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Thursday, January 12, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Girl who shies away from gym
can enjoy a good, long walk
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My mom wants me to
second home in California, but kept
exercise more. Currently, I just walk a
our first home. Every time I call to
lot (in my house and around the block).
ask how she and Dad are doing, she
I know exercise is a good idea, but I’m
responds with, “You don’t care how
really self-conscious about it. I never
we are. If you did, you would be
feel like I’m doing it right (because I
here.”
know you can easily pull a muscle),
I love our new life. Our kids are
and I feel like everyone else in the gym
grown, and we are enjoying ourselves
is judging me.
to the fullest. We are both in excellent
Jeanne
Now that I’m 17, Mom expects me Phillips health, and still young at heart. How
to be more mature about this. I don’t
can we tell her that we have a life we
Advice
even feel comfortable swimming in
love without her being so resentful?
public places anymore. I feel stressed
— Loving Life In California
about it, but Mom just thinks I’m being picky.
Dear Loving: You can’t, because your
Being in a gym makes me feel unhappy mother feels you should be at her beck and
and judged. I wish there was a better way to call. She has had you close since you were a
exercise, but I don’t know what. How can I child, and now she may be feeling deserted.
get my mom to understand how hard this is for
At this point, I don’t advise telling your
mother that you “have a life you love” without
me? — Wondering In Wichita
Dear Wondering: Going to a gym can her. Instead, I suggest that you phrase your
be fun if you do it with a buddy. Most of the greeting to her more carefully.
people there are more concerned with what
Rather than ask how she and your dad are
THEY are doing than what anyone else is. doing, say that you are “calling to check in.”
That said, going to the gym isn’t for everyone. Say that you were thinking about her. And if
There are many forms of exercise.
she starts in with “you don’t care,” tell her that
Tell your mother you would prefer to exer- you DO care or you wouldn’t be on the phone
cise on your own rather than go to a gym. Then with her, but if she keeps giving you a guilt
put on your walking shoes, leave the house trip, she’ll be hearing from you less.
and walk for 20 to 30 minutes a day. It’s good
Dear Abby: If you go to a party and bring
for you. Listen to music when you’re doing something (chips, soda, etc.), what is the rule
it and it will make the time go quickly. And of etiquette about taking it home when you
on days when you don’t want to go outside, leave? — Practical In Idaho
put on some music and dance. It’s good for the
Dear Practical: When someone brings
circulation, and it’s also good for the soul.
food to a party, it could be considered a host/
Dear Abby: My husband and I have been hostess gift. Before taking any of it home, first
married for 44 years. We eloped in high ask your host or hostess if it would be all right.
school and still feel like newlyweds. We built While some people wouldn’t mind, others
a successful business, ran it for 40 years and may, so you shouldn’t assume that because
recently had an opportunity to sell it.
you brought something that the leftovers are
The problem is my mother. We bought a yours.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 12, 1917
The muddy conditions of the O.-W. R. &
N. stockyards, complained of to and by the
city council, was caused by the flooding of
the yards from a ditch residents had dug to
drain the water from the Thompson street hill,
according to Agent T.F. O’Brien. He states
that the ditch was dug across Thompson street
and under the sidewalk so that all of the waters
were run down into the stockyards. They were
flooded before he discovered the situation,
he states. He at once took steps to direct the
water on down Bluff street, and since then has
been having the muck left in the yards hauled
out as fast as possible. Agent O’Brien further
states that no hogs have ever been turned into
the muddy yards. The only hogs fed there at
all, he states, were fed on dry wooden floors
which had been laid temporarily over the mud.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 12, 1967
A circuit court jury of 10 men and two
women deliberated less than 20 minutes in
Heppner Wednesday before finding Bill Joe
Thorn, 28, Texarkana, Tex., innocent of a
charge of burglarizing Price’s IGA super-
market in Milton-Freewater July 15. The pros-
ecution, directed by Umatilla County District
Attorney Richard Courson, was unable to
prove Thorn was in Milton-Freewater at the
time the burglary. The $15,000 taken in the
crime has not been found. Thorn was returned
to the Umatilla County Jail. He now faces trial
on March 14 on a charge of burglarizing the
J.C. Penney store in Pendleton.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 12, 1992
Don Sampson may be leaving the Confed-
erated Tribes’ fisheries program, but he’ll
continue tracking the progress of a pet project
— the Northeast Oregon Hatchery. Sampson,
a biologist with the tribal fisheries program
for the last six years, will start a new job
next month in Portland as fisheries resources
coordinator for the Columbia Basin Fish and
Wildlife Authority. He said it will be hard to
walk away from the hatchery project. Four
potential sites have been selected — three
on the upper Umatilla River and one on the
south fork of the Walla Walla River — for
construction of a hatchery that will produce
some 4.5 million salmon and steelhead smolts
using seed from fish that are reared here and
return to spawn.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 12th day of
2017. There are 353 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 12, 1910, at a
White House dinner hosted
by
President
William
Howard Taft, Baroness
Rosen, wife of the Russian
ambassador, caused a stir
by requesting and smoking
a cigarette — it was, appar-
ently, the first time a woman
had smoked openly during
a public function in the
executive mansion. (Some
of the other women present
who had brought their own
cigarettes began lighting up
in turn.)
On this date:
In 1773, the first public
museum in America was
organized in Charleston,
South Carolina.
In 1828, the United
States and Mexico signed
a Treaty of Limits defining
the boundary between the
two countries to be the same
as the one established by an
1819 treaty between the U.S.
and Spain.
In 1915, the U.S. House
of Representatives rejected,
204-174, a proposed consti-
tutional amendment to give
women nationwide the right
to vote.
In 1932, Hattie W.
Caraway became the first
woman elected to the U.S.
Senate after initially being
appointed to serve out the
remainder of the term of her
late husband, Thaddeus.
In 1945, during World
War II, Soviet forces began
a major, successful offensive
against the Germans in
Eastern Europe.
In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr.
founded Motown Records
(originally Tamla Records)
in Detroit.
In 1966, The TV series
“Batman,” starring Adam
West and Burt Ward as the
Dynamic Duo, premiered on
ABC, airing twice a week on
consecutive nights.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Katherine MacGregor
(TV: “Little House on the
Prairie”) is 92. The Amazing
Kreskin is 82. Country singer
William Lee Golden (The
Oak Ridge Boys) is 78. Actor
Anthony Andrews is 69.
Movie director Wayne Wang
is 68. Actress Kirstie Alley
is 66. Radio commentator
Rush Limbaugh is 66. Legal
affairs blogger Ann Althouse
is 66. Country singer Ricky
Van Shelton is 65. Radio-TV
personality Howard Stern is
63. Actor Oliver Platt is 57.
Basketball Hall of Famer
Dominique Wilkins is 57.
Rock singer Rob Zombie is
52. Rapper Raekwon (Wu
Tang Clan) is 47. Rock musi-
cian Matt Wong (Reel Big
Fish) is 44. Singer Melanie
Chisholm (Spice Girls) is 43.
Thought for Today:
“Everyone is entitled to his
own opinion, but not his own
facts.” — Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, U.S. politician
and diplomat (1927-2003).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE