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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, September 8, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom’s surprise pregnancy is not pleasant one for her girls FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am 44 and my accident a few months ago and her car husband of 20 years is 48. On a recent was totaled. Since then, my husband second honeymoon trip to Sweden, I takes her food shopping and wherever became pregnant. We already have else she has to go. She has made no two beautiful, intelligent daughters, effort to buy a new car. She’s content 17 and 14. One started university this with calling him for every need. fall while the other’s a high school She wasn’t injured and she isn’t sophomore. disabled. If she doesn’t want to do My problem is not so much the something, her excuse is, “I’m an old Jeanne high-risk pregnancy, but rather that Phillips lady. I can’t do it.” It’s annoying. She both of my girls strongly oppose the doesn’t come visit or call to check on Advice idea of us keeping the baby. Not only us. She makes us feel like our family were they not thrilled when I broke the has to do everything for her — while news to them, but they also cried. she claims she’s “independent.” My younger daughter is now giving me This has been an issue for a while and the cold shoulder. She doesn’t like change and I’m sick of it. I suggested she do her grocery thinks having a sibling will disrupt our life. shopping online and have it delivered to her My older girl said she is glad she will be at the house. Once again, she gave the same excuse. university so she won’t have to have anything I think she needs a man so I can have my to do with the baby. husband back. What do you think? — Over It I am deeply hurt by their reactions. I need In Philadelphia help to talk to them. Please give me some Dear Over It: From the tone of your last advice. — Expecting In Canada remark it’s clear you and your mother-in-law Dear Expecting: Far more important aren’t close and probably never were. Phila- than how your immature and self-centered delphia has a very large transit system. Surely daughters feel about your pregnancy is how there is alternate transportation for her — you and your husband feel about it. Teenagers buses, taxis, Uber and Lyft come to mind. If don’t like to consider their parents as sexual she was so traumatized by the accident that beings, which may be part of the reason for she’s afraid to get behind the wheel again, she their reaction. may need a therapist to overcome it. Not knowing your girls, I’m not sure what Whatever the reason, this won’t stop until they need to hear other than you love them and you and your husband quit enabling her. Give hope at some point they will become mature her a list of what’s available and “suggest” she enough to accept the situation. But do not use it the next time she calls wanting a ride. If allow them to put you on the defensive. You she needs groceries, offer to order them online don’t owe them an apology. As a matter of for her yourself if she isn’t computer literate. fact, they owe you and their father one. And your husband should also offer to help Dear Abby: My mother-in-law was in a car KHU¿QGDQHZFDU 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 Sept. 7-8, 1915 Coleman Gray, G.W. Raymond and Ralph Peale are today again inmates of the Umatilla county jail after nine days of liberty in the mountains during which time they led Sheriff Taylor and Deputy J.H. Estes a merry chase. But the persistence of the RI¿FHUV DQG WKH WKRURXJKQHVV ZLWK ZKLFK they had spread their nets proved in the end too much for the fugitives and they frankly acknowledged themselves outpointed in the chase. “Greyhounds ain’t got nothing on you guys” was the way Gray expressed it. Sheriff Taylor and Fayette Mettle, the man robbed of his gun and provisions Saturday, made the capture of the three men, Deputy Sheriff Estes having returned to Lehman springs yesterday to secure the bloodhound sent out by Deputy Sheriff Blakely. Good fortune smiled upon the pursuers for they came up to the fugitives at the exact moment to make capture the most easy. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 7-8, 1915 Christopher Darrell Mecham, 24, bartender at Shakey’s Pizza Parlor, was in St. Anthony Hospital today recovering from a stab wound in the chest that narrowly PLVVHGKLVKHDUWDQGRI¿FHUVKDGDPDQLQ custody charged with assault with intent to commit murder. The man in the Umatilla County jail, arrested by city policemen Argel Collinsworth and J.H. Brown, deputy sheriff, at Albertson’s parking lot about midnight last night, was Lee Edgar Collins, 43, transient who reportedly once called Harlan County, Kentucky, his home. Collins, according WR RI¿FHUV FDPH KHUH ZLWK WKH FDUQLYDO LQ August and then remained in Pendleton. Police Chief Ernest Gallaher said Mecham was stabbed shortly before 11 p.m. Monday by a man who approached him as he was tending bar, tried to get him to come outside for a talk, and then reached across the bar, stabbing him with some weapon not yet GH¿QLWHO\GHWHUPLQHG,QYHVWLJDWLRQUHVXOWHG in reports that the two men had had angry words at an earlier date, and one man ques- WLRQHGWROGRI¿FHUV&ROOLQVKDGWKUHDWHQHGWR kill Mecham. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 7-8, 1915 Miguel Marin retraced his steps from Spain to Pendleton 17 years after he was an American Field Service exchange student here. Marin is visiting his former host parents, Tom and Vera Simonton, for about 10 days. He said he will be disappointed to miss Round-Up. In 1972, he had a small role in the Happy Canyon Pageant thanks to the Simontons. He walked on stage as part of a family. He must leave Pendleton Saturday to return to his job as general secretary (or manager) of a private “social work” insti- tution. His company serves the homeless and minorities, for example. He lives in Zaragoza, a city of 600,000 in northeastern Spain between Madrid and Barcelona. 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 251st day of 2015. There are 114 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 8, 1935, Sen. Huey P. Long, D-La., was shot and mortally wounded inside the Louisiana State Capitol; he died two days later. (The assailant was LGHQWL¿HGDV'U&DUO:HLVV who was gunned down by Long’s bodyguards.) On this date: In 1565, a Spanish expedition established the ¿UVW SHUPDQHQW (XURSHDQ settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Florida. In 1761, Britain’s King George III married Princess Charlotte of Mecklen- burg-Strelitz a few hours DIWHUPHHWLQJKHUIRUWKH¿UVW STONE SOUP BIG NATE time. In 1892, an early version of “The Pledge of Alle- giance,” written by Francis Bellamy, appeared in “The Youth’s Companion.” In 1900, Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurri- cane that killed an estimated 8,000 people. In 1921, Margaret Gorman, 16, of Washington, '& ZDV FURZQHG WKH ¿UVW “Miss America” in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1954, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was founded in Manila by the United States, France, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan. In 1966 WKH VFLHQFH¿F- tion TV series “Star Trek” premiered on NBC. Today’s Birthdays: Ventriloquist Willie Tyler is 75. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is 74. Actor Alan Feinstein is 74. Pop singer Sal Valentino (The Beau Brummels) is 73. Author Ann Beattie is 68. Musician Will Lee is 63. Singer Aimee Mann is 55. Pop musician David Steele (Fine Young Cannibals) is 55. Alternative country singer Neko Case is 45. Actor David Arquette is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Pink is 36. Singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson is 35. Actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas is 34. Rapper Wiz Khalifa is 28. Thought for Today: “We shall seek the truth and endure the consequences.” — Charles Seymour, Amer- ican educator and historian (1884-1963). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE