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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, December 8, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Expectation of an early death puts man’s life in a tailspin FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I spent an evening grades. And while you’re at it, suggest with a guy I’ve been wanting to date he stop drinking and neglecting his for some time. After a few drinks he studies because, in the end, he might confided to me that he has a serious LIVE. heart condition. He said he doesn’t Dear Abby: My best friend of expect to live past age 23 and he could more than 20 years is a busy person. die any day. She has a demanding job, a husband, I don’t know the details of his two children and extended family she condition, but I’m sure he believes cooks for on most holidays. She also Jeanne what he told me. Because of this his Phillips cares for an elderly distant relative. She life has taken a downward spiral. He has a heart of gold and is wonderful to Advice has been drinking a lot, failed multiple me and my family. classes last semester and feels like When I’m invited to her house for studying is futile if he may only live a year dinner, she refuses to let me help her clear the after graduating. table. I’m not happy with that, but I accept it. For lack of evidence to the contrary, I The problem arises when I invite her over for accepted his statement as accurate. I don’t dinner. Because we don’t get to visit often, I’ll think he’d make up something like that. What pile the dishes in the kitchen so I can spend can I say or do to show my support? How can time with her and wash them later. But she I encourage him not to give up on his dreams cannot sit still and just have a conversation and his goals? He’s only 19. How can I be with me or anybody. You will find her in the strong for him? kitchen scraping plates, soaking pans and Since he told me about his heart I haven’t hand-washing the wine glasses. been able to think about anything else. I don’t This has become a point of contention know how to process this information. How because I like to unwind and clean my kitchen do you comfort someone you care about after my guests have left. I have tried working who’s facing mortality at such a young age? with her, but she prefers to power through the — Brokenhearted Guy In The South mess by herself, which gives us less time to Dear Brokenhearted Guy: If you want to sit and talk. How can I get through to her? — be a friend to this young man, ask how many Anxious In New York doctors have told him about his poor prog- Dear Anxious: Assuming that you have nosis. If the answer is only one, urge him to spoken to your friend more than once about get a second opinion because there are medical this, I think it’s time to accept her the way she advances in cardiology happening every day, is, rather than the way you would like her to and he may not be nearly as close to the end be. Some people are unable (notice I didn’t say as he fears. unwilling) to just sit still and have a conversa- You say he’s still in school. Suggest he talk tion, and she appears to be one of them. If this to someone at the student health center about is her only flaw, consider yourself blessed to his depression because it is interfering with his have a sparkling kitchen when she leaves. 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. 8, 1917 Brain fatigue was the prevailing ailment yesterday afternoon when two hundred and fifty high school students finished the task of answering twenty current history questions given them to test their interest and knowl- edge. The examination was arranged as a preliminary step to the possible formation of a class in current events and civics should any department be temporarily closed. Ranging from “What is the meaning of the term camouflage” to “Who is Hoover,” the ques- tions brought out a wide variety of answers including the statement that La Follette is an explorer and that Bulgaria, Africa, Roumania and China are neutral countries of Europe. Examination of all the papers shows that there is a fair average of current knowledge among the high school students, and also that the seniors are no better as a group than the lower classes. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 8, 1967 Why did the chicken cross the road? Yes, to get to the other side. But perhaps a “silent policeman” was there to slow down traffic for the feathered pedestrian. No chickens were reported crossing Main Street Wednesday morning. But plenty of cackles were heard — and teeth chattering. Drivers said they almost had their teeth knocked out when they drove autos over the “silent policeman,” three asphalt ridges that force cars to slow down at mid-block crosswalks that were recently installed at the request of the city council. Cars slow down, going over the bumps as if they’re railroad ties; cars driven by people who perhaps have learned that driving fast over the humps means that wheels bounce like basketballs or like tires given torture tests on television commercials. “… you take an older model car with bad tires and bad shocks and they’ll fall apart,” said Cliff Baiti of Pendleton. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 8, 1992 Robert Hojaboom is a lucky man indeed — he retired at the ripe young age of 53. To do so, the Umatilla resident earned a pension after working 30 years for IBM, and he and his wife saved her entire earnings for 10 years after the children were out of school. More opportunities exist now than when he started his career to retire early and well, Hojaboom said. “It takes a lot of personal fortitude and self discipline to do it,” he said. “If you can instill in young people to invest and save their money, it would help the whole country.” 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 342nd day of 2017. There are 23 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. On this date: In 1765, Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. In 1813, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92, was first performed in Vienna, with Beethoven himself conducting. In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction for the South. In 1962, the first session of the Second Vatican Council was formally adjourned. Typographers went on a 114-day strike against four New York City newspapers. In 1980, rock star John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan. In 1982, a man demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monu- ment hostage, threatening to blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. (After a 10-hour standoff, Norman D. Mayer was shot dead by police; it turned out there were no explosives.) In 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty at the White House calling for destruc- tion of intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Today’s Birthdays: Flutist James Galway is 78. Singer Jerry Butler is 78. Pop musician Bobby Elliott (The Hollies) is 76. Actress Mary Woronov is 74. Actor John Rubinstein is 71. Reggae singer Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals) is 69. Actress Kim Basinger is 64. Rock musician Warren Cuccurullo is 61. Rock musician Phil Collen (Def Leppard) is 60. Country singer Marty Raybon is 58. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is 58. Political commentator Ann Coulter is 56. Rock musician Marty Friedman is 55. Actor Wendell Pierce is 54. Rapper Bushwick Bill (The Geto Boys) is 51. Rock musician Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) is 45. Thought for Today: “I’m not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: ‘live-acy.’ I’m more interested in living.” — John Glenn (1921-2016). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE