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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, September 13, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Handy advice and tips help girls sharpen social skills FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE afraid to give someone a compliment Dear Abby: I enjoy reading your if you think it’s deserved. column, especially letters regarding If you think you’re not beautiful young girls and their social skills. I (or handsome), be well-groomed, have two granddaughters who have the tastefully dressed, conscious of your normal drama, mostly with other girls. I worry their social skills are getting posture. (People who stand tall project sidetracked. self-confidence.) If you are not a I am interested in ordering your “brain,” try harder. If you are smarter booklet about popularity. You have than most, don’t be a know-it-all. Ask Jeanne such a good way with words, and I’m Phillips others what they think and encourage sure the girls would find it helpful and them to share their opinions. Advice enjoyable reading. They are the only If you’re not a good athlete, be a grandchildren I have, and I’m trying good sport. Be generous with kind to give them insight and help them along to words and affectionate gestures, but respect become fully functional, successful adults. Is it yourself and your family values always. If you still available? — Linda In Terre Haute, Ind. think “putting out” will make someone like Dear Linda: Yes, the booklet is still avail- you, forget it. (It won’t work, and later you’ll able. It was written in response to thousands be glad you didn’t.) If you need help, ask God. of questions from readers over the years And if you don’t need anything, THANK who were not naturally socially assertive God! and contains many useful tips for polishing Dear Abby: My husband refuses to wear social skills. It can be ordered by sending headphones. This means that when we sit in your name and mailing address, plus check the living room together, I must put up with or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to Dear the blaring noise of whatever he is watching. Abby Popularity Booklet, P.O. Box 447, I do a lot of writing, and in order to think, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and I need silence. I have tried earplugs, but they handling are included in the price. You will don’t muffle enough of the noise. Now, when find the booklet covers a variety of situations I have had enough, I leave the room. This and is meant for people of all ages. Everyone results in us being in two separate places, wants to be the kind of person others find which he hates. Is there another solution I may interesting, attractive and worth knowing be overlooking? — Loud In Maine better. (If parents, teachers and clergy know Dear Loud: You might try noise-canceling someone needing help in this regard, it might headphones. However, if that doesn’t work, make an inexpensive gift that could help because you need to “hear” in your head the change the course of that person’s life.) sentences you are trying to write, you may The key to being well-liked by both sexes have to do your writing when your husband is: Be kind. Be honest. Be tactful. Don’t be is not at home. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 13, 1917 Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday for the African Protective Progres- sive Order of this city. The incorporators are William H. Bazzell, founder, Warren Craw- ford, worthy promoter, Robert H. Gray, vice worthy promoter, Willis Miles, secretary-trea- surer and George W. Hooker. The purposes as set forth are “to promote the common welfare, secure a more perfect union, uphold their country and its laws and to advance the interests of members.” The organization is incorporated for $100. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 13, 1967 S.E. Brogoitti, Helix, former chairman of the State Board of Education, was in satisfactory condition this morning at Grande Ronde hospital with burns he received during a five-car accident Sunday. Brogoitti was the driver of a car struck in the rear by another car during a blinding dust storm on Highway 82, five miles from La Grande. His gasoline tank exploded, and when he got out of the car, he was caught in the flames. He suffered third degree neck and face burns. Ahead of Brogoitti’s car was a car that had stopped during the dust storm. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 13, 1992 A large manufacturing business from Wash- ington has expressed interest in relocating to Milton-Freewater, which could add as many as 80 jobs to the local economy. But it’s hardly a done deal. The Pacific Grinding Wheels company, now located in Marysville, Wash., wants to move from eastern Washington — possible into the old Key Technology building. Company president Jim Kean said the moving plans are contingent on several factors. After eight months of preliminary work on the part of the city of Milton-Freewater and the Port of Umatilla, a financial picture is coming into focus that should allow the company to move. 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 256th day of 2017. There are 109 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On September 13, 1788, the Congress of the Confed- eration authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital. On this date: In 1759, during the French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City. In 1814, during the War of 1812, British naval forces began bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but were driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted until the following morning. In 1911, the song “Oh, You Beautiful Doll,” a romantic rag by Nat D. Ayer and Seymour Brown, was first published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. In 1923, Miguel Primo de Rivera, the captain general of Catalonia, seized power in Spain. In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In 1959, Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.) In 1962, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.” In 1971, a four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages. In 1977, conductor Leopold Stokowski died in Hampshire, England, at age 95. In 1989, Fay Vincent was elected commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bart- lett Giamatti. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Barbara Bain is 86. Actress Eileen Fulton (TV: “As the World Turns”) is 84. Actor Joe E. Tata is 81. TV producer Fred Silverman is 80. Rock singer David Clay- ton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is 76. Actress Jacque- line Bisset is 73. Singer Peter Cetera is 73. Actress Christine Estabrook is 67. Actress Jean Smart is 66. Singer Randy Jones (The Village People) is 65. Record producer Don Was is 65. Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. is 63. Actress-comedian Geri Jewell is 61. Country singer Bobbie Cryner is 56. Rock singer-musician Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) is 56. Radio-TV personality Tavis Smiley is 53. Rock musician Zak Starkey is 52. Actor Louis Mandylor is 51. Olympic gold medal runner Michael Johnson is 50. Country musician Joe Don Rooney (Rascal Flatts) is 42. Singer Fiona Apple is 40. Actor Ben Savage is 37. Rock singer Niall Horan (One Direction) is 24. Thought for Today: “Better to be without logic than without feeling.” — Charlotte Bronte, English author (1816-1855). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE