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
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35
38
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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”