4 W.dntsdjy, March 25, 1939
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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
March 25, 1949 (Friday)
Ashland's mayor and its sur
viving councilmen plan to
meet and decide who will oc
cupy the three recently-vacated
council seats.
Col. Ben Stafford is elected
chairman of the mayor's air
port advisory committee.
20 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1939 (Saturday)
The Central Point and Roxy
Anne Granges plan to present
one-act plays.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Farm
ers are all working so hard
their reports on how hard
they are working, leaves list
eners tuckered out."
30 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1929 (Monday)
Federal aides rate Medford
an ideal spot for an airport
center.
Hundreds of vauey resi
dents adjourn to the fields
and hillsides to pick wild
poseys.
40 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1919 (Tuesday)
Pears are blooming on
schedule but peaches are re
ported late.
Mike Womack organizes a
company tp drill for oil in the
Table Rock area.
50 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1909 (Thursday)
Not enough merchants have
signed up for his services this
year, so the water wagon man
who sprinkles the dust on
downtown streets may seek
business in Portland.
Ball suits for Medford's
team arrive and are on dis
play in a downtown store win
dow.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Is the word data singular
or plural?
2. Name a word in the Eng
lish language that rhymes
with the word orange.
3. Who was the President
of the United States in 1930?
4. How many cubic feet are
in a cord of wood?
5. Is a vicuna a bear, musk
rat, llama, or fox?
6. The color in wine is de
rived from a pigment of the
grapes; is the pigment in the
skin, or the meat, of the
grapes?
7. In what country is Te
heran? 8. What was Abraham Lin
coln's profession before he
was elected President?
9. What two other condi
tions are found, in combina
tion with a violent storm or
wind, to make a blizzard?
10. What was the name of
the French luxury liner that
burned and capsized at her
Hoboken pier in 1932?
Answers: 1. Plural. 2. None
does. 3. Herbert Hoover. 4.
128. 5. Llama. 6. The skin. 7.
Iran. 8. Lawyer. 9. Dry, driv
ing snow and intense cold.
10. "Normandie."
Sameness of the News
Charles A. Sprague, who besides being editor
and publisher of the Oregon Statesman in Salem
is also a former governor, one of the state's most
distinguished citizens, and an acute and thought
ful observer of the passing scene, recently return
ed to his office after an absence of three weeks.
(He had been on assignment to a couple of
his multitudinous public-service chores, and also
sandwiched in a short cruise around the Carib
bean). He found it necessary to "set about picking
up the thread of events" that happened while he
was gone, and he finds "the script about the
same."
gPRAGUE explains:
"Khrushchev and Eisenhower are exchanging pro
nouncements, batting the ball labeled Berlin back and
forth across the net. Eisenhower and the Democrats '
in Congress are trading verbals blows over appropria
tions, inflation and the balanced budget. Joe Alsop is
still warning about the missile gap, and Senator Sy
mington continues his battle for bigger and better arm
ament. "President Nasser is still throwing insults, this time
against Kassem of Iraq whom he hailed so cordially
eight months ago. Fidel Castro's outfit is still lining
up old Batistans in front of firing squads. The stock
market is still in orbit', shares receiving fresh propul
sion from rocket issues.
"The Oregon legislature is still wrestling with prob
lems of appropriations and taxes. New is "the filip
over daylight saying time, which has sparked more of
a response than the previous gripes over taxes. Govern
or Hatfield and President of the Senate Pearson still
are busy with press handouts in the running battle be
tween Republicans and Democrats.
"So, you might say, the news is just 'more of the
same.' Perhaps, but in the intervals of quiet, storms
may be building up. The Oregon legislature will em
erge from its mid-session doldrums. Congress will con
tinue to upset the precarious balance of the President's
budget. And the west is reaching the time of decision
for its confrontation with the Soviet Union over prob
lems of Berlin and Germany."
THE news, indeed, is always the same and al-
ways different.
There is always strife, controversy, dissention
the working out of human problems in the
arena of public life. ,
One -wonders sometimes, however, whether
Harry Golden isn't right when he says that the
truly significant news of our generation is to be
found on the back of old clippings.
By this he means, of course, the process of so
cial, as opposed to political, change; the differ
ence in the human condition between generations,
as opposed to the day to day fluctuations of public
events, which seem important and exciting at the
time, but which fade into insignificance as the
years roll by. E.A.
Vernal
Vernal urges are coursing through the nerve
endings of young people there days.
One might say the sap is rising.
At the moment it is being chiefly manifested
by college students seeing how many can squeeze
into a telephoiie booth. On other occasions it was
swallowing goldfish, or going on "parity raids,"
or moving outhouses into the center of campus
lawns.
IWfOSTLY, such activities do no . lasting harm.
Some of them, indeed, are tinged with a cer
tain antic genius.
An article in the Oregonian recalls the "ghost"
of Hoover tower at Stanford where, one' morn
ing, huge black footprints were seen tracking a
course up the 218-foot tower. A year later the
footprints reappeared, this time walking down
the tower.
Filmy undergarments have suddenly appear
ed upon bronze statues of staid college founders.
Small cars have been found in tree-tops, or on the
second floors of administration buildings. .
TTHESE, and similar hi-jinks, hurt no one much,
and serve as an outlet for youthful high spirits
in the spring) as the long road to final exams
looms ahead.
Insofar as they are truly clever and imagina
tive, they are positively beneficial to the disturbed
souls of earth-bound and crisis-weary humans.
But there is a line beyond which they are no
longer funny; when people are hurt, or property
is damaged.
Most youngsters are essentially sensible, and
can distinguish that fine line which separates
harmless fun from harmful vandalism or worse.
E.A.
Haw,
Our two new states Alaska and Hawaii
pose something of a minor problem to letter-writers
addressing envelopes to friends in the new
states.
How should they be abbreviated?
"Ala." is preempted by Alabama. "Alas." is
hardly an acceptable abbreviation. Likewise
"Alak." And "Al." is both confusing and overly
informal. "Aa." is meaningless, and also brings
connotations of alcoholism, which no state would
appreciate. "Alask." is only one letter short of the'
full name.
Solution : Don't abbreviate Alaska.
SIMILAR situation
"Ha." isn't fitting;
may be a short and graphic substitute for "Alo
ha," but leaves something to be desired.
. Just plain "H." could be used, of course, but
as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch points out, "nobody,
not even a lei-bedecked tourist, wants to go to H."
Solution: Don't abbreviate Hawaii, either.
E.A.
Urges
Alas
occurs with Hawaii.
neither is "Haw." "Hi."
Dennis the
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Congressmen Debate
Of Special
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington - (UPD - There
were these three psycholo
gists, see, and they spent
three months
overseas look-
ing into the
J way our mili
jgt tary aid pro-
gram was
working.
il What they
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J J 1UUI1U oul was
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be mentioned
Frank Eleazer in public but
the. big brass at the Pentagon
pretty soon decided to start
sending our foreign aid ex
perts to school.
The research people that
furnished the three psycholo
gists, at a cost to the govern
ment of $45,000, got a con
tract to set up th.e school, at
a price of $607,251.
Then they hired for their
staff a bunch of retired mili
tary officers. Included was a
brigadier general who, as a
$50 per day consultant to the
Defense Department, helped
make the decision to give 'em
the contract.
Adds Up Salaries
And that's where Chairman
James C. Davis (D-Ga.), and
his House subcommittee on
manpower waste got into the
picture. The Defense Depart
ment man, the research boss,
and the general said the whole
thing made sense and saved
money. The subcommittee, at
the end of two days of hear
ings, still wasn't sure.
Davis said he had added up
the salaries paid all the
school's staffers, and the re
tirement pay they continued
to draw, and had discovered
they all could have been call
ed back to active duty, for
--TV
I, V. . .
Intelligence Expert
Believes Russia Not
Readv for War Yet
Washington - (UPD - Robert
Amory Jr. probably is the second-best
or third-best inform
ed A m e rican
on what the
Russian Com
m u n i sts are
doing, t h ink
ing and plan
ning. Amory is
Deputy Chief
for I n t e 1 1 i
gence of t h e
Lyie C- Wilson central intel
ligence agency (CIA). CIA is
the United States spy appara
tus or, in more polite lan
guage, it is a counter intelli
gence organization.
This well informed Ameri
can was making a speech the
other day in Columbia, S.C.
Amory's speech- did not get
the publicity it deserved de
spite .the fact that what he
had to say was pretty good
news for U.S. citizens.
His story was that the So
viet Union is neither ready
nor preparing for a war; that
the Kremlin does not want a
war although Communist Rus
sia' would fight if it must.
Amory said the Russian lead
ers decided 18 months ago
that their Communist econ
omy had to have 15 years of
peace to achieve their inter
nal development plans.
Not Mobilized Now
"Their economy is by no
means mobilized for war or
prepairng for war," Amory
said. "They strike a balance
between military and other
expenditures just as we do."
He believes that the Soviet
Union is not ready to risk a
nuclear war over Berlin. Niki
ta Khruschev, instead, thinks
he can force the West to
"chicken out."
"If the West is resofute,"
Amory said, "then I believe
that the Soviet Union will be
the ones to back down."
Menace
Foreign Aid School
school teaching purposes, at a
saving of S33.288 yearly.
Rep. Robert J. Corbett (R
Pa.), said a school staff of 39,
teaching a class of 89, looked
sort of padded to him. John
L. Holcombe, the Defense De
partment man, said the usual
ining in military schools is
one staffer to every two
pupils.
Corbett Flabbergasted
"That flabbergasts me
little," said Corbett.
Dr. Dale Alford (D-Ark.),
a physician, said what he
couldn't see was what special
competence psychologists had
to go rouncj the world making
judgments on military mat
ters in the first place.
Dr. John Flanagan, presi
dent of the American Institute
for Research, which hired the
psychologists and is running
the school in a big apartment
house near the Pentagon, was
afraid security precluded an
answer. .
Holcombe took a chance
and lifted one corner of the
security curtain. He said for
instance it wouldn't make
sense to give somebody a de
stroyer if their sailors weren't
able to run it. He said psy
chologists might make de
cisions on the sailors' ability
to learn.
Hire Outsiders
Alford said even so, th
Army, Navy and Air Force
have thousands of their own
psychologists, and why was it
necessary to hire three out
siders through Flanagan? Hol
combe said Uncle Sam's peo
ple were busy.
Rep. H. R. Gross (R-Iowa),
probably made the unkindest
remark of all. He said it
looked to him that Brig. Gen.
During the 15 years of
peace which Amory is con
vinced the Soviet Union must
have and urgently wants, the
CIA expects the Kremlin to
follow this general pattern:
Red Pattern
-Play its Sputnik diploma
cy to the limit.
-Stand pat against all pres
sure in the areas now domi
nated by Communism.
-Insist either upon two-nation
talks between the Soviet
Union and the United States
or demand that satellite pow
ers sit beside Societ conferees
in numbers equal to the num
ber of allies sitting beside the
Americans.
-Maintain at high pitch the
work of trouble -making
among the peoples of non
Communist nations.
But softening this fifth col
umn activity with some show
of willingness to cooperate
with governments over which
the Kremlin exercises no con
trol. -Continue an effective for
eign policy of "no strings"
foreign aid towards nations
which neither are Communist
allies nor expected to become
allies.
Amory evidently believes
events of the next 15 years
largely will shape the long
haul pattern of the future,
war or peace or whatever.
"We face a race for leader
ship in the world against mili
tant Communists with fervent
faith," he said. "We must
never tempt them into a ma
jor path while letting down
our strength although they'
haven't got what it take ra
tionally to challenge us this
spring."
Amory said the Russian
leaders had no doubts ori the
future In a comparatively
short time they are confident
that the Soviet Union will be
tops-world-wide.
Lebanon Slowly Feeling Its Way Back
To Normality, Six Months After Revolt
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
Beirut -(LTD- Almost exactly
six months after the last U.S.
troops left Lebanon, this lit
tle nation still is felling its
way back to
ward normal
ity. Instead of
the American
landing craft
plying be-
t w e e n the
beaches and
the warships
outside, Beir
ut's beautiful
Phil Neusom
harbor is almost deserted now.
Smoke drifts idly from the
single stack of a small steam
er lying about halfway out
between Beirut's sandy shore
line and the mountains on the
other side.
Beirut has had an unusual
ly severe winter which caused
suffering to many in this na
tion neither used to nor equip-
Propriety
Henry C. Newton, hired as
school director at $14,500
while drawing $6,027 retired
pay from the Army, had sort
of set himself up for the job.
Newton didn't get a chance
to answer that for the record
but he said afterwards this
wasn't so and he was sure his
testimony will clear up re
maining confusion.
Davis said he hopes so, but
that this will have to wait.
The subcommittee won't meet
again until after a 10-day re
cess for Easter.
ommunications
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Old Folks and Taxes
To the Editor: It is hard to
understand why Oregon, after
100 years as a state, would
enact a law requiring the old
people, who have struggled
and saved enough to buy and
own their own home, to have
their home confiscated by le -
gislation. It is difficult as it is
to squeeze out an existence
until their time comes to be
laid under the sod.
How about the old . folks
that have no home of their
own and have no property tax
es, but have to pay rent?
Seems to me the whole thing
is bunk, and is only an excuse
by the state legislature for
passing out bills to tax old
people of this state.
How mu?h taxes do you
want the people of this state
to pay, anyway? We already
have taxes on every imagin
able thing except the air we
breathe. Give us a sales tax to
support the schools, and fix it
so it goes to school support
and nothing else for 99 years
- not this thing of voting tax
es for one thing and have the
money gobbled up for every
conceivable thing under the
sky.
Well, we are not voting a
sales tax before we are sure
we know where the money is
going.
This is the first time I
have expressed my views on
any subject, taxes, old age,
or anything else. But I am get
ting to be old, and am growing
older all the time. Where an
old person is required to put
a lien on his property in order
to pay his taxes or to be able
to exist, isn't very desirable.
I will admit that we are get
ting a lot of things through
the legislature. That is all
right, but we also are getting
a lot that we don't really
need. '
G. S. Elder
3579 Table Rock rd.
Medford.
Must Find Other Means
To the Editor: People go
their merry way with, seem
ingly, little recognition of the
fact that we are living in
what many thinkers believe
to be the most dangerous time
in all human history. It is
dangerous, of course, because
we have learned to control
great natural forces before
we have learned to control
ourselves. Or, at least, before
we have effectively demon
strated the ability to control
ourselves. In these days of
germ warfare, fear gas and
fallout (to say nothing of
those ever bigger bangs) the
possibilities for destruction
are practically unlimited.
During World War II the
military men on our side
were often criticized for be
ing "behind the times." They
were charged with being "al
ways ready to fight the prev
ious war."
Will our "preparedness"
prove to be as badly outmod
ed again? Is our thinking so
fixed in the past, when it was
ped for cold.
But you'd never know it
now. Snow still caps the
mountains but swimmers are
on the beach and umbrellas
are up against the blazing sun
on the terrace of the Saint
George Hotel.
Notes Some Tension
Nothing could look more
placid nor more normal.
But there is an undercur
rent of tension which rises
partly from the still-unforgot-ten
revolt against the regime
of former President Camille
Chamoun and partly from
the tensions gripping Leban
on's neighbors.
Part of the tension here is
the result of an early lack of
confidence in the new regime
of President Fuad Chehab.
Confidence only now is being
restored.
But in its early months, the
Chehab government refused
to use the means at its dispos
al to crush the bickering that
sometimes led to fighting be
tween the almost evenly div
ided Christians and Moslems.
Cites Kidnap-Murder Case
Strangely, one of the fac
tors leading to an upsurge of
confidence has been the gov
ernment's vigorous handling
of a kidnap-murder case here.
No such vigor had been
demonstrated in the days dur
ing and immediately follow
ing the revolt.
Now it is expected the gov
ernment also may move more
vigorously to maintain peace
between the Moslem Basta
section of Beirut and the
Christian sector on the other
side of the Place de Canons.
There are two strong pro
and anti-Nasser feelings, for
and against the Egyptian Pres
ident's policy of Arab nation
alism and positive neutrality.
possible for one side to sub
due the other by force, that
we are unable to recognize
the fact that we have entered
an age of different condi
tions? Will we deliberately
choose death? It is foolish to
talk of "holding back" our
. lethal weapons in the heat of
all out war.
Unless we can find some
other means of resolving our
differences, even learn to ac
cept humiliation at times,
death is what we will get.
E. Whealdon,
Route 1, Box 2105
Anderson, Calif.
What Is an 'Amateur'?
To the Editor: Since I was
a small child, I have contin
ually heard about people "bit
ing the hand that feeds them,"
but it was just a few days ago
that I finally saw an instance
of lack of appreciation so great
I felt the phrase truly fitted
it.
I refer to the letter from
Alvin Reiss published in last
Friday's Mail Tribune. Mr.
Reiss seems to feel that Wed
nesday's review by Olive
Starcher of the Footlighters'
production "The Tender Trap"
was inadequate in some ways.
In fact, he went so far as to
refer to Mrs. Starcher, "who
has been covering plays and
social events for the Mail Trib
une for many years, as an
'amateur."
Mr. Reiss, as a sometimes
actor for the Footlighters, is
well aware of the fact that
these productions are given in
an inadequate theater, on an
inadequte budget, by actors to
whom the word "amateur" can
be accurately applied. Said
actors include not only Mr.
Reiss himself, but his wife,
who appeared in the play in
question.
Mr. Reiss should also be
aware of the fact that Mrs.
Starcher has always been an
enthusiastic supporter of the
Footlighters, the Shakespeare
an Festival, and all other dra
matic efforts in this area. It
is largely due to substantial
coverage in her articles that
the public is aware of such
plays at all. The number of
times that the Reiss family's
names have appeared in such
publicity is substantial.
The source of Mr. Reiss' dis
content is fairly obvious when
one reads Mrs. Starcher's re
view. Perhaps her efforts to
make the play successful give
me another living example of
a well-known phrase: "If you
can't say something nice
don't say anything at all."
Next time, perhaps we could
get Brooks Atkinson or some
other "professional" reviewer
for the Footlighters. I am sure
he would enjoy doing a de
tailed critique of Mrs. Reiss'
performance, as well as a num
ber of other things which Mrs.
Starcher apparently felt it
better to leave out.
Maggie Christensen
' 404.12 North Grape st.
Medford.
In motion' picture theaters,
it expresses itself in boos and
hisses from the one side for
Nasser but cheers for Gen
Charles de Gaulle.
Anxiety Over Pro-Red Trend
There is also anxiety about
the pro-Communist trend of
the Iraqi government.
But long-time observers
here say there is no chance
this government will go Com
munist. The Lebanese are bus
Figures Show GOP
Candidates Could
Win Race in 1960
By Congressional Quarterly
. Washington - (CQ) - A Re
publican candidate can be
elected President in I960 even
if the party as a whole does
no better than it did in 1958.
He can be elected without
carrying a single state of the
once-solid South. He can win
without carrying one of the
Border states.
He can also lose Alaska,
California, Colorado, Con
necticut, Hawaii, Massachu
setts, Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, Oregon, and Rhode
Island to the Democratic
nominee -and still he will
win.
All he has to do is run be
tween 1 and 5 per cent ahead
of the Republican Congres
sional ticket in the 23 remain
ing Northern states, and he
will win even if the Con
gressional Republicans' in
those states do no better than
they did in 1958.
That is the surprising fact
that is demonstrated by an
analysis of official 1958 elec
tion returns by Congresisonal
Quarterly.
The analysis makes avail
able for the first time a
breakdown by Congressional
Districts of the official re
turns on the 1958 races for
Governor, Senator and Repre
sentative. -
Example Has Been Set
Is it reasonable to suppose
that anyone the Republicans
nominate in 1960 can run
to 5 per cent ahead of the
GOP Congressional ticket?
This is what the CQ fig
ures show:
Mr. Eisenhower ran 5.6 per
cent ahead of the Republican
Congressional ticket in his
1952 victory, and 8.7 per cent
ahead in 1956.
More to the point, New
York Gov. Nelson-A. Rocke
feler (R) ran 5.8 per cent
ahead of the state's Congres
sional ticket in 1958.
Four other Republicans -
Sen. Barry Goldwater (Ariz.)
Gov. Mark Hatfield (Ore.),
Sen. J. Glenn Beall (Md.), and
Gov. Christopher Del Sesto
(R.I.) - ran even farther in
front of the GOP ticket in
their states in 1958, but none
Morse Sees Need
For Castro Stand
Washington - (DPD - S e n.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) says
now is the time for the State
Department "to reach a new
firm decision in regard to the
Cuban situation and our of
ficial relations with Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro."
Morse noted that the Ameri
can Society of Newspaper
Editors had invited Castro to
address its annual meeting in
Washington next month and
that Rep. Charles O. Porter,
a fellow Oregon Democrat,
has asked Castro to attend
Oregon's Centennial Celebra
tion. Both invitations were is
sued without prior State De
partment or White House ap
proval. In a letter to Roy R. Rubot
tom Jr., assistant secretary of
state for Latin American af
fairs, Morse demanded v"an
unequivocal statement of
policy ... in regard to this
problem."
He said the invitations
could develop "into a rather
delicate situation."
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inessmen, and they believe
their ties are with the West.
The American troop land
ings are seldom mentioned
now. There are too many oth
er problems.
, American prestige is not
particularly high but it is
higher than it was. Even the
most rabid nationalist admires
the United States because it
got out of Lebanon when it
said it would.
of them is considered a Presi
dential hopeful.
In his last solo race, when
he ran for the Senate in Cali
fornia in 1950, Vice President
Richard M. Nixon ran an
even 7 per cent ahead of the
R e p u b 1 i can Congressional
ticket. But that showing is
marred somewhat by the fact
that Nixon's 1950 running
mate, then governor and now
Chief Justice Earl Warren,
ran 12.8 per cent ahead of the
Congressional ticket and 5.6
per cent ahead of Nixon.
Rockefeller, G o 1 d w a ter,
Hatfield, Beall and Del Sesto,
on the other hand, all topped
ine xicKets in tneir own
states in 1958.
How It Can Be Done
Here is exactly how a Re
publican Presidential victory
could be achieved without any
basic improvement in the
party strength;
In 1958. when the Republi
cans took a fearful drubbing
in the Congressional races,
GOP candidates for the House
received a majority of the
statewide vote in only six
states, with 30 electoral votes.
Those states were Nebraska,
New Hampshire, North Da
kota, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming.
First, suppose that in 1960,
R e p u b 1 i can Congressional
candidates do not improve
their showing anywhere, and
suppose the GOP Presidential
nominee runs exactly even
with the Congressional ticket.
Obviously, he would win
only the same six states and
30 electoral votes.
Next, suppose he runs 1
per cent ahead of the Congres
sional ticket. Immediately
dramatic things happen. He
wins Arizona, Delaware,
Iowa, Kansas, New Jersey,
Ohio and Pennsylvania, with
an additional 98 electoral
votes, bringing his total to
128.
If he runs. 2 per cent ahead
of the ticket, he gains Idaho,
South Dakota, Vermont and
the big prize of New York -another
56 electoral votes.
By running 3 per cent
ahead of the ticket he gains
Minnesota's 11 electors, and
his total is up to 195.
He runs 4 per cent ahead of
the ticket and he gains 50
more electoral votes in In
diana, Maine, Michigan and
Wisconsin.
Finally, he runs 5 per cent
ahead of the ticket in Illinois,
wins its 27 electoral votes
and has 272 in all - three
more than he needs for elec
tion. A numbers game? Perhaps.
But remember: Rockefeller
ran almost 6 per cent ahead
of the ticket in New York.
Nixon, with a boost from War
ren, ran 7 per cent ahead of
the ticket in California.
It's enough to give pause to
the Democrats.
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