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achieve the “highest egg content” of all the brands of their day. • The brothers’ next venture was a potato chip factory in San Jose, aided by Frank’s invention of an automatic continuous potato peeler, doing away with peeling potatoes by hand. In the 1950s, his next invention was a waffle iron merry-go-round, which could produce thousands of waffles per hour. The next logical step, in 1953, was freezing them and selling to grocery stores. The brothers called their product “froffles” – frozen waffles – but soon amended it to Eggo, waffles that could be prepared quickly in a toaster.

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* In 2006, an Athens court ordered the worship of the 12 gods of ancient Greece -including Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Athena and others -- to be unbanned. * Vikings fed their wounded soldiers a strong onion soup to help gauge the depth of a stomach wound. After a few minutes, they would smell the wound and if they could smell the onion soup, they knew the wound was too deep and the soldier could not be saved.

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* The “artificial strawberry flavor” in a McDonald’s milkshake is made up of around 45 chemicals.

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‘Welfare’ for Disabled Kids with Wealthy Parents Q: I have a neighbor who is in his early 50s. He is a pilot for a major airline and makes pretty good money. He and his wife have several children, one of whom has Down syndrome. I have heard that this 21-year-old son is collecting about $2,000 per month in welfare benefits from Social Security. Don’t get me wrong; I would never want to trade places with these people. But I am just wondering how rich people qualify for welfare benefits. And I’m also wondering why this kid is getting Social Security when his parents aren’t even close to Social Security age. A: Let me set you straight on a number of points. First, your neighbor’s son is not getting Social Security. He is probably getting a Supplemental Security Income disability payment. Second, he is not receiving anywhere near $2,000 per month. It might be as much as $840 but is probably closer to around $500 in monthly SSI payments. Our country’s primary safety net for lowincome elderly and disabled people is the Supplemental Security Income program. SSI is managed by the Social Security Administration, but it is not paid for out of Social Security taxes. It is funded by general tax revenues. However, the fact that the SSA runs the program, coupled with a confusing name that causes folks to believe it is a supplemental Social Security payment, leads most people to think of SSI as a Social Security benefit. I can’t emphasize enough that SSI is NOT part of Social Security. What SSI does is pay a small monthly stipend to folks over age 65 who are poor, and to disabled adults and children who are poor. While your neighbor’s son was under age 18, he would not have been eligible for SSI disability benefits. That’s because the father’s income would have been taken into consideration, and it would have prevented the child from qualifying for what is in effect a welfare payment. But once the child turns 18, he is considered a legal adult. And as such, the parent’s income is no longer taken into account when deciding his eligibility for SSI payments. So, assuming this 21-year-old young man doesn’t have any other income and doesn’t have much in the way of assets in his name, he would get a monthly SSI disability check. The amount of the check can vary from one state to another, but it is never much more than about $840 per month. And based on my knowledge of the intricacies of the SSI payment structure, my hunch is your neighbor’s son is getting closer to about $500. I am not going to weigh in too heavily on the argument over whether the adult children of middle-class or even rich parents should qualify for SSI (i.e., welfare) benefits -- although I am inclined to believe that parents caring for severely disabled children should get some help from the government. But I can tell you that many people over the years have objected to these provisions of the law. And I would like to share the true story of one of

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One might have hoped that the congressthose (maybe not so “conscientious”) objectors. man would have “seen the light” and perhaps told About 30 years ago, I was working in the Social Security office in the biggest city of a Western voters about the help his son was getting and exstate. A certain congressman from that state was plained how he now understood that sometimes popular and was elected repeatedly on what was government programs were necessary and were essentially an “I will get the government off your there to help people out in tough situations. But back” platform. When he mentioned government that’s not what happened. Instead, he was out there programs, he spewed out the words “handout” and on the campaign trail spouting his usual rhetoric “welfare” as though he were spitting snake poison about government waste and welfare fraud and out of his mouth. Even though I didn’t agree with promising that he would continue the fight to stop his politics, I respected his right to voice his opin- the growth of welfare programs and big government. And guess what? He was reelected in a landions. Tragically, his 19-year-old son was in a ma- slide! His politics bothered me a little. But his hyjor traffic accident that left him a quadriplegic. A pocrisy bothered me a lot! * * * few weeks later, one of the congressman’s aides If you have a Social Security question, Tom Marwas sitting at my desk in the Social Security ofgenau has a book with all the answers. It’s called “Social fice inquiring about any government benefits that Security -- Simple and Smart.” You can find the book at might have been available for the paralyzed young www.creators.com/books or look for it on Amazon or man. I explained that he probably would be eligible other book outlets. To find out more about Tom Marfor SSI disability benefits. I helped the aide fill out genau and to read past columns and see features from the forms, which he took to the father to sign. Sev- other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit eral months later, the son of this wealthy and very the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. conservative government-bashing congressman COPYRIGHT 2022 CREATORS.COM was getting a monthly SSI, or welfare, check from the federal government. Now, I normally would have been just fine with that. This man’s family had suffered a crippling tragedy, and I’m sure their medical and other bills were piling up. And I would have guessed that the congressman was very happy that not only was MON., AUG. 30 his son getting a small monthly cash stipend to help review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pr defray the costs of his care, but hePlease was also getting Medicaid coverage. (SSI benefits come with autoContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corr matic Medicaid eligibility. Medicaid is our counemail: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760try’s health insurance program for poorOffice: elderly760-320-0997 and disabled people.) But what happened next really surprisedBayshire Senior Living c/o Jennifer Morton and disappointed me. A couple of months later, the 1/8 pg V 26x Disc. congressman was running for reelection. Almost Sept. 5, 2021 Vol. 17 - No. 37 everyone in the state knew that his son was paralyzed, but no one but me and a few others at the Social Security office knew he was getting SSI and Medicaid. In other words, he was getting monthly welfare benefits and all the son’s medical bills were being picked up by the taxpayers.

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in excellent condition. I would be most grateful for any information that you might share with me.

This mystery mark was used on objects made in several countries.

ANTIQUE -- OR -JUNQUE by Anne McCollam

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Carnival Glass Bowl Used on Holidays Q:

My mother received this purple carnival glass bowl around 1910. She gave it to me when I married in 1957. Marked on the bottom is an “N” in a circle and there is a line under it. The inside is smooth; the only pattern is on the outside. The bowl has three feet. It is in mint condition. My mother always used this dish ever y holiday to ser ve pickles and relishes. It is hard to believe it sur vived all these years. Anything you can tell me about my dish will be appreciated.

Objects marked “Czechoslovakia” were made between 1918 and 1993. Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on Jan. 1, 1993. The history of the mark “Y B S” in a circle is rather murky. It appears on pieces made in several countries including Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy and England. It is thought to be the mark of an importer or distributor. Interestingly, it has been known to be included with some marks by the Czechoslovakian Fischer and Mieg Factory. The value of your porcelain bust would probably be $200 to $300. *** Q: I have a leather bound book titled “Know Thyself or Nature’s Secrets Revealed.” It was published in 1911 by The S. A. Mullikin Co. in Marietta, Ohio. The book imparts information from the beginning of life to the end. There is also a chapter on how to mix prescriptions and advice on how to heal honeybee stings. I would like to know if it is worth anything.

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range of $35 to $50.

Northwood Glass Co. made carnival glass from 1908 to 1915.

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* On March 24, 1603, after 44 years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies. Elizabeth had repealed pro-Catholic legislation, established a permanent Protestant Church of England and encouraged voyages of discovery. * On March 21, 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous search through Africa for the missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone. When Stanley found him on Oct. 27, he stepped forward and stretched out his hand, casually asking, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” * On March 22, 1893, the first women’s college basketball game is played at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Each made basket counted as one point with the game lasting two 15-minute halves. The game had been invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, with rules for men and women the same. * On March 27, 1912, in Washington, D.C., first lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshina cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River, near the Jefferson Memorial. The event was held in celebration of a gift, by the Japanese government, of 3,020 cherry trees to the U.S. government. * On March 23, 1962, Pakistan’s governor Ayub Khan gives first lady Jacqueline Kennedy a horse she nicknamed Black Jack. Jackie chose Black Jack to serve as the ceremonial riderless horse during President John Kennedy’s funeral procession. * On March 26, 1950, ever on a witch hunt, Sen. Joseph McCarthy charges Johns Hopkins University Professor Owen Lattimore with being a top spy for the Soviet Union. Lattimore’s career was ruined, even though no evidence ever surfaced to support the charges. * On March 25, 1983, during filming of the television special “Motown 25,” Diana Ross, formerly of the Supremes, shoves Mary Wilson out of the spotlight. It later had to be edited out. Smokey Robinson stepped in onstage to keep between the two warring Supremes. (c) 2022 Hearst Communications, Inc.

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