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Alcohol Deaths in France Drop Despite Drinking Increase Paris-flJPD-France has re-. 50 Frenchmen, compared to a marked decrease in I one for every 286 Germans or ported deaths from alcoholism al though Frenchmen remain the world's heaviest drinkers. .The national committee for itudy and information of al cohol reported that 15,853 Frenchmen died from the ef fects of excessive alcoholic consumption in 1958. . This amounted to 10 deaths per 100,000 persons greater than tuberculosis fatalities but 23 per cent below the alcohol ism death rate of 14 per 100, 000 in 1956. Three Times as Much Despite the drop, and the committee's continuing efforts, Frenchmen still consume more alcohol per head than anyone else. For example they drink three times as much as Amer icans. Frenchmen consume 1,200, 000,000 gallons of wine and other alcoholic drinks a year 23 gallons apiece on the aver age. , Alcoholics cost the govern ment roughly a billion dollars a year in hospital care, wel fare costs and rehabilitation. This is as much as it costs France to fight the Algerian war. There is one bar for every 3,000 Norwegians The decline in deaths from alcoholism was seen due to several factors: Increased health consciousness among Frenchmen: the moral resur gence that has accompanied the adventof Gen. Charles de Gaulle's fifth republic, and the committee's own persist ent anti-alcohol advertising Every Metro (subway) car carries placards advising "no more than one liter (1.2 auarts) of wine a day," and similar slogans. The drive against alcohol ism really got going under the government of milk-drinking Premier Pierre Mendes France in 1954 after post-war alcohol ism had risen alarmingly. The drive lost much of its momentum after the fall of Mendes France's government, partially as a result of the opposition of the country's most Dowerful lobby, the winegrowers. But under de Gaulle, the campaign has picked up speed again. One of de Gaulle's first moves was to raise wine prices. Though his motives were more financial than hy gienic, LEVI'S CASUALS create today's hottest $tyle by a mile! LEVI'S' SPIKES in Wash and Wear POLISHED COTTON LEWS SPIKES are the slimmest trim mest pants you've ever worn with a terrific taper from the hips to a seat 14-inch cuff! Handsome button-down flaps on the back pockets, too! And LEVI'S Spikes come in popular wash and wear polished cotton ia the world's smartest colors! No wonder everybody likes the new LEVI'S Spikes! Oat q couple of poirs-nowl &TM IIM tIYT tS KgatSTHt ! TEC . t. W. DtlMTIS CTT MA9 OMIT T Un STMHS ft CO.. M ATTEKT ST., Ul PIAMOSCO t Nixon SeesTalks As Opportunity To Solve Problems Washington-(tIPD-Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon be lieves the Eisenhower-Khrush chev talks here may provide the President with an oppor tunity to explore the possibil ities of solving some cold war problems. Such solution, Nixon declar ed, "might be developed at a later point" when U.S. Allies were represented. But he cautioned that the exchange of visits was no sign that the Russian line has soft ended or shifted. Other Comments The scheduled visit to . the United States by Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev next month provoked, other new comments. -Rep. Stuyvesant Wainright (R.-N.Y.), who is supporting New York Gov- Nelson A. Rockefeller for the I960 Re publican presidential nomina tion, said Nixon's political fu ture may hinge on the out come of the Khrushchev visit. -Sen. Mike Mansfield (D Mont.) said he was "skeptical" about what could be achieved during the premier's visit and was "worried . . . about this matter of security as far as Khrushchev is concerned." He said the visit put the President and Nixon "on the spot." Not Understood -Sen. Thruston B. Morton (R-Ky.), chairman of the Re publican National Committee, said it would be better if Con gress were not in session dur ing the Khrushchev visit be cause, the Congress is quite a forum, quite a sounding board, and our system is not under stood throughout the world." -Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R- N.Y.) said that if the national interest would be served by inviting Khrushchev to ad dress the Senate and House "that's all right with me . I don't think for one minute that the American people are going to be taken in by Mr. Khrushchev." Doubts Promotion -Former New York Gov, Averell Harriman, wartime U.S. ambassador to Russia, said that Khrushchev consid ers himself such a good sales man he thinks he is going to promote communism in the United States during his visit. "I don't think he will," Har riman added. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Moscow: ' x Dr. V. Kemenov. a member of the Soviet Academy of Arts, blasts the abstract art display ed at the American Exposition now being held in the Jaoviet capital as an "ugly GRIMAGE ( ? ? ? ) in esthetics." He says these abstract paint ing and sculptures are "start line in their ugliness and un believable .tastelessness," and adds that for good reasons Soviet spectators refuse to re gard them as works of art. STILL If the Soviet AUTHOR! TIES come to the conclusion that they don't like abstract art they'll BAN IT. We .TOLERATE it on the theory that each American should be free to follow his own likes and dislikes in such matters. Therein lies the fundament al difference between our sys tem and the Soviet system. IIHLVT about GRIMAGE? ' Webster's Collegiate Dic tionary ignores it. So does Webster's New 20th Century Unabridged Dictionary. But let's not be picayunish. If you or I were trying to ex press ourselves in Russian, we might easily pick off the wrong word. The interpreter might have pulled a boner. " Seeking to make himself understood in a strange lan guage, Mr. Kemenov's eye maj have fallen on the word GRIMACE which our dic tionaries define as a "a distor tion of the countenance: a WRY face." That's the effect that ab stract art has on a LOT of us fN THE home front, the " ways and means commit tee of the U.S. house of rep resentatives finally votes to recommend another cent to be added to the federal gasoline tax as a means of financing the huge federal highway sys tem. The alternate proposal was to issue bonds, thus put ting it on the cuff for future generations to pay. Why is that interesting? Well for the moment, at least, it means that common sense has prevailed in Wash ington. Imagine voting billions of dollars of bonds to build na tional highways that will be worn out or outdated when thhe time comes for our chil dren or our grandchildren to dig into their pockets to pay off the bonds. 3 MOVING QUICKLX to quell a riot of 300 to 400 persons in St. Paul, Minn., police officers seize unidentified woman, pinion her arms behind .her as she resists them. The trouble grew out of a police request of a Negro to iden tify himself. Unruly mobs gathered from nearby bars. ! Boy Takes Own Life i When Swim Refused Little Rock, Calif . - (UPD - A 13-year-old boy, apparently angry because his mother re fused to allow him to go swimming hanged himself Monday, sheriffs deputies re ported. The body of Robert Black well was found dangling from a barn beam with a chain wrapped around his neck. His brother, Donald, 5, made the discovery behind their home in this Los Angeles county community and called their mother, Ruth, 33. She said she earlier had refused to al low Robert to go swimming. ONCE TOO OFTEN Ogdensburg, N.Y. (UPD Charles Mills, a freshman at Ogdensburg Free Academy, won the pole vault event in an intra-squad track meet with a SVfc-foot leap, but he wasn't satisfied with his per formance. So he tried again and broke his left arm. jfWF... .-:-:.S(S?&:-.-: . : . r PICKING peaches during the labor shortage m Modesto, Calif., area, U. S. Navy Air man Bart Bronson, of Grade, Idaho, helps harvest ' fruit crops. Shortage of 5000 laborers is reported at criti cal period of harvest. - MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1959 5 Desi Arnaz Escapes Injury in Accident Oceanside, Calif.-ttlPfl-Actor Desi Arnaz, husband of Come dienne Lucille Ball, escaped injury when his sports car careened off the road, tore out 20 feet of metal guard rail and hit three utility poles, the Highway Patrol reported to day. 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