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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?
An Iowa man says his
dog inadvertently shot him
while they were roughhous-
ing Wednesday.
Fifty-one-year-old Rich-
ard Remme, of Fort Dodge,
told police he was playing
with his dog, Balew, on the
couch and tossed the dog off
his lap. He says when the pit
bull-Labrador mix bounded
back up, he must have dis-
abled the safety on the
gun in his belly band and
stepped on the trigger.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 132nd day of
2018. There are 233 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On May 12, 1943, during
World War II, Axis forces in
North Africa surrendered.
The two-week Trident Con-
ference, headed by Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt
and British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, opened
in Washington.
On this date:
In 1780, during the Rev-
olutionary War, the besieged
city of Charleston, South
Carolina, surrendered to
British forces.
In 1932, the body of
Charles Lindbergh Jr., the
20-month-old
kidnapped
son of Charles and Anne
Lindbergh, was found in a
wooded area near Hopewell,
New Jersey.
In 1949, the Soviet Union
lifted the Berlin Blockade,
which the Western powers
had succeeded in circum-
venting with their Berlin
Airlift.
In 1958, the United States
and Canada signed an agree-
ment to create the North
American Air Defense Com-
mand (later the North Amer-
ican Aerospace Defense
Command, or NORAD).
In 1967, “Are You Expe-
rienced,” the debut album
of the Jimi Hendrix Experi-
ence, was released in Brit-
ain by Track Records. Pro-
col Harum’s debut single “A
Whiter Shade of Pale” was
released in the United King-
dom on the Deram label.
English poet laureate John
Masefield died in Abingdon
at age 88.
In 1978, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration said that hur-
ricanes would no longer be
given only female names.
In 1997, Australian Susie
Maroney became the first
woman to swim from Cuba
to Florida, covering the
118-mile distance in 24 1/2
hours.
In 2003, the Texas House
ground to a standstill after
51 Democratic lawmakers
left the state in a dispute over
a Republican congressio-
nal redistricting plan. (The
Democrats returned four
days later from Oklahoma,
having succeeded in killing
the bill.)
In 2008, A devastating
7.9 magnitude earthquake
in China’s Sichuan province
left more than 87,000 people
dead or missing.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Critic John Simon is 93.
Composer Burt Bacharach
is 90. Actress Millie Perkins
is 80. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Jayotis Washington
is 77. Country singer Billy
Swan is 76. Actress Linda
Dano is 75. Actress Lindsay
Crouse is 70. Singer-musi-
cian Steve Winwood is 70.
Actor Gabriel Byrne is 68.
Actor Bruce Boxleitner is
68. Singer Billy Squier is 68.
Blues singer-musician Guy
Davis is 66. Country singer
Kix Brooks is 63. Actress
Kim Greist is 60.
Thought for Today:
“Dissent is not sacred; the
right of dissent is.” — Thur-
man Arnold, American law-
yer (1891-1969).
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