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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24, 1952 (Sunday)
a 1CUR armed robbery fin
nilv cleared tin in circuit
rnurt: Louisianna man sen
tenced to lour years in state
penitentiary; two otners sen
tenced earlier.
Silver iodide cloud-seeding
over southern Oregon's Cos
cade watershed last winter
"apparently had on important
positive cited" on precipita
tion. 20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24, 1942 (Monday)
Mcdford ministers meet to
discuss value to be gained
from curfew ordinance in
Mcdford.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A dim
out was staged by the moon
last night at the appointed
time, 8:01 p.m., os advertised
ond without waiting for a
crowd to assemble. It was a
successful and well - staged
eclipse."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24, 1932 (Wednesday)
Channel is dug in Canfield
riffle, near mouth of the
Rogue river, to allow salmon
to swim into the river.
John C. Mann is elected
president of the Allied Wel
fare association; other officers
are M. H. Jarmin, Mrs. Carol
J. porker and Mrs. Alice Cop
pin. 40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24. 1922 (Thursday)
Jesse Winburn buys Gran
ite City hospital, presents it
to City of Ashland with "few
strings attached."
K. O. Trowbridge Is cited
In the national press for bis
Invention of a small quartz
mill for use by small miners
at a nominal cost.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 24. 1912 (Saturday)
Rogue River Commission
company announces it will
erect two-story brick ware
house at 1 1 til and Front sts.
Henry O'Malley, superin
tendent of government batch
erics, visits Mcdford and pre
dicts the eastern brook trout
planted recently in the Rogue
river and its tributaries win
exceed steelhead trout in size.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct it superior;
even or right it excellent; live or
ix ta good.
1. What are the two outlets
to the Mediterranean sea?
2. What is a natatorium?
3 1! mv many quarts
there in a common
Unit n1
Stoics lnrlu-1?
4 What is another (and
populiii ) name for the star
Polaris?
S. What is the capital of
Itcrnnida'.'
I) It a hen and a half lay
an rt: i mill a half In a day
and a half, how many eggs
will three hens lay In eight
days?
7. Who wrote the novel
"The Kanr's Edge"?
8. In what group of Pacific
islands is Guam?
0. Who invented the light
nin:T nid"
111. What do the letters ff
indieaie in a musical compo
sition'.' Answers: 1. Suet Cannl and j
4 A
cirirZ,. 3. 'Th.,:imist ' 1" frustrating.
ly-two. 4. North Star. 5. Ham
ilton. 6. Sixteen. 7. Somerset
Mauqh'im. 8. Marianas. 9.
Benjamin Franklin. 10. For
tissimo (very loud).
AUGUST 24. 1962
Ranger District
On Wednesday of this week, the first fresh
huckleberry pie of the
iieckies cate at union
king.
There is a good huckleberry crop in the forest
this year, and we were advised that most of it
would be ripe within the next tew clays, ihe an
nual influx of pickers is expected at Huckleberry
City and elsewhere in the higher elevations.
Throughout the Rogue River National For
est, the recreation season
in tents and trailers are
camps, and tourists' cars (most of them with the
yellow and black California license plates) swarm
along the main-travelled highways.
'
A "SHOW ME TRIP"
est's advisory council this week revealed these
and many other things. The job of managing the
forest, the property of the people of the United
States, is a complex and never-ending job.
The Union Creek district, comprising 131,025
acres lying west and northwest of Crater Lake
National Park, contains not only choice and beau
tiful recreational sites, but also vast stands of
merchantable timber, grazing land, watersheds
(the upper Rogue River is a principal feature of
the district), and wildlife (we spotted several
deer during the day, as well as a variety of other
small animals and birds).
How to protect, manage, administer all these
sometimes-conflicting resource uses, for the great
est good for the greatest number in the long run
this is not a simple thing to do.
rISTRICT Ranger Asa (Bud) Twombly is the
young man responsible for this job. He is
responsible to his superiors in forest headquar
ters, and ultimately to the people of the nation
as a whole.
It is a job requiring many things a love of
the forests; scientific knowledge about them and
the dangers, human and otherwise, that threaten
them ; a working knowledge of logging and road
building and camping and hunting and berry
picking and the habits of wild things; enthusi
asm ; an ability to get along with a wide variety
of people; skill in administration all these and
many more are required of a successful forest
manager.
Questions from members of the group put Bud
Twombly through his paces on all these matters,
and he had the answers.
CONSIDER, for instance, the superlatively
beautiful views from the highway between
the Crater Lake Junction and Diamond lake: the
twin crags of Rabbit Ears, the winding, rushing
Rogue River, the sweeping stands of timber,
green at close up but fading into blue in the distance.
These beauties, together with the fishing,
camping, swimming, picknicking, berry picking
and so on that are associated with them, con
stitute not only a great
tourist alike, but as a result are of considerable
economic importance to the area.
On the other hand, they also contain millions
of board feet of merchantable timber another
mainstay of the economy.
How are the two to be
IN THIS particular case, the area has been des
ignated as a "landscape management area,"
where the "key value is recreation. But this
does not, of itself, preclude the harvesting of
timber. The logging, however, is done with the
key value in mind. Individual trees can be cut
wlien they are overmature, or provide a hazard,
or are diseased.
And, so long as they are not visibly ugly from
the roadside, areas can even by clear-cut, if the
best forest management practices indicate this
should be done.
Other areas, where timber production is the
key value, are managed primarily for that pur
pose while, at the same time, the forest ecology,
water production, and other values are kept in
mind and protected.
IY THE same token, methods of cutting depend
on a large variety of factors typography,
soil type, tree species, whether a stand of trees
is all of much the same age or not, condition of
the .Hand, access roads,
other.-.
For instance, it is now a policy in the Rogue
River National Forest,
leave a strip of trees along both sides of all
stream banks. This avoids damaging blockage of
stream flow, and in addition tends to keep water
temperature down a vital factor for fish life
in the lower Rogue.
This factor alone can affect the method and
location of many logging operations. '
JVOST of these same problems, in varying de
t give, plus certain others not found in the
Union Creek district, exist in the other ranger
districts of the forest Prospect, Butte Falls,
Ashland and Applegate.
It is a matter of intense gratification that the
job of managing the forest so important to us
all and the rest of the nation in so many differ
ent ways - has attracted as many men of the type
it has, men of intelligence and dedication like
Bud Twombly and his colleagues here and elsewhere.
It is far from an easy
But it must also 'kivc
modest civil service salaries the government pays'
inner as well as outer rewards. We'd all bo i
the poorer if it didn't. E.A. '
season was served at
u - eeK. it was lit ior a
is in full swing, hampers
visible in all the forest
for members of the for-
pleasure to native and
reconciled :
economic factors, and
when cutting timber, to
job. It is demanding and
rewards far bevond the '
The Other Wall
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Washington Report
By William
(c United Feature Syndicate
NOT SO BAD
Washington In spite of
so much that so many have
done to talk U".? country into
a reces s i o n,
the enormous
basic strength
i the Ameri
can economy
is being prov-
r ed all over
again.
The best
single proof is
that President
Kennedy's de
cision not to seek a tax cut,
this year at least, has been
followed by a general im
provement, rather than the
reverse, in the business out
look. Even the stock market
has perked up a bit.
True enough, the Presi
dent's disinclination to ask
Congress for such a reduction
was perhaps based as much
on political as on economic
factors. Specifically, he was
aware that the most powerful
men on Capitol Hill were not
at any rate prepared to go
along with any general reduc
tion. STILL, whatever the reasons,
the essential fact remains
that he refused, as President
Eisenhower refused in 1958-
'59, to push any panic button.
There is every reason to be
lieve that this self-restraint
will turn out to have been
as wise as it was in Eisen
hower's time.
Indeed, this columnist risks
a prediction that It is 50-50
whether there will be any
general tax cut next year.
either, ond doubts, moreover,
that one will be needed any
how. For it now develops that
at the very height of this
year's gloom-ond-doom talk
which was last month the
American economy was stout
ly unaware of how bad off,
according to the doomsters,
it was. Retail sales were up
and so was personal income.
Unemployment was down, if
only slightly so. The auto in
dustry hit another peak in
sales. Corporation dividends
were up by $59 million from
July of a year ago.
More recently, the latest
survey of the Morgan Guar
anty Trust company, which
this correspondent assumes
will not be challenged as
some madly optimistic outfit,
is characteristically cautious
but also far from unhappy in
tone.
nUARANTY TRUST finds
" ' improvement ranging from
"modest to good" in retail
Try and
frfi
By BENNETT CERF-
VN ENTERPRISING young columnist down South has
been profiting by a neat labor-saving device until last
month, that is. When he was too lajy to turn out copy on
his own, he simply would
cut out Bob Considine's
New York column of the
day previous and reprint
it word for word, adding
at the end some penetrat
ing comment like, "I
heartily agree with Mr.
Considine," or "Does the
reader go along with this
interesting theory?" The
young columnist got
away with this magnifi
cently until the rival
newspaper in town
thoughtlessly began syn
dicating the Considine
column on its editorial page every morning.
Two Amherst students dearly prize a sign they purloined one
dnrk night from an out-of-the-way hotel in Detroit. It proclaims,
"Ouesta are positively forbuMen to take laity ftien,t. up the back
way. The stairs have just been painted."
Nick Mmg.in tells of bather en a chilly, overcast morning
who ordered hot coffe fiom a beaehsnle snack bar. "Cream or
sugar?" asked the waitress. "It doesn't matter," shuddered the
bather. "I'm going to pour it on my feet."
C IK, by Bcnntt Crf. Distributed by Kmc Features Syndicate
MEDFORD MAIL
S. White
trade, and is at least not whol
ly displeased with stock
prices. It warns that these de
velopments do not "constitute
conclusive evidence that the
economy is emerging from
its pause." It olso observes
that it is "still impossible to
judge the extent to which
businessmen's Invest ment
plans have been affected by
the deterioration of confi
dence which occurred in the
spring." This is a nice way
of recoiling President Ken
nedy's big - stick operation
against big steel's attempt to
raise prices.
Still and all, Guoranty
Trust sums up: "Business ap
parently is still expanding,
even though slowly.
Does not this, along with a
good many other things of
recent months, suggest that
we have been engaged for a
long time in a curious enter
prise of excessive self-criti-cism?
We have been measur
ing our situation not for where
we actually stand but for
where in the best of all possi
ble worlds we ought ideally
to stand.
WE HAVE been grudgingly
admitting in low mutters
that on their own real merits
things aren't so bad but
then we have hurried on to
shout: "But just look how
much better they could be!"
Fully admitting the desira
bility of setting our sights
ever higher, have we not
adopted a certain perfection
ist Attitude? Hove not the eco
nomic sophisticates rather
oversold a vision of grand pie
in the sky which makes our
really fairly decent bread-and-butter
diet more tasteless than
it need be, or is?
Maybe not, but a good many
practical businessmen surely
think we have. A country
banker friend in a typical
Virginia community puts it
this way: "They tell me things
are pretty bad and that our
'rate of growth' and all that
is highly unsatisfactory. Per
haps they are right. All I
know is what is happening
around here. And what is hap
pening around here is that our
little business is up $200,000
from last year and $400,
000 from two years ago. I
don't know what the rate of
growth ought to have been;
but I am sure not crying about
what it has been."
LARGE COUNTY
Tucson - This Arizona city
is located in Pima county
which is lamer in area than
R h o d e Island, Connecticut
and Delaware in their com
bined domains.
Stop Me
TMANk, MC CCNSIDINC
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Coming Commonwealth Prime Ministers
Conference Could Be Crossroads Affair
By PETER KNOX
United Press International
London While shooting
grouse on the Yorkshire moors
these past few days, Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c- Field Enterprises Inc.
EMPTY ROTE
Every morning in school,
for many years, I stood up
with all my clossmates ond
dutifully recited the Pledge
of Allegionce. After a few
weeks of this,
I might have
been reciting
a grocery list
a batting
order, for all
the meaning
it had. I don't
care to get in
to the judicial
aspects of the
Supreme aris
Court decision on school pray-ers-about
which too much
has been said already, and
most of it nonsense-but I
think it's reasonable to point
out that anything recited by
rote, as a daily task, becomes
empty and meoningless.
None of us children really
grasped what a "republic"
was. We didn't understand
"one nation indivisible" (in
fact, many of us said "invis
ible"), and such abstractions
as "liberty", and "justice"
were meaningless to us.
.
Just as genuine patiotism
is not inculcated in children
by flag-saluting and pledges
of allegiance, so genuine
piety is not instilled in chil
dren (or in adults, for that
matter) by a prescribed pub
lic prayer which is almost
totally devoid of content
and any real existential sig
nificance for ihe persons
praying.
The best comment I have
read on the matter was in
a letter lo the "New York
Times", written by the di
rector of the New York
Mission Society, who said
with great sense and clar
ity: "What man of faith real
ly wants the expression of
his faith reduced to as in
offensive a pattern as can
be dreamed up by pressure
conscious school adminis
trators and imposed on
teachers and pupils of all
faiths and all degrees of
faith, fervent and flaccid?"
The director, Rev. David
Barry, went on: "The Regents'
prayer has precisely the kind
of innocuous sterility that
seems designed to prevent a
child from asking the ques
tions we of the church hope
he will ask . . . Consciously
or unconsciously, it seems de
signed to promote that empty
and conformist 'religion-in-general'
that requires us to
be religious', but makes re
ligion devoid of any content
beyond the polite acknowl
edgement that we hove a Cre
ator." And, in a brief and pungent
editorial, the "Christian Ad
vocate," an official magazine
of the Methodist Church, ob
served that "far from being
tragic, the Supreme Court de
cision may well be a step for
ward wherein God can finally
climb off the coins and into
the hearts of the American
people." The only losers in
the case, the magazine said,
"are those persons who pre
fer their religion on a bland
diet, deceiving themselves
into thinking that 'In God We
Trust' will somehow make us
a Christian nation."
The furor aroused by the
decision is a pathetic sign of
our theological ignorance and
our infantile belief in the
magic of words. God was not
"taken out" of the schools be
cause He was never there; He
can be only in our hearts and
mir.ds.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Speaking at a press confer
ence held at Moscow Univer
sity for the Russian cosmo
nauts, the president of the
U S S R. Academy of Sciences
says the space twins "were
able to leave their seats at
will and float freely around
the cabins of their space
ships."
ll'EI.L! Well!
' When comes the time for
interplanetary space travel,
the tourist will have much
to look forward to. For ex
ample: When he begins to get a
bit stiff from sitting too long
in one position, he can un
buckle his seat belt, let go
all holds and just FLOAT
AROUND.
UT
How about mealtimes?
must have been thinking hard
about the opproaching gath
ering of Commonwealth prime
ministers.
There is little doubt the
meeting in London on Sept.
10 of the 15 leaders will be
a crossroads affair.
Unless the conference is
carefully handled, the whole
concept of the Common
wealth as a loose-knit body
with a common heritage and
the same broad aim in world
affairs could be threatened.
The lost Commonwealth
meeting in March 1961 was a
hectic affair, and ended with
South Africa quitting.
The September parley
promises to be equally con
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H He
To the Editor: E.A.'s edit
orial, "Eliminate August,"
appears to be a wonderful
solution to the problem for
us bothered with the H. H.
H. H., or "horrible head,"
as Elsie, a friend of mine, calls
it, belongs to us with spring
to winter allergies.
The pharmacists get rich
and we get poor buying the
pills and capsules to keep our
horrible heads from feeling
so horrible.
When August arrives we
count the days until the first
frost. The pill bottles put
away and our H.H.s feeling
wonderful again, we are like
dead bones come to life.
A young lady (she had no
H.H.) working in a drug store
where I had a prescription
filled, was laughing because
so many people come in,
dump out a purse full of
empty bottles and was amazed
they could take so many pills.
May she never get the H.H.
Mrs. Delbert T. Casey
Route 1, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
Taxes Refunded
To the Editor: I wish to ex
press the appreciation of the
Commission for the excellent
cooperation extended by
your newspaper in our cam
paign this year to deliver
previously undeliverable in
come tax refund checks to
taxpayers in your area.
Your publishing of the list
of these taxpayers, along with
their last known addresses,
has resulted in many of the
checks going to their rightful
owners, who otherwise would
probably not have received
them.
The cooperation of your
newspaper and 26 others
throughout the state has made
it possible for us to deliver
approximately 950 checks rep
resenting some $13,000.
Our information director,
Larry Warren, joins the Com
mission in thanking you for
your help.
C. H. Mack
Chairman
Oregon State Tax
Commission
Salem, Ore.
Meter Nuisance
To the Editor: If there have
been ony lingering doubts In
onyone's mind about the folly
of retaining parking meters
on Medford's downtown
streets, Mrs. W. C. Malone's
letter in the 821 MT should
have dispelled them. She cer
tainly made clear their in
convenience to shoppers and
others having business in the
area, and to visitors who olso
may be prospective shoppers
or would like to be, if they
could find a place to park
without being taxed for it.
Even more importantly, in
the long range view of Med
ford's economic future, Mrs.
Malone gave pointed illustra
tions of how merchants in
other cities even in Med-
ford have been forced to
move to outlying sections
where they could assure their
patrons adequate and free
parking facilities; and how
JENKINS
When your tray is deposited
on the little table that drops
conveniently down in front
of you, will it STAY PUT?
Or will it go FLOATING
! OFF? And, if it goes floating '
J away, how will one retrieve j
! it? Will one just go floating
off after it, hoping for the j
I best?
vr-, -.T ..
i 1 Nil THF. unprntifs Willi
. , ... ., i
"they stay right side up? j
Of will they tip over? And, if,
they tip over, will they
SPILL? Or. with no gravity
out there In sDace. will thev
remain filled either upside ! witn radio ond Kram for Hq0(, R)ver coum
down or right side up' ! TV. They ore legitimate new, g
And. with no eravitv to I media. i . "
cause they to pour, how will I Rut jsaid todav
they be consumed? There ore too many prima ! Such approval is essential
1 donnas in the Senate already, before aid for any specific pro-
ND THE pretty steward-1 Bringing in the cameras and ject in the county can b
esses. the mikes would make ham j granted under the area rede-
Will they go floating around ' actors out of ALL of them. ivelopment program.
1
troversial. The 15 nations
coming are Britain, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand,
India, Pakistan, Ceylon,
Ghana, Malaya, Nigeria,
Cyprus, Sierra Leone, Tan
ganyika, and newly inde
pendent Jamaica and Trini
dad a United Nations in
miniature covering people of
many races and widely dif
fering political beliefs.
The pop-popping of Mac
millan's holiday shooting is
nothing compared to the
heavyweight sniping that has
been going on-between var
ious members of the Com
monwealth. Traditionally when the
prime ministers gather in
this slow but steady outwara
movement in time may make
a veritable ghost town of our
present downtown shopping
district.
As long ago as 22862 I
discussed this problem in
these columns, in part, as fol
lows: "In my opinion, more
extensive and free parking
areas are an urgent need; they
should be provided by the
city and supported by tax
levy . . . Park 'n' Shop is not
very satisfactory, and metered
parking is a nuisance, espec
ially when attending lunch
eon or other meetings or to
other business of more than
an hour's duration; and it
does not harmonize with the
generally prevailing hospital
ity accorded visitors, whether
tourits or others."
Completion of the Freeway
will do its part to deter out-of-town
motorists from enter
ing our downtown shopping
area, thus further agravating
its merchants' problem and
growing loss of trade, even
by local residents who in
creasingly, are attracted to
other shopping areas with
their spacious and free park
ing facilities.
As Mrs. Malone rightly
pointed out, this is a problem
not only confronting our
downtown merchants and all
citizens concerned for our
city's future, but it is pri
marily a problem for our
City Fathers to face, and solve
before it is too late.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford.
When. Oh When?
To the Editor: An advertise
ment of the Licensed Bever
age Industries, Inc., in the
July issue of "The California
Publisher ' carries this state
ment: "We're proud that the
$71 billion that have been
collected in direct taxes on
our products since Prohibition
have contributed so much to
the welfare of our fellow
citizens."
Since when has the liquor
industry become interested in
the welfare of their fellow cit
izens? One cannot help but wonder
whether they are also proud
of the thousands of lives that
have been snuffed out on our
highways because of drinking
drivers.
One wonders whether they
take pride in the ruin of
millions of homes torn apart
because of drink.
Do they point with pride to
the millions of days of work
lost because of drinking
and the widespread ineffi
ciency, accidents and waste in
industry?
Do they swell out their
chests when they realize, as
stated by Alcoholics Anonv
mous, that 1 out of every 40
adults in the U. S. A. are
olcoholics, and that 1 out of
every 8 Americans who start
drinking will become alco
holic?
This advertisement also
stated that there is "a gigantic
moonshine racket that cheats
federal oncl state govern
ments of millions in revenue
among the passengers, some
where between the floor and
the ceiling, saying a cheering
word here and there, and
asking if you'll have another
helping?
TfROM Washington:
Senator Javits of New
York is planning to introduce
a resolution that would open
Senate debates to coveraee
by radio ond television. He
thinks camera coverage
should bring Congress closer
to the people, thus resulting
in a better informed citizenry.
At the very least, he savs,
ranio-teicvvsion coverage
should be tried on an exper.
imental basis.
TAY HEAVEN forbid it!
i It's not
s not that there is any-
London for their meetings,
there have been 10 since the)
war they hold their discus
sions in an informal atmos
phere behind closed doors.
In fhis way behind-the-scene
rows are covered up,
ond the delegates are free)
to talk.
This time, however, there)
has been such odvonce pub
licity given to Commonweolth
differences it is going to be
difficult to keep ony major
clashes quiet.
The moin theme Is going
to be Britain's bid to join the
European Common Market,
about which the old whita
dominions have deep suspicions.
every year." As I recall it, the
elimination of bootlegging
was one of the chief argu
ments in favor of repeal o
the Prohibition amendment,
yet, according to Lewis S.
Rosensteil, board chairman o
Schenley Industries, Inc., ona
of the world's largest liquor
manufacturers, "an average o
20,000 illicit stills are being
siezed every year by Federal,
state and local enforcement
agencies, about the same aver
age as during Prohibition."
And no doubt the liquor in
terests are also proud of a
national situation so pointedly
stated by Paul Harvey, well-
known ABC news commen
tator, "The threat of alco
holism to our nation is greater
than the threat of Commu
nism. History records that 19
out of 20 civilizations fell be
cause of moral decay from
within and alcohol was a con
tributing factor."
When, oh, when will wa
who claim to be patriotic cit
izens awake to the fact that
we must do something to halt
this national menace, instead
of nWekly joining the cock
tail porade and considering it
"a mark of distinction" to do
so?
How many of us will hava
the patriotic courage to say,
"I will not partake of alco
holic beverages, and I will do
all I can to discourage their
use."
A. Ray Neptune
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford.
Apologies To Kipling
To the Editor: The follow,
ing poem was received
through the mail recently. I
thought some who may not
have read it before would en
joy it, so am taking this
chance that you will print it.
IF
If you can keep your head
when all about you
UNESCO seeks to muddle and
deceive:
If you can trust yourself
when "pinkies" doubt you
Because you love your
Country and believe
Its Constitution is the best
that ever
Was drawn to guard tha
liberties of man,
And that Americans must oil
endeavor
To keep it safe and solid if
they can , , .
If you won't let the UN ba
your master,
If you won't make world
government your aim;
If you can fight the sinister
disaster
Of letting spies and traitors
win the game
If you are loyal to the land
that gave you
Your freedom and the chance
to fight and win,
And count upon its Bill oJ
Rights to save you
From tyranny and slavery and
sin . . .
If you respect your Flag and
love your Maker
And pray that He will guida
you to do right,
And do not let the first high
sounding faker
Convince you white is black
ond black is white
If you stand up and say you
love Old Glory
And show that you're an
American with guts . . .
Baby, you'd better get your
self a lawyer,
For "Mental Health" is out to
prove you're nuts!!
Author unknown with
apologies to Rudyard Kipling,
Mrs. Ernest Santo
204 Lozler Lane
Medford.
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