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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Hospital worker violated law
by reading husband’s records
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: “Concerned in
needs addressing — such as why
Massachusetts” (Feb. 20) used her
there are weeks between sexual
status as a hospital employee to
contact with her husband.
access her husband’s medical records
It’s ironic that she’s bent out of
and found a history of STDs. I’m a
shape over in¿delity concerns, but
registered nurse with 40 years’ expe-
thinks it acceptable to betray the
rience. Every healthcare organization
privacy and ethics rules governing
I know of teaches all their employees
medical professionals. — Vincent In
about HIPAA violations and that
West Virginia
Jeanne
accessing private patient medical Phillips
Dear Abby: “Young at Heart in
information is a criminal offense. It
Texas” (Feb. 9) could have written
Advice
is essential that patients know they
my story. I am also a 70-year-old
can trust us to protect their privacy.
man who is sexually dysfunctional. I,
:e have speci¿c policies against using too, was lonely, having outlived two of my
one’s employee status to access a relative’s brides. However, I did ¿nd someone who
medical information.
appreciates holding hands and whispering
“Concerned” is lucky she still has a job. At sweet words without more physical contact.
my institution, she would be terminated for
Abby, you said: “Not only do I think you
violating organizational policy and federal can (¿nd companionship), I suspect you may
law. She wouldn’t have to worry about how need police protection to control the crowd of
to broach the subject with her husband; she’d applicants. Years ago, my aunt, the late Ann
be explaining why she was ¿red. He may Landers, polled her female readers asking if
not be a saint, but neither is she. Her actions they would prefer ‘holding and cuddling’ to
were unacceptable and reÀect a clear lack of actually doing ‘the deed.’ The majority of
integrity and honesty. — Safeguarding The them answered in the af¿rmative.”
Right To Privacy
My ¿rst wife died of a heart attack after
Dear Safeguarding: Thank you for 30 years of marriage. My second wife died
your informed response. You are not the after eight years of marriage, of kidney
only reader who was appalled at what cancer. At 71, I married my third wife, a
“Concerned” had done. Read on:
wonderful woman just as you both describe.
Dear Abby: Like “Concerned’s” husband, She was my next-door neighbor. We have
I, too, am labeled as high risk for STDs based been married three years and nine months.
on a medical survey I completed, although (The Bible says, “Love thy neighbor,” so I
I have had a monogamous 30-year marriage married her!) We also enjoy cuddling, even
and do not do drugs of any kind. In that without doing “the deed.”
survey, they asked how many partners I had
So I say to “Young at Heart in Texas”:
in my lifetime. Those few other partners YES, you can ¿nd a woman such as you and
were before I met my wife.
Abby describe. And when you do, I suggest
“Concerned” indicated that her husband you rub her back often. Women love it! —
had been treated twice for STDs “some years Young At Heart In Colorado
back.” What does that mean? Were they
Dear Young At Heart: I’m glad your
married then? If not, is he labeled high risk story had a happy ending, and I’m crossing
due to his previous behavior? Perhaps there my ¿ngers that “Young at Heart’s” will, too.
is something deeper in the relationship that Thanks for writing to encourage him.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 20-21, 1915
Pendleton’s ¿ne new 10,000 public
natatorium will be formally dedicated Friday
evening of this week, just a year from the date
when the ¿rst agitation for such an institution
was started. The dedicatory exercises will
consist of the presentation of the natatorium
to the city, acceptance by the city authorities,
an exhibition of fancy swimming and diving,
swimming contests and an inspection of the
pool and dressing rooms by the public. The
committee has not yet prepared the formal
rules and regulations which will govern
the pool. In all probability, however, one or
two afternoons a week will be designated
as ladies’ day and upon these afternoons
the ladies will have exclusive use of the
pool. Probably one afternoon for a two-hour
period will be reserved for private bathing
parties as a means of securing revenue for the
maintenance and upkeep. The evenings and
other afternoons will ¿nd the pool open to the
general public.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 20-21, 1965
The entire area was in the grip of really
unusual weather today with snow falling at
Desolation Butte and Tower Mountain back
of Ukiah, and soaking rain occurring at the
lower elevations, according to the local station
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Below normal
temperatures are expected to continue the
remainder of the week although a warming
trend is forecast. Some showery periods will
occur, the prediction said. Pendleton’s hottest
average period is from July 21 to July 26,
but it’s different this year. The mean here
yesterday was 62 degrees, which was 12
degrees below normal, and the high of 67 was
eight degrees below the normal mean of 75.
At mid-morning today the mercury was 55
above, the month’s average rainfall already
had been reached and more was in prospect.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 20-21, 1990
Indian elders will install Carl Donald
Sampson as the selected hereditary head chief
of the Walla Walla tribe in the longhouse at
Mission Saturday morning. The Wallalapums,
who are now referred to as the Walla Wallas,
have been without a chief for more than 20
years, since the death of Jack Abraham,
Sampson’s uncle. Sampson was given the
Indian name of Peo Peo Mox Mox, after
his great-grandfather, who served the Walla
Wallas as chief until his death in 1855. Samp-
son’s grandfather, Homily, was the direct
hereditary chief when Peo Peo Mox Mox was
killed. Homily passed the chieftainship to Jim
Kanine, who held the position until the early
1950s. Kanine’s successor, Abraham, served
more than 10 years before he died.
Today is the 202nd day
of 2015. There are 163 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On July 21, 1925, the
so-called “Monkey Trial”
ended in Dayton, Tennessee,
with John T. Scopes found
guilty of violating state
law for teaching Darwin’s
Theory of Evolution. (The
conviction was later over-
turned on a technicality.)
On this date:
In 1773, Pope Clement
XIV issued an order
suppressing the Society
of Jesus, or Jesuits. (The
Society was restored by
Pope Pius VII in 1814.)
In 1861, during the
Civil War, the ¿rst Battle
STONE SOUP
BIG NATE
of Bull Run was fought
at Manassas, Virginia,
resulting in a Confederate
victory.
In
1930,
President
Herbert Hoover signed an
executive order establishing
the Veterans Administration
(later the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs).
In 1949, the U.S. Senate
rati¿ed the North Atlantic
Treaty.
In 1972, the Irish
Republican Army carried
out 22 bombings in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, killing
nine people and injuring 130
in what became known as
“Bloody Friday.”
In 1980, draft registration
began in the United States
for 19- and 20-year-old men.
Today’s Birthdays: Singer
Kay Starr is 93. Movie director
Norman Jewison is 89. Former
Attorney General Janet Reno
is 77. Actress Patricia Elliott
is 73. Actor David Downing
is 72. Actor Leigh Lawson
is 72. Actor Wendell Burton
is 68. Singer Yusuf Islam
(formerly Cat Stevens) is 67.
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is
67. Actor Jamey Sheridan is
64. Rock singer-musician Eric
Bazilian (The Hooters) is 62.
Comedian Jon Lovitz is 58.
Rock musician Will Berman
(MGMT) is 33.
Thought for Today: “We
have too many high-sounding
words, and too few actions
that correspond with them.”
— Abigail Adams, American
¿rsW lad\ .
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE