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There is a good story behind almost every toy. Sometimes the story is as entertaining as the toy itself! This week, Tidbits takes a look at how some toys were invented and how others got their names. • President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt is responsible for giving the teddy bear its name. In November of 1902, Roosevelt was helping settle a border dispute between Mississippi and Louisiana. While there, he attended a bear hunt in Mississippi. His staff, trying to accommodate him, captured a black bear cub and tied it to a tree for the president to shoot. Roosevelt didn’t find this sporting enough and ordered the bear cub be set free, sparing its life. The Washington Post ran an editorial cartoon that illustrated the event. The cartoon was called “Drawing the Line in Mississippi” and depicted both the state line dispute and the bear hunt. The cartoon and the story it told became popular, and within a year, the cartoon bear became a toy for children called the teddy bear.

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TOYS (continued): • “What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound? A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing, everyone knows it’s Slinky. It’s Slinky; it’s Slinky. For fun it’s a wonderful toy. It’s Slinky; it’s Slinky. It’s fun for a girl and a boy.” This catchy advertising jingle helped sell a quite simple toy that was created in 1943 by naval engineer Richard James. He was working with tension springs, and when one of the springs fell to the ground and “walked” end over end along the floor, an idea for a toy was born. After borrowing $500, James and his wife Betty started the James Spring & Wire Company. He designed a machine that he made himself to manufacture Slinkys. They began producing and selling the coiled wire as a toy in 1945. Each one is made of 80 feet of wire, and to date, over a quarter billion Slinkys have been sold worldwide. • In 1916, Frank Lloyd Wright and his son John Lloyd Wright supervised constriction of the Imperial Palace Hotel in Tokyo. The hotel was assembled with an inner frame of wood to withstand earthquakes. John was inspired by this method of building, and it gave him the idea to create a line of sturdy, interlocking toy building logs sold as Lincoln Logs. • 1940, during World War II, rubber in the United States was scarce and the shortage began to hamper war production efforts, especially for truck tires and boots. American industry was called upon by the government to develop a synthetic rubber compound. James Wright, an engineer working for General Electric, experimented with combining boric acid and silicone oil in a test tube. The compound “polymerized,” resulting in a bizarre substance with unusual properties. It bounced, stretched and could be broken in pieces, yet it had no practical use. In 1949, the mixture eventually made its way to a toy-shop owner who put some of the Nutty Putty, (as she called it) in her holiday toy catalog. It out-sold everything but Crayola® crayons. The name was later changed to Silly Putty, and it is now sold by Binney & Smith, the makers of Crayola. More than 4,500 tons of Silly Putty, enough to fill the Goodyear blimp, have been made since 1950.

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• Back in the 1870s, a baker named William Frisbie of Bridgeport, Connecticut, had a clever marketing idea. He put the family name in relief on the bottom of the reusable tin pans his company’s homemade pies were sold in. The idea was that every time the pan was used, the person baking would see the name Frisbie. Mr. Frisbie’s pies were sold throughout Connecticut. It was at Yale University sometime in the 1940s where students used the pie tins to play catch, whizzing them through the air. Continued on page 7

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The Genesis Principle Genesis 1:26-29 (NLT) Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.” 29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. After God created man he told him three things, #1 I will bless you, #2 I am giving you dominion and authority, and #3 I am going to teach you the law of seed time and harvest. God knew that if man would understand the power of THE BLESSING on his life, the authority and dominion he has, and how to use seed time and harvest, he would live in total victory upon the earth! Man that sounds good to me, how about you? This is the Genesis principle by which God designed you and I to live and when we do, nothing can hold us back! THE BLESSING is an empowerment that comes from God that enables you to prosper and to succeed! This is Good News in the world in which we live to know that there is something on us that empowers us to be successful! So how do we apply and enact this in our life? It begins by speaking it out of your mouth, “You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you;” Job 22:28 NKJ Start by speaking this out your mouth because your words have power. Death and life are in the power of the tongue…Prov. 18:21 NKJ Say this out loud with me will you?.... “THE BLESSING of God in on my life and THE BLESSING causes me to prosper!” We need to put a guard over what comes out of our mouths. This is the danger of watching the news all the time, and reading the newspaper and hanging around negative people, all that negativity begins to get inside of you and once it does, it begins to come out by what you speak. And when that happens it holds you captive and holds you back! Learn to speak positive things; learn to replace all the negative things of the world with the Word of God. If God has said he has blessed you then we need to agree with Him! Say it one more time with me will you? “THE BLESSING of God in on my life and THE BLESSING causes me to prosper!” Find a Bible believing church and attend this week!

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NEED NEW GUTTERS? ¥ On May 30, 1806, Revolutionary War veteran and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel. Dickinson, killed at short range, had printed libelous comments about Jackson. Over his lifetime, Jackson was in 13 duels. Only the Dickinson duel was fatal. ¥ On June 2, 1865, Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators, in an event that is generally regarded as marking the end of the Civil War. ¥ On May 31, 1929, Ford Motor Company signs a landmark agreement to produce cars in the Soviet Union. In return, the USSR agreed to buy 72,000 unassembled Ford cars and trucks and all spare parts needed for the following nine years.

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¥ On June 1, 1968, Helen Keller dies in Westport, Conn., at the age of 87. Blind and deaf from infancy, Keller circumvented her disabilities to become a world-renowned writer and lecturer. With the help of teacher Anne Sullivan, Keller learned a hand alphabet, to read Braille, lip read and then to speak. ¥ On June 4, 1986, Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top-secret U.S. military intelligence information to Israel. The former Navy intelligence analyst sold enough classified documents to fill a mediumsize room. Pollard was sentenced to life in prison. Israel has since stuck by Pollard and continues to work toward his release. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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¥ On June 3, 1937, catcher Josh Gibson of the Negro League’s Homestead Grays hits a ball 2 feet from the top of the facade of Yankee Stadium, 580 feet from home plate. Gibson’s home run beat Mickey Mantle’s 565-foot home run in Washington’s Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953 as the longest ever hit. ¥ On June 5, 1949, bestselling thriller writer Ken Follett is born in Wales. After college he wrote a novel just for the $400 advance, which he needed to fix his car. The book flopped, but he wrote 10 novels during the next four years, finally breaking through with “The Eye of the Needle” in 1979.

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THE CHALLENGER FLAG

18th of September, the Flag was re-flown over the U.S. Capitol, completing a journey, which included mountaintops, ocean floors and the The “Challenger Flag” was manufactured in boundary of space. On the 20th of September, 1984 by the Valley Forge Flag Company, of Troop 514 unfurled the Flag at Arlington NaSpring City, PA. It was first flown over the tional Cemetery before the resting place of the U.S. Capitol on the 25th of January 1985 on seven Astronauts who gave it flight. behalf of Boy Scout Troop 514 of Monument, This great and noble Flag has been proudly CO. It was submitted to the NASA Johnson Space Center by the 2nd Space Wing, Air Force displayed in numerous public events across the Space Command for flight on the Space Shut- United States, in memory of the Astronauts who tle. On the 28th of January 1986, it was carried shared its flight. It epitomizes the principles of duty, honor and sacrifice, which underpin the in the Official Flight Kit of the Space Shuttle Astronaut corps, their families, and the COUNChallenger on its last flight. The Flag was later TRY THAT THIS FLAG REPRESENTS! recovered from the floor of the Atlantic OceanUnscorched and undamaged-and returned by the Air Force to Troop 514 on the 18th of December 1986 at a special ceremony at the Consolidated Space Operations Center, Falcon Air Force Station, CO. The return was accomplished by Astronaut Guy Bluford, himself an Eagle Scout. Early in 1987 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren E. Burger designated the Challenger Flag as the “Official Flag” of the ceremonies commemorating the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States. On the 17th of September 1987 the Flag was flown by the three Boy Scouts from Troop 514 This story was brought to you by our friends through the streets of Philadelphia in the long- over at est parade in history. On that same evening, the Flag was flown on the stage of the Philadel- Diesel Repair and Performance phia Civic Center Hall as part of the nationally 6250 E Pine Lane Parker, CO 80138 televised opening ceremonies. This occurred 303-841-6527 before thirteen thousand in attendance, and was accompanied by a 200-piece brass ensemble, 200 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Philly Pops Orchestra, and Sandi Tom Franklin Patty singing the National Anthem. On the

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