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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