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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, January 30, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Relative gladly funds niece’s insurance, but not vacations FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My 25-year-old niece like nomads for the last few years. We still lives at home. She works full time have bought, sold and moved many and attends college online. She’s a times for all sorts of silly reasons. Our hard worker who doesn’t do drugs or 5-year-old daughter finally started engage in risky behavior. school, yet we don’t feel at home I pay her a bonus for every A she here. We now realize buying and earns, and I also pay for her health selling may not be for us, so we are insurance. While I gladly pay the renting, but we still aren’t happy. college bonuses, I have misgivings We moved here to be close to my Jeanne about continuing to pay for her health Phillips oldest and dearest friend, whose kids insurance, even though I can afford are now grown, and to my sister, who Advice it. She doesn’t make much money at hardly talks to us or sees us. her job, but she goes out to restaurants My husband’s sister and her and bars often, attends concerts and takes husband’s family love us and treat us well. trips out of state three or four times a year. They have suggested we should move by When I was her age, I also went to college, them. They have kids our daughter’s age. worked a low-paying job and lived with my The only issue is possibly not finding a good mother. Although I went out with friends home or school. Private school could be an often, I never wasted money on those other option. things — especially vacations. Should I Would another move be bad? Should we continue paying her health insurance for make a final move before our daughter gets her? I don’t know if I’m being judgmental or vested in school and friends? It would put us enabling irresponsible behavior. — Protec- within walking distance to several families tive In Houston we spend a lot of time with and who love Dear Protective: You are obviously a us very much. We are afraid of judgment generous person, but yes, you are being from everyone. Please help us sort it out. — judgmental. Your niece is working, studying Hopeful Nomads In Illinois and living a clean and healthy life. You had a Dear Nomads: Forget about the judg- social life when you were your niece’s age; ments. You will survive them. The older your you should not begrudge her having hers. daughter becomes, the more difficult moving Going to restaurants, bars and concerts is away from the people she knows will be for normal for a young woman her age. However, her. If you are going to move to an environ- if you prefer not to subsidize the vacations ment more compatible for you, your husband because you feel they are excessive, discuss and your daughter, the time to do it is now, your feelings with her before deciding what so her education and social relationships will to do. not be as disrupted as they would be when Dear Abby: My husband and I have lived she is older. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 29-30, 1918 Oregon’s quota of the third liberty loan will be heavier than the second loan quota and may be twice as great. The opinion prevailing at the conference in Portland yesterday is that between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 will have to be raised by this state. The amount to be asked of Umatilla county will accordingly be heavier than previously and the task of raising money here will be difficult, because of heavy past contributions and the big income and excess profits taxes being paid. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 29-30, 1968 Two women who escaped Saturday from the Eastern Oregon Hospital will think twice the next time they try to hitchhike. They flagged down a motorist who was more than happy to give them a ride. He was Pendleton Police Chief Ernie Gallaher, driving an unmarked car. Gallaher took them back to the hospital. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 29-30, 1993 The Pendleton Bucks extended their unbeaten record with a 55-29 romp over the Hermiston Bulldogs in high school girls basketball action Thursday. The Bucks, ranked seventh in the Class 4A state poll, reached the midway point in Intermountain Conference play with a two-game lead on the best of the rest of the pack. Pendleton (6-0, 15-0) used pressure defense to limit Hermiston to only four points in the first quarter and allowed another three in the second to take a 31-7 halftime lead. Hermiston increased defensive pressure on both ends of the floor in the second half and it seemed to help, but Pendleton still outscored the bulldogs 19-13 in the third quarter. Kelli Read led Pendleton with a game-high 18 points. 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 30th day of 2018. There are 335 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 30, 1968, the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Viet- namese towns and cities; although the Communists were beaten back, the offen- sive was seen as a major setback for the U.S. and its allies. On this date: In 1649, England’s King Charles I was executed for high treason. In 1798, during a meeting of the U.S. House of Repre- sentatives in Philadelphia, Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat tobacco juice in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut (two weeks later, Griswold physically attacked Lyon on the House floor). In 1882, the 32nd pres- ident of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in Hyde Park, New York. In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The first episode of the “Lone Ranger” radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit. In 1945, during World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea with the loss of more than 9,000 lives, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived. Adolf Hitler marked the 12th anni- versary of his appointment as Germany’s chancellor with his last public speech in which he called on Germans to keep resisting until victory. In 1948, Indian polit- ical and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.) Aviation pioneer Orville Wright, 76, died in Dayton, Ohio. In 1958, “Sunrise at Campobello,” a play by Dore Schary about Franklin D. Roosevelt’s struggle against polio, opened on Broadway with Ralph Bellamy as FDR. In 1962, two members of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit. In 1969, The Beatles staged an impromptu concert atop Apple headquarters in London; it was the group’s last public performance. In 1972, 13 Roman Cath- olic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” In 1981, an estimated 2 million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the American hostages freed from Iran. One year ago: President Donald Trump fired Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates after she publicly ques- tioned the constitutionality of his controversial refugee and immigration ban and refused to defend it in court. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Gene Hackman is 88. Actress Vanessa Redgrave is 81. Country singer Norma Jean is 80. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is 77. Singer Phil Collins is 67. Brett Butler is 60. Thought for Today: “History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.” — Will and Ariel Durant (1898-1981), American historians. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE