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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
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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