Wednesday, August 12, 2015
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COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Husband embraces online
contact all too eagerly
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: Are senior citizens
who is fantastic. “Kyle” is smart,
having more affairs these days? I
trustworthy, kind — and incredibly
used to laugh at the “old couples’ sex
gorgeous. The problem is, he has two
letters” I’d see in your column — until
Boston terriers who drive me crazy
it hit home.
— one in particular whose breathing
My husband (age 68) ran into a
is so loud all the time that we can’t
38-year-old ex-waitress friend. They
even hear a TV program or each other
had lunch, which led to emails and
speak. That dog is super hyper and
texts, which led to sexts and then
has destroyed numerous things in my
Jeanne
a full-blown affair. I believe these Phillips house. Kyle’s house reeks of doggy
personal/secretive forms of commu-
odor, and the dogs also have horrible
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nication make going from texting to
gas and vomit often.
sexting much too easy.
If we are staying over at my place,
Our generation didn’t have much sexual his dogs come with him. I hate it! It is the
freedom growing up. I think men of that weirdest thing, but I notice my anxiety level
generation have a “go for it before it’s too rises when the dogs are here, running around
late” mentality, and the combination of the and snorting uncontrollably. There are other
Internet and Viagra is making it possible.
issues, but I don’t want to write a novel.
Should every couple insist on access to
I am trying to live in the moment and not
their spouse’s devices? How do you broach let it bother me. But in this moment, it is intru-
the subject? I wish I had seen the number of sive and annoying. What can I do? — Bryan
texts being sent early on. Then this whole In Chicago
ugly affair might have been averted. Now my
Dear Bryan: Kyle may be gorgeous, but
trust, my respect and our marriage are all in he doesn’t appear to be a very responsible pet
crisis. — Sharon In Naples, Fla.
owner. He should have asked his veterinarian
Dear Sharon: Technology and medicine to check his dogs when he realized they were
are extending the sex lives of many seniors having repeated gastrointestinal upsets. As to
these days. However, I don’t think it’s neces- the poor animals’ breathing, it may be because
sary for couples to check each other’s elec- short-faced dogs are prone to breathing prob-
tronic devices if there is no cause for suspi- lems.
cion. In your case, because of your husband’s
It’s possible that Kyle is so used to the
LQ¿GHOLW\\RXGRKDYHWKDWULJKW²DQGWKH doggy odor in his house that he no longer
way to broach the subject is to tackle it head smells it. That’s why it couldn’t hurt to tell him
on. And if you haven’t already, insist that your YOU have noticed it, that it’s overwhelming,
husband join you in marriage counseling.
and it’s time to get a professional cleaning
Dear Abby: I am dating a guy (seriously) crew in there.
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
Aug. 12, 1915
Carl Guiott is in need of a private secre-
tary. Since the recovery of his eyesight his
mail has increased until its volume rivals
that received by a millionaire philanthropist
and the task of answering it might easily rob
Mr. Guiott of some of the pleasure which
results from the passing of his blindness. The
letters come from friends and strangers alike.
Friends are sending him their congratulations
and strangers want to know how it happened.
Some write out of curiosity alone, some are
interested in his statements that he was helped
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of their own and reach out to Mr. Guiott for
helpful suggestions. Mr. Guiott yesterday had
his eye carefully and thoroughly tested by a
physician and an optician to discover whether
or not there is a lens that will strengthen his
eye for reading purposes.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 12, 1965
Eleven Boy Scouts, one Cub scout (son
of Scoutmaster Ervin Williams) and the Rev.
Al Boyer left Echo Monday at 6 a.m. for a
154-mile bicycle journey that will take them
to Emigrant Springs State Park and return on
their week long trip. In addition to the cyclists
the group is accompanied by Dill Penney,
who is carrying supplies in a pickup and
trailer. Not only camping supplies and food
are being carried but a supply of tools, bicycle
repair parts, and a portable welder in the event
of a major break-down of any of the bicycles.
The bicycles being used for the most part are
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for the trip by Mr. Boyer.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 12, 1990
Under the leadership of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, the troops of the 41st Infantry
Division — including Company G of Pend-
leton’s National Guard 186th Infantry unit —
battled their way through the jungles of New
Guinea to thwart the Japanese aggression in
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of war revive memories for men of the 41st
like Luther Garner of Pendleton, a member
of Pendleton’s Company G, which stormed
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hand jungle combat against the Japanese
during World War II. Now, 50 years after
that lanky, 27-year-old joined the service,
Garner is looking forward to the September
anniversary convention in Portland that will
mark the induction of the Oregon National
Guard’s 41st Infantry Division into the active
U.S. Army.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 224th day of
2015. There are 141 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On August 12, 1985, the
world’s worst single-aircraft
disaster occurred as a crip-
pled Japan Airlines Boeing
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crashed into a mountain,
killing 520 people. (Four
people survived.)
On this date:
In
1867,
President
Andrew Johnson sparked
a move to impeach him
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suspending Secretary of War
Edwin M. Stanton.
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Spanish-American War came
to an end.
In 1902, International
Harvester Co. was formed
by a merger of McCormick
Harvesting Machine Co.,
Deering Harvester Co. and
several other manufacturers.
In 1915, the novel “Of
Human
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by
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United States, a day before it
was released in England.
In 1939, the MGM movie
musical “The Wizard of Oz,”
starring Judy Garland, had its
world premiere at the Strand
Theater in Oconomowoc,
Wisconsin, three days before
opening in Hollywood.
In 1944, during World
War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.,
eldest son of Joseph and Rose
Fitzgerald Kennedy, was
killed with his co-pilot when
their explosives-laden Navy
plane blew up over England.
In 1953, the Soviet Union
conducted a secret test of its
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communications satellite —
the Echo 1 — was launched
by the United States from
Cape Canaveral.
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the model 5150, at a press
conference in New York.
In 1994, Woodstock ‘94
opened in Saugerties, New
York.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Sen. Dale Bumpers,
D-Ark., is 90. Actor George
Hamilton is 76. Actress
Dana Ivey is 74. Actress
Jennifer Warren is 74. Rock
singer-musician
Mark
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66. Actor Jim Beaver is 65.
Singer Kid Creole is 65.
Jazz musician Pat Metheny
is 61. Actor Sam J. Jones is
61. Actor Bruce Greenwood
is 59. Country singer Danny
Shirley is 59. Pop musician
Roy Hay (Culture Club) is
54. Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot
is 52. Actor Peter Krause is
50. Actor Brent Sexton is 48.
International Tennis Hall of
Famer Pete Sampras is 44.
Actor-comedian Michael Ian
Black is 44. Actress Yvette
Nicole Brown is 44. Actress
Rebecca Gayheart is 44.
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Thought for Today: “The
secret to life is meaningless
unless you discover it your-
self.” — From “Of Human
Bondage” by W. Somerset
Maugham (1874-1965).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE