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Election Musings
1 'i .
"Win a few, lose a few."
The old saying goes for elections, too.
In common with probably 99 per cent of the
electorate, we were delighted with the results of
some of the races; dejected about others, and not
too upset one way or the other about still others.
There were so many races, so many facets, in
the nationwide polling, that everyone could find
something to applaud, something to deplore.
Dennis the Menace
Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the (ilea or The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 yeart ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1950 (Friday)
The strike of Western Elec
tric installers against Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph
company spread to Medford
today when four pickets took
up their posts outside of the
company's Medford office.
The city building depart
mcnl today issued a $205,000
construction permit to erect
the . Mcdlord Plaza apart
ments.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1940 (Sunday)
One Medford business man
was drowned and another
seriously hurt after their boat
capsized at the mouth of (he
Chelco river Saturday.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
number of outdoor enthusiasts
have gone skiing, there being
close to a foot of the beautiful
at Crater Lake."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1930 (Monday)
The second annual Com
munity Chest drive starts to
morrow with $20,000 as the
goal.
Rogue river valley turkeys
are already being sent cast for
Thanksgiving markets.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1920 (Wednesday)
A rally will be held Friday
night before the Medford-Ash-land
footbnll. .game.
Both Wild Bill Reed and
Bill Bond are predicting vic
tory in their grappling match
tomorrow night at the Armory.
SO YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1910 (Thursday)
Oregon's new governor Os
wald West received 2,508 of
the 3,755 votes cast for that
office In Jackson county.
Jackson county voted In
favor of stale-wide prohibition
but the rest of the slate sound
ly defeated the measure.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It tuparier:
liven or eight ll excellent; five er
lix li good.
1. Who wrote the Inscrip
tion, "Equal Justice Under
Law." that appears on the
U.S. Supreme Court building?
2. What do the musical In
struments, violin, lither and
piano have in common?
3. In what country was the
Red Cross first organized?
4. Of what metal are five
cent coins chiefly made?
8. What common vertebral c
breathes water at one stage of
its life and air later on?
6. When it is nine o'clock In
New York, what time is it in
Denver, when daylight saving
time is not In effect?
7. What is the capital of
Arkansas?
8. Name the three Presi
dents of the United States who
have been assassinated.
9 What one thing remained
in Pandora's box?
10. Which releases more
moisture Into the atmosphere
- an acre of forest or an acre
of water?
Answers: 1, Charles Evans
Hughes. 2, All stringed instru
ments, 3. Swilierland. 4. Cop
per. S. Frogs and toads. S. Sev
en o'clock. 7. Little Rock. 8.
Lincoln, Garfield. McKlnley.
9. Hop. 0. Forest.
IN THE main race, for President, Kennedy's vie
tory, slim as it was, was intensely gratifying to
us for these reasons: . ..
1. We believe Kennedy to be by far the bet
ter man, with a firmer grasp of the realities of
today s world, and a more lorward-Jooking and
realistic program.
2. With a Democratic congress, Kennedy
should be able to get his plans rolling more sue-
cessrully than a President with a divided govern
ment.
3. Not least in importance, the vote was a
reaffirmation of the Constitutional mandate that
no religious test be applied to American office
holders, and a rejection of the philosophy of fear
. i n ii. l ? ? '
involving iainoucism.
D Y THE same token, another election which was
- of especial gratification was that in Puerto
Rico, where Governor Munoz Marin was returned
to office by a healthy majority.
That election was clouded and blurred by the
eitrontery 01 tne iJatnonc bishopsvm that Amer
ican Commonwealth, when they declared it to be
a sin for Catholics ,to vote for Governor Munoz
Marin s party.
This advice their flocks blithely ignored, much
to their credit. (One of our news staff sutrtrested
the story should bear a headline "Puerto Ricans
bin bn Masse," but thought better of it.)
The fact that Puerto Rico voters repudiated
their bishop's ill-advised entrv into politics is
cheering for the same reason that Americans'
decision on Kennedy is cheering.
IN THE state as a whole, the election was one of
A the most confusing we can remember, and
about the only solid conclusion to be derived from
it is that the Oregn voter is a most independent
inuiviuuai: lor wnicn praise De.
Mrs. Neuberger, a Democrat, was elected to
the U.S. Senate handily. And yet Republicans
won substantial victories in the races for Secre
tary of State and State Treasurer. On the other
hand, the Democratic Attorney General' was re
turned to oil ice.
And Nixon won easily in a state where reer-
istered Democrats outnumber registered Repub-
ncans by tnousands.
The same independent pattern was visible in
Jackson county, where it was overwhelmingly
evident that voters cast their ballots for the In
dividual" and not for the party.
DOB DUNCAN, a Democrat, was the best
" vote-winner in the county, while his Demo
cratic running-mate was swamped bv.both Re
publican candidates for the House of Representa
tives.
And on down the list, the voters here were
completely unimpressed with party labels, nami
ing Democrats to the jobs of assessor, county
commissioner, and treasurer, and Republicans as
district attorney and surveyor.
So, in Jackson county as throughout the state,
the party registration figures don't mean a thing,
except perhaps a slight philosophical leaning in
one direction or another.
And that we applaud.
THERE is something almost majestic about the
way the voters sit, look and listen all during a
a heated campaign, and then in the privacy of
of the voting booth make up their own minds. .
In the election on the measures, for instance,
they followed the prophecies of the forecasters
in some races, and completely rejected them in
others. 1 '
Daylight Savings Time was thought by many
to have a good chance of passing this year (as
it did in Washington state), but the voters simply
decided, individually, otherwise, and their col
lective decision was overwhelming.
DY ANOTHER impressive margin, they decided
that the billboard control measure was either
(a) wrong in principle, or (b) not the right way
to go about it. And they calmly defeated it.
On two other, measures, in particular, we
thought them to be most discriminating in situa
tion which could easily have been misleading.
To No. 6 they gave and overwhelming margin
of approval, which will permit the colleges and
universities to continue their non-classroom build
ing program.
And on No. 13, they decided to continue the
highly successful and money-making veterans
loan program.
i It is an utterly fascinating sight to watch the
millions of individual decisions become collective
decisions as the results pile up through the night.
We have an enthusiastic approval of the sys
tem, even when some of the individual races are
disappointing. E.A
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Communists Gain as Algerian War Drags
On; America in Dilemma Over Situation
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The Algerian rebels hint
from time to time that Red
China and Soviet Russia may
dispatch "vol'
unteers
aid the
against
French.
t o
fight
the
But
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Work Problems
To the Editor: Note the ar
ticle in Sunday's Tribune,
'Fruit Growers Clarify Pick
ers Position.
Picker is not the only one
where there could be an argu
ment.
What about the jobs all
over the packing plants that
offer the chance to local prop
erty owners stuck here to pay
taxes and expenses and help
keep Medford beautiful?
Surely there could be found
enough good dependable prop
erty owners over the years
that should have some rights
to the only work once a year,
almost.
We don't buy many pears,
but we do pay utilities, and
how, -also taxes, and there's
the other things they would
spend it for locally.
I rent rooms, and for years
I see the work given to tran-
ients, lately most of them lose
their jobs about the time the
Mexican Nationals come in.
1 sec women, some 65 and
older, doing a good day's work
that have been there for yeors
for some reason or other.
Shows there are many that
can work, older local people
who would be glad to.
As to pickers I have had
young men here trying to get
on, after the Nationals come
in. Lately they have no money
they come here to Medford
sleep in their cars. One has to
carry them to the first pay
day. Then about 2 weeks they
are let out. Some need to be,
of course, the drinkers, but
there arc some one wonders
why? And they can't got back
The Nationals are here
I, own my own home. I
don't need it (they think); give
the jobs to a new face, mine's
been around too long 1 guess.
So . have a lot of others I
know. After all, maybe they
want to squeeze us old fogies
out for one reason or another.
Good government should
come from a knowledge of
conditions and doing some
thing about it. Or do they
want to know?
(Nome on File.)
Medford.
our roads and show us, the
people, you are th right per
son?
Isn't it a shame the school
bus driver won't stand be'
hind you? He should, 100 per
cent, or is it he's afraid to
voice his opinion because of
his job. (Too bad, huh!)
I do hope more people will
voice their opinion on the sub
jeet, and maybe, then we can
get something done.
Lorcne Davis
Gold Hill, Ore.
Hunt Coyotes
To the Editor: If Coyotes
ore a problem in Jackson
County, I think that it can be
solved without resorting to
1080. Most of us have read
enough about the bad results
of this poison to wont to try
something else.
Coyotes can be hunted and
killed with the predator calls
and rifle, and many local peo
ple would enjoy the sport, if
we knew the locality where
they are numerous. So why
not increase the bounty to $7
and make It worthwhile for
young men, also unemployed,
and part time employed and
Just plain week end sports
men. The greatest trouble
with hunting them is know
ing what area they ore using.
if you like this Idea, why
not clip it out and mail It to
a county commissioner?
(Name on File)
Medford
Votes and Roads
To the Editor:
And to whom It may con
cern.
Why is it that the people
elect a man who docsn t live
up to his word, because we be
lieved in his ability ana in
tegrity to do something about
our county roads? The very
person we had confidence in
turned his back on us, we the
people of Jackson county who
dug deep in our pockets, got
out and raised funds and
voted to get the right man in
office.
If vou are the right man
Mr. County Court, Mr. Coun
ty Commissioner, etc., wny
don't you do something Jbout
Townsendites
To the Editor: '
For the fourth of the month
the elderly wait
Hoping their Social Security
pensions won't be late.
Some clubs reject theiTown-
scndite
"For somehow we are not
just right."
The Townsendites are not
the rage,
We try to helR all those
of age.
We're for the idea, win or
snow
For the Townsend Plan will
pay as you go. ,
A negative note will breed
pretty quick
Any action against us, when
we are sick.
To relieve all their tensions
We try to get all old folk
their pensions.
Arthur C. Lewis,
244 South Central ave.,
Medford.
Big Deal
To the Editor: After reading
last Sunday s front page story
"Two Men in City Jail Com
mitted No Crime," I wonder
is this America or is this
Russia?
Every year the people talk
of all the trouble the tran
sients bring to the valley dur
ing fruit season. Well, this
year two men tried to do the
community a great favor, and
what kind of thanks do they
get? Four months in jail at
$1.50 a day, about $180 for
4 months. Big Deal!
I wonder why the city or
state couldn't have placed
them in jobs until after the
trial so they would have
slayed in town.
1 hope my husband never
witnesses a crime, and if he
should I hope he wouldn't be
stupid enough to tell what he
saw, because at $1.30 a day
he couldn t afford to feed
himself, let alone his family,
through the winter months.
As far as we are concerned
this is the most unjust thing
we have heard of and it seems
something should be done
about it.
Darlcne Jackson,
216 Haven si ,
Medford.
Dorothy Farley,
1100 Ellendale dr.,
Medford.
Dogs In Jacksonville
To the Editor: As a resident
of Jacksonville, I read the
Medford Mail Tribune's ex
planation concerning the omis
sion of the Jacksonville
city dog ordinance from the
ballot with a great deal of in
terest.
Now, before the reader
throws up his hands in dis
gust, let me hasten to point
out that this issue does not
primarily concern freedom
tor fido. It docs concern, how
ever, the citizen's privilege to
petition the right to vote on
on issue Important to himself.
The Medford Mail Tribune's
explanation, while undoubt
edly correct as far as it went,
left much to be said, ror ex
ample. It read In part ". .
the council agreed that lite
measure would be placcoj. on
most experts
discount these
reports
Things al
ready are go
ing too well
piiil NKW80M in Algeria for
world communism.
Russia has sent at least one
shipload of supplies to aid the
rebels, but it knows that any
large-scale participation by
Russian or Chinese Commu
nist troops could turn Algeria
into a second Korea and per
haps touch off a world war.
And the ldnger the fighting
drags on the better the Krem
lin's position becomes.
French experts do not dis
count the possibility the Com
munists may send in a hand
ful of technicians to aid in
such fields 'as communica
tions, but the problem of
logistics probably would de
feat a large-scale Red move.
Red China, for example,
would have to move supplies
halfway around the world.
Little Help From China
Chinese Communist leader
Mao Tze-tung appeared to
have ruled out large-scale
help. The Tunisia magazine
Afrique Action quoted him
as teiling rebel leader Ferhat
Abbas: "This is essentially the
war of the Algerian people,
and the Algerian people in
this war must not count es
sentially on anybody but
themselves."
Mao and Soviet Premier
Nikila Khrushchev know that
continuation of the Algerian
war must steadily weaken
France, now pouring $1 bil
lion a year into the seemingly
endless fight. They know, al
so, that its continuation stead
ily damaged both NATO and
United States prestige in Af
rica. Moscow has stepped up its
propaganda broadcasts to
North Africa and has hit the
theme that the United Slates
and its NATO allies were try
ing to perpetuate colonialism.
It also blamed the Congo trou
bles on Belgium and linked
the United States through its
NATO tics.
Antl-U.S. Demonstration!
The growing hostility to
the United States became so
pronounced early this month
that huge anti-American dem
onstrates broke out in Tunis
where a crowd of 30,000
shouted "Down with Amer
ica" and "Down with NATO"
The United Slates is in an
Increasingly difficult spot,
damned if it docs and damned
if it doesn't. If it supports
France, Its NATO ally, it loses
friendship among the new
African nations and the Arab
nations of the Middle East.
If it aids the rebel cause it
loses the friendship of France.
GOP 1964 Campaign Starting
Today; Two Off and Running
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington- (UPD -The cam-
paign for the 1964 Republican
presidential nomination be
gins TODAY
In fact, the
top spokes
men of thi
two wings of
the divided
R e p u b lican
party bega
r u n n 1 ng on
W e d n esday
They took off
Lti o wilua w n 1 1 e in
votes still were being counted
but after it was apparent that
Richard M. Nixon was losing
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
of New York is the spokesman
for the liberal or left or non-
conservative wing of the Re
publican party. The governor
started running out, down and
away from the New York
City . hotel assembly room
where the GOP faithful were
gathered to celebrate a vic
tory which never came off.
Rockefeller's New York state
was lost to .Nixon- by then,
Matter of Fact y jo.Ph ai!0P
THE TASK AHEAD
Washington At no time
in our history of the United
.States has a new President in
herited a task
s o c o m plcx,
burdenso m e,
and difficult
as the task
that now lies
ahead.
The thing is
terrible to
say, yet this
task is still
heavier
JOSKPU AI.SUP
though less painful, than the
task Abraham Lincoln inherit
ed just one hundred years ago
from the Ineffectual hands of
James Buchanan. For Lincoln
could only preserve the nation
by fighting and winning the
Civil War. There was no ques4
tion about what to do. All the
greatness of this greatest
American lay in how he did it
Now the questions about
what to do bristle on every
side. "Negotiate," some say.
Rearm," .say others. "Do
both," soy others. "Preserve
the alliance," others cry. "Op
pose colonialism, even if
NATO is thereby rent asun
dcr," yet others argue. And
so it goes, on every major
front of national policy.
.
TEYOND these countless,
bristling questions, more
over, looms the vast task it
self. It is to give a new im
petus to tile cause of freedom
in the world; to right the slip
ping balance of power; to
light a new beacon for the un
committed nations; to prove
that the fruitful but cumber
some open society can suc
cessfully compete with the
barren but deadly garrison
states. And this many-sided
task must somehow be per
formed in the grim shadow
of the ultimate weapons, and
within the limits which these
impose upon national action
If this definition of the task
ahead sounds gloomy and
grandiloquent, the reason is
not that the definition is in
correct. The reason is. rather,
that it has been unfashion
able in recent years to speak
honestly about our historical
predicament, as it was also
unfashionable in the Baldwin
Chamberlain years in England.
'With the campaign merci
fully at an end, it is high time
for the fashion to change. In
deed it is late, very late, to
face the facts that now con
front us. As a symbol of those
facts, consider, for example.
only one of the minor con
trasts between the propagated
image and the hard reality.
JN
a sn
ONE of his campaign
the ballot if the measure pro
hibiting dogs from running
at large failed to. pass in May
20 primary election." 'The
article did not, however, ex
plain that the signed petition
contained no such proviso.
Nor did the article explain
what authority the city coun
cil had to decide upon the dis
position, or alteration, of this
petition. Either the petition
was valid, or it was not. We
were assured by the Mayor
that it had been accepted by
the council. We were never,
to my knowledge, notified
otherwise.
Now, in closing, let me
make my position perfectly
clear. As a voter, I am op
posed to the dog control bill.
As a resident, I shall be happy
to abide by the will of the
majority. As an American, I
am opposed to despotism in
any form or on any level.
Pat Patterson
P.O. Box 452
Jacksonville, C$e.
hower boasted that he had
helped to save Vietnam for
freedom. , Before he spoke.
little Laos, the small country
that Is the geographic key to
the southeast Asia, had just
slipped three-quarters of the
way behind the Iron Curtain
Shortly after he spoke, the
assassination of an American
aide official in Vietnam under
lined the point which the
President so oddly ignored -
the point that the resumed
Communist offensive in Viet
nam has now' reached the
stage of acute danger.
There is no longer any re
gion on the entire face of the
globe where comparable dan
gers are not seething below
the surface or already in the
open. In Africa, the Congo's
moment of seeming-recovery
has merged into a new peril
The ultimate triumph of the
Kremlin's agent, Patrice Lu
mumba, is again quite likely.
And if he triumphs, he will
find Nkruma of Ghana, Toure
in Guinea, and many others
with whom he can joyfully
join hands.
In Latin America, by the
State Department s own sober
enumerations, there are at
least six national situations
that may explode at any mo
ment into revolutions like the
Cuban revolution. And if this
happens, the revolutionaries
will find Fidel Castro far
along with his job of trans
forming Cuba into an open
Communist political base in
this hemisphere.
ADD to the list Berlin,
wherp the most sacred of
Western commitments is be
ing challenged, with increas
ing arrogance, by the Krem
lin and its East German pup
pet. Add the rise of neutralism
ic very bosm of the
Western alliance, in such key
nations as Britain and Japan.
Add the prime cause of all
these ills, the long American
neglect of the world power
balance, which has caused
both our allies and the uncom
mitted peoples to suspect that
the Soviet Union may repre
sent the wave of the future.
The list of unfinished busi
ness is as long as It is grim;
the facets of the hard task
ahead are as disturbing as
they are numerous. The busi
ncss, one mav hope, can yet
be done with success. The
task, one can be confident,
can yet be performed despite
the dangers. Nothing is im
possible, if our friends and
enemies in the world are
again confronted with the
grand spectacle of an Ameri
can re - awakened, newly vi
brant, and again thrilling with
stern determination.
But this spectacle must
somehow be contrived by the
new President, or the next
turning point of history will
be dark indeed,
(t) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc. J
In the small hours of Wednes
day,
Where's Rocky?
Sen. John F. Kennedy had
taken JJew York's 45 electoral
votes. Newsmen sought the
governor to put the usual
questions Including: Why had
New York rejected Nixon,
who had tailored his policies
to fit the governor's pattern?
But the governor was gone,
apparently in a hurry, and
down a fire escape to avoid
ambush by embarrassing
questioners.
This maneuver was some
thing less than a running start
toward the 1964 Republican
presidential nomination. It is
almost inevitable however,
that Rockefeller will be at
least as active a candidate
for the 1964 nomination as
he was for this year's prize.
And that would be quite ac
tive, indeed.
To be eligible for Republi
can consideration in 1964,
Rockefeller must at any cost
avoid being defeated for re
election as governor of New
York in 1962. He could avoid
defeat by not seeking re
election. If he runs in 1962
and w'ns by anything less
than a big, fat margin, Rocke
feller's 1964 sun will have set.
Spokesman for the conserv
ative wing of the Republican
party is another charmer,
hard-nosed Sen. Barry Gold
water of Arizona. Goldwater,
too,' was off and running in
the early hours of Wednes
day while the count still was
on. Arizona already was safe
for Nixon, however, before
Goldwater spoke. Nixon was
licked In New.York and else
where, but fli, Goldwater's
state the Republicans won.
Lost South
"If Nixon Iocs." said Gold
water, "he lost in the South.
He gambled t h e industrial
North by losine the South. I
told them that at the conven
tion. With the Piuth we would
have won this election by
now."
Goldwater said the greatest
obstacles to Republican suc
cess In the South had 'been
the Eisenhower Administra
tion's reaction to the Little
Rock, Ark., school integration
crisis and Henry Cabot
Lodge's remarks about a
Negro in the cabinet if Nixon
won.
What Lodge said in the
North about a Negro in the
cabinet long will be a matter
of discussion and speculation.
The record shows that he did
say what he was widely quot
ed as having said - that the
Negro cabinet job was a prom
ise. That journalistic bobbja
may have cost the Nixon
Lodge ticket a southern state
or two - South Carolina, for
example.
What Goldwater ignored In
his faulting Nixon for losing
the South was the biggest
factor of all. That was Ken
nedy's selection of Sen. Lyn
don B. Johnson as a running
mate. Very smart! '.
Grange News
Sams Valley Grange
The Sams Valley Grange
will meet at 8 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 12, in the Grange hall.
Prior to the meeting, a pot
luck dinner will be served
starting at 7 p.m. All mem
bers are urged to attend since
election of officers is planned.
STRICT MEASURE
Washington U.S. mint
standards provide that for sil
ver coins deviation from
standard weight, cannot be
more than t.vo-hundreths of
an ounce to each $1,000 of the
finished product.
WEED RESEARCH ,
Washington - Research has
Indicated that the so-called
useless weeds in southwest
U.S. may become fu'ture
sources for production of rub
ber ingredients and some
kinds of fats
Durno's Election
Gives State Even;
Split in House
Edwin Durno, whose defeat
of Rep. Charles O. Porter
gave Oregon an even split ia
the House of Representatives,
is a 61-ycar-old practicing
physician- who is practically
a newcomer to politics.
E)urno first ran for elective)
office in 1958 and won, serv
ing as a state senator in tbs
1959 legislature.
Oregon now has two Re
publicans, Durno and veteran
Rep. "Walter Norblad, and tvvo
Democrats, Edith Green and
Al Ullman, in Congress. .
Durno was born in Albany
and attended Silverton High
school, the University of Ore
gon, where he was the
school's first all-Amerlcan
basketball player. He was one
of the greatest free throw
shooters in the nation. Af-er
graduation from Oregon he
attended the Harvard Medi
cal school.
World War II Vet
He is a veteran of World
War II,. in which he was' a
major in the medical corps.
He won the purple heart for
a wound received in Belgium.
He has practiced medicine
here for 30 years and served
under four governors on the
State Board of Medical exam
iners. In the 1959 legislature
he was a member of the key
Ways and Means Committee.
He served this year on th
Interim Committee on Taxa
tion, and the Fiscal Commit
tee. Durno is a past president ot
the Jackson County Medical
Society and also past presi
dent of the State Board ot
Medical Examiners. He
helped plan the new Rogue
Valley Memorial hospital
here.
Durno said after his elec
tion he would work for de
velopment of natural re
sources and do ail he could to
help eliminate the recession
in the lumber and plywood
industries.
He said he would support
the foreign policy of President-Elect
John F. Kennedy
but left the door open to criti
cize It "in the proper places."
He also said he would work
for development of Rogue Ri
ver Valley projects.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT C!iHF
TAMPUS KUTIIPS":
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S'ay,ng UllS CVening 10 eWe Mar
"That's not a bad irlnn.
r guess we ushers will
6tay home and wash off '
Old Tom a little biL"
2. "Have you cot a
fast pick-up in your new
car?"
"You Idiot That's my
grandmother."
3. "I wonder who can
be sending us this tele
gram?"
"It's Western Union. I
recognize the stationery."; .
4. "Do you like bath-;
ing beauties?"
"I dunno. I never bathed any."
Prof. Outgo J. Sehmlrkase estimates that mrrtj -
spend 29.6 of their time persuading their husbands that when '
Uiey make a sudden right turn from a left lane, they are beina
merely careless and not what the driver behind calls them. ,
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