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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, October 13, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Husband’s partisan politics are dominating social visits FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband is very may be possible to have an occasional political, and around election time he drink without falling completely off becomes engrossed in news shows. the wagon, but I wouldn’t recommend He has a habit of showing his favorite it. And as to keeping a bottle of vodka political news clips to friends when around to nip into “every now and they visit. then,” I think that makes as much I am uncomfortable with this, sense as keeping a box of chocolates as I feel our friends are too polite to in the house if someone is addicted to sweets. (And many of us are!) decline, and they allow my husband to Jeanne Dear Abby: My sister-in-law preach politics to them out of courtesy Phillips wants to choose the gifts we give to the host. They are like-minded, Advice them. She doesn’t have enough politically speaking, and the few who manners to smile, accept a gift and say aren’t are not going to be swayed by “thank you” as we were raised to do. She told comedy news shows. I excuse myself from the room when he us, “All those educational toys you gave my begins his sermons. I have asked him to stop son, I donated them!” I have donated much of doing this when friends visit, but he refuses. what she has given us, but I would never tell How can I persuade him to just have “friends her that. She’s now ordering toys and having them time” with no politics? — Politically Unmo- delivered to our home for us to wrap and give tivated Dear Politically Unmotivated: You to her son. I had already bought a kaleido- can’t. You aren’t going to change your scope, books, racetrack and a huge jar of little husband. Fortunately, most of your friends are cars to use as rewards since he’s 4 and still not politically like-minded. Those who ind his potty-trained. She sent us a thank-you note entertainment to be offensive will postpone (the irst one ever) for the gifts THEY sent us seeing you until after the election is over. So to give my nephew, but did not mention the eight items I bought! Please help me cope with stop stressing. Dear Abby: Is it OK for a person who went this extremely rude sister-in-law. — Trying to AA a few years ago and has gone totally To Cope In Texas Dear Trying: I’ll try. As I see it, you have alcohol-free, to start having a beer every other night or even keep a bottle of vodka around to two choices: The irst is to decide to “go have every now and then? Or should you stay along with the program.” The second would alcohol-free to be sure that this issue doesn’t be to tell her she has taken all the joy out of gift-giving and, in the future, you will not be happen again? — Alcohol-Free Dear Alcohol-Free: For some individuals it participating in the charade. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 13, 1916 Corn seventeen feet high, some stalks loaded with six ears, stands in the ield of Alfred Franz in the Weston country. The corn crop in that section was above average and a number of farmers are busy piling the 1916 crop. While the majority of the residents are awaiting a rain before seeding, a number have commenced. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 13, 1966 The Blue Mountain Community College board of directors Wednesday night gave full approval to a proposal by Denzal R. Satterwhite, Pendleton contractor, to erect a $180,000 dormitory unit adjacent to the east border of the campus and designed to house 60 students. President Wallace McCrae told the board of the project, which has been in the making for more than a year, and said it represented the initial step in a privately built dormitory complex which eventually might house as many as 240 or more students, depending on the need for such quarters. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 13, 1991 Hermiston’s Brian Scott broke loose for 104 yards and a touchdown to lead the Bulldogs to a 17-10 Intermountain Conference high school football victory over the Redmond Panthers Friday. Scott, the IMC rushing leader, had been held well below his average in the Bulldogs’ last two games, but he chewed up Redmond’s defense, last in the league against the rush. Hermiston, which led all the way, scored what proved to be the winning touchdown on a 40-yard pass from quarterback Scott Clark to Keith Johnson in the fourth quarter. 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 287th day of 2016. There are 79 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia. On this date: In A.D. 54, Roman Emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrip- pina. In 1775, the United States Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval leet. In 1843, the Jewish orga- nization B’nai B’rith was founded in New York City. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. In 1944, during World War II, American troops entered Aachen, Germany. In 1957, CBS-TV broad- cast “The Edsel Show,” a one-hour live special star- ring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. (It was the irst special to use videotape technology to delay the broadcast to the West Coast.) In 1962, Edward Albee’s four-character drama “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened on Broadway. In 1966, actor-singer- dancer Clifton Webb, 76, died in Los Angeles. In 1972, a Uruguayan chartered light carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes; survivors resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later. In 1981, voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassina- tion of Anwar Sadat. In 1999, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, with 48 senators voting in favor and 51 against, far short of the 67 needed for ratiication. In Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old beauty queen’s 1996 slaying. In 2010, rescuers in Chile using a missile-like escape capsule pulled 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground. Today’s Birthdays: Gospel singer Shirley Caesar is 79. Actress Melinda Dillon is 77. Singer-musician Paul Simon is 75. Actress Pamela Tifin is 74. Musician Robert Lamm (Chicago) is 72. Country singer Lacy J. Dalton is 70. Actor Demond Wilson is 70. Singer-musician Sammy Hagar is 69. Pop singer John Ford Coley is 68. Actor John Lone is 64. Model Beverly Johnson is 64. Producer-writer Chris Carter is 60. Actor Reggie Theus is 59. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is 58. Singer Marie Osmond is 57. Rock singer Joey Bella- donna is 56. Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer is 56. NBA coach Doc Rivers is 55. Actress T’Keyah Crystal Keymah is 54. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice is 54. Actress Kelly Preston is 54. Country singer John Wiggins is 54. Actor Christopher Judge is 52. Olympic silver-medal igure skater Nancy Kerrigan is 47. Country singer Rhett Akins is 47. TV personality Billy Bush is 45. Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is 45. Thought for Today: “There are some things one can only achieve by a delib- erate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to ind the home one has lost.” — Franz Kafka, author (1883-1924). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
