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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, April 20, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Ex-wife’s anger at her friend’s betrayal spills over to daughter FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My ex-husband had if things don’t go well and Dad an affair with a woman who was one doesn’t need to be doing this. Yet he of my dearest friends. My heart is continues. broken; my marriage is over. I have Have you any ideas on getting lost my home and my friend. It has Grandpa to keep his opinions to been a struggle for me to recover. himself? We don’t want to ban him My daughter, with whom I am very from games and treat him like a close, continues to have a relationship 5-year-old who can’t behave, since with this woman. While I know it’s he is still able to travel to see us for Jeanne not my place to tell her who to be Phillips these visits. We try to sit away from friends with (she’s 22), I can’t help others, but it’s not always possible. — Advice but feel betrayed. Embarrassed In Houston My daughter is pregnant, and Dear Embarrassed: You already this woman seems to be attempting to play know the answer to your problem, and I do mother and push her way into every detail not understand why you haven’t taken action. of my daughter’s pregnancy. It’s extremely Was your father always this way, or has he upsetting to me to have to share one more become demented? When an adult acts like thing with her. She already took my home and a 5-year-old and behaves inappropriately husband; I would like to keep my daughter after having been cautioned against it, there and grandbaby. What to do? — The Real is cause for concern. Grandma-To-Be If he is unable to control his behavior at Dear Real Grandma: Although you those games, instead of being allowed to ruin cannot cut this woman completely out of them for everyone within earshot, he should your life because she is now with your ex, ABSOLUTELY be banned from attending. calmly discuss this with your daughter. She If you won’t do it for the sake of the players may have reasons that you are unaware of for and other parents, then do it for your father’s wanting to include the woman to the extent safety because one of these days, an irate that she has. parent or relative may punch his lights out. Dear Abby: We need help with our Dear Abby: My niece was married by a dad. Many of his grandchildren participate justice of the peace in October. She and her in sports. For some reason, he thinks it’s husband are having a church wedding this perfectly fine to sit in the stands surrounded summer. What would be the proper date to by people he doesn’t know and loudly criti- recognize on a gift? — Donna In North cize the other players. Carolina We talk to him before the games. We Dear Donna: If you are having the remind him that he’s sitting by these players’ wedding gift engraved, you should ask your parents and what he’s doing is not cool. niece which date she and her husband would Some of the parents become quite emotional prefer. 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 20, 1917 The Walla Walla tribe of Indians is going to elect a new chief a week from today at a big feast which is to be held in memory of the late Chief No Shirt. It is said there are several candidates for the title worn by No Shirt for so many years and Jim Kanine is said to be among the Indians who aspire to the leader- ship of the Walla Wallas. Kanine is taking an active part in preparing the feast, which is to be held at No Shirt’s camping grounds near Thorn Hollow. Kanine is not mentioning the election much but lays great stress upon the honor being done to the departed sagamore. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 20, 1967 Bob Smith, veteran teacher with 14 years experience, the last three at Hermiston High School, has been elected “Teacher of the Year” by the high school student body. This is the first time the students have voted on this question in their annual student body elections. Smith, who has a paying hobby 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 as a dog fancier, told the East Oregonian: “I feel it is a great honor, and it was a surprise. It is gratifying to know the students think this much of me. I thoroughly enjoy the community and the school.” In addition to teaching Smith raises German Wirehair dogs and trains them. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 20, 1992 Umatilla County’s assistant district attorney resigned Friday, following the decisions of two circuit court judges to bar him from their courtrooms. On April 10, Circuit Court Judge Jack Olsen said he could no longer preside impartially over cases involving Steve Fogelson. The judge learned from two witnesses that Fogelson had made disparaging remarks about him in a hallway conversation after Olsen granted a mistrial in a sex crime case that Fogelson was pros- ecuting. Last Monday, Circuit Court Judge Robert Abrams followed the course taken by Olsen. Abrams said Fogelson has made derogatory remarks about local judges in the past and he will not tolerate it any more. Today is the 110th day of 2017. There are 255 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 20, 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Wooley v. Maynard, ruled 6-3 that car owners could refuse to display state mottoes on license plates, such as New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die.” The Woody Allen comedy “Annie Hall,” co-starring Diane Keaton in the title role, went into general release. On this date: In 1792, France declared war on Austria, marking the start of the French Revolu- tionary Wars. In 1861, Col. Robert E. Lee resigned his commission in the United States Army. (Lee went on to command the Army of Northern Virginia, and eventually became general-in-chief of the Confederate forces.) In 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. In 1914, the Ludlow Massacre took place when the Colorado National Guard opened fire on a tent colony of striking miners; about 20 (accounts vary) strikers, women and children died. In 1916, the Chicago Cubs played their first game at Wrigley Field (then known as Weeghman Park). In 1968, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada. In 1972, Apollo 16’s lunar module, carrying astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr., landed on the moon. In 1999, the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado as two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives. In 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, leased by BP, killed 11 workers and caused a blow-out that began spewing an estimated 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. (The well was finally capped nearly three months later, on July 15.) Today’s Birthdays: Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is 97. Actor Leslie Phillips is 93. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., is 81. Actor George Takei is 80. Singer Johnny Tillotson is 79. Actor Ryan O’Neal is 76. Bluegrass singer-musician Doyle Lawson (Quicksilver) is 73. Actress Judith O’Dea (Film: “Night of the Living Dead”) is 72. Rock musician Craig Frost (Grand Funk; Bob Seger’s Silver Bullet Band) is 69. Actress Jessica Lange is 68. Actor Clint Howard is 58. Actor Crispin Glover is 53. Actor Andy Serkis is 53. Actress Carmen Electra is 45. Reggae singer Stephen Marley is 45. Country musician Clay Cook (Zac Brown Band) is 39. Thought for Today: “If anyone tells you something strange about the world, something you had never heard before, do not laugh but listen attentively; make him repeat it, make him explain it; no doubt there is something there worth taking hold of.” — Georges Duhamel, French author (1884-1966). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE