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Page 8A East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, April 19, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Strangers’ parenting advice may deserve consideration FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: What do I say to Am I wrong for not liking the people who give me unsolicited dresses she likes? How can I get parenting advice or scold my daughter through to her that this is not her in public? I would never interfere with prom, but my prom? Aggravated In another parent or direct a child who Louisiana isn’t in my care. What gives these Dear Aggravated: When you start people the right to barge into someone buying your own wardrobe, your taste else’s life in such a way? can be the deciding factor. However, I have been chastised for letting my when your mother buys it FOR you, Jeanne daughter sit on the Àoor while waiting Phillips it’s important to remember that her in a long line, letting her be more than budget needs to be considered and try Advice 4 feet away from me in the aisles, and to be gracious about it. As you will allowing her to speak loudly. She’s 3. discover when you are older, because I don’t hire a sitter for running errands and I a dress is expensive does not guarantee that can’t leave her in the car. it’s the prettiest or that it will look great on It’s hard enough wrangling an energetic you. kid while trying to shop, do banking or send Dear Abby: Friday, April 22, is Earth Day. mail without being constantly pestered by Recycling is so important to our planet’s irre- strangers. Do you have any thoughts on this? placeable resources. Can you please remind your readers how long it takes items to break — Mom In Hillsboro, Ore. Dear Mom: If your child is so disruptive down in a land¿ll? — Scott In Texas Dear Scott: Items such as glass bottles that individuals feel the need to intervene or offer “parenting advice,” then it’s time you and jars, plastic containers, aluminum cans, took some of it to heart. If she’s bored while disposable diapers and plastic foam cups can you’re doing errands, bring something along take from hundreds to thousands of years — for her to do rather than use her “outside or more — to decompose. Cigarette butts can take up to 10 years. I encourage interested voice” or run wild in the aisles. Dear Abby: Prom is less than three weeks readers to go online, see the ¿gures and learn away, and I’m still looking for the perfect what they can do to reduce, reuse or recycle. Earth Day offers a chance for all of us to dress. My mom and I went prom dress shop- ping one time — but everything I liked, she do something positive for the planet. Many didn’t. She told me that if she didn’t like the parents use it as an opportunity to bond with their children, and some schools offer credit dress, she was not going to purchase it. I tried to tell her this is my prom and to students who participate. Helping children I should like the dress, not her, without understand how the garbage they produce sounding mean. She told me I should pick the impacts their environment is important, so please, Readers, do what you can. cheapest dress. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 18-19, 1916 Yesterday Major Lee Moorhouse, local collector of curios, received from J.L. Sharon of Vancouver, formerly of this city, a photo- graph and a bit of rope that recall the days nearly forty years ago when Pendleton was attacked by Indians. The photograph was a picture of White Owl and Quit-a-tunips, two Umatilla Indians hanged in this city on January 10, 1879, for complicity in the murder of George Coggan and other white men on July 12, 1878. The rope was a bit of the rope with which they were hanged and was cut by Sharon’s father who was deputy to County Clerk J.B. Keeney and a witness to the hanging. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 18-19, 1966 The quick action of a boy on his way to school today may have saved several lives in a house ¿re. Bobby Conklin, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Conklin of Pendleton, saw smoke pouring from the roof of 724 S. Main. He knocked on the door and woke Mrs. Shelby Tate. “Your house is on ¿re” he said. Mrs. Tate raced upstairs and roused her children. “She got them out just in time,” said ¿re department Capt. Lloyd Rhinhart. Firemen battled the blaze for 1 1/2 hours. Gaping holes were torn in the charred roof to allow streams of water to pour into the blazing attic and second Àoor. The city’s new ¿re truck got its ¿rst real workout at the ¿re. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 18-19, 1991 Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Rees of Oregon — who grew up in the Helix area and graduated from high school there — has been named the head of the U.S. National Guard, Sen. Mark Hat¿eld, R.-Ore., said today. Rees, 46, has been the head of the Oregon National Guard based in Salem since 1987. Rees, who served in Vietnam in the Army reserves, was in charge of the Idaho National Guard regiment in Twin Falls before the governor of Oregon appointed him to the Oregon post four years ago. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 110th day of 2016. There are 256 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 19, 1966, Bobbi Gibb, 23, became the ¿rst woman to run the Boston Marathon at a time when only men were allowed to partici- pate. (Gibb jumped into the middle of the pack after the sound of the starting pistol and ¿nished in 3:21:40. On this date: In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord. In 1865, a funeral was held at the White House for President Abraham Lincoln, assassinated ¿ve days earlier his cof¿n was then taken to the U.S. Capitol for a private memorial service in the Rotunda. In 1912, a special subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee opened hearings in New York into the Titanic disaster. In 1935, the Universal Pictures horror ¿lm “Bride of Frankenstein,” starring Boris Karloff with Elsa Lanchester in the title role, had its world premiere in San Francisco. In 1943, during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but ultimately futile battle against Nazi forces. In 1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his Far East command by President Harry S. Truman, bade farewell in an address to Congress in which he quoted a line from a ballad: “Old soldiers never die they just fade away.” In 1960, South Korean students began an uprising that toppled the government of President Syngman Rhee a week later. In 1993, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as ¿re destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in dozens of people, including sect leader David Koresh, were killed. In 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. (Bomber Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Hugh O’Brian is 91. Actress Elinor Donahue is 79. Rock musician Alan Price (The Animals is 74. Actor Tim Curry is 70. Pop singer Mark “Flo” Volman (The Turtles Flo and Eddie is 69. Actor Tony Plana is 64. Former tennis player Sue Barker is 60. Motorsports Hall of Famer Al Unser Jr. is 54. Actor Tom Wood is 53. Recording executive Suge Knight is 51. Singer-song- writer Dar Williams is 49. Actress Ashley Judd is 48. Singer Bekka Bramlett is 48. Latin pop singer Luis Miguel is 46. Actress Jennifer Esposito is 44. Actress Jennifer Taylor is 44. Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux is 42. Actor James Franco is 38. Actress Kate Hudson is 37. Actor Hayden Christensen is 35. Actress Catalina Sandino Moreno is 35. Actress Kelen Coleman is 32. Roots rock musician Steve Johnson (Alabama Shakes is 31. Thought for Today: “The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don’t see coming.” — 0LNH0DQV¿HOG American statesman (1903- 2001). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
