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COFFEE BREAK Saturday, February 15, 2020 East Oregonian C5 DEAR ABBY Separate sleeping quarters give loving couple peace Dear Abby: My wife and I have case, it’s not because of discord or lack been married for 45 years. When she of love. While I would have suggested moved out of our bedroom, I was your wife try various kinds of shocked. I thought she didn’t sleep masks to block out your love me anymore. Then I real- night light, your new arrange- ized that both our sleeping hab- ment is not an indication that its have changed over the years. there is trouble in your relation- She snores, and I toss and ship. Many couples do this. So turn. She needs the room dark, stop worrying about whether while I like a night light so I can this is normal and be glad you J eanne P hilliPs see while I walk to the bath- have a solution that works. ADVICE room. I wasn’t around when my Dear Abby: The last of our parents got old, so I didn’t realize children has graduated and left our sleeping arrangement was going to the nest. My wife and I are now starting change. We still love each other, but just to go through years of boxes, mostly sleep in different rooms. Is this normal? papers and photos. In the process, we — Wondering in California have discovered several checks written Dear Wondering: The reason for to us that we never cashed — mostly the change is what’s important. In your for Girl Scout cookies or other fund- raising items and birthday gifts for the kids. The checks are mostly more than 15 years old, but they add up to around $300. Would it be proper to ask the check writers to reissue their checks so long after they were written? We could use the money now. — Questioning in Pennsylvania Dear Questioning: You should have been more careful with those monetary gifts. To ask that the checks be rewritten after 15 years would be an imposition and likely not well received. Furthermore, if they were intended for your children for birth- days, Christmas, graduations, etc., any replacement checks should be made out to them, not you. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 15, 1920 Forty four-and-a-half pound packages of Skookum pan- cake flour, each containing a $1 bill, were distributed equally among long grocers today by the Umatilla Flour & Grain Co., in whose mill the product is manufactured. The dollar bills are put in the packages to stimulate local consumption of the flour and encourage the home products idea among Pendleton households. Persons who receive packages con- taining the bills are asked by the company to notify the office, together with their opinion of the flour after a fair trial. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 15, 1970 Hermiston voters will decide in a special election Tues- day whether they want to spend $300,000 over the next five years to improve and maintain streets. A storm draining pro- gram would be paid by the city to get water off the streets, in a move to reduce maintenance costs. Additional funds would come from the State Highway Department, which has allocated $200,000 to the city from its 1969 emergency fund to improve streets. The funds would be in the form of an interest-free loan to be repaid over a five-year period. The project would repair all paved streets constructed prior to 1961, which suffered heavily in the severe winter a year ago. City officials have decided that a complete repair and main- tenance program is the only answer to saving the streets. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 15, 1995 The Milton-Freewater City Council approved a com- prehensive plan amendment and zoning change that clears the way for a 43-acre housing development. The amend- ment and zone change were the last obstacles for the proj- ect, which will provide housing for up to 200 families. The project had stalled amid opposition from area farmers who worried that a residential development would conflict with nearby orchards. That opposition vanished, however, when the developer agreed to an irrigation-ditch plan that would protect three streams that flow through the property. The plan also included a provision that the development’s resi- dents will waive their rights to complain or sue orchardists over agricultural practices, such as spraying. THIS DAY IN HISTORY On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mys- teriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain. In 1879, President Ruth- erford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court. In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cer- mak; gunman Giuseppe Zan- gara was executed more than four weeks later. In 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Champi- onships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium. In 1992, a Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys. (The decision meant that Dahmer, who had already pleaded guilty to the mur- ders, would receive a man- datory life sentence for each count; Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994.) In 2004, Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Daytona 500 on the same track where his father was killed three years earlier. Thought for Today: “Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (1905-1980). Universal Crossword Edited by David Steinberg February 15, 2020 ACROSS 1 Cuisine with green curry 5 Out of control 9 Glittery rock genre 13 Rimes of country 14 Name hidden in “erudite” 15 Verdi heroine 16 Con artist’s ideal victim 18 Alpine lift 19 Beast of burden 20 Skater Midori 21 Slopes athlete who aptly crosses the first 4 letters of 9-Down 23 Pa. neighbor 24 Already cut, as a lawn 26 Turkey’s capital 29 Like some prunes 31 Flatter 33 FICA funds it 34 Word after “sweetheart” or “square” 36 California’s Point ___ 37 Makeup, e.g. 39 Certain tide 41 Pool athlete who aptly crosses the first 5 letters of 30-Down 44 Makeup class?: Abbr. 46 Short Spotify releases, briefly 49 Veto 51 Northern Manhattan neighborhood 54 Cooking oil brand 55 Ga. neighbor 57 Sch. near Brown 58 Spendthrift’s excursion 60 Survive in musical chairs 61 ___ de mer 62 Cheesecake variety 64 Stick with it 67 Censorship-fighting org. 68 Pineapple center 69 Avid 70 Ramadan observance 71 As soon as 72 Homer’s hangout DOWN 1 Afternoon services 2 Major inconveniences 3 “Take your pick” 4 Eventually 5 Sharp projectile that aptly crosses the last 6 letters of 16-Across 6 You may bring one to a coffee machine 7 Keats creations 8 Breakable candy bar 9 Access controller 10 Return trip destination? 11 Computing pioneer Lovelace 12 Fold, spindle or mutilate 13 Detectives follow them 17 Butting heads 22 The “I” in IV 25 Hoops grp. 27 Regret 28 Calc BC and others 30 Tornado relative in the Florida Keys Athletic Breakthroughs by Paul Coulter sudoku answers 32 35 38 40 41 42 43 45 47 48 50 52 53 56 59 62 63 65 66 Arm bone Research paper abbr. Program problem Of a cultural group Average name? “___ got it!” Ships and such After expenses Peacock’s pride Sonora shawls World Heritage Site org. Country song? Distance runner who aptly crosses the last 4 letters of 64-Across Cosmetician Lauder Major with lots of competition, briefly? Ungraceful sort Label for Sia and SZA Middle Earth monster Chinese “way”
