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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, October 26, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Little girl’s many boyfriends raise a red flag for mom FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am single and the the family home) and still keep track mother of a 7-year-old girl. When of my mom upstairs. A baby monitor! she was 4, I decided there would be I could hear everything going on no parade of guys coming in and out upstairs, at night especially, and it of my life, or any at all. I have barely made a challenging time much easier. dated, and the few times I have gone Both of my parents had Alzhei- out, I never talked about it around her. mer’s disease, and I wish I had Over the last two or three years, known about the monitor when Dad she has come home every few weeks was still alive. I hope this will help Jeanne or months with a new boy she likes. Phillips others to be more effective caregivers I never say much except that she’s without compromising their own Advice not allowed to have a boyfriend. She lives. — Missing Mom And Dad In recently swore her grandfather to Montana secrecy and told him she had a boyfriend. Dear Missing: So do I, because placing Is this normal? Should I be concerned that a baby monitor in the room of a sick person she likes a new boy every few weeks, or that of any age is a good idea in case the person she didn’t tell me she had a boyfriend even needs assistance. I have heard of this being though I don’t punish her for being honest? done not only with Alzheimer’s patients but I’m concerned about her being interested in also with people in hospice programs whose boys at too young an age. — Possibly Prude caregivers can’t be with them every minute. Mother Thank you for writing. Dear Mother: Having a “boyfriend” at Dear Abby: I need suggestions on what the age of 7 means something different than to do to get a close family member to go out it does to a teenager or an adult. When your to lunch with me. I have offered to pay for daughter tried to confide in you that she liked lunch, let him pick the restaurant and do the someone, you cut her off by telling her it driving. (“Nope. Can’t go. Got to check with “wasn’t allowed.” If you had let her confide my wife. No.”) in you, she wouldn’t have found the need to I am in my late 80s, and he’s in his late do it with her grandfather. I suggest you open 70s. Someday it will be too late. What do you up the lines of communication now, before suggest? — Looking To Lunch In The East it’s too late. Dear Looking To Lunch: Try this. Invite Dear Abby: Taking care of a loved his wife to come to lunch with the two of you. one who has Alzheimer’s is difficult. My However, if that doesn’t work, forget about boyfriend came up with a brilliant idea to help trying to get him to go because he may be me maintain my own space (the basement in less eager to see you than you are to see him. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 26, 1917 Forty-one years ago two boys, brothers, were amusing each other by poking beans down one another’s ears. The beans went in easily enough but it was a different matter when it came to taking them out. One of the beans could not be reached and was left there. It did not impair the hearing nor did it give other trouble and in later years was forgotten. This week the man who had been a boy 41 years ago entered the office of Dr. T.M. Henderson and complained of having lost the hearing in one ear. The doctor made an examination and discovered that the canal had been completely closed with hard wax. He removed the wax in a ball as large as a marble and embedded in the center found the bean. Dr. Henderson did not take the man’s name as he paid for the operation at the time, but he has the bean and wax as an interesting exhibit. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 26, 1967 Fire trucks were moved out of Central Fire station last night to make room for tables, food and people. More than 200 people entered the hall to pay tribute to William R. “Blackie” Batchelor on his 70th birthday and to wish him well on his retirement later this month. While they ate beef stew, life went on as usual in the fire department where Batchelor has worked the last 45 years — 35 years as chief. In the middle of dinner, firemen dropped forks and filed out of the hall. Several jumped on a truck. Nothing big. Somebody’s car radiator had boiled over. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 26, 1992 Parents have decided to begin patrolling Armand Larive Junior High to help stem a growing problem of student violence. More than 100 parents, school staff and police gath- ered Monday to share stories of students being harassed, intimidated, threatened, punched and beaten in and around school. The problem involves both boys and girls and includes others students and young adults coming to the school who don’t belong there, officials said. It involves both white and Hispanic students, and distraught parents of both ethnic groups attended Monday’s meeting. 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 299th day of 2017. There are 66 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On October 26th, 1881, the “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” took place in Tomb- stone, Arizona, as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holliday confronted Ike Clan- ton’s gang. Three members of Clanton’s gang were killed; Earp’s brothers and Holliday were wounded. On this date: In 1774, the First Conti- nental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia. In 1825, the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River. In 1861, the legendary Pony Express officially ceased operations, giving way to the transcontinental telegraph. (The last run of the Pony Express was completed the following month.) In 1921, the Chicago Theatre, billed as “the Wonder Theatre of the World,” first opened. In 1944, the World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf ended in a major Allied victory over Japanese forces, whose naval capabilities were badly crippled. In 1949, President Harry S. Truman signed a measure raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour. In 1958, Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in 8 hours and 41 minutes. In 1967, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, crowned himself emperor after 26 years on the Peacock Throne. In 1972, national security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam. Aviation innovator Igor Sikorsky died in Easton, Connecticut, at age 83. In 1984, “Baby Fae,” a newborn with a severe heart defect, was given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, California. (Baby Fae lived 21 days with the animal heart.) In 2001, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, giving author- ities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Shelley Morrison is 81. Actress Jaclyn Smith is 72. TV host Pat Sajak is 71. Hillary Rodham Clinton is 70. Musician Bootsy Collins is 66. Actor James Pickens Jr. is 65. Rock musician Keith Strickland (The B-52’s) is 64. Actor D.W. Moffett is 63. Actress-singer Rita Wilson is 61. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is 58. Actor Patrick Breen is 57. Actor Dylan McDer- mott is 56. Actor Cary Elwes is 55. Singer Natalie Merchant is 54. Actor Steve Valentine is 51. Country singer Keith Urban is 50. Actor Tom Cavanagh is 49. Actress Rosemarie DeWitt is 46. Writer-producer Seth MacFarlane (TV: “Family Guy”) is 44. TV corre- spondent and co-host Paula Faris (TV: “The View”) is 42. Actor Jon Heder is 40. Rapper Schoolboy Q is 31. Thought for Today: “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” — Ayn Rand, American author (1905- 1982). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
