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Thursday, October 19, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Extreme hoarding poses risk to mom’s house and health FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am a 68-year-old Dear Abby: My 36-year-old son lives with me, which benefits both of male reader, married, with many us. I am retired and his income helps. friends and acquaintances. My best The problem I’m having is he hoards friend (“Brent”) has a long-time garbage. girlfriend (“Judy”) we are with all It’s terrible. There’s garbage on his the time. There is also another couple bed, and it has reached the ceiling in (“Tom” and “Sue”) we like very much. other parts of the room. This has been The six of us have gone out and going on for many years. had what I thought was a good time, Jeanne Two years ago, I filled up two large Phillips but when I proposed another get-to- garbage bags to throw out. It didn’t gether, Judy said she felt Sue was Advice even make a dent. When he got home, condescending and unfriendly to her. I he was furious and deducted $50 have never experienced this with Sue, from the rent because he felt I needed to have and I didn’t observe anything like that when consequences for what I did. I realized then we were all together, but I suppose I could be how serious this is. I know it’s a health hazard oblivious. as well as a fire hazard. My problem is, there are times it’s awkward I’m at my wits’ end. I understand this has to to not invite Tom and Sue (as well as the fact do with loss, and he has had many, including I have fun with them and would like them a dad who left when I was pregnant. There there). Is there something I can do to change has been no contact during his lifetime. Please this situation? — Awkward In The East help. — Son’s A Hoarder Dear Awkward: Do not get into a squabble Dear Son’s A Hoarder: Your son is between the two women. If Judy prefers not suffering from a mental disorder. There is help to socialize with Sue, she may not accept an for it — IF he is willing to admit that he needs invitation if she knows Sue will be present, it. which is her privilege. Because you like both A licensed mental health professional couples, see them separately until this blows could help him understand why he is hoarding over — if it ever does. If you are asked why and motivate him to change the habits that the dynamic has changed, tell Brent the truth have led to it. There are also medications that about what Judy told you so he won’t think it can lessen his compulsion to hoard. However, has anything to do with him. it won’t happen unless you finally put your Dear Readers: Today marks the celebra- foot down and inform your son that what tion of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. It he’s doing is a health and safety hazard, and a spiritually signifies the victory of light over risk you will no longer tolerate. Tell him that darkness, good over evil, knowledge over unless he gets help, he will no longer be able ignorance and hope over despair. My best to live under your roof. wishes to all who celebrate it. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 19, 1917 The lady stood on the Main street bridge and probably with the hope of seeing her reflection in the placid waters below, she gazed over the rail and downward. Her careless glance soon turned into a fixed stare and her face blanched. She clutched at her leaping heart but it eluded her grasp and went on beating madly. She tried to cry aloud but her voice only came in choking gasps. What did she see, do you ask? There lying on the bottom of the river in two feet of water she saw plainly the feet and legs of a man’s body. The head and torso were gone. Some villain had evidently thrown his victim in piece by piece. Before, however, she could summon help, she discovered her mistake. The man’s legs and feet belonged to a clothing store dummy which someone had dumped into the river. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 19, 1967 Tuesday, Oct. 24, will be “Blackie Batch- elor Day” in Pendleton. Batchelor, who has been chief of the Pendleton Fire Department 35 years, will retire from active duty October 31. He has served 45 years in the fire depart- ment. The special day was announced at last night’s city council meeting in a proclamation prepared by Mayor Eddie Knopp. Batchelor joined the department April 26, 1922 as a fireman and mechanic and was appointed chief July 8, 1932. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 19, 1992 Few high school athletes have the talent to play any sport they choose. Fewer still have the combination of talent and will to be among the best at all of them. Tony Hilde of Pendleton established himself in the latter category even before he began his senior year this fall in his third season as the Pendleton Bucks starting quarterback. So far in his high school career, Hilde has started on the school’s varsity football, baseball and basketball teams and wrestled his way to a state championship match. Hilde’s numbers are, not surprisingly, drawing attention outside the sometimes isolated confines of Eastern Oregon high school sports. About the only person taken by surprise when college recruiters began to notice was the soft-spoken Pendleton senior himself. 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 292nd day of 2017. There are 73 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value (its biggest daily percentage loss), to close at 1,738.74 in what came to be known as “Black Monday.” On this date: In 1216, John, King of England, died, more than a year after affixing his royal seal to Magna Carta (“The Great Charter”). In 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, as the American Revolution neared its end. In 1864, Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early’s soldiers attacked Union forces at Cedar Creek, Virginia; the Union troops were able to rally and defeat the Confederates. In 1914, the U.S. Post Office began delivering mail with government-owned cars, as opposed to using contracted vehicles. In 1936, H.R. Ekins of the New York World-Telegram beat out Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times in a round-the-world race on commercial flights that lasted 18 1/2 days. In 1953, the Ray Bradbury novel “Fahrenheit 451,” set in a dystopian future where books are banned and burned by the government, was first published by Ballantine Books. In 1977, the supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City. The body of West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnapped by left-wing extremists, was found in Mulhouse, France. In 1982, automaker John Z. DeLorean was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, accused of conspiring to sell $24 million of cocaine to salvage his business. (DeLo- rean was acquitted at trial on grounds of entrapment.) Today’s Birthdays: Author John le Carre is 86. Artist Peter Max is 80. Author and critic Renata Adler is 80. Actor Michael Gambon is 77. Actor John Lithgow is 72. Feminist activist Patricia Ireland is 72. Singer Jeannie C. Riley is 72. Rock sing- er-musician Patrick Simmons (The Doobie Brothers) is 69. Talk show host Charlie Chase is 65. Rock singer-musician Karl Wallinger (World Party) is 60. Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is 59. . Boxer Evander Holyfield is 55. Host Ty Pennington (TV: “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”) is 53. Actor Jon Favreau is 51. “South Park” co-creator Trey Parker is 48. Comedian Chris Kattan is 47. Rock singer Pras Michel (The Fugees) is 45. Actress Gillian Jacobs is 35. Thought for Today: “It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.” — Fannie Hurst, American author (both this date in 1885, died 1968). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
