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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