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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, November 21, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Friend fears for family living in piles of clutter FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have a close friend their children’s sake. who is an extreme hoarder. She and Dear Abby: My 25-year-old daughter is getting married in about her husband have a beautiful, large, two months. Invitations have been custom-built home that is stacked sent out, and everything was going floor to ceiling with clutter. There are along pretty smoothly. However, my only narrow paths to walk around. two older brothers, who live out of Clothes, papers, toys, etc. are piled state, have informed me that neither everywhere. Normally, I would mind J eanne of them will be attending her wed- my own business, but they have four P hilliPs ding. They didn’t offer any reason children at home. The children are ADVICE for not attending, and money is not getting to the age where they are an issue. embarrassed about their home. It is My father, who has been very ill so bad they can’t invite friends over. this past year with cancer, is doing everything When we discuss the condition of the place he can to be there. My daughter had hoped that with her and her husband, they get defensive everyone could come, as it would be an oppor- and say they just don’t have time. They do tunity for our entire family to be together, both work full time, and their time off is usu- ally spent shuttling the children to activities. especially given my father’s poor health. Am I wrong to be upset? My brothers seem Overall, they are excellent parents, and the to not prioritize our family very highly. I am children are loved and cared for, but the condi- tion of their house is worse each time I see it, trying to focus on who will be there and not on and they continue to buy more and more stuff. who isn’t. But I am afraid this isn’t something I will forget. — Trying to Smile in Florida Last time I helped clear out a room, it was full Dear Trying: Unless you have omitted of clutter a few weeks later. What can I do to some important information from your letter, help? Should I stay out of it? Should I contact has it not occurred to you that your brothers’ CPS? — Clutter Everywhere refusal may have something to do with their Dear Clutter Everywhere: Because you relationship with your father? I’m as mystified say the children are loved and cared for, instead as you are about why they refused the invita- of contacting Child Protective Services, I sug- gest you quietly place a call to the Health tion, but please don’t allow their absence to cast a shadow over this happy occasion. Department for guidance. From your descrip- tion, the “beautiful, large, custom-built” home When you say you won’t forget it, I hope may be a fire hazard and possibly a danger to you won’t waste your precious time looking backward and carrying a grudge. Your daugh- the family’s health if there are “critters” also ter’s wedding is not a command performance, living in that mess. Whether their problem is and if your brothers cannot be there to appre- the result of depression or simply gross disor- ganization, they do need an intervention for ciate the joyous occasion, so be it. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 21, 1919 Organization of an American Legion post at Weston will be effected Monday night for all former service men from Weston and Ath- ena. Pendleton post today received an invita- tion to be present with a large delegation to assist in the organization. Harold J. Warner, chairman of the local post, accepted the invi- tation and has placed in the hands of Allen Bynon the arrangements for an auto trip. Cars will be obtained for all who desire to go pro- viding notice is given Mr. Bynon in advance. His phone number is 154. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 21, 1969 Many among the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation are in favor of full per capita distribution of more than $2 million awarded to the Indians for lands taken by the United States government more than 100 years ago. Tribal members will vote Nov. 29 on whether they want all the judg- ment money to be distributed, $1,800 per reg- istered member, or to have some of it placed in a program for economic development. Gil- bert Minthorn said he thinks it’s about time Congress got around to giving the Indians their money and letting them decide what to do with it. He noted that the government is paying the equivalent of five cents an acre for tribal lands that once stretched from Hermis- ton Butte to Payette, Idaho. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 21, 1994 The Weston-McEwen TigerScots stunned top-ranked Dayton in the state Class 2A high school football quarterfinals Saturday, 8-6. A couple of drive-breaking penalties and four turnovers, including two fumbles inside the Weston-McEwen 10-yard line, cost Dayton as rain and mud limited offensive opportunities. “Somebody had to lose on a tough day to play football,” Weston-McEwen coach Scott Dean said. “We lived to play another day.” 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 Nov. 21, 1985, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested and accused of spy- ing for Israel. (Pollard later pleaded guilty to espionage and was sentenced to life in prison; he was released on parole on Nov. 20, 2015.) In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to rat- ify the U.S. Constitution. In 1920, the Irish Repub- lican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians. In 1927, picketing strik- ers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state police; six miners were killed. In 1934, the Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes,” starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opened on Broadway. In 1967, President Lyn- don B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act. In 1969, the Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, 55-45, the first such rejection since 1930. In 1979, a mob attacked the U.S. Embassy in Islam- abad, Pakistan, killing two Americans. In 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1990, junk-bond finan- cier Michael R. Milken, who had pleaded guilty to six fel- ony counts, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to 10 years in prison. (Milken served two.) In 1992, a three-day tor- nado outbreak that struck 13 states began in the Hous- ton area before spreading to the Midwest and Eastern U.S.; 26 people were killed. Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he’d made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women over the years. (Faced with a threat of expulsion, Pack- wood ended up resigning from the Senate in 1995.) In 2001, Ottilie Lund- gren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, Connecticut, died of inhalation anthrax; she was the apparent last victim of a series of anthrax attacks carried out through the mail system. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Marlo Thomas is 82. Television producer Marcy Carsey is 75. Actress Goldie Hawn is 74. Rock musician Lonnie Jordan (War) is 71. Actress Cherry Jones is 63. Rock musician Brian Ritchie (The Violent Femmes) is 59. Singer Bjork is 54. Actress Rain Phoenix is 47. Actress Jena Malone is 35. Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen is 34. Actor- singer Sam Palladio is 32. Thought for Today: “Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley, American humorist (born 1889, died on this date in 1945). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
