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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, October 28, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man’s house isn’t big enough
for wife’s many grandchildren
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been with my
She has now started to embarrass
wife for 16 years. She has a grown
me when she drinks in public. She
daughter who’s the mother of eight
doesn’t handle it well and relies on me
kids, but she only has five with her at
to get her out of sticky situations. I’m
this time.
really tired of all this. I have told her
My problem is, the daughter got
how I feel, but she knows I’ll come
evicted, and all of a sudden she brought
to her rescue. — Tired Guardian
her belongings to the house. She didn’t
Angel
ask or anything, she just showed up
Dear Tired: Draw the line. Tell
Jeanne
with the five kids and they are driving Phillips her you are her friend, but not her
me up the wall. I already have two
chaperone, and you will socialize
Advice
adolescent kids, so seven ain’t heaven.
with her only if she limits her intake
I have tried to talk with my wife,
to nonalcoholic beverages. One of
but she doesn’t listen. I’m fed up, Abby, and the signs of alcoholism is when the drinking
I’m looking for other accommodations. They interferes with the drinker’s relationships —
have been here for two weeks and — by the and clearly, this is what’s happening. Do not
way — my sons are now in school while her allow her to continue making her drinking
five are running wild in the house. Am I wrong your problem because you cannot control it.
for leaving? — Needs My Own Space
Only she can do that.
Dear Needs: Not in my book. Your
Dear Abby: At holiday time, my husband’s
mistake was in letting your wife’s daughter’s family takes a photo of all the brothers
eviction become your problem. I don’t know and sisters and insists that the spouses not
whose name is on the lease or title to your be included in the photo. The first time it
place, but it’s time to discuss this with an happened, I thought it was rude, but after 40
attorney. If you don’t, you may have more years, I have gotten used to it. However, my
trouble getting the woman and her brood out daughter-in-law, who is new to the family,
of there in the future.
was hurt by it. Am I wrong in thinking this is
Dear Abby: My friend whom I have rude? — In Or Out Of The Picture
known since we were 8-year-olds (we’re now
Dear In Or Out: I don’t think you’re
in our 50s) is driving me bonkers. She has wrong. When people are excluded, they
started drinking a lot and hanging out with don’t feel accepted as part of the family —
younger people and dating younger guys. I and they’re right. Are more photos taken
have loaned her quite a bit of money because that include all family members including
she can barely get by. I don’t drink, and I hate husbands, wives and children? And if not,
seeing what she’s doing to herself. I think she why would the spouses tolerate it for 40 years
is having trouble with the aging process.
without speaking up?
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 28, 1916
Leo Ledgerwood, twelve-year-old son
of Sam Ledgerwood of Ukiah, came near
meeting with a serious if not fatal accident
Thursday morning near Albee when the team
he was driving became frightened at a wagon
standing beside the road and started to run.
They ran into rough ground when the wagon
seat was thrown off and the boy fell in behind
the horses and then to the ground, and he says
two wheels passed over him. Dr. De Vaul
being called, says there are not bones broken
or no serious internal injuries, that he can find.
But how the boy escaped death is a mystery.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 28, 1966
The computer age and how it is used in
schools will be the object of a visit to the
Midwest by seven Oregon school officials
Oct. 30 to Nov. 4. Taking part in the trip is Ellis
Neal, superintendent of Pendleton School
District 16-R. Neal and three other superin-
tendents from Oregon schools along with
three technicians from Project OTIS, Oregon
Total Information System, will view how data
processing is used in schools in Iowa City,
Chicago, Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. Under
a possible state-wide data processing system,
Pendleton could be a regional service center
for surrounding schools. Data processing can
be used in schools for grading, classroom
scheduling and in making analysis of curric-
ulum. Neal said he foresees data processing
being used in Pendleton within the next year
or two.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 28, 1991
Blaine Downey made a promise to his
football players at the beginning of the school
year. If they finished the season undefeated,
he said, he would have his hair shaved off in
front of the student body. Last Thursday the
junior high school counselor had to make
good on his promise. His seventh grade
Bullpup team at Armand Larive Junior High
in Hermiston finished the season the day
before with a perfect 6-0 record, coming from
behind in the second half to beat Pioneer of
Walla Walla 32-16. With a big, aggressive
line and some powerhouse running by Mike
Powell, who terrorized opponents with “at
least” 19 touchdowns, the Bullpups ran over
teams from the Tri-Cities, Walla Walla, Pend-
leton and Umatilla.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 302nd day of
2016. There are 64 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Oct. 28, 1886, the
Statue of Liberty, a gift
from the people of France,
was dedicated in New York
Harbor by President Grover
Cleveland.
On this date:
In 1636, the General Court
of Massachusetts passed a
legislative act establishing
Harvard College.
In 1776, the Battle of
White Plains was fought
during the Revolutionary
War, resulting in a limited
British victory.
In 1914, Yugoslav nation-
alist Gavrilo Princip, whose
assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria
and Sophie, Duchess of
Hohenberg, sparked World
War I, was sentenced in
Sarajevo to 20 years’ impris-
onment. (He died in 1918.)
In
1936,
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt rededi-
cated the Statue of Liberty on
its 50th anniversary.
In 1940, Italy invaded
Greece during World War II.
In 1958, the Roman
Catholic patriarch of Venice,
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli,
was elected Pope; he took the
name John XXIII. The Samuel
Beckett play “Krapp’s Last
Tape” premiered in London.
In 1962, Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev informed
the United States that he
had ordered the dismantling
of missile bases in Cuba;
in return, the U.S. secretly
agreed to remove nuclear
missiles from U.S. installa-
tions in Turkey.
In 1965, Pope Paul VI
issued a Declaration on the
Relation of the Church with
Non-Christian
Religions
which, among other things,
absolved Jews of collective
guilt for the crucifixion of
Jesus Christ.
In 1976, former Nixon
aide John D. Ehrlichman
entered a federal prison
camp in Safford, Arizona, to
begin serving his sentence
for Watergate-related convic-
tions (he was released in
April 1978).
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz
singer Cleo Laine is 89.
Actress Joan Plowright is 87.
Musician-songwriter Charlie
Daniels is 80. Actress Jane
Alexander is 77. Actor Dennis
Franz is 72. Pop singer Wayne
Fontana is 71. Actress Telma
Hopkins is 68. Olympic
track and field gold medalist
Caitlyn Jenner is 67. Micro-
soft co-founder Bill Gates is
61. The former president of
Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
is 60. Rock musician Stephen
Morris (New Order) is 59.
Country/gospel singer-musi-
cian Ron Hemby (The Buffalo
Club) is 58. Rock singer-mu-
sician William Reid (The
Jesus & Mary Chain) is 58.
Actor-comedian Andy Richter
is 50. Actress Julia Roberts is
49. Singer Ben Harper is 47.
Country singer Brad Paisley
is 44. Actor Joaquin Phoenix
is 42. Singer/rapper Frank
Ocean is 29.
Thought for Today:
“Next to excellence is
the appreciation of it.”
— William Makepeace
Thackeray, British author
(1811-1863).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE