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History from the files of Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 22, 19S2 (Wednesday)
. . nniimiiarlv flood sea
ion for pheasant hunters is
forecast this year by Dave
tuman, state game commis
sion agent.
Freedom of the press as s
basic point in nistuiy w
Viewed for Medford Kiwan
lans at their luncheon meet
i tnAvv hv Herb Gray, ad
vertising manager of the
Mail Tribune.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 22, 1942 (Thursday)
Two Medford men receive
long Jail sentences for taxi
holdup which netted $30 in
cash and two tires.
From Arthur Perry s Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Tax
and fish bills headline mea
sures before the Oregon
voters. Death, taxes, and fish
bills always we have with
us." .
JO YEARS AGO
Oct. 22. 1932 (Sslurdsy)
. VI.Hfni-H Hirh school fool-
in loom defeats Grants
a... i in a Knios. Schcel
Galinskl and Fichtncr star
for local squad.
I Portland medical authori
ties express belief that lcr
uko Maru, 15-year-old Med
ford girl, will be able to walk
again after being disabled
two years ago by accidental
gun shot.
40 YEARS AGO
Oci, 22, 1922 (Sunday)
: E. M. Hussong, Medford
High school biology teacher,
starts study of while pine
Ulster discos in conjunction
with national bureau of plant
pathology.
Ashland school authorities
announce It will cost about
$9,000 a month to run city
Schools there.
$0 YEARS AGO
Oct. 22. 1912 (Tuesday)
"People from miles
sround" hear speeches by
Bull Moose party "(lying
mitirlrnn'' nl Talent.
cir destroys Medford
hoilrlinir constructed In 18112
which houses Noyes and
Black paint shop.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nina ten tenett h luaerier;
even or eiahl is eicellenti llva w
lis is $ui.
1. Does the Coaat Guard
operate airplanes as part of
its standard equipment?
2. The fall of Constantin
ople occurred In 1453, 1493,
1516. or 1020?
3. Name the twin brother of
Easau.
4. Ibn Siiud is king of
which country?
5. The New York Stock
Exchange was founded under
a tree; was it a beech, oak,
ash, or butlonwood tree?
8. How many children did
George Washington have?
7. With what sport do you
associate Hayes Allan Jenk
ins? 8. Are chemicals, textiles
or dairy products the leading
product of Delaware?
0. Was Mary Plckford,
Helen Hayes, or Shirley Tem
ple known as "America's
Sweetheart?''
10. What Is the site of a
'hand' as used in mrasuring
the height of horses'
Answers: 1. Yea. 2. 1453.
3. Jacob. 4. Saudi Arabia.
S. Butlonwood lrt. t. Nona.
7. let figure skating. I. Chem
icals. 9. Mary Picklord. 10.
Four Inches.
OCTOBLH 22. lst2
Mr. Sprague on No. 10
In these columns previously have appeared
brief discussions and editorial recommendations
concerning eight of the nine measures to be voted
on at the Nov. 6 general election.
The final one is No. 10, an initiative measure
designed to repeal the school reorganization law.
(No. 8, another initiative to make steelhead a
game fish, was dropped off the ballot at the last
moment by order of the State Supreme Court,
because of faulty wording in some of the peti
tions. It still appears on most sample ballots and
a few absentee ballots, but will not be on ballots
distributed at the polls on voting day.)
In some ways No. 10 is the most significant
and important of the nine measures. The clearest
and most lucid explanation of it we have seen,
and the most soundly-based recommendation, ap
peared under the by-line of Charles A. Sprague,
editor of the Oregon Statesman.
jyIR. SPRAGUE is particularly well-qualified
to comment on this measure, for he is a
former school superintendent, a former Governor
of Oregon, and a life-long observer and supporter
ofjrood education.
His opinion, incidentally, coincides with all
educators with whom we have discussed No. 10,
with most editorial writers of the state, and with
those good citizens who have labored long and
hard to put the school reorganization law into
effect, with considerable success.
Mr. Sprague's editorial follows. E.A.
"No!" on No. 10
Initiative No. 10 on. the November ballot
would, if adopted, turn back the clock on public
education in Oregon.
It would repeal the 1957 Act for school dis
trict reorganization. And it would set up me
chanics for dissolving the administrative districts
created under that act. This would be something
like unscrambling an omelet. A reorganized dis
trict may have built new school buildings and
provided new facilities and you can't very well
slice up schoolhouses, gymnasiums, playing fields
and parcel them out among revived small dis
tricts. Actually the 1957 Act expired on June 30th
last, though the law does lay out procedures for
future reorganization if the residents desire it.
WHAT did the 1957 Act do? It called for or
ganization of the school districts of the state
into administrative districts each of which would
provide education through grades one to 12. Orig
inally school districts undertook to provide
schooling only through
grades. 1 he compulsory school law and public
demand now extend education into and through
the high school (or to age 18). Because of this
change in the spread of education, consolidations
of districts have been going on for years.
The purpose of the 1957 Act was to speed
up the consolidations in the interest both of econ
omy and educational improvement. The results
have been highly satisfactory, though there were
pockets of resistance due to attachment to the
nearby school.
The application of the 1957 Act was most
carefully performed. County committees were set
uj). Innumberable hearings were held. Local opin
ion was freely expressed. A division of the State
Department of Education reviewed all plans, held
additional hearings. Then votes were taken and
the final decisions were made by the people af
fected. To move toward reversing these decisions
would, in my view, be a great mistake. Also it
would be futile, for it is doubtful if a single ad
ministrative district would vote to unscramble
itself.
XTHAT have been the results of the 1957 Act?
Under it through elections 82 administrative
districts were formed in 26 counties. A survey
conducted by the State Department of Education
showed that 25 of 27 districts reported increased
effectiveness in the educational program as a
result of the unification.
It provides a single administration through
both elementary and high schools. It makes pos
sible specialized instruction in all schools in
coin-ses such as music and art. It makes students
in all the schools of the district part of a single
system.
The Salem district 24CJ is a good example of
consolidation. All of its growth came through
voluntary action of local districts. This has spread
the burden of cost which was becoming almost
unbearable in some districts like Keizer and
Salem Heights, and has furnished the outlying
schools with the same type of supervision and
instruction as the city schools.
SINCE a high school education is now regarded
ila unntinl few oil vrntli with tinrmnl mnntol
equipment, the district organization should con
form to that pattern and put elementary schools
and related high schools under a single adminis
trative organization.
The writer is somewhat of a pioneer in pro
moting district reorganization, having recom
mened it to the Legislature in 19"9. While retain
ing local district option slowed down the process,
over the years districts have been consolidated
in great numbers. The proof of the pudding is in
the eating; and I know of no consolidated or
administrative district which has "unmerged."
I urge the voters not to turn the clock back
as would be done by voting in favor of Measure
No. 10. Instead, vote against it, and encourage
continuance through the democratic process of
consolidation into administrative units. C.A.S.,
Oregon Statesman.
the eight elementary
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Morse Thanked
To the Editor: The follow
ing letter has been sent to
Senator Morse:
Dear Senator Morse: On be
half of the Medford Pear In
dustry, we wish to express
our appreciation for your
most effective and generous
help in solving our many
problems, arising from work
with Federal Agencies, in
cluding the Department of La
bor and the Department of
Agriculture; as well as your
continuing interest in our for
eign trade problems.
Your detailed grasp and un
derstanding of the questions
at issue, your realistic ap
proach to their solution and
your insistence on prompt ac
tion by those in authority,
has made the difference be
tween the success, or failure,
of our effortr.
We are particularly pleased
with the attention, and
prompt action we have re
ceived from the Department
of Labor, at both the Federal
and Regional levels, on secur
ing the services of Mexican
National Labor during an es
pecially difficult, and some
what disasterous, harvest sea
son. Again, Senator, please ac
cept a hearty thank-you for
a Job well done.
Medford Pear Shippers As
sociation. By Walter B. Hinkle, Pres
ident. Rogue Valley Marketing
Association.
By J. Nauiries, President.
Fruit Growers League of
Jackson County.
By Edwin W. Gebhard,
President.
Submitted by
Mrs. Louise Norton,
Box 85, Phoenix, Ore.
GOP Commandment
To the Editor: Did Presi
dent Eisenhower try to work
out a deal whereby American
Interests would have been
paid in full for all propertv
confiscated by Castro? If not
why not? Castro's Cuba
should have been shown the
same consideration that Mex
ico was shown when Mexico
nationalized almost all Amer
ican holdings. A deal was
made and without war.
With Senators Capehart
and Goldwater crying for war
if necessary to put the sugar
and oil barons back in busi
ness at the same old stand and
under the same old conditions,
are the voters going to be
naive enough to send Carl
Fisher and Slg Unander to
Washington where they will
be in position to help the big
GOP brass put the pressure
on President- Kennedy to
chance a war with Russia?
The first commandment In
the GOP Bible is go ye forth
and bring back huge profits,
even if it be In the sweat and
blood of the blind, the sick
and the halt. Your god, the
party, commands this. Show
no compassion for the people
! who toil for you as they wor
ship a god who is invisible.
Give them naught when they
cry (or bread as they will
cry for butter and meat later
on. Fear you not to put the
screws on hard as your gov
ernment is behind thee and
anything you do. This your
party commands you.
John R. Schumpf
Route 1, Box 312
Central Point. Ore.
Ponder That
To the Kdltor: Your East
Oregonlan editorial reprint of
10 2 62 states that, "the basic
idea behind school district re
organization is to gain effi
ciency, improve the educa
tional program, and reduce
costs of education."
I challenge .this pleasant
sounding "bait" with which
we art being lured unsuspect
ingly Ui to voting against re-
MAIL THlBUMfc. MtDr'ORD.
peal of the school district re-
organization law. Morrow
county was the first and only
county to be completely
under this law. The holocaust
resulting from reorganizing
this county certainly didn't
bring efficiency and better
education, and the cost of the
school budget was not re
duced but sky-rocketed.
In an effort to escape the
unholy mess of high priced
confusion their schools were
in under reorganization the
people of Morrow county
went to court, then appealed
to the state supreme court,
then carried the fight into the
state legislature, then, thor
oughly aroused over the pres
sures bucking them, spear
headed the drive of alarmed
Oregon citizens to repeal the
reorganization law by peti
tion and ballot.
If this law Is retained by
the voters and goes into full
effect, we, the tax payers,
who built the schools and who
pay the teachers, lose local
control of our schools. We
trade the right to vote on
school Issues for the right to
petition to vote, which vir
tually means there will be no
more voting.
A whole county can be
made an administrative dis
trict and Joined to another
whole county without giving
us a chance to vote on it, un
less we petition - and petition
- and petition. This can be
repeated until the whole state
has been combined into one
district under one central of
fice with the old familiar, so
cialistic centralization of pow
er, which is the primary ob
ject of this law.
Raymond Moley, national
ly known columnist, states
that there "is a complete blue
print for federal control of
all education." He should
have added that, as the next
step, there is also a blue-print
for International control of
all education in America,
under the pending UNESCO
treaty. First step state con
trol, second step federal con
trol, and third step, interna
tional control with foreigners
dictating what shall be taught
to our children. And the iden
tity of these foreigners would
chill your spine. Of 16 top
jobs In UNESCO 14 are held
by foreign communists 11 of
whom are ruthless Russian
reds under direction of the
Kremlin. Ponder that.
The first step toward fed
eral and international control
of our schools is to take con
trol awav from the local peo
ple. This tragedy must not
happen. Folks, for the love
of your country and your
children alert everyone you
know to vote "yes" for the
repeal of the school district
reorganization law.
L. C. Powell
316 S E. Eighth St.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Think
To the Editor: Do you really
know each man you are plan
ning to vote for this Novem
ber? If he is an incumbent.
do you know his voting rec
ord? Do you know the things
he stands for?
For example, let's take two
extremely Important lss.es
and use them as a yardstick
with which to measure the
two Oregon men now running
for the U.S. Senate.
1. Nearly all the experts on
world affairs SRrce that to
recognize the criminal mur
derers In control of Red China
and seat them in the United
Nations would be a smashing
victory for world communism
and a national rataitro the for
the United States. Yet. loyal
to the United States though
Senator Morse undoubtedly
is. he has used the extremely
bad Judgment of coming out
in favor of seating Red China
in the UN (documented in
OREGON
Foreign News: Algerian Danger
De Gaulle's Majority;
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign
news cables:
Danger Signals
Algerian Premier Ahmed
Ben Bella's pronouncements
against nuclear tests and the
American Na-
val base at
G u antanamo
have set ff
speculation in
V I Paris that he
soon will start
tfc I campaign! n g
I for evacuation
bXleJ of French mil
itary bases in
N.wiom Algeria, in
cluding the Sahara and the
French air and naval base at
Mers-el-Kebir. Such a cam
paign would be to reopen the
Evian agreements which led
to Algerian peace and would
endanger the whole program
of French economic assistance
to independent Algeria.
De Gaulle
The French government be
lieves President Charles de
Gaulle will win about 67 per
cent of the votes cast in the
Oct. 28 constitutional referen
Washington Report
By William
(ci United Feature Syndicate
CHILL OVER BERLIN
Washington - The annual
autumnal chill over Berlin
is drawing in again over Wash
ington amid indications that
rvs?Ki Nikita Khru-
shchev of the
!. '- '"ill Soviet Union
.? ma be com"
ing to inn
country for
another con
sultation with
President
Kennedy.
Again, the air
is troubled by
opinion. The
people who ought to know
and who bear the responsibili
ty, for this country and all
the Western world, believe
the situation is grave. They
think a long-postponed crisis
may now be at hand.
Another set, made up pri
marily of American and Brit
ish amateur experts, is hap
pily pooh-poohing this deep
concern. The fact that Khru
shchev is "willing to talk" has
caught their glad attention, as
though this in and of Itself of
fered a guarantee that Khru
shchev will in no circum
stances be willing also to
act.
"The Record of Wayne
Morse" by Spangler).
2. The repeal of the Con-
nally Amendment would
mean the end of our Constitu
tion, of our Bill of Rights, of
our Declaration of Indepen
dence - the end of a free
United States and a free
American people. Yet, Sena
tor Morse vigorously opposed
the Connally Amendment and
voted against it in 1946. And,
as late as 1960, he was still
showing his inexcusable bad
judgment, in a Sept. 2 press
release, by urging both presi
dential candidates to press for
the repeal of this precious
Amendment which guards our
freedom.
Sig Unander is against seat
ing Red China in the UN. And
against repealing the Connal
ly Ammendment. Compared to
Senator Morse's "liberal" vot
ing record, in which he voted
against our Constitution ap
proximately 90 per cent of
the time, Sig Unander's press
releases show him to be a con
servative right across the
board.
Whether or not we put con
servative men in Congress
this election will decide the
destiny of America. Will we
return to fiscal responsibility
and Constitutional sanity?
Will we retain our freedom,
our Constitutional rights, and
our sovereignty as a nation?
That is up to you voters.
Please, please, think before
you vote.
Brrnlce R. Pruitt
2013 Cloverlawn dr.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Gold-Water
To the Editor, and the Pro-
Status- Quo: We re-carpeted
wet-behind-the - ears Premier
Ben Bella of Algiers. Same
for Cuba's parlor chicken-
peeler, our editors' garlanded
Dr. Castro, for a little while
Now together, the two bloody
handed dictators give us an
all-round denunciation, usual
reward for our foreign policy
and confiscating tax dollar
aid. to which our editors
seem discreetly silent.
So, be informed that an In
creasing number of us who
pay the eventual bill are tak
ing a long hard look at old
time right-wing conservatism
that seems to include a bit of
gold-water. Hi gold - miners,
mleht be relief could be com
mencing. F. J. Clifford FN
Route 2. Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
K J. H
W1lt
two sets of
dum which is to determine
whether future French presi
dents will be elected by direct
popular vote. Such a figure
would not represent the mas
sive vote De Gaulle asked for
but probably would be enough
to keep him from quitting.
Summit?
Speculation that Premier
Nikita Khrushchev might vis
it the United States already
is leading to talk of summit
sessions. British Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan is
thinking of a possible Wash
ington trip if Khrushchev
makes it. There also is talk
of summit-level talks among
Washington, London and Par
is. De Gaulle is unlikely to
attend but would be consult
ed either directly or through
embassy channels. West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer is to visit Kennedy on
Nov. 7 and his opinion also
would be asked. Motivating
against a four-power summit
session: No results.
Sino-Indian Border Dispute
Winter arrives shortly
along the Sino-Indian frontier.
In the past, the snow has
choked off the fighting. But
Red China's announcement
S. White
PRESIDENT Charles de
Gaulle of France stands
haughtily aloof from it all.
The theory of the American
and British amateur experts
and also apparently of
some official British experts
is that the West has only
to exercise its cerebral mus
cles and endlessly negotiate
with the Soviet Union over an
area in which very little re
mains negotiable unless the
West intends to give in by In
stallments. These experts
want to talk, and only to
talk, and to talk too much.
The De Gaulle theory is
that we ought just grandly to
ignore the whole business,
neither negotiating nor pre
paring to fight, in the notion
that there should be no talk
ing at all. The West Germans,
like the United States, are
quite willing to talk to a
point. But both governments
are quite unwilling to see any
talking take the form of piece
meal concession to what the
Russians are really after in
Berlin. This is the gradual re
moval of allied power from
Berlin and West Germany by
way of some allied recogni
tion of the Soviet puppet re
gime in East Germany.
11HE plain fact is that the
Western Alliance, bedev
iled alike by the excessively
"tough" De Gaulle view and
the excessively untough view
of the American and British
amateur statesmen, is in poor
shape to confront any real
challenge from Khrushchev.
And it is strongly probable
that this has not been lost
upon hiin.
Somehow in the last tew
vears the Western Alliance
has lost its way and also.
to a dangerous degree, its
common sense. The same al
lies who refuse a hard-pressed
American President even a
small moral cooperation on
Cuba are leaving that Ameri
can President substantially
alone to meet the new trouble
over Berlin.
Western Europe and Britain
are engrossed by trade by
business as usual, except that
this time it is In the hope of
even more business than
usual.
rVHE self-nominated intellec
- tuals of the West are pre
occupied with empty dreams
that a world can be saved ex
clutively by diplomatic mi
nuets, dreams which recoil
from the very word "power"
as a horrid and impermissible
thing.
It is they ho helped cre
ate a shivering dogma that
"world opinion'1 must in each
and every circumstance be
the final arbiter of mankind's
destiny. It is they, tor all
their posturings as great in
ternational thinkers, who are
unconsciously promoting the
new isolationism of our time,
Just as men in terror of any
risk whatever promoted the
isolationism that helped Hit
ler's rise.
Through such a fog Presi
dent Kennedy must now find
his way. Unexampled bur
dens have fallen upon htm.
For he is the head of an al
liance which Is content to let
him take the responsibility
alone but, having put him in
the seat of responsibility, is
not content to taKe his direc
tion as to how the job should
be done.
In this matter, and whatev
er his mistakes may have been
elsewhere, he needs and de
serves the support of all
Americans, Republicans no
less than Democrats. He 's.
in all conscience, getting lit
tle enough support from elsewhere.
Summit Speculation
that it will shoot down Indian
aircraft "intruding into Chi
nese territory" may lead to
aerial entanglements over the
snow-bound mountain passes.
The Communists claim the
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises, Inc.
100 KINDS OF SNOW
Certain Eskimo tribes, we
are told by ethnologists, have
nearly a hundred different
words for
"snow." We
have only one
in English; to
us all snow is
simply snow,
because it
plays a rela
tively small
part in our
lives. But to
Hama the people
who live in snow conditions
most of the year, there are
tremendous differences in the
kinds of snows that fall; ex
perience and necessity have
taught them to discriminate
keenly among them.
I recalled this bit of Eski
mo lore during my vacation
this summer in northern Wis
consin. The trees around our
house there are called "ever
greens" by week-end visitors;
they cannot see the difference
between a spruce and a bal
sam. All evergreens look alike
to them.
If on lives there for
tome time, however, not
only ara spruces and bal
sams sharply differentiated
but one can also disting
uish among four different
kinds of spruce alone. What
seem, to the untrained eye,
to be similar or identical
trees are seen by the edu
cated eye as quite distinct.
A perceptive Frenchman
said many years ago that
"Intelligence consists in
lhe ability to tell the dif
ference between things that
seem similar, and the simi
larity between things that
seem different." This is not
a good definition of intelli
gence - but it is a good def
inition of what true educa
tion ought to be.
We commonly think of
education as the amassing
of facts, lhe charting of
trends, the memorization
of formulae, the sequence
of epochs and battles and
regimes. But that is all
gross information; the true
educative process begins
when the student learns
how to see the real differ
ences between s im 1 1 a r
and the basic similarities
between different things.
One reason that specialists
In any field find it so hard
to communicate to the layman
is that the layman wants a
simple, clear, unqualified,
black-and-white answer to
his question. But the more
truly educated we ar , the
more we are forced to quali
fy and discriminate - and
this makes the layman impa
tient and contemptuous to
ward the "double-talk" of the
specialist.
No lawyer can give an easy
yes-or no answer to a legal
case; no doctor can give an
easy yes-or-no answer to
medical case; no economist
can give an easy yes-or-no
answer to problems of unem
ployment and production and
taxes. Indeed, when they at
tempt to do so, they are more
often frauds than honest fol
lowers of their diffi-ult dis
ciplines.
Whenever a layman, for in
stance, confronts such a com
plex problem as, say, juven
ile delinquency, and offers
some simple solution such as
a trip to the woodshed or jail
sentences tor parents, he is
just revealing his abysmal
lack of education on the sub
ject. He sees only one k,nd oi
"I've never seen him campaign ss hard for GOP
candidates he must have given up golf when he
retired ... I"
Signals;
whole Himalayan range down
to the plain of the Brahma
putra river. And with winter
coming on, Indian supply
planes likely will step up air
drops to frontier posts.
J. Harris
snow, when there are nearly
a hundred kinds; and what
he thinks is the clarity of his
vision is only a kind of snow
blindness.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Our moon shot slips a cog.
Its solar batteries go wrong,
and it won't be able to send
back close-ups. We'll have to
wait a while.
Maybe it's just as well. The
news is moving pretty fast
these days. We need time to
digest it.
1EANWHILE, if you ara
' fond of the kind of news
that gives you the shivers,
there is plenty of it to be
had.
Representative Walter Nor-
blad, back in Oregon after
the long-winded 87th Con
gress, tells the reporters the
U. S. has on the drawing
board a space ship designed
to carry 22 men in orbit
around the earth. He gave no
details. He just mentioned
it as one of a number of
s P e c t a c ular developments
now in the planning stage.
He added:
"The biggest threa'. to the
U. S. at the present moment
is the possibility of Russia
sending into orbit a huge nu
clear weapon - one that could
be dropped at any time. Such
a weapon, spinning through
space at 18,000 miles per
hour, could be triggered by
radio, striking a target a
minute later. The U. S. gov
ernment is working on a
death ray to destroy missiles
but it isn't perfected yet."
Congressman Norblad is the
third-ranking Republican on
the House military affairs
committee, which lends a cer
tain authenticity to what he
has to say.
TN SALEM, Dr. D. A. Chis
A holm of the Bell Tele; hone
laboratories at Murray Hill,
New Jersey, admits to news
men that in effect the Tel
star satellite that makes it
possible to see live TV pro
grams from all around the
world is already OBSOLETE.
The subject came up when
he was being interviewed by
the reporters at a luncheon.
The question concerned
claims by Oregon's Senator
Morse that prefent communi
cations systems are either
already outmoded or are close
to being obsolete because of
new developments expected
in the near future.
Dr. Chisholm added:
"In these days, ANYTHING
THAT WORKS IS OBSO
LETE." CHUCKS:
Let's quit soaring around.
The news today includes a
Florida congressman who has
just been arrested, charged
with accepting money to per
suade the Justice Depratment
to drop a pending mail fraud
case against a Florida man.
This congressman's slogan
through many years of run
ning for office has been:
"Everything is made for love.''
Including, one presumes,
love of money in large bills.
TTOPEFUL THOUGHT:
Maybe the time will coma
when science will have pro
gressed so far that we will no
longer have to contend with
shady characters like this
Florida congressman.
Let's hope so.
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