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).
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