COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, February 1, 2020
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
Siblings come home to visit, but not with family members
Dear Awkward: Do not be confron-
Dear Abby: I have a problem I
haven’t seen in your column before.
tational, but when plans are being made
for the next visit, you and your husband
My husband comes from a large fam-
ily with siblings spread far and
should ask his relatives which
wide. We live in the home state
days or evenings you should
and are happy to accommodate
expect to entertain them. That
his brothers and sisters (families,
way you won’t have needlessly
dogs) when they come home to
cleared your calendar only to be
visit and ask to stay with us.
left standing at the curb.
While it’s never said openly,
Dear Abby: My fiancee,
J eanne
it quickly becomes clear that
“Mia,” lost her dad two years
P hilliPs
ADVICE
the purpose of their visit is to
ago, and her mother recently
do activities with people other
announced to the family that she
than my husband and me. In the past,
is seeing someone. She has been staying
we cleared our calendars and expected
over at his house, and she is planning
to entertain and feed these visitors. It
to sell her home and move in with him.
becomes awkward when they unex-
Mia is very upset about it.
pectedly leave for events with other
Her mom is now in the process of
people — once a Christmas Eve dinner!
getting rid of her father’s belongings.
Advice? — Awkward in the Midwest
She feels like her mom is erasing her
father from their lives. How long should
her mother have waited? Is Mia being
selfish? Shouldn’t she be happy for her
mother? — Going Forward in the
East
Dear Going: I hesitate to call your
fiancee selfish as much as self-cen-
tered. Her mother has waited a respect-
ful amount of time. She isn’t erasing her
late husband from her life or her chil-
dren’s as much as going on with hers,
which is healthy.
I wish you had mentioned how long
she has been seeing the man she’s plan-
ning on moving in with, because it
might be pertinent. For her own protec-
tion, she should discuss her plans with
her lawyer to ensure that she — and her
assets — are safeguarded before she
sells her house.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 1, 1920
Reports from Ukiah say the frost is fast leaving the
ground, the roads are very muddy and the ice has raised
the creeks. The bridge across Desolation Creek near Dale
was washed out a few days ago and the mail between Ukiah
and Long Creek is tied up for the time being. Phil Fair-
banks, proprietor of the line, was in Ukiah when the bridge
went out and is doing everything he can to get connections
through. Abe Martin, driver for the Ukiah end of the route,
was caught on the Long Creek side with nothing to do but
care for his horses.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 1, 1970
Hermiston City Police have recovered over $100 worth
of whisky that was taken from the Elks Lodge in a break-in
after midnight Saturday. Police said a local juvenile admit-
ted the theft Sunday. This is the second time in two months
that the lodge has lost whisky in a break-in. Some time
Sunday night, for the second time in 10 days, the Handout
Drive-In at 225 Highland was hit by vandals. Entry was
gained through a window, police said, and whipped cream
was smeared over the interior of the building.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 1, 1995
Dave Green is very familiar with the halls of Umatilla’s
high school and middle school. He’s walked them as a stu-
dent and a teacher. Green is retiring this year from Clara
Brownell Middle School after 30 years as a seventh and
eighth grade science teacher. After graduating from Uma-
tilla High School in 1960, Green earned a degree at Eastern
Oregon State College in 1965. By the fall of ’65 he was back
at his old school as a teacher. When Green stepped into his
first classroom there was only a stack of text books on the
floor and a box with some assorted science teaching aides.
From those humble beginnings Green has built a modern
science lab. But Green’s replacement will have to take the
science class to the next level by integrating computers into
the curriculum. “I’ll leave that for them to do,” Green said.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Feb. 1, 2003, the space
shuttle Columbia broke up
during reentry, killing all
seven of its crew members:
commander Rick Husband;
pilot William McCool; pay-
load commander Michael
Anderson; mission special-
ists Kalpana Chawla, David
Brown and Laurel Clark; and
payload specialist Ilan Ramon,
the first Israeli in space.
In 1942, during World
War II, the Voice of Amer-
ica broadcast its first pro-
gram to Europe, relaying it
through the facilities of the
British Broadcasting Corp.
in London.
In 1960, four black col-
lege students began a sit-in
protest at a Woolworth’s
lunch counter in Greens-
boro, North Carolina, where
they’d been refused service.
In 1979, Iranian religious
leader Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini received a tumul-
tuous welcome in Tehran as
he ended nearly 15 years of
exile.
In 1982, “Late Night
with David Letterman” pre-
miered on NBC.
In 1994, Jeff Gillooly,
Tonya Harding’s ex-hus-
band, pleaded guilty in Port-
land, Oregon, to racketeer-
ing for his part in the attack
on figure skater Nancy
Kerrigan in exchange for
a 24-month sentence (he
ended up serving six) and a
$100,000 fine.
Thought for Today: “It
is the tragedy of the world
that no one knows what he
doesn’t know — and the
less a man knows, the more
sure he is that he knows
everything.” — Joyce Cary,
English author (1888-1957).
Universal Crossword
Edited by David Steinberg February 1, 2020
ACROSS
1 Eager kids’ plea
6 Spine line?
11 Small shot
14 What Bernese
Mountain Dogs do a lot
15 To no ___ (in vain)
16 Snakelike fish
17 Lloyd of the U.S.
women’s soccer team
18 Put down new turf
19 X, in sorority names
20 Gave some alone time
22 Enter on tiptoe, perhaps
24 James with a
posthumous Pulitzer
25 Popular drinking game
26 Mars 2020 org.
28 Key ring?
30 They may be loose or
split
31 Very strong hold
33 T. follower
35 Self-important tyrants
36 Made small waves
40 Vessel for boiling water
41 Coconut or almond
cookie
42 Light brown
45 Not smooth
47 “Frozen 2” queen
48 (Jackpot!)
50 Birth control options:
Abbr.
52 Sarcastic comment
after a misfortune
53 Draws new
boundaries, say
55 Biblical couples’ cruise
56 Love, on an Italian
valentine
58 Starting players
60 Angry feeling
61 Dovetail joint
component
62 Polynesian Disney
heroine
63 Reel’s partner
64 Trapped in branches
65 Rubbed the wrong way
DOWN
1 Org. concerned with
outbreaks
2 Shrinking Asian sea
3 “Just ‘cuz”
4 Chef who owns Spago
5 The 1%
6 Weigh station factor
7 “___ changed” (ex’s
claim)
8 Graduation cap
attachment
9 ‘80s funk balladeer
10 Respected one, in
many cultures
11 Signal to come over
12 In support of
13 Arm rests?
21 Hipster’s grooming tool
23 Animal that isn’t preyed
upon, and a hint to the
first four letters of 4-,
9- and 21-Down
25 Fast-tempo jazz style
26 “Pick” lead-in
27 Singer Grande, to fans
29 “___ better to have
loved and lost ...”
32 Slimy substance
34 Pollution regulator, for
short
36 Mechanic’s cloth
37 Text in a cat meme
38 Dawn goddess
39 It may include the
sequence CAT
41 Cocoa holder
42 Dessert whose name is
French for “lightning”
43 Fried, sugar-covered
pastry
44 Amassed, with “up”
46 New Year’s Day,
informally
49 Hilton competitor
51 Savory taste
53 Tear apart
54 Rational
57 Caviar
59 ___ Hatter
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