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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, October 18, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mother’s empty-nest syndrome becomes an unhealthy fixation FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am suffering from impose it on him for the next five a depression I think many mothers years? It would create unneces- sary stress on your marriage. Fur- experience when they become empty ther, what will happen after your son nesters. Although my husband is earns his degrees and is offered a supportive, I miss my 18-year-old so job elsewhere? Do you plan to move much that sometimes I’m tempted to again to be close to him? drive to his college in Florida. My Continue your counseling and husband and I have always wanted meds. And while you’re at it, find a to live in a warmer climate, but he Jeanne doesn’t like the humidity in Florida. Phillips volunteer project so you won’t have time to sit and brood. With time, We had planned to move to Arizona Advice your anxiety will subside, and you once my son went away to college, will become less emotionally depen- but now I’m having second thoughts because the drive to Arizona from Orlando dent upon your son — which will be health- is twice the distance, and I don’t think I can ier for both of you. Dear Abby: I have read many of your take his being that far away. I have good job offers in Arizona, and columns and enjoyed them. These days family there as well, so I know it would be though, you seem to hear from more and a healthier place for me to be. I just can- more people who are afraid of saying what not reconcile with the fact that my son will needs to be said. I suspect it can be chalked be so far away. He will be in college in up to the “be politically correct” nature of Orlando for the next five years, as he is in our country lately. But why is it that when a master’s degree engineering program. Am people do speak their minds, others con- I being overprotective? He’s my only son. sider them rude? I let people know when I have real anxieties about this and have they are disrespectful to me in public, and been seeing a counselor as well as my doc- I don’t put up with being put down. Am I tor, who prescribed a mild antidepressant. wrong in feeling that people who say mean Is this normal? Should I stay put? Should I things need to be immediately corrected? Or am I really being rude? — Farmgirl In move? — Indecisive In Illinois Dear Indecisive: While some degree of Missouri Dear Farmgirl: You are not wrong, and empty-nest syndrome is normal, what you are experiencing is not. Keep the conversa- it is not rude if you choose to defend your- tion open with your husband about relocat- self. What you are being is assertive, which ing to Arizona. Your son needs a chance to is a healthy personality trait. No one should become independent as much as you need have to accept as normal social interaction the time to allow it to happen. being made to feel “less than” in public. If You say your husband can’t tolerate the someone has a bone to pick with you — and Florida humidity. Is it your intention to vice versa — it should be done in private. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 18, 1918 Within a week or ten days the local draft board will take up the sending of question- naires to men above 36 years of age and below 19. Orders have been issued that the sending of these questionnaires be taken up as soon as the men are classified and J.T. Beckwith, clerk of the local board says a week or 10 days will be required to com- plete this work. The questionnaires will be mailed out at the rate of 10 per cent a day. This does not mean that men below 19 and above 36 are liable to immediate induction. Men between 19 and 36, inclusive, will be the first called. British and Canadian sub- jects are now amenable to the selective ser- vice regulations, the period of enlistment as provided in the conventions between the United States and Great Britain and Canada having expired October 12. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 18, 1968 Fools Breeze, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Guthery, won the $750 cow cutting class trophy at Madras Oct. 12 and 13. The Guthery entry split third and fourth place in first go-round, first and second in sec- ond go-round and with three horses tied for the average winner, won the runoff. Stewart Guthery showed Fools Breeze. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 18, 1993 A 31-year-old Caldwell, Idaho, man was expected to be arraigned today on multi- ple charges of burglary in connection with break-ins Friday morning at seven down- town businesses. Brian D. Gerrard was arrested by Pendleton police Friday morn- ing on charges of burglary, carrying a con- cealed weapon and providing false infor- mation. He was described as belligerent and extremely uncooperative after he was taken into custody. He was charged with burglaries at Mountain Copy Machines, Automated Office Systems, AAA Automo- bile Club of Oregon, Pay N Pak, State Farm Insurance, The Nickel and Sunshine Gour- met Shoppe. 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 Oct. 18, 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between New York and Chi- cago was officially opened (it could only handle one call at a time). In 1648, Boston shoe- makers were authorized to form a guild to protect their interests; it’s the first Amer- ican labor organization on record. In 1767, the Mason- Dixon line, the boundary between colonial Pennsyl- vania, Maryland and Dela- ware, was set as astronomers Charles Mason and Jere- miah Dixon completed their survey. In 1898, the American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished con- trol of the island to the U-S. In 1944, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II. In 1968, the U.S. Olym- pic Committee suspended Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a “black power” salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City. In 1969, the federal gov- ernment banned artificial sweeteners known as cycla- mates because of evidence they caused cancer in labora- tory rats. In 1977, West Ger- man commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hos- tages and killing three of the four hijackers. In 1982, former first lady Bess Truman died at her home in Independence, Mis- souri, at age 97. In 1997, a monument honoring American service- women, past and present, was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery. In 2001, CBS News announced that an employee in anchorman Dan Rather’s office had tested positive for skin anthrax. Four dis- ciples of Osama bin Laden were sentenced in New York to life without parole for their roles in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Today’s Birthdays: Col- lege and Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka is 79. Singer-musician Russ Giguere is 75. Actor Joe Morton is 71. Actress Pam Dawber is 68. Author Terry McMillan is 67. Writer-pro- ducer Chuck Lorre is 66. Gospel singer Vickie Winans is 65. International Hall of Fame boxer Thomas Hearns is 60. Actor Jean-Claude Van Dam is 58. Country singer Josh Gracin is 38. Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn is 34. Portland-based jazz singer-musician Espe- ranza Spalding is 34. Actor Zac Efron is 31. Thought for Today: “The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest, and the rarest.” — Milovan Djilas (1911-1995), Yugo- slav author and politician. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE