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East Oregonian
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Thursday, July 9, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man objects to girlfriend’s
family vacation with ex
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My girlfriend has been
this will be a deal breaker — which is
divorced for two years. She shares
an ultimatum — are you tolerating it?
custody of her two girls, ages 5 and
Dear Abby: I’m a 17-year-old girl
6, with her ex. She wants to remain
about to head off to college. I have a
friends with him for the sake of the
great relationship with my father, but
girls. I have supported her friendly
my mother and I are not on the best
relationship with him despite the
of terms.
repeated lies he tells and the deceptive
Half the time, she’s loving and
stories he makes up in an attempt to
supportive and willing to spend time
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break us up.
Phillips with me. Other times, she is verbally
Recently, he decided he wants to
and emotionally abusive. She’ll call
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take his daughters away for a long
me a failure and a disappointment,
weekend. He invited my girlfriend to
and cry for no reason (most likely to
come along and plans to pay for everything, get attention).
including a hotel room with two beds they will
She has done this since my childhood, and
share. I have said repeatedly that this vacation I want to escape her toxicity by shutting her
and the arrangements are a deal breaker for out of my life as an adult. However, she has
me. She assures me that her intent is to be threatened suicide (she has tried it before).
with her daughters and she has no desire for
My father is on her side and says he
intimacy with her ex. She refuses to change will refuse contact with me if I disown her.
her mind and says I need to trust her. The fact I want to keep them both in my life, but it
is, I don’t trust HIM based on his actions and KDVEHFRPHWRRGLI¿FXOWWRHQGXUHKHUDEXVH
many issues between them in the past.
anymore. Please help. — College Bound In
Am I paranoid or obsessing over this? The Midwest
I’d appreciate your input. — Uneasy Down
Dear College Bound: You’re an intelli-
South
gent young woman. I’m sure that by now you
Dear Uneasy: You are neither obsessing have realized that your mother has serious
nor paranoid. You are normal. Because the emotional issues for which one can only hope
ex seems intent on breaking you up and he she is receiving professional help.
seems to have no girlfriend in the picture, you
When you leave for college, you will no
have a right to feel uneasy. (I’m assuming longer be subjected to her mood swings or
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necessary she could defend her virtue.)
not herself. Once you have completed your
Questions that occur to me are: Why would education you will be on your own, and will
she want to go away for a long “family” most likely make a life for yourself wherever
weekend under these circumstances? Why your profession takes you. It isn’t necessary
would she insist on it even though she knows to make any decisions about cutting anyone
it bothers the man with whom she has a rela- out of your life now. Time will take care of
tionship? And why, after informing her that your problem.
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 9, 1915
Woe unto the speeders, male or female,
hereafter. The day of suspended sentences is
over and the guilty will be punished in their
pocketbooks according to the extent of the
offenses. It has been so ordered. Heretofore, it
has been the custom of Recorder Fitz Gerald
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minimum amount and to suspend sentence
upon speeders of the other sex pending
good behavior. This custom, in the view of
some members of the council, is not having
the desired effect and the recorder was last
evening instructed to exercise no more leni-
ency with offenders, regardless of sex.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 9, 1965
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into the city limits. Pendleton Grain Growers
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Bell. A shed or garage belonging to contractor
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a Pendleton policeman sprayed water from
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toward the Stettner home and a home rented
to Jerry Myrick at 3305 SW Hailey.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 9, 1990
Charlie Daniels wasted no time burning
horse hair Friday evening, playing to an
audience of about 1,800 people in the concert
bowl at the Red Lion. It was the second
concert in three years for the Charlie Daniels
Band, which performed as the Round-Up and
Happy Canyon headliner in 1987. Except for
one incident at the end of the show, concert-
goers were well behaved. A 20-year-old
Irrigon man, Scott Collins, was seriously
injured when he dove into the duck pond that
separated the crowd and the band. Collins
was one of three young men who dove into
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supervisor at St. Mary Medical Center said
Collins suffered a neck injury and was in
serious and stable condition.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
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BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 190th day of
2015. There are 175 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On July 9, 1776, the
Declaration of Independence
was read aloud to Gen.
George Washington’s troops
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On this date:
In
1540,
England’s
King Henry VIII had his
6-month-old marriage to his
fourth wife, Anne of Cleves,
annulled.
In
1816,
Argentina
declared independence from
Spain.
In 1850, the 12th pres-
ident of the United States,
Zachary Taylor, died after
serving only 16 months of his
term. (He was succeeded by
Millard Fillmore.)
In 1896, William Jennings
Bryan delivered his famous
“cross of gold” speech at the
Democratic national conven-
tion in Chicago.
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killed in a train collision in
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Distinguished Service Cross
was established by an Act of
Congress.
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Justice Benjamin Cardozo,
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York.
In 1945, architect Frank
Lloyd Wright unveiled his
design for the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, a
spiral structure on Manhat-
tan’s Upper East Side that
was completed in 1959.
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S. Truman asked Congress to
formally end the state of war
between the United States
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end to the state of war was
declared in October 1951.)
In 1995, Jerry Garcia
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as frontman of the Grateful
Dead during a concert at
Chicago’s Soldier Field
(Garcia died a month later).
Today’s Birthdays: Actor-
singer Ed Ames is 88. Former
Defense Secretary Donald H.
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and author Oliver Sacks is 82.
Actor James Hampton is 79.
Actor Brian Dennehy is 77.
Actor Richard Roundtree is
73. Author Dean Koontz is 70.
Football Hall-of-Famer O.J.
Simpson is 68. Actor Chris
Cooper is 64. TV personality
John Tesh is 63. Actor Tom
Hanks is 59. Actress-rock
singer Courtney Love is
51. Rock musician Frank
Bello (Anthrax) is 50. Actor
David O’Hara is 50. Rock
singer-musician Isaac Brock
(Modest Mouse) is 40. Musi-
cian/producer Jack White is
40. Rock musician Dan Estrin
(Hoobastank) is 39. Actor-di-
rector Fred Savage is 39.
Thought for Today: “If
writers were good business
men, they’d have too much
sense to be writers.” — Irvin
S. Cobb, American humorist
(1876-1944).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE