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I latch 2/J.l, 1945 dutill~f d~uu up opno.fio,u tttoUitd !i(i.lano 1 llnvaifi,19 of ~ t/onullunt: ~) !1:3(!(-)c.n. cRichatJ ~J Cltotlct 9tanklin waJ. £:utit:J in th£ ~ l lt.ttin£ ccmcft.tt.y 011 [Jwo :Jim4 ihottf!J dfttt. :Jm. d-.!oJ9tiqucz a{tu he wa.> ki£L~J. dli1 t£mainoi weu movt:d lo Efu4vi[[,_ in 1948 and dt1(!~gt. d:>hitfc.H 'J. cWhile placed in the cu.ttt:11l gtuve Jitc. !J3cltl!.dicllon: .l.'iculuutnl Con11nand.n d-.!ichatd l ...... --- Semper ![ic{e[is J DEDICATION MARINE CORPS WAR MEMORIAL NO VE M BER 10 . 1954 ARLINGT O N , VIRGINIA ORDER OF EVENT S CONCERT United States Marine Corps Han ARRIVAL OF OFFICI A L PARTY CHAIRMAN OF T HE DAY /Jon. Robert B. Anderson Deputy Secretary of Defens lNVOCATH)N Rear Admiral E. B. Harp, jr., ChC, USN REMAHKS Chairman. of the Day REMA H KS Col. J. W. Moreau, USMC (Ret.) President, Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation, Inc. REMARKS Hon.. Orme Lewis A!.!istant Secretary of the Interior PRESENTATION Gen. T.cmuel C. Shepherd, jr. Commandant, United States Marine Corps FLAG RAISING REMARKS Mr. Felix de Weldon Sculptor DEDICATORY ADDRESS IN MEMORIAM Rabbi Garson Goodman, ChC, US. "Unco mmon Valor Was A Common Virluc" TAPS BENEDICTION Father Paul Redmond, ChC, US!\ Board of Education M. N . J~VAN.S, County Superintendent J. H. SHANKLIN, Chairman MILLARD DAULTON. Vice-Cha irman HOWARD CARPENTER The Second Annual B. A. ROYSE D. E. IUDWELL Commencement Exercises Faculty Fleming County High School WILLIAM F. RUSSELL, Pll·inci.pal A. E. AJ~NOLD, .Mathematics and Science MRS. JACK B8RNHElM. Commercial Su~jects MISS ANNA: McMULLIN COX, Music J\1RS. J. STARK DAVIS, English MHS. .GERNARD DORSEY, Home Economics WENDELL E. HOWARD, Vocational Agri<:ulture MI SS RUBY H UNTER, Mathematics i\oLRS. JOHN McGIBONEY, EngUsh i\L'\TT W. PETERSON, Band MRS. WILLIAi\1 F. RUSSELL, Library and English Friday, May 28, 1943 1\IIRS. L l·;NA SAUNDE!RS1 Bjology and Economics HARLAN VEAL, Vocational Agriculture Eight O'clock MRS. GERTRUDE WARFORD, Latin and Social Science MI SS NANCY WATTS, Social Science High School Auditorium Class Officers JANE AJA)ERSON, President THOMAS RIGDON, Vice-Pres. HELEN BURKJ.o.;, St~retary FATTfl \'.-ALLINGFORD, Treas. PROGRAM Class Roll \ era Jane Alderoon Rose Ft·a.r.ces Holland PilOCESSl ON AL Flemlng County Band Ruby Sail'<~ Dorothy Lee .Horton Mary E lizalbeth Berry .Harian Vencil Hurst (Audience Stancling) Thomas Bierley Jolm William James Rcnrietta J3jshop James Duane Landreth iNVOCATION Rev. Wort~ S. Peters Calvin C. Brown lt.;becca 'WWfred Lathram ''WILL YOU REMlO.: MBER" Romba.l'g-Riegftier Helen Marie .Burke James F. Lawrence Winter Howe Colliits ( race Pauline Litton Nancy Howe, Janice P eters, Jo Ann Rhodes, Garnett Kirkland, Barbara J. Compton Ed ward F . McCord Ma!·garet AdelE: Creamer Oakley Elizabeth Mcintyre Evel y11 Martin, Wilma Edmonds, Betty Jean Carpenter, Mary All.JI Cropper Ida Maxine McKee Rosem:wy Cropper Jemlie Allen Mitchell Marie Cray, Mary Bishop H a:.::el Oaniels Laton Mitchell Newman Virgil \ll'ilson Darnall J'nward 'W. Owens HOMING Del H.iego Jayne Stark Davis Naomj Pauline Peratt Cordelia. Mae DiUion Robert Collins Planck Girls' Glee Club Lious!on Neal Donaldson Carlos Porter Noel L. Dorsey Bcttye Henderson Pl"ice ADDRESS Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood J"ames Russell Evans Evelyn J o Price Mary Helen Evans Thomas Rigdon ANNOUNCElVIENT OF HONORS William F. Russell Anna Margaret Faris Mary Evelyn Ryon l .ouis Francis Fay Oliva F ant Smith 'TLL SEE YOU AGAlN'' Noel Conard Theresa Aliee F ay Franklin Hunyon Sousley Emerson K. Fizer Ruth Staggs Nancy Ho~ve )':lmar Clinton Fl·aley E ugene Rus~ell Stewart Mary E lizabet h Fulton E ula Mae Story PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Mr. J . H. Shankl'n Ruby Jewell Gardner Wilmott Carpenter Story Velma Frances Get:r. Leslie Arnold ,Thompson BENEDICTION Rev. S. P. Pryor Billy Bruce Graru1is Frances :Belt Tribby ,Jane Gray Rl'lCESSIONAL Flemin&' County Band Billy Scott Gregory Mary Lloyd Vice Hazel Noreen Hamrn Raymond Kelly Vice James J3 . H endrix Marilyn Faith Wallingford Honor Students V-era Jane Alderson Evelyn J o Price Coo·delia Mae Dillon Emerson K. Fizer Mary Elizabeth Fulton Naomi Pauline· P eratt Vel ma Fl·ances Getz Hazel Noreen Hamm Oliva Fant Smith Thomas Bierley Jane Stark Davis BiUy Scott Gregory James Duane Landreth Mary Ann Cropper r t---- "JVv House Resolution No. _~_d_ SIGNATURES OF ADDITIONAL SPONSORS SIGNATURES OF ADDITIONAL SPONSORS A(S~PLE,~~~~~) (Strike Out Two) RESOLUTION to adjourn in honor and in memory of all American war veterans, andIwo Jimaespecially, the late in tributeFranklin to Runyon a hero Sousleyof , ______of Fleming County, Kentucky. ,______COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY ' ~ R•• ~/. •• ~ . --_, ___;,:u::;,____:.______-+~-- Representative ------+-!---- Date ------Committee on ------ IN SENATE Reported ---- - 0 Favorably 0 Unfavorably 0 Substitute 0 With Amendments Received Recommitted ------Committee on 2nd Readin. _ ____ Posted. ______Reported 0 Favorably 3rd Reading ------ 0 Unfavorably 0 Without Opinion Other Action l . 0 With Amendments 0 Substitute Amendments Adopted Recommitted l Substitute Adopted ------2nd Reading Posted Passage. Yea~s ~ J;2£hays () 3rd Reading 1 ATTEST: £2-!,______d _.f_ ·<£./LZ_z.-/ ~ I Other Action Clerk of House Amendments Adopted Substitute Adopted Concurrence ____Yeas __Nays _ ___ Passage _ ___Yeas ___Nays _ ___ ATTEST: ______ATTEST: ______Clerk of House Clerk of Senate A RES OLUTION to adjourn in honor and 1n memory of all American war veterans, and especially in tribute to a hero of Iwo Jima, the late Fr an~: lin Runy cn Sousley, of Fleming County, Kentucky. WHEREAS, this year marks the fortieth anniversary of the raising o f the flag at Iwo Jima; and WHF.RE.AS I !!\i l1ion;; of A.-·neric a:r. ::. are sti r r e d by memo ries of t hat b0ld, prop hetic act ; and WHEREAS, the famous photograph of that event, and the equally famous sculpture inspired by that photograph are powerfully compelling symbols of national pride for so many Americans; and WHEREAS, a nineteen- year- old Kentucky youth, Frank lin Runyon Sousley, was one of the six fighting men who raised that flag and who thus rema1n for all time enshrined in memory; and WHEREAS, in having given his life soon thereafter in his country's service, Franklin Sousley repr~sents the courage and sacrificial spirit of all American war vet erans, as well as the price that has been paid for our freedoms; NOW, THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: - 1 - 1 Sec t i on 1 . Th a t t h e Bous e h e r eb::- reco<;'"'...-:.zes __ _ 2 American veterans who h av e fough t in t h e cause o f free- 3 dom. 4 Section 2. That the House pays special tribute 1n 5 this ann1versary year to the memory of the Kentuckian who 6 symbolized the Ame r ican fighting man of World War II , 7 M ? rir ~ Pfc. Fr a r ~l in Runyon s ous l e } . 8 Section 3. That when the House adjourns this day, 9 July 17, 1985, it does so in memory of Franklin R. 10 Sousley and in tribute to a l l American war veterans. 11 Section 4. That copies of this resolution be sent 12 to the mother of Franklin R. Sousley, Mrs. Goldie Sousley 13 Price of Ewing, Kentucky, and to the Franklin Sousl ey 14 Post o f the Veterans o f Foreign Wars and theW. N. Fant 15 Post of the American Legion in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. - 2 - I UNITED STATES MARINES RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA CAMP JOSEPH H PENDLETON - # l~ , Members of the Franklin Sousley family attended Saturday's Bicentennial Parade. Pictured are, front row, J amie Price, Florene Moran, Brigadier General William Whitlow of the U. S. Marine Corp Headquarters in Washington, DC, Mildred May, Brittany Price; back row, Dwayne Price, Vincen Price, and Penny Helphen stine. Honoring a native son's sacrifice CHARLES BERI'RAM/ HERAI.O lEADER People gathered at the gravesite of Franklin Runyon Sousley in Fleming County yesterday to mark the 50th anniversary of the lwo Jim a landing. Sousley was one of six men who raised the flag at lwo Jima, and is second from left on the monument. Right: Mildred May, Sousley's aunt, held a wartime photograph of him. Shown above are the distinguished guests who ing General , 4th FSSG , Mrs. Goldie Price , mother of participated In the 40th anniversary observance that PFC Franklin Sousley, Joe Rosenthal, retired was held Saturday at the Elizaville Cemetery honoring Associated Press and San Francisco Ch ronicle PFC Franklin Sousley, a native of Fl\lming County , Photographer, Maj. G.K. Cunn ingham , Maj. C.A. who was one of the Marines Immortalized by Joe Ros Nesbitt, Chaplain Stephen Pike, Ens ., USN , and Cpt. enthal in his historical photograph of the flag raising on J.A . Kallay. lwo Jlma. B • General RichardT. Trotter, Command- I I A Pictured at the Franklin SousiQy Monument Dedication were two of its hardest workers , VFW Post Commander Willie Milton and Marie rrasmith. VFW Auxiliary President. was buried in Fifth Marine Division Cemetery at Iwo in Plot 8, Row Y, Grave 2189. On March 1948, a re quest was made to return the re mains to the United States for reinterment in the Elizaville Cemetery. Approximately 200 people turned out for the commemorative cere mony for Private First Class Sousley which marked the 30th anniversary of the Flag Raising over lwo Jima and the kickoff for the 200th anniversary of the Marine Corps. This was held in March of 1975 at the Elizaville Cemetery. The ceremony began with the introductions of Mrs. Goldie Sousley Price, Gov. Julian Carroll and Joe Rosenthal. Mr. Rosenthal, who at that time was associated with the San Fran cisco Chronicle spoke of the famous photograph: For the last 30 years I've been try ing to explain this picture. I can only say I was carrying out an assign ment and got a lucky shot, which has lasted to be remembered by everyone. I was one of the lucky ones who returned." JUNE 7,1984 County. Also shown in front of the marker aa·e Master Sergeant Shirley T. White, former Marine Corporal Joe Rodriquez and Brigadier Gener·al Richard P. Trotter. (Staff photo by Alice Akin ) MSU Class Visits Franklin Sousley's Grave George Young, an instructor at and Willena Dotson of Ewing and onto the face of the monument Morehead State University, and a senior history major; Mrs. with his form as the outstanding his "Tourist On Wheels" class Goldie Price, Franklin's mother; highlighted figure. visited the grave in the Elizaville Mr . Young and Mrs. Marie A special dedication ceremony Cemetery of PFC Franklin R. Arrasmith, VFW Auxiliary presi will be Sunday, June 3, at 2 p.m. Sousley Saturday afternoon for a dent and chairman of the Fleming PFC Sousley was one of six men special ceremony. . County Franklin Runyon Sousley who raised the American flag on Among those on band for the Foundation, lnc. Mt. Surlbachi, lwo Jima, during occasion were, from left Howard Mr. Young presented World War II. Robertson, Vice Commander of contribution on behalf of Franklin Sousley Post 1834, class. tflo.y. JJ 1'15"/ Veterans of Foreign Wars; Noble The goal of this foundation is to Arrasmith, VFW Service Officer, place at Franklin's grave site a Mru·ine Master Sergeant Tom monument of approximately six White from Cynthiana; class feet by eight feet. The Flag member, Tim Dotson, son of Earl Raising will be a raised carving Goldie Sousley Price and the late Sousley Monument Merle Sousley. He was killed in World War II on March 21 , 1945. His monument will be placed at Dedication June 3 his Elizaville grave site and will BY: DEVON JAMES Marine Division, United States stand approximately six feet in Marine Corps Reserve. width and eight feet in height. The long awaited dedication The monument in memory of The Flag Raising will be a raised of the Franklin R. Sousley Sousley, one of seven military carving onto the face of the Memorial Monument will take men to raise the American flag at monument with Sousley's form as place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June Iwo Jima, is the main project of the outstanding highlighted 3, 1984 a~ the Elizaville Cemetery. the Franklin Runyon Sousley figure . Actual pebble size stones Larry J . Hopkins, Congressman Foundation, Inc. and has been in from Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima of the 6th District will be the key the works since late 1982. will rest at the feet of the flag speaker at the dedication and the Sousley was the son of Mrs. key note speaker will be Brigadier General Richard P. Trotter, Commanding General, 4th Force Service Group, 4th Photo by Ron Osborne Shirley White at Franklin Runyon Sousley's grave 1n Fleming County cemetery Marine wants monument for state's lwo Jima hero was not an artist or a sculptor among us," Rash said. "We honors veterans of World War I Hopkins Circuit Judge Thomas cut up plastic, used old store man· and II, the Korean War and VIet Spain, a former enlisted man and nequins and other ttungs until we nam, but Rash said "the monument Army officer, said yesterday that got the mold to suit ou~lves. Th~n is for all who ever served In the no one should ever forget what was we reinforced each f1gure wtth military in war and peace." done "by those we are here to hon steel Inside and poured them with It can be seen from the Pennyr or." gypsum. That made the figure it· ile Parkway and Rash said about "We are not bere to pay tribute self. 10,000 people have stopped to see it to a photograph but to pay tribute "We followed detail closely." since it was completed about 10 to the dedication and heroism rep The uniforms on the men, donat days ago. resented by it," be said. "The flag ed by former Marines, have been "This is the symbol of all that is raising was a gymbol depicting our covered with three coats of the good and clean and right," Rash victory in this two-month horrible same sort of preservative used on a said. battle to gain control of some eight statue of Abraham Lincoln in llli· Mrs. Price said ber son "really square miles of volcanic ash. nois. wanted to go into the Marine The figures are bolted together Corps." "Consider this heart-rending ca· and their teet are welded to the "I think be was a wonderful sualty report - over 6,000 fighting framework OQ which they stand. son . • •. He told someone be wanted men were killed and another Rash said many donors helped to go fight for a year, become a 18,000 were wounded. The Japa with the project but that it still hero and come home." nese left 20,000 dead." . "cost us a Jot of money." "When we would run out of mon· ey, we would rustle It up from some place," he said. Plaques say that the monument Sousley Wrote His Mother basketball, softball and swimming Hunting was his favorite sport am he was proficient with both. the l! About Helping Hoist Flag and 2() gauge shotguns. · After his graduation from higf By WILMA GREENHILL school, the future Marine migrate< (Editor's Note: The following northward to Dayton, Ohio, when material about the life of Franklin Mount Suribachi is on Iwo Jima. he secured a job with the Frigidair ~ Runyon Sousley was taken from a Like the back of an enormous sea Division -of General Motors. At thE term paper written by Wilma turtle, the mountain looms upward time of · his eniistment, he. wa~ Greenhill in 1982. Mrs. Greenhill, from the narrow stem of this island employed as a stoker and propelle1 then a graduate student at shaped like a pork chop. Iwo Jima is assembler in Plant No. 2 in Mordim Morehead State University , wrote the middle island of the three City, Dayton. the paper for a class in Kentucky volcano Islands in the northwestern Sousley worked in Dayton for su history taught by George Young. Pacific Ocean. Iwo Jima is sandy, months before leaving for the Basi( Mrs. Greenhill lives in Carter treeless, and hopelessly ugly. Yet, Training at San Diego, Cal., Jan. 19. County where she is a teacher.) in February, 1945, many thousands 1944. . Classified 1-A by the Flemings of young Americans and young He said the owner was not permit burg Draft Board on Dec. 20, 1943, Japanese were about to die in a bat ted to do anything to the· cabin Sousley was inducted, discharged tle over the gloomy little rock of an because it was being discussed and enlisted in the Marine Corps island. that no one would ever want about preserving the cabin as a na Reserve for the duration of the Na to visit. tional historic monument. tional Emergency at Cincinnati, lwo's only importance was its Mrs. Goldie Price, Ohio, on Jan. 5, 1944. He was given location. The tiny Japanese-owned mother, told me in an interview 14 days of inalctive duty and report· island was 660 miles south of Tokyo. the Marine Corps had approached ed to the Cincinnati Recruiting Of It lay midway between the main her a couple of times. on the matter fice for transportation to the Marinf.' land of Japan and the American B- of erecting some type of monument Corps Base at San Diego on Jan. 20, 29 bases on Saipan. On the fat por for her son, 1944. tion of the island were precious air Several people in Fleming County He took his basic training in San strips. lf the U.S. held lwo, P-51 think that a small portion of this Diego. When· he went into the Mustang fighters taking off from farm should be developed into a Marines, he was an automatic rifle the airstrips could escort the big park and the log cabin be restored man and had the same job until the bombers on their raid.s. against and made a historic shrine. day of his death. J~pan. Also, damaged B-~:~ .. <;ould Franklin grew up in the Ewing The recruit distributed 153 pounds As make emergency landings on the area of Fleming County. a boy, his five foot, 101h inch frame. island. The Americans had to in he went fishing and hunting often. "boot" camp, Private Sousley He.also liked to piay baseball as any vade Iwo, and the Japanese knew it. fired 'a score of 289 with the M-rifl~ Once it had been wrested from the typical boy would do. to qualify as a marksman. In the enemy, Iwo Jiina could serve as a I found out this and many other General Classific'ation Test, he base for American fighter escorts things about him by having the scored 108. Average for a high and as a way s~tion for bombers in grand privilege of talking with his school graduate is 99. His Mechan vading Japan. mother, Mrs. Price, who still lives ical Aptitude Test per~entage w~s Iwo Jima ·is eight thousand miles in Fleming County. She talked about 98 while he scored 94 m the Rad1o from a little log cabin in Fleming her famous son with pride and love. Operator's Aptitude Test. Given a County. One man's lifetime bridged Sousley was tall with dark chance to express a preference for the distance between these two reddish-brown hair and deep brown duty in the Marine Corps, the Ken widely different places. This man eyes. He was very fond of girls and tucky leatherneck requested duty was Franklin Runyon Sousley. had many girl friends, one of whom with the First Marine Force in Franklin Runyon Sousley was he intended to marry, but did not either the infa.ntry, tanks, or with born Sept. 18, 1925, a son of the late because his life ended so early. One aviation. He got his first choice, the Duke Sousley and Mrs. Goldie of Franklin's former high school infantry. . Sousley Price, in a ·small cabin at classmates agreed with his mother Assigned to Company E, Second Hilltop, near Ewing and Flemings that he always was interested in Battalion, 28th Marines, of Fifth other people, especially girls. burg. Both his parents were natives Marine . Division, . th.fit~. _at Camp of Fleming County. This cabin, When he was six years old, his Pendleton, California, Private Sous located on a farm . now owned by father died leaving him as the man ley joined the Company on March Larry Peck,. was entered in Kentuc of the family. His' mother told me he 15 as an automatic rifleman andre ky Register of Historical Places. grew up helping her and helping m~ined with the same unit in the This is the birthplace of Fleming others. While still in school, he same speciality until he met his County's great war hero, the late helped manage his grandfather's death. After six months of hard Franklin Sousley, who became 127 acre farm. In return, Charley training at Camp Pendleton, internationally known in World War Mitchell gave his grandson room Private Sousley, with his Company, II after being pictured in one of the and board: Mrs. Price told me that boarded the USAT Sea Corporal at most moving photo's of all time. The her young son always said he would San Diego, Sept. 19, 1944,. his ;19th,.. house is located near Hilltop and is someday earn money and come used for storing hay.· back to Fleming County to be a Sousley's mother, stated that the darry farmer. structure contained three rooms, · Franklin attended grade school at .two living and sleeping rooms, plus Ewing and graduated from Fleming a kitchen. County High School in 1943. In high Mr. J .D. Peck went with me to school he played on the varsity show. and -tell me. about the cabin. · baseball team and also took part in Marker To Be Placed In Elizaville Cemetery For War Hero One or Flcm·ng county's most famous heroes of \Yorld War II. Corporal Ft·anklin D. Sousley, will be honored by special services at his gra,·e in th·c Elizaville cemetery Memorial Day. Corporal Sousley was one of the six Marines who participated in the Flag Raising at Iwo Jima who was made immor tal by u photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal. Associated press photographer. A statue made from th'e picture is now locatf'd in Arlington cemetery in Wash ington. CorpQJ·al Sousley was the son of Mrs. Goldie Sousley Price of this county and the late Mr. Sousley. Through the efforts of 1\Irs. J. Kidwell County Historical Chairman. a beautiful bronze m:u·ker will be erected at the remet<>•·y gates and suitable signs v·;ll be plAced on State Hi~hwav 32. showing the way to the cemetery and to Cor pornl Sousley's resting place. The pro~ram which will be held at 2 p.m., May 30 .. v.. ;11 include addresses by Major Kenneth Fern; a Marine Of fice!·; music by the Fleming County High band; Dl.'dica llon of the plaque and a by a Marine as well as Honor Guard<~ represent ing th'e W. l\VO JDlA RF.RO- Ft'llllklin ('cuwiN·y, Fleming N. Fant Post American Leg :R. Soush•y, kiJINI In nctlon Jlr wa ~ om· of six ) larlnes Ion and the Franklin D. jn Ute Sonth J' uclfk iU:m ·h In rui..;r 1lw ling em lwo J ima Sousley Post of lhe VFW. 21. 1944>. " 'ali IIH'Ill llrhtllze•l l<' t> IIJ'UII ry 2!1. I!H:i. ll:'sl' thall In case of inclemenl wra Sunday wh.-u f hio; m:ll'kl' r II 1110 11f h h t• iun • hr tli Nl II ther. the servic'es will be held was nm·rilPtl at itntlr(•' plan..c:: for th'e ~·E" have W!"it IV service were made Sunday ~bnut Pfc. Franklin Sf)usley since f<.~nual afternoon at Legion Hall \\ith the dt·eary day during- World War II E<'lrle C. CIE'menls. these the followln~ in attendance: when the word was t·ecPivec.l of his thoUAhl!l C"me to mind Sunday when Bl11y Lowe, Jacob Deal. Es iienlh at Iwo Jimn. Tt was our we were tutning through the Cour till Royse. 'Mrs. J. Kidwell plivilege to write to .Jof' Rosenthal. iCI' Jolll nal magazine section and Ernie Henderson. AP photographet· who made the cam~> upoh a picture of Pfc. Sousley. Hazelrigg. Frances can•ous pictur·e nf the Flag Raising his mother and the marl ' t,. ( ( l s l( s yr' ((D (~ ~ ~J JP'rrr lF'Y ",I:n ~r 'r rr-1f n~ p>lt \ n·~ s rl n) u~ N'[' ( D~ .. · "lerr rr 1~ 1cr r rr 'Ir n~ TIJ) s'a,1\''r Es ~ »F' .{ \:\'[ l~ n~ H(~A'\ 7 [ D 1( H j)§~ 'A A Tie ''ft'(D A \i rr rur ou~ ("r\" ~ 'r n~§' r'bl) Ll '( [( (:\·[ n~ \() (» r f~ U \ll~ SS n, \S ,\ r.i \lll ]1 ll~' n} 'T rt r u-~ 7 1 I · : S"lt" ,\UTL il H I (ff 11 ~:il ) ll3 ( ,~ij·: N 1 ~ : 1 nj\ f_. 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