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East Oregonian
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Friday, April 29, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Admitted hypochondriac seeks
a cure for her fear of dying
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I’m a hypochondriac.
from doing that. Although every bride
I am currently waiting on the biopsy
wants her wedding to be “perfect,”
there’s a point at which she must
results for a mole I had removed.
realize there are some things she can’t
Right now I’m worried and miserable.
control. An example of where that
I feel guilty for what I’m putting my
boundary should be drawn would be
husband through. I want to get therapy,
at her bridesmaids’ armpits. During
but doing that feels like admitting
a formal wedding ceremony, brides-
I’m too weak to handle my problems
maids usually keep their arms down,
myself. My husband thinks he’s a bad
Jeanne
husband because he can’t help me.
Phillips so unless your daughter’s “pit hair” is
so long she can braid it, it should not
This isn’t the irst time I have
Advice
distract attention from the bride.
worked myself up over a medical
P.S. If hairy armpits in the wedding
condition I may or may not have, and
it won’t be the last. How can I deal with my pictures concern her, they can be Photo-
fear of dying from something horrible without shopped off.
Dear Abby: My parents built a two-bed-
damaging my relationship with my husband?
Can hypochondria be cured? It’s starting to room apartment onto their house for my
take over my life. — Hypochondriac In The brother and his wife when they were strug-
gling inancially. They decided to move out
South
Dear Hypochondriac: It’s a wise person of state, so my single sister is now in the
who seeks help for a problem that’s ruining apartment.
It has been a year, and my brother and his
the quality of his or her life. You should
deinitely discuss your fear of dying with a wife are now expecting. They have moved
licensed mental health professional. To do back to the area because they want to raise
the baby near family, and want the apartment
that isn’t “weak” — it’s the opposite.
Dear Abby: My son is getting married back. Of course, my sister doesn’t want to
in the fall and we’re all looking forward to give it back. I feel she shouldn’t have to.
I agree with my sister that my brother gave
the celebration. There’s just one problem.
My daughter will be in the wedding and the it up. But my brother feels my single sister
bridesmaids’ dresses are strapless. She will doesn’t need a two-bedroom apartment. On
look beautiful in the dress, but she adopted that point I agree with him. My husband,
a “hippy lifestyle” a year ago and stopped my parents and I are in the middle. What do
you think should be done? — Squabbling
shaving her armpits.
The bride-to-be asked me how to approach Siblings
Dear “Squab”: Get out of the middle
her to request that she remove her armpit hair
on the day of the wedding. Is there a tactful by stepping away. The apartment belongs to
way to approach this without offending my your parents, and it is up to them to decide
daughter and possibly causing bad feelings who gets to use it. The rule of etiquette in a
between her and the bride? — Unsure In situation like this is: Mouth shut! (The more
you involve yourself, the more one of your
New Jersey
Dear Unsure: I would discourage you siblings is sure to resent you.)
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 29, 1916
In looking up the abstract to the land
purchased by the Blewett Harvester Co.,
James Johns Jr. discovered the fact, unknown
to many people, that a considerable part of the
city adjacent to the Round-up Park was once
known as Sommerville. The abstract shows a
map showing the town of Sommerville, iled
on February 9, 1882 by J.H. Raley, county
surveyor. Asked regarding the matter, Col.
Raley recalled that he land was platted by S.L.
Morse and named after Dr. E.J. Sommerville
who was a very close personal friend. The
land was intended as an addition to Pendleton,
according to the colonel, and not as a separate
town. The addition was afterwards vacated
and later became a regular part of the town.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 29, 1966
Robert Abrams, junior member of the law
irm of Mahoney & Abrams, has been named
Morrow County Father of the Year by Morrow
CowBelles. His name has been entered in
competition for the title of Oregon Father of the
Year for 1966. An unusual honor for Abrams
was the fact that he was nominated by three
separate organizations for the title. His oficial
entry was submitted by St. Alban’s Guild, an
acolyte and servers’ guild for boys of All Saints’
Episcopal church. He was also chosen as candi-
date by Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of
Commerce and by Soroptimist Club of Heppner.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 29, 1991
John Smith of Pendleton High School
placed third at the fourth annual Oregon
Citizen Bee in Salem Saturday, winning a $500
saving bond. Smith just missed advancing to
the nationals in Washington, D.C. He will be
an alternate to the top two inishers, who will
be attending the national inals in June. The
competition inals involved 17 students and
included three rounds of increasingly dificult
questions about civics, geography, economics
and current events. Smith was one of three
Umatilla County high school students to
compete in the state competition. The other
two were Michael Kwong of Pendleton, who
won the district competition in La Grande, and
Brad Bowman of Hermiston. Randy Beard
and Jana Mounts represented Riverside High
School of Boardman in the competition.
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 120th day of
2016. There are 246 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On April 29, 1991, a
cyclone began striking the
South Asian country of
Bangladesh; it ended up
killing more than 138,000
people, according to the U.S.
National Oceanic and Atmo-
spheric Administration.
On this date:
In 1429, Joan of Arc
entered the besieged city
of Orleans to lead a French
victory over the English.
In 1798, Joseph Haydn’s
oratorio “The Creation” was
rehearsed in Vienna, Austria,
before an invited audience.
In 1861, the Maryland
House of Delegates voted
53-13 against seceding from
the Union. In Montgomery,
Alabama, President Jefferson
Davis asked the Confederate
Congress for the authority to
wage war.
In 1913, Swedish-born
engineer Gideon Sundback
of Hoboken, New Jersey,
received a U.S. patent for a
“separable fastener” — later
known as the zipper.
In 1916, the Easter Rising
in Dublin collapsed as Irish
nationalists surrendered to
British authorities.
In 1945, during World
War II, American soldiers
liberated the Dachau concen-
tration camp. Adolf Hitler
married Eva Braun inside his
“Fuhrerbunker” and desig-
nated Adm. Karl Doenitz
president.
In 1946, 28 former Japa-
nese oficials went on trial in
Tokyo as war criminals; seven
were later sentenced to death.
In 1992, rioting resulting
in 55 deaths erupted in Los
Angeles after a jury in Simi
Valley, California, acquitted
four Los Angeles police ofi-
cers of almost all state charges
in the videotaped beating of
Rodney King.
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz
musician Toots Thielemans is
94. Actor Keith Baxter is 83.
Bluesman Otis Rush is 81.
Conductor Zubin Mehta is 80.
Disgraced inancier Bernard
Madoff is 78. Pop singer Bob
Miranda (The Happenings)
is 74. Country singer Duane
Allen (The Oak Ridge Boys)
is 73. Singer Tommy James
is 69. Sen. Debbie Stabenow,
D-Mich., is 66. Movie director
Phillip Noyce is 66. Comedian
Jerry Seinfeld is 62. Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis is 59.
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is
58. Rock musician Phil King
is 56. Actress Uma Thurman
is 46. International Tennis
Hall of Famer Andre Agassi
is 46. Rapper Master P is 46.
Rock musician Mike Hogan
(The Cranberries) is 43.
Thought for Today: “In
any great organization it is
far, far safer to be wrong with
the majority than to be right
alone.” — John Kenneth
Galbraith (1908-2006).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE