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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, February 13, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Younger brother tiptoes around bringing older girlfriend home FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My younger brother is should continue extending invitations. 25. Three or four months ago he got Truthfully, it is a lot less work and ex- out of a six-year relationship. He is pense to NOT host. Who’s right? — now dating his former boss, a woman Enough Already In Michigan who is at least 15 years older than he Dear Enough: You are. By now is. As far as I know, I’m the only one your relatives are well aware that he’s told. they are welcome. Continue to in- I recently asked him how the ro- vite those who have accepted and re- mance was going and he told me things ciprocated your hospitality, because Jeanne are great. He also said he’s worried Phillips it should be apparent that the ones about how to let the rest of our family who have declined are not interest- Advice know about this new relationship. Do ed. And explain that to your mother, you have any advice I could give him who long ago should have stopped about revealing something that’s sure to shock telling you what to do. some members of our family? — Worried Dear Abby: Have you or any of your fe- Older Brother In Kansas City, Mo. male readers experienced this medical phe- Dear Worried: Yes. Tell him all he has to nomenon with their male partners? When I do is bring his new love interest to the next open my mouth to speak, I can literally hear family gathering. (You can be in charge of my husband’s ears slam shut! Repeating ev- supplying the smelling salts.) erything seems to be a side effect for those Dear Abby: My husband and I complet- of us living with someone with this disease. HGFRQVWUXFWLRQRQRXUUHWLUHPHQWKRPH¿YH Does anyone know of a cure? — Tired Of years ago. Even though we’re not retired, we Talking To Myself were able to move in. We are now 3 1/2 hours Dear Tired: Alas, I can’t answer from away from family. personal experience because every time I We have repeatedly invited family mem- open my mouth to speak, my husband rush- bers to enjoy our hospitality at holiday or va- es forward to catch the pearls of wisdom I’m cation time. Some of them have taken us up spewing. However, I suspect that what you’re on the invitation at least once. However, one experiencing may be a widespread phenome- of my brothers has never been here. non that happens when any woman suggests We have a lovely log cabin on a lake, and something her spouse doesn’t want to hear. it can accommodate ALL family members for Readers, what do you think? a gathering. Our relatives cite the long drive Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu- as the reason for staying away, while they ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was WKLQN QRWKLQJ RI WDNLQJ D KXQWLQJ RU ¿VKLQJ founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Con- trip nearby. tact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or I have stopped asking. My mom thinks I 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 Feb. 13, 1915 John Dyer is mayor of Pendleton, accord- ing to a “pro forma” decision rendered late yesterday afternoon by Circuit Judge G.W. Phelps. By virtue of his position as chairman of the council at the time of the death of May- or Matlock, he succeeded to the position and all of his acts performed in that capacity since are legal, according to the decision. Robert F. Kirkpatrick, appointed mayor by the council a few weeks ago when the attorneys for the company which purchased the water bonds questioned Dyer’s right to sign the bonds, will carry the matter to the supreme court for D¿QDOGHWHUPLQDWLRQRIWKHPRRWHGPD\RUDOW\ question. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 13, 1965 Promotion of construction of a research laboratory in Pendleton and passage of leg- islation providing increased income to wheat growers were items of business in Washing- ton, D.C., recently for three ranchers. Milton Morgan, Ione, past president of the Oregon Wheat Growers League; Melvin Pace, Enter- prise, this year’s president of the organization; and Allen Tom, The Dalles, vice president of the National Wheat Growers Association, ÀHZWRWKHQDWLRQ¶VFDSLWDODQGVSHQW¿YHGD\V working on the two projects. Morgan reports construction of a soil and water research lab- oratory in the Pendleton area is “No. 3 on the priority list at present.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 13, 1990 Police hope crime lab results will help ex- plain the injuries suffered by a 13-year-old Pendleton boy who was moved Monday to a Portland hospital. Twelve days after he was found injured and dazed in the back yard of a home on Southwest 16th Street, Bryon Van Nattan is being evaluated by doctors at Good Samaritan Hospital. Meanwhile, authorities who’ve gained no new ground on a hit-and-run theory are considering another angle. Pendle- ton Police Chief Ed Taber said detectives be- lieve Bryon may have fallen from a treehouse. “That’s one reason we sent his clothes to the crime lab — for paint and metal shavings, but also for wood chips, something that might link us to some other type of accident,” Taber said. Bryon’s mother, Bonnie Van Nattan, said her son has not offered any other explanation than the one he gave nurses soon after he was tak- en to St. Anthony Hospital. He told them he’d been hit by a black-and-white or a white car. 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 44th day of 2015. There are 321 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in His- tory: On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Haupt- PDQQ JXLOW\ RI ¿UVWGHJUHH murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.) On this date: In 1542 WKH ¿IWK ZLIH RI England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was exe- cuted for adultery. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln ZDV RI¿FLDOO\ GHFODUHG ZLQ- ner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots. In 1914, the American So- ciety of Composers, Authors and Publishers, also known as ASCAP, was founded in New York. In 1920, the League of Na- tions recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland. In 1939, Justice Louis D. STONE SOUP BIG NATE Brandeis retired from the U.S. Supreme Court. (He was suc- ceeded by William O. Doug- las.) In 1945, during World War II, Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden. The Soviets cap- tured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans. In 1960, France exploded LWV ¿UVW DWRPLF ERPE LQ WKH Sahara Desert. In 1965, during the Viet- nam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized Op- eration Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese. In 1975, a late-night ar- VRQ ¿UH VHW E\ D GLVJUXQWOHG custodian broke out on the WKÀRRURIWKHQRUWKWRZHU of New York’s World Trade Center; the blaze spread to six ÀRRUV EXW FDXVHG QR GLUHFW casualties. In 1980, the 13th Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, New York. In 1988, the 15th Winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Today’s Birthdays: U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager (ret.) is 92. Actress Kim Novak is 82. Actor George Segal is 81. Actor Bo Svenson is 74. Actress Carol Lynley is 73. Singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is 73. Actress Stockard Channing is 71. Talk show host Jerry Springer is 71. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is 69. Singer Peter Gabriel is 65. Actor David Naughton is 64. Rock musi- cian Peter Hook is 59. Actor Matt Salinger is 55. Singer Henry Rollins is 54. Rock singer Matt Berninger (The National) is 44. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 43. Singer-songwriter Feist is 39. Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (also known as Prince Mi- chael Jackson I) is 18. Thought for Today: “The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs; it will pity you for what you lose, but never for what you lack.” — Anne Sophie Swetch- ine, Russian-French author (1782-1857). 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