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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, March 15, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Child’s accusations against
cousin cause rift in family
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My brother and sis-
my social media.
I returned two emails, then
ter-in-law recently told me their
saw I had a response to one of my
5-year-old son claims my 9-year-old
texts which read, “???” So I texted
son touched him inappropriately on
several occasions. Understanding
back my name. Next thing I knew,
that any parent believes what their
my phone was ringing. It was an
child says, I asked my son if he has
acquaintance from years ago. I
ever touched or done anything inap-
answered, even though I could have
propriate to anyone. His response
let it go into voicemail, because I
J eanne
P hilliPs
was, “Why would I do that?”
didn’t want to be rude. However, the
ADVICE
My husband and I asked our son
last thing I wanted to do was have a
about it on several different occa-
3 a.m. conversation with this person
sions and got the same answer. Not
— or any person, for that matter.
In my opinion, a phone call is different
wanting to pressure him to the point of coer-
cion and force him to admit to something he
from a text. Calling me at 3 a.m. was inap-
propriate, bordering on rude. The other per-
did not do, I accepted his denials.
son contends I shouldn’t have texted that late
My brother and his wife are convinced
if I didn’t want to talk. I have put this matter
my son did these heinous things to their son.
of contemporary communication etiquette
What more is there for me to do? My son and
out there, and the feedback I’m receiving on
I are now being shunned and barred from
the subject is divided. What do you think? —
being around any of my brother’s kids. —
Text Etiquette in the South
Shunned in Colorado
Dear Text Etiquette: What I think is that
Dear Shunned: A young child might
you owe the person an apology for having
make a statement like the one your nephew
disturbed him or her in the wee hours of the
did to get attention, get the other child in
morning and, while you’re at it, explain that
trouble or because he is being touched inap-
propriately by someone else. This certainly
you didn’t think your text would be seen until
after sunup.
bears further exploration, and the people who
Dear Abby: I get my hair done at the local
should do that are your brother and his wife.
beauty school. When I pay, there is no room
If your son ends up being guilty, then you
on the bill to leave a tip. Is it OK not to tip
and your husband must investigate where
these people because they are in school, or
this behavior came from and get him profes-
sional help. Until this is resolved, the children
should I plan on bringing cash with me next
time? — Wondering in California
should be kept apart.
Dear Wondering: If you like the ser-
Dear Abby: The other day, I was check-
ing numbers on my contacts list in my
vice the student performed, show your grati-
phone. It has been years since I purged any,
tude (and respect!) by bringing along enough
so I sent out a few texts with just the per-
money to tip him or her. That’s what I would
son’s name. Later, I woke up around 3 a.m.
do, as long as there is no school rule that for-
bids it.
and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I checked
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 15, 1919
Once again Pendleton’s mysterious speed
cop has demonstrated his ability as a sleuth.
Three devotees of fast driving, Edward A.
Porter, A. Gamey and Guy Struthers, were
arrested yesterday afternoon for driving at
about 30 miles an hour. Each paid a fine of
$10 to Judge FitzGerald. Porter was “among
those present” at a similar party last Wednes-
day when he was arrested for fast driving.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 15, 1969
Mrs. Bill Buell of Umapine, whose hus-
band is remodeling the house and apparently
left some cracks, walked into the kitchen
and found it buzzing. After phone calls to
police and two beekeepers brought no help,
“I turned the insect spray on ‘em and I killed
300 bees,” she said. “Yes, I counted them.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 15, 1994
Condon’s tiny radio station — KGAB
— is once again broadcasting — finally.
The radio station Bill Roberts runs out of
a bedroom in his home began broadcasting
at 3:40 p.m. Monday over FM cable lines at
106.1. “To say that we are thrilled would be
an understatement,” Roberts said this morn-
ing. After mistakenly operating for a few
weeks without a Federal Communications
Commission license, Roberts had expected
to have his station up and running again
by last Saturday. The station wasn’t oper-
ational, though, until Monday afternoon.
Roberts is staging a grand opening cele-
bration Saturday between noon and 6 p.m.
complete with food, drink, music and the
opportunity to be on the radio.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
TODAY 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 March 15, 44 B.C.,
Roman dictator Julius Caesar
was assassinated by a group
of nobles that included Brutus
and Cassius.
In 1493, Italian explorer
Christopher
Columbus
arrived back in the Spanish
harbor of Palos de la Frontera,
two months after concluding
his first voyage to the Western
Hemisphere.
In 1820, Maine became
the 23rd state.
In 1913, President Wood-
row Wilson met with about
100 reporters for the first
formal presidential press
conference.
In 1919, members of the
American
Expeditionary
Force from World War I con-
vened in Paris for a three-day
meeting to found the Ameri-
can Legion.
In 1937, America’s first
hospital blood bank was
opened at Cook County Hos-
pital in Illinois.
In 1944, during World
War II, Allied bombers
again raided German-held
Monte Cassino.
In 1956, the Lerner and
Loewe musical play “My
Fair Lady,” based on Bernard
Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” opened
on Broadway.
In 1977, the U.S. House
of Representatives began a
90-day closed-circuit test to
determine the feasibility of
showing its sessions on tele-
vision. The situation comedy
“Three’s Company,” starring
John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt and
Suzanne Somers, premiered
on ABC-TV.
In 1985, the first inter-
net domain name, symbolics.
com, was registered by the
Symbolics Computer Corp. of
Massachusetts.
In 1998, CBS’ “60 Min-
utes” aired an interview
with former White House
employee Kathleen Willey,
who said President Bill Clin-
ton had made unwelcome sex-
ual advances toward her in the
Oval Office in 1993, a charge
denied by the president. Dr.
Benjamin Spock, whose child
care guidance spanned half a
century, died in San Diego at
94.
In 2005, Former World-
Com chief Bernard Ebbers
was convicted in New York
of engineering the largest cor-
porate fraud in U.S. history.
(He was later sentenced to 25
years in prison.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg is 86. Actor
Judd Hirsch is 84. Jazz musi-
cian Charles Lloyd is 81. Rock
musician Phil Lesh is 79.
Singer Mike Love (The Beach
Boys) is 78. Rock singer-mu-
sician Sly Stone is 76. Rock
singer-musician
Howard
Scott (War; Lowrider Band)
is 73. Rock singer Ry Cooder
is 72. Actress Frances Conroy
is 66. Actor Craig Wasson is
65. Rock singer Dee Snider
(Twisted Sister) is 64.
Thought for Today: “You
can’t copy anybody and end
with anything. If you copy, it
means you’re working with-
out any real feeling.” — Bil-
lie Holiday, American singer
(1915-1959).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE