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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