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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, October 23, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Teen and stepdad square off over video game purchase FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I have two sons, haven’t been back to their house for 14 and 10. I just got married a year nearly two years. We have enlisted the help of an auctioneer and are ago. My husband, “Kurt,” has taken planning to sell their house and on the father role and does pretty much of the belongings and furni- well, although I think he sometimes ture. Our dilemma is whether or not goes a little overboard. to tell them. I’m not sure whether He and my oldest son, “Elijah,” it’s kinder to let them believe things worked on a roof together, and Jeanne are as they have been or tell them because my son made $200 plus a $70 bonus, Kurt got upset with Eli- Phillips differently. — What’s Right? In Advice Pennsylvania jah when he used his money to buy Dear What’s Right?: You say an Xbox. Kurt thinks Elijah should your parents suffer from mild have bought clothes, toiletries and other things he needs because we aren’t dementia. The respectful thing to do rich. I agree to an extent, but it’s gotten out would be to have a talk with them about it before you do anything. When you do, of hand. Now Kurt is so upset that he doesn’t remind them that because it has been two want to give Elijah another opportunity to years, and maintaining two households is make more money for himself. He really so expensive, you think this would be the made a huge stink about how Elijah spent prudent thing to do. You didn’t mention whether you have his money. What to do? — Very Frus- your parents’ power of attorney, but if trated Mom In Michigan Dear Mom: “What to do” is to calmly you don’t, you should discuss what you’re and privately remind your husband that planning to do with your lawyer. Dear Abby: I thought I’d share this in Elijah is 14, and his decisions are not always mature ones. Then suggest he and reference to the Aug. 22 letter from “Bed- Elijah work out an agreement that in the room Secret,” the religious man who feels future when Elijah earns money, a certain guilty for using graphic language while percentage of it will be put into savings, making love with his wife. It reminded me another portion will be used for necessi- of a joke about a young married couple ties, and the rest can be used for items at who asked their clergyman if it was a sin his discretion. It’s called budgeting, and to have sex before Sunday morning church it’s an important lesson every teen should services. His reply: “It’s fine as long as you don’t block the aisle.” — Chuckling In learn. Dear Abby: My parents — both in their Rutland, Vermont Dear Chuckling: Funny! Your joke early 90s — have lived with me for three years because they need care. We have reminds me of a quote from the late play- maintained their home all this time, but wright Oscar Wilde, who said, “I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long they will never be able to return there. Although my parents are somewhat cog- as they don’t practice it in the street and nizant, both suffer with mild dementia and frighten the horses.” DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 22-23, 1918 J.A. Bagwell has arrived at Los Ange- les, having left Pendleton for that place by auto about two weeks ago. He reports a splendid trip over fine roads but on arriv- ing at Los Angeles found everything closed on account of the flu epidemic. Business houses are fumigated every morning and the board of health advises against travel- ing. These conditions make the city very quiet. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 22-23, 1968 Umatilla Mayor A.L. “Bud” Draper told the city council Monday night that he had Police Chief Louie Colcord pick up copies of Playboy magazines on local newsstands because of recent pictures in the publica- tion showing a man and woman nude in bed. Mayor Draper asked for and received approval of the council for the authority to direct the news agency handling the sale of the magazines not to put any of the publi- cations on sale at local newsstands. He said the police department is getting the coop- eration of local newsstands in banning the sale of the publications. The city official told the councilmen he acted under an ordi- nance which he said states in part, “no per- son shall publish, sell or distribute indecent literature in the city of Umatilla.” In further justifying his position in taking the action, Mayor Draper said: “It is our responsibility to use this judgment.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 22-23, 1993 A small new powerhouse at McNary Dam is expected to help improve the sur- vival rate of migrating fish, the Bonneville Power Administration said. The $37 mil- lion project — known as the McNary Dam Washington Shore Fishway Hydroelec- tric Project — would be built by the North- ern Wasco County People’s Utility Dis- trict. Except for a 3,968-foot transmission line and substation, all construction would be within the confines of McNary Dam. The powerhouse itself, including a single turbine, would be built between McNary Dam’s navigation lock and spillway. BPA recently signed a contract with the Wasco County PUD to buy power from the plant. 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. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bomb- ing at Beirut Interna- tional Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers. In 1915, tens of thousands of women paraded up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote. In 1942, during World War II, Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt, resulting in an Allied victory. In 1956, a stu- dent-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule began; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, and the uprising was put down within weeks. In 1973, President Rich- ard Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prose- cutor to Judge John J. Sirica. In 1987, the U.S. Senate rejected, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork. In 2001, the nation’s anthrax scare hit the White House with the discovery of a small concentration of spores at an offsite mail pro- cessing center. In 2006, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to 24 years, four months for his role in the company’s collapse. Even- tually 10 years was cut off Skilling’s prison sentence, and he was released to a halfway house in August 2018. Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Philip Kaufman is 82. Soccer great Pele is 78. Former ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross is 70. Movie director Ang Lee is 64. Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 62. Community activist Martin Luther King III is 61. Movie director Sam Raimi is 59. Parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic is 59. Rock musician Robert Tru- jillo (Metallica) is 54. CNN medical reporter Dr. San- jay Gupta is 49. Actor Ryan Reynolds is 42. Thought for Today: “Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.” — Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (CE 121-CE 180). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
