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• Dining & Spirits – Page 2 • Wheatland, WY- Page 3 • Classifieds – Page 4 • Home and Garden – Page 5 • Glenrock, WY – Page 8 • ANTELOPE MAP Page 9 • Douglas, WY - Page 10 • Puzzle Answers- Page 11
Why didn’t the elephant like to play cards in the jungle? Because there were too many cheetahs.
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WAGERS by Janet Spencer
Come along with Tidbits as we place some wagers! FAMOUS BETS • In 1867, Edward Payson Weston bet $10,000 that he could walk from Portland, Maine, to Chicago, Illinois in 26 days. The distance to be covered was 1,326 miles (2133 km). He was accompanied by six judges in a horse-drawn carriage. He won the bet with two hours to spare. In 1883 he walked 5,000 miles (8,046) in 100 days, and in 1909 he walked from New York to California— a distance of 3,895 miles (6,268)— in 104 days. Then he turned around and walked back another 3,600 miles in 77 days. He was over 70 years old at the time. • In 1910 in Paris, a truck broke down in the middle of the very busy road through the center of the Place de l’Opéra. The driver, a man named Horace De Vere Cole, got out, laid down underneath his car, and emerged after an hour having apparently made the repair. Apologizing to police for the traffic jam he had caused, he drove away. That evening he collected a tidy sum from his friends who had bet him that he could not lie on his back for 30 Continued on Page 3
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DINING & SPIRITS
Hunter’s Chili
• 4 lbs coarse ground red meat, venison, moose, elk, beef, etc. • 1 large sweet onion, coarse chopped • 1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped • 2 large green bell peppers, coarse chopped • 1 can crushed tomatoes Cook the meat in the large pot with the onion, carrot, and peppers until browned. Drain if necessary. Add the crushed tomatoes and simmer about ten minutes. Add the beans and enough water to loosen up the ingredients. (It shouldn’t be too thick at this point) Stir in the Backwoods Bound chili seasoning mix and slow simmer (lid off) 30-45 minutes. Stir occasionally. Dissolve the mesa flour in a cup with enough water to allow it to flow but not runny or too thin.
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WHEATLAND, WYOMING
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Platte County Happenings For Detailed Information contact the Platte County Chamber of Commerce
Wheatland Chamber: 307-322-2322 Send an e-mail to: info@plattechamber.com
Guernsey Senior Center Chili & Pie Supper Hartville Harvest Blessing Service & Dance Glendo Veterans Day Breakfast Guernsey Veterans Day Luncheon Wheatland Veterans Day Dinner
Town & Country Garden Club Bazaar Guernsey Holiday Bazaar Pheasant’s Forever Banquet Annual 4-H Carnival
FAMOUS BETS — (continued): Determined to prove him wrong, she sent him a letter minutes in the middle of the busiest traffic the next day. At the very intersection in Paris. bottom she added, “P.S. Who WAGERS, BETS, & GAMBLERS is right now, you or I?” • A high-society woman sat next to President “Silent Cal” Coolidge at a dinner party • On July 4, 1880, in Charleston, Arizona, George and said, “You must speak with me, Mr. Warren challenged George Coolidge. I made a bet today that I could Atkins to a race, placing a bet get more than two words out of you.” “You on the outcome. The bet was lose,” he replied. that Warren could outrun • Eccentric British politician George Selwyn Atkins in a 100-yard race, once said that women found it impossible with Warren on foot and to write a letter without adding a P.S. One Atkins on horseback. If he lady present bet him that she could write won, he’d take Atkins’ horse. him a letter and not add a postscript. If he lost, At k i ns would take his 1/9th share in the C opp er Queen mine in Bisbee, Arizona. Warren was figuring he could make a tighter turn around the pole that marked the turnaround spot half way through the race course. He was wrong. Atkins won the race. The share of the mine eventually turned out to be worth some $20 million. Warren lived the rest of his life in poverty and borderline insanity. • A Native American once bet that he could run to a river and back before a pot of water set on the fire came to a boil. The bet was on, and he won. The tribe commemorated the incident by naming the valley “Ke-kalakala-mazoo” which basically means “man runs to river before pot boils.” Settlers later shortened to it Kalamazoo, a town in Michigan. • Passengers on a ferry were alarmed to hear the cry of “Man
overboard!” There was practical joker Wilson Mizner, treading water with a stopwatch in his hand. He had placed a bet on how long it would take to be rescued. A TRUE STORY • In 1809 a practical joker by the name of Theodore Hook bet his friend that he could make any address in the city the most famous house in town. The bet was on, and a particularly nondescript home was chosen on Berners Street in London. • After finding that the home was occupied by an elderly widow named Mrs. Tottingham, Hook set about his mischief which entailed sending out over a thousand letters with Mrs. Tottingham’s forged signature and address at the bottom of each. • On a certain day the following week, Hook hid himself across the street and watched the fun. First a dozen different chimney sweeps appeared at her door, each one insisting that she had written to them and requested them to come clean her chimney on this date. While she was trying to convince them that she had not ordered a single chimney sweep, much less a dozen of them, several different coal merchants appeared, each bearing a ton of coal “just as she had ordered.” • Then truckloads of furniture began arriving, along with beer merchants, an organ salesman, candy makers, wig makers, hairdressers, butchers, machinists, jewelers, grocers, furriers, seamstresses, repairmen, doctors, opticians, and dentists. • Also arriving were the Duke of York, Continued on Page 10
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DONNA’S DAY: CREATIVE FAMILY FUN By Donna Erickson
4. In Genesis 4, who’s considered the father of all musicians? Jeremiah, Joash, Jubal, Job 5. From Luke 7, where did Jesus raise a widow’s son from the dead? Amos, Nain, Lystra, Philippi 6. In Genesis 12, where did 1. Is the book of Simeon in the Abram go after leaving Ur? Old or New Testament or Iconium, Nineveh, Haran, neither? Salem 2. Whose first chapter begins, “Then Moab rebelled 1) Neither; 2) 2 Kings; against Israel after the death ANSWERS: 3) John; 4) Jubal; 5) Nain; 6) Haran of Ahab”? Exodus, 2 Kings, Job, Proverbs More Trivia? Visit 3. From Luke 1, what was Comments? www.TriviaGuy.com the name of Elisabeth and Zacharias’ child? Elisabeth, (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc. Zacharias, Thomas, John
Prune Fall Schedules to Gain Family Time Before heading home to Minnesota from our cabin in the California coastal mountains, I dropped by the Anderson family’s lively backyard on a Saturday morning to say goodbye. Between feeding chickens and harvesting veggies, I caught Josh, a dad with three daughters under 10, with pruning shears in his hands showing 8-year-old Selah how to trim small branches from their healthy lemon tree. “When we cut away this growth and dead branches, it creates space for more life, for more fruit to grow,” he explained to her. As prickly branches tumbled to the ground, he likened what he was doing to family life this fall. Just like pruning the tree, he told me that his wife and kids are aiming to pare down the things that keep them chronically busy and out of balance. “You have to have enough capacity to do what’s important,” he said. “There’s only
so much time and energy for all five of us to absorb things into our schedule.” “But what do you do when you have tempting extras to tag on?” I asked. “We sit down together and determine the non-negotiables, whether that’s family dinners, game nights or going to church together. Even taking a family vacation. The process requires a lot of pruning, but we build our schedule around those. Is it family time or another sports practice? One thing is sure, we know sticking to the nonnegotiable activities promotes a healthier family life,” he said.
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The lemon tree metaphor and lesson in pruning activities not only applies to young families but to all of us with kids in our lives. Dr. Laurie Bunnel, educator in the Seattle area and mom of two teens with one off to college, faces the overscheduled dilemma, too. “Many parents are trying to be time heroes, driven and sometimes proud to be able to pack everything that comes into their lives into a day. But we can’t do it all, even when we think we should. Focus on priorities that give your life a
rhythm of working and resting,” she suggests. Maybe the start of this new fall season is a good time for you and your family to do a little lifestyle pruning. A family meeting to determine your nonnegotiables is a good place to start. Keep thinking of those pruning shears, and cut
activities that crowd out meaningful time with those things that matter most. Like that lemon tree, removing those cluttering branches provides more space for healthy living ... and growing. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday. com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2017 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.
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Which Flu Shot Is Right for You?
reduced their overall risk by 34 percent for A It’s that time again ... flu season is on the strains and 56 percent for B strains. way. Vaccines already are available in most Your best (safest) bet: Ask your doctor which locations, so we flu shot you should have no excuse not get. Some of us to get a flu shot under 65 shouldn’t soon. have the highSometimes the dose shot for one dilemma can be medical reason deciding which or another. Don’t shot to get. Most delay; it takes about flu vaccines contain two weeks to have protection from immune coverage three strains of after receiving a influenza, called shot. trivalent vaccines. If you have Those contain two Medicare Part B, A strains and one B the cost of the shot strain of influenza. is covered, as well Some of them add as the vaccine for pneumonia and hepatitis B. coverage for a fourth strain. Those shots are called quadrivalent and contain two A and two (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc. B strains. With two Bs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t have to flip a coin to decide between two equal B vaccines; it can just include both. In addition, there are high-dose flu shots especially for seniors age 65 and older. As we age, our immune systems don’t respond the same way, and a regular flu shot might not get us the strong immune response we need to avoid the flu. The strains change every year, which is why most people need to “renew” their flu vaccine each year. The CDC tracks which influenza hits, and when, in making its calculations for the following year. For the 2016-2017 season, it calculated that those who received flu shots
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Helping to Save Houston’s Pets DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’m heartbroken over the ongoing disaster in south Texas and Louisiana, and especially for the thousands of pets being displaced and separated from their owners. It stirs up terrible memories of Hurricane Katrina and all the lost pets from that storm. Is there anything that we, who are in safe places, can do to help these pets and owners who have lost everything? -- Carol in Buffalo, New York DEAR CAROL: Twelve years ago, I wrote about the problems caused by Katrina’s flooding, including pets being displaced and sent to shelters across the country. There was a huge increase of diseases like heartworm in pets who were lost outdoors for many days. Since then, a lot has changed. Disaster planning now requires that pets be considered in cities’ evacuation plans. Shelters in hurricane-prone areas have developed disaster
plans that include ways to effectively manage an influx of hundreds of animals. Ahead of Harvey, many shelters in the evacuation zones transferred their adoptable occupants to other states to make room for rescued pets. Local shelters are networking more closely with each other, with national rescue groups and with the public (thanks in part to social media like Twitter) to coordinate
transfer of animals to overflow shelters. For example, one
shelter, Austin Pets Alive!, is taking in pets by the truckload and for several days has coordinated transfers, as well as calls for volunteers and supplies, via Twitter. You may be able to donate supplies directly to Texas shelters that need them (by ordering them on Amazon, for example) or by donating money to national rescue organizations like HSUS or the ASPCA. Send your questions, comments and tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• It was American author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich who made the following sage observation: “No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion and allaround hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
• Coke has the honor of being the first soft drink in space. Members of the Space Shuttle Challenger drank the beverage from a specially designed “Coca-Cola Space Can.” • Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was one tough son of a
gun. In his youth, his fighting prowess won him fame as a national hero for defeating the British at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 -- and he never slowed down, it seemed. At the
age of 67, he was at a speaking engagement when a member of the audience pulled out a gun and tried to shoot him. When the gun misfired, President Jackson used his walking stick to beat his attacker almost senseless. • If you’re like the typical human, it takes your brain about 0.0004 seconds to retrieve any given memory. • Even in these modern days, certain maritime traditions hold on. For instance, when a new ship is launched for the first time, the water that first touches the ship is caught in a bottle. Once sealed, that bottle stays with the ship; it’s typically displayed in the captain’s office, near the bridge. • On a percapita basis, residents of Mexico consume more carbonated drinks than people in any other country on Earth. *** Thought for the Day:
“I have always supported measures and principles, and not men. I have acted fearless and independent, and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” -Davy Crockett (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a good time for the usually outspoken Lamb to be a bit more discreet. You still can get your point across, but do it in a way less likely to turn off a potential supporter. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Good news: All that hard work you put in is beginning to pay off. But you need to watch that tendency to insist on doing things your way or no way. Be a bit more flexible. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might want to delay making a decision on the future of a long-standing relationship until you check out some heretofore hidden details that are just now beginning to emerge. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your reluctance to compromise on an important issue could backfire without more facts to support your position. Weigh your options carefully before making your next move. LEO (July 23 to August 22) This is a good time for ambitious Leos or Leonas to shift from planning their next move to actually doing it. Your communication skills help persuade others to join you. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Relationships -- personal or professional -present new challenges. Be careful not to let a
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out carefully. There still might be unresolved tensions that could hinder your efforts to repair damaged relationships. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Of course you deserve to indulge yourself in something special. But for now, tuck that bit of mad money away. You’ll need it to help with a looming cash crunch. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A temporary setback in your financial situation is eased by changing some of your plans. You’ll be able to ride it out quite well until the tide turns back in your favor. BORN THIS WEEK: You have a gift for understanding people’s needs. You have a low tolerance for those who act without concern for others. sudden surge of stubbornness influence how you choose to deal with them. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You might need more facts before you can decide on a possible career change. But you should have no problem making a decision about an important personal matter. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You’re respected by most people for your direct, no-nonsense approach to the issues. But be careful you don’t replace honest skepticism with stinging sarcasm. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A newly emerging situation could require a good deal of attention and some difficult decision-making. However, close friends will help you see it through. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Family matters need attention. Check things
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FAMOUS BETS — (continued): the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chief Justice, the Governor of the Bank of England, and the Lord Mayor of London. Each one was responding to Mrs. Tottingham’s express orders. Berners Street was congested beyond help and even the police were unable to restore order. Hook won his bet. WAGERS, BETS, & GAMBLERS • Nicholas Wood of Kent, England, made his fortune by being able to eat incredible amounts of food. Once he reportedly ate an entire sheep and 84 rabbits for one meal. A man named John Dale bet that he could buy two shillings worth of food that Wood would be unable to eat at one sitting. Wood accepted. Dale bought 6 pots of strong ale and 12 loaves of bread. He soaked the bread in the ale, and Wood began to eat. Soon he became drunk and fell asleep before finishing. Dale won. • According to legend, Ernest Hemingway was at a pub with friends when someone bet him $10 that he would be unable to write a story in six words or less. He wrote six words on a napkin, passed the napkin around the table, and collected his $10. The six words were: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” • In 1960, Bennet Cerf, co-founder of Random House, bet Theodore Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) that he couldn’t write a decent children’s book using only a vocabulary of fifty words or fewer. Geisel chose fifty words and wrote “Green Eggs and Ham.” Likewise, the editor of HoughtonMifflin’s educational division challenged Geisel to write a book that first graders couldn’t put down, using a vocabulary of only 350 different words that first graders commonly know. The result, using only
236 words, was “The Cat in the Hat.” • In the late 1800s, Governor Leland Stanford of California made a $25,000 bet that nobody could prove that all four of a horse’s feet leave the ground at the same time while running. A photographer named Eadweard Muybridge placed multiple cameras with trip wires on a horse track so that when the horse passed the wire the camera would take a photograph. He not only proved that all four feet leave the ground, but also laid the groundwork for the motion picture industry. Amazing Plants MANCHINEEL TREE • According to Guinness World Records, the deadliest tree on Earth is the manchineel tree. The manchineel is native to tropical beaches throughout Florida, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, where it grows to a height of about 50 feet (25 m). A member of the spurge family, every part of the tree is toxic. • The least toxic part of the plant is the fruit. The fruit looks like apples, smells like apples, and tastes like apples, yet Spanish conquistadors dubbed it “manzanita de la muerte” or “little apple of death.” The scientific name, “Hippomane mancinella” comes from the Greek words for “horse” and “madness.” • Within minutes of taking a bite, the tongue and throat start to sizzle with a peppery taste before swelling and bleeding. Abdominal pain, vomiting, and digestive tract damage follow. Fortunately, death is rare because people rarely get beyond the first bite of the fruit before regretting their decision. • The sap is even more poisonous than the fruit. Milky white, it contains a cocktail of acidic poisons that will burn skin and
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even peel paint from cars. Should any sap come into contact with the eyes, blindness will result. Leaning against the tree trunk is dangerous, cutting the tree down is dangerous, and even sitting underneath the tree to take shelter from a storm is dangerous, as rainwater dissolves the toxins and carries them downward. • S o toxic is the sap that the native Carib tribes used it to poison the tips of their arrows. Explorer Ponce de Leon was hit by such an arrow in the year 1521 on the southeastern coast of Florida. Although he escaped the attack, he died soon afterwards from the poison in his bloodstream. William Ellis, ship surgeon for explorer James Cook on his third and final voyage in 1780, wrote: “A party of men were sent to cut wood, as the island apparently afforded plenty of that article; amongst other trees they unluckily cut down several of the manchineel, the juice of which getting into their eyes, rendered them blind for several days.” The leaves are also poisonous and local tribes would drop leaves into the water supply of their enemies to taint it. If you decide to eradicate a manchineel tree by burning it, the smoke will cause blindness and asphyxiation. If you cut the tree down, the wood and sawdust is toxic. However, carpenters are able to use the lumber if the wood is left to cure in the sun long enough for the poison to evaporate. Even merely standing near the tree or sitting underneath it for too long will cause irritation to the lungs by inhaling vapors given off by the sap. Not surprisingly, humans have worked hard to eradicate the tree, and it is now an endangered species. Beach resorts often post warning signs on the trees, or spray paint the trunks with red paint to warn people away. Despite its drawbacks, however, the tree serves some useful purposes. It anchors fragile coastlines, preventing erosion during storms and providing a windbreak. Natives used extracts from the tree as medicine to treat edema, as a laxative, and for use as a diuretic. It’s possible that Continued on Page 11
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FAMOUS BETS — (continued): scientists could find a use for its biotoxins in medicine. • Although the tree is toxic to humans and most other animals as well, there is a species of iguana that is impervious to the poison, and able to eat the fruit and live in the tree without suffering ill effects. RADITHOR • The discovery of radium in 1898 sparked a radioactive health craze. Here was an interesting glow-in-the-dark phenomenon, popularized by a pretty woman named Madame Curie and her husband Pierre, who confirmed that the substance could destroy cancer cells. The public was dazzled. • What transpired on the unregulated markets of capitalism was a worldwide industry of radium quackery: radiumlaced cosmetics claimed to smooth your skin. Radium-infused blankets reportedly eased arthritis. Radioactive pendants helped with rheumatism and radiumlaced pills aided digestion. • In New Jersey, William Bailey called himself a doctor though he never studied medicine. He started producing radiuminfused water in 1918, which he bottled and sold as a miracle cure-all. Called Radithor, it was prescribed by doctors to cure everything from gout to baldness. It sold for $1 per bottle ($15 in today’s currency), and Bailey offered medical doctors a 17% kickback on every prescription they wrote out for Radithor. • One of the more noteworthy recipients of a prescription was Eben Byers of Pittsburgh, PA, a wealthy and well-known industrialist and socialite. Eben had trouble with a broken arm in 1927. His prescription for Radithor was supposed to heal the fracture by s t i mu l at i n g his endocrine s y s t e m . Instructions were to swallow an entire bottle
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once a day. Eben decided that if some was good, more was better. He started taking several every day. Every bottle of Radithor contained one microgram of radium and one microgram of thorium. When radiation is swallowed, it lodges in the bone marrow where it remains. The halflife of radium is 1,600 years. It sits in the bones and bombards the local tissues with alpha particles, which cause cancer. • Eben swore it healed his arm and reduced his pain. He had Radithor shipped by the caseload to his house. He convinced his friends it was a miracle cure. But by 1930, Eben, now age 50, started getting sick. By this time he had ingested around 1,400 bottles of Radithor over the course of three years. He got headaches and lost weight. His teeth fell out. Abscesses formed in his brain, along with holes in his skull. When he went for a professional opinion, he was diagnosed with radiation poisoning. He stopped drinking Radithor. By now his bones were crumbling and his jaw had to be amputated. He died in 1932 at the age of 52. The article in the “Wall Street Journal” noted, “The radium water worked fine until his jaw came off.” When publicity spread about Eben’s death by radium water, William Bailey closed the factory. By the time a cease-anddesist order was delivered, he was long gone. Bailey was never charged with any wrongdoing, and soon opened a new shop in New York manufacturing radioactive belt buckles, radioactive paperweights, and other products. Eventually, the federal government closed that company down. Eben Byers is buried in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a lead-lined coffin. His remains are highly radioactive. Radithor did not cause a widespread epidemic of radiation poisoning because it was costly. At $15 per dose, it was out of the reach of most Americans. Eben was wealthy and could afford as many doses as he wanted to take. • This episode led to the strengthening of the Food and Drug Administration’s power to regulate patent medicines. By 1932, radioactive products had been removed from the market.
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• On Sept. 30, 1868, the first volume of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved children’s book “Little Women” is published. Alcott’s subsequent children’s fiction included “Little Men” (1871) and “Jo’s Boys” (1886). • On Oct. 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build 15 million Model Ts. The cars were powered by a 22-horsepower, fourcylinder engine and could go as fast as 40 mph. • On Sept. 29, 1913, Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the engine that bears his name, disappears while traveling by steamship from Belgium to England. On Oct. 10, his body was found floating in the water. His death was judged a suicide, but many people believed Diesel was murdered. • On Sept. 26, 1928, work begins at Chicago’s new Galvin Manufacturing plant. Galvin would introduce the Motorola radio, the first mass-produced commercial car radio. The name had two parts: “motor” evoked cars and motion, while “ola” derived from “Victrola” and was supposed to make people think of music. • On Sept. 2, 1957, under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Of the 517 black students in the district, 80 expressed interest and were interviewed by the school. Of the 17 chosen, nine decided to attend. • On Sept. 27, 1967, a French TV network begins to broadcast the first (and only) season of the American sitcom “My Mother, The Car.” The show’s premise was a man visits a used-car lot and finds a 1928 Porter convertible that is, somehow, the reincarnation of his dead mother. • On Sept. 28, 1972, weekly casualty figures for the Vietnam War contain no U.S. fatalities for the first time since March 1965. Losses remained high among South Vietnamese forces, which had taken over the fighting. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.