4 Thursday, February 12, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12, 1949 (Saturday) '
The Civic Theater amateurs
stage "The Male Animal," suc
cessfully despite inadequate
facilities.
City crews place concrete
blocks and sandbags along
Bear creek near Portland ave.
as a flood precaution.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12. 1939 (Sunday) 1
Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg
newspaper publisher, is to
give the principal address at
the Lincoln club's banquet
here.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Colds
are quite plentiful. The cure
u&eu uy Buiue ikiiuu&eu uui
both the cold, and them
selves." 30 YEARS AGO . '
Feb. 12, 1929 (Tuesday)
i Local Kiwanians endorse
the Medford airport bonds.
' A reward is offered for ap
prehending thieves who have
been breaking into summer
homes on Rogue river.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12, 1919 (Wednesday)
Local public schools are to
operate on Saturdays for two
months to catch up with time
lost during the flu epidemic
closure.
The legislature allots $7,-
000 to the Southern Oregon
Experiment station at Talent.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12, 1909 (Friday)
The Crater Lake road bill
passes the House at Salem by
a 45-14 vote.
The new high school build-
ing is ready for occupancy.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or tan correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
in is good.
1. Who wrote "Kidnapped'
2. If one had a plank ten
feet in length, and sawed off
a foot at a time, how many
cuts would it take to complete
. the job?
3. Complete the following,
"He spends money like
1 drunken ..."
4. What is the name for the
great vein in the neck?
5. In what year did the
Spanish-American war oc
cur?
6. In which Southwestern
State is the painted desert?
I 7. What is the name of the
, device, developed by the Ger
mans, that enables submarines
to run for long distances un-
; der water?
8. Correct the following,
"He talks like he acts."
9. Still-life paintings depict
animate, or inanimate, ob-
- jects?
10. About what percentage
of nitrogen does ordinary air
; contain? .
Answer: 1. Robert Louis
Stevenson. 2. Nine. 3.,".
sailor." 4. Juglar vein. 5. 1898.
6. Arizona. 7. Snorkel. 8. "He
ialks as he acts." 9. Inani
mate. 10. 80 per cent.
MEN ARE ADULTS
Des Moines, Iowa fUPD Re
publicans and Democrats
joined forces todteyto defeat
the so-called spouse consent
section of Iowa's right-to-
work law. The legislators feel
that an adult man shouldn't
have to have his wife's per
mission to have his union
dues deducted from bis pay
check.
The Legislatures Chickens
We hear good reports of the legislature of
how it is hard-working, dedicated, swift and ef
ficient in organization, and determined to do a
good job for the people of Oregon at a minimum
of cost.
All well and good if true.
From the sound of the reports, this will be a
good "housekeeping" legislature. But we have
yet to hear of any broad, imaginative and for
ward looking programs to put the state on the
road to broader development, to greater utiliza
tion of its human resources, to a fuller role in
making the state a leader, rather than just an
"average" state.
1X7ITH Oregon's Centennial anniversary only
day after tomorrow, one wondere what this
state's pioneers would do today, faced with such
tremendous opportunities?
Would they shilly-shally and say it's "too dif
ficult," or "it costs too. much"? - ,
Or would they measure the costs against the
potentialities, and then go ahead?
They went ahead, against heavy odds. And
the results we now see all around us in a state
quite like no other.
IT SEEMS to us the legislature is up against a
somewhat similar choice.
Last Dec. 31, we described the alternatives
this way:
1. An expanded state program of services, taking
cognizance of new needs, new population and new con
ditions. This will be at a considerable increase in cost,
and resulting higher taxes in one form or another.
2. A state governmental program on about the
existing level, with moderate expansion provided.
This top will cost more in taxes than is being paid now,
because of expanding population and rising costs.
3. A curtailed state government, with education,
welfare, institutions, highways and services cut to the
bare bones. This would cost about what state govern
ment does now, or conceivably a little less.
IT IS beginning to look as though the legislature
will take the second choice. Gov. Hatfield's
budget proposals certainly fall within that cate
gory, as Ex-Gov. Holmes'
within the third.
No one seems willing
and challenging first choice.
bo we 11 probably have
fied with second-rate standing in higher educa
tion, in state support of the schools, in custodial
care of our .unfortunates, for another biennium
at the very least.
CX-GOV. Holmes did" not like the budget he
eiircmittorl rviif tn -falf Viof ln VnJ .nv
Mumiwii-uj wuu iic itiu iuav nc uau a, man
date" from the voters to be conservative in bud
get proposals. So, apparently, does Gov. Hatfield.
Hut the Eugene Kegister
Lamely, legislators and the governor alike point
out that their penny pinching comes in response to the
"mandate' of the economy-minded voters last Novem
ber. What they do not admit is that the voters gave
what appears to have been a 'mandate' because no
responsible leaders stepped forward to tell them that
- there is no Santa Claus. For too long have the voters
been conned into believing that it's possible to buy
what they need without paying for it. The inadequate
Hatfield budget, like the inadequate Holmes' budget
before it, is the natural result of that kind of shell
game."
Even the essentially conservative editor of
he Oregon Statesman in Salem, himself a for
mer Governor, while he
Hattield s snip and paste
"I believe the legislature will be able to take the
two budgets and piece them together to carry the state
through the next biennium. But in 1961 the patching
process will no longer suffice."
IT IS disappointing to
r,r,v,v.;i ,r
jciiLciimai jcai, V-um-tnuuig Itseil Willi iX
"patching" job. Maybe they have felt the pulse
oi the people. Ur, again, maybe there has not
been the visionary, idealistic and forward look
ing leadership under which great things can be
done.
Hatfield's higher education building propos
als are a little better than Holmes', but they still
are far short about 50 per cent of what is
needed. His salary proposals for higher educa
tion are only about half of those necessary to put
Oregon in a strong competitive situation among
other western states. The state s custodial msti
tutions also have pressing building needs.
These are needs now.
additional needs will have piled up to doubly con
found and harrass the 51st session of the legisla
ture.
DUT, barring some totally unforeseen 'reversal
J of direction of the current legislative session,
it will, once again, postpone any basic decision on
Oregon s needs, and how
It will continue to eke
paste and stretch.
It will continue to squeeze salaries, cut build
fng programs in half, neglect large numbers of
the sick, the underprivileged, the needy. This it
will do in the name of economy, and blame it on
the voters who are against tax increases.
In doing so it will close its eyes to the warning
T- -t TT 1 1 1
oi HiX-UrOv. noimes, wno said:
"The amount of money we are spending for educa
tion is woefully inadequate now. We not only lag be
hind Russia, we lag behind our own faith in the value
of education in a democracy. We are not providing the
money necessary to strengthen community services in
the areas of health and welfare and to revise old and
costly programs of vast institutions centrally located
for the care of the physically and mentally ill. We are
not building the roads we ought to build to accommo-
date our own communities and our own economy. We .
are hot facing up to the fact that the preservation of
our cultural and political freedom is costly-terribly
cosUy, and that it will cost us more and more for a long
time to come."
These chickens the
have come home to someone else. E.A.
budget fell mostly
to take the adventurous
to continue to be satis
- Guard points out:. -
approves more or less of
budget job, concludes:
see the legislature, this
4.: :i i at-
And in two more years
to satisfy them.
out, make do, patch and
legislature Js willing to
Dennis the
ffm Wl SZBHMY SKIN 0MN
Matter of Fact
STOPPING KENNEDY
Washington - The forces of
Sen. Hubert Humphrey are
rather hoping to start a Mid-
Western stop
Kennedy m o v e m e nt,
which might
also become a
move
ment, at the
Mid - Western
D e m o c ratic
conference in
If S 1 T n ,1 1.BA
I,.K Al. "1 1 "
Wise, on March ' through 7.
The conference comprises
the past and present State
Chairmen and other Demo
cratic Party officials of 13
Mid-Western states. Sen. Ken
nedy, who addressed the con
ference last fall, will be ab
sent this time. Sen Humphrey
will be vigorously present, to
address the main dinner meet
ing. Gov. Soapy Williams of
Michigan, who is not a strong
candidate himself but just
might help in stopping Ken
nedy, will also turn up to
make a speech. In addition,
the Humphrey forces look for
help from Wisconsin's new
Democratic Governor, Gay
lord Nelson.
It is many months too
early, of course, for anything
like solid pre-convention al
liances to be forced, either
for any candidate or : against
any candidate.' Sen. Hum
phrey, who is one of the
cleverest and most effective
men in the business, wiU prob-
ably persuade some oi tne
Mid-Westerners of his own
notential strength. He may
also succeed in planting seeds,
which will blossom into a stop
Kennedv movement later on.
That is the kind of start Sen.
Humphrey hopes to make.
ONE should not exaggerate
trm thini in short. Yet it
is still sienificant that the
Humphrey forces are already,
even at this unprecedentedly
early date, letting the stop
Kennedy idea influence their
planning. It is a proof, if you
like, of the length of the lead
that Sen. Kennedy enjoys at
present, in a Democratic pre
convention contest which is
already almost as hot as in a
normal convention year.
From the standpoint of his
competitors, the annoying
and dangerous point about
the lead enjoyed by Sen. Ken
nedy is its grass roots origin.
By some means or other-per-haps
because they just like
his nicture on national maga
zine covers - an astonishingly
high number of voters all
over this country have ac-
miired what the Madison
Avenue analysts call a "posi
tive image of tne young
Massachusetts Senator. As
anvone knows who has done
any doorbell-ringing, this posi
tive image is by no means
limited to the Roman Catho
lics and members of other re
ligious groups who naturally
wish to see the end of the
rule that Presidents must al
ways be white, Protestant
Americans.
IlflSCONSIN, where the
Mid-Western Democratic
conference is to convene, is
an interesting case in point.
In this Mid-Western state with
its heavy farm population,
other Democrats logically
ought to do a lot better than
Kennedy. Pollsters this re
porter has found to be care
ful and reliable have made
tests. All candidates were run
against Vice President Rich
ard Nixon. In the outcome,
this Wisconsin poll showed
Kennedy beating Nixon by a
hair - 5OV2 to 49V2. But the
same poll showed Nixon beat
ing Sen. Humphrey rather
badly, and defeating Sen.
Stuart Symington by a mar
gin just about 60 to 40.
For precisely this reason,
while Gov. Nelson is reported
ly leaning to Humphrey, the
Wisconsin State Chairman,
Pat Lucey, is said to be lean
ing rather strongly to Ken
nedy. As long as Kennedy
has such strong popular sup
port, in fact, he is in the situa
Menace
i
FLIPPERS?
By Joseph Alsop
tion of a sort of super-Estes
Kefauver with none, or at
least very few, of-the handi
caps that proved fatal to the
Kefauver candidacy. Kefau
ver also had mass support, but
he could not translate his
mass support into support by
convention-delegates, because
he had done something or
other to earn the bitter
enmity of just about every
Democratic leader all over
the country. Kennedy has
even more mass support, yet
a minimum of powerful party
enemies, and so he can attract
backers like the Wisconsin
State Chairman.
THAT does not mean for one
moment that Kennedy is
a sure thing, or even an odds-
on bet, to get the Democratic
nomination. The Democratic
party has seldom enjoyed
such almost embarrassing
riches in the candidate- sta
bles. If Kennedy's popular
support fades or falls off, or
if the other candidates pro
ject themselves successfully
in the months to come, the
odds will actually be against
the Massachusetts Senator be
cause of his youth, his limited
experience, and his religion.
But as of now, as the above
cited Wisconsin poll suggests,
Kennedy has a very excep
tional asset to exploit if he
has the necessary courage. His
rivals can hardly refuse the
contest, if he challenges them
to primaries on theoretically
neutral ground - in Wiscon
sin and in Oregon, especially.
And if he wins those . pri
maries, as he would probably
win today, the Kennedy-stoppers
will have a job on their
hands. t
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From Auxiliary
To the Editor: I have been
out of town until this week,
so haven't had an opportunity
to write and thank you, Mrs.
Starcher, and Mr. Vroman for
the wonderful spread you
gave our Auxiliary on Jan.
18.
In the past your paper has
been very kind and coopera
tive in publishing news of our
activities, and it has helped
us to keep our membership
and the public aware of our
programs.
Hospital volunteer service
is goingto become increasing
ly more important as hospit
al costs rise, and we feel we
have a good start toward ef
fective service to meet these
added costs without them
causing a burden to the hos
pital or the public.
Thank you again for your
cooperation.
Mrs. John Winton,
Past President,
Rogue Valley Memorial
Hospital Auxiliary.
'Cite' vs. 'Arresf
To the Editor: It is quite
apparent that those on your
staff (at least one of them)
responsible for the reporting
of traffic accidents, require
further instructions in the ac
cepted meaning of terms.
I am referring to the words
"cite" and "arrest." Each, of
course, has several definitions,
but the subject under discus
sion is law, so we can dis
card the various other mean
ings. A young friend of mine was
unfortunate enough to run
into the rear of another car
at a stop light, the sun shin
ing in his eyes prevented his
seeing the car ahead.
According to the state po
lice, this young man was trav
eling 45 miles per hour in a
50 mile zone prior to the ac
cident. The resulting damage
was considerable, but the of-,
Mounting
For Increasing U.S.-Philippine Friction
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
A great number of Filipinos
do not like the United States.
: The United States is not en
tirely happy
with the re
public of The
Phil ippines,
either.
A. half-dozen
issues di
vide the two
normally
friendly na
tions. No one
Phil Newsnm OI I II C a C 19
likely to lead to any lasting
rift, but all are illustrative of
similar problems with which
the United States has to deal
in countries which do not
have nearly the same close
relationship. "
It will be 61 years ago this
Sunday (Feb. 15) that the bat
tleship Maine blew up in Ha-
va harbor and set off the
shock -waves which resulted
in the Spanish-American War
and in U.S. acquisition of the
Philippines.
It was just over a dozen
years ago the United States
granted The Philippines full
independence and promoted
them as a practising example
of American-style democracy
in Asia. 1
Resent Criticism
Some of today's issues arise
from the honeymoon period
immediately following inde
pendence. Some arise from a vocal na
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
DID YOU KNOW that the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris was
inspired, indirectly, by the Statue of Liberty? To facili
tate work on the statue, Sculptor Bartholdi engaged Engineer
Eiffel to build a steel scaf
folding. Later, when the
1889 Paris Exposition man
agers wanted something to
dominate the grounds, Eiffel
remembered that scaffold
ing, and modelled his tower
on the same pattern. It rose
984 feet and was the world's
highest structure until the
Empire State building was
built Soon the Eiffel Tow
er will be eclipsed also by
a huge TV tower of steel in
Tokyo, Japan.
.
There's one young man in
New York who was simply furious when he was turned down by his
draft board. "You can't do this to me," he exploded. "I've already
proposed to three girls, told my .boss what I think of him, and piven
up my apartment." 1: - " -
0 1959, by Bennett Csrt. J?Iitributei by King Features Svnllc. ;
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK
Let's devote this space to
day to a discussion of infla-tion-a
subject that is widely
discussed but fundamentally
very little understood. I'd like
to cite here a couple of opin
ions about inflation. They are
interesting because of their
source. -
THE first is that of a window
washer. He works in a
big building. He starts in the
morning and he washes win
dows all day. He is getting
along in years. He has to
pause every now and then to
recharge his batteries. In one
of these pauses, he remarks:
"Wages used to be too low
much too low. I started out
as a youngster, a long time
ago, for a dollar a day. Now,
as an old man, I get a dollar
ficer did not consider it nec
essary to detain him.
The Mail Tribune stated
that the youth was arrested,
nrVion Via ajaa nnlv "pited ."
rgiving the impression that he
might have been belligerent
and abusive, necessitating an
arrest, instead of a mere cita
tion for violation of the basic
rule.
His friends, including my
self, feel that the Mail Trib
bune should correct this dis
crepancy, and in the future
teach your reporters to make
the right choice of words,
and not cause embarrassment
unduly.
I would venture to suggest
that attending the fourth
grade for a few days as a re
fresher course in English
might help your reporter:
The irony of it all is that it
was this young man who call
ed the state police to the
scene of the accident.
H. W. Barker,
Route 1, Box 55,
Jacksonville.
Editor's note: Our reporters
are under instructions to use
the word "cited" in cases of
minor traffic offenses, rather
than the harsher term "ar
rest," and these instructions
were not followed in the case
mentioned. However the word
"arrest" is correct, both as to
the dictionary definition, and
as used on official police rec
ords. We regret the use of
the harsher term in this in
stance, but published no "cor
rection" as the story was cor
rect as printed.
Nationalism Party Responsible
tionalist minority who resent
Philippines dependence upon
the United States, and who re
sent criticism, implied or
otherwise.
And some comes from Fili
pinos who feel the U.S. takes
The Philippines' friendship
for granted, granting less, aid
to The Philippines than to.
other nations of much more
questionable attitude.
The issues between the two
nations now have come to" the
point where both ambassadors
have been called home for
explanations and consulta
tions. In general the issues are:
Philippine complaints that
the United States is dragging
its feet on economic develop
ment loans. Of $250 million
promised, only about $45 mil
lion has materialized. ; '
Demand Jurisdiction
Philippine demands for
greater criminal court juris
diction over U.S. armed forces
personnel in the islands.
" Philippine plans to raise its
special import tax on Ameri
can goods.
Demands by some Philip
pine Congressmen for abrogation-
of the agreement which
requires the Philippines to
pay local costs of the U.S.
military advisory group.
One of the early agree
ments negotiated between the
U.S. and the newly-independent
Philippines government
granted the United States 23
Stop Me
JENKINS
an hour-which is the mini
mum waee.
"That's a lot of difference
But. you know, I'm not sure
but what wages are getting
too high. As wages go up.
prices have to go up-and
Drices are getting pretty high.
I sometimes wonder if I didn't
have as much left at the end
of the week' back in those days
when I ' was working for a
dollar a day as I have now
when I get a dollar an hour.
rpHE good old days!
In retrospect, they are
golden." In the good old days,
we were young-and in youth
the world is rose-tinted.
That makes a difference.
rpHE other opinion is that of
-- a rhamriprmair! in a hotel.
She, too, wonders if maybe
wages aren't getting a bit too
high for the good of every
body. Especially the wages re
ceived by OTHER workers.
She says:
"Look at the wages the
steelworkers and the automo
bile workers get. They get
better than $20 a day. That
can't help meaning that the
prices have t o go up. Those
of us Who don't get so much
-I get $10 a day which doesn't
sound too bad-have to pay
the same high prices as those
who get much more than we
do. I don't envy other people's
good fortune, but steadily ris
ing prices certainly make it
hard on people in my wage
bracket."
WELL, that's the wage-price
sniral in action.
As wages go up, prices have
to go up. As prices go up,
wages have to go up.
Where will it all end?
Let's be candid:
I don't know.
I doubt if anybody knows.
OIL WELL HONORED
Austin, Tex.-dlPD-The Uni
versity of .Texas is building a
permanent campus memorial
to an oil well, the Santa Rita
No. 1. This is the well that
"blew in" May 28, 1923, on
land owned by the University
of West Texas-long consid
ered an "oilman's graveyard."
The oilmen who leased min
eral rights to the land called
the well the Santa Rita after
the Saint of the Impossible.
But their success provided the
university with the first reve
nue to a fund that now totals
about $300 million.
military bases for 89 years.
This is another issue of the
Nationalist minority group
which is demanding that the
terms be shortened to 25
years.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
ON FLEXIBILITY
The new word in Western
diplomacy is "flexibility." It
has become fashionable be-
cause just
under the sur
face of the of
ficial formu
lae there is
going on- in
Was hington,
in London,
and in Bonn,
a reappraisal
of the Ger
man problem.
It is a wholly false picture of
what is going on to suppose
that the issue in this reap
praisal is between surrender
ing and standing firm, be
tween appeasement and prin
ciple, between being soft and
being strong.-
The real issue, to which the
reappraisal . is addressed, is
whether to stand pat on posi
tions that have become un
tenable or to move to new
positions from which the
Western Allies can recover
the political initiative.
T ET US take Berlin for a
" concrete example, remem
bering, of course, that it is
only the focal point of the
whole larger German prob
lem.
At present there are two
streams of traffic between
West Berlin and West Ger
many. One, which is much the
larger, is civilian traffic. This
traffic is regulated by an
agreement between the West
German government and the
East German government and
it is by this traffic that the
civilian population of West
Berlin lives and does its bus
iness. The other traffic is mili
tary. It is between the Brit
ish, French, and American
forces in West Germany and
their garrisons in West Ber
lin. This, traffic , is regulated
by Allied agreement with the
soviet union.;
' Moscow has now said that
if there is no other negotia
tion about the status of Ber
lin, it will on May,; 27. turn
over to the East German "gov
ernment its authority-, over
the military traffic. If this is
done, it will mean that at the
check points on tne highways
and railroads and canals
Allied military traffic will be
met by East German rather
than by Soviet officials.
The immediate and specific
questions about Berlin are (1)
what will we do' when we
meet these East German of
ficials; and (2) what will the
East German officials do
about our military traffic?
.
THIS IS where the difference
between an "inflexible"
and a "flexible" policy shows
itself.
The inflexibles say that we
do not recognize the East
German government, and that
we cannot, tnereiore, auow
them to have anything to do
with our traffic to Berlin.
The flexibles reply that as
long as no one interferes with
our traffic to Berlin, it does
not make any difference
whether the official who
stamps the papers wears an
East German or a Soviet uni
form. They add that if Dr.
Adenauer can allow East Ger
We have
Walter
Lippmann
for your thoughts, your
feelings and your wishes
Act ot, from Ik
WANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNODGRASS, FUNERAl DKfCTORS
DAY OR NIGHT
In fact, it may be said that
mounting Philippine nation
alism is at the core or at least
a complicating factor In al
most every issue between the
two countries.
Lippmann
man officials to stamp his
papers for the civilian traffic,
he is in no position to insist
that President Eisenhower be
more inflexible than he is
himself.
F SPECULATING about the
use of force to keep open
access to Berlin, the first
question to be decided is
whether we ought to be ready
to go to war if we meet an
East German official at the
checkpoints on the highway.
Do we fight because the of
ficial who wants to see the
papers carried by the truck
wears an East German uni
form, or do we fight if he .
closes the highway? The
flexibles say that a blockade
of West Berlin is a fighting
matter but that whether the
official is East German or So
viet is not a fighting matter.
The flexibles say, more
over, that to announce you
will fight about the official at
the check point is not a strong
policy but a foolish one, and
because it is foolish, it is
weak. It is weak because the
people of the Western world
cannot conceivably be united
to fight a world war on such
an idiotic issue.
AS WE know, the Mayor of
West Berlin, the hiehlv oik.
teemed Willy Brsfndt, can be
counted among the flexibles.
He has suggested that the
East German officials might
be recognized as "agents" of
the Soviet Union. An easier,
and as good a way, to accom
plish the same result would
be to ask a Soviet guarantee
of access to West Berlin until
a new status can be arranged
by negotiations covering the
two Germanys and the two
Berlins. What we want is that
West Berlin should not be
blockaded and strangled, and
that Berlin should become
again the capital of a reunited
Germany.
This flexible position is a.
strong one. We stand firm on
the substance, which is that
West Berlin is not to be block
aded. We are , indifferent to
the formalities which do not
matter as long as access to
West Berlin is open. We keep
alive our real objective, which
is not to maintain West Berlin
as an island within East Ger.
many, but to restore its status
as. the capital city to which
all parts of Germany must
have equal access.
IT MAY well be that the So
viet Union will refuse to
guarantee access during the
period, which would have to
be a long one, when the whole
German problem is being ne
gotiated. If that is what hap
pens, the Soviet Union will
find itself in a dangerous po
sition. It will have given the
East Germans a free hand to
impose a blockade, which
would be an act of war, and
it will be committed to come
to the defense of the East Ger
mans if they provoke a war.
This is a much bigger gam
ble than Moscow has ever tak
en before, and we need not
jump to the conclusion that
it will take the gamble now.
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Tribune, Inc.
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