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Friday, July 31, 2015 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Boyfriend reveals that his soul mate died years ago FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have been close If there is one thing I have learned, to my best friend for three years. it is that we cannot change other A year ago we decided to date. We people. He doesn’t need your help; he have a wonderful relationship on needs someone who will accept him almost every level. The only issue I the way he is and love him for it. have is that he’s reluctant to open up Dear Abby: I am the treasurer about his past. He is a very private for my high school’s upcoming 50th person, and I know it’s because of his reunion. My senior class was large — upbringing. This has sparked many more than 550 students. My problem Jeanne debates between us that have ended Phillips is, 280 students have not responded to less than pleasantly. our monthly emails or newsletters. Advice Recently, he did open up, and It takes a lot of time and effort when he did, he dropped a bomb. He to put on a reunion. We have been asked me if I believed in soul mates, and I working on it for two years. I realize some said yes. Then he told me about how in his classmates hated their senior year. Not all of past there was a girl he loved very much. us had a perfect time. But would you remind Sadly, she died. He said he sees this girl as people that a simple yes or no works well? his soul mate, but he doesn’t think it lessens Frankly, I don’t know why anyone would any of his love for me. say no, unless medical or ¿nancial issues This was the ¿rst time he opened up to me. prevented them from attending. I don’t look Now that it has sunk in, I’m hurt. I already like I did at 18, and neither does anyone else. have selfcon¿dence issues, and I worry that The clique clubs are gone, and the captain since I am not her, I’m not enough. I can’t of the football team looks just like any other live up to a dead woman. guy. Can you comment? — Ready For The I always thought I could change his closed Reunion ways, but now, knowing the cause, I fear Dear Ready: Yes. There may be other there is nothing I can do to help him. Maybe reasons why some graduates don’t wish to he’s just too messed up for me. I don’t know attend their high school reunion. They live what to do. Can someone have two soul far away, or there is no one they particularly mates? — Not His Soul Mate want to see. Dear Not His Soul Mate: Please do not Rather than work yourself into a lather, in allow your selfcon¿dence issues to ruin your next communication to the graduates, your relationship, because from where I sit, specify that only those who have responded it appears you’re looking for a way to push to the invitation can be accommodated this man away. So what if he had a romance “because the committee is making arrange- that ended tragically? She’s dead — gone! ments for which they need an exact head And you’re very much alive. Stop competing count.” If you don’t hear from someone, do with her. not plan on seeing him or her. 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 31, 1915 The exhibition of A. Phimister Proctor’s “Buckaroo” and cowboy head in the Frazier bookstore windows caused many people to stop in admiration last evening and all day today. Perhaps the greatest tribute yet paid the sculptor’s latest work are the comments of the cowboys and others familiar with range life, for not one but admits the artist has created a perfect representation of a broncho buster astride an outlaw. Not only is the action of the bucking horse faithfully recorded in the plaster but the form of the rider in the saddle is perfect, according to the cowboys. “He’s ridin’ her straight up,” said one bechapped individual, “and just look at him throw the steel.” While being exhibited and while making its trip across the continent, the plaster of the “Buckaroo” is insured for $5000. It will go by express tonight for New York where it will be cast into bronze and Mr. Proctor expects to have some of the bronzes here before the 1915 Round-up. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 31, 1965 “I heard a big bang, and looked behind me.” That was how Don Henry, of Odell, Oregon, described his discovery of the ¿re that reduced his truck to a charred ruin in minutes Thursday afternoon. The ¿re occurred at 20th and SE Court. Witnesses said Àames went over 20 feet into the air. The truck was a total loss. Henry said he did not know if his insurance policy includes ¿re damage. “One door on that truck didn’t work well. When I saw the ¿re I yelled at the guy in the cab with me, ‘Move over, I’m getting out of here.’” The ¿re apparently started when the truck’s gas tank fell off and exploded. Traf¿c was routed around the inferno by police. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 31, 1990 Some people climb mountains because they’re there. Joe Ilie’s mountain is the Columbia River. Ilie, 68, of Milton-Free- water, took the plunge Sunday morning on the Oregon side of the river above McNary Dam and didn’t emerge from the water until he reached Washington one hour and 55 minutes later. To be completely truthful, Ilie said the river was a bit more swift than he would have liked, and the temperature kept his jaws chattering. But the adventure was nothing new to the disabled World War II veteran. Ilie swam the Columbia 19 years ago on his 50th birthday in one hour and 10 minutes. It took a little longer this year, but Ilie said it had little to do with being almost two decades older. “I believe there was more water going over the spillway at the dam this time so I was ¿ghting more current,” Ilie said. Ilie’s son, Thomas, piloted a boat that remained alongside during the entire swim. Ilie said there were no mishaps along the way. 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 212th day of 2015. There are 153 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 31, 1715, a Àeet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewelry sank during a hurricane off the east Florida coast, scattering most of their treasure along the ocean Àoor. Of some 2,500 crew members, more than 1,000 died. On this date: In 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the Amer- ican Continental Army. In 1875, the 17th pres- ident of the United States, Andrew Johnson, died in Carter County, Tennessee, at age 66. In 1919, Germany’s Weimar Constitution was STONE SOUP BIG NATE adopted by the republic’s National Assembly. In 1930, the radio char- acter “The Shadow” made his debut as narrator of the “Detective Story Hour” on CBS Radio. In 1933, the radio series “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy,” made its debut on CBS radio station WBBM in Chicago. In 1942, Oxfam Interna- tional had its beginnings as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief was founded in England. In 1954, Pakistan’s K2 was conquered as two members of an Italian expe- dition, Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli, reached the summit. In 1964, the American space probe Ranger 7 reached the moon, transmit- ting pictures back to Earth before impacting the lunar surface. In 1972, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment. In 1973, Delta Air Lines Flight 723, a DC-9, crashed while trying to land at Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing all 89 people on board. In 1989, a pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a grisly videotape showing the body of American hostage William R. Higgins, a Marine lieutenant-colonel, dangling from a rope. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet Pres- ident Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE