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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, July 27, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Single mom craves family’s embrace of her daughters FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am a single mother exposed to them. I have advised in of two biracial daughters ages 2 and the past that sometimes people have 4. They ill my life with joy and I to live their own lives and create their am thankful to be their mother. My own families. If your relatives are problem is, I haven’t been able to face rejecting, that is what you will have to my family members since the birth of do, not only for your daughters’ sake my second child. but also for your own. My family has strong Christian Dear Abby: I have been getting roots, and I know they were disap- together with a group of ladies for Jeanne pointed when they heard about Phillips many years now. Husbands and another unplanned pregnancy. This boyfriends are welcome but rarely Advice isn’t the irst time I have disappointed come. We enjoy meeting at each them. I smoked a lot of marijuana as other’s houses and at restaurants a teen and young adult. I straightened my life every few months. out during my late 20s. We are having a problem with one I miss my family very much, and I also feel member, “Gail,” who is envious of “Rose,” my children are missing out by not knowing a still-beautiful former model. Gail has been them. My parents passed away many years making remarks that Rose “must have had ago. My children’s father was beaten to death work done” on her face to be able to retain days before my youngest daughter was born. her looks for so long. (I think it is a combina- My aunts and uncles are all I have left, and it tion of good genes, sunscreen and incredible breaks my heart to think we have lost them, bone structure.) too. How should I handle this without getting What Rose has or hasn’t done is none my heart broken? — Mississippi Mommy of Gail’s business. Rose is aware of Gail’s Dear Mommy: Did these aunts and jealousy, and it puts a damper on our good uncles have children, or are they childless? times and our caring attitudes toward each If you have cousins, consider reaching out other. We wish Gail would drop out. Her to them irst, because their views may be remarks need to stop. Have you any ideas on less conservative than their parents’. If your how we can deal with this problem? — Club family’s Christian roots are as strong as you Member In The Southwest say they are, they should be both welcoming Dear Club Member: I sure do. The person and forgiving, and embrace your children in closest to Gail needs to tell her, privately, that their loving family circle. the catty comments make everyone uncom- However, if they are not, then it would fortable, and if she doesn’t stop she will no be better for your little girls if they were not longer be welcome in the group. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 27, 1916 Get out your Round-Up hat. It has been oficially decreed by the Round-Up and Happy Canyon authorities that anyone caught on the streets on the irst day of August which according to Tom Tweedy’s almanac is next Tuesday, wearing any other than a Round-Up sky piece, will please suffer to have that sky piece smashed, and it will be smashed. No plea in extenuation, moderation or damnation will avail for it must be a Round-Up bonnet. George Baer has been appointed master of ceremonies and the funerals will be held en masse the next day. Special rates have been made by Jim Brown and Ralph Folsom on the undertaking. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 27, 1966 Fifty thousand swarming bees kept a crowd at bay and Pendleton’s “bee man,” Clanson Scott, busy as, well, a bee, for an hour Monday. The swarm was discovered hanging on a limb at SW 4th and Goodwin. Area residents called police. Police called Scott, who said cold and dry weather earlier in the summer held back growth of lowers, resulting in a honey shortage. Scott, 73, carefully sawed off the limb holding the 10-pound swarm of bees. “It’s the largest swarm I’ve ever seen,” he said. It took three trips up the ladder before all the bees were collected in a hive Scott had brought along. He has more than a hundred hives in his bee yard. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 27, 1991 Cats are being shot and burned in the Sargent City neighborhood of Northwest 14th and 15th streets, a resident told police this morning. Joe Sullivan Jr. said the family pet was “torched” today. He said it appeared someone set off a irecracker on the cat’s backside. Sullivan said the small female cat “adopted us” about month and a half ago. He said the animal has become a friend of his children. Sullivan said, too, that at least two other cats in the neighborhood have been shot with BB or pellet guns in the last couple of weeks. 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 209th day of 2016. There are 157 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 27, 1996, terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, directly killing one person and injuring 111. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing, exonerating security guard Richard Jewell, who had been wrongly suspected.) On this date: In 1789, President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, fore- runner of the Department of State. In 1866, Cyrus W. Field inished laying out the irst successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe (a previous cable in 1858 burned out after only a few weeks’ use). In 1921, Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto. In 1946, American author, poet and publisher Gertrude Stein, 72, died in Neuilly-sur- Seine, France. In 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of ighting. In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president on the irst ballot at the Repub- lican national convention in Chicago. In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown said in Washington that violence was “as American as cherry pie.” In 1974, the House Judi- ciary Committee voted 27-11 to adopt the irst of three arti- cles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. In 1976, Air Force veteran Ray Brennan became the irst person to die of so-called “Legionnaire’s Disease” following an American Legion convention in Phila- delphia. In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60. Today’s Birthdays: TV producer Norman Lear is 94. Actor Jerry Van Dyke is 85. Sportscaster Irv Cross is 77. Actor John Pleshette is 74. Actress-director Betty Thomas is 69. Olympic gold medal igure skater Peggy Fleming is 68. Singer Maureen McGovern is 67. Actress Janet Eilber is 65. Rock musician Tris Imboden (Chicago) is 65. Actress Roxanne Hart is 62. Country musician Duncan Cameron is 60. Comedian-actress-writer Carol Leifer is 60. Comedian Bill Engvall is 59. Jazz singer Karrin Allyson is 54. Country singer Stacy Dean Campbell is 49. Rock singer Juliana Hatield is 49. Actor Julian McMahon is 48. Actor Nikolaj Coster- Waldau is 46. Comedian Maya Rudolph is 44. Rock musician Abe Cunningham is 43. Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn is 42. MLB All-Star Alex Rodriguez is 41. Actor Seamus Dever is 40. Actor Jonathan Rhys (rees) Meyers is 39. Actor Blair Redford is 33. Golfer Jordan Spieth is 23. Thought for Today: “We are always the same age inside.” — Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE