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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, September 9, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Parents hesitant to allow
addict son to move home
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My 24-year-old son is in rehab
child loved his partner, I would like him or her
for the second time. We paid for the first, but
and be happy for them. Race, religion, sexual
we are not financing this one. He
orientation, etc., would never have
has moved in and out of our home
mattered to me.
since he was 18. We have tried writ-
I found out this week that my
ten agreements, but he doesn’t follow
future daughter-in-law totally rejects
them. We let him move back in after
modern medicine. My son is a cystic
his first stay in rehab, despite the fact
fibrosis carrier. She refuses to be
that he had stolen from us and had
tested because “no one in her family
failed to get a job, etc. He not only
has ever had CF.” Our family can say
didn’t get a job, he also didn’t help
the same thing, but both of my sons
Jeanne
around the house or do any of the
and I are CF carriers.
Phillips
other things he had promised. One
She plans home births with her
ADVICE
month later, he began using again.
mother as her midwife and believes
He claims to be taking rehab seri-
vaccinations are harmful. My son
ously this time, and wants to move back in
supports none of this, but plans to marry her
with us when he gets out. He says he now real-
anyway. They want to get pregnant right away
izes he can’t stay clean without following the
and eventually have five children. She’s only
12 steps, including acknowledging a higher
21, and intelligent, but she has been homes-
power, and without the support of his family.
chooled, and her father does not allow internet
Over the past year, we spent several thou-
in their home. I feel her position on medicine
sand dollars helping him solve his problems.
is due to not being informed. Her religion
does not forbid it. I am heartbroken. Is there
Our question is, will we be enabling him by
letting him return home, or would it be best
anything I can do? — Heartbroken in Mich-
to help him transition to a halfway house? —
igan
Dear Heartbroken: Not a lot, I’m sorry
Supportive Parents
Dear Supportive Parents: You are caring
to say. You could point out to your son that he
parents, and I know this has been painful for
should insist he and his fiancee have genetic
you. Do not allow your son to move back in
testing done before starting a family, which
without first discussing it with the people at
could avert a tragic and preventable problem.
his rehabilitation center whose business it is
You could print out material from respected
to work with addicts. From my perspective,
sources — the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
it would be better for your son — and for you
would be among them — but you cannot force
the fiancee to accept it. Other than that, all you
— to have him pursue his sobriety at a half-
can do is cross your fingers and pray the young
way house.
couple will catch a lucky break in a game of
Dear Abby: My son is getting married in
a few months. I always believed that if my
genetic roulette.
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
Sept. 9, 1921
Expects Big Crowd — S.R. Thompson,
after a recent visit to Portland, says that
scores of business men plan to attend the
Round-Up and that many will motor here.
Mr. Thompson says that with the completion
of the highway from Portland to Pendleton,
motorists are eager to make the trip and see
the big show.
50 Years Ago
Sept. 9, 1971
The first woman elected to the Round-Up
Hall of Fame will be here next week for cere-
monies honoring her and the other elected this
year to the Hall of Fame. Mrs. Sam Woodward
of Prescott, Ariz., who was Mabel Strickland
when she competed at the Round-Up will be
here for the Round-Up and attendant activi-
ties. She was considered by many to be the
greatest cowgirl of all time. She also was
queen of the 1927 Round-Up.
25 Years Ago
Sept. 9, 1996
As sixth graders in the Pendleton School
District adjusted to life at the bright yellow
middle school, school staff were doing much
the same during this transition year. “The
sixth grade teachers are having to give up
a little of their elementary mind set and the
eighth grade teachers are having to give up
their junior high mind set,” explained middle
school language arts teacher Sherri Kilgore,
who now begins her day with a 20-minute
homeroom meant to give teachers and
students a closer connection. ... (T)he former
junior high also showed signs of a younger,
kid-friendly environment with its welcome
banners and locker posters put up by the
eighth graders.
TODAY IN HISTORY
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Sept. 9, 1850, Califor-
nia became the 31st state of
the union.
In 1776, the second Conti-
nental Congress made the
term “United States” official,
replacing “United Colonies.”
In 1893, Frances Cleve-
land, wife of President
Grover Cleveland, gave birth
to a daughter, Esther, in the
White House; it was the first
(and, to date, only) time a
president’s child was born in
the executive mansion.
In 1919, some 1,100
members of Boston’s 1,500-
man police force went on
strike. (The strike was
broken by Massachusetts
Gov. Calvin Coolidge with
replacement officers.)
In 1932, the steamboat
Observation exploded in
New York’s East River, kill-
ing 72 people.
In 1948, the People’s
Democratic Republic of
Korea (North Korea) was
declared.
In 1956, Elvis Pres-
ley made the first of three
appearances on “The Ed
Sullivan Show.”
In 1957, President Dwight
D. Eisenhower signed the
first civil rights bill to pass
Congress since Reconstruc-
tion, a measure primarily
concerned with protecting
voting rights and which also
established a Civil Rights
Division in the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice.
In 1960, in the first regu-
lar-season American Football
League game, the Denver
Broncos defeated the Boston
Patriots, 13-10.
In 1971, prisoners seized
control of the maximum-se-
curity Attica Correctional
Facility near Buffalo, New
York, beginning a siege that
ended up claiming 43 lives.
In 1991, boxer Mike
Tyson was indicted in Indi-
anapolis on a charge of
raping Desiree Washington,
a beauty pageant contestant.
(Tyson was convicted and
ended up serving three years
of a six-year prison sentence.)
In 2005, Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency
Director Michael Brown, the
principal target of harsh criti-
cism of the Bush administra-
tion’s response to Hurricane
Katrina, was relieved of his
onsite command.
In 2015, Queen Eliza-
beth II became the longest
reigning monarch in British
history, serving as sovereign
for 23,226 days (about 63
years and 7 months), accord-
ing to Buckingham Palace,
surpassing Queen Victoria,
her great-great-grandmother.
New York became the first
U.S. city to require salt
warnings on chain-restau-
rant menus.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Topol is 86. Singer Inez Foxx
is 79. Singer Dee Dee Sharp
is 76. College Football Hall
of Famer and former NFL
player Joe Theismann is
72. Rock musician John
McFee (The Doobie Broth-
ers) is 71. Actor Tom Wopat
is 70. Actor Angela Cart-
wright is 69. Musician-pro-
ducer Dave Stewart is 69.
Actor Hugh Grant is 61. Sen.
Chris Coons, D-Del., is 58.
Actor-comedian Charles
Esten (formerly Chip) is 56.
Actor Constance Marie is 56.
Actor David Bennent is 55.
Actor Adam Sandler is 55.
Rock singer Paul Durham
(Black Lab) is 53. Actor
Julia Sawalha is 53. Model
Rachel Hunter is 52. Actor
Eric Stonestreet is 50. Actor
Henry Thomas is 50. Actor
Goran Visnjic is 49. Pop-jazz
singer Michael Buble’ is 46.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE