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2 g SUNDAY, Great (Editor! no!: Thii it the third topic in the Great Do ciiioni series thii year. Thii week's study subject U "Al geria - What Futurt?" Tha following dupatch wai pro vided by tha Foraign Poli cy auociation. New York, which ipontort tha Great Decisions program.) For the first time since Al geria became independent last iummer, reports irom ooserv- ers on the scene reflect more optimistic tone. There appears to be some evidence that the downwi drift of the Algerian economy has come to a halt, and that the country's lecdert- are aeriously facing up to what Premier Ahmed Ben Bella has called "unbelievable oroblcms." These problems are, in large part, the legacy of the b tier eight-year war tor in- dependence fought by Algeri an nationalists against the French. However, the internal atruKEle for power that be came acute in the immediate postindependence period-and from which Premier Ben Bella emerged victorious - ag gravated the nation's plight and added substantially to us difficulties. Beaches Bottom By last December, Algeria's economy had virtually reacn- ed bottom. Eighty per cnt of all adult men in the "o try were unemployed. Some million people, roughly half the country's population, were officially classified as needy - a classification that justifies daily aid by the International Bed Cross and other charity organizations. To tide Algeria over this period of desperate need, both France and the U.S. have provided emergency assist ance. The French have been pouring more than $1 million a day into an otherwise empty Algerian treasury; the U.S. has been providing a daily subsistence diet to more than 4 million destitute and hungry Algerians. However necessary, th se programs are admittedly tem porary palliatives. Algerian officials are presently engag ed in computing their coun try's long-range economic needs. To Work Out Plant In March, or as soon there-1 after as possible, they will sit down with French experts to work out plans for Algeria's economic development and for extensive Franc o-Algenan economic cooperation. It is also expected that they will turn to the U.S. for help to supplement French aid. If Algeria is to revive its economy and embark upon the long-range development required to raise its people's living standards and to nice I the needs of a rapidly expand ing population, then foreign aid is certainly indispcnsiblc. But, in the last analysis, Algeria's own effort to solve its "unbelievable problems," may prove decisive. This vital task of self-help imposes grave responsibilities on the country's new leaders. Emerging Trends Since he assumed power, Premier Ben Bella has moved Algeria in an authoritarian -many would say totalitarian direction. Today Algeria -like to many other newly in dependent nations - is a one- party state. That party is, of course, the National Libera tion Front (FLN), which play- rd a major role in the strug gle for Independence. Government policy is first formulated In the party's five- man Political Bureau, of which Mohammed Khidcr is secretary general and Pre mier Ben Bella a member, and then presented to Parlia ment for approval. Observers have noted that, even though all of Algeria's 504 deputies were hand-picked by the Political Bureau of the FLN for political reliabil ity, Parliament has not-thus far-been reduced to a "yessing'' a.iscmbly, and that it has frequently offered vigo rous criticism of government policies. Outlaw Red Parly Last November, the Ben Bella government outlawed the still functioning Algerian Communist parly. In January il look control of the last im portant autonomous organiza tion in the country, the Algeri an trade union movement. Since independence, the Ben Bella regime has gone through two distinct phases in economic affairs-. Early last summer, In the euphoria of their newly acquired Inde pendence, Algerian leaders proclaimed themselves social ist and talked iweepingly of nationalizing all industry. Encouraging such talk were the foreign Communist trade delegations which arrived In Algiers to negotiate barter agreements. Act With Realism But as summer gave way to fall, and the enormity of Algeria's economic problems became manifest, the govern ment began to talk and act FEBRUARY 17. 1963 MEDrORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OHECON Decisions Discussion Subject: Algeria -What i im. .BSHM FRAMED BY LISTENERS Premier Amcd Ben Bella is framed by listeners above and below as he makes a speech in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, in the Grande Kabylie with greater realism. 1- though sl'll avowing itself so cialist, it largely shelved plans tor sweeping reforms. it encouraged the French still led in Algeria - 150.111)1) out of an estimated million a year ago - to slay, and made efforts to attract back some who had left - teachers, tech nicians, business men. Premier Ben Bella has con siderably modified his earlier statements about nationaliz ing industry. Aware that he must bring in private capital to help develop his- country, he has promised to confine nationalization to "essential" industries and to leave a sig nificant sector of the economy open for private investment. In agriculture Ben Bella has rejected Soviet-style collec tives for a much more mod erate form of cooperative. Algeria's Foreign Policy Algeria's increasingly prag matic approach to its econom ic problems has been paral leled by a similar trend in Parks, Recreation Program Behind, County Court Is Told Jackson county is way be hind other areas in tourist promotion and development of attractions, Jackson County Parks and Recreation Com missioner J. F. F.bcrharl told the county court Friday after noon. R e p r e s cnlalives of the parks and recreation commis sion met with the county court for a preliminary budget dis cussion. County Commissioner Don Fabcr said the money which the county court gave lo the Medford Chamber of Com mercc recently should have been marked for tourist pro motion. The county s printing press can turn out illustrated bro chures costing no more than the paper they are printed on. It was suggested. First, how ever, there must he sufficient parks and recreation areas lo serve tourists ftruughl in through publicity, il was pointed out. Publicised at Show Eberhart said Klamath Riv er association which Includes Happy Camp, Calif., was well publicized at the recent San Francisco boat show. Private recreation enterprise should be encouraged, he id. County Judge Earl M. Mil ler said a 1!58 study of Howard Prairie by a federal agency said il the f i!hiiK were good, JO. 000 visllaiMtis would be made a year. County Park and Recreation Director Neil Ledward said Howard Pramc had 213.001) V1MI.1I10115 last year based on camping ground registration, traffic counter on entrance roads and a par tial estimate. .... i r area. With the Premier are Col. Houari Boumcdiennc, second from right, and Ali Boumentljel, both members of his govern ment. (UPI) foreign -policy. Officially, Al gerian leaders describe their country's fureign policy as neutral and nunaligned, but to many Western observers it seemed as if ill the first months- of Independence Al gerian "neut-alily" favored the Communist world. During this period, the French were incensed over what they considered daily affronts from the Ben Bella government. Americans were disturbed when Ben Bella vis ited Cuba shortly after com ing to Washington and sign ed a communique with Fidel Castro demanding thai the U.S. give up its naval base at Guiintanamo Bay. Later, according to some close associates, Ben Bella in dicated he felt he had been "used" by the Communists to make a declaration against the U.S. base at Guantanaino, even as Moscow was secretly constructing missile bases in Cuba. This great influx has over- croweded and caused some damnge to undeveloped areas around the lake, he said. Road and parking area development is the great need for the new fiscal year program, it was pointed out. Portland Man Is flamed to Post Glenn A. Goss, Portland, has been appointed assistant line superintendent in Pacific Power and Light company's Mcdtnrd district, Frank Ben esh, Medford district man ager, has announced. Goss succeeds Dale Jeffer son, who was recently pro moled lo district line super intendent in the Klamath Falls district. The new superintendent has been assistant transportation supervisor for PP&L since January, lllb'2, and has been an employee of the company since 1950. Before his appointment as assistant transportation super visor, Goss served as line foreman in the Albany dis trict and as an inspector on company transmission line construction projects. Goss has been president of the Albany Central Labor Council, chairman of Local I I'ml of (."! of the Interna- tinnal Brotherhood of Klcc trical Workers and the union's delegate for the Albany I'nit ed Fund program. He is an Oregon Stale uni versity alumnus. Relations between Algeria and both France and the U.S. have improved noticeably in recent munths. There can be no doubt that this improve ment rctlccls an increasing sense of realism on the part of Algeria's leaders. They have apparently come lo realize that the future of their naiiuii is linked to close and friendly cooperation with France. They have made it clear, too, that they appreci ate the aid the U.S. gave Al geria both before and after ndependence, and they un doubtedly hope the U.S. will provide long-range economic aid to supplement that given by France. Whether Ihe U.S. will assist Algeria in the reconstruction and development of its econ omy is an issue upon which Congress will have the last word. What that word is, how ever, will unquestionably de pend on t he statesmanship the leaders of Algeria display in the months ahead. Commission representatives urged the county court lo pur chase a gravel pile in the Howard Prairie area for roads and parking areas. Mrs. Han ley lleffcrnnn, commission member from Medford, urged establishing gravel stockpiles at recreation areas for future use. This migh; be done by the county roads department through a separate bookkeep ing procedure, she suggested. Fabcr asked why the cur rent budget was not altered "to take eare of these things'"' Judge Miller replied that the use of recreation areas was much greater than the court expected. Ledward said he hoped lo install more public tables and renovate the cooking cabin al the organization camping area used by such groups as 411 club members. Discuss Picnic Art The group briefly discussed main area development at F.m igrant and a waside picnic area, continued development at Savage creek, county par ticipation at Willow and Hyatt lakes and development of the Applegatc store picnic site. Nothing can be done at Hyatt until the federal agen cies Involved decide winch one has jurisdiction, Ledward said. Ihe county wide study of recreation needs and master plan was tied in with need for a park planner or assistant parks itirecror which County Commissioner Fabcr said he opposed hiring. Ledward said later tcehiirval aid as request rd by some communities will be hampered unless he cm obtain in assistant. By ALAIN RAYMOND United Press International Algiers, Algeria -il'PD- In dependent Algeria is making the painful transition trom revolution to hard reality in 1963. It, is tough going. It means belt tightening austerity, a grinding tax burden and little prospect of happier times in the immedi ate future. It means putting on ice for the time being the dreams of a socialist paradise in North Africa, with which vision the Algerian revolutionary lead ers look over their war-ravaged country last July. It means relying to a great extent on relief and handouts, particularly from the United States and France, even to keep nine million Algerians from the brink of starvation. It means a struggle for the young nation simply to keep its head above water. Little is left today of the mood of revolutionary exalta tion of last July. Most Europeans Leave The inexperienced leaders who took over the country after years of exile or of languishing in French jails found it ravaged by IVi years of war with France and the bloody terror campaign of the European Secret Army Organ ization (OAS). More than 80 per cent of the former European popula tion of 1.100,000 fled just be fore or soon after independ ence. Few have returned. Fratricidal strife tore the fledgling nation for three months last summer before Ahmed Ben Bella succeeded in asserting himself as its leader. Local Woman Has Judging Distinction By MARY ALICE BRUSHA Mail Tribune Correspondent Mrs. Caryl E. Gibbs of Med ford, secretary - treasurer of the Southern Oregon Kennel club, holds the distinction of being the only woman ever invited to judge an obedience trial at the Golden Gate Dog show in San Francisco. Mrs. Gibbs served as a judge at the show, the largest and best known dog show on the west coast, last fall. On that occasion she presented the lop trophy to a three-year-old dog named Rover Run, owned and trained by Doug las Bundock. This dog is the same one which was seen in the Walt Disney television program "Little Dog Lost" recently. Currently, Mrs. Gibbs is looking ahead to April when she will serve as a judge at the San Gabriel Valley Ken nel club show al Monrovia, Calif. She recently returned from Portland, where she served as a judge of the Ore gon Dog Fanciers show Jan. 26. Draws Up Program. Mrs. Gibbs two years ago drew up the program of ex ercise work for the 4-H dog obedience training in Oregon. This program was approved by the state extension office and is used stale wide. In 1962, she served as judge for the third consecutive time for the 4-H obedience trials at the state fair in Salem. "Somewhere along the line -and that line goes back to the book of Moses, over 2,700 years ago-we have failed the dogs,' Mrs. Gibbs feels. "The scriptures of Nineveh and tile hieroglyphics of Egypt attest to the early domestication of the dog. and the existence of races similar to some of those which exist al the present day." Quoting Curvier, Mrs. Gibbs said. "He made the strong as sertion that the dog is the County Opens Bids For Tire Supply Oregon Tire and Supply company. Medford, and Med ford Tire Service were ap parent low bidders Friday on a year's supply of countv tires. Oregon Tire and Supply was apparent low bidder on pasrnger car and truck tires and tubes at $12,649 57. Mrd ford Tire Service was appar ent low bidder on heavy equipment Hits and tubes at S.i.094 less 2 per cent count. All bids will be studied bv County Purchasing Coordina tor William Cochran and County Engineer Robert Car stensen and recommendations made to the county court. Other bidders were White City Tire company. $15,560.72 for pass-enger car and truck tires and tubes, and $3,959 on heavy duty tires and tubes: Sam Jeunmcs Tire company. $13,848 for passenger car and truck tires and lulus and $5,859 for heavy equipment tires and tubes; Oregon Tire and Supply company. $5,729 54 for heavy equipment tires; and Medford Tue company. $12.698 53, less 2 per cent for passenger car and truck tires ( and tubes. Today, with the first year of independence past the half way mark, Algerians still are learning the full price they are having to pay for freedom. Fewer than 1 in 10 of the population have full time jobs. The economy still is stag nant and hundreds of European-owned businesses are closed or barcley operating. More than 500,000 Algeri ans are living in refugee camps, kept alive only by for eign relief. Algiers itself, the brilliant white capital city rising in tiers of steep streets above a blue bay, no longer is the same as last July. Still Removing Slogans The green and - while flag with the blood-red crescent and star has disappeared from the windows. The streamers proclaiming nationalist slo gans have been removed from the streets. Algerians still are remov ing the huge OAS slogans smeared in tar on walls of buildings. Soon the last of them also will have disap peared. The French tricolor, of course, no longer is to be seen. But one of the few visible signs of independence is the national flags on gov ernment offices scattered in different points of this huge rambling city. Ben Bella, today the un disputed master of the new Algeria, lives in a modest, though modern, apartment on the third floor of the Villa Joly, headquarters of the Na tional Liberation Front (FLN), sole party in this one-party nation. Most of his time today Ben Bella spends poring over files .fc 'fiKlv-t ' & ' pvf U0U if$ jp il jl k W FIRST WOMAN JUDGE Mrs. Caryl E. Gibbs of Medford is shown as she presents the top trophy of the Golden Gate Dog show to Douglas Bundock. owner and Irainer of Rover Run, at the show in San Francisco last fall. Mrs. Gibbs was the first woman ever lo serve as a judge of the obedience trials at the show. most complete, t ho most singular, and the most useful conquest ever made by man." Mrs. Gibbs is an avid pro moter of the pure bred dog. She esplains that "the prin ciple reason for a pure bred dog is lo have an animal on whose characteristics you can depend. Every breed is de veloped for some specific pur pose, and when you want a dog for a pet or work ability, you should decide what you want the dog tor and what you want the dog to do, what kind of lite you live and how you want the animal to (il in your family. Choose a dog with Ihe same temperament as your ow n and one that w ill fit your own individual needs and the accomodations you arc able to afford." Actual Observation In the field of training and obedience, she said, "dogs should be used as first intend ed. Willi their own character istics developed, they can be taught by actual observation. and lliey dev elop goon iiiini 1 ihts by association with other j dogs, providing the other docs I have been taught good man ! ners and vice versa. Foi in j stance the English bull dog, in the beginning was bred for bull fighting, and this par WHO? Sec Thursday's Mail Tribune in his office in the vast white concrete building which for merly was headquarters of the French governor-general. He works there late into the evening, digging deeper and deeper into the young na tion's seemingly overwhelm ing problems. Then, with a brown Arab bournous over his European suit, he drives back to his bachelor apart ment to continue his paper work. Ben Bella has had to learn the realities of government the hard way. He found the country's cof fers empty, not even the funds to pay the few remain ing civil servants. Turned to Socialism In the first weeks after in dependence Ben Bella talked of turning Algeria swiftly into a socialist state. He threatened to nationalize all French-owned factories and farms. After a quick visit to Presi dent John F, Kennedy, he angered the United States by rushing off to Havana where he was photographed warmly embracing Premier Fidel Cas tro. Although he probably never was a Communist, he inclined toward close friendship with the Communist bloc. But the hard facts of inde pendence have sobered Ben Bella's leftist enthusiasms. He found Communist bloc aid accompanied by fanfares of propaganda but skimpy in quantity and poor in quality. He found he was unable to do without the West. In January he sent his Fi nance Minister Ahmed Fran cis to Paris. The French were friendly and ready to help. ticular hail has remained with Ihe bull dog who will never cease to find the cattle an interesting foe. "However, this business that every boy should have Jackson County dog owners mey apply end receive their dog licenses and tegs by simply filling in the form below end mailing with the required fee to E M. MADDEN, COUNTY CLERK, COURT HOUSE, MEDFORD, OREGON, license fees ere as follows: Male dogs $2.00; spayed female dogs $2.00, female dogs $3 00. PLEASE SEND ONLY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER WITH YOUR APPLICATION. Your license and tag will be mailed to you immediately upon application end remittance. If you have more than one dog, please use other forms of this neture or attach a separate schedule with the required information. FINAL DATE FOR PURCHASING A DOG LICENSE WITHOUT PENALTY IS MARCH 1, 1963. r Application for Dog Owner Address Indicate sex of dog by MALE Dog's Name Amount of Money Enclosed . But they wanted pledges that aid would be used for putting the nation's house in order and rebuilding its ravaged economy. Francis returned to Al giers with promises of nearly $300 million, this year in French financial aid. In addi tion, the French government undertook to do its best to get sorely needed teachers, civil servants and technicians to go to Algeria on contract to help get the country back on its feet. They were almost as sorely needed as money and food. Government Services Limping Event today postal and taxation services are barely limping along and trained en gineers and mechanics are hardly to be found. France now has promised to hand out a minimum of $200 million a year U Al geria for the next three years. She also has promised to sponsor Algeria for asso ciation with the European Common Market. To tighten his control over the country, Ben Bella banned the small Algeria Communist party a few months after in dependence, leaving the FL" as sole political party in the country. In January, his govern mcnt tossed extreme leftist leaders out of the country's largest labor union, the Gen eral Union of Algerian Work ers, and replaced them with trusted FLN nominees. Ben Bella has not abandon ed the dream of turning this nation some day in a social ist state, although he has had to postpone its fulfillment "I hope I shall see complete dog is for the birds," Mrs. Gibbs feels. No one should have a dog unless he or she can furnish a proper place for the animal. Dogs should have ample room for exercise, and that doesn't necessarily mean half an acre, but it should be at least 18 feet long and a space 4 or 5 feet wide. "In their natural state dos sleep more than they run. No boy knows how to care for a dog. He has to be taught, but if a dog is brought into a home with a family who knows the true nature of the animal, children can easily be taught the way to treat the pet. Actually 99 per cent of the dogs mistrust children, but they can be taught love and confidence with the right owner. "In town you should have your own area fenced. Your pet should be kept on his own property. Breeders of pure bred dogs never permit their dogs to run loose. I am a firm believer in dog control and a good leash law, but what we have now is not the answer," Mrs. Gibbs said. On Patrol Duly "In larger cities today, dogs are proving invaluable in patrol duty, as a matter of fact, Marshal Fields, in Chi cago, is using Dobermans to patrol the slore. Our covern- I nmnl has manv trainpH in rescue work, as well as guard duly, and in other fields. "Maybe yon don't buy a dog with the idea of having a watch dog. Nevertheless that is exactly what he is doing," she added. "The carelessness shown by some oi tne dog breeders throughout the country, seen in some of the recent dog shows, is only more proof of ATTENTION DOG OWNERS! 1963 Da.'e. encircling ene of the Following SPAYED FEMALE Celor . Future socialism before I die and I am still a young man," the 45-year-old Ben Bella told a visitor recently. "Socialism is our ideal, but we can not achieve it In one day or one month." Ben Bella, who won power only after crushing strong op position, realizes that opposi tion to him still exists. Rather than using continued repressive methods, Ben Bel la prefers to appeal to dis sident or indifferent 'cmerts among his fellow-Algerians to unite behind him in the na tional task of reconstruction. One of his first moves was to try to win over the 1,100, 000 Kabyles, a non-Arab peo ple of Berber stock, who were among the chief opponents of his rise to power. It was in the Kabyle areas that Ben Bella first launched his program of land redistri bution, taking care at the same time not to do anything to wound their particular susceptibilities. Ben Bella looks eagerly vo the United States for capital investment in addition to the aid in food stuffs which vir tually has kept alive the 500, 000 refugees in camps of this country. Between S600 million and $800 million worth of major development projects were abandoned by the French in Algeria when the country was given independence. Ben Bella is seeking Unit ed States support for a proj ect under which thousands of jobless Algerians now be ing supported by American gifts of food would be put to work on land, forestry and other projects with the aid of American loans. the fact that their main ob jective at this time is show manship, completely forget ting the use for which the dog was originally intended. "We actually don't need any more breeds of dogs. 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