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Expense Report Shows
New Deal Personal Cost
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Treasury Says 59.9 Per
Cent of Emergency
Fond Is Expended In
Salaries; Over Eight
Billions Spent in Three
Years.
Washington, July 26. ? Since
launching the present emergency|
spending program on April 8, 1936,
the New Deal has poured $4,921,064,-1
256 into federal pay "rolls, the equiv
alent of $63 for every man, woman
and child in the nation, a Treasury
report revealed tonight. -j
The report, compiled at the direc
tion of President Roosevelt, shows
that personnel payments took 59.9
per cent of the total emergency fund
of $8,286,313,827 between 1935 and
last June 30, end of the 1938 fiscal!
year.
The next biggest slice of the funds
went to states for relief and projects
related to relief. The outlay for this
was $1,709,693,915 or 20.6 per cent
of all expenditures. Next was $599,
472,024 or 12 per cent for building!
materials and supplies, while the bal
ance of the huge fund went for loans,
land acquisitions, construction con
contraets, rents, equipment, etc.
The report shows that Congress ap
propriated a total of $8,687,821,646
for emergency relief during the entire
period of which $8,656,321,646 was
made available by the Treasury and
$8,286,313,827 was actually spent.
Costs of administering the huge
program, which have drawn fire in
Congress from Republicans and oth
er New Deal critics, were listed at
$441,608^07 or 5.3 per cent of total
Ti'-T;
CApeuiubureo* '
The politically - embattled Works
Progress Administration, which top
ped all other federal agencies by
spending $4334374,053 or 55.7 per
cent of the total, listed administra
tive expenditures at $196315,000 or 4
per cent of its outlay and substan
tially below the average.
On the other hand, the Farm Se
curity Administration, which includes
the Old Rural Resettlement Admin
istration spent $78,422,043, or 14 per
cent, for administrative expenditures
out of its total outlay of $556383,710.
Rural Resettlement, which was con
solidated in 1937 under the FSA, has
been another target of Congressional
critics for allegedly high administra
tive expenditures. It was headed by
former assistant Secretary of Agri
culture Rexford Guy Tugwell, one of
the original "Brain Trusters" who
resigned January 1, 1937, to become
vice-president of the American Mo
lasses Co.
The report shows that Rural Re
settlement spent $36383315 during
the 1935 and 1936 fiscal years in ad
ministering a $134318338 spending
program, and $40309,464 in carrying
out $215370356 of activities in 1937.
A sharp drop occurred under the
new FSA setup in 1938, when ad
ministrative costs were listed at only
$1429362 of the total $169397354
spent, one of the lowest overhead
costs of all federal agaaries
I Issuance of Farmyille
| Securities Authorized
Raleigh, July 26. ? The Local
I Government Commission sold $132,
000 worth of bonds for five political
I subdivisions today and also sold six
I notes and approved six bond issues;
Durham was authorised to issue
? $166,000 in bonds.
Elizabeth City and Pasquotank
I county were each authorized to is
I sue $26,000 in airport hoods to buy
I land for a coast guard air station.
I Subject to approval by a vote of
I the citizens, the commission author
? ized issuance of $38,000 la water and
? sewer bonds by Ross ffili, $84,000
I by Farmville, and $40,000 court houseJ
I $7,000 I
I ^1
l S. Dixon and Company of Charlotte, l
I ? rSiMkmiTifllai ssa dWWl I l
AftA . A1 I
fji Revenue anticipation notes gold!
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TOBACCO PRICES
SOME HISHER ON
GEORGIA OPENING
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Late Wire Releases Give
Price Range From 7 to
35 Cents, with Average
Between 25 and 30 Cts.
According to a wire from Nash
ville, Ga., this morning the average
opening prices for tobacco at/that
market was around thirty cents. The
Waycross market reported prices
averaging above twrtity-five cents.
Other markets from 23 to 28 cents.
We understand the crop in Georgia
and Florida this season is very good,
and that-prices are in keeping with
the quality.
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY
Miss Jean Beckman celebrated her
eleventh birthday anniversary Friday
night at 7:30. Around twenty friends
were present. Bingo was enjoyed
and prizes won by Ella Frances Harr
per and Sonny Boy Gates. The hos
tess assisted by her mother served
ice cream and individual cakes iced
in pink and white. ? -
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County Court Is Due
To Resume Next Week
Greenville, July 26. ? Today marks
the last scheduled summer holiday j
for County court, Judge Dink James
having annouced at the beginning of
the recess following the July 12 ses
sion that the tribunal would resume
hearings on August 2,
The recess was taken chiefly to al
low defendants and witnesses- to re
main at' home and harvest their to- i
bacco crops.
Mr. T. E. Joyner
Attends Furniture
Market High Point
Local Member of Fam-[
ous Tomlinson Guild of
Quality Dealers Re
views Lines For Fall
Mr. T. E. Joyner, accompanied by
Mrs. Joyner, spent several days last
week attending the Mid-summer Fur
niture and Rug Exposition.
This great event, which is staged'
twice a year in the Tomlinson Exhi-;
bition Building and the Southern
Furniture Exposition Building draws ;
keen buyers of homefurnishings from'
a great area.
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? witmn uici cuiJiiiiLB ui uiu ?
?buildings are shown the products of
?America's finest manufacturers, ar
Hranged to .simplify for the retailer the
I task of selecting the best furniture
I that the industry affords.
I in addition to making selections
?for his Fall displays, Mr. Joyner re
?newed old acquaintances met
?with other members of The Guild of
iTomEnson Quality Dealers in which
I he is enrolled.
I The Guild of Tomlinson Quality
iDeaiera, says Mr. Joyner is one of
I the finest cooperative movements
lever developed to benefit the public.
I "Only dealers of unouesfcionable in
m . . a * ?
?joy the benefits of mem^iy^ he
I points out. These benefits include
I not only sharing of Guild prestige,!
I but the "advantages of the strongest j
and most complete selection of fine
? furniture ever Msembled by Teattajij
liJim, he declared, the dealer must!
"To serve as a counsel and guide to J
I good taste; to encourage the selection I
of well made and correctly designed!
instrinsie mesit; to claim no more for
qualified deooraive counselors; to
^3& all tini68 tint tfMlBSC? I
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Tobacco MM
Less Fnerabto
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Economics Bureau Indi
cates This Year's Aver
age Pali Beto*
1937.
Washington* July 26. ? "On the
basis of present conditions, it appears I
likely that the position of flue-cured I
tobacco growers in 1938 will be fairly
I favorable, but probably less favorable J
than in 1937," the Bureau of Agri-f
culture Economics declared today in
its summary of the tobacco, situation.!
The report pointed out that despite
the reduction in acreage the 1938 crop
was expected to yield 801,400,0001
pounds of flue-cured tobacco, 62,000;- j
000 in excess of the marketing quota.
Stocks of flue-cured tobacco on July!
1 totaled 976,000,000 pounds as com-j
pared to 883,200,000 on the same date!
last year, the Bureau stated.
This increase in stocks no doubtI
influenced the Bureau to conclude
that the position of flue-cured grow-1
ers this year would not be quite as I
good as last when 855,000,000 pounds]
of flue-cured tobacco was sold for an
average price of 23 cents. This was
the largest crop on record with the
exception of 1930, the highest price Ji
per pounds since 1926 with the excep- :
tion of 1934, and the value of the h
crop was only 7 per cent less than!,
the 1919 peak. \ l
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me report uibciubcu vuav tvuowujr?>
tion of cigarettes daring the 11m
months ending May 31 increased 3.6 i
per cent despite the bilSiness reces- i
aion. The Bureau concluded that j
smokers are reluctant to curtail pur- i
chases of cigarettes even though their
income had been reduced. ]
"The continued increase in cigar
ette withdrawals is a factor which j
tends to make the long-time outlook \
for flue-cured rather favorable," the j
report said, "but tobacco actually pur- i
chased in any given season generally |
does not reach the hands of consum- j
ers until from 1 to 3 years later. The <
demand of domestic manufacturers i
for cigarette tobacco in the present ,
season as compared with the pre
ceding probably will be related sig
nificantly to the level and the trend |
of general business activity and ,
wholesale prices as well as to cig- a
arette withdrawals as such. Recent ,
upturns in the commodity prices and ,
business activity, if continued, will ,
tend to expand domestic demand for ;
the current flue-cured crop. Unless
improvement in commodity prices r
and , general economic conditions, t
however, is considerably more rapid ]
than is expected, the market situa
tion will be somewhat less favorable i
than in 1937."
Commending on the outlook for ex- (
porta, of flue-cured, the report said: (
"The consumption of flue-cured'to- |
bacco is tending to increase in for- ,
eign countries, and foreign demand ,
for United States leaf in 1938-39 is ,
expected to be fairly^good. It is ,
doubtful, howeV5i*r"that demand will ,
be as active as in 1937-38 due to the (
return of stocks to a more normal
level In Europe and the disturbing
effects of military operations in the 1
Orient."
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MISS BAgpY TO REPRESENT
fArmville at festival
Miss Eva Mae Hardy, attractive i
?daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
?Hardy, has been selected by Mayor <
?Davis to represent the Town of
Farmville at the Coastal Festival to ;
?be held in Morehead City August 10,
111 and 12. The festival is sponsored
?by the Morehead City Junior Cham- .
?ber of Commerce, rhe young ladies
?representing various Eastern North
Carolina towns will be their guest
?a* the fashionable Hotel Edgewater.
?The festival features a water parade
?at night, Coast Guard drill at Port
Macon, a street dance and earpfral,
boat races, a bathing beauty contest,
a Queen's Ball and many other inter
bathing beauty contest will receive a
week's stay .at Atlantic Beach Hotel
with chaperon, all expenses' paid, {f
|^,*borrows stolen toteT'
ing a meeting, David Buck got into
what be thought was his car and
| recognised, his car in front of the
1. th . , , , I Car
la stolen car - -
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SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS ARB
TURNING MORE AND MORE TOf
THE UNITED STATES.
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Hie popularity and prestige of the
United States in South America are
at a new high* due largely to Presi
dent Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor"
policy, which has convinced most
South American governments that the
United States has no imperialistic de
signs against them.
S. A. Important.
The importance of South America
to the United States is not to be ex
aggerated, but one should not over^
look its political, geographic, econo
mic and international relationships
to the United States. Neither should
one forget that the continent of South
America, under populated fund rich in ,
natural resources, is a tempting eye
ful to imperialistic nations, worried
by excess populations.
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Italy, Germany and Japan have,
for several years, sought to advance
their prestige for political and trade
reasons. Germany, particularly, in
creased her trade in Brazil, Mexico,
Peru, Chile and other countries, large
ly at the expense of the United
States. German trading arrange
ments with Latin American countries
involved the purchase of raw ma
terials which were paid for by marks,
good only to purchase German pro
ducts. ;? . !
fascists Losing Ground.
The system seemed to work well
for some years, but recently difficul
ties arose. Brazil, for instance,'
found herself in possession of more
German trade-marks than she could
use. In addition, Germany has been
accused of reselling the raw commo
dities obtained by trade marks on the
ivorld market in order to get foreign 1
exchange for Germany.;
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When German marks piled up in
the Brazilian banks at an alarming
rate. Brazil notified^ jGei-m any in
June that it could: not accept any
more of these German credits. This
meant that Germany, in the future, ;
svould have to pay for purchases in
Brazil with uBuable foreign exchange.
As a result early this month Ger- .
many announced suspension of fur-'
ther purchases in the Brazilian mar
ket '
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Against Hull's Program. ,
The German syBtem of trade was
directly freer world trade. It involved
the barter system and limited the
jenefits of the transaction to the two
participating powers. Naturally, the
suspension of German purchases is
taken as an admission that compen
sation in trade-marks is urisatisfac-.
tory to Brazil and constitutes a suc
cess for the Hull program. 'Y t
the Brazilian market have been made
vith dollars which Brazil can use any^ I
there in the world to buy what ahfe I
wants. This means free commerce.
Fhe German system was to pay for
rarchases in marks that had to be J
expended for German products. This I
would force Brazil to transfer its p?H I
chases from other countries to Ger
many; Inevitably, this would. meaU I
injury to the commerce of the United
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Brazil Changes Course.
Brazil apparently has taken a firrij I
stand for - the free trade "system in
order to avoid becoming increasingly
dependent on German trade. Her
course, in standing on the side of fre??
economics, reasures Washington as to
the attitude of Brazil towards G^ 1
many. Moreover, it fits into the ef
fort of the United States to improve
all phsees of American relations with
South America^ R is % distinct; to
the fascist economic and ideological
invasion of ?> South America which
caused some concern in this country
in recent years.
tioi areata) gS
Nruguay, and jtocussloni are begin
ning with Ecc^p|M^'
It tfiould also be noted .that the
United Stdtes Amy has .recently dis
e 'S.V P'TKA j^v - 3LW- -*ir9i? -'1
U|a' yi'Vip'-f AMH TYinQT I
Chwwi^jtyof^
dent of the Suburban National Bank!
Bank and the Takoma Park Bank, at
a* special stockholders' * meeting yea-j
Mr. Turnage has been executive
vice-president of l>6th banks for four
years. James H. Cissel mid E. V.
Crittenden: were elected vice-presi
dents, and R. Weir Waters, Barold F.J
Gates, Charles J. SinceU, George T.
Day m I.C. McCeney were named J
assistant eMddeans< -- *>-,'.1 I
T. Howard Duckett was elected!
chairman of the Executive Committee
and geearal counsel of the new insti
tution. The entire personnel of both!
banks, about 35 employes, was re-1
The consolidation of the two banke r
became effective at noon today. They
will open Monday morning, in the
same offices under their new nsmer
with total assets at approximately I
$5,000,000.
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At the stockholders' meeting, air ?
so held yesterday afternoon, the fol
lowing directors waj$e?elected:
James H. Cissel/J. Donald Clagett, '
H. H. Cobban, E.V.'Crittenden, John
J. Dolan, T. Howard Duekett, Beryl '
R. English, David Feldman, Henry
F. Gibbs, James W. Gill, William K.
Hill, John H. Hunter, B. L. Houston 1
Jones, Oliver Metzerott, H. E. Rogers, !
Harvey W. Tuteage, Ira C. Whitacre
and Henry E. Worehester, Jr.
The new bank will have a capital
of J500,000, made up of $360,000 of 1
preferred stock and $160,000 in com
mon stock. The increase in tie ;
bank's capital, was accomplished by '
the sale of $l6^000 of new capital to *
more than 200 stockholders. The
stock was.overscribed before the new
?et-up became effective. The new
Issue of stock has a par value of $10 ;
per share, the $2.50. premium going ,
to the bank's surplus fund. , j
The bank will have a surplus! and ]
an undivided profits account of about ,
$50,000. with a total deposit liability ,
of $4,200,000. The bank will be a
member of the Federal Reserve Sys- <
torn and the- Federal Deposit Itum*- ]
ance Corp. (
Five Persons Die
Arab-Mil Wari
Farther Loss of. Life '
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Haifa, Palestine, July 26. ? Five !
persons were ldll|ed today in the Holy <
Land W"1 warfare 1
which took 66 lives in Haifa yester- <
dav
? m m It# 1.-^1 u
JGretter loss 01 me was avercu i
when police found in the crowded
?And" Vegetable market of old Jeru
salem a heavily charged bomb just
16 minute* before it was set to ex
plode. Police expressed the belief
the bomb was similar to the one
exploded in the Haifa market 1
Three members of a terrorist hand
old son were killed when they were
Casualties were placed at 66 dead
and 107 wounded. SJ&tjMnfe of the
Rpfehns were Arabs and four were
saw the bodies of nine women and i
children whic&4feer*^mutilated lo
badly they could not be identified.
The city was gripped by feat of <
Arab retaliation.
PoUTl^V nflftTn men pinrtf A/| "1 of trjna, 1
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Market . News Also
Schednled.
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- Raleigh, July 27. ? J. A. Shankin,
extenaion cotton specialist at State
College, announced yesterday a'gov
ernment-superviBed cottonseed samp
ling and grdding service which will
be available in North Carolina this
year..
Also available to growers and seed
handlers will be a market news ser
vice on cottonseed. This will include
daily release to the pfress of market
news, including price changes. I
Supervision of cottonseed grading
and sampling under voluntary .coop
eration of oil-mill operators was be
gan by the U. S. Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics tfris past season in
the Mississippi Valley states.
Employes of cooperating mills were
licensed to sample cottonseed, ' to
drawfsmnples of all cottonseed de
livered, and to prepare and certificate
official samples under the supervis
ion of the Bureau.
Both the supervision of sampling
and grading and the market news
service provided in. the Mississippi
Valey during the 1987-88 season will
be extended this year to cover cot
tonseed sold in the Carolines, Ala
bama, Georgia and Florida.
The Bureau will publish a. weekly
revie-y in which will be reported curr
rant market information relative to
tottonseed products. JI
MBS. BARBARA MBW80RN ?;
Snow Hill, July 28. ~ Mra. Bar
bara Newborn, 84, died at the home
sf her daughter, Mrs. G. L. Mewborn.
She had been in 411 health for several
months, land her condition bad been
considered serious for sometime, so
ieath was nof'mttexpeiited^^ " V
Mrs. Mewborn was a daughter ?f
the late Alexander Maria Fidda
She was born and reaped in Greene
County. When a young woman die
married John M. Mewborn, who pre
ceded her to the grave 88 years ago.
After hey husband's death Mrs. Mew
born took, over the management of
Mr farms and made an unviable name
for herself as one of the best far
mers in the county. This kept her
busy, but'she always found time te
take paijf in, religious and social ac
tivities in her community; and to be
l model mother to her children. In
jarly life she joined the Primitive
Baptist Church, and at her death was
the oldest member of Mewborn'a
Church, not only in' age but in years
jf service to the church. A son, Ei
der W- B. Kearney, her pastor, assist
?d by Elder J. B. Robert, of Perm
mile. Interment was in the family
burial ground.
Srfrvivinu are three sons. Elder J.
E. Mewborn, derMfcqcrt of Q*?ene|
County; N. U. Mewborn, former!
tterfff bf Greene County, and R. A.|
Mewborn, member of the firm of C.J
L,', ^ Ho? ^ . Hato Com^iiy, .
all of Snow Hill; four daughters, Mes
dames A^Ia Barrow, ^ MwbornJ
The ^Lng business and college I
iifen of *flarmville have organised a
elected: president, Eli Joyner, Jr;|
vice-president, Marvin Lindsay; sec
retary and treasurer, Hal Winders;
Board? of - Governors, Lynn Eason,!
tion Jted are ; m lively I
?I. Are iTWWj a viators lighting j
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Tension Between Two
Nations Reaches Most
Critical Pcftit;vBmaR:
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Tokoyo, Wednesday, July 27. ?
Tension between Japan and Busaia
over long-brewing disputes reached
its most critical point in weeks to
day after 800 Soviet border troops
were reported to have dashed over
the Manchukuo border, burned a small
frontier town and retreated to the
Soviet side of the border after a five
hour battle.
The fighting, reported by the
Domei (Japanese) news agency and
correspondents of several Japanese :
newspapers, was regarded as the most
serious incident in the series of bor
der clashes which have strained re
lations between the two countries.
The Tokyo Nichi Niciii reported in
a special dispatch from Mutankiang
that Manchukuo troops had engaged
the Russians in a pitched battle after
the Red Guard had occupied the town
of Yaolintxe, in northeastern Kan
chukuo.
The fighting of Yaolintze was the
second outbreak reported along the
border in 24 hours. Earlier the Do
mei agency had reported that a de
tachment of 20 Russian infantrymen
and 80 cavalrymen crossed the fron
tier at an unspecified point, probably
near Hunrhum, and been thrown back
by Japanese - Manchukuo border
guards...
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xne open iignung, coming on me -??
heels of list week's bitter dispute
over Soviet attempts to fortify a ldll
near Changkufeng, on the border
above Hunchun, was expected to in
terfere seriously with diplomatic ne
gotiations already under way for a
settlement of that dispute.
The Japanese added a further issue
in the rapidly increasing irritants to
Japanese-Soviet relations when they
prepared to make a formal represen
tation to the Russian government
concerning infections of treaty pro
visions 'Oh North Saghalien Island
The Japanese foreign office spokes?
man said his government would seek
an asement' of treatment which the
Soviet officials..have accorded Japar
nese oil concessionaries on Sagha
lien. He said Russians are "con
stantly violating" terms of the 1926
treaty on Saghalien oil rights.
CHINESE ARMY ROUTED
AFTER KIUKIANQ FALLS
Shanghai, Wednesday, July 27. ?
Japanese columns rolled up the Yang
tse* Valley toward Hankow today in
the waka of a fleeing Chinese army,
heading toward the "resort town" of
Ruling where many foreigners, in
cluding 57 Americans, have summer
homes.
The invading army, gathering mo
mentum at every mile, occupied Hie
strategic city of Kiukiang,. on the
YaYngtse 186 miles below Hankow,
lifter a brief, fierce battle in which
several buildings flying the American
and British flags reportedly were
lootiii and damaged.
Meanwhile, the American colony at
Ruling sent a message to the "Ameri
can Embassy here, saying-they were
establishing a "safety cone" for for
eigners as the Chinese and |apanese
amies approached Hie town;
Watching Leaf Markets
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Farmers, warehousemen, and busi
ness men are watching closely the
opening of tobacco markets .to see the
effect of the new AAAprogram and .
adverse weather conditions on prices.
North Carolina farmers will get their
first chfuoce to offer this year's crop
when the Border . Belt warehouses
open August 4. * *'
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HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY
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Little Miss Jean Cayton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Cayton cele- ,
bra ted her fourth birthday anniver
sary Monday afternoon. and j"
contest were enjoyed by thirty little
friends.. A white frosted cake lifted %
with pink candles centered the table
from which lee cream, cookies and,
suckers were served.
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M.SS DUPBEEjENTEBT AIN S
Miss Prances Dupree entertained
friends at the Scout Hut Friday night.
ThTgu^rt
Carraway served a delicious salad
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Mtt KHflpPii*' Mnyy Tu0rD6 *jfSOHi KQ> *[_*?
Bryan, Rob^t and Lonnie Price, Ed
|HM Ft Di warren, v? w? *
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