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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Cranky friend at work may
be threat to advancement
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I moved to town not
my baby dad helping me with our
long before the pandemic and don’t
2-year-old daughter. I don’t like the
idea of putting him on child sup-
have many close friends here. One
port. I have tried counseling with
of my best friends is a co-worker,
him. In addition to asking him to
“Ronna,” whom I love dearly.
step up, I have tried giving him lists
Ronna has had an extremely
of what our daughter needs, and he
rough past, including an extensive
still isn’t helping. Instead he’s ask-
history of parental abuse that has
J eanne
ing me to help with his bills.
left her thin-skinned and suspicious
P hilliPs
I don’t know what to do. I really
of authority figures. Because of
ADVICE
don’t want to go after child support
this, she’s constantly butting heads
since he now has two jobs. I need
with our management team and
his help, but I don’t know how to get
confronting them about perceived
him to contribute. Any ideas? — Struggling
slights.
Mom in Ohio
While some of the points she makes are
Dear Mom: You have tried asking, you
reasonable, many are taken too personally or
have tried counseling. The only option left
blown way out of proportion, and she tends
to convince him to step up to the plate and
to act very dramatic/livid about it. I’m look-
ing to move up in the company, and I’m torn
fulfill his obligations as a father is to contact
Child Support Services and ask for help.
between loyalty to my friend and the need to
P.S. You absolutely should not pay his
remain on good terms with our higher-ups.
bills!
I’m also worried that my friendliness with
Dear Abby: I have been asked by a close
management will lead to Ronna resenting or
friend to officiate at his wedding. I’m hon-
distrusting me. How can I safely navigate?
ored to have been asked, and it would be easy
— In The Middle in Colorado
for me to get the credentials, but I am not
Dear In The Middle: Do not involve
comfortable doing it for personal reasons. I
yourself in Ronna’s problems on the job. If
know it’s his special day, and he really wants
you do, they will spill over onto you. Main-
me to do it. How can I politely decline with-
tain your personal relationship with her
out hurting our friendship? I don’t know how
away from the office, while networking and
to word my refusal. — Not For Me
trying to widen your circle of friends.
Dear Not: Be honest to the degree that
From what you have written, I doubt that
you can be without causing hurt feelings.
Ronna will be working for your employer
Explain that you are honored to have been
much longer. Workers who react in a “very
asked to officiate (which is true), but would
dramatic/livid” manner are usually laid off
not be comfortable in that role (also true).
because their behavior is unprofessional and
Then deflect by offering to support your
disruptive.
friend in some other way on his special day.
Dear Abby: I am having problems with
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 24, 1920
Alfalfa growers in Hermiston do not wish
stockmen any bad luck but they would not
mind it if something would happen that would
make a brisk demand for hay and would
restore the alfalfa price to the good old days
when it sold around $25 a ton or more. They
are not getting any such price now. In fact, hay
at Stanfield has been selling for as low as $16
per ton baled, which means about $10 in the
stack and there is not much demand even at
that. With nearly 70 percent of the hay still in
the hands of the growers the situation is not all
that could be asked for. Nevertheless, Hermis-
ton and the surrounding country look prosper-
ous. The women are well dressed and there are
a lot of men who do not do all their travelling
on foot or behind horses. The writer counted
22 automobiles parked on the two sides of the
Main street block by the Oregon hotel yes-
terday. They were not purchased however on
money derived from $10 hay.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 24, 1970
Earlier this week a massive storm hit Ore-
gon. While Eastern Oregon was one of the
more fortunate areas with Pendleton and Mil-
ton-Freewater recording one inch of snow, the
low temperature was 8 degrees Saturday and
Sunday’s high was 18. Periods of freezing rain
and icy roads made for hazardous driving con-
ditions. But by Tuesday, downtown Pendleton
was the warmest spot in the state with a high
of 66. Springtime, huh? Forget it. More snow
is on the way. Temperatures are expected to
begin dropping late today with mixed rain and
snow tonight, and Eastern Oregon may settle
down to the Thanksgiving turkey amid white.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 24, 1995
Students in Amy Dickeson’s Pendleton
Junior High School science class were hun-
gry Wednesday for more than knowledge.
They wanted pizza, even if it was the day
before American’s unofficial eating festival
of Thanksgiving. Students ladled sauce over
English muffins and added cheese and top-
pings. The ordinary ingredients represented
parts of a cell, something the biology class
has been studying for several weeks. “That’s
the cell membrane,” said Robin Binschus, 13,
as she pointed at an olive on her hand-made
pizza. Before students could enter the buffet
line of toppings, they had to turn in a complete
illustration of a cell and all its inner work-
ings. The students agreed that eating pizza is a
good reward for studying biology’s tiny build-
ing blocks. “I think it’s a wonderful idea,” said
Amanda Henshaw, 13. “They’re in your body,
they’re important and we’re eating 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 Nov. 24, 1859, British
naturalist Charles Darwin
published “On the Origin of
Species,” which explained
his theory of evolution by
means of natural selection.
In 1865, Mississippi
became the first South-
ern state to enact laws that
came to be known as “Black
Codes” aimed at limiting
the rights of newly freed
Blacks; other states of the
former Confederacy soon
followed.
In 1963, Jack Ruby shot
and mortally wounded Lee
Harvey Oswald, the accused
assassin of President John
F. Kennedy, in a scene cap-
tured on live television.
In 1974, the bone frag-
ments of a 3.2 million-year-
old hominid were discovered
by scientists in Ethiopia; the
skeletal remains were nick-
named “Lucy.”
In 1987, the United States
and the Soviet Union agreed
on terms to scrap shorter-
and medium-range missiles.
(The Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty was
signed by President Ronald
Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev the
following month.)
In 1991, rock singer Fred-
die Mercury died in London
at age 45 of AIDS-related
pneumonia.
In 2000, the U.S.
Supreme Court stepped into
the bitter, overtime struggle
for the White House, agree-
ing to consider George W.
Bush’s appeal against the
hand recounting of ballots
in Florida.
In 2014, it was announced
that a grand jury in St.
Louis County, Missouri,
had decided against indict-
ing Ferguson police officer
Darren Wilson in the death
of Michael Brown; the deci-
sion enraged protesters, who
set fire to buildings and cars
and looted businesses in the
area where Brown had been
fatally shot.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Country singer Johnny
Carver is 80. Rock drummer
Pete Best is 79. Rock musi-
cian Clem Burke (Blondie;
The Romantics) is 66. Rock
musician John Squire (The
Stone Roses) is 58. Actor
Lola Glaudini is 49. Actor
Colin Hanks is 43. Actor
Katherine Heigl is 42.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE