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HPRINGEIRLIJ. LANE COUNTY, OKI9GON- THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. 192Í»
T W E N T Y -S IX T H YEA H
, SCHOOL BIST. OWE H
Local School Board Reduces
W arran t Indebtedness by $8,.
962.69; Expenditures $2,785.74
Lees Than Estim ate; Reve
nue $1,812.65 More.
The flnaiicbil report of Ihe Spring-
T'rhl acliool district for the year «nil
itiR June 30, 1929 was leaned at the
l.oaril meeting Monday night by W II
ham <1 Hushes, district clerk The
r. port shows the financial condition
of the district •<> he excellent, lie
cording to Dr. W II Pollard, actins
< hah man of the hoard
The most outstanding fact »hows
by the report Is the reducing of the
warrant tndehtedtie*»
July
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the warrant Indebtedness of district
Ik was |17,7»7.39 By June of this
year the Indebtedness had been re
Oticed to »K.M2«9. « redaction Of
(8,|84 70 The fact that the district
' board stand won taalda the bodgtrt
ed expenditures and at the same
time recared more revenue than was
expected contributed materially to
the reduction of the Indebtedness
The estimated expend iures for the
y,ar were »47,*!»> 72. and Ihe actual
expenditures »45.113.98. a saving of
»2,786 74
The estimated revenue
was »51.699 72. and the revenue re
ceived »53,512.28. a difference of
»1.812.50
The expenditures of the school
board during tho year Included the
following;
For
general
control
»461 65, Instruction »32.716 12. opera-
• ,,n of plant »4,704 74. Maintenance
<m pUnt »1.763 61. Interest on w»r-
rants »1,581.11. and Interest on bonds
»3,788 75.
Thi revenue received was from the
following sources: Slate school funds
»1.205.76, county school fund »6.857,
high school fond »7.349 15, elemen
tary school hind »4.950 00, tuition
»173. and «pedal school tax »31,877.
37 During the year warrants totall
ing »39.736.12 were Issued. hut
»46,117.50 was paid for the retire
ment of warrants.
Fund» are on
hand for the payment of »2,451 32 In
warrants which have been called but
have not yet been presented
School will open this year on Mon
day, September 16. II was announced
by the board It was voted to begin at
once a number of repairs and Improve
menta on the various buildings In pre
paration for Ihe opening
Among
the Improvements will be Ihe walling
in of Ihe play shed at the Brattaln
«cbool and the completion of the
extra room there, A concrete floor
will be poured In the furnace room
of the high, school gymnasium, and
the chimney there will be repaired,
and a number of other minor repairs
to the various buildings will be made.
LARGE E L E C T R IC SIGN
IN S T A L L E D BY POW ER CO.
A new electric sign was Installed
•yesterday at the local Mountain
fttatea Power company plan! at the
corner of Main and Sixth streets. The
elga bears the words "Mountain
Staten Powi r Company" In white let
ters nearly a foot high and Is sur
rounded by electric light globes. A
flasher came with the algn, according
to W. E Burnell, local superintendent,
but that will not be Installed Imme
(liately. The sign was moved to
l»prtngfleld from the Eugene office of
the company, which recently wan
taken over by the Northwest Cities
Gan company. The old Gan and Elec,
trie Company nlgn here was taken
down and placed In ntorage.
Cox Wins Tournament
A dark home In the peraon of
George Cox upset the dope by win
ning the weekly horseshoe tourna
ment nt the local courts Friday
night, so Gilbert Ernstlng. high
school youth, has the nickel-plated
horseshoes safely In hand for at
least two weekH more. L. May hud
won the shoos for two weeks In suc
cession, and the trophies were at
stake between him nnd Ernstlng
Friday, but Mr. Cox spoiled Mr.
May’s chances by winning. Gilbert
Ernstlng took second In the tnurnn-
nrent and Mr. May third.
Surprise Party Held
A group of Chase Gardens people
eld a surprise party Wednesday
vcnlng at the Lome of Mr. and Mrs.
'ruinan Chase at Eugene, the occa-
ton being Mrs. Crase's birthday.
*hose who wore present at the affair
oclnded Mr. and Mrs. Harry CUase
ad family, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
!basr«nd family, Marvin Chase, and
Ihestor Chase
Sister Scaled By Lower Rivers A re
Trout Stocked
Many From Here
Lion» Club Sponsor» Annual Million and a Quarter Fry Re-
X lim b Up Mountain For
!
leased in Rivers near
Local Boy Scouts
Springfield
Boxing Parton
“The People'» Paper”
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IN A L IV E TO W N
NO. 30
WORK ON BRIDGE
TO BEGIN AT ONCE
A. C, Mathews Starts Moving
D irt to Make W ay for H a r
greaves and Lindsay; Com
pletion Promised Before Oct
ober 31; Cost to be $12,258.
The annual mountain climb spun.
About a million and a quarter of
sored by the Hprlngfleld Linns club Rainbow trool has been planted in
for the Boy Scout» of the town was the McKenzie and Willamette rivers
held Sunday when 50 people made the In this vicinity during the last week
trip to Frog Camp tn the Cascades. Six loads were for the McKenzie from
Preparation for construction work
and most of th»»e 'cached the sum- j Hayden to Hendricks bridge and
on the west approach to th* new
• Ight in the Willamette betwien Jud
mil of the Middle Sister.
Springfield bridge was begun this
To- climbers were guided by H kins point and Lowell. These fish
this morning after a delay nt more
E. -Maxey, a >n<-inie-r of the Obsidian from two to five Inches In length
A new breed o ( chicken minus wing*
Known in England at the "fight than four months. A. C. Mathews,
tiih and an experienced mountain came from the McKenzie trout hatch-
and toe nail» it the evolution o f D r
Engene contractor, who was origin-
ing
parson,” the Rev A. B. C Rob
climber
They
drove
to
Frog
Camp
eryy
and
wer
planted
hire
as
part
of
R T Renwsld ol O m aha
D r Ken-
inson, Vicar of Potter» Bar, »par» i ally granted the contract for con-
wald »ay» th i* change w ill rvvolution-
from Hprlngfleld Saturday afternoon the state game commissions* policy with lightweights now and then
I structing the fill, started this morning
lie Ihe poultry indu»lry
H e bebevea and remained there
for the night, of bringing the fish to the fisherman
just to o keep
in trim.
ke
to move the dirt with which the flit
thicken» originally were fi»h.
The climbers left camp at 5:30 Sun- , The fish were hauled here In the
was started last April.
day morning and arrived at the peak game departmi nt’s tank truck, eight HA M LIN IS C O M M A N D ER
Hargreaves and Lindsay, Eugene
DR. C H IL D E R S C H O SEN
o f the mountain about 10:30. The or ten thousand at a load Places tn
| contractors, who were low bidders on
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trull was fairly good and the climb dump the fish had been previously
P R E S ID E N T OF E. B. U.
the construction of 150 additional feet
was not 'overly difficult. Although found by John Hendcrer and M. B
P E TE R S O N A D JU TA N T
of concrete approach, started moving
BY BOARD OF T R U S T E E S there was some smoke In part* ol I Huntly The planting here was tlnf
F. B. Hamlin, local postmaster, was thelr machinery to Springfield today,
the surrounding country, the view result of a meeting last spring of
Dr 8. Childers, for six years pastor
I from the top of the Middle Sister was fishermen with the chairman of the elected commander of the Spring- 'and they will start excavation for the
of the Springfield Chrlatlan church,
fleld.post of the American I-eglon for bulldtn« of forn”’ for P,er» a" soon a .
i quite good and tin- climbers could see game commission, Ben Dorris.
was unanimously elected president of
I Mt. Adams, Mt Jefferson,-Diamond ’ Stocking of the lower rivers with the coming year Friday night at a the Mathews company has cleared
Ihe Eugene Bible University Saturday
1 Peak, and a number of the smaller of these large fry Is expected to make regular meeting of the body. .Mr., awa> the dirt in the places where the
piers are to go.
Hargreaves and
at a meeting of Ihe hoard of trustees
the peaks In the Cascades. Many flahing much better here. Especially Hamlin will succeed J. M. Larson. Ira
Lindsay bid »12,258 for the construc
of Ihe Inst II i l l Ion Dr Childers had
Peterson
was
elected
adjutant,
suc
mountain lakes were also visible, good fishing water la found In both
tion of the concrete work, and were
served on the faculty of the Instltu
After remaining on the mountain for i rivers In thia vicinity and when fish- ceeding William Vasby. Other offl-1
Hun for the past ten years, prcalhlng some time, Ihe party descended, ( ¡ng |g good close to home It will not cers elected were Dr. W. N. Dow, granted the contract by the state
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,w Dr.
at Springfield nl Ihe 4ame time since
vice-commander;
Carl , highway
•
' department. They J state that
reaching Frog Camp at 5:30 In the he necessary to spend so much time first
,
.< vice-commander;
i
„a«., • ! , work on the bridge
1922. He left here Ip April to accept
I*hettep!ace,
second
" will be rushed as
evening On the return twelve of the | and expense In getting to a place to
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a
much
as
possible,
and
the position of pastor of thi- First
, that the struc-
Boy Scouts were left at Camp Lljcky j f|gh. This Is expected to especially H. O. Dibblee, chaplain; and Tex
„ Mead,
. sergeant . at ______
Tk„
ture
will
be
completed
and can
ba
Christian church at Eugene, where
arms. The new
~
Boy on Blue River, where the sum- j benefit working people and others
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opened
to
traffic
well
before
October
he was elected Io presch for Ihe com
u
rner ramp of the Lane county hoy i who mug, gO fishing in the evenings officers will be installed formally on
31, the date set for the completion of
Ing year.
October 1 and will begin their terms
Is being held this J gnd on Sundays.
i
smut
council
1 the contract The distance between
The Eugi ne Bible University Is one
j Local people who watched the of office at that time.
’ the end of the new approach and the
of the most outstanding religious summer
Those who made ihe climb were | dumping here found that^practtcally
Mr. Hamlin and Mr. Peterson are
fic highway
be njIed by
schools In the country. It has a stu
Chester Aldrich, scout master nf none of the small fish died In tran attending the American I-egion con , Matthews company. The dlrt wlth
dent holy of nearly 500 and more
Troop 11. Walter Neajon. assistant sit and all seemed to be In good con ventlon at Salem this week as the wh)ch the f,„ wa„ gtarted in April
than 25 faculty members. Dr. Chilli
master of the troop, and W. C. Me- dition when released in the river. offlcoal delegates of the Springfield : w(1,
moved
and ngp<1 fn th<
er» succeeds ns president Dr. Jiugene
Lagan.
The following scouts ol These fish are large enough to find post M. B Huntly was elected »» I COMtnlctioB.
Sanderson, who resigned recently
Troop 11 made »he climb: Henry their own feed and it Is the belief one of the delegates, but was pre-1
after holding the position since the
Trlnka, Gordon Wright, Dick Wright, of the game department officials vented from attending by the death I The circuit court order that thers
founding of the Institution 34 years
Joel Cowden, Don Monagomery. Don that they will practically all live to of Mrs. Iluntly's father. W C. A. be 250 feet of additional concrete ap
ago. A reorganisation of the college
proach was modified last .week by
Nelson. Irvin Hanson, Bob Hayes, be sport for the fishermen.
Pohl, who died at Astoria Saturday
administration was announced by the
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, Judge G. F. Skipworth, since the
Rolland Wheeler. Roy Smith, Bob
night. A number of other members of
board In hiring Dr. Sender Childers.
West Springfield plaintiffs in the
Stark. Ralph Hughes. Winston Bas-
the local legion post are expected to
SYM PHO NY O RCHESTRA
Dr. Chlhlers will he the edm at tonal
bridge case were satisfied with the
cus. Earl Wheeler. Ford Danner. Ro
attend some of the sessions of the ! 150 feet.
,
head, and Dr. Walter L. Meyers, for
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bert M( lagan. Arthur Pengra. and
convention.
merly vice-president, will be chancel
The distance from Springfield to
Jack Williams From Troop 12 the
TU E S D A Y AT A IR P O R T
lor. or business head Previously the
Eugene will be reduced by almost half
following boys were present: Bruce
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two positions were centered In Dr.
a mile with the completion of the new
Squires. Donald
Hawke,
Milton
The new Springfield symphony or-
Sanderson.
H O N O R IN G ECKERSON
bridge. The old bridge will be moved
Doane, Chester Gerber, Lloyd Stlpley. chestia made its first appearance be-
Dr Childers Is a graduate of the
T U E S D A Y A T A IR P O R T • to Creswell and re-erected across the
Kenneth Cox.
Wilfred
Swindell
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fore the public Tuesday night when
Eugene Bible University and also of
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river there, although It Is not certain
la-onsrd Moon, Morris Stewart, and „ prt,SPnted a program at the Lions
the University of Oregon He was
Between 300 and 400 people from ' whether or not that can be done this
Morgan Chandler.
club picnic in honor of Major and
very well liked by the people of the
Others who made the climb were jjrs. G. H. Eckerson at the local Springfield. Eugene and other neigh- i season before the high water,
Springfield vicinity. During the time
E. A Schnetsky, Howard Hughes, B • mun|ctpal airport. The new musical boring communities, all Interested in j The delay in the completion of the
he preached here the membership of
C. Klght. C. B. DeFo^i Russel Me body, which is managed by Frank aviation, gathered at the local muni-, bridge grew out of a quarrel between
the church nearly doubled.
Lagan, and !>elghton Whitsett of ¡xiuk. and directed by Ted Lenhart, clpal airport Tuesday night at a pic-1 the residents of Went Springfield and
Eugene Troop 7.
In addition to
well received by those attending nlc and party given in honor of ! the state highway commission over
R ID E R S T H R IL L C R O W D S
these there were a number of people the p)cn|c. Jt Is the plan of the dl- Major and Mrs. G. H. Eckerson. The whether or not a fill would increase
, who went to Frog Camp from Spring-. rectors to present a public concert affair was sponsored by the aviation the flood menace across the river.
SU N D A Y ON H E IG H T S ;
I field hut did not undertake the moim- every Tuesday night. The next one committee of the local Lions club, of The west side people won a decision
D A VIS LOSES IN T IE
tain climb. These Included Mr. and wq, be ^ven at the intersection of which Dr. W. C. Rehhan is chairman. In the I^ane county circuit court The
Following the picnic supper. Major highway department prepared to carry
After tying for first place tn the 45 Mrs. Willis Bertach and small daugh- j,-ollr(h and Main streets.
Hckersnn
made a short speech on the case into the supreme court but S
program which was presented
cubic Inch professional division of ter. Mrs. W. C. Md-agan, Miss Ixiulsa
the
advantages
and possibilities of compromise on 150 feet was effected
Cowden,
and
Mrs.
Chester
Aldrich.
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#|rport
bv
,be
orchestra
Tues-
the West Coast hill climb here Sun
the local field. The Springfield air by the Lane county court, so that
dj|v n((rht
day. Bill Davis, local star, failed to Whlle thq other party were on the day
night )((
Is >R
as fo,lowg:
follows
construction can now proceed in
make the grade on the finals and mountain, those who remained behind I Fort Washington March O. Schuman post, he said, both from a geographi
cal
and
an
air
standpoint,
has
natural
!
manner
satisfactory to all parties,
made
a
trip
to
Lost
I-*ke.
near
the
Melody In F................. A. Rubenstein.
lost the privilege of competing In the
advantages
unexcelled
on
any
of
the
Sister
You Were M«ant for. Me N. H. Brown
National contest at Muskegon. Michi
many fields with which he is fami HIGHWAY FOUND ROUGH
Bride of the Navy. 4
gan, later In the season. Davis and
Barcarole ................ ........... Offenbach liar. both on the Pacific coast and
Al Forsburg of Seattle tied at 9 and M O U N T A IN C L IM B E R S
OVER WILLAMETTE PASS
IMIms ...................................... Psure. throughout the rest of the country.
two-flfths seconds In the trials. In the
H O L D IN G CAM PS IN
Nearly all varieties of road wer<
attempt to break the tie, Foraburg
e .c -rc B C D C n n W ¡Kin« of the Air
Everett J. Evans. The conditions of the air currents
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Wedding
of
the
Painted
Doll.
here
are
especially
favorable
for
traveled
Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. L. B.
wmt over the top In 11 nnd four-fifths
tvlatlon. he said. The major believes | Scott and Mr. and Mrs. J. Morlock,
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bet’»
Talk
About
Love
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Alger
seconds, while Davis’ machine failed
Two groups of mountaineers, . e j
that with a little further development I who made a round-about tour through
to reach the top.
now encamped in the Cascade moun-
and Improvement the Springfield the Cascades, crossing Into Easter®
In the 61 cubic Inch division of the tains east of Springfield, spending ,r 1
u of the new orchestra airport could become the finest In Oregon by was of the McKenzie Pass,
ea t
p ■
members
contest Bill Davis alev took second, tains
their vacations in climbing over he I
the Northwest. He also gave a brief and returning by way of the Willam-
with Tommy Slflon of San Francisco scenic country In the vicinity of the
Ru<>n outllne of his plans for the school of ette Pass Mr. Bcott found the Mc
as first. In the 80 cubic inch amateur Three S.sters. The Oregon Maxam>,
kenp
aviation, he said. The major believes Kenzie highway In fair condition, he
event bone of Ihe rldera made the An organization of mountain climber» ,
p » .« nv
Major Eckerson demonstrated his said, and the dust not so bad in ths
top, hut Tony Jaegler of Salem was with headquarters at Portland Is hold- |"n
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big
W’aco sport plane to those pre early morning when they went over
first and Bill Cameron of Seattle the
Ing Its annual summer camp In the
sent He did some fancy stunt fly the road.
second.
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vicinity of Obsidian Cliff, near the
ing and took «P some passengers.
After reaching Bend, the party
Although motorcycle climbs has tomb of William Prouty. who first
FU N E R A L H E R E M ONDAY Many more wished to go up hut were turned up hv Crescent I^tke and came
been made on Emerald Heights for climbed the North Sister and whose
prevented by the darkness. The new over the mountains and down the
the past three years, Sunday was the ashes are embedded In the side of
The funeral of George E. Potter. symphony orchestra played during middle fork of the Willamette. That
first time that the hill had ever been I the cliff there. The Maxamas hold ' chip Creek man, who died Saturday
road. Mr. Scott said, is not even In
scaled by a rider. Bill Davis was their encampment each year In some at the Pacific Christian hospital at the picnic.
Major
Eckerson
left
by
train
T
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fair
shape He found It rough and
the first man to go over the top in mountainous section of the North Eugene. was held In Springfield Mon
the first event, hut he was followed west. They camped In the Three Sis day morning at the Walker-Poole day night at 10 o'clock for Los An-1 narrow and steep. There has been no
by a number of others. Three hund ters region previously In the years chapel with Rev. Harry Benton of the geles, California. He will return in work done on the Willamette pass
two or three days, flying back in his this year, he said, nor did It look as
red dollars In cash, as well as a con
1911, 191«. and 1923. ’their camp Eugene Bible University In charge of new Arrow sport model, which he though there had been any done for
siderable amount of merchandise was
began Sunday and will last for two the services. The Springfield Mason has purchased for use at the school. some time past.
distributed among the winners of the
ic lodge, of which Mr. Potter was a
weeks.
The Arrow is smaller and lighter
three contests. The meet was spon
The Obsidians, a T.ane county member, officiated in the ceremony than the Waco, and will be used for DOCTOR T E L L S BIRD
sored by the American Motorcycle mountain climbers association Is at the grave.
a training ship.
Association through the Eugene asso
OF A FISH S T O R Y
Mr. Potter was 46 years, five
holding Its annual summer camp In
Dr. Rebhan states that the Lions
ciation. It was the final und moat the Cascades near the foot of the months, and 17 days old at the time
We have all heard of birds that
Important climb sponsored on tho South Sister. The members are ntak- of his death. He Is survived by his!S ! club will sponsor another picnic at
Pactfle coast this year.
Ing various expeditions Into the widow, five children. Raymond. Le- Ihe airport, some moonlight night catch and eat fish 6ut this week a new
after the completion of harvesting in ; story comes to us about a bird-eating
surrounding territory from there, j roy, Robert. Rolland. nnd Jackie, all
About 30 nre now at the camp. Oh- i of Cnlp Creek, and three brothers this vicinity. Major Eckerson will flah p r f nri phetteplace says he
CHASE G A R D EN S H O M E
demonstrate night flying and will also ; wag fishing up the river near Jasper
B U R N E D TO GROUND i sldian camp also opened Sunday nnd (nnd two sisters.
take up passengers for tours over the , when he hooked a large fat chub.
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A two-story house occupied by Mr. will last for two weeks.
surrounding country, which Is said to Doctor says he always throws the
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Winzenreids
at
Klamath.—
Lum
nnd Mra. Clarence Clattdell at Chase
Pumphrey’a Back From Vacation— j Anderson receive^ b card veester- have a very attractive appearance chubs away but this one Interested
Gardens was burned to the ground
when viewed from above in the him because he knew that the chubs
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Pumphrey,
local • day from Mr. and Mrs. John Wlnzen-
late Sunday, the fire starting In an James B. and —
moonlight
eat the redslde fry and the fish
overheated chimney. Practically all men. returned Tuesday from Thom reld, who are spending the summer
looked like he had an exceptional
Mlea
Roberta
Taking
Vacation—
at
Klamath
Falls
for
Mr.
Wlnxen-
of the contents of the building were son's resort on the McKenzie river
Miss Mary Roberts, local librarian, meal. Perhaps this Is the reason or
held's
health.
Mr.
Winzenreld
states
above
Vida,
where
they
spent
the
saved by neighbors who came to the
has been granted a two weeks' vaca maybe it was his Interest in surgery
assistance rtf the Claudells. Mrs. last week on their vacation, camp that he is enjoying the Klamath
tion by the library board. Mlsa Ro that caused him to perform an opera
country.
They
expect
to
return
to
Claudell and a baby son who was ing and fishing.
berts has been 111 for the past week tion on the big chub. The doctor
Springfield In September.
born Saturday night were removed
but
la now reported to he much Im says that among other things ho found
Ha« Tonalls Removed—-Miss Edna
to the Richards home nearby. Tho
proved.
Mrs. Vina McLean and Mrs. In the fish’s stomach was a small
Grant Tolliver Hara—Grant Tolli
houee was owned by the Chase Oar- Severson of Chase» Gnrdens under
L.
K.
Page
will take turns acting as bird. This Is food tor thought, a®
ver.
rancher
of
the
Jasper
vicinity,
dens florists, where Mr. Claudell Is went an operation for the removal
well as tor flshse -"How do fish
employed.
The loes Is partially of her tonsils Wedneaeday morning was among tho business visitors In Bbrartan daring the absence of Miss
catch birds?’*
Roberta.
Springfield
Wednesday.
at tho office of a local physician.
covered by Insurance.
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