Tuesday, February 28, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Adoptive families celebrate
with special day each year
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: As parents of an
and she’ll do what she wants. This
adopted child, we were concerned
has driven a wedge between us, and
about when we would have “the
I’m not sure if we can move forward.
conversation.” Then a neighbor told
What is your advice? — Unmarked
us about how they would celebrate
In Nevada
“Gotcha Day” with their adopted
Dear Unmarked: To me, what’s
daughter each year.
important is not that your wife got the
Gotcha Day is a day to celebrate
tattoo without discussing it with you,
because it’s the day we became a
but her motive for doing it in secret.
Jeanne
family. We “adopted” their idea and Phillips My advice is to do nothing in haste or
have been doing something special on
in anger. Try to get her to explain to
Advice
this day since before our child could
you what the tattoo symbolizes to her,
even say the word “gotcha.”
because it may be important. After
Early on, she had no idea what we were that, whether you decide to move forward
celebrating; she just knew it was a special — or move out — is something only you can
day for us. Through the years, she was able decide.
to process exactly what it meant at her own
Dear Abby: My co-worker tried to commit
pace, which relieved the need to ever have suicide last year. She took eight months
that dreaded conversation. Recently our off after that. Now we are approaching the
daughter told us she loves this day more than one-year anniversary.
her actual birthday!
We work for a small, family-owned busi-
I thought I’d share this with other adoptive ness. Everyone knows she tried to kill herself,
parents who worry about when the right time but no one knows why. She has reduced her
might be to explain to their child that they hours and her stress level, at least at work. I
were prayed for, wanted, loved and adopted. have picked up most of her duties, and I’m
— Blessed Parents In Pennsylvania
quick to lend a hand. She’s a lot older than I
Dear Blessed Parents: I had never heard am, and I’m not comfortable lending an ear.
of anything like this, but I think it’s a great
How do we handle this situation? Do we
concept and certainly worth sharing with my act like it’s just like any other normal day? —
readers. Thank you!
Uncomfortable At Work
Dear Abby: After 32 years of marriage,
Dear Uncomfortable: If your co-worker
my wife went out and got a tattoo on her wanted to disclose her reason(s) for trying
shoulder. It’s about 8 inches by 6 inches (quite to kill herself, you would already know
large), and she did it without any advance what drove her. Because a suicide attempt is
discussion with me, which has left me sort nothing to celebrate, be sensitive and don’t
of shocked. Her position is that it’s her body draw attention to it unless she brings it up.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 27-28, 1917
A story of an attack made by a bald eagle
upon a band seven deer was brought down
this morning from Bingham Springs by
Albert Baker, forest ranger at that station.
He personally witnessed the attack several
days ago. The eagle would swoop down
upon the deer from a height and strike one
of the animals with such force that it would
be prostrated. This the eagle repeated several
times. He was unable to see the finish of the
eagle’s attack as the deer disappeared over
a ridge. However, he thinks the animals
escaped their winged assailant by taking to
the brush.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 27-28, 1967
The Oregon State Police, alarmed by the
high percentage of single car accidents in this
area, are planning stepped up enforcement to
stem this rise. Sgt. Tom Taylor, of the Pend-
leton detachment, said the state police are
launching a campaign to tell the public about
the high frequency of singe car accidents
and urge that something be done about them.
“There is no reason for a one-car accident.
They are stupid and unwarranted,” he said.
During the past year of the 755 accidents
investigated in Eastern Oregon by the state
police, 385, or over 50 per cent, were one-car
accidents. In Umatilla County there was a
total of 263 accidents for the same period and
137, or 52 per cent, were one-car accidents.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 27-28, 1992
A new computerized fingerprint checking
system led to the arrest in Milton-Freewater
of a burglary suspect who had been recently
paroled from the medium-security prison
in Pendleton. The Automated Fingerprint
Identification System helped identify a man
who entered a residence through a broken
window Jan. 20. The suspect left his finger-
print on a piece of the glass when he moved
it to gain access, said Oregon State Trooper
John Gaukroger.
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 59th day of
2017. There are 306 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 28, 1917, The
Associated Press reported
that the United States had
obtained
a
diplomatic
communication sent by
German Foreign Minister
Arthur Zimmermann to a
German official in Mexico;
the “Zimmermann Note,”
which had been intercepted
and decoded by Britain,
proposed a German alliance
with Mexico and Japan
should the U.S. enter World
War I. (Outrage over the tele-
gram helped propel America
into the conflict.)
On this date:
In 1844, a 12-inch gun
aboard the USS Princeton
exploded as the ship was
sailing on the Potomac River,
killing Secretary of State
Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secre-
tary Thomas W. Gilmer and
several others.
In 1861, the Territory of
Colorado was organized.
In 1942, the heavy
cruiser USS Houston and
the Australian light cruiser
HMAS Perth were attacked
by Japanese forces during the
World War II Battle of Sunda
Strait; both were sunk shortly
after midnight on March 1
with a total loss of more than
1,000 men.
In 1953, scientists James
D. Watson and Francis H.C.
Crick announced they had
discovered the double-helix
structure of DNA.
In 1960, a day after
defeating the Soviets at the
Winter Games in Squaw
Valley, California, the United
States won its first Olympic
hockey gold medal by
defeating Czechoslovakia,
9-4.
In 1986, Swedish Prime
Minister Olof Palme was
shot to death in central
Stockholm. (The killing
remains unsolved.)
In 1993, a gun battle
erupted at a religious
compound near Waco, Texas,
when Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco
and
Firearms
agents tried to arrest Branch
Davidian leader David
Koresh on weapons charges;
four agents and six David-
ians were killed as a 51-day
standoff began.
In 2013, Benedict XVI
became the first pope in 600
years to resign, ending an
eight-year pontificate.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Architect Frank Gehry is
88. Actor Gavin MacLeod
is 86. Singer Sam the Sham
is 80. Actor-director-dancer
Tommy Tune is 78. Hall
of Fame auto racer Mario
Andretti is 77. Actor Frank
Bonner is 75. Actress Kelly
Bishop is 73. Actress Steph-
anie Beacham is 70. Writ-
er-director Mike Figgis is
69. Actress Mercedes Ruehl
is 69. Actress Bernadette
Peters is 69. Former Energy
Secretary Steven Chu is 69.
Actress Ilene Graff is 68.
Nobel Prize-winning econ-
omist Paul Krugman is 64.
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried
is 62. Basketball Hall of
Famer Adrian Dantley is 62.
Actor John Turturro is 60.
Rock singer Cindy Wilson
is 60. Actress Rae Dawn
Chong is 56. Actress Maxine
Bahns is 48. Actor Robert
Sean Leonard is 48. Rock
singer Pat Monahan is 48.
Author Daniel Handler (aka
“Lemony Snicket”) is 47.
Thought for Today:
“Education is learning what
you didn’t even know you
didn’t know.” — Daniel J.
Boorstin, American histo-
rian, educator and Librarian
of Congress (1914-2004).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE