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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Daughter who values privacy
keeps gabby mom at distance
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My mother has a tight
daughter marrying a man who has
circle of friends she socializes with
no job. She has been supporting him
often. They are all retired with grown
financially. He has had a few jobs,
children and grandchildren and
but he gets fired or quits within a few
eager to share every bit of news of
weeks or months.
their lives. Mom talks nonstop about
My daughter is 30 and never
her friends’ children’s parenting
married. She’s an assistant professor
challenges, marital squabbles and
at a good university and a leader in
medical issues. The challenge for me
her field of education. Her intended
Jeanne
is that anything I tell her becomes Phillips has no career and no prospects. He
fodder for their cocktail-hour discus-
asked her to marry him without
Advice
sion, which then gets around our
consulting me. Maybe I’m old-fash-
community.
ioned, but I would have expressed
After hearing that the daughter of one of my concern about his lack of career.
my mom’s neighbors knew the results of my
I can’t alienate my daughter by saying
breast biopsy, I stopped sharing anything the wrong thing. But what if she can’t work
personal. This has damaged our relationship. someday and he can’t support a household?
She doesn’t think mothers and daughters He has a million excuses. I don’t think he’s
should keep secrets from each other, and the man she thinks he is. My life lessons tell
I agree, but she also said she won’t keep me he may never be the man she thinks he
secrets from her friends.
could be. I have come to the conclusion that
I miss being able to turn to her for support, marrying him would bring her only misery.
but do not want the world to know my busi- What should I do? — Very Worried Dad
ness. I understand that her friends are like
Dear Very Worried Dad: It would not be
family to her, but they are not MY family, wrong if, without putting her fiancé down,
and I think she has chosen gossip over our you expressed to your daughter your concern
relationship. Is keeping her at arm’s length about his employment record (or lack of
my only choice here, or is there another path one) and the impact it may have on their
that I can’t see? — None Of Their Business future. And when you do, raise the question
Dear None Of Their Business: Your of what she thinks might happen if for some
mother’s judgment is terrible. Her friends reason she becomes unable to work, because
may be “like family” to her, but they are it’s a good one, and something she should
not FAMILY. If you prefer not to have your carefully consider before tying the knot.
personal business be fodder for lunchtime
After that, accept that at 30, your daughter
conversation, then your only choice is to is an adult who has the right to go forward
carefully edit what you tell her.
with the marriage if she chooses, and keep
Dear Abby: I have an issue with my your fingers crossed.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 12-13, 1916
A river road from Pendleton to Echo is the
very latest road agitation in the county and one
that gives promise of some fruition. Such a road
would, it is urged by the chief advocates of the
road, eliminate the notorious Echo-Pendleton
stretch of bad road, would serve more people,
be more scenic and would have an easier grade.
The present road from Pendleton to Echo goes
up over the hill most of the way and is some
distance from the river. However, there is
already a fairly good road along the river from
Echo as far as Yoakum while at this end the
county is building a good road from Pendleton
to Rieth. This would leave only the Yoakum-
Rieth stretch yet to build
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 12-13, 1966
Amateur lumberjacks ought to rely on saws,
not axes. Pendleton Community Hospital
reported today that two men had been treated
during the weekend after their axes slipped and
struck them in the foot while cutting Christmas
trees in the mountains.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 12-13, 1991
A newly formed company said Wednesday
it will build a $2.5 million onion processing
plant next spring at the Port of Morrow in
Boardman. Boardman Foods Inc. will employ
60 people to make frozen onion products
and to pack fresh onions as well, company
president Brian Maag said. “We’re excited
about the prospects of locating here and we
hope it’s reciprocal in the community,” he
said. Maag’s comment came during a public
hearing on a request for up to $1 million in
industrial development revenue bonds to build
the plant on five acres of port land. Maag said
the company will be contracting for about 300
acres of Spanish-type onions to be grown next
year in the Boardman-to-Hermiston area.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 348th day of
2016. There are 18 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Dec. 13, 1981, author-
ities in Poland imposed
martial law in a crackdown
on the Solidarity labor move-
ment. (Martial law formally
ended in 1983.)
On this date:
In 1642, Dutch navigator
Abel Tasman sighted pres-
ent-day New Zealand.
In 1769, Dartmouth
College in New Hampshire
received its charter.
In 1862, Union forces
led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose
Burnside launched futile
attacks against entrenched
Confederate soldiers during
the Civil War Battle of
Fredericksburg; the soundly
defeated Northern troops
withdrew two days later.
In
1918,
President
Woodrow Wilson arrived
in France, becoming the
first chief executive to visit
Europe while in office.
In 1928, George Gersh-
win’s “An American in
Paris” had its premiere at
Carnegie Hall in New York.
In 1937, the Chinese city
of Nanjing fell to Japanese
forces; what followed was a
massacre of war prisoners,
soldiers and citizens. (China
maintains as many as
300,000 people were killed;
Japan says the toll was far
less.)
In 1944, during World
War II, the light cruiser
USS Nashville was badly
damaged in a Japanese
kamikaze attack off Negros
Island in the Philippines that
claimed 133 lives.
In 1962, the United States
launched Relay 1, a commu-
nications satellite which
retransmitted
television,
telephone and digital signals.
In 1974, Malta became
a republic. George Harrison
visited the White House,
where he met President
Gerald R. Ford.
In 1994, an American
Eagle commuter plane
crashed short of Raleigh-
Durham International Airport
in North Carolina, killing 15
of the 20 people on board.
In 1996, the U.N. Secu-
rity Council chose Kofi
Annan of Ghana to become
the world body’s seventh
secretary-general.
In 2003, Saddam Hussein
was captured by U.S. forces
while hiding in a hole under
a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq,
near his hometown of Tikrit.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Secretary of State
George P. Shultz is 96.
Actor-comedian Dick Van
Dyke is 91. Actor Christo-
pher Plummer is 87. Country
singer Buck White is 86.
Music/film producer Lou
Adler is 83. Singer John
Davidson is 75. Actress
Kathy Garver (TV: “Family
Affair”) is 71. Singer Ted
Nugent is 68. Rock musician
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter is 68.
Country musician Ron
Getman is 68. Actor Robert
Lindsay is 67. Country sing-
er-musician Randy Owen is
67. Actress Wendie Malick
is 66. Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack is 66. Former
Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke is 63. Country
singer John Anderson is 62.
Singer-songwriter
Steve
Forbert is 62. Singer-actor
Morris Day is 60. Actor Steve
Buscemi is 59. Actor Johnny
Whitaker (TV: “Family
Affair”) is 57. Actor-come-
dian Jamie Foxx is 49. Rock
singer-musician
Thomas
Delonge is 41. Country singer
Taylor Swift is 27.
Thought for Today: “My
theory is to enjoy life, but
the practice is against it.”
— Charles Lamb, English
essayist (1775-1834).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE