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with 72 white swans and a black bear cub. The collection grew as citizens and circuses donated animals to the city. A new zoo was built in 1934, with a total of nine buildings, taking nine months to complete. By the early 1980s, the zoo had fallen in disrepair. It was torn down and rebuilt to resemble the 1934 facility, a four-year project. Two of those original 1934 buildings remain there today.

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help you. They will be giving you a Social Security benefit that 90 percent of working people in this country do not get. Now let me explain. YOUR Ever since the beginning of Social Security, the law has always said that a Social Security retirement benefit offsets any benefits you might be due on a spouse’s Social Security account. And that by Tom Margenau offset is 100 percent -- or dollar for dollar. For example, let’s say that instead of getting a teacher’s retirement pension of $2,275, you were instead getting a Social Security retirement pension of $2,275. And then let’s say your husband died. You would not be due any widow’s benefits because 100 percent of your own Social Security benefit, or all $2,275 of it, would be used to offset your potential widow’s benefit of $2,150. A big part Over the past 17 years that I have been do- of the reason that dollar for dollar offset law has aling this column, I have written about 50 columns ways been in place is because Social Security spoudealing with the Social Security offsets that impact sal benefits are classified as “dependent” benefits. some state and local government employees who In other words, you must be financially dependent work at jobs not covered by Social Security. In many on your husband before you could claim wife’s or ways, I don’t like discussing this topic because it widow’s benefits on his account. Because you had your own job, and your own pension, you do not impacts just a small percentage of my readers. To put it another way, the vast majority of meet that dependency test. But for many, many years, teachers and people in this country work at jobs in which Social Security taxes are deducted from their paychecks. other retirees getting non-Social Security pensions Less than 10 percent of Americans work at jobs not jumped through one of the biggest loopholes in Socovered by Social Security. But they are a very vocal cial Security’s legislative history. They were able minority who have been misled over the years into to get their government retirement pension AND thinking that the government is out to con them out they were able to get full dependent’s benefits from of Social Security benefits. I will use today’s column their spouse’s Social Security account. Nobody else got such a deal. Just teachers and police officers to show just the opposite is true. and other public employees in those 10 percent of I recently retired at the age of 62. jobs that were not covered by Social Security. About 30 years ago, Congress recognized I had been a teacher in California for much of my working life. As such, I did not pay into that was simply not fair. So they passed the GovernSocial Security. I paid into the California State ment Pension Offset law. And what that law simply Teacher’s Retirement System. I now get a STRS says is that teacher’s retirement pensions, police pension of $2,275 per month. My 72-year-old retirement pensions and all other noncovered govhusband is getting $2,150 per month in So- ernment retirement pensions should be treated TUES., MAY 16 cial Security retirement benefits. What really just like Social Security retirement pensions. They shouldbe used to offset any benefits you might be carefully. Doubleme check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices Hours bothers is the law that says that because

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This is a photo of several dishes in a set of china that I inherited. The set is a ser vice for 12 and includes ser ving bowls, two covered bowls, platters, a gravy boat with attached tray, a cream pitcher, a sugar bowl and salt and pepper shakers. Each piece is marked the letters “H -- J -- Co” and is in perfect condition. The dishes are decorated with multicolored birds on a branch along with colorful blossoms. I would appreciate any information you can provide about the name and location of the maker, the year of manufacture and the value of my dinner set.

Weller Pottery made your “Dickensware” vase. The pottery was founded by Samuel Weller in Fultonham, Ohio, in 1872. It moved to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1882. The Dickensware line was created by Weller art director Charles Babcock Upjohn. There were three distinct lines. The caramel matte glaze that graduates to blue green, the sgraffito (incised lines) and the image of the golfer are characteristic of the second line. Weller made a male golfer that is a companion piece to your vase. The second line also featured Native Americans, animals, monks and Charles Dickens characters. Your vase is circa 1900 and would probably be worth $800 to $1200. Weller Pottery made three lines of Dickensware.

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This mark is on the bottom of a potter y vase that I own. It is around 8 inches tall and in mint condition. It is decorated with a woman standing between two trees and swinging a golf club. She is wearing a hat, a long brown skirt, a white blouse and a brown cape that is caught by the wind. Her image is outlined with an incised dark line. The glaze is a matte caramel that fades to blue-green at

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* On May 31, 1859, the famous tower clock Big Ben rings out over London for the first time. Two months later the bell cracked. It was three years before the clock went into service again. The bell was rotated so that the hammer would strike another surface, but the crack was never repaired. * On June 2, 1865, in an event marking the end of the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs surrender terms offered by Union negotiators. With Smith’s surrender, the last Confederate army ceased to exist. * On June 4, 1896, in the shed behind his home in Detroit, Henry Ford unveils the Quadricycle, his first automobile. The Quadricycle was too wide to fit through the shed door, so Ford took an axe to the brick so the vehicle could be rolled out. * On May 29, 1914, two boats collide in heavy fog on the St. Lawrence River in Canada, killing 1,073 people. The Empress of Ireland, following standard procedure, came to a complete stop in the fog. The Norwegian coal freighter Storstad not only failed to stop, but didn’t reverse engines, flipping the Empress on her side. * On May 30, 1922, William Howard Taft, chief justice of the Supreme Court, dedicates the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall. Taft is the only former U.S. president ever to hold a seat on the Supreme Court. * On June 3, 1965, astronaut Major Edward H. White II opens the hatch of the Gemini 4 and steps out of the orbiting capsule, becoming the first American to walk in space. * On June 1, 1980, CNN, the world’s first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut in Atlanta. Initially available in less than 2 million U.S. homes, today CNN can be seen in almost 100 million households. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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bison to preserves in Oklahoma, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska, where herds grew, ensuring the continuation of the species. • Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo is home to the largest indoor rainforest in the world, an 80-foot-tall building covering 1.5 acres. Voted as America’s top zoo several times, it also has North America’s largest cat complex, the world’s largest indoor swamp, and the world’s largest indoor desert. It’s the site of the birth of the world’s first test-tube tiger, born in 1990. • When the zoo opened in 1898, it had deer, grizzly bears, and two bison loaned by Buffalo Bill Cody, along with 120 various other animals. A 1963 donation of $750,000 from the Doorly family provided for substantial improvements to the zoo complex. • Beijing, China’s Zoo, founded in 1906, houses 14,500 animals from more than 950 species of land and marine animals. It’s no surprise that the most popular attraction is the Giant Pandas. The first birth of a giant panda in captivity took place at this zoo in 1963, as well as the first successful artificial insemination in the world of the panda in 1978. • According to the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA), there are over 10,000 zoos worldwide. In the U.S. alone, the Department of Agriculture licenses 2,400 "animal exhibitors," of which 212 are members of the AZA, an organization that requires high standards of animal care, science, and conservation. ⁫

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Pitching the ball around the green with any wedge requires consistent control of the hands and arms through impact. One of the simplest images for the average golfer is trying to keep the butt end of the club pointing to the center of the body on the finish. “Keeping the club in center” gives the image of a unified action of body turn, and passive forearm and wrist action. Most pitches around the green can be hit with low to medium height finishes where one can check the alignment of the butt end of the club to the body. It should be aligned near the belt buckle or navel if everything works together. Avoid excessive positions where the grip end points too far outside the body on either side. If the body doesn’t turn thru to the target slightly, or the hands become too active, it’s nearly impossible to “keep the club in center”. This is a visual that can be rehearsed easily in preparation to hit those critical scrambling shots around the green.

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