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the sign on this filling station on Lombard says operated by sin in, in Jack Hurst is one of the directors of the synonym Foundation Jack. What exactly is going on here? Well, as you can see the synonym Foundation has branched into the business community here in

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san Francisco. Uh and we're pumping gas and running a service station. Uh Texaco approached us about two months ago and asked if we would be interested and we said we would be because we've had good success with service stations in, in the southern part of the

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state. So they put six of our guys through their training program for a full month. And then about three weeks ago we opened up here. Since that time, it has provided us with with an excellent avenue of of work training for our people in the business

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world. It also has made it possible for us to make some money. And we, we we we hope to have a fine running service station here. This is, it's not. Then the first business enterprise that cinnamon has gone into. No, not at all. We've been running

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service stations in santa, Monica, san Diego for about a year and a half. But this is the first time in san Francisco. We also have an industry program in the sale of advertising specialties pens and pencils. But in other words the synonym foundation, which is a

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nonprofit private corporation has refused any tax money. We refuse the support of any federal state or county agencies are the tax pot. And we feel that if the organization itself is producing self reliant people, then the organization itself should one day become self reliant. Now, at

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this time, we're 99% totally reliant on donations of food, clothing, shelter and money. But we're doing what we can to bring the cost of sittin on down to to to our don't. We're trying to do what we can to help support ourselves. How is business here?

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It's picking up every day. We we've made a lot of good friends here and the people that come in find the service good and, you know, it's it's it's good for everybody. It's good for, it's good for the community. It's certainly good for for, you know,

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mankind in general.