1938-09-15; Saline Observer

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VOLUME 57
SALINE.   WASHTENAW   COUNTY,   MICHIGAN, TIIURSDAjY.  SEPT.  15-  1938
NUMBER 50
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Mr. Farmer . . .
Insure yourself with a good yield* of wheat by using
Welsh Higrade or Swift's Fertilizer and treating
your seed with New Improved Ceresan. Sow fewer
acres and harvest more bushels.
We still have plenty of Plymouth and Jackson
Twine.  A full line of Larro -Feeds—more profit over
feed eost.   Snow Loaf and Larro Family Flour.
Fly Spray, Dip and Disinfectant, Black Leaf 40",
Feeders, Fountains, etc.
Timothy Seed, Charcoal for steak roasts, Cane,
Feeding Molasses in 300 pound drums.
Cole's
PHONE 47'
Store
SALINE
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Save 25 to 40 Per Cent on Fuel Bills
INSULATING WOOL—APPLY IT YOURSELF
Johns-Manville Roofing and Siding  Shingles
BUTLER PUMP-JACKS
BASKETS PAILS        HUNTING SUPPLIES
Headquarters for  Sherwin-Williams Paint
EVERYTHING IN BUILDING  SUPPLIES
TELEPHONE No. 16
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River To Worl
iitese atii'Ient
tresses' Rota
■ gag*e, and these are, spanned by trav-'
i eling   cranes   with,  a   reach   of  115
! feet     They   lift - the  4-yard,   11-ton ;
[ loaded buckets from ears„lower them
into the forms, and return the empty .
buckets  to   the   cars.                              i
The  dam  is built up   cf columns,   ,
On the  way from  W^^ Told ~ of    Condons    in
the   publisher   took   a   day   off   anaifi-ot j mt     ^ at inter-j
went   from    Spokane   up   to    Grand. vaIs  J     £ ^ >
Coulee to see the "eighth wonder of,    A    t ,
the  world,"   and   that   it  was  well!      • - -"- - - £.-___-
worth the time and effort may ba
gleaned by reading* the article below.
To sive local readers an idea of the
lome People Have AM Tie Lnck
length of the dan. it is only necessary to say that it's about as long as
the distance from the Willis road to
the home of Maurice Henderson:
His   Country  Preceding   War
With   Japan.
It was  International  Service  Day
erations,   6,000   or  more   men   have
been   employed. i at the   meeting of the Rotary  Club
That  part   of  the   Columbia  river  last    Thursday     and    Edward    W.
basin  above  the Coulee Dam covers, Staebler of Ann Arbor brought over
feet deep. At this point the flow
averages 109,000 cubic* feet per second, ranging from  about __0,000 see-
miles of land or to make two 16
foot highways from coast to coast.
The dam is second to the 727-foot
Boulder dam in height, but is two
and one-half times greater in volume.
At each end of the dam there will
be a power-house 765 feet long and
112 feet wide,   and  at  the west end
electrical energy to, be used for
pumping for irrigation and for
other,, purposes.
The project will be self-liquidating from income from settlers and
purchasers  of power.
Homes will be  provided for 25,000
to 40,000  families  on the  land,  and
for about an equal number in towns j
in the irrigated areas;, that is, for aj
total   of   200,000   to 400,000   people. I
Trade   with   industrial   centers,   and
with agricultural  districts producing
various crops not grown locally, will
support    100,000" to    200,000    p'eople
elsewhere in the United States.
You Noticed
Your Subscription
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It's On The
Address Label
(Government   Bulletin)
The use of water from the Columbia river for the irrigating of enormous tracts of rich land in Central
Washington has been dreamed of
since the days of the earliest settlers. Modern equipment and methods, electrical power, Federal loans
make the Columbia River Reclamation Project feasible. The enforced
abandonment of eroded, submarginal,
and "dust bowl" lands, the natural
increase in population, and the desire for improvement in standards
of living make it necessary.
Work on the construction of Grand
Coulee Dam began in the winter of
1933-34. Facilities for carrying on
construction work included a 30-mile
government railroad from the Northern Pacific line at Odair, a 30-mile
high-tension transmission line from
the Washington Water Power lines
near Coulee City, the relocating and
hard-surfacing of highways, a 950-
foot steel highway bridge, telephone
and telegraph lines, and two towns.
On the east side of the river the
contractor built Mason City, which
-includes a large mess hall, Office
buildings, hospital, hotel, laundry,
recreation hall, store, churches and
schools, over 200 residences, and 60
bunkhouses to accommodate over
1,200 men. Electricity is used for
house heating in this town* "without
chimneys. It is a temporary town,
to be dismantled after the dam and
power plant are completed.
The Government camp, known locally as Engineers' Town, but to the
Post Office Department as Coulee
Dam, is to be a permanent town for
housing employees _n the project.
Its houses, streets, and water, light,
and sewer systems are of modern
design  and substantial   construction.
Among the tasks of outstanding
magnitude in the construction of the
dam *were the removing of nearly
18,000,000 yards 'of sand, gravel
clay, and boulders, and of over
1,000,000 yards of rock from the
dam site, the diverting of the river
from its channel, the opening and
operating of a sand and gravel pit
capable of turning but 25,000 yards
of pit-run material in a day, and the
designing, building, and 'operating of
a concrete-mixing and handling
equipment sufficiently large to place
over 15,000 yards of concrete in 24
hours.
Over 13,000,000 yards of excavated material other than rock were
loaded by large electric shovels on
tracks or trailer wagons of 8- to 20-
yard capacity, dumped through grizzlies which excluded large boulders,
and carried away to spoil banks one-
half mile to a mile distant by 60-
inch belt conveyors, at the rate of
40,000 yards  a  day.
Extensive examinations of the
granite bedrock were made by various means, including tlie diamond
drilling of 31,000 feet of holes, some
to depths as great as 800 feet. Mahy
holes, 36 inches in diameter, have
been drilled to depths of 29 to 69
feet. Such holes permit the inspection of bedrock in place.
Bedrock under the entire dam site,
including the river channel, was covered with a deep deposit of sand,
clay, and boulders. In order to remove such material on the west side
of tlie river, a 60-acrfe area was enclosed in a' cofferdam formed of timber cribs faced with steel sheet piles
and a 3,000-foot chain of cells of
steel piling along the river, averaging 110* feet in height, the cells being approximately cylindrical in
shane and about 50 feet in diameter.
From the enclosure area 10,000,-
000 yards of clay and boulders were
removed to expose bedrock, create
a diversion channel, and provide a
tailrace for the powerhouse, and
within the. enclosure tlie west end of
the foundation of the dam was built.
After the west end of the foundation, with its diversion channels, was
completed, the flow of the river in
its natural channel was stopped by a
downstream cross-river cofferdam of
timber cribs, built to fit the contour
of the river bottom, floated into
place, sunk bv loading with gravel,
and nrotected with a facing* of steel
sheet piles.
4. second cross-river cofferdam,
upstream, and the end of the west
side concrete structure, complete the
enclosure of a 55-acre area, which
includes' that part of the river channel to be occupied by the dam.
The world's largest plant of its
kind furnishes   sand and  gravel on! whole life  in  York township.     She
an area of 74,100 square miles,  39,-'a   young    Chinese   student   of    the
000 being in Canada. j University,   in  response   to  an  invi-
At the dam site the river flows in j tation by the chairman of the day,
a channel 700 to 900 feet wide, in a  Carl -4- Curtiss.
canyon a mile wide and about 1,400
Mr. Tsao addressed the club his
appointed time, giving an outline of
conditions in China previous to the
undeclared   war   by   Japan,    telling
ond-feet to more than 400,000. The. how his nation had" prbgressed'alon-
imgatmg season coincides with j industrial, financial and educatioS
high-water  period* m^ all of which red0unded to the
Grand   Coulee  Dam   will  be   the I credit of this war-beset country
largest man-made   structure   m  the'    r™. _,_, J
world, three times larger than the ■-, Th? sTudden- unexpected attack
largest Egyptian pyramid. It will' °y the JaPanese a little more than
contain enough concrete to lay a 6-1 a year /S° caught his country un-
inch    pavement    over    7ty     square PrePared   hut   they   have   given   a
good account of themselves on the
fields of battle and while apparently
waging a losing struggle expect to
come out victorious in the end.
The speaker stressed the fact that
while China still maintains a stable
currency, Japan grows weaker both
fianacially and in man-power, so the
ultimate result of the war Is bound
of   the   dam   a   pumping  plant   790, to result in  China's   favor.
feet long and 180 feet wide.    Behind I    -J.  J. Robb  of  Ypsilanti was  also
the   dam   a   storage   reservoir,   151! a guest  at the meeting.
miles    long   and    extending    to    the
Canadian   border,  will be formed.
The Grand Coulee Dam is the key
to the development, of power on the
Columbia river—the: greatsst potential source of useful energy among
the rivers of America. Plans of
the Army engineers provide for 10
dams on the river between the Canadian border and the mouth of the Total enrollment figures are ap-
river, to utilize 92 per cent of the proximately the same as last year
fall of the river within this country, j with a total of 356 reported on
The Grand Coulee Dam accounts for j Thursday, September 8. Last year
27 per cent of the total head. j there  were 368  at the end of  Sep-
The project will reclaim 1,200,000', tember. There are several who have
acres of land, regulate the flow of been ill who are to report soon so
the    Columbia    fiver,    and    develop! that   the   total   will   be   about   the
SCHOOL   ENROLLMENT
FIGURES THIS  YEAR
same as a year ago- The numbers
in the various grades' is as follows:
Kindergarten,   18.
First grade,  19.
Second  grade,   22.
Third grade, 13.
Fourth  grade,   15.
Fifth grade, 21.
Sixth grade, 18.
Seventh grade,   17.
Eighth   grade,  26.
Ninth grade, 43.
Tenth  grade,   60.
Eleventh  grade,  34.
Twelfth grade,  50.    Total, 356.
Including   the   kindergarten   there
are   58   pupils   in   school   this   year
C. *-__.__>      m i      n who were not last year, while on the
fenuiey lemple Lowing    - ,.ither hand) including the class of
To   The   Saline   Theatre  '39     there    are    approximately     as
  I many who were last year who  are
Appears  Friday and   Saturday Eve-,not  now- .
nings in New  Hit,   "Little j     Folks  new  this   year  are   as fol-
Miss   Broadway." ; lows:
 __ |    Twelfth   Grade—Alice   Dean,   De-
"Little    Miss   Broadway,"    Shirley  troit;    John" Baker,   Belleville.
Temple's    latest    starring     picture,:    Eleventh—Jean Taylor, Flint Cen-
has been completed and is scheduled tral.
for   its   opening Friday  and  Satur-j    Tenth—Warner  Wisner,   Ann  Ar-
day at  the  Saline Theatre. bor  High;  Malcolm Sanders, Roose-
Already, those who have seen the'. velt, Ypsi.; Robert Redbum, Lum;
production, say that it demonstrates Mary Ann Niles, Los AugelSs, Cal-
beyond a sha.dow bf a doubt why if.; Tenia Kohler, Tennessee school;
this young lady is America's Num- George Clowacki," John Burroughs,
ber One star.     - Detroit;   Howard    Cooper,    Tappan,
It is an acknowledged fact that ta ___! Arbor; Stafford Burton, Milan,
millions throughout the world, each Ninth—Mary Ann Baker, Sutlier-
new Shirley Temple picture is an *land Belleville; Ruth Baumann,
event of major magnitude. Most Kuebler address Manchester; Leon-
recently India capitulated to the ard Burmeister, Girbach; Dwight
charm of this young thespian when c Hammond; Howard Copeland,
an age-old rule against feminine en- 0ak Grove; Frank Cushman, Judd;
tertainers dropped  its  barriers—aria. M Ernst,    Bridgewater;    Arlene
La   Temple   is   now   the   box   office FeldkamPj  Union;  Irene  Finkbeiner, *
champion of the world. Bridgewater; Reginald   Fischer, Schu-'
Of   "Little   Miss_ Broadway."   the mac£er    Allce   Gable)   oat   Grove;
previewers  say   that  Sim-ley  dances Waldo   Hack)   Wood;   Henry   Ham-
and sings with greater ease and tal- mond   Hammond; Leon Heimending-
ent. than   she  has   in any previous e_   pleasant Lake;   Carlton Hertler,:
film,  and her rare dramatiic ability Valentine- Erwin   Hieber,   Kuebler; |
continues to amaze her audiences.      Nellie  j-.^  Valentine;  Betty Jean
.„„ .       _-'.     ~__    ■__     t_- t-» ' Kazmaier,     Shaw;     Viola     Kendall,
"We're  Gomg to  Be  Rich" judd;   Virginia   Kleuter,   Union;   El-1
Sam Heilman and Rohama  Siegel. ^ ' KoW%r<   DeU;    Lucme-   Kohler,*
wrote   the   screen   play   for     were Elowene Rentsehler,  Valen-!
Going   to  Be Rich,"   20th  Century- ^fRalpll Sa-.ly, Fosdick; Ha Spang-1
Fox     comedy     co-starring     Grade ^   e-        *       ^    Ernestine  Wilson, I
Fields  f*™^-*?^^*^ Suihertand; Alvin Wiedmayer, Pleas-
comes   to   Saline   for   burmay    ana -i
Mondav.    Brian Donlevy is featured ant i_aKe. „,-_,_„--   tw™.'-I
in the cast.   The locale of the story,!    Fcurth—Jeannme Dmelly, Detroi., |
written by James Edward Grant,  is Marilyn Rogers,
The rest of us
have to manage
In little business
or big' business
Observer liners
are a big help.
They let you
down easy as
to cost.
6e per line first insertion. 4c per line
each subsequent 'insertion.
aixyriaruar charge. 25 cents
Special   Sale   Boys'   Sweaters   98t
at Parsons'.  "
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Reduction    on     all    Parmanents.
Helen's Beauty Shoppe.
Heating   and   sheet   metal   work.
R. G. Wahl, phone 160.
For Sale—2 registered coarse woo,
rams.    Louis Kleinschmidt. 50
1939 Ford Model A Tudor, only
$35.00 full price. Wiedman Auto Co.
For Sale—Power lawn mower machine. 415 South First St., Ann Arbor,  Mich. 52
Is your radio sick. Sea W. Kelly,
Radio Doctor, * 211 S. Ann Arbor,
St.,  Saline.
Feed Safe Way Dairy, 9 Proteins,
with your own grain. Saline Mercantile Company.
We make old shoes good as new
at reasonable prices. Bert Gillen's
Shoe  repair   shop. 50
Feed a balanced ration from birth
to maturity to that flock* of growing pigs.    Saline Mercantile  Co.
Wiedman   Auto  Co.  will fix   your
car  for  you now so  that you   can
have   a   carefree   vacation with no
motor  troubles.
DEAD OR. ALIVE
Farm animals removed promptly
Phone collect to Ann Arbor 2-2244.
Central  Dead  Stock  Co.
Sales Books, duplicate. Very handy to have on the counter or use
them regularly. 5e each. We- can
order printed sales, books, with your
business printed on both original
and duplicate, at a very reasonble
price. Just phone 60-F2 and a salesman will call with samples. The
Observer  Printers, phone   60-F2.
Liner ads, of necessity, are cash
and we cannot afford to send ou^
collectors or statements. For the
advertisers' convenience, we accept
ads over the telephone, and ask that
you remit at once by mail or call
and settle without notice. When
statements have to be sent, an additional charge of 5e is made, to
cover stamps, stationery, etc. Your
prompt attention will be appreciated.
The Saline Observer, the paper with
the Liner ads.
Reduction    on     all     Parmanents.
Helen's Beauty Shoppe.
Ball   Band   .Rubbers   wear   better
and cost no more.    At Parsons'.
For    Sale—1935     Pontiac    sedan.
Mrs. Nora Schmid, phone 277..    51
For    Sale—Plenty    of " good    dry
wood.    Cole's Feed Store.
Walverine Work Shoes give extra
service.   Sold  by G.  L.  Parsons.
W. E. Dietiker, licensee! «mbalmer
and undertaker.    Phone 175-F2.
1929 Pontiac Coa"ch, new - tires.
Special $69.00.    Wiedman Auto   Co.
For Sale—American Banner seed
wheat. Ferman Clements, phone
166-F3, 47tf
_ A full line of New Idea Implements and repairs. Call ,the Wied-
itan Auto Company.
I am now prepared to clean your
furnace with my new vacuum cleaner.    R. G. Wahl, phone 160.
Clean up your flock with Acme
Worm Bouncer fed in self-feeders.
Saline   Mercantile   Company.
For Sale^Com     crib,    DeLaval
cream separator,   iron   kettle   with
jacket, wagon.     Edna  v.ross  phone
236.
10 used cars, lots of transportation. Priced from $25.00 to $65.00.
Only $10.00 down. Wiedman Auto
Company.
For Sale—Int. 10-20 tractor and
plows, good condition. Walter
Schroeder, 6*_ miles west of Saline  on US-112. 51
For your eyes consult the oculist
Dr.   Gibson,   Packard  at  Hill, . Ann
rbor. Lowest prices, U. of M. graduate,   47   years   in   practice.
Radio Service. All makes, parts
and tubes; also gas, oil and accessories, groceries, candy, tobacCo. Art's
Service Station, Saline-Pleasant Lake
Roads.    Saline phone  181-F13.
For Sale—Registered Shropshire
ram 2 yrs. old, took first place at
Monroe fair, open; class. Mead B.
Spence, one mile south and 1 _, west
of Milan depot on Sherman road
west of US-23.
ORDER  FOR. PUBI.ICATION
Appointment of Administrator
De Bonis Non With Will Annexed
GOOD VALUES
1934 Chevrolet Sport Sedan.
1934 Ford Sedan Delivery
1930  Chevrolet Rdstr.   Pickup
COOK MOTOR   SALES
Authorized Chevrolet Dealers
For    Sale—1%-ton    1936    Dodge
truck,    1-ton    1937    Dodge    pickup,
d-TATTr- n.r iMTrTTTOAN thp Probite i1 used Des™1^ com binder,  1 used.
STATE OF MiemGAJN, the F^axe  McCormick   com   binder,   two   10-20
__«.,+ fm- «,«_  r-n,.nt. m wMn,_.   McCorhiick-Deerhig tractors,  one F-
Coiirt for the County of Washte
haw. 3268
At   a   session  of   said  Court,  held
at the Probate Office in the City of"
Ann  Arbor, in  said County,  on the
30th day of August, A. D. 1938.
Present,     Hon.     Jay     G.     Pray,
Judge  of  Probate.
In  tlie  Matter  of   tthe   Estate   of
Lorenzo   Absll,   deceased.
Fred E. Abell, son of said deeeas-
20   tractor, .1929  Ford truck.
| man Heininger,   phone  33.
Her-
Wanted—People in this vicinity
who have any legal printing required
in the settlement of estates, etc.,
will confer a favor by having it sent
to this newspaper. .The yates are
universal   in   such   matters  and   to
Lodi Plains.
Melbourne,   Australia,   in  the  gold-      Second
rush days of the  '80's. i Plains.
Kinderganten
Jimmy   Rogers,    Lodi
Lloyd    Breder-
have   your  notices   appear   in. this
ed, having filed in said Court his pe- jpaper it is only necessary to ask ths
tition praying  that the   admmistra-, pr0Date judge to send them to The
tion   of   said estate   be  granted  to. observer.
Howard L. Parker or to some other  : __
"Professor Beware" will be the j^^ Donald Darner, Joyce Daven-
attraction for next Tuesday, Wed- p--^ Bu_fle Fairbanks, Lewis Faust,
nesday and Thursday. • Betty    Jane    F^man,    Joyce    Ann
  .    ] Graf," Hilda   Heusel,    Jerald   Kelly,
UnSS  RACHEL COOK i Eugene   Leutheuser,   James . Levliet,
 ** Lillian   Love,   Merritt  Martin,   Raj-'
Miss Rachel ■ Cook passed away mond Niles, George Pierce, Richard
Monday. September 12, 193S, at 7 J_iee Roya^ Robert Tower, Allen
p. m.  at her home. I Woods.
Miss Cook was born June 27, 1865, | _ .  • *
She was the daughter of Peter and. benxo3J- 4_H GL0B GIVE
Ann Hinckley   Cook, _ ami .hved her DEMONS__RAHON   MEAL
suitable person,  as administrator de
bonis non with  will  annexed,
1% is Ordered, That tlie 29th day
of September, A. D. 1938, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, at said Probate office, be and. is hereby appointed   for   hearing   said   petition ;-
It Is Further Ordered,-That pub-laying to go overv to somebody else's
lie notice thereof be given by. pub- j house to*> get the paper, wait for
lication of a copy of this order, j someone else to finish reading it
once   each  week   for   three  sueces- and then not have the privilege  of
We cannot . help your neighbors
borrowing your Observer each week,
but we can call attention to the
fact that the cost of becoming a
regular subscriber is less 'than 3c
per week. That cost is very little
as   compared   with   the    trouble   of
this project. In a pit a mile and a
.half downstream^from the dam, and
!900 feet above tiie river on the east
i side,  power  shovels   transfer  mate-1 settler  and founder «f the Presby-
rials from the bank directly to a belt jterian  church here,
j conveyor system,   which  supplies  it
YOUR HOME MERCHANTS
ASK YOU TO "BUY AT HOME"
to the washing and screening plant.
A;   belt    conveyor .5,965. feet   longj
nioves
taught school in Ann Arbor approximately 25 years.x
Her   grandfather    was   an   early
The Benton 4-H food preparation,
club gave a supper last Wednesday j
at the home of Virginia and^Evelyrv*
Gall.      The    following   menu"    was'1
She is survived by a brother, Fred'served: Macaroni and cheese, cream-j
>ok   of  Delhi, La.;   a sister,  Mrs. ed  carrots,  butterfly salad,  muffins, I
sive weeks previous to said day of
hearing, in The Saline Observer, a
newspaper printed and circulated - m
said County.
Jay G. Pray,- Judge   of  Probate.
A   true   copy.
Nora O. Borgert, Register of Probate
Sept.  8-15-22, 1938
Cook,
t    ^..^..^-^   -«.. .Gertrude Cobb, of GrandviUe, Mich., | ice   cream   and^ cookies    cocoa.    A
_.__v-_ the sand and^-fr- %ur sizes ofSna *_nanV nieces and nephews. j table-setting      demonstration      was:
gravel to  storage Mesiat the  damf^ Funeral    services    will    be    held given by Dons Klein ^dJ-JIa ■"?«*■,
site, and other conveyors.supply the Thursday afternoon at  2:30   o'clock The girls have finished their posters^
-    * -**«-■ * -     from the  Kome m   charge of Rev. and are working on their note-books.
Rov Miller-of the Federated church. They will have an   exhibit   at   the.
Burial will  be  in  the Cook family Polar Bear Casino September 21 to-,
cemetery complete the summer's .■work.r   They ■■
cutting out special things. At less
than 3c per week the borrower can
have a copy first hand without bothering anybody. 51
Wanted—Representative to look
after our magazine subscription interests in Saline aind. vicinity. Our
'plan enables you to secure a good*'
part** of the hundreds of dollars
spent in this vicinity each fall and.
winter for magazines. Oldest agency
concrete mixing plants^ "that on .the:
west side being over 4,0QC(Vfeet distant from <the storage piles% and
served over a'--suspension bridge.
For the- purpose of placing concrete, high steel trestles are built
out ovter the dam site.   Each carries
three   railroad   tracks   of   standard with her.
 —-— will   have   a  musical  program   and]
No woman can make herself really serve ice cream in! connection with J
fond   of  a   man who  won't argue their  canning and food. preparation;
exhibit
The needy get relief v.dthout work;
the   working ,mea   pay   for   relief;
government employees pay no taxes   _. __.  —„ _ _
and escape paying for relief. Five ] in u. S. Guaranteed lowest rates:
years hence the working man, will on all periodicals, domestic and. for-
be unable tfoi pay for relief—you.fig--!eign. Instructions ana equipment
nro out the balance.—Pigeon Prog-,free. Start a growing and perma-
ress.'■•■■--* nent   business   in   whole   or   spare
.   . _ —  ; time. Especially adaptable for shut-
* -Mkrriage is the only life sentence'ins.     Address   Moore-Cattrell,   Ioc.,
'tiiat is never   commuted for   good Waj_land Road, North Cohocton, N„-
behavior. ' ...     .   ,.., T." 50
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