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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18. 1846 (Friday)
Robert S. Farrell, Republican
candidate seeking reelection as
secretary of state, visits Medford.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Sauerkraut
making is the order of the day
In the rural regions. There are
more ways to make sauerkraut
than cure a cold.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18. 1938 (Sunday)
Farm income from crop and
animal production in Oregon in
1938 will exceed income from
production in 1935 because of
increased output and a higher
average level of prices.
The American College of Sur
geons issues list of approved hos
pitals in Oregon which includes
Sacred Heart hospital.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18. 1928 (Monday)
Local Odd Fellows plan series
of social meetings for the fall
and winter season.
A snappy program will be one
of the features when Ashland
Llthians are guests at Crater
club meeting tonight.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18, 1916 (Wednesday)
Medford council employs How
ard A. Hansen, municipal coun
sel of Seattle, to work out the
city paving problem.
No reply received from Con
gressman Hawley to the chal
lenge to a joint debate at Med
ford of the Wilson policies.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18, 1906 (Thursday)
Lee Willard and company ap
pear at the Opera House; present
the play, "Monte Cristo.
Medford city council con
ducts routine business last night.
What's the Answer?
Can Too Get 4 of the 77
Copt. 1955 Editorial Research
Report
1. Less than one-fourth, about
one-third, not quite half, or over
half of all U.S. Families collect
savings stamps?
2. A person may or may not
be classed as a dependent for
income-tax purpose if not re
lated to the taxpayer?
3. The worlds first full
atomic-power commerical plant
is now operating in Great Brit
ain, Russia, Canada or the U.S.?
4. The AFL-CIO federation
has a membership of about (a)
8. (b) 12. (c) 16, (d) 20, or
(e) 25 million?
5. Vice President Nixon is or
isn't the youngest man elected
to that office since the Civil
War?
fl. The statue on the Capitol
dome at Washington, D.C., is
of George Washington, an In
dian chief, George III, Freedom,
Jefferson or Lincoln?
7. Haym Solomon was a Jew
ish financier aiding the U.S.
in the Revolutionary War, War
of 1812, Mexican War, Civil
War or war against Spain?
The Answers: 1. Over half,
save stamp collections. 2 May.
3. Great Britain. 4 About 16
million. 5. Is. 4. Freedom. 7.
Revolutionary War. i
MAIL TRIBUNE
Phil Parrish
"Men may come and men
The first person pronoun in Tennyson's familiar
poem referred of course, to
At the moment however, we are thinking more of
the men those who come
There are too many of
properly regarded as "dispensable," on the basis of
age or usefulness, who on the basis of service to the
community and public welfare should live on for many
years. But "whist" off they go to that bourne from
which, as far as available records go, they will never
return.
17E HAVE in mind, at this time particularly, Phil
" Parrish, who was editor of the editorial page of
the Oregonian for nearly
ing the late 60 s, we frequently called on while in
Portland.
We were never close
not see eye-to-eye politically, but he was a delightful
and rewarding person to
current events, educational
you, nor was the somewhat
sial game of politics ever
We always came away with increased admiration
for the young man with that rank and rampant head
of bushy dark hair he naturally (to any egg-head ob
server) , appeared younger than he was and with re
gret that he did not own
therefore write as freely as
VU'E DON'T mean to indicate that Phil Parrish ever
had a wandering eye from a strict party stand
point. He was no doubt, a
lican he would hardly have held his job long if he
had not been but he had too much intelligence and
humor to indulge in any elephantine GOP worship,
and off-the-record, he was
ic of both parties. He had a special allergy for the
"Old Guard" troglodytes and isolationists in the GOP
as he did for the extreme and fanatical New Dealers,
and while the undersigned did not always agree with
the latter comments, it was always interesting and
often enlightening to hear them.
THE PERIOD of our acquaintance preceded the
"rise and fall" of Joe McCarthy and McCarthy
ism, but we never doubted what he thought about both
and if he had had a paper of his own, how he would
have gone after them the David and Goliath scen
ario would have been a tame affair in comparison.
Not that Phil was ever the
the stones in his sling-shot
e
TXETWERE surprised to
from the Oregonian and not knowing it was due
to illness expected to hear he had decided to devote
himself entirely to historical writing or perhaps fol
low the example of Bill Tugman of the Eugene Register-Guard
and get a small paper of his own.
. The news of his death, therefore, came as a com
plete surprise and shock we had not pictured him as
Tennyson's brook "going on forever" but we did
think he was going on in the journalistic or literary
field or both for a long time. And it is a great loss
to both in this state, that we were so sadly mistaken.
R.W.R.
"Fortune Looks at Oregon
Fortune, the big-business magazine, in its current
issue reviews "Five Hot Senate Races" that may de
termine which party will have control of the U. S. Sen
ate next year. The first and hottest is the Oregon con
test between Senator Wayne Morse and ex-Secretary
Douglas McKay. Here are some of the observations of
Fortune's reporter after his visit to Oregon, quote:
"Prior to 1954 (McKay last ran for office in 1950) there
was something of a civil-service atmosphere about cam
paigning under the Republican banner in Oregon; GOP
pluralities were dependable enough to ensure the election
of primary winners without any messing around with
'issues.'
"But there are good grounds for believing many. Repub
licans wanted someone more liberal than McKay, who
though sympathetic to Ike is rather drably conservative in
viewpoint."
Relating how McKay, campaigning in "Pete and
Mary's" cafe in Joseph, hurled his customary epithet
of "Socialist" at a Democrat who happened to dis
agree with him about Hells Canyon, Fortune's report
er concludes:
"This little episode . . . underscores the by now well
established McKay proclivity for putting his foot in his
mouth . . . Unhappily, his talent for saying the wrong thing
is not balanced by any aptitude for saying the right thing
with equal force."
Fortune's reluctant forecast: A Morse victory in
November.
To which we may say, "Amen."
956 Is an Election Year!
Senator William F. Knowland, Republican leader
in the Senate, as quoted in U. S. News & World Re
port for December 24, 1954 :
"Granting the Communists an armistice in Korea was
a mistake. I thought so at the time and I have not changed
my views on that. I think the armistice is a farce."
Senator William F. Knowland, as quoted by the
Republican National Committee on September 5,
1956:
"The whole nation knows that the Democrats tried
vainly for 18 months to end the stalemated war in Korea.
The people know that Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Korea
and a peace ensued under which the Communists gained not
One foot of ground."
What could have changed Senator Knowland's
mind?
Senator Neuberger
Thursday, October 18, 1958
may go but I go on forever."
the brook.
and go particularly go.
them of late who can't be
two decades and who dur
friends, and even then did
talk with on any subject
problems and what have
demented and controver
taboo.
the Oregonian and could
he talked, and as well.
loyal and conf irmed Repub
a wise and penetrating crit
"give 'em hell" type, but
had sharp edges.
e
hear of Phil's retirement
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"Forward Without Fear!"
10 the Editor: bociaism is a
horrendous word. A Socialist is
a hybrid of the Witch of Endor
and the Devil. A Socialist has a
forked tail, cloven hoofs, horns
growing out of his forehead and
breaths fire and smoke out of
his mouth and nostrils. His eyes
grow out on the end of a stalk
like a crab's and he can shoot
poison out of his eyes like a
basilisk. (You can look that word
up in the dictionary if you don't
happen to know it. I did.) And a
Socialist CREEPS. CREEPING
SOCIALISM. So get down on
your knees and thank Tricky
Dick for saving us from CREEP
ING SOCIALISM.
Examples of Socialism in the
United States include public
ownership of the highways (U.S.
or state), county roads, the post-
office (which really ought to be
sold to the highest bidder so
some "malefactors of great
wealth" could charge us what
they please for transporting our
letters), public schools (let's do
away with all of them, they're
subversive), government owner
ship of waterways (the Columbia
River yet belongs to all of us
even if Hells Canyon doesn t),
municipally owned power plants
such as some Washington cities
have so their electricity costs
them about half what ours does.
TVA (the big Dixon-Yates con
tract didn't go over so big with
the public, either), our county
board of health, housing proj
ects such as the payment to the
City of Francisco of $162,000 in
lieu of taxes by the San Fran
cisco Housing Authority (10 per
cent of authority's income from
3,672 low rental units now in
operation). Old age pensions,
social security, and unemploy
ment insurance are Socialistic.
Ask Mr. Eisenhower to repeal
them and see what happens.
Sure Socialism s creeping
right up on you, Dick, just like
the ocean crept up on King
Canute when he sat in a chair
by the ocean and commanded
the tide not to dare soak his
kingly feet.
Look out it doesn t happen to
you like it did to Lot's wife
you might turn into a pillar of
salt if you don't look forward
instead of always backward.
America is going forward, not
traveling backwards like a lob
ster swims. Americans have bet
ter brains than the lobster.
Look up the word Socialism
in the dictionary. Don t let
Bogeyman Dick scare you. The
great English writer H. G. Wells
was a Socialist. So was George
Bernard Shaw.
The U.S.A. made great prog
ress under 20 years of Demo
cratic administration. Forward
march. Democrats. Let the Re
publicans look back. We're not
afraid. We're going ahead.
Edith Y. Ingle
38 Bessie St.
Medford, Ore.
Against McKay and Kefauver
To the Editor: With so much
to be said for and against both
teams in their all-out slugfest
for the presidency of the USA,
it's hard to decide for which to
vote, as party lines mean nothing
at all to us. But when Kefauver
came out recently for repeal of
the Taft-Hartly law, that cooked
both him and his teammate's
hash, for our votes. Of course,
he knew full well he would
have little chance of doing that,
if elected. He knows the labor
unions and every right thinking
person knows that it is the only
ruling that gives job-providing
industry a fighting chance, rec
ognizes public rights and gives
some protection to the union
member against his union, gone
predatory.
But Mcriay wltn nis lavornism
give-aways will be eased out of
our voting the same as he was
of his Secretary of Interior sine
cure, but with no "so sorry dear
McKay," from us. Morse has
pulled some moves that don't sit
too weU with us here. But , he
has proved his sincerity and dis
played lion-courage in staying
with principle regardless of
votes, just the reverse of Mc
Kay's "principles mean nothing,
it s the votes that count. How
anyone can cast their sacrificed
wealth, tears and blood, and
vote for a, er, (must not call
names) a citizen of that mental
standing and reasoning, is be
yond me.
F. J. Clifford
1211 West Main st.
Medford, Ore.
GOP Tactics Disgusting
To the Editor: I am descended
from a line of staunch California
Republicans. I cast my first vote
for Herbert Hoover, and I con
tinued to be a Republican and
to be proud of it until I moved
from California to Jackson coun
ty and witnessed at first hand
the kind of rabble-rousing tac
tics the Republican Central
Committee of Jackson county
stooped to employ in its mis
guided and wholly unsuccessful
efforts to prevent the election of
Richard Neuberger to the U.S.
Senate.
At that time, I became so
thoroughly disgusted nause
ated perhaps is a better word
that I changed my registration
from Republican to Democrat as
a personal protest.
Now, unable to profit from
their own mistakes of the past,
both county and state Republi
can Central committees are em
ploying the same kind of un
savory mixture of half-truths,
distortions, and down-right false
hoods in their attempt to defeat
Senator Wayne Morse, whose
one unpardonable sin was his
refusal to place party loyalty
above his own integrity as an
individual. Any political organi
zation or group that seeks to
exact that kind of sacrifice from
its members is doing a great
disservice to the cause of Ameri
can democracy, Most assuredly
it is not one in which I choose
to have any part, nor is it one
into whose care and keeping I
can confidently place the gov
ernment of my county, my state,
or my country.
From the outset of his politi
cal career in the U. S. Senate,
Senator Morse has been a person
for whom I have held the great
est admiration because he dares
to stand for what he believes to
be right, even though he stands
alone a quality so rare in present-day
public servants as to be
virtually non - existent. During
his years in office, he has done
a tremendously-constructive job
for the people of Oregon, for the
people of the District of Colum
bia, and for the American peo
ple as a whole. Certainly I will
do everything I can to aid in
his re-election.
In the words of Bonara Wilk
inson Overstreet:
"You say the litUe efforts that
I make will do no good.
They never will prevail to tip
The hovering scale where jus
tice hangs in balance.
I do not think I ever thought
they would
But I am prejudiced beyond
debate
In favor of the right to choose
which side
Shall bear the stubborn
ounces of my weight."
Grace N. Pearson
Route 2, Box 50
Jacksonville, Ore.
Who is 'Joe Smith'?
To the Editor: The Democratic
party has built up a character
they choose to call "Joe Smith",
who is supposed to symbolize
all "little" people. He has been
presented as an affable, smiling,
long suffering, underprivileged
working man who wants so
much to be noticed and praised,
wants his government to give
him all the things which others
achieve through hard work, in
telligent thrift and honest effort.
Their Joe Smith does indeed
represent "little" people, the
"small" kind. He is the kind of
person who would register in
the- Republican Party, whose
principles he does not believe in,
infiltrate the party organization,
worm himself into the good
graces of its leadership by being
the helpful, ingratiating sup
porter of a cause he is not in
sympathy with; his objective to
become a delegate to its conven
tion in order to create there con
fusion and disruption, if possible;
and to ridicule and cause doubt
and suspicion among its mem
bers. He is the "little" individual
who would seek to divide the Re
publican party while he works
with the Democratic party to
swell its membership by feeding
the busy laborer and uninformed
citizen a mess of half truths, out
right lies and hope for fuzzy,
phantom future benefits in order
to gain sympathy and support.
Joe Smith pictures the labor
ing man as a paranoiac, sorry
for himself and suspicious of all
things, the present Guvmant
in particular.
- This smaU individual is the
kind who uses the whispering
technique and the anonymous
threatening letter in an attempt
to deceive and mislead the elec
torate and intimidate honest
public officials.
It is time Joe Smith be un
masked before the people he
claims to bleed for.
"Littleness" has no place in
the government of a country
where peace is at stake; where
prosperity can be achieved by
anyone who is willing to work
for it through his own effort;
a government which has been
manned for four years by intelli
gent, successful Americans of
high principles and honorable
backgrounds.
Let's not insult the laboring
man, the small business man, or
the farmer by accepting Joe
Smith" as his leader and spokes
man.
After all, the laborer, the
small business man, nor the
farmer need put on a false face
to fight for what they believe in.
They can read, think and
evaluate for themselves, even
though the bleeding hearted
"Joe Smith" bleats to the con
trary.
Joe Smith, unmasked, looks a
mighty "little" man!
Bereth Jf . Hopkins
Jackson County Clerk
MORE EXPLORATION
Washington (U.R) French
Ambassodar Herve Alphand was
asked Wednesday at a National
Press Club lunch how American
girls compare with French
girls. The ambassador replied
he doubted he had been in this
country long enough to make a
real comparison, then added, "I
want to continue a little more
exploration on this matter and
perhaps can give a reply in a
month."
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
JOE CLARK'S TOWN
Philadelphia If the Demo
crats carry Pennsylvania for
Adlai Stevenson, which is now
their central
hope, the very
least they can
do is to erect
a g r a t ef u 1,
commemo r a
tive statue of
Joseph S.
Clark Jr. in
one of this
city's pleasant,
jo&epn Aisop squares.
With a professionally trained
companion, John Kraft, this re
porter has just finished an ardu
ous round of door to door poll
ing in the old 25th Ward. The
experience was rich and in
teresting in many ways. But the
overwhelming single impression
that it left behind was an im
pression of the far-reaching
character of the political revolu
tion that Joe Clark has effected
here with the help of his suc
cessor in the Philadelphia may
or's office, Richardson Dilworth.
Back in 1951, decades after
most other big cities had gone
over to the Democrats, Clark
finally drove out Philadelphia's
ancient, squalid and deeply en
trenched Republican machine.
He then began the job as one
simple Negro woman described
it "of pulling this here city
right up out of the dumps.
ONE result of Clark's success
is a political phenomenon
wholly novel in this reporter's
experience. Everyone who has
attempted door-to-door polling
is familiar with the Franklin
Roosevelt Democrats the peo
ple who tell you, "we were al
ways Republicans until FDR
came along, but we've been good
Democrats ever since." But in
the 25th Ward we actually
found considerable numbers of
Joe Clark Democrats people
who had changed their party
allegiance only five or six years
ago because of Clark.
Without these Joe Clark
Democrats, Adlai Stevenson
could not have carried Philadel
phia by 160,000 votes four years
ago; and he would have little
hope today of carrying Phila
delphia by a sufficient majority
to put all of Pennsylvania in the
Democratic column. Judging by
the 25th Ward, however, Steven
son now has that hope. At any
rate, the Pennsylvania race looks
like being pretty close.
Yet Clark may not need a
bronze image to betoken the
gratitude of his party, eitHer
The responses of the 25th Ward
voters also indicate that Clark's
own Philadelphia m aj o r i t y
ought to elect him to the Senate
seat he is now seeking. He is
running far ahead of Adlai
Stevenson in this city, and
therefore he is .really snowing
under his Republican opponent,
Sen. James Duff.
INDEED, there is a strong
spirit of picking and choosing
in the 35th Ward nowadays,
which was -perhaps best sym
bolized in an extreme form, by
Morris Stein. Stein, who runs a
corner drugstore at 2824 Frank
ford Ave., was positively vitrio
lic about President Eisenhower,
who he blamed for the current
hard blight of small business
men like himself. He was equal
ly vitriolic about Adlai Steven
son, " whose campaigning had
"disgusted" him.
"I'll not vote for either of the
damn thieves," Stein snorted.
"But I'll go to the polls just to
vote for Joe Clark, the best
mayor this city ever had."
But besides this strong senti
ment for Joe Clark, we got oth
er interesting results in the 25th
Ward, which is a solid, stolid,
shabby but somehow homely
working class district bordering
on the Reading Railroad yards.
In the endless, gray streets of
small, old houses many people
own their own homes, and a fair
number are still Republicans
despite Joe Clark. The 25th !
Ward gave Eisenhower 6,892 j
votes against 10,493 for Adlai
Stevenson four years ago. This I
J SS J?"
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Out of Politics!
VOTE YES on No. 4
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan" Harold Snodgrass
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DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT
The old adage, attributed to
various characters in literary
history, "Like Me, Like My
Dog," is currently being applied
to President Eisenhower, on the
one hand, and his administration
on the other. It is being used
strongly by the Republicans in
the I Like Ike, slogan.
Certainly, it is one thing to
like Ike. Many people do. They
like Ike, the man. But do they
like his "dog," his administra
tion? That is quite another thing,
and like the old character, if you
like Ike, you gotta like his dog.
vv ell, a lot of people don t like
Ike's dog, and for good reason.
Since the two are inseparable,
let's make some comparisons.
On Oct. 4, 1952, Candidate
Eisenhower promised the farm
ers 90 per cent of parity, and
promised to work for 100 per
cent. And what did he do after
he got elected? The Eisenhower
administration gave farmers a
sliding Benson scale. It gave
them a "triple B" program,
Benson, Below Parity, and
Bankruptcy.
Under the Democratic admin
istration, farmers had been more
prosperous than any time m
history. Their products were
sold at or above parity. Farm
mortgages were at the lowest
level in history. Farmers were
on an equal footing with others,
Ike changed all that.
Candidate Eisenhower, in
1952, promised the people of the
Tennessee Valley that he would
give the TVA maximum support.
He promised to carry on the
great program of area develop
ment. And what did he do? He
tried to turn the entire project
over to private power interests,
and went so far as to enter into
the notorious Dixon-Yates con
tract. He publicly termed the
TVA as creeping socialism. In
contrast, the Democratic admin
istration works for area develop
ment, for the greatest good for
the greatest number, in Oregon,
in the Northwest, and in the
Tennessee Valley.
Candidate Eisenhower, in
1952, promised to reduce taxes.
was a good Republican showing
in such a district.
'Iiuda, several - pulls are
visibly at work on the 25th
Ward voters as they approach
their choice for the .Presidency
Other small merchants are as
angry with the President as Mor
ris Stein, but the others we
talked to were now ready to vote
foe Stevenson. A significant
percentage of working class
families who chose Eisenhower
last time are also thinking like
Mrs. Wanda Mishak, of 2008
Hartlane St.
"My husband and I are back
and forth about it, but I guess
we re going to vote Democratic,
even although we re not sorry
we picked Ike four years ago.
Mrs. Mishak said. "Ike's a good
man, but there s Nixon; he both
ers us. And then we think the
Democratic party's more on the
side of folks like us."
Yet there are other 25th Ward
people like Walter Daniels, a
young bakery - worker of 2959
Memphis St. He voted Demo
cratic in 1952 but now thinks
things are going too good to
change Presidents."
Over-all, therefore, our poll
of 128 persons in the ward indi
cated that Stevenson was domg
only a hair better than holding
his own so far although there
were others beside Morris Stein
who did not like Stevenson's
campaigning.
The Democrats allege that if
Stevenson does well in Philadel
phia, he will carry Pennsylvania
by a small margin. But that
theory also depends on what
happens in the rest of the state.
Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR COUNTY CORONER AND
SURVEYOR. Purpose: To amend Oregon
4 Constitution by authorizing legislature to
prescribe qualification for office of
county coroner and county surveyor.
He did. Corporation taxes were
reduced by $200 million. You,
as an individual taxpayer, know
how much your taxes were re
duced. The Democrats attempted
to give the small taxpayer the
reduction, but were opposed by
the Eisenhower administration.
Candidate Eisenhower prom
ised to increase prosperity. He
did. During the Eisenhower ad
ministration corporation profits
have increased $8 billion. The
average personal income of the
great middle class group in the
United States has increased $8
per year, and cost of living is the
highest in history.
What the man. promises, and
what the dog gives, are two dif
ferent things, and since, with
President Eisenhower, it is a
case of "Love Me, Love My
Dog," there isn't much to do
but turn them out.
The dog has fleas.
REPUBLICAN STATEMENT
Here's the breakdown of Re
publican Prosperity:
Employment: 66 V4 million in
June, highest in history four
million higher than the Demo
crats highest peak, in' war-time
August, 1951.
Wages set new June records
at $1.98 per hour and $79.40
weekly per average factory
worker. This is 25 cents an
hour and $7.26 a week more
than the highest rates ever
reached under the Democrats.
Real wages are also much
higher because Republicans
have held the value of the dol
lar to within 2 cents of its Jan
uary 1953 value. In contrast,
Truman's dollar lost 33 cent of
its April 1945 value by January
1953.
Cost of Living index is now
116.2 up 2 per cent under Re
publicans, compared to 12 per
cent increase in Truman's last
3V4 years.
Gross National Product,
America's total production, is
now running at an all-time rec
ord rate of $403 billion a year,
17 per cent above Truman's
highest year wartime 1952.
Per capita disposable income
is also highest in history, at the
rate of about $1,658 per year per
person. This means that every
man woman and child averages
$150 a year more to spend
under Republicans than they
ever did under Democrats.
Family income: The nation's
52 million families averaged
$5,520 income per family in 1955
before taxes, the highest in his
tory. Fifty nine per cent of
U. S. families had before tax
incomes of $4,000 or more. Av
erage three-year family income
under Eis-jnhower was $5,410
nearly $100 higher than Tru
man's last three years, which
covered the Korean war.
Our country is doing very
weU today and its future will be
bright if the Eisenhower poli
cies are continued. Nothing is
more important in America than
jobs millions of good jobs. To
day, more people are working,
earning more money in more
and better jobs, than ever before
in this-country. We have heard
many fine - sounding promises
lately but actions speak louder
than words. The American peo
ple in those good jobs, enjoying
record prosperity under the
policies of the Eisenhowir Ad
ministration, will not trade a
record for a promise.
Our present prosperity comes
from the confidence of 169,000,
000 Americans in the continu
ance of the sound policies of
this Administration. With this,
confidence they are moving for
ward as never before. Unless
they are given some reason to
fear a departure from these
sound policies, this country can
continue to rise to new peaks
of well being for' all of the
American people to enjoy.
YES X
NO.
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