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NO. 48.
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COQUILLE, COO8 COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER It, 1938.
0T1DT UCVTUICm “ *" “* ’ s*“rt w"k A VERY FINE SHOW I WELFARE COM.
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Drilling Operation« to Be
■Rased •$ OU Well—Proe-
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pects Are Bright
advertising and communications in a
n
earlier than usual next week.
Re-; aB<J
following. When
Nbw Functioning in Coquille to
Relieve the Unemploy
ment Situation
Christmas and New Year's fall on
Thursday it is probably more of an
inconvience to a^Friday published
Fomer Coquille Boy Honored
Never before, and possibly never
again, will a former Coquille boy bo
chosen on the All-American football
team as selected by Knute Rockne,
“Pop” Warner, W. A. Alexander, T. A.
D. Jones and Christy Walsh. We
refer to Ted Beckett, the outstanding
guard of the county, who has played
on the University of California var
sity the past three years.
“Pop”
Warner aayu he is the greatest guard
he ever saw in a football auit.
I
Ted left bore with his father, who
bad operated the Maryland Bar on
Front street,' when the saloons were
voted out in Coquille, about 16 years,
He was about ten years of age
then, so, of course, received no foot I
NO AUTO CAMPS
In Residential District Is Deci
sion of City Council—Other
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weekly paper than to almost any
J. F. Ewell, president of the Fat other business. Both Thursday« will
It was an ambitious undertaking,
With the city council expressing
As a part of the state-wide pro-
Elk Oil A Gas Co,, announced yester-
ob«rved by practically every busi- that of Mias Helen Pollock, high 1 gram to relieve unemployment in Oro-
themselves, Ave to one, in opposition
day that all the equipment and easing
houo ia CoquiHe.
school instructor, in drilling and 1 gun, and which was inaugurated by
to an auto camp on the highway, be-
training those fifty or more students, Gov. Norblad. in co-operation with H.
‘ween the high school and the busi-
for the presentation of Hoolywood ; B. Van Duser, of the highway com-
section, Mr. Keiaer, of Marsh-
Sketches at the Community Building i Mission, and C. H. Gram, state labor
fteld- who was applying for a building
last Friday evening. The wonder of i commissioner, thirteen men were put
Pe™it Monday evening, de nied to
it lay in the fact that the students in ' to
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Scoy,
resident
abandon the project.
With
this
equipment
on
hand
drill-
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With this equipment on hand drill- I
vo. casup . great part were without previous1 engineer, Monday morning, widening
Opposition was expressed by near
ing operations will bo immediately:« C-nningham, aro mcorroct, but it
stage appearance; that they devoted the shoulders on the highway, both
ball training here but he is one of ly all the residents of that section,
started and carried-on 24 hours a day j^**,^***1, announced^that Camp 8 will
i
J— a
wk-tK., m L
I houl* “P°n hour8 in Perfectin< them- toward Myrtle Point and Marshfield.
and were represented by H. A. Nier-
the gridiron’s beat for 1080.
to completion.
! Ml, P aw . m Vill Mnnen >t the same i M,rea under her able direction, with-
The men were employed by Mr. Van
garth, Roy Wernich, F. L. G reenough
reopen
( out Bj]owing their school work to suf- Scoy on the recommendation of the
Mr. Ewell expresses the utmost con
and Ray Burns at the Monday even
Community
Christmas
Tree
that
the
black
liquid
gold
will
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fidence t_____
fer; that in the short time at Mias Coquille Welfare Committee, which
ing
aeaaion.
Orders
for a good many million
The ladies of the Woman’s Club are
bo found and predicts the development
M
Poliock’u command that she could etps'sta of Community Chest commit
The deal made by the city recorder
of a large oil field in southwestern
of lu®ber by the mill at the bay
present so varied a program of vaude- toe members and the Chamber of this year locating the community and mayor for sale to W. E. Thomp
Oregon. Bo confident ia he of success probably
P1*“ ,ably has something to do with
on the vacant lot son, VUJ
Morri- Christmas ------- tree
•«‘‘I v* V»«V iVl UWIICU uy VUW
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in tie n^futuro that his order was,“« *•* —C-pJ._____ ville, and keep the audience inter-^Qwnmerce appointees—A. T. IMTOIVV
of the
lot owned by the city on
N. C. Kelley, Mrs. Ida Owen, ,rroS8 the highway from the Ford delinquent tax purchaae, was con-
for only 1660 feet of 8% inch easing,
>s Marion King, C. C. Farr, J. E.! <«rage. Last year’s tree, on the court firmed by the council. The lots lies
There was not as large a crowd as Mi--
but he adds that if more pipe ia noc- ’
I house lawn> and decorated by the between the W. H. Mansell and Roy
there-would have been had the even- Ross i and J. L. Stevens.
‘his committee decided not to nro-
was ■ beautiful sight. The one Watson homes, and the purchaser
essary it will bo secured.
ing been less inclement, and the show
Th
given in a mor^ comfortable auditor- seed J with a woodyard for the unem- ‘his year will be vitible to a greater agrees to pay $878 and interest for
ved. but to attemut to secure iobs number of people, and it is hoped the it—ten per cent down and $26 a
ium, but the student body resized ploy,
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those making application for ‘ thieves can be kept away from it, A month.
$65.00 for its depleted treasury.
i for all
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Craig Perrott, the baby of the Corn- ' employment. Thus far 17 men, heads
of <,<>z*n fflob«s were stolen
C. Woolvers was authorized to con
stalk family, which occupied a box Jgf families, have been given jobs, and from
year’s tree,
struct a pound for stray animals, on
adjoining the stage pretty nearly, Mpatt Monday aa alternate crew of 18
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the city’s property at the dump, at
i his bid of $70. It will be taken care
stole the show with his acrobatic
!«tints, climbing the supports of the’
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’ by by C. B. Gregory, who lives near
asVCTUDV building like a cat, descending head' Mr off a week.
hibi-l
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1*1 IO! lSi\ 1 | foremost,' and putting on an exhibi-j Of the 64 who have made applica-
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| tion seldom seen off the professional| tion to Mr. Farr, 84 have been cheeked I
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1 The councilman agreed with C. W.
An unexplained mystery on Coos ■
I«“1 *•“"<* seriously in need of em- ! The circuit court room has been Gardner to heat the city-hall with
italk wloyment.
cloy
River, or its tributary, Daniels creek,’
r)®nton Ellingson was the Cornstalk
Others who are known to crowded to overflowing the past two »team when the central heating plant
is receiving the attention of Sheriff motker whose fleas and concern over have a reserve are not being given days with the morbid and curious who main is run to that corner on Hall
Hees and deputies, and they are going the baby’« antics was equalled by consideration at this time,
have flocked here from all parts of the street, provided the charge was not
over again tomorrow to further drag Frank Schram’« solicitude as father,
The greatest need of the commun- county to liaten to the salacious evi- •" excess of what the city has been
the creek.
i R»y Woodyard as sister, and Mark ity is a place to put men to work, and de.nce of the Geo. Gothro triaj. Stand- paying for other fuel.
r^..» Thursday night at nine o’clock Seeley- Unel« 811«. Hayfever, whose anyone having a day or a week’s work ing room has been at a premium.
| City Engineer Stacar reported that
a man annroached the Daniels creek wisecracking could mostly be heard to offer should confer with some mem
The greater part of Wednesday was $2116.68 was due Peart Bros, for con-
! ferry and when taken acmes by the “D0Ut
soona
tne «»•
ferry and when
across by the ■bout the wnn4
the rain.
j ber of the committee at once.
spent in securing a jury, the follow- struction of the Beach street bridge
I ferryman, James Smith, said ho would
In the Harvest Moon chorus
ing being the ones Anally selected: , «*d payment was ordered of that
_ set,
__ r which
...... opened the > aba*
be 'back in a few minutes as he was dancing
show 8slv7
8alrotion Army, the Community Chest Verne Bennett. Gravel Ford; Allen E.' amount, lees $500.
’ asslw
me Im — ms
/ ♦ the
4 ba excellent pFO"
and the Elks to furnish Baker. Myrtle Point; Harry H. Hol-
only going
« damtlm
mile «aro
up Ible-a.
the road.
1 < urt/i
«nd nave
8«ve an izlsaa
idea a
of
pro- ‘ committee
eommi
F‘"*> payment of $481.10 for the,
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8mith watted a» hour but the man, gram to follow, appeared Lai ia<g baskets next Wednesday for those who verstott, Coquille; Delbert W. Shelton, Willard «tract sewer job was ordered
____ Huntii ing. would otherwise endure a cheerless North Bend; Simon Albee, Myrtle «»«de to Peart Bros.
who was driving an Essex coach, did 1 Davis, Rose Matney, Bonita
and *"d hungry Christmas, aro being Point; Margaret Detietoesi, Coquille;1 Th< rity engineer also reported that
return. Nor did he return any ton
ten, ' Hasel I Mansell, Bernice
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PMHer ktl
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_ Beatrice
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Morril Jami-1
there was due Knapp A Goaa for eon-
that night, nor has he or his ear . Frances Eggtaiton, Katherine .
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McCue,
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thww
roquirinr
assistance
uoiTfimdou;
’Myrtle Point;
eon. Bandon; Tike
Tike Cook,
Cook.Myrtle
Point;, rtruetion of the North Outlet sewer
seen since. ''
| Hastier, -Tracy Leach. Jack M
Inquiries farther up the road have’ Keith Hotvarstott, Bill Pook, Herman snd which he has personally invoati- g«te S. Watose, Cequil’e; and H. A. , tho sum of $5367.29, but inasmuch aa
would bo oil in any new location, —-
I the contractor« have gone, leaving a
did anyone Ellingson, David Smith and Tom Ou- 1 fftied. He reports not more than 20 < Wise. Marshfield.
the'^epinions of geologistsere what* not revealed the car, nor <
| in this district, half of them in Co-
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oee him as far up as the fish hatchery, mond. '
The
Sentinel is rot presenting any great many unpaid bills, the money
the wild cat operators must depend,
near the read’s end.
( I The Hawaiian
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of - the —
sickening
testimony
introduced
hula-hula girls, in
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upon. And these scientists, who spec
»“kt**1™ '“*• «“i *•"« Com- by the state in its attempts to prove can be induced to return and O. K.
In only one place, where a smooth, grass ».»a,
skirts, giving the rhythmic1
ialise in earth formations, are unani
Chest funds be conserved for that the defendant, a man of 60 years, the accounts. In the meantime it io
rocky surface slopes off to the creek dance of the native islanders, showed
mous that the Fat Elk Oil A Gas Co.1
and a 40-foot hole could a man have a great deal of clever work by Grace 'at*r attributions, and that the char- wtl guilty of the stetuory assault for working a hardship on the local crod-
are located on the beet of prospects. I
Matney, Beatrice iUMe organisations be d«p>nded on | which b«. WM ¡„dieted by the grand ■tora of the contracting Atm.
skidded into the stream, and it waa Ellingson, Rose
With lumber off, dairy prices down, |
at this point that the officers dragged Gets, Lucille Hergert, Joan Hatcher. ,0T Christmas baskets is a good one. jury.
poultry products at a low level, the
»* P*»ter need in all pro-
T
he victim
the creek Monday one hundred feet Bonita Huntington, Violet Thrush, Th'T’
The
victim of
of the
the assault
assault was
was Hasel,
Hasel,
Four Knock-outs Last Night
Freda Wilson, Eilene Thurman, Vera baWW t*iore
winter is over than lg-y,., old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
’ ‘ “lay from the rock.
Cyclone Joe Coffman, the whirlwind
Gaslin, Yula Minard, Toesie Ruble, th*re io now.
i N. J. Smith, of Marshfield, and if her
who io knocking them over with reg
C^cLn^y'a ndhnotTfew7^vtri*i
th* b"”d °f Roadma*t«r W- A- Helen Robinson,
Barbara Unsoeld,1 _ .
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' testimony is true, the extreme of the
ularity in the northwest, was all there
Robelle Oderkirk .nd Audrey Anson, j Ckteigg the Rogue Would Benefit lsw is not sufficient punishment for
was to it in the main event at last
yond their fondest dreams.
Lt w “1
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In the
I* view of the otand taken by at- a man who did what Gothro ia said night’s boxing card hero. Ho toyed
tho one-act play, “Not Quit»
Quite |
Now is th. time for aw
OroroZ HceZ^
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“ Such a Gooes,” Melba McCoy was un- flc*rs working for the state game com- to have done.
with Harold Westover, of Portland,
The disgusting story of a wild night
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in her
| usually fine
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„„ role of mother.
(uunwr, Her. mission that Rogue river should be
for a couple of rounds, and then
• acting was as natural aa her every ( closed to commercial fishing, some of party, with liquor aa the means of opened up in the third, putting the
i To Assist ( oom Bay Celebration d*V
day life and her rend
rendition
of R
her
it inn nf
at .1 the statements made by a Gold Beach starting it off, and the ride the child Portland youth to sleep with solid
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At the laat Chamber of Commerce lines in perfect time. Florence Fol citisen who was here thia week are took with the defendant, and all that blows to body and chin.
happened were told by the girl, and
I directors’ session, held in the hotel som and Carol Young likewiae did | quite interesting.
“Chuck” Borden, advertised to moot
There are just fifteen commercial corroborated by one of the other girts Cyclone Joe, was boro from Eugene,
dining room Wednesday evening, the well, while Tailant Greenough, the i
last for this year, a committee to athlete, and Frederick Fuhrman, the , fishermen living at the mouth of the up to the time they separated.
but could not fight because of an in
Dr. Horsfall, who made the exam
nominate
candidates for 1981 was ap tennis player, wore as unconscious of > Rogue, the rest of them ceming down
fected eye, and Matchmaker Watson
Lion« Seek Used Toya
from Astoria and Oregon City for the ination, stated on the stand that while secured Westover et the last minute.
pointed, consisting of O. C. Sanford,'
(Continued
on
last
page)
any
fall
might
have
caused
ths
At the Lions Club dinner yesterday J. E. Norton and J. E. Roos.
season. Nor would it bo cutting off a
They
Coffman, a Brooklyn, N. Y, boy,
noon, F. W. Martin reported that the ( will make their report Jaa. 7.
source of income from Curry county bruises he found, the girl had not been who io fighting here under the man
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Elks to Distribute Baskets
committee had received several Banta,
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to close the river. Those fishermen, defiled prior to that night
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The
books of the chamber
had been
agement of Roy Watson, is the best
Cbua letters and also vertml reports ’ audHed and werarapirtedOK by the
While condemning auch atrocities
As is their annual custom the Ben by the time they secure their supplies
scrapper seen in Coquille at hia
of children where the Lions Club finance committee.
evolent and Protective Order of Elks from the Macleay estate are so in and a man guilty of them in the weight for many a long year.
He
■trongest
terms
possible,
it
must
be
could help Santa Claus in providing a
J. t. Norton was named aa the Co will distribute Christmas baskets to debt that it takes all season to pay
will feature the Christmas card at the
moro cheerful Christmas.
As yet quilU representative on the committee the needy next week, on Wednesday. out, and very little cash is paid out admitted that there aro other cul Bay.
prits. We refer to parents whoso lack
there has been practically no roeponse which
* ■ • will
— ■ be in charge
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of - the Coos The program carried out is termed the and put in circulation.
Kermit Shaw caught Judd Wilson
to the invitation to donate used or Bay Harbor celebration next July Elks’ Christmas Cheer Work. W. A.
The white women who work in the of training and possible neglect of just right in the second frame of their
outgrown toys for the club’s Christ- 2-8-4.
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Gilbert
and
W. Bryant are the canneries there would be nearly aa their children, results in such shock mix, with one of his husky right
msa boxes, and it is again brought to
members of the Coquille committee well off if the canneries were closed. ing conditions as sometimes come to smashes and the Eugene boy listened
public attention that such donations
to the birdies.
Buys Five Carloads of Cattle having the matter in charge for this The pay is 40 cents an hour, but by light and more often do not
The state rested at 10:80 this morn
will be greatly appreciated.
city, and they ask that anyone willing the time the season closes they have
The cleverest fight of the evening
A.
8.
Goode,
of
Bakersfield,
Calif.,
i
Wm. A. Zosel was named aa a com
to make a donation of vegetables, averaged to work just about one hour ing and the defense began ita intro was between Tony Camden, of Myr
a
regular
buyer
of
Coos
county
dairy
mittee to purchase a loving cup to be
groceries, canned fruits or money, No a day. Chinamen, working under con duction of testimony, the general tenor tle Point, and Ray Avery, of Eugene,
presented to the winning team of the stock, who had been in the county for tify one of them at once, or donations tract, were formerly used in the can of which is to be that the defendant
at 122 pounds. Tony won a close de
Junior High basketball tournament the past ten days, left this week with may be left at the Sentinel office.
nery there, but when they found their brought the girl from Charleston to cision. It was the best bout on the
Marshfield
and
let
her
out
near
her
which will bo held in Coquille late in throe carloads of heifers, about 160
contracts resulted in about the same
card.
January and early in February. All head, which were purchased from
compensation as the women receive home, without ever going to Davis
Brewster, of Coquille, substituting
County
H
m Many Applicants
dairymen
and
dealers
in
this
section.
the Junior Hi teams In the county
now they stopped coming in for the Slough, where the assault is alleged for Roy Morgan, of Marshfield, was
He
is
expecting
to
have
two
more
car-
to have been committed.
will be present to participate.
The county court is besieged at this reason.
handed the K. 0. sign in the second by
Whether the case will go to the jury
Next Thursday being Christmas loads taken down a little later by Jas. time with more thap the usual number
Of course, there are two sides to
Ellsworth Willett who is improving in
T.
Jenkins.
this
evening
was
problematical
at
and the following Thursday Now
of requests for assistance by depend the question, but in southwestern Ore
«very match he enters.
Year’s, it was voted to hold no meet
ent mothers and needy persons, and gon the majority of people seem to noon.
In the curtain raiser Bud Nichols,
In Re a Coquille Resident?
ings until Lion Ray JeUb has returned
while all applications cannot be feel that the only one benefitting from
of Empire, slipped one to Jack Scher-
from a very important trip he ia to
granted,
the most commercial fishing on the Rogue is Liberty’s Decoration Is Pleasing
An Oregonian dispatch this mom- —
-—t the court is helping
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mer’e chin in the second and that end
make in the near future.
He was ing says that fifteen yean ago J. F. • worthy.
the millionaire canneryman, and that
- The redecorating of the Liberty ed that.
quoted by George Ulett as having Bickerstaff, of Pittaburgh, Pa., report-
Th® loc«l unemployment committee more financial benefit results from the
Only a fair house greeted the card
Theatre was completed this week by
changed his opinion, and ia now a firm ed hia watch was lost or stolen. Today has been notified by the court that a portsman fisherman’s visits than from
he Thompson Decorating Co., of which was an average show with
believer in Santa Clans.
it was recovered from a pawn shop, county road program to help the un the commercial fishing.
which O. Thompson is proprietor. Coffman’s fighting and the Camden-
Now the police can3 ^nd Bickerstaff, employed is being worked upon and
The
two-tone ceiling and the three- Avery bout as the bright spots.
Sentinel list Continues to Grow
Whether thia is the name Bicker
7 Rebekahs to Meet Dee. 24
tone walls in futuristic conception,
staff who recently came to Coquille it
For the tournament on the Play-
The last Rebekah meeting for the make a vast improvement in the in
Another indication of the Sentinel’s will be interesting to learn.
Santa Claus to Appear Monday vear will be next Wednesday evening ferior appearance and it has also im more Golf Course here tonight (Fri
growing subscription Het, which will
The meeting will be proved the acoustic properties. Re day), Marshfield is sending over ton
be of intercut to our advertisers is
J. L. Holycrora, as* has been his December 24
To Dedicate Hall, January 15 custom for a number of yeans, has in made aa short as possible but as aom* nov'.ng the glazed finish of the walla of ita beet players in an attempt to
that our cash receipts for subscrip
Dr. L. & Baker, of Eugene, grand vited. Santa Claus to appear at his mportant details have to be arranged ■'•«•n’ the reverberation and helps clean up on the local crack players.
tion« has shown a steady gain in 1980
over 1929, each month of the present master of the Odd Fellows lodge in cigar store next Monday. Dee. 22, be before installation it is hoped there -eerption by the audience from the Beside the ten men there will bo six
talking machines.
ladies from the Bag who will partici
year exceeding that of the corres Oregon, has written W. E. Boeserman, tween one and two o’clock and the will be a good attendance.
pate in the tournament.
»«erotary
of
the
Coquille
lodge,
that
jovial
St.
Nick
has
accepted
the
in
ponding month last year. Notwith
standing headline claims by others, he will be hero for the dedicatory ser vitation. He will have candy for all
To any boy or girl bringing preen
All of our high school chocolates
the Sentinel more nearly covers the vices which will be held ih the new the children. Mr. Holyeross ia the and candies, both box and bulk, at ing or cleaning to the value of $1.60
The music class in connection with
Coquille valley like a blanket than any I.OOV. temple on Thursday, Jan. 15. children’s friend and it always ia a wholesale cost. Let us supply your we will give one of those natty “Co the Coquille Woman’s Club wijl not
The dedication will bo
to the source of pleasure to him to entertain Christmas needs. The Poinsettia, oa quille” army cape. No strings to this moot until the fourth Tuesday in J
other paper publtahed. daily or
k City
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