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Tuesday, January 12, 2016 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Father ignoring gum disease needs a good chewing-out FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE before it causes lasting damage to the Dear Abby: My husband has next generation. developed a bad case of periodontal Dear Abby: I recently began a disease. I’m afraid to kiss him because relationship with a wonderful man I don’t want the bacteria causing the I’ll call “Edward.” He’s smart, disease to spread and his bad breath successful, sweet and has a wonderful is unbearable. Our sex life is suffering sense of humor. I adore him and can because of it. see myself spending many happy We have two beautiful children years, if not forever, with him. together, and I love him very much Jeanne The problem is my parents. I’m — even if he loses all his teeth at Phillips 24 and a recent college graduate. I the age of 37. I have explained how Advice have a good job and have been living extremely important oral hygiene is to independently since I was 19. Edward overall health, especially heart health, and how his unwillingness to deal with this is 31, divorced and has two kids (ages 5 and sends the wrong message to our kids. He 8). Because of his kids and marital status, my simply refuses or conveniently “forgets.” parents refuse to even meet him. They claim When I asked him why, he said his mother I’m making a terrible mistake being involved with someone with so much “baggage.” traumatized him about it as a child. I am very close to my parents, and their My children are starting to take notice now. My daughter doesn’t want to go near reaction is hurtful. This is the happiest I have him, and my son thinks it’s OK to not brush been in a long time in a relationship, maybe his teeth because his father doesn’t. As you ever. Neither Edward’s kids nor the fact that can see, this is disrupting our family. What he’s divorced is an issue for me. I’ve met his kind of advice could I give him to get him to children and enjoy spending time with them. start taking care of his mouth? — Wit’s End He has a civil relationship with his ex-wife, who also has a new partner. In Florida Do you think my parents’ reaction is fair? Dear Wit’s End: That your son is modeling his behavior after his father is Do you think in time they’ll come around? — terrible. There are psychologists who help Bittersweet In Love In Michigan Dear Bittersweet: Whether your parents’ patients overcome phobias and dentists who specialize in patients with your husband’s reaction is fair or not is beside the point. Their problem. If necessary, dental work can be feelings are their feelings. The relationship you have with Edward is new, and where it done under complete sedation. If your husband would be willing to listen may lead is anybody’s guess. If it lasts, your to your family doctor or the children’s pedia- parents may come around. But as an adult, trician, perhaps one of them can get through the choice of whom you date or will one day to him the importance of conquering his fear marry should be yours and no one else’s. 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 Jan. 11-12, 1916 Six thousand acres of land in Umatilla county, heretofore leased by sheepmen, has been placed upon the market by the Northern 3aci¿c 5.5. &o. Out of the western land of¿ce of the company at Spokane have been mailed lists of these lands, the acreage, prices and terms. Lessees of these lands in the past will be given the preference in the purchase, according to E.L. Hoppel, traveling freight agent. Until February 1 they will have an option to buy but after that date the lands will be open to all. The company requires only one sixth of the total price down and the balance in ¿ve annual payments with six per cent interest. The lands are limited from $1.25 to $15 an acre. Most of the land thus offered lies in the country tributary to 3ilot 5ock and Echo. Other N.P. lands in Morrow county are also placed on the market and the company is retaining still other. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 11-12, 1966 Port of Umatilla will go to the voters in the May primary election seeking approval of a $1,075,000 general obligation bond issue that will put the Port in business in transportation, warehousing and recreation. Port commis- sioners voted approval Monday afternoon to a proposal that would build a smallboat marina, plus drilling a 2,000 gallon per minute well, purchase a railroad spur, purchase property, construct a warehouse and build petroleum facility sites. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 11-12, 1991 Two of six brothers involved in an ice-blamed, one-car crash Friday morning on Highway 395 south of Pilot 5ock were hospi- talized but listed in good condition Friday afternoon at St. Anthony Hospital. Dieter E. Waite, 19, and Patxi E. Waite, 6, were kept overnight for observation following the accident about 7:50 a.m. Friday. Four of the brothers — Kresimir A., 16; Dmitri E., 13; Tevye E., 11; and Liji E., 7, were treated in the emergency room and released to their parents. The boys, the sons of Dennis and Penny Waite who live eight miles south of Vinson along the east fork of Paddy &reek, were traveling north on Highway 395 about two miles south of Pilot 5ock when the driver, Kresimir, lost control on a patch of ice and the 1971 Toyota they were in slammed into a culvert abutment. 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 12th day of 2016. There are 354 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Jan. 12, 1966, Pres- ident Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military should stay in Vietnam until &ommu- nist aggression there was stopped. The TV series “Batman,” inspired by the comic book and starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, premiered on AB&, airing twice a week on consecu- tive nights. On this date: In 1773, the ¿rst public museum in America was organized in &harleston, South &arolina. In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits de¿ning the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain. In 1912, textile workers at the Everett Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, most of them immigrant women, walked off the job to protest wage cuts. In 1915, the U.S. House of 5epresentatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed consti- tutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote. In 1932, Hattie W. &araway became the ¿rst woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus. In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown 5ecords (originally Tamla 5ecords) in Detroit. In 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7 earth- quake; the Haitian govern- ment has said 316,000 people were killed, while a report prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development suggested the death toll may have been between 46,000 and 85,000. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Katherine MacGregor (TV: “Little House on the Prairie”) is 91. Singer Glenn Yarbrough is 86. The Amazing Kreskin is 81. &ountry singer William Lee Golden (The Oak 5idge Boys) is 77. Actor Anthony Andrews is 68. Movie director Wayne Wang is 67. Actress Kirstie Alley is 65. 5adio commentator 5ush Limbaugh is 65. Legal affairs blogger Ann Althouse is 65. Writer Walter Mosley is 64. 5adio-TV personality Howard Stern is 62. Writ- er-producer-director John Lasseter is 59. Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins is 56. 5ock singer 5ob =ombie is 51. 5apper 5aekwon (Wu Tang &lan) is 46. 5ock musician Matt Wong (5eel Big Fish) is 43. Singer Melanie &hisholm (Spice Girls) is 42. Thought for Today: “Necessity does the work of courage.” — Nicholas Murray Butler, American educator and Nobel laureate (1862-1947). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
