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East Oregonian
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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
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sitting down and talking to them, I
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scream and call them names. Then,
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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one, your inability to help your 12-year-old he has taken onto a disk. He would let me
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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black governor as he took the
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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.
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