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Thursday, March 30, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Graciousness is key to the art
of accepting a compliment
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m a young man
a rather nasty way why he doesn’t
in my mid-20s, and I have a deeper
just go get a job, and I’m beginning
voice than my stature would typi-
to think that my parents share her
cally suggest. Close friends even get
sentiment.
thrown off when I talk to them if they
He already feels guilty and worth-
haven’t seen me in a while. I’m fairly
less for not being able to provide for
happy with it, and people often ask if
our family. It’s coming to the point
I do radio or voice acting. I run into
where I just want to get away from
problems, though, when strangers
them and cut off contact. Should I
Jeanne
comment on it.
Phillips address the issue or just let it go? —
If someone says, “Wow, has
Sick In The South
Advice
anyone ever told you that you have
Dear Sick: By all means address
a great voice?” or something of that
the issue. What your sister did was
nature, my first impulse is to make a joke both cruel and out of line. Ask your parents
about it. If I’m not quick enough on my if those are their sentiments as well, because
feet, however, I often catch myself saying you are concerned they might be.
something like, “Yeah, I get that a lot,” or, “I
If they are having doubts about your
know,” both of which sound egotistical, and husband’s physical problems, offer to share
I feel embarrassed afterward. Is there a way medical information that proves his health
to acknowledge the compliment that doesn’t problems are all too real. Because your
come off so pretentious? — Not Quick On parents have been helping out financially, it
My Feet
might help to clear the air.
Dear Not Quick: Yes, accept the compli-
Dear Abby: My son just got some devas-
ment graciously by saying, “Thank you.”
tating news. He found out that the son he has
Dear Abby: My husband has been sick raised for 20 years isn’t his. We will always
and unable to work for several years due to a love the young man regardless. The thing is,
debilitating illness. He has been home taking how do we help our son to overcome losing
care of the kids while I have been working a child we all thought was his? — Heart-
full-time. We have lost everything because broken In Texas
of the financial burden of his illness. I am
Dear Heartbroken: Regardless of who
very grateful to my parents for helping us contributed the sperm that fertilized the egg
financially during this tough time.
that became your grandson, the person your
Unfortunately, I believe some of my son raised IS his son. The bond is there. Your
family think my husband is faking his son is the only father he has ever known.
illness. This is hurtful since they have known If you move forward from there and don’t
him for a long time (we’ve been married deviate from that path, you should all be able
12 years). My sister recently asked him in to deal with this in a positive manner.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 30, 1917
Pendleton gave the world to know last
evening that she is patriotic and preparing.
Her evidence was the largest parade ever held
in the city and the biggest demonstration of
patriotism since the outbreak of the Span-
ish-American war. Fully five thousand people
gathered on the streets at 7 o’clock for the
parade and most of that number formed in the
line of march. Main street was literally a mass
of humanity. The Oregon and Alta theaters
could not begin to accommodate the crowd
that turned out for the demonstration. Both
were filled to capacity and hundreds were
turned away from the doors. Both meetings
were enthusiastic ones and did much toward
arousing Pendletonians to a sense of the
impending danger and to the need of prepa-
ration to meet it.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 30, 1967
The Mod Look is the “in” look for
Pendleton schools, or at least one Pendleton
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
school. Last week, kindergarten youngsters
at Washington Grade School entered a new
type of educational building that had been
erected in less than a week. The classroom,
constructed by Modulux Inc., of Bellevue,
Wash., is a new concept in school buildings,
the portable classroom. It is a complete class-
room, with air conditioning, blackboards and
even a clock. A portable classroom could be
the answer to the problems of overcrowded
schools or districts with shifting school popu-
lations.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 30, 1992
The odor of onions in Umatilla is beginning
to smell like paychecks and tax dollars to area
residents who fear Haas Foods will move to
another state. Haas Foods’ recent announce-
ment that it may move to Washington if odor
control measures are too costly has spurred
an outpouring of support in the community.
Many people have signed a petition showing
they endorse the continued operation and
expansion of the onion and garlic processing
plant at the Port of Umatilla.
Today is the 89th day of
2017. There are 276 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 30, 1867, U.S.
Secretary of State William H.
Seward reached agreement
with Russia to purchase the
territory of Alaska for $7.2
million (the rough equivalent
of $125 million today), a
deal ridiculed by critics as
“Seward’s Folly.”
On this date:
In 1822, Florida became a
United States territory.
In 1870, the 15th Amend-
ment to the U.S. Consti-
tution, which prohibited
denying citizens the right to
vote and hold office on the
basis of race, was declared in
effect by Secretary of State
Hamilton Fish. Texas was
readmitted to the Union.
In 1923, the Cunard liner
RMS Laconia became the
first passenger ship to circle
the globe as it arrived in New
York.
In 1945, during World
War II, the Soviet Union
invaded Austria with the
goal of taking Vienna, which
it accomplished two weeks
later.
In 1959, a narrowly
divided U.S. Supreme Court,
in Bartkus v. Illinois, ruled
that a conviction in state
court following an acquittal
in federal court for the same
crime did not constitute
double jeopardy.
In 1964, John Glenn
withdrew from the Ohio race
for the U.S. Senate because
of injuries suffered in a fall.
The original version of the
TV game show “Jeopardy!”
hosted by Art Fleming,
premiered on NBC.
In 1975, as the Vietnam
War neared its end, Commu-
nist forces occupied the city
of Da Nang. James Ruppert,
41, killed 11 members of his
family at his mother’s home
in Hamilton, Ohio, on Easter
Sunday.
In
1981,
President
Ronald Reagan was shot and
seriously injured outside a
Washington, D.C., hotel by
John W. Hinckley, Jr.; also
wounded were White House
press secretary James Brady,
Secret Service agent Timothy
McCarthy and a District of
Columbia police officer,
Thomas Delahanty.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Game show host Peter
Marshall is 91. Actor John
Astin is 87. Actor-director
Warren Beatty is 80. Rock
musician Graeme Edge
(The Moody Blues) is 76.
Rock musician Eric Clapton
is 72. Actor Justin Deas is
69. Actor Paul Reiser is 60.
Rap artist MC Hammer is
54. Singer Tracy Chapman
is 53. Actor Ian Ziering is
53. TV personality Piers
Morgan is 52. Actress
Donna D’Errico is 49.
Singer Celine Dion is 49.
Actor Mark Consuelos is 46.
Actress Bahar Soomekh is
42. Actress Jessica Cauffiel
is 41. Singer Norah Jones
is 38. Actress Fiona Gubel-
mann is 37. Actress Katy
Mixon is 36. Actor Jason
Dohring is 35. Country
singer Justin Moore is 33.
Actress Tessa Ferrer is 31.
Country singer Thomas
Rhett is 27.
Thought for Today:
“Prophecy,
however
honest, is generally a poor
substitute for experience.”
— Benjamin N. Cardozo,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
(1870-1938).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE