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A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, January 21, 2021 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Colleague refuses payment for help above and beyond 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: My colleagues and Should I address this issue with the I were recently notified that our mother-in-law or continue to bite my company is closing next month. My tongue? — Dismissed in Texas work partner and I have collabo- Dear Dismissed: If you are smart, rated closely for four years, and he’s rather than address the issue with an expert at the software I need to your daughter’s mother-in-law, who know to get a job in my field. When I either has the emotional intelligence asked if he would give me a couple of of an oyster or really doesn’t care for J eanne lessons via Zoom, I was thinking it’d your daughter, mention it to your P hilliPs be about a three-hour commitment son-in-law and point out to him that ADVICE for him. But he was enthusiastic and being slighted is hurtful. There may designed a 20-plus-hour curriculum be a better result if he brings it up to his mother. for me. He keeps saying he doesn’t want me to pay Dear Abby: I battle with a double chin, him, but I want to find an appropriate way and I loathe it. My chin hides itself only if I am to express my gratitude. What would be an under 126 pounds. Anything over that and it’s appropriate amount to compensate him with- there. I’m not overweight, but my double chin out getting too steep (which is why I didn’t makes me feel that way. do the full-price software training in the first I have read that dermal fillers in the chin place. It was $2K)? Thanks for any advice. — can discreetly get rid of this issue. The prob- Thankful in Illinois lem? My husband. He’s against any type of plastic surgery. He doesn’t like my double Dear Thankful: If you know of any inter- ests, hobbies, a sport, etc., your partner has chin either, but he wants me to only get rid of outside the workplace, consider going online it “naturally.” Normally, I would agree. I have to see if you can find something connected been exercising (running four times a week) to that activity he would enjoy that’s within without success. I don’t feel comfortable look- your budget. ing this way. Dear Abby: Every year on Facebook’s I think I deserve this shortcut. Should I get “National Daughter’s Day,” my daughter’s the filler without my husband’s blessing, or mother-in-law professes her love, respect should I continue this struggle? — Taking It On The Chin and admiration for her own daughter, but never acknowledges her daughter-in-law (my Dear Taking It: You are an adult, and it’s daughter). Yet, on “National Son’s Day,” she your body. You do not need permission to do posts glowing tributes not only to her sons, but something that will help you feel better about also to her son-in-law. yourself. If your husband is against any type of plastic surgery (and by the way, fillers do We all live within miles of each other, and this recurring slight makes it difficult to act not qualify as plastic surgery), he should forgo like everything is fine when, in truth, this having it when his frown lines begin to look is hurtful to my daughter and to our family. like tractor furrows and he develops a wattle. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 21, 1921 Educational advantages offered in the United States are to be enjoyed by Ung Gim Poy, 14 year old adopted son of Ung D. Goey, well known Chinese merchant of this city. Ung Gim Poy arrived in Seattle and arrange- ments are now being made to bring him to Pendleton. Goey adopted the boy seven years ago and he has been living in China with Mrs. Goey and the eight year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Goey. Ung Gim has attended schools in China and speaks not a word of English. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 21, 1971 The sound of basketballs glancing off hard- wood thumped overhead like raindrops on the roof. Be we descended to the locker room for a reason other than basketball. A shoul- der pad was kicked under a bench, remnant of a season past. We sat in a small, wrestling gear-lined office with Pendleton High School Coach Rollin Schimmel. Why, we asked, should wrestling be included in the athletic program? “It gives boys who couldn’t partici- pate in another sport a chance to compete,” the coach said. “It gives boys who weigh as little at 98 pounds a chance for recognition and mental and physical development.” It takes three things to be a winning wrestler, according to Schimmel: mental attitude, physical desire and dedication. “With these attributes a boy can overcome shortness, lack of speed, or physi- cal strength.” So far, he said, wrestling hasn’t drawn large crowds, but it’s getting better now. Why? “Winning!” he said. “This year we’ve got a good team and more spectators.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 21, 1996 What’s in a name? A new committee is about to find out. The Pendleton School District recently formed a naming committee made up of two board members, three junior high teachers, three students and a parent to seek opinions on what Pendleton Junior High will be called this fall when it becomes a middle school. The students will help elicit opinions on the bright yellow school, which already goes by another name — “the big yellow banana.” The obvious choice, Pend- leton Middle School, has already been at the butt of several local jokes for its potential acronym: PMS. The committee will choose two possible names from those submitted by community members, and the Pendleton School Board will make the final decision. A $200 savings bond will be awarded to the person who suggested the name. So get out a pen, put on your thinking cap and imag- ine what kind of place, say, Mustard Bottle Middle School could be. 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. 21, 2020, the U.S. reported its first known case of the new virus circulating in China, saying a Washing- ton state resident who had returned the previous week from the outbreak’s epicenter was hospitalized near Seat- tle; U.S. officials stressed that they believed the overall risk of the virus to the American public remained low. In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine. In 1942, pinball machines were banned in New York City after a court ruled they were gambling devices that relied on chance rather than skill (the ban was lifted in 1976). In 1977, on his first full day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders. In 1997, Speaker Newt Gingrich was reprimanded and fined as the House voted for the first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct. In 2003, the Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America’s largest minority group. In 2007, Lovie Smith became the first Black head coach to make it to the Super Bowl when his Chicago Bears won the NFC cham- pionship, beating the New Orleans Saints 39-14; Tony Dungy became the second when his Indianapolis Colts took the AFC title over the New England Patriots, 38-34. In 2019, first-term senator and former California attor- ney general Kamala Harris entered the Democratic pres- idential race. (Harris would withdraw from the race in December; she would be chosen the following August as the party’s vice presiden- tial nominee.) Today’s Birthdays: World Golf Hall of Famer Jack Nick- laus is 81. Actor Jill Eiken- berry is 74. Actor Geena Davis is 65. Basketball Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon is 58. Rock singer-songwriter Cat Power is 49. Singer Emma Bunton (Spice Girls) is 45. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
