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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Unrequited love for best
friend is dead-end street
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: Five years into our
every day. We are Roman Catholic
marriage, my wife and I took a
and attend church services at least
girlfriend, “Sonya.” I fell madly in
twice a week.
love with her. Unfortunately, my rela-
My problem is, I want her to
tionship with my wife cooled because
sleep with me in the same bed,
she changed as a person. We ended up
but without having sex. She says
divorcing.
sleeping together is wrong, against
I’m still in love with Sonya, but
God’s will and we should not do it. I
obviously nothing will ever come of it.
said as long as we don’t have sex, we
Jeanne
I’m her conidant and best friend, and Phillips are not committing a sin. I talked to
she tells me all about her dating life.
a priest about this and he agreed with
Advice
I’m having trouble dealing with it,
me. What do you think? — Nonage-
but I don’t think I could handle not
narian In Minnesota
seeing her face light up when she speaks
Dear Nonagenarian: If your priest
about her new girlfriend. My love for Sonya blesses it, who am I to argue?
runs to my core — it’s one for the ages. She
Dear Abby: All my life, I’ve put my belt
IS my soul. I don’t want to lose her as my on from left to right. I never really questioned
best friend, but I don’t know how to manage why. Just reckoned it had something to do
the pain of my unrequited love. Please help with me being right-handed.
me. — Demolished In Connecticut
Recently, an old acquaintance told me I
Dear Demolished: Your love for Sonya have been doing it wrong. According to him,
may run to the core, but it isn’t returned. only women do it from the left. Men belt up
If she’s in love with another woman, your right-to-left.
chances of winding up with her are some-
Abby, who’s right? Is there a correct way
where between slim and none. That’s why to wear a belt? Is it a gender thing, a comfort
you must now decide if a bleeding heart thing or does it even matter? — Not Too Big
is a condition you really want to live with. For My Britches
My advice is to be kind to yourself, get off
Dear Not Too Big: Most men insert their
a track that is leading nowhere and look for belts from left to right, and most women do it
someone who can love you back.
from right to left. However, unless you are a
Dear Abby: My lady friend and I have member of the military and must adhere to a
been living in the same apartment building strict dress code, you have the right to buckle
for a year. It is a retirement community, and your belt whichever way you wish.
we each have our own apartment. (We are
To My Muslim Readers: A happy Eid
both in our 90s.) We are together almost al-Fitr, one and all.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 6, 1916
Another movement was started in the
council last evening for the removal of poles
and wires from the main business streets of
Pendleton. Mayor Best brought the matter
up but conined his criticisms entirely to
the telephone company. However, some of
the members of the council were in favor of
making the same demands upon the electric
company as were made upon the telephone
company. Both have poles and wires on the
main streets.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 6, 1966
Concern mounted this morning for
missing government trapper James Chet-
wood of Pendleton who is long overdue
on a coyote trapping trip in to the rolling
wheat country between Helix and Holdman.
Chetwood left his Mt. Hebron home at 7
a.m. Tuesday for a day of checking coyote
traps in the Holdman area. When he failed
to show up at home Tuesday evening, his
wife became alarmed and called farmers
in the Holdman area to learn if anyone had
seen him. Farmers and ranchers conducted a
search using radio equipped four-wheel drive
rigs late Tuesday without inding a trace of
the widely known trapper. Mrs. Chetwood
said her husband was supposed to return
around 4 p.m. and then head out today for his
trapping camp in the woods. A check of the
forest camp showed he had not visited there.
An aerial search was made of the area this
morning with no trace found of Chetwood
and his white four-wheel drive Scout.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 6, 1991
Maj. Gen. Raymond “Fred” Rees of
Helix, the former adjutant general of the
Oregon National Guard, will be sworn in
at the Pentagon as the new director of the
Army National Guard Monday morning.
Rees, 46, will administer a $4.6 billion
budget for 54 states and territories. He
will provide guidance on achieving federal
standards, negotiate and allocate force
structure for each state, and ensure each state
is properly funded to perform their federal
military missions. A 1966 graduate of the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Rees
earned a degree in law from the University
of Oregon. He managed the family’s farm
at Helix until his appointment as the adju-
tant general in 1987. Rees becomes the
irst Oregon National Guardsman to hold
a distinct military leadership position in
Washington, D.C.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 188th day of
2016. There are 178 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On July 6, 1944, an
estimated 168 people died in
a ire that broke out during a
performance in the main tent
of the Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus in
Hartford, Connecticut. (One
of the survivors of the blaze
was future actor Charles
Nelson Reilly, then age 13.)
On this date:
In 1535, Sir Thomas More
was executed in England for
high treason.
In 1777, during the
American Revolution, British
forces captured Fort Ticond-
eroga.
In 1865, the weekly
publication The Nation, the
self-described “lagship of the
left,” made its debut.
In 1917, during World
War I, Arab forces led by T.E.
Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi
captured the port of Aqaba
from the Turks.
In 1933, the irst All-Star
baseball game was played at
Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the
American League defeated
the National League, 4-2.
In 1945, President Harry
S. Truman signed an exec-
utive order establishing the
Medal of Freedom. Nicaragua
became the irst nation to
ratify the United Nations
Charter.
In 1957, Althea Gibson
became the irst black tennis
player to win a Wimbledon
singles title as she defeated
fellow American Darlene
Hard 6-3, 6-2.
In 1964, the movie “A
Hard Day’s Night,” starring
The Beatles, had its world
premiere in London. British
colony Nyasaland became
the independent country of
Malawi.
In 1988, 167 North Sea
oil workers were killed when
explosions and ires destroyed
a drilling platform. Medical
waste and other debris began
washing up on New York
City-area seashores, forcing
the closing of several popular
beaches.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Singer-actress Della Reese
is 85. The 14th Dalai Lama,
Tenzin Gyatso, is 81. Actor
Ned Beatty is 79. Singer
Gene Chandler is 76.
Country singer Jeannie Seely
is 76. Actor Burt Ward is 71.
Former President George W.
Bush is 70. Actor-director
Sylvester Stallone is 70.
Actor Fred Dryer is 70.
Actress Shelley Hack is 69.
Actress Nathalie Baye is 68.
Actor Geoffrey Rush is 65.
Actress Allyce Beasley is 65.
Rock musician John Bazz
(The Blasters) is 64. Actor
Brian Posehn is 50. Rapper
Inspectah Deck (Wu-Tang
Clan) is 46. Rapper 50 Cent
is 41. Comedian-actor Kevin
Hart is 37.
Thought for Today:
“Always dream and shoot
higher than you know you
can do. Don’t bother just to
be better than your contem-
poraries or predecessors. Try
to be better than yourself.” —
William Faulkner, American
author (born 1897, died this
date in 1962).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE