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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, January 23, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ New desk comes with a view co-worker would like to avoid FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I like my job a lot, but ing a problem with it. Please give me I have recently been assigned a differ- some advice. — Earned The Right ent desk. I now sit next to someone In Virginia who regularly draws his blood with a Dear Earned: OK. While I un- lancet and gives himself a shot for his derstand your jealousy, for all con- diabetes just a foot away from me. cerned, you need to realize that the I am extremely uncomfortable more love and attention a child has, around blood and needles. I don’t the better. Your grandchild will ben- want to make waves because this per- Jeanne son has been here a lot longer than I Phillips in his/her life as long as they’re not have, and apparently, no one has ever at each other’s throats. While your ex Advice been bothered by it. and his wife may not technically be Am I being silly? Would it be im- grandparents, if you blow this out of proper to ask my supervisor to move me? proportion, you risk alienating your daughter, Moving desks is a big enough deal that I will so I advise against it. have to give a reason. Help. — Squeamish Dear Abby: I am a professor at a univer- In Great Falls, Mont. sity on a military base in Germany. Most of Dear Squeamish: Because the sight of my students are soldiers, their families or re- blood and needles makes you uncomfort- tirees, so my students range in age from 18 able, discuss this with your supervisor ASAP. to 60. I do not yet have my Ph.D., only my While these are procedures many people with master’s. diabetes must attend to on a daily basis, you I communicate a lot with my students shouldn’t have to watch if you don’t want to. through email. How should I sign my emails Dear Abby: My daughter and son-in-law to them? I can’t say Dr. So-and-So. Do I use were blessed with a child two years ago. My my full name or Professor So-and-So? While ex-husband (not my daughter’s father) has I’m friendly with my students, I still believe hardly been in her life since our divorce 15 in keeping a professional distance, and I want years ago. She never called him Dad. We to convey a sense of professionalism in my have both remarried. emails. — Professor So-And-So He and his new wife have moved close to Dear Professor So-And-So: Sign your the kids and want to be grandparents. I don’t communications with your students exactly have a problem with them being close to the way you have signed the one you have my daughter, but I resent them being called written to me. “grandparents.” I feel that title should be re- Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu- served. ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was Frankly, this has put a chasm in an oth- founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. erwise close relationship. My daughter and Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com son-in-law don’t understand why I’m hav- or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 23, 1915 Because of the prospects of the removal of the O.-W. R. & N. division point from Umatilla and of the consequent decrease in business there, the First Bank of Umatil- la, by a vote of the shareholders, has been dissolved. The liquidation will take place next Tuesday, January 28, according to W.L. Thompson, president of the American Na- tional Bank of this city, who is also president of the Umatilla bank. Mr. Thompson states that during the time the bank has been main- tained at Umatilla it has paid but that with all indications pointing to the removal of the railroad division point, conditions did not warrant maintaining it longer in the view of 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 23, 1965 The Red Cross blood drawing in Herm- iston Tuesday at the CRC will provide an opportunity for donors to help Ralph Wayne Armstrong, Hermiston, to live like other little boys. Ralph, or “Rowdy,” three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Armstrong, depends on Red Cross gamma globulin to replace the red corpuscles in his blood through shots of red corpuscles do not reproduce) was dis- covered when he was a year and a half old. The shots, which must be administered every 30 days, were costing the Armstrongs $25 a month until they contacted the Red Cross. The Hermiston blood program chairman started the wheels rolling that the gamma globulin could be obtained free from the Ya- kima blood center. Doctors hope Rowdy will 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 23, 1990 A Hermiston woman escaped serious injury Monday when she was accidentally knocked down and wedged beneath an un- attended car. A tow truck was called to help rescue Faye L. Rivera, 40, from beneath a 1975 AMC Pacer in the parking lot of the Tower Apartments in south Hermiston. Rive- ra and Nona Evans, who gave Rivera a ride home, said they had parked and walked to the back of the car to look underneath it be- at a speed bump. The car rolled backwards and knocked Rivera over, and she rolled over on her stomach hoping the car would just roll over her. “One of the tires rolled over my el- bow and I got stuck under the car,” Rivera said. B&T Towing lifted the rear of the car and paramedics removed Rivera. She was treated and released from Good Shepherd Community Hospital in Hermiston. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART Today is the 23rd day of 2015. There are 342 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 23, 1968, North Korea seized the Navy in- telligence ship USS Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew was released 11 months later.) On this date: In 1789, Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington D.C. In 1845, Congress de- cided all national elections - day in November. In 1915, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was born in Jackson, Michi- gan. In 1933, the 20th Amend- ment to the U.S. Constitu- tion, the so-called “Lame Duck Amendment,” was rat- LUANN ZITS BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN STONE SOUP BIG NATE In 1937, 17 people went on trial in Moscow during Josef Stalin’s “Great Purge.” (All were convicted of con- spiracy; all but four were ex- ecuted.) In 1960, the U.S. Na- vy-operated bathyscaphe Trieste carried two men to the deepest known point in a depth of more than 35,000 feet. In 1964, the 24th Amend- ment to the United States Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, became the 38th state to en- dorse it. In 1995, the Supreme Court, in McKennon vs. Nashville Banner Publishing Co., ruled that companies illegally could not escape lawful reason to justify the dismissal. Today’s Birthdays: Ac- tress Jeanne Moreau is 87. Actress Chita Rivera is 82. Actor-director Lou Antonio is 81. Actor Gil Gerard is 72. Actor Rutger Hauer is 71. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jerry Lawson (The Persua- sions) is 71. Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., is 68. Singer Anita Pointer is 67. Actor Richard Dean Anderson is 65. Rock musician Bill Cun- ningham is 65. Rock singer Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) is 62. Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is 62. Princess Caroline of Monaco is 58. Singer Anita Baker is 57. Reggae musician Earl Falconer (UB40) is 56. Actress Gail O’Grady is 52. Rock musician Nick Harmer (Death Cab for Cutie) is 40. Thought for Today: “The trouble is that hardly any- body in America goes to bed angry at night.” — George J. Stigler, American economist (1911-1991). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
