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Miss Carroll Macill (above) of Athens, was elected as the Uni-*
versity of Ceorgia Beauty Queen in the eighth annual Pandora
fevue. She was sponsored by the Phi Mu sorority. Miss Magill is
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the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Magill of Athens, and her father
s associate editor of the Athens Banner-Herald,—(Associated Press
Mat Service).
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| W@ & BBY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK|
"\ i &8 Fatalism Is Very Comfortable |
® S Way Of Avoiding Responsibility
‘Many today escape a sense of
personal responsibility through a
general feeling of powerlessness,
Like Gulliver in the land of -the
giants, they find their lives de
termined by forces S 0 titanic that
they lapse into a mood of emo=
tional fatalism.
Fatalism is commonly presented
R S A
ATLANTA — (AP) —The pros:
pect of a winter coal short«aée con
fronted the Southeast today, with
dealers in many cities * ‘reporting
only a few days’ supply on hand,
but Charlie Farrar, executive. sec
retary of the Southeastern Retail
Coal Association, said a seripus
situation weuld be averted if mim
s “get the coal out likKe they
should and can.” ¥ e
Farrar reported that a survev in
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi
ana showed coal stocks ‘“void en
tirely” in many small communi
ties while larger cities had a five
to ten days’ supply.
Retailers were réported out of
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(hristian Convention
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Holds Final Session j
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lonight At The Church
The closing session tonight of
the 94th annual convention of the‘
Christian Churches of Georgia will
stature the presentation of the
Benevolent Wiork o the. Church,
id the election and installing of
e new officers of the convention.
Ten children from the Christian
Church Home for Children in 'At
lanta, will appear on the program.
“peakers for the evening will .in
tude Howard Hilley, president of
Atlantic Christian College, Wilson,
N.c; w. Pearcy, treasurer of
e Board Extension of the Dis
tlles of Christ, and Miss Wenona
Wilkinson, 20 yvears a missionary
in China,
Dr. Samuel 8. Doughty, pastor
the First Christian church;
Rome, will close * the conyention
Vith a sermon,
The sessions have been held' this
Veek at the First Christian church,
‘fer - Prince avenue and Pulaski
f'treets. Yesterday . the . meeting
Atured the reports of the secre-
Wries. Bruce ‘Nay, general state
*Cretary for the churches, report
¢l that the vear haq closed with
Breat success, in the large num
ber of new members added to
he enrollment, the purchasing of
X newy barsonages for the pastors,
M the rajsing of missionary:.
R"”“" Which was the greatest in
-~ Istory of the conventions,
"Th‘“ Laymen's Banquet and pro
;fa’m filled the remainder of the
a:é' Guests Numbering 822 sat,
Ra“nd the banquet tables to hear
b Yplong of Atla!_lta,.wmmf@r.
e Sapp, Wayeross, Roy Pope,
wory A B. Mayfield Atianta;
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service.
as a dour, grim doctrine, rebbing
s of inner fngedom, reducing us
‘to the estate of robots, denying us
initiative and creativity. i
, As a matter of fact, fatalism is
one of the most comfortable moods
in which a man can live. If he is
an automaton, he is irresponsi
ble, and so has an unanswem%:
Justification for anything he
or does. His creed is simple and
‘complete: Whatever is, is inevi
‘table. Said a man to a friend,
#You are acting like fool.”
“Well,” was the answer, lit that
is what I am, I cannot help it.
That is the way fate made me.”
From that alibi, persistently held,
there is no appeal; it is an im
pregnable defense mechanism. An
altogether different outlook- is sug
gested by Emerson: “Henry Tho
reau: made, last night, the fine re
‘mark that, as long as a man
‘stands in his own way, everything
seems to be in his way.”
' Only on the basis of man’s pro
found emotional desire to be dis
pensed from such responsibility
can the historic rise of one system
of fatalism after another be ex
plained. |
Astrology — its belated devotees
still among us — provided a vast
system of foreordination whose
verbal left-overs linger in our
vocabulary. If a man was jovial,
iit was because he was born under
the- planet Jove; if mercurial, un
ider Mercury. Nor has theclogy es
caped such usage, for Islam and
certain forms of Cbristianity have
notoriously provided fatalistic doc
trines, according to which man is
the helpless victim of divine de
crees.
Lymon Breecher was a masterful
figure in New England ni his day.
One weekend he was to exchange
pulpits with a neighboring min
ister who held a stiff theory of
predestination, while on that point
Beecher was for his time a liberal.
On - Sunday morning both men
started from home, each going to
the other's church, and met mid
way.
As .they paused, the neighkboring
minister said, “Doctor Beecher, I
wish to call to your attention that
before the creation of the world
‘God arranged that you were to
preach in my pulpit and I in yours
on this particular Sabbath.” “Is
that so?” said Lyman Beecher,
glaring at him. ¢Then I won't
do it!” And turning his horse,
he returned to his own churéh.
- However, there is a kernel of
truth in determinism. When one
considers our absolute dependence
on the maintenance of the earth’s
heat and moisture, the determining
effect 'on each individual of the
race's biological evolution, the
momentous consequences of he
redity, when one confronts the
fact that our initial endowments
of physique, ‘intelligence, and tem
perament are genetically prede~
termined, and when, added to
that, one knows how -powerfully
lives are directed and shaped from
pahzhood up by conditioning en-
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Soviets Yield Ground In Ukraine
Under Hail Of Nazi Counterblows
Hull To Give Congressmen
Account Of Moscow Talk
Returns In Role
Of National Hero
Expected To Reaffirm
Faith In Post-War
Cooperation Cf Nations
WASHINGTON. — (AP)
—ln the somewhat unfa
miliar role of a national
hero, Cordell Hull goes
back today to address a
Congress which he left ten
years ago to become Secre
tary of State.
At the invitation of Speaker
Rayburn and Senate Majority
Leader Barkley, Hull will give 3
first hand account of the Anglo-
American-Russian talks to a joint
informal session at 12:30 p. m.
(EWT). His speech will be broad
cast by- all major networks.
Clamor For Tickets
.~ Members of Congress said the
clamor for special tickets to the
House galleries was as great as
‘any they had experienced, includ
ing that for the visit of Prime
Minister Churchill. Extra guards
‘were posted and precautions taken
such as 'when the President ap
‘Pears on Capitol Hill. i
~ Hull was expected to repeat his
expressions of optimsim that the
many grave problems. facing the
world could he solved ‘through in
ternational collaboration.
The white-haired secretary found
strong bipartisan support in Con
gress for his declaration that the’
gettlement of Burépéan border e
putes must await the end of tha
war -but Senator Taft (R-Ohio)
suggested as an alternative the
establishment of provisional boun
daries. 3
Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of
(Continued on Page Three)
Methodists Urging
Moore’s Retention
Rev. |. H. Barton, Jr.,
Of Athens, Is ;
Admitted To Ministry
. ATLANTA — (AP- — The North
Georgia Methodist : Conference
}wants to retain Bishop Arthur J.
Moore in the Atlanta Episcopal
area for another four years,
- The Conference now in session
here, referred its recommendation
to the church’s Jurisdictional Con
ference Committee on Episcopalcy
yvesterday. .
Delegates were elected mean
while to the church’s next gen
eral conference and others were to
be named today with announce
ment of the results of ballots tak
en at yesterday’s session. Dr. Les
ter Rumble, pastor of St. Mark
Church in Atlanta, was chosen a
clerical delegate and Smith L.
Johnston of Woodstock, a lay dele
gate. Four others remained to be
chosen.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pas
tor of the Marble Collegiate
Church in New York City, ad
(Continued on page seven.)
Groups At University
Contribute Over
$5,000 To War Fund
Practically a complete® report
on the solicitation of funds for
the Athens Comunity and War
Fund on the University of Geor
gia campus was made today by
Prof. Waltpr Ranner, jr, to
General Chairman Max Michael.
The report follows:
University employees $2,104.00
Agriculture Extension
Officer and students of
Service Ssek s SRB
University studants ... - 304.93
ASTP: . ..iiiivbiensn DO4OO
Navy Pre-Flight
Officers and Cadets . 194651
Potal .. o ok i SRRDE
Each of the above groups pro
vided workers who camassed
their own personnel.
The fine job dorie by these
workers and the most generous
contributions of all are very
much appreciated.
Additional ‘Honor ‘Roll’ names
of businesses meeting or over
subsecribing their quota to the
$36,000 Fund which has reached
$39,000.00, today were listed as:
Clyde McDorman Funeral Home,
Bernstpin Funeral Home, Mc-
Dorman-Bridges Funeral Home,
Sterchi Furniture Company.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS ARRIVE,
CHEERING MEN NEAR VENAFRO
BY DON WHITEHEAD
WITH THE FIFTH - ARMY
NEAR VENAFRO, ITALY — De
layed) — (AP) — Christmas has
arrived for the American Dough
boys in the front lines.
Great loads of Yuletide packages
bearing postmarks of home towns
from Maine to California are being
rushed to the front by truck, mule
train and hand to cheer the boys
now living in cold foggy weather
in ankle-deep mud.
It was pouring rain today as we
skidded in a jeep along a rough
muddy trail to the foot of a moun
tain near the front line. For some
reason this sector of the front
was fairly quiet and the guns
were not booming strongly. as
usual, ‘
| Wraps Package
\ In the doorway of a barn on an
improvised _ table Pfc. Herman
Sumner, C"anberry, W. Va., care
fully wrapped a package.
“Sending that one home?”
“Naw,” he said, “I'm wrapping
this for the sergeant.” . . J
Sergeant Thomas Wallace, Wal
nut, 1a.,, held string in his hand.
“I'm sending home bed spreads
for the folks,” he satd, “I have ene
for mother and another for my
wife. I hope they get there in
time.”
Most of the boys are sending
packages home to parents, friends,
wives. Tons are arriving here with
each mail-delivery. They. are tak«
en into the front line with rations
and. distributed.
They ignore the warning “Do
not open until Christmas” and
Chin Up, Old Boy
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Bald-domed Benito Mussolini
assumes a familiar pose with
that famous chin again tilted
skyward. ’This new picture of
the ex-Duce came from Ger
many via radio from Stock-
Sl E el ol holm.d._.. FTTERGST |
U. S. Liberators Blast
Norway War Industries
GILBERT, MARSHALL ISLANDS HIT;
BERLIN, LUDWIGSHAFEN PUMMELED
By The Associated Press
‘American Liberator bombers ranged far over Norway
again today, blasting at Hitler’s far northern war indus
try after the enemy had been pummeled in a dozen
places, including Berlin, Ludwigshafen and the Japanese
Gilbert and Marshall Islands.
A power station at Rkukan,
about 80 miled west of Oslo, and
a Molybdenum mine at Xnasen
were blasted Tuesday.
Today’s targets were not identi
fied immediately.
Berlin Raided
Last night’s RAF attack on the
German Rhineland city was car
ried out along with a raid on Ber
lin, hit for the third time in seven
days, and other attacks on un
named targets in Western Ger
many.
One bomber was lost during the
night’s operations, as compared
with: 12 heavy ecraft lost by the
RAF the last time Ludwigshafen
was raided on Oct. 4. &=
The world’s largest chemical
works, operated by the I G. Far
Athens, Ga., Thursday, November 18, 1943.
strip off the paper to get at candy,
cigarettes, cakes and/ other gifis.
' Private Louis Laudone, New
London, Conn., was feeling gay.
“We are getting our presents a
menth sooner than we expected,”
he said, “but that's all right by
us.” o
Laudone wrapped a package
carefully, tucking the paper in to
mm neat corners. i
“m sweating one out myself,”
he said. “I know I've got one on
the way, but it hasn’t arrived yet.
The hoxes are getting here pretty
regularly and of course none oOf
the boys wuit for Christmas to
open them.” :
But underneath the banter and
wise cracks was a warm feeling
of eheerfulness as the men stood
aroupd watching packages being
wrapped while a cold dismal rain
fell' outside the doorway and guns
boomed in the distance, :
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BY DON WHITEHEAD !
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY.— (AP) —Detérmined to hold
their Garigliano River line all winter if possible the Germans have con
centrated the bulk of their defensive strength along the Fifth Army
front in a desperate bid to halt the Allied advance on Rome.
;'W - became increas
ingly ¢ today as American and
‘British patrols probed the enemy’s
so-called winter line—a deep series
of pill-boxes; gun cmplacements,
trenches apd barbed wire entan
glements blasted out of the rocky
mountains. .
, Bloody Fight Looms
For the first time since Allied
troops fought their way ashore on
the beaches of Salerno the Ger
mans have fallen back while they
fortified six positions—and no ong
has any illusions abont the bitter,
Turkish Cooperation
Increasingly Strong
ANKARA, Turkey — (Delayed)
—(AP) — Turkey is meving to
ward war with the Axis.
Turkey’s sub rosa assistance to
Allied armed forces, which closely
approximates that which the
United States gave Britain in the
‘months before Pearl Harbor, lis
lrapldly earrying the nation toward
a war footing.
Details of the help which already
is being given naturally cannot be
disclosed, but this correspondent
is convinced that what was only
friendly meutrality a few months
ago is rapidly approaching genuine
cooperation.
~ That this cooperation may grow
into Turkish participation in the
war on an all-out scale is recog
nized by the Turkish government,
which is making its plans for that
eventuality.
ben Trust, is situated at Ludwigs
hafen, where high explosives are
made along with submarine parts,
tanks, trucks and Diesel engines.
Marshalls Bombed
Meanwhile sea-roving Allied
bombers ranged along more than
2,000 miles of Japan’'s supply
strained outpost defenses in the
South and Central Pacific—from
northeastern New Guinea to the
Marshalls—to deal mounting blows
at the enemy’s ships and air bases.
Latest Mvm, s embraced the
probable- si .of a 2,500-ton
enemy ship og‘New Guinea, a 6,000
t:g vessel . New Britain, the
dropping of 40 tons of bombs on
an airfield on Bougainville, and
harbor and hangar fires set dur
ing the third raifis in as many days
on the Marshalis and Gilberts,
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moustache with earmuffg-is the
Army’s new lip “mike,” for men
in tanks and other places where
the¢ user must have hands free.
The tiny microphone and small
earphones fit under helmets,
gasmasks, or dust respirators,
ard virtually neutralize all out
side noises,
bloody battles that muist be fought
‘before ::ien"emy’fig out 'b?ghbe‘
“hills. w Lo RERE R
The valley running from Cassino
to Rome betweeén. towering., fog
covered mountain maskes is the
natural road for'the Army to fol
low.’
And because ‘it 1s the natural
avenue to Rome the Germans have
thrown up their heaviest defenses
and m@ssed the greater part of
their troops in the vicinity, with
the Apennines on their left flank
standing as a guard against the
(Continued on Page Seven)
Row Over Food Subsidies
Opens Inflation Battle
By The Associated Press
Washington — The row over
food subsidies hlew the whole
question of inflation wide open on
Capitpl Hill today.
The situation is this:
1. The house and senate appar
ently ‘are’ géared — 'at least they
talk that way — to ban subsidies
— government payments to pro
ducers intended to hold down re~
tail food costss!
9. Each branch expects President
Roosevelt to veto the measure that
contains the subsidy prohibition,
and high spokesmen agree they
do not have epough votes to over
ridé that veto.
3. Meanwhile, the subsidy ques
tion is being seized upon by both
sides as a prime argument over
inflation. Administration backers
(Continued on Page Seven)
Although Japan has air bases in
the Marshalls and Gilberts, Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz reported no
enemy interception encountered by
the Liberators which struck Mon
day at Jaluit and Mill in the Mar
shalls and Makin in the Gilberts.
W-E-A-T-H-E-R
GEORGIA;: Fair and warm
er this afternoon., Fair and not
quite so cold tonight, with
frost in south portion, Fair to
partly cloudy and warmer Fri
day.
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TEMPERATURE
Highest ....0 c.bl jieci soesßßo
Lowhel .ii 6iid iiv e 200
POAN o v csbaniol ness iaantDD
NOYIRAY 2Sdk o sois 2ois 500
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .... .00,
Total since November 1 ... 1.97
Excess since November 1 .. .55
Average November rainfall = 2.61
Total sinte Jaftuary 1 .. ..46.21
Excess since Jfil‘l‘? 1 4 188
AB.C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—sc¢ Sunday
FIRST RUSSIAN WITHDRAWALS o
IN FOUR MONTHS OF FIGHTING
' By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW.— (AP) —Confronted with stiff coun
ter-attacks, adverse weather conditions and difficult:
terrain, the Red Army has given up ground in the
Ukraine for the first time since it began its success='
ful offensive four months ago.
R eoo i i o
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By The Associated Press
AERIAL: American heavy
bombers pound German indus
tries in Norway again, follow
ing up air attacks on Berlin,
Ludwigshafen and Japanese
Gilbert and Marshall Islands.
MEDITERRANEAN, Nazis
open up air attack on Greek
Island of Samos, last Aegean
outpost held by Allies; Appar
. ently Germans intend to bag it
. along with Leros and Cos.
' British newspapers critcial,
ITALIAN: Hecavy rains sent
Italian rivers on~ flood, but
Fifth Army improves its posi
tions despite heavy German
cahnon fire.
RUSSIAN: Soviets drop back
in Zhitomir area west of Kiev
as Germans put on heavy
counter - pressire; Moscow
takes view nmt' is minor
m%hfir to prevent encircle~
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- PABIFIC: Allisd -hesddusne.-
ters warns Japs still able to
muster formidable fleet to op
pose any major offensive move,
Allies Hold Edge
Says United Nations
Should Never Lose’
Initiative- Now Theirs
' BY 8. G. BLACKMAN
NEW YORK — (AP) — Presi
dent Roosevelt says the Ilnited
Nations now hold “the supreme
advantage of the initiative” in the
war and must never lose it.
In a message to the New York
Herald Tribune's 12th Forum on
current problems last night, the
President recalled that a year ago
he said the turning ‘point of the
war had been reached.
“The great advanc¢es that have
been made during the year since
then,” he said,, “can be measured
by the fact that now the import
ant events of the war — and in
the building for the peace—are be
ing impelled by us of the United
Nations and not by our enemies.”
Speaxers at the final session at
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel includ
ved Vice President Wallace and
Wendell L. Willkie. Messages were
read from Prime Minister Wins
ton Churchill and Foreign Minis
ter Anthony Eden of Great Britain
and from General Charles De
Gaulle, president of the French
Committee of National Liberation.
The President, ,whose message
was read by Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice
president of the Herald Tribune
and broadcast nationally, said that
“in the years — and perhaps the
centuries of pece — that are to
follow the war, the forces of civili
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Holdings Of Foreign
Property Must Be
. .
Listed At Post Office
Citizens of Athens who own any
property in foreign countries were
notified by Postmaster Jonas R.
Myers today that they must file
reports of their foreign holdings
with the Treasury Department be
fore December 1. The notice was
given by means of a poster placed
on display in the post office.
Postmaster Myers - points out
that it is necessary for the gov
ernment to have as complete in
formation as possible on the Ameri
can stake abroad to assist the
military authorities and the civilian
governments on the fighting fronts
and to bring about sound solutions
of the post-war problems.
Report forms known as TFR-500,
may be obtained through com
mercial banks, or from the nearest
Federal Reserve Bank, the post
master sfates. Penalties are pro
vided for those who wilfully fail
~ to file reports. :
LOCAL COTTON
1-INCH MIDDLING .. = o 20%d
15-16 INCH MIDDLING ... 200
The withdrawal was executed
vesterday in the Zhitomir-Karos
styshev sector at the tip of thy
Red Army’s salient west of Kiev,
and came on the eve of' the first
anniversary of the launching "
the great Soviet counter-offensive
at .Stalingrad on Nov. 18, 134212
Heavy Casualties i
The retreat followed a series of
heavy Nazi counter-attacks south=
east of Zhitomir and in the Fas«:
tov sector, in which masses of
tanks and infantry were used in &
attempt to slice off the bulge in
the Soviet front. A Ruqaian.;
munique said the drive cost{,
Germans 1,500 casualties and 80
tanks and troop carriers,
(Advices from London said the
Germans were reported to ~have:
thrown at least 150,000 troops into
the Zhitomir counter assault)
The depth of the withdrawal
was not given in the Russian com=
munique, which confined itself to
the laconic report that the Red
Army under ememy pressure, was
abandoning several setuemm;.&j?
Moscow military observers, hows
ever, belleved the withdrawal was
not on a large scale, but was sim
ply a tactical maneuver designed
to prevent the encirclement of &
comparatively small ady 7
guard. ;m
While the tip and left flank of
the Kiev salient sagged slightly
under the huv’y ériemy pressure,
other Tled Army forces pushed for-.
ward on the right flank toward"
the strategic rail junction ecity of |
Korosten to the mnorth. A
The Russians captured the towns
of Narodichi, 28 miles northeast of
IKorosten. and Chernobil, 50 miles |
east of Narodichi near the junction
of the Pripet and Dnieper rivers.
The German garrison in Korosten
was thus threatened from the
south, east and north but fought
stubbornly to hold that valuable
communications and supply cens|
‘ter. dispatches said. 8
On the lower White Russian
front to the nofth, Soviet columns
were fighting their way through
the suburbs of Rechitsa, strongly |
fortified city on the west bank of |
the Dnieper, the communique said,
and had gained xroum‘ on the
east bank of the river ¥north of
Gomel, tighttning their grip on;
that beleaguered stronghold. A n W
Soviet drive was also reported un=
der way near Orsha, Dnieper Rivs
er city 70 miles southwest of Smo=
lensk, and the junction point for
the Leningrad-Odessa, Moscows
Warsaw railway lines. be:
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‘Athenian Elected
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To Baptist Board
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~ Dr. J. C. Wilkinson Is
' Member Of Executive
Croup At Conventoin |
ATLANTA —(#)— The Georgiai
Baptist Convention unanimously
adopted last night a resolution
expressing appreeiation to State
Revenue Commissioner J. Eugene
Cook and his staff “for their cour
ageous work in seeking to enforc
the laws and regulations governing
the liguor traffic” in the state.
The Baptists, closing their ane-|
nual session, pledged ‘“forthright!
cooperation in the accomplishment
of the high and worthy aims which
Mr. Cook has announced in the!
enforcement of the laws sos our
commonwealth.” ] &
The liguor question also was
taken up in the report by the Con-|
vention's Social Service Commis
sion. The report, presented by
Chairman Searcy §S. Johnson of
Savannah, called on the Baptists
to cooperate in halting liquer traf
fic in dry countjes, to assist in
calling local option elections ini
wet counties and to seek eliminae
tion of state legislation allocating
liquor taxes to public schoels.
The latter recommendation, the
committee said, could be carried
out by a provision in a propose
new state constitution now being
drafted by a special commission.
The social service group
proposed after-school detention for
supervised play of children of
working parents. This, the com
il T ‘Would serve as a
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