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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Sharing bed with infant can
lead to sleep-related death
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Dear Abby: While, as you replied
call. This is a belief system for me,
to “Sleepy in California” (Sept. 17),
something ingrained in me. If she
some parents do “co-sleep” with their
were a stranger, I would absolutely
children for the first few months, what
not be around her. Knowing what I do
you were referring to is actually “bed
now, I am crushed.
sharing.” Bed sharing was shown in
She’s my daughter, and we have
studies several years ago to be the
always had our differences. But I feel
greatest risk factor for sleep-related
so strongly about what she’s doing
deaths in young infants less than 4
and has done that I no longer want
Jeanne
months of age.
Phillips to be in the same room with her. She
The American Academy of
has a son I adore with all my heart,
Advice
Pediatrics and the March of Dimes
and I provide child care for him. I feel
have both recommended (for years!)
broken right now and could really use
against bed sharing in these young infants. guidance. — Broken In Illinois
Instead they recommend that young infants
Dear Broken: I can only imagine how
sleep in cribs near their parents. They should you must have felt to have learned about
of course be on their backs and should not be the abortion during a “heated discussion.”
sleeping with blankets or toys.
However, there is a common misconception
These deaths, mostly from suffocation or that women who decide to terminate a preg-
overheating, are sad and mostly preventable. nancy do so lightly. They don’t! If you don’t
The acceptance of bed sharing due to cultural know your daughter’s reason for having hers,
influences is difficult to overcome. Please it might benefit both of you to talk calmly
help by taking the time to educate your about it. You don’t have to approve of her
readers on the dangers of bed sharing with choice, but you should hear what she has to
infants. — C. Smith, M.D., FAAP
say.
Dear Dr. Smith: I appreciate your writing
Because you feel broken, this is some-
to me. Your point is an important one, and thing you should discuss with your religious
that I omitted it was an oversight. I hope adviser and take your cue from him or her. To
parents of infants will take your wise counsel cut off relations with your daughter — and
to heart.
by extension your grandson — would benefit
Dear Abby: My daughter is 29, and we no one.
recently had a respectful, although heated,
Dear Abby: Are you supposed to take a
discussion about politics, agendas and the gift to an engagement party? The couple has
candidates. It turned out that we disagree on been living together. They just got engaged
major issues, and we both can give chapter and are planning a wedding in two years. —
and verse about why we believe the way we Ana Marie In Texas
do.
Dear Ana Marie: A gift would be a nice
Something came to light, though. She’s gesture. It doesn’t have to be lavish — a
not the person I thought she was. She lovely frame for their engagement picture
informed me that she had had an abortion. would be thoughtful, because a wedding is
My feelings on this issue aren’t a judgment now in the picture.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 21-22, 1916
Pendleton’s two banks continue to reflect
an unprecedented prosperity in Pendleton and
Umatilla county. Their statements, prepared
at the close of business Nov. 17 in response
to a request from the state, show that the
aggregate deposits of the two banks amount
to more than $5,600,000, the greatest in the
history of the city.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 21-22, 1966
A prisoner walked away from the Umatilla
County Jail Saturday night. Donald Joseph
Moore, 34, Baton Rouge, La., had been
working as the jail’s cook since he was
arrested Nov. 1. He was being held on a charge
of knowingly uttering and publishing a forged
bank check. Sheriff Roy Johnson said Moore
left the jail kitchen and escaped from the
third floor while the jailer was administering
medicine to a prisoner in another part of the
jail. The kitchen is separate from the barred
parts of the jail. Moore is the second prisoner
to have walked away from the county jail.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 21-22, 1991
After two frustrating years of hunting for a
site for a city sewer lagoon and effluent-water
irrigation system, the Heppner City Council
ran into a brick wall in the form of DEQ
demands it couldn’t meet. But that brick wall
now has a hole in it, council members learned
at a special meeting this week. City Adminis-
trator Gary Marks said the state Department
of Environmental Quality has changed its
tune and will now permit a system that will
allow some dumping of effluent water into
Willow Creek to continue.
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 327th day of
2016. There are 39 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On Nov. 22, 1963, John
F. Kennedy, the 35th Pres-
ident of the United States,
was shot to death during a
motorcade in Dallas; Texas
Gov. John B. Connally,
riding in the same car as
Kennedy, was seriously
wounded;
suspected
gunman
Lee
Harvey
Oswald was arrested. The
same day, authors Aldous
Huxley and C.S. Lewis also
died.
On this date:
In 1515, Mary of Guise,
the second wife of King
James V and the mother of
Mary, Queen of Scots, was
born in Lorraine, France.
In 1718, English pirate
Edward Teach — better
known as “Blackbeard” —
was killed during a battle off
present-day North Carolina.
In 1890, French presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle was
born in Lille, France.
In 1914, the First Battle
of Ypres during World War I
ended with an Allied victory
against Germany.
In 1928, “Bolero” by
Maurice Ravel had its
premiere at the Paris Opera.
In 1935, a flying boat,
the China Clipper, took off
from Alameda, California,
carrying more than 100,000
pieces of mail on the first
trans-Pacific airmail flight.
In 1944, the MGM
movie musical “Meet Me
in St. Louis,” starring Judy
Garland, had its world
premiere in St. Louis.
In 1955, comic Shemp
Howard of “Three Stooges”
fame died in Hollywood at
age 60.
In 1965, the musical
“Man of La Mancha”
opened on Broadway. Sing-
er-songwriter Bob Dylan
married Sara Lownds (the
marriage lasted 12 years).
In 1975, Juan Carlos was
proclaimed King of Spain.
In 1989, Rene Mouawad
was killed by a bomb after
serving 17 days as president
of Lebanon.
In 1990, British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher,
having failed to win re-elec-
tion of the Conservative
Party leadership on the
first ballot, announced she
would resign.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Michael Callan is 81.
Actor Allen Garfield is 77.
Animator and movie director
Terry Gilliam is 76. Actor
Tom Conti is 75. Singer
Jesse Colin Young is 75.
Astronaut Guion Bluford is
74. International Tennis Hall
of Famer Billie Jean King
is 73. Rock musician-actor
Steve Van Zandt (a.k.a. Little
Steven) is 66. Rock musician
Tina Weymouth (The Heads;
Talking Heads; The Tom
Tom Club) is 66. Retired
MLB All-Star Greg Luzinski
is 66. Actress Lin Tucci is 65.
Actor Richard Kind is 60.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is
58. Alt-country singer Jason
Ringenberg (Jason & the
Scorchers) is 58. Actress
Mariel Hemingway is 55.
Actor-turned-producer Brian
Robbins is 53. Actor Stephen
Geoffreys is 52. Actor Mark
Ruffalo is 49. Country musi-
cian Chris Fryar (Zac Brown
Band) is 46. Actress Scarlett
Johansson is 32.
Thought for Today:
“Experience is not what
happens to a man; it is what a
man does with what happens
to him.” — Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE