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East Oregonian
COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, November 7, 2015
DEAR ABBY
The new girl at school
isn’t shy around boys
Dear Abby: I’m a 17-year-old girl
anything, he can’t do it. He says he
in high school. Recently, I became
will “sometime in the future,” but how
friends with a new girl at school. She’s
should I take this? We have never been
15. She has a boyfriend at her old
out to eat or seen a movie.
school, but she talks to guys at this
Am I being childish or asking too
school she thinks are cute. She told me
much too soon? — Underwhelmed In
some of them want to hook up with her
Michigan
and she seems happy about it. She even
Dear Underwhelmed: Too soon?
talked about going to a school dance
Eight months? You’re not childish; you
Jeanne
with them.
Phillips are thinking rationally. Sitting around
I’m worried she might be cheating
and watching television requires no
Advice
on her boyfriend, but I don’t know
effort on his part — and I’ll bet you’re
what to do. I don’t know him, so I
providing the snacks, too. Forgive me
don’t think I can tell him what’s happening. for seeming judgmental, but the man you’re
When she mentioned the guys at school and I involved with is acting like a self-centered
asked her, “What about your boyfriend?” she mooch, and it’s unfair to you.
just kinda changed the subject. — Teen In
Dear Abby: I started a new job that requires
Pennsylvania
me to deal with the public. I am now encoun-
Dear Teen: High school romances aren’t tering an unexpected issue I didn’t know I’d
like marriages. While some of them may last have with myself. It’s receiving compliments.
forever, most don’t. That’s why I’m advising
On more than one occasion, men have
you to take a step back, stay out of this girl’s told me I’m “beautiful.” Instead of handling
love life, and stop worrying about her old it gracefully, it makes me defensive and I
boyfriend. If she really cared about his feel- seem rude without meaning to be that way.
ings, she wouldn’t be Àirting with the boys at Comments of this nature make me extremely
school. In time, he will ¿nd someone else to uncomfortable.
ease his broken heart.
I’ve never had strangers tell me things like
Dear Abby: I met someone I really like this before. My co-workers think I’m crazy for
eight months ago. The problem is, I can’t get not eating it up, but I’m left feeling uneasy for
him to do anything except sit at home and the rest of the day. There has to be a better way
watch TV.
of handling this than the way I have been. Any
I have suggested doing things he is inter- advice? — Defensive In Arkansas
ested in. But when a friend called, he went out
Dear Defensive: Yes. The best way to
to a ballgame without hesitation. I had been handle a compliment is to be gracious and
asking him for months to go. He also went to accept it. Say thank you and refrain from using
a music festival with friends. But if I suggest it as an excuse to parade your insecurities.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 7-8, 1915
The ¿rst exhibition of the 115 Round-up
¿lms in this city will be given tomorrow
morning at 10 o’clock in the Temple Theater
for the stockholders of the association.
Manager Frank Downy tendered the direc-
tors the use of the theater for this private
exhibition. If the pictures are satisfactory,
two or three sets will probably be sent to the
3anama-3aci¿c exposition to take the place of
the past year ¿lms now being exhibited there.
Some delay has been caused in getting these
¿lms out through an entanglement in which
the photographers found themselves.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 7-8, 1965
A teenage burglar, surprised in the act by a
Pendleton woman returning to her home Friday
afternoon, is the object of a search by local
law of¿cers today after he beat his victim and
then temporarily abducted her. The crime took
place in broad daylight in the heart of the city
just off Highway 5. Mrs. Myrtle Winslow
said she surprised the young assailant, who
was judged to be between 17 and 18 years old,
when she came home from work at 1:30 p.m.,
and he struck her several times. He then took
her husband’s coin collection and forced Mrs.
Winslow to accompany him outside where
they both got into the Winslow car. He drove
south on Highway 35 for a short distance and
then returned to town letting Mrs. Winslow off
at her home. The car was found abandoned a
short distance from the home.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 7-8, 1990
A day care center unique in the Northwest
will open by December at the J.R. Simplot
Co. potato processing plant near Hermiston.
Simplot has joined forces with Head Start and
the Hermiston Day Care Center in a program
for 20 children of Simplot workers in a
remodeled farmhouse near the plant. Sixteen
children, ages 3 and 4, will spend the morning
in the Head Start program. The remaining
four will be infants and toddlers and will be
taken care of by a Day Care Center employee.
In the afternoon, all 20 children will become
the responsibility of Day Care Center
employees working at the site. The partner-
ship was announced by LaDonna Quaempts,
human resources manager at Simplot; Cathy
Wamsley, director of Head Start program
for Umatilla and Morrow counties; and Kay
Burns, director of the Hermiston Day Care
Center.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 311th day of
2015. There are 54 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 7, 1940, Wash-
ington state’s original Tacoma
Narrows Bridge, nicknamed
“Galloping Gertie,” collapsed
into Puget Sound during a
windstorm just four months
after opening to traf¿c.
On this date:
In 1861, former U.S. Pres-
ident John Tyler was elected
to the Confederate House of
Representatives (however,
Tyler died before he could
take his seat).
In 1914, the ¿rst issue of
The New Republic magazine
was published.
In 1916, Republican
Jeannette Rankin of Montana
became the ¿rst woman
elected to Congress.
In
1917,
Russia’s
Bolshevik Revolution took
place as forces led by Vlad-
imir Ilyich Lenin overthrew
the provisional government
of Alexander Kerensky.
In
1944,
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt won an
unprecedented fourth term in
of¿ce, defeating Republican
Thomas E. Dewey.
In 1954, the CBS News
program “Face the Nation”
premiered with Ted Koop
as host; the guest was Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis.
In 1962, Republican
Richard Nixon, having lost
California’s
gubernatorial
race, held what he called
his “last press conference,”
telling reporters, “You won’t
have Nixon to kick around
anymore.”
In
1973,
Congress
overrode President Richard
Nixon’s veto of the War
Powers Act, which limits a
chief executive’s power to
wage war without congres-
sional approval.
In 1974, British peer
Richard John Bingham, 7th
Earl of Lucan, disappeared
after his children’s nanny,
Sandra Rivett, was blud-
geoned to death at his fami-
ly’s London home; he has not
been seen since.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Evangelist Billy Graham is
7. Former U.S. Sen. Rudy
Boschwitz, R-Minn., is 85.
Actor Barry Newman is 77.
Singer Johnny Rivers is 73.
Former supermodel Jean
Shrimpton is 73. Singer-song-
writer Joni Mitchell is 72.
Former CIA Director David
Petraeus is 63. Actor Christo-
pher Knight (TV: “The Brady
Bunch”) is 58. Rock musician
Tommy Thayer (KISS) is 55.
Actress Julie Pinson is 48.
Rock musician Greg Tribbett
(Mudvayne) is 47. Actress
Michelle Clunie is 46. Actor
Christopher Daniel Barnes
is 43. Actors Jeremy and
Jason London are 43. Actress
Yunjin Kim is 42. Actor Adam
DeVine is 32. Rock musician
Zach Myers (Shinedown) is
32. Rapper Tinie Tempah is
27. Rock singer Lorde is 1.
Thought for Today:
“All forms of totalitarianism
try to avoid the strange, the
problematic, the critical, the
rational. To do so, they must
deny the metropolitan spirit,
equalize everything in city
and country, and retain a
center which is not the center
of anything because every-
thing else is swallowed up by
it.” — Paul Tillich, American
theologian (1886-1965).