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Page 8A East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, March 13, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Old world tradition clashes with new world diet change FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: I have been dating my back home, and we have been trying boyfriend, Mike, for about two years, to revive the friendship. We have in- and things are going great. During this vited them to dinner three times only time, I have become very close with to be told: “We have commitments his family. Both of his parents came this week, and next week is crazy at to the United States from Europe, and work. Let’s try to get together next with their culture comes his mother’s month when things calm down.” But traditional cooking and the need to there was no follow-up. make sure everyone’s bellies are full. They do travel a lot, have small Jeanne I have always enjoyed her food; Phillips children and demanding jobs, so it’s however, in the last six months I have hard to know if the delays are real Advice become a vegetarian. Out of courtesy or if they aren’t interested in being for her, I have been making sure to friends any longer. How much do we eat at home before spending time at Mike’s try before feeling we’re annoying them and house. I can see that his mother feels a bit giving up? — Back Home In Ohio put off because I have been eating less of her Dear Back Home: Do as your friends food, but I feel it would be rude to ask her suggested and give them a call in a month or for a separate meal to accommodate my diet. six weeks. If they are still unavailable, say, What should I do? — Nervous In New En- “OK. Then the ball is in your court,” and see gland if they follow up. And if they don’t, then re- Dear Nervous: Your boyfriend’s mother alize it’s time to give up. When you moved may be put off because she doesn’t under- away, they moved on. stand why you seem to be enjoying her cook- Dear Abby: As a Valentine surprise, my ing less. If you and Mike have been seeing boyfriend of two years presented me with each other for two years, you and his mother a donation he had made in my name to his should be able to have an honest conversa- favorite charity. I thought it was impersonal tion with each other. TELL her you enjoy her and it hurt my feelings. Am I wrong to think cooking, but that you have changed your diet he really doesn’t care much for me? — Rose- and no longer eat meat, etc. If she volunteers Less In North Carolina to prepare something else for you, it would Dear Rose-Less: Let me put it this way, be gracious of her. However, if she doesn’t, I your boyfriend isn’t very good when it comes agree that it would be rude to ask her to do so. to gift selection. Many men aren’t. But more Dear Abby: My husband and I were close LPSRUWDQW WKDQ FDQG\ RU ÀRZHUV LV KRZ KH friends with another couple, seeing them treats you the other 364 days of the year, and once or twice a week. Then we had to move that’s how you should judge him. away from our hometown because of a job Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu- opportunity. We tried to stay in touch, but ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was predictably were not as close as when we founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. were neighbors. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com A few months ago, we were able to move or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 13, 1915 7KDWWKH¿VKLQJLQWKHVPDOOHUFUHHNVRIWKH county will be much poorer than it has been for years as a result of the freezing weather last winter is the statement of G.W. Ellis, pio- neer Ukiah rancher who is in Pendleton today. During the winter Owen and Snipe creeks, both near his place, froze solidly to the bot- tom, he states, and when the ice thawed dead ¿VK ÀRDWHG GRZQ WKH FUHHNV LQ JUHDW QXP- bers. Mr. Ellis states that in the 35 years he has lived in the Ukiah country, the past winter has been the driest he has known. At pres- ent, Mr. Ellis says, there is no more water in the mountain streams than there usually is in June, However, he takes an optimistic view of the situation, believing that the late rains will PDNHXSWKHGH¿FLHQF\LQPRLVWXUHFDXVHGE\ the light snows. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 13, 1965 A Norway maple will be planted at the Pendleton swimming pool Monday in obser- vance of the 100th birthday of the First Na- tional Bank of Oregon. The bank is making similar presentations in other Oregon cities. More than 100 sugar maples are being planted along the capitol mall in Salem by the bank. Pendleton branch manager Robert McCurdy will make the presentation here at 2 p.m. Monday to Mayor Rudy Enbysk, city manag- er Mel Gardner and Schools Supt. Ellis Neal. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 13, 1990 A body found in a ditch east of Pendle- WRQ )ULGD\ KDV EHHQ WHQWDWLYHO\ LGHQWL¿HG DV that of a 76-year-old Boise taxidermist. Steve Fogelson, deputy district attorney in Umatil- la County, said authorities believe the man, Delbert Andrew Koll, was abducted from his Boise home and taxidermy business Feb. 2. The FBI opened a kidnapping case Feb. 7 in Boise after Koll was reported missing and still is involved in the investigation, Mike McPh- eters, FBI agent in Pendleton, said. Koll’s vehicle, a 1980 Chevrolet Caprice, was taken at the time of the abduction and has not been recovered, Fogelson said. 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 72nd day of 2015. There are 293 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 13, 1865, Confederate President Jef- ferson Davis signed a mea- sure allowing black slaves to enlist in the Confederate States Army with the prom- ise they would be set free. On this date: In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel. In 1845, Felix Mendels- sohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, had its pre- miere in Leipzig, Germany. In 1901, the 23rd Pres- ident of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis at age 67. In 1925, the Tennes- see General Assembly ap- proved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.) In 1933, banks in the STONE SOUP BIG NATE U.S. began to reopen after a “holiday” declared by Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1947, the Lerner and Loewe musical “Briga- doon,” about a Scottish vil- lage which magically reap- pears once every hundred years, opened on Broadway. In 1954, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu began during the First Indochina War as communist forces attacked French troops, who were defeated nearly two months later. In 1975 WKH ¿UVW &KLOL¶V restaurant was opened in Dallas by entrepreneur Lar- ry Lavine. In 1980, Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Indiana, found the company not guilty of reck- OHVV KRPLFLGH LQ WKH ¿HU\ deaths of three young wom- en in a Ford Pinto. In 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the name Francis. Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 90. Country singer Jan How- ard is 85. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 82. Singer-song- writer Neil Sedaka is 76. Op- era singer Julia Migenes is 66. Actor William H. Macy is 65. Comedian Robin Duke is 61. Actress Glenne Headly is 60. Actress Dana Delany is 59. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 55. Jazz mu- sician Terence Blanchard is 53. Actor Christopher Collet is 47. Rock musician Matt McDonough (Mudvayne) is 46. Actress Annabeth Gish is 44. Actress Tracy Wells is 44. Rapper-actor Common is 43. Rapper Khujo (Good- ie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 43. Singer Glenn Lewis is 40. Actor Danny Masterson is 39. Actor Noel Fisher is 31. Singers Natalie and Nicole Albino (Nina Sky) are 29. Thought for Today: “Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.” — Friedrich von Schiller, German author (1759-1805). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE