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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, December 15, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Family tragedy raises concern about history of mental illness FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have a 14-year-old happen in a vacuum. Healthy children daughter I have raised alone. Her and young adults rarely — if ever father has never been in her life, nor — “snap” out of nowhere. Because has he been in the lives of his other you are concerned about the level of children with other women. He has a stress your daughter is experiencing, long history of criminal behavior and please waste no time in scheduling mental illness. Although he hasn’t some sessions for BOTH of you with been part of her life, I have done a licensed mental health professional. everything in my power to keep her in If this will create financial hardship, Jeanne touch with her siblings. Phillips contact the department of mental I just learned via the news and health in your community because Advice social media that her brother who through it you may be able to find is also 14 (and lives nearby with his a therapist who charges on a sliding grandparents), is being charged with two financial scale. counts of capital murder. He reportedly Dear Abby: My beloved husband died shot both his grandparents. He had no other in 1993 from an AIDS-related cancer. He previous issues, and there were no warning contracted the disease from a blood trans- signs. fusion during surgery. I elected to tell only I am torn inside trying to figure out how to close family members about his HIV. I was break the news to my daughter. She’s going still quite young when he died. through her own teenage issues, and I’m Now when people ask me why I didn’t afraid the news will crush her. I need to figure remarry, I don’t know how to reply. I didn’t this out ASAP, before she hears about it at contract the disease from him, but people are school or from social media. My other major still fearful of the word AIDS. I have never concern as a parent is, could their father have dated or sought a relationship with a man passed along to her his mental illness? — since my husband’s passing. I still love him Scared In The South and have no regrets, but I don’t know what to Dear Scared: This kind of awful news say. Please help. — Longtime Widow travels via television, social media and Dear Longtime Widow: You are under no word of mouth faster than lightning. By the obligation to tell your life story to someone time this letter is published, your daughter who asks that question casually. To someone will have already learned about this family like that, all you should say is what you wrote tragedy. to me, “I still love him, and I have no regrets.” Rarely, if ever, does this kind of acting out The rest is nobody’s business. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 15, 1917 Alleging that advantage was taken of his illness and addiction to alcoholic liquors to secure from him without any compensation whatever title to $100,000 worth of land in Umatilla County, Oregon and Walla Walla, Franklin and Columbia counties, Washington, S.A. Ash has brought suit in the circuit court against S.L. Stebbins and wife, L.R. Lucas and wife and Charles P. Stebbins and wife to recover the land. Plaintiff alleges that S.L. Stebbins plied him with liquor until he was in a stupor and then secured from him warranty deeds for the land. He alleges there was no consideration whatever in the transfer and that he was in such a condition that he was not aware of what he was doing. He has secured a temporary restraining order to prevent them from disposing of the land during the pendency of the suit. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 15, 1967 The Hermiston City Council is alarmed at the increasing number of auto accidents on Highway 32 South in the vicinity of the View Drive intersection. In their Wednesday meeting the council directed City Manager BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Tom Harper to confer with the State Highway Commission about the problem. In less than three years five men died in two accidents in the vicinity of the bridge over Maxwell Canal. The highway makes a curve south of the canal on its approach into the city. In one of the fatal accidents the car hit the bridge, and in another the driver went over the 10-foot embankment on the curve. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 15, 1992 A police raid on a suspected drug dealer’s home near Hermiston Tuesday recovered a trove of weapons, including a grenade launcher and machine guns, police said. Arrested without incident as they left the home were Terry E. Eyler, 44, and Harriet A. Crelling, 31, both of Hermiston. They were taken by U.S. marshals to Portland to be arraigned on federal drug and firearms charges, authorities said. In all, police found more than 30 weapons at the home, located on a hilltop near the intersection of Joy and Cooney lanes north of town. In addition to rifles, revolvers and other small firearms, police found the makings of military booby traps, a grenade launcher and grenades, a pound of C4 plastic explosive and a 12-gauge shotgun with a circular clip holding a couple of dozen rounds of ammunition. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 349th day of 2017. There are 16 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 15, 1939, the Civil War motion picture epic “Gone with the Wind,” starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, had its world premiere in Atlanta. On this date: In 1791, the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, went into effect following ratifica- tion by Virginia. In 1864, the two-day Battle of Nashville began during the Civil War as Union forces commanded by Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas attacked Confederate troops led by Gen. John Bell Hood; the result was a resounding Northern victory. In 1890, Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, South Dakota, during a confronta- tion with Indian police. In 1938, groundbreaking for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C., with President Franklin D. Roosevelt taking part in the ceremony. In 1944, a single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris. In 1965, two U.S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6A and Gemini 7, maneuvered toward each other while in orbit, at one point coming as close as one foot. In 1967, the Silver Bridge between Gallipolis, Ohio, and Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapsed into the Ohio River, killing 46 people. In 1971, the Secret Service appointed its first five female special agents. In 1995, European Union leaders meeting in Madrid, Spain, chose “euro” as the name of the new single Euro- pean currency. In 2001, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, was reopened to the public after a $27 million realignment that had dragged on for over a decade. Today’s Birthdays: Actor-comedian Tim Conway is 84. Singer Cindy Birdsong (The Supremes) is 78. Rock musician Dave Clark (The Dave Clark Five) is 75. Rock musician Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge) is 71. Actor Don Johnson is 68. Actress Melanie Chartoff is 67. Movie director Julie Taymor is 65. Movie director Alex Cox is 63. Actor Justin Ross is 63. Rock musician Paul Simonon (The Clash) is 62. Movie director John Lee Hancock is 61. Democratic Party activist Donna Brazile is 58. Country singer Doug Phelps (Brother Phelps; Kentucky Headhunters) is 57. Movie producer-director Reginald Hudlin is 56. Actress Helen Slater is 54. Actor Paul Kaye (TV: “Game of Thrones”) is 53. Actress Molly Price is 52. Actor Adam Brody is 38. Rock musician Alana Haim is 26. Thought for Today: “The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.” — Minna Antrim, American writer (1856-1950). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE