Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1954 Page: 1 of 8
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Next week on the local court the
Tigers will face two strong op-
ponnents. Monday night, Dec. 20.
the Tyler Lions, the team that
gave the Tigers their first defeat
of the season, will be here and on
Tuesday, Dec. 21, the strong Mt.
Pleasant Tigers, will show their
wares before the local fans. Wed-
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By PAUL J. FILI’S
Manager of the Paris Social
Hecurity Office
There Is a provision in the new
social security law which resem-
bles. in some ways, the drop-out
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To Arrive Horine
Cpl. Paul Pean Gilbert
Afij THURSDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1954
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"Disability Freeze”
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January 6.
at a depth of 8293 ft., showed •____~
office no later than Monday *t < ’
noon. Correspondents and others
submitting news are urged to haw
it in the Optic-Herald office at th*
earliest possible hour.
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Junior High Wins
i ax o?vuio vi AiuencB, m mo annual
vVCil'"l rtlSlUrtrg u. Monday nlgbl, Mt,' Arn^ltjw:.
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Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bolin nm-
the proud parents of a baby girl
born in St. Jo Hospital in Partak
The young lady weighed t Ibsu.
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All Day I
Nelson, postms
4 that the Post
Employees At
Lowry’s Enjoy
Christmas Party
The force of Jewry's, with their
families, attended their annual
Christmas party, that was held
in the apartment house across the
street from the store, Wednesday
evening at 8 o’clock.
A full course turkey dinner,
with all the trimmings was served,
after which Christmas Carols were
sung and gifts were exchanged
among all the employees.
’ About 70 people attended the
Joyful party and it was regretted
that Clifton Puckett, one of the
oldest employees In point of ser-
viee witb the company, was un-
able to attend on account of sick-
nsse.
Richard Lynn Carter
Makes Honor Roll At
Arlington College -
ARLINGTON. P«J. 9—Richard
Lynn Carter, waa listed among the
114 Arllpgton State College en- [ x;
KTrSTfl th.th«r.rliS*t5 "Post Office To
honor roll for the first half of yuw wi
the.fall semester, Registrar B-O.
Barnes, of A8C has annonneed.
The honor Bet, largest •ver re-
corded at Arlington State. Is
drawn from an enrollment of ap-
Fire Does Small
Damage At
Hasty Court
Fire broke out in the office of
the Hasty Court Thursday even-
ing. The fire was caused by a
short in the wiring of an over-
head light.
Duq. to the alertness of the fire
boys, who answered the alarm
quickly, the blase was extinguish-
ed before very much damage was
done..
Cite of:
Vernon!
Have Re
A meeting ef ’
of ML Verno# ,
scheduled for Fri-
e)l tormer'Exes
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the High School building at 8:00
p.m.
All graduates of Mt. Vernon
High School, including-. their
wives, husbands Or sweethearts
are invited to attend this meeting.
A dance is scheduled for enter-
tainment ip the High School Gym
fir the night and the Mt. Ver non
High School Orchestra will fur-
nish the music.
This meeting is sponsored by
the class of 194», and all parent#'
are urged to contact all graduates
A business meeting will beheld
that night after the program in
anticipation br Organising A per-
prOdufction of 180 barrels a day
of 54 gravity oil. Other plans for
drilling in the Lake Frahklln
,WDl be started soofl.
was continuing at
fast pace'at the Tidewater Assoc-
iated Oil Company’s deep test in
the New Hope area. A depth of
avAund 9,000 ft was reported.
This' is the third deep teM set for
this1 territory, with drilling expect-
i
that local
during the
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and not let this
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Frririkun County
Gets Another •
Oil Producer
A producer has been brought
in on t>he Lake) Franklin test on
property owned by the Winnsboro
Hunting and Fishing Club there.
A spokesman for the Humble
Oil and Refining Co. reported that
the test .was completed on the well
Wednesday evening, December 8.
District Officers
Named For Scoots
At Dinner Meeting
J. E. Arnold of DalngarfieM
was re-elected district chairman
for 1955 of the Big Cypress Diw- *
trict. Ix>ae Star Area Council, Boy
Scouts America, at the annual
eat Monday night, M>» Arn^j4 Vaw t’
presented the Scout Statuette
award for his services to Scouting '
during the past year.
Other officers chosen were Dan
Latimer of Mt. Pleasant, first view-
chairman; W. C. Hancock of Pitto-
burg, second vice-chairman;
James W. Smith of Lone Star, '
organization & extension chair- '
man; J. E. Daniel of Pittsburg;
finance chairman; from Mt. Pleaa- '
ant, M. G McGill, health and safw- M
ty chairman; B. E. Reeves, a4-
vancement chairman, Travis Jach-
sotf, leadership and training chair-
man: Paul I^ennier, district com-
missioner. and Ewell McClinton,
V. G. Strong, commissioner staff.
Camping and activities chairman
has not been named as yet.
Members-at-large named to tbn
district committee were Carton
Shell. Pittsburg; Charles Teague
and Dr. David Stinson of Mt. Ver-
non; W. D. Irvin, Jr.. N. H. Moor%
Jr. of Daingerfield; G. N. Andor-
See OFFICtM hqs >
Optie-Herald Wifl
Publish Wednesday
Of Next Week
The Optic-Herald will be print-
ed one day early next week to al-
low merchants tp place last milK
uta merchandising ads that wfft
reaah their customers ob Thure-
day morning. ?
For this reason, all advertiser*
are urged to get their copy to our
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Westbrook
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der of Mt. Pleasant on Dee, 7, a
baby gfrl. Her name M Tarona
Jane. The paternal grandpareatB
ate Mr. and Mrs. L. I. Holder ef
ML Vernon. ’*
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Franklin County
Given Five-Star
Rating by E.T.C.C.
A bulletin compiled by The
Eaet Texas Chamber of Commerce
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the five etar club for the fiscal
year ending December 31, 1953.
The highest rating any county
could receive would be six stars,
so this shows that Franklin Coun-
ty stands high in the tax survey
which includes all counties serv-
ed by the Bast Texas Chamber of
Commerce-
The purpoee tor which- ttdrs
Cpl. Paul Dean Gilbert and
family, who have been in Pana-*
ma for the paet FB months. twill
sail for home Thursday. Decem-
ber Id.
v They to 1*0 *n W<w
York. Thursday, Decembsi 28.
His parents *>e Mr. «gd Mrs.
Johnnip Gilbert and they egptet
«im home by January !. Cpl. Glt-
receive his discharge tn
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were Awarded to Franklin County
•ire:.
The county operated within its
budget. The Fanklin County bud-
get for 1963 anticipated. 8183,-
834.94 for expenses while actual
expenses were held to 8158,-
938.0,' which shows that the
’ county spent less money than the
budget anticipated.
The county collected 95 percent
, of the cuvrent 19L2 tax^roll. an4
109 percent of thteroll including
delinquent OoUfetiois ter the tax
ydar Jhdef Junto 30, 1913. Frank-
lin County’s cur Ant collection
percentage wae 97.45 percent and
See RATING Page 5
Gus Pittman Died
Thursday At Noon
After Long Illness
Gus Edwin Pittman, resident of
Titus County for the past fifty
years, passed away at his home,
502 West 6th St., Mt. Pleasant at
1:25 p.m. last Thursday, Dec. 9.
following a lengthy illness. He has
been confined to his bed for about
five years following a stroke.
He was born in Mt. Vernon,
Franklin County, Texas, July 1$,
1884. He was 70 years of age.
Mr. Pittman was a retired far-
mer and was widely known
throughout the entire county.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Rebecca Pittman, one daughter,
Vanaie White of Mt, Pleasant.
Other survivors include five cis-
tern: Mr* Emma Holder, Mrs.
Mamie Carson, Mts. Ann DeShazo,
Mrs. Will Bolitt, all of Mt. Vernon
and Mrs. W. JI. Houston, of Du-
rant Oklahoma.
One child died in Infancy. Two
brothers, Lee Pittman and Mark
Rittmsik, one sister, Della Joned
itos death.
leervlAs werVkwryt
___,___J Chdd»t ta hft jfleqar
apt gt 10 o’cloeltSaturday morn-
ing, under direction x>f Rev. Ches-
ter Phillips and Rev. Cleo Pate;
■with burial following in Masonic
Cemetery.
Jligh Basketball team partfcipat-
ment Dec. 1, 3, 3, and 4 ending
up in fourth place. Greenville won
the tournament and Sulphur
Springs was runner-up.
In the first game played. Sul-
phur Springs Junior High defeat-
ed the Mt. Vernon Junior High
by the score of 52 to 45 in a very
thrilling game all the way and in
the second game Mt. Vernon par-
ticipated in, they defeated Pick-
ton by the top heavy score of 96
to 30, eimply outolasslM tbeir op-
pon.«nta AU
in their third game, they were
victorious over the Emory Juniors
defeating them by the score of 63
to 33, and in the consolation game
they were beaten by the Denton
Juniors 77 to 57.
High scorer for Mt. Vernon dur-
ing the tornament, was Ted Moul-
ton, scoring a total of 83 points
and Pete Turner was second with
68 points.
Regular conference games will
start after the*' Christmas holi-
days with the first game being on
Ta«as9w 4t
The Mt. Vernon Junior High
boys won one and lost one in their
games with the Pittsburg Junior
High here in the local gym Mon-
day night.
JUNIOR HIGH GAME
HERE FRIDAY NIGHT
The Mt. Vernon- Junior High
basketball team, both the A and
B squads will play the Sulphur
Springs Junior boys here on the
local court. Friday night, begin-
ning at 6:30 p.m.
The ’’A” team Juniors won
their game by the score of 71-
36; while the “B” team Juniors
lost to the Pittsburg Juniors by
the score of 27-24.
High score honors went to Ted
Moulton with 27 points. Richard
Zachary led the B team Juniors
with 10 points.
Here is the complete schedule
for the Junior High boys for the
rest of ths season.
Jan. 6—Mt. Pleasant
Jaa. 10—Gilmer ——
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Billy Graham Film
“Oil Town U.S.A.” To
Be at Hairansport
The Billy Graham film, "Oil
Town U.S.A.” will be shown at
the Hagansport school Tuesday.
December 21, 1954 at 7:30 p.m.
This la one of the greatest re-
ligious films ever made. It Is in
__7 , gorgeous natural color using th«
ed to continue around 193100 feet <>fl industry as the background
■for a true to life story in pre-
senting the gospel.
You will see many beautiful
acenes from Texas and will see a
part of "the Texas City disaster
that took place a few years back.
' The film will be shown by Rev.
A. Miller Nichols, a former resi-
Se»t of Raganeport, before going
into the ministry. Rev. Nichols is
MW a representative of the Billy
Graham Association. There will
be no charge tor admission.
Court bouse To Close
December 24 and 25
"Optics”
The parade here Tuesday
brought a fsw embarasslng mo-
ment* to a young colored boy who
'was enjoying the parade with the
greatest enthdMMm, until phe of
the members of the SULPHUR >, ; •*r—■
SPRINGS BAND, who was porad- Recital
4ns by the huge crowd, recognised
this epectater wearing hie jacket
that he had loM several we40
Vernon fodtbaU game. ‘ .
k.sx“h'.*‘.s»esis
JUNTO® LfrFjgjEP
The parade was led by Chief 0
Police, Paul Ray Jones, follows*
by a group ot horseback ridessL
the American Legion color guar*
and the Mt. Vernon Band. Foot
other >hlgh school bands march**
in the parade, the Winnsboro <
band, the Sulphur Springs band,
the Pittsburg band and the Book-
er T. Washington Negro High
School band from Mt. Pleasant.
There were two rhythm banda.
the Mt. Vernon Grade School
Rhythm band led by Mrs. Lon
McCorkle and Miss Mary Lou
Stringer, with a car carrying th»
grade school queen, and the Hag-
ansport Rhythm band, led by Mrs.
Tom Briley.
Local automobile dealers drove
new model cars in the parade.
There was a bicycle club fit grade
school students and the fire
trucks.
One of the main attractions wee
the reindeer from Curve Court*,
led by Gordon Llyod, Sam Lual-
len and J. C. Anderson.
The floats included entries by
the Saltillo F.F.A., Haganeport
School Springs Place School, Dori*
Meek's Dancing Dolls, th* B*y
Scouts, Lowry’s prepared by the
Garden Club, Denton School, ML
High School with the
See PARADE Page •
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LUCY JIM WESTBROOK
* iMedei for his demonstration
Of honor, efficiency, and fidelity
while serving as a member of the
8998th Air Base Group (SAC).
US Air Force located at RAF Sta-
tion Stdrgate in Lincolnshire,
England. >
TIGERS ADVANCE TO 8BCXIND
ROUND LONGVIEW TOURNEY
In their opening game at the
Longview tournament today,
“Thursday”, the Mt. Vernon
Tigers won over Henderson, by
the score ef 66 to 36. They will
play Nacogdoches at 7:00 p.m.
Frriday at the Junior High Gym
in Longview in the second round.
Nacogdoches defeated Gladewater
54 to 45 to advance.
Monday night in Tyler, the Tig-
er* were ■ handed their first loss
of-,the current season, when the
District 5-AAAA Tyler Lions took
(--a close game from the locals, by
the score of 59?54.
Tuesday night, the Gladewater
> Bears of District J 6-A A fell be-
"More the onslaught of the Tigers
here on the lodal court for the
?,Jiecond time this season, by the
,.-i score of 77-53. IdL
,‘r, The “B” team of the Tigers,
won two games and lost one dur-
ing the week, which leaves their
record so far this season at fear
wine and three defeats.
As announced by Coach Wayne
Pierce, the Tigers will participate
in the Longview tournament,
which started Thursday. Dec. 16,
r and their first game was -played
* with Henderson of 16-AA.
manent MU Vernon High School
Exes Assoclatibni ■ ahd 4iac*M
plans for ftttute meetings-
,mi ■' liii.hi ■ 4.
Teague & Son
Holds Annual. . ;
Christinas Party fl
Teagnq A Son Chevrolet Com-
pact 0ttartalned their employees
and fgnlllUs, Wednesday night,
December 45> with a Christmas
party; There were thirty-four
A full cosrse dinner was ssufv-
ed banquet ityle.at toe Alb Cafe,
after which the group went ttTtbs
Chevrolet show roort for the
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of around 806 Saute Cjana Xf ertyfnt and
18 oss., and has bee'named Amelia
Faye. Mrs. Bolin is the former
Miss Jessie McCullough.
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Winning Streak Ended
By Tyler; Pla^ Here .
__“_1L- (Ternon High School
h*. -won tw8 games and lost
the past week. Last Saturday
it on the local codrt, the Tig-
downed the Atlanta Rabbits
•Utrlct 15-A*’*"” ' mj|
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Mt Vernon In Scaie
Of Recent Novel
Frank Bryan of Groesbeck, in
hie novel, “The Long' Shsdow,"
that is being publiehod by Comet
Press Books, place* one of the
major scenes of the novel in Mt
Vernon. The major action in Mt.
Vernon taken place at an Humble
Service Station with other action
occuring about three miles east
Of town.
The book I* .'A *1
■tory. So reoj are >
/ and the charaetej
might expeqt ;to M
each a situation
morning’s tiewepap ^.
Timely a0.000r thio ex-
tremely constructed book boldly
paints the complex picture of the
Inroads, tbat lhe ngrste of com-
munism have Rede into labor
emo*. .0 into 10~try in gen-
Cant for its high quality of plot
■trncture in th« myptery-epy area
of literature, bbt also for ite rwj
Instructive leoson, toncorning the
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i’^^Xial
Bergcen-t Tharmes
ot Mount Vernon was
raided the Good Con-
fer his demonstration
; by the top heavy
<n a thrilling
lAxk-'J- ‘-JI
A, hmTssT ;
Mrs. Doris M*bk‘ and MfrL
iamgs Wwtbrook; bresented their , A full course dinner was, s<
. ‘ ~ ‘T~ and expression r-* *—11
pupils in a recital Mst Friday i
J gch00i AudF 1 _
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Doris Meek Dancing
Dolls Presented At
Rotary Last Friday
At the Mt. Vernon Rotary Club
meeting last Friday, Landon Ram-
say had charge of the program
for the day and presented Doris
Meek’s Dancing Dolls, which was
enjoyed by all.
Members of the cast were: Ter-
esa Puckett, Linda Ross, Char-
lotte Meek, Sharon Meek, Marilyn
and Carolyn Teague, Patsy Bass,
Jimmy Meek and Judy Meek. Ben-
ita Banister was the accompanist.
Jean Moore served as club ac-
companist in the absence of Mrs.
Irene St. Clair.
Leon Bridges, secretary, report-
ed 100 percent attendance at the
last meeting. Charles Teague and
Judge Wilkinson were absent from
the meeting. Junior Rotariln of
the month of December, Bobby
Tinsley woe present.
Visiting Rotarians from Mt.
Pleasant attending were; .John
Hall and Pat Wallace and Frank
Faller wap a visiter from Paris.
J. B. Christian wee guest of
Hermon Connelly.
Tom Wilkinson .Will have
ch.r^of to^^^r^j^emher
The regular meeting dates of
'Ue^»mber 84 and 31 will be pass-
ed up due to a difficulty in being
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d VfeWs Christmas Parade
Will
Raise Some S.S. Benefits
of low or no earning year* which
J explained in a resent article in
this series. Thia is the provision
known as the “disability freeze”.
It should not be confused with
drop-out. But it does act to dis-
count no-earnings years from the
worker’s average monthly wages.
And like the drop-out, it is some-
thing entirely new to social sec-
urity. So I’d like to explain a little
about the disability freeze in this
adtlcle.
The social security disability
“freeze” may be roughly compar-
ed to the “waiver of premium"
which is offered to individuals
who purchase ordinary life insur-
ance. A waiver of premium is used
to maintain the protection of the
private insurance policy for the
duration of the policy holder's
disability. The social security dis-
ability provision will freeze the
years during which a disability
has kept the worker from earning
eo that those years of disability
will not affect the disabled work-
er’s social security account.
I should like to mention one
fact about the disability provisions
which may be misunderstood at
first. The disability “freeze” is
not disability insurance. A person
must be disabled to apply for the
"freeze” but he can not receive
social security benefits until he
retires at age 65 or latter. Then he
will find that he will not receive
reduced benefit amounts because
Hrr MECURITY I’W" »
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Monday MuScai
net day, Dec. '21, the Tigers 0 to
Daingerfield for a return game.
ATLANTA AT MT. VERNON
The Atlanta Rabbits of Dist.
15-AA couldn't cut bhe mustard
here Saturday night on the local
court and the Mt. Vernon Tigers
brought the highly touted Rabbits
winning streak to a close by In-
flicting upon them, their first de-
feat of the season by th* score qf
71-53, before a large Crowd.
_____There
______Here
fen. 80—Sulphur Springs —There
Jan. 27—Hawkins - Here
Feb. 3—Pittsburg ............. There
Feb. 7—Mt. Pleasant .......... Here
Feb. 14—Gilmer --------------There
Feb. 17—Sulphur Springs ... Here
Feb. 21—Hawkins ............ There
Here
The visitors jumped into a three* 1
point lead after- the tip-off, but *
the hustling Tigers soon found
the range on the basket and over-
came this short 3,00 and there-
after were neVer headed.
The Tiger team built up a com-
manding lead over the Atlanta
Rabbits and at tH^ .^intermission
led 51-24. The Total fans were
thrilled by some pncanny goal
See WINNING Page S
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Local Citizen
Succumbs After
Lingering IHfcss
Funeral services ’ WW* held
Tuesday, Def. .14, at tije First
Baptist Church dn Mt. Vernon, for
Daniel Harris Cargile, who died
tn the Franklin County Hospital,
Sunday, Dec. 12, at 6:40 p.m..
after several years of ill health.
He was 76 years of age. ,
Daniel Harris Cargile. son of
Mr. and Mrs Marcus’ C*rgli». Npes
born Oct. 25, 1877, at,Terrell, |
Texas. His elementary education 11
was ohtaMqta iW-Gtay fRmgr.
Franklin County, and be then at-
tended Mayo InstHute< In Com-
merce. •
In 1898, he joined-the military
and knew the trials and difficul-
ties of the Spanish American War.
As a soldier 0 knew ’the hard-
ships a*d lived through a siege
of typhoid fever, and was paverK *~of 7a
jawBt 1
cess in wssteta Texas, and located
iff Romeo,-Where he orgaataied •
mercantils.’taisineas. nadiqd the-
Romero Qoal and Lumber pe.a**
pany. He bought and leaded lAad
la New Mexico aud established
tyo veryeffecessfut caUleran
aot mateh his **0p|tl. energy and
his health bega%.^all. ‘
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Junior High Tigers
Play In Tourney At
Sulphur Springs
Coach Troy Pittman’s Junior
j?<t car on the east side of the )n Sulpfhur Springs tourna-
If A. —n~~ I. — a
A large cpowd lined th*
ot Mt. .Vernon last
watch ths big Christmas parade.
'J ■’
Lucy Jim Westbrook, daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. James H. West-
brook of Mt. Vernon, is getting
quite a bit of recognition as a
soloist on Christmta musical pro-
grams that are bei0 presented in
Dallas. Rev. Westbrook is pastor
of the First Methodist Church.
Lucy Jim is a Junior at'South-
ern Methodist University and Is
active in the Delta Zeta social
sorority; 1JM Epsilon, national
honorary music sorority, whose re-
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Shoulders Strike
j Mt HmnU
DuriRglSsiWeek
All local stores should be on
close watch for shoplifters since
they visited .several stores in Mt.
Pleasant last week and carried
bff’a lot of merchandise.
It wasjlue to the qulck’think-
“ inager of a store in
Pleasant that they we/e ap-
prehended in a few hours.
manager followed the two
women and a man as they hur-
ff0-dut of his store to their
use sqphrer die secured
llqsnse number and in-
Mrlff Sinclair of Titbs
the sheriff at
j lookout'for
MOT Were picked up by
fleers as they entered
efehandlse stolen from
H-10L Pleasant stores was
..ata Musch
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