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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