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Medfofd and Jackson County
History from tht files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dsc. 2, 1952 ( Monday)
A definile increase in the
number of gift fruit packages
leaving tlie Hogue valley by
parcel post this year was re
ported by O. W. DeJarnett, su
perintendent of mails at the
Medford post office.
The best yearly financial
showing so far for Hawthorne
swimming pool has been re
ported to the city council by
Councilman Harold Fryc.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1942 (Tuesday)
Southern Oregon college to
offer short evening courses in
business and occupational sub
jects as war service.
From Arthur Perry's "Yc
Smudge Pot" column: "The
pioneers were a clever lot. In
discussing cot fee rationing
with them, it is discovered
that they made coffee out ot
everything but coffee."
00 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1932 (Thursday)
Medford City Recorder M.
L. Alford reports city will
start IBM with a financial def
icit of $155,000 because of de
linquent taxes.
Price of milk delivered to
Medford customers goes down
to nine cents a quart; grocers
charging eight cents a quart
for cash payments.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2. 1922 (Friday)
Medford Attorney Glenn O.
Taylor appointed deputy clerk
of United States district court
here.
David Belasco's production
of "The Gold Diggers" sched
uled at Vining theater in Ash
land. SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1912 (Sunday)
Jackson county grand jury
Indicts four boxers and "local
boxing Imprcssario" for "ar
ranging a prize fight."
Ashland slates city election
on a $25,000 bund issue for an
electric lighting system.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine at ten cornet Is superior;
seven or eight Is eicsllenti rive ei
lit ts good.
1. In what language was
Hie New Testament written
originally?
2. The Falcon in the mas
cot of which service academy
footbull team?
3. What living creatures
arc used to detect gas in coal
mines?
4. Whose portrait appears
on the one dollar bill?
5. Are gorillas herbivo
rous, carnivorous, or omni
vorus? 6. What stale touches both
Nebraska and Idaho?
7. If a crab loses a claw,
can it grow another one?
8. Which Is more brittle,
cast Iron or wrought Iron?
9. Name five fruits begin
ning with the letter "p".
10. What substance is
rubbed on violin strings and
a boxer's shoes?
Answers. 1. Greek. 2. Air
Force. 3. Canaries. 4, Wash
ington. & Herbivorous. 6.
Wyoming. 7. Yei. . Cesl Iron.
9. Peach, prune, pear, plum,
pineapple. 10. Rosin.
I -ZZ-T
Forest Range Problems
One can understand, and sympathize with,
the concern of livestock men when faced with
reduction in the number of cattle they are per
mitted to graze on the public lands.
To some of them, any major reduction would
be the difference between a profitable opera
tion and one which could not make its own way.
Others would be faced with costly alternatives.
There is the additional fact that many of
them have been using the public ranges, man
aged by the U.S. Forest Service for their owners,
the people of the United States, for many years,
and have a proprietary feeling about them.
IT MAY seem, on the face of it, that the Forest
Service's action in moving to reduce grazing is
arbitrary, capricious and without justification
the old "bureaucracy in action" business again.
"Why," one may ask, "can some chair-borne for
ester tell us how many cattle we can run on ue
ranges we've used for years?"
The answer to all these is the fact that this
is no hasty nor unconsidered action. It is being
proposed because years of over-grazing, and lack
or enective range management, have caused a
severe deterioration of the range, which has re
duced forage, caused erosion, and is threatening
further damage which might be irreparable.
The Forest Service maintains that, under its
legal responsibilities, "it cannot permit the. con
tinued destruction of a resource belonging to all
of the people."
IN A recent summary, the Forest Service set
forth its position. The following brief excerpts
are the core of it:
"Over a period of years Forest personnel have be
come concerned about erosion, particularly in the Sis
kiyou portion of the Forest. The quartz-diorite and
mica schist types of soils are very susceptible to ero
sion and are very thin soils. Irreparable damage can
easily be done . . .
"The permittees are mostly small operators, run
ning from 50 up to 150 head of cattle. Many run
less than 100. The cattle are turned loose in the spring
and gathered in the fall. Very little riding or salting
are done. In fact, there is not a hired rider operating
on the entire Forest. Consequently, permittee manage
ment is poor.
"This coupled with desultory management activity
by the Forest Service for many years presents a prob
lem. The Forest Service is faced with the tradition of
stockmen running cattle as they pleased and the fact
that erosion of soil and range deterioration has become
serious. In order to protect the soil resource it is nec
essary to adjust the numbers of permitted cattle to
the carrying capacity of the range . . .
"The management plans call for a reduction In ani
mal use months over a period of time up to six years.
This gradual method of Retting the land under manage
ment is being used to cause as little as possible dis
ruption to the permittees.
"The aims are to follow through on the plans and
have the range under complete management by lt)b'8.
In all cases the preliminary plans will first be dis
cussed with the permittees, suggestions invited, these
suggestions incorporiiled where possible, the plans
studied, and the range put under management.
"Summing up, the following must be considered:
"-After many years use (he range now suffers from
erosion and deterioration.
"-The Forest Service must manage the range to
prevent the above.
"-The range analysis whs made by a qualified range
technician following the standards set up by the divi
sion of research . , .
"-The fact that cattle come off the range f:it is no
criterion of range condition nor does it tuke into ac
count damage to the resource.
"-The Forest Service realizes that this has a severe
impact on the permittees but it cannot permit the con
tinued destruction of a resource belonging to all the
people."
"THE Forest Service is required by law to man
age National Forest lands for multiple use,
and for sustained yield of all the varied resources.
In this instance one
range forage on which stockmen depend is be
ing threatened, not necessarily with immediate
destruction, but with long-range damage which
eventually would be irreparable, in the course of
which other values such as watershed and rec
reation would also suffer.
The Forest Service is neither omnipotent nor
immune to errors, but in this case, it appears to
us, it is following the only course it can and still
uphold its responsibilities to "the greatest good
for the greatest number in the long run." E A.
Don't Hold
There arc some situations which arc, to a
cool and detached eye, so ridiculous that they
border on insanity.
And to add to the ridiculousness, any sane
proposal to correct the matter would be, in prac
tical terms, impossible.
Abe Mcllinkoff of the San Francisco Chron
icle points ui t,lp such ludicrous example, as
follows:
"In the same week, Senator Harry Clolilwater says
It's un-American tn .spend $3 billion a year to cut
down our farm production and Premier Nikila Khrush
chev says he's spending almost the same amount to
boost his.
"Maybe Goldwater and Khrushchev ought to get to
gether and make a deal to rescue both Americanism
and Communism.
"We stop our payments to farmers, Russia takes
our farm surpluses and Washington and Moscow
both save five billion bucks. Even if it doesn't solve
the peace problem, it solves the farm problem which
is even tougher."
Would such a solution be possible in today's
international political climate'.' Of course not. Is
it an eminently sound, sensible and sane sugges
tion? Of course it is.
But don't hold your breath until it's put into
effect. E.A.
of the resources the
Your Breath
Roof Of
hi'- -ft iShii.iw fJSr
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann Is In Europe. Roicoc Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
WILL BRITAIN GET IN?
London Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan is increas
ingly confident that he will
not have to take no for an
answer to Britain's bid to join
the European Common Mar
ket. Mr. Macmillan has never
been more intent, more
earnest, more determined to
cast aside Britain's historic
aloofness from the continent
and become a full-fledged
partner in both a politically
and economically united
Western Europe Uian today.
To speed the decision and
to facilitate it, Mr. Macmillan
is taking personal charge of
the negotiations and is acting
to create the climate at the
highest level so that the tech
nicians can more easily reach
their agreements.
This is one of the major
purposes of his trip to Paris
nd Washington next month
to confer with President de
Gaulle and President Ken
nedy. His objective is to reach a
political decision at the top
so that the uncertain divisive
haggling over conditons can
be resolved by mutual con
cessions. He knows that Gen.
de Gaulle's attitude is crucial.
He believes Mr. Kennedy can
- and will - help. He is pre
pared to make reasonable con
cessions himself.
All of this means that the
big push to bring Britain into
the European Economic Com
munity is in the making.
w
WILL IT succeed?
The premise of the most
objective observer s the
European and American jour
nalists who have been cover
ing the Brussels negotiations
is that in the end the tran
sitional economic disagree
ments will be settled and
Britain will be In. But their
estimate is not as optimistic
as Mr. Macmillan's. They see
Britain's entry as probable,
but not certain and certainly
not automatic. Some sec is as
little more than 50-50.
The resistance among the
continental Six to the transi
tional concessions which Brit
ain feels It needs to adapt its
sheltered agriculture to Euro
pean competition and to case
the effects on Commonwealth
trade Is not without some rea
son. The Europeans invited
Britain at the outset to join In
founding the Common Market
and the British refused.
Now that the Six have done
all the hard preliminary work
and have lived through its
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
AVONIJKRFUL arc the ways of Washington bureaucracy!
" Here's a story about a California!! who applied through
regular channels for a job in Washington he knew he was
qualified to fill. While
cooling his heels await
ing a reply, lie happened
to meet in person, in San
Francisco, the head of
the very agency to which
he had applied, and was
given the position on the
spot.
The scene now shifts
to Washington. Our Cah
fornian had been doing a
fine job there for three
months when a letter was
forwarded to hint from
his old address telling
him that, unfortunately.
his application for the job he was now holding down had
been denied because he lacked the necessary qualifications.
And here's the kicker: The letter had been signed by
himself.
Jav Ward, producer of one of TV's most successful show,
"liiillw inkle," told Columnist Herb Stem about a letter he re
ceived from a youthful fan that trail: "My father 1ms been diffi
rult Willi me. Kvery time he drutka a certain cocktail lie throws
nic aroiinit the room. hut can I do?" Waiit answered, "Send
us your dud's recipe. Several fellows w ho wotk on our show
ara having tixmble Willi their kius, too"'
Two excerpts fumt schoohvom oomixis:lion rvvitel by Art
I.lnkletter: 1. "Kobinsnn C iru.NO w as a great smm-r, ur.foi Innate
ly shipwrecked." 2. "blush is anow wttli all the fun melted out.'
e 194. bjr BenBStt Csrf. Distributed by Ktnf features Syodicste
The World
uncertainties to make the
Common Market a burgeoning
success, they hardly feel
called upon to make excessive
concessions to include the
once recalcitrant British.
Furthermore, at one time
the Italians, the Belgians, and
particularly the Germans felt
that Britain, while eager to
get the economic advantages
of the Common Market, was
intent upon retarding the
political integration of Europe
which the others feel must
and should accompany its eco
nomic integration.
There is now little, or no,
basis for this kind of resist
ance to British entry. Mr.
Macmillan has shown every
evidence of wishing to be an
active ally of European polit
ical unity and the economic
concessions he is seeking, pri
marily for Commonwealth
food products, would be tem
porary to ease the transition.
it is President de uauue
who appears to be the prin
cipal resister. Having made
the great rapprochement
with Germany, he hesitates to
share his leadership in Europe
with Britain as well. And
while France wants access to
the British market on low
tariff terms, it doesn't relish
competing with the Common
wealth countries. Also, de
Gaulle is against any political
federation.
This is why Prime Minister
Macmillan's meeting with
Gen. de Gaulle in Paris next
month is crucial. Out of it
will come the Common Mar
ket breakthrough or another
long period of painful and,
perhaps, stalemated negotia
tions. r
MIE survival of the Mac
millan government is
deeply involved. But it is in
accurate to suggest that the
Prime Minister is playing pol
itics witli a matter as grave
as his country's entry into the
Common Market. He courag
eously initiated this step when
British public opinion was
either indillcrent or hostile to
joining and he is pushing it
now that British opinion is
showing itself anti-Conserva
tive party and pro-Common
Market.
But there is little chance
that Britain's Conservative
government can survive a
general election if Britain's
entry into the European Eco
nomic Community remains in
serious doubt. This, in part, is
why Mr. Macmillan is acting
to resolve that doubt as soon
as possible.
Stop
Matter of Fact ey
New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
TOTAL NEWS-CONTROL
Washington Political sys
tems evolve quite unavoid
ably, like most other organ
isms. But for
healthy evolu
tion, three
rules must al
ways be ob
served when
any political
system is to
J be profoundly
cnangea.
Such chang-
aisiid es should
never be made arbitrarily and
hugger-mugger, without pru
dent recognition oi their real
importance.
Such changes should never
be made without due regard
to past experience.
Such changes should never
be made without the most
careful consideration of the
dangers they may later give
rise to.
In the matter of the news
control directives issued by
the Pentagon and State De
partment in the Cuban crises,
President Kennedy has now
violated all three of the fore
going rules. While withdraw
ing the State Department di
rective, the President has kept
the far more vicious and rad
ical Pentagon directive in
force.
THIS decision to continue the
Pentagon news-control di
rective is much less tentative
and temporary, moreover
than the President has some
what over-cleverly sought to
make it seem. The matter was
in fact weighed with some
care by the President himself
and Secretary of Defense Rob
ert McNamara. They conclud
ed, according to report, that
they would like to wait and
see "how it works out."
What might have been ex
cused as an expedient in the
white-hot days of the Cuban
crisis thus acquires semi
permanence in fact, full
permanence, unless public
protest is too strong. No pro
test can be too vehement, for
this is not just a profound
political change; it is also a
change in a viciously danger
ous direction.
The mechanics of the
change are simple to the point
of being deceptive. The Penta
gon directly forbids any of
ficial of the Defense Depart
ment to meet with a "repre
sentative of the news media"
(meaning any person having
the task of maintaining the
flow of public information,
which makes the wheels of
democracy go round) unless
one of three conditions is ful
filled. TUIE conditions are that the
- official talking to a re
porter must either be accom
panied by one of the bun-
faced minions of the Pentagon
public relations branch; or he
must be accompanied by an
other official of some rank;
or, if he goes it alone, he must
send a memorandum in writ
ing to the bun-faced minions,
noting that he has just seen
Mister X to discuss Topic Y.
To persons with reportorial
experience, including Secre
tary McNamara, this directive
may seem innocent enough. In
fact, however, it is an instru
ment of total news-control. -
The control is potentially
total because no officer or of
ficial in his senses will dare
to see any reporter who has
got into serious hot water
with the Secretary of Defense,
by reporting what the Secre
tary wishes to conceal. The
price of reportorial independ
ence, in lact, will be a news
blackout.
emoirs
By ERIC SEVAREID
This is an intramural exer
cise. I hoist the warning flag
at once because I have
quarrels
among p u n -d
i t s of (lie
press and the
air waves. Put
it d o w n to
what psychia
trists on the witness stand call
the "irresistible impulse."
Perhaps my resistance was
lowered in London, where
there is no such thing as
"cold print." In London every
morning's newsprint steams,
smokes and sometimes bclche
flame. Their worst papers are
worse than our worst; their
best are better than our best
in style and intellectuality, if
not in news content; but near
ly all meet on one level in the
art and practice of slamming
f I
iMFv'T J clcar ldca of : himself, and if he can't do it
3tho P,ll,ic in-:by verbal skill he can try it
I t tercst '" " r .by verbal violence. The Lon-
H d-Zf'fi "'e '",n" !'C d"n P;'l'crs arc nearly all na
Uf 1 importance of, Honal paprrs, intensely com-
: 4 H
Mevarrid
each other's columnists and j American journalism, possess
editorialists. To the outsider ! es a duality of toughness
it may seem an endless tem
pest in the breakfast teapot,
bill it stimulates the gastric
juices no end.
If Fleet Street resembles a
cockpit full of flashing spurs
and flying feathers - and
occasional tumoles of high
hilarity - there are reasons
for it besides the English tra
ditiju that no gentleman in-
Joseph Altop
NOT ALL reporters value
their independence, to be
sure. Only a small number
challenged the flagrant un
truths of former Secretary of
Defense Louis A. Johnson, or
the fatuous cover-ups of
Charles E. Wilson, or the in
adequacies of Neil McElroy.
For those who tried, for in
stance, to explain the reai
nature of the Louis Johnson
disarmament program, which
produced the Korean War,
nine out of ten formerly open
doors in the Pentagon slam
med shut with a loud bang. If
the McNamara order had then
been in force, every single
door all the thousands of
them would hava slammed
shut; and any exposure of
Louis Johnson would have
been utterly impossible.
The McNamara order in
fact leaves this country naked
as a jaybird, without the
smallest protection, against
the other Wilsons, Louis John
sons, and McElroys who inev
itably lurk in the American
future. That it isinherent, ir
remediable, practical vice,
which is just as bad as the
vice in principle of its clearly
anti-democratic tendency.
TT IS perfectly silly, more--l
ever, to talk about seclra
how an order of this character
will "work out," while Sec
retary McNamara Is in charge
of the Defense Department.
He promises to be a remark
able Secretary of Defense, in
the grand tradition of Robert
A. Lovett and the late James
V. Forrestal.
Being the kind of man he is,
although McNamara is the
creator of this instrument of
total news-control, he will not
use his instrument for that
purpose, any more than
Lovett or Forrestal would
have done. But that is small
comfort, compared to the sim
ple fact that an instrument of
total news-control has now
been brought into being.
As long as such an instru
ment exists, it will be used
to the full, sooner or later, if
not by McNamara, then by
the next man, or the next-man-but-one
who inherits Mc
Namara's responsibilities. One
of the essential safeguards of
this republic the safeguard
provided by free ventilation
and debate of facts of vital
public interest has thus been
struck down.
"I don't agree with that
sponsor's product. If this
the most of it . . . 1"
fffll$$ & Nip
UwJL i Mm
Can Be Too Soon, Too Much
suits another, save on pur
pose. In Britain the life of a
journalist is a grubby life un
less he can draw attention to
petitive, with no safe circula
tion districts in which to re
lax. And British writers, I
suspect, take one another as
their targets partly because
what they write about the
world no longer matters so
much to the world.
American pundits did not
behave so very differently
when America was a small
and isolated power. But today
we are a sober-sided lot, in
stincticely respectful of one
another's tors and thin-skinned
to the point of hurt feel
ings when a confrere takes us
on, in our very cold print.
Fortunately, the young Mr.
Emmet Hughes, clearly des
tined for' a major role in
matching the quality of his
talrnts. He w ill .not feel that
I am doing a terrible thing
to him when I say that he has
done a terrible thing to for
mer President Elsenhower
and several others with his
revelations in a magazine and
a forthcoming book of Eisen
hower's impulsive comments
about other American leader,
made in his unguarded mo-
In the Day's News
By FRANK
As this is written Fiiday
morning. I've just finished
skimming the news sections
of two of the West s best
newspapers the San Fran
cisco Chronicle and the Port
land Oregonian.
The Chronicle, on its front
page, has not a single item re
ferring to the cold war that
so long has dominated the
news. The Oregonian has on
its Page One only one such
story a squib from Moscow
about three inches long relat
ing that the communist party
and the Soviet government
have ordered into effect an
inspection system making
every Russian workman a
watchman against cheating
and poor workmanship and
designed to speed up produc
tion by getting the most out
of every worker and to
TRAP embezzlers.
WHAT does it mean?
Is the cold war fizzling
out?
Or is It just a calm before
the storm?
WHAT'S all this news about?
Well, from Los Angeles
comes a tale to the effect that
here we are, barely into the
jet age, and the aircraft com
panies are already planning
planes to fly us three times
faster than sound. They have
instructed their researchers to
find out how to make a five
hour flight to Europe (from
L. , A.) comfortable and
heathy.
The problems, the story
says, are immense. "Mach 3"
flights (meaning three times
the speed of sound) will have
to be made at altitudes of
75,000 feet or more. Tempera
ture controls must cope with
500-degree heat on the outside
surface of the plane.
Violent displacement can
upset body functions and give
a man a fever, disturb his
glands, alter his blood and in
terfere with his sleep for a
week. Cabin pressures will
have to be fool-proof, for a
moment's exposure to the
near-vacuum of high altitudes
would cause a passenger's
blood to boil and his heart
to develop a vapor lock.
SOUNDS pleasant, doesn't it?
Relaxing-if one has nerves
of steel.
commentator boycott the
be censorship, then make
ments with his intimates, of I thought, "Ah, God, my closest
whom Hughes was one. i colleague may write a boost
It is not news to many of - tomorrow"?
us who worked in Washing-1 No private journalist is en
ton during the Eisenhower j tirely a private citizen. To
years that the President was I some degree he carries a pub
often bored by John Foster lie responsibility and there
Dulles, regarded Adlai Ste
venson as a self-conscious
"faker." and distrusted Rich
ard Nixon's essential capacity
for the presidency. Indeed,
some of these altitudes and
outbursts found their way
intfr print, in one informal
manner or another. But to
print them now in the form
of semi-official biographical
material, privileged material
of the most intimate kind,
carrying the cachet of one
who accepted the President's
(trust and not as a future
biographer but as a present
confident - to print them now
(with Mr. Eisenhower so re
cently out of office, still alive
and active and in public con
tact with men he
co r I a t e d - surely
wrong.
then ex-ia
this is
Presidents are human be
ings, harried human beings,
and they cannot possibly
maintain their public face
with their private friends and
assistants. If they cannot let
down in private, whether to
curse, denounce or even to
weep, they would soon crack
up. How are they to work, to
endure, if they are daily
haunted by the thought, not.
"Ali. that mine adversary had
written it book,'' but the
JENKINS
But
Speed is the god of tha
modern world. We MUST go
fast, or we'll fall behind. If
one isn't up-to-date, one isn't
living.
SO MUCH for Los Angeles.
From Portland conies
another tale of the modern
world. It starts out like this:
Oregon college students,
particularly those in the Port
land area, are ' swallowing
PEYOTE these days - and are
thereby getting multi-colored
visions never dreamed of by
campus goldfish swallowers.
One experimenter has writ
ten: "I saw what Adam saw
on the morning of the cre
ation." Another reports: "Pey
ote buttons make me so sick
that I think I must hava
imagined the hallucinations.
It tastes awful."
VTHY chew the stuff?
" Well, one has to do what
is being done. Otherwise, ona
won't be up-to-date. There's
this to be said for peyote: It
isn't habit-forming. There has
never been a reported peyote:
addiction case. ,
k NYVVAY
This modern world Is quit
a world.
Editorial
Comment
DECENT AND WISE
The Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools hae
permitted the University of
Mississippi to keep its ac
creditation. Loss of the valua
ble accreditation was threat
ent because of the Barnett
Meredith business early in
the fall. The association's de
cision was both decent and
wise.
The Mississippi problem
will be solved when, and only
when, Mississippi people ac
commodate themselves to tha
ways of a modern world. And
they will so accommodate
themselves when their own
leadership leads them in that
direction. A strong university
is essential. If the University
of Mississippi is not all it
should be today, then tha
answer is to strengthen it,
not to weaken it.
Trie villians in the Missis
sippi morality play were not
the boys and girls who, now
or in the future, depend up
on the state university. It
would have been manifestly
unfair to punish them for tha
ways of their ciders.
However, as the association
made clear, this sort of thing
must not go on. If political
interference into academic af
fairs continues, it warned, tha
accreditation will be with
drawn. The effect of this,
aside from the harm it would
do the students, would be to
arouse important elements in
the state. Mississippi is proud
of the university. The peopla
might punish those responsi
ble for the loss of accredita
tion. In this manner, tempor
ary loss of accreditation might
end some political careers.
But its strong medicine. If
Ihe threat is sufficient, then
Mississippi's leaders might
come to their senses. It is far
better to try the threat first,
hoping thus to protect the
interests of lho.se who should
not be hurt. Eugene Register-Guard.
fore adjures some materials.
His own sense of history and
his own taste delermincs that
degree; no hard rule of limi
tation is ever possible. But
when a certain, however in
definable, line is overstepped,
it becomes apparent; it is
glaringly apparent in the casa
of Mr. Hughes, however bril
liant and fascinating his reve
lations are.
Of course, truth will out; It
must, even the little, personal
truths about such a one as a
President of the United
States. But life is long. Tha
country will endure. Journal
ism may be "the first draft
of history," but there is such
thing as a draft that is too
soon, with too much. We need
not be in such a fever to up
root, masticate, devour and
relish every intimate morsel
concerning the private
thoughts and impulses of our
public men, as if there wera
no tomorrow. We seem, in this
country, to be losing the
healthy clement of space in
cur hie together. Let us not
destroy time, which heals
many thing,, and along with
space Is a precious protector.
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