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10 YEARS0AGO
Feb. 5. 1947 (Wednesday)
City council orders survey by
the city superintendent's office
of all sidewalks in Medford.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Several
members of the younger set are
busy trying to run the hind
wheels off 1937 autos.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 5. 1937 (Friday)
A check for $3,426.06 for east
ern flood relief mailed by Jack
son county chapter, American
Red Cross, to national headquar
ters. Central Point Grange award
ed decision in annual county
dramatics contest sponsored by
Oregon State college extension,
service.
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 5. 1927 (Saturday)
A father and son banquet will
be held in Medford Feb. 18 to
celebrate 17th anniversary of
Boy Scouting.
T. C. Baker assumes duties as
new secretary of Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 5. 1917 (Monday)
Fire destroys Weinhard ice
plant and the Jackson county
creamery.
Schoolmaster's club of south
ern Oregon meets at Phoenix.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev
en or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Was Ft. Dearborn, garri
soned 1804, the site of Chicago,
111., or Jackson, Mich.?
2. Are the inhabitants of
"Bluscu Island" (Swift's "Gulli
ver's Travels") pygmies or
horses?
3. Bible: Which Book begins
"The former treatise I have
made, O Theophilus"?
4. What kind of a surgeon
specializes remodeling human
features?
5. In what city is "The Little
Church Around the Corner"?
6. The ostrich sticks its head
In the sand to sgarch for water;
true, or false?
7. Is exercise harmful to un
derweight persons?
8DDry measure: how many
quarts are in on bushel?
9. When one kills one's sister,
it is termed sorocide. What is the
corresponding term for one who
kills one's brother?
10. "There's a irl in the
hejjrt of MarylandWith a heart
that belongs to" whom?
Answers: 1. Chicago. 111. 2.
Pygmies. 3. The Acts of the
Apostles. 4. Plastic surgeon. 5.
New York City. 6. True. 7. No.
Beneficial. 8. 32. 9. Fratricide.
6- "Me-"
Salem Boat Starts
On 2,500-Mile Journey
Salem (U.R) A boat started
on a 25.000 mile trip yesterday,
the first 50 miles of it by land.
The sloop Juego, owned by
Phil Johnson, was taken from
Salem to PAtland via highway.
From there it will travel via
the Pacific coast to Panama,
then into the Caribbean, the
South Atlantic and the Gulf of
Mexico.
Johnson will be accompanied
by his wife and her sister, Mrs.
t f rshnm Wichita. Kan. The
craft carries 1000 feet of sail
end a 45-foot mast.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Rome Isn 't Burning, But . .
"Fiddling while Rome burns" is cne up-state in
dictment of the US senate for its delay in endorsing
the Eisenhower doctrine as promptly as the House has
done.
The only trouble with that familiar quotation is
that Rome is NOT burning and the Senators are not
fiddling.
It may be granted as a practical matter, the Upper
House might as well "ok" the measure now for it is
going to pass eventually anyway. But the idea that
a few days delay in discussion and clarification are
going to result in a 3-alarm fire as a prelude to a
world-conflagration, simply doesn't add up.
TO make the point clear let it be assumed, for the
sake of argument, that the Senate HAS granted
the requested endorsement.
How would the Near East situation then be
changed?
Would the present administration take any action
that it will not take, without such a congressional OK?
Hardly.
For the only action allowed by this declaration is
the expenditure of $200,000,000 for aid in the Medi
terranean area as the executive department might
wish, and the calling out of US troops, "if NECES
SARY." But in case of a threat to national security Presi
dent Eisenhower could do that anyway and would,
we presume, do so if any such tragic situation should
arise.
But there isn't the slightest indication from any
quarter that Russia has the remotest idea of any
"overt act" or even the HINT of ARMED aggression.
Why should it when it can get and is getting what
it wants without it?
"fBS" can be credited with throwing a revealing
light on this entire problem last Sunday in
its world news broadcast over "TV" with a special
report direct from Egypt. ,
VIHAT is happening there as of now?
" Soviet Russia is not only winning the "cold war"
but has practically swallowed that country, bait, hook
and Nasser.
Views were shown of red flags sporting the "ham
mer and sickle," flying over the skyscraper Exposi
tion Hall of Cairo, the CBS commentator in that city
declaring "with great regret" he had to admit that
Russian technicians and agents were "everywhere,"
secret shipments of ' guns, tanks, ammunition and
fighting "jets" were arriving from Moscow every
night, and that soon Egypt would be stronger mili
tarily than it was before the crushing defeat it suffer
ed at the hands of Israel. And for all this Soviet Rus
sia is entirely responsible!
PROM the standpoint of the freedom and security
of American interests and the "free world" this
should be stopped. The country that controls Nasser
and Egypt will control the Suez eventually and the
eatern Mediterranean as well as the Arab world. But
there is nothing in this new American doctrine at
least that can stop it.
C0R in that declaration President Eisenhower clear
ly stated he would only employ force in that area
at the request of some nation asking for help in re
sisting armed aggregation either by Russia or by
Russian-dominated-nation.
Surely no such request will ever come from Egypt.
And it is not easy to picture it coming from any other
nation in that mid-east area, except Israel.
And if Israel should be attacked on three sides by
the Arabs which judging by Arab continued threats
might happen almost any time would the President
then call out the troops on the ground this would be
to resist Russian or Russian-controlled aggression, and
by so doing make World War III practically certain?
Perhaps he would. The Israeli certainly could
make out a strong case, citing the terms of this new
doctrine.
But somehow it is difficult to picture any such
thing really happening in the White House during the
present "peace" and prosperity" regime.
OOWEVER our interest at the moment is not trying
to envision the future, but trying to bring out the
fact that whether the congress endorses the new Eis
enhower doctrine tomorrow or next week, makes little
difference as far as any radical change in the Mid
East situation is concerned.
For what Soviet Russia is doing in Egypt, it has
already done in Syria and Jordan, and promises to do,
until it may control the entire east Mediterranean area
and NOT by any overt act 'or aimed aggression, but
by propaganda, subversion and peaceful but persist
ant penetration.
And in this latest White House declaration there
is no provision we can find that would halt any such
destructive and malignant progression.
THAT doesn't mean it can't be halted. It does mean
it can't be halted as the doctrine is now phrased.
The doctrine at least as we see it must be
changed and the first item on the agenda should then
be insistence on a world-wide conference, in which
both the United States and Soviet Russia would par
ticipate, the chief aim of that conference being some
way, SOMEhow to reach a peaceful settlement of
the differences between Israel and the Arab League,
thus put out the sparkling fuse leading nearer and
nearer to the atom bomb and an explosion that could
only end in mutual destruction via another World
War.
No nation WANTS another "world War." So why
not capitalize on this world wide desire and before it
is too late PREVENT it? R.W.R.
Tuesday. February 5, 1957
Visit of King Saud Promises
To Become
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The visit of King Saud of
Saudi Arabia to President Eisen
hower promises to be a big dip-
1 o m a t i c suc
cess. There seems
to be good rea
son to believe
that the Ara
bian monarch's
conferences in
W a s h i n gton
may lead to
i m p r ovement
fairies Mccann in the entire
Middle Eastern situation.
Saud appears to have been
convinced, for one thing, that
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Gold Under the Bed
To the Editor: This saga of the
fabulous mining days of south
ern Oregon was told to me 33
years ago by one of the famous
prospectors of the Gold Hill min
ing district. The time was in the
"nineties" when "old Reel foot,"
the 800 pound grizzly bear on
foray had been shot and killed
near Pilot rock less than two
miles from the present Highway
99, in the Siskiyou range. A
taxidermist shortly afterwards
had the bear mounted to be ex
hibited at the July 4th celebra
tion at Yreka, Calif., (and final
ly sent to the Smithsonian muse
um at Washington D. C.)
Well, this mountaineer said
he was returning from a hike
over to Yreka with a pack in
cluding a blanket, small pick
and a gold pan, when he "slept
on a pocket of gold" near the
Sterling mountain pass. When
night overtook him, as was the
custom of every outdoorsman,
he flopped under or near the
branches of a tree. The early
summer daylight began around
4 a.m. When he rolled up the
blanket he noticed pieces of
quartz lying on the ground that
were filled with gold. The find
was not really a big one by any
means, yet it paid off well for
the time and trip to a large city
in those days. After he dug out
all the gold filled quartz in the
deposit, he scribbled a note and
pinned to a tree, it read: "A gold
prospector slept here."
The Hammersly mine on
Graves creek was also found in
like manner too, by accidently
being slept on by the locator, in
the booming 1890s.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman,
Medford, Ore.
Fire Hydrants Awayl
To the Editor: Yesterday morn
ing I found a broken pipe and
about an inch of water in my
basement.
I have five of the nicest dogs
in my neighborhood. They jump
right in to help me out.
Every few minutes they would
come in and take a big drink of
water.
They are still working hell
bent trying to drink it all up,
even though the nearest fire
plug is two blocks away.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
Can't See It
To the Editor: I am afraid I
cannot agree with those oppos
ing the Hawthorne route for the
freeway in by-passing our city:
In fact, I can find a number of
things in their objections that
just don't add up.
Granted no matter which
route was chosen, some were go
ing to be displeased with it. But
one of the main objections as
voiced by ye editor in a recent
edition and in an editorial com
ment from the Oregon States
man, Salem, was that it doesn't
avoid the congested area. And
why doesn't it? What matter if
it does follow an already con
gested route, if (as is planned) it
is elevated above these existing
congested streets and with no
access to the freeway at such
congested intersections? How
could such a freeway with en
trance only at Barnett rd. at the
south and Crater Lake highway
at the north possibly be consid
ered as adding to already con
gested areas? Perhaps some in
telligent person can enlighten
me?
And for another. How could
an elevated highway divide the
city regardless of where it
might be constructed any more
than "Bare" creek and the "good
old" S.P. already have? Why
hasn t some action been taken
to get the S.P. to put their tracks
underground?
It's ridiculous how the town
must sit back and let this rail
road block traffic for blocks at
any time of day or night it
chooses. In fact, I watched one
day as a freight of two or three
blocks in length (which could
easily have stopped in time) am
bled across while an ambulance
with siren screaming was made
to come to a tire-screeching halt
turned sideways across the
street while someone's life was
kept perhaps costly minutes
from the hospital care necessary
for chance of recovery. Is the
saving of two or three short
minutes important to the grand
old S.P. when someone's life
may have been lost beyond re-
Diplomatic
the Eisenhower Doctrine aimed
at combatting Communist pene
tration of the Arab countries is
a real contribution, to Middle
Eastern stability.
He has intimated strongly that
he will tell the leaders of other
Arab countries that the Presi
dent's plan should be accepted.
More Cooperation Seen
As regards to the direct Unit
ed States-Saudi Arabian part of
the Washington talks, it seems
certain that agreement for coop
eration between the two coun
tries will be worked out.
Under this agreement, the
United States would sell Saudi
Arabia a large quantity of arms.
claim in those few seconds? In
fact, I doubt if a patient could
have been shaken up worse, if
taken to the hospital in a private
car, than was whomever was in
the ambulance that day.
I can't see that the highway
as it passes Jantzen Beach out
of Portland has hurt that amuse
ment park.
S. J. Dodge
504 Austin
Medford, Ore.
In the End Oregon Loses
To the Editor: In the editorial
of the Oregonian Jan. 30. the
editor writes of "Power Policy
Changes?"
The unsuccessful attempt to
utilize a nationwide link-up of
electric transmission systems
from Bonnevelle Power Admin
istration to Tennessee Valley
Authority, with private and
public utilities in between
may have been premature. But
it forecast the eventual inter
connection of great basin-wide
hydro systems and regional
steam generation and atomic
plants in a truly national "power
pool. The Northwest Power
Pool in service in this region,
adding at least 500,000 kilowatts
by interconnection, is a pattern
for expansion.
It is interesting that the at
tempt to relieve the winter pow
er shortage of the. Bonneville
system by tapping a surplus in
far away T.V.A. was made by
the Eisenhower administration.
In early days of that adminis
tration, policy frowned on inter
regional connections of power
systems, the Department of In
terior even sold its transmission
lines through Central Oregon
to Klamath county to California
Oregon Power company. This
prevented effective interconnec
tion between the federal Bonne
ville system and the federal
Central Valley system of Cali
fornia. Had this connection been
completed, the Northwest prob
ably could be utilizing power
from California on an exchange
basis this winter, rather than
cutting off a third of its alumin
um production.
Eight years ago this month
attended a meeting of the
Bonneville Power Administra
tion, and California Oregon Pow
er company, at the high school
auditorium, Klamath Falls. The
questions were asked of the
Bonneville Power administra
tor. How cheap could they sell
the power to California Oregon
Power co?. He said one half
cent a kilowatt hour. The ad
ministrator went on to say, the
cost of the electric transmission,
to city limits of Klamath Falls,
would be $6,500,000. The line
then would turn west over the
Cascade mountains to Medford,
then north to Roseburg, Eugene
and connect to Detroit Dam. This
would be called the "big U,"
later to exend the transmission
line, from Klamath Falls to the
federal Central Valley System
of California. This plan was
vigorously contested by the of
ficial of the California Oregon
Power company, who said it was
not feasible, and unworkable.
The California Oregon Power
company could build their power
dam, sell power cheaper, give
better service, than to buy pow
er from Bonneville Administra
tion. When Mr. McKay was Secre
tary of Interior, he stopped the
Bonneville Power administra
tion transmission line at Che-
mult, sold it to the California
Oregon Power Company. In the
end Oregon loses the interchange
of power between Central Valley
System of California, ana Bonne
ville. Stephen Boyer"
521 N. Main st.,
Ashland, Ore.
Seeks Family ,
To the Editor: I would be very
clad if vou will print an item in
your paper concerning the
whereabouts of a family who
lived in your city a few years
ago.
I am trying to locate John
Siler and his wife Mayme Siler
or some of their descendants.
I am in hopes that someone
who knew these people and who
might know where they are now
will read this news article and
will communicate with me.
Thank you so very much.
G. A. Markle
1326-13th ave, South
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Success
The figure of $250 million has
been mentioned, but is said now
to be too high.
In return, Saud would renew
for five years the agreement un
der which the United States
maintains a big air base at Dhah
ran on the Persian Gulf.
There was strenuous opposi
tion by many people in the
United States to King Saud's
visit. ,
Blasted by Wagner
Mayor Robert Wagner of New
York City made himself the
spokesman for some of these op
ponents by announcing publicly
that he would refuse to extend
the usual courtesies to the Presi
dent's guest.
Wagner based his opposition
on the allegation that Saud is
anti Jewish and anti - Roman
Catholic. The existence of sla
very in Saudi Arabia also was
cited.
But Saud seems to have made
an excellent impression person
ally in Washington.
Regardless of any opposition,
the President's decision to invite
Saud to Washington appears to
have been well-advised.
Saud is a big figure in the
Arab world. He may well be
come a bigger one than Presi
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser of
Egypt.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Air disasters which seem to
come in waves have dominated
the big-headline news of the
past few days. Within a period of
approximately 72 hours, seven
American planes crashed at
home and abroad. Three of them
fell in cities. Four were involved
in collisions in flight. One
plunged flaming into the Atlan
tic ocean.
As this is written, the death
toll stands at 44. More than 140
persons were injured, some of
whom may yet die.
Naturally enough, it gives us
the shivers. Since the airplane
is ultra-modern, we can't help
wondering what the modern
world is coming to.
fFHIS series of seven plane
crashes in three days is
startling, but let's not lose our
sense of balance.
I don't now the annual toll
of airplane deaths, but it must
be small in comparison with the
annual total of fatalities due to
motor vehicle accidents, which
is expected to reach FORTY
THOUSAND in 1956 when all
the figures are in.
We take that frightful slaugh
ter 'more or less in stride, end
ing to shrug our shoulders and
mutter along with the French
C est la guerre. Yet there is a
very good reason why as individ
uals we should be more con
cerned with automobile crashes
than with plane crashes.
rriHE reason is this:
The airplane is presently
at least more of a public than a
private transportation institu
tion. That means that the han
dling of airplanes is quite large
ly in the hands of SKILLED
operators. The handling of auto
mobiles is chiefly in the hands
of the owners of cars.
That is to say, solution of the
problem of highway dangers is
up to practically all of us,
whereas the solution of the prob
lem of transportation dangers in
the air is up to a RELATIVELY
SMALL NUMBER OF US.
T ET'S put it anotner way:
Except by staying on the
ground, there isn't much that
most of us can do to avoid get
ting killed or injured in plane
crashes. But there is SO MUCH
that we can do to keep from
getting killed or dismembered
on the highways.
The most important thing we
can do is to DRIVE BETTER.
Better driving on the part of the
tens of millions of operators of
autmobiles would go very, very
far indeed to reduce the stag
gering total of highway deaths.
THIS business of better driving
is illustrated by the case
of a Connecticut motorist who
was hauled into court, charged
with driving on the wrong side
of the road. He explained to the
judge that all he did was to
reach for a potato chip. In that
moment of inattention, his car
got over on the other side of the
highway.
He got off with a fine of $15
He might easily have killed
himself and several other
people. He was just lucky.
rpHIS is the point:
-- It's LITTLE things like
reaching for a potato chip and
thus letting the attention of the
driver wander for a moment
from his drivingthat must be
avoided if our staggering death
toll on the highways is to be
reduced.
We can pass stiffer traffic
laws from now until the year
2000, but unless the average
quality of DRIVING improves
our highway death toll will go
on climbing.
Sawdust
Telephone 2-2111
MEDFORD FUEL GO.
Matter of Fact Bysf.w-rtAb.Be
CLEAN SWEEP
Washington U.R) Two of
the three most powerful Cabi
net posts Treasury and Defense
will almost
c e r tainly be
vacated this
year, probably
by mid - sum
mer. Wash
ington's great
current mys
tery is wheth
er the third
and most im
Stewart AIsop
portant post
the Secretaryship of State will
also be vacated in the near fu
ture.
Both Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson and Secretary
of the Treasury, George M.
Humphrey have been behaving
recently a little like employees
who know they are leaving soon
anyway. Departing employees
don't have to worry about what
the boss thinks the boss in the
case of a top public official be
ing the President, the Congress,
and the public all wrapped up
in one.
Secretary Wilson certainlv
knew that his outburst about the
National Guard would really
stir up the animals. But he said
it anyway, and he has stuck to
his guns, because he thought he
was right and as far as the to
tally inadequate training of the
Guard is concerned, he was cer
tainly dead right.
AS for Secretary Humphrey's
nuthurcf aKmif 4 k.
mc uuugci,
it was rather like a company's
departing senior accountant sud
denly informing the boss that
the old firm was going bust.
Things may not be quite that
Dad. But the Humphrey outburst
was a rather sure sign that Fed
eral spending will "go up and
up and up" (to use Humphrey's
phrase). For Humphrey is an
immensely able man, and he has
been absolutely determined to
hold down Federal spending. As
one of his colleagues remarked,
If George can't do it, nobody
can do it."
Neither Humphrey nor Wilson
have made any bones about
their intense eagerness to get
out of Washington for good, and
soon. To be sure, the prospect
of leaving a major Cabinet post,
with all its immense power and
prestige, tends to seem less
pleasant as the moment of de
parture approaches. If the Pres
ident of the United States really
puts on the heat, moreover, it is
difficult to resist him. But the
betting is high that both Hum
phrey and Wilson will have
bowed out in a few months.
After his cancer operation, the
betting was also high that Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
would leave at about the same
time, making a clean sweep of
the three top posts. The date
usually mentioned was June 30
That date is still mentioned, but
with less assurance than former
ly. TfOR one thing, Secretary Dul-
les appears to have recovered
magnificently, and he obviously
loves the job he has dreamed of
holding since he was a very
young man. More important, for
the first time in his career as
Secretary, Dulles has been sub
jected to a really powerful at
tack from the Democrats.
The attack has rallied the in
dignant President to his side.
just as President Truman ral
lied to the side of Dean Acheson
when he became the chief Re-1
publican target. The very vio
lence of the Republican attack
tended to freeze Acheson in his
post. The much less ferocious
Democratic attack may well
have the same effect in the case
of Dulles.
If Dulles wants to stay in in
definitely, and if the President
wants to keep him on indefinite
ly, the Democrats cannot possi
bly force him out, any more than
the Republicans forced Acheson
out. Yet there is a significent
difference, quite apart from the
question of health, between the
situation of Acheson and that of
Dulles.
DULLES took office deter
mined to protect his rear,
which Acheson had so signally
failed to do. Acheson, when he
became Secretary, sometimes
seemed to go out of his way to
alienate the key figures on Capi
tol Hill, and the press as well.
Dulles has made herculean ef
forts to avoid doing so, which is
one reason why, until very re
cently, he has been almost im
mune to the kind of attack
which is the usual lot of Secre
taries of State.
But while protecting his rear,
Secretary Dulles has failed, as it
were, to protect his front. This
country's major allies are, after
all, the natural clients of a Sec
retary of State.- And Dulles is
now almost universally distrust
ed and disliked abroad, espe
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This is not a carping criticism
of Dulles. It Is a simple state
ment of plain fact, which can be
verified by any objective for
eign observer.
A Secretary of State who Is
disliked and distrusted by the
country's major allies cannot, in
the nature of things, be an effec
tive Secretary of State. This is
why it is still a reasonable guess
that, in time, Dulles will bow
out, like Humphrey and Wilson,
and there will thus be a clear
sweep at the top level of the
Eisenhower administration be
fore the year is out.
Copyright 1957, New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.)
Mine Inspectors
Seeking Cause of
Fatal Explosion
Bishop, Va. (U.R) State and
federal mine inspectors moved
into this sorrowing coal town
today seeking the cause of an
earth-jarring explosion that en
tombed 37 men in an under
ground labyrinth.
An official of the Pochontas
Fuel Co. which operates the
huge, highly mechanized mine
on the West Virginia border.
said it had been determined that ,
a gas explosion killed the men
early Monday.
"We know that," W. A. Fuller-
ton, special assistant to the presi
dent, said. "But how it hap
pened or what caused it we
dcn't know yet. Maybe we'll
never know."
Bodies Located
Rescue crews located the bod
ies of the victims after search
ing most of the day through
smoke and gas in the debris-
choked tunnels and Monday
night brought the corpses on a
"death train" to the waiting
relatives.
The crew used gas masks and
oxygen tanks in their search
and in bringing the 11-car, narrow-gauge
train through five
miles of winding dark tunnels
to the surface.
"Some of the men were killed
by the force of the explosion,"
Fullerton said. "Some were
buried under slate rock and
some died by asphyxiation."
Entrance Blocked
The ill-fated members of the
"graveyard" shift had been
working 300 feet beneath a
shaft entrance which the ex
plosion wrecked and blocked in
addition to shattering windows
of buildings above the ground.
The 140 other men in the
mine had to scramble to safety
through the 'driftmout h," a
!e?ond entrance used by the
mine railroad.
By the time the train sur
faced some 100 persons, includ
ing a number of the victim's
total of 151 dependents, had
gathered around six burlap- cov
ered tables that had been set up
to receive the bodies.
Afterward, a fleet of ambu
lances and hearses moved the
victims to various funeral homes
in the area. Their relatives and
friends filed back to their homes
in the little coal mining village.
Neuberger Praises
Mrs. Wilson's Loyalty
Washington (U.Rfc Demo
cratic Sen. Richard L. Neuberg
er (Ore.) Monday praised the
"outrageous loyalty" of Mrs.
Charles E. Wilson, wife of the
secretary of defense.
He said Mrs. Wilson s defense
of her husband in the National
Guard controversy was pleasant
ly candid in Washington where
"there is so much insecurity,
hypocrisy and double-talk."
While emphasizing that he
does not agree with what he
termed many of Wilson s in
flammatory" statements, Neu
berger said there "must be a
lot of good in . a man" whose
wife is so loyal.
RED CHINA AIDS NEPAL
Tokyo (U.R) The tiny Himal
ayan state of Nepal has received
10 million rupees in cash aid
from Communist China, the Red
Chinese news agency said today.
The rupee is worth about 21
cents.
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