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CRESCENDO OF POPPING CORKS TO CELEBRATE

Wine Triumphs Over Milk And M. Mendes-France

Paris.

Frenchmen are popping more corks than ever. There is reason to celebrate. The anti-alcohol drive of former Premier Pierre Mendes-France is on the rocks.

Not only are bars packed with uninhibited dipplers, but there is talk of getting rid of the few liquor control laws now on the books.

are

400,000 acres of ald vineyards over the next three years. Subsidies ranging up to 250,000 Francs an acre will be offered to bring reluctant grapegrowers

in line.

ing

for

But officials are already year- the trouble among peasants. Such a scheme under has not Kovernment direction

of tried since the time been King Philip. The Fair ka the 3351

The empurry.

peasants

interference about any

pre

alcohol towards their families paye |

Poisonous or not, alcohol re- mains a major concern of French leaders. The French consume three times as much alcohol per capita as people in the United At the same time the drinking States. Alcoholic wards public which includes just packed. Cirrhosis of the liver is GALBERT ROLAND - RICHAKO EGAM » LOME KELSON

One out of two about everybody in Franceis {widespread. ÁR KASKO MOTUM

being drawn into a new con-road accidents involves a driver. troversy. * The government who has been drinking."',' plans to uprtet 100,000 acres of

that is left of Yet about all low-quality vineyards to help

surplus In M. Mendes-France's ambitions reduce the annual

Progre to curtail wine production

Parliament has so far refused consumption is his move to t

school children and single one of the persuade approve a

generations. worked

Premier

George Clemenceau alcohol control measures which soldiers to drink milk instead of

wine,

Milk is still being served had to send troops

to wine helped topple M. Mendes-France

that It is not assurances

districts In 1906 KOTORANDAGA from power. The new Promter with M. Edgar Faure, has promised

Anhealthy. to continue the struggle against

Despite all their drinking, the quella peasant revalt over the price of wiran. And ocly three weeks ago, agitation over wine alcoholism but until local elec- French produce more wine than tions are held this spring no one they consume or export. The prices Broke out on a smaller expects Parliament to tamper government stockpiles it in the scale in the South of France with the explosive issue.

same way as the United States

and peasants barricaded rödvis stockpiles butter and eggs. To with wagons and cut down tele- cut down the surplus the gov- phone pales-Umited Press, crnment has come up with a bold idea.

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Not Poisonous One Paris newspaper with its pase in the wind has detected the scent of a counter-offmsive by the alcohol forces, might take the form of to lift the restrictions on adver- tising of alcoholic beverages.

One Deputy seemed to refert the new thinking when he re- marked the other day, "after all, it has never been demonstrated that alcohol is poisonous."

Titles In Demand

Uprooting Plan

-Old vines produce more grapes than young ones, but the grapes By are of interior quality. uprooting old vineyards, it is argued, the nation would enjoy the double benent of improving redncing wine quality while quantity at a time

when 180,000,000 gallons of surplus are produced each year.

Beginning next Autumn, the government will launch a pro- gramine, aimed at uprooting

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London..

The economists overlooked

have Can Get Out

of one index American prosperity -the

number of people who write Of Control'

to Debrell's asking whe ther they are eligible to bear titles or coats of arms.

When times are good and the money is flowing in, Americans apparently

visions of barcbial mansions.d there is

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a constant flow of lecters.

So said Mr Cyril Hankinson, the esteemed editor of Debrett's, scanning the two latest letters from across the Atlantic.

someone in One was from California

asking about the "real" of something or other. The name of earidom illegible.

was

tests

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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

4.2.

CHI, 1868 BY MICA Barden Ine-

** told my dad I had to have a larger allowance! Know what he said? 'What's her name?""

IN LONDON LAST WEEK .

THE CURIOUS TYPE WAS

AN

ACTOR'S GHOST

When

London.

W. Macqueen Pope, historian of the British stage, was hurrying through Bull Inn Yard, a shadowy lane adjoining the Adelphi Theatre, when he saw a man approaching from the other end. He had a frank, open face, checked at the premonition of somehow oddly familiar. Bis an understudy that he would clothes were old-fashioned-a be 'murtered." cloak Buttered from his The understudy, Levison Lane, shoulders and he wore a large had been, so disturbed by a slouch hat.

dream in which he saw Terris dying of

Inside the Adelphi with the cast grouped around him, that he insisted on telling, the company Labout.dt. at

They passed and Pope turned to look back, wondering where he had seen that face before. But the man had vanished.

celebrated

stab wounds

He said he had an feeling that death had become Terring companion.

The star only laughed another member at shed and Pany said: "All understudies dream the star is murdered."

With the

Pope hearti this bizarre tale, be went back to Bull Ihn Yard. The spot at which he had seen the stranger was exactly where vanish

enter the Terriss used to Adelphi by his private door,

"I looked up an old portrait," is no Mr Pope said. There doubt about it it was a ghost

ghost of Terriss." United Press.

-the

Canton Man Celebrates His 100th Birthday

Carnegie.

Albuquerque al "You see lots of curious types Nobel Prize winner Dr in London," said Pope, "so Irving Langmuir today call- did not think about it again is a high official of the BBC. ed rainmaking the "hope of until I ran into a friend who drought stricken farmers" He said he had seen the same

As be left the theatre after and said the experiments man, in the same place, dressed were "extremely promising." the same way, 30 years agol" the matinee, Terriss was con- Now this story becomes a fronted by a bit player upset But,

be said,

cases in the annals from the company Terriss Carnegie residents wound up "highly unpredictable" He said postscript to one of the most because he had been dropped he suspected a tie-up between of the inexplicable. On Decem- promised he would take him on three days of celebration here

Mexico New rainmaking

ber 16, 1897, William Terriss, again the next play and gave for John Lum Geow, a Chinese

SOTTIL coins. during 1951 and the disastrous father

great Ellaline him of the Terriss Missouri Boods in 1952,

and himself one of money, the extra bought a immigrant celebrating his 100th

birthday. leading actors, had butcher knife,

Scow reached the century No Doubt That evening, as Terriss and mark on April 23. a friend he had met at dinner approached bls private door to the theatre in Bull Inn Yard, the extra sprang from the shadows and stabbed him.

The friend helped Terriss in- to the theatre. There he died, with the cast grouped around him exactly as the understudy had dreamed.

Dr Langmuir, in an interview. Britain's at the International Arid Lands

Another was from a lady, in Detroit who said she thought Conference last week, said "we he was related to the

family know we can produce rain but Canada's Last

into which Princess Louise, sometimes we can't control the daughter of Queen Victoria, result," married and, did that give her

He said cloudsceding, merel, a title? (Answer: It doesn't).

Coincident with the publica acted as the trigger for atmo spheric forces which were just tion of that 1955 edition Mr

to waiting

be touched

off. Hankinson, a tall, spare, elderly

for scholar has opened a campaign During operation Circus to

who have the example, the scientists goeded get people

the clouds every seven days." rights to coats of arms to use them.

This includes Ameri-

The storms struck the food cans. Mr Hankinson would like to see them emblazoned on book area the next year in seven-

COVERS,"

cycles day

with

"amazing Butomobile

doors, mats, cushion regularity," Dr Langmuir said. He added that raizmaking in the too?"

This Pacific north-west has brought rain to New Mexico as much

stationery, table covers, fireplaces.

"Underwear question was occasioned by re- ports that one American who as 10 months later, bears an

honorary knighthood has done just that.

A Will and A Way

Mr Hackinso seemed taken aback but he recovered to say: "Only if artistically docs",

Rainmakers needed additional mowledge and skill" belor experi call their they could ments truly success,

a Langmuir said,

Dr

"We have, to know for sure

Camel

Toronto. Canada may soon have no more

camels. Dizzie is in the twi light of his distinguished, but glas melancholy, career. Dizzie is the only camel in the country, and the star of the High Park Zoo. He has just turned 30, and when you're a camel that means you're over the hump.

Dizzle used to be Jerry. But George Steward Zookeeper watched him ambling around | and re-named him "Diamal,” Dizzle for short,

The surname companion was Death!

ot

He was born in Canton, 1855, and arrived in California during the civil war. He became a US citizen in 1899, NO.

His formula for long life: "I don't know why I live so long All I can say is: Don't go crooked. Go straight Don't owe nobody."

He received birthday greetings Terriss from President and Mrs. Elsen- actually-hower and Oklahoma Governor

Raymond Gary-United Press,

Now Push Buttons Don't Need Pushing

Washington.

Push-button civilisation is not enough. We're head- ing for push buttons that are smart enough to operate without any pushing."

Dizzie was born in Hoosick, N.Y., and came to Toronto when he was 10. He hasn't shown pleasure or even in Mr Bill Nessell who is into appreciate how much you are In order for an American to how much rain' we will get, mad

terest in anything but food change of the research com enjoying home life.” be eligible for a coat of arms be are it falls where we want

since then. He Ignores the mittee for the National Air* Today's air-conditioned home, there must have been British it to." He said rainmaking was

animals.

Heating and Air-conditioning Mr Nessell said, is already blood in his family no further in its infancy," but at least we back than his great grand-know we're on the right track,"

Steward believes his melancholy Association has spent the better partly controlled by electronics. father

Although Mr Hankin

ady part of a lifetime figuring out And in the future temperature, Dr Langmuir admitted that it

really set in 1938.. son does not

with ve

camel arrived that year and ways to make people comfort. humidity and air circulation will blood "seeding can produce rain, it can

bezo Ideal won't be con-

you American

died a few months later. She able in their homes. and enough money to finance also cause drought." But he said

"Some day," he said, the sclous of them. was the only girl in Dizzie's

Mr Messell said present- If your chlid Dertists in the is the right kind of research can "that depends on the area in

life, Now she's just a tender buttons will make your home so Sguring and insanitary habit of nail biting, you can now help him for generally and some connection, which the tests are made, and

automatically comfortable, you'll heating plants and mentary in his old vez, with a is only possible, not, probable." Just paint on however ingenious,

United Fress. her) to stop it,

baye to run outside occasionally controls are 100 times

senskive to the elements than Nilble, the new harmless liquid armigerous family. There are-United Fres

which usually stops the babit in 3 250,000 British people entitled 04. days. Contains no alces, no to this distinction.

quaseda and no, quizine, Invisible, Mr Hankinson, in fact, wants stainiams, 100% effachina;- WASİNAN - OC - with soap and water. Cae bottle of the penalty for unauthorised use of coats of arms to be made "Wubite is suficient for the most

severe.

persistent case, From all dispensaries

and stores.

MOUSON

At the moment, the

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Gluttons Flocked To This Feast

Berlin

ancient Court of Chivalry has perin's gluttons are today fock- the power only to fice and force en unlawf -user to stop

ing to the Zoo, Zoo, authori Hes recently introduced an doing so. In 1547, Mr Haukinson

open-air buffet with 90 disher racle wistinlly, the Earl of Surrey was beheaded for using where customers could eat as a coat of arms to which he much as they wanted for five

marks a head

Dealing with

peerage is

not all champagne and cornets, Mr Hankinson has found. One Feer's mother wanted him make clear that her son's wite

was the de

the daughter of a servant

and a Ferman vermaer Another cly wanted stated that her.

There are no restrictions on the number of helpings and queues hundreds of yards long form up each day before the restaurant

Turned Green

sidn't make the Royal One man put away a one-pound

Navy only because his fathey

wouldnt allow him to be vac-

turned to tackle a plate of roast beef and a plate of tongue, A further rest with ∙two

glasses of schnapps followed then he came back again for past clest and dessert. A waiter who had been watching

him in amazement offered him a second helping But he turned green and declined Ave Another customer had to be rushed to hospital to have his stomach pumped out,

In

them out of business-United Press.

A Chinese Cook

are

elect

House Smells Too

system Hadded, us thermostat putside the house to tip off the furnace to whip up the heat before the colt air comes insida, But take

factors other comfort

Like humidity LSP

Box Bano, the West German federal capital, they

"Humidity can be awfully also having trouble over food, unhealthy when the parliamentary deputies have little, and very

Alhe end of the first day Zoe, ha

muthorities estimated ther deficit at 2,000 mar

steak falowed by a breast pfNow they have placed two-hour

time limit at the buffet to pres

tog

Cable

And

complained so much over the when there is too miko motonous food in the official humidity just one of the conditioning restaurant that the manage things that ment tras imported a Chinese regulates

Roche said he will

menu each day 8% canlil

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