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Thursday, July 30, 2015 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Family pet-sitter helps herself to homeowner’s possessions FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: A trusted and beloved and do it often. family member who takes care of my Many times she’ll pin me down cats — and therefore has a key to my with me on my back, shoulders to the house — has been stealing things ground. Other times, I do the same to like cleaning supplies, knickknacks, her. The loser takes the winner out to family pictures, etc. Most of them have dinner. We enjoy it greatly. little monetary value. But imagine my Are we crazy? Are we weird? surprise when I spotted some of my And most of all, are we alone in this PLVVLQJVHDVKHOOFROOHFWLRQLQKHU¿VK Jeanne activity? — Happy Husband In tank! Phillips Florida Naturally, I can’t accuse her of Dear Happy Husband: As Advice taking things like seashells that anyone long as no one gets hurt, what two can pick up free on the beach, but I consenting adults do is their business. select ones with distinct markings, which is I don’t think you are either crazy or weird, why I know they are mine. It’s frustrating to nor are you alone in this activity. What you UXQRXWRIWRRWKSDVWHDQG¿QGWKDWWKHVSDUH have described as “wrestling” some people tube I just bought is missing. It’s not like she call “foreplay.” doesn’t have the money to buy her own. Dear Abby: Can you advise me on how She does so much for me and my kids. to respond to comments from younger men Should I just continue to ignore it? — when I am at dinner or out with friends? I Seashells By The Seashore often get “Wow, you are really good looking Dear S.B.T.S.: Your family member may IRU DQ ROGHU ZRPDQ´ ZKLFK , ¿QG YDJXHO\ have a touch of kleptomania — a compulsion insulting even though they may think it’s a to steal — or perhaps she takes the items compliment. I’m in good shape for my age because she feels entitled to “payment” for (48), but my husband agrees it’s rude. the favors she does for you. I’m at a loss for a snappy comeback and If you confront her, she will probably deny usually so embarrassed that I just turn away it. This is not to imply that you must continue and pretend that I didn’t hear. Am I overly putting up with it until she takes something sensitive? Should I be thanking them? That with greater sentimental (or tangible) value. doesn’t feel right. Any witty responses you Ask her to return your key “because you think would be good? — Speechless In San have made other arrangements to care for Diego your cats,” or change your locks. Then Dear Speechless: A left-handed compli- follow through with someone who won’t take ment is one that has two meanings — one advantage of your trust. RI ZKLFK LV QRW ÀDWWHULQJ WR WKH UHFLSLHQW Dear Abby: My wife is a big woman (not %HFDXVH \RX ¿QG LW RIIHQVLYH VD\ ³, PD\ fat). She’s an athlete and quite strong. We look ‘older’ to you, but I’m not so old I both enjoy wrestling. We are evenly matched consider that to be a compliment.” 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 30, 1915 Because automobile owners have DFTXLUHG WKH KDELW RI FKDVLQJ WKH ¿UH WUXFN WR¿UHVDQGFURZGLQJLQFORVHWRWKHEXUQLQJ property, thus blocking the exit of the truck and exposing themselves to danger, the city council last evening adopted an ordinance making it a punishable offense for the driver of any vehicle to take his vehicle within 200 feet of burning property. The ordinance also SURYLGHV WKDW ZKHQ WKH ¿UH EHOO VRXQGV DOO vehicles must drive to the nearest right hand FXUEDQGVWRSIRUWZRPLQXWHVRUXQWLOWKH¿UH WUXFNKDVSDVVHGRQLWVZD\WRWKH¿UH7KLVLV calculated to lessen the danger of collisions between the truck and other vehicles. Viola- WLRQVRIWKHRUGLQDQFHDUHSXQLVKDEOHE\D¿QH up to $50 and a jail sentence. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 30, 1965 Julie Ann Feves, 18, of Pendleton brought beauty, brains and a bassoon to the 1600-acre campus of Oakland University in Rochester, 0LFKLJDQ ZKHUH WKH ¿UVW VHVVLRQ RI WKH Meadow Brook School of Music got under way July 6. Julie, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Louis J. Feves, is the only girl among four bassoonists selected on a competitive basis IURPWKHUDQNVRIWKHFRXQWU\¶V¿QHVW\RXQJ musicians to join more than 400 students at the school for a six-week instrumental program and four-week choral program. Julie totes her grandfather-sized instrument to three hours of daily orchestra rehearsal, Mondays through Saturdays, under the batons of Sixten Ehrling and Albert Tipton. She attends classes in advanced theory and meets twice a week for lessons with the Detroit 6\PSKRQ\¶V¿UVWEDVVRRQLVW&KDUOHV6LUDUG with whom she is polishing her musical technique and perfecting the practical art of making reeds. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 30, 1990 :LWK D VHYHQEHGURRP ¿YHEDWKURRP home, Tom and Clara Burton have plenty of room for extra kids. They’ve put it to good use. Over the past 12 years they’ve had 24 foster children in their Pendleton home. The Burtons became foster parents through “the back door,” Tom says. They wanted to give a girl from their church a place to stay while there was trouble at home. “We decided to take her and she was with us for four years.” Four years is the longest they have had a foster child live with them. At the other extreme, they’ve provided a few hours of refuge for kids in need. They’ve had a maximum of four foster children living with them at one time. The Burtons have two adopted children of their own and are currently in the process of adopting two more. 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 On July 30, 1965, Pres- ident Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare, which began operating the following year. On this date: In 1729, Baltimore, Maryland, was founded. In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Virginia, by exploding a gunpow- der-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack failed. In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry Regi- ment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. (Kilmer is remembered for his poem “Trees.”) In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as “Women Accepted STONE SOUP BIG NATE for Volunteer Emergency Service” — WAVES for short. In 1945, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mariana Islands, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 men survived. In 1953, the Small Busi- ness Administration was founded. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (“Out of many, one”). In 1963, the Soviet Union announced it had granted political asylum to Harold “Kim” Philby, the “third man” of a British spy ring. In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. In 1990, British Conser- vative Party lawmaker Ian Gow was killed in a bombing claimed by the Irish Repub- lican Army. Today’s Birthdays: Blues musician Buddy Guy is 79. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 76. Singer Paul Anka is 74. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is 68. Actor Frank Stallone is 65. Director Richard Linklater is 55. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 54. Actress Lisa Kudrow is 52. Actor Terry Crews is 47. Thought for Today: “Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.” — Louis Kronen- berger, American drama critic (1904-1980). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
