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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, December 3, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Full-time trucker parks too long in son’s small apartment FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: My widowed moth- unwilling to stay in her younger er-in-law, “Minnie,” works full time son’s home, she should arrange to as a trucker, traveling around the stay at a hotel or motel for those “extra” visits. U.S. She doesn’t have a home of Dear Abby: Some of my her own since she lives on the road. extended family members have My husband and I live in a small become vegan. When they come one-bedroom apartment. When to my home, I make sure to have she’s here for holidays or family appropriate food for them, in addi- functions, she always sleeps on our J eanne tion to nonvegan food for others. couch. P hilliPs When I am invited to their homes At first I didn’t mind once or ADVICE for a celebration, they offer only twice for holidays, but since my vegan selections. No one is allowed niece was born, Minnie wants to be to bring nonvegan or meat-based home more to visit with her. My hus- band’s brother has a large home and plenty of dishes to their home. It has reached the point that I no longer space, but Minnie never stays there because want to go there when a meal is involved. I she doesn’t like my sister-in-law. Minnie is have tried talking to them about this, but their also irresponsible about letting us know reply is, “No meat allowed in our home.” I when she’s coming and how long she will be now leave before mealtime because I don’t staying. One night can turn into a week. like a lot of their dishes. I have had many conversations and some Is it common for vegans to prohibit guests blowout fights with my husband over this from ever taking other food into their home? issue. He’s the older brother and feels guilty Thanks for any light you can shed on this. — about asking her to stay at a hotel. My sister- Meat Lover in Houston in-law doesn’t help the situation. She sabo- tages holidays and events to ensure Minnie Dear Meat Lover: People become veg- won’t feel comfortable staying there. I don’t ans for a variety of reasons. Some do because know how I will manage to get through the they feel it is unethical to kill animals for food. Others do it because they feel rais- holidays this year. Help! — Dreading It in ing animals for slaughter is harmful to the the East planet. People also become vegans for health Dear Dreading: Blowout fights with your reasons. husband are detrimental to your marriage. Individuals who adopt this way of life Because he appears to be unable to summon often feel as your relatives do, and that’s their the backbone to have an honest conversation privilege. If it impinges on your freedom or with his mother, I guess it’s up to you. limits your enjoyment of these celebrations, Explain to Minnie that the current forgo them and either participate in get-to- arrangement isn’t working. Tell her twice-a- gethers that don’t include food or go to an year visits for holidays and family functions accommodating restaurant. were manageable, but in the future, if she’s DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 3, 1919 Fourteen men, representing the entire mechanical department of the East Orego- nian, were placed upon an increased scale of pay, effective Dec. 1. Realizing that the cost of living is steadily increasing, the East Ore- gonian has willingly signed the new con- tract at this time in appreciation of the work its force produces. The higher wage scale, together with the rapidly mounting cost of print, paper and all materials connected with the production of a newspaper, make neces- sary slight increases in the advertising rates of the East Oregonian. During the year 1919, the average monthly payroll of the East Ore- gonian has been $3400, or more than $125 for each working day. There are 25 full-time adult employes on the salary list and 26 part- time workers, who include country corre- spondents in every town in Umatilla County. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 3, 1969 Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation have voted by a 3 to 1 margin for full per capita distri- bution of more than $2 million awarded by the U.S. government for lands taken more than 100 years ago. With 888 eligible to vote, the count was 514 to 173 for full distribution. Full per capita distribution proponents said tribal members should be allowed to deter- mine individually what they wanted to do with the money. Opponents of this plan said that if all the money were given and none retained in a development fund, it could spell the end of the reservation in a few years. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 3, 1994 The refurbished Spillway Park, next to the Pacific Salmon Visitor Information Cen- ter at McNary Dam, will open next spring or summer. The park will have more lawn area, new trees, better parking and better access for people of all ages and abilities. A new trail will demonstrate things biologists do for wildlife management. Nearly 20 signs and houses for birds, bats and ducks will be installed along the trail. The new salmon center takes up about two acres of the three- acre Spillway Park. The visitor information center, which opened last summer, is the newest and most comprehensive facility ded- icated to education about Pacific salmon in the Northwest. 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 Dec. 3, 1979, 11 peo- ple were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s River- front Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing. In 1818, Illinois was admitted as the 21st state. In 1828, Andrew Jack- son was elected president of the United States by the Electoral College. In 1960, the Lerner and Loewe musical “Camelot,” starring Julie Andrews as Guenevere, Richard Burton as King Arthur and Robert Goulet as Lancelot, opened on Broadway. In 1964, police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the admin- istration building and staged a massive sit-in. In 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Chris- tiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the donor organ, which came from Denise Darvall, a 25-year- old bank clerk who had died in a traffic accident. In 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bho- pal, India. In 1999, Tori Murden of the United States became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone as she arrived at the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, 81 days after leaving the Canary Islands near the coast of Africa. In 2002, thousands of personnel files released under a court order showed that the Archdiocese of Bos- ton went to great lengths to hide priests accused of abuse, including clergy who’d allegedly snorted cocaine and had sex with girls aspiring to be nuns. Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Jean-Luc Godard is 89. Actress Mary Alice is 78. Actress Julianne Moore is 59. Actress Liza Lapira is 44. Actress/come- dian Tiffany Haddish is 40. Actress Amanda Seyfried is 34. Actor Michael Angarano is 32. Actor Jake T. Austin is 25. Thought for Today: “Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.” — Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English novelist (born this date in 1857, died 1924). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
