Thursday, July 30, 2015
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East Oregonian
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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
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activity? — Happy Husband In
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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
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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
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often get “Wow, you are really good looking
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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.
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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
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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
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vehicles must drive to the nearest right hand
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calculated to lessen the danger of collisions
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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