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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home. The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County. In passing the 37-page ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goer activities that could potentially disrupt or even injure the public. The updated rules now prohibit “any person to...

Walter Fredrick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, has died aged 90. Utah House Rep. Kay McIff, an attorney who represented Mr Morrison in a royalties case, said he died at his home in Monroe, Utah, on Tuesday. "That simple little toy has permeated every continent in every country, as many homes have Frisbees as any other device ever invented," Mr McIff said. "How would you get through your youth without learning to throw a Frisbee?" Mr Morrison's son, Walt, said that "old age caught up" with his father and that he also had cancer. "He was a...

MONROE, Utah – Walter Fredrick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, has died. He was 90. State Rep. Kay McIff, an attorney who once represented Morrison in a royalties case, says Morrison died at his home Tuesday. McIff is from Richfield, Morrison's original hometown. Morrison sold the production and manufacturing rights to his "Pluto Platter" in 1957. The plastic flying disc was later renamed the "Frisbee," with sales surpassing 200 million discs. It is now a staple at beaches and college campuses across the country and spawned sports like Frisbee golf and the team sport Ultimate.

PORTLAND, Ore. - In the world of intercollegiate Ultimate Frisbee, it's ultimately not cool to go without pants. So said a student board that governs club sports at the University of Oregon when it ended a highly-ranked team's season after five players shed their pants and underwear April 11 during sectional play at Oregon State University in Corvallis. The squad had already been on probation since November for serving alcohol to minors and making way too much noise at a party to end last season, resulting in fines and citations. Now the team, known as EGO (Eugene Gentlemen's Organization) is...

Ananova: Students played 'frisbee' with land mine Two Swiss students on holiday played frisbee with an object they found on a beach unaware it was a live land mine. Lukas Aider, 20, and Christoph Kurz, 19, took a plunge in the Danube river in Budapest when they found the mine and began their potentially lethal game. A lifeguard watching stopped them and immediately called the police. A bomb squad then arrived to make safe what turned out to be an old Soviet 6 kilogrammes anti-tank mine.

Wham-O Inc. changed the name of the Pluto Platter to Frisbee 50 years ago Sunday, flinging a new word into the cultural ether that still conjures images of carefree fun in the park and breezy days at the beach. And to think Walter “Fred” Morrison, the inventor of the beloved disc, thought the new moniker would never fly. “I thought Frisbee was a terrible name,” Morrison, now 87, said. “I thought it was insane.” Frisbee instead became insanely popular, making the name as synonymous with flying discs as Google is with searching the Internet and Kleenex is with tissue. But...

Television screens are awash with stars and stripes; placard waving supporters line American streets; and around the world, a planet not entirely at ease with allowing the choice of such an influential figure to rest entirely in the hands of the Americans, awaits the outcome of the closest US election in history. It's not an ideal choice — anyone who remembers 'Predator' or 'Conan the Barbarian' (or the Mr. Universe titles) will shed a quiet tear that Governor Arnie can't run for the top job — but it's one that has to be made. So who's it to be, then,...

July 6, 2003 ‘Frisbee Town, USA’ By JULIE JAG Sentinel Staff Writer SANTA CRUZ Around here, the legend of the Frisbee usually begins with the late Ed Headrick. Headrick, a former La Selva Beach resident, is known as the father of the modern-day disc. He perfected the fledgling saucer in 1964 while working as an inventor for the toy company Wham-O and went on to help establish the quirky toy as a fixture in American life. Today, Headrick’s influence can be seen across Santa Cruz County. His spirit glides with every Frisbee tossed on Main Beach. It sails with every...

The inventor of the modern frisbee died Wednesday August 14, 2002 - 10h34 GMT WASHINGTON, August 14 (AFP) - the inventor of the modern frisbee, Ed Headrick, called "Steady" (stable), died Monday in its Californian residence of Selva Beach, at the 78 years age, according to the electronic publishing of the daily newspaper Santa Cruz Sentinel Wednesday. His/her elder son, Ken Headrick, declared with the newspaper that no ceremony is provided and that ashes of his/her father will be moulded in commemorative frisbees, which will be distributed to the family and the friends. Headrick had improved in 1964 the...

COSTA MESA, California, Jun 29, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Arthur "Spud" Melin, co-founder of the toy company that introduced the world to the Frisbee, Hula Hoop and other faddish gems of American pop culture, has died. He was 77 and had Alzheimer's disease. Melin, who started toy giant Wham-O in 1948 with his boyhood friend Richard Knerr, died Friday. "No sensation has ever swept the country like the Hula Hoop," author Richard Johnson wrote in his book "American Fads." "(It) remains the standard against which all national crazes are measured." Melin and Knerr started with slingshots and...