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Thursday, May 7, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Cancer diagnosis is unlikely
to thaw grandmother’s heart
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I recently found out
my parents’ marriage wasn’t a healthy
my grandmother has been diagnosed
one. But only recently has it begun to
with lung cancer and has elected not
affect me emotionally. It isn’t that I
to treat it. The doctors give her a year
blame myself, but that I’m afraid of
at the most. My dilemma is whether
how my own romantic endeavors will
to extend just one more olive branch.
fare.
She has never been a “warm and
Recently, I was told about my
fuzzy” type of grandmother. She was
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cold and distant when I was in my
curious and suspected that one or
Jeanne
teens and 20s, and downright mean Phillips both of them had affairs. But now
when I was in my 30s. If I try to talk
more than before, I worry about
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to her at family functions, she turns
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away and begins a conversation with
all seek, and I believe we all need, but
someone else, not even acknowledging that I don’t see myself as able to handle that kind
I’m standing there. Last year at a family of heartbreak.
reunion, she took several photos with my
I understand why Mom did it — that’s
mom and sister, and when it was suggested part of what hurts me. I’m angry that they
I join them in the photo, she walked away would masquerade a failure “for me,” that
before one could be snapped. I’m not the only failure being their “relationship.” I think my
family member or grandchild she behaves anger is valid. My family has screwed me up
this way toward. None of us knows why.
emotionally and it started long before I knew
Do I try one more time, suspecting the what was going on. What should I do? —
diagnosis hasn’t softened her heart and that Screwed Up In Oregon
I’ll again end up with hurt feelings? Or do
Dear Screwed Up: When children are
I assume that nothing I do now will change raised in a household where the parents’ words
who she is and that I will have no positive, and actions are different, they cope either by
happy memories of her? — Invisible In believing only what they are told (even if it
Kansas
contradicts what they see happening) or only
Dear Invisible: Frankly, the chances of what they see. While it can interfere with
your grandmother transforming into someone forming healthy relationships later in life, it’s
warm and accepting don’t look promising the way they keep themselves sane.
because she appears to be a punitive and
You are right to be concerned, and I hope
unhappy person. However, if you feel you you will discuss this with a licensed coun-
might have regrets if you don’t try once more selor or therapist because if you do, you will
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so that when she dies, you’ll know you did
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van
everything you could. Don’t do it for her; do Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and
it for yourself.
was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Dear Abby: Ever since I was young, Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
which was not that long ago, I have known or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 7, 1915
Over 200 strong Umatilla county people
made the trip to Celilo falls yesterday aboard
the steamer Annie Comings, had the pleasure
of a river ride that was as delightful as it was
novel for those aboard, and participated in the
great celebration at Big Eddy. The steamer
reached the scene of the festivities just in time
to join in the program which was witnessed
by a crowd estimated at 10,000. Miss Thelma
Thompson of Pendleton and Miss Sadie
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other young ladies from over the northwest,
dedicated the canal by each pouring a bottle
of Umatilla river water into the canal. This
ceremony was a pretty one and was conducted
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cameras and a squad of newspapermen with
kodaks.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 7, 1965
The Umatilla County Fair Board has
rescinded its order that the Peace Pipe Museum
must move from fairgrounds building No.
1 during August. Kem Tellefson, fair board
chairman, informed D.W. Bliss, president of the
Umatilla County Historical Society, in a letter
dated May 3. Tellefson also accepted Bliss’s
offer of last week of space in the museum
building during the fair for a rock show. The
decision ends six weeks of apprehension on
the part of historical society members that
they might lose the Roger J. Bounds Indian
collection because of the order. Bliss said the
borrowed collection would leave the city and
probably the state if the order stood.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 7, 1990
Riverside gave coach Kevan Pratt his 200th
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a doubleheader with Pilot Rock Saturday, but
he’ll have to wait a while longer for number
201, thanks to Rockets pitcher Tucker Hodgen.
Riverside took advantage of a bundle of Pilot
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by the 10-run mercy rule. Hodgen faced the
best-hitting lineup in the Columbia Basin
Conference in the second game but struck
out 14 Pirates in a 4-2 victory that kept Pilot
Rock hopes alive for a spot in the District 7A
playoffs.
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 127th day of
2015. There are 238 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On May 7, 1915, in an
incident that sparked inter-
national outrage, a German
U-boat
torpedoed
and
sank the British liner RMS
Lusitania off the southern
coast of Ireland, killing 1,198
people, including 128 Ameri-
cans, out of the nearly 2,000
on board.
On this date:
In 1789 $PHULFD¶V ¿UVW
inaugural ball was held in
New York in honor of Pres-
ident George Washington,
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a week earlier.
In 1824, Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 9 in D minor,
Op. 125, had its premiere in
Vienna.
In 1928, the minimum
voting age for British women
was lowered from 30 to 21 —
the same age as men.
In 1939, Germany and
Italy announced a military
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and political alliance known
as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
In 1942, U.S. Army Gen.
Jonathan Wainwright went
on a Manila radio station to
announce the Allied surrender
of the Philippines to Japanese
forces during World War II.
In 1945, Germany signed
an unconditional surrender
at Allied headquarters in
Rheims, France, ending its
role in World War II.
In 1954, the 55-day Battle
of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam
ended with Vietnamese insur-
gents overrunning French
forces.
In 1975, President Gerald
R. Ford formally declared
an end to the “Vietnam era.”
In Ho Chi Minh City —
formerly Saigon — the Viet
Cong celebrated its takeover.
In 1984, a $180 million
out-of-court settlement was
announced in the Agent
Orange class-action suit
brought by Vietnam veterans
who charged they’d suffered
injury from exposure to the
defoliant.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Sen. Pete Domenici,
R-N.M., is 83. Rhythm-and-
blues singer Thelma Houston
is 72. Actress Robin Strasser
is 70. Singer-songwriter Bill
Danoff is 69. Rock musician
Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful
Dead) is 69. Rock musician
Prairie Prince is 65. Movie
writer-director Amy Hecker-
ling is 63. Actor Michael E.
Knight is 56. Rock musician
Phil Campbell (Motorhead)
is 54. Country musician
Rick Schell is 52. Rock sing-
er-musician Chris O’Connor
(Primitive Radio Gods) is
50. Actress Traci Lords is
47. Singer Eagle-Eye Cherry
is 44. Actor Breckin Meyer
is 41. Rock musician Matt
Helders (Arctic Monkeys) is
29. Actress-comedian Aidy
Bryant is 28. Actor Actress
Dylan Gelula is 21.
Thought for Today:
“Be a philosopher but, amid
all your philosophy be still
a man.” — David Hume,
Scottish philosopher (1711-
1776).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE