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Thursday, March 2, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Teen’s parents learn too late about alcohol at friends’ homes FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: I have seen letters having that “very first drink.” One of in your column from parents who the members stood up and said, “It want to ensure their children’s and was like someone switched a light on teenagers’ safety when visiting their in my head, and I said to myself, ‘So friends’ homes. A question parents that’s what it’s like to feel normal!’” need to ask the hosting parents is what This is why it is imperative that their drug and alcohol policy is. families with a history of addiction We wrongly assumed (and trusted) make their children aware of it and that our daughter’s friends’ parents clearly understand why it’s important Jeanne did not facilitate access to alcohol or Phillips they avoid addictive substances even drugs to minors. We realized — too if their friends are indulging. Advice late — that from the time she was 15, Dear Abby: My husband is our daughter had access to unmoni- obsessed with his personal electronic tored alcohol and was sometimes encouraged devices and insists on using one most of the to consume it in these homes. time. He gets angry if I ask him to stop even Many parents think it’s OK if teens drink for a short time. But the worst part is, he alcohol under supervision, as long as the routinely takes his tablet into the bathroom parents are there and they have possession of with him for extended periods. And no, he the car keys. They wrongly rationalize that does not sanitize the tablet afterward — or the teens are going to do it anyway, so why ever, for that matter. not under supervision? Abby, he reads your column and I’m What these good-time parents don’t hoping you might comment on this unsafe consider is that a teen who may have a and repulsive habit. Please help, because he genetic predisposition to addiction may have won’t listen to me. — Grossed Out In New just gotten a switch turned on in his or her Mexico developing brain. You can’t look at people Dear Grossed Out: Because your and know if they are prone to addiction. In our husband gets angry when you ask him to put case, our daughter’s addiction became a long, his electronics down, it appears he may have difficult struggle, which led to the untimely an obsession. Not only is what he’s doing death of our smart and talented daughter at rude, but it isn’t healthy for your marriage age 24. — Grieving Mom In Reno because communication is important Dear Grieving Mom: I am sorry for the between spouses. When he takes his tablet tragic loss of your daughter. In most states, into the bathroom “for a long time,” could he providing alcohol to minors is against the be viewing or texting things he wants to keep law, not only for public safety, but also for from you? the reason you stated. As to his hygiene habits, smartphones and Years ago, I spoke with a gentleman who tablets can be more unhygienic than toilet was active with the National Council on Alco- seats if they’re used for “toilet texting.” The holism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), user’s hands should be washed afterward, when he repeated something he’d heard at and the device should be disinfected, too — an AA meeting. He said the subject being particularly if it will be in contact with the discussed at the meeting was what it felt like user’s face. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 2, 1917 So successful was the experiment of serving “off the tray” lunches to passengers on O.-W. R. & N. trains No. 7 and 8 between Pendleton and Spokane that the railroad company has arranged to extend the service to all passenger trains on the main line, effec- tive yesterday. The first service was started last October, the dining car waiters passing through the train with trays of coffee, sand- wiches, doughnuts and pie which passengers in the day coaches found a pleasant help to the high cost of living. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 2, 1967 Three Condon-area ranchers have been given the first permit in Oregon to kill golden eagles. Lloyd Keller, Tom Cimmiyotti and Brice Logan each received a permit this week from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service headquarters in Portland. Each permit is for four eagles. The ranchers in their applications said the eagles are killing lambs. The three ranchers run sheep on grasslands in the deep canyons of Hay Creek west of Gwendolin in Gilliam County. Fred Kreller, Pendleton, USFWS agent, said Tuesday it is unlikely all 12 of the eagles allowed will be killed. “That’s the maximum,” he said. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 2, 1992 Nikki Lapsley of Pendleton should be excited to watch “America’s Funniest Home Videos” on ABC television at 8 p.m. Sunday. A videotape of her son, Kevin, sleeping in an unusual and funny position will be featured. The video was taped a year ago when Kevin was 4. While sleeping on the couch, the boy slid off and landed with his head on the floor. But his feet remained on the couch. In October 1991, she submitted the video with four different clips and a lengthy written explanation. But the show’s staff returned the tape without viewing it. Nikki resubmitted it with a note saying, “start tape here.” After a screening process, KVEW Television in Tri-Cities notified Nikki Wednesday that her video would premiere this weekend. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 61st day of 2017. There are 304 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On March 2, 1867, Howard University, a historically black school of higher learning in Wash- ington, D.C., was founded as it received a congressional charter. Congress passed, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the first of four Reconstruction Acts, providing for “the more efficient Government of the Rebel States” by dividing the South into five military-run districts. On this date: In 1793, the first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexington, Virginia. In 1836, the Republic of Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico. In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizen- ship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Sha- froth Act. Actor, producer, director and bandleader Desi Arnaz was born in Santiago de Cuba. In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. In 1977, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics. In 1989, representatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), the synthetic compounds blamed for destroying the Earth’s ozone layer, by the end of the 20th century. Today’s Birthdays: Actor John Cullum is 87. Author Tom Wolfe is 87. Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is 86. Actress Barbara Luna is 78. Author John Irving is 75. Actress Cassie Yates is 66. Actress Laraine Newman is 65. Former Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is 64. Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is 62. Pop musician John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 61. Tennis player Kevin Curren is 59. Country singer Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) is 58. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 55. Actor Daniel Craig is 49. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 40. NFL quarter- back Ben Roethlisberger is 35. Thought for Today: “Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.” — Agnes Repplier, American essayist (1858- 1950). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
