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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, June 7, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Daughter struggles to help frustrated widowed mother FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: Mom is 61. She lost on their skateboards right under a her husband (my dad) six months ago. sign that says “No skateboards.” They had been married for 37 years. These kids are old enough to read and He used to do almost everything for understand the signs and signals. her. Now her world has changed Sometimes I call out to the parent, because she must do things for herself “Nice job teaching your kids how — like doing the dishes or paying the to get away with something!” or, “I bills. hope your kids remind you about this When we talk, she constantly when they are teenagers and want to Jeanne complains about tasks that have the Phillips do something stupid!” The parents simplest of solutions. If I offer advice, always ignore me. Can you suggest Advice she gets defensive and says, “Fine! a better comment I can yell out? — Tell me how I should live my life.” I Don In California have reached the conclusion that she doesn’t Dear Don: What you are witnessing is want advice, but she continues to complain regrettable. However, my advice is to keep and be upset. My siblings and I don’t live your mouth shut, because you’re not going to close by. How can we help her? — Caring teach parents like the ones you have described Daughter In Colorado anything with a shout-out. Dear Daughter: Six months ago, your Dear Abby: My husband and I have an mother lost half of her “self.” Tasks that seem ongoing disagreement. He said I should write ordinary to you are still new to her. Resist to you to see what you thought. the urge to help with advice unless you are When we’re in a group, I say it’s rude to speciically asked. And recognize that when make plans that don’t include others who are she complains, rather than looking for advice, standing with us. He has no problem with she may be venting about her pain and frus- it. I’m uncomfortable discussing where to tration. go for dinner with four members of a group Dear Abby: I often see parents “help” when others are standing beside us. He says I their elementary school-age kids violate am too sensitive and too easily embarrassed. safety laws. For example, if they are running What do you think? — Disagreement In late, they’ll hurry their kids across an inter- Ohio section against the lashing red hand signal, Dear Disagreement: I don’t think that you or jaywalk across the middle of a busy street are too sensitive. While discussing where to instead of going to the corner. This saves go for dinner in front of people who haven’t them about two minutes. been invited isn’t “rude,” it is insensitive I also see parents watch their kids playing because they may feel excluded. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 6-7, 1916 Miss Muriel Saling now wears the crown of Queen of Rosaria and Sheriff T.D. Taylor, president of the Round-up, is oficially King Joy of the Rose Festival. The coronation ceremony, through which the Pendleton maid and the Pendleton man were made rulers of Portland’s carnival, was a brilliant feature of last evening. This morning they headed the Human Rosebud parade and this afternoon they are at Multnomah Falls where the elabo- rate pantomime in dedication of the Columbia Highway is being staged with Queen Muriel and King Joy as the central igures. Tonight they will occupy a throne at the Oaks to view the great display of ireworks in honor of the queen. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 6-7, 1966 The Oregon State Highway Department will hold its irst public auction of houses in the path of the Pendleton by-pass of Interstate 80 Tuesday when 11 dwellings go on the auction block. Tuesday’s auction is the irst of many before the 100 or more buildings in the path of the freeway are destroyed or removed. The auction will be held at the site of each building for sale, beginning at 10 a.m. at the former Rice home at 407 S.W. 21st St. The auction will be an oral one and buildings will be open for inspection the morning of the sale. All building must be removed within 45 to 60 days from the date of the sale. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 6-7, 1991 Flash looding washed through portions of downtown Pendleton and Milton-Free- water Thursday evening when storm clouds dumped more than one inch of rain along the edge of the Blue Mountains. Damage also was reported to area wheat, barley and hay ields. The downtown storm sewers became overloaded and backed up water at a depth of about seven inches on some streets. The sewers were unable to support the volume, Pendleton public works director Jerry Oldman said. He said the city received about 35 calls for assistance from residents who were reporting problems ranging from plugged catch basins to property damage. 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 159th day of 2016. There are 207 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Continental Congress stating “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” On this date: In 1654, King Louis XIV, age 15, was crowned in Rheims, 11 years after the start of his reign. In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone irst began to explore present-day Kentucky. In 1892, Homer Plessy, a “Creole of color,” was ined for refusing to leave a whites- only car of the East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling on his case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept it renounced in 1954.) In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome. In 1939, King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, New York, from Canada on the irst visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch. In 1954, British mathe- matician, computer pioneer and code breaker Alan Turing died at age 41, an apparent suicide. (Turing, convicted in 1952 of “gross indecency” for a homosexual relationship, was pardoned in 2013.) In 1958, singer-songwriter Prince was born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneap- olis. In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, recognized a constitutional right to privacy as it struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to pros- ecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples. In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011.) Today’s Birthdays: Movie director James Ivory is 88. Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner is 87. Actress Virginia McKenna is 85. Singer Tom Jones is 76. Poet Nikki Giovanni is 73. Actor Ken Osmond (TV: “Leave It to Beaver”) is 73. Former talk show host Jenny Jones is 70. Americana singer-songwriter Willie Nile is 68. Actress Anne Twomey is 65. Actor Liam Neeson is 64. Actress Colleen Camp is 63. Rock singer-musician Gordon Gano (The Violent Femmes) is 53. Rock musi- cian Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots) is 50. Rock musician Dave Navarro is 49. Actor Karl Urban is 44. TV person- ality Bear Grylls is 42. Rock musician Eric Johnson (The Shins) is 40. Actor-comedian Bill Hader is 38. Tennis player Anna Kournikova is 35. Actor Michael Cera is 28. Rapper Iggy Azalea is 26. Rapper Fetty Wap is 25. Thought for Today: “Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.” — Fred- erick Langbridge, English clergyman and author (1849- 1922). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE