Friday, April 28, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
Page 7A
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Teen struggles after heroin
addiction claims dad’s life
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m 15. I lost my dad
father did NOT die because you took
two months ago. I found him when I
a shower. He died because he had a
got out of the shower. He had over-
heroin addiction he couldn’t conquer.
dosed on heroin.
It is very important that you talk
Heroin controlled Dad’s life
with a grief counselor and possibly
ever since I was little, but that never
join a grief support group. If your
stopped me from being me. My family
family can’t arrange counseling for
has had it pretty rough, but that never
you, please talk with a school coun-
stopped me from being me, either.
selor or your clergyperson. There is
Jeanne
I can’t process the thought of Phillips a light at the end of this dark tunnel,
losing my dad completely. I’m
and you’ll start seeing it once you get
Advice
scared without him. The mental
some professional help.
picture comes back to me randomly
Dear Abby: I’ve been reading
throughout the day.
your column for years, but never thought
I can’t take it anymore. I know he’s at I’d have to write to you. This year my aunt
peace now, but I still feel like it’s my fault hosted a family dinner and did a wonderful
that he’s dead because I took a shower and job — everything was delicious. There was
wasn’t with him. I feel like it should have only one problem. She was upset (everyone
been me, not him. He had just gotten out of at the table could see it and feel the tension)
jail a month before he died.
because I ate “too much” meat and she didn’t
I can’t keep crying myself to sleep. I need have enough for leftovers.
a way to cope and right now I feel like I’m at
I did eat more than everyone else that night
rock bottom and can’t return. I just want to be (doesn’t happen often), but I say if the food is
normal like the kids I go to school with. Why on the table, it’s fair game. If you don’t want
can’t I be a normal teen? — Rock Bottom people to eat it, don’t serve it. I’m asking
Teen
for an official ruling, please. — Overate In
Dear Rock Bottom: I am so sorry for Buffalo
what you have been going through. You ARE
Dear Overate: A gracious host or hostess
a normal teen, and in my opinion, you are should not become upset if a guest eats the
much more resilient than you think you are.
food that’s presented. If the host or hostess
You have had a terrible shock, and in doesn’t want guests to polish off everything
addition to the normal grieving process, you that has been prepared, the food should be
may be suffering from survivor guilt. Your plated in advance.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 28, 1917
Wandering away from their home at
Vansycle and becoming lost while hunting
for pretty buttercups last evening Doris and
Frances, seven and five year old daughters of
Charles Lobaugh, Northern Pacific section
foreman at Vansycle, remained out on the
hills all last night while their parents and
scores of people from Vansycle and Helix
searched the country for them. Early this
morning the two little ones, weary from their
night’s experience but unharmed, arrived at
the Alheit place at Vansycle and were taken
in. They had been asleep in the sagebrush and
the southbound Northern Pacific freight train
awakened them.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 28, 1967
Residents of the McKay Creek area,
worried about the prospect of commercial
establishments moving into their peaceful
valley, turned out Wednesday to object to a
proposed animal hospital. “We fear it’s a foot
in the door,” said Earl King, one of about 30
persons who attended a hearing conducted by
the Umatilla County Planning Commission in
the courthouse. The hearing, continued from
last month, lasted about two hours. More than
an hour later, with midnight approaching, the
commission tabled the question. It will decide
at its May meeting whether to grant the condi-
tional use permit requested by veterinarian
Stan McGough and landowner Patricia Kaser.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 28, 1992
The mood was described as stressful and
disappointing, but employees at Eastern
Oregon Correctional Institution are trying
to remain “upbeat” in the aftershock of the
prison’s proposed closure.
Meanwhile, community and business
leaders still are reeling from the Corrections
Department proposal, which has been
described locally as ludicrous, ridiculous
and utterly inappropriate. Pendleton Mayor
Joe McLaughlin, who returned from a trip
to Japan Monday night, said this morning he
hoped it was a bad dream. “I leave town for
a week and look what happens,” McLaughlin
said.
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 118th day of
2017. There are 247 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On April 28, 1967, heavy-
weight boxing champion
Muhammad Ali was stripped
of his title after he refused to
be inducted into the armed
forces. U.S. Army Gen.
William C. Westmoreland
told Congress that “backed at
home by resolve, confidence,
patience, determination and
continued support, we will
prevail in Vietnam over
communist
aggression.”
McDonnell Aircraft and
Douglas Aircraft merged to
form McDonnell Douglas.
On this date:
In 1758, the fifth president
of the United States, James
Monroe, was born in West-
moreland County, Virginia.
In
1788,
Maryland
became the seventh state to
ratify the Constitution of the
United States.
In 1789, there was a
mutiny on the HMS Bounty
as rebelling crew members
of the British ship, led by
Fletcher Christian, set the
captain, William Bligh, and
18 others adrift in a launch in
the South Pacific. (Bligh and
most of the men with him
reached Timor in 47 days.)
In 1925, the International
Exposition
of
Modern
Industrial and Decorative
Arts, which gave rise to the
term “Art Deco,” began a
six-month run in Paris.
In 1945, Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini and his
mistress, Clara Petacci, were
executed by Italian partisans
as they attempted to flee the
country.
In 1947, a six-man
expedition set out from Peru
aboard a balsa wood raft
named the Kon-Tiki on a
101-day journey across the
Pacific Ocean to the Polyne-
sian Islands.
In 1952, war with Japan
officially ended as a treaty
signed in San Francisco
the year before took effect.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
resigned as Supreme Allied
commander in Europe; he
was succeeded by Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway.
In 1996, a man armed
with
a
semi-automatic
rifle went on a rampage
on the Australian island of
Tasmania, killing 35 people;
the gunman was captured
by police after a 12-hour
standoff at a guest cottage,
and is now serving a life
prison sentence.
Ten years ago: A suicide
car bomber struck in
Karbala, Iraq, killing at least
63 people.
Five years ago: Syria
derided United Nations
Secretary-General
Ban
Ki-moon as biased and called
his comments “outrageous”
after he blamed the regime
for widespread cease-fire
violations.
One year ago: Vice Pres-
ident Joe Biden pressed Iraq
during an unannounced visit
not to let its crippling polit-
ical crisis upend hard-fought
gains against the Islamic
State group.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Secretary of State
James A. Baker III is 87.
Actor Frank Vincent is 80.
Actress-singer Ann-Margret
is 76. Former “Tonight
Show” host Jay Leno is 67.
Rock singer-musician Kim
Gordon (Sonic Youth) is
64. Supreme Court Justice
Elena Kagan is 57. Bridget
Moynahan is 46. Actress
Penelope Cruz is 43. Actress
Jessica Alba is 36.
Thought for Today:
“The world does not require
so much to be informed
as reminded.” — Hannah
More, English religious
writer (1745-1833).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE