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Thursday, April 16, 2015 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Girl’s embarrassment is signal it’s time for a shaving lesson FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband and I thinks I don’t know who she is. are having a disagreement about one $W ¿UVW , GLGQ¶W ZDQW WR VD\ DQ\- of our daughters (we have three). Our thing to her, but now it has really got- 8-year-old is very hairy. It is notice- ten to me. What can I tell her the next able, and she doesn’t like wearing time she meets up with me? I want shorts, skirts or dresses because of it. to keep myself from yelling at her. Her classmates tease her about it. Please help me. — Can’t Find The I want to teach her how to shave Words In Houston her legs or show her how to use hair Dear Can’t: You don’t know Jeanne remover. Her father is angry that I Phillips whether the woman your ex cheated want to “do this” to his little girl. with is stable or some kind of wing Advice I was a hairy child as well, and I nut. Sometimes it’s safer not to be able was teased about my hairy legs and WR³¿QGWKHZRUGV´UDWKHUWKDQSLFND my unibrow, which my parents wouldn’t let ¿JKW0\DGYLFHLVWRDYRLGKHUDVPXFKDV me shave or pluck. I remember how painful possible. it was, how upset it made me and how differ- Dear Abby: I recently took a long inter- ent I felt from my classmates because of it. I QDWLRQDO ÀLJKW 7KH PDQ VLWWLQJ QH[W WR PH told myself as a child that when I grew up, FRXJKHGGXULQJWKHHLJKWKRXUÀLJKWZLWKRXW I’d never let my daughter go through the same once covering his mouth. torment. I still feel that way. What is a polite way to tell someone to Should we wait a few more years, or cover his/her mouth when coughing? Two should I buy the products I need and teach her days into my trip, I developed a fever and a what she’ll be doing for the rest of her life? — bad cough, so it seems he passed his illness on Hairy Situation In Arizona to me. — Feverish Flier Dear H.S.: Your husband may mean well, Dear Flier: Your seat partner showed an but he may not realize what being the object extreme lack of consideration not only for of ridicule can do to a little girl’s self-esteem. you, but also for other passengers seated in his You’re that child’s mother, and you know immediate vicinity — and it’s very possible what to do — so do it. Sometimes girls have he infected others besides you. It is not impo- to stick together, and this is one of them. lite to ASK people who cough and sneeze to Dear Abby: After 26 years of marriage, I please cover their mouth so you won’t catch recently left my husband. We live only a few what they have, and that’s what you should blocks away from each other, so we run into have done right away, or ask to change your each other often at the store, the gas station, seat if an unoccupied one was available. everywhere. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu- My problem is more about running into ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was some of the women he cheated on me with. founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. One of them always ends up at the same shop- Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com ping center or restaurant I happen to be at. She 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 April 16, 1915 Though it is pretty well established that the assailant of Hellwig Breding early Sunday morning at German Hall was a young man named Mark Whattam, the grand jury, when it made its report this morning, did not return an indictment against him for the reason that there is yet much confusion about that matter. However, the testimony of the important wit- QHVVHVZDVZULWWHQGRZQDQG¿OHGVRWKDWLW may be used later, either against the accused himself or against some of the witnesses who showed a singular inability to remember clearly or to make contrary statements. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 16, 1965 Charles R. Girton, a pioneer of Umatilla county, celebrated his 90th birthday in Mil- ton-Freewater Sunday. “This is the best part of life,” states Mr. Girton, as he recalls when WKHIDPLO\¿UVWPRYHGIURP2KLRWR$WZRRG Kan., to homestead in that area for a few years. When he was 13 years old the family joined up with a 13-family wagon train and journeyed to the Oregon country. They left Atwood on June 12, 1888, and arrived in the frontier town of Pendleton on Sept. 5th, 1888. The family then homesteaded south of Pendleton and it was there that he met and married Edith Warner. The Girtons had sev- en children. Except for eight years living in Dalton, Idaho, he has lived nearly 70 years in Umatilla county. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 16, 1990 &ULWLFVVD\WKH3HQGOHWRQ$UPRU\ÀRRULV hard on athletes because it’s just too hard, EXW D UHSODFHPHQW ÀRRU KDV VOLSSHG WR WKH bottom of priorities in a scheduled $2 mil- lion remodeling of the building. Work should begin this summer in a project to convert the nearly 40-year-old National Guard facility to a convention center, Pendleton city manager -RQ1HOVRQVDLG%XWWKHEXLOGLQJ¶VJ\PÀRRU home to Pendleton High School boys and girls basketball teams and the state Class A high school basketball tournament, probably will see duty a little longer, he said. The cost IRU D SRUWDEOH ÀRRU DQG DVVRFLDWHG VWRUDJH the cheapest of several alternative suggested by architects, would probably be between $80,000 and $100,000, Nelson 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 106th day of 2015. There are 259 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 16, 1945, during World War II, a Soviet sub- marine in the Baltic Sea torpe- doed and sank the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it’s es- timated that up to 7,000 peo- ple died. U.S. troops reached Nuremberg. U.S. forces in- vaded the Japanese island of ,H6KLPD,QKLV¿UVWVSHHFKWR Congress, President Harry S. Truman pledged to carry out the war and peace policies of his late predecessor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On this date: In 1789, President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia, for his inauguration in New York. In 1879, Bernadette Soubirous, who’d described seeing visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, died in Nevers, France. In 1889, comedian and STONE SOUP BIG NATE movie director Charles Chap- lin was born in London. In 1912, American avia- tor Harriet Quimby became WKH¿UVWZRPDQWRÀ\DFURVV the English Channel, leaving Dover, England, and arriv- ing near Calais, France, in 59 minutes. In 1935, the radio comedy program “Fibber McGee and Molly” premiered on NBC’s Blue Network. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in which he said, “Injustice any- where is a threat to justice ev- erywhere.” In 1986, dispelling rumors he was dead, Libyan leader 0RDPPDU *DGKD¿ DSSHDUHG on television to condemn the U.S. raid on his country and to say that Libyans were “ready to die” defending their nation. In 2007, in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, student Seung- Hui Cho killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life. Today’s Birthdays: Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI is 88. Actor Peter Mark Richman is 88. Singer Bob- by Vinton is 80. Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II is 75. Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 68. Ann Romney is 66. NFL coach Bill Belichick is 63. Rock singer and former poli- tician Peter Garrett is 62. Ac- tress Ellen Barkin is 61. Rock musician Jason Scheff (Chi- cago) is 53. Singer Jimmy Osmond is 52. Rock singer David Pirner (Soul Asylum) is 51. Actor-comedian Mar- tin Lawrence is 50. Actor Jon Cryer is 50. Rock musician Dan Rieser is 49. Actor Peter Billingsley is 44. Actor Lu- kas Haas is 39. Figure skater Mirai Nagasu is 22. Thought for Today: “The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.” — Russell Lynes, American writer (1910- 1991). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
