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A14 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, October 14, 2021 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ Mom’s judgment hinders her daughter’s recovery FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE B.C. PICKLES BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY LYNN JOHNSTON BY MASTROIANNI AND HART BY BRIAN CRANE As to what to say to your Dear Abby: I’m a woman in mother, try this: “Mom, I know my mid-30s without much fam- I need help for my shopping ily. I’m an only child and have addiction. I am seeking it now. no relationship with my father. While I am in recovery, you The relationship I have with my won’t be hearing from me for a mother is extremely toxic. while, so don’t worry. We will I have suffered my entire life talk eventually.” from a severe shopping addic- J EANNE Dear Abby: I lost my best tion. I recently relapsed, and P HILLIPS friend of 32 years in a car acci- I’m trying to recover financially. ADVICE dent three months ago. She was I can’t afford counseling right the best friend a person could now, and I can’t ask for help possibly have. She would not from my mother because of how horribly she shames me about my addic- only give you the shirt off her back, but tion. In fact, I have realized that having she would then ask what else you needed. her in my life at all is a massive trigger We had been through so much together. because she constantly puts me down for This would be the kind of thing I would not being financially stable as an adult. turn to her for comfort while going She also constantly compares me not through. She was cremated, and I didn’t only to herself when she was my age, but see her before that, so I didn’t get closure. I feel so empty and unfinished. What do I to others in my generation. How can I tell her I no longer want do? — Not Well In The South Dear Not Well: Please accept my her in my life for the sake of my mental health and addiction recovery? — Pull- sympathy for the loss of your dear friend. The circumstances of your loss make ing Back In Texas it more difficult, but it is not in- Dear Pulling: I’m not sure if you are already aware of it, but many people surmountable. Because there is no “place” use shopping as a way of coping with you can go to mourn her, you might depression. You may be one of them. find closure by writing her a letter tell- Before taking on that difficult conversa- ing her all the things you weren’t able tion, do some research and find out what to say before her death. Then choose a county mental health services may be private site you both used to enjoy, read available in your area. They are usually it aloud to her and burn it, knowing she offered on a sliding fee scale. There are will always be alive in your heart. If this also 12-step programs for compulsive is not sufficient, consider asking your shoppers that you might find helpful. physician or religious adviser about a Please go online and research some of grief support group to help you work this through. them as well. BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago Oct. 14, 1921 Lack of wind saved the little town of Umap- ine from total destruction from a blaze which started at 12:30 o’clock Wednesday morning in the building owned by the Hudson Bay Hall company and entirely destroyed the grocery store located in the building and the apartment in the rear in which the the store’s manager and his family lived. A moving picture show brought to Umapine Tuesday evening from Milton is reported to have been the cause of the fire as it was from the corner in which the moving picture machine was stationed that the blaze started. Faulty wiring connected with the projector is thought to be the real origin of the fire. The Williams & Olinger lumber office and shed, located next to the Hudson Bay building, was badly scorched from the fire, which was reported still burning at an early hour Wednes- day afternoon. 50 Years Ago Oct. 14, 1971 Interstate 80 North has soared above Pendle- ton for more than a year, and the city has grown accustomed to the fact that every vehicle trav- eling east and west doesn’t have to go through the business section. The disaster some busi- ness people feared when the freeway was built didn’t happen. “The motel business has never been better,” said Paul Linnebur, manager of the Tapadara in downtown Pendleton. “We’ve had the biggest year in our history.” “The complex- ion of our business changed for a while,” commented E. M. McClure of the Imperial 400. “But we’re back to where we were before the freeway.” “Pendleton is a good tourist town,” said Les Tinhof, manager of the chamber of commerce. “It is a natural stopping place.” 25 Years Ago Oct. 14, 1996 As a domestic violence survivor, Mari- bel Moreno knows what the clients she helps at Domestic Violence Services are going through. Moreno is the sole staff member of the DVS office in Hermiston, which opened in May. Though she operates out of an office little bigger than a large closet at the state office building in Hermiston, she handles a volume of calls nearly equal to the Pendleton office. The Hermiston office was a way for DVS to test the waters to see if it needed to expand its services. Based on the number of assistance calls gener- ated in the past six months, that question has been answered. In June alone, Moreno handled 136 calls from the crisis line, transported 72 women to the shelter in Pendleton and provided assistance in court 17 times. TODAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY PARKER AND HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager be- came the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rock- et plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California. In 1939, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Is- lands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed. In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took his own life rather than face trial and certain execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler. In 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named win- ner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was top- pled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Br- ezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier. In 1968, the first suc- cessful live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7. In 1981, the new presi- dent of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, was sworn in to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat. Mubarak pledged loyalty to Sadat’s policies. In 2001, as U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country. In 2008, a grand jury in Orlando, Fla. returned charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated man- slaughter against Casey Anthony in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. (She was acquit- ted in July 2011.) In 2014, a second nurse at Texas Health Presbyte- rian Hospital Dallas came down with Ebola after contracting it from a dy- ing patient. (The nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, was later declared free of the disease.) PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE