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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Let grandma decide how much
baby-sitting she wants to do
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: Is it wrong to drop off
feeling needed keeps them young.
a 1- and a 5-year-old at a senior assist-
The way to gauge any negative impact
ed-living center for their great-grand-
on your mother’s health would be if it
mother to baby-sit in her room? My
causes a flare-up of her condition —
niece does this weekly, claiming she’s
at which point her doctor should be
giving my mother “quality time” with
notified so he/she can put a stop to it.
her great-grandchildren.
Dear Abby: Are parents of the
My mother is in the assisted-living
bride required to foot the cost of the
center due to issues my dad is
wedding (averaging over $25,000
Jeanne
encountering. She’s very independent Phillips in the U.S. nowadays) anymore?
and, of course, wants to help any of
I understand they were years ago,
Advice
her family whenever she can. But
when it was a part of her dowry, but
Mom has an autoimmune disease that
in modern times I have heard of such
flares up with stress or when she gets tired. a thing only in your column — unless the
I’m concerned about her health and feel my family is rich and Daddy pays for everything.
niece is taking advantage of her. Of course,
I can’t imagine asking my parents to pay
my sister sides with her daughter. They have for my wedding. My fiancé and I are aiming
told me to butt out.
for — dress included — $1,000 or less. Are
I don’t want to confront the management parents actually expected to spend thousands
of the facility because I want Mom to feel as on their daughter’s wedding? It’s their
independent as possible there. I don’t want daughter and son-in-law who want it. — Just
them to not allow her to do something she Asking In British Columbia
really wants to do. I have safety concerns,
Dear Just Asking: No. A wedding is a
though, and feel this is not right. What do you GIFT, and while it would be generous for the
think? — Torn In Texas
parents to pitch in, there is no requirement
Dear Torn: I’m not sure what your safety that they do so.
concerns are, but if you think the assist-
Thought For The Day:
ed-living center could be legally liable, you
The question now that really vexes
should address them to the manager.
Is where we’re gonna place our “X”es.
As to the baby-sitting being too stressful
Voting, folks, should not upset ya —
or tiring for your mother, leave it up to her to
Be glad we’re livin’ where they let ya. —
decide if it’s too much. Some seniors find that XO, Abby
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 7-8, 1916
The Washington school was last night
thoroughly fumigated as a precautionary
measure against the spread of contagious
diseases. Two cases of scarlet fever were
reported yesterday in one room of the school
but physicians have no fear of an epidemic.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 7-8, 1966
A Union Pacific Railroad brakeman lost
part of his right hand and received chest and
head injuries after he was caught between a
railroad car and an unloading dock at a rock
crushing pit seven miles west of Pendleton
Monday. Listed in critical condition at
Pendleton Community Hospital is Archer A.
Antles, 56, of La Grande, who was switching
cars at the Barnhart siding. Antles was braking
a car when he became trapped between the
car and the loading dock. He was struck by
the car. The battered and bleeding brakeman
had to crawl to summon help and was taken
to the hospital by ambulance, arriving shortly
after 5:50 p.m. He was immediately taken to
surgery.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 7-8, 1991
Pending approval from the state Depart-
ment of Environmental Quality, a medical
waste destruction firm is ready to set up
shop in Boardman. Commissioners at the
Port of Morrow approved a 30-year lease for
Therm-Tec Destruction Services of Oregon
during a special meeting Wednesday. The
Sherwood-based company will pay $4,000 a
year to conduct business at the port, plus 10
cents for every box of medical waste inciner-
ated at the plant. The plant will be located on
four acres of land in the northeast corner of the
Port of Morrow’s industrial-zoned property.
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 313th day of
2016. There are 53 days left
in the year. This is Election
Day.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On Nov. 8, 1966, Edward
W.
Brooke,
R-Mass.,
became the first black candi-
date to be elected to the U.S.
Senate by popular vote.
Republican Ronald Reagan
was
elected
governor
of California, defeating
Democratic incumbent Pat
Brown. President Lyndon B.
Johnson signed a measure
allowing the merger of the
American Football League
and the National Football
League.
On this date:
In 1793, the Louvre
began admitting the public,
even though the French
museum had been officially
open since August.
In
1864,
President
Abraham Lincoln won
re-election as he defeated
Democratic
challenger
George B. McClellan.
In
1889,
Montana
became the 41st state.
In 1923, Adolf Hitler
launched his first attempt at
seizing power in Germany
with a failed coup in Munich
that came to be known as
the “Beer-Hall Putsch.”
In 1932, New York
Democratic Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt defeated
incumbent
Republican
Herbert Hoover for the
presidency.
In 1942, Operation
Torch, resulting in an Allied
victory, began during World
War II as U.S. and British
forces landed in French
North Africa.
In 1950, during the
Korean War, the first
jet-plane battle took place as
U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J.
Brown shot down a North
Korean MiG-15.
In 1960, Massachusetts
Sen. John F. Kennedy
defeated Vice President
Richard M. Nixon for the
presidency.
In 1974, a federal judge
in Cleveland dismissed
charges
against
eight
Ohio National Guardsmen
accused of violating the
civil rights of students who
were killed or wounded in
the 1970 Kent State shoot-
ings.
In 1986, former Soviet
official Vyacheslav M.
Molotov, whose name
became attached to the
incendiary bottle bomb
known as a “Molotov cock-
tail,” died at age 96.
In 1988, Vice President
George H.W. Bush won
the presidential election,
defeating the Democratic
nominee,
Massachusetts
Gov. Michael Dukakis.
In 1994, midterm elec-
tions resulted in Republi-
cans winning a majority in
the Senate while at the same
time gaining control of the
House for the first time in
40 years.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Norman Lloyd is 102. Actress
Stephane Audran is 84. Actor
Alain Delon is 81. Singer-ac-
tress Bonnie Bramlett is 72.
Singer Bonnie Raitt is 67. TV
personality Mary Hart is 66.
Former Playboy Enterprises
chairman and chief executive
Christie Hefner is 64. Actress
Alfre Woodard is 64. Sing-
er-songwriter Rickie Lee
Jones is 62. Author Kazuo
Ishiguro is 62. Rock musi-
cian Porl Thompson (The
Cure) is 59. Singer-actor Leif
Garrett is 55. Chef and TV
personality Gordon Ramsay
is 50. Actress Courtney
Thorne-Smith is 49. Actress
Parker Posey is 48. Rock
musician Jimmy Chaney is
47. Actress Roxana Zal is
47. Singer Diana King is 46.
Actor Gonzalo Menendez
is 45. Rock musician Scott
Devendorf (The National) is
44. Actress Gretchen Mol is
43. ABC News anchor David
Muir is 43. Actor Matthew
Rhys is 42. Actress Tara Reid
is 41. Country singer Bucky
Covington is 39. Actress
Dania Ramirez is 37. Actress
Azura Skye is 35. Actor Chris
Rankin is 33. TV personality
Jack Osbourne is 31.
Thought for Today:
“Remember one thing about
democracy. We can have
anything we want and at the
same time, we always end
up with exactly what we
deserve.” — Edward Albee,
American playwright (1928-
2016).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE