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Friday, November 25, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Soon-to-be-blended family is
divided over immunizations
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I’m engaged to a
because I don’t think it’s appropriate.
wonderful man I have been with for
I want to discuss this with her, but he
five years. We plan to get married as
thinks it’s no big deal because this
soon as his house sells and we can
is “just the way she is.” How can I
move into another home as a family.
convey the seriousness of this issue?
He has three children; I have four.
Or am I overreacting? — Just The
Our kids get along well enough, and
Way She Is
no serious parenting issues have come
Dear Just: I don’t know your
up yet.
mother-in-law, so I can’t judge her
Jeanne
My concern is, he and his ex-wife Phillips motivations. She was a mother before
haven’t immunized their kids. I have.
she became a grandmother, and it
Advice
All four of my children are up to date
may be perfectly innocent. However,
with their shots. We have agreed to
if something is going on that makes
disagree on this subject.
you uneasy, you must remember that, as your
With the kids living together under the children’s mother, you have a responsibility
same roof, is there anything I should worry to put a stop to anything you do not feel is
about as far as kids getting sick? I have read appropriate.
Dear Abby: My husband has a brother,
somewhere that it isn’t good to have kids
who are immunized around those who aren’t. “Tom,” who is 10 years younger. He recently
Truth? — Wants The Facts In Indiana
returned from college and is living with my
Dear Wants The Facts: Have you in-laws. Tom has visited us a few times since
discussed this with their doctors? If you go his arrival. When he comes over, he doesn’t
online and visit vaccines.gov, you will find a bother to ring the doorbell or knock; he
complete explanation of why vaccinations are simply lets himself in.
so important and why parents should ensure
I don’t appreciate the lack of privacy in
that their children receive the optimum dose, my own home. People should at least knock
which may involve two or more shots.
or yell hello from the doorway before barging
According to the Food and Drug Adminis- in. When I told my husband it bothered me,
tration: “For reasons related to the individual, he got upset and defensive and accused me
not all vaccinated persons develop immunity. of “picking on” his family. Am I making too
Most routine childhood vaccines are effective much of this? — Ding Dong In Texas
for 85 to 95 percent of recipients.” If your
Dear Ding Dong: No, you’re not. You
children happen to fall into the unfortunate didn’t mention how long you and your
5 to 15 percent category of recipients who husband have been married, but your home is
haven’t developed full immunity, then you not a bachelor pad that people drift in and out
should be concerned.
of. You are entitled to some privacy, and time
Dear Abby: My mother-in-law is a to cover up if you are in a state of undress.
wonderful lady, but I’m having a hard time That people ring the bell, knock on the door
with how she is around my children. She is or yell to announce their presence is not too
extremely obsessive over giving them baths, much to ask. In fact, it’s considered good
changing their diapers and, basically, just manners.
seeing them naked.
P.S. Keeping the door locked could help
I have talked with my husband about it solve the problem.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 25, 1916
Charles Peterson, patient a the Eastern
Oregon state hospital, died at 9 o’clock this
morning from an injury inflicted upon him
at an early hour today by Caniette Lareso,
another patient. The two men were trustees
and were milkers at the hospital barn. While
at work at 4:30 this morning a quarrel of
some nature arose between the two men and
Lareso hit his fellow worker a blow over the
head with a hoe handle. “He was picking on
me,” said Lareso in answer to questions as to
why he hit Peterson. When asked for further
information as to what Peterson had done, he
replied: “Ask him,” not realizing that the man
had died from his injury.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 25, 1966
Two Hermiston men and one from
Boardman escaped death this morning when
the light plane they were in crashed in Boston
Canyon about three miles from Gibbbon.
Wendell See, Hermiston, a passenger in a
Piper Tri-Pacer piloted by George Gilham
of Hermiston, reported by telephone this
morning that it was an agonizing three mile
hike for him from the crash scene to the
Gibbon store of Dolph Thompson to tele-
phone for help. A Boardman man, unidenti-
fied, who is a carpenter, was reported to have
suffered a broken leg in the crash. See said
Gilham complained of a hurt back. The crash
occurred about 8 a.m. and it took See close to
two hours to make his way out for help. He
said they were flying up a narrow canyon and
found they couldn’t turn around, were caught
in a downdraft and crashed to the ground.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 25, 1991
The future of the National Guard in Herm-
iston is up in the air after the city’s Planning
Commission rejected a conditional use permit
request to build an armory near the Hermiston
Butte. The Oregon military department has
filed an appeal of that action in an effort to
“keep all options open,” but attention has
been turned toward the area around the
airport — the Village Port addition and a site
south of the airport. Col Alex Burgin of the
Oregon National Guard said Friday that the
butte site will become the fall-back site in the
event two sites near the airport fall through.
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 330th day of
2016. There are 36 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 25, 1920, radio
station WTAW of College
Station, Texas, broadcast the
first play-by-play description
of a football game, between
Texas University and the
Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas. (Texas
won, 7-3.)
On this date:
In 1783, the British
evacuated New York, their
last military position in the
United States during the
Revolutionary War.
In 1864, during the Civil
War, Confederate agents set
a series of arson fires in New
York; the blazes were quickly
extinguished.
In 1915, a new version of
the Ku Klux Klan, targeting
blacks, Jews, Catholics and
immigrants, was founded by
William Joseph Simmons,
who proclaimed himself
Imperial Wizard as he staged
a cross-burning on Stone
Mountain outside Atlanta.
In 1940, the cartoon
character Woody Wood-
pecker made his debut in
the animated short “Knock
Knock” produced by Walter
Lantz.
In 1947, movie studio
executives meeting in New
York agreed to blacklist the
“Hollywood Ten” who’d
been cited for contempt of
Congress the day before.
In 1957, President Dwight
D. Eisenhower suffered a
slight stroke.
In 1963, the body of
President John F. Kennedy
was laid to rest at Arlington
National Cemetery; his
widow, Jacqueline, lighted
an “eternal flame” at the
gravesite.
Today’s Birthdays: Play-
wright Murray Schisgal is 90.
Actress Kathryn Crosby is 83.
Actor Christopher Riordan is
79. Pro Football Hall of Fame
coach Joe Gibbs is 76. Singer
Bob Lind is 74. Author, actor
and economist Ben Stein
is 72. Actor Tracey Walter
is 69. Movie director Jona-
than Kaplan is 69. Author
Charlaine Harris is 65.
Retired MLB All-Star Bucky
Dent is 65. Singer Amy
Grant is 56. Former NFL
quarterback Bernie Kosar
is 53. Rock singer-musician
Tim Armstrong is 51. Rock
musician Rodney Sheppard
(Sugar Ray) is 50. Actress
Christina Applegate is 45.
Former NFL quarterback
Donovan McNabb is 40.
Thought for Today: “To
know things as they are is
better than to believe things
as they seem.” — Tom
Wicker (1926-2011).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE