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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, December 5, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Girlfriend closely attached
to son is distant to family
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: One of my sons is
Dear Abby: I am a naturally thin
young woman. Oftentimes, espe-
dating a young woman who seems
cially when I’m working in offices
to care deeply for him, but is very
with older women, my co-workers
cool and distant to our family. He
comment on their dissatisfaction
goes to nearly all of her family’s
with their weight and how they wish
events, but she seldom comes to any
their body could be more like mine.
of ours.
To be honest, I don’t equate thin-
She has been to one birthday
J eanne
ness with beauty or fat with ugli-
get-together at a restaurant, a wed-
P hilliPs
ness. But when I try to tell these
ding and a play where I bought the
ADVICE
women I think they are beautiful as
tickets for her, myself and all my
they are, it’s received with suspicion,
daughters-in-law. She has been
as if they think I don’t mean what
invited to family dinners at one or
I say. How can I respond to those who are
another of our homes, Christmas celebra-
unhappy with their weight without sound-
tions, Thanksgivings, birthdays — you name
ing insincere? I don’t want to hurt anybody’s
it — but has not come to any of them. My
feelings. — Thin in Florida
husband and I hand-make our gifts to her,
Dear Thin: When your co-workers com-
which require a lot of time and effort. Last
pliment you about your figure, smile and say
year, she sent us each a gift for Christmas.
thank you. Period. If they express dissatisfac-
They have been dating for several years.
tion with their appearance, do not allow your-
When they are apart, she texts him con-
self to be drawn into the conversation. You
stantly. I am confused and troubled by her
can’t alleviate their insecurities; they haven’t
indifference to us. We have been more than
believed you when you tried. Because the
welcoming to her. Is there anything I or
subject makes you uncomfortable, try chang-
we could do to help her warm up to us? —
ing the topic to another one.
Flummoxed Mom in the South
Dear Abby: Is there a place where I can
Dear Flummoxed: Have you talked with
donate puzzles? I always make sure all the
your son about this? If not, you should. You
pieces are there. I put them in a zip bag inside
are already doing everything you can, so
a taped box so anyone who gets them would
prepare to batten down the hatches. If your
be getting something that’s as good as new.
son eventually marries this insecure young
I have a whole closet full, and I need to find
woman, she will continue isolating him from
a place to donate them. They are too nice
his family and absorb him into her own.
to throw away. — Wanting To Share in
When the grandchildren come, they will
Washington
spend the majority of their time with her
Dear Wanting: I am sure that if you call
family and not yours.
around you will discover that senior centers,
It is harsh, but it’s the truth. Unless your
hospitals, nursing homes, libraries, churches,
son is strong enough to put his foot down,
schools and rehabilitation facilities could put
it’s exactly what will happen. You have
those puzzles to good use. It’s worth a try.
my sympathy.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 5, 1919
District Attorney Roscoe I. Keator, of
Umatilla County, will appear before the state
supreme court at Salem on Dec. 15, to argue
for a rehearing of the case of the state of Ore-
gon vs. M. Z. Moss, wealthy Lake county
stockman. He represents the district attor-
neys’ association of eastern Oregon. In 1917,
Moss was found guilty of cattle rustling by a
jury in the circuit court. The jurymen drew
an inference from the presence of nine cattle
bearing brands other than Moss’s found in his
herd of 300 cattle, that they had been appro-
priated. The cattle bore underneath their vari-
ous brands the newly-made brand used on his
cattle, the testimony showed. When the case
was carried to the supreme court on appeal by
Moss the lower court’s decision was reversed.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 5, 1969
Residents of Hermiston, for the most
part, are taking in stride the news that poi-
sonous war gases will be stored at nearby
Umatilla Army Depot. Gov. Tom McCall
was told earlier this week that nerve gas
and other chemical warfare agents from
Okinawa would be permanently stored at
UAD. Harold Miller, an insurance broker,
said, “We’ve been living close to a depot
that has enough munitions to blow us all up,
so I can’t see that we’re subject to anything
worse by storing chemical agents here.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 5, 1994
Billy Mills, an Oglala Lakota Indian who
stunned the sporting world by winning the
10,000-meter race in the 1964 Tokyo Olym-
pics, will give a motivational talk Thursday
at Whitman College in Walla Walla. School
children from the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation will attend
the evening talk. Mills serves as national
chairman of Running Strong for American
Indian Youth, an organization that raises
$10 to $20 million each year for projects on
Indian reservations.
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. 5, 2013, Nelson
Mandela, the anti-apartheid
leader who became South
Africa’s first black presi-
dent, died at age 95.
In 1791, composer Wolf-
gang Amadeus Mozart died
in Vienna, Austria, at age
35.
In 1848, President James
K. Polk triggered the Gold
Rush of 1849 by confirming
that gold had been discov-
ered in California.
In 1901, movie producer
Walt Disney was born in
Chicago.
In 1932, German phys-
icist Albert Einstein was
granted a visa, making it
possible for him to travel to
the United States.
In 1933, national Prohibi-
tion came to an end as Utah
became the 36th state to rat-
ify the 21st Amendment to
the Constitution, repealing
the 18th Amendment.
In 1952, the Great Smog
of London descended on the
British capital; the unusu-
ally thick fog, which con-
tained toxic pollutants,
lasted five days and was
blamed for causing thou-
sands of deaths.
In 1998, James P. Hoffa
claimed the Teamsters pres-
idency after challenger Tom
Leedham conceded defeat
in the union’s presidential
election.
In 2003, the two mak-
ers of flu shots in the United
States, Chiron and Aven-
tis Pasteur, announced they
had run out of vaccine and
would not be able to meet a
surge in demand.
In 2008, the Labor
Department reported that
an alarming half-million
jobs had vanished in Nov.
2008 as unemployment hit
a 15-year high of 6.7%. A
judge in Las Vegas sen-
tenced O.J. Simpson to 33
years in prison (with eligi-
bility for parole after nine)
for an armed robbery at a
hotel room. (Simpson was
released to parole on Oct. 1,
2017.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Author Joan Didion is 85.
Actress Morgan Brittany is
68. Comedian-actress Mar-
garet Cho is 51. Writer-di-
rector Morgan J. Freeman
is 50. Actress Kali Rocha is
48. Rock musician Regina
Zernay (Cowboy Mouth) is
47. Actress Amy Acker is
43. Actor Adan Canto is 38.
Rhythm-and-blues singer
Keri Hilson is 37. Actor
Gabriel Luna is 37.
Thought for Today:
“Talent hits a target no one
else can hit; Genius hits
a target no one else can
see.” — Arthur Schopen-
hauer, German philosopher
(1788-1860).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE