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4 (Sec 1 Slertcsaaxu SalsxaOrsw Thurs. August 13, 1SS3
t"No Favor Sways Vs No Fear Shall Auj .
From First Statesman, March 2S, ltsi
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' Statesman Publishing Company '
CHARLES A. SPKAG UE. Editor and Publisher
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Entered at th poaioffle at SaJern. Orw aa aaeend
daaa matter under1 art of Congre March a. 187S.
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Land Board Timber Sklc
Thanks to the vigilance of State Treasurer.
Sig Unander the state has made a better deal
in disposing of timber on land administered
by the Land Board for the f benefit of the
school fund; but it Is hardly accurate to" say
the advantage amounted to. $84,000, the dif-,
fetence between the selling price for the tim
ber and the: appraised value of ilands on a
proposed 'land exchange, ? : "
The original proposition Was for a trade by
the C D. Johnson Lumber Co. of a tradf of
1040 acres for the state-owned tracts total
ing 310 acres. Competent independent ap
praisers put the value of each ownership at
$78,000. Unander ( suggested tailing for bids,
on the timber. This was done atfad the Johnson
Company offered $162,194 forithe timber, and
its bidwas accepted.! However jit retains own-
ership of its 1040 teres. To arrive at a correct
determination of the gain the state has made
by! this method it jwrould be necessary to call
for bids on the timber on the company's tract,
then compare valufes of the lands without the
timber. This would reduce o perhaps vftpe
out, the reported gain" of $84,000.
The Land Board adhered to its old policy
and "sold the timber only, retaining title to
the land wnich will gro'w another tree crop
for future sale. The mistake a former land
board made on a i pine deal in Deschutes
County was to sell the land along with the
timber, and .that without la call for bids.
One may wonder at the accuracy of an ap
praisal which puts land arid timber at a value 4
of 178,000 when on bid the timber alone
brings over twice that, "sum. The only explanation-is
that the value of timber is what
someone will pay for it. It has been a common
experience in recent years to j have bids run
more; than twice the appraisal.
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AFL" Suspends HA j ? ;
' It remains to be seen whether the threat of
ouster from the American Federation of La
bor will brin'gto heel the pirates who domi
T nate the waterfximt in New York through" the
; International LongsKoremen's Associa t i o n.
The executive council of the Federation vot
1 ed Tuesday to suspends the ILA because it
- failed to clean its own bouse;, but so farlthe
' union bosses havg indicated no intention to
1 accede to the council Vjlemands. If they.; fail,
' t to move they wil) be kicked out by the Fed
; eration at.; its convention in St. Louis next
month.. -. -r M . v''
This action by( the AFL ia belated. The facts
' about the New j York waterfront have been
notorious for years. The evil shapeup, bosses
i sustained in popster by killings, organized
theft on the docks, tributCtxacted ofvstfeve-"
dore companies'- this is old stuff; 'but the
T Federation shielding itself behind the local
autonomy of the member unions didn't move
. until the stench; got too "great for'it to stom
ach. Last May pave Beck, now head of the
Teamsters, took the, lead in an effort for Fed-
' eration action toward ILA reform or kicking
. it" out. . i
. Joe Ryan, president of. the union on one of
these "lifetime"! setups, is under indictment
for larceny of .union funds.. He's a tough' egg
-had to be to hold office among .such a gang
of murderers; j&nd he isnt'one'to cave in
readily. He and: his collegaues in, power may
thumb their noses at the AFL and then hope
to beat the indictments. The real shapeup,
however is in the form of legislation against
the dock racket. New York and New "Jersey
have entered into a compact designed to
purge "the waterfront; and President Eisen
hower has just approved,a bill to validate the
compact. Unless! the 'racketeers find a way to
pull the teeth in this compact their days of
power and graft may be doomed. The trdy
action of the Federation shows how urgent
was the need for drastic reform on the docks
of New York, Birooklyn and Jersey City.
SKELETON KEY
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Backfire ofitropcedT-HRevUion grj) JjQQ tFOD UsSj
Vancouver, Wash.' is-thinking about chang
ing! its name to Fort Vancouver in an attempt
to toid the persistent confusion arising from
the fact that the chief city of! Western Canada
ha')he same namel The change would mere
ly a reversion to the original name adopt
ed; flhen the Hudson's Bay Company under
Drohn .McLouglid moved; its headquar- .
te?sithere from Astoria in 1825. Of course
Vanpouver, Wash, night do what Salem, Ore.
didfa' few years ago; with respect to its name-.
saEe la Massachusetts.! It might wire Vancou
ver," B; C. and ask it to .chaiigW Its narafto
Frservilleor to Granville, its! original name
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?Ain't science wonderful?" A bit "too won
derful," reflect those speeders tagged by
'radar. What the city should install is an
electronic device which will ilow down the
speeding cars. ' - i '
Last week the Way Street Journal pub
lished what it said was a tentative draft ot a
presidential message on revising the Taft
Hartley Law. The publication proved a minor
sensation in labor and political circles. To a
good many it looked as though it had. been
drafted right in the office of Secretary, of
Labor JJurkin. When Republican members of
Congress saw it they set up a howl; and the
White House disowned it. The secretariat
there was said to-be greatly wrought up Over
the "leak." ;
Most of the proposed changes would have
been to the advantage of labor unions. State
laws banning the union shop woulobe rilled
out as far as firms doingj interstate business
are concerned. Union hiring halls would be
sanctioned. Usef of the injunctive process in
secondary boycotts would encounter delays.
"Unions could not however bring up new de
V.mands during the life of a contract. ' M
Copies of the draft were sent to chairmen
of the Senate and House committees, dealing
i with labor, so it. evidently had progressed
.farther than being just a working paper from
the lower echelons.
The next session' of Congress is supposed
to get down to business dn amending the
Taft-Hartley Law. Such is the bitterness of
the controversy on labor law that no very
important changes are apt to be made by the
.present Congress, . .-'
(Continued from page one)
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Soviet Possession of Hydrogen Bomb Not
Seen
" t By JOSEPH ALSOP
WASHINGTON The right
wif to understand GeorgL Mai
eokov's claim to know the secret
of the hydrogen bomb, is as part
of a much larger whole. Even d
Soviet hydrogen bomb would
not be a danger to this coun
try, all by itself. But, it"i ai
very great danger indeed, as one
part in a gigantic: machine of
Soviet power whichiis now near
ing completion. '
As to the specific problem
of the bomb, it now seems td
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piS that no So
vef test explof
as threat by Itself to ' United States
:
ger towards the ' end of next
year. Unfortunately, .however,
there are excellent reasons to
adjust past estimates of a relat
ed Soviet effort the build-op
of the Soviet Long Range Air
Army, which gives meaning to
Soviet atomic power. -
In brief, it is now confirmed
that the Soviets have - started
quantity production -ef the TU
31 a big turbo-jet bomber com
parable in range and other char
acteristics to our ownB-36. The
TU-31 will rivf the Lnnff Rinfe
be fairly well Air Army what it has hereto-
e s t a b nsni iore lacsea, tne capaouiiy to
make round-trip attacks on
Americas targets from bases on
Soviet territory. -
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j
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sion has occur
' red as vet. Ac
cording to re4
pliable report
v at any rate, no
SlB W. an ;c
plosion has
e tip by th
detection system.' : - "J
What is now expected, there4
fore, is a Soviet repetition of
our. own Eniwetok test of 4 10314
.Before very long, ! U the fore
casters are I correct. they will
try-teat a weapon like the chief
hfimh nf our 1951 Eniwetok se
ries.' This bomb, had a power ot -
mote than 200 kilotons more
than the explosive force of 200,4
OOO- tons of TNT and it con4
tained a small quantity of the!
heavy hydrogen mixture which
forums the core of a true hydro
g$bomb.- j" j r: j
dor Eniwetok tests had a doa.
bte 'purpose 4o experiment with
oet-of the very powerful atom!
ic bombs that are-needed as
triggers . for hydrogen bombs
and to gain data on tfce hydro
gen fusion reaction. A similat
bomb test will justify Male
ke boast. It is In .order fo
the Soviets, whose biggest bomb
to- date had a power ander I
kilotons. Aad snch a -test will
sdt; delay the Soviet over-all
atomic bnild-ap, by requiring
. conversion of plntoaiom reac
tor! to produce large quantities
of tritium, the fantastically cost
ly! Very heavy hydrogen that is
the most important component
f a true hydrogen bomb. ' j
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'if this is the sort of thing
Jli lenkov was talking - about,
tkpre is no reason to adjust past
estimates of the Soviet atomic
progress, which placed the be
tinning of the time of real dan
In addition, there are good ,
reasons to believe that the So
viets now have the prototype
of a giant jet bomber compar
able to our - B-32 the most ad
vanced bomber we possess. The
new plane was expected to be
shown, in tact, at the Moscow
air show Jiat was cancelled by
bad weather. If weather permits,
the showing may well have taken
place before these words can be
printed. In any case this new
plane, if its existence is con
firmed, will put Soviet strategic
air development almost on a
par with our own. . '
Finally, to complete this pat
tern of growing Soviet air -atomic
strength, there are the mark
ed peculiarities of the new So
viet bndget, which Malenkev an
nounced with snch a flourish.
Malenkov chiefly emphasized
the larger share of the Russian
national income that is now to
j be allocated to the consumer. In
' view of the extraordinary rise
of Soviet national income and
productivity since the end of the
war, greater generosity to the
mass of the population is cer
tainly overdue. It should not be
difficult to finance, either, since
the Soviets have- largely com
pleted their mostTmassive mili
tary program, the' re-equipment
of , their huge: ground forces.
4 Meanwhile Malenkov made no
mention whatever of two fea
tures of the budget which are
deeply disquieting. On the one
band, all the grandiose capital
projects of Stalin's old age have
now 1 been cancelled. For in
stance, the dead dictator's heirs
bare stopped construction of the
canal from the Aral Sea to the
Caspian Sea. and the tunnel ,
' from Sakhalin, nnile the Straits
- of Tartary, to the Siberian main- -
land. By so doing, they have pro
portionally increased -. the al
ready enormous capital . funds
available, for more immediate
ly useful purposes, snch as the
expansion of aircraft produc
tion. On the other hand, "residual"
expenditures have also been
enormously increased, from 28.5
billion rubles, in the 1952 budg
et, to no less than 73.9 billion
rubles in this year's budget This
special category of outlays i is
nevjr itemized in the Soviet
budget It is generally believed
to-provide most of the finahc
' ing for the Soviet atomic effort,
the .guided missile development"
program, and the like. The mean
ing of such an increase, com
ing at this time, should not ire
quire further comment
The likelihood is strong that
the Soviet annual investment in
the atomic program, guided mis
sile development and other spe
cial weapon projects, now con
siderably exceeds our own In
vestments. Add the progress, of
Soviet strategic air. Add, far
ther, the Soviet build-up which
ear own Chiefs of . Staff ! have
held will reach a stage of acute
danger in 1954. The sum of all
the evidence is a f atare danger
for which, at present, this conn
try is making no .adequate prepa
ration. . , - -
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New York Herald Trfbuna. toe.l
Better English ;
: . By D. CL WnXIAMS ;
1. What is wrong 4 with this
sentence? "When Hi saw him
going down the street I rea
lized that he didn't mind me
staying -at home." 1
Z. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "demise"?
3. Which one ot these words,
is: misspelled? Perscribe, perse
vere, personify, persecution. ?
4. What does the word timpli-,
cation" mean? 1 -
5. What is a word beginning
with st that means "something
that rouses the mind or spirits"?
ANSWERS '
L Say, "he didntimind mj
staying at home." 2. Pronounce
de-miz, as in sae unstressed, 1
as in size, accent second syllable
3. Prescribe. 4. Act of bringing
into intubate or incriminating
connection. "Your implication,
is that Charles is guilty.' 5.
Stimulus. , ,i ;
as much as $30,000 to j the earn
paign fund, he replied; -
I knew it was illegal to do
that . . . probably better than
anybody I have ever tailed to
because, so far as I have been
able to ascertain, I am the only
man who has ever read the Tax
Act or the Corrupt Practices
Act"
"Q. That is in either party, or
just one?" .
"A Both parties, sir. I recall
very well how in thej '40 cam
paign, with a ceiling of $3,000,
000 as the top amount that a
political committee could spend,
the Republicans spent $18,000,
000 not to elect Willkie and re
ported it"
Q. At least they reported it"
"A. We . reported everything
too. The way you do lit sir, is
to organize other committees,
and then each committee has a
$3,000,000 limit and jrou don't -run
out of $3,000,000 1 gifts un
less you run out -of names."
Maycock refused to give the
names of the dummies he used
as contributors, and when he
was asked if he thought it was
innocent of them to make a fake
' contribution to the party he
ensweredl j
"Congress has seen fit to "
make politics difficult, danger
ous and complex, and has made
-it practically impossible to car
ry on the functions of the dem
ocracy in a proper manner by
,what I consider a very hypro
critical law. ,1 am j referring
to the Heath Act"
He said a mouthful then.
The. same is true with respect to
the state corrupt practices law
which has made hypocrites (or
worse) of many candidates.. The
' terms of these laws are so rigid
and their limitations; have be
come so unrealistic in view of
high campaigning costs that
candidates or their friends are
forced to resort to many devices
to finance a campaign. Like
other laws against sin, it will
not be moderated, so spending .
goes on and the spenders are
never brought to book.
Mayock said if it was a crime
to channel contributions through
names of other than the original .
donors and he was convicted and
sentenced to serve a week to
tea days on each offense "I
wont live long enough to get
out of jaiL" In his frankness be
has exposed part of the not-so-
secret evils of our political sys
tem: rewards for political fav
i .
ors, concealed and excessive po
litical contributions. The very
exposure, however, may .serve
to make politicians more cau-
Mrs. F.D.R.
Returning To Politics
Inside TV . . .
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TV Networks Bid '
For Theater
Gornell and! Beatrice
of signing Broad
Martin and Ethel
policy
Maty
Ives
i
Sta
rs
1
kkd
by his! favorite
feren children are
parents in confribut-
U II!
is being- jelt by
follow telethons
one xcetk, there
us numerous op-
unable to afford
it hurti. If var
an overall con
there would be
of. the potential
tious if not more ethicaL
Time Flies
FROM STATESMAN FILES
: 10 Years Ago X
August 13, 1943
Sen. Charles L. McNary was
speaker jat the Keizer local of
the farmers Union, of which ne
is a member. t
American Liberator bombers,
flying a round trip of more than
2500 miles from their African
bases, damped 330,000 pounds
; of high explosives on .German
aircraft factory at Wiener Neu
stadt " r i
Col. Hans Christian Adamson,
member of the Rickenbr cker
mission which drifted on the Pa
cific for; 21 days,- spoke at the
Salem Women's Club. I ;
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25 Years Ago
Aagust 13, 1928
Willamette, University is 84
years old today. On Aug. .13,
1844, Mrs. Chloe Wilson opened
the first session of the Oregon
Institute Willamette University
after 1853) in frame building
which cost $4000.
The plot of Oakland park addi
tion was approved by the city
planning, and zoning commis
sion. It extends from 14th
Street to 19th Street v
Silverton had two big blazes,
a storage garage destroyed and
planing mill damaged with a
loss of $45,000.
40 Years Ago
August IS, 1913
George Wenderoth, who has
been oi$ government surveying
in Alaska, is visiting here his
brother Harry Wenderoth, ;fc in
Salem. - ;
Paul Westerland of California
finished! first in the Mt. Baker
marathon runners. His time was
9- hours j 33 minutes.
Fjve thousand pheasants have
been raised at the state pheas
ant farm near. Corvallis and arc
to be distributed over Oregon.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
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By J. M. ROBERTS. JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is
returning to politics.
After eight years devoted to the
United Nations, during which she
did a remarkable job of keeping
her skirts clear of partisanships,
she's going to have a Washington
headquarters again.
She says this is going to be
non-partisan effort, too. That is,
she and the new organization she
will head, called the National Is
sues Committee, will not endorse
candidates.
At she expresses it, -the idea is
to refute what she calls prevalent
fear and confusion, re-define issues
and see that the people get facts
upon which to make sound judg
ments.
In announcing formation of the
committee, however, she issued a
statement which presumably repre
sents something of a platform. It
conforms very closely to the pat
tern established by the Democratic
members of Congress since Presi
dent Eisenhower's inauguration.
Top names of the committee also
may be taken as some indication
of the approach to facts which can
bo expected from it. They include
Charles F. Brannan, formerly
Democratic secretary of agricul
ture; Clark Clifford. White -House
general counsel under the Demo
crats; Walter Reuther, president of
the CIO: and Leon Keyserling,
chairman of the President's Coun
cil of Economic Advisers under the
Democrats.
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In her statement, Mrs. Roose
velt attacked those whom she ac
cused of trying to wreck the inter
nationalist foreign policy of both
Democratic and Republican administrations.
On domestic issues she took ex
actly the line you would ; expect
from Eleanor Roosevelt and the
widow of Franklin D. Roosevelt
She said talk of a controlled re
cession would only lead to unem
ployment and reduction of busi
ness opportunity.
She criticized government failure
to produce a farm program In
meet falling farm income. She said
ground had been lost in the fields
of education and health, "and
nothing seems to be contemplated
to improve our social . security
program except to spread dismal
inadequacy over more , people."
She didn't amplify on these
points. President Eisenhower has
shown interest toward all three
matterf hy raising their adminis
tration to Cabinet rank and an
nounced various study programs,
just as he has on the farm mat
ters. Although as stated above, Mrs.
Roosevelt's recent years . have
been spent with deliberate devotion
j to non-partisanship, they have not,
been non-controversiaL
: Some of the civil rights issues
she has support en in the United
Nations contribute to the belief by
Sen. . Bricker and others in Con
gress that the Constitution needs
to be revised to make sure that
international conventions arrived
at in the U. N. or elsewhere out
side Congress cannot supersede the
law -of the land.
The finger points surely now to
ward her return to at least some
degree of ' the - controversially
which surrounded her when she
lived in the White House. '
By EVE STARR
HOLLYWOOD Helen Hayes, Katherine
LiLue may be the CBS answer to NBC's tew
way talent for their spectacular fall line-up.
Merman are already on the verge of l inking with
the latter network. - CBS is featuring Katherine
Cornell in a 13-week dramatic teleseries starting
Sept 27. This will mark Miss Cornell's first
pearance on film, although Helen Hayes and Beai-
trice Liuie.have guested on TV programs before.
TELETORIAL: The old saying that "char
ity begins at home" has taken on 4 new twist
these days with the home tele-viewer givinh
to practically all worthy causes lichen as
entertainer. People are digging deep, and
following the fine example set by their
' ing. I
However, the law of diminishing returns
some charities which have the misfortune
or big national charity drives. List year.
were three major drives via television, p.
peals for local charities. 1 ?
I People trarst.to give, but findihemsel
the luxury of giving beyond the point tc here
rious "appeals" were spaced over the year
xroiung ooay ana restricted to at minimum
less confusion and frustration ott the pari
conorsv - I :
MAN BEHIND THE SCENES: William Self. 32-veafld pro
ducer of Schlitx Playhouse, owes his present executive position to
his good friend. Spencer Tracy. : , . . ' j H j ;
Self, who started his career asani actor, toured the glittering
night spots of New York with Tracy! and saw adulation! paid to
successful performers. By contrast Tracy also tfok him to the drug
stores and small-time bars where actors who ase ,Mat liberty" hang
out It was a good object lesson for Bill III III
"Nothing is more wonderful than being an! actor IF; you're a
success," S pence told him. "I've shown you both sides. Weigh your
chances and decide whether it's worth the gainble." Bill put his
greasepaint in mothballs and decided to be an employer instead of
an employee. . f. If. ;.. fj-j
His first chance to show what he could do m a producer came
when he shot 13 "China Smith" telefilms in 21 ays. The best thing
he did was to hire two Academy Award winnerjs, cameraman Russ
Harlan and film Editor George Amyt Avho formed the nucleus
around which the Schlitz Playhouse production mit was built With
65 telefilms under his belt in one year, although relatively new to
the business, he is now a seasoned producer. If; ; i
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SHORT SHORTS: Laraine Day (Mts. teo Durocher) ar
rives in Hollywood August 20 to begin wotk on "White Col
lar Girl," which will start filming Sept. 1. The hi'sh-hvsh
talk around town, since the Durochers bought a new Bel-Air
home, is that "Lippy" will switch from tle Giants to giant
production for films . . . Brian Aherne t ill appear as the
suate Frank Case, host to show business treats foryears at'
the Algonquin Hotel in New York; in h S new ttleseries,
"Wayward Inn" . . . The Ozzie Nelson fami y will beja major
contributing group to the lJS. Treasury thi year. They begin
40 TV shows and 28 radio show s as usual, for two sponsors'
. . . Arthur Godfrey's tremendout welcomelhome bjl his fans1
after a three-month layoffs proved his unfltminished oppeat
by registering a smash rating of 3 . . j!
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STARR BULLETINS? "Duffy's Tavern" villi be psr of your
bright TV entertainment fare and soon. Ed Gardner his signed
with Hal Roach Jr., to produce a 'aeries of aha If -hour comedies
f filmed) based on his "Archie" character . . . Hedy Lamarr, in
Rome to do TV films, has junked the whole idda she may still do
"Helen of Troy" here . .. . Red Buttons tells fhe story about the
Gaiety Theater and the Gaiety Delicatessen on Broadway, t Now tho
theater is closed and the delicatessen is still open," said Red. "This'
proves pastrami is stronger than ham.r
(Copyright 1953. General features Corp.)
some rights. Hastil ...btslits, ts.Vnd thai
WELFARE STAFF
LONDON (INS) A large staff
of welfare officers is maintained
on British railways i to assure
amenities ' in the operation of
cloak rooms, rest rooms and can
teens and the proper heiting,
lijbt fni ventilation of rail-
Iroad properties.
Franz Bakery
Terminal Set
To Rise Soon
Construction will begin in a
few days for a $43,800 Franz
Bakery truck terminal at 1220
S.-20th St, according to a build
ing permit for, that amount is
sued Wednesday by the city en
gineer's office, i
The permit issued to U. S.
Bakery, Inc., lists Robert L. Fors
ter and Son, 2180 Wallace Rd.,
as builders for the structure.
Forster explained that the ter
minal for the Portland bakers will
accomodate about 10 trucks, is
to be a one-story structure 52 by
135-ft and will be finished 120
days after start of construction.
Bread and pastries to be distrib
uted in the Salem area will be
stored in warming rooms at this
terminal prior to delivery. Fors
ter said.
Other permits issued Wednes
day by the engineer's office, in
cluded Maryellen Good, re-roof
dwelling, 2330 tee St, $200; Ed
puincy. ' re-roof a rage. 2277
Claude St, $50 Foster and Klei-
ser. erect poster Da net 332 n.
Commercial St. $150. and M. W.
Ash, alter dwelling, I960 Market
St, $2,500.
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ST. LOUIS UH Monsanto Chem
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