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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom with secret addiction is playing dangerous game FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m a 17-year-old girl every day. Yesterday I found out that DQG , FDXJKW P\ PRP VQLI¿QJ QDLO he had asked his sister to stay with me polish remover. She obviously doesn’t to “be there for me.” want me to know because she tries to I am furious. My sister-in-law is a hide it. nice woman, but we have never been I don’t know what to do. I don’t close. My house is a shambles (my know why she would want to do this. husband and I are both disabled, he It’s something people MY age would with peripheral artery disease and me do. I know better than to do that. after having been run over by a car) Jeanne Should I talk to her about it? She’ll Phillips because housework is painful for probably make up some excuse like me. So now, in addition to the stress Advice she likes the smell. She sometimes of taking cabs to see him, I have the tells me I need to grow up because I additional stress and pain of trying to can act silly. But honestly, SHE is the one who make the house presentable. needs to grow up. I know my husband meant well, but I I want to help her because I know what don’t want to go through this in front of an she’s doing is not good for her. But how? — audience. I feel angry and also guilty for Knows Her Secret In North Carolina being angry. Can you help me put all this into Dear Knows: Your mother may have perspective? — Stressed In New Jersey an acetone addiction. Because you can’t Dear Stressed: After spending a week in convince her to take your concerns seriously, an ICU, your husband may be having concerns tell another adult ASAP what’s going on — a about ever emerging. He may have suggested relative, your father if he’s in the picture, a his sister come because he was worried about teacher or counselor at school. how you would handle being alone. That you This kind of inhalant addiction is serious might be upset because your home isn’t ready because in high concentrations acetone is a to be featured in House Beautiful probably nervous system depressant. This means it didn’t enter his mind. can slow a person’s heartbeat, respiration However, now that she’s coming, be smart. and metabolism, causing a person to become Ask her to help you with the deferred house- dizzy, confused and pass out. It can also work so the place will be shipshape when damage the vital organs — the heart, liver, your husband is discharged. If, as you say, kidneys and the bone marrow — and cause you and your sister-in-law aren’t close, her cardiac arrest and death. stay with you may be shorter than planned. A support group for the children of addicts Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van such as Alateen could give you emotional Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and VXSSRUW7R¿QGRQHYLVLWDODQRQRUJ was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Dear Abby: My husband had a heart attack Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or a week ago and is still in the ICU. I visit him 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 29, 1915 Pendleton and Umatilla county have been drenched with the heaviest continual rain that has fallen for several years. At 2 o’clock this afternoon over three-quarters of an inch had fallen since the rain began sometime after 4 o’clock this morning and the precipitation was still continuing. The rain has been unusual for this county in that it has been unbroken since it began. It has been a cold rain, too, at inter- vals resembling a sleet storm. The rain here has been snow in the mountains and reports coming in indicated that the storm has been a hard one. At Meacham at noon six inches of snow was reported and at Cayuse, only 12 miles above Pendleton, there was two inches. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 29, 1965 'RXJODV .HQW +DUSHU RI +HOL[ ZRQ ¿UVW place in the statewide high school Law Day editorial contest sponsored by the Oregon 6WDWH%DU+DUSHU¶V¿UVWSODFHFKHFNIRU will be presented a special ceremony by the Law Day chairmen for the Sixth Judicial District Bar Association, James C. Walton and Michael S. Killoran of Pendleton. Harper is a junior at Griswold High. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harper of Helix. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 29, 1990 When Billy Turner tried on a sweater recently, a salesperson explained it was not only fashionable but the garment also had retractable poles and sleeps four in the summer. Heavyweight jokes like that PLJKW UXIÀH VRPH IHDWKHUV EXW WKH\ GRQ¶W irritate Turner. In fact, they’ve become his trademark. Turner, who tips the scales with about 400 pounds of stage presence, performs his original comedy routines for Pendleton audiences and just about anybody else willing to bust loose with a belly laugh. Turner openly admits that “oversized” humor plays a hefty role in his show and nobody is safe from his sometimes biting sense of humor. Turner’s success as a comedian began to snowball DERXW RQH \HDU DJR ZKHQ KH WRRN ¿UVW LQ D Tapadera Bar & Grill amateur comedy contest in Pendleton. Since then he has become a regular there and at the Pendleton Red Lion Inn and has been hired to entertain service clubs and social groups. 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 119th day of 2015. There are 246 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 29, 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp. Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun inside his “Fuhrerbunker” and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz president. On this date: In 1429, Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English. In 1798, Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” was rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an invited audience. In 1861, the Maryland House of Delegates voted 53-13 against seceding from the Union. In Montgomery, Alabama, President Jefferson Davis asked the Confederate Congress for the authority to wage war. In 1913, Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey, STONE SOUP BIG NATE received a U.S. patent for a “separable fastener” — later known as the zipper. In 1946, 28 former -DSDQHVH RI¿FLDOV ZHQW RQ trial in Tokyo as war crimi- nals; seven ended up being sentenced to death. In 1957, the SM-1, the ¿UVW PLOLWDU\ QXFOHDU SRZHU plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. In 1968, the counterculture musical “Hair” opened on Broadway following limited engagements off-Broadway. In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate. In 1983, Harold Wash- ington was sworn in as the ¿UVWEODFNPD\RURI&KLFDJR In 1992, rioting resulting in 55 deaths erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley, California, acquitted four Los Angeles police RI¿FHUV RI DOPRVW DOO VWDWH charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Keith Baxter is 82. Bluesman Otis Rush is 80. Conductor Zubin Mehta is 79. Disgraced ¿QDQFLHU %HUQDUG 0DGRII LV 77. Pop singer Bob Miranda (The Happenings) is 73. Country singer Duane Allen (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 72. Singer Tommy James is 68. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., is 65. Movie director Phillip Noyce is 65. Country musician Wayne Secrest (Confederate Rail- road) is 65. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 61. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 58. Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is 57. Actress Uma Thurman is 45. Tennis player Andre Agassi is 45. Rapper Master P is 45. Rock musician Mike Hogan (The Cranberries) is 42. Thought for Today: “An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” — Anatole France, French author and critic (1844-1924). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE