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History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
NATIONAL
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1950 (Sunday)
More than 25 felonies In
past three weeks have kept
Jackson county sheriff s depu
ties working overtime and
kept county jail filled to ca
pacity. Medford's Black Tornado
defeated Eagle Point 60 to 23
In Southern Oregon confer
ence basketball action yester
day. 20 YEARS AGO
Fab. 26. 1940 (Monday)
- Finns surrender strategic
islands to Russians in latters
drive to 'capture Finnish city
of Vlipuri.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "It is
getting along towards the sea
con of the year when Good
Samaritans of the highways
pick up footsore hitchhikers,
and the soreness will be out
. of their heads in about three
weeks."
30 YEARS AGO
Fab. 26. 1930 (Wednesday)
Death is near for ex-President
William Howard Taft,
doctors say.
Oregonian sports writer
lists Dr. Edwin Durno as
greatest basketball shot in
Pacific Coast records.
40 YEARS AGO
Fab. 26. 1920 (Friday)
Medford citizens told "it is
a patriotic duty to join the
Chamber of Commerce.
High cost of living dealt a
hard blow by Congressional
decree for dissolution of "beef
trust."
SO YEARS AGO
Fab. 26. 1910 (Saturday)
A modern three-story brick
Affice building will be con
structed at corner of Central
ave, and Eighth st., soon, at
cost of $40,000.
The Hargadine tract west
hi Ashland has been sold for
$250,000 to New York firm
who will reportedly subdi
vide and cultivate.
Vhafs Your I.Q.?
M!m ar ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
Mm m good.
1. In a period of deflation,
does the purchasing power of
mohey increase, or decrease?
2. Was the novelist George
Elidt a man, or a woman?
3. Who played the movie
role of "Babe Ruth" in "The
Babe Ruth Story"?
. Correct the following:
"A basket of flowers were
presented to the patient."
5. Of what State is Lansing
the capital?
f. What land was ruled by
the House of Orange?
. Does the male mosquito
bite or sting?
S. Was Niccolo Machiavelli
k writer, painter, or musician?
. What do these men have
th common: John Jay, Salmon
P. Chase, William H. Taft,
Charles E. Hughes?
10. Is there a limit to the
number of pennies that can
be used in paying a debt?
Answers: 1. Increases. 2
Woman. 3. William Bendix.
. A basket of flowen was
t . ." 5. Michigan. 6. The
rTeiherlands. 7. No. 8. Writer.
. All Cfifef JuStrc f U. ft.
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For Property Protection
Some of the stoutest resistance to planning
and zoning in Jackson county has come from
the Rogue River area.
It therefore is with considerable interest that
we note (1) that some 70 persons showed up
at a meeting to discuss location of a cement plant
in the city of Rogue River, and that a majority
protested such a plan, and (2) that the city of
Rogue River has established a planning com
mission. These separate incidents, in the same area,
constitute added . evidence that people are be
coming more conscious, as population increases,
of the need for a democratic, orderly means of
channeling and regulating growth.
.
WE are not saying that a cement plant should
not be located within the city limits of Rogue
River. That's none of our business.
But it IS the business of those who have es
tablish erl rinmes nearbv. and whose investments
could be damaged by an
neighborhood.
Those who decry planning and zoning call it
"dictatorship," and other bad names. (This, of
course, is only an emotional cry of "wolf.' And
it's untrue, for zoning regulations are set up
under law, with adequate safeguards.)
What they don't point out is that without
planning and zoning, no one is safe from rob
bery (that's what it is actual robbery of prop
erty values) by anyone who wants to build a
junk yard, or boiler plant, or rendering works
right next door.
PLANNING, zoning, subdivision ordinances
these are the tools a democratic society uses
to protect itself from economic damage and
stagnation.
Laws against murder and assault protect your
person.
Laws against robbery and burglary protect
your personal property.
And laws against uninhibited, uncontrolled
development and building protect your invest
ment in real property.
Don't let anyone try
ing otherwise-E. A.
What On Earth is THAT?
Some sav it looks like the burned-out nose
cone of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Others declare it looks as though someone
had tossed a stick of dynamite in a pot-bellied
stove.
Some are nuzzled. Some are f aintly angered.
Some are amused.
The nhiept. in nuestion is in the window of
Barker's Men's store, at
part of a display of contemporary art.
W
NOW these varied and not-always-appreciative
rpaft.inns are nleasinp to the ladv who
arranged for the display
happen to know ner quite wen, ana sne toia
us so.)
The reactions please her because they ARE
reactions, and not just so-what type "shrugs.
This is "modern" or "contemporary" art.
And few people who bother about it are neutral
on the subject. Likes and dislikes are apt to be
strong. And so much the better, says she.
ir
HE "thing" is a piece
the Northwest's most
Zach, of the University of Oregon. It is entitled
T rpl. -rAnl,-.. vP if n-rt "Porto 19
today.)
It makes no pretense whatever Of looking
"just like leaves" which is what baffles and
irritates some people.
What it ddes attempt is to suggest leaf forms,
to give the "feel" of leaves within a framework
of space.
And, you know what? It succeeds in this,
if given a chance by a sympathetic viewer.
ARTISTS in the contemporary field make little
pffnrr. tn renrndiioe views of nature. This
they leave to the photographer, or to the more
A 3 1 L-Z L T Vic. nnKnfnnt-inn l'tl
emnlovinsr his skills td
as he sees them.
Within the various schools of artistic expres
sion there is room for a wide ranee, not only of
styles and approaches,
in the same window witn rroiessor zaens
sculpture is a casein painting by Charles Voor
hies whn is well-known here), which uresents
in readily-recognizable
but into which the artist has projected mucn
of his own Dersonalitv and "feeling" for the
scene; and another painting by Willard Martin
of Portland, in an unusual employment 01 waier
colors, which gives
"frosty Morning."
THERE is nothing in
vou have to like "art,"
Kind oi arc
1 L
Some n"or some dont. Some like renresen
tational paintings; some like the far-out stuff
like the exploded pot-bellied stove which, if
studied, conveys images of leaf forms.
But whatever one's views, one must grant
that the artists of today whatever their approach
and whatever their medium, are making experi
ments, seekitig flew means and forms of expres
sion, throwing off the shackles of tradition and
striking out on their own. '
jft Watc&n theft do it E. X.
industrial plant in their
to scare you into oeiiev-
Main and Central, as
IT W
of the "thing." (We
ir it
of sculpture by one of
eminent sculptors, Jan
present natural scenes
but also of materials.
form a landscape scene,
his interpretation 01 a
any rule book that says
or even any particular
Dennis the
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and provide us with your
address, well print it.
A Pensive Farewell
To the Editor: Here 1 am
again with a letter. Do you
suppose the women will bear
with me If I write something
for my fellow men?
It came about in this way.
Some of iriy more blunt and
candid friends had said, "H.
R. B,. your hair is getting
thin, especially on top." Then
after a "while another one
said it, and after another
while still another had the
same remark to make. Then
after a while my wife-faith
ful nelpmeet she is-s a i d,
"Husband, your hair is getting
thin." She emphasized the
"is" and punctuated it by
rubbing her warm fingers
over that really thin place.
With my other friends, and
my wife all saying the same
thing, I thought, "These re
marks about my thinning
hair are getting thick, maybe
I d better look into it" I mean
the mirror-so I got a hand
mirror and stood my back to
a hanging one, and sure
enough there it was-I mean
there it wasn't.
I sat rather dejectedly
down, and wrote these words,
(and as the boy said to the
doctor who was dressing his
hurt hand, "The tears nearly
hatched out."). There, I've
spilled the beans again, for
some say I have "no personal
pride."
H.R.B. and His Hair: Farewell
Good bye, old hair, you're
going fast;
I could hardly hope you'd
always last:
For quite some time you've
crowned my pate,
But you to save it seems
too late.
I itch and scratch, the dan
druff snows;
The hair falls too; and so it
goes.
The barbers say, "Why
here's a cure
For all hair ills, it's safe
and sure."
I glimpse his head, his hair
is out, I
And so I pause, and have a
doubt.
I still have some I'd better
prize,
And cease at once my fears
and sighs.
Pensively yours, with my
hairy halo too fast receding.
H. R. Bulman,
Route 4, Box 316A,
Medford.
On Women's Qualifications
To the Editor: Poor, poor
Jerry, before many years he
will have to take back those
awful words written about
women drivers, and women
should stay home where they
belong. The very idea!
I must say, he is a brave
lad at that. When he marries,
he'll be tickled pink to have
the wife doing all the odd er
rands that he never has time
to do. He surely won't expect
her to walk.
I wonder how many times
his little hose or bottom was
saved from a bump or worse
by a woman. Of course his
mother is probably be of
those exceptions he speaks of.
Then too, he has to live with
her. I wonder if they still
speak?
A woman, especially a
rhbther, has eyes in th back
of her head. This is a great
help, in driving. Her reflexes
are fast, else how could she
Jrab that littl ftofe wfafeft
Menace
to open woksj'
tumbles, or catch an arm to
put into a sleeve when dress
ing him? Surely she is able
to drive a car straight when
she can hit a little mouth with
a spoon at feeding time.
Mothers are wonderful driv
ers and I think they are here
to stay.
I've driven for more than
20 years. Yes, my husband
taught me, too. I drive only
when absolutely necessary
I love to walk, besides I'm a
"scarty cat." Those male
drivers, who concentrate on
a female figure two blocks
down and two blocks back
over their shoulder after they
pass, have me bugged.
Read the Mall Tribune for
news of my demise. I've got
three male drivers in my fam
ily! Mrs. Paul Elgin,
1221 Withington,
Medford.
"Yes" on Shoe Labeling
To the Editor: If the people
of the Fourth district of Ore
gon would like to know how
the answers to Congressman
Porter's questionnaires are
being taken, as to question
No. 6, "Do you approve put
ting labels on shoes, listing
the materials used?" the fol
lowing report in the Feb. 20,
1960 "Leather and Shoes" will
show the trend.
It is by Joseph B. Huttlin
ger, Washington editor:
"Congressman Charles O.
Porter (D.-Ore.) is sounding
out 130,000 of his constituents
as to their views on the shoe
labeling bill. Asking views of
that many persons in his dis
trict, Porter included this as
question six:
'"Do you approve putting
labels on shoes listing the ma
terials used?'
'The questionnaires went
but in relays over a period of
more than a week, and all
were dropped in the mail by
Feb. 9.
"Porter says he has had
about 4,000 to 5,000 replies
already, and that most of
them say "yes!'
"If the answers show over
whelming support Of the la
beling bill of Porter, it will
add that much to Porter's ef
forts to get hearings on his
bill, H.R. 1320."
Having spent almost three
years in my efforts to get
shoes labeled for informed
buying by the consumer, I
hope the people in the fourth
district of Oregon will back
me up and send their cards
back with a "yes" to question
N6. 6.
Recent requests from 18
states ask for petitions on
shoe labeling, and in a period
of 40 days over 5,000 people
signed the petitions, bringing
the total signatures to 30,000.
Add this to the endorsement
in national conventions by the
National Grange (800,000 con
sumers), and the American
National Cattlemen's Associ
ation (over 200,000 consum
ers), makes the total consum
er support well over one mil
lion people. So, I hope you
will continue to help by send
ing your questionnaire back
with question No. 6, yes.
Thanking all the nice peo
ple of southern Oregon for
their support in the past on
this issue.
Wilbur L. Gardner,
(The Man with A SOLE)
612 East Main st.,
Medford.
Re: Housekeeping
To the Editor: I agree with
Mr.- Burns of Central Point
Some of the police in Medford
are getting a little too bit for
their britches. .
But what can you do il the
officer says you ran a red
light? You might as well pay.
Ytu fcafrt argu wttft tt iaw,
Robins, Writer Finds;
As Harbingers of Spring; It All
By DICK WEST
Washington -(UPD- Every
year about this time, newspa
pers begin getting calls from
ami people report-
i ing the arri
C - "v: V val of the first
robin.
I hate to dis
illusion any
one, but as
harbingers tf
spring robins,
are not much
more reliable
than s n ow
birds. It de
DJCK west
pends on whether you happen
to see the right robin.
I have been doing some
right or wrong. The only
thing to do is protest to the
proper authorities and see
what takes place.
Some of the officers seem
to forget they are servants of
the people, paid to enforce the
law, not to take advantage of
law abiding people to try to
make a big name for them
selves. The Chief of Police is the
housekeeper of the Police De
partment. Let's hope he is a
good housekeeper and cleans
house before it becomes neces
sary to get a new housekeep
er. Lee W. Rodgers
Route 1, Box 49
Eagle Point, Ore.
To the Editor:
Checks
I tied the pup to clothesline
strung
Across the yard-he didn't
see
What hindered his excursions,
but
He felt the checks with cer
tainty. I tied my life by faith to Gbd-
An "evidence" I couldn't
see.
But through the years faith
held, and I
Have felt God's checks with
certainty.
Mrs. William T. Jeffery
521 Mayette st.,
Medford
Mr. DeMarrs and the Law
To the Editor: Replying to
the editor's note to my letter
published Feb. 14 in which he
suggested that "Mr. DeMarrs
make sure of his facts before
accusing school officials of il
legal actions." -
It was stated that we had a
new school district, thus, by
law, we must make the tax
levy according to law; and
asked when we were to vote
on a new tax base.
It is claimed that we do not
have a new school district de
spite recent consolidations;
that it is not mandatory in
such cases to vote in a new
tax base.
Let's get the facts straight.
The state attorney general
has ruled (UP. Report) "The
tax base for an administration
school district formed under
the school reorganization law
is determined by the tax base
of the most populous district
among the districts that make
up the new one."-"When a
new district is formed out of
various previous school dis
tricts . . . the latter are
deemed to be 'annexed' by
the most populous district"
This language says that the
Medford district is a new dis
trict. The law defines in this
matter that the tax levy is
controlled by the constitution
and the district levy for the
first year following consoli
dation can be no more than
the highest amount levied in
the three previous years.
Thereafter, a new tax base is
to be voted upon. M conclu
sions of law are secured from
"law abstracts" by the Ore
gon Tax commission. .
It was presented and adver
tised by the school board in
seeking the school consolida
tion that the Medford School
levy would increase about 10
mills; the 1959-60 levy was
about 17 mills not 10 mills.
This is another reason why
the people should establish a
new tax base as the way to
correct the tax increase; and
get the tax base down again
to where new construction of
school rooms will be had by
bond issue instead of causing
the tax base from increasing
oat of all proportion. When
the needed expense of new
construction is past we do not
want to be saddled with a
high tax base. .
If my previous letter is re
read 1 am sure it will be not
ed that I made no statement
of illegal actions by the
school authorities, but merely
stated the tax levy to be an
illegal one; and, if I am cor
rect on the fact herelft shewn,
then my statement of ah ille
gal tax is correct; and, if any
one person is to be held re
sponsible therefore it must be
the fault of the state attorney
general as the school board
acted upon his "opinion."
This opinion does not apply
to but one district, but to all
districts within the state.
What are the facts? I be
lieve that I have shown them.
Ray O. DeMarrs,
798 West Second st., -Medford
m 1
robin research at the sugges
tion of my boss, who was
skeptically eyeing a piece of
teletype copy when I stopped
by his office.
"Here's the first robin
story of the year," he said.
"Why don't you do a story
knocking down that myth?
Those ' birds never leave
home."
Well, sir, in less time than
it takes to say "erithacus ru-
becula" - which is how you
say "robin" in bird language
I had the Smithsonian Institu
tion on the phone and was
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY
Washington - Two circum-
stances are handicapping
though not halting the Demo
crats in their
efforts to lay
a national de
fense lag at
the door of
their opposi
tion. First, all
logic would
compel them
tn irrannlc di-
William S. f. t v.
wwte rectly with
President Eisenhower. But the
political realities would make
this a perilous and a foolish
course. Private Democratic
opinion overwhelmingly
agrees with this estimate.
Second, there are so many
rival Democratic Presidential
possibilities - at least four -as
to make difficult the de
velopment of any all-Demo
cratic position.
Sen. Stuart Symington of
Missouri goes the farthest
among the Democratic aspir
ants. But in significant places
he is left alone along this
road. He accuses the Eisen
hower "administration" of
having misled the country on
defense.
SEN. HUBERT H. Humphrey
of Minnesota adopts much
of the Symington argument of
weak defenses. But he stops
short of the charge of actual
deception by the administra
tion. Symington himself, hav
ing made that charge, does
not carry it a step onward and
so accuse Mr. Eisenhower per
sonally of deceiving the coun
try. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas speaks in general terms
of alarming Russian progress.
He does not speak of decep
tion, either by the "adminis
tration" or by Mr. Eisenhow
er. Sen. John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts . audibly fears
that we are not in position to
negotiate from strength with
the Russians. But he, too, says
nothing about deception - by
anybody.
Most detached observers
here believe there is a good
Democratic talking point on
defense. But how the Demo
crats are best td exploit that
point is actually the livelier
present political question.
Whatever may be wrong
militarily, the man uniquely
responsible in our system is
President Eisenhower himself.
But the President is going
out of an office, not trying to
get into one. Vice-President
Richard Nixon, the designated
successor to the G.O.P. Presi
dential nomination, is the one
man the Democrats need to
hit in political terms.
THE unavoidable fact, how
ever, is that Nixon did not
make these military prepara
tions, be they good or bad.
So if the Democratic guns
are turned back upon Mr. Ei
senhower himself, what then?
Well, apart from the central
fact that the President isn't
running for anything, there
is this:
Most people are simply not
going to regard the president
as mistaken on any military
matter. Whether he is actual
ly mistaken or not is not, po
litically, the point. The ma
jority doesn't believe he is.
Even fewer are going to be
lieve that he (or anybody else
with his consent) has con
sciously misled the country
about defense, and here the
great majority is right beyond
doubt. The public instinct that
no president is knowingly go
ing to "put this nation into
peril is absolutely sound.
Thus when the Democratic
political problem is examined
this is the true situation: The
logical defense target, if there
is one, is Dwight Eisenhower.
The far more useful target,
politically, is Nixon. But the
one, Mr. Eisenhower, can't be
hit usefully at all; and the
other, Nixonv can't be hit use
fully just yet.
FOR NIXON is not taking
any explicit defense re
sponsibility; he is not even
arguing that the program is
necessarily right and adequate
in all things.
So the Democrats must for
now simply blame that large,
vague group called "the Re1'
publicans." Then they must
sooner or later make "the Re
Are Unreliable
talking with Herbert Deig-
nan.
Some Robins Tarry
Deignan is assistant curator
of the division of birds and a
font of ornithological infor
mation. I regret to report that
our conversation didn't turn
out exactly the way my boss
had in mind. '
I put it to Deignan bluntly.
Are our little red-breasted
friends the feathered messen
gers of spring? Or aren't they?
Deignan, who is no man to
equivocate where birds are
concerned, gave it to me
straight.
S. WHITE
publicans" seem synonymous
with Richard Nixon.
More specifically, they are
cautiously trying to drive
Nixon into one pen or anoth
er: either fully to endorse the
Eisenhower defense policies
and so take campaign respon
sibility for them; or openly to
criticize those policies and so
to admit that the old set of
"Republicans," at least, didn't
do what should have been
done.
(Copyright, 1960, by United
Feature Snydicate, Inc.)
Brazil Determined
To Industrialize,
President
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Hail Carol Heiss - our new
national hero. Or heroine, if
you're meticulous about your
genders.
She saved our bacon at
Squaw Valley! We may elect
her President some day. Who
knows?
...
AT ANY RATE, we're ever
lastingly grateful to her -as
grateful to her as were the
Dutch to the small boy wh6
held his finger in the hole in
the dike and thus saved his
people from a washout.
MORE about women in the
news:
Britain's Princess Anne,
Queen Elizabeth's nine-year-old
daughter, made her first
public speech the other day -at
a Girl Scout observance of
Thinking Day. The dispatches
report that she drew in her
breath and said to Lady Baden-Powell,
widow of the late
Lord Badeh-Powell, founder
of the Boy and Girl Scout
Guide movement, who was
present for the ceremony: "I
would ask you to light this
candle for us for Brownies
everywhere."
Fellow Brownies reported
later that Anne took no
chances. She had memorized
the speech and rehearsed it
for days.
GOOD for her!
She had learned early that
there is no excellence with
out labor.
She may go far.
.
STILL more about women:
You may have noted that
the Midwest has been having
a cold snap - a not unusual
occurrence in that area at this
season. It was nippy the oth
er night in Saginaw, Michi
gan, when Mrs. Emma Cox
put her children to bed and
the sheets were icy-cold.
So, harking back to earlier
days and adapting modern
gadgets to an ancient need,
she put an electric frying Pan
in the bed to warm it up. It
set the bedding afire, and she
had to call the fire depart
ment. ,
Fortunately, no one was
badly burned and damage
was confined to the bedding.
ONE WONDERS if anyone
in these parts is old enough
to remember a marvelously
comforting device of an earl
ier day. It was known as a
bed-warmer, and in the chill
ier areas of our country no
home was complete without
one.
It amounted practically to a
covered skillet with a long
handle and was usually made
of ornamental brass. Come
bedtime, the bed-warmer was
filled with coals - preferably
hickory coals - from the fire
place and was pushed back
and forth between the sheets
until they became what was
then termed "as warm as
toast." Going to bed was thus
made a pleasure instead of ah
ordeal.
In those days, mother Were ;
wiser than Mrs. Cox, of Sagi
naw. After the bed was warm
ed, the warmer was carefully :
removed, taken back . to the
fireplace and the hot coals ;
spilled out. 1
Depends
They are and they aren't,"
he said.
Sensing that I was on the
trail of something that was
bigger than both of us, I
urged Deignan to elaborate.
He did, to wit:
Robins do head South at
the onset of winter but a lot
of them stop off along the
way. Thus they can be found
on the Mason side of the Mason-Dixon
line all winter.
No Sure Way
At this time of year, there
is no sure way of telling
whether a particular robin
just flew in from the South-
a sign of spring on the wing
or whether he had been
around since last autumn.
While Deignan was ex
plaining all of this, I began
thinking about that old poem;
the one that goes:
"The north wind doth blow,
and we shall have snow, and
what will the robin do then,
poor thing? He'll sit in the
barn, and keep himself warm,
and hide his head under his
wing, poor thing."
I asked Deignan whether
this didn't tend to confirm my
boss' theory that robins actu
ally stay put during the win
ter. Not at all, he replied. The
poem, he said, was written
about English robins, who
aren't as footloose as their
American cousins.
Declares
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The man - of - the - week:
President Juscelino Kukit
schek of Brar.il.
The place: Brazil's future
capital, Brasilia.
The quote: "We simply
wish that the United States
believes that the resolution
of the Brazilian people to
industrialize this country,
to utilise its natural re
sources, to prepare better
conditions of life required
by our population growth,
to reject a lowly and vague
destiny, is decisive, definite
and irreversible."
It was his welcoming ad
dress to President Eisenhower
and it was delivered in sur-
r o u ndings of
raw earth, dig
ging machines
and the heavy
equipment of
a city still be
ing built, a
a city which
will become
Brazil's new
capital and
K u bitschek'S
Phil Newsom
own personal monument.
His cosing paragraph quot
ed above was a thumbnail
summaion of the program this
physician - turned - politician
first instituted four years ago
at the beginning of his five
year term.
He had campaigned on a
platform of "food, transporta
tion, power."
He sought to stabilize prices,
to increase food production,
to institute a massive indus
trialization program, to in
crease electricity output, to
build roads and to overhaul
Brazil's neglected railroads.
Three years ago, over strong
opposition, he began carving
out of the jungle 600 miles
from Rio a new capital city
to be known as Brasilia and
to be ready for occupancy
in April, 1960.
Arouses Some Criticism
It was a bootstrap operation
designed to pull Brazil from
a history of haphazard growth
Into orderly modern develop
ment.
Kubitschek's headlong rush
toward industrialization de
spite all laws of economics
has aroused criticism in the
United States which has a
multi-billion dollar stake in
Brazil, and some grumbling
at home where prices have
been doubling or tripling in
a matter of months.
But, generally, Brazilians
are happy with him and un-
worried about the future.
'God must be a Brazilian,
they say, because he watches
out tor Brazil.
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