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East Oregonian
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COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Parents unsure how to begin
having ‘the talk’ with son
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have a young,
can get pregnant?” and “How old
preteen grandson who is asking
must a boy be before he can father
a child?” Other topics, including
his parents “facts of life” ques-
tions. They are bewildered about
peer pressure, dating, STDs, drugs
how to give him the information.
and alcohol, are also covered. My
I’d be grateful if you could share
booklet has been used to promote
discussions by educators and reli-
details of the publication you have
gious leaders and distributed by
for this purpose and how to get it.
J eanne
doctors’ offices. The more infor-
— Grandmom in Clinton Town-
P hilliPs
mation his parents can provide, the
ship, Mich.
ADVICE
better prepared your grandson will
Dear Grandmom: Many par-
ents find the subject of sex embar-
be to make informed choices in the
rassing, so they postpone dis-
future. I hope my booklet will be a
helpful tool for facilitating the many con-
cussing it with their children. They forget
versations his parents will have with their
that children today mature earlier and
son.
are exposed to sexual images and refer-
ences more often than those of previous
Dear Abby: My son recently died in an
accident. His death was unexpected and
generations.
shocking, and we are all heartbroken, espe-
When “The Talk” finally happens, it’s
cially his girlfriend. I know he was having
often too late. It is important that par-
ents begin discussing subjects like alco-
doubts about their relationship because he
told me, but she doesn’t know.
hol, smoking, drugs, sex and family val-
We have grown very close since the
ues well before their children are tempted
accident. She says things like, “Danny and
to experiment. My booklet “What Every
I were meant to be.” It makes me think I
Teen Should Know” was written to help
should tell her the truth. But I’m afraid if
parents break the ice and get the conver-
sation going. It can be ordered by sending
I do, it will affect our friendship and break
your name and mailing address, plus check
her heart again. What do you think? Should
she know or not? — Treading Lightly
or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to Dear
Dear Treading: Please accept my sym-
Abby Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount
pathy for the loss of your son. Because the
Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and han-
dling are included in the price. His parents
tragedy is recent, I see nothing to be gained
should review it before starting a discussion
by shattering her illusion. If you feel she’s
to deal with their son’s questions that might
isolating herself, remind her that Danny
arise.
would want her to go on with her life as do
Among the important topics included
you. Assure her you will always be there for
her if she needs you.
are: “How old must a girl be before she
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 17, 1919
In an effort to identify the unknown
woman recently murdered at Olympia, a
complete description of the woman’s teeth
was received today by the sheriff’s office to
be examined by all the local dentists. A com-
plete chart, showing the dental work which
was done on her teeth, accompanied by a
description of the supposed murderer was
sent. It is not generally known that a com-
plete description of dental work is supposed
to be kept for such identification purposes
and the teeth are one of the few features, in
this case, which might lead to the identifica-
tion of the slain woman.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 17, 1969
Richard R. Sherman, 38, of Umatilla,
was arrested by U.S. marshals Tuesday on
charges of violating postal laws to promote
a chain letter scheme. The complaint said
Sherman mailed numerous letters promis-
ing recipients $8,000. They were asked to
send $1 to the top name in the list of four
names at the bottom of the letter, send out
20 copies of the letter, delete the top name
and put their own in fourth place. The
complaint said all four names on the origi-
nal letter where Sherman’s aliases.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 17, 1994
A woman fights a losing battle to keep
from being sucked down a manhole, a young
scholar smokes crack and tells off a police
officer, and an unemployed man resists the
temptation to steal from an undercover cop:
It’s all there in the fluorescent pages of the
kore, a quarterly literary magazine produced
in Pendleton. The upstart alternative maga-
zine is the product of karen verba, a writer
since age 14 who said she moved to Pend-
leton a few years ago to escape an abusive
ex-husband. She started working on the pub-
lication last August and the first issue was
mailed in November. So far, three issues
have been completed and verba, who prefers
her name written in all lower case, a la e.e.
cummings, is working on the fourth.
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 July 17, 1996, TWA
Flight 800, a Europe-bound
Boeing 747, exploded and
crashed off Long Island,
New York, shortly after
departing John F. Kennedy
International Airport, kill-
ing all 230 people on board.
In 1821, Spain ceded
Florida to the United States.
In 1862, during the Civil
War, Congress approved
the Second Confiscation
Act, which declared that all
slaves taking refuge behind
Union lines were to be set
free.
In 1918, Russia’s Czar
Nicholas II and his fam-
ily were executed by the
Bolsheviks.
In 1945, following Nazi
Germany’s surrender, Pres-
ident Harry S. Truman,
Soviet leader Josef Sta-
lin and British Prime Min-
ister Winston S. Churchill
began meeting at Potsdam
in the final Allied summit of
World War II.
In 1954, the two-day
inaugural Newport Jazz
Festival, billed as “The First
American Jazz Festival,”
opened in Rhode Island;
among the performers the
first night was Billie Holi-
day, who died in New York
on this date in 1959 at age
44.
In 1955, Disneyland had
its opening day in Anaheim,
California.
In 1961, Baseball Hall-
of-Famer Ty Cobb died in
Atlanta at age 74.
In 1975, an Apollo
spaceship docked with a
Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in
the first superpower link-up
of its kind.
In 1981, 114 people were
killed when a pair of sus-
pended walkways above the
lobby of the Kansas City
Hyatt Regency Hotel col-
lapsed during a tea dance.
In 1997, Woolworth
Corp. announced it was
closing its 400 remaining
five-and-dime stores across
the country, ending 117
years in business.
In 2014, all 298 pas-
sengers and crew aboard
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
were killed when the Boeing
777 was shot down over reb-
el-held eastern Ukraine.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Donald Sutherland is
84. Actress-singer Diahann
Carroll is 84. Rock musi-
cian Spencer Davis is 80.
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel is 65. Rock musi-
cian Kim Shattuck is 56.
Singer JC (PM Dawn) is 48.
Rapper Sole’ is 46. Coun-
try singer Luke Bryan is
43. Actor Tom Cullen is 34.
Actor Brando Eaton is 33.
Rhythm-and-blues singer
Jeremih is 32. Actress Billie
Lourd is 27.
Thought for Today:
“Modo et modo non habe-
bant modum.” (By and by
never comes.) — St. Augus-
tine (A.D. 354-A.D. 430).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE