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2E StatesmanJournal.com CROSSWORD PUZZLE SOLUTION ONCEPTIS SUDOKU Heritage Oregon ONLINE Go to StatesmanJournal.com/Heritage for more area history. Dear Annie: Because the cost of living is so high around here, I now rent bedrooms in my home to a couple of young adults in their 20s. I almost impossible for them to go out on their own. Everything is fine about this arrangement, except my renters do not clean their rooms. They throw all of their things on the floor, including irty dishes, and the mess collects for weeks.

They do keep their doors closed, so I have to see it every time I pass by, but just knowing that heir rooms are such a mess bothers me a great deal. To their credit, they clean up after themselves when using the itchen. Would it be out of line for me to ask them to eep their rooms leaned, or is it none of my business since they are renters? Dear What they do ith their clothes or edding is their responsi- ility. Closing the door is agood solution to this. However, leaving bits of food on dirty plates (or pizza boxes and takeout cartons) can attract ver- in, and this becomes your business since it affects the common areas of the house.

Inform your tenants that this is a health risk and that food or anything containing food needs to disposed of properly on a daily basis. Ask them to bring their dirty dishes to the kitchen sink, and to put their food-related garbage in he proper place. If you wish, you can also offer to do some housekeeping or an additional fee. Dear Annie: I am Louisville I wrote to you several years ago concerning my hen-13-year-old nephew, and the attempt he made to seduce me into sexual activity during a sleepover. You reran my original letter a ew weeks ago, and I hought your readers ight be interested in an update.

Hayden is now 20 years old and thriving in college. He is in a relationship with a male student that he met on ampus. They are engaged and plan to marry after graduation. The hardest part was separating Hayden from the he was in with the older neighbor boy. his boy seduced my nephew the same way Hayden tried to seduce me.

Apparently, this neighbor often forced himself on Hayden and onvinced him that this was normal, acceptable and enjoyable. Through any prayers and discussions, I was able to how Hayden that any sexual activity without mutual consent is an a ssault and always rong. At the age of 14, and on his own initiative, Hayden finally ended the relationship with the neighbor boy. He ant to press charges, a nd the boy and his fam- i ly eventually moved away. Idid not break my promise not to tell mother about that sleepover, but together, told mother that he is gay.

She was accepting and supportive, and later said she had suspected this since he was 11years old. I am happy to report that Hayden and I are still close. Louisville Uncle Dear Uncle: Thanks so much for the update regarding Hayden. We are delighted to know that his life is working ut so well. fortunate to have such a caring uncle.

lease email your questions to anniesmail- Woman is bothered by mess in rooms Mitchell and Sugar ANNIE'S MAILBOX KTELEPSONSEAJUDD ARNOMARCOFIRMPROAM RICAPROTAGORASEDEMA SCHMITTHANDTVGUEST TIAMOISTEDUCESYET SANMARINOALKALIPELE TAGIONYENGLOSSA NEABEGSNANOS CELESTADONIMUSOHMAN OCATRIRAPTLYSLIME MOUNTAINHIGHVALLEYLOW ENDOROSWEGORUENUT ROSIESTYRENEMEOWERS SAMOADEALDNA GAMETETNNGINWIM ANASTIEOFFAAARATING STYONSALENOMARNEO PIERROTVEERENDWITH AFLACHEARTELLOFECTO TULIPAMISPIANOPALM RANTTILOTTERTREE Sudoku is a number- placing puzzle based on a9x9 grid with several iven numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1to 9 in the empty squares so that ach row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number nly once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Sunday. Ninety years ago this month, the hottest ticket in town ushered in an era that continues today. On May 28, 1926, the theater on High Street SE opened its doors for the first time.

The Elsinore Theatre as the brainchild of ovie-house owner and awyer George Guthrie. I got its name from William tragedy Construction was expected to last five or six months, according to the Capital Journal, but it took more than a year chiefly to Mr. insistence that the English Gothic architectural scheme, which prevails throughout, be executed faithfully even to the most minute detail of interior construction and decorative design and The Elsinore cost about $250,000 to build, which amounted to $10 for every person living in Salem, population 25,000 i 1926. The interior decor included a royal Ker- manshah rug with a Tree of design, aintings and Shakes pearean-themed tained-glass windows, created by Povey Bros. Among the works that continued to be enjoyed today: trusses on the west, or entrance side of the foyer, frame a group of three beautiful art windows interpreting the scene from where Hamlet greets and advises the wandering players as they arrive at the Capital Journal reported on May 27, 1926.

central panel of the group, which is done in antique and cathedral glass with a prevailing lue tone, pictures the three figures of Hamlet, Rosencranz and Guilden- stern. The giant panel on he left shows four stroll- i ng players and that to he right carries the igure of Polonius, chamberlain of the court. The central panel is surmounted by the ancient Danish coat of arms in true The Wurlitzer organ was the second biggest in Oregon at the time of the opening, according to the Capital Journal. Guthrie told the Oregon Statesman in an April 4, 1955, story the organ cost $22,000 to install. The original organ was removed a few years later.

Guthrie told the Capital Journal in 1926 on the left rear wall of the foyer as most beautiful thing in the whole a tapestry depicting men at the edge of a fore st with their hunting ogs, which was woven i 1676. ickets to the long- awaited opening were sought after, and residents gathered early for the 7 p.m. opening ceremonies and the Cecil B. DeMille film Volga before the dinner hour was over, a crowd gathered from every block in the city, began to stream toward the Elsinore as if the town had only one door and that the magic, wide portal of the magnificent new Oregon Statesman reported on May 29, 1926. The cost to attend the lsinore on opening day was 75 cents; seats in the loges were $1.

The Oregon Statesman eported there were dressed in blue ith red collars, who led atrons to their seats a ll of which were re- erved on opening night see the theater and the film. Larry Simpson and his orchestra provided a half-hour performance as part of the festivities. Judge Percy Kelly presided over the dedication of the theater. The regon Statesman said ov. Walter Pierce told he audience that while he east may have provided the artists, the idea, the dream, it was in the west that the structure came to its culmination that the eastern sun is the sun of dreams, but that it is the westward sun that is the sun of a hope fulfilled.

workman have been more than good. I hope you like it I like it myself. I have seen Guthrie told the crowd. Opening exercises closed with the playing of Star Spangled on the organ, and a flag was shown on the screen. The theater later host- Fanchon and Marco Vaudeville stage shows, Zollie Gang Mickey Mouse lub gatherings and ntertainers such as dgar Bergen and Char- ie McCarthy, Ethel Barrymore and John Philip Sousa and his band.

As the decades passed and the theater changed hands, it primarily was used to show movies. It until the late 1970s a nd early 1980s when the i dea of saving and refur- ishing the theater took oot. Residents in 1981vot- ed overwhelmingly against a plan to have the city purchase the Elsinore and renovate the building into an arts center, but supporters continued to work. It be until 1993, hen the Elsinore was urchased by Salem heatre Auditorium roup Enterprise known as STAGE that the downtown Salem future as a performing arts center would be secured. In a 1926 editorial, Capital Journal publisher George Putnam wrote: Guthrie set an example that our city builders in the future may well copy, in making Salem famous as a city of beautiful buildings, an ideal that could be easily realized if the the builders had only a little faith and Andy Zimmerman is a former Statesman Journal copy editor who writes a column about ocal history twice per month.

You can contact him with comments or suggestions for future tories at SJTime jewel still shines bright at 90 WILLAMETTE HERITAGE CENTER The Elsinore Theatre is seen with its Warner Bros. marquee lit in the early 1930s. LOST SALEM Do you know of an iconic Salem event, location or business that has been lost to istory and should be remembered? Send suggestions to TIME CAPSULE ANDY ZIMMERMAN SPECIAL TO THE ST ATESMAN JOURNAL Aries (March 21-April 19). The boundaries might not be clearly marked, but that mean they exist. Taurus (April 20-May 20).

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People who are to have to play at it. birthday (May 29). People will turn to you for reasons you completely rasp. IN THE STARS THIS DAY IN HISTORY highlight: On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as dmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climb- rs to reach the summit. Also on this date: In 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act efore House of Burgesses.

In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original colony ratify the United States Constitution. In 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union. The D.H. Lawrence novel Sons and was first published by Duckworth Co. of London, albeit in an xpurgated version.

In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1943, Norman Rock- portrait of the appeared on the cover of The Saturday vening Post. (The model for Rosie, Mary Doyle Keefe, died in April 2 015 at age 92.) In 1961, a couple in Paynesville, West Virginia, became he first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President John F. ennedy.

In 1985, 39 people were killed at the European Cup Final in Brussels, Belgium, when rioting broke out and a all separating British and Italian soccer fans collapsed. In 1999, Discovery became the first space shuttle to dock ith the International Space Station..