Page 6B 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