Vexillology at the U N as 126 Flags Fly
The United Nations in New York now hosts 126 flags including a new eight color standard for Equatorial Guinea. Vexillology experts note the word and practice date to U N and a map department chief recalls the term’s playful usage. Flags are raised only on weekends during key meetings due to security limits, with half mast observances for notable deaths. debate roils over regional responses.
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United Nations
UPI
New York
Equatorial Guinea
U.N
Manhattan
Spain
U.n.’S
Nathaniel Abelson
U.N. Library
Massachusetts
Abelson
Agnew Keeps On Golfing During Vacation After Shooting
Vice President-elect Spiro T. Agnew said he would continue his vacation as planned after a detective was shot during a car theft arrest on the Dorado Beach Hotel grounds in Dorado Puerto Rico. U S Secret Service FBI and Puerto Rico police said the shooting was not connected to Agnews visit and he retired to a cottage on the hotel grounds to rest. Security officers blocked retreat paths to the Rockefeller cottage.
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Dorado, P.R
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Christiansted
St. Croix
Virgin Islands
Dorado Beach
U.S. Secret Service
FBI
Laurance S. Rockefeller
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Educators Dedicate Insurance Firm In West Virginia
Educators in Huntington formally dedicated Educators Investors Life Insurance Co. a company owned and controlled by educators to provide life insurance for teachers. It is governed by a 10 member board and a board of governors with representation from each county and over 4,000 educator stockholders.
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Huntington
UPI
West Virginia
Educators Investors Life Insurance Co
Students Skip Meal To Aid Biafrans
About 600 West Virginia Wesleyan students will skip dinner to raise money for a Biafran relief fund. Dr. Catherine Gusalus said one campus cafeteria will close for the meal and contributions will go to the charity.
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Buckhannon
APT
W. Va
Wesleyan
Catherine Gusalus
Haden a Bright Prospect for Moore Administration
Morgantown dispatch notes Republican Charles Haden II led the Board of Public Works vote in the recent statewide contest and remains a potential appointee for Arch Moore. Though defeated by Chauncey Browning Jr., Haden weighs a future role, signals a watchdog stance, and hopes the Moore administration recruits young talent with civil service benefits.
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Morgantown
API
Arch Moore
Charles Haden II
Republican Board of Public Works
Chauncey Browning Jr
Haden
Charleston
Moore
Prison Probers Meet Secretly
A West Virginia legislative subcommittee probing prison industries at Moundsville Penitentiary met in executive session to review alleged fund discrepancies. An audit incomplete, slated for release Tuesday afternoon with the government and finance committee. Members described the issue as poor record keeping with no actions taken.
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Charleston
UPS
Moundsville Penitentiary
Prison Industries Fund
Subcommittee
Ivor Boiarsky
William Moreland
Joint Committee On Government and Finance
Legislative Services Division
Joint Committee
Hans McCourt
White president notes vandalism tied to grievances at Bluefield State
Bluefield State leader Hardway described recent vandalism as student grievances expressed by breaking windows rather than a racial issue. He added that five staff members, including himself, received life threatening letters last week. The letters carried a single message and were signed "Black Power."
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Hardway
Trial of Robert Hughes Continued to January Term
The trial of 37 year old Robert Hughes of Beckley for breaking and entering the S & S Supermarket in Beaver was postponed to the January Raleigh County Criminal Court term. Judge Harry L. McCreery dismissed jurors for the current term due to a missing material witness. Hughes is charged with stealing cigarettes and a $300 ham from Sterling Lewis’s market on May 8.
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Robert Hughes
Beckley
Beaver
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
Hughes
Sterling Lewis
Paris Talks and Viet Cong presence at talks
Diplomats said Paris talks may soon open with Le Duc Tho en route from Hanoi, signaling progress in Vietnam negotiations. Thuy claimed a four party framework, while U.S. officials hint at a two side out side arrangement to start talks, despite Saigon’s boycott and insistence on Viet Cong as separate from Hanoi.
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Manila Times
Washington
South Vietnam
le Duc Tho
Communist Party
Hanoi
Moscow
Peking
Paris
U.S
North Vietnam
Saigon
United States
Thuy
Vietnam
Bethany College approves record budget in 128 years
The Disciples of Christ affiliated Bethany College board approves a $3.5 million budget, the largest in its 128 year history. Of the total, $2 million goes to educational and general expenses, $287,000 to scholarships and student aid, and the rest to residence and dining hall operations for about 1,200 students.
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Bethany
UPI
Bethany College
Disciples of Christ Affiliated College
Four Bandits Rob Clarksburg Dept Store Cash
Four masked gunmen robbed Hills Department Store couriers in Clarksburg, making off with about $20,000. Security officer Millard Scolapio was struck. assistant manager Larry Moss was unharmed. Police set up a roadblock. three money bags and the getaway taxi were found abandoned nearby.
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Clarksburg
UPI
Hills Department Store
Millard Scolapio
Larry Moss
Scolapio
Moss
Here
Greek student faces firing squad for political crimes
ATHENS APS Alexadros Panaghoulis awaited a firing squad today as the first person to be executed for political crimes in Greece in 16 years. A special military tribunal handed him a double death sentence for desertion and subversive activities linked to an assassination attempt on Premier George Papa It. Eight others were given prison terms from life to two years for complicity in the August 13 bombing attempt on the premier’s car. He did not seek clemency and said there can be no better swan song than the death rattle in front of a firing squad of tyranny.
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Athens
APS
Alexandros Panaghoulis
Greece
Panaghoulis
George Papa
Quotes By United Press International
Dan O Neill a Brooklyn junior high school teacher commented while voting to end his union walkout saying too many issues blocked teaching and they should never have struck in the first place. He cited disruption to students and urged resuming normal classroom work.
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United Press International
New York
Dan O'Neill
Brooklyn
Hanoi peace talks hope hinges on South Vietnam entry
Paris Xuan Thuy, head of the Hanoi delegation, predicted South Vietnam would eventually participate in the stalled peace talks, signaling a potential shift in the Vietnam problem.
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Paris
Xuan Thuy
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Vietnam
NBC chief apologizes for Raiders Jets game cut
Julian Goodman, president of the National Broadcasting Company, apologized for cutting away the last action-filled moments of the Oakland Raiders versus New York Jets game to run Heidi. He said he missed seeing the game as much as anyone else.
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NW York
Julian Goodman
National Broadcasting Company
Oakland Raiders
New York Jets
Heidi
Humphrey Plans Cape Kennedy Tour Quietly
Dave Gartner says the Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will tour Cape Kennedy with no meetings photographers or reporters present. The statement suggests a restrained campaign stop avoiding media attention.
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Miami
Dave Gartner
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Cape Kenney
Extradition Of Two Pen Escapees Begins
Extradition proceedings start in Waynesburg for two Moundsville Penitentiary escapees James Effner and James Lambert. They were nabbed in a Chambersburg bar after wrecking a car stolen from the prison about 18 miles west near the West Virginia border. Effner, 20, faces 1 to 10 years for breaking and entering. Lambert, 21, 1 to 10 years for receiving stolen goods.
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Waynesburg
UPI
Moundsville
W. Va
James Effner
James Lambert
Chambersburg
Here
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Effner
Wetzel County
Lambert
Raleigh County
Runaway trailer rig overturns in Sierra with rockets onboard
A 40,000-pound rocket load on a trailer truck overturned after brakes caught fire while descending a 9,000-foot summit in Markleeville California. Fire destroyed no rockets as 275 Mark-4 missiles were bound for Herlong Army depot. Drivers Cleo Bledsoe and Allan Young were treated for minor injuries.
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Markleeville
Calif
UPI
Here
High Sierra Mountains
Highway Patrol
Army
Herlong
Nevada
Cleo O. Bledsoe
Richmond
Tex
Allan Young
Grand Prairie
South Lake Tahoe
Beckley Deaths and Funerals Detail Local Listed Names
Multiple obituaries note the deaths of Mrs. Beatrice Knight 46 of 308 G Street and Mrs. Mildred Louise Lemon 49 both in Beckley. notices include birth dates, family survivors, church and job details, and arrangements at local funeral homes. Also announced are funeral plans for Walter Cook of Detroit formerly Slab Fork with service details.
Isaac Jenkins 79 Surveyor resident dies in Fayetteville
Isaac Jenkins died at 4 15 am Sunday in a Fayetteville nursing home after a long illness. Born March 12 1889 in Cosby Tennessee, he was a Surveyor resident of Raleigh County 41 years and a UMWA member. Survived by five daughters two sons a brother nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Service held at Mt Tabor Baptist Church with burial in Calfee Cemetery. Viewing at Calfee Funeral Home after 4 pm today and one hour prior to services at church.
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Isaac Harrison Jenkins
Surveyor
Fayetteville
Cosby
Tenn
Alexander
Carolyn Russell Jenkins
Surveyor Methodist Church
Raleigh County
UMWA
Laura Victoria Jenkins
Czechoslovakia moves to restrict reforms and empower executive committee
Early signals show many April reforms abandoned or weakened including press and travel freedom, workers councils, and party democratization. An eight member executive committee gains wide power to push urgent decisions and place functionaries in key jobs. Student leaders list 10 demands while condemning the Soviet invasion.
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Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
U.N
Mayor and Council Feud Over JFK Bust in Wilkinsburg
In Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania Mayor Alexander Jaffars and Council President Dawson A Mack clash over a life size John F Kennedy bust The mayor seeks a public display while the Republican council opposes erecting busts of all presidents The issue will be placed on record December 9 for a formal decision on acceptance or rejection of the bust.
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Wilkinsburg, Pa
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Republican Council
Alexander Jaffars
Council
Dawson A. Mack
Jaffars
William Ingle Williams 82 died after long illness
William Ingle Williams 82 of 1412 South Kanawha Street died at 5 10 am today in a local hospital after a long illness. He was a retired C and O Railway conductor with 50 years service and a member of the Brotherhood of Trainmen and Beckley Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife Katherine Evans two sons two daughters and two step sons. Funeral was held Wednesday at Peace Chapel with Rev. Jim Franklin officiating. Burial followed at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home after 5 pm Tuesday.
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William Ingle Williams
South Kanawha St
Williams
Brotherhood of Trainmen
Beckley Baptist Church
Katherine Evans
Tom
Corpus Christi
Texas
Bill
Roanoke
Ray
Juanita) Sawyers
Hinton
Creed
Mary) Russell
Glen Morgan
Walter Gwinn
Miami, Fla
Winfred
Charleston
Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel
Jim Franklin
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Funeral services for Rev. Tom B. Mitchell
The Rev. Tom B. Mitchell 46 of Mead will be buried after funeral services at St. Paul Baptist Church Mead Tuesday at noon officiated by Revs N C Lewis S L McClure Russell Johnson F H Jones and W M Ricks. Burial follows at Greenwood Memorial Park with Bloodstone Lodge No 101 conducting graveside rites and pallbearers. Mitchell died Friday in a mine accident at East Gulf. Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor will be open after 4 p.m. today.
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Tom B. Mitchell
Mead
St. Paul Baptist Church
N. C. Lewis
S. L. McClure
Russell Johnson
F. H. Jones
W. M. Ricks
Greenwood Memorial Park
Bloodstone Lodge No
Final rites for Mrs Sadie B Talbert at Fayetteville church
Mrs Sadie B Talbert 76 of Fayetteville dies at home Sunday Funeral at Fayetteville Methodist Church at 2 pm Tuesday with Rev Wickline and Rev Nunley officiating Burial in High Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill Born May 2 1892 Mount Hope daughter of Charles G Sink and Martha Ann Weese Sink Survived by son Charles of Route 1 Fayetteville daughters Charlotte Johnson Margaret Dileonardo and Mary Massey brother Sam Sink Mount Hope sisters Mae Sink Gladys Phoebus Edith Halstead 16 grandchildren and four great grandchildren Body at Dodd Payne Funeral Home Fayetteville will be taken to church one hour before funeral Friends may call after 5 pm today
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Sadie B. Talbert
Fayetteville
Fayetteville Methodist Church
Billy Reed Wickline
Leon E. Nunley
High Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Talbert
Mount Hope
Charles G
Martha Ann Weese Sink
Charles B. Talbert
Charles
Charlotte Johnson
Margaret Dileonardo
Mary Massey
Vermillion
Ohio
Sam Sink
Mae Sink
Gladys Phoebus
Edith Halstead
Charleston
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
Viet Cong Attacks Hit Da Nang Police Station and Bridge
Dawn Sunday Viet Cong attacked a Da Nang police station a bridge and a Buddhist school. Four South Vietnamese policemen were killed four wounded as police and troops swept the city capturing 13 Viet Cong and arresting 109 others in irregular situations. Da Nang eased the 24 hour curfew while Marine units clashed with infiltrators southwest of the city. In Saigon U S forces said a DMZ bunker camp was destroyed nine bunkers burned four enemy dead with ongoing allied retaliation for DMZ violations since November.
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da Nang
U.S
Saigon
Air Force
Warop
North Vietnam
Clark M. Clifford
Dmz
Burlington engineer John Clifton Jr dies after long illness
John Benton Clifton Jr aged 53 of Burlington North Carolina former Beckley resident died at 12 30 p m Saturday in a Burlington hospital after a long illness Born July 21 1915 in Beckley he was a senior resident engineer for the North Carolina State Road Commission and served in the German theater during World War II He belonged to the Burlington Presbyterian Church Survivors include his wife Yvonne Butler Clifton a sister in Beckley and a brother in Santa Barbara Calif He was preceded in death by a sister The obituary notes burial took place in Burlington Tuesday.
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John Benton
Jack) Clifton, Jr
Burlington
N. C
Beckley
J. B. Clifton
State Road Commission
North Carolina
Raleigh
Greenbrier Military School
Engineering Corps
Germany
Burlington Presbyterian Church
Yvonne Butler Clifton
John L. Fisher
Paul
Santa Barbara
Calif
E. J
Ruth) Brandt
Mrs Lizzie Taylor Dies At 75 In Mt Hope
Lizzie Taylor 75 of 602 N Virginia St Mt Hope died Sunday at 8 15 p m in a local hospital Born March 12 1993 in Eagle Rock Va she was daughter of the late Nathaniel and Eliza Turpin She was a member of First Union Baptist Church Mt Hope Her husband Harry L Taylor died on Nov 11 She is survived by Roger Beckley John Mt Hope one brother Howard Turpin Mt Hope and four sisters Alto Brown Glen Wilton Va Mattie Johnson Glen Wilton Va Raleigh Herns Buchannon Va Priscilla Helen Mt Hope three grandchildren and five great grandchildren
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Beatrice Knight
G St
Fletcher Parker
East Beckley
Laura Adderton Parker
St. Matthew A.M.E
Laura A. Robinson
Beckley
John A. Knight, Jr
Melvin V. Knight
Brooklyn
N. Y
Hattie Parker
Melvin E. Parker
Harbor City
Calif
Fletcher Parker, Jr
Elsie DeBerry
Columbus
Ohio
Willie Mae Parker
New York City
Marjorie Parker
Detroit
Mich
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Lizzie Taylor
Virginia St
Mt. Hope
Eagle Rock
Nathaniel and
Eliza Turpin
First Union Baptist Church of
Harry L. Taylor
Roger
John
Howard Turpin
Alto Brown
Mattie Johnson
Glen Wilton
Raleigh Herns
Buchannon
Priscilla Helen
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Emmitt Gearhart Rites Set In Sophia Church
Funeral services for Emmitt Gearhart 73 of Cleveland Ohio, formerly Sophia, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Sophia with Rev Dewey Wilson officiating. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Ark. Survivors include sister Anne Flinchum of Norfolk Virginia and daughter Hilda Dorton of Cleveland. Body at Williams Funeral Home in Sophia after 5 p.m. today.
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Emmitt Gearhart
Cleveland
Ohio
Sophia
First Baptist Church of
Dewey Wilson
Sunset Memorial Ark
F. M. Lilly
Robert Leffen
James Johnson
W. M. Benfield
Henry McKinney
D. B. Winfrey
Gearhart
Barnard
Anne) Flinchum
Norfolk
Jack
Hilda) Dorton
Williams Funeral Home
Mrs. George Akers Obituary Notice in Coalville
Mrs. George Akers 61 of Coalville died today at 3 45 AM in a local hospital after an illness. She is survived by husband George Akers a daughter Evelyn Perdue of Beckley and a son Dewey Wyatt of Richwood. The body is at Bailey Funeral Home in Princeton.
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George Akers
Coalville
Evelyn Perdue
Beckley
Dewey Wyatt
Richwood
Bailey Funeral Home
Princeton
Franc crisis tests world leaders cash aid plan
Global bankers from the United States West Germany Britain Japan and others met to discuss aid for the franc as they did for the dollar and pound Premier Maurice Couve de Murville was to address the nation with expected austerity measures amid Le De Gaulle’s political embarrassment He held gold and reserves to blunt a run while observers noted the strained stance after student unrest and strikes The franc tumbled prompting a rate hike to 6 percent and a flood of francs into Frankfurt boosting the German mark as Basel bankers weighed potential devaluation risks
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United States
West Germany
Britain
Japan
Maurice Couve de Murville
Paris
de Gaulle
France
Frankfurt
Germany
U.S
Basel
Charles Coombers
Bank of England
Sir Leslie O’brien
Karl Blessing
Federal Bank
Transplants performed over weekend at Paris and Houston
In Paris at Foch Hospital doctors completed one heart and two kidney transplants on three patients this weekend. All recipients were reported in entirely satisfactory condition. Names of patients and donors were not released. In Houston, Leo Allen Boyd 50 of Staffordville Ontario received a heart transplant from a Mexican donor who died shortly after giving birth to a child. The child was delivered in Yuma Arizona and the mother Maria Acosta 38 of San Luis Mexico died from a brain hemorrhage shortly after.
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Paris
UPI
Foch Hospital
Houston, Tex
Leo Allen Boyd
Staffordville
Ont
Boyd
Maria Acosta
San Luis
Mexico
Toronto performs fourth heart transplant in Canada
Surgeons at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto completed the citys fourth heart transplant and Canadas 13th. The recipient, 54 year old engineer Charles Perrin Johnston, is in very satisfactory condition after the operation. The donor was 18 year old Ronald Marks whose kidneys were later used in transplants at Western Hospital in Toronto.
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Toronto
UPI
St. Michael's Hospital
Canada
Charles Perrin Johnston
Johnston
Ronald Marks
Western Hospital
Quirks and Confrontations From City News Alley to Sea Bed
In Milwaukee Emil Meier, 17, veered toward a barrier and plunged 20 feet into the Kinnickinnin River, escaping unharmed as his car drifted downstream. In San Francisco a Rolls Royce survived a blaze, damaged only lightly while a nearby Impala burned. In Great Yarmouth a deep sea diver watched a submarine pass within 100 feet near a gas rig, later deemed a friendly incident. In Moscow shops sold Czech lollipops wrapped in “Life is easy” paper, amid political notes.
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Milwaukee
Wis
UPI
Emil Meier
Meier
Kinnickinnie
San Francisco
Fitzgerald Ames
City Hall
Ames
Great Yarmouth
England
Defense Ministry
Re Ministry
Logan County Bus Drivers End 17 Day Strike
Logan County school bus drivers reach a settlement with the Board of Education and the Amalgamated Transit Union after 17 days off duty. About 12,000 students were affected as drivers stopped work October 30 over pay and fringe benefits. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
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LOGAN
UPS
Logan County
Logan County Board of Education
Amalgamated Transit Union
West Virginia University Moot Court Team Wins Regional
WVU law team defeats University of Virginia in Charleston to clinch the regional moot court title and earn a berth in the national championship in New York City. Ten teams from Virginia, North and South Carolina, and West Virginia competed. WVU previously won on a Vietnam-era legality topic.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia University
New York
N. Y
WVU
University of Virginia
North
South Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
U. S
Collection Suit Filed Against Andersons in Raleigh Court
American Finance Corp. of Pineville files a collection suit in Raleigh County Circuit Court against Jerry and Shirley Anderson of Stotesbury. The firm, represented by Bailey Worrell Camper and Viers, seeks $877.21 overdue on a promissory note for $1,114.80 dated March 20.
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American Finance Corp
Pineville
Raleigh County
Jerry
Shirley Anderson
Stotesbury
Bailey, Worrell, Camper and Viers
Andersons
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Katherine) Plumley
Geneva) Varard
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June) Barr
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