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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, September 14, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Grandparent feels that family has been slowly drifting apart FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: Two years ago, my with them, make it a point to learn. son and his family moved a couple Be grateful your son and his family are independent, and try harder to of hours away. He’s my only child. fill more of your time with hobbies I know he’s busy with his wife, two and interests of your own. If you do, children and his job, but I would like you will be a more interesting person to hear from him more than every to be around. Your son and his wife two weeks — or longer — just to should not be the focus of your life know what is going on in their lives. the way he was when he was a child He told me I could call him, but I Jeanne feel like I’m imposing. I’d like to be Phillips and you were responsible for him. It Advice isn’t healthy for you or your relation- more involved in their lives. I would ship with them. also like to be closer to my daugh- ter-in-law. We have had a couple of Dear Abby: My fiancé and I are good phone conversations recently, but I in our late 20s and get into arguments about what time to leave a party. I usually need to sense that she wants her own space. I’m not an overbearing person, and I’m leave around 11:00 p.m. or midnight, and I working on expectations vs. reality, being think he should leave when I do. I’m a full-time student with a full-time overly emotional when my expectations are not met and fear of sharing these emo- job, so I don’t go out often. Between school tions because I’m afraid my son and his wife and work, I don’t have weekends off like won’t like what I have to say. I feel they he does. He accuses me of being selfish for wanting him to leave. He says he doesn’t have been pushing me away. What can I do, other than wait for them want to be “lame.” I don’t think it’s appro- to call and work on how not to get upset priate for a woman to leave a party on her when they don’t include me? They have let own. Am I selfish? Should I try to stay up the grandchildren stay with me a couple of later so he can have a good time? — Party weeks at different times over the summer. Etiquette Dear Party Etiquette: No, your job and I’m trying to do things with friends, but I really prefer being around my son and fam- your studies have to be your top priority. ily because I feel happier (or used to). It has Years ago, I would have agreed that your fiancé should leave with you. However, been heartbreaking. — Working On It Dear Working On It: Your son has told these days, women are more independent. you it’s all right to call him, so you should. Cellphones and ride-sharing have given us Because of the blessing of modern technol- other options. Unless you are concerned that ogy, there are other options as well — tex- leaving alone would be dangerous, don’t ting, video chat, etc. If you are unfamiliar turn it into an argument if he wants to stay. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 14, 1918 Umatilla county women have told Miss Lorene Parker, home demonstration agent, that they have heard that Karo corn syrup, much used as a substitute for sugar, is harm- ful to the health. Miss Parker is of the opin- ion that such reports regarding corn syrups are founded on German propaganda. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 14, 1968 Real brotherly love keeps the Clark boys in the rodeo clown business. “Every bone” in Bobby Clark’s body has been broken in a rodeo career that goes back 20 years. Gene showed a scar on his face that he got “fighting Mexican bulls.” What philosophy does a clown have? “Run like hell and pray,” said Bobby. The Clark boys are the men you see toying with a ton of Brahma bull in the Round-Up arena, the men who risk their lives to lure the bull away from a grounded rider. “We extend our- selves more because we are brothers,” Gene said. “We have worked together so long each knows what the other will do in almost any sit- uation.” The Clarks started in rodeo in 1948, bulldogging and calf roping. “But clowning is so demanding we can’t do competitive events, too. It is a 24-hour a day job.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Sept. 14, 1993 He wasn’t expected to live through the night. If he did, doctors said, he probably wouldn’t be able to walk or even comb his hair. Bulldogger Brad Rosenberg of Stan- field was crushed by a falling tree in a log- ging accident in the fall of 1989. “Every bone in my body from my belt buckle to my neck except my left shoulder and left arm was bro- ken,” Rosenberg said. With his back broken in three places and his right shoulder “just crushed,” doctors told Rosenberg’s family there was little hope for his recovery. But Rosenberg, who turned 37 Monday, proved the doctors wrong. Last fall he returned to the arena with a qualified run on his first head at the Pendleton Round-Up. That gave him confidence, Rosenberg said, and he has entered about 35 rodeos in 1993. 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 On Sept. 14, 1901, Presi- dent William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt suc- ceeded him. In 1814, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the poem “Defence of Fort McHenry” (later “The Star-Spangled Banner”) after witnessing the Amer- ican flag flying over the Maryland fort following a night of British naval bom- bardment during the War of 1812. In 1861, the first naval engagement of the Civil War took place as the USS Col- orado attacked and sank the Confederate private schoo- ner Judah off Pensacola, Florida. In 1927, modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of the sports car she was riding in. In 1954, the Soviet Union detonated a 40-kilo- ton atomic test weapon. In 1972, the family drama series “The Waltons” premiered on CBS. In 1975, Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint. In 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before; Leba- non’s president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb. In 1985, Shiite Mus- lim kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Benjamin Weir after holding him cap- tive for 16 months. In 1994, on the 34th day of a strike by players, Acting Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced the 1994 season was over. In 2001, Americans packed churches and clogged public squares on a day of remembrance for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. President George W. Bush prayed with his Cabi- net and attended services at Washington National Cathe- dral, then flew to New York, where he waded into the ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed res- cue workers in a flag-wav- ing, bullhorn-wielding show of resolve. In 2012, fury over an anti-Muslim film ridicul- ing the Prophet Muhammad spread across the Muslim world, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast-food restau- rant set ablaze in Lebanon, and international peace- keepers attacked in the Sinai. Thought for Today: “Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.” — Joseph Wood Krutch, American author, critic and educator (1893-1970). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE