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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 24. 1950 (Saturday)
The Southern Pacific com
pany inaugurates new daily
chair car schedules In this
area to give southern Oregon
a direct connection with the
Shasta Daylight streamliner at
Dunsmuir.
The Oregon Association of
Letter Carriers will conclude
Its 47th annual convention
here today with a memorial
service.
20 YEARS AGO
June 24, 1940 (Monday)
Mail Tribune Editor R. W.
Ruhl reports from the Repub
lican convention at Philadel
phia that Wendell Willkie is
making a political "blitz
krieg" and is on the way to
the Republican nomination
for Dresident.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
fimudae Pot" column: "It is
now hot enough for citizens
to allege they enjoy the neat,
the Older Girls to can fruit,
carpenters to pour hot tar on
roofs, and stores to hold
blanket sales."
30 YEARS AGO
June 24. 1930 (Tuesday)
A city poison campaign to
eliminate earwigs in Medford
Is proving successful.
The county has started its
summer road-building cam
paign. 40 YEARS AGO
Jun 24. 1920 (Thursday)
The Macy-Baird comedians
will appear In Medford for
the first time Tuesday and
will bring their own tent
theater.
Trlgonia Oil and Gas com
pany well No. 1 is down 810
feet at Fern valley and has
encountered a lime shale con
taining much evidence of oil.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina at ten correct is superior:
seven or eight is eicellent; five ai
III Is good.
1. Do fleas have wings?
2. Was Hong Kong ever oc
cupied by the Japanese?
3. Was Pavlova famous for
having been the wife of Leon
Trotsky?
4. From what plant is linen
made?
5. Which actor of the silent
film was known as the man
with a thousand faces?
6. Why is the flash of a
gun fired at a distance seen
before the report Is heard?
7, Which mythological king
possessed the power to turn
whatever he touched Into
gold?
8. Do annual plants bloom
just one season then die?
9. Why were old-time coun-
try school houses ' usually
painted red?
10. Complete the following:
"Fit as a ."
Answers: 1, No. 2, Yes. 9.
No. Sh was a dancer. 4. Flax.
5. Lon Chaney. 6. Light tray
Is faster than sound. 7.
Midas. 8. Yes. 9. Red paint
Wis cheapest. 10. Fiddle.
EARLY DRAFT
Chicago (UPII-Roger I.eclerc
played center for Trinity
(Conn.) college, a small school
which dc-sn t emphasize foot
ball, but the Chicago Bears
thought so much of him that
they drafted him before his
senior season. Roger will fry
to make good with the BVars
this year.
Strength and Weakness
Arriving at an understanding of someone else's
point of view is not an easy thing to do.
Sometimes it is easier if we try to put our
selves in his position
his eyes. . .
This, in effect; is what Bryce N. Harlow, dep.
utv assistant to President' Eisenhower,' did
cently, when speaking
(Jonrerence in unanaier, Ariz. .
His remarks were quoted in Electric Light and
Power magazine for May 15, by P. B. Garret,
publisher and editor.
HE paraphrasd Mr. Harlow as follows:-.
In order to enjoy the glories of the present Soviet
system, he said we would have to abandon three-fifths
of our steel capacity, two-thirds of our petroleum ca
pacity, 95 per cent of our electric motor output, de- '..
stroy two of every three of our hydro-electric plant, -and
get along on a tenth of our present volume of na
tural gas. ' ' ' -i - . '
We would have to rip up 14 of every 15 miles of
our paved highways and two of every three miles of
our mainline railway tracks. We'd sink eight of every
nine ocean-going ships, scrap 19 of every 20 cars and
trucks, and shrink our civilian air fleet to a shadow ,
of its present size.
We would cut our living standard by three-fourths, .', '
destroy 40 million TV sets, nine of every ten tele
phones, and seven of every ten houses; and then we 1
would have to put about 60,000,000 of our people back
on the farm.
And, Mr. Harlow continued, we would then, really
revel in the Soviet scheme of things, have to assume a
few military problems. We'd have to accept a heavy
bomber gap, a medium bomber gap, a nuclear sub
marine gap, a missile submarine gap, an aircraft car
rier gap, an overseas bases gap, an allies gap, and a
strategic and tactical gap.
We'd see hostile troops maneuvering in Canada and
Mexico, hostile air bases humming in Canada, Mexico
and Puerto Rico, hostile missiles poised in Canada
and Mexico, hostile submarines menacingly gliding
off New York and Los Angeles, hostile aircraft car
riers prowling the Carrlbean-all armed with nuclear
explosives of paralyzing power; and we'd have an
added discomfort-we'd know that the folks in Florida,
Texas and California sullenly wished the rest of us
were dead and could hardly wait to prove it.
In trying to patch this up, we would have to strug
gle with a hundred or so different languages, wonder
ing all the while how many of our soldiers would have
to garrison the homeland if a serious world crisis
arose, and how many of our troops would really
perform.
THE article also declared that if the Russians
are to catch up with us in electric power fa
cilities, they must, by 1980, build the equivalent
of a brand new Hoover Dam every 21 days. They
would have to add 390 million kilowatts within
the next 20 years just ' to break even with
America.
This, if entirely true
son to doubt Mr. Harlow s statements, even if
overdrawn is a tremendouslv imnressive state
ment of the strength of
Bv the same token,
of weaknesses in the Soviet system. And, as such,
it may do much to explain the Russians' reaction
to certain international events. : ,
.',' v
fNE man, armed with' a submachine gun, can
hold at bay 100 men armed with clubs.
One nation, armed with intercontinental bal
listic missiles with nuclear warheads, can hold
at bay an infinitely stronger nation...
You will note that in Mr. Harlow s list of
gaps" faced by the Soviets, no "missile gap"
nor "nuclear explosives
sia picked that one route
superiority or at least equivalence.
Given this one strong,
tage, and given the long
some of Russia b outrageous actions begin, per
haps, to ,be understandable. ;
CO how does the United' States, essentially
(despite obvious exceptions) a decent, moral,
trustworthy nation, act
gangster which is weaker in all but one or two
respects, but is armed with a weapon of poten
tiallv universal destruction?
This is the problem
it is no easy one.
It calls fov the most
ership, able to .balance f
ing, conciliation with determination, and power
wim restraint,.
- Men able to perform
under every apple tree.
Meaning,
The greatest problem
communication. 1
- And, as part of that problem, semantics looms
large. Semantics is simply the study of the mean
ing of words. It is a fact that a word will mean
one thing to one person, and something quite
different to another. ,, . '' .
Almost invariably, such a breakdown in com
munication results in misunderstanding. People
think they're talking about the same things, but
actually they're talking about altogether differ
ent things.
CREEDOM and Democracy are words which
everyone thinks he understands perfectly, but
they mean different things to different people.
Socialism is another such word. In today's
context, it has come to be almost synonymous
with Communism in the thinking of some people
while consultation with a dictionary will
quickly reveal the rather considerable differ
ences. Language is a living, growing thing, and the
meaning of words changes. This is fine, of
course, DUt it makes for a lack of precision in
talking and writing, and results in some pretty
basic misunderstandings. E. A.
look at things through
at a Southwest Electric
(and we have no rea
the United States.
it is a startliner estimate
gap" is mentioned. Rus
and has achieved either
even decisive, advan
list of other weaknesses,
toward an international
facing our nation. And
tactful, far-sighted lead
irmness with understand
thus are not to be found
h. A. -
of Words
of today may well be
1 .
Dennis the
' llFT UP VOUR HANDS.
' HAVE SHOES ON ALL
lll in y s i '
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 adit all letters with a view to
clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in
this column do not necossarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Socialism vs. Democracy
To the Editor: To answer a
few of Mr. Porter's questions:
Socialism, as it is known
today, must be construed as
communistic, and within the
meaning of, and as used by
other forms of government,
such as Russia, where every
thing is owned and , run by
the state, in fact, slave state.
Democracy, on the other
hand, is freedom-free enter
prise without, excessive in
terference by government.
If one looks back to the
1920's and notes the freedom
of the people with the corre
sponding restricted activities
of government, one can real
ize what freedoms and rights,
we, the people, have lost to
government.
Can Mr. Porter honestly de
fend the astonding foreign
aid waste throughout the
world? Take that little mat
ter of 23 million dollars giv
en to communist Yugoslavia
a few weeks ago. How will
that "help preserve our very
existence as citizens," to
quote Mr. Porter?
.The first part of this year
the 'U.S. Comptroller asked
Ike. for the facts and figures
oh foreign aid and Ike re-fused-with
the statement that
he didn't think it would be
in the best interests of the
American people to divulge
this information.
Our continental defense ex
penditures would be upheld
by close to 100 per cent of
Americans - but our foreign
aid program would be voted
down by over 90 per cent of
the voters. The less than 10
per cent for foreign aid are
the manufacturers and ex
porters who are getting rich
from the program.
Money will not buy friend
ship as the billions poured
into Japan did not buy Ike
a safe visit there last week!
As for the statement that
maybe I was trying to stir
up a controversy with my
letter, you are entirely right.
I am deeply concerned, in my
children's behalf, with our
country's swing away from
constitutional government and
its embracing of socialism.
The more people aroused into
thinking about the dangers
Involved, the better chance
we will have to get back on
the road to free enterprise
and a stronger, more respect
ed nation.
Mr. Porter, if your vigor
and talents are directed into
reducing the size and getting
the Washington giant off the
backs of the American peo
ple, your name will go down
in history as an American
Try and
By DENNETT CERF-
AWELti-BROKEN-IN husband clucked his tongue over a
financial item in his evening paper. "Land's sake!" ho
told his wife. "American Tel and Tel made almost a billion
dollars In 1959." "Could
be," disparaged his wife,
"but I wonder if they're
REALLY happy!"
A gent whose capacity
for hard liquor was no
where near aa great aa he
thought it was tended to
grow more boastful with
each successive slug. A
scornful competitor tagged
him aa "the first salesman
to become a billionaire by
striking bourbon."
e
A census taker was catl
ing on a rather sporty looking housewife when the tnald arrived
with a irayfol of double martinis. "Have one," suggested the
housewife genially. "In fact, have two or three or six. I usu
ally do myself."
"Okay," beamed the visitor. "You are about to see girt take
leave of her census."
CUM, W Beuiett Om DlatithlW a s Mm radfeete -
Menace
HORSES SOTTA
TOP FEET '
Statesman. If not, it will be
lost in the limbo of forgotten
Congressmen.
M. J. Olsen
Route 4, Box 325
Medford.
Straight and Narrow:
To the Editor: It would be
Interesting to know how the
lady candidate, Mrs. Lucy
Mayberry from Sacramento,
Calif., would go about turn
ing the farms back to the
people.
I agree it might be a good
thing if a lot of other things
that the people have let slip
out of their possession could
be restored where they right
fully belong. A few years ago
our government was giving
farms away to attract people
and assist them to establish
homes in the country. But
now the small trading posts
have grown into cities; and
our farms have become big
business. The used-to-be farm
ers have retired to the cities
on a pension.
Their sons and daughters
that were brought up on the
farms and got their educa
tion in the little old country
school house; those days are
gone and cannot be recovered,
though there are a few of us
old people left that think that
our present school system is
being carried to an extreme
and would like to see it set
back where it belongs.
It is not raising a child in
his home under the loving
care of his father and mother,
and to keep the child In
school more months a year.
Where and what has become
of the father that used to be
on the farm? He has been
swallowed up. He has a job
in the city. Where and what
has become of that lovely
mother that used to bake
those wonderful biscuits and
keep our ears and noses
clean? Well, she has been ad
vanced to a job in some of
fice or maybe a checker in
some chain store.
Anyway, it is a case of ei
ther work or starve. She has
bills to pay in order to move
along with the rest of the
bunch and keep up with so
ciety. She doesn't have too
much time to love and pet
her offspring.
Well, to be plain about the
whole business, It seems to
me we have missed the
straight and narrow way some
place along the way, and it
is A ne we all stopped and
mapped out a course that
would put us back.
G. S. Elder
3579 Table Rock Rd.
Medford.
Stop Me
Radio Broadcasters Should Take Hint
From Wilson Get Rid of Mob Noise
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (UPD - If my
friends, the radio broadcast
ers, would take a hint from
me, it would
be this:
Give the
listen ers a
break! Get rid
of that crowd
noise.
I was one of
those millions
who tuned in
this week to
yi. c Wilson rioya raiier-
son's butchery of Ingemar Jo
hansson. The blow-by-blow
was a pretty thing. The fight
caster, whoever he was, had
a clear voice, a sharp eye and,
to boot, he knew something
of the racket.
Through rounds one to
four, inclusive, we got along
fine. Radio fightcasting has
Algerian Fighting Proves
That Neither Side Can Win
By PHILL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The man of the week:
Ferhat Abbas, premier of
the rebel Algerian provi
sional government.
The place: Tunis.
The quote: ". . . if a ref
erendum is surrounded by
all the indispensable guar
antees of sincerity, the
choice of the Algerian peo
ple will be. without doubt,
independence."
More than five and a half
years of dirty fighting in Al
geria had proved one thing:
3rs)fW"l N e i t h er the
French nor
W)V 1 t h e Algerian
"SSS ?hI reDels could
-A wln' but each
' "3 slcie was so
I . c o m m i t ted
It j. fi neither could
V ja afford to lose.
AatkXJ tne rebel 8ov-
piiil newsom ernment head
ed by ioai reluctant rebel
Ferhat Abbas, responded to
another appeal from President
Charlv.i de Gaulle. In Paris,
de Gaulle in a direct appeal
to rebel forces, said:
'We await you here to find
an honorable end to the com
bat that still drags on."
Respond Monday
On Monday of this week,
the rebels responded.
De Gaulle, they said, had
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
FORCE INTO SOUTH
Washington - Richard M.
Nixon's organization is pre
paring to send a truly form
idable force
into the south
in his presi
dential race
this fall - a
force to be
headed by a
speaker nam
ed Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
William s. "
white be r e p orted
that the President will be
asked to make major appeals
-indeed probably his main ap
peals of the whole campaign
-to southern voters in behalf
of the Nixon ticket.
There is no doubt that the
President will agree, though
in defence to his position no
one wishes to commit him
formally at this early stage.
He has already said publicly
that he would do all he could
for his nominated successor.
And he had always had a
fondness for the erstwhile
Democratic "solid south," in
which he carried four states
in 1952 and five in 1956.
And there is no doubt at
all that the Nixon people
think the Eisenhower pres
ence would do them more
good In the south than even
the vice-president's own pres
ence - and more good prob
ably than it would do any
where else in the country.
THE decision within the
Nixon camp to send into
Dixie what Is widely assumed
to be still the biggest of all
G.O.P. guns is highly import
ant in two ways. First, it sig
nals a Republican determina
tion to give the South the
highest campaign priority in
the history of that party.
Second, it sharply illus
trates the totally different
approaches likely to be taken
toward the South by the two
parties.
Nixon has long since aban
doned an extreme civil rights
position to bring himself into
general line with the Presi
dent's far more moderate
views. The switch was one
basically of conviction, as it
actually was with several
other northern politicians
who have never announced
their change. For the longer
the vice-president watched the
all-or-noiiing advanced lib
erals - with whom he him
self had first been associated
come a long way since Gra
ham McNamee invented the
technique back there in the
Coolidge bull market. McNa
mee's q u a 1 i f i cations and
equipment for the job con
sisted exclusively of a tim
brous baritone voice. He also
had an unerring instinct for
recognizing and announcing
the entrance into the arena of
the program's sponsors.
Let the champ and the
sponsor come to ringside at
the . same moment on fight
night, and McNamee would
prime his golden lungs with
enough hot air to tell to his
eager listeners, thus:
Mr. Moneybucks
"Ah, and here comes Mr. J.
Astroloyd Moneybucks with
his party to occupy their $150
ringside seats. Hi'yah, Mr.
Moneybucks! Hi'yah. (in low
"reaffirmed in a more ex
plicit manner, the right of
the Algerian people to self
determination." They an
nounced that Abbas would be
willing to meet de Gaulle to
negotiate a cease-fire.
It appeared finally that,
driven by circumstances, both
sides might now be ready to
risk all on one great gamble.
De Gaulle promised self
determination for the Algeri
an people in the belief they
would choose to remain with
France. The rebels appeared
equally confident the vote
would be for independence.
But even could a cease-fire
be arranged, serious obstacles
remained.
Opposing de Gaulle were
the French rightist forces in
Algeria itself. Recalcitrant
"Colons" in Alteria had top
pled the fourth French re
public and might try to top
ple de Gaulle's fifth republic
on a campaign of "Keep Al
geria French."
Want Recognition
Another serious obstacle
was rebel insistence that de
Gaulle deal with the "provi
sional government of the Al
gerian republic" - an entity
which de Gaulle does not even
recognize.
Like many of his fellows,
Abbas has had his share of
time in French jails, although
he joined the rebel govern-
S. WHITE
-the more he realized they
were hampering rather than
promoting civil rights. He
concluded that the only pos
sible way to achieve any pro
gress was the moderate, slow
but steady way.
But the Nixon switch also
was one of realistic politics.
For the vice-president's whole
strategy has been based on
the assumption that Sen. John
F. Kennedy would wind up
as the Democratic presiden
tial nominee. Kennedy, of
course, is a Catholic. And the
South is, in numbers at any
rate, the least Catholic sec
tion of the country. The only
Catholic heretofore nominat
ed for President, Al Smith in
1928, lost the bulk of the
South.
fpHE basic G.O.P. campaign
technique thus seeks to
combine Kennedy's presumed
political liability as a Catho
lic with the clear probability
that he will be forced further
and further the left on civil
rights.
An example of such pres
sure has just been seen in the
visit to Kennedy here of a
powerful Michigan Negro
group. The visitors wanted
what they described as "a lit
tle more oomph" in Ken
nedy's civil rights stand. They
indicated later that they had
received this oomph."
Ironically, Kennedy him
sen has never been an ex
tremist. Though genuinely
pro-civil rights, he does not
hate or even dislike the
south. But some of the ex
t r e m e Democratic liberals
quite simply and undoubtedly
do hate the south-all of it,
from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande; whether ultra - con
servative or moderate. It is
a glandular thing, rather like
that which moved some pro
fessional southern rebels in
past generations to hate Yan
kees just for being Yankees.
And these violently articu
late civil rights extremists
will surely dominate the i
sound and fury, the audio and
the video, of the Democratic
national convention, if not its
actual proceedings. The Nixon
people are banking on the
proposition that Kennedy, if
nominated, will emerge as
identified with the extremists.
Of course, he might yet fool
them.
(Copyright. 1960. By United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
er key) Guess Mr. Money
bucks didn't hear me.
"Mrs. Moneybucks Is wear
ing a ,uh, Mrs. Moneybucks
is wearing uh . (desperate
ly) Hey Pegler, what would
you call that thing Mrs. Mon
eybucks is wearing?"
Westbrook Pegler: "Aw,
shuddup. Who the hell cares
what that broad has on?"
McNamee: "Thank you, Mr.
Pegler. Mr. Pegler, friends,
says Mrs. Moneybucks is
wearing a gold lame thing
trimmed in mink-Oops! Oops!
The fighters are in the ring.
There goes the bell. A right.
A left, left, right. Whoosh.
He's down. He's up. Mr. Mon
eybucks is standing at his
$150 ringside seat. Mrs. Mon
eybucks also is standing. He's
down again. Whoosh. Whatta
fight. The referee is counting.
Hold on folks-nine, ten! He's
ment belatedly and at first
regarded the Algerian war as
an unqualified disaster. In its
early stages he sought to act
as an intermediary between
the rebels and the French.
He lost hope and joined the
rebels whole-heartedly only
after the then-premier of
France, Guy Mollet, suffered
under a barrage of tomatoes
and reinstituted the French
hard line in Algeria.
As many another Arab, Ab
bat is unsure of his birth date,
which probably was in Au
gust, 1899.
He is a graduate pharma
cist and would rather be a
pharmacist than a rebel. But
the things that interest him
most are history and sociology.
Morse Among Award
Winners Listed by
Writer Dick West
By DICK WEST
Washington-fflPB-Earlier this
week, the television industry
announced the winners of
the "Emmy"
awards. And
now it's time
for me to an
n o u n c e the
winner of
the "Gimme"
awards.
The trouble
is, there are
so many win
ners I don't
have the space to list them
all.
I had planned to present
the awards to the members
of Congress who did the most
this year toward keeping the
federal Treasury from over
flowing. I had in mind getting some
sculptor to design a bronze
statuette which the lawmak
ers could display In their of
fices to show they had made
a contribution to the federal
debt.
These symbolic figurines,
called "Gimmes," would have
depicted a taxpayer over a
barrel with his back to the
wall. It wouldn't have been
hard to find a model. I could
have posed for it myself.
Gives Unit Citation
But so many congressmen
did outstanding spendthrift
work this year that I have
decided to declare it "no con
test." I think I'll just give
Congress a unit citation and
pass along to the special
awards in other fields of pub
lic service.
The first special award
goes to Rep. D. R. Billy Mat
thews (D-Fla.), who single
handedly saved the nation last
winter after he was barred
from entering a reserved sec
tion of the Mayflower Hotel
lobby.
In a speech on the House
floor, Matthews warned that
"if statesmen are ever pro
hibited from going into the
lobbies of hotels, I predict this
Dick West
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out like a lamp. Hey, Pegler,
who won?"
McNamee, of course, was
not that bad. But he wasn'l
very good either, as a fight
announcer. This week's fight
caster was okay. But I had to
wait for the morning news
papers to learn what hap
pened in that fifth round
when Patterson plastered
Dimples.
Nothing But Noise
What was broadcast to the
listening sodality in round
five was the monstrous crowd
noise. The fightcaster's words
were lost in the screeches of
the Polo Grounds paying cus
tomers. If the broadcast was
intended to convey the excite
ment of the evening, it admi.
rably succeeded. If it was in
tended to inform the listeners
how the fight was won, it
was a flop.
Why could not the crowd
noises be screened out of the
fight, caster's microphone? If
we are to be deprived of TV
service on all good fights,
why must the climactic mo
ments of the alternate radio
cast be wasted on the noises
of a mob scene.
Bad as it was, the Patterson-Johansson
fightcast was a
big improvement over the
first fight in which I had a
boiling interest and had to get
the story second hand. That
was in 1910. With the other
village kids in Obar, N.M., I
met the late afternoon Roclc
Island passenger train. We
hollered at a gleaming Pull
man reporter: "Who won?"
"Johnson," he hollered
back, and the train pulled
out. We didn't even know in
what round. We did know,
however, that Jim Jeffries
was through.
republic is not far from its
fall."
The hotel Immediately
adopted an "open lobby" poli
cy for congressmen and the
last time I looked the repub
lic was still standing.
The next award, for the
best left-handed compliment,
goes to Sen. Hugh Scott ID
Pa.). Commenting on charges
that Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D.
Ark.) was "an overeducated
S.O.B.," Scott said "I do not
think the senator from Arkan
sas is overeducated at all." .
Loses Immunity
The award in the congres-"
sional immunity division goer
to Rep. Samuel S. Stratton-(D-N.Y.),
who left his car by
a parking meter, thinking his
congressional license plates
would keep police from giv
ing him a ticket.
When he returned two days
later, he discovered the meter
was owned by a private park
ing lot and that he owed
$11.20 in fees.
The award for introducing
the bill most unlikely to be
passed goes to Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.). It would cut
the salaries of congressmen to
53 cents an hour.
The final award, for long
distance interrogation, goes to
Rep. Harry R. Sheppard ID
Calif.) for asking a general
this question:
"Assuming that your pres
ent proposal is effectuated, is
it to be interpreted by the
members of this committee)
that due to the existing con
ditions of the unknown fac
tor, internationally speaking,
which you,, the military, have
very ably expressed for a
long period of time, and most
recently, you feel that you
will have the capability and
competency within this con
solidated ability to produce
your pilot requirements under
an extremity as of tomorrow
or next week?" ".
The general's answer wal
"yes, sir."
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