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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Boyfriend takes distrust
to frightening extremes
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I’m madly in love with
Hasn’t it occurred to you that this may
a man I’ve been dating for almost a
be the reason two wives left him?
year, but I don’t think he’s in love with
Dear Abby: I am older than my
me. He claims he’s been hurt twice
wife by 10 years. We have been
from two failed marriages.
married six years, and we have six
He keeps giving me mixed signals.
children between us. We tried for
He questions me about my male
another, but my wife miscarried.
friends constantly. He shows up at my
I decided to have a vasectomy
apartment without calling in hopes that
because my wife was determined to
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he will catch me with another man.
Phillips have a baby without regard for my
During his last drive-by, he saw me
wishes or the extreme stress happening
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in my car at midnight listening to music
in our lives at the time. Begrudgingly,
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I am going to have it reversed, even
course, he thought I was on the way out to a though the cost of the procedure is more than
boyfriend’s house because I had my gym bag we can afford right now. I believe we have
and a grocery bag in the front seat with me. He other, more important issues to put the money
ordered me to open my bags so he could see toward.
if I had any overnight clothes inside. After he
This is a hot topic, and it always leads to
saw there were no clothes, he calmed down.
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I don’t know if I should keep this relation- much longer if it isn’t resolved. Advice, Abby?
ship going or if I should abandon ship. Could — Anguished In Austin
you please let me know how I should handle
Dear Anguished: Put that vasectomy
my situation? — Mixed Signals In Virginia
reversal on hold. What you and your wife
Dear Mixed Signals: You may be madly in need far more is to resolve the problems in
love with this man, but unless you have agreed what is clearly a very troubled marriage. Do
that your relationship with him is exclusive, not consider surgery until these matters have
he should not be grilling you about your been put to rest because whatever is going on,
friendships with your male friends. That he another baby is NOT the answer.
comes over with no notice hoping to catch you
Dear Abby: One person handles the money
cheating is more than a little sick, and what for our family reunion every year. Only that
he pulled during his midnight prowl is off the one person knows how much comes in and
charts.
how much is spent. We all would like copies
It is important that you understand the only of the treasurer’s report, but he refuses. Is this
way he will ever overcome his insecurities right for a treasurer of any organization? —
and inability to trust will be with professional Puzzled Penny In North Carolina
help. He is so messed up that you could enter a
Dear Penny: No, it isn’t. If you think this
convent and he would mount a security camera relative may be behaving dishonestly, the
at the back door to make sure you weren’t rest of the family should agree that another
going out on him.
individual will receive the monies for the next
Not only should you abandon ship, you reunion and provide an accounting when the
should run like heck once you reach dry land. family is all together again.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 28, 1915
Instead of closing down when the prohi-
bition law goes into effect on January 1, the
City Brewery in Pendleton will continue
operations as a bottling plant for soft drinks
and oyster cocktails. Manager William
Roesch was in Portland and Seattle a week
ago and purchased $5,000 worth of the latest
equipment and expects to have it installed
within six weeks. Mr. Roesch plans to operate
the works on a wholesale basis and will put
salesmen out to work all of the eastern Oregon
territory. He will bottle loganberry juice, the
new popular soft drink, and other true fruit
drinks. Besides he will bottle oyster cocktails
in crown cork bottles and intends putting out
a superior article.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 28, 1965
Blue Mountain Community College on
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Tuesday received its charter. Gov. Mark
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district board of directors. Backdropped by
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the dedication ceremony attracted hundreds
of area residents and guests from all over
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25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 28, 1990
A 31-year-old Hermiston insurance agent
was sentenced Friday to 30 days in the
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for bilking 17 elderly people out of more
than $42,000. Steven Brockett, who worked
out of his home as an independent agent
representing several insurance companies,
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theft in September. Lynn Hampton, assistant
district attorney who handled the case, said
Brockett’s scam involved fraudulent sale of
Medicare supplement insurance. “It was a
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and keeping the difference; falsely claiming
premiums were due and cashing the checks;
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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 301st day of
2015. There are 64 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Oct. 28, 1965, Pope
Paul VI issued a Declaration
on the Relation of the Church
with Non-Christian Religions
which, among other things,
absolved Jews of collective
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Jesus Christ.
On this date:
In 1636, the General Court
of Massachusetts passed a
legislative act establishing
Harvard College.
In 1776, the Battle of White
Plains was fought during the
Revolutionary War, resulting
in a limited British victory.
In 1886, the Statue of
Liberty, a gift from the people
of France, was dedicated in
New York Harbor by Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland.
In 1914, Yugoslav nation-
alist Gavrilo Princip, whose
assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria
and Sophie, Duchess of
Hohenberg, sparked World
War I, was sentenced in
Sarajevo to 20 years’ impris-
onment. (He died in 1918.)
In
1936,
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt rededi-
cated the Statue of Liberty on
its 50th anniversary.
In 1940, Italy invaded
Greece during World War II.
In 1962, Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev informed
the United States that he
had ordered the dismantling
of missile bases in Cuba;
in return, the U.S. secretly
agreed to remove nuclear
missiles from U.S. installa-
tions in Turkey.
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Massachusetts.
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Birthdays:
Jazz singer Cleo Laine is
88. Actress Joan Plowright
is 86. Musician-songwriter
Charlie Daniels is 79.
Actress Jane Alexander is
76. Actor Dennis Franz is
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gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner
is 66. Microsoft co-founder
Bill Gates is 60. The former
president of Iran, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, is 59. Rock
musician Stephen Morris
(New Order) is 58. Rock
singer-musician William Reid
(The Jesus & Mary Chain)
is 57. Actor-comedian Andy
Richter is 49. Actress Julia
Roberts is 48. Singer Ben
Harper is 46. Country singer
Brad Paisley is 43. Actor
Joaquin Phoenix is 41. Singer/
rapper Frank Ocean is 28.
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liberty means anything at all,
it means the right to tell people
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— George Orwell (Eric Blair),
English author (1903-1950).
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