THE ORIGIN OF FATHER'S DAY:

Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington wanted to honor her own father, William Smart, who was well-deserving of a special day as a widowed farmer left alone to raise his six children single-handedly. 

On June 19, 1910 the first Father’s Day celebration was proclaimed in Spokane because it was the month of Dodd’s father’s birth.

Decades later, the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day.

Father’s Day in America has been officially celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent. 

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KANSAS - AMPLE WAVES OF GRAIN:
 
The wheat harvest started early and is almost complete.  Kansas farmers are very happy with the high yields and strong test weights from this year's crop.

• Sumner County is known as the Wheat Capital of the World.

• Kansas produced a record 492.2 million bushels of wheat in 1997, enough to make 35.9 billion loaves of bread.
  
  
• 2011 Wheat Crop Annual Report:  8.8 million acres were planted; 7.9 million acres were harvested; 256.5 million bushels were produced.

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