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From the 1950s we have “Henry Huggins” (1950), “Charlotte’s Web” (1952), “Horton Hears a Who!” (1954), “Danny and the Dinosaur” (1958) and the “Brains Benton Series” (1959-61).

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-- Find a way to keep the two away from each other 100 percent of the time. by Matilda Charles They were hoping to train the dog and © King Features Synd., Inc. eliminate the behaviors through training. But tim To jog your memory, in 1942, Henry, Jesing is everything. sie, Violet and Benny Alden were orphans living Baby is already crawling, and Barnie is in a boxcar in the woods until they are introduced 10 years old and circling. Barnie was fine as long to their grandfather, who has the boxcar moved as baby was lying still and quiet in her own crib. to his backyard in “The Boxcar Children.” Crawling around all over his territory? Baby is a foreign body, an unknown entity, a strange and mo There really is something to be said for In 1946, “Scuffy the Tugboat” ended up bile creature on his turf. Barnie’s response? Cirgoing back to a simpler time, even for a little floating down larger and larger waterways until cling, charging, nudging, growling. while. he was rescued and was put back where he was Translation: He doesn’t like it, and if you’re happiest -- the bathtub. not going to do anything about it, he will. For those of us who work with people In this case, a complete and secure separawho have dementia, or if we just want to take a In 1959, Brains Benton and his sidekick tion is their best hope if they want to keep Barnie in break from the current crop of books on bestsellJimmy Carson solved the mystery of “The Case the family. Dog runs, crates, baby gates and other er lists, here is an idea: revisit the books of our of the Missing Message,” and continued solvbaby-proofing and dog-proofing equipment are dechildhood. ing crimes for the next five books in the original Friday, 12/13/19 signed to help us steer clear of danger. Otherwise, Brains Benton series. Please review carefully. check:  Number(s) Spelling  it’s their Double responsibility to Phone find Barnie a goodhome carefully. Double check:  be Phone Number(s) Spelling  Prices  Hours Wikipedia can a great place toremind without small children. immediately with changes or co Contact your Tidbits representative of therepresentative titles we might have forgotten. Put If you want to find the old books of your yourus Tidbits immediately with changes or corrections. Woof! “books of the 1940s,” or whatever decade you’d Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 childhood, it’s not as difficult as you might think. 60-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 * * * like to explore, in its search box,. You’ll find hun Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Margolis is coSome of the books are still in print. Do a simple author of 18 books about dogs, a behaviorist, a popular radio dreds of books from your childhood, most with check Amazon.com or AbeBooks.com. Some and television guest, and host of the PBS series “WOOF! It’s a links to information about the books themselves, of them might be found at your library. If you’re Dog’s Life!” Visit him at www.unclematty.com. such as: “Lassie Come Home” (1940), “Curious very lucky, a few of them might even be on your Property of George” (1941), “Pippi Longstocking” (1945) and ADVERTISING AdVenture Media, Inc. Gee-Ar-Gee Construction Co.PROOF own bookshelves. MON., SEPT. 9 “Scuffy Tugboat” (1946). 1/16 pg.the BW 13x disc.

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Do Earnings After Retirement Increase Your Social Security Check? Conventional wisdom has it that old folks are supposed to spend their retirement years sitting in a rocking chair and occasionally playing a game of Scrabble. But if my emails are any indication, that’s not what’s happening with today’s seniors. I constantly hear from people in their 70s and 80s who are still working. And they wonder if their additional earnings will have any effect on their Social Security check. To understand whether or not the earnings you have and the taxes you pay after you start getting Social Security will increase your benefits, you have to understand how Social Security retirement benefits are figured in the first place. Simply stated, your Social Security retirement benefit is based on your average monthly income, indexed for inflation, using a 35-year base of earnings. So, when you initially filed for benefits, the Social Security Administration looked at your entire earnings history. Then they adjusted each year of earnings for inflation. The inflation adjustment factor depends on your year of birth and varies from one year to the next. Here is just one example. Let’s say Mike was born in 1949. And let’s say that he made $7,000 in 1970. When figuring his Social Security benefit, the SSA multiplied that $7,000 by an inflation adjustment factor of 6.58. In other words, instead of $7,000, they actually used $46,060 as his 1970 earnings when figuring his Social Security benefit. Because there are literally thousands of these inflation factors -- depending on your date of birth and the year in question -- I simply cannot list them here. The SSA produces a fact sheet for each year of birth (for recent retirees) that lists these inflation factors. If you’re interested, go to https:// www.ssa.gov/pubs, and click on “Retirement.” Then find the publication labeled “Your Retirement Benefit: How It Is Figured” for your year of birth, and open it up. And now, back to our retirement calculation. After the SSA indexes each year of earnings for inflation, they pull out your highest 35 years and add them up. Then they divide the total by 420 -- that’s the number of months in 35 years -- to get your average monthly inflation-adjusted income. Your Social Security benefit is a percentage of that amount. The percentage used depends on a variety of factors (explained in the publication referred to in the prior paragraph). But for the purposes of this fact sheet, we don’t need to know the precise percentage. Suffice it to say that for most people, their Social Security retirement benefit represents roughly 40% of their average inflation-adjusted monthly income. So when you are working and paying Social Security taxes after you start receiving Social Security benefits, those additional taxes you are paying will increase your monthly Social Security check IF your current earnings increase your average monthly income. In other words, if your current annual income is higher than the lowest inflationadjusted year of earnings used in your most recent Social Security computation, the SSA will drop out that low year, add in the new higher year, recalcu-

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Your cream pitchers are similar to many pieces of pottery that were made in several regions in Italy, including Deruta, Tuscany and Umbria. Many pieces were made by Deruta Pottery for the souvenir pottery market. Italian pottery often was marked with only the word “Italy.” Without the name of the manufacturer, it can be difficult to identify the maker. Each was made in the mid-20th century, and each would probably be worth $25 to $50.

* On Feb. 4, 1913, Rosa Parks is born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama. Parks’ name has become synonymous with her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated city bus in 1955.

This is a photo of an antique oak cabinet that we inherited from my husband’s great-grandmother. There are four adjustable shelves on each side and behind glass doors. The approximate dimensions are 60 inches tall, 17 inches deep and 50 inches wide. Other than being refinished, it is in excellent condition. Do you think it has any value?

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Mid-20th century souvenir pottery cream pitcher was made in Italy.

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* On Feb. 5, 1934, Henry Louis Aaron Jr., the baseball slugger who broke Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers, is born in Mobile, Alabama.

* On Feb. 9, 1960, Adolph Coors disappears while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home. Adolph, grandson of Coors’ founder and the chairman of the Golden, Colorado, brewery, was kidnapped and held for ransom before being shot to death. * On Feb. 7, 1984, while in orbit 170 miles above Earth, Navy Capt. Bruce McCandless becomes the first human to perform an untethered spacewalk. McCandless flew up to 320 feet away from the space shuttle Challenger while testing a rocket backpack of his own design. (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc.

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* On Feb. 6, 1928, a woman calling herself Anastasia Tschaikovsky and claiming to be the youngest daughter of the murdered Russian czar Nicholas II Romanov arrives in New York City. It wasn’t until 1994 that Anastasia’s DNA showed her to be Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish-German factory worker.

* On Feb. 3, 1950, Klaus Fuchs, a Germanborn British scientist who helped develop the atomic bomb, is arrested in Great Britain for passing top-secret information to the Soviet Union. His arrest led authorities to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and their subsequent trial and execution.

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* On Feb. 8, 1587, after 19 years of imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England for her complicity in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I. In 1542, while just six days old, Mary had ascended to the Scottish throne upon the death of her father, King James V.

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