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THE WORLD SERIES (continued): • The winning pitchers in all four games of the 1934 series were brothers. Dizzy Dean and Paul Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals each won two games in the classic against the Detroit Tigers. • In the 1960 World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates were pitted against the New York Yankees. The Yankees scored 55 runs to the Pirates’ 27, yet the Pirates won the Series. The Yankees were victors in three games 16-3, 10-0, and 12-0. The Pirates won four games 6-4, 3-2, 5-2, and 10-9. Game Four was won on a 9th-inning homer. • In 1996, the Atlanta Braves’ Andruw Jones became the youngest player ever to hit a home run in the World Series. The 19-year-old was also only the second player ever to hit two home runs in his first two at-bats in a World Series. Unfortunately, the Braves still lost that Series to the Yankees. • Even though Major League Baseball started holding night games in 1935, the World Series was a daytime event for decades. In 1949, one of the Series games had to be finished under lights for the first time, but the first actual scheduled night game was in 1971 in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium. From that point on, games were frequently scheduled at night, in order to capitalize on larger television audiences. There hasn’t been a daytime World Series game since 1987, when Game Six was played indoors at Minneapolis’ Metrodome. • The Yankees have played in more Series than any other team, 40 appearances with 27 wins. Their first win was in 1923, the year that the original Yankee Stadium opened. In second place, the St. Louis Cardinals are way behind with just 10 titles. The player with the most World Series titles is Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, who played from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. Yogi has also played the most Series games, a record 75. (Continued next page)

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By Sam Mazzotta DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Is it true that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is banning professional dog breeding? -- Concerned Owner in Iowa DEAR CONCERNED: Nope, it’s not true. However, the USDA has implemented some new rules that will bring Internet-based pet breeders and sellers under the regulation of the Animal Welfare Act. The rules narrow the definition of a retail pet store and expand the agency’s oversight of pet breeders. On the plus side, the new rules could make it harder for notorious “puppy mills” to exist, because breeders with four or more breeding females, and those who sell puppies “sight unseen,” now have to be licensed through the USDA. On the negative side, argues the American Kennel Club, the rules are nebulous in certain areas. For example, determining which females are truly “breeding females” can make things harder for small breeders and hobbyists. “The AKC remains extremely concerned that the rule will make it difficult for individuals to self-report, as they would not be able to know -- without an APHIS inspection ... before applying for a license -- whether they would be required to obtain a license.”

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October 17 - October 23, 2013 And new standards for facilities could make it much harder for hobbyists and small breeders to raise dogs in their homes. “It is not reasonable to expect small breeders, who keep a handful of dogs and make a choice to raise dogs in their homes, to be able to meet exacting USDA kennel engineering standards that are designed for large commercial wholesale or research kennels,” the AKC said. So, dog breeders still will be in business when the new rules take effect in November, but they may have more work cut out for them. Cat and rabbit breeders also are affected. Send your questions or comments to ask@pawscorner.com. Did you know mosquitos can transmit heartworm larvae to dogs, but fleas don’t? Find out more in my new book, “Fighting Fleas,” available now. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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On Oct. 31, 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther nails to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, a piece of paper containing 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. In one, Luther condemned the corruption of the Catholic Church for asking for payment for the forgiveness of sins. On Oct. 30, 1890, Oakland, Calif., enacts a law against opium, morphine and cocaine. The new regulations allowed only doctors to prescribe these drugs, which had been legal for cures or pain relief. On Oct. 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression. By 1932, stocks were worth only about 20 percent of their value in the summer of 1929. On Nov. 2, 1947, the Hughes Flying Boat -- the largest aircraft ever built -- is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. Built with laminated birch and spruce, the “Spruce Goose” had a wingspan longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than 700 men to battle. On Nov. 1, 1952, the United States detonates the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The Soviet Union quickly followed suit, and by the late 1970s, seven nations had constructed hydrogen bombs. On Oct. 28, 1965, construction is completed on the Gateway Arch, a 630-foot-high parabola of stainless steel in St. Louis. An internal tram system takes visitors to the top, where on a clear day they can see up to 30 miles across the Mississippi and to the Great Plains to the west. On Nov. 3, 1986, the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. Within weeks, Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that proceeds from the arms sales were diverted to fund Nicaraguan rebels. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

www.TidbitsOfRogueVally.com THE WORLD SERIES (continued): • Several teams have experienced a long old dry spell without a World Series win. The Boston Red Sox were winners in 1918 over the Chicago Cubs, but waited 86 years for their next title in 2004 over the St. Louis Cardinals. The 1917 Chicago White Sox triumphed over the New York Giants, but couldn’t do it again for another 88 years, when they were the 2005 champions. The Chicago Cubs are still waiting! They were the 1907 and 1908 champs, but haven’t managed to collect a World Series title since. (The Cubs did make it to the Series in 1945, but were defeated.) They had their early wins in Weeghman Park before moving into Wrigley Field in 1914. Fans are optimistic that the upcoming $500 million upgrade to Wrigley will produce the elusive title. • Some teams have never won the World Series – the San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, and Texas Rangers (although the Rangers did compete in both 2010 and 2011). There are two teams who haven’t yet managed to make it to the Series, the Washington Nationals (formerly the Montreal Expos) and the Seattle Mariners. • The only non-American team to take the Series has been Canada’s Toronto Blue Jays, who defeated the Atlanta Braves in 1992 and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1993. The Jays are also the only Canadian team to host a World Series game. • Game 3 of the 1989 Series was scheduled to start at 5:35 on October 17. The two Bay Area teams, the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s were warming up when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook the area. Due to the many cameras lined up for the game, the Loma Prieta earthquake became the first major U.S. earthquake ever to be broadcast by live television. (Continued next page)

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--Donate clothing and other basics: Call the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center nearest you and ask for Voluntary Services. Most locations keep a clothing closet for homeless veterans who come in and need help, or those who are moving out of rehab into a place of their own. Maybe the clothing closet is good to go on coats but has completely run out of lined jeans and gloves. Maybe they need shirts in a super large size, or even personal-care items and a sports bag to carry everything in. Ask if they need a transition package

of household supplies, like soap, towels, toilet paper and a laundry basket. --Sign up to give rides: Voluntary services can help you with that, too. Homeless veterans often have to get to doctor appointments the best way they can, and in cold weather that can be tough. Look into driving opportunities through the Disabled American Veterans. --Volunteer at a Stand Down: Go online to VA.gov and see when there’s an event near you. They run from January to November, and this time of the year the emphasis is going to be to get homeless veterans warm and into housing. Call and ask what you can do to help. If you’ve a veteran in need of help, call 1-877-424-3838, also known as 1-877-4AID-VET. It’s staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and can help with health care, housing, mental health, jobs and more. Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Tidbits of Rogue Valley THE WORLD SERIES (continued): • The World Series has been played every year since 1903, with two exceptions. In 1904, John T. Brush, president of the National League’s New York Giants, refused to allow his team to play against the Boston Americans because he considered the American League team too inferior. World War I, World War II, the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, and the Great Depression couldn’t keep the Series down. But the baseball strike of 1994 could. The 232-day strike from August, 1994 until April, 1995, led to the cancellation of nearly 950 games, including the entire 1994 post-season and World Series. Unfortunately for the Montreal Expos, it had been the best season of their history, and in fact, the best record in baseball, 74-40. They were never to get close to the Series again. • Scandal struck the World Series in 1919 when eight members of the Chicago White Sox were banned from professional baseball for conspiring to fix the series and profit from it by intentionally allowing the opposing team, the Cincinnati Reds, to win. In what became known as the Black Sox incident, the first baseman, who had longstanding ties to underworld kingpins, agreed to accept $100,000 to throw the Series, and set about convincing seven of his team members, including “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. Speculation was that players were unhappy with the stinginess of team owner Charles Comiskey who had supposedly treated the members unfairly and grossly underpaid them.

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by Samantha Weaver It was American writer Gore Vidal who made the following sage observation: “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.” If you’re like most people, you’ve probably never encountered a tziganologist. That is, unless you consort with those who study Hungarian gypsies. When someone mentions the rock band ZZ Top, you probably think of a group of musicians with beards. They don’t all have beards, though; the drummer is clean-shaven as a matter of safety (imagine being in the middle of a drum solo and getting a stick caught in a long beard -- ouch!). Interestingly, the unbearded drummer’s name is Frank Beard. Squirrels are wonderful foresters. Every year, thousands of trees grow from caches of nuts and acorns that squirrels forgot about. If you see a group of pugs together, know that they’re collectively called a grumble. One anagram of “William Shakespeare” is “I am a weakish speller.” Incidentally, a person who comes up with anagrams is known as an “anagrammatist.” If you’re planning a trip to Japan, you might want to add the island of Okunoshima to your itinerary. It’s often called Usagi Jima, or “Rabbit Island,” by locals because the bunnies there are tame and approach humans without fear. Those who study such things have discovered that if you put a sea sponge in a blender and leave the resulting mess overnight, the remaining cells will find each other and start forming a new sponge. *** Thought for the Day: “An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”

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SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A hectic job schedule begins to ease just in time to blow off all that work-generated steam on Halloween. A family situation runs into an unexpected complication. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A cutting remark in the workplace needs to be handled with finesse. Remember: How you respond could determine the depth of support you gain from colleagues. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Once again, that Capricornean stubborn streak sets in and could keep you from getting much-needed advice. Fortunately, it lifts by week’s end, in time to make an informed decision. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A surprise trip early in the week could lead to other unexpected offers when you return. Word to the wise: Avoid talking too much about this until you’ve made some decisions. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Learning dominates the week for perspicacious Pisceans, who are always looking to widen their range of knowledge. A series of important job-linked commitments begins late in the week. BORN THIS WEEK: Your sense of humor generates good feelings and good will everywhere you go. (c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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FAMOUS WOMEN OF THE WORLD: ELLA FITZGERALD

It didn’t look like Ella Jane Fitzgerald’s life was going to amount to much, but a lucky break led to her career as “The First Lady of Song.” Follow along this popular jazz singer’s journey to fame.

• Ella’s parents separated shortly after her birth, and she and her mother moved to Yonkers, New York. When Ella was six, she was joined by a new sister, Frances. Her stepfather was a ditchdigger and parttime chauffeur, while her mother worked at a laundromat. As a child, Ella worked as a runner for local gamblers, picking up bets and distributing winnings. • When Ella was 15, her mother died from injuries received in a car accident, and Ella went to live with her aunt. Shortly afterward, her stepfather died from a heart attack, and Frances joined Ella and their aunt. • Life was not happy for Ella, and her schoolwork suffered significantly. She was frequently truant, and before long was in trouble with the law and was sent to reform school, where she was beaten by the person-

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nel there. Ella managed to escape, but was without Her Famous Band,” as she took on the bandleader money and alone in the midst of the Great Depresduties for the next three years. She then began touring sion. and recording with other big bands, including those • Each week, Harlem’s Apollo Theater hosted an amaof Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. She married teur talent night, and in 1934, when Ella was 17, her the bass player of Gillespie’s group, Ray Brown, and name was selected in the drawing to compete. She the couple adopted a son. was planning a dance number, but when the preced- • Ella mastered the technique of “scat” singing, that ing act featured some rather exceptional dancers, Ella vocal improvisation of nonsense syllables that mimmade a last-minute decision to sing, one that would ics another instrument in the band. In other words, change her life. She crooned one of her mother’s faher voice performed the equivalent of an instrumental vorites, and at the end, the audience demanded an solo, with scales, arpeggios, and riffs. encore. • During the 1950s and 1960s, Ella was a regular on • Several more talent show wins followed, and early television variety shows, “The Bing Crosby Show,” in 1935, the prize was a week-long gig at the Harlem “The Dinah Shore Show,” “The Andy Williams Opera House. A popular bandleader, Chick Webb, Show,” and “The Ed Sullivan Show,” among several heard Ella and invited her to travel with the band for others. $12.50 a week. • Over the course of her career, Ella Fitzgerald recorded • Ella recorded her first song at 19, and had a number over 200 albums, which produced sales of 40 million one song and million-copy seller at 21. Her version of albums, won 13 Grammy Awards, and performed at the nursery rhyme, “A Tisket, A-Tasket” in a swing/ Carnegie Hall 26 times. Circulation problems related bebop style stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. to diabetes resulted in Ella having both of her legs • When Ella was 22, her mentor Chick Webb passed amputated below the knees when she was 76. Never away, and the band was renamed “Ella Fitzgerald and fully recovering, she passed away at age 79 in 1996.

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By Samantha Mazzotta Someone Kicked Hole in Bathroom Door Q: My youngest brother stayed at my house for the weekend and at some point, somebody kicked a hole through the bathroom door. All the way through! Is there any way to repair it? -- Stacy in Hampton Beach, N.H. A: On a temporary basis, just for privacy and safety, you can patch the damaged door by attaching a piece of plywood to either side using wood screws. The plywood should overlap the hole by at least an inch on all sides. However, you’ll need to replace the door completely, once you have the time and the finances. That your brother’s friends managed to knock a hole through it

means the door was probably hollow, which is common for interior doors. It will be less expensive to replace than a solid wood door. Also on the plus side, you can replace it with the door of your choice. Another option is to replace the entire frame, allowing you to purchase a prehung door. Replacing the door properly will take a little bit of skill. If you’ve done some basic carpentry before (using power tools, etc.) you can handle a door replacement. Otherwise, you may want to hire a contractor to do the entire door replacement. Ask for a written quote before agreeing to any work. Before heading to the home-improvement store for a replacement, measure the height and width of the door and take those measurements with you. You’ll need the new door plus -- if you want to completely replace the hardware -- new hinges and a lockset (which includes the doorknob and latch). You also can use the old hardware to save money. If you plan to replace the door yourself, plan ahead. Online videos can give a great visual overview of the task. HOME TIP: If your door scrapes the floor slightly on opening and closing, place a piece of sandpaper on floor where it rubs and open/close the door across the sandpaper a few times. Send your questions or home tips to ask@thisisahammer.com. My new e-book, “101 Best Home Tips,” is available to download on Amazon Kindle! Pick it up it today for just 99 cents. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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October 17 - October 23, 2013 1. How many consecutive full major-league seasons did Stan Musial hit at least .300? 2. Earl Weaver is third on the list of most wins by a major-league manager who never was a major-league player (1,480 wins). Who are the top two? By Chris Richcreek 3. Which two teams, entering the 2013 NFL season, had recorded the most victories on “Monday Night Football”? 4. In the 2011-12 season, center Cody Zeller recorded the second-highest field-goal percentage (62.3 percent) in Indiana Hoosiers history. Who had the highest? 5. In the past 10 seasons (2003-04 through 2012-13), how many NHL teams won their first Stanley Cup? 6. Who was the last NASCAR driver before Jimmie Johnson in 2013 to win the two NASCAR Cup races in Daytona in the same year? 7. In 2013, Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin Del Potro played the longest semifinal singles match in Wimbledon history (four hours, 43 minutes). Who was in the previously longest match?

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1. Is the book of 3 Kings in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. From Revelation 12:9, what was the name of the old serpent? The Devil, Aster, Nehushtan,

Lucifer 3. Which book begins, “Now David was old and stricken in years”? Numbers, 1 Kings, Psalms, Joel 4. From Psalms 114:4, what did the mountains skip like? Rams, Lambs, Waves, Children 5. Written around 45 A.D. (C.E.), what’s the oldest book of the New Testament? Titus, Hebrews, James, Jude 6. Of these who was a son of David? Job, Isaiah, Solomon, Amos

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The word “Halloween” is a contraction of “All Hallows’ Eve.” Early Christian holy days included All Saints Day, also known as All Hallows or Hallowmas, celebrated on November 1. • Americans spend over $5 billion every year celebrating Halloween, while Canadians drop about $1.5 billion. It’s the second highest grossing commercial holiday, after Christmas. In the U.S. about 600 million lbs. of candy (272 million kg) will be purchased nearly $2 billion worth, about $45 per household. • Halloween’s origins are Celtic during pre-Christian times. An ancient harvest festival known as Samhain marked the end of summer. The Celts believed that the spirits of the dead returned to visit the land of the living to damage crops and play tricks on the living on October 31, the first night of Samhain. The Celts wore animal skins at their bonfire festivities, and often sacrificed crops or animals to the spirits. Some donned ghost costumes, hoping to confuse the spirits or avoid being recognized by evil ones. On All Saints’ Day, early Christians dressed as saints or angels. The holy days blended together to give us our tradition of dressing up. When a large number of Irish immigrated to North America in the late 1800s, they brought their Celtic rituals with them. • America’s early celebrations were more of an autumn harvest festival with corn-popping parties, taffy pulls, and hayrides. The custom of trick-or-treating evolved from Medieval England, when poor people would beg for sweet breads in exchange for praying for families’ souls, a practice called “souling.” In North America, this became trick-or-treating, although this custom didn’t become popular until the 1930s.

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October 17 - October 23, 2013 • Jack-o-lanterns were an Irish tradition, and were originally made from hollowed-out turnips. Their practice was to carve faces of the dead onto the vegetable and place a lighted candle inside to make it glow. • The first record of carving pumpkins is from 1837. The word “pumpkin” has its origins in the Greek language, pepon, which translated “large melon.” The French modified this to pompon, and the British changed it to pumpion. American colonists adjusted it to “pumpkin.” One of America’s oldest known crops, the pumpkin originated in Mexico. It’s one of the most popular crops in the U.S., with annual production of about 1.5 billion lbs. (680 million kg). Illinois grows about 95% of the nation’s crop. Antarctica is the only continent that does not grow them. • Small varieties of pumpkins weighing 2 to 5 lbs. (.9 to 2.3 kg) include the Sugar, Winter Luxury, and Spooktacular. Intermediate types will weigh 8 to 15 lbs. (3.6 to 6.8 kg) with names such as Autumn Gold, Harvest Moon, and Funny Face. Weighing 15 to 40 lbs. (6.8 to 18.1 kg) are the Ghost Rider, Hercules, Jumpin’ Jack, and Big Tom. All are ready for harvest in about 110 days. The record for the world’s largest pumpkin belongs to a Rhode Island man named Ron Wallace, who hauled his massive 2,009-lb. (911 kg) pumpkin to the Topsfield, Massachusetts fair in September of 2012. • Halloween isn’t a fun time for everyone. Some folks suffer from Samhanophobia, an intense fear of Halloween, which can create severe panic attacks. Other phobias include the fear of witches (wiccaphobia), the fear of ghosts (phasmophobia), and the fear of cemeteries (coimetrophobia).

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