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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, December 8, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Girlfriend seeks the best way to nudge boy out of dad’s bed FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My boyfriend and so much stuff to sort through — both I have been together for two years. I business and personal — that I don’t moved in with him about a year ago. know where to start. I’m overwhelmed He has a 9-year-old son, “Todd,” who and having so many anxiety attacks I stays with us every other week. can’t get the things done that I need to. Todd is a great kid, but he has a When I sell this place, I know I’m genetic disorder and still often wets his going to be devastated. I have been bed. When it happens, he changes his suffering with depression for more pajamas and then climbs into bed with than 20 years, but now I seem to have Jeanne us. I don’t mind, but I have told my Phillips hit bottom. My business is failing. boyfriend we need to start the process I have a couple of friends, but they Advice of his son not getting in bed with us have their own families and problems. three to four times a week. This is affecting my physical and Because I know it’s going to be a process mental health. How can I get past it? I’m not a that is going to take time, I’m trying to get religious person. — Alone And Sad it started now. I really don’t want an 11- or Dear Alone And Sad: Please accept my 12-year-old sleeping in our bed. How should sympathy for the loss of your mother. Grief I get this process started without nagging my after the death of a loved one is a normal boyfriend? — Great Kid, But ... emotion, and you might find comfort by Dear Great Kid, But ...: You have a joining a grief support group. This would not point. Todd is a little too old to be climbing only give you a safe place to talk about your into bed with the two of you. What needs to feelings, but also help you to feel less isolated. be addressed — with the boy’s pediatrician If you haven’t already done so, schedule an and possibly a urologist — is the issue of appointment with the physician who has been the bedwetting. After that’s been resolved, treating your chronic depression (assuming it suggest that your boyfriend have a talk with has been treated) and ask to have your medi- Todd and explain that he’s old enough to cations reviewed. If you have not received sleep in his own bed. treatment, tell your doctor what has been Dear Abby: I am a single, 55-year-old going on and ask for a referral to a licensed man. During the last year, I have felt lost. My therapist who works with a psychiatrist who mother, my last close relative, passed away. can prescribe something appropriate. My brother and sister died years ago, as did And remember that while selling the my father. We were a very close family. Now house/office is closing a chapter in your life, I am an orphan! it is also signaling the beginning of a new one. I don’t have children and I’m not sure what It may give you the renewed energy — as I need to do. I’m in the process of selling the well as the financial means — to salvage your family home/office where I worked for the business or start one. Please know I wish you last 30 years, but I feel guilty about it. There’s a happy future. 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. 8, 1916 Lee Caldwell, Pendleton’s champion broncho buster who has won more honors in bucking contests than any other one rider, is now the owner and proprietor of the Bungalow pool and bowling parlors, having purchased the place from Alfred Peters. Caldwell has mapped out a program of extensive improvements and will give his own attention to the business. Caldwell’s personal popularity and wide acquaintance will be an asset in his new undertaking. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 8, 1966 What effect would a declining popu- lation have on schools, was the question tossed out at the Pendleton School Board meeting Tuesday. Asst. Supt. Rudy Rada said a recently completed school census shows there are an estimated 5,300 children between the ages of 4 and 19 living within the school district. This is a drop from the THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN 5,800 figure in 1964 and considerably below the 1962 figure of 6,007. At the same time, Rada said, the county’s birth rate has dropped almost 50 per cent in 11 years from 923 in 1955 to close to 500 this year. Up to this week there were 481 births in Umatilla County. The sharp drop in the birth rate is in contrast to other areas where the rate has steadily risen and more school facilities have been needed to take care of the swelling school population. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 8, 1991 After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, war spread throughout the Pacific and civilians were not out of harm’s way. Paul Taylor of Hermiston was a merchant mariner who sailed the troubled waters surrounding Pearl Harbor before and after the surprise attack. Only 10 days after U.S. Pacific Fleet was decimated, Taylor’s ship — the S.S. Manini — was sunk by a Japanese submarine. Taylor and 19 shipmates spent 11 days drifting in lifeboats before being rescued. Today is the 343rd day of 2016. There are 23 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. On this date: In 1765, Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction for the South. In 1914, “Watch Your Step,” the first musical revue to feature a score composed entirely by Irving Berlin, opened in New York. In 1940, the Chicago Bears defeated the Wash- ington Redskins, 73-0, in the NFL Championship Game, which was carried on network radio for the first time by the Mutual Broadcasting System (the announcer was Red Barber). In 1949, the Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa as the Communists pressed their attacks. In 1962, the first session of the Second Vatican Council was formally adjourned. Typographers went on a 114-day strike against four New York City newspapers. In 1972, a United Airlines Boeing 737 crashed while attempting to land at Chica- go-Midway Airport, killing 43 of the 61 people on board, as well as two people on the ground; among the dead were Dorothy Hunt, wife of Water- gate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, U.S. Rep. George W. Collins, D-Ill., and CBS News correspondent Michele Clark. In 1980, rock star John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan. Today’s Birthdays: Flutist James Galway is 77. Singer Jerry Butler is 77. Pop musician Bobby Elliott (The Hollies) is 75. Actress Mary Woronov is 73. Actor John Rubinstein is 70. Rock singer-musician Gregg Allman is 69. Reggae singer Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals) is 68. Actress Kim Basinger is 63. Rock musician Warren Cuccurullo is 60. Rock musician Phil Collen (Def Leppard) is 59. Country singer Marty Raybon is 57. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is 57. Political commentator Ann Coulter is 55. Rock musician Marty Friedman is 54. Actor Wendell Pierce is 53. Actress Teri Hatcher is 52. Actor David Harewood is 51. Rapper Bushwick Bill (The Geto Boys) is 50. Singer Sinead O’Connor is 50. Rock musician Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) is 44. Thought for Today: “So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.” — Elbert Hubbard, Amer- ican author (1856-1915). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
