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By Elaine PaniszczynNationwide, thousands of flights were

cancelled over the Christmas holidays. On Christmas Day alone, Dallas/Fort Worth In-ternational Airport’s partner airlines cancelled a total of about 415 departures, and about 1,000 passengers stayed overnight in the ter-

minals. DFW personnel provided cots, blan-kets, toiletry kits and other comfort items for them.

Christmas afternoon, flyover bridges to the terminals were closed as a precaution, but all roads coming in and out of DFW Airport were wet but passable according to the Texas

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Survey: Travel industry to see upswing in 2013

The travel industry can expect a healthy upswing in the coming year, according to a recent survey con-ducted by The GO Group, LLC., which provides ground transporta-tion at more than 50 airports, and GO Airport Express.

When travelers were asked to project their travel plans for 2013, 23 percent of respondents stated they intend to travel more frequent-ly compared to 2012. The survey covered some 374 shuttle passen-gers from around the country.

Just 7 percent of participants said they planned on traveling less in 2013 and slightly less than 50 percent noted they will travel the same amount. Twelve percent said they didn’t know yet how frequently they would be traveling in the new year.

“This is good news for the hospi-tality industry, for business and for the overall U.S. economy,” said John McCarthy , president of GO Air-port Express and The GO Group. “The US tourism and travel in-dustry makes up a large part of US GDP and employment.”

“I’d like to think the money our customers are saving on ground transportation is allowing them to travel more,” he adds.

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DFW Airport deals with cancellations, delays caused by winter storm

The Heinsohn family wait several hours for their luggage to arrive. Their flight home was rescheduled to the next day, but their airline paid for their hotel room and meals.

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Unwilling to wait 24 hours for his rescheduled flight, Mark LePore waits for a friend driving from Waco to take him home.

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Well here we are again, at the close of another year. We are closing out another chap-ter of this book that we call life. All of us write history every day of our lives. I have read quite a few biographies of men and women who have lived and their lives and had them put down on pa-per. It is amazing how some of these books dramatically play out the theater of life. Many faced difficult trials

and tribulations; some succeeded in these tests, and some failed. Many pitfalls and valleys were present in their lives; some scaled these obsta-cles and reached heights unknown, while others pined away and died in the valley of despair.

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dotted every “I”. But I never stopped writing. I haven’t always been perfect in living my life, but I decided I was not ready to die, so I kept pushing onward. I have experienced quite a few of failures this year, but I have also gained a lot of successes. Life is simply about “Giving and Taking!”

As I look back on this year, the only thing I can attest to as far as stability and never chang-ing, is the unmatchless love of God towards me and His desire for me to succeed in all as-pects of my life. I wouldn’t have made it this far WITHOUT the mercy and grace of God. So my friends, take a quick inventory of your life this year. Where would you and I be without the Lord’s Hand in our life and for a matter of fact, in Creation!!! The blessings of God be upon you as you enter into the New Year. I say unto you all, “HAPPY NEW YEAR!”

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Flight nurse completes 1000 flights for Air Evac Lifeteam

Decatur based flight nurse Jim Gullage re-cently completed his 1000th flight for Air Evac Lifeteam. The Wichita Falls resident has worked for Air Evac Lifeteam for seven years. A former Air Force paramedic, Gullage earned nursing degree in 1991 and worked for several hospitals in his 20-plus year career before coming to Air Evac Lifeteam.

“Completing 1000 flights was one of my orig-inal goals when I came to Air Evac Lifeteam,” Gullage said. “I’m going back to school in Janu-ary, and my new goal is to complete the Nurse Practitioner’s Master’s Degree program.”

Gullage enjoys working for Air Evac Life-team, because the job allows him to use his knowledge and skill sets to take care of a wide variety of patients.

“I have to think inside and outside the box,” he said. “It’s an eclectic kind of nursing.”Air Evac Lifeteam is a membership-supported air ambulance company that provides

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By Lance Cpl. Sarah Wolff “Putt! Putt! Putt! Putt!”Imitating the sound of a Cur-

tiss Condor’s engines failing, Frank Baron Jr. mimics the tumbling mo-tions of the aircraft falling from the sky. His hands rush to his shoulders as if grabbing for parachute straps.

“I thought, ‘This is it,’ and then all of a sudden, brrrr!” he said, de-scribing the sound of the engines returning to life as he sinks into the back of the couch, grinning, but sighing with relief.

“That’s the most scared I ever was, and I love to fly,” said Baron, 98, who’d served as an airplane rig-ger during a crucial period in the evolution of Marine aviation.

Baron’s love for the Marine Corps was sparked in Glen Burnie, MD, where he was born April 18, 1914.

“I liked the Marines, I’d known them from the time I was just a kid,” Baron explained. He grew up three blocks from a training area used by a Marine unit.

There was no grass, only leaves from the shade trees, Baron said of the training grounds. He said would often visit and ask the Ma-rines if they wanted anything from the commissary.

“‘Yeah, get me a pack of ciga-rettes,’ or ‘Get me some soda pop,’ or this or that,” he said in a forced, gruff voice, pulling his eyebrows to-gether. “I’d get it, and they’d give me a nickel or a dime.”

These experiences inspired his trip to Parris Island, SC, in 1933, which marked the beginning of his four-year enlistment as a military police officer in the Marine Corps.

Baron’s first assignment was to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, where he and his friends, after standing guard at the Presidential Palace, would go to Gonaives Bay and dive from a five-story-tall plat-form.

“We would climb up, and dive off like swans,” Baron chuckled at the memory. “We would be up there looking down, and about a block from us there were sharks.”

After nine months in Haiti, Bar-on was briefly brought back to Par-ris Island before being sent to San Diego in California.

When he arrived in San Diego, then-Pvt. Baron saw the military pilots flying and immediately re-quested a transfer.

“I’ve always enjoyed being around planes,” Baron said, his eyes lighting up with excitement. “When I was a kid, planes used to fly over, and we would wave. You’d never believe it, but they would wave back!”

In 1935, Baron was transferred to North Coronado Island, official-ly recognized by the House Armed Services Committee as the birth-place of Marine Corps Aviation.

“I was working in the wings sec-tion. We would pull the canvas over the wings and goop it up with seal-ant,” Baron said as he made pulling and stretching motions with his hands, simulating the repairs.

Every day after work, Baron said he would look for space-availability flights. For the next two years, he would board planes for the pure joy of flying.

The flights would go almost any-where; from out over the ocean to

down to the border of Mexico, he said.

After his enlistment ended, Bar-on joined the San Diego fire de-partment, and once his two grand-daughters were born, he said he knew he wanted to share his pas-sion with them.

“When my sister and I were young, he would take us to the San Diego airport to watch the planes land and take off,” said Teri Juybari, one of Baron’s granddaughters. “We would watch for what seemed like hours, and as little kids, that was pretty exciting.”

This year, Marine Corps aviation is celebrating its centennial, which was made possible through the ef-forts and dedication of Marines like Baron.

The time he spent in the Ma-

rines and working on the planes he loved made such an impact on his life, Juybari said. After 75 years,

Baron is still proud of being a Ma-rine.

Source: Military.com

Photo provided by Teri Juybari, Baron’s granddaughter.

Frank Baron Jr. stands with Marine Aircraft Group-39 Marines for photos during the veteran’s tour of the air station at Camp Pendleton, CA on Dec. 11. Baron served as an active duty Marine from 1933 to 1937.

One Marine, 100 years of Marine Corps aviation

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Inert Ordnance and Grenades Etc. – Four grenades were discov-ered in carryon bags this week at Salt Lake City (SLC), Harlingen (HRL), Tampa (TPA), and Miami (MIA).

Six grenades were discovered in checked baggage. Three at Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), two at Albu-querque (ABQ), and one at Gulf-port (GPT).

Items in the Strangest Places – Three saw blades were discovered taped to the inside of an iPad case at Washington Dulles (IAD).

A razorblade was found in the

waistline of a pair of jeans packed in a carry-on bag at Chicago O’Hare.

Stun Guns – Eleven stun guns were discovered this week in a carry-on bags around the nation: Two at Atlanta (ATL), three at Baltimore (BWI), and one each at San Francisco (SFO), Fayetteville (FAY), Denver (DEN), San Diego (SAN), Seattle (SEA), and Minne-apolis (MSP).

Body Scanner Find This Week: A switchblade knife was discovered in the pants pocket of a passenger at San Diego (SAN).

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POLICE REPORT

n TheftDecember 19, 8:58 a.m.

Officers were dispatched to Terminal A, Gate 24 Ramp side in reference to a theft in progress. An anonymous caller reported the suspect was taking liquor from an aircraft and loading it into a van parked beside the aircraft.

Inside the aircraft,the suspect identified herself and admitted that she had takenap-proximately “20 cans of soda and a couple boxes of orange juice” from the rear of the aircraft and that she was planning to take the items back to a break room at Terminal E “to share with her co-workers.”

She said nobody else was involved. Inside the van were several grey bags containing miscellaneous food/beverage items which the suspect said were also taken from the aircraft. The items recovered included 75 cans of soda at $.25 each = $18.75; 2 boxes of orange juice at $1 each = $2; 1 bottle of water = $.50; 6 soft pretzels at $.50 each = $3; 2 packaged salads at $3 each = $6; 2 bags of chips at $.50 each = $1; 1 cheese and crackers = $1; 8 cookies at $.50 each = $4; Total = $36.25.

Officers confirmed with an airline manager that employees are not permitted to remove items from an aircraft. The airline decided they would press charges. A cabin service manager

escorted the suspect from the area. She was temporarily suspended and her badge confis-cated.

n Criminal Mischief December 19,5:38 p.m.

A victim told an officer by phone that some-one poured sugar into his vehicle’s gas tank while his vehicle was parked at his place of employment located at 1025 Royal Lane (Multi Cam).

The victim said he noticed some type of sticky substance on the side of his vehicle around his gas tank, which he believed to be some kind of soda. He said he did not think of anything sus-picious at the time. On his way home, his vehicle began to sputter and it shut off three times be-fore he made it home. He checked his gas tank and noticed a white substance he believed to be sugar around the neck of the gas tank. A local mechanic estimated the damage at $800. The victim said he believes two employees poured sugar into his tank as retaliation for turning in some drug paraphernalia which resulted in a drug testing.

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SCS Global Services (SCS) verified the carbon footprint of Delta Air Lines, making it the world’s first legacy airline to achieve a successful, independent third party verification of its greenhouse gas emissions in-ventory. SCS confirmed Delta’s conformance with The Climate Registry’s General Reporting Protocol, one of the world’s most trusted methodologies for measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

“Delta is taking a leadership role in the aviation sec-tor by setting a baseline for its GHG emissions and committing to reduce these emissions,” said Dr. Robert J. Hrubes, Executive Vice President of SCS Global Ser-vices. “We conducted a rigorous audit of Delta’s GHG emissions, which included jet fuel combustion, electric-ity usage, refrigerants and other emission sources.”

As part of the verification, the SCS team visited Delta’s operations and also conducted interviews with Delta personnel to verify that the correct methodolo-gies were used to calculate the company’s carbon foot-print. By having its carbon footprint verified by SCS, Delta has assured that its footprint measurement is of high quality, transparent, and credible. Membership in The Climate Registry gives Delta access to guidance in measuring its carbon inventory and access to the Cli-mate Registry’s online calculation and reporting tools.

The company is now eligible to use the Climate Reg-isteredTM logo and will be recognized on the Climate Registry’s website.

“We’ve made significant strides to reduce our GHG emissions and are pleased to now be a part of an orga-nization that verifies and validates our commitment,” said Ken Hylander, Delta’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Safety, Security & Compliance. “Increased transparency is a significant part of Delta’s efforts to build a business model that continually improves sus-tainability over the long term, which is why we support consistent and transparent standards to calculate, verify and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions.”

Having received a positive verification statement in October for historic emission years 2005-2010, Delta is now pursuing verification of its 2011 greenhouse gas inventory. Delta is the second carrier worldwide to meet the requirements of the registry, joining Virgin America in achieving verification.

The Climate Registry is a nonprofit collaboration among North American states, provinces, territories and Native Sovereign Nations that sets consistent and transparent standards to calculate, verify and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions into a single registry.

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Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a sub-sidiary of United Technologies Corp., and By Kids For Kids Co., an organization that inspires kids to become successful inventors, re-cently awarded an Indiana teenager the Igor Sikorsky Youth Innovator Award for his conceptual design of a circular-shaped medical evacua-tion helicopter.

Ethan Chu, 16, from South Bend, IN, received a trophy and a $1,000 scholarship check during a company-paid visit to Sikorsky’s headquarters in Stratford, CT ac-companied by his father William Chu, Ethan toured the assembly line of Sikorsky’s iconic BLACK HAWK and SEAHAWK® mili-tary helicopters, and met with company rotorcraft designers and engineers.

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“We were impressed with the strong scientific reasoning and the good deal of thought that Ethan put into his innovative submis-sion,” said Vern Van Fleet, a chief test engineer for Sikorsky Military Systems. “And he never lost sight of the competition theme, which was to produce an environmentally

friendly helicopter.”As an 11th grader, Ethan likes

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“This competition gave me the opportunity to learn new knowl-edge and gain new skills,” said Ethan. “I was fascinated with the ‘Coanda Effect’ that I read about, and I decided to use it to make my helicopter design more efficient.”

The Igor Sikorsky Youth In-novator Award is the grand prize for the Sikorsky Helicopter 2050 Challenge. The competition rated designs for concept uniqueness, de-scription detail and creativity of the presentation.

Museums throughout the coun-try participated in the Sikorsky He-

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“The Sikorsky Helicopter 2050 Challenge is a program to push kids

to apply what they’ve learned in school to create an idea that is en-tirely theirs,” said Judy Bankowski, Vice President and Chief Informa-tion Officer at Sikorsky. “Our pro-gram seeks to inspire kids to think and innovate, and to begin shaping their future.”

Source: Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.

ExxonMobil and its employees and retirees in North Texas raised more than $1.6 million for chari-table organizations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area dur-ing the second-annual Employees’ Favorite Charities Campaign.

Employees and retirees contributed to nearly 200 charities that provide a wide range of social and edu-cational services to residents in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall and Tarrant counties.

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“Our employees and retirees continue a strong tra-dition of giving in the communities where we live and work.”

Since 2007, ExxonMobil and its employees and re-tirees have provided more than $33 million and 56,000 volunteer hours in support of North Texas charitable organizations and universities.

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On the positive side:Any expiration date must show

on the card or package.Charges cannot be deducted

for one year on any inactive card, and then not more than once in a month.

Your best bet: If any packaging came with your gift card, read the fine print.

If you were given the receipt with the card, hold on to it. If you lose the card, that receipt will show the date and amount of purchase.

Use the card soon. Spend all of the money on it. If it’s a reloadable card and you add money to it, keep track of the transaction and know when it will expire.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send email to columnre-ply@gmail.com.

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By Thurs., Dec. 27, the winter storm had passed the Metroplex but continued to drop snow and create havoc for airports in states east of Texas.

Teens Ashley and Tre Allen’s flight from Grand Rapids, MI, was delayed Christmas Day, and they made it into DFW Thursday after-noon.

“It was my first time on a plane, and I was scared because it got delayed,” Tre said. He said he was afraid the runway was going to be slippery for his landing in Dallas.

Their mom said she was disap-pointed their trip was delayed, be-cause that meant she lost a day and a half with her children.

“Plus, it was Christmas,” she said. “We had plans to go to a big Christmas party and open presents, and they missed all of that. But we try to look on the positive.”

About 4 p.m. Thursday, Mat-thew and Alisa Heinsohn and their baby Isabelle waited in Terminal B, hoping for their luggage to arrive from Newark. Their plane had ar-rived at 1 p.m.

“They couldn’t load our luggage on our flight from Newark,” Ms. Heinsohn said. “They said there was already too much luggage on the plane.”

“We were going to take it as carry-on, but they said there was no more room left,” Mr. Heinsohn said. On top of that, their flight out of DFW was cancelled, and they were going to have to spend the night in a hotel and fly out the next day.

“Up in B20 where they have the extra luggage, there were three peo-ple discussing how their flight was supposed to leave this morning,” Ms. Heinsohn said. “They checked in at 10 a.m. and at 11 a.m., they were told their flight was cancelled. It was 3 p.m., and they were wait-ing for their bags that never left the airport.”

Mark LePore’s flight to Waco was cancelled Thursday morning.

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After arriving a day and a half after Christmas, Ashley and Tre Allen leave the airport with their mom. They missed a family party and gift exchange, but they said they were happy they arrived safely.

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“They cancelled the flight and put me on standby for the next one, but then it was overbooked by three people. They said I could wait to try to get on the next flight at 9 p.m. or I could wait for my confirmed flight which is 10 something tomorrow. So, I decided to call someone to come all the way from Waco to pick me up.”

He had been in Maryland where it had also snowed.

“The only people who said they were sorry were the people at the baggage claim desk,” LePore said. “Everyone else just didn’t seem to

care. My flight came in at 11, and my flight out was at 1:30, so I had a long wait before I knew the flight was cancelled. They cancelled it about 1 o’clock.

“I got notification from Orbits faster than the boards updated here and even faster than the ticket agents knew what was going on,” LePore said.

Despite a few complaints, most passengers collecting their luggage in Terminal B said their flights had been uneventful with no travel problems.

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Col. (Dr.) Lewis D. Neace, the 920th Aeromedi-cal Staging Squadron commander, was called to action during the flight from Portland, OR, Nov. 1. About an hour after takeoff, a call came over the intercom asking if there were any medical personnel on board.

“I looked around and clear in the back I see some people clustered around the aft galley,” Neace said. “I went back and sure enough there was a guy flat on the floor.”

Neace wasn’t the only medical person flying the friendly skies that day.

“There were actually two physicians back there, I introduced myself as an emergency room doctor and the one guy said ‘I’m an obstetrician, I’m out of here’ the other one said ‘I’m an oncologist, I’m out of here too’ and like boom these guys disappeared,” said Neace, who took responsibility and administered the necessary medical treatment.

Neace, who works full time at Legacy Good Sa-maritan Hospital in Portland found himself in a similar situation on his return flight Nov. 6.

“I noticed a little commotion behind me, I turn around and this elderly fellow is gasping for air,” Neace

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“His oxygen level was down around 70, normal is mid- to upper-90s. It was not good.”

At Neace’s request, a flight attendant brought over an oxygen tank, which seemed to work for a short time.

“His (oxygen levels) started looking better but then they started to drop again,” Neace said.

The initial oxygen bottle that the airline attendant supplied was defective and a new one was needed stat.

“His oxygen level was declining and the oxygen bag was not inflated,” Neace stated to the airline attendant. “We need another bottle or tell the pilot to divert to the closet airport.”

Fortunately another oxygen bottle was available and the patient’s oxygen level stabilized and he was able to make it all the way to Portland.

“I was glad I was able to help, and the patient and his wife were a fun couple,” Neace said. “She was a rocket scientist; she designed rocket fuel and retired from Red Stone Arsenal, she has patents on the Patriot Missile. I forgot to ask what he did.”

Neace recently received a thank you note from the couple and plans on sending them a 920th RQW patch.

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The Universal Technical Institute Dallas campus in Irving celebrated the holiday season by helping families in need. The campus recently completed a food drive for the North Texas Food Bank that ran from Nov. 12 - 28.

Students and staff brought in 2,441 cans of food, approximately 900 more cans than last year. Jesse Tor-res, an instructor at the campus, told his students that he would personally match the amount of canned food they brought in. His class ended up donating 296 cans of food, which Mr. Torres matched.

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When police used their LoJack Police Tracking Computers to track down a stolen Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck in Houston, they dis-covered that a phony vehicle iden-tification number (VIN) had been attached to its dash to disguise the truck’s identity. Officers inspected the original VIN and determined that it was from the stolen vehicle.

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Thieves stole a brand new 2012 Ford F-150 pickup truck right off the lot of a Houston dealership where a LoJack System had been installed minutes earlier. Local police recovered the vehicle in less than an hour and arrested the un-suspecting bad guys.

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Seven stolen Cadillac Escalades, three stolen Chevrolet pickups, one stolen Chevrolet Suburban and a stolen Dodge pickup were all re-covered thanks to the LoJack Sys-tem that was installed in a GMC Yukon. The Yukon was stolen from Fort Worth and tracked down by police to a warehouse where the other vehicles were stored. Total value of these recoveries: $182,000!

#2: Getting the Bad Guys: Lo-Jack System Helps Police Appre-hend Criminals Who Terrorized Elderly Man

Four brazen con men, who were posing as utility workers, gained ac-cess to the home of an elderly hand-icapped man in Daly City, CA, ter-rorizing the victim, stealing his cash and valuables, and forcing him to give up his ATM PIN and the keys to his car -- which unbeknownst to the thieves, was equipped with a LoJack System. Police tracked the man’s stolen Honda and appre-hended four suspects.

#1: Not Asleep on the Job: Lo-Jack System Foils Thieves Attempt to Conceal and Ship Multiple Ve-hicles Overseas

When the owner of a 2010 Toy-ota RAV-4 reported his vehicle sto-len to Montgomery MD County Police Department, LoJack Police Tracking Computers led police on a trail that ended with the bust of an international theft ring.

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The Universal Technical Institute’s staff and their families distribute toys to the children at the Christmas in the Park event.

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• It was American humorist and col-umnist Josh Billings who made the following sage observation: “Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”

• You think there are a lot of lawsuits being heard in the courts these days? Statistics show that half of the suits filed never even make it to court.

• In France in the 1700s, capital punishment was not uncommon, and criminals thus condemned were decapitated by the country’s Chief Executioner. This position was hereditary, which posed a problem when, in 1726, the holder of that title, Charles-Jean-Baptiste Sanson, suf-fered an early death, leaving his 7-year-old son, Charles, to take up the grisly duties. It was obvious to all that a child could never wield the heavy axe required for the decapitations, so it was deemed acceptable for a helper to actually perform the executions. Only the official office-holder could put the official seal on the act, how-ever, so the poor boy had to witness every one. It wasn’t until the ripe old age of 12 that he began to take over the full duties of the office.

• When famed inventor Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922, he was dic-tating a memo. His final words were, “So little done, so much to do!”

• If you’re a fan of big brass, you might want to head to Millersville, Pa., in May. Every year during that month, the town celebrates Inter-national Tuba Day, with some 50 tuba players on hand to serenade the crowd.

• There’s been much public con-versation about the growing girth of Americans in recent decades. It’s not just people who are gaining weight, though; between 1996 and 2006, the average motor vehicle made in the U.S. gained 500 pounds.

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