a piece
of looking-glass, which looked like a
lake of clear water. Beautiful little
swans were swimming about the
lake and were reflected on its glassy
surface. ;

This was all very pretty; but the|

prettiest thing of all was a tiny little
lady, who stood at the open door of
the castle. She also was made of pa-
per; but her dress was of the thinnest
muslin, with a narrow blue ribbon
like a scarf over her shoulders
At the middle of the ribbon wa
shining tinsel rose as big as
whole face

The little lady stretced out both her
arms, for she was a dancer, and she
raised one foot so high that the tin
soldier could not see it at all, and
thought that she also had but one leg.

"She would make a fine wife for
me,” said the soldier; only she is so
grand and lives in a castle, while I
have only a box to live in. Besides,
there are five and twenty of us in the
box, and there is no room for her.
Still I must try to become acquainted
with her.”

Then he lay down at full length
behind the snuffbox, where he could
watch the dainty lady, who still stood
on one leg without losing her balance.

When evening came, the tin soldiers
were put into the box — that is, all
of them except the soldier with one
leg, who was left standing on the
table and the people of the house
went to bed. Then the toys began to
play and have jolly times on the
table. The tin soldiers rattled in their
box, for they wanted to get out and
play with the others; but they could
not lift the lid. The nuter: r turned
somersaults, and the pencil jumped
about the table. They made so much
noise that the canary woke up and
began to sing in the middle of the
night. Only the tin soldier and the
dancer remained in their places.
She stretched out both her arms
and stood on tiptoe as firmly
he did on his one leg. He never turned
his eyes from her, even for a single
moment.

The clock struck twelve. Up flew
the lid of the snuffbox, but there was
no snuff in it; for it was not a real
snuffbox, but only the house of a go-
blin named Jack-in-the-Box.

The goblin looked very fierce and
said, ’Tin soldier, keep your eyes to
yourself.”

The tin soldier pretended not to
hear him, and that made the goblin
very angry. He snapped his teeth and
said, Only wait ’til tomorrow! Then
you'll see!”

The next morning the children put
the tin soldier in the window. No one
knows whether it was the goblin or
the wind that did it, but it is certain
that the soldier fell from the third
story window to the street below. It
was a terrible fall. He landed on his
head, and his bayonet wedged in be-
ty 2 some stones and held him there
with his one leg straight up in the
air.

Then it began to rain. The drops
fell faster and faster until there was
a regular shower. When the shower
was over, two boys who were idling
about the street happened to pass by.

”Look,” said one of them, "here is
a tin soldier. He ought to have a boat
to sit in.”

her

as

one
could look through them and see the |

So they made a boat from a news-
paper, and stood the tin soldier in it
and sent him sailing down the gutter.

| Then the two boys ran along beside

him clapping their hands. The waves
were very high and the current was
strong. The paper boat rocked up and
down, and it sometimes turned around

y that the soldier trembled;

yed at his post. He shoul-
dered his musket and looked straight
before him.

All at once, the boat shot into a
long drain, where it was as dark as

it was in the box
where the other
tin soldiers lived.

"Where am I go-
ing now ?” thought
he "This must
surely be the go-
blin’s fault. Oh! if
only the little la-
dy were with me
in the boat, I
should not care

how dark it was.”

A huge water-rat that lived under
the bridge soon came in sight.

"Have you a pass?” asked the rat;
but the tin soldier kept silent and held
his musket tighter than ever.

The stream carried the tin soldier
on more rapidly than ever, and he
could already see daylight where the
rain ended. Then he heard a rushing
sound that was enough to frighten
the bravest man. At the end of the
drain the water fell into a canal;

yas as dangerous for his tiny
going over a waterfall would
a boat.

The little paper boat dashed on, but
the soldier stood as firmly as he
could, to show that he was not afraid.
The boat whirled around three or
four times until it was filled with
water. Then it began to sink. The tin
soldier stood up to his neck in water,
while the boat sank deeper and dee-
|per. Soon the water closed over his
|head. He thought of the pretty little
|dancer whom he should never
again and he S very sad.

Then the ver boat became soft
'and was torn to pieces. The soldier
dropped down deeper into the water,
| but was at once swallowed by a huge
fish.

Oh, how dark it was inside the
fish! It was even darker than it was
in the drain, and there was no room
for him to move; but the tin soldier
kept his courage and lay at full
length with his gun on his shoulder.

The fish swam about, making the
most fearful movements, but at last
it became quite still. Then a flash of
| lightning seemed to dart through him.
Daylight appeared, and a voice called
out, s I am alive, the tin soldier!”
The fish had been caught, taken to
the market and sold to the cook who
took him to the kitchen and cut him
open with a large knife. She picked
up the soldier, held him by the waist
between her thumb and finger, and
carried him into another room where
everybody was surprised to see this
wonderful soldier who traveled about
inside a fish. But he was not at all

see
Ww

| proud.

They put him on the table. What
curious things happen in the world!
The soldier was in the very same
room in which he had been before. He
saw the same children, the same toys
stood on the table; and there was the
same castle with the pretty little dan-
cer. She was still standing on one
foot and holding up the other. She
was as firm and as faithful as he was
He was almost moved to tears. He
looked at her and she looked at him;
but they said nothing.

Then one of little boys took up the
tin soldier and threw him into the
stove. He gave no reason for doing
this, so it must have been the fault
of the goblin.

The flames gathered around him
and the heat was terribl but he
could not tell whether the heat came
from the fire or from love. His bright
red and blue colors were gone, but
whether that had happened on his
travels or had been caused by sorrow,
no one could say. He looked at the
little lady, and she looked at him. He
felt himself melting away, but still
he stood there with his gun on his
shoulder. ‘

Suddenly the door of the room
opened, and the wind caught up the
dancer and whirled her right into the
stove beside the tin soldier. Instantly,
she was caught up by the flames and
was gone. The tin soldier melted down
to a lump, and the next morning when
the maid took out the ashes, she
found him in the shape of a little tin
heart. Nothing remained of the dan-
cer but the tinsel rc and that was
burned as black as a coal.




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VOL 13 No 1 PUBLISHED BY LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO LTD January 4 1952
Schooner Grounds Reef RS Man Makes Third
Kescue at Harbor
Man Overboard The shout went
up about 1 am December 28 on
Finger Pier No 2 Working the
12 to 8 shift nearby was Max
well E Pantophlet a man who has
twice before acted heroically to save
the lives of others
He raced to a spot on the wharf
where lights were flashing and
looking over the side of the con
$&> wTB-"*-$*% ft 4i J mmS crete pier he saw a man floating face
down in the water Without hesitation
Pantophlet jumped down to save
him
At the scene of the accident a On hand at the airport to greet Gregorio Frank on his return from a
system of pipes and I beam girders radio course in the United States were his wife and four sons from left
nnrnllpl Pipr Nn 2 Thf
runs r Roderick aged 4 months Edwin 5xi Albert 8 and Nelson 3
pipes are four or five feet above the
i water It was onto these structures Presente na aeropuerto pa saluda Gregorio Frank na su regreso for di un
that Pantophlet leaped In order to curso di radio na Estados Unidos tabata su esposa y cuatro yiu homber For
reach his man he had to hang on di banda robez Rodrick 4 luna bieuw Edwin 52 Albert 8 y Nelson 3
like an acrobat with one arm and a Dia Gregorio L Frank Staff Foreman den Instrument Shop a sali
Above the stranded schooner Surprize lies heeled over as Lagos tug around I beam
Colorado Point out of picture to left tries to get a line to it Below leg From wrapped his precarious an position pa Estados Unidos den luna di September pa tuma un curso den radio
Gordon Owen readies his Snipe sailboat to take the schooner captain third Pantophlet was just able to reach comunicacion recepcion y emision el no a pensa di mira un cara
from left out to watch salvage operations Others in the picture are his quarry although he skinned his conoci sino te dia e bolbe back na Aruba Viajando cu aeroplano pa
Leonard McReynolds Community Council representative and Cyril Bryan
forearm in doing so Then other men Miami Frank a tuma un trein pa Ciudad di New York unda un repre
of the wrecked schooners
crew the and
up on the pier joined rescue sentante di compania a bin contrele kende a haci ultimo arreglonan
belt while
by grasping Pantophlets
he held on to the unconscious victim pa su permanencia na Estados Unidos Despues di a pasa varios dia
both men were pullecl to safety na New York durante cual el no tabatin mucho oportunidad pa mira e
Later when asked if someone had lugarnan principal Frank a bula pa Chicago na unda el mester a keda
used a rope to wrap around his 17 dia den e planta di Motorola Corporation
middle in older to haul him up
ftfe looked his belt and When Gregorio L Frank staff studiando metodonan di fa
Pantophlet at
bricacion di lampi di radio Na Chicago
foreman in the Instrument Shop left
with a soft smile said No This is
figiiiz UkT MSM7Jk 11 itfFiiSm last September for the United States Frank tabatin e sorpresa agra
m a good belt
in dable di a contra cu dos arnigo bieuw
rS3RSWl of the to take a training course two way
Still thinking only saving
radio communications he didnt expect Un di su amigonan for di Aruba
victim Pantophlet began applying mes tabata M King kende tambe ta
until few to see a familiar face again
i artificial respiration a
relieved until he got back to Aruba Traveling un empleado di Lago King tabata
moments later he was by
by plane to Miami Frank took a pasando su vacacion na Chicago y
the chief mate of the Esso Reading
train to New York City where he was awor a bolbe na su trabao den ofici
a ship docked neaiby na di Accounting E otro amigo cu
who
After several anxious minutes met by a company representative
which time there to made final arrangements for his stay Frank a contra na Chicago tabata
during appeared
James Viapiee di Guyana Britanico
in the States After spending several
be no life in the man the victim
breath days in New York during which time cu awor ta un miembro di Fuerza
began to again Pantophlet
Aerea di Estados Unidos E dia
ey
he didnt have much opportunity for
have
the not
thinks man might survived
el tabatin algun tempo liber na Chi
if he had been pulled from sight seeing Frank flew to Chicago
MjrJ-i-miiiiBim n imriti 1WlmMnMnWMBBWlBEei Sw the water and artificial respiration where he was to spend 17 days in cago Frank a pasa mayoria di su
hora liber hunto cu su dos tercionan
the Motorola Corporations plant
started he five seconds
The normally mild Caribbean made a staunch effort to claim another later as says studying radio manufacturing methods y asina el tabata leuw di ta solitario
victim this week when the 65 ton En realidad el a bisa Mi a
two masted schooner Surprize went Called to the scene by Lago Police It was in Chicago that Frank pasa
aground on the reef several hundred yards west of the Esso Club The the Lago ambulance took the had the pleasant surprise of meeting un bon tempo
schooner left Oranjestad the afternoon of Mientras Frank tabata kstudiando
December 29 bound for Curacao to the where he two old friends
and St Martin at 2 am next morning it piled up on the hidden fields treated man and Dispensary then transferred to was the One of his friends from right e metodonan cu Motorola ta usa pa
of coral that lie like a trap between the end of the reef and the mainland San Pedro in Oranjestad heie in Aruba was M King who is traha aparatorian di radio el a mira
On a shoreward tack the lookout delayed too long in ordering the ship At the Dispensary Hospital the victim was also a Lago employee King was cu tur cos ta bai ariba un linea di
about and it struck bow on just as it started to turn identified L Allen 30 from spending his vacation in Chicago and armamento ariba cual piezanan ta
as
Nine men were aboard with Captain Thadeus Hodge a 65-year-old Cork Ireland able has since returned to his job in the poni mientras muhernan tabata haci
County an sea
veteran in command They came ashore after daylight and through the from the British owned tanker Accounting office The other friend mayoria di e trabao di armamento
day moved the ships gear to Rodgers Beach and attempted to seal breaks man Frank met in Chicago was James Despues cu e fase di su training
in the hull while preparations were being made to tow her off into deep Busen Allen Rollo had been on shore leave for Viapree who hails from British aki a caba Frank a bisa ayo na su
water and to Guinea and is now a member of the amigonan na Chicago y a tuma un
The cargo of 200 drums of gasoline his the evening when the was accident returning took US Air Force At the time he was tiein pa bai back New York
was left aboard to increase the ship on leave in Chicago Frank spent Ora el a yega New York el a re
buoyancy of the ship if it took in place His ship extended was to sail that into most of his spare time with his two porta na Mobile Communications
much water after being refloated evening for an voyage Inc Newark New Jersey com
New buddies and so was far from lonely pa
Asst Ed the of the Antartic
Efforts Added whaling grounds
began Sunday December pleta su estudio Na Newark tambe
where it will lefuel whaling ships In fact he says I had a very
Cont on page 2 col 3 time Frank a topa cu un otro amigo
and then take on whale oil for ship good
bieuw e biaha aki Han Hansen di
While the used by
ment to market Allen signed on the studying ways
Director di Surinam Ta ship in England last December 3 Motoiola to turn out radio equipment Surinam un persona cu Frank pa
Frank learned that everything is on casualidad tabata conoce Hansen
Cont 3 col 1
Bishita School di Ofishi on page an assembly line system with women awor ta traha pa un compania di
doing most of the assembly work air conditioning na Newark
Siman pasa Director di Schoolnan Govt & Lago Employees After that phase of his training was Na Newark Frank a sinja hopi
di Ofishi na Surinam J H Stebenit Join in Annual Party over Frank said goodbye to his ariba aparatonan mobil di radio di e
sky a inspecta e School di Ofishi di Chicago buddies and took a train typo cu a worde recientemente in
Lago El a worde accompanja durante It may be haid to believe but back to New Yoik stala na Lago Entre otro el a cera
su bishita na School door di E F giving away large baskets of goodies Back East he reported to the conoci cu e ultimo metodonan y apa
Welch Hefe di School di Ofishi di just before the Christmas holi Mobile Communications Inc in New ratonan di test El a bisa cu e infor
Lago days wasnt exactly easy at the La ark New Jersey to complete his macion aki lo ta valuable pa busca
Tambe presente durante e bishita go party for more than 300 Aruba training In Newark Frank ran into defecto y pa alinea tur e aparato
tabata G Kok Inspector di Enseyan government employees The first door another old fiiend this time Han nan mobil di comunicacion cual ta un
za na Aruba y G Amelink Director prize given away for example was Hansen from Surinam an old acquaintance paso necesario pa asegura cu tur e
di Ambachtschool di Aruba a food basket containing a turkey whom Frank just happened aparatonan di e systema mobil ta tra
Sr Stebenitsky a bini Aruba pa fresh fruit and candy but there to know Hansen is now work ha bon hunto
haci un estudio tocante enseyanza di were no takeis until the ninth number ing for an air conditioning concern Dia el a yega na aeropuerto na
ofishi y a bishita e schoolnan di go was called The prize would have in Newark Aiuba Bigala su esposa y cuatro yiu
bierno y tambe e School di Ofishi di been given away on the first number In Newark Frank learned a great homber tabata sperando pa saludele
Lago Aunque Surinam tin schoolnan drawn however if only someone with deal about mobile radio equipment of Aunque el tabata hopi ocupa na
di ofishi ya 16 anja caba esakinan ta the right number had just shouted the type recently installed at Lago Estados Unidos y a pasa un bon tempo
ariba un base limita Oficialnan di 3 l Here Among other things he became ac aya Frank no a lubida su fami
gobierno aya awor tin plan pa me \ Winner of that first hard-to-giveaway quainted with the latest testing lia El a trece legalo for di Merca
hora e enseyanza aki prize was Sam T Croes of the equipment and methods This inform pa cada un di nan incluyende prin
E obheto di e bishita di Sr Stebenitsky San Nicholas Post Office Other ation he says will be valuable in cipalmente traje di cowboy y zapato
tabata pa por mira ki curso ta winners included Marie Palm Customs trouble shooting and in aligning halto pa e mucha hombernan Nan
worde duna door di otro schoolnan Officer who won a set of beer the entire mobile radio set up a step ta mes interesa den Hopalong Cassi
technico grandi den e bicindario y pa A 31 Biodine above joined the staff mugs L Leenheer San Nicholas necessary to insuie that all units of dy cu e muchanan na Meicat
haya sabi e metodonan cu ta worde of the xruba Esso News last month Police a food basket W G Van du the system work properly together
usa pa sinja e varios ofishinan as assistant editor A graduate of Weide Post Office winner of a camera When he landed at the aiipoit back
E Director di Surinam a parce di Iowa State College with a degree in V Mierlo Chief of Detectives in Aruba his wife Bigala and four boy suits and boots for the boys
ta favorablemente impresiona ariba technical Journalism he has had San Nicholas Police a food basket sons weie waiting to gieet him Al Theyre just as interested in
loke el a mira y tabata particular experience with both newspapers and Ilenny Leeder Customs Officer who though he had been very busy in the Hopalong Cassidy as kids in Ameii
mente inteiesa den e programa di magazines Dining the war he spent won a large ham C Lopez Customs States and had a good time besides ca he says with a grin
trainmento den shop na Lago Awor nearly six years in the US Air Officer a Ronson cigarette lighter Frank didnt forget his family He Frank who is 34 years old has
el ta spera di traha tallernan na Su Foice as ground and aeiial photo and C Riem San Nicholas Police a brought piesents from America for been with Lago eighteen and a half
rinam segun e mes metodo giapher and laboratory chief set of poker chips Seveial other each of them including mostly cow years
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ARUBA ESSO NEWS
January 4 1952
Stranded Schooner Mother of Six Gets Wheel Chair Gift
Cont from page 1
AidJIMfss2
30 to salvage the schooner Starting
in mui aiternoon and going on until
dark the tug Colorado Point attempted
PUBLISHED EVERY OTHER FRIDAY AT ARUBA NETHERLANDS to get a tow line to the Surprize
WEST INDIES BY THE LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO LTD but without success Since
Printed by the Curasaosche Courant Curasao NWI
launches could not reach the wreck
because of shallow water over the
coral outcroppings a small boat had
to be used to bring in the first light
rope and men on the schooner were
Irene Home After Successful unable to pull in the heavy hawser
needed for the tow job The tug went
Series of Operations in US out Monday for renewed attempts to
save the schooner and whether or not
it was successful is not known as the
Esso News goes to press
The wreck has heartbreaking as
pects for Captain Hodge who is said
to have all his familvs lesources tied
up in the craft His son Pierre Hod
ge a Receiving & Shipping Dept
dock corporal who acts as sub-foie-man
is part owner in the enterprise
and with his father has been exerting
every etlort to build up the schooners
business Mis Carmacina Cioes is shown
Den
e port ret
nos por mira
The captains
Tnsp
son-in-law is
with four of her six children Sra Carmacina Croes
Trappenberg formerly of Industrial I the day she got her new wheel di su seis yiunan e dia cu cu cuatro el a
relations out now a shopkeeper in chair
Others in the picture
are
haya wielstoel
su nobo E otro
San Nicolas One member of the
ciew officeis of the Dorcas Welfare hendenan
Cyril Bryan worked at the Dining cu ta aparece den e
Society of which Mrs A
ta oficialnan
portret di
Dorcas
Hall here from April 1948 to April e
Klingbeil R N is the Director Welfare
di
Society cual
1950 Most of then men in the crew
sociedad Sra A
Klingbeil R
are from St Mai tin
N ta Directora
FLASH Caimacina Cioes now has a wheel chair She has needed one for 3G
yeais Paralyzed at the age of seven she nevertheless got married about
Disaster wiote Finis to the
story 20 years ago and now is the mother of six childien The oldest is 15 With
when the schooner sank in deep her husband and childien Mrs Croes lives in Macuarima Santa Cruz
water after being pulled clear of the Mrs Cioes might still be without her wheel chair if it hadnt been for
locks some good fortune that came to one of her staunchest fiiends the Doicas
Welfaie Society About two months ago the Society opened their new
Smiling and healthy Irene Jacobs is shown with her mother left and her club house One of the guests at the
sister Juliata shortly after she arried at Dakota field upon her return Are You a Palindrome inauguration was Mrs Cioes
another
Mama di Seis
from the States Also on hand weie Carlos L Juliao president Aiuba Yiu Ta was Ernst Finck of Lagos
Lions Club and Monte Maduio head of the Irene Jacobs campaign If your name is Hannah or Otto Medical Depaitment
youie a palindrome That doesnt Haya un Wielstoel
mean like bicycle racing which Finck
Aki nos ta mira Irene Jacobs haiiendo y gozando di bon salud hunto cu you became interested in provid
is dons in a velodrome it means Mrs
su mama na banda robez y su ruman mohe Juliata poco despues cu el Carmacina Croes awor tin un wielstoel ing Croes with a wheelchair
a yega na Dakota vliegveld foi Merca Tambe tabata presente Carlos L your name leads the same whether E tabatin mester di un desde and he talked with Lago officials
Juliao presidente di Club di Leones y Monte Maduio cu a encabeza e cam- you spell it forwaid or backwaid 36 anja pasa caba A pesar cu e tabata who were able to provide a surplus
Pahndroming is a hobby for a chair which was given to the Doicas
njn pa Irene Jacobs paralitico desde su edad di siete
great many yeais people have been anja sinembargo el a casa mas o Society The Society in turn put
constructing clever sentences that the chair in A l condition and
20 anja presented
menos ta
pasa y awor e
Completely recovered pert little Irene Jacobs is back in Aruba with lead the same both ways The best mama di seis yiu Su yiu di mas bieuw it to Mrs Cioes
known and one of the earliest is
full use of her once badly damaged throat She came back December tin 15 anja Senjora Croes cu su es
Madam Im Adam Heie aie some Mrs Croes and her family consider
23 just in time to celebrate Christmas at home after getting special other ingenious ones poso Santa y Cruz yiunan ta biba na Macuarima ths chair a great blessing Now
surgical treatment in the United States See slave I demonstrate yet arts for the first time since her paralysis
Te ainda quizas Senjora Croes
At the airport Irene was greeted by officials of the Aruba Lions no medieval sees a keda sin su wielstoel si no tabata por thirty six years ago she is able to
Not New York Roy went travel a fair distance without
Club sponsors of the fund raising campaign that sent her to the States on pa motibo di bon fortuna cu a yega help
No I final if the
save on plan no During past holidays she was
for the operations that brought her back to full health Irene told evasion cerca un di su amigonan mas fiel e busy paying Christmas visits to
sociedad bienhechora Dorcas Welfare
the Lion Club officials that she will always remember the Lions I saw desserts Id no lemons alas friends and neighbors And that is
Society Mas o menos dos luna
Club and will pray for them no melon distressed was I sociedad habri clubhuis one of the most striking things
e a nan
night Then befoie going Are we not drawn onwaid we few pasa about Mrs Croes Almost always
every nobo Uno di invitadonan inau-
e na e
home 13 year old Irene went directly New VP and Board diawn onwaid to new era pleasant and smiling she thinks
to church Hearst Feature Service Continua na pagina 3 about others more often than herself
At her home which she found Member Elected
freshly painted and flying the Dutch
to mark the happy event
flag
Election of vice
a new piesident I t Hfc TBt -^^ ^* ^** ** *."^* -1 ** 7 ** w ^* ^& ^ g t
in ????? ? -? m ~~^_ t
Iiene found the first Christmas tree and an additional member to its
she had ever had in her own home Board of Directors was announced
Most of Irenes Chiistmases have last month by S 0 Co NJ
been spent in hospitals Under the The new vice president is Emile
tree were many presents fiom fiiends E Soubry who has been a director
and relatives since January 1949 The new director
In the United States Iiene had is David A Shepaid who has been
been under the caie of the world executive assistant to President Eugene
famous thioat specialist Dr Chevalier Holman since October 1949 The
Jackson Dr Jackson had figured Boaid of Dhectors now numbeis
in another famous operation on a fifteen
girls thioat and that gill too lived
under the flag of Holland The girl
fiom Amsteidam was getting leady
to be married and accidentally swallowed
an open pin When no one was
able to lemove the pin Fls 11000
was quickly laised and the girl was
sent to the United States wheie she
Prior to his wedding December 14 Conrad Welch of Jacques Ellis fork lift truck operator at the Wholesale
was operated on by Dr Jackson the Cable Office was gien a Miv Master and a silver Commissary was presented with a decanter set and a
The doctor devised a unique method dish by friends and co workers in the Accounting set of silver by his fellow employees in a presentation
for the operation and was able to Serice Division The presentation was made by Etta made by D G Richards right on the eve of his
remove the pin quickly in an opeiat Williamson His marriage to Veronica Dash took place marriage December 15 to Adeline Le Grande The
ion that received widespread attention in the Dutch Reformed Church Oranjestad The newly ceiemony took place at the Methodist Church in San
in the medical world For his
services weds will lesside at Generaal Majoor De Biuijne Wijh Nicholas with the Rev Robert A Kirtley officiating
all the doctor would accept as in Rooi Hundo
No 40 Sabaneta The couple will reside
payment was the pin which he kept
as a souvenir E E Soubry D A Shepard
At the Temple University Hospital Members of the Executive Service Division Office got Co workers of Joseph Peterson of the MC Storehouse
Mr Soubiy staited with the Company him with check prior to his marriage Dec
in Philadelphia Dr Jackson performed together December 11 to present a check and good presented a
a series of delicate operations on in 1911 as a cleik in the shipping ember 14 to Mildred Julia Williams in a ceremony at
Irene These completed a long train department of the affiliate in wishes to Dulcie Gazendam right before her departure the Methodist Church San Nicholas The couple will
of treatments begun heie in Aruba London Befoie becoming a diiector December 15 for Montreal Canada where she and her make their home at Essoville 49 Harry Gordon right
by Dr A A Schlacter of Oranjestad he was foieign marketing coordinator husband will make their new home made the presentation on behalf of the MC employees
whose insistance that she could be for the parent company
fully cured started the chain of Mr Shepard joined the Company
events lhat finally placed Iiene in in 1927 as a research engineer after j M
the caie of Dr Jackson graduation fiom Massachusetts Institute i fy
of Before becom m
Five years ago when Irene was Technology
only seven she tripped and fell ing executive assistant to the president
while carrying an opened can of he served as chaiiman of the
Klim The force of her fall ripped Boaid of Anglo American Oil Company
away the protective ring which Fr rmmmr
ordinarily covers the shaip metal iBrQ A x irw f8l 5 ^
edge of the can It was this razor DEATHS rak c rj- *> u r j
like edge that severed tubes in Irenes
throat making it impossible for her Joseph da Silva of the Catalytic & W Tr i vtm i
to swallow or breathe properly Light Ends Department died December arSfrVT m
A special opening to her stomach 30 at the age of 37 Hailing from
by passed the wound in the eso British Guiana he had twelve and a rPhv JHp 3 IMlC
phagus and a metal bieathing tube half years service and was an assi e -^ ymj
was inserted in the tiachea but after stant operator He is survived by his ,
Cont on page 5 col U mother and five brothers
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January 4 1952 ARUBA ESSO NEWS
Cat Cracker Again Promotions Announced "^ -' J ^- it ***** ^
Becomes Vast Tree
Transformed again into of the
worlds tallest Christmas trees the
Catalytic Cracking Unit with its
hundreds of coloiod lights stood as a
Christmas beacon foKall the eastern
end of Aruba and for sllips at sea
A new and striking feature of the
refinerys 1951 Christmas decorations
was the floodlighted manger scene
facing San Nicolas on the roof of the
check building at the Main Gate
The decorations will be lighted
through Sunday January 6
-5 > .
Wielsioel
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guracion di e clubhuis tabata Sra
Croes y un otro tabata Sr Ernst
Finck empleado di Departamento Medico
di Lago
Finck a haya masha interes pa
busca un wielstoel pa Sra Croes ken y el A concert and dance put on by the Pci formers gather for a pictuie after the variety show staged by the
di
a papia cu e oficialnan Lago ta i / Aruba Amateur Dramatic Club was Aruba Amateur Dramatic Club at the Cecilia Hall December 16
denan por a duna un wielstoel cu a feature of the early Christmas season
batin di mas na e Sociedad Dorcas V A with over 25 young actois and
E sociedad di su banda a laga drecha i '
acti esses in a variety show at the
e wielstoel completamente bon y a N A DeFrees B S Whitney Cecilia Theater December 1G
dune na Sra Croes como regalo Musical numbers on the piano Three Office Parties Mark Yuletide
Sra Croes y su familia ta consi tiumpet accordion and harmonica
dera e wielstoel como un gran ben songs jokes dialogues and Christmas
dicion Awor pa di promer biaha plays made a well rounded pro
desde su paralisis di trinta y seis gram B Riley was chaiiman of the
anja caba e por pasea un distancia committee organizing the show
razonable sin mester di yudanza Du
which was followed by dancing to
rante e dianan di fiestanan e tabata
the music of the Lucky Strike orchestra
di bishita di
ocupa den hacimento Part of the proceeds for the
Pascu na su amigonan y bisinjanan E A Molzer evening will be donated to the
Un di e cosnan mas sobresaliente di orphanage that is being planned for
Sra Croes ta cu semper e ta contento Aiuba
tin un sonrisa ariba su cara y e ta
y E V Emmanuel of No 1 Powerhouse
mas ariba otro cu ariba su mes
pensa
organized the society and is
its president Chief puipose of the
Rescue Promotions weie announced late gioup is the development of talented
Cont from page 1 last month for three in Light Oils young people
Finishing and one each in Laboratories
For Pantophlet this was his thiid and Clubs
rescue The first took place in 1937 T H Hanod was named process Surinam Educator
on Finger Pier No 4 when he foreman in charge of Distilling and
rescued a sailor in much the same Ti eating Operations Mr Hanod Visits Voc School
manner The man shortly lecoveied joined the Company September
fiom the accident Pantophlets second 7 1912 and transferied to Aruba in Lagos vocational tiaining center
rescue attempt about five yeais May 1929 as a ti eater He had been was inspected last week by Surinams
ago did not have such happy lesults maintenance foreman since Maich diiector of vocational schools J H
as tin victim was too severely in 1949 Stebenitsky He was accompanied on
jured and died befoie help could J E Keller has been piomoted to his tour of the center by EF Welch Some of the 50 guests who attended the Executive Office Staff Christmas
reach him shift foreman in LOF He served principal of vocational school
as Lagos party aie seen here watching one of the slide song entertainment events
Pantophlet who is acting Corporal an opeiator from his anival March Also on the tour were G Kok
A on the docks has been with Lago 12 1935 until Maich 1949 when he Inspector of Education for Aiuba Miembionan di Personal di Executive Office y nan invitadonan tabata pre
for 21 years was made assistant shift foreman and G Amelink Director of Aiubas sente na un Christmas Party na cas di Jim Lambert ariba e anochi di 18 di
N A de Frees was piomoted to technical schools December E arte cosmopolitico di e grupo tabata refleha door di e programa
assistant shift foreman in LOF He Mr Stebenitsky came to Aruba in di fiesta nobo cu tabata contene exhibicion di retratonan di color di varios
Theater Players Debut has been with Lago since July 31 older to survey vocational teaching lugar sigui door di canciones canta door di nativonan di cada un di e lugar
1937 with three years out for mili here and visited both government nan munstra ariba e letratonan
With Successful Revue
tary service His last position was schools as well as the one at Lago
operator Although Surinam has had a vocat Membeis of the Executive Office The Industrial Relations depart
Pictured heie in their last general
B S has been ional
rehearsal before staging their first Whitney promoted training piogiam for the past staff and their guests attended a ment held its annual Christmas party
to group head B No 2 Laboratory 16 years it has been on a limited
show are some of the members of the Christmas Paity given at the home the afternoon of December 22 in the
filling the vacancy created by E C basis Officials now aie planning to
newly organized Aruba Theatre Players of Jim Lambeit the evening of December American Legion Home More thaa
Johnsons transfer to the New York the
expand
Organized about 4 months ago program 18 The cosmopolitan natuie of 70 employees and guests of the de
Office Mr Whitney came to Aruba To what coveied
se3 couises aie
under the leadership of B H Rom the gioup was leflected by the novel partment were on hand
in February 1945 as a student chemical by larger technical schools in the
entertainment which featured Christmas carols led choral
bauts an instructor in the Training piogiam by a
engineer before the present aiea and to learn about the methods
pro color slides of lands followed of of the de
Division the group draws its membership many group women employees
motion he
was a chemist A used in teaching various subjects
from all over Aruba includ by songs by natives of each of partment were sung by the guests
E A
Molzer was piomoted to the was the of Mr Stebenitskys
ing Oranjestad and San Nicolas So of purpose the countries pictured and sandwiches and soft drinks were
position supervisor Esso Club visit
far however all the male member Following a seiies of slides on seived Songs from American hill
He joined Lago in March 1946 The Suiinam Director seemed favorably
as a
Trinidad well known to Latin love
ship is made up of Lago employees maintenance Calypso singer billy songs were
inspector in Colony impressed by what he saw Lucius Foote several various entertainers
First performance by the new Henry sang piesented by
Service Fiom
December 1949 to heie and was particularly interested about the famous island Slides and several
theatrical group was a musical comedy songs management representatives
March 1951 he was assistant club in the shop tiaining at La
progiam her homeland followed to the
Varieties of 1951 given showing were spoke briefly group
December 19 at the de Veer Theatre manager and since then was night go He hopes now to set up shops in by songs about Biitish Guinea by With George Hemstreet as chair
with a second showing December 21 supeivisor Suiinam along similar lines Mis Teny Pimento and Carmen man other committee members in
at the Principal Theatre in San Nicolas Illidge sang about St Martin and St cluded Oliver T Rock decorations
A sell out was reported after Kitts following slides depicting the Mrs Mildred Chung catering Car
the first performance and seats for Windwaid Islands Slides of Em ope men Gravenhorst finance E M
the second were said to be pietty Aiiba e poitret aki nos ta mira algun di e miembronan di e Aiuba Theatie and the United States weie also OBrien sound system and refreshments
well filled up Players recientemente organiza den nan ultimo ensayo general promer cu shown including some about Texas and Hubert Richardson and
Already the players aie planning nan a haci nan promer presentacion dia 19 di December Mientras e orga following which Shencll Jackson Fisher Chichester entertainment
their next show which they expect nizacion a lamta mas o menos 4 luna pasa bao di direccion di B H Rom sang a ballad redolent of the Lone Several days previously the instructors
to present in five or six months bouts un instructor na Training Division e grupo tin miembro for di henter Star State in the Training division entertained
Although diffeient from the first Aruba incluyendo Oranjestad y San Nicolas The slide song showings weie in guests at a Christmas party
show the organizations next offer terspersed with servings of lcfresh at the Winter Garden Dancing enter
ing is also scheduled to be a musical Shown in final rehearsal just before staging their first show December ments Appioximately 50 peope tainment and refreshments made the
comedy 19 and 21 are eight members of the newly organized Aruba Theatre Players attended occasion a festive one
Oliver Rock leading the womens choral gioup in a number of Christmas
songs at the Industiial Relations departments annual Christmas party
J
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A RUB A ESSO NEWS
January 4 1952
Government and Lago Employees Bow in Christmas Season
Govl Pariy TOP LEFT If this candid shot is Retiring from Lago in mid-Dec
any judge the enteitainment pio NEW ARRIVALS ember after long seivice were Tru f
Cont from page 1 gram was enjojed bj the guests at man Dossey of Acid & Edeleanu anc
Lagos annual Chiistmas for Ed Han is of Oils
prizes weie aw aided to holdeis of party Light Finishing
lucky fiee tickets but in the excitement Government emplojees TOP RIGHT December 12 Mr Dossey was employed at Wooc
their names could not be A well filled food basket is col RICHARDS Nicolas E A son Hernandez River Illinois from May 1920 tc
obtained lected by V Mieilo chief of detec Reginaldo January 1900 when he came tc
J J Hoiigan piesident of Lago tives at San Nicolas after his num ROMNEY Christabelle Christopher a daughter Betty Aiuba as a 2 cl helper at the Acid
started the festivities with a shoit ber was drawn by J J P Oduber December 13 Plant He later became an dpeiator
speech welcoming to the paity members Accounting of the paity committee KROZENDIJK Efigenio A son Luciano and in July 1918 was made shift
of the Aruba government with the smile at right belongs to Wm Oitildo br aker for shift foremen and oper
whom the company has had close Porter Marine master of ceremo PETERSON Dahla Louis H E A daughter atois At his letirement he was shift
contact during the past year Noting nies LOWER LEFT Latin songs MAXWELL Mystica William I A son Richard foreman temporary He has tent
that the party was again back at its by II Gordon Storehouse with Augustine ative plans to settle in St Thomas
old site the Maiine Club he said guitar accompaniment by S Speziale December 14 of the Virgin Islands but will scout
that last year the Golf Club was Dispensary were the hit of the BOYE Arsenia Jose A A daughter Mutha I around some neighboring places be
tried as a place for the paity but had evening LOWER RIGHT These CASTER Taicisio A daughtei Nicasio foie making up his mind
been found to be too loomy After interested spectators are Lt Gov AUGUSTINE Simon A daughter Nalinare Mr Harris also joined the Com
thanking the government workeis for L C Kwaitsz Lago Piesident J J December 15 pany at Wood River Illinois in Sep
their cooperation with Lago duiing Hoiigan Captain J Dourlein of the VAN Everardo DER BIEZEN Maximiliano Horentino M ; A son tember 1915 In February 1929 he
the past year Hoiigan intioduced Dr Netherlands Marines and Chief Departmental FLEMING Luis II A son Pedrito Alfonso came to Aiuba as a stillman in the
L C Kwaitsz Lt Governor of Assistant H Hessling MOHAMED Jozef P A A son Hugo Light Oils Finishing Department
Aruba Stanley and on May 1 of the same year was
ARIBA BANDA ROBEZ Si RIDDERSTAP Tiancisco A son Maximo
nos piomoted to shift foreman Since
Taking note of the tiaditional Everaldo
por huzga for di e letrato aki nos ta [ January 1949 he had been
natuie of the paity that has been an December 16 process
annual event for a couple of dozen mira cu e huespedes na e Chiistmas EDMUND Solomon A son Jonas Jemot foieman
Party Anual di Lago pa empleadonan CROES Jacinto A daughter Adela Albina
Dr Kwaitsz said in It
years pait di Gobierno di di SELIX John A A son Sylvestei Ternando
a goza e piogiama
be coincidence that this
may a
December 17
fiesta ARIBA BANDA DRECHI
gathering always takes place a few PHILLIPS Cecil C A son Winston Enc
V Mierlo Hefe di Detectivo na San E3xd
days befoie Chiistmas the day on Alexander
Nicolas ta ricibi un macuto bon yena KELLY Agustin A son Julian Antonio
which we hae to remember there
di cuminda despues cu su nuniero a December 18
must leign on eaith and a
peace worde saca door di J J P Oduber VAN DER LINDE Damaso Twins a son
good understanding between our di Accounting miembro di Comi Emihano Alex &. a daughter Esperanza Gifts and scrolls farewell picnics
fellow citizens and selves
oui Maria
sion di Fiesta sonrisa banda and luncheons weie in order last
Dr Kwaitsz however said he did e na NOEL George S A daughtei Madeline
drechi ta bint di Wm Porter Marine Beatrix month for Truman Dossey below
not believe it to be a coincidence but Dept Maestio di Ceiemonia ABAO December 19 -^ and Ed Harris right as they joined
that this day is deliberately chosen BANDA ROBEZ Canciones Latino DE CUBA Maximo A son Walter Simon the ranks of annuitants R V Heinze
as this tiaditional paity js based on canta door di II Goidon di Storehouse December 20 is making the presentation to Mr
a sound mutual undei standing and on accompanja cu guitaria pa DIRKSZ Maximo A daughter Tilomena Dossey while J A Sharpe did the
the conviction that nothing woith VROOLIJK Norberto A daughter *
S Speciale di Dispensario tabata Dominica Magdalena honors at the LOF office
while ever is achieved without an
hitt di anochi ABAO BANDA
e e December 21 ?>
heaited mutual confidence in
open DRECHI E observadornan inte BACCHUS Elan A son Bildaiaru
each other i WOUTERS Juan A daughter
rest ta Gezaghebbei L C Kwaitsz
After the serious poition of his GONSALVES Emmanuel A A daughter
President di Lago J J Horigan Ka Yvonne Yolanda
had been given the Governor
messaga pitein J Dourlein di Maiina Holandes ARENDS Venancio A daughter Calista
staited the enteitainment by
Maria \
Hoofdcommies II Hessling
telling seveial humoious stories Following y December 22
the Governors speech the GOUVEIA Eugene I A son Wayne
anthems of three nations weie sung Eugenio
Wilhelmus Van Nassauwe God De Neus Oppenhuizen sang a WEVER WERLEMAN Trancisco Apolinio A son A Roberto son Demetrio
Save the King and The Star Dutch version of The Thing and Francisco
Spangled Banner Hariy Gordon wound up the formal December 24
Seeral gioups of enteitaineis entertainment with several popular MADURO Alejandro A son Mirto Arturo
furnished songs and humor with an songs in Spanish including Bula December 25
international flavor Syd Tucker Waya GEERMAN Sevenano A daughter Esu uta
gave his impiession of an English Refreshments weie served throughout Trederika
December 26
loid in cancatuie Val Linam and the party and music was presented DIAZ Hendrik A son Hendrik
Sam Speziale teamed up as cowboy by the Lago Colony Band SILBERIE Leonardo T A son
singer and guitar player with a under the direction of the Rev Don December 27
rendition of several Western songs R Evans GIEL Pedro P A son Eric Rudolf
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January 4 1952 ARUBA ESSO NEWS
Irene Ta na Cas Despues di un Serie di Maxwell Panrophler Ta From High to Low : By Wiley Smith
Operacion Sarisfactorio na Estados Unidos Salba un Marino c ^-lrj4 TMftfiUELTER ) 3rVm1
[ UP 1 / IWtl6W Vf H0WLRE W f CWLAoEEN00U
Completamente restora e mucha muher chikito y spierto Irene Jacobs Un Homber a Cai na Awa Esaki \ UOMEY / l A BOMB Jfr V VJILUT bS J I FOR NNFMcyWl
V V- iir-ir-rl ? I X ^^ V k rr I rTZ MC i
ta atrobe na Aruba y por usa completamente su garganta cu ta tabata e grito cu a resona banda di JlT0 Vxai ^\\ / ( NECESSITIES _)
El bolbe dia 23 di December 1 or di mainta dia 28 di December Ms
bata hopi mal corta a juist na tempo pa
na Finger Pier No 2 Trahando wor
celebra Pascu na cas despues di a haya tratamento surgical special da di grave yard den cercania tabata
na Estados Unidos Maxwell E Panthophlet un homber
Na aeropuerto Irene a worde saluda door di oficialnan di Aruba cu dos biaha promer caba a traha he
Lions Club cual a cuminza e campanja pa colecta placa pa mandele roicamente pa salba bida di otro
El a corre bai na un lugar ariba
na Estados Unidos pa e opcracionnan cu a trecele Aruba completamente
waf unda luznan tabata ilumina y
salud Irene a bisa oficialnan di Lions Club cu semper lo el mirando na banda for di e dock di
recorda e Lions Club y lo reza pa nan tur anochi Despues promer concreet el a mira un homber ta drief
cu bai cas Irene cu awor tin 13 anja a bai directamente na Misa cu cara abao den awa Sin duda un / HECESsmes 1 / TUat reminds me-IV ") I ( Necessities W ^ i
momento Pantophlet a bula na awa V OF LIFE / ( BETTER MWE SURE J V Or UFE! / 1
Na su cas cual el a haya geverf
nobo y cu bandera Holandes ta bula y cu un accento distinto di Philadel pa salbele
como senjal di e suceso alegre phia Awor cu e ta na cas trobe Irene Na e lugar di e accidente linjanan
Irene a haya e promer Kerstboom cu ta insisti pa papia casi solamente Ingles di tubo y balkinan ta corre den e mes
perde comprension di largura di Pier No 2 E tubonan ta
pa e no su
el tabatin di su bida den su mes cas
e idioma como cuatro o cinco pia ariba awa Ta
Mayoria di Irene su Pascunan el a
pasa den hospitalnan Bao di e Kerst Fuera di school y mira vista di e na esakinan Pantophlet a bula tene
boom tabatin hopi regalonan di amigo lugar Irene tabatin hopi visitante y y pa por a yega na e homber el mester
amiganan familia a atendc varios fiesta E lions Club a colga mescos cu un payaso cu un
su
y y
Na Estados Unidos Irene tabata di Noord Philadelphia a tuma over e man y pia lora rond di un balki
bao cuido di e specialista di garganta trabao di nan ruman aki na Aruba y For di su posicion peligroso Pantophlet
di fama mundial Dr Chevalier Jack nan a keda constantemente en conec net por a yega su victima
son Dr Jackson a distingui su mes cion cu ne Dia 25 di Mei nan a pone maske el a pela su braza haciendo
den un otro operacion admirable den un fiesta grandi di cumpleaiios pa asina Despues hendenan ariba e dock Hearst Featuie Service
garganta di un mucha muher y e Irene y ora el tabata cla pa bin cas a bin yuda y teniendo Pantophlet na
mucha muher tambe tabata biba nan a dunele un fiesta di despedida su faha mientras el tabata tene e victima
bao bandera Holandes ey El ta di Am na cual tabatin 125 hende presentc foi tino nan a hiza tur dos y a I rem Cont from imge 2 Mar Caribe Coge
sterdam y tabata cla pa bai casa y Pa yuda tene su curashi halto y pa pone nan na siguridad several weeks in the hospital Irene
accidentemente a guli un preke habri mira cu el tabatin tur loke e tabatin Despues cu nan a puntrele cu ta went home still unable to use her Un Otro Victima
Ora ningun hende por a saca e preke mester John Jardell y Dr Ruben un cabuya nan a marra rond su bari throat
Fls 11000 a worde colecta rapida- Frank di Philadelphia tabata bin ca pa hale trece ariba Pantophlet a Only a series of delicate operations
mire constantemente Su familia aki mira na su faha y a bisa cu un son
mente y e mucha muher a worde would cure her but her mother Mar Caribe normalmente suave a
manda na Estados Unidos unda el a na Aruba no a worde lubida Sra risa suave No esaki ta un bon feeling that it was a miracle that purba coge un otro victima siman
worde opera door di Dr Jackson George Ferguson kende tabata biba faha Irene was still living was reluctant pasa ora e golet di C5 ton Surprize
E dokter a inventa un metodo nun na Curasao en lo pasado tabata haci Pensando ainda solamente pa salba to have further surgery performed a pega ariba rif algun cien
ca conoci pa e operacion y a logra di dos bishita tur siman cerca Irene y e victima Pantophlet a cuminza duna Eventually after the girls plight had meter pabao di Esso Club E golet a
saca e preke liher den un operacion despues di cada bishita el tabata respiracion artificial te ora algun come to the attention of the Aruba sali foi Oranjestad dia 29 di December
cu a hala atencion di henter mundo scirbi Irene su mama pa bisele kiko e momento despues el a worde cambia Lions Club Dr A A Schlachter atardi pa bai Corsouw y St Mar
medico Pa su servicio e dokter kier a tabata haci com e ta sinti y kiko el door di Promer Stuurman di Esso performed several operations which tin pa dos or su siguiente madruga
accepta solamente e preke como pago tabata bisa Reading un bapor cu tabata ancla ey improved the girls condition el a core subi riba e rifnan scondi
cual el a tene como un souvenir Cinco of seis operacion delicado tabata banda However Dr Schlachter realized bao awa cu ta drumi manera un
Na Hospital di Temple University necesario pa cura Irene su garganta Despues di varios minuto ansioso that the final operations could not trampa entre punta di kaai y tera
na Philadelphia Dr Jackson a haci corta pero awor solamente un durante cual tabata parce cu no tabatin be performed here and when they Haciendo un tek pa tera e homber na
un serie di operacion delicado cu cicatriz a keda pa munstra e lugar bida den e homber e victima a became aware of this the Lions be look out a tada pa canta bira di
Irene Esakinan a completa un cade unda pa tanto tempo tubonan di metal cuminza hala rosea trobe Pantophlet gan a fund raising campaign to send boordo y e barco a dal cu steef net
na largo di tratamento cu a cuminza tabata necesario pa por permiti e ta pensa cu e homber lo no a keda na Irene to the United States for treatment el a cuminsa bira
aki na Aruba door di Dr A A mucha muher come y hala rosea Despues bida si el a worde saca for di awa y As a result of letters and direct Nuebe homber tabata aboordo cu
Schlachter di Oranjestad ariba kende di poco tempo hasta e cicatriz si respiracion artificial a cuminza appeals nearly everyone in Aruba Capitan Hodge un veterano di 65
su insistencia cu el por worde completamente nan lo worde kita pa medio di yena e cinco seconde mas laat el a bisa contributed to the Irene Jacobs fund ana na comando Nan a disembarca
cura e cantidad di suce lugar cu carni for di otro parti di su E ambulance di Lago cu a worde Athletic and civic groups held despues cu dia a habri y durante e
sonan a cuminza cu finalmente a pone curpa yama na e lugar door di Lago Police special programs with paid admission dia nan a pasa tur cos di e barco
Irene bao cuido di Dr Jackson Pa e Lions Irene su curamento ta a hiba e homber na Dispensario unda assigning the proceeds to Irenes hiba na Rodgers Beach y a purba
Cinco anja pasa tempo cu Irene un bon demonstracion di loke nan ta el a worde trata y despues a trans fund In all over Fls 9000 was raised cera e buraconan den curpa di e bar
tabata solamente siete anja el a pensa cu por worde cumpli ora hende portele pa san Petro Hospital na and final preparations for the co mientras preparacionnan tabata
trompeca y a cai mientras el tabata ta trata pa un yuda otro E Lions Oranjestad Na Dispensario e victi necessary operations were made by worde haci pa touw e golet saca
carga un bleki di Klim habri E peso Club di Aruba promer a tuma un ma a worde identified como L Allen the Lions E carga di 200 drum di gasolin a
di su caida a kita e rand protectivo parti activo den e caso di Irene na 30 anja di edad di Country Cork Ir All along the way friendly hands worde laga aboordo pa yuda drief e
cu ta cubri e canto skerpi ariba di e anja 1948 un ocho luna despues cu e landia marinero competente di e tanker and willing hearts offered Irene their barco si e por coge mucho awa despues
bleki Ta e canto skerpi aki manera accidente a socede Na e tempo ey Britanico Busen Rollo help Two airlines Pan American di worde saca atrobe
nabaha cu a corta e pijpnan den Irene Monte Maduro tabata president di e Allen a haya liber pa baha tera e and KLM offered free passage to Diadomingo dia 30 di December es
su garganta door di cual e no por a Club y tempo cu el a worde sigui den anochi ey y tabata regresando pa su the United States for Irene And fuerzonan a worde cuminza pa salba
guli ni hala rosea bon e puesto ey pa Carlos L Juliao un barco ora e accidente a tuma lugar when it looked as though previous e golet Cuminzando atardi y siguien
Un buraco special pa su stoma ta otro comerciante bien conoci na Su barco tabata pa sali e anochi ey in
arrangements to meet Irene New do te hasta dia a cera e tow boot
bata pasa banda di e herida pa bai Aruba Maduro a worde nombra como pa un viahe largo na e lugarnan di York were likely to go awry Lago Colorado Point a purba di tira un
den e gulido y un tubo di metal pa miembro di comite special encarga cu caza bayena di Antartico unda el lo officials cabled the States to see that cabuya na Surprize sin exito Sien
hala rosea a worde poni den e lucht e campanja Irene Jacobs hiba azeta pa e bapornan di bayena
she would be met by company representatives do cu lanchanan no por a yega e golet
pijp pero despues di varios siman den Incita pa e pensamento cu maske y despues tuma azeta di bayena pa As it worked out the naufraga pasobra e awa riba rif no
hospital Irene a bai cas ainda sin por nan ta un grupo chikito nan por contribui hiba mercado Allen a subi como tri Lions Club arrangements were completed tabata basta hundo un boto chiquito
usa su garganta na e bienestar di e isla y su pulante na Inglatera dia 3 di December
in time and Richard Naar a mester a worde usa pa trece e prome
Solamente un serie di operacion delicado habitantenan e Lions Club di Aruba
former member of the local Lions cabuya fini e hombernan cu tabata
por a curele pero su mama a organiza caba hopi comite pa yuda Pa Pantophlet esaki ta di tres bez met Irene and escorted her to Philadelphia aboordo di e golet no por a hala e
sintiendo tabata hubentud yuda bida civil el salba hende Promer biaha tabata
cu un milagro cu pa promove cu a cabuya mas duro cu tabata necesario
Irene tabata ainda na bida no ta y fuera di esey nan a yuda hopi hende na anja 1937 ariba Finger Pier haci E
In Philadelphia it wasnt all pa e touwmento towboot a
bata gusta pa haci mas operacion cu Pesey ta un milagro chikito cu No 4 tempo cu el a salba un mari sali Dialuna atrobe
hospital beds and surgery rooms for pa purba di salba
ne A lo largo despues cu e situacion Irene Jacobs dia cu el a bolbe for di nero den casi e mes manera Poco des
Irene Not confined to bed she went e golet pero despues cu nan a hale
di e mucha muher a yega na conoce Estados Unidos a bisa cu nunca e lo pues e homber a bira bon di e accidente
to a Catholic high school and made pafor di e rifnan el a zink den awa
mento di Aruba Lions Club Dr A lubida e Lions
many sight seeing trips around the hundo
A Slachter haci varios
a operacion historic city She learned to speak
cu a mehora su condicion English with a thorough going fluency
Sinembargo Dr Schlachter a rea
that includes distinct Philadel
a one very good demonstration of what
liza cu e operacionnan final
no por a accent Now that shes back
phia
they think can be accomplished when
worde haci aki
sabi
y ora nan a haya
esaki Lions Club a cuminza home Irene insists on using English people try to help one another The
cu un
almost exclusively so she wont lose Aruba Lions Club first took an
campanja pa haya placa pa manda
Irene na Estados Unidos trata her grasp of the language active part in Irenes case in 1948
pa
mento Como resultado di cartanan Besides school and sight seeing some eight months after the accident
suplica directo casi tur hende y Iiene had many visitors and several occurred At that time Monte Mad
na
Aruba a contribui den Fondo parties The North Philadelphia Lions uro was the clubs president and
Irene Jacobs e pa Club took over the work of their when he was succeeded in that post
i Gruponan atletico civil tene Aruba brothers and kept in constant by Carlos L Juliao another well
y a touch with her Last May 25 they known Aruba merchant Maduro was
special cual
programanan pa nan a
cobra entrada a manda threw a huge birthday party for named special committeeman in
y e ganancia
Irene and when she was leady to charge of the Irene Jacobs campaign
pa e Fondo pa Irene En total mas di
Fls 9000 a worde colecta come home they gave her a going Since then both men have been
y prepara
cion final pa e operacionnan necesa away party which more than 125 active in the work of aiding Irene
rio a worde haci door di Lions people attended back to full health When she arrived
Na tur camina mannan carinjoso To help keep her spirits high and at Dakota field early in the morning
M crjp y to see that she had everything she
the
y corazonnan di bon voluntad a ofrece oj ^..- on Sunday before Christmas
Irene nan ayudo Dos linea aerea needed John Jardell and Dr Ruben both men were there to meet her
Pan American y KLM a ofrece Frank of Philadelphia kept in con At present the Aruba Lions Club
pasashi liber pa Irene bai Estados stant contact with her Her family which was formed in 1947 is small
Unidos Y ora tabata parce cu arre jjfe in Aruba wasnt forgotten Mrs with a membership of 30 But for the
glonan haci di antemano pa contra cu George Ferguson a former resident past two years the International
Irene na New York probablemente lo of Curacao paid two visits each week Lions association has awarded the
bai robez to Irene and following each call group its Merit of Honor
oficialnan di
Lago tele Above is
a another historical gem Aki riba tin otro pida di historia
un
wrote to Irenes mother to tell her
Prompted by the belief that
grafia Merca even
na
avisando pa larga loaned to the Esso News by J Har
precioso J
cu Hartog a presta na how Irene what
was she
doing
was small
contribute
representante di as a group they can
compania contra cu log from his research in Arubas
Esso News for di estudio
ariba
su how she felt
ne Como cu tur cos a bai bon e It what she was saying to the welfare of the island and its
arre history seems that the Comman historia di Aruba Ta
glonan Lions Club parce cu e Five or six delicate operations were people the Aruba Lions Club has
cu haci
a a worde der as the Lt Goernor used to be Commandeur tabata
completa na tempo y Richard Naar called had to keep statistics not manera nan ya necessary to repair Irenes damaged already organized many committees
only ma Gezaghebber
e
e tempo ey mester throat but now only a scar remains for aiding civic
un miembro bieuw di Lions Club aki the 1700 youths prompting
on here
people living but
a tens statisticonan
no salamente di to mark the
where
for
a contra cu Irene place so long improvements and in addition the
y a acompanjele also of all
the
animals In this
pa docu 1700
Philadelphia e hende cu tabata biba aki pe metal tubes were needed in order Club has helped many individuals
Na Philadelphia Irene ment Commander Thielen writing ro tambe di e animalnan Den e do that the girl could eat and breathe Small wonder then that little Irene
no a keda with feather
a in 1825 has
pen aki
re cumento Commandeur Thielen
cu Shortly even the scars Avill be Jacobs
solamente den cama di re upon her return from the
hospital corded his
kamber di operacion Ora y Survey of Male and tabata scirbi cu un pen di pluma na moved by skin grafts which are to United States said that she would
ta
cu Female
e no
Donkeys Belonging to the anja 1825 a scirbi su Registro di be performed when the doctors think
batin mester di keda never forget the Lions
na cama el Realm It
a that since
the
bai says prev Burico Perteneciendo na e Reino the time is right Meanwhile Irene
na un school Catolico
y a haci ious survey no donkeys died 71 were E registro ta munstra desde
cu e re kept the metal breathing tube and
hopi paseo rond di e ciudad historico sold and the
total is 358 This
gistro anterior
ningun burico
other
a mil
paraphernalia
mirando as a momento
lugarnan jScrapDirii
e principal El a seems to work out pretty closely to ri 71 worde bendi
sinja papia Ingles bastante corriente cu a y cu e total of her long illness
one per family ta 358
To the Lions Irenes recovery is
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ARUBA ESSO NEWS
January 4 1952
SN Scouts Do Well *\ The Story of The Tin Soldi
In Benefit Lottery
I There were once five and twenty So they made a boat from a news
The three prize lottery sponsored tin soldiers who were brothers for paper and stood the tin soldier in it
by the Netherlands Boy Scouts in they had all been made from the and sent him sailing down the gutter
San Nicolas and the Tarabana group same old tin spoon They were very Then the two boys ran along beside
of the Netherlands Girl Scouts before grand in their new red and blue him clapping their hands The waves
nTymmr m ml uniforms as they shouldered their
Christmas was a solid success were very high and the current was
with the thousand tickets sold in guns and looked straight before strong The paper boat rocked up and
less than a month them down and it sometimes turned around
While the exact amount made in The first thing the soldiers ever so quickly that the soldier trembled
the lottery will not be known until heard were the words Tin Soldiers but he stayed at his post He shouldered
shouted by a little boy who clapped his musket and
a tax question is settled the Scouts looked straight
cleared several thousand guilders i his hands with delight when the lid before him
Projects the money will be applied mZwmm was taken off the box in which they All at once the boat shot into a
include of fencing 1 IMJ lived long drain where it was as dark
against completion r as
I w A X S V i IBI \ ir It was the little
the grounds surrounding the two it was in the box
u t afls s boys birthday and where the other
h IBR J I JU L9 the soldiers had tin soldiers lived
-WP
been given to him Where am I go
for a birthday present
ing now thought
The little he This must
boy took the soldiers surely be the go
-9 out of the blins fault Oh if
pgsBflk box and stood only the little lady
N them on the table with
were
M me
They were exactly in the boat I
gjL h Km alike except one should not caie
gag who had only one leg He was the how dark it was
last one to be made and there had A huge water rat that lived under
not been enough tin to finish him the bridge soon came in sight
but he stood as firmly on one leg a3 Have you a pass asked the rat
the others did on two but the tin soldier kept silent and held
There were many other playthings his musket tighter than ever
in on the table where the soldiers stood The
Something unique home-furnishing stream carried the tin soldier
merchandising came to Aruba but the most attractive one was a on more rapidly than ever and he
with the opening of a model home pretty little paper castle The win could already see daylight where the
on Kamerlingh Onnes Street Oranje dows were very tiny but still one drain ended Then he heard a rushing
stad Each room has been completely could look through them and see the sound that was enough to frighten
furnished each in a different basic inside of the rooms In front of the the bravest man At the end of the
style and the house is open for in castle stood little trees around a piece drain the water fell into a canal
St spection Aboe is a view of the of looking glass which looked like a this was as dangerous for his tiny
comfortable combination living room lake of clear water Beautiful little craft as going over a waterfall would
wax swans were swimming about the be for boat
dining room and at the right is a a
partial view of the modernly out lake surface and were reflected on its glassy The little paper boat dashed on but
fitted bed room Open until January the soldier stood as firmly as he
15 the house was furnished by the This was all very pretty but the could to show that he was not afraid
Joseph Halley of the Shipyard Office prettiest thing of all was a tiny little
NV Meskcr Furniture Store The boat whirled around three
or
needed a car and the Scout raffle lady who stood at the open door of
four times until it
filled with
provided a Buick at an imestment of the castle She also was made of was
pa
water Then it
began to sink The tin
only Fls 10 per but her dress was of the thinnest
soldier stood up to his neck in water
muslin with a narrow blue ribbon while the boat
sank deeper and deeper
clubhouses in San Nicolas furnishing like a scarf over her shoulders Soon the water closed over his
and addition of At the middle of the ribbon was a head
drinking water the He thought of the pretty little
shining tinsel rose as big as her
toilet facilities dancer whom he should never see
The lottery proved to be very whole face again and he was very sad
popular and the tickets sold easily The little lady stretced out both her Then the paper boat became soft
The the arms for she was a dancer and she and torn to The
group may repeat project was pieces soldier
raised one foot so high that the tin
after a year dropped down deeper into the water
Winner of the first prize a Buick soldier could not see it at all and but was at once swallowed by a huge
thought that she also had but one leg fish
was Joseph Halley of the Shipyaid
Office with No C57 He had been She would make a fine wife for Oh how dark it was inside the
intending to buy a car and the me said the soldier only she is so fish It was even darker than it was
Scouts made it easy at the reasonable grand and lives in a castle while I in the drain and there was no room
purchase price of Fls 10 The have only a box to live in Besides for him to move but the tin soldier
electric refrigerator went to Geoige there are five and twenty of us in the kept his courage and lay at full
McCoy of the Cracking Plant and box and there is no room for her length with his gun on his shoulder
Still I must to become
the washing machine was won by with her try acquainted The fish swam about making the
Juan Kock most fearful movements but at last
Then he lay down at full
length it became quite still Then a flash of
behind the snuffbox where he could
lightning seemed to dart through him
Dutch Marines Feted watch the dainty lady who still stood Daylight appeared and a voice called
on one leg without losing her balance
out As I am alive the tin soldier
In Party at Golf Club When evening came the tin soldiers The fish had been caught taken to
into the box that is all
were put
the market and sold to the cook who
of them the soldier with
except one took him to the kitchen and cut him
200 officers and of the leg who left the
Nearly men was standing on
with a large knife She picked
open
Dutch Marine detachment stationed table and the people of the house
up the soldier held him by the waist
Sabaneta entertained the went to bed Then the
at were by toys began to
between her thumb and finger and
Lago Community Council at a Christmas play and have jolly times on the
carried him into another room where
party December 21 Held at the table The tin soldiers rattled in their
everybody was surprised to see this
club the included refresh box for wanted to and
golf party they get out wonderful soldier who traveled about
entertainment and with the others but could
ments presents play they all
inside a fish But he was not at
for all not lift the lid The nutcracker turned
proud
A committee headed by Bill Koop The Victoria sports club girls basketball team which participated in somersaults and the pencil jumped They put him on the table What
man M & C included Chief Gilbert Christmas Day competition in Curacao is shown here Back row from left about the table They made so much curious things happen in the world
Brooks Lago Police Jan Hamelers are M Reyes F Hartogh P Winterdaal P Geerman Sara Geerman noise that the canary woke up and The soldier was in the very same
TSD Paul Grodijn TSD Lt H Op Captain and Simon Geerman Manager Front row from left R Lewis began to sing in the middle of the room in which he had been before He
penhuizen Lago Police Nick Schin M Frank Olga Arindell and D Langedijk Reyes and Langedijk did not night Only the tin soldier and the saw the same children the same toys
deler TSD and Dr Robert de Goede make the trip and not included in the picture is Celia Winterdaal who dancer remained in their places stood on the table and there was the
of Oranjestad In addition as a soit did go Also not shown is team coach Alphonso Paula She stretched out both her arms same castle with the pretty little dancer
of ex officio member of the committee and stood on tiptoe as firmly as She was still standing on one
was Jaap Hulsbergen Well he did on his one leg He never turned foot and holding up the other She
known for his cullinary skills Huls his eyes from her even for a single
and faithful he
Rotary s Playground Party Caribe Girls Invade was as firm as as was
bergen who is in charge of the mess moment He was almost moved to tears He
hall and the colony club at the Eagle Draws Many Merrymakers Curacao Take 2 Games The clock struck twelve Up flew looked at her and she looked at him
Oil Companys refinery cooked food the lid of the snuffbox but there was but they said nothing
for all the guests no snuff in it for it was not a real
The dance and casino staged by To celebrate their eighth anniversary Then one of little boys took up the
Although the fine food and the generous snuffbox but only the house of a go
refreshments comprised the the Aiuba Rotary Club December 22 the girls basketball team of the blin named Jack-in-the-Box tin soldier and threw him into the
main eevnt of the evening for to help complete two playgiound ASV Victoria sports club chartered The goblin looked very fierce and stove He gave no reason for doing
this it must have been the fault
children scored plane for Curacao where they so
for Aiubas a
many other entertainment was abun projects said Tin soldier keep your eyes to
dantly provided Mrs Ina van de a success both in amount of pioceeds played two games during the Christmas yourself of the goblin around him
The flames
gathered
Winkel of Oranjestad well known and in pleasure for the guests Over holidays The tin soldier pretended not to he
the heat terrible but
under the name Ina Verwoerd to 300 thionged the Palm Beach Club The fiist game was played at hear him and that made the goblin and was
radio fans in Holland sang several to combine pleasure and good will 730 pm December 25 against a very angry He snapped his teeth and could not tell whether the heat came
the fire fiom love His bright
from
time about team of girls from Surinam and the or
in Dutch with most dividing their said Only wait til tomorrow Then
songs of chance Victoria girls won handily with a red and blue colors were gone but
equally between the
A chance to match their strength games youll see his
whether that had happened on
against a trained weight lifter was inside and the dancing outside score of 11 6 Playing the second The next morning the children put
travels had been caused by sorrow
given the Marines by T Frederick of Refreshments and raffles rounded game on the Rif at 730 pm on the tin soldier in the window No one or the
could He looked at
demonstration out the evening Boxing Day the girls from Aruba knows whether it the goblin or no one say
the Storehouse In a unique was little lady and she looked at him He
Frederick invited the Mar An unusual coincidence was the won again this time at a score of the wind that did it but it is certain felt himself melting but still
away
im of the door brass 12 1 that the soldier fell from the third
ines to compete with him in an winning prize a he stood there with his gun on his
promtu contest a challenge they smoking stand donated by Ch J As a token of its victories the story window to the street below It shoulder
cheei fully accepted They lost out Neme by a visiting Rotai ian R Aruba team was awarded a cup by was a terrible fall He landed on his
each of the host teams and in addition in be Suddenly the door of the room
however in the face of Fredericks Pugh from Spring Valley New head and his bayonet wedged
training practice and conditioning Yoik In the raffles Mrs Kan won they were entertained by the tween some stones and held him there opened and the wind caught up the
Athena sports club in Curacao Taken with his leg straight in the dancer and whirled her right into the
AccorcUan music was presented by the coffee maker given by M Viana one up
sight seeing trips to various places air stove beside the tin soldier Instantly
W Tk of Oranjestad and with and Mrs Godfried Cioes won the on
the island the girls were also rain The she was caught up by the flames and
M Zc Cs Karel Egers acting as em electric iron donated by Aruba Trading on Then it began to drops
was held Company A feature of the guests at several dances fell faster and faster until there was was gone The tin soldier melted down
cee More a quiz than program 600 presents were give evening was the Rotary groups The Victoria girls say they hope a regular shower When the shower to a lump and the next morning when
to entertain Athena here two boys who were idling the maid took out the ashes she
the Marines 500 of them donated mass congratulations to Mr and soon was over
to found him in the shape of a little tin
about the street happened to pass by
Aruba merchants Lagos Safety Mrs R V Heinze who started celebrating
by remained of the dan
the visitors 100 their 34th wedding anniversary Look said one of them here is heart Nothing
leather Department wallets gave and in addition each at midnight paitment was chairman of the com a tin soldier He ought to have a boat cer but the tinsel rose coal and that was
guest received a Lago calendar Everett Biddle of the Medical De- mutes that arranged the party to sit in burned as black as a






VOL. 13 No. 1

f

Schooner Grounds on Ree



Above, the stranded schooner ”Surprize” lies heeled over as Lago’s. tug

"Colorado Point” (out of picture to left) tries to get a line to it. Below,

Gordon Owen readies his Snipe sailboat to take the schooner captain, third

from left, out to watch salvage operations. Others in the picture are

Leonard McReynolds, Community Council representative, ‘yril Bryan
of the wrecked schooner’s crew.

~
rm y’s








linia

ba, ai

eer eh
we ae a8







The normally-mild Caribb
victim this week when the
aground on the ree »

in made
-ton



effort to claim another
ed schooner ”Surprize” went

a
two-m.



5





> afternoon of December 29 bound for Curacao
next morning it piled up on the hidden fields
of coral that lie like a trap between the end of the reef and the mainland.
On a shoreward tack the lookout delz
about, and it struck bow-on just as it
men were aboard, with Captain

and St. Martin; at m.





rted to turn.

n Thadeus Hodge, a 65-year-old
an, in command. They > after daylight, and through the
day moved the ship s Beach and attempted to seal breaks
in the hull while preparations were being made to tow her off into deep
water.

The cargo of 200 drums of gasoline |
was left aboard, to increas the
buoyancy of the ship if it took in
much water after being refloated

Efforts began Sunday (December

(Cont. on page 2 3)









New Asst. Ed. Added

col.

Director di Surinam Ta
Bishita School di Ofishi
Siman pasa Director di Schoolnan

di Ofishi na Surinam, J. H. Stebenit-
a inspecta e School di Ofishitdi





I



o. El a worde accompanja duran-
te su bishita na School door di E. F.
Welch, Hefe di School di Ofishi di
Lago.



Tambe presente durante e bishita
tabata G. Kok, Inspector di Enseyan-
za na Aruba y G. Amelink, Director
di Ambachtschool di Aruba.

Sr. Stebenitsky a bini Aruba pa
haci un estudio tocante enseyanza di
ofishi y a bishita e schoolnan di go-
bierno y tambe e School di Ofishi di
Lago. Aunque Surinam tin schoolnan
di ofishi ya 16 anja caba, esakinan ta
ariba un base limita. Oficialnan di
gobierno 2z awor tin plan pa me-
hora e enseyanza aki

E obheto di e bishita di Sr. Stebe-
nitsky tabata pa por mira ki curso ta
worde duna door di otro schoolnan
technico grandi den e bicindario y pa
haya sabi e metodonan cu ta worde
pa sinja e varios ofishinan









A. M. Brodine, above, joined the staff
of the Aruba Esso News last month

us as assistant editor. A aduate of



Director di Surinam a parce di tate College with a degree in
ta favorablemente impresiond ariba technical Journalism, he has had









loke el a mira y tabata particular- nee with both newspapers and
mente interesd den e programa di| magazines. During the war he spent
trainmento den shop na Lago. Awor six years in the U.S. Air
el ta spera di traha tallernan na Su- as ground and aerial photo-

rinam segun e mes metodo, grapher and laboratory chief.

PUBLISHED BY LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO. LTD.

hundred yards west of the Esso Club. The |

ed too long in ordering the ship |

January 4, 1952

(R&S Man Makes Third
Rescue at Harbor

”Man Overboard!” The shout went
bout 1 a.m., December 28, on
Finger Pier No. Working the
12 to 8 shift ne was Max-
well E. Pantophlet, man who has
twice before acted heroically to save
the lives of othe





up











He raced to a spot on the wharf
where lights were flashing and
looking o the side of the con-|
crete pier he saw a man floating face

down in the water. Without hesitat- |
ion, Pantophlet jumped down to save
him.





At the scene of the accident, a
system of pipes and I-beam girders |
runs parallel to Pier No. 2. The}

pipes are four or five feet above the |
water. It was onto these structures |
that Pantophlet leaped. In order to
reach his man, he had to hang on
| like an acrobat, with one arm and a
leg wrapped around an I-beam.

| From his precarious position,
|Pantophlet was just able to reach
{his quarry, although he skinned his
| forearm in doing so. Then other men
|} up on the pier joined the rescue and
|by grasping Pantophlet’s belt while |
he held on to the unconscious victim,
both men were pulled to safety.
Later, when asked if Someone had |



used a rope to wrap around his|
middle in order to haul him up,|}
Pantophlet looked at his belt and

with a soft smile, said ”No. This is
a good belt.”

Still thinking only of saving the
victim, Pantophlet began applying
artificial respiration until, a few
moments later, he was relieved by
the chief mate of the Esso Reading,
a ship docked nearby.

After several anxious minutes
during which time there appeared to
be no life in the man, the victim
began to breath again. Pantophlet
thinks the man might not have sur-
vived if he had been pulled from
the water and artificial respiration
as he says, "five seconds |





lice, the Lago ambulance took the
|man to the Dispensary where he was
treated and then transferred to the











n Pedro Hospital in Oranjestad. |
At the Dispensary, the victim was
identified a L. Allen, 30, from|



County Cork, Ireland, an able sea-
man from the British-owned tanker, |
Busen Rollo.

Allen had been on shore leave for |

the evening and was returning to
his ship when the accident took
place. His ship was to sail that

evening for an extended voyage into
the whaling grounds of the Antartic
where it will refuel whaling ships
and then take on whale oil for ship-
ment to market. Allen signed on the
ship in England last December 3.
(Cont. on page 3, col. 1)





Govt. & Lago Employees
Join in Annual Party

be hard to believe, but}
. large baskets of ’'good-

It

may





before the Christmas holi-
*t exactly easy at the La-
go party for more than 300 Aruba





}

government employe The first door
prize given away, for example, was
a food basket containing a turkey,
fresh fruit, and candy, but there
were no takers until the ninth num-
ber was called. The prize would have
been given ry on the first number
drawn, however, if only someone with
the right number had just shouted, |
Here!” |
Winner of that first hard-to-give-

y prize was Sam T. Croes, of the
n Nicholas Post Offic Other
winners included Marie Palm,
toms Offic who won a set of beer














mugs; L. Leenheer, n Nicholas
Police, a food basket; W. G. Van du
Weide, Post Office, winner of a ca-

me V. Mierlo, Chief of Detectives,
San Nicholas Police, a food basket;
Henny Leeder, Customs Officer, who
won a large ham; C. Lopez, Customs |











Office Ronson cigarette lighter; |
and C. Riem, San Nicholas Police, a |
set of poker chips. Several other |

| where he was to spend 17 days in





| : : apes 2
spending his vacation in Chicago and

| Guinea and is now a member of the



On hand at the airport to greet Gregorio Frank on his return from a
radio course in the United States were his wife and four sons; from left,
Roderick, aged 4 months; Edwin, 512; Albert, 8; and Nelson, 3.

Presente na aeropuerto pa saluda Gregorio Frank na su regreso for di un
curso di radio na Estados Unidos tabata su esposa y cuatro yiu homber. For
di banda robez: Rodrick, 4 luna bieuw; Edwin, 512; Albert, 8; y Nelson, 3.

Dia Gregorio L. Frank, Staff Foreman den Instrument Shop, a sali
pa Estados Unidos den luna di September pa tuma un curso den radio
comunicacion (recepcion y emision), el no a pensa di mira un cara
conoci sino te dia e bolbe back na Aruba. Viajando cu aeroplano pa
Miami, Frank a tuma un trein pa Ciudad di New York unda un repre-
sentante di compania a bin contre’le kende a haci ultimo arreglonan
pa su permanencia na Estados Unidos. Despues di a pasa varios dia
na New York, durante cual el no tabatin mucho oportunidad pa mira e
lugarnan principal, Frank a bula pa Chicago na unda el mester a keda
E ii dia den eyplanta dieMotorolar Gor

When Gregorio L. Frank, staff |Poration studiando metodonan di fa-
foreman in the Instrument Shop, left | bricacion di lampi di radio. Na Chi-
last September for the United States | a0 Frank tabatin e sorpresa agra-
to take a training course in two way | dable di a contra cu dos amigo bieuw.
radio communications, he didn’t ex Un di su Ae Onay for di Aruba
pect to see a familiar face again|â„¢es tabata M. King kende tambe ta
until he got back to Aruba. Traveling | Un empleado di Lago. King tabata
by plane to Miami, Frank took a|Pasando su vacacion na Chicago y
train to New York City where he was | Wor a bolbe na su trabao den ofici-
met by a company representative who |na@ di Accounting. E otro amigo cu
made final arrangements for his stay | Frank a contra na Chicago tabata
in the States. After spending several | James Viapree di Guyana Britanico
days in New York, during which time | CU awor ta un miembro di Fuerza
he didn’t have much opportunity for | Aerea di Estados Unidos. E dia ey
sight-seeing, Frank flew to Chicago |¢l tabatin algun tempo liber na Chi-
a cago. Frank a pasa mayoria di su
hora liber hunto cu su dos tercionan
y asina el tabata leuw di ta solitario.
"En realidad”, el a bisa, "Mi a pasa
un bon tempo”.

Mientras Frank tabata studiando
e metodonan cu Motorola ta usa pa
traha aparatonan di radio, el a mira
cu tur cos ta bai ariba un linea di
armamento ariba cual piezanan ta
ponj mientras muhernan tabata haci









the Motorola Corporation’s plant
studying radio manufacturing meth-
ods. It was in Chicago that Frank
had the pleasant surprise of meeting
two old friends.

One of his friends, from right
here in Aruba, was M. King who is
also a Lago employee. King was



e returned to his job in the





Accounting office. The other friend | mayoria di e trabao di armamento.
|Frank met in Chicago was James Despues cu e fase di su training
Viapree who hails from British | aki a caba, Frank a bisa ayo na su

amigonan na Chicago y a tuma un
trein pa bai back New York.
el a yega New York el a re-
Mobile Communications
Newark, New Jersey, pa com-
pleta su estudio. Na Newark tambe
|Frank a topa cu un otro amigo
| bieuw, e biaha aki Han” Hansen di
Surinam, un persona cu Frank "pa
casualidad tabata conoce’. Hansen
awor ta traha pa un compania di
“air conditioning” na Newark.

Na Newark Frank a sinja hopi
ariba aparatonan mobil di radio di e

U.S. Air Force. At the time, he was
on leave in Chicago. Frank spent
most of his spare time with his two
buddies, and so was far from lonely.
"In fact,” he says, "I had a very
good time.”

While studying the ways used by
Motorola to turn out radio equipment,
Frank learned that everything is on
an assembly-line system, with women
doing most of the mbly work
After that phase of his training w




























over, Frank uid goodbye to hi 1
Chicago buddies and took a train|tYpo cu a worde recientemente in-
baciactoe Newmans stala na Lago. Entre otro el a cera
B st, he reported to the |Conoci cu e ultimo metodonan y apa-
Mobile Communications Inc., in New- | '@tonan di test. El a bisa cu e infor-
ark, New Jers to complete his | â„¢Macion aki lo ta valuable pa busca



defecto y pa "aline
nan mobil di comunicacion, cual ta un
paso necesario pa asegura cu tur e
aparatonan di e systema mobil ta tra-
ha bon hunto.




training. In Newark, Frank ran into ” tur e aparato-
another old friend, this time, ”"Han”
Hansen from Surinam, an old ac-
quaintance whom Frank "just hap-

pened to know.” Hansen is now work-










ing for an air conditioning concern Dia el a yega na aeropuerto na
in Newark, Aruba, Bigz su es ay cuatro yiu
In wark, Frank learned a great homber sperando pa salude’le,



A
I

unque el tabata hopi ocupa na
ados Unidos y a pasa un bon tem-
po , Frank no a lubida su fami-
lia. El a trece regalo for di Merca
pa cada un di nan, incluyende "prin-
cipalmente traje di cowboy y zapato
halto” pa e mucha hombernan. ”Nan
ta mes interesa den Hopalong Cassi-
dy cu e muchanan na Merea.”

deal about mobile radio equipment of
the type recently installed at Lago.
Among other things, he became ac-
quainted with the latest testing
equipment and methods. This inform-
ation, he says, will be valuable in
trouble-shooting and in ”aligning”
the entire mobile radio set-up, a step
ne ry to insure that all units of
the system work properly together

When he landed at the airport back
in Aruba, his wife, Bigala and four
sons were waiting to greet him. Al-
though he had been very busy in the
es and had a good time besides, | ca,” he s:
ank didn’t forget his family. He Frank, who is 84 years old, has
brought presents from Ame for | been with Lago eighteen and a half
each of them, including "mostly cow- | y



















’ for the boys.
interested in
s kids in Ameri-



1ey’re
Hopalong



FE






RU

| Stranded Schooner
Ki Ee W $ | (Cont. from page
30) to salvage the schooner. Starting
2 in mid-afternoon and going on until

PUBLISHED EVERY OTHER FRIDAY AT ARUBA, NETHERLANDS
WEST INDIES, BY THE LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO., LTD.
Printed by the Curacaosche Courant, Curacao, N.W.1.

Irene Home After Successful
Series of Operations in U.S.

Smiling and healthy, Irene Jacobs is

shown with her mother, left, and her

sister Juliata shortly after she arrived at Dakota field upon her return

from the States. Also on hand wer
Lions Club, and Monte Maduro, h

e Carlos L. Juliao, president, Aruba
ead of the Irene Jacobs campaign.

Aki nos ta mira Irene Jacobs, hariendo y gozando di bon salud, hunto cu
su mama, (na banda robez) y su ruman mohé Juliata, poco despues cu el
a yega na Dakota vliegveld fo’i Merca. Tambe tabata presente Carlos L.

Juliao, presidente di Club di Leones, y Monte Maduro, cu a encabeza e cam- |

manin pa Irene Jacobs.

Completely recovered, pert little

Irene Jacobs is back in Aruba with

full use of her once badly damaged throat. She came back December
23, just in time to celebrate Christmas at home after getting special
surgical treatment in the United States.

At the airport, Irene was greeted by officials of the Aruba Lions
Club, sponsors of the fund-raising campaign that sent her to the States
for the operations that brought her back to full health. Irene told

the Lion Club officials that she
Club,” and will "pray for them
every night.” Then, before going
home, 13-year old Irene went directly
to church.

At her home — which she found
freshly painted and flying the Dutch
flag to mark the happy event —
Irene found the first Christmas tree
she had ever had in her own home.
(Most of Irene’s Christmases have
been spent in hospitals.) Under the

tree were many presents from friends |

and relatives.

In the United States, Irene had
been under the care of the world
famous throat specialist Dr. Che
lier Jackson. Dr. Jackson had figured
in another famous operation on a
girl’s throat, and that girl, too, lived
under the flag of Holland. The girl,
from Amsterdam, was getting ready
to be married and accidentally swal-
lowed an open pin. When no one was
able to remove the pin, Fls. 11,000
was quickly sed and the girl was
sent to the United States where she
was operated on by Dr. Jackson.

The doctor devised a unique method
for the operation and was able to
remove the pin quickly in an operat-
ion that received widespread attent-
ion in the medical world. For his
vices, all the doctor would accept as
payment was the pin, which he kept
as a souvenir.

At the Temple University Hospital

_ in Philadelphia, Dr. Jackson perform-
ed a series of delicate-operations on
Irene. These completed a long train
of treatments begun here in Aruba
by Dr. A. A. Schlacter of Oranjestad,
whose ir ance that she could be
fully cured started the chain of
events that finally placed Irene in
the care of Dr. Jackson

Fiv ars ago, when Irene
only n, she tripped and fell
while car ng an opened can of
Klim. The force of her fall ripped
away the protective ring which
ordinarily cov the sharp metal
edge of the can. It was this razor-
like edge that severed tubes in Ircne’s
throat, making it impossible for her
to swallow or breathe properly.

A special opening to her stomach
by-passed the wound in the
phagus, and a metal breathing-tube
was inserted in the trachea, but after

(Cont. on page 5, col. 4)

was

eso-

"will always remember the Lions

New V.P. and Board
Member Elected

Election of a new vice president
and an additional member to _ its
Board of Directors was announced
last month by S. O. Co. (N.J.).

The new vice president is Emile
E. Soubry, who has been a director
since January 1949. The new director
is David A. Shepard, who has been
executive assistant to President Eu-
gene Holman since October 1949. The
Board of Directors now numbers
fifteen.

E. E. Soubry D. A. Shepard
Mr. Soubry started with the Com-
pany in 1911 a clerk in the ship-
ping department of the affiliate in
London. Before becoming a director
he was foreign marketing coordinator

for the parent company.

Shepard joined the Company
a research engineer after
Massachusetts In-
Before becom-
nt to the presi-
as chairman of the
Oil Com-

2 from

te of Technol
ing executive as:
dent he served
Board of Anglo-American
pany

DEATHS

Joseph da Silva of the Catalytic &
Light Ends Department died Decem-
ber 30 at the age of 37. Hailing from
British Guiana, he had twelve and a
half years service, and was an assi-
stant operator. He is survived by his
mother and five brothers.

ARUBA ESSO NEWS

, |Mother of Six Gets

dark, the tug "Colorado
| terap ed to get a tow line to the ’Sur-
pri but without success. Since
launches could not reach the wreck
because of shallow water over the
|coral outcroppings, a small boat had
to be used to bring in the first light
rope, and men on the schooner were
{unable to pull in the heavy hawser
needed for the tow job. The tug went
|out Monday for renewed attempts to
save the schooner, and whether or not

sful is not known as the

roes to press.

k has heartbreaking
pects for Captain Hodge, who is s
to have all his family’s resources tied
up in the craft. His son, Pierre Hod-
a Receiving & Shipping Dept
dock corporal who acts as sub-fore-
man, is part owner in the enterprise,
and with his father has been exerting
every effort to build up the
ner’s business.

The capt

Trappenberg,
Relations but

Point” at-

ge,

schoo-

Mrs. Carmacina Croes is shown
with four ef her six children
the day she got her new wheel-
chair. Others in the pictu
officers of the Doreas Welfz
Society of which Mrs. 5
Klingbeil, R. N. is the Director.

son-in-law is Jose
formerly of Industrial
now a shopkeeper in
San Nicolas. One member of the crew,
Cyril Bryan, worked at the Dining
Hall here from April 1948 to April
1950. Most of then men in the crew
are from St. Martin.

are

FLASH Jarmacina Croes

P

now has a

rs.

Disaster wrote Finis to the story

when the schooner sank in deep

water after being pulled clear of the
rocks.

20 x0 and now is the mother
Mrs. Croes might still be without
some good fortune that came to one

Are You a Palindrome?

Mama di Seis Yiu Ta
Haya un Wielstoel

| If your name is Hannah or Otto,
you're a palindrome. That doesn’t
mean you like bicycle racing, which

is done in a velodrome — it means : :
\ "| Carmacina Croes awor tin un wiel-
your name reads the | a

same whether | > ;
a stoel. E tabatin mester di u osde
you spell it forward or backward. 36 anja pasa caba, A Tees ceade
pe Rar UIS Fs seanenys a see on | bata paralitico desde su edad di siete
| 8 Perens i rf DE P ee a anja, sinembargo el a casa mas o
constructing clever sentence that menos 20 anja pasa awor e te
read the same both ways. The best Acne aS eee
: Sree *- |mama di seis yiu. Su yiu di mas bieuw
known, and one of the earliest, is C :

"Madam, I’m Adam”. Here are some|~ bibs eae
otheraipenionevonés: | poso y yiunan ta biba na Macuarima,

| Santa Cruz.
See, slave, I demonstrate yet arts | : q pe <
= s Te ainda qui Senjora Croes por
no medieval sees. . i ;
se or a keda sin su wielstoel, si no tabata
Not New York .
: a pa motibo di bon fortuna cu a yega
No. I save on final _ 2 ,
EVaRiOn cerca un di su amigonan mas fiel, e
Tsar desserts clidinodemong. alas | sociedad bienhechora ’’Dorcas Wel-
hs ce : ©") | fare Society”. Mas o menos dos luna
no melon; distressed was I. - . Fj
, | pasa e sociedad a habri nan clubhuis
Are we not drawn onward, we few, - cores ate :
9 nobo. Uno di e invitadonan na e inau-
drawn onward to new era? |
I — Hearst Feature Service |

, Roy went on.

plan if no

(Continua na pagina 3)



Prior to his wedding December 14, Conrad Welch of
the Cable Office was given a Mix-Master and a silver
dish by friends and co-workers in the Accounting-
Service Division. The presentation was made by Etta
Williamson. His marriage to Veronica Dash took place
in the Dutch Reformed Church, Oranjestad. The newly-
weds will reside at Generaal Majoor De Bruijne Wijh
No. 40 Sabaneta.

Commissary, was

Members of the Executive Service Division Office got

together December 11 and good

wishes to Dulcie Gazendam (right) before her departure

December 15 for Montreal, Canada where she and her
husband will make their new home.

to present a check
ember
the Methodist

make their home

wheel-chair.
alyzed at the age of seven, she

yea
her husband and children, Mrs. Croes lives in

Welfare Society. About two months ago, the Society opened their

|tin 15 anja. Senjora Croes cu su es- |

Co-workers of Joseph Pet
presented him with a check prior to his marriage Dee-
14 to Mildred Ju
Church

at Essoville 49. Harry Gordon (right)
made the presentation on behalf of the M&C employees.

January 4, 1952

Wheel Chair Gift

Den e portret nos por mira
Sra. Carmacina Croes cu cuatro
di su seis yiunan e dia cu el a
haya su wielstoel nobo.
hendenan cu ta
portret ta oficialnan di e ’Dor-
cas Welfare Society” di cual
sociedad Sra. A. Klingbeil, R
N. ta Directora.

1 otro
aparece den e

She has
nevertheless

needed for 36
got married about
of six children. The oldest is 15. With
uarima, Santa Cruz

chair if it hadn’t
staunchest friends, the

one

her whe
of her

been for
Doreas
new
club house. One of the guests at the
inauguration was Mrs.
other was Ernst Finck,
Medical Department.

Croes;

of

an-
Lago’s

Finck became interested in provid-
ing Mrs. Croes with a _ wheelch
and he talked with Lago officials

able to provide a surplus
r which was given to the Dorcas
The Society, in turn, put
chair in A-1 condition and pre-
ented it to Mrs. Croes.
Croes and her family consider
air "a great blessing.” Now,
| for the first time since her pa
| thirty x years ago, she is ab
travel a fair distance without
During the past holida she
busy paying Christmas visits
friends and neighbors. And that
one of the most striking things
about Mrs. Croes. Almost always
pleasant and smiling, she thinks
about others more often than herself.

help.
was
to

is

Jacques Ellis, fork-lift truck operator at the Wholesale

presented with a decanter sei and a

set of silver by his fellow employees in a presentation
made by D. G. Richards (right) on the eve of his
iage December
ceremony took place at the Methodist Church in San
Nicholas with the
The couple will reside in Rooi Hundo.

15 to Adeline Le Grande. The

Rey. Robert A. Kirtley officiating.

rson of the M&C Storehouse
at
will

Williams in a ceremony

San Nicholas. The couple




January 4, 1952

Cat Cracker Again
Becomes Vast Tree



Transformed again into of the
world’s. tallest Christmas trees, the
Catalytic’ Cracking Unit. wwith+ its
hundreds of colored lights stood as &
Christmas beacon forall the eastern
end of Aruba and for ships at sea.



A new and striking feature of the





refinery’s 1951 Christmas decorations
was the floodlighted manger scene
facing San Nicolas on the roof of the
check building at the Main Gate.
The decorations will be lighted

through Sunday, January 6.

Wielstoel

(Continua di pagina 2)
guracion di e clubhuis tabata Sra.
Croes y un otro tabata Sr. Ernst

Finck, empleado di Departamento Me-

dico di Lago.
Finck a haya, masha interes pa
busca un wielstoel pa Sra. Croes y el



. a papia cu e oficialnan di Lago, ken-

denan por a duna un wielstoel cu ta-
batin di mas na e Sociedad Dorcas”.
E sociedad di su banda a laga drecha
e wielstoel completamente bon y a
duné na Sra. Croes como regalo.

Sra. Croes y su familia ta consi-
dera e wielstoel como "un gran ben-
dicion”. Awor, pa di promer biaha
desde su paralisis di trinta y seis
anja caba, e por pasea un distancia
razonable sin mester di yudanza. Du-
rante e dianan di fiestanan, e tabata
ocupa den hacimento di





Sra. Croes ta cu semper e ta contento

y tin un sonrisa ariba su cara y e ta|

pensa mas ariba otro cu ariba su mes.

Rescue
(Cont. from page 1)

this was his third

For Pantophlet,
took place in 1937

rescue, The firs





on Finger Pier No. 4, when he
rescued a sailor in much the same
manner. The man shortly recovered
from the accident. Pantophlet’s se-

cond rescue attempt, about five
ago, did not have such happy 1
as the victim was too severely
jured and died before help
reach him

Pantophlet, who is acting Corporal
A on the docks, has been with Lago
for 21 years

in-
could



Theater Players Debut
With Successful Revue

Pictured here in their last general
rehearsal before staging their first
show are some of the members of the
newly organized Aruba Theatre Play-
ers. Organized about 4 months ago
under the leadership of B. H. Rom-
bauts, an instructor in the Training
ivision, the group draws its mem-

ership from all over Aruba, includ-
ing Oranjestad and San Nicolas. So
far, how all the male member-
ship is made up of Lago employ













First performance by the new
theatrical group was a musical co-
medy, "Varieties of 1951,” given
December 19 at the de Veer Theatre





with a second showing December 21
at the Principal Theatre in San Ni-
colas. A sell-out was reported after
the f. performance, and seats for
the second were said to be "pretty
well filled up.”

Already the players are planning
their next show which they expect
to present "in five or six months.”
Although different from the first
show, the organization’s next offer-
ing is also scheduled to be a musical
comedy.







bishita di;
Pascu na su amigonan y bisinjanan. |
Un di e cosnan mas sobresaliente di |



Promotions Announced|



T. H. Harrod J. E. Keller





ARUBA ESSO NEWS



A concert and dance put on by the| Performers gather for a picture after the’ variety show staged by the

| Aruba Amateur Dramatic Club was |

N. A. DeFrees B. S. Whitney

|
|

E. A. Molzer



Promotions were announced late
last month for three in Light Oils
Finishing and one each in Labora-
and Clubs.

T. H. Harrod was named process
of Distilling and
ions. Mr. Harvod














joined — the Company September
7, 1912, and transferred to Aruba in
May 1929 z ater. He had been



maintenance foreman since March
1949.

J. E. Keller has been promoted to
shift foreman in LOF. He served as
an operator from his arrival March
12, 1935 until March 1949, when he
made assistant shift foreman.
A. de Frees was promoted to
ant shift foreman in LOF. He
has been with Lago since July 31,
1937, with three years out for mili-
te service. His last position was
operator.

B. S. Whitney has been promoted
to group head B, No. 2 Laboratory,
filling the vacancy created by E. C.
Johnson’s transfer to the New York
fi i y came to Aruba
in February 1945 as a student chemi-
cal engineer; before the present pro-
motion he was a chemist A.

E. A. Molzer was promoted to the |
position of supervisor — Esso Club.
He joined Lago in March 1946 as a
maintenance inspector in Colony }
Service. From December 1949 to |
March 1951 he was assistant club
manager, and since then was night
supervisor.



was





















Ariba e portret aki nos ta mira algun di e miembronan di e *Aruba Theatre



| here

a feature of the early Christmas sea-
son, with over 25 young actors and





es in a va y show at the
Theater December 16.
Musical numbers on the piano,

trumpet, accordion, and harmonica,
songs, jok dialogues, and Christ-
mas plays made a well-rounded pro-
gram. B. Riley was chairman of the
committee organizing the show, |
which was followed by dancing to |
the music of the Lucky Strike or- |
chestra. Part of the proceeds for the |
evening will be donated to the}
orphanage that is being planned for |



Aruba.
E. V. Emmanuel of No. 1 Power-
house organized the society and is

its president. Chief purpose of the | |

group is the development of talented |
young people. |

Surinam Educater *

Visits Voc. School

Lago’s vocational training
yas inspected last week by Surinam’s
director of vocational schools, J. H.
Stebenitsky. He was accompanied on
his tour of the center by E.F. Welch,
principal of Lago’s vocational school.

Also on the tour were G. Kok,
Inspector of Education for Aruba;
and G. Amelink, Director of Aruba’s
technical schools.

Mr. Stebenitsky came to Aruba in
order to survey vocational teaching
and visited both government
schools as well as the one at Lago.
Although Surinam has had a vocat-
ional training program for the past
16 years, it has been on a limited
basis. Officials now are planning to |
expand the program.

To se» what courses are covered
by larger technical schools in the
area and to learn about the methods
used in teaching various subjects,
s the purpose of Mr. Stebenitsky’s
t |








Vv. .
The Surinam Director seemed fav- |
orably impressed by what he saw
here, and was particularly interested
in the shop-training program at La- |
go. He hopes now to set up shops in
Surinam along similar lines.



Players” recientemente organiza den nan ultimo ensayo general promer cu |
nan a haci nan promer presentacion dia 19 di December. Mientras e orga-

nizacion a lamta mas o menos 4 luna

pasa bao di direccion di B. H. Rom- |

bouts, un instructor na Training Division, e grupo tin miembro for di henter
Aruba, incluyendo Oranjestad y San Nicolas.

Shown in final rehearsal just before staging their first show December

19 and 21 are eight members of the newly organized Aruba Theatre Players. |

center | f

Aruba Amaieur Dramatic Club at the Cecilia Hall December 16.

Three Office Parties Mark Yuletide



| Some of the 50 guests who attended the Executive Office Staff Christmas
_party are seen here watching one of the slide-song entertainment events.

| Miembronan di Personal di Executive Office y nan invitadonan tabata pre-
| sente na un Christmas Party na eas di Jim Lambert ariba e anochi di 18 di
| December. E arte cosmopolitico di e grupo tabata refleha door di e programa

di fiesta nobo cu tabata contene exhibicion di retratonan di color di varios
lugar, sigui door di canciones canta door di nativonan di cada un di e lugar-
nan munstra ariba e retratonan.

Members of the Executive
staff and their guests attended a
Christmas Party given at the home

jof Jim Lambert the evening of Dec-

ember 18. The cosmopolitan nature of
the group was reflected by the novel
entertainment program which featur-
ed color slides of many lands follow-
ed by songs by natives of each of
the countries pictured.

Following a series of slides on
Trinidad, well-known Calypso singer
Lucius Henry Foote sang sev ]
songs about the famous island. Siid
showing her homeland were folloy
by songs about British Guinea
Mrs. Terry Pimento;



by
and Carmen
Illidge sang about St. Martin and St.

Kitts following slid
Windward Islands. Slides of Europe
and the United ites were aiso
shown, including some about Te
following which Sherre|l Jacksor
sang a ballad redolent of the Lone
Star State

The slid

s depicting the













showings we in-
terspe rvings of refresh-
ments. Approximately 50 people

attended.

Office |





The Industrial Relations depart-
ment held its annual Christmas party
the afternoon of December 22 in the
American Legion Home. More than
70 employees and guests of the de-
partment were on hand.

Christmas carols, led by a choral
group of women employees of the de-
partment, were sung by the guests,
and sandwiches and soft drinks were
served. Songs, from American _hill-
billy to Latin love songs, were
presented by various entertainers,
and several management represent-
atives spoke briefly to the group.

With George Hemstreet as chair-
man, other committee members in-
cluded Oliver T. Rock, decorations;
Mrs. Mildred Chung, catering; Car-
men Gravenhorst, finance; E. M.
O’Brien, sound system and refresh-
ments; and Hubert Richardson and
Fisher Chichester, entertainment.

Several days previously, the in-
structors in the Training division en-
tertained guests at a Christmas party
at the Winter Garden. Dancing enter-
tainment, and refreshments made the
occasion a festive one.

| Oliver Rock leading the women’s choral group in a number of Christmas

| songs at the Industrial Relations department’s annual Christmas party.


Government and Lago Employees Bow in Christmas Season

Govt. Party
(Cont. from page 1)

prizes were awarded to holders of
lucky, free tickets, but in the excite-
ment their names could not be
obtained.

J. J. Horigan, p dent of Lago,
started the festivities with a short
speech welcoming to the party mem-
bers of the Aruba government with
whom the company has had close
contact during the past year. Noting
that the party was again back at its
old site, the Marine Club, he said
that last year the Golf Club was
tried as a place for the party but had
been found to be "too roomy.” After
thanking the government workers for
their cooperation with Lago during
the past year, Horigan introduced Dr.
L. C. Kwartsz, Lt. Governor of
Aru

Taking note of the traditional
nature of the party that has been an
annual event for a "couple of dozen
years,” Dr. Kwart aid, in part, "It
may be a coincidence that this
gathering always takes place a few
days before Christmas, the day on
which we have to remember there
must reign peace on earth and a
good unde anding between our
fellow ci and ourselves.”

Dr. Kwartsz, however, said he did
not believe it to be a coincidence, but
*that this day is deliberately chosen,
as this traditional party is based on
a sound mutual understanding and on
the conviction that nothing worth-
while ever is achieved without an
open-hearted mutual confidence in
each other.” ;

After the serious portion of his
message had been given, the Gov-
ernor started the entertainment by
telling several humorous stories. Fol-
lowing the Governor’s speech, the
anthems of three nations were sung,
”Wilhelmus Van sauwe,” "God
Save the King,” and "The

ngled Banner.”

Several groups of entertainers
furnished songs and humor with an
international flavor. Syd Tucker

his impre m of an English
icatur Val Linam and

ale teamed up as cowboy

singer and guitar player, with a
rendition of several Western songs;

, TOP LEFT — If this candid shot is ,

any judge, the entertainment pro-
gram was enjoyed by the guests at
Lago’s annual Christmas party for
Government employees. TOP RIGHT
— A well-filled food basket is col-
lected by V. Mierlo, chief of detec-
tives at San Nicolas, after his num-
ber was drawn by J. J. P. Oduber
(Accounting) of the party committee;
the smile at right belongs to Wm.
Porter (Marine), master of ceremo-
nies. LOWER LEFT — Latin songs
by H. Gordon (Storehouse) with
guitar accompaniment by Speziale
(Dispensary) were the hit of the
evening. LOWER RIGHT — These
interested spectators a Lt. Gov.
L. C. Kwartsz, Lago President J. J.
Horigan, Captain J. Dourlein of the
| Netherlands Marines, and Chief De-
partmental Assistant H. Hessling.

ARIBA BANDA ROBEZ — Si nos

por huzga for di e retrato aki nos ta}

mira cu e huespedes na e Christmas
Party Anual di Lago pa empleadonan
di Gobierno a goza di e programa di
fiesta. ARIBA BANDA DRECHI —
V. Mierlo, Hefe di Detectivo na San
Nicolas, ta ricibi un macuto bon yena
di cuminda despues cu su numero a
worde saea door di J. J. P. Oduber
(di Accounting), miembro di Comi-
sion di Fiesta; e sonrisa na banda
drechi ta bini di Wm. Porter (Marine
Dept.), Mae: di Ceremonia. ABAO
BANDA ROF — Canciones Latino
canta door di H. Gordon (di Store-
house) accompanja cu guitarra pa
S. Speciale (di Dispensario) tabata
e “hitt” di e anochi. ABAO BANDA
DRECHI — E observadornan inte-
resd ta Gezaghebber L. C. Kwartsz,
President di Lago J. J. Horigan, Ka-
pitein J. Dourlein di Marina Holandes
y Hoofdecommies H. Hessling.

"De Neus” Oppenhuizen sang a
Dutch version of "The Thing,” and
He Gordon wound up the formal
ente inment with several popular

son in Spanish, including Bula |

Wa :

Refreshments were served through-
out the party, and music was _ pre-
sented by the Lago Colony Band
under the direction of the Rey. Don
R. Evans.

ARUBA ESSO NEWS

_ NEW ARRIVALS

December 12
RICHARDS, Nicolas E.; A son, Hernandez
do.
Christopher; a daughter, Betty
Christabelle.
December 13
KROZENDIJK, Efigenio; A son, Luciano

E.; A daughter,

A son, Richard

December 14
A daughter, Mirtha

cisio; A daughter, Nicasio.
2, Simon; A daughter, Nalinare
December 15
VAN DER BIEZEN, Florentino M A son,
erardo Maximiliano.
LEMIN Luis H.; A son, Pedrito Alfonso.
MOHAMED, Jozef P. A.; A son, Hug

RIDDE TAP, Francisco; A son, Maximo

Everaldo.

December 16
Je

dela Albina.
er Fernando

PHILLIPS, Cecil C.; A son, Winston Eric
Alexander
KELLY, Agustin; A son, Julian Antonio
December 18
VAN DER LINDE, Damaso; Twins
oA

a daughter E

A daughter, Madeline
trix

December 19
DE CUBA, Maximo; A son, Walter Simon

December 20
DIRKSZ, Maximo; A daughter, Filomena
VROOLIJK, Norberto; A daughter

Dominica Magdalena

December 21
BACCHUS, Elan; A son, Bildaran
WOUTERS, Juan; A daughter
GONSALVES, Emmanuel A.; A daughter

ARENDS eng »; A daughter,” Calista
Maria.
December 22
GOUVEIA, Eugene I.; A son, Wayne

Apolinio Demetrio
Franciseo; A so serto
Francisco
December
MADURO, Alejandro; A son, Mirto Arturo.
December 25
GEERMAN, Severiano; A daughter, Esusita
Frederika
December 26
DI Hendrik; A son, Hendrik
SILBERIE, Leonardo F,; A son

December 27

| GIEL, Pedro P.; A son, Eric Rudolf

Retiring from Lago in mid-Dec-
ember after long service were Tru
man Dossey of Acid & Ede
Ed Har Light Oils

ssey was employed at Wooc
River, i s from May 1920 tc
Januar, 93) when he came te
Aruba as a . helper at the Acic
Plant. He later became an operator
and in July 1948 ; made shif!
br_aker for shift foremen and oper
ators. At his retireme 2 shift
foreman (tempc . 2 has tent
ative plans to settle in St. Thomas
of the Virgin Islands, but will scout
around some neighboring places be
fore making up his mind.

Mr. Harris also joined the Com-
pany at Wood River, Illinois, in Sep-
tember 1915. In February 1929 he
came to Aru s a stillman in the
Light Oi Finishing Department,
and on May 1 of the same year was
promoted to shift foreman. Since
January 1949 he had been process

foreman.
Mee lame 2

Gifts and scrolls, farewell picnics
and luncheons, were in order last
month for Truman Dossey (below)
and Ed Harris (right) as they joined
the ranks of annuitants. R. V. Heinze
is making the presentation to Mr.
Dossey, while J. A. pe did the
honors at the LOF office.

January 4, 1952








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5



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January 4, 1952



Irene Ta na Cas Despues di un Serie di

Operacion Satisfactorio

Completamente restora, e mucha muher chikito y spierto Irene Ja- |
cobs ta atrobe na Aruba y por usa completamente su garganta cu ta- |
bata hopi mal corta. El a bolbe dia

na Estados Unidos

23
23

di December, juist na tempo pa

celebra Pascu na cas despues di a haya tratamento surgical special

na Estados Unidos.

Na aeropuerto Irene a worde saluda door di oficialnan di Aruba
Lions Club, cual a cuminza e campanja pa colecta placa pa mande’le
na Estados Unidos pa e operacionnan cu a trece’le Aruba completa-

mente salud. Irene a

recorda e Lions Club




"lor





cu bai ¢

Na su cas cual el a haya geverf
nobo y cu bandera Holandes ta bula
como senjal di e suceso alegre
Irene a haya e promer Kerstboom cu

e] tabatin di su bida den su mes cas.
(Mayoria di Pascunan el a
pasa den hospitalnan) Bao di e Kerst-
boom tabatin hopi regalonan di amigo
y amiganan y su familia.
Na Estados Unidos Irene
bao cuido di e specialista di garganta
Chevalier Jack-

Irene su



tabata





di fama mundial, Dr.

son. Dr. Jackson a distingui su mes
den un otro operacion admirable den
garganta di un mucha muher, y ¢
mucha muher ey tambe tabata biba
bao bandera Holandes. El ta di Am-







sterdam y tabata cla pa bai ca

accidentemente a guli un preke habri.
Ora ningun hende por a saca e preke,
Fls. 11,000 a worde colecta rapida-
mente y e mucha muher a worde
manda na Estados Unidos unda el a
worde opera door di Dr. Jackson.

E dokter a inventa un metodo nun-
ca conoci pa e operacion y a logra di
saca e preke liher den un operacion
cu a hala atencion di henter mundo

Pa su servicio e dokter kier a
preke como pago

médico
accepta solamente e
cual el a tene como un souvenir.

Na Hospital di Temple University
na Philadelphia Dr. Jackson a haci
un serie di operacion delicado cu
Irene. Esakinan a completa un cade-
na largo di tratamento cu a cumir
aki na Aruba door di Dr. A. A.
hlachter di Oranjestad ariba kende
su insistencia, cu el por worde com-
pletamente cura, e cantidad di suce-
sonan a cuminza cu finalmente a pone
Irene bao cuido di Dr. Jackson.

Cinco anja pasa, tempo cu
tabata solamente siete anja, el a
trompeca y a cai mientras el tabata





carga un bleki di Klim habri. E peso |
rand protectivo | parti

di su caida a kita e
cu ta cubri e canto skerpi ariba di e
bleki. Ta e canto skerpi aki manera
nabaha cu a corta e pijpnan den Irene
su garganta door di cual e no por a
guli ni hala rosea bon.

Un buraco special pa su stoma ta-
bata pasa banda di e herida pa bai
den e gulidé y un tubo di metal pa
hala rosea a worde poni den e lucht-
pijp, pero despues di varios siman den
hospital Irene a bai cas ainda sin por
usa su garganta.



Solamente un serie di operacion de- |

bisa oficialnan di Lions Club cu "’semper lo el
2 pa nan tur anochi.’’ Despues, promer
, Irene cu awor tin 13 anja a bai directamente na Misa.

y cu un accento distinto di Philadel-
phia. Awor cu e ta na cas trobe, Irene
ta insisti pa papia casi solamente In-
gles pa e no perde su comprension di
e idioma.

Muera di school y mira vista di e
lugar, Irene tabatin hopi visitante y
a atende varios fiesta. E Club
di Noord Philadelphia a tuma over e
trabao di nan ruman aki na Aruba y
keda constantemente en conec-

lions

nan a
cion cu né. Dia 25 di Mei nan a pone
un fiesta grandi di cumpleanos pa
Irene y ora el] tabata cla pa bin cas

nan a dune’le un fiesta di despedida
cual tabatin 125 hende presente.
Pa yuda tene su curashi halto y pa
mira cu el tabatin tur tabatin
John Jardell y Ruben

loke e

Dr.

Frank di Philadelphia tabata bin
mire constantemente. Su familia aki
na Aruba no a worde lubida. Sra.

George Ferguson, kende tabata biba
na Curacao en lo pasado, tabata haci
dos bishita tur siman cerea Irene y
despues di cada bishita el tabata
scirbi Irene su mama pa bise’le kiko e
tabata haci, com e ta sinti y kiko el
tabata bisa.

Cinco of
bata nece

eis operacion delicado ta-
arlo pa cura Irene su gar-
ganta corta, pero awor solamente un
cicatriz a keda pa munstra e lugar
unda pa tanto tempo tubonan di me-
tal tabata necesario pa por permiti e
mucha muher come y hala rosea. Des-
pues di poco tempo hasta e cicatriz-
nan lo worde kita pa medio di yena e
lugar cu carni for di otro parti di su
curpa.

Pa e Lions Irene su curamento ta








Irene; un bon demonstracion di loke nan ta

pensa cu por worde cumpli ora hende
ta trata pa un yuda otro. E Lions
Club di Aruba promer a tuma un
activo den e caso di Irene na
anja 1948, un ocho luna despues cu e
accidente a socede. Na e tempo ey
Monte Maduro tabata president di e
Club y tempo cu el a worde sigui den
e puesto ey pa Carlos L. Juliao, un
otro comerciante bien conoci na
Aruba, Maduro a worde nombra como
miembro di comité special encarga cu
e campanja Irene Jacobs.

Incita pa e pensamento cu maske
nan ta un grupo chikito nan por con-
tribui na e bienestar di e isla y su
habitantenan, e Lions Club di Aruba

licado por a cure’le, pero su mama|a organiza caba hopi comité pa yuda

sintiendo cu tabata un milagro cu

hubentud, pa yuda promove bida civil,

Irene tabata ainda na bida — no ta-|y fuera di esey nan a yuda hopi hen-

bata gusta pa haci mas operacion cu
né. A lo largo, despues cu e situacion
di e mucha muher a yega na conoce-

mento di Aruba Lions Club, Dr. A.}

A. Slachter a haci varios
cu a mehora su condicion.

Sinembargo, Dr. Schlachter a rea-
liza cu e operacionnan final no por a
worde haci aki y ora nan a haya sabi
esaki, Lions Club a cuminza cu un
campanja pa haya placa pa manda
Irene na Unidos pa_trata-
mento. Como resultado di cartanan y
suplica directo, casi tur hende na
Aruba a contribuf den e Fondo pa
Irene Jacobs.

Gruponan atletico y civil a tene
programanan special pa cual nan a
cobra entrada y a manda e ganancia
pa e Fondo pa Irene. En total mas di
Fls. 9000 a worde colecta y prepara-
cion final pa e operacionnan necesa-
rio a worde haci door di Lions.

Na tur camina, mannan carinjoso
y corazonnan di bon voluntad a ofrece
Irene nan ayudo. Dos linea aerea
— Pan American y KLM — a ofrece
pasashi liber pa Irene bai Estados
Unidos. Y ora tabata parce cu arre
glonan haci di antemano pa contra cu
Irene na New York probablemente lo
bai robez, oficialnan di Lago a tele-
grafiad na Merea avisando pa larga
representante di compania contra cu
né, Como cu tur cos a bai bon, e arre-

operacion







Estados









glonan cu Lions Club a haci a worde der, as the Lt. Governor used to be

completa na tempo y Richard Naar,
un miembro bieuw di Lions Club aki,



a contra cu Trene y a acompanje'’le pa also of all the animals. In this docu-

Philadelphia.

Na Philadelphia Irene no a keda
solamente den cama di hospital y
kamber di operacion. Ora cu e no ta-

batin mester di keda na cama, el a/| Realm”. It say

bai na un school Catolico

mirando e lugarnan principal.

|de. Pesey ta un

milagro chikito cu
Irene Jacobs, dia cu el a bolbe for di
Estados Unidos, a bisa cu nunca e lo
lubida e Lions.

Ce

Be nan



hit





ARUBA ESSO NEWS

| Maxwell Pantophlet Ta
Salba un Marino

"Un Homber a Cai na Awa!” Esaki
tabata e grito cu a resona banda di
1 ’or di mainta dia 28 di
na Finger Pier No. 2. Trahando wor-
da di grave-yard den cercania tabata
Maxwell E. Panthophlet, un homber
cu dos biaha promer caba a traha he-
roicamente pa salba bida di otro.

El a corre bai na un lugar ariba
waf unda luznan tabata ilumina y
mirando na banda for di e dock di

concreet el a mira un homber ta drief
cu cara abao den awa. Sin duda un
momento, Pantophlet a bula na awa
pa salbe’le.

Na e lugar di e accidente, linjanan
di tubo y balkinan ta corre den e mes
largura di Pier No. 2. E tubonan ta
como cuatro 0 cinco pia ariba awa. Ta
na esakinan Pantophlet a bula tene
y pa por a yega na e homber, el mes-
ter a colga mescos cu un payaso cu un





man y pia lora rond di un balki.

For di su posicion peligroso, Pan-
tophlet net por a yega su victima,
maske el a pela su bra’ haciendo
asina. Despues hendenan ariba e dock
a bin yuda y teniendo Pantophlet na
su faha, mientras el tabata tene e vic-
tima foi tino, nan a hiza tur dos y a
pone nan na siguridad.

Despues cu nan a puntre’le cu ta
un ecabuya nan a marra rond su bari-
ca pa halé trece ariba, Pantophlet a
mira na su faha y a bisa cu un son-
"No, esaki ta un bon







suave:

risa
faha.

Pensando ainda solamente pa salba
e victima, Pantophlet a cuminza duna
respiracion artificial te ora algun
momento despues el a worde cambia
door di Promer Stuurman di Esso
Reading, un bapor cu tabata ancla ey
banda.

Despues di varios minuto ansioso
durante cual tabata parce cu no taba-
tin bida den e homber, e victima a
cuminza hala rosea trobe. Pantophlet
ta pensa cu e homber lo no a keda na
bida si el a worde saca for di awa y
si respiracion artificial a cuminza
"cinco seconde mas laat”, el a bisa.

E ambulance di Lago, cu a worde
yama na e lugar door di Lago Police,
a hiba e homber na Dispensario unda
el a worde trata y despues a trans-
porte’le pa san Petro Hospital na

Oranjestad. Na Dispensario, e victi- |

ma a worde identifica como L. Allen,
30 anja di edad, di Country Cork, lr-
landia, marinero competente di e tan-
ker Britanico Busen Rollo.

Allen a haya liber pa baha tera e
anochi ey y tabata regresando pa su
bareo ora e accidente a tuma lugar.
Su barco tabata pa sali e anochi ey
pa un viahe largo na e lugarnan di
|caza bayena di Antartico unda el lo
|hiba azeta pa e bapornan di bayena
|y despues tuma azeta di bayena pa
|hiba mercado. Allen a subi como tri-
| pulante na Inglatera dia 3 di Decem-
ber.

Pa Pantophlet esaki ta di tres bez
cu el a salba hende. Promer biaha ta-
bata na anja 1937 ariba Finger Pier
No. 4, tempo cu el a salba un mari-
nero den casi e mes manera. Poco des-
pues e homber a bira bon di e acci-
dente.



7
*





Above is another historic
loaned to the
tog from his

history.

research in
It seems that the



Comman-

called, had to keep statistics not only
on the 1,700 people living here but



ment Commander Thielen, writing
with a feather pen in 18 has re-
corded his "Survey of Male and
Female Donk Belonging to the





and the total is 358.

one per family).

1 gem
Esso News by J. Har-
Aruba’s



I ys that since the prey-
; | y a haci ious survey no donkeys died, 71 were
hopi paseo rond di e ciudad historico sold, (This
any e El a seems to work out pretty closely to
sinja papia Ingles bastante corriente

Aki riba tin un otro pida di historia
precioso cu J. Hartog a presta na
Esso News for di su estudio ariba
historia di Aruba. Ta parce cu e
Commandeur, manera nan tabata ya-
ma e Gezaghebber e tempo ey, mester
a tene statisticonan no salamente di
e 1700 hende cu tabata biba aki, pe-
ro tambe di e animalnan. Den e do-
cumento aki Commandeur Thielen, cu
tabata scirbi cu un pen di pluma na
anja 1825, a scirbi su "Registro
Burico Perteneciendo na e Reino”.
E registro ta munstra cu desde e re-
gistro anterior ningun burico a mu-
ri, cu 71 a worde bendi y cu e total
ta 358.





December |





BETTER MAKE SURE
THEY'LL FIT!





Irene (Cont. from page 2) |
several w in the hospital Irene
went home, still unable to use her
throat.

Only a series of delicate operations
would cure her, but her mother
— feeling that it was a miracle that
| Irene vy still living — was reluctant
to have further surgery performed.
Eventually, after the girl’s plight had
come to the attention of the Aruba
Lions Club, Dr. A. A. Schlachter
| performed several operations which
| improved the girl’s condition.

However, Dr. Schlachter realized |
that the final operations could not |
be performed here, and when they
became aware of this, the Lions be-
gan a fund-raising campaign to send
Irene to the United States for treat-
ment. As a result of letters and direct
appeals, nearly everyone in Aruba
contributed to the Irene Jacobs fund.

Athletic and civie groups held
| special programs with paid admission
|assigning the proceeds to Irene’s
| fund. In all, over Fls. 9.000 was rais-
}ed and final preparations for the |
necessary operations were made by
the Lions. |

All along the way, friendly hands
and willing hearts offered Irene their
|help. Two airlines — Pan American
and KLM — offered free passage to
the United States for Irene. And
when it looked as though previous }
arrangements to meet Irene in New
York were likely to go awry, Lago
| officials cabled the States to see that
|she would be met by company re-
| presentatives. As it worked out, the
Lions Club arrangements were com-
| pleted in time and Richard Naar, a}





former member of the local Lions, |
met Irene and escorted her to Phila-
delphia.

In Philadelphia, it wasn’t all

hospital beds and surgery rooms for
Irene. Not confined to bed, she went
to a Catholic high school and made
|many sight-seeing trips around the
historic city. She learned to speak |
English with a thorough-going fluen-
cy that includes a distinct Philadel- |
phia accent. Now that she’s back |
home, Irene insists on using English
almost exclusively so she won't lose
her grasp of the language.

Besides school and
Irene had many visitor
parties. The North Philadelphia Lions
Club: took the work of their
and kept in constant |
25, they |



















ove
Aruba brothe
touch with her. Last May











threw a huge birthday party for
Irene, and when she was ready to
come home, they gave her a going-
away party which more than 1

people attended. |
To help keep her spirits high and |
to see that she had everything she |
needed, John Jardell and Dr. Ruben
Frank of Philadelphia kept in con-
stant contact with her. Her family
in ruba wasn’t forgotten. Mrs.
George Ferguson, a former resident
of Cur ), paid two visits each week
to Irene and, following each call,
wrote to Irene’s mother to tell her
how Irene w: what she w doing,
how she felt, what she was saying
Five or six delicate operations were
necessary to repair Ivene’s damaged
throat, but now only a i remains
to mark the place where, for so long,
metal tubes were needed in order
that the girl could eat and breathe.
Shortly, even the sears will be re-
moved by skin grafts, which are to
be performed when the doctors think
the time is right. Meanwhile, Irene
kept the metal breathing tube and
other paraphernalia as a momento
of her long illne
To the Lions,























Irene’s recovery is



| active in

ROW LARGE NOUSH

WILLIT BE? FOR MY FAMILY AN?
AFEW OF THE
NECESSITIES

OF LIFE.

Hearst

Mar Caribe Coge
Un Otro Victima

Feature Ser

Mar Caribe, normalmente suaye, a

purba coge un otro victima siman
pasa, ora e golet di 65-ton, ”Sur-

prize”, a pega ariba rif algun cien
meter p’abao di Esso Club. E golet a
sali fo’i Oranjestad dia 29 di Decem-
ber atardi, pa bai Corsouw y St. Mar-
tin; pa dos or su siguiente madruga,
el a core subi ’riba e rifnan scondi
bao awa cu ta drumi manera un
trampa entre punta di kaai y tera.
Haciendo un tek pa tera, e homber na
“look-out” a tada pa canta bira di
boordo, y e barco a dal cu steef net
el a cuminsa bira.

Nuebe homber tabata aboordo, cu
Capitan Hodge, un veterano di 65
ana, na comando. Nan a disembarca
despues cu dia a habri, y durante e
dia nan a pasa tur cos di e barco
hiba na Rodger’s Beach, y a purba
cera e buraconan den curpa di e bar-
co, mientras preparaciénnan tabata
worde haci pa touw e golet saca.

E carga di 200 drum di gasolin a
worde laga aboordo, pa yuda drief e
bareo si e por coge mucho awa, des-
pues di worde saca atrobe.

Diadomingo dia 30 di December, es-
fuerzonan a worde cuminza pa salba
e golet. Cuminzando atardi y signien-
do te hasta dia a cera, e tow-boot
"Colorado Point” a purba di tira un
cabuya na "Surprize”, sin exito. Sien-
do cu lanchanan no por a yega e golet
naufraga, pasobra e awa ’riba rif no
tabata basta hundo, un boto chiquito
mester a worde usa pa trece e prome
cabuya fini, e hombernan cu tabata

|aboordo di e golet no por a hala e

cabuya mas duro cu tabata necesario
pa haci e touwmento. E towboot a
sali Dialuna atrobe pa purba di salba
e golet pero despues cu nan a hal’e
pafor di e rifnan, el a zink den awa
hundo.

one very good demonstration of what
they think can be accomplished when
people try to help one another. The
Aruba Lions Club first took an
active part in Irene’s case in 1948,

‘| some eight months after the accident
| occurred.

At that time Monte
uro was the club’s_ president
when he was succeeded in that post
by Carlos L. Juliao, another well-
known Aruba merchant, Maduro was
named special committeeman in
charge of the Irene Jacobs campaign.

Since then, both men have been
the work of aiding Ivene
back to full health. When she arrived
at Dakota field early in the morning
on the Sunday before Christmas,

Mad-

and







both men were there to meet her.
At present, the Aruba Lions Club,
which was formed in 1947, is small,

with a membership of 30. But for the
past two y the International
Lions association has awarded _ the
group its Merit of Honor

Prompted by the belief that even
as a small group they can contribute
to the welfare of the island and its
people, the Aruba Lions Club has
already organized many committees
for aiding youths, prompting civic
improvements, and in addition the
Club has helped many _ individuals.

ars

Small wonder, then, that littie Irene
Jacobs, upon her return fromthe
United States, said that she would

never forget the Lions.

\@ }\ © I) © eo




S.N. Scouts Do Well
In Benefit Lottery

lottery sponsored
Scouts in
San Nicolas and the Tarabana group
of the Netherlands Girl outs be-
fore Christmas was a solid success,
with the thousand tickets sold in
less than a month.
While the exact amount made in
the lottery will not be known until
2 stion is settled, the Scouts
red several thousand guilders.
rojects the money will be applied
against include completion of fencing
the grounds surrounding the two

Joseph Halley of the Shipyard Office

needed a car’ and the Scout raffle

provided a Buick at an investment of
only Fls. 10.

clubhouses in San Nicolas, furnishing

Something unique in home-furnish-
ing merchandising came to Aruba
with the opening of a model home
on Kamerlingh Onnes Street, Oranje-
stad. Each room has been completely
furnished, each in a different basic
style, and the house is open for in-
spection. Above is a view of the
comfortable combination living room-
dining room, and at the right is a
partial view of the modernly out-
fitted bed room. Open until January
15, the house was furnished by the
N.V. Mesker Furniture Store.



drinking water, and the addition of
toilet facilities.

The lottery proved to be very
popular and the tickets sold easily
The group may repeat the project
after a year.

Winner of the first prize, a Buick,
was Joseph Halley of the Shipyard
Office, with No. 657. He had been
intending to buy a car, and the
Scouts made it easy at the reason-
able purchase price of Fls. 10. The
electric refrigerator went to George
McCoy of the Cracking Plant, and
the washing machine was won by
Juan Kock.

Dutch Marines Feted
In Party at Golf Club

Nearly 200 officers and men of the
Dutch Marine detachment stationed
at Sabaneta were entertained by the
Lago Community Council at a Christ-
mas party December 21. Held at the
golf club, the party included refresh-
ments, entertainment and presents
for all.

A committee, headed by Bill Koop-

The Victoria sports club girl’s basketball

ARUBA ESSO NEWS



team which participated in

man, M & C, included Chief Gilbert | Christmas Day competition in Curacao is shown here. Back row, from left,

Brooks, Lago Police; Jan Hamelers,
TSD; Paul Grodijn, TSD; Lt. H. Op-

of Oranjestad. In addition, as a sort
of ex officio member of the commit-
tee, was Jaap Hulsbergen.
known for his cullinary skills, Huls-
bergen, who is in charge of the mess
hall and the colony club at the Eagle
Oil Company’s refinery, cooked food
for all the guests.

Although the fine food and the ge-
nerous refreshments comprised the
"main eevnt” of the evening for
many, other entertainment was abun-
dantly provided. Mrs. Ina van de
Winkel, of Oranjestad, well known
under the name Ina Verwoerd to
radio fans in Holland, sang several
songs in Dutch.

A chance to match their strength
against a trained weight-lifter was
given the Marines by T. Frederick of
the Storehouse. In a unique demon-
stration, Frederick invited the Mar-
ines to compete with him in an im-
promtu contest, a challenge they
cheerfully accepted. They lost out,
however, in the face of Frederick’s
training, practice and conditioning.

Accordian music was presented by
W. Tuk, of Oranjestad; and with
M « C’s Karel Eg acting as em-
cee, a quiz program was held.

More than 600 presents were give
to the Marines; 500 of them donated
by Aruba merchants. Lago’s Safety
Department gave the visitors 100
leather wallets, and in addition, each

guest received a Lago calendar.

Well |

|are M. Reyes, F. Hartogh, P.

Winterdaal,

P. Geerman, Sara Geerman

: : e 4 (Captain), and Simon Geerman (Manager). Front row, from left, R. Lewis,
penhuizen, Lago Police; Nick Schin-| yj, Frank, Olga Arindell, and D. Langedijk. Reyes and Langedijk did not
deler, TSD; and Dr. Robert de oeoe | make the trip, and not included in the picture is Celia Winterdaal who
| did go. Also not shown is team coach, Alphonso Paula.

Rotary’s Playground Party
|Draws Many Merrymakers

| The dance and casino staged by
the Aruba Rotary Club December 22
to help comple two playground
projects for Aru children scored
a success both in amount of proceeds
and in pleasure for the guests. Over
|300 thronged the Palm Beach Club
| to combine pleasure and good will,
;with most dividing their time about
equally between the games of chance
inside and the dancing outside.
Refreshments and raffles rounded
out the evening.

An unusual coincidence was the
winning of the door prize, a brass
smoking stand donated by Ch. J.
Neme, by a visiting Rotarian, R.
Pugh, from Spring Valley
York. In the raffle Kan won
the coffee maker given by M. Viana,
and Mrs. Godfried Croes won_ the
electric iron donated by Aruba Trad-
ing Company. A feature of the
evening was the Rotary group’s
mass congratulations to Mr. and

s. R. V. Heinze, who started cele-

ating their 34th wedding anniver-

at midnight.
srett Biddle of the Medical De-

Caribe Girls Invade
Curacao, Take 2 Games

To celebrate their eighth anniver-

ry, the girls basketball team of the
A.S.V. Victoria sports club chartered
a plane for Curacao where they
played two games during the Christ-
mas holida

The first game
Ts p.m., December

m of gi from Surin
Vv £ won handily
score of 11-6. Playing the
game on the Rif at 7:30
Boxing Day, the girls from
won again, this time at a score
12-1.

As a token of its victories, the
Aruba team was awarded a cup by
each of the host teams, and in addi-
tion, they were entertained by the
Athena sports club in Curacao. Taken
on sight-seeing trips to ious places
on the island, the gir were also
guests at several danc

The Victoria girls say they
soon to entertain Athena here.

m, and the
with a
second
p.m. on
Aruba
of

hope

partment was chairman of the com-
mittee that arranged the party.

January 4, 1952

The Story of The Tin Soldier

There were once five
tin soldiers who were brothers, for
they had all been made from the
same old tin spoon. They were very
grand in their new red and blue
uniforms, as they shouldered their
guns and looked straight before
them.

The first thing the soldiers ever
heard were the words, ”Tin Soldiers!”
shouted by a little boy, who clapped |
his hands with delight when the lid

s taken off the box in which they
lived. ‘

It was the little
boy’s birthday, and
the soldiers had
been given to him
for a birthday pre-
sent. The little
boy took the sol-
diers out of the
box, and stood
them on the table
They were exac
alike, except one,
who had only one leg. He was the
last one to be made, and there had
not been enough tin to finish him;
but he stood as firmly on one leg as

and twenty |

| the others did on two.

There were many other playthings
on the table where the soldiers stood;
but the most attractive one w a
pretty little paper castle. The win-
dows were very tiny, but. still

inside of the rooms. In front of the
castle stood little trees around a piece
of looking-glass, which looked like a
lake of clear water. Beautiful little
swans were swimming about the
lake and were reflected on its glassy
surface. ;

This was all very pretty; but the|

prettiest thing of all was a tiny little
lady, who stood at the open door of
the castle. She also was made of pa-
per; but her dress was of the thinnest
muslin, with a narrow blue ribbon
like a scarf over her shoulders
At the middle of the ribbon wa
shining tinsel rose as big as
whole face

The little lady stretced out both her
arms, for she was a dancer, and she
raised one foot so high that the tin
soldier could not see it at all, and
thought that she also had but one leg.

"She would make a fine wife for
me,” said the soldier; only she is so
grand and lives in a castle, while I
have only a box to live in. Besides,
there are five and twenty of us in the
box, and there is no room for her.
Still I must try to become acquainted
with her.”

Then he lay down at full length
behind the snuffbox, where he could
watch the dainty lady, who still stood
on one leg without losing her balance.

When evening came, the tin soldiers
were put into the box — that is, all
of them except the soldier with one
leg, who was left standing on the
table and the people of the house
went to bed. Then the toys began to
play and have jolly times on the
table. The tin soldiers rattled in their
box, for they wanted to get out and
play with the others; but they could
not lift the lid. The nuter: r turned
somersaults, and the pencil jumped
about the table. They made so much
noise that the canary woke up and
began to sing in the middle of the
night. Only the tin soldier and the
dancer remained in their places.
She stretched out both her arms
and stood on tiptoe as firmly
he did on his one leg. He never turned
his eyes from her, even for a single
moment.

The clock struck twelve. Up flew
the lid of the snuffbox, but there was
no snuff in it; for it was not a real
snuffbox, but only the house of a go-
blin named Jack-in-the-Box.

The goblin looked very fierce and
said, ’Tin soldier, keep your eyes to
yourself.”

The tin soldier pretended not to
hear him, and that made the goblin
very angry. He snapped his teeth and
said, Only wait ’til tomorrow! Then
you'll see!”

The next morning the children put
the tin soldier in the window. No one
knows whether it was the goblin or
the wind that did it, but it is certain
that the soldier fell from the third
story window to the street below. It
was a terrible fall. He landed on his
head, and his bayonet wedged in be-
ty 2 some stones and held him there
with his one leg straight up in the
air.

Then it began to rain. The drops
fell faster and faster until there was
a regular shower. When the shower
was over, two boys who were idling
about the street happened to pass by.

”Look,” said one of them, "here is
a tin soldier. He ought to have a boat
to sit in.”

her

as

one
could look through them and see the |

So they made a boat from a news-
paper, and stood the tin soldier in it
and sent him sailing down the gutter.

| Then the two boys ran along beside

him clapping their hands. The waves
were very high and the current was
strong. The paper boat rocked up and
down, and it sometimes turned around

y that the soldier trembled;

yed at his post. He shoul-
dered his musket and looked straight
before him.

All at once, the boat shot into a
long drain, where it was as dark as

it was in the box
where the other
tin soldiers lived.

"Where am I go-
ing now ?” thought
he "This must
surely be the go-
blin’s fault. Oh! if
only the little la-
dy were with me
in the boat, I
should not care

how dark it was.”

A huge water-rat that lived under
the bridge soon came in sight.

"Have you a pass?” asked the rat;
but the tin soldier kept silent and held
his musket tighter than ever.

The stream carried the tin soldier
on more rapidly than ever, and he
could already see daylight where the
rain ended. Then he heard a rushing
sound that was enough to frighten
the bravest man. At the end of the
drain the water fell into a canal;

yas as dangerous for his tiny
going over a waterfall would
a boat.

The little paper boat dashed on, but
the soldier stood as firmly as he
could, to show that he was not afraid.
The boat whirled around three or
four times until it was filled with
water. Then it began to sink. The tin
soldier stood up to his neck in water,
while the boat sank deeper and dee-
|per. Soon the water closed over his
|head. He thought of the pretty little
|dancer whom he should never
again and he S very sad.

Then the ver boat became soft
'and was torn to pieces. The soldier
dropped down deeper into the water,
| but was at once swallowed by a huge
fish.

Oh, how dark it was inside the
fish! It was even darker than it was
in the drain, and there was no room
for him to move; but the tin soldier
kept his courage and lay at full
length with his gun on his shoulder.

The fish swam about, making the
most fearful movements, but at last
it became quite still. Then a flash of
| lightning seemed to dart through him.
Daylight appeared, and a voice called
out, s I am alive, the tin soldier!”
The fish had been caught, taken to
the market and sold to the cook who
took him to the kitchen and cut him
open with a large knife. She picked
up the soldier, held him by the waist
between her thumb and finger, and
carried him into another room where
everybody was surprised to see this
wonderful soldier who traveled about
inside a fish. But he was not at all

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| proud.

They put him on the table. What
curious things happen in the world!
The soldier was in the very same
room in which he had been before. He
saw the same children, the same toys
stood on the table; and there was the
same castle with the pretty little dan-
cer. She was still standing on one
foot and holding up the other. She
was as firm and as faithful as he was
He was almost moved to tears. He
looked at her and she looked at him;
but they said nothing.

Then one of little boys took up the
tin soldier and threw him into the
stove. He gave no reason for doing
this, so it must have been the fault
of the goblin.

The flames gathered around him
and the heat was terribl but he
could not tell whether the heat came
from the fire or from love. His bright
red and blue colors were gone, but
whether that had happened on his
travels or had been caused by sorrow,
no one could say. He looked at the
little lady, and she looked at him. He
felt himself melting away, but still
he stood there with his gun on his
shoulder. ‘

Suddenly the door of the room
opened, and the wind caught up the
dancer and whirled her right into the
stove beside the tin soldier. Instantly,
she was caught up by the flames and
was gone. The tin soldier melted down
to a lump, and the next morning when
the maid took out the ashes, she
found him in the shape of a little tin
heart. Nothing remained of the dan-
cer but the tinsel rc and that was
burned as black as a coal.





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