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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, May 12, 2018 East Oregonian Page 5C ODDS & ENDS Woman angry at utility worker, leaves her suspended in lift RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Police in New Jersey say a woman got angry at a cable TV worker and left her stranded in the air. Police say the dispute started in Ridgewood on Monday between a woman and an Optimum employee. The Record reports the 59-year-old woman turned off the worker’s truck while she was in the lift, leaving her stuck in midair. Police say the woman took “utility property” before walking away. Optimum says in a state- ment that the safety of its employees is their top prior- ity and they’re pleased their worker wasn’t harmed. The woman was charged with harassment, false impris- onment, disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. She was released from custody with a pending court date. No names have been released. AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa Who’s a good boy? A retiring police dog spends a last moment with his handler before be- ing handed over to his new caretakers in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday. The ceremony retired 61 police dogs who’ve spent years sniffing out illegal drugs and who helped rescuers find victims. DEAR ABBY Girl feels like Cinderella in ‘boys club’ household Dear Abby: I live with my ten worse. When I bring up the dad and my brother. My mother inequality between my brother passed away when I was very and me, he claims I’m being young, and I was pretty much “dramatic” or that I have many raised by my dad (with the help females in my life who compen- sate for him. I think he has some of family, of course). Dad always took great care of sexist ideas, and I don’t know me, or so I thought when I was how to address it with him. — Jeanne younger. Now that I am older, I Anonymous In The East realize he has made me the lit- Phillips Dear Anonymous: Your Advice tle “domestic” of his house. father appears to have created He makes me do dishes, clean a “boys club” with your sibling my room, and he badgers me about that you aren’t welcome to join, and bad- my weight. He says if I would just lose gering you about your weight is not only cruel but counterproductive. Men do not weight, guys would love me. He goes out with my older brother to fall in love with women because they are baseball games, car shows and just about skinny. Other, more important, qualities anywhere else. I’m not included. I don’t enter into it, whether your dad chooses to mind doing my share of housework, but recognize that fact or not. it has become unfair. My brother is only Because you have “many females in a few years older than I am, yet he has your life who compensate for him,” mar- almost no responsibilities, and Dad gives shal your army and confront him together him everything (his old car, pays to go to about how he is treating you. Perhaps if baseball games, dinner, etc.) while I must he hears a chorus he will pay attention. It’s worth a try. However, if that doesn’t buy my necessities. I know Dad loves and cares about me, raise his consciousness, consider making but over the last year or two I feel it’s got- other living arrangements as soon as you are 18. Dear Abby: What is the protocol when you are regifted something you bought someone (birthday, Christmas, etc.)? I have no problems with my gift being kept, sold, donated or gifted to someone else. But given back to me?! I found the surprise regift hurtful and insulting. How should I respond since I am the one who bought it in the first place? Nor- mally I’d send a thank-you note. Should I reply with sarcasm, be ironic or find a regift of my own? Thoughts, please. — Distraught In New York Dear Distraught: It’s possible the person had forgotten from whom the gift was received and didn’t realize it was being sent to the original giver. Try to dig deep and find your sense of humor when you respond. If it were me, I’d compli- ment the giver on what “great taste” she had, comment on the color or the useful- ness of the item, and then thank the per- son for taking the time and effort to select something I would enjoy and sign off with love. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 12-13, 1918 Word has been received by his aunt, Mrs. McCorkell, that Hugh A. Taylor was killed in action in France. Private Taylor is thus the first of the boys from the Weston neighborhood to have made the supreme sacrifice. Private Taylor was a member of Battery E, 146th reg- iment Field Artillery, and enlisted at Walla Walla. He was a son of Moses Taylor, a well known retired farmer of the county who formerly lived near Weston. His mother and also his widow and two small children reside near Pull- man, Wash. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 12-13, 1968 The little lumber community of Kinzua, nestled in the Blue Mountains, is undergoing a beautification project. The several buildings housing busi- nesses, all of the homes and the mill and offices are being repainted a rustic brown color. Other modernization proj- ects have been accomplished, and prob- ably the one most Kinzua residents are most proud of is the newly furnished, newly equipped Kinzua Cafe. This is the only restaurant between Fossil and Heppner. Located in a large, rustic wooden building, the old knotty pine walls of the cafe were recovered with bleached birch paneling. The tables and chairs were replaced by booths gaily colored in flamingo orange and black. Seats for nine customers surround the counter and the restaurant can accom- modate about 40 people. A large stone fireplace is at the end of the room. Kinzua mill and logging operations are giving employment to 225 people, many of whom eat all of their meals at the cafe. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 12-13, 1993 Nearly 1,500 inmates at Eastern Ore- gon Correctional Institution, currently sharing 20 television sets, soon will have the chance to buy their own color TVS. Right now, “communal view- ing” is available for inmates in each of the 20 housing units. Three inmates per week are selected from each housing unit to decide what to watch. “We go by bed number until everyone in a unit has an opportunity for a one-week period,” EOCI superintendent George Baldwin said, adding TVs will be allowed for individuals for a couple of reasons. First, it gives inmates something to do and cuts down on debates over programming in the shared TV room. And, he added, there may be a time when educational programs, through the state’s Ed-Net sys- tem, can be piped to individual inmates. MORE ODDS & ENDS Rescuers bitten after mistaking bobcats for domestic kittens SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Three well-meaning people suffered bites when the kittens they rescued after hearing them mewl- ing in a San Antonio alley turned out to be ravenous bobcat cubs . The caretakers found the blue-eyed, stub-tailed pair of young bobcats on Satur- day and, thinking they were Bengal kittens, took them in. They fed the bobcats milk from pet-feeding bot- tles, but realized something was amiss when the aggres- sive animals tore the bottles apart and bit them. They called animal con- trol officers and a wildlife rescue group took the wild cats away. Workers intended to wait in the alley hoping to find the mother and reunite her with the cubs. Iowa man says his dog shot him while playing FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — With best friends like these, who needs enemies? 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