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Thursday, August 10, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom wants daughter to focus on school, not dad’s tattoos FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My 22-year-old son Ultimately, however, when she’s 18 is going to visit his father and get his and an adult, she will make her own third tattoo. I don’t like it, but I can’t decision about getting tattooed or control my son. He’s an adult. His remaining ink-free. father is retired and lives on his wife’s Dear Abby: My brother and pension. It is my understanding that sister-in-law have four children, ages they are wealthy. 11, 10, 4 and 3. They are financially My concern is for our 14-year-old strapped and can’t afford to take the daughter. My ex thinks tattoos are children to entertainment or cultural Jeanne cool, and when he talks to her via Phillips events because every dime is spent for Skype, he talks about the next tattoo essentials. Advice he is going to get. I’m afraid that when I’m financially stable and child- she’s 18, he will take her to get a tattoo less. I take the older children to as a bonding experience. various activities once every month or so. I His life is far removed from my daughter’s. don’t include the younger ones because they He is surrounded by actors, entertainers and are unruly. I feel somewhat guilty for not artists. Our child (hopefully) will have a including them. However, I want to continue rich, abundant life in an ordinary way. She is doing it for the older children so they’ll be focused on her studies and does well in school exposed to various events they couldn’t see because of her efforts. How can I impress otherwise. upon my not-so-confident, shy child that Am I wrong for not wanting to be respon- getting a tattoo is not a good idea? — Mary sible for the younger children, or should I stop In Missouri taking any of them out to be fair? — Trying Dear Mary: Discouraging your daughter My Best In The South from getting a tattoo should be part of an Dear Trying: Explain to the parents, if you ongoing conversation. Explain that — unlike haven’t already, that you would love to include makeup or temporary tats — the real thing the younger children, but that you are unable is permanent. Once it’s on, there is no going to because of their unruly behavior, which you back. It will be there for the rest of her life are unable to control. What you’re doing is not unless she has it professionally removed. Point “unfair”; it is wise. If you were to take all four out that tattoo removal is not only expensive, and not be able to control them, one of the but also painful, and her skin will not look the little ones could be seriously injured. way it did before she got inked — she will be Think of some other way you can make the scarred. younger children feel special. Perhaps taking Hopefully, it may make her less suscep- them to a park occasionally would make them tible to “bonding” with her father in that way. feel less left out. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 10, 1917 Out of the first 45 drafted men examined by Dr. D.J. McFaul only eight were found physically disabled, a ratio considerably better than the average over the country, and one that testifies to the high standard of eastern Oregon manhood. While no announcement will be made by the board until Saturday on the names of those rejected for physical disability, Dr. McFaul this afternoon stated that out of the 27 examined yesterday he rejected only six and out of the 18 examined this morning he rejected only two. These men are being re-examined by Dr. H.S. Garfield. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 10, 1967 A second biology lab, complete with gas, water and power, will serve students at Pendleton High School this fall. The conver- sion of a math classroom and small science room into a second separate biology lab has been the high point of construction and improvements at the high school this summer. In other construction and repair in Pendleton schools this summer, the John Murray Junior High auditorium was remodeled to allow a physical education and wrestling program to be conducted there. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 10, 1992 A 14-year-old boy was walking along West Punkin Center Road in Hermiston Saturday about 7 a.m. when two men pulled up to him in a car and asked if he needed a ride. The boy accepted and was driven to a dirt road off of West Punkin Center and robbed at knife point of his clothes and his money, $1.10. The two men in the car then told the victim to get out of the car and run. The boy went to a nearby house and called a relative. 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 222nd day of 2017. There are 143 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 10, 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being “Son of Sam,” the gunman who killed six people and wounded seven others in the New York City area. (Berkowitz is serving six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences.) On this date: In 1680, Pueblo Indians launched a successful revolt against Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico. In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.) In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state. In 1846, President James K. Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution. In 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello. In 1949, the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. In 1962, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated in West Branch, Iowa, on the 88th birthday of the former president, who attended the ceremony along with former President Harry S. Truman. Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man made his debut in issue 15 of “Amazing Fantasy.” In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Amer- icans who were interned by their government during World War II. In 1991, nine Buddhists were found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Arizona. (Two teen-agers were later arrested; one was sentenced to life in prison, while the other received 281 years.) In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Rhonda Fleming is 94. Singer Ronnie Spector is 74. Actor James Reynolds is 71. Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 70. Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is 68. Singer Patti Austin is 67. Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly is 65. Folk singer-songwriter Sam Baker is 63. Actress Rosanna Arquette is 58. Actor Antonio Banderas is 57. Rock musician Jon Farriss (INXS) is 56. Singer Julia Fordham is 55. Journalist-blogger Andrew Sullivan is 54. Actor Chris Caldovino is 54. Singer Neneh Cherry is 53. Singer Aaron Hall is 53. Boxer Riddick Bowe is 50. Actor Sean Blakemore is 50. Rhythm-and-blues singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) is 50. Singer-producer Michael Bivins is 49. Actor- writer Justin Theroux is 46. Actress Angie Harmon is 45. Country singer Jennifer Hanson is 44. Actor-turned- lawyer Craig Kirkwood is 43. Singer Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels & Rope) is 38. Thought for Today: “There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.” — Percy Williams Bridgeman, American scien- tist (1882-1961). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
