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Inside this week:
Letters to the Editor...............................page 2
lcelanders among Arizona Snowbirds........................3
Afi's Journal.............................................4
Two Who Made the Difference.........................5 and 6
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106. Árgangur Föstudagur 20. mars 1992 Númer 10
1Q6th Year____________Publications Mail Registration No. 1667________Friday, 20 March 1992________________________ Number 10
lcelandic
News
The whale came back:
The residents at Þykkvibær had buried
a dead sperm whalethathad drífted on
to their shores last January. They
thoughtthat was the last of him, but he
oame back.
Duríng the bad weather in Febru-
ary, the surf was particularly powerful
•"esulting in the exposure of the dead
and buried animal. Emil Ragnarsson,
tarmer at Sólbakki ín Þykkvíbær, said
that the whale had shrunk and looked
ahd smetleda lotbetternowthan it had
ln January. Apparently the pastor ín
the area has agreed to help get the
v''hale back ínto the ground With ap-
propríate ceremony,
A new
movie
in the
r» Jóhannsson
making:
Opera singer
Kristján Jóhann-
sson has landed
one of the lead-
ing roles in a new
lcelandic movie.
The film will be
directed by Guðný Halldórsdóttir, who
aíso directed Christianity under the
G/ac/'erwhich was based on her father
Halldór Laxness’ book, Kristinhaldundir
jökli,
The new film will be called
Karlakórinn Hekla, or TheAII Male Choir
Hekla. The director says the movíe will
be about a male choir from Hveragerði
mat travels on a concert tour to Co-
'°gne in Germany with a short stop in
Southern Sweden. Guðný has already
Leceíved 21 million krónur from the
lcelandic Film Fund to do this film,
wnich she estimates will cover 17% of
'1a total cost.
^nemployment
number of unemployed individu-
a|4 in Reykjavík went up by 25%, or 278
'adividuals, in February and March.
ne unemployed are nowtwice as many
d‘Jring the same period of last year.
n March 3, 1,370 people were regis-
5^1^ aS unemPioyed—&ö9 males and
Women— in Reykjavík, Last year
xneir number was Ó82.
Translated frotn
— lceíandic newspapers. H.K.D.J
lcelanders advi _
Newfoundlanders
IAt a news conference held recentlyin Newfoundland, Helgi
Hallvarðsson, captain of one of the Icelandic coastguard
vessels and veteran of the 1976 cod war with the British, said
that he was a fighter but no talker, and suggested questions be
directed to his partner Arthur Bogason.
The two Icelanders were in New-
foundland to advise a fishermen’s group
in St. John’s, at the invitation of John
Efford, head of the United Fisheipersons
of Newfoundland and Labrador, and
other concerned Newfoundlanders who
could no longer remain inactive in face
of the foreign overfishing on the Grand
Banks, just outside the Canadian 200-
mile limit. Both Helgi and Arthur helped
fight cod wars to expel British vessels
from Icelandic waters.
Arthur, a fisherman from the
Vestmannaeyjar and the chairman of
the Association of Icelandic Small Boat
Owners, told Lögberg-Heimskringla
that he and Helgi had been very well
received in Newfoundland. “We have
great affinity with the Newfoundland
cause, having been in this situation
ourselves,” he said. “The conditions in
the two countries vaiy a bit, in that the
Icelandic fleet and fish produce facili-
ties have been modernized to a greater
extent, but nevertheless, both Iceland
and Newfoundland remain dependan.t
on fisheries,” Arthur added.
Arthur Bogason, a very well-spoken
man in both Icelandic and English, also
said it was important that the federal
govemment and the Canadian coast-
guard support this cause. “Although
the Newfoundland fisheries may only
be an insignificant part of the overall
Canadian economy, it is still very im-
portant, especially to the
Newfoundlanders, and remains the
mainstay of their livelihood,” Arthur
said. “The govemment also has to real-
ize that the 1982 United Nations Con-
Helgi Hallvarösson
vention on the Law of the Sea provides
a way for Canada to extend its jurisdic-
tion to 350 miles. The govemment, then,
must act on it. In Iceland the nation
acted as one; unity was complete in the
cod wars we fought. If people do not
unite on this issue, there will be only
limited success,” Arthur said. In con-
clusion he also suggested that Iceland
and Canada unite in their effort to win
350-mile limits off vulnerable areas of
their respective coastlines.
H.K.D.
Keeping the promise
Thora Asgeirson
Dubois was born and
educated in Winnipeg
where she received di-
plomas in piano from
the University ofMani-
toba and the Royal
On March 12 at the Eva Clare Hallat University
of Manitoba’s School of Music, soloist Thora
Asgeirson Dubois gave a piano recital. She
played Studies in Line by Barbara Pentland,
SonataNo. 7inB-flat, Op.83bySergeiProkofiev
and Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 by Robert
Schools of Music. She Schumann.
studied with both Eva
Clare and Snjólaug Sigurdson, who
had, in fact, made Thora promise to
return one day to play at Eva Clare
Hall. Thora’s recital last Thursday was
a tribute to her long-time friend and
teacher, the late Ms. Sigurdson.
Thora also studied in Paris in the
1950s at the Ecole Normale de
Musique. After moving to the United
States in the 1960s, she took her
Bachelor of Music degree at Okla-
homa State University, a Master of
Music degree at the University of
Oklahoma and is now completing
the Doctor of Musical Arts degree,
also at the University of Oklahoma.
Thora has lived and taught piano in
Korea, India and Nigeria, as well as
in the U.S. and Canada. She teaches
piano in the Music Department at
Oklahoma State University and also
maintains a private piano studio in
her home. She is married to Ron
Dubois of the O.S.U. Art Department
and has four grown sons. Thora is the
daughter of the late Jon and Oddny
Asgeirson.
H.K.D.
Bursting
Day on the
third.
On March 3, Icelanders cel-
ebrated Sprengidagur or Burst-
ing Day. That is the day when
most homes serve boiled salted
lamb meat and pea soup and
evetyone ís supposed to eat as
much as possible.