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Hood expects booming business this week end in de-
stroying “dud” ammunition collected by teen-agers as
souvenirs.
The crew exploded about SO pieces yesterday that had
been discovered in Brownwood homes, garages and other
FCMPor Ponce Jack Pike said an investigation revealed
that teen-age boys had been making regular trips to the
former Camp Bowie maneuver grounds near here. He
said that a regular “market” existed with such standard
trades aa one bazooka shell for two grenades or a land
mine.I
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boys, 14, were injured Sunday while dismantling a ba-
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By JIM EATON
Reporter-News Oil Writer
Sale of all properties in Runnels
County amounting to a total cash
settlement of $2,300,000 was an.
nounced here today.
Sold was a 76 2-3 per cent interest
of properties in the Cree-Sykes
Field to northeastern Runnels
County.
Norman D. FitzGerald, Abilene
independent oil operator, sold his
interest which was one-eighth of
igh
Singers Vie
At McMurry
I Junior high school choral com-
petition for Region 2, Texas Inter-
■ scholastic League, began Saturday
1 morning and will continue through
■ 5 p.m. at McMurry College.
Solos and ensembles will com-
■ pete in addition to the choirs.
■ Competing are Abilene’s North
■ and South Junior High Schools,
J Cisco Junior High, Reagan Junior
7 High of Sweetwater, Roby Junior
a High; Robert a. Lee Junior High
■ and Edison Junior High, both of
■ San Angelo: Brownwood Junior
High, Albany Junior High, and
■ Coleman Junior High
The contests ere beta, held la
Radford Student Life Center at
McMurry.
The Abileae High School A Cap-
pella Choir, directed by Gene Ken-
ney, won the sweepstakes awards
of the choral contests Friday.
The Abilene eheir was the only
one of a field of 27 choirs from area
towns to win a first - rating
in both concert and sight-reading
performances.
The Abilene Eagle-ettes, a girl’s
vocal group, tied for second with
a first rating to concert and a
second in sight-reading.
The Sweetwater A Cappella
Choir, directed by Marie Hill, was
rated flrvt la concert and second
in sight-reading to tie with the AM.
tone Eagle-ettes.
Anson High School’s Mixed Chor-
us. directed by Bill Woods, re-
ceived a third rating to concert
and a flrtf to sight reading.
These were the only choirs and
I vocal groups to receive ratings in
the two grading divisions.
Ova o Grocery Store
Sole Broken Open
The sherifrs department end
member, st the Abilene Police De-
partment Saturday were investigat-
ins the Friday night burglary of
White’s Grocery Store in Ovalo.
a. C. Chronister, Abilene identi-
fication officer, said entry was
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worth of groceries were taken along
with something under $5 to cash.
He aald the store was apparently
eeerobed to the hope for finding
hidden money.
Chronister said fee outer door of
the safe had been left open. Be
said the inner door had been forced
and papers in it were scattered.
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the total properties, or approxi-
mately one-sixth of the $2,300,000
transaction.
Other sellers include L B. Allison,
Senator Clinton P. Anderson of New
Mexico, Mrs. Murphy S. Arm-
strong, Billie B. Armstrong, G. B.
Armstrong, Jack B. Armstrong, Iva
Armstrong, Wenzel and Gayle Arm-
strong, all from out of town.
AM the sellers sold their entire
interests which went to Kewanee
on Co with headquarters to Tulsa,
Okla. The other 23 1-3 per cent is
owned end will be retained by M.
R Prestridge of Alamogordo, N. M.
Included to the tale were 41 wells,
warehouse and equipment, storage
and all personal properties there.
FitzGerald said the 45 wells have
a monthly income to the operators
of more than $100,000.
Properties include 679 M acres
on the Sykes lease to Section A
HT&B Survey: 200 acres on the
Mathis lease in Hugh Lewis Sur-
vey, and on the Gerhart and Pres-
ley leases; 133 acres le Section 9,
HT&B Survey, aad 166 acres to
G. C. & S. L. Davenport Survey a
The sale was effective as of last
Feb. 1.
The transaction was closed Fri-
day through the Mercantile Na-
tional Bank of Dallas.
UN Steps Up
Air Blows
SEOUL V—Waves of Allied war-
planes, including swift Sabre jets
flying as fighter-bombers, slashed
at Communist fortifications to
Western Korea today as the Air
Force rounded cut its bustort week
of the Korean War.
In the week ending Friday night.
7,790 sorties were flown against
the Reds—an all-time high for the
nearly three-year-old Korean con-
fuel—the Air Puree said.
V. 8 Sabre jets bagged U Com-
munist MIGs to sky battles high
over North Korea during the week,
the biggest weekly kill since teat
October. Only one Sabre fell to
combat, but nine more Allied
planes went down to ground fire
or mechanical troubles, the Air
Force said, a e
Air Faroe and Marten jets joined
forces for Saturday’s attacks on
the Western Front where Commul
nist troops were regrouping after
being thrown off Pork Chop Hill
and other strategic outposts.
About 200 Chinese Reds hit Pork
Chop Hill before dawn Saturday in
the second assault on U. S. 7th
Division infantrymen to M hours.
Both attacks fizzled out in the face
wdanap from Ameriean rtftex
The Americans battled with
rifles, machineguns, grenades,
bayonets and knives throughout
the night while artillery kept Bed
reinforcements from moving ■
By 9:30 Saturday morning the
Communists were beaten and
pulled back to their own line
$6 Billion Cut
In Arms Outlay
WASHINGTON (Sen. Fergu-
son (R-Mich) called today for a
six billion dollar cut in arms and
atomic spending, amid signs the
Eisenhower administration m ay
support a slower buildup of West-
era defense.
The proposal by Ferguson,
chairman of the Senate armed
service appropriations subcommit-
tee, came in the face of an asser-
tion by Sen. Symington (D-Mo)
that U. S. military strength is
lagging further behind Russia’s
every day.
Attention centered on s speech
Secretary of State Dulles will
make tonight st 10 p.m., EST, be-
fore the American Society of
Newspaper Editors. The speech
will be broadcast and telecast ns-
tionally by the American Broad-
castin, Company, and rebroadcast
at 11 p.m., EST, by the National
Broadcasting Company.
Sen. H Alexander Smith (R-NJ),
actin, chairman of the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee before
which Dulles appeared yesterday,
quoted him as saying the speech
will discuss the rate of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization build-
up.
Sen. Gillette (D-Iowa), who also
heard Dulles’ testimony, said he
felt the secretary was considering
a possible shift to “the long pull
rather than s hurried, extraordi-
nary buildup.”
After his closed-door meeting
with the committee, Dulles told
newsmen in effort thst President
Eisenhower’s peace proposals be-
fore the editors’ society Thursday
had put Russia on the spot.
If there is no prompt response
from Russia, Dulles said, ‘‘in s
great many respects it will be
quite apparent it is necessary to
move ahead on all fronts. East
and West, to develop a strong po-
sition.”
The Eisenhower plan—end the
cold war, disarm the world and
invert the savings in combatin,
want—was handed directly to the
Kremlin. The State Department
said a tort of the speech was sub-
mitted/to the Soviet Foreign -Of-
fire in Moscow Thursday night
American envoys to some 70 for-
eign capitals acted similarly.
Symington told the editors’ so-
clety yesterday, that, even If the
defense budget is not reduced, the
V. S. will continue to grow “weak,
er ever day to relative military
strength against Russia.”
1. He said he hopes the Eisenhow-
we administration does not invite
possible military disaster by
adopting a “price-tag policy” on
arms spending.
“Someday, and now by no means
in the distant future,” Symington
said, “the Russians will have that
number of bombs they consider
enough. They already have the air
lift and submarine lift necessary
to deliver them.”
But Ferguson, la an interview,
said he is convinced the 46% bil-
lion dollar military program pro-
posed by former President Tru-
man can be heavily slashed with-
out red, zing combat strength.
The Michigan senator s aid he
believes secrecy surrounding the
atomic program—for which Tru-
man asked $2,700,000,000 in the fis-
cal year starting July 1—has led to
wesson sia a Tour ballton dor-
tor military cut, as proposed by
Senate Republican Leader Taft
Ohio, will not be enough.
Phones Go Out
BIG SPRING • - Telephone
service to downtown Big Spring
was interrupted yesterday when a
utilities crewman digging * hole
for a power pole drilled through
i underground telephone cable.
Vets Coming Home
SAN FRANCISCO, April U -
The transport Gen. w H. Gordon
to expected Monday with veterans
of the 1st Marine Division.
‘NEEDLESS LUXURY’
Ike Orders Yacht
Put in Mothballs
AUGUSTA, Ga. un — President
Eisenhower has ordered the presi-
dential yacht Williamsburg out of
Mer- because "- "w.she
believes it is a symbol of needless
luxury."
Eisenhower’s press secretary.
James C. Hagerty, used those
words to announcing Me decision
today at the President’s vacation
headquarters.
Between now and June 30—when
the Williamsburg will be sterad
away by the Navy-the yacht will
be used twice weekly for Potomac
River and Chesapeake Bay cruises
for wounded war veterans. Hag-
erty said.Umm
He added that the yacht, which
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The secretary estimated annual
be resumed. However, seemee thrt
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Actual cost of operating the ship
itself • estimated at about $75,000
The only time Eisenhower used
the yacht was on March ■ when
he met aboard with Premier Rene
Mayer and other French govern
ment officials.
Eisenhower reportedly decided
before his inauguration—when he
was returning from Korea MM
December—to lay up the Williams
burg.
After he took office, however,
there were reports that he had
changed his mind and would keep
* recht. The Bevy said March
be Wiilamsburs would con-
fo be the presidential yacht
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The Williamsburg, a 244-foot
diesel-power craft, was built in
1931 at Bath, Me. as • private
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Time Table
For Historic
Trade Agreed
MUNSAN, Korea in—U. N. and
Communist staff officers today
agreed tentatively on a time sched-
ule for Monday’s historic exchange
of disabled prisoners of the Korean
War. 2
And they completed arrange-
ments for a meetin, of Maison of-
ficers tomorrow to set a date for
resuming the suspended full scale
Korean armistice talks.
The tentative schedule calls for
the first exchange of sick and
wounded prisoners at b a. m. Mon-
day (6 p.m., Sunday, CST).
All five delegates of the U. N.’s
main truce team were in Korea
today. They could be in Panmun-
jom, the weathered truce talk vil-
lage, in a matter of hours when
the fast-breaking developments of
the port couple weeks add ap to a
call to re-open the stalled talks.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison,
head of the U. N. delegation, and
Air Force Brig. Gen. Edgar Glenn,
another member, flew here from
Japan today.
Harrison came to observe the
exchange of sick and wounded
POWs, set to begin st Panmun-
Jom Monday, and to be briefed on
latest developments.
Harrison told newsmen be has
ne objection to talking trace with
the Reds In Panmunjom even
while so exchange of disabled
prisoners goes on only s few yards
from the conference hut. He would
make no predictions. ‘‘I just play
it from day to day,” he said.
Already at this advance trace
headquarters of the U. N. Com-
mand to a third team member.
Rear Adm. John C Daatol He
will head the liaison group that
will mart the Communists at Pan-
munjom tomorrow at 11 a.m. (9
p.m. Saturday, EST) and discuss
re-opening the full scale talks.
Ths exchange timetable for Mon-
day offered by Red staff officers
today would atari Operation Little
Switch at 9 a.m. Monday.
Col. Douglas M. Calms, U. N.
staff officer, said the proposed
times “appeared reasonable”’ bat
told the Reds “we would like to
make a thorough study of them
before definitely agreeing.”
The Reds proposed that they de-
liver captured Allied troops to the
Panmunjom exchange point to
groups of 25 at 9 a.m., 9:30 a.m.,
2 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. The Reds
have said they will release 600
Allied prisoners, including 150
Americans and other non-Korean
nationals, at the rate of 100 a day
The Communists asked We Al-
lies to deliver captured Reds to
four groups of M each between
• and 9:30 am., four groups be-
tween it and 10:30 a.m.; four be-
tween 11 and 11:30 a.m. four be-
tween 1 and 2:30 p.m., and four
between 3 and 3:30 p.m.
Marines See
Atom Blast
LAS VEGAS, Nev., April H w
Some 2,200 Marines crouched to
trenches today witnessed the most
spectacular atomic Mart of the
spring, a shot that flashed binding
white then turned a beautiful rosy
orange during an unusually long-
lingering after glow.
The predawn detonation, first to
involve Marines maneuvering in
helicopters, was set off from a
■Mort tower.
After the explosion the troops
scrambled up and advanced to a
tactical exercise toward a mock
enemy. Their trenches were 4,000
yards from ground zero.
Leap-frogging over them came
200 more Marines to 40 Sikorsky
helicopters applying vertical en-
velopment tactics, similar to those
carried out to World War II by
gliders and paratroops
Six Marines and six soldiers
rode out the Stoat to trenches well
to advance of the main body of
troops Authorities would not dis-
close their distance from the blast.
Nine volunteers were 2,500 yards
from ground am in a previous
tool
The exercise commander, Brig.
Gen. William Bullock, said there
were no casualties.
The brilliant flash wee seen in
Los Angeles, 250 miles away, as
an erange-yellow glow illuminating
the entire sky.
The dirty white cloud that shot
skyward after the shot bore down
on this resort community, 75 miles
from the Atomic Energy Com-
mission’s Yucca Flat proving
ground, at a fast clip. Aa II neared
the city the wind veered and B
appeared the cloud would pass
; I wen to the north.
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MIXED EMOTIONS — After President Eisenhower left the game between the Washington
Senators and the New York Yankees and the Yanka were beating the Senators 6-3, attitudes
in the presidential box became both glum and relaxed. Sen. Robert Taft, center, (R-Ohio)
yawns as he studies his score card. At his side, Vice-President Richard Nixon looks glum.
Behind them, left to right: Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich) yawning; Speaker Joe Martin, and
Mark Trice, Secy, of the Senate. (NEA Teleph oto)
Niche
Vigt
The appointment of Marvin C.
Nichols as chief of the Bureau of
Reclamation wss given the green
light by Jock Porter, TexasRe
publican Party boss, in" Abliene
Saturday.
Porter gave the okay by teles
Douglas McKay Porter said the
channels for Nichols’ appointment
would require McKay to recome
mend the appointment to President
Eisenhower who would make the
final decision
"I am confident that Mr.
Nichols wiM be named," said Port-
er.
Porter said he did not make a
. practice of announcing recommen-
dations before they had been ap
pointed but he said a story in the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram had
said be (Porter) was blocking the
appointment of Nichols.
Studied Case
Porter said he had held up the
appointment until he could study
the situation thoroughly.
Nichols to a member of the Texas
engineering firm of Freese and
Nichols with main offices la Fort
Worth and several branch offices,
including one to Abilene.
Porter said because Texas has
an Republican senator or represen-
tative an appointive offices must
come scram Ma desk before they
are made.
Porter, who aa national com-
mitteeman from Texas to head of
Tokyo Raiders Hear
Doolittle Speak
SAN DiEco. Callt., in - Mem.
bers of the 1942 Doolittle air raid
aa Tokyo to World War II heard
a talk by their old commanding
officer tort night.
Retired Lt. Gen. James H. Doo-
little, here tor the 11th anniver-
sary at the first air strike of the
war against Japan, told Me raid-
ers at a reunion:
‘Air power is the only thing tort
can insure peace.
"If we get into a war, it (air
power) is the only thing that can
assure victory.”
Of the 80 original raiders, •
still are alive. Thirty-three were
expected here for the reunion,
held to connection with the fifth
annual convention of the California
Mate wiae at the Air Poree Am
FHA, VA Loan
Controls Lifted
WASHINGTON o-Pederal
Housing Administration and Vet-
erans Administration loans on
housing now may be made with-
out the controls imposed by the
Defense Production Act .
Federal Housing Administrator
Albert M. Cole announced removal
of all such controls. He said this
meant:
1. FHA mortgages now may he
made repayable in 25 or 30 years,
instead of ■ maximum of 20 years.
2. The 4 or 5 per cent minimum
down payment requirements, de-
pending on cost, for VA housing
are abolished. Down payments will
now he regulated by commercial
requirements. VA mortgages may
be made repayable to so much as
is years.
ppointment Okay,
)P Chieftain Says
the state OOP, to in Abilene visit-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Price Campbell.
While la Abilene, Porter was to
make an address aAblene Chris-
tian College Saiqrday morning.
On the future of the Republican
Party to Texas, Porter said he
believes Eisenhower would carry
Texas today by a larger majority
than he did last November.
“I’ve only received ear critical
tetter oa Eisenhower," said Por-
ter. “and that was mailed about
two weeks after Ike went to of-
fice.”
Porter said the letter was ap
parently from a "raak New Deal-
er' and was complaining about
conditions in general.
Porter further said he expected
the GOP to develop toto a real
competing party tor Tones with
victories for Republicans to state
and local offices ata
Disputes Patched Up
He said he believes the break
to the GOP raaka caused, by the
squabble at Mineral Wells is about
healed, except for a few die-hards.
“It certainly didn’t make any
difference on the outcome of the
election,” he said.
Porter cited to the appoint-
ment of Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby
and Bahert B. Anderson and the
potential appointment of Nichols
and said that certainly shows the
GOP is interested la Texas.
He also predicted the passage
of a Tidelands Bill giving Texas
possession to the off-shore lands.
Porter spoke Friday la Brown-
wood to approximately 230 mem-
bers of civic clubs.
Norther Cools Off
Abilene in a Hurry
It was a hot 93 degrees to Art-
tons Friday afternoon sad by dawn
Saturday the mercury had dropped
to a chilly 38
That waa the result of a sur-
prise dusty norther that blew into
town about U o’clock Friday night
A low of 35 degrees to seen for
Abilene Saturday night.
The spring storm brought free
ing weather back to the Texas
Panhandle-Plains country and stir-
rad up towering dust clouds to
southern Colorado and deep into
Oklahoma and Texas
to New Mexico and Arizona, for-
est fires biased under the lashing
Storms Plague
States in West
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M U—A
spring storm sweeping out of Can-
ada today scattered towering dust
clouds, ice and fire through six
Western states.
Forest fires in New Mexico and
Arizona Maaad under lashing
winds.
Gritty clouds of reddish dust as
high aa 20,000 feet blanked out
Western skies from Southern Colo-
rado and Eastern Arizona into
Oklahoma and Texas.
Motorists skidded aa ley Colo-
rado roads and 14 cars and trucks
piled up in a blinding New Mexico
sand storm. One person was killed
and at least 10 injured in scattered
Oklahoma farmers watched their
crops as the mercury skidded to
below freezing.
Colorado and Wyoming ranch-
an were told to get livestock
under cover aa seven inches of
snow tram the north piled up at
winds that swept out of the Ca-
nadian Rockies.
Abilene’s high temperature of 93
Friday afternoon made it one of
the hottest points to Texas, La-
redo on the Mexican border had
98, however.
At 1 a.m. Saturday the roaring
dust had cut visibility here to 4
miles, but the dart waa expected
to be gone by noon.
The dart to Texas waa heaviest
from Big Spring westward to Colo-
rado and New Mexico motorists
found the going rough and trucks
piled up inthe blinding sand
storm.
Saturday morning snow flurries
were expected to the Panhandle
and South Platon Early morning
temperature readings included a
frigid a at Dalhart. 24 at Ama-
rillo, and 29 at Labbock
A 18-degree reading at Dallas
provided the coldest April 18 since
1921. . __________1
Allied Guards
Stop Uprising
With Shotguns
PUSAN. Korea u-Allled guards
armed with shotguns killed feur
Communist prisoners and wounded
45 la puttin, don a bloody riot
by chanting, rock throwing captives
oa Yoneho Island Friday afternoon,
the U. N. Prisoner of War Com-
mand announced
No U. N. security personnel were
seriously hurt.
Yoneho la near Koje Island off
the tip of South Korea.
The POW Command aald the
incident began when prisoners
lined up In a stockade for a routine
inspection refused to allow the
compound commander to inspect
the barracks.
Defiant prisoners barricaded
themselves in their quarters.
Allied guards threw concussion
grenades to break don the barri-
eades and non-toxic irritants to
force the prisoners out of doors.
At an apparently pre-arranged
signal, the commend said, pris-
oners in seven neighboring com-
pounds poured out of their bar-
racks to stage a shouting, chant-
ing. rock-throwing demonstration.
The mutineers in the original
stockade soon charged out of their
quarters in a mob assault backed
by ■ shower of stones.
The U. N. guards again tried to
stop the rioters with non-toxic
agents but felted The guards then
opened fire with shotguns “to
break ap the concerted attack and
to prevent the prisoners from
grabbing the weapons,” the com-
mand announced. This stopped the
rioters end order was restored.
= Guards also used shot guns to
four neighboring compounds when
prisoners there kept burling stones
at the security forces, the com-
mand said.
The command said the rioters
were ‘die-hard Communist prison-
ere of war"
Fight fo Free
News Gains
WASHINGTON un—important
gains in their struggle against
news suppression—except to the
realm of atomic energy—were re-
ported today to the American So-
clety of Newspaper Editors
But James S. Pope, chairman
st ASNE’s Freedom of Informa-
tion Committee, advised 400 ed-
itors to their annual meeting here
to adopt an attitude of “watchful
waiting end suspended judgment”
.inform eton reliefer of the El
In some moves the Republicans
have seemed “fearful of full pub-
castor et tezotitine cn
Journal end Times, said. He ex-
pressed hope these gestures arose
merely “from inexperience, from
initialeaution, from misunder-
"‘W.te been led to beneve-
he added, that an executive order
issued to September, 1951, by for-
mer President Truman authorizing
civilian agencies to set up tight
security classifications of informa-
92.," bidra of mb-
Killed by Train
MONAHANS un—Sam Henry Bill-
ing. 76, was hit and killed by •
train here yesterday ae be walked
along a railroad track.
AND SLOW AGING PROCESS
Vitamin May Solve
Hardened Arteries
BIS Piney, Wyo.
Freezing rains and log hit Okla-
homa and Texas.
More than 1,000 men were on
the firelines in Southern New Mex-
tee attempting to control flames
which swept from • sawmill spark
through 13,440 acres of virgin pine
to the Lincoln National Forest.
Loss is estimated at $304,000.
Forest rangers said hundreds of
small spot fires were rushing
ahead of the lines on winds up M
00 miles, an hour to# night.
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
AP Science Reporter
SAN FRANCISCO (—Vitamin
B-6 may be a key to preventing
hardening of arteries, sr slowing
down the wearying changes of age.
The evidence comes from mon-
keys, fed only chemical pill diets
to which one or another vitamin
or essential chemical was missing
If they didn’t get Vitamin B 6,
pyridoxine, the monkeys in six to
1S months developed signs like
those of hardening Of human ar-
teries.
The monkeys grew old more
quickly; their hair grayed and lost
lustre, according to Drs. James F.
Rinehart and 1. 0. Greenberg.
KKXi.t ti-emte a
If the B6 was added to their
food soon enough, the signs of ar-
i tery hardening cleared up Giving
, M didn’t make their gray hair
i torn back again to youthful color,
however.,
Dr. Rinehart to studying the pos-
sibility that human hardening of
arteries may come either from too
little M or some error of inef-
ficleney to fee way that human
bodies may use the vitamin. Hard,
cm: from some men us.
His tests on humans or animals
do not show feat taking Vitamin
B-6 could cure hardening. But B
might be slowed down or pre-
vented if tests can show which
people were possibly not getting
enough vitamin, or were not mak-
ing the right use of it.
Beans and peas are rich in Vita-
min B-6. Mert gives it to you,
ton. as well as other foods. Dr.
Rinehart said.
Dr Rinehart spoke to science
writers making a tour sponsored
by the American Cancer Society.
Cancer to involved to this work
because cancers may develop from
long-term defects to the way, the
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