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Page 8C East Oregonian COFFEE BREAK Saturday, May 14, 2016 DEAR ABBY Shy teens take it slow while getting to know each other Dear Abby: There is a guy that I she shouldn’t, because the boys will kind of like at school, but he’s really distract her and she’ll have a hard time shy and doesn’t really talk to anybody. focusing on her balance and getting up. I have talked to him a couple times, I have told this relative that Mom and he’s really nice and has good shouldn’t be watching the kids, but manners. He sits with me and my she refuses to listen. (Other relatives group every day at lunch, and I see say she will be ine if she does.) My him around school. I say hi to him mother loves watching these kids every time, but I’m not really getting and I understand that. But I’m more Jeanne any results. I would really love some Phillips concerned about her well-being. Not guidance. — Shy Teen In California sure what to do about this. Can you Advice Dear Shy Teen: I think you are help? — Concerned In Tennessee doing everything you can right now Dear Concerned: Speak to the without scaring him off. On the plus side, doctor and see if he/she will put in writing this boy is comfortable with your group or what was said to you and your mom about not he wouldn’t be having lunch with you. If you baby-sitting. If you get it in writing, you can all socialize beyond eating together (such as share it with the mother of those children and going to school dances or sporting events), the other relatives. make sure he knows he’s welcome. If he Frankly, as concerned as I am about your takes you up on it, it will give you both a mother losing her balance because she is chance to get to know each other better, and distracted, I am equally concerned about the it may help him to overcome some of his welfare of the kids. If your mom should fall shyness. and hit her head or break a hip, would they Dear Abby: My mother is 70. She lives know what to do to help her? And as she alone and has been diagnosed with mild becomes more confused, if something like a dementia and hydrocephalus. She has fallen ire should happen, would she be competent numerous times and hurt herself, can no longer enough to get the children out and call the ire drive and needs help with household tasks. department? The problem is, a relative keeps asking What you have described could be a recipe her to baby-sit her 5- and 7-year-old sons. for disaster, and I am shocked at the irrespon- The doctor has said in front of Mom that sibility of that mother. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 14-15, 1916 The absence of a little mole on the back of his neck and the fact that he had but one crown instead of two to his head brought to naught what prom- ised to be the unearthing of a kidnaping crime by the local police. On May 12, 1915, a small white boy was kidnaped by gypsies in Pennsylvania. Just a year from that date, which was last Friday, the local police received message from Salem that a boy answering the description of the kidnaped child was trav- eling through eastern Oregon with gypsies in high-powered automobiles. When the three big cars arrived here Saturday, the police searched through the band and found a four or ive year old white boy among them. They took seven or eight pictures of him and then wired to Pennsylvania for a better description. Meanwhile the gypsies passed on. Yesterday the description was wired to Pendleton and Oficer Harry Edwards and Supt. F. Hayes of the water department at once set out in the latter’s car in pursuit of the gypsy band. They overtook them near Walla Walla, held them up and examined the boy. He failed to show the distinguishing marks. The gypsies claimed they adopted the boy when he was two years old. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 14-15, 1966 A young Hermiston father and his two-year-old son narrowly escaped death at midnight Friday when their car came to a screaming halt in the display room of the Handy Hank store at 672 East Main near the Diagonal Road-East Main intersection. Hospitalized were Benjamin Richard Wheeler, 24, and his son Bryan, 2, who moved here two weeks ago from Enterprise. Wheeler was driving into Hermiston on Diagonal Road, apparently at a high rate of speed, and failed to negotiation the curve on East Main. The 1957 two-door Ford went through the Handy Hank parking lot, plowed through a wire fence under a large canopy on the east side of the building, and then crashed through a pumice block wall and came to a stop in the display room of large household appliances, which were shoved into the opposite side of the display from the impact. A hole 20 feet wide was knocked in the wall. Before hitting the wall the car plowed through rental lawnmowers, garden equip- ment and used appliances inside the wire enclosure. Wheeler’s wife was the irst to arrive at the scene of the accident. She told police she heard the crash, which occurred only a short distance from the Wheeler home, and she ran to the scene of the mishap. Wheeler was cited for reckless driving. He and his son were hospitalized at Good Shepherd Hospital. The auto was a total loss. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 14-15, 1991 Donald Glen Richardson says he had no right to take his wife’s life, but he blamed their alcohol and drug prob- lems for ights that ultimately led to her death and his conviction for murder. The 44-year-old Umatilla man was sentenced to life in prison for the October shooting of 33-year-old Cynthia Richardson, plus another ive years for abusing her corpse. Richardson, who confessed to shooting his wife while she slept, said in an interview Tuesday afternoon that he was under the inluence of alcohol and drugs when he shot his wife. “I’m not laying it off on anybody but myself, but if I’d been straight I never would have done it,” said Richardson, sitting in hardback wooden chair in the attorney’s conference room in the Umatilla County jail. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 135th day of 2016. There are 231 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 14, 1948, according to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv. On this date: In 1643, Louis XIV became King of France at age four upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Paciic Northwest left camp near present-day Hartford, Illinois. In 1900, the Olympic games opened in Paris as part of the 1900 World’s Fair. In 1925, the Virginia Woolf novel “Mrs Dalloway” was irst published in England and the United States. In 1936, British Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, died in London at age 75. In 1940, the Netherlands surrendered to invading German forces during World War II. In 1955, representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland. (The Pact was dissolved in 1991.) In 1961, Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama. In 1973, the United States launched Skylab 1, its irst manned space station. (Skylab 1 remained in orbit for six years before burning up during re-entry in 1979.) The National Right to Life Committee was incorporated. Today’s Birthdays: Opera singer Patrice Munsel is 91. Photo-realist artist Richard Estes is 84. Actress Sian Phillips is 83. Former Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., is 74. Movie producer George Lucas is 72. Actress Meg Foster is 68. Movie director Robert Zemeckis is 65. Rock singer David Byrne is 64. Actor Tim Roth is 55. Rock singer Ian Astbury (The Cult) is 54. Rock musician Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) is 50. Fabrice Morvan (ex-Milli Vanilli) is 50. Actress Cate Blanchett is 47. Singer Danny Wood (New Kids on the Block) is 47. Movie writer-director Soia Coppola is 45. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is 32. Thought for Today: “Silence cannot hide anything — which is more than you can say for words.” — From the play “The Ghost Sonata” by Swedish author-playwright August Strindberg (born 1849, died this date in 1912).
