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A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, January 15, 2020 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man’s explosive temper causes concern for easygoing fiancee FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m engaged to a in All of Us and How To Deal With It” contains suggestions for man- wonderful guy. He is very sweet, aging and constructively chan- and I’m beyond thankful for him. neling anger in various situations. I wouldn’t trade him for the world. It can be ordered by sending your But he has a character flaw that’s name and address, plus a check or hard to ignore. When he gets money order for $8 (U.S. funds) frustrated, he screams out loud to Dear Abby Anger Booklet, P.O. and takes a while to get himself Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054- together. J eanne 0447. Shipping and handling are When he lost his phone on a P hilliPs included in the price. Your fiance plane and was angry for hours, he ADVICE needs to learn to channel his emo- pouted and scowled like the world tions more constructively because had just ended. I have a very easy- going personality, and I don’t if he doesn’t, it may eventually understand this type of behavior. (He con- drive others away. We live in increasingly tacted his phone provider, and a new phone stressful times. It takes self-control as was delivered to him within 24 hours.) well as maturity to react calmly instead of When I talked to him about his anger, exploding. Being in touch with his emotions he said sometimes people get frustrated will not only help your fiance calm himself without losing it, it will also help him main- and show emotions. He added that he has tain the respect of others. noticed this issue, and it’s something he’s Dear Abby: I have a friend and co-worker been working on for years. What should I who likes to play with my hair, rub my back do or say the next time we encounter a mis- hap and he becomes angry? — Wondering and put her hands on me in general. I am not in Washington, D.C. a touchy-feely kind of person with anyone, Dear Wondering: Your fiance may be a and it makes me very uncomfortable when perfectionist or even have a touch of OCD, she does this. Is there a polite way of telling her to stop without making her feel uncom- which is why he is so hard on himself when fortable or hurting her feelings? I’m not a he makes a mistake and becomes frustrated. “beat around the bush” kind of person, and For his own sake (and yours), he needs to I sometimes lack the tact of putting things find a better way of venting his emotions. nicely. — No Touchy-Feely While anger is something everyone expe- riences at one time or another, most people Dear No Touchy-Feely: To express start learning to control it during childhood. your feelings would not be lacking in tact; While pouting and scowling are acceptable, it would be setting a boundary. Try this: “I your fiance “screaming” over losing his like you very much, and I know the feelings cellphone seems over the top. Not only that, are mutual, but I do not like to be touched, and I want you to stop doing it.” it is intimidating. My booklet “The Anger 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 Jan. 15, 1920 Nestor Paananen, a Finn, was arrested by federal operatives on a ranch near Meacham this morning and brought to the county jail in Pendleton today, charged with being an I.W.W. and with aiding the bolshevist movement in Russia. He will be tried in the federal courts in Portland. Receipts on Paananen show he has made frequent transfers of money to Fin- land. One receipt was for more than $7000. He was engaged in cutting wood near Mea- cham. He is considered to be an important catch, they said at the sheriff’s office today. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 15, 1970 The Pendleton School Board Tuesday night approved a proposal for the educational needs assessment in District 16R. The plan was outlined by Jim McAnally, chairman of the Professional Economics Committee of the Pendleton Association of Teachers. His pro- posal, which he called “An Appraisal and a Design for the Future,” was received enthusi- astically by school board members. The study would embrace how educators can better do their jobs, what students’ needs are today and what they may be 20 years from now, and the effectiveness of the curriculum in the district. Federal funds are available for such studies, McAnally noted. In other business, a Gideon Society request to give Bibles to school chil- dren was rejected. Superintendent Ellis “Bud” Neal said the attorney general’s opinion said this was not legal. Instead, the society will be asked to leave Bibles in school libraries where they can be checked out. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 15, 1995 A Hermiston man charged with sodom- izing a 13-year-old boy more than four years ago has been connected to a severe beating and attempted kidnapping in Kennewick. Donald W. Jennings, 36, is housed at Ben- ton County Jail in Kennewick as he awaits trial in both Benton and Umatilla counties. Jennings is charged with first-degree assault and unlawful imprisonment following the Dec. 21, 1994, incident in Kennewick. He was charged with two counts of first-degree sodomy, first-degree kidnapping and first-de- gree sex abuse following the Oct. 21, 1990, incident in Hermiston, and those charges have never been resolved. Kent Fisher, Uma- tilla County deputy district attorney, said the alarming similarities of the two cases could help his prosecution. 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 Jan. 15, 2009, US Airways Capt. Ches- ley “Sully” Sullenberger ditched his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disabled both engines; all 155 people aboard survived. In 1559, England’s Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1865, as the Civil War neared its end, Union forces captured Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Car- olina, depriving the Con- federates of their last major seaport. In 1892, the original rules of basketball, devised by James Naismith, were published for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the game originated. In 1919, in Boston, a tank containing an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molas- ses burst, sending the dark syrup coursing through the city’s North End, killing 21 people. In 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. In 1943, work was com- pleted on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense). In 1973, President Rich- ard M. Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations. In 1976, Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Gerald R. Ford in San Francisco. (Moore was released on the last day of 2007.) In 1993, a historic dis- armament ceremony ended in Paris with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Margaret O’Brien is 82. Actress Andrea Martin is 73. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy White is 67. Rock musician Adam Jones (Tool) is 55. Actor Chad Lowe is 52. Alt-coun- try singer Will Oldham (aka Bonnie Prince Billy) is 50. Actor Eddie Cahill is 42. Rapper/reggaeton art- ist Pitbull is 39. Electronic dance musician Skrillex is 32. Singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal (TV: “Ameri- ca’s Got Talent”) is 16. Thought for Today: “A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft- minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
