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by Kathy Wolfe October 5 is World Teachers Day, and Tidbits is taking the opportunity to investigate well-known folks who were teachers before they became famous.

Take a look – you might be surprised at who were former educators.

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• Prior to his role as the fictional Sheriff Andy Taylor in Mayberry, Andy Griffith taught English at the high school in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He was also responsible for creating the school’s awardwinning marching band during his tenure from 1949 to 1953.

• Art Garfunkel is more than just a stellar singer/ songwriter. He’s also a math whiz who earned an M.A. in the subject from Columbia University, and was working toward his doctorate during the peak of Simon & Garfunkel’s fame. Shortly after the immense success of “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” the duo parted ways, and Art branched out into acting, with roles in 1970’s Catch-22 and 1971’s Carnal Knowledge. He also took a position as a math teacher at a private prep school in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1971. It was a little difficult being a pop star math teacher. In Garfunkel’s words, “I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions and they would say, ‘What were the Beatles like?’”

• Before he was Mr. T, He was Mr. Tureaud, working as a physical education teacher in the Chicago public schools system. Lawrence Tureaud had his break-out movie role in 1982’s Rocky III after being discovered by Sylvester Stallone, and went on to his role as Sgt. Baracus in the NBC series “The A-Team.” Speaking of Stallone, he also worked as a gym teacher while attending the American College in Switzerland during the 1960s.

• Stephen King hasn’t always been a successful author. After his graduation from the University of Maine, he went to work in an industrial laundry while he job-searched. He secured a position teaching English at the high school in Hampden, Maine, and worked on a novel during his off-hours. After two years, Carrie was accepted for publication and in 1973, King quit teaching to write full-time.

• Author Dan Brown originally wanted a career as a singer-songwriter. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue his calling and landed a position teaching Spanish at Beverly Hills Prep School in 1991.

Brown returned to his home town of Exeter, New Hampshire, the following year, where he taught English and Spanish at Phillips Exeter Academy until 1996 when he resigned to devote his full attention to authoring his best sellers The da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, among others.

• History has always been an important part of Bill O’Reilly’s life. The FOX News political program host is the author of several historical best sellers including Killing Lincoln, Killing Patton, Killing (Continued next page)

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1. Is the book of 3 Timothy in the Old or New Testament or neither?

2. Who said, “Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars but the ark of the covenant ... remaineth under curtains”? David, Nathan, Saul, Solomon 3. From Numbers 12, why was Miriam shut out of camp for seven days? Ungodly act, Leprous, Fasting, Lent 4. Who took David in as his own after the slaying of Goliath? Jonathan, Solomon, Saul, Eliakim 5. About how tall was Goliath in approximate cubits? 3, 4, 5, 6 6. Upon which mountain did Aaron die?

Kor, Carmel, Pisgah, Sinai

Kennedy, and Hitler’s Last Days. Prior to his broadcasting career, O’Reilly was an English and History teacher at Monsignor Edward Pace High School in Opalocka, Florida from 1970 to 1972.

• Thirty-sixth President Lyndon B. Johnson was a school principal and teacher of 5th, 6th, and 7th-graders at the Mexican-American Welhausen School in Cotulla, Texas, in 1927 when he was just 19 years old. He went on to teach public speaking at high schools in Pearsall and Houston, Texas, before entering politics in 1937. As a Congressman in 1941, he was the first member of Congress to volunteer for active duty after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

He reported to the U.S. Navy on December 9, just two days after the bombing. Johnson was sworn in as U.S. President approximately 90 minutes after President John F. Kennedy was declared dead in a Dallas hospital. He took the oath of office in the conference room aboard Air Force One, as the plane sat at Dallas’ Love Field, the first and only time a President has been sworn in on an airplane.

• The second U.S. President, John Adams, also did a stint as a schoolmaster in Worcester, Massachusetts.

He found the profession boring and stated that his students were a “large number of little runtlings, just capable of lisping A, B, C, and troubling the master.”

Yet he kept the job in order to pay the bills while attending law school.

• From 1974 to 1976, Gordon Sumner used his degree from Northern Counties Teachers Training College in Newcastle, England, to teach at a convent school in nearby Cramington for two years, the only male on the faculty. On his free evenings, he played in a group called the Phoenix Jazzmen, and frequently wore his favorite black-and-yellow-striped sweater while performing. The bandleader thought Gordon looked like a bee and gave him the nickname “Sting.” In 1977, Sumner moved to London and teamed up with two others to form the band The Police. Today, Sting’s net worth is estimated in the $300 million range.

• We know him best as the bass player of the band KISS, with his face painted white with black flames.

But prior to his musical fame, Gene Simmons was a teacher of sixth-graders in a Harlem, New York, grade school. Simmons was born Chaim Witz in Israel to a mother who had survived the Holocaust.

The two of them emigrated to New York City when Simmons was eight years old, without knowing a word of English. (This musician now speaks English, Hungarian, Hebrew, and German.) KISS, formed in 1973 in New York, has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, and has 45 gold albums to date. Despite his somewhat “demonic” look, Gene Simmons says he has never drunk alcohol, taken drugs, or even smoked a cigarette.

• Singer Kris Kristofferson might not have been the successful singer he is today had he not turned down the opportunity to teach Literature at West Point Academy. Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Master’s degree in English Literature at Oxford, graduating summa cum laude, and even appeared in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” for his accomplishments in collegiate rugby, football, and track and field. After graduation, he joined the Army and rose to the rank of Captain, completing Ranger training, and becoming a helicopter pilot. At the end of his tour in 1965, Kristofferson was offered a professorship at West Point. At the last minute, he turned down the offer, resigned his commission, and pursued a music career. His family, including his U.S. Air Force Major General father, disowned him and never reconciled with him.

1. Name the last pitcher to throw a completegame shutout in the World Series before San Francisco’s Madison Bumgarner did it in 2014.

2. Who was the first relief pitcher to win the N.L. Rookie of the Year Award?

3. When was the last time before 2014 that the University of Texas did not have a player taken in the NFL Draft?

4. In 2014, San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard became the third-youngest NBA Finals MVP (22). Who was younger?

5. When was the last time before 2015 that the Tampa Bay Lightning won an NHL playoff Game Seven at home?

6. In 2015, Ryan Lochte became the second swimmer to win the same event (200-meter individual medley) at four straight world competitions. Who was the first?

7. How many top-10 finishes did golfer Ben Crenshaw have in 44 years of playing at the Masters?

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by Samantha Weaver * It was 20th-century American journalist and cartoonist Robert Quillen who made the following sage observation: “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” * In a recent survey of parents with adult children, 45 percent of respondents said they would rather stay in a hotel than in the home of one of their kids. * In 2009, the government of Saudi Arabia established a special Anti-Witchcraft Unit to combat the practice of sorcery. By 2011, there were nine bureaus in cities across the country.

The following year, 215 people were arrested for sorcery. * Those who study such things say that all kangaroos are left-handed. * When you think of hibernation, you probably picture a bear holing up in a cave for the winter, right? You might be surprised to learn that creatures don’t just hibernate to get through the winter months; almost any adverse environmental condition can trigger such a response. For instance, on the island of Madagascar, the fattailed dwarf lemur hibernates for seven months during the dry season.

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* If you’re a fan of Major League Baseball, you’re going to pay three times as much to attend a game in Boston as in San Diego. * Wildlife biologists say that the milk from a mother hippopotamus is pink. * The size of a nickel represents the halfway point between the size of an atom and the size of the earth. If an atom were the size of a nickel, a nickel would be the size of the earth. *** Thought for the Day: “I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn’t threaten my faith. And if one’s faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people’s lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don’t you think?” -- Andrew Sullivan (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

Ozark Outdoors Lifestyles & Stories

Day Trip

by Jack Baker

Photos by Deborah J. Baker

One of the ways for families to enjoy their time together is the Day Trip. Part of the equation is to limit the wallet expense to one tank of gas or less. That is a simple definition of a Daytrip.

It’s more than luck that we in North Central Arkansas have an abundance of such trips available to us. Being located in an area of natural beauty is part of the definition of the Ozarks. One of those places is Dogwood Canyon Nature Park. It is near Lampe Missouri, just north of the Arkansas border. True to the name there are a lot of native animals including elk, deer, and many huge trout. Numerous flowing streams and rock formations provide venues for travelers seated in “trams” trailers pulled by 4 wheel drive trucks. The beauty of the park was more than worth the tour fee of $39. There is a café with burgers on the wild side if you prefer elk or bison. If not, you can get the tamer chicken salad.

More information is available at www.dogwoodcanyon.org. You can also call them at 417-7795983. The park is under construction but detours around it did not disturb our enjoyment of the park. We took my service dog to the park without incident. Unless your dog is trained and used to encountering 1500 lb bison up close, you might want to forgo taking Fido along.

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* On Oct. 5, 1892, the Dalton gang attempts to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, Kansas, but meets resistance from townspeople, who kill four of the five bandits. The gang had turned to crime when they became bored with their other career possibilities on the Western frontier.

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* On Oct. 11, 1925, novelist Elmore Leonard is born in New Orleans. He decided to write either Westerns or detective novels, whichever would generate the most income. By the time of his death in 2013, he’d penned 45 books. * On Oct. 9, 1934, the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. The Cards nickname, the “Gashouse Gang,” had to do with the team’s close resemblance to the rowdy, dirtstreaked thugs who hung around the Gashouse District on Manhattan’s East Side. * On Oct. 10, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower offers his apologies to the Ghanian finance minister, who had been refused service at a restaurant in Delaware. It was one of the first of many such incidents in which African diplomats experienced racial segregation in the United States. * On Oct. 6, 1961, President John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. * On Oct. 8, 1970, Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for literature.

Arrested in 1945 for criticizing the Stalin regime, he served time in Russian prisons, forced labor camps and internal exile. His works had to be secreted out of Russia in order to be published. * On Oct. 7, 1983, Sean Connery stars in “Never Say Never Again” as the British secret service agent James Bond, a role he last played in 1971.

The film’s title referenced the fact that Connery had previously said he would never play Agent 007 again. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

PAW’S CORNER

By Sam Mazzotta

Home Alone

--DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Whenever I’m away for several hours -- at work, mostly -- my dog tears up the house. “General” will knock over lamps, chew sofa cushions, destroy my shoes ... you name it.

My boyfriend says he’s got behavioral issues, and I need to be more dominant. How do I do that? -Sara T., Philadelphia DEAR SARA: Dominance, or showing a dog who’s boss, isn’t the issue here. (In fact, many dog behaviorists turning against the idea of using dominance or making yourself the “alpha dog” for any reason.) General is suffering severe separation anxiety. You do need to address it for his emotional and mental well-being.

First, talk about his behavior with the veterinarian, who likely will recommend medication to calm him when you leave the house.

The better goal, however, is to help General get past his anxiety. You may be able to help him see that you’re not going away forever, and that each time you leave the house you will come back. A common way to do this is to dress as if you’re going to work, say goodbye to General, and leave -- but only for about five minutes. Then come back inside and greet him. Repeat this frequently, slowly lengthening the time you’re away until you can be out for an hour or more.

You also can leave little treats or toys around the house for General to play with.

Walking your dog before you leave can relieve some of his restless energy. If you’re only taking General out to relieve himself before you head off to work, try going out much earlier and walking further or playing with General.

If medication and/or desensitization training don’t work, consult a trainer who specializes in separation anxiety.

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JOHN SPILSBURY For literally hundreds of years, people of all ages have enjoyed putting jigsaw puzzles together. Here’s the history of this favorite pastime.

• Born in England in 1739, at age 14, John Spilsbury became an apprentice to Thomas Jeffreys, an engraver, map seller, and the Royal Geographer to the King. At 21, Spilsbury branched out on his own as an engraver, mapmaker, and printer of children’s educational books, maps, charts, and stationery.

• In 1766, when he was 26, Spilsbury devised the idea of mounting maps on a sheet of hardwood. Using a fine-bladed marquetry saw, he cut around the borders of the countries, with the goal of teaching Geography to British students. He called his invention “Dissected Maps,” and became the first commercial manufacturer of jigsaws. Over the next two years, he marketed several different styles, including the world, Africa, America, Asia, Europe, England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. Unfortunately, Spilsbury did not live to see the great success of his invention, passing away at age 30.

• For the next 50 years, the puzzles were primarily an educational activity. They gradually transitioned into a leisure pastime, with illustrations mounted on plywood.

They were still known as “dissections,” but when the treadle saw was introduced around 1880, they began to be called “jigsaw puzzles.” Penciled tracings of where to cut the pieces were made on the back of the wood.

• In the late 1800s, cardboard puzzles made their debut, mostly for children’s puzzles. For many years, they were not the top seller, as retailers continued to stock mostly wooden puzzles, believing that customers liked them better than “cheap” cardboard varieties.

• The puzzles of the early 20th century did not interlock, and many an hour’s work was negated by a bump to the table. Adult puzzles of this era did not have the picture on the box and the subject matter was a mystery until all the pieces were in place.

• Early puzzles were quite expensive, as much as $5 for a 500-piece puzzle in 1908, because each piece was cut individually. Cardboard puzzle quality improved and prices dropped with the invention of a device that would die cut them in a press. Strips of metal with sharp edges were fastened to a plate, much like a cookie cutter, enabling the mass production of puzzles.

• During the 1930s, puzzles were a method of advertising, with stores offering free puzzles with the purchase of a toothbrush or other sundry item. The illustration featured an image of the product, a clever way for manufacturers to keep a vision of their item in the consumers’ minds. Puzzles were especially popular during the Great Depression as an inexpensive form of entertainment. Sales of adult puzzles were an astounding 10 million per week. Puzzles were also something that could be made by hand at home by those who could not afford the store-bought kinds.

• Today, people enjoy jigsaw puzzles more than any other table game.

• The record for the most pieces assembled together in a single jigsaw is 209,250, an event that took place at Taiwan’s Grand Formosa Regent Hotel.

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1. Who released “Broken Hearted Melody”?

2. Of the many artists who’ve recorded “If I Had a Hammer” over the years, who was the first?

3. Name the 1962 Bobby Vee hit that was covered by The Carpenters (1972) and Mud (1982).

4. Who recorded “Takin’ Care of Business,” and when?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Just say a word and the boys will be right there, With claws at your back to send a chill through the night air, Is it so frightening to have me at your shoulder?”

Answers 1. Sarah Vaughan, in 1959. Vaughan didn’t like the song, but it netted her the first gold record of her career.

2. The Weavers, in 1950, on a 78-rpm single.

It was written by group member Pete Seeger.

3. “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.”

4. BachmanÐTurner Overdrive in 1973, written by Randy Bachman.

5. “Bungle in the Jungle,” by Jethro Tull in 1974. Songwriter Ian Anderson explained that the song was a study of the human condition, using animals (monkeys, snakes, tigers, crocodiles) as analogies, all wrapped up in a catchy tune. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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24-Hour Refrigerator Vegetable Pickles On a recent afternoon when my son texted me to check in, I nimbly replied with sticky fingers, “I’m preoccupied with taking pics of pints of pickled ....” While laughing at the preponderance of P’s, I accidentally pressed “send.” He immediately wrote back, “Pickled PEPPERS? ... ha!” Hmm, OK, so I may have left the peppers out of this recipe, but keeping with the “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled ...” verse that took us back to his childhood, I simply replied, “perhaps.”

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Preparing pickled veggies this time of year is the perfect antidote for using and enjoying the abundance of fresh, tender and tasty produce in our gardens and markets. You and your kids can create jars full to stack in the refrigerator in less than an hour for a month of tasty sides. Discover, like my family, that the vegetables will be sweet like bread and butter pickles, but will pack more flavor than the traditional grocery-store fare.

Here’s how to “pickle it” all: 24-HOUR PICKLES For the brine: 5 cups distilled white vinegar 5 cups sugar 2 tablespoons kosher salt 1/4 cup mustard seed 1 tablespoon celery seed 1 tablespoon black peppercorns 6 bay leaves Fresh dill (optional) For the vegetables: 3 cucumbers, sliced in discs or quartered lengthwise 6 medium carrots, peeled and quartered lengthwise 2 big handfuls of green beans 1 medium cauliflower, broken into pieces 2 onions, halved and sliced 1. In a saucepan, combine the first six brine ingredients and bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is completely dissolved.

2. Place the vegetables in a large bowl.

3. An adult should pour the hot brine mixture over the vegetables. Cool. Transfer equally to six clean jars, tucking a bay leaf and dill (if you choose) in each one. Screw lids on tightly and place in the refrigerator.

4. Refrigerate for 24 hours before serving. Makes 6 pints.

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• The life of Joanne Kathleen Rowling has been a true “rags-to-riches” story. Born in 1965 to a RollsRoyce aircraft engineer father and science technician mother, Rowling went from receiving welfare benefits as a single mother to being a multi-millionaire in just five years.

• Shortly after the death of her mother from multiple sclerosis in 1990 when Joanne was 25, she answered a newspaper ad for an English teacher in Portugal.

It was while working at a language institute in that country that she began penning the stories that would become the series about a young wizard. She claims she was on a four-hour-delayed train trip when the idea “came fully formed” into her mind.

• Her teaching duties were in the evenings, freeing up her day to write, which she did while listening to the music of Tchaikovsky. She married and had a child in Portugal, but after three years, she was back in England as “poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless.”

• Two years later, Rowling finished typing the manuscript on her old manual typewriter and went looking for a publisher. Twelve publishing houses rejected the story of Harry Potter. Finally, in 1997, a London publisher, whose chairman’s 8-year-old daughter had read and loved the first chapter, agreed to a run of 1,000 copies under the title Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Rowling’s editor advised her to get a day job, because he couldn’t see her as a children’s book author. As her book began winning award after award, it was plain to see Rowling had a bright future.

• The second and third books in the series followed in 1998 and 1999. When the fourth book, Goblet of Fire was released in 2000, its first-day sales were nearly as much as the first year’s sales of the second book, Prisoner of Azkaban. During its first 48 hours in the U.S., three million copies of Goblet were sold, breaking all records.

• The sixth book in the series, The Half-Blood Prince, went on sale in 2005, with U.S. sales of nine million copies in the first 24 hours. The seventh and final book, The Deathly Hallows, was released in 2007, breaking all previous records with 11 million books the first day. The books have now been translated into 65 languages.

• Rowling sold the film rights to Warner Brothers and the first of eight films premiered in 2001. It took 10 years to complete the filming of the series. The first movie was to be directed by Steven Spielberg, but he declined the offer. It was his thought that the series should be animated films, with American actor Haley Joel Osment voicing Harry Potter. Rowling had specifically demanded that the principal cast be British.

• The eight-film series garnered 12 total Oscar nominations, but strangely enough, won no awards.

The series grossed over $7.7 billion worldwide, more than the first 22 James Bond films combined, and the six Star Wars movies.

• J.K. Rowling is ranked as the 12th richest woman in the United Kingdom, with an estimated worth of approximately $1 billion.

BIBLE TRIVIA ANSWERS:

1) Neither; 2) David; 3) Leprous; 4) Saul; 5) 6; 6) Kor

1. Josh Beckett, in 2003 for the Marlins.

2. Joe Black of the Dodgers in 1952.

3. It was 1937.

4. Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1980 (age 20) and 1982 (22).

5. It was the 2004 Stanley Cup Final.

6. Australia’s Grant Hackett did it in the 1500-meter freestyle between 1998 and 2005.

7. Eleven, including winning the event twice (1984, 1995).

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--Q: At one time, I was very interested in astronomy and sundials. I acquired a book called “Mechanick Dialling; or the New Art of Shadows” by Charles Leadbetter and published in 1756. It covers the source of creating sundials in great detail, with illustrations, for any type of surface and any place in the world. In the 1700s, sundials were important for the average person, since clocks and watches were scarce and too expensive for anyone but the very wealthy.

My book is in excellent condition, and all of the fold-out illustrations are intact. Could you help me find out the value of my book? -- LeRoy, Decatur, Illinois A: Your book sounds fascinating. To determine its value, I contacted several rare-book dealers and discovered that the first edition published in 1737 sells for about $500. Even though your edition was published a little later, it is still rare and desirable to collectors and would sell for about the same amount. I found a copy of the 1756 edition offered for sale by a London dealer at www.abe. com priced at $515.26. *** Q: My dad was a big fan of Adlai Stevenson, who ran for president during the early 1950s. I have a number of campaign buttons and wonder if they are worth keeping. -- Stan, Durango, Colorado A: Adlai Stevenson buttons, pins and badges from the 1950s generally sell in the $5 to $50 range. Some of the rarer items sell for more. To get a good idea of current values, I suggest you get a copy of “Warman’s Political Collectibles: Identification and Price Guide” by Dr. Enoch L. Nappen and published by Krause Books. *** Q: I have a fork that belonged to my uncle who served in World War I in about 1914. It has the same markings on both sides of the handle.

Could you tell me its value? -- Helen, Princeton, Kentucky A: I was unable to find your fork in any of my military price guides, so nailing down a precise value is a little difficult. I suggest you show it to antique dealers in your area. Get several opinions.

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