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Dec 9/16/23,  2009

Newsletter

 
 

 

Just a reminder to treat those that serve us at the Sizzler well and remember to leave a tip for them before you leave.

Meetings:  Sizzler, 371 East 400 South, SLC 11:45 – 1:00 pm, Meeting Room (Northwest corner of Restaurant.) Round Table Meetings, Same Time & Location except in the Atrium. ** Board meeting is the 1st Wednesday of every month and is held at 1:00 pm at the Sizzler.     

WED 12/09

No Meeting - Party on December 12th

NEW DATE
SAT 12/12
Starting at 3:00 pm Eat at 4:00 pm

 Winter Party, Ed Rogers Ranch, Bring  Salad, Vegetable, Side Dish, or Dessert.  Main Dish & Drinks provided.  (Party: Weather Permitting) Map below.

WED 12/16

11 am – 7 pm

Bell Ringing for Salvation Army

Smith's, 876 E 800 S, SLC
WED 12/23 No Meeting – Christmas Week
WED 12/30 Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 01/06

Speaker and Topic TBA

1:00 Board Meeting

WED 01/13

 Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 01/20

 Round Table

WED 01/27

 Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 02/03

Speaker and Topic TBA

1:00 Board Meeting

WED 02/10

 Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 02/17

 No Meeting ? -  District Mid-Year Conference 2/19 & 2/20

WED 2/24

 Speaker and Topic TBA

 December 16th …

 

1653 - Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

 

1773 - The Boston Tea Party took place.

 

1916 - Grigori Rasputin assassinated by a group of noble Russian conspirators.

 

1920 - One of the deadliest earthquakes in history hit the Gansu province in China. The 8.6 quake killed 200,000 people.

 

1944 - The Battle of the Bulge during World War II began in Belgium.

 

1990 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti in the country's first democratic elections.

 

2000 - Colin Powell was selected to become the first African-American secretary of state.

 

December 23rd  …

 

1783 - George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army.

 

1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the District of Columbia.

 

1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the night before Christmas"), written by either Clement C. Moore or Maj. Henry Livingston, Jr., was published in the Troy Sentinel of New York.

 

1913 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the Federal Reserve System.

 

1947 - The transistor was unveiled by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley.

 

1948 - Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed.

 

1986 - Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling aboard the experimental airplane Voyager.

  

Bell Ringing for Salvation Army

Wednesday, December 16th 11 am – 7:00 pm

Smith’s, 876 E. 800 S., Salt Lake City

 

11:00 am - 12 noon

Ed Tanner

12 noon - 1:00 pm

Howard Jenson &

Jack Schiess

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Mark Anderson

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Chuck Baker

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Ron Howell & Ed Rogers

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

David Nelson

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Bob Stayner

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm 

Gordon Lewis

 

December 9th …

 

1941 - China declared war against Japan, Germany, and Italy.

 

1958 - The anti-Communist John Birch Society was formed.

 

1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premiered.

 

1990 - Lech Walesa was elected president of Poland.

 

1993 - U.S. astronauts completed repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope.

 

1996 - Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey died in Kenya at age 83.


Contact Information


B) Business, (C) Cell,(H) Home

President

Dave Nelson, (B) 486-7855, (C) 918-7617

Immed Past President/ Newsletter

Gordon Lewis,  (C) 915-6228,  (C) 706-4519, gclbowl@comcast.net

1st Vice President

 Ed Tanner, (B) 524-2534, (C) 201-9908

Secretary

Mark Anderson (B) 568-9322 (C) 232-5560

 Board Members

Dave Nelson, Ed Rogers, and Ron Howell, Chuck Baker

 
 

 

1924 - 1926 …

 

President: Calvin Coolidge

Vice President (‘24): none

   (’25 & ’26): Charles G. Dawes

Population (‘24): 114,109,000

Population (‘25): 115,829,000

Population (‘26): 117,397,000

Federal spending (in billions)

   (‘24): $2.91 (‘25): $2.92 (‘26): $2.93

Consumer Price Index

    (’24): 17.1 (‘25): 17.5 (‘26): 17.7

Unemployment

   (’24): 5.0% (’25): 3.2% (’26):   1.8%

 Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

 

In 1924 …

• Death of Lenin; Stalin wins power struggle, rules as Soviet dictator until death in 1953.

 

• Italian Fascists murder Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti.

 

• Ottoman empire (founded 1290) ends when Turkish president Mustafa Kemal ends the caliphate.

 

• New York's Computer Tabulating Recording Company is re-organized and will now be known as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM).

• Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall and oilmen Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny are charged with conspiracy and bribery in the Teapot Dome scandal, involving fraudulent leases of naval oil reserves. In 1931, Fall is sentenced to year in prison; Doheny and Sinclair acquitted of bribery.

 

• Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confess to murdering 14-year-old cousin "in the interest of science." Clarence Darrow is defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of death sentence

 

In 1925 … 

• Locarno conferences seek to secure European peace by mutual guarantees.

 

• John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, transmits human features by television.

 

• Adolf Hitler publishes Volume I of Mein Kampf.

 

•Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.

 

• Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.

 

• Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.

 

• Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.

 

In 1926 …

• A general strike in Britain brings the nation's activities to a standstill.

 

• U.S. marines are dispatched to Nicaragua during the revolt; they remain until 1933.

 

• Chiang Kai-shek becomes leader of China's revolutionary party following the 1925 death of Sun Yat-sen.

 

• Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly from Spitsbergen to the North Pole and back.

 

• U.S. troops land in Nicaragua (May 2) to preserve order after a revolt against the new president Emiliano Chamorro.

 

• Father Coughlin makes his first radio broadcast, beginning his 20-year career of racist and right-wing polemics.