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From: History of Butler County Kansas
Author: P. Mooney
Publisher: Standard Publishing Co., 1916
James A. Rhodes, now deceased, a veteran of the Civil war and Butler county pioneer, was a native of Indiana. He was born in 1827 and died at Augusta in 1888. During the second year of the war, he enlisted in the Seventy-first regiment, Indiana infantry, and served about three years or until the surrender of Lee closed the last chapter of that great conflict. During his term of service, Mr. Rhodes was twice captured by the enemy. The first time he escaped after being a prisoner for a short time, and the second time he was paroled. At the close of the war he returned to his Indiana home. Mr. Rhodes married Miss Lucy P. Richardson at Clinton, Ind., in 1854, who survives him. and now resides at Augusta, Kans. She was born at Clinton, Ind., and was a daughter of William A. and Sarah Ann (Parker) Richardson, who were the parents of nine children, only one other besides Mrs. Rhodes is now living, Dr. John F. Richardson, a prominent physician of Hunnewell, Kans. To Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes were born William A., who died in 1891, aged thirty-five years, and Flora, who resides in Augusta with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes came to Butler county, Kansas, in 1871, and took a government claim. At that time the Government land office was at Humboldt, Kans., and Mr. Rhodes walked from Emporia to Humboldt to file on his claim, and from there walked to Augusta. After living on the claim about six months they removed to Augusta, and Mr. Rhodes was engaged in the real estate business for a time, and was engaged in various business enterprises during his life time. He led a very busy life and was uniformly successful in his undertakings. He was city treasurer of Augusta for seven years, and had much to do with the early development of the town. Mrs. Rhodes has a remarkably retentative memory and relates many interesting incidents in the early history of Butler county. She says that Mrs. Augusta James, in whose honor the town of Augusta was named, was the first woman who called on her in her new Augusta home. Mrs. Rhodes was here at a time when Butler county was almost in its primitive state, and is a first-hand authority on much of the important history of this section of Kansas.


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Indiana Attorney Scott D. Lewis represents Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claimants with their disability claim. Often times, he will get asked by his disability clients if it is important for them to continue to take their medications prescribed by their treating physicians. When Mr. Lewis discusses the claimant's case, during the free consultation offered at his law office, he often shares with them the importance to continue to visit their treating physicians and the importance of the claimant to comply with the treating physician's orders, including medications. As disability lawyer Scott Lewis explains the disability evaluation process to his potential clients, he also explains the importance of medical records and medication history. When submitting records in support of the claimant's disability claim, Mr. Lewis and his staff will attempt to submit all medications prescribed by the client's treating physician. Many times, claimants will experience side effects with their medications. These side effects may contribute to the claimant's inability to work. Side effects of some pain medications or other medications may include, but are not limited to: fatigue drowsiness nausea breathing impairment mental fogginess gastrointestinal effects decrease in reaction time These side effects may impact the claimant's ability to engage in normal daily activities or one's ability to persist in a work environment. Scott Lewis believes that if a disability claimant does not comply with their treating physician's medication orders, the Social Security Administration (SSA) may deny their disability claim. In Mr. Lewis' experience, it may be in the claimant's best interest to take the medications that have been prescribed by their treating physician and take prescribed medication as instructed. The SSA will determine the severity of the disability and their ability to function while the claimant is medicated. If the disability claimant fails to comply with their medication orders, the SSA may not be able to … Continued
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Story of vicar giving talk on sex at school. Couldn't write 'Talk on sex at school' in diary, so wrote 'Talk on sailing at school'. His wife was looking through his diary. Received phone call from head teacher: 'Your husband gave a very good talk.' Wife: 'Yes, I saw that in his diary. I am surprised. He has very little experience. He's only done it twice. The first time he was sick, and the second time his hat blew off'.
Important topic:
Society has a great deal to say on the subject of sex.
Sex is very much in the public sphere. Scenes that I suspect would never have been shown late at night even a few years ago are now shown well before the 9pm watershed. And as for the 9pm watershed, you-tube and I player now make that nonsense.
And I guess that the dominant view of society today is 'the four wedding and a funeral' attitude to sex: if you're married you ought to remain faithful (unless you have what is called an 'open marriage'); but otherwise it does not matter how many sexual partners, of whatever gender, you have (indeed it is a virtue to have had several), and it does not matter what you do – so long as both of you are consenting adults.
Indeed I would go further and say that in modern society to suggest that a particular sexual practice is wrong is in fact perceived to be an infringement of another persons' rights. And Christians have tacitly bought into that by retreating from talking about sex in the public sphere – partly because of the way that someone like Mary Whitehouse was slaughtered by the media.
And the main thing that society teaches about sex today is that you can have sex with whoever you want to, but if you are going to have sex, you need to have safe sex – wear a condom; and if you are going to have children you really should be in some sort of committed relationship.
If society is always talking about sex, in Christian circles we rarely talk about sex.
Within churches, particularly those which uphold the teaching of scripture and of the historic Church, we teach that the place for sexual intimacy is within marriage between man and woman, and we teach celibacy outside of marriage. But beyond that we are silent. We do not often speak – for very good reasons – about sexual desires – both positive and negative, masturbation, sexual practice, pornography, affair-proofing relationships, or dealing with singleness and celibacy.
And I will try not to be embarrassing, but I do wish to lift the curtain of silence just slightly on some of these issues
This is an area which destroys Christian lives.
Sexual sin destroys Christians. The New Testament is full of injunctions to keep ourselves pure, to keep the marriage bed 'undefiled' (Hebrews 13:4), to avoid even the hint of sexual immorality (Ephesians 5:3). There are 20 references to 'sexual immorality' in the New Testament.
It is not the only sin, it is not the biggest sin; but sexual sin destroys ministries and churches in a way that other sin does not; and it destroys partners, children and individuals in a way that other sins do not. It is one of Satan's favourite weapons.
Sexual sin shipwrecks Christian lives. But so does the guilt that comes from sexual sin, and to be totally honest, the false guilt that hangs around sex.
The Church has not been great talking about sex. The fact that monasticism became, after the 4th Century, the ideal form of Christian life (and that most bishops came from the ranks of the monks) meant that the people who were the main teachers of the church had a very low view of sex. It existed, if it really had to, for procreation only. Otherwise it was wrong.
And many Christians have laboured under the burden that sexual desire is not good – and needs to be suppressed – and that we need to restrain ourselves from sexual activity.
We have been made as men and women and we have desires, including sexual desire.
1 Timothy 4:4-5 is key here. "For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by God's word and by prayer." Everything is right in its rightful place.
The desire for sexual intimacy is the desire to be fully part of someone else. It includes the desire to belong to someone else and to possess someone else, especially when that someone else is physically desirable, and is beautiful.
At its best, the desire for sexual intimacy is the desire:
- to be free from ourselves. 'Hell', says Sartre, 'is the other person'. No. 'Hell', to quote Timothy Ware in The Orthodox Way (p35), 'is myself, cut off from others in self-centredness.'
- to be profoundly creative. Sexual intimacy, can be, humanly speaking, the most creative thing we ever do.
- for ecstasy: for the physical ecstasy that comes from the releasing of tension, for both men and women. But for more than that: for ecstasy at it's most profound, spiritual level. And the word 'ecstasy' comes from the Greek 'ek – stasis' (away from – movement), again reminding us that at the heart of ecstasy is a movement out of ourselves. True ecstasy comes when we let go and give.
The problem is that we live in a fallen society.
And the result is that our desires get mixed up and confused.
a) We desire each other and not God
Our first desire is meant to be for God: 'to love him and worship him for ever': to be part of God, to be possessed by him and to possess him; to be profoundly creative in him and to experience true ecstasy.
And yet straight after the fall, our desires are messed up
Genesis 3:16: "To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.""
It is not wrong to desire another person; but it is second best to desire for God
b) Our desire for the other is perverted
Romans 1:24-27 applies to every person and is not just about homosexual practice:
"Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error." (Romans 1:24-27, NRSV)
This is not saying that it is wrong for a man to love another man. It clearly is not. Jonathan's love for David and David's love for Jonathan was clearly very deep: (1 Samuel 18:1; 20:17; 2 Samuel 1:27: "I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; greatly beloved were you to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.")
What it is saying is that love must not give way to the desire to commit 'shameless acts', to the 'degrading of our bodies' or to the abandonment of 'natural intercourse'. Love needs to triumph over, what the Church Father's called, the passions
And the result is that one of the most precious and healing gifts that God has given us can become one of the most self-centred and most destructive things that we ever do. It becomes a playground for the abuse of other people, for domination over other people, for the turning of other people into objects to satisfy myself; and it leads to the awful story of the concubine in Judges 19 – or to just take two stories that have been in the press this week – the taxi driver who has raped literally hundreds of women; or the man in Austria who turned his own daughter into a sex slave.
But just because sexual desire and sexual intimacy is abused, it does not mean that it is wrong. It needs to be received 'with thanksgiving and sanctified by the word of God and prayer'. In other words, it needs to be kept within the boundaries that God has given: marriage between man and woman.
But let us look at some of the other issues that I have mentioned.
Masturbation is probably not ideal. It is a very individual thing and I think it is about the release of sexual tension: it is interesting how people talk about men having some form of cycle. Leviticus 15 talks about emissions of semen, with the result that the person is unclean until the evening when they should take a bath.
But it is not a big thing. Many Christians, especially young Christians, can get very hung up about this. I remember having a series of phone calls from a young man, who I never met, who was really hung up about the fact that he was masturbating regularly. Actually, by taking the pressure off him, by saying that it was not such a big thing, and not to be so hung up about it, really helped him to get the compulsion under control.
Of course there are the problems of the fantasies which come with it, but it can also be a release of the tension when no other 'legitimate' way is there (whether that is because one is single, or married but with little sexual intimacy in marriage)
However, it must not become controlling, and it must not take the place of physical intimacy if you are married.
Luther, I believe, spoke of masturbation as a 'puppy sin'. The only time that it is really condemned in the bible is in Genesis 38:9, where Onan 'spilled his semen on the ground' in order to avoid his responsibilities. Why for that? Because it affects other people.
This is a much bigger issue, particularly today with internet pornography being so accessible – with absolutely no seeming accountability.
There is a real problem with pornography, because the images stick with us, and it effects how we see other people and particularly women
Some guidelines that have helped me:
- If something is giving you a real problem, get rid of it. Your soul and your mind are more important than your laptop or PDA
- Use passwords – Jesus Christ – although there is always a way around this
- Remember that even if you go onto an incognito window, there is someone somewhere who is able to look at a list of all the sites that you have visited.
- Remember that there is someone who is looking at what sites you visit
- Be accountable to othersPray for a Godly sorrow – so that what you see actually makes you feel physically sick and defiled.
Please, if this has become compulsive, if it is in danger of destroying you, do talk talk talk to others.
If you are there, stop
If you have not been there, don't go there
If you have been there, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Of course it is exciting. Of course the sex is fantastic. Have you ever heard of an affair where the sex was not exciting?
It can only be for short while: one, two years. After that, it becomes normal.
The affair now was beginning to have some of the longueurs of marriage, but with none of marriage's reassuring safety and comfort. It wasn't only that the excitement had gone. It was difficult now to recall those first heady weeks when their affair had first started, impossible to recapture that mixture of sexual enthralment spiced with danger, the exhillarating self-confidence of knowing that a beautiful and successful woman found him desirable. Did she still? Hadn't it become a matter of habit for them both? Everything, even illicit passion, had its natural end. (PD James, A Certain Justice, p104)
It has nothing to do with love
About Dalgliesh's lovers: 'What, he wondered, had those carefully spaced encounters, both participants groomed for pleasure like a couple of sleek cats, to do with love, with untidy bedrooms, unwashed dishes, babies' nappies, the warm close claustrophobic life of marriage and commitment' (PD James, The Black Tower, p5)
It destroys your partner, your children and yourself
We need right thinking in this: we need to be led by our mind and not by our genitals. I like the story of the man who sees a woman walking down the street. He gapes. His friend says, 'Married with three children'. The man replies, 'I don't believe it. Not with that figure'. 'No', said his friend, 'not her; you'.
We need accountability to each other – and especially to your partner. I've had three occasions when people have come to me and said, 'I'm married – I want to be faithful to my marriage – but I'm in love with someone else'. I said very little, although did suggest that if at all possible they should talk it through with their partner. I don't know whether they did. But I do know that all three marriages survived, and I suspect that part of the reason was that the person was prepared to be honest.
We need the grace of God. Please do not presume that you stand. Gordon MacDonald, a well known Christian leader in the States, who wrote, 'Ordering Your Private World', said that he was asked, 'How would Satan destroy your ministry'. He answered – in all integrity - with the words, 'I don't know. But I know that it would not be through my private life'. Within a year, he was having an affair with his secretary.
Having said all of that, the affair is not the end. It was not the end for David in the OT; it was not end for MacDonald. It might seem to be the end – it might throw you into the pit – that is the judgement of God – but by his grace it does not need to be the end.
I have heard it said that with consenting couples, in the privacy of their own home, whatever they do is OK.
I do not think that is true. As I spoke earlier, our desires are mixed up. Some of our desires are good. Others are destructive.
For example, in my previous church in Holloway we had a shop opposite which sold bondage stuff. It offered to satisfy the desires of those who wished to dominate or to be dominated. But I do not think that that is healthy. The desire to belong to and be part of someone else is good. God made us to be in Christ and to have Christ in us. He made us together to be in Christ. But the desire to dominate and to be dominated is I suspect a consequence of the fall.
What we do in the bedroom needs to build up the other and not destroy; it is about growing the other and not shrinking them: it is about treating the other person as a human being made in the image of God and uniquely precious to him. .
Sexual intimacy is about doing something that builds up both partners as children of God – which is why it has to be between man and woman, and why it really has to be face to face.
As a young curate, only just married, we ran in our house one of the Rob Parson's marriage enrichment courses. There were a quite a number of people who came. In it, Rob or Diane talks of the couple who could not make love because whenever he touched her she wanted to turn over and be physically sick. Suddenly one lady in the quite large group who was there with her husband said, 'that is how I feel when he touches me!'
Those of you who are married do not need me to tell you that there will be times when there is no sex in our marriages. That might be for many reasons: the birth of a baby, illness, change of life; it might be because there is something deeper going on; or it might mean that we have to look again at our relationship.
Those are the times when we need to really work out whether we are spending enough time with our wives, giving them quality time, showing respect and gratitude; There are times when we need to ask whether the romance or the vision has gone out of the relationship. If it has, it does not mean that it is time to trade her in for a younger model, but it means that it is time to work hard at your relationship.
And the physical stuff is important: the touching, the hugging – without the idea that there must be sex, however much we might desire that.
And there will be times when there is no sex – but it is not the end of the world, it is quite normal – and as the single person might say, 'Welcome to our world!'
Sex, and sexual desire, is an amazing gift that God has given. But, despite what the world says, it is not what life is all about.
It is quite possible to satisfy those three deepest desires: for release from self into another, for creativity and for ecstasy, without sexual intimacy.
Jesus managed to do so; Paul managed to do so (he talks in 1 Corinthians 7 of singleness and celibacy as being a gift, indeed a gift that is greater than the gift of marriage, because it means that there is nothing in your way to making the first desire of your life – God); many many women and men of God through the ages have managed to do so. I think more recently of people like Mr Theresa or John Stott.
If we are single or if we are sexually frustrated, we do not need to be stultified human beings – even if society and the church might make us feel like that.
There is, of course, great cost in singleness, but also great opportunity.
Stott writes in his commentary on 1 Thessalonians 4:4, "An additional paragraph is needed for those of us who are single and therefore lack the God-given context for sexual love. What about us? We too must accept this apostolic teaching, however hard it may seem, as God's good purpose for us and for society. We shall not become a bundle of frustrations and inhibitions if we embrace God's standard, but only if we rebel against it. Christ's yoke is easy, provided that we submit to it. It is possible for human sexual energy to be redirected ('sublimated' would be the Freudian word) both into affectionate relationships with friends of both sexes and into the loving service of others. Multitudes of Christian singles, both men and women, can testify to this. Alongside a natural loneliness, accompanied sometimes by acute pain, we can find joyful self-fulfilment in the self-giving service of God and other people" (John Stott, The Message of Thessalonians, p84f)
And I think that the bible hints that there will not be sexual intimacy, at least as we know it, in heaven.
Luke 20:27-40 states that there will be no marriage in the resurrection, and Galatians 3:28 talks of how there is no male or female distinction in Christ (in the same way as there is no slave/free distinction or Jew/Gentile distinction).
This is speculation. But if there is no sexual intimacy in heaven, it is because heaven is a place where our desires are rightly ordered, and where our desires are fully satisfied in the best possible way.
And so the desire for ecstasy in the richest sense of the word, to be creative in partnership with others, and to come out of ourselves and to be part not just of one other but of all others, will be fulfilled in heaven in a way that sexual intimacy can never offer. Because those desires are ultimately fulfilled when we are in God, when we are in Christ and Christ is in us. Those desires will find their richest fulfilment in that place where 'eye has not seen, or ear heard, or the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him'.


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This pages serves as an example of one approach to cleaning specimen data from a pre-existing source, here Excel, for import to Arctos.
Data are typically stored in a single table/spreadsheet, with a single assertive column, e.g., "Sex."
That will map to an Attribute "sex" in Arctos. That value is controlled, and Arctos won't accept things that aren't in the appropriate code table. We need to standardize the data.
We first run a DISTINCT query
which returns distinct values of sex into a table, which we can then export as CSV. The query returns 29 rows, including NULL.
Somewhere in the data, sex is given as "SO" (which looks like the old Skin Only code – data have probably been shifted at some point, a common occurence). I can't tell (and it doesn't matter) if "SO" is used once or eleventy-bajillion times – this is why it's generally the same amount of work to clean up 1 record or a million, and it's (partially) why we store the data relationally.
We can add count to the query to satisfy our curiosity
The Arctos code table – the list of acceptable values for attribute "sex" and (hopefully) their definitions is
or collection-type-specific values, when appropriate, may be found at e.g.,
The value "M" in these data needs mapped to the Arctos value "male," which w do by adding a "shouldBe" column to the table of distinct values, and populating it with values from the Arctos Code Table.
For initial import, where legacy data have been stored as text-string assertions, that is usually sufficient. Other necessary values are, with the guidance of collection's personnel, simply defaulted in from existing data – determiner=collector, determined date=collecting date, etc. However, Arctos Attributes can do more. Attributes are structured as
or in the bulkloader, from where data will be loaded to Arctos,
Using that, rather than the simple lookup table described above, we could create the Attributes column set, or parts thereof, from the given values
The returned lookup table is then used to update specimen data and/or populate the bulkloader structure. This is often done by adding columns to the original data export, then using the lookup table to form an update query. Whatever technique is used, a join is made between the specimens and the lookup table, so it is critically important to never update the extracted values.


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2012 Programs
November 6, 2012
Cliff Durand and Keith Wilkins
Chapter #13's own Cliff Durand qualifies as a World War II historian, who has been searching and gathering his- torical material from that era for many years.
Cliff and his lifetime friend and associate, Keith Wilkins, shared their experiences on the subject of Collecting World War II memorabilia, and the historical significance of the material.
October 4, 2012
- Dennis Glaeser
Chapter 13's own Dennis Glaeser will be our speaker at the regular October meeting. Dennis is a graduate of West Virginia University earning his BSAE in Aerospace Engineering. He is the Chief Flight Instruc- tor for the Troy Air Experience, and is also a Senior Engineer for Enterprise Services.
Dennis will share his experience installing a Subaru engine in his RV-7A. We will hear all about the good the bad and the ugly, the ups and downs, and the trials and tribulations of the project.
September 6, 2012
Oshkosh member review
Our September guests were our Young Eagle Acad- emy participants; Kenneth Mead and Anna Koerber (joined by her father and brother, Greg and Nick). Ethan Warner was unable to attend, but will join us another evening. Ken represented the Chapter in the 12-13 year old category, and Anna in the 16-18 year group. Each
gave us a summary of the activities they partici- pated in as well as their thoughts on the programs. In addition, Anna assem- bled a photo slide show of her experi- ences to share with us. Very nicely done.
July 5, 2012
- Carol Ann Garrett
CarolAnn Garratt of Gainesville, Florida has flown around the world in less than nine days. CarolAnn and her co-pilot, Carol Foy, hold the world's record for their flight in December 2008. She has a new book out on her experiences.
Done to raise awareness for ALS, CarolAnn discussed not only her flight but the grueling eighteen months of preparation that preceeded it.
CarolAnn earned her private pilot license in 1978 and her instrument rating in 1980. In 1996, she completed her commercial license and bought a Mooney in 2000. After her mother suffered and died from ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease, she flew around the world in 2003 to raise awareness and donations for ALS research. Not content to just fly, CarolAnn built her first plane in 2006. Today she owns and flies three different aircraft. She has over 3900 hours and flies more than 400 hours a year including flying students with the EAA Young Eagles program, the sick and needy with Angel Flights, and instructing cadets with the Civil Air Patrol.
May 3, 2012
- Bob Hunt
Our speaker was our own Bob Hunt. He discussed his propeller making business. He purchased master propellers, built his own CNC machine to carve the wooden propellers and built a spray booth for finishing.
April 5, 2012
Joel Alexander, Traffic Copter pilot and newscaster
March 1, 2012
-FAA Pilot Proficiency (Wings) Program on Aeronautical Charts
The Michigan Department of Transportation, Office of Aeronautics requested that Chapter #13 host a Pilot Safety Seminar at our regular March meeting. The program is co-sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration and will qualify for the FAA Pilot Proficiency (Wings) Program. Members had an opportunity to meet a number of pilots from the area. The subject of this seminar was a discussion of Aeronautical Charts.
February 2 , 2012
Christine Hartges, Air Traffic Manager of Pontiac (PTK) ATCT,
Risk Management starts on the surface.
She has served pilots across Michigan for 27 years as an Air Traffic Controller, Staff Specialist, a Supervisor at FNT (Flint)and MBS (Saginaw)Towers, the Acting Air Traffic Manager at MBS Tower; and since December 2010, has been the Air Traffic Manager of the Pontiac (PTK) Air Traffic Control Tower. She is one of six regional Air Traffic Runway Safety experts, the President of EAA Chapter 597 in Chesaning, MI and worked 5 years in a "pink shirt" as an Air Traffic Controller during EAA AirVenture. As a FAAst team representative and Instrument Flight Instructor, she facilitates quarterly CFI renewal workshops at Bay City (3CM )airport. While qualified as a Multi- Engine Pilot, she currently owns and flies a Citabria 7GCBC; based out of Woodside Airport (2MI0) in her Chesaning, Michigan backyard. Christine is the mother of five children ages twenty-two to seven, and has been married to the same man for over twenty-six years; who just happens to also be her A&P mechanic.
January 5, 2012
Peter Dugdale
Peter gave a talk on "engine testing and lean of peak operations." Short of further detail, we looked up Peter on the internet. Holy smokes, Mr. Dugdale takes up pages on the net. From Formula Ford testing at Oulton Park in the UK, to similar activities in New South Wales, to RV-6 engine cracks, to Dynamometer testing at Saturn, to GM testing of large displacement 4-cylinder engines, to semi-stressed engines. You might say that this guy has been around the (engine) block.
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Vol. 11 No. 3 ANNUAL REPORT AT PRINI'ERS NEWS L E T T E R LOS ANGELES COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 322 B. BROADWAY P. O. Box 111 L OB AN13ELES 53, CALIF"ORNIA September 19:57 The annual sununing up of a year's activiti.es, that compiling and interpretation Of statistics that ShOWS where and i n what quantity progress has been made and --~--wftere--fttrt:her:e:finrt-:mtLs::t · e~ e-eomi.ng, yea-1"<!---J:D other worl:l"s·; t~e Annual Report- --was completed this month and nas gone to the printers. Sights are set for a November distribution. Briefly0 here are the highlights: circulation increased by 379,020; registration by 35, 522; and ll50 ;-j94 books were added to the coUection. The Library huilt two branch bu1 i di ngs0 Sorensen and Lawndale; almost completed a tn1rd, Newha1i0 and opened another 0 Manhattan Beach, which it has contracted to purchase wfthin a three year period • . Budget commitments were macte for an extensive building and lease program this year& When realized it will mean large modern buildings for West Covina, La Puente, Lakewood and Bell. TAX AATE IS SE'f the maximum ten FINES ENLARGE EXCHEQUER 'l'he Library tax rate for the comi ng year was set thi.s mont n by t ne Board of Supervisors at $00992 per $100 of assessed valuation, which is short but a small amount of cents permitted by State law. Patrons who failed to meet ret urn deadl ines paid a total of $91 , 226~. 56 in overdue fines last year. Others, who completely "mislaid" the volumes borrowed paid $6,4fft.21 into the Lost Book Fund. NEXT YEAR'S DATA NO\V PILING UP o Data for the coming Annual Report i s already piling up. One achievement of the month just ended was the installation Of telephones in fi ve small branches that never had them before; Lomita, Carson, Dominguez, Keystone and Wiseburn. - Orders have also been placed tor telephones for B1oomi ie1d0 Newhall and San · Dimas. This almost completes our telephone program st artect a few years ago. PLANS MADE FUH Plans for tne Liorary's representation at the annual CLA CLA PARTICIPATION Conference, Fresno, OCtober 16-19, are nearly completed. Several of the Division and Region heads will attend. Mr. Henderson will be present at the pre-Conference gathering or County Librarians October 14 and l o. At the first general Conference session he will introduce the Gillis Centennial portion of the program and will chairman a · luncheon that day for all those who pioneered with ,James L. Gillis, State Librarian 1899-1917, in the establishing of Californi a'r county library · system. LIBRARY 'l'ALK TO SOROPTIMIST CLUB Mr. Henderson spoke on the Library's regionalization to members of the Montebello Soroptimist Club at their September 17 meeting, stressing opportunities offered under the plan for speedier fulfillment ot area reacting needs ~ He told of progress to date and plans for the future. ADDITIONAL BRANCH September 27 the Library opened Little Rock, a small IN ANI'ELOPE VALLEY branch in the Antelope Valley9 in rented quarters at 4313 Pearblossom Highwayo Supervisor Warren M. Dorn acted as Honorary Chairman of the dedication ceremony0 A collection of 2,270 adult and 754 juvenile books were on the shelves for opening day. Mrs. Alice Ann Sand, formerly a member of the Palmdale branch staff, is the branch librarian. SUP. DORN SUPPORTS Supervisor D6rnVfigured l n' other news of interest ; ~o BOOK FOUNDATION book lovers this month. At the September Board session . , he introduced a resolutiont that passed unanimously, recognizing the merit features of the Great Books Foundation to adult education in the County. The resolution read~ "WHEREAS the Great Books Foundation, a non-profit corporation, has kept alive the common heritage ~ thought ~ sensibility and faith which finds expression in the great books of our tradition, and "WHEREAS it has given men through reading a richer comprehension of what the good li.fe can be, and has helped them here and now to lead the good life for themselvesg thei r community, and their nation, and "WHEREAS the taculty of this far-flung institution of higher Learning is comprised of the great l eaders and thi nkers of all ages; the writers of the Bible, Homer, the Greek philosophers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton1 Tolstoy. Darwin, ·Jefferson-: and many otners, and \ "WHEREAS the Great Books Foundation provides a means whereby adults may continue a liberal education i n the Classics under trained leadership, and consider in group discussion t he application of important principles discovered in those books to current problems, "NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors, County of Los Angeles, recognize t he great value of this program to the cause of adult education in this area, and hereby express its deep, sincere and lasting thanks to those dedicat ed per sons responsible for the establishment, development and growth of The Great Books Foundation movement in the County of Los Angeles." MEETINGS FOR SECTION HEADS Second in a series of meetings for all Section and Division heads ~ wllere the work of each is explained to allt followed by a question and answer period, was held September a in Mr. Henderson's office. Mrs ~ Leota Ro Wright, Head Clerk, Business Management Division,explained the work of the Accounting and -2- ' Statistics Section, outlining in particular steps followed in assembling information for budget requests. She said Division Chiefs would be notified no l ater than October 1 to begin their list of personnel, supply and equipment needs for the forthcoming budget. Mrs. Wright also explained the Library's relations with various Departments of County government; Divisions in the Administrative Office, particularly Property Management; the Office of the Auditor-Controller; the Mechanical Department; Department of Parks and Recreation; the County Engineer; Purchasing and Stores Department, and numeroqs others. At the next meeting, October 1, Miss Ossen will describe and explain activities of Central Services. =---~ -GHAbtENGE·~.- ... -=..~ --=---=--Mr. Ge tler, lSS· Osseo and · meiiiliers ortentral Services ACCEPTED Division are conducting a survey and analysis of pro-ceedures in the Division with a view to speeding up the ordering and receipt of new titles and their delivery to the Regions. The regions probably noted with delight the first re~ults in the shipments received during the week September 2J-2tl. The oetober Literary Guild selection, Below the Salt, published September 20, was among the books received that week at all Regions. Not only were the subscription copies ready for distribution the moment they arrived, but some of the Regional orders which totaled 107 extra copies were also on the delivery trucks. Miss Osseo and Frederick B. Leighton, Fiction Specialist,hope that hereafter all subscription books can be handled with the same dispatch. A REPORT FROM TECHNICAL SERVICES licatian. Mrs. MacQuarrie, Technical Services Chief Librarian, said her Division is prepared to pre-process book records and catalog cards for all books ordered prior to pub- The Division piayed host recently to H. M. Robinson, Library Organizer, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, who spent two days making a detailed study of all operations employed in the preparation of the Book Catalogs. He said he was interested in initiating a l ike project for his organization which serves twenty large libraries and some smaller ones. HARVEST BREAKFAST . -~ .... Mrs. Wright has announced two more authots for the Harvest Breakfast, Homain Gary, French Consul General at Los Angeles, whose Roots of Heaven, a novel, won the Prix Goncourt for 1956, and which is to appear in English translation this fall; and Janet Stevenson, whose first novel, Weep No More, has recently been published. Weep No More is the story of a Yankee spy, a woman, known as "Crazy Bet", who plied her hazardous undertalcing in Richmond during Ci vi! War days. Mrs. · wrignt says there wiil be two more authors to announce next month. Remember the occasi on, November 20, Statler Hotel! -3- DEATH VALLEY AUTHOR BREAKFASf Mr. Henderson, who annually chairmans the Author's Breakfast during the November Encampment of the Death Valley 49ers, has received assurances from seven writers of Western guests. lore that they will be on hand to address the expected ioo Breakfast Other acceptances are expected. Those already .scheduled for the program include: Leroy R. Hafen, Professor of History, Brigham Young University, Utah, and his wife and collaborator, Mrs. Ann w. Hafen, whose latest publication is Journals of Forty-Niners, Salt Lake to Los Angeles; Paul D. Bailey, publisher and writer, former newspaperman, founder-owner of Westernlore Press, who has eleven books to his credit, three of them novels, and whose latest, out in October, is titled Wovoka, the Indian Messiah; Mrs. Lulu Rasmussen O'Neal, whose most recent writing is A Peculiar Piece of Desert, a history of California's Morongo Valley; Mrs. Erma Peirson9 of China Lake, whose Kern·•·s Desert is the 18th annual publication of the Kern County Historical Society and the Kern County Museum; Dr. Edmund c. Jaeger, one of the foremost naturalists of the Southwest, who has devoted most of his mature years to a study of animal and plant life of the desert country, discovering many new species and gaining international recognition in the world of science in 1950 by discovering a variety of hibernating bird, recently retired Curator of the Clark Botanical Collection, Municipal Museum, Riverside,and as head of the Zoology Department, Riverside Junior College, author of many books on desert subjects, his latest - being The North American Deserts; Dr. Carl s. Dentzel, Director of the Southwest Museum; Dr~·- Aubrey Neasham, Historian, State Department of Natural Resources; and Nell Murbarger, of Palm Desert, author of Ghosts ot the Glory Trail, now writing a book on Western mining lore. The Breakfast will be held November 11, at~ a.m., golf links, Furnace Creek Ranch. In addition to arranging the Breakfast, Mr. Henderson will -speak at the Evening Campfire, November 8, on Death Vailey history and some of its colorful characters. MRS. GREENE PLANS Students of Lynwood High School, whose school days are AID FOR STUDENI'S limited to half-day sessions until new quarters are arranged for them, have been invited by Mrs. Frances M. Greene, Regional Librarian of that area, to make use of the Lynwood Branch for continued study during their out-of-sci:;ool hours. In a letter forwarded through the oftice of Principal Ralph H. Cosman, she wrote: " ••••• Is there some subject you would like to know more about, or do you just like to read for fun? Tne Lynwood Branch of the Los Angeles County Library invites you to take advantage of half day sessions to pursue your individual interests in the Library ••••• Books not in the Branch will be requested from !ibrary headquarters ••••• It is the understanding of public librarians that the purpose of .an assignment which i nvolves research is to give the student practice in doing t he research. For this reason the staff will refrain from preparing bibliographies and performing other tasKs that would remove much of the value from the assignments, but will show al! students now to use the catalog so they can help themselves ••• •• Members of the Lynwood staff hope thi~ invitation will be accepted by -4- many, believing they can help young patrons get more satisfaction and pleasure from their reading." Mrs. Alice carpenter, Assistant at the Branch, has been assigned to take charge of the reading needs 01 the expected Young Adult inf ~ux. HERMOSA BEACH LIKES NEW SITE The Hermosa Beach Branch, in its new quarters at 1106 Hermosa Avenue, former site of the Hermosa post office, has been doing a "land office business" since its move from the municipal pier, according to Branch Librarian Mrs. Dorothy Olney. The first day she registered forty-one new patrons. Average daily registration had formerly been fifteen. Circulation the first day totaled 606 books, twice the number ever taken out in one day before. The new quarters have room ior 1,100 more books than could be accomodated at the old, and 300 of those additional books ~---::::,.,,,--- W&l!e-Oth-ha-n~o-1"--Ahe-c-epe·n-i-ne..- -.~.. - ----,.,.,----~-=-- (Yl'HER BUILDING NEWS AND N(Yl'ES The new branch at Newhall is now completed1 except for a change that must be made in the wiring. If nothing else unforeseen occurs, it will open during the last week in October ••.•• Final plans for the Lakewood branch were approved by the County Supervisors September 10, bids to be received October 90 •••• Approval of Veterans Memorial Park as location for the new Culver City branch building was voted by the Council of that community early this month. '!'he vote paves the way for .lease-purchase .negotiations between the city and the county to begin ••••• The City Council o·f ·seu also voted early in the month . to submit the service survey prepared by the Library to an architectural firm for buifding recommendations, a preliminary to putting the proposed new structure· on the drawing board ••••• A five-man committee was named by the El Monte City Council last week to work out, with the Library, plans tor a proposed $70,000 addition to the El Monte . branch building, which is owned by the cityo MRS. SMITH MADE NEWSPAPER COPY Mrs. Mary Rogers Smith, Young Adult Subject Specialist, Central Services, who engineered and supervised a summer reading program for teem-age patrons at many of the branches, was photographed and interviewed by a writer for the Los Angeles Mirror-News, who became so interested in the career meetings Mrs. Smith programmed for some of the reading groups, she promised to talk about careers in journalism at some future meeting. The Smith profile appeared in the August ::s() issue of the newspaper. Mrs. Smith and Miss Virginia Osseo, head of the Division, are now planning a special service for Young Adults for the winter season. They are assembling a revolving collection of Young Adult books which will be sent from branch to branch, as called for bytbe Regional Librarians. It is their answer to the summer groups who expressed a desire to continue the reading program during school months. The collection will comprise both new and old publications. It may be used by Review groups Ol' groups interested in special subjects. -s- SMOKEY BEAR WAS . IRJGE SUCCESS The Smokey Bear reading program, according to Mrs. Amstell, was one of the most successful summer juvenile activities ever sponsored by the Library. The number of children who read the required 10 books and received Award Certificates, was larger than the graduates of any prior reading club. She-is now compiling the total record from the many branch reports still arriving on her desk. Representative of the general enthusiasm, still manifesting itself in many of the branche·s was a manuscript from an 11-year-old participant received last week by Mrs. Florence Davis, Assistant at the South Gate branch in charge of work with children. The young writer, one of 39 girls and 21 boys who received Award Certificates there was P.articularly thrilled with the fact that 10 of them, herself included, had read, not just the required 10 books, but 20. FIRST APPOINTMENT Mrs. Barbara A. Melnick, former Children's Librarian, Ingle~ OF ITS KIND wood branch, has been appointed Children's Librarian for Region II. Working out of Regional headquarters at Lennox she will have charge of all work with boys and girls in the thirteen branches in the Region. Mrs. Elton Terry, Regional Services Chief Librarian, who announced the appoint ment, said she hopes to have a Children's Librarian at all Regional headquarters just as soon as the· budget permits. Mrs. Deborah B. Wilds, Regional Librarian tor the Lennox area, said Mrs. Melnick would continue to serve one day a week at the Inglewood branch. Using the Heplacement List recently compiled by Mrs. Hope Amstell, Coordinator of Work with Boys and Girls, ano Alice Stjernquist, Children's Subject Specialist, as guide, t.lrs. Melnick has recently completed a check of all juvenile collections in the Hegion, weeding and reordering for better balanced stock. Mrs. Wilds and Mrs. Melnic~ are scheduled for a panel discussion of library service before the PTA group of the Las Virgenes Union School District at the group's October 10 evening meeting. · REGIONAL TRANSFERS G. Cslvin Tooker has been transferred from Region VI, the AND ASSIGNMENTS East Los Angeles area, to Region VIII, West Covina. He replaces Mrs. Winifred Ragsdale, who resigned a. month ago · to accompany her husband, recently named Solano ·county Librarian, to his new position. Nellie Frost, Services Unit Coordinator, Regional Services,Division, is now in charge of Region VI. CENTRAL SERVICES Giovanna v. Castelfranco, History and Biography Subject CHANGES & TRANSFERS Specialist, who joined the Library staff January, 1949, resigned this month 1to accept a posi tion with the Los Angele's Public Library. · Best 'tiishes· -are extended to "Jean" in her new responsibility. Milton Padno, Subject Specialist, who formerly did the selecting in the lOO's and 200's (religion, philosophy, psychology) has been assigned to t ake over the 900's (history). PLEASE NC1fE! served system-wide, that date. UW:rlr 10/1/ 51 Columbus Day, which is Saturday, October 12, will be ~bMr. Henderson has announced. No branch will be open on -6-
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Mystery sometimes better than explanation
Every once in a while, even the president says something that makes sense. One hundred and thirty-two days into his term, at 12:06 a.m., Donald Trump tweeted, "Despite the constant negative press covfefe."
Disclaimer from the outset: I am part of that constant negative press. Proudly.
Covfefe? The Twitterverse exploded with questions, and Sean Spicer, the press secretary stated, "The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant." And then the item got buried under the news of Comey, Sessions and obstruction of justice.
But in one of his follow-up tweets, Trump wrote, "Who can figure out the true meaning of 'covfefe' ??? Enjoy!"
This is a man incapable of a philosophy longer than 140 characters, and yet he got it right. Covfefe means nothing. Some days there is no explanation for why the good guys do not win. But in the meantime, savor the mystery.
There is no reason why fire killed those people in the Grenfell Tower or why three UPS drivers were murdered in San Francisco.
In the outer, outer, outer Excelsior, the workings of the universe also seem random. There was no rationale as to why Brian and I lost the triplets. Or why Tim died from AIDS. Or why both of my sons were born drug exposed, and will always be considered "special."
John Lennon once sang that "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." There is as much wisdom in that as there is in covfefe.
When Zane was a baby, before even his first expulsion, as I was changing his diaper, I noticed what I thought was the largest hunk of snot that I had ever seen in a child's nose. I took a swipe at his nostril and out came a lima bean.
Now I was tired, as was evidenced by the fact that at 3 in the afternoon I was still in my bathrobe. But what made this even more inexplicable was that I never cook lima beans. I do not serve lima beans. I've never actually tasted lima beans. This dates back to Nurse Vivian, who had a reputation for ruining vegetables. Example: She boiled kidney beans in vinegar and corn with mayonnaise. So the night she surprised us with succotash, I took a stand. She coaxed, but if I inherited nothing else in my Irish genes, I got the stubbornness, and I said, "I am never going to eat a lima bean." This is just about the only promise that I've managed to keep for 51 years in a row.
So I asked Tita Ann Mabutas, who had been babysitting Zane, and she said, "Oh, yes, I fed him leem-a beans three days ago."
When she looked panicked, I said, "Tita Ann, it happens. Babies get lima beans in their nose. I just want to know how."
Tita Ann told me of a baby who grew a plant out of his belly button, and so she theorized that Zane had stuck one in his ear, and it had traveled down his eustachian tube into his nose.
There was a more pragmatic theory: that I was a lousy housekeeper who hadn't noticed the leftover vegetable in his high chair, which Zane found and stuck in his proboscis three days later to see if he could get his old dad going. The lousy housekeeper theory would also explain the bathrobe at 3 in the afternoon.
And the third possibility is divine intervention. The universe may have decided that my boycott had gone on too long, that it was time for me to stop and smell the lima beans.
What do you think? Sloth? Passage through the eustachian tube? Lima bean transubstantiation? Me, I'm going with the third answer because I like a little mystery. When it comes to faith, it's just as likely that the universe has a reason as that it has no reason at all, so I might as well pick the solution with the puzzle, because it makes life more interesting.
Eleven years have passed since the miracle of the lima bean. I don't know any more answers to the meaning of life, other than perhaps covfefe. All I know is that this week that little boy walked home from school on his own for the very first time. A decidedly different kind of miracle.
It strikes me that I have just said a nice thing about Donald Trump, so with regret I must report that I am no longer part of the constant negative press. Make that just most-of-the-time-negative press.
Kevin Fisher-Paulson's column appears Wednesdays in Datebook. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com