COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2021
Cousin remains tangled in relatives’ longtime feud
my brother-in-law along.
I admit, Ian is a diffi cult guy
to get to know, but I have known
him for 40 years, and he really
has a heart of gold. I think Scotty
is being disrespectful to me by
repeating that Ian isn’t welcome.
How can I resolve this in a way
that won’t result in not commu-
nicating with Scotty ever again?
— RELATIVE DRAMA IN
FLORIDA
DEAR RELATIVE
DRAMA: The next time Scotty
starts on his rant about Ian, head
him off by interrupting him and
saying, “You have already told me
that. You don’t need to repeat it.”
Then change the subject.
DEAR ABBY: My cousin
“Scotty” invited my husband
and me to see his new house. He
made it clear, several times, that
my sister and her husband, “Ian,”
are not invited because his wife
doesn’t like Ian. My sister and
brother-in-law would have no
problem if they never saw Scotty
again, and I didn’t intend for them
to accompany us on this visit.
However, every time I speak to
Scotty, he reiterates not to bring
MAMMEN
installed. A barbershop
rounded out the activities in
this part of the establishment.
On opening night, from 7
o’clock until midnight, there
was a full orchestra, vocal-
ists and a variety of games
to entertain the public. There
were other times through the
years that such was provided
and the ladies were invited
to join in the merriment.
McCornick sold his interest
in the Club Cigar Store in
May of 1914 and in October
of 1915 he and Fred E. Ware
released their lease on the
basement to the La Grande
Businessmen’s club. At that
time The Club, under the
management of Ware, was no
longer open to the public and
became available only to the
lodge membership of about
a hundred men. McCor-
nick also had interest in the
Foley Hotel pool halls and
Ware took over those when
McCornick moved back to
Eugene. The Club Bowling
Alley was still in operation
in 1920 and the Club Cigar
Store was at this location
until February of 1930.
The most interesting
person associated with this
building was Condon Carlton
McCornick. He was born in
Eugene to Postmaster Her-
bert McCornick and his
wife Ella in May 1880. He
Continued from Page B1
entire basement of the new
West-Jacobson Building. In
addition, he was leasing one
room on the fi rst fl oor for a
cigar store and card room.
The business, which was to
be known as The Club, was
formally opened in October
of 1913. The store on the fi rst
fl oor was intended to appeal
to both men and women, so
in addition to cigars there
was off ered for sale a selec-
tion of fancy candies and a
soda fountain serving tasty
beverages. The Observer
reported the room was “fi tted
entirely with mahogany
and plate glass fi xtures. All
show cases are of the very
latest model, carrying curved
glass fronts, and in the rear
is a handsome partition of
mahogany and plate glass
mirrors, which separates the
front of the room from the
card room.” The card room
was also decorated with the
fi nest and was furnished
with a rug of exquisite color
and comfortable leather
furniture.
From the cigar store there
was the stairway leading to
the basement where modern
billiard tables and three
bowling alleys had been
DEAR ABBY: My dear hus-
band died suddenly last year. It’s
been diffi cult, but I am blessed
to have good friends and close
family. The hardest part, how-
ever, has been the four-plus
months it took to decipher his
online accounts. He left me few
passwords, and many of his con-
tacts were uncooperative, some
even cruel. Why should it be
impossible to pay someone else’s
bill? I cannot stress enough how
important it is to have a log or
written account of passwords
and usernames. It could have
saved countless hours of stressful
negotiations. — LESSON
LEARNED IN MICHIGAN
Stuck jet stream, La Nina
causing weird weather
graduated from college and
then went to work for the
Union Pacifi c Railroad as a
salesman and it was prob-
ably because of his work
that he became acquainted
with La Grande. McCornick
didn’t stay long in La Grande
and his last memories were
probably not the best. In the
fall of 1915 he was facing
charges having been accused
of breaking the Sunday
closing law. He pleaded not
guilty based on his claim that
because it was now a pri-
vate club and not open to the
public, he was not breaking
the law. This didn’t work and
by early November trial time
had not yet been set. How-
ever, by early December he
had disposed of his interests
and he and Nina moved back
to Eugene.
C. C. McCornick had
served as a volunteer in the
Spanish American War and
by 1920 was back serving
full time in the military. In
1940 he was a brigadier gen-
eral stationed at the Presidio
of San Francisco. Condon
McCornick died in 1944.
Keep looking up! Enjoy!
———
Ginny Mammen has lived
in La Grande for more than
50 years and enjoys sharing
her interest in the history of
people, places and buildings.
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fi eld, Missouri, hitting
75 degrees Fahrenheit
and Roanoke, Virginia
72 degrees Fahrenheit.
Cheyenne, Wyoming, and
Billings, Montana, broke
long-time heat records by
6 degrees.
Parts of Canada and
Montana have seen their
highest December records
in recorded history. On
Dec. 3, parts of South
Carolina and Georgia hit
record highs.
In Washington state,
Seattle, Bellingham and
Quillayute all set 90-day
fall records for rainfall.
Bellingham was doused
by nearly 2 feet of rain.
The Olympic and Cas-
cade mountains got hit
harder, with more than 50
inches in three months,
according to the National
Weather Service. Forks,
Washington, received
more rain in 90 days
than Las Vegas gets in 13
years.
On top of that, there
is a blizzard warning on
Hawaii’s Big Island sum-
By SETH BORENSTEIN
The Associated Press
DENVER — Ameri-
ca’s winter wonderland is
starting out this season as
anything but traditional.
The calendar says
December but for much
of the country tempera-
tures beckon for sandals.
Umbrellas, if not arks,
are needed in the Pacifi c
Northwest, while in the
Rockies snow shovels are
gathering cobwebs.
Meteorologists attri-
bute the latest batch of
record-shattering weather
extremes to a stuck jet
stream and the eff ects of
a La Nina weather pattern
from cooling waters in the
equatorial Pacifi c.
It’s still fall astronom-
ically, but winter starts
Dec. 1 for meteorologists.
This year, no one told the
weather that.
On Thursday, Dec. 2,
65 weather stations across
the nation set record high
temperature marks for
the day, including Spring-
Astoria
Longview
43/48
Kennewick
45/47
St. Helens
46/49
45/49
Condon
46/51
46/49
THU
FRI
SAT
Brief late-night
showers
Colder in the
afternoon
A little
afternoon rain
Cloudy
Cloudy
32 45 21
35 19
34 21
35 21
Eugene
1
1
0
45/49
37 27
38 29
37 33
0
1
0
40 45 27
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
3
1
34 40 20
Comfort Index™
5
37 34
0
3
2
0
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 89°
Low: 5°
Wettest: 1.73”
43°
20°
45°
25°
46°
26°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.00
0.14
5.01
8.35
0.02
0.03
0.36
10.01
15.88
0.22
0.22
0.71
22.26
22.89
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
55%
WNW at 7 to 14 mph
2.4
0.04
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
OREGON
High: 56°
Low: 23°
Wettest: 0.03”
N.A.
17% of capacity
15% of capacity
11% of capacity
11% of capacity
8% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
On Dec. 7, 1982, San Francisco, Calif.,
maintained a constant temperature of
52 degrees. This tied the record for the
least amount of temperature change in
24 hours.
SUN & MOON
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
7:18 a.m. 7:19 a.m.
4:10 p.m. 4:09 p.m.
11:03 a.m. 11:41 a.m.
7:57 p.m. 9:15 p.m.
MOON PHASES
Grande Ronde at Troy
1060 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
0 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
17 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
104 cfs
Minam River at Minam
148 cfs
Powder River near Richland
13 cfs
First
Dec 10
Full
Dec 18
Last
Dec 26
New
Jan 2
47/50
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
32/43
Frenchglen
Paisley
37/44
33/43
33/39
Diamond
41/46
Klamath Falls
29/44
Lakeview
28/44
McDermitt
Hi/Lo/W
48/39/sh
47/28/sh
49/30/sh
53/39/c
45/18/sn
49/39/sh
50/35/sh
40/20/sn
41/27/sf
49/37/sh
53/36/pc
49/38/r
46/25/r
43/27/sn
42/20/sn
55/36/pc
44/20/sh
44/19/i
Hi/Lo/W
46/35/sh
42/27/r
38/24/c
48/38/r
37/16/sn
45/38/r
45/33/sh
34/20/sn
35/28/r
45/35/r
46/32/c
45/38/c
37/29/r
35/27/r
33/21/sn
50/32/pc
36/19/c
36/14/c
32/43
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
30/49
32/48
34/47
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
THU.
Grand View
Arock
36/44
Fields
Medford
WED.
Boise
34/49
46/50
Brookings
Juntura
38/47
34/43
Chiloquin
46/53
Ontario
33/48
29/45
39/44
Beaver Marsh
Grants Pass
Huntington
35/45
Burns
Brothers
33/39
35/40
37/39
42/47
Oakridge
Roseburg
46/51
Klamath Falls
Klamath Falls
Meacham
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Thermal, Calif.
Alamosa, Colo.
West Plains, Mo.
41/43
Seneca
42/45
Coos Bay
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
41/50
Council
32/45
John Day
Bend
Elkton
Powers
35/43
35/38
40/46
46/49
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
ALMANAC
Sisters
Florence
46/51
Halfway
Granite
Baker City
Redmond
47/51
34 22
Monument
39/45
43/50
Newport
Enterprise
34/40
40/45
41/44
46/49
Corvallis
44/49
34 24
40/41
La Grande
40/43
44/51
Idanha
Salem
WED
La Grande
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
TONIGHT
2
43/47
43/48
45/49
Lewiston
43/49
Hood River
Maupin
4
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
40/55
Vancouver
44/48
44/47
Comfort Index™
mits with up to 12 inches
of snow expected and
wind gusts of more than
100 miles per hour.
Meantime, snow’s
gone missing in Colorado.
Before this year, the latest
fi rst measurable snow-
fall on record in Denver
was Nov. 21, way back in
1934. With no snow since
April 22, this is the third
longest stretch the city has
gone without it.
One big factor: The jet
stream — the river of air
that moves weather from
west to east on a roller-
coaster-like path — has
just been stuck. That
means low pressure on
one part of the stream
is bringing rain to the
Pacifi c Northwest, while
high pressure hovering
over about two-thirds of
the nation produces dry
and warmer weather,
according to Brian
Hurley, a senior meteorol-
ogist at the weather ser-
vice’s Weather Prediction
Center in College Park,
Maryland.
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
TIllamook
Baker City
of nine months makes a dental or
medical appointment, she gives
her last name as her late husband’s
last name. He died 10 years ago.
Should I be disappointed with my
bride since, before we were mar-
ried, she said she would adopt my
last name? — NEWLYWED IN
FLORIDA
DEAR NEWLYWED: Why
your bride would be hesitant to
do this, I can’t guess, but because
it bothers you, discuss it with her
before it festers. Informing health
care professionals about a name
change is fairly simple. All one
has to do is inform the recep-
tionist that a new name should be
entered into the computer.
DEAR LESSON LEARNED:
Please accept my sympathy for
the loss of your husband. You
are not the only spouse who
has written about this very real
problem. Sometimes the concept
of a world without us in it can be
diffi cult to comprehend, hence
the hesitancy to share passwords.
But death can come at any time,
and, as in your husband’s case,
with little — or no — warning.
Readers, it can spare your loved
ones a world of unneeded stress
to log those passwords and make
sure your spouse, trustee or
attorney can access them in case
of emergency.
DEAR ABBY: When my wife
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
49/33/c
47/39/sh
42/29/sf
46/33/c
49/38/c
45/34/c
48/28/c
54/35/pc
48/30/pc
49/38/sh
51/37/sh
50/26/c
50/38/sh
49/37/sh
40/26/c
51/35/c
39/22/r
47/34/pc
Hi/Lo/W
41/31/c
44/37/sh
35/28/sn
41/32/r
45/38/sh
43/33/c
41/21/c
49/29/pc
40/29/r
44/38/sh
44/39/r
43/23/r
46/37/r
45/37/sh
33/23/sn
48/37/c
34/21/sn
41/30/r
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
A little snow
A little a.m. snow
27
11
39
21
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Colder in the p.m.
Snow at times
34
20
44
23
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Periods of snow
A little snow
30
10
37
21
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
On-and-off snow
A shower or two
42
20
46
30
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
A snow shower
Colder in the p.m.
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
45
21
45
27
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