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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, August 22, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Family’s tolerance of verbal abuse is red flag for girlfriend FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My boyfriend and I I have a strong negative reaction when have been together for almost a year I see people do it. and a half. In the beginning, he kept his When, if ever, is it appropriate family and me apart. I thought it was to speak to someone about this bad because they were extremely close, but habit? I have recently learned that it is turns out he was doing me a favor given actually a medical diagnosis and can their inappropriate and cruel treatment lead to gastric disorders. We all know of one another. there are many germs on our hands, At my boyfriend’s birthday lunch, and every time you put them in your Jeanne his father called his mother the worst Phillips mouth, you’re transferring them to possible word anyone could call a your intestinal tract. — Worried In Advice female. My boyfriend and his sisters The East didn’t seem phased by his verbal Dear Worried: I have heard of abuse. I worry his parents’ toxic and unloving very few nail-biters who are proud of the habit. relationship is something he will eventually There’s a saying — not original — that if settle for in life. Is it possible for children not you want someone to avoid you, just tell him to emulate their parents’ example, or should I something “for his own good.” If you want a move on? — Not In The Family pleasant working relationship with this person, Dear Not In The Family: Children do mind your own business and do not attempt to not automatically follow the abysmal patterns “help” him by offering unasked-for advice. set by their parents. However, if you and this Dear Abby: I’m usually well-spoken man are serious and you are contemplating a and articulate with family and close friends. future with him, I strongly recommend that But when talking to strangers or potential before formalizing your relationship, you seek employers, I tend to choke up and make no premarital counseling together to avoid any sense at all. I become anxious and forget what unpleasant surprises. I want to say. Do you have any ideas why this Dear Abby: I have a question about nail- happens? — Talker In The West biting/finger chewing. We recently hired a Dear Talker: It may happen because you new employee who is in daily contact with the suffer from a form of social anxiety — one public. He is a finger chewer, and his nails are shared by many people. Fortunately, there’s bitten well below the finger tip. I am struggling help for it if you consult a mental health with this because I had a childhood friend who professional. Because it is interfering with chewed her fingers to the point of bleeding, and employment opportunities, you shouldn’t wait. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 21-22, 1917 A recent story relates how the government, becoming convinced that there was a secret wireless station somewhere in these parts, sent out investigators who located the plant on a high, lonesome point in the mountains near Kamela. Three Germans were in charge, so the story goes, and so clear was the evidence against them that they were lined up and shot, their bodies being buried where they fell. Attempts to trace the story to its source places the responsibility on a certain Walla Walla resident who is said to be in the employ of the government secret service. Just what the basis for it is or whether it has any has not yet been told. The story is repeated for what it is worth and will make a good running mate for the one about the mysterious aeroplanes that have been circling over Meacham and Kamela at night. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 21-22, 1967 Lost in a $75,000 fire at Northwestern Livestock Commission Co. Friday west of Hermiston were the sales arena, office, cafe, hog house, and a new horse barn and pump shed. Hermiston Livestock Commission Co. has offered use of its facilities for Northwest- ern’s regular Tuesday sales. The Hermiston Commission Company sales are held Friday of each week. The Northwestern company is one of the three largest livestock auctions in the state, selling approximately 30,000 head of cattle and horses annually. The sales arena seats 750 people. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 21-22, 1992 Hermiston Mayor Frank Harkenrider looked a little nervous Thursday morning as his pickup began to strain under the load — one ton of watermelons and cantaloupe. Harkenrider and other city representatives will appear in downtown Portland today to give away Hermiston-area produce in the second annual “Portland Tailgate Party.” Last year, Harkenrider drove a pickup heaped with fruits and vegetables into downtown Portland to promote the area’s bounty of nature. In the mid-1980s, he and others had done the same thing to help counteract a California watermelon pesticide scare that killed sales for everyone that year, including Hermiston melon growers. 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 234th day of 2017. There are 131 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 22, 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America’s Cup. On this date: In 1485, England’s King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses. In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. In 1846, Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of New Mexico a territory of the United States. In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II. In 1922, Irish revolu- tionary Michael Collins was shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed. In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corp. conducted its first experi- mental television broadcast, using a 30-line mechanical system. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the Repub- lican National Convention in San Francisco. In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America. In 1972, President Richard Nixon was nomi- nated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. John Wojto- wicz and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, during a botched robbery; the siege, which ended with Wojto- wicz’s arrest and Naturile’s killing by the FBI, inspired the 1975 movie “Dog Day Afternoon.” In 1985, 55 people died when fire broke out aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport in England. Today’s Birthdays: Broadcast journalist Morton Dean is 82. Author Annie Proulx is 82. Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 78. Actress Valerie Harper is 78. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 76. Writer-producer David Chase is 72. CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 72. Actress Cindy Williams is 70. Pop musician David Marks is 69. International Swimming Hall of Famer Diana Nyad is 68. Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is 61. Rock musician Vernon Reid is 59. Country singer Collin Raye is 57. Actress Regina Taylor is 57. Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 56. Rock musician Debbi Peterson (The Bangles) is 56. Singer Tori Amos is 54. Rapper GZA/The Genius is 51. Actor Ty Burrell is 50. Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 44. Comedian-ac- tress Kristen Wiig is 44. Talk show host James Corden is 39. Rock musician Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan) is 39. Thought for Today: “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” — Claude Debussy, French composer (born this date in 1862, died 1918). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
