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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, October 30, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Small investment in smoke alarms reaSs big bene¿ts FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE Dear Abby: Printing this letter org. Readers should also check with could save some lives — maybe even their local ¿re departments because your own. many oI them oIIer discounted or Iree In the United States, eight people programs to install working smoke die every day (on average) in house alarms in low-income areas in their ¿res. 7ragically, about halI oI these communities. 7hanks, Abby. — Fire deaths could have been prevented with Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr, IAFC an inexpensive device that takes just a President And Chair Of The Board Iew minutes to install and costs only a Dear Chief Kerr: I’m pleased Jeanne Iew dollars to maintain. to publici]e your liIesaving eIIort. Phillips I’m talking about smoke alarms. Readers, daylight saving time is also Advice Smoke alarms are the cheapest liIe liIesaving time. &hanging and testing insurance money can buy. 7hey are the batteries in your smoke alarms one oI the most successIul public health and carbon monoxide detectors when setting innovations in history, but 1 percent oI the clocks back can save your lives and the smoke alarms that Iailed to operate during the lives oI the people you love. Every Iamily last year had missing, disconnected or dead should also have a ¿re saIety evacuation plan batteries. and practice it so that everyone is prepared For the 28th year, the International Associ- to evacuate should an emergency occur. A ation oI Fire &hieIs (IAF&) is proud to partner great start to establishing that saIety plan is with Energi]er, the manuIacturer oI batteries, to recognize that this is the ideal time to buy Àashlights and lanterns, in the &hange and install those batteries. <our &lock &hange <our %attery program. Dear Abby: My husband was going to 7ogether, we’re asking your readers to make a meeting at the home oI a Iellow temple sure they have working smoke alarms that member. %ecause I was baking Ior a cookie have been installed correctly, and to test their exchange and had plenty available, I sent existing batteries — or install Iresh ones — in a lovely plate oI cookies with him. 7he conjunction with the end oI daylight saving hostess thanked him, but didn’t serve them. time on Sunday, Nov. 1. I’m ¿ne with that. %ut as he was leaving, In a ¿re, seconds count. A working smoke she presented him with the still-wrapped alarm can literally mean the diIIerence between plate and said she “couldn’t possibly” accept liIe and death. 7his program ensures that resi- them. Is it me, or is that odd? — Cookie dents will have a WORKING smoke alarm, Baker giving them and their Iamilies the critical early Dear Cookie Baker: Yes, I think it’s warning needed to escape a ¿re. 7hat precious odd — unless the hostess or someone time also helps to protect ¿re¿ghters, reducing attending the meeting had a severe allergy the likelihood they’ll have to enter a burning to an ingredient that might have been in home to rescue someone trapped inside. the cookies, such as nuts. While it was not Learn more about the program by visiting unusual (or rude) to not use the giIt oI Iood energi]er.com¿resaIety or the IAF& at iaIc. in the meeting, it WAS odd to return it. DAYS GONE BY BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 30, 1915 Pendleton high school yesterday aIternoon lost a bitterly contested game at Round-up Park to the La Grande high team by the score oI 3 to 0, a place kick Irom the Pendleton 15 yard line in the third Tuarter being the only score oI the game. Pendleton, however, contested the game on the grounds that &onkey, star ground gainer Ior the visitors, was ineligible to play under the rules oI the Eastern Oregon Interscholastic association. In the third quarter a 25 yard end run and yardage through the line, the only time La Grande made yardage through the line twice in succession, put the ball on Pendleton’s 10 yard line. 7here a stonewall deIense met the attacks oI the visitors and they were Iorced to try a place kick. Despite a bad pass, the ball was recovered in time Ior -. Rosenbaum to boot it between the posts. 7his was the only time La Grande got within striking distance. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 30, 1965 Accidental hitting oI the accelerator with her Ioot resulted in a car driven by Doris Edith Gray, Milton-Freewater, sideswiping a police car and colliding with two others beIore she regained complete control here Friday aIternoon. Sgt. Lyle Earlley had parked his car to direct traI¿c on the 10 block on SE Emigrant when the incident occurred. AIter sideswiping the police machine, the Milton-Freewater car also hit cars driven by &athey &orrea and Lawrence %arnes, both oI Pendleton. No one was injured seriously although the Iour-month-old child oI %arnes suIIered a head bump. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 30, 1990 A boxcar ¿lled with %udweiser beer caught ¿re at the +inkle Yard south oI +ermiston 7uesday morning. +ermiston ¿re¿ghters were called to the west end oI the complex at 10:30 a.m. when a railroad worker noticed smoke coming Irom the vents oI a boxcar in a Ireight train. 7he car was separated Irom the Ireight train so ¿re¿ghters could work on the blaze, which apparently started in an insulated wall. 7he boxcar sustained about 200 damage. 7he %udweiser “&hristmas Edition” beer was taken to Portland. +ow many oI the estimated 2,000 cases in the car were damaged by smoke and heat was not known. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN 7oday is the 303rd day oI 2015. 7here are 2 days leIt in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 30, 1965, the miniskirt had its “coming out,” oI sorts. %ritish model -ean Shrimpton scandalized onlookers by showing up Ior 9ictoria Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, in a white, sleeveless shiIt dress that had a hem Iour inches above her knees. (Shrimpton was also criticized Ior not wearing a hat, gloves or stockings to such a Iormal occasion.) On this date: In 1735, the second pres- ident oI the United States, -ohn Adams, was born in %raintree, Massachusetts. In 1864, +elena, Montana, was Iounded. In 1921, the silent ¿lm classic “7he Sheik,” starring Rudolph 9alentino, premiered in Los Angeles. In 1938, the radio play “7he War oI the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, aired on &%S. In 1945, the U.S. govern- ment announced the end oI shoe rationing, eIIective at midnight. In 1953, Gen. George &. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Albert Schweitzer received the Peace Prize Ior 152. In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the “7sar %omba,” with a Iorce estimated at about 50 megatons. 7he Soviet Party &ongress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal oI -oseI Stalin’s body Irom Lenin’s tomb. In 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round oI a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the “Rumble in the -ungle,” to regain his world heavy- weight title. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Dick Gautier is 84. Movie director &laude Lelouch is 78. Rock singer Grace Slick is 7. Songwriter Eddie +olland is 7. Rhythm-and- blues singer Otis Williams (7he 7emptations) is 74. Actress -oanna Shimkus is 72. Actor +enry Winkler is 70. %roadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell is . Rock musician &hris Slade (Asia) is . &ountryrock musician 7imothy %. Schmit (7he Eagles) is 8. Actor Leon Rippy is . Actor +arry +amlin is 4. Actor &harles Martin Smith is 2. &ountry singer 7. Graham %rown is 1. Actor Kevin Pollak is 58. Actor Michael %each is 52. Rock singer-musician Gavin Rossdale (%ush) is 50. Actor -ack Plotnick is 47. Thought for Today: “7here are things that are known and things that are unknown; in between are doors.” — William Blake, English poet (1757-1827). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE