Record-Courier
B6 Monday, June 27, 2016
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Non Sequitur
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BLONDIE
FUNKY WINKERBEAN
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
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BABY BLUES
TODAY IN HISTORY
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Associated Press
kkToday is Monday, June 27, the 179th day of 2016. There are 187 days left in the year. nnToday’s Highlight in History: kk On
June 27, 1966, the Gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows,” having to do with mysterious and supernatural goings-on in Collinsport, Maine, premiered on ABC-TV.
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nnOn this date: kk In 1787, English historian Ed-
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Blind dog that has oozing sore wins ugliest contest
ODDS AND ENDS SALLY FORTH
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas council votes to oust library cat, a six-year fixture WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — A North Texas city council has started a cat fight by voting to oust the furry mascot of the city’s public library. The governing council of the Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement voted 2-1 to give the library 30 days to find a new home for Browser the cat. The ex-shelter cat has been a library fixture for six years. But council member Elzie Clements moved at a June 14 council meeting for the tabby’s removal. Mayor Ron White, who has no vote on the council, tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the vote was a tit-for-tat after a city employee wasn’t allowed to bring a puppy to work at City Hall. Ex-council member Alan Price said Browser’s supporters will petition for a reprieve in November’s elections.
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SUDOKU
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By Dave Green
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Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. Each row must have the numbers 1 to 9; each column must have the numbers 1 to 9; and each set of 3-by-3 boxes must have the numbers 1 to 9. Answer for previous day’s puzzle
1 9 3 6 8 2 4 7 5
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2016 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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2016 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
FAMILY CIRCUS
PETALUMA, Calif. — A 17-yearold Chinese Crested Chihuahua with legs bowed out like a frog and an oozing sore is the winner of this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog contest. SweePee Rambo took home the title at the annual Petaluma World’s Ugliest Dog contest Friday night at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds after besting 15 other malformed pooches. Judges in the contest, now on its 28th year, take into account bad appearance, including stench, poor complexion and a host of other inherited and acquired maladies. SweePee has a mohawk that glistens in the sun and a tongue that sticks out. She is blind in both eyes and has to wear doggie diapers. Owner Jason Wurtz, 44, of Encino, said he got the dog as a gift for his first wife but after a week she didn’t want anything to do with the gremlin-like pooch. Wurtz, however, said he couldn’t bear to let her go, calling her a “ride or die chick” in the description he wrote for the contest.
ward Gibbon completed work on his six-volume work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” kk In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois. kk In 1864, Confederate forces repelled a frontal assault by Union troops in the Civil War Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia. kk In 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago. kk In 1922, the first Newberry Medal, recognizing excellence in children’s literature, was awarded to “The Story of Mankind” by Hendrik Willem van Loon. kk In 1944, during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans. kk In 1957, more than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas. kk In 1963, President John F. Kennedy spent the first full day of a visit to Ireland, the land of his ancestors, stopping by the County Wexford home of his great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, who’d emigrated to America in 1848. kk In 1974, President Richard Nixon opened an official visit to the Soviet Union. kk In 1986, the International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled the United States had broken international law and violated the sovereignty of Nicaragua by aiding the contras. (The U.S. had already said it would not consider itself bound by the World Court decision.) kk In 1990, NASA announced that a flaw in the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was preventing the instrument from achieving optimum focus. (The problem was traced to a mirror that had not been ground to exact specifications; corrective optics were later installed to fix the problem.)
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