Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, December 2, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man drains family savings to fund failing enterprise FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE be making rational decisions. Dear Abby: My husband of 23 Dear Abby: I am writing in years, “Gerald,” quit his job to start response to the letter from “Loving his own law firm. He told me about it only after he had quit. I have tried Granddaughter” on July 2, who was to be supportive, but seven months asking for ways to prepare for the down the line, he has spent all our eventual passing of her grandparents, “rainy day” cash and earned only one with whom she is very close. paycheck. We have two teenagers, A way to help her cope with her one who will be going to college in premature grief would be to take time Jeanne a year. Phillips to sit down with her grandparents and I took a high-paying job a year video a personal interview with them. Advice ago to help pay down our mortgage This “Interview With a Loved One” and fund our son’s college expenses. provides an opportunity to capture Gerald claimed the bonus money he received her favorite stories and memories as told by when he quit his old job belonged to him to her grandparents in their own words. She fund the new venture. might even hear some surprising new stories He’s now saying that seven months is too as well! little time to make any huge decisions, but we We started doing this with my grandfather are now going to start liquidating our 401(k) when he was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s s. This is where I draw the line. He needs to disease, before he started losing his memory. get a job. I have worked every year of our After he finally succumbed, going back to marriage and never quit. his interviews was a great way for our family I feel like I’m living with a selfish stranger to remember him in the way that he would who calls me a “money-hungry stereotypical have wanted to be remembered. — Jessica female” when I ask when he’ll get paid. Is In Missouri it time for me to take off the rose-colored Dear Jessica: That’s a wonderful sugges- glasses and file for divorce? — Stuck In His tion, one that I know will be appreciated by Midlife Crisis many of my readers. Thank you! Dear Stuck: Your husband should have Dear Abby: How do I introduce my discussed his career change with you before unmarried daughter’s baby daddy? Can’t he quit the law firm. Do NOT allow him say “husband,” and can’t say “partner” since to push you into taking money from your gays have claimed that word. So how do you 401(k). Because your husband hasn’t yet define that new role? — I’d Like You To reached retirement age, when he liquidates Meet ... his, there will be a penalty for early with- Dear Meet: When you introduce your drawal. Consult an attorney — other than grandchild’s daddy, use his name and say, your husband — about what your next steps “This is ‘John,’ ‘Jessica’s’ partner.” The term should be to protect yourself and your chil- is not used exclusively by LGBT people, but dren because your spouse does not appear to by straight couples as well. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 2, 1916 A clubhouse adjacent to the links is to be built at once by the Pendleton Golf Club. The clubhouse will not be a pretentious affair but it will be roomy, convenient and attractive. At the meeting last evening it was voted to limit the membership of the club to 50. There are now 43 members. The initiation fee was retained at $10 and the dues at one dollar per month. Until the limit is reached, the first to apply will be the first to receive the privileges. Each membership for a male will carry with it the privileges of the club for a lady. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 2, 1966 They were rolling in the aisles Thursday night at Vert Auditorium. They were also crawling, falling and screaming. Not the audience, but the players in “Marat/Sade,” the Whitman Theater production of the prize winning play by Peter Weiss. As part of the “total theater” concept, entry to the stage by BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN some of the cast was by way of the aisles. A weird assortment of “inmates” shrieked their way forward, stunning the audience into attention. Presumably the play is a psycholog- ical drama — a dialogue on the sins of man between Marat, the visionary of the French Revolution, and the Marquis De Sade, a passionate cynic. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 2, 1991 Pendleton police are asking for help in identifying a suspect in the first forcible rape reported here in several years. Police Chief Ed Taber said this morning a 22-year-old Eugene female reported being raped at gunpoint at 10:46 p.m. Saturday in a room at the Red Lion Inn. Police embargoed the release of information Monday to round up suspects for a lineup but Taber said that plan fell through later in the day. The suspect is described as a white man in his late 20s, about 6 feet tall, 180 to 200 pounds, with medium brown hair over his ears. The suspect was wearing a white western-cut shirt and a black baseball cap. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 337th day of 2016. There are 29 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 2, 1816, the first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business. On this date: In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French. In 1823, President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere. In 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October. Artist Georg- es-Pierre Seurat was born in Paris. In 1927, Ford Motor Co. unveiled its Model A automobile that replaced its Model T. In 1939, New York Municipal Airport- LaGuardia Field (later LaGuardia Airport) went into operation as an airliner from Chicago landed at one minute past midnight. In 1942, an artificially created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago. In 1954, the U.S. Senate passed, 67-22, a resolution condemning Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., saying he had “acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.” In 1961, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist who would eventually lead Cuba to Communism. In 1970, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency opened its doors under its first director, William D. Ruckelshaus. In 1980, four American churchwomen were raped and killed outside San Salvador. (Five El Salvador national guardsmen were later convicted of murdering nuns Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel and lay worker Jean Donovan.) Today’s Birthdays: Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III is 85. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is 77. Actress Cathy Lee Crosby is 72. Movie director Penelope Spheeris is 71. Actor Ron Raines is 67. Country singer John Wesley Ryles is 66. Actor Keith Szarabajka is 64. Actor Dan Butler is 62. Broadcast journalist Stone Phillips is 62. Actor Dennis Christopher is 61. Actor Steven Bauer is 60. Country singer Joe Henry is 56. Rock musician Rick Savage (Def Leppard) is 56. Actor Brendan Coyle is 53. Rock musician Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) is 48. Actress Suzy Nakamura is 48. Actress Lucy Liu is 48. Rapper Treach (Naughty By Nature) is 46. Singer Nelly Furtado is 38. Pop singer Britney Spears is 35. Thought for Today: “Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.” — Washington Irving, American author (1783-1859). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE