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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, August 12, 2017 East Oregonian Page 5C OUT OF THE VAULT 1979 total eclipse wows Eastern Oregon A large portion of the United States is gearing up for a total solar eclipse that will be visible from coast to coast on August 21, 2017. Beginning at 8:46 a.m. at Yaquina Head Lighthouse near Newport on the Oregon Coast, the eclipse will darken a more than 60-mile-wide swath of the state before moving on across the continent. Most of Central Oregon is in the path of totality, and it is estimated that 5 million people will travel to Oregon for its cloud-free viewing opportunities. And it will be the last time in our lifetime that Oregonians will be able to watch a total solar eclipse from home — the next one to cross the state won’t happen until June 2169. The fi rst known documentation of a total solar eclipse was made in China in 2137 B.C. The story goes that Chinese astronomers, named Hi and Ho, were tasked with bringing back the light by banging drums and shooting arrows at the giant serpent they thought was swallowing the sun. However, they lost their focus during an unfortunate bout of heavy drinking, and lost their heads to the royal executioner as a result. The last time Eastern Oregon was in the path of a total solar eclipse was Feb. 26, 1979. The eclipse began around 7:15 a.m., just as schoolchildren would have been on their way to school, and school districts around the area either delayed opening or opened early so kids would have supervision during the celestial event. Many districts geared the day’s lessons around the eclipse, making homemade viewers to safely view the sun as it was gradually covered by the moon’s shadow. The 1979 event was an annular eclipse, meaning the moon was a little further away and therefore did not completely obscure the sun’s corona, even at totality. Local pilots loaded friends and family into their planes and took off from regional airports, seeking a vantage point above clouds that threatened to block the view. Hermiston residents cheered when a break in the cloud cover appeared just as totality was imminent. Other residents traveled to the nearest public observatory, in Goldendale, Wash., where more than a thousand people viewed the eclipse from atop a butte above the Columbia River. In Portland, people had to be satisfi ed with photos taken by others; their view was blocked by overcast skies. Before 1979, the last total solar eclipse seen in Eastern Oregon occurred on June 8, 1918. And though Pendleton received 99.5 percent totality, many residents traveled south to Pilot Rock and east to Baker City to see the eclipse in its full glory. The naval observatory at Baker City photographed the eclipse using a 65-foot camera, the largest in the area. Haven’t been able to score a set of eclipse glasses? You can make a homemade viewer with two pieces of cardboard, a piece of aluminum foil and tape. Cut a one-inch-square hole in the center of one sheet of cardboard and tape a piece of foil over the hole. Poke a tiny hole through the center of the foil with a sewing needle. To use the viewer, turn your back to the sun and place the cardboard viewer over your shoulder. Use the other piece of cardboard as a screen, moving it closer and farther away to make the image of the eclipsing sun larger or smaller. Looking directly at the sun during a total solar eclipse, even for a short time, can permanently damage your eyesight, as 121 people discovered during an eclipse in 1970. ■ Renee Struthers is the Community Records Editor for the East Oregonian. See the complete collection of Out of the Vault columns at eovault.blogspot.com DEAR ABBY Plans for happy future are upset by return of old rival Dear Abby: I had a baby girl parents and the child, like taking with my longtime best friend, formal pictures and such. “Adam.” “April” is now 3 weeks Am I irrational or crazy? I old. I thought everything would care about Adam because of our be OK as co-parents because, long history of friendship. I did even though we’re not together, a lot to help him get off drugs we get along and almost never and keep his life together, and fi ght. now here she is messing it up. I Six weeks before April was told him if he’s happy with her, Jeanne born, Adam began seeing a Phillips then fi ne, but I don’t want Jenny girl we both knew from high around my baby. We cannot Advice school. The girl, “Jenny,” and I seem to come to an agreement have a horrible past. She used unless I fold. — Co-Parenting to bully me. On The East Coast My problem with Jenny being around Dear Co-Parenting: You are is she’s disrespectful. She and Adam neither irrational nor crazy. I’m sorry argue all the time because she forces your relationship with Adam didn’t things that shouldn’t be a problem into work out as you had hoped it would. becoming a problem. When I visit so However, if Adam marries Jenny, she Adam can see April, Jenny often inter- will be April’s stepmother. It would be jects her own opinions about my baby unrealistic for you to expect she leave as if she knows better than I do. the room when you bring the baby to I recently found out that Adam is visit her daddy. In that case, it might planning to marry Jenny. We have been be better if you accept the things you fi ghting because I don’t want her around cannot change. my daughter. Adam believes it’s not fair Dear Abby: My fi ancé “Allan’s” to push her out of the room when April great-grandfather recently passed is around, and that Jenny should be a away. We lived with him, as did Allan’s part of family events reserved for only mother and uncle. Allan was his full- time caregiver. My fi ancé’s mother is thinking about buying the house and says we should all pay rent to her. I have lived here for six years and I’m comfortable here. The one thing I’m wary about is, if it becomes her house, that she’ll start treating us like children. Allan and I are in our late 20s. I’m not comfortable walking on eggshells, and I’m afraid she will make it clear that we are living in HER house. In my opinion, if people are paying rent, it should feel like their home, too. Am I being a brat? And once it becomes her house, should I just lay all my worries on the line to her? — Not A Child In The West Dear Not A Child: You are not being a brat. You are an adult, and an intelligent one. By all means lay all your concerns on the table — the sooner the better. That way, Allan’s mother can either allay them, or you and your fi ancé can make plans to fi nd another place to live. If his mother needs the income that would come from having renters, she may be less inclined to behave as you fear. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 12-13, 1917 Col. J.H. Raley, who spent the day at Meacham in huckleberry patches, came across Tom Gurdane, former chief of police who is now foreman for Smythe Bros. out from Meacham. Gurdane told him of the killing of three bear and of a rattlesnake over four feet long all in one week. The three bear were in one bunch and were bagged at the same time. All were full grown and the largest was walking on his hind legs carrying off a live sheep from the Smythe fl ocks. The biggest bruin weighted over 400 pounds and had tusks like a lion. One of these tusks was brought back by Col. Raley. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 12-13, 1967 Young at heart, F.S. Beddow of Pendleton, who will be 92 Sunday, took time from his gardening this week to mount his favorite horse. Beddow came to Umatilla County in 1904. Until 1912 he drilled wells. Then he homesteaded near Hermiston. In 1926 he moved to a 3,600-acre wheat ranch in the Cold Springs area. He retired in 1945 and moved to Pendleton. Beddow has been a member of the Odd Fellows since 1907. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 12-13, 1992 Buddhist custom blended with Chris- tian icon at the Pilot Rock community center Wednesday when a Japanese family presented a memorial statue to the Pilot Rock Presbyterian Church. The stone fi gure, a traditional Buddhist Jizo, is a gift from Katsumi and Kiiko Kusano of Shiki City, Japan, whose 17-year-old daughter Yayoi was killed in a car accident near Pilot Rock in 1990. The Kusanos also presented Pilot Rock High School with a donation. Yayoi went to school there while she was an exchange student living with Charlotte and Gene Cecil of Pilot Rock. School Superin- tendent Darce Driskel said he hoped to use the undisclosed amount of money to enhance his students’ understanding of Japanese culture. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 224th day of 2017. There are 141 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 12, 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defi ed Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, with whom he had clashed over Reconstruction policies. (Johnson was acquitted by the Senate.) On this date: In 1898, fi ghting in the Spanish-American War came to an end. In 1915, the novel “Of Human Bondage,” by William Somerset Maugham, was fi rst published in the United States, a day before it was released in England. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nomi- nated Hugo Black to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1944, during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England. In 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its fi rst hydrogen bomb. In 1960, the fi rst balloon communications satellite — the Echo 1 — was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral. In 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise passed its fi rst solo fl ight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating, then touching down in Califor- nia’s Mojave Desert. In 1981, IBM introduced its fi rst personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York. In 1985, the world’s worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic fl ight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. (Four people survived.) In 1992, after 14 months of negotiations, the United States, Mexico and Canada announced in Washington that they had concluded the North American Free Trade Agreement. Avant-garde composer John Cage died in New York at age 79. In 1994, Woodstock ‘94 opened in Saugerties, New York. Today’s Birthdays: Actor George Hamilton is 78. Actress Dana Ivey is 76. Actress Jennifer Warren is 76. Rock singer-musician Mark Knopfl er (Dire Straits) is 68. Actor Jim Beaver is BURNS MORTUARY of Hermiston & Hermiston Crematory 685 W. Hermiston Ave. Hermiston, Oregon (541) 567-6474 www.burnsmortuaryhermiston.com Home intruder Accused burglar cleans apartment, doesn’t fl ush, leaves takes nothing DNA for police ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man returned home from a trip and found that his apartment had been broken into — and cleaned. Arlington County Police say in a crime report that shortly after 12 a.m. Monday, a man returned to his Arlington apartment after a trip. He called police when he noticed that his apartment appeared to have been cleaned and some items had been moved around. Nothing was missing. WRC-TV reports the man told police he doesn’t employ a maid. 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