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East Oregonian
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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