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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, August 25, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mom’s painful past is warning
to girls about teen drinking
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I am the mother of two
relationship with a man 20 years
teenaged girls (13 and 15) and have
younger? I rented my spare room to
been debating whether to tell them a
him, and over the past month, we have
secret about my past. When I was in
spent a lot of time together and grown
high school, I made some poor deci-
very close.
sions. I went to a party with people
He has made it clear that he’s
I viewed as friends, had too much to
attracted to me, and I’m attracted
drink and the evening ended with my
to him as well. I am afraid of what
being raped by someone I thought I
people may think and say, and I worry
Jeanne
knew.
Phillips about the long term. What are your
I reported it to my parents and
thoughts? — Relationship Issue
Advice
the police, but because I couldn’t
Dear Issue: I gather from your
remember big parts of the evening,
letter that you are 40-plus years old.
I wasn’t considered credible and no one If you are still worried about what people
believed me — not even my parents. My may think, refrain from doing what you’re
grades dropped, my weight plummeted and considering, because people do tend to talk.
the entire school knew and believed his side Since no one can predict how long the “long
of the story.
term” might be, my advice is to guard your
I internalized everything and became a heart. Because there are no guarantees in life,
shell of who I was before the incident. It was proceed with caution.
years before I forgave myself for making a
Dear Abby: When you are on the phone
horrible mistake. Ultimately, I moved in with with someone and the call is dropped, who
my grandmother several states away to finish is supposed to call who back? I spent five
high school, far away from my parents and the minutes trying to call my mom back while she
pain.
was trying to call me. It was very frustrating;
Would it be appropriate to share this story both of us kept getting voicemail.
(or a redacted version) with my daughters
Mom says the person who received the
to help them understand the risks of teenage call should be the person who calls back. I
drinking? They are at the age when they are say the person who MADE the call should
surrounded by temptation and curiosity, and be the person who calls back. — Unsure In
their father and I can’t shield them from every- San Diego
thing. Would I be doing them a disservice by
Dear Unsure: While I agree with you,
not telling them? — Undecided In Nevada
no rule of etiquette dictates who should
Dear Undecided: You would be doing call the other person back in the event of a
your daughters a favor if, along with warning dropped call. Long waits also happen when
them about underage drinking, you shared a caller doesn’t realize the call has dropped
your story with them. If you do, it will help and continues talking. Frankly, it has been
them understand that drinking can have unin- my experience that the callback is usually
tended, sometimes lifelong consequences. made by the person who can get through first.
Forewarned is forearmed.
And the first sentence uttered is usually, “So,
Dear Abby: Is it possible to have a where were we?”
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 25, 1917
The good number of five hundred and
twenty-one books and 2,651 magazines
for the soldiers have been brought to the
library through the kindness of generous
friends in Pendleton and the county. The
branch libraries as well as the central library
have two depositories for these collections
which have all been sorted and are now
ready to be packed and shipped to army
headquarters. Reports were mailed today
to the committees in charge at Salem and
at Madison, Wisconsin. Many of the books
are first class new fiction and there were one
hundred nonfiction in the lot. Only one book
in the French language came in, a gilt-edged
edition of the Fables de La Fontaine. Many
of the soldiers are studying French and this
will be much read.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 25, 1967
Chickens in the Riverside area scratch
their feed nonchalantly and cackle happily.
They have nothing to worry about. Because
the neighborhood hawk is friendly. Clarence
the chicken hawk likes gizzard, all right. But
when he sees a chicken, he doesn’t realize
it has a gizzard. You see, Clarence is a little
naive. It’s not that he’s stupid or doesn’t have
the equipment to be a bird of prey — he has
sharp claws, a wicked beak, handsome wings
and telescopic eye. He’s just an orphan hawk
who never needed to hunt food. He’s been
spoon-fed most of his life. And his master,
Lynn Belers, 17, who wants to become a
wildlife biologist, thinks Clarence never will
become a genuine falcon. Lynn acquired
Clarence about a year ago from a man who
found the bird injured and almost starved.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 25, 1992
The Hermiston City Council on Tuesday
cleared the way for Rivers of Love Ministry
to establish a daycare center as well as a
shelter for battered and pregnant women in
the old hospital building next to West Park
Elementary School. The hospital building
has been empty for six years and, according
to Kathy Fehrenbacher of Rivers of Love, has
become a haven for the homeless, drug users
and even satanic worshipers. Fehrenbacher
said no date has been set to begin remodeling
or to open the facility. Money still needs to
be raised for the project, she added.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 237th day
of 2017. There are 128 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On August 25, 1967,
the Beatles boarded a
train in London bound for
Bangor, Wales, to attend
a conference on transcen-
dental meditation led by the
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; the
visit was cut short two days
later when the group got
word of the death of their
manager, Brian Epstein.
George Lincoln Rockwell,
founder of the American
Nazi Party, was shot to
death at a shopping center in
Arlington, Virginia; former
party member John Patler
was convicted of the killing.
Actor Paul Muni, 71, died in
Montecito, California.
On this date:
In 1718, hundreds of
French colonists arrived in
Louisiana, with some settling
in present-day New Orleans.
In
1825,
Uruguay
declared
independence
from Brazil.
In
1916,
President
Woodrow Wilson signed an
act establishing the National
Park Service within the
Department of the Interior.
In 1921, the United
States signed a peace treaty
with Germany.
In 1944, during World
War II, Paris was liberated
by Allied forces after four
years of Nazi occupation.
Romania declared war on
former ally Germany.
In
1958,
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
signed a measure providing
pensions for former U.S.
presidents and their widows.
In
1960,
opening
ceremonies were held for
the Summer Olympics in
Rome.
In 1975, the Bruce
Springsteen album “Born
to Run” was released by
Columbia Records.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Game show host Monty Hall
is 96. Actor Sean Connery is
87. Actor Page Johnson is 87.
TV personality Regis Philbin
is 86. Actor Tom Skerritt is
84. Jazz musician Wayne
Shorter is 84. Movie director
Hugh Hudson is 81. Author
Frederick Forsyth is 79.
Movie director John Badham
is 78. Rock singer-actor Gene
Simmons is 68. Rock singer
Elvis Costello is 63. Movie
director Tim Burton is 59.
Country singer Cyrus (AKA
Billy Ray Cyrus) is 56. Rock
musician Vivian Campbell
(Def Leppard) is 55. Rap
DJ Terminator X (Public
Enemy) is 51. Alternative
country singer Jeff Tweedy
(Wilco) is 50.
Thought for Today: “No
matter what accomplish-
ments you make, somebody
helps you.” — Althea
Gibson, American tennis
champion (born this date in
1927, died 2003).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE