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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
COFFEE BREAK
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
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
Friday, December 13, 2019
DEAR ABBY
Daughter senses mom is hurt
by her relationship with dad
Dear Abby: I am a 49-year-old
point, I don’t know what to do. Do
woman whose mother tries to make
you have any suggestions? I try to
me feel guilty for having a good
give my own husband lots of love. —
Torn Between Two in Montana
relationship with my father. I have
Dear Torn: Do nothing about
an excellent relationship with her,
this crush. Continue giving your
but lately it feels strained because
husband lots of love, attention and
she gets mad if Dad and I do things
appreciation. Crushes are normal.
together or even just talk on the
Sometimes they serve as reminders
phone. My goal is not to hurt her,
J eanne
that we are still alive. As long as they
but I refuse not to have a relation-
P hilliPs
ship with my dad just to appease
remain “unfertilized romances,”
ADVICE
her. Have you ever heard of a mother
they harm no one. You have a mutual
being jealous of her daughter’s rela-
admiration society because you both
tionship with her father? — Con-
deserve it and have nothing to feel
guilty about.
flicted in New Jersey
Dear Abby: Is there any way to stop char-
Dear Conflicted: Yes, I have. But you say
ities from sending all of this “free stuff”?
you have an excellent relationship with your
When I donate to charity, I intend for my con-
mother, and this behavior is recent. Do you
tribution to be used to help someone in need.
call and interact individually with her the way
Instead, I am subjected to all kinds of things
you do with your father? If not, it might help
in my mailbox. I have received money, post-
to give her more attention than you have.
age stamps, greeting cards, notepads and
Is her relationship with your father the
enough mailing labels to far outlast me!
same as it always has been? If it isn’t, because
I have now decided that any charity that
you and your father have extended, private
sends me merchandise or any other “free-
phone conversations on a regular basis, she
bie” will be taken off my donation list. I
may fear you have supplanted her in his affec-
tions. However, if this isn’t the case, and she
hate to write bona fide charities off my list,
but it has become ridiculous. — Wasteful in
demonstrates other personality changes, her
Washington
physician should be notified so she can be
Dear Wasteful: You are not the only per-
evaluated.
son to complain about this. I receive many let-
Dear Abby: I have been trying to deal
ters from equally frustrated readers about it.
with this on my own for a long time. I have
Before donating to any charity, go online
been “crushing” on a man of my faith for a
and check out charitynavigator.org. If you do,
couple of years, and it never seems to sub-
side. We are both married to others, seem-
it will give you insight into where your money
ingly happily. I like his wife very much, and I
goes — including how much of their reve-
nue is spent on salaries and “overhead.” Just
would never want to hurt her.
because you receive notepads, mailing labels
I think he is a wonderful human being, and
and calendars does not mean you are obli-
he has said as much to me. We would never
gated to send money. Please remember that.
entertain the idea of an affair. From my stand-
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1919
The Chandler car held in Pendleton in con-
nection with the arrest of three alleged auto
bandits, is offered for sale by its owner, L. F.
Whitlock, of Ogden, Utah, in a letter to Chief
of Police Roberts. Mr. Whitlock says he will
guarantee clear title to the machine to any-
one who submits an acceptable bid. The three
men, Martin, Dale and Young, are still in
the county jail, awaiting a hearing before the
grand jury Dec. 15. Unless proof can be estab-
lished that Martin stole the machine or bought
it, knowing it to have been stolen, there is little
chance of having him taken back to Utah for
trial, according to a letter from Chief of Police
T. E. Browning. The men face sufficient proof
of crime here to send them to the penitentiary
for larceny, however.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1969
An estimated 3,000 acres in western Uma-
tilla County and northern Morrow County
will be irrigated for the first time in the spring
as the result of continued development in well
and high-lift Columbia River irrigation proj-
ects. Watermaster Jerry Haines said the num-
ber of wells in Umatilla County has dou-
bled in the past five years and he estimates
that since 1966 the number has been increas-
ing about 100 annually. Most of the county’s
irrigation wells are located in the Athena,
Adams, Weston and Hermiston areas.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1994
Die-hard Duck fans sought tickets any and
every way possible, and now they’re head-
ing for Pasadena, Calif., to watch the Univer-
sity of Oregon in its first Rose Bowl in half a
lifetime. Those lucky enough or determined
enough to get tickets will converge on Pasa-
dena for the Jan. 2 game between Oregon and
Penn State. Few came by Rose Bowl tickets as
easily as Pendleton City attorney Pete Wells.
He will be attending the game with his son,
Ray Wells of Portland, who entered a sweep-
stakes drawing and won transportation and
two tickets to two bowls games of his choice.
It takes two to make a football game, but Penn
State has few supporters in Eastern Oregon.
St. Anthony Hospital President Jeff Drop and
his wife, Laurie, both Penn State Class of ’80,
probably account for most of them.
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. 13, 1981, author-
ities in Poland imposed mar-
tial law in a crackdown on
the Solidarity labor move-
ment. (Martial law formally
ended in 1983.)
In
1918,
President
Woodrow Wilson arrived
in France, becoming the
first chief executive to visit
Europe while in office.
In 1937, the Chinese city
of Nanjing fell to Japanese
forces during the Sino-Jap-
anese War; what followed
was a massacre of war pris-
oners, soldiers and citizens.
(China maintains that up to
300,000 people were killed;
Japanese nationalists say the
death toll was far lower, and
some maintain the massacre
never happened.)
In 1944, during World
War II, the light cruiser USS
Nashville was badly dam-
aged in a Japanese kamikaze
attack off Negros Island in
the Philippines that claimed
133 lives.
In 1977, an Air Indiana
Flight 216, a DC-3 carrying
the University of Evansville
basketball team on a flight
to Nashville, crashed shortly
after takeoff, killing all 29
people on board.
In 1993, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled, 5-4,
that people were entitled to a
hearing before real property
linked to illegal drug sales
could be seized.
In 1997, a ribbon-cut-
ting ceremony was held in
Los Angeles for the $1 bil-
lion Getty Center, one of the
largest arts centers in the
United States.
In 2002, Cardinal Ber-
nard Law resigned as Bos-
ton archbishop because of
the priest sex abuse scandal.
In 2003, Saddam Hussein
was captured by U.S. forces
while hiding in a hole under
a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq,
near his hometown of Tikrit.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Dick Van Dyke is 94.
Actress Wendie Malick is
69. Actor Steve Buscemi is
62. Actor-comedian Jamie
Foxx is 52. Actress Chelsea
Hertford is 38. Rock singer
Amy Lee (Evanescence)
is 38. Neo-soul musician
Wesley Watkins (Nathaniel
Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
is 32. Actor Marcel Spears
(TV: “The Mayor”) is 31.
Singer Taylor Swift is 30.
Thought for Today: “An
orator without judgment is a
horse without a bridle.” —
Theophrastus, Greek phi-
losopher (c.371 BC — c.287
BC).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE