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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