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• Armstrong • Cherryville • Coldstream • Falkland • Lavington • Lumby • Nakusp • Spallumcheen • Vernon • Westside Rd •November 27 - Dec 3, 2015 Issue 00250

TIDBITS® BRINGS YOU

THIS WEEK IN HISTORYby Kathy Wolfe

From science to medicine to politics to music – Tidbits makes you aware of the events that occurred this week in history. • On November 29, 1947, the United Nations

met to vote on a crucial issue, that of whether to partition the British-controlled territory of Palestine into two states, one for Jews and one for Arabs. � e area had been under British control since 1917. Needing a two-thirds majority for passage, the U.N. General Assembly passed the resolution with 72%, with all Arab nations voting against the creation of Israel. � e day after the vote, violence erupted into what became the 1947-48 Civil War between Jews and Arabs. In May, 1948, the state of Israel was formed.

• � e world lost a famous daredevil on November 30, 2007, with the passing of motorcyclist Evel Knievel. � e Butte, Montana native su� ered more than 430 broken bones over the course of his career. His record of jumping 19 cars on his cycle lasted for 27 years, his record of jumping over stacked cars endured for 35 years, and his jump over 14 Greyhound buses was on the books for 24 years.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY (continued):• On November 30, 1954, as a Sylacauga, Alabama

woman lay sleeping on her couch, a meteorite crashed through her roof, bounced o� a radio, and struck her, the � rst modern record of such an occurrence. Measuring about 8 inches (20.3 cm) in diameter and weighing about 9 lbs. (4.1 kg), the sul� de space rock did not permanently injure Mrs. Hulett Hodges, but it did leave a 3-ft. (0.9 m) hole in her roof.

• Rosa Parks made history when she stepped onto

a Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955. Headed for home from her job at a local department store Rosa took a seat in the 11th row of the bus, the � rst row of the section reserved for blacks. As the bus � lled up, three whites were left standing. � e driver demanded that four black people give up their seats. � ree black men moved, but Rosa refused to surrender her place. Although she had not technically broken any law, she was arrested for violating city code and for disorderly conduct. Within four days, a boycott of the city’s buses was in place, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because 75% of bus customers were black, the � nances of the public bus companies plunged. Yet it still took 381 days for an agreement to be reached on the end of segregation.

• � e Ford Motor Company dramatically shortened the time it took to assemble an automobile when they launched a continuous-moving assembly line on December 1, 1913. A complete car could be produced every 2 ½ minutes, a reduction from the previous time of 12 hours. By producing vehicles so e� ciently, Ford was able to substantially lower the price of the Model T, from $825 to $575.

• On the � rst day of December in 1959, representatives from 12 countries signed the Antarctica Treaty, an agreement that banned

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any military activity and weapon testing on that frozen continent. � e pact decreed that all personnel and equipment may only be for scienti� c research or other peaceful purposes. Prior to that, several nations, including Great Britain, Australia, Chile, and Norway, had laid claim to parts of Antarctica.

• “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was released by the Beatles on December 1, 1963, quickly hitting the top of the charts in America and the U.K. � e Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lists the song as one of history’s 500 songs that shaped rock and roll. It’s also ranked as the 45th best song of all time.

• � e New York Municipal Airport opened on the waterfront of Flushing Bay in Queens on December 2, 1939. � e site was originally an amusement park owned by the Steinway Pianos family, and became a private air� eld in 1929. New York City shelled out $23 million to change the � eld into a modern airport. In 1953, the name was changed to LaGuardia Airport, honoring Fiorello LaGuardia, major of the city from 1934 to 1945, who had come up with the idea of the new facility.

• � e � rst Burger King opened its doors in Miami, Florida on December 4, 1954, � rst known as Insta-Burger King. � ey added � e Whopper

* Candles will burn more evenly if you refriger-ate them for a few hours before lighting.

* “To make your drains fresh-smelling, shake a half-cup of baking soda into the drain. � en pour 2 cups of vinegar that you have warmed on the stove. It will froth and bubble. When it’s done, run the hot water and give it a little scrub.” -- R.C. in Idaho

* Visit the dollar store for low-cost toys to use on car or airplane trips. You can get several busy toys and dole them out one at a time. Most parents will attest to what a lifesaver this can be.

* “When planning to visit my hometown for the holidays, I set aside a few hours to take the kids to the park or a nice playground. � en I mes-sage all my old friends and classmates with kids (Facebook is great for this) a few weeks ahead of time and let them know when I will be there. It’s great to catch up while the kids play, and even if no one shows up, we still have a fun break.” -- F.L. in California

* Cookie sheets make great temporary mud and moisture trays for dirty shoes. Stash one at the entry to your home, and you will have less dirt tracked across your � oors.

* “Keep knitting yarn in check with empty tis-sue boxes. Set your yarn ball inside the box, and let the string lead out of the top. When not in use, tape the string to the side of the box. Boxes can be stacked and stored for future projects.” -- C.W. in IndianaSend your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803.(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY (continued):


in 1957. More than 11 million folks eat at a Burger King somewhere in the world every day. With more than 13,000 locations in 79 countries, they are the world’s third largest hamburger chain. In case you’re counting calories, a Burger King cheeseburger has 360. A slice of cheddar cheese adds about 113 calories to an ordinary burger.

• � is week was an important one in the history of heart surgeries. On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the � rst human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Barnard removed the heart of a 25-year-old woman killed in an auto accident and placed it in the chest of 55-year-old Louis Washkansky, who was dying of heart damage. For 18 days, the transplanted heart functioned normally; however, the anti-rejection drugs Washkansky was given left him susceptible to illness. Her perished from double pneumonia on December 21. Fifteen years later, during the same week, Dr. William DeVries implanted the � rst permanent arti� cial heart, designed by Dr. Robert Jarvik, in Seattle dentist Barney Clark. Mr. Clark survived 112 days with the device.

• On December 5, 1945, � ve U.S. Navy torpedo bombers departed from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station for a three-hour training mission over the Atlantic. � e � ve aircraft carrying a total of 14 men were known as Flight 19 and were scheduled to � y east for 120 miles (193 km), north for 73 miles (118 km), then back another 120 miles (193 km) to the base. Two hours into the � ight, the squadron leader radioed that his compass had failed and that he did not know his position. � e other planes reported similar malfunctions. A search and rescue plane carrying 13 men took o� � ve hours after Flight 19. A massive air and sea search was launched to comb the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle, a stretch of sea from the southern U.S. coast across to Bermuda and down to Cuba and

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY (continued):

Santo Domingo. No trace of the six planes was ever found and 27 men were lost. � e Navy’s � nal report of the incident listed the cause of the disappearances as “Reasons Unknown.”

NOTEWORTHY INVENTORS:

CHARLES BRANNOCK“If the shoe � ts, wear it.” � at phrase could have been the inspiration for Charles Brannock’s famous 1926 invention. Follow along and learn about the invention of the shoe-measuring device.

• Charles Brannock was raised in the shoe business. In 1903, when he was three years old, his father Otis Brannock and Ernest Park founded the Park-Brannock Shoe Company in downtown Syracuse, New York. � e company continually expanded, o� ering a wide selection of all shoes, handbags, hats, hose, and accessories. Charles worked as a salesman while attending Syracuse University.

• Dissatis� ed with the shoe size-sticks known as RITZ sticks, an industry standard, Brannock began tinkering with an improved foot-measuring device. While the sticks measured only the foot’s length, Brannock’s sketches and calculations represented an apparatus that would measure length, width, and distance from the heel to the ball of the foot to determine arch length. His prototype was built from an Erector set.

• � e Brannock Device improved accuracy to about 96%. It began with a man’s size 1 measurement of 7 2/3 inches (19.5 cm), with each additional size adding 1/3 inch ((0.84 cm). Each width was separated by 3/16 inch (0.48 cm). � e widths were divided into nine sizes, AAA, AA, A, B, C, D, E, EE, and EEE. � ere were also two knobs for adjusting the � t for the curve of the heel, along with a sliding bar for adjusting for thin feet and wide feet. � e device remains much the same today, with very little change.

• Brannock assembled the device right in the family shoe store, and its trials were conducted there, where it was used exclusively. Park-Brannock was the only store in town to measure feet so accurately. At age 25, Brannock obtained a patent, established the Brannock Device Company, and began sales of the apparatus to other shoe retailers. He then hired salesmen throughout the country. By 1929, the device was being sold internationally.

• In 1933, a U.S. Navy captain was looking into why so many sailors had problems with their feet, and asked a shoe salesman for

his advice. � e salesman measured the sailors’ feet with a Brannock device, and informed the captain that the only problem was ill-� tting shoes. � at captain wrote an article about this simple solution in the July, 1933 issue of United

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Shoes. He continued to come to the o� ce of Brannock Devices on a daily basis well into his 80s. When his health began to fail, he thought about selling the business, but many prospective buyers wanted to change the device to a plastic material. To Brannock, this was a non-negotiable point, and he insisted that the devices be manufactured from steel.

• Brannock passed away in 1993 at age 89. � e company was purchased from his estate by Sal Leonardi, who has maintained the business just as Brannock would have wanted it.

B-I-N-G-O !December has the distinction of being Bingo’s Birthday Month. Take a look to see what you may not know about one of the world’s favorite games.

• � e game of Bingo has its origins in Italy, clear back in 1530, when a game called Lo Guioco del Lotto D’Italia, which resembles present-day Bingo was played. � is early lottery-type game is still played every Saturday in Italy. � e game spread to France in the 1770s and Germany in the 1800s.

• Bingo came to North America in 1929, and was originally called Beano because the squares on the playing card were covered with beans. Players used pieces of cardboard or paper with a grid of numbered squares. It was � rst played at an Atlanta, Georgia carnival. Numbered disks were drawn from a cigar box and beans were placed on the appropriate square.

• About that time, a New York toy salesman named Edwin Lowe was playing and when a player mistakenly yelled “Bingo!” instead of “Beano!” he had a brainstorm. Lowe hired a math professor from Columbia University to help him expand the game by increasing the number of combinations on a card. � e professor came up with 6,000 di� erent cards. Lowe changed the name to Bingo and launched his creation. � e cigar box was replaced with a wire mesh cage with a handle that twirled the balls inside.

States Naval Institute Proceedings. Brannock seized the opportunity to expand his business by forwarding the article, � rst to other naval ships, then on to other branches of the military. By World War II, his device was in use by most of the armed forces.

• Following the death of his father in 1962, Brannock added to his own manufacturing company work load by becoming CEO of Park-Brannock

BRANNOCK (continued):

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1. Heat oven to 425 F. Spray a 10-by-15-inch rimmed baking sheet with olive oil-� avored cooking spray. Unroll French loaf and pat into prepared baking sheet. Bake for 5 minutes.2. Stir Italian seasoning into tomato sauce. Even-ly spread sauce mixture over partially baked crust. Arrange zucchini evenly over sauce. Sprinkle feta and mozzarella cheeses evenly over top. Continue baking for 12 to 14 minutes or until crust is golden brown.3. Place baking sheet on a wire rack and let set for 5 minutes. Cut into 8 large pieces. Serves 8.

* Each serving equals: 173 calories, 5g fat, 9g protein, 23g carb., 758mg sodium, 2g � ber; Dia-betic Exchanges: 1 Starch, 1 Meat, 1 Vegetable.(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.


Helping Pets in NeedDEAR PAW’S CORNER: As the holiday season swings into full gear, many people may be look-ing to do something more enriching than just shopping for gifts and getting things we don’t really need. Please encourage your readers to consider donating to their local shelter or o� er-ing some of their time as volunteers to help pets during the holidays and year-round. -- Avid Vol-unteer in Virginia

DEAR AVID: You told them, and I thank you! � e holidays can be a very hectic time for many people. But � nding time to volunteer at your lo-cal shelter, or helping to host a fundraising or pet-supplies drive, can be an enriching experi-ence and a break from shopping and planning for holiday events.While some local shelters don’t have a formal volunteer program, many do. � e � rst step is to contact the shelter or visit its website to � nd out if it accept volunteers, what jobs they’re expect-ed to do, and how to apply. If you have children who are interested in volunteering, � nd out the minimum age and what kids can do if they’re too young to volunteer.For example, the adoption center at Boston’s MSPCA Angell center requires a six-month com-mitment of two hours per week from volunteers, who handle a variety of tasks from cleaning habitats to feeding the animals, walking dogs, socializing with smaller animals, or interacting with visitors. � at’s quite a commitment, but the volunteer program often is completely � lled each year.Single-day or weekend volunteer activities also may be available, often as group events. � ese are a great way to get familiar with being a shel-ter volunteer.Send your questions or tips to [email protected].(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

• In the early 1930s, a Pennsylvania Catholic priest thought that Bingo might be a good way to raise funds for the church, and that practice began. By 1934, about 10,000 Bingo games were being played weekly across the country.

• � e most common Bingo cards have 25 squares in a � ve row by � ve row con� guration. � e squares contain numbers from 1 to 75, with the center square a “Free” space, considered automatically � lled. � e letters of the word BINGO head up each of the � ve columns. � e “B” column contains numbers from 1 to 15, “I” has 16 to 30, “N” has 31 to 45, and the numbers 61 to 75 are listed in the “O” column.

• � ere are several ways to achieve a Bingo. � e most common is, of course, to � ll a line vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Also popular is “Four Corners,” which requires a player to cover the game card’s four corners. � e “Roving L” pattern requires the entire “B” column to be covered along with the top or bottom row, or the entire “O” column and the top or bottom row, forming an “L.” � e Cross pattern forms a center cross on the card. And, of course, covering all the squares on a card is called a “blackout.”

• � e “bubble” refers to the minimum number of balls necessary to complete a Bingo pattern, the earliest point a player could have a valid Bingo. If a player achieves a “Hard-Way Bingo,” the bingo is a straight line without using the Free space in the middle.

• What about when a player calls out “Bingo!” but is actually mistaken? � ere are several names given to this blunder – “falsie,” “just practicing,” “social error,” or “bongo.”

• It’s estimated that people spend more than $90 million dollars each week playing bingo in North America alone.

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* It was Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky who made the following sage observation: “Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.”

* If you live in New Jersey, you pay eight times as much in real estate taxes as residents of Hawaii do.

* Given the popularity of both Legos and Star Wars, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the � rst licensed, themed Lego set was an X-Wing � ghter, released in 1999.

* � ose who study such things say that wearing skinny jeans can cause varicose veins.

* In the 1930s, during the Bolshevik Revolution, a Communist patrol in Siberia came across an iso-lated fundamentalist Russian Orthodox settlement. Christians were persecuted in the Soviet Union, and one of the soldiers shot and killed a man work-ing in the village. � is prompted the man’s brother, Karp Lykov, to � ee into the forest with his wife and two young children. A sad story, perhaps, but noth-ing unusual -- until you � nd out that the Lykov fam-ily remained in complete isolation for 42 years. It wasn’t until 1978 that surveyors in a helicopter saw in a remote area a clearing that was obviously not of natural origin. Investigation revealed that Karp and his four children (his wife had died in 1961) were living in a crude log dwelling. � ey’d had no con-tact with the outside world since � eeing their vil-lage in 1936, and two of the children had never seen a human not related to them.

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