Tuesday, November 3, 2015
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East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Turning over new leaf means
turning away bigoted friends
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My friendships have
I’m now feeling very alone. I
always included people of different
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races, religions, nationalities, sexual
old “guy” friends avoid me, and our
orientations, professions, etc. A few
married “couple” friends leave me out
years ago, I had an experience that
because I am not a couple anymore. I
was both devastating and humbling on
understand that, because they all do
several different levels. It caused me to
“couple” things. But even my family
do a lot of introspection and self-im-
seems to have set me aside. When my
provement, which led to my becoming
wife was alive, we would be invited to
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a more empathetic person.
Phillips my siblings’ homes for dinners during
Over the last few years, I have
the holidays and other times. Now I
Advice
distanced myself from old friends and
often don’t even get a phone call.
acquaintances who were racist, sexist,
There are times I feel like I have
homophobic, etc. I have replaced them with been cast off by everyone. Please help, Abby.
new relationships with people who embrace — Lonely Kansan
diversity. Some of the people I no longer
Dear Lonely Kansan: I’ll try. With most
see ask me why we don’t talk or get together married couples, the wives are the ones who
anymore. I don’t want to give them excuses make the social plans. This may be why you
like, “I’ve been too busy.” How do I explain to aren’t hearing from your “couple” friends.
them that I don’t enjoy associating with people Why your family would choose to exclude you
who hold bigoted views? — Open-Minded at a time when you need them is something
In The Midwest
I can’t explain. But they may tell you if you
Dear Open-Minded: Because you no pick up the phone and talk to them about it.
longer wish to associate with them, why not
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just respond with the truth? Say: “As you may hands and no prospects, it’s time to establish
know, I had an experience a few years ago that yourself as an eligible single male. Research
was life-changing. It made me re-evaluate my singles groups in your area. Go online and put
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them down and spend more time with people involved in volunteer activities. Join a dance
who think the way I do about life.”
class, a yoga class, a gym. There are plenty of
Dear Abby: I am a middle-aged man who women out there waiting to be found, but you
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no children.
for the phone to ring.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 2-3, 1915
There is a possibility that hunters may
soon be allowed to shoot does again, because
of the fact they are becoming plentiful,
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to shoot the bucks. Deputy Game Warden
George Tonkin is now engaged in gathering
data for a report to the state commission on
the success of hunters in Umatilla county
during the season just closed. So far he has
learned of but three hunters, Albert Gilliam
of Pilot Rock, Forest Ranger Walter Allison
and Amos Pond, a Cabbage Hill Indian, who
secured the limit of three during the season.
A number bagged a couple, a good many
secured singles and many others never got
any. Mr. Tonkin is also questioning hunters
as to the number of bucks and does they saw
during the season.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 2-3, 1965
Lexington was “a mess” but all other
communities of Morrow County escaped
damage from Halloween pranksters,
according to Morrow County Sheriff C.J.D.
Bauman. Padberg Machinery Co. heavy
equipment was moved to the middle of Black
Horse Canyon road in Lexington Sunday
night, Bauman said. A barrel in the street
was struck by a car before it was removed by
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a barricade from the 2nd Street bridge in
the town. In Heppner a few motorists found
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marked with soap. Several cars received
globs of shaving cream. “On the whole it was
a quiet Halloween,” Bauman reported.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 2-3, 1990
A local entertainment promoter wants to
develop an outdoor amphitheater near the
Pendleton Airport, city Planning Director
Mike Hyde told the Pendleton Planning
Commission Thursday. Hyde informed the
commission of a Nov. 15 public hearing at
which the commission will consider granting
a conditional use permit to David Oliphant,
of Pendleton Entertainment Productions, to
develop the amphitheater. The city’s Airport
Commission already has given the concept a
positive review after considering Oliphant’s
plan at an Oct. 10 meeting. Oliphant had a
hand in attracting Charlie Daniels to the Red
Lion last summer. “There’s a gully there
where people can sit on the hillside and you
can put the stage right in the gully,” Hyde
said of the location across Airport Road
from Cole Electric Motors.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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
Today is the 307th day of
2015. There are 58 days left
in the year. This is Election
Day.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 3, 1900, the
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bile show opened at New
York’s Madison Square
Garden under the auspices
of the Automobile Club of
America.
On this date:
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War between China and
Britain broke out.
In
1903,
Panama
proclaimed its independence
from Colombia.
In 1911, the Chevrolet
Motor Car Co. was founded
in Detroit by Louis Chev-
rolet and William C. Durant.
(The company was acquired
by General Motors in 1918.)
In
1936,
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt won
a landslide election victory
over Republican challenger
Alfred M. “Alf” Landon.
In 1954, the Japanese
monster movie “Godzilla”
was released by Toho Co.
In 1957, the Soviet Union
launched Sputnik 2, the
second manmade satellite,
into orbit; on board was a
dog named Laika who was
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In 1960, the Meredith
Willson
musical
“The
Unsinkable Molly Brown”
opened on Broadway with
Tammy Grimes in the title
role.
In
1964,
President
Lyndon B. Johnson soundly
defeated Republican Barry
Goldwater to win a White
House term in his own right.
In
1970,
Salvador
Allende was inaugurated as
president of Chile.
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Workers Party members
were killed in a clash with
heavily armed Ku Klux
Klansmen and neo-Nazis
during an anti-Klan protest
in Greensboro, North Caro-
lina.
In 1986, the Iran-Contra
affair began to come to light
as Ash-Shiraa, a pro-Syrian
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broke the story of U.S. arms
sales to Iran.
In 1994, Susan Smith of
Union, South Carolina, was
arrested for drowning her
two young sons, Michael
and Alex, nine days after
claiming the children had
been abducted by a black
carjacker.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Peggy McCay is 88.
Actress Lois Smith is 85.
Actress Monica Vitti is 84.
Former Massachusetts Gov.
Michael S. Dukakis is 82.
Actor-dancer Ken Berry is
82. Actor Shadoe Stevens is
69. Singer Lulu is 67. Come-
dian-actress Roseanne Barr
is 63. Actress Kate Capshaw
is 62. Comedian Dennis
Miller is 62. Actress Kathy
Kinney is 62. Singer Adam
Ant is 61. Actor Dolph
Lundgren is 58. Rock musi-
cian C.J. Pierce (Drowning
Pool) is 43. Olympic gold
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Plushenko is 33. Actress
Julie Berman (TV: “General
Hospital”) is 32.
Thought for Today:
“Love is never merely an
amiable tolerance of what-
ever form human frailty and
folly may take.” — Josiah
Royce, American philoso-
pher (1855-1916).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE