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SIX MEDffoRD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuwday. July 7. 1957 Algeria's Europeans Divided on How To Bring Rebellion To End Fnilor'i not: The fnllowinr annth'r dipat' h from IP Parli Man BK'r Arthur Hlehe who hat cnnr to Alcrla for dopup reporting on the revolt in the French Colony. BY ARTHUR "HIGBEE United Presi Correspondent Algiers V Algeria's 1,200, 000 Europeans out of a total population of 9 million are as divided as anyone else on how to stop the rebellion in their beautiful, tortured land. But they are unanimous on one thing: They plan to stay come what will. With them it is not a political principle or even an act of faith, j would not think of leaving. Why1 Salan says his worst problem should we?" now is political-neighboring Tun- It is a simple fact of life. Here they were born, and their fathers before them, and here they will stay. It is their coun try. They have nowhere else to go. "Leave Algeria," asks Guy Teisscire, 22, and army private doing his military service right here at home. "My ancestors came from France and Spain but my parents are Algerian and so am I." But you are in such a minority, one points out. "Texans are a minority to Mexicans in parts of their state. Whites are a minority to Negroes In much of the South. But they Aren't Getting Bombed Yes. but Southerners and Tex ans aren't getting bombed and shot at. '"True," says Teisseire, "but the terrorism will pass some day, somehow. Algeria will remain and so will we. Anyway the chances of injury or death from the rebels is about the same as getting run over by a truck. I've been here thorough the worst of it. None of my family of fri ends has even seen an attack." It does seem peaceful in this city Clean-Up Sale Now It tht tim to buy planti at Crater Greenhouse. Everything goi w'rt closing July 4th for the summer. Watch for our re opening next Fall. Crater Greenhouse 1048 Cuter Like Are. Phone SP 2-4401 of sidewalk cafes where clerks take their midday aperitifs in the wickerwork chairs. But the military stands watch fully at every intersection, and there are just as many submach incgun barrels in sight as there are golden loaves of long French bread poking from string-net shopping baks. At the entrance to every bank, movie, department store or rest aurant stands a male employee whose sole job it is to check packages to make sure nobody brings in a time bomb. Soldiers are posted on every bus and streetcar. On the water front highway bronzed men of the Foreign Legion, many of them obviously German, are stopping all cars and checking passes. France has 400.000 troops now in Algeria plus 200,000 police, gendarmes and part-time militia men. General Raoul Salan is top military commander. He was formerly commander-in-chief in Indochina. Ask any commanding general if he needs more men and he will always say yes," replied Sa lan with a smile. "But it's a question for the government to decide." isia. Worse in Tusisia I "If it weren't for the training i and arms the rebels get in Tun isia and Morocco the rebellion in Algeria would dry up," Salan i says. "The problems far worse on the Tunisian frontier than the Moroccan. Borguiba (Tun isian Premier Habib Bourguiaba) is not only supporting the rebell ion, he is pushing it. "Back in the time of Ben Bella the rebel military chief captured last October the rebellion got most of its direction from Cairo. Now the center has shifted to Tunis. All the rebel chiefs are there." MEETING AT AIRPOKT in Nice, France, Michael Wilding (left), British actor, former husband of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Todd, current husband of actress, exchange polite conversation as Miss Taylor, who is expecting stork, acts real interested. (International Soundphoto) CENTRAL POINT Legion Officers Installed By DORIS HUGHES Central Point Installation of Central Point American Legion officers was held June 27 at Meyers Post 129. The state de partment commander and vice commander were installing olil cers. Officers installed were Wal lace Bowen, post commander Pete Burroughs, adjutant; Charles Martin, finance officer. The American Legion auxil iary officers installed were presi dent, A.rs. John Blackford; first vice president, Mrs. Hester Cul bertson; second vice president Mrs. Gertrude Greb: secretary Mrs. Eilene Stone; treasurer, Mrs. Jerry Bianconi; flag-bearer, Mrs. Alberta Geann; chaplain Mrs. Elizabeth Faber. After installation, there were games, refreshments and enter tainment. Members of the Grants Pass American Legion and the Ashland Legion attended. fitv firpmpn hnvp hppn hucv burning off weeds and grass. Al though there have been a large number of calls, the department is filling requests as quickly as possible. 'yV Fred Warner reported to city police that two fullmoon type hub caps were stolen Tuesday night. Also reported stolen was a generator taken from a car. at Fourth and Manzanita sts. Police also reported that gasoline was stolen from a car between Sec ond and Third sts. recently. Applications for street mainte nance man were received at the city council meeting Monday night. Resignation of Adam Rahn is effective July 8. Alan M. Bishop, night patrol man of Central Point, has re signed effective July 1. A re placement was discussed at the Monday night council meeting. Dr. Alvin Roberts has been issued a permit to build a new medical building on the lot ad joining his office. Carl Nelson was issued a permit to build an office building on Pine st. It wll be the new office of the Old Stage Realty company. 1LV Now telephone men handle giant pole like matchsticks. A typical telephone pole is 35 feet long. It weighs 620 lbt. It needs a hole 6 feet deep. It often used to take four men a full day to put up three or four, poles. But now two men, like Ted Homen (led, above) and Lewis Leonardi, ran easily put up 15 poles in a day. How's it ione? With lots of help from the power U or kin 2 together to serve you better tools aboard today's telephone construction trucks. There's a big auger to dig the hole, A winch to set the pole in place. A power drill that bites out bolt holes in seconds. Throughout the business we're continually developing new equipment that saves valu able man-hours for phone people all along the line. This progress is passed on to you in form of more and better telephone service. The men and women of Pacific Telephone m Med ford Year buiin.u offlctj 1J1 N, tertltlt St., Tel. 3-61 01 Miss Judy Gebhard, daughter of Mrs. Franklin Gebhard, has returned home after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krauss and daughter, Willa Ann, of Selma. Karen, also a daughter of the Franklin Gebhards, has returned after visiting her grandmother Mrs. Cleo Linkhart, and her great grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Welsh, both of Grants Pass. Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Roland Smith was hostess for a pink and blue shower honoring Mrs. W. W. McElroy. Twelve guests at tended. . Flowers, refreshments and decorations all carried out a pink theme. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gebhard are on a three months vacation At present, they are at Bellvue, Colo., visiting relatives. They visited Yosemite National Park and went to Texas, before going to Colorado. They plan to con tinue as far east as Minnesota. Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Smith have been Mr. and Mrs. Jim Arnett and two children, and Mrs. Arnett's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schlaht of Covina, Calif. Arnett, who is Mrs. Smith's cousin, is an electrical engineer. They went to Portland and Yaki ma, Wash., to visit other rela tives. Mrs. Charles Hughes was host ess for a double birthday dinner party Friday night, honoring Mrs. Richard Wyatt and Charles Hughes. Guests for the event were Mrs. Richard Wyatt, Mr.. and Mrs. Royal Greenman, Royal Greenman Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Minnick, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Britton, Karon Britton, Darrel Linker, and Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and children. Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Smith and children, Mark and Linda, Mr. and Mrs. M. Madi son, Mr. and Mrs. tdwin ueD hard and Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Gebhard and daughters, Judy and Karen, went on a family pic nic at the Elks picnic ground. Saturday night a reception was held at the Central Point Grange hall honoring Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gebhard. Mr. and Mrs. Gehbard were married in St. Louis, Mo. After their wed ding trip to Florida, Gehbard re turned to the Rogue valley, where hs is an orchardist. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gebhard of Central Point. Mrs. Gebhard, who was a teacher at Normandy High school in St. Louis, finished the school term before coming to Central Point. She arrived here last week. Her parents, Mr. and M.-s. M. Madsen also from St. Louis, came with her and moved to Medford. Punch, coffee and petit fours were served. The tables were decorated with Esther Reed dai sies, candles and roses all in shades of pink. Presiding at the tables were were the Grange master, Mrs. Velda Mang, and the Grange sec retary, Mrs. Otto Niedermeyer. 13th COURT SKIPPED San Diego, Calif. OP) The city has increased its number of Superior Courts to 13 but there is no Superior Court No. 13. City officials decided that some defendants might be su perstitious so they labeled the 13th court No. 14. Housewife Glad To Return To Chores After Brief Career as Television Star BY WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York nil Pauline Mc Carthy, tired and retired, is the happiest housewife in the coun try today. She's slaving over a hot stove again instead of under hot lights. -A slim. 32-year-old blonde whose husband is a bricklayer forman, Mrs. McCarthy was plucked warm .from the bosom of her Cleveland family and turned into a TV star by CBS last week. She made $559.50 by appear ing on the Garry Moore morn ing show on "I've Got A Secret" and on two CBS soaps, "Love of Life" and "Edge of Night." She met Moore, Ed Sullivan, Doug Edwards, Polly Bergen, Jayne Meadovs and a dipperful of other TV performers. She was lodged at a . hotel of some ele gance, lunched three times each day off CBS' cuff and got a rare peek behind the cameras. She'll Be Housewife But it was, said Mrs. Mc Carthy, exhausting. "They can have it," she said with some disenchantment. "I'll take being a housewife anytime." Mrs. McCarthy's brief fling as a TV celebrity was engineered by Garry Moore. Garry dispatch- led two aides to Cleveland early last month to pick a typical housewife. Mrs. McCarthy, mar ried 14 years and the mother of three, waj tapped in a shopping center parking lot. She and her husband were rail-roaded to Manhattan on Thursday, June 20. CBS coughed up enough dough to pay for her husband's lost salary and also hired his mother as a baby sitter. Mrs. McCarthy was officially declared a TV star on Monday. "It wasn't so bad at the begin ning of the week I was on the Garry Moore morning show and we just talked and then there were interviews and costume ap pointments and publicity pic tures," recalled Mrs. McCarthy. Even Missed Lunch "But around W e d n e s d ay, everything seemed to bust loose. I rehearsed for 'Edge of Night' from 'nine in the morning till noon. Then they put me in a cab and sent me to another studio to rehearse for 'Love of Life.' Then I went back in another cab to 'Edge of Night.' rehearsed some more and went on the air. "Thursday morning, they got me up again to rehearse some more for 'Love of Life.' Then at noon, they told me I had to rehearse for Garry Moore Fri day show. I was going to do a skit with him. Then they sent me back to 'Love of Life, again to play the maid. Friday morn ing, Garry Moore again. Then over to 'Love of Life, again. 'It was nice and an experience and all that, but it's not for me. From now on, I think I'll just sit in my living room and let somebody else do the work on TV." arm Samovar VODKA Made from grain. 80 proof. Schenley Dist. Co., N. Y. C. GIRLS DRLS JULY IS JUMBO VALUE MONTH AT WARDS Girls Short and Long Sleeve Spring Dresses Final Clearance of complete stock. Not all sizes in ail price ranges but a good selection of girls sizes 1 to sub teen. Reg. 2.98 99 Reg. 3.88 n. 1.99 Reg. 5.98 . Now 2,99 Girls Sleeveless and Sun Back Summer Dresses Complete stock reduced 25 to 50. Complete range of sizes, 1-3, 3-6X, 7-14, sub teens. Reg. Reg. Reg. 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