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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
Mar 14, 1949 (Saturday)
Medford High school stu
dents attend the state music
festival at Klamath Tails.
Boy scouts attend a swim
ming jamboree at the YMtA
pool.
20 YEARS AGO
Mar 14, 1939 (Sunday)
, A series of Girl Scout "day
camps" are slated in Med
f ord's park, south of the city
on Bear creek, starting June 1.
From Arthur Perry's 4'Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Tom
Dewey of NY, mentioned as
a GOP candidate for presi
dent, is admired by many of
the Older Girls, for his fear
less fight against Tammany,
and his beautiful eyebrows."
80 YEARS AGO
May 14, 1929 (Tuesday)
Six tractors hasten work
on Medford's new airport.
James C. Collins is named
a member of the Medford city
council.
40 YEARS AGO
May 14. 1913 (Wednesday)
O. R. Campbell is named
principal of the high school.
County people flock to Med
ford to greet the Al G. Barnes
circus.
50 YEARS AGO
May 14, 1909 (Friday)
Charles D. Hazelrigg re
signs, and Medford is in the
market for a new band leader.
Portland's Commercial club
entertains the Medford Com-
mercial club.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ia superior;
seven or eight ia excellent; five or
six 'is good.
1. Correct the following:
"Politics are a risky profes
sion." 2. Hindus are strict vege
tarians; true or false?
3. Complete the following
savins. "Fit as a ."
4. Identify the three men
who took a ride in a tub in
the well known nursery
rhvme.
5. Which state is partly di
vided by the Chesapeake Bay?
6. Winston Churchill suc
ceeded as Prime Minister of
England a man known as 'the
man with the umbrella;" who
was the latter?
7. Portugal occupies the
western part of what penin-
8. The Grand Canyon of
the Colorado is in some places
more than a mile deep; true
or false?
9. An electric motor will
not operate in a vacuum;
tn or false?
10. The Gold Cup, Silver
Cup and President's Cup are
associated with wnat sporu
Answers: 1. "Politics is...
T,e. 3. . fiddle." 4.
Butcher, baker and candle
stick maker. 5. Maryland, fi.
Neville Chamberlain. 7. Iber-
a True. 9. False, iu.
AlUit r
Power-beat racing.
ABANDON PIG SHOT
nr.chinirfnn- (TPD The Na
V V (UUUig " '
Administration has abandon
ed plans to iod a pig
space. Pigs are "uncomfort-
nble lying on wen d.""i
in.' Stewart. NASA's
program planning director,
told reporters weanesuajf,
We Were
If you're wrong, the
it. '
So we were wrong, apparently, when last
August we stated our belief that the City Sanitary
Service Company could be trusted to run a clean,
unobnoxious operation at its new garbage, dump,
which is off the Jacksonville-Phoenix -highway,
not too far from Jacksonville.
Jacksonville people tell us that smoke frojm
burning garbage drifts across the landscape from
the dump site down toward the Griffin creek
area, and north and west over Jacksonville and
along the Old Stage road.
HLLE driving west
evening, we saw a
out of the canyon wnere
spreading, a low and oppressive blanket, over the
countryside.
In our eyes this is a moral, if not technical,
violation of the assurances which the company
made to the public last
the county planning commission, and m state
ments designed for public consumption.
To make our point,
Mail Tribune stories which appeared at the time :
"In response to questioning, Jones (Attorney Stan
ley C. Jones Jr., representing the company at a public
' hearing) stated that the service plans to use the sani
tary fUl method of disposal, and that 'no burning is
anticipated at this time'." Page 1, M-T, Thursday, July
24, 1958.
". . . Jones . . . has assured the commission that
the company 'will abide by any and all reasonable
recommendations in the operation of the disposal
plant'." Page 1, M-T, Wednesday, July 30, 1958.
"The company, on the other hand, points out that
the dump area is more than a mile from the nearest
residence, that the dump is not visible from any part
of Jacksonville, and declares that the land-fill method
it plans to use will eliminate any threat of air or water
pollution or rodent population . . ." Page 1, M-T, Fri
day, Aug. 1, 1958.
A ND here are a couple of paragraphs from a
letter to this newspaper, printed Aug. 8, 1958,
from Anthony Boitano and Charles Bottjer, .part
ners in the company:
"We wish to give you our personal assurance that
if it appears in the future that our operation at the
new site interferes with or detracts in any way from
the future development of Jacksonville and the sur
rounding area, we will find it necessary to locate else
where, just as it has been necessary for us to curtail
in the past .. . -
"We hope that we will always continue to be
V aware of the fact that in exchange for being granted
the exclusive franchise to dispose of. garbage by the
valley communities, we have also incurred the obli
gation to provide for them the very best garbage re
moval program that is economically feasible."
frlNALLY, we would like to repeat a paragraph
1 from an editorial of Aug. 3, 1958, which said,
"The dump, certainly, should be operated under
the strictest rules and regulations to prevent it
ever from becoming a
pany readily agrees that
In the case at hand,
the heart of the problem. It should De stopped at
once. We believe the company owes it to the
people of the valley and
icular to convert immediately to the sanitary
land-fill method, daily.
if they do not, we believe increasing public
pressure, and perhaps even nuisance-abatement
suits, will force it to do so.
We would much prefer to see voluntary com
pliance with the assurances of last August to the
T Al i. Al. - J I 1 ..I I
ena tnai ine nuisances attendant on tne dump, at
present, stop. E.A.
'It's Working
Remember Robert Prescott's plan for ursrine:
children to write letters to Southeast Asia in an
effort to secure the release of five Americans held
prisoner in Red China? His plan is working.
ihe HiUgene man came in the other day with
a sheaf of letters from Pakistan, India, Ceylon
and other countries in that region. They are
letters in response to those of Oregon schoolchil
dren. The children wrote to newspapers in those
countries, outlining the plight of the imprisoned
five and urging their release. The Asian papers
printed the letters. The letters Mr. Prescott had
were copies of letters written to the children by
Asians who had read the letters in their home
town papers. - '
His basic proposition is simple-that children
can often succeed where adults cannot Letter
writing campaigns have been especially success
ful in the Portland area. Others interested in his
idea can leam more about it by getting in touch
with him at 151 River Ave. or at his office in the
Tiffany Bldg., in Eugene. Eugene Register
Guard. Kennedy s Good Example
Senator Kennedy of
V 1 "1 1 r m W
ciared nimseix in iavor of repealmg the special
loyalty oath required of students who receive
loans under the Defense Education Act. He has
done so in recogition of the fact' that there is a
growing list of colleges that have declined to take
funds under a law whose disclaimer affidavit
amounts to a reflection on the patriotism of loyal
students. We trust" that Senators Hennings and
Symington of Missouri both are opposed to the
oath requirement and are sure that Senator Doug
las is also opposed. If enough Congressmen will
declare themselves the repeal of this offensive as
well as ineffective throwback to the McCarthy
era win taKe place almost automatically. St,
Louis Eost-Dispatch,
Wrong
best thingto do is admit
on Ross lane one recent
plume of smoke drifting
the dump is located, and
July and August, before
we reprint excerpts from
nuisance and the com
this is acceptable."
buminp; appears to be at
of Jacksonville in par-
Massachusetts has de-
m, ... -
Dennis the
'YOU MB AH THE BQfiSOS 1 mXD FOR AV CUKJHOUSE AND
VYcKcNT HOWE To ASK
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE SHAPE OF THE TABLE
The question of whether to
confer at a round table, as the
Soviets wanted, or at a square
table, as we preferred, was
not in itself important. But it
is very inter
esting. For it
is an early
sample of the
kind of nego
tiations that
opened at Ge
neva and will
go on to the
summit, per-
V one . in Con
Walter .
Lippmann Francisco. It
will be a negotiation not so
much about what shall be
done as about how it shall be
done. '
Thus, in Bonn and in Par
is, no less than in London,
Washington, and Moscow, it
is' accepted as a fact that the
two German states cannot be
united during these negotia
tions. The real controversies
as between West . and East,
and also in some measure
within the West, will turn on
how to deal legally and polit
ically and psychologically
with the fact of a continuing
partition of Germany.
Equally, it is surely well
understood in Moscow, as it
is in Washington and the
West, that West Berlin will
not be abandoned, and that
the Allied token forces will
remain as a witness to this de
cision, and that a blockade of
the access routes to Berlin
would be an act of war.
The real problem about
Berlin will be how to deal
legally, politically, and psy
chologically, with the fact
that West Berin will remain
withtn the Western commun
ity while it is located within
the Eastern community.
THESE are not insoluble
problems in that at bot
tom both sides will accept in
substance the status quo. The
problems, though not insolu
ble, are, however, complex
and subtle. For the juridical
form in which the status quo
is accepted will have far
reaching political and psy
chological consequences in
both Germanys, in West Ber
lin itself, and indeed in all
of Europe.
If, for example, the parti
tion of Germany were recog
nized publicly and definitive
ly, the political consequences
in West Germany would al
most surely be very serious.
It would mark the total de
feat of Adenauer and of his
party, and no one could fore
see what they could mean in
the coming German elections
of 1961.
If, on the other hand, there
is no recognition of the fact
that there are two German
states, and if the Soviet Un
ion openly abandoned East
Germany as a 'state, treating
it as mere occupied territory,
there would be a strong incen
tive and much provocation for
an -East German revolt. When
West Germany is rearmed,
perhaps with nuclear weapons
an East German revolt would
be a very great danger to the
peace of the world.
THE moral of this is that the
, real problems will require
a high degree of statesman
ship, and that they cannot be
solved by pounding the table
and playing to the gallery.
The hard part of the nego
tiation, which will" have to be
carried on quietly and off
stage, will consist in devising
juridical and political for
mulae which accommodate
the political and psychologi
cal imponderables. This will
not be easy to do, especially
if it has to be done with con
stant stamping, whistling, and
cat-calls from the gallery
about who has won what, who
has given away what, who is
a fool or a knave.
.-There are two things which
klffrWrlk:JE,a
Menace
Lippmann
we need not worry about. One
is that Washington and Lon
don will betray Bonn and
Paris. They will not. The oth
er thing we need not worry
about is that Bonn and Paris
have a veto which they will
exercise to prevent us from
negotiating what has to be
negotiated. Bonn and Paris
have no such veto power, and
they know it.
rpHE problem within the al---
liance does not lie in any
fundamental and substantial
conflict of purposes, or even
in any important difference of
estimate as to what is the
reality of the existing situa
tion. The problem within the
illiance is how to enable West
Germany to accommodate it
self politically and psycholog
ically to the reality that there
will be two Germanys for the
indefinite future .
' This will be a hard exper
ience for the Germans. His
torians may well say that in
this - experience the role
France, has chosen for" itself
is not to say yes-yes to Aden
auer, but to promote in West
Germany the alternative to
German reunification, but to
promote in West Germany the
alternative to German reun-
if ication-which is Franco
German unity in a West Eur
opean community.
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Dangerous Encounter
To the Editor: I read with
interest the article on the
early days around Jackson
ville in Sunday's paper. I
have often thought of the
dangers of meeting up with
a band of hostile Indians.
Now I wonder what would be
the most dangerous meet
ing the Indians or meeting
Floyd McCabe coming out of
Butte Falls with his mechani
cal brakes.
I was going to suggest he
get a horse and a couple of
poles, hitch the poles to the
horse like the Indians did, as
he is already used to rough
roads, according to previous
letters. But upon second
thought he likes to shift his
own gears so I had to discard
that idea. So guess he will
have to stay with standard
transmissions and mechanical
brakes.
According to Floyd, he hag
driven for over 20 years. I've
been driving for 36 years. I
have driven the old two
wheel mechanical brake, now
I drive with hydraulic brakes
and an automatic transmission
and I wouldn't trade all the
progress that the engineers of
our automobile for manufac
turers have invented for aU
of Floyd's ideas.
Everett Brown,
. Route 2, box 263,
Central Point. ;
Fishers Staying in
Manhattan Hotel :
New York -uTPD Eddie Fish
er and Elizabeth Taylor were
honeymooning today in the
seclusion of a hotel bridal
suite high over Manhattan.
They arrived by plane early
Wednesday and went straight
to their suite in the Waldorf
Towers refusing even to kiss
for photographers. They were
wed Tuesday in Las Vegas,
Nev.
The couple planned to fly
today or Friday to Spain for
a honeymoon cruise on a
yaoht, .. . . . . .
Deterioration of Allied Relationships
Reviewed on 10th Anniversary of 'Lift'
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Ten years ago this week
the Soviets gave up on their
greatest effort thus far to
squeeze the
Allies out of
Berlin.
On May 12,
19 49, Dr.
Philip C. Jes-
sup of the Un
ited State-sl
and Jakob
Malik of the
Soviet Union
ptui Newsom concluded in
New York successful negotia
tions to end Russia's Berlin
blockade. ,
I
It was a decisive defeat for
the Soviet Union, won by the
West through a combination
of grim determination and
a massive airlift which kept
2Va million West Berliners
supplied with the essentials by
air alone.
It lasted for . nearly , 11
months, during which in one
record day the Allies poured
nearly 13,000 tons into West
Berlin's three airports aboard
1,383 flights.
Lives Were Lost
It was not without cost in
human life. Thirty-one Ameri
can and 39 British airmen died
to keep the airlift going.
The foreign ministers' con
ference which began Monday,
May 11, in Geneva, is the 15th
since Allied victory in Eur
ope in 1945. Nearly half of
those meetings have been de
voted to fruitless efforts to
find a basis agreeable to both
East and West for a German
peace treaty and an end to the
occupancy of Berlin.
The course of those meet
ings has shown the steady de
terioration of relations be
tween the Soviet Union and
the Western powers, from de
voted aUies to open threats of
a shooting war.
as mis deterioration pro
I l ' i
i .in,
Matter of Fact By Joseph
BEHIND THE KAFKA
DREAM
Geneva There is some
thing of a Kafka-dream about
the monstrous meeting that
has now start
ed here. The
great men of
East and West
began their
d e liberations
-by squab
bling about
the shape of
the conference
table.
mu.i I J a! 1
4ospb Alsop uuual
clash gave a fair measure,
moreover, of the character of
most of the rest of the de
bate that can be expected
Here, wnat is real, one is
tempted to think, is Geneva's
exduisite panorama of the
lake and the great fountain
and the alleys of flowering
trees and the still-snowclad
mountains rising behind the
little city. The conference it
self inclines to believe, is no
more than a very bad public
joke.
But this conference is not
a joke, because of the reality
that Jies behind it, The com
plex protocol, the elaborate
position papers whose total
unacceptability is known to
both sides, the sense of tri
umph or defeat derived from
such clashes as the great table
squabble - all these are utter
ly divorced from the normal
realities of everyday life. Yet
the grim underlying reality
is intimately though invisibly
linked to the lives of all men
on this planet.
THE nature of this underly
ing reality is best convey
ed by the extraordinary but
true anecdote of the visit paid
to Gen. Charles de Gaulle by
Vinogradov, the smooth So
viet Ambassador to Paris. It
occured shortly after the re
cent special congress of the
Communist party in Moscow.
Vinogradov made the party
congress his pretext for ask
ing to be received by de
Gaulle.
This having been the pre
text, the Soviet Ambassador
somewhat lamely maundered
on about the congress and its
results for about 20 minutes,
while de Gaulle silently and
somewhat ominously listened.
Finally, Vinogradov, judging
it was unwise to beat about
the bush any longer, boldly
unveiled his real ' purpose.
What, he asked, did de Gaulle
think about Berlin? De
Gaulle replied in two sen
tences. "Free access to West Ber
lin is a vital Western inter
est, for which we shall fight
if need be. If we have to
fight, no doubt we may all
die; but so will you-"
THOSE two terrible sen
tences, pronounced by de
Gaulle in a manner that
caused Vinogradov's imme
diate withdrawal, put the Ber
lin crisis in a nutshell. On the
one hand, for a whole series
of moral, political and his
torical reasons, the mainten
ance of the Western position
in Berlin is a Western vital
interest. As British Foreign
... '
gressed, drastic changes .be
gan taking place in the rela
tionships between the West
ern powers, and, the 40 mil
lion people of West Gerrtiany.
A review is enlightening.
In 1945, at Yalta, President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Sir
Winston Churchill of Britain
and Premier Josef Stalin of
the Soviet Union agreed to
the broad outlines of a plan
for Germany. The plan had
been proposed by- the late
Henry Morgenthau, former
U. S. secretary of the teas-
ury. .
Stripped of Industry
It would have reduced Ger
many virtually to an agricul
tural state, devoid of the in
dustrial tools for waging war.
In 1946, the Allied Control
Council limited Germany's
John L. Lewis Now Unhappily
Respectable; Gives Advice
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington - (UPD - John L.
Lewis is 79 now and so re
spectable he hardly can stand
These days he gets up of a
morning and looks in vain
through the
papers, for
some denun
ciatioh of
Lewis. Mostly
he can't even
find his name
mentioned.
"I feel sort
of lost some
times," he ad
mitted. Frank Eleazer
At a three-hour, standing
room only performance before
a House Labor subcommittee,
the United Mine Workers
president did his theatrical
best to correct a public image
of himself, as a sort of elder
Alsop
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd said
in Washington, "If
goes, what next?"
Berlin
But on the other hand,
there is no way on earth to
defend this vital Western posi
tion in Berlin except by be
ing ready to fight for it; and
if the West fights for Berlin,
it will be almost impossibly
difficult to limit the war.
Such is the real choice. A
great many people, with Sel
wyn Lloyd among them, have
been looking for a way
"around or over or under that
choice. Yet that choice is the
underlying reality of thi
meeting.
What Andrei Gromyko and
his vast Soviet delegation are
here to find out, if they cari,
is whether the Western na
tions really are ready to fight
for Berlin. If they conclude
the contrary, as they well
may, there will be no end
to the concessions which the
Soviets will demand. Nothing
but the clearest, most decis
ively proven Western willing
ness to fight for Berlin will
promote the kind of compro
mise that would be acceptable
to the West. .
' -
WHAT the Western Foreign
Ministers are here for,
one almost suspects, is also
to find out whether they are
willing to fight for Berlin.
Gen. de Gaulle may have
made up his mind, as he ap
pears to have done. Chancel
lor Adenauer may have made
up his mind, too. But what is
in the mind of President Ei
senhower? And above all,
what is in the mind of Prime
Minister Macmillan? These
questions, apparently, are go
ing to have to be answered
as this conference continues
and later on, at the summit
itself.
It may seem gloomy-mind
ed to place such emphasis on.
the harsh choice that the Ber
lin crisis ultimately demands.
But it is only prudent to be
gin thinking about this choice,
for the very good reason that
Berlin seems likely to be
only the first round in a quiet
new kind of East-West con
test of will. This new kind of
contest became predictable
as soon as the Eisenhower ad
ministration decided not to
maintain the Western nuclear
lead.
Today, at the very begin
ning of the missile gap, the
Soviets are saying, "We find
the Berlin situation intoler
able, and if you don't change
it to suit us, we will take
measures you can only coun
ter by using the weapons you
have never before been win
ing to use." The Soviets
would not be saying this if
the Western nuclear lead had
been maintained. They are
now saying this precisely be
cause the American lead has
been lost. They are obviously
likely to say worse things as
the missile gap widens. That
is really where we stand to
day, and that is why the na
ture of choice at Berlin needs
to be faced up to and pray
erfully considered.
(Copyright 1959 New York
Herald i Tribune, Inc.)
industrial out put to 50 per
cent of the 193 level.
But in 1947, .after unsuc
cessful meetings of the for
eign ministers in London and
Moscow, came the first of the
drastic changes. .' '
If the Allies had failed to
reach agreement on reunifi
cation of Germany, and the
United States, Britain and
France, independent , of the
Soviet Union, announced West
Germany would be permitted
to produce peace-time goods
up to 95 per cent of 1938 lev
els. Germany was on her. way
once again as a great indust
rial power.
Events Move Swiftly
As the Allies drifted far
ther and farther apart, events
in West Germany moved
statesman of organized labor.
He assailed authors of pend
ing labor reforsp bills as
labor's enemies, lie accused
AFL-CIO leaders who agree 1
some legislation is needed of
compromising with the execu
tioner's ax.. He assured one
earnest ' young Republican
member, Rep. Robert P. Grif
fin -of Michigan, that he in
time will grow up.
Like a Kin?
He reigned like a king in
the witness chair. He bristled
and roared and refused to be
shushed. But he couldn't seem
to convince anybody.
Chairman Carl D. Perkins
(D-Ky.) told Lewis the sub
committee was "mighty
proud" he had come.
Rep. Carroll Kearns (R-Pa.),
the ranking . GOP member,
said Lewis and Sam Gompers
Editorial
Comment
EMIGRANT LAKE
A visit to Emigrant lake any
Saturday or Sunday afternoon
this spring will provide visual
evidence of the recreational
value of this reservoir in the
Talent irrigation system.
Last Sunday afternoon sev
eral hundred cars were park
ed beside the lake. At one
time more than 23 boats were
cruising in the south arm of
the lake, and to the deMght
of many an onlooker, a trim,
white-sailed boat was scud
ding along before a crisp
breeze. 1
Next summer, during con
struction of the new dam,
Emigrant will be dry, but
during the winter of 1960-61,
the lake will re-fill and if
there is a normal winter it
will likely come up to capac
ity. : The enlarged lake will have
two long arms extending from
the dam, with numerous coves
off the larger bodies of water,
Under the plan of the irriga
tion district, while Emigrant
will be drawn down each sum
mer to supply the water needs
of fields and orchards, there
will always be as much water
in it as the present high-level
mark.' This means that boat
owners and water skiers can
enjoy the lake throughout the
pleasant months of the year.
With the increased interest
in boating and water sports,
there will have to be enforce
ment of safety rules when the
larger, deeper and more haz
ardous lake is available .to
the public. Ashland Tidings.
Our respect for your
belief is genuine
and sincere . . .
As o (ram lU
RANK MORGAN - H Alt 04.0 SN006RASS, WNERAl DKCIOtS
aM
DAY OR NK5HT
swiftly.
In 1948, the Western Alliei
announced a currency reform
for West Germany, divorcing
Western currency from the
East. The currency reform
was a trigger to the Berlin
blockade.
In 1951, the Western AUies
lifted the last restrictions on
West Germany's peacetime
production.
In 1954, West Germany be
came a full member of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization (NATO) with her own
army. So, in less than 10 years
West Germany had gone fnU -circle
from defeated, prostrate
nation, to independence and
world power.
And Russia, once an ally,
now talks and acts at an
enemy. . 1
shared honors in his estima-
tion as the men who did most
for the working man.
Even members whose ir.
torates include not a single
member of the UMW tended
to preface their questions
with pledges of boundless re
spect. Rep. John Dent (D-Pa.!. saM
he was mighty pleased to hear
tne umw held up so uniform
ly as a model of union be
havior. "Was it always this way?"
he asked Lewis.
"Congressman," Lewis re
plied, his eyes twinkling un
der the well-known craggy
eyebrows, "I'm glad you
asked me that question."
A little sadly, it seemed,
he went on then to recall
earlier and happier days when
he was the perennial villain
of the big labor stage.
Pulled Out of Unions r
The depression days when
he was organizing the first
vertical unions. How be
pulled out of the AFL and
into a new CIO. And later,
how he pulled out of the CIO.
Also, the many times when
his big coal strikes were de
nounced as a threat to the
nation.
Lately, Lewis has been
settling his arguments with
coal operators behind closed
doors. It's been years since he
pulled his members out of
the mines. Except for getting
in the hospital a couple of
months ago, for, pneumonia,
he hasn't been making much
news.
"Now, every now and then
at some public affair, I am
accepted as other men,"
Lewis said.' "I have achieved
a certain degree of respecta
bility. Possibly this is because,
I suppose, the public has
found somebody else they en
joy more being mad at."
Lewis did come up with a
new definition of poverty. He
said it's when you can't af
ford to send your children to
college. By this standard, he
said most union members are
poor. His own, though he
didn't say so, currently get
$24.25 daily.
Lewis also said you can't
help organized labor bv Dut-
ting union members in chains.
Damn the chains, and
those that . advocate them!"
He roared.
Then he left the House Of
fice Building and stepped
grandly into a waiting . Cadil
lac limousine. The day was
muggy, and the chauffeur,
thoughtfully, had the air con
ditioning running.
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