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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,946
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
iJJtI(JJl 1 Jit IN JJEilN
Talks to Open
With Japan on
Pacific Fish
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — UB —
The State Department announces
that the United States has ac
cepted a Japanese invitation to
participate in three power negoti
ations for a North Pacific Fisheries
convention. The talks will open
at Tokyo on Nov. 5.
The three powers are the U.S.,
Japan and Canada.
The announcement said William
C. Herrington, special assistant to j
Undersecretary of State James F. i
Webb, will be the chief U.S. dele- j
gate.
His advisers will include Edward i
W. Allen of Seattle, Commissioner j
of the International Fisheries Corn- j
mission and member of the Pacific j
Fisheries Conference, and Harold
E. Lokkcn of Seattle, manager of:
the Fishing Vessel Owners As ;o„ and ;
a member of the Pacific Fisheries
Conference.
Barkley’s
Secretary to
Be Quizzed
WASHINGTON. Oct. 24 — TP) —
Senate investigators today asked to
see RFC records on loan applica
tions in which Vice President Bark
ley’s secretary and a Senate com
mittee lawyer displayed interest.
W. Stuart Symington, adminis
trator of the big lending agency,
disclosed at a news conference that
the request load just been received
from the Senate Investigation sub
committee headed by Senator Hoey
(D-NCF
Asked whether the records would
be made available to committee in
vestigators, Symington said: “Sure.”
Mrs. Flo Bratten, secretary to
Barkley, and Charles E. Shaver,
counsel to the Senate Small Busi
ness committee, have both ack
nowledged making inquiries to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
last year about the status of an
application for a $1,100,000 loan for
construction of a hotel at Miami,
Fla. They denied any effort to in
fluence action.
FIRE CALL
A mattress fire at the Seaview
apartments this forenoon at 11:35
o’clock caused little damage, fire
men said.
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TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
(CoDyrlBht, 1951. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
T^ASHINGTON — A vitally im
portant argument over European
defense strategy is keeping the teie
coms busy between Washington,
London, and General Eisenhower’s
Atlantic Pact headquarters in Paris.
The debate started when Eisen
hower suggested a-way to take the
offensive in the psychological war
witli the Kremlin—namely, recruit
military-age refugees from behind
the Iron Curtain into a volunteer
legion. A
Eisenhower believes that up to
100,000 men—three to five divisions
—could be recruited from Russian,
Czech, Polish, Baltic and Balkan
escapees. Most of these men left
Iron Curtain countries because they
hate Communism, and Eisenhower
belives the existence of such a leg
ion would be further inducement
for Cominform troops to desert.
He received a dash of cold water,
however, from London and Wash
ington. The British, who support
refugee committees of their own,
are opposed to a large fighting force
independent of the foreign office;
and the foreign legion Ike proposes
would be equipped, armed and main
tained largely by the United States.
Another objection is that the re
fugees’ fanatic hatred could not
4be controlled and might erupt into
war as soon as rifles are issued. At
one conference, the British repre
sentative frankly stated; "We fought
one war to liberate eastern Europe,
and our cities were bombed out for
it. We are not anxious to start an
other war.”
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U. S.
army chief of staff, was also skepti
cal when he conferred with Eisen
hower recently. He said the joint
chiefs of staff have no faith in
troops under refugee command, and
pointed out that escapees can vol
unteer in the American army.
Eisenhower replied that very few
^escapees have enlisted, and for a
very simple reason; they don’t want
to be integrated among strange
American troops. But if organized
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Bright Side of NATO Problems
Allied miliary boos, Ceil. Dwight D. Eisenhower and members ef the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion’s group of economic experts respond mirthfully to the words of thcii colleague. France s Jean Mor,
n . ,.rt lr..|n ■ ;. t,.i - irrt-tdgethcr at SilAFt: headgaartrra near Paris. Averell Harnman
(loft) is president of the temporary economic committee, assisted fv Monnet iUul IUS1. Oaitskrll
(ri> h') Rritlsh Chanceiior of the Exchequer. l.'P) Wirephato.
U. S. Reserves Broad
Roadbanks Along Side
Of All Alaska Roads
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Stevedores
Brave 'Boos'
To Load Ships
NEW YORK, Oct. 24—OP)—Some
dock hands resumed handling of
military cargoes today, braving the
boos and catcalls from wildcat strik
ers who threw up mass picket lines
along New York’s vast waterfront.
Most of the port still was num
bed by the longshore strike, which
has stirred a plea for Presidential
intervention. But at two army piers,
some of the idle men returned to
work.
. Biggest break in the military
cargo tieup was in Staten Island,
where eight military1 ships await
ed loading. There, 300 stevedores
streamed past picket lines, amid
shouts of “double-crosser” and
be os from strikers.
There was no violence.
At the same time the army must
ered a handful of about 50 new
dock workers, signed as special,
Civil Service workers for jobs at i
Brooklyn's huge Port of Embarka
tions. Trie strike began in Brooklyn '
10 days ago.
This development came as the j
government sent its top labor con- :
ciliator, Clyde M. Mills, from Wash- j
ington to try to iron out the strike,
which has stranded more than 1001
ships.
The strike, set off by a local re- ;
volt agafnst a recently negotiated '
contract of the International
Longshoremen’s Association, has
spread throughout the New York
New Jersey harbor area, and crip
pled operations in Boston and
Albany.
New Jersey’s Gov. Alfred Dris-;
coll stepped into the picture today,
declaring the siuation a “threat
to the general welfare.” He pledged
action to keep military cargoes
moving.
At the same time, Joseph Curran,
head of the powerful CIO National
Maritime Union, modified a pledge
of support to the striking AFL dock
ers by saying the seamen would not
back any tieup of military cargoes, j
“Our position is not to support1
the holdup of war supplies, he said.
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Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Oct. 21— '.P>—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau minp
stock today is 3%, American Can
llOTi, American Tel. and Tel. 157%,!
Anaconda 43:, Douglas Aircraft
60%, General Electric 56%, General
Motors 51, Goodyear 45'i, Kenne
cott 85, Libby McNeill and Libby 9,:
Northern Pacific 57%, Standard Oil
of California 51%,'Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 22%, U.S. Steel 43%, Pound
$2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.43.
Sales today were 1,670,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 264.95, rails 82.58, util
ities 45.69. 1
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—UTI—1The
Federal government reserved to it
self today a bfond swath or road
bank along the 1,800 miles of high
way system in Alaska.
For the Alaska Highway, this
strip is 600 feet wide. An Interior
Department order withdrew all
’ends lying popf-v.. on either
side of the highway's center line
from all forms of appropriation
under the public land laws, and re
served it for highway purposes.
For several other through high
ways, the strip is 300 feet wide—150
feet from the center line on either
side. This applies to the Richard
son, Glenn, Haines, Seward-Anch
orage, Anchorage-Lake Spenard and
Fairbanks-College highways.
Along lesser roadways, the de
partment put into effect an ‘‘ease
ment” instead of a withdrawal.
This means that settlement and
private ownership would be per
mitted so that if road plans lgter
were changed and the rights-of
way or easements abandoned, the
roadway land would be acquired
automatically by adjacent owners.
Under this arrangement, lOt) feet
along each side of the center line
i„ protected by easement along the
following feeder roads:
Abbert Road on Kodiak Island,
Bdgerton Cutoff, Elliott Highway,
Seward Peninsula tramroad, Steese
Highway, Sterling Highway, Taylor
Highway, Northway Junction to
Airport Road, Palmer to Matanuska
to Wasilla Junction Road, Palmer
to Finger Lake to Wasilla Road,
Glenn Highway Junction to Fish
hok Junction to Wasilla to Knik
Road, Slana to Nebesna Road, Ken
ai junction to Kenai Road, Univer
sity to Ester Road, Central to Circle
Hot Springs to Portage Creek Road,
Manley Hot Springs to Eureka
Road, North Park boundary to Kat
ishna Rbad, Paxson to McKinley
Park Road, Sterling* Landing to
Ophir Road, Iditarod to Flat Road,
Dillingham to Wood River Road,
Ruby to Long‘ to Poorman Road,
Nome to Council Road, and Nome
to Bessie ®oad.
The Department ordered a reser
vation by easements for 50 feet from
the center of all other public and
local roads in Alaska.
FROM WASHINGTON. D.C.
H. G. Heiberg and T. Ruden of
Washington, D.C., are guests at the
Baranof Hotel.
FROM CHICAGO
II. A. Wadell of Chicago, 111., is
staying at the Baranof Hotel.
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• WEATHER REPORT
• <U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
© At Airport: Maximum, 38;
• minimum, 22.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Mostly cloudy tonight and
©. Thursday with light rain
• Thur-day afternoon. Lowest
• temperature tonight near 32.
• Highest Thursday about 40.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
• At Airport — None;
• since July 1—12:52 inches.
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Suez Quiet,
But Tension
Grows Higher
CAIRO, Oct. 24*-UF*—Guns of Brit
ish warships covered British merch
ant ships clearing through the Suez
Canal today against orders of the
Egyptian government.
The Suez and the Cairo areas
jwere quiet after violent outbursts
j of anti-British rioting, and the
Ov t i.i [‘ht'nV i-iSUi tl . vt l .1 U'.iH.i 1C1.
j against,new outbursts.
But tension between tne British
and the Egyptians quickened. A
British naval spokesman in Cairo
j said Egypt deliberately was “trying
lo make things difficult" for the
| British at the canal entrances
' Port Said and Suez, and that the
j Egyptians broke a previous ar
rangement to clear British ships
I carrying supplies for Britain's mili
tary forces in the Canal Zone.
The British maintained a blist
ling armed defense along the can
al. The cruiser Gatnbia and the
destroyer Chevron were reported
at Port Said. The destroyer Cheq
uers and the frigate Cygnet were
said to be at Suez. Egypt has ord
; ered the British to get out of
Suez and the Anglo-Eg^ptian Su
dan.
The British military announced
it had lifted—for a 24-hour perioc
onlj^—the ban on oil tanker anc
’ truck traffic between Suez and
| Cairo.
The pro-government newspapei
A1 Balagh quoted Interior Ministei
J Fouad Serag El Dim as saying all
1 was quiet today and .there were nc
i new incidents in the Canal Zone
| from which Egypt wants to expel
' British forces. The Egyptians have
I scrapped the 1936 Anglo-Egypliar
treaty. *
A1 Balagh said Queen Narriman
King Farouk’s recent bride, had
given £800 (about $2,300) toward aid
for families of Egyptians killed ir
■ Canal Zone Incidents last week.
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Representative
lo Vatican is
Left to Congress
WASHINGTON. Oct. 24 — P -
! Congress will get a chance to de
cide whether the United State
should have a full diplomatic rep
resentative at the Vatican, church
state of Roman Catholicism in Italy
The White House announced yes
terday that President Truman i'
not going to offer Gen. Mark Clan
a recess appointment. Pre Sec
retary Joseph Short said ‘it is more
satisfactory to Clark” to awai'
Congress’ action.
Mr. Truman sent to the Senate
the nomination of Clark to be th<
first American Ambassador to the
Vatican last Saturday, just before
Congress adjourned until Jan. 8
The Senate must approve Amb a
dorial appointments.
VISITORS FROM SITKA
Mr. and Mrs. H. Suler of Sitk:
are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM WRANGELL
Mr.» and Mrs. Amt Sorset anc
son of Wrangell are guests at th<
Baranof Hotel.
Truman Says
Reds 'Foolish'
In Opposition
WASHINGTON. Oct. 24 — UP —
President Truman told the Russians
today they are “utterly foolish" to
oppose nations banded together to
seek “pence and justice.”
Speaking on the anniversary of
the birth of the United Nations,
the President declared:
“I hope the time will not be far
distant when the leaders of the
Soviet Union and their satellites
will come to see that it is utterly
foolidi to oppose the united will of
all the other peoples of the world
for peace and justice.
“Rut so long as the forces of
aggression arc attacking the
United Nations, there must be
no weakening — there must be
no slackening of our efforts to
check aggression and to build up
the defense of the free world.
"It is up to us here at home to
back up these men of many nations
who are fighting for us and for the
freedom of the world In Korea.”
-ThPresident-opoke-ct-thc
of the cornerstone for the building
of a District of Columbia Red Cross
chapter.
Mr. Truman devoted much of his
talk to a plea" for blood for the
Red Cross banka
C AN PREVENT THIRD WAR
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — W —
President Truman expressed belief
i today a third world war can bo pre
j vented, and said the Russians are
] “utterly foolish” to oppose nations
banded together to seek “peace and
justice."
’ Another great war must be
avoided he declared, because it
would mean “practically the end of
civilization."
The President touched on this
theme in two separate addresses—
delivet, 4011 the anniversary of the
birth of the United Nations.
He spoke informally in the rnorn
I ing to the 73rd general conference
I of the National Guard Association.
To the Guardsmen, he voiced opti
mism a third big war can be pre
vented and the U.N. charter made
effective.
Then, in an afternoon address at
a Red Cross ceremony, Mr. Truman
spoke of Russia’s present position
as foolish.
Bids Are Opened,
Bethel Hospital;
Over Allotment
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — M —
The Bureau of Indian Affairs said
j today a $3,932,254 bid by the Valle
Sommers Construction Co., was the
lowest received for construction of
a 75-bed hospital for the Alaska
Native Service at Bethel, Alaska.
The Bureau’s allotment for the
hospital is $2,775,000 and in view
1 of this, it Is considered likely that
! the bids will be rejected.
Five other bids ranged upwards
j to $5,962,000.
Ask Canada-U. S.
Control Coast
Bottom Fishing
PORTLAND, Oct. 24—W—An In
ternational commission, represent
ing Canada and the United States
to handle management of the Pa
cific Northwest bottom fishery, was
proposed at a meeting of the Pa
cific Marine Fisheries commission
yesterday.
Angus Neish of British Columbia
director of the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers’ Union, proposed
the international commission. He
said the bottom fisheries industry
was nearing depletion — that some
of the most productive areas off
British Columbia already are wiped
- out.
John L. Veatch, chairman of the
Oregon State Fish Commission, op
posed the plan. He dislikes fed
eral agencies regulating industries
I that could better be regulated by
the state, he said.
No action was taken on Netsh's
proposal. Delegates agreed however
that the condition of the coast bot
tom fish industry is critical.
HERE FROM ANNETTE
Lt. Comdr. Charles A. Greene
and Lt. George L. Oakley of the
U.S. Coast Guard Air Detachment
at Annette Island are staying at
the Baranof Hotel.
HERE FROM SEATTLE
C. R. Goodman of Beattie is re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
Los Angeles T raf lie Was Cause
This scene of carnage resulted when a truck heavily laden with
magazines rammed into a two-story building in Los Angeles white
trying to avoid two elderly -women crossing Beverly boulevard
against a red light. The truck ripped out a steel I-beam supporting
the entrance to a drug store on the ground floor and the entire
corner of the building collapsed into the street. Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Whalen (foreground) occupied Uic apartment on the second floor.
Three persons were injured, including the truck driver, un W’lrephoto.
Birthday
Of UN
Is Observed
Is 6th Aniverasry of
Organization Dedicated
to Preserve World Peace
PARIS, Oct. 24—UR—In an at
mosphere of tension and fear of
war, peoples around the world to
day marked the sixth anniversary
of the United Nations, the world
organization dedicated to the task of
preserving peace.
France marked the day by giving
the UN a golden key to the palace
which will be the world organiza
tion’s home In November.
In open air ceremonies-, Foreign
Minister Robert Schuman handed
UN Secretary General Trygve Lie
the key to the Palais De Chaillot
where the General Assembly will
open Its sixth session Nov. 6. The
Palais will officially become the
property of the UN Nov. 10 for as
long as it is needed.
As the blue UN flag was hoist
ed over the building, Schuman
said he hoped the psychological
atmosphere of France would help
the GO-natlon organization along
the road to peace.
Lie answered that international
relations were far from reflecting
yie harmony of the site—one of the
most "beautiful Paris neighborhoods
—but the United Nations must keep
on striving to establish harmony,
or, at least, some form of peaceful
co-existence between conflicting in
terests and ideologies in the world.'
Oct. 24 Is celebrated as UN Day
because the charter officially came
Into force Oct. 24, 1945.
There were observances in almost
every world capital.
In. Moscow, the government
newspaper Izvestla charged that
the UN had become the tool of
British and American imperialists.
Birthday processions were arrang
ed to start at dawn In Indian cities
and in Pakistan 27,000 Karachi
schoolchildren were to witness u
UN pageant.
Statements of support were also
sent to Lie from many member
governments.
The Communist Czechoslovak gov
ernment scheduled special birthday
broadcasts on the state radio.
BEN STEWART AM)
FAMILY IN JUNEAU
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stewart Jr.,
and son arrived Sunday on the
Denali from Valdez. Stewart is dis
trict engineer for the Alaska Road
| Commission at Valdez and he will
return to his headquarters at the
end of the week.
VISITORS FROM SEATTLE
Don S. Davis and Robert E. Land
west of Seattle are guests at the
Baranof Hotel.
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leal Company
Awarded Huge
Timber Contract
The award of a huge Umber con
tract which probably means new
industry for Juneau was made to
the Columbia Lumber company In
the offices of the U.S. Forest Serv
ice here yesterday.
The preliminary award for 117
million feet of timber on Kosiusko
Island was made to the lumber
company as the sole bidder. The
bid was for $418,275, figured on
total value of stumpage as set by
the Forest Service.
The Columbia Lumber company I
was represented by its president,
Tom Morgan. Morgan has not yet
been reached for comment, but the
company’s plan has been to begin
operation of a large plywood plant
in Juneau if the timber could be
acquired.
The logging will be done In the
southern division of the Tongass
National' Forest. Frank Heintzle
man, regional forester, and Charles
Burdick, assistant regional forester,
| say that the spruce in the stand ie
| of exceptionally high quality.
' Burdick said, “It will take ap
proximately 15 years to log this par
ticular area. It Is just a portion o!
the timber available on Kosiusko
and It Is really wonderful Umber.”
The stands consists ol Sitka
Spruce and Western Hemlocl
mainly, and red cedar and dead
i spruce. Bid prices were set at $5.1C
: a thousand fept of board measuri
l'or the spruce, $2 for the hemlock.
! $3.85 for red cedar, and $1 for
i dead spruce. The sale provides for
re-determination of the stumpage
I value every three years.
Tlie sale provides for a minlmurr
| cut of 30 million feet each three
I year period, with a maximum cut
I of 40 million feet In each period.
| Burdick said the timoer would be
I tlip major source of-supply for peeloi
i blocks for the planned plywooi
; plant here. He also said it wouk
I take a major system of work road.1
for (he stand to tie logged.
Other than making the timbei
available for the public interests,
one of the reasons prompting the
! mle was the fact that there had
been a serious bark beetle infesta
tion which had reached nil epidemic
I stage in 1945. Burdick said the
infestation was now endemic, or
normal, but that there are many
dead trees because of the beetle at
tack. He said It was desirable to
get this dead spruce salvaged.
This area includes the stand the
! Forest Service supervised timbering
during World War II for plywood
• for Britain's famed Mosquito bom
bers.
iANCHORAGE MAN
BACK FROM KOREA
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24— i*V—
Sgt. Thomas L. Oielarowski ol An
chorage, Alaska, was one of the 2,851
Army men returned here from Ko
I rea on a troopship yesterday.
Coast Guard
Regulations
Aired Today
Emphasizing that the Coast
Guard is dedicated to ttfe preven
tion of marine disasters, Admiral
Joseph Greenspun, commnndant of
the 17th district, set the stage this
merning at the formal Coast Ouard
hearings in the Senate Chambers.
Greenspun stated that charges
had been made that In Southeast
Alaska the enforcement of Coast
Guard regulations were oppressive
and too severe. He said that the
meeting" had been called so that
every protestant could be heard and
that a transcript of the meeting
would be forwarded to the Coast
Guard commandant at Washington.
Nine witnesses were heard at the
morning session and at the con
clusion of the testimony, three
witnesses were Interrogated by Ad
miral Greenspun, Capt. G. W. Call
beck, 12th Coast Ouard headquar
ters, and Comdr. Paul Savonls,
Coust Guard headquarters, Wash
ington, D.C.
Chamber's Views
Robert_Boochcver, representing
the Juneau Chamber of Commerce,
stated that the Chamber did not
concur with the Coast Ouard that
the waters of Southeast Alaska were
so dangerous that the district
should be classified as limited
coastwise waters rather than In
land waters. Southeast Alaska's
economy and development Is de
pendent on small boats and barges,
Boochever said. And he added that
what is needed is a reasonable In
terpretation of the regulations so
that neither marine safety nor
economic welfare is Jeopardized.
Jerry McKinley, chairman of the
chamber's Coast Guard committee,
protested that there are too fre
quent changes in the safety equip
ment that each boat must carry.
The Chamber of Commerce favors
a plan for the use of car ferriei
across Lynn Canal at Berner's Bay
and across the Taku River to con
nect pi ipcw. road systems. Fred
Eastaugh, Juneau attorney, stated
that the present classification
would prohibit the use of ferry
boats and that in his estimation
the '.vt'xts were "improperly classi
fied.”
Crew Requirements
A new problem was introduced
into the hearing by L. E. Erickson,
co-owner of the Ketchikan Trans
portation Company dperating the
Dart and Discoverer as mail-trclght
passenger ships for the west coast of
Prince of Wales Island. Erickson
stated that his vessels had always
been passed at Inspections but that
the Coast Guard requirements that
only men holding papers could man
the ship Discoverer, a 92 foot ves
sel had worked an extreme hard
ship. Because he was unable to
hire men in Ketchikan, his com
pany had ceased to use its largest
boat, the Discoverer and were now
using the Dart, which was smaller
and was exempt from certain crew
regulations. In using the Dart,
Erickson claimed that his oompany
was not ible to service all Its way
ports.
Because of the construction Doom
-and government competition, it was
difficult to hire qualified men in
Ketchikan this year, Erickson said.
When employees would leave the
hip without notice, Erickson said
that he had to wire to Seattle for
men holding papers in spite of the
fact that there were men in Ket
chikan, who had navigated fishing
boats for years and knew the local
waters,' yet he was unable to hire
'ocal men because they had qp
papers.
Steve Homer of the Chilkoot Mot
orship Lines also protested this rul
ing and added that only a few men
in Southeast Alaska qualified for
able seaman's papers because one
qualification was that they serve
aboard a vessel of over a 100 tons.
There are only a fpw vessels in
Southeast Alaska of this size, he
said. While many fishermen have
spent their lives aboard small fish
ing boats, they cannot be qualified
to work aboard mail or passenger
crafts inspected by the Coast Guard
although the vessels are not any
larger than the fishing boats.
Loss Reported
George Baggen, Jr„ Sitka barge
and tug operator, testified that he
had lost approximately $8,000 this
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• Low tide 3:54 a.m„ 35 ft. •
• High tide 10:36 a m., 11.5 ft. •
• Low tide 4:33 p.m., 5.1 ft. •
• High tide 10:29 p.m., 134 ft. •
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