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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, May 20, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Age is an issue for senior
girl dating sophomore boy
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m a senior (girl) in
to widen not only your range of
high school and have been dating a
interests, but also your circle of
acquaintances. You owe it to yourself
sophomore even though he’s less than
to take advantage of everything that
a year younger than I am. (I’m very
college offers. If you wish to continue
young for my grade.) We have a lot
seeing your current boyfriend, do so.
in common and I think we both love
However, it would be better for both
each other a lot.
of you if it is done on a non-exclusive
Next fall, I’m planning on going to
basis for the next few years.
a local community college, but I won’t
Jeanne
Dear Abby: Several times recently
be too far away. I think my boyfriend Phillips
when
I have invited people to parties
has more interest in the military or a
Advice
or dinners at our home, they have
vocational career than college, but
surprised me by responding with not
he’s very serious and mature for his
age. I know college will be a chance for me to only their regrets but also with a counteroffer.
meet new people and I don’t want to limit my For example: “Sorry, we’re busy the evening
chances, but if I’m still interested in dating of the 22nd, but could you have us over the
following Thursday?”
him, would it be “proper”?
How should I respond to this? I’m trying
I was already hesitant about dating him
because he was younger, although I knew to invite them for a speciic event, not open a
if the situation was reversed it wouldn’t be negotiation. It feels like the subtext is that our
a problem. Assuming everything still works schedule is less important than our potential
out between us, is it OK for a college girl to guests’ and we should be prepared to enter-
date a high school boy? I’m not sure how to tain them whatever day they have open. On
handle this. I know things may change before the other hand, this has happened so often
fall, but I’m getting anxious about it now. He I’m starting to wonder if social obligations
has already said that he would still like to date are now being handled in the same way as
me if I want to, so it’s basically up to me. — business meetings and I should just adjust to
it. What’s your opinion? — Counteroffers
Anxious In The Midwest
Dear Anxious: As far as I know, there In Los Angeles
Dear Counteroffers: You should enter-
is no rule forbidding a college freshman
continuing to date someone who is still in tain on the schedule that’s most convenient
high school. Because the choice is yours, I for you. If someone has a conlict, you should
(sweetly) tell the person you will miss having
suggest you just let this play out.
College will present you with a chance them. Period.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 20, 1916
Hail to Muriel, queen of the Rose Festival
and of the Columbia Highway! Long live
the queen! With more than four million, two
hundred thousand votes to spare, Miss Muriel
Saling, Pendleton’s candidate in the Rose
Queen contest, was returned the winner when
the balloting closed in Portland last night.
Her total vote was over the 7,400,000 mark,
more than twice as much as received by Miss
Lillian Hendrickson of Portland, candidate of
the Foresters of America, who was second,
and almost as much as the combined vote of
her three highest contestants. Practically all
of the local votes were purchased during the
ten day period when votes sold for 6000 for a
dollar. However, less than two million were
purchased directly. More than ive million
were purchased by Portland people to whom
the local committee had sent money.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 20, 1966
The senator in a hurry, 65-year-old Wayne
Morse, with the physical and mental bounce
typical of some of the teenagers in his audi-
ence, and who likes to be known as Oregon’s
senior senator, dashed into Hermiston
Thursday afternoon, about 30 minutes late for
a coffee hour, left town behind schedule, and
in a hurry, for a dinner speaking engagement
in La Grande. The fast-talking, silver tongued
orator, who has never been recognized as
suffering from an inferiority complex, found
an attentive audience of around 75 at the
Civic Recreation Center. They gave him so
much attention he might have continued on
into the night. He was in “clover” at the CRC,
and many of his admirers followed him to the
waiting car, after the meeting.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 20, 1991
Hundreds of houses were evacuated
and many were damaged when residents of
Umatilla County endured one of the worst
loods in county history Sunday. Dramatic
levels of runoff — resulting from heavy rains
pelting the Blue Mountains Saturday and
Sunday — swelled area rivers and streams,
forcing emergency measures in communities
throughout northeast Oregon. In Meacham,
where the rainfall numbers give a better
idea of the runoff from the Blue Mountains,
more than 2.31 inches fell between Saturday
morning and 6 a.m. this morning. Two
National Guard helicopters were used to
rescue two adults and four children stranded
without food about eight miles up Yellow-
jacket Road southeast of Pilot Rock.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 141st day of
2016. There are 225 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On May 20, 1916, the
Saturday
Evening
Post
published its irst Norman
Rockwell cover; the illustra-
tion shows a scowling boy
dressed in his Sunday best,
dutifully pushing a baby
carriage past a couple of young
baseball players, one of whom
mockingly doffs his cap.
On this date:
In 1712, the original
version of Alexander Pope’s
satirical mock-heroic poem
“The Rape of the Lock” was
published anonymously in
Lintot’s Miscellany.
In
1862,
President
Abraham Lincoln signed the
Homestead Act, which was
intended to encourage settle-
ments west of the Mississippi
River by making federal land
available for farming.
In 1902, the United States
ended a three-year military
presence in Cuba as the
Republic of Cuba was estab-
lished under its irst elected
president, Tomas Estrada
Palma.
In 1925, the newly built
headquarters of the United
States Chamber of Commerce
was formally dedicated in
Washington, D.C.
In 1927, Charles Lind-
bergh took off from Roosevelt
Field in Long Island, New
York, aboard the Spirit of
St. Louis on his historic solo
light to France.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart
took off from Newfoundland
to become the irst woman to
ly solo across the Atlantic.
(Because of weather and
equipment problems, Earhart
set down in Northern Ireland
instead of her intended desti-
nation, France.)
In 1942, during World
War II, the Ofice of Civilian
Defense was established.
In 1956, the United States
exploded the irst airborne
hydrogen bomb over Bikini
Atoll in the Paciic.
In 1970, some 100,000
people demonstrated in New
York’s Wall Street district
in support of U.S. policy in
Vietnam and Cambodia.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor-author
James
McEachin is 86. Actor
Anthony Zerbe is 80. Actor
David Proval is 74. Singer-ac-
tress Cher is 70. Actor-co-
median Dave Thomas is 68.
Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho,
is 65. Rock musician Warren
Cann is 64. Former New
York Gov. David Paterson is
62. Actor Dean Butler is 60.
TV-radio personality Ron
Reagan is 58. Rock musician
Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go’s)
is 58. Actor Bronson Pinchot
is 57. Singer Susan Cowsill
is 57. Actor John Billingsley
is 56. Actor Tony Goldwyn is
56. Singer Nick Heyward is
55. TV personality Ted Allen
is 51. Actress Mindy Cohn
is 50. Rock musician Tom
Gorman (Belly) is 50. Actor
Timothy Olyphant is 48.
Race car driver Tony Stewart
is 45. Rapper Busta Rhymes
is 44.
Thought for Today: “A
low of words is a sure sign
of duplicity.” — Honore de
Balzac, French author (born
this date in 1799, died in
1850).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE