COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, March 7, 2020
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
Man’s sudden death comes with a shocking revelation
Dear Abby: A short time ago, I
Abby, I feel deceived and betrayed
experienced a terrible loss. I came
on top of the terrible grief I can’t
home from work one evening
seem to overcome. Martin
and found “Martin,” my boy-
knew how I felt about drink-
ing because I was previously
friend of almost 17 years, dead
married to an alcoholic for 19
at the bottom of the stairs. I
years. How do I get past this?
later found out he had been
— Wounded in Pennsylvania
drinking.
I never saw Martin drinking
Dear Wounded: Please
before. He did it very rarely. He
accept my deepest sympa-
J eanne
thy, not only for your loss, but
didn’t go to bars, and he would
hilliPs
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for the manner in which you
never drink and drive. He did
ADVICE
found your boyfriend. It had
have a close friend who would
to have been an awful shock.
visit him on occasion, and they
Are you absolutely certain his
would drink beer together.
death was alcohol-related? Was there
an autopsy? People have been known
to suffer strokes or massive heart
attacks that can take them suddenly,
and if Martin was on the stairs, some-
thing like that could have caused his
fall rather than the fact he had alcohol
in his system.
A way to move past your anger
and disappointment would be to look
further into what happened if that’s
possible, and if his cause of death is
what you suspect, forgive him. Hang-
ing onto anger and bitterness is not
healthy for you.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 7, 1920
Pupils of the Umapine high school and women of Uma-
pine attended the clothing school given in Umapine Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday by Miss Jessie Biles of the cloth-
ing department at O.A.C. and Miss Ella May Harmon,
county demonstration agent. Those who attended the school
brought their materials and were assisted in planning cloth-
ing for women and children. Miss Harmon and Miss Biles
are in Umatilla today conducting a school and will conduct
similar ones in various parts of the county in the near future.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 7, 1970
The Port of Umatilla Commission turned down a pro-
posal Monday that the port take over the Pendleton Munic-
ipal Airport. Although a formal offer was not before the
commission, preliminary information from the City of
Pendleton was sent to port and city officials. Commissioner
Norman Schroth declared that since the airport is located
more than 30 miles away from the port office in McNary, he
doesn’t feel the commission can handle the operation. Com-
mission President Hadley Akins said the city is looking for a
broader tax base to support the airport. Commissioner Dal-
las Dusenbery suggested a county-city supported airport
facility. “If it is a broader tax base they want, it would be
better with the county and its equipment and offices already
there.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 7, 1995
Anita Booth uses her dining room table as a study desk
and turns out term papers with a child in her lap. Despite
these challenges, the Pendleton mother of six has earned
good grades while going to school full time at Blue Moun-
tain Community College. Booth, 41, was recently named
a 1995 Oregon Community College Scholar. Her 3-year-
old daughter, Tanill, often sits in her lap as she pounds out
papers on her computer. One day her daughter kicked the
electrical cord from the computer, erasing several para-
graphs worth of work. But Booth, who also helps run her
husband’s in-home art business, takes such calamities in
stride. She’s more focused on the future, which begins next
term at Eastern Oregon State College in La Grande. Booth
intends to earn her bachelor’s degree and likely a master’s
as well in order to become a school psychologist or college
counselor.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On March 7, 1965, a
march by civil rights dem-
onstrators was violently bro-
ken up at the Edmund Pettus
Bridge in Selma, Alabama,
by state troopers and a sher-
iff’s posse in what came
to be known as “Bloody
Sunday.”
In 1793, during the
French Revolutionary Wars,
France declared war on
Spain.
In 1876, Alexander Gra-
ham Bell received a U.S.
patent for his telephone.
In 1911, President Wil-
liam Howard Taft ordered
20,000 troops to patrol
the U.S.-Mexico border in
response to the Mexican
Revolution.
In 1926, the first suc-
cessful
trans-Atlantic
radio-telephone conversa-
tions took place between
New York and London.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler
ordered his troops to march
into the Rhineland, thereby
breaking the Treaty of Ver-
sailles and the Locarno
Pact.
In 1945, during World
War II, U.S. forces crossed
the Rhine at Remagen, Ger-
many, using the damaged
but still usable Ludendorff
Bridge.
In 2001, Ariel Sha-
ron was sworn in as Isra-
el’s prime minister, serving
until he suffered a stroke in
2006.
In
2005,
President
George W. Bush nomi-
nated John Bolton to be
U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, an appoint-
ment that ran into Demo-
cratic opposition, prompt-
ing Bush to make a recess
appointment.
Thought for Today: “In
a democracy dissent is an
act of faith. Like medicine,
the test of its value is not in
its taste, but in its effects.”
— J. William Fulbright,
U.S. senator (1905-1995).
Universal Crossword
David Steinberg March 7, 2020
ACROSS
1 Fictional archaeologist
Croft
5 Like Jupiter or Saturn
10 Ride for Huck Finn
14 Sweethearts, slangily
15 Best effort, to a coach
16 One may be hitched to a
19-Across
17 *Antlered rabbits of myth
19 Hybrid farm animal
20 Brandeis law professor
Anita
21 ___ serif
23 End of the Navy’s URL
24 Flavorless
26 *1613-1917 Russian
dynasty
28 “___ the ramparts ...”
29 Extremely eager
33 Wipe, as a whiteboard
34 Finger shakes
36 Signs up
39 *Ultrasounds, for
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example
Meets, as a challenge
Scruff
Single spreadsheet cell
Jacob and Esau, for
Rebekah
Water source
*Soybean appetizer
App with filters,
informally
Texter’s “I didn’t want to
know that!”
Sippy cup users
Thick noodle variety
Feels unwell
Green Bay Packers fan,
or a hint to the starred
answers’ starts
Wheat is the biggest one
in Kansas
Throw with effort
Bit of land in the sea
Goddess of childbirth
___ Forces Bowl
72 Texter’s “Bye for now!”
DOWN
1 JFK’s VP
2 Roadside assistance org.
3 Plug in, as a tablet
4 Invite to enter
5 Nerve
6 Back in time
7 Drains of energy
8 Mudsling
9 Binary question type
10 Record speed meas.
11 Spelman grad
12 Shakespearean volumes
13 Midnight or midday
18 Hawkeye Pierce
portrayer Alan
22 Refine, as ore
24 Cellist’s necessity
25 Page (through)
27 Crime of fiery passion?
30 Hair stiffeners
31 “My treat!”
Dairy Section by Rachel Fabi
sudoku answers
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Icky
Play mindlessly
“... and ___ the next!”
Sphinx, in part
Target, as a dartboard
Tangled mess
Quarrel
Clean Air Act org.
Break off
Have high regard for
Take in, perhaps
One of a square’s four
Chocolaty latte
Heavens, poetically
Like a rare baseball game
Sewn line
Like cheaper copies of
books, often
Setting for a mud bath
First lady?
Gymnast Raisman
Marina ___ Rey