Tuesday, November 17, 2015
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Moving to the desert makes
woman thirst for former life
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
I don’t believe she has the right to ask
Dear Abby: Last year my boyfriend
for the necklace. Does she? — Blue In
and I moved across the country to
Tennessee
Arizona so he could be closer to his
Dear Blue: Because you are no
friends and family. My entire family
longer speaking, I can understand why
lives on the East Coast.
your sister might want her son’s ashes
Recently it seems like our plan to
back. Be a lady; return the necklace to
marry and start a family keeps getting
her via registered mail or have your
pushed further and further into the
stepmother give it to her. It’s regret-
future. I’m 35; he’s 47. Neither of us
Jeanne
has been married or has kids.
Phillips table that your relationship with your
sister has sunk to this level. Because
I’m beginning to regret having
Advice
this was no ordinary gift, understand
uprooted my life for someone who
that if you refuse to return it, your rela-
is unilaterally changing the timing of
what I thought we both wanted. How long tionship with your sister will be permanently
should I wait before cutting my losses and fractured.
Dear Abby: So many of your letters involve
moving closer to the people I care for and who
people having dif¿culty communicating with
miss me? — Alone In The Desert
Dear Alone: If you haven’t already, it’s time others. Here’s a safe, honest, straightforward
to have a conversation with your boyfriend technique for targeting the behavior, sharing
about what your expectations were when you feelings and explaining the reasons for those
made the move to Arizona. If you want to have feelings. It is called an “I-Statement” and has
children, you will be getting a late start as it is. three parts: (1) “When you ...” (2) “I feel/felt
Ask him why he wants to postpone your ...” (3) “Because ...”
I-Statements can be used for the sharing
wedding plans beyond what you had agreed
upon. He may have cold feet, his friends or of any and all feelings by kids, teens and
relatives may have said they don’t care for adults. Feelings are valid because they are
you — anything is possible. But you deserve our honest emotions. In addition to giving
straight answers, and if they aren’t satisfactory, positive strokes to one another, people can
I see no reason to devote more time to a rela- learn to better understand each other and have
whole, complete and satisfying resolutions
tionship that isn’t working out.
Dear Abby: Seven years ago my sister’s to problems. Try it! — School Psychologist
19-year-old son was killed in a car accident. (Retired) In Ohio
Dear Psychologist: I will! When I received
After the wake she gave me a heart necklace
with some of his ashes. We no longer speak your suggestion about improving communica-
tion, I felt grateful that you took the time to
and haven’t for four years.
Well, did I get a shock today. I received an share it because it was not only generous of
email from her asking for it back! She even you but also may be helpful to many of my
had my stepmom repeat that message to me. readers. Thank you for sending it.
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
Nov. 16-17, 1915
Boardman is the name of the new town site
at the junction of the Coyote cutoff, 30 miles
below Hermiston. The county surveyor was
staking the site today and it will be platted
by S.H. Boardman, E.P. Dodd and Wm.
Kennedy. The site consists of 55 acres of the
Boardman homestead on the Columbia river.
A four thousand dollar depot is now contem-
plated and will be used in transferring freight
by the O.-W. R. & N. and the Spokane branch.
A hotel with livery in connection is now under
consideration, work to begin on the new
structure as soon as details can be arranged
by Mr. Boardman with the contractors for the
hotel. Immediately surrounding the town site
is 1000 acres of government land while an
additional 8000 is under the newly built canal
of the west extension of the Umatilla project.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 16-17, 1965
Dick Wilkinson, a second generation
farmer of south Morrow County, was honored
at the Farm-City and Livestock Growers
banquet at Heppner High School Saturday
night as 1965 Morrow County Cattleman of
the Year. Wilkinson operates the ranch south
of Heppner on Willow Creek which his father,
Frank, purchased in 1921. The place was at
¿rst only 2,400 acres. Expansion since its
purchase has increased the size to 25,000
acres of deeded land, either owned or leased.
The ranch extends up Willow Creek from
two miles outside the city limits of Heppner
to Cutsforth Park. Another branch extends
up Skinner Creek to the top of the mountain.
Recent purchases carry the operation across
the hills from Willow Creek to Hinton Creek.
There are 20 pastures on the place and about
as many farm ponds. The operation is such
that cattle can be taken to summer high
pasture without leaving the ranch.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 16-17, 1990
Faith Presbyterian Church of Hermiston
will celebrate its 10th anniversary during the
10:30 a.m. service Sunday. A brunch will
follow in the church’s Fellowship Room. The
church organized on Nov. 16, 1980, with 47
charter members and the Rev. William Russell
as organizing pastor. Worship for Faith Pres-
byterian has been in the Seventh-day Adven-
tist Church and the American Legion Hall. In
1986, guided by the Rev. William Ratz, the
congregation purchased the Nazarene church
building at Seventh and West Orchard. Muriel
Brown now serves as the church’s interim
pastor.
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 321st day of
2015. There are 44 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 17, 1558,
Elizabeth I acceded to the
English throne upon the
death of her half-sister,
Queen Mary, beginning
a 44-year reign.
On this date:
In 1800, Congress held its
¿rst session in Washington
in the partially completed
Capitol building.
In 1869, the Suez Canal
opened in Egypt.
In 1889, the Union
Paci¿c Railroad Co. began
direct, daily railroad service
between
Chicago
and
Portland, Oregon, as well as
Chicago and San Francisco.
In 1917, French sculptor
Auguste Rodin died in
Meudon at age 77.
In 1925, actor Rock
Hudson was born Roy Harold
Scherer Jr. in Winnetka,
Illinois.
In 1934, Lyndon Baines
Johnson married Claudia
Alta Taylor, better known as
Lady Bird, in San Antonio,
Texas.
In 1947, President Harry
S. Truman, in an address to a
special session of Congress,
called for emergency aid to
Austria, Italy and France.
(The aid was approved the
following month.)
In 1968, NBC outraged
football fans by cutting away
from the closing minutes of
a New York Jets-Oakland
Raiders game to begin
the TV special “Heidi” on
schedule. (After being taken
off the air, the Raiders came
from behind to beat the Jets,
43-32.)
In
1973,
President
Richard Nixon told Associ-
ated Press managing editors
in Orlando, Florida: “People
have got to know whether or
not their president is a crook.
Well, I’m not a crook.”
Today’s Birthdays: Sen.
James Inhofe, R-Okla., is 81.
Rock musician Gerry McGee
(The Ventures) is 78. Singer
Gordon Lightfoot is 77. Movie
director Martin Scorsese is 73.
Actress Lauren Hutton is 72.
Actor-director Danny DeVito
is 71. “Saturday Night Live”
producer Lorne Michaels
is 71. Former Democratic
National Chairman Howard
Dean is 67. Former House
Speaker
John
Boehner
(BAY’-nur) is 66. Actor
William Moses is 56. Enter-
tainer RuPaul is 55. National
Security Adviser Susan Rice
is 51. Rock musician Ben
Wilson (Blues Traveler) is
48. Actress Rachel McAdams
is 37. Rock musician Isaac
Hanson (Hanson) is 35.
Thought for Today:
“Since others have to tolerate
my weaknesses, it is only fair
that I should tolerate theirs.”
— William Allen White,
American journalist (1868-
1944).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE