A GENERAL NEWSPAPEX DEVOTED TO THE OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA = UNIO Union Press, Established May, 1935 INTERESTS OURIER AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893 VOL. 52. NO. 6. 9 PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1944. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR WESTERN SECTION |‘BILLY’ MELLON IS DISTRICT GOAL PITS OF STATEMINERSIN | LISTED PRISONER HEADED TO ALL-TIME PROTEST ON DAMS, mers sive cc oa) PRODUCTION RECOR now of Harrisburg, will be pleased to | Loss in Mine Revenue and Wages| learn that their son, Lt. John W. Feared If Proposed Govern. | (Billy) Mellon, who has been report- Tops Last Year By Quarter Campaign Is Called Disap- | wounded. ment Plans Go Through ed missing since last August 24h, | Million Tons. pointing by Leaders | The sailor suffered severe gun shot ————. was captured by the Germans. His rmsd ir 8 : | wounds of the left foot late Monday They may have been traditional wife, Mrs. Helen (Lantzy) Mellon of | This district's coal miners are head- District Commander Herman c. | afternoon while hunting small game foes in the past, with their conflict- | [185tin8s, received the notification on eq for a production record that bids | Riblett and others who participated | In Clearfield County. ing interests resulting in widespread | LU esday. strife throughout the coal fields, but | the rank and file miners and the coal | mine operators of Western Pennsyl- | vania are bending their efforts now against a mutual danger. Both the miners, through their lo- bomber and was participating in | olltown sailor, who saw eight mon- hs’ overseas action with the Navy | HELP IS ASKED OF OVERSEAS VETERAN SOLDIER VOTE GIVES AMERICAN LEGION | SHOT WHILE HUNTING DEMOCRATS BOOST D POSTS IN COUNTY, move em, 2 year oi co. IN. GOUNTY TOTALS : ; : : ist t First Ten Months of This Year| Early Results in Soldier Gift came home on furlough and was Roosevelt Now Has Lead of Over Eleven Thousand on Dewey in Final Summing Up. The Cambria County Computation Board at noon last Friday completed | to shatter last year’s history-high|in the regular meeting of the Cam-| The little toe of his foot was shat- {he count of the military ballots re- | Lt. Mellon was the co-pilot of a B-17 output by 3,000,000. comparable period by more than 2,-| Legion's national campaign to pro- : : 500,000 tons, it was revealed in fig-|vide a Christmas gife for every | was shot when a gun in his own pesident Roosevelt carried Cambria bria County American Legion Com- al Fou ° loved when me BY ne pellets and turned to Cambria County for the ! oal production up to the cu | mi i ari i | when he was admitte o the an- ’ i bombing mission over Czecho-Slova-| pm p P rrent | mittee in the American Legion Home D general election on kia, when he was reported lost. He has surpassed 1944's output for the entered the A. A, F. in March, 1943, and went overseas last July. He wears | | : : November 7th. onth in the sprawling mine region | at South Fork last week made strong | 8ler hospital on Monday evening the phe count gave President Roosevelt pleas for county-wide support of the | to¢ was amputated. a 1,647 vote lead over Governor Dew- Mooney told hospital attaches he oy among the servicemen. With this cals of the United Mine Workers of | the Air Medal for meritorious achiev- | ures announced on Thursday last by | wounded serviceman in a government | hands was discharged accidently. County by 11,473 votes over the New America, and the operators, are ma- | ent in aerial engagements against the State Department of Mines. facility in this country. i sem nn Ver York Governor. The official soldier king strong protests against propos-| he enemy. { Miners in coal pits comprised in the| The respose has not been up to the | y vote and the grand total vote in the ed government development of ny-| a —— [11 bituminous districts covering the | expectations of the Legion eacers. | SCOUTS T0 HOLD | county follows: dro-electric power stations on the! area have sent a stream of 38,917,- | At the meting last week representa- | SOLDIER VOTE. Youghiogheny and Cheat Rivers. { 00G, tons of the war-vital fuel pour- | tives from various posts in the coun- | COURT OF HONOR President If present legislation, which already | | ing into the nation’s high geared in-|ty expressed their determination to | | Roosevelt ., aversion 3,659 has passed the House of Representa- WEDDING MONDAY dustries during the past ten months. | stir things up in their respective com- | em Dewey firs asian 2,012 tives, becomes law, they say, power A | On the basis of the production ach- | munities to the end that the county| geveral hundred awards will be pre- U. S. Senator. output from the proposed dams will! es | ieved during the year to date, the | might do even more than its expect-| sented at a court of honor to be held | Myers : : —— 3,278 be sufficient to displace approximate- The editor of the Union Press- district's total should reach 46,700,- | ed share. | this Thursday evening in Barnesbo- | Davis : : a 2,319 ly 370,000 tons of coal per year, with | Courier and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. | 000 tons, compared with the 43,803, | It was announced that present ro by North Cambria County Biy | Supreme Court a loss of 72,000 man days of work | Thomas A. Owens of Carrolltown, on! 620 tons which marked 1943 as the membership of the county organiza- | Scouts of the Adm. Robert E. Peary | Jones ail 3,394 and $820,000 in wages. Monday of this week observed their banner year of the coal industry. tion is 1,554, which is approximately | Council. | Hughes... or 2,173 And if all hydro-electric develop-| 25th wedding anniversary with a high! A reign of comparative peace | 50 per cent of the total membership | D. R. Lovette, chairman of the ad- Superior Court ments recommended by Army engin-| Mass of Thanksgiving in St. Bene-| throughout the coal realm of the dis- quota for the current Legion year. |vancement committee, and Richard | Ross itn Ea 3,678 eers are constructed, it is claimed, | dict’s Church, at which Rev. Father eight million dollars annually not to|celebrant. Attending the couple count the loss in transportation and| years ago, and present on the silver{ Last year’s all time production will be held in Altoona Dec, 2, at 8 | American Legion. Mr. Lovette, Cle- business. anniversary were Mr. and Mrs. Ber-| mark was achieved despite the crip- p. m., and in Greensburg at 3 p. m. | tus Lehmier and Otto Strittmatter of | Wagner . Furthermore, thousands of acres of | nard J. Dillon, the latter the gd bling Slowey Jnlek oy tour Soom in the respective Legion homes in the | the North County Chapter participa- | Watkins . available coal land will be forever out | Helen Sharbaugh, of Carolltown. | 25 | dy production climb. of reach because of inundation. Thoms A. Owens and the former | mittent wildcat strikes. The outlook is serious for the min-| Winifred M. Wetzel were married and just as grave for the operators, dict’s Church, by the Rev. Father Sixth, 2,654,000; Seventh, 3,624,000; ie igi iNT a McCloskey . since a shrinking market after the! Thomas Wolf, O. S. B, whe recently Tenth, 4,263,000; Twelfth, e100, | Scouts en, a a y LO war is expected in any event, and a | retired as pastor at Carrolitown. Two | Fifteenth, 3,090,000; Eighteenth, lone Sous Rn, op delin- | PATTON EAGLES T0 State Senator widespread power development, will | sons were born to the union: Sgt. 349,000; Twentieth, 3,633,000; Twen- | oy ou h Combes Spangler | { Hajuska ...... iit mean further curtailment. | Thomas A. Oweas, Jr., with the U. S. i ty-fourth, 4,631,000; Twenty-fifth, | . he n to the advisability of | ] | Gores IA eran mmemmememereas Y eeete ee | Army Signal Corps Intelligence Ser-| 4,356,000; Twenty-eighth, 2,473,000; | 8; wii en RO ei et ASSIST IN CAMPAIGN! Assembly (First Dist INER oh HOSPITAL ITEMS i in the Mediterrenean area for and Thirtieth, 4,064,000. DO Th oh ‘hore hundreas. of | | Andrews Gall the past nineteen months, and mar-| | EEE : | Pentrack .. M d H ried to the former Miss Patricia Short | a Supported rousn the| patton Eagles will participate in a SOT of Lewistown, Pa.; and Frederick Following is a list of patients ad-| Owens, a Sophomore in Carrolltown mitted and discharged from the Mi- High School. Reared in the house- ners’ Hospital from Nov. 20 to 27: hold, also, were two nephews af sr rm i on RR ERT Mrs. amont, tO] Sa) el Dudash, Emeigh; Ruth Skirsky, Ba- kerton; Wayne Craver, Emeigh; Mrs. Mildred Harvey, Nicktown; Mrs. D. Bradl ence Griest, Barnesboro; Mrs. Leona! Wilkinson, of Cresson. ey, petty officer with the Pa- cific Fleet; Jane, wife of Lt. (j.g.) Tmomas Percy, U. 8. N. R.,, now re- Ruth Wholaver, Westover; Mary | siding at home in her husband's ab-| Scanlon, Gallitzin, R. D.; Mrs. Flor- | sence, and Gretchen, wife of Willard | on| Coal districts in the region and ive of Aa-| Parents of the Scouts have been ers in the western part of the state,| November 27th, 1919, in St. Bene- their production to November follow: aL Serie 0 p= | asked to attend the Court of Honor. J» ORDER REVIEW OF | boards to “review ca es of all registrants 38 and to “process for OER BESTA trict, broken only by spasmodic walk- : : tatrt Test : : , ; : : Voit : i Service Officer Paul Blough called | Johns, district commissioner will have | Rhoades . the loss in miners’ wages will exceed Basil Balko, assistant rector, was outs, contributed heavily to the stea-| 41." members’ attention to the Serv- | charge of the court which will begin James . Graff . ice officers’ caravan meetings which | at 7:30 in the social rooms of the two cities and urged as many Legion- | ted in Scout planning at a meeting naires as possible to attend. ! on Sunday in Davidsville. Black ; aird . nation-wide fund raising drive for tht erection of a Fraternal Order of Ea- gles’ Memorial Building to honor the 135,000 members of the | Gross .. Patton, on 'Cuesaay evening, Dec. | 19th, was announced as the place and | date for the next meeting of the coun- ty commit 4 *¥| Fund. After construction of the buil- | Roosevelt Auditor General Assembly (Second Distri hervenak ... AL V President State Treasurer ke - WE rict) - 5X04 . 999 816 . 43% ct) A : ding, the balance of the fund will be Gainvors, Patton; Louis Wagner, | A dinner was served the immedi- Who Nave gate ont i Cambria Board No. 2, with head: ame to tablish a permanent il bel Dewey as 28,203 Spangler; Mrs. Isobel Ahlstrom, St.[ate relatives at the Owens’ home on £ Eh ti I health safety quarters in Ebensburg, announces dation to carry on charitable and ed- | zr at 3 , 10.556 Benedict; Stephen Semo, Bapesoo: | Sunday last. : [En a ions — refuse -to furs the induction of the following men | ucational activities. { ik = ry So gg mg ONChal - on | ON min his ish accurate information as to eur- into ne armed services during the The memorial building city has not | Supreme Court Mrs. Josephine Broncato, Barnesbo- | tury. He is one of the assermblymen | Tent employment” out that reg Albert Joseph Mulraney, Barnes- | Joy Des Seisciey, St a She So 3033 ro. | from the second district of Cambria | Ea yy - ; bo: ! A oatod ee i ; Surgical Patients Admitted. | county. Both he and Mrs. Owens, the | istrants in the 30-38 age group who els William Gould, Ebensburg. | wy I Jus Looted, The budding Superior Court Miss Gloria Ann Shutty, Has-| latter a former school teacher in East [are actually engaged in war produc-{ 5, “aracklin Roberts, Revioc. [3 as Dar fisnte aid 1 | Ross en 38,089 tings; Dennis Link, Carrolltown; | Carroll township, have been lifelong tion or activities supporting the war Earl Joseph Springer, Ebensburg, | Soy 4 ang Tie 2 4 wi con-| Rhoades 34,468 Nancy Leadbetter, Barnesboro; Jack | residents of Carrolltown. are not affected in any way by hisip po’ I n oe ives for the records and his- i james 28,655 Fowler, Marsteller; Joan Paterno, | ye | order. ‘Henry Clifford Butterworth, Bar- | orical properties oF the order | Graff - 26,517 Hastings; Esther Brasser, Patton, R.| { At the same time, he said, regis-|neshoro. | er re Lo Auditor General D.; Betty Farabaugh, Carrollton; | CHEST TWP FINALLY { trants between 18 and 26 may be de-| Robert Joseph Luther, Ebensburg. | MRS. SUSANNAH GEUS | Wagner 36,786 Mary Ellen Farabaugh, Carrolltown; f | ferred upon the basis of their occu-| George Francis Bertram, Carroll-| OF NICKTOWN, IS DEAD | Watkins 27,890 Pauline Strischock, Barnesboro; Les- | | pations only in the event that such {own R. D. 1. - | State 'I'reasurer ter Davis, Barnesboro R. D.; Joseph | GETS COUNTY FUNDS! deferment is recommended to the lo-| Ajto Paul Krumenacker, Nick-| Mrs. Susannah (Hoffman) Geus, Black : 36,184 Williams, Emeigh; Pa) Replie Cher- | cal boas by the State Fans be-1 town. | 78, who with her husband, the late Baird : 28,826 ry Tree; Mrs. Vivian Solley, Barnes- : tes cause the registrants’ activities clear ugakos, Barnesboro. Fhilip Geus, operated the St. Nicho-| Jongress boro, R. D.; Mrs. Mary Arotin, Span-| DOF Cana county CO amromisa | ly indicate their deferments are ne- Tie. Revloc. be Hotel Hy for hi — | McCloskey Songiess 35,655 gler; Sarah Bearer, Hastings. last Friday feathe © compromise | cessary for successful prosecution of | yjjliam Lawrence Pinali, Patton. |died on Sunday night in the hotel. | Tibbott . 30.283 Medical Patients Discharged. | wits supervisors of chest nea the war. Ethan Allen Farrell, Barnesboro. | Born Sept. 10, 1886, in Pine Twp. | State Senator : Mrs. Stella Stott, Cherry Tree, R.| o 1 ® Daymens 9 ce AE -—-Y Albert William Dumm, Nicktown. |she was a daughter of the late Geo. | Haluska i 36,764 D.; Mrs. Mary Bokisa, Spangler; Ruth| ®8.C0 ti =o bese AY re.| MAN IS CLEARED Walter Joseph Scanlon, Jr., Ebens- |and Matilda Hoffman. She and her | George . . 29,733 Cramer, Barnesboro; Wayne Craver, | 2n¢ Which was Bn b . ahi) burg, R. D. 1. [husband purchased the hotel in 1900. | Ass Iv (Firs Saab , Emeigh; Louis Wagner, Spangler; | sult the county will pay the township | IN ROAD DEATH ’ ew (a ous died. tne Sealy ac | Assembly (First District) Abraham Prandi, Barnesboro; Mrs. | $4,100 of an originally promised $4,- | ee — Si 3 > , | Andrews ; 12,209 ‘Ada Stiffler, Canton, Ohio; Mrs. Eth- | 900 fund toward the construction of | 4 .oroner's jury Saturday after- U, S. CASUALTIES ARE ki SB Shiigren Surviv e— Mrs, . Laura | Pentrack 10,594 el Harchick, Barnesboro; Mrs. Mar- | State-aid road. hin aime. | OOD exonerated John H. Wolfgang, RAPIDLY MOUNTING | je st panglen Que, Stanley P| Rose 10.524 garet Solley, Cherry Tree; Jack Fow- | In 1931 the Chest township Super-| .¢ Houtzdale of any criminal negli- — pe ®Pitteby oh "R ES. donn i ross 9,846 ler, Marsteller. | visors visited the COmMMISSIONErs of | sence in connection with the death Anfiouiiced American War casual: Tipger S ! ars ; a, 2 em er] Assembly (Second District) Surgical Patients Discharged. j the county and asked that they bel of Walter Sherman Krise, 52, of ties were listed by the War and Navy | pitten, 00 Ns 3 : aati! 20 Chervenak : 24,533 Gloria Ann Shutty, Hastings; given financial aid to Songheal Hee Dean. Departments last Friday at 528,795, |p. S mg , an > Suna Smith-| wens 24.813 Kusper, Barnesboro; Mary Eleanor road. The Solmssloners agreed d 1©/ The inquest was conducted in the |i; cluding 117,453 Killed, 205,557 | Sower, Pa on ath cus as > SiS-1 O'Connor 24,767 Noon, Ebensburg; Edwin Gates, Flin-| Work was finished, but the towns UP | pean School by Coroner Patrick Me- | ounded. 65.789 missing and 59,696 | nrr. 07 188 tose Holtman, N1ostown; | Reese 18,189 ton: Mrs. Iona Clark, Patton; Samu-| never paid the state when the funds | Dtrmott. Krise was killed early the Prisoners = a. 8 { Mrs. Martha Malloy and Mrs. Laura | Beam 17,464 el Frontino: Donald Baker, Ebens-| Were not forthcoming from the coun-| nine of November 16 when he | Dosney, both of Heilwood; Martin | Bender 18.869 burg; Evelyn Natrigo, Patton; Weakland, Hastings; Mrs. Fay Sahm, | Burnside; Edward Adams, Hastings, | R. D.; Margaret Loh, Spangler; Bet- ty Farabaugh, Carrolltown; Mary El- len Farabaugh, Carrolltown; Dolores | Link, Patton; Joseph Hrubochak, | Barnesboro; Mrs. Bernice Hall, Span- gler. the commissioners on Friday. SELZNICK PRODUCTION Maternity. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Yasick, Bar- | J —Nov. 20. i Waiter Yasick, Bar-|9ay, Monday and Tuesday next, Dec nesboro—son—Nov. 20. 3, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kibler, Springs—daughter—Nov. 21. | Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Huber, Pat- | ton—daughter—Nov. 24. Mr. and Mrs. Bernad Thomas, ton—son—Nov. 25. - he Mr. and Mrs. Harry Blick, St. Hen: Rebecca. enings shows will start at 6 p. m. edict—daughter—Nov. 25. | With a cast of hundreds and a ros- = [ter of leading players that looks like | Father Cletus Crawford, O. S. B, CARD OF THANKS. | Hollywood's own special “Who's Who We wish, in this manner to thank | “Since You Went Away” has been all our friends and neighbors who so | acclaimed as Selznick’s greatest pro- graciously assisted us in our recent|duction to date, even exceeding| Officer Farabaugh is home on fur- | “Gone With the Wind.” It will be in| Jough after serving 15 months - with our son and brother, Leo Francis| Fatton for three days, in order that|the Navy in the Southwest Pacific. bereavement, the illness and death of Litzinger; for the spiritual bouquets, all will have a chance to see it. This, floral offerings and use of the cars| of course. is a “must see” picture, at the funeral.—Mr. and Mrs. W. D.| rm Yn Litzinger and Family. | REVLOC MAN DIES. Von | Joseph Holochuck, 57, died last Motor vehicle fatalities in Penn- | Thursday evening at his home in sylvania during the first nine mon-| Revloc. He is survived by his widow ths this year totaled 855, or 27 less| and eight children. He was a native than in the corresponling 1943 period, | of Austria. Funeral services were on the State Department if Revenue dis- | Wednesday morning in Holy Redeem- closes. "er Church, Revlce, ty. Henry Leiden and A. X. Baker, Fred : : : supervisors of the township, met with { GARNERS HIGH PRAISE | | The film which Ben Hecht, inter-| | nationally renowned author and play- | | wright, described as a “Song of Am- | erica” makes its long awaited arrival | at the Grand Theatre, Patton on San 4 and 5, with a special matinee on| Chest | Sunday starting at 2:15 P. M. In ev- It is “Since You Went Away,” Da-°f Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Sharbaugh {vid O. Selznick’s first production _| since his Academy Award winning | Pat | films, “Gone With the Wind" and|202ugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cletus | | was struck by an automobile on the | highway near Ashville. Wolfgang testified that Krise was | lying on the highway and that be- cause of the heavy fog he did not | see the man until his car ran over him. Members of the jury were G. M. | Berringer, H. J. Johnston, Secondo | Tiorentian, Leslie Reghitti and John | S|. Swires. Carrolltown Couple Weds, { — Miss Alice M. Sharbaugh, daughter (of Carrolltown, became the bride of | Chief Petty Officer Charles A. Far-« | Farabaugh, also of Carrollitown at a ceremony in St. Benedict's church on Tuesday morning of last week. Rev. | rector, officiated. Miss Norma Shar- baugh, sister of the bride, and Jack | Connell attended the couple. Petty 1 will report to Norfolk, Va., for reassignment. His bride will continue her work in the office of the Spring- | field Coal Co., at St. Benedict. eis ENLISTS IN NAVY. | Roy Clark Craver, son of Mr. and | Mrs. Frank Craver of Emeigh, has | enlisted in the Navy at the Johns- town recruiting office. He is a for- Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- | pro¢eman, Indiana, and William Hoff- son told a news conference that Army man, Heilwood. ed 451,180, of which 88,245 were list- | Nicholas’ Catholic Church, the Ladies ed at killed, 254,283 wounded, 56,442 |, obs . eof] missing and 55,210 prisoners. He re- | Aid Society and the Rosary Society. | ported that 120,887 of the Army’s wounded have returned to duty. The overall army figure represen- | Wednesday morning at the church, | Guard Casualties through November 22 were 29,208 killed, 31,574 wound- | ed, 9,347 missing and 4,486 prisoners, » for a total of 74,615. a Complications supreinduced by a rrr Yn fracture of the back suffered in a COLVER SOLDIER WOUNDED | union. ner, at his home, after an illness if 9| ver, was wounded on Sept. 26th |the films. months. He is survived by his parents | while fighting with the infantry in | He had been injured last Feb. 4, in| the Ebensburg Coal Company. A bro- | the Monroe Coal Co. mine at Revloc. ther, John, is on duty with the army | sy DIES IN MARYLAND. held on Tuesday afternoon with in- mer Barnesboro High School student. terment in East Ridge Cemetery. I pital in England, foods until and widow as well as two children. | France. In civilian life he worked for | FIVE BLU ~ in the Pacific. | ration stamps, yy casualties alone through No. 7 total-| my." eceased was a member of St.| COAL MINER RALLY HELD AT PORTAGE ee A eis E STAMPS ARE | Funeral services were conducted on| A coal production rally was held on Sunday afternoon in the Pqrtage | interment was in the church ceme-| High School Auditorium for the mi- | | 2 ED- [ tery. ners of that district. Films depicting ted an increase of 16,824 casualties | Vora t rease 16, Nt | war scenes were shown under the pn classifications in a ten day per- MAY PURCHASE WAGON. | sponsorship of the Victory Produc- . ; | a { tion Committee. Navy, Marine Corps and Coastl py. ~ampria County Commission-{ The meeting was in charge of B. ers are negotiating for the purchase |W. Derringer and Clarence Donald- of an eight-passenger station wagon | son, co-chairmen of the from the government to be used for | Production campaign. Deringer, pro- [the Cambria County Juvenile Home. | duction manager of the Central Pa. The wagon would be used to trans-| Coal Producers’ Assn. represented MINE INJURY BRINGS DEATH. |port the children to and from church | the operators, and Donaldson, vice nots and also as an ambulance. | president of District No. 2 of the Un- — |ited Mine Workers, represented the district's coal mine accident resulted in the -——— | At a recent rally held in Beaver- death on Monday morning of Cron-| Cpl. George A. Hresko, 23, son of | dale High School auditorium, more son Davis, 31 year old Ebensburg mi-| Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hresko of Col- {than five hundred miners witnessed VALID ON FRIDAY, January 1. Validation dates for five more blue Taji used for processed oe See ——— | foods, were announced last Friday b Te WOUNDED WHILE HELPING |the Altoona district office of Price Frank Wille, 56, formerly of Bar- Saving the lives of wounded sol-| Administration nesboro, and sister of Mrs. Bert Mec-| diers in the front lines of the Nor-| Blue stamps X-5 Y-5, Z-5, A-2 and Anulty, of Barneshoro, died in Wor- mandy Invasion as a company first-| B-2, each worth ten points la total ton, Md., wehere he had gone for a|aid medical soldier, Pvt. John Yob-|of 50 points—will be good beginning visit. The bodyswas brought to Bar-|bagy, 20, of Ebensburg, was wound- | December 1. They may be used in- resboro, and funeral service were|ed himself and in now recovering at | definitely. No other stamps are ex- {a United States Army Station hos-| pected to be validated on processed
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