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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, October 12, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Meat-and-potatoes man pans his friend’s vegan cooking FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I retired after a 40-year over her (or our) well-being. How can career. A friend from work, “Bernie,” I let go of the anger I feel toward her is the same age I am (62) but is still when everyone else sees her only in a working. good light? — Mixed Feelings About Six years ago, I had a serious health Mom crisis. Three years ago, Bernie survived Dear Mixed Feelings: I’m sorry a heart attack. Since then, Bernie for the loss of your mother at such worries incessantly about dying. He a tender age and under such tragic exercises rigorously and eats a strictly circumstances. Far more is understood Jeanne vegan diet. I like to spend time with Phillips about drug addiction today than him, but I’m more casual about diet was known when you were a child. Advice and exercise. We now know that addiction can be Neither of us is going to be a GQ less about a lack of character than a model, regardless of how much we diet or medical problem. exercise. I say life should be enjoyed, but I seriously doubt that when your mother Bernie is too busy obsessing, compulsively gave herself her final fix she realized it would taking medicine and working out. be her last. While I sympathize with your anger Today he invited me out to supper. Instead at being cheated out of her presence in your of going to a restaurant, he said he was cooking life, it would be better for your own quality of another of his (not-too-tasty) vegan meals. I life if you could accept that she was a human don’t want to offend or discourage Bernie, but being and fallible. A licensed mental health I hate his cooking. What should I do? Would a professional can help you work through your steak and a baked potato kill him? — Paunchy anger, and I hope you will talk to one soon. But Happy In Kentucky Dear Abby: We host many gatherings in Dear Paunchy: Because you enjoy our home during the year, including picnics. Bernie’s company, call him and tell him you We have a downstairs bathroom that is would love to come to supper, but because intended for guests. But twice now, I have you are a carnivore you will be bringing your encountered guests using my upstairs bath- own steak and potato with you, so fire up the room. I have never offered it, and I’m offended broiler. that they take it upon themselves to go unin- Dear Abby: My mother died from a vited into private territory. I would never do heroin overdose when I was 8. As a mother that in someone else’s house. Am I wrong, or with children of my own, I often find myself are they overstepping the boundaries here? — getting upset when people say nice things Wondering In The East about her — things that would normally make Dear Wondering: To use your upstairs people feel good, such as, “Oh, she would bathroom without asking your permission is have been so proud of you,” or, “She was such overstepping. The exception might be if the a great woman.” I feel that if she was such a downstairs bathroom was in use, and the need great woman, she wouldn’t have chosen drugs to get into one was urgent. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 12, 1917 A 14-year-old orphaned Indian girl, Winnie Kanine, came forward this morning to prove that the white Americans have no monopoly on patriotism. Through the First National Bank she subscribed $2000 for Liberty Bonds and expects to double her subscription later in the campaign. She owns 250 acres of land and had $6500 in the bank and, the government having given permission to the agent to invest trust funds in Liberty Bonds, she was the first to respond. Supt. Swartzlander expects other Indians to follow suit. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 12, 1967 School Supt. Ellis Neal told the school board last night that the state department stan- dardization team that visited Pendleton schools Sept. 28 helped identify issues and problems in the district. Ray Speulda, school standards consultant from the state department of educa- THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN tion, visited Adams, Lincoln, Hawthorne and Washington elementary schools and the Helen McCune and John Murray junior high build- ings. He said Washington and Lincoln schools were obsolete and hampered instruction. The Lincoln building, if improved, might be considered standard, his report stated. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 12, 1992 Pendleton Woolen Mills has been weaving sweaters, skirts and blankets in America since 1909, but it may expand to Mexico if a test production run is successful. The Port- land-based company, which still has a plant in its namesake town — Pendleton — is making up to 600 blouses south of the border to gain some experience before the expected removal of tariff barriers under the North American Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Trade representatives from the three countries signed the agreement Wednesday in Texas, but it has yet to be formally ratified by all three governments. Today is the 285th day of 2017. There are 80 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 12, 1492 (according to the Old Style calendar), Christopher Columbus’ expedition arrived in the present-day Bahamas. On this date: In 1792, the first recorded U.S. celebration of Columbus Day was held to mark the tricentennial of Christopher Columbus’ landing. In 1810, the German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. In 1915, English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium during World War I. Former President Theo- dore Roosevelt, speaking to the Knights of Columbus in New York, criticized native-born Americans who identified themselves by dual nationalities, saying that “a hyphenated American is not an American at all.” In 1933, bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff, Jess Sarber. In 1942, during World War II, American naval forces defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance. Attorney General Francis Biddle announced during a Columbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens. In 1957, the Dr. Seuss Yuletide tale “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” was first published by Random House. In 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people. In 1997, singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Antonia Rey is 90. Former Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, is 85. Singer Sam Moore (formerly of Sam and Dave) is 82. Broadcast jour- nalist Chris Wallace is 70. Actress-singer Susan Anton is 67. Rock singer-musician Pat DiNizio is 62. Pop/ rock singer/songwriter Jane Siberry is 62. Actor Hiroyuki Sanada is 57. Actor Carlos Bernard is 55. Jazz musician Chris Botti is 55. Rhythm- and-blues singer Claude McKnight (Take 6) is 55. Rock singer Bob Schneider is 52. Actor Hugh Jackman is 49. Actor Adam Rich is 49. Rhythm-and-blues singer Garfield Bright (Shai) is 48. Country musician Martie Maguire (Courtyard Hounds, The Dixie Chicks) is 48. Actor Kirk Cameron is 47. Rock singer Jordan Pundik (New Found Glory) is 38. Actor Josh Hutcherson is 25. Thought for Today: “Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.” — James Joyce, Irish author and poet (1882-1941). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
