The World Saturday, auguSt 31, 2019 A5 00 1 OBITUARIES NEWS DEAR ABBY: I have known this man, for years. We grew up together. He was the annoying boy on the playground who turned into my first love when we were in college. We live in different states now, so we have grown distant, al- though we still talk on holidays and birth- days. been quite a while since we were to- gether, but I still get over him.
I tried to find another guy because I know he will be second to Finn, and not fair to him. Is it weird that I still go to text Finn when something big happens but realize I or that I dream about us still? How do I get over a guy I love and only broke up with because he want to move? I will never go back to our hometown. It was an awful place. So what do I do? TRYING NOT TO LOVE HIM DEAR TRYING: what you do. Ac- cept the fact that Finn is a someone wedded to his hometown, which you have long outgrown.
Then stop idealizing a person who value your relationship enough to consider relocating with you. And finally, accept the reality that this meant to be. Allow yourself the op- portunity to meet eligible men and quit comparing them to someone you have placed on such a high pedestal that they cannot compete. DEAR ABBY: My 24-year-old son is a good young man and mostly responsible and mature, except in one area. He fails to see the impor- tance of keeping up regu- lar oil changes on his two vehicles that were passed down to him.
I keep track of when had the last oil change, and I start re- minding him at the time they are due. I tell him to make an appointment, he says but when asked later, he says he I have tried to tell him how important it is. even made the ap- pointment and taken the vehicles in myself. What can I do to get him to take care of this responsibility by himself? NAGGING MOTHER IN WISCON- SIN DEAR MOTHER: The way for your son to learn that lesson is for you to stop nagging and let him suffer the consequences for his irresponsibility. You may have helped the cars by taking them in, but you did not help your son.
DEAR ABBY: One of my sisters is visiting our place and staying at our house for four nights. She always brings presents for us when she comes. However, the items are partly used or carry no tags or seals. My other sisters feel the same as I do about it, but no one ever says anything. I am torn be- tween staying silent or speaking out once and for all in plain English.
What should I do? TAGLESS IN MAINE DEAR TAGLESS: When someone is a houseguest even a relative good manners dictate that a small gift is in order. By small gift, I mean a bouquet of flow- ers, a bottle of wine, a box of nuts or candy. Your sister is either unaware of the social graces, finan- cially strapped or rude. Accept the gra- ciously but suggest that next time a bottle of wine or some flowers would be appreciated. JEANNE PHILLIPS Woman moves away, but forget lost love DEAR ABBY OBITUARIES Erma E.
Gerber APRIL 30, 1928 AUGUST 25, 2019 A graveside service for Erma E. Gerber, 91, of North Bend, will be held at 11 am, Saturday, Sept. 14 at Sunset Memorial Park, 63060 Millington Front- age Road in Coos Bay, with Reverend Donald A. Ford, A.M., officiating. A public visitation will be held from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Fri- day, Sept.
13 at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Av- enue in Coos Bay. Erma was born April 30, 1928 in North Bend to Er- nest and Wilda (Fulton) Peterson. She passed away in her favorite chair, during a nap, at her home in North Bend. Erma attended North Bend schools. She married Gil Gerber on Oct.
27, 1946 and together they raised two children, Dennis and Gayle. Erma worked retail all of her working career and had many hobbies throughout her life. She is survived by her son, Dennis and wife, Debbie; grandsons, Theron and Travis and his wife, Larissa; great-grandchildren, Bella, Wyatt and Asher; nephew and nieces and their children. Erma was preceded in death by her parents, Ernest and Wilda Peterson; brothers, Oris and Willis and daughter, Gayle. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131.
Friends and family are encouraged to sign the online guestbook at www.coosbayareafunerals.com DEATH NOTICES Dan L. of reedsport, passed away tuesday, august 22, 2019. No services are planned at this time. dunes Memorial Chapel assisted the family with ar- rangements. John Tod of Coquille, died august 26, 2019 in Coquille.
No services are planned. arrangements are under the direction of Schroeder Funeral Coquille Chapel, 541-396-3846 David L. of Coos Bay died august 27, 2019 in Springfield. at his request, no public service will be held. arrangements are under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel 685 anderson ave.
541-267- 3131. FUNERALS THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 2019 Nancy Mattix Public vis- itation, 10 am to 4 pm, Coos Bay Chapel, 685 anderson avenue in Coos Bay, 541-267- 3131. FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 2019 Nancy Mattix Chapel Fu- neral Service, 1 pm, Coos Bay Chapel, 685 anderson avenue in Coos Bay, 541-267-3131.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 14 Robert Miller, Celebration of Life memorial service, 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, gloria dei Lutheran Church, 1290 thompson road, Coos Bay. arrangements un- der the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440.
Mary J. Hansen, Celebra- tion of Life gathering, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, North Bend Public Library event room, 1800 Sherman North Bend. DAVID WARREN Associated Press DALLAS Jim Leavelle, the longtime Dallas law- man who was captured in one of most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F.
assassin as he was fatally shot, has died. He was 99. Leavelle, distinctive in his light-colored suit and white Stetson, is seen in the photograph with his hand on Lee Harvey Os- wald, body stiffening as nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot the handcuffed presidential assassin at close range on live TV in 1963. Leavelle appears shocked as Oswald grimaces in pain. daughter Tanya Evers told The As- sociated Press her father died Thursday while visit- ing her sister in Colorado.
He fell earlier this week and broke his hip, requir- ing surgery at a Denver hospital, Evers said Fri- day. He responded well to the surgery, she said, but then later suffered a heart attack. In the decades after the assassination, Leavelle regularly spoke at schools and before various groups because he believed had a responsibility to share his said Evers, who lives in San Antonio. Her father through the decades received mail nearly every day from peo- ple asking questions about the assassination or invok- ing any one of several con- spiracy theories, she said. really felt a need to address the Evers said.
wanted to make sure that people knew there was no con- spiracy and that one mis- guided person could take a shot at a president and Leavelle joined the Dal- las police force in 1950 and retired from active service in 1975. He was among the lead detectives assigned to investigate Nov. 22, 1963, assassination. In 2013, Dallas police commanders honored Leavelle with the Police Commendation Award and announced the de- Detective of the Year Award would be named for him. In accept- ing the honor, Leavelle said he was thinking of other deserving officers, includ- ing J.D.
Tippit, who was shot and killed by Oswald when Tippit stopped Os- wald to question him some 45 minutes after assassination. Jim Leavelle, lawman at Lee Harvey side, dies at 99 ROBERT H. JACKSON, DALLAS TIMES-HERALD VIA AP Lee Harvey Oswald reacts as dallas night club owner Jack ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range Nov. 24, 1963 in a corridor of dallas police headquarters. at left is detective Jim Leavelle.
the longtime dallas lawman who was captured in one of most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F. assassin moments before he was fatally shot, died on thursday. He was 99. JOHN ROGERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES Valerie Harper, who scored guf- faws, stole hearts and busted TV taboos as the brash, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to- back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died. Longtime family friend Dan Watt confirmed Harper died Friday, adding the family immediately releas- ing any further details.
She had been battling cancer for years, and her husband said recently he had been advised to put her in hospice care. Harper was a breakout star on Mary Tyler Moore then the lead of her own series, She was 80. She won three consec- utive Emmys (1971-73) as supporting actress on Mary Tyler Moore and another for outstand- ing lead actress for which ran from 1974-78. Beyond awards, she was im- mortalized and typecast for playing one of most beloved characters, a best friend the equal of Ethel Mertz and Ed Norton in sidekick pantheon. Fans had long feared the news of her passing.
In 2013, she first revealed that she had been diagnosed with brain cancer and had been told by her doctors she had as little as three months to live. Some responded as if a family member were in peril. But she refused to de- spair. not dying until I Harper said in an in- terview on show. promise I Harper did outlive her fa- mous co-star: Mary Tyler Moore died in January 2017.
Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman and Betty White are among the former cast members who survive her. Valerie Harper, Rhoda, has died at 80 JEREMY REHM Associated Press NEW YORK With two pairs of fine-tipped twee- zers and the hands of a sur- geon, Cheryl Hayashi began dissecting the body of a sil- ver garden spider under her microscope. In just a few minutes, she found what she was seeking: hundreds of silk glands, the organs spiders use to make their webs. Some looked like mashed potatoes, oth- ers like green worms or air- filled rubber gloves. Each lets the spider produce a different type of silk.
Some silk types can be stretchy, others stiff. Some dissolve in water, others repel it. make so many kinds of Hayashi said. just what boggles my Hayashi has collected spider silk glands of about 50 species, just a small dent in the more than 48,000 spider species known worldwide. Her lab at the American Museum of Nat- ural History is uncovering the genes behind each type of silk to create a sort of part of an effort to learn how spiders make so many kinds of silk and what allows each kind to behave differently.
The library could become an important storehouse of information for designing new pesticides and better materials for bullet-proof vests, space gear, biode- gradable fishing lines and even fashionable dresses. Hayashi has been at this for 20 years, but improved technology only recently let scientists analyze the DNA of silk faster and produce artificial spider silk in bulk. function that we can think of where you need something that requires a lightweight material very strong, you can look to spider Hayashi said. Spider silks all start out the same: a wad of goo, akin to rubber cement or thick honey, as Hayashi describes it. Spiders make and stash it in a gland until they want to use the silk.
Then, a narrow nozzle called a spigot opens. And as the goo flows out, it morphs into a solid silk strand that is weaved with other strands emerging from other spigots. Nobody knows how many kinds of spider silks exist, but some species can pro- duce a variety. Orb-weav- ing spiders, for example, make seven types. One has a sticky glue to catch prey.
Another is tough but stretchy to absorb the im- pact of flying insects. The spider dangles from a third type as tough as steel. How and why silks be- have in these various ways is a puzzle, but the secret likely lies in genes. Finding those genes, though, easy. Until recently, scientists had to first chop the DNA into pieces and have a computer try to put the se- quence back together like a jigsaw puzzle.
a daunting task, and es- pecially difficult for spiders, because their genes are very long and repetitive. as if the sentence quick brown fox jumps over the lazy is instead, quick brown fox jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps over the lazy said Sarah Stellwa- gen from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. If you have no idea what the sentence says and have to rebuild it from a shredded mess of thousands of copies, how do you know how many to put into it? the problem Stell- wagen faced when she re- cently determined the en- tire set of genes, and their DNA makeup, for spider silk glue. thought she could do it fairly quickly, but it took almost two years. Scientists have to recover the full gene to truly mimic natural silk, she said.
If they try to produce synthetic silk from just part of a gene or some lab-built stunted version, not as good as what a spider Stell- wagen said. the issue re- searchers and companies have had in the past using genetically modified yeast, microbes and even goats to make synthetic silk. Only last year did a group make a small amount that perfectly mimicked an orb-weaving dragline silk, the type it dangles from, using bacteria. But that was only one type of silk from one spe- cies. Hayashi asked: about the other Technology has im- proved.
Researchers can now determine genes from beginning to end without first chopping them up. And companies have gotten ever closer to mass-produced synthetic silks. Now, a matter of un- covering the secrets of the potentially thousands of other silks out there. a hard task, consid- ering the many spiders she has yet to study and that some are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. hey, you know, we all have she said.
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