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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, February 23, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Freeloading nephew needs
to get help and get going
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My husband’s nephew,
dence on you has persisted for too
“Jacob,” is 25 and always hanging
long, and for everyone’s sake it needs
around our house. He has had a hard
to stop. If you haven’t suggested
time over the last four years. First, his
grief counseling for him, you should.
mom committed suicide. Two years
Explain that you love him, but you
later his dad died in his sleep.
and your husband need time to be
My husband and I told Jacob
alone together. Point out that if he’s
we would be there when he needed
unable to do his own housecleaning
advice about things. Well, he recently
and laundry, he should hire someone.
Jeanne
broke up with his longtime girlfriend, Phillips Do not feel guilty for speaking up.
and he’s here at my house every day
You have done more than enough for
Advice
— even days he’s not working. He
Jacob over the last few years, and for
calls every afternoon to see what I’m
him to expect you to cook for him
cooking and expects to eat here every night. every night and weekend is over the top.
He also expects me to drop what I’m doing to
Dear Abby: My husband quit chewing
go and clean his house and wash his clothes.
tobacco, but now he chews gum constantly,
I’m disabled, so it’s a struggle just to feed three pieces at a time. If he’s not asleep or
my husband and myself. He also sleeps here eating, his jaw is moving. He chews it aggres-
on the weekends if he doesn’t work. My sively, rolls it around in his mouth while
husband and I no longer have any alone time talking, so that it looks bad and is irritating.
because he’s always here.
He works with the public, and I’m embar-
I have tried to tell Jacob nicely that he needs rassed for him because I believe it’s bad
his own life, but the message isn’t getting manners to chew gum in that manner. I don’t
through. I know he has issues with being know how to approach him. Please advise as
alone. He has never learned to be by himself. to how I can help him. — Embarrassed For
My husband is starting to get angry about the Him In California
situation and wants me to “handle” it, but my
Dear Embarrassed: Your husband chews
words are not working. If my husband decides the way he does because he is trying to ease the
to say something, it will end up in a heated pangs of withdrawal from his nicotine addic-
argument.
tion. Because what he’s doing is unsightly,
How can I get through to this kid without suggest he discuss it with his doctor to see if
hurting him? I do love him and try to treat him there are other options such as a nicotine patch
like one of my own kids. — Upset Aunt
to help him over the hump. And be sure to tell
Dear Aunt: Talk to Jacob again. This time him how proud you are of his determination
do it in plain English. Your nephew’s depen- to quit.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 23, 1917
The entire east end of Umatilla County has
been placed under quarantine by the state live-
stock sanitary board to prevent the spread of
rabies which has been so prevalent there, and
all dogs within the district must be muzzled or
restrained. The quarantined district includes
the towns of Helix, Adams, Athena, Free-
water and Milton. The district attorney and all
peace officers have been called upon to assist
in enforcing the quarantine. Any interference
or violations punishable by a heavy fine.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 23, 1967
The Helen McCune Junior High School
student body’s goal to help build a school
house for students in a less-developed part of
the world has switched from South America
to India. Students at the Pendleton school
raised $400 last year as their part to finance
the construction of a school building through
the Peace Corps School Partnership Program.
Originally, Helen McCune had hoped to help
students in a remote village of Columbia,
where former Pendleton Peace Corpsman
Jerry Cronin was stationed. However, just
as the project was in its planning stages, the
Columbian government came to the school’s
aid and provided the funds for a building.
The Peace Corps found another area for the
Pendleton school to help, Kailancha, Mysore
State, India.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 23, 1992
Children troubled by domestic violence
will have a soft teddy bear to call their own,
thanks to a church group. Pendleton-based
Domestic Violence Services, which shelters
and assists domestic violence victims,
received 35 stuffed toy bears from the
Women’s Relief Society, Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. About 40 women
from the Pendleton LDS Second Ward made
the bears as part of an ongoing project.
Domestic Violence Services will give a bear
to each child who visits the agency’s office or
stays at the shelter home, said Vicki Rodri-
guez, child youth advocate.
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 54th day of
2017. There are 311 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 23, 1942, the
first shelling of the U.S.
mainland during World War
II occurred as a Japanese
submarine fired on an oil
refinery near Santa Barbara,
California, causing little
damage.
On this date:
In 1836, the siege of
the Alamo began in San
Antonio, Texas.
In 1848, the sixth pres-
ident of the United States,
John Quincy Adams, died in
Washington, D.C., at age 80.
In 1870, Mississippi was
readmitted to the Union.
In
1903,
President
Theodore Roosevelt signed
an agreement with Cuba to
lease the area around Guan-
tanamo Bay to the United
States.
In 1927, President Calvin
Coolidge signed a bill
creating the Federal Radio
Commission, forerunner of
the Federal Communications
Commission.
In 1945, during World
War II, U.S. Marines on
Iwo Jima captured Mount
Suribachi, where they raised
a pair of American flags
(the second flag-raising was
captured in the iconic Asso-
ciated Press photograph.)
In 1954, the first mass
inoculation of schoolchil-
dren against polio using
the Salk vaccine began in
Pittsburgh as some 5,000
students were vaccinated.
In 1965, film comedian
Stan Laurel, 74, died in
Santa Monica, California.
In 1970, Guyana became
a republic within the
Commonwealth of Nations.
In 1989, the Senate
Armed Services Committee
voted 11-9 along party lines
to recommend rejection of
John Tower as President
George H.W. Bush’s defense
secretary. (Tower’s nomina-
tion went down to defeat in
the full Senate the following
month.)
In 1992, the XVI Winter
Olympic Games ended in
Albertville, France.
In 1997, a 69-year-old
Palestinian teacher opened
fire on the 86th-floor obser-
vation deck of New York’s
Empire State Building,
killing one person and
wounding six others before
shooting himself to death.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Peter Fonda is 77. Pro and
College Football Hall of
Famer Fred Biletnikoff is 74.
Author John Sandford is 73.
Country-rock musician Rusty
Young is 71. Actress Patricia
Richardson is 66. Former
NFL player Ed “Too Tall”
Jones is 66. Rock musician
Brad Whitford (Aerosmith)
is 65. Singer Howard Jones is
62. Rock musician Michael
Wilton (Queensryche) is 55.
Country singer Dusty Drake
is 53. Actress Kristin Davis
is 52. Tennis player Helena
Sukova is 52. Actor Marc
Price is 49. TV personality/
businessman Daymond John
(TV: “Shark Tank”) is 48.
Actress Niecy Nash is 47.
Rock musician Jeff Beres
(Sister Hazel) is 46. Country
singer Steve Holy is 45.
Actor Josh Gad is 36. Actress
Emily Blunt is 34. Actor Aziz
Ansari is 34. Actress Dakota
Fanning is 23.
Thought for Today:
“Never doubt that a small
group
of
thoughtful,
committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed,
it is the only thing that ever
has.” — Margaret Mead,
American
anthropologist
(1901-1978).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE