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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, January 1, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ New year is opportunity to set a fresh course for the future FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS Dear Readers: It’s 2016! A new I’ll quit. If I am overweight, I will eat year has arrived, bringing with it our healthfully -- if only just for today. chance for a new beginning. And not only that, I will get off the Today is the day we have an couch and take a brisk walk, even if opportunity to discard destructive it’s only around the block. Just for today: I will gather the old habits for healthy new ones, and courage to do what is right and take with that in mind, I will share Dear responsibility for my own actions. Abby’s often-requested list of New And now, Dear Readers, I would Year’s Resolutions -- which were Jeanne adapted by my late mother, Pauline Phillips like to share an item that was sent to me by L.J. Bhatia, a reader from Phillips, from the original credo of Advice New Delhi, India: Al-Anon: Dear Abby: This year, no resolu- Just for today: I will live through this day only. I will not brood about tions, only some guidelines. The Holy Vedas yesterday or obsess about tomorrow. I will say, “Man has subjected himself to thou- not set far-reaching goals or try to overcome sands of self-inÀicted bondages. :isdom comes to a man who lives according to the all of my problems at once. I know that I can do something for 24 true eternal laws of nature.” The prayer of St. Francis (of which there hours that would overwhelm me if I had to are several versions) contains a powerful keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today: I will be happy. I will message: Lord, make me an instrument of your not dwell on thoughts that depress me. If my mind ¿lls with clouds, I will chase them peace; :here there is hatred, let me sow love; away and ¿ll it with sunshine. :here there is injury, pardon; Just for today: I will accept what is. I :here there is doubt, faith; will face reality. I will correct those things :here there is despair, hope; that I can correct and accept those I cannot. :here there is darkness, light; Just for today: I will improve my mind. And where there is sadness, joy. I will read something that requires effort, O Divine Master, thought and concentration. I will not be a Grant that I may not so much seek to be mental loafer. Just for today: I will make a conscious consoled as to console; To be understood, as to understand; effort to be agreeable. I will be kind and To be loved, as to love; courteous to those who cross my path, and For it is in giving that we receive, I’ll not speak ill of others. I will improve my It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, appearance, speak softly, and not interrupt And it is in dying that we are born to when someone else is talking. Just for today, I will refrain from eternal life. And so, Dear Readers, may this new year improving anybody but myself. Just for today: I will do something posi- bring with it good health, peace and joy to tive to improve my health. If I’m a smoker, all of you. — Love, Abby DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 1, 1916 :ith the big bon¿re at the high school still blazing brightly, with the blowing of whistles, ringing of bells, shots from ¿rearms and shouts of the hilarious, near-hilarious and the enthusiastic sober, the year 1915 passed into history in Pendleton at midnight last night and the year 1916 made its advent. Despite the fact that the state changed from the wet to the dry column with the beginning of the new year, there was no more disorder on the streets last night than on the ordinary New Year’s eve. A great many drank away the last hours of the wet year and many became drunk but little “rough stuff” was in evidence. Only nineteen arrest were made by the police though others, getting under the inÀuence of liquor, were given a kindly steer toward home. Chief Manning states that he has seen some Saturday nights almost as disorderly as last night. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 1, 1966 The new year was just three hours old when 8matilla County’s ¿rst 1966 baby arrived. He is an 8 pound, 6 ounce boy, born to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gambill, Pendleton. Named Brent McGowan, the New Year’s baby joins three brothers. Hospital atten- dants at Pendleton Community Hospital, where the event took place, report that the infant’s father had hoped he’d arrive before midnight. He wanted the tax deduction. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 1, 1991 One year after the Columbia Ridge Land- ¿ll opened in a canyon south of Arlington, Gilliam County has 75 new jobs that pay more than $30,000 a year. Another 35 jobs are expected next year in a county of 2,000 residents — Oregon’s second smallest — as garbage shipments hit full steam from Port- land and Seattle. Gilliam County typically has one of Oregon’s lowest unemployment rates. A year ago the rate stood at 4 percent; today it is 3 percent. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 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 ¿rst day of leap year 2016. There are 365 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 1, 1863, Pres- ident Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.” On this date: In 1660, Englishman Samuel Pepys (peeps) began keeping his famous diary. In 1913, the U.S. Parcel Post system went into oper- ation. In 1935, The Associated Press inaugurated :ire- photo, the ¿rst successful service for transmitting photographs by wire to member newspapers. In 1945, France was admitted to the United Nations. In 1953, country singer Hank :illiams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car during a stop in Oak Hill, :est Virginia, while he was being driven to a concert date in Canton, Ohio. In 1959, Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who Àed to the Dominican Republic. In 1975, a jury in :ashington found Nixon administration of¿cials John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to the :ater- gate cover-up (Mardian’s conviction for conspiracy was later overturned on appeal). In 1984, the breakup of AT&T took place as the tele- communications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement. In 1995, the :orld Trade Organization (:TO) came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Sweden, Finland and Austria joined the European Union. In 2014, the nation’s ¿rst legal recreational pot shops opened in Colorado at 8 a.m. Mountain time. Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., is 94. Actor Ty Hardin is 86. Documentary maker Frederick :iseman is 86. Actor Frank Langella is 78. Rock singer-musician Country Joe McDonald is 74. :riter-comedian Don Novello is 73. Actor Rick Hurst is 70. Country singer Steve Ripley (The Tractors) is 66. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is 62. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, is 60. Rapper Grandmaster Flash is 58. Actress Ren :oods is 58. Actress Dedee Pfeiffer is 52. Actress Embeth Davidtz is 50. Country singer Brian Flynn (Flynnville Train) is 50. Actor Morris Chestnut is 47. Actor Verne Troyer is 47. Elin Nordegren is 36. Actor Jonas Armstrong (Film: “:alking :ith the Enemy”; “Edge of Tomorrow”; TV: “Robin Hood”) is 35. Thought for Today: “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.” — Author unknown. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
