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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Teen struggles after his
family’s move recently
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
one’s mental health, and while it
Dear Abby: Because of frus-
might benefit your son to learn
tration with our state’s substan-
to adapt, he might do better ac-
tial COVID restrictions and our
ademically if you put him in a
teen son’s struggles with remote
friendlier environment.
learning, we moved to another
Dear Abby: I have two grown
state. At the time, our son was
sons who are 13 months apart.
excited to move. However, we are
The younger, age 44, constantly
now nearly through the school
J EANNE
and viciously degrades his broth-
year and he still hasn’t made
P HILLIPS
er in text messages. His anger
new friends. He’s depressed and
ADVICE
level is so high that on Christ-
wants to move back.
mas Eve two years ago, while he
He plays a sport and has a
was visiting from a neighboring
part-time job, but neither have
helped. My husband and I love it here. state with his wife, he declared, “F—-
In fact, our son loves everything except this family!” and stalked out.
Since then, his wife has divorced him,
his lack of a social life.
We work from home, so it would be he’s been rear-ended in a car wreck due
an option for us to temporarily return to road rage, lost his job and alienated
so he can finish his remaining two years himself from our family. Online research
of high school in our original state. He I’ve done indicates he’s narcissistic. Last
has always been very social, so we are month, I texted him my concern that he’d
surprised he hasn’t made new friends. walked off his job, which unleashed an
Should we push him to keep trying? Or angry tirade against his brother and me.
Everything is our fault, and he bad-
is moving back for two years the best
for his (and our) mental well-being? mouths his ex-wife mercilessly. He’s an
adult, so I can’t force him to seek mental
— Wants The Best For Him
Dear Wants: Moving during one’s health help. Is there anything I can do?
teens isn’t easy, particularly because — Worn Out In Wyoming
Dear Worn Out: Your son is deeply
cliques have already formed. Before
packing your bags, talk with your son’s troubled, and for that you have my sym-
teachers and counselors about why he pathy. For the sake of your own mental
has had problems integrating there. They health, I strongly recommend you con-
may be able to offer some important in- sult a licensed mental health profession-
al. You can’t diagnose your son’s prob-
sight.
However, if they cannot do that and lem, and neither can I. You also cannot
you are prepared to make the move force him into therapy before he’s ready
when the school term is over, do it. Being to admit that he needs it. Please don’t
treated as an outcast isn’t good for any- wait to do this. I know you are hurting.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
James H. Raley, of Pendleton, Democratic
candidate for the honorable office of senator
of the twenty-first district of Oregon, visited
Milton on Friday in order to become acquainted
with the people and learn as near as possible of
their needs and opinions regarding both tickets
now before them. It is, of course, unnecessary
to state that Mr. Raley found a united and inde-
pendent people, a people with one thought and
one purpose first and uppermost in their minds
— division. He found them ready and willing to
accept with gratitude any measure which might
assure Eastern Umatilla of her rights with due
regard for the interests of Pendleton, and found,
too, that could this simple but everlasting ques-
tion be amicably disposed of Umatilla county
would roll up such a Democratic majority next
June as she never has before.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Jack Bascomb, Pendleton, was given $15
from Blue Mountain Community College
to build an integrator, an electric device that
normally costs between $500 and $3,000. It
took four months, but Bascomb, a sopho-
more at the college, finally got his personal-
ly-designed integrator to work. And he stayed
within his budget. Now, he and BMCC chem-
istry instructor Ron Nohr are preparing a paper
to be presented to a chemical journal with the
feeling that industrial concerns might be inter-
ested in Bascomb’s design. “It is impressive
when you consider the cost, compactness and
simplicity in relation to its function,” Nohr said.
Bascomb, an A student in electronics, did not
need the class, but took it as an elective. He
readily admits that he had to cut some corners
to stay within the budget.
25 years ago — 1997
Before long, pedestrians will be able to
walk under the 10th Street bridge, although the
river may get in the way once in a while. The
city Planning Commission recently gave its
blessing to the plan by approving a flood-zone
development permit. At this point, the river
parkway suffers from a lack of access to the
riverbank. The underpass will enhance access
to the river, as well as connecting two stretches
of the walkway. Construction is scheduled for
this summer. According to the permit, the city
will be required to not put in more material
than they excavate during the development.
You don’t want to put in more than you take
out. If you do that you end up with more flood-
ing than would naturally occur.
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 April 26, 1986, an
explosion and fire at the
Chernobyl nuclear power
plant in Ukraine caused
radioactive fallout to be-
gin spewing into the atmo-
sphere. (Dozens of people
were killed in the immedi-
ate aftermath of the di-
saster while the long-term
death toll from radiation
poisoning is believed to
number in the thousands.)
In 1607, English colo-
nists went ashore at pres-
ent-day Cape Henry, Vir-
ginia, on an expedition to
establish the first perma-
nent English settlement in
the Western Hemisphere.
In 1865, John Wil-
kes Booth, the assassin
of President Abraham
Lincoln, was surrounded
by federal troops near
Port Royal, Virginia, and
killed.
In 1913, Mary Phagan,
a 13-year-old worker at
a Georgia pencil factory,
was strangled; Leo Frank,
the factory superinten-
dent, was convicted of her
murder and sentenced to
death. (Frank’s death sen-
tence was commuted, but
he was lynched by an anti-
Semitic mob in 1915.)
In 1977, the nightclub
Studio 54 had its opening
night in New York.
In 2000, Vermont Gov.
Howard Dean signed the
nation’s first bill allowing
same-sex couples to form
civil unions.
In 2009, the United
States declared a public
health emergency as more
possible cases of swine flu
surfaced from Canada to
New Zealand; officials in
Mexico City closed ev-
erything from concerts to
sports matches to church-
es in an effort to stem the
spread of the virus.
In 2018, comedian Bill
Cosby was convicted of
drugging and molesting
Temple University em-
ployee Andrea Constand
at his suburban Philadel-
phia mansion in 2004.
(Cosby was later sen-
tenced to three to 10 years
in prison, but Pennsylva-
nia’s highest court threw
out the conviction and
released him from prison
in June 2021, ruling that
the prosecutor in the case
was bound by his prede-
cessor’s agreement not to
charge Cosby.)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE