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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, May 13, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Avoiding stairs in ire drill gets out of hand in high-rise FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE misplaced and of no use when a ire Dear Abby: I am the building occurs. People quit, get ired, go on manager of a high-rise ofice building. vacation, are home sick, etc. on any Every year we perform a ire alarm given workday. test to determine that all our ire alarm The late chair of NFPA’s systems work properly. Employees in Disability Access Review and the building must evacuate in a timely Advisory Committee Bill Scott — manner. who was a wheelchair user — often Two years ago, a very overweight woman told me she had a heart said, “Everyone, regardless of their Jeanne condition and could not make it down Phillips disability, has some responsibility to the stairs during the drill. I told her to ensure his or her own safety.” Being Advice proceed to the stairwell, have one of dependent on others for rescue can be her co-workers give me her location a recipe for disaster. and in the event of a ire I’d send a ireman up NFPA offers a free Emergency Evacuation to get her. A year later, another obese woman Planning Guide for People With Disabilities, told me she, too, couldn’t make it down the available for download at www.nfpa.org/ stairs. Word has gone out in the building. Now disabilities. Chief Kerr and Mr. Fraser 10 other women have asked to be added to the recommend you get it. I hope you will take “list” so they won’t have to descend the stairs. them up on the suggestion, and be a stickler I have nightmares about these women for compliance. standing in stairwells waiting for iremen to Dear Abby: I’m a dad whose children are help them during a real ire. I have a call in to growing up fast, and our second will soon be my local ire chief to see what he/she thinks out of diapers. Before that happens, I need to I should do. Have you any thoughts on this get clarity on public diaper behavior. matter? — Worried Building Manager Often I ind myself at a restaurant when Dear Building Manager: Employees it smells like it’s time to change the diaper. who are disabled need to know the evacua- Instead of running to the bathroom for a tion plan in place for their safety. If others false alarm, I (and most parents I know) pull are taking advantage of the system set up back the back of the diaper to check while for people with disabilities in order to avoid we’re in the middle of the restaurant. Is this going down the stairs, it is unfair to everyone. bad manners or considered to be practical I took your question to Austin, Texas, behavior? — On The Scent Out West Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr, president of Dear On The Scent: Pulling back the the International Association of Fire Chiefs diaper should not be necessary. Experienced (IAFC), and to Allan Fraser, senior building parents know what a clean and empty diaper code specialist at the National Fire Protec- looks and feels like. Others just pick up their tion Association (NFPA). Both expressed child to determine if he or she passes the concern that you would create a “list,” “sniff” test. I suggest this is what you do until because lists can become out-of-date or your child is out of diapers. 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 May 13, 1916 Chester Fee of Pendleton, captain of the University of Oregon track team was yesterday the star performer in the dual Oregon-O.A.C. track and ield meet at Eugene. He broke the northwest record in the pole vault, the college record in the javelin throw, took irst in the shotput and third in the low hurdles and broad jump, making a total of 17 points for his team. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 13, 1966 Are you worth more money? Do you feel your talents are being wasted? Or are you out of work and feeling hopeless about every inding a job? A new federally inanced job-inding program to start here sometime this summer has you in mind. Norman O. Nilsen, state labor commissioner, announced here Wednesday that a $59,000 grant from the Ofice of Economic Opportunity will be used to expand a program now being conducted in Portland. Classes in the techniques of job BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN hunting and training will be set up in seven areas of the state, including Pendleton. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 13, 1991 There was no hesitation in the elementary student’s answer when asked if he knew Dr. Rosenquist. “He’s my psychologist,” the boy said, glancing at the man surrounded by students at the next lunch table. Dr. Charles Rosenquist may well be the best known grown-up in all of Pendleton’s schools. And it has been that way for about 24 years, since he became the Pendleton School District’s psychologist. The school district and its students will lose Rosenquist at the end of the school year, along with his considerable talents and experience. He is retiring. “He is kind of known as the pied pier,” said Keith Blanchard, director of the Chapter One program and a longtime friend of Rosen- quist’s. “When he comes into a building and talks to the kids, even the kids that don’t know him pick up on this quality he has of making people feel at ease.” THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 134th day of 2016. There are 232 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 13, 1916, one of Yiddish literature’s most famous authors, Sholem Aleichem, died in New York at age 57. On this date: In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists went ashore the next day). In 1846, the United States declared that a state of war already existed with Mexico. In 1918, the irst U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, were issued to the public. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane was inadvertently printed upside-down, making them collector’s items.) In 1935, T.E. Lawrence was critically injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, England; he died six days later. In 1940, in his irst speech as British prime minister, Winston Churchill told Parliament, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the St. Lawrence Seaway Develop- ment Act. The musical play “The Pajama Game” opened on Broadway. In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1968, a one-day general strike took place in France in support of student protesters. In 1973, in tennis’ irst so-called “Battle of the Sexes,” Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court 6-2, 6-1 in Ramona, California. (Billie Jean King soundly defeated Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in September.) In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Buck Taylor is 78. Actor Harvey Keitel is 77. Author Charles Baxter is 69. Actress Zoe Wanamaker is 68. Actor Franklyn Ajaye is 67. Singer Stevie Wonder is 66. Actress Leslie Winston is 60. Producer-writer Alan Ball is 59. Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is 55. “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert is 52. Rock musician John Richardson (The Gin Blossoms) is 52. Actor Tom Verica is 52. Country singer Lari White is 51. Singer Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowish) is 50. Actress Susan Floyd is 48. Contemporary Christian musician Andy Williams (Casting Crowns) is 44. Actress Samantha Morton is 39. Rock musician Mickey Madden (Maroon 5) is 37. Actor Iwan Rheon is 31. Actor Robert Pattinson is 30. Folk-rock musician Wylie Gelber (Dawes) is 28. Thought for Today: “To want to be the cleverest of all is the biggest folly.” — Sholem Aleichem (1859- 1916). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE