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operations will be invited to join. Tom Bates was elected 

 an honorary member, as were C. N. Carroll and John Henry 

 of the Lobitos Oil Company, Max Crawford of Inter- 

 national Petroleum, and J. C. Tippet of Lima. All of these 

 gentlemen have done much for us and enough thanks and 

 appreciation can hardly be given them. Max Crawford, 

 manager of International Petroleum at Talara; his former 

 assistant Jack Ashworth, as well as Hayden Hughes, former 

 manager; Philo Maier, the president and other officials 

 provided us with sleeping accommodations and the use of 

 their restaurant and clubs in Talara while we were waiting for 

 the clubhouses at Cabo Blanco to be completed. 



Richard Norris, chief engineer, acted as honorary secretary 

 throughout the building and developing days and weighed in 

 all of the records. Norris had been the I.G.F.A. representative 

 for Peru since 1939 and Enrique Pardo has now been named 

 to that post for southern Peru. Norris now is retired from 

 the Lobitos Company and departed the scene but his friend- 

 ship, advice and hard work will not soon be forgotten. 



The smaller clubhouse with five double rooms, bathroom 

 and showers as well as the tackle room, dining room, living 

 room and porch, was completed January i, 1953, and a small 

 attractive dwelling constructed for the manager. At first it 

 was decided to have only this facility which is actually 

 adequate, but then Enrique Pardo and some of the members 

 thought it would be nice to have the larger clubhouse, which 

 is situated on a rise and commands one of the most magnificent 

 vistas in the Pacific. The clubhouse has the finest tackle room 

 ever built and tackle lockers for the members as well as guests— 

 worktables, line dryers and storage facilities; beautiful outside 



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