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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