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Thursday, February 2, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Teen twins are ready to take
different paths in new school
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
encourage, his other three grandpar-
Dear Abby: I am a 14-year-old
identical twin. My sister and I are sick
ents to contribute to the account by
of the whole “twin” thing and want to
matching their contributions every
go to separate schools. We really want
year up to my $1,000? Or would it be
to be our own people. We have wanted
better to just tell them my plans and
this for a long time now. However,
let them know they can also make
I’m not sure we can because, where
deposits to the account? I don’t know
I live, you have to go to the school in
the financial situations of the others,
the town you live in.
and I don’t want to offend anyone.
Jeanne
Do you have any suggestions Phillips Your thoughts? — About To Be A
on things we can do to make new,
Grandpa In Arizona
Advice
different friends, and how we can
Dear Grandpa: I’m voting for
look different from each other? We
your second idea, for the reason you
are moving this year, so next fall we will be gave. While the concept of an education fund
in a new school. — The Twin Thing In New for your grandbaby is laudable, making it a
Hampshire
“challenge” might create financial stress for
Dear Twin Thing: You and your sister the other grandparents and be perceived as
are smart girls. What you want to do will be one-upmanship if they are unable to donate
healthy for both of you, and I congratulate as much to the fund as you do.
you for wanting to do it. It’s important that
Dear Abby: An older friend and I have
each of you develop as individuals, and the exchanged emails since last spring. Hers have
move will give the perfect opportunity to been mostly political and disparaging toward
start.
minorities. I asked her to please not send this
If you have been dressing alike, make stuff since we have opposite opinions on the
a point of not doing it from now on. If you subject, and I don’t plan to change my mind.
have been wearing your hair in the same I enjoy our in-person talks because they are
style, change that too. When you enroll in the nothing like the emails she sends, which are
new school, join separate clubs, go out for “forwards” somebody else has put together.
different sports, etc. If you do, people will no
I quit reading them, but is there a way to
longer perceive you as molded from the same politely stop her from disseminating nasty
cookie cutter. Good luck.
propaganda? I have tried fact-checking and
Dear Abby: As a baby shower gift for sending corrections to her and to those on the
my (soon-to-be) grandson, I plan on opening long list of people she has sent these emails.
up a UTMA (Uniform Transfers to Minors) It doesn’t work. — Fact Checker
account for his college education with a
Dear Fact Checker: Because someone
$5,000 initial deposit. My idea is to add sends you emails does not mean you must
$1,000 every year on his birthday for the first read them all. Filter your email so that the
five years.
political rants go into a special folder, then
Would it be tacky to challenge, or delete them en masse.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 2, 1917
All traffic on the O.-W. R. & N. main line is
held up today by a big snowslide at Bacon, four
miles east of Union Junction, which caught the
rotary plow and engine and turned it and the
caboose over. Fortunately no one was hurt in
the accident. Some time will be required to
clear the track. There is now six feet of snow at
Meacham and it is still snowing hard.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 2, 1967
A young woman from Pendleton who has
been all over the world for the U.S. Department
of State has been listed in “Outstanding Young
Women of America.” Harriet Isom, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Isom, was nominated
for the distinction by her alma mater, Mills
College, Calif. Miss Isom worked for the
Department of Defense, with assignments in
a number of foreign countries, before joining
the state department. She is now en route
to Niamey, Niger, Africa, where she will be
economics officer at the U.S. Embassy. She is
on a two-year assignment.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 2, 1992
A fight following a high school basketball
game in Umatilla between Riverside of
Boardman and Umatilla on Jan. 7 left the
athletic directors of both schools, both long-
time high school coaches, dismayed and
disturbed. The fight occurred on the street
outside the school gymnasium after the game
was over. Riverside player Marc Andreason
was knocked down and suffered chipped
teeth and a cut that required three stitches.
Two Umatilla players were suspended from
school temporarily and from the team for the
remainder of the season as a result of their
involvement, Umatilla coach Curt Marschner
said the Friday after the fight. One Umatilla
player was charged with fourth-degree assault.
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 33rd day of
2017. There are 332 days left
in the year. This is Groundhog
Day.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 2, 1887, Punxsut-
awney, Pennsylvania, held its
first Groundhog Day festival.
On this date:
In 1653, New Amsterdam
— now New York City —
was incorporated.
In 1848, the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending
the Mexican-American War,
was signed.
In 1914, Charles Chaplin
made his movie debut as
the comedy short “Making
a Living” was released by
Keystone Film Co. The
musical “Shameen Dhu,”
featuring the song “Too Ra
Loo Ra Loo Ral,” opened on
Broadway.
In 1925, the legendary
Alaska Serum Run ended
as the last of a series of dog
mushers brought a life-saving
treatment to Nome, the scene
of a diphtheria epidemic,
six days after the drug left
Nenana.
In 1932, Duke Ellington
and His Orchestra recorded
“It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It
Ain’t Got That Swing)” for
Brunswick Records.
In 1942, a Los Angeles
Times column by W.H.
Anderson urged security
measures against Japa-
nese-Americans, arguing that
a Japanese-American “almost
inevitably ... grows up to be a
Japanese, not an American.”
In 1959, public schools
in Arlington and Norfolk,
Virginia, were racially deseg-
regated without incident.
In 1964, Ranger 6, a lunar
probe launched by NASA,
crashed onto the surface of
the moon as planned, but
failed to send back any TV
images.
In 1971, Idi Amin, having
seized power in Uganda,
proclaimed himself presi-
dent.
In 1980, NBC News
reported the FBI had
conducted a sting oper-
ation targeting members
of Congress using phony
Arab businessmen in what
became known as “Abscam,”
a codename protested by
Arab-Americans.
In 1992, longtime “Miss
America” emcee Bert Parks
died in La Jolla, California,
at age 77.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Gossip columnist Liz Smith is
94. Former French President
Valery Giscard d’Estaing is
91. Actor Robert Mandan is
85. Comedian Tom Smothers
is 80. Rock singer-guitarist
Graham Nash is 75. Televi-
sion executive Barry Diller
is 75. Actor Bo Hopkins is
73. Country singer Howard
Bellamy (The Bellamy
Brothers) is 71. TV chef
Ina Garten is 69. Actor Jack
McGee is 68. Actor Brent
Spiner is 68. Rock musician
Ross Valory (Journey) is 68.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas,
is 65. The president of South
Korea, Park Geun-hye, is 65.
Model Christie Brinkley is
63. Actor Michael Talbott is
62. Actress Kim Zimmer is
62. Actor Michael T. Weiss
is 55. Actor-comedian Adam
Ferrara is 51. Rock musician
Robert DeLeo (Army of
Anyone; Stone Temple
Pilots) is 51. Singer Shakira
is 40.
Thought for Today:
“Absence is to love what
wind is to fire; it extinguishes
the small, it inflames the
great.” — Bussy-Rabutin,
French soldier and writer
(1618-1693).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE