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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1945
(It was Sunday)
Harry L. Holmes and David
H. Holmes of Bear creek or
chards establish scholarship fund
for Jackson county four year
high school graduates.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: There is a
special city election Tues. Voters
are urged to line up at the polls
first, and, the golf lynx and river
bank later.
20 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1935
(It was Monday)
Special train to board National
Guardsmen from Medford, Ash
land, and other Southern Ore
gon cities for encampment in Ft.
Lewis, Wash.
The Rogue Valley cherry crop
anticipated to be light this year.
30 YEARS AGO
Juim 10, 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Chamber of Commerce work
ing to get Woodmen of the World
convention here.
Jackson county to have two
state traffic officers, whose head
quarters will be Medford.
40 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1915
(It was Thursday) .
The Chinese Trade commis
sion invited to stop in Medford,
and includes merchants, diplo
mats and manufacturers who are
studying markets and new met
ods of business.
Preparations being made to
open Crater Lake Inn July 1.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the Tt)
Cos. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Dwight D. Eisenhower was
graduated from West Point 20,
30, 40, or 50 years ago?
2. Most auto makers are still
offering what they call a club
coupe; right or wrong?
3. The Supreme Court hasn't
had a Chief Justice from the
South since the Civil War; right
or wrong?
4. Do more federal employees
work in California or in the Dis
trict of Columbia?
5. The late Booker T. Wash
ington, outstanding Negro leader
was or wasn't born a slave?
8. Russia recently sent an of
ficial delegation to a country not
under its control: Argentina,
South Korea, Spain, Switzerland
or Yugoslavia?
7. Helen A. Keller can see but
not her or speak, speak but not
hear nor see, hear but not see
nor speak, not see nor speak nor
hear?
The Answers: 1. 40. 2. Wrong.
3. Wrong; Edward D. White
(1910-21) was from Louisiana.
Fred M. Vinson (1946-53) from
Kentucky. 4. More in California.
5. Was. 6. Yugoslavia. 7. Speak
(a little) but not see nor hear.
MOUSE SCARE REWARDED
Memphis, Tenn. (U.PJ The
court of appeals affirmed a $1,
750 judgment for Corinne Rey
nolds in compensation for a leg
injury caused by a mouse. She
said she crashed against a desk
in the paper company office
where she worked when office
manager Cecil W. , Koffman
waved a dead mouse at her.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
An Unreasonable Order
When is a tree not a tree?
The answer? When it is subject to taxation. Then
it becomes an issue.
There is one such issue wit! ,1S at the moment,
and it may take some time to get Che oblem clearly
in mind;
THE taxing of trees became an issue recently when
a member of the State Tax Commission discovered
that orchard trees have, like other growing crops, not
been figured in as part of the taxable value of the
land on which they grow. ,
The commission began looking into the problem,
and a hearing was held in Medford on the matter.
The tax commission then went back to Salem and
asked the opinion of the attorney general as to wheth
er orchard trees are, or are not, subject to such taxes.
He replied, in effect, yes, they are, just the same as
timber and shade trees. '
I7HEREUPON the tax commission issued an order,
" dated May 31, and mailed it to the county board
of equalization (it didn't arrive until June 6) instruct
ing it to "asssess the value of orchard trees at the
same percentage of true cash value as other real
property and include same in the assessment of real
property upon which' such trees are located."
The order went further, instructing the board
"to remain in session from day to day until there has
been substantial compliance with this order, but in
no event later than June 16, 1955, and that the as
sessor . . . shall thereafter make all necessary adjust
ments." MOW on the face of it, it might appear logical that
the law which defines real property and includes
trees would mean all trees. It is here that a bit of ad
ditional background information is needed.
This original law specifies, among other things,
that real property includes "all mines, minerals, quar
ries and trees in, under or upon the land."
The law yas written nearly 100 years ago, and in
these days there were few if any orchard trees in all
of Oregon. To the local orchardists it appears clear
that the law as quoted above referred only to trees
as timber (which is the word used in subsequent ref
erences in the same law) and not to trees considered
as farm crops.
THE solution of this problem, in the long haul, un
lMi'Ktarllir will Ha writh tllfi nniirfs nr nivcuai hlv. with
the legislature. It is not the purpose here to argue the
merits of the dispute.
The short term problem of the county board of
equalization and of the county assessor, however, is
something else again. V .
County Assessor Robert G. Fowler served as coun
ty agent here for many years, and is about as well in
formed a man as one can find on problems of local
agriculture. He said this week that strict compliance
with the tax commission order would be a physical
impossibility. V
Why? Because there are some 12,000 acres of
orchard trees in the county, with plantings varying
from 48 to 110 trees per acre, some of them on good
soil, some on bad soil: some lrngated, some unirri-
gated. The values, thus,
orchard to orchard, even from field to field.
It would take "two men, who knew what they were
doing, six months" to comply with the order, Fowler
explained let alone within the week specified. He
added that no one on his staff is a fruit orchard spe
cialist. The tax commission has no orchard special
ists to help out. And the deadline specified is next
week. .
IN the face of these facts, the commission order
seems unreasonable, arbitrary and absurd.
Whatever the ultimate decision as to whether a
tree is timber or a crop, the commission should, at the
very least, back off long enough to permit the matter
to be handled in an orderly and efficient manner, and
not demand or expect what is physically impossible.
E.A.
Board of Education
Loses Eight Teachers
Portland (U.R) The State
Board of Higher Education will
acknowledge the retirement
here Monday of eight faculty
members with a total of 250
years service to the state.
Leaving the state's colleges
and universities will be Dr.
Edna Landros, assistant profes
sor of classical languages, Uni
versity of Oregon, 27 years serv
ice; C. May Workinger assistant
professor, teacher placement, 45
years; Vera H. Brandon, asso
ciate dean of home economics,
27 years; .William E. Milne, head
of the department of mathe
matics, 34 years; W. J. Chamber
lin, associate professor of en
tomology, 33 years, all of Ore
gon State College.
Amanda L. Zabel, professor of
English and literature, Eastern
Oregon College, 26 years; Percy
M. Collier, professor of English
and literature, 25 years, and P.
W. Janney, professor of business
administration, 33 years, both
of Portland State College.
TO SPEAK AT UO
Eugene (U.PJ Dr. Stuart Le
Roy Anderson, president of Pa
cific School of Religion in Berk
eley, Calif., will be commence
ment speaker at the graduation
exercises of the University of
Oregon Sunday afternoon. ' -
Friday. June 10. I95S
would vary greatly from
Stockholm Explosions
Said Youthful Pranks
Stockholm, Sweden (U.R)
Soviet buildings have been
bombed twice in the past three
days but authorities today said
the explosions were only "teen
age pranks."
A bomb exploded in the yard
of the Soviet Embassy last night,
destroying a diplomat's car and
shattering windows in neighbor
ing buildings.
Last Tuesday another bomb
was set off in the office of the
Swedish-Soviet Society, a Moscow-backed
organization. Police
did not disclose this incident un
til last night's explosion.
No one was injured in either
blast.
Shakespearean Actor
Declared Improving
Hollywood (U.R) Noted
Shakespearean actor Walter
Hampden was reported in "very
satisfactory" condition at Cedars
of Lebanon Hospital today after
suffering a mild stroke. .
Hampden was stricken while
on his way to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studio in nearby Culver
City yesterday. Hospital doctors
described his stroke as "very
mild."
The stage star flew here from
New York this week to appear
in the movie "Diana." The 75-year-old
actor has been on the
stage for 44 years. "
Formal Invitation
To Soviets for Big 4
Meeting Tops News
Br CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's good and bad news
on the international balance
sheet:
THE GOOD
1. The United States, Great
Britain and France formally in
vited Soviet Russia to a Big Four
meeting "at the
summit," to be
held in Gen
e v a, Switzer
land, from July
18 to 21. Presi
dent Eisenhow
er, who will
represent the
United States,
made it clear
that he will ap
proach the
Charles McCann meeting with
caution : and vigilance. He and
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles were prepared to co-operate
in any attempt to reduce
world tension. But the President.
said in a speech at West Point
that it might take a generation
of effort to obtain the kind of
peace the United States seeks.
2. A Soviet Russian invita
tion to Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer of West Germany to visit
Moscow caused a diplomatic sen
sation. The first reaction in
western capitals was nervous.
It was obvious that the Kremlin
sought to sabotage the rearma
ment of West Germany. But
President Eisenhower quickly
said that be has complete confi
dence in Adenauer as a man who
will "stand by his allies and his
friends." Adenauer himself, in a
frank interview with Vice Presi
dent Jack Bisco of the United
Press in Bonn, said that if he
does go to Moscow, "one thing
is certain: We will faithfully ob
serve the obligations taken up
under the treaties with the
West."
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Babson and Family Income
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., (Special
To Mail Tribune). I wonder if
you realize that a far greater
social and economic revolution
is taking place right under your
nose than has taken place in
Russia. This is a revolution
that should put Russia to shame.
Take a look
at what has
happened to
you. As little
as 10 years
ago did you
expect to own
a home such
as you probab
ly have today?
Did you ever
Bettr W. Bsbism expect to have
the kind of car that is yours, to
go to the places and do the things
you've been doing lately? To
own the household appliances
that are yours? To be able to
send your children to college?
A young Babson Institute
senior who will graduate this
June has had a number of job
interviews and several offers.
One company offered him an
especially good opportunity and
we supposed he had accepted
their job offer. Upon inquiry, he
hedged and said he had not be
cause they were not paying
enough. He wanted more than
their $300 per month to start be
cause some of his classmates
were getting offers of from
$325 up. It is nothing short of
fantastic the number of techni
cal and busines administration
college men who will start out
this June not with just a dip
loma, but with a wife, perhaps
a child, a car, and a $4,000-a-year
job!
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Increase in Families
With Incomes Over $4000 '
Since 1947 there has been a
70 per cent increase in the num
ber of families with incomes
over $4,000. Back in 1944 the
average family earned $4,027.
Today, the average for the Am
erican family, including both
farmers and those living in the
cities, is $5,330. And the average
city family today earns over
$6,000 annually! . But most
startling of all is the fact that a
whooping 44 per cent of all non
farm families earn between
$5,000 and $10,000 a year. At
the other end of the scale, only
30 per cent of all families, in
cluding the traditionally low
farm-income group, earn less
than $3,000. Only 15 per cent of
the city families are today found
in this group. But keep in mind
that these figures apply to famil
ies living under the same roof,
not necessarily to individuals.1:
But this is not all of the story.
The real eye opener is found in
the great economic leveling
process that has been at work
these past dozen years. Fewer
and fewer famines are making
over $10,000. Only 9.8 per cent
of our city families make' over
$10,000. . :, - '
In. short, we have broadened
our market base with a greatly
increased number of potential
buyers of goods and services.
This expanded market base in it
self should help to keep us
prosperous. This, then is a re
volution in earning power. It has
already increased the middle
class group of wage earners so
3. Italian Premier Mario Seel-
ba of Italy won a victory for his
Christian Democratic party in re
gional elections in Sicily. The
victory materially strengthened
the position of Scelba, who is a
firm friend of the United States
and a bitter foe of Communism.
Scelba has been under attack by
left and right wing rebels in his
own party.
The Bad
1. British industry was threat
ened by creeping paralysis be
cause of a railroad strike, now
in its 13th day, by 67,000 loco
motive engineers and firemen.
Five British and Canadian ocean
liners also were tied up by strik
ing dock workers at Southamp
ton and Liverpool. There were
indications that the railroad
strike might be settled this week
end. But it already had cost Brit
ish industry millions of dollars,
and cost millions of dollars in
wages to workers laid off.
2. Indochina and French North
Africa continued to be danger
spots. In Indochina, there was
fighting between the forces of
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, whom
the United States supports, and
the Hoa Hao sect in a small scale
civil war. In North Africa, con
tinued terrorism in Algeria
forced the French government to
plan majpr troop reinforcements.
3. Bad feeling between the
Arabs and the Israelis threatened
new violence in Palestine. Prime
Minister Abdel Gamal Nasser of
Egypt warned that if the Israelis
attacked Egyptian positions in
the so-called Gaza strip on the
Palestine coast it would mean
war, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.,
United States chief delegate to
the United Nations, and U.N. Sec
retary General Dag Hammer
skjold appealed to both Egyp
tians and Israelis to cooperate in
reducing tension.
that we today have nearly ach
ieved a one-class, middle-class
society, with little poverty and
few extremely wealthy persons.
Consumer Confidence
Keeps Business Rolling
Certainly I would be one of
the first to admit that pent-up
war demand was responsible for
the spurt in business right after
the war. But that was over by
1950. What keeps us rolling, now
in 1955? Consumer confidence!
How people feel about their
local, state and national govern
ments, how they feel about the
future, whether they have confi
dence in Washington - these
psychological factors have had a
great deal to do with our good
business. Newspaper advertis
ing has created a climate of con
f idence in which it has been
possible for us to consume our
way to prosperity,
Businessmen and manufactur
ers are optimistic, too. When
they spend money for new stores
new plants, and new machinery,
we know times are good. And,
business plans to spend about 5
per cent more on these things
in 1955 than it spent in 1954.
When projecting plans into the
future, most manufacturers feel
that business will be sufficiently
good to necessitate a further 10
per cent - 12 per cent addition
to their productive capacity bet
ween 1956 and 1958. Yes, it is
a tremendous revolution that we
are part of, a revolution that
makes our standard of living al
most unbelivable to most other
parts of the world. Character,
education and advertising are
the basic forces needed to have
prosperity continue.
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Is Against Bull Doiers
To the Editor:
We agree with the statement
in Mining Lore" that most of
the isolated mineralized sections
of the southwest have only been
scratched on the surface. But
we disagree on the use of Bull
dozers to uncover prospects,
veins, lodes or dykes until a
thorough determination has
been made first hand, as the
tracing method is somewhat of
an art among the most practical
miners of the old school of hard
knocks. .
There is no short-cut method
known as yet that can safely be
applied to work like making a
productive mine, unless surface
indications as well as character
of formations are present, if the
virgin ground is disturbed too
much by a mechanical process,
that, interferes with the regular
means used by experienced
methods.
Prospecting, like chemistry is
a life long study, there is some
thing new cropping up every
day. In other words, the unex
pected happens quite often. ,
Burt Kissinger
520 Boardman st
Medford
Today and
By Walter
The Invitation to Adenauer
The Soviet invitation has, we
may suppose, come sooner than
Dr. Adenauer expected or wouia
have wisnea.
Presumably he
would have
preferred it if
Moscow had
w a it e d until
say the . au-
X I tumn, that is
i G 1 I ' until after the
first cadres of
the German
army are in be
Walter Lippmann
ing.
Nevertheless, the Bonn gov
ernment, has expected and has
been counting upon diplomatic
recognition and an exchange of
ambassadors. In fact there is
some reason to think that there
have already been unofficial
soundings taken both ways about
the acceptability of certain per
sons to head the missions.
There is little doubt, there
fore, that Dr. Adenauer will ac
cept in principal the Soviet pro
posal to "normalize" displomatic
relations, even though he may
not wish to go himself to Mos
cow in, as the Soviet note says,
"the near future."
The timing of the Soviet in
vitation shows light, I think, on
how the Soviet rulers regard
the forthcoming meeting at the
summit, and the various Four
Power and other conferences
which are supposed to follow it.
Quite evidently they do not be
lieve that the three or. four day
meeting at Geneva is to be, or
that it could be, another Yalta.
That is to say that it could not
be another conference by a few
big powers who assign territory,
fix boundaries, and authorize
governments. The Soviets are ex
pecting to transact their real
business not in generalities and
wholesale at the top level con
ference but directly, bilaterally,
hand-tailored and at retail, with
particular countries.
THEY did this with Austria.
They are doing it with Japan.
They have tried to do it with
Yugoslavia. They have set about
doing it with Germany.
This latest note to the Bonn
government marks theend of
the period during which the fate
of Germany was to be decided
by the Big Four. At the British
conference in the winter of 1954
it was already clear that neither
the Western powers nor the So
viet Union believed that they
could agree upon a German set
tlement. All of them, though in
different ways, had come to the
same conclusion that the Ger
mans themselves will be the
principals in the negotiation of
a German settlement.
And as three - quarters of the
German nation live in the West
German Federal Republic, the
Soviets have taken the first step
toward negotiations with the
Germans.
This does not mean, so I would
guess, that the Kremlin intends
to make an offer on the basis
of "take it or leave it" let
us say, reunification for resig
nation from NATO, withdrawal
of the Red Army for the with
drawal of the American forces
from Europe.
The tone and substance of the
Soviet note looks, it seems to
me, to a long courtship of the
Germans rather than to some
sudden and spectacular coup.' If
the men who are responsible for
this note remain in control of
Soviet policy, we must expect
the Soviets to follow a gradual
policy on reunification, on fron
tiers, on liquidation of the East
German government, withdraw
al of troops, and alliances.
rpHUS the Soviet note is not an
invitation to Dr. Adenauer to
come to Moscow and agree on a
German settlement. It is an in
vitation to establish diplomatic
relations, to lift somewhat the
Iron Curtain, and . to expand
trade, leaving the hard questions
of a settlement to be dealt with
later on when the relations be
tween Bonn and Moscow have
become better. ,
The authors of this note are
well informed about West Ger
many and about Dr. Adenauer's
policies. Quite plainly they mean
business. For Dr. Adenauer too
believes in the gradualist ap
proach to a German settlement,
being convinced that when Ger
many is rearmed, when Ger
many has achieved a leading
place within the NATO alliance,
he will be talking with the So
viets from a position of great
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Tomorrow
Lippmann
strength. There ; is nothing in
the Soviet note which raises ob
stacles or objections to the gen
eral policy of the Adenauer gov
ernment. The offer to establish
diplomatic relations and to ex
tend trade is in the text of the
note unconditional.
Mr. Dulles can now shed at
least two of his worries. He can
put aside for a while the wet
blankets he always keeps avail
able. One of his fears has been
that the people of the United
States will expect too much of
the meeting at th summitvAn-
the meeting at the 'summit. An
that the President will be asked
-to make too many big decisions
at the summit. The Soviet gov
ernment may have grandoise
projects to offer at the summit.
But the fact of' the matter is
that the Soviet government is
now transacting its real busi
ness below and apart from the
top level conference.We may
soon be worrying about some
thing else. We may soon be ask
ing ourselves whether we know
all that we need to know about
what is going on down there be
low the summit.
Copyright. 1955. New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
Senator Praises
Work of C of C
Legislative Group
The work done by the legiste
tive committee of the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce
during the past few months was
praised here yesterday by State
Sen. Philip Lowry.
Senator Lowry, speaking be
fore the chamber's board of di
rectors, declared that the com
mittee has brought statewide
recognition to Medford through
its activities in connection with
this year's legislative session
He urged continued studies of
tax matters, water codes, and
public finance, and suggested
that the committee work with
legislative interim groups. The
chamber's legislative committee
is under the chairmanship of
Frank J. Van Dyke.
Another matter brought to the
attention of the board at yester
day's meeting was the problem
of downtown merchants parking
their cars in metered areas and
"feeding the meters," thus limit
ing the amount of parking space
available to customers. It was
noted that these merchants are
harming themselves by, forcing
customers to go elsewhere.
It was suggested that offstreet
parking would be an aid in solv
ing the problem, and a progress
report on offstreet parking was
presented.
It was announced that the
Greeters committee of the cham
ber will go to Crater Lake lodge
June 16 tor a 7:30 a.m. break
fast meeting. A purpose of the
meeting will be to extend a wel
come to Harry Smith Jr. and
Harry Smith Sr., the new owners
of the lodge.
P. K. Nelson Herd
Tops Month's List
The P. K. Nelson dairy herd
of 22 animals topped the herd
summary for May prepared by
the Jackson County Dairy Herd
Improvement association. The
herd produced an average of 926
pounds of milk and 49.6 pounds
of butterfat.
Owners of other herds in the
top five included Richard West
erberg, 38 animals averaging
1,058 pounds of milk and 48.7
pounds of butterfat; W. C. Hig
enbotham, 49 animals averaging
1,329 pounds of milk and 44.1
pounds of butterfat; R. L. and
Blanche Wyant, 31 animals aver
aging 799 pounds of milk and
43.9 pounds of butterfat, and W.
J. and Dolores Eary, 10 animals
averaging 1,199 pounds of milk
and 42.6 pounds of butterfat..
Top individual cow was Ro
gena, owned by Clarence and
Sadie Williams. The animal pro
duced 2,294 pounds of milk and
96.3 pounds of butterfat.
Roseburg (U.R) Howard
Doak, a 32-year-old logger, was
killed near Drew southeast of
here yesterday when struck by
a falling tree. Coroner L. L.
Powers reported. Doak recently
moved here from Weiser, Ida.
EAST
SIXTH 5T.
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In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
President Eisenhower mA.
dressing the graduating class at'
" - t-omi, tens lis members:
"Your endurinff mtrihntim
to America
COUNCIL TABLE far removed
from war . . . Your entire lives
may AND SHOULD BE as ser
iously aevoted to leading toward
peace as to nreDarinar vnnruivu
for the tasks of war."
'THAT'S good advice from the
top soiaier or. tne world of to
day to the young men who are
preparing themselves to be
America's top soldiers of the
world of the future.
TKE added:
S. "Tha .m4a..i..J Wt i
jm;u rour-rower
conference 'at the highest level
is only a BEGINNING of new
efforts toward the goal of en-
during peace . . . it may be a
generation before an enHurin
peace is achieved."
He warned against what t
calls "fatuous expectations that
a world, sick with ignorance,
mutual fears and hates can ho
miraculously cured at a single
meeting.
H
E'S telling us: ...
Hope for the best.
Be ready for the worst.
Keep our shirts on.
That's good advice for ALL Of
us.
ALGER HISS bobs into the
news again. As follows:
Alger Hiss, former state de
partment who served a prison
sentence for Deriurv. rjleaderl
guilty in New York to PLAY-
UNljr BAIAj IN A f KUHIBITED
AREA. He paid a $3 fine as the
alternative to two days in jail.
"Hiss received a summons on
June 2 which alleeed tin waa
nlavin ball with his l3-vMr-nlt
son in a section of Washington
Square park where ball playing
is forbidden."
T THINK very little of Hiss. He
I sold .his American birthright
for a mess of Communist pot
tage. But it's far better for him
to be out playing ball in a public
park with his kid than to be out
with a bunch of Commies cook-;
ing up trouble.
Instead of summoning him into
court, it would have been wiser
in this instance to have ex
plained to him courteously that
for reasons that it considers
good . the City - of New York
doesn't permit people to play
ball in that particular spot but
provides other places where ball
playing is encouraged.
The way the situation ' was
handled smacks of persecution
which seldom pays off.
A BILL to create a San Fran
cisco bay area smog control
district is on Governor Knight's,
desk in Sacramento. If he signs
it, it will create a district to be
governed by a ten-member board
which will have the authority to
levy a ten-mill tax on each $100
of assessed valuation, the pur
pose of the tax being to finance
measures to abate the smog nuis
ance. THE San Francisco bay area
has always been supposed to
have a foolproof NATURAL air
conditioning system provided by
the fog and the cool breezes that
blow in at night from the ocean.
But even in the Bay area the
problem of smog control is stick
ing up its ugly head.
WHAT to do?
There are two ways to
handle the smog problem. One
of them is to .spend, fabulous
sums of tax money to remove
the pollutions that cause smog.
The other is to DISPERSE in
dustry among the smaller cities
instead of concentrating it in a
comparatively small number Of
Bigtowns.
IiJUESTIGATE
whether you are earmarking yeiir
savings to provide security far
later lift, extra cash income now.
or art just starting to accumulate
an emergency fun it will pay t
to Investigate here.
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