School Activities: Baccalaureate MOST" UP-TO-THE-MINUTE 31, Class Day June 2, Commencement June 4, Speaker Dr. T. A. Distler, President, F and M College WwW E EKLY I LANCASTER COUNTY VOL. XLI, NO. 49 Mount: Toy. Pa.. Thursday Afternoon, May 7, 1942 he Mount Joy Bulletin $1.50 a Year in Advance "George E. Dunn, 43, of Town Crushed to Death at Marietta Army Depot Tuesday Morning Was Guiding Pie Piece of Timber While Crane Pushed Car Boro Council Discusses New Street The regular monthly meeting of Council was held Monday evening, The matter of opening a street which would connect Mount Joy and Florin was discussed. Council members, who referred the matter to the street committee, said the streets which would be joined are W. Donegal St. here and Wood St., Florin. The ordinance commiltee was ordered to prepare an ordinance providing for a fine of from $1 to $10 for persons who leave dogs run looge in the borough at any time. Council decided to use the bor- ough truck to collect baled paper and magazines twice a month for the salvage committee. In the past manufacturers donated the men and trucks Joro local services of their for this work. Council confirmed a resolution of the local Defense Council that they be adopted as the official Defense Council of the district. Burgess = W. E. Hendrix turned over $8 collected in license fees; Justice of the Peace Arthur Hen- drix tured over $95 collected in fines; Pumping Engineer George Schatz reported pumping 6,642,000 gallons af water for the month; the Board of Health: reported two cases of measles and nine nuisances cor- rected, and Chief of Police Elmer “ rphey reported three 6 prosecu- ns. 3ills amounting to $800.22 were lered paid and a balance of $365 was reported in the borough rount. It was also decided to nsfer $1,000 from the water ac- mt to the borough account. -— ocal Draft lassifications y No. 1Board Class '1-A ‘arson Herr, Manheim. Arthur Mummau, Florin. Putt Sitz, Manheim, R3. Vilbur Kenneth Leib, Mount Joy. Villiam Oscar Ulrich, Manheim, hatles Samuel Brandt, May- Magene Richard Leber, Lancaster. [farold Eugene Kulp, Mount Joy. liver Burnard Strickler, Mari- ‘ta. Lester Dyer Waltz, Mount Joy. Glenn Roger LaBarr, Marietta. Charles James Coyle, Manheim. Earl G. Miller, Lititz R2. Emerson Nauman Shelly, heim. Paul Heisey White, Chicago, IIL Charles F. Shelly, Penryn, Albert Linwood Brayman, Mari- | etta. Henry L. Shonk, Manheim. Franklin Raymond Musser, Man- Heim. Man- (Turn toe..page 7) ———— ————— MOTHERS DAY PROGRAM AT HOSSLER'S SCHOOL A Mothers’ Day program will be presented at Hossler’s school Satur- day evening, May 9th at 7:30. The program will consist of music, dialogues, and recitations by the children. Guest players will be an- nounced later. A silver offering will be lifted. mm tl te cece. IS ELECTED ELDER Rev. Harvey E: Kettering, of May- town, was elected -an elder at the ast Pennsylvania Conference of e Evangelical Congrégational twas good. When It Snapped George E. Dunn, forty-three, for- merly of Shamokin, now residing at 226 East Main stsreet, this borough, was instantly killed when crushed between two cars and a crane being used to move it at the U. S. Army depot at Marietta at 9:30 a. m. on Tuesday, according to Dr. E. C. Kottcamp, Jr., deputy coroner, of Marietta. Dr. Kottcamp said a witness, CheSter Friend, of Columbia, ex- plained that the ear and erane were | on adjoining tracks and Dunn was steadying a piece of four by four lumber being used as a makeshift | coupling, The lumber snapped | and the crane moved forward, ! pinching the victim in the narrow! space. He suffered a crushed chest several fractured ribs and internal hemorrhages. The crane was operated by Step- hen Estock. Dr. Kottcamp rendered a verdict of accidental death. Dunn is survived by his wife and a daughter, Marlene, They have resided in our borough for the past three months. etl AY CU wonton J. MARYLIN YOUNG, SIX LY INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY AN AUTO J. Marylin. Young, six, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Young, 223 E. Main St, was admitted to St. Jos- eph’s Hospital Monday night after he’ was injured when struck by an auto near his home, Hospital -attendgnts said the boy suffered: bruises inside. of the mouth” and Had "a tooth knocked loose. His: condition, attendants said, ! Chief of Police Elmer Zerphey, said the boy was struck when he | ran into an alley from a garage at! the rear of his home. The driver of | the auto, Zerphey said, was Irvin | White, of Manheim R3, who con- | . veyed the boy to the hospital. resell A ren MOTOR BIKE CRASHES INTO AN AUTO HERE SUNDAY An automobile and motor-bike collision at the Main and Market streets intersection early Sunday evening, resulted in considerable damage to the bike. The rider of the motor-bike, Ray Emenheiser, of Elizabethtown R. D. 1, was going east on Main street when a Dodge sedan driven by Lola Shannon, 318 Broad St., Harrisburg, going west on Main ‘street, made a left hand turn: into South Market street, directly in the path of Emen- heiser. The resulting collision hurled the | youth into the car but he landed | safely and no one was injured. The Dodge was slightly damaged. ss... VERY UNUSUAL BLOOM AT RUHL’S GREENHOUSES A large Prickly Pear Cacti is now | blooming at Ruhl’s Greenhouses. | The cacti has two hundred buds and flowers, some of which have been blooming for the past week. This is a beautiful plant and when in full bloom it should be a mass of yellow flowers. The public is in- vited to visit the greenhouses to see it in bloom. WEDDED FIFTY YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Weaver, of Ironville celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home Sunday. They have eleven children all living, The Weavers have lived at the same place all their married life. | Ica BAINBRIDGE SOLDIER HOME Glenn O. Connér, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O’Connér, of Bain- bridge, is spending a week's leave urch at its twentieth annual con- antion held. at Reading. . at his home, He is stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C. Mt. Joy G.O.P. Meeting Here Next Tuesda Mrs. Charles B. Long, past presi- | dent - of the Women’s Republican Club of Lancaster County and can- didate for reelection to the Repub- | lican State Committee from this district, and Miss Bess Gilfillan of New Holland, Legislative Chairman of the Women's Republican Club and Jury Commissioner of Lanc. Co. | will be the main speakers at a meeting to be held Tuesday evening, | May 12, in the Fire Co. Hall in Mt. Joy at 8 o'clock. Mrs Long's subject will be “The Two Party System” and Miss Gilfillan will discuss Dem- | (Turn to page 2) Clarence Newcomer Heads the Mount ‘Joy Rotary Club The new board of directors of the | local Rotary Club were announced | at Tuesday's luncheon as follows: President Clarence Newcomer: Vice | Nissly; Harry Hauenstein. These directors take office ‘July 1st for the 1942- | 1943 term. Rev. Earl Thomas, pastor of the local Methodist Church, was the | speaker of the day and his subject | was “Builders”. Rev. Thomas ser- ved. as Secretary of the Lykens (Turn ‘to page 6) ———— KING'S DAUGHTERS MET WITH MRS. LINDENMUTH On Tuesday evening the King’s | Daughters Bible Class of the Church of God, held their meeting at the home of Mrs. Monroe Linde- | muth, South Barbara street. After the regular routine of bus- | iness the hostess served refresh- | rusts to: Mrs. Lillian Sauders, | tojed $68,336.10. This total does not| May 4 ................ 1028 | Ts. | Grove, Sue Holwager, Mrs. Elsie Mrs. G. F. Broske, Mrs. John Barnhart Sr., Mrs. Blanche Parson, Mrs. C. R. Charles, Mrs. Harry Leib, Mrs. Garth Snyder, Mrs. John Sprout, Misses May Schreiner and Anna Hoffer. Brief News Of The Day From Local Dailies 879 packs of playing cards were sent to Indiantown Gap. Five Indiantown Gap i were badly hurt in an auto acei- | | den teachers were held ten Phila. court a hearing for | beating a pupil. A New York motorist was killed | when his car struck the Conowingo | {dam concrete side wall. Several hundred men went on strike at Phila. All were doing war werk, They want more money. Entire York county had a very successful blackout Friday night at which time the lights on the Co- lumbia bridge were turned off. BE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER MEETING ON TUESDAY and Otterbein Guild, of the United Brethren Church will sponsor the the .annual Mother and. Daughter meeting in the basement of the basement of theChuuc 1234 123 12 Church, on Tuesday evening, May 19th. The Otterbein Guild will be in charge of the program, and the Missionary Society will entertain after the program. All women and church are invited. ‘girls of the soldiers | for | The Women’s Missionary Society | A FAREWELL DINNER ! FOR JAMES WEIDMAN A farewell dinner was given for | James Weidman by his grandmoth- 1 } | | | er, Mrs. Lizzie Wintermyer, at her | home here on Sunday. | Those present were: James and | | and Miss Mary Eshbach, Blandon; ! | Miss Anna Weaver, Monterey; Mr. | | Harry Springer, Lancaster; Mrs. | Ruth Weidman “and San- | Senior Class Will Spend Two Days In New York City dra, Manheim; Mrs. Marie McCue | and sons, George, Donald, Richard Hanged Self {and William, Lancaster; Mr. and : Week After Draft Call | Mrs. Clarence Wagner and children, ! Clarence, Paul, Larry and Jean, of | Florin; Mr. Clarence Good, Sporting | Hill; Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Poole and | daughters Dixie and Nadine, Colum- | | bia; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wagner and | Apparently brooding over adraft Dorothy, Anna, Paul and Robert | call received last weak, Russell Mrs. Lizzie Wintermyer, Geiman, thirty-six, 439 E, High St., Wintermyer, Betty Car- Marshall Dussinger and | Catherine Wintermyer, all of town. ————— | Wagner; | Elizabeth | penter, self in a wooded section along a little~-traveled road about three mile northwest of the borough, ac- i {cording to Frank Miller, | MISS BETTY WEIDLER | corcner of Flizabethtown, He was {Yu WED Ss MAY 17 a | due to report at Harrisburg May 13 s for’ the marriage o iss fen hi der | Betty Weidler, daughter of Mr. and oe Pia Mrs. John G. Weidler, of Landisville | The body was discovered by a and Benjiman F. Stoner, son of Mr. Boy Scout, Jarnos Roland Davcett {and Mrs. Joseph Stoner, of Eliza- seventeen, the bethtown, have been announced. |. walking along the road. Miller | The wedding will be solemnized | the victim had been dead ten | {at 2 p. m. Sunday May 17 in Zion or twelve hours. | Lutheran Church, Landisville. The | | single ring service will be used, and | | Rev. William L. Ziegenfus, pastor, | will officiate. The bride will have i attendant, | Nissley, of Landisville, Geiman an employe of the Klein Chocolate Co., Elizabethtown, had | worked Monday night, Apparently | [he went to the woods shortly after | victim's automobile was parked $100 WAS STOLEN FROM | A WOMAN AT MARKET Mrs. Ella Miller, Landisville, | was hanging by a rope from a tree | limb only a short distance away, re | containing over $100 in cash, from |doned Conewago- railroad station. a stand in the Arcade at] a Sil | the floor in the rear of.a stand op- | | erated by her son, ‘Arthur and went | { i40 PLEDGES GIVEN IN | Statistics of the registration for Campaign conducted in Mount Joy, | | nounced as follows: total of 640 pledges were given to | First column represents the num- | Lancaster. | { Mrs. Miller told police shi lated Statistica bag in a paste board carton on | Rep of S | the aisle to talk to another | | woman. When she returned the bag | | was gone, RECENT VICTORY CAMPAIGN | Sugar rationing here, District 36-1, In the recent Pledge for Victory | YF fo” ‘Were an a buy continuously War Savings ber of applicants and the second Stamps and Bonds. Computed on | column is the number of rationing an annual basis these pledges to- | books delivered. { { | | | | | 995 821 748 2564 882 820 Tol Dae 2128 Ash / Annual | include purchases { which’ would made | May 5 have amounted to a | May Caria | consider: able additional sum, nor| | doer it include single purchases | { where no plan for the continuance | of such purchase is contemplated. Es | PUBLIC CARD PARTY BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Activities - committee of the | | Mount Joy Alumni Association has planned a public card party to hd | held on Monday evening, May 1 fo 8:15, in the High school gymna- | bands w ntra ogo’ School Safety Patrol Pa- { will be prizes for cards and a door | todo id BAY I prize. | Saturday morning, May 9th. Patri- Refreshments will be served and | Juries Will be wity sie ss fety as keynotes of the event, | the admission is thirty-five cents $m x —— —— | sponsored by the Lancaster Auto- | i i | C. ROBERT NISSLY | mobile Club with the co-operation | HONORED AT URSINUS of school authorities, police and . ! i. other agencies. C. Robert Nissly, son of Mr. and | The parade, which will start at Mrs. H. Rey Nissly, of Florin, was| , and Orange streets, will form recently elected to serve as Treas- (Turn to Page 2) |urer of the Beta Sigma Lambda memes A Geren. Fraternity or th 8 5 = : y on the campus of Ur-| np VGERS AWARDED sinus College for the coming year. Nissly is now a member of the | +000 LAND DAMAGES Wednesday junior class and is enrolled in hel Viewers Business Administration Group for $4,000 damages to Walter M. Drager his major work. He is also a mem- | and Mary Drager for land taken and | ber of the campus Y. M. C. A. | damaged by reason of the reloca- a | tion of Route 340, the Lancaster- SAILED FOR PARAGUAY | Marietta pike, in East Donegal and The Elmer J. Martin family of | West Hempfield townships. The cleven sailed on a Chilean ship for | viewers were George Hensel, Jr. Paraguay from New Rork. They | H. H. Snavely and William B. formerly resided mear Ephrata and | | Bishop. will join several thousand: “other | Mennonites. | BIRTHS TT = Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Goodling, RETURNED TO CAMP | Stauffertown, announced the birth Pfc. William L. Heisey has return- of a son, Walter Lowell, May Ist. ed to Camp Livingston, La. after | Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eby, Mt. Joy spending a two weeks’ furlough | | Route 2, announce the birth of a with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hen- | gon Saturday at the Lancaster ry B. Heisey, of Mt. Joy Rl. | General Hospital. already | Patrol Parade More than 2,000 School Safety | Petter and a dozen juvenile ill participate in the tenth awarded School Safety! { the Eastern Pennsylvania Eizabethtewn, Tuesday hung Yio deputy | Elizabethtown R1, who | as her only | | leaving the factory when the mid- | 7 her sister Mrs. Richard | ght shift changed, Miller said. The | | $417.90 as collections for April. at | ——— eee | the side of the road and his body | and payment approved. | the deputy coroner said. The sec- | HOSTETTERS HARDWARE president, Paul Stoner: Secretary, | ported to city police Tuesday even- | | tion is known as Furnace Hill and STORE WEDNESDAY Walter Sloan; Treasurer, Harry N. | ing the theft of a shopping bag, |is located alonga road leading from | While workmen were Rev. W. L. Koder and |in which there were two purses | the Harrisburg pike .to the aban- | an implement in the rear of the J. | | 1 | examination and’ : that the plumbing and electric clock stacked nearby. as the twine was encased in oiled | needed. i Luke’s Lutheran Church. | At the regular monthy meeting of the school board held on Monday, | May 4th, the board granted permis- ision fo the Senior class of Mount Joy High School, to visit New York City, June 8th and 9th, since con- {ditions cancelled the regular Wash- ington, PD. C. trip. Dr. Theodore A. Distler, president of Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster, was announced as the Commencement speaker on June 4. The remaining supply bids were opened and awarded to the low bid- der, L. B. Herr and Son, of Lanc- aster, These supplies were art and incidentals. The repair committee reported in the paired. A balance on May 1st of $10,559. 95 was reported by the finance com- mittee, The board decided to get bids on forty desks for the grade school and discussed the painting of the out- | side of the high school, which is to | { be done this summer. Tax collector Metzler turned over high school had been re- Bills amounting to $323.58 were te — SLIGHT FIRE AT J. B. repairing Hostetter Hardware store Wed- nesday noon, a spark from a torch ignited a carload of binder twine Flames shot ceilingward rapidly burlap , bags. About 200 bags were endangered ‘but ‘only a few were damaged as store employees immed- lately played a stream of water on it from a garden hose and the ser- vices of the Friendship Fire Com- pany, which responded, were not a. BACCALAUREATE SERVICE PLANNED AT BAINBRIDGE The baccalaureate service of the Conoy Township High School will be held at 7:30 p. m. Sunday, May 24, in the high school auditorium. The sermon will delivered by Rev. Kirby Yingst pastor of St. be Commencement exercises will be held Friday night, May 29. ELAR eR EE REV. ESHLEMAN NAMED At the seventy-sixth meeting of District Brethren, Thursday. of held Rev. place, was the Church of the at Lebanon last Abram Eshleman, of this elected trustee of the Children’s Aid Society, at Neffs- ville. Rev, Ralph W. Schlosser, of Elizabethtown, was elected reading clerk. rete Ee — WANTS OLDER FIREMEN; YOUNGSTERS IN ARMY Walter Shaffer, president of Eliz- abethtown fire company, has made an appeal to older men of the orga- nizzation to respond to all fire calls because so many of the younger members who ordinarly turned out are in the Army. ——--— CHIMNEY FIRE AT RHEEMS The Rheems fire company ex- tinguished a chimney fire at the Harnish Apartments, Main street, Rheems, at 8:45 A. M. Tuesday. There was no damage. ee a UNDERWENT OPERATION Michael R. Hoffman, eighty-five, Maytown, once speaker of the Penn- sylvania House of Representatives, underwent an appendectomy at the Lancaster General hospital Monday. nS ln CHARGED WITH SEDITION Joseph J. Schmitz, 69, Lancaster, was jailed in default of $50,000 charged with sedition. He threat- GIV The United War ated in Lancaster County Chest was cre- to reduce There has been considerable solici- tations made, both through the mail and certain agencies and individ- uals, door to door. By giving to the Lancaster County United Chest, merchants, individuals can state to soliciting, either by mail or door door, that they are making all do-| nations, except to Red Cross and our Local Welfare Association, through the Lancaster County United War Chest. All other cics not included should contact agen- Lancaster, Pa. and after proper investigation made by the War Chest authorities, their agency can obtain contribu- tions from the Lancaster (Turn to Page 2) ice TWO CAVES DISCOVERED NEAR DONEGAL SPRINGS Workmen 1S preparing to build | stable on the James Cameron farm, | Springs, un- adjoining the Donegal Tuesday discovered two large derground caves. Members of the Levi Nissly fam- ily, who tenant the farm, de scribed | one cave as about 20 by 12 feet, and the other about 25 by 12 feet. Each is about 25 feet dezp and small tunnel connects the two cav- erns. The made | when a tool plunged into the op-| ening while a workman was | ging a post hole. Only about 27 in- ches of ground covered the caves. OUR COUNTY FARMERS APPROVE QUOTA PLAN € discovery was eG their opinion on wheat market- 344 favorable to 215 negative vote on Saturday. Wheat quotas were de- feated in the first referedum held May 31, 1941 by a 218 yes, vote in the county. took the question as a year ago. Three counties again down the proposal. York voted 160 | yes to 279 no; Lebanon voted 36 yes to 76 no; and Dauphin voted 38 | yes to 51 no. — atl same attitude on the turned Rotarians Attend District Confer. At Harrisburg The Rotary Harrisburg Sunday May 3rd and 4th. District Conference was held 180th International at and Rotary-Anns attended the confer- ence, including these local members: Walter Sloan, Dr. W. L. Shoop, Ar- thur Moyer, Mr. and Mrs. Morris, John Greiner and Mr. Mrs. Clarence Newcomer. In the flag-dotted assembly room the con- Isaac the Penn-Harris hotel, the of ference headquarters, Rotarians heard many world conflict and the part Rotary the heritage, playing in struggle and ideals and traditions and com- mon decency.” These speakers in- cluded Percy Hodgson, of Pawtuck- R. I, Rotary Internationa Direct- Robert Katzmyer, noted com- mentator and Walter Fuller, presi- dent of the Curtis Publishing Com- pany. International is “for home for et, tor; WILL REMAINED CLOSED Heavy Indiantown Gap artillery practice on the ranges has at Cecld Spring, Lebanon county, and it will remain closed this sum- mer for the first time in 18 years. duplication of drives. There will be only one drive and one solicitation. | War | business men and! | all persons! t0ted the the Lancaster County War Chest at | If their cause is just | County | a | Sunday Lancaster couniy farmers revers- | ing quotas, approving the plan by a 308 no } Nearby counties of | Monday, | Over nine hundred Rotarians and | and | speakers describe the | made | it inadvisable to open Camp Shand | UNITED WAR CHEST DRIVE BEGINS MON. Local Affairs In General Briefly Told A new Boy Scout Troop formed at Ehprata. Last | { was 99,109 vehicles cross= Columbia bridge. The Rothsville Fire Company | purchased a new 500 gallon pumper. | It cost $7,580.22 to guard and op« Yor ate the Columbia bridge during In month: lay. Farmers in the vicinty of Wash {ington boro have started planting ! tomatoes. } Campbell Soup Ca. has contract- ed for 2,100 acres of Lancaster Go. tomatoes this year. Richard R. Reppert. 16, was kill~ ed near Hopeland when a tractor | he was driving upset. James J. Phelan, 20, Lancaster, | drowned in the river at Pequea, when his’ canoe capsized. The mental hospital at Lancaster, closed June 1, the 300 pa- will be transferred to Harris- \ 1 will be tients burg. ——— er 1 ‘Mortuary Record In ‘This Section J. Gardiner McMillen, 36, died at Columbia, { Harry G. | Columbia. Paul A. Plaster, ! died yesterday. | Mrs. Sallie Lo Zink, 67, { denly at Manheim. i Oliver Boyd. chant, died at Manheim. Milton R. Royer, 88, died at Lan- Mrs. Emma Rowland, of this place, is a sister. Mrs. Ida Crosson Ulrich, sixty=« | five, wife of Burton Ulrich, of near Elstonville, Manheim R3, died at { her home on Thursday. Kauffman, 69, died at 48. of Manheim, died sude 72, former mer- | caster. | es. Ray Spitler Mrs. Elizabeth Landis Spitler, | tory eight, wife Ray Spitler, | Elizabethtown RD, died at 2:30 p. m. | Sunday of cerebral apoplexy at the | home her mother, Mrs. Annie Landis, Bainbridge R1, where she had been living since she was ill. She was a member of the Elizabeth- Church. Her father Landis. Besides she is sur- at home; » of of town Mennonite was the late Jonas | her husband and mother, a son, Jonas. L., (Turn to page 8) ——— vived by | | COLUMBIA PASTOR WAS APPOINTED HERE Seven in Fvangelical Con- gregational in Lancaster city the appoint- ments made by Bishop C. H. Men- gel, of Allentown, at the closing | session of the meeting of | the Fast Pennsylvania Conference E. C. church at Rea Rev. C. R Robson, of Co- comes to Mount Joy and | the E L of Mount Joy, goes to Boyertown. Rev. George Harting goes to Ca- { lumbia. changes were made | pastorates of the church and county, in { annual ! of the ding { The | lumbia, Rev. Ramer, A | LANDIS VALLEY MUSEUM | ASSOCIATION MEETING The annual meeting of the Lan~ | dis Valle y Museum Association will ke held E May 9 at 2 p. m. | at the A or- | ganization will be this Saturday, museum. permanent formed at meeting. eee MARRIAGE LICENSES Arthur S. Hoffman, Rheems, ahd Miriam A. Forry, thtown R2 ITI. MS.A of AS. &C. visiting committee of the etic States Association of Accre- dited Schools and Colleges inspect- ed the local Junior and Senior high schools for rating. These visits are and if the tinues to maintain the desired rating it is again listed as an accredited school. This evaluation allows pupil finishing in the upper third five local school con-~ made every years a ened the lives of the president and other government officials by letter, of his class to enter college with- ouf taking an entrance examination. { high Inspect Schools For a Rating The committee on Tuesday in- cluded: Dr. Milton Steinhauer, of Millersville State Teachers College: Mu. F. Jonson, of the Col- legiate Institution; Mr. Leroy Kline, supervising principal of Camp Hall schools; Mrs. Helen Swank, reginal directress of Home Economics for the Eastern States; Miss Virginia Hoffman, principal of New Holland school and Father Anthohy Kane of the Lancaster Cathojic High. Lester
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