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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Teen girl feels pressure
from society to have sex
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m a teenage girl who
time for us, things come up more often
has always heard and seen on TV and
than not and it gets pushed aside.
in movies that there’s pressure from
We used to have time for each
guys to have sex. That may be true,
other, and we are talking about having
but I feel there is also pressure from
another child. How do I find the time
society. I never thought I would feel
for one more child when we don’t have
like that when I got to high school, but
enough time for each other? I’m begin-
now I do. It hurts, and I am writing this
ning to think she doesn’t want to be
for all the girls who feel the same way I
around me anymore, or she’s no longer
Jeanne
do about it. I have been struggling with Phillips in love with me or that she’s cheating
it for a few days, and it is messing with
on me. I don’t want to believe it, but
Advice
me a lot.
I don’t know what else to think. What
I know I don’t want to have sex
should I do? — Needs Time Together
yet, but I still feel like I have to. “Tom” really
Dear Needs Time: Have you told your
wants to, but he isn’t a virgin. It scares me, and wife all the things you are telling me? If you
while he isn’t pressuring me, I feel like there is haven’t, place it at the top of your agenda.
a boulder on my shoulders. If you know how I Feeling the way you do, you should be
can stop feeling like this, please let me know. talking about improving your marriage before
— Pressure From Society
enlarging your family and the responsibilities
Dear Pressure: A surefire way to feel less that go along with it. Not only should you and
pressured into doing something you’re not your wife be scheduling alone time together,
ready for would be to stop assuming Tom’s sex you should also consult a licensed family
drive is YOUR responsibility.
therapist to reopen the lines of communication
Remember that although many teenage between the two of you.
girls have been pressured into having sex,
Dear Abby: Could you please tell me
a sizable number have not. If you choose to what’s proper in a situation like this? My
wait until you are older, that’s your privilege, husband and I are always invited to his fami-
because regardless of what you’re seeing on ly’s holiday celebrations. When we accept,
TV and in the movies, “everyone else” ISN’T the invitation is also extended to my mother
doing it.
and sister. If my husband and I are unable to
Dear Abby: My wife and I have two attend, should my mother and sister still go or
amazing children, and while they do require consider their invitation canceled? — Jan In
a lot of attention, I feel like I’m getting the San Clemente, Calif.
short end of the stick. My wife works third
Dear Jan: If the invitations that were
shift, while I work 8 to 5. She’s off two days extended were accepted by your mother and
out of two weeks, but even then, she’s on call sister, and they are expected, they should
it seems like all the time. When I try to make attend.
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
Dec. 6, 1917
Miss Ardis Callison, formerly a resident of
Pendleton, now of Portland, is probably the
first Umatilla woman to enlist in the service
of her country. Miss Callison is now visiting
at the home of her sister, but will return soon
to complete her course in wireless telegraphy
preparatory for enlisting in the naval wireless
service sometime in February. A graduate
of Pendleton high school last spring, Miss
Callison was well known as president of the
Pep Club at that institution last year. She
has been living with her parents in Portland
while taking a wireless course. If successful in
passing one more examination, Miss Callison
expects to be sent to the Bremerton navy yard
and from there to the Philippine island service.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 6, 1967
The Pacific Northwest may be able to take
the offensive in the next three or four years
in its struggle to retain its Columbia River
water for the Northwest, Bob O’Rourke,
Pendleton attorney and well known authority
on the water diversion proposal, told the
Chamber of Commerce in their Monday
evening dinner meeting. O’Rourke, who has
made a comprehensive study of the water
diversion plan as it affects the Northwest, said
the Pacific Northwest states are becoming
better organized, with each state making its
studies to determine factually its water needs.
Another encouraging factor for the Northwest
is that not all the states in the Southwest are
currently unified in their move to divert water
to their section of the country.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 6, 1992
Two Heppner state playoff teams will
be on the field at Parker Stadium when the
Mustangs take on the Vale Vikings in the
state Class 2A championship today. But
five decades separate them. The Heppner
Mustangs of 1942 will celebrate the 50th
anniversary of its state championship appear-
ance against Dayton during a ceremony at
halftime of today’s game. Twenty-five of the
26 members of the 1942 Mustangs are still
living, said former Oregon State University
athletic director Jim Barratt, the tailback on
what was the top B team in Eastern Oregon.
“I expect 15-20 today,” Barratt said.
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 340th day of
2017. There are 25 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On Dec. 6, 1917, some
2,000 people were killed
when an explosives-laden
French cargo ship, the Mont
Blanc, collided with the
Norwegian vessel Imo at
the harbor in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, setting off a blast that
devastated the Canadian city.
Finland declared its indepen-
dence from Russia.
On this date:
In 1790, Congress moved
to Philadelphia from New
York.
In 1865, the 13th Amend-
ment to the U.S. Constitution,
abolishing slavery, was rati-
fied as Georgia became the
27th state to endorse it.
In 1889, Jefferson Davis,
the first and only president
of the Confederate States
of America, died in New
Orleans.
In 1907, the worst mining
disaster in U.S. history
occurred as 362 men and boys
died in a coal mine explosion
in Monongah, West Virginia.
In 1922, the Anglo-Irish
Treaty, which established the
Irish Free State, came into
force one year to the day after
it was signed in London.
In 1942, comedian Fred
Allen premiered “Allen’s
Alley,” a recurring sketch on
his CBS radio show spoofing
small-town America.
In 1947, Everglades
National Park in Florida was
dedicated by President Harry
S. Truman.
In 1957, America’s first
attempt at putting a satellite
into orbit failed as Vanguard
TV3 rose about four feet off
a Cape Canaveral launch pad
before crashing down and
exploding.
In 1973, House minority
leader Gerald R. Ford was
sworn in as vice president,
succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.
In 1982, 11 soldiers and
six civilians were killed when
an Irish National Liberation
Army bomb exploded at a
pub in Ballykelly, Northern
Ireland.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Comedy performer David
Ossman is 81. Actor Patrick
Bauchau is 79. Country
singer Helen Cornelius is
76. Actor James Naughton
is 72. Former Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood is 72.
Rhythm-and-blues
singer
Frankie Beverly (Maze) is
71. Former Sen. Don Nickles,
R-Okla., is 69. Actress
JoBeth Williams is 69. Actor
Tom Hulce is 64. Actor Wil
Shriner is 64. Actor Miles
Chapin is 63. Rock musician
Rick Buckler (The Jam) is
62. Comedian Steven Wright
is 62. Rock musician Peter
Buck (R.E.M.) is 61. Rock
musician David Lovering
(Pixies) is 56. Writer-director
Judd Apatow is 50. Rock
musician Ulf “Buddha”
Ekberg (Ace of Base) is 47.
NFL quarterback Johnny
Manziel is 25.
Thought for Today:
“When you have exhausted
all possibilities, remember
this — you haven’t.” —
Thomas Edison, American
inventor (1847-1931).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE