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ing newstands: Dallas — Town House Restaurant, Daring’s Market,
Bill Davis Market; Shavertown — Evans Drug Store, Hall's Drug
Store; Trucksville — Cairns Store, Trucksville Pharmacy; Luzerne—
Novak's Confectionary; Beaumont —' Stone's Grocery; Idetown—
Cave's Market; Harveys Lake — Javers Store, Kocher’s Store;
Sweet Valley — Adam's Grocery; Lehman — Stolarick’s Store;
Noxen — Scouten’s Store;- Shawaneses — Puterbaugh’s Store; Fern-
Editorially Speaking
LAST DAY TO SIGN
Today, March 31, is the last day for those of sixty-
five or older, to sign for Medicare.
As other citizens reach the age of sixty-five, there
will be opportunity for them to register. But for those
who are already of this age, today is the deadline, and
there will be no further opportunity for over a year.
Many people viewed with alarm when Social Security
was first projected. <A good many of these people are
now enjoying its benefits without a backward glance at
their former concern.
Medicare is a form of insurance against the devastat-
ing cost of long illness.
People on Social Security have had their payments
upped during the past year, a bulk payment made to them
in September. The extra is to make it possible for bene-
ficiaries to make the monthly payments. Each person
who receives Social Security has had his monthly check
increased.
Medicare is not Socialized Medicine, as it is known
in England.
It is for the elderly only, a barrier against disaster.
Medicare is not a cure-all, but it offers weighty as-
sistance in case of long extended illness.
People who do not have Social Sécurity in the 65-
year ‘bracket, should get aboard immediately for their
own protection ani for protection of the family which
must otherwise stand the total expense.
Those already receiving Social Security have been
given pertinent information, and the reason for the in-
creased payments explained to them.
This is the last call.
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BUILD NOW FOR THE FUTURE
Penn State University Center at Hayfield House
needs a financial hand NOW, not ten years from now,
when parents in the Back Mountain will be reaping the
benefits in lowered education costs for their college-age
children.
The oldest college in Wyoming Valley, established in
1916 and going about its business quietly, with no drives
for community support, now needs assistance in expand-
ing its services.
Given half a chance, it can become a power in the
community, offering adult education as well as college
courses for those of college student age.
Too often, college doors are closed to high school
graduates because of the challenge of a four-year curri-
culum, with its attendant outlay for board and room.
A young man who can finance two years of higher ed-
ucation, obtaining an associate degree at the end of the
two years, has a more obtainable goal in view. The end
is in sight.
The engineering and surveying courses in which the
Penn State Center now specializes, offer an entree into
gainful employment.
Graduates are sought after by scouts from forty-
five companies.
According to present plans, the branch of Penn State
now operating in cramped quarters at the Guthrie School
in Wilkes-Barre, with accommodations for fewer than
300 students, can expand in ten years to an enrollment of
800, with expansion of courses to match.
And all on the doorstep of the Back Mountain.
The Center does not intend to confine itself to its
present offerings in’ the educational field. As demand
increases, the horizon will be broadened.
The Center can do a great deal for the area.
The area can do a great deal for the Center.
It is worthy of support, no matter from which angle
it is viewed.
-There is no better way of perpetuating a name than
to see it engraved on a bronze plaque and imbedded in
the wall of a hall of learning.
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KEEP HIM TIED
If you saw the February 4th issue of Life, you will
keep your pet dog tied up, or in a tightly enclosed yard.
There is an organized trade in stolen pets, some of
them destined for laboratory use.
Nobody of intelligence could possibly question the
use of dogs for experimentation in research laboratories.
Bleeding hearts and their campaign against such research,
are those people to whom the life of a dog is more im-
portant than the life of a child.
How do they think diphtheria was conquered? Polio?
Experimentation must be done, if life-saving drug;
and techniques are to be developed.
But this does not mean that you must sacrifice your
pet, a veritable member of your family.
Safeguard your dog by keeping him within bounds.
Once he is on the loose, he may fall a prey to some-
body who will sell him to a laboratory.
There are plenty of stray dogs around. See to it
that your pet is not identified as a stray.
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It Happened
| forest fire menace. In spite of soak-
many
Only
Yesterday
30 Years Ago
Stiff winds, dry woods, posed ‘a
ing rains during March, there were
small blazes. Fire-tower
guardian E. W. Whispell was on’
the alert on Chestnut Ridge.
Flood relief fund in Dallas
reached $420, for use of the Red |
Cross dealing with Valley post- |
flood woes.
Huntsville Dam withstood the
torrential rains, was in good con-
dition. Frequent rumors had it that |
all dams feeding the Susquehanna |
| were in jeopardy.
Miss Emily Calman, Wilkes-Barre,
fled the flood to the home of her
nephew, Delbert L. Moss. Two |
weeks later she died of pneumonia |
i at 67. |
Mrs. George Sawyer, Church |
| doilies.
Street, was readying her gladiolus |
bulbs for summer blooming. Her |
garden on Church Street was an-
nually a riot of color.
Grace E. McGuire, Kingston
Township student, won the County- |
wide contest in oratory. [
Democratic party gained strength, |
with a pre-primary . scramble - for |
nominations.
Plans for Luzerne By-Pass were!
again bogged down, back road to |
Wyoming got precedence. Political
football game.
You could get three large cans]
of sardines for two bits, or six|
large cans of tomatoes for 58 cents. |
Butter was still holding its own
at two pounds for 65 cents, and a |
24, lb. sack of flour cost 79 cents. |
Dallas Post was publishing direc-
tions for making little crocheted
Married: Ethel Husband to Gordon |
| Sickler. 'Ruth Karschner to Lloyd |
| Rogers. Verna Dimmock to George |
VanCampen. |
Died: Mrs. Lucy Jones, 67, Beau-
| mont. Mrs. Sarah Bingham, Leh- |
|
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‘Drive, Memory Lane, Sylvan, Ave-
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Names for Memorial Drive were
flooding in to the Dallas Post. Some |
of the suggestions were Veterans’
nue... you name it, the Dallas Post
got it. “Bouevard of the Fighting
Mountaineers” was the longest. |
(Try that in a headline.)
Police killed six homeless dogs. |
Charles Stookey, 52, a Past Com-
mander of the American Legion, |
fell 12 feet and broke his neck.
He was being treated at Nesbitt. |
Kingston Township School Direc-
tors foresaw an increase in millage
to 40.
PUC blue-pencilled sale of Noxen
Water Company to Noxen Town-
ship.
News of. Servicesmen: Discharged,
Stephen Skopic, William O. Blaine,
Irvin C. Parsons, Walter Hunt. Pro- |
moted, Warren Hoover to corporal. !
Sweet Valley firemen were
staging a Pig Roast, price $1.00
per plate.
Married: Nora Brown to Frederick
| Hand. Ethel Rodda to Howard Culp.
Died: Marion Wenger, 42, Trucks-
ville.
It Happened
10 Years Ago
Sweet Valley was considering
abandening the Memorial Day
Parade after nine successful years. |
Too much hard work, too little
profit.
Dallas Methodist ‘Church con-
struction plans approved by congre-
gation. Estimated cost of addition
$129,000. |
David Quare, 18 mont infant, |
hung himself in his crib, wag res-
cued just in time. Seven hours of
oxygen needed. His father, Francis,
was one of the most seriously in- |
jured in the troop-train wreck of
September 11, 1950.
Scaffold collapsed, three injured
at new Frank Ferry residence:
James McGuire, Pringle, broken
back; Cyril and Bill Wallo, minor
injuries. {
Mrs. Mary C. Stoeckel, 94, died |
in her sleep at her home in Dallas. |
School boards were still hashing |
it out, hopefully with consolidation |
in view.
Wintry storms delayed opening |
of the Outdoor Theatre.
Died: George Covert. 48, Blooming-
dale. Mrs. Lena Cragle, 72, Bloom-
ingdale. John L. Morgan, Shaver-
town. Franklin E. Sleppy, 65, Muh- |
lenburg. Mrs. Thomas Maurer, |
Shavertown.
Married: Barbara Irene Frear to
Melvin Race. Carol Jean Whitesell
to Ronald Graboski.
HOW'S YOUR COLD?
‘Tis the first day of sprig
And all the birds sig
Their sweet subber sogs
To the roses.
The flowers will bloob
On cold winter's toob -
What a tibe we are havig,
Oh Boses! 3
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1966
EEE EEE EEE IEEE EERE EER
+ KEEPING
POSTED =
March 23: SUKARNO MAINTAINS he is still head of
state in Indonesia, despite military claims that he
is a figurehead only.
Communists.
Students riot for ousting of
BLIZZARD IN NEBRASKA, floods in North Da-
kota along Red River,
of heavy snowfall.
worst since 1897, aftermath
EARTHQUAKES in China, following first mighty
earth temblor.
CHINESE BUSINESSMEN
numbers.
leave Indonesia in
POPE AND ARCHBISHOP meet in Rome, ex
change kiss of peace.
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March 24: POLL TAX ruled unconstitutional in Virginia.
Other states having poll taxes expected to follow
suit.
DEATH TOLL IN NEBRASKA following blizzard,
17; in Iowa, 4.
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March 25: FIVE ALPINE CLIMBERS scale sheer north
wall of Mt. Eiger, a first. -
NUCLEAR BOMB still not recovered. Line snaps
in latest attempt.
“UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS”
swamp gas, say experts.
wondering.
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March 26: SHIP CHANNEL
ines, to safeguard shipment of supplies.
work in swamp water,
merely
Northern Michigan still
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to Saigon guarded by Mar-
Marines
snake-infested.
P.M. of INDIA visits United States, appears at
U.N., consults with LBJ on India’s needs.
Two
days of conference between heads of world’s two
largest democracies.
of all-male Press Club.
Mrs. Ghandi breaks sanctity
MARINES OPERATION JACK STAY in full cry.
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March 28: SAIGON STUDENTS demonstrate against
Yanks, claim Ky is U.S. Puppet.
MRS. GHANDI asks help for needy of her country,
overpopulated, underfed, birth-rate rising.
WEEK OF RAIN in Brazil results in widespread
floods, 47 persons die.
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March 29: LBJ HINTS tax
“more or less.”
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increase, $5 billion needed,
To be liberally translated, “more.”
CASSIUS CLAY remains champ, 23rd straight vic-
tory.
In Toronto, over Chuvalo.
Clay says one
more fight before time to be drafted.
NIAGARA FALLS stopped in its tracks 118 years
ago. Ice jam upriver.
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March 30: CONGRESS OF
continues.
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COMMUNISTS in Moscow
Red China conspicious by its absence.
United States censured for its continued war in
Vietnam. Twenty-third Congress.
TOP BRASS IN GOP attempt to iron out dif-
ferences.
Election year.
LOOKS LIKE LABOR in forthcoming English
election.
Wilson confident.
EXTENSION OF DATE for Medicare registration
possible. Log jam.
‘STOCK MARKET RECOVERING.
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Better Leishton Never
At the end of a hard day, the
exhausted restaurant owner sat
himself down in solitude with a
cup of coffee and, while he was at
it, did in the last two glazed dough-
nuts.
Halfway through the second
doughnut, he perceived a customer
who came in and said, with un-
| witting accuracy: “Cuppa coffee and
two glazed doughnuts.”
The last bite was the toughest.
Just recently I was asked: “What
can be done about the postoffice ”
A very good question, to which
| nobody seems to know the answer.
In theory it looks ridiculous -- one
of the biggest and newest build-
ings in Dallas, in the most con-
in town, empty
although finished enough for dedi-
cation in November of 1964.
A reliable observer, instrumental
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in construction of both buildings,
noted that the Montrose post office
was started after the Dallas post-
office was completed, and has been
finished as well
The answer lies somewhere in
the middle of a confused liason
system in Washington between the
General Services Administration
and the Post Office Department,
with the attendant difficulty of
small improvements which have
been ordered from time to time.
It is, of course, possible to write
to your congressman, who is, how-
ever, a subscriber to the Dallas
Post and no doubt will see this
article, as he has seen others.
Once we wondered whether the
new postoffice would - be open in |
time for Christmas on 1965. Now
we wonder if it will be open in
time for Chriistmas of 1966.
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Furniture Refinishing Course Is
Offered By State Extension At Y
There are still four more sessions
of the Furniture Refinishing class
which Luzerne County Agricultural
Extension is presenting at Back |
Mountain YMCA.
It is still possible to register for
says instructor, Mrs.
Janet Miller. Four lessons will go
a long way toward refinishing a
chair, coffee table, or what-have-
you.
Seven women have been working
since the first day of the six-week
| course. Lessons start promptly at
9:30, Friday mornings, with the
final cleaning up of materials fif-
teen minutes before the closing
hour of twelve.
Paint remover, old rags, turpen-:
tine, brushes, were on every card
table last Friday.
One customer was using a tiny
pick, normally to be found in a!
dentist's office, to remove the last!
traces of old varnish from a chair
probing into the inter-
stices. Mrs. Miller was adamant
about this. “You have ‘to get every
particle out,” she explained, “be-
fore you start refinishing. One little |
smudge of ex-paint, and your finish
will never be right.”
‘ Mrs. Miller not only instructed,
she demonstrated, and lent a hand
wherever needed. |
One woman was finishing off the
drawers of an ancient foot-pedal
sewing machine. “What are ycu
going to do with it?” was the ob-|
vious inquiry .
“Take out the innards of the ma-
chine, and make a planter out of
it. Those drawers will come in
pretty handy.”
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a plank-bottom chair. Got it at the
Library Auction for two dollars,”
she explained.
“What color will it be when it's!
| finished 7”
“Sort of an old pine. You do it
with plug tobacco and ammonia.”
This was something which would
never have occurred to an editor,
but it was old stuff to the com- |
| petent Mrs. Miller, at that moment
engaged in scraping old varnish
from he inside of a drawer. “Be
sure to use regular household am-
monia,“ she instructed, “not the
soapy kind. The combination gives
a lovely soft color.”
There was a round bottom chair,
black walnut, which was getting a
face lifting, and a straighter chair
which had already been sanded
down and was nearly ready for
refinishing.
A long narrow coffee table was!
having its piano finish removed,
and the wood lightened a little.
There were bits and pieces of
chairs, ready to reassemble. A small
side arm belonged to the round
walnut chair, and some legs and
spindles looked as if they were go-
ing places, components of a Wind-
sor chair in an extreme state of
dilapidation.
Everybody was working like
crazy, not wasting a moment on
idle chit-chat, simply digging in and
having a marvelous time.
Furniture refinishing is one of
| those things that gets tangible re-
sults, and is a lot of fun in the
doing.
Cigarettes can kill you.
Keep smoking 'em and they may.
We'll miss ya, baby.
american
cancer
society §°
| Kingston Twp. Board
(Continued from 1 A)
fere with the timing.)
The budget for 1966 was adopted.
Mrs. Helen Moran, requested by
letter that damage to her car re-
sulting when she struck a hump at
Main and Franklin Streets be con-
sidered by the board. Mr. Ziegler
said she probably struck the high
crown installed to take care of the
ditch. The matter was also turned
over to the insurance company.
Chief Herbert Updyke was asked
to check a tractor trailer parked
alongside Carverton Road for sev-
eral days and Supervisor Edward
Hall mentioned a pick up truck
containing garbage had been re-
ported on Orchard and Rice Streets.
With the meeting about to ad-
journ, Mr. Ziegler moved that the
secretary be authorized to write a
letter to the Dallas Post request-
| ing unbiased, true and factual re-|
porting of all public Township meet-
ings. After some hesitation Mr..
| Funke seconded the motion. Mr.
| Hall asked that this be off the
| record.
Story Hour Initiated By Girl Scouts,
From—
Pillar To Post...
There is always that morning at the end of March, when the
for ‘the first time shines into the northeast window in the
kitchen, a milestone in the year.
It may be well below freezing outside, and the purple crocuses
may be frozen solid, to melt into purple pulp at the first rays of
the sun, but there is that northeast window, alight for the first
time since early September.
We had too much mild weather this year, starting too early,
with brash crocuses sending up their brave little shoots in mid-
February, and not enough snow to blanket them.
If the pattern of the seasons and the years holds true to form,
the balance of temperature may be established in late April, with
lilac. buds shivering in a late freeze. Keep your fingers crossed.
sun
The daffodils are hardy things, not paying too much attention
p
to the weather. Nobody needs to give them a thought. They will
be on hand as usual, spring sunshine captured at ground level.
It is astonishing how sturdily those lace-like leaves of the bleed-
ing hearts withstand the cold. Already they are above ground, along
with shoots of peony and greening iris.
No matter what happens outside, that patch of sudden sunshine
falling on the flagstone floor in the kitchen is singing that spring
is here. ;
The House-Book faithfully records it year after year, just as it
records the date on which the full moon in winter reaches its
northernmost rising among the pine trees, and shines frostily into
the bedroom window the next morning. i
A house is like a calendar. i
Once its comfortable double-planked walls have felt spring sun-
shine and winter chill, admitted the cool breezes of summer and
the pungent tang of burning leaves in October, welcomed ‘in its
southeast windows the low-riding sun of midwinter, the house is an
individual, tuned to the seasons.
It is astonishing how faithfully the House-Book records the
annual changes, year after year after year.
There is always that warm spell late in March. This year it
was a little earlier than usual, but it can always be counted on.
It never fails that the unseasonable warmth, promise of Mayfly
ta come, is succeeded by a freeze and what looks like a perfectly
unnecessary snowfall.
" Last Thursday, when the snow came, it brought with it a chill
that froze the white ridges on the branches, and sent birds back to
the bird-feeders in hordes. =
Sunflower seeds, ignored during the warm days when insect! /
abounded and the ground was bare, were once more in high de-
mand. It is always a mistake to stop filling the feeder during those
balmy days of late March. As sure as death and taxes, more cold
weather comes.
Seldom an April passes without several light snowfalls, and
there are on record blizzards during the early days of that month.
The snow melts off rapidly, but it always dismays hopeful people who
know that it simply cannot happen.
That is one of the advantages of a House-Book. Looking back
over it from year to year, you find the selfsame weather in the self-
same month, and very close to the selfsame day.
In August, you know there will be two cold spells to relieve
the blistering heat. One comes right around the eighth or the tenth,
the second around the twenty-fifth. f
You know that June is apt to be cool and rainy, that August
will be dry.
Who can tell about April? Nobody knows exactly what she
has up her sleeve, but thid year we can hope that it will be lilacs
along about the thirtieth, and that they will not be frozen out.
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THE OLD ADAGE APPLIES
A comparatively short time ago, it was believed that
there was a possibility, which some regarded as a prob-
ability, that federal taxes would again be reduced. We
no longer hear talk of that nature—and for good reason.
In a recent column, Joseph Alsop says that the pros,
jected federal deficit may exceed the record of $12.4
billion reached in 1959. He adds: “And no amount of :
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
stage managing will prevent a deficit of these dimensions 8
from being hotly, perhaps fatally inflationary.”
So—if what is left of the dollar's purchasing power
is to be protected—there are, Mr. Alsop goes on to say,
two alternatives. Either taxes will have to be raised—
or there must be heavy cutbacks in the cost and scope
of domestic programs. x
Whatever one may think of those programs, which
are largely of the welfare state variety, it is clear that we
cannot afford them at a time when unavoidable military
expenditures are soaring. And it is an ironical fact that,
if enormous deficits are permitted and accelerated infla-
tion inevitably follows, the low-income people those pro-
grams are designed to help will be the hardest hit by far.
In government, or family, the old adage applies: You
can’t have your cake and eat it too.
—From Industrial News Review. »
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Tablcids = Circulars
In Many Designs
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To Continue At Library After Easter ~~ me ous ros
The Saturday Story Hour
ated by Cadette Girl Scout Troop
ard Dale, head
Back Mountain Library.
Social Dependability,
Preparedness, Active
and the Challenge of the Girl Scout !
| were: Vera Balshaw, Carol . Craw-
Troop 644 is working on the Ac-' ford, Chris Demmy, Connie Havir,
tive Citizenship Challenge and the Priscilla Reese, aand their advisors:
Story Hour has been their way to Mrs.
Thomas Reese.
Promise.
be of service to their community.
The girls picked a project which
would benefit the most persons,
but this has turned into more than
a service, for all the girls have
profited from the friendship and
trust of theiy Story Hour friends.
They surely will never forget their
lively games of Simon Says or
screaming ‘Yankee Doodle” at the
Auxiliary, Back Mt. Police
Ladies Auxiliary of Back Moun-
tain Police, will meet tonight at
Lehman Fire Hall. A social hour
with refreshments will follow the
business session.
Mrs. Donald Anthony, Mrs. R. C.
| Farley, Mrs. E. V. Chadwick (wife
of Luzerne County Agricultural
| Agent), and Mrs Frank Dennis.
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| sion programs. Any group may have
This course is one of the Exten-!
by Chris Demmy tops of their lungs.
initi- |
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Working together Friday morning a similar instruction course, says,
were Mrs. Eugene Brown, Mrs.
Mrs. Miller. It is offered by the
Another pupil was sanding down | Stephen Lord, Mrs. Robert Wallace, | State,
many years but with short inter-'
644 in February will be continued vals in which it was interrupted
under the direction of Mrs. Rich- | because of a lack of Story-Tellers.
librarian of the A lot of children have developed
{a keen interest in this Story Hour
The Cadette program consists of | and all the Girl Scouts hope it will
four challenges leading to the first be continued. Any persons inter-
class award. These challenges are ested in vounteering their services
Emergency for the continuance of this project
Citizenship, ; should contact Mrs. aDle.
ALLEN GILBERT
Insurance Broker
and Consultant
“A Tax-Free Life
Trust Estate for
Your Family” is
their best pro-
tection against-
the problems
created by infla-
tion, and federal
income and
estate taxes. §
288.237
The Story Hour has existed for
Insurance
Those Girl Scouts participating
Richcard Demmy and Mrs.
MONTOUR FARMERS
LIVESTOCK MARKET
INC.
SHALE
for
Driveways, Parking Areas
This special soft type stone
will make a neat long-last-
ing compact roadway.
THE CHOICE OF
TOP BUILDERS!
Phone 675-2950, 6 am. to
10 p.m. for your convenience.
HOOVER and
MILBRODT
—Thank You—
CERTIFIED
LIVESTOCK
ATTENTION, farmers and dealers.
Consign your livestock to our sale
which is held every Monday at
2 P.M. with commission rates |
to benefit the consignor. If in
need of a truck call 287-2746.
—DANVILLE, PA.—
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