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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, April 9, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Favorite uncle reveals himself
with a shocking sext message
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I am heartbroken. I
one say or do? — Beans, The Musi-
have an uncle “Tony” I’m close to,
cal Fruit
who is like my best friend. I was send-
Dear B.T.M.F.: Stop beating
ing him pictures of a football game
yourself up over this. Expelling gas is
and he sent me back a very inappro-
normal. According to the National In-
priate picture of himself. He says it
stitutes of Health, the average person
was a “mistake,” that it was supposed
passes gas about 14 times a day — al-
to go to his wife, but the text message
though probably not as spectacularly
he sent with it showed different.
as you did.
Jeanne
I don’t want to be around him. I’m Phillips
If it happens again, don’t try to be
disgusted and hurt over this. I need
funny.
Just say, “Excuse me,” and if
Advice
advice. What do I do? — Heartbro-
the “toot” is a fragrant one, distance
ken In Georgia
yourself. I’m positive that would be
Dear Heartbroken: Share the photo and appreciated.
texts with your parents and ask what they
Dear Abby: We are planning to give a
think about them. Then ask if they think you MRLQWEDE\VKRZHUQH[WPRQWKIRUWZRVLVWHUV
should forward the picture and text message in-law who are expecting their babies three
to your aunt with a note explaining Uncle ZHHNV DSDUW7KH MRLQW VKRZHU LV D QHFHVVL-
Tony said they were meant for her, and you ty because some of the relatives will need to
didn’t want her to miss them.
travel quite a distance to attend.
Because he makes you uncomfortable, lis-
Most of the guests know both girls, but
ten to your intuition and keep your distance some will know only one of them. Is there
because what he did was appalling.
a way we can word the invitation so these
Dear Abby: I’m a female working full- guests won’t feel obligated to “gift” both
WLPHLQDQRI¿FHZLWKDOOPHQ<HVWHUGD\DI- babies? Any suggestions will be gratefully
ternoon, I ate a salad that contained several appreciated because we are stumped. —
varieties of beans. I was standing outside my Stumped In Ohio
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Dear Stumped: Put nothing on the invi-
salesmen was telling when the beans got the tations themselves mentioning gifts. How-
best of me and I passed gas.
ever, it is acceptable to include an INSERT
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the arm and said, “I guess that’s what I think going to be a large one, you could email the
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I didn’t know what else to say or do. Today I it will be relatively small, pick up the phone
can’t look either of them in the face.
and call.
Since this seems to be something that
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu-
happens to older people (I’m 69), and it’s ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
something we often don’t have total control founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
over — please tell me how to “recover.” If Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
this should happen again, what on earth does or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 9, 1915
Today, the 50th anniversary of the surren-
der of the Confederate forces at Appomattox,
Virginia, probably means more to Seth M.
Richardson than it does to any other resident
of Pendleton, for not only was he present on
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teen feet of General U.S. Grant and General
Robert E. Lee when the latter surrendered his
sword to the former and the former courte-
ously refused to accept it. Richardson was a
member of the First Maine cavalry which,
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der and which, following the surrender, rode
all day with General Grant as an escort.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 9, 1965
A freak accident during baseball practice
at Pendleton High School Wednesday after-
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son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown of Pend-
leton, underwent surgery for a broken bone
located directly above the left eye, received
when both he and the catcher scrambled after
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bled and his son tripped over him. His head
slammed into the fallen man’s knee on the
way down, breaking the bone. The youth was
reported to be in good shape this morning at
St. Anthony Hospital.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 9, 1990
Frank Harkenrider was sworn in as may-
or of Hermiston following a vote of the City
Council Monday night. Harkenrider, as pres-
ident of the council, became acting mayor
upon the death of Mayor Bill Neuffer April 8.
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to the remainder of Neuffer’s term — through
Dec. 31. Harkenrider has served more than
29 years on the council and followed in his
father’s footsteps by becoming mayor of the
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have both father and son serve at the head of
the council. His wife Beverly, his three grown
daughters and oldest grandchild as well as an
audience of friends attended the meeting to
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
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BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 99th day of
2015. There are 266 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On April 9, 1865, Con-
federate Gen. Robert E.
Lee surrendered his army to
Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant at Appomattox Court
House in Virginia.
On this date:
In 1413, the coronation of
England’s King Henry V took
place in Westminster Abbey.
In 1682, French explorer
Robert de La Salle claimed
the Mississippi River Basin
for France.
In 1913 WKH ¿UVW JDPH
was played at Ebbets Field,
the newly built home of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost
to the Philadelphia Phillies,
1-0.
In 1914, the Tampico In-
cident took place as eight
U.S. sailors were arrested by
Mexican authorities for al-
legedly entering a restricted
area and held for a short time
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before being released.
In 1939, singer Marian
Anderson performed a con-
cert at the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, D.C., after
being denied the use of Con-
stitution Hall by the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolu-
tion.
In 1940, during World
War II, Germany invaded
Denmark and Norway.
In 1942, American and
Philippine defenders on
Bataan capitulated to Jap-
anese forces; the surrender
was followed by the notori-
ous Bataan Death March.
In 1945, German pastor
and theologian Dietrich Bon-
hoeffer, 39, was executed by
the Nazis at the Flossenburg
concentration camp.
In 1959, NASA presented
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Carpenter, Gordon Cooper,
John Glenn, Gus Grissom,
Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard
and Donald Slayton. Archi-
tect Frank Lloyd Wright, 91,
died in Phoenix, Ariz.
Today’s Birthdays: Play-
boy magazine founder Hugh
Hefner is 89. Satirical song-
writer and mathematician
Tom Lehrer is 87. Naturalist
Jim Fowler is 85. Actor Jean-
Paul Belmondo is 82. Ac-
tress Michael Learned is 76.
Country singer Margo Smith
is 73. Country singer Hal
Ketchum is 62. Actor Dennis
Quaid is 61. Comedian Jim-
my Tingle is 60. Country mu-
sician Dave Innis (Restless
Heart) is 56. Actress-sports
reporter Lisa Guerrero is 51.
Actor Mark Pellegrino is 50.
Actress-model Paulina Poriz-
kova is 50. Actress Cynthia
Nixon is 49. Rock singer
Gerard Way (My Chemical
Romance) is 38. Rock mu-
sician Albert Hammond Jr.
(The Strokes) is 35. Actress
Kristen Stewart is 25.
Thought for Today: “The
ultimate test of a moral soci-
ety is the kind of world that
it leaves to its children.” —
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-
1945).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE