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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
iO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 8. 1946 ,
(It was Friday)
Shady Cove school district
residents approve an $11,500
bond issue for school improve
ments, including addition.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Shoe
and Leather association says
there will be four pairs of shoes
for every man, woman and child
in 1946. This should revive at
an early, date, the quaint Jack
son county practice of throwing
an old one at the groom, after
the nuptial knot is tied. ;
20 YEARS AGO y.x;:' ..
March 8. 1936 .
(It was Sunday) '
Moore Hamilton, J ackion
county Democrat, files for re
nomination to house of repre
sentatives." ' : . '
Mrs. J. W. Watkins elected
president of Phoenix Ladies Aid
society; Mrs. C. A. Knudson,
vice president; Mrs. W. E. Pol
ing, secretary; and Marjorie Wil
cox, treasurer.
30 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1926
(It was Monday)
Ashland residents organize
Newcomers club for citizens who
have lived in ity less than two
years.
Local American Legion to dis
cuss rules governing trip to
Paris for annual 1 convention;
40 YEARS AGO
Marchr, 1916
(It was Wednesday)
Ray Sales renominated to of
fice of director of Ashland
Moose lodge.
From Local and Personal col
umn: At the city election held
Tuesday at Jacksonville, Emil
Britt was reelected mayor, and
Jason Hartman and D. W. Bag
shaw councilmen.
What's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7? .
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. The Pledge to the Flag
does or doesn't mention ,the
Deity?
2. Tass is a British, French,
Russian, American or German
news agency?
3. Highest ranking official of
the State department after Sec
retary Dulles is the son of which
former President?
4. The Channel Islands, part
of Great Britain, lie closest to
England, Ireland, Scotland,
France or Denmark?
5. Which of these cars is
named for a Spanish explorer:
De Soto, Dodge, Pontiac, Stude-
6. An American spending
some weeks abroad may bring
back duty-free articles valued
1 ud to S150. S300. S500 or $1000?
7. Tenley Albright is an out
standing athlete: at basketball,
ice hockey, ice skating, skiing,
bowling or swimming?
The answers: 1. Does, by 1954
. act of Congress. 2. Russian. 3.
Herbert Hoover! 4. To France.
5. DeSoto. 6. Up to $500 duty
free. 7. Ice 'skating.
FIRE BRINGS DEATH
Portland (U.R) Fire late
last night resulted in the death
TO
; of an elderly man, identified as
Mike SDeck. about 63, when a
nne-storv home just southeast of
here was destroyed. Cause ef the
.blaze was not determined.
Amending Hatch Act
Part of the Hatch act to prevent pernicious politi
cal activities appears about to go by the boards with
no fanfare and little or no complaint.
The House has approved without debate or roll
call a bill amending the Hatch act by removing the
section which prohibits political activity on the part
of state or local agency employees whose employment
is with an activity "financed in whole or in part by
the federal government." The bill was referred to
the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
W1
HEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed the or
iginal Hatch Act on
that Congress consider the possibility of extending to
"state and local government emloyees who partici
pate actively in federal elections" the prohibitions it
imposed against "pernicious political activities" by
federal officeholders.
Passage of the act had been aided by a report of
the Senate Campaign Expenditures committee. This
averred that in the 1938 campaign there had been "in
several states (Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois) unjustifiable politi
cal activity in connection with the work of the Works
Progress Administration."
In the first relief bill of 1939, officials paid from
relief funds were prohibited from using their "offi
cial authority or influence for the purpose of interfer
ing with an election or affecting the results .thereof ."
President Rooosevelt gave his "hearty endorsement"
to this provision.
pONGRESS IN 1940 enlarged the Hatch act to ap-
ply 'to state and local employees paid with feder
al funds the political-activity rules governing the
federal civil service. Any such employee violating the
law was to be. discharged and not rehired for at least
18 months.
An agency which failed to discharge such an em
ployee upon order of the Civil Service Commission
would have deducted from its federal grant- an
amount equivalent to twice the employee's annual sal
ary. Employees charged with violations could appeal
to federal courts.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE on administration now
contends that "while at the time of its enactment
there may well have been a need for legislation of
this type, that need has ceased to exist." It points out
that most states have laws
tivity of office holders.
Moreover, because of
"the enforcement proceedings . . . have been limited
to action on complaints." Many of these complaints
appear to be motivated by spite or personal antagon
ism." The CSC reports that in the life of the 1940 amend'
ment through June 30,
complaints, of which 601 have been disposed of. Very.
few cases reach the removal stage. "
.";':
POR EXAMPLE, Of 25 complaints received in fiscal
1954, and 751 on hand at the beginning of that
year, 71 were disposed of, but only three removals
were ordered. No compilation of funds-withholding
orders is available, but a CSC spokesman said on Jan.
19 that such orders have
Ironically, the House
out the restraints of the Hatch act on state officehold
ers as the Senate was about to take up a measure to
revise and strengthen the Federal Corrupt Practices
act. E. K. K.
Protestant Clergy Visit Russia
v Eight Protestant clergymen, representing the Na
tional Council of Churches, are to leave tomorrow for
a brief trip to the Soviet Union. A group of Orthodox
leaders Irom Russia is to come to this country m June,
in an exchange of visits which the National Council of
Churches calls a step toward "mutual understanding"
and just and durable peace.
The Soviet government
the visits it is showing again that religious tolerance
obtains in Russia. Last year a number of American
and British clergymen were welcomed in the USSR.
Fewer religious leaders have been imprisoned of late
behind the Iron Curtain than when Stalin lived, -and
some of those then incarcerated have been given am
nesty. ,
pOMMUNIST PARTY head Nikita S. Khrushchev
in November 1954 ordered anti-religious propa
gandists to go slow on ridiculing the clergy and de
vout believers. The Kremlin insists that inhabitants
of Communist lands are free to worship and religious
leaders to conduct religious
The evidence indicates,
dom holds only while and
are "good" that is, are
of the Government. Churches in Russia have been
stripped of most of their educational functions as
well as of their property,
inculcate atheism in the young. E. R. R.
Kaiser Develops Colored Aluminum
Oakland Calif. (U.R) Kaiser
Aluminum and Chemical Corporr
ation has developed a revolu
tionary new method of produc
ing non - fading, gold - colored
aluminum.
The technique was thoroughly
tested in lengthy experiments at
the firm's Trentwood, Wash.,
plant the company said. It builds
the color in the very metal it
self rather than using dye
methods previously used.
The color is brought out by
anodizing under readily control
led conditions, offering shades
varying from pale straw to deep
geld and gold bronze tones. The
finish may be either bright or
Thursday, March 8, 1958
Aug. 2, 1939,.he suggested
!
restricting the political ac
limited funds of the CSC,
1955 it received only 621
been issued.
voted unanimously to wipe
says that in sanctioning
services.
however, that this free
where the religious leaders
subservient to the policies
and the state continues to
satin.
Kaiser said previous methods
of producing gold colored alum'
inum have lacked uniformity
of shade from sheet to sheet and
tended to fade badly when ex
posed to the sun and the ele
ments.
The new product is especial
ly suited for a wide range of
exterior architectural applica:
tions, automotive trim, furniture
and home appliances.
The city limits of London
encompass about one-third as
much area as New York City and
about one-half as much as taken
by the city of Chicago.
Today and
. By Walter
What Is the Farm Problem?
In a preceding article, I dis
cussed the fallacy of supposing
that the problem of the farm
surpluses can
be solved in
any- serious
measure by
dumping sur
pluses abroad.
We are left
with the task
o f managing
the farm prob
lem at home.
Needless to
Walter Lippmann
say, I do not know how to solve
the farm problem. I know just
enough about it, however, to be
reasonably certain that no solu
tion of the . problem is now in
sight, and that the best we can
hope for from the measures be
ing debated in Congress is that
the aggrieved farmers will get
some degree of temporary re
lief. It cannot do any harm, and
it might possibly lead to some
thing useful, to ask ourselves
as if we had just arrived from
Mars what it is that - we are
trying to do. It transpires, I be
lieve, that we do not usually,
if ever, say directly what it is
that we are trying to do. . .
What we are trying to do is
to provide the farm population
with incomes which keep pace
with the incomes of the indus
trial population. It is now an
accepted rule, which no public
man disputes, that the income
of farmers must not stand still,
much less may it fall, in relation
to industrial income. That is the
meaning of what is called par
ity.
Now the fact is that during
this century at least since
World War I farmers' incomes
if left to themselves have tended
to fall away from parity. To
prevent this falling away from
parity is the object of all the
farm plans. They are at bottom
of two kinds. One is to restore
parity directly, the other is to
restore it indirectly.
HPHE direct -way would be to
vote the farmers a federal
subsidy to cover the deficit be
tween the income they earn
and the income which under
the principal of partiy they
ought to receive.
A direct subsidy system would
work out something like this.
In the case of cotton, for ex
ample where there is one of
our largest and most stubborn
surpluses total market require
ments, , both . domestic ana tor-
eign, would be estimated for
the crop year. Farmers would
be assigned production quotas
in terms of bales. Cotton would
be -sold at market prices and
would no longer be supported
at non-competitive levels. Sub
sidies would be paid directly to
the farmer to make up the dif
ference between the price he
sells his cotton for and the
amount he should receive to
maintain his income in parity
with the economy as a whole
Production limitations would be
compulsory for those farmers
who elect to receive the subsidy
This system would have many
advantages over the present sys
tem, At prices which are com
petitive and meet the actual con
ditions of supply and demand,
cotton sales could probably be
increased. In any event they
would not pile up in unused sur
pluses which are not only waste
ful but by their very existence
exert a depressing influence on
cotton prices and markets. The
cost of the subsidy to the gov
ernment and the taxpayer would
probably be lower through the
elimination of storage and insur
ance costs and a reduction in
administrative expenses. And fi
nally, what is perhaps most im
portant, the long-run adjustment
of production and consumption
would be improved. For such a
subsidy system would rely on
market prices to allocate the
farmers' productive efforts more
realistically.
TUT the fact is, of course, that
-D almost all farm plans rely on
indirect devices for covering tne
deficits from parity. They use
federal monev and the federal
regulating power to manipulate
supply and demand in a rigidly
protected domestic market; the
aim of the manipulation is to
creat artificially high prices
which will bring farmers' in
comes ud to canty.
Neither method is easy to ad
minister in our kind of free so
ciety. For both involve massive
interference by the government
in the affairs of the farmer. The
direct method, that of outright
payments to supplement in
comes, might well be the easier
and cheaper to administer. Yet
almost certainly it would De
more unnoDular. For it reveals
quite badly the fact; that the op
eration is at bottom a subsidy
by the nation to a .part of the
nation.
Our people do not like to pay
or to be paid tneir suosiaies
oDenlv. Thev prefer, having be
come used to them, the indirect
forms of subsidy. Of these the
tariff is the biggest example of
all though not the only one.
Practically all the farm plans
are devices, like the tariff, for
replacing the free and open mar
ket with an artificial market.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
IT SEEMS to me that if the di
rppt method is the easier to
work effectively, we should not
be too squeamish about recog
nizing openly the fact that it is
national policy to subsidize agri
culture. There is nothing to be
ashamed of about that. The
maintenance of a contented agri
cultural population is a national
interest of the first order.
That agriculture requires pro
tection and help is a fact, which
cannot be doubted, and there
fore it would be mere political
prudery to try to hide the. real
ity which is that agriculture
must be a protected and sub
sidized occupation.
Copyright 1956. New York
Herald Tribune Syndicate, Inc.
New 'Soft' Policy of
Communism Soon
To Get First Test
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The' new "soft" policy of
Communist infiltration in West
ern European countries is about
to undergo its
first test.'
This- new
policy was laid
down at the re
cent 20th Com
munist Party
C o n g ress in
Moscow.
It calls upon
Communist
Charles McCann parties : in for
eign countries to work with the
Socialists and other left wing
groups in Parliament instead of
resorting to violence.
The first test of the policy is
coming up in Italy, which has
the biggest Communist party
about 2,500,000 members in
Western Europe.
Italiian Communist party lead
er Palmirq Togliatti returned to
Rome Tuesday from the Moscow
Congress to find himself faced
by a revolt of a strong Red fac
tion which believes in being
tough. .....
Million Members
The Rebels, somewhat opti
mistically, perhaps, claim to rep
resent about 1,000,000 . party
members. - - ,
Possibly they didn't read the
newspaper accounts of the Mos
cow proceedings, in any event,
they issued a manifesto attack
ing Togliatti and other party
leaders and demanding a. return
to the "revolutionary line."
It will be interesting to see
whether Togliatti can restore
party discipline. If he can't, he
will be in trouble, and so will
Moscow.
Toglaitti himself endorsed the
new line enthusiastically in an
interview with the United Press
in Moscow,
. He . probably was pained to
find out that the "hot heads in
his own party wanted no part
of it.
Doesn't Look Like Red
Togliatti . doesn't look like a
Red. Spectacled, intellectual
always carefully dressed, an art
lover, he could pass for a "rep
resentative member of the upper
middle class. ; .
But he has been called the
most successful Communist lead
er' in Western : Europe. He is a
master politician and he has the
great quality of patience. He
succeeded in building up the
Italian Communist party until
in the 1948 elections, it came
perilously near to taking over
the country. , .
Porcupine Meat
Said Delicacy
San Francisco (U.R) A
forester claimed today porcupine
meat can be prepared in a va
riety of highly palatable dishes
but he admitted he hasn't tried
any himself.
E. L. Kolbe, chief forester of
the Western Pine Association,
discussed the desirability of add
ing porcupines to the family diet
in a talk at the association's 25th
annual meeting.
He said the association in
stituted a desperate search for
porcupine recipes last year.
"We had to do something,"
Kolbe said. "The porcupine pop
ulation has mysteriously grown
way out of balance: Porcupines
cause millions of dollars worth
of damage every year by feed
ing on young trees.
"This could affect the eco
nomic welfare of entire commu
nities. The situation is so serious
that the industry is sponsoring
special schools teaching how to
protect growing timber from the
animals.
Kolbe said most persons
recommended using heavy leath
er gloves for cleaning and skin
ning the animal. Then they sug
gested par-boiling the meat for
a few miriutes in a salt or salt
and vinegar solution. After that
it can be cooked or fried much
the same as rabbit or chicken
both of which it resembles in
flavor.
Sault Ste Marie navigation
locks were opened in 1855.
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Lois of Birds
To the Editor: We were very
much interested in your front
page article about Fluhrer's Bak
ery and the feeding of the robins,
because that very day I noticed
so many robins flying aimlessly
about over the snow covered
ground. So I swept a small plot
clear of snow and put about a
half of a lug box of . partiy
spoiled squash and pumpkins
there. In an hour's time the
ground was covered with robins,
fluttering and fighting to eat
on the vegetables. t
Even during the hardest snow
showers . they were there. The
ground seeming to pulse and
move with brown backs. Our
three fruit trees were alive with
red breasts, so they looked like
leafless apple trees covered with
red apples, as tne birds sat and
rested' after eating their fill.
All day long hundreds and
hundreds of robins came and
went. Do you suppose it was
the same flock after having
eaten their bread they came
here and ate their vegetables?
Incidentally, other birds were
there 1 too. Sparrows of course,
red winged black birds, western
thrush, flickers, black headed
snow birds and a few quail with
top knots quivering . in the
snowy air.
Mrs. G. F. Putman,
339 North "C" st.
Eagle Point, Ore.
She's Not Convinced
To the Editor: In reply to your
answers to my March 2 commun
ication, I'd like to say that your
answers were very well put and
seemed quite logical. However I
would like to point out a few
things, especially what seems to
be a contradiction concerning
your answers.
(1.) In reference to answers 1,
3 and 6 Answer 1 states that
fluoridation is harmless to everyr
one and in number 3 you ask
if a minority has a right to pre
vent a majority from a benefit
when the minority would in' no
way be harmed? However in
answer 6 you state that about
10 wiU develop fluorosis. This
seems contradictory to answers
1 and 3. So to your question I'd
say, . Yes, a" minority has a right
to object since they could be
harmed.
(2.) Then I'd like to point out
to your reference to fluorosis,
and the mere shrug of the shoul
ders attitude that it is practically
nothing. Iave seen actual pic
tures of mottled teeth! These pic
tures show permanent, ugly, un
removable dark stains on the
tooth enamel. This we see out
wardly. Inwardly, as stressed by
some trained and well informed
men, there s possible damage to
the hones, kidneys, heart and
other organs that may .not be
detected for as long as 20 years
or more.
(3.) Another- the opposition
was likened to a microscopic.
one-physician-says thing. , (Inci
dentally I'm sure that everyone
associated with those organiza
tions mentioned are not in com
plete accord.) Such thinking as
you've indicated is much the
same as in the times of Jesus
Christ, Martin Luther,- Colum
bus, Abraham Lincoln and many
other great individuals who
dared to step out of line with the
majority.
One other thing I'd like to
bring out although it hasn't
anything to do with your state
ments. Some years ago, you may
remember, certain ones proposed
to put iodine in public water
supplies in areas where iodine
was lacking but it was found
harmful to some people so to
help those people who needed
iodine, it was put in table salt.
I bring this out to compare it to
fluoridation. Since both are poi
sons, beneficial to some in con-r
trolled, amounts, but hacmful to
others, why not put this fluoride
in table salt too? .
Name on File.
A Privilege
To the Editor: In Sunday
school we used to sing, "Count
your blessings, name them one
by one." Too often we assume
that our blessings, most of which
have ,been contributed to us" by
others, are our just desserts. We
demand as 'rights what we
should accept as privileges.
So it is with our Communica
tions Column. I fear we Com-
municatipns correspondents
sometimes forget that it is a priv
ilege to express our opinions.
air our views, even our - prej
udices and sometimes our likes
and dislikes, and all this without
cost to us or obligation excep't to
be decent and brief. Surely no
one will deliberately abuse such
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Matter of Fact
THEY ADMIT IT1
Washington In recent testi
mony before executive sessions
of both the Congressional
Armed Services Committees, the
Secretary of the Air Force and
the Chief of
the Air Staff
have now of
ficially con
firmed all the
darkest unof
ficial reports
about the rela
tive status of
American and
Soviet air
atomic power.
josepn Aisop
The following items from this
sworn testimony of Air Force
Secretary Doriald Quarles and
Gen. Nathan Twining, will be
"TST enough to give
the general
picture.
ITEM:
It 'has long
been reported
that this coun
try was lag
ging far be
hind the Soviet
Union in. pro-
Stewart Alsop aucuon Oliong
range jet bombers; but Quarles
and Twining at last revealed
how enormous the lag really is.
It can be stated on undoubted
authority that they ' gave our
current output of B-52 bombers
as only four per month, and in
contrast stated that Soviet out
put of the comparable . "Bison"
bombers was almost certainly
three times as large.
These current monthly output
rates, of four B-52s against 12
Bisons", ao not tell tne whole
story either. Quarles and Twin
ing further admitted that we
would not reach wour planned
peak output' of 17 B-52s per
month for at least another year
and a half. The . Soviets are
working towards a peak output
a privilege.
Having worked ion a weekly
paper in my youth, I can realize
something of the publisher's
responsibility and burden.
move we give the editor a rising
vote of thanks for his kindness
I did not write these words
because of what was said in Mon
day's issue. I have had them in
mmd for some time, but neglect
ed to put them on paper. You
know what happens to Father
Time when Mile. Procrastina
tion sits on his lap.
L. G. Weaver
. 1453 Poplar dr.
Medford, Oregon
Pears for Hospitals
To the Editor: We at the Rpgue
Valley . Memorial hospital (still
Community hospital to many of
our friends) would like to call, to
the attention of the community
a worthwhile project pf the
Rogue "Valley Traffic associa
tion. These public spirited mem
bers; of the pear industry have
been presenting this hospital,
and others, with fresh pears this
fall and, winter.
The considerate manner in
which they are presented - is
worth special mention. The pears
are ripened by ; the packing
houses and presented to us in
usable, amounts on a weekly
basis, relieving us pf the ripening
and storage problem.
We are extremely grateful to
the Traffic association and wish
publicly to commend their gen
erosity and thoughtfulness.
Rogue Vally Memorial
HospitaL
By Miss B. J. Larsen,
Administrator.
Glass Etcher
To the Editor: I would like to
call Mr. Carl Landis' ''attention
to a few facts. A tomato is a live
vegetable substance. Spdium flu
oride is a dead metallic sub
stance. And from spdium fluor
ide you can make fluoric acid
which is so potent that if you put
that fluoric acid into a glass con
tainer it will dissolve that con
tainer in a short space of time.
And fluoric acid is also used in
etching glass.
I would like to see Mr. Landis
extract an acid from a tomato
that is potent enough to dissolve
a glass bottle. Or that can be
used in etching glass.
Louis N. Gentner,
207 S. Orange st.,
Medford, Ore. .
n time of
M , Ji
Y
Joe and Stewart Alsop
of 25 "Bisons" per month, and
they will reach their high1 peak
considerably sooner than we
shall reach our much lower
peak.
ITEM:
It has also been reported,
for the first time in this space,
that the Soviets were already
flight-testing a ballistic missile
of 1500-mile range. No compar
able ballistic missile has as yet
passed the drawing-board stage
in this country. Once again on
undoubted authority, it can now
be stated that Secretary Quarles
and Gen. Twining admitted these '
facts, stating they had sure evi
dence that the Soviets were in
deed testing a 1500-mile ballistic
missile.
ITEM:
It has also been reported that
the Soviets' "Farmer" dayfighter
and "Flashlight" nightfighter
were advanced designs of high
quality; that these "Farmers"
and "Flashlights" were already
being produced in substantial
quantities; and that no compar
able advanced American fighter
aircraft had yet entered the stage
of serious quantity production.
Again on undoubted authority,
it can be stated that Quarles
and Twining admitted these facts
too. .
Our really superior F-104 day
fighter is not in production at
all. Our only good nightfighter,
the F-102, is being produced in
tiny trickles. Our rather unsat
isfactory F-100 dayfighter,
which may well not offer ade
quate opposition to the Soviet
Bison", is officially in quantity
production, but the quantities
being produced are still trivial.
Meanwhile the Soviets' output
of "Farmers" and "Flashlights"
will shortly be counted in many
scores per month.
OUR stock. of nuclear weapons
remains far greater than the
Soviet stock, and will no doubt .
always remain far greater. But
their nuclear stockpile is now
approaching decisive propor
tions. Meanwhile they are pres
ently well ahead of us in the
best type of bombers that must
deliver the bombs, in the fight
ers that must intercept the bomb
ers, and in the medium range
ballistic missiles which , fore
shadow the ultimate weapon, the
missile of intercontinental
range. That is the present pic
ture, as officially outlined.'
In these circumstances, Air
Secretary Quarles' testimony
about the Air Force Budget it
self was , truly remarkable. The
Air Force General Staff, he ad
mitted, had originally proposed
a mininum budget of twenty
billion dollars. He had himself
cut the Air Staff request to
eighteen and a half billion dol
lars, ..which he seemed person
ally to have regarded as rock-bottom,-
But Secretary of De
fense Charles E. Wilson hone the
less ordered a further slash, to
sixteen and a half billion dol
lars. And Quarles yielded, to
Wilspri, although he said, this
final concession to the Treasury
and, Budget Bureau really did
make the Air Force budget
"very austere indeed."
'...
QUARLES still further admit
ted that thft "austere bud
get" was crowded with "one
shot savings" which could not
be repeated next year. Because
of this heavy borrowing from
next year's Peter to pay election
year's Paul, Quarles testified
that the Air Force budget would
have to be massively, increased
next year unless the strength of
the Air Force was instead heav
ily reduced. :
j. Meanwhile, there was no talk
whatever, except from the
Shocked Senators and Represent
atives, about a great emergency
effort to overcome the air lead
the Soviets have now achieved.
Secretary Quarles took refuge
in a cloud pf technicalities. The
unhappy Gen. Twining cpntent
ed himself with saying we still
retained greater air-atomic pow
er than the Soviet Union as
of now, with melancholy em
phasis on the "as of now."
But what about two years, or
three years, or four years from
now, when it will be toe late
to catch up, and the Soviet air
lead really begins to produce
decisive results?
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