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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, May 18, 1956 French Troops Press Drive Against Rebels Algiers, Algeria U.R) Hard - driving French forces are sweeping across the rug ged Constantine area in a series of new offensive actions that al ready have taken 60 rebel lives, French authorities have an nounced. The French troops, thousands strong, swung into action all across the easternmost Algerian department against rebels who derailed a train with a mine and set fire to a railroad station sev en miles south of the city of Con stantine. There were no victims of eith er rebel attack but French sol diers were ordered into action in another major crackdown State Blind School Superintendent Quits Salem OJ.R) Walter Dry, for 25 years superintendent of the state school for the blind, will retire at the end ef June, it was announced today. He will be succeeded by Ever ett Wilcox, blind school princi pal, the Board of Control said. Dry was 65 last December. He said he was retiring so he would still have time to do things while he could enjoy them. Portland (U.R) Walter W. R. May of Portland has been re elected president of the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health Association. against the nationalist rebels who hope to drive France out of Algeria. GRAND GIFT stn A INI I A VI" for your UKAUUAIt a genuine made-hy-Kodak camera Hudson's Rogue Camera Shop 613 East Mam Phone 3-5345 PDOCQaXDCOOQ i ( i MAPLE FURNITURE and LAMPS SET FREE James P. Duty, 78, a Harvard Law School graduate sentenced to life imprisonment in 1929 for stealing a car, was set free from Illinois State Peniten tiary at Clinton on a writ of habeas corpus which he wrote himself. In 1934 he was extradited to Virginia to serve sentence for jail break. After 4Vfc years he was pardoned and returned to Illinois. He claimed Illi nois had lost jurisdiction over him and he was wrongly imprisoned. School Board Member Declines Another Term Ashland Harold Thomas, chairman of the board of Ash land school district, has an nounced that he will not seek another term on the board. His term ends June 30. An election to fill one five-year term will be held June 18. Minnesota's tourist business brings in 294 million dollars a year, making it the state's fourth largest industry. Council Against Shorter Work Week Ashland The Ashland city council this week voted against extending the 40-hour work week to include all departments. The 40-hour work week will start June 1 for workers in the recorder's, water and electric offices. Councilman Ken Jones pro posed extending the shorter work week to include other de partments including the police department. He said it was bad "public relations' 'to grant a 40 hour week to some employees and not others. Policemen work a 44-hour week on a monthly salary basis. He noted that policemen do not receive the seven paid holidays other city employees get. Mayor Dick' Neill said the work week cut was not intended for employees other than office workers in the three depart ments. He noted the cost of a 40 hour week in other departments would require "considerable ad ditional money." Grant Given OSC for Wood Insect Control Corvallis A $19,000 grant has been given Oregon State college to study ways to control forest insects. The grant, provided by the Foundation for American Re source management, is a five year study with $3,800 provided each year. Research work on testing var ious insecticides on forest will be done in the forest experiment station under the direction of Dr. Julius Rudinsky, project lea der. A $35,000 forest insect lab oratory at OSC is scheduled to be completed this fall This is the only research of its kind in the nation. The Pacif ic .Northwest forest pest action committee, a regional group of foresters, made possible the foundation's donation. A Nichol's Worth of . .1 Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pre Future Writer Washington (U.R) "Merlin, the Story Teller" has a big fam ilv of friends in the Near and Middle East. He can credit it to folks like "Uncle Rem us." Merlins' job is to help ped dle the gospel of'Ame rica. The pulpit is a table; the Harman Mi hols medium IS a microphone. .John Merlin is a New York television actor, on the payroll of the United States Information Agency's "Voice of America." A native of Bridge port, Conn., he is a graduate of Columbia university, New York university, and Queens college, New York. John has a weekly 15-minute live broadcast in English, aimed largely at the kids. The areas he covers through the ether, mostly, teach our tongue ' the schools, so there's not much of a lan guage barrier. The cast goes to such spots as India, Pakistan, Egypt, Leba non, Jordan, Iran, Israel and parts of Africa. Merlins' fort is American folk lore. He spins yarns about the above-mentioned ' Uncle Remus Rip Van Winkle, the man who snored the longest, and others. Gun ; fights over the Mother Lode in California and the space ship travel yarns he leaves to the fancy dans of Hollywood. He gets a lot of fan mail and, for all he knows, most likely has fan clubs in considerable areas of this world. A lot of the mail is from youngsters. But the old folks like him, too. Take a letter from New Delhi, which said: ' -jo- X0 It's tailor-made for you! With this new Ford Family Plan, you choose the Ford that fits your family's wants and needs. Then get it on a deal tailored to your family's own budget. There's no fixed down payment... no fixed monthly payments. You get an easy payment plan based on your Ford Dealer's . generous trade-in allowance and on your own monthly income. Hear about it now at your Ford Dealer's! Big family? Outdoor famil?? A Ford Station Wagon-America's favorite may be your choice. You have six of these work-or-playtime dandies to choose from. ..and enjoy. ..on the Ford Family Plan! Medium-size family? City-loving family? How about a smart-looking, Thunder-bird-styled sedan? Need a two or a four door? Like a hardtop? Your family can choose from ten different Ford sedan models. Your dealer will help you fit your choice to your family budget! Small family? Fva-Ioving family? Get out hi the sun. ..to your Ford Dealers and see the West's favorite convertibles. See, too, how easily your fainily can have one of these fun-loving Fords on the Ford Family Plan! MAIN & FIR STREETS "We, the old fogies, also en joy your stories. It makes us feel young all over again." From another part of India came a letter from the good Cath olic sisters in a convent. The nuns, it appears, listen in with the same enthusiasm as the kids. They like John's Bible stories, which he tells well. Th Favorites John loves animal stories most of all. "Every animal has a charac ter," he told me. ' Kids and big folks often ask for repeats of "how the elephant got its trunk"; butterflies, and how the python is "quiet and strong." From China, the folks write in asking for more about the "bride with one eye brow." Other areas like the one about "the plowing stone." For the "Voice," John goes on the air only as, "Merlin, the Story Teller." He is not identi fied as an American, but it is pretty obvious to the kids who write in. His kiddie shows have not sneaked behind any curtains as yet, but one day they may. DOG'S LIFE Trumbull, Conn. (U.R) John Kadric resigned as dog warden. He said he particularly objected to telephone calls at 2 a.m. from people complaining about bark ing dogs. Ten IFYE Delegates To Visit Oregon Ten International Farm Youth Exchanges from seven countries will visit Oregon this summer, Glenn Klein, county extension agent, has announced. Five of them will arrive dur ing May and the rest of them in August, he said. Countries rep resented will be India, Japan, Philippine Islands, Ecuador, Scotland, Sweden and The Neth erlands. . The IFYE program is designed to provide young people from other countries experience in living with farm families in the United States. Young people be tween 20 and 30 years old spend about three weeks with farm families in at least two states in the United States. They live as a member of that family so that families interested in having ex change delegates in the home may apply at the county exten sion office in the courthouse. Host families are selected at Oregon State college. Oregon will send four del egates abroad this summer. They are Marilyn Bradshaw, Albany, Thomas Zinn, Klamath Falls, Carolyn Vartz, Estacada, and Wade Armstrong, Newburg. Azle, Tex. (U.R) Mrs. J. F. Kimberly proudly pressed the button of her new doorbell Wed nesday to show a neighbor how it worked. 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