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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