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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, October 7, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Temper tantrum puts an end to 15-year-long friendship FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am having to part didn’t know if I was coming or going. ways with someone I have known for Dealing with insurance, contractors, family and a job was almost more than 15 years. This person has done many I could handle. The last thing I needed good things for me. On the other hand, to hear was, “What’s for dinner?” he has also thrown more insults at If I have one piece of advice to offer me than anyone else in my lifetime. to people who want to help friends, it At the snap of a inger, this normally would be, “Give them gift cards from good-hearted person has insulted me, local restaurants.” I know how much insisted I was wrong (when I wasn’t) Jeanne or dumped cold water on something I Phillips I hated to speak up and say I needed help, so don’t ask, just DO if you see was enthusiastic about. Advice something needs to be done. A week ago, I approached him This idea also works well in lieu calmly and told him I was uncom- fortable with his put-downs. Well, he threw of lowers or home-cooked meals when an over-the-top temper tantrum the likes of someone dies. We gave a friend several gift which I have never seen, accused me of being cards for area restaurants when her husband “weak-kneed” and stomped away. I have died. When out-of-town company came in for the funeral, she said they came in handy for inally had it. I mentioned it to a friend who is a psychol- her. — Hopefully Helpful Dear Hopefully Helpful: People are often ogist and he said this person has all the character traits of a raging narcissist. I’m now at a loss about how to help during a crisis, convinced this person will never change and and this isn’t something that usually comes to I cannot understand the pettiness he reverts mind. Your suggestion is a good one. Thank to. Can you comment? — Breaking Away In you for writing. Dear Abby: Is there a proper way for a man Miami Dear Breaking Away: If you feel it is to introduce himself to an attractive woman in better for you to distance yourself from this a public place like a store or a museum? — “friend,” then that’s what you should do. He Dan In San Francisco Dear Dan: It’s not dificult. If you’re in a may be a jackass; however, it is unwise to label someone who hasn’t been FORMALLY store, ask for her advice about a product. If you’re in a museum, strike up a conversation diagnosed as having a personality disorder. Dear Abby: A year ago we had a house about an artist or a painting, sculpture, etc. ire. While insurance put us up in housing, it Then introduce yourself and keep talking. If took a while to ind a place. That irst month I she’s receptive, she’ll give you her name. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 7, 1916 J. Bothwell Avison, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Avison of this city, has been honored with the appointment of manager of the University of Oregon glee clubs including the men’s and women’s organizations. Avison has been a member of the boys’ glee club for three years. It is thought the girls’ club will make a trip to Eastern Oregon next spring. Avison is a junior in the university school of law. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 7, 1966 An attempt to encourage more housing developments in Pendleton by loosening subdivision restrictions was food for thought at the planning commission meeting Thursday. Stan Wallulis, local consulting engineer, had earlier told city oficials the current tight money market, coupled with the city’s tough subdivision ordinance, was making it exceed- ingly dificult for a subdivider to develop tracts of land within the city. He said in fact the present ordinance is retarding housing growth here. The existing subdivision and platting ordinance requires that a developer, upon receiving his inal plat, must either put in all improvements for the entire plat then, or furnish a bond to this effect. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 7, 1991 A Hermiston man was arrested Saturday on a charge of attempted murder following an altercation with a Hermiston police oficer. Michael Marcum, a Hermiston police oficer, received several small cuts to his right hand and ingers, a bruised right ear and a scraped knee when a man he was attempting to arrest pulled a knife. Ramiro B. Ruiz of Hermiston has been charge with attempted murder, driving under the inluence, attempting to elude, resisting arrest and driving while suspended in connection with the incident. Ruiz, who is listed as a student at Blue Mountain Community College, is being held without bail on the attempted murder charge in the Umatilla County Jail. 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 281st day of 2016. There are 85 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 7, 1916, in the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta. On this date: In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England. In 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore at age 40. In 1858, the ifth debate between Illinois senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place in Galesburg. In 1929, former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, one of the main igures of the Teapot Dome scandal, went on trial, charged with accepting a bribe from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny. (Fall was found guilty and sentenced to a year in prison; he served nine months. Doheny was acquitted at his own trial of offering the bribe Fall was convicted of taking.) In 1949, the Republic of East Germany was formed. In 1954, Marian Anderson became the irst black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York. In 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and Republican opponent Richard Nixon held their second televised debate, this one in Wash- ington, D.C. In 1979, Pope John Paul II concluded his week-long tour of the United States with a Mass on the Washington Mall. In 1982, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical “Cats” opened on Broadway. In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean. (The hijackers killed Leon Kling- hoffer, a Jewish-American tourist, before surrendering on Oct. 9.) In 1991, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him; Thomas denied Hill’s allegations. In 1996, Fox News Channel made its debut. Today’s Birthdays: Retired South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu is 85. Author Thomas Keneally is 81. Comedian Joy Behar is 74. Former National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North (ret.) is 73. Rock musi- cian Kevin Godley (10cc) is 71. Actress Jill Larson is 69. Country singer Kieran Kane is 67. Singer John Mellen- camp is 65. Rock musician Ricky Phillips is 65. Actress Mary Badham (Film: “To Kill a Mockingbird”) is 64. Rock musician Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) is 63. Actress Chris- topher Norris is 61. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is 61. Gospel singer Michael W. Smith is 59. Olympic gold medal ice dancer Jayne Torvill is 59. Recording executive and TV personality Simon Cowell is 57. Rock musician Charlie Marinkovich (Iron Butterly) is 57. Rock singer-musician Thom Yorke (Radiohead) is 48. Electronic musician Flying Lotus (AKA Stephen Ellison) is 33. Thought for Today: “If a man happens to ind himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.” — James Michener, American author (1907-1997). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
