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TIDBITS® EATS ESKIMO PIE

by Janet Spencer

On January 24, 1922, Christian Nelson was is-sued a patent for the world’s first Eskimo Pie. Come along with Tidbits as we consider the im-pact the Eskimo Pie has had on society!A NEW TREAT• Christian Nelson operated a candy store and ice cream shop in Iowa. One day a boy couldn’t decide whether to buy a candy bar or ice cream. That made Christian wonder why you couldn’t combine both. • Experimenting, he found that cocoa butter would glue chocolate covering to a disk of ice cream. He called it the ‘I-Scream Bar.’ • In 1922 he went to a man named Russell who managed the Graham Ice Cream Company, who paid half the cost of a patent for half the profits. Russell’s wife suggested the name Eskimo Pie for the product. Each Eskimo Pie was wrapped in tin foil. • When the product hit the market, it caused a frenzy, selling a million a day. The company be-came the biggest consumer of tin foil in the na-tion. To meet demand, they licensed dairies to make the product in exchange for a royalty, but some dairies failed to pay royalties while others infringed on the patent. (continued next page)

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ESKIMO PIE cont’d• In 1929 a judge ruled that it was not something that could be patented anyway. A demoralized Russell sold his part of the company and used the money to start his own candy company. Christian Nelson sold his part of the company to the tin foil firm that made the wrappers, but con-tinued to work for them. He died a wealthy man in 1992 at the age of 99. Meanwhile…RUSSELL’S CHOCOLATE• After Christian Nelson’s partner Russell sold his share of the Eskimo Pie company for $25,000, Russell moved with his wife Clara to Denver, Colorado. • In the basement of their home, they set up a candy-making shop, determined to produce the highest-quality chocolates they could. They hand-dipped their chocolates, resisting the move to automatic machine-dipping because hand-dipping resulted in a thicker layer of chocolate. • On their first day of business in December of 1923, they sold 120 lbs (54 kg) of chocolate, net-ting $90 profit. A year later, they had five stores throughout Denver and employed 30 people in the basement of their home. Their candy com-pany became particularly well-known for selling chocolates in heart-shaped boxes for Valentine’s Day. • When Russell died in 1954, Clara kept the company running. In 1960 she sold the business to her good friend Louis Ward, who supplied her with their heart-shaped boxes. He developed the business until it was the third largest American chocolate manufacturer, behind Hershey and Mars. Eventually over 60% of boxed chocolates came from this company, which still carries the name of the company founder. What’s it called? Answer at top of next page.

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Answer: Russell Stover.A NEW FOIL• Richard Samuel was the nephew of Richard Joshua. Uncle Richard Joshua was a tobacco baron, and nephew Richard Samuel worked for him. At the time, cigarettes were wrapped in foil made from a mixture of tin and lead. As the de-mand for cigarettes increased, so did demand for tin foil, and it was constantly in short supply. • In 1919 nephew Richard Samuel borrowed $100,000 from his uncle, then left his uncle’s tobacco firm in order to start up a tin foil com-pany. Other tin foil firms tried to run him out of business by lowering their prices, but then the price of aluminum dropped, and Richard Samuel discovered that making foil from aluminum was far less expensive – and far more sensible – than making it out of tin and lead. • Aluminum foil was lighter and thinner than tin foil so more of it could be rolled from a single pound of metal; it was non-corrosive; and it was shinier. He invented a way to print on it, so he could make custom wrappers for specific foods. Demand for his foil skyrocketed with the inven-tion of the Eskimo Pie because each one was wrapped in foil.• In 1924 Richard Samuel’s firm bought out the Eskimo Pie company, which was its single biggest customer. The company expanded to produce aluminum siding, aluminum cans, alu-minum bumpers, and more. Eventually the firm became the world’s third largest aluminum and packaging company. It’s best known for alumi-num foil, which carries the last name shared by Uncle Richard Joshua and nephew Richard Sam-uel. What was their last name?

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by Samantha Weaver

It was feminist and social activist Gloria Steinem who made the following sage observation: “Log-ic is in the eye of the logician.”

Some historians claim that Moses had a stutter.

If you’re like the average American, your vo-cabulary consists of roughly 45,000 words.

Despite the sound of the word, those who suf-fer from amusia do not have any impairment of their sense of humor; rather, they’re tone deaf -- medically unable to hear or accurately repro-duce relative pitch.

When the wildly successful 1965 film “The Sound of Music” was released in South Korea, one theater owner felt that the movie was too long. He took it upon himself to remedy the situ-ation -- by cutting out all the musical numbers.

If you’re planning a trip to the Canadian province of New Brunswick, you might want to include a stop to see the Reversing Falls of St. John. While the St. John River flows into the Bay of Fundy at low tide, high tide in the bay is so extreme that it causes the water to reverse itself and flow from the bay back into the river.

It’s been reported that famed chef Julia Child loved to eat corn chips with peanut butter.

You might be surprised to learn that out of the 362 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” that were produced over the course of a decade, Hitchcock himself directed only 20.

¥hose who study such things say that the fastest-growing sport among high-school students in Minnesota is trap shooting.

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tor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under

his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved

by the pig.” -- Alfred Hitchcock

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Answer: Reynolds, as in Reynolds Wrap, and R.J. Reynolds tobacco. ICE CREAM ON A STICK• Harry Burt owned a candy store and ice cream shop in Ohio. Christian Nelson had recently invented the Eskimo Pie, but Harry claimed to have invented the chocolate-covered ice cream bar before Nelson invented the Eskimo Pie.• Harry’s invention had one critical difference, however. After he’d given an experimental sample to his grown daughter to eat, he asked her opinion. She said she liked it, but it was too messy and left her fingers sticky. Because he manufactured lollipops, he inserted a stick to make it easier to eat. • He designed machinery to mass-produce the product, and named his company after his belief that anyone eating it would be in a good mood. Then he designed a unique way to sell his prod-uct. Instead of selling it to stores, he outfitted the world’s first ice cream trucks and hired drivers to drive slowly up and down suburban streets, ringing the bell on the truck and selling his ice cream bars directly to children. • In 1929 the company got a huge boost in Chi-cago when mobsters demanded $5,000 for “pro-tection” – or else. The company refused the ulti-matum, and doubled the insurance on the trucks. The next week eight trucks were blown up. The insurance payoff was handsome and the free na-tional publicity put the company on the map. • At its peak in the 1950s, the company had 2,000 ice cream trucks on the road. Now owned by Breyers, the trucks have been retired but the company still produces a wide variety of ice cream novelties. What was the ice cream com-pany called? (Answer below)-------------------------------------------------------Answer: Good Humor.

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Are Vitamins Really Neces-sary?

body), or from a restaurant or fast food that is hid-den under a hamburger patty or fried in a Vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates and yes, fats, are critical to a healthy body. Our body uses them to repair, build, and promote many biological func-tions that are vital to health. Without them, slowly over time, our bodies start to break down. The word “degeneration” means that you are breaking down faster than you are rebuilding. We also call this “disease”.Because shelf life is imperative to making a lot of money, the vitamin industry has focused its manu-facturing process to that end. Compromising qual-ity for shelf-life – for dollars in their pockets. Most “vitamins” today are really just a compilation of chemicals with fancy names and fancier advertising aimed at convincing the consumer they can’t live without them. While it is true that supplements are vital today if you desire a quality life free of ill-ness, chemicals disguised as vitamins (counterfeits, if you will), are more harmful than helpful.On Wednesday, February 11th at 7pm at Vital Health in CDA, I will be teaching a class on how to differentiate a good vitamin from a bad one. You will also learn what each vitamin does in the body to aid in your understanding of the essential nature of these nutrients. You will come out of this class loaded with knowledge on the subject. This will enable you to make wise decisions when choosing your vitamins. It’s sad when I see how many people are wasting precious money on junk vitamins and unwittingly contribute to the very illness they are trying to resolve. Fee: $10 OR bring a friend who has never attended one of our classes before and take 50% off for both of you. RSVP 208-765-1994.

Why do we take vitamins anyway? Aren’t there enough nutrients in the foods we eat? Well, unless your diet consists primarily of fresh vegetables and fresh fruits, good quality proteins and all are or-ganic, the answer is a Unfortunately, today we live in a world where the nutrients have been processed right out of the foods we eat. In fact, some foods are anti-nutrients – meaning they take more nutrients to process them in our bodies, than the value we re-ceive from them! That’s discouraging. But it’s been happening for a long time now. It started during the first third of the last century when we “refined” flour and sugar to make an in-hospitable environment for bugs and to reduce ran-cidity. The bugs knew there wasn’t enough nutrients left in those processed foods to keep them alive, so they avoided them. Too bad we’re not as smart as bugs!We started acclimating our taste buds to foods which were over-cooked, fried, boxed, canned, dehydrated, pulverized, homogenized, pasteurized - commercialized. I am amazed at the number of people who rarely eat real food anymore! When I counsel with patients, clearly half of them haven’t had a fresh plate of steamed vegetables in months. When they do, it’s either microwaved (rendering the nutrients in them biologically unavailable to the

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Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Naturopathy, Clinical Nutritionist and Master Herbologist with over 34 years of experience. Dr. Carling is currently accepting new patients and offers natural health care services and whole food nutritional supplements in her Coeur d’ Alene clinic. Visit Dr. Carling’s website at www.vital-healthandfitness.com to learn more about Dr. Carling, view a list of upcoming health classes and read other informative articles. Dr. Carling can be reached at 208-765-1994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.


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On Jan. 23, 1775, London merchants petition Parliament for relief from the financial hardship put upon them by the curtailment of trade with the North American colonies. Most critical to the merchants’ concerns were the 2 million pounds sterling in outstanding debts owed to them.

On Jan. 19, 1915, during World War I, Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German zeppelins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the eastern coast of England.

On Jan. 20, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the second time as president. The Constitution had originally set March 4 as the presidential inauguration date to allow the winner time to travel to the nation’s capital.

On Jan. 25, 1949, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences holds its first annual awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The now-famous award statuette “Emmy” was a feminized ver-sion of “immy,” the shorthand term for the im-age orthicon tube that was used in TV cameras until the 1960s.

On Jan. 24, 1956, Look magazine publishes the confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, two white men from Mississippi who were acquit-ted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of black teenager Emmett Till. In August 1955, on a visit to relatives, the 14-year-old Till had allegedly whistled at a white woman who ran a store.

On Jan. 21, 1977, President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thou-sands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War. Some 100,000 young Americans went abroad, with 90 percent going to Canada. The Canadian government had instructed border guards not to ask too many questions.

On Jan. 22, 1981, the final portrait of John Len-non and wife, Yoko, appears on the cover of Rolling Stone. The photo, taken 12 hours before Lennon was assassinated, shows a naked Lennon curled up in a fetal embrace with a fully clothed Yoko. Photographer Annie Liebowitz had been told by a Rolling Stone editor, “Please get me some pictures without [Yoko].”


Guinea Pig’s Sudden Death a MysteryDEAR PAW’S CORNER: Our guinea pig, “Trix-ie,” died suddenly yesterday. She was fine, then she took short and deep breaths, and wouldn’t eat or come out of her igloo. A couple hours later we found her passed away, lying on her side. We don’t understand what happened. Unfortunately it was Sunday, and we have no small-animal vet in our town. Just curious if you have any idea what may have happened. -- Diana, via email

DEAR DIANA: I’m sorry to hear about the death of your pet. Sadly, guinea pigs can fall victim to a number of different illnesses, and can do so shockingly fast. Sometimes, they show few to no outward symptoms. Respiratory illnesses, es-pecially pneumonia, strike guinea pigs hard. Ad-enovirus, an illness that doesn’t always directly cause death, can lead to pneumonia as the guinea pig’s immune system weakens.Guinea pigs also can suffer a stroke or heart at-tack at any age, often for no apparent reason.When a guinea pig (or hamster, or other pet ro-dent) begins to show signs of distress -- such as weight loss (more than 2 ounces is cause for an immediate vet visit), hiding away in her igloo or refusing to eat -- getting help quickly is impor-tant, and that means getting your pet to the vet within hours or even minutes to give it the best chance.In this case, a veterinarian wasn’t available right away. Wheek Care Guinea Pig Rescue lists a few first-aid items to keep on hand here: http://www.wheekcare.org/first-aid.html, as well as extensive tips on health signs to watch for. Daily monitoring of your pet is your best bet to combat the threat of sudden death.

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How Secure Is Your New Tab-let?Did you or anyone in your family get a tablet computer over the holidays? Was it an inexpen-sive one, perhaps purchased on Black Friday?If so, beware. You need to check your device for security vulnerabilities. A number of these tab-lets were sent out with problems that can cause you big headaches ... especially if you’ve given it to a child who intends to sign up at sites on-line.Bluebox (bluebox.com), whose business it is to secure mobile data, issued a report on 14 An-droid tablets being promoted over the big sales weekend. Eleven cost less than $50. Of the 14, only two were deemed “secure,” while the rest had varying levels and combinations of pre-in-stalled vulnerability, security misconfigurations and even a backdoor. One was so bad that the company’s scanning program had never come across an arrangement quite like that.To see the names and models of the tablets, go to the Bluebox site and look for “Santa or the Grinch: Android Tablet Analysis for the 2014 Holiday Season.” The bugs found were FakeID, Futex, Masterkey and Heartbleed.Among Bluebox’s suggested steps to secure your mobile device for iOS: get the latest software and check for updates; enable the security features, such as passcode, SIM card, restrictions and auto-lock; prompt to join Wi-Fi networks; and turn off Wi-Fi (and your hotspot) when you’re not using it. For the full list of suggestions, go to bluebox.com/ios-user-security-guide. For Android 4x or 5x, Bluebox has security steps for versions 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) up to 5 (Lollipop). While the iOS guide has 15 steps, there are 21 steps to securing an Android de-vice.Tablets aren’t the only devices at risk right now. Days after the Bluebox report on tablets, another security company, Palo Alto Networks (www.paloaltonetworks.com), found a serious prob-lem on 24 models of mobile phones, including a vulnerability that had been modified “to make it much more difficult for antivirus programs to detect the backdoor.”And that very same day, Akamai Technologies, Inc. (www.akamai.com) disclosed a new cyber-security threat that targets iOS and Android de-vices, and can include tricking users into down-loading malicious apps, which can lead to denial of service attacks and much, much more.Nervous yet? Take steps to safeguard your de-vices. Keep your software up to date, stay away from free Wi-Fi, turn off automatic steps, be careful what apps you download ... and keep an eye on children using these devices.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personal-ly answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].


by Matilda Charles

Yoga for Your HeartIt’s been known for a long time that yoga im-proves overall health, but a recent study points to evidence that yoga also helps heart health.Researchers at Harvard University did a re-view of the literature, meaning they went back through past studies to see if there were any patterns. They screened more than 1,400 stud-ies and winnowed them down to 32. These were examined further to answer the questions: Does yoga help heart health? Is it as good as walking for exercise?The answers: yes and maybe, although more tri-als need to be run. There were improvements in cholesterol, weight and blood pressure, all indi-cators for cardiovascular risk.One complication in the research is that there are different types of yoga, each with its own focus or purpose. The one thing any yoga can do is calm the nervous system and reduce stress, and that contributes to heart health.The American Heart Association likes yoga as a means of relaxation and flexibility, increasing muscle tone and circulation, and agrees it could help prevent or improve heart disease. (It cau-tions, however, that it shouldn’t be counted in the 150 minutes of weekly aerobic activity it recommends.)Yoga classes can be expensive. Your best bet is to check the local senior center, and if it doesn’t have any classes, encourage the center to start some: maybe one focusing on flexibility and strength, and another on stretching and relax-ation, and designed for seniors. Check with a cardiac rehab center for suggestions on yoga classes. Any yoga class you take should be de-signed for beginners.Ask your doctor before you start yoga, or any other program, to make sure it’s right for you, especially if you have cardiovascular risk fac-tors.

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her col-umn whenever possible. Send email to [email protected]. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Dr Ashley is board certified in Family Medicine and in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. She provides a mix of traditional with alternative medicine and specializes in bio-identical hor-mones for both men and women.

Q&A with Susan Ashley, MD


I often add Reishi mushrooms, elderberry, vita-min A (or eat carrots) and/or Echinacea. Please note that most companies that advertise Echina-cea do not utilize the correct part of the flower and will not be effective. Also make sure you’re on a balanced multi-vitamin and mineral supplement. Zinc is extremely important for the immune sys-tem and most of us are deficient in it. Without zinc, we’ll be more susceptible to a cold! If you do feel a cold or flu coming on - you know the dreaded tickle in your throat, or a few sneez-es, slight cough, etc - start immediate treatment. I mean immediate, in the first day, within the first 24-48 hours at a maximum! Immediately start Zinc Acetate - we use en-hanced zinc lozenges by Life Extension - and let dissolve on your tongue every 2 hours while awake, for the first day. This alone can some-times be enough to kill the virus and allow your body to wipe it out. If more is needed, consider adding the following:Congaplex - by Standard Process, a potent mix-ture of antioxidants, thymus, mushroom, Vt C, Vt A, and RNA. Take 3-6 caps three times a day while sick.Esterified Vt C with bioflavonoids, 1000mg up to 5/day - diarrhea is the limiting side effect. Unkaloabo - a South African herb that is very powerful at killing not only viruses but also bac-teria. Other useful herbs include, but are not limited to, cordyceps, garlic, astragalus, shiitake and mai-take mushrooms, oregano oil, and goldenseal.Also, the first 3 days of a cold or flu, take 50,000 of vt D a day, for 3 days only. In addition, there are foods you should eat more of when sick: garlic, onions, pomegranates, ki-wis, citrus and berries. Pomegranates are such a great food for so many reasons, eat 1/4 cup of them a day.We've also given IV Vt C at the onset of the flu, at high doses, to knock it out more quickly, espe-cially when someone had an important meeting to go to and cannot afford to be ill.Make sure you're getting plenty of sleep - sleep deprivation causes us to be more susceptible to viruses and everything else that comes around.If you need help in finding these and other high quality supplements for the immune system, stop by Healthy Living Liberty Lake. Here's to a Healthy 2015!!

Prevention and Treatment of Colds and FluLast week I reviewed the problems with the flu shot, and explained why I personally never get them. But a question I'm frequently asked, is how can I stay healthy, and what do I do if I get sick? Most of us can't afford to take time off just for a cold, and many of use are continually exposed to everything that comes around. This includes the medical profession, teachers and anyone who handles money, like a cashier.First of all, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so what do I do to stay healthy and keep from getting these wretched viruses in the first place?One of the most powerful immune stimulants is vitamin D. I can't say enough about vitamin D, it has a wealth of studies showing how protec-tive this is for us. In the great NW, far from the equator, we don't get the effects of the sun nearly as much, and the vast majority of us are walk-ing around with low levels. You want your D to be between 70-100. To achieve this, I generally recommend, for an adult, to take 10,000 units of D3 a day in the winter, and 5000 in the sum-mer. Summer is defined as when we have day-light savings time, and winter is when we lose it again. I take D 10K year round, as I have a genetic receptor defect and require higher doses (easy thing to check, by the way). Always take D with your fish oil (you are taking that, right?) or some other kind of fat to increase absorption. Just vt D alone will cut your colds in half!If this isn't enough, the next great supplement to take daily is made by Standard Process, called Immuplex. It is all natural and helps to support a healthy immune response and white blood cell activity. Take 2 a day thru the cold and flu sea-son.

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Financing Our Local Economy With SlowMoney Teri McKenzie

Slow Money author Carole Peppe- Hewitt Lun-cheon Coeur d’Alene, ID (January 4, 2015) – A rela-tively new organization is working to ‘In- Farm- You’ about local food systems. The Inland Northwest Food Network comprises a collective of individuals, organizations, businesses and others committed to growing a resilient environ-mentally responsible and cohesive regional food system. Their vision is to develop a healthy, sus-tainable, fair and accessible local food system. Join them on Thursday, January 29th at 11:30 for a luncheon with author, small business owner, and pioneer in the local food and community fi-nance movements, Carol Peppe Hewitt. Carol has taught and coached many small business owners, and learned first hand how hard it for small businesses to access much needed capital. She is now working to change that by empower-ing ordinary people to help fill this need.She co- founded Slow Money N.C, an organi-zation that works with lenders who make low- interest, micro- loans in their communities to local farmers and other small business “ag- preneurs.” To date, Peppe- Hewitt has catalyzed over 2 mil-lion dollars in local financing to over 125 entrepreneurs in N.C. through low- interest loans, resulting in a resilient and robust local food system.Carol’s book, “Financing Our Foodshed: Grow-ing Local Food With Slow Money,” is a collec-tion of compelling, real life stories about these Slow Money entrepreneurs- ‐ the people that grow, process, distribute, and sell, local food – and the folks in their community who become their lenders/supporters.Join the Inland Northwest Food Network for what’s sure to be an insightful and informativeluncheon.Thursday, January 29th11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. KROC CenterTickets are $15, and can be purchased at:• Pilgrims Market – Coeur d’Alene• The Art Spirit Gallery – Coeur d’Alene• Kizuri – SpokaneSpecial thank you to the following sponsors for helping to make this event possible:• Sustainable Agriculture Research Education• University of Idaho Extension• Rural Roots• Pilgrim’s Market• Moscow Food Co- OpFor more information, contact Teri McKenzie at (503) 307- 4505, or [email protected]


1. Folk singer and songwriter Jesse Colin Young started what group in the ‘60s? 2. Which Bob Dylan song had the working title of “Black Dalli Rue”?3. Who first released “Rivers of Babylon”?4. Who had a hit with “I Can’t Get Next to You”?5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “We all make mistakes, we all lose our way, but we stood the test of time and I hope that’s the way it will stay. It’s all up to you to tell me to go.”

Answers:1. Folk-rock band the Youngbloods. Their only Top 40 song was “Get Together.”2. “Positively 4th Street,” in 1965. The song was thought to be a snipe at the folk scene in Greenwich Village in New York.3. Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. But it was Boney M. who made it into a hit in 1978.4. The Temptations, 1969. Al Green covered the song in 1970, but slowed the tempo consider-ably.5. “Don’t Wanna Lose You,” by Gloria Este-fan, on her 1989 album “Cuts Both Ways.” The song also was released in Spanish (“Si Voy a Perderte”) and Portuguese (“Se tenho que te perder”).



1. GEOGRAPHY: What is the only Central American country that doesn’t have a coast-line on the Pacific?2. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin phrase “in media res” mean?3. MOVIES: What movie featured the line, “The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good”?4. AD SLOGANS: What American manufac-turing company once used the slogan “Qual-ity is job one” to sell its products?5. MUSIC: What does it mean to play notes in a “staccato” style?6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What was the Secret Service’s code name for Ronald Reagan?7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How many official languages does the United Nations have?8. MYTHOLOGY: Who were the Norns in Norse mythology?9. TELEVISION: What television sitcom featured parents who were named Al and Peggy?10. MEDICAL TERMS: What is the com-mon name for monochromatism?Answers1. Belize2. In the midst of things3. “Wall Street” (Michael Douglas)4. Ford Motor Co.5. Abruptly or in a disjointed manner6. Rawhide7. Six (English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, French and Russian)8. Female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men9. “Married With Children”10. Complete color blindness(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.


Noteworthy InventionsTHE ICE CREAM SCOOP• Alfred Cralle was born in Virginia in 1866, just after the Civil War ended. He was black, so his options were limited but he never let that stop him. • He learned carpentry from his father, attended local schools, and became interested in mechan-ics. Because he excelled at school, his father sent him to Washington, D.C. to attend Way-land Seminary. This was one of several schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to educate African-Americans after the Civil War. • Later he settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He got a job working as a porter in the Markell Brothers drug store and St. Charles Hotel. While working at the drug store, he noticed how popu-lar ice cream had become, and he also noticed how difficult it was to serve. It consistently stuck to the spoon or ladle that was being used to scoop it, and required either two hands or two people to get it into the dish. He was determined to solve the problem. • Being mechanically inclined, he set to work on the problem. The first prototype he showed to the Markell Brothers was a simple stick with a cone-shaped object mounted on the end. The Markell Brothers didn’t think it would work, until Cralle took a container of ice cream and demonstrated it for them, easily plopping a perfectly-shaped mound of ice cream into a dish. • On February 2, 1897, Cralle was granted a pat-ent for what he called an “ice cream mold and disher” now known as the ice cream scoop. It was designed to keep ice cream as well as other foods from sticking to the utensil, and it was easy to operate with one hand. (Continued next page)

by Freddy Groves

Operation Gratitude Expands Its ReachOperation Gratitude has branched out. Since 2003, it has sent more than 1.1 million care pack-ages to military personnel overseas in harm’s way. Now, in addition, OpGrat is sending care packages to recruits coming out of boot camp. You remember boot camp ... and what it was like to finally be finished. So far, the non-profit organization has sent nearly 17,000 packages to graduates of Navy and Marine Corps boot camps, and it will bring the Air Force and Army into the fold in 2015.Each box contains quality gifts and goodies, in-cluding snacks, hygiene products, drink mixes, books, CDs, DVDs and players, a “Loved One” medallion, survival bracelet, handmade scarves, hats ... and the much-appreciated cards and let-ters from children and adults all across the U.S. The goal to send packages to those coming out of boot camp is a worthy one, as it shows our appreciation to each of them and lets them know they’re not alone.I know the holidays have many of us spread a little thin, but I’m asking you to open your wal-lets and send some money to Operation Grati-tude, which gets no handouts from the govern-ment, not even the Post Office. It costs $15 to send each package. Volunteers recently got an emergency request for 4,000 packages for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island gradu-ating classes. Do the math: That’s a lot of money for postage alone, and the annual goal is to send out 100,000 packages.For more information or to make a donation on-line, go to www.operationgratitude.com, or call the InfoLine at 1-800-651-8031. Checks can go to Operation Gratitude, P.O. Box 260257, Enci-no, CA 91426-0257. For merchandise donations, carefully read the online wish list, as mailing ad-dresses are different.

Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].


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THE ICE CREAM SCOOP (cont’d)• Cralle’s design was strong, durable, effective, and inexpensive. It could be constructed in a va-riety of shapes depending on whether a cone or a mound was desired. It could be constructed out of a variety of materials. There were no delicate parts that could malfunction. This simple device allowed ice cream to be served faster, with less effort and more hygienically. • Cralle never received much in the way of fi-nancial success from his invention, nor did he receive any wide-spread acclaim. However, when the Afro-American Financial, Accumulat-ing, Merchandise and Business Association was organized in Pittsburgh, he was named Assistant Manager.• Cralle was 30 years old when he was granted his patent, married with two daughters and a son. His wife and one daughter died in 1918, possi-bly due to the flu epidemic. His son died of dis-ease in 1918, and Cralle himself was killed in an automobile accident in 1920. But his daughter Anna lived to the age of 98 and died in 2009. By then her father’s invention had become standard issue in households around the world. • Next time you bend your spoon in half for lack of an ice cream scoop, think of Alfred Cralle, and say a word of thanks.• When choosing an ice cream scoop, pick one with a good grip on the handle so it won’t slip if your hands are wet. Be sure it has sharp edges so it will cut easily into the ice cream. Get one with a big wide scoop to provide maximum ice cream retrieval. Dunk the scoop in hot water for a few minutes to facilitate scooping. Drag the scoop in an S-shape across the surface of the ice cream. If you are scooping multiple dishes, keep the hot water handy and dip the scoop in between.


www.tidbitscda.comTIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #4 Jan 19th 2015 Page 16FRANCHISE STORIES: QUIZ #1• Roy Allen had a habit of buying run-down res-taurants, rehabilitating them, and selling them at a profit. In 1919 he met a pharmacist who had a great recipe for a home-brewed root beer. Roy bought the recipe from him and opened a root beer stand in Lodi, California. • Sales were good, so he opened a second stand in Sacramento, and hired Frank Wright to help him manage it. Frank was a great employee, and in 1922 he and Roy became partners, naming the business for their initials. Roy bought a carnival wagon previously used to sell popcorn, and turned it into a drive-up root beer stand, which gave birth to the idea of a drive-up restaurant. • The idea was a hit. Roy Allen bought out Frank Wright in 1924, but retained the company’s name. He weathered the Great Depression by adding hot dogs and hamburgers. By the end of the Depres-sion, he had 200 franchises, and by the time he sold out due to failing health there were about 450. In the 1960s there were more than 2,000 stores operating nationwide. • Today the company is the largest vendor of root beer in the nation, selling a soft drink that has changed little since it was first invented. What’s the name of the company? (Answer at top of next page)FRANCHISE STORIES: QUIZ #2• John McCullough served ice cream from his store in Illinois in 1927. Making large amounts of ice cream involved mixing butterfat with sweet-eners and stabilizers, then whipping in air and fla-voring, then freezing it until it reached 23°F (-5C). At this temperature the ice cream was soft enough to flow through a spigot into tubs. The tubs were frozen to -10°F (-23C) which made them easy to ship and store. (cont’d next page)

By Samantha Mazzotta

Frozen Pipes Are No JokeQ: While we spend a couple of months in Flor-ida, our grandson Ronnie will be house-sitting, making sure the place is taken care of. I asked him to make sure that he leaves a couple of taps dripping anytime the temperature dips below freezing. He just chuckled and said, “Won’t that run up your water bill?” Now I’m worried he won’t do it. What should I do to make sure he knows how important it is that the pipes don’t freeze? -- Carl H., via e-mail

A: At the risk of sounding flip, I’d tell Ronnie that while you handle the hopefully moderate water bill, he can cover the exorbitant cost of re-placing burst pipes and repairing water damage. However, I have a feeling that he was just jok-ing a bit. So, go easy on him, but make sure he knows you want him to keep the taps dripping.Homes in the northern United States and Cana-da use higher-rated insulation than houses in the warmer southern states. That helps reduce fro-zen and burst pipes. But when a house isn’t reg-ularly lived in, if the heat is kept to a minimum to save energy, and water isn’t running through the pipes daily, the risk of frozen pipes goes up.If Ronnie lives in the house while you’re gone, the risk of frozen pipes may be minimal. But he still should check less-used areas each week, and daily when the temperature remains below freezing for several days. He should run his hand along exposed pipes in the basement or crawl-space to feel for cold spots that indicate freezing sections. And he should run water occasionally in sinks or tubs that don’t see regular use while you’re gone.Make sure that Ronnie has contact information for repair contractors, plumbers and heating spe-cialists so he can have any problems addressed immediately while you’re away.

HOME TIP: To prevent damage to exterior wa-ter spigots during cold snaps, shut off water to the outdoor spigots and drain them completely so no water remains in the pipes.

Send your questions or home tips to [email protected]. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Answer: A & W.FRANCHISE STORIES: #2 (cont’d)• John knew ice cream that came out of the spig-ot at 23°F tasted better than the stuff sold to the customer at -10°. Ice cream numbs the taste buds at about 0°F (-17C), which interferes with the sense of taste. • What the world really needed, he decided, was ice cream that could be served at 18°F (-8C). He experimented, finding that less butterfat made a softer ice cream that could be handled easily at that temperature, while still retaining its shape. By 1938 he had the recipe down pat. • He sold his first franchise in 1940. Today there are about 5,700 outlets selling this soft-serve ice cream. What’s the franchise called? (Answer at bottom of page)FRANCHISE STORIES: #3• Reuben Mattus sold lemon-ice from a horse-drawn wagon in New York City in the 1920s. He branched out into selling ice cream just when modern refrigeration methods made long-term storage of ice cream at home possible. In 1959 Reuben decided to found a new ice cream com-pany that would be dedicated to providing the best possible ice cream made from the highest quality ingredients: more butterfat, less air. He needed a name for the product. He had always been fond of Denmark, so he decided a Danish name would be best. The name he chose means nothing in the Danish language, but Rueben wanted people to look at the name and think, ‘Is this imported?’ A map of Scandinavia appeared on the label for good measure. The business grew steadily and in 1983 he sold out to Pillsbury for $70 million. Today this luxury ice cream is sold all over the world. Name it.Answer #2: Dairy Queen.Answer #3: Häagen-Dazs.

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Nexgen computer service is growingBy Sarah Pearl

"It's exciting. It's always growing and changing," says George Bernard of the Nexgen computer service. He has watched technology grow at Nexgen firsthand.Nexgen computer services has been offering computer services since 2005. Bernard of this family owned computer business has been there from the beginning.

Before his job at Nexgen, Bernard spent five years in school. Bernard studied business administration and marketing at the Lewis and Clark state college.

With his knowledge from college at hand, Bernard has enjoyed his job at the Nexgen computer services ever since he started over a decade ago.

"I always enjoyed technology," Bernard says. "It's one of the fastest growing fields."

Today, Nexgen is a computer repair, service, and sales company. The main operation that their company focuses on is repairing broken or damaged technology.

They offer their services on a number of technologies. These include any make or model of PC or Apple, printers, monitors, iPods, game consoles, back up drives, and more.

Even with all these types of assistance, Bernard works a as marketing management. With this line of work, Bernard handles the online advertising social media, website design, public relations, and video produc-tion.

Although this is the type of assistance that he performs when he goes to work everyday, for more info call Nexgen Computer Service at 208.762.3530

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Dear Auntie Mmm,My issue is my weight. I came out of the womb weighing 12 pounds and dad says I never outgrew my baby fat. My mother and grandmother are al-ways forcing food on me and make me feel bad if I don’t eat all they give me and ask for more. My whole family is big so with them I feel pretty normal. They’re al-ways making excuses for me. In grade school I was the ‘big girl.’ In high school I was pleas-ingly plump - just more of me to love. In col-lege plump became heavy - stress eating. Then heavy became fat, and now, in my 40’s I’m 150 pounds overweight. I hate being obese. People tell me I’m pretty but I can’t bend over to tie my shoes. I don’t fly because I can’t fit comfort-ably in one seat. How depressing is that? I try to do everything right (diet and exercise) but I keep failing. My Dr. tells me how dangerous this weight is and I’ve tried everything to take it off - I just can’t. When I do lose a few pounds I seem to put it back on, plus! Diet pills give me panic attacks so my Dr. wants me to have surgery. I don’t want surgery. I know you’re not a weight loss person, but do you have any suggestions? Miserable in Mullan

Dear Miserable,Miserable is a terrible way to live but even suf-fering has it’s limits. Maybe it’s time to look deeper. In your life food has been equated with love - more food = more love! Look how much love you have! As children we learn what be-haviors and beliefs get us love and acceptance. Your’s may be tangled up with food, eating and weight. Time to enlist the mind. Some theories suggest that our thoughts and beliefs create our reality and that the mind doesn’t understand negatives. So focusing on losing weight - not on being thin, will only bring you more of the same. The mind hears ‘I want to lose weight’ and that’s what it gives you - losing weight. Find a thera-pist or program to help you release negative, un-healthy beliefs and emotional blocks to losing weight and being thin. Keep doing the positives, change your focus, and add emotional support. Decide to be thin and see what happens. There’s



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