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The Coquille Valley Sentinel
4*&l,^***y g
THE PAPER THAT'S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME
VOL. XXXII
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NO. >1.
COQUILLE, COO8 COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 5. 1938.
$2.88 THE YEAR
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THELASTVETEMN
Bonus Bonds Here June 18
GOOSBATBRIOGEIMPfiOVEMENTS
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A Logging Camp Victim
COMMENCEMENT
Luray Thomas Miller, 21, was in
The adjusted service bonds for ex-
stantly killed at the Garoutte Bros,
service men, in other words the
logging camp on the Carmichael place
bonus, will be mailed from San Fran
on Fat Elk last Monday afternoon at
cisco on June IS, and will be deliver
In Coos County, of Civil War, ed in Coquille on June 18. They are Dedication Celebration Starts Of Streets and Lights to Be 4:10 o’clock when a log he was chas For C. H. S. Held Last Friday--
ing to unloose the choker, rolled back
coming by registered mail and can
Today — Ample Parking
Started by City This
Interesting Papers by
J. M. DeLong, Buried
over him, crushing his head.
The
only be delivered to the ex-service
Room for Visitors
Summer
Yesterday
the Seniors
tree was one of ten thousand feet and
man they are addressed to, not even a
as it started to roll back he either
wife may sign for the registry, and
Contradicting rumors that there
The city council declared its inten slipped and fell or else was unable to >
Jasper M. DeLong, the last surviv the addressees are requested to be at
The Coquille high school graduat-
ing veteran of the Civil war and G. home to receive their bonds. Where will not be parking space in North tion to install a business section get out of its path.
No one in the ■ ing class of 49 members received
A. R. member in Coquille, and also the addressee is not known to the de Bend for the three-day bridge cele lighting system, at its session Monday vicinity witnessed his death.
their diplomas from the hahd of Mrs.
in Coos county, was called from his liverer of the mail he must be identi bration—today, tomorrow and Sun evening. The notice of that declara
Funeral services were held at the . Geo. W. Bryant, chairman of the
earthly suffering at five o’clock Tues fied by two witnesses known to the day—Lyle Chappell phoned to the tion appears in this issue of the Sen Schroeder funeral parlors In Myrtle > school board,
in the Community
Building last Friday evening, in the
day morning. He was past 91 yean mail carrier or clerk who delivers Sentinel yesterday that there will be tinel and should anyone be opposed Point yesterday afternoon.
ample accommodations for all car». to giving Coquille a better name as a
of age.
Ray Miller was bom in Myrtle i presence of hundreds of their well
the bond.
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__ Some streets for a few blocks will be progressive, well-lighted city, they Point, May 1, 1915, and graduated . wishers who assembled to wish them
Until two years ago he had never
When
it _____
comes __ to _____
sending the
known a sick day in his life, even in bonds in to Portland for redemption I roped off for the parade line of have 20 days in 'which to file a re from the high school there in 1935. God-speed on the journey of life at
the Civil war his only injury was on the ex-service man himself must march, but there will be np lack of monstrance against the improvement. He had been working in the camp ■ the end of their public school career.
City Engineer Stacer’s estimate was for only a week.
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The stage was prettily decorated
the forehead where he was struck make application at the postoffice parking facilities for the thousand»
that it would cost $7,231.09 for in
with a rifle butt in a hand to hand and be personally known to the clerk. of cars expected.
His father; Daniel C. Millejr, passed and banked with greenery and flow
The program of events has been stalling a single circuit, and $8,002.31 away in March, 1933. Surviving rel ers as a setting for this large class
conflict. While on a visit in Nebraska The checks for the redemption will be
heretofore published in the Coos for a double circuit which would per atives are: his mother, Mrs. Mary A. which is the twenty-sixth to graduate
two years ago he became ill and for mailed from Portland.
to be turned out at «vaaaava
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J a VXC x Point;
ullll, 1UU1
the past nine months had been quite
Miller, f Vi
of sva
Myrtle
four sisters,. since C. H. S. became a four-year
It is estimated by the local postof county press, the city of North Bend mit half the lights
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has been
decorated with ---------
flags, --------
bunt- midnight. The front footage to be Mrs. Violet Hayes,
feeble.
_ .. Glendale;
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fice that there will be from 200 to 250 —
Funeral services, at the Gano Fun ex-service men who will receive ing and trees for the gala event and, Assessed is 5740 feet. The saving in ‘ Elizabeth Robison, Arago; Mrs. Nellie
Of the twelve honor students pre
eral Home yesterday, were conducted their bonds at the Coquille office and according to news reaching here from juice if every other light of the 45 Billings, Myrtle Point, and Mrs. Zel- sented by P. W. Lane, six received
by Rev. G. A. Gray in the presence of j the inspector who was here this week the bay side, everything is in read^- was turned off at midnight was es- ma Dillen, of Portland; two brothers, special mehtion—Dorris Jane Comp
for —
the —
most
stupendous
celebra- timated at $280 per year.
William Miller, Coos River, and ton, E. Levelle Walstrom, Howard
a very large attendance of friends | gays it will require considerable night ness
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and neighbors who gathered to pay work for the postoffice force to keep ‘ion ever held on this Oregon
coast. | I The council also began on another Isaac D. Miller, of Arago; four half Hickam, Eleanor Mae Smith, Lewis
The only disappointing feature in improvement, that of gravelling the brother, Earl E. and Thomas Royer, Mortensen and Aloha Allen—and six
their last respects to one whom they the records and handle the bonds,
honored and loved.
both coming in and going out for re connection with the celebration is Greets in the north end, building of Powers, and George and Ira L. received honorable mention—Gerald
that Marshfield merchants decided to sidewalks, and possibly extending the Royer, of Myrtle Point.
Jasper Mathias DeLong was born demption.
ine Enaele, Jack Clinton, Gordon
observe regular closing hours on Sat- sewer on streets not now served,
in Iowa, Feb. 12, 1845. At the age of
Daniels, Fred Cunningham, Margaret
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_ there
____ will be ' Jim Child was one of several In
in
urday,
which
means that
Belloni and Margaret Anne Tway.
■eventeen he enlisted in Company 1 Y> A
ITO AD 117 A
X IS
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no ■ holiday
observance
tomorrow
in ' , tHfit
‘hat Siak/'iizv»
section tasR^k
who naira
asks fax
for alJn..M>1L>
sidewalks,
of the 21st regiment, Iowa Volunteer», I Al Ul
CJK W A
The class and its adviser, Clarence
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the other towns of the county and «ravelling, sewer and water improve-
and served through exactly three
Osika, were presented for their di
years of the Civil war, being muster- 1
prevent manyfcoquille, Myrtle ment and he was present to voice that
plomas by H. H. Hartley, high school
Point and Bandon citizens from at request.
ed out as a corporal, July 15, 1885.
principal, who stated that four years
The council has no desire to force
During his service to his country
tending during the day.
ago
he began his duties as principal,
Four men were fined in Recorder
The city council Monday evening
he was engaged in the battles of Fort |
But no one in southwestern Oregon Street improvements in the north end
Mr. Osika started his first year in C.
Leslie
’
s
court,
Tuesday
morning,
on
set June 1 as the date when the ir- *
who can possibly get there, will miss district but if s majority of the peo
Gibson, Champion Hills, Black' River
the charge of disturbing the peace. H. S. and the present graduating
rigation rates for the summer went
bridge, and was present at the sieges
i the opportunity to do honor to the ple there wish to have more conven
Two
of them, Schuyler Cook and class had entered as green freshmen.
into effect, which means that after
: officials who have made this dream iences the council members do not
of Vicksburg, Jackson, Spanish Fort,
Glenn
Brannon, pleaded guilty and Referring to the class and their ad
the 7000 gallons for $2.00 shows on >
Blakeley and Mobile.
, of years a reality in the building of feel that a minority should be allow
viser he said he thought they had all
the meter that the next 20,000 gallons
ed to dictate.
They therefore in were fined $15 each. The other two, learned something during those four
For thirteen years after being mus
a highway bridge across Coos Bay.
Paul
Crouch
and
Walter
Boren,
stood
will be charged tor at five cents per
tered out he was a freighter through
Visitors for the bridge dedication structed the city engineer to prepare
years.
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trial, were convicted and fined $20
thousand.
Utah, Montana and Colorado, and he
who want to see the Saturday parade plans and estimates with the proba
In
presenting
the diplomas Mrs.
i ' The water committee was asked to
each by the recorder.
would do well to take a position some bility that a declaration of intention
has told friends here of the frequent
Bryant said that three years ago
The
melee
occurred
Sunday
eve
figure out and submit a revision of
battles his wagon train engaged in
where on North Sherman avenue, this to improve the streets will be made at
ning in Tommy Wing's restaurant on when E. D. Webb retired from the
rate which will be more equable as
with the Indians.
side of the city park, for the parade the next meeting.
school board he told her that her
Front
street,
between users.
That two or more '
Application of M. M. Newdall to
Later he was a farmer in Oklahoma
will come from the north and pass
chief duty as chairman would be to
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Boren,
houses on one line and meter outside
the letter’s
and Kansas. He came to Oregon aix- the city, or that two or more families, down
Sherman to the city’s center, install an advertising sign in the
make a speech to the 1938 graduating
'
sister
and
Paul
Crouch
were
in
a
teen years ago and resided in Arago
says the Coos Bay Harbor. The pa parking in front of the Haynes Motor
class. She refused the opportunity
booth
there
when
i living in one building, should pay less
two
women
for twelve years. •
rade is to pass, starting promptly at Co. on Hall street was granted.
'per family than do those who main-
engaged in an alterca- to make a speech, but did say that
At the request of the county cham became
if people were not satisfied with the
Mrs" Julia Grow3 who surviwMHMaL I Uln ,t>P“rat* homes, was brought out three, and pass before the grandstand
tion
which
was followed by a
ber of commerce the council adopted
and speaker»’, platform on the
way the schools were conducted that
hair-pulling
contest.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
They- made thek home on North “ beln« a discrimination against the approach.
on asking that the 3-C camp
H was their own fault for not advis
Brannon
and
Schuyler
Cook
were
latter.
The
new
rates
will
affect
fna "Flat be retained and that
Coulter for the past tour years. “ ■*
ing the board of their desires.
also eating there and Brannon at
Surviving the deceased are six apartment booses and in some cases To Enforce Parking Regulations the
00 “»• road from Powers to
As has been the improved custom
homes outside the city limits.
tempted to separate the women. This
_ ,
.
j, Agness be continued.
children by a former marriage, Mn.
since Mr. Lane became superinten
caused
one
of
the
men
in
the
other
The
irritating
and
annoying
condl-1
jhe
application
of
Mrs.
Bonnie
Councilman
Jeub
called
attention
Lula Ridenour, of Calumet, Okla.,
to the delinquency on the part of tion caused by double parking end Walker f<M. , restaurant Ucense for xirty to attack Brannon and from then dent in Coquille, no outside speaker
Mrs. Patience Green, of Ranier, Ore.,
wag
an(J Mr on it was a rough house right. Cat had been invited to address the grad
many users of water.
“Those that the fact that Coquille streets are lined the Tip T
Earl DeLong, of El Reno, Okla., Mrs.
from eight o’clock in the morning un-; bond approved
i
can
’
t
pay,
and
we
know
they
can
’
t,
sup bottles, sugar bowls, water uates and school patrons. Instead the
Emma Souther, of Pontiac, Mich.,
members of the class had all worked
get them off the lists and forget about til five o’clock in the evening with( The remon8trance of near.by
{lasses, anything that could be gotten
Mn. Ardna Griffin, of Myrtle Point,
on assembling data and material and
can belonging to business men and erty Ownerg that the
from
hold of, were used as weapons.
them.
But
those
who
claim
they
and C. A. DeLong, of Salem, Ore.
preparing papers which were pre
and that the
can’t pay, and yet are spending employees, was brought up by Mayor whey pIaBt „
A water glass, which missed its
He is also survived by 8 brother,
sented
by four of the class members.
money for liquor and pleasure, cut Berg at the city council session Mon-| noise of night operation was a nui victim, hit the plate glass window and
Wm. DeLong, of O’Neill, Nebr., and
them off without further notice,” day evening. He stated that he had sance, was referred to the city attor shattered, without even nicking the This year’s papers dealt with the his-
a sister, Mn. Madeline Hink, of
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window.
was his expressed idea with which been forced to change his view on the ney for investigation.
Winslow, Ariz.
the other members of the council parking situation and believed that a
Mrs. Boren’s sister, hit by a fist,
Mr. DeLong was a most interesting
two-hour parking limit on the main
She Did Not Like the Ashes
fell over the counter, Injuring her
man to converse with and until af agreed.
A Quitting Business Sale-
streets must be enforced. One reason
back,
which
broke
up
the
fight,
and
There
were nearly one hundred
flicted with the Infirmities of old age,
for the congestion is that so many, The T. Warner store in the Odd oart of the crowd left before the ar -present for charte? night of the Co-
Grand Jury Indicts Five
his mind was most clear, and he could
driveways in front of business estab- Fellows building was closed yester- rival of the police. Marshals English quille Rotary club, last Friday eve-
tell for hours of his war and Indian
The gran d’Jury submitted its find lishments have reduced the curb fa- day, allowing for the drranging of
tnd McCreary were over on Spurgeon ning, the dinner, charter presentation,
fighting experiences in a most enter ings to Judge Brand in circuit court
cilities very materially.
But the stock and marking down of prices for Hill when the call for police came in. and dance which followed being held
taining manner.
here Monday morning. Not true bills worst feature is the habit of all those the Quitting Business sale which
They quickly rounded up those ini. O.O. -F. haU.
His was a kindly nature and he were found in the cases of Thos.
spending the day down town to park opened this morning.
nixed up in the affair, took the in-' The district governor, Stanley
made friends of all his acquaintances. Flint, Jr., charged with obtaining
in front of their places of business,
Sam Taylor, in his adv. and on iured woman to the hospital, and Long, was present to present the
Interment was in the Masonic cem money under false pretenses; Ray
leaving no space possible for the cus bills, announces that every item of lummoned the men to appear in «barter to Ji Arthur Berg, president
etery."
mond Foster and Allen Warner, each tomers of those same merchants.
merchandise in the stock will be re court.
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of the local club; a former district
charged with larceny.
The tendency of automobile dealers duced to a price that will move it out
Marshal English, who gave the governor, Mr. McGilchrist, of Salem,
Baseball Schedule for June
True bills were found in the fol to leave so many cars standing on the the front door, in possession of a sat Sentinel this story of the fight, said
and others from the capital city, from
The Coquille Loggers will meet the lowing cases:
street, and of truck drivers to leave isfied customer, and every man or hat one of the women lost great Coos Bay, Eugene, . Roseburg, Med
Dick
Barrett
who
pleaded
guilty
Empire ball club on the Empire club’s
their machines double parked while boy will save money by looking over bandsful of hair and that one of the ford, Grants Pass and Crescent City
grounds this coming Sunday, June 7.;
writing a worthless check for $7.50. they visited a merchant to take or his stock of clothing and gents’ fur men, cut on the head with a broken
were also present. Many of the vis
Joe Spencer, who pitched such great Sentence was deferred until the court ders, were other annoyances men nishings and making their selections water glass, had nearly a dozen lacer
itors made talks and several fine gifts
ball against the Loggers when the had time to investigate his record.
tioned by the mayor, who requested there.
ations.
' of paraphernalia necessary to a club’s
Wesley (Jack) Phinnegar, for ma the council to give the matter of
Roseburg Eagles visited here a couple
Tommy Wing’s restaurant was operation were presented.
licious
and
wanton
destruction
of
of weeks ago, has signed to pitch for
parking some thought and have sug
rretty nearly wrecked during the
In his Interesting address to the Ro
Postmasters to Grants Pass
the Loggers and will be on the mound personal property in a fit of anger at gestions for a remedy ready at the
ighting, in which he was in no way tartans Mr. Long told a new story. It
Postmaster
M
O.
Hawkins
of
this
the
house
where
he
resided
in
the
Sunday.
next council meeting.
I concerned the conclusions of three
implicated.
city expects to attend the Oregon State
Eugene E
Other games scheduled by Manager north part of Coquille.
ladles who told what they would do
Postmasters’ association which will
Fortier for the next month, all to be Laird was appointed to defend him.
Beulah No. 6 at Grand Chapter be held in Grants Pass next week. Snyders to Make Home Here if they had their lives to live over
Allen
J.
Cameron,
for
assault
with
played at Athletic Park here, include:
Mr and Mrs Levi Snyder have a«ain One was «*«• one ‘our «nd ‘he
All the officers of Beulah Chapter June 11 and 12. Elton Schroeder, of
June 14—Toledo Lions of the Ore a dangerous weapon. He pointed a
loved from Portland to Coquille and °‘her two years of age.
Myrtle
Point,
president
of
the
Ore
No.
8,
0.
E.
S.,
beside
many
other
gun
at
and
threatened
to
shoot
H.
R.
gon State League.
to live over I
will make their home here in the fu- I •'If I T had my ’ life
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June 20-21—St. Louis Blues, a col Haughton last summer at the time he members, are planning to be in Port gon branch of the National League of
ure. Mrs. Snyder, who suffered a would not eat spinach, it isn’t bene
was
escaping
after
stealing
slot
ma-
land
next
Monday
at
which
time
the
District
Postmasters,
will
preside
at
ored team.
grand chapter convenes. Mrs. Inez J. the sessions. Beside the banquets and iroken arm and leg a few weeks ago. ficial,” said the elder lady. The one
June 24—Detroit Colored Giants, chines in Powers.
Glaisyer, a member of Beulah chap- dinner on Wednesday and Thursday was brought down Sunday in the of four years would not use castor
June 28—Eugene Townies, of the
R. Baylor, for non-support,
Mr. oil because she didn’t like it.
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Jack
Chambers,
on
an
involuntary
'
ter, will preside at the sessions as evenings, the sessions will be ad ichroeder Bros, ambualnce.
state league.
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‘‘And if I had my life to live over
Inyder
snd
daughter,
Pearl,
arrived
July 4-5—Klamath Falls Pelicans, manslaughter, charge.
He is the Worthy Grand Matron. Mrs. Mabel dressed by postmasters and inspectors
Marshfield
cook who struck Harvey: Ulett is Grand Marshal, and another of prominence from Portland, Seattle Veflnesday, accompanying a friend, I would be a bottle baby,” declared
of the southern Oregon league.
r*
Nurss with his fist at the bay a few member. Betty Glaisyer, is to act I m and other cities, by Hon. Edmund B drs. Posthumous, who is visiting the two-year old. "I don’t like ci
garette ashes in my dinner.”
Windsor, of Castile, N. Y., Hon. Har- here for a few days.
weeks ago. In falling Nurss struck page.
New Liberty Moat Attractive his head on the pavement, death re- The officers of Beulah chapter will’ rison Parkman, of Washington, D. C.,
To Visit Coquille Soon
The appearance of the New Liberty suiting.
Sang for the Lions
exemplify the initiatory work at the and Hon. Wm. L. Slattery, of Wash-
Theatre has been most heartily com- i
Wednesday evening session when (ington.
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A
letter from Warren C. Laird,
Mrs. Maud Woodyard was the guest
mended by all who have visited it in
Dorris Compton, Gretchen Neal and
inger at the Lions Club luncheon formerly a Coquille furniture dealer
Hode
Caughell
Far
From
Well
the past week, since its re-opening
Zelma Bosserman, of this city, will
•esterday noon and graciously re- who now lives in Honolulu, states
Cases Settled for $6375
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(Hode) Caughell, of the tax receive the degrees and become mem
Sunday. It .. is — unusual
have a me-
nalned
to sing with the members in that he and Mrs. Laird are leaving on
After the jury had been empanelled
tropolitan show house in a town the collection department, shows in bers of Beulah chapter.
i
number
of songs which were more June 6 for a six months’ vacation,
in the cases of Elsie S. Wood and
sist of Coquille, but Messrs. Wood provement one day and is not so well j
plentifully
sprinkled than usual in and hope soon to see all their friends
and Clave/ have made thein the1 ‘he next and It will be some time be
Mary Frances Sullivan vs. Jas. P.
the
rapid
fire
hilarity of the meeting. •in Coquille.
Former Residents on Visit
Mattei, last Monday morning, the
equal, except in size, of any motion fore he will be able to get out again.
Bobby Burns, club pianist, also made
Jas. A. Stauf, of Ojai, Calif., his counsel for the parties involved set
The undulant fever from which he-is
Coo« Co. Warrants Called
picture theatre in Oregon.
a hit with the playing of a rollicking
suffering has made a very sick man mother, Mrs. Mary E. Stauff, and tled the cases. The defendant agreed
Coos county general fund warrants,
number
of
his
own
composition.
of him.
Miss Lively, were Coquille valley to pay Mrs. Wood $4878, and the Sul
issued prior to June 1, 1931, have
M. P. to Close Tomorrow
visitors from last Saturday until they livan
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girl $1500 ...
for injuries ___
and —
dam-
been called for payment by County
WUI Teach at Riverton
Mayor Ralph D. Kring, of Myrtle
D
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left for home yesterday. Mr. Stauff ( ages they received in an auto acci-
Treasurer Stauff. The amount to be
Point, on Wednesday of this week Is- 1 Elton Brad.' to Haynes Motors is a brother of County Treasurer dent at Myrtle Point.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Robinson, who
sued a proclamation declaring Satur- J Elton Brady has accepted a position Chas. Stauf, and he still owns the! Judge Brand set next Monday as have been teaching at Lostine, Ora., paid out for warrant principal and
day, June 6. a holiday in that city on ' with the Haynes Moton on Hall ranch at Arago on which C. S. Webb' the date for trial of the cases of Cora for the past few yean, came in Sun interest is $32,000.
account of the Coos Bay bridge cele- (street, across from Safeway, and Mr. lives. The visitors left Arago about E. and Wm. H. Wann against Pau) day to spend the summer visiting her
Night Crew Again at Mill
bration.
Practically all the mer- Haynes states that he is now in a 30 years ago but have been back oc Stephan, of Bandon, for the injuries parents, Mr. and Mn. Steven Dey,
The Smith Wood-Products sawmill
chants in Myrtle Point are reported to position to give the best possible casionally on visits. He is now con they sufered when Stephan’s Buick ■nd other relatives and friends here. again started its two-shift operation
have signed the petition asking the service to Ford owners. Mr Brady nected with the California hghway hit their car several weeks ago, a mile Wayne will be in the Riverton high this week, the night crew beginning
mayor to so declare.
has been a Ford mechanic for yean department.
school next year.
below Riverton.
Wednesday evening.
TER SHUT OFr wiu
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