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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, November 11, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Longtime addict seeks to end
downward spiral of his life
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I am a 46-year-old
Because programs to help people
drug user. I have been addicted for
break their drug habit usually cost
more than 20 years. I know it’s wrong.
money — which you don’t have —
I know I can be a better person. I got
go to www.na.org to find the location
hooked when a supposed friend intro-
of the nearest Narcotics Anonymous
duced me to crack in 1992. If I could
meeting. As you may already know,
only go back to that day, I’d kick the
NA is a fellowship in which addicts
you-know-what out of him. I was all
help each other to get off and stay off
set to make something of my life.
drugs. Please give it a try because it
Jeanne
In 2010, my dad was diagnosed Phillips could save your life.
with lung cancer. It only got worse. I
Dear Abby: My friend Bryan
Advice
have hurt the people I care about the
and I were at a sports bar watching
most. I have stolen from my mom. I
a football game. We had ordered a
have written checks on her bank account and large pizza, but had time for only one slice
pawned her jewelry. I don’t know what to do. before we had to leave. I wanted to offer the
I know I’m depressed since Dad died. I’m remaining pizza to a group of college-age
also disabled and on disability. I pretty much students sitting at a nearby table. Bryan was
kept everything in check until 2001 when horrified and insisted we just leave. He said
I lost the job I’d held for 17 years. I have to offer the pizza would be insulting.
drifted from job to job ever since.
When I pointed out that another couple
So there it is. I have developed COPD. had once given us a half-filled bottle of cham-
I’m on oxygen full time and can’t work. I pagne (they were heading to the theater), we
ask myself why I’m suddenly doing three accepted and appreciated it. He said that was
and four times more than I’ve ever done. Do different. What do you think? — Trying To
you think I’m that depressed? That I’m trying Be Nice In L.a.
to speed my own death? I’m at a loss and
Dear Trying To Be Nice: I think you’re
need some guidance. I contemplate suicide a nicer person than your friend Bryan. If the
daily, but I guess I’m too much of a coward. crowd at the next table was insulted, they
Can you help me? — End Of My Rope In could have refused your generous offer.
Florida
Bryan may have nixed the idea because he
Dear End Of Your Rope: At this point, didn’t think of it first.
the only person who can help you is yourself.
Dear Veterans: I salute you for your
The problem with using drugs is that after service to this country. My thanks to each of
a period of time, the body builds up a toler- you, as well as to the brave men and women
ance, and it takes more and more of them to who are still on active duty. You are the
achieve a high. This may be why your use has personification of patriotism and self-sacrifice
increased the way it has.
for your dedication to our country. — Abby
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 11, 1916
Though the “bone dry” prohibition
amendment undoubtedly carried at the recent
election, it will not become a part of the law
until the secretary of state has announced the
official result and the governor has issued a
proclamation. And even then there is some
doubt expressed as to whether it will be
enforced. District Attorney Frederick Steiwer
this morning stated in an interview that,
as he is now advised, he does not believe
the amendment is enforceable because it is
unconstitutional and because no penalty is
provided in it.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 11, 1966
Would you like to see 50 cents from every
hunting and fishing license put into a special
fund for building and stocking new lakes?
Jump on the bandwagon, then, and let your
legislators know. The proposal is being made
by an organization that has its headquarters
in Pilot Rock, Preservation of Recreation of
Natural Resources formed by James Hoskins
and Archie Rugg. Hoskins and Rugg are
campaigning hard for the group’s idea. They
have, at their personal expense, printed and
mailed copies of a proposed bill to all sports-
men’s clubs in the state. Rep. Irvin Mann,
R-Stanfield, had the legislation written for the
group, Hoskins said.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 11, 1991
When Germany signed the armistice
ending World War I 73 years ago today,
Marion Rhinehart was a 22-year-old private
in the medical corps at Camp Bowie, Texas.
The end of the war came just in time for
Rhinehart, who was scheduled for transfer
to the Western Front when the war ended
on Nov. 11, 1918. Rhinehart, 97, is part of a
pioneer Ukiah-area family. He lives in Pend-
leton, where he moved in 1973. He retired
in 1962 after a lifetime of homesteading and
ranching. He and his wife, Anna, have been
married for 41 years.
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 316th day of
2016. There are 50 days left in
the year. This is Veterans Day
in the U.S., Remembrance
Day in Canada.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting
in World War I ended as the
Allies and Germany signed
an armistice in the Forest of
Compiegne.
On this date:
In 1620, 41 Pilgrims
aboard the Mayflower,
anchored off Massachusetts,
signed a compact calling for
a “body politick.”
In 1778, British redcoats,
Tory rangers and Seneca
Indians in central New York
killed more than 40 people in
the Cherry Valley Massacre.
In 1831, former slave Nat
Turner, who’d led a violent
insurrection, was executed in
Jerusalem, Virginia.
In 1889, Washington
became the 42nd state.
In 1916, “Mountain
Interval,”
a
collection
of Robert Frost poems,
including “The Road Not
Taken” and “Out, Out” was
published by Henry Holt and
Co.
In 1921, the remains of
an unidentified American
service member were interred
in a Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier at Arlington National
Cemetery in a ceremony
presided over by President
Warren G. Harding.
In 1938, Irish-born cook
Mary Mallon, who’d gained
notoriety as the disease-car-
rying
“Typhoid
Mary”
blamed for the deaths of three
people, died on North Brother
Island in New York’s East
River at age 69 after 23 years
of mandatory quarantine.
In 1942, during World
War II, Germany completed
its occupation of France.
In 1966, Gemini 12
blasted off on a four-day
mission with astronauts
James A. Lovell and Edwin
“Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard; it
was the tenth and final flight
of NASA’s Gemini program.
In 1972, the U.S. Army
turned over its base at Long
Binh to the South Vietnamese,
symbolizing the end of direct
U.S. military involvement in
the Vietnam War.
In 1983, President Ronald
Reagan became the first U.S.
chief executive to address
the Diet, Japan’s national
legislature.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Jazz singer-musician Mose
Allison is 89. Actress Bibi
Andersson is 81. Country
singer Narvel Felts is 78. Sen.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is 76.
Americana roots singer/song-
writer Chris Smither is 72.
Rock singer-musician Vince
Martell (Vanilla Fudge) is 71.
The president of Nicaragua,
Daniel Ortega, is 71. Rock
singer Jim Peterik (Ides of
March, Survivor) is 66. Golfer
Fuzzy Zoeller is 65. Pop sing-
er-musician Paul Cowsill (The
Cowsills) is 65. Rock sing-
er-musician Andy Partridge
(XTC) is 63. Singer Marshall
Crenshaw is 63. Rock musi-
cian Ian Craig Marsh (Human
League; Heaven 17) is 60.
Actress Demi Moore is 54.
Actress Calista Flockhart is
52. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio
is 42. NFL quarterback Mark
Sanchez is 30.
Thought for Today: “Old
myths, old gods, old heroes
have never died. They are
only sleeping at the bottom
of our mind, waiting for our
call. We have need for them.
They represent the wisdom of
our race.” — Stanley Kunitz,
American poet laureate
(1905-2006).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE