The Charleston GazetteThe State Neivspaper

Charleston, West Virginia, Thursday Morning, November 21, 1968 56 Pages—4 Section*—Ten Onts-—VALLEY EDITION

4No Chance' Given78 Trapped Miners

By James A. HaughtStaff Writer

MANNINGTON—Rescue prospects dimmed late Wed-nesday for the 78 men now known to be trapped deep ina smoke-filled coal mine rocked by explosions earlier inthe dav.

BILLOWING SMOKE rises from theLlewellyn portal of the Mountaineer CoalCompany's No. 9 mine. Shattered tipple is

shown above parking lot. A helicopter hov-ers above the disaster scene. Cars in theforeground belong to the trapped miners.

(Staff Photo by Lawrence Pierce)

The miners are believed tohave died about dawn Wednes-day when an underground explo-sion shook the earth for 20 milesand erupted into the sky like avolcano.

Twenty - one other miners,working in distant tunnels, man-aged to escape to the surface be-fore fire spread inside the mine.But 78 still were misising in theflaming catacombs Wednesdaynight.

"There's not a chance inthe world to get those menout," West Virginia Depart-ment of Mines inspector Les-lie Ryan said in midafternoonas he viewed the mile . highcolumn of smoke rolling fromthe burning mine.Just before midnight, a pocket

of gas developed behind one ofthe openings which had beensealed and blew it open. Theopening had been shut off in aneffort to control air intake intothe mine and help subdue the fire.

Earlier, rescue workers hadsaid chances of finding the menalive were "very doubtful. . .very grave.''

Scene of the tragedy is thehuge No. 9 mine of MountaineerDivision of Consolidation CoalCo. The mine lies beneath Far-mington, Mannington, and near-ly 24 square miles of MarionCounty just west of Fairmont.It is an old mine, opened in the1940s, but it had been modern-ized to exploit its rich seam ofsix - to - eight - foot - high coal.Production was 9,400 tons a day.

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MAIN ENTRANCE of themine is on W. Va. 15 at a tinytown called "Consol No. 9, un-incorporated." But the center ofthe explosion was about sevenmiles away, somewhere in the600 - foot deep labyrinth of tun-nels under Llewellyn Run westof Mannington.

"Consol" official LeonardGrose of Morganlown, formerlyof Charleston, said about 100men were at work in the mineon the midnight shift early Wed-nesday. Most of them were inthe newer section near Llewel-lyn Run.

Between 5:30 and 5:40 a. m.,a thunderous blast went offdeep in the earth. The elevatorof the well - like Llewellyn Rnn

Other stories and picturesare on Pages 49, 56.

shaft was hurled into the skylike a shot from a cannon.Sections of concrete from theshaft entrance were thrownonto nearby cars, smashingone of them. The modernLlewellyn Run portal, built on-ly last year as part of a Simillion improvement programby Consol subsidiary Moun-taineer Coal Co., was destroy-ed. Flame and smoke beganto rise from the shaft. A park-ed car was set afire. Thesmoke grew steadily thickeruntil the scene looked like anerupting volcano.Shock of the explosion was

felt 10 miles away in Fairmont.C & P Telephone Co. o f f i c i a lWilliam Withrow said his houseshook as he was dressing forwork, and he said other Fair-mont residents also reportedfeeling the tremor.

Stragglers began emergingfrom the mine. Eight men whohad been working about twomiles from the blast linkedhands and groped their way toan air hole. After nearly twohours they made contact withmen on the surface and werehoisted to safety by a cranewith a scoop bucket attached.

"I HELPED LOAD them intoambulances." Charles PriesterJr. of Farminglon said. "Theywere sick and vomiting, andtwo of them were bleeding fromthe eyes. The concussion froma blast down in the mines doesthat to you."

The eight men were taken toF a i r m o n t General Hospitalwhere they revived quickly.Only three were admitted forobservation. One of the eight,George Wilson, recounted:

". . . The power went offand we could tell by theswishing of the air and thedust that there had been anexplosion . . . All the menwere made sick by dust andcarbon monoxide fumes . . .We yelled to each other anddecided to go to the air shaftwhere we thought we had abetter chance of being rescued.We were down there for a

couple of hours and poundedon the pipes and yelled andfinally made contact."Others who emerged from

more distant entrances weren'tinjured. In fact , one of them.Charles Biafore of Fairmont,said he had been operating anoisy mining machine about sixmiles from the explosion anddidn't even know there had beena blast unti l others told him toflee the mine. Altogether. 21men came out safely.

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President William Poundstone ofPittsburgh held a press confer-ence Wednesday afternoon fordozens of West Virginia and na-tional newsmen who flocked tothe scene. He said it is pre-sumed that natural gas. meth-

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Prison EmployeQuits After Call

Briefly'WISH DAWN WASN'T MARRYING A BAPTIST

Sex Changed, Writer Plans to Wed Negro

STATE FORECAST—Partly cloudy.High 38 to 44. Details on Page 4.

CzechsPRAGUE - IT! -

Czechoslovak students announced Wednesdaynight they will end at noon today their mas-sive protest sit-ins against loss of freedoms inthis Soviet-occupied country.

The action followed an appeal by Czechoslo-vak leaders to the students "to stop in limethe danger which is threatening us."

MoneyBONN, Germany — W —

The future of the French franc and perhapsother Western currencies hung in the balanceWednesday at an emergency meeting of themen who run treasuries and central banks ofthe world's 10 wealthiest nations.

Most major money markets were shut tocheck speculators' attacks on the franc andrising pressure against the dollar and thepound in the second international monetarycrisis of 1968.

By Al LanierCHARLESTON, S.C. - Iff) -

Writer Gordon Langley Hall,adopted son of Dame MargaretRutherford, has changed his sexthrough an operation and isplanning to marry a SouthCarolina Negro man — with theapproval of most of his Britishfamily.

One of the few reservations,says the new Miss Dawn Lang-ley Hall, is that of a greataunt, who commented: "I dowish Dawn wasn't marrying aBaptist."Dame Margaret, the famed

British character actress whobrought Agatha Christie's be-loved Miss Marple to the screen,couldn't have been more pleasedat the news.

Reached at her country cot-tage at Gerrards Cross, Bucking-hamshire, she said happily: "Wehad three adoptive sons and anadoptive daughter, but now wehave two of each."

Miss Hall, who as GordonLangley Hall wrote biographiesof Jacqueline Kennedy and ofMrs. Lyndon Johnson and herdaughters, says the news hasnot been received so joyfully in

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Two Venezuelan warships fired on a Cubanvessel fleeing in Venezuelan waters and cap-tured the boat and its crew, Venezuela's armedforces chief said Wednesday.

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Charleston's top society, inwhich Gordon Langley Hall theman once moved freely.

"The operation hasn't fazedthem," she said, "but my pro-posed marriage has stunned thecity."

MISS HALL was interviewedin her early 19th century homeon Society Street, surrounded bysleeping dogs, 19th centuryfurniture and her husband-to-be,John Paul Simmons, and hissister, Mildred.

Miss Hall, as Gordon LangleyHall, was society editor for theNevada Mo. Daily Mail forabout a year several years ago.

Simmons, a former $32.50-a-week garage mechanic and oneof 11 children of a retiredNavy shipyard worker, said heis 22. Miss Hall gave her age as31, but London sources put it at39.

The dark-haired, rather angu-lar Miss Hall said her operationwas performed at Johns HopkinsHospital in Baltimore after shebegan to develop femalecharacteristics. Hormone treat-ments completed the sex change,she said.

In Baltimore, a Johns Hopkinsspokesman said in response to aquery, "Miss Hall was a patient.Miss Hall underwent surgery."He would not comment further.

Miss Hall said she and Sim-mons "are already marriedby common law" and hadplanned a ceremony Dec. I ata Negro Baptist church whorehis father is a deacon. Butthey dropped that plan, shesaid, af lrr threats that thechurch would be bombed.Instead, they will have an

Anglican wedding in England.she said. Dame Margaret saidin Buckinghamshire that sheand her husband, actor StringerDavis, would "do our best toattend."

"We loved Dawn as a man andwe love the woman very dear-ly." said Dame Margaret. "Shehas been a part of our lives fora very long time. . ."

Davis said Simmons "«

to be just about as good a stew-ard in charge of affairs as Dawncould find," adding: "And hehas given her every possible

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By Don .MarshStaff Wriier

A penitentiary employe whowas holding a job for which hehad no apparent qualificationsresigned Wednesday a few hoursafter a reporter made an in-quiry about his status.

Foe BattersU.S. Camp,Three Cities

SAIGON i/P> — Enemy rocketsand mortars hit three provincialcapitals, a U.S. Army divisionheadquarters and an Americanairfield overnight in a continuingcampaign of attacks by fireacross South Vietnam, the alliedcommands said Thursday.

Two Vietnamese civilians werereported to have been killed and27 wounded in two mortar bar-rages that hit the town of HoiAn, 15 miles south of Da Nang.The U.S. Command said. "Ini-tial reports indicate most of thewounded were Vietnamese schoolchildren."

There were no reports of sig-nificant ground fighting acrossthe country.

There have been reports thatpart of an understanding thatled to a bombing halt over NorthVietnam included a provisionthat shellings of populated cen-ters in the South would hallNorth Vietnam has denied this,saying the decision to halt thebombing of the North was un-conditional.

James E. Walker, a formeremploye of the Department ofMotor Vehicles, was placed onthe penitentiary's payroll Orl.28 as supervisor of food service.His salary was S650 a month.

Warden Ira Coiner sairi Walk-er was employed in Charlestonby the office of InstitutionsCommissioner Clarence John-son.

Coiner said he knew of notraining or experience Walkerhad which would have qualifiedhim to be chief of food servicefor the penitentiary.

Coiner added, however, thatWalker's actual job was in thrbusiness office. "He was sortof in training to become busi-ness manager," he said.The warden said Walker camp

to his office Wednesday af ter-noon and told him he was q u i t -ting effective immediately. Coin-er said he gave no reason.

A reporter had asked state of-ficials Wednesday morning ifWalker wore on the payroll andif they knew of anything in hisbackground involving food serv-ice.

There was no apparent con-nection between t h e questionsand Walker's resignation hutCoiner said, "I've sort of beenexpecting your cs!!."

WALKKR. U'HOS!-: iurmanontaddress is Crab Orchard, Ra-leigh County, worked in the Dr-partment of Motor Vehicles fromJ9H1 until last May.

Motor Vehicles CommissionerJames Kay Thomas said Walk-er's resignation was offered andaccepted. At the time he left,he was in charge of the oper-ators and chauffeurs license di-vision.

RESCUED MINERS approach the surface in a buckethoist from the burning No. 9 mine of the Mountaineer

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Coal Co. at, Mannington. More than 70 othev minerswere trapped below. (AP Wirephoto)

4**The Charleston Gazette Thursday, Nov. 21, 1968

Problems of AgingAttention Pressed

By Edward PecksStaff Writer

quet sponsored by the regionalconference of the National Coun-

A federal official suggested |cil on the Aging at the Danielhere Wednesday that rural older Americans should organizeto deal "with all the problems othe aging, not merely povertjproblems."

"Since the older poor hav<more problems than their moreprosperous contemporariesthose problems would get moreattention," said Richard MHausler, deputy administrate,of the Rural Electrification Administration.

Such organization, he said,is needed to deal with theproblems facing "the old Ne-groes of Southside Virginia,(he old examiners of Appa-lachia and the poor farmersthroughout the area."Hausler. a native of Appalacb

ia, said of the old farmer in theregion, "The politicians, preach-ers and the mine owners all ofhis life have used him and mold-ed his hates and fears, but theyleave him alone now, using ma-chines where they once used hismuscle, seeking votes more inthe towns and cities than up thehollows and down the backroads.

"Many of those who used andmolded him have become moremoderate to adjust to the times,or their more moderate sonshave taken over, leaving that oldfellow and his wife alone withbeliefs as out of date as his skillsand shack," he added.

Hausler made the observationin a prepared speech for deliv-ery Wednesday night at a ban-

Boone Hotel.HE SUGGESTED that the

sponsors of organized olderAmericans should be the exten-sion service of the U. S. Agricul-ture Department, rural electricco - ops, churches and "the in-dividual in the community withtime on his hands and warmthin his heart."

Hausler said that the elderly"want to help others and them-selves even if hard experiencehas made overt gesture diffi-cult."

The general war on poverty isnot a failure and the national ef-fort will continue, said the for-mer OEO officials.

"Some may urge easier meth-ods, particularly trickle downmethods," Hausler said. "They!will find, though, that they arenot fighting press releases out ofDEO, but millions of realities—and even more — millions ofJeople like you who have seen|'irsthand what is happening."

The conference registered 250 jrepresentatives from eight states j'or the four - day meeting of!workshops and discussions on:jroblems facing older Ameri-|cans. j

William E. Oriol, staff direc-or of the Senate Special Com-

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SNOWi sexpected tocontinue t o d a yover the lowerLakes region andthe upper OhioValley. Rain isforecast for theWestern Gulf andNorthwest.

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The Weather ANDELSEWHERE

Thursday, Nov. 21, 1968Sunrise 7:19 a.m.

t 5:07 p.m.Moon sets 4:00 p.m.

FORECASTSCHARLESTON — Partly cloudy, not as

cold. High 43. Fair at night. Low 27.WEST VIRGINIA — Partly cloudy. High

38 10 44.VIRGINIA — Sunny with some cloudi-

ness over the mountains. High 40 to 46n the mountains and 44 to 50 east of the

mountains.OHIO — Variable cloudiness northeast

and partly cloudy elsewhere. High in the30s except lower 40s locally extreme

south.KENTUCKY — Fair and not so cold

west to decreasing cloudiness and con-tinued cold in east. High in the low 40seast to upper 40s west. Low 30s east to40s west.

WEDNESDAY'S TEMPERATURESSa.m 28 3 p.m 287 a.m 28 5 p.m 299 a.m 28 7 p.m 28

11 a.m 28 9 p.m »1 p.m 27 11 p.m 29|

WEDNESDAY'S HUMIDITIESSa.m 85 11 a.m 85 5 p.m 70

WEDNESDAY'S WINDHighest 13 m.p.h. from W. at 3 P.m.

-WITHIN LIMIT'

State Road Bond SaleIs Seen Next Week

mittee on Aging, will discuss leg-islation at the final morning ses-ion today.

Race TrackHospital Run Case FigureFatal to KinOf Patient

BUFFALO — An ambulancecarrying a woman who hadswallowed poison to ThomasMemorial Hospital in SouthCharleston crashed into a bridgeabutment near here earlyWednesday, killing a passenger

SurrendersCHARLES TOWN - W -

Frank Benson of Washington,wanted by federal authoritiesin c o n n e c t i o n with con-spiracy charges stemming fromrace track earnings, turnedlimself in Wednesday to U.S.Commissioner Henry "Morrow.

Benson and one other man,

and injuring the driver.State Trooper T. G. Yoho said

Paul Crump, 61, of Buffalo, wasdead on arrival at the hospitalwith head injuries.

Yoho said Crump was thebrother-in-law of Mrs. Ida Whit-tington, 50, of Buffalo, who hadearlier swallowed the poison ather home.

The hospital listed Mrs. Whit-tington in critical condition asresult of the poison. She was notinjured in the crash, police • aid.

The injured ambitaneedriver was identified by Yohoas 30-year-old Paul Shannon,a part time employe of RaynesFuneral Home here.The hospital said Shannon was

Pickman of Brooklyn,being soughtwere

HarryN.Y.,Wednesday following the arrests

of 12 other men Tuesday.All 14 were accused of con-

spiring to evade payment of fed-eral income tax and failing to>ay 10 per cent taxes on earn-ngs at Shenandoah Downs race

track here above $600.A hearing has been scheduled

'or Nov. 25 in U.S. DistrictCourt at ElMns, W. Va., beforeJudge Robert E. Maxwell.

Class PlannedIn Self-Defense

Weekend self-defense classeswill be inaugurated Sunday af-

admitted with a broken arm and ternoon at the North Charlestonbroken hip.

Yoho said the ambulance hitthe concrete abutment of thebridge that spans Scary Creek

County line.Yoho said it

standing thatwas IdsCrttmp

under-found

home in his car.

Sex Changed(Continued Prom Page. 1)

was a very wonderful thing."Miss Hall said despite the at-

titude of her former Charlestonfriends, she and her ba$ban<!plan to return here after theirmarriage early next year ane"live in peace and dignity."

* * *"I WAS SICE and DOW I'm

•well," she added. John Pan! andI are happy."

In her previous life as GordonLangley Hall, Dawn was theauthor of "Lady Bird and HerDaughters," published by theMacrae Smith Co. last year,and "Jacqueline Kennedy," writ-ten in collaboration with AnnPinchot and published by Fred-erick Fell Inc.

Earlier works included "Prin-cess Margaret," "The GypsyContessa," "Golden Boats FromBurma." "The Sawdust Trail"and "Mr. Jefferson's Ladies."

UNICEF IncreasesRelief to Nigeria

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. -(,.pi_ The director of the U. N.;Children's Fund, Henry R. La-bouisse, announced allocation ofanother $1.5 million for familieson both sides of the line in theNigerian civil war.

The Associated PressState Treasurer John H. Kelly

predicted Wednesday West Vir-ginia will be able to sell $20million in road bonds next weekwithin the 4'/2 per cent interestlimit despite the steady rise in

jbond market interest rates inrecent years.

I "I think we'll be under it,"Kelly said.

Bids on the bonds, the fifth$20 million package to be mar-keted under a $200 million roadbond authorization voted in the1964 election, will be openedTuesday in Gov. Hulett C.Smith's office.

Payoff ToldBy ExecutiveOf Pipeline

NEWARK, N. J. -m- Acorporate vice president wasgranted immunity from prosecu-tion Wednesday to testify abouta $110,000 payoff his companyallegedly made to the formermayor and council president of

The 1964 constitutional amend-ment authorized the legislatureto vote issuance of up to $20million in road bonds each fiscalyear for 10 years. The legisla-ture placed a ceiling of 4J/2 percent as the state's net interestcost.

Net interest costs at whichthe four previous packages weremarketed were 3.12 per cent inApril 1965, 3.42 per cent inNovember 1965, 3.75 per cent inNovember 1966 and 4.25 per centin November 1967.

Despite this continuing risetoward 4V2 per cent, Kelly saidhe expected the state would beable to market all the remain-ing issues without lifting the

Same MineKilled FatherOf Survivor

MANNINGTON - tf) - Among;he 21 miners rescued Wednesdayfrom the Mountaineer Coal Co.No. 9 mine near here was MattMenas Jr., whose father died in asimilar disaster in the same mine14 years ago.

The explosion on Nov. 13,1954, killed 16 men. The mineat that time was owned by theJamison Coal Co., and wasjcalled the Jamison No. 9.i Here is a list of the other(miners rescued Wednesday, allof whom are from the areaaround Mannington, Fairmontand Farmington:1. Byron Jones.2. Nathaniel Stephens, 48. j3. Charles Biafore. |4. Nick Kose, 23.5. Roy Wilson.6. James Herron.7. Paul Sabo.8. Walter Slavikosky.9. Henry Conaway.

10. Nezer 'Vandergrift, 4811. Ralph Starkey, 41.12. Lewis Lake, 55.13. George Wilson, 54.14. Alva Davis, 29.15. Raymond Parker.16. Robert Bland.

'No Chance' Given78 Trapped Minersane,

(Continued From Page 1)caused the explosion. He

said the mine always had been"moderately gassy," as aremany mines in Marion County,an oil and gas region.

Estimates of how many menwere missing varied throughoutthe day, but at a late afternoonpress conference a coal com-pany spokesman said the num-ber had been determined to be78.

If all 78 of the missing menare dead, it will be the worstmine disaster in West Virgin-ia since Jan. 10, 1940, when91 were killed in a coal mineblast at Hartley, McDowellCounty.The worst mine disaster in

U. S. history happened onlyabout 10 miles from the site ofWednesday's blast. On Dec. 6,1907, the lives of 361 men and

boys were snuffed out by a mineexplosion at Monongah, MarionCounty.

The ill-fated Consol No.mine was hit by another gasexplosion on Nov. 13, 1954, thatkilled 16 miners. The mine wasset afire by that blast, too, andit had to be filled with foamand sealed for a year until thesmoldering stopped. A granitemonument to the 1954 victimssits beside a church in Farming-ton.

ONLY LAST week, a gas ex-plosion and fire destroyed theManchin store and adjoiningbuildings in Farmington, killingthree customers and a clerk.

"Some of the volunteer fire-men who fought the fire at mydad's store were among theminers trapped in the mine thismorning." State Farmers HomeAdministration Director A.

Governor'sFund ShiftedFoi: Health

Gov. Hulett C. Smith saidWednesday he has transferred$11,000 from the state's contin-

g gency fund to the state HealthDepartment to support new uni-form medical licensing proce-dures.

The Medical Licensing Boardearlier switched to the newmethods of examining physi-cians before they can practice inthe state but the cost per ex-amination rose from $25 to $65.

Smith's transfer will help de-fray the added expense temporar-ily but Health Director Dr. N.H. Dyer said he would ask thenext legislature for adequatefunds to pay for the new testingmethods.

James Manchin said Wednes-day.

"We have a lot of misery uphere."

17. Robert Mullen.18. Gary Martin.19. Charles Crumm.20.

Woodbridge.I The witness was Glenn H.

on U. S. 17 near the Kanawba find it difficult to attend weekday

Giles of the Colonial Pipeline Co.of Atlanta, Ga.

The federal governmentcharges that former Mayor Wal-ter Zirpolo and former TownshipCouncil President Rooert E. Jacksaccepted $110,000 in bribes fromColonial in connection with con-

accommodate Charlestonians who struction of a 2,600 - mile oil pipe-line from Houston, Tex., to

Recreation Center.The new series of classes will

begin at 2:30 p.m. Sunday to

classes held each Thursday from7-9 p. m.

The self-defense classes haveMrs. Whittington in her home graduated about 200 studentsand rushed her to the funeral once they began last winter. In

addition to the Thursday andSunday class sessions, the" Char-leston Park & Recreation Com-mission also sponsors specialMonday night classes for nurs-es.

Linden, N. J.Simon Rifkind, attorney for

Ben D. Leuty, president of Co-lonial, told the jury earlier thatLeuty made payoffs to Zirpoloand Jacks when he realized anydelay in the pipeline construc-tion c o u l d cost his company$100,000 a day.

Leuty is charged with briberyand conspiracy in the case. per cent.

"I think the money marketwill get better after January,"Kelly said.

Voters approved Nov. 5 anadditional $350 million roadbond authorization.

Unlike the 1964 authorization,the new one does not restrictthe amount of bonds sold at onetime. The legislature is free tosell the entire issue at once orin installments of any size.

So far, no interest ceiling hasbeen placed on bond sales underthe 1968 amendment.

Based on present estimates ofState Road Commission needs,Kelly said he expected the stateto put about $70 million ia roadbonds on the market next year.This would include a sixth $20million installment under the1964 amendment and $50 million |worth under the 1968 authorize-!tion. !

If the 1964 amendment had Inot restricted the amount of thetotal package sold in one year,the whole $200 million in bondscould have been, in effect,interest-free, Kelly said.

He explained the bonds couldhave been sold at the compara-tively low rates prevailing in1965, when two installmentswent for 3.12 per cent and 3.42

JAY, WIFEGAVE $8,500IN CAMPAIGN

Jay Rockefeller apparent-ly felt strongly about theelection of gubernatorialcandidate J a m e s M.Sprouse.

Records filed with thesecretary of state's office!showed Wednesday t h a tRockefeller made a $5,000contribution to Sprouse'spersonal campaign fund andthat his wife, Sharon Rocke-feller, contributed $3,500 tothe State Democratic Execu-tive Committee.

Rockefeller was the onlyDemocratic candidate for aBoard of Public Works posi-tion who was recorded ascontributing to the Sprousecampaign.

In his post election state-ment, Sprouse reported thathe received $9,000 in contri-butions and spent $4,000.

The state committee re-ported it received $283,294.82in contributions and spent$353,191.71 — a deficit of $69,-

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