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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, March 22, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Dad ignores lice infestation found in daughter’s hair FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I take care of two they may be inconvenient and cause severe itching, the condition is treat- girls. I have never asked for money able, and they do not generally cause from their dad. Because they are baldness. poor, I go to great lengths to make According to kidshealth.org, sure they get the same advantages as head lice are “spread mainly through everyone else. head-to-head contact, but sharing I took the girls to the hair salon clothing, bed linens, combs, brushes because I wanted them to feel pretty. J eanne and hats also can pass them along. When it was the youngest girl’s turn, P hilliPs Kids are most prone to catching the stylist found lice in her hair! She ADVICE lice because they tend to have close was at what they call an “infestation physical contact with each other and period.” After that it’s an infection share personal items.” and then baldness. Dear Abby: I’m the product of my father’s I went to their father and asked about the infidelity. My mother, who was 19, aban- lice. He knew the entire time that she had lice doned me. My grandmother took me in and and did not warn me or my family. Abby, he raised me. I grew up very poor, but I made knowingly put my loved ones at risk! He isn’t it. I got my college education plus a master’s a good parent and doesn’t make the young- est shower or take lice treatments. I know degree. Actually, I think my biological mother did he doesn’t care about the lice, so he’s prob- ably making her go to school despite the lice me a favor by leaving me because she’s not a policy. What should I do? — Infested in good person. She is now very ill, with only months to live. One of my half-sisters con- California tacted me last night to let me know. Dear Infested: Among the “joys” of par- enting is ensuring that one’s children practice I don’t hate her. I just do not feel anything proper hygiene and their medical problems for her. I’m 50 now, and she has never been are treated. Father of the year this man isn’t. a part of my life. I’m not sure if I should go and see her before she dies. — Unsure Of It Of course he should have warned you so Dear Unsure Of It: Your half-sister may you could caution your children. He should have contacted you to give you closure before also be watching his children more closely your mother dies, or because your mother to be sure they shower regularly. Keep an asked her to. If you have any questions you eye on him, because he may be neglecting would like answered, you should go. Having his girls in other ways. Could he be unaware never met your mother, I can’t judge whether that a head lice infestation can be treated? she’s “not a good person” or simply some- Because you are concerned about the girls’ one who made terrible decisions and got on welfare, perhaps the school should be alerted. the wrong path when she was still a teenager. According to the Centers for Disease Con- trol, as many as 12 million lice infestations And I’m not sure you should judge her either, occur in the United States each year, and until after you have had a conversation with her. they are not caused by poor hygiene. While DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 22, 1919 Work of enlarging and strengthening the main canal of the Furnish project has just been completed by the contractors, the New- port Construction Co., and water was turned into the ditch yesterday. Much of the flume and the course of the canal was changed in some places. The old flume was seven feet wide and the new flume 10 feet. In the opin- ion of Ross Newport the changes made in the canal will nearly double the capacity of the ditch. The Newport company built the origi- nal canal for the Furnish project 14 years ago. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 22, 1969 Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Pattison of Pendle- ton have received word that their son, Dr. E. Mansell Pattison, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the University of Washington School of Medicine, has been named “Man of the Month” by the magazine Pastoral Psy- chology. Dr. Pattison’s book, “Clinical Psy- chiatry and Religion,” has also been selected by editors of the magazine as book-of-the- month for its book club. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 22, 1994 Jim and Claire Taylor were captivated by the beguiling smile of a 3-year-old Bulgarian orphan. Six months after the Taylors selected her from a photograph, Julieanne Fanna Tay- lor had joined her new parents in Pendle- ton. Julieanne is adjusting to life outside the orphanage where she spent her infancy. She comes from Kermen, a village about a five- hour drive east of Sofia, Bulgaria. Julieanne weighed only 2½ pounds at birth. She was left at the hospital, where she spent about 15 weeks in guarded condition. Then tiny Fanna entered “The House of Mother and Child,” a clean facility but badly in need of renovation. The Taylors claimed her there. 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 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the Ameri- can colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.) In 1882, President Ches- ter Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy. In 1894, hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1. In 1933, during Prohi- bition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a mea- sure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal. In 1941, the Grand Cou- lee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation. In 1963, The Beat- les’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone. In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallen- das” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempt- ing to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1988, both houses of Congress overrode Presi- dent Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Resto- ration Act. In 1990, a jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker cap- tain Joseph Hazelwood not guilty of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil. In 1991, high school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, Gregory, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of murder-conspiracy and being an accomplice to murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. In 1997, Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and ten months, became the young- est ladies’ world figure skating champion in Laus- anne, Switzerland. Today’s Birthdays: Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim is 89. Evange- list broadcaster Pat Rob- ertson is 89. Actor William Shatner is 88. Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is 85. Actor M. Emmet Walsh is 84. Actor-singer Jeremy Clyde is 78. Singer-guitar- ist George Benson is 76. Writer James Patterson is 72. Thought for Today: “Better to be alone than with a bad companion.” — Spanish expression. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
