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A R THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON 1 m i Algerian flnilep endence Turns Sour in Five Short Months (Editor's notes Peice and independence cam to Al geria this yeer, at great cot In suffering and lives. This diipatch examines Al ' gerie in ill growing up pangs on in threshold oi 1963.) By ALAIN RAYMOND '. United Prait International ' Algiers, Algeria - IUPD - A green and white flag with blood-red crescent and stars floats today where the French tricolor flew for 132 years over the learning white hill side city of Algiers. It is the flag of Algerian Independence - an independ ence that has turned sour in five short months. ' Political confusion, a floundering, half abandoned administrative system, a ruin ed economy that survives sole ly on foreign handouts, mass unemployment, hunger, the panic flight of 800,000 out of 1 million Europeans these are the legacy of five months of freedom coming on the heels of seven years of war with France. Left With Hangover That is why 9 million Al gerians, who went wild in the first exaltation of freedom from French rule last July, now are left with little but the hangover. It is why they face 1963 with misgivings and anxiety. Superficially, Algeria - or at least such big cities as Al giers and Oran - have return- z??- v.r;; v;-vTS CLEAR VACANT LOT This picture snows vacant lot In one of Algiers' slum district, a group of Algerians set to work clearing a (UPI) ed to normal. The violence, the bombings and killings by the terrorists of the Moslem National Liberation Front (FLN) and the European Se cret Army Organization (OAS), now are like a bud dream. Houses wrecked by plastic bombs hnvc been patched up. Traffic in down town Algiers is as dense as ever. But the blue uniformed European traffic policemen have been replaced by khaki clad Algerians. Most of the stores which remained closed all summer when their Euro pean owners fled, have been reopened - many of them run by Algerian managers. But they are short of goods and prices have skyrocketed for almost everything. A shirt that cost 30 new francs ($6) six months ago now sells for 50 ($10). A restaurant meal that cost you 20 new' francs ($4) now will set you back 35 ($7). Many of the old res taurants still are closed. Few Europeans Remain Perhaps the thing that strikes you most in this city that once had a mixed popu lation of 450,000 Europeans and 450,000 Moslems is the few Europeans to be seen. Bab-eloued, the Algiers district where tens of thousands of poor whites once lived, now has changed populations al most completely. Moslem refugees and their families have taken over the little apartments that belonged to Europeans. The same tale Is told In Oran, once the city with the second largest European popu lation. In the other Algerian cities the Europeans have virtually disappeared. The exodus from Algeria of 800,000 out of 1 million Euro peans has brought the infant nation to the verge of eco nomic collapse. It is desper ately short of technicians, civil servants, school teachers, postal employees, gas and electricity workers, and even tax collectors. It is kept going only by. a French handout of roughly $2 million daily, which the French are threat ening to cut off or to cut short. Owned Businesses The Europeans owned some thing like 60 per cent of the country's businesses and econ omy. Today, with the bulk of the Europeans gone, there is no one to provide work for the Algerian workers. More than 1.5 million out of a work ing force of 4 million are job less. Many work ' only half- time. Only about 40 per cent of industrial plants are func tioning at all. In the so-called "bled " or country districts, the situation is even more tragic. Villages razed by the French army or the former rebel guerrillas still are gaunt piles of rubble, abandoned by their inhabi tants. Tens of thousands of Arab peasants, hollow yed and half - starved, live in brown tent camps beside streams, raising a few emaci ated goats and waiting for gifts of flour and beans from the United States, France and the Communist bloc countries. Russian food shipments arrive from time to time with a great propaganda fanfare. But it is American emergency food supplies that largely are keeping Algerians alive at all. Starvation has touched off a new mass emigration to France - this time not of Europeans but of Moslem Al gerians and their families. French authorities estimate that about 6,000 Algerians are emigrating weekly to France to join the 50,000 Algerian workers already there. The Evian peace agreement of last March provided there should be free movement for every one between France and Al geria. The economic chaos Is matched by the young nation's political difficulties. These be gan even before independence, Proposed Museum to Display Number of Van Gogh's Works pi!m.j S&rl!L$J mental hospital after de-1 Beach", to name just a few. daughter Mathilda and I t'll Ur n f hi i A 1 ,MMemMmmmmmrimmI - -..I. . . .i. .-a U4b FOAM RUBBER CLEARANCE SALE 207. off I if now . . . 24 spair and unhappiness closed in. Yet the man who o- !, In a rage, cut off one of his own ears, painted supremely. Cin thf wnlla nf Ilia Van Gogh State museum will hang much of the proof. "Pear Tree," "C o r n f i e 1 d." "The Bridge" and "Boats on the Shot Himself One Sunday morning, in July, 1890, Van Gogh took a walk in Auvers, where he painted some of his most beautiful landscapes. He shot himself with a pistol and died two days later. The Van Gogh family, which Includes William's daughter Mathilda and his sons John and Floreminus, may still keep some of his paintings. It has requested a few on loan, to keep the memory of Vincent alive in their own homes. But for the public at large, the great bulk will go on view, many for the very first time. Highlights West Compiles List of Events Which Made News in Washington UNTIL JAN. 15 POLY FOAM 1 INCH THICK Reg. low Price 30c sq. ft. 2 in. thick, reg. 60c... Now 48c sq. ft. 3 in. thick, reg. 90c N ow 72c sq. ft. 4 in. thick, reg. 1.20 . Now 96c sq. ft. NO EXTRA CUTTING CHARGE ! Sale Subject to Large Stock on Hand! 20 off ON ALL Upholstery Materials AND SUPPLIES BURK'S FOR ALL YOUR CANVAS NEEDS 314 EAST MAIN Phone 772-4472 Green Stamps PAINTING This photo of Vincent Van hung In the Van Gogh State museum in Gogh's "The Potato Eaters," is one of 550 Amsterdam upon if completion. (UPI) of his paintings and drawings which will be 1 Amsterdam, The Ncther-lands-lUPIi-Scvcnty-two years aifo, briefly before his death, Dutch Artist Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother Thou, "You have certnl:. can vases which even in the midst of ruin retain their serenity." The ruin Van Gogh re ferred to was his own turbu lent, tormented life. The can vases were his work, his Kcnius. Van Goh, known in his lime ns "The Cruzy Redhead of Aries," knew no peine or stability. Hut. by act of the Dutch parliament nearly three quarters of a century later, his paintings will find a setting of serenity and per manence to give mute wit ness to his talent. In about five years, the Van Gogh State museum will open lis doors in this cultural anil business center of The Netherlands. It will house 150 paintings and 400 drawings tiy Van lli'Hli and more than 150 works of such other famous artists as C'orol. Datiinier, .Manet, Onticclli, I'issnrro and Toulouse-Lautrec. Purchased Collection The Dutch government bought the lot not long ago from 72-yrar-ulri Vincent Wil liam Van Gogh, the Dutch painter's only nephew at the bargain price of S.VCM.StiS. Nephew William could have got mere, perhaps three times: as much, by selling litem I painting to slay In the coun try whne his uncle was born and grew up. The art treasures, will be property of Tile Van Gogh foundation but will he under the control of the Du:.b gov ernment which paid for them. The only condition to the sale was the museum "self. It was specified lhat the struc ture be a stale museum named alter the painter. Living Memorial It will stand as a living memorial to the red-haired freckled youth who grew up to become the eccentric hut great painter all the world remember today. He was a clergyman's son who flopped as a lay preacher lie (ailed as a lover and worked like a mad man, at our tune spending a car in PI! anti-superstition society. So ciety says belief that 13 is un lucky is mere superstition. Glenn agrees. Says 13 has al ways been his lucky number. July - Women demand part in space program. Mrs. Philip A. Hart, wife of Michigan senator, tells House committee that role as mothers shouldn't keep women from becoming astronauts. Mrs. Hart has eight children. August - Congressional ad journment rush begins. September - Congressional adjournment rush continues- October - Congressional ad journment rush ends. (See January.) November - President Ken nedy attends dedication of new Dulles International Air port. Dulles is first airport built for jet age. Many spec tators miss ceremony because of traffic jam. December - Internal Reve nue Service, with exquisite timing, ushers in Christmas season by holding hearings on new expense account regula tions. Consensus of taxpayer testimony is that IRS shot Santa Clans. By DICK WEST Washington - (UPI) -The period between Christmas and the new year traditionally is time for j i o u r nalistic rcn e c 1 1 o ll. Many news papers use it to review the events of the past 12 months, to choose the 10 biggest news stories of the year and like that. Not wish ing to feel left out, I offer below a resume of my own "Highlight's of 1062:" January - Rep. John W. McCormack (D-Mass.) is elect ed as speaker. He describes House of Representatives as "t h e greatest deliberative body in the world." This is taken to mean that Congress is in for a long session. (Sec October.) February-Moon shot misses by more than 20.000 miles. Rep. Eugene Silcr (RKv.) complains this is like "missing an elephant's south end while swinging al It with a big bass fiddle." Space officials retort that It's more like missing a baboon with a bassoon. March - Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga ), releasing CIA report on the U2 incident, holds world's first do-it-yourself news conference. Not onlv provides the answers but aks all the questions. On certain points, however, he is unable to pin self down. April - Things Rot pretty dull around here. May - Cornerstone is laid for $100 million congressional office building and Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D S C.) gets a haircut. Rumor is thai Rivers had flowing mane trimmed so a lock could be placed in cornerstone. Rumor not con- HONORARY MEMBER-Wang Fu jung, lfi. leading ladv firmed. the Koo Using Theater In New York, puis on the chest of June - Astronaut John II. 1 Bert Lahr an insignia making him an honorary member of Glenn, who rode in 13th j the celebrated Nationalist Chinese troupe. Koo Using corn space capsule launched by I pany opened at the Mornscn Theater in New York Dec. United Stales is honored by 24. tl'Pl) .f' J !' . firvr A. of CHARCOAL DOOM 1 V I Ck IIIUU'IHI t 13 rv (ii tvtiiiu O; KIKtlNOfj Ken MUM) ( till) V ' mi wtKCM r, CAMEO I00M (Q I ?0 R.xni ith Tut and Slower, from $8.00 W'it m Of- m?raticm or when the former rebel exile leaders in Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli split into hostile camps. For three months from July to late September the country teetered on the brink of civil war. Only with diffi culty did Premier Ahmed Ben Bella finally assert him self as the nation's recognized leader but Ben Bella's own position remains precarious. He is torn between extreme leftists and those who favor steering a middle-line course between East and West. Ben Bella shocked Ameri cans by visiting Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro and pro claiming his support for Cas tro's demands immediately after the Algerian leader had been received by President John F. Kennedy in Washing ton. Yet, soon after returning home, Ben Bella on Nov. 29 outlawed the small Algerian Communist party. Legacy of Violence Along with economic and political confusion this young nation has inherited an ugly legacy of violence which haj. not yet been crushed despite repeated calls by the Ben Bella government for an end" to lawlessness. According to French au thorities, some 1,800 Euro.' peans have "disappeared since last spring. Algerian a au thorities dispute the figure. But the French fear most of them have been kidnaped and." murdered. They include not" only suspected former OAS" members but also French bus inessmen and industrialists.'.- LAST 4 DAYS FOR END OF YEAR CLEARANCE i . t; l' '' f. ' s i;. kJ --.-rr V J't h': ''- 7500 XJ LIST $129.50 Special C Sals V Price White Only Less Fittings i .iHll"Hlj" i " ,. ; 3-Pc. Quality Bath Set Top quality tnamal itael tub Close coupled revert trap toilet Choice of 3 different lavatory basins (18"x20") built in, 18" round or wall hung. 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