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VOLUME NO. LXX
MALARIA OUTBREAK
SEEN AS POSSIBLE
HERE THIS SUMMER
Mosquitoes Biting Malaria Suf
fering War Vets May Be
New Health Hazard
Situation Aggravated By Lack
Of Operator For Bluffton's
Mosquito Control Program
Possibility of an outbreak of mala
ria in the Bluffton area this summer,
a disease previously almost unknown
here was discussed at a meeting of
the town council Monday night as
that body took preliminary preventa
tive measures to deal with the situa
tion.
The malaria menace looms as a
new development in Bluffton’s mos
quito-plagued history, coming in a
year when a larger than average
number of mosquitoes are expect
ed and the town is facing a break
down in its mosquito control program.
With a number of returned ex-ser
vice men here who were stricken with
malaria while overseas, it was point
ed out to the council that if while
suffering a recurrihg attack they
should be bitten by the proper type
of mosquito the disease could readily
be spread.
mosquitoes
are of the
not known,
town clerk
Whether any of the
W’hich infest this area
malaria carrying type is
However, W. O. Geiger,
and also head of the high school bio
logy department said that this was a
•definite possibility.
Mosquito Control is Key
With mosquito elimination recog
nized as the key to the Situation, ad
ditional complications have arisen in
view'of the fact that the town’s mos
quito control program may be drop
(Continued on t’age 8)
None Hurt Seriously
In Three Accidents
No serious injuries were reported
in any of three minor accidents eith
er occurring in the Bluffton area or
involving local residents over the
last weekend.
An automobile driven in Findlay
by R. E. Griffith, of Lawn avenue,
was involved in a collision with a
bicycle, last Sunday but A. J. Deck
•er, of Findlay, rider of the bicycle,
was only slightly hurt.
Griffith took Decker to the Find
lay hospital for treatment and then
reported the mishap to police head
quarters.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hamm, of
Rural Route 1, Rawson, escaped
with minor hurts and shock when
their car was struck by a truck,
two-tenths of a mile south of Raw
son on the Dixie highway Friday
night.
Taken to the Bluffton hospital for
treatment, Mr. and Mrs. Hamm were
discharged on the same night. The
driver of the truck, a Sandusky
man, was unhurt.
In the third mishap, William J.
Hatfield, of Ossian, Ind., escaped
serious injury when the automobile
he was driving rolled over several
times and then hurdled a fence be
tween Williamstown and New Stark,
at 7 a. m. Monday.
Hatfield was taken to the Com
munity hospital here and was dis
charged Tuesday morning, after
treatment.
State Highway patrolmen said
Hatfield fell asleep, and the car
overturned several times after it
went into the ditch.
Trio Broadcast
On Friday Night
The Oyer trio with Miss Jeanne
Lewis at the piano will be heard in
five numbers in their radio broadcast
from Lima station WLOK, Friday
night at 6:15 o’clock.
The program follows: With the
Wind and the Rain in Your Hair
Song of Love from Romberg’s Blos
som Time Indian Love Call from
Friml’s Rose Marie piano solo, May
Night hymn .Beneath the Cross of
Jesus.
Evan Soash Coach
Of Ada High Nine
Evan Soash, former Bluffton High
school and Bluffton college athletic
star, is coaching the Ada High
school baseball team this spring.
He is enrolled as a student in physi
cal education and coaching at Ohio
Northern.
Soash, recently was discharged
from the Navy. He is the son of
Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Soash, of South
Main street.
State Will Center
Line Dixie In Town
An ordinance was passed Monday
night at a meeting of the municipal
council, authorizing the State High
way Department to center-paint the
Dixie highway
limits.
within Bluffton town
state highways for
can be done within
Center-lining
traffic control
municipal boundaries only if an ordi
nance is passed by the town authoriz
ing them to do the work.
TOWN RETURNING
TO SLOW TIME ON
PERMANENT BASIS
Action Annuling Municipal Ordi
nance Taken At Monday
Meeting of Council
Under Repealed Law Town
Would Go To Fast Time
On April 28
Bluffton will remain on Slow Time
this summer, it was decided Monday
night when the municipal council re
pealed an ordinance passed in 1944
which provided for the town’s clocks
to be set ahead one hour every year
on the last Sunday in April.
Action of the council was predicted
on the /act that sentiment of the
town and surrounding area indicated
a desire to i retain Slow Time the
year around now that the wartime
emergency no longer is prevailing.
This will be the first time since
1941 that Bluffton has been on East
ern Standard Time during the sum
mer months. Local action is in line
with Governor Lausche’s appeal for
a uniformity of time in Ohio this
year, with retention of EST (Slow
Time) favored by him Yor the state.
Bluffton’s Time Ordinance, passed
in 1944, provided for operation on
Fast Time from the last Sunday in
April to the first Sunday in Sept
ember, and on Slow Time for the re
mainder of the year.
Bluffton first went on Fast Time
early in the winter of 1941-42, when
President Roosevelt declared nation
wide adoption of Fast Time as a war
measure. Since the winter of 1942-43,
however, the town has operated on
Fast Time only during the four sum
mer months.
Barnes To Teach In
Two High Schools
Final arrangements for combining
the vocational agriculture depart
ments of Bluffton and Beaverdam
High schools were worked out at a
joint meeting of the boards of edu
cation of the two schools, last Wed
nesday night in Bluffton, and Harry
F. Barnes who has been head of the
department here was hired as in
structor under the new program.
Barnes’ salary was set at $3,000
a year, with each school providing
$1500. Half of the total paid by
each school, however,-will come from
federal government funds. In ad
dition to his $3,000 salary, Barnes
will receive a mileage allowance up
to $200 annually.
Under the combination program,
Barnes will spend half time at each
school. The new arrangement be
comes effective next fall.
Consolidation of the two -courses
was necessary because enrollment in
Bluffton has fallen to approximately
17 boys, less than the number neces
sary to qualify for continued aid
from outside vocational sources.
Beaverdam, creating its department
for the first time, will have a pros
pective enrollment of 20.
At a regular meeting of the Bluff
ton board of education following the
meeting with the Beaverdam group,
it was decided to raise the salary
of the clerk of the board from $35
to $45 per month. This gives a new
annual salary of $540 per year.
James West is clerk of the Board,
succeeding Leland Diller, who re
signed in late summer.
Baritone Soloist In
Concert Here Friday
MyTon Carlisle, baritone concert
singer, who has recently been dis
charged from three years of Army
service, will appear in the fourth
and concluding number of the Bluff
ton College Concert series, at 8 p. m.
this Friday in the Ramseyer chapel.
A brilliant young vocalist, Carlisle
was assigned to the Army Special
Service forces ^following his induc
tion early in the war. He served
with this group as a producer, actor
and singer in special service shows.
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NEWEST ANSWERTO
LOCAL HOME NEEDS
S PREFABRICATION
hree Prefabricated Houses Will
Be Built in Bluffton During
The Spring Months
lousing Shortage and Lack of
Building Materials Brings
Turn to Prefabrication
Three prefabricated houses will be
erected in Bluffton this spring as a
new approach toward relieving the
critical shortage
here.
of houses existing
materials virtually
housing conditions
With building
unobtainable and
growing worse from the availability
angle, the turn toward prefabricated
homes has been a logical one in met
ropolitan centers. Spread of the
trend to smaller cities is indicated in
this spring’s developments bringing
three homes of that type to Bluffton.
One of the houses, a three-room
structure, will be erected on a lot at
W. Elm street and College road, ad
joining the Dick Habegger residence.
I
Two On Campus
The other two prefabricated build
ings will each have three rooms, and
are to be erected at the rear of Lin
coln hall on the Bluffton college cam
pus.
Merl Habegger, ex-serviceman son
of Henry Habegger, is erecting the
prefabricated home at W. Elm street
and the College road. Excavation
was dug for a basement Monday, and
as soon as the foundation is complet
ed erection of the house will be start
ed.
Materials are on the site, in pre
fabricated form. When completed,
the home will have three rooms and
a basement.
Habegger’s wife and one-month
old son are living in Medina, because
living quarters are not available lo
cally. They will come here as soon
as the home is completed.
One of the prefabricated houses
planned to supplement Bluffton col
lege living accomodations married
students is being erected now*, and
work on the second will be started
immediately following its completion.
Metal Exterior
Of steel and aluminum exterior
construction, the 20 by 32 feet houses
are quite roomy. They have plywood
floors and walls of insulating mater
ial.
Each house will be divided into two
apartments, giving accomodations for
four families in the two structures.
Each apartment will have a bath, kit
chenette and a combination living
sleeping room.
Prefabricated house construction on
the campus by college authorities is
an answer to a critical situation dev
eloping from a shortage of housing in
the town for married war veterans
who wish to attend school.
The four apartments to be provid
ed by construction of the two build
ings already are taken, and others
I likely will be needed, college author
ities said.
At the same time, Habegger’s deci
sion to turn to prefabricated housing
may establish a precedent that may
be followed by others unable to find
living accomodations.
Bluffton To Get $300
More In 1945 Tag Fees
Bluffton village will receive $300
in the third distribution of 1945
motor vehicle fees, announced last
week by the State Highway Depart
ment.
Beaverdam’s share of the distribu
tion will be $21.25 and Lafayette is
to get $35. County funds will re
ceive $22,541.20.
In the Hancock county distribu
tion, Mt. Cory will get $37.50,
Rawson is slated to benefit in
same amount.
and
the
Ada, in Hardin county ,will
ceive $175. In Putnam county, $175
is earmarked for Pandora and $200
for Columbus Grove.
Navy Film Will Be
Shown Monday Night
Sound moving pictures of life in
the Navy will be shown at the
Sportsmen’s club rooms in the
hall next Monday night at
o’clock.
Showing of the pictures will
charge of recruiting officers
Lima and will depict actual
scenes from fleet maneuvers,
open to the public.
rHE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1946
Morice J. Mahoney, 35, of Sun
bury, Ohio, will succeed Eli Deppler
as manager of the Bluffton Tele
phone Co. when the Bluffton man
resigns on May 1, after being in
charge of the system here for 37
years.
Deppler assumed the managership
back in the days when the system
was independently owned, and has
directed activities of the company
during its period of greatest growth.
He became manager when the late
Jack Armentrout resigned.
DELAY IN RICHLAND
TWP. ROAD REPAIR
WORK THIS SPRING
Sunbury Man To Succeed Eli Deppler
As Telephone System Manager May 1
mprovement of Four Miles of
Road Cannot Be Started
Until Later
Jelay Results From All County
Maintenance Equipment Be
ing Used Elsewhere
Richland township’s spring road
improvement program involving re
surfacing of four miles of county
township highways and construction
of a new bridge will be delayed until
early summer, it was learned this
week.
Postponement of an early start on
the work has resulted from the need
to use all Allen county road main
tenance equipment in repairing high
ways that were torn up during the
winter when heavy equipment was
moved out of the Lima Tank Depot.
Work on the township roads is fi
nanced by township and county funds,
but county equipment and mainten
ance crews do the repairing, and the
local program cannot Ke started until
both are available.
Four miles of new hard-surfaced
roads and one bridge will be built in
Richland township this year, as a
part of an extensive $335,000 Allen
county program.
Road Program
Work in the township includes the
surfacing of three miles of the Tom
Fett road from the Putnam county
line to the Rockport road, and sur
facing one mile of the Swaney road
between the Dixie and Lincoln high
ways.
Estimated cost of the road con
struction is $2,600 per mile, or a total
of $10,400.
The new bridge will be built on
the Tom Fett road, south of the
Ernest Gratz farm buildings. It will
replace the present structure across
a ditch at that place.
Load limits on Richland township
roads also have been reduced during
the spring season by action of Allen
county commissioners to prevent
damage resulting from excessive
moisture and thawing weather in
road beds.
Former Resident Dies
After Birth Of Chile
Mrs. Treva Marceyle (Fett)
Smith, 36, of Findlay, formerly of
Bluffton, died Tuesday afternoon at
Findlay hospital following the birth
last Friday night of a stillborn son.
Funeral services for Mrs. Smith
will be held Friday afternoon at 2
o’clock at Jenera Trinity Lutheran
church of which
and burial will
cemetery.
Following
taught public
came choir
town
7:30
be in
from
battle
It is
The showing will be in connection
with a joint meeting of Boy Scout
troops 56 and 82 which will start
at 7 o’clock.
member
church
she was a
be in the
1910 in
October 13,
She was born
Lima, the daughter of Lewis and
Lillie (Huber) Fett. The family
later moved to Bluffton where her
mother now resides five miles south
of town.
Mrs. Smith was graduated from
Bluffton high school in the class of
1927 and received
Bluffton college in
in music.
church at Jenera and organist for
several churches.
She was married December 29,
1935 to Howard Smith who survives
together with one son Tommy, age
8, at home and a sister, Mrs. Robert
Hess of Findlay.
Real Estate Deal
Dale Reichenbach has purchased
the Allen Beeshy property at Riley
and Spring streets. Reichenbach,
recently discharged from the navy,
tie now i* the life insurance field.
owned by the same holding company.
3read Made From New Gray Flour Is
Beginning To Appear On Markets Here I
Gray
_______ I Woodrow Little, former Bluffton
I rural mail carrier has received his
After 37 years of being on the job I discharge from naval service and
almost continuously, Deppler plans I will resume his former duties on
to make a western trip this summer I ^oute 1 here shortly.
... .... I Little was discharged
with his wife. I
New Gray Flour Also Is Appear
ing
on Grocer’s Shelves
More Nutritive
thing, the bread tastes better
cause of the changed formula.
Those who have used the
bread say that about the only
ference in appearance is a more
creamy appearance of the loaf when
it is sliced.
flour show an actual gain in the
natural enrichment of the bread. I
Millers report the new 80 per cent!
Al.*
117
V itty-ttura Wedding
Anniversary Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Clap
and Mrs. Daniel Wilkins,
Scoles.
and family of Bluffton.
Births
The
her degree from
1931, specializing
graduation she
her
school music and be
director for Trinity
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sousley,
Blufftoh, a girk Karyl Jean, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alphie Keller, Day
ton, a.girl, Ann Maureen, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Downey,
Beaverdam, a boy, Michael Lewis,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Schumacher,
Bluffton, a boy, George William,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dukes, Fiadlay,
a boy, Wayne Allen, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Henry,
Ada, a boy, Delbert Leo, Tuesday.
I L—__ _______ _______
Mahoney, who assumes the duties I was met by his wife and son
of manager on May 1, has a wife! left Bluffton by auto a month
and two children. For the last sev-|to meet him in California,
en years he has been manager of I The family made the return
the Sunbury Telephone Co., which is in their car, arriving here Fridaylp t„ p|ot „n Matter
affiliated with the Telephone berviceI night. I
Co., with headquarters in Lima. _______________________________ Farm Poses Problem for
The Bluffton Telephone Co. also
Rationed
Coal in
bread, made from the new!
cent flour ordered by the Government
deliveries for
A
80 per
government, is beginning to appear
on Bluffton markets, but grocers say| United Mine Workers strike will have! mon road
that unless you look very closely! little effect so far as Bluffton deal I owned by Mrs. Caroline Matter, on
the water works well is op
under a lease-arrangement.
you won’t know the difference. ers are concerned, for their yards are! which
Some bakers are using the new I practically bare of coal and no other! erated
flour exclusively for their bread, and I fuel shipments are believed enroute,
the few buyers who have noted that I Ou the other hand, everyone who
the baked product is slightly grayer! burns coal has a supply on hand that! proposed building site tract
in appearance admit that, if any-1 will be adequate for the rest of the! of this week, by plotting
be-1 heating season, barring unseasonably I extending south along Harmon road
Afternoon callers were Mr. and Burial was in Maple Grove cemetery.
Mrs. T. J. Crawford and family of I
Jenera and l^rs. Ralph Badertscher\RiteS
ff“X^SLjWATERWORKSW£lL
DILEMMA IS STEP
NEARER DECISION
Little was discharged from the!
service at San Francisco where hel nofficial Opinion of InspcctOE
who Is That Well Can’t Be Used
ag*'| If Houses Near
trip
COAL DELIVERIES
RATIONED BECAUSE
isIaabi
np MINE WALKOUT
?ew Buyers Of Bread Notice! I week.
Any Difference in Taste I One-ton Limit Set by Federal! Principal development pointing to
or Appearance I Government Will Mean I ward that conclusion was an unoffi
1 Little Here I cial rel’‘,rt by O. C. Singer, of To-
No Coal in Bluffton Yards to Be| ?'L3h“”‘lay
Consumers Have
Bins, However
I cold weather, local fuel dealers said, from the Bluffton Hatchery com
new and the lack of coal in the yards is I pany’s property.
dif-1 n°t regarded in a serious light. I The well is located about 300 feet
Government Orders Arriving I from Harmon
Expected government orders re-1 feet deep, as
striding coal deliveries were being them to within
Most bakers are not putting the I received the middle of this week by [supply,
gray flour in cakes, cookies and I dealers in this area,
other baked goods, but in view of I For the remainder
acceptance of the new bread they I period deliveries for
are not expecting unfavorable re-| naay not be in excess
suits from the switch to its use ini an amount sufficient to carry the con-1 restriction must apply, which would
pastries. I sumer for five or 10 days, whichever! mean the Board of Public Affairs
New Flour Coming I is his specified minimum required for! must decide between buying the en
Flour made by the new formula! an order. tire nine-acre tract or moving ita
also is beginning to appear on I ‘Blufftdn municipal 0OT plant, the! -well to a new location.
grocer’s shelves, altho in some in-1 Central Ohio Light and Power Co.’sl No official statement will be
stances “white flour’’ still is avail-1 generating station here, Bluffton! made, however, until the State Board
able. I High school and Bluffton college all! of Health has an opportunity to
Home economists who have tried! reported they have sufficient supplies! study Singer’s report
the flour report virtually no differ-1 of coal on hand for their immediate Lease signed when the waterworks
ence in the outward appearance, and I needs. I drilled the well
nearly all ^ay that tests of the new Board of Public
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flour will be of the same nutrient-1 I What action the board
packed quality sold to American I elapse in a field near her! is uncertain, but some
householders more than 80 yearslfarm borne two miles south of I point out that if another well site
ago, with all the added refinements I Eluffton proved fatal Friday morn-1 can be found within reasonable dis
that American families have come to I ^or Mrs. Effie Augusta I isher, I tance of the plant it likely will in
expect from bakers. w^e Charles W. Fisher. I volve less expense than if the well
_________ Mrs. Fisher had been home only is abandoned.
|a ^ew ^ays from the Bluffton Com-|
Imunity hospital where she
I undergoing treatment. i
_____ I On Friday morning she went for|«ere
Observance of the 53rd wedding Ia walk, and when she failed to I
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John return after half an hour members! "King of Kings,” generally accept
Wilkins of Bluffton was marked I the family found her slumped to| ed by church groups as an American
with a family dinner at the home of I the ground in a field.
Mr. and Mrs. Fisher was a member of the
Thursday For
tz
Paulina Vermilhon\
following births at Bluffton) Methodist church for Mrs. Paulina! night.
Vermillion, 74, who died at noon
hospital: I Vermillion, 74, who died at noon I Allen County Engineer Hobart M.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Stettler, I Monday in her home at Jenera fol-1 Mumaugh said county employes are
Bluffton, a boy, James Allen, Thurs-1 lowing a stroke of apoplexy. I putting a reinforced concrete veneer
day. I Rev. W. E. Ballinger will officiate! wall over the face of the two abut-
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Spencer, La-1 at the rites, and burial will be in the! ments and building new concrete
fayette, a girl, Sandra Kay, Thurs-1 Findlay Maple Grove cemetery. I wing walls. Repairs* will cost ap
day.
I. I offered for sale,
I specified.
had beenl«j^f*nfir
I
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. I A native of Fremont, Mrs. Fisher! p. m. this Sunday in the Bluff
and Mrs. Luke Scoles of Pandora, Iwas married June 27, 1909, to! ton High school auditorium, under
Sunday. I Charles Fisher, who survives. [auspices of the Bluffton Ministerial
Present were: Mr. and Mrs. John! Other survivors include the follow-1 association.
Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Wilding children: Dillon E. Fisher, Benton! Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, the
kins and family, Mr. and Mrs. Del-1 Ridge Irvin G. Fisher, Bluffton fi,m is a classic in acting and gen
bert Wilkins and son, Clarence and I Mrs. Alma Hummon, Toledo Mrs.| eral treatment as well as in its sub
Pauline Bilby of Bluffton. I Blanche Garlinger, Bluffton, and Miss! ject matter.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Hanna I Boris Fisher, at home two brothers,! Impressive pageantry of the
Mr. and Lawrence Schaefer, Bowling Green,| depicts the latter years of the life
of Jesus. Much emphasis is placed
and family, Benton Ridge
Mrs. Dwight Mauk and family, and Fred Schaefer, Toledo, and a
Lima Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkins, sister, Mrs. Esther Flemion, Toledo.) on^he t^a^and crucifixion.
Jr. and family, Arlington
Mrs. Robert Basinger and family, Gilboa Methodist church.
Pandora
per, Mr.
Ada, and the host and hostess, Mr. home, with Rev. Paul E. Fisher,
and Mrs.
Gilboa Methodist minister, officiating.
Funeral services were held Sunday! Easter season, it was pointed out
afternoon in the Paul Diller funeral! the Ministerial association.
BUT
UNIT**'
NUMBER 50
Waterworks Board
Necessity for the Board of Public
Affairs to decide between abandoning
its major water-producing well or
purchasing a nine-acre tract on
which it is located moved a step,
nearer culmination during the last
I ledo, district engineer of the State
Board of Health, who after an in-
state health regulations prohibiting
dwellings within 300 feet of muni
cipal water supply likely would ap
ply in Bluffton.
Singer’s survey of the local situa-
orders restricting coal I tion arose from the decision to open
the duration of the|a building lot addition fronting Har
in the nine-acre tract
Lots Laid Out
Board
out the
the first
11 lots
Surveyors finished laying
road, and lots 200
surveyed, will take
100 feet of the water
Must Decide
of the strike! After completing his survey, Sing
an individual er indicated that the State Board of
of one ton, or| Health likely will rule the 300-foot
in 1943 gives the
Affairs first option
II to purchase the land should it be
price
rvfToro/] /rkV ealrx alt*TO DO
weewas
may take
observers
Qf FUm
(Jn SUtlday Algllt
“passion play” film, will be shown at
I Rpna{_ work is eont:ntlInp ftn
film
Showing of the film is timely here,
coming as it does just preceding th*
funerall by the Ministerial association.
\Elm Street Bridge
Reopened To Traffic
I Pa‘r work Is continuing on the
Mrs. Vermillion had been in poor| proximately $1,800 and will be com
health for the last two years.
She was born Oct. 20, 1872, in
Hancock county, and on March 2,1 one of the first of its kind
1906, was married to Levi Vermil-1 county, but the strain of
lion /ho died 22 years ago. I half a century rendered it
Survivors include only a sister,| this spring and it was closed
Mrs. Elizabeth Gossman, of Jenera.| three weeks ago for repairs.
Six sisters and two brothers pre
ceded her in death.
40-year-o]d concrete bridge spanning
Riley creek on West Elm
but the structure was
I Little
Funeral services will be held at) street,
1:30 p. m. Thursday in the Jeneral opened
ve­
to traffic, last Saturday
pleted in another 10 days.
Built 40 years ago, the bridge was
in the
almost
unsafe
nearly
LIBRARY CLOSED
Bluffton public library will
BLUFFTON MARKETS I closed all day Friday while
Grain (bushel prices)—W e a 11 librarian, Miss Ocie Anderson
$1.73 corn $1.12 oats 80c soya! tends a library meeting in Clove*
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be
the
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