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TIDBITS® HONORS NEWSPAPER CARRIERS

by Kathy Wolfe Tidbits honors Newspaper Carrier Day on September 4 by looking at some famous and not-so-famous carriers of the printed page.

• September 4 was chosen as the day of commemoration in tribute to that day in 1833, when Benjamin Day, publisher of The New York Sun paper, hired 10-yearold Blarney Flaherty as the first paperboy. Mr. Day had placed an advertisement in the paper, seeking “steady men” to deliver the news. Day’s ad read: “A number of steady men can find employment by vending this paper. A liberal discount is allowed to those who buy to sell again.” Blarney Flaherty applied, and Day decided that the young immigrant fit the bill. The boy picked up his first load of papers and could soon be heard shouting, “Paper! Get your paper, here!”

• From the mid-19th to the early 20th century, newspaper boys on the streets were the primary distributor of papers to the readers.

Their screams of the day’s headlines and cries of “Extra, extra! Read all about it!” could be heard as they stood on street corners and walked through neighborhoods. They were often very poor boys who frequently slept on the streets.

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Savvy Senior How to Find a Good Financial Planner Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some tips on finding and choosing a good financial planner? My wife and I are both in our late fifties and would like to get some professional advisement to help us better prepare for our retirement years.

Seeking Advice Dear Seeking, With all the different financial planners, advisers and services available today, finding and choosing a trusted professional that can help you meet your financial goals can be confusing. Here are a few suggestions to consider.

Where to Look A good place to start your search is by asking friends or relatives for recommendations. If you don’t know anyone who can give you a referral, and you’re looking for broad-based financial advice, hire a Certified Financial Planner, or CFP, who are considered the “gold standard” in the industry. CFPs must act as fiduciaries, putting their client’ best interest above their own.

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experience, expertise and the types of services they provide; if they’re a fiduciary; how they charge and how much; what is their investment philosophy; and how will they handle your ongoing questions or financial needs. Look for someone whose clients are in situations similar to yours and who’s available as often as you need them.

It’s also wise to do a background check on your potential advisor. At LetsMakeaPlan.org, you can verify a planner’s certification as CFP (click on “Verify CFP Professional Status”). You’ll also see any information on the planner’s disciplinary history with CFP Board and on bankruptcy filings in the past 10 years.

To vet a registered investment adviser, go to Investor.gov where you can search an individual’s name and click on “Detailed Report” to see information on qualifications, employment history, disciplinary actions, criminal convictions and more.

To check out a broker, visit BrokerCheck.finra. org where you can search an individual or firm’s name to get details like years of experience, licensing, exams passed and regulatory actions.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

To get the CFP credential, they must have a college degree and be educated in a wide range of personal finance subjects, pass a rigorous certification exam, have three years professional experience, meet continuing-education requirements and abide by a code of ethics.

CFPs are taught to look at the big picture view of your finances, talking you through your goals, as well as advising you on the details of your financial life.

You’re also probably better off hiring a CFP that’s a fee-only planner, verses one who earns a commission by selling you financial products.

Fee-only planners charge only for their services – for example you might pay $150 to $350 an hour for a financial tune-up, a flat fee per project or an asset-based fee.

To find a fee-only planner in your area, use the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA.org), which carefully vets all members and offers an online directory. Or see the Garrett Planning Network (GarrettPlanningNetwork.com), a network of fee-only advisers. Or the Alliance of Comprehensive Planners (ACplanners.org), a community of fee-only advisors that charge annual retainers.

If your needs are more specific, some other financial professionals to consider are a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) who is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or a state securities regulator to manage investment portfolios; a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), who specialize in insurance and estate planning; and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), who can help with tax planning.

Be leery of many other financial advising titles, designations and certifications that are out there like the Certified Financial Consultant (CFC) or the Wealth Management Specialist (WMS).

Many of these require no more than a few courses at a seminar or online, which means they’re not worth much. To research the different certifications or designations visit FINRA.org/ investors - click on “Tools & Calculators,” then on “Professional Designations.”

How to Choose After you find a few candidates in your area, call them up and schedule an appointment to meet and interview them. Find out about their

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By Healthy Exchanges Lemon Strawberry Shake --Here’s a great way to cool off on a hot summer afternoon or a quick healthy snack you can help the kids make when they get home from school.

1 1/2 cups Dannon plain fat-free yogurt 1/2 cup diet ginger ale 1 (4-serving) package Jell-O sugar-free lemon gelatin 1 cup sliced fresh strawberries 1. In a blender container, combine yogurt, ginger ale and dry gelatin. Cover and process on HIGH for 10 to 15 seconds. Add strawberries.

2. Re-cover and process on HIGH for 15 to 20 seconds or until mixture is smooth.

Evenly pour into 2 glasses. Serve at once.

Makes 2 (1 1/2 cup) servings. * Each serving equals: 120 calories, 0g fat, 10g protein, 20g carbs, 221mg sodium, 238mg calcium, 1g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Fat-Free Milk, 1/2 Fruit; Carb Choices: 1. (c) 2019 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS CONTINUED

• Long before his days sketching Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney and his brother Roy were newspaper carriers in Kansas City. At the age of 9, Walt was up at 4:30 every day delivering The Kansas City Star for no pay, as his father, who owned the newspaper distributorship, felt it helped Walt earn his keep while learning responsibility. He delivered his quota, but sold extra newspapers on street corners for extra cash. He further expanded his income by delivering prescriptions for the local drugstore.

• In his later years, Disney honored carriers by giving anyone who could bring in three new subscriptions a special Disneyland passport for free entry to the Park. One boy, Dave Smith, could only achieve two subscriptions, but desperately wanted the Passport, so he invented a subscription and paid for it himself. Oddly enough, Smith went on to become the chief archivist at the Disney Company, as well as one of Walt’s first biographers.

• At 13, billionaire Warren Buffett was delivering The Washington Post on his bicycle for $175 a month, more than the teachers at his school earned. When he filed his income taxes, he made sure to claim his bicycle as a $35 deduction. When he graduated from high school in 1947, his savings amounted to $5,000, the equivalent of about $54,000 today. With a net worth of an estimated $87 billion, Buffett is still involved in the newspaper business, owning several, as well as being one of the largest shareholders in that Washington, D.C. paper he delivered as a teenager. He pays tribute to his paperboy days by conducting a newspaper-throwing contest at his annual Berkshire shareholder meetings.

• It seems that newscaster Tom Brokaw has always had a love of the news. Beginning as a paperboy in South Dakota, he went on to become one of the “Big Three” news anchors, hosting NBC nightly news for over 20 years. Television celebrity Ed Sullivan advanced from his carrier job to a newspaper sportswriter before hosting his TV variety show.

His show first featured the Beatles on American television on February 9, 1964, the most-watched program in TV history to date.

• At least three American presidents had paper routes – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Herbert Hoover.

• For every famous carrier, there are many times more unknown heroes of the industry. While delivering papers in Springfield, Ohio, carrier Carl Thomas happened to glance through a front door and saw his 69-year-old customer face down on the floor.

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS CONTINUED North Carolina newspaper carrier Elizabeth Bradley saved her 88-year-old customer after hearing her calling for help and discovering the elderly women injured in her back yard.

• After an armed robber held up a Georgia gas station, a local newspaper carrier followed the thief and led police to the suspect, resulting in the villain’s arrest. A Racine, Wisconsin, carrier was the first on the scene of a fire in the home of one of his customers, and quickly notified firefighters.

• A Rapid City, South Dakota, carrier noticed newspapers piling up on her elderly client’s porch, and was moved to investigate. After Linda Uranga-Moran contacted the local police, the customer, who had fallen in the bathtub, was discovered there where she had lain for three days.

• Of course, there are always those who give the others a bad name, for example, the New York state carrier who was selling marijuana as well as newspapers along his route.

And another carrier who had an argument with one of his customers, and stabbed the client!

• Darlyne Markus of Nampa, Idaho, started delivering The Idaho PressTribune on a daily basis in 1958 at age 29. The subscription price was $1.25 a month, and Darlyne’s route meandered along for 42 miles. She finally retired in 2008 at the age of 79, after delivering papers on the same route for 50 years and 173 days, making her the longest-serving carrier. At her retirement, some of her customers were the originals from 1958.

• In 1960, the International Circulation Managers Association created the Newspaper Carrier Hall of Fame to salute famous carriers in our history. In addition to Disney and Buffett, the Hall includes astronaut John Glenn, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, baseball great Willie Mays, entrepreneur Ross Perot, actor John Wayne, and fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., who delivered The Atlanta Journal, is also in the Hall of Fame. King, who spent his paychecks on books, was just 13 when he became the youngest assistant manager of the paper’s newspaper delivery station.

• From the days of young teens riding their bikes in the early morning hours, tossing papers on the porch, the job of newspaper carrier has transitioned to adults in their cars sticking papers in the mailbox. In fact, adults in cars now make up close to 85% of paper routes.

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TIGERS CONTINUED • In the wild, you can find tigers in the dry forests, tropical forests, and flooded mangrove forests of Asia. However, the Siberian tiger likes the northern, colder areas of eastern Russia and northern China.

• Just as every human has different fingerprints, no two tigers are alike in the pattern of their stripes.

The most familiar tiger, of course, is orange with black stripes, but others are black with tan stripes, or white with tan stripes. There are even all white albino tigers. The rare gene carried by white tigers is present in just 1 in every 10,000 tigers.

• The largest of the tiger species, the Siberian, reaches lengths of 10.75 feet (3.3 m) and weights of 660 lbs. (300 kg). The long tail can add up to 3.6 feet (1.1 m) to a tiger’s overall length. Even with their massive size, they can run up to 40 mph (65 km/hr) at full speed. And although it’s strange to think of a swimming cat, tigers like the water and are good swimmers.

• Tigers usually hunt at night, and are usually alone in their quest for their prey. Their strictlycarnivorous diet consists of deer, wild pigs, antelope, and buffalo.

They stalk their victims, then quickly pounce, clamping down on the animal’s neck or back of the head with teeth up to 3 inches (7 cm) long. Tigers are fast and they’re ferocious, but still have a 90% failure rate of catching their prey.

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VETERANS POST

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A Cure for Hepatitis C Hepatitis C is one of those illnesses you can have for years and not know it -- until it starts damaging your body. Untreated hepatitis C can lead to cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, brain damage, liver disease and liver cancer, and it can take decades to show up. Until recently it has been nearly impossible to cure.

The Department of Veterans Affairs now says in a press release that it has cured 100,000 veterans with hepatitis C. In the past, treatment involved daily pills and weekly shots for a year, and even that had a low cure rate with bad side effects. Now the new treatment is a pill a day, with fewer side effects, and it takes just weeks. But that’s only if you know you have it. The VA said recently that it has tested 85 percent of veterans who either have hepatitis or are at risk.

Hepatitis is a blood-borne disease with a long list of possible routes of transmission:

sharing drug needles, getting a tattoo, sharing a toothbrush, blood-contaminated wounds, blood transfusions before 1992, contact with blood if you’re in the medical field ... and those injector guns they used to give vaccines back when we went into the service.

Those injector guns have been a big bone of contention, one they’ve known about for a very long time. Miniscule drops of blood splatter back into the injector, waiting for injection into the next patient. Now the VA has to admit that the injector guns are “biologically possible” as a means of transmission.

Even if you’ve never shared drug needles or gotten a tattoo, you could have hepatitis C and not know it. The rate of veterans who have it is five times the civilian rate.

To learn more, go online to www.hepatitis. va.gov. And contact the VA and ask for the test.

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Newt Wallace may well have been the world’s oldest newspaper carrier. He was delivering The Winters Express to his neighbors well into his 90s. He was also the owner of the paper, having purchased it in 1946.

Newt turned the publishing reins over to his son in 1983, but continued delivering because he enjoyed the work very much, and in his words, “I don’t play golf.”

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Woof! Woof woof woof!

Okay, that was definitely a dog. But, how? That’s not possible. There hasn’t been a dog alive in fifty years. I crawl out of bed, joints creaking with each movement, and throw on my jacket. Even though I know it’s just my mind playing tricks on me, I have to go outside and check it out. Even if I’m going crazy and just imagining things, I can’t help but be curious.

The crisp night air is cold on my skin, and I feel more awake as soon as it hits my face. I take a few steps out into the yard and stop to listen. Nothing. I knew it. Oh, well. I turn to go back into the house when I hear it. The sound of a bark followed by a short howl. That was definitely a dog. There is no denying it, that was real. I take off in the direction of the sound, as fast as my old legs will carry me. The barking continues, getting closer and closer as I walk towards it. After a couple of short minutes, I hear another, much weaker and softer howl, almost a whimper, come from my right side. It sounds like some kind of injured animal. The barking sound is still approaching, but I have to check on whatever it is that made that pitiful sound. Call it the vet in me, I just can’t stand for an animal to be in pain. I make my way over to a bush and hear a whimper again. Whatever it is, it’s close.

I push the leaves aside and peer around. I nearly faint from the shock. There, behind the bush not a hundred yards from my house, is a dog. That would be surprising in itself, but she’s not alone.

There with her are five tiny puppies, feeding from her. I stare in amazement as the puppies continue to nurse, seemingly unbothered by my presence. That’s when I notice that the mom doesn’t look so good. She has a gash on her back leg, and she is way too thin to be supporting her litter. I have no idea what is going on, but I know that I have to help. For some reason, I grabbed my cell phone off of the nightstand before I came out. I don’t know why, I rarely ever use the thing, but I’m so glad that I did. I turn around, reach into my pocket, and start to dial when I hear a very angry growl come from behind me. I freeze. What is that? I turn and see a very large, almost wolf-like dog standing over the mother and her pups, baring its teeth. At first, I’m more afraid for the dog than I am for myself. What if this is what hurt her? But then I notice that he’s not glaring at her, he’s staring straight at me. He thinks I’m going to hurt her. I try to calm down despite the fact that my heart is nearly beating out of my chest. I hold out my hands, trying to show that I mean no harm. “Hey, there boy,” I say as calmly as possible. “Is this your lady?

She’s beautiful. I promise I’m not going to hurt her. I want to help.” I reach my hand slowly towards the mother. He lets me get a little closer, but when it looks like I’m about to put a hand on her, he growls and lurches forward, threatening me. “Okay, okay. That’s close enough. I got you.” I pull my hand back and sit back onto the cold ground. “You’re a big boy,” I say. “Strong, too, it looks like. But she’s not. She looks like she hasn’t eaten much lately. We need to get her some help if we want her and those pups to survive.” As I talk, I slowly move my hand towards the mother, who is still whimpering softly. “She’s not doing so good. She’s in pain, she’s cold, and she’s hungry. I promise, I only want to help her.” My hand finally reaches the mother’s side. Upon seeing my hand on her, the large male lunges forward, ready to attack. With what little strength she has, the mother lifts up her head and bares her teeth, stopping him. He shrinks back, afraid. The mother turns towards me and gives my hand two light licks before her head falls back to the ground. I sit there, stroking her fur for a few moments to make sure everything is safe. The male keeps his eyes on me the entire time, but when he finally sits down, I know I’m okay. I pull the phone back out of my pocket and quickly dial the best vet I know.

“Dad? What is it? It’s two in the morning. Are you okay?”

“Baby girl, you are never going to believe this.”

The End.

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Judges, 1 Kings, 1 Samuel, 1 Chronicles 4. Upon which mountain did Balaam build seven altars? Olives, Sinai, Pisgah, Carmel 5. What does God want us to keep as the apple of our eye? His law, Brotherly love, Faithfulness, Righteousness 6. What did David do to Goliath once he slew him? Stole his armor, Robbed him, Cut off his head, Buried him (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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TIGERS CONTINUED • Although baby tigers are born helpless, weighing about 2.2 lbs (1 kg), it doesn’t take long for them to mature. At just 8 weeks, they’re already equipped to head out hunting with their mother. As tigers roam their territories seeking food, they mark the territory by scratching marks into trees with their mighty claws. In the case of the Siberian tiger, it’s no small area, with its domain reaching an area of more than 4,000 square miles (10,000 sq. km)!

• When a tiger is two years old, it’s on its own, and the mother will deliver another set of cubs, up to seven cubs in a litter. Typically, only two survive, because the female leaves them to hunt, and can’t bring home enough to feed the entire litter. A tiger in the wild lives about 14 to 18 years.

• Lions and tigers might look completely different on the outside, but their body configuration is so similar, if you shaved them, you would be unable to tell them apart!

In fact, tigers even breed with lions, resulting in hybrids known as tigons and ligers.

• With less than 4,000 tigers remaining in the wild, the species is highly endangered. There are actually more tigers in captivity – about 5,000 – than live in the wild.

Their population is about 7% of what it was less than 100 years ago.

The Bali tiger became extinct in the 1930s, the Caspian tiger in the 1950s, and the Javan tiger was last seen in the 1970s.

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