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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Woman with little experience
wants freedom to live it up
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m in love with my
for Chelsea’s cigarettes and personal
boyfriend, and we’re about to move
items. She claims she wants to be a
to a huge college town. We’ve been
stay-at-home mom — although she
dating two years and I want him to
is more “stay at home” than “mom.”
be my husband, but at the same time
This infuriates me and has led to many
I want to live life. I’m not even 21 yet,
arguments.
and I haven’t experienced life. I want
I have tried reasoning with her and
to go to a bar or club and dance with
talking rationally; nothing works. It
whomever I want, maybe even have
has turned into one shouting match
Jeanne
a hookup if it were to come down to Phillips after another. What can I do to set her
it. I have never had a one-night stand
straight while not putting our son at
Advice
and I don’t think I would, but if it came
risk of suffering from all of this fallout?
down to it — who knows!
Throwing her out is obviously not the
I don’t want to hurt him, but I want him answer. I’m just not sure what is. — Doing It
to be happy. He’s happy with me and I’m All In Arizona
happy with him. What do I do? How do I tell
Dear Doing It All: While it would have
him I’d like freedom to be a ho? — Need To been nice for your son to be surrounded by two
Experience Life
loving parents who get along, that’s not how
Dear Need To Experience Life: Explain it has turned out. You should not be forced to
to your boyfriend exactly the way you have shoulder as much of the responsibility as you
described it to me, and if he is like 99 percent have been saddled with, and living in a house
of the men on this planet, your problem will be with parents who are at each other’s throats is
solved. “Ho-Ho-Ho!”
not a healthy environment for a child.
Dear Abby: I’m 48 and the father of a
Chelsea appears to be lazy, and I have to
3-year-old son I love very much. His mother, wonder about how conscientious a parent she
“Chelsea,” is 45. They live with me, although is if she sits around smoking with her child in
Chelsea and I are not romantically involved. the house all day. Talk to an attorney about
Our son was an “oops” baby, but we chose to assuming full custody of your son. Because his
live together so we could have him in our daily mother refuses to work, it follows that she’s in
lives.
no position to support him. He is old enough
Since moving in, Chelsea has decided she’s for day care or preschool during the hours you
not responsible for any part of the household are working.
duties, nor does she have to sustain herself as
Then thank God you didn’t marry this
we had previously agreed. I work full-time, woman, and tell Chelsea the free ride is over. If
pay all the bills and provide everything. I she can’t abide by the agreement you two had
also do the cooking and cleaning and pay when she moved in, she’ll have to move out.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 1, 1916
Conirmation of the Indians’ claim to a
primary right to a use of water on the Umatilla
reservation; an increase of the maximum
allowance of water from one-half inch to
one inch per acre to the waterusers along
the Umatilla river; a revision of the lists and
schedules of lands in the west end of the county
according to relative dates of priority; and a
general agreement with the indings of the
state water board. These will be the principal
points in the decree of Circuit Judge Phelps
in the matter of the adjudication of the water
rights of the Umatilla river and its tributaries,
as indicated by a memorandum which he iled
today. The decree of Judge Phelps is given
upon an appeal from the indings of the state
water board which took testimony for ive
years. It is very probable that an appeal will
be taken to the state supreme court from Judge
Phelps’ decree and the United States supreme
court will doubtless be called upon to make the
inal determination of the respective rights of
the Indians and the Byers milling interests to
the use of water of the river.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 1, 1966
Pendleton played host to the Millions over
the Memorial Day weekend. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Million, that is, of Encinitas, Calif.,
were here to pay their respects to the graves
of his parents in Olney Cemetery. It was the
irst visit back to Pendleton for Million since
1915. Born here, he left in 1911 to join the
Marines. He made the service his career, and
was a Marine for 33 years. The visitor’s father
was Thomas J. Million, who worked for the
ire department and the city water works. “I
was born right across the street from the back
door of the Woolworth store — on 1st Street,”
recalled the retired veteran. “And the day my
father was buried, every store in town was
closed.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 1, 1991
Oficers from the Hermiston Police
Department and Morrow County law enforce-
ment agencies arrested nearly 20 people on
drug charges this week after a two-month
undercover investigation. Beginning in the
early morning hours Thursday, 11 Hermiston
residents were arrested and charged with drug
crimes. Morrow County law enforcement ofi-
cers began making arrests Tuesday. Bob Terry,
narcotics oficer for the Hermiston police, said
the suspects were charged after an “undercover
operation where they were selling drugs to
the police.” Terry said, “We were hooking
and booking out of the DARE van” as police
oficers used the promotional vehicle to contact
suspects prior to the arrests on Thursday in
Hermiston. Terry said more arrests may be
pending as a result of the undercover opera-
tion. Most of this suspects were charged with
delivery and possession of cocaine, marijuana
and methamphetamines.
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 153rd day
of 2016. There are 213 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On June 1, 1916, Louis
Brandeis took his seat as an
associate justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court, the irst
Jewish American to serve
on the nation’s highest
bench.
On this date:
In 1792, Kentucky
became the 15th state of the
union.
In 1796, Tennessee
became the 16th state.
In 1813, the mortally
wounded commander of
the USS Chesapeake, Capt.
James Lawrence, gave the
order, “Don’t give up the
ship” during a losing battle
with the British frigate
HMS Shannon in the War
of 1812.
In
1868,
James
Buchanan, the 15th presi-
dent of the United States,
died near Lancaster, Penn-
sylvania, at age 77.
In 1915, the T.S. Eliot
poem “The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock” was
irst published in “Poetry:
A Magazine of Verse” in
Chicago.
In 1926, actress Marilyn
Monroe was born Norma
Jeane Mortenson in Los
Angeles.
In 1943, a civilian light
from Portugal to England
was shot down by Germany
during World War II, killing
all 17 people aboard,
including actor Leslie
Howard.
In 1968, author-lecturer
Helen Keller, who’d earned
a college degree despite
being blind and deaf almost
all of her life, died in West-
port, Connecticut, at age
87.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Richard Erdman is 91. Singer
Pat Boone is 82. Actor-writ-
er-director Peter Masterson is
82. Actor Morgan Freeman is
79. Actor Rene Auberjonois
is 76. Opera singer Frederica
von Stade is 71. Actor Brian
Cox is 70. Rock musician
Ronnie Wood is 69. Actor
Jonathan Pryce is 69. Actress
Gemma Craven is 66. Blues-
rock musician Tom Principato
is 64. Country singer Ronnie
Dunn is 63. Actress Lisa
Hartman Black is 60. Actor
Tom Irwin is 60. Rock musi-
cian Simon Gallup (The Cure)
is 56. Model-actress Heidi
Klum is 43. Singer Alanis
Morissette is 42. Educator
Marci Wattenburger is 33.
Thought for Today:
“When a thing ceases to be
a subject of controversy,
it ceases to be a subject of
interest.” — William Hazlitt,
British essayist (1778-1830).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE