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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