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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Stepson and his sister are
too close for wife’s comfort
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I am happily married
money to help her, and she had just
to a great man. I have a young
broken up with her boyfriend.
daughter from a previous marriage,
We rented a van and offered to let
and my husband has two teenagers,
her stay at our home as long as she
a boy and girl, from a prior marriage.
helped pay for groceries and got a
Like many blended families, we have
job. She got the job, but never helped
our struggles, but one is becoming
pay for food or did anything around
increasingly dif¿cult to deal with.
the house, including keeping her
I don’t know how to put this taste-
room clean.
Jeanne
fully, but I’ll state it this way: My step- Phillips
After two weeks, she and her
children are “too close,” if you know
boyfriend
got back together, and she
Advice
what I mean. 7hey Àirt, constantly
was spending every night with him at
touch each other and playfully tease
his parents’ house. She would return
each other. (A few people have even mistaken to our home to eat, wash clothes, shower and
them for a couple.) My husband doesn’t seem use the Internet. I ¿nally had to tell her this
to notice this unhealthy behavior. How can I was not acceptable, and that she needed to
get through to my husband or deal with this? decide to either live here or move in with her
— Repulsed In Pennsylvania
boyfriend. She moved out.
Dear Repulsed: Was the relationship
Now, it is uncomfortable when she comes
between your husband’s children making around. I don’t feel I did anything wrong, but
you uncomfortable before you married their my daughter thinks I shouldn’t have made a
father? If so, did you bring it to his attention big deal out of her sleeping at her boyfriend’s
at that time?
house and using our house as a place to park
Family relationships can vary, and because her stuff, eat and wash her clothes. What do
I haven’t witnessed what you have observed, you think? — No Time For Freeloaders
I can’t advise you other than to suggest that
Dear No Time: You were generous to be
family counseling might be in order to deter- as supportive as you were of your daughter’s
mine whether the kids have a normal sibling former roommate. This has nothing to do
relationship or if it has gone over the line.
with her sleeping at her boyfriend’s. You
Dear Abby: Last spring we helped our asked only that she behave like an adult and
daughter’s longtime friend move out of contribute by paying for her food and keeping
the college dorm room she shared with our her room clean. She didn’t keep her part of the
daughter. Her parents are divorced and bargain. You shouldn’t feel uncomfortable;
weren’t available to help her move or give us she should, for not behaving responsibly.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
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BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 7, 1915
Lee Dale is guilty of the murder of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Ogilvy. It took a jury of twelve
men only 20 minutes to arrive at that decision
after the case had been submitted to them.
The verdict was returned yesterday afternoon
about 4:30 o’clock. Sentence will be passed
upon the slayer by Judge Phelps tomorrow.
The maximum penalty is life imprisonment
in the penitentiary, capital punishment having
been abolished in the state. Dale accepted
the verdict of the jury without any show of
emotion. Today he has been visiting in the
sheriff’s of¿ce with his wife, who sat with
him throughout the trial.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 7, 1965
The Main Street Cowboys got a green light
from the Pendleton City Council last night on
a plan to add two buildings at the municipal
airport. In traditional Main Streeters’ fashion,
the buildings will reÀect the heritage of the
West and will be named First Chance Saloon
and Goldie’s Boarding House. But they will
not house commercial enterprises. The group
will use one to store materials collected
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
during its 15 years and the other as a club
house and as a place to welcome dignitaries.
The buildings will be constructed by moving
an unused barracks to the site and splitting it
in two. Councilman Robert McKellar, a Main
Streeter, said the buildings will have authentic
Western fronts.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 7, 1990
Eddie and Emma Sene of Hermiston
always knew their grandson Kevin Maas was
a great kid, but now the baseball world is
catching on. Maas, 25, of Castro Valley, Calif.,
once spent summer days visiting his grand-
parents in Hermiston, ¿shing at Cold Springs
and water skiing on the Columbia River. He
spent this summer making baseball history in
Yankee Stadium after being called up June 28
from Class AAA Columbus, taking over ¿rst
base when Don Mattingly injured his back.
This summer, Maas hit 10 home runs in fewer
major league at bats, 77, than any rookie in
major league history, breaking the old mark
held since 1966 by Boston’s George Scott,
who hit 10 in 79 at bats. He also reached 15
home runs in fewer at bats, 133, than anyone
else in major league history, breaking a record
that stood since 1930.
Today is the 280th day of
2015. There are 85 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On October 7, 1985,
Palestinian gunmen hijacked
the Italian cruise ship Achille
Lauro in the Mediterranean.
(The hijackers killed Leon
Klinghoffer, a Jewish-Amer-
ican tourist, before surren-
dering on October 9.)
On this date:
In 1765, the Stamp Act
Congress convened in New
York to draw up colonial
grievances against England.
In 1849, author Edgar
Allan Poe died in Baltimore
at age 40.
In 1858, the ¿fth debate
between Illinois senatorial
candidates Abraham Lincoln
and Stephen Douglas took
place in Galesburg.
In 1929, former Interior
Secretary Albert B. Fall,
one of the main ¿gures of
the Teapot Dome scandal,
went on trial, charged with
accepting a bribe from oil
tycoon Edward L. Doheny.
(Fall was found guilty and
sentenced to a year in prison;
he served nine months.
STONE SOUP
BIG NATE
Doheny was acquitted at his
own trial of offering the bribe
Fall was convicted of taking.)
In 1940, Artie Shaw
and his Orchestra recorded
Hoagy Carmichael’s “Star
Dust” (as it was spelled then)
for RCA Victor.
In 1949, the Republic of
East Germany was formed.
In 1954, Marian Anderson
became the ¿rst black singer
hired by the Metropolitan
Opera Company in New
York.
In 1960, Democratic
presidential candidate John
F. Kennedy and Republican
opponent Richard Nixon held
their second televised debate,
this one in Washington, D.C.
In 1989, Hungary’s
Communist Party renounced
Marxism in favor of demo-
cratic socialism during a
party congress in Budapest.
In 2004, President George
W. Bush and Vice President
Dick Cheney conceded that
Saddam Hussein had no
weapons of mass destruction
as they tried to shift the Iraq
war debate to a new issue,
arguing that Saddam was
abusing a U.N. oil-for-food
program.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Retired
South
African
Archbishop and Nobel Peace
laureate Desmond Tutu is 84.
Author Thomas Keneally is
80. Comedian Joy Behar is
73. Former National Security
Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver
North (ret.) is 72. Rock musi-
cian Kevin Godley (10cc) is
70. Country singer Kieran
Kane is 66. Singer John
Mellencamp is 64. Actress
Mary Badham (Film: “To Kill
a Mockingbird”) is 63. Rock
musician Tico Torres (Bon
Jovi) is 62. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
is 60. Recording executive
and TV personality Simon
Cowell is 56. Rock musician
Charlie Marinkovich (Iron
ButterÀy) is 56. Country
singer Dale Watson is 53.
Rhythm-and-blues
singer
Toni Braxton is 48. Rock
singer-musician Thom Yorke
(Radiohead) is 47. Electronic
musician Flying Lotus (AKA
Stephen Ellison) is 32. MLB
player Evan Longoria is 30.
Thought for Today:
“Being right half the time
beats being half-right all the
time.” — Malcolm Forbes,
American publisher (1919-
1990).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE