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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, January 10, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Friend working three jobs
envies man on Easy Street
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I am having issues
and you will recognize you have
with a friend who gets handed most
nothing to be jealous about, and
you’ll be able to change your
everything he wants. I had to grow
thinking.
up when I was very young, pay my
Dear Abby: I have a friend I’ll
own way for things and take care of
call Layla. Her best friend, “Matt,”
myself. I work three jobs to pay my
raped her. She doesn’t want to tell
rent in a house with four other peo-
ple while still pursuing my passion.
anyone, but I think she needs to.
She
told me Matt has done it mul-
This friend is unemployed. He
J eanne
tiple times. I love her, and I don’t
lives in an apartment his parents
P hilliPs
want it to keep happening because
ADVICE
pay for and goes on frequent road
she’s an amazing person.
trips. I have reached a point where
Her life isn’t going well, either.
I have become seriously envious,
Her mom has stage 4 colon cancer and is
and I’m not sure how to stop feeling frus-
trated that he has an easier life than I do.
in her final year. Her stepdad isn’t the best
I care about our friendship, but it’s physi-
person, and Layla has a disease herself. I’m
cally painful sometimes when he talks about
really worried about her. What should I do?
— Standing By in Oregon
these luxuries that I can’t afford. Should I
Dear Standing By: You should be wor-
cut off the relationship? Is this something
ried. Encourage Layla to contact the Rape,
I should talk about with him or something
Abuse and Incest National Network (rainn.
I need to work on myself? — Envious in
org or 800-656-4673) and tell someone
New York
there what has been happening. Offer to be
Dear Envious: Why not do both? Tell
with her for emotional support when she
him how his going on and on about his
does it. Her “best friend” Matt is a pred-
“luxuries” makes you feel. If that doesn’t
ator, and for the sake of her own mental
increase his sensitivity to the disparity in
health she must no longer allow herself to
your situations, you have my permission to
be victimized.
end the relationship.
Layla will need your friendship and sup-
However, while you are working on your-
self, please understand that your friend’s
port while her mother spends this final year
parents are doing him no favors. “Children”
battling her disease. It’s a shame that her
raised without an incentive to succeed are
stepfather isn’t supportive, but he may be
grieving in his own way and unable to.
not often successful in life. They don’t have
With the amount of stress that your
the tools you have. You are independent. He
friend is under, it is not surprising that she’s
isn’t. Rather than work to build success in a
ill. Stress can weaken the immune system.
profession, he’s taking road trips. You know
If she’s being treated by a doctor for her
the value of hard work, and with each of the
illness, her doctor should be made aware
jobs you work, you are gaining experience
of everything that’s going on. She may be
and focus.
more inclined to reveal it if you accompany
From my perspective, if I had to say
her to an appointment.
which of you is richer, it is you. Step back
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 10, 1919
S. Benson, chairman of the Oregon high-
way commission will not stand for the spend-
ing of money for graveling a hill route road
from Pendleton to Echo but insists instead on
the river route he selected so as to secure a
grade that will make possible the use of the
road by motor trucks without shifting to low
gear. It will mean an additional expense of
over $100,000 to the county. This is the sub-
stance of news brought back from Portland
this morning by W.L. Thompson, eastern Ore-
gon member of the commission and the infor-
mation has precipitated a surprising crisis
with reference to road affairs in the county. It
means, so it seems, that the county will get no
improved road from Pendleton to the west end
country unless steps are taken to make use of
the river route.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 10, 1969
A group of youths intent on marching on
Easton’s Cafe in Umatilla set aside their plans
about 11 p.m. Tuesday after Sheriff’s Deputy
Don McGee talked to them. Umatilla Police
Chief Louis Concord told the sheriff’s office
the youths were angry because the cafe had
refused service to all juveniles after having
trouble “with a few rowdies.” Concord asked
the sheriff’s office for help in handling the
protesters.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 10, 1994
Authorities are seeking clues in the theft of
more than $10,000 worth of satellite equip-
ment stolen from Cold Springs Reservoir Fri-
day night. The telemetry equipment is used by
the Bureau of Reclamation to measure water
flows and storage at the reservoir east of
Hermiston. Ron Morris, the bureau’s Umatilla
River manager, said the equipment was taken
between 11:30 p.m. and midnight Friday from
the gate house. Morris said the equipment
would be of no practical use to anyone. The
equipment, which must be replaced, is criti-
cal now because water in Feed Canal is filling
Cold Springs Reservoir. Bureau officials need
to continually monitor reservoirs as they fill.
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
Today is the 10th day of
2019. There are 355 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 10, 1863, the
London Underground had its
beginnings as the Metropol-
itan, the world’s first under-
ground passenger railway,
opened to the public with
service between Paddington
and Farringdon Street.
On this date:
In 1776, Thomas Paine
anonymously published his
influential pamphlet, “Com-
mon Sense,” which argued
for American independence
from British rule.
In 1860, the Pemberton
Mill in Lawrence, Mass.,
collapsed and caught fire,
killing up to 145 people,
mostly female workers from
Scotland and Ireland.
In 1861, Florida became
the third state to secede from
the Union.
In 1870, John D. Rocke-
feller incorporated Standard
Oil.
In 1920, the League of
Nations was established as
the Treaty of Versailles went
into effect.
In 1946, the first Gen-
eral Assembly of the United
Nations convened in Lon-
don. The first man-made
contact with the moon was
made as radar signals trans-
mitted by the U.S. Army
Signal Corps were bounced
off the lunar surface.
In 1967, President Lyn-
don B. Johnson, in his State
of the Union address, asked
Congress to impose a sur-
charge on both corporate and
individual income taxes to
help pay for his “Great Soci-
ety” programs as well as the
war in Vietnam. That same
day, Massachusetts Republi-
can Edward W. Brooke, the
first black person elected to
the U.S. Senate by popular
vote, took his seat.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Opera singer Sherrill Milnes
is 84. Rock singer-musi-
cian Ronnie Hawkins is 84.
Movie director Walter Hill
is 79. Actor William Sander-
son is 75. Singer Rod Stew-
art is 74. Rock singer-musi-
cian Donald Fagen (Steely
Dan) is 71. Boxing Hall of
Famer and entrepreneur
George Foreman is 70.
Thought for Today:
“You got to look on the
bright side, even if there
ain’t one.” — Dashiell
Hammett, American author
(born 1894, died this date in
1961).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE