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' 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
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the best-tasting
whiskey
in ages!
BLENDED WHISKEY It PI00F. 15 SIAIR NEUTRAL SPIIITS.
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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.
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