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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1952)
.nil immm " If" " " f- --n j. -IJf ar c - j J M . '.arm ' RWGI MORE FLOODS TO COME Water from the snow-swollen Crooked River stands at four feet m this residential section of PrineviDe, Ore. Rich farmland nearby was inundated. No loss of hf I t??e.Hofe 500 eTacue deUed back into their homes because of a warning of more high water to come. France Flounders in One Of Worst Economic Crises Paris (U.R) France is flound ering in one of the worst of its post-war economic crises. Her living costs have risen xasier man w any uura niuw pean state and her budget has a gap of $1,000,000,000 between income and outlay. The quarrel ling national assembly has no in clination to increase taxes or to tighten the present easy-to-evade tithe collection system. France's imports cost . more and her exports bring, in less every week. At this moment, her adverse foreign trade balance is the worst in Europe. - By the end of January, her debt to the European Payments Union had swollen to $450,000, 000. If it increases, as is likely, France will have to make part of it good by dipping deeply into her dwindling dollar and gold reserves, urgently needed for es sential imports from the United States. During February the govern ment took a few preliminary steps to shore up the dam against utter disaster. It has not yet struck at the base of the prob lem. Imports Reduced The government has cut' the amounts of imports from Euro pean states by half, reduced gov ernment expenditure including that of the military by 10 per cent, struck against speculation by forbidding foreigners to buy foreign securities on the French market, and shortened the amount of money French ex porters are permitted to bank abroad for their own use. Premier Edgar Faure, in of fice one month, was defeated in the assembly's finance commit tee, which rejected his plea for a 10 per cent tax increase to close a 376,600,000,000 franc ($1,076,000,000) gap in the 1952 budget. The Socialists, who control 106 of the 626 assembly seats and thereby have the power to overthrow any government, de mand parliamentary approval of a sliding wage scale hitched to the cost of living an obvious in flationary measure. Facts Of Crisis ' Here are the facts of the French crisis: In 1950 France had a boom. Her exports rose rapidly and, in the last quarter of that year, totalled $53,800,000 more than her imports. But as a result of increases. in the prices of the raw materials she imports, that position re versed sharply in 1951, and by the third quarter of that year, her ' imports cost $48,300,000 more than she received from ex ports. That gap has grown steadily wider. Exery nation was affected by the world jump in raw materials prices after the start of the Kor ean war, but none as much as France. Using 1948 prices as 100, Frange's wholesale price index in June, 1950, stood at 116. By last November, that had risen to 169, outstripping all others in Europe. Living costs followed the wholesale price rises, of course. Still using 1948 as 100, the cost of living in France stood at 113 in June, 1950, but had sky rocketed to 149 by last Novem ber, and is still going up. Franc Hard Hit All this caused the world to lose confidence in the French franc. The legal rate of the franc is 350 to the dollar. That had crept up to 433 to the dollar on the black market by Jan. 1, and on Feb. 21 was at 473, highest since the 1949 devaluation. On the bright side of the pic ture, French industrial produc tion has stayed apace with that of the rest of Europe. Using 1948 as 100; the overall French production index -was 129 last November. Unemployment has been steadily reduced. In August, 1950, for example, French un employment stood at 122,600. In August, 1951, it was only 90,700 Since the Communist strikes in March, 1950, there has been no serious labor trouble. Drunk Driving Charge Brings $125 Fine Francis John Von Fustmann, Camp White, was given a 30-day suspended jail sentence and was fined $125 today by City Police Judge Warren Lesseg on a charge of drunken driving. Fust mann was arrested by Medf ord police last night after an acci dent at 7 p. m. in front of the Dairy Freeze, 900 North River side avenue, police said. He also was fined $25 for driv ing with an expired driver's li cense. The car driven by Fustmann collided with one driven by Clif ford Albert Keeton, 418 Pearl street, the police report said. Both cars were reported to have been considerably damaged. BABY SITTERS HELP OUT . Winter Haven, Fla. (U,R) A baby-sitting project here raised $89 to pay doctor bills for Al onzo Kanketer, Jr., 10-year-old victim of leukemia. The Bambi nettes, junior high school baby sitting group, operated a tent at the state citrus exposition and raised the money through dona tions for their services. Dead Una Sunday Clmrifleda la al noon Saturdays. Jf yoiive tasted today's SCHENLEY . . .you know it's the best-tasting whiskey in ages! BLENDED WHISKEY It PI00F. 15 SIAIR NEUTRAL SPIIITS. SCHENLEY OISTIIBUTOBS, IMC. NEW YMK. NEW Y0BE 9 Mountain dwellers of the great Smokies call spruce "he balsam" and the genuine balsam "she-balsam." Cloyd Kreller Rites at Ashland Wednesday Ashland Funeral services for Cloyd G. Kreller, 80, of Ashland, who died here Monday,, will be held Wednesday at 3 p. m. at Litwiller funeral home with the Rev. Earl Downing officiating. Entombment will be in Rest haven 'mausoleum. The deceased was born at Lo gansport, Ind., on Feb. 5, 1872, and was a member of the Chris tian church here and Townsend club 4 in Mpdford. He came to Medf ord from Casper, Wyo., in 1943 and moved to Ashland five years ago. On May 20, 1902, In Ponca City, Okla., he was married to Stella Roper, who survives. Other survivors include , a daughter, Mrs. Lena Castie, Medf ord; a sister, Mrs. Turzia Selhorn, Urbana, Mo., and two grandsons, George and Jerald, Medf ord. The newest bargain in travel while in Europe is a ten-day in dividual ticket with a choice of nine routes in eight countries, hotel accommodations reserved in advance, three meals a day, tips, land, transportation and sight-seeing bus trips. The cost is $100 paid in advance in the United States. . . Laboratory Creates Miniature Blazes Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Roar ing forest -fires are being cre ated in miniature in University of California laboratories to safe guard California forests from the woodsman's worst enemy. Prospective fire fighters study methods of combating blazes in canyons and on mountain ridges in both heavy windstorms and quiet atmospheric conditions. . Fuel types as well as land and wind conditions vary in the for est fire laboratory operated by the school of forestry of the uni versity's agricultural college. The new fire fighter sees the large timber fires develop and then die under control in the laboratory miniature. He also is given theoretical background. It enables him to gain maximum proficiency from limited experi ence in the field. The snake-killing secretary bird uses its wings as a shield and a club at the same time. Often it will soar into the air, then drop its prey on the hard ground, ending the battle. The Fisher ground squirrel, or digger squirrel, once occurred in large numbers over the plains of the San Joaquin valley. . Taesdar. April L 1S5X MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Telephone Brings School to Child Gulfport, Miss. (U.R) Nine-year-old Nancy Ellen Dubisson doesn't have to go farther than the telephone when she goes to school. The girl, hasn't been able to go out much since she had infantile j paralysis in 1950. By special ar rangement with the telephone j company and local school offic ials, her room at . home is con nected directly with her fourth ; grade classroom at Long Beach i school. I When Nancy Ellen sits at her ; desk and turns on the machine. ' she can hear everything that goes on in her classroom two miles away and can make herself heard as well. The Dubissons take her papers to school to be graded every Thursday. The system is a special devel opment by the telephone ' com pany and at present has six users, including Nancy. Opossums are rather slow moving, stupid animals which seek safety by their retiring noc turnal habits and non-resistance to enemies. It is because of this last trait that the familiar "play ing possum" originated. DHD acad FEC3EDEQ EL ES I? A n WRECKS, TOO! WATCH! OUT! If you xigged when you should have sagged ... ANY MAKE OF CAR See Us! 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