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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, October 19, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Grown child keeps meetings with
ex-stepfather a secret from mom
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: When I was in my
thinks it’s perfectly fine to get in
first year of college, my mother
them and start playing with them,
because “no one’s using them.” The
divorced my stepdad. “Charlie” was
rest of my family thinks it’s rude to
part of my life for 12 years, but since
use a wheelchair as a toy. How do
their divorce, she insists I have no
you view this and how should my
contact with him. Charlie visits the
parents explain it to him? Thanks. —
state where I now live several times
Claire In Florida
a year to see a friend and invites me
Jeanne
Dear Claire: Assistive devices
to have dinner with him. I do, but
because of Mom’s demand, I ask him Phillips are not toys, and they should not be
Advice
“played with” by those who don’t
to keep our time together a secret. If
need to use them. That’s how I view
she knew we were in contact, I think
it. Have your parents actually told your
she would cut me out of her life.
Growing up, Charlie was a father figure brother “No”? If they have and he does it
to me — a very important person in my life. anyway, it’s time for them to act like par-
Spending time with him is awkward, but it ents, make clear that there are consequences
would feel wrong to never see him again. for disobedience and follow through.
Dear Abby: My son recently graduated
We were family for many years. I feel that
as an adult, I should be able to decide for with a master’s degree. He’s a fine young
myself who I stay in contact with. I don’t man, did extremely well all through his
know the whole story about their breakup, schooling and has never given his father
and honestly, I don’t care to know. Should or me a second of worry. He has not been
I honor my mother’s wishes and have no able to find a job. It’s frustrating for him and
more contact with him, or go with my gut discouraging, but we know he will, and we
and keep him in my life? — Forgive Or encourage him any way we can.
My question is how do I deal with the bar-
Forget Out West
Dear Forgive: Go with your gut. As an rage of inquiries from neighbors, hairstylist,
adult, you do have the right to choose with co-workers and friends who constantly ask
whom you associate, and your mother should if he has found a job yet? I am sick of it! It’s
not be insisting upon it with no explanation. none of their business, and I never ask them
Dear Abby: I have an etiquette ques- anything about their families’ employment.
tion I can’t find an answer to on the inter- Please help. — Missouri Mom
net. My family travels a great deal, and there
Dear Mom: Handle it this way. Say,
are always unattended wheelchairs parked “When he does, I’ll let you know.” Then
around the airport. My teenage brother change the subject.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 19, 1918
The Home Card campaign is next. A new
food pledge card, which is a most eloquent
and forceful document, is to be placed in
every household in America between the
dates of October 28th and November 2nd by
the food administration. A supply of 4,350
of these cards has been shipped to Umatilla
county for distribution among the families
of the county. The new slogan of the food
administration is “Save Food — One Hun-
dred Twenty Million Allies Must Eat.” The
idea embodied in the slogan is that we are
sitting at a common table with the millions
of those countries which are fighting on our
side.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 19, 1968
A little fourth grade girl at West Park
School had the tip of a finger cut off Tuesday
in a door when it slammed shut at school.
One of the school boys picked up the fin-
ger tip and chased the little girl around the
school before he tossed the piece of fin-
ger in a wastebasket. When Bertha Mur-
phy, daughter of Myrtle Murphy of Herm-
iston, was taken to the hospital, Dr. Roy
Rasmussen Jr. need the finger tip. Then a
teacher searched through a waste paper bas-
ket, retrieved the piece of finger, got it to the
hospital, and Dr. Rasmussen sewed it back
in place.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 19, 1993
Prison inmate Bryant Woolstenhulme
tried to kill Correctional Officer Louis
Michaels with a heavy iron weight-lifting bar
last May, a Umatilla County Circuit Court
jury decided Tuesday. The jury deliberated
about 30 minutes before finding Woolsten-
hulme guilty of attempted aggravated mur-
der and first-degree assault. He will be sen-
tenced Nov. 30. Robert Hill, assistant district
attorney, called nine witnesses, including the
officer who was assaulted and others who
saw it happening, plus two inmates who
offered no insight, saying their presence in
the courtroom put their lives at risk. Wool-
stenhulme, sporting a scraggly black mane
and beard, offered no defense, other than to
say through his public defender Wade Bettis
that he was the victim of mistaken identity.
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. 19, 1789, John
Jay was sworn in as the first
Chief Justice of the United
States.
In 1781, British troops
under Gen. Lord Cornwal-
lis surrendered at Yorktown,
Virginia, as the American
Revolution neared its end.
In 1864, Confeder-
ate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Ear-
ly’s soldiers attacked Union
forces at Cedar Creek, Vir-
ginia; the Union troops were
able to rally and defeat the
Confederates.
In 1944, the U.S. Navy
began
accepting
black
women
into
WAVES
(Women Accepted for Vol-
unteer Emergency Service).
In 1950, during the
Korean Conflict, United
Nations forces entered the
North Korean capital of
Pyongyang.
In 1953, the Ray Brad-
bury novel “Fahrenheit 451,”
set in a dystopian future
where books are banned and
burned by the government,
was first published by Bal-
lantine Books.
In 1967, the U.S. space
probe Mariner 5 flew past
Venus.
In 1977, the supersonic
Concorde made its first land-
ing in New York City.
In 1982, automaker John
Z. DeLorean was arrested by
federal agents in Los Ange-
les, accused of conspiring to
sell $24 million of cocaine to
salvage his business. (DeLo-
rean was acquitted at trial on
grounds of entrapment.)
In 1987, the stock mar-
ket crashed as the Dow Jones
Industrial Average plunged
508 points, or 22.6 percent
in value (its biggest daily
percentage loss), to close at
1,738.74 in what came to be
known as “Black Monday.”
In 1994, 22 people were
killed as a terrorist bomb
shattered a bus in the heart of
Tel Aviv’s shopping district.
In 2001, U.S. special
forces began operations on
the ground in Afghanistan,
opening a significant new
phase of the assault against
the Taliban and al-Qaida.
In 2005, a defiant Saddam
Hussein pleaded innocent
to charges of premeditated
murder and torture as his trial
opened under heavy security
in the former headquarters of
his Baath Party in Baghdad.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Author John le Carre is
87. Artist Peter Max is 81.
Author and critic Renata
Adler is 81. Actor Michael
Gambon is 78. Actor John
Lithgow is 73. Former
Republican National Com-
mittee Chairman Michael
Steele is 60. Singer Jenni-
fer Holliday is 58. Retired
boxer Evander Holyfield is
56. Host Ty Pennington (TV:
“Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition”) is 54. Actor/Direc-
tor Jon Favreau is 52. “South
Park” co-creator Trey Parker
is 49. Comedian Chris Kat-
tan is 48.
Thought for Today:
“If our country is worth
dying for in time of war let
us resolve that it is truly
worth living for in time of
peace.” — Hamilton Fish
III, American congressman
(1888-1991).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE