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East Oregonian
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
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FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I am a 28-year-old
believe Matt has told his mom or
woman who has decided, after 11
his siblings yet. He’s quickly losing
years and 50-plus partners, to become
friends over this awkward situation.
celibate. A couple of friends have
I’m usually of the mindset to “live
attempted to get me to break my vow.
and let live,” but here I am tested. It
These men know how they make me
feels creepy. What is the proper way to
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handle this? — Uneasy In California
stay away from them. Although I have
Dear Uneasy: Handle this by
stopped spending time with them, I
withholding judgment and waiting
Jeanne
still feel the urge to be with them.
Phillips to see how the romance plays out.
So, do you have any advice on how
Matt may look 16, but at 21 he’s an
Advice
to stay strong? It’s been one month,
adult and capable of making his own
and I plan on staying this way until I
decisions about his love life without
get married. — Trying To Stay Celibate
“help” from his father’s girlfriend. Matt’s lady
Dear Trying: Old habits are hard to break, friend may be a very young 50 and Matt may
but as you already know, it can be done. An be a mature 21. Having met neither of them,
effective way to do that is to replace the habit I can’t judge. And neither should you, so stay
you’re trying to change with some other RXW RI WKH OLQH RI ¿UH RU WKH URPDQFH WKDW
activity. Right now, it’s important for you stay suffers may be your own.
busy.
Dear Abby: Last week a girl I knew in
Consider increasing the amount of exercise high school 10 years ago had a surprise baby.
you do each day, doing projects around your She went to the ER with stomach cramps and
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what you’re “missing.” This is not to say that “emergency baby shower.”
your sex drive will go away, but it will help
I rarely speak to this girl. Why should I be
you to better control it.
expected to get a baby shower gift for her? —
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just turned 21, but he looks 16. He has
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just announced that he’s moving in with a being given because your old high school
50-year-old woman — the mother of a friend chum needs things for the child she wasn’t
of his.
expecting but who arrived anyway. Should
I feel very uncomfortable about the idea you be “expected” to provide a gift? No. But
of welcoming her into my home and making if you did, it would be both generous and kind
conversation as if they are a normal couple. of you, and I can guarantee that it would be
His father and I are the woman’s age. I don’t sincerely appreciated.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
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Nov. 18, 1915
The funeral of former Chief of Police John
Kearney, who took his life yesterday afternoon
by shooting himself, will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 in the Brown chapel and
interment will be made immediately afterward
in Olney cemetery. The former chief before he
committed his rash act wrote three notes. One
directed who ever found it to take the revolver
back to the “man who runs the little shop
back of Folsom’s,” the second was to Coroner
Brown asking him to give his body burial as
soon as possible and the third to his wife asked
her to forgive him for his rash act, stating that
ill health caused him to do it and adding, “You
have always been good to me.” Mrs. Kearney
states that her husband had been in ill health
for some time past and that for the past few
days had been irrational and out of his head
part of the time.
50 Years Ago
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Nov. 18, 1965
Controversy erupted Tuesday over more
than 10,000 acres of Morrow County land
near the Boardman Space Age Industrial Park
in Eastern Oregon. First, State Sen. Vernon
Cook, D-Troutdale, suggested in a statement
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of Land Management Director Russell Getty
might be stalling investigation of the land
development proposal. Cook said the Interim
Committee on Public Lands, of which he is vice
chairman, met over the weekend in Burns and
Lakeview and heard testimony concerning the
blocking together of isolated parcels of state-
owned grazing lands. But he said a motion to
call Getty and the Idaho BLM director in for
another meeting was defeated by Republican
members of the committee. He questioned
whether political strategy were the reason
another meeting had not been called. Gov.
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“either gross ignorance or a McCarthy-type
attempt to get political publicity.”
25 Years Ago
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Nov. 18, 1990
Heppner High School senior and student
body president Scott Johnston has been
climbing some steep steps — the ones that lead
to success. The latest sign that he’s headed in
the right direction was his recent selection as
the state’s 1990 Outstanding Student Leader
for schools the size of Heppner High School
— class 2A in Oregon’s system. He was
chosen from among 25 nominees by the Senate
Youth Program. The honor brought him a $500
scholarship, awarded by the William Randolph
Hearst Foundation. One student from each of
the four high school divisions received similar
honors, along with two from among Oregon
students who attended the Oregon Association
of Students Councils’ summer leadership
camp. A lifetime Heppner resident, Johnston is
the son of Rick and Susan Johnston.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
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BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 322nd day of
2015. There are 43 days left in
the year.
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On Nov. 18, 1865, Mark
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the original version of his
short story “The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras
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in the New York Saturday
Press under the title “Jim
Smiley and His Jumping
Frog.”
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In 1883, the United States
and Canada adopted a system
of Standard Time zones.
In 1886, the 21st president
of the United States, Chester
A. Arthur, died in New York.
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sound-synchronized animated
cartoon, “Steamboat Willie”
starring Mickey Mouse,
premiered in New York.
In 1936, Germany and
Italy recognized the Spanish
government of Francisco
Franco.
In 1942, “The Skin of
Our Teeth,” Thornton Wild-
er’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
allegory about the history
of humankind, opened on
Broadway.
In 1959, “Ben-Hur,” the
Biblical-era spectacle starring
Charlton Heston, had its
world premiere in New York.
In 1964, FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover described civil
rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr. as “the most noto-
rious liar in the country” for
allegedly accusing FBI agents
in Georgia of failing to act on
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King denied making such a
claim.
In 1985, the comic strip
“Calvin and Hobbes,” created
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published. (The strip ran for
10 years.)
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Actress Brenda Vaccaro is
76. Author-poet Margaret
Atwood is 76. Actress Linda
Evans is 73. Actress Susan
Sullivan is 73. Country singer
Jacky Ward is 69. Actor
Jameson Parker is 68. Actress-
singer Andrea Marcovicci is
67. Rock musician Herman
Rarebell is 66. Singer Graham
Parker is 65. Pro Football Hall
of Fame quarterback Warren
Moon is 59. Actor Oscar
Nunez is 57. Actress Elizabeth
Perkins is 55. Rock musician
Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
is 53. Actor Owen Wilson is
47. Actress Chloe Sevigny
is 41. Rapper Mike Jones is
35. Actress/comedian Nasim
Pedrad is 34. Actor Damon
Wayans Jr. is 33.
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“Few people can see genius
in someone who has offended
them.” — Robertson Davies,
Canadian author (1913-1995).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE