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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
tO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 10. 1346
(It was Wednesday)
Jackson county 4-H club camp
will be held July 22 to 27, at
Lake o' Woods, according to
Earle Jossy, 4-H club agent.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Summer
. has been mild so far in this re
gion. This has resulted in people
getting behind with the output
of their favorite question: "Is it
hot enough for you?"
20 YEARS AGO
July 10. 1936
(It was Friday)
Jackson county is rapidly ad
vancing to the forefront as a
producer of gladioli for commer
cial purposes, according to Wil
liam J. Warner.
The public will see the latest
methods of life saving demon-
started when the Medford dist
rict life saving school opens at
Ashland's Twin Plunges Mon
day.
30 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1926
(It was Saturday)
John D. Rockefeller Jr., and
family, will arrive in Medford
this afternoon and go aboard
their Drivate nullman car to
start north this evening.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Styers
of Central Point left today for
Gardner, Mont., by auto.
40 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1916
(It was Monday)
Company seven should have
the most successful camp of its
career this summer, according to
Captain A. J. Vance.
From Local and Personal col
umn: G. H. Gibson left this morn
ing for Yreka, Calif. Smoke a
King Spitz cigar, they are home
made.
CLOVER ALL OVER "
Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R)
Arthur Silveus of Lodi Town
ship Is really in clover these
days. The 52-year-old carpeuter
has picked up right in his own
backyard, all in the same day:
a four-leaf, a five-leaf, a six
leaf, and a seven-leaf clover.
What's Ihe Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research
Report
1. The great N.Y. advertising
agencies are identified with
Fifth Ave., Madison Ave., Broad
way, the Bowery or Park Ave.?
2. Which member of the F.D.
Roosevelt Cabinet is running for
the U.S. Senate this year?
3. Most persons sued for di
vorce do or don't contest the
suit, or is it about 50-50?
4. Who was Vice President
when President F. D. Roosevelt
died?
5. Transmitting horse race in
formation across state lines does
or doesn't violate federal law?
6. British Gen. Sir John B.
Glubb was recently thrown out
of high military position by
Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Iran or
Saudi Arabia?
7. Mangelwurzels are laundry
equipment, German bagpipes
vegetables, a form of pretzel, or
sausages?
The Answers: 1. Madison Ave.
2. Former Secretary of Agricul
ture C. R. Wickard. in Indiana.
3. Most don't. 4. Harry S. Tur-rt-.an.
5. Doesn't. 6. Jordan. 7.
Vegetables.
city
Not a Popularity Contest .
Ex-Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay is
starting on another tour of Eastern Oregon in his
determined and well financed effort to get Ore
gon's senior Senator out and occupy the seat himself.
Judging by the advance notices Mr. McKay's
trump-card will be quoting some stray remarks made
by Senator Morse during the past three years which
were not complimentary, as far as President Eisenhower-is
concerned.
It is believed apparently in McKay "GHQ," that
in view of the President's great personal popularity
which has not been lessened by his two recent ill
nesses that these quotations in themselves will be
enough to retire Wayne Morse to private life and give
our f ormer Governor a cozy, cushy 6-year term in the
Upper House.
This technique is commonly known as riding into
office on the presidential coat tails.
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WELL we really can't blame "dear Doug."
We doubt if even his best friends would deny
that but for those potent coat-tails he would return
no nearer to Washington, D.C., than Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, no matter how extensive his financial
backing.
But we are not so sure, that quoting Oregon's sen
ior Senator out of context and thus demonstrating
Wayne Morse was not afraid to criticize the leader of
the opposition party when he believed him wrong,
is going to be as magical in its political results as the
GOP general staff assumes.
After all, since when has the freedom to criticize
the leader of one party by a prominent member of the
opposing party been rated as a capital offense, or in
ITSELF sufficient to justify retirement of a member
of the U.S. Senate with as long and distinguished a
record as that of Wayne L. Morse?
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"THERE will be many voters no doubt, Democratic
and Republican, who will not agree with Ore
gon's senior Senator's opinions of President Eisen
hower, in the two cases cited, but few indeed who
will deny he had a perfect
Nor is Senator Morse the
ate who has refused to regard the present, occupant
of the White House as sacrosanct, so far above the
average run of presidents that to suggest he is human
and makes mistakes like the rest of us, calls for court-
martial if not a sunrise meeting with the Chief High
Executioner. Those who doubt this are advised to
look over a file of the 1956 Congressional Record.
THIS sort of "King can
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Guard," and it promises to
dear Doug with tremelo
drum obligate But as before stated in this depart
ment, that worshipful and adoring minority however
vocal is not going to decide this particular contest.
Whether Senator Morse retains his seat, or is to be
expelled and his place taken by our former and un
lamented Secretary of the Interior will be decided,
NOT by the extreme partisans on either side, but by
the independent voters who are going to carefully
examine the records of both men, before they make
up their minds, and their final decision will be based,'
we feel sure, not upon what either one may have or
have not said, but what they have DONE, and if
elected, what they can be expected to do, for the best
interests of their state in the next six years. .
There will be such important issues as public pow
er development vs. private power extension ; irrigation
extension vs. curtailment; conservation of natural re
sources vs. private exploitation ; recreational areas
increased or further limited, and many other issues
particularly vital to this state and the entire west, at
this time.
This free minority, which will hold the balance of
power, will not regard this senatorial race as a per
sonal popularity contest, or as a referendum on "We
like Ike" but as a contest between two men, with
sharply contrasting personalities, political records and
with even more sharply contrasting views of what
should be done and what should not be done, for the
best interests of this state and the country during the
next few years.
If the above analysis is correct, it does not take a
"seventh son of a seventh son" to predict which man
will win. R.W.R.
Toll Roads Re-Considered
Three-months' experimental reductions in truck
rates went into effect on the Ohio Turnpike June 26.
The cuts are from 25 to 30 per cent for most tracks,
plus an additional 10 per cent for payers of over
$2,000 a month in tolls.
The reductions, it is hoped, will lure enough new
traffic to produce a net revenue gain. The hard fact
is that collections on the Ohio Turnpike have fallen
far below the estimates. Trucks have been staying
away in droves, and on toll roads they are expected
to provide the bulk of the revenue. "
The old rates were said to be too high to divert any
great multitude of trucks away from the free high
ways. True, the turnpike would have saved them
time, in addition to tire wear and gasoline. However,
most truck drivers are paid by the trip, not by time or
mileage, and in many cases the saving on fuel and
tires simply didn't add up to the toll costs. E.R.R.
Circuit Court Suit Seeks
Mrs. Marjorie J. Ford is ask
ing $8,025.05 in damages plus
court costs against Berda Mary
Downing and W. P. Downing,
518 Mae st., in a circuit court
suit filed Friday.
The plaintiff claims that on
Nov. 6, 1955, she was a passen
ger in an auto driven north on
South Holly it. near the inter
Tuesday. July 10, 1958
right to express them.
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be persistently played by
stops out and a muffled-
$8,025 Damages
section of 10th and Holly sts.
She accuses Berda Mary Down
ing of "careless and negligent
conduct" and claims that the car
driven east on 10th st. at that
time by Mrs. Downing struck
the auto in which Mrs. Ford was
riding, causing serious injury.
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Lobbying, Education
Difference Delicate
Question for Probers
Washington (CQ) Senate in
vestigators, spurred by evidence
of hitherto secret, tax -deductible,
multi-miUion dollar propa
ganda programs, are pressing for
an answer to the question: When
is a lobbyist not a lobbyist?
The answer, backed by a Su
preme Court decision, seems to
be: When he spends the money
to "educate" the public to his
point of view.
Chairman John L. McClellan
(D-Ark.) and his colleagues on
the Special Senate Lobby Investi
gating committee have unearthed
no bribes and no scandals in
their study of pressures for and
against the natural gas bill, veto
ed by President Eisenhower last
February.
But they have learned almost
$2 million was spent to stir pub
lic opinion on the controversial
measure, and most of the activity
was not covered by the existing
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, auto work
ers in Birmingham, England, are
threatenting to strike in an at
tempt to force the British gov
ernment to PEP UP BUSINESS.
Union leaders claim the Eden
government's curb on install
ment buying and its restrictions
on foreign trade are responsible
for the slump in English auto
sales which have led to the lay
off of 6,000 workers.
Factory shop stewards have
adopted a resolution favoring a
work stoppage to compel the
government to RELAX its anti
inflation program.
HAT'S it all about?
s quite a story. ,
rpHE ROOT of it lies in the
fact that that Great Britain
is physically a small country,
its area is 88,745 square miles,
which is considerably less than
the area of the state of Oregon.
Its population is in the neighbor
hood of 48 millions.
In order to support a popula
tion of that size in an area of
that small extent, Britain must
manufacture and export on a
big scale. Britain isn't self-sufficient.
She doesn't produce
enough food for her people. She
doesn't produce within her
borders the raw materials need-
ea ior ner manufacturing es
tablishments. She doesn't manu
facture all the articles her
people want and need.
If she is to live
She has to IMPORT.
If she is to get the foreign
money with which to pay for
imports, she must export. She
must' export more than she im
ports. If she isto export (that
is, sell goods abroad) she must
sell the . British goods that
foreigners want.
British-made automobiles are
among the goods that foreigners
want and are willing to pay for.
THAT brings up something
else. . v .
Britain is prospering again.
As the British people become
more prosperous, they want the
good things of life. Among other
thL-gs, they want automobiles.
And, like Americans, they want
to buy them on the installment
plan. The upshot of the situation
is that the British people have
been buying so many automo
biles "that there haven't been
enough left to SELL ABROAD
in order to get the money that
Britain needs to pay for the
things (including food and raw
materials) that she has to im
port.
So
In an effort to check British
purchases of British-made auto
mobiles, the British government
is clamping down on installment
purchases of cars.
THE CREDIT restriction
working. It is working
well that for the present
least there is a SURPLUS
British cars. It is expected,
course, that foreign sales
is
so
at
of
of
of
cars can be stepped up enough
to take care of this surplus, but
that will take some time.
Meanwhile. ' British automo
bile factories are laying off men.
Nobody likes to be laid off. So
the union in Birmingham (one
of Britain's big manufacturing
centers) is contending, quite
understandably, that the restric
tions on installment buying
should be taken off so that
Britons can buy more cars and
thus keep the factories operatmg
at capacity.
DUT, IF the British people go
on another car-buying binge,
thev will buy so many British
made cars that they won't be
enough left to sell abroad to get
the money with which to pay
for the imports that Britain UAS
TO HAVE if she is to keep going.
That's where the rub comes.
ITS A complicated situation.
But it illustrates rather in
terestingly, I think, what hap
pens when people all over the
world come to rely on govern
ment to FIX EVERYTHING
THAT NEEDS FIXING. - -
Lobby Regulation Act,
McClellan has asked publicly
if something should be done to
bring such spending under fed
eral supervision.
What Disturbs Him
Here's what disturbs McClel
lan:
The General Gas committee,
which favored the bill, spent
$119,988 in "developing the facts
and carrying these facts to the
people ..."
The Natural Gas and Oil Re
sources committee, also in favor
of the bill, spent $1,753,513 on a
"continuing long-range program
of education and information."
The United Automobile Work
er (AFL-CIO), opposed to the
bill, spent $38,762 for newspaper
and radio advertfsements.
Only one of the three groups,
the General Gas committee, is
registered as a lobby. Current
law would not require the others
to disclose their spending on the
gas- bill.
Another group opposed to the
bill, the Council of Local Gas
Companies, is a registered lobby.
The $27,699 it spent included
expenses for buttonholing . Con
gressmen and a publicity cam
paign against the biU.
When Congress in 1946 first
brought lobby activity under reg
ulation, it drafted, a set of rules
broad enough, apparently, to
cover both direct and indirect
lobbying. It required registra
tion and regular financial reports
from any person who "for pay or
any consideration" attempts to
influence Congress either "di
rectly or indirectly."
The Lobby Regulation Act was
so broad that a federal court
decided, in the case of U. S. vs.
Harris, it violated Constitution
al guarantees of free speech and
the right to petition the govern
ment "for a redress of griev
ances." The case came to the Supreme
Court in 1954 and Chief Justice
Earl Warren, speaking for a five-
man majority, upheld the con
stitutionality of the lobby act.
However, he limited its coverage
to persons in "direct communi
cation with Members of Congress
on pending or proposed federal
legislation."
Indirect lobbying was freed
from controls "to avoid constitu
tional doubts." Warren said Con
gress "would have intended the
Act to operate on this narrower
basis, even if a broader applica-
tion to organizations seeking to
propagandize the general public
were not permissible.
Three- dissenting judges said
the Chief Justice had rewrit
ten the law" to save it from be
ing ruled unconstitutional.
Crux of Problem
This Supreme Court decision
and the issues of civil liberties
it raises are the crux of the
problem with which McClellan
and his colleagues are wrestling
The Senator says he agrees
with the late Justice Robert H.
Jacksons observation: "To reach
the real evils of lobbying with
out cutting into the constitution
al right of petition is a difficult
and delicate task
But McClellan says he wants
his committee to consider at least
two questions once "the whole
pattern of lobby activities" has
been explored.
Should tax laws continue at
swaying public opinion on na-
tional issues? Should the . law
be changed to require lobbyists
to identify themselves as such in
their appeals to the public and
Congress?
To Arise Again
The indirect lobbying issue
will arise again when the House
Appropriations committee holds
its planned investigation of a
newspaper advertisement spon
sored by "Americas independent
electric light and power com
panies." The Appropriations com
mittee wants to-know if the ad,
asserting Americas . superiority
in peacetime atomic power de
velopment, was designed to in
fluence an Appropriations sub
committee decision on Atomic
Energy Commission funds.
As long ago as 1950, another
Congressional lobby investigat
ing committee decided the long-
run objective of every significant
pressure group in the country is
and must inevitably be the crea
tion and control of public opin
ion; for, without the support of
an articulate public, the most
carefuUy planned direct lobby
ing is likely to be ineffective,
That same committee gave this
as the lobbyists' motto: "Millions
for 'education' or 'public enlight
enment' but not one cent for
lobbying."
(Copyright 1956,
Congressional Quarterly)
Leaving Keys in Car
Draws $100 in Fine
. Des Moines, Iowa (U.R) Lo
cal motorists who leave keys in
their parked cars here will be
running the risk of being slap
ped with a $100 fine or 30 days
in jail.
The City Council here gave
unanimous preliminary approval
to the measure Monday. Present
ordinances make it illegal to
leave a parked auto with the
motor running.
Nehru, Nasser, Tito Schedule
Important Diplomatic Meeting
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United 'Press Correspondent
Three oddly-assorted states
men will hold one of this sum
mer's most important diplomatic
I jfvS- 1 confer ences
next week.
They are
President Tito
of Yugoslavia,
President Ga
mal Abdel
Nasser of
Egypt and
Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Ne-
Ctasrles McCann flTU OI India.
They are to meet for two days,
probably July 18 and 19, on
Great Brioni Island, Tito s fa
vorite resort on the Adriatic Sea
coast.
Their talks wiU be pointed to
ward organizing the new "third
force" which seems destined to
play an increasingly big part in
world affairs.
Form Neutralist Bloc
The third force is to consist of
the growing bloc of so-called
neutralist countries which seek
to keep themselves aloof from
the West-East alignment led re
spectively by the United States
and Russia.
Tito, Nasser and Nehru have
in common the fact that they are
the world's leading neutralists.
They favor a policy of friend
ly co-operation "active co-exist
ence" with Russia and Commu
nist China. They oppose "colo
nialism. Nehru and Nasser,
especially, oppose the Western
system of defense alliances
though Nasser is building up his
own Arab alliance against Israel.
Tito, Nasser and Nehru also
are alike in that they exert in
fluence far outside of their own
countries. Tito is quite likely to
become the leader of a Balkan
bloc of Communist countries.
Nasser has made himself the
leader of the Arab countries.
Nehru is the leading statesman
of Southeastern Asia.
All Are Revolulionsist
The three men share also the
fact that all are revolutionists.
Tito as a Mowcow-trained Com
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The Porky War
To the Editor: Recent stories
and a brief but pungent porky
editorial revived by-gone mem
ories of some long-gone porcu
pines. One is of a young eastern
Oregon forest ranger astride a
horse, three packhorses trailing.
Seeing "a fierce looking animal"
lumbering toward him in the
trail, and being of venturesome
nature, he decided to mow a
swath through the middle of
those "bristles." He pulled his
6-shooter trigger; his horse near
ly unloaded the rider. The three
horses raced back the trail and
into the woods. Two hours of pre
cious time was lost catching the
strays. Twas nearly dark and
camp not pitched. One porky.
While the CCC camp was at
Lake O' Woods in 1933, almost
nightly porky came, gnawing on
boxes, boards, etc., prevent
ing peaceful slumber. Armed
with flashlight, a club or shovel,
we chased porkies up trees, un
der woodpiles or out of sight,
if not killed. Yes, porky was
eaten. Rather oily, sweetish
meat, as badger or woodchuck.
But',why this no-quarter drive
on porcupines, and waste all
but the snoot for a dollar? Why
destroy all of one or more nat
ural resources while, exploiting
another? That's been white
man's undoing. He's changed
millions of trees (some of
porky's food) into dollars, and
millions of acres into waste :
treeless badlands, unfit for man
or porky. Recall those vast areas
of waving, green virgin forests
and prairie grass lands, verdant
hills and valleys; clear fishing
streams, before man's destruc
tion? Not porky's! Of course you
do! But porky must go as
American Indians from their bits
of reservations; Arabs from
Jerusalem.
Modern science, discoveries, in
ventions might bend porky quill
barbs as clinchers; quills into
rich fabrics of wondrous texture
and transcendent beauty for car
seat covers, table-cloths; fat into
high grade gun oil; claws into
back scratchers; flesh smoked or
dried and sold in competition
with codfish, smelt or other
smelly fish; scent into perfu
mery; balance into expensive
fertilizer. Thus, lowly porky
dollars kept rolling in.
Finally, and no foolin', twelve
thousand smelly, prickly porky
carcasses in 1955 would be nil
compared with the scores of
thousands this and next year to
pollute the pure mountain air
and water, endanger man and
beast walking through the for
est or along trails and roads; at
tract flies and other disease
carrying insects. Might a sick
ness epidemic or plague be
started from such pollution?
John Gribble
139 Kenwood Ave.
Medford, Oregon
munist was for years a profes
sional revolutionary. Nehru, aft
er the death of Mahandas K.
Gandhi, led India's fight against
British rule. Nasser engineered
the revolt which dethroned King
Farouk.
Their backgrounds, however,
differ widely. Tito, of peasant
stock, was a locksmith and a la
bor union leader in his youth.
Nehru, a patrician, was educated
at England.'s Harrow and Cam
bridge. Nasser is a politically
minded professional soldier.
Tito, as a Communist, pre
sumably is an atheist. Nehru is
a Hindu, Nasser a Moslem.
Undoubtedly, in their talks,
Tito, Nasser and Nehru will seek
means of bringing closer to
gether the growing number of
countries which have adopted
MQt tOt Of FCfCf
DISARMAMENT:
ONE
LAST TRY?
Washington When President
Eisenhower returns to the
Wh'tp Hon" in a week or so.
he will find
his desk load
ed high with
all sorts of
grave and
pressing deci
sions. Among
them will be
this question:
Is it worth
making one
last try to ne
gotiate seriously on disarmam
ent with the Soviet?
Since Andrei Gromyko's froz
en-faced performance at the
United Nations on July third
in which he
seemed to
slam the door
on any agree
ment which
the western
powers could
c o n c e ivably
accept, the log
ical answer
might seem to
be "no" but Stewart Alsop
the President is an optimist by
nature, and control of the new
weapons is probably closer to
his heart than any other objec
tive.
Before his recent illness, more
over, the President ordered
searching, root-and-branch re
view of American diarmament
policy." The review has been
conducted by a high level com
mittee, headed by special Presi
dential Assistant Harold Stas-
sen and including representa
tives from the State and De
fense Department and the Cen
tral Intelligence Agency,
The work of the committee,
which will report its findings
to the President soon after his
return, is still unfinished. But
already a basic approach has
been agreed upon. It is agreed
that it is too early to despair,
and. that some real advance may
still be made, provided only the
hard, demonstrable self-interest
of both sides is considered, and
all attempt to achieve ideal so
lutions is abandoned.
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TN THIS newtapproach to dis
armament, two basic assump
tions have been ir.ade. First, it
is tacitly recognized that the
world has already passed the
point of no return, so far as
total control of the new weapons
is concerned.
A hydrogen bomb, after all,
can be hidden in a hay barn,
and there is absolutely no way
of detecting it, short of search
ing through the hay. Both this
country and the Soviet Union
have already produced great
numbers of nuclear weapons,
and there are plenty of hay
barns and other hiding places
in both countries. So it is futile
to try to negotiate the kind of
control of the new weapons en
visaged in the old Baruch
Acheson plan.
The second assumption is that
there are, nevertheless, at least
two areas where the hard self
interest of the United States
and the Soviet Union coincides,
and where practical measures
can be taken to serve those
interests. The first area . con
cerns the "fourth country prob
lem," a phrase coined by the
British.
Now In Full Swing!
LEON'S AND
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FOR
SIHMME
Buy 2 Pairs
Exactly the
the neutralist line.
,It is quite likely that they will
try to organize the neutralists
into a bloc which will act to
gether, especially in the United
Nations.
Their influence already is
great That influence was
strengthened by the recent con
flicting statements of President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles on the
merits and demerits of neutralist
policy.
Nasser is to arrive in Yugo
slavia Thursday for an eight-day
visit to Tito. Nehru will join
them on Brioni Island for the
last two days. They are certain
to issue a communique at the
end of their talks. Anything they
may say is pretty certain to be
important.
By Joa and Stewart Alsop
It is by no means fanciful to
envisage a future in which a
tinpot dictator could threaten
both East and West. For there
are no longer any real atomic
secrets, and it is fatally easy
to turn out nuclear weapons.
once the necessary installation
are built. Surely, it is argued.
it is as much to the interest
of the Soviet Union as of the
United States or Britain that
no future Mussolini or Peron
should achieve the means to
threaten the great powers with
total ruin.
PREVENTING the emergence
of a "fourth country" is
obviously politically difficult,
since it involves national sov- ,
ereignties. But it is at least
technically feasible. Even a very
limited global inspection system
would detect the building of
new nuclear installations. Some
sort of freeze on nuclear pro
duction, at a given cut-off date.
with inspection under United
Nations auspices, is one ap
proach being considered.
Another area of mutual inter
est is some form of mutual in
surance against surprise attack
In this area, the Soviets have
already shown some willingness
to negotiate seriously their pro
posal for limited ground inspec
tion is considered more than a
propaganda gesture. And des- -pite
Gromyko, the Stassen group
believes that hope for progress
on this front should not be
abandoned.
Various ways of making "one
last try" on disarmament have
been discussed by the Stassen
group a secret approach
through regular diplomatic chan
nels, the despatch of a special
Presidential ' emissary to Mos
cow, or a major new initiative
by the President himself, like
his "atoms for peace". proposaL
In view of Gromyko's speech,
and Nikita Krushchev.' scorn
ful remarks about Western dis
armament plans; the last try
seems very likely to come to
nothing. But the President, be
ing the kind of man he is, will
probably decide to make it all
the same. And in view of the
bleak alternatives, no doubt it
is worth making.
(Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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