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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, January 13, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Frustrated mom takes out her anger on her children FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am the mother of plus a check or money order for $7 four. My children are wonderful, but in U.S. funds, to Dear Abby — Anger they really don’t listen. Instead of Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount sitting down and talking to them, I Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and scream and call them names. Then, handling are included in the price. after they go to sleep, I feel extremely Most adults learn from childhood guilty. how to manage their anger. However, My 12-year-old girl struggles it is equally important to learn to in school. I have tried to be calm express anger in ways that are not Jeanne and help her. But I become easily Phillips destructive. Being in touch enough frustrated and give up. Then I start to with your emotions that you can say, Advice scream and tell her she’ll never get it. “When you do that (or say that), it I’m afraid I am damaging my child makes me angry,” can help you calm in the long run. How can I control my anger yourself before you explode, and it will also so I can help her succeed? — Angry In El earn you the respect of others. Paso Dear Abby: My husband and I have been Dear Angry: While both involve anger, married for 35 years. Every year, he takes a you are really asking me about two separate week off to go to another state and play golf. LVVXHV /HW PH ¿UVW UHVSRQG WR WKH VHFRQG When he returns, he compiles all the photos one, your inability to help your 12-year-old he has taken onto a disk. He would let me academically. VHHWKHSKRWRVRQWKHFRPSXWHUDIWHUWKH¿UVW As you may already know, not all people couple of golf trips, but on this last one, he absorb information the same way. Some of refused to show me any. us are visual learners, others are auditory 7KLVLVDELJUHGÀDJIRUPHWKDWKH¶VGRLQJ learners, and some may have a learning VRPHWKLQJ PRUH WKDQ MXVW JRO¿QJ , PLJKW disability that requires help from a trained add that there is a lot of alcohol consumed, professional. Your daughter may be one of along with hot tub parties at the motel where these. he stays. I’m interested in what you think I’m willing to bet that when you scream might be going on during these trips. — Left at her, you are really screaming at yourself Behind In Idaho because of your frustration at being unable Dear Left Behind: People don’t usually to get through to her. I have a booklet that become secretive unless they have something may help you calm yourself before you get to hide. Since you asked, I suspect that if he angry with your children. It can be ordered was proud of what went on, he would have by sending your name and mailing address, shown you the pictures. 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. 13, 1916 Letter Writing Week, Jan. 17 to 22, will be observed in Pendleton. President Tallman of the Commercial association is organizing a campaign to secure the assistance of local people in drawing eastern tourists to the state next summer. He will ask every man, woman and child in the city to write at least one letter to some friend, relative or acquaintance in the east, urging them to visit Oregon. Pendleton is LQDSRVLWLRQWRSUR¿WIURPWKLVWRXULVWWUDYHO The Round-up is one of the biggest attractions of its kind in the world and no letter should be sent out from Pendleton without some mention of this big frontier show among the things of interest in Oregon to the tourist. Then, too, Pendleton lies on the auto highway over which many of the touring cars will come DQGZRXOGSUR¿WIURPWKLVWKURXJKWUDYHO 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 13, 1966 Over 50 per cent of the property owners in the core of Hermiston’s business district ¿OHGZULWWHQDQGRUDOUHPRQVWUDQFHVZLWKWKH City Council last night against the proposal 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 their properties be assessed for the purchase of a $32,000 parking lot in the business district. Normally the council rejects any such proposals with this percentage of opposition, but Mayor Walter Pearson said the hearing will be continued until the next session, in two weeks, because evidence was presented showing an effort is being made to establish additional customer parking lots in the business district by an off-street parking committee. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 13, 1991 The greater Hermiston area has planted the seeds of progress and is anxiously tending the soil in anticipation of a bountiful harvest — a harvest of economic growth. Community leaders have long believed the area has all of the necessary elements for expansion — access to water, transportation, recreation and the major metropolitan areas of the Northwest. The area is sometimes referred to as “The Hub” because the cities of Portland, Seattle, Spokane and Boise are all about equal GLVWDQFHVDZD\)RUWKH¿UVWWLPHLQWKHFLW\¶V 83-year history, the population of Hermiston has exceeded the 10,000 mark. Today is the 13th day of 2016. There are 353 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 13, 1966, Robert C. Weaver was nominated to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson; Weaver became the ¿UVWEODFN&DELQHWPHPEHU On this date: In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia. In 1794, President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American ÀDJIROORZLQJWKHDGPLVVLRQ of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.) In 1864, American song- writer Stephen Foster died in poverty in a New York hospital at age 37. In 1898, Emile Zola’s famous defense of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, “J’accuse,” was published in Paris. In 1915, a magnitude-7 earthquake centered in Avez- zano, Italy, claimed some 30,000 lives. In 1941, a new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship. Novelist and poet James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland, less than a month before his 59th birthday. In 1962, comedian Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles 10 days before his 43rd birthday. In 1976, Sarah Caldwell EHFDPH WKH ¿UVW ZRPDQ to conduct at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House as she led a performance of “La Traviata.” In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia became WKH QDWLRQ¶V ¿UVW HOHFWHG black governor as he took the RDWKRIRI¿FHLQ5LFKPRQG In 2014, a shooting at a Wesley Chapel, Florida, movie theater left Chad Oulson, 43, dead; retired Tampa police captain Curtis Reeves, 71, is accused of killing Oulson during what authorities said was an argu- ment over Oulson’s texting. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Frances Sternhagen is 86. TV personality Nick Clooney is 82. Comedian Rip Taylor is 82. Comedian Charlie Brill is 78. Actor Billy Gray is 78. Actor Richard Moll is 73. Rock musician Trevor Rabin is 62. Rhythm- and-blues musician Fred White is 61. Rock musician James Lomenzo (Megadeth) is 57. Actor Kevin Anderson is 56. Actress Julia Louis- Dreyfus is 55. Rock singer Graham “Suggs” McPherson (Madness) is 55. Country singer Trace Adkins is 54. Actress Penelope Ann Miller is 52. Actor Patrick Dempsey is 50. Actress Traci Bingham is 48. Actor Keith Coogan is 46. TV producer-writer Shonda Rhimes is 46. Actor Orlando Bloom is 39. Mete- orologist Ginger Zee (TV: “Good Morning America”) is 35. Actor Liam Hemsworth is 26. Thought for Today: “Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr., American writer. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
