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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, December 31, 2020
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Jealousy creates a barrier
between biological siblings
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I’m an American
They do not have the right to crit-
icize your political views or your
man who was adopted as an infant.
lifestyle, any more than you have
Several years ago, I found my birth
the right to criticize theirs. (And I
parents. They are not from Amer-
ica. My mother came here to give
doubt you would.) Because you are
birth and left. Sometime later she
neither respected nor included, you
married my father and had more
have every right to back off and
children. I’m in touch with the
head in a different, more positive
J eanne
entire family, but mainly my birth
direction. Frankly, I suspect you
P hilliPs
will feel better as soon as you do.
parents.
ADVICE
Dear Abby: I’m a 26-year-old
My biological siblings are jeal-
male in a long-distance relation-
ous of my success in life and make
ship with my girlfriend, who is
it plain they don’t approve of much
18. I love her to the moon and back, but I
that I do. They also make sure I know I’m
feel like she only stays with me because I
not really part of the family because we
can buy her things. She gets upset with me
didn’t grow up together (although we are,
when I don’t get them for her. She says I
by blood, 100% siblings).
value my mother and others before her.
I deal with this the best I can, but now
I love her so much, and I want to marry
I’m getting flak from them because of my
her. I’m a minister at a church. She thinks
political views. (They saw a photo of me
she should take priority before my bills and
at a political fundraiser.) When my sis-
ter turned 40 this year, I sent her a card, a
taking care of my mother, who can barely
walk. What do I do? — Uneasy in New
Facebook post and a text message. I turned
Jersey
50 at the same time and heard not a word
Dear Uneasy: From what you have writ-
from her.
ten, it appears you are involved with an
Although my siblings are not Ameri-
cans, they feel the need to trash our coun-
18-year-old self-involved gold digger who
try, our government and our way of life. I’m
does seem to be with you only because of
tempted to cut ties with them. There is lit-
what you give her. She hasn’t yet learned (1)
tle respect coming my way, and I think I’ve
That a gift should be voluntary and appre-
ciated, rather than extorted, and (2) the way
had enough. I value your opinion, which is
a man treats his mother is the way he will
why I am writing to you now.
treat his wife.
BTW: I had an amazing set of (now
Since you asked my advice, here it is:
deceased) parents and wonderful siblings
Close your wallet and ditch this “girl.”
growing up. I just wish I had a better rela-
tionship with my biological family. — Dis-
Dear Readers: Well, 2020, a year like
appointed and Excluded
no other in recent memory, has drawn to a
Dear Disappointed: Your family is the
close! I join you tonight in toasting a 2021
family that raised and nurtured you. I, too,
that will be less challenging for all of us. If
am sorry you don’t have a better relation-
you’re celebrating this evening, please take
ship with these jealous, judgmental people.
measures to protect your health and the
safety of others. — Love, Abby
You are related by blood — nothing more.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 31, 1995
Auto license plates of 1920 will be as
worthless as counterfeit money in the eyes
of Traffic Officer William H. Lyday on and
after tomorrow, except where drivers can
show that they have filed with the secre-
tary of state their application for the 1921
license. The new plates, green with white
numerals, will be required for the coming
year and all who have received theirs from
Salem are urged by the officer to display
them. Owing to the usual last minute rush
at the secretary’s office, many who applied
late will not have their plates so a receipt for
the application will be accepted. Those who
cannot show that they have even applied for
the license are threatened with detention, as
provided by the law.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 31, 1995
Better roads — those two words sum
up the highlight of D.R. Cook’s 16 years as
Umatilla County judge, he said Wednes-
day. The county has more roads than any
other county in Oregon. The total mileage,
more than 3,000, keeps a road department
of about 100 employees busy with main-
tenance and construction projects. Nearly
all the county bridges on the Umatilla and
Walla Walla rivers have been replaced or
improved during his 16 years. Hundreds of
miles have been paved; hundred more based
and graveled. Cook was honored Wednes-
day by scores of fellow county employees
at a reception in the courthouse. Today is
Cook’s last day in office.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 31, 1995
The plans for an RV park and golf course
on the Umatilla Indian Reservation are
closer to becoming a reality. Tribal officials
signed loan documents Dec. 15 in New Mex-
ico that will provide $6.5 million earmarked
for construction of an 18-hole championship
course, a 100-space RV park and a conve-
nience store/gas station. The tribes hope to
have Winnebagoes and Streamliners pull-
ing into their spaces by mid-summer and
greens primed for tee off by the summer of
1997. The ultimate plan is to have a self-con-
tained, complete destination resort. The RV
park and golf course are two projects in the
tribes’ master plan for development of 640
acres, which also holds Wildhorse Gaming
Resort and the future Wildhorse Hotel and
Tamustalik Cultural Institute. “When gam-
bling reaches its plateau,” said David Tovey,
director of the tribes’ department of eco-
nomic and community development, “the
tribes will be prepared to take on the com-
petition with a full range of recreational ser-
vices and amenities.”
BY SCOTT ADAMS
TODAY IN HISTORY
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Dec. 31, 2019, the
health commission in the
central Chinese city of
Wuhan announced that
experts were investigat-
ing an outbreak of respira-
tory illness and that most
of the victims had visited a
seafood market in the city;
the statement said 27 peo-
ple had become ill with a
strain of viral pneumonia
and that seven were in seri-
ous condition.
In 1879, Thomas Edison
first publicly demonstrated
his electric incandescent
light by illuminating some
40 bulbs at his laboratory in
Menlo Park, New Jersey.
In 1904, New York’s
Times Square saw its first
New Year’s Eve celebration,
with an estimated 200,000
people in attendance.
In 1951, the Marshall
Plan expired after distribut-
ing more than $12 billion in
foreign aid.
In 1974, private U.S. cit-
izens were allowed to buy
and own gold for the first
time in more than 40 years.
In 1999, Russian Presi-
dent Boris Yeltsin announced
his resignation (he was suc-
ceeded by Vladimir Putin).
In 2001, New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
spent his final day in office
praising police, firefighters,
and other city employees in
the wake of 9/11, and said he
had no regrets about return-
ing to private life.
Today’s Birthdays: TV
producer George Schlat-
ter is 91. Actor Sir Anthony
Hopkins is 83. Actor Sir
Ben Kingsley is 77. Fashion
designer Diane von Fursten-
berg is 74. Actor Val Kilmer
is 61. Actor Gong Li is 55.
Author Nicholas Sparks is
55. Olympic gold medal
gymnast Gabby Douglas is
25.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE