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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
CIVIL DEFENSE
Regional, State Training Centers
Planned in Civil Defense Program
(This Is (he fesrth of s series ef
articles on cItII defense by Walter
A. Shead, Western Newspaper
Union’s Washington Correspondent.)
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By WALTER A. SHEAD
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Authority
In the line of command for the
tremendous civil defense army
needed in case of full scale war
stems from the President, through
Civil Defense Administrator Mil
lard Caldwell, to the 48 state civil
defense directors and down the
line to the appointed officers in
cities, towns and counties through
out the nation.
National defense against atomic,
biological and chemical warfare
rests upon thorough training to start
in a civil defense staff college to be
established for top civil defense
planners and administrators. The
college will serve as a source of all
latest information. Regional tech
nical training centers are also
planned where this information will
be disseminated in the civil de
fense training programs in the
states and local communities. The
technical centers will be staffed
by thoroughly trained men and wom
en in all phases of the work and
will provide means for standard
ization of the technical and special
training. Standardization is a prime
factor for successful mutual aid
and mobile support which require
a force of uniformly trained civil
defense workers.
Graduates of the federal technical
training centers will train other
ci^il defense workers and trainers
within the states, who, in turn, will
train the local volunteers. Under
the program, two kinds of training
will be provided—general and spe
cialized. General training will con
sist of instruction in basic subjects
to include fundamental princilpes
of organization and operation, basic
first aid and improvised rescue op
erations.
Specialized training will give civil
defense volunteers the detailed
knowledge and skills to carry out
their especially assigned jobs, in
cluding specialized health service
courses against atomic, biological
and chemical warfare. The Amer
ican Red Cross, officials of the
public health ssrvice and other or
ganizations concerned with health
services will conduct certain phases
of specialized training such as first
aid and nurses’ aid training. Many
medical officers of the military
services, public health services,
the veterans administration and
other organizations have taken spe
cialized courses in defenses against
atomic warfare and these will be
asked to assist in the program.
iE^SCI
By INEZ GERHARD
H umphrey bogart p r o \>d i y
boasts that some day his two-
year-old son, Stephen, will be pay
ing enormous income taxes. Bogart
has made sure of that by setting up
a trust fund for Stephen, into which
will go the $5,000 weekly which the
tough guy of the movies will re
ceive for starring in the Ziv Com
pany’s transcribed radio series,
“Bold Venture”. When reminded
that Stephen will have to contribute
heavily toward the upkeep of Uncle
Sam, Bogart retorts that he’ll be
able to afford it
Margaret Sheridan, discovered
five years ago by Howard Hawks,
hag been studying hard all this
time In preparation for a picture
career. She makes her debut as the
feminine lead in Hawks’ "The
Thing”, for RKO.
Thelma Ritter’s first starring
film, "The Mating Season”, has a
fine cast, good direction, and a
familiar story. Miss Ritter was bet
ter as a supporting actress. Gene
Tierney, John Lund and Miriam
Hopkins are excellent
ALREADY, in the atomic warfare
field, 148 physicians from 38 states
have taken courses given by the
atomic energy commission in co
operation with the national security
resources board. Similar courses for
nurses have been started. Other
courses either federal, state or lo
cal, will be available for dentists,
veterinarians and other profession
al and technical people working in
health services. State health offi
cials have taken courses in radio
logical monitoring which included
many aspectjs of the civil defense
program.
Similar training courses will be
available for biological warfare
against humans and animals, and
chemical and biological warfare
against crops. Courses in these sub
jects will have three prime aspects
—detection, treatment of casualties,
and methods of decontamination.
Training will be available for nurses
aids and home nurses, radiological
monitors, auxiliary sanitary per
sonnel and auxiliary laboratory
workers.
For large segments of the gen
eral public, the major type of train
ing will be in the category of first
aid—what to do first in any of the
fields of civil defense. The goal is
20,000,000 trained first-aiders in a
22-hour course which will also in
clude training in special weapons
defense and in procedures for treat
ing minor illnesses in time of
emergency when physicians will be
over-burdened with casualties.
Every state will operate under a
uniform system of organization,
equipment and procedure. Estab
lishment of control stations in
strategic areas, of first aid stations
and the implementation of all neces
sary ambulance, hospitalization,
fire fighting equipment and a score
of other defense mechanisms will
be taught. It is estimated that ap
proximately 35 per cent of surviving
casualties in an atomic bomb burst
would require transportation by lit
ter to first-aid stations, hence the
importance of first aid work. As
an example, if there were 40,000
injured survivors, about 13,000 prob
ably would have to be carried by
Utters. Another 27,000 would walk,
or would be taken to first aid sta
tions by other means. So the most
important function is in first aid
training, since even fire-fighters,
rescue teams. poUce, engineering
and other personnel, first to con
tact the injured, would be caUed
upon for first aid to casualties.
So every individual should watch
for announcement of estabUshment
of regional training centers and
schools for training volunteers.
Don’t wait, volunteer your services.
In the meantime, thousands of pints
of blood, both plasma and whole
blood, must be obtained and stored.
Here is a first and must duty which
can be carried out now.
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for water
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nickname
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of plants
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Cherished
animal
Epoch
Filled with
solemn
wonder
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steps
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about edge
of a roof
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rock
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87 Body of
water
38. Diminutive
of Elizabeth
40. A small
drink
42. Like
43. Gut line for
a fishhook
45. Splash
47. Wild ox
48. A vein of
ore
Branch
50. Female
sheep
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2. Topaz hum
ming-bird
3. Parasitic
insect
4. Period of
slumber
5. Haul
6. Simians
7. Palm trees
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11. Capital of
Yemen,
Arab.
13. Asterisk
16. Meals
19. Portray
21. Knock
lightly
24. Dip slightly
into water
26. Evening
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28. Regret
29. Male swans
30. Spheres of
action
32. Plagues
33. Chop into
small pieces
36. Passageway
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To Feed Cost Down
Beef f Hogs, Sheep Show
Highest Feed-Cost Gain
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44. Escape
(slang)
46. Poem
The nation’s farmers are not mak
ing as much from each dollar
spent for feed as they have in the
past few years. In fact, the return
for each dollar spent for feed in
the production of eggs and milk is
below the 1935-39 average.
For each dollar of feed the farm
er spent in the production of hogs,
cattle and sheep, however, return
fa higher than the 1935-39 average.
In the production of eggs the
farmers received $1.72 for each dol
lar spent on feed during 1935-39.
But as of September, 1950, he was
receiving only $1.56. The amount of
34.
ONE DOUAR SPENT FOR FEED.
BROUGHT THE FARMER .. .
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THE
FICTION
CORNER
A DULL FELLOW
By Richard H. Wilkinson
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1949
SEPT. 15
1930
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$2.14
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$140
$2.03
$140
BEEF
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$245
SHEEP
&
$144
$147
$1.92
##jT WAS PROBABLY suicide,” I
said, looking around the cabin
“Why?” Capt. Rhodes asked.
I nodded toward the walls. At
least a half dozen photographs of
Arthur Kimball hung there.
“Any man,” I
remarked, “who
was so vain as
to take all those
pictures of him
self along to
(The last of this series ef cIy!!
defense articles will appear next
week.)
decorate his cabin on a two weeks’
cruise, must have been vain about
other things.”
“You mean he’d probably suf
fered financial reverses or some
thing, and was too proud to face
the facts, so he shot himself?”
“That’s about it,” I nodded,
pleased that the captain should
give so much consideration to my
theory. A very dull fellow this Capt.
Rhodes.
The captain looked, down at the
lifeless body of Arthur Kimball. He
had apparently been sitting at his
desk, writing. There was a bullet
wound in his temple. An automatic
was clutched in the fingers of his
right hand.
The captain looked at the pic
tures.
“I’m probably right, don’t
you think. Captain?” I said.
Captain Rhodes grunted.
“No,” he said, “I don’t.” He
turned abruptly and went out.
Well, this only confirmed my
ideas about the Captain’s stupidity.
To me the thing was dead open and
shut.
The first mate, a tall, rugged in
dividual named Brooks, told me to
go to my quarters and stay there
until I was called.
GRASSROOTS
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By Wright A. Patterson
wvOUTH DELINQUENCY is grow-
I ing and spreading rather than
abating. In the cities, considerable
sections are over run with youth
gangs who terrorize the public by
committing many depredations, up
to and including murder. But youth
ful delinquency and the organization
and operation of gangs is no longer
only a city problem. It has spread
to the towns and villages.
My home town is a rural com
munity. In It, the antomobile
owners over a considerable
period suffered the loss of auto
parts, spare tires, hub caps,
hood caps and other things of
value that could be easily de
tached. Those thefts were traced
to a gang of 1$ high school boys,
and the police of the county , ar
rested them. Though some of
them admitted the thefts, none
was locked up to await triaL
Instead the names and address
es of the boys were taken, and^
also the names of their parents.
They were given instructions to
appear at the juvenile court, ac
companied by their parents, the
following day.
The boys and their parents were
present, and the police presented
convincing evidence to which no
rebuttal was offered. After sentenc
ing each of the boys to one year in
prison, the court listened to a plea
for clemency made by the parents.
The judge suspended the sentences,
placing each boy under the parole
of his parents for the one year
period, with the provision the boy
must continue to attend school un
til graduation and must not be al
lowed outside of the home after six
o’clock each evening, for the one
year period, with the provision that
any violation of that parole would
be construed by the court as mak
ing the parents an accessary before
the fact, subjecting the parents to
conviction and sentence under such
a charge.
The liberal publicizing of that
case, including names and ad
dresses of the 12 boys, and the
sentence of the court caused
both the boys anl their parents
to be ostracized in school and
in the community, but failure to
attend school meant going to
prison. That was a wise decision
on the part of that judge. It not
only put the fear of the law into
those 12 boys and their parents,
but it had similar effect on oth
er boy^ with criminal and gang
tendencies and on their parents.
Hie one lesson has gone a long
ways toward curing youth delin
quency in my home town. It
would not have been effective
without the publicity given by
the newspapers.
*
A committee of the senate that
keeps its eye on the expenditures of
the operations of the federal gov
ernment, asked the 26 departments
and agencies for the effect of the
legislation that activated the rec
ommendations of the Hoover com
mission. Of the 26 departments and
agencies which received that re
quest, 25 complied. s
Each of the 25 reported increased
efficiency, better service for the
people, and, in practically all cases,
a reduced cost of operation, rang
ing from a few thousands into the
millions.
The one not reporting was that oi
defense. General Marshall merely
acknowledging receipt of the request
from Senator John L. McClellan,
chairman of the committee. But he
gave no estimate of ac’ual or ex
pected savings, though it was ex
pected the legislation would reduce
the cost of operation in his depart
ment by from three to four billion
dollars a year.
The committee is instituting an
investigation of the department of
defense to determine for itself what
result has been accomplished. It
has full authority to make such an
investigation. General Marshall has
seemingly resented any interference
on the part of congress with the op
erations of his department and has
shown no interest in a reduction in
cost.
He has on his department pay
rolls a larger army of employees
than the number of men fighting in
Korea. The Senate investigation
may cost his department an ap
propriation to pay that army of
civilians. It would do a welcome
job if it did. Senator McClellan,
Democrat of Arkansas, is a real
fighter for economies. General
Marshall will discover that con
gress. including the senate, is top
brass In the armed services.
The above chart shows the re
turn for each dollar the fanner
spent for feed In the production
of the five farm commodities
listed.
Capt. Rhodes was prepared.
As I sprang I landed in the arms
of one of his men.
return in the milk industry was
three cents less than the $1.92 aver
age of 1935-39.
For each dollar spent for feed
for hogs, the farmer’s return in
1950 was $1.80, a drop of 23 cents
from the 1949 return. The 1935-39
average return, however was even
lower, only $1.50.
In beef production the average
return as of September, 1950, was
$2.35 for each dollar spent for feed.
The 1935-39 average was $1.39 and
the 1949 average $2.01.
r ' WASN’T UNTIL evening that the
mate summoned me. I followed
him down the corridor to Arthur
Kimball’s cabin. Captain Rhodes
was there and several other men in
uniform, and a strange man and
woman.
“That was a very logical theory
you advanced,” the captain said,
looking at me. “But we’ve proven
it to be dead wrong.”
“Wrong?” I said.
“Mr. Kimball was murdered I”
I didn’t say anything. The captain
was not only a dull fellow, but now
he was revealing a tendency toward
dramatics. •
“As soon,” went on the captain,
“as I decided that Mr. Kimball was
murdered, I began to look for some
one who knew him before he sailed.
This wasn’t as easy as it sounds.
Kimball was traveling alone. Still.
I figured that someone had engaged
passage on the same boat with the
idea of murdering him. That some
one, I reasoned, would have taken a
cabin as near to his as possible. So
we began inquiring into the careers
of all the cabin occupants along this
corridor. The only two people whom
we discovered who might have
known Kimball are Mr. and Mrs.
John Cole, these people here.” The
captain glanced toward the strange
couple.
“But,” he continued, “they have
conclusively proven that they were
in the main salon at the time the
murder was committed.”
“How did they know when the
murder was committed?” I asked
importantly.
“I told them,” Capt. Rhodes said.
“So I continued my hunt, and
presently I iiscovered there
was only one other person on
board who knew Kimball. I dis
covered that this man had suf
fered financial losses through
Kimball’s activities. * •
“And who?” I asked quietly, “is
this man?”
“You,” said Capt. Rhodes.
It was a remote possibility, and I
had not believed it would occur,
but nevertheless I was prepared.
Capt. Rhodes was prepared too.
That’s why the uniformed men were
present. One of them had sidled
in behind me, and as I sprang I
landed in his arms.
The captain grunted. “If,” he re
marked dryly, “you ever have oc
casion to plan another murder, con
sider the details.” He pointed to
one of the pictures of Arthur Kim
ball. It was the picture in which
Kimball was seated at his desk
writing. “Note,” said the captain,
“that Mr. Kimball is holding his
pen in his left hand, as he is the
riding crop and polo mallet in the
other pictures. He must have been
left handed, yet you placed the
murder gun in his right hand.”
A dull fellow, the captain.
Steps to Help Curb Swine
Enteritis Are Outlined
Hie American Foundation for Ani
mal Health outlines seven steps to
help curb swine enteritis.
1. Isolate newly-purchased twine
from the home herd for at least
three weeks, until they are known
to be free of disease.
2. Control internal and external
parasites which weakens the ani
mals' resistance.
3. Keep swine away from old hog
lots, contaminated pastures, cow
pastures, stagnant pools and other
sources of infection.
4. Keep feeding and watering
equipment clean.
5. Check rations carefully, espe
cially possible deficiency of B-com-
plex vitamins. Prevent over-eating
of rich concentrates.
6. Earmark sows and their litters
to identify and weed out sow “car
riers”.
7. Watch for scouring, loss of
weight, and failure to feed into
gains. At the first sign of trouble,
get a diagnosis and isolate the ail
ing animals from apparently
healthy ones.
Tin Tether
Instead of tying a tether di
rectly to the stake, fasten it to
an old antomobile tire casing
and then drop it over the. stake.
The latter, ef conrse, should bo
much higher than ordinary so
the animal will not poll the
tire off the stake. This keeps
cattle from winding the tether
around the stake.
Chemical Blossom Thinne
Raises Yield 15 Per Cent
Research men of the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture co-operating
with orchardists of the northwest
report that for the fifth successive
season the chemical thinning of
blossoms in golden delicious or
chards has resulted In gains that
average six boxes a tree or about
15 par cent.
The new thinners were used an an
estimated 20,000 acres this pas^paa-
son.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
Fear Causes
1 ■ ■
Forgetfulness
By Lawrence Gould
Is forgetfulness based on fear?
Answer: Very often, directly or
indirectly. You may forget an ap
pointment with the dentist because
yotfre afraid that he will hurt you,
or forget childish experiences be
cause they are too frightening to re-
calL But forgetfulness may also
trace back to a wider fear of which
you are unconscious. If you “can’t
remember faces,” it may be be
cause you do 4 not dare to look at
people closely enough to stamp
their appearance on your memory
—which in turn may be based on a
childish fear of being looked at and
having your secret thoughts known.
talent he may have. “The time to
provide music lessons is when the
child asks for them, or responds to
your suggestion with pleasure.” I
recall that I myself pradeed
(though I didn’t like it) because I
knew that my lessons would stop if
I didn’t
May we be “swamped with In
competents’'?
Should you “make” a child take
music lessons?
Answer: Not if you expect him to
win success as a musician, or even
find pleasure in music, writes Joa*
Barlow. “Music is meant to be en
joyed,” and long hours of compul
sory practice before a child’s musi
cal sense has been developed tend
to destroy any natural taste or
Answer: That is a probability'
which we must face, says Dr. Oscar
J. Kaplan, California psychiatrist
Already one-third of the patients
admitted to mental hospitals are
“insane” only from old age, and
the proportion may be doubled with
in the next thirty years. The longer
we learn to keep old people alive,
the more vital it must become to
find out how to keep them able to
take care of themselves, and be use
ful to their neighbors. Yet until
now, “The study of mental abilities
in later life has been sorely ne
glected.”
THE OLD TESTAMENT CmESt TWO INSTANCES OF TRANSFIGURA
TION, THAT IS, BODILY TRANSLATION INTO HEAVEN WITHOUT
SUFFERING DEATH. THEY ARE ELIJAH, WHO AWOKE ISRAEL
TO THE FACT THAT JEHOVAH WAS THE ONE AND ONLY GOO;
AND ENOCH, WHO WAS TRANSLATED AT THE AGE OF 36S
KEEPING HEALTHY |
The Fight Against Tuberculosis
By Dr. James W. Barton
L ess than 50 years ago,
physicians and the public gen
erally looked upon tuberculosis of
the lungs as inevitably fatal with
in months or at most a few years.
Today, it is known that tuberculosis
need not be always fatal, thanks to
the great work of the National Tu
berculosis Association, which, by
research, placing patients in spe
cial hospitals with fresh air and
good food and, latterly by surgical
methods in which whole lobes of
the affected lung or lungs are re
moved, has enabled many formerly
doomed individuals to return to
home and work.
The tremendous cost of to-
bercnlosis in terms of lives,
suffering and dollars is em
phasised in the 1949-50 annual
report of the National Tuber-
cnlosis Association, released by
Dr. James E. Perkins, man
aging director. “Killing more
than 40,000 persons a year, tu
berculosis Is responsible for
more deaths than all other in
fections diseases combined and
leads all diseases, infections
or not, in the age group from
15 to 34,” his report states.
Despite the apparently discour
aging figures, Dr. Perkins tells us
that tuberculosis, a communicable
disease, is also a preventable dis
ease.
Some of the immediate and out
standing requirements to fight tu
berculosis are: (a) further medical
advances in research and education
of the public, particularly parents;
(b) more local health units to serve
the general health needs of all the
people; (c) more widespread efforts
to find people with tuberculosis
while the disease is incipient.
While the day is expected when
tuberculosis will be conquered,
eternal vigilance will always bo
necessary. Because it has been
amply proven that tuberculosis can
be cured and preventive measures
can successfully overcome the dis
ease, Dr. Perkins believes that in
the very near future all countries
will enforce the preventive methods
that will save the lives of thousands
of the young and the middle-aged
—our most productive people.
One out of every five adults has
high blood pressure or hardening
of the arteries.
• • •
Research has not yet discovered
the cause of high blood pressure or
hardening of the arteries.
High blood pressure strikes most
commonly during the high produc
tive years of middle life.
Hie heart is a hollow muscular
organ, about the size of • grape
fruit, but Infinitely tougher.
v • • •
The heart is rated as only
1/240th horsepower.
• • •
The reason why the heart can
last so long is that, unlike the whole
person, it relaxes as often as £
CONSTIPATION GONE-
FEELS UKE OLD SELF
“For the past 3 years I have <
ALL-BRAN e
iten
every morning for
breakfast. It’s no mean trick for a
man my age (73) to
be regular. Thanks
to ALL-BRAN I
am.” Wm. H. Tem-
plin, Sr., 124 Brown
St., Wateeka, I1L
One of many un-
solicited letters from
ALL-BRAN users.
If you, too, suffer _ _
from constipation due to lack of
dietary bulk, eat an ounce (about
H cup) of crispy Kellogg’s ALL
BRAN daily, and drink plenty of
water! If not satisfied after 10 days,
send empty carton to Kellogg’s,
Battle Creek, Mich. Get DOUBLE
YOUR MONEY BACKI
fm
Beware Coughs
From Common Colds
That HANG ON
Creonmlsion relieves promptly because
it goes right to the seat of the trouble
to help loosen and expel germ
phlegm and aid nature to soothe
heal rai
raw, tender, inflamed
To Save
PRESTONSBURG,
his own resourcefulness and m
Intelligence and obedience of his
dbg, Ollie Lafferty, Jr., 14, would
not be alive.
OUie’s adventure and narrow es
cape from death started when he
started off into the woods with an
ax, followed by his dog, to hunt for
mistletoe a few days before
Christmas. ,
He had gone about * three miles
back into the hills from his homo
when he found the mistletoe he
wanted in the top of a tree. He
proceeded to chop the tree down
but as it fell it bounced and pinned
his left leg to the ground^
Ollie, an eighth grader, had had
no formal instruction in first aid
other than that in his health books.
But he wasted no time in applying
what he knew.
Made Splint for Leg
He dug away dirt with the al
to free the portion of his leg that
was injured, chopped limbs off
tree for a splint, and with
strips from hi* shirt applied a
tourniquet to stop the flow of
blood and bind the wound.
Once the wound had been “dress
ed”, he set tq, work to free himself.
With toe aid of toe ax ha was
successful after a long time. :
But now his troubles were only
t the
beginning. He was faced with toe
task of crawling home—over three
miles of rugged terrain. It w»
bitter cold. His clothing he had
ruined to .bind toe wound. It was
then he enlisted the aid of his
dog. Rock.
Tearing apart a small cardboard
box, he scribbled a note to his
parents that he had been injured.
This he tied to Rock’s collar and
after much persuasion started the
dog off for home. Then toe boy
began the slow crawl over toe hills
—his broken leg in the improvised
splint
3,00$ Yards from Home
At the Lafferty home, Rock
trouble attracting attention. No
seemed to understand his
Finally, to let them know, he
in a doorway—permitting no
to pass. Lafferty senior noticed
note, and the search for
Ollie was on.
They found him about five
after the accident halfway v
trail—some 8,000 yards from
He was taken to a hospital
toe attending physician said
treatment of toe fracture
“one of toe most perfect jobs
have seen—including those of
first aid teams.”
As for Rock—Ollie was not
tain as to his ancestry. “He’s
collie and part shepherd—but
ly he’s just a plain good dog,’
boy said.
The doctor reported that ~
Injuries could have been fatal
for toe boy’s resourcefuUnesa.
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