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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 9A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Daughter of self-centered mom craves a role model FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My mother is consider doing some volunteer work extremely self-centered. Ever since I for seniors, perhaps at a senior citizen can remember, everything has always center. Your efforts will be valued, been about her. That’s probably why and in a short time you may begin she and Dad split. You can’t have a building relationships with more than conversation with her without her one person who can assuage your turning it around and making it about emptiness while you fill a need in her. their lives, too. I’m 25. I just want to have a regular Dear Abby: My sister asked if I Jeanne conversation with my mom without Phillips would attend a women’s conference her somehow bringing the mood with her. I hastily agreed, and we Advice down by saying she has demons to kind of dropped it until recently. The deal with on her own and she can’t be conference is eight months away and positive or happy for others. I just found out the location and who will be Abby, there’s nothing wrong with her! the speakers. After reviewing the informa- She’s healthy, fit, has a wonderful job she tion, I realize I’m not all that interested in claims to love, and friends she goes out with attending. often and seems to have fun with. She’s out When I told my sister, she became furious! literally every weekend. I just don’t get why I apologized for letting her down, but I don’t she never makes time for me or any of my want to spend hundreds of dollars to attend siblings. a conference I’m not that jazzed about. I’m afraid I’ll never have that mother/ She’s still mad at me, and I don’t want to daughter relationship. Maybe I wouldn’t dismiss her feelings, but I feel that canceling care so much if I had another role model to eight months in advance is OK. We hadn’t confide in, but unfortunately, I have neither purchased tickets or made hotel reservations a mother nor a father figure in my life. My yet. Can you give me some advice? — Don’t siblings and I have been cheated in the parent Want To Go department — a father who left us and a Dear Don’t Want To: Your sister may mother who thinks only of herself. Advice? have had more in mind than just the confer- — Lost Soul In Ohio ence when she invited you to go with her. Dear Lost Soul: This may be of small She may have wanted a bonding experience comfort to you, but other readers over the as well, which may be why she has reacted years have described situations like your so strongly. own. I’ll share with you what I have advised I agree that eight months in advance is them. sufficient notice that you want to cancel. It Because your mother apparently feels her may smooth her ruffled feathers if you call parenting job is finished, it’s time to build a your sister and suggest there might be some- “family” of your own. Because you crave thing else you can do together that would be the wisdom an older woman can provide, of greater interest to both of you. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 18-19, 1917 Detected in the act of stealing the Ford runabout of the East Oregonian last night, two well known Pendleton boys were pursued and captured, but not until one of them had drawn a .38 calibre revolver and turned upon R.W. Fletcher, circulation manager of the East Oregonian, who was close at his heels. Fletcher grappled with the boy, seized the hand that held the gun and wrenched the weapon away from him. He marched the boy a prisoner up town where he met Sheriff Taylor, who took the boy in charge. They returned to the Happy Canyon pavilion where the car had been left. There they found the other boy who had been over taken by M.R. Chessman after a chase of several blocks, which ended at the levee. The boy ran into a wire netting which checked his flight. A third boy made a successful getaway. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 18-19, 1967 The 56th annual Round-Up came to a happy close Saturday afternoon with a capacity crowd of some 16,000 persons loudly applauding the awarding of the all-around championship and a leg on the Oregon Journal trophy to young Larry Mahan of Brooks, who only the day previous had been given the Oregon Cowboy of the Year award by Gov. Tom McCall. It was a tremen- dous triumph for a popular rodeo star who also won the RCA national championship last year and is gunning for it again. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 18-19, 1992 As cars crowd the streets and RVS over- shadow every rentable blade of grass, many people find their feet to be the fastest on Round-Up week. And now that the city has shed light on the Umatilla River Parkway from the Round-Up Grounds to Main Street, nighttime footing is safer and more scenic. The city finished lighting the third section of the parkway just in time for Round-Up crowds, and pedestrians are already taking advantage. The paved walkway along the Umatilla River is now illuminated by lamps dotting the walk from Highway 30 to Main Street. 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 262nd day of 2017. There are 103 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On September 19, 1777, the first Battle of Saratoga was fought during the Revo- lutionary War; although British forces succeeded in driving out the American troops, the Americans prevailed in a second battle the following month. On this date: In 1796, President George Washington’s fare- well address was published. In it, America’s first chief executive advised, “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” In 1881, the 20th pres- ident of the United States, James A. Garfield, died 2½ months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur became presi- dent. In 1915, vaudeville performer W.C. Fields made his movie debut as “Pool Sharks,” a one-reel silent comedy, was released. In 1945, Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a British court. In 1957, the United States conducted its first contained underground nuclear test, code-named “Rainier,” in the Nevada desert. In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, in Los Angeles as part of his U.S. tour, reacted angrily upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn’t get to visit Disneyland. In 1970, the “Mary Tyler Moore” show debuted on CBS-TV. In 1982, the smiley emoticon was invented by Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman, who suggested punctuating humorously intended computer messages with a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a hori- zontal “smiley face.” :-) Today’s Birthdays: Author Roger Angell is 97. Host James Lipton (TV: “Inside the Actors Studio”) is 91. Actress Rosemary Harris is 90. Former Defense Secretary Harold Brown is 90. Actor David McCallum is 84. Singer-songwriter Paul Williams is 77. Singer Bill Medley is 77. Singer Sylvia Tyson (Ian and Sylvia) is 77. R&B singer Freda Payne is 75. Golfer Jane Blalock is 72. Singer David Bromberg is 72. Former NFL running back Larry Brown is 70. Actor Jeremy Irons is 69. Musician-producer Nile Rodgers is 65. College Foot- ball Hall of Famer and former NFL player Reggie Williams is 63. Rock singer Lita Ford is 59. “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon is 43. Folk- rock singers-musicians Sara and Tegan Quin are 37. Thought for Today: “If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.” — Logan Pearsall Smith, Anglo-Amer- ican author (1865-1946). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
