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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, July 7, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Stepson is on losing end of misspent child support FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have an 8-year-old placed with you. While a young child stepson, “Kaden,” whom I love dearly. may not be able to do this, I believe a teenager can make a compelling Kaden spends the bulk of his time case for it. If Kaden’s mother has with his mother on the other side of been depriving him, it would make a the country. When he comes to visit us persuasive argument for a change in in the summer, his clothing and shoes custody. are always ragged and a few sizes too Dear Abby: I really like this guy small. named “Gary.” He’s super sweet, My husband pays child support and Jeanne buys Kaden a new wardrobe every six Phillips funny, cute and just incredible. He’s my brother’s friend. months. Yet every time he comes to us, Advice I’m in sixth grade and he’s in ifth. I he’s never wearing anything his dad think he might like me back. He asked and I bought him, but what appear to be hand-me-down rags. We have spoken to me to follow his new Instagram account, and the mother many times about it, but nothing when I told him to tell my brother hi, he stared at me for a few seconds longer (plus he was changes. We feel if we stop buying clothes for Kaden smiling the whole time). One of my girlfriends it would punish him, when it is his mom who sort of likes him, too. What do I do? How do I tell him I like him? isn’t spending the child support money on the boy. We have paid for extracurricular activities Is it OK for me to ask him to go to the park? (sports) only for her to not take him there. She His brother and my brother could go, too. lies and says he doesn’t want to go, but we get Please help me. What do I do? — Girl In El a different story from the boy. He says she says, Paso, Texas Dear Girl: If Gary wants you to follow his “Judo isn’t a real sport.” He has gained weight Instagram account, it’s a pretty good sign that and we don’t want him to be picked on for it. The state where the boy lives is not good he has positive feelings for you. If you want about giving fathers custody of their kids, and to ask him to go to the park, and your parents the mom is not necessarily unit. How can we don’t mind, go ahead and do it. But let me offer make her see she’s hurting her kid? — Mother a couple of suggestions: If you ask him, DO include your brother Doesn’t Know Best Dear M.D.K.B.: You can’t “make” another and his brother because being with others adult do something she isn’t inclined to do. will make it more fun. And, everybody loves However, what you can do is enroll Kaden in a compliment. The compliment doesn’t have sports programs when he visits you during the to be as blatant as “I like you,” which could embarrass some boys his age. A simple, “I summer months. You and your husband can also talk to a think you’re great because (you’re really family law attorney and ind out at what age smart, you’re good at sports, you’re fun to be Kaden will be able to legally request to be around, etc.)” should do the trick. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 7, 1916 The Standard Oil Co. will commence work this week on the erection of a large warehouse, ofice and stable and three large oil tanks, on the ground recently purchased from Loren Kennison near the stockyard in Stanield. This will be a distributing point for this part of the country. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 7, 1966 Government trapper James Chetwood, who was the object of an extensive search in the Holdman-Helix area Tuesday night and Wednesday, turned up at his Meacham trapping headquarters “wondering what all the fuss was about.” Chetwood’s wife called the state police Tuesday, after her husband failed to return home that evening from a coyote trap- ping trip into the rolling wheat country around Holdman. A small scale search began Tuesday evening and grew Wednesday morning when several planes lew over the area. Chetwood had apparently not stopped in Pendleton on his way to Meacham. He also was out checking his traps when oficers visited his Meacham camp earlier Wednesday. Chetwood showed up at his trailer at 7 p.m. Wednesday, ending the search. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 7, 1991 Retired Salvation Army Major James Berry remembers 50 years ago when Pendleton suffered from a bad reputation. “It just had a very poor name ... perhaps because (the Salvation Army) sent wrong people, people who didn’t care,” said Berry, who now lives in Casper, Wyo. Berry was a Salvation Army captain here from April 1942 until June 1945. He has returned for the 50th anniversary celebration of the United States’ entry into World War II sponsored by the Umatilla County Historical Society. At about 2 this afternoon, Berry will serve the irst doughnut from the replicated Salvation Army Do-nut Hut to Oregon’s adjutant general, Brig. Gen. Gene A. Katke. Berry and his wife, Annabele, initiated the refreshment stand at the Union Paciic railroad depot while living here. Now the re-created hut is located on the same prop- erty, next to the Amtrak station and historical society museum. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 189th day of 2016. There are 177 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On July 7, 1976, Pres- ident and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford hosted a White House dinner for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. The United States Military Academy at West Point included female cadets for the irst time as 119 women joined the Class of 1980. On this date: In 1846, U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison. In 1865, four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the irst woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government. In 1898, the United States annexed Hawaii. In 1919, the irst Trans- continental Motor Convoy, in which a U.S. Army convoy of motorized vehicles crossed the United States, departed Washington, D.C. (The trip ended in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 1919.) In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War erupted into full-scale conlict as Imperial Japanese forces attacked the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing. Also in 1946, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the irst American saint by Pope Pius XII. In 1948, six female U.S. Navy reservists became the irst women to be sworn in to the regular Navy. In 1969, Canada’s House of Commons gave inal approval to the Oficial Languages Act, making French equal to English throughout the national government. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the irst female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Today’s Birthdays: Musician-conductor Doc Severinsen is 89. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough is 83. Rock star Ringo Starr is 76. Rock musician Jim Rodford is 75. Comedian Bill Oddie is 75. Singer-musician Warren Entner (The Grass Roots) is 73. Actor Joe Spano is 70. Pop singer David Hodo (The Village People) is 69. Country singer Linda Williams is 69. Actress Shelley Duvall is 67. Actress Roz Ryan is 65. Actor Billy Campbell is 57. Rock musician Mark White (Spin Doctors) is 54. Singer-songwriter Vonda Shepard is 53. Actor-co- median Jim Gafigan is 50. Olympic silver and bronze medal igure skater Michelle Kwan is 36. Pop singer Ally Hernandez (Fifth Harmony) is 23. Thought for Today: “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” — Booker T. Washington, American educator and author (1856-1915). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE