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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