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History fro.n the fitcs of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 14, 1950 (Wednesday)
Mrs. Moore Hamilton yes
terday filed her acceptance
of candidacy with the school
office becoming the third can.
didnlc to seek election to the
Mcdford school board June
19.
The Ashland municipal
band will hold the first city
band concert of the season
tomorrow in the Butler Me
morial Band shell, Lithia
park.
20 YEARS AGO
June 14, 1940 (Friday)
Mrs. William Moroncy, 28,
can lay claim to the "Chrome
Queen of America" today be
cause she has just announced
that she will soon deliver 25,
000 tons of Alaskan chrome
to the government.
From Arthur Perry's "Yc
Smudge Pot" column: "Bill
Morgan, who played football
for Medfnrd, Oregon and New
York, is here for a few days,
as big as ever."
30 YEARS-AGO
June 14, 1930 (Sunday)
Jackson county was third
In state in census gain; total
slate population is now 050,
000. 40 YEARS AGO
June 14, 1920 (Wednesday)
Local farmers are unable
to hire men for haying, even
though the street corners are
lined with idle men.
The city of Mcdford plans
to spend SS00 for a new air
plane landing field.
SO YEARS" AGO
June 14, 1910 (Tuesday)
Portland was second only
to New York in total wheat
cyports during the last year.
Members of the Craler Lake
highway commission here re
turned from Portland where
they say they were successful
In getting support, financial
and otherwise, for the Crater
Lake highway.
V hat's Year 1 0.7
Nine or ten correct it superior:
tovon or eight li evcellent: five er
lie ll good.
1. Name one of the three
Presidents who were married
while serving as President.
2. Did T. Roosevelt say to
people of U.S. that they "had
nothing to fear but fear It
self?" 3. Has a square mile the
eamc shape as a mile square?
4. The act of inhaling and
exhaling air, into and from
the lungs, is called-?
5. Was the use of anaes
thetics known before the ad
vent of Jesus?
6. Why are heating units
placed nearer to the floor of
n room, rather than the cell
ing?
7. The union of a cool body
of air with one that is warm
and humid causes rain or fog?
wnat is formed when the pre
cipitation of moisture Is
Slight?
8. Is the mountainous
"Black Forest" In Russia or
Germany?
B. Name the favorite daugh
ter of Mohammed.
10. What is the numismatic
name for the front or face
of a coin?
Answers: 1. Tyler, Cleve
land, and Wilton. 2. No. F. D.
Roosevelt. 3, Not necesierily.
4, Reipiration (breathing), i.
Yes, 6. Because heated air
always ascends, 7. Fog. 8.
Germany. 9. Fatmia. 10. Ob-verse.
Whistling
The Kingston Trio, a group of young men
who have made a national name for themselves
as singers, are also satirists of the first water,
when they want to be.
One of their songs starts out :
"They're rioting in Africa, tra-la-la-la-la-la
..."
(The "tra-la-la" bit is the best we could do in
the way of reproducing a whistled refrain.)
Sometimes it seems that this cheerful ode to
a troubled world is an exact replica of the at
titude of Americans.
MOT only are they rioting in Africa, but also
1 1 in Japan, Korea, and India. Latin American
governments, unstable at best, are in trouble.
Fidel Castro, once hailed as a welcome con
trast to the earlier dictator, Batista, is proving
he's not much better, and perhaps worse.
The turbulent middle east is relatively quiet
at the moment, but the
was overtnrown only a
and Iraq are plagued
The list of trouble
runs on and on Libya,
rocco, and all the Africa
MANY Americans react to this with a shrug,
no miinVi no fn doit "On n.lnl 1 Jr. ,
even "So what?"
Others are vaguely
can cio nothing as individuals about it, are in
clined to dismiss .it all as being far away.
Still others, realizing how small the world
has shrunk in era of jet planes, missiles and
nuclear warheads, know that each trouble spot
is a clanger as much of a danger as Danzig was
in 1939, and more than Sarajevo was in 1914.
More than any other single issue, we believe,
foreign policy that is, the way the United States
handles these problems will be the big one in
the coming election campaign.
How creative, how intelligent, how far-seeine
and understanding the
the world situation, will
who will be our next President.
If it isn't it certainly ought to be. E.A.
Plain
Communications beine what thev are. we
learned of Governor Rockefeller's statement of
June 8 almost as soon as
But, communications
are, it wasn't until yesterday that we received a
copy of the text of his statement.
It is printed in full
so tnat our readers can study the entire message,
rather than just the excerpts transmitted this far
west by the wire services.
YHETHER one agrees or disagrees with
' Rockefeller's assessment of the iob turned
in by the present administration, one cannot dis
miss lightly the statement of aims, objectives,
national purpose, and national needs.
A good many thoughtful Republicans will be
impressed.
Not that Rockefeller
of winning the Republican nomination. Nixon
seems to have that pretty well sewed up with his
control or the party s protessionals.
But the statement in
impression we got from
that here, at last, is a breath of fresh air in a
party whose reactions, too often, have been back
ward looking, not forward; whose progress, in
recent years, has been measured by the size ot the
budget, not by the nation's needs.
A LREADY, in less than a week, it has started
"a controversy and a
ot the Republican party. And this is a net gain for
the party, a much healthier situation than con
tinued status quo-ism.
The Washington Post,
the statement as it impresses a hypothetical mem
ber oi tne party, as tollows:
"But this Rockefeller, now, can be downright annoy
ing. Here he Is, acknowledging that Mr. Nixon is likely
to win the nomination, yet Insisting that the Republicans
must do more than furnish a 'question mark' as an
emblem, criticizing the missile lag and bomber vulner
ability and calling for a substantial Increase in the de
fense program. Apart from making pretty good sense.
It's almost enough to force a man to take a position,
that's what."
It's high time the nation started doing some
imnj u;..t,: i l ...u. i. i -i i ...
mum uuuMiii; auum wuai ties aneaa in
the delicate field of foreign relations (see above)
as well as in the crucial areas of national de
fense, economic growth, civil rights, education,
and on down the list.
Rockefeller says it's time for nlain talk. Anrl
he furnishes it. E.A.
The Greatest Safety
A quotation from Woodrow Wilson which
we ran across the other day, and like, goes as
follows:
"The greatest freedom of speech is the great
est safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing
to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact
by speaking.
Conversely, if a man is NOT a fool, he too
should be encouraged to sneak, for our nation
will never have enough wisdom, and sorely lacks,
sometimes, wise and challenging statements by
men who are not fools. E.A.
O
o
government of Turkey
lew weeks ago, and Iran
by recurrent unrest.
spots, actual or potential,
Tunisia, Algeria, Mor
south of the Sahara.
worried, but, feeling they
major candidates are of
be a significant factor in
Talk
he made it.
being employed as thev
elsewhere on this page
has much of a chance
full substantiates the
the first news stories
discussion in the ranks
tomrue in cheek, views
I
Dennis the
'ICtiHAVElO SfWSH WHEN YA
!( rrn
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
THE DUST SETTLES
Washington - Now that the
emotional storms of the brok
en summit conference have
largely passed
over them, the
men whose
duty it is to
conduct
American for
eign policy in
a professional
and unemo
tional way are
quietly back
on the job.
Thev are re
suming ordinary and normal
relations through ordinary
and normal diplomatic chan
nels with the Soviet Union.
They do not expect any mira
culous easing of the new ten
sions caused by the brutality
of Nikita Khrushchev. But
they do not go around seeing
doom and disaster every
where. They don't think, in short,
that the cold war has been
changed in any fundamental
way by the summit fiasco. j
Never having been all
choked up with ecstasy over
the glories to come from sum
mitry, these professional dip
lomats are not now cast into
darkest gloom bj summitry's
inevitable failure.
MEVER having trusted Kru
' shchev all too far, they are
able now to avoid the temp
tation oi tearing Khrushchev
all too much. Having thought
all along - especially because
of Khrushchev's own bitter
public words long before the
summit even met -that the
Russians would permit no real
conference anyhow, they are
able now to avoid the lamen
tations that in fact no real
conference was held.
Never having been emotion
ally committed to this or that
presidential candidate's ideas,
these pros have no need now
to join all the clacking design
ed to justify this or that can
didate. Never having been political
partisans, they are able to get
on with their work without
being desperately concerned
over who is to be the next
President. For them It is only
to carry out the future direc
tives of that President, who
ever he may be. And in the
meantime their obligation is
not to explain away the past
but to keep open the lines of
communication with the Rus
sians for the present and the
immediate future.
Parenthetically, however,
for those who still insist all
would have been well If only
we hadn't made Khrushchev
terribly, terribly mad with
the "spy plane," there
William S.
White
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
"q-HE MIRACLE WORKER," Broadway hit of major
-- proportions, calls lor a knock-down drag-out fight
between star Anne Bancroft and wonderful 10-year-old
Patty Duke, in which
food, plates, spoons and
forks fly all over th
stage, and sometimes into
the front rows of the or
chestra. One night, the
ihow's press agent re
ports, "A lady dressed to
the teeth was splattered
with water, a slice of
bread, and a piece of sil
verware. In the intermis
sion she told the house
manager, 'With this show
I think you should serve
the audience bibs'!"
e e e
A practical Joker tent the girls of a sorority house at Iowa
State a box containing eleven white mice. The next dav he cent
a note saying. "I hope, you're enjoying the antics of those twelve
mischievous little devlle." The gtrle spent the next two daya
searching frantically for the "mlMtng" mouse.
Wrote a forlorn college youth to hit hard-hearted father: "Dad,
X love to be treated witn kindness, but oh, my parent, not with
unremitting kindness!"
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S. WHITE
available plenty of interesting
documentation to the con
trary. WHAT, then, Is the factual
situation now concerning
the Soviet Union? So far as
this correspondent can learn,
this is about it:
(1.) Speculations that Khru
shchev is in deep trouble at
home are not realistic. It is
true, however, that he has
been embarrassed before his
people. He had let them sup
pose he held Mr. Eisenhower
in the palm of his hand. The
summit outcome showed this
to be far from the case.
(2.) K's insistent threats to
use rockets against our allies
have not accomplished their
aim of splitting the West. We
have reason to think, indeed
that the western alliance is
more unified militarily than
before.
(3.) In spite of K's own ex
cessively belligerent manner,
our diplomatic people are
finding Soviet diplomatic peo
ple to be acting in a reason
able and normal way. This is
the case both in Moscow and
in other foreign capitals
where representatives of West
and East regularly meet,
(4.) There is actually some
small possibility that before
the next American President
has been installed some low-
voiced progress may have
been made toward solving
some American-Russian prob
lems through this kind of dip
lomatic exchange.
THIS progress, if it comes at
nil Is InnkpH fnr nmr Ror.
lin, K wants most of all to
drive the western allies from
Berlin. And the western allies
simply are not going to be
so driven. There is an authori
tative view here that the de
liberate exposition before the
summit met of a strong Amer
can position on this point by
Under Secretary of State Dil
lon and others was far more
unsettling to K than any num
ber of "spy plane s." It is
reckoned that he dared not go
home without a Berlin vic
tory, and that he became
aware he could not have one.
Thus no summit - on the ex
cuse of the "spy plane."
The hope is that having got
a great deal of bile out of his
system in a very public way,
Khrushchev may now permit
some lower-level secret dip
lomatic negotiations on Ber
lin. His agents conceivably
could make rational conces
sions in private diplomacy
that he could not afford to
make, for the sake of "face,"
in a highly public summit.
(Copyright, 1960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Here Is Text of Rockefeller Statement
Here is the text of the June
8 statement issued by New
York's Gov. Nelson Rockefel
ler: We have come to a time
that calls for plain talk
It is a difficult and testing
time.
It is so for the world-with
the forces of freedom chal
lenged as never before.
It is so for the nation-with
the hope and strength of free
dom everywhere reliant upon
us.
It is so, therefore, for the
Republican party - with the
vigor of our own democracy
at stake.
The vitality and integrity
of the Republican party, at so
critical a time as the present,
become matters of national
concern. Without a two-party
system that works with can
dor and courage, the Ameri
can republic -the very proc
esses of democratic govern
ment - cannot work responsi
bly. Without the Republican
party displaying such candor
and courage, the two-party
system cannot work creative
ly.
A responsible patriotism
thus does not deny-but does
demand - a responsible parti
sanship. For the way a party
speaks and acts can -and
should-inspire the way a na
tion speaks and acts.
I am deeply convinced and
deeply concerned, that those
now assuming control of the
Republican party have failed
to make clear where this par
ty is heading and where it
proposes to lead the nation.
Now is the time to face and
weigh these facts.
We, as Republicans, have
much to give us pride in our
history. This history reaches
from the principles of a Lin
coln to the principles of an
Eisenhower. No attack or
abuse from any quarter can
diminish-it can only drama-tize-the
dignity and the in
tegrity of the leadership that
President Eisenhower has giv
en to both nation and party.
This man who led us to vic
tory over the Nazi menace
has steadfastly faced me Com
munist tyranny in tireless
pursuit of a peace. He thus
has won a place unique in our
age and in the hearts of free
men everywhere.
As he lays down his bur
dens, this historic term of
service comes to its end.
A new period now begins,
It summons new men. New
problems demand new ideas,
new actions.
They begin, I believe, with
tnis awareness: We cannot
and we must not confuse tak
ing pride in the past with tak
ing measure of the future.
What-and who-is this fu
ture? It is a host of men and
nations, problems and forces.
to be ignored or evaded only
at deadly peril to our own na
tional life and freedom.
It is: Nuclear power, either
serving to better lives and to
defend peoples-or serving to
shatter nations and shake the
planet.
It is: The rise of new na
tions across the earth, either
to learn and to enjoy the ways
of f reedom-or to suffer and to
serve the ways of tyranny.
It Is: A great technological
revolution changing the lives
of all men, for better or for
worse, as it is disciplined and
directed.
It is: An Immensely com
plex problem of national de
fense for an exposed America
-a problem either to be re
solved by strong action or to
be evaded by strong slogans.
It is: The need for the
American economy to grow
faster-to prove that freedom
will not become static or ster
ile, but forever be fertile and
creative.
It is: The proving by politi
cal action (or the disproving
by partisan evasion) that we
do love and respect the dig
nity of man-as we assure civil
rights for all our people, edu
cation for our young, health
for the aged.
The people, confronting
these great and basic chal
lenges, look to their political
parties.
They need an assurance
and a strategy - of national
purpose for the future.
1 deeply believe they are
asking for this.
They cannot be answered
by either political party-with
mere petty designs of partisan
maneuver.
The challenge this poses to
the Republican party is made
more urgent by the state of
the leadership of the Demo
cratic party. This leadership
can inspire no citizen with
great hope. It has been con
fused and uncertain, It has
seemed to answer-it has mechanically-great
questions of
the future with worn answers
from the past.
In all the area of foreign
policy, it has contributed little
or no force or relevance to
even the discussion ot foreign
affairs-through eight years of
vocal opposition. In all the
area of domestic policy, no
matter is more critical than
civil rights-and no matter so
deeply divides the Democratic
party. v
These facts do not make the
task and the duty of the Re
publican party more easy.
They make Uni duty more
stern and demandlng-for the
Nation s sake.
I cannot pretend to believe
that the Republican party has
fully met this duty.
I know it is unconvention-
al-on the political scene-to
mention lacks or lapses in
one's own party.
But the times we live in are
not conventional.
And the scene we must
view is not simply one of par
tisan politics, but the politics
-perhaps the destiny -of all
the world.
This is not extreme. It is
merely realistic.
In this spirit, I am com
pelled to say two things
bluntly.
One: I find it unreasonable
-in these times-that the lead
ing Republican candidate for
the presidential nomination
has firmly insisted upon mak
ing known his program and
his policies not before, but
only after, nomination by his
party.
Two: I find it reasonable-
and urgently necessary - that
the new spokesmen of the Re
publican party declare now
and not at some later date
precisely what they believe
and what they propose, to
meet the great matters before
the nation.
I had hoped-ln months past
-that anyone aspiring to lead
the party would do precisely
this:
I have been waiting for this
It has not been done.
I can no longer be silent
We cannot, as r. nation or
as a party, proceed - nor
should anyone presume to ask
us to proceed - to march to
meet the future with a banner
aloft whose only emblem is a
question mark.
The duty of this time is no
less binding on myself than
upon others-this duty to talk
plainly.
In this spirit, I wish to state
a number of problems, con
crete and crucial, on which
the Republican party-and any
of its leaders-must state their
stands.
1. I believe that the future
development of our foreign
policy must begin with the
fact that our position in the
world is dramatically weaker
tnHnv than IS voare aan at
I the end of World War II. The
blame for this can be placed
on no one party, on no one
administration. The fact is
that world upheaval, exploit
ed by communism, now chal
lenges America and the West
more gravely than at any time
in our history.
These facts must be honest
ly faced. To speak of them
to confess neither weakness
nor fear.
Strength begins with truth,
Future pretenses could
damage us far more than past
reverses.
We can begin clearly to
succeed in the future only as
we begin to know clearly
where we failed in the past.
We, as a people, must act
with firmer knowledge of the
dynamic nature and aggres
sive purpose of Communist
imperialism.
We must quickly strength
en the forces of freedom and
the unity and common effort
of free peoples.
2. I believe our national de
fense needs great strengthen
ing to meet the physical dan
ger in which America lives.
This danger has to be made
completely clear to the people
whose freedom-and lives-are
at stake. And this danger is
measured by such plain facts
as these:
A. Our longe-range missiles
are not only inferior in num
ber to those at Soviet disposal,
but also are dangerously vul
nerable to Soviet attack.
B. Our strategic bombers,
though reasonably large in
number, are concentrated on
less than SO bases, all clearly
identified by the Soviets,
every one defenseless against
a direct missile hit.
C. For all our reliance upon
Polaris submarines, not one
is operational now, and only
two will be operational by the
start of 1961.
D. For all the dangers of lo
cal aggression, our forces for
limited war are inadequate in
strength and mobility.
Every one of these facta is
known to the Soviet Union.
3. I believe these facts re
quire immediate actions to in
crease both the strength and
the efficiency of our defenses
-including:
A. An additional $3 billion
for Immediate defense needs,
including additional and im
proved bombers, airborne
alert, more missiles, more Po
laris submarines, modernized
equipment for our ground
forces.
B. A SOO-million dollar pro
gram for civil defense.
C. A more flexible and bal-1
anced military establishment
and doctrine to meet all con-j
tingencies, including local ag-1
gression. i
D. A more tightly organized
Department of Defense.
4. 1 believe the needs of our
defense structure reflect the
still wider need of our whole
government structure for an i
organization adapted to meet!
modern problems and threats j
in all their complexity and :
swiftness. This is essential for
effective conduct ot both our -
O
international relations and
our national affairs. This need
found instant and sobering
proof in the conduct of gov
ernment departments during
the U-2 incident.
S. I believe in the urgent
need for adequate and formal
international inspection and
control of arms. Never before
in history have nations been
armed and able to devastate
one another-in mere minutes.
Yet we, as a nation, have
seemed, on occasions, no bet
ter prepared to meet this criti
cal and continuing challenge
than to confront sudden acci
dent or crisis. Thus one month
before the start of the ten
nations disarmament confer
ence in Geneva there simply
did not exist a prepared
American position.
The machinery of free gov
ernment can and must be
geared to do better than this.
6. 1 believe that, as our eco
nomic strength must match
and sustain our military pow
er, we must quicken the
growth of the American econ
omy to meet all challenges
and needs, domestic and for
eign. This demands raising of
sights-and of effort by both
labor and management
throughout the private econo
my that is the mainspring of
our growth. It further re
quires that we gear our eco
nomic policies and practices
to work toward an annual
rate of growth of 3 to 6 per
cent. And these policies will
have to include:
A. Revision of tax policies
to encourage investment;
B. Elimination of all feath
erbedding or restrictive prac
tices by labor or management;
(J. Kedelinltlon of our farm
program to make low-income
farmers more productive
members of the economy,
7. 1 believe this economic
strength further requires firm
discipline upon forces threat
ening' to unleash inflation,
weaken defense production,
and disrupt our economy. The
administration of President
Eisenhower has written a no
table record in the field of fis
cal Integrity.
Yet our economy must not
be tormented by periodic cri
ses or clashes that invite solu
tion by political pressure or
political expediency.
I believe firmly in the dem
ocratic process of collective
bargaining, and I am firmly
opposed to automatic or gen
eral use of compulsory arbi
tration. Yet I believe the Pres
ident should be given discre
tionary authority to use com
pulsory arbitration if an eco
nomic conflict reacnes tne
point of clearly endangering
the national welfare ana an
honest attempts at collective
bargaining, mediation and ar
bitration have been ex
hausted. Such a procedure would
help avoid the kind of sur
render to forces of Inflation
that marked the long-delayed
settlement of the steel strike
last year. This settlement
carefully postponed until af
ther next election day the
cost of its consequences-a rise
in steel costs of more than $1
billion annually. For this, the
people must pay the price.
8. I believe we must prac
tice at home such a respect
for law and equity as we wish
to preach-and serve-in the
world at large. The record of
the Republican party on civil
rights is a very creditable one
certainly on any comparable
basis. But no record can claim
to be good enough so long as
discrimination, s e g regation,
and disenfranchisement per
sist on almost massive scale.
The Supreme court has
called for respect of the basic
laws and principles of our na
tion "with all deliberate
speed." The deliberateness
must not be sabotage. The
time has come for progress.
And this can come with the
summoning of cooperative ef
fort by leaders in communi
ties throughout the nation.
Counsel With . . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A.
PHONE
SP 3 7343
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
17 NORTH HOUY ST.
9. I believe that, for a na
tion traditionally passionate
about the need for good and
general education, we have
seemed singularly slow to assure-through
Federal aid to
needy areas-equality of edu
cational opportunity for all.
This can be done-without in
terfering with local control of
education-by Federal aid for
school construction and in
creased Federal scholarships.
If the Democratic party has
done little or nothing in this
area, the fact is no less true
that a number of Republican
leaders have managed, one
way or another, to join with
Democrats to block off effec
tive action. A whole genera
tion should not be asked to
wait much longer. Even a
hugely prosperous country
cannot afford such invest
ment in purely partisan ma
neuvering - with the price
paid in citizenship.
10. I believe that we must
meet the growing problem of
medical help for the aged.
The formula recently propos
ed by the ' administration,
while admirable in purpose,
is basically unsound from a
fiscal viewpoint. It is based
largely on a concept of sub
sidy. It would be both costly
and cumbersome to adminis
ter. We have a long-established
contributory system of so
cial insurance. Its soundness
is proven. We should build
on it.
As we meet and weigh
them, we need realize that the
very life of our democratic
system requires the Republi
can party to speak and to ar
gue its views with vigor-but
also with responsibility and
reason. I accordingly deplora
any voices suggesting, by in
ference or innuendo, that our
national unity requires any
stifling of debate.
We should remember, too.
that one vital sign of our na
tional political health is given
not only by full debate be
tween our two parties - but
also by open debate within
each of our political parties.
Each party Itself serves as
a forum-preceding the great
er forum that is the national
electorate. Real party unity
and strength can be based
only on honest debate. And in
the watcning eyes ot the peo
ple, such debate will be un
derstood as a sign not of dis
unity but of vitality.
All these specific things I
firmly believe.
This is not just another
election year.
The stakes are historically
high.
The occasional, or frequent,
trappings of a political cam
paign cannot suffice for eith
er party-the resounding plati
tudes, the hollow cliches, the
eloquent evasions, the slick
slogans.
t he time calls for plain talk.
The talk must be of speci
fic problems, specific actions,
specific purposes.
A century ago, in the shad
ow of civil war, the Republi
can party proved itself mas
ter of the challenge it met.
It must prove itself again
in no less historic a way.
There remains less than
two months before the Re
publican party assembles in
convention to set its course
and to choose its leaders.
This time must be spent in
one way: in placing the facts
before the people and in sum
moning the people to the
great endeavors that these
facts demand.
This is the way-the only
way - a living democracy
works.
The people-I am convinced
-are ready.
The question remains: It
the party ready?
The path of great leader
ship does not lie along the
top of a fence.
It climbs heights.
It speaks truths.
The people want and need
one thing above all others: A
leadership of clear purpose,
candidly proclaimed.
CERTIFIED INSURANCE
AGENT
You can buy with confi
dence from the insurance
agent who has the Initials
C. I. A. after his name.
Certified Insurance Agent
attests to his credentials In
the property and casualty
fields.
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