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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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-
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murder in the kidnap-slaying
of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.,
the son of Charles and Anne
Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was
later executed.)
On this date:
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England’s King Henry VIII,
Catherine Howard, was exe-
cuted for adultery.
In 1861, Abraham Lincoln
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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.
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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
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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-
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custodian broke out on the
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of New York’s World Trade
Center; the blaze spread to six
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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).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE