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April 4th has been set aside as National Vitamin C Day in recognition of its importance to healthy living. So Tidbits is taking the opportunity to bring you a few facts about this vital food supplement that everyone should know.

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ment benefit is based on your average monthly tion adjusted year of earnings used in your most income, indexed for inflation, using a 35-year base recent Social Security computation, SSA will drop of earnings. So, when you initially filed for Social out that low year, add in the new higher year, reYOUR Security, the Social Security Administration looked calculate your average monthly income, and then at your entire earnings history. Then they adjusted refigure your Social Security benefit. For example, let’s say that the $7,000 you each year of earnings for inflation. The inflation adjustment factor depends on your year of birth and made in 1970 was the lowest year in your current Social Security computation. Let’s further say that varies from one year to the next. by Tom Margenau Here is just one example. Because you just you will make $35,000 this year. You might assume turned 71, you must have been born in 1946. And that because $35,000 is much higher than $7,000, let’s say that you made $7,000 in 1970. When figur- you should get an increase in your Social Security ing your Social Security benefit, SSA multiplied that checks. But remember, SSA didn’t use $7,000 in $7,000 by an inflation adjustment factor of 6.25. In your benefit calculation. They used the inflationother words, instead of $7,000, they actually used adjusted amount of $43,750. Because your current $43,750 as your 1970 earnings when figuring your earnings of $35,000 are lower than the low year of $43,750 used in your Social Security retirement Social Security benefit. Because there are literally thousands of computation, the additional earnings do NOT in I just turned 71 years old. I have these inflation factors -- depending on a person’s crease your average monthly income, so your Sobeen getting Social Security since I was 66. date of birth and the year in question -- I simply cial Security benefit would not be increased. I was having trouble making ends meet and cannot list them here. SSA produces a pamphlet On the other hand, if you will make I recently took a job doing some consulting for each year of birth (for recent retirees) that lists $70,000, for example, that would increase your work. I just got my first paycheck, and I was these inflation factors. If you’re interested, go to benefit. SSA would replace this current low year surprised to learn they are taking Social Secu- www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs and click on “Re- of $43,750 with the new higher year of $70,000, rerity taxes out of my paycheck. I thought once tirement.” Then find the publication labeled “Your compute your average monthly wage and refigure you are getting Social Security, you no longer Retirement Benefit -- How It Is Figured” for your your benefit. have to pay taxes into the system. Am I right? year of birth. 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This is a photo of a potter y vase that my mother gave me. It is decorated with a matte green drip glaze over rose. It is about 6 inches tall, and it is in perfect condition. The bottom is not glazed, and the clay is an off-white color. It is marked with the letter “A.” There are no mold marks, and the surface feels as though it was hand-turned on the potter wheel. My mother told me it was made by Muncie Potter y in Indiana. She is from Indiana and collects vintage objects made in the state. What can you tell me about my vase?

Your mother is correct. Your vase was made by Muncie Pottery. It was located in Muncie, Indiana, from 1922 to 1939. Vases, flower frogs, water sets, bowls, candlesticks, wall pockets and bookends were just some of the wares. Its early art pottery that was made between 1922 and 1925 and was not always marked. In 1927, the pottery began marking the bottom of Muncie Pottery was located the wares with the in Muncie, Indiana. name “Muncie,” along with numbers and letters. The later pieces did not use additional numbers or letters. Muncie pottery was both molded and hand-thrown. Finishers used a letter A through K to identify their pieces, and molders used a Roman numeral or numbers 2 through 6. Your vase was hand-thrown by finisher “A.” Muncie Pottery head ceramist James Wilkins created most of the drip and matte glazes. The simplicity of the pottery was appealing; none of the ware was decorated with scenes or designs. Muncie Pottery also made lamp bases for Aladdin Lamp Co. Your circa-1925 hand-thrown vase would probably be worth $75 to $125.

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ware. This mark is on each piece. In 1955 in Germany, as the young bride of a United States militar y man, I bought the set of china. The pattern is “Elvira,” and I have learned it was discontinued in 1955. I guess I got the last of the set! I’m now 86 years old, and I would like to know its value. The last estimate I got several years ago was about $2,000 for the complete ser vice for 12, including the large platter, large soup bowls and other ser ving pieces. My daughter is not interested, but perhaps one of my grandchildren would appreciate it. At any rate, if they were to throw it away, I would want them to know what it is worth. I love my set, but since I’m not entertaining or traveling much, it is rarely used and still in brand-new condition. What can you tell me about my china?

Hutschenreuther Porcelain was founded in 1814 in Germany.

Hutschenreuther Porcelain was founded in 1814 in Hohenberg, Bavaria, Germany. Vintage fine china dinnerware sets have dramatically diminished in value in the recent decade. Similar sets can be seen selling for as low as $400 to $800. * * * Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2017 CREATORS.COM

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* On April 5, 1792, George Washington exercises the first presidential veto of a Congressional bill, which proposed a new plan for dividing seats in the House of Representatives. Washington decided that the bill would have resulted in a higher number of representatives than that proscribed by the Constitution. * On April 3, 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, the westbound rider arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound mail packet by two days. * On April 8, 1916, at the Boulevard Race in Corona, California, an early racing car careens through a barrier and into a crowd after a wheel breaks, killing the driver and two others. “Wild Bob” Burman had previously set a world speed record for hitting 129 mph. * On April 7, 1920, Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar is born in India. Shankar’s “discovery” by the Beatles’ George Harrison in 1965 made him a household name around the world and changed the music sound of the ‘60s. * On April 4, 1933, a dirigible crashes in New Jersey, killing 73 people in one of the first air disasters in history. The Akron was the largest airship built in the United States. * On April 6, 1970, Sam Sheppard, a doctor convicted of murdering his pregnant wife in a trial that caused a media frenzy in the 1950s, dies of liver failure. After a decade in prison, Sheppard was freed following a re-trial. His story is rumored to have inspired the television series “The Fugitive.” * On April 9, 1987, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz states that he is “damned angry” about possible Soviet spy activity in the American embassy in the Soviet Union. Soviet officials called the espionage charges “dirty fabrications.” (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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