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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Funding for cancer sufferer
seems brazen to co-worker
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: A coworker has been
solicitation does not mean you are
diagnosed with terminal cancer. She’s
obligated to respond to it. (Unless the
not sure how long she may have. She
“solicitor” is holding a gun, in which
is relatively young, so it’s tragic. We
case I would advise you not to argue.)
have excellent insurance from work,
Whether to make a donation for
national health care and disability
something like this is your CHOICE,
insurance.
and if you choose not to join in, you
Another co-worker sent out an
should not feel — or be made to feel
— guilty if you decline.
email with a link to a crowdfunding
Jeanne
Dear Abby: My daughter is being
site as well as an invitation to a party Phillips
married in June. Her father — my
selling products. The proceeds will be
Advice
ex — has let her know she must
donated to fulilling a “cancer bucket
invite his new wife’s parents to the
list,” which includes pampering, trips
wedding. They are drinkers, and have in the
and other luxuries.
I sympathize with anyone having a past been very rude to my daughter. She has
terminal illness, but why does that mean I no relationship at all with them and doesn’t
have to give money? Do they have a right to want them at her wedding. She is aware that
this will cause hard feelings with her step-
be pampered on other people’s dime?
This kind of fundraising, without real mother and her father.
My soon-to-be son-in-law called me
inancial need, seems to happen often:
Coworkers who have had accidents, ires, asking for advice. I said maybe they should
unexpected or stressful incidents all have be invited to keep peace in the family, but my
ofice collections set up, even when they are daughter is very upset at the idea of having
fully insured and the damage is covered by these people around on her “special day.” Any
their policies. A friend (or Human Resources) advice? — Wedding Invite In Wisconsin
Dear Wedding Invite: Your ex-husband’s
contacts everyone who has had even a
passing interaction with the individual and new in-laws are not related to your daughter
and do not appear to have made an effort to
solicits donations.
I am happy to write letters and notes to befriend her. Because of that, I see no reason
people I know are having a hard time. I visit why they “must” be invited, unless your ex is
with closer friends and may bring a meal or footing the bill for the wedding.
If this is the case, and the wedding is a large
lowers to their home. But people I’ve spent
only a few hours of my life with asking for one, the couple could be seated “in Siberia,”
money for luxuries seems nervy to me. Am which might be a less than satisfactory, but
I a tightwad, or is a inancial donation neces- workable, solution. (Why they would insist
sary to express condolences? — Tightwad on coming under these circumstances, I can’t
say, but some people will do almost anything
In Canada
Dear Tightwad: Because you receive a for a free dinner.)
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 23-24, 1916
William O. “Whitey” Marren was this
afternoon found guilty of manslaughter for
causing the death of Wendell C. Phillips. The
dying declaration of young Phillips was an
important part of the state’s case and the jury
was called upon to choose between the story he
told to Robert Phillips, his brother, J.J. Jones,
his friend, the doctor and nurse and the story
told by the defendant and Dee Matlock, the
only living witnesses of the shooting. Young
Phillips told of having resented Marren’s treat-
ment of Glenn Rudd, of having quarreled with
Marren after Rudd had left the room and then
having tried to restore a friendliness of feeling.
He told also, witnesses testiied, of Marren
securing the gun from a dresser drawer and
having pointed it at his neck. On his death bed
he declared that he grasped the barrel of the
gun and thrust it downward and was scufling
with Marren over it when it was discharged.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 23-24, 1966
Robin Williamson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Chuck Williamson, Weston, and
“Hoppity Hopper” were named champions of
the irst annual toad and frog jumping contest
at Weston. The amphibian scored 304 points
by Callaveras County rules and beat 40 other
contestants. Runners-up were frogs owned by
Jeanne DeLay, 296 points, and Daisy Gall-
away, 294 points.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 23-24, 1991
Union Paciic Railroad is studying the
prospects of building a $150 million tunnel
on its main line through the Blue Mountains
of northeastern Oregon. In a study of what
could become the longest railroad tunnel in
North America, Union Paciic has awarded a
$326,000 contract to collect and analyze infor-
mation on a passage of 8 to 11 miles through
the mountain range’s steepest grades. The
contractor, HDR Engineering, is a division
of Bouygues S.A. of France, a partner in the
England-to-France “Chunnel” project. Such
a tunnel through the Blue Mountains would
replace up to 35 miles of winding, steep grades
with relatively straight, low grades, said Ed
Trahdahl, a UP spokesman in Omaha, Neb.
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 145th day
of 2016. There are 221 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On May 24, 1844,
Samuel F.B. Morse trans-
mitted the message “What
hath God wrought” from
Washington to Baltimore as
he formally opened Ameri-
ca’s irst telegraph line.
On this date:
In 1775, John Hancock
was elected President of
the Continental Congress,
succeeding
Peyton
Randolph.
In 1883, the Brooklyn
Bridge, linking Brooklyn
and Manhattan, was dedi-
cated by President Chester
Alan Arthur and New York
Gov. Grover Cleveland.
In 1935, the irst major
league baseball game to be
played at night took place at
Cincinnati’s Crosley Field
as the Reds beat the Phila-
delphia Phillies, 2-1.
In 1937, in a set of
rulings, the U.S. Supreme
Court upheld the consti-
tutionality of the Social
Security Act of 1935.
In 1941, the German
battleship Bismarck sank
the British battle cruiser
HMS Hood in the North
Atlantic, killing all but three
of the 1,418 men on board.
In 1959, former U.S.
Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles died in Wash-
ington, D.C., at age 71.
In 1962, astronaut Scott
Carpenter
became
the
second American to orbit
the Earth as he lew aboard
Aurora 7.
In 1966, the Jerry
Herman musical comedy
“Mame,” starring Angela
Lansbury,
opened
on
Broadway.
In 1976, Britain and
France opened trans-At-
lantic Concorde supersonic
transport service to Wash-
ington.
In 1980, Iran rejected a
call by the World Court in
The Hague to release the
American hostages.
In 1991, the feminist ilm
drama “Thelma & Louise,”
starring Susan Sarandon (as
Louise) and Geena Davis
(as Thelma) was released by
MGM.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor-comedian-impres-
sionist Stanley Baxter is 90.
Jazz musician Archie Shepp
is 79. Comedian Tommy
Chong is 78. Singer Bob
Dylan is 75. Actor Gary
Burghoff is 73. Singer Patti
LaBelle is 72. Actress Pris-
cilla Presley is 71. Country
singer Mike Reid is 69.
Actor Jim Broadbent is 67.
Actor Alfred Molina is 63.
Singer Rosanne Cash is 61.
Actor Cliff Parisi (TV: “Call
the Midwife”) is 56. Actress
Kristin Scott Thomas is
56. Rock musician Jimmy
Ashhurst (Buckcherry) is
53. Rock musician Vivian
Trimble is 53. Actor John
C. Reilly is 51. Actor Dana
Ashbrook is 49. Actor Eric
Close is 49. Actor Carl
Payne is 47. Rock musician
Rich Robinson is 47. Actor
Dash Mihok is 42. Actor
Bryan Greenburg is 38.
Actor Owen Benjamin is
36. Actor Billy L. Sullivan
is 36.
Thought for Today:
“Responsibility educates.” —
Wendell Phillips, American
abolitionist (1811-1884).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE