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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, April 6, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Collection of war letters preserves our military past FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Readers: Today marks the Andy would love to meet in person 100th anniversary of America’s entry anyone with letters to contribute to into World War I. In commemoration, this “Million Letters Campaign” and I’m mentioning a special initiative is always seeking new venues. If you to save America’s war letters. know of a place he should speak, Almost 20 years ago I wrote about email him about it. For families with a historian, Andy Carroll, who had letters who cannot attend, submis- launched a project to seek out and sions can be sent to Andrew Carroll/ preserve war-related letters as a way CAWL Chapman University, One Jeanne of honoring and remembering our Phillips University Drive, Orange, CA 92866. veterans, troops and their loved ones. (Originals are preferred, but scans are Advice After the column appeared, Andy also appreciated.) was deluged with responses. Today Ultimately, Andy and CAWL are that collection holds approximately 100,000 seeking letters from ALL American wars, on wartime correspondences — from hand- ANY subject matter. For information on how written letters penned during the American to attend or invite Andy to your community, Revolution and Civil War, to emails from Iraq visit www.WarLetters.us. Dear Abby: My son, “Tom,” is a senior in and Afghanistan. Andy has donated the entire collection to Chapman University in Orange, high school. About a month ago, he asked a California, and the project is now called the girl named “Allie” to the prom. She said yes. Center for American War Letters (CAWL). Allie’s mom is a hairdresser. My husband and This week, Andy and CAWL are I don’t know her or her husband. kicking off an ambitious “Million Letters Allie’s mother has asked two different Campaign.” Andy will travel nationwide people about us. One of them told us about speaking at public libraries, museums, VFW it; the other I heard about secondhand. So and American Legion posts, civic groups, last week I introduced myself to her at a local places of worship, military academies and function. We spoke briefly, and I told her I more to explain the importance of these would be in touch. A few days ago I called correspondences and encourage people to to invite her out for coffee and left a message share with him their own war-related letters with my phone number. She hasn’t called me and emails. If you know of someone who has back. What can I do to get to know Allie’s war letters, please share this information so mother better? — Prom Mom the stories and voices of the men and women Dear Prom Mom: Make an appointment who have sacrificed so much for our nation to have your hair done, and you’ll have at will be preserved. least an hour with her. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 6, 1917 With the formal declaration of war against Germany, recruiting has picked up at the local recruiting stations and within the next few days both Sergeant Swartz of the naval station and Corporal Harvey of the army recruiting office expect to sign up many young men who have been hesitating until war was declared. Sergeant Swartz expects to have about 15 applicants tomorrow. He will send three new recruits to Portland tonight. He also has five or six other signed up and who will leave within the next few days. Eight of the eleven men whom Sergeant Swartz has sent down have been accepted. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 6, 1967 A hobby shop proprietor on the Oregon Coast says an explosive liquid was sold by error to an Eastern Oregon family. Mrs. Delores Stark of Nye Beach said Wednesday a man, his wife and their son, about 12, bought three pints of what was supposed to be acetone, used in rock work and in making plastic table tops and other plastic forms. Mrs. Stark said she learned the liquid she sold to them March 28 had been improperly labeled and contained a catalyst that made it corrosive and, if exposed to flame, explosive. She said she did not know the identity of the people but understood the man was a logger in Eastern Oregon. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 6, 1992 Aaron Jenks has traveled the world in recent weeks without ever leaving Eastern Oregon. An eighth grader at Blue Mountain Valley Seventh-day Adventist School in Athena, Jenks did a little detective work using a map and books, instead of a plane ticket, to come in second place at the state-level National Geography Bee. “They weren’t as hard as I expected,” Jenks said of the myriad cultural, topological and geographical ques- tions hurled at him a the Portland contest. Jenks easily surpassed his own expectations by scoring high on the written examination and withstanding the pressures of answering on-the-spot during the oral showdown. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 96th day of 2017. There are 269 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I as the House joined the Senate in approving a declaration of war against Germany that was then signed by President Woodrow Wilson. On this date: In 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York. In 1886, the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia, was incorporated. In 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece. In 1909, American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole. In 1947, the first Tony Awards were held in New York; this event, focusing on individual achievement rather than specific works, honored Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes, Jose Ferrer, Fredric March and play- wright Arthur Miller, among others. In 1954, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., responding to CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s broad- side against him on “See It Now,” said in remarks filmed for the program that Murrow had, in the past, “engaged in propaganda for Communist causes.” In 1965, the United States launched Intelsat I, also known as the “Early Bird” communications satellite, into geosynchronous orbit. In 1971, Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky, 88, died in New York City. In 1980, 3M introduced its “Post-it Notes,” a re-branding of a product formerly known as “Press ‘n Peel.” In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a Nebraska farmer had been entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornog- raphy. The four-year siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces began. Science-fiction author Isaac Asimov died in New York at age 72. In 1998, country singer Tammy Wynette died at her Nashville home at age 55. Today’s Birthdays: Nobel Prize-winning scien- tist James D. Watson is 89. Composer-conductor Andre Previn is 88. Actor Billy Dee Williams is 80. Actor Roy Thinnes is 79. Movie director Barry Levinson is 75. Actor John Ratzen- berger is 70. Actress Patrika Darbo is 69. Baseball Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven is 66. Actress Marilu Henner is 65. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Janet Lynn is 64. Actor Michael Rooker is 62. Former U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is 61. Rock musician Warren Haynes is 57. Rock singer-musician Frank Black is 52. Actress Ari Meyers is 48. Actor Paul Rudd is 48. Actor-pro- ducer Jason Hervey is 45. Rock musician Markku Lappalainen is 44. Actor Zach Braff is 42. Actor Joel Garland is 42. Actress Candace Cameron Bure is 41. Actor Teddy Sears is 40. Thought for Today: “To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American clergyman-author (1823-1911). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
