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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