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20 THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE, Wednesday, April 4, 1958 YOUNGSTERS ENJOY MAKING MAPLE SUGAR Here's Linda Caffety and Lee Ann Morisey, both students at $t. Theresa's school, Ottawa, en- sugar after having cooled it in a joving a few mouthfuls of maple tank of sap, at a maple syrup | Cresson near Ottawa The expression on their faces indi- cates they think it's all right, too. Middle East Oil Wells Give Region Importance EDITOR'S NOTE: Stories on the current strife in the Middle East often mention oil as a rea- son why Britain must maintain her position in that part of the world. The following article tells why Middle East oil is so im- riant. ya By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON (CP)--Oil is the key tosthe Middle Fast #8 is the motive power of mod epm industry, the go of things is#Britain and Western Europe ME is the hi®h stakes in the po litical - poker. gan tween East and West, the cor lling st if the cold war's latest a point, the element that lends sig nificance to shooting in Cyprus and unrest in Je Two fac a 1. Two-th three quarters of the world's proved oil reserves lie In the Middie East 2. Oil, an nvisible foreign excha the bi st Britair balance of j ACCESS ESSENTIAL earner of makes perhaps Anthony Eden, British prime [| ( vital to above all opponent Aneu for once accord, says aecess to Middl ast oil is an 'absolute ntial" for Western society re t n oil has taken plage in th century. Once the Chaited tood supreme. In the, First World War, the Allies iputhe words of British statesman Lard Curzon "floated to victory on wave of o the U.S. account i for three quarters of world gets four-fifths of 1 the Middle East the late Ernest in of oil in the a started in 1908 hoomir in the 3A dle East pro duetion was estimated at 162,100,- 080 metric tons compared with 35 on 000,000 in 1945 and 16,200,000 in 1938. The 1955 f e represented about one - quarter of total con- sumption in the non - Communist world As the pipelines snake across thousands of miles of desert in Syria and Jordan, the complex in dustrial societies of Europe have become increasingly dependent on oil. Coal is a declining industry, and Britain's era of prosperity built on cheap coal is ending But total energy consumption is rising, and until atomic energy can fill the gap, oil is in growing de mand. 'Indu turning more 1d more ) r its fuel re ements Sa) Deadman, a r al fuel controller. A British industrial executive, H. Cunliffe says that one in four industrial plants must change from coal to oil EFFECTIVE PRESSURE Anyone can see writes a Sun day Times comm most effective pressure to bear upon urope and ourselves is to threaten ther the production or the trans- rt of our oil supplies If our supplies were cut off, the whole of our life would be hamstrung Conservative MP Anthony Ker shaw says Oil is the lifeblood of this country, Without it our fac tories stop, our: people have no work or food Britain is especially vulnerable Her agriculture is the most mech anized in the worl and runs 4d largely on oil. British and Anglo Dutch companies, with large tanker t fleets, produce and distribute third of the oil entering into in ternational trade Precise figures are hard to ob tain, but anybody who attends a conference on sterling area financ mense import ance of oil earnings. A treasur) spokesman says a figure of £140 000,000 would be a rough estimate This dependence on oil, The Fi nancial Times -say is the most serious potential weak ness in the structure of the post ng has seen the that the ar ; term outlook 'perhaps | war prosperity of the Western world These are the facts whic urgency to Middle East deve ments. Since the last Ottoman empire, Britain has had a special influence in the oil-rich reg s that are the meeting place of three continents and the stamp- ing ground of 65,000,000 persons now responding to the appeal of change and nationalism BIG IMPACT Oil royalt have made a big impact, A s hows the difference we Briti ole wait the Per est producer in Today ti red the mue n, « h summons the faithful to h lend lop the prospects? e, but most long ture come New Statesma collapse of Britisl ower dan as portending imminen liquidation of British | interests If cool heads preva it says the indispensable supplies may not be cut off for a few years, but it may not be possible to pay in sterl ing Then, the "built - in disequili brium in our overseas trading will topple over into a permanent d bottomless deficit: by com n, our present crisis, serious It Is vill seem of minor ritain's standard of her welfare societ her as an advanced industrial nation, are therefore imperilled Other critics complain Britain has clung too long to the policy of supporting ancient oligarchies at the expense of a rising middle and that it has tended to y down the danger from the new olidarity among Egypt, Saudi Ara a and S which seem more favorably disposed toward Russia than the West Aage Marsden Becomes Noted Wood Carver By GILLIAN PRITCHARD Canadian Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CPA trail of woodcarving from Indian figures which decorat Capilano su pension bridge at Vancouver to g totem pole 1n Brunswick maark the wanderings of a Danish Camadian « Marsden 3 Marsden Hed all ation r rvings. But last 10 year n Quebec, the na tionally known 'province of wood carvers A man who has always been close to nature, M Marsden now lives ia a wooden house perched on about 40 m north of he La ntian village of ifgs ithe sma ing-room cheerful and expansive ered moun Marsden ) ( n 1920 af ter. completing course at his father's school of art in Denmark He became landscape artist and married Vancouver girl, and they travelled the couniry to gether on projects to beautify gar den Although ood carving was taught at my father's school, I vas never interested in it and it vasn't until abopt 15 years ago that I started carving wood for a says Mr. Marsden fas inspired, he thinks, hy Indian wood carvings he saw in Britich Columbia, but his first carving was of a Dutchman. Next he did the Indian figures hich decorate the Capilano bridge DEVELOPED TECHNIQUE Since then he has evolved a sys em of staini and dyeing the vood which brings out the subtle ties of the grain and at the same time seems to make the figures come* alive He pioneered a 74ths-of-an-inch bas-relief technique of hard-wood carving in Canada and his por trait sell for up to $2,000 and more Much of the wood he uses i imported from Australia and Af rica. A rich-looking portrait of a full-blooded Negro girl done in dark Australian mahog For sitive study of a young girl ing her long blonde hair, he pale lime wood Laid up at the moment with a broken ankle, which he collected 'all are hopke viile sking, Mr. Marsden "explair that he turns to skiing in winter and swimming and fishing in sum mer when he wants 1 xation One little mist », and the whole carving is ruined. You can't scrape off or paint' over your mis takes as you can with oils he aid Now that they have travelled through Canada, the Marsdens feel that British Columbia has most appeal for them and Vancouve the place they intend to settle one da After all, that is about the onl place where we can indulge both our favorite sports--skiing and wimming in the same day Merchants Ponder Store-Closing Hours GALT (CP t ie Chant from Kitchener Hespeler, Guelph Galt Tuesday decided 0 ques erences in wre-closing hou Store proprietors f) to state whether they Wedne aft Monday and w remain open unt READ the story of the first settlements in the Oshawa disrict and of the pioneers who helped to build the foundation of Oshawa. Stories of exciting adventures of Oshawa families in the war of 1812-1814 and the rebellion of 1837. Indians, and some tragic episodes of fur trading days. When the first settlers arrived here from the United States and what brought them here. 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