Page 6A
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Search low-cost options
for professional counseling
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: In many advice col-
organizations and have professional
umns it is often suggested to “seek pro-
standards.
fessional help,” such as a psychologist
(4) You can locate govern-
or psychiatrist. This is a practical solu-
ment-funded agencies with psychiat-
tion, but most often quite expensive, to
ric services by going on the Internet.
the point of being prohibitive.
Some hospitals refer to community
-
service organizations. In any emergen-
sistance that will be practical, ongoing
cy room, you can contact the hospital’s
and cost-effective rather than some-
outreach to community development
Jeanne
thing that immediately throws up a Phillips programs, as well.
roadblock to wellness? — Detoured
Dear Abby: My husband and a
Advice
By Finances
friend of mine joke about being an
Dear Detoured: Some of these
item. They do this in public and in
suggestions might be helpful:
front of me. They hug, hold hands or rub each
(1) Contact a university medical school if other’s shoulders, but I don’t think anything
there is one in your community, and ask to more goes on.
speak to the Department of Psychiatry. Ask
These activities offend and embarrass me.
if it has an outpatient clinic. If it does, inquire My husband says the jokes are innocuous, that
there. If not, ask if someone on the staff deals I’m too sensitive and I’m making a moun-
with problems like the ones you’re experienc- tain out of a molehill. He says they certainly
ing.
wouldn’t act that way in public if they were
really seeing each other on the sly.
out if it has a graduate school. If so, does the
Do you think I’m being overly sensitive
graduate school have a psychology program about this? — Disrespected
Dear Disrespected: I don’t think you’re
scale? If there is no clinic, ask if someone on being overly sensitive. That it’s “innocent” is
the staff of the psychology department sees beside the point. Because you have told them
people privately and what’s the person’s phone that their touchy-feely demonstrations of affec-
number. Then contact that person.
tion for each other offend and embarrass you,
(3) People can get referrals from mental out of respect for you, they should cut it out.
health organizations. The largest credentialed
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
ones are the American Psychological Associ- also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was found-
ation, the American Association for Marriage ed by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact
and Family Therapy and the National Associ- Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box
ation of Social Workers. These are legitimate 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 12-13, 1915
The new constitutional amendment
passed at the last election requiring an alien
born resident to be a naturalized citizen in or-
der to vote is driving in many men who have
lived in this country for years but who have
delayed completing their papers. Before the
law was passed alien born residents who had
Robertson, manager of the Farmers’ Union
Grain agency who came to this country from
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
three years later, and William Kupers, promi-
nent farmer and native of Germany who took
papers and a few days ago Manuel Pedro,
prominent sheepman who came over from
Portugal years ago, did likewise.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 12-13, 1965
Hardest hit business in Gilliam County by
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
at the south and Rock Creek from the east
battered the building and destroyed most of
its contents. Mr. and Mrs. Art Smythe, own-
ers, are still cleaning up two weeks after the
water came. They hope to have their shelves
restocked with groceries soon, but they’ll
have to wait for new equipment before they
can stock frozen goods and dairy products.
Some time ago the East Oregonian featured
a story about Smythe and his hobby, raising
pheasants of rare breed. All his birds were
drowned. “But I did manage to save three
Labrador pups in another pen,” he said. He
waded through waist-high water with wire
cutters. The pups were huddled on top of their
dog house, said Smythe. Mrs. Smythe, post-
mistress, said some mail bags were soaked
and all her scales and other equipment lost.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 12-13, 1990
As residents in Umatilla County contin-
wind storm, experts agree few precautions
could have prevented the huge loss of trees.
Shallow roots, wet sandy soil and a lack of
good tree maintenance combined with hurri-
cane-force winds to topple hundreds of trees
across the county. In the past three days,
Hermiston workers removed at least 60 trees
from streets and parks, said Hermiston Street
Superintendent Sid Priest, most of them lo-
cust trees. But several Russian olive and mul-
berry trees also were down. As the clean-up
winds down, Priest said his department will
take a hard look at the type of trees it plants
to replace the ones lost in McKenzie Park,
saying that because maples, sycamores and
oaks have a tap root — a single long root —
they are able to withstand strong winds such
as those Monday.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
Today is the 13th day of
2015. There are 352 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in His-
tory:
On Jan. 13, 1915, a mag-
in Avezzano, Italy, claimed
some 30,000 lives.
On this date:
In 1733, James Ogletho-
rpe and some 120 English
colonists arrived at Charles-
ton, South Carolina, while en
route to settle in present-day
Georgia.
In 1794, President George
Washington approved a mea-
sure adding two stars and two
following the admission of
Vermont and Kentucky to the
Union. (The number of stripes
was later reduced to the orig-
inal 13.)
In 1864, American song-
writer Stephen Foster died in
poverty in a New York hospi-
LUANN
ZITS
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
STONE SOUP
BIG NATE
In 1883, the Henrik Ibsen
play “An Enemy of the Peo-
Christiania (Oslo), Norway.
In 1898, Emile Zola’s fa-
mous defense of Capt. Alfred
Dreyfus, “J’accuse,” was
published in Paris.
In 1941, a new law went
into effect granting Puerto
Ricans U.S. birthright citizen-
ship. Novelist and poet James
Joyce died in Zurich, Switzer-
land, less than a month before
In 1962, comedian Ernie
Kovacs died in a car crash in
west Los Angeles 10 days be-
fore his 43rd birthday.
In 1964, Roman Catholic
Bishop Karol Wojtyla (the
future Pope John Paul II) was
appointed Archbishop of Kra-
kow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI.
In 1990, L. Douglas Wild-
er of Virginia became the na-
-
ernor as he took the oath of
Today’s Birthdays: Ac-
tress Frances Sternhagen
is 85. TV personality Nick
Clooney is 81. Actor-come-
-
musician Trevor Rabin is
61. Rhythm-and-blues musi-
cian Fred White is 60. Rock
musician James Lomenzo
(Megadeth) is 56. Actor Kev-
in Anderson is 55. Actress Ju-
lia Louis-Dreyfus is 54. Rock
singer Graham “Suggs”
McPherson (Madness) is 54.
Country singer Trace Adkins
is 53. Actress Penelope Ann
Miller is 51. Actor Patrick
-
do Bloom is 38. Actor Liam
Hemsworth (Film: “The
Hunger Games”) is 25.
Thought for Today: “I am
tomorrow, or some future day,
what I establish today. I am
today what I established yes-
terday or some previous day.”
— James Joyce (1882-1941).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE