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East Oregonian
Saturday, October 30, 2021
DEAR ABBY
Dirty shoes create a stink in clean home
Dear Abby: I’ve been with my wonderful
husband for 15 years. I currently work from
home with our small children, ages 4 and 1. I
have a “no shoes in the house” policy (always
have), but my husband prefers to wear shoes
in the house. We have bought numerous pairs
of sneakers to be used as inside shoes, but he
often wears them outside to mow the grass or
run to the gas station.
I do my best to ignore when he leaves
dusty boot prints on the fl oors, but every now
and then I call him out on it. When I do, my
request is met with rage. He later calms down
and apologizes with the excuse, “I just don’t
like being told not to wear my shoes in the
house.”
It’s a 15-year-old problem that’s not going
away and I just don’t know who is right. My
husband feels his shoes are clean. I strug-
gle to keep my home clean because my little if changing his shoes is too big an inconve-
ones are running around. His disre-
nience for him. He may be a prince
gard seems so disrespectful. He’s
in other areas of your marriage, but
overall not a disrespectful person.
in this one he is acting like a rebel-
I’d love an unbiased expert opin-
lious teenager.
ion on what’s what. — Barefoot In
P.S. I wonder if keeping a supply
Montana
of disposable shoe covers by the
door for him to slip on might miti-
Dear Barefoot: Your “wonder-
ful” husband may not be a disre-
gate the problem. Who knows?
spectful person overall, but in this
Dear Abby: My wife and I have
case, he is being self-centered.
been close friends with “Sal” and
JEANNE
PHILLIPS
With a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old
his wife for many years.
ADVICE
crawling around and playing on the
Over the last few years, he has
fl oor, he should be more consider-
transformed into an intolerable,
ate because there is no telling what
arrogant, self-centered braggart
he’s tracking in from that run to the gas who’s never been wrong or made a mistake.
station. I assume that the dusty footprints All his conversations start with “I,” and
are something you are in charge of cleaning if he’s not talking about himself, he’s not
up. Perhaps that’s a chore he should assume talking at all. He rarely asks how we are
doing, but if he does, it just leads into more
about himself.
During Sal’s last visit he went on and
on about how rich he is and how much he
recently made in the market. Because of our
long friendship, I’ve considered confront-
ing him, but I see no point because I think
he’s an irredeemably arrogant bore. Your
thoughts, please? — Fed-Up Friend In The
South
Dear Fed-Up Friend: Some people
behave the way Sal does, believe it or not, out
of insecurity. That said, not all friendships
last forever. If you feel this one has run its
course, then call it a day. Your wife and his
can socialize separately. If he asks you why
you are no longer available to socialize, you
have my permission to give him the reason —
without the name-calling.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
Oct. 30, 1921
A tighter mooring for the front gate, a watchful
eye on all removable property and a general spirit
of preparedness against fright from tick-tacks at the
windows, slinking ghosts and fearsome witches is
advised for the festival of Hallowe’en. Sprites and
goblins will be abroad and they will be aided by
youngsters who plan a night of merrymaking. The old
traditions will be upheld and Jack o’ Lantern will be
king of revels. Long before Christ came on earth, the
Celts observed Hallowe’en. The custom of keeping
the night hallowed had its inception in the hands of
the Druids. They kept it as a solemn religious festival
and the wild lawlessness did not come from their prac-
tice. Hallowe’en as practiced in Pendleton this Octo-
ber partakes of portions of the religion of half a dozen
faiths, pagan and Christian. Beliefs that no civilized
human being would credit receive some sanction from
usage and on October 31st will once again be called
into being.
50 Years Ago
Oct. 30, 1971
President Richard M. Nixon and Stanfi eld Mayor John
Hoskins both have been faced with the political dilemma
of appointing a woman to their “inner circle.” Both have
resisted up to this point. Nixon nominated two men
instead of a woman for positions on the U.S. Supreme
Court. Hoskins last spring refused to name a woman to
the Stanfi eld City Council. At the time Hoskins said:
“I am not against women’s lib, but women don’t know
anything about laying pipe or overhauling a pickup. All
you get is an argument.” Reporters on the White House
beat are saying that in a statistical sense it was highly
unlikely that the President could fi nd a politically accept-
able woman with the legal credentials of the quality as
those of male candidates. Of the nation’s 5,000 federal,
state and local judges, only about 150 are women.
25 Years Ago
Oct. 30, 1996
Oregon’s studded-tire season arrived two weeks
early this year after a snowstorm hit the Cascades. The
Oregon Department of Transportation gave motorists
permission Oct. 18 to outfi t their cars with studded
tires. But on Nov. 1 a ban takes eff ect on the sale of new
steel-studded tires. Instead, dealers will be selling tires
studded with lightweight aluminum, expected to cause
30 percent to 50 percent less damage to Oregon roads.
State offi cials estimate that tire studs have caused as
much as $42 million in damage to state, county and city
roads every year. Despite the steep cost, the Oregon
Legislature has never been willing to consider an
outright ban. Oregon transportation offi cials estimate
about 17 percent of motorists statewide use studded
tires, and 45 percent in Central and Eastern Oregon.
The chairman of the Oregon Transportation Commis-
sion said these motorists should at least help pay for
the damage caused by their tires. ODOT engineers
estimate it would take a yearly fee of $130 per vehicle
to cover the cost.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad
Ali knocked out George Foreman in
the eighth round of a 15-round bout
in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the
“Rumble in the Jungle,” to regain
his world heavyweight title.
In 1912, Vice President James
S. Sherman, running for a second
term of office with President
William Howard Taft, died six
days before Election Day. (Sher-
man was replaced with Nicholas
Murray Butler, but Taft, the Repub-
lican candidate, ended up losing in
an Electoral College landslide to
Democrat Woodrow Wilson.)
In 1921, the silent film clas-
sic “The Sheik,” starring Rudolph
Valentino, premiered in Los Angeles.
In 1938, the radio play “The
War of the Worlds,” starring Orson
Welles, aired on CBS.
In 1945, the U.S. government
announced the end of shoe rationing,
eff ective at midnight.
In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a
hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba,”
with a force estimated at about
50 megatons. The Soviet Party
Congress unanimously approved a
resolution ordering the removal of
Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s
tomb.
In 1972, 45 people were killed
when an Illinois Central Gulf
commuter train was struck from
behind by another train on Chica-
go’s South Side.
In 1975, the New York Daily
News ran the headline “Ford to City:
Drop Dead” a day after President
Gerald R. Ford said he would veto
any proposed federal bailout of New
York City.
In 1984, police in Poland found
the body of kidnapped pro-Solidar-
ity priest Father Jerzy Popieluszko,
whose death was blamed on security
offi cers.
In 1995, by a razor-thin vote of
50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, Feder-
alists prevailed over separatists in a
Quebec secession referendum.
In 2001, Ukraine destroyed its
last nuclear missile silo, fulfi lling
a pledge to give up the vast nuclear
arsenal it had inherited after the
breakup of the former Soviet Union.
In 2002, Jam Master Jay (Jason
Mizell), a rapper with the hip-hop
group Run-DMC, was killed in a
shooting in New York. He was 37.
In 2005, the body of Rosa Parks
arrived at the U.S. Capitol, where
the civil rights icon became the
fi rst woman to lie in honor in the
Rotunda; President George W. Bush
and congressional leaders paused to
lay wreaths by her casket.
Today’s Birthdays: Movie direc-
tor Claude Lelouch is 84. Rock
singer Grace Slick is 82. Song-
writer Eddie Holland is 82. R&B
singer Otis Williams (The Tempta-
tions) is 80. Actor Joanna Shimkus
is 78. Actor Henry Winkler is 76.
Broadcast journalist Andrea Mitch-
ell is 75. Rock musician Chris Slade
(Asia) is 75. Country/rock musician
Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) is
74. Actor Leon Rippy is 72. Actor
Harry Hamlin is 70. Actor Charles
Martin Smith is 68. Country singer
T. Graham Brown is 67. Actor Kevin
Pollak is 64. Rock singer-musician
Jerry De Borg (Jesus Jones) is 61.
Actor Michael Beach is 58. Rock
singer-musician Gavin Rossdale
(Bush) is 56. Actor Jack Plotnick
is 53. Comedian Ben Bailey is 51.
Actor Billy Brown is 51. Actor Nia
Long is 51. Country singer Kassidy
Osborn (SHeDAISY) is 45. Actor
Gael Garcia Bernal is 43. Actor
Matthew Morrison is 43. Business
executive and former presidential
adviser Ivanka Trump is 40. Actor
Fiona Dourif is 40. Actor Shaun
Sipos is 40. Actor Tasso Feldman is
38. Actor Janel Parrish is 33. Actor
Tequan Richmond is 29. Actor
Kennedy McMann is 25.
CHURCH DIRECTORY
PENDLETON
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH
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
Solid Rock
Community Church
140 SW 2nd St Hermiston, OR 97838
541-567-6937
Worship Service: 11:00AM
Sunday School: 9:45
Pastor Wilbur Clark
COME WORSHIP
WITH US AT THE
COUNTRY
CHURCH
Sundays at 11:00am
32742 Diagonal Rd.
Hermiston, OR
Redeemer
Episcopal
Church
241 SE Second St. Pendleton
(541)276-3809
www.pendletonepiscopal.org
PendletonPresbyterian.com
Sunday Holy Communion: 9am
Wednesday Holy Communion: Noon
M-F Morning Prayer 7am on Zoom
Worship Services On Facebook
10:00am Sundays
All Are Welcome
Community
Presbyterian
Church
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
First Christian
Church
(DISCIPLES OF CHRIST)
215 N. Main • Pendleton
In Person worship Sundays
at 11:00am
Office Phone: 541-276-5358
Hours: M-F 9:00am-1:00pm
201 SW Dorion Ave.
Facebook.com/PendletonPresbyterian
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
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
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
FAITH LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Our Lady of Angels
Catholic Church
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
Iglesia Católica Nuestra
Señora de los Ángeles
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
in Mission for Christ LCMC
Sunday Worship.........9:00 AM
Bible Study......10:15 AM
Red Lion Hotel
( Oregon Trail Room )
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541-564-4538 or email aworkman@eastoregonian.com