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History from the files of The
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40 years ago.
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10 YEARS AGO
July 18. 1948 (Sunday)
A cornet solo by Keith
Mirick will be featured in the
city band concert Wednesday.
Plans for a new county hos
pital are now being drawn up.
20 YEARS AGO
July 18, 1938 (Monday)
U.S. Senator A. Evan
Reames returned to his home
here today, apparently recov
ered from his bout with pneu
monia in Washington. .
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
nobler optimists are all felon
iously claiming they enjoy the
heat, and likea lawyer, being
polite to opposing counsel,
don't mean a. word of it."
r-i
30 YEARS AGO
July 18. 1928 (Wednesday)
A new Catholic church will
be erected at fhe southwest
corner of Oakdale and West
10th sts. ' .
From Local and Personal
column "Hornets and yellow
Jackets in the late afternoons
ar reported to be a serious
menace to motorists driving
'. on the Crater Lake and Pa-
', cific highways."
40 YEARS AGO
July 18, 1918 (Thursday)
The public is invited to visit
the Butte Falls trout hatchery
and inspect restocking work
on Jackson county streams.
"Literally a flood" of dona
. tions has been received for
,5omorrow's entertainment for
county draftees.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The vibrissae of a cat
would be its feet, meows, or
whiskers?
2. In Tabor relations par
lance, forcing an employer to
hire and pay more men than
he needs is called what?-
3. Elephants can, or cannot,
swim?
4. Drake is the name of the
male of which swimming
bird?
5. Madame Marie Curie was
the co-discoverer of what?
6. The present Pope at the
Vatican is Pius XI or XII?
7. Name the smallest Cen
tral American republic.
8. November 5 is the an
niversary of the discovery of
the Guy Fawkes' gunpowder
plot to blow up which govern
ment building in London,
England?
9. When an auto is travel
ing, forward, do the passen
gers lunge forward, or back
ward, when the brakes are
applied suddenly?
10. Acorns are the fruit of
which tree?
. Answers: 1. Whiskers, 2.
Feather bedding. 3. Can. 4.
Duck. 5. Radium. 6. Pius XII.
7. El Salvador. 8. Parliament.
9. Forward. 10. Oak.
" TIRED OF SACK LOOK
San Francisco (UPI) El
eanor Moses, Miss Alaska in
the Miss Universe contest to
be held at Long Beach, says
she doesn't go for the sack
look. The 20-year-old Atha
baskan Indian from Fairbanks,
' who paused here long enough
to buy a kimono, explained:
"My people have been wear
ing sack dresses for genera
tions. The kimono is prettier.'.!
Rx: Shakespeare
1 The annual Shakespearean Festival, which
opens in Ashland next Monday evening, affects
different people in different ways.
There is a touch of midsummer madness in
volved for some mostly the active participants,
the actors, stage crews and technicians who find
in the festival something more than simply an op
portunity to improve their skills in the theater
arts. I hey also find glamor, excitement, comrad
ene, intellectual stimulation the mystique of the
stage ana tne magic music of applause.
Sensitive members
something of this aura.
stars, they can become
music, color, action and the timeless poetic in
sights of the world's greatest playwright
IN A MORE prosiac vein, the Festival has other
things to offer other people to the hotel and
motel proprietor, to the restaurant operator, to
the merchant and service-station ma,n.
For the festival has come to be one nf Ore
gon's major tourist attractions, ranking only be-
ninci tne Kose festival, tne Fendlton Koundup,
Crater Lake and the Oregon coast.
As such it draws thousands of people into the
valley, and once here,' they furnish the county's
economy witn its third-greatest stimulant, tourist
dollars. .
In cold cash, it is a major asset to the county,
to all of Oregon. And, if for no other reason, thus
deserves the support of all local people.
DUT it is something more than just a source of
"rr economic stability.
As man does not live
is he wholly motivated
tions. And the festival has gone far to give Jack
son county, and specifically Ashland and Med
ford, something of a reputation as a cultural cen
ter.
The Festival itself, of course, is the core of
this, but as the reputation grows, other types of
artistic activity are attracted and stimulated.
For the arts and humanities the things
which make men a little something more than
merely dull, workaday creatures thrive and
feed on each other, for all are related to man's
instinctive desire for finer things.
OERE is a suggestion to those in this county
who have never attended a Shakespearean
Festival play:
Try it, just once ; give it a chance. And, who
knows, maybe you will find something in it 'for
you. .
It may be the enchantment of what goes on
on the colorful stage j it may be bemusement that
a large number of highly intelligent people find
it worth while to sit ior hours in the night air to
watch young people perform; it may be the
simple pageantry to which , the productions lend
themselves. ' x
You may find it's not your dish of tea. But,
until you've tried it, you'll never know what you
may be missing. E.A.
Death for a Globe Trotter
We can still hope that Gene Burns isn't dead
and that he isn't the first American casualty of
World War III. For the State Department says
that reports from Iraq of his death at the hands
of the rebel mob are unconfirmedf
Somehow we weren't surprised to hear that
Burns was on hand for America's latest brink.
He began as a college teacher but left the old
Albany College (now relocated in Portland and
called Lewis and Clark) to become an Associated
Press correspondent. When Pearl Harbor came,
Burns was in the Pacific to call the shocking news
to America. .
D
URING the war he
and he has never stopped. Making his living
by writing a syndicated nature and travel column,
he has been dashing around the globe since 1945.
He has been in or near most of the hot spots of
past years and has had plenty of close calls.
Visiting hot spots isn't something required of
a naturalist, but Burns also is an internationalist
who always has been intensely interested; in
world affairs. He-was in Iraq first as a columnist
and second as a representative of a group attemp
ting to open the area to increased tourist travel
and therefore greater common understanding.
If he has truly reached the end of his travels,
it's in the line of what he would have considered
his duty. Capital Journal, Salem.
Good
In a debate before
wanis club Rep. Wayne Giesy of Monroe said he
favored Oregon's capital punishment law. One
of the reasons was that murderers are often par
oled, and "killing is often repeated by the con
vict.
On the contrary, Mr. Giesy will find if he
checks the records of Oregon's parole board or
any other parole board, murderers are among the
best of. parole risks. There may be habit-forming
crimes, such as check nassinp- But murder is not
in this category. Only rarefy does a paroled mur-
Jl 1 J "I 1 I
aerer violate ms parole Dy committmg a new
crime.
This is not to arene for lenient narole nolipies
toward murderers. But it
l f i t i
tionai ana misleading argument m tavor of the
present law. Register-Guard, Eugene.
of the audience, too, feel
In the fresh air, under the
captivated by the lights,
by bread alone, neither
by economic considera
was constantly on the go
Risk
the Emerald Emrnre "Ki-
is to dispose of an emo-
- - ...
Dennis the Menace
l HAD A TATTOO ONCE. 0UT
Mid-East Crisis Deepens During
Week; Sequence of Events Told
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The week's good and bad
news on the international
balance sheet:
The Middle Eastern situa
tion erupted this week in one
of the gravest international
crises since
the end of
World War II.
It started with
a revolt in
pro - Western
Iraq by sub
versive army
elements
f r 1 e n dly to
McCann mal Abdel
Nasser of the United Arab
Republic, who aspires to the
mastery of the Arab world.
In a dramatic series of con
sequent events, the United
States landed Marines in
Lebanon- at the request of the
Lebanese government . . . So
viet Russia demanded the
United States withdraw at
once and threatened, if it did
not, to "take the necessary
measures" . . . United States
paratroopers landed in Tur
key, adjacent to Lebanon . . .
British paratrooprs landed in
Jordan on the appeal of King
Hussein, "who had united his
country with Iraq as the Arab
Federation . . . Russia an
nounced military maneuvers,
land, sea and air, adjacent to
Iran and Turkey.
The Iraqi revolt broke with
startling suddenness on Mon
day. It shocked Allied govern
Political Undertow:
Republicans Suffer
From Differences
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington (DPD The po
litical undertow:
Political
developments in
and New York
California
worry Nixon
f o r-President
boosters. The
Vice President
is far in front
of the pack
for the 1960
R e p u b 1 ican
n o m i n ation.
He could be
hurt, how-
tyie c. Wilson ever, if Demo
crat Pat Brown beats Repub
lican William F. Knowland
for Governor of California in
November, which is what
party professionals believe is
likely to happen. The remark
able vigor and achievements
so far of Republican Nelson
A. Rockefeller's campaign for
Governor in New York also
is bad news for Nixon. As
governor of New York, Rocke
feller would control the state's
1960 nominating convention
delegation. It is assumed that
he might oppose Nixon.
Republican conservatives in
Congress are unhappy. They
are talking about ' making a
new statement of party policy
in an. effort to force the Ei
senhower Administ ration
away from what they regard
as its New Deal-Fair Deal
tendencies: Some congression
al Republicans who helped
obtain the 1952 Republican
nomination for General Eisen
hower now wish they hadn't.
They will tell you frankly
that they were for Eisenhower
in 1952 because they thought
he could win, not because of
his political principles, with
which they were unfamiliar.
Many Republicans worry
out loud about the rising tide
of labor influence and money
in U. S. politics; wish they
could get some help from the
MY MM WASHED IT OFF.
ments, which realized at once
that it might mean disaster
to their entire Middle Eastern
situation.
It was known the revolt
was brief, bloody and success
ful. Later, day by day, the
details leaked out, including
the murder of 23-year-old
King Feisal, his uncle, Crown
Prince Abdul Illah, ' and Pre
mier Sami Es-Solh, one of the
foremost statesmen of the
Middle East.
President Camille Chamoun
of Lebanon, fearing his gov
ernment might face the fate
of Iraq's appealed to the Unit
ed States, Great Britain and
France for immediate military
help.
President Eisenhower, after
day-long conferences with ad
ministration and congression
al leaders,- called for an
emergency meeting of the
United Nations Security
Council.
On Tuesday, United States
Marines landed, in a perfectly-executed
amphibious opera
tion from units of the Sixth
Fleet, on the beaches of
Beirut, the Lebanese capital.
They occupied the airport and
other key positions under the
eyes of the friendly public
and made friends with admir
ing children.
The U.N. Security Council
met. United States Chief Dele
gate Henry . Cabot Lodge Jr.
asked the U.N. send a police
force to Lebanon to preserve
its independence, replacing
the American troops. Russian
Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev
Justice Department and the
White House to curb the union
leaders. Their big bad wolf:
Walter P. Reuther.
Best current news for Re
publicans is the word from
Pennsylvania. The well-informed
believe now that they
can elect Republican Arthur
T. McGonigle to the governor
ship. His Democratic oppon
ent is Pittsburgh's Mayor
David L. Lawrence. Pulse
feelers believe the Republi
cans may lose one seat in the
national House of Representa
tives. In contrast to what
seems about to be in New
York State, modern Republi
canism Was licked by the regu
lars in, Pennsylvania's nom
inating primary last May.
Harold E. Stassen bucked the
party organization in a los
ing bid for the gubernatorial
nomination.
Old news but still good for
the Republicans is that farm
prices continue at better
levels. The Agriculture De
partment reported this week
that during the first six
months of 1958 net farm in
come was 22 per cent higher
than in the same months of
1957. It was an unforeseen
farm revolt which gave Harry
S. Truman his surprise presi
dential election in 1943 at the
expense of Thomas E. Dewey.
The Liberal - Conservative
split in the Democratic Party
is bigger and angrier than the
Conservative-Modern Republi
can division. Republicans get
few dividends from such
Democratic difficulties in con
gressional election years. It
could be different in 1960
when one or more southern
states may again break away
from the Democratic presi
dential nominee to support
their own. Another southern
bolt to a Republican presi
dential ticket is not likely
soon.
Matter of Fact
MUNICH? OR SARAJEVO?
Washington These words
are written in the chill mo
ment of uncertainty, between
the discussion
and the deci
sion. When
they are print
ed, the deci
sion will be
known. An
operation will
have been
launched t o
rescue Iraq
from the
hands of the
Jospb Alsop
blood-stained
Baghdad plotters. Or the
Western powers will almost
surely have lost the chance.
Iraq is everything, the Le
banon nothing. Lebanese For
eign Minister Charles Malik
has frankly admitted to all
who would listen to him that
the American landing in Bei
rut will be a fruitless, foot
ling gesture, unless the larger
problem of Iraq is simultane
ously solved. Iraq, not Leba
non, has been the chief sub
ject of aU the anguished con
sultations between the Bri-
demanded the U.N. order the
United States forces to get
out forthwith.
On Wednesday, the Soviet
government reacted. It deliv
ered to United States Embas
sador Llewellyn E. Thompson
Jr. a blisteringly angry state
ment. It catted on the United
States to withdraw from
Lebanon at once. Otherwise,
the statement said, Russia
"reserves the right to take
the necessary measures dic
tated by the interest of peace
and security."
King Hussein of Jordan ap
pealed to the Big Three allies
for help.
On Thursday, the news
came that United States para
troopers flown from Euro
pean bases had landed at the
North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization air base at Adana, in
southern Turkey, during the
night.
A few hours later, British
paratroops landed in force in
Jordan.
Russia announced its mili
tary . maneuvers, and Soviet
troops were observed moving
close to the frontier of Iran.
In the Day's News
. By FRANK JENKINS
The Lebanon ruckus in a
nutshell:
The Marines have landed
and the situation is SO FAR
well in hand.
.That is to say:
There has been no shooting
YET.
EGYPT accuses the U.S. of
"making the biggest blun
der in its history." The gov
ernment - dominated Cairo
press caUs the United States
the NUMBER ONE ENEMY
of Arab nationalism.
Egypt joins Russia in call
ing the landing a "flagrant
violation of the U.N. charter."
But
Russia has so far sent in no
"volunteers."
F OTHER words:
Russia isn't YET ready to
go to war.
That knowledge is worth
something.
THIS morning's dispatches
tell us that in Western
Europe the reaction to Ameri
can intervention in Lebanon
can be summed up in these
words: GENERALLY FAV
ORABLE," BUT WORRIED.
The British and -Turkish
governments were the only
ones to announce complete
approval of the American ac
tion. In other NATO capitals,
officials are taking a hands
off view. They seem to regard
the landings as a necessary
evil in which they prefer not
to be involved.
Their idea appears to be:
"Let Uncle Sam do it, but
count us out." It is worth re
membering that that is the
way our European friends and
allies felt about Korea.
HERE at home, stocks in
New York rose fractions
to more than three points in
a vigorous extension of Tues
day's late raUy. The financial
wires report that the rise,
taking in virtually all sections
of the market, reflected evi
dent approval of the strong
Middle East stand, along with
a-number of favorable busi
ness news developments.
The grain markets, which
swung upward early in the
week, are tending to ease off.
On general averages, over the
long years, the stock markets
tend to fall off and the grain
markets tend to rise on news
indicating that shooting war
is imminent.
HERE'S a guess:
I think the American
people agree that probably it
had to be done, but they wish
it hadn't. They are getting
tired of policing the world.
By Joseph Alsop
tish and American govern
ments in these last agonizing
days.
While the decision of the
leaders of the West is breath
lessly awaited, it is at least
worth while setting down the
pros and cons. They are pros
and cons unlike any that have
been argued since the end of
World War II, even in the
tense days of President Tru
man's Korean decision. In
truth, this is the most crucial
turning point since the cold
war began. The cold war, re
member, has been nothing
more or less than an unremit
ting Soviet effort to upset the
world balance of power,
which has been opposed by a
very much less continuous
Western effort to maintain
the world balance of power.
The balance of power in turn
depends upon the outcome in
the Middle East. And in pres
ent circumstances, the out
come in the Middle East de
pends upon the outcome in
Iraq.
MALIK'S admission above
quoted may seem very
curious, indeed, coming from
the representative of the Le
banese state. But it too is a
simple statement of fact. The
presence of the Marines may
permit a new President of
Lebanon perhaps Gen. She
hab to be peacefully elected.
It may permit President Cha
moun to serve out his legal
term. It may allow all the
other outward signs of Leba
nese independence to be de
cently preserved.
But Lebanon's alleged inde
pendence will not last long.
It will hardly be worth a
dried fig, if the independence
of Iraq is not also restored.
Neither will Kuweit or Ba
hrein or Saudi Arabia or Jor
dan, be worth a dried fig. If
Gamal Abdel Nasser's conspi
ratoria1 attack on Baghdad is
permitted to succeed, every
friend of the West in every
Arab land is quite certainly
doomed. Even the cheap ex
pedient that is popular in
London holding the little
oil-rich Persian Gulf sheik
doms by naked force, if need
be will be more expensive
and less fruitful in the end
than a direct attack" on the
heart of the problem, which
is now in Baghdad.
rpHE rot will not end there,
either. A neutralist Iran,
a neutralist Pakistan, a Tur
key moving back to the posi
tion Turkey chose in the last
war these are further items
in the price that will have to
be paid. And it will not end
there, either. For the thrust
will be felt in the very heart
of the Western Alliance,
when the Middle Eastern oil
jugular is cut by Nasser.
Such are the reasons for
taking bold action in Iraq.
Most of the reasons for not
taking action are mere
twaddle Hammarskjold
twaddle, world opinion-
twaddle. When the knife is at
the jugular, it becomes easier
to teU twaddle from reality.
Hence the twaddle-reasons
have been received signifi
cantly little attention in the
recent exchanges between
Washington and London.
There is in fact only one
real reason for not taking ac
tion in Iraq f ear of what the
Soviets may do about it. The
Kremlin has hastened to rec
ognize the insurrectionary
government in Baghdad. If
we respond to a call for help
from King Hussein of Jordan,
who has inherited the legiti
mate leadership of the
merged Hashemite states, the
Soviets want us to think they
too will respond to a call for
help from their Baghdad
friends.
riNLY a fool would say, at
" this juncture, that the So
viets will not respond in this
manner. If the Western na
tions take no action in Iraq,
this crisis will be far worse
than Munich. But if the West
does take action, this crisis
can be another Sarajevo.
There is no use wrapping up
that black fact in pink cotton
wool.
There are two things to be
said about that fact, however.
If the Western nations act
with iron resolution and ut
most speed (and it is already
almost too late), then one can
hope the Soviets will only
huff and puff and finally do
nothing, as we did in the very
different case of Hungary.
But let a double standard
of behavior be established,
preventing us from having
our say about any situation
on their side of the line di
viding the world, but leavng
them to have the final say
about situations on our side
of the line. After that, the
cause of freedom wiU be los
already. After that, the road
to the final catastrophe will
go by easy stages.
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
INTEREST RATES CUT
Frankfurt, Germany (UPI)
West German banks have
dropped their savings interest
rates from 3V& per cent to 3
per cent. The reduction, an
nounced Thursday, was
blamed on the sharp increase
in savings.
Washington Report
By William
Washington A time of
danger but of grandeur has
replaced in Washington a
time of yam-
1 mering and
1 nattering, of
j division and
r e crimination
I? and of a prog
ressive weak-
ening before
i n ternational
communism.
The United
wiiiam s. white States has en
tered upon a historic moment
of truth. At last we have
acted rather than talked. In
Sending the Marines into the
Middle East we have returned
to the decent uses of power
which had been so largely re
pudiated in the partisan after
math of the Korean War. And
we have reassumed the world
responsibilities so largely
avoided so long.
Lebanon is the first case in
which President Eisenhower
has responded to a military
crisis with all the vast thrust
that is latent in his office. It
is the first example of a Presi
dential decisiveness so clear
that Mr. Eisenhower's bitter
est critics can not say of him
that he has abandoned lead
ership. All over Washington there
is a clean, strong taste in the
atmosphere. For the long re
treat has ended, and with it
the muzziness and the muggi
ness of yesterday.
A MASSIVE bipartisan pha
lanx is drawn up in sup
port of the President's action
for the free West. Some criti
cism is rising in Congress, it
is true, and there wiU be
more. But it should be clearly
understood that this criticism,
however decent in motive, is
from the Congressional
fringes.
The real centers of Congres
sional power in both par
ties are standing like rocks
with the President.
It is not too much to say
that a new day has . dawned
here a day of anxiety, but
also a day of promise and
hope. This is the scene:
1. Swept away, for now at
least, is the preoccupation
with vicuna coats and can
celed hotel bills. The Eisen
hower Administration may or
may not have been "taken off
the hook" in the affair of, the
Presidential . assistant, Sher
man Adams. But whether it
has or has not, the eyes of
public men are lifted from
all that is little to all that is
large and urgent in public
issues.
2. The President, by simply
saying "this is the way it is
going to be," has done more
than restore national unity
in the face of foreign peril
He has redeemed faith in the
majesty and vitality of the
office he holds.
3. The Western alliance has
been preserved, whereby
American inaction it surely
would have been all but des
troyed. Two years ago the
United States joined the Rus
sians in opposing the United
Nations an invasion by the
British, the French and the
Israelis that was intended to
reduce, if not to break, the
trouble-making evil of Egypt.
THIS restraint upon action
left Egypt stronger than
ever. And thus it was not the
evil of Egypt that was broken.
Broken instead were many of
Try and
MWA
-By BENNETT CERF-
"TiRADER HORN" was an old prevaricator whose dubious
L - "autobiography" scored a whopping success here is lis
thirties. Horn's long, grey beard, picturesque cape and sombjs-
ro, and infinite capacity for
liquor added luster to the
legend.
Horn, who referred to
himself as "Zambezi Jack,"
autographed thousands of
copies, of his book for de
votees. When his manager
pointed out that he was sap
ping his strength needless
ly, he made a reply that has
become famous in publish
ing circles. "It's been my
experience," - he declared,
that nobody ever lends an
autographed book!"
A lady whose husfcana had gotten rich In a very great hurry waJ
taken to her first country club luncheon. As her car drove Into th
grounds, she took off her fur piece. Her mentor aavisea, -.eep ic
on, Tillie. If you're going to put on the dog, now is the time to do it.
"Dog!" cried the lady, "these are my best ables! 1
. O 1958. r Bennett Cert Distributed by King Teaturei Syndicttt
JL
East Main Si.
DAIRY -
Nowhere in this whole wide wonderful
world will you find Larger, Fresher Eggs,,
not -jven in Hammerfest, Norway.
I. While
the intimate human bonds
between the indispensable al
lies, th United States and?
Britain.
What hn nrt Visnrun"M
wrw "uKtugu
has perhtps not reclaimed th
partnership in all its old com
plete trust. ut a long be
ginning has been made.
Washington has now nit it
plainly that we will not ner-
mit the Middle East to fall
into the wide sink of Commu
nism. Made clear, too, is that
we will not ellow Western
Europe to be shut off from
the Middle Eastern oil h
must have. Her alternative, in
that eventuality, would have
been to buy here the til for
which she has not the monew.
in dollar, to pay.
This sort of thina would?
have destroyed the precarioui
economic balance of our al
lies. And the bill for the re
sulting American economic
relief thi altogether apart
from the stnateeic issues in
the Middle East would have
been very high.
:
SUEZ is no longer a sore
point betweCn 1 o n d o n
and Washington. If all has no
been forgotten on both sides,
much has now been forgiven.
And in the long and diffi
cult UN negotiations over the
Middle East that may come,
the position of the United
States will be incomparably
stronger for our having taken
the risk in Lebanon.
There is high authority for
this prediction: This country
and its friends will now be
able to marshal the two
thirds Assembly vote that
may become necessary to turn
the policy job in the Middle
East over to willing and an
effective UN force.
It is not only the Marines
wh stand at the shores of
Tripoli; a reinvigorated West
stands there, too.
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Ine.)
Communications
Stand Behind President
To the Editor: Now that our
government has taken this de
cisive action, we will be able
to see how deeply the Com
munists and their ideology are
entrenched in our country.
Those that are hot "for" us
are "against" us, and let us
remember that every Com
munist is a trained saboteur,
with a following of stupid
fanatic egotists that are ready
to do their dirty work for
them.
They will use all means of
communication, the press, TV,
newspapers, and especially the
churches to mold public opin
ion that we were wrong to
go into Lebanon.
, Anyone that upholds our
President's action will be
classed as a war monger. .
Things have happened so
fast that they are evidently
still waiting for their direc
tions from Moscow.
Let us not delude ourselves
that they wiU take this lying
down.
Let us show them that vft
stand behind our PresRient
and that we stick together.
Leila Morrow,
531 N. Bartlett gt.,
Medford.
Stop AAo
SMITH
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