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• The first candy to combine milk chocolate, marshmallow, peanuts and caramel was the Goo Goo Cluster, introduced in 1913 and sold unwrapped from large glass candy jars in the drug store. When a regular customer mentioned that the candy was “So good, people will ask for it from birth,” the creator named his confection after the first sounds made by his newborn son, “Goo Goo!”

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for over 50 years before they were given their name, an acronym for the New England Confec-tionery Company that produced them. The same company introduced conversation hearts in 1866, dubbing them “motto hearts” and printing such messages as “Be Good,” “Be True” and “Kiss Me.” The phrases have been updated in recent years, adding “Call Me,” “Fax Me” and “Email Me.” In 2011, NECCO added “Tweet Me” to the list of mottos.

• It’s likely that nearly every child in America has at some time received a ball-shaped lollipop from the bank teller. These little pops, known as Dum Dums, have been around since 1924 when they were introduced by the Akron Candy Com-pany. Sales manager I.C. Bahr named the pop, figuring Dum Dum was a word any child could say. Seven original flavors were introduced, with many added and deleted over the years, includ-ing the famous Mystery Flavor. The Mystery Flavor changes regularly since it is a blend of the tail end of one batch and the beginning of the next, whatever they may be.

• Chick-O-Sticks and Chicken Bones were pretty much the same thing. Introduced in 1938 as Chicken Bones, this was a honeycombed candy filled with peanut butter and rolled in toasted coconut. In 1955, it was discovered that another company already owned the name, and the change was made to Chick-O-Sticks.

• There’s nothing like pouring straight sugar down your throat, which is what we did with Pixy Stix, a powdered sugar packaged in a drinking straw. It started out as a drink mix in the late 1940s called Frutol, but since kids seemed to prefer the straight powder, Pixy Stix made their debut in 1952.

• The chocolate-covered, crunchy peanut butter bar 5th Avenue was the 1938 brainstorm of Wil-liam Luden, who is more famous as the creator of Luden’s cough drops.

• Back in the 1950s when James Dean and Marlon Brando looked cool with their cigarettes rolled up in their T-shirt sleeves, candy cigarettes were all the rage with kids. It seems that candy makers actually worked with the tobacco companies to help attract young smokers! Although the origi-nal candy cigs with their “lit” red tip are long gone, they are now reproduced but, we hope, with a different goal. Some folks who have quit smoking pass out packs to friends on the anni-versary of their last cigarette.

• Those little hollow tubes of black licorice coated with pastel-colored candy were known as Snaps. They appeared at candy counters for the first time around 1930 and can still be found at specialty candy shops. You’ll have a little more trouble finding wax lips, introduced in the early 1900s, which could be chewed into a waxy, cherry-flavored gum. If you didn’t like the lips, vampire fangs and moustaches were also avail-able.

• The Pittsburgh-based D.L. Clark Company had a hit in 1917 with a chocolate-covered honeycomb of ground, roasted peanuts, simply called Clark Bar. This confection became so popular with U.S. troops stationed overseas in World War I, it be-came a giant sensation back at home as well. The

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• Many children spent their allowance on the cara-mel Slo Poke suckers, because according to the familiar jingle, “Get yourself a Slo Poke, it lasts all day!” If you were a chocolate fan, you could purchase the similar Black Cow.

• How about our preferred chewing gums? Three of our old favorites, Black Jack, Beemans and Clove were discontinued years ago, but the Cadbury Adams Company, which owns the formulas, cooks up a batch of each every couple of years. The licorice-flavored Black Jack gum was the first flavored gum in America. Back in the late 1800s, an Ohio physician Dr. Edward E. Beeman marketed a gum of pepsin powder and chicle, designed to aid digestion. Legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager made Beemans gum famous by chewing a stick before every flight for good luck. In fact, the antacid qualities of pepsin made the gum popular with pilots for reducing stomach agitation in flight. Clove gum was first manufactured in 1914 by Thomas Adams. Leg-end has it that Clove grew in popularity during Prohibition because its strong smell masked the odor of illegal alcohol on the breath. The Beech Nut Company launched Fruit Stripe gum in the 1960s with a zebra as its “spokesman,” packaging it in zebra-striped wrappers. It was the only gum with stripes, which were added on after the gum was made. The down side of Fruit Stripe was that it lost its flavor very quickly, and now that it has been re-introduced, the complaint is the same — It’s pretty much flavorless in just over five minutes.

• Chicago’s Williamson Candy Store produced and sold chocolate back around 1920. One of their young customers hung around the establishment so much, before long the employees were ask-ing him to do little odd jobs, “Oh, Henry, could you do this?” and “Oh, Henry, will you bring me that?” Soon after, their newest confection was named the Oh Henry bar.

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Watching over the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with outstretched arms, stands the Christo Redentor or Christ the Redeemer statue. This week, Tidbits imparts some little-known facts about this wonder of the modern world.

• Although it may appear that this immense statue stands in the middle of the wilderness, it is actually located in the heart of the city in the urban forest of Tijuca National Park. Christ the Redeemer stands atop the 2,300-foot (701-m) peak of Cor-covado Mountain. The statue is visible from 20 miles (32.2 km) away.

• A Catholic priest named Pedro Maria Boss first proposed the idea for a religious monument overlooking Rio de Janeiro; however, his idea never reached fruition. It wasn’t until 1921 that it was put forward again, this time by the Catholic Circle of Rio. They launched a fund drive, solicit-ing donations from the public, and construction began in 1922.

• A local engineer created the design, but French sculptor Paul Landowski was commissioned to do the sculpting. The statue was made from re-inforced concrete with outer layers of soapstone. Stone was brought to the mountain from Sweden and construction continued for the next nine years. The statue was officially unveiled in 1932.

• From its foundation base to the top, Christ the Redeemer stands 130 feet tall, and has a span of 92 feet from fingertip to fingertip, the tallest reli-gious statue in the world. A 360-passenger train departs the nearby railway station every hour for the 20-minute trip to the site.

• Until 2002, visitors had to climb 220 steps to reach the statue’s base. Panoramic elevators and escalators have now been installed.

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DO YOU THINK THIS STORY IS TRUE?Outside England’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were-cars, $1.40 buses $7.Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never miss-ing a day of work, he just didn’t show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo’s own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee. The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some such scenario), is a man who apparently had a ticket machine instaled completely on his own and then began to show up every day and collected and kept the parking fees, estimated at $560 per day -- for 25 years. At 7 days a week. This amounts to just over $7 million dol-lars...and no one even knows his name.Do you think this story is true? We wonder.

What is Celibacy?Celibacy can be a choice in life or a condition imposed by circumstances.While attending a Marriage Weekend Frank and his wife Ann listened to the instructor declare, “It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.”He then addressed the men. “Can you name and describe your wife’s favorite flower?”Frank leaned over, touched Ann’s arm gently, and whispered, “Gold Medal-All-Purpose, isn’t it?”

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After losing to Broomfield a week ago, Coach John Poovey rallied his troops and went into Dis-trict 6 Stadium to face a much improved Greeley Central Wildcat team for their first league game of the season. After an early exchange of touchdowns in the first quar-ter, the Indians turned up the tempo and never looked back.

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• It was Canadian American educator Laurence J. Peter who made the following sage observa-tion: “You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”

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Nothing save the music of heaven can compare to the power, emotion and intricacy of symphonic music.

My wife and I were reminded of this on Friday Sept. 21st when we attended the Greeley Philhar-monic Orchestra’s opening concert of its 102nd season at the stunningly beautiful Monfort Con-cert Hall at the Union Colony Civic Center.

We were wowed by Debussy, dazzled by Ar-mando Silva who painted while the orchestra played Respighi, and staggered by the changing sounds and themes of Ravel’s arrangement of “Pic-tures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky.

It was all brought to life for us by the 60+ member Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra under the able leadership of conductor Glen Cortese. The house, nearly full, enjoyed superb musicians performing great music with excellence.

As the music washed over me I reflected on what makes sym-phonic music so wonderful.

Symphonic music is stunning in numbers. Every time I walk into a concert hall and see the dozens of instrumentalists on stage I am stunned. The Gree-ley Philharmonic Orchestra has approximately 60 performing any given time. That’s a lot of people to be man-aged through multipart musical scores by only one conductor.

Symphonic music is interesting in variety. It delights the ears of listeners with an array of sound, change of rhythm and broad range of or-chestration, all made possible because of a variety of instruments at work. There are violins, violas, cellos, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, trombones, tubas and others, and of course that whole section of curious percussion instruments. Now that’s variety.

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Symphonic music is overwhelming in complex-ity. Orchestra music is not something that can be played by a couple of guitar players with capos, a keyboardist and a drummer. It’s composed of an extravagant combination of sounds, rhythms and melodies played by instruments performing elabo-rate and complex musical variations that change with each movement. Through the complexity, stories are told, pictures are painted and listeners are taken on a journey.

Symphonic music is overpowering in perform-ance. There is nothing like the swelling sound and flurry of the finale of a great piece of music. When the violins play one melody and the cellos and vio-las compete with them for another and the wood-winds and brass make their gentle or booming contribution to the debate – the soul is touched, the spirit is lifted – and then enter the percussion with bangs, clashes and drum rolls placed pre-cisely for maximum impact. Oh my goodness, you

don’t know what it’s like until you experience it yourself. You are overpowered by the music - your chair vibrates while your soul is caressed.

But perhaps most important, symphonic music is civilizing to the human soul. Much of popu-lar music today favors ugliness, crassness and obscenity. You’ve seen them with their ugly ap-pearance, dirty clothes, visible

under ware, genital grabbing, face-distorting and obscene gesturing while they scream X-rated lyr-ics to indiscernible tunes. Ugliness, vulgarity and depravity destroy a culture.

That is why our world today needs the great music of the ages performed by great artists. We need to be lifted, encouraged and challenged to significance and great music helps. I’m glad to say that I was there on Friday when all who gathered were bathed in beauty and lifted in spirit as the power, precision and grandeur of great music was performed by the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra.

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• On Sept. 24, 1789, The Judici-ary Act of 1789 is passed by Con-gress and signed by President

George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices. By 1869 the number of justices was increased to nine.

• On Sept. 30, 1868, the first volume of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved children’s book “Little Women” is published. Alcott dedicated most of her life and writing to supporting her family after her father’s failure at running Transcendentalist school. Her works include “Little Men” (1871) and “An Old-Fashioned Girl” (1870).

• On Sept. 28, 1901, Ed Sullivan, who would be-come the host of the long-running TV variety program “The Ed Sullivan Show,” is born in New

York City. During the peak of its popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, Sullivan’s program show-cased a wide range of entertainers, including The Beatles and Elvis Presley.

• On Sept. 29, 1913, Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the engine that bears his name, disappears from the steamship Dresden while traveling from Belgium to England. On Oct. 10, Diesel’s body was found in the water. Conspiracy theories began to fly almost immediately. Many people believed (and still believe) that Diesel was murdered.

• On Sept. 25, 1957, under escort from 1,000 para-troopers in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Divi-sion, nine black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had sur-rounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent court-ordered racial integration.

• On Sept. 26, 1960, for the first time in U.S. his-

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• On Sept. 27, 1989, Zsa Zsa Gabor, on trial for slapping a police officer, storms out of the courtroom in the middle of the district attorney’s closing argument. She had been pulled over for expired tags on her Rolls Royce, as well as hav-ing an open container of alcohol and an expired license.

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Tidbits of Greeley & West Weld CountyPublished by Handshake Publishing

Ron & Amy RossAll inquiries: 970.475.4829 or 720.934.7677

1813 N. Del Norte Aveune - Loveland CO 80538www.TrustTidbits.com - [email protected]


Harry JohnstonNo...I’m not retired! I’m now the General Manager of Loveland Ford & Lin-coln! Stop in and I’ll show you a great line of made-in-America Fords and Lin-colns and some exception-ally well-priced used cars, vans and trucks.

New General Manager

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