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Wednesday, June 3, 2015 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Boyfriend with hidden child may harbor other secrets 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’m having a hard time It has always been about Mom’s getting over a secret my boyfriend, needs, not ours. I, for one, plan to put “Wayne,” kept from me. We have KHUXQRSHQHGOHWWHULQKHUFRI¿QWREH been off and on for 14 years, but back buried with her when the time comes. on for the past four. The problem is, he +HUOHWWHULVMXVWD¿QDOKXUWIXODUURZ had a child with a woman in a different to stab us with, and I already have had country. The child is now 9. Wayne a lifetime of that. I don’t need her to didn’t mention it until four years ago, damage me further. during our last breakup. It bothers me Am I wrong? Normally parents Jeanne that he kept it from me. leave heartwarming letters to give Phillips I have since met the woman and their children peace. She reads your Advice the child, but my trust in my boyfriend column, so I hope she reconsiders. — is strained. In the back of my mind I Already Wounded In California keep wondering what else he hasn’t told me. Dear Already Wounded: You’re not Abby, he was always against having kids with wrong. Your mother appears to be toxic. me. He said he didn’t want any. Now I wonder Sending her negativity down with her is a if it was because he already had one. perfect solution in my opinion. Wayne is surprised I’m so challenged by Dear Abby: I am an Irish-American man this. He says he and the woman dated for only with a problem of the heart. I recently began a few months, then broke up because he didn’t reconnecting on social media with a girl I feel they were compatible. She told me their knew in high school. I wrote her several times, child was the product of a one-night stand. and she said what I wrote was very sweet and Now I don’t know who to believe. Please kind. She told me, however, that she was advise. — Betrayed Out West seeing someone. I said I understood and did Dear Betrayed: There is a reason why not want to mess up the relationship. you and Wayne have been “off and on” for 14 I decided to bide my time and hope she years, and I’m guessing it’s because he has a becomes free. I love her with all my heart, problem with commitment. Now it appears he and this waiting is killing me. Should I keep may also have a problem leveling with you. biding my time and waiting, or should I move If you have to make a choice about whom to on? — Hoping In Tennessee believe, I think you should believe the mother Dear Hoping: When the woman told you of his child because by telling you what she she was seeing someone, she may have been did, it’s clear she wasn’t trying to make herself trying to tell you kindly that she isn’t interested look any better. in a romance with you. For you to put your Dear Abby: My 85-year-old mother told life on hold waiting for a woman you haven’t me that upon her death she is leaving each of seen since high school would be a mistake, her children a letter expressing to them how and that’s why I’m advising you to move on. they have hurt her throughout the years. Never Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van once has she acknowledged how deeply she Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and has hurt US. It affected our childhood and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. adulthood. I think if she feels we hurt her, she Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or should say it to us while she’s living. P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 3, 1915 To make an investigation and determine if possible what it is that causes the death of so many sheep as they pass over Poison Ridge, Thomas P. MacKenzie, assistant district forester, Dr. H.E. Pinkerton, chief of the federal bureau of animal industry in the northwest, and W.W. Cryder, supervisor of the Umatilla forest, left this morning. The assistant forester came up from Portland and Dr. Pinkerton came over from Walla Walla to join Mr. Cryder. For a number of years many sheep, driven over the Rocky Ridge road from Pilot Rock to Starkey, have died soon after passing a certain hill which has acquired the name of Poison Ridge. It is presumed that there is a poisonous weed WKDWÀRXULVKHVLQWKHORFDOLW\DQGLIWKHIHGHUDO RI¿FLDOV VXFFHHG LQ GHWHUPLQLQJ ZKLFK LW LV they will take steps to kill it out. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 3, 1965 Hill climbing enthusiasts last night were kicked off a steep Pendleton slope by action of the City Council. “Fourteen motorcycles and six cars” roared up the dirt track that is designated SE 15th on a recent Sunday, Rosella McCarton, an area resident, told the council. She said one of the cars apparently had brake failure and slid backward down the hill onto busy Highway 30 in front of St. Anthony Hospital. The City Council unan- imously approved a resolution closing both SE 15th and SE 16th to motor vehicles. City engineer Tony Groh said the grade on one of the dirt tracks is about 40 percent and that no ordinary passenger car could climb it. The council’s action deprives no one of access to their property. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 3, 1990 All you little trout stay away. Don’t want DQ\ RI \RX VXFNHUV RU ¿QJHUOLQJV HLWKHU ,W¶V ELJ¿VKWLPH7KHVSULQJFKLQRRNVDUHUXQQLQJ $ KDQGIXO RI ¿VKHUPHQ VHW XSRQ WKH XSSHU reaches of the Umatilla River Wednesday for WKH ¿UVW VSULQJ FKLQRRN VHDVRQ LQ \HDUV Most of them were after trout, too. One man, lurking for the big ones, had a close encounter by 9:30 a.m. “I had one on that weighed at least 15 pounds,” said Fred Otis of Hermiston. “I could tell it was a chinook, I could see it.” 2WLVZDV¿VKLQJVRPHULSSOHVWKDWIHGLQWRD small pool about two miles upstream from the boundary of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. “I couldn’t even slow him down,” he said, “but I have had two more good hits.” 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 154th day of 2015. There are 211 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward H. White EHFDPHWKH¿UVW$PHULFDQWR “walk” in space during the ÀLJKWRI*HPLQL On this date: In 1621, the Dutch West India Co. received its charter for a trade monopoly in parts of the Americas and Africa. In 1808, Confederate Pres- ident Jefferson Davis was born in Christian County, Kentucky. In 1888, the poem “Casey at the Bat,” by Ernest /DZUHQFH 7KD\HU ZDV ¿UVW published in the San Fran- cisco Daily Examiner. In 1924, author Franz Kafka, 40, died near Vienna. In 1935, the French liner Normandie set a record on its maiden voyage, arriving in STONE SOUP BIG NATE New York after crossing the Atlantic in just four days. In 1937, Edward, The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, PDUULHG :DOOLV :DU¿HOG Simpson in a private cere- mony in Monts, France. In 1948, the 200-inch UHÀHFWLQJ +DOH 7HOHVFRSH at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated. In 1955, convicted murderer Barbara Graham, 31, was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison in California, as were two accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, for the 1953 slaying of Mabel Monahan. In 1972, Sally J. Priesand was ordained as America’s ¿UVW IHPDOH UDEEL DW WKH Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. Today’s Birthdays: TV producer Chuck Barris is 86. The president of Cuba, Raul Castro, is 84. Actress Irma P. Hall is 80. Author /DUU\0F0XUWU\LV5RFN singer Ian Hunter (Mott 7KH +RRSOH LV $FWUHVV Penelope Wilton (TV: “Downton Abbey”) is 69. Singer Eddie Holman is 69. Actor Tristan Rogers is 69. Musician Too Slim (Riders LQ WKH 6N\ LV 5RFN musician Richard Moore is 66. Singer Suzi Quatro is 65. Singer Deneice Williams is 64. Singer Dan Hill is 61. Actress Suzie Plakson is 5RFN PXVLFLDQ .HUU\ King (Slayer) is 51. TV host Anderson Cooper is 48. Thought for Today: “It is EHVW WR DFW ZLWK FRQ¿GHQFH no matter how little right you have to it.” — Lillian Hellman, American play- wright (1905-1984). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE