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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, April 14, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mother can give baby clothes away or donate for tax break FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My friend recently Dear Chrissy: Other readers had a baby and could really use my suggested letter writing (and a person- daughter’s old clothes, as our girls alized video message) as potential are only a year apart and I have solutions to this problem. Read on for saved practically everything. But it a sampling of other comments: will cost a considerable amount to Dear Abby: Perhaps the mom ship several boxes, and I could use should identify a relative or family the extra money myself if I sold the friend to be aware of this issue and clothes at a tag sale. Would I be cheap ready to step in and provide some Jeanne if I asked that when my friend is done Phillips support if needed. If the children and with them, she donate the clothes to this person are alerted beforehand, Advice a charity and send me back the tax they will know whom to turn to in donation forms? — Wants To Know case Mom predeceases her husband. In Connecticut Each child may wish to designate his or her Dear Wants To Know: First, a gentle own source of support, but the purpose of reminder that once a gift is given, it belongs this exercise is to reassure the mother that her to the recipient. And yes, I believe you kids will not be alone. — Maura In Oregon WOULD come across as cheap. Either give Dear Abby: This woman needs to know the clothes out of the goodness of your heart, that it’s OK for her husband to be hard-nosed knowing you will reap rewards beyond the about death. While he SHOULD be more sympathetic to the feelings of others, he financial — or donate them yourself. Dear Abby: “Full of Feeling in Arizona” wasn’t raised that way. His way of handling (Jan. 21) wrote about her husband lacking it is to put up a wall. Some people don’t have sympathy, and was worried he may not be the same depth of feelings as others. Mine are there emotionally for her children in the event much more matter-of-fact than my friends’. of her dying before he does. Your answer But I can appreciate that we all grieve in to her was to “outlive him,” which had me different ways. — David In Michigan rolling in laughter. Dear Abby: That woman’s husband Perhaps another idea might be to write could have Asperger’s syndrome, a type of letters to her children NOW. A heartfelt letter high-functioning autism. These individuals, taking family members through the loss of although accomplished and intelligent in their mom (from their mom) or dad (from many areas, have difficulty processing their mom who has already passed) may be empathy. It makes them seem uncaring. This very comforting to some. Or several letters condition makes interaction between spouses for different occasions could be a beautiful extremely frustrating and difficult. It’s worth gift. Just a thought. — Chrissy In California considering. — Audrey In Pennsylvania 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 April 14, 1917 After today there will be but two boys left in the senior class of the high school because of the war situation. Those who have not gone out as guards for the railroad or other property have enlisted in various branches of the army or navy. Their absence will not interfere with their graduation inasmuch as the school board has decided to take their present grades as their final standing. Dewey Gervais, high school correspondent for the East Oregonian, and Ralph Hargett spent their last day at the school today, both intending to enlist tomorrow in the navy. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 14, 1967 The first annual Pendleton Round-Up Motorcycle Trial, a test of rider and machine against an obstacle course, will be held here this Sunday. The trail will be held on a hillside north of Lindell’s Auto Salvage yard, located in east Pendleton near the mouth of Wildhorse Creek. Labeled as an English trials, not a race, the event is an obstacle course for motorcycles including water, BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN steep hills, gullies and natural barriers. The course will be divided into sections and each section will have a clearly marked entrance and exit. An official observer will watch each contestant as he attempts to drive through these stretches and will grade him on his performance. Riders will be judged only on the number of times they put a foot down, stop, fall, or leave a section other than at its exit. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 14, 1992 Hermiston resident Lynda Chandler received a new lung today in the first transplant of its kind performed in Oregon. Chandler, 50, received a new lung after eight hours of surgery that began about 1 a.m. Her physicians said she is doing well and should make a full recovery. Chandler was diag- nosed in April 1991 with pulmonary fibrosis in her left lung. The condition scarred her lung and had made any exertion impossible, requiring her to rely on continuous oxygen. A Pendleton native, Chandler moved to Hermiston in 1963. She worked as manager of Montgomery Ward, spending 17 years with the company. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is Good Friday, the 104th day of 2017. There are 261 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 14, 1865, Pres- ident Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington. On this date: In 1775, the first Amer- ican society for the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia. In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the English Language” was published. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.) In 1935, the “Black Sunday” dust storm descended upon the central Plains, turning a sunny after- noon into total darkness. In 1939, the John Stein- beck novel “The Grapes of Wrath” was first published by Viking Press. In 1949, the “Wilhelm- strasse Trial” in Nuremberg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years. In 1956, Ampex Corp. demonstrated the first practical videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago. In 1965, the state of Kansas hanged Richard Hickock and Perry Smith for the 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and two of their children, Nancy and Kenyon. The murders were detailed in the Truman Capote non-fiction novel “In Cold Blood.” In 1981, the first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Bradford Dillman is 87. Country singer Loretta Lynn is 85. Actress Julie Christie is 77. Retired MLB All-Star Pete Rose is 76. Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 72. Actor John Shea is 68. Actor-turned- race car driver Brian Forster is 57. Actor Brad Garrett is 57. Actor Robert Carlyle is 56. Rock singer-musician John Bell (Widespread Panic) is 55. Actor Robert Clendenin is 53. Actress Catherine Dent is 52. Actor Lloyd Owen is 51. Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux is 51. Rock musician Barrett Martin is 50. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 49. Actor Adrien Brody is 44. Rapper DaBrat is 43. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is 40. Actor-producer Rob McEl- henney is 40. Roots singer JD McPherson is 40. Rock singer Win Butler (Arcade Fire) is 37. Thought for Today: “Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” — George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian (1876-1962). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE