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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, January 4, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Ride in vintage car makes passenger fear for her life FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: Recently a friend kids. How can I politely tell her that came over and took me to lunch. She I have my own family to care for? has a small, 50-year-old vintage car She has a tendency to overreact. — that was very popular in the ’60s. She Keeping Distance had come from Marin County over Dear Keeping Distance: To tell the Golden Gate Bridge to my house. your neighbor you “don’t want to As she drove us to the restaurant, raise anyone else’s kids” may be her car stalled twice. It was very accurate, but it’s a bit rough. When underpowered and, in my opinion, she asks you to do things for her, be Jeanne rickety. After she dropped me home, I Phillips pleasant and say — consistently — sent her an email strongly expressing that you are busy, you don’t have Advice my concern that she is driving an time, you have other plans, etc. If you unsafe car. I was worried for her do, she will soon realize that you are safety. She took offense, so I apologized. not to be depended upon. She has plenty of money to buy a safe Dear Abby: My son has lived overseas used car like anyone else, but she says, “I like on and off for six years. He’s being married driving vintage.” I don’t want to get into her to a wonderful young woman where they car again. Was I wrong to tell her I felt her car met, which was in Wales. Needless to say, was unsafe? — Nervous Passenger In San not everyone can attend, so we are having a Francisco reception for them here in the States. Dear Passenger: You weren’t wrong My son already has a fully furnished to warn her. However, you may have been house overseas and doesn’t need anything, wrong to assume that she has “plenty of plus the cost of taking gifts back would be money to buy a safe used car.” Nobody has astronomical! Anyway, he is thinking of as much money as others assume they do. asking for monetary help with the honey- Because you don’t want to get into her car moon. Would this be all right to do and, if so, again, you should provide the transportation how do you ask people for it? — Help For from now on or meet her at the restaurant. The Honeymoon Dear Abby: My across-the-street Dear Help: Many young people today neighbor and I have become friendly. She has post requests like that on their wedding a 15-month-old and a newborn. Not only is website. Or, because friends and relatives she not married to the baby’s daddy, but they may ask what they need after receiving don’t even live together. invitations or announcements, the message She has been asking me to help her a lot can be conveyed verbally. According to the now that the baby is born. I’m 10 years older rules of etiquette, however, requests for gifts and raising three kids, all in their teens. or money should NEVER be included WITH Abby, I don’t want to raise anyone else’s the invitations or announcements. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 4, 1918 Efforts in the direction of moving the Blewett Harvester company’s plant to Portland, where capital seems to be ready to finance it, were temporarily checkmated last evening by a proposition that time be given for the raising of additional capital here. W.L. Thompson, president of the American National Bank, took the lead among local stockholders in a fight to retain the business in Pendleton. He prophesied the probability of securing $50,000 to $75,000 new local capital and said that with such increased capitalization the business would be able to secure a sufficient line of credit to meet its requirements. One man is said to be in line to invest $50,000 in the business. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 4, 1968 First baby of 1968 born at Pendleton Community Hospital was David Eugene Eber- hardt, born at 4:07 a.m. on Jan. 2 to Mr. and Mrs. David Eberhardt Jr. of Pilot Rock. First child born at Hermiston in 1968 was a 9 pound 2 ounce son to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McCord of Stanfield. He arrived at 7:10 a.m. Jan. 2. The first baby of 1968 at Pioneer Memorial Hospital is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kenison, Heppner. The 9 lb., 4 1/2 oz. baby arrived at 4:50 p.m. Jan. 3 and is named Keith Alan. He joins a brother, Kevin Ray, 2. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 4, 1993 Tammy Bass welcomed her son Keith Michael, the first baby born at Hermiston’s Good Shepherd Hospital in 1993, at 10:49 p.m. on New Year’s Day. He weighed in at seven pounds, seven ounces. Marika Sitz, who weighed in at seven pounds, nine ounces, was born at 2:56 p.m. on Jan. 1, 1993, the first baby of the New Year at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton. The parents are Michelle and Norman Sitz of Pendleton. 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 fourth day of 2018. There are 361 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 4, 1868, “The Moonstone” by Wilkie Collins, considered by some the first full-length English detective novel, began to be serialized in Britain and the U.S. in All the Year Round and Harper’s Weekly (it was published in book form in July 1868). On this date: In 1717, France, Britain and Holland formed a Triple Alliance against Spain. In 1896, Utah was admitted as the 45th state. In 1904, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them citizens. (Puerto Ricans received U.S. citizenship in March 1917.) In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, called for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impov- erished children and the handicapped. In 1943, for the second time, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin made the cover of TIME as the magazine’s 1942 “Man of the Year.” In 1951, during the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recaptured the city of Seoul. In 1960, author and philosopher Albert Camus died in an automobile acci- dent in Villeblevin, France, at age 46. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his State of the Union address in which he outlined the goals of his “Great Society.” In 1967, “The Doors,” the self-titled debut album of the rock group featuring the song “Light My Fire,” was released by Elektra Records. In 1974, President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. In 1987, 16 people were killed when an Amtrak train bound from Washington, D.C., to Boston collided with Conrail locomotives that had crossed into its path from a side track in Chase, Maryland. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Barbara Rush is 91. Football Hall of Fame coach Don Shula is 88. Opera singer Grace Bumbry is 81. Actress Dyan Cannon is 79. Author-historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is 75. Country singer Kathy Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 63. Actress Ann Magnuson is 62. Rock musician Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) is 62. Country singer Patty Loveless is 61. Actor Julian Sands is 60. Rock singer Michael Stipe is 58. Actor Patrick Cassidy is 56. Actor Dave Foley is 55. Actress Dot Jones is 54. Actor Rick Hearst is 53. Singer-musi- cian Cait O’Riordan is 53. Actress Julia Ormond is 53. Tennis player Guy Forget is 53. Country singer Deana Carter is 52. Rock musician Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dummies) is 51. Actor Josh Stamberg is 48. Actor Jeremy Licht is 47. Actor Damon Gupton is 45. Actress-singer Jill Marie Jones is 43. Thought for Today: “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” — Charlotte Bronte, English author (1816-1855). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE