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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
The way to make friends is
to be a good one yourself
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: I am a 9-year-old
traits I admired in others, such as
girl in third grade. I have problems
kindness and honesty.
making friends. Girls my age and
Dear Abby: What should I do
older don’t like me much. Boys my
about my mother-in-law, who has
age and older seem to be fine.
been bumming money from churches
It’s important I get help in making
for more than 20 years from Ohio to
girl friends. I have three hopeless
Florida, even taking trips across the
brothers I really don’t like. My mom
country taking money along the way?
said I should tell you what I do like
I have contacted every church in
Jeanne
— math, science, dolls and TV. I have Phillips our area. But they still give her money,
crazy hair.
which she blows mostly at casinos
Advice
Did you have this problem when
and on her non-working boyfriend.
you were my age? I think people think
I will no longer have anything to do
I’m weird. — Young Reader In Kokomo, with them, which of course is hard on my
Ind.
wife. Please advise. — Ohio Reader
Dear Young Reader: Your mother is a
Dear Reader: If you have contacted the
smart woman. She knows how important clergy in your area about your mother-in-
common interests can be in forming rela- law’s scam and they still give her money, you
tionships. Because you like math, science, have done everything you can. Because you
dolls and TV, gravitate toward girls who like no longer want anything to do with her and
them, too. If you do, you may find that some her deadbeat boyfriend, tell your wife she
of them are receptive. Remember — all you should see them without you. You have my
really need is one friend you can confide in.
permission.
As to the rest of your question, at your
Dear Readers: Tomorrow is Thanks-
age I wasn’t part of the popular crowd. I was giving, and no Thanksgiving would be
shy and terrible at sports, so I spent many complete without my sharing the traditional
hours alone in my room reading books. They prayer penned by my dear mother:
kept me company and widened my horizons
Oh, Heavenly Father,
beyond my immediate neighborhood. People
We thank Thee for food and remember the
at my grammar school probably thought I hungry.
was weird, too, but many people who become
We thank Thee for health and remember
successful as adults start out that way.
the sick.
You and I have something else in common.
We thank Thee for friends and remember
I was self-conscious about my hair, too. It the friendless.
was curly and hard to handle because I hadn’t
We thank Thee for freedom and remember
yet learned to style it. But as I grew older, I the enslaved.
learned to manage it — as I’m sure you will.
May these remembrances stir us to service,
And when I reached my mid-teens I found
That Thy gifts to us may be used for
it easier to make female friends. A valuable others. Amen.
Have a safe and happy celebration,
lesson I learned was to BE a friend when
someone needs one, and to practice character everyone! — Love, Abby
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 23, 1916
Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Rugg, pioneer resi-
dents of Umatilla county, yesterday enjoyed
an occasion that is given but few married
couples to enjoy, the sixtieth anniversary of
their wedding day. Thirty-five or forty friends
surprised them during the evening by calling
at their home at 1905 East Court street unan-
nounced and spending several hours with
them. Mr. and Mrs. Rugg were married in
Wisconsin, Nov. 21, 1856.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 23, 1966
A 78-year-old Portland hunter, Matt Bert-
hein, lost since noon Monday in the moun-
tains southwest of Pilot Rock, was found
this morning alive and well. Searchers had
concentrated their efforts in the area between
Meadow Creek and Gibson’s cabin. Sheriff’s
Deputy Bill McPherson and State Policeman
Ron Bridges lead the search party. Searchers
were in the woods until 2 a.m. today and
resumed their hunt at daybreak.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 23, 1991
A drive to help Gerald Backen of Stanfield
raise enough money for a heart transplant has
reached nearly $3,000. The fund drive began
a month ago to help the former Lamb-Weston
truck driver afford a transplant through the
Oregon Health & Science University in
Portland. Backen’s insurance will cover only
half the $100,000-plus needed for the surgery
and related expenses. His church and other
friends are helping the family raise the rest of
the money.
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 328th day of
2016. There are 38 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 23, 1936, Life,
the photojournalism maga-
zine created by Henry R.
Luce, was first published.
On this date:
In
1765,
Frederick
County, Maryland, became
the first colonial American
entity to repudiate the
British Stamp Act.
In 1804, the 14th pres-
ident of the United States,
Franklin Pierce, was born in
Hillsboro, New Hampshire.
In 1889, the first jukebox
made its debut in San Fran-
cisco, at the Palais Royale
Saloon. (The coin-operated
device consisted of four
listening tubes attached to
an Edison phonograph.)
In 1903, Enrico Caruso
made his American debut
at the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York,
appearing in “Rigoletto.”
In 1910, American-born
physician Hawley Harvey
Crippen was hanged at
Pentonville
Prison
in
London for murdering
his wife, Cora. (Crippen’s
mistress, Ethel Le Neve,
was acquitted in a separate
trial of being an accessory.)
In 1914, the seven-month
U.S. military occupation of
Veracruz, Mexico, ended.
In 1945, most U.S.
wartime rationing of foods,
including meat and butter,
was set to expire by day’s
end.
In 1959, the musical
“Fiorello!” starring Tom
Bosley as legendary New
York
Mayor
Fiorello
LaGuardia, opened on
Broadway.
In
1963,
President
Lyndon
B.
Johnson
proclaimed Nov. 25 a
day of national mourning
following the assassina-
tion of President John F.
Kennedy.
In 1971, the People’s
Republic of China was
seated in the U.N. Security
Council.
In 1980, some 2,600
people were killed by a
series of earthquakes that
devastated southern Italy.
In 1996, a comman-
deered Ethiopian Airlines
Boeing 767 crashed into
the water off the Comoros
Islands, killing 125 of
the 175 people on board,
including all three hijackers.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Labor Secretary
William E. Brock is 86.
Actress Elmarie Wendel is
88. Actor Franco Nero is 75.
Actress Susan Anspach is 74.
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas
is 72. Actor-comedy writer
Bruce Vilanch is 69. Sen.
Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is
66. Singer Bruce Hornsby
is 62. Former Sen. Mary
Landrieu, D-La., is 61. Actor
Maxwell Caulfield is 57.
Actor John Henton is 56. TV
personality Robin Roberts
(“Good Morning America”)
is 56. Rock singer-musician
Ken Block (Sister Hazel) is
50. Rock musician Charlie
Grover is 50. Actress Salli
Richardson-Whitfield
is
49. Actor Oded Fehr is 46.
Rapper-actor Kurupt (Tha
Dogg Pound) is 44. Actor
Page Kennedy is 40. Actress-
singer Miley Cyrus is 24.
Thought for Today:
“I’m a realist and so I think
regretting is a useless occu-
pation. You help no one with
it. But you can’t live without
illusions even if you must
fight for them, such as ‘love
conquers all.’ It isn’t true,
but I would like it to be.” —
Marlene Dietrich, German-
born actress (1901-1992).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE