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Person Fatally Burned in
Wednesday Night House Fire
HOME DESTROYED Numbers of curi
ous on-lookers hampered efforts of firemen
to quell flames which took the life of one
man and destroyed the two -story frame
house above. One body, believed to be that
of Owen P. Short, 46, was found in the
basement of the house, located on Carpen
Minmum Age for Children
Entering School Discussed
Salem - HJPI1 -'Mothers, fa
t h e r s and educators joined
forces Wednesday to tell" the
House Education committee
that maturity, not age, should
be the deciding factor on
when a child starts school.
But they split sharply on
whether -' in, the absence of
adequate tests'-: a bill should
be passed to raise , the mini
mum age t for"' youngsters en
tering first-grade by switch
ing the six-ycar:qld deadline
from Nov. 15 back to Julx j.
The change would j mearij
children whose ibirtjifloys 'tafr
between the two dates would
have to wait a' year longer
than presently.
.Both parents and teachers
spoke on both sides of t h e
question, at a crowded 22
hour hearing.
Would Eliminate Many
Cecil Posep, secretary of
the Oregon Education associ
ation, said the average age
when children- are first able
to' cope with abstract think
ing involved in first grade
reading and arithmetic is be
tween six years and two
months and six years and five
months.
He said raising the age re
quirement would eliminate
many youngsters who fail be
cause they are not mentally
ready for first grade thinking.
He said the legislation was
"permissive" so that schools
could agree to accept younger
children if they were ad
vanced. Most parents said they
doubted the schools would do
this.
Posey said Sept. 1 might be
accepted as a compromise
date.
Richard H i n e s, principal
of Washington school in Eu
gene, said the aim of starting
youngsters to school when
they were mentally and emo
tionally ready was "fine, but
this should be accomplished
through kindergarten prepa
ration and testing, and not
through setting a flat age re
quirement. WEATHER
FORECAST: Vailry tog or low
cloudiness tonight. Mostly
cloudv Willi showers Kridav.
Low tonight 38. tilth Friday 55.
Temp.
Ilichest Veslcrday 38
Lowest This Mornliic 4R
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .57
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today .. 5:?S a.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .... 7:24 a.m.
Moonrise tonight 7:36 p.m.
I.asl quarter - Feb. 8
PROMINENT STAB
Reculus, ieads the Moon.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Venus, low In west .... 8:56 p.m.
Mars, hich In south .. 9:19 p.m.
Jupiter and Saturn,
rise 6:45 a.m.
'Silly Dog' Jumps on
Back of Portland Woman
Portland lUPD Said Mrs. Walker Mark to herself:
"Look at that silly dog!"
That was before the "dog" got close enough to see in
the rain.
The animal was Tanga, a 3-year-old cheetah that had
escaped from a cage in the rear of the Dr. W. Donald Nick
elsen residence Wednesday night.
"Then it jumped on my back," Mrs. Mark said, "1 was
so scared that I just screamed and kept on walking. I was
afraid to run because I didn't know what to do."
Mrs. Wayne Rasmussen, a neighbor, saw the leopard
Sized cat jump and ran in her house and called the police.
Dr. Nickelsen arrived on the scene on the heels of the
police. He said his pet doesn't bite and can't claw anyone.
He had had cheetahs for pets for 12 years.
By the time the police arrived, Tanga had sought shel
ter from the rain under a porch. Dr. Nickelsen walked up
to thereat, took her by the collar and led ner away.
ter Hill "road. Tankers from the Medford
fire department had difficulty getting close
enough to the house where the pumper
truck was parked because cars of excited
spectators crowded the roads and driveways
in the vicinity. ,
Willis Graf, a Salem father
of five, said he opposed any
"arbitrary and capricious es
tablishment of intellectual
age. You can't legislate ma
turity by making blanket or
ders," he added. And, he warn
ed, "once you change you
can't go back," because of
Legal Opinion Asked
On Proposed Road
The district attorney has
been asked for a legal opinion
on whether problems involv
ing the proposed Medford Cor
poration log truck road could
be solved through a zoning
approach, a group of Eagle
Wafer Pollution .
Measure Opposed
Salem (OPU The chairman
of the State Sanitary Author
ity said today if a water pollu
tion bill sought by Portland is
enacted the state would be
stopped for 10 years from
cleaning up Oregon's rivers.
Harold Wendel of Portland
told the Senate Local Govern
ment Committee that the city's
measure, SP138, would "frus
trate the will of the people
expressed so far."
He spoke strongly in favor
of the authority's own bill,
SB36, which would strengthen
its power over making cities
and industries halt pollution
of rivers and streams.
Polaris Submarine
Launched by Navy
Newport News, Va. (UTD
The Navy's largest Polaris
submarine, with striking pow
er greater than all the conven
tional bombs dropped by the
United States in World War
II, was launched today.
Rayburn Forecasts
Benefit Approval
Washington - IUP1I - Speaker
Sam Rayburn today forecast
quick House approval of Presi
dent Kennedy's proposal to
boost social security benefits
as a key part of a 12-point
antirecession program.
WINS APPROVAL
Washington -0JPU- The Sen
ate Armed Services Commit
tee today approved nomina
tion of Kenneth E. BeLicu, a
native of Portland, Ore., to be
assistant secretary of Navy for
material.
crowded schools.
Several mothers said they
wouldn't mind the bill if test
ing for advanced children
were included.
Committee Chairman Tom
Monaghan (D - Milwaukie) a
teacher, said the committee
may take up the bill Friday.
Point area residents were told
yesterday.
David Lowry, chairman of
the Jackson county planning
commission s arterial commit
tee, told the group that, other
than that, !'We didn t come
prepared to give a definite
answer to the problem."
Existing uses of property
when an interim zone is estab
lished are considered,- it was
explained. Whether the rail
road right-of-way would qual
ify as an existing use when it
is converted to a log truck
road would have to be. de
termined. ' Committee Member Gerald
Latham said he doubted if an
interim zoning ordinance
would control use or estab
lishment of the log truck road.
The county only controls
travel across county highways,
he stated.
Don Kimball, Eagle Point
city councilman, said such a
log truck road would be a
nuisance and dangerous to the
safety of children living along
it. Only growth possible in
Eagle Point is the 200 acres
between the tracks and Crater
Lake highway. This may be
annexed in the near future,
he added. Cutting a log truck
road through this area would
halt that possible future
growth, he argued.
A crowded schedule did not
permit a meeting with the
county court yesterday, but
a meeting may be held later.
Prineville Appeals
As Depressed Area
Prineville -IUPII- Prineville
Wednesday appealed to be
made a federal depressed area.
The appeal, prepared by
President Robert Love of the
Chamber of Commerce, was
made to Sens. Maurine Ncu-
berger and Wayne Morse and
Rep. Al L'llman (D-Baker).
As a federal depressed area,
Prineville could bo given ad
ditional government contracts.
Love said the appeal was
made after a study of the local
trend in lumber and general
business in the community
Love said the survey showed
that Prineville was in a worse
overall situation than the rest
of the nation or the state.
Memorial Urges
Defense Projects
Salem - (UPD - A memorial
has been introduced by Sen.
Daniel Thiel (D-Astoria) urg
ing Congress to authorize
more defense projects for Or
egon. TO ELIMINATE JOBS
WashingtonJUPD-A report to
President Kennedy estimates
that machines will eliminate
4 million office and clerical
jobs in the next five years, it
was disclosed today.
Firemen Find Body
Believed To Be
Owen P. Short
Others Feared in
Building Located
An unidentified person, be
lieved to be Owen P. Short,
46, died late Wednesday night
in a house fire in the Sweden
burg orchard on Carpenter
Hill rd.
Medford rural firemen were
called to the blaze at 10:53
p.m. Upon arrival they found
the two story structure en
gulfed in flames except for a
bedroom in the front of the
house.
A neighbor, Richard R.
Kime, discovered the fire. He
told firemen that he broke a
window in the basement in an
attempt to rescue anyone in
side. He said he shouted and
a voice said "I'm in the base
ment." Kime said that intense
heat kept him from entering
the building.
Two firemen with a hose
line also attempted to enter
the house, Chief Gordon Bar
ker said, but they too were
driven back because of the
heat and. flames. Shortly af
terwards the building caved
in.
The body was recovered
from the basement by firemen
about 1 a.m. Seven firemen
and an assistant fire chief
fought the blaze and remained
at the scene until 4:45 a.m.
Others Located
The house was located at
route 4, box 463, about a mile
west of Phoenix. For a time
today it was feared that Mrs.
Short and a daughter, Linda
Santos, 13, might have been
in the house at the time. They
were discovered later this
morning at the home of
friends where they had spent
tne nignt.
Chief Barker said today
that it will be almost impos
sible to determine the cause
of the blaze. From information
obtained from neighbors who
were first at the scene, it is
believed that the fire started
in the basement.
Oregon state police and
Jackson county sheriff's depu
ties have the fire under inves
tigation. D e p u ties reported
that they had received infor
mation that the furnace had
been repaired recently.
Another neighbor, Jack Pct
terson, told firemen and offi
cers that the Short home was
dark when he arrived home
about 10 p.m.
Orchard Foreman
Short had been employed
as an orchard foreman for
about three months.
Chief Barker said that the
firemen operated under ex
treme handicap caused by the
traffic congested roads and
driveways in the immediate
vicinity of the fire.
He said that the fire was
fought by relaying water from
the department's tankers to
the pumper. Because of curiosity-seekers,
the tankers had
difficulty getting close enough
to the house where the pump
er was parked. After each
tanker was emptied it had
similar 'trouble leaving the
area to refill.
Portland Has Third
Warmest January
Portland -IUPII- Portland had
its third warmest January in
59 years last month.
The weather bureau said
since 1902 only two Januaries.
1934 and 1953, had higher
mean temperatures. The maxi
mum daily average last month
was 51 and the sun shone 37
per cent of possible time.
Passengers Leave
Hijacked
Recife, Brazil -UPI)- The hi-
jacked Portuguese liner Santa
Maria pulled into the port of
Recife today and began land
ing the exhausted passengers
who had been held captive 12
days.
Two ocean-going Brazilian
tugs moved alongside the
20,000-ton liner and a stream
of doctors and medical authori
ties went aboard to check
the condition of the pas
sengers. The first passengers board
ed the tugs for transfer to
shore where Red Cross ambu
lances waited to takc-the more
seriously ill to hospitals. Buses
were on hand to lake the other
passengers into the town.
Kennedy To Lift
Restrictions on
Families Abroad
News Conference
Told of Savings
Washington -IllPli- President
Kennedy announced Wednes
day that restrictions imposed
by the Eisenhower administra
tion on the number of military
dependents abroad are being
lifted.
He told his second White
House news conference that
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara had found ways to
make an equivalent savings in
dollars.
The President said top mili
tary leaders were concerned
with the impact on morale
and the effect on reenlist
ments. Inasmuch as the Defense
Department expects to make
an equivalent savings of dol
lars spent abroad, he said, the
action docs not mean any
weakening in his determina
tion to protect the value of
the dollar.
Antirecession Measures
Kennedy also announced
two new antirecession meas
ures - the establishment of
five pilot projects for food
stamp distribution in areas of
maximum chronic unemploy
ment, and a speedup in pay
ment of veterans insurance
dividend checks.
The actions, he said, will
"assist the economy at this
critical time."
Kennedy also said:
-He has instructed the Fed
eral Housing Administration
to reduce the maximum in
terest rate on FHA insured
loans from 5'JA to 5V4 per cent
to stimulate new home con
struction. -Action will be taken by the
govern mcnt's Communities
Facilities Administration to re
duce rates on new loans for
public facilities.
-The housing and Home Fi
nance Agency has been in
structed to "hasten" its build
ing projects wherever pos
sible. In discussing his antireces
sion plans, the President said
the food stamp program by
which needy families ex
change federally supplied
stamps for various types of
food at the grocery store
would be established in five
points.
He said one would be in
West Virginia, one in Penn
sylvania, one in southern Illi
nois, one in eastern Kentucky
and one at a location "yet to
be determined."
Each state has areas plagued
by substantial long-term un
employment. Chamber's Annual
Dinner Friday
The annual dinner of the
Medford Chamber of Com
merce will be held at 7:30
p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, in Rogue
Valley Country club. Dr. How
ard W. Runkel of Willamette
university speech and drama
department will be the main
speaker.
Short talks will be made by
Gerald Latham, outgoing pres
ident, and Robert Taylor, new
president. Reservations should
be made Immediately by those
planning to attend.
Drain Robbery
Suspect Arraigned
Portland-(UPD-Donald Gene
Kelso, 35, chief suspect on the
$2,400 robbery of the Drain
branch of the U.S. National
Bank last week, was arraigned
on a charge of bank robbery
before U. S. Commissioner
Claire Mundorff Wednesday.
Kelso, father of five chil
dren, was placed in the cus
tody of the U.S. Marshal and
sent to the Multnomah county
jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Kelso was arrested by state
police at Drain last Thursday
night.
Vessel
The passengers had been
held captive by Capt. Henrique
Galvao who seized the ship
Jan. 22 in a revolt against
the government of Portugal
Brazilian health officers
who went aboard to check the
620 passengers found many of
them weak. They were the
penniless Spaniard immigrants
being returned steerage class
to Spain al government ex
pense. i The Spanish consul here
said the Spaniards had been
cooped up in foul steerage air
I in the intense heat of the
, tropics for days.
' Thousands of sightseers
crowded the waterfront to
watch the disembarkation.
Regional Edition
Medford
36 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1961 No.. 273
Talent Woman
Killed In Auto,
Truck Accident
Another Woman Hurt
In Morning Crash
One woman was killed and
another injured in a car-truck
collision on Highway 99 in
front of Ihe Jackson county
farm home this morning.
Dead is Charlotte Mae
Dailey, 32, of route one, box
483, Talent. Reported to be
in good condition at Sacred
Heart hospital is Alice Marie
Shilts, 21, also of route one,
box 483, Talent.
State police said both wom
en were In a car that was
struck by a Los Angeles-Seattle
Motor Express tractor
truck about 7 a.m. Police said
it has not yet been ascertained
which of the two women was
driving the car.
Both the truck and the .ar
had been headed north on
Highway 99, according to
police, when the car slowed
to turn into the farm home
and was struck from the rear
by the truck.
The car was knocked for a
distance of about . 100 feet,
state police said, and was a
total wreck. The truck con
tinued on for some distance
until the trailer tipped over
on its side. The extent of dam
age to the truck was not im
mediately known.
Neither the driver of the
truck, Raymond Dwight Ped-
crsen, 45, Bcaverton, Ore.,
nor his passenger were in
jured. Pedersen was not held,
police said.
Both women were reported
to be employees at the farm
home.
Festival Moves
Offices To Hotel
Ashland - The office of the
Oregon Shakespearean Festi
val association will be moved
into the Mark Antony hotel, it
was decided last night by the
festival board.
The office has been In the
Ashland Chamber of Com
merce office, just off the
Plaza, for the pas t seven
years. ' ,
The board last night ap
proved a two-year lease agree
ment between the festival and
the hotel, providing two
rooms just off the hotel's mez
zanine, plus reception space
on the mezzanine itself. The
contract includes an option
agreement for a three-year re
newal at the end of the lease
period.
Both the board and the ho
tel felt it would be mutually
helpful for the festival office
to be in this location.
The chamber building space
has been rent free to the festi
val. The new arrangement in
volves provision of advertis
ing for the hotel through fes
tival publications in lieu of
cash rent.
The board decided on the
change because of the growing
need for more office space and
a more central location. Prior
to moving to the chamber
building, the festival operate
ed out of the little box office
at the theater.
Bid Received on
Tunnel Approaches
Sacramento. Calif. - (UPD -
The Call fornia Division of
Highways Wednesday re
ceived a low bid of $2,186,789
for construction of approaches
to the Oregon mountain tun
nel.
The low bidder was Morri-
son-Knudsen Co., Seattle. The
contract calls for grading and
paving 4.2 miles of approaches
to the tunnel on Highway 199
south of the Oregon line.
Eisenhower Returns
To Gettysburg Farm
Gettysburg, Pa. - IUPD - For
mer President Dwight D. Ei
senhower came home to his
Gettysburg farm in near-zero
temperatures early today aft
er a 10-day vacation and hunt
ing trip in the southland.
MAY BE SATELLITE
Bochum, Germany (UPD As
tronomers at the Bochum Ob
servatory picked up a signal
from space today which they
said might have come from
a new Soviet satellite.
WOULD SPEED WORK
Salem - lUPil - Rep. Edward
N. Fadeley (D-Eugenc) has In
troduccd a bill that would
speed up construction of small
watershed projects.
"All Right Everybody Up Let's Go"
County To Benefit
From New Forest
A proposed new national
forest consisting largely of
Klamath Indian lands will be
generally beneficial to Jack
son county, J. Herbert Stone,
Pacific Northwest Regional
Forester, told a meeting here
yesterday afternoon.
There were no objections
voiced to Stone's proposal.
Similar meetings have been
held in Klamath Falls and
Lake'vlew
Creation of the new nation
al forest covering about 900
000 acres will mean a greater
; share of Rogue River national
forest timber receipts for
Jackson county, the regional
forester said. Although a new
national forest administration
must be set up it will not in
terfere with scheduled timber
sales in this area. Adminis
trative costs within the dis
trict will be . increased with
the establishment of the new
headquarters staff, . but this
will be justified In, supervision
and service, Stone said. The
multiple use concept will be
continued.
Klamath Falls Headqusrtorg
The new. national forest
with headquarters In Klamath
Falls would consist of reserva
tion lands, the entire existing
Klamath district of the Rogue
River : national forest, parts
of the Silver Lake district of
the Fremont National forest
nd the Crescent district of
the Deschutes national forest.
Under this organization a part
of the reservation area could
best be managed as part of
Nunn To Attend
Welfare Hearing
Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark
Hatfield said today he will not
appear in person at the Tues
day night hearing here to dis
cuss operations of the State
Welfare Commission. .
Hatfield will be represented
by Warne Nunn, his adminis
trative assistant. . '
- The hearing will be con
ducted by the House Commit
tees on State and Federal Af
fairs and Public Health and
Welfare.
. The; groups want to hear
testimony on Hatfield's
charges that the commission
is not doing its job. Nunn will
cover the governor's relation
ship with the commission
over the past two years.
London - ItlPII - Prince
Charles, 12, heir to the British
throne, has the measles, it was
announced today.
Punxsutawney Groundhog Gets Faint
Glimpse of Shadow; More
Punxsutawney, Pa. - (UPD -
The Punxsutawney groundhog
nearly misled the nation on
the course of the weather for
the next six weeks today
when he cast a shadow so
faint that observers thought
for a while there was no
shadow at all.
The grizzled old gentleman
of Gobbler's Knob emerged
from his lair at 7:41 a.m., only
two minutes after sunrise,
shuddered In 3 below zero
temperature and cast the
barely visible shadow. That
means, according to an 80-year-old
tradition, that the na
55th Year Price 10 Cents
Tribune
the Bly district and would be
added to the Fremont forest,
the regional forester said.
Jackson county now re
ceives $466,545 from its share
of the national forest timber
receipts. After creation of the
new forest including reserva
tion lands, this county will re
ceive $500,078. Each county
receives 25 per cent of the
gross receipts from timber
sales from national forest
lands within county bounda
ries. Estimated Harvest
Estimated . timber harvest
from the new forest would be
? million board feet. Follow
ing the reorganization of the
timber lands, Rogue River
forest would have an esti
mated 135 million board feet
to harvest; Fremont, 127 mil
lion board feet and Deschutes
136 million board feet
The new forest would have
900,633 acres, Rogue River,
620,592 acres compared to the
present 886,493 acres, Fre
mont, 1,217,292 acres com
pared to 1,254,608 acres and
Deschutes, 1,587,098 acres
compared to 1,659,370 acres.
Stone's recommendation has
been forwarded to Dr. Richard
E. McArdle, chief of the U.S.
Forest Service, Washington,
D.C.
There will be no redistri
bution of the supervisory of
fice staff on the west side of
the Cascades since this Is
where most of the work load
n the national forests is car
ried," Stone said, "The
changeover to the new nation
al forest will be set up in the
next few weeks. A skeleton
crew will be established at
first. After April 1 we hope
to go ahead with timber sales
in the new national forest."
Background
Detailing the background to
the proposed new national for
est, Stone said, "under the
terms of the Termination Act
for the Klamath Indian reser
vation, 525,744 acres of form
er reservation forest land are
destined to become- nkijonal
forest on April 1, 1961, and
will be managed for multiple
use and sustained yield."
After the Klamath termina
tion act, the Klamath Indians'
forests were liquidated and
units of the timber land were
offered for sale. Only unit
bought was the Antelope
desert unit by Crown Zeller
bach. The law provided that
those not sold should be taken
over by the secretary of agri
culture and managed as na
tional forest lands.
tion can expect six more
weeks of winter.
One of the faithful follow
ers of the furry weather prog
nostlcntor, who at first failed
If thar art any ground
hogs around her. thay
probably got their now
wet If thay cam out of
thir holas this morning.
But If they did com' out,
Ihty carlalnly didn't
their shadows to spring
shouldn't b far bthind.
to see the shadow, exclaimed
gleefully: "Thank goodness,
we've seen an end to the lousy
winter."
Extension of
Unemployment
Benefits Urged
Minimum Wage
Increase Stressed
Washington (UPD President
Kennedy asked Congress to
day for a multibillion dollar
economic "road-to-recovery"
program containing increased
social security benefits for 4.8
million persons on April 1.
In a 7,500-word message to
the House and Senate, Ken
nedy also recommended emer
gency extension of unemploy
ment benefits, an increase in
The text of President
Kennedy'i economic
message to Congress ap
pears on page 1, sec
tion D.
the minimum wage to $1.25
an hour, faster federal spend
ing on highways and public
works and aid for depressed
areas.
Kenedy announced in the
message that unemployment
rose another 900,000 in Janu
ary to bring the estimated
number of jobless to 5,400,-
000. He stressed that unem
ployment has been rising since
last summer and "has reached
serious proportions in these
rigorous winter months."
Might Get Worse
The President, who pic
tured the U.S. economy as
sagging badly in a lime of
world, crisis, warned that the
slump might get worse unless
Congress swiftly approved his
12-point program.
"The nation cannot and
will not-be satisfied with eco
nomic decline and slack," he
said in projecting a three-year
drive - to restore America s
'vigor and vitality."
The Kc n n e d y program
woulcj-if approved-soon boost
the wages and weltare bene
fits of millions of Americans
and give the economy a mas
sive ' injection, of buying
power. - - -
,The,' President did not put
a- price -tag on his antireces
sion package, w nite House ot
flclals ' declined to estimate
its over-all cost but said it
would not be above $5 billion.
Under the ' Kennedy pro
gram, however, expanded so
cial security benefits would
be paid for by an increase
of one-fourth: of 1 per cent
In payroll taxes on employees
and workers, starting two
years from now. Employers
covered by the unemployment
insurance system would fi
nance the extension of jobless
benefits by paying higher
taxes starting next Jan. 1.
Mentions Tax Incentives
In his only reference to In
come taxes, Kennedy said he
expected to recommend revi
sion of these levies soon to
provide additional "incen
tives" for corporate spending
on plant and equipment.
He also declared that loss
of revenue as a result of any
such change would be offset v
by elimination of "several un
warranted special tax bene
fits" and more efficient tax
collection. There was no elabo
ration on either point.
rain Derailment
Takes Seven Lives
Bowie, Md. - IUPD - At least
seven persons were killed and
50 injured today when three
coaches and two diesel en
gines of a Pennsylvania Rail
road special train were de
railed and overturned en
route from Philadelphia to the
Bowie race track, the Mary
land state police reported.
State police headquarters at
Pikesvllle, Md., said emergen
cy crews were searching the
wreckage for more casualties.
The Army base at Fort
Meade, Md., sent 12 ambu
lances, four doctors and a spe
cial vehicle equipped with
stretchers and other emergen
cy equipment. Special wards
were being set up at the base
to handle any injured brought
there.
Winter Due
The sleepy-eyed groundhog,
lea.-' after a winter under
ground but still alert, quickly
put an end to the short-lived
notion that spring was just
around the corner.
Before crawling back under
ground to sleep out the win
ter, the Punxsy groundhog
confessed he was partially re
sponsible for the bitter weath
er most of the nation has ex
perienced in recent weeks.
The old boy, admitting he was
getting forgetful with age,
came out by mistake last De
cember and saw a very clear
shadow, dooming the nation to
six weeks of severe weather.