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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
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10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 194S
(It was Wednesday)
Growth of city results in
change of mail delivery service;
houses on rural routes, and
routes revamped.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot Column: Males con
tinue to run around without hats
in the bracing air. This flirting
with pneumonia amazes mem
bers of the fair sex with no toes
In their shoes.
20 YEARS' AGO
Jan, 30, 1936
(It was Thursday)
Fruit tree census of orchards
In Jackson county under way
for - department of agriculture
with WPA funds.
Medford residents to observe
President Roosevelt's 54th birth--day
at dance tonight to raise
funds to combat polio.
30 YEARS AGO '
Jan. 30, 1926
(It was Saturday)
January building permits total
$54,101 compared to $12,715 for
the same month in 1925.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Fishing conditions in the
Rogue riverj say some of the
local sportsmen, are improving.
The water is still high, but-has
lost the greater part of its tur
pidness, a condition which is said
to make good steelhead fishing.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30. 1916
(It was Sunday)
From Eagle Point Eaglets: On
account of the continuous rain
fnd snow, the roads have become
o bad that two of our star route
mail carriers have put their rigs
under shelter and are using pack
animals to carry the mail and
he other two are leaving their
hacks and using pack horses. The
roads are simply awful.
Ashland records lowest tem
perature of season, 9 above zero.
What's the Answer?
1. Largest share of the propos
ed $250,000,000 federal school
building funds for the first yeas
would go to New York, Illinois,
California, Texas or Pennsyl
vania? 2. If Franklin D. Roosevelt
were alive today, he would be
the same age as President Eisen
hower, or 4, 9 or 14 years older?
3. Germany invaded Russia in
World War II before or after the
Japanese attack on Pearl Har-
bor, or at the same time?
4. Bobby Jones was or wasn't
the only amateur to win the U.S.
Open golf championship?
0 5. The U.S. House of Repre
sentatives now has one, three,
five or seven Negro members?
6. The Dodge car is or isn't
made by General Motors?
7. Which of. these cities gets
more snow in a typical year:
Boston, Burlington, Vt., Denver,
Minneapolis, Rochester, N.Y.?
The answers: 1. Texas. 2. Nine
years old. 3. Some months be
fore. 4. Wasn't .5. Three. 6. Isn't
(by Chrysler). 7. Rochester.
POSTMEN STAY WELL
Omaha (U.R) Twelve Omaha
- postal employes retired from
service recently with a total of
1,489 days of unused sick leave.
Omaha Postmaster Walter Kor
isko called it a local answer to
charges by government investi
gators of "widespread abuses" of
sick leave my postal workers.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Party
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company re
cently completed a job of modernizing its facilities in
the area to the west of Jacksonville.
In the mail the other day we got a nostalgic bit of
writing from a modest woman who wishes her name
not to be used, quoting an unnamed "Old Timer" rem
iniscing about the old days of the party line.
The Old Timer, our correspondent maintains,
wants people to know how much the Applegate resi
dents like the new service.
-
"TT'S A MIGHTY big satisfaction to step to the phone
now and dial almost anywhere your 'neighbor
over the back fence, Gold Hill, San Francisco and in
short order you're talking like it was someone in the
room," she quotes him as saying. But let him continue
his story as she set it down :
"Used to.be when a storm was blowing up, my
wife Lizzie would get on the phone and do all her
calling before the wind put the line out. Really, them
was the days, when we had those old crank telephones
on the wall. There were about 15 in a line, and every
body got to kno'w everybody else's business. Some
times of afternoons, a couple of women would be talk
ing, and Lizzie and four or five other women would
join, in and really chew the fat. The modern version of
this is the kids doing their algebra on the phone.
"VIE GOT mail two or three times a week then, in
' some places, and the woman living on the daily
route, with her newspaper, would relay the news to
the rest of us. Even got so Lizzie could tell who was
ringing.
"Some rang like a fire in town, others cranked
slow and easy.
"Did you ever hear of ten rings? That was like
wrhat the radio calls now a 'speciel news bulletin.' You
rang that if your house was on fire, or there was some
general emergency everyone needed to know about.
- "Then there was the telephone operator. She
wasn't just a voice in the receiver. She was a warm
and personal friend, and the telephone office in Jack
sonville was her home. It used to set on the corner
where the brick dial station is now The Operator gave
you the time of day, repeated your conversation if
your party couldn't hear, and let you know whether
John had passed through town with his load.
" A ND more than that. On Nov. 11, 1918, she rang
ten rings on all our party lines and said, 'The
Armistice has been signed, and I've been asked, to
wake everybody.' Two of those uld-time operators
were Mrs. Aletha Cantrall and Mrs. Barbara Jennings.
"The biggest problem in those days was getting
the line repaired; it was out more than it was in. Us
ually it had to wait 'til a farmer got his hogs butchered
or his hay in before he'd hunt up the trouble. Maybe in
the mean tiriie, Martha would go out and hitch a line
up off the ground with her apron strings, for tempor
ary repairs. Of course, sometimes there would be a
lineman hired, but not always.
"THAT was in the days before the dial, and you
- always could get through somehow. If . enough
people heard a tinkle on their bells, they'd relay it
'til it got through. Of course, with that first dial sys
tem, when your line went out, it was out! But it's a
different story now; the. Bell company owns the lines,
and as soon as it is reported out of order you see their
trucks on the way." -
The world is changing fast. Many people have
fond memories about the "old days", of the party
lines, and we think the "Old Timer's" recollections
are interesting. But there are lots of people still
around who remember when there weren't any tele
phones at all. E.A.
Surplus
The American Friends Service Committee is a
group which, through governmental cooperation, is
taking advantage of the huge supplies of surplus food
in this country. It is sending it overseas to nations
where, as was remarked recently, "two gut of every
three persons wakes up hungry."
A contribution of only $10 will make available to
the committee a full ton of surplus food, including
powdered milk, cheese, butter or butter oil.
..,. .
THIS IS stretching charitable dollars. The commit-
tee says :
Up to now, the distribution of food by AFSC has been
carried on throught centers of existing Quaker Services
overseas, with careful supervision and with due 'regard to
local economic factors. By utilizing volunteer personnel
already on the spot, our costs have been held to an abso
lute minimum. Food is distributed in the spirit of Christian
sharing, without regard to race, creed or political affiliation.
It is shared with those whose hunger would otherwise be
continuing.
RAINS have been added to the dairy food surplus
es available to the committee for this purpose,
and are helping a bit to diminish the huge surpluses
of food in this country.
Donations, which are deductible for tax purposes,
may be sent to the American Friends Service Commit
tee, 1108 S.E. Grand Ave., Portland 14, Oregon.
E.A.
Portland Readied For
Portland (U.R) A quarter
mile of pipe was dragged across
the Willamette river in Portland
Sunday as Portland Gas and
Coke Company made ready for
the arrival of natural gas to the
city.
The 16-inch steel pipe is en
cased in a two-inch thick con
crete wrapper to keep it from
floating. The pipe, weighing 240
tons was tugged into place span
ning the river by a force of
eight mighty bulldozers. The
1700-foot long pipe will be one of
the major links in the company's
Monday, January 30, 1956
Line
Food
Natural Gas
system to feed natural gas to the
eastern part of the city from its
Linton plant.
The pipe was threaded
through a ten-foot deep trench
across the Willamette.
Mound City, S.D. U.R) A
man who burglarized a service
station here must be convinced
that crime doesn't pay. He fell
into the grease pit, getting
plenty of grease on himself. And
the loot wasn't much toward
paying the cleaning bill he got
only 80 cents.
Glubb Pasha is Central Figure
In Chaotic Jordan Situation
CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
A slightly - built, stoop-shouldered
Briton who has become
known as Glubb Pasha is a cen
tral figure in
the chaotic sit
uation in Jor
dan. The recent
riots that ex
ploded all over
Jordan from
Amman, the
capital to Jer
usalem, were
Charles Mccann directed pri
marily against the United States
and Great Britain.
But they were directed also
against Gen. John Bagot Glubb,
commander in chief of Jordan's
Arab Legion.
Glubb's enemies are many and
bitter. They call him "the em
peror of Jordan." They say that
he is the real power behind
young King Hussein and that he
Civil Rights Measures
Aim of Two From N.W.
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Two relative
newcomers to Congress from the
Pacific Northwest have emerged
as the lawmak
ers ' from the
region most ac
tively concern
ed about en
acting new
legislation to
effect civil
rights prog
ress. They are
Reps. Thomas
A. Robt. Smith
M. Pelly soph-
omore Republican from Seattle,
and Edith Green, freshman Dem
ocrat from Portland.
Congressman Pelly has been
designated by a bipartisan group
of his colleagues to be regional
leader in efforts that are being
planned to bring civil rights to
the floor of the House. Leading
this group are Reps. Hugh Scott
(R - Pa.) and Adam Clayton
Powell (D-N.Y.). In a letter to
Power accepting assignment as
regional leader, Pelly declared:
"As you no doubt know, I feel
very strongly on this issue and
will be happy to cooperate to
the best of my ability in pro
tecting the rights of the minority
groups in our country that they
may enjoy the liberty and free
dom guaranteed our citizens un
der the constitution."
Anii-Poll Tax Bill
After several meetings to lay
down strategy on civil rights
legislation, Pelly said he feels
confident an anti-poll tax bill
will come up for a vote this year.
He is less confident of favorable
action on legislation which he
is co-sponsoring to outlaw cer
tain forms of discrimination in
interstate conveyances.
The civil rights issue is ex
pected to come up sooner when
the House starts debate on the
aid to education bill, for a rider
is to be offered to ban any fed
eral grants to states that do not
abide by the Supreme Court's
anti-segregation ruling.
Pelly's inclinations is to sup
port any such rider, which is
the position being taken by
House GOP leader Joe Martin.
Some members consider this a
dilemma, because they would
hate to see any civil rights rider
added by the House become the
signal for a Dixiecrat filibuster
against the education bill in the
Senate.
Congresswoman Green ' voted
against the civil rights rider
when it was first offered in the
House Education Committee, be
lieving that the bill would never
have reached the floor r other
wise. But she intends to support
the Powell . amendment on the
House floor. She feels she owes
it to her constitutents to see their
tax money is not spent to sup
port a segregated school system.
Was Criticized
Since returning from a trip
through the South, Mrs. Green
has vowed to do her best to
push for anti-poll tax and anti
lynching laws. This has caused
her to be criticized in some
quarters for poking her nose
into other people's business.
Both Mrs. Green and Pelly
have something to show to such
critics, for they are co-sponsoring
legislation that would out
law a brand of discrimination
that has long existed in their
home states and the West at
large. '
The Pelly - Green measure
would knock out of the basic
reclamation act a clause which
prohibits employment of Asiatics
on federal reclamation- projects.
The bill was passed by the House
last summer and is . now in the
Senate.
Dates Far Back
While the issue is no longer
a hot one on the Pacific coast,
it is a mark of discrimination
that dates back to the days of
severe prejudice against Chinese
labor on the West coast. It'-is
one of those discriminatoryaws
that has never been corrected.
So the two lawmakers from
the Pacific Northwest who are
trying to get favorable action
in the civil rights legislative
field aren't limiting themselves,
directs Jordan policy.
Jordanian political groups,
Egypt and Saudi Arabia all
want to squeeze Britain out of
Jordan.
In pursuit of that end, they
are out to get Glubb.
"Colonialism" Symbol
To his enemies, Glubb, for one
thing, is a symbol of British "Co
lonialism." But ironically, the complaint
is not simply that Glubb, a Brit
ton, is commander in chief of
the legion, by far the best fight
ing force in the Arab world.
Glubb's enemies say that he
has been in Jordan so long, and
has so extended his political in
fluence, that he is really the
country's dictator. They say that
he does not just represent Brit
ish interference in middle east
ern affairs. For all purposes,
they say. he not only acts but
thinks as a Jordan leader.
Glubb's bitterest enemy in
Jordan is Soleiman El Nabulsi,
to, improving only some other
section of the country, for they
are trying to wipe out discrimi
natory practices on their own
home grounds.
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For Natural Foods
To the Editor: I have had let
ters about the Natural Food as
sociates, and how to obtain the
Journal. One can become a mem
ber for S4 a year, which includes
Natural Food Farming Journal,
Atlanta, Texas, a monthly pub
lication. The NFA has a new 99
club for anyone or member who
wants action so the American
people can have better food, bet
ter health. For more informa
tion phone 2-8451 or 2-9365. The
Oregon president is Mr. J. Verne
Shangle. '"'
Julia Grissom,
Route 2, Box 657,
Central Point, Ore.
He Won't Give
To the Editor: In reading the
Tribune last evening I came
across the Articles' regarding the
status of the osteopathic physi
cians designed for them by the
medical fraternity in the pro
posed Memorial hospital.
To put it very mildly I was
astounded that the medical doc
tors could sink to such a low,
low, stand as to attempt to 'ex
clude the doctors of a healing
fraternity as the osteopathic
practitioners. My family doctor
is, and has been, for more than
15 years, an osteopath. He has
never failed to help me and
mine. Could a medical doctor
do any more satisfactory service?
My doctor is- also an optome
trist. He has fitted both me and
my wife with glasses over the
same period of time. All with
the greatest satisfaction to both
of us. Could a medically recog
nized oculist do any better?
My son came from the Coast
Guard blind in one eye. Navy
doctors could do nothing for
him. Our optometrist restored
his sight to normal. This, after
oculists could do nothing
How about it, doctors, is that
osteopath unworthy of associat
ing with the honorable(?) doctors
of medicine? I, most emphatic
ally, think he is; in any hospital,
or any other place. As a phy
sician, as an optometrist, as a
surgeon, he is, at least equal to,
if not superior, to any of them.
Where do the medicals acquire
right to exclude such a man from
their holy midst? He, too, found
it necessary to attend college to
prepare himself for his -selected
profession. He, too, complied
with the Oregon state law in
order to practice that profession.
Moreover, the new hospital
is being, in part, at least, built
by tax money. Does not that
fact carry weight? Or are the
so called medical men to be put
further up on the pedestal, and
must the man in need of healing
kowtow to a person. he does not
like, and take a practitioner he
does not want in order to be
admitted to this new hospital?
Is this hospital to be Hitler
ized? Only the great poo bows
to be "recognized therein? P am
not a rich man," neither am I
broke, but, while I might have
been persuaded to contribute to
the hospital, now I cannot . be.
Nor shall I be, until the osteo
pathic profession have been rec
ognized as equal to the MDs.
A. L. Unger,
634 Pennsylvania Ave.
Medford, Ore.
(Editor's note: The statement
from the osteopathic physicians
and surgeons, referred to above,
concluded: ". . . The important
thing is for the community to
have this hospital. Our friends
and patients may rest assured
that in giving to this hospital
they are giving to a worthy
cause and one in the interests
of humanity.")
leader of the oposition in parli
ment. "Glubb must go," Nabulsi
said recently. "He is emperor of
Jordan. He is no longer British,
he knows the country people
better than we do ourselves."
Knows The People
One reason for that is that
Glubb .and his fellow legion
leaders go out and get to know
the people, seeking Jordan's best
youths for military service. The
great landowners, of whom Nab
ulsi is one, stay in Amman..
Glubb, now 58, went to the
Middle East in 1920 as a lieu
tenant of engineers in the Brit
ish army. He has remained there
ever since, i
He had been wounded three
times in France , in World War
I and had won the military cross
for gallantry in action.
Glubb resigned his army com
mission in 1926 to become an
administrative official in the
government of Iraq. In 1930, he
went to Jordan. He organized
the legion, starting with 100
men. Now he commands 20,000.
He even operates two schools,
which educate picked boys-to be
come officer material.
Nabulsi admits that he help
ed to organize the recent riots.
He says there will be more, un
less, the government changes its
decision to cancel the elections
which had been set for April
and unless King Hussein fires
Glubb.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The weather in the Bay area
this week has left quite a little'
to be desired. Among its other
antics, it has broken the ancient
21-days-in-a-row record, estab
lished during the last wet cycle,
which has hitherto been the
mark for "comparison. But as a
t o p i c for conversation the
weather has had to take a back
seat for the Abbott case in the
long,, dark days when the jury
has been deliberating.
The papers have been devot
ing about half their front sec
tions to it every day, and it has
provided small talk for every
gathering of every kind.
rpHE jury finally came in last
- night, and today the town is
buzzing with comment. In gen
eral, the verdict is accepted as
about the only one possible un
der the circumstances.
All I can say is that I'm glad
I wasn't a member of the jury.
Condemning a human being to
death is serious business. Some
how it seems more serious when
there is no direct evidence.
- Circumstantial evidence, of
course, 'can be damning. And it
is a notorious fact that human
beings can be VERY inexact in
their observation. All newspa
per reporters are occupationally
aware of the fact that when a
dozen people see something
happen there are likely to be at
least a dozen versions of what
happened.
QTILL, if one is sitting on a
jury and faces the terrible
responsibility of. sending a hu
man being to the gallows or the
electric chair or the gas cham
ber it is comforting indeed to
have someone step up into the
witness box and testify that he
saw the deed and recognizes the
defendant as the one who did it.
That helps at night when the
poor devil of a juryman needs to
get some sleep.
rjNE of the ruggedest jobs in
" this Abbott case was held by
a slight, quiet, scholarly-looking
gentleman named Thomas. He
was the alternate, the 13th jur
or. I hope he isn't superstitious,
because in the course of the
long trial there was a 13th Fri
day. In addition, he is the father
of a 13-year-old son.
I hope no black cats ran across
his path when he was out taking
his exercise and I trust that he
walked under no ladders. It's bad
enough to be a 13th juror, serv
ing in a month with a 13th day
that, falls on a Friday in a year
when his son was aged 13.
PUNISHMENT of a capital
crime is serious business. I
suppose death is the proper pen
alty for brutal crimes, such as
the murder of this little girl
There is certainly no place in a
decent world for people who are
so put together as to be capable
of doing such things. But con
demning a human being to die
is a hard job' to have to tackle
as a civic duty. '
JETTING back to the 13th, or.
" alternate juror, it is a system
devised to save money for the
taxpayers. This trial was at least
one of the longest in California
history. It ran for 54 calendar
days, or 47 trial days. What with
hotel bills for the jurors they
were kept incommunicado at
one of the Bay's best hotels
its costs ran into a lot of sales
tax pennies.
The alternate sat with the
jury throughout the trial. He
listened to all the testimony,
just as the other jurors did. But
when all the evidence was in
and the case was closed and the
regular jurors retired to deliber
ate, the alternate was ISOLAT
ED. That is to say, he was shut I
McttQf Of FQCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop
ANOTHER GREAT DEBATE
Washington For the first
time in the history of the Eisen
hower administration Jthe Demo
crats ri-n to make a major
issue of the
Admin istra
tion's defense
policy. The
plan now is to
initiate a big
Senate debate
on the whole
defense issue
within a week
or ten days.
Sen. Henry
Stewart Alsop
Jackson of Washington will
probably lead off with a speech
acpuKjnf thf Administration of
letting the .So
viet Union
gain a decisive
lead in the
vital field of
ballistic mis
siles. Sen. Stuart
Symington is
preparing his
a n g r iest de
fense speech
Joseph' Alsop
so far, describing the Admini
stration defense program as a
fraud on the American people.
Others expected to enter the de
bate include Senators John Ken
nedy of Massachusetts, Mike
Mansfield of Montana and Clin
ton Anderson of New Mexico.
Thereafter, no- less than four
different committees will in
quire into various phases of the
Administration defense pro
gram. According to present
plans, the Armed Services Com
mittee ' will call Gen. Matthew
Ridgway to testify on. his
charges that defense appropria
tions were established on a po
litical basis; Eidsway may also
ko MllaJ A
vancu uciuic liic Ajjpi epila
tions Committee. -.
"DUT GEN. Ridgway will not
be the only authority on the
national defense to be called to
testify. The preparedness sub
committee of the Armed Serv
ices Committee is headed by
Majority Leader Lyndon John
son, and Johnson has been shap
ing plans for a serious inquiry
into the status of American air
power:
Johnson has been canvassing
the field for a staff director- for
the subcommittee. Men of the
caliber of former Under Secre
tary o the Air Force Ross Gil
patrick and former chief of the
Policy Planning Staff Paul
Nitze have been considered for
the post.
A parade of expert witnesses
on air power, both from within
the Administration and outside
it, will be called to testify on, the
effects of the cuthanks in the
Air Force program. "
JOHNSON'S decision to make
" a major investigation of the
status of American air power is
of recent origin. He ' has long
felt, and reportedly still feels,
that it would be a' mistake to
make defense a party, issue,
especially with President Eisen
hower in the White House. Last
year he left the issue more or
less alone.
But last fall he was visited at
his Texas ranch by the tele
vision entertainer, Arthur God
frey. Godfrey is a -sincere and
up in a room all by his lone
some, with a special bailiff as
his guide, protector and (let's
say) KEEPER.
The idea was that if any regu
lar juror fell sick or was other
wise incapacitated, the alternate
would pinch-hit for him.. Other
wise if some juror had become
ill, or his mind had broken un
der the strain, or something else
untoward . had happened the
whole show would have had to
be put on again at great cost to
the taxpayers of Alameda
county.
TT SOUNDS like a good system
and I'm all for devices that
save the taxpayer money al
though, considering the way the
citizenship of the whole Bay
went for" the story, I think the
taxpayers got their money's
worth out of it.
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eloquent - believer in the life-
and-death importance of air
power.
And he converted Johnson to
his view that a great national
effort was required to retain
American air supremacy.
Johnson's conversion has en
couraged others to have a criti
cal look at the Eisenhower de
fense program. Senator Jackson,
who heads a subcommittee on
military application of nuclear
weapons is also planning an in
quiry. He will emphasize parti
cularly the comparative pro
gress of this country and the So
viet Union in the missile field,
and he plans to call Secretary of
the Air Force Donald Quarles.
Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan
Twining, and many others to
testify on this subject
CULL ANOTHER committee,
the special subcommittee on
disarmament headed by Sen. Hu
bert Humphrey of Minnesota.
also plans an inquiry involving
tne defense issue. HumDhrev
plans to call witnesses on the
comparative level of American
and Soviet armaments, and with
the sharp-tongued and aggresive
riumphrey in the chair, fre
quent explosions are likely to
occur. v
What is in Drosnect. in short
is an offensive all along the line
Dy the Democrats on the issue
of national defense lasting
tnrougnout the current session
and up to election day. The mo
tives for this offensive are. of
course, mixed.
In Dart thev are nnliHnal Tn
the past, the Administration has
been doubly shielded from any
prolonged and concerted criti
cism oi its defense program. One
shield has been the President's
military reputation. The other
has' been the old cry that ser
ious discussion of issues affect
ing national survival endanger
security.
OUT THIS is an election year,
"and the Administration
naturally will claim' credit with
the voters for a balanced budget
and reduced taxes. The Demo
crats are eager to impress the
voters with the fact that both
have been achieved wholly at
the expense of heavy cutbacks
in the defense and security area.
But in all fairness it must be
said that the motives are not
wholly political. Men like John
son and Jackson and Symington
are genuinely concerned by the
mounting evidence that the bal-
ace of power is shifting heavily
m favor of the Soviets.
Copyrighted 1956 New York
Herald Tribuna Inc.
EevDt is about the size of
California, ' New" Mexico and
Arizona combined as to area,
but its total populations is large
ly confined within the narrow
limits of the Nile river valley.
If God Is God
GEO. N. TAYLOR
If God is God why does He
not put an end to war? And why
does He . let the white man's
diseases spread
until heathen
tribes far inland
are rotting un
der them? The
answer is this
is not the day of
the , new world
order. This is
the day of sal
vation. God is
now calling out
a people on
whom he is to .
spend his Father love In the
ages to come when the last soul
is brought in to fill out the roll
call of the saved. Christ is to
return and sweep out this pres
ent world-order. He will then
set up the new day wherein
dwells righteousness. Turn, let
your heart believe that Christ
died for your every last sin from
the cradle to the grave. At tha
God gives you eternal life. Nor
by works of righteousness
which we have done but by his
mercy he saves us.
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