COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, July 14, 2018
East Oregonian
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OUT OF THE VAULT
Hermiston fisherman lands bonus catch
A Hermiston confectionary store
owner and sporting goods dealer
reeled in a much larger prize than he
was expecting on a fishing trip to Cold
Springs Reservoir outside Hermiston
in August of 1919.
Henry Hitt was relaxing while fish-
ing for bass on a sunny afternoon on
Aug. 19, 1919, trailing a hook baited
with a tempting-looking minnow
across the wind-blown waves and into
the weeds at the shore. One particu-
larly long cast sent his lure out of eye-
sight, and just as it disappeared Hitt
felt a tugging on his line.
Hitt set the hook, assuming the
battle was on. But Hitt’s line did not
immediately dash for deeper water,
and he began to think he had perhaps
caught something not of the fishy per-
suasion — perhaps a mink, like fel-
low fisherman Bill Matthews, or a
water snake like the one towed in by
John Dunning.
As he pulled his line in slowly, Hitt
was surprised to see a pelican stroll
from behind the bushes, attempting as
it walked toward him to eat the min-
now without also swallowing the line
and the hook.
Hitt captured the bird and removed
the hook, then packed his peculiar
catch up and took it home. The peli-
can made itself at home around Herm-
iston for a time, and Hitt later returned
it to its home at the reservoir.
DEAR ABBY
Hard-working college student strives to be more organized
Dear Abby: I am a 20-year-
your college has a student
old college student. After
health center, that’s the place
attending a local community
to start. If not, contact the
college for two years, I will
psychological association in
be starting classes at a four-
your state about a referral to
year school. I make excel-
a therapist who specializes in
lent grades, but I struggle with
patients with adult attention
organization. My mother has
deficit disorder. I wish you
ADD, and I am certain that I
luck, because there is help for
Jeanne
also have it because I display Phillips it.
Advice
all the symptoms. However, I
Dear Abby: My boyfriend
have never been diagnosed.
and I have been dating casu-
ally for about five months.
My mother purposely didn’t
have me diagnosed as a child because He is busy and is often terrible about
she didn’t want me to feel like there returning texts and phone calls. For
was anything holding me back. Now his birthday, I bought him a gift that I
that I’m an adult, I keep wondering if had put a lot of thought into. We made
getting a diagnosis along with some plans to have dinner on his birthday,
mental and emotional support might but when the time came to pick me
help me to become more organized up, he didn’t show. Three hours after
and successful in life. Any advice the agreed-upon time, he texted and
would be appreciated, along with canceled.
any resources you might know of for
My question is about the gift. It
people who have ADD or ADHD. — wasn’t extravagant, but I no longer
Anonymous In The South
have any interest in giving it to him
Dear Anonymous: Because you when we do finally see each other
feel that receiving a diagnosis would (it’s been a week since he canceled).
be helpful, it’s time to be evaluated Is it acceptable to simply pay for din-
by a mental health professional. If ner? I’m hurt and frustrated with him,
and that doesn’t make me want to
give him a gift. — Hurt In Texas
Dear Hurt: If he had wanted
to spend his birthday with you, he
would have shown up. One of the
ways people show they care about
each other is by returning texts and
initiating phone calls. Because your
“boyfriend” hasn’t done that, assume
that he is not as interested in you as
you are in him. Return the gift, if pos-
sible, and if he shows up again, do
not buy the dinner. Shame on him.
Dear Abby: When my wife shops
for clothes, she often returns some-
thing for exchange or reimburse-
ment. Recently she bought an arti-
cle of clothing and it shrank after she
washed it, so she returned it. To me
that was inappropriate. I think after
a garment is washed it belongs to the
buyer, and a return is wrong. Or am
I wrong? — Returned In The East
Dear Returned: Personally, I
agree with you — unless the item
was supposed to be shrink-resistant.
However, because the retailer was
willing to exchange it or reimburse
your wife, it appears we are mistaken.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 14-15, 1918
Today is the last day upon which retail grocers, bakers,
hotelmen, restaurant and cafe proprietors can file their sugar
statements upon which will be based the amount of sugar
they are to receive during the quarter ending September 30.
The food administration regulations provide that those fail-
ing to file their statements by July 15 will not be able to
secure any sugar for the balance of the year. So far very few
of the Pendleton dealers have filed their statements with Dr.
W.D. McNary, county administrator, but a large number
have been received from over the county.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 14-15, 1968
First reaction here when the city learned thoroughly
native, dyed-in-the-wool Milton-Freewater girl Marjean
Langley had been named Miss Oregon was “They couldn’t
have chosen a finer girl.” Then came delight that “Uma-
tilla County’s done it again!” referring to Pendleton’s Chris-
tine Beach being last year’s Miss Oregon. Mayor Bill York,
plunging at once like everybody else into plans for “giving
Marjean the biggest welcome home ever seen here,” said
of Marjean, “Most of us have seen her grown up and know
what a genuine, outgoing, truly sweet girl Marjean is. …
She’s the loveliest representative her city and region and
state could ask for, a truly fine, East Oregon type of girl.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 14-15, 1993
A freak thunderstorm dumped more than two inches
of rain and as much as three inches of hail as it marched
through the region between Pendleton and the Colum-
bia River Tuesday evening. The isolated storm cut a swath
that left many areas virtually dry, but soaked an area from
just south of Pendleton to Juniper Canyon about 15 miles
to the north. More than two inches of rain and an inch of
hail were recorded in southwest neighborhoods, creating
muddy rivers that washed through yards and flooded some
homes. The Umatilla River was measured at 105 cubic feet
per second at Pendleton this morning, but the same river
at Yoakum — about 10 miles downstream — was mea-
sured at 424 cfs this morning and hit a high of 732 cfs Tues-
day night, according to Ron Morris, the Bureau of Recla-
mation’s river manager.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 195th day
of 2018. There are 170 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On July 14, 1933, all
German political parties,
except the Nazi Party, were
outlawed.
On this date:
In 1789, in an event
symbolizing the start of the
French Revolution, citizens
of Paris stormed the Bas-
tille prison and released
the seven prisoners inside.
In 1798, Congress passed
the Sedition Act, making
it a federal crime to pub-
lish false, scandalous or
malicious writing about the
United States government.
In 1881, outlaw William
H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy
the Kid,” was shot and killed
by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort
Sumner in present-day New
Mexico.
In 1913, Gerald Rudolph
Ford Jr., the 38th president
of the United States, was
born Leslie Lynch King Jr.
in Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1914, scientist Robert
H. Goddard received a U.S.
patent for a liquid-fueled
rocket apparatus.
AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias
Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion parade on the
Champs Elysees avenue during a rehearsal for Bastille
Day, early Wednesday.
In 1921, Italian-born
anarchists Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti were
convicted in Dedham, Mas-
sachusetts, of murdering a
shoe company paymaster
and his guard. (Sacco and
Vanzetti were executed six
years later.)
In 1964, in a speech to
the Republican national con-
vention in San Francisco,
New York Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller was booed by
supporters of Barry Gold-
water as he called on the
GOP to denounce political
extremists.
In 1966, the city of Chi-
cago awoke to the shock-
ing news that eight student
nurses had been brutally
slain during the night in
a South Side dormitory.
Drifter Richard Speck was
convicted of the mass killing
and condemned to death, but
had his sentence reduced to
life in prison, where he died
in 1991.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter
won the Democratic pres-
idential nomination at the
party’s convention in New
York.
In 1980, the Republican
national convention opened
in Detroit, where nomi-
nee-apparent Ronald Rea-
gan told a welcoming rally
he and his supporters were
determined to “make Amer-
ica great again.”
In 2004, the Senate scut-
tled a constitutional amend-
ment banning gay marriage.
(Forty-eight senators voted
to advance the measure —
12 short of the 60 needed —
and 50 voted to block it).
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Nancy Olson is
90. Former football player
and actor Rosey Grier is
86. Music company execu-
tive Tommy Mottola is 70.
Actress Jane Lynch is 58.
Actor Matthew Fox is 52.
Thought for Today: “A
man must be both stupid and
uncharitable who believes
there is no virtue or truth but
on his own side.” — Joseph
Addison, English essayist
and poet (1672-1719).
ODD NEWS
Daily dose of
national anthem
in hospitals stuns
Egyptians
CAIRO (AP) — A deci-
sion by Egypt’s new health
minister to have inter-
coms in state hospitals
play the national anthem
every morning, followed
by a recitation of the Hip-
pocratic oath, has set off
a storm on social media
across the country.
The minister, Hala
Zayed, insisted Tuesday’s
decision will help promote
“patriotism and loyalty”
of all hospital staff mem-
bers as well patients in
the state-owned facilities.
She also stressed the rec-
itation of the Hippocratic
oath — generally taken by
all new physicians receiv-
ing a medical degree and
attributed to Hippocrates
of ancient Greece —
would remind doctors of
their “professional ethi-
cal code and humanitar-
ian role.”
Ministry
spokes-
man Khaled Megahed
defended the decision,
saying it’s “in the interest
of doctors” and would be
enforced in all state hos-
pitals in Egypt.
However, many Egyp-
tians took to network-
ing sites, ridiculing the
move. Some suggested
Zayed should instead
focus on improving con-
ditions in derelict and
overcrowded state hos-
pitals, which often lack
basic supplies.
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checks for $68 each to all
owners of properties with
structures on them.
Efforts to keep town
expenses down while
increasing delinquent-tax
collection led to more
money than anticipated
in the general fund. The
township board of supervi-
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million portion of the sur-
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