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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, July 19, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Story of son’s abuse taints wife’s memories of husband FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I am in shock. My cases. Some had taken my advice to grown son, “Ryan,” recently told me keep an emery board and cuticle scis- he was molested by his late father sors nearby a step further, by learning to do a full manicure and suggested when he was a young boy. I had no she paint her nails a dark or bright idea, but I believe him. Ryan is an only color to help her stop biting. child and has recently started seeing a Bufing was mentioned as a way counselor. to smooth imperfections that could be I loved my husband very much and “triggers.” A reader in Virginia added I believed he loved me, but I no longer Jeanne know what to think or how to feel. If Phillips decorations to her nails — decals, stencils and rhinestones — that served he were still alive, I would most likely Advice as an impediment and cured her of the leave him. But what do I do with more habit. than 40 years of mostly good memo- Other readers have used artiicial (acrylic) ries? When I think about my late husband now, I just feel numb. Please help. — Not A nails as a way to allow their natural ingernails to grow out. James in Delaware helped his Clue In Indiana Dear Not A Clue: That your son didn’t tell ashamed then-iancée hide her bitten-off, you sooner, while you could have intervened, stubby nails when showing off her engage- is regrettable. And that he is now seeing a ment ring by suggesting she put on artiicial counselor about it is laudable — you should ones. While she proudly showed off the ring give him all the love and support you can. I to everyone, her own nails grew out beauti- don’t blame you for having mixed emotions, fully and she never chewed them again. Additional growing-out tips mentioned but at this point it is too late for you to change anything. Hang onto the good memories by readers were: coating the nails with a and let them comfort you, because you can’t hardening solution, keeping the cuticles moist with petroleum jelly, cuticle cream — even lip change history. Dear Abby: I saw myself in the Jan. 15 balm. A reader reassured Diana that there are letter from “Diana in San Diego,” the lifelong indeed “bad-tasting” products that success- compulsive nail biter who wants to stop. I was fully work as a deterrent. Keeping the hands busy has helped many diagnosed with trichotillomania (hair pulling and skin picking) three years ago, and it is readers. Breaking off a corner of one of her closely related to nail biting. The trichotillo- front teeth stopped Pat in Texas. Others found mania learning center website, www.trich.org, addressing a vitamin deiciency did the trick is worth checking out for treatment options for them. Wearing a tight rubber band around such as medications, behavioral therapy and the wrist to snap when the urge hits can give a nail-biter the incentive to stop. And from support groups. — Erica In Massachusetts Dear Erica: Thank you for the informa- Sandi in San Francisco: “A teacher showed tion. I received a deluge of helpful, caring me an enlarged picture taken from a micro- responses to Diana’s letter, and several readers scope of what was under ingernails. Now I mentioned trichotillomania in the more severe don’t even think about biting!” DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 18-19, 1916 Theodore R. “Teddy” Roosevelt, former president of the United States and one of the leading national igures, is contemplating a trip to Pendleton to visit the 1916 Round-Up. Colonel Roosevelt has recently expressed a desire to see the Round-Up and when last in Oregon inquired with characteristic display of interest about the big show. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 18-19, 1966 Emigrant Hill is a killer. But not, truck drivers say, if you don’t let the seven-mile downgrade get the drop on you. Almost to a man, drivers of the big, over-the-road rigs questioned Monday at a truck stop said driver error is largely responsible for the deaths and injuries on Emigrant Hill. However, persons associated with truck drivers, their friends and employers, say three or four pull-outs on the long grade could save lives. The latest truck driver death on Emigrant Hill occurred Sunday when Gene Milligan, Southgate, Calif., was crushed. The brakes on his van apparently failed and the tractor jack-knifed. A few hours later, another rig, laden with cheese, lost its brakes too on the downgrade. Driver Lewis Troy, Arkansas, Kan., tipped the trailer. He escaped with his life but the highway was blocked for hours. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 18-19, 1991 An 18-year veteran of the Klamath County Fire District has been hired as the irst ire chief on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Ken Gray, 43, said he was attracted to the job by the challenge to put together a ire department. Gray arrives as construction continues on the irst Tribal ire station, a $151,000 concrete block building scheduled for completion mid-August. Gray, who is currently recruiting volunteer ireighters, has set ambitious goals for the ire department, which will provide structural ire protection primarily for a ive- to seven-mile radius around Mission. 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 201st day of 2016. There are 165 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 19, 1941, Britain launched its “V for Victory” campaign during World War II with Prime Minister Winston Churchill calling the V-sign hand gesture “the symbol of the unconquerable will of the people of the occupied territories and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.” On this date: In 1553, King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed. In 1848, a pioneering women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1903, the irst Tour de France was won by Maurice Garin. In 1944, the Demo- cratic national convention convened in Chicago with the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered a certainty. In 1961, TWA became the irst airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-light movies as it presented “By Love Possessed” to irst-class passengers on a light from New York to Los Angeles. In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza led the country. In 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. In 1986, Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schloss- berg in Centerville, Massa- chusetts. In 1989, 111 people were killed when United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 which suffered the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems, crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Helen Gallagher is 90. Country singer Sue Thompson is 90. Singer Vikki Carr is 76. Blues singer-mu- sician Little Freddie King is 76. Country singer-musician Commander Cody is 72. Actor George Dzundza is 71. Rock singer-musician Alan Gorrie (Average White Band) is 70. International Tennis Hall of Famer Ilie Nastase is 70. Rock musician Brian May is 69. Rock musi- cian Bernie Leadon is 69. Actress Beverly Archer is 68. Movie director Abel Ferrara is 65. Actor Peter Barton is 60. Rock musician Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets; Bauhaus) is 56. Movie director Atom Egoyan is 56. Actor Campbell Scott is 55. Actor Anthony Edwards is 54. Country singer Kelly Shiver is 53. Rock musician Jason McGerr (Death Cab for Cutie) is 42. Actor Bene- dict Cumberbatch is 40. Thought for Today: “Where there is unity, there is always victory.” — Publilius Syrus, Latin writer during the irst century B.C. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE