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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 13, 194S
(It Was Wednesday)
Phoenix plant to start making
pumice brick, soon.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Tuesday,
it was windier than a candidate
for Congress with no chance of
being elected, but full of both
wind and promises.
20 YEARS AGO
March 15, 1936
(It Was Friday)
Medford's sewage disposal
plant almost 60 per cent com
pleted, city superintendent Fred
W. Scofield says.
Ralph E. Sweeney enters pri
mary race for Democratic nomi
nation for Jackson county.
30 YEARS AGO
March 15, 1926
(It Was Saturday)
Floyd Young, government
frost expert, warns orchardists
to place smudge pots in orchards
immediately.
Medford High survives second
round of state basketball tourna
ment by defeating Astoria, 30
to 18.
40 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1916
(It Was Monday)
Week long revival services at
Nat end; conducted by Mathis.
From along Rogue River
news: The Cotteral Bros, took a
band of cattle to feeding grounds
on the east side of the river
Sunday.
eWhai's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. If President Eisenhower
wins in November, at 66, he will
or won't be the oldest man ever
elected President?
2. The island of Bahrein in
the Persian Gulf is notable for
its beautiful women, oil deposits,
Oriental rugs, caviar, or pearl
fisheries?
3. The Negro proportion of
the population is as high in Ala
bama as in any southern state;
right or wrong?
4. There are two, four, six or
eight standard cups of granulat
ed sugar to a pound?
5. When a senator dies, his
seat remains vacant until a spe
cial election is held to fill it, or
is filled temporarily by appoint
ment of the state governor?
6. The real name of which
stage, radio and TV star is Ethel
Zimmerman?
7. What is the real name of
movie str James Stewart?
The answers: 1 Won'i; W. H.
Harrison was elected in 1840 at
67. 2 Oil deposits. 3 Wrong
(higher in South Carolina and
Mississippi). 4 Two. 5 Is fill
ed by appointment of governor.
6 Ethel Merman. 7 James
Stewart.
Assessor Takes to Air
To Find More Taxes
Chicago 0J..R) Cook Coun
ty tax assessor Frank Keenan
took to the air Monday to dig
up $94,000 in back taxes.
He said aerial photographs
ranging from homes to a fac
tory which are not- listed on
county tax rolls.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Kefauver Is Smart
Senator Kefauver has never been our No. 1 choice
for President but he is a shrewd campaigner, and, as
all those who attended the Democratic convention in
Chicago four years ago will agree, he is a hard fight
er. His first announcement on entering New Hamp
shire we thought was particularly smart. He said he
would not make an issue of President Eisenhower's
health.
"IITE HAVE a hunch that made a hit with the voters
" of this conservative New England state.
For before the President entered the primaiy he
had raised the health issue himself. Why do it again?
Said he:
"It would be idle to pretend my health can be fully
restored. My future life must be carefully regulated to
avoid excessive fatigue."
That opinion has been sustained by , the Presi
dent's subsequent remarks, by the doctors' verdict,
and particularly by Dr. White, the eminent heart
specialist's final word :
"With moderation and proper care the President as
President represents a good risk."
TUHY GO INTO the matter further?
" Above all, why make it the subject of continu
ous campaign debate pro or con? The people of the
country now have the salient facts from headquar
ters, barring an upset (which is unlikely), they will
remain approximately the same through the cam
paign. Then why not let the issue rest and let the people
decide how important they think the question of the
President's health is from a political standpoint?
They are going to consider it and discuss it anyway.
If they agree with Chairman Leonard Hall of the
GOP National committee, that Mr. Eisenhower as a
"part-time president," would be better than any one
the Democrats could nominate on FULL time, then
they will know what to do without any further con
sideration. They will vote for Ike and take their
chance. O. K. .
If they disagree with the somewhat ebullient Mr.
Hall, and particularly if they don't like or trust Mr.
Nixon, they will undoubtedly give the question more
extended consideration. So why not leave this decis
ion up to the voters? They won't pay much attention
to what the campaign orators on either side have to
say on this purely medical subject anyway. Most of
them will accept the medical verdict. We repeat Sen
ator Kefauver is smart.
ALSO liked the Tennessee Senator's attitude
" from another angle. He seems to regard Mr. Eis
enhower's state of mind as more important than his
state of health, politically speaking, that is. He ap
peared more concerned with the record of four years
of GOP rule, under "Ike" than actuarial tables or
mortuary statistics of a purely personal nature.
The question he propounded was roughly: do
the people of the country want four more years of
it? If they do let them vote for it.
If not then no. matter how much they "like Ike"
personally they better NOT vote to keep him away
from his Gettysburg farm and a well deserved rest
but vote for a change in controls in Washington, and
a general house cleaning.
"THAT makes sense.
The Republican press is making a desperate ef
fort to make it appear no issues divide the two major
parties but "Ike."
This, if true, wbuld make the campaign a short
and simple one. But it isn't, of course.
There are many important differences between
the two parties though we grant, to listen to many of
the campaign speeches to date one wouldn't think
so.
The Senator from Tennesse didn't go into parti
culars but he could have and we regret he didn't. Be
ing from Tennessee he could have said something
like this:
Had the Democrats been in control the past forty
years there would have been no Al Sarena case.
Had the Democrats been in control there would have
been no Dixpn-Yates case.
Had the Democrats been in control there would have
been no Tidelands oil give-away.
Had the Democrats been in control there would have
been no Natural Gas grab bill to veto.
Had the Democrats been in control there would be
one high multiple power dam for Hells Canyon instead
of two small and inadequate dams, the people of the Col
umbia basin would have been assured of more and cheap
er power instead of- less and more expensive power.
Had the Democrats been in control the General Wel
fare would never have had to take second place to Gen
eral Motors, nor would TVA have been condemned as
"creeping socialism."
.
DUT if Senator 'Kefauver made these points or any
similar ones there was no report of them over the
wires.
Outside of Oregon the Democrat party is a.major
ity party numerically but one would never suspect
this judging by the head-lines, the news reports and
the campaign this far.
The Democratic party as we see it needs more
unity, self confidence and enthusiasm. We sometimes
wonder if they haven't more to fear from General
Apathy than from General Eisenhower.
PS : Senator Kefauver is smart. Although from
the South he refused to sign that Southern manifesto
condemning the Supreme Court for its interpretation
of the Constitution in favor of educational equality.
R.W.R.
Power, Prestige of UN Declines, Tsiang Says
Taipei, Formosa (U.R) Dr. made his statement during dis
T. F. Tsiang, Nationalist Chi- cussions with Nationalist Chi
nese representative to the United nese Foreign Minister George
Nations, said Monday that the Yeh. Tsiang returned to Taipei
power and -prestige , of that from his U.N. post last Friday: .
world organization is declining. Nationalist sources said Tsiang
Tuesday, March 13, 195S
Record Number of High-Level
Internationa! Visits Slated
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
This certainly is going to be a
record spring for high level dip
locatic vsits in world capitals.
Moscow, Lon
don, Washing
ton and other
capitals will
be receiving
visitors of
note in the
next few
months on an
unprecedented
scale.
Charles McCann iiussia s pre
mier Nikolai A. Bulganin and
Communist party chief Nikita S.
Khrushchev will share the star
role as visitors and hosts.
They have been doing that
now for several months.
Bulganin and Khrushchev will
make the most important of
their visits to Great Britain
starting April 18.
Later they plan to visit Fin
land, Sweden, Norway and Den
mark. Danish Premier H. C. Hansen
is visiting Russia now, as is for
mer French President Vincent
Auriol.
French Premier Guy Mollet
intends to visit Bulganin and
Khrushchev May 14.
U. S. Invites Nehru
It is understood that Mollet
will invite the Russians to visit
France.
United Nations Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold
plans to visit Moscow some time
this spring, probably after the
Burganin-Khrushchev visit to
London.
Indian Prime Minister Jawa
harlal Nehru announced on Feb.
29 that President Eisenhower
had invited. him several months
ago to visit Washington, and
that he planned to do so. Nehru
said he also had invited the
President to visit India.
A dispatch from Djakarta,
Indonesia, quoted well- in
formed sources as saying that
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles has invited President Su
karno to visit the United States.
It was added that Sukarno was
believed to have accepted the
invitation.
Dulles is now on a wide tour
THE NIXON HUBBUB
Washington The acres of
newsprint that are being lavished
on the political future of Vice-
President Rich
ard Nixon are
chiefly inter
esting as proof
of the way the
figure of Pres-
i d e n t Eisen-
hower now
dominates the
political scene.
The first trial
Joseph Aisop neat oi tne
Democratic nomination race is at
hand in New Hampshire; and it
may be much more interesting
than most people have expected.
The leading Democratic con
tender, Adlai Stevenson, has
been sneaking frequently; and
much of what
he has been
saying has been
worth atten
tion. The world
horizon is posi
tively black
with chickens
coming home
to roost; and
practically
Stewart Alsop every one of
the chickens looks more like a
vulture than a hen.
But what is the American na
tion discussing? With the Repub
lican convention nearly five
months away, the main topic of
political discussion is the Repub
lican Vice-Presidential nomina
tion, which is normally a hasty
after-thought. In part, this obvi
ously reflects the general but
publicly unfashionable suspicion
that a coronary thrombosis really
does not resemble a rest-cure.
But even more, this Vice-Presidential
discussion reflects the al
most unanimous belief that the
President, having made his great
choice, is a shoo-in for re-election.
PRECISELY because a Presi
dent who has had a heart at
tack is now so likely to be re
elected, his choice of a running
mate is of course importa'nt. But
that does not give real signifi
cance to the "wUl he, won't he,
will he, won't he" speculation,
like nothing so much as another
song by the mock turtle, that has
been going on for so long. The
main facts of the situation are
very plain indeed, if ordinarily
reliable information can be
trusted.
In the first place, the Presi
dent likes and trusts Nixon, and
would prefer him to any other
running mate. But as Eisenhow
er has repeatedly said, he does
not want to commit himself at
this time. He will never exclude
Nixon from the ranks of the po
tentially blessed; but he wants a
free hand to bless other con
tenders if Nixon really begins to
look like a serious handicap to
the ticket.
.
IT MAY be true that in order
to insure having a perfectly
free hand, the President offered
the Vice-President the Interior
I Jr.,-4'''" " I
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at t iT I'ru.Jal
of Asian capitals which will
take him as far as Japan.
British Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd has just left for
home after a tour of the Middle
East.
Pineau Visiting India
French Foreign Minister
Christian Pineau is visiting
Nehru now.
Pineau invited Nehru to visit
France. Nehru accepted "in
principle."
Dulles, Lloyd and Pineau
started their tours after attend
ing the conference of Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization mem
bers in Pakistan.
What all the visits, made and
to be made, will add up to re
mains to be seen. They hardly
can do any harm and they may
do some good toward relieving
international tensions.
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Well! Well! Well! What a po
litical thriller Friday turned out
to be!
Nobody will ever be able to
say that the 1956 primary elec
tion preliminaries in Oregon
were dull and uninteresting. In
terior Secretary McKay's dash
by air from Washington back to
Salem in order to file at the last
minute as a candidate for the
Republican nomination for U. S.
senator from his home state was
drama of a high order.
It left everybody breathless.
IT CAN be assumed that Secre
tary McKay's entry in the Or
egon senatorial race is upper
bracket Republican strategy to
beat once - Republican, once
stronelv - nro - Eisenhower, now
Democrat, now - bitterly-anti-Eis-
enhower Senator Morse.
With the senate as narrowly
divided as it is and as it may
be in the next congress that de
sire can be understood. The pro
gram that President Eisenhower
has laid out has not yet been car
ried through to completion. As
I understand his feeling in the
matter, it was to carry his pro
gram through that he consented
By Joe and Stewart Alsop
Department, which is now being
vacated by Secretary Douglas
McKay. He may even have sug
gested the Defense Department,
which may later be vacated by
Secretary Charles E. Wilson. But
if the President did this, he
quite certainly made his sug
gestion in a way that invited a
rejection. Probably he wanted to
end a White House argument, by
putting himself in a position to
say to the anti-Nixon Republi
cans: "I've done everything about
that problem I honorably can,
and I can't and won't do any
thing further."
In these circumstances, in the
second place, Nixon is quite
plainly several laps ahead of all
other contenders for the Vice-
Presidential nomination at the
present time. He has certainly
been wounded by the President's
failure to give him a final en
dorsement at this time. He is re
ported to reason, and reason
very logically too, that he is
being penalized for bearing the
brunt of the political battle at
the President's request and on
the President's behalf.
HIS PERSONAL position is
also extremely delicate, per
haps even more delicate than in
the doubtful period after the
President was first taken ill. As
these words are written, there
fore, he is authoritatively re
ported to be considering an an
nouncement that he too thinks
the Republican Vice-Presidential
choice should be left open until
convention-time.
But the dolors of Nixon's per
sonal position do not in any way
reduce his present lead in the
race. He is the preferred choice
of the President. He is the pre
ferred choice of the Republican
organizations in about three
quarters of, the states. He is the
announced choice of the Repub
lican National Chairman, the as
tute Len Hall, who does not
speak without "clearing it with
Sherm."
THERE are ' only two ways,
therefore, that Nixon can be
beaten. One way is for a solid
phalanx of opposition to form in
the Eastern wing of the Repub
lican party, where anti-Nixon
sentiment chiefly centers. But
this way is blocked, at least for
the present. There can be no
anti-Nixon Eastern phalax with
out New York state; and Nixon
is also the preferred choice of
former Governor Thomas E.
Dewey.
The other way to beat Nixon
is for Nixon to beat himself. He
may so mihsandle himself as to
cause the President to turn
against him, or to cause the po
litical polls to show that he
really is a handicap to the ticket.
But as long as Nixon handles
himself as well as he has done
in these last difficult months,
the betting is on Nixon to win in
the end.
(C) 1956New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
It is notable, however, that
the Dulles, Lloyd and Pineau
tours are defensive. That goes
also for the conference held in
London over the week end by
British Prime Minister Anthony
Eden and French Premier
Mollet.
The Big Three foreign minis
ters are trying to strengthen
weakened relations with some
of the countries they are visit
ing. Eden asked Mollet to Lon
don on an urgent basis after
French Foreign Minister Pineau
let lose a startling blast against
Allied policy.
The Russians, on the other
hand, are on what might be
called diplomatic velvet. They
have no special fences to mend.
They will be able to concentrate,
as visitors and hosts, on aggres
sive salesmanship of the Mocow
line.
News
to become a candidate again, re
gardless of the strain on his phys
ical resources that may be in
volved. But President Eisenhower
ALONE can not carry his pro
gram through. He must have sup
port and backing in the congress.
The senate is now narrowly di
vided. Witness the situation that
arose Saturday morning. On a
motion to restore a rigid high
support level to wheat, the sen
ate vote split 45-to-45. The tie
breaking vote of Vice President
Nixon was all that saved the
Eisenhower-Benson flexible sup
port program on wheat from de
feat. ...
HPHAT was a narrow squeak.
There may be other narrow
squeaks in the future for at
present no one anticipates a
landslide that will give the Eis
enhower forces complete and un
challenged control of the next
congress.
If Senator Morse is re-electedi
it must be expected that he will
bo against the Eisenhower pro
gram.
"HEFEAT of Senator Morse is a
worthy objective from the
Republican standpoint, but the
handling of the McKay candi
dacy certainly displayed poor
staff work. It should have been
launched much earlier immedi
ately, one would say, after the
untimely death of Governor Pat
terson, which upset the Oregon
Republican political - situation.
Because of the delay, clear up to
the last moment, good Oregoni
ans like Lamar Tooze and Phil
Hitchcock both of whom, I
think, were motivated more by
desire to maintain able Repub
lican representation from ' Ore
gon in the U. S. senate than by
personal ambition have been
placed in a most embarrassing
position. Because of the embar
rassing position in which they
have been placed, their friends
must feel considerable resent
ment. All this could have been
avoided by better Republican
staff work at the top level.
T WIGHT EISENHOWER is a
" great President and a great
man. Even his political oppo
nents concede that. He is able
He is sincere. He is frank and
open and- straightforward. These
qualities endear him to every
one, everywhere. Not only do
they endear him to people. They
COMMAND RESPECT not on
ly on his own country but all
over the world.
But he is a soldier. He was
trained in the soldier's trade. As
a military commander, he knew
how to pick able staff assistants.
When he became President, he
knew nothing of the politician's
trade which, in a government
like ours, is an essential trade.
Few Republicans nave ever
doubted the greatness of their
leader, but many, including this
one, have had doubts from time
to time as to the wisdom and the
skill of his political staff.
Senator Taft's death was a na
tional loss. He was a statesman
and a dedicated patriot, and he
knew the trade of politics. If he
had lived, the Republican party's
political staff work would have
been better.
BUT it's time to quit philoso--ri
1 71 Yi rT anI 1 -!- n 41tA -fri rC
Douglas McKay is a candidate.
As this is written, it seems prob
able that he . will be the Repub
lican nominee for U. S. senator
from Oregon. He is an able citi
zen. He is a dedicated believer
in the Eisenhower program. He
is well grounded in national af
fairs.
Do we want him to represent
us in the U. S. senate?
Or do we want Senator Morse?
That's the issue.
Amnesty Period Turns
Out To Be Success
Pompton Lakes, N.J. (U.PJ
Library officials said a week
long amnesty period for holders
of overdue library books was a
roaring success. i
Librarian Mrs. Maura Con
nolly said a total of 87 books
worth an estimated $250 came
in during the drive, including
two books overdue ... for .. more
than five years.
ommunications
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not exceed 400 words.
Smart Senator
To the Editor Senator Wayne
Morris proposes to buy farm
votes with tax monev. Hp's
smart, else he wouldn't be fool
ing ye editor.
E. L. Hitt
Route 2, Box 381F
Medford, Ore.
Automation ' -
To the Editor: The progress of
automation versus manpower is
not a new theory. The idea was
conceived by men like Jules
Verne and Edward Bellamy, sci
entist, in his book, "Looking
Backwards" in the early eight
eenth century. A system to make
the whole plan work for all the
people, all the while, would
most logically be on a pay-as-
you-go basis.
Everyone in their age group
would be a unit towards making
automation a success. No one
need be a drone, for each indi
vidual would be needed, as the
"pay-as-you-go" plan would cre
ate enthusiasm to expand every
one's fondest hopes of accom
plishment in a lifetime here on
earth.
This is no fantastic forerunner
of imagination, but a concept of
life, liberty and justice for all.
No exploitation would be used
to retard man's way of equality
in a competitive system. Tax
only machine's product for pain
less extraction.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman, Apt. 1
Medford, Ore.
Let Druggists Do It
To the Editor: In regards to
the letter by Dr. Nelson in the
March 11 paper the last para
graph led me to understand that
Dr. Nelson's five children are
not benefiting from fluoride at
the present time.
What I want to know is of
Dr. Nelson and these other peo
ple that are so emphatically for
fluoridation why are they de
nying their children this benefit
right now? It seems to me that
it would surely be a simple task
for these people to buy some so
dium fluoride from their drug
gist and mix it with the proper
amount of water or for that
matter the druggist would prob
ably be glad to mix it for them.
It may take a year or two or
even longer before it will be
coming out of the water taps
incidentally what about the chil
dren living outside the city
shouldn't it be made available to
them also? Just because some
are shouting "It's poison don't
force it on me!" shoudln't keep
those who believe in it, especial
ly Dr. Nelson, from seeing that
his children are getting it now,
not next year or maybe years
from now. I recommend that he
ask his druggist to fix him a gal
lon or two right now and take it
home and give some to his chil
dren. Also, since Dr. Nelson is
a dentist, he might recommend
this method to his patients. (It's
a shame to waste precious time
since 12 years of age is the dead
line). -
Come to think of it this
Pictures, Sfafues of
Stalin Being Removed
Moscow (U.R) Western
observers noted today the ap
parent start of a movement to
eliminate all pictures and sta
tues of the late Premier Josef
Stalin from the Soviet Union.
The famous Tetyakov picture
gallery here, the largest in Rus
sia, has suddenly and silently
removed every picture of Stalin.
The only sign of the Premier
seen by a nine-man delegation
of American churchmen that
visited the gallery was a bust
which appears in the back
ground of a painting or. a
wounded soldier.
Just a few months ago there
were at least 25 portraits and
other pictures of Stalin in many
rooms of the gallery. ' -
Allan Holcomb, NY
Newspaperman, Dies
New York (U.R) Allan T.
Holcomb, 66, head of the copy
desk at the New York Herald
Tribune since 1933, died early
today.
Holcomb was a graduate of
Knox college and got his first
news experience as a reporter
for the Rocky Mountain News
in Denver. He later served as
state and city editor of the
Rocky Mountain News and
headed the copy desk of the
Denver Post before coming to
New York.
He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Janet H. Griswold, and
Mrs. Aileen Hamilton. His wife,
Mrs. Grace P. Holcomb, died in
1952.
Salem (U.R) Management pol
icies which have operated so
successfully in preserving Ore
gon's . exceptional recreational
resources are possible only
through public understanding
and cooperation, Gov. Elmo
Smith said Monday in . calling
attention. . to . National . Wildlife
Week March 18-24.
and address of the writer, although
i ti:
Letters submitted tor publication must
method might put a stop to this
arguing back and forth those
who want it could have it those
who don't well they can still
drink what they darn well
please. Besides, when the chil
dren get too old to benefit any
more, these people can put their
money to some other purpose.
. Yours for letting the druggist
do the job.
A. A. Christensen
1125 Atkins st.
Medford, Ore.
Mission of the Churches
To the Editor: Frequently we
hear the question, "Do we need
churches? Cannot the fraternal
organizations and social service
clubs do the work the churches
are doing and do it more satis
factorily? The answer depends on what
the churches are doing. If the
church is an organization with
no higher purpose than fellow
ship and social welfare, then
why not let the fraternities take
over?
But the church was not cre
ated for the purpose of social
welfare alone. It has a higher
mission to perform, a divinely
appointed task to lead men to
God." When Simon Peter said, q
"Thou are the Christ, the Son of
the living God," Jesus replied,
"On this rock I will build my
Church and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it."
Why did Jesus want a church?
Did He have in mind a great fra
ternal organization or social
club, or something more? We
find an answer in His words, "If
I be lifted up I will draw all
men unto me." This is more than
a reference to His crucifixion. It
means also the continued task of
holding up before a sin-sick
world a Savior. For that task
He needs a church, an organism
of living human souls dedicated
to the service of God. That is
the mission of the: church, the
supreme purpose for which it
was created, the one real reason
for its existence.
The divinely appointed task
of the church is to show to men
this Savior that they may hear
Him say, "Come unto me all
ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest."
He means rest from the slavery
of sin.
Why are we so reluctant to
preach about sin? Are we afraid
we will be called old fashioned
and unsophisticated if we men
tion sin? Maybe so. I know of
nothing more old fashioned than
sin. It began in Eden's garden
and has been going strong ever
since.
If and when the church loses
sight of its high mission of
preaching the gospel of a cruci
fied and risen Savior and tries
to substitute entertainment and
social welfare, we might as well
let the social clubs take over,
or let Marx and Engle have the
world without further ado. God
forbid. May the church never
lose sight of that high mission.
L. G. Weaver,
1453 Poplar dr.,
Medford, Ore.
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Bears Son at 90
GEO. N. TAYLOR
Abraham was 100 and Sarah,
his wife was 90 and she had ever
been childless. But God prom
ised Abraham
that a son would
be born to them.
God said it;
A b r aham be
lieved it and
that settled it,
even though a
woman of 90
had never given
birth to a babe.
Because he be
lieved God in
this, God cloth
ed Abraham in his own God
righteousness. In due time Isaac,
the babe was born to them.
Just so you are to believe: Be
lieve God, that the blood of
Jesus Christ, poured out.at His
crucifiction, cleared your page
of all sin. Believe it down in
your heart and God gives you
eternal life. Else you die lost.
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