Page 6B East Oregonian COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, July 21, 2015 PEANUTS BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ DEAR ABBY Hospital worker violated law by reading husband’s records Dear Abby: “Concerned in needs addressing — such as why Massachusetts” (Feb. 20) used her there are weeks between sexual status as a hospital employee to contact with her husband. access her husband’s medical records It’s ironic that she’s bent out of and found a history of STDs. I’m a shape over in¿delity concerns, but FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON registered nurse with 40 years’ expe- thinks it acceptable to betray the rience. Every healthcare organization privacy and ethics rules governing I know of teaches all their employees medical professionals. — Vincent In about HIPAA violations and that Jeanne West Virginia accessing private patient medical Phillips Dear Abby: “Young at Heart in information is a criminal offense. It Advice Texas” (Feb. 9) could have written is essential that patients know they my story. I am also a 70-year-old can trust us to protect their privacy. man who is sexually dysfunctional. I, :e have speci¿c policies against using too, was lonely, having outlived two of my one’s employee status to access a relative’s brides. However, I did ¿nd someone who medical information. appreciates holding hands and whispering “Concerned” is lucky she still has a job. At sweet words without more physical contact. my institution, she would be terminated for Abby, you said: “Not only do I think you B.C. BY violating organizational policy and federal can (¿nd companionship), I suspect you may law. She wouldn’t have to worry about how need police protection to control the crowd of to broach the subject with her husband; she’d applicants. Years ago, my aunt, the late Ann be explaining why she was ¿red. He may Landers, polled her female readers asking if not be a saint, but neither is she. Her actions they would prefer ‘holding and cuddling’ to were unacceptable and reÀect a clear lack of actually doing ‘the deed.’ The majority of integrity and honesty. — Safeguarding The them answered in the af¿rmative.” Right To Privacy My ¿rst wife died of a heart attack after Dear Safeguarding: Thank you for 30 years of marriage. My second wife died your informed response. You are not the after eight years of marriage, of kidney only reader who was appalled at what cancer. At 71, I married my third wife, a “Concerned” had done. Read on: wonderful woman just as you both describe. Dear Abby: Like “Concerned’s” husband, She was my next-door neighbor. We have PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE I, too, am labeled as high risk for STDs based been married three years and nine months. on a medical survey I completed, although (The Bible says, “Love thy neighbor,” so I I have had a monogamous 30-year marriage married her!) We also enjoy cuddling, even and do not do drugs of any kind. In that without doing “the deed.” survey, they asked how many partners I had So I say to “Young at Heart in Texas”: in my lifetime. Those few other partners YES, you can ¿nd a woman such as you and were before I met my wife. Abby describe. And when you do, I suggest “Concerned” indicated that her husband you rub her back often. Women love it! — had been treated twice for STDs “some years Young At Heart In Colorado back.” What does that mean? Were they Dear Young At Heart: I’m glad your married then? If not, is he labeled high risk story had a happy ending, and I’m crossing due to his previous behavior? Perhaps there my ¿ngers that “Young at Heart’s” will, too. is something deeper in the relationship that Thanks for writing to encourage him. BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Below normal From the East Oregonian temperatures are expected to continue the July 20-21, 1915 remainder of the week although a warming Pendleton’s ¿ne new 10,000 public trend is forecast. Some showery periods will natatorium will be formally dedicated Friday occur, the prediction said. Pendleton’s hottest evening of this week, just a year from the date average period is from July 21 to July 26, when the ¿rst agitation for such an institution but it’s different this year. The mean here was started. The dedicatory exercises will yesterday was 62 degrees, which was 12 consist of the presentation of the natatorium degrees below normal, and the high of 67 was GARFIELD BY JIM DAVIS to the city, acceptance by the city authorities, eight degrees below the normal mean of 75. an exhibition of fancy swimming and diving, At mid-morning today the mercury was 55 swimming contests and an inspection of the above, the month’s average rainfall already pool and dressing rooms by the public. The had been reached and more was in prospect. committee has not yet prepared the formal 25 Years Ago rules and regulations which will govern From the East Oregonian the pool. In all probability, however, one or July 20-21, 1990 two afternoons a week will be designated Indian elders will install Carl Donald as ladies’ day and upon these afternoons Sampson as the selected hereditary head chief the ladies will have exclusive use of the of the Walla Walla tribe in the longhouse at pool. Probably one afternoon for a two-hour Mission Saturday morning. The Wallalapums, period will be reserved for private bathing who are now referred to as the Walla Wallas, parties as a means of securing revenue for the have been without a chief for more than 20 BLONDIE BY DEAN YOUNG AND maintenance and upkeep. The evenings and years, since the death of Jack Abraham, other afternoons will ¿nd the pool open to the Sampson’s uncle. Sampson was given the general public. Indian name of Peo Peo Mox Mox, after 50 Years Ago his great-grandfather, who served the Walla From the East Oregonian Wallas as chief until his death in 1855. Samp- July 20-21, 1965 son’s grandfather, Homily, was the direct The entire area was in the grip of really hereditary chief when Peo Peo Mox Mox was unusual weather today with snow falling at killed. Homily passed the chieftainship to Jim Desolation Butte and Tower Mountain back Kanine, who held the position until the early of Ukiah, and soaking rain occurring at the 1950s. Kanine’s successor, Abraham, served lower elevations, according to the local station more than 10 years before he died.

DILBERT BY SCOTT ADAMS THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 202nd day of Bull Run was fought Today’s Birthdays: Singer of 2015. There are 163 days at Manassas, Virginia, Kay Starr is 93. Movie director left in the year. resulting in a Confederate Norman Jewison is 89. Former Today’s Highlight in victory. Attorney General Janet Reno History: In 1930, President is 77. Actress Patricia Elliott On July 21, 1925, the Herbert Hoover signed an is 73. Actor David Downing so-called “Monkey Trial” executive order establishing is 72. Actor Leigh Lawson ended in Dayton, Tennessee, the Veterans Administration is 72. Actor Wendell Burton with John T. Scopes found (later the U.S. Department is 68. Singer Yusuf Islam guilty of violating state of Veterans Affairs). (formerly Cat Stevens) is 67. law for teaching Darwin’s In 1949, the U.S. Senate Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART Theory of Evolution. (The rati¿ed the North Atlantic 67. Actor Jamey Sheridan is conviction was later over- Treaty. 64. Rock singer-musician Eric turned on a technicality.) In 1972, the Irish Bazilian (The Hooters) is 62. On this date: Republican Army carried Comedian Jon Lovitz is 58. In 1773, Pope Clement out 22 bombings in Belfast, Rock musician Will Berman XIV issued an order Northern Ireland, killing (MGMT) is 33. suppressing the Society nine people and injuring 130 Thought for Today: “We of Jesus, or Jesuits. (The in what became known as have too many high-sounding Society was restored by “Bloody Friday.” words, and too few actions Pope Pius VII in 1814.) In 1980, draft registration that correspond with them.” In 1861, during the began in the — Abigail Adams, American Civil War, the ¿rst Battle for 19- and 20-year-old men. ¿rsW lad\  .

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