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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago. -
10 YEARS AGO -
Juna 23, 1949 (Thursday)
" Queen Irene Walker of the
Rogue River Roundup will be
crowned tonight.
Medford Water Superin
tendent Robert A. Duff reports
that the alternate-day lawn ir
rigating schedule has been a
success in relieving low water
pressures. , , . ,
20 YEARS AGO " . "
June 23. 1939 (Friday)
Fletcher Fish, federal fruit
inspector, ' distributes New
town apples to the Mail Trib
une staff.
. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
song of the threshing machine
will be heard in the valley
next week. Some have already
started vocalizing."
30 YEARS AGO
June 23. 1929 (Sunday)
The Medford fire depart
ment moves into its Third st.
station. - ; ,
The airport is expected to
be ready for use within-70
days; ' : "
40 YEARS AGO
June 23. 1919 (Monday)
Early risers report seeing
a "sun dog" on the eastern
horizon this morning.
The high school band gives
a concert in the city park. : . , ,
50 YEARS AG6T X
June 23. 1909 (Wednesday)
A shipment of rainbow and
brook trout is expected this
week for local dissemination.
Medford Commercial club
members agree to finance an
appeal of the Crater Lake road
appropriation case.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superierj
seven or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Is a horned toad a toad,
lizard, or snake?
2. Did George Washington
have any descendants in the
direct line? ,
3. It tis asserted that the
wonder drug, cortisone, can
now be made from Mexican
yams; true or false?
4. From what Massachu
setts town did Paul Revere
start his famous .ride? " -
5. The names of which two
state capitals include the en
tire names of their states?
6. From what mountain did
Moses see the Promised Land?
7. What famous orator in
the U. S. Senate was nicknam
ed "MiU Boy of the Slashes"?
8. What was the name of
the Barber of Seville?
9. What is the name of the
large island northwest of the
state of Washington?
10. In what game is a puck
used?
Answers: I. Lixard. . 2. No.
3. True. 4. Charlestown. 5.
Indianapolis 'and Oklahoma
City. 6. ML Pisgah. 7. Henry
Clay. 8. Figaro. 9. Vancouver.
10. Hockey.
CZECHS SENTENCE PRIEST
Vienna-ffiPB-A Roman Cath
olic priest was sentenced by a
Czech court to five years im
prisonment for anti-state ae
tivities, it was disclosed today.
The priest, Jaroslav Tyrner,
was accused of doing "every
thing to incite the population
against tneConununist re
gime," the Czech newspaper
Pochoden said. Tyrner "hearts
ily hated socialism and the
working class," the newspaper
said. ,
Hoffa And The Hill
The timing of the resumed Senate Labor
Rackets Committee hearings on Jimmy Hoffa
and his Teamsters is probably not to be fair-
deliberate, lney were interrupted in part because
of a medical check-up for Chairman John L.
McClellan (D-Ark.), But the new Hoffa head
lines could not come at a more appropriate mo
ment for McClellan, advocate and sponsor of a
stronger labor reform bill than that which cleared
the Senate by a 90 to 1 vote back in April.
A House Education and Labor subcommittee
on June 10 concluded hearings on a reform meas
ure, and now the full committee is working on
the bill. McClellan on the last day of hearings
told the subcommittee he would like to see the
Senate bill strengthened: (1) "to deal effectively
with the no man's land" between state and fed
eral jurisdiction in labor disputes, (2) to outlaw
secondary boycotts, (3) to include stronger pick
eting provisions. These last two items are viewed
by the administration and Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell as indispensable to an effective
reform bill.
JlflcCLELLAN termed "one of the most vital
1VA parts of the bill" the "labor bill of rights"
which he had introduced on the Senate floor and
which, in somewhat watered form, was tacked
on to the Kennedy-Ervin measure. That's where
Jimmy Hoffa comes in. Hoffa's basic position,
like that of the United Mineworkers' John L.
Lewis, is that no labor law at all should be passed
this year. But if a bill is to be passed, his union
has its own version of a "bill of rights."
Teamsters attorneys on June 9 promised the
House subcommittee draft legislation that would
incorporate a "bill 6f rights" in all union consti
tutions and bylaws; prescribe rules of order and
methods of redress; assert the members' rights
to vote on financial matters, to participate in
union elections, and to express opinion on all
matters relating to union affairs; provide for
federal mediation of grievances between a union
and its members, and provide federal court re-
course for a member if mediation failed.
The attorneys promised to submit a model
bill by June 15. But the Labor Committee told
Editorial Research Reports, June 18, no draft had
yet been received.
OOFFA'S views on bills of rights seem not to
have been communicated to the federal
courts, or, indeed, to have trickled down to the
Teamsters themselves. The United States Court
of Appeals on June 10 told the union that it would
have to abide by sweeping clean-up orders issued
by its court-appointed
What makes Hoffa
on Capitol Hill so welcome to advocates of a
tough measure at a time whfjn the House is mark
ing up or debating a reform bill is the kind of
threat the Teamster chief made just a month ago.
Speaking at Brownsville, Texas, on May 19,
Hoffa warned that if Congress placed unions
under antitrust laws, "we should have all our
contracts end on a given date." The threat of a
general strike of labor,
U O i,
4J.ux.La a icjuicuns, was iuiiueuiaiciy icpuuiaicu uy
AFL-CIO President George Meany, but it inevi
tably strengthened the
others seeking strong reform legislation so much
so that Hoffa on the following day pleaded that
he had been misquoted.
had carried the remarks
report. L.K.R.
Conference in Moscow
The 133-member Central Committee of the
Soviet Communist Party
Wednesday in what is for
cedented glare of publicity. The usual practice
has been to reveal the
passed into history. This time Pravda not only
announced the date, it also published an agenda
oi sons.
The committee is to
questions related to the new Soviet seven-year
plan. Such matters as automation, mechanization
of farming, wider use of synthetics in short,
application of the latest technical innovations to
the U.S.S.Ks big pusji for economic supremacy.
Why the advance notice? Some observers
theorize that Khrushchev is trying to give rank-and-file
party people a sense of participation in
great events. Maybe so. But it's also possible the
Reds are doing exactly what they seem to be
doing, namely engaging in a little old-fashioned
ballyhoo. "
AS NUMEROUS economists have been at pains
x .yv"if uul-, uie tuuu&uicu iace ueuweeu
the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is in one sense a
trumped-up affair. The Russian economy is going
through a stage ours has already completed.
G, Warren Nutter of the National Bureau of Eco
nomic Research noted just the other day that a
large snare ot the Soviet spurt is attributable to
'the diversion of manpower to industry" from
fanning and other work.
But such subtleties don't make very effective
propaganda for the West, and Khrushchev has
managed to convince a large part of the world
that the Soviet Union is about to run us into the
ground at our own specialty production. What
ever other purpose it may have, the Moscow
meeting will furnish Khrushchev with an excel
lent sounding-board for pressing his propaganda
advantage.
; Meanwhile, in the U.S., the self-analysis con
tinues. Recent reassurances haven't removed the
sting from Defense Secretary McElroy's warning
of April 23 that unless we "increase our own out
put ... we may come out second best in a compe
tition for which there is no second prize." E.R.R.
Board of Monitors. "
s presence as a witness
clear in the context of
i;ii v..
hand of McClellan and
The wire service which
stood by its Brownsville
.....
convenes in Moscow on
the Russians an unpre
session only after it's
consider key economic
Dennis the
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Paraguay Is Nation Where U.S.
Form of Government Goes Slow
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Naturally rich but perenni
ally poor Paraguay is another
Latin American nation where
democracy has
found heavy
going.
- Upris i n g s
and revplts,
some - success
ful, others
failures,
almost have
been the landr
v rVV 1 locked counr
rfNTS1 try's history
since the end of its war with
Argentina, Brazil and Uru
guay in. 1870.
And the seeds of revolt scatr
tered throughoift Latin
America by the winds of Fi
del Castra's successful revo
lution in Cuba, have found
fertile ground in Paraguay,
which has been under state of
siege for nearly 30 years and.
today is ruled by the military
dictatorship of President -pen.
Alfredo Stroessner.
In the last six months,
spurred by the Cuban revolur
tion and a number of abortive
invasion attempts by Nicarar
guan exiles in neighboring
states, Stroessner has made
some gestures at restoring a
democracy which most Parar
guayans never knew.
Press Freedom Returned
On April 28, he raised the
state of siege and announced
restoration of freedom of the
press. '
He also called for election of
a constituent assembly to ret
write the constitution, to be
followed by national elections
to name a truly representative
congress.
On paper, it made encou?
raging reading.
But Stroessner's opponents
have called it lip service only
and Stroessner's own gestures
toward carrying out his pro
gram have seemed but half
hearted.
His opponents gained am?
munition for their charges
when on May 30, Stroessner
reimposed the state of siege
and arrested 15 members of
the House of Representatives
and at least as many political
leaders within his own Cole
rado Party.
The arrests grew out of
ant i-government demonstrar
tions protesting a rise in trans
portation fares.
A deeper cause of the denv
onstrations was poverty pitted
against the steadily rising cost
of living in general.
It's a Dictatorship
Stroessner came to power
five years ago after a "sen-r
sible revolution which ousted
President Federico Chaves.
While Stroessner's is an un
doubted dictatorship, there
also are indications he is not
entirely his own man.
Stroessner does not have the
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
TiHE WALL STREET JOURNAL tracked down a not-too-1
bright office girl Who, when finally discovered, had thought
for eight solid months that the waste-paper chute down to the
furnace was a filing cabinet.
That's where she had
stuffed every letter given
her to file.
"That's not the worst of
it," mourned the bank V.P.
who exposed her. "We fig
ure that we lost 3,000 letters
as a result of this girl's
stupidity and to this day
we haven't needed one of
them!"
Reasonably distinguished
author dropped in to visit his
publisher, but was stopped by
a too-honest receptionist. Xou
can't see the boss now," she told him. "H's completely tied up. He's
taking a nap."
i e
If you care to take the word of Oklahoman Cliff Wade, Texas
marriage vows now conclude, "Do you promise to love, honor, and
talk about Texas?"
1958. by Swastt Cat Distribute to aUuXatiumeVadkate.
Menace
strong man temperament and
he seldom makes decisions
without consulting the mili
tary junta which surrounds
him. On his own volition, he
is inclined to deal lightly with
his opponents, or even those
who plot against him.
A man behind the scenes is
Lt. Col. Ramon Duarte Vera,
powerful chief of police who
is a law unto himself, ujir
touchable even by Stroessner.
Besides his own police force,
Duarte Vera also has the backr
ing of the army cavalry divi
sion at Campo Grande which
guards the capital of Asun
cion. ' - '
Aligned with Duarte Vera
is Tomas Romero Pereira,
president of the Colorado
Party, the only legal party in
Paraguay.
These two men, more than
any others are blamed for
Paraguay's backward march
from democracy.
Paraguay's constitution is
Wagon Riders
See Wedding
Kemmerer, Wyp.-(UPD r-The
seven covered wagons of the
On-toOregon Cavalcade to
day served as the rustic, ro
mantic setting of the marriage,
of. Thomas A. Holloman, 21,
and Judith Ray Roudebaugh,
18, both of Drain, Ore.
The Fif ty-Niners" pulled
into Triangle park in the cen
ter of this Western Wyoming
town about noon and formed
the traditional circle for en-:
campment.
The bride and groom were
escorted to Evanston, Wyo.,
Monday by Wyoming state
police to complete pre-mar-riage
technicalities after Arriv
ing from Drain. '. V
Kemmerer businessmen ar
ranged for-the wedding cake,
flowers and the reception.
The bride wore an old-fashioned
white wedding dress
made for her by Mrs. Edna
Erickson, Drain, an old friend
of the family. Don Work, cou
sin of the groom, accompan
ied the couple and served as
best man. Maid of honor was
Janelle Roudebaugh, sister of
the bride. The parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. R. "Rudy" Rouder
baugh, are riding the wagon
train.
RAIDERS KILL BRITISH
Cairo -(DPD Arab Fedayeen
raiders killed five British sol
diers in the southern Arabian
state of Muscat and Oman,
the semi-official Middle East
News Agency reported Mon
day. The unconfirmed report
said the raids took place be
tween . Nazwa and Azki
against a British military
camp and another British out
post. Stop Mo
Congress
Reported
By FRANK ELEAZER
United Press International
Washington - (DPD - Rustlers
are reported after the cattle
again in the West, and it
f looks like Con-
iS 6 l c g
. 2 . . . ,
nave to neao
'em off at the
interchange.
Sen. Cordon
Allott (R
Colo.) said he
is informed
bad hombres
under cover of
Frank Blearer nlgOl nave
been snatching slick newborn
calves, loading them into
panel trucks and floorboard
ing it for unspecified markets
in Kansas.
The victims naturally are
yelling for help.
Meanwhile, back at the
Capitol, our lawmakers also
have promised a fight to save
the West's few remaining wild
horses. It seems that city
slickers in airplanes and heli
copters have been running the
modelled after that of the
United States. But it exists on
paper only, and meanwhile
the people of Paraguay seem
to have little immediate
chance o enjoying their na
tural riches which range from
fertile lands to timber and
yast mineral resources.
New Biography
Pictures Nixon
As Driving Man
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press International
Washington-flJPD-A new bi
ography of Vice President
Richard M. Nixon pictures
him as a man who would
bring drive and confidence to
the presidency.
This is the way the book
answers its own question as
to what kind of president
Nixon would make:
". . . He would be perhaps
the hardest-driving chief ex
ecutive arid the most contro
versial since Theodore Roose
velt. There would be nothing
haphazard, nothing bland
about his administration, nor
any doubt about its political
identity. There would be hold
overs from the Eisenhower
regime, but under Nixon they
would move more energeti
cally." .
Earl Mazo, - who covers
Washington politics for the
New York Herald Tribune,
wrote the biography which is
titled "Richard Nixon, A Po
litical and Personal Portrait."
Mazo took a six-month leave
of absence in 1957 to produce
the book, and ended up" de
voting 15 months- to it.
20 Interviews
He interviewed Nixon more
than 20 times, talked with
about 300 other persons about
the vice president and com
pressed the result in 300
pages.
The book can be described
as neither an unfriendly book
nor a campaign document.
Mazo gives a play-by-play
account of events leading to
the vice president's renomina
tion in 1956 and cf Harold E.
Stassen's campaign to knock
him off the ticket.
The book reports that Presi
dent Eisenhower reminded his
junior partner that no vice
president had been elected to
th White House for more than
a century.
Mazo also reports that Nix
on actually decided in March,
1956, to get out of politics
and accept a job in private
business but was persuaded to
defer his announcement.
Mazo depicts Nixon, the po
litician, as a sort of fatalist
who believes he was elected
to the House, the Senate and
vice presidency because he
"was in the right place at the
right time."
Nixon is described as ambi
tious but less so than many
people believe.
Consideration of
Kilkenny Delayed
Washington (DPD Action
was set over Monday by the
Senate Judiciary committee
on the nomination of Pendle
ton lawyer John F. Kilkenny
to be U.S. judge for Oregon.
The Monday meeting was a
closed session and nomina
tions were not considered.
The committee worked on its
legislative schedule in the
Monday meeting. . .
Kilkenny was approved by
a subcommittee last week.
The full committee will meet
again next Monday and must
pass on Kilkenny before the
Senate can confirm then nomination.
t . M
May Have
on Increase
mustangs to exhaustion, with
a view to grinding them up
into dogfood.
Rustling on Increase
Rep. E. Y. Berry (R-S.D.)
is already in with a bill to
make rustling cattle a little
less promising as a life's work,
although he does not say any
thing about enforcing the new
law with a rope, as in some
earlier days.
"Rustling is on the in
crease," Berry said. "There's
been an awful lot of it lately.
One reason is that under fed
eral law as now written this
offense ordinarily is punished
as only a misdemeanor."
Under the Berry Bill tak
ing a cow across state lines
for an immoral purpose like
stealing would be cause to
threw a man in the stockade
for up to five years and fine
him as much as $5,000.
The Justice Department is
against this, and that's not so
surprising. The federal bulls
are so busy now chasing inter
state car thieves they haven't
got much time to spend run
ning down cows.
Under present law,1 Berry
says, you have to ascertain
how much the missing dogie
is worth before you know
whether you are hunting a
felon or only an adult de
linquent. Only where you can
prove the stolen critter would
have brought $100 or better
can the deed be punished as
a felony.
What with the way beef
prices vary and all, Berry pro
poses to disregard the price
tag. This seems only fair to
the rustler, who otherwise
can't be expected to know
how regretful to feel at what
he is doing.
Even Sheriff Raided
A Denver cattleman named
Lawrence C. Phipps Jr., wrote
Allot the other day that io
to J5 of his newborn calves
recently turned up missing.
and that several of his neigh
bors also have been raided
by rustlers, including John
i Hammond, a sheriff.
, Rustlers who steal cows
from the sheriff obviously
have no sense of ethics at
Kelly Considers
G, Pass Woman
Still Committed
Grants Pass -(DPD- Circuit
Court Judge Edward Kelly,
in an opinion filed with the
Josephine county clerk Mon
day, said he considers Mrs.
Frances Irene McCurdy still
under commitment to the Ore
gon State Hospital in Salem.
The opinion, in effect, says
she cannot be indicted for the
1948 slayings of her two chil
dren.
Judge Kelly said that furth
er proceedings against her,
either under the original in
dictment, "or any purported
subsequent indictment" can
not be undertaken without a
report from the "proper of
ficer of the Oregon State Hos
pital. He said the defendant is
unable to understand the pro
ceedings and assist in her own
defense.
Mrs. McCurdy was indicted
by a grand jury Sept. 16,
1948, for the murder of her
son, Paul Bernard, and com
muted to the mental institu
tion without a trial.
Second Indictment
A second indictment, for
the slaying of her daughter,
Pamela Rose, was filed May
27 of this year.
Her lawyer filed a motion
to set aside the first indict
ment. Judge Kelly said that
in view of the standing hos
pital commitment he was con
struing this request as a mo
tion to quash the indictment
and said he would comply
with the request on that basis.
That motion voids the second
indictment. The 1948 indict
ment still stands, however, if
she is released from the in
stitution's commitment.
In the first case, 11 years
ago, the court ordered that
she was to be returned to the
jurisdiction of the court
when her mental condition
permits her to assist in her
own defense. The court, how
ever has received no report
from "the proper officer of the
Oregon State Hospital."
Both children were slain
with a butcher knife.
The only president of the
United States to be buried in
Arlington cemetery in Vir
ginia is William Howard Taft.
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to Head Off Rustlers
in Mid-West States
all, but where they really
blew it, according to Phipps,
was when they picked as a
victim a rancher named Sher
man Burns.
Phipps said Burns operates
not only a ranch near Sheri
dan, Wyo., but also a well
known detective agency of the
same name.
"He put some of his opera
tors on the case and brought
the thieves to court," Allott's
constituent reported.
However, not all the ranch
ers out thataway have access
to quite the same facilities
for tracking down rustlers as
Burns. That s why Allott is
Matter of Fact m-p
EVEN THE KITCHEN SINK
Washington-As a footnote to
American political history, it is
worth noting the kind of thing
that was fruit
lessly done to
secure Admi
ral Lewis
Strauss's con
firmation as
Secretary of
Commerce.
In the Eisen
hower years,
real pressure
1 , x
ins-ph Aisop fas aimosi
never been applied to make
Congress see things as the
President saw them. Dwight
D. Eisenhower's line has gen
erally been, "I propose, Con
gress disposes." In this in
stance, however, the White
House threw everything at the
Senate, figurately including
even, the kitchen sink, in a
way that would have been con
sidered just a mite shocking
in other, less sacrosanct ad
ministrations. It is impossible to discover
whether President Eisenhower
himself really knew about the
things that were being done
in his name. The chances are
that in his simple military
way, he merely gave the ord
er, "Do everything you can
to put over Lewis Strauss
In fact the chances are that
the President himself will be
just a mite shocked, if he ever
learns how far Strauss and the
White House staff went to win
the confirmation which the
Senate finally refused.
FOR example. President Ei
senhower is heavily com
mitted to a freer trade policy.
Yet the promise that the fu
ture Secretary of Commerce
would impose profitable re
strictions on this country's
world trade was freely used
in the drive to win votes, as
was the boast that he had al
ready done so. r
Among the Democrats who
voted for Strauss, at least two
Senators were frankly tempt
ed by the bait of restriction
on imports of Japanese tex
tiles. A determined effort was
made to change the votes of
two other Democratic Senators
in the same way. But Senators
Ervin and Jordan of North
Carolina ignored the pleas
of the large textile interests
in their state, which had been
stimulated by the pro-Strauss
high command here in Wash
ington. Again, the appeal was made
to Senators from oil-producing
states that Admiral Strauss,
almost alone among the Presi
dent's close advisors, had arg
ued for restricting imports of
foreign petroleum products.
One vote in the pro-Strauss
Democratic list can perhaps
be attributed to this appeal.
But most of the Demccratics
appealed to in this way -stood
firm against the oil lobby,
conspicuously including the
two Texans.
YET AGAIN, an indirect at
tempt was made to reach
the two West Virginia Sena
tors by a promised restriction
on imports of petroleum resi
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considering whether Congress
ought to send out a posse or
something.
As for the aerial bronco
busters, Sen. Mike Mansfield
(D-Mont.) told the Senate the
other day only 20,000 of these
cayuses are left and that some
thing has got to be done to
save them from early extinc
tion. 0
Accordingly, a House Judi
ciary subcommittee will start
hearings July 15 on assorted
bills to blow the whistle on
mustang hunting by plane,
jeep, or even automobile.
Wild horses couldn't keep
me away from that hearing.
dues from the Caribbean,
which the coal interests have
long desired. On thisoground.
representatives of the United
Mineworkers, generally the
most powerful single political
entity in West Virginia, put
strong pro-Strauss heat on
Senators Byrd and Randolph.
Randolph and the younger
Byrd stoutly resisted, and
they, like the North Carolina
Senators, have earned much
admiration from their col
leagues. In addition, there are rath
er well-attested reports of a
vain attempt to gain more
southern votes with a promise
that the Republican members
of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee would join Sen. East
land of Mississippi and his co
believers in refusing to report
a civil rights bill at this ses
sion. Finally, and perhaps
most important of all, the Sen
ate has never experienced a
similarly organized personal
pressure campaign from grass
roots business leaders.
One Senator's wife is known
to have left Washington in pro
test against her husband's de
cision to vote for Strauss, as
requested by a very rich man
close to both Strauss and Ei
senhower who makes a habit
of contributing to senatorial
campaign funds. In another
case, a leading Wyoming busi
ness man, in response to a
request from Washington, tele
phoned Senator Gale McGee
to "lay off Strauss." He warn
ed McGee that the Jewish peo
ple in Wyoming were accusing
him of anti-Semitism-which
was a demonstrable life. In
still another case, the pro
Strauss forces were boasting,
"We've got Herman Talmadge
in the bag," because the Presi
dent's golfing crony, Robert
Woodruff, had called the jun
ior Senator from Georgia to
ask his support for the Admi
ral. Since Georgians generally
bow to the head of the Coca
Cola Company, Xhe expecta
tions of the Straussites were
perhaps understandable; but
in the end Talmadge voted
against Strauss.
I IT IS perfect twaddle that
there is no recent precedent
for the Senate fight oil
Strauss. An exact parallel, in
which the man's character was
the predominant issue, was
the Senate fight against Henry
A. Wallace when he too was
nominated for Secretary of
Commerce.
On that occasion, however,
President Roosevelt read the
signs, rightly. He accepted a
deal stripping the Secretary
ship of Commerce of all real
power, in return for getting
Wallace confirmed to the
empty title. On that occasion,
moreover, the Roosevelt ad
ministration, so of ten. accused
of dictatorship, refrained from
using anything like the meth
ods that were, used this time.
As Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson warned his
Republican opposite number,
Everett Dirksen, the heat was
so great that it helped to burn
Strauss in the end.
(c) 1959. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.-E.R.R.
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