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August 4, 1982
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[Japanese worried
over U.S. ‘racism’
United Press International
TOKYO — An increasing
lumber of Japanese are wor-
|ed that American criticism
of Japan is becoming tinged
■th racism, directed — as one
U.S. congressman put it — at
little yellow people.”
I The news media pounce on
lery criticism of Japan from
the United States, whether it’s
fver trade, defense or just the
jeneralized comment: “Who
[on the war anyway?”
1 Atajuly seminar on differ-
Ig Japanese and American
krceptions of the trade prob-
|m, Ryutaro Yamamoto, a
tnior at Nagoya University,
aid a year of st udy at Oberlin
pllege in Ohio left him dis-
:lated M turbed.
axtenmtB “j was treated as a guest
> where»v er y W here and there were no
weteinn pioblems for me,” he said, but
jehad noticed “anti-Japanese
racial feelings.”
I He cited incidents like
|nuch-publicized assaults with
seball bats on Japanese cars,
reference by Rep. John
ingell, D-Mich., to the “little
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yellow people” and a percep
tion that “Japanese-American
congressmen are often consi
dered representatives of
Japan.”
“When I heard stories like
that, I got worried,” Yamamo
to said.
Remarks by top U.S. offi
cials, which aubest seem to re
flect cultural arrogance, at
worst are interpreted in Japan
as racist.
Commerce Undersecretary
Lionel Olmer said in Senate
testimony in March: “We, in
deed, are asking for some fun
damental changes (in) part of
the Japanese way of life.”
His boss, Commerce Sec
retary Malcolm Baldrige, last
December said Japan must
change “its cultural tradi
tions,” a remark that drew a
protest from Japan’s ambassa
dor in Washington.
Japanese businessmen with
extensive dealings in the Un
ited States are worried about
bad feeling stemming from a
poor U.S. economy, high un
employment and Washing
ton’s trade deficit with Tokyo
that hit a record $18 billion
last year and is expected to be
larger this year.
“There are younger people
now in Congress,” said
Takeshi Kondo, manager of
corporate planning for the
Western hemisphere of C.
Itoh and Co., a major
Japanese trading firm.
“People like (former Sen.
Mike) Mansfield and (J. Wil
liam) Fulbright are disappear
ing. The new generation of
American legislators doesn’t
know about the role the Un
ited States played in the past.
“They tend to make emo
tional statements that don’t
reflect the wisdom past sena
tors had.”
Japan itself is a society in
which virtually everyone has
the same background. It repe
atedly emphasizes its unique
ness, the difficulty of penet
rating the thoughts of the
Japanese and the impossibility
of then understanding them.
It keeps outsiders at arm’s
length.
Dallas oilman strikes it rich
in ex-boomtown thought dry
United Press International
CISCO — In the 1920s Cisco
was the heart of a booming oil
field.
The town swelled to more
than 20,000. Young Conrad Hil
ton operated his first hotel here,
a two-story, red-brick building
that still stands. Some of the
rooms were rented three times a
day to oilfield workers toiling
around the clock.
But by the 1950s only a few
low-volume wells remained
among the scrub oak, mesquite
and long-needled cactus. The oil
boom was over and a dry-hole
syndrome prevailed. The popu
lation had dwindled to about
4,000 people trying to eke out a
living from a largely unproduc
tive, hilly rangeland about 50
miles east of Abilene.
“This area was very well
known to oilmen as a depleted
field,” Dallas oilman Don Han-
vey said. “It was overlooked.
“They said it had low press
ure and low volume. Well, they
were wrong. It’s high pressure
and high volume.”
Hanvey, who specializes in
finding oil others have over
looked, has drilled 13 wells in
the Cisco area since January and
struck oil or gas in every one.
“The other oilmen call me the
Cisco Kid,” he said with a grin.
All are relatively shallow free-
flowing wells. Hanvey has one
pump unit on the scene, but
hasn’t had to use it.
Bright orange flame shot 20
feet from the end of a pipe as
one of Hanvey’s crews vented a
well. A mixture of black and
white smoke — black from burn
ing oil and white from burning
gas — belched from the roaring
flame, swirled around the site
and then rose hundreds of feet
in the cloudless sky.
A sign identified the well as
J.B. Boggs Lease Well No. 2.
Hanvey said Boggs is an Abilene
banker who owns the mineral
rights on the property.
“We finished this one two
weeks ago,” engineer Harry
Brooks said. “It was flowing
1,500 barrels a day on a two-inch
opening.”
Hanvey sells the oil to JM Pet
roleum Co. in Dallas for $34.50
a barrel, which would brjtig in
$51,175 a day. In addition, the
gas from this well and others will
be sold to Ensearch, which is
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building a six-mile pipeline to
the area, Hanvey said.
He said drilling and comple
tion costs on the well were about
$190;000.
Within a 200-foot radius of
the well were two dry holes,
heartbreaks of many years ago
that helped condemn the area as
being non-productive. Hanvey
has drilling rights on 4,000 acres
in Cisco and north of the city.
One well is being drilled at the
city airport and two producing
wells were sunk in the town
dump.
“It’s the richest trash dump in
the world,” Hanvey said. “We
had to dig pits in a bunch of
trash, I mean right in the gar
bage.”
On high ground near the air
port a rig was drilling a hole
3,800 feet deep under a 90-foot
derrick over which flags of
Texas and the United States
flapped in the breeze. Every
time the drill went another five
feet, Beth Broyles, 22, of Cisco
scurried out of a portable labor
atory to scoop up a sample of
sand and analyze it.
Brooks, the engineer, was
confident this well also would
strike oil or gas, probably both.
“This field was abandoned in
1953,” he said. “Hell, they left 90
percent of the stuff in the
ground.”
Cisco City Manager Michael
Moore said the city anticipates
an annual income from the wells
of $150,000 to $200,000, de
pending on current prices.
“The City Council plans to
earmark this money for capital
improvements,” Moore said.:
“We have a problem with our
streets and I know the City
Council is planning to use some
of this money to improve our
streets.
“Mr. Hanvey seems to have
done very, very well. I hate to
call it luck, but every time he
puts a hole in the ground, he
seems to hit oil.”
Hanvey, 36, admits there has
been some luck mixed with a lot
of sound research.
“My forte is completing these
wells in the right manner,” Han
vey said. “We do extensive re
search. We study and study and
study. Plus I’m a little lucky. Just
a little bit.
“You drill a well that might be *
your best prospect, and it turns
out to be a dry hole. Then you
drill one that you don’t think is
worth a damn and it will be your
best producer.”
This isn’t the first time Han
vey has struck it rich in a passed-,
over field. In 1979 he hit a string
of successful and shallow wells in
the Dead Horse Creek area near
Abilene.
Acupuncture used
to help smokers
United Press International
HONG KONG — Smokers in
Hong Kong are turning to acu
puncture to kick the habit.
“The treatment causes any
inhalation of smoke to produce
a slight faintness and make the
tobacco less satisfying than be
fore, thus reducing the lust for
tobacco,” Dr. Woo Ping Pok
says.
Woo, secretary of the Hong
Kong Acupunturist Federation
Ltd., took a cue from the anti
smoking ad-blitz in the British
colony to open a clinic offering
the treatment.
However, a spokesman for
the Hong Kong Medical and
Health Department said the
most important factor in the
acupuncture treatment is the
patient’s own determination to
stop smoking.
“If the program is effective
and not harmful, the Medical
and Health Department will not
interfere,” the senior medical
officer said. “But we ourselves
do not adopt the treatment be
cause there is no scientific proof
of the effectiveness of acupunc
ture.”
A 77-year-old patient of
Woo’s who goes by the name of
Uncle Wong said he tried all
kinds of medication to break his
45-year habit.
“Two years ago, my health
grew worse and my doctor told
me to quit smoking,” Uncle;
Wong said. “Acupuncture was
the only treatment that worked
on me.”
Y.C. Chan, 21, said Woo’s
treatment, combined with conn-'
seling offered by the Hong
Kong Health Department,'
helped him view tobacco as a '
dangerous substance.
“Although the nauseous feel
ing in inhaling cigarette smoke'
during the treatment is uncom
fortable, it really did remind me
of the harm tobacco can do me,”
he said.
According to Woo, of the 50
who enrolled in the program, 45
have not returned to smoking.
The acupuncture cure, which
Woo offers free, starts after a,
member of the doctor’s staff ex
plains fully how the process;
works and what is expected of
the patient.
Then two needles are in-,
serted in the patient’s external,
ear where they stay for about six
days. If the patient smokes with
the needles in his ear, he gets a
faint or nauseous feeling that,
can only be relieved by stopping
smoking and gently massaging,
the skin around the needles,.
Woo said.
‘Ghost hunt’ set
for resort mansion
United Press International
HONESDALE, Pa. — If a
ghost haunts the mansion at
Bethany Colony resort, the man
who wants to find it says the spir
it probably is “warm, compas
sionate, perhaps even loving.”
Norm Gauthier-of Manches
ter, N.H., who has studied more
than 100 “haunted” buildings,
planned a six-hour vigil at the
mansion early Tuesday in an
attempt to make a tape record
ing of the spirit.
A half-dozen reporters were
to join Gauthier as he monitored
microphones placed in a bed
room and the nursery on the
second floor of the 57-room
mansion.
Gauthier, the director of the
Society for Psychic Research of
New Hampshire and Mas
sachusetts, detected no malevo
lent presence in a tour of the
mansion north of Honesdale on
Monday.
“I certainly felt no hostility,”
said Gauthier. “The ghost, if
there is one, is probably warm,
compassionate, perhaps even
loving.”
Gauthier believed the spirit
was that of the late Hortense
Strongman Miller, a former
owner who had a “great affec
tion” for the mansion.
Although Gauthier said most
of his ghost hunts end in failure,
it has not shaken his belief in
ghost.
“I’m not out to make con
verts,” he said. “If people don’t
believe in ghosts, that’s OK, be
cause I believe.”
Jack Edwards, caretaker at
the mansion for more than 20
years, said he encountered the
ghost during the winter of 1980,
when a snowstorm forced him to
spend the night.
Edwards said he heard some-;
one walking from the second-
floor bedroom used by Miller to
the nursery. Although he called
out, he said, he received no
reply.
“Then I heard footsteps
going back to the bedroom, and
I heard Mrs. Miller’s door
close,” he said. “There was no
one in the mansion except me.”
Sherry Wheeler, who oper
ates a gift shop on the second,
floor of the mansion, said she'
and her husband purchased the
resort in January “and really
didn’t give any thought to the
ghost.”
She said: “I don’t stay here
very late in the evening. I re
spect this kind of thing.”