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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