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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, February 8, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Cutting off her cellphone may bring wayward daughter home FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE am. Abby, I am terrified she’ll dump Dear Abby: I need advice on how to deal with my 18-year-old daughter. me after she sees me. Please give me A few months ago she was ready to some advice. — Needs Help Fast go to college. Then she met this guy Dear Needs Help: From what via Snapchat. He’s unemployed, lives my “sexperts” tell me, many men at with a friend who is under house one time or another needlessly worry arrest, has a criminal record and has about their size. It’s very important nothing to offer her. before you embark on any adventure We took our car away from our with this woman that you level with Jeanne daughter to keep her from driving it Phillips her. Perhaps the story of Pinocchio there. Two weeks ago, she packed would be a logical place to start. Advice her stuff and left with him. She has Dear Abby: My 65-year-old no job, has spent all of her graduation husband has been a lifelong smoker. money and is running up our cellphone bill A year ago he started using an e-cigarette. while living with him. My wife is a wreck, When his doctor asked if he smokes, he insists and we don’t know what to do. — Dad In on telling him “no.” I feel it is dishonest and North Carolina detrimental to his medical records. It makes Dear Dad: I empathize with your concern me crazy. Don’t you think that medical for your daughter, but she is immature and personnel should phrase this question: “Do in love. Because she’s 18 you can’t drag you use nicotine?” Please comment. — her back home. Tell her that now she has Concerned Wife In Texas “declared her independence and moved out,” Dear Concerned Wife: There’s a saying, you will no longer pay her cellphone bill. I’m “Never lie to your doctor or your lawyer.” It guessing she’ll be back in no time. is excellent advice. Your husband is fooling Dear Abby: I am a 50-year-old male who only himself by concealing from his physi- has been dating a younger girl (28) for a year cian that he’s still hooked on nicotine. now. Everything has been great with her Whether medical personnel will change except for one thing. I am a virgin. the way they phrase that question I can’t We recently discussed having relations and guarantee. However, because my column is both agree that we want to. There’s just one read by many people in the medical profes- problem. I have really talked myself up. I lied sion, I’m willing to bet that after seeing your and told her I am much larger than I actually letter, SOME of them will. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 8, 1917 Pendleton became bone-dry at 6 o’clock last evening when the two express offices closed their doors to further deliveries of booze shipments. All day long there was a stream of callers at both offices and but very little liquor was left on hand for the companies to ship back to the shippers. At the American Express office all shipments were delivered except seven cartons of whiskey and four barrels of beer, and at the Northern Express office all that remained unclaimed were seven whiskey shipments and one beer. Some of the undelivered booze was unclaimed while other shipments belonged to persons whose 28 day period was not up. One man who had a shipment of beer had taken out a previous shipment just 27 days before and, therefore, lost his shipment by just one day. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 8, 1967 Harold Leroy Dubry of Hermiston is in critical condition at Kadlec Hospital in Rich- land, Wash., as a result of being hit in the head by a hunting hatchet Monday morning. His wife, Alice, 53, was taken by Deputy Sheriff Sam Sellers and State Police Sgt. Jim Shelton to Good Shepherd Hospital. Sellers, accom- panied by a Hermiston police matron, later took Mrs. Dubry to Eastern Oregon Hospital and Training Center in Pendleton. Mrs. Dubry entered the Hermiston police station Monday morning and announced that a man had been killed. Sellers and a Hermiston police officer took an ambulance to the Dubry home and found Dubry still alive but suffering from a large head wound. They took him to Good Shepherd Hospital. Later he was transferred to Richland. Sellers said that neither Dubry nor his wife have been questioned. State police and the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Department are continuing the investigation. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 8, 1992 An acquaintance of homicide victim Jeffrey Bailey was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of murder. Jody Blaine Butter- field, 29, of Stanfield was arrested without incident about 10:45 a.m. when state police and county sheriff’s deputies swarmed a car as it pulled into the parking lot at the Short- stop convenience store three miles northeast of Hermiston. Umatilla County District Attorney Dave Gallaher said Butterfield, who is believed to be unemployed, was among an original list of suspects in the case. An informant identified Butterfield as the man who killed Bailey, Gallaher said. THIS DAY IN HISTORY 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 39th day of 2017. There are 326 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 8, 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces began invading Singa- pore, which fell a week later. On this date: In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Foth- eringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, ended in victory for Union forces led by Gen. Ambrose E. Burn- side. In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated. In 1915, D.W. Griffith’s groundbreaking as well as controversial silent movie epic about the Civil War, “The Birth of a Nation,” premiered in Los Angeles under its original title, “The Clansman.” In 1922, President Warren G. Harding had a radio installed in the White House. In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Malaga fell to Nationalist and Italian forces. In 1952, Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed her acces- sion to the British throne following the death of her father, King George VI. In 1968, three college students were killed in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, South Carolina, during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley. In 1973, Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investi- gate the Watergate scandal, including its chairman, Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C. In 1989, 144 people were killed when an Amer- ican-chartered Boeing 707 filled with Italian tourists slammed into a fog-covered mountain in the Azores. In 1992, the XVI Olympic Winter Games opened in Albertville, France. In 1996, in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, President Bill Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry, saying it would “bring the future to our doorstep.” Today’s Birthdays: Composer-conductor John Williams is 85. Newscaster Ted Koppel is 77. Actor Nick Nolte is 76. Comedian Robert Klein is 75. Actor- rock musician Creed Bratton is 74. Singer Ron Tyson is 69. Actress Brooke Adams is 68. Actress Mary Steenburgen is 64. Author John Grisham is 62. Retired NBA All-Star and College Basketball Hall of Famer Marques Johnson is 61. Actor Henry Czerny is 58. The former president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, is 57. Rock singer Vince Neil (Motley Crue) is 56. Actress Missy Yager (Film: “Manchester by the Sea”) is 49. Basketball Hall of Famer Alonzo Mourning is 47. Dance musician Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk) is 43. Actor Seth Green is 43. Rock musician Phoenix (Linkin Park) is 40. Actress-comedian Cecily Strong is 33. Hip-hop artist Anderson.Paak is 31. Thought for Today: “Children see things very well sometimes — and ideal- ists even better.” — Lorraine Hansberry, American author and dramatist (1930-1965). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE