Tuesday, March 14, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Daughter’s efforts are never
good enough for her family
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m a 15-year-old girl,
better. No rule of etiquette dictates
and I’m struggling with abuse. I’m
that she is obligated to send a plate of
mentally and physically abused by my
her food home with her son for you.
family constantly, yet they make me
Perhaps if your relationship with her
out to be the abusive one. I could do
was warmer, or your husband was
amazing on a test, and they yell at me
thoughtful enough to suggest it, she
for something that happened on the
would. However, since you asked, my
last one. They’re always pushing me
opinion is that rather than complain,
so hard to do better that it’s making
you should pick up some take-out on
Jeanne
me do worse.
Phillips your way home from work.
How can I make my family see that
Dear Abby: I’m a 22-year-old
Advice
I’m not them, and I can do good if they
college student on the verge of grad-
just give me the chance to learn from
uating this May. I’ve been dating my
my mistakes? — Struggling In Wisconsin
boyfriend for more than five years, and I am
Dear Struggling: Parents always want extremely close with his family, especially his
their children to perform to their level of sister “Claudia” and her three children (ages
capacity. Because you say you are being 6, 3 and 6 months).
abused physically and emotionally for
My parents are throwing me a graduation
your inability to live up to your family’s party at their home, and they don’t want any
expectations, discuss what’s going on with a guests under the age of 10. How do I tell
counselor at your school. It’s possible there Claudia — a dear friend — that her children
needs to be an intervention by someone they won’t be invited without upsetting her? (I
will listen to. Please don’t wait to do it.
have small cousins who won’t be attending
Dear Abby: My husband of three years either.)
has visits with his son every Tuesday and
It truly is nothing personal, but I know
Thursday evening. My mother-in-law picks she will probably take it personally. I don’t
up her grandson, takes him to her home and want to cause drama, but I do want to honor
makes dinner for the three of them. I work my parents’ wishes that no small children be
10-hour days Monday through Friday and am present. How do I tell her? Help! — Soon-
not able to attend these dinners.
To-Be Graduate
My question is, isn’t it proper etiquette that
Dear Soon-To-Be Graduate: You are
my mother-in-law should send a plate of food not hosting the party; your parents are. As
home for me with my husband? She never the hosts, it is their privilege to decide whom
has, and I think this is rude and inconsiderate to invite — or not. When Claudia is invited,
of her. What is your opinion? — Hungry In your parents should explain that they prefer
El Paso
children under the age of 10 not be present,
Dear Hungry: Although brief, your letter and soften it if necessary by explaining there
speaks volumes about your relationship with are small nieces and nephews who will not be
your mother-in-law, which appears could be attending as well.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 13-14, 1917
Last Sunday a heavy wind and snow storm
raged causing three freight trains to become
stalled in the canyon one and one-half miles
west of Meacham. However, the snow plow
soon cleared the tracks for them, without any
delay to regular trains. The snow and wind
storm still raged Monday and every day during
the past week snow has fallen and is still
falling. Fences have been out of sight for so
long residents confess they don’t know what
one looks like and can walk over them. Small
buildings not attended to have been caving in
under the weight of snow and ice. The snow
depth is six and seven feet everywhere. There
have been very few thawing days this winter
and it is feared when spring comes the snow
will melt in a rush.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 13-14, 1967
A quarter-mile of Union Pacific Railroad’s
main line across the Blue Mountains was
torn up Sunday when 17 empty freight cards
derailed near Gibbon. Dean Nagele, Pendleton
UP agent, said today the tracks were repaired
and the line reopened at 5:10 p.m. Sunday. The
derailment occurred at 7:30 a.m. A railroader
at the scene said “a track turned over” as the
112-car train headed up the slight grade and
around curve a mile past Gibbon. No one was
injured in the derailment. But a short time later,
as the first of a work crew of 150 men arrived, a
rock rolled down the cliff above the tracks and
struck Fred Thomas, Rieth, on the leg. He was
taken by ambulance to St. Anthony Hospital
where his leg was x-rayed. No break was found
and he was released. The only other casualty
of the roaring crash was a raccoon. The animal
was crushed by a toppling box car.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 13-14, 1992
Nathan Locke of Enterprise capped the
opening round state Class 2A high school
boys championship basketball action by tying
a 35-year-old tournament scoring record
Thursday night. Locke scored 45 points,
grabbed 16 rebounds and blocked 10 shots to
lead the Enterprise Savages to an 84-62 first-
round victory over the Gervais Cougars. He
tied the tournament single-game scoring record
set by Pudgy Hunt of Knappa in 1957. Locke’s
19 baskets from the field broke the old field-
goal record of 18 held jointly by Jeff Lavender
of Pilot Rock and Russ Harper of St. Mary’s.
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 73rd day of
2017. There are 292 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 14, 1967,
the body of President John
F. Kennedy was moved
from a temporary grave to a
permanent memorial site at
Arlington National Cemetery
in Virginia.
On this date:
In 1794, Eli Whitney
received a patent for his
cotton gin, an invention that
revolutionized
America’s
cotton industry.
In 1885, the Gilbert and
Sullivan comic opera “The
Mikado” premiered at the
Savoy Theatre in London.
In 1900, Congress ratified
the Gold Standard Act.
In 1907, President Theo-
dore Roosevelt signed an
executive order designed to
prevent Japanese laborers
from immigrating to the
United States as part of a
“gentlemen’s
agreement”
with Japan.
In 1923, President Warren
G. Harding became the first
chief executive to file an
income tax return, paying
a levy of $17,990 on his
$75,000 salary.
In 1939, the republic
of Czechoslovakia was
dissolved, opening the way
for Nazi occupation of Czech
areas and the separation of
Slovakia.
In 1951, during the
Korean War, United Nations
forces recaptured Seoul.
In 1964, a jury in Dallas
found Jack Ruby guilty
of murdering Lee Harvey
Oswald, the accused assassin
of President John F. Kennedy,
and sentenced him to death.
(Both the conviction and
death sentence were over-
turned, but Ruby died before
he could be retried.)
In 1975, “Monty Python
and the Holy Grail,” a sendup
of the legend of King Arthur,
had its world premiere in Los
Angeles.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Singer Phil Phillips (Song:
“Sea of Love”) is 91. Former
astronaut Frank Borman is 89.
Actor Michael Caine is 84.
Composer-conductor Quincy
Jones is 84. Actor Raymond
J. Barry is 78. Movie director
Wolfgang Petersen is 76.
Country singer Michael
Martin Murphey is 72. Rock
musician Walt Parazaider
(Chicago) is 72. Actor Steve
Kanaly is 71. Comedian Billy
Crystal is 69. Actor-writer-co-
median-radio
personality
Rick Dees is 66. Prince Albert
II, the ruler of Monaco, is
59. Singer-musician Taylor
Hanson (Hanson) is 34. Actor
Jamie Bell is 31. Rock musi-
cian Este Haim (Haim) is 31.
Olympic gold medal gymnast
Simone Biles is 20.
Thought for Today: “The
man who does his work, any
work, conscientiously, must
always be in one sense a
great man.” — Dinah Maria
Mulock Craik, English
novelist (1826-1887).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE