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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, November 18, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
A father’s anger issues
stem from head injury
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
at you or at him — the more the
Dear Abby: I’m a divorcee
boy will feel this is what a nor-
who has reconnected with a
mal adult relationship is like.
childhood neighbor, “Levi.” He
For your son’s sake, you should
was physically assaulted as a
separate. If Levi’s abuse esca-
teenager and badly injured. He
lates from verbal to physical,
has made almost a complete re-
THAT’S when you should “run
covery, but has a metal plate in
for the hills.”
his skull and a traumatic brain
J EANNE
Dear Abby: I am a mother of
injury. We have always been
P HILLIPS
three adult kids. We are all com-
friends, and after my divorce, he
ADVICE
fortable financially. My eldest
asked me out.
and youngest are successful.
We had fun, enjoyed par-
My middle child is happy to
ties and hanging out, and I got
pregnant. Immediately I began to resent say he is not a capitalist. He works for
Levi. Neither of us was capable of rais- nonprofits and barely makes ends meet.
ing children. Our 5-year-old now lives in He went to college, but dropped out in
his last semester. He has no health insur-
chaos.
He cannot control his temper. He’s ance. He drives a car, but has no insur-
quick to yell at our son, “Jaden,” and me, ance or driver’s license. He clearly knows
and puts me down in front of him. We better, but insists that all these concerns
have to move to a different area of the of mine are “old world and overrated.”
I’m sick about the mistakes I’ve made
home to give Levi space.
He truly cannot help it, but it’s hard with him, but I’m not sure what they
to tolerate the tantrums. Jaden loves his were. I try to focus him on his license and
father anyway and never holds a grudge. insurance, but nothing gets done. What’s
Levi frequently apologizes, but the be- the next best step? — Helicopter Mom In
havior never stops. He has never been Michigan
Dear Helicopter Mom: I am sorry you
physically abusive, but he’s walking a fine
line with the verbal nastiness. I’m con- didn’t mention what exactly your son
does for these nonprofit organizations.
stantly a referee to prevent escalation.
I love Levi and my son. Should I con- Because they are “nonprofit” does not
tinue trying to make it work? Or should mean there is no money to pay their em-
I run for the hills with Jaden? — Second- ployees. Not only do staffers at nonprof-
its earn good wages, there are also ben-
Guessing My Life
Dear Second-Guessing: Your love efits. The next best step for YOU would
for Levi is beside the point. The longer be to step back, and allow your adult son
Jaden is subjected to his father’s irratio- to conduct his life the way he has chosen
nal outbursts — whether they are aimed and to accept the consequences.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1921
A new system enabling the public to watch
bread making from the mixing of the dough
to the finished loaf will be demonstrated to
Pendleton people when the Bake-Rite Sanitary
Bakery opens business Tuesday morning in the
new Koch building on Main street. Mr. Karl
Swanson has installed several Bake-Rite plants
in the Northwest and only recently finished one
at Bend, Oregon. The oven will have a capacity
of 120 loaves every 40 minutes, and hot bread
will be available every hour. Gas will be used
for fuel and later electricity will be installed for
this purpose. The bakery is the first business to
move into the new building.
50 years ago — 1971
For some of the increasing numbers of veter-
ans entering the labor market, it’s proving to be
a discouraging road toward a steady job and
paycheck sufficient to support themselves and
their families. It can be especially tough for
young men who went into the service from
high school and have no previous civilian job
experience. Ed Pellessier, fire chief at Umatilla
Army Depot, himself a veteran of World War
II and the father of a veteran of the Vietnam
conflict, has found a way to make room for at
least a few of those ex-servicemen. He has had
some vacant firemen positions in his depart-
ment reengineered to training slots, and this
fall three Vietnam veterans have been hired to
fill those jobs. In addition to required on-the-job
training, the men have agreed as a condition of
employment to enroll in college-level studies
equivalent to 45 credit hours to be completed
within two years. Both the hiring and the agree-
ment were effected under the Veterans Read-
justment Appointments program.
25 years ago — 1996
In the not-so-distant future, students from
throughout Umatilla and Morrow counties will
likely help their teachers troubleshoot computer
problems. Video conferencing may also be in
place, allowing one teacher to reach out to a
multitude of classrooms for instruction. Both
goals were developed by Michael Lasher, the
Umatilla-Morrow Education Service District’s
new information technology director. Last
week, Lasher spearheaded a hook-up of the tiny
Ukiah School District to the Internet, an on-line
existence he likened to an educational democ-
racy. “You are at no disadvantage in being in
Ukiah than if you lived in New York City,” he
explained. For Lasher, computers are tools that
help students and teachers open educational
opportunities.
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 Nov. 18, 1991, Shi-
ite Muslim kidnappers in
Lebanon freed Anglican
Church envoy Terry Waite
and Thomas Sutherland,
the American dean of ag-
riculture at the American
University of Beirut.
In 1883, the United
States and Canada adopt-
ed a system of Standard
Time zones.
In 1963, the Bell Sys-
tem introduced the first
commercial touch-tone
telephone system in Car-
negie and Greensburg,
Pennsylvania.
In 1976, Spain’s parlia-
ment approved a bill to es-
tablish a democracy after
37 years of dictatorship.
In 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo
J. Ryan, D-Calif., and
four others were killed in
Jonestown, Guyana, by
members of the Peoples
Temple; the killings were
followed by a night of
mass murder and suicide
by more than 900 cult
members.
In 1987, the congres-
sional Iran-Contra com-
mittees issued their final
report, saying President
Ronald Reagan bore “ul-
timate responsibility” for
wrongdoing by his aides.
A fire at London King’s
Cross railway station
claimed 31 lives.
In 1999, 12 people were
killed when a bonfire un-
der construction at Texas
A&M University col-
lapsed. A jury in Jasper,
Texas, convicted Shawn
Allen Berry of murder for
his role in the dragging
death of James Byrd Jr.,
but spared him the death
penalty.
In 2003, the Massa-
chusetts Supreme Judicial
Court ruled 4-to-3 that the
state constitution guaran-
teed gay couples the right
to marry.
In 2004, Former Presi-
dent Bill Clinton’s library
opened in Little Rock,
Arkansas; in attendance
were President George W.
Bush, former President
George H.W. Bush and
former President Jimmy
Carter. Former Ku Klux
Klansman Bobby Frank
Cherry, convicted of kill-
ing four black girls in the
racially motivated bomb-
ing of a Birmingham,
Alabama, church in 1963,
died in prison at age 74.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE