t
104TH YEAR
Top Level Talk to Decide
U.S. Actions in Indochina
By JOHN A. SCALI
WASHINGTON OP The' United
States and France have arranged
high - level talks to discuss specif
ic conditions under which Ameri
can and other allied forces might
intervene in the war in Indochina.
Diplomatic officials said these
secret conversations would start
Death of Tin Heiress
Ends Runaway Love
PARIS (JP Isabels Patinol
Goldsmith. 1R - year - old Rolivian
tin heiress whoe runaway ro- j
mance with a wealthy youne Bri
ton last January won headlines all '
over the world, died here Friday
night in the American Hospital.
She and 20 - year - old .lames
Goldsmith, son of a hotel owner,
defied her father's efforts to pre
vent their marriage and eventually
got his consent to it.
Isabel a youngest daughter of
Bolivian tin magnate Antenor Pat
ino. was found lying unconscious
in a Paris hotel room last Thurs
day. Mum
The State Emergency Board
composed of the elder statesmen
of the Legislative Assembly just
can't resist the notion that "papa
knows best," papa being the
board itself. This came out again
in the recent criticism of the
State Board of Control for plan
ning a building at the state hos
pital with capacity for 670 beds
instead of 445 beds which the
legislators said they had in mind
when the appropriation of $1,
500,000 was made.
On the other hand I presume
the Emergency Board Members
would orotest that in this case
it's the Board of Control which
assumes that it is the papa who
knows best what the state needs.
At any rate Secretary of State
Newbry said the EB was too
autocratic; Treasurer Unander
nays the hospital desperately
needs more beds; and Governor
Patterson said he found no re
striction in the appropriation as
to the number of beds to be
provided.
The Emergency Board had the
right to express its opinion since
it was asked for a supplemental
appropriation of $30,000 to. cover
the amount of the proposed con
tract. However the Legislative
Assembly assumed a wrong pre
rogative when it wrote into its
appropriation bill the require
ment of approval of the Emer
gency Board before the board of
control or State System of High
er Education could let a contract
for a building to be paid for out
of state funds. This is an unwar
ranted invasion of the executive
function, and is beyond the com
petence of the legislative branch.
The old emergency board
started this some years ago with
its postwar building fund pro
gram, inserting a provision that
though the funds had been ap
propriated approval of the Emer
gency Board was
(Continued on Editorial Page 4)
Autos Smashed
On Detour Route
A two-car collision early Satur
day morning on a Turner road
detour two miles east of Salem
near the Portland-Salem express
way project resulted in consider
able damage to both vehicles.
Drivers of the cars were Jam
mes Clarence Brigham. 1571 Mis
sion St., and Lee Christine My
ers. 1310 S. 13th St. Neither
driver was hurt in the collision
which occurred as one of the cars
emerged onto Turner road from
the detour. Both vehicles were
towed from the scene.
ANIMAL CRACKERS
V WAR R C N SOOOHICH
"W must do something
about Junior's posture."
pi) mora
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within the next few days, probably
in Paris, in answer to an urgent
French appeal for hard informa
tion about American intentions.
Both French and American au
thorities say France has not yet
asked direct U.S. intervention.
i American authorities emphasized
i that the agreement to talk with
She was transferred to the Amer
ican Hospital in suburban Neuilly
and operated on for a brain hemor
rhage Hpt husband was at her
bedside when she died.
The youns couple's hide - and
seek elopment to Scotland ended
happily, with family troubles ap
parently patched up. Patino caught
up withl 'he defiant couple just be
fore their wedding and then con
sented to the marriage.
The newly-weds recently had been
vacationing on the French Riviera.
The young woman was expecting
a baby in September.
Thief Cleans
Out Dallas
Station Till
Statesman News Service
DALLAS, Ore The broad day
light theft of $258 from the till
of a service station was reported
here Friday.
Police Chief Paul Kitzmiller
.said the theft was reported by
Carl May who operates a station
at Washington and Church
streets.
Time of the theft was placed
between 2 and 2:30 p.m. May told
police he was changing a tire and
his attendant was washing a car
when the money disappeared.
Two customers were with May.
Nobody was seen to enter the sta
tion until May went to the cash
register and found it empty, ac
cording to the police report.
The loss was reported as insur
ed. Chiropractic
Official Faces
Theft Charge
SEASIDE (.P C. C. Dunham,
removed Wednesday by Gov. Paul
Patterson as secretary-treasurer of
the State Board of Chiropractic
Examiners, was arrested here late
Thursday.
He was charged in a warrant
issued by Clatsop County Dist.
Atty. Thomas Brownhill with lar
ceny of public money. The com
plaint was signed by Forrest I.
Goddard, Salem, president of the
State Board of Chiropractic Ex
aminers. According to Brownhill the com
plaint charged Dunham with fail
ure to pay the state treasurer $10
he received Feb. 1, 1954. The dis
trict attorney said the state attor
ney general's office told him an
audit of the board's books showed
a shortage of about $9,000. Dun
ham s bail was set at $5,000.
Politics on Parade . . .
Who's Running for What in Mav Primaries!
(Editor's note: Stories in The Ore
Ron Statesman's exclusive Political
Parade series are written by or for
the candidates on invitation of this
newspaper and opinions expressed
therein may or may not he in ae
rnrdapre with The Statesman's own
policy )
Today's subject:
PAIX PATTERSON
Candidate for
GOVERNOR (R)
Paul Patterson has given Ore
gon a fresl). vigorous leadership
that people like and completely
trust
Sincere, cap
able and forth
right his na
tural friendli
ness, unques
tioned integrity
and keen inquir
ing mind have
made him one I
of the most
popular govern- V
ors in the his
tory of the Paul Patterson
state.
With a distinguished record of
25 years of public service . that
led to his election as president of
the state senate and to the gov
ernorship upon the resignation of
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Th Orocon Statesman, Salem,
France did not constitute a U.S.
commitment to enter the war.
Presiden Eisenhower, with the
approval of Congress, will decide
this, they said, if and when France
meets conditions Secretary of State
Dulles laid down in a speech on
Indochina a week aj:o.
Dulles has informed French Am
bassador Henri Bonnet, it was said,
that the views set forth in this ad
dress were not just his own but
represented clear - cut American
government policy.
The secretary said flatly that
"the present situation does not
provide a suitable basis for the
United States to participate" in
the seven year old fight in Indo
china. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault
will represent the French govcrn
; ment and Ambassador Douglas Dil
j Ion. and possibly other top officials,
will speak for the United States in
the forthcoming talks.
The State Department declined to
say anything about them. But dip
lomatic informants said Dulles and
Bonnet already have concluded
tentative arrangements for the
meeting.
France urgently requested the
talks in order to guide her diplo
mats now negotiating a possible
Indochina armistice at Geneva and
to help devise future battlefield
strategy in Indochina.
" A French Embassy spokesman
said the conversations are "imper
ative," especially in view of the
growing Communist attacks in In
dochina against the outer defense
of the critically important city of
Hanoi.
"We need to have a clear cut
answer from you right away about
what you intend to do to help us
if anything," he said.
Huge Concrete
Bucket Falls.
2 Die. 6 Hurt
THE DALLES. Ore. OP A
huge concrete bucket weighing sev
eral tons broke loose from a crane
and fell on a group of workmen
at The Dalles Dam Friday even
ing. Two men were killed and six
were injured.
The coroner's office reported that
Ferrell C. Ball. 22, of The Dalles
was killed outright when he was
crushed by the falling bucket El
mo Monroe Lawson, 21, died en
rouie to a hospital.
The injured were identified by
attendants at The Dalles hospital
as Edward L. Sellers, and David
Pearson, both of The Dalles, and
Walter R. ' Brooks, and Glen Cal
lipo, both of Lyle. Wash. Extent
of their injuries could not be
! learned.
j Two other workmen were treat
i ed for minor injuries and later re
! leased.
The accident occurred at about
i fi p.m. in the spillway section of
tne aam wnicn is Deing ouiu oy
the Atkinson Ostrander construc
tion firm.
G ft Am - c w CnliAxliflnc
Eugene Rally Speech
EUGENE (iP Adlai Stevenson.
1952 Democratic candidate for
president, will address a fourth
congressional district Democratic
rally here in July.
Lane County officials of the
party, in making the announce
ment Friday, said the date will
be set later.
former Gov. Douglas McKay,
Paul Patterson brought to his
present job a practical under
standing and working experience
in what it takes to get things
done in state affairs.
He's doing the job the people
of Oregon want done. He's doing
it with a simplicity and effective
ness that commands respect, con
fidence and cooperation.
The civic record of Paul Patter
son is a record of jobs effectively
and well done. Member of the
state senate from 1945 through
1951, he was president of the sen
ate in 1951. In Hillsboro he was
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, Rotary Club, Washington
County Veterans Council, Wash
ington County Chapter of the
Izaak Walton League, and was
commander of his American Le
gion Post. He has been state
1 president of the Oregon State
Motor Association and state chair
man of American Legion Junior
Baseball. He was a trustee of the
Hillsboro Congregational Church,
of which he is a member.
Born in 1900 in Kent, Ohio, he
has been a resident of Oregon
since 1908. Married in 1926 to
Georgia S. Benson, the Patter
sons have three children.
Oregon. Saturday. May 15. 1954
Youth Charged With Kidnaping
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Things looked much glummer for Floyd Lafayette Johnson, 17, (at left) Friday night following his
arrest by Monmouth police and subsequent facing of charge of kidnaping. He was arrested in pos
session of a car in which two postal employes were kidnaped Thursday after they left work. City
Detective Robert D. Mason is shown at right examining the 32.20 caliber revolver the boy allegedly
used to hold the two men. Johnson, said he is an AWOL Marine from Camp Pendleton, Calif., was
certified to Marion County juvenile court Friday and held in lieu of $10,000 bail. (Statesman
photo) (Picture and story also on page 2, Sec. 1)
Viesko, Post
Bids Low on
WU Buildings
Willamette University's million
dollar construction program won
the go-ahead sign from a Board of
Trustees' committee in Salem Fri
day for opening bids on the pro
ject. Low bidder was the Salem firm
of Viesko and Tost, which sub
mitted $1,050,500 as the cost of
erecting a set of three new campus
buildings'.
The proposed tine arts and au
ditorium; building, health center
and new women's dormitory will
rise on the campus facing old
Sweetlarid Field.
Six Bids: Opened
Other base bids opened by the
committee Fridny were: E. E.
Batterman, Salem, $1,062,900;
Donald M. Drake Construction Co.,
Portland, $1,127,500: Henry M.
Mason, $1 ,150.871 : Ross B. Ham
mond, Portland, $1,154,209; A. V.
Peterson Co., Portland, $1,167,756.
Furnishing, landscaping and
architect's fee are expected to
bring total cost, based on the low
bid. to approximately $1,150,000.
James L. Payne, Salem, is archi
tect. ,
Financing of the construction
is to be; accomplished through the
university's current Challenge
Fund, now being raised and stand
ing at approximately $700,000.
Set 1955- Completion
The university development com
mittee recommended that the work
proceed, soon and that the low
bid be accepted.
Plans call for completion of the
three buildings in time for the
opening, of the 1955 fall term.
Buildings are designed for rein
forced concrete construction, with
brick veneer. Both classrooms and
an auditorium will be included in
the fine arts building of 223 by
118 feet
Army Boosts
Draft Totals
WASHINGTON OP The Army
raised its draft call by 5.000 Fri
day, calling for the induction of
23.000 men in July.
Inductions since January have
been running at the steady rate of
18,000 a month, but the Defense
Department has announced it will
need mpre men after July 1, when
a large, number of draftees will be
completing their two years of serv
ice. .
Pentagon officials said the in
crease had nothing to do with the
situation in Indochina.
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL.
At Salem 6, Vancouver 2
At Tri-City 7. Victoria 4
At Yakima 6, Lcwiston 4
At Wenatchee 7. Spokane 9
t Only games scheduled)
COAST LEAGl'E
At Seattle 6. Portland 4
At San Francisco 10. Los Angeles 4
At Hollywood 5. Oakland Z
At San Diego 7-2. Sacramento J-5
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Detroit 4. New York S
At Cleveland S. Washington 2
M Baltimore 7. Boston 2
At Chicago 4. Philadelphia 3
NATI0NAL, LEAGUE
At Philadelphia 0, Cincinnati 1
At New York S. Chicago
At Pittsburgh 3. Milwaukee 2 (10
inn.l
At Brooklyn 1. St Louis 10
PRICE 5c
Roval Tour Over
LONDON OP Queen Elizabeth
II sailed home Friday night to
mist shrouded England from a
historic six months globe - gridling
tour. First to greet her was Prime i
Minister Winston Churchill, who
boarded the royal 't' P- '
in Southampton Harbor at the
Queen's special invitat on.
Soviets Yield
On Indochina;
Blocks Remain
By LYNN HEINZERLING
GENEVA m Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov budged Fri
day from the rigid position taken
by the Communists toward ending
the war in Indochina. But formid
able obstacles still stand between
the Indochina conference and
peace.
Molotov proposed an amendment
to the Communist armistice plan
presented earlier by Vietminh rep
resentatives. The amendment pro
vided for supervision of the armi
stice by a neutral nation's com
mission. Both United States and French
spokesmen declined comment, but
one French delegation source said
it was "a concession on one of the
points which we regarded as most
important."
Rogue Valley
Orchardists
Granted Aid
MEDFORD (JPi Jackson and
Josephine counties have been de
clared disaster areas and Rogue
River orchardists whose fruit crops
were damaged by the May 1
freeze thereby are eligible for
Farmers Home Administration
loans.
Sen. Guy Cordon (R-Ore.) tele
phoned word Friday that the Sec
retary of Agriculture had made
the disaster designation to a Jack
son County Fruit Growers League
disaster committee. Kenneth Saw
yer, Oregon administrator for the
farm home agency, said at Port
land his office had recommended
it
Growers appealed for federal
aid after the big freeze had de
stroyed an estimated 65 to 75 per
cent of the rich Rogue fruit crop.
WARNED BY MORSE
PENDLETON UP Sen. Morse
of Oregon said in a speech here
Friday that "the situation today
is as deadly serious as any inter
national crisis that the U.S. has
experienced."
Neuberger
EUGENE UP) A 20-year "Ted
eral power program of great bene
fits and success" in the Pacific
Northwest was "deliberately, cal
culatingly and definitely ended"
by Interior Secretary Douglas (Mc
Kay. State Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger said Friday night
Neuberger, Democratic candi
date for U.S. senator and well
known author, replied to McKay's
radio-television power policy talk
last Monday in a speech at a
Democratic rally here.
Neuberger said McKay's address
"consisted of half-truths, quarter
truths and just plain downright
gobbledygook."
McKay's- decision to abandon
federal claim to Hells Canyon dam
No. 49
Boeing Takes
Wraps Off Big
Jet Airliner
SEATTLE OH Boeing unveiled
its "15 million dollar gamble" Fri
daythe sleek, swept-wing plane
with which it hopes to capture the
world's commercial jet airliner
market.
The prototype model, built as a
military tanker-transport, can eas
ily be converted for commercial
use.
Poised on its 10-wheeled, tricycle
landing gear, the giant, four-jet
plane was rolled out of the com
pany's nearby Renton plant at 4
p.m., just two months ahead of
schedule.
Similar in size to Boeing's six
jet B47 bomber, the 707 will have
a 550 mile an hour cruising speed
and fly in the stratosphere at 30,
000 to 40.000 feet.
Boeing said it will be able to
make transcontinental flights in
less than five hours and transat
lantic flights from New York to
London in less than seven.
Freak Operation
Mishap Fatal to
Seven-Year-Old
EASTON. Pa. Iffl Seven-year-old
Roy Henthorn died in Easton
Hospital Friday from injuries suf
fered Tuesday when an anesthesia
bag exploded during a routine ton
sillectomy. Hospital administrator Arthur H.
Brittingham -said the exploding
gases apparently travelled through
a tube leading into the boy's throat
causing internal burns.
IKE AT CAMP DAVIS
WASHINGTON ll President
and Mrs. Eisenhower will spend
the weekend at Camp Davis in
Maryland's Catoctin Mountains.
Max. Mia. Precip.
Salem Stt M .M
Portland .. 79 45 .00
Baker 82 31 .00
Medlord 83 44 .00
North Bend 63 42 .00
Roseburg 84 36 .00
San Francisco 63 45 .00
Chicago 71 46 .00
New York 62 49 .00
Los Angeles 67 58 Trace
Willamette River -.7 feet.
FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary Field, Salem I :
Variable high cloudiness today and
tonight. Warm todav with the higti
83 to 85. low tonight 43 to 47. A
httle cooler on Sunday.
Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today
was 56.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Since Start of Weather Year Sept. I
This Year Last Year Normal
41.21 38.34 MM
Says McKay Scuttled
sites on the Snake River "is a
threat to every valuable water
power site belonging to the Ameri
can people in the Pacific North
est" Neuberger said,
. "The people know that and this
is the reason that the Republican
National Committee had to put up
political campaign funds" to soon
sor the talk "so that the secretary
could try to square himself with
the people he has wronged," Neu
berger continued.
He criticized the Republican ad
ministration's "partnership" pro
gram under which the federal
government would join with pri
vate and public local agencies in
creating new power facilities.
Neuberger said under the pro
Ike Puts 'Don't
Talk9 Order on
Army Session
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON (Jf) The Eisenhower administration Friday
clamped a secrecy lid on a now-famous meeting which helped pre
pare the way for the Army's challenge to Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis).
The "don't talk" edict brought swift protests from Democrats
on the McCarthy-Army investigating subcommittee. They demanded
that top federal officials up to but not including President Eisen
hower be called if necessary to find out whether the Army's actions
were master-minded at the highest level of government.
The meeting in question was held i
Jan. 21 and was attended by Sher
man Adams, the President's top
assistant; and Atty. Gen. Brow
nell. Told to Keep Record
Army counselor John G Adams
testified Wednesday that Sherman
Adams advised him at this meet
ing, held in Brownell's office, to
keep a written record of the Ar
my's troubles with McCarthy's of
fice over Pvt. G. David Schine.
Later publication of this record led
to the present blazing row.
Friday Democrats on the
Senate investigations subcommit
tee pressed for more details of the
meeting, and down over the tele
vised hearings came the adminis
tration's secrecy lid.
Told to Keen Silent
Joseph X. Welch, counsel to the :
Army officials, said Adams had (
been instructed to say no more i
about the meeting. These instruc- j
tions. he said, came from the act-
mg head of the Defense Depart
ment. Robert Anderson. Welch ad
ded that he understood Anderson
was transmitting them for some
body else.
That pointed to the White House.
And at the White House, Assis
tant Press Secretary Murray Snyd
er, when asked if the order origin-1
ated there, would say only: "I have
no information to give out."
Welch tried and failed during the
noon recess of the hearings to get
some explanation in writing for the
investigators. Reluctantly, the
Democrats agreed to give him the
week-end to make a further at
tempt. Additional details on page 2,
Sec. 1.)
Ike Assails
Diversion
ToHearing
WASHINGTON UP) President
Eisenhower declared Friday night
the heart of America is sound
"even if at times our attention is
diverted by unworthy scenes in our
national capital."
The President's remark in an In
formal speech touched off a rous
ing ovation at an Armed Forces
Day dinner at the Statler Hotel.
No Elaboration
Eisenhower did not elaborate on
his statement about "unworthy
scenes in our national capital " But
his remarks apparently were inter
preted by many in the audience as
an allusion to the row between
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) and Secre
tary of the Army Stevens.
"Never forget," Eisenhower de
clared, "the strength of freedom
and the Free World. We know how
much we value the right to worship
as we please and to choose our oc
cupations." Standing Ovation
He went on to say that "we know
the value we place on those I
things," and that "even if at times !
our attention is diverted by un- j
worthy scenes even in our national
capital. ..we still know tha' we ;
are Americans that the heart of !
America is sound." j
The President got a standing ov- j
ation when ne was introaucea. tsut
his audience, made up mainly of
servicemen .really cut loose with
applause when he remarked about
"unworthy events" in the capital.
Death Strikes Qose
To Sleepers in Cabin
EUGENE OP A car left the
Pacific Highway, ripped through
and demolished a cabin at Goshen
south of here early Friday.
No one was injured but the
bumper of the automobile came
to a stop on a pillow beside the
head of D. W. Waldrip. asleep in
the cabin with his wife and six
children.
State police cited the driver,
William Van Bailey, Portland, on
a reckless driving charge.
AEC FUND OKEHED
WASHINGTON v-A mammoth
appropriations bill providing $5.
700,800.000 for the operation of the
Atomic Energy CommiRsion and
a score of other agencies during
the next fiscal year was approved
Friday by the Senate Appropria
tions Committee.
gram the government would pay
for non-revenue producing facili
ties such as fisbways, navigation
locks and flood control gates while
power companies, by paying a
"fractional share" of a dam's
cost, would be "able to monopo
lize all the income . . ."
Addressing a question to McKay.
Sen. Cordon and Reps. Ellsworth
and Coon, all Oregon Republicans.
Neuberger asked:
"What was wrong with the part
nership which we had and which
all of you so deliberately ended?"
Neuberger said that between 1333
and 1932 the Democratic adminis
tration's power program "in
creased farm electrification jn
Oregon from 27 to nearly 98 per
Island Folk
Appeal for
End to Tests
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. J
Citing evidence of physical injury,
people of the far-flung Marshall
Islands have urgently appealed for
an immediate end to the United
States hv-drogen bomb tests affect
ing them.
Ask C"inpentatWa
If the tests must continue, they
said, proper safety precautions and
compensation must be provided.
The Pacific islanders reported
that residents of two atolls. Ronge
lab and Uterik. suffered "in vari
ous degrees from 'lowering of the
blood count.' burns, nausea, and
the falling off of hair from the
head" as the result of the Ameri
can tests with "lethal weapons."
Blame Mar. 1 Blast
The language of the petition.
signed by more than one hundred
Marshallese. received here 10 days
ago and made public by the U. N.
Friday, indicated these ailments
results from the hydrogen blast of
March 1.
Rail Crossing
Mishap Kills
Marion Man
Statesman News Service
MARION Albert G. Mounts
78. farmer of the Marion area. 15
miles south of Salem, was killed
4 early Friday when his auto
mobile was struck by the
Southern Pacific northbound
Cascade limited on a crossing
near the train depot
His body was taken to the Howell-Edwards
Fan era 1 Home at
Salem where announcement of
services will be made later.
Mounts became Marion Coun
ty's fourth traffic fatality for
1954.
Investigating state police said
the train apparently struck the
automobile on the right neai
fender and parts of the vehicle
were found 260 feet from the
scene of the accident Mounts was
en route to a neighborhood store .
when killed. The locomotive crew
said they saw the approaching
car but not in time to avoid the
crash.
He is survived by his widow
who lives in Alba n v.
Big Cliff Power Units
Placed in Operations
DETROIT & An 18.000 kilo
watt generator and a 26.5Q0 horse
power turbine went into operation
Thursday night at the Big Cliff
Re-regulating dam. 2 4 miles
downstream from here.
The dam is the newest unit in
the Willamette Basin Project. After
10 days operation in a dry
ing out process the generator will
undergo three weeks of tests. Col.
Thomas H. Lipscomb, Portland
district Army Engineer, said.
STRIPPER SLAIN
OAKLAND Lynn Williams.
28-year-old San Francisco strip
tease dancer, was fatally stabbed
here early Friday.
Today's Statesman
SECTION 1
General news 2. 3, 5
Editorials, features 4
Society, women's 6-7
Sunday TV-radio logs 7
X-word puzzle . 7
Star Gazer ; "
Church news t
SECTION 2
Sports 1. 2
Comics .. 3
Saturday TV-radio 3
Inside TV 3
Markets ;
Gassified ads .r 4-7
Valley news S
Power Plan
cent" and provided "the jobs to
support the largest proportionate
population increase ever experi
enced by the state ..."
"What was wrong." he asked,
"with the partnership under which
the federal government built huge
power-producing ; dams and '' then
strung transmission lines to major
load centers, where either private
power companies or publicly -owned
systems or .vast manufac
turing plants could buy that energy
for local user" f
Neuberger said the Columbia
River power system is "being
broken up piecemeal '. . . with
the power company, of .course,
dominant in the share of energy to
be controlled.
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