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The Courier • Tuesday, deCeMBeR 16, 2014
BIRTHDAYS • ANNIVERSARIES • RETIREMENTS • GRADUATIONS • NEW ARRIVALS
Siblings Bella,4, and Arron Greer,6, of Findlay, sit on Santa’s lap at
WinterFest & Kiwanis Santa’s House at St. Andrews UMC.
There were wagon rides, hot chocolate and cookies also.
Shannan Connely, dressed as Dolly Parton, and Josh Kurtz work during the Kiwanis Club
of Findlay’s second annual wine tasting/fundraiser at the Wine Merchant.
Proceeds benefit the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which provides new books to children.
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CELEBR ATIONS !
Happy Birthday to All
This week’s celebrity birthdays
include:
Sunday:
Actress Patty Duke is 68. Bassist
Cliff Williams of aC/dC is 65. singerguitarist Mike scott of The Waterboys is
56. singer-whistle player Peter “spider”
stacy of The Pogues is 56.
actress Cynthia Gibb (“Fame”) is 51.
actor archie Kao (“Chicago P.d.”) is 45.
singer Brian dalyrimple of soul for Real
is 39. actress Vanessa Hudgens (“High
school Musical”) is 26.
Yesterday:
Actor-comedian Tim Conway
is 81. singer Cindy Birdsong of The
supremes is 75. Drummer Dave Clark
of the Dave Clark Five is 72. drummer
Carmine appice of Vanilla Fudge is 68.
Actor Don Johnson is 65. actress Melanie Chartoff (“Rugrats,” ‘’Parker Lewis
Can’t Lose”) is 64.
Bassist Paul simonon of The Clash
is 59. Country singer doug Phelps (The
Kentucky Headhunters, Brothers Phelps)
is 54. actress Helen slater is 51. actor
Michael shanks (“stargate sG-1”) is 44.
actor stuart Townsend (“Queen of the
damned”) is 42.
actor adam Brody (“The O.C.”) is
35. actress Michelle dockery (“downton
abbey”) is 33. actor George O. Gore II
(“My Wife and Kids”) is 32.
Today:
actress Liv Ullman is 76. Writerproducer steven Bochco is 71. Guitarist
Tony Hicks of The Hollies is 69. singer
Benny anderson of aBBa is 68. actor
Ben Cross is 67. singer-guitarist Billy
Gibbons of ZZ Top is 65. actress alison
LaPlaca (“The John Larroquette show”)
is 55.
actor sam Robards is 53. actor Jon
Tenney is 53. actor Benjamin Bratt is 51.
Country singer Jeff Carson is 51. singer
Michael McCary of Boyz II Men is 43.
actress Krysten Ritter is 33. actress Zoe
Jarman (“The Mindy Project”) is 32.
actress amanda setton (“The Mindy
Project,” ‘’Gossip Girl”) is 29. Bassist
dave Rublin of american authors is 28.
actress anna Popplewell (“The Chronicles of Narnia” films) is 26.
Tomorrow:
singer-actor Tommy steele is 78. Keyboardist-singer art Neville of the Neville
Brothers is 77. actor Bernard Hill is 70.
actor Ernie Hudson is 69. “Hardball”
host Chris Matthews is 69. actorcomedian Eugene Levy is 68. drummer
Jim Bonfanti of The Raspberries is 66.
singer Paul Rodgers is 65. singer Wanda
Hutchinson of The Emotions is 63. Country singer sharon White of The Whites is
61. actor Barry Livingston (“My Three
sons”) is 61. Actor Bill Pullman is 61.
director-producer Peter Farrelly
(“There’s something about Mary,”
‘’dumb and dumber”) is 58. Bassist Mike
Mills of R.E.M. is 56. singer sarah dallin
of Bananarama is 53. Country singer
Tracy Byrd is 48. Bassist duane Propes
of Little Texas is 48. actress Laurie
Holden (“The Walking dead”) is 45. dJ
Homicide of sugar Ray is 44. actor sean
Patrick Thomas (“The district”) is 44.
drummer Eddie Fisher of OneRepublic
is 41. actress sarah Paulson (“american
Horror story”) is 40.
actor Giovanni Ribisi is 40. actress
Milla Jovovich (“Zoolander,” ‘’The Fifth
Element”) is 39. actress Jennifer Carpenter (“dexter”) is 35. singer Ben Goldwasser of MGMT is 32. actress Emma Bell
(“The Walking dead”) is 28. Guitarist
Taylor york of Paramore is 25. actorsinger Nat Wolff (“The Naked Brothers
Band”) is 20.
Thursday:
Actor Roger Smith is 82. Blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks is 81. actor Roger
Mosley (“Magnum, P.I.”) is 76. Guitarist
Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones
is 71. Director Steven Spielberg is 68.
Movie critic Leonard Maltin is 64. Guitarist Elliot Easton of The Cars is 61.
Actor Ray Liotta is 59. Actor Brad
Pitt is 51. Actress Rachel Griffiths
(“Brothers and Sisters,” ‘’Six Feet
Under”) is 46. Country singer Cowboy
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TUEsday, dECEMBER 16, 2014
Troy is 44. Rapper dMX is 43. dJ Lethal
of Limp Bizkit is 42. singer sia is 39.
Country singer Randy Houser is 38.
actor Josh dallas (“Once Upon a Time”)
is 36. actress Katie Holmes is 36. singer
Christina aguilera is 34. actress ashley
Benson (“Pretty Little Liars”) is 25.
Friday:
Country singer Little Jimmy dickens
is 94. Actress Cicely Tyson is 90. singer
Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire is
73. actress Elaine Joyce is 71. actor Tim
Reid is 70. Musician John McEuen of the
Nitty Gritty dirt Band is 69.
Country singer Janie Fricke is 67.
actor Mike Lookinland (“The Brady
Bunch”) is 54. Actress Jennifer Beals
is 51. actor scott Cohen is 50. Magician
Criss angel is 47.
actress Kristy swanson is 45. Model
Tyson Beckford is 44. actress alyssa
Milano is 42. Actor Jake Gyllenhaal
is 34.
Saturday:
actor John Hillerman (“Magnum
P.I.”) is 82. actor Tommy Cole (“The
Mickey Mouse Club”) is 73. drummer
Bobby Colomby of Blood, sweat and
Tears is 70. Former Kiss drummer Peter
Criss is 69.
Musician alan Parsons is 66. actress
Jenny agutter is 62. singer Billy Bragg
is 57. singer-bassist Mike Watt (The
Minutemen, fIREHOsE) is 57. Country
singer Kris Tyler is 50. singer Chris Robinson of Black Crowes is 48. Actor Jonah
Hill is 31. singer JoJo is 24.
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By Roger Powell
FHS Alumni Director
Class of 1954
If you have info about your class
reunion for 2015 please E-Mail me
RPowell900@aol.com to be put on
our web site.
We are in need of volunteers in the
alumni office 4-6 hrs. a month.
Contact me at the E-Mail above.
Our 14th annual Veteran’s Program
was held on November 20. If you
have never attended please get on
our mailing list for next year. Send
name, address, phone, branch of
service and years, e-mail and photo
in uniform to Roger Powell, FHS
Alumni, 1200 Broad Ave., Findlay.
FHS Yearbooks for Sale!
1920’s to 2000’s (not all years)
Contact: Ruth Rinker at
rrinker@findlaycityschools.org
as to availability and prices.
Check out web site:
findlaycityschools.org/alum
Guidelines For Your ‘Celebrations!’
Recently born at Blanchard Valley
Hospital, as reported by their parents:
• ava Grace Jackson, girl, Brad and
Tiffany Jackson, Findlay, Nov. 20.
• sophia ann sherick, girl, addison
and Kristin sherick, Findlay, dec. 2.
• Ella McKenzi Rader and Bri Faith
McKayla Rader, girls, derrick and Misty
Rader, dec. 2.
• Timothy daniel Miller, boy, david
and Tina Miller, Rawson, dec. 2.
• Coraline Raye anderson, girl,
Hugh and amanda anderson, Green
springs, dec. 2.
• Marshall James Meeker, boy,
Michael Meeker and Hunter TwiningClafin, Findlay, dec. 3.
• Jaxson E. Williams, boy, Teeousha
Williams, Fostoria, dec. 3.
• Isabel Phillips, girl, Lucas and
Caroline Phillips, Carey, dec. 3.
• deagan Robert Rosengarten, boy,
douglas and Nicole ann Rosengarten,
Ottawa, dec. 3.
• ayden Norbert Lewis, boy, Heath
and Maria Lewis, Carey, dec. 4.
• Brynn-Elise ann Fasig, girl, Patrick
and stephanie Fasig, McComb, dec. 4.
• Jacob Oswaldo salinas, boy,
Oswaldo salinas and argelia Campos,
Leipsic, dec. 5.
• Carter Tate Vincent Winter, boy,
Nickolaus Winter and Hannah Cole,
Carey, dec. 5.
• Carl derrick andrews III, boy,
Carl andrews II and Whitney Kunkel,
Findlay, dec. 5.
• Caleb donald Ray Cullison, boy,
Mark dee Cullison and Patience Nicole
dunson, Findlay, dec. 5.
• Nolan James Crook, boy, Thomas
and andrea Crook, Findlay, dec. 6.
• Jackson Oliver Parsell, boy, Chris
Parsell and Heather Price, North Baltimore, dec. 6.
• Uriah John Helms, boy, Caleb and
shelby Helms, McComb, dec. 6.
• Kace stephen shearer, boy, Kyle
and Kendra shearer, McCutchenville,
dec. 6.
• savannah Ray smith, girl, Joshua
and sarah smith, Republic, dec. 8.
• armani Lorenzo Gamboa, boy,
Francis and serena Gamboa, Toledo,
dec. 8.
• Loriah Grace, girl, anderio Cannon
and Breanna Bermudez, Findlay, dec. 8.
• Tallulah Lee sauder, girl, Brandon Oliver sauder and Marilyn ashlee
swiger, Forest, dec. 9.
• Wilow Nicole daughenbaugh, girl,
Troy daughenbaugh and Morgan Gossman, Carey, dec. 9.
• Jordan david Eric, boy, James and
Brigitte Eric, Findlay, dec. 9.
• Glynn steven shoemaker, boy,
Mark shoemaker and Takara Nicholson,
Findlay, dec. 10.
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married Sept. 14 in Cape May Point, N.J. She is formerly of
Findlay.
Anniversary: John and Jane Doe of Findlay will celebrate
their 60th wedding anniversary on Sept. 14.
Birthday: Jane Doe of Findlay will celebrate her 90th
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CELEBR ATIONS !
THE COURIER
TUEsday, dECEMBER 16, 2014
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Blanchard River a large
part of Findlay history
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MIaMI (aP) — The source of a
sick tortoise’s discomfort became
clear after a south Florida veterinarian took an X-ray: The animal
had swallowed a turtle pendant.
d r. d o n H a r r i s s a id t he
15 -pound male african spurred
tortoise named Lola hadn’t pooped
for a month and began acting sick
over the weekend.
Lola’s owner brought him to
the avian & Exotic animal Medical Center in Miami, which Harris
co-owns.
after an X-ray, Harris spotted
the small, turtle-shaped object
inside his patient.
Lola’s owner told Harris she
didn’t recognize the pendant, but
Harris said tortoises graze like
cattle. They eat grass, plants and
other vegetation, sometimes consuming rocks and other objects as
well.
Harris is keeping Lola at his
clinic, trying to get the pendant
to pass. If that fails, surgery may
follow.
By R.L. HEMINGER
The important role of the Blanchard
River in the life of the local community
extends into many fields.
The course of the waterway through
Hancock County is interesting. The
stream, of course, rises in northern
Hardin County and entering section No.
36 of delaware Township south of Mount
Blanchard flows directly north, skirting
the west edge of the village.
It is interesting that there are two
Blanchard River bridges in Mount
Blanchard. The traveler usually only
sees one, which is just off the main thoroughfare in the north end of the town.
There is another on the extreme west
side of Mount Blanchard which escapes
the attention of those going through the
village.
The river proceeds on north through
the southeast section — No. 35 — of
Jackson Township and then veers east
somewhat to go on through amanda
Township, coming back into Jackson
Township in section two just before entering Marion Township.
When the river is about halfway
through Marion Township on its way
north, it strikes the bluff along Ohio 568
and turns directly west, a course followed
through the remainder of its journey
through Hancock County. The turn is
a right angle one that keeps the stream
from taking what would be its ordinary
course on north to Lake Erie.
Had the river gone on straight north,
it would have been of material help in
draining what became the Great Black
swamp in northern Hancock and most of
Wood counties, as well as in other areas
on west and north.
as it was, this extensive area was
without drainage and became an almost
impassable area for a long time, until an
extensive drainage system was inaugurated in the early 1800s.
There are no waterways of any size
flowing north between the sandusky
River in seneca and sandusky counties
on the east and the auglaize and Maumee
on the west. The Portage River and its
various branches are within the northern
area but they are not large, especially in
their originating areas.
after leaving Findlay, the river continues on westward through Liberty
Township on a winding course and then
through Blanchard Township on the west
side of Hancock County. It touches Gilboa
and Ottawa on its westward journey and
winds up near dupont in Putnam County,
joining the auglaize, which soon meets
the Maumee River at defiance.
The confluence of the Blanchard and
the auglaize rivers is in a large farm
field, quite a distance from any road. The
writer, with his father, once journeyed
to the scene and after climbing several
fences were able to view the actual union
of the two streams.
The river has contributed to the
community’s well-being in a variety
of ways. Findlay’s supply of water now
comes largely from the river and becomes
purified in the municipality’s modern
water works plant, which has just been
enlarged. Few cities are as fortunate as
is Findlay to have a supply of good water
so close at hand.
Then, there’s the matter of food. The
Blanchard River has furnished a substantial volume of fish for many residents
through the years. For a long time, the
river’s ice in the winter time kept people
cool in the summer.
Joe Chamberlain, an early pioneer, in
his volume of “Personal Reminiscences,”
written a couple decades after he and his
family came here, wrote of the fish in the
Blanchard River at some length.
“Fish were very plentiful in the river,”
he said. “White and black suckers, ‘red
horse’ sturgeon, white and black bass,
pike, pickerel, catheads, gars, and catfish were caught in great numbers. The
smaller kinds were easily caught with
seine, dip-net, hook and line or fish rack,
while the larger fish were usually gigged.
“My father once took to secure a large
sturgeon which he found in the ripple just
below the mill-dam in Findlay. (This was
the grist mill on the north side of the river
near where the Main street bridge is now
located.)
“He struck his gig into it and
attempted to press it to the bottom but
the fish instantly darted from under the
gig, which precipitated my father full
length into the river. He hastily got up,
and seeing the fish struggling in shallow
water and trying to escape, he ran and
overtook it. another of the same kind,
caught afterward, weighed 70 pounds.”
seventy-pound fish would be quite a
catch in the Blanchard today. Those days
appear to have gone forever.
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CELEBR ATIONS !
The Power Broker still teaches,
inspires 40 years later
Biography a look into
unchecked power
By HILLEL ITALIE
AP NAtioNAl Writer
NEW yORK (aP) — Carl Weisbrod
was two years out of graduate school,
planning a career in law, when a new
book about municipal builder Robert
Moses changed his life: Robert Caro’s
“The Power Broker.”
“It had a profound effect on me,” says
Weisbrod, now the chair of New york
City’s planning commission.
“It really got to me to see that planning and development was as important
as human services in terms of how it
shaped people’s lives.”
a generation of city planners and
builders have come of age since Caro’s
1,300-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning
biography was published 40 years ago.
Celebrated for its exhaustive detail,
controversial for its startling disclosures, Caro’s book has been cited as
inspiration for a new approach to urban
planning, more modest in scale, more
focused on community involvement.
The book remains widely read and
talked about, and in the opinion of many,
stands as a modern classic. “The Power
Broker,” ranked No. 92 on the Modern
Library’s list of the greatest nonfiction
works of the 20th century, continues to
sell 10,000 copies a year, according to
publisher alfred a. Knopf; and is a standard text for sociology, city planning
and urban history courses.
“When I was teaching, I always
assigned it,” says Eloise Hirsh, a former
teacher at Carnegie Mellon University
and a former planning director in Pittsburgh who now administers a New york
City park. “That book is so much about
what you have to do in government to
make things happen.”
“students would blanch at the beginning, because of how thick the book
was, but once they got into it, it read
like a novel,” says Weisbrod, who used
the book while teaching at Columbia
University and New york University.
New york City was nearly bankrupt
when “The Power Broker” was released,
and Moses, who died in 1981, was out of
office and out of favor after an extraordinary four-decade reign that saw him
outmatch mayors, governors and even
presidents and implement much of the
city’s infrastructure in the 20th century.
a human monument of vision,
energy and ruthlessness, he built hundreds of playgrounds, hundreds of miles
of roadways and 13 bridges.
at one point, he held a dozen
appointive state and city positions.
Early in his career, he was praised as
a dynamic reformer who restored and
revitalized New york’s parks during the
Great depression and masterminded
such landmark public works projects
as Jones Beach.
But by the late 1960s, he was widely
condemned as heartless and corrupted,
tearing down neighborhoods and disdaining mass transit in favor of automobiles.
Caro sees “The Power Broker” as
not only a biography, but a history of
New york City and a primer on politics.
during a recent interview with
The associated Press, the 78-year-old
author explained that he first thought
of the book in the 1960s when he was
an investigative reporter for Newsday
and realized that Moses, an unelected
official, could essentially implement his
ideas at will.
“you’re seeing the raw, naked realities of power, as opposed to the textbook version of power that we learned in
high school and college,” says Caro, who
has spent the decades following “The
Power Broker” writing a multivolume
series on Lyndon Johnson.
Noting its ongoing presence in classrooms, Caro said “The Power Broker”
has succeeded as he had hoped: “teaching kids about power.”
setting a pattern that has continued with the Johnson books, he had
intended to write “The Power Broker”
in nine months, but ended up needing
several years. Caro turned in a manuscript of more than 1 million words that
was eventually cut to around 700,000,
still well over 1,000 pages.
Con Howe, the former director of
planning for Los angeles, sees the book
as an illustration of unchecked power,
but also of achievement.
He spoke of a current project in
Los angeles, where efforts to expand a
subway line have been delayed because
Beverly Hills residents want tunnels
that were supposed to run under Bev-
erly Hills High school to be redirected,
with a fear of terrorism among the concerns raised.
“some of the questions raised by
‘The Power Broker’ are still absolutely
relevant,” Howe says.
“It’s funny. I’ll be with all my rightthinking, liberal, public do-gooder
friends. and someone will say, ‘We’ve
got to get this subway system built
and figure out how to prevent all these
delays.’ and I’ll say, ‘Guess who else
would have used those words?’”
Robber returns
to the scene of
the crime to
apologize
EUREKa, Calif. (aP) — Police in
Northern California say a man robbed
a gas station only to return hours later
to give the money back and apologize.
Eureka Police sgt. steve Watson
said Cyle Warren abbott Jr., 23, told
officers he needed cash to leave town
for a fresh start, but then realized his
mistake.
Watson says abbott first entered
the gas station demanding cash with
what the clerk believed was a semiautomatic handgun.
He says the clerk gave abbott some
cash, and abbott left, also taking two
bottles of beer.
Watson says three hours later
abbott returned, giving back most of
the cash and saying he was sorry. He
says the weapon turned out to be a
BB gun, which officers haven’t found.
abbott was booked into jail on
$50,000 bail.
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TUEsday, dECEMBER 16, 2014
Smith - Christy
Amanda Smith of Salem, Ohio,
and Thomas Christy of Carey, Ohio,
exchanged wedding vows on July 19,
2014. Pastor Ray Harris performed
the ceremony at the Damascus
Friends church, Damascus, Ohio.
The bride is the daughter of Shelly
and Roy Smith, of Salem.
The groom is the son of Debra and
Robert Christy, of Alvada.
A reception was held at Courtney’s
Banquet Center in Alliance, Ohio. The
couple returned from a honeymoon in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and resides
in Carey.
ENGAGEMENT
Kline-Orwick
Greg Orwick and Jackie Kline,
both of Findlay, would like to
announce their engagement and
upcoming May 2015 wedding.
Jackie, daughter of Brent and
Karen Kline, of Tiffin, graduated from
Mohawk High School in 2003 and the
University of Findlay in 2007. She is
a department manager at Wal-Mart.
Greg, son of Devon and Carol
Lease, of Arlington, and Lisa
Orwick, of Arlington, graduated from
Arlington High School in 2003 and
the University of Findlay in 2007. He
is a terminal manager for Marathon.
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TUEsday, dECEMBER 16, 2014
CELEBR ATIONS !
Pet bobcat’s escape put
owner in tough spot
sTaFFORd TOWNsHIP, N.J.
(aP) — a pet bobcat has been recaptured after its latest escape from its
owner’s southern New Jersey home.
stafford Township police Capt.
Tom dellane says Rocky was found
a day after fleeing from Ginny Fine’s
home in stafford Township. The
38-pound bobcat was caught nearby
in a humane trap after eluding animal
control officials by running into a
wooded area.
The wayward pet has been taken
to a nearby zoo.
Rocky has been the subject of an
ongoing legal fight between Fine and
town officials because of its repeated
escapes. Fine was cited for allowing
Rocky to run at large and is due in
municipal court.
Fine has said Rocky is a hybrid of
a bobcat and Maine coon cat.
Clerk sends robber packing
with a can of bug spray
BERLIN, Pa. (aP) — a western
Pennsylvania convenience store clerk
told a would-be bandit to bug off by
spraying the suspect with a can of
insecticide.
state police say a masked woman
entered the CsI Coalfield Mini Market
in Berlin recently.
That’s when store clerk annabelle
Miller tells WJaC-TV she took matters, and the can of bug spray, into
her own hands.
Miller says she refused to give
the woman money and waited for her
to leave. When she began to retreat,
Miller sprayed the woman in the face
as the suspect left the store.
The whole thing was caught on the
store’s surveillance system.
Miller says she’s glad she confronted the would-be bandit saying,
“I just got mad. I’ve got better things
to do with my night than that.”
Court rules town’s namesake to stay buried
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
AssociAted Press
Jim Thorpe’s body will stay in the
Pennsylvania town where he was laid
to rest six decades ago after a federal
appeals court threw out a ruling that
could have resulted in his reburial on
american Indian land in Oklahoma.
The famed athlete’s surviving
sons have been fighting to move the
body to sac and Fox land in the state
where he was born, saying their father
expressed a desire to be buried in
Oklahoma.
a federal judge agreed with
them, ruling the town of Jim Thorpe
amounted to a museum under a 1990
law intended to rectify the historic
plundering of american Indian burial
grounds.
But the Philadelphia-based 3rd
U.s. Circuit Court of appeals said
Thursday that Thorpe’s body should
remain in Jim Thorpe, determining
that U.s. district Judge Richard
Caputo misapplied the Native american Graves Protection and Repatriation act.
The law requires museums and
federal agencies possessing american Indian remains to return them
upon request of the deceased’s family
or tribe.
“Thorpe’s remains are located in
their final resting place and have not
been disturbed,” the appeals court
said in its ruling. “We find that applying (the repatriation law) to Thorpe’s
burial in the borough is such a clearly
absurd result and so contrary to
Congress’s intent to protect Native
american burial sites that the borough cannot be held to the requirements imposed on a museum under
these circumstances.”
Thorpe’s grandsons had sided
with the town, a tourism hotspot in
the Pocono Mountains, saying it had
done right by their grandfather.
Thorpe was a football, baseball and
track star who won the decathlon and
pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. He
died without a will in 1953 at age 64.
after Oklahoma’s governor balked
at the cost of a planned monument to
the athlete, third wife Patricia had
Thorpe’s body removed in the midst
of his funeral service and sent it to
northeastern Pennsylvania.
she struck a deal with two merging
towns, Mauch Chunk and East Mauch
Chunk, to build a memorial and name
the new town after him. His remains
are kept in a roadside mausoleum surrounded by statues and interpretive
signage.
“I’m very hopeful that from this
decision, the two families can move
together in peace and put this unusual
chapter behind them,” said William G.
schwab, the town’s lawyer.
a lawyer for Thorpe’s sons did not
immediately return a request for comment.
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Army uniform returned
through Facebook posts
LE MaRs, Iowa (aP) — a Facebook post helped a Le Mars couple
track down the owner of an army
dress uniform found in a dusty storage area.
Le Mars resident Kari ames and
her husband purchased the Culligan
building seven years ago and converted it into a living space.
Recently, the couple sorted
through storage in the building
for a rummage sale and found the
crumpled uniform, with a “Landis”
nameplate.
ames took photos of the jacket and
posted them to a Facebook group, the
sioux City Journal reported.
someone posted on the thread
saying, “stephanie Gengler might
know, she was a Landis,” and others
chimed in with other names. Fred
Landis, who was tagged in one of
the posts, searched for photos of his
father, Phil Landis, in uniform and
determined the jacket was his.
“I asked dad, why would it be at
Culligan? He worked there for 21
years,” Fred Landis said. “When we
first moved to Le Mars, our house
was small so he stored a bunch of this
stuff at Culligan up in the attic.”
Working in the Culligan building
was Phil Landis’ first job after leaving the military service in 1977. He
joined the armed forces after turning
17 in 1971.
His children conspired to retrieve
the jacket.
“I got wonderful kids,” he said.
“Most people should be so lucky.”
Phil Landis said the uniform
reminded him of how he met his wife,
Mary, after being stationed with the
Combat developments Command at
Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
“I was a chauffeur, a driver, and I
actually drove for a general, and then,
I went into night driving, taking messages from the Pentagon, and I picked
up my wife,” he said.
Landis was given instructions to
give her a ride from the airport.
“something about her, I right
away liked,” he said. “The next day
I noticed she was the secretary for
the command sergeant major. We got
talking, went to lunch a few times,
one thing led to another. you know
how that went.”
They got married soon after
Landis celebrated his 18th birthday.
Congratulations
Carol Keefer
on your retirement from
Blanchard Valley Center
Your Hancock County Board of Developmental Disabilities
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CELEBR ATIONS !
Phoenix-bound
flight lands in LA
due to on-flight birth
LOs aNGELEs (aP) — a southwest airlines flight landed in Los
angeles with one more passenger
than when it took off.
a passenger gave birth shortly
after Flight 623 took off from san
Francisco and the Phoenix-bound
jet diverted to Los angeles International airport.
The woman was assisted by the
flight crew and a doctor and nurse
who were aboard, airline spokeswoman Emily samuels said. she
said hopefully the airline has a new
customer for life.
Paramedics boarded the aircraft
and the mother and newborn, whose
names have not been released, were
taken to a hospital in good condition, Los angeles Fire department
spokesman Erik scott said.
The aircraft was taken out of service for cleaning and the other passengers went on to Phoenix aboard
another plane, arriving more than
two hours behind schedule.
Passenger Julie dafoe said she
and Kurt Reed were sitting next to
the woman.
“One of the nurses that helped
she said she was like walking around
pacing in the airport so they were
thinking she was having contractions,” dafoe told Phoenix TV station KTVK.
“all of a sudden I heard a baby
cry like a gurgling sound, like a baby
that had too much milk or whatever
and I’m like ‘There’s no babies on
this flight,’” Reed said.
Passengers said they had heard
the call for a doctor, but nothing
about what the medical emergency
was.
“The captain announced congratulations for the arrival of this
new baby boy,” another passenger
aarti shahani told KTVK. “so we all
started applauding, but it was confusing because we thought someone
was going to die, not be born.”
Weight-loss
support
group leads
to marriage
WyaNdOTTE, Mich. (aP) —
a detroit-area couple who met in a
support group for weight loss surgery patients has gotten married
after losing a collective 380 pounds.
The detroit Free Press reports
that 34-year-old Crysta danaher, of
Windsor, and 44-year-old Bill anderson, of allen Park, were married
recently at Henry Ford Wyandotte
Hospital, where they had bariatric
surgery and later met.
anderson has gone from 459
pounds to about 250 pounds since
his May 2009 operation. danaher
has lost about 180 pounds since her
2009 procedure.
anderson says the surgery and
support group have “changed everything” about his life. He has run
two full marathons and more than
a dozen half-marathons.
They were married by their yoga
instructor in the room where they
met.
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PROssER, Wash. (aP) — a marijuana grower who had trouble giving
away $14,000 has finally found someone to accept the donations.
Fireweed Farms owner Randy
Williams made $600,000 in the first
recreational pot auction in Washington and wanted to share some of the
proceeds.
The Prosser school district said
no thanks; it would send the wrong
message. The Prosser branch of the
Boys and Girls Club also just said no
to drug money, saying it would distract from its mission.
Williams told the yakima HeraldRepublic that he finally gave $1,000 to
the Prosser VFW post and $13,000 to
a local needy family, which asked not
to be identified.
Williams said that his phone had
been ringing off the hook with people
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Poetry Corner
Christmas, More Than a Holiday
Why take Christ out of Christmas
and call it “holiday”
are some still unaware of
The price He chose to pay?
He knew before He came here
The agony and pain
He’d suffer, yet He chose to
Endure it for our gain.
such love can not be measured
yet some choose to reject
The greatest gift they’re given
In spite of the effect.
But those who choose to serve Him
Have found He’ll never leave.
He always keeps his promise
and never will deceive.
He’s there throughout their lifetime
and also has prepared
a place with Him in heaven
Where only good is shared.
so why live in denial
Of what Christmas is worth
The greatest gift we’re given
Is based upon Christ’s birth
B.J. Haneberg,
Vanlue
Christmas
Christmas will soon be here ...
The most wonderful time of the
year
The world takes on a special glow
For almost everyone I know.
Christmas music fills the air
Christmas decorations everywhere
Christmas party, a gala affair
Big decisions — what to wear?
Christmas candles all a-glow
Just a touch of Christmas snow ...
shopping is done, lots of fun!
Gifts are wrapped. stockings hung.
Christmas cards to send
Take time to smell the Christmas
roses
H ave Chr istmas lunch w ith a
friend!
Church bells ringing, carolers singing
It’s Christmas Eve, you know
Celebrate His virgin birth.
Thank God for sending His son to
earth
More than 2,000 years ago
yes, Christmas will soon be here
The most wonderful time of the
year!
Phyllis Martin,
McComb
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Christmas Day
With a Ho! Ho! and a rum-a-tum
Christmas day again has come.
sleepy children rub their eyes
Looking for their big surprise.
Fiercely they attack the tree
Ripping, tearing in their glee.
Paper piles on the floor
searching if there’s any more.
a pad or tablet now appears
some a bit beyond their years,
But over time the kids will say
Their greatest fun was Christmas
day.
Wayne Carpenter,
Findlay
Boo Hoo!
My stocking I hung
By the chimney with care
But Christmas morning
The stocking was bare!
seems there was something
I did not know
My Christmas sock
Had a hole in the toe!
Alyce M. Hall,
Findlay
Union overcomes resistance,
drives Confederates to Mississippi
EDITOR’S NOTE: This series celebrating our heritage during the 150th
anniversary of the Civil War draws
primarily from wartime dispatches
credited to The Associated Press or
other accounts distributed through
the AP and other historical sources.
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the Civil War came as a Confederate
army led by Gen. John Bell Hood sought
to make a last attempt to drive Union
forces from the region. Fighting raged
until nightfall on dec. 15, 1864.
The next day, fighting seethed along
a hastily erected Confederate line before
federal forces overran the Confederate
positions.
The southern army, driven off, was
forced into retreat toward Mississippi
with Union forces in pursuit.
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