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CELEBR ATIONS !
THE COURIER
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2017
Today in History
No baby names this week, look
for names in next week’s edition.
The Bestsellers List
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “The Whistler” by John Grisham
(Doubleday)
2. “Cross the Line” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
3. “Two by Two” by Nicholas
Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
4. “The Underground Railroad” by
Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
5. “No Man’s Land” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
6. “Small Great Things” by Jodi
Picoult (Ballantine)
7. “Tom Clancy: True Faith
and Allegiance” by Mark Greaney
(Putnam)
8. “Night School” by Lee Child
(Delacorte)
9. “Turbo Twenty-Three” by Janet
Evanovich (Bantam)
10. “The Chemist” by Stephenie
Meyer (Little, Brown)
11. “Moonglow” by Michael
Chabon (Harper)
12. “The Wrong Side of Goodbye”
by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
13. “Commonwealth” by Ann
Patchett (Harper)
14. “The Whole Town’s Talking”
by Fannie Flagg (Random House)
15. “The Award” by Danielle Steel
(Delacorte)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “Killing the Rising Sun” by
O’Reilly/Dugard (Henry Holt &
Company)
2. “The Magnolia Story” by Chip
Gaines and Joanna Gaines (Thomas
Nelson)
3. “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen (Simon & Schuster)
4. “Jesus Always” by Sarah Young
(Thomas Nelson)
5. “Settle for More” by Megyn
Kelly (Harper)
6. “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance
(Harper)
7. “The Undoing Project” by
Michael Lewis (Norton)
8. “Guinness World Records 2017”
(Guinness World Records)
9. “Cooking for Jeffrey” by Ina
Garten (Clarson Potter)
10. “Tools of Titans” by Timothy
Ferriss (HMH)
11. “Hamilton: The Revolution” by
Miranda/McCarter (Grand Central
Publishing)
12. “Shaken” by Tim Tebow
(WaterBrook)
13. “The Book of Joy” by Dalai
Lama/Tutu (Avery)
14. “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
(Random/Spiegel & Grau)
15. “Thank You for Being Late” by
Thomas L. Friedman (FSG)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. “A Dog’s Purpose (movie tie-in)”
by W. Bruce Cameron (Forge)
2. “The Murder House” by James
Patterson (Vision)
3. “The Girl on the Train (movie
tie-in)” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
4. “Merry Christmas, Alex Cross”
by James Patterson (Grand Central)
5. “Property of a Noblewoman” by
Danielle Steel (Dell)
6. “Rogue Lawyer” by John
Grisham (Dell)
7. “Tricky Twenty-Two” by Janet
Evanovich (Bantam)
8. “If She Only Knew” by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)
9. “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” by
Stephen King (Pocket)
10. “Christmas in Alaska” by
Debbie Macomber (Mira)
11. “Cross Justice” by James Patterson (Vision)
12. “Find Her” by Lisa Gardner
(Dutton)
13. “Blue” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
14. “Tom Clancy: Commander in
Chief” by Mark Greaney (Berkley)
15. “Brutal Night of the Mountain
Man” by William W. Johnstone (Pinnacle)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “The Girl on the Train” by Paula
Hawkins (Riverhead)
2. “A Dog’s Purpose (movie tie-in)”
by W. Bruce Cameron (Forge)
3. “Island of Glass” by Nora Roberts (Berkley)
4. “The Girl on the Train (movie
tie-in)” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
5. “Magical Jungle” by Johanna
Basford (Penguin)
6. “Johanna’s Christmas” by
Johanna Basford (Penguin)
7. “The Dr. Seuss Coloring Book”
by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
8. “Hidden Figures (movie tie-in)”
by Margot Lee Shetterly (Morrow)
9. “My Grandmother Asked Me
to Tell You...” by Fredrik Backman
(Washington Square)
See BOOKS, Page T3
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 3, the third
day of 2017. There are 362 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 3, 1967, Jack Ruby, the
man who shot and killed Lee Harvey
Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, died in a Dallas
hospital.
On this date:
In 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic
Church by Pope Leo X.
In 1777, Gen. George Washington’s
army routed the British in the Battle of
Princeton, New Jersey.
In 1870, groundbreaking took place
for the Brooklyn Bridge.
In 1892, J.R.R. Tolkien, author of
the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, was
born in Bloemfontein (BLOOM’-fahntayn), South Africa.
In 1911, the first postal savings
banks were opened by the U.S. Post
Office. (The banks were abolished in
1966.)
In 1938, the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was established by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
himself had been afflicted with the crip-
pling disease.
In 1946, William Joyce, the proNazi radio propagandist known as
“Lord Haw-Haw,” was hanged at
Wandsworth Prison in London for
high treason.
In 1947, congressional proceedings
were televised for the first time as viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and
New York got to see some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.
In 1959, Alaska became the 49th
state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation.
In 1977, Apple Computer was incorporated in Cupertino, California, by
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike
Makkula Jr.
In 1980, conservationist Joy Adamson, author of “Born Free,” was killed in
northern Kenya by a former employee.
In 1997, Bryant Gumbel signed
off for the last time as host of NBC’s
“Today” show.
Ten years ago: Gerald R. Ford
was laid to rest on the grounds of his
presidential museum in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, during a ceremony watched
by thousands of onlookers. Four Americans and an Austrian abducted in southern Iraq spoke briefly and appeared
uninjured in a video delivered to The
Associated Press. (The men, security
contractors for the Crescent Security
Group based in Kuwait, were later
killed by their captors.) Former Commerce Secretary C. William Verity Jr.,
89, died in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Five years ago: The Iowa Republican Party held its caucuses; although
Mitt Romney was originally considered
the winner by an extremely narrow
eight-vote margin, officials later said
that Rick Santorum had in fact beaten
Romney by 34 votes; in the Democratic
caucuses, President Barack Obama
ran unopposed. A gas pipeline in central Syria exploded; the government
blamed “terrorists” while the opposition accused officials of playing on fears
of religious extremism and terrorism to
rally support behind President Bashar
Assad.
One year ago: Republican presidential contender Donald Trump brushed
off an African militant group’s video
that showed him calling for Muslims to
be banned from coming to the U.S., telling the Sunday news shows he wouldn’t
be dissuaded from saying what he
thought. Saudi Arabia announced it
was severing diplomatic relations with
Shiite powerhouse Iran amid escalating tensions over the Sunni kingdom’s
execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
Thought for Today: “If people
never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” — Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher
(1889-1951).
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THE COURIER
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2017
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Happy Birthday to all Flair for inventions leads
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jan. 1: Actor Frank Langella is
79. Singer-guitarist Country Joe
McDonald of Country Joe and the
Fish is 75. Comedian Don Novello
(Father Guido Sarducci) is 74.
Actor Rick Hurst (“The Dukes of
Hazzard”) is 71. Country singer
Steve Ripley of The Tractors is
67. Rapper Grandmaster Flash is
59. Actor Morris Chestnut (“The
Brothers,” “The Best Man”) is
48. Actor Verne Troyer (“Austin
Powers”) is 4 8. Bassist Noa h
Sierota of Echosmith is 21.
Jan. 2 : TV host Jack Hanna is
70. Actress Tia Carrere is 50. Actor
Cuba Gooding Jr. is 49. Actor
Taye Diggs is 46. Singer Doug
Robb of Hoobastank is 42. Actor
Dax Shepard (“Parenthood”) is
42. Singer Kelton Kessee of Immature and of IMX is 36. Musician
Ryan Merchant of Capital Cities is
36. Actress Kate Bosworth is 34.
Singer Bryson Tiller is 24.
Jan. 3: Actor Dabney Coleman
is 85. Singer Stephen Stills is 72.
Bassist John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin is 71. Actress Victoria Principal is 67. Actor Mel Gibson is
61. Musician Thomas Bangalter of
Daft Punk is 42. Actor Jason Marsden (“Ally McBeal”) is 42. Actress
Danica McKellar (“The Wonder
Years”) is 42. Actor Nicholas Gonzalez (“The O.C.”) is 41. Singer and
former “American Idol” contestant
Kimberley Locke is 39. Drummer
Mark Pontius of Foster The People
is 32. Guitarist Nash Overstreet of
Hot Chelle Rae is 31.
Jan. 4 : Actress Barbara Rush
(“Peyton Place”) is 90. Actress
Dyan Cannon is 78. Country singer
Books
Continued from page T2
10. “Thomas Jefferson and the
Tripoli Pirates” by Kilmeade/Yeager
(Sentinel)
11. “Fantastic Beasts: Magical
Creatures Coloring Book” (Harper
Design)
12. “Uninvited” by Lysa Terkeurst
(Thomas Nelson)
13. “The Little Paris Bookshop” by
Nina George (Broadway)
14. “The Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook” by Laurel
Randolph (Rockridge)
15. “The World Almanac and Book
of Facts 2017” (World Almanac)
Copyright (copyright) 2016 Publishers Weekly, powered by Nielsen
Bookscan (copyright) 2016 The
Nielsen Company.
Kathy Forester of the Forester
Sisters is 62. Guitarist Bernard
Sumner of New Order (and Joy
Division) is 61. Actress Ann Magnuson (“Anything But Love”) is 61.
Country singer Patty Loveless
is 60. Actor Julian Sands (“24”)
is 59. Singer Michael Stipe of
R.E.M. is 57. Actor Dave Foley is
54. Actress Dot Jones (“Glee”) is
53. Actor Rick Hearst (“The Bold
and the Beautiful”) is 52. Former
Pogues singer Cait O’Riordan is
52. Actress Julia Ormond is 52.
Country singer Deana Carter is
51. Harmonica player Benjamin
Darvill of Crash Test Dummies
is 50. Actor Jeremy Licht (“Valerie”) is 46. Actor Damon Gupton
(“Empire”) is 44. Actress Jill Marie
Jones (“Girlfriends”) is 42. Singer
Spencer Chamberlain of Underoath
is 34.
Jan. 5 : Actor Robert Duvall
is 86. Singer-bassist Athol Guy of
The Seekers is 77. Talk-show host
Charlie Rose is 75. Actress Diane
Keaton is 71. Actor Ted Lange
(“The Love Boat”) is 69. Drummer George “Funky” Brown of Kool
and the Gang is 68. Guitarist Chris
Stein of Blondie is 67. Actor Clancy
Brown (“Highlander,” “SpongeBob
SquarePants”) is 58. Actor Vinnie
Jones (“X-Men: The Last Stand”)
is 52. Drummer Kate Schellenbach
(Luscious Jackson) is 51. Actor
Joe Flanigan (“ Stargate Atlantis,” ‘’Sisters”) is 50. Dancer and
judge Carrie Ann Inaba (“Dancing with the Stars”) is 49. Singer
Marilyn Manson is 48. Actor Shea
Whigham (“Fast and Furious 6,”
“Boardwalk Empire”) is 48. Actor
Derek Cecil (“House of Cards,”
“Treme”) is 44. Actor Bradley
Cooper is 42. Actress January
Jones is 39. Actress Brookly n
Sudano (“My Wife and Kids”) is
36. Actor Franz Drameh (“DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow”) is 24.
Jan. 6 : Singer K im Wilson
of the Fabulous Thunderbirds is
66. Country singer Jett Williams
is 64. Guitarist Malcolm Young
of AC/DC is 64. Actor-comedian
Rowan Atkinson (“Mr. Bean”) is
62. Singer Kathy Sledge of Sister
Sledge is 58. Singer Eric Williams
of BLACKstreet is 57. Director
John Singleton is 49. Actor Aron
Eisenberg ( “ St a r Trek : De ep
Space Nine”) is 48. Actor Norman
Reedus (“The Walking Dead”)
is 48. “The Talk” co -host Julie
Chen is 47. Actor Danny Pintauro
(“Who’s The Boss”) is 41. Actor
E dd ie Red may ne ( “ Fa nt astic
Beasts and Where To Find Them,”
“The Theory of Everything”) is 35.
Comedian Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”) is 33. Singer
See BIRTHDAYS, Page T5
Samuel Houpt to market
natural gas burner in 1886
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is from
a series written from 1959 to 1974
by the late R.L. Heminger, publisher
and editor of The Courier.
By R.L. HEMINGER
The discovery of natural gas here
in December 1884 could have been
expected to lead to the establishment
of businesses associated with the utilization of the new fuel.
The R.C. Brown history of Hancock County, published in 1886, says
Samuel D. Houpt, a Findlay dry goods
dealer with a flair for inventions, put
on the market a “natural gas burner”
which he had invented. “He had added
materially to the use of natural gas”
through his stove, the history says.
Recent months (1970) have
brought to light information bearing upon the local manufacture of
gas-burning stoves. The RepublicanCourier received a long distance telephone call recently from Fullerton,
Calif., where an individual was seeking some information in connection
with a gas-burning cooking stove
which he owned bearing the name of
the “English Stove Company, Findlay,
Ohio.” He said he had bought the old
stove at a sale when he was in the east
and then had taken it to California.
The individual was Cliff Stayman in
Fullerton.
He described the stove as having
three Bunsen-type burners and tabletype construction.
In response to his inquiry, he was
told we know nothing about the English Stove Co. It may have been that
Mr. Houpt’s manufacturing enterprise
had this name, of course.
Then, a few weeks after the call
from California there appeared in the
classified columns of the RepublicanCourier the following advertisement
under the heading “antiques for sale.”
“Antique gas stove made in Findlay
by John Adams. Patented, 1886.”
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Vandersall,
of Rural Route 1, Findlay, inserted
the advertisement. The round stove
is about 12 inches across with seven
3-inch pipes extending to the outside.
The Vandersalls acquired the Findlaymade stove some time ago.
Further information regarding
Mr. Houpt’s gas stove is contained in
William D. Humphrey’s “A Brief History of Oil and Gas in Findlay.” Mr.
Houpt’s business was known as the
Union Brass Co. and was established
in Findlay in 1888 to manufacture
natural gas fixtures and specialties,
with a capital of $10,000, according to
Mr. Humphrey. The plant was located
on South Blanchard Street between
East Main Cross Street and the old
Big Four Railroad tracks near East
Lincoln Street.
The Brown history says Mr. Houpt
gave considerable attention to “experimental inventions” in his lifetime. He
invented what he termed a “carbon
transmitter or microphone” for utilization in telephoning. Mr. Houpt has
gone down in history as the individual
who introduced telephone service to
Findlay.
In a small building on East Crawford Street not far from Main Street
he built Findlay’s first crude telephone
exchange, which initially served 80
customers. This was more than four
years before natural gas was found
here.
When Mr. Houpt opened his Findlay telephone business, the advent of
Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone in the world had only happened
four years earlier. The telephone in
Ohio made its first appearance in
1879, so Findlay’s introduction to this
modern convenience came only a year
later, making Findlay one of the first
Buckeye cities to go into this field.
Mr. Houpt sold his telephone business to the Midland Telephone Co., of
Chicago, in 1882. This was one of the
early Bell companies.
He was born in Seneca County in
1841 and came to Hancock County in
1860. He served in the Civil War and
upon returning went into the general
merchandising business. A partner for
some of the time was his father-in-law,
Henry Byal, a prominent Findlay citizen.
A brother, Thomas Houpt, was
the originator of the Hancock County
rural route system in the late 1890s.
Samuel D. Houpt was a member of
the Democratic national convention
which nominated Grover Cleveland of
New York for president in 1884. Cleveland won the election, defeating James
G. Blaine, of Maine.
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Broken-relationships
museum: Everyday
items emit heartache
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After her
husband asked for a divorce, Amber
Clisura gave back her engagement
ring, kicked him out of the house and
tossed everything that reminded her
of the ruined marriage. Except for
one item: a polished steel barbecue
smoker that her future ex-husband
had fashioned for her from an old oil
drum.
“It sat there on the patio and
rusted and rusted, and it became a
sad symbol of the relationship,” Clisura said.
The four-legged smoker had been a
treasured handmade gift, but eventually Clisura couldn’t bear to look at it.
She considered giving it to a neighbor
or selling it for scrap but then read
about a call for submissions at the new
Los Angeles branch of the Museum of
Broken Relationships.
The original museum opened in
Zagreb, Croatia, in 2010 after growing out of a touring collection that
crisscrossed Europe, Asia and the
U.S. On display in Zagreb are artifacts
from failed unions, most of them mundane under ordinary circumstances.
A single stiletto heel. A wine opener.
A worn old Snoopy doll.
But when isolated in a glass case or
hanging on a white wall and accompanied by a caption, the objects become
imbued with heartache or regret. Or
freedom.
In Los Angeles, there’s a blue
chiffon top a woman wore to a cafe
where her husband told her he was
leaving. An envelope of leaves mailed
from Canada to San Diego so a longdistance paramour could experience
changing seasons in Southern California. A jar of pickles purchased for
a first love who, the donor explained,
“stopped texting before I could give
it to him.”
After some deliberation, Clisura,
a textile artist and fashion designer
from LA, decided to donate the
smoker and drove it to the museum’s
warehouse.
“A woman met me downstairs, and
as I was handing it over, I burst into
tears,” Clisura said, laughing now.
“It felt like a weight was lifted.” The
museum representative offered to give
her a hug.
Employees have embraced their
share of brokenhearted donors eager
for closure, said director Alexis Hyde
at the museum’s location on Hollywood Boulevard, a thoroughfare
that, she noted, has been called the
“boulevard of broken dreams.”
Hyde has been known to brush
away her own tears as she opens
boxes containing donations.
“It’s cathartic the way a good, sad
movie is cathartic,” she said. “On
some level, you know this person’s
moving on, and they’ve survived.”
Hyde pointed out not all the
fizzled unions represented in the
3,500 -square-foot museum were
romantic. One donor had an irreparable relationship with her father.
Another split from a church. A California woman who donated a Texas
license plate said she separated from
the Lone Star State.
“My broken relationship was with
myself,” said Andree Vermeulen,
whose donated items are the museum’s most talked about. The actress
sent in a pair of breast implants she
had removed after ending a toxic relationship with a man who made disparaging comments about her body.
Vermeulen, who lives in Los
Angeles, said the implants “never felt
right,” and since they’ve been out, she
has “reached a place where I feel very
grounded and confident.” An outpouring of support on social media gave
her further confidence to use the experience as fodder during storytelling
performances in which she discusses
body image and standards of beauty.
Vermeulen said the donation, now
displayed in a glass case in the LA
museum’s main room, symbolized the
final chapter of the relationship, and
her scars “mark a story and a time
in my life that taught me a lot about
myself.”
More than 2,000 items comprise
the museum’s two brick-and-mortar
collections and touring shows, which
have made stops in San Francisco,
Helsinki, Finland and Hamburg, Germany. A show in Seoul, South Korea,
featured a donated Jeep that had to be
taken apart and brought in by crane.
Donations arrive so regularly that the
LA site hopes to continually cycle in
new items to keep the exhibit fresh.
Donors are anonymous or identified only by first name. They generally write just a few sentences as a
backstory, but some items, including
a simple green coffee mug at the LA
site, come with explanations that go
on for hundreds of words.
The caption accompanying a group
of old cassette tapes reads: “The
music made me dream.”
Pieces are displayed across six
exhibition rooms in the ground-floor
location that lures tourists who stroll
Hollywood Boulevard. Visitors pay
$18 admission and are encouraged
to pop into a private “confessional,”
where they can write about their own
breakups.
Olinka Vistica and Drazen
Grubisic, the Croatian artists who
conceived the original exhibition on
a whim, are shocked by its staying
power.
Hyde isn’t. “It’s so resonant,” she
said. “The audience is so large for it.”
Clisura admitted she hadn’t yet
been to the museum to see the old
rusted smoker.
“I wasn’t sure I was ready,” she
said. But she’s since changed her mind
and is planning a trip with her new
boyfriend.
THE COURIER
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2017
U.S. considers
mining limits in West
to save sage grouse
DENVER (AP) — The Obama
administration offered five possible
plans Thursday for limiting mining on
federal land in the West to protect the
vulnerable greater sage grouse, but it
isn’t saying which it prefers.
The options range from banning
new mining activity on about 15,000
square miles for up to 20 years to
imposing no additional restrictions
on mine locations.
The rules would affect sage grouse
habitat on federal land in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.
Under all the options, mining and
exploration projects already approved
or underway could proceed. Energy
companies could still extract oil and
gas from any restricted lands, but they
would have to use directional drilling
from some distance away to avoid disturbing the surface.
After a public comment period
ends in March, President-elect Donald
Trump’s administration will decide
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which option to choose, if any.
It’s not yet clear whether Trump
or his choice for Interior Secretary,
Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke of Montana, would continue to pursue the
current sage grouse conservation
plans, modify them or scrap them.
Also unclear was why the federal
government did not list a preferred
alternative for mining restrictions,
which it normally does in this kind
of review.
Randi Spivak of the the Center for
Biological Diversity said all mining
is harmful to sage grouse. She said
Zinke, who describes himself as “a
Teddy Roosevelt Republican,” could
emulate the conservationist Roosevelt
by protecting the bird.
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nevada, called
the options an “11th-hour attack on
Nevada and the West.” He said he
would try to overturn any mining
restrictions.
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Woman leaves
entire $1.2
million estate to
animal shelter
ELIZBETHTON, Tenn. (AP) — A
Tennessee woman’s $1.2 million estate
has gone to the dogs — and cats, too.
The Johnson City Press reports
Glenda Taylor DeLawder’s bequest to
an animal shelter was announced Christmas Day on the Carter County government website by Mayor Leon Humphrey.
Humphrey says $540,000 will be
given to the Elizabethton Carter County
Animal Shelter to expand the dog and
cat holding areas. It also pay for a new
van that can be converted to transport
dogs and cats to be spayed and neutered.
Construction will begin on the shelter
expansion Jan. 9, and Humphrey says the
van is scheduled to arrive by March 1.
DeLawder, who is described by her
family as being an avid animal lover, died
in November 2015.
Mining
Continued from page T4
Republicans have berated President Barack Obama for other lastminute environmental measures,
including his designation Wednesday
of two new national monuments,
Bears Ears in Utah and Gold Butte
in Nevada.
An estimated 200,000 to 500,000
sage grouse remain in 11 Western
states, but their numbers are down
significantly because they are losing
habitat to development. The size of
the sage grouse population is considered an indicator of the overall health
of the vast Western sagebrush ecosystem and other species that depend on
it.
The proposed mining restrictions
are part of a broad plan to save the
chicken-size bird without resorting to
the Endangered Species Act, which
could bring stricter limits on mining,
drilling, agriculture and other activity.
But the plan is under attack from
both sides, with critics saying it is
either too restrictive or too lax. Environmental groups and energy companies have filed lawsuits seeking to
overturn all or parts of the plan.
The options for mining restrictions are part of a draft environmental impact statement drawn up by the
federal Bureau of Land Management,
which is part of the Interior Department.
The land that could be affected
by the proposals includes about
6,190 square miles in Idaho, 4,320
in Nevada, 2,880 in Oregon, 1,370 in
Montana, 414 in Wyoming and 365
in Utah.
Feathered
fugitive
recovered
in Southern
California
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — A
toucan that became a local sensation
while living wild much of the year in
Southern California has finally been
captured.
The brightly colored female bird
named Fern was spotted Tuesday in
the rafters of a Yorba Linda auto repair
shop.
A service adviser made calls to
animal experts including Omar’s
Exotic Birds, which dispatched an
employee who captured Fern.
The bird escaped in May from an
aviary in Courtney Chapman’s Fullerton home after Fern and a male toucan
were delivered by a breeder.
Chapman tells The Orange County
Register (http://bit.ly/2iMVFhD ) she
had been told the chances of getting the
toucan back were slim to none.
Shortly after the escape, Chapman
joined a private social network app for
neighbors and soon photos of Fern
spottings around town were being
posted.
Birthdays
Continued from page T3
Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys is
31.
Jan. 7: Author-screenwriter William Peter Blatty (“The Exorcist”)
is 89. Singer Kenny Loggins is 69.
Singer-songwriter Marshall Chapman is 68. Actor David Caruso is
61. TV personality Katie Couric
is 60. Country singer David Lee
Murphy is 58. Bassist Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s is 58. Actress
Hallie Todd (“Lizzie McGuire”)
is 55. Actor Nicolas Cage is 53.
Singer John Ondrasik of Five For
Fighting is 52. Actor Rex Lee
(“Entourage”) is 48. Actor-rapper
Doug E. Doug (“Cool Runnings,”
“Cosby”) is 47. Actor Kevin Rahm
is 46. Country singer John Rich of
Big and Rich is 43. Actor Dustin
Diamond (“Saved By The Bell”)
is 40. Singer-rapper Aloe Blacc is
38. Actress Lauren Cohan (“The
Wa l k ing Dead” ) is 35. Actor
Brett Dalton (“Marvel’s Agents of
Shield”) is 34. Actor Liam Aiken
(“Lemony Snicket”) is 27. Actor
Marcus Scribner (“black-ish”) is 17.
Sheriff:
‘Grinch couple’
broke in, ate
Christmas
treats
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ANNIVERSARY
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Referring to two suspects as the “Grinch
couple,” a Mississippi sheriff says a
man and a woman broke into a home
and ate the homeowners’ Christmas
treats before fleeing.
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan
Bailey said in a news release that
the homeowners called police on the
night of Christmas Eve after a man
and woman ran out of the house as
the homeowners approached the residence.
Deputies say the trespassers had
made themselves at home, eating
pecan treats and smoking cigarettes
inside the residence.
The Clarion-Ledger (http://
on.thec-l.com/2hjYwxd ) reports that
the suspects were found nearby and
accused of burglary and possessing
methamphetamine. They have been
identified as 47-year-old Stephen Valentine of Hattiesburg and 49-year-old
Victoria Valentine of Moss Point.
ANNIVERSARY
Carl & Vera
Reichenbaugh
Carl and Vera Reichenbaugh,
Findlay, OH, celebrated their
60th wedding anniversary on
December 29, 2016.
Carl and the former Vera
Bowser were married December
29, 1956 at Immaculate
Conception Church, Deshler,
OH.
Mr. Reichenbaugh is retired
from Allied-Signal, Fostoria.
Mrs. Reichenbaugh is a
housewife.
The
couple
has
five
children: Reva, Findlay; John,
Findlay; Rona, Bloomdale;
Richard, Arcadia; and Robert,
Findlay. They also have twelve
grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.
Please help celebrate their
anniversary with a card shower.
Please send cards to: 1421
Bernard Ave., Findlay, OH
45840.
70th Anniversary Announcement
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Rieker of
Findlay will celebrate their 70th
wedding anniversary on January
4, 2017. John and the former
Margaret Altwies were married
at St. Wendelin Catholic Church
in Fostoria, Ohio. Their children,
J. Michael, Plymouth, MI; Nancy
(Johnny) Durden, Aiken, SC; Tom
(Pam), Reynoldsburg, Ohio and
David (Ellie), Toledo, Ohio will
host a family celebration Easter
weekend 2017. Margaret and John
also have 10 grandchildren and 2
great-grandchildren.
John served in the US Army
during WWII and retired from
the Home Window Company,
Fostoria. Margaret worked at the
National Lime and Stone Co. before
becoming a full time mother and
homemaker. Once the children left
home, Margaret returned to work
at Diamond Savings and Loan.
The couple are active members of
St. Michael the Archangel Catholic
Church in Findlay.
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Race to save rare breed of
pig hinges on eating them
By PATRICK WHITTLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, Maine — Susan
Frank and her dogs spend their days shepherding hairy, black pigs with names like
Bacon, Pork Chop and Yummy around a
chunk of Maine woods. Her farm, which
raises and fattens the rare American mulefoot hogs for slaughter, is essential to their
survival, she believes.
Frank’s mulefoots are representative
of a breed that was once the rarest of all
U.S. livestock according to some agricultural censuses, and remains critically rare,
according to the Livestock Conservancy.
There are fewer than 500 registered,
purebred, breeding mulefoots in the
country (they are even more uncommon
elsewhere), and Frank’s Dogpatch Farm
accounts for a dozen of them, along with
some 170 others, some of which are crossbreeds.
The way to save declining breeds of livestock, she argues, is to get people to eat
them — thereby increasing demand that
will lead to more breeding. She wants the
mulefoot restored to its early 20th-century
status as a premier pig.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is
listening. The agency is giving her $50,000
to help increase interest in products made
with mulefoot meat, and Frank is spreading
her gospel to chefs, restaurants and markets around New England and New York.
“I know it sounds weird, but you have to
eat a rare breed to help it come back,” she
said. “I see it as a way to spread the word
Poetry Corner
A New Year
A new year has arrived
It’s knocking on your door.
Welcome it with open arms,
Be happy today and evermore.
Make your resolutions
Of things you want to change,
Everyone has a thing or two,
That covers quite a range.
After you have made them
Don’t put them on the shelf,
Try each and every day
To make improvements on yourself
Not one of us is perfect
We all have our flaws,
We need to ask the Savior
To help us in this cause
So as the year continues
Remember your resolutions
And ask the Savior up above
to help with your solutions
Sue Gratz
Leipsic
Winter
Brutal winds
and blowing snow
definitely makes me
want to go
to a place
where warm winds blow
no cold, no ice
no blowing snow
Hawaii is
the place for me
that’s if I win
the lottery
Guana Morehart
Findlay
History
Who will tell our children why the
Pilgrims crossed the sea?
Of “the shot heard ’round the world”
and the Sons of Liberty?
Who will tell our children of
America’s Civil War?
Of Yanks and Rebs and Lincoln and
Emancipation and more?
Who will tell our children of the
“War to End All Wars”?
And of the Great Depression, jobless
people by the scores?
Who will tell our children of Holocaust and World War II?
Of the Greatest Generation who
fought for me and you?
Who will tell our children of civil
rights and Vietnam?
Jungle warfare and Ho Chi Minh,
Agent Orange and napalm?
I hope they’re teaching history so
our children won’t forget.
We MUST tell our children or we’ll
live with much regret.
We hope the future’s better for the
children in our land.
I think we need to pray to God; our
future’s in His hand.
Sally Guilford
Findlay
Happy birthday, Dear Jesus!
Happy birthday, Dear Jesus!
Who could ever foresee
The effect your virgin birth
Would have on humanity?
Born in a stable
With a manger for a bed —
Crucified on a cross,
Where your precious blood was
shed.
More than 2,000 years later
Believers still remember,
And celebrate your birth
On the 25th of December.
Happy birthday, Dear Jesus!
Phyllis Martin
McComb
about mulefoot.”
The mulefoot is named for its non-cloven hoof, and was the subject of a vibrant
industry including some 200 herds a century ago. But its tendency for slow growth
and small litters reduced its appeal for
industrial pig farming, and the mulefoot
was down to just one significant herd in
Missouri a decade ago, when a slow drive
to save the breed began.
Frank got into the business in 2012
after acquiring her first three purebreds.
The pigs were popular with small farmers
and homesteaders because of their hardiness and high yields of meat and lard, said
Darlene Goehringer, a mulefoot farmer in
Hurlock, Maryland.
“If nobody wants them for pork, who
would keep them?” Goehringer said. “This
isn’t like raising a parrot.”
The drive to save the mulefoot is
motivated in part by the importance of
preserving genetic stock, said Jeannette
Beranger, a programs director with the
Livestock Conservancy. Mulefoots, like
other old breeds of livestock, are genetic
storehouses that can’t be replicated if they
become extinct, she said.
“Even though we’re not going to feed
the world with mulefoot hogs, the reason
you want to keep them around is because
they might have qualities that might not
be present in other commercial hogs,”
Beranger said.
Frank’s farm has 20 acres of fenced-in
birch, beech and hornbeam trees where the
hogs roam free, noshing on feed pellets and
the occasional apple or pumpkin. She wants
to organize a food festival based around
mulefoot products, with some wineries and
breweries.
Until then, she’ll be raising her pigs and
working to convince restaurants in foodcrazy places like Portland, Boston and New
York to use their meat.
“It’s not just to make a living for me,”
she said. “It’ll help the breed come back.”
Largest Hispanicowned food
company is U.S.
gives to shelters
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The
largest Hispanic-owned food company in the country has committed to
donating 125,000 pounds of food to an
agency dedicated to serving the less
fortunate in northern New Jersey.
Jersey City-based Goya Foods will
send 10,000 pounds of food each month
to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark, which will distribute
the goods to shelters in Essex, Hudson,
Bergen and Union counties.
The company has also pledged a
one-time donation of $10,000 to the
archdiocese that will benefit Hope
House in Jersey City and St. Rocco’s
Family Shelter in Newark.
Catholic Charities CEO John
Westervelt says the funds will pay for
renovations to recreational spaces at
the facilities as well as additional food
and clothing for homeless families.
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