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Another Brilliant Way to Use WD-40 Around the House Everyday I CHEAPSKATE had to laugh when I opened my mail to byreader Mary Huntwas able to get his glass read how one shower doors so clean and sparkly that they looked like new. I had a can of his remedy sitting right there next to my computer. Hold on! That can of WD-40 was NOT there to be used as a computer screen cleaner. I’ve never tried it, do not intend to and hope you do not either. There is a much better way to do that. It was on my desk because I had just used it to test the theory that WD-40 would waterproof my leather boots. Supposedly, WD-40 acts as a barrier so moisture can’t seep into your shoes and get your socks wet. ®

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cause meningitis, pneumonia and the condition you had, epiglottitis -- an inflammation of the epiglottis, the structure that closes your trachea when you swallow. Before the vaccine for Hib became available, epiglottitis was a feared and not uncommon by Freddie Groves problem. Back then, doctors were exhaustively taught how to rapidly recognize the life-threatM.D. ening H. flu epiglottitis so that children could be treated quickly, which sometimes meant an emergency tracheostomy (a direct hole through the throat into the windpipe to allow breathing). One year ago, a federal grand jury indicted That is the procedure that caused the scar on a Virginia woman for a whole raft of scams and your neck. Despite treatment, 3% to 6% of cases fraud against veterans. Most disheartening is the of invasive H. flu were fatal. Your scar may be DEAR DR. ROACH: In 2008, I had a fact that she was a former veteran. yucky, but you are lucky to have survived. partial sigmoid colectomy. Since then, I have There was a long laundry list (nine counts) During the time I was in medical school, had no recurrence of diverticulitis. The surof things she did. She had veterans apply for HISA routine vaccination for H. flu became widegeon recommended that I not use laxatives, grants (Home Improvements and Structural Alterspread, and the disease essentially went away. but rather take fiber gummies to keep things ations), which are for doing work on their homes History records a 99% drop in this infection. I’ve moving easily in addition to drinking lots of and making improvements. Not only did she not only ever seen oneAd case. Essentially the only Proof: fluids. people at risk for this disease those who complete the work, she pocketed the money. I am doing that, but my flatulence John Cuddihy - Flagsnow “A”are Flying Then she managed to have the income and are deliberately unvaccinated. could power all the homes in a small city. 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• In 1930 Ruth Wakefield and her husband bought an inn in Massachusetts which had historically been a place where travelers would have to stop and pay a fee to cross the bridge. Ruth did all the cooking for their guests, and one day she decided to make chocolate cookies. She was out of baking chocolate, but Andrew Nestlé (yes -- a Nestlé chocolate family member) had recently visited, and had given her one of his Nestlé’s chocolate candy bars. • But rather than just eat it, she decided insead to try something different and cut it into bits and sprinkled them into the dough. She expected them to melt in the oven and blend into the cookies, but they didn’t. The bits of chocolate softened but remained separate. But the cookies were very good and the travelers raved about them. She called them Chocolate Crunch Cookies, and their popularity led her to publish her recipe in several newspapers. • Suddenly sales of Nestlé’s candy bars took a sharp climb, and Andrew Nestlé wanted to know why. When he learned of Ruth's published recipe he saw an opportunity and quickly struck a deal with her. He would print her recipe on the back of the candy bar’s wrapper, and name the cookies after her inn. He also provided her a lifetime supply of his chocolate for her invention. • Nestlé's chocolate sales increased as the cookie's popularity spread nationwide, so he started manufacturing a scored bar to make it easier to break into bits. Then they started including a special chopper, until finally they introduced a new product in 1939: chocolate chips. • Ruth later sold Nestlé the right to the name of her cookie recipe, and the company began to produce the cookies as well. This treat is now the most popular kind of cookie worldwide. What was the name of Ruth’s inn, now carried on cookie packages? (Answer at end) SNACK CAKES • O.D. McKee and his wife Ruth were newly married in the middle of the Great Depression

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when they lost their life savings in a bank failure. O.D. took a job as a deliveryman for a local bakery in Tennessee, but his passion was to one day own his own shop. • When a small failing bakery went up for sale in 1934, they used their car as collateral and bought it, living in the back of the store. Eventually they were able to afford a second shift of employees, and they spent the next several decades building their business. • McKee discovered that baked products which were individually wrapped would keep longer and stay fresher than those that were bulk packaged in bags or jars. Determined to give his bakery products a longer shelf life, he bought a candy-wrapping machine and modified it to wrap and seal cookies, baked bars and cupcakes. • His business grew to be quite successful, and in 1960 they created a new brand for their company, naming it after their four-year-old granddaughter. For the logo they used a picture

of the child wearing her favorite outfit, complete with a straw hat with a crease in the brim where she had stepped on it. • The individually-wrapped cakes were now sold in multi-packs and the company began a period of prodigious growth. • Meanwhile, their little granddaughter grew up to become the company’s director of marketing. The company named after the grandchild gained tremendous popularity and now dominates the snack cake market. What was the name of their granddaughter? (Answer below)

FAST FACTS • The second most popular cookie is peanut butter flavored, and oatmeal cookies come in third. • The world’s biggest chocolate chip cookie weighed 40,000 pounds and had a diameter of 101 feet. The mammoth cookie was created in 2003 by The Immaculate Baking Company in Flat Rock, North Carolina. □ ANSWERS: 1) Toll House Cookies 2) Little Debbie

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large department store, setting up his candymaking process in the main window facing the busy street. Shoppers would stop and watch, fascinated by the process while tasting free samples of his candy. It was a huge success and his business flourished. • Because Harry bought all his chocolate wholesale from the Hershey company, he was considered a customer rather than competition. Sales were brisk for Harry, but World War II caused a rationing of chocolate. Harry had to stop his chocolate production, but because peanut butter was still plentiful he concentrated instead on making candies containing this popular ingredient. • In the 1940s and 1950s, a surge in popularity for his candy resulted in the need for a high volume production facility. His 100,000 square foot manufacturing plant opened on Chocolate Avenue in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1957. By the time he died, Harry’s candy business was a whopping national success. In fact, he was buried in the Hershey cemetery, just a few feet away from Milton Hershey’s grave. • In 1963 Hershey bought out Harry’s company, named after Harry, for $23.5 million. This bestselling peanut butter candy still bears his name. The man was Harry Burnett Reese, the inventor of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. □

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rity. My plan calls for a slight long-range increase hard time dealing with Social Security reform. For in the retirement age alongside a very modest in- one thing, there are simply no easy answers. There crease of one-fourth of 1% in the Social Security are lots of potential reform ideas, but none of them YOUR payroll tax. These two changes alone will keep the are easy. In the end, someone’s benefit is going to get cut and/or someone’s tax is going to get raised. system solvent for at least the next 75 years. SOCIAL SECURITY The second reason why Congress finds it But then comes reelection time, and my op- PleaseSocial reviewSecurity carefully.reform Doubleischeck: difficult to discuss that  P ponent runs attack ads that essentially say: “Don’t by Tom Margenau American agree on vote for Congressman Tom. He’s got a plan to cut they’d have to get the Contact your people Tidbits to representative i a set of reforms. 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I was simply reforms that will keep the program going for genpointing out some of the more commonly cited proWE WANT MON.,YOUR AUG. 30 erations to come. posals for changes to Social Security. I then offered eight relatively modest rePlease carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pr Anyway, what I learned from thereview reactions form proposals -- some that would trim future beneI heard is this: People say they want Social SecuContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corre fits and some that would raise future revenues. The rity to be reformed. But what so many of them rereaction to that column was interesting and predictOffice: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760ally are saying is: “I like those reforms that cut the able -- on two fronts. We Buy, Gold, other guy’s Social Security check or raise the other Sell & Trade Silver First, I got a wave of emails from readers Valuables guy’s taxes. But don’t mess with my Social Secu- Bayshire El Living Paseo c/o Exchange & Coins Senior Jennifer Morton Consignments who blamed Congress for not doing anything so far 73-255 El Paseo rity!” 1/8 pg V 26x Disc. to solve Social Security’s fiscal woes. Across from Armando’s Here is an example of what I mean. One Sept. 5, 2021 Vol. 17 - No. 37 And before I go on, let me address those of the proposals called for a very minor cut, onewoes. Many of you wrote and blamed Social Securifourth of 1%, to the annual cost of living adjustment ty’s problems on fiscal mismanagement or congresthat all Social Security beneficiaries receive. I pointAdVe sional chicanery with the system’s trust funds. I’ve ed out that most economists agree that the formula addressed those persistent and false rumors many for figuring Social Security COLAs is too generous. times in past columns and won’t do so here today. 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Removing the ing Social Security. I’m reminded of this line uttered voice of Jessica Rabbit in “Who’s cap would mean he would pay taxes on his billionAfraid of Roger Rabbit?”? by Cassius to Brutus in Shakespeare’s “Julius CaeRanCho MIRage dollar annual income. 3. LANGUAGE: What word repFREE sar.” He is trying to explain to Brutus that we are of Coachella Valley resents the letter E in the radio phonet What I didn’t mention in that recent column The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read all responsible for our own fate. He famously says, ic alphabet? Phone: 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 is that benefits are tied to the taxable income a per4. TELEVISION: What is the name valleybits@msn.com “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in son has. 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