4 Friday, January 23, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO ,
Jan. 23. 1949 (Sunday)
Ben Day, Gold Hill, Henry
Owens, Ashland, and W- B.
Tucker are reelected presi
dent, vice president and secretary-treasurer
of the Jack
son County Stockmen's asso
ciation. The Medford .YMCA offers
course in skiing at Howard
and Lincoln schools-no equip
ment necessary.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 23, 1939 (Monday)
Dog license applications are
reported coming slowly this
year, with only 55 applica
tions received so far while
the county's canine popula
tion is estimated at 3,000.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
courage . of five " converts in
being baptized in the Colum
bia river on a chilly Sunday,
is commended by the metro
politan press. Nothing is said
about the preacher, who brav
ed the icy waters five times
'In a row."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 23, 1929 (Wednesday)
Attorney George M. Rob
erts plans to build a new
home in the Crown Hill dis
trict. A federal aide approves of
the proposed site for Med
ford's airport.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 23, 1919 (Thursday)
Mrs. Helen Gale presents
the city council with a cake
for their work during the past
year.
The public service commis
sion orders the P. & E. rail
road to continue operations
after the previous Jan. 31
closure date.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 23, 1909 (Saturday)
The waters of Bear creek
recede, apparently marking
the end of the recent torrent.
The Ashland city council
considers asking for a federal
building.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Which state is called the
Empire State?
2. Which was the first state
admitted to the Union after
the original 13?
3. What is a plagiarist?
4. With what country do
you associate the "Reign of
Terror"?
5. "Who, in Greek mythol
ogy, had a hundred eyes, of
which some were always
awake, until Hermes charmed
them to sleep and killed him?
6. Who wrote the "Tarzan"
books?
7. What is the Pentateuch?
8. In a golf twosome, who
drives first after the first hole
is played?
9. What place in the United
States is called The Rock?
10. May U.S. postage stamps
embossed on stamped enve
lopes be cut from the en
velopes and used for postage
on other envelopes?
Answers: 1. New York. 2.
Vermont "(3-4-1791). 3. Copier
of Artistic work. 4. France.
5. Argus. 6. Edgar Rice Bur
roughs. 7. First five books of
Old Testament. 8. 1st bole
winner. 9. Alcaixaz. 10.. No.,
Rogue River Guidepost
It will take considerable time and study to
grasp all the implications contained in the report
on Rogue River water uses presented this week
by the state water resources board.
This much can be safely said, however:
It represents a new departure in basin re
source studies; it contains new concepts of bene
ficial uses of water, and it represents a tremen
dous amount of hard work on the part of the
board. and its staff in presenting a rounded and,
it is hoped, fully inclusive survey of the Rogue
basin and its needs.
piRST of all, the board sets up premises on
which to act. Essentially, these include the
idea that there are 10 specific and definable
beneficial uses of water, each of which must be
considered in deciding how the water of any
river basin should be allocated for the greatest
good of the greatest number.
The ten recognized beneficial uses are for
domestic, municipal, irrigation, power, industrial,
mining, recreation, wildlife, fish life and pollu
tion abatement purposes.
Corollary matters of importance requiring
consideration in any overall program, the report
declares, include drainage, reclamation and flood
control. One of the most important is the rela
tively new concept of minimum streamflow
that to be of benefit, a stream should never be
allowed to fall below a certain level.
D ASED on these premises, the report goes on to
indicate that some of the 10 beneficial uses
are naturally desirable in some sub-basins and
some circumstances; others are not.
For instance, the waters of the Rogue are
too limited to permit them to be used for pollu
tion abatement, the report declares. That is, riv
er water cannot be used simultaneously for muni
cipal and domestic use, on .one hand, and for
carrying sewage to the sea, or for diluting con
centrations of pollution, on the other.
In some sub basins power production is
found to be compatible with over-all beneficial
development. In others, it isn't. .
In the Bear Creek, basin, for example, the
board found that the maximum beneficial use of
water should be limited to domestic, municipal,
irrigation, industrial, recreation, wildlife and fish
life purposes. Uses which are not suited and not
recommended for the basin are power, mining,
and pollution abatement purposes.
-
IN THE Little Butte Creek drainage, as another
example, beneficial uses were determined to
be for domestic, irrigation, wildlife, recreation,
and fish, life, purposes. Because of the limitations
of the area, the other uses municipal, power,
industrial; mining and pollution abatement ,
were found to be impossible, unneeded or unde
sirable. .
And so the study goes, for all the seven sub
basins of the Rogue River basin.
Some of the beneficial uses have priority over
the others, but all are considered. .
The result, it seems to us, is a well thought
out, thoroughly considered . assessment of the
basin's water resource potential.
THE water resources
ment of existing laws which, restrict some spe
cific uses of Rogue river basin waters. It also
recommends that certain specific withdrawals be
ended (although not existing water rights).
Such action is needed if the board's program
is to be put into effect.
Fears that the streams will, as a result, be
overappropriated, or converted to undesirable
uses, seem to be unfounded, for the board's ob
jectives are just the reverse of this. Any future
approved use would be limited by existing stak
utes which provide for rounded, beneficial and
multiple use.
In effect; the board would become the au
thority as to how water can be used, subject to
the general statutory limitations which apply to
all new uses of water in the state.
OO W all this relates to the projects and plans
1 of the Corps of Army Engineers, the Bureau
of Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice, and other insterested agencies remains to be
seen.
We do not see how they could be incompati
ble in the long run, although in the short haul
it is possible there may arise conflicts of interest,
as one agency's plans fail to jibe with the board's
overall program.
And, of course, there are special interests
which majr not like certain provisions of the pro
gram; which may feel that they are being dis
criminated against in favor of other interests.
MOST thinking people realize by this time,
however, that water is, at a minimum, all
these things:
1. Vitally important to the well-being of every
human being in the area.
2. Limited in quantity, but irregular in supply.
3. Necessary for a wide variety of uses and
activities, all of which are important, but not all
of which are compatible
4. Sometimes a threat to life and property.'
The board's findings and recommendations
are not, and do not pretend to be, a blueprint for
development of the Rogue basin. That is some
thing for other agencies to work out.
But it is an effective and thorough examina
tion of the water resources of the basin, an out
line of how they, can and should be . used most
effectively, and a guidepost for legislative action
and development agencies' to follow. E.A.
board,: in making its re-
Dennis the
In just" charge W)MTwm tub
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
ADLAI AND 1960
Washington - Adlai E. Stev
enson is becoming the most
active non-candidate in the
i field for the
1960 Demo
cratic Presi
dential nomi
nation. And
his friends are
now op e nly
marshaling to
s" push him into
what he is not
William S. -Ti j.
white with any dig-ging-in
of heels, a third try
for the big job. His polite dis
claimers of further ambition
are no longer treated serious
ly by anybody.
The decision of a party site
choosing group to hold the
1960 Democratic convention
in Los Angeles, subject to ex
pected approval by the Demo
cratic national convention, has
several meanings. For one, it
is general recognition of the
new political power of the
Far West. For another, it rep
resents a plan to turn the tel
evision beams from west to
east, to saturate the larger
eastern audience on a conven
tion schedule that will be
keyed to fill the best listening
hours in the East.
TUT THE decision for Los
" Angeles means most of all
a break for the Stevenson
people. No place in the coun
try would be a more likely
place for loosing a stream
lined Stevenson bandwagon.
The high point of Mr. Steven
son's whole pre-convention
campaign in 1956 was Califor
nia. ' v
He did better in the Cali
fornia primaries. than in any
other. And the modified egg
headism 'in -the Democratic
party in that state, is more
nearly Stevenson's kind of
eggheadism than" is - shown
anywhere else. In a word, the
California Democrats really
"like Adlai," and he likes
them.
It is easy to overstate the
value and force of psycholog
ical factors in political con
ventions. Fortune still is
nearly always on the side of
those with the biggest battal
ions. -..Still,' psychology can
never be discounted. And no
candidacy has greater need to
master the psychological con
siderations than does Steven
son's. His biggest handicap, end it
is seVere, is that twice he has
had the nomination and twice
he has lost the election. Rivals
already are trying to press
home a comparison with Wil
liam Jennings Bryan. They
are recalling that Bryan nad
three nominations and lost
three times in the finals.
rpOO, THEY ARE subtly
1 spreading the notion that
there is yet another Bryan
Stevenson parallel: that both
were superb in speech but not
so able in action. .
- To counter this sort of thing
there could be for Stevenson
no better convention state
than California. The Califor
nia Democrats are riding
higher than anywhere in the
nation, because of their great
victories of last fall.
They can easily be pre
sented as forming the most
powerful and most up-to-date
single segment of the party.
California is now tied with
Pennsylvania (with 32 elec
toral votes each) as the sec
ond biggest and most critical
state in the country. (New
York, of course, has 45 elec
toral votes-but also a Repub
ucan governor.)
The Stevenson men in Cali
fornia will iiot fail to under
line all this. And they will not
fail to point out that if they
are ready to take another
chance on Stevenson, as the
new and bustlingly successful
men of the party that they
are, . then others,: should not
hesitate.
:
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- Menace
store gets for p&ssmr
S. WHITE
rpHAT state knows how to
-- put on a real show, in and
out of Hollywood. And such a
show certainly will be put on
for Stevenson by his devoted
admirers there.
What is Mr. Stevenson him
self doing? Beginning with his
trip last fall to the Soviet
Union he has slowly prepared
this picture of himself: a man
truly interested and sensitive
ly informed upon tire one
overmastering and terribly is
sue of our time, the East-West
impasse and how to resolve
it honorably.
' Wisely, he is walking only
on what the pros call "the
statesman road." He is allow
ing others to preoccupy them
selves with the hard domestic
issues, like civil rights.' Mean
while, he himself is trying to
open a great "dialogue," - a
term he once used in another
connection, upon the transcen
dental theme of peace or war.
Irreverent ant i-Stevenson-ites
call this "corn." Maybe
so; but if so, it is very good
corn, indeed.
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Dogs Are Dogs
To the Editor: Dogs are
dogs, pure breds or mongrels.
All have a beating heart and
look to humans (if they are
humans) for protection and
kindness.
Etna Ragsdale, I believe
your suggestion in answer to
Mrs. Hust's plea for sanita
tion and a more suitable
haven for unwanted dogs at
the pound is not the needed
solution.
On a cold day two years
ago I too bought a dog at. the
pound, unwanted, cold, filthy
and hungry. The sight made
me mauseated and heart sick.
I'm behind Mrs. Hust 100
per cent.
My neighbors and I own
dogs and cats. Come see how
lovable they can be.
The cats' silky body
caressing your legs - who can
resist returning the faith with
a few love pats? And the
dog's soft-eyed plea for af
fection. While you are out driving,
dodging canines right and
left, take a trip to the pound.
Fenced back yard is the run
for my dog, who seldom gets
on the lawn.
Other dogs who just have
to go and can't wait 'till they
get home, use my yard too for
their comfort.
When this happens I'll do
like my neighbors, use the
scooper.
- To quote, Cardinal New
man: "Cruelty to animals is
as if we do not love God."
Hulda E. Branson
710 Palm st.
Medford.
YCC and Segregation .
To the Editor: In regard to
your recent editorial on the
"CCC," or as one man. Sena
tor Hubert Humphrey of Min
nesota, called it, "YCC," for
"Youth Conservation Corps,"
I must say I definitely ap
prove of such a move. It was
the only program sponsored,
Dy xne late r resident Roose
velt that I'd be willing to say
I approved of for permanent
status.
I can say one thing about a
change in that particular pro
gram were it to be made ef
fective at present or in the
future: Leave the damned
Army out of it. I was in sev
eral of the camps myself, and
have no 'regrets. The Mail
Tribune could do much worse
than to push a program of
Johnson Civil Rights
Political Solution of
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (LTD - Take
another look at the civil rights
bill proposed by Sen. Lyndon
B. J o h n s on
(D-T e x.) be
fore writing
it off as a
phony.
Americans
for Demo
cratic Action
(ADA), the
lefty heir of
FDR's New
.yle C. Wilson U e a 1, would
so write it off. ADA called
the civil rights proposal "a
typical Johnson compromise,
scratching the surface of the
civil rights problem and care
fully refraining from digging
down to its heart - school
segregation."
' ADA, northern Democrats
in general and the National
this sort in every way pos
sible. In regard to the segregation
moves by some of our south
ern states, I'd suggest a law
to require labeling of where
products are manufactured if
sold in other states. My pur
pose is such a law would per
mit those of us who object to
segregation to boycott goods
made in states where segre
gation is practiced. Loss of
sales would soon make those
officials, who do not care to
integrate, change their tune.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star Route
Butte Falls, Ore.
A Few Reminders
To the Editor: Here are a
few reminders for Etna Rags
dale, who so unmercifully
condemned the dogs in her
neighborhood.
True - they have no bath
rooms to go to, and the only
difference is, that she has
been taught where to go, but
she has forgotten the most
important thing of all for
instance, all the lives they
have saved, and all the love,
happiness and devotion they
give, which I am sure she
could never give. Perhaps she
has never owned a pet. In
that case I can understand,
but to the people who have
them, they are mighty
precious.
. I thank God for people like
Mrs. Hust, who has such con
cern for them. We need more
like her. ,
D. V. Hutcheson
Shady Cove.
Mystery of the Girls
To the Editor: Perishable
though news items ,may be,
there are exceptions, like the
boxed-in Centennial "TO
DAY" of Sunday's MT that
told of the troubles of In
dian trader Nathaniel Wyeth
in 1835, for it did give a little
speculative light on the two
little Wyeth girls of the Ste
phen P. Taylor 'preacher
wagon train' that found wel
come end of the long long
trek here in the Rogue River
Valley in 1853. It was at the
California route turn of the
Oregon trail where the wagon
trail found two men, with two
pack horses, on horse back,
each with a little girl. The
men told how the girls' mother
had outfitted - a trail-wagon
and horses 'back ' east' to
guard and guide them across
the plains to the Oregon Ter
ritory and a " little mudflat
town on the Willamette River
knowns as Portland to be
with relatives there. But the
mother had sickened and died
a few days before. As the
men's destination was Cali
fornia, they pursuaded the
wagon train leaders to take
the little girls on with them,
the older one, 5, taken by the
Taylor wagon, the younger
one in another ox-powered
prairie schooner.
Around the campfires that
evening, speculation mount
ed. Little help could be had
from the grief-torn girls. But
evidence could not be denied
as one sharp-eyed, woman re
marked: "Just see the girls'
slick-combed hair, that had to
be done this . very morning
'cause it's plain as day they
haven't' slept one single night
since it was combed." And
next day or two when the
older girl saw Hobert Taylor
flipping a $20 gold piece, she
lisped, "My momma had lotth
of them in her trunk."
But what could be done?
The two men were gone,
wagon train provisions low
and winter threatening. So,
like many others leaving un
marked graves along the Ore
gon Trail, the ox and horse
powered prairie schooners
rolled on to the rich and
ready lands of Oregon. The
older girl had safe sanctuary
with the Taylors on their 640
acre donation claim south of
Roxy Ann. the other girl with
a nearby family. The follow
ing spring, both were sent by
wagon train to Portland by
the dreaded (but no other)
Canyon route. Thus ended the
mystery of the little Wyeth
girls, only highlighted by the
MT Sunday news item.
F. J. Clifford
Rt. 2, Box 200F
Central Point.
P.S. Any information on
this would be most welcome.;
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored P e o p le
(NAACP) apparently want a
Congressional endorsement of
the Supreme Court's ruling
against school segregation.
Some of those opposing segre
gation probably would prefer
Congressional action to en
force desegregation of South
ern schools. The implication
of that preference is that de
segregation should be en
forced throughout the South
-as in Little Rock - by the
armed forces of the United
States.
Congress and South's Schools
It is a fact that Johnson's
four-point bill avoids direct
approach to the immediate
problem of schooling white
and Negro children together.
Assuming that there is a valid
argument against Congress at
tempting to deal directly with
the school problem, it prob
ably would be this:
-That both time and pa
tience reasonably could be ex
pected to help toward a solu
tion of the great social and
educational crisis now con
fronting Southern states.
'Partnership' Gone From Ike's
Power Plans; 'No-Starts' Stays
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington - President Eis
enhower's budget message to
Congress was unique in at
least one re
spect as far
as the Pacific
Northwest is
concerned-for
the first time
it did not men
tion the term
"partnership"
in connection
with hydro-
A.Bobt.smiui electric devel
opment. Otherwise it followed
a familiar pattern for river
development funds. It asked
Congress not to appropriate
funds to start any more new
projects, but recommended
funds for a host of projects
started in recent years with
funds appropriated by Con
gress over the president's
opposition.
John Day dam on the lower
Columbia and Cougar dam
on the Willamette were both
earmarked under the old
"partnership" power policy
for construction by a joint
arrangement between local
utilities and the federal gov
ernment.
Policy Resisted
But strongly as the Repub
lican administration advocat
ed this policy, the Democrati
cally-controlled Congress re
sisted it at every turn. In
stead, Congress put up funds
to start both dams as all-
federal projects.
Now both are under way.
And in addition, Ice Harbor
on the lower Snake River
and Hills Creek on the Wil
lamette have been put under
federal construction at the
insistence of Congress.
There is no more talk of
the "partnership" policy, pos
sibly because its chief advo
cates from the Northwest
have been defeated at the
polls by pro-federal Demo
crats. President Eisenhower now
sees that the many new proj
ects started by the Demo
crats throughout the country
have swelled his spending
program for resources to an
all-time high of $1.1 billion.
And aftej the coming year,
he said it will take another
$5 billion to complete these
projects they are now work
ing on. It will take, for ex
ample, another $356 million
just to complete the John Day
project.
The Democrats in Congress
TODAY
' In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
JANUARY 23. 1851
The city of Portland was
incorporated effective this
day and became the second
incorporated community in
the Oregon Territory, Ore
gon City having become the
first, and indeed the first
west of the Rocky Moun
tains, upon its incorpora
tion in 1844 by the Pro
visional legislature.
JANUARY 23. 1907
The elections of Jona
than Bourne Jr. and Fred
A. Mulkey to the United
States Senate were con
firmed today by joint ac
tion of the houses of the
state legislature. Bourne
and Mulkey thus became
the first U.S. Senators in
history -elected by popular
vote, since under the terms
of Statement No. 1, a ma
jority of the candidates for
the legislature had agreed
to vote for the senatorial
candidates receiving the
greatest support at the polls.
Bill Seeks Long-Range
Segregation Problem
-That direct Congressional
intervention, especially with
enforcing legislation, would
reduce greatly the opportunity
of either time or patience to
heal raw wounds.
Not just around the corner,
but far down the road there
appears to be one decisive,
home-grown solution to the
South's problem of racial in
tegration of its schools.
That solution would be
peaceful integration of schools
in the South under conditions
pretty much conforming to
the state's rights point of view
of even the most extremist of
southern segregationists.
Power Of Negro Vote
Given time and patience
this could and may come to
pass by reason of increased
political activity of Southern
Negroes. The Negro vote al
ready is a political power
house in the Northern states.
Southern Negroes are more
numerous actually and pro
portionately than are Negroes
in the North. But they don't
vote much.
Disinterest, disenfranchise
ment and one thing and an
other have so retarded voting
aren't satisfied with this argu
ment against starting still
more new projects. They ex
pect to push for funds to start
Green Peter dam on the San
tiam and Lower Monumental
dam on the lower Snake.
Looking into the future,
this Congress will also prob
ably pass some kind of new
authorization bill covering
many of the recommended
projects in the 308 review re
port of the Corps of Engin
eers. The White .House is not
likely to resist this step, be
cause an authorization doesn't
figure in the budget until it
is followed with appropria
tions. And the president said
in his budget message:
"In the interest of sound
water resources programs in
future years, funds are rec
ommended to continue inves
tigations and advance plan
ning and to assemble basic
data for future projects."
He then went on to suggest
that Congress authorize one
big reclamation project in
particular, the Fryingpan-Ar-kansas
project in Colorado,
In the Day's News
By FRANK
At his recent press confer
ence, President Eisenhower
vigorously defended his 77
billion dollar balanced budget
against charges that it is po
litically motivated and in
valid. In doing so, he falls back
on the sound military doctrine
that a vigorous attack is the
best defense. He tells the re
porters that the Democratic
attacks on his budget are
"coming from so many dif
ferent angles that he can't
escape the conclusion that his
opponents are suffering from
budgetary schizophrenia."
THAT crack sent the cor
respondents scurrying to
the reference books. They dis
covered that Webster's New
International Dictionary de
fines schizophrenia as "a
type of psychosis characteriz
ed by loss of contact with the
enviroment and by disintegra
tion of the personality. It in
cludes dementia praecox and
some related forms of in
sanity." If they had delved a little
deeper, they would have
found dementia pYaecox de
fined as "a type of mental
disease in which the victim
WITHDRAWS FROM REAL
ITY and- suffers from false
perceptions and false beliefs
and delusions."
H
MMMMMMMMM.
As a political leader, Ike is
improving.
His crack is reminiscent of
FDR at his best.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST COMPANY
IS PLEASED TO
Lyle F.TlLSON
Chairman of the Board
Stanley N. Minor
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Ben B. Ehruchmajc
Vice-Chairman of the Board
Seattle, Washington
January 9, 1959
by Southern Negroes that they
have had little political im
pact. That situation began to
change some time ago, and
the change continues at an
increased pace. The federal
civil rights bill of 1957 was
intended to speed the change
already under way.
Seek 3 Million Votes
The NAACP is campaign
ing to register 3 million South
ern Negroes before the 1960
presidential election. Registra
tion in 1956 was about 1,300,
000. There are enough Ne
groes in th South to put the
segregation problem far to
ward solution if they would
and could register and vote.
This sort of solution was sug
gested by President Eisen
hower last week in a National
Press Club speech. The fourth
section of the proposed John
son civil- rights bill would
help bring that about.
The section would give the
Justice Department instant
subpoena to obtain all regis
tration and other records
needed to. prepare voting
rights cases. Perhaps South
ern Negroes will vote them
selves into white schools.
but to hold off on funds until
"the overall budgetary situa
tion is more favorable."
Employment Factor
One reason for the higher
level of spending on these
public works projects now is
that a year ago everyone was
concerned about the rise of
unemployment. The White
House revised upward its
budget figures for public
works and the Democrats in
Congress added some more
fof good measure to combat
the recession.
Now one hears no talk
about unemployment. The
president is talking like he
will make a fight for holding
the line on spending in order
to balance the budget and to
minimize the affect of federal
spending on inflation.
There are reports the Dem
ocratic strategy will be to
pass a big airport aid bill and
a housing bill, both of which
the president might veto. The
outcome of this tussle may
depend on whether public
opinion sides with the presi
dent or the Congress.
JENKINS
ALL THIS caUs for a little
, psychoanalysis of Ike him
self. He came to the White House
with a soldier's background.
When he became President,
he had all of the professional
soldier's distate for the pro
cesses of practical politics.
In his six years in the
White House, he has learned
a lot - including the fact that
to be a successful political
leader one must make use of
the processes and the pro
cedures of practical politics.
It isn't enough merely-to issue
an order. A political leader
must PERSUADE his associ
ates and his followers to go
along.
Also, in politics, associates
and followers must be RE
WARDED if the are to go
along. They aren't interested
in merely dying for a cause.
POLITICS is quite a trade.
His performance at his
press conference this morn
ing suggests that perhaps Ike
feels he has served his ap
prenticeship as a political
leader and that hereafter he
must be accepted as a journey
man! .If so, he will be a more
effective political leader from
here on out.
BIG HURRY
Jackson, Miss. -(UPD- When
police spotted a man shoplift
ing in a downtown store
Thursday he left so fast he
didn't bother to open the glass
door just ran through it and
got away.
ANNOUNCE
Robert E. Daniel
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