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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, April 7, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Visiting relatives could pay dearly for generous hospitality FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m wondering how claims court and get a judgment IF to approach a situation following a you could prove you picked the bugs visit with some relatives. We enjoyed XS WKHUH %XW ¿UVW \RX VKRXOG OHW a wonderful visit and they were very your relatives know that other family nice to put us up in their guest room. members told you about their “sin of A few days into our stay, I woke up omission.” In the future, if you plan to with strange and very itchy bites visit this couple again, stay elsewhere. on my legs and shoulders. When I Once bitten, twice shy. mentioned it to our host, she quickly Dear Abby: I have been married Jeanne supplied me with some itch cream Phillips to “George” for 20 years. We have a and changed the subject. solid relationship except for one thing Advice After we returned home, we that drives me crazy: He insists on met a few of our relatives and they having his ex-wife cut his hair. mentioned that this particular household I have told him over and over that I really was experiencing a bed bug problem. I was dislike it and I wish he would go elsewhere, shocked and a little hurt that they didn’t but he refuses. Now he’s going behind my mention the infestation or warn us ahead of back and waiting for me to notice that he’s time. had a haircut. He used to at least tell me We’re in the process of making sure we beforehand. It would take an entire column to didn’t bring any of these critters home, but if describe her past behavior, but it’s not all that we must hire an exterminator or replace furni- different from many exes. WXUH ZH ZLOO EH LQ D ELQG ¿QDQFLDOO\:KDW I think what he’s doing is disrespectful to would be the proper way to address this, and me. I would never continue doing something should our host feel some responsibility for he asked me not to if it bothered him. There what costs we may have to incur? — Itchy are a lot of hairstylists in this town, and her And Irritated In Illinois haircuts aren’t that great. Am I being unrea- Dear Itchy: That these relatives would sonable? — Bothered In Idaho knowingly allow you to stay in a room they Dear Bothered: Your husband has been knew was infested with “critters” is appalling. doing this for 20 years and you are only Could they have been too embarrassed to writing to me about it now? Because it speak up? bothers you, the next time he goes over to get If you must replace rugs, mattresses, his hair cut, volunteer to go with him. If you bedding, etc., ask them to reimburse you. can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em — and maybe get a If they refuse, you could take them to small manicure in the process. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 7, 1916 Joe Craig, who was yesterday afternoon convicted of adultery in the federal court, ZLOO ¿JKW WKH FDVH WR WKH VXSUHPH FRXUW RI the United States to test the law under which he was convicted. His attorneys yesterday received 30 days in which to prepare a motion for a new trial and during that time judgment will be arrested. If the motion is not allowed, then sentence will be passed and Craig will appeal to the supreme court. Craig was convicted under a law passed by congress many years ago to regulate polygamy in Utah and his attorneys claim that it was never the intention to make that law apply to Indians. They declare that Oregon is the only state in the union where it is so applied. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 7, 1966 3HDFH RI¿FHUV WKURXJKRXW WKLV DUHD WRGD\ were looking for a man who robbed the Lucky Dollar at 1819 SW Court Ave. at gunpoint last night of $936.33. Dale Sinclair of Rieth was checking at the store about 8:45 p.m. when the man entered. Sinclair told police he shopped DURXQG DERXW ¿YH PLQXWHV DQG WKHQ FDPH WR the stand with a carton of cigarettes. He also asked for some cigars but refused the ones offered. Sinclair then reached down for a sack for the cigarettes and when he straightened up he was facing a snub-nosed revolver, and the man told him to put all the money in the paper sack, except for change under 50-cent pieces. The robber took the sack, told Sinclair to go to the back of the store where another employe ZDVFOHDQLQJXSDQGWRVWD\WKHUH¿YHPLQXWHV before giving an alarm. The man left the store in an easterly direction and it was not known whether he had a car or escaped on foot. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 7, 1991 Scott McDonald, 31, of Milton-Freewater, is trying to put the war behind him. McDonald said he spent six months in the Persian Gulf missing family, friends and the conveniences of modern America. He said one of the most GLI¿FXOWWKLQJVWRJHWXVHGWRZDV³QRWEHLQJ able to pop into a 7-11 whenever you want.” McDonald, a private in the Army, is on leave for a month after returning from the Gulf War. He used his leave to visit his parents, Robert and Jenelle McDonald, in Milton-Freewater. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 98th day of 2016. There are 268 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 7, 1966, the U.S. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb that the U.S. Air Force had lost in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain following a B-52 crash. On this date: In 1614, painter, sculptor and architect El Greco died in Toledo, Spain. In 1788, an expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam established a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio. In 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. In 1927, the image and voice of Commerce Secre- tary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Wash- ington to New York in the ¿UVWVXFFHVVIXOORQJGLVWDQFH demonstration of television. In 1939, Italy invaded Albania, which was annexed less than a week later. In 1949, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ³6RXWK 3DFL¿F´ RSHQHG RQ Broadway. In 1953, the U.N. General $VVHPEO\ UDWL¿HG 'DJ Hammarskjold of Sweden as the new secretary-general, succeeding Trygve Lie of Norway. In 1962, nearly 1,200 Cuban exiles tried by Cuba for their roles in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion were convicted of treason. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radia- tion weapon. In 1984, the Census Bureau reported Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation’s “second city” in terms of population. In 1994, civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi; in the months that followed, hundreds of thou- sands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates were slaugh- tered by Hutu extremists. In 2001, NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286 million- mile journey to the Red Planet. Today’s Birthdays: Media commentator Hodding Carter III is 81. Country singer Bobby Bare is 81. Rhythm-and-blues singer Charlie Thomas (The Drifters) is 79. California Gov. Jerry Brown is 78. Movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 77. Singer Patricia Bennett (The Chiffons) is 69. Singer John Oates is 68. Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is 67. Singer Janis Ian is 65. Country musician John Dittrich is 65. Actor Jackie Chan is 62. College and Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Tony Dorsett is 62. Actor Russell Crowe is 52. Christian/jazz singer Mark Kibble (Take 6) is 52. Actor Bill Bellamy is 51. Rock musician Dave “Yorkie” Palmer (Space) is 51. Former football player-turned-analyst Tiki Barber is 41. Actress Heather Burns is 41. Christian rock singer-musician John Cooper (Skillet) is 41. Thought for Today: “Money is in some respects OLIH¶V¿UHLWLVDYHU\H[FHOOHQW servant, but a terrible master.” — P.T. Barnum, American showman (born 1810, died this date in 1891). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
