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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, January 11, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Runaway granddaughter avoids
grandma’s attempts to connect
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My 18-year-old
something, there are better ways to
granddaughter ran away twice last
go about acquiring it than shoplifting.
year. She’s now living with her
You should also encourage her to
boyfriend and refuses to have any
find a job. If she does, it will increase
contact with her dad. I know my son
her independence, not only from her
is very strict, and I’m pretty sure she
father, but also her boyfriend, if it
could just no longer live by his rules.
becomes necessary.
Her mom passed away eight months
Dear Abby: I was recently diag-
ago, and my son is all she has besides
nosed
with a stage four cancer. My
Jeanne
her sister.
Phillips surgeon has offered me an opportu-
She opened a Facebook page. I
nity to be part of a clinical trial, which
Advice
was able to write to her a couple of
my family is aware of. They do not,
times and she responded. She isn’t
however, know the details of how far
answering my messages now. I suspect her the cancer has spread.
boyfriend is controlling and is preventing her
The prognosis for patients in this trial is
from contacting her family. I’m also afraid about two more years. My wife thinks I should
she may be involved with drugs now. She share this information with my extended
and the boyfriend were recently arrested for family and friends immediately (although
shoplifting, and this just isn’t typical of my there are few signs that I’m ill). I prefer to
granddaughter.
remain silent until the disease catches up with
I have trouble sleeping at night worrying me and my time gets closer. Your advice or
about her. I know she’s an adult, but I don’t reader response would be greatly appreciated
want her to give up on her family who loves regarding this very emotional decision. —
her. Do you have any suggestions? Should I Keeping It To Myself
go to the house and try and see her, or must
Dear Keeping It To Yourself: I’m sorry
we just sit back and wait for her to grow up? about your diagnosis. I’m sure when your
Any advice will be appreciated. — Worried letter is published there will be a tsunami
Nana
of reactions — both pro and con — from
Dear Worried Nana: Do not just sit back. readers.
By all means, visit your granddaughter!
Of course your wishes should be
She needs to know you love her and will be respected, but since you asked, I am inclined
supportive if things don’t work out with her to agree with your wife. Your illness affects
boyfriend.
not only you but also the rest of your family
Because she’s 18 and now considered an and friends. If you reveal your prognosis
adult, you can’t force her to reunite with her now, it will give the people who love you an
father, whose heavy-handed parenting may opportunity to step up to the plate and offer
or may not be the reason she left home. But emotional support, not only to you, but also
you can, however, point out that if she needs to her and your family.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 11, 1918
Plans for a parish house for the Church of
the Redeemer, to be known as the Potwine
Memorial House, were launched in a tentative
way last evening at the annual parish meeting
held following a dinner given in the basement
of the Christian church. The suggestion for a
parish house to answer social and club needs
of the church and to serve the community in
much the same way as a Y.M.C.A. building
was made by the Rev. Alfred Lockwood, new
rector of the church.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 11, 1968
The Sisters of St. Francis in Pendleton
have a new look about them. They are a
wee bit self-conscious about it. But they are
delighted, too, the way all women feel when
they get something new to wear. In keeping
with the trend in religious orders to update
their apparel, the local nuns have adopted a
simplified headdress. Gone are the starched
headbands and wide bertha-type starched
collars. In their place is a simple white cap,
to which a veil is pinned. The neckline is
soft, and the bodice is covered by a half-scap-
ular — “in drip-dry material!” said Sister
Lawrence, administrator of St. Anthony
Hospital, exultantly.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 11, 1993
Neighbors helped save household posses-
sions and tried to extinguish a fire with snow
and garden hoses in sub-zero temperatures
Sunday at a residence on Southwest Jay.
Firefighters were unable to respond promptly
because the home of Pat and Cathy Costello
is about a quarter mile outside the city limits
— and outside of the city’s fire protection
area — on the west side of McKay Creek.
However, about a half hour after the Costello
children called 911, Fire Chief Dick Hopper
authorized the use of the pumper truck and
allowed four firemen to cross the district
line and defend neighborhood homes in the
event the blaze spread. “Our formal policy is
we just don’t go at all, but it would not have
been within my own ethics to allow an entire
block to burn, and the potential was there,”
said Hopper. The fire started Sunday morning
after the Costellos used a heat lamp and hair
dryer in an effort to thaw frozen water pipes.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 11th day of
2018. There are 354 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 11, 1964, U.S.
Surgeon General Luther
Terry issued “Smoking and
Health,” a report which
concluded that “cigarette
smoking
contributes
substantially to mortality
from certain specific diseases
and to the overall death rate.”
On this date:
In 1861, Alabama became
the fourth state to withdraw
from the Union.
In 1908, President Theo-
dore Roosevelt proclaimed
the Grand Canyon National
Monument (it became a
national park in 1919).
In 1913, the first enclosed
sedan-type automobile, a
Hudson, went on display at
the 13th National Automo-
bile Show in New York.
In 1927, the creation
of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences
was proposed during a
dinner of Hollywood lumi-
naries at the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles.
In 1935, aviator Amelia
Earhart began an 18-hour trip
from Honolulu to Oakland,
California, that made her the
first person to fly solo across
any part of the Pacific Ocean.
In 1942, Japan declared
war against the Netherlands,
the same day that Imperial
Japanese forces invaded the
Dutch East Indies.
In 1977, France set off
an international uproar by
releasing Abu Daoud, a PLO
official behind the massacre
of Israeli athletes at the 1972
Munich Olympics.
In 1978, two Soviet
cosmonauts aboard the
Soyuz 27 capsule linked up
with the Salyut 6 orbiting
space station, where the
Soyuz 26 capsule was
already docked.
In 1989, nine days before
leaving the White House,
President Ronald Reagan
bade the nation farewell
in a prime-time address,
saying of his eight years in
office: “We meant to change
a nation and instead we
changed a world.”
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chretien is 84.
Actor Mitchell Ryan is 84.
Actor Felix Silla is 81. Movie
director Joel Zwick is 76.
Country singer Naomi Judd
is 72. World Golf Hall of
Famer Ben Crenshaw is 66.
Singer Robert Earl Keen is
62. Actress Phyllis Logan is
62. Musician Vicki Peterson
(The Bangles) is 60. Actress
Kim Coles is 56. Actor Jason
Connery is 55. Former child
actress Dawn Lyn (TV: “My
Three Sons”) is 55. Contem-
porary Christian musician
Jim Bryson (MercyMe) is 50.
Rock musician Tom Dumont
(No Doubt) is 50. Movie
director Malcolm D. Lee is
48. Singer Mary J. Blige is
47. Musician Tom Rowlands
(The Chemical Brothers) is
47. Actor Marc Blucas is 46.
Actress Amanda Peet is 46.
Thought for Today:
“Teach us that wealth is not
elegance, that profusion is not
magnificence, that splendor
is not beauty.” — Benjamin
Disraeli, British statesman
(1804-1881).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE