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East Oregonian
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Family nanny is conflicted
about exposing dad’s bias
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
because she is your employer.
Dear Abby: I am a full-time nanny
Dear Abby: I am a 29-year-old
for a family with two children, ages 7
and 9. The mother is wonderful, and
female. I’m not married and have no
so are the kids. But the father, who is
kids. I’ve been dating a man who is
absent due to work travel most of the
14 years older for two years now. He
time, teaches his children attitudes I
has no children.
strongly disagree with. It is not often
We have talked about marriage and
I must interact with him, but when I
having children, but recently I found
have, he says hateful things about
out he has no retirement savings.
Jeanne
people who are gay, obese or poor.
Phillips This scares me because I’m thinking
The children have now begun to
about the future. If something were to
Advice
repeat these comments, pointing out
happen to him and we were married,
large people when we are in public,
I’d be stuck with his debt.
or saying nasty things about the homeless we
I am at a loss. I don’t want to be the
see as we drive. I try to combat this hatred by snobby woman who kicks him when he’s
sharing words of love or acceptance.
down and leaves him, but at the same time,
The mom is mortified when I tell her the I don’t understand why he hasn’t planned
things her children have said. She doesn’t for retirement. Am I wrong for thinking this
share the same attitudes as her husband, but way? — Contemplating My Future In
she works a lot and isn’t around to discuss Santa Rosa, Calif.
things like this with her kids in the moment.
Dear Contemplating: If you don’t under-
I feel like part of the family because I stand your boyfriend’s thinking on the subject
spend so much time with the children. But I of financial planning, continue discussing it
wonder if I am overstepping my boundaries with him until you do. He may not realize
by admonishing them for saying things their how important it is to plan, invest and save
father has taught them to believe. Is it my for the future. Many people older than he is
place to teach the kids lessons about accep- are now having a rude awakening about how
tance that are contrary to what he tells them? long they will need to continue working until
— Nanny In Tampa
they have enough of a nest egg to retire. In
Dear Nanny: The person to whom you many cases, it takes the effort of both spouses
should be addressing this question is the to accomplish it — if they can retire at all.
children’s mother. Whether I think teaching
Please don’t call yourself names. I
the children compassion and tolerance is the wouldn’t accuse you of being a “snob”
right thing to do (which, by the way, I do) is because you’re thinking rationally on the
not relevant. You should abide by her wishes subject of finances. I call that being sensible.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 17-18, 1917
For the purpose of organizing a Pendleton
Home Guard, a meeting has been called for
Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the old library
room of the city hall. The primary purpose
of the organization is to provide military
training for Pendletonians in the event that
they may understand the fundamentals should
they be called upon to serve. Membership
in the home guard will not entail obligations
to enlist, as neither state or government will
have any control of the organization. Dan P.
Smythe, former captain in the national guard,
will preside and members of the United
Spanish War Veterans will assist in the work
of organization. Once organized the guard will
probably drill at regular intervals.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 17-18, 1967
A Pendleton man was burned Saturday
afternoon when a fire flashed through his
Riverside home while he was attempting to
clean the wax off the hardwood floors with
a flammable liquid. Ken Olson, 32, was
admitted to St. Anthony Hospital at 3 p.m.
Saturday for treatment of burns to his face
and over much of his body. Firemen said that
Olson had scrubbed many of the floors when
an appliance apparently touched off the fire. It
swished through the house, burning Olson and
causing considerable damage. Two fire trucks
and 17 men responded to the call.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 17-18, 1992
Ken Reading doesn’t issue library cards
or loan books, but he was recently named
“Librarian of the Year” by the Oregon Library
Association. Reading, who was hired as the
first librarian/coordinator for the Umatilla
County Special Library District in 1987, was
honored during the annual meeting of the
association at the Jantzen Beach Red Lion in
Portland. “He has gotten visibility and become
known not because he hob-knobs, but because
of what he’s developed here in Umatilla
County with the Special Library District,” said
Darcy Dauble, the Blue mountain Community
College librarian who nominated Reading.
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 108th day of
2017. There are 257 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On April 18, 1942, during
World War II, an air squadron
from the USS Hornet led by
Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle
raided Tokyo and other Japa-
nese cities. The first World
War II edition of The Stars
and Stripes was published as
a weekly newspaper.
On this date:
In 1775, Paul Revere
began his famous ride from
Charlestown to Lexington,
Massachusetts,
warning
colonists that British Regular
troops were approaching.
In 1865, Confederate
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
surrendered to Union Maj.
Gen. William T. Sherman
near Durham Station in North
Carolina.
In 1906, a devastating
earthquake struck San Fran-
cisco, followed by raging
fires; estimates of the final
death toll range between
3,000 and 6,000.
In 1925, the first Woman’s
World’s Fair, an eight-day
event, opened in Chicago.
In 1934, the first laun-
dromat was opened by John
F. Cantrell in Fort Worth,
Texas; the “Washateria,”
as it was called, rented four
electric washing machines to
the public on an hourly basis.
In 1945, during World
War II, famed American war
correspondent Ernie Pyle,
44, was killed by Japanese
gunfire on the Pacific island
of Ie Shima, off Okinawa.
In 1946, the League of
Nations met for the last time.
The International Court of
Justice, the judicial arm of
the United Nations, held its
first sitting in The Hague,
Netherlands.
In 1956, American actress
Grace Kelly married Prince
Rainier of Monaco in a civil
ceremony. (A church wedding
took place the next day.)
In 1966, “The Sound of
Music” won the Oscar for
best picture of 1965 at the
38th Academy Awards. The
first Major League baseball
game played on AstroTurf
took place at the Houston
Astrodome as the Los
Angeles Dodgers defeated
the Astros 6-3. Bill Russell
was named player-coach of
the Boston Celtics, becoming
the NBA’s first black coach.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Clive Revill is 87.
Actor James Drury is 83.
Actor Robert Hooks is 80.
Actress Hayley Mills is 71.
Actor James Woods is 70.
Actress-director
Dorothy
Lyman is 70. Actress Cindy
Pickett is 70. Country
musician Walt Richmond
(The Tractors) is 70. Country
musician Jim Scholten
(Sawyer Brown) is 65. Actor
Rick Moranis is 64. Actress
Melody Thomas Scott is
61. Actor Eric Roberts is
61. Actor John James is 61.
Author-journalist
Susan
Faludi is 58. Actress Jane
Leeves is 56. Ventriloquist/
comedian Jeff Dunham is
55. Talk show host Conan
O’Brien is 54. Bluegrass sing-
er-musician Terry Eldredge is
54. Actor Eric McCormack
is 54. Actor David Tennant
is 46. Actress Melissa Joan
Hart is 41. Actress America
Ferrera is 33. Actress Alia
Shawkat is 28.
Thought for Today:
“Logic will get you from A
to B. Imagination will take
you everywhere.” — Albert
Einstein, German-American
physicist (born 1879, died
this date in 1955).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE