Father’s Day Founder Joan Dodd Recalls Spark of Holiday
Spokane born Mrs. Joan Bruce Dodd conceived Father’s Day sixty years ago and reflects on its growth from a local tribute dreamed in 1910 to a national observance sparked by the Spokane Ministerial Alliance and later formalized by President Wilson. Her family ties and later life in Whitefish Montana are noted along with her role in a Spokane funeral home.
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Playing On The Job Can Be Dangerous
In Chicago an AP report notes workers who engage in horseplay in an industrial plant may face discharge. Commerce Clearing House states if a stunt could have or did seriously injure someone, the employer’s decision to fire can be upheld by a labor arbitrator.
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Chicago
Commerce Clearing House
South Africa May See Mineral Output Top Rand 1.5 Billion
In Johannesburg the minister of mines Carel de Wet says mineral production could exceed Rand 1,500 million annually within two years if current tempo continues. Gold production in 1968 set a record at about Rand 788 million, up from the prior year. A separate court ruling upheld a dismissal after a worker used a hot foot to injure a colleague with lit cigarettes.
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South Africa
Carel de Wet
Numerical fortune puzzle yields daily message
A pleasant game assigns a key number from your first name length by simple +/- adjustments then reads a hidden message from the letters under checked squares in a rectangle. The feature title notes King Features Syndicate and 197 World rights reserved.
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Dog helps crippled woman lean on guide dog
In Rosemead California Ruth Cook Smith with spastic ataxia relies on Konig Wilhelm a 9 month old German Shepherd who steadies her as she leans for balance and helps when she falls trainer Jean Burl adapts the dog to Miss Smith pace and needs while noting a future in customized disability aid dogs.
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Konig Wilhelm
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First Patents Granted In Renaissance
Rome records show patents dating to the Renaissance with patent letters granting monopolies to inventors. Venice first regulated patent monopolies and in 1594 granted Galileo an exclusive patent for a water-raising structure. In 1623 Parliament ended royal discretion, limiting patents to new techniques.
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Polo clubs total 94 in Chicago and U S
There are now polo clubs in the United States, 50 percent more than ten years ago. Lesotho in southern Africa is one of the world’s poorest nations, but its first diamond mine, opened since independence in 1966, has yielded several 100 carat stones, including a 601.25 carat gem named Lesotho Brown.
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