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except as to roads and trash collection.

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So, this is the problem. While you look at

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classification, population, while it is the easiest factor

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is really the one that does not lend itself to the proper

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method to get what you want. I am excluding, and of

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course, there are exceptions, the large cities, Cumberland

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Hagers town, Annapolis, which do provide service; but cer-

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tainly the ones located in the Washington metropolitan

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area and the larger towns do not do it. It is the strange

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paradox we have in Maryland where your small cities or

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small towns frequently do more than what College Park

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does, for instance. It is a strange paradox, but one we

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live with.

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MR. THOMPSON: Mr. Chairman, I would say in

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substance I agree with what Mr. Ratchford says and I think

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what he says, if he didn't say it expressly, and perhaps

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I didn't notice it, but at least by implication, if there

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is to be a categorization, it perhaps be best by function

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and not by size. I have run into this problem many times

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before,

21 MR. RATCHFORD: Or by area might be another way