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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, August 1, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom suggests best approach to asking about gun safety FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Readers: Today’s column is judgment — just something I need to a continuation of yesterday’s about the ask. Do you keep guns in your home, importance of gun safety and parents and if so, how do you secure them?” feeling confident enough to raise the 2. “This may be me just being subject with other parents. Read on: overprotective, but the news lately Dear Abby: I am a physician and has me fearful, so I have to ask. Do the mother of four curious, intelligent, you keep guns in the house, and if so, energetic boys. My primary job as a how do you secure them?” mom is to keep them healthy, love 3. “I love how well our boys play Jeanne them and educate them. together! It’s fun to see their energy Phillips I grew up in a small, conservative, have an outlet. But I have a question Advice gun-friendly community. My grandfa- before their playdate at your house. ther was a hunter. My friends growing It’s one that always makes me a up all owned guns at young ages. Many of little uncomfortable, so please forgive me them today own guns for hunting or because if this seems forward. Do you keep guns on they are first responders. I don’t fear the gun. I the premises, and if so, how do you secure fear the person who doesn’t respect its power them?” enough to properly secure it. This is simple information-gathering As parents, we have an obligation to ask so I can make an informed decision for my parents where our child will be spending kids. I write this because I want all parents to time: “Do you have a gun in your home? Yes? feel empowered to ask these questions, and How is it stored?” What we should be doing because I know that MY asking prompted at is coaching each other how to ask politely least two moms to re-evaluate and change the without giving offense. What words do you way they stored guns in their own homes. — use? I practiced asking because I think the Kemia Sarraf, MD, MPH subject is touchy, but it does get easier with Dear Dr. Sarraf: Thank you for taking the practice. (It took me a long time to learn to time to write, and for providing a road map do it well.) for other concerned parents to follow. Abby, please encourage your readers to Dear Abby: All of the major national think about it and share their experiences and health organizations, including the American best advice. Over the years, I’ve developed Academy of Pediatrics, have defined gun a multitude of openings that allow me to go violence as a public health epidemic. The from funny to sincere quickly. The ultimate protocol for health care providers is to teach question, however, never varies: parents to ask about guns when children are 1. “You know, I’m so sorry to be ‘that’ going to another home to visit. Please educate mom, but since we don’t know each other your readers that asking is critical. This is a well, I need to ask you about a safety issue. public health issue, NOT a political one! — Please understand that my question isn’t a Lisa Kiser, CNM, WHNP DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 31-Aug. 1, 1917 In addition to the damage done by the drouth on Camas Prairie near Ukiah the farmers of that community are sufferers also from an unseasonable frost that struck the whole south end last Saturday night, according to reports brought down. Potatoes and much other growing stuff was killed by the frost, according to reports. The frost extended as far down as Yellowjacket hill. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 31-Aug. 1, 1967 Dixie Lee and Walter Barnes, children of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Barnes of Milton-Free- water, danced their way to first place honors at the Tri-City Water Follies talent show July 20. And Dixie Lee, who was 13 this month, won the “best-of-the-best” trophy the following night, when nine first-place winners vied for the award. Walter, 10, won first in the junior division with a tap dance. Dixie Lee qualified for the championship round in the senior divi- sion by winning firs place in the novelty dance category with an acrobatic number. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 31-Aug. 1, 1992 AG Northwest pilot Tom White never thought flying a crop duster would make him a hostile target, but after examining the bullet holes that pierced his plane Wednesday he has his doubts. White was making passes over a field near Walker and Westland Road Wednesday, spraying insecticide, when Russel E. Smith allegedly began firing at him with a .22 caliber rifle. Three rounds ripped into the left wing of the plane and one deflected off the underside of the right wing. Oregon State Police officer Gary Workman said Smith was charged with endangering an aircraft, reckless endangering and criminal mischief after indicating at his arrest that he was not trying to kill the pilot. 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 213th day of 2017. There are 152 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 1, 1957, the United States and Canada announced they had agreed to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). On this date: In 1714, Britain’s Queen Anne died at age 49; she was succeeded by George I. In 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state. In 1907, the U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division, the fore- runner of the U.S. Air Force. In 1913, the Joyce Kilmer poem “Trees” was first published in “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.” In 1936, the Olympics opened in Berlin with a cere- mony presided over by Adolf Hitler. In 1944, an uprising broke out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasted two months before collapsing. In 1947, Mickey Spillane’s first novel, “I, the Jury,” featuring the debut of private eye Mike Hammer, was published. In 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, went on an armed rampage at the University of Texas in Austin that killed 14 people, most of whom were shot by Whitman while he was perched in the clock tower of the main campus building. (Whitman, who had also slain his wife and mother hours earlier, was finally gunned down by police.) In 1975, a 35-nation summit in Finland concluded with the signing of a decla- ration known as the Helsinki Accords dealing with Euro- pean security, human rights and East-West contacts. In 1977, former U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, working as a traffic reporter for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, was killed with his cameraman, George Spears, when their helicopter ran out of fuel and crashed; Powers was 47. In 1981, the rock music video channel MTV made its debut. In 1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirmed they’d been secretly married 11 weeks earlier. (Presley filed for divorce from Jackson in Jan. 1996, citing irreconcilable differences.) Today’s Birthdays: Singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is 86. Former Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, R-N.Y., is 80. Actor Giancarlo Giannini is 75. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams is 67. Blues singer-musician Robert Cray is 64. Singer Michael Penn is 59. Rock singer Joe Elliott (Def Leppard) is 58. Rock singer-musician Suzi Gardner (L7) is 57. Rapper Chuck D (Public Enemy) is 57. Actor Jesse Borrego is 55. Actor Demian Bichir is 54. Rapper Coolio is 54. Actor John Carroll Lynch is 54. Rock singer Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) is 53. Movie director Sam Mendes is 52. Country singer George Ducas is 51. Country musician Charlie Kelley is 49. Actress Jennifer Gareis is 47. Actor Charles Malik Whitfield is 45. Actress Tempestt Bledsoe is 44. Actor Jason Momoa is 38. Actress Honeysuckle Weeks is 38. Singer Ashley Parker Angel is 36. Thought for Today: “Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one’s insistence that he possesses it.” — Kenneth Bancroft Clark, American educator and psychologist (1914-2005). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
