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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, January 19, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom gives blessing to children attending church with Grandma FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: I am an atheist. My an account with me, he constantly parents, although raised Presbyterian, makes me feel bad for buying food. never to my knowledge participated Abby, I’m not talking about $300 in organized religion, so it was not a week; it’s more like $70 a week for part of my upbringing. food. Yet he spends twice that amount Last year my mom started going to on beer, video games and lunches for church again, and my kids have been himself. I have told him numerous going with her. I’ve always said they times how horrible he makes me can make their own choices and I’d feel, and have even cried about it, but Jeanne support them. Phillips today he brought up the topic again. Mom is about to go south for He is making me depressed and Advice the rest of the winter and there’s no afraid of buying food for fear of being obvious church member the kids can mocked and “guilted.” What am I to go with, but they’d like to keep attending. do? — The Cost Of Groceries Would it be wrong for me to go with them Dear Cost: Your husband should be on Sundays, even though I don’t believe in ashamed of himself. The next time he the church doctrine and won’t be otherwise complains, stand your ground and tell him in involved in the organization? no uncertain terms it’s time to grow up and I’m sure I could be unobtrusive, but I’m cut it out. He’s no longer a kid; he’s a married not sure what to say if someone asks why man with responsibilities. Those groceries I’m there — especially since I’ll stop going are feeding his wife and child, and you both once my mother returns to town. The kids are need all the nourishment you can get right tweens and not old enough to go alone. What now. do you think? — What’s Appropriate? Also, stress for a woman in your expectant Dear What’s: When people see one condition isn’t good for you or the baby. another in a house of worship, they usually I think it’s time the guilt trip worked both assume that they are equally religious and ways, don’t you? that’s why they’re there. However, if you are Dear Abby: Is it appropriate to stay in asked why you’re there, all you have to say is contact with my former mother-in-law? Her that your children enjoy being there and your son and I divorced after three years. She was mother is away, so you brought them. I don’t the best thing to come out of the whole fiasco. think it’s necessary to announce to anyone I don’t want to cause friction, but I would that you’re an atheist. like to continue to send birthday and holiday Dear Abby: My husband is constantly cards. — Divorced With No Regrets complaining about the cost of groceries. Dear Divorced With No Regrets: I can’t He recently graduated from college and see how a holiday card relationship with your now works in the corporate world making former mother-in-law would cause friction. substantially more than he did before. I’m However, because you are concerned, the 16 weeks pregnant, but before I quit my job person to ask would be the lady herself. If she I was working full time and would buy all would welcome the attention from you, then the groceries. Now that my husband shares send them. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 19, 1917 Through the fact a railroad employe turned on the steam when he should not have done so 27 head of pure blood Durham, Shorthorn and Hereford cattle, consigned to Metz & Son of Pendleton, were suffocated while enroute to this city several days ago. The cattle were part of a shipment of 70 head and were being handled in one of the new improved express stock cars. The cars are divided into compart- ments and while the train was in a yard at some point this side of Chicago Sunday night the accident happened. The cattle were raised by Metz & Son on their farm near Chicago and are said to have been the best bred stock of the sort in the country. The cattle were valued at from $250 to $500 a head, thus making the total loss something like $10,000 or $12,000. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 19, 1967 The students and faculty of A.C. Houghton School were given a surprise showing of original oil paintings in the school library the morning of Friday 13th. The paintings, which were enthusiastically received by both faculty and students, are part of a larger group done by Rose Hoosier, A.C. Houghton 5th grade teacher, and were en route to the Portland area, where Miss Hoosier will have a one-man show at “The Quay” during the month of March. Miss Hoosier’s “Vistas West,” as she terms the show, includes many scenes from the more remote areas of the Wallowa Mountains, as well as some from the Rockies, Cascades and Olympic Peninsula area. Miss Hoosier promises a later, more extensive showing of the paintings in this area when the Portland show has concluded. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 19, 1992 Pendleton and Hermiston teacher salaries lag behind most school districts of similar size around the state, but officials at both districts say they are competitive in attracting teachers. Other schools in Umatilla and Morrow counties aren’t far behind Pendleton and Hermiston in pay and benefits, even though they may not have near the number of students. The average teacher salaries in Pendleton and Hermiston fall about $2,500 to $3,400 short of the average pay for teachers in the La Grande, Eagle Point, Bethel and Grants Pass districts — districts of similar size from different points of the state. Herm- iston appears to edge Pendleton in pay, with higher maximum and average salaries and three less days of work each year. 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 19th day of 2017. There are 346 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 19, 1977, on his last full day in office, President Gerald R. Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D’Aquino, an American convicted of treason for making English-language radio broadcasts from Japan aimed at demoralizing Allied troops in the Pacific Theater during World War II. (Although she was popularly referred to as “Tokyo Rose,” D’Aquino never used that name, and was believed to be one of a group of female broadcasters.) On this date: In 1807, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. In 1861, Georgia became the fifth state to secede from the Union. In 1867, the song “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” by Gaston Lyle, Alfred Lee and George Leybourne was first published in London. In 1915, Germany carried out its first air raid on Britain during World War I as a pair of Zeppelins dropped bombs onto Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn in England. In 1955, a presidential news conference was filmed for television and newsreels for the first time, with the permission of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1970, President Richard M. Nixon nominated G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court; however, the nomination was defeated because of controversy over Carswell’s past racial views. Ten years ago: Former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for his role in a lobbying scandal. Five years ago: Six U.S. Marines were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan. One year ago: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump received the endorsement of conservative firebrand Sarah Palin, giving the billionaire businessman a potential boost less than two weeks before Iowa’s kick-off caucuses. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Tippi Hedren is 87. Singer Dolly Parton is 71. Thought for Today: “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” — Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet and critic (born this date in 1809, died 1849). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
