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TIDBITS® INVESTIGATESAUGUST EVENTSby Kathy WolfeAugust has been action-packed over the years. This week, Tidbits brings you some history-making events from the crazy days of summers past and present.• When the cornerstone of the Statue of Lib-erty was laid in August of 1884, it was placed on Bedloe’s Island, which previously had been known as Love Island. The land didn’t offi cial-ly become Liberty Island until 1956. When the Statue of Liberty arrived from France, it was in 350 individual pieces that were put together and offi cially dedicated in October of 1886. • The fi rst edition of Sports Illustrated hit the newsstands in August of 1954, featuring Milwaukee Braves player Eddie Mathews on the cover. Inside, readers found a tri-fold of 27 baseball trading cards, including such greats as Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Gil Hodges and Duke Snider. Although a hit, the magazine showed no profi t for the next 12 years. Mi-chael Jordan has set the record for the num-ber of cover appearances at 56, with the New York Yankees the most featured team. Four U.S. Presidents have made the cover — Ken-nedy, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. Every year, Sports Illustrated gives its “Sportsman of the Year” award. Roger Bannister, the fi rst person to run a mile in under four minutes, was given that honor during the magazine’s inaugural year. turn the page for more!

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AUGUST EVENTS (continued):• In August of 1914, the 48-mile (77-km) Panama Canal opened to ship traffic, with its first cargo liner, the SS Ancon. It had been under construc-tion since 1904, and opening day was two years ahead of schedule. Nearly 27,500 people lost their lives during the construction. By pass-ing through the canal, a ship sailing from New York to San Francisco saves about 8,000 miles (12,875 km) over a trip around the tip of South America’s Cape Horn. During the canal’s early days, about 1,000 ships passed through each year. That figure today is close to 15,000 ships making the nine-hour pass between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. • August is a month for stray baseballs! In 1979, Seattle Mariner Ruppert Jones hit a foul ball in the Kingdome that stuck in the stadium’s loud-speaker above the first base line. The follow-ing August, Yankee Bob Watson had a hit off the Kingdome’s center-field speaker. The very next day, Watson did exactly the same thing! Shortly after that feat, the speakers were raised from 102 feet (31 m) above the field to 132 feet (40.2 m). In August of 1983, Yankee pitcher Dave Winfield threw a warm-up ball and accidentally struck and killed a seagull at the Toronto Blue Jays’ stadium. But pitcher Nolan Ryan was in complete control during August of 1989 when he became the first Major League pitcher to achieve 5,000 strikeouts. By the time he retired four years later, he had struck out 5,714 batters. • It’s been 34 years this month since the death of Elvis Presley at age 42 at his Graceland home. The official cause of death was listed as coronary arrhythmia. The King’s funeral was held at his home, with a processional to Forest Hill Cemetery following the service. More than 80,000 people lined the route.

¥ To test the seals on your refrigerator and freezer, close a piece of paper in the door. If you can pull it out easily, it's likely that your seal is loose. Clean or replace door gaskets for a better seal.

¥ To keep vinyl car seats bearable in summer heat, keep a few towels in your vehicle and lay them over the seat. This also keeps the plastic parts of baby seats from burning little legs and arms.

¥ You can use plain white bread to get fingerprints and smudges off of wallpaper and semigloss painted walls. Just ball up the bread center (not the crust) and rub the smudge away.

¥ "Out of prewash and looking at a nasty grease stain? Grab your dishwashing liquid soap (not the one you would put in your automatic dishwasher). It's designed to break down grease, and I just dab it on, scrub a bit and then let it set for about a quarter of an hour. After that, I launder in hot wa-ter. It's usually successful." -- Nancy V., via email

¥ Check bagged frozen vegetables with the squeeze test: A bag that's hard and solid has thawed and subsequently refrozen. You should choose another bag, one with loose, free-moving pieces.

¥ Remove cloudiness from a batch of iced tea with this trick: Let your tea cool before refrigerating it. You also can add a small bit of boiling water to a glass of iced tea if it is already cloudy.

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Q: My 7-year-old dog, Cara, itches terribly and scratches all the time. She may have allergies, but I'm not certain. I've tried a number of treatments, including Benadryl, steroids, special shampoos and conditioners, sprays, pills, etc. I have her groomed regularly, and during the last trip had her fur shaved off because it tangles so badly when it's long. Nothing helps! Is there anything you could suggest? -- A Reader, via e-mail

A: I'm sorry to hear how Cara is suffering. I'm sure you've taken her to the vet for a complete examina-tion to rule out other underlying causes, but I do want to mention it for my other readers' sake.Dogs can suffer from allergies to many of the same things we humans do. Allergens like dust and dander, as well as flea bites, can cause al-lergic symptoms. Certain foods also can cause allergic reactions including skin reactions, itching, diarrhea and vomiting.

You've tried several common medications to re-lieve allergy symptoms, without any improvement. It's time to consult the veterinarian again. Look at Cara's diet, including snacks and “sneaked” food that you may have caught her trying to get at. Also note her home environment, where she spends most of her time, and the objects, carpeting and plants around her. Talk with the vet about any other possible causes of her allergies.

Send your question or comment to [email protected], or write to Paw's Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. For more pet care-related advice and information, visit www.pawscorner.com.


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AUGUST EVENTS (continued):• Henry Leland founded the Cadillac Automobile Company in August of 1902, naming it after his ancestor, French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded the city of Detroit in 1701. • When William Gray’s wife became very ill in 1888, he was in desperate need of a telephone to call a doctor. There were very few phones in Hartford, Connecticut, and Gray ran to a neigh-boring factory, begging to use theirs, but was told it was not for public use. When the owners finally gave in to his pleading, the doctor was reached, and Mrs. Gray recovered. This incident spurred Gray, a machinist, to invent a coin-oper-ated telephone. He received his patent in August of 1889, and the first payphone was installed at a local bank. By 1902, the United States was home to 81,000 payphones.• The first and last atomic bombings in history took place in August of 1945. The United States dropped the first nuclear weapon, known as “Little Boy,” on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6 and the second, called “Fat Man,” on Nagasaki three days later. Fatality estimates for Hiroshima were 90,000 to 160,000 people and 60,000 to 80,000 for Nagasaki. • On an August morning in 1907, Seattle resi-dents shopped at the Pike Place Market for the first time. This famous street market came into being because citizens were tired of being over-charged for their produce. Avoiding the middle-man, farmers brought their wares to the corner of First Avenue and Pike Street, and were met by more than 10,000 shoppers. Today the Mar-ket’s nine acres house more than 200 full-time businesses and 190 craftspeople, as well as 100 farmers who rent space by the day. The Market is also home to 300 apartments. It’s now one of Washington state’s most popular tourist attrac-tions, drawing 10 million visitors annually.

¥ On Aug. 23, 1814, during the war of 1812, first lady Dolley Madison abandoned the couple's personal belongings to save the full-length portrait of former president George Washington from desecration by vengeful British soldiers. The next night, British troops burned the White House.

¥ On Aug. 24, 1875, Captain Matthew Webb of Great Britain becomes the first man to successfully swim the English Channel without assistance. Webb reached shore in 21 hours and 45 minutes. In 1883, Webb attempted to swim the Niagara River, and drowned in 10 minutes. His body was found four days later.

¥ On Aug. 25, 1944, after more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. German General Dietrich von Choltitz defied an or-der by Adolf Hitler to blow up Paris’ landmarks and burn the city to the ground before its liberation.

¥ On Aug. 26, 1939, television station W2XBS in New York City broadcasts a doubleheader between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. It was the first Major League Baseball game ever aired on television.

¥ On Aug. 27, 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, is found dead of an accidental drug over-dose in his Sussex, England, home. The world might never have heard of the Beatles were it not for Epstein. Just a few months after being hired he got them their first recording contract with Parlophone Records.

¥ On Aug. 28, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson is picketed by woman suffragists in front of the White House, who demand that he support an amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee women the right to vote. Wilson had a history of lukewarm support for women's suffrage even, though he was a former teacher at a women's college and the father of two daughters.

¥ On Aug. 29, 1982, Swedish-born actress and three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman dies of cancer in London on her 67th birthday. Bergman was best known for her role as Ilsa Lund in "Casa-blanca."



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OVERCOMING THE ODDS:JESSE OWENSTrack and fi eld Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens set record after record, but not without having to hurdle over many obstacles along the way. This collection of facts will help you learn more about this amazing champion. • James Cleveland Owens was the son of a sharecropper farmer and the grandson of a slave. His family migrated from Alabama in 1922 when he was nine years old, joining 1.5 million other African Americans moving north out of the segregated South. The Owens family settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where Owens received his life-long nickname from a teacher who had diffi culty with his Southern drawl. Called “J.C.” by his family, when he told the teacher his name, she interpreted it as “Jesse,” and the name stuck.• As a young boy, Owens took odd jobs to help his family — delivering groceries, loading freight cars and working at the local shoe repair shop. His running career started during junior high un-der the encouragement of coach Charles Riley, who allowed him to practice early in the morning in order to make it to his after-school job. • During his years at Cleveland’s East Tech-nical High School, Owens matched the world record in the 100-yard (91-m) dash of 9.4 sec-onds. It was on to Ohio State University, where he became known as the “Buckeye Bullet.” At 1935’s NCAA Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Ow-ens set three world records and tied a fourth, a feat accomplished over a 45-minute span. His long jump record of 26 feet, 8.25 inches (8.13 m) was to endure for 25 years. His college career boasted a record eight individual NCAA champi-onships.

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appeared: chain-driven vehicles with simi-larly-sized tires. These were safer than the high-wheel models (and were even called “safety bicycles” as a result), but proved a step backwards in comfort. While the long spokes of high-wheel bikes absorbed bumps and ruts, the smaller wheels on these new bikes, particularly when coupled with the hard-rubber tires of the era, made for jarring, unpleasant rides.

• More than a million bicycles were sold in the United States by the time 1895 rolled around, but one last improvement would propel the bicycle into the must-own category: the pneu-matic tire. Under the guidance of the Pope Manufacturing Company (which made bi-cycles), the Hartford Rubber Works produced America’s first pneumatic tires in 1895. Pro-viding a much softer ride, they soon became a standard feature on all bicycle models.

• Dozens of smaller-scale improvements boosted the speed, comfort, longevity and performance of bicycles during the 20th century. As women began to find them as necessary as men, two varieties of bicycle were made. Men’s bikes were built with an extra stabilizer bar across the top of the bike. Women’s bikes omitted the bar, providing for easier mounting and dismounting of the vehicle when wearing skirts.

• The 1970s saw the development of two bi-cycle extremes. First came bicycles that took you nowhere. Otherwise known as exercise bikes, these training aids first hit the home market at the beginning of the decade. Then, as time went on and the energy crisis sent fuel prices skyrocketing, mopeds appeared. These bicycle/motorcycle hybrids, most popular with city-centered business workers, could either be pedaled like a regular bike or powered using a small, low-powered gasoline engine.

JESSE OWENS (continued):• Yet for all his success, Owens was made to live off campus, as were all African American athletes. When traveling with the team, he was forced to eat at blacks-only restaurants and overnight at blacks-only hotels, separate from the rest of the team. He received no scholar-ships for his athletic prowess, having to pay for his schooling through part-time jobs as a waiter, night elevator operator and gas station atten-dant. • Owens traveled to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin under a cloud of racial prejudice. Adolf Hitler, hoping for German domination at the Games, was promoting “Aryan racial superior-ity,” and Nazi propaganda portrayed Africans as inferior. Owens took the world by surprise when he took the gold in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump and, as a member of the relay team, became the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad. On the first day of competition, Hitler shook hands with German winners only, leav-ing the stadium immediately afterward. When Olympic officials were adamant that he either congratulate every medalist or greet none, Hitler declined to attend the remaining medal presen-tations. • The racial prejudice continued on the home front when Owens had to ride the freight eleva-tor at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to a reception following a ticker-tape parade honoring his victories. He later said that Frank-lin Roosevelt, “snubbed me. The President didn’t even send me a telegram.” Yet that didn’t hinder Owens from becoming a sought-after inspirational speaker and serving underprivi-leged youth. Surprisingly, this fine athlete was a cigarette smoker for 35 years and succumbed to lung cancer at age 66.

¥ It was the 37th president of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, who made the following sage -- and somehow appropriate -- observation: “Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.”

¥ Pasta has been around since 5,000 B.C., and it was invented in China, not Italy.

¥ If you’re planning a visit to the United Kingdom, you might want to keep in mind this rather obscure statute: It’s illegal to stand within 100 yards of the reigning monarch if you don’t have socks on.

¥ A groundhog can move 700 pounds of dirt in a single day.

¥ When the two-and-one-half-hour finale of the groundbreaking television show “M*A*S*H” aired on Feb. 28, 1983, advertisers paid a hefty $450,000 for a single 30-second spot. That was $50,000 more than the same spot cost at the Super Bowl that year.

¥ We all know what a disaster is, but did you know where the word came from? The base of the word is “aster,” which is Latin for “star.” The word “disaster” originally meant “an unfavorable aspect of a star,” reflecting the ancient notion that the motions of heavenly bodies affected terrestrial events.

¥ Baseball players didn’t have numbers on their uniforms until 1929, and it was the New York Yan-kees that were the first to adopt the practice.

¥ In the early 18th century, newspapers were not cheap, but the stories published therein were often people’s only link to the events of the day. Since they were so coveted, newspapers were often brought as a gift when a gentleman was calling on a lady friend, much as candy or flowers might be brought in a different era.***Thought for the Day: “No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.” -- Mignon McLaughlin



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WOODSTOCKIt was 41 years ago this month that Woodstock made the headlines as the biggest rock festi-val of its time. Tidbits invites you to learn more about this musical gathering as we revisit the event. • Its offi cial title was “The Woodstock Music and Art Fair — an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music.” Dairy farmer Max Yasgur agreed to allow the festival to be held on his 600-acre farm near Bethel, New York, a com-munity 43 miles southwest of Woodstock, New York. • The citizens of Bethel immediately protested the upcoming gathering, and promoters con-tinually told town offi cials that there would be no more than 50,000 attendees. About 186,000 advance tickets were sold prior to the concert at a price of $18, about $105 in today’s money. Promoters were expecting 200,000 fans. • Three days before the festival was to begin, the organizers realized that the fences around the area would present a problem with the antici-pated crowds and removed them. This resulted in the concert becoming free for thousands that streamed into the area. By the time the music was set to begin, there were 500,000 concert-goers.• The fi rst band to sign a contract for the fes-tival was Creedence Clearwater Revival for the sum of $10,000. • Rains in the days prior to the event produced muddy roads and fi elds. Massive traffi c jams clogged roads unequipped for the volume of people. There were inadequate sanitation facilities and fi rst-aid for the number of people and shortages of food and water. But nothing seemed to dampen the spirits of the fans as they listened to a total of 32 performances at the three-day event, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix,

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WOODSTOCK (continued): Santana, the Grateful Dead and Joan Baez. Artists that may have forever regretted declining the offer to perform included the Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Doors and Led Zeppelin. • Three recorded deaths occurred during the Woodstock Festival, including a heroin over-dose. Another concert-goer sleeping in a neigh-boring hayfi eld was killed when a tractor ran over him. A baby was born in a car stuck in the traffi c jam, while another mother-to-be was airlifted by helicopter from the scene to a nearby hospital where she gave birth. • It was the organizers’ wish that the Festival be closed out with singing cowboy Roy Rogers crooning “Happy Trails,” but when approached by the executive producer, Rogers turned him down. Fans had to settle for Jimi Hendrix shut-ting it down on Monday morning. • When Max Yasgur was approached about a 1970 encore festival, the answer was no, in Yas-gur’s words, “I’m going back to running a dairy farm.” He was sued by neighbors for property damage and incurred severe damage to his own farm. He was awarded a $50,000 settlement. The community of Bethel further prevented a sec-ond concert by passing “mass gathering” laws. Yasgur sold his farm in 1971 and died two years later at age 53. Rolling Stone magazine featured a full-page obituary, something that very few non-musicians have ever received. • The year after Woodstock, a documentary fi lm chronicling the event was released, an effort that received the Academy Award for Best Docu-mentary. The proceeds fi nanced the settlements of the 80 lawsuits that were fi led against the organizers, as well as their $1.4 million debt.

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