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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mother-in-law’s prayer is
just one of many ‘keepers’
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I recently lost my ad-
blurt out, ‘How far along is she?’
dress book in which I kept a copy of
“And please, Lord, help me to get
your “Keepers” booklet that I had sent
through the wedding preparations
away for a few years ago. I love the
without a squabble with the ‘oth-
memorable poems and essays in it.
er side.’ And drive from my mind
I’d like to replace the booklet if it
the belief that had my child waited
is available. I read through it so many
awhile, he or she could have done
times and now feel lost without it. I
better.
have read your advice for many years.
“Dear Lord, remind me daily that
Jeanne
Any help or information would be Phillips when I become a grandmother, my
greatly appreciated. — Penny In Eu-
children don’t want advice on how
Advice
reka, Mo.
to raise their children any more than I
Dear Penny: I’m glad you enjoyed
did when I was raising mine.
my “Keepers” booklet, and yes, it is avail-
“If you will help me to do these things,
able. It is light reading and contains poems SHUKDSVP\FKLOGUHQZLOO¿QGPHDMR\WREH
and essays collected by my mother that have around, and maybe I won’t have to write a
appeared in this column. So many readers ‘Dear Abby’ letter complaining about my
requested reprints on humorous and inspi- children neglecting me. Amen.”
rational items that hold special meaning for
Dear Abby: I’d like to know why they
them that Mom decided to compile them into still call ex-presidents “president”? For ex-
a booklet. To order a replacement for yours, ample, President Clinton or President Bush.
send your name and mailing address, plus They clearly are not president any longer. —
check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds), to: Just Wondering In Eugene, Ore.
Dear Abby Keepers Booklet, P.O. Box 447,
Dear Just Wondering: True. However,
Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and this is a courtesy, a gesture of respect ex-
handling are included in the price. Allow me tended to individuals for their public service.
to share one of the gems that always makes Included in this category are retired former
me smile:
presidents, senators, governors, mayors and
A Mother-In-Law’s Prayer
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“O, Lord, help me to be glad when my son
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu-
(or daughter) picks a mate. If he brings home ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
a girl with two heads, let me love both of founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
them equally. And when my son says, ‘Mom, Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
I want to get married,’ forbid that I should or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 11, 1915
Whether to stop the manual training de-
partment of the high school where it is or
whether to equip it with forges and black-
smithing facilities was one of the princi-
pal questions discussed last evening at the
monthly meeting of the school board. The
extension of the department will mean an
additional building and while all of the mem-
bers were agreed upon the desirability of
adding the extra course, the expense, it seems
probable, will form a serious obstacle. Direc-
tor Phelps was of the opinion that additional
room could be provided at less expense by
enlarging the basement of the present build-
ing. No action was taken, the board deciding
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the equipment of the new course before mak-
ing a decision.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 11, 1965
Army engineers began manipulating the
level of the Columbia River at McNary Dam
Wednesday night so a tug could be launched
180 miles away — and on another river —
Friday afternoon. In a dramatic display of
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from McNary by 27,000 cubic feet a second
at 6 p.m. Wednesday. At 8 a.m. today they
added still another 20,000 cubic feet a sec-
ond from Bonneville Dam. They calculated
arrival of the crest at the mouth of the Willa-
mette River in time for the Columbia to back
the Willamette into Portland Harbor with its
peak coinciding with high tide. That will be
just after 1 p.m. Friday. At 1:30 p.m. a 135-
foot tug will slide down the ways at Albina
Engine and Machine Works. Without the en-
gineers’ help, the tug, built for Hawaiian Tug
& Barge Co., Honolulu, could not have been
launched until later in the spring, when the
river level normally is up.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 11, 1990
With an exterior skin reminiscent of a cor-
rugated barn roof, a 1931 airplane of a kind
once used by Charles Lindbergh took a rest
at Pendleton Airport this week. The 59-year-
old plane is one of only 10 Ford tri-motor
5ATB 15-passenger aircraft still in operation.
It stopped in Pendleton on its way to a new
home in McMinnville. “It has a mind of its
own,” pilot Bob Soelberg of Evergreen Ven-
tures Inc. said of the plane, called “The City
of Wichita.” The tri-motor Ford was used
by Transcontinental Air Transport to make a
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BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 70th day of
2015. There are 295 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in His-
tory:
On March 11, 1865,
during the Civil War, Union
forces under General William
T. Sherman occupied Fayette-
ville, North Carolina.
On this date:
In 1861, the Constitution
of the Confederate States
of America was adopted by
the Confederate Congress in
Montgomery, Alabama.
In 1888, the Blizzard of
‘88, also known as the “Great
White Hurricane,” began
inundating the northeastern
United States, resulting in
some 400 deaths.
In 1915, during World War
I, Britain enacted a sweep-
ing, long-distance blockade
aimed at disrupting trade to
and from German ports.
In 1935, the Bank of Can-
ada began operations, issuing
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es continued to advance in
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II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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left the Philippines for Aus-
tralia. (MacArthur, who sub-
sequently vowed, “I shall re-
turn,” kept that promise more
than 2½ years later.)
In 1955, Sir Alexander
Fleming, the discoverer of
penicillin, died in London at
age 73.
In 1965, “I Lost It at the
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Brown and Co.
In 1993, Janet Reno was
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the Senate to be attorney gen-
eral.
In 2011, a magnitude-9.0
earthquake
and
result-
ing tsunami struck Japan’s
northeastern coast, killing
nearly 20,000 people and se-
verely damaging the Fukushi-
ma Dai-ichi nuclear power
station.
In 2012, sixteen Afghan
villagers — mostly women
and children — were shot
dead as they slept by U.S.
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales,
who later pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to life in pris-
on without parole.
Today’s Birthdays: Me-
dia mogul Rupert Murdoch is
84. ABC News correspondent
Sam Donaldson is 81. Su-
preme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia is 79. Musician Flaco
Jimenez is 76. Actress Tricia
O’Neil is 70. Actor Mark Met-
calf is 69. Rock singer-mu-
sician Mark Stein (Vanilla
Fudge) is 68. Singer Bobby
McFerrin is 65. Movie direc-
tor Jerry Zucker is 65. Actress
Susan Richardson is 63. Re-
cording executive Jimmy Io-
vine is 62. Singer Nina Hagen
is 60. Country singer Jimmy
Fortune (The Statler Brothers)
is 60. Country musician Da-
vid Talbot is 52. Former U.S.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill.,
is 50. Actor Terrence Howard
is 46. Actor Johnny Knoxville
is 44. Rock singer-musicians
Benji and Joel Madden (Good
Charlotte; The Madden Broth-
ers) are 36.
Thought for Today:
“Perhaps it is better to wake
up after all, even to suffer,
rather than to remain a dupe
to illusions all one’s life.” —
Kate Chopin, American writ-
er (1851-1904).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE