Tuesday, October 16, 2001 

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• Sewer rates will go up on Jan. 1

• Suspicious mail protocol (local article to be posted)

• Church prepares for annual event to fight world hunger

• America strikes back

• Rep. Wright visits Hartem ag program

• Smiles behind the screens

• K/C/B Historical Society serves annual turkey supper

• United Way sponsors breakfast

• Special Deliveries sibling class scheduled

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The Francis Report

288th day of the year

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." — Oscar Wilde

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared." — David Ben-Gurion

Birthdays

B.C. — Tiberius Claudius Nero, second emperor of Rome (14-37)

1758 — Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster’s Dictionary)

1854 — Oscar Wilde [Fingal O’Flahertie Wills], Dublin, ("The Picture of Dorian Gray")

1886 — David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk, Poland, first prime minister of Israel (1948-53, ’55)

1925 — Angela Lansbury, London, England, actress (Jessica in "Murder, She Wrote")

1941 — Tim McCarver, baseball catcher (Cardinals, Phillies, Expos, Red Sox) and sportscaster (ABC, CBS)

1972 — Kordell Stewart, NFL quarterback and wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)

Events

1793 — Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France

1859 — John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper’s Ferry, Va.

1861 — Confederacy starts selling postage stamps

1916 — Margaret Sanger opens first birth-control clinic (46 Amboy St, Brooklyn)

1923 — Disney Co. founded

1925 — Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution

1926 — Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1,200 killed

1946 — Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged

1946 — Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged

1946 — Julius Streicher, German district leader (of Der Sturmer newspaper), hanged

1946 — Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged

1946 — Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, hanged

1962 — Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba

1981 — Moshe Dayan, Israel’s general, dies at 66

1987 — Jessica McClure rescued 58 hours after falling 22 feet into a well shaft