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History from the files of The
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and SO yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1950 (Friday)
Rogue River voters defeat
a proposed $115,000 school
bond issue for a new grade
school by a 156 to 154 vote.
Contracts for construction
of a new $350,000 library and
classroom building at SOC
will be let next week.
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April 21, 1940 (Sunday)
The Standard Oil company
of California will close its
''Medford district office April
28 after 16 years of operation,
due to lack of local need,
company officials said.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Herr
Hitler is mad at Herr Goer-
, ing, and has ordered him
with no back talk, as his de
clslun has been made, to
'annihilate the British fleet,
-Just like thai!"
30 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1930 (Sunday)
Fishing good in Four-Mile
lake, poor in Rogue.
H. Fluhrer, Medford, takes
top honors In speed races
here.
40 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1920 (Wednesday)
City employees given $13
per month raise because of
high cost of living.
At least one Democrat has
filed for every office possible
in the Jackson county pri
mary. ' SO YEARS AGO
April 21, 1910 (Thursday)
' ; Medford Commercial club
li rounding up 300 cars to
meet Portland businessmen
visiting the city next week
ana give tnem riae tnrougn
valley.
Pacific and Eastern rail
, road changes schedule of
Eagle Point limited so If will
leave Medford at 5 p.m. In
stead of 3 p.m., giving EP
patrons more timo for shop-
plng here.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er ten correct It auparlars
even or eight Is excellent; five ar
in Is good.
1. Who invented the radio
telegraph?
2. Is the population of Asia
, larger, or smaller, than that
of Europe?
, 3. Montevideo Is the capital
of which South American
country?
- 4. What li a C.P.A.?
' 5. Which is the older, Har-
' vard University, or Yale Unl
' verslty?
: 9. Which Amendment to the
! Federal Constitution guaran-
tees the right of people to
peaceably assemble to petition
for the redress of grievances?
7. Do the trade winds blow
. toward the east, or toward
the west?
8. A person traveling under
an assummcd name is snld to
be traveling I ?
9. What famous poet held
the post of editor of the New
York Evening Post for 52
years?
1 10. In the nursery rhyme
the Old Woman who had so
many children she didn't
know what to do, lived
where?
Anewersi I, Marconi. 1.
Larger. 3. Uruguay. 4. Certi
fied Public Accountant. S.
Harvard. 6. First Amendment.
7. Toward the West. I. Incog
nito. 9. William Cullen Bry
ant. 10. In a shoe.
NATIONAL EDITORIAI
Hr'y"rfWmiini'.n.'.inJ
Cheap, Silly, Irreligious
The activities of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, in national congress assembled,
usually are fairly predictable. One expects them
to take the most conservative possible position.
This, in the land of the free and the home of the
brave, is their privilege.
But we were flabbergasted, to put it mildly, to
see them or at least some of them join in a
discredited, and discreditable, attack on some of
the. larger and most respected religious denomi
nations in the nation.
At last report, the DAR convention hadn't
passed the resolution in question, but the fact that
it was on the agenda is a disheartening thing to
anyone who holds freedom of religion to be
precious, and ignorant and vicious attacks on an
other's religion to be deplorable.
DO NOT, frankly, understand the motiva-
tions of those who attempt to blacken the
National Council of Churches with allegations of
Communism.
The attack is so utterly ridiculous that it is
Gelf-destroymg to anyone
But there are some
groups to which anything, any hint, of liberalism
in religion is anathema, and which, for reasons
unknown, try to translate
the idelogical converse of
(In this context, we
Times editorial which is
this page.;
ONE reason we find
v' ' Christianity so difficult to understand is that
it is directly in line with the eftorts of Com
munism, as an international conspiracy, itself.
One is temnted to conclude fas at least one
friend of ours has concluded), that this attack is
organized by Communist
the ultra - conservative,
groups in the nation as an unwitting front for
their own attack on religion.
What the DAR will do remains to be seen.
... But if it, as an ostensibly patriotic, withal con
servative, organization, goes along with this
neolothic smear on the National Council of
Churches, and its constitutent denominations (in
cluding Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians,
Lutherans, several of the Baptist conventions,
Brethren, Congregationalists, Christians of sever
al denominations, Friends, and others less well
known) then it will brand itself in the words
of the New York Times as ' cheap, silly and
irreligious." E.A.
Where, and How
Col. Boyd .Yaden called us on the 'phone the
other day, first to compliment our reporter on a
good story about the colonel's talk at the cham
ber of commerce roundtable Monday, and sec
ondly to correct two minor errors in the story.
The corrections first :
a top speed of some 90,000 to 100,000 computa
tions per second, Colonel Yaden said, not 140,-
000 as the story said. And his engineering firm,
in additional to' general engineering work, does
photogrammetric engineering, not "photographic."
With these details out of the way, Colonel
Yaden waxed enthusiastic
or computers to help solve municipal planning
problems which was the burden of his Monday
talk.
IESPITE his enthusiasm, Colonel Yaden made
a point of importance by emphasizing tha,t,
despite the potentialities of computers, they are,
only "tools, and that the basic ingredients for
good planning are intelligent, forward-looking
people. .
The colonel admits to
on planning; for he has
burgeon in the post-war
the r e s u 1 1 i n e metropolitan "complexes," the
growth of "fringe areas,"
these developments swelling the already overbur
dened services of smaller
those in Jackson county.
He maintains (as we
we don't get cracking on
gent planning, we (and
county) will be regretting
e
IE WERE pleased to
gineer friend, who
to Jackson county, that
Mings just drift, the idea of planning (and the
necessary "tools" that go with it, such as zoning,
subdivision ordinances,
to catch hold here.
Only a few weeks ago the first area-wide
meeting, calling together representatives of the
county and of the cities in the valley, was held,
and it was decided to proceed in setting up a
framework while we still have a chance to see
that what is left of our undeveloped land is de
veloped for the benefit of the majority, and not
grow into a hodgepodge of conflicting uses.
Computers may be of assistance in this pro
cess sometime, perhaps sometime soon. But they,
as tools, are less important than (1) a general
realization that we've got to figure out where
we're p-nine. and (2) to put our brains to work
figuring out how best to
with half a mind.
ultra - conservative church
that into Communism,
organized Christianity.
recommend a New York
reprinted elsewhere on
this attack on organized
agents, who are "using"
ultra - fundamentalist
Modern computers have
about the capabilities
beinp- a sort of "bue"
watched several towns
explosion of cities, with
and the backwash of
communities, such as
have for years) that if
overall, unified, intelli
that s all of Jackson
it for years to come.
be able to tell our en-
is a relative newcomer
after years of letting
and so on) is beginning
get there. E.A.
Dennis the
I OIONT 'SPECT tOU TO
MXIATt LIKE A 'BIRD
Today & Tomorrow
By Waller
THE UNAVOWED
UNDERSTANDING
The omens are now more
favorable that at the summit
meeting in May there will be
no serious cri
sis over the
German ques
tion, no irrec
oncilable con
flict between
the Russians
and ourselves,
no real quar
rel between
the British
and West
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Germans. The
prospects are
that there will be much talk
but no negotiations about the
German question and there is
a fair prospect of an interim
working arrangement about
West Berlin.
Something, it would seem,
has happened to change the
climate. The public thing that
has happened is that Mr.
Khrushchev has been to Paris,
has had talks with Gen. de
Gaulle, and that while noth
ing concrete was agreed upon,
Mr. Khrushchev went home In
a good humor. As we know
that Gen. de Gaulle is a hard
and resolute man who gives
away nothing he thinks he
wants to keep, and as Mr,
Khrushchev is a tough and
persistent man, why is it that
the confrontation of these two
men has been followed by
such an improvement in the
atmosphere?
MY GUESS is that on the
German question there
is now, as between France
and the Soviet Union, a basic
parallelism - that It is most
likely that Mr. K. has now at
last realized it. He has re
alized too, we may assume,
that on the German question
Gen. de Gaulle is in a posi
tion to speak for the West.
The basis of this parallelism
of policy is that in neither
camp is there any serious in
tention of proceeding towards
the reunification of Germany.
On both sides there is a
fear of the power of a reunit
ed Germany. This is the basic
understanding which, while it
cannot now be publicly avow
ed by either side, makes it
likely that there will be no
collision at the summit.
Both sides realize that In
the long run German nation
alism will not accept gladly
the present dismemberment.
But for the short run which
may be at least a few more
years, the partition is accept
able. Indeed unavoidable as
long as the occupying pow
ers are determined not to risk
a war over the German ques
tion. The Germans are not strong
enough to unify themselves
and the United States has no
intention whatever of going
to war in order to unify them.
On the other hand, a deal be
tween West Germany and the
Soviet Union at the expense
of Poland and the West,
though a theoretical possibil
ity, would now be enormous
ly and intolerably dangerous.
e
THOUGH there Is no agree
ment between the West
and the East, a decision has
In fact been taken to keep
Germany divided. On both
sides, the decision Is masked
by official formulae. On the
Soviet side the formula is to
say that East and West Ger
many are "free" to work out
their own reunion. On the
Western side the real decision
If masked by the repetition of
the demand that the two Ger
manys should be reunited by
a free election.
Beneath these formulae,
which are really fictions used
for propaganda and for the
sake of appearances, the real
ity is something like this. The
Soviet Union means to raise
the standard of life in East
Germany to a level where
East Germany can stand com
parison with West Germany.
Moscow believes Uiat this will
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greatly reduce German popu
lar pressure for reunification.
The West, with France as
its leader in this matter, is
determined to give the West
Germans prosperity in the
common Market and status in
NATO; it is determined to
give the West Germans every
thing they want except the
reunification of their country.
Mr. K. would like to im
prison and Isolate the West
Germans. The French intend
to elect them to their clubs,
and to bind them by self-inter
est against the lures and the
snares of reunification.
SEEN from Europe, there
are now five Germanys
West Germany, East Ger
many, West Berlin, the lands
beyond the Oder Neisse
which are annexed by Poland,
and Austria. Only once in
modern times have all these
been united under one gov
ernment, and that was under
Hitler from 1938 to 1045. On
ly from 1870 to 1945 were
the Germans minus Austria
united under one government
in Berlin. So, seen from Eu
rope, the division of the Ger
mans, which has resulted
from the dismemberment of
Hitler's empire, Is more "nor
mal" than is their unlon.l
The Western allies are firm
ly and unanimously agreed in
Insisting upon the separate-
ness of Austria. They are for
all practical purposes, unani
mous in regarding the lands
beyond the Oder- Nelsse as
permanently lost to Poland.
When we speak of reunifica
tion, we mean the reunifica
tion of East and West Ger
many with its capital in a re
united Berlin.
Though we all speak cf It
more or less, the fact is that
France does not want the re
unification. Britain does not
want it. While we have some
yearnings for it, we accept
the partition. And Adenauer's
Germany opposes the parti
tion in principle but is auite
willing to live with it in fact.
ALL THIS narrows the
German question down
to the question of West Ber
lin. For on the future of the
various Germanys there is a
working understanding be
tween East and West.
There is some reason to
think that the new flexibility,
which the Russians had hint
ed at recently, may be due to
their having had some second
thoughts about Berlin. It was
easy to say that the allied oc
cupation of West Berlin must
end. But what if the impos
sible happened, what if the
allies did in fact surrender
West Berlin to Eastern Ger
many, what would happen If
Berlin became the biggest
city in Eastern Germany?
r or West Berlin would
have to be united with East
Berlin and the result would
be a quarrelsome city of 3 ',4
million people as the capital
of a country of about 18 mil
lions. The Berliners are a
lively lot, and in trying to
swallow them, the East Ger
man state might well be bit
ing off more than It could
chew.
We do not know this, but
it is not at all Improbable
that Mr. K. may be thinking
it would be safer if Berlin
remains undivided, and if
West Berlin Is Insulated from
Communist Germany.
Thus, it may well be that a
working arrangement, which
leaves intact the substance of
Western rights, is possible If
we can bring to the negotia
tion sufficient resourcefulness
and ingenuity.
(c) 960 New York
Harald Tribune Inc.
SOUNDS WARNING
Wishington-tlTD-The presi
dent of American Airlines,
biggest air carrier, warned
Wednesday that airliners
might have to go back to fed
eral subsidies unless they re
duced route duplication.
Dear Children: I'm Not Really Former
Supreme Commander West Confesses
By DICK WEST
Washington-UITO-There is a
book on the market now en
titled "The Father" which is
a collection of
letters from
famous men to
their off
spring. I have been
glancing
through some
of the letters
in hopes of
picking up a
Dick wait lew up on
how to communicate with my
own progeny.
I mean there are some
things children should know
that I had rather not tell them
in face-to-face conversations.
It would be easier If I could
go off some place and send
them a letter, i
However, the1 book wasn't
much help to me in this re
gard, mostly because the au
thors of the quoted letters,
being famous men, didn't have
my kind of problem.
No War Hero
I wouldn't be so presump
tuous as to suggest that some
future anthologist might want
to publish one of my letters.
But if anyone is getting up
a collection of kinder-type let
ters written by unfamous
men, I just happen to have
Editorial Comment
An Attack on Religion
Two thousand years ago the Christian religion was con
sidered so subversive that Its Founder was put to death and
its followers driven underground. Times have changed since
then, except in some of the Communist areas.
Yet, a bitter and ignorant attack is now being made on a
Protestant organization, the National Council of Churches, on
h ornnnH that It 1 infiltrated bv Communists and other
Left-Wingers. The attack was brought out into the open when
the Air Force withdrew, with apologies, a training manual
which made just these charges.
If anyone will take the trouble to read the New Test
ament, or certain parts of the Old Testament, he will find
that the prophets, including the Man of Nazareth, had Indeed
little reverence for riches or the possessors of worldly power,
and had, on the contrary, a deep pity for the poor and the
afflicted. All through the centuries the Christian church in
all its phases and divisions has had a social as well as a
religious message. Like other great religions, Judaism in
cluded, it has been repeatedly stirred by social reform move
ments. In this light we may look again at those fantastic mental
ities who attack "the freedom of the pulpit." So far as there
is anything beyond a moronic vacuum In these attacks, they
are really directed at all efforts to reconcile our society with
the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount.
An intrachurch struggle is no doubt going on and in this
dispute the general public outside the affected denominations
need not take part.
We have a right, however, to object to any attempts to
Intimidate the ministers of any religion. The symptoms of the
present antl-clerlcal campaign are recognizable in their sim
ilarity to other discreditable incidents over many decades and
even generations. .. v , ",',,
They are cheap, silly and irreligious. -Naw York Times
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of
the writer,-although under certain circumstances the use
of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The
Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted
for Dublication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed In this column do
views of the paper; in tact
Any Suggestions?
To the Editor: Our town of
Jacksonville now has a dog
law In force, which I suppose
is O.K., if the owners will
water and care for the dogs
while tied up. But we have an
existing condition that is
worse for property owners
than a few loose dogs, and
that is the condition in which
some of the homes are kept.
The town is potentially a
beautiful residential district
if It were cleaned up. Trash
and junk are in abundance
over most of the town.
Is it any wonder the San
itation Co. selected a site near
here for a dump? From the
looks of some of the proper
tics here It would be difficult
not to believe the dump ex
tends down through the town.
Some have scattered about
their places old truck and car
bodies, parts of old trailer
houses, rotted down shacks
and cabins, old refrigerators,
hot water tanks, oil barrels,
tin cans and much other gar
bage, all of which not only
lowers the values of property
but furnishes a breeding place
for rats and other pests.
I think most of us have
some time off from our regu
lar work that could be spent
cleaning up, and it seems it
would be profitable as well as
make a more pleasant place
In which to live.
I am sure our visitor and
tourists don't care to make a
long drive Into this section of
the country to see some of
the cluttered yards and trash
collections.
Does anyone have a solu
tion? Jacksonville city coun
cil, or others, please speak up.
A Taxpayer
Jacksonville
Happier Families
To the Editor: Referring to
your editorial "Who is
Guilty?" on the subject of
juvenile and parental delin
quency, I offer for considera
tion the following suggestions.
Suggestions for happier
family living:
1. Loam the loving ap
a specimen handy.
. "Dear children,
"You are rapidly reaching
the age when you will need
to know some of the facts of
life. I could take the easy
way out and let you dig them
out of comic books. But I do
not want you to get a dis
torted view of something that
is essentially find and good
and beautiful. So I will ex
plain them to you myself.
"First of all, as you grow
older you will come to real
ize that your father was not
the supreme commander of
all the Allied military forces
in Europe in World War II.
I gather that you were begin
ning to suspect this already.
Otherwise you would not
keeD asking 'but who was
Eisenhower?'
Kitchen Police
"Remember when you used
to climb upon my knee and
beg me to tell you about my
experiences during the war?
Well, old dad didn't think you
were bie enough then to un
derstand technical terms, such
as 'kitchen police.' So he took
a few chapters of 'Crusade in
Europe' and paraphrased them
in the first person singular.
"If this gave you a slightly
misleading Impression of my
role in the war, I'm sorry.
"Now about that old foot-
not necessarily represent the
the contrary is otren ine case.
proach, love has "the wit to
win." Censure and strife breed
hatreds.
2. Translate wishful think
ing into action. Family living
Is happier because of doing
things together.
3. View family troubles ob
jectively, constructively, and
without bitterness. It is not so
much the troubles but the
way we take them that counts
most.
4. Cultivate your sense of
humor. Do not take yourself
and other members of the
family too seriously.
5. Analyze success stories;
keep inspired.
6. Read good books on hap
pier family living.
7. Include Bible reading and
prayer; "the family that prays
together, stays together,"
8. Discover that back of
every Ideal lies the sacrifice
of dedication, and make that
sacrifice.
9. Study families that you
know are achieving happi
ness. 10. Be patient:
God has so much of every,
thing,
And has such love for you
That when you operate
through love
He gives you heaven too.
(Used by permission of the
American Mothers Commit
tee). Mrs. William T. Jeffery,
521 Mayette st,
Medford.
OLDEST ACADEMY GRAD
West Point, N.Y.-IUPD-West
Point's oldest living graduate,
Maj. Gen. Henry Clay Hodges,
celebrated his 100th birthday
Wednesday with a party at
the academy attended by
2.500 cadets. Fellow alumnus
President Eisenhower extend
ed "a special salute to a fine
soldier and distinguished
graduate" . In a letter to
Hodges.
Pittsburgh - CTl) - George
Shradle. 63, labor editor of
the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
for 23 years, died late Tues
day night at St. Clair Memo
rial Hospital.
ball in the attic. It does not
necessarily mean that I was
an Ail-American. When I
used to tell you about it, you
possibly didn't catch the
phrase 'high school.' I guess
the attic accoustics are not
all they might be.
"Finally, it is natural for
children to be. curious about
what their fathers do for a
living. I have tried to explain
the newspaper business to you
Matter of Fact uy j0.ePh auop
THE FIGURES SPEAK
Charleston, W. Va. - The
figures speak, only too plain
ly, about the dominant role
that religious prejudice is
thus far playing in the crucial
West Virginia Presidential
prim ary be
tween Sen.
Hubert H
Humphrey of
Minnesota and
Sen. John F,
Kennedy of
Massachusets
Reports of
this role have
have been
Joseph ai'kop challenged by
Senator Humphrey, who is the
beneficiary of the prejudice,
although by no means its pro
mother. Here, then, is clear
proof that Senator Humph
rey's complaints are self-serving
and unfounded.
In a very complete poll oi
Slab Ford, in Raleigh County,
Senator Humphrey ran
slightly behind Senator Ken
nedy. In this mining camp
which is a prosperous going
concern, there were 27
Humphrey voters. Of these,
13 specifically stated that they
were influenced by their dis
like of the Catholic church.,
In another very complete
poll of Layland, in Fayette
County, Senator Humphrey
ran very far ahead of Senator
Kennedy. In this mining camp
which is tragically abandoned,
three-quarters of the houses
were boarded up, and the
sample was necessarily smal
ler. There were 13 Humphrey
voters, of whom four Specifi
cally stated that they were
Influenced by dislike of the
Catholic church.
'
N STILL another very, com
plete poll of the indicative
Fifth Ward of Huntington,
the main city in the west-central
part of the state, Senator
Kennedy ran one vote ahead
of Senator Humphrey, There
were 35 Humphrey voters, of
whom 17 specifically stated
that they were influenced by
dislike of the Catholic church.
In a quick poll of the small
Industrial town of Chesa
peake, In Kanawha County,
Senator Humphrey again ran
far ahead of Senator Kennedy.
There were 14 Humphrey
voters, of whom no less than
nine specifically stated they
were influenced by dislike of
the Oitholic church.
To those who have not
studied the strange act of
opinion-testing, the totals of
voters given may seem small.
In fact, however, the two polls
with smallest samples, those
in Chesapeake and Layland,
covered more voters than the
inquiring Dr. Gallup questions
in the whole state of West
Virginia for one of his nation
al polls. The results of these
four tests are in fact decisive,
for two reasons.
THIRST, no one was marked
as influenced to vote for
Humphrey by religious pre
judice who did not admit the
influence in so may words.
Over-aU, 44 out of 89 of these
pro-Humphrey West Virgin
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tarn Hm lha CaxAam "
Htm MOIOAN - HUOIO INOOOtASS, KJHUAl DSHCTCa
0AV OH NIGHT
in a wholesome way. But I
apparently did not make It
clear when I used the term
'editor' that I was speaking
of my boss and not of myself
"This, I think, Is all you
need to know for now. In my
next letter I will explain
about those old boxing gloves
in the closet and why you
shouldn't tell other children
that 'my father can lick your
father'."
ians made a positive admis
sion of prejudice.
This, in itself, was astonish
ing. Prejudice is often detect
able by doorbell-ringers, but
it is usually impossible to get,
voters to say they are swayed
by prejudice. Assuming there
were also a few people who
were so swayed but were will
ing to admit it, as is normal,
Senator Humphrey owes to
prejudice well over half his
support in the four places
polled.
Second, the places polled
were far apart, geographically
and in general character. They
formed a good cross-section
of the southern half of West
Virginia. Yet the same pattern,
appeared with minor varia
tion, in all four places. Only
tragic Layland gave a solid
majority of voters who chose
Humphrey for the right rea
son - the economic reasons
which he claims are the chief
source of his support.
THE evidence, then, is clear,
at least for southern West
Virginia. The same situation
is reported to exist, though in
somewhat less extreme from,
in all the rest of the state ex
cept the panhandle district
close to Pittsburgh. If these
reports are correct, It Is un
arguable that If Senator
Humphrey wins the West Vir
ginia primary, as he well may
do, he will owe his victory to
Ku Klux Klan-minded voters.
He will also win with pow
erful help from an admitted
ex-Kluxer, Senator Robert C
Byrd. He will further win
with an organization full of
people like the West Virginia
co-chairman of the Humphrey-for-President
Committee,
Walter Jacobs of Parkersburg,
who has Incautiously stated
that he is really for Adlal
Stevenson first, probably for
Sen. Stuart Symington of Mis
souri second, and only for
Humphrey third.
On the stump in West Vir
ginia, Senator Humphrey has'
of course deplored religiously
prejudiced voting. One can be 1
sure he Is sincere, for he is
the very opposite of his new
ally, Senator Byrd. But that
hardly alters the ugly predic
ament he has got himself Into,
owing to an almost Harold
Stassen-like case of Presi
dential fever.
Senator Humphrey Is not
merely being used in West
Virginia as the tool of other
Democratic candidates. He
will not merely fail to ad
vance his own Presidential
ambitions by a primary vic
tory owed to religious preju
dice. He will also quite inevi
tably, hurt himself badly in
Minnesota, where he is up for
re-election. At least half the
normal Democratic vote in
Minnesota is Catholic, and
the national Republican or
ganization is already thinking
about running a Catholic
candidate against Humphrey
for the Senate. For the Dem
ocrats, In truth, this West
Virginia primary can turn out
to be a tragic business,
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