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10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1946
(It was Friday)
Construction of a moulding
and cut-up plant costing about
$20,000 starts in Central Point
by Chauncey Florey.
From Arthur Perry'i Ye
Smudge Pot column: Surplus
war goods went on sale in the
metropolis this week. For 75
cents one could get a shovel, by
purchasing 143 more of them.
20 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1936
(It was Sunday)
About 400 school teachers and
administrators from seven coun
ties attended the first annual ed
ucational conference at South
ern Oregon Normal school in
Ashland.
A new dress shop is to be op
ened next Friday on South Cen
tral ave. opposite the Craterian
theatre by Mrs. Ollie McCarty.
30 YEARS AGO
April 26. 1926
E. O. Wassen of the Medford
Egg Farm, delivered three hun
dred broilers to Tuman Bros, on
Thursday.
"Better Homes Week" starts
in Medford; local ministers
preached morning sermons on
"The Home" yesterday.
40 YEARS AGO
April 16, 1916
(It was Wednesday)
A report by Engineer Louis
W. Whiting on the Buck Lake ir
rigation and power project for
J. J. Chambers of Ashland has
been filed.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Forest Supervisor Martin
Erickson has returned from a
tour of the Klamath -district on
official business. . , , .
WhaS's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7? .
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rape
1. A samisen is a breed of
dog in Arctic regions, Russian
urn for tea-making, do-gooder,
small salmon or Japanese musi
cal instrument?
2. Primary elections for nom
inations for the highest state of
fices are held in every state;
right or wrong?
- 3. Gautama Siddhartha
founded a religion, widespread
In the East and generally known
as?
4. There are probably about
(a) 3, (b) 8, (c) 13, (d) 18 or
(e) 23 million non-citizens resi
dent in the U.S.?
5. The number of women in
Congress has greatly increased
in recent years, stayed about the
same, or greatly decreased?
6. Over a billion dollars is be
ing spent this year on TV ad
vertising; right or wrong?
7. The Mandlebaum Gate is a
famous landmark in Chicago,
Jerusalem, the N. Y. East Side,
Berlin, the San Francisco China
town or Rome?
The answers: 1. Japanese mu
sical instrument 2. Wrong (but
are held in most). 3. Buddhism.
4. Probably about 3 million. 5.
Stayed about the same. 6. Right.
7. Jerusalem.
The Alaska Brown Bear is an
expert fisherman. Wading into a
stream, it stands still until a sal
mon swims near. Then it scoops
up the fish with a stroke of fee
paw.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Armed Forces Bicker
Inter-service rivalries already have begun to get
an airing in the Senate Armed Services subcommittee
investigation into the adequacy of U. S. air power.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, former Air Force chief of staff, was
highly critical of the Navy's anti-submarine defense
in testimony on April 30.
And the bickering among the services may well
grow rather than diminish as the hearings stretch into
additional weeks, inasmuch as the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee on April 19 voted to include the
Navy and Marine air arms in the investigation.
It's more than possible that the Army, too, will
play a major role in the hearings. Perhaps the blunt
est criticism of the administration's defense program
so far has come from Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway since
his retirement as Army Chief of Staff last June 30.
In his final report to Defense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson, Ridgway complained against "over-emphasis"
on air power and nuclear retaliation at the ex
pense of ground troops.
Since then, Ridgway has been attacking the ad
ministration in magazine articles and in his memoirs,
"Soldier," published this month. In that volume
Ridgway reports that after each exchange of views
with Wilson, "I came away convinced that either his
mental processes operated on a level of genius so high
I could not grasp his meaning, or that considerations
beyond the soldier's comprehension were influencing
his thinking."
Criticism of the administration defense program
may have been forestalled somewhat by President
Eisenhower on April 9 in requesting Congress to raise
the defense budget for the next 12 months by more
than $547 million. The additional money would go
primarily into jet bomber output and aircraft warning
lines.
Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), who was the first
Secretary of the Air Force after the integration of
the armed services in 1948, is conducting the subcom
mittee investigation. He was and is a leading critic of
a "lagging" production program for the B-52 inter
continental; bomber. Such criticism gained impetus
after Russian displays of formations of Bisons
roughly comparable to the B-52 in May 1955. The
B-52 replaces the obsolescent B-36 bomber.
Symington as Air Secretary figured in the B-36
controversy of 1949-1950. So did Adm. Arthur W.
Radford, then commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pa
cific fleet and now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
The B-36 controversy was triggered by the release
of confidential letters from three admirals Rad
ford, Chief of Naval Operations Louis Denfield, and
Vice Adm. G: F. Bogan to Secretary of the Navy
Francis P. Matthews. The letters were handed to
three press associations by a Navy flier, Captain John
J. Crommelin, Jr.
The result was a long controversy from which
the Air Force was usually deemed, to have emerged
the victor. Denfield was dismissed as Naval Chief of
Operations and Bogan given a post usually held by
a rear admiral. Capt. Crommelin was reprimanded by
the Navy for his participation in the controversy in
1949. But in June 1950, Crommelin was retired on his
own request after clearance by a Navy court of in
quiry and given the rank of rear admiral.
THE ABOVE represents one of the penalties of
a free democracy. They have no such difficulties
in Soviet Union. Over there the various branches of
the service don't fight among themselves, they fight
or organize to fight their enemies, the anti-communist
countries, under an absolute, unbending
control.
But it is hardly necessary to add that the penalties
of a totalitarian form of government are the greater.
Not only in the direction of human freedom and the
dignity of the individual either, but ultimately we be
lieve in the field of military prowess.
In this conflict of judgments freely expressed, the
unfettered play of conflicting opinions, not only is
progress stimulated, but the opportunities of new
ideas and inventions being advanced and perfected
are so much greater.
It is significant that the atomic bomb was first
perfected in this democracy. And now this country
is far ahead of all others in the direction of the use of
fissionable material for peaceful purposes.
It may well be that war will be outlawed and by
general agreement and necessity abandoned, because
of this freedom of action and absence of rigid con
trols, impossible in Russia, possible only in the free
democratic world. E.R.R.
Stevenson Holds
Lead in Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R
Adlai E. Stevenson held a sub
stantial lead over Sen. Estes
Kefauver today in the Alaska
primary.
The final result may not be
known for several days.
With nearly half, the votes
counted, Stevenson had 3805 to
Kefauver's 2495 on the Demo
cratic ticket. The Republican
vote was 4566 for President Eis
enhower and 239 for Sen. Wil
liam. F. Knowland of California.
Compiling returns in a slow
process in Alaska because of dif
ficult communications from
some parts of the giant territory.
Rookie Policeman
Qives Up Quickly
Albion. N.Y. (U.R) His
first night on the job con
vinced rookie Frank Socciar
lli that the policeman's lot
was not for him and he re
signed. "I guess I'm not cut put for
it," h explained.
Thursday, April 26. 1956 I
SP Subsidiary. Three
Airlines in Agreement
Chicago (U.R) The South
ern Pacific Railroad's truck
subsidiary has made agreements
with three airlines for integrat
ed truck-air freight service in
the West
D. J. Russell, Southern Pac
ific president, announced yest
erday that the agreements were
reached between Pacific Motor
Trucking Co. and American Air
lines, Slick Airway, and United
Air Lines.
The trucking company will
deliver cargo in California, Ne
vada, and Oregon from airports
in San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Portland, Ore., and Reno, Nev.,
Russell said. v
The trucking company is also
trying to negotiate similar pacts
with other airlines along the
Southern Pacific system, Rus
sell added.
Experimental hybrid sorghum
varieties consistently outyielded
corn in Iowa tests the past two
years. Grain sorghum may soon
plaee corn, in many crop programs.
Today and
By Walter
The Great Inquiry
Having listened to Gov. Stev
enson at the luncheon and to the
President at the dinner of the
American' So
ciety of News
paper Editors
in Washington
last ' Saturday,
it seemed to
me that we
were being
shown what a
poor thing is
this reading of
waiter Lippmann speeches writ
ten in whole or in part by others.
To write a speech that sounds
well when it is spoken is an art,
closely akin to writing for the
theater, and last Saturday's ghost
writers had little , of the art. I
was confirmed in this feeling
by the President's unwritten
speech when he was off the tele
vision circuit and again on Sun
day by Gov. Stevenson's success
ful encounter with the dragons
Of "Meet the Press."
Beside the turgid prose which
was so hard to listen., to, the
prepared speeches were distort
ed by a partisanship which is
not characteristic of either of the
men. Gov. Stevenson found him
self saying that the successful
foreign policy of Truman had
been followed by the unsuccess
ful policy of Eisenhower as if
in all essential respects the Ei
senhower policy has not been
the Truman policy. And the
President read a script which
had him say that his policy had
been a great success, though in
his own unwritten speech he
talked as a man who knows
that a change in many policies
is necessary and is in the mak
ing. UNDER the partisan fencing
the striking thing about the
speeches was that on no sub
stantial question of policy is
there an issue between them.
Both men were talking about
the same factual situation that
there has been a great change
in the world situation during the
past three years since early in
1953 when, as it happened, the
inauguration of Eisenhower coin
cided so nearly with the death
of Stalin. The serious theme of
both speeches was that Ameri
can policy has to be reappraised
and revised to meet these
changes. Both speeches were
made by men who are still at
the stage of asking the ques
tions, indeed of deciding what
are the queions, rather than of
preparing definitive answers.
We are not now at least at the
beginning of another of the
great debates, like that before
we entered World War II, like
that over the Marshall Plan and
NATO after World War II. In
stead of a great debate we are
engaged, one might say, in ' a
great inquiry. There are not two
sides, one pointing in this direc
tion and another pointing in that
direction. We are all in a new
and strange country, for which
we have no acceptable maps
neither Truman maps nor Eisen
hower maps and we are recon
noitering unknown ground.
All is still tentative. But both
speakers dealt gingerly with cer
tain innovations and departures
from the old Truman-Eisenhower
positions. They were
agreed that we cannot insist up
on, that we cannot expect, that
every country will align itself
as between the U.S.S.R. and the
U.S.A. This marks a very im
portant change in the official
American view. Both men agreed
that economic aid to under-developed
countries should be di
vorced from military considera
tions such as bases and alliances.
Both men agreed that the West
ern powers must identify them
selves with the epochal trend
towards the national independ
ence of dependent peoples.
But though there are these
new conceptions, neither the
President nor Gov. Stevenson
claimed that he had as yet ar
rived at a new, a clear and estab
lished policy, born of these con
ceptions. THE change that has come, or
rather that is coming, upon
the world since Eisenhower was
inaugurated and Stalin died is
very great indeed, greater than
we can as yet fully appreciate.
We are most conscious of it, as
both speeches on Saturday show
ed, because of the presence of
the Soviet Union as a great
GAL. 2 Today and tomorrow
power in the whole vast arc
from Morocco to Japan. Until
recently, the Soviet Union has
been excluded from this arc, has
been "contained" at its frontiers,
except as there was communist
propaganda and clandestine sub
version. The great new fact is
that in 1955 the Soviet Union
passed the ring of containment
and began to operate openly and
with the methods of classic
diplomacy to challenge the po
litical predominance of the
Western nations.
This could not have been done
by the Soviet Union had not the
governing classes in the Moslem
and Hindu nations welcomed the
coming of the Soviet Union.
There is a panicky view in the
West that this means that the
Asian and African countries will
throw themselves into the arms
Highest lake in the U.S. may
be Tulainyo in California, eleva
tion 12,865 feet.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
of, or be drawn into the clutches
of, the Soviet Union. The cooler
view is that these countries wel
come the breaking of the West
ern monopoly of the supply of
military and economic aid, are
pleased to have two competing
suppliers, and will as a matter
of policy try to keep the competi
tion going.
IF THIS is in its essence the
new situation, then in the for
mation of our policy, there are
great, though not necessarily ex
clusive and absolute, choices.
We can compete with the Soviet
Union by trying to out-bid her.
tye can try to collaborate with
the Soviet Union in projects of
developments on the principle
of a consortium or concert of
power. Or we can, as Gov.
Stevenson suggested, turn to the
United Nations as the main dis
tributor of technical aid, hoping
that it will regulate and limit
the competition of the great
powers.
All of these choices are diffi
cult, and no one, so far as I
know, has as yet worked out a
practical policy for any one of
them. But if we are, as I believe,
at the beginning of a great in
quiry, then these choices will be
among the topics into which we
must inquire.
(Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Matter of Fact
DITHERING OR DECIDING
Cairo Here in Cairo there
are good reasons to suspect that
a sort of political H-bomb is con-
wwi cealed In Mos
cow's pious de
c 1 a r ation of
support for a
United Na
tions solution
of the Arab-Israeli
conflict.
. In brief, it
looks as if
the Kremlin
Joseph Alsop
were about to come out. flat-
footed, for the internationaliza
tion of Jerusalem, for a return
to the much narrower frontiers
for Israel originally proposed
by the United Nations, and in
general for a forcible reimposi
tion of the first United Nations
settlement of the Palestine prob
lem that was abrogated by the
Israeli victory on the battlefield.
In these last days, Prime Min
ister Gamal Abdel Nasser has
told this reporter that this en
ormous surgical operation on
present day Israel was the only
way out that he could see. The
Secretary General of the Arab
league, Dr. Abdel Khalek Has
souna has said the same thing,
adding that if the surgical oper
ation were not performed now,
the total extermination of the
patient would soon become the
minimum demand. As already
stated in this space, the Kremlin
has for months been offering
the Arab nationalist leaders a
blank check for any kind of
support they want.
Put the foregoing facts to
gether, and it is obvious that
the kind of Soviet move above
outlined is all too probable.
What will then follow will of
course depend on the reaction
of the Israeli government and
the Western, policy makers to
this new challenge for which
they are wholly unprepared.
But it is hard to see any out
come except a naked clash be
tween the Western allies and
the strong force of the new
Arab nationalism powerfully
supported by the Soviet Union.
TlfAYBE, therefore, it is al
ready too late to talk about
how to avoid this kind of clash,
which can easily produce a cat
astrophe for the free world far
worse than the loss of China.
If it is in fact too late, it will
not be surprising.
For years our Middle Eastern
policy has been nothing but dith
ering, occasionally punctuated
by the dispatch of diplomatic
love notes lauding the charms of
peace. The dithering appropriate
ly culminated in the two worst
diplomatic follies committed by
the United States and Britain
in the past quarter century
the hurried, ridiculous mission
of Assistant Secretary of State
George Allen to Cairo, to pipe
an impotent command that the
Egyptian government must not
buy Soviet arms and the appall
ing journey of Gen. Sir Gerald
Templer, to force Jordan into !
the Baghdad Pact.
But if the opportunity has not
been altogether lost, the dither
ing must certainly. And deciding
must certainly begin without fur
ther delay. What has to be de
cided is whether to fight the
new Arab nationalism all out as
the Israelis and a growing num
ber of British policy makers now
hope we shall do, or whether to
try our best to come to terms
with and even make friends with
this redoubtable new political
force.
lROM every standpoint, coming
to terms is better than
fighting the new Arab national
ism, provided the Egyptian and
other Arab leaders have not al
ready gone too far in the direc
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To the Editor: The members of
the Southern Oregon Child Guid
ance Clinic association would
like to express their sincere ap
preciation and thanks to the
Footlighters organization for the
fine cooperation it has given the
Child Guidance Clinic during the
past several years. In the organ
ization, and presentation
throughout the county, of plays
concerned with mental and emo
tional health, the public was
made, more aware of America's
number one social problem
mental health and breakdown.
In the more recent thirteen
performances of "Random Har
vest" to PTA and interested
groups, much thinking and dis
cussion was stimulated related
to family group living. Thus, in
tangibly, much educational in
formation was given the audi
ence concerning the purpose and
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Joseph AIsop
tion of a Soviet alliance. Coming
to terms with the new Arab na
tionalism means, in effect, mak
ing a deal with Prime Minister
Nasser.
The minimum requirements
for such a deal are pretty ob
vious. The Western powers
have only two vital interests in
the Middle East. There is the
moral responsibility to prevent
the destruction of Israel. And
there is the imperative strategic
necessity to conserve the Middle
Eastern oil sources that provide
the life blood of Britain and
every other leading western ally
except the United States.
Britain can see no way to pro
tect the vital oil except by
maintaining her traditional neo
colonial positions in the Middle
East. Britain is inclined to fight
Prime Minister Nasser because
he is attacking those neo-colon
ial positions. A change in Brit
ish policy cannot possibly be
secured without a solemn Am
erican guarantee to Britain that
we shall prevent any interrup
tion of the oil flow.
TF BRITAIN then abandoned
her present neo-colonial way
of doing business in this area,
the United States and Britain
could offer Prime Minister Nas
ser full Western backing for
Arab nationalist aspirations
with the two necessary condi
tions as to the oil and Israel.
Prime Minister Nasser plainly
fears the loss of independence
that he would surely suffer if
he and other Arab states were
left in solitary isolation with the
giant power of the Soviet Union.
He most emphatically does not
want a final break with the
West. Although he is immeasur
ably stronger now than he was
six months ago, he is still alarm
ed by the thought of the reso
lute, united opposition of the
United States and Britain.
Hence, coming to terms with
Nasser, which would have been
easy until recently, may still
be possible though difficult even
today. If it can be done it is the
safest way out of the ugly sit
uation into which we have so
complacently drifted.
(C) 1S56. New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
Transamerica
Measure Passed
Washington (U.R) Legislation
aimed at Oregon's largest finan
cial institution, Transamerica
Corporation, was passed by the
Senate yesterday and sent to
conference committee for com
bination with an even more re
strictive bill passed earlier by
the House.
The Senate bill would force
Transamerica to divest itself of
Columbia River Packers Asso
ciation and its other non-banking
enterprises.
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.)
fought unsuccessfully to make
the bill apply to all other bank
ing concerns. He said it now is
aimed almost exclusively at
Transameriea, the bank holding
company which contrcis the
First National Bank of Portland.
He lost by a vote of 28-51 when
he tried to add an amendment
making the bill apply to 119
out of 163 of the nation's bank
holding companies.
The present bill exempts all
one-bank firms. It also would
prevent Transamerica from ex
panding into other states unless
specifically permitted by laws
of those states.
Portland U.R-Portland to
day marked up its 19th traffic
fatality of 1956 with the dead in
a local hospital yesterday of
Anna M. Gwynn, 61, who was
struck by a car Tuesday night.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In a previous installment of
this series, I dealt with a lunch
eon speech by Adlai Stevenson
to the American Society of
Newspaper Editors in Washing
ton. President Eisenhower was
due to address the dinner meet
ing of the same organization on
the same day. It seemed rather
obvious that Mr. Stevenson was
seeking to engage the President
in a political debate which,
from his standpoint, would have
been a quite desirable achieve
ment. Ike didn't bite. He's too Old
and experienced a soldier for
that. As the ablest military com
mander in the world, he knows
too well the value of the initia
tive to GIVE IT AWAY to an
adversary.
INSTEAD standing there in
the glare of the TV lights in
the semi - official Presidential
room of the Statler hotel, with
half the people of his own coun
try watching him on their
screens and the people of at
least two-thirds of the world
listening in by radio he made
a statesmanlike address in which
he pictured the United States as
the older brother of all the peo
ples of the world who want to
run their own affairs as free
men and extended the olive
branch to Russia IF ONLY SHE
WILL MAKE HER DEEDS
MATCH HER WORDS.
I
T WAS a GREAT speech be
cause it was colored strongly
Gold To Testify
In Spy Hearings
Washington (U.R) The Sen
ate internal security subcommit
tee called a key figure in the
Rosenberg atom spy case today
for information on the use of
Americans in Soviet intelligence
activities.
Chairman James O. Eastland
(D-Miss.) announced that the sub
committee will question Harry
Gold who is currently serving
a 30-year jail term. Gold was
the courier for the Soviet atom
spy ring that included Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg who were
executed.
Eastland said Wednesday that
another member of the Rosen
berg ring, David Greenglass,
would testify Friday. Greenglass,
who supplied data to Gold, re
ceived a 15-year jail sentence
in the 1951 spy trial.
Greenglass, a brother of Ethel
Rosenberg and an army sergeant
at the Los Alamos, N.M., weap
ons laboratory, testified in court
that he gave A-bomb data to
Gold. He said an A-bomb dia
gram was among the informa
tion he supplied to Russia.
Gold served as courier for
Greenglass and for Dr. Klaus
Fuchs, a member of the British
atomic energy mission to the
United States who was convicted
and imprisoned on spy charges
in Britain in 1950.
Smith Gives Thornton
Investigation Powers
Salem (U.R)' Gov. Elmo
Smith said today "the sky was
the limit" in the investigation of
vice charges in Portland.
Smith held an hour-long con
ference with Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton yesterday
and said he would give the at
torney general sweeping powers.
Thornton, who had requested
the conference to clarify a letter
of authority sent him by the gov
ernor, said authority to present
facts to the May grand jury was
agreed on. Previously Thornton
had been restricted to the pres
ent grand jury.
The first cup of tea sold pub
licly was served in Garraway's
famed London coffee shop in
in 1657. Soon all of London?
2,000 coffee shops w&re offering
the beverage. .
Dead line for Sunday Classified Is
at noon Saturday.
with the warmth and the friend
liness of him own inimitable
personality and because it car
ried the unmistakable RING OF
SINCERITY that characterizes
all of his utterances. Listening
to it, I felt anew the tragedy
inherent in the fact that the
people of this earth speak DIF
FERENT TONGUES.
If everybody on this troubled
globe to whom the modern mira
cle of radio is available (instan
taneous television, meaning
LIVE television, still can't
cross the oceans) could have
heard and fully understood what
our President was saying there
in Washington, there would be
no more suspicion of America
and her motives.
Every American with a grain
of gumption knows our country
wants peace instead of war, and
in his speech to the nation's
editors the other night our Presi
dent left no doubt of that fact
in his hearers' minds.
VyiTHIN the exact limits of
" its programmed time, his
formal speech, whichwas ad
dressed to the world as a whole,
came to its conclusion. The hot,
white lights that television must
have to carry its pictured mes
sages were extinguished. The
waves of spontaneous applause
rose and fell and waxed and
waned and eventually died
away.
Ike arose in his place. Hi
grinned his characteristic grin,
and remarked that with "the
more formal part of the pro
gram out of the way he'd like
to chat among friends for a little
while. ,
So, for a matter of 15 or 20
minutes, he spoke without manu
script, completely extemporane
ously. He said, among other
things, that while nobody knows
with positive exactness what
will happen next, because no
body can fathom with certitude
the devious depths of the com
munist mind or map positively
the next moves of the commu
nist leaders, he himself doesn't
think we are doing too badly
in the cold war.
TTE SPOKE of recent about
face changes in communist
tactics the substitution of
smiles for glowering frowns, of
hand-shaking and back-slapping
for aloofness and grimness, of
constant good will tours by the
big shots and the playing down
of the cult of Stalin worship
instead the deification of des
potism that has hitherto been
the rule.
He added:
"You don't ordinarily change
policies that have been WORK
ING ALL RIGHT. When you
DISCARD policies, it is normal
ly because they haven't been
working too well."
A ND so on for a period of a
quarter of an hour or more.
Ike is at his charming and most
effective best when he tosses
aside the carefully prepared
manuscript of which every
word must be studied meticu
lously before being cleared for
utterance and just speaks his
mind.
A President, of course, can't
do that very often, but it is very,
very interesting and very, very
enjoyable when he does.
A Sincere
''Thank You"
to the friendly folk whom it has
been my privilege to serve through
my association with THE CHILD'S
WORLD PROGRAM.
I regret that other duties make It
necessary that I resign as your lo
cal representatlve for TCW, effec
tive May 15th. Anyone interested
in seeing this entertaining, educa
tional and inspirational program
for youngsters, please call 2-4218
for an appointment before that
date.
OPAL V. NOTE
PHONE 2-8030
DAY OR NIGHT
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