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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