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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, January 5, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Grandma-to-be can’t muster enthusiasm she wants to feel FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My daughter-in-law, have welFomed my daughter into their “Eden,” is married to my daughter. home, and ditto for us and their Fhil- Eden is now Sregnant Yia arti¿Fial dren. Are we fools to walk away from insemination. I will never meet the suFh Fontentment and love" ² Heavy donor and know almost nothing about Decision In Pennsylvania him. Could this be why I don’t have Dear Heavy Decision: If you and the enthusiasm Ior this SregnanFy that your friends are Flose for reasons other I should have, sinFe the baby will be than geography and FonvenienFe, your my ¿rst grandFhild" relationship with them should be a Jeanne I Ieel guilty that I’m not e[Fited. Phillips lasting one. However, your daughter’s I’m wondering iI it’s beFause there eduFation should Fome ¿rst, and if Advice is no blood FonneFtion, but neither they are true friends, they will under- would there be if the baby were stand why you are making the move. adoSted. Eden is due in a month. :e live Flose Dear Abby: As someone on a seFond by, and I need to generate some enthusiasm. marriage, may I point something out to your $ny suggestions" ² Grandma-In-Waiting readers" An engagement is not marriage. Dear Grandma: Yes. Start by doing all the People need to take a hard look at the person things you would if you :E5E e[Fited about they are Fhoosing to spend the rest of their this grandFhild. %e as SartiFiSatory as your lives with, and understand that they Fannot daughter and daughter-in-law will allow. If Fhange another person. Red Àags should be you do, while I Fan’t guarantee that you will addressed DURING THE ENGAGEMENT. feel a bond with the baby, your FhanFes of That little annoyanFe will grow and has the forming one will be greater. And please stop potential to blossom into a huge issue. feeling guilty. Relationships take time to build, Counseling Fan be wonderfully useful, and this is no e[Feption. but bear in mind it Fan take several tries to Dear Abby: My husband and I are faFing ¿nd a Founselor who FliFks with you. Take a big deFision: whether to move to a better it from me, divorFe is horrible and Fan Fause sFhool distriFt for our daughter. The one we’re damage that Fan never really be undone. ² in doesn’t rate high, and yes, we Fan afford to Experienced In Tennessee move to a more elite area. So what is holding Dear Experienced: You’re right; prob- us baFk" Our wonderful neighbors lems don’t solve themselves, and people in They are our best friends. Our husbands are love don’t always think rationally. However, Flose, and it’s the same with our kids ² even I hope they will pay attention to your e[Fel- the dogs. :e vaFation together and take turns lent adviFe beFause I Fouldn’t have said it Farpooling to sFhool in the mornings. They better myself. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 4-5, 1916 Pendleton e[perienFed her Foldest night in four years last night when the merFury sank to one degree below ]ero. The of¿Fial reFords show no suFh minimum sinFe the night of January 7, 1912, when 10 below was registered. The temperature was lower during the fore part of the night last night. At 10:30 the merFury was only half a degree above ]ero and the Foldest part of the night was about midnight. During the morning hours the skies Flouded over and the temperature rose. Many water pipes were frozen last night and the plumbers are having a busy time of it today. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 4-5, 1966 Umatilla County’s ¿rst traf¿F fatality of 1966 was a freakish affair that Fost the life of a %oise, Idaho, man and left Highway 30 east of Pendleton strewn with 55-foot house trailers. %enton A. .idder, 30, was Frushed to death when a terri¿F gust of wind toppled the truFk and 55-foot mobile home he was pulling as he drove down the highway. The mishap oFFurred near the weighing station about six miles east of here at 3:50 p.m. The gusts THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN were later estimated to be between 60 and 70 miles an hour. As state poliFe and wreFking Frews were trying to Flear the sFene, two more mobile home transports Fame along and stopped to lend assistanFe. :inds smaFked into the parked rigs and turned them over into the barrow pit. %oth drivers were out of the rigs at the time and no one was hurt. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 4-5, 1991 Freezing rain and drizzle Thursday turned Interstate into an iFe rink for skating Fars and truFks, resulting in more than a dozen aFFi- dents west of town. Only one serious injury was reported Thursday by state poliFe, who assisted travelers, handed out aFFident reports and Falled for tow truFks. The initial aFFident involved three Spanish-speaking seminary students on their way from Hermiston to %lue Mountain Community College, where they are studying English. Alberto Restripo, 34, and Leonardo Diaz, 28, both of Midallin, Columbia, and Enrique Martinez, 30, of Chihuahua, MexiFo, were taken by ambulanFe to St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton. Restripo and Martinez were treated and released, but Diaz underwent surgery for laFerations to his spleen, broken ribs and injuries to an ankle. Today is the ¿fth day of 2016. There are 361 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 5, 1066, Edward the Confessor, .ing of England sinFe 1042, died after a reign of nearly 24 years. On this date: In 1781, a %ritish naval expedition led by %enediFt Arnold burned RiFhmond, Virginia. In 1895, FrenFh Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, FonviFted of treason, was publiFly stripped of his rank. (He was ultimately vindiFated. In 1905, the National AssoFiation of Audubon SoFieties for the ProteFtion of :ild %irds and Animals was inForporated in New York State. In 1914, auto industrialist Henry Ford announFed he was going to pay workers $5 for an 8-hour day, as opposed to $2.34 for a 9-hour day. (Employees still worked six days a week; the 5-day work week was instituted in 1926. In 1925, DemoFrat Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming took of¿Fe as AmeriFa’s ¿rst female governor, suFFeeding her late husband, William, following a speFial eleFtion. In 1933, the 30th pres- ident of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, died in Northampton, MassaFhu- setts, at age 60. ConstruF- tion began on the Golden Gate %ridge. (Work was Fompleted four years later. In 1949, in his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his administration the Fair Deal. In 1953, the Samuel %eFkett play “Waiting for Godot” premiered in Paris. In 1964, during a visit to the Holy Land, Pope Paul VI met with PatriarFh Athenag- oras I of Constantinople in Jerusalem. In 1970, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuFFessful Fandidate for the presi- denFy of the United Mine Workers of AmeriFa, was found murdered with his wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pennsylvania, home. (UMWA President Tony %oyle and seven others were FonviFted of, or pleaded guilty to, the killings. Today’s Birthdays: Former ViFe President Walter F. Mondale is 88. AFtor Robert Duvall is 85. Juan Carlos, former .ing of Spain, is 78. Singer-musiFian Athol Guy (The Seekers is 76. Talk show host Charlie Rose is 74. AFtress-direFtor Diane .eaton is 70. AFtor Ted Lange is 68. Rhythm- and-blues musiFian George “Funky” %rown (.ool and the Gang is 67. RoFk musi- Fian Chris Stein (%londie is 66. Former CIA DireFtor George Tenet is 63. AFtress Pamela Sue Martin is 63. AFtor ClanFy %rown is 57. Singer Iris Dement is 55. AFtress Suzy Amis is 54. AFtor Vinnie Jones is 51. RoFk musiFian Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age is 48. RoFk singer Marilyn Manson is 47. AFtor Derek CeFil (TV: “House of Cards”; “Treme” is 43. AFtor %radley Cooper is 41. AFtress January Jones is 38. Thought for Today: “It is easy to be tolerant of the prinFiples of other people if you have none of your own.” ² Herbert Samuel, English political leader (1870-1963). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
