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NO. 1
}Ke"0f Five
:Lnty Schools
loseil ForWeek
'Bkoort Re-Opened MonV
^nd Is Running A
|BLt Schedule After BeH
Closed For Two Days
B,i Week-End
iBiGED ROOF AT
W BOLIVIA SCHOOL
za Epidemic And
iML| Weather CondiMi
Make It NecesBj
ry For Three To
0: the consolidated
^B;' B: unswick county are
'S,j,u week because of the
of influenza
, r conditions, and one
HV Monday followBtw-o
because of
. school closed
; a, will remain closed
week because of
f students and
^B' who are absent
nza. "About oneU
ts and faculty
v.? out because of sickf
Principal Henry
ffaccamaw school closed
Bfeu-As iay because of sickm
. .-.-able roads. It is
M'tha: this unit probably
: closed throughout the
^Brunfavorable weam
caused the Bolivia
its doors on ThursB
'v.:i ! main closed through\\*t
. he7d at the
B>:-'. school Thursday and
H veek, and only a
1_ . i_ ^11/x.imd
ilsy ?U1C vvaa muuncu
I Tuesday. Absences
L ver 140 on WedI
md SO on Monday
I W R. Lingle plans
I ssions here unless
3 bet-on-.- worse.
L- - . : :i has been reportI
ti- - .-.ule for the Leland
w p-T.a.
Meeting Is Held
r Course Is Held At
leeting Jan. 23; Mrs.
Merman Speaks On
ie Value Of A Study
wrse
i Leland Parent-Teachers
Bbon study course was held
L. in the school, with Mrs.
1 Biggs, president, presiding,
i" a few remarks, Mrs.
introduced the speaker, Mrs.
1 Alderman, district chaird
P.-T. A., of Wilmington.
t:e:.-. spoke on the valua
study course in a P.-T. A.
atior. an dthe importance
taers and parents being or<!
effectively in order to
?stronger appeal for their
Ical Funds For
Polio Control
k St George Heads
Wmittee For Purpose
'Raising Funds For Inutile
Paralysis Control
! local drive for funds with
'to stamp out infantile pa'
is in charge of the entercommit
tee of the BrunsCourty
Post No. 194, Amerkgion.
P.. C. St. George is
(as chairman.
t;s on the committee are L.
"tell. John D. Ericksen, J.
"Shim Jr., and Crawford
t Collect ',' boxes have been
ihout the business section
1 considerable collection is
^ to be acumulating.
[ ' For Friday?
5 Groundhog Day
'orst January weather in
J !?<<!<j causing a lot of
"ho have faith in
Bound as a weather
r^tor to look forward with
Lr 'ess eagerness to Friday.
s'Jri shines that morning
^ ground hog emerges from
I 5 and s. es his shadow,
r*ill be more wintery weaL;t's
cloudy and there is
r0'*' winter may be looked
p being over.
L **avk hospital
flu patients were
PJ1 hom Jio.sher Memorial
[ Mrs. R S. HarU^it:
Mrs. L. T. YasItart
Mr?- ? G C010'
daughter, Julia Faye,
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SCRAPPER?Walter .
out daily under the direct
Call, and should be in ti
showing in the 135-pound
j den Gloves tournament in
and Wednesday nights of
j Farmers Mu
w-v 1 r*
JBrush JK
Law Requiring Their Us
Becomes Effective 0
February 1st And Wi
Be Enforced By Fore,
Warden
PERMITS OBTAINED
FROM FIRE WARDEN
Will Help Towermen An
Wardens To Keep Close
Check On Forest Fires
During Spring Season
County Forest Warden Daws!
I Jones calls attention to the fa
that the brush-burning pernlaw
becomes effective Februa
1st, and he cautions all citize:
!of the county to cooperate wi
their forestry organization.
Not only does the law-apply
farmers and other private lan
owners, says Warden Jones, b
to sawmill operators as well. Pc
' mits should be obtained for bur
ing slabs or other material abo
I a mill site. Permits will be givi
operators for each set-up or loc
tion, he says.
ttvowimnor is the text of ti
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4311 (a) (as amended 193f
! It shall be unlawful for any pe
son, firm or corporation to sta
j or cause to be started any fi
or ignite any material in any
j the areas of woodlands under t!
j protection of the State Fore
I Service or within five hundr
feet of any such protected are
I between the first day of Februa
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Keziah Resen
Frying Pa
It was bad enough a couf
of years ago when some enthui
astic writer credited the Gi
i Stream with being more than 1C
miles off Southport, instead
the 35-miles that it is known
be.
But it was worse a couple
weeks ago when an associate e
itor on a Washington, D. C., new
paper went out on a Coast Gua
vessel from Norfolk and publis
cd a full page story and a m
showing the route of the trip. A
cording to the map, the trip er
ed at Frying Pan, shown on t
map as being some 50-milcs bel<
Charleston, S. C.
Now the Cape Fear and Fryi
Pan shoals run right out frc
Bald Head island. A Cape Fe
Pilot, breathing steam, demand
of the secretary of the Brunswi
County Chamber of Commei
that he be told how come Fryi
| Pan got below Charleston,
brine-soaked fisherman complic;
cd the situation by swearing
went out on the shoals that ve
morning and, "The Frying P
was still there, by gum."
Bo, the Chamber of Commei
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rt Entrant
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Jones, of Southport, is working
ion of his brother, Claud Mc
p-top shape to make a kooc
division of the Star-News Gol
Wilmincrtnn Moiiflnv. Tuesday
next week.
st Obtain
urning Permits
^ . CANDIDATE
St
ISM
r- ii"nmr"nniT mwi m
n:i
uti PAUL CRADY, of Kenley, an
en
a_ nounced Tuesday that he is t
candidate for governor, bringinj
he the list of avowed contestants U]
to five. Grady is a veteran mem
ber of the legislature and ha
rt served as president por tern o
re the State Senate. Lt. Governor W
of P. Horton, J. M. Broughton, Ral
he eigh attorney, A. J. Maxwell, com
st missioner of revenue and Mayo
ed Tom Cooper of Wilmington hav
:a, made previous anouncements. A
ry least one other candidate is ex
pccted to make the race.
ts Having
n Shoals Moved
>le | secretary set himself down an
si-1 directed an inquiry to Rear Ad
ilfjmiral R. R. Waesche in Wash
10- i ington, Commandant of the Coas
of Guard. He wanted to know i
to j there was a strong N-E wind off
! shore at the time of the visit o
of the cutter with the newsmar
d- and if this wind blew the Fryin
rs_ Pan all the way to 50-miles be
rcl! low Charleston, the interests c
ih.! navagation should be advised tha
ap' it had already come back t
iC_ ' Southport.
1(j. I This week a very nice lette
I came to the Chamber of Con:
mcrce from Admiral Waesche. H
3W [ regretted the inaccuracy of th
! map in the story, stating that th
i newsmen was granted permissio
,m;to make the trip with the undei
ar ) standing his story would be sui
ed i mitted for approval. This wa
ck j done. The map, however, was nt
'ce | discussed, or submitted to ' th
n# Coast Guard. The Coast Cuar
A did not authorize anybody to mov
it- Frying Pan to a point 50-milc
he below Charleston, 'he said. Tn fac
:ry 1 said Admiral Waesche, "You ma
an j rest assured that the Frying Pa
twill be maintained by the Coai
ce j Guard on its regular station."
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d News paper 1
Southport. N. G., We<
| Special Term Of
Superior Court
Begins Mar. 18
Judge Luther A. -Hamilton
Of Morehead City Will
Preside Over One-Week
Term For Trial Of Civil
Actions
COURT CALENDAR
REMAINS SAME
Gause, Administrator, Vs.
Targensen Will Be First
Case On Docket; Suit
Against Western
Union Second
Official notice has been received
| by Clerk of Court Sam T. Beni
nett from Governor Clyde R.
J Hoey that a special term of
| Brunswick county Superior court
will convene here on Monday,
March 18, for the trial of civil
actions.
Members of the Brunswick
County Bar Association met Tuesday
and decided to allow the court
calendar to remain just at it
had previously been set for the
I January team. This automatically
' sets the trial of Gause, Adminis|
trator, vs Edward D. Thargesen
et als as first to be called, followed
by the Yaskell and Dixon
suit against Western Union.
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle was
scheduled to hold the regular
January term of court, but a telegram
was received here on Monp
day, January 8, the day court
' was scheduled to begin, stating
" | that illness made it impossible for
' I him to attend.
-! A jury list for the special term
r will be drawn at the next meeting
of the board of county com.
rr.issioncrs.
Leland Child
- Killed By Bus
Six-Year-Old Child Died In|
stantly Last Wednesda)
J; . Afternoon After, Reins
| Run Over By Schcji Bui
Rachel Valeria Jones, 6-year-ok
child of Mr. and Mrs. C. A
Jones, of Leland, was instanth
killed Wednesday afternoon wher
she was crushed beneath th(
wheels of a school bus from whic'r
she had just alighted.
The bus, driven by Charles Rob
bins, had stopped in front of hei
home at Colonial Plantation. Tw(
I companions, a brother, Ray Jones
| and Earl Carter, had crossed th(
road and were safely on the othei
side when the vehicle started
According to testimony given a
the coroner's inquest held at Le
land school Friday night, the littli
girl apparently headed toward thi
back of the truck when she step
ped to the ground, and it was no
I until some of the passengers fel
a bump coming from the bad
wheels that it was known tha
i anything was amiss.
After this and other evidenci
had been repeated before the jury
i that body completely exhonoratec
y the Robbins boy and termed thi
? accident unavoidable. The jur;
' ! was composed of E. A. Ganey
Charles Skipper, Pate McKeithan
s E. M. Peterson, W. D. Andersoi
f and F. O. Simmons.
' Those who testified at the tria
J included Mrs. Berry Duncan, C
. A. Carter, Charles Robbins, Pa
r trolman T. H. Griffis, Laverm
e Hickman and T. R. Garrett, th<
t latter principal of the Lclani
. j school.
| Football Umpire
. | Likes Southporl
i Wiley Sholar, Who Wa
d j One Of The Officials A
Recent Rose Bowl Clash
Likes The Restful Atmos
* phere Of Southport
One of the many up-stati
lf friends who likes Southport i
^ Wiley Sholar, of the Southen
% Football Conference, umpire ii
the recent Rose Bowl game ij
' Pasadena.
Writing W. B. Keziah las
0 week Mr. Sholar had a lot o
praise for the recent, local handl
' ing of the Inland Waterway pic
* lure story party of Life Maga
e zine. Outside of that, it was a;
e Southport with him. A para
n graph in his letter was as fol
lows:
"The finest relaxation a bus;
lS man can have, to my way c
,t thinking, is to go to Southpor
1C for two or three days. You knov
j the atmosphere even soothes tire
c nerves. I have never considere
is myself an extensive traveler al
t, though for the- past 15 years
y have traveled from New Yor
n to Miami in business interest:
it but I can and do say khat
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P0R1
[n A Good Corr
inesday, January 31st,
Applications For
Seed Loans Are
Being Received
Field Supervisor Is At
County Agent's Office In J
Supply For Purpose Of
Receiving Seed Loan Applications
FARMERS SHOULD
APPLY TO MR. KING
i These Loans Are Made To
Farmers For The Purchase
Of Seed And >
Feed; First Mortgate
Taken
Emergency crop and feed loans
for 1940 are now available to j
farmers in Brunswick county, and
applications for these loans are
now being received at the county
i agent's office at Supply, by W.
F. King, Field Supervisor of the I
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan j
Section of the Farm Credit Ad-:
ministration.
f These loans will be made, as i
in the past, only to farmers whose |
cash requirements are small and
who cannot obtain a loan from
any other source, including pro!
duction credit associations, banks,
! or other private concerns or inj
dividuals.
As in former years, the money
! loaned will be limited to the ap1
j.plicant's necessary cash needs in
preparing and cultivating his 1940
1 crops or in purchasing or pro-1
ducing feed for his livestock.
Rnrrowers who obtain loans for ]
the production of cash crops are
required to give as security lien j
on the crop financed or, in the j
' case of loans for the purchase
' j or production of feed for live'!
stock, a first lien on the liveI
stock to be fed.
May Secure New
1 Radio Beacon
Chamber Of Commerce Secrj
retary Is Procuring Infor-'
' Relative to Estab5
lishment Of One On Raid
, Head Island
' j Prospects are excellent for the
j; establishment of a radio beacon
; I as an aid to navagation, accordj
j ing to W. B. Keziah, secretary
j Brunswick County Chamber of
. | Commerce. The beacon will probr
j ably be located on top of the old
3 Bald Head lighthouse on Bald
Head island. The lighthouse is
j i admirably adapted for the pur-1
~r pose and no construction will be
entailed, outside of the installat
tion of the machinery.
_ 1 In accordance with requests
, from federal officials, measure,
ments of the structure were mad j
. Monday. The distance of the lightt
house from the Cape Fear River
t was also measured off. This meac
surement, together with charts of
t the channel are expected to show
the lighthouse as being more than
3 half a mile from any other government
owned property to deep
' * A! ~ T7> A T?l,?
j water, excepting uic run uva*u- ,
3 ston property at Southport.
f j Although the lighthouse is only
99 feet and some inches tall, it
' has an elevation of about 118
j feet above sea levle. As most of
the radio beacons are operated by
] automatic motors that keep the
' batteries charged for long periods
. without attendants being needed, J
> both the building and the loca;
tion are ideal.
Shallotte Man
Laid To Rest
t Prominent Shallotte Merchant
Died Last Wedness
day At Dosher Memorial
t Hospital Following Short
,j Illness
Alfred Waddell Clemmons, 64,
j resident, of Shallotte, died at 5
e j o'clock last Wednesday morning
s | in the Dosher Memorial hospital
i; here after, a short illness,
i j Clemmons, a merchant of Shal11
lotte, was well known throughout
I this section,
t! Funeral services were held on
f Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock
-; from the Chapel Hill cemetery
- near Shallotte, conducted by the
-1 Rev. H. B. Bennett.
11 Active pallbearers were: W. T.
-IWhite. J. G. White, R. B. Haw
es, Charles Russ, Jr., Warren
Swain and A. B. Willis.
y I Honorary: D. R. White, W. R.
if Holmes, H. L. Stanley and H.
t F. Milliken.
r, He is survived by the followd
ing: two sons, A. W., Jr., and
d Esso Clemmons; two daughters,
I- Elizabeth and Emma Clemmons;
I two sisters, Mrs. Robert Stanak
land and Mrs. Rockwell Holden;
s,j three brothers, David, Franklin
II and Robert Clemmons, all of
' Supply.
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lmunity
1940 PUBLISH
State Commanc
Legion Comin;
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Commander June Rose Willi
Be Guest Of Honor And
Principal Speaker At Legion
Dinner Here Friday
Night
URGE EX- SERVICE
MEN TO ATTEND
Other Important Officials
Are Expected to be Present
For Dinner And
Dance Which Is To
Follow
June Rose, State Commander of
the American Legion, will attend
a dinner and dance sponsored by
the Brunswick County Post No.
194, American Legion, Friday
night in Southport. The dinner
will be served at 7 o'clock by
members of the Daughters of I
America in their banquet hall ?
and the dance will begin at 9 tl
o'clock in the Community Center C
Building. di
A tentative program for the Si
occasion has been outlined by
Commander J. J. Loughlin, of the di
local legion organization. This di
provides for L. T. Yaskell to ser- al
ve as toastmaster, with talks to w
be made by representatives from L
other Legion Posts in the district,
by District Commander A. R
J. Krahnke and by Father Frank Si
J. Howard, State Chaplain. State w
Commander Rose will, of course, tr
be the principal speaker for the ir
occasion. S
Following the dinner and the w
formal program which follows, si
Local Boxers
For Star-r*
*.
Claud McCall Has Arrived '|
Home For Vacation And I
Will Work Out With Lo- [
cal Entries in Golden j ~
Gloves Tournament
McCALL MAY ENTER
IN WELTER DIVISION
Considerable Local Interest
In Coming Bouts And
Many Boxing Fans Are
Planning To Attend
Tournament Fights
Several Southport boys are settling
down in dead earnest to
train for the Star-News sponsored
Golden Gloves tournament!
which is to be held in Wilmington
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
nights of next week.
Biggest boost that has been
giving the boxing stock recently
was the return of Claud McCall
from Philadelphia for a few days'
vacation from studies in the medical
school at Temple University.
McCall is an amateur fighter of
j considerable experience, and al(though
it still is uncertain whether
he will enter the Wilmington
J tournament, his influence upon
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Huge Increase |;
In Collections
Tax Collections For CityShow
Noticeable Increase
In Both Current And De- '
linquent Accounts
Tax collections for the city of
Southport during- the month of
(January were more than five
times as great as for the same "
[period in 1939, according to fig- a
jures made available today by E, t
[R. Weeks, city clerk. c
In 1939 delinquent collections J
amounted to $140.47, while cur- n
[rent collections were $548.69. Al- d
though a final total has not been o
run on this month's collections,
(Continued On Page 4)
Records Tumbl
.Winter
The mercury tumbled down ,
to 12-degrees Sunday morning, !
according to the local weather
bureau, making this the coldest
day of the year, and the coldest
since* the winter of 1918, so
far os could be determined unofficially.
The day before the
low reading had been 14-degrees.
Last week's cold wave rode
in upon the wings of an icy
blast which swept from the
snow-covered country up-state.
| Thursday night saw a repeti!
tion of those conditions locally,
j as the first snow of the winter
j fell. Friday the thermometer
was down around the 20-degree
mark, and the light snow that
had fallen the night before was
j slow in melting,
OT :
ED EVERY WEDNESDAY
ler American
g Here Friday
"f , Y A ' J
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a
JUNE ROSE
le group will adjourn to the
ommunity Hall where music for
tncing will be furnished by the
ruth port orchestra.
Visitors from other posts in the
.strict are ejcpected, and a coral
invitation has been issued to \
1 ex-service men, regardless of
hether they are members of the
egion, to attend this meeting.
Commander Rose and Mrs. :
ose are expected to arrive in j
authport about noon Friday and
ill be carried on sight-seeing
ips to various points of interest
l this section. It is hoped that j
tate Adjutant Jim Caldwell also ;
ill be here early for the sighting
tour.
Pointing
Jews Tourney !
IN RAGE
p?p p j
PeR V wv' ;*-(. vj
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THOMAS E. COOPER
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1 om looper in
Governor Race
'roclaims In Statement Of
His Candidacy That The
Golden Rule Will Be His
Platform
RALEIGH, Jan. 28.?With a
Golden Rule" platform and an
ssertion that he would surprise
he "wise boys who say they
an't see me with a spy-glass",
layor Thomas E. Cooper of Willington
today announced his canlidacy
for governor of North Carlina.
Cooper, outspoken president of
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e Before
's Latest Balst
Although there were definite
signs of the weather moderating
Tuesday afternoon, the thermometer
dropped into the middle
twenties again today. The
weatherman promises relief
during the week-end.
Needless to say, there was
plenty of trouble from frozen
water pipes and other waterworks
appliances, and the
active plumbers were busy from
dawn til dark.
One of Jack Frost's mightiest
deeds was to cover over
Town Creek with a sheet of ice
sufficiently thick, according to
Mrs. lanic Henry's Winnabow
news, to permit a hound to
chase a rabbit across. That
stream still is frozen over.
The Pilot Covers 6
Brunswick County J
$1.50 PER YEA* I
Supreme Court I
Anniversary To 1
Be Celebrated I
One-Hundred Fiftieth An- J
niversary of Founding Of I
Highest Tribunal Will I
Be Observed With Fit- I
ting Ceremony I
JOHN D. BELLAMY I
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER I
Program Will Be Held In I
Southport High School I
Auditorium Thursday I
Beginning At 2:30 I
O'clock I
Tribute will be paid the mem- H
ory of Associate Justice Alfred I
Moore, who is buried in the I
churchyard of St. Phillips at Old I
Brunswick, tomorrow when mem- I
bers of the district bar association I
gather for a program celebrating I
the 150th anniversary of the I
founding of the United States I
Supreme Court. ' '''I
The exercises will be held in the I
Southport high school auditorium 1
and will begin at 2:30 o'clock. I
Master of ceremonies will be C. I
Ed Taylor, dean of the local bar, I
while John D. Bellamy of Wil- I
mington will make the principal 1
address. I
Others scheduled to take part ,B
in the program are R. I. Mintz I
and J. W. Ruark, Southport; Clif- M
ton L. Moore, Burgaw; and Le
Grand Lyon, Jr., Whitevilie. An I
invitation has been extended I
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle to adjourn I
the term of Columbus county Su- I
perior court over which he is |
presiding this week in Whiteville |
in time for members of the Co- 1
lumbus county bar to attend the I
ceremony here. , I
The ceremony here is a part of I
a nation-wide program to honor I
former members of the highest I
tribunal in our country on this I
scsqui-centenniel occasion. Sol I
Bloom, congressional represents- J
tive from New York, is head of a I
committee in charge of promoting I
the programs. iW
Change Sentence?1
j For Geo. Brooks I
Sentence Of 8 Months On I
Roads Changed Monday I
By Judge Stanaland To I
$100.00, Costs And $10 I
Damages I
In Recorder's Court here Mon- I
day Judge Walter M. Stanaland 1
changed the sentence of George
W. Brooks, Jr., from 8 months H
on the roads to a fine of $100.00 I
and costs, plus payment of $10. I
restitution to the prosecuting J
witness. Brooks was convicted I
three weeks ago of making an I
assault upon an officer while in I
performance of his duty. I
George Bryant, colored, was I
found not guilty of making an I
assault with a deadly weapon. I
Finding that the indictment was H
frivolous and malicious. Judge >1
OL<H1<11<1I1U IUACU CUC cvovo agauwk ?
Thomas Wescott, prosecuting wit- fl
ness. I
Melton Batson, white, pleaded j|
guilty to charges of operating a l!fl
truck without signal lights. Judg- fl
ment was suspended upon pay- I
ment of the costs. fl
H. H. Thomas, white, wasfround I
not guilty of passing a school bus Jj
while the latter was parked. |
H. Linwood Creech, white, was I
found guilty on charges of drun- 1
ken driving, reckless operation fl
and damage to property. Sen- fl
tence of 6 months on the roads fl
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Tide Table ;!
Following Is the tide table
(or Soutbport during the next
week. These hours are approximately
correct and were furnished
The State Port Pile'
through the courtesy of th? i
Cape Fear Pilot's Association
High Tide Low TIT
TIDE TABLE
.
Thursday, December 21
1:05 a. m. 9:46 a. m. '
3:31 p. m. 9:48 p. m.
Friday, December 22 A
4:05 a. m. 10:37 a. m.
4:31 p. m. 10:36 p. m. ^
Saturday, December 23
4:59 a. in. 11:27 a. m.
5:25 p. m. 11:25 p. m.
Sunday, December 24
5:47 a. in. 6:17
p. m. 12:17 p. m.
Monday, December 25
6:32 a. m. 0:14 a. m. .
7:00 p. ni. 1:07 p. m.
Tuesday, December 26 ,
7:16 a. m. 1:04 a. m.
7:46 p. m. 1:55 p. na.
Wednesday, December 27
8:01 a. m. 1:55 a. on
8:32 p. m. 2:42 p. m
I