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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Woman irked when co-worker
mimics her distinctive style
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been trying to
have learned from it. She still texts
get healthy for years and recently lost
and looks at her phone while driving.
a lot of weight. Every job I have, I
It has reached the point where I refuse
work with grossly obese women. At
to ride with her or allow her to drive
my present job, one of them keeps
my child in her car.
coming to work dressed like me. It
I’ve asked her repeatedly to not
has happened before and I am sick of
use her phone while driving, but she
it. You have no idea how insulting it is
seems to think she’s invincible even
to come to work, ready to do my job
after having proof she’s not. What
Jeanne
and find myself in this embarrassing Phillips should I do to make her understand
situation. I just started working here
she’s putting herself in danger again,
Advice
and I need the job.
not to mention those who ride with
To me, this is a form of harass-
her? — Concerned Daughter
ment, and I don’t understand where she’s
Dear Concerned: Because your mother
coming from. It’s not my problem if she is didn’t learn after the accident she caused
unhappy with her self-image. I like myself; by not turning off her cellphone, it’s time to
I mind my own business and do my work. accept that nothing you say will change her.
Also, I worked in fashion for years. If she Continue to refrain from riding with her or
wants my fashion expertise, she should pay allowing your child to. And pray that if she
me for it. Copying the way I dress is not a causes another collision, she doesn’t kill
compliment. It’s identity theft. She is not me. herself or someone else.
I do not appreciate her imitating me. Please
Dear Abby: We love to open our windows
help! — One Of A Kind In Illinois
and enjoy the fresh air during the wintertime
Dear One Of A Kind: I’ll try, but it may in Florida. One neighbor sits out back and
not be the kind of help you’re asking for. Have smokes and the other one smokes on his front
you never heard the saying, “Imitation is the porch, which makes it impossible to open our
sincerest form of flattery”? It’s a principle windows without smoke drifting in. I realize
the fashion industry is based upon. Instead of they have rights, but why can’t we enjoy our
being offended and angry, why not help the home too? What would you do? — Fresh Air
woman by offering to assist her in making In Florida
distinctive fashion choices of her own? I’m
Dear Fresh Air: I’d consult an air condi-
sure she’d welcome it, and I’m also sure it tioning company and describe the problem.
would lighten and brighten the atmosphere.
Some restaurants that have smoking patios
Dear Abby: My mom was involved in a keep the cigarette smoke from annoying
serious car accident a while back that required patrons inside by installing a fan above the
multiple surgeries and hospital stays. She’s entrance. The forced air blows straight down
still dealing with the repercussions.
and serves as a barrier not only to smoke, but
The problem is that she doesn’t seem to also to flying insects.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 12-13, 1918
E.J. Wilbur, pioneer sawmill man and
widely known resident of Umatilla county,
met a harrowing death on upper McKay creek
yesterday. The place where he was killed is
several miles above the forks of the creek and
the body was brought down to the McKay
postoffice by a hack. The facts as developed
are that the aged millman went out by himself
to blow up stumps yesterday morning. Two
men working with him on his place had been
sent a half mile away to work on a fence.
About 10 o’clock the men heard a blast but
did not learn of the accident until 2 o’clock.
Returning to the house for dinner they were
alarmed at not finding their employer there
and went to search for him. They found
him dead with his body some 30 feet from
the blasted stump. E.J. Wilbur has operated
sawmills at various points in the Blue moun-
tains for many years. He formerly had a mill
near Meacham. Wilbur Station took its name
from him.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 12-13, 1968
Heppner’s brand of basketball magic, the
sort that led to the Greater Oregon League
championship despite highly regarded Grant
Union, ran out in the first round of the 1968
A-2 tournament Monday, but not by very
much. The scrappy Mustangs played Rogue
River on even terms for all but the final
minute before bowing to the No. 1 ranked
Chieftains 66-60. Even then it took a record
one-game scoring performance by Rogue
River’s phenomenal center Gary Shontz to
put the Chieftains on top at the end. The 6-5
Shontz hit 12 for 17 from the field and 16
for 20 from the free throw line to finish with
40 points. The previous one-game mark was
35 by Derrald Mann of Pleasant Hills’ 1965
tournament edition.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 12-13, 1993
In a male-dominated field, welder Patty
Farnam has only one problem — dealing
with nature’s call in the middle of nowhere
in the Eastern Oregon sagebrush. “If there
are woods I usually go in there, but there is
nothing to use for cover out here,” Farnam
said of her work near Ione on the natural gas
pipeline running from Canada to south-cen-
tral California. “Sometimes I have to hold
it all day.” Despite such inconveniences,
Farnam enjoys her non-traditional work and
the challenges it offers. Farnam’s stepfather
was a welder, so she grew up in the shadow of
the profession. She decided to pursue welding
after trying a few other jobs that didn’t suit
her.
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 72nd day of
2018. There are 293 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 13, 1928, at
least 400 people died when
the San Francisquito Canyon
in Southern California was
inundated with water after
the nearly two-year-old St.
Francis Dam collapsed just
before midnight the evening
of March 12.
On this date:
In 1639, New College was
renamed Harvard College for
clergyman John Harvard.
In 1781, the seventh
planet of the solar system,
Uranus, was discovered by
Sir William Herschel.
In 1865, Confederate
President Jefferson Davis
signed a measure allowing
black slaves to enlist in the
Confederate States Army
with the promise they would
be set free.
In 1901, the 23rd Pres-
ident of the United States,
Benjamin Harrison, died in
Indianapolis at age 67.
In 1925, the Tennessee
General Assembly approved
a bill prohibiting the teaching
of the theory of evolution.
(Gov. Austin Peay signed the
measure on March 21.)
In 1933, banks in the
U.S. began to reopen after a
“holiday” declared by Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1947, the Alan Jay
Lerner and Frederick Loewe
musical “Brigadoon,” about
a Scottish village which
magically reappears once
every hundred years, opened
on Broadway.
In 1954, the Battle of Dien
Bien Phu began during the
First Indochina War as Viet
Minh forces attacked French
troops, who were defeated
nearly two months later.
In 1964, bar manager
Catherine “Kitty” Genovese,
28, was stabbed to death
near her Queens, New
York, home; the case gained
notoriety over the supposed
reluctance of Genovese’s
neighbors to respond to her
cries for help.
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz
musician Roy Haynes is 93.
Country singer Jan Howard is
88. Songwriter Mike Stoller
is 85. Singer-songwriter Neil
Sedaka is 79. Opera singer
Julia Migenes is 69. Actor
William H. Macy is 68. Polit-
ical commentator Charles
Krauthammer is 68. Rock
musician Matt McDonough
is 49. Rapper-actor Common
is 46. Actor Danny Masterson
is 42. Singers Natalie and
Nicole Albino (Nina Sky) are
34. Actor Emile Hirsch is 33.
Olympic gold medal skier
Mikaela Shiffrin is 23.
Thought for Today: “Bad
men need nothing more to
compass their ends, than that
good men should look on and
do nothing.” — John Stuart
Mill, English philosopher
and economist (1806-1873).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE