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East Oregonian
Saturday, September 25, 2021
DEAR ABBY
Engaged couple eager to live on their own
Dear Abby: I am a 25-year-old woman.
My fi ance is 26. Both of us live at home with
our parents but have decided to move out
in a few months to an apartment. Although
his parents have given their blessing, my
parents are against it and keep trying to
change my mind.
Abby, I have been wanting to leave for
years. Both of us are experiencing tension
living at home with our parents and trying
to get along as adults. We feel it’s time for us
to move out, and we also crave our freedom.
We are tired of my parents not regarding
me as an adult capable of making her own
decisions. What should I do? I don’t want
them getting in the way on move-in day. —
Grown Woman in Mississippi
Dear Woman: It’s time for you and
your fi ance to sit down together with your
parents. Tell them you love them, but you thought because I presumed she was being
are no longer minors. You are both
friendly and I know some people
well into adulthood, and it is time
speak that way. I am more reserved.
for you to live independently. Then
I save words like “love” for people
I truly love (my kids and husband).
give them the date you plan to
move your belongings and stick to
However, my husband was upset
it. A way to ensure that they won’t
that I didn’t ask her to stop. He said
get in your way on moving day
he felt I disrespected him because
would be to enlist the assistance
I allowed someone else to call me
of some friends to help you make
“my love.” Had she been a man,
JEANNE
I’d understand his feelings, but I
the move.
PHILLIPS
Dear Abby: Recently, I took my
saw no harm in it. Am I wrong for
ADVICE
two sons to a cooking class. The
not having spoken up? — War of
instructor, a married woman and
Words in New Jersey
mother, was very friendly and nice.
DEAR W.O.W.: Your husband
She kept telling me I was “beautiful” and is overreacting. The woman was not being
how lucky my boys are to have such a beauti- disrespectful. She went overboard trying to
ful mom. She also kept calling me “my love.” pay you a compliment. All you had to do was
I found it peculiar, but didn’t give it a lot of smile and say, “Thank you very much, but
you are making me uncomfortable. Please.
No more.”
Dear Abby: We gave our daughter-in-
law a $100 check for her birthday, as she
is hard to shop for. That was 11 1/2 months
ago. When we went over there the other day,
we saw our check stuck to the fridge door.
Of course, it is now stale. Her birthday is
coming up in two weeks. Any suggestions
of what we should do this time? — Means
Well in Arizona
Dear Means Well: Point out to your
daughter-in-law that you noticed the check
you gave her for her last birthday hadn’t
been cashed, and ask why. Take your cues
from her answer. If she doesn’t need the
money, send her a nice card she can plaster
onto her refrigerator next to the outdated
check.
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
100 Years Ago
Sept. 25, 1921
That the Pendleton Round-Up will
receive publicity soon in the Dutch
Indies is a statement made by Captain
J. N. Bouman, who was an interested
spectator of the big show Saturday. He
is in command of the steamer Taiken-
bang, which reached Portland last week.
The Taikenbang is a boat of 17,000 tons
displacement and plies between the East
Indies and our western coast. Its draught
is so great that it is necessary at this time
of year to dredge the channel in order for
the ship to get up to Portland, he said.
Captain Bouman often writes for news-
papers in Java and he declares he intends
to write an account of his experiences
here when he returns to the far East.
50 Years Ago
Sept. 25, 1971
Sgt. James T. Bradshaw isn’t
worried about the shortage of men
in the Pendleton unit of the Oregon
National Guard. Across the coun-
try the Army National Guard faces a
potential loss of about 100,000 men
before next summer, Pentagon offi cials
say. This loss will be off set in part by
enlistments of men with prior military
service and by recruits. The Pendleton
unit, Troop I, 3rd squadron, 163 regi-
ment, is allowed 108 men. Presently it
has about 90 men. Bradshaw attributes
his loss of men to the big draft in 1965.
“I haven’t even tried to recruit,” he
said. “I may start letting people know
there are some openings. We just take
them as they walk in, if they are quali-
fi ed.” Men in the Pendleton unit come
from all over. They join here then move
away but don’t want to change units,
Bradford said, because it gives them
an excuse to come back to Pendleton
to visit once a month.”
25 Years Ago
Sept. 25, 1996
It’s another record year for spring
chinook salmon nests in the Umatilla
River. The Umatilla tribes reported
a redd count of nearly 322, up from
287 in 1990, the second-best year for
spawning chinook. Biologists began
walking the river in mid-June and
completed the redd count last week
after a record spring chinook fi shery
in the Umatilla River this summer. The
tribes and the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife trucked a record
2,200 spring chinook past Three Mile
Dam this spring. Although the numbers
are the best since fi sh began return-
ing to the Umatilla in 1988, after an
absence of 70 years, of more than 1,600
fi sh that continued upriver to spawn in
the mainstem above Meacham Creek
and North Fork Umatilla River, less
than 60 percent survived as part of the
escapement. Warm water tempera-
tures in the Umatilla are one of the
causes of the 30 to 40 percent death
rate of the “King” salmon.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Sept. 25, 1981, Sandra
Day O’Connor was sworn in
as the fi rst female justice on
the Supreme Court.
In 1513, Spanish explorer
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
crossed the Isthmus of
Panama and sighted the
Pacifi c Ocean.
In 1789, the fi rst United
States Congress adopted 12
amendments to the Consti-
tution and sent them to the
states for ratifi cation. (Ten of
the amendments became the
Bill of Rights.)
In 1890, P resident
Benjamin Harrison signed
a measure establishing
Sequoia National Park.
In 1911, ground was
broken for Boston’s Fenway
Park.
In 1919, President Wood-
row Wilson collapsed after a
speech in Pueblo, Colorado,
during a national speaking
tour in support of the Treaty
of Versailles.
In 1956, the fi rst trans-At-
lantic telephone cable offi -
cially went into service with
a three-way ceremonial call
between New York, Ottawa
and London.
In 1957, nine Black
students who’d been forced
to withdraw from Central
High School in Little Rock,
Arkansas, because of unruly
white crowds were escorted
to class by members of the
U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne
Division.
In 1978, 144 people were
killed when a Pacifi c South-
west Airlines Boeing 727 and
a private plane collided over
San Diego.
In 1992, NASA’s Mars
Observer blasted off on a
$980 million mission to the
red planet (the probe disap-
peared just before enter-
ing Martian orbit in August
1993).
In 1991, Nazi war crim-
inal Klaus Barbie died in
Lyon, France, at age 77.
In 2015, House Speaker
John Boehner abruptly
announced his resignation.
In 2018, Bill Cosby was
sentenced to three to 10 years
in state prison for drugging
and molesting a woman at his
suburban Philadelphia home.
(After nearly three years in
prison, Cosby went free in
June 2021 after the Pennsyl-
vania Supreme Court over-
turned his conviction.)
Today’s Bir thdays:
Former broadcast journal-
ist Barbara Walters is 92.
Folk singer Ian Tyson is 88.
Polka bandleader Jimmy
Sturr is 80. Former Defense
Secretary Robert Gates is
78. Actor Josh Taylor is 78.
Actor Robert Walden is 78.
Actor-producer Michael
Douglas is 77. Model Cheryl
Tiegs is 74. Actor Mimi
Kennedy is 73. Movie direc-
tor Pedro Almodovar is
72. Actor-director Anson
Williams is 72. Actor Mark
Hamill is 70. Basketball Hall
of Famer Bob McAdoo is
70. Actor Colin Friels is 69.
Actor Michael Madsen is
63. Actor Heather Locklear
is 60. Actor Aida Turturro
is 59. Actor Tate Donovan
is 58. TV personality Keely
Shaye Smith is 58. Actor
Maria Doyle Kennedy is 57.
Basketball Hall of Famer
Scottie Pippen is 56.
CHURCH
Featured this Week:
DIRECTORY
Community Worship
Our Lady of Angels
Catholic Church
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
Iglesia Católica Nuestra
Señora de los Ángeles
PENDLETON
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
Sunday Service: 9am & 6pm
Tuesday Kingdom Seekers: 7pm
Wednesday Bible Study: 7pm
We offer: Sunday School • Sign Language
Interpreters • Nursery • Transportation • & more!
Pastor Dan Satterwhite
541.377.4252
417 NW 21st St. • Pendleton, OR 97801
www.facebook.com/
PendletonLighthouseChurch
FAITH LUTHERAN
CHURCH
in Mission for Christ LCMC
Sunday Worship.........9:00 AM
Bible Study......10:15 AM
Red Lion Hotel
( Oregon Trail Room )
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
N.E. Gladys Join
Ave & Us
7th, Hermiston
541-567-6672
JOIN OUR INCLUSIVE
CONGREGATION
ON OUR JOURNEY WITH JESUS
Services 9:00am Sundays
In-person or streaming on
Facebook or Zoom
OPEN HEARTS – OPEN DOOR
www.graceandmercylutheran.org
Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m. (Nursery Provided)
Fellowship, Refreshments & Sunday School
Check Out our Facebook Page or
Website for More Information
541-289-4535
Pastor Weston Walker
Grace and Mercy Lutheran Church, ELCA
(First United Methodist Church)
191 E. Gladys Ave. / P.O. Box 1108
Hermiston, Oregon 97838
Solid Rock
Community Church
140 SW 2nd St Hermiston, OR 97838
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
- Presbyterian Church (USA) -
201 SW Dorion Ave. Pendleton
Service of Worship - 10:00 am
Children’s Sunday School - 10:20 am
Fellowship - 11:00 am
www.pendletonpresbyterian.com
Open Hearted... Open Minded
Redeemer
Episcopal
Church
541-567-6937
241 SE Second St. Pendleton
(541)276-3809
www.pendletonepiscopal.org
Worship Service: 11:00AM
Sunday School: 9:45
Pastor Wilbur Clark
Sunday Holy Communion: 9am
Wednesday Holy Communion: Noon
M-F Morning Prayer 7am on Zoom
All Are Welcome
Community
Presbyterian
Church
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
201 SW Dorion Ave.
PendletonPresbyterian.com
Worship Services On Facebook
10:00am Sundays
Facebook.com/PendletonPresbyterian
The Salvation Army
Center for Worship & Service
Sunday Worship Service
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship Service
Wednesday Bible Study
5:30 Family Fellowship Meal • 6:00 Bible Study
COME AS YOU ARE
150 SE Emigrant
(541) 276-3369
ONLINE and IN-PERSON SERVICES
SUNDAYS
| 8:00 AM & 10:00AM
541.276 .18 94
|
712 SW 27 TH ST.
www.pendletoncog.com
love God, love people, and make disciples who make disciples
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