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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, August 16, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Daughter turned against mom must be set straight FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have a problem with ables regarding why a person would my two younger sisters. Neither one want an aisle seat. Among them would be access to the bathroom, a person’s can have children. I have three. size or a desire for more personal Recently, one of my sisters turned space. If sitting in the middle seat in my sweetest daughter against me by close proximity to a man you don’t telling her I had “abandoned her” know would bother you, mention it to when I moved to Ohio with my one of the cabin crew and request a oldest son and divorced their father. change, or just switch seats with your Not true! I left my daughter with my Jeanne sister so she could experience raising Phillips travel companion. Dear Abby: I’m a retired man a teenager since she couldn’t have a Advice who took a community college class. child of her own. My lab partner was a young woman After telling my daughter I had abandoned her, my sister advised her to tell who was having dificulties attending the me she never wanted to talk to me again. My class. She wasn’t there for the inal exam, and heart is broken. My daughter is very sweet I wondered if she had dropped the course. I and gullible. She has taken her aunt’s side and did not have her phone number or her email says she wants nothing to do with me. This address, but she had mentioned she worked at is driving me crazy. Please tell me what to a nearby bank, so I went to visit her there. We talked for a few minutes and she told me she do. — Heartbroken In The Midwest Dear Heartbroken: If your daughter is a had actually done quite well in the class. When I told my wife and daughter about it, minor, demand that she return to you imme- diately. Do it through a lawyer, if necessary, they were shocked. They said what I did was because what your sister is doing is a form inappropriate because of the age difference of parental alienation. If your daughter is an and she could have gotten into trouble at her adult, then ask your other two children to talk job. Abby, they almost accused me of stalking her. to their sister and set her straight. I don’t understand why they considered Dear Abby: When a couple is on an airplane in a section with three seats (window, this inappropriate. Is there a social rule that middle, aisle) and a male stranger has the makes my behavior incorrect? I ind it hard window seat, should the woman sit in the to believe someone would get into trouble middle seat beside the male stranger, or in the for talking to a person in the bank at any age. aisle seat exposed to all passengers walking Gender should not be a concern. I would have done the same thing had she been a man my by? — Traveler In Vancouver, B.C. Dear Traveler: When someone makes an own age. — Am I Missing Something? Dear Am I: You appear to be a very nice airline reservation, a particular seat is usually assigned and the airline expects the passenger person. What you are “missing” is the fact to sit there unless the crew is notiied and that your wife is insecure, and your daughter approves the change. There are many vari- backed her mother up. You did nothing wrong. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 15-16, 1916 Lost — one ranch of 160 acres situated somewhere on South Cold Spring Canyon. Owner will pay suitable reward for locate of same. Inquire of Frank Neagle for further particulars. For 25 years or more Mr. Neagle has owned a quarter section of wheat land north of Pendleton. He has not farmed it himself and seldom has visited it in recent years, having it leased out. Sunday he decided to pay a visit to it to look over the crop. He drove out and spent many vain hours traveling over the north end of the county in search of it. He may have passed right by it with recognizing it. Anyway he had to return home without having located it. Hence, his distress. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 15-16, 1966 Dark-haired, green-eyed Marsha THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN McCormmach is the fourth member of her family to become a member of the Pendleton Round-Up court. Her sister, Maureen, was a princess last year; her mother, Mrs. Marshall McCormmach, was a princess in 1939. And her grandmother, Mrs. Richard Thompson, was the irst Round-Up queen to ride horse- back, in 1913. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 15-16, 1991 Production could start here as early as next spring on a multi-million dollar movie, local coordinators said Wednesday. Plans for the production of “The Dirt Brothers” — which will focus on “men’s experiences and emotions” — was conirmed by the executive producer, Jacques Nichols of Lake Oswego. Nichols said he’s delighted to be coming to Pendleton. Pendleton businessmen Greg Brooks and Phil Garton have been instrumental in bringing the ilm makers to Pendleton. Today is the 229th day of 2016. There are 137 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 16, 1777, American forces won the Battle of Bennington in what was considered a turning point of the Revolu- tionary War. On this date: In 1812, Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812. In 1858, a telegraphed message from Britain’s Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was trans- mitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable. In 1937, the American Federation of Radio Artists was chartered. In 1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53. In 1954, Sports Illus- trated was irst published by Time Inc. In 1956, Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Demo- cratic National Convention in Chicago. In 1962, The Beatles ired their original drummer, Pete Best, replacing him with Ringo Starr. In 1976, the ABBA single “Dancing Queen” was released in Sweden. In 1977, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 42. In 1978, James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told a Capitol Hill hearing he did not commit the crime, saying he’d been set up by a mysterious man called “Raoul.” In 1987, 156 people were killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from Detroit; the sole survivor was 4-year-old Cecelia Cichan. In 1991, Pope John Paul II began the irst-ever papal visit to Hungary. In 2006: A former Amer- ican school teacher, John Mark Karr, was arrested in Thailand as a suspect in the 1996 slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado. (Karr’s confession that he had killed JonBenet was later discred- ited.) Today’s Birthdays: Actress Ann Blyth is 88. Actor Gary Clarke is 83. Actress Julie Newmar is 83. Actor John Standing is 82. College Football Hall of Famer and NFL player Bill Glass is 81. Actress Anita Gillette is 80. Actress Carole Shelley is 77. Country singer Billy Joe Shaver is 77. Movie director Bruce Beresford is 76. Actor Bob Balaban is 71. Ballerina Suzanne Farrell is 71. Actress Lesley Ann Warren is 70. Actor Marshall Manesh is 66. Rock singer-musician Joey Spam- pinato is 66. Actor Reginald VelJohnson is 64. TV person- ality Kathie Lee Gifford is 63. Movie director James Cameron is 62. Actor Jeff Perry is 61. Rock musician Tim Farriss (INXS) is 59. Singer Madonna is 58. Actor Steve Carell is 54. Country singer Emily Robison (The Dixie Chicks) is 44. Singer Vanessa Carlton is 36. Thought for Today: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” — Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman (1804-1881). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
