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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, November 24, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Landlord questions tenant’s claim that he sleepwalks FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am a man who owns Because he doesn’t pay rent on time a large four-bedroom home, and I have or do other things expected of him, two tenants. One pays the rent on time, you may not be obligated to renew his helps with cleaning and yard work, lease. My advice is to talk to a lawyer and is an all-around great roommate. about how — and whether — you can The other has been here for four get rid of this tenant. months, has never paid his rent on time Dear Abby: My ex-mother-in-law, and always disappears when we must “Blanche,” takes my 14-year-old clear off the driveway or do yard work. daughter, “Grace,” shopping often. I Jeanne The major problem I have with Phillips was grateful at first, but now she buys this guy is he sleepwalks — at least her anything she wants. Advice he claims he does. He opens doors at Grace has a high school dance night. Some mornings I have found the soon, and I was looking forward to front door or garage door wide open. shopping with her. But before I could go, Additionally, he raids the refrigerator late Blanche took her and bought her a $299 dress. at night. He claims he doesn’t realize he’s I wasn’t consulted because Grace knew I doing it. It’s really annoying to find food I would’ve said no. She’s a freshman and that’s prepared the night before to take to work has just way too much money to spend. been eaten. I asked them to take the dress back, and I have spoken to him about it on numerous Blanche said OK. A week later I called her to occasions, and he claims that he can’t control explain why I said no, but instead of listening, his sleepwalking. I feel he should have told she told me it was her Christmas and birthday me about his issues prior to signing the lease. present for Grace, and she wasn’t taking it None of the references he gave mentioned his back. sleepwalking. My daughter never spends that kind of Is it considered a disability? Would I be money. Grace said she was keeping the dress, discriminating against a disability if I chose and I told her she was not wearing it. How do to not renew his lease because of his sleep- I explain this to my daughter who has become walking? — Landlord In Wisconsin self-entitled because of her grandmother? — Dear Landlord: Because doors are being Anything She Wants left open, it might be in your interest to install Dear Anything: You have already inexpensive security cameras. Sleepwalking explained it to your daughter. You told her it (and sleep eating) can be symptoms of a sleep was too much money to spend. The problem disorder, or possibly be caused by certain isn’t just Grace, it’s also your ex-moth- sleep medications. If your tenant is unaware er-in-law. You are Grace’s mother, and your of this, he should be informed and advised to wishes should have been respected. I don’t be evaluated at a sleep disorder clinic. blame you for being angry. 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 Nov. 24, 1917 Glen Rust at 1 a.m. this morning learned the folly of lighting a match to see whether a gasoline tank is full but the lesson cost him a badly burned hand. He had driven up to the front of the Pendleton Auto Co. and Arch Campbell, employed there, was filling his tank from the service station when Rust lighted the match. Immediately the gasoline took fire and Rust, hurriedly pulling the hose from his tank, clamped his hand over the tank opening to prevent the fire from getting into the tank. The hose scattered burning gasoline over the walk and street and the trousers of Campbell caught afire. Campbell stripped his trousers off and securing an extinguisher had the flames under control when the department arrived. Camp- bell also received a few burns. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 24, 1967 A Pendleton hunter this week bagged the most unusual ringneck many hunters have ever seen. It’s a mutant, Game Commission biologists say. The rooster’s head appears normal. But the rest of him — he’s a soft orange color, with a few white-tipped feathers, and a white beak and feet. The biologists said the orange pheasant is not a cross with a golden pheasant. Nor with a Rhode Island Red. Larry Holverson saw the pheasant in a stubble field near Athena. He went after it, and when the bird flushed, killed it cleanly. That’s when he got a close look, began to get a little worried about just what he’d bagged, and took the pheasant to the Game Commission office here. Holverson is having the bird mounted and is hopeful that eventually a museum might want to take it off his hands. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 24, 1992 Keith May has boldly gone where few men have gone before: into a first grade classroom. In fact, May has spent the last nine years instructing 6-year-olds at Sherwood Heights Elementary School. But his ability to teach young children was initially called into question, he said, because of his gender. “It took me awhile to be accepted in the community,” said May, 36. “It’s still out of the norm.” As the only male first grade teacher in the Pendleton School District, May insists the intervening decade hasn’t done much to dispel stereotypes. In fact, state-wide figures suggest an even smaller percentage of men are teaching at the primary level, which encom- passes kindergarten through third grade. 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 328th day of 2017. There are 37 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 24, 1917, nine members of the Milwaukee police department and two civilians were killed when a bomb exploded inside a police station. (The suspi- cious-looking package was brought to the station by a local resident after it was discovered outside a church; anarchists were suspected, but the culprits were never caught.) On this date: In 1784, Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, was born in Orange County, Virginia. In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. In 1939, British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC) was formally established. In 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes. In 1947, a group of writers, producers and direc- tors that became known as the “Hollywood Ten” was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry. John Steinbeck’s novel “The Pearl” was first published. In 1957, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, 70, died in Mexico City. In 1971, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” (but who became popularly known as “D.B. Cooper”) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over the Pacific Northwest after receiving $200,000 dollars in ransom; his fate remains unknown. In 1991, rock singer Freddie Mercury died in London at age 45 of AIDS-re- lated pneumonia. Today’s Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson is 79. Country singer Johnny Carver is 77. Former NFL Commis- sioner Paul Tagliabue is 77. Rock drummer Pete Best is 76. Actor-comedian Billy Connolly is 75. Former White House news secretary Marlin Fitzwater is 75. Former Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Dan Glickman is 73. Singer Lee Michaels is 72. Actor Dwight Schultz is 70. Actor Stanley Livingston is 67. Rock musi- cian Clem Burke (Blondie; The Romantics) is 63. Record producer Terry Lewis is 61. Actor/director Ruben Santi- ago-Hudson is 61. Actress Denise Crosby is 60. Actress Shae D’Lyn is 55. Actor-writ- er-director-producer Stephen Merchant is 43. Thought for Today: “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” — Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, American writer (1900-1948). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE