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is in if the in 17, 1966- THE LEADER-POST. REGINA, SASK. PAGE FIFTEEN New methods of oil rec recovery being tested By MEL HINDS jes in the province have Legislative Reporter using the water flood New secondary methods of oil sure maintenance recovery now being tested may secondary recovery, substantially Saskatch- method IS currently ewan's total recoverable reserv- in 32 major oil pools. es and probably lead to new exflooding involves forcing ploration in some areas, say of- into oil bearing formations ficials of the department of injection wells to help mineral resources. oil to other wells at the Oil companies are currently At the end of last experimenting with at least per cent of the province's new methods which could maining reserves was mean recovery of a higher per- able through secondary centage of known reserves.

ery methods. Estimated Since about 1956 oil compan- ing reserves through been. recovery was 434.009.000 bar- The three methods being test- The steam method is broken or pres- reis while secondary recovery ed are insitu combustion (fire into two types. The first, being method of accounted for another tried by Husky Oil uses steam this 000 barrels for a total of flooding), steam flooding or put down a well to set and up a being used 538.000. stimulation and increasing of flood front.

forcing oil to other Water- Average oil recovery factor viscosity of water used in the wells. The second type of steam water in Saskatchewan 20 per cent, water flooding method. operation, known as the huff and by with the rate ranging from about The insitu method, being test- puff method. is being tried by drive the five per cent in the heavy crude ed by Socony Mobil Oil of Can- both Husky and Socony. surface.

areas of Lloydminster to about ada involves setting fire to It involves injecting steam for year, 54 35 per cent through secondary the underground oil after air a period of about 30 days and recovery in the lighter crude has been injected to provide then producing from the well for obtain- areas. oxygen. The heat thins out the a period twice that long. The recov- These figures could be increas. oil and the combustion gases steam lowers the viscosity of remain- ed by the new methods now un- drive the oil toward producing oil and makes it run more freeprimary der test, officials say.

wells at the surface. ly. Mysore project provides research, ch, tr training centre anonymous Regina woman ed $1,000 to the fund. To date, $34,000 has been collected. When the provincial is reached.

it will be given to the national fund which, in turn, will be handed over to the Mysore research project. Site of the project is on the property and in the palace of the former maharajah of Mystate who was appointed governor of the state in 1947 when India gained independence. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations chose Mysore as the spot launch training program in food technology for all Southeast Asia. Canada contributes the major portion of its Freedom from Hunger fund to the project. During an interview.

Mr. Wright said Mysore was chosen as the site because it is in the area where the problem of food spoilage is most prevalent. The government of India also feels that students trained in this area are more likely to stay to help solve the problems. Mather India get they their are training less likely outto return home, he said. The site is located 15 miles outside city limits of fo Mysore.

Buildings include the former maharajah's palace and numerous new research laboratories. It is divided into a research centre and a training school. The research centre has a staff of more than 1,000 including 30 scientists. Apart from that is the training school for 25 to 50 students Canada's donation is designated for the training school. Earl Mark Gordon It is estimated that 25 per cent of all food produced in Southeast Asia for human consumption is destroyed by rats, insects and other pests, birds, disease and spoilage through processing, storage and handling, Mr.

Wright said. Scientists at Mysore are developing processing equipment, insecticides, pesticides, sprays, rat poisons and preservatives. Currently there is emphasis on practical use of the research. "There is a growing ness of the fact that all of these scientific advances are meaningless unless farmers and villagers find them practical to use," Mr. Wright said.

"In the current year, half the budget is directed to research utilization. n. This is the kind of self training program which will have a lasting effect on the Aviation pioneer dies at 76 VANCOUVER (CP) William Templeton of Vancouver, believed to be the first Canadian to build and fly a plane west of Toronto, has died in San Francisco at the age of 76. Mr. Templeton, known in Vancouver as Mr.

Aviation, was reported to have died best pulmonary edema, He was for his successful flight for establishment of Vancouver International Airport. The pioneer aviator is also generally credited with being the first person to fly an aircraft of the conventional type--a biplane with the propeller at the frontfrom Canadian soil. The biplane was built in a Vancouver basement in late 1910 and early 1911 by Mr. Templeton, a now deceased brother and a cousin. None of them had ever seen an aircraft.

They took it to a city park on April 28, 1911, for a test flight. With the 21-year-old Mr. Templeton at the controls, the balsawood and baling wire biplane soared briefly into the air, then coasted gently to a safe landing. The flimsy airplane was scrapped the next year after a number of minor mishaps, crashes, bumps and bruises. The basement builders' next project turned out to be a much more impressive monoplane, to which was later added a set of pontoons another Canadian first.

AWARD TO SASKATOON MAN SASKATOON Earl Mark Gordon of Saskatoon was presented with the General's Medal at the 55th annual spring convocation in Saskatoon Tuesday. The award is for the most distinguished graduate of the year receiving a first degree. Both scholarship and leadership are considered in choosing the winner. The presentation was made by Dr. J.

W. T. Spinks, president of the university. Mr. Gordon also was presented with the Copland Prize as the most distinguished graduate in the college of arts and science.

He received the bachelor of arts degree with great distinction and won an honors scholarship in physics. Awards he received earlier include University of as atchewan undergraduate scholarships in his first and second years and a Northern Electric scholarship in his third year. He belonged to the campus B'nai B'rith and received By IRV KROEKER Staff Reporter J. 0. Wright, assistant secretary of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.

returned to Regina recently after a tour through India with 12 other persons. The tour was organized by the Farmers' Union of Alberta. The group visited the research centre at Mysore, one of 30 such centres in India. Following Mr. Wright's return, the wheat pool donated $1,500 to the Canada Mysore fund through Mrs.

R. H. Milliken, chairman of the provincial fund raising committee. The Saskatchewan committee's objective is to collect 000 by 1967. The donation brought the total over the mark.

Because $30,000 was collected before the end of April, an Romanian says Military blocs opposed BUCHAREST (Reuters) A top Romanian union leader, echoing his political chiefs, told national labor congress here Monday, Romania is opposed to military blocs. Nicolai Ceausescu, Communist party chief, also spoke at the opening of the congress, attended by guest delegates from about 30 countries, including the Soviet Union, China, Albania and North Korea. But Ceauseseu's first speech since his outspoken address nine days ago, which attracted worldwide attention with attacks on the old Soviet-led Comintern and criticism of military pacts, was non-controversial. Constantin Dragon, president of Romania's Central Labor Council, praised Ceausescu's original speech, saying it aroused a strong response in the mass of Romanian people. He also reiterated that Romania stands strongly for abolishing military blocs, meaning the Warsaw pact and the North Atlantic alliance in particular.

Union asks equal pay in Canada LONG BEACH, Calif. (CP. AP) -Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, Monday asked the union's constitutional convention to back the union executive in its attempt to "wipe out the wage differential between the United States and Canada." Workers in the auto, industry in both countries "doing the same job for the same corporation, making the same car, and should be making the same wage." he said in opening the convention. He also asked the convention to back the goal of abolishing the hourly rate system in favor of a guaranteed annual salary. The goal, along with that of wage equality between Canada and the United States, would be sought in the 1967 round of contract negotiations in the two countries.

"We do not intend to sign a basic agreement unless it contains a guaranteed annual ary," he said. "Hourly wages are historically obsolete, economically unsound and morally an award as the most active member. He served as treasurer, president and past president of the organization. He was a World University Service WHERE WAS THE FIRE? MONDAY 11:17 a.m. 1900 block Rose St.

Fuel oil on street. No fire. 12:13 p.m. Hamilton St. and McKinley Ave.

Grass fire. No damage. 12:23 p.m. Albert St. and 1st Ave.

N. Grass fire. No damage. 2:48 p.m. 105 Riddell Cr.

Child locked in bathroom. 5:32 p.m. Broad St. and 2nd Ave, N. Children ignited rubbish.

No damage. 8:53 p.m. 420 King St. Car fire. Damage $75.

10:43 p.m. Forget St. and 4th Ave. False alarm. 11:26 p.m.

1330 St. Children playing with crackers Anisus ignited greenhouse. Damage unknown. Legion members to fly on new 727 jetliner Members of the Royal Canadian Legion depart for London Friday at 6 p.m. on the Boeing 727 jetliner which is owned by Max Ward of Edmonton.

The Boeing 727 aircraft is the first of its kind which has ever been sold to somone in Canada. It is owned by Wardair in Edmonton, a charter flight company which has more passengers than any other company in ada except Canadian Pacific Airlines and Air Canada. When the Boeing 727 touches down in Regina Friday afternoon, it will be the first a plane of its kind has ever landed here. It will be open for public viewing from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The third method being ex- creased substantially, Exploraperimented with is a variation tion for new oil finds in the area of the water flood method.

might also be increased if meSince water tends to bypass the thods were found to make reheavier crude oils, chemicals covery of that type of oil more are added to water to increase effective. its viscosity. The water then is However, the methods must not as prone to bypass the oil be economical enough to make and is better able to set up a extra recovery attempts worthflood front which pushes the oil while. If the costs proved too toward the wells. high, companies would Officials say if the methods not 1 use them until other cheaper probably work well, they would be es- oil sources had been exhausted pecially helpful in the heavy or oil prices increased enough crude area of Lloydminster and to make the more expensive rereserves there would be in- covery methods pay.

standards of life in Southeast Asia. "Canada's participation is greatly appreciated. Students graduating from this type of institution, knowing that someone else has contributed to giving them this opportunity, seem to have a dedication to the solution of the problems of their country," he said. There are five difficulties which the research institution faces in attempting to apply scientific advances. They are illiteracy, size of the job, language, lack of, foreign, capital and tradition, said.

80 per cent of India's rural and Village poplation is illiterate. Pamphlets are being printed at the Grade 4 level so that the son in the a read the material to his parents. "There are 500,000 villages and 64,800 farm units in rural India. "There are 16 major languages and 400 dialects which makes it difficult to disseminate information. "There is a tremendous lack of foreign exchange and capital.

Almost every program in India today is measured in terms of whether it will require the expenditure of foreign exchange. "With regard to tradition, Indian farmers and villagers are not opposed to killing rats insects if they know how and have the materials. "But it is obvious that the vast majority of these people do not realize how much waste. disease and suffering is caused by their lack of concern," Mr. Wright said.

He said the project is expensive to maintain. During the first of operation, it cost 77,000 rupees ($15,082) to keep up the site. Landing at Bombay, the tour visited New Delhi, Agra where the Taj Hahal is located, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mysore, Cochin, Madurai and Bombay again. Accompanying Mr. Wright was E.

K. Turner of Maymont, a director of the wheat pool. On the return trip, they stopped for a day each in Hong Kong and Tokyo. In Hong Kong, they met the commissioners of the Canadian wheat board who were negotiating a wheat sale to China at the time, and in Tokyo they met members of the Japanese trade delegation which visited Canada a year ago. During the delegation's visit in Regina, members had been guests of the wheat pool.

Art won't be bought by Canada OTTAWA (CP) Canada is not in the market for all or part of the $50,000,000 Hirshhorn art collection unless Mr. Hirshhorn cares to make a donation, Prime Minister Pearson Monday. He spoke in the Commons after a series of opposition questions prompted by reports that the mining promoter, Joseph H. Hirshhorn. is negotiating for sale of his valuable collection to the United States government.

Mr. Hirshhorn, 67, is a native of Latvia who made millions in Ontario's uranium boom. Opposition Leader Diefenbaker asked whether there had been any suggestion that the collection be available to Canada's National Gallery. Mr. Pearson said there have been no discussions.

State Secretary Judy LaMarsh, who reports to parliament for the National Gallery, said officials had no idea the collection was up for sale. PLANNED OWN EXHIBITION Former Gallery director, Alan Jarvis, had talked to Mr. Hirshhorn eight years ago. At that time Mr. Hirshhorn said he intended to build a gallery of his own in New York.

Reports of the agreement with the U.S. government indicated the government will put up a gallery in Washington for the collection. Miss LaMarsh said this alone would require several million dollars. The budget of the National Gallery is less than $2.000,000 annually. Miss LaMarsh was also tioned about a weekend statement that she would like to see a $6,000,000 painting in the National Gallery.

Miss LaMarsh explained it was a personal idea--something to purchase as a standard of excellence for Canadians. "My view has never been discussed with my colleagues, most notably not with the prime minister or finance minister." she said. MYSORE visited the research for a training school the Saskatchewan fund stands at VISITOR: J. 0. Wright, assistant institute at Mysore, India, at the institute.

Mr. Wright fund-raising committee which $33,000 following a $1,500 donation secretary of the Saskatchewan earlier this year. A fund is being chats with Mrs. R. H.

Milliken, hopes to collect $60.000 by 1967. by the wheat pool. Washington wrong in Viet assessments By WILLIAM L. RPAN Associated Press News Analyst How accurate have U.S. leaders been in assessing developments and prospects in South Viet Nam? A recapitulation of some of their less-lucky statements suggests that, with deadly regular.

ity events mock both their assessments and timed predictions. Time after Washington expresses surprise at a sudden stormy development in Saigon's politics. Now, once again, Washington is surprised as it looks at a new crisis, this one evoking echoes of the 1963 turmoil which brought down the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Only a week ago, State Secretary Dean Rusk told the Senate foreign relations committee that "some interpretations may have been overdrawn" in the reporting of a statement by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. Ky, discussing pros pective South Viet Nam elections, said it would take at least a year to prepare orderly transition to civilian rule and he expected to Absent 35 years, hubby unwanted NANAIMO, B.C.

(CP) -A Nanaimo woman has turned thumbs down on a husband she hasn't seen for 35 years who popped up recently in Wisbech, England. "I'm not the least bit interested." said Mrs. Florence Plunkett, who lives here with her daughter and son-in-law. "He married me--I didn't marry James Plunkett first heard of his wife and daughter when he saw a missing persons advertisement in a weekly newspaper, His daughter had decided to try and find out if her, father Plunkett was still was alive. very much alive and expressed an interest in travelling to Canada to see his and daughter--but said he doesn't have the cash to cover the trip.

"There's no bad feeling, but I'm. just not interested." Mrs. Officers elected At the annual meeting of the Canadian Figure Skating Association, prairie section, in Winnipeg last week, William Allan of Calgary was elected chair. man. W.

A. Friebel of Saskatoon was elected vice-chairman; Mrs. J. Sandison of Regina, secretary Mrs. chairman Jean of Saskatoon, of the judges committee: Baden Campbell of Swift Current, chairman of the championship committee.

Directors elected were: Gordon Barrett of Calgary and John Vipond of Edmonton for Alberta: William Evans of Eston and Mrs. W. Kaltenbruner of Regina for Saskatchewan: and Arthur Thompson and A R. Blatz of Winnipeg for Manitoba. Mrs.

Kaltenbruner will edit the newsletter, Ice Chips. CHANGE MAILBAG JOBS LONDON (CP)-Convicts in British prisons may be freed from some of their traditional jobs, such as hand-sewing canvas mailbags. Lord Stonham, 62. new prison chief, wants to replace the present 36 trades, which include basket weaving and blacksmithing, to nine trades which will be more useful to released prisoners. -Leader- Post photo Wheat Pool.

raised in Canada chairman of The provincial remain in power that long. Rusk said Ky was "not going to try to stand in the way of the constitutional and electoral process." A few days later Washington received another in a long series of Viet Nam jolts when Ky sent government troops into Da Nang to seize that strategic port city from his political opponents. FEAR CIVIL WAR a of Canada representative on the Men's Arts and Science Association and served on the executive of the Physics Club. He played intramural basketball. Mr.

Gordon is a graduate of Aden Bowman Collegiate in Saskatoon. E. H. Seed rites held Funeral service for Ernest H. Seed.

78, of 2824 12th Ave. was held in Speers Funeral Chapel May 11 with Ramsey Quark of Moose Jaw officiating. Burial was in Regina cemetery. Mr. Seed was born at Kerfoot, and spent his early years at Tregarva, then homesteaded at Kincaid.

He moved to in 1918 and worked for several Regina firms before retiring in 1958. He is survived by his wife, the former Sadie McGregor, at home: two brothers, Erwin of 1256 Robinson St. and Percy of Saskatchewan Beach: six sisters. Mrs. Lottie Donaldson 4440 Rae Mrs.

May Middlemiss of Hearne. Mrs. Essie stock of Inchkeith. Mrs. A.

J. Hartley of Moose Jaw, Mrs. R. E. MeGregor of Midale, and Mrs.

H. C. Goudie of Saskatoon; a daughter. Mrs. R.

S. Taylor, at home, and a granddaughter. Mr. Seed was a past deputy master of the Royal Black Per. ceptory Chapter No.

581 Pite-oBones Regina and past master of No. 2631 Edward L.0.L. SINGS THROUGH CHAINS LONDON (CP)--Pop singer Tom Jones, recovering from an operation on his tonsils, has to be tied up when singing to prevent damage to his voice. Doctors found his violent gyrations on stage were affecting his vocal cords. His wife now ties his arms to his sides while he prac.

tises, hoping to tone down the gymnastics. Plunkett said. "I haven't seen him for 35 years and as far as I'm concerned he's dead and I'm very happy now." Mrs. Plunkett met her husband in 1927 while travelling from the United Kingdom to Canada. They were married the following year in Toronto.

HAD CHILD IN 1929 She said Mr. Plunkett left her shortly after they were wed and she gave to her daughter Patricia birth, "He kept following me everywhere I went and said he wouldn't go away until he mar. ried me. said Mrs. Plunkett.

"Finally, I just gave up and married She said she saw her husband for short periods of time during the next few years but he disappeared for good the early 1930s after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps for a year. Mr. Plunkett returned to Wisbech and remarried. His second wife died three years "I got a job and worked to ago.

support myself and my said Mrs. Plunkett. gave her a good education and she is happily married with five children and is expecting a set of Chou visit VIENNA (Reuters) The planned official visit of Chinese Premier Chou En-lai to Romania has been postponed. East-bloc diplomats said here Tuesday. The date of the visit.

never officially announced but helieved scheduled for later this week. now is fixed for midJune, they said The sources said the new date would allow Chou to stay longer in Romania than originally planned. Chinese leader's visit to Bucharest has taken on added significance, because differences of between apparRomania and the Soviet Union. These are believed to be why the Soviet Communist party leader, Leonid Brezhnev, flew Bucharest last week. Romanian Leader Nicolai Ceausescu has made it clear in public that Romania refuses to accept Soviet domination in the Communist camp and that it believes, outdated military blocs to be an conception.

postponed Ky's action immediately ignited the anger of the politically powerful Buddhists-the same Buddhists who brought down Diem. Fears were expressed of civil war in a nation already tormented by a frustrating War with Viet Cong guerrillas. The current upheaval came while Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge was in Washington for consultations. This pattern is familiar, too. the summer of 1963.

the fateful Buddhist crisis built up during the vacation of Ambassador Frederick Nolting. -In his one year as ambassador. July, 1964. to June, 1965, Gen. Maxwell D.

Taylor left Saigon for Washington four times. During three of those absences there were political upheavals in Saigon. Only once did Taylor return to find in office the same men who were there when he left. Perhaps the least lucky with predictions and assessments has Defence Secretary Robert McNamara. In September, 1963.

McNamara and Taylor visited Viet Nam. They reported to President Kennedy "that the major part of the U.S. military task can be completed by the end of 1965" and that the need for major U.S. involvement would end then. Two months later a military coup brought down the Diem re- gime.

NEW MAN Of the new top man. MajGen. Duong Van Minh. McNamara said Jan. 27, 1964.

that Minh's government "has considerably more popular support than its Three Minh was evicted by a coup and Maj. Nguyen Khanh was A few days later McNamara said he and President Johnson were delighted with Gen. Khan's plans to step up the war. On Feb. 18 he said "the United States will pull out most troops by 1965, even if the anti-Communist drive falters." Keeping all American troops South Viet Nam.

he said. "would be a waste of our What the South Vietnamese effort should cave in? "I don't believe that pouring in hundreds of thousands of the solution." said MeNamara. He said administration had no to do so. plans Today there are 225,000 U.S. troops South Viet Nam.

In July, 1965, McNamara was back in South Viet Nam, now under Premier Ky's rule after a bewildering series of coups. In November, 1965, ending yet another visit, he said his most dramatic impression was that "we have stopped losing the war. Last week. McNamara conceded that political turmoil in South Viet Nam cut U.S. military effectiveness, but predicted "that will terminate shortly.

Then South Viet Nam blew up again. A legion spokesman said 102 passengers are needed for a full flight. At press time day. 96 had been booked. Six more are needed.

Return far re to London's wick Airport and back to Regina is $345. If six more sengers are not found, there will be a slight increase in each individual fare, the legion spokesman said. Mr. Ward purchased the Boeing 727 from Boeing Co. in Seattle early this month.

He paid $7.000.000 for it and calls it the CF-FUN, "We sell fun." he says. His ads read "Fly to London $33.000 and bring 99 friends." Stewardesses are pretty coeds from the University of Alberta. Mr. Ward's airline company has an option on a second Boe. ing 727.

scheduled for delivery from Seattle in April, 1967. He established his airline company at Yellowknife, N.W.T.. in 1946 and the operation to Edmonton in 1961. He still has a seven plane fleet operating out of Yellowknife. Other charter flights for Wardair this season are the Sherwood Co-op, a Shakespeare club, the Edmonton Symphony Society, an investment club and 14 flights of Dutch Canadians.

The legion's charter flight is returning to Regina June 14..