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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, July 12, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Girls’ mom needs jump start in conversation about puberty FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m a mother of three for $7 (U.S. funds) to Dear Abby beautiful little girls. I’m nervous Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount about having to talk with my oldest Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and about puberty and sex. She’s turning handling are included in the price. 10, and I know I need to start Order it for yourself and review it explaining certain things to her, but I before starting your discussions with have no idea how. My mother never your daughter. My Teen booklet has sat me down and talked to me about been distributed in doctors’ offices anything, really, so my mom would as well as by educators and religious Jeanne not be of much help. Any advice you Phillips leaders. The more information you can offer would be greatly appreci- can provide your daughters, the better Advice ated. — Minnesota Mom Of Three prepared those girls will be to make Dear Mom: You can spare your informed choices in the future. daughter a frightening experience when her Dear Abby: I’ve been with my girlfriend first period arrives if you start talking to her for seven years and, for the most part, our sex now, before it happens. Start the conversation life is great. However, we’ve had disagree- by making the message positive — that she ments when I suggested ways to spice it up. will “become a woman” soon and tell her I proposed costume/role play where she what to expect. Show her what to do in case would dress up as an elf or other fantasy genre you are not there and what supplies she will character. She hates the idea (and elves) and suggested lingerie (which I have bought for need to take care of herself. That’s step one. A short time later, ask her what she knows her in the past, but gets worn once or twice about reproduction. Because reproduction before being thrown away). I don’t think my is taught in some schools, she may surprise suggestion is outrageous compared to some you by how much she already knows. If of the letters I’ve seen in your column over she doesn’t, start talking to her about how the years. Am I wrong for thinking she’s her body works and your family values. It being closed-minded? — Cosplay Curious is important that parents also talk to their In Calgary children about drugs and alcohol well before Dear “Cos”: It strikes me that your they start to experiment. My booklet “What girlfriend may be more clothes-minded than Every Teen Should Know” covers sexuality closed-minded. It’s a fact of life that some as well as other topics, including dating, peer people are more sexually adventurous than pressure, sexually transmitted diseases, drugs others. Because she finds the idea of dressing and alcohol. It can be ordered by sending your as an elf unappealing, choose another fantasy name and address, plus check or money order figure you can agree upon. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 12, 1917 Hereafter the city council will have to pay for the water which is used to flush the sewers at the rate of 1 1-2 cents a thousand gallons. A communication to this effect was submitted to the council last evening by Water Supt. F.B. Hayes who was acting at the direction of the water commission. The charge is not being made as a matter of revenue, according to Chairman J.T. Brown of the commission, but as a matter of regulating the use of the water and preventing waste. Mayor Best and some of the council members seemed just a bit “peeved” at the action of the commission and murmured threatening protests. It was decided to confer with the commission upon the matter. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 12, 1967 Fire, the scourge of the wheat grower, has been popping up around the county at an alarming rate the past three days. Volunteers and fire fighting crews from Pendleton Grain Growers in Milton-Freewater and Pendleton fought four fires Monday and one Saturday that consumed between 700 and 800 acres of wheat and grass land. It is estimated the loss represents about $50,000. Most of the growers, however, insure their wheat against fire damage. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 12, 1992 In an effort to promote aviation, and to have a good time along the way, more than 40 classic and antique aircraft have been hopping around the state this week. The group stopped in Pendleton Friday morning, giving pilots a chance to tour downtown and interested Pendletonians the opportunity to look over the planes. “The thing about aviation is it’s fun for everybody, even the guy on the ground,” Dick Ridgeway of Alaska said. “And it’s fun to share it.” 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 193rd day of 2017. There are 172 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 12, 1967, rioting erupted in Newark, New Jersey, over the police beating of a black taxi driver; 26 people were killed in the five days of violence that followed. On this date: In 1543, England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr. In 1817, author, poet and naturalist Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts. In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill autho- rizing the Army Medal of Honor. In 1909, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states. (It was declared ratified in February 1913.) In 1917, artist Andrew Wyeth was born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In 1948, the Democratic National Convention, which nominated President Harry S. Truman for a second term of office, opened in Philadelphia. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was flown by helicopter from the White House to a secret mountaintop location as part of a drill involving a mock nuclear attack on Wash- ington. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter defended Supreme Court limits on government payments for poor women’s abortions, saying, “There are many things in life that are not fair.” In 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket. In 1988, Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis tapped Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as his running-mate. In 1994, President Bill Clinton, visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first U.S. pres- ident to do so since Harry Truman. In 2001, Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement with the city and its police union. Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Monte Hellman is 88. Actor-co- median Bill Cosby is 80. Singer-musician Christine McVie is 74. Actress Denise Nicholas is 73. Singer-song- writer Butch Hancock is 72. Fitness guru Richard Simmons is 69. Actor Jay Thomas is 69. Singer Walter Egan is 69. Writer-producer Brian Grazer is 66. Actress Cheryl Ladd is 66. Country singer Julie Miller is 61. Gospel singer Sandi Patty is 61. Actress Mel Harris is 61. Actor Buddy Foster is 60. Rock guitarist Dan Murphy (Soul Asylum) is 55. Actress Judi Evans is 53. Rock singer Robin Wilson (Gin Blos- soms) is 52. Actress Natalie Desselle Reid is 50. Actress Lisa Nicole Carson is 48. Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is 46. Country singer Shannon Lawson is 44. Rapper Magoo is 44. Rhythm-and- blues singer Tracie Spencer is 41. Actor Topher Grace is 39. Actress Michelle Rodriguez is 39. Country singer-musician Kimberly Perry (The Band Perry) is 34. Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai is 20. Thought for Today: “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
