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Friday, June 26, 2015 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mere mention of marriage causes man to run and hide FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am 59 and have you, to ensure there are fewer rocky a steady, good-paying job. I was patches in your relationship in the married for 20 years, but divorced 11 future. years ago. I am set in my ways. Dear Abby: I have a special I have been seeing a woman, “Pennies From Heaven” story to “Melinda,” for eight years now. She’s share with you. 51 and also has a steady job. We live My dear grandmother recently 30 miles apart. Our relationship has lost her long battle with Alzheimer’s. been somewhat rocky, but we have Toward the end, we weren’t sure how Jeanne also had some really great times. Phillips aware she was, and if she understood Melinda has said for years that she us when we spoke to her. Tonight, my Advice wants to get married. It makes me husband, my sister and I decided to nervous. My hands sweat and I think have dinner at Grandma’s house and of every excuse not to when she brings it up. go through her photos for her funeral. I’m in love with her, but when she brings up After dinner, my sister asked if we had any marriage, I run and hide. chocolate. My husband said, “What about the She feels our relationship should end chocolate in the refrigerator?” I hadn’t seen so she’ll be free to meet someone else and any, but when I went to look, there was a marry. She deserves that right, and I under- packet of chocolate bars wedged in between stand it. I struggle, though, when I don’t hear the drawers. The expiration date on the from her, speak to her or I imagine her with wrapper was two years ago, when Grandma someone else. It drives me nuts, and I end up last lived in the house. contacting her. We start talking and things Abby, the refrigerator had been cleaned VHHP ¿QH IRU D ZKLOH XQWLO WKH 0ZRUG LV out multiple times, but somehow we missed mentioned. the chocolate until today when we needed a I suggested we move in together and sign from my grandmother that she was near. see how it works, but it never happened. Grandma was a Dear Abby fan. We found Abby, what is my problem? Why can’t I get many of your clippings among her photos. married? — Torn & Struggling In Arizona I know she’d love it if you shared this story Dear Torn & Struggling: Your problem with your readers. — Jean’s Granddaughter PD\ EH WKDW \RXU ¿UVW PDUULDJH ² DQG In Tennessee probably your divorce — left you marriage- Dear Jean’s Granddaughter: I’m glad averse. Because you’re in love with Melinda to do it. And speaking as another chocoholic, and can’t manage without her, let me suggest that you found Grandma’s stash in your time that you discuss this with a licensed mental of need warmed my heart. I hope it lifted your health professional and see if you can get spirits during what had to be an emotional beyond your fears. Joint counseling with time. Please accept my condolences for the Melinda would also be helpful for both of loss of your dear grandmother. 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 June 26, 1915 Upon the police court docket his name is written as Charles Lafferty, his offense disor- derly conduct and his penalty $25. Interpreted by the police his offense was that of mashing. Sam Lininger of this city was the complaining witness, alleging that Lafferty followed his 15 year old daughter home last evening and addressed her offensively. The father and the masher came to blows upon Main street while many spectators stood about and watched. He spent the night and all morning at the police station, where he pleaded not guilty and retained an attorney. Before 2 o’clock came, however, he put up $25 and left town with his wife and little boy. He seemed bent on leaving the town of his misadventure behind him as rapidly as possible, for his hat was blown off by the breeze and he stopped not to recover it. The look on his wife’s face led some to conjecture that he might lose his hair also before he got home. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 26, 1965 Closed-course stock plane racing is appar- HQWO\ D FORVHG ¿HOG 7KLV ZDV EURXJKW RXW Friday morning when a woman pilot, Irene Leverton, San Jose, Calif., tried to enter the Pendleton “100” stock plane race to be held at the airport here today and Sunday. To make a ORQJVWRU\VKRUWWKHDQVZHURIWKHUDFHRI¿FLDOV ZDV³12´5DFHRI¿FLDOVVD\WKHEDVLFUHDVRQ is that the Pendleton “100” has adopted the rules and regulations of the Professional Race Pilot’s Association, which excludes women pilots. The turned-down pilot, who has been À\LQJVLQFHDQGZKRVD\VVKHKDVORJJHG RYHUKRXUVRIÀ\LQJWLPHKRXUVDUH required to race in the Pendleton “100”), said Friday she knew she couldn’t win the race with WKHSODQHVKHÀHZKHUHIURP6DQ-RVHEXWWKDW it is more a matter of principle. “In all good conscience, I can say that I’ve shown up here with a plane, and I’m here to race — the rest is up to them.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 26, 1990 George and Charmaine Meyers probably were killed by strangers, Umatilla County Sheriff Jim Carey said this morning. The bodies of the Meyers, from Brownsville, a town of about 1,300 near Albany, were found by co-workers at about 6 a.m. Monday along Lincton Mountain Road. The murder scene was just over three miles north of the Tollgate Mountain Chalet on Highway 204. Carey said no weapons were found at the scene and there was no evidence of a robbery. The Meyers were killed away from their pickup, which apparently was pushed off the road about 150 feet from where the bodies were discovered, Carey said. George Meyers had been operating a bulldozer and blade for Riedel Construction, a 3RUWODQG¿UPFRQWUDFWLQJZLWK$77RQD¿EHU optic project. 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 177th day of 2015. There are 188 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 26, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. On this date: In 1483, Richard III began his reign as King of England (he was crowned the following month at Westmin- ster Abbey). In 1870 WKH ¿UVW VHFWLRQ of Atlantic City, New Jersey’s Boardwalk was opened to the public. In 1915, following a whirlwind courtship, poet T.S. Eliot married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in London. (The marriage proved disas- trous, but the couple never divorced.) Air conditioning manufacturer Carrier Engi- STONE SOUP BIG NATE neering Corp. was incorpo- rated in New York. In 1925, Charles Chap- lin’s classic comedy “The Gold Rush” premiered at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. In 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized the U.S. Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean War. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city’s resi- dents, declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner). In 1974, the supermarket price scanner made its debut in Troy, Ohio, as a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum costing 67 cents and bearing a Uniform Product Code (UPC) was scanned by a Marsh Super- market cashier. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Billy Davis Jr. is 77. Rock singer Chris Isaak is 59. Rock singer Patty Smyth is 58. Singer Terri Nunn (Berlin) is 54. Rock musician Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) is 46. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is 45. Actor Nick Offerman is 45. MLB All-Star Derek Jeter is 41. Country singer Gretchen Wilson is 41. Rock musician Nathan Followill (Kings of Leon) is 36. Actor-musician Jason Schwartzman is 35. Actress Aubrey Plaza is 31. Singer Ariana Grande is 22. Thought for Today: “The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.” — Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Amer- ican athlete (born this date in 1911, died in 1956). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
