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Saturday, October 7, 2017
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
Bride’s outrageous demands alienate fiancé’s sister
Dear Abby: I am a brides-
commitment and the joining
maid for my brother’s upcoming
together of two families, not the
wedding. However, his fiancée
photo album.
is throwing out some crazy
While I sympathize with her
mandates for the big day.
desire for a “perfect” wedding,
1. All family members must
the idea that your parents and
wear contact lenses. Glasses will
her mother must invest in
not be allowed because they look
contact lenses or miss seeing
ugly in pictures. (Both her mom
the ceremony and reception
Jeanne
and my parents wear glasses.)
Phillips because glasses aren’t “allowed”
2. She made my father get
is ludicrous. And the suggestion
Advice
dental work to “improve his
that you leave your crutches and
smile.”
risk further damaging your ACL
3. I recently tore my ACL, and she is off the charts.
says I can’t bring crutches to the cere-
Talk to your brother. Perhaps he can
mony because she doesn’t want them in make his ladylove see the light. If not, I
the pictures.
wouldn’t blame you — and your parents
How much more of this should our and her mother, by the way — if you
family put up with? I love her as my decided to skip the “show.”
niece’s mother, but not as my future
Dear Abby: My husband, “Jason,”
sister-in-law. Would it be better to tell and I have a 19-year-old daughter,
them I won’t be a bridesmaid? I am “Laurie,” who finished her freshman
afraid to speak up because I want a year of college with a 4.0 GPA. She
relationship with my niece. — Afraid has always been a great student and is
Of Bridezilla
interested in theater, music and dance.
Dear Afraid: Your brother’s fiancée She has NEVER given us any trouble.
appears to have gone off the deep end.
My husband is very conservative and
Weddings are supposed to be about love, opinionated about politics. Our daughter
has become much more politically
liberal over the last couple of years.
Jason thinks it is disrespectful of her to
not want to listen to him try to influence
her to think like he does (he has tried
before). I have told Jason she needs
to work out her own political beliefs
and, as she matures and sees how the
business world works, she’ll probably
become more moderate.
Jason is now insisting that we set a
time when “the three of us can talk,”
which means he will lecture her about
where she is wrong. What can I do
as a mother and wife to mediate this
meeting? I think both of them are
pretty dug in. — Love Them Both In
Arkansas
Dear Love: I see no way that what
your husband has in mind will be
either pleasant or productive. However,
because he is her father, Laurie owes
him the respect of hearing him out.
When the conversation becomes heated
— as it very well may — suggest a
timeout until they both cool down.
Or leave the room if it becomes too
stressful for you.
ODDS & ENDS
Burglar empties
restaurant cash register,
cooks meal, leaves
Security video showed the same
man was there the night before but
didn’t cook.
Police said Wednesday he hasn’t been
arrested, but they have recovered one
of his sandals that fell off during the
chase.
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A
burglar made a clean getaway from a
Long Island restaurant after emptying
the cash register, cooking a meal and
washing the dishes.
Will Colon tells Newsday he
found bent burglar bars when he
arrived Tuesday at Nelly’s Taqueria in
Hicksville, New York.
Security video showed the intruder
put on food-service gloves and started
heating up a pot before hammering the
register open. He pocketed the money
and put a dollar in the tip jar.
Then, Colon says, the man started
“cooking up a storm” in the dark —
beans, chicken, shrimp.
Colon says “the dude had some
skills.”
After eating, he covered and
refrigerated the food and wiped down
surfaces.
Would-be thief in Rio
chased out of gym by
jiu-jitsu students
New Mexico college: Pay
tickets with peanut butter
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A
would-be thief in a Rio de Janeiro
suburb apparently chose the wrong
gym to rob.
Surveillance camera footage shared
widely on social media shows the
man entering the gym and jumping
a turnstile after arguing with the
receptionist. Several seconds later,
the man is seen jumping back over
the turnstile and fleeing outside. He
is chased by several jiu-jitsu students
dressed in uniforms.
Jiu-jitsu teacher Edgar Neto told
The Associated Press that the incident
happened Monday night and he
reported it to police.
The man managed to escape.
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 7-8, 1917
Though he has been mourned as
dead since last April, Harold Dunn, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William Dunn of this
city, is still alive and wondering why his
parents have not been writing to him. A
postal card, dated at Portland, Maine,
Oct. 1, was received by Mr. and Mrs.
Dunn today. Last April Mr. and Mrs.
Dunn received word that their son had
been killed beneath the wheels of a train
at Cortland, Ohio, and together with the
fact that letters and papers found near the
mangled body undoubtedly belonged to
him, convinced the Dunns that it was
their boy who had been killed. Mrs.
Dunn went back and buried the remains.
Recently Mr. Dunn has received several
cards from his son but none of them
dated until the one reaching him today.
Therefore, he did not tell his wife of his
suspicions that his son was still alive.
The positive confirmation contained in
the card today has given Mr. and Mrs.
Dunn cause for great rejoicing.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 7-8, 1967
The son of a Pendleton school
librarian has been killed in Vietnam. He
was Capt. James Neisses, son of Grace
Neisses, librarian for six years at Helen
McCune Junior High School. Capt.
Neisses, a member of the U.S. Military
Assistance Command, had been in
Vietnam since Jan. 23. He was to have
started a rest and recuperation leave
today in Honolulu, Hawaii. His wife,
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New
Mexico State University is allowing
motorists to take a bite out of certain
parking tickets by paying with peanut
butter.
The Las Cruces Sun-News reports
the school recently announced
motorists who have received a “no
current permit” parking citation can
pay it with at least 80 ounces of peanut
butter from Oct. 23 to 27.
All peanut butter donations will be
sent to the Aggie Cupboard.
The offer is limited to the first 100
customers.
Officials say appealing the citation
forfeits the right to pay with peanut
butter.
DAYS GONE BY
who resides at Pacific Grove, Calif., had
planned to meet him in Honolulu. The
couple has one child, a daughter, 2.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 7-8, 1992
Dorothy Moon quietly walked away
from the Helix Post Office on Friday
afternoon. She turned off the lights,
locked the door and won’t come back.
Moon retired after 27 1/2 years with the
U.S. Postal Service in the small town
northeast of Pendleton. Lenore Narkaus
hired her as a clerk, and Moon became
postmaster when Narkaus retired 20
years ago. On her last day of work,
Moon said she didn’t want a party
or she’d become too emotional. But
flowers and gifts are evident around the
small office. She won’t move away.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 280th day of
2017. There are 85 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Oct. 7, 1977, the
Queen double-A single “We
Are the Champions” (by lead
singer Freddie Mercury) and
“We Will Rock You” (by
lead guitarist Brian May)
was released in the United
Kingdom by EMI Records.
On this date:
In 1765, the Stamp Act
Congress convened in New
York to draw up colonial
grievances against England.
In 1849, author Edgar
Allan Poe died in Baltimore
at age 40.
In 1858, the fifth debate
between Illinois senatorial
candidates Abraham Lincoln
and Stephen Douglas took
place in Galesburg.
In 1916, in the most
lopsided victory in college
football history, Georgia
Tech defeated Cumberland
University 222-0 in Atlanta.
In 1929, former Interior
Secretary Albert B. Fall,
one of the main figures of
the Teapot Dome scandal,
went on trial, charged with
accepting a bribe from oil
tycoon Edward L. Doheny.
(Fall was found guilty and
served nine months in prison;
Doheny was acquitted at his
own trial of offering the bribe
Fall was convicted of taking.)
In 1949, the Republic of
East Germany was formed.
In 1954, Marian Anderson
became the first black singer
hired by the Metropolitan
Opera Company in New
York.
In 1960, Democratic
presidential candidate John
F. Kennedy and Republican
opponent Richard Nixon held
their second televised debate,
this one in Washington, D.C.
In 1982, the Andrew
Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice
musical “Cats” opened on
Broadway. (The show ended
its original run on Sept. 10,
2000, after a then-record
7,485 performances.)
In
1985,
Palestinian
gunmen hijacked the Italian
cruise ship Achille Lauro in the
Mediterranean. (The hijackers
killed Leon Klinghoffer, a
Jewish-American
tourist,
before surrendering on Oct. 9.)
In 1991, University of
Oklahoma law professor
Anita Hill publicly accused
Supreme Court nominee
Clarence Thomas of making
sexually
inappropriate
comments when she worked
for him; Thomas denied
Hill’s allegations.
In 1992, trade represen-
tatives of the United States,
Canada and Mexico initialed
the North American Free Trade
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presence of President George
H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney and
Mexican President Carlos
Salinas de Gortari.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Retired
South
African
Archbishop and Nobel Peace
laureate Desmond Tutu is 86.
Author Thomas Keneally is
82. Comedian Joy Behar is
75. Former National Security
Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver
North (ret.) is 74. Country
singer Kieran Kane is 68.
Singer John Mellencamp is
66. Russian President Vlad-
imir Putin is 65. Rock musi-
cian Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) is
64. Actress Christopher Norris
is 62. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is 62.
Gospel singer Michael W.
Smith is 60. Recording execu-
tive and TV personality Simon
Cowell is 58. Country singer
Dale Watson is 55. Rhythm-
and-blues singer Toni Braxton
is 50. Rock singer-musician
Thom Yorke (Radiohead) is
49. Singer Taylor Hicks is 41.
Actor Omar Benson Miller is
39. Actor Shawn Ashmore is
38. Actor Jake McLaughlin
is 35. Electronic musician
Flying Lotus (AKA Stephen
Ellison) is 34. MLB player
Evan Longoria is 32. Actress
Holland Roden is 31. Actress
Amber Stevens is 31. Actress
Lulu Wilson is 12.
Thought for Today: “An
egotist is a person of low taste
— more interested in himself
than in me.” — Ambrose
Bierce, American author-jour-
nalist (1842-1914?).
OUT OF THE VAULT
Passers-by confounded
by eerie car noises
N
ext time you take the farm rig into town, be sure
you check it out underneath. You may have an
unsuspecting passenger.
A woman living on a farm just outside Pendleton
(who was unnamed in the Oct. 19, 1938 East Oregonian
article) ran into town for supplies and parked her car on
Main Street. As she got out of the vehicle, she and startled
passers-by immediately noticed some eerie sounds
coming from the car.
“What is it?” someone asked. “A new kind of horn
on your car?” The woman, equally puzzled, listened
carefully. If she were at home, the woman said, she would
guess the sound was a chicken in distress.
Someone thought to look under the car, and after a
thorough search found a ruffled hen clinging to a fender
support, probably with a very unusual feeling in its crop.
The woman placed the hen in the back seat, where
it settled in comfortably and waited patiently for a ride
home while her owner finished her errands.
— Renee Struthers writes the weekly Out of the Vault
column. The collection, “Out of the Vault: Historical Vignettes
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