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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, October 13, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Woman’s hidden HIV status must be brought to light FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m writing regarding report her friend’s dangerous and risky the letter from “She’s Killing Them in behavior. Indiana” (July 8) and your response to Dear Abby: My wife and I have the writer, whose friend is HIV-pos- been together for 10 years. Like all itive and doesn’t tell her partners her couples do, we’ve had our ups and diagnosis. I am a disease intervention downs, but we love each other very specialist (DIS) in Indiana and work much. Two months ago, we welcomed speci¿cally with STDs like HIV. our ¿rst son into our family we are In Indiana there is a duty to warn overjoyed. Jeanne law that requires anyone who is Phillips Raising a newborn has its chal- HIV-positive to inform any past or lenges because babies don’t come with Advice present sexual or needle-sharing part- an owner’s manual. Our communi- ners of her/his HIV status. At the time cation has always been good, and we of diagnosis, all providers inform the patient work hard in our relationship to keep it that of this, and DIS’s like me are required to get way. :hen we disagree, we try not to ¿ght in a signed copy of this law from HIV-positive front of the baby or raise our voices. individuals. But something my wife does bothers me. This year there was a large outbreak of HIV She talks about me to the baby. An example: in a rural southern area of Indiana. More than “Apparently you’re too stressful for Daddy 100 new infections occurred within just three right now, but not for me.” I have asked her short months. If individuals like this woman to please not do it. I understand that he’s only do not inform partners, then the risk is high for 2 months old and can’t understand her, but another outbreak. I don’t feel disparaging me in front of him The person who wrote you should contact is right. Am I wrong? Or am I being overly the Indiana State Department of Health’s sensitive? — Needs Help In New York Recalcitrant Program and inform them of this Dear Needs Help: I don’t think you’re situation. All information is kept con¿dential. being overly sensitive. It is important for an Counseling could be provided, and then if she infant’s development that the parents talk continues not informing, legal action could be to him or her. While your baby may be too taken against her. — Melissa Murawski young to understand what’s being said right Dear Melissa: Readers were upset about now, your wife is forming a habit that both of the gravity of that letter. They felt it was not you may regret later. It implies that she is the only a health issue but also one of morality, “good mommy” and you are the “bad daddy” and the legal issues could land the writer’s who can’t deal with his son. If this continues, at friend in serious trouble, including jail. You some point the boy WILL get the message, and are right that the person who wrote that letter it won’t be good for the relationship you have should contact the appropriate authorities and with her or the one you have with your son. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 12-13, 1915 An army of several divisions consisting of hundreds of crows in each division passed over the southwest part of the Umatilla project Sunday morning en route to their southern rendezvous. In passing through, sections, apparently, of each division, would drop out and feed in the alfalfa ¿elds bordering the Umatilla river. At one time when most of the birds had lighted there was a continuous stretch of black of not less than a mile in length and a thousand feet wide. As by order the Àock rose in a cloud and disappeared in the south like a huge volume of smoke. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 12-13, 1965 Pendleton ¿remen fought a stubborn ¿re in downtown Pendleton to a standstill early this morning and averted a major disaster. Captain Lloyd Rhinhart said, “It was just a dang good stop, that’s all.” He said the ¿remen have been undergoing extensive training in ¿re ¿ghting and it really paid off this morning. The ¿re was discovered in the basement of the two story Masonic Building at the corner of Main and BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Emigrant at 2:3 a.m. The ¿remen were able to keep the Àames con¿ned to the basement and prevent it from spreading to the Modern Health Studio which occupies the ground Àoor of the building, and the Masonic Lodge which is located on the top Àoor. It took four trucks and 20 men four hours to do the job but their efforts were rewarded when they were able to contain the ¿re, which at times was so hot it drove the ¿re ¿ghters back several feet. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 12-13, 1990 Allan Lambert, the former sheep shearer from New Zealand who became mayor of Umatilla, has returned to town to take over operations of the Rest-A-Bit Motel. The Lambert family left Umatilla in May for Australia and New Zealand for an inde¿nite stay after turning the motel over to a new operator. Lambert said he had to take back the business, and he and his wife Angella will be managing it as before. Lambert visited his parents in New Zealand and his son got to spend a term in school. He even spent a week shearing sheep in outback Queensland, in northern Australia, he said. “We got our heads cleared and we’re pleased to be back,” he said. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 286th day of 2015. There are 79 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On October 13, 1775, the United States Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval Àeet. On this date: In A.D. 54, Roman Emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrip- pina. In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia. In 1843, the Jewish orga- nization B’nai B’rith was founded in New York City. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. In 1944, during World War II, American troops entered Aachen, Germany. STONE SOUP BIG NATE In 1957, CBS-TV broad- cast “The Edsel Show,” a one-hour live special star- ring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. (It was the ¿rst special to use videotape technology to delay the broadcast to the West Coast.) In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon held the third televised debate of their presidential campaign (Nixon was in Los Angeles, Kennedy in New York). In 1962, Edward Albee’s four-character drama “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened on Broadway. In 1972, a Uruguayan chartered Àight carrying 5 people crashed in the Andes survivors resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later. In 1981, voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassina- tion of Anwar Sadat. Today’s Birthdays: Gospel singer Shirley Caesar is 78. Actress Melinda Dillon is 76. Singer-musician Paul Simon is 7. Actress Pamela Tif¿n is 73. Musician Robert Lamm (Chicago) is 71. Country singer Lacy J. Dalton is 69. Actor Demond Wilson is 69. Singer-musician Sammy Hagar is 68. Actor John Lone is 63. Model Beverly Johnson is 63. Producer-writer Chris Carter is 59. Actor Reggie Theus is 58. Sen. Maria Cant- well, D-Wash., is 57. Singer Marie Osmond is 56. Rock singer Joey Belladonna is 55. Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer is 55. NBA coach Doc Rivers is 5. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice is 53. Country singer John Wiggins is 53. Actor Chris- topher Judge is 51. Actor Matt Walsh (TV: “Veep”) is 51. Actress Kate Walsh is 8. Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is . Thought for Today: “A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.” — English proverb. BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE