COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, November 13, 2021
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
Vintage dress given to friend ends up for sale online
Dear Abby: I used to collect vintage
dresses, many of which I bought online from
retailers for several hundred dollars each. I
reluctantly sold some on consignment after
a breakup — you know, “out with the old, in
with the new.” But I kept ones that were beau-
tiful works of vintage art.
A friend of mine (I’ll call her “Gabbi”)
likes to sew, and I off ered her one of the
dresses I’d been hanging onto, to wear or craft
with. I wanted her to turn it into something
meaningful for herself instead of keeping it
buried in my closet.
Last weekend we had lunch. When I asked
her how it fi t or what she planned to do with
it, she told me she had given it to someone I
don’t know to sell on a clothing resale site. I
can’t help but feel angry. I know I gave it to
Gabbi, but I think what she did was rude. If item and if she couldn’t use it you wanted it
she had asked me if it was OK to
returned, you shouldn’t blame her.
give it away, I would have asked for
From my vantage point, it seems
Gabbi is generously trying to help
it back.
How do I stop harboring this feel-
a friend who needs to make some
ing? Every time I think of her now,
money. I hope you will let go of
your disappointment because if you
I get upset. The next day, after our
can’t, you may destroy a valued rela-
lunch, we went to an estate sale and
tionship.
Gabbi brought up this other person
again — “I should have invited
Dear Abby: Two years ago,
JEANNE
‘Bethany’ so she could fi nd merch
a couple of months before my
PHILLIPS
to resell.” I think Gabbi is oblivious
41st birthday, I found out that the
ADVICE
about how she makes other people
man who raised me (I’ll call him
feel. What do you think? — Taken
“Norm”) is not my biological father.
Norm is a wonderful, loving father fi gure,
Aback In Alabama
Dear Taken Aback: You generously tried who has made clear that this changes noth-
to help Gabbi by giving her the dress, but ing between us.
unless you specifi ed that it was a collectable
Because this discovery was heartbreak-
ing at fi rst, my parents decided not to tell
Norm’s parents or siblings about it. Initially,
I supported their decision because, after my
biological father made it clear he wanted
nothing to do with me, it made sense to leave
it alone. But now, with my grandparents in
failing health, I feel they should know. I just
don’t know if it would do more harm than
good at this point. Please advise. — Thrown
In Kansas
Dear Thrown: What do you think you
will accomplish by telling Norm’s parents at
this point? You have been their grandchild for
four decades. Because their health is precar-
ious, they may not need to hear anything that
would upset them. I vote for keeping this
“news” private, as Norm and your mother
have requested.
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
Nov. 13, 1921
A new age, holding more possibilities of interest and
service in the coming 10 years than has fi lled the past half
century has been ushered in during the past few years, Dr. O.
H. Holmes declared in an eloquent address delivered before a
packed house in Pendleton’s Rivoli theatre. This new age fi nds
a country in which there is room for no others except Ameri-
cans, the speaker declared. No room exists for Bolsheviks, I.
W. W., or for pros-this or pros-that. The spirit of the fl ag and
the spirit which the 100 per cent Americans have displayed
was described by Dr. Holmes in his Armistice Day tribute
to veterans of three wars. This spirit must be maintained, he
declared, at all risks. Dr. Holmes, introduced by Alger Fee,
is pastor of the First Congregational church of Walla Walla
and is well known as the “fi ghting parson.” During the war he
caused the arrest of 17 slackers who were refusing to contrib-
ute their share of funds to patriotic causes.
50 years ago
Nov. 13, 1971
Public awareness of environmental quality and conser-
vation issues is here to stay. “Ecologists aren’t going to give
up and go away,” Lyle Bauer said at the Oregon Association
of Conservation Districts convention at Indian Hills Motor
Inn. Bauer is the treasurer of the National Association of
Conservation Districts and was the keynote speaker. He said
controversy develops between conservation districts and
“preservationists” because the latter are “well-meaning but
ill-informed.” It’s up to farmers to set them straight, he said.
Environmental issues will continue to chip away at private
property rights, Bauer said, and “the private use of natural
resources will be increasingly subject to public controls.”
25 years ago
Nov. 13, 1996
One vote made all the diff erence. Actually, 42 votes, all
write-ins, elected Eric Sederburg mayor of Adams, a town
of 250 about a dozen miles east of Pendleton. The ballot for
mayor of Adams in the Nov. 5 election included two names:
Tom Hassing and Dorn Baumeister. Hassing garnered 41
votes, Baumeister 23. That made Sederburg a one-vote winner
once the write-in ballots were fi nally counted this week. He
will replace Mayor Jim Rohde, who did not seek re-election,
at the fi rst of the year. There were write-in votes in the two
Adams City Council races, but they did not aff ect the outcome.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Nov. 13, 2015,
Islamic State militants
carried out a set of coor-
dinated attacks in Paris
on the national stadium,
restaurants and streets, and
a crowded concert hall, kill-
ing 130 people in the worst
attack on French soil since
World War II.
In 1775, during the
American Revolution, the
Continental Army captured
Montreal.
I n 1789, Be nja m i n
Franklin wrote in a letter
to a friend, Jean-Baptiste
Leroy: “In this world noth-
ing can be said to be certain,
except death and taxes.”
In 1849, voters in Cali-
fornia ratified the state’s
original constitution.
In 1909, 259 men and
boys were killed when fi re
erupted inside a coal mine
in Cherry, Illinois.
In 1940, the Walt Disney
film “Fantasia,” featur-
ing animated segments
set to classical music, had
its world premiere in New
York.
I n 1942 , P reside nt
Fran klin D. Roosevelt
signed a measure lowering
the minimum draft age from
21 to 18.
In 1956, the Supreme
Court struck down laws
calling for racial segrega-
tion on public buses.
In 1969, speaking in
Des Moines, Iowa, Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew
accused network television
news departments of bias
and distortion, and urged
viewers to lodge complaints.
In 1971, the U.S. space
probe Mariner 9 went into
orbit around Mars.
In 1974, Karen Silk-
wood, a 28-year-old tech-
nician and union activist at
the Kerr-McGee Cimarron
plutonium plant near Cres-
cent, Oklahoma, died in a
car crash while on her way
to meet a reporter.
In 1979, former Cali-
fornia Gov. Ronald Reagan
announced in New York his
candidacy for the Republi-
can presidential nomination.
In 1982, the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial was
dedicated on the National
Mall in Washington, D.C.
In 1985, some 23,000
residents of Armero, Colom-
bia, died when a volcanic
mudslide buried the city.
I n 20 01, P re side nt
George W. Bush approved
the use of a special mili-
tary tribunal that could
put accused terrorists on
trial faster and in greater
secrecy than an ordinary
criminal court. President
Bush and Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin met
at the White House, where
they pledged to slash Cold
War-era nuclear arsenals by
two-thirds.
In 2019, the House
Intelligence Committee
opened two weeks of public
impeachment hearings with
a dozen current and former
career foreign service offi -
cials and political appoin-
tees scheduled to testify
about eff orts by President
Donald Trump and others to
pressure Ukraine to inves-
tigate Trump’s political
rivals.
Today’s Bi r thdays:
Jour nalist-author Peter
Arnett is 87. Actor Jimmy
Hawkins is 80. Blues singer
John Hammond is 79. Coun-
try singer-songwriter Ray
Wylie Hubbard is 75. Actor
Joe Mantegna is 74. Actor
Sheila Frazier is 73. Actor
Tracy Scoggins is 68. Actor
Chris Noth is 67. Actor-co-
median Whoopi Goldberg
is 66. Actor Rex Linn is 65.
Actor Caroline Goodall is
62. Actor Neil Flynn is 61.
Former NFL quarterback
and College Football Hall
of Famer Vinny Testaverde
is 58. Rock musician Walter
Kibby (Fishbone) is 57.
Comedian and talk show
host Jimmy Kimmel is 54.
Actor Steve Zahn is 54.
Actor Gerard Butler is 52.
Writer-activist Ayaan Hirsi
Ali is 52. Actor Jordan
Bridges is 48. Actor Aisha
Hinds is 46. Rock musi-
cian Nikolai Fraiture is 43.
Former NBA All-Star Metta
Sandiford-Artest (formerly
Ron Artest and Metta World
Peace) is 42. Actor Monique
Coleman is 41. Actor Rahul
Kohli is 36. Actor Devon
Bostick is 30.
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922-3250
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