Georgia forestry, Vol. 6, no. 11 (Nov. 1953)

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Fire Prevention Is Paying Off

(From the Gainesville Daily News)

(The following report from county fire prevention and forest fire

Clyde T. CaiJtrell , Jr., Hall County Forest Ftanger, Georgia

protection headquarters makes good sense to us. No woNler tl e men in the outfit can write v.:i tl such pride in their jobs. Here's the report as we received it:)

Forestry Commission, emphasized the fact that tl1is H cord in lumber production shows again the substantial payoff from Forestry here in our county.

Hall Countians, and Georgians throughout the state, can take pride -in another ''Forestry First'' that Georgia has scored in leading the Eastern United States in the production of lumher as revealed by the latest survey on figures just released by the Bureau of Census, l 1 S. Department of Commerce, which s how that during 1951, the latest year for w},ich figures are availarle, Georgia's output of lumher reached 1,117, N3,000 board feet, of this total 1,729,7RS board feet were softwood-principally tre valuable, f as t ~rowing pines " hid; cover thousands of acres here in Hall County and millions of ac res throughout the state.

These figures show conclu si vely that the money we are expending herP in Hall County for forest fire protection rt'l resents a good, sound investment, and not merely an expense. Our fire suppression equ:ifmeut inc l uriPs :1 J:f\. transport truck and crawler trac tor with plow, which is used for making fire-brea ks in suppressing Forest Fires, a pick-up truck with slip on water pump a nd tank which can be used for protecting buildings, suppressing grass fires, etc., and one Jeep with water pump and tank for cooling down fires, and holding fire breakovers. \\ e have two 80- foot allsteel lookout towers used for detecting fires.

Vol. 6

GEORGIA FORESTRY
November, 1953
Published Monthly by the
GEORGIA FORESTRY CO ~IMISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Dircc to;

No. 11

Members, Board of Commissio ners:

G. Philip Morgan, Chairman

_S avannah

John l\1. McElrath ___________ Macon

K. S. \'arn _

Waycross

C. l\1. Jordan, Jr.. _

Alamo

H. 0. Cummings _ _Donalsonville

Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at the Post

Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia

Press Association.

EDITOR

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Richard E. Davis

ASSOCIATE EDITORS ..

Robert Rutherford, Catherine Dismuke

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DISTinCT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTI~Y CO)Il\IISSION:

DISTRICT 1-Route 2, Statesboro

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville

DISTRICT II-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla

DISTRICT VII-Route 1, Rome

DISTRICT III-P. 0. Box 169, Americus

DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 811, \Vaycross

DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333,
~ewnan

DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville

DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae

DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington

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(From the S<,va nn<J, Pre ss ) Tirre, of course, i s of the PS sence in fightin g fires, and rec ognizingthis the Georgia fon:stry Commission has readied a ''mobil izaticr;" plan for orga11i zin!d <-t quick attack agains t any threat of widespread forest fire devastation like that of last fall.
The Cornr: i~sion has disclo se d it is se tting up base camps to organ ize volunteer groups quickly when needed to help regular firefighters and is clearing red tape in advance for quickhelp by the Nation al Cuard.
The Comn,j ssion reported that during one week of la st !':ovember fires swept over 75,000 acres of mountainous timberland in two big North Georgia fires that finally we re put out with help of the guardsmen , but an e n tire day wa s required to clear ''r ed li-iJ>P'' necessHy to get guard units in action.
The mobilization plan is being set up at county and d:istri ct r.s \\ell as at the state level. Base c <mps are being equipped with kitchens , first aid s lations, and communications equipment as well as firefightint tools.
When the forest puts on its gaudiest dress of rainbow colors and the leaves tumble earthward, Georgia sportsmen turn again to match wits with the wily deer and rabbit, quai I and duck, grouse and turkey. Here in the protected and wisely managed forest -green, growing and wellstocked- are bountiful game, good hunting, good sport. U.S. Forest service Photo.

NOVEMBER, 1953

~1\Tilkinson, Brown Win 4-H Forestry Honors

Georgi ;1' s 4-H forestry c h am pjons for l 953are Fred Wilkinson, lowndes County, a nd Cl adys Brown , Hancock County.
The youtbf1d champions emerged victorious from a field of ten Lop conte nders who vied for state honors at the 4-J-1 Congress heJ d in Oc Lober, and won the ri ght I o c arry Gt:: orgia's colors in thf' national competitions sch e rllded :!01 Chi ( f:\1:;, 0 in November.
Miss Brown' s prize winning rresentatj nn was on ccThe Pollii ra tion and Growth o f Trees.' ' WiJkinson displayed championship form in hi s n av ~ l store s demon stration on th e ''Use of Up - to l Gate Methods to Tmrrov e Cum
l\ Yie lds. ''
Path Wilkinson and Miss Prawn 1will go th e national compe tition s
i1 Chicago as guests of South e rn E'e ll Tel ephone and Te l q ;r aph Company, spor1 so r s of the 4-H forestry , progr am ir1 Georgia . Wilkin son will cc,rr,petewithotber s t a t ewinn~n-. from throul!houl tbt: llnited States for the nation a l fo1 estry champ ionship and the :lt300 fare s -
TOWER DESCRIBED--Joyce Venable, o f J ackson County, shows 4- II forestry contest judges how her coun ty' s woodlands are protected by forest fi r e lookout towers.

try school scholarship awarded annual ly by Ame ri c an Forest Product s Indus tri es , Inc . Although ineligible to compete for na tional honors , Mi ss Brown will be pre s ent in Chi c~1 go t o s pe ak for th e distaff s ide and eviden( e t he inte res t in forestr y amon g t he w o mf~ n of Ceorg i a .
Ot l e r t op con t enders in th e Atl ant a c ompe ti t i ons- all di s tri c t far es t r y cha mpions - were Jea11 Cainou s , Gr ady County, who portrayed method s o f' ' 'Protec ting t h e Fa rm Woodland; '' Joyce Ven a ble, 011 ''Fire Protec tion'' inl ,f> r na-
ti w J nck s on County; ~~arianne
Gillis, Treutl e n County, ''1he Tmpro vernen to fPi ne li a rdwood S tand s by Eradication o f Hardwood s Che mically;'' Carl Walke r, Richmond County, ''Lift ing and Se ttingPine
Seedlings;'' Jon Lil e s, Camd e n County, ''Presc ribed Purnin g; '' Billy Fowen, ''The Chemical Control of l'ndesirable Tree s ;'' from SUI11ie r County; Janis ~1cCI ;ny, V'orth Cov n t y, ''The Pl anting of ~edlin gs ," J c> mes Embe rson, Jr. Catoosa , ''How to Ca re For and Plant Pine See dlings ,' ' and Bar-
bara Jones , Ups on County , ''How to Can For and Plan t P ine Se{dling:-; .' '
Winners i1 1 t J, e s t atew ide cor"p e ti tions were se l ee Led on t he bas i s of both pas t perfo rman ce in fa r es try J'rDJ ects and accomplishmen ts and on th e deJTO n.<-trations pnsen ted. Judges inc luded D. J. Wedde ll, De an, Cecrgia Schoo l of Forestry; James F. Spiers, rur ester, Cen tral of Georgia Rail-
road; Howard J. noyle, Ana For-
ester, Sou thern Pulpwood Con serv<l ion Association; and \\-. .J. Parke r, Fxt ension Foreste1 uf ~outh Camlina. Di r ee Lin~ the day-lonv fessi on of demon stra tions were C. Dorsey Pyer , Ex tension r(ll f'S ier, and Nel soll Frightwe ll, Ass i s t ant FxtPnsioil Forester.

GEORGIA' S 4-11 f'ORESTRY OIAMPSFred Wilkin son , top ph oto, of Lowndes County, 19 53 4- II forestry champion of Georgi a will vie for national honors at the 4-11 Forestry Congress in Chicago in Novembe r. Miss Gladys Brown, state winner in the girls' divi si on, bottom photo, also will attend the Chicago meeting.

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International Paper Company's newest comic forestry booklet en-

tit Jed ''How Does The Tree Crop

Grow?'' has just Leen published

and is being distributed to all

sixth, seventh, 8nd eighth grade

school students throughout Geor-

gia and other southern states.

SMOKEY MEETS THE GOVERNOR--A toy replica of Smokey, the fire preventing bear, is presented Governor Talmadge by State Forester Guyton DeLoach, left, and Charles A. Connaughton, regional forester,
southern region, u. S. Forest Service. The bear is the symbol of
the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention program in which state and federal forest organizations, private business and industry join forces to reduce forest fire incidence in the nation.
" Keep Green" Contest
Officially Under Way

' 'The most spirited competition since our Keep Georgia Green contest began three years ago, Wfl.S predicted this month by Hugh Dobbs, President of the Georgia Forestry Association, as he reported the 1953-54 contest was officially under way. The deadline for entry in the contest was midnight, October 31.
For tlat- tJ i rd cons ecu ti ve year, judgesselected by the Association <: re determinin g the Georr;ia county in which citizens have shown the greatest progress in forest fire prevention.
All counties under the organized forest protection system of the Georgia Forestry Commis si on~ including new counties o rganized since Jul y 1, were eligible to compete. Forest fire prevention activities from July 1, 1953, through March , 1954, will be judged.
B. M. Lufburrow, Association

Executive Secretary announced t.l at the winning county will receive $1000. Second place winner will receive $500; third place $])0; and fourth place, $200. The Georgia Pankers Association will award $100 to the ranger of the winning county. Winners will be announced at the Georgia Forestry Association's annual meeting to be held in May, 1954.
''Much emphasis,'' said Mr. Lufburrow, ''will be placed on initiative and originality.'' He said a new feature of the 1953 -54 contest is a county score sheet which judges will use to rate fire prevention activities of individual counties. Thirty different i terns will be lis ted.
~~r. Dobbs pointed out that e very county will be a winner to a degree by saying, ''Even though a county may not win one of the cash prizes, jt will have lost
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Distribution of the booklets in c~orgia is being made by County Rangers in counties operating ; forestry units, while in unprotected counties variolls cc:tmty school superintendents are handling distribution.
At tr active 1y pre sen ted, the comic book tells the story of tree farming all the way fr ar plan t.i11g of seedlings to use of timber in a paper mill and features the educatiowd activities of the south's pulp industry ir sponsoring boys' forestry camp~ for farm youths. The booldet covers such topics as ref arestatior thinning, use of fire-fightint equipment, and tree identifies tion.

4 NOVEMBER, 1953

Tree Farm Awards Highlight Dedication

Of FFA School Forest

An impressiv~ ceremony marke d the forrm.l dedication of the Wount Vernon-Ailey FFA School Forest near Mt. Vernon recent 1y.
The 10- cere forest, one of a chain being placed in operation cooperatively by C-eorgia Future Farmers of Ameri ca Chapters and Un ion Bag and Paper Corporation, Savannah , has been established on land donated by D. A. McRae, Sr., outstanding landowner and civic leader of Montgorrery County. The forest. is located on the Mt. Vernon-Glenwood highway near the
Oconee River . The are a will tf'
managed by the FFA members for maximum production of forest production of forest products , with assistance of the Georgia Forestry Comnrrssion and the Union Bag and Paper Coq,oration.
An added highligh t of the l'lfternoon program was the awarding

of Georgia Tree Farm certificHtt.s to five southe ast Georgia Forest
owners. Honored as certified Tree Farmers were J. B. O'Connor, V.iJ,_ bee, Chairman, Montgomery County Corrrnissioners, 5,000 acr es; P. R.
Walker, Nt. \ 'e rnon, Chairman, ~ontganery Cmutl y fcrestry Board,
2,466 acres; Mrs. Oreta Ricer~,~ lan, LFIHJ"PJ~ County, 850 acr es ; Arthur G. Steedly, Dodge County, 770 acres, and M. M. Smith 6, 000 acres in Telfair and Dodge counties. W. H McComb Assistant Director in Man agement, Georgia Forestry Comnassion, made the Tree Farm Awards .
H. E. Ruark, Assistant Director
in Charge of Fire Control, Georgia ForestryComnassion, delivered the feature address of the afternoon. Ruark outlined the ''signal progress being made in fares try ir the state'' and erq:,hasized that

SCHOOL FOREST DEDICATION--The group which participated in the recent dedication of the Mount Vernon-Ailey FFA School Forest near Mt. Vernon included, left to right, Montgomery County Ranger
J. Carl Adams; Billy Pullen, Treasurer, Mount Vernon-Ailey FFA
Chapter; Ray Mitchell, Secretary, FFA Chapter; Rod Carpenter, Vice President, FFA Chapter; Lewis Davis, President, FFA Chapter; H. E. Ruark, Fire Control Chief, Georgia Forestry Commission; Sam LYle,
Union Bag and Paper; and H. A. Moses, Vocational Agriculture teacher.

PROUD TREE FARMERS--Arthur G. Steedley, left, of Dodge County, and J. B. 0' Connor, of Montgomery County, right, receive Tree Farm
certificates from W. H. McComb,
Assistant Director in Charge of Management, Georgia Forestry Commission. Mr. 0' Connor operates a 5,000 acre Tree Farm, and Mr. Steedley's Tree Farm covers 770 acres.

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''the yearly turnover from for es -

try in the state exceeds $600 mil-

lion- approximate} y one-fifth of

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the entire economy of Georgi a.'' He ci ted the fact also that ''with the awarding of tree farm certi fi-

cates today, more than ten per-

cent of the entire land area of Montgonery County will be in cer-

tified Tree Farms.''

Participating in the program

also were James Stacy, P. M. A.,

Montgome r y County who served as

Master of ceremonies and welcorred

the gathering; Paul Calhoun, Mont-

gomery County School Superinten-

dent, Turner Barber, Fifth Dis-

trict Forester, Georgia FcrPstry

Corrmission, M:Rae; J. Carl Adams,

Ranger, Montgonery County Fores-

try Unit; Sam Ly le , Conservation

Forester, Union Bag and Paper,

and Henry Arthur Moses, \ 'ocation-

al Agriculture Teacher.

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l. Cone picking calls for a good eye and ability to select sound tree limbs for support. 2. Collecting crew ga t her s cones which have been knocked to the ground by pickers.
3. cones are loaded on a pickup truck wnich will transport them to a coll ection station. 6. A movable belt carries seeds out of the shed. 7. Fo r est Engineer N. E. Brooks watches as cones are rolled out of
the shed.

''Cone Collecting Time''

The 1954- 55 treeplanting se as on
will not be upon us for nearl y ano ther year, but the success of the season can be at tribu t ed to the thousands of Georgi ans who have been participatin g in the annual " cone coll ecting time. "
The Geor gia Forestry Commi ss ion for the second consecuti ve year announced i t was purchas in g cones from the publi c for use in its vast reforest ation projects . County Fo r e stry Un it offices served as " co li ecti on point s;' an d the co n es wer e furwarded to cone proces s in g

headquarte r s from the co li ection points via l arge Comm i ssio n transport trucks.
Scouts, 4 -H a nd FFA grou ps , c1v1c organization s , pr iv ate citize n s , a nd as s hown in these pictures, Coun ty Forestry Unit c r ews , gathered con es . Many of the s e e d 1 i n g s f rom cones which were coll ected this season wil l be merchantable
timber 1ess than 15 years from
now . Slash, Loblolly, and Short-
leaf pine con es were coll ected
by the Commission this year.

4. Transported to Macon (the Georgia Forestry Commission al-so o~erates a cone shed at Baxley), the cones are placed in storage
b1ns. Asst. Forest Engineer Mac O' Barr checks therr.10meter to assure constant 85 degree temperature.
5. ~ben cones are ripe the winged seeds can be shaken out easily, and are pulled to the floor of the storage shed.
8. Conveyor carries cones to seed extractor. 9. RY time cones have gone through the extractor, the seeds have been shaken loose. 10. David Groom, of Milledgeville, Sixth District Forester, watches seeds as movable belt tak es them from extraction machine.





1. Ranger Leon Ray's Prize Winning Emanuel County Exhibit.
2. Fulton Ranger Bill Hyatt Checks Southeastern Fair Exhibit in Atlanta.



3. Literature From Macon County

Ranger.

4. Coweta County Fair.

7. Coosa Valley Fair.

5. Georgia State Fair at Macon.

6. Walton County Ranger W. D. Palmer Shows "Lookout Tower . " Haralson-Carroll Fair. Tower at Evans-Tattnall Fair.

County Forestry Unit Exhibits Seen In Fairs Throughout State

Exhibits of County Fores try Units of the Georgia Fore s t ry Commission each year draw f avor able comment from those who visit the dozens o f c ounty f airs held dur ing the falllll)nths.
With lll)re counti es under or u nized fo rest pro tection than at afolY time in its history , the Georg1a Forestry Corrmission was able to bring, through t he medium of fair exhibits, its message of good forestry to thousands of citizens throughout the state.
Each exhibit follo~ed tl e same

general therre of citing the value of Georgia's f aests to all its citizens, but a variety of colorful methods and ideas were followed in presenting that therre. Snokey the Bear appeared at several f~rs, both' 'in person'' and in g1ant cardboard cutout form.

I':l ot~er fai~s, rangers set up

theu d1spatchrng stations at the

fair.~o~ds, showing the public

the 1n1t1al steps in forest fire

suppression. Others built life-

size models of forest fire look-



outs towers; while many units

showed burned and unl:urned areas.

8. Elbert County Ranger Albert Mooney Gives Forestry Information.
11 . Chattooga Exhibit 'Prayer of the Woods. "
12. Cbattooga Ranger J. Advises on Wildfire.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Rangers In The News

fav:i d Groom, Sixth fh su i ct
Forester , Kermit Felker, Ass is-
tant fistrict FoJester , Bill Mutray, ~ 1 anagemen t Fares ter, and County Pangers of ristrict 6 are rna king t.e l evis ion appearances on ~tation \IMAZ- TV in ~'aeon, in a series of fiteeen minute pro~ams.

Croom, Felker, and ~'urray, with the help of the Sixth Jlistrict Pangers, derno hStrate fire s uppression and prevention activi ties to viewers by showing the use s of the dispatcher's map, twoway radio, and fire fighting equipment. They empha s ize proper planti1 t' rethods by sandbn~ .~. r.0n strations and stress forest fire prevention by using pictures and s lides .

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CONTEST LAUNCHING--Members of the Keep Dodge County Green council launch their third annual participation in the Keep Georgia Green contest with a special banquet at Eastman. Uodge county captured first place in the 1951-52 contest and finished among the top 12 last year. Plru1s were made at tJ1e banquet to carry out the largest educational drive of its kind yet attempted in the county in a dual attempt to prevent wildfires and to win first place.

TIIOUSANUS VI E"EU this Gordon County Forestry Unit float in the Fi r st Gordon County Recreational Festival which was held to promote industrial, business, and resource development in the county . J. C. ~lcDearis, Gordon County Ranger , designed and constructed the eye-catching float.


Cob b Counl y Ranger T. L. Holmes credi t s <J faithful lit tle dog with savi ng t he life of its master, Frank Wa se , a 60 year old man who fell unconcious as tJ,e result of '' light stroke while battling a wood s fire that was thrPatening hi::- l:o11e.
Flames were licking at Wade's feet wh en the little dog attracted the attention of Ranger Holmes, who was plowing a fire brea~ 3 round the blaze. The doe ran from the fire to Holrrts a nd back to hi s nas ter. Followin g the dog, Rangpr Holnes dragged the man to ~afet y and revived hin,.
''Three more minutes would have been too late.,'' Jfo]nes said .

NOVEMBER, 1953

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Georgia Forestry Conmission
vehicl~s t raveled 4,500,000 miles
in a sing!~" year and record e d only 11 accidents i11 which Conmission personnel were directly at fault.
L. L. Lundy, Assistant Fire Control Chief, Georgia Forestry Commi !:-si0n made that report today as he pointed out the forestry organization's accic!ent record per million miles was 2.4. accicents.
The state average for all Georgia citizens driving vehicles is 2. 6 accidents per n:illion miles.
'' Th is record, ' ' Mr. Lundy declared, ' 'is a 11 t he more remarkable in view of t he fact that the 4,500,000 miles ofdrivingduring the last fiscal year was rer formed l) 1-ersons ranging in age from 18 to fi5. The driving was dow' Vt'der all types of conditions and all types of terrain- - ranging f~om busy highways to rutted logg1ng roads in nearly inaccessible areas, where a single wrong turn
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nothing by its efforts to keep down forest fins and will have gained much, even in dollars and cents, through the valuable forest lands saved. 'lie fed that this contest will do much toward convincing the citizens of Georgia of the irr_portance of conser-
svoinugrcet..h'e,j r tr eatest natural r e -
Guyton DeLoach, Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission, emp h asized that this contt .-, t ''helped greatly to drav. p rivate citizens, civic, fraternal, agrirdtun-tl and educational clubs togeth o i I the fight against wildfires.'' County Rangers intensified t heir infornq.; l j olt ;.jftd education campaigns durj,,g the contest period to lend all the impetus possible to the CounL)' s fire prevention campa1gn.

of t he wheel cou]f' hang up a vehicle on a stunq: or send it crash1.TIC c1own the side of a mountair, . ''

The Commissi on official also
pointed out that a total of 30 ac -
cident.s was recorded during the entin-' fiscal year, but in 19 of
these 30 accidents, Corrmission per sonne 1 were held blame less.

The Commission requires all personnel driving any of its 459 vehicles to carry liability insurance so that if a drivtr is at fault in an accident, the driver and accomp anying occupants of the other vehicle involved wi 11 be paid a just unount. State law forbids use of state funds for this rurll0 !:-C 1 and the Comnission invoked the liability insurance requi rerrent to protect the pt1bl ic.

Average property damage of all \thicles over the entire state invel ved in accidents was ~4lfi per accident. The Corrmission averagt> per vehicle was 'l!:36.

Frequent safety schools are

held by the Conrnission throughout

the state, and a s pecial safety

bulletin is published at regular

intervals. The state Highway

Patrol provides instruction at the

safety schools .

4-lf FORESTRY CONTESTANTSin the 1953 4-H forestry com-

petition were James Emberson Jr., of Catoosa County, top photo;

Marianne Gillis, of Treutlen County , center photo, and Carl Walker,

of Richmood County, below.

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November, 1983
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A GOOD POINT

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This dog's point is well taken. One cigarette, dropped in dry grass,

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can start a fire that will destroy thousands of acres of valuable wood-

land. One fire may close a large "re" to hundreds of sportsmen. F"st

spr ea ding fl"mes trap birds "nd animals, destroy their cover and

burn rheir food supplies.

Fire kills young trees, too-trees needed for tomorrow's timber h"rvests. Please be careful with fire in the woods. Do your p.srt to keep our st,te g reen.

Entered as seco nd class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia.

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