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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