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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, December 1, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Memories of molestation cloud girl’s thoughts of the future FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m almost an adult be around your children — or any now, starting to think about having children, for that matter. children and a good marriage of my Because of the seriousness of what own. But I have a disturbing child- happened to you, it would be a good hood memory I have never been able idea for you to contact R.A.I.N.N., to erase. the Rape, Abuse and Incest National When I was 6 or 7 and staying Network. Its website is rainn.org at my grandparents’ house, and my and the toll-free phone number is grandmother would go outside to 800-656-4673. Jeanne check the mail or water the flowers, Phillips Dear Abby: My elderly mother my grandfather would try to put lost her husband and will be moving Advice his hands on my private parts. He in with me. The problem is, Mom is wouldn’t speak a word to me EVER, one of those people for whom nothing even if she was around. In fact, I’m quite is ever good enough. One of my siblings sure I never witnessed him say anything at has already informed me that Mom told her all to anyone. But as soon as Grandma was my house, my neighborhood, my town, our out of sight, well, that was his chance to put hospitals, etc. are not good enough for her. his hands on me, then laugh when I tried to I’m worried that after she moves in and I hear wiggle away. her complain every day, I’ll lose my temper. Recently, after I remembered those Do you have any words of wisdom for me? episodes again, I tried to bring this up with — Dreading It In The South my mom in order to get her support. Abby, Dear Dreading: I sure do. Ask your she reacted as if there was something really mother NOW, before she relocates, if what wrong with ME or that I was lying! your sibling said is true. And if it is, do NOT Not surprisingly, I don’t want that man let her move into your home. around my future children. I have no real Dear Abby: Is it rude for someone not to relationship with him. I know this memory cash a check you have written to them within isn’t something I just imagined or made up a certain time period? I think it is, but maybe “to embarrass the family.” What should I do I’m wrong. Because I keep track of my in reference to Mom’s response? — Moving banking online and not in a traditional check- On From The Past book, I end up having to try to remember Dear Moving On: In reference to your to adjust my available balance to include mother’s response when you told her her the check’s amount. What do you think? — father molested you when you were little, Check’s In The Mail conclude that the same thing likely happened Dear C.I.T.M.: I agree that it’s rude. to her. You should also conclude that, if that’s When a canceled check does not show the case, she knew what he was capable of and up — sometimes for months — it makes did nothing to protect you. For that reason, reconciling the giver’s checkbook a pain in your grandfather should not be allowed to the neck and sometimes lower. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 1, 1917 That Captain Lee Caldwell will probably have charge of a remount station in France as a result of the horsemanship he displayed at Charlotte, N.C., is the declaration of Corporal Ben H. Inman (Rattlesnake Pete) who arrived in Pendleton yesterday from Charlotte on a month’s furlough. The western boys, especially those of Troop D, were right at home in the handling of horses and quickly claimed the attention of the officers, Corporal Inman states, and Captain Cald- well’s experience as a buckaroo stood him in good stead. Stable Sergeant Frank Cable, who had charge of the feeding of 5,000 head of horses, also made a great reputation for himself, “Pete” says. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 1, 1967 Law enforcement officers were searching for a suspect in the case of the stabbing of a woman at Apt. 5, 621 S. Main St., about 9 a.m. Wednesday, city police reported today. Elizabeth Badroads Narcisse was taken to St. Anthony Hospital with a stab wound in her back between her shoulder blades. The hospital reported the case to the police at 9:55 a.m. Her injury is not regarded as dangerous, and officers questioned her in connection with the case. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 1, 1992 A clog of stranded cars closed Cabbage Hill for two and a half hours Tuesday night, but police and towing operators said this morning they knew of no major accidents. Slick, snow-packed roads caused a number of trucks, buses and cars to spin out of control on Interstate 84 near Meacham Tuesday evening. Stranded cars near Hilgard forced the freeway to close from 7:30 to 10 p.m., according to Oregon State Police reports. 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 335th day of 2017. There are 30 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 1, 1942, during World War II, nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States; the goal was not so much to save on gas, but to conserve rubber (as in tires) that was desperately needed for the war effort. On this date: In 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the U.S. House of Repre- sentatives when a deadlock developed between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Craw- ford and Henry Clay. (Adams ended up the winner.) In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, in which he called for the abolition of slavery, and went on to say, “Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Adminis- tration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” In 1921, the Navy flew the first non-rigid dirigible to use helium; the C-7 trav- eled from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. In 1934, Soviet commu- nist official Sergei M. Kirov, an associate of Josef Stalin, was assassinated in Lenin- grad, resulting in a massive purge. In 1941, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito approved waging war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands after his government rejected U.S. demands contained in the Hull Note. In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; the incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks. In 1965, an airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland. In 1973, David Ben-Gu- rion, Israel’s first prime minister, died in Tel Aviv at age 87. In 1989, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. Today’s Birthdays: Former CIA director Stans- field Turner is 94. Actor-di- rector Woody Allen is 82. World Golf Hall of Famer Lee Trevino is 78. Singer Dianne Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 78. Country musi- cian Casey Van Beek (The Tractors) is 75. Television producer David Salzman is 74. Rock singer-musician Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult) is 73. Rock musician John Densmore (The Doors) is 73. Actress-singer Bette Midler is 72. Former child actor Keith Thibodeaux (TV: “I Love Lucy”) is 67. Actress-comedian Sarah Silverman is 47. Actor-writ- er-producer David Hornsby is 42. Rock musician Brad Delson (Linkin Park) is 40. Actor Riz Ahmed (Film: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) is 35. R&B sing- er-actress Janelle Monae is 32. Pop-rock-rap singer Tyler Joseph (Twenty One Pilots) is 29. Actress Zoe Kravitz is 29. Thought for Today: “An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.” — Dame C.V. Wedgwood, English historian (1910-1997). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
