COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATuRDAY, AuguST 14, 2021
Grandparents are ‘Mommy’ and ‘Daddy’ to toddler
mommy. We display her photos,
and he will say that that’s his
mommy, but I also don’t want
to hurt his feelings by saying
I’m not his mommy. His father
isn’t in the picture, so my hus-
band and I are the only parents
he knows. My husband seems
uncomfortable with him calling
me Mommy and when he hears
it, he tries to correct him. Should
we allow him to call us Mommy
and Daddy or continue to cor-
rect him? — Getting It Right in
North Carolina
Dear Getting It Right: Please
accept my sympathy for the loss
of your daughter. I see nothing
positive to be gained by not
allowing your grandson to call
you what he wants. You and your
husband have made clear that his
mommy is in heaven, but right
Dear Abby: My daughter
passed away last year, and we
received custody of our grandson,
who was 15 months old at the
time. He is now nearly 2½ years
old. My daughter wanted him to
call me Mamaw because that’s
what she called my mother, so
I’ve always referred to myself that
way, but recently, he has started
calling me Mommy. I say Mamaw
back to him and sometimes he
will say Mamaw, but more often
it’s Mommy.
I’m uncomfortable not hon-
oring my daughter as his
nant melanoma after a mole was
removed. After I emailed the
news to my sisters, I received
one response from a sister
saying, “Give your daughter our
best!” Other than that, there have
been no cards — nothing. Am
I petty in thinking they should
have at least sent my daughter a
card? — Petty in Florida
Dear Petty: Your relatives
apparently didn’t consider the
thoughtfulness you displayed to
their children something to be
reciprocated. How sad. In situ-
ations like this, it isn’t the tan-
gible item that’s most important,
it’s the thought, and it appears
your relatives didn’t want to put
in the effort. I do not think it’s
petty to recognize that fact and
feel disappointment. You are
human.
ding rings. Why do women do
this and how can I politely tell
them “No way”? — Shocked in
New York
Dear Shocked: The women
want to see it on their own hand
and imagine for a moment that
the ring is theirs. Feeling as you
do, convey your message by
smiling and replying, “I never
remove my wedding rings other
than to clean them.”
Dear Abby: I live in Florida,
and the rest of my big family
lives in Canada. Last year, five
of my nieces/nephews were
admitted to the hospital for
varying health reasons. Rather
than send flowers, I sent each a
check for $50. I thought money
would be more useful.
Well, last week my daughter
was diagnosed with malig-
now the boy needs a “Mommy”
right here on Earth. It is not at all
disrespectful of your late daugh-
ter’s memory to allow him that.
Dear Abby: I have been hap-
pily married to my husband for
five years. When we married,
money was tight, so we agreed
to use temporary wedding rings
and upgrade to our final offi-
cial set later. Well, we finally did
it, and my ring is what I always
wanted. It is stunning.
The problem: When friends
and family (and sometimes even
strangers!) compliment me on
my ring, it is often accompanied
with, “Can I try it on?” or more
forcibly, “Let me try that on!” I
would never ask to try on some-
thing so precious to someone
else, and I never want to see
someone else wearing my wed-
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Crime historian conducts dig for D.B. Cooper case evidence
ited communications back
home, restricted food and
resources and equipment
failures.
NASA is planning three
of these experiments with
the first one starting in the
fall next year. Food will all
be ready-to-eat space food
and at the moment there
are no windows planned.
Some plants will be grown,
but not potatoes like in
the movie “The Martian.”
Damon played stranded
astronaut Mark Watney,
who survived on spuds.
“We want to understand
how humans perform in
them,” said lead scientist
Grace Douglas. “We are
looking at Mars realistic
situations.”
The application process
opened Friday and they’re
not seeking just anybody.
The requirements are strict,
including a master’s degree
in a science, engineering
or math field or pilot expe-
rience. Only American cit-
izens or permanent U.S.
residents are eligible. Appli-
cants have to be between
30 and 55, in good phys-
ical health with no dietary
issues and not prone to
motion sickness.
That shows NASA is
looking for people who are
close to astronauts, said
former Canadian astro-
naut Chris Hadfield. And,
he said. that’s a good thing
because it is a better exper-
iment if the participants
are more similar to the
people who will really go to
Mars. Past Russian efforts
at a pretend Mars mission
called Mars 500 didn’t end
well partly because the
people were too much like
The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, Wash.
— Nearly 50 years after
skyjacker D.B. Cooper
vanished out the back of a
Boeing 727 into freezing
Northwest rain — wearing
a business suit, a parachute
and a pack with $200,000
in cash — a crime histo-
rian is conducting a dig on
the banks of the Columbia
River in Vancouver,
Washington, in search of
evidence.
KOIN reports that Eric
Ulis, a self-described
expert on the infamous
D.B. Cooper case, began a
two-day dig on Friday, Aug.
6. Ulis and four volunteers
are searching for evidence
about 10 to 15 yards away
from where a boy found
$6,000 of Cooper’s ransom
money in 1980.
Ulis said his theory is
that Cooper buried the
parachutes, an attache
case and the money at
the same time, but dug
smaller holes instead of
one large one.
The case of Cooper has
become infamous, not only
in the Pacific Northwest but
also in the country. The FBI
Seattle field office called the
investigation one of the lon-
gest and most exhaustive in
the agency’s history.
On Nov. 24, 1971, the
night before Thanksgiving,
a man described as being
in his mid-40s with sun-
glasses and an olive com-
plexion boarded a flight
from Portland, Oregon, to
Seattle-Tacoma Interna-
tional Airport. He bought
his $20 ticket under the
name “Dan Cooper,” but an
The Associated Press, File
This undated artist sketch shows the skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper from recollections of the passen-
gers and crew of a Northwest Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiving eve
in 1971. Nearly 50 years after skyjacker D.B. Cooper vanished out the back of a Boeing 727 into freezing
Northwest rain, wearing a business suit, a parachute and a pack with $200,000 in cash, a crime historian
is conducting a dig on the banks of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, in search of evidence.
Want to pretend to live
on Mars? For a whole
year? Apply now
and jumped.
He was never found.
But a boy digging on a
Columbia River beach
in 1980 discovered three
bundles of weathered $20
bills — nearly $6,000 in
all. It was Cooper’s cash,
according to the serial
numbers.
Over the years, the FBI
and amateur sleuths have
examined innumerable the-
ories about Cooper’s iden-
tity and fate, from accounts
of unexplained wealth to
purported discoveries of
his parachute to poten-
tial matches of the agen-
cy’s composite sketch of the
suspect.
In July 2016, the FBI
announced it was no longer
investigating the case.
early wire-service report
misidentified him as “D.B.
Cooper,” and the name
stuck.
Sitting in the rear of the
plane, he handed a note
to a flight attendant after
takeoff. “Miss, I have a
bomb and would like you to
sit by me,” it said.
The man demanded
$200,000 in cash plus four
parachutes. He received
them at Sea-Tac, where
he released the 36 passen-
gers and two of the flight
attendants. The plane took
off again at his direction,
heading to Reno, Nevada,
at the low height of 10,000
feet. Somewhere, appar-
ently over southwestern
Washington, Cooper low-
ered the aircraft’s rear stairs
weather
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Want to find your inner
Matt Damon and spend a
year pretending you are iso-
lated on Mars? NASA has a
job for you.
To prepare for eventu-
ally sending astronauts to
Mars, NASA began taking
applications Friday for four
people to live for a year in
Mars Dune Alpha. That’s
a 1,700-square-foot Mar-
tian habitat, created by a
3D-printer, and inside a
building at Johnson Space
Center in Houston.
The paid volunteers will
work a simulated Martian
exploration mission com-
plete with spacewalks, lim-
Astoria
Longview
57/70
Vancouver
66/93
67/95
SUN
MON
Mostly sunny;
not as hot
55 98 55
91 52
Baker City
Comfort Index™
La Grande
3
66 98 60
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
4
4
74/93
Comfort Index™
3
81 47
Condon
74/99
69/93
63/96
75 52
79 53
6
10
10
74 48
76 52
8
10
8
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 116°
Low: 30°
Wettest: 4.38”
96°
50°
99°
55°
102°
56°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.47
0.17
2.93
6.16
0.00
0.21
0.25
6.33
10.91
0.00
0.30
0.24
15.67
15.47
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
20%
WNW at 4 to 8 mph
9.1
0.28
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
1% of capacity
34% of capacity
22% of capacity
51% of capacity
5% of capacity
0% of capacity
The Dalles
Meacham
Rain on Aug. 14, 1979, left 1,800 Las Ve-
gas residents without electricity and made
getting around the fl ooded city streets
dicey. It is a gamble to expect much rain in
Las Vegas, Nev., during August.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
SUN.
5:52 a.m. 5:54 a.m.
8:01 p.m. 7:59 p.m.
12:53 p.m. 2:11 p.m.
11:14 p.m. 11:45 p.m.
MOON PHASES
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
OREGON
High: 108°
Low: 49°
Wettest: none
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Walden, Colo.
Rantoul, Ill.
476 cfs
56 cfs
97 cfs
41 cfs
79 cfs
16 cfs
First
Aug 15
Full
Aug 22
Last
Aug 29
New
Sep 6
Brothers
58/96
Beaver Marsh
57/94
Roseburg
65/95
Jordan Valley
61/98
Paisley
57/98
Frenchglen
63/99
Medford
Grand View
Arock
61/100
68/104
65/103
Klamath Falls
59/97
Lakeview
57/96
McDermitt
62/102
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
MON.
Hi/Lo/W
68/55/pc
89/52/s
97/67/pc
68/54/pc
94/53/s
70/52/pc
84/54/pc
96/57/pc
88/55/pc
87/58/pc
93/66/pc
86/61/pc
92/56/pc
91/59/s
87/53/pc
96/67/pc
88/51/s
92/50/s
Diamond
62/99
Fields
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
70/59/c
Bend
94/60/pc
Boise
100/68/pc
Brookings
65/53/pc
Burns
100/58/pc
Coos Bay
70/57/c
Corvallis
89/59/pc
Council
99/61/pc
Elgin
98/57/pc
Eugene
95/58/pc
Hermiston 103/72/pc
Hood River
93/66/pc
Imnaha
100/62/pc
John Day
101/61/pc
Joseph
93/57/pc
Kennewick 103/71/pc
Klamath Falls 97/54/pc
Lakeview
96/57/pc
Boise
70/100
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
SUN.
64/103
Silver Lake
55/92
72/101
53/65
Juntura
58/100
67/103
Brookings
Ontario
69/105
Burns
59/98
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
60/97
64/93
Coos Bay
68/99
75/102
Seneca
66/94
Oakridge
Council
55/98
65/101
64/95
Bend
62/83
62/100
58/89
John Day
62/99
Sisters
Elkton
Powers
Halfway
Granite
Baker City
Florence
55/65
THURSDAY EXTREMES
High Thursday
Low Thursday
Monument
64/103
Redmond
52/63
54/70
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
66/98
63/92
65/93
59/86
87 54
ALMANAC
Newport
Eugene
89 57
5
Corvallis
Enterprise
61/94
60/89
62/95
10
Elgin
61/98
La Grande
69/97
73/98
Idanha
Salem
79 46
9
74/99
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
72/103
Hood River
71/100
WED
6
2
61 94 57
TUE
Partly sunny and Partly sunny and
cooler
pleasant
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
71/103
Maupin
Hazy and very
hot
BOSTON — Boston’s
famous Skinny House is on
sale again for a whopping
$1.2 million.
The vertically rectangu-
lar-shaped house was listed
on Monday, Aug. 9, the first
time it’s been on the market
since 2017. Four years ago,
it was sold for $900,000,
The Boston Globe reported.
The home, in Boston’s
North End, is about 1,165
square feet. But more inter-
estingly, the house is barely
10 feet wide at its widest
point. The humble abode
narrows in the back, ending
at 9.25 feet.
There are four stories
in the home and a deck
that displays views of
Boston Harbor. Also, the
house offers updated appli-
ances, hardwood floors
and exposed brick, and a
Juliet balcony facing private
gardens.
The home does not have
a front door. Guests enter
through a private side door
and they’re met with a
skitchen and dining room.
The second floor holds the
living area and the house’s
only bathroom.
The third level has a
living space and a bedroom.
Lastly, the upper level of
the house has the only other
room — a master bedroom.
Appointments are avail-
able to view the home, but
potential buyers may want
to act quickly because the
house was sold in less than
three months in 2017.
Kennewick
62/86
St. Helens
TIllamook
TONIGHT
Boston’s famed Skinny
House back on market,
listed for $1.2M
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
55/73
Hazy, warm and
smoky
everyday people, he said.
SUN.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
MON.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
103/71/pc 96/69/pc
86/59/pc 78/55/pc
98/58/pc 89/55/pc
101/65/s 94/61/s
63/53/pc 64/49/pc
83/57/pc 76/52/pc
105/71/pc 100/68/pc
104/68/pc 96/66/pc
100/71/pc 92/63/s
93/64/pc 85/59/c
83/58/c 80/56/pc
99/58/pc 91/52/s
95/60/s 89/61/s
93/62/pc 86/58/pc
95/68/pc 88/59/pc
99/69/pc 90/62/pc
95/55/pc 88/50/s
99/72/pc 93/64/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Hazy sun
Hot with hazy sun
70
49
91
55
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Hazy sun and smoky
Hazy sun and smoky
84
56
102
64
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Hazy sun and smoky
Hazy and hot
80
49
91
48
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Hazy sun and smoky
Hazy sun; very hot
93
57
100
68
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Very hot
Hazy and very hot
98
55
98
60