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Page 8A East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, September 7, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife concerned about husband talking to neighborhood kids FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have been happily now, males do have to be more married to “Roger” for 20 years and circumspect with minor children than have two kids still at home. They they did years ago. Frankly, that’s a are pretty independent now, but shame, because kids gain so much my husband was very involved in confidence by knowing an adult is coaching and volunteering when they interested in what they have to say. were younger. Consider staying with your husband Sometimes when Roger and I take during these friendly instances as a walks, we run into children playing “buffer.” Jeanne in a yard or biking up and down the Phillips Dear Abby: My husband and block. If they initiate conversation, I’ll I have two homes. We summer in Advice smile at them and respond with a quick Michigan and winter in Florida. To “hi” or “nice bike” and keep walking, save money on maintenance, I’d but my husband will stop to chat or listen to like to sell the house in Michigan and move what they say. I have told him not to do that permanently to Florida. My husband doesn’t regardless of whether they seem willing. My want to be in Florida during the summer, but fear is that an overprotective mom (like many he also does not want to be in Michigan in of us moms) glancing out the window and the winter. He won’t make a decision, but he seeing a middle-aged stranger talking to their leans toward living in Michigan full time. child may assume the worst. Because I don’t like living up north in I know Roger loves kids, and we both the winter, I have told him I’ll be staying sometimes miss the younger years when kids all year in Florida starting in January to see could be more open and talk with adults, but how it is. He plans to return to Michigan. Our times have changed. This used to happen Florida home is older, so to come out ahead more often when we’d go swimming with financially, we would need to sell our place our kids and other kids who were bored and in Michigan in order to buy a newer one in not closely supervised would be looking for Florida. Any ideas on how this could be other people playing together to join. I used settled? — Warmer Weather to worry then that if I wasn’t there it could be Dear Warmer Weather: Your idea about misconstrued, although my fears never came living for a “trial year” in Florida isn’t a bad to pass. one. After spending a hot, humid summer Do you agree that adults (and especially there, you might change your mind about male adults) have to be overly cautious about relocating permanently. You state that your engaging in any communication with an reason for wanting to sell the Michigan home unaccompanied child? — Changing Times is you want a newer one than the place you In The Midwest presently own down south. Perhaps you could Dear Changing Times: I think (regret- satisfy yourself AND your spouse by simply tably) that the answer to your question is yes. spending some money to update the old one a Because fears of molestation are so prevalent bit. Please consider it. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 7, 1917 Virgil Willaby, on the first draft list from Umatilla County, cannot respond to the call of the flag because he is now minus two toes from one foot. The manner in which the aforesaid toes were removed is causing considerable conversation today but the best and most authenticated version is that Willaby shot off his toes while fooling with a shot gun. Whether the affair was accidental or otherwise is not known but his friends take the accident theory. Willaby lives near Athena and is engaged in farming. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 7, 1967 The residents of Ukiah, a hamlet near Highway 395 in the Blue Mountains, drive 50 miles north to Pendleton to wash their clothes. Last year, many laundered in Camas Creek on the south edge of town. But this summer there’s hardly a trickle over the rocks that squint in the sun. Ukiah, a town with a general store, school, tavern, several service stations, a few other businesses, a Umatilla National Forest ranger station, and some 100 homes, is bone dry. People drive three miles down the road to a creek for water. Hopes for water are up on the hill north of town, near the school house. A large drilling rig looms above the town. Well drillers started work last Thursday afternoon, hoping to hit water 400 or 500 feet down in Columbia River basalt sometime this week. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 7, 1992 Looking for a good cup of espresso? Try Country Flowers on Main Street in Condon — yes, Condon. The same applies if you’re looking for a bouquet of flowers, a soda fountain treat, children’s toys, gourmet cooking utensils, baskets, craft materials, collectible dolls, jewelry, knick knacks and lace. There are literally hundreds of unique gifts crammed — creatively and pleasingly — into this Main Street store with the historic front. Darla Seale leads a busy life with her store and the White Elephant wheat ranch near Condon, which she and her husband, Sam, own. Seale also has four children to keep her busy. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 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 250th day of 2017. There are 115 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On September 7, 1927, American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an “image dissector” at his San Fran- cisco laboratory. On this date: In 1892, James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan to win the world heavyweight crown in New Orleans in a fight conducted under the Marquess of Queensberry rules. In 1916, the Federal Employees Compensation Act, providing financial assistance to federal workers who suffer job-related inju- ries, was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. In 1936, rock-and-roll legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas. In 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London. In 1964, the controversial “Daisy” commercial for President Lyndon Johnson’s election campaign, featuring a girl plucking flower petals followed by a nuclear explo- sion, aired on NBC-TV. In 1967, the situation comedy “The Flying Nun,” starring Sally Field as a novice nun who finds that she can fly, debuted on ABC. In 1977, the Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington by President Jimmy Carter and Panama- nian leader Omar Torrijos. In 1979, the Entertain- ment and Sports Program- ming Network (ESPN) made its cable TV debut. In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later. Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician Sonny Rollins is 87. Actor Bruce Gray is 81. Singer Gloria Gaynor is 74. Singer Alfa Anderson (Chic) is 71. Actress Susan Blakely is 69. Rock musician Dennis Thompson (MC5) is 69. Actress Julie Kavner is 67. Rock singer Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) is 66. Rock musician Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 64. Actor Corbin Bernsen is 63. Actor Michael Emerson is 63. Pianist Michael Feinstein is 61. Singer Margot Chapman is 60. Actress J. Smith-Cam- eron is 60. Actor W. Earl Brown is 54. Actor Toby Jones is 51. Actress-co- median Leslie Jones (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 50. Actress Evan Rachel Wood is 30. Thought for Today: “Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.” — Ann Landers, American advice columnist (1918- 2002). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE