plienthal Resigns
! As Atomic Energy
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Co
? WASHINGTON, Nov. 23-)-David E. Lillenthat te foe of ex
treme secrecy on the atom, today resigned as chairman And member
f the atomic energy commission partly, he said, iri order to speak
out "with greater latitude." I t i !
F President Truman accepted the resignation, effective December 31,
With the "utmost regret" He named no successor for the commission.
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DAVID ULIENTHAL
KesifJM A-Board Position
rmra
UUULD
This is Thanksgiving day, but
Americans seem so unhappy the
question arises as to whether they
are thankful or ought to be.
Here wage are the highest of
any country in the world but we
have strikes to push them higher.
Here profits are still in high al
titudes compared with prewar re-r
turns but manufacturers and busi
nessmen are worried and damning
the government" for taxes, regu
lation and socialism. Pi
Here we are producing .more
foodstuffs and cotton than we can
consume, and unhappy because we
are shipping away twurt of the ex
cess, storing (or destroying) an
other part and applying acreage
controls on future crops. Nobody
Is satisfied: the- farmer who grows
the stuff the consume who pays
current prices, government that
staggers In supporting prices.
We have more automobiles than
any other country, and then grouse
because of traffic Jams.'
Wt consume more- electricity
than any other people and then
crumble because of seasonal
brownouts, and because investors
In private utilities make a profit
In the business.
With comfortable homes In great
mr number than for any other peo
ple we can't sleep o' nights, and
i ill
so consume more steeping puu
amd sedatives than any other
. We are Just about the healthiest
people on earth but' we run our
a ifAJ
doctors raggea, ana we pouueuw
want us to go in for
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Fog Blocks
C-54 Search
PORTLAND. Nov. 23 UPh Sev
eral clues appeared today to the
t possible faU of a military plane,
lost with six air force men aboard,
but the ; weather i remained too
foggy to track down the leads with
an air searcn. ,
The" four-engined C-54 troop
transport vanished after its pilot,
n earing Portland, radioed jor in
structions.. Most of the clues seemed to point
, o tha Davis Peak area, near
.Woodland, Wash. Several loggers
trvi other residents near Davis
Peak reported hearing a low-flying
plane and an "explosion" about 11
a. rev 13 minutes after the last
radio message.
Animal Cracftcrs
By WARREN GOODRICH '
"l futt out-tnrurted fie ootcn
evt. liif'l aL"
LTUJ
ission Chief
In congress, starting point' of
most of the Lilienthal battles that
have splashed controversy over the
front pages, therb was regret at
his departure and praise for his
career, but it was not. unanimous;
Now 50, Lilien thai sprang into
the public eye as chairman of the
Tennessee Valley Authority. On
Oct 28, 1946, he was appointed
chairman ; of the atomic ' energy
commission. He stayed three action-packed
years, climaxed j by
last summer's investigation of a
charge of , "inctediblel mishanage
ment" in AEC. j I ; - j .
A majority of the ienate-hbuse
atomic committee cleared, the agen
cy of this accusation, made by Sen.
Hickenlooper (R-Iowa.
Questioned tonight on the pos
sibility of his entering law or poll
tics, Lilienthal told a'f reporter "I
don't know what 2 ant going to do.
"There's ; only one time when a
fellow can quit this kind of job
and that's when it is going welL"
"This is; that kind of time," he
added. -;.-! ?: s i
DES MOINES, Nov. 23-;p)-Sen4
aior Jd. a: Hickenlooper (R-Iowa)
sharp critic of Chairman David
Lilienthal and the atomic energy
commission, said! today on being
informed of Lilienthal' resigna
tion: :t J I), I J
"I look forward to a new stim
ulation in our atomic program."
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Toys Needed
By Jraliub
An appeal ! for repairable jtoys
went out Wednesday from the; Sa
lem Exchange club which, launch
ed its annual campaign to repair
toys and distribute them to needy
lamuies ai L.nrisjmas time.
nve depots were used toys may
be dropped off
by t the public
were announced
Wednesday at
the club's meeting. They include
Marion Motors, 333 i Center st.;
Interstate; Tractor company, 3055
Silverton rd.: Home Fuel ! Oil
company,!; 1710 N. Commercial st:
Borkman Lumber company, 2460
State st,. and the AI A. Siewert
warehouse, 1250 (Howard st;
Members of the Exchange club
will repair and repaint the toys
at the Siewert warehouse. Dr.
Lewis P. Campbell is In charge of
the program i this year, which ' is
the club's third annual campaign.
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Free of
Rats,
Shows
REDMOND. Nov. 23 -tfVCen-
tral Oregon has an unusual claim
to fame. It hasn't any rats, j
So reported Milton H. Beuhler
Jr rodent control expert of the
UA. public health service, after a
survey here. He expected to find
at least 10 rats per person a mild
Infestation, j M !i: '
The nearest he could find to
any sign of j a rat j was a report
that once a - rat arrived here In
a carload of feed and was killed,
' Beuhler said most areas with
this climate and! geographical sit
uation would have plenty of rats.
And the absence! of them, he fig
ured, was worth nearly $400,000
a year In saved merchandise, less
disease, andi lack of rat damage.
He complimented , the area on
its ratlessness, and advised resi
dents to keep an eye out for any
intruding:: animals. 7 You could af
ford to spend a lot more than $500
apiece to km just lone pair," he
said. "You'd i be Justified in arm
ing your! whole Chamber of com-
merce wiin ciuos ana starting a
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hunt juntll you find-them." ;
He blamed rats j toot only for
chewing up ; furniture and dam
aging merchandise, i but also for
carrying such ailments as bubonic
plague, diarrhea and a form of
jaundice called Well's disease.
Police Students Battle
At Panama University
PANAMA,1 Nov. 23-flVA gun
battle between students and na
tional police flared tonight at Na
tional university and first reports
said two policemen and two civil
ians were wounded
It was the second successive
night of violence I in Panama,
where two meet have laid claim
to the presidency. 1 .
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Statesman Kwt Service
ALBANY. Nov. 23--A blind AI
bany farmer was killed Wednes
day night whetll two cars struck
him as he crossed the road to milk
his cows 1 I 1 II i
Silvy Oscaf Goodman, 84, idled
on the same spot where his father,
also blind, perished When hit by a
motorist 11 yeats ago. I
The .Goodman home and barn
yard, three miles east of Albany,
is separated byU. S. highway 20.
Deputy Coroner Walter Cropp said
Goodman was first struck by a
car driven by Mrs. Margaret O.
Blatcheley, Lebanon, who was
Repa
Central Urea
Survey
Like Father 11 Years a
99th YEAR . I , -
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'Pilgrims9 j Mdians Celebrate Thanksgiving at
Wc 4R karr-'rJ nr!
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Garfield school students captured the spirit of the first Thanksgiving
in the scene above depicting the Filsxims at Plymouth inviting the
Indians to their . week-long ThsnJugiYlnr- festival. Feasting and
x ceremonies dedicated to piety and peace marked the first Thanks
giving. Fifth graders who participated and prodaced the alar frem
Which the scene is taken ineladed Betty Aston, Donald i Wricht.
Chinese
Reds
Order
Leave
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WASHINGTON Nov. 23 -Wl-
American Consul General Angui
Ward, held for a month in i tora-
munlst jail at Mukden, China,ha
been released and ordered to leave
the country, the state department
announced today. n j
Four consulate employes jailed
with Ward also were freed. A com
munist "People's court" convicted
them along with Ward but de
creed that they too be deported.
The state department, which has
indignantly denounced the treat
ment of the American official as
"barbaric,'' immediately relayed
instructions to Ward to get out of
Mukden and bring his entire staff
with him "forthwith." j
This j latest action in the "sensa
tional case which has attracted
world attention Came with light
ning speed after 'the 56-year-old
diplomat himself reported 'that his
four weeks imprisonment4iad end
ed in a communist conviction and
deportation orderi ,
He added that jhe and the four
consulate employes arrestedheld,
convicted and ordered deported
along with him were able to be "up
and about." ; j
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Russia Denies
Recognition
To Nationalists
NEW YORK, Nov. 23-(!ffVRus-sia
called the Chinese Nationalist
delegation a bundh of pygmies to
day and said Moscow no longer
recognizes their right to represent
China in the United Nations.
Andrei Y. Vshinsky, Prime
Minister Stalin's top diplomat, told
the 59-nation general assembly
the Nationalists here couldn't rep
resent China even if they wanted
to because he said 350,000,000 of
China' 450,000,0.00 people have
recognized the communist regime
headed by Mao Tze-tung In ret
ping. : M i
Chieh-Hou Kan, personal advis
or to Li Tsung-
dent of Nationalist China who now
is in British Honk Kong, angrily
replied that Russia had perpetrated
serious international crimes in
China.
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Farmer Killed on
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Cropp said she told him she was
headed east, thatishe had not seen
Goodman, but Tiad ! stopped and
tried in vain to flag the other car,
was the culver ox tne wesi-oounu
car which also Fran i over Good-
man's body, the! coroner said. No
charffM were filed. M i
Charles W. Goodman, father of
the totally blind victim, was Jelli
ed Jan. 28, 1938 under virtually
Identical circumstances. 1
Surviving are
tha widow and
several children.!
Services will be
announced later by Ekman's mor
tuary.
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Dumps
Reasons for Obrerving
Thanksgiving Weren 9t
Always So Numerous
One Oregon Governor Couldn't Find
Anything for Which to Be Thankful
By Conrad G. Prange
Staff Writer. The Statesman
Willamette valley Thanksgiv
ing day observances haven't al
ways included turkey and foot
ball A preview of early Oregon
Thanksgiving indicates that pio
neer families often ; had to
thankful fo They not only
didn't have the bounteous tzTK
feasts, which developed in later
years, but they felt thankful if
they had a table to put their
feet under.
Oregon officially began to ob
serve a day of Thanksgiving in
1852. On November 3 Of that
year Territorial Governor John
P. Gaines issued the first pr
lamation.
Asked for Holiday
Gov. J6hn Whittaker was
prodded into issuing a Thanks
."Jgiving day proclamation in 1859
(the year Oregon became a
state) by a group of women
knows as "The 1776 Ladies" who
said, in part, that times were
troublesome, but "there is
enough to be thankful for if you
give us the chance."
Gov. Whittaker's 1859 procla
mation was extremely short,
simply stating that Thursday,
Dec. 29, 1859, be "kept as a day
for public thanksgiving."
Some newspapers of the day
criticized the governor because
he failed to mention the diety or
whom thanxs were owea or lor
iui wiiai. nuuuici new syavi
fended the governor and men
tioned an unnamed governor
who, on the previous j year, is
sued a proclamation stating "he
could not see anything to be
thankful for."
By 1873, however,! Thanks
giving day was fixed in Novem
ber. President Abraham Lincoln
officially proclaimed t Thanks
giving day a holiday in! 1863 and
set it on the fourth or last
Thursday in November
Gov. Sylvester Pennoyer, an
early Oregon democrat: and des
cribed as "a man of strong con
victions" brought out an unus-
Fire Ruins Stock
Of Turner Store
Statesman Nsws fryU
TURNER, Nov. 23 -(ffj- A flue
fire at the Turner Variety store
today left the building I virtually
undamaged, but resulted in a
complete . loss of stock; through
smoke and water.
The owners, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Mack were on their way
to Tillamook for Thanksgiving
when the blaze broke out about
10 ajn. The Turner volunteer fire
department brought the fire under
control. No estimate of the dam-
oc-
V
age was available. !
Tha Orecjon Statesman,
W aw TT IT y TTh
& 7 Inches of M
Margaret Bolt, Donald Walton, Jerry Bray, Geraldlne Browning. Jerry
Brnnelle, Fattj Evans. Bob Bornside, Earl Eyre, Doris Hein Beth
Hoffman. Batch Brwckway. Fiord Hashes, Larry Kofner, Helen
Manke, Edgar Martin. Dick Mason, Teddy Medferd, Craig Phillips,
Bonnie Kuoom. Rex Sims and Marjorie Simila. Ins tractor is Mrs.
Elenor Pierson. (Statesman photo.)
ual proclamation In 1893. j
Instead of waiting for the us
ual proclamation from President
Grover Cleveland, Pennoyer
rushed in with his and set No
vember -23 as Thanksgiving day
in Oregon. A.? few days later
Cleveland fixed November 30 as
the official day.
Fiuanciflll PrflVCr
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Gov. Pennoyer then issued a
statement in which he hoped the
people would observe the presi
and "what few can afford it
dent's day in religious worship,
will eat turkey." But he asked
that his day be used "for med
itation on the unfortunate fin
ancial condition of the govern
ment." I
Gov. Pennoyer's proclamation
at year was , further unusual
ik that he implored the citizen
ry tp "return thanks to God and
devoutly implore him to dis
pose the president! and congress
to restore silver as a full legal
tender." . ' j
Early accounts jsjhow that pio
neer Thanksgivings usually were
observed in a mild sort of man
ner with a roait or boiled 'din
ner, to which the gathering of
relatives and friends donated.
The pioneers were mostly
thankful for being alive. Most
Of them had just completed the
long 2,000 mile trip across th
continent in wagon trains.
D;!! Dani, Wl,n
s-rvf"-' "uij
A far cry from the groaning
was the simple fare of the pio
table of this Thanksgiving, 1949,
neers. Many families lived on
boiled peas and boiled wheat.
Salt and sugar was scarce. They
lived In crude cabins and wore
coats made out of wagon covers
and tents and deerskin.
Thanksgiving to them 'was a
time to return thanks to God for
what they had and thanks that
they were not worse off. As the
first proclamation noted, "the
year drawing to a close has been
one of general prosperity; to the
citizens of the Oregon territory,"
Vote Defeats J Lebanon
Expansion Proposal
LEBANON, Nov. 23-(P)-Two
square miles of suburbs southwest
of Lebanon will not be merged
with the city. ' P
In a special election yesterday,
the suburban voters defeated a
consolidation measure, although
Lebanon approved it
HUXSBORO DECONTROLLED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23-tfV
Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods
today ended rent control at Hills
boro, Ore.
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Salem. Oregon, Thursday, November 24. 1949
Garfield School
Hooked Safety
Belt Saved Boy
In Plane Crash
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 23-W)
Twelve-year-old Isaac Allal ex
Dlained today he was the only sur
vivor in the crash of a plane load
of refugee children because he was
fastening and unfastening his
safety belt for run.
Thirty-four persons were lauea
in the crash Sunday, including 27
Jewish children from- Tunisia,
three nurses and four crewmen.
When rescuers found the plane
yesterday, Isaac was pinned on the
ground under his seat, a scratch on
the nose his most prominent in
jury. .. . -
"I was only fastening ana un
fastening the security belt for
fun," Isaac told his friend Gabriel
Banon today. "The others didn't
have theirs fastened. When it
happened, I didnt have time to
become afraid.
Isaac said he was conscious for
about five minutes after the crash.
He could hear "people crying and
whimpering all around me, then
everything went black." v
Finally he Woke up because he
was cold and hungry.
He couldn t-move much but "I
remembered I had some apples
tucked away somewhere. I found
them and ate them."
For 42 hours, the boy lay with'
his face pressed against the
ground by the seat to which he
had strapped himself and thus
saved himself from being hurled
across the cabin and probably
killed.
Scio-Silverton
Bus Run Cut
A change in Pacific Greyhound
bus service which eliminates the
Scio to Silverton run is now in ef
fect, following an order by the
state public utilities commissioner,:
Greyhound was authorized to
establish a new run from Jeffer
son on Mhe Pacific highway to
Scio, from where the bus will
pick up itk established loop via
Sweet Home back to the highway
at Halsev.
Service between Silverton and
Salem remains unchanged.
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Christmas Cheer
At Liquor Storey
Limited to Botth
Christmas decorations will
barred from Oregon state liquor
stores this holiday season.
The Uquor control commission
asked State Budget Director Har
ry Dorman to bow to tradition by
approving a $10 Christmas decor
ation allowance for eacn state auv
pensary. -Dorman
turned down the re
ouest as "an unnecesary expense'!
and his action was upheld by Gov.
Douglas McKay. h
"Sentimentally. It Is a fins
idea," Governor McKay said, "but
it would seem to ma that tha
llauor stores have plenty of
Christmas cheer already."
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Rainfall Relieves
:
5 -Month
In Central Orego
More than an inch and a half of rain washed across Sauem
Wednesday setting the city drainage pumps to work for the first
time this season.
The same storm which carried rainfall across the Cascades in-;
to central and eastern Oregon, was hailed as a, "million dqljf&rj
storm" in those areas, where winter wheit was in need of too$s-
ture. !
The weatherman promised some
relief from the heavy rains in the
Salem area today with scattered
showers and some sunshine on the
Thanksgiving day menu. Wednes
day saw 1.57 inches of rain fall
oa Salem.
The city- pump was in operation
for three hours at Myrtle and Col
umbia streets Wednesday after
noon :o divert flow from sanitary
to storm sewers.
Clean-Up Campaign '
(City officials here announced
Wednesday that a city-wide cam
paign to clean sewer pipes was
under way using a recently-pur
chased machine.
! Patrol crews have started a 24
hour vigil against flooded areas in
the city, and 10 pumps are avail
able when needed this season.
I The storm, which had drenched
coastal Newport earlier with 1.20
inches of rain, brought .49 of an
.57 to La Grande, and .55 to Red
inch to Pendleton, Jl to Baker,
mond.
Thanksgiving Present
i It was the perfect Thanksgiving
day present to farmers who had
sown their winter wheat, and had
waited gloomily for it to struggle
up through the parched soil. It
was equally welcome to farmers
who haven't planted. They will be
gin sowing as soon as the weather
clears.
The rainfall was the first sub
stantial one iff'' central Oregon in
five months. Prineville got .38 of
an inch and it's only had 3.5
Inches all year long.
Despite the rain, -western Ore
gon remained blanketed in fog.
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Washington
School Plans
Open House
Open house at the new Washing
ton school will be Thursday, De
cember 1, and will start at 7 JO
p m,, school authorities announced
Wednesday. :"
The big. new structure on Lan
sing avenue In the Ca pi tola district
was occupied by students but re
cently and schoolmen felt it was
not ready for a public debut dur
ing American Education week, No
vember 6-12, .when open house
was staged at most other Salem
public schools.
A meeting of the Washington
school Mothers club, originally
scheduled for the same date, has
been cancelled.
Detroit Legion
To Operate
Job Service
Statesman News Strvles
DETROIT, Nov. 23 This city
now has its own employment
Detroit post 141, American Le
gion, announced today it will ope
rate a service for the unemploy
ed of this area. The post will send
cards to employers, notifying
them of the service. Job seekers
may obtain Information on avail
able employment by telephoning
the post.
The post is also sponsoring a
move to collect Christmas money
for "the Yanks that gave." Con
tainers for donations have been
placed in local business houses.
First Aid Car
Hospitalized
Salem's shiny, red ambulance
was "hospitalized'' for repairs Wed
nesday, but first aid men can still
rush to the scene if junior falls
and cracks his noggin.
City ambulance attendants, who
work as members of the fire de
partment, related Wednesday that
Police Chief Clyde A. Warren had
volunteered his radio-equipped po
lice car on learning that the first
air car had broken down.
The first air car is expected to
be ready Monday, after new gears
have been installed in the differ
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TRUCE IN PHILIPPINES
MANILA, Thursday, Nov.
A two-day truce was reported to
day to have halted fighting be
tween government forces and re
bels south of Manila. Press re
ports said 29 men were known to
have been killed In the two-day
battle.
3 Times and Out?,,
Maybe!
But Barry Bridge
Weathered
two previous cornmttfw
1st hearings. The back,
the current case in San Franc
and some! of the little-known de
tails of Bridges life, will be jtold
in an exclusive story - in fTtm
SUtesmaq's feature section, 8 use-
day. . ! I"
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Curiousity paid off for a Sint
man this week. But now he saya
he's more curious than aver. ; I
When K. D. Woodrow, paint nd
auto supply store proprietor, ssw
an airplane being crated tor over
seas shipment at Mcwary neioi
tucked in his cam mm
for the receiver to crop
him a line. . - . HI 1
Woodrow disciosea weanespay
that he had received a letter fton
a man in the Free State ot Hral
requesting a maintenance maituel.
presumably for the airplaneich:
was not mentioned. ',' I; r
The jcraft in mention was. a
P-Sl Mustamt which was given to
Salem schools by the governsent
at the j close of : World Warf li
School authorities finally decided
to sell the plane and got a U.500
bid on jthe plane (which cost th
government about 50 times thkt).
But they learned tnai saues wsa
restricted to another public du-
cation agency so had to settle lor
a $100 offer from a uauiprpi
school. I I J i
Woodrow says the plane went
directly overseas from .Sfclem,
however, which is tha reason, ha.
enclosed tha cardfil '
Now he says he would -like to.
know Where the California school
got authority to sell it fori export
purposes. Meanwhile, he has an
swered the letter, enclosing Jwnn
information about tha "state Of tha
union") in this country ratherthan
a handbook on the care off air
craft. ... . j !-J;
Woodrow said ha hoped; ; his
correspondent would reciprocate
with information about tfasKFreo
State of Israel. He said the facts
sored, .tha 'airplane had not Jbeen
mentioned, and tha man s asm
was proceeded oy a numner qiqn i
sound very "free " to hinv j
Bridges' Trial
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Settles Dqy
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SAN FRANCISCO. Nov.f23-fJP)
Calm returned to the Harry frid
ges' perjury trial, today after yes
terday's uproar. Mfi! -U
Prosecution and defense" attor
neys got down to arguing sj key
legal point, The atmosphere Jjb jthe
federal courtroom again was ftuiet
and dignified. So was Bridges';
fiery thief counsel, Vincents Hal
linan. .. "" I ij jf :S '
U. S. District Judge Ge6rgB.
Harris; yesterday gava liallidah a
severe tongue lashing, dted him
for criminal contempt of court and
sentenced him to six monthi; Hi
later relented to let Halllnad fin
ish out the trial before goiig ta
Jail. I l if V
HalUnan said that ha would ap
peal the contempt sentence the
United States circuit court ojCj ap
peals. i j i f f
Bridges was indicted on enlarges
of perjuring himself in denying in
a 194S naturalization hearinf th
he was a member of the c
1st party.
Mrs. Luce Notes Talco
Atomic 'Pearl Ilarbr' i
NEW YORK, Nov. 23 HV
Clare Booths Luce said today in
formed Europeans believe that, in
the event of another wan tha
Soviet! Union would launch : an
"atomic- Pearl Harbor" on; Amer
ica before any move In Europe. .
The former Connecticut ;Repub-:
llcan congress woman mad Etna
statement in an interview,
return
yesterday from
weeks abroad,
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cloudy Hwlth scattered showers today
and tonight; high today near Sfc ilow
toniaht near 43. ''iff
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