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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, February 21, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mother fears past abuser has now targeted her son FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have a son from a you will be judged as well. It seems previous relationship, and have been to me that all substances excreted by in a relationship with a man I’ll call the body should be off limits in social Bryan for a year. Not long ago, Bryan situations. — My Business In Texas confided to me that he and his brother Dear My Business: Judgmental had been molested by a female rela- people can get to you only if you tive. I don’t know her. I have only met allow it. While there are valid reasons his parents. why babies should be breastfed, it This female relative has been isn’t always possible, and women Jeanne asking about my son on social media Phillips should not be quizzed by strangers because she has seen him in pictures about whether they are. Advice with Bryan’s family. I want to tell her My mother used to advise readers to back off, but so far, I have held who were put off by prying ques- off. I’m afraid if I do, I will cause problems tions to say, “If you will forgive me for not because his parents don’t know what I know. answering that question, I’ll forgive you for My protective instinct has become very asking.” Even though you asked for a polite alert. I may be wrong, but I feel like she sees retort, in a situation like this, MY response my son as a future target. What should I do? would be, “If that were any of your business, — Mama Bear you would already know the answer!” Dear Mama Bear: Listen to your protec- Dear Abby: A couple years ago, when we tive instinct. Talk with Bryan and tell him the moved to a home with more privacy than our woman’s questions are of concern to you, that previous home, my husband decided to walk you don’t want her to have any information around naked all the time. It’s not that I’m a about or contact with your child, and then prude, but I don’t find his furry 60-year-old make sure your wishes are respected. If she body attractive in broad daylight. Quite the receives any message to back off, it should opposite, in fact. come from him, not you. I have asked him many times to please put Dear Abby: On behalf of all new moms, something on, and he either ignores me or gets please help with this question. Why does mad. I avert my eyes when he’s sashaying by every woman in the world, it seems, feel me. Is there anything else I can do to reason entitled to ask new moms if they are breast- with him? — Seen Enough Already feeding their babies? How should new moms Dear Seen Enough: Probably not. Since respond politely to this question? If you say you can’t change him, why not join him yes, you may or may not be lying. If you say one day a week? You have nothing to lose no, you will be judged. If you give an evasive but your clothes — and it might solve the answer, people will assume you are not and problem. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 21, 1918 The heatless night for the office building is the latest thing in war economy. Notification was received this morning by owners of Pend- leton office buildings that, beginning tonight, no fuel can be used to heat the buildings between the hours of 5:30 p.m. and 7 a.m. The word, which was in the form of an edict, came from Fred J. Holmes, fuel administrator for Oregon, and is effective all over the state. This order applies regardless of the kind of fuel used or how heat is manufactured. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 21, 1968 Cecil Zerba, co-captain of the Blue Moun- tain Community College wrestling team, concluded the winter dual season without a defeat. Zerba, Milton-Freewater, wrestles in the 137-pound class and is a sophomore working toward a business administration major. He was the Oregon Community College Athletic Association champion last year and participated in the NJCAA tourna- ment, and is well on the way to a successful defense of his laurels this season. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 21, 1993 Russ Aiken is 16 but looks years younger — far too young to be telling you he is dying from AIDS. Russell, a Hermiston resident most of his life, believes he caught the AIDS virus sometime in late 1986 from infusions for the treatment of hemophilia. Since then, he has learned all he can about the disease. He tested positive in January 1987. “Ryan White was the first to come out about it,” he said. “He was a fighter. I want to pick up where he left off.” 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 52nd day of 2018. There are 313 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 21, 1965, black Muslim leader and civil rights activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death inside Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in New York by assassins identified as members of the Nation of Islam. (Three men were convicted of murder and imprisoned; all were eventually paroled.) On this date: In 1437, James I, King of Scots, 42, was assassinated in Perth by a group of conspir- ators led by Walter, Earl of Atholl; his 6-year-old son succeeded him as James II. In 1513, Pope Julius II, who commissioned Michel- angelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, died nearly four months after the project was completed. In 1613, Mikhail Romanov, 16, was unani- mously chosen by Russia’s national assembly to be czar, beginning a dynasty that would last three centuries. In 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated. In 1916, the World War I Battle of Verdun began in France as German forces attacked; the French were able to prevail after 10 months of fighting. In 1945, during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima, the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea was sunk by kamikazes with the loss of 318 men. In 1947, inventor Edwin H. Land publicly demon- strated his Polaroid Land camera, which used self-de- veloping film to produce a black & white photograph in 60 seconds. In 1958, the USS Gudgeon (SS-567) became the first American submarine to complete a round-the- world cruise, eight months after departing from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon began his historic visit to China as he and his wife, Pat, arrived in Beijing. In 1975, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Water- gate cover-up (each ended up serving a year and a-half). In 1986, Larry Wu-tai Chin, the first American found guilty of spying for China, killed himself in his Virginia jail cell. In 1992, Kristi Yama- guchi of the United States won the gold medal in ladies’ figure skating at the Albert- ville Olympics; Midori Ito of Japan won the silver, Nancy Kerrigan of the U.S., the bronze. Today’s Birthdays: Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is 94. Fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy is 91. U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is 78. Film/music company executive David Geffen is 75. Tricia Nixon Cox is 72. Former Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, is 71. Actor Kelsey Grammer is 63. Country singer Mary Chapin Carpenter is 60. Rock musician Michael Ward is 51. Country singer Eric Heatherly is 48. Musician Eric Wilson is 48. Actor Tituss Burgess is 39. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is 39. Comedian-actor Jordan Peele is 39. Actor Brendan Sexton III is 38. Singer Charlotte Church is 32. Actress Ashley Greene is 31. Actress Ellen Page is 31. Actor Corbin Bleu is 29. Actress Hayley Orrantia is 24. Actress Sophie Turner is 22. Thought for Today: “In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always as bad as the thief.” — Lord Chester- field, English author and statesman (1694-1773). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
