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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, June 23, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Patient is not proud to have weight announced out loud FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE back to that doctor’s ofice. Dear Abby: I have fought obesity Do you have any advice for me all of my adult life, and my weight has when this happens again? I say again yo-yoed over the years. My problem is, when I go to the doctor’s ofice and because it happens at other doctor’s I am taken to the exam area, the scale ofices I visit as well. I am at a loss is right out in the open where other here. I would appreciate your input. patients come and go as well as all the — Still Stinging In Nevada ofice personnel. Dear Still Stinging: The irst time Mind you, I don’t care if I am it happened, you should have quietly Jeanne weighed in the presence of people Phillips mentioned to the medical assistant walking around — if they don’t peek. that she embarrassed you, and asked Advice However, when the medical assistant her please not to do it again. When it is done weighing me, she reads the happened a second time, you should scale out loud. I have felt humiliated when have spoken to the doctor about it. You are far other patients are walking past. I have put up from the only person who is sensitive about with this for years. weight. If I were that physician, I’d certainly Recently, this medical assistant weighed want to know why patients were disappearing me and I just knew she was going to from my practice. Wouldn’t you? “announce” my weight. This time there was Dear Abby: I do a lot of home canning, a man I could tell was a patient, standing and last year our farm was very proitable. I nearby at the reception window staring canned more than 300 jars of jellies, juices, intently at me getting weighed. Because I was apple sauce and soups. I gave many of these sure the M.A. was going to say it out loud, away as gifts. I started to cough to try to mufle the sound My dilemma is, most of the time no one of her voice. It worked, but then she acted gives me the jars back. Canning jars are the irritated because of my coughing, so she most expensive part of canning. Would you repeated it loudly. I was very embarrassed, to please help me get the word out to return say the least. When the doctor saw me, I was the jars when they are empty? — Debbie In afraid to say anything as I didn’t want to get Derby, N.Y. anybody in trouble. Dear Debbie: I’m glad to put out the I graduated from a medical assistant word. But don’t you think it would be more school many years ago and I remember the effective if you simply asked that the jars be registered nurse who was our instructor returned if the recipients want to continue taught us to never say out loud somebody’s receiving these generous gifts from you? weight when you weigh him or her. It only Attaching a “Please return to (blank)” label makes common sense. I no longer want to go might help. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 23, 1916 Charles Sams, an aged man, was murdered between 12 and 1 o’clock this morning as he was sleeping in his cabin at Valley Chapel, seven miles from Milton on the Washington state side of the line. Two .38 caliber bullets were ired into his head. He died two hours later without regaining consciousness. The authorities of Walla Walla County have no clue to the murderer. In order to ire the fatal shots, the assailant had to reach over the body of Sams’ wife who was sleeping at his side. The shots awakened her but the intruder had made his escape before she could see him. Two sons, who were sleeping in a wagon shed about 40 feet away from the cabin, were also awakened. They rushed into the house but failed to get a trace of the murderer. The outer door to the cabin and the door leading into the sleeping room were found open. Mrs. Sams told the authorities she was sure both doors had been closed before the aged couple had retired for the night. So quietly did the intruder work in getting into the house, however, that his opening of the doors was not heard. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 23, 1966 Little William, owned by Jess and Agnes Montgomery of Hermiston, won irst place in the aged gelding class, and was judged grand champion gelding at the Central Washington Quarter Horse Show at the Morley Quarter Horse Ranch, Yakima, Wash. Poco Tom, owned by Stewart and Gloria Guthery, Herm- iston, placed ifth in an outstanding class of horse colts, foals of 1965. Little William was shown by J.L. Bartlett of Yakima, and Poco Tom by Shelly Ann Guthery, daughter of the owners. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 23, 1991 Tim George of Pendleton notes that although there are people who braid rawhide or “hitch” (knot) horsehair, he is the only one he knows of who combines the two. George makes horse tack such as quirts (riding whips), reins, headstalls, bosals (part of the bridle) and riatas (lariats) with the rawhide and horsehair. Although George has been working in rawhide for 18 years, he hasn’t kept any completed pieces himself. His work has always been sold — before he inishes. He does have pictures of a set of striped horsehair reins he sold for $900. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 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 175th day of 2016. There are 191 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 23, 1960, the Food and Drug Adminis- tration formally approved Enovid as the irst oral contra- ceptive for sale in the U.S. On this date: In 1314, during the First War of Scottish Indepen- dence, the two-day Battle of Bannockburn, resulting in victory for the forces of Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II, began near Stirling. In 1757, forces of the East India Company led by Robert Clive won the Battle of Plassey, which effectively marked the beginning of British colonial rule in India. In 1812, Britain, unaware that America had declared war against it ive days earlier, rescinded its policy on neutral shipping, a major issue of contention between the two countries. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for a second term of ofice at the Republican national convention in Chicago. In 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on a round-the-world light that lasted eight days and 15 hours. In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Authority was established. In 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor. In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. In 1969, Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren. In 1985, all 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separat- ists. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Diana Trask is 76. Musical conductor James Levine is 73. Actor Ted Shack- elford is 70. Actor Bryan Brown is 69. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is 68. Actor Jim Metzler is 65. “American Idol” ex-judge Randy Jackson is 60. Actress Frances McDormand is 59. Rock musician Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) is 54. Actor Paul La Greca is 54. Writer-director Joss Whedon is 52. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chico DeBarge is 46. Actress Selma Blair is 44. Rock singer KT Tunstall is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Virgo Williams (Ghostowns DJs) is 41. Actress Emmanuelle Vaugier is 40. Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is 39. Actress Melissa Rauch is 36. Rock singer Duffy is 32. Decorator Anna Wattenburger is 5. Thought for Today: “A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” — Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian scholar (1664-1718). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
