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Vaccination
Casualty Count
Clinics
FOR WOOD COUNTY
TWELVE PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
MINEOLA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1952
SEVENTY - SEVENTH YEAR - NUMBER ONE
Paluxy Confirmation
Mineola Schools
Well Flows 400 Barrels
BY JOHN LEWIS
Official Railroad Commission i vey,
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He returned to Quitman about
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for the
district
preparation
have
Lindale Contractor
Clinic Here Saturday
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Monitor office.
The nine draftees leaving for
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COURT IX UPSHUR
GRASS FIRE
Union
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Nine Depart Thursday
In Draft Call for March
No Candidates
File for Places
On School Board
Saturday March 22
Martin Veterinary Hospital
Absentee Voting in
City Election Slow
Several New Homes
Under Construction
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Eberhard
Traffic Deaths in 1950
Traffic Deaths in 1951
Traffic Deaths in 1952
Wood County Baptist
Association Meets
At Rose Hill Church
, Those interested are invited to
attend weekly drills at the Na-
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Try a Monitor classified ad for
results.
now available at trie Monitor
office.
Big Minnesota Write-in
Ups Eisenhower Stock
Funeral services for William
A. Bowers were conducted Mon- i
day afternoon at the First Bap-
tist Church in Lindale with the
equip-
in tills
ahr fHimmla Monitor
JCortfj Anb East Texas’ foremost Weekly HXTekusipapcr
The terms of three of these
members expire next year.
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PULPWOOD SHPMENT
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The Mineola Fire Department
was called out Wednesday after-
noon
a l_____ ,
south of the railroad tracks. Chadick will set his docket Fri-
There was no property damage, day.
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GOP candidate
was on
Dallas
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Former Lindale
Newsman to Germany
The Gilmer Mirror Thursday ■
estimated the value of pulpwood
shipments from Gilmer at $4,000
per week. Pulpwood, the paper
None will be ordered to report ‘ Clemon Smith, Tommie C. Gor- said, is moving out of Upshur
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i sixteen cars per week.
was i
ler, Winnsboro veterinarian.
Dig owners may have their
pets vaccinated against rabies
day and Friday, April 3 and 4.
Schools expected to take part
in the track meet include Grand
Saline, Wills Point, Edgewood. Rev. M. L. Boland, pastor, offi-
Canton, Van and Terrell.
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Dedication of Hogg Shrine
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MISS HOGG VISITS MINEOLA—Miss Ima Hogg, daughter of
Texas’ illustrous former governor, James Stephen Hogg, spent I
several days in Mineola this week while checking on the pro-
gress of work at the Hogg Memorial Park in Quitman. In the
above photo State Rep. George T. Hinson, who was instrumen-
State Representative George station which marks the location of Jim Hogg’s
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law office m Mineola.—Monitor Photo.
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District Track
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Meet Scheduled
I Here April 4th
The District 14-A Track
Field Meet will be held in Min-
about three and
southwest of the
T ie Wood County Baptist As-
sociation’s Fifth Sunday meet-
ing will begin Friday night,
General Eisenhower ffibk
of stockholders has been set big step toward the presidency
I for the first Tuesday in October.
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addition i
Rabid Fox Killed
North of Quitman
The Coopers were
this week in Lindale.
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Another rabid fox was killed
Mineola *n Wood County Monday. The
fox was shot in the colored
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I Concludes ‘How to’
Series Sunday Nite
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ciating. The Rev. Chalice H.
White, Methodist minister, as-
sited.
i Burial was made in the Da-
mascus Cemetery near Lindale.
Mr. Bowers, a well known
, Lindale contractor, died of a
i Nine draftees departing!
Thursday morning for military service Thursday were Bobby G.
duty were bid a friendly fare- Ramey, Billy Ray Baldwin and
well by American Legion mem-
District Judge T. C. Chadick
will hear both jury’ and non-
jury cases as trie . April term
_ shortly after 5 o’clock for ( of 115th District Court opens
grass fire on Elliott Street, April 7 in Upshur county. Judge
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QUITMAN, (Spl.)—The Quit-
man home of Texas’ first
native-born governor, James!
Stephen Hogg, will be dedicated j
father, Joseph Lewis Hogg, was
a brigadier general in the Con-
federate Army and died at
Corinth, Miss., in 1862. Hogg’s
mother died the following year
when he was 12. I
day afternoon, April 10, and will
——l Tuesday morning, April
15. This means closing for two
1 days instead of one
which has been the custom in
past years.
j man.
as the James Stephen Hogg Mc-
Lmorial Shrine on the eve of his
MQlst birthday anniversary Sun-
Ray, March 23.
Restored according to plans
approved by Miss Ima Hogg of I
Houston, daughter of Jim Hogg,
the four-room house was his
khome when he started his poli-
tical career in 1873 by being
'elected justice of the peace. The
house then stood on the out-
skirts of Quitman on what is
now State Highway 154.
The house will be furnished
With old family furniture by
Miss Hogg. The priceless antique 1
furniture will include the old
Hogg bedroom suite with its
high poster bed, a baby grand
piano, old family carpets, an
old china safe where families
used to keep their china, and
the desk which Hogg used while
practicing law in Tyler.
The campaign badges and
convention tags of the former
gpvernor will be displayed in
a frame. Pictures and other
mementoes will also be among
the items loaned by Miss Hogg.
Principal speaker at the dedi-
cation services, which start at
2 p.m., will be Ernest O. Thomp-
son, long-time member of the
, Railroad,- Commission, which
Rogg created in 1891. Jacob
IRhoaf of Quitman, publisher
of the Wood County Democrat,
will introduce Thompson.
The dedication will be preced-
by Wood County’s Precinct I
I) Singing Convention from
1:30 to 2 p m., under the direct-
! ion of H. H. McAlister, president.
District Judge T. C. Chadick
of the 115th District Court will
preside during the dedication
and will introduce the guests
■ and local old-timers who knew
I Hogg personally. They are W.
J (Wash) Bogan, Judge Ben F.
Mavor Miles Caudle urged
Mineolans to take advantage of
the service here Saturday from
12:30 to 2:30 calling attention to
a ctiy ordinance that requires
all dogs to wear tags showing
they have been vaccinated. City
officers have been instructed
to destroy stray dogs.
visiting j New Phone Co-Op
! Board of Directors
Board. The state took over the
park about 1946, and the home
was moved from its original ;
location to the park about that
time. I best
well by American Legion mem- Billy Gene Fears of Mineola;
Libers who served them coffee Douglas Wayne Grubbs and
F and doughnuts as they boarded Grover E. Knight of Winnsboro;
a bus in front of the Selective Jack Hamrick and Van Ladell
Service office in the postoffice Hill of Yantis; James A. Boag
building. 1 of Alba; and Marion H. Hines
In addition to the nine leav- of Quitman.
ing for active duty ten more
z draft-age men boarded the bus
for Dallas to take pre-induction
physical examinations.
Local Board No. 133 has a call
places on the
School Board. Ray Neill, board
secretary, said Thursday. Tues-
day. March 25, is the filing
deadline.
A resident of the school dis-
trict may file this own name by
addressing a request in writing
to the board secretary or
name may be filed by a petition
baring five names of qualified
voters. Saturday, April 5, is
election day.
I The two retiring members of i
the board are Dr. J. Carl Norris ;
and H. H. Inman. The five hold- I
i overs are Virgil Peacock, presi- |
i dent, Ray Neill. Elmer Fulcher, j
Those going for physical
examination only were Jewel
R. Harris, Elbert R. Roberts,
Billy J. McMillian, Oscar JJrink-
for ten more men for the April ley and L. W. Martin, all of
25, draft, according to Mrs. Mineola; Marvin Porter and
Clara Bunn, board secretary., Charles Johnson of Winnsboro;
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Set for Sunday at Quitman | Easter Holiday
The Mineola Public Schools I
will observe a four-day week- ' former
end holiday for Easter, accord- I now
ing to an ---------------
week by Supt. D. E. Brooks.
Sessions.
| The fox head was sent to
Austin for examination and a
, reply was received Thursday
Frank and James Vickers,
Lindale resident who
live in Mineola, this wqgk i
announcement this i faced a second charge of cattle gauge on L. A. Grelling’s Paluxy miles
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pegues be-
gan construction this week of
a new home on North Pacific
of 17 and 18’/2 years of age. street. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ney-
man> are building on Turman
Street.
Wilson Aaron is building a
house on Turman Street that I articles of
will be offered for sale. A house
whici’.i he recently finished on
North Johnson has been sold to
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Grammer.
North of town, just outside
the city limits, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Merritt have cleared a
as a home site. Carl Little has
laid the foundation on a new
house in the Little :
north of the city limits.
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LEAVE FOR EUROPE
at 7:30, and a “Parsonage Duet” j test here Friday nigrit, March
will be featured. 28. Volley ball is scheduled for
At the 10:50 service Sunday Monday, March 31, and the lite-
morning the sermon topic will rary events will be held Thurs-
be “Why Join the Church?”
This is a logical argument for
The Church. The Chancel Choir
will sing “Softly and Tenderly
nv .Tpsiic Tc? Htr Thnmncnn ,
Sunday morning
Methodist Sunday School classes
invite visitors to find a class
in one of the Ohree divisional
age groups.
• theft in Smith County. They confirmation well at Pine Mills, Mills townsite.
The school will close Thurs- were arrested two weeks ago on
I charges of stealing a cow from
j the L. W. Pierce place near Lin-
i dale. The animal was traced to
an auction sale barn at Paris
where the younger Vickers, a
furniture repairman, was ar-
rested when he returned to pick '
up a check for the sale.
Smitti County Deputies Char-
lie Stewart and Russell Bowdoin
recovered three heifers last Sat-
urday which were stolen Feb. 11
from the Bowdoin farm. One
was found at Palestine, another
at Grand Saline and the third
at Alba. All had been originally |
sold at the Wills Point Auction .
Barn for $162. The animals had
been resold several times before
they were finally tracked down. |
One of the officers said they |
were also on the trail of ottier I |
cattle stolen recently from the I
Pierce farm.
where production is found in
both the sub-Clarksville and
Rodessa.
Ryan holds a 460-acre spread
around the well which is being
supported by Pure, Humble and
Texas Trading Company withi
leurn Corporation of Da'las this dry-hole money. The site has
for production from the Paluxy. week announced location on a been cleared off, and
! discovered recently in the No. 1 4,6df)-foot wildcat oil test
Childress, David Gilliland Sur- the nortrwestern
ti‘ t Church.
The Rev. R. R. Stracener will
preach Friday night at 7:30.
The Saturday program will be-
ein at 10 o'clock in the morn-
ing with a message by the Rev.
■ S. L. Bright, and the Rev J. C.
partment of Health. Dr. Martin i Pollard wi>l preach at 11 o'clock,
assisted by Dr. N. M. Whee- Lunch, will lx seived at the
— - . , i church at noon.
Rev.
for physical examination during j don and Ray Bussell of Quit- County at the rate of about
April.
Mrs. C. A. Peacock and Mrs.
H. V. Puckett left
Tuesday evening for New York
from where they will sail Fri- Cana community after it had
day night for Europe on board bitten a dog belonging to A. G. I
the SS Queen Elizabeth. They
will spend six weeks visiting in
France, Italy, Switzerland, Ger-
many. Belgium, Holland and
England.
noon and finals will be run
that night under the lights.
'Rys—Mineola track team, de-.
1 fending champions, will enter
! an invitation tournament at
i East Texas State College Satur-
“How to Kill the Soul’* is the day, March 29, and may sche-
final message in the series of dole one or two other meets in
“How To .,.” sermons which
proved popular at the meet.
First Methodist Church during
Cathey, Judge Will Suitor and i in £ecurjng an appropriation for the park, discusses with
; E. A. Reeves. j Miss Hogg the plaque erected between the Henry Hotel and
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• Hinson of Mineola, who has i
been instrumental in restoring '
the home and making plans for
the dedication, will introduce
Judge H. V. Puckett, w»ho. will
j. sketch the history of the park
hand the James Hogg Shrine. I
las as the Wood County dealer upon
for General Electric year-
around air conditioning systems.
Robert Pegues, .spokesman for
the firm, said today that P-egues
Bros, has access to the engine-
ering department of Texas Dis-
for the new Etex Telephone Co- tributors, Inc., and can fake
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claimed the big write-in vote
as a “political miracle.” Eisen-
hower forces called the election
a “moral victory” over Stassen,
only GOP candidate whose
name was on the ballot.
A Dallas News editorial
Thursday pointed out that the
New Hampshire and Minnesota
Minnesota > primaries were indication that
the general can win. The News
based its opinion on “the sen-
timent of the South in general
Democratic ; and of Texas in particular
i where the non-partisan general
the second primary has a very good chance to de-
and
Estcrbroo k seven more in Alba Tuesday and March 23, at the Rose Hill Bap-
forty-nine in Yantis Wednesday. I
He was in Golden Thursday.
The vaccination clinics have
been sponsored in Wood County
by the County Health Unit and
the commissioners court in co-
operation with the State De-
| ! Algie Hayes and Doyle Starnes, j
i eola Friday, April 4. Preliminary
events WiII be run i„ the alter- . / _ . _ .....
• STUDENTS VISIT TERMINAL—The above group of wide-eyed youngsters came from the Plea-
sant Grove school north of Quitman to inspect the Texas & Pacific terminal here lari Satuiday
morning- They were taken on a tour through a diesel engine by A. W. Chase; conductor who
has arranged terminal visits for several other scciool groups, A. R. Hayes, general yardmafter,
and J. B. Moore, general roundhouse foreman. Mr. Moore. Mr. Hayes and Mr. Chase are
shown at the left of the group. Mr. and Mrs. W alkcr. teachers at Pleasant Grove, escorted the
students.—Monitor Photo.
Imai dedication program.
Aiding Miss Hogg and the
State Park Board in restoring;
the house were the Quitman Mineola
citizens and garden clubs. The against all
The Rev. J. T. Norris will
speak at one o'clock Saturday
Acker at 3:15. The Saturday
night program will begin at
T. H. Killian
the speaker. The Rev. James
! Green will preach at 8:30.
Sunday sermons are scheduled
for the Rev. L. A. King at 10
o'clot k, the Rev. John W. Rogers
at 11 o’clock, the Rev. H. W.
Reid at one o’clock, the Rev. C.
W. Gilbreath at 2 o'clock, and
A. C. Arlington at 3 o’clock.
Lunch will again be served
at the church at noon Sunday.
D. B. Clonts, well known
livestockman in the Honey
Creek community east of Pine |
Mills, has been elected ohair-
I man of the board of directors
operative. The incorporators and care of any size air conditioning mechanical push pencils at the
directors of the new telephone job. Monitor office.
cooperative met Monday night
in the REA building at Gilmer
to elect officers, approve the
— incorporation and
accept the by-laws.
Approximately 580 people in
Upshur, Gregg, Harrison and
Wood Counties have signed up
for telephones througih the new
co-op. The first annual meeting
individual citizens contributed
money for brick entrances to the
park, and the garden clubs con-
tributed toward the landscaping
of the grounds around the
tiome.
The home will be open at all
times to the public, and will be
maintained by the State Park tional Guard building on Wed- ,
nesday nights.
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I heart attack at his home Sat-
Pegues Bros. Furniture Store urday night at about 9:45. He
here has been appointed by j had been fishing that day, but se
Texas Distributors, Inc., of Dal- | had complained of feeling bad
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en at about 9:40 and died with-
in a few minutes.
Surviving are his wife, two
brothers and four sisters.
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Match your 1
fountain pens with Esterbrook
! Gov. Hogg, who during his | men came to Quitman and cor-
lifetime was one of the most nered the sheriff in the court- I
controversial figures in Texas’ house and were going to kill
stormy political history, was him.”
born on March 24, 1851, nea,r Hogg and his companions
Rusk in Crerokee County. His closed in behind the men and
“got tihe drop” and they sur-
rendered. Hogg was about 17
years old at that time.
One of the five men later ' gchoo?
shot Hogg in the back and he
lingered between life and death !
Jim Hogg worked for awhile for weeks. His brother-in-law,;
half county. The well will be the No.
Pine 1 H. G. Farr, and the drilling
site has been staked 330 feet
the from t»lie north and west lines
'Furniture Man
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i To Get Four-Day Faces Second
Charge of Theft
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Mabi'.s at 2:30 and the Rev. Carl
at
program
l 7:30 with the Re
Only four absentee votes haw?
been cast in the general elect-
ion for the City of Mineola.
Absentee voting will end at Vhe
city hall Friday afternoon,
March 28.
Tuesday. April 1. is election
day. The three nominees. Miles
Caudle for mayor and Carl Bru-
ner and David Kitchens for
commissioners, are unopposed.
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The drive against rabies in
Wood County will come to Min-
eola Saturday, March 22, when
Dr. Jerry T. Martin will vacci-
nate dogs at his veterinary hos-
pital on South Pacific Street.
Dr. Martin conducted vaccina-
tion clinics at Quitman Monday.
Alba on Tuesday, Yantis on
Wednesday and Golden on
Thursday. He will be at Rus-
T Bros. Service Station in
Hawkins Friday from 12:30 to
2:30 in the afternoon.
Er. Martin iias vaccinated
about a hundred dogs in his:
office here since the drive be- ’
gan. Monday he vaccinated:
fifty dogs in Quitman, thirty- ■
M. Sosa Survey, A-520. This
places it four miles southwest
Grelling is drilling below sur- of the Yantis townsite and two
face pipe, set to 300 fioet, on the miles south of the Yantis Field,
inch casing cemented at 7,019 No. 3 Childress, 933 feet south
feet. of the No. 2. This well also will
Oil is coming from perfora- , go to the Paluxy.
tions at 7,812-53 feet in the 1 The DeuPree & Jackson No. 1
Paluxy. Tubing pressure was 340 York, three miles southeast of
pounds, casing pressure was 270 Mineola, was drilling Thursday
pounds, and gas-oil ratio was afternoon below 8,950 feet.
i 118 to one. ■ ' The Ryan Consolidated Petro-
| This well confirms the area
’ i cleared off,
4.6df)-foot wildcat oil test in ment was due ,o move
part of the week.
The Interscholastic League
trie last few weeks. The infor- ■ district competition actually bc-
mal evening service will begin gins with the one-act play con- Passes Saturday
the No. 2 O. M. Childress, ere- The Superior well on
efited the well with flowing 396 Waggoner tract, another Paluxy of the 50.17-acre tract in_the
barrels of 30.2-gravity oil daily venture in the area, is near
through a quarter-inch tubing completion,
choke. The hole is bottomed at
7,940 feet, with five and half-
printer’s devil in Rusk,1 a Rusk doctor, came and cared
Cleburne, and in Quitman on for him until he was able to ■
the old Quitman Clipper. He be moved to Rusk, where he
boarded with his employer in stayed until he was completely
Quitman and said he was never recovered,
paid a cent for his work at the
paper, and that he also chopped 1872 and started the Quitman
wood, fed the riorses, and did News. The 'following year, he
anything else around the place, was elected to his first public
Hogg said that he and two office — justice of the peace,
companions one day saved the Under trie law of
life of the sheriff when “five See HOGG SHRU
a
r j run
of" the United States this week |
when he received a record
write-in vote in the Minnesota
preferential primary. Ike got ;
106.567 write-in votes. Harold
Stassen, who name was on the
ticket, received only 128,068
votes. Sen Robert Taft got about
20.000 write-ins.
On ths Democratic side, Sen.
Hubert Humphrey,
favorite son who was running as
a stand-in for President Tru-
man, was an easy winner over
Kefauver, Democratic .
write-in candidate.
It was
! won by Eisenhower, and his feat anybody but the best of
followers proclaimed the results candidates on the Democratic
a “clean-cut call” to political ticket. There is no indication
duty. Paul Hoffman, who re- that Senator Taft can defeat
i cently returned from talks with even a weak Democratic candi-
faber, ink the popular general, said Min- date.”
and pencil combination, erasers nesota vote will remove “the , Sentiment for Eisenhower ap-
-- — ; last vestige of doubt” in Eisen- peared to be growing locally,!
bower’s mind that vast num- 1 also. I
Naval Reserve Unit
Stands Inspection
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F-<Mfss Hogg will make a talk tronjc station stood annual mer publisher of the Lindale |
following her introduction by competitive inspection Monday News, will sail March 31 from i
Russell Cathey, mayor of Quit- njght at the Naval Reserve drill New York for Heidelberg, Ger- I
j quarters in the National Guard many, where he will be station- I
Sacred harp singing under the Building. Lt. Cmdr. John Foster cd with the army of occupation
direction of J. E. Hamrick of and Lt Meyer, from Eigihth for about two years. Mrs. Cooper J) H Clonts Heads
|^Winnsboro will follow the for- : NaVal District h&dquarters in will join him there later.
New Orleans, were the inspect-
ing officers..
; In the annual inspection the
i unit is competing
other electronics
; platoons in the Eighth Naval
District.
The Naval Reserve unit is
planning a recruiting drive for
I young men between the ages
| E s t es
triat it was infected with rabies.
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Sam Weitz, former Mineolan,
was a visitor here from Denison i
I Wednesday.
reopen
Rabies Vaccination
After Heart Attack
&
Jesus Is Calling” by Thompson. |
At 9:45 Sunday morning
Pegues Bros. Made
County Agent for
G-E Air Conditioning
No candidates have filed for
die day, he 'two places on the Mineola
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