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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, August 21, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Planned baby name renews pain of tragic loss for family FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: I come from a small, Dear Abby: My husband and close family. Last year, we suffered I have been married for 22 years. a devastating loss. My cousin and He’s a diamond in the rough. My her two children were killed in a grown children, three boys, have car accident. We have all been pro- always just tolerated him. They say foundly affected by this loss, espe- he talks too much, doesn’t listen and cially my aunt and uncle. still treats the younger two like chil- dren. I know he can be overbearing Fast forward: Another cousin is Jeanne at times. pregnant with her second child. She They have now ganged up and wants to name her daughter “Daisy” Phillips Advice will no longer allow the grandchil- because she wants all her children to dren to come stay with me. They say have flower-themed names. “Daisy” is the name of one of the children who died. my husband is too harsh in correcting them, I, and others in the family, are upset by her which isn’t true. The only time he is loud decision because her reason for choosing the and fast to correct is if the parents aren’t name has nothing to do with honoring our here to do it. They have offered no alterna- tive solution. lost family member. Two have expressed to my husband how I understand no one “owns” a baby name, and she can choose whatever name she they feel. My husband is trying to acknowl- wants for any reason. But I am having trou- edge their feelings and wants to do better. ble getting past the fact that I’ll see this child How do we proceed as a family? I’m afraid at family gatherings and have to call her by they will withhold the grands each time they my dead cousin’s name for no reason other disagree with us. Counseling is out since we live in separate cities. Any words of wis- than it was a cute flower name. My cousin is set on using this name dom for us? — Hurting Heart In South despite family protests, and I can’t help but Carolina Dear Hurting Heart: Look at this from foresee bitterness ahead for us when we’ve already dealt with so much. What, if any- your sons’ perspective. When they hear thing, can we do to make this situation more from your grandchildren that your grouchy positive? — Name Game In New York (but well-meaning) husband yelled at them, Dear Name Game: Your cousin appears as parents, their first instinct is to protect to have the empathy of a garden snail. Did it their kids. I can’t guarantee that your sons won’t use occur to anyone in the family to suggest to her that there are other flower names besides emotional blackmail in the future, but I can Daisy — Dalia, Daphne or even Des- offer two suggestions: Your husband should ert Rose? (Her nickname could be “Desi,” take a deep breath and count to 10 before he which is cute.) If you haven’t, please do reacts, and he should defer the discipline to before the baby arrives. However, if she Grandma. And if that isn’t enough to satisfy refuses to change her mind, it’s time for you your sons, then you will have to visit them instead of having them visit you. to start memorizing the Serenity Prayer. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 20-21, 1918 Clear weather last evening and large crowds made the second night of the Ber- nardi carnival quite a success. Special inter- est was shown in the wrestling matches between Ray McCarroll, the local man, and Sampson, who is with the carnival company and issued a defi to all comers. In his first match Sampson threw his man easily, a fel- low named Saylor. With McCarroll he found a much different proposition. In this Samp- son contracted to throw the local man in 10 minutes. At the end of the 10 minutes he had not made a start toward filling his contract. The result was that McCarroll then agreed to throw Sampson in 15 minutes and this was a real live match, with McCarroll the aggres- sor all the time and Sampson compelled to extend himself to the limit to save himself from a fall. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 20-21, 1968 Power of the insect world is being demon- strated in Milton-Freewater where the apple crop next month will be down 80 to 85 per cent from 1967 largely because the bees went on strike last spring. County Exten- sion Agent Dave Burkhart said the apples, mostly Red or Golden Delicious varieties, that brought the valley $1,039,500 last year were hurt also by frosts in April this year, but poor pollination was the main factor in the poor crop. Cold, rainy weather made the bees lazy in some areas where frost had done little damage so that a grower’s good or damaged crop depends on location of his orchard. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 20-21, 1993 Randy Walker of Pendleton and his 14-year-old son, Steven, now share a rare experience. Steven was among attendees at the recent Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree, Aug. 3-10 at Fort A.P. Hill, Va. Randy went to the same gathering in 1964 — then at Valley Forge, Pa. He was a 16-year- old from Corvallis. Both took their first-ever airplane flight to the giant campout. Both went sightseeing in New York City, Phila- delphia and Washington, D.C. Both traded patches with other scouts. Twenty-two coun- tries were represented at Randy’s jamboree. Steven’s jamboree troop included two scouts from Italy. 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 On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia resulting in the deaths of at least 55 whites. (Turner was later executed.) On this date: In 1858, the first of seven debates between Illinois senatorial contenders Abra- ham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place. In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Lou- vre Museum in Paris. (The painting was recovered two years later in Italy.) In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state. In 1987, Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Virginia, of passing secrets to the KGB. (Lonetree ended up serving eight years in a military prison.) In 1991, the hard-line coup against Soviet Presi- dent Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Rus- sian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin. In 1992, an 11-day siege began at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed- off shotguns; on the first day of the siege, Weaver’s teen- age son, Samuel, and Dep- uty U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Kenny Rogers is 80. Actor Clarence Williams III is 79. Actress Patty McCor- mack is 73. NBC newsman Harry Smith is 67. Singer Glenn Hughes is 66. Actress Kim Cattrall is 62. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL quarterback Jim McMahon is 59. . Singer Kelis is 39. Actor Diego Klattenhoff is 39. Olympic gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt is 32. Actor-comedian Brooks Wheelan is 32. Actor Cody Kasch is 31. Country singer Kacey Musgraves is 30. Actor Maxim Knight is 19. Thought for Today: “Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.” — Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (1893-1957). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE