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A16 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, January 25, 2022 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ Mother won’t tell child about her dad’s passing FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE B.C. PICKLES BEETLE BAILEY BY LYNN JOHNSTON BY MASTROIANNI AND HART BY BRIAN CRANE they don’t treat him normal with Dear Abby: My grandson expectations. I’m tired of having passed away three months be- to constantly supervise him and fore his daughter was born. feel intimidated about saying When she was 6 months old, things like, “Please don’t climb her mom moved in with her new on the furniture, sit at the table boyfriend. We were allowed vis- when you eat, wash hands your, its for a couple of years, but then please,” etc. What’s your advice? that stopped, so we had to take J EANNE — Tentative In Florida the mom to court to get visita- P HILLIPS Dear Tentative: Quit allowing tion again. ADVICE yourself to be “intimidated” and We learned our visits had tell these parents you would pre- been stopped because we re- fer your socializing to be adults ferred to her boyfriend by his name instead of “Daddy.” We are not only. Or, when you would like to spend allowed to tell our grandchild who her time with them, arrange for it to be al father is. At what age should a child be fresco rather than inside your home. Dear Abby: I need your thoughts told the truth, and how is all this going to affect my granddaughter? — Truth about a good friend who, at the end of the month of my birthday or the first Teller In The South Dear Truth Teller: Your former week of the next one, hits me with a daughter-in-law may prefer her little one birthday card. Then she says she doesn’t call her boyfriend “Daddy” because the know my exact birthdate but at least she man is the only father figure your grand- remembers the month and, therefore, I daughter has ever known. The time for should be thankful. Four years later, I am tempted to tell her to be told all the facts would be when she’s old enough to understand the infor- her if it’s not important enough to re- mation AND her mother chooses to tell member the day, then why bother? Am her about her biological father. The truth I wrong for feeling this way, or should I just be thankful she at least remembers should not negatively affect her. Dear Abby: How do you deal with a the month? — Birthday Boy In Texas Dear Birthday Boy: Not everyone relative whose child is autistic when they come for holiday dinners and let their feels as strongly as you do about per- child climb on the furniture like it’s a sonal milestones. That said, however, playground and walk around the house gratitude can’t be ordered like an item on eating and touching everything with a takeout menu. Because those birthday cards have the opposite effect, express soiled hands? These parents constantly post about that you would prefer she save her post- “treating him like a normal child,” but age money. BY MORT WALKER DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL 100 years ago — 1922 Pendleton has a beaver. He is not in captivity, and he has no desire to be molested, but yester- day he is said to have got into a little difficulty. He was seen on the ice on the river in the vicin- ity of the Main street bridge. One of the men in the party thinking the beaver was a badger, is said to have hurled a stone at Mr. Beaver, and that surprised animal caught the missile in the short ribs. He hoisted his tail in the air, and when the man saw that broad trowel-like appendage, he prayed that he had not injured the beaver, because the animals are protected under federal laws, and anyone molesting them is liable to a heavy fine. The beaver left tracks on the ice and snow on the mill race. He has been working on trees along the mill race for several months. 50 years ago — 1972 The City of Pilot Rock doesn’t want any more federal grants this fiscal year under the Emergency Employment Act. “Our budget can’t stand the extra cost of spending all that free money,” Mayor Bud Coon said. Coon’s comment came as representatives of Umatilla County communities met to discuss the alloca- tion of another $20,595 in EEA funds. Earlier, about $150,000 was distributed in Umatilla County, and Pilot Rock hired another police- man with its share. But the city can’t afford any more because it must put up 10 per cent in matching money for payroll costs, such as insurance. “For that policeman we did hire, we had to come up with a uniform allow- ance, too,” Coon said. “With our tight budget, there’s just not any extra money.” The EEA money was allocated because of persistent unemployment in District 12 counties. 25 years ago — 1997 Students, riding the wave of the Internet, are bringing their parents in to explore its intricacies with them. Schools throughout the area are not just providing Internet access to students, they are beginning to create special programs that involve parents in the maze known as the World Wide Web. Technology Night, held Tuesday at Hawthorne Elementary School in Pendleton, is an example of such an extra-curricular activity. Fourth and fifth grade students and their parents completed research on animals and plants in the rain forest. The night focused on all research tools, from the encyclopedia to the Internet. “The Internet is not a replacement, it’s a supplement,” Jan Peter- son-Terjeson, Hawthorne’s media specialist, pointed out. “Right now it’s a novelty, but really it’s just an additional source of information.” 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 Jan. 25, 1945, the World War II Battle of the Bulge ended as German forces were pushed back to their original positions. In 1533, England’s King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I. In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abra- ham Lincoln accepted Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s resignation as commander of the Army of the Potomac and re- placed him with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker. In 1915, America’s first official transcontinental telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Wat- son, who was in San Fran- cisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph. In 1924, the first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France. In 1945, Grand Rap- ids, Michigan, became the first community to add fluoride to its public water supply. In 1959, American Air- lines began Boeing 707 jet flights between New York and Los Angeles. In 1971, Charles Man- son and three women fol- lowers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actor Sharon Tate. In 1981, the 52 Ameri- cans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States. In 1993, Sears an- nounced that it would no longer publish its famous century-old catalog. In 1994, maintain- ing his innocence, singer Michael Jackson settled a child molestation law- suit against him; terms were confidential, al- though the monetary fig- ure was reportedly $22 million. In 2004, NASA’s Op- portunity rover zipped its first pictures of Mars to Earth, showing a surface smooth and dark red in some places, and strewn with fragmented slabs of light bedrock in others. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE