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Tuesday, July 4, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Family cycle of abuse is legacy of sexual predator FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I recently moved to Dear Abby: I have a great-paying Texas and met my teenage niece for job telecommuting. I know the idea the first time. After I got there I learned of sitting around in pajamas all day she had been molested by her mother’s seems wonderful, but I’m going stir father at the age of 3. He had also crazy. molested her mother when she was a I live in a very small town with child. “Grandpa” is currently serving a no fancy co-share offices or trendy life sentence in prison. coffee shops. There’s one fast-food Abby, my niece has some issues. place that allows 20 minutes of Jeanne Her parents caught her sexting twice Phillips internet use, but that’s about it. How that I know of and took her phone can I stay productive and motivated Advice away for a period of time. She was also and not feel so much like a hermit accused of touching her 8-year-old crab? By Friday, I don’t want to be at niece and was ordered to knock it off. home anymore. — Going Crazy At Home She told me she showers with her mother Dear Going Crazy: If there is another and asked to shower with me. When I refused, telecommuter in your town, perhaps you she became abusive. When I tried to tell my could compare notes with him or her. If your brother she needs professional help, he told problem is getting an internet connection me to mind my own business. or finding Wi-Fi, consider using the public If I report this, I risk never seeing anyone in library as an additional site from which to my family again, but I love my niece and I’m work. That way, you wouldn’t be trapped in afraid for her. Her mother has already limited your home feeling so isolated. If there isn’t my contact with her, and I’m afraid Mom one in your community, ask your boss if needs help as much as my niece. Please help. you can change your schedule occasionally. None of this makes sense to me. Why won’t This might allow you to take breaks and do they get her help? — Desperately Needs Help something like take a powerwalk, which Dear Desperately: They won’t get help would put you in contact with other human because it appears that in their lives inappro- beings. priate sexual behavior may have become an For most people, work involves more ingrained family affair. You are right that the than labor — there is also a social compo- mother needs as much help as your niece, nent involved. If that kind of stimulation/ and your brother should not be covering for interaction is what you’re craving, you may his wife. You should report what’s going on to have to change jobs. child protective services. While you probably Dear Readers: Have a very happy, won’t be thanked for it, you may be able to healthy and safe Fourth of July, everyone! interrupt the cycle of incest and molestation. — Love, Abby DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 3-4, 1917 With one fistic punch, Dr. I.U. Temple frus- trated the plans, burglarious or otherwise, of Art Hicks, former bartender, who entered the Temple home on West Court street at an early hour this morning. When mere words would not avail to get rid of the intruder, the doctor turned pugilist and landed one blow that laid open Hicks’ face and put him in a state of helplessness. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 3-4, 1967 The doors were opened to the public Saturday by a new Umatilla industry that has prospect of developing into a major agricul- tural operation in Umatilla County. The Spada Distributing Co. held open house at its new $160,000 fresh-packing plant that is designed to handle large-scale potato production in the area. Potato production on tracts of several hundred acres is new in the local area, and an official of Spada said Saturday that the cash outlay of the plant, growing this year’s crop in the area, the investment and harvesting the spuds represents $1 million invested in the area this year. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 3-4, 1992 Plans for $8 million in improvements are underway for the Court Avenue viaduct, which could be replaced by a shorter, but wider, three-lane bridge. To accommodate the structure, preliminary designs call for the removal of eight houses, the addition of a traffic signal at the viaduct’s west end, the creation of new through streets and the closure of others. Although it’s only the beginning design stage, transportation officials and project consultants have already met with local residents to discuss the possible changes. 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 185th day of 2017. There are 180 days left in the year. This is Inde- pendence Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Indepen- dence was adopted by delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. On this date: In 1802, the United States Military Academy officially opened at West Point, New York. In 1817, ground was broken for the Erie Canal in Rome, New York. The middle section of the waterway took three years to complete; the entire canal was finished in 1825. In 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died. In 1831, the fifth pres- ident of the United States, James Monroe, died in New York City at age 73. In 1872, the 30th pres- ident of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, was born in Plymouth, Vermont. In 1917, during a cere- mony in Paris honoring the French hero of the Amer- ican Revolution, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Charles E. Stanton, an aide to Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, declared: “Lafay- ette, we are here!” In 1939, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees delivered his famous fare- well speech in which he called himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” In 1942, Irving Berlin’s musical revue “This Is the Army” opened at the Broadway Theater in New York. In 1947, the small central California town of Hollister was overrun by thousands of motorcycling enthusiasts, dozens of whom ended up being arrested, most for drunkenness, in what came to be called the “Hollister Riot.” In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect the following year. In 1987, Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the “Butcher of Lyon,” was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison (he died in Sept. 1991). Today’s Birthdays: Actress Eva Marie Saint is 93. Actress Gina Lollo- brigida is 90. Playwright Neil Simon is 90. Country singer Ray Pillow is 80. Singer Bill Withers is 79. Actor Ed Bernard is 78. Actress Karolyn Grimes is 77. Rhythm and blues singer Annette Beard (Martha and the Vandellas) is 74. Broad- cast journalist Geraldo Rivera is 74. Vietnam War veteran and peace activist Ron Kovic is 71. Rhythm- and-blues musician Ralph Johnson (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 66. Rock musician Domingo Ortiz (Widespread Panic) is 65. Singer John Waite is 62. Rock musician Kirk Pengilly (INXS) is 59. Country musician Teddy Carr is 57. Rock DJ Zonka is 55. International Tennis Hall of Famer Pam Shriver is 55. Rock musician Matt Malley is 54. Actor-play- wright-screenwriter Tracy Letts is 52. Malia Obama is 19. Thought for Today: “If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Indepen- dence, it would have been worthwhile.” — Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (1887-1976). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
