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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, May 3, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Struggling sister should get help and get going FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have a hard time sister needs to know ASAP, so she differentiating between enabling and won’t be cut off abruptly. This isn’t tough love; that you will be on a ixed just helping out my sister. Throughout income is a fact of life. You have been her adult life, even while she was a wonderful sister. You have done married, she has never been able to more than many people would, so make ends meet. do not feel guilty for taking care of She’s single now and in her 50s, yourself. a hardworking but underemployed, Dear Abby: It has been eight years depressed individual. I have a good Jeanne job and I feel guilty if I don’t help Phillips since my irst love, “Oliver,” and I broke up. It was amicable and we both her each month. (She doesn’t ask, but Advice had closure. I have been in my current drops enough hints that I know things relationship for six years. We love aren’t going well.) I have suggested repeatedly that she needs each other very much and have two beautiful to ind a better job. I even send her job leads, kids together. I don’t often think about Oliver and we but I’m not sure she actually ever applies. My friends and relatives say I should use tough haven’t spoken since our split. But the crazy love and stop helping her. But I hate to see her thing is, I dream about him constantly. The struggle, and I don’t want her kicked out of dreams are pretty tame and they don’t make sense. I don’t understand why this is happening. her apartment. I will be retiring soon and won’t be able I know myself and I know I don’t miss Oliver. to continue giving her money. What should I I’m happy in my current relationship. So what gives, Abby? — Troubled Out West do? — Sympathetic In San Diego Dear Troubled: I’m sure it’s nothing to Dear Sympathetic: Have a frank talk with your sister NOW. Ask her how many of worry about. I was taught years ago that the the leads you gave her were followed up on. things we see in our dreams are manifesta- Because you say she is chronically depressed, tions of our subconscious and are not meant encourage her to see a doctor and ind out to be taken literally. What you are dreaming what kind of help there is for her. It may be about may not actually be Oliver at all, the reason for her divorce and for her inability but something he symbolizes. Perhaps it’s to seek other work and improve her inancial freedom, or youth — who knows? But if the dreams persist and they bother you, I’m sure situation. That you will no longer be able to continue a couple of sessions with a licensed mental assisting her inancially is something your health professional would ease your mind. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 2-3, 1916 Considerable feeling has been stirred up in Milton and Freewater over several of the school teachers of District No. 31 attending dances given by Burton’s orchestra Wednesday and Saturday nights of each week. Rev. Arthur Thomas of the Methodist church has taken up the ight of the anti-dance people, and particu- larly when attended by public school teachers. There is much bitter comment among those who have been attending the dances and many who have not at the opposition. They claim the dances have been attended by people ranked among the best thought of in the two towns, and that there has not been single time since the new management took hold of the dances that they have not been strictly respectable in every way. The ight promises to develop into as acute a stage as the Sunday baseball issue a few years ago, when it was forced to a vote at a special election, and the opponents of Sunday ball lost their intention by a heavy majority. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 2-3, 1966 Mrs. Lynn Caton, 82, known years ago as the Florence Nightingale of the Pendleton Round-Up, died Friday in St. Anthony Hospital after a long period of ill health. Mrs. Caton, when ofice nurse for the late Dr. Frank E. Boyden, joined with him in 1916 to form the irst medical structure at the Round-Up. Headquarters was in a tent near the main entrance. Water was brought in buckets, there was a sterilizer, cots, telephone and little else. But for stretcher bearers the tent was a way station between the arena and hospital. This was a forerunner to the present facilities built in the grandstand in 1941. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 2-3, 1991 A project to “honor and respect” the prom- ises of a 136-year-old Indian treaty was dedi- cated Wednesday at the foot of McNary Dam. The ceremony to mark the irst construction work on the Umatilla Basin Project drew about 175 people, including Sen. Mark Hatield, the project’s sponsor in Congress. In his comments, Antone Minthorn, chairman of the General Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, said the salmon is as important to Northwest Indians as the buffalo is to the Plains Indians. The Umatilla Basin Project is designed to provide another source of irrigation water for about 2,200 irrigators so water now used for that purpose would remain in the Umatilla River for ish passage. 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 124th day of 2016. There are 242 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 3, 1791, the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania adopted a constitution. On this date: In 1515, Pope Leo X promulgated the bull “Inter sollicitudines” allowing the Catholic Church to review and censor books. In 1765, the irst school of medicine in the American colonies, the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia (now the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania), was founded. In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city. In 1916, Irish nationalists Padraic Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a British iring squad; they were among 16 people put to death for their roles in the Easter Rising. In 1933, Nellie T. Ross became the irst female director of the U.S. Mint. In 1945, during World War II, Allied forces recap- tured Rangoon (Yangon) from the Japanese. In 1952, the Kentucky Derby was televised nation- ally for the irst time on CBS; the winner was Hill Gail. In 1960, the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical “The Fantasticks” began a nearly 42-year run at New York’s Sullivan Street Play- house. In 1975, America’s oldest operational aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, was commissioned. In 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain’s irst female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections. In 1999, some 70 torna- does roared across Oklahoma and Kansas, killing 46 people and injuring hundreds. Today’s Birthdays: Movie historian and TV host Robert Osborne is 84. Actor Alex Cord is 83. Singer Frankie Valli is 82. Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 70. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is 67. Pop singer Mary Hopkin is 66. Singer Chris- topher Cross is 65. Country musician Cactus Moser (Highway 101) is 59. Rock musician David Ball (Soft Cell) is 57. Country musician John Driskell Hopkins (Zac Brown Band) is 45. Coun- try-rock musician John Neff (Drive-By Truckers) is 45. Actress Christina Hendricks is 41. Actress Tanya Wright (TV: “Orange is the New Black”) is 38. Actress Zoe De Grand Maison (TV: “Orphan Black”) is 21. Thought for Today: “Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” — May Sarton, American poet (born this date in 1912, died in 1995). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE