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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, December 28, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife married to old swinger would like to push him out FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: I am a 70-year-old to consider talking to a psychiatrist, woman, married for 50 years, and I but he refuses. He does see a psychol- hate my husband. He wants to go to ogist every three months, and he’s swinger parties and toss me to other supposed to be on medication, which men. I tried it a couple of times for him he refuses to take. How can we deal and hated it. with this? His psychologist won’t talk He is overbearing and rude. We to us unless my son gives the OK. — don’t have any friends where we Desperate Worried Mother live, so he seeks out new people. He Dear Desperate: Because your Jeanne doesn’t listen to my begging not to do Phillips son is an adult, unless he is a danger this. His computer is full of porn and to himself or others, there is nothing Advice his thoughts are sinful, although he you can do to prevent him from can’t perform. leaving. However, you CAN write Every day I wish he were dead, but I feel his psychologist a letter letting him/her know guilty for these thoughts. Please tell me what what is going on and address your concerns. to do. My life is unbearable. — Past My There is a chance your son might pay more Limit In Orlando attention to what his therapist says than to you. Dear Past Your Limit: By now it should An organization that may be of help to you be apparent to you that you can’t change your is The National Alliance on Mental Illness, husband. The only thing you can change is accessible at nami.org. It may be able to yourself. If you find the strength to do that, provide you with the guidance and emotional your circumstances will change. Because you support you need. say your life is unbearable, stop bearing it. Dear Abby: I’m 16, and I have a crush Talk to a lawyer and set yourself free. on a guy who is 23. We met in the gym he Dear Abby: My 33-year-old son has works at. He’s very shy and he didn’t make mental problems. He is moving out to live the first move, but now we flirt a lot. I don’t with a guy he has been talking to on the know what to think because we met at his internet and who has met him once. work, and he’s so much older than I am. What His father and I are against it, not because do you think about the situation? If he kisses of their homosexuality but because we are me, what should I think? If he doesn’t make afraid it’s a dangerous situation. We have a move, what should I do? — Confused In learned that the guy was arrested three years Connecticut ago on three different charges. He says he was Dear Confused: My advice is to forget cleared, but refuses any background checks about it. If he kisses you, consider the conse- or fingerprinting for jobs and/or government quences if your parents found out what’s been housing. going on. It could cost this man his job. He When we tried to talk to our son and may be very nice, but he is so much older explain the dangers, he became irate and and more experienced than you are that there blamed everything on us. He has no driver’s could be criminal penalties and possibly jail license and has threatened to take off. He has time for him if he’s foolish enough to pursue also threatened suicide. We have asked him you. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 28, 1916 When Mrs. E.E. Starcher and other women of Umatilla planned their little coup whereby the feminine contingent of the oldest town of the county seized control of the municipal government, little did they suspect that they would put their town in the national limelight. However, that is just what they have done. Within the past two weeks Umatilla has received more publicity than she has received in her whole history prior to that notable election and probably more than she will ever receive again. Newspapers all over the country were quick to see the unusual story in a woman beating her husband for mayor. When the railroad yards were taken from Umatilla, it was generally said that the town would die a quiet death, but the women have brought it to a new life that has startled the nation. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 28, 1966 City police and college authorities alike were wondering whether burglars who broke into Blue Mountain Community College Sunday night wanted money — or shelter. A rock was used to smash a window to gain entrance, but nothing was missing and the only thing found disturbed led to the belief the visitor or visitors may have had some coffee inside. A break-in also was reported at the Pendleton Veterinarian Clinic, 1901 SW Court Place, police said, but again nothing was known to be missing. The east door was pried open. However, about $5 was taken from a pop machine in the Zimmerman Building at 328 SW Emigrant. The front door there also was pried open. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 28, 1991 An estimated 375 McNary residents have complained to the state Department of Environmental Quality about odors and alleged health problems caused by the Haas Foods onion plant east of town. A company official said Haas Foods is addressing the complaints. Meanwhile, the state DEQ is determining what kind of action, if any, should be taken. Last month area residents submitted a petition-like form intended to grab DEQ’s attention to “problems” allegedly caused by the state’s only onion dehydration plant. Resi- dents cited allergic reactions, respiratory and eye problems, the smell, nausea and unclean air as factors for consideration. 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 363rd day of 2016. There are three days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union. On this date: In 1612, Italian astron- omer Galileo Galilei observed the planet Neptune, but mistook it for a star. (Neptune wasn’t officially discovered until 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle.) In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first vice pres- ident of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson. In 1856, the 28th pres- ident of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Virginia. In 1895, the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, held the first public showing of their movies in Paris. In 1917, the New York Evening Mail published “A Neglected Anniversary,” a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken supposedly recounting the history of bathtubs in America. In 1945, Congress offi- cially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1961, the Tennessee Williams play “Night of the Iguana” opened on Broadway. Former first lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 89. In 1973, the book “Gulag Archipelago,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s exposé of the Soviet prison system, was first published in Paris. In 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American “test-tube” baby, was born in Norfolk, Virginia. Today’s Birthdays: Comic book creator Stan Lee is 94. Former United Auto Workers union president Owen Bieber is 87. Actress Nichelle Nichols is 84. Actress Dame Maggie Smith is 82. Rock singer-musician Charles Neville is 78. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is 72. Former Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., is 70. Funk musician Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste (The Meters) is 68. Actor Denzel Washington is 62. Country singer Joe Diffie is 58. Country musician Mike McGuire (Shenandoah) is 58. Comedian Seth Meyers is 43. Actor Joe Manganiello is 40. Rhythm-and-blues singer John Legend is 38. Thought for Today: “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” — Michael Crichton, American author (1942-2008). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE