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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, August 18, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Cousin escaping mom’s abuse needs to ind her own space FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m a 21-year-old lock on your bedroom door could college student. Recently, my cousin guarantee that your cousin stays out (also 21) moved in with my parents in your absence. and me because her mom is verbally However, because you are all and mentally abusive. Lately, I’m adults — even though your cousin having issues with her being here. appears to be emotionally stuck in She constantly barges into my adolescence — some rules need to room, leaving me no time for myself. be established. If she would consider Most days she ends up napping in my it an attack if they come from you, Jeanne bed instead of hers, leaving drool on Phillips your parents should be the ones who my sheets. When she comes home deliver the message. Advice from school, she drops all of her things Dear Abby: I’m 13 and my in my room. My parents cleared out a problem is, when I look in the mirror, room for her, yet most of her stuff is in mine. all I can see is ugliness. My mother has heard She gets ready in my room instead of hers the way I talk about myself, and she doesn’t and talks on the phone with her boyfriend like it one bit. But I can’t seem to stop because loudly while I’m studying or reading. She’s all I hear is, “You’re ugly or you’re fat. Go on constantly complaining about school, her a diet!” Is there something wrong with me? boyfriend, work, etc. If I get invited some- Do I need help? If so, what type of help? — where, she tries to tag along. West Coast Teen I don’t know what to do. I need time for Dear West Coast Teen: Whether or not myself. I can’t bring these issues up to her you are overweight is something your doctor because she’s extremely sensitive and will see should determine. As to your being “ugly,” it as an attack. I don’t know how much longer most young teenagers go through a period I can take it because she is stuck here until of transition. Your problem isn’t your looks. November. Please help. — California Girl It’s the voice in your head. My advice to you Dear California Girl: You need to talk would be to concentrate on developing the to your parents about your cousin’s lack of things you are good at — sports, music, art, boundaries. Everyone needs personal time, drama — and let the rest take care of itself and yours should be respected. Installing a because it will. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 18, 1916 The scarcity of grouse and pheasants this year is due partly to their destruction by hawks is the belief of Deputy Game Warden George Tonkin who is in town today. Tonkin hears reports that many hunters are killing numbers of hawks. Tonkin advises that it would pay the hunters to waste a few rounds of ammunition on these bird destroyers despite the high cost of ammunition. Ten crates of Chinese pheas- ants have been received by Tonkin from the state ish and game commission during the past week and were liberated in the county. At one place where two crates were freed the hawks swooped down upon the pheasants as soon as they were turned from the boxes. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 18, 1966 It’s hailed as the greatest thing to hit the wheat harvest since the combine. The “it” is a big, bug-like machine that loats across the rough rolling wheat ields, litting from combine to combine gobbling bushel after bushel of wheat into its enormous hopper. It’s called a “bank-out wagon” and the farmers who have tried it swear it will replace the wheat truck and the crawler tractor. Dick Thompson and his father, Richard, own one of three “bank-out wagons” in existence. It has taken the place of six trucks on their Athena ranch. The balloon-tired wagon is the invention of a father and son trucking company at Touchet, Wash., just across the border from Umapine. The Rea Trucking Co. constructed its irst “bank-out wagon” last year. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 18, 1991 Kristopher “Kris” Jones, a 9-year-old from Pendleton, showed off natural stage presence when he won the Young American Stars National Competition in Las Vegas, Nev. Kris danced and sang a George M. Cohan medley of “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “You’re a Grand Old Flag” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” He and his mother choreo- graphed the routine. His accompaniment tape was produced by local music teachers Martha Warberg and Dan Lange. The Pendletonian captured irst place against six others in his division, ages 9 and 10. His prizes included $1,400 in savings bonds, a diamond pendant, trophy, crown and scepter. “I think it’s real cool,” Kris said about winning. And he didn’t suffer stage fright. “The bigger the crowd the better,” he quipped. 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 231st day of 2016. There are 135 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 18, 1846, during the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny occupied Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico. On this date: In 1587, Virginia Dare became the irst child of English parents to be born in present-day America, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina. (However, the Roanoke colony ended up mysteriously disappearing.) In 1838, the irst marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government set sail from Hampton Roads, Virginia; the crews traveled the southern Paciic Ocean, gathering scientiic informa- tion. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I. In 1920, the 19th Amend- ment to the Constitution, guaranteeing all American women’s right to vote, was ratiied as Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada. In 1954, during the Eisenhower administration, Assistant Secretary of Labor James Ernest Wilkins became the irst black oficial to attend a meeting of the president’s Cabinet as he sat in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. In 1958, the novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov was irst published in New York by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, almost three years after it was originally published in Paris. In 1963, James Meredith became the irst black student to graduate from the Univer- sity of Mississippi. In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, wound to a close after three nights with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix. In 1976, two U.S. Army oficers were killed in Korea’s demilitarized zone as a group of North Korean soldiers wielding axes and metal pikes attacked U.S. and South Korean soldiers. Today’s Birthdays: Former irst lady Rosa- lynn Carter is 89. Movie director Roman Polanski is 83. Olympic gold medal decathlete Rafer Johnson is 81. Actor-director Robert Redford is 80. Actor Henry G. Sanders is 74. Actor-co- median Martin Mull is 73. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sarah Dash (LaBelle) is 71. Rock musician Dennis Elliott is 66. Country singer Jamie O’Hara is 66. Comedian Elayne Boosler is 64. Actor Denis Leary is 59. Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is 55. ABC News reporter Bob Woodruff is 55. The former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, is 54. Actor Adam Storke is 54. Rock singer and hip-hop artist Everlast is 47. Rapper Masta Killa (Wu-Tang Clan) is 47. Actor Christian Slater is 47. Actor Edward Norton is 47. Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner is 46. Actress Kaitlin Olson is 41. Actor-come- dian Andy Samberg (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 38. Thought for Today: “In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.” — Learned Hand, American jurist (born 1872, died this date in 1961). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE