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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Daughter struggles to help
frustrated widowed mother
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: Mom is 61. She lost
on their skateboards right under a
her husband (my dad) six months ago.
sign that says “No skateboards.”
They had been married for 37 years.
These kids are old enough to read and
He used to do almost everything for
understand the signs and signals.
her. Now her world has changed
Sometimes I call out to the parent,
because she must do things for herself
“Nice job teaching your kids how
— like doing the dishes or paying the
to get away with something!” or, “I
bills.
hope your kids remind you about this
When we talk, she constantly
when they are teenagers and want to
Jeanne
complains about tasks that have the Phillips do something stupid!” The parents
simplest of solutions. If I offer advice,
always ignore me. Can you suggest
Advice
she gets defensive and says, “Fine!
a better comment I can yell out? —
Tell me how I should live my life.” I
Don In California
have reached the conclusion that she doesn’t
Dear Don: What you are witnessing is
want advice, but she continues to complain regrettable. However, my advice is to keep
and be upset. My siblings and I don’t live your mouth shut, because you’re not going to
close by. How can we help her? — Caring teach parents like the ones you have described
Daughter In Colorado
anything with a shout-out.
Dear Daughter: Six months ago, your
Dear Abby: My husband and I have an
mother lost half of her “self.” Tasks that seem ongoing disagreement. He said I should write
ordinary to you are still new to her. Resist to you to see what you thought.
the urge to help with advice unless you are
When we’re in a group, I say it’s rude to
speciically asked. And recognize that when make plans that don’t include others who are
she complains, rather than looking for advice, standing with us. He has no problem with
she may be venting about her pain and frus- it. I’m uncomfortable discussing where to
tration.
go for dinner with four members of a group
Dear Abby: I often see parents “help” when others are standing beside us. He says I
their elementary school-age kids violate am too sensitive and too easily embarrassed.
safety laws. For example, if they are running What do you think? — Disagreement In
late, they’ll hurry their kids across an inter- Ohio
section against the lashing red hand signal,
Dear Disagreement: I don’t think that you
or jaywalk across the middle of a busy street are too sensitive. While discussing where to
instead of going to the corner. This saves go for dinner in front of people who haven’t
them about two minutes.
been invited isn’t “rude,” it is insensitive
I also see parents watch their kids playing because they may feel excluded.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 6-7, 1916
Miss Muriel Saling now wears the crown
of Queen of Rosaria and Sheriff T.D. Taylor,
president of the Round-up, is oficially King
Joy of the Rose Festival. The coronation
ceremony, through which the Pendleton maid
and the Pendleton man were made rulers of
Portland’s carnival, was a brilliant feature of
last evening. This morning they headed the
Human Rosebud parade and this afternoon
they are at Multnomah Falls where the elabo-
rate pantomime in dedication of the Columbia
Highway is being staged with Queen Muriel
and King Joy as the central igures. Tonight
they will occupy a throne at the Oaks to view
the great display of ireworks in honor of the
queen.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 6-7, 1966
The Oregon State Highway Department
will hold its irst public auction of houses in
the path of the Pendleton by-pass of Interstate
80 Tuesday when 11 dwellings go on the
auction block. Tuesday’s auction is the irst
of many before the 100 or more buildings
in the path of the freeway are destroyed or
removed. The auction will be held at the site
of each building for sale, beginning at 10 a.m.
at the former Rice home at 407 S.W. 21st St.
The auction will be an oral one and buildings
will be open for inspection the morning of the
sale. All building must be removed within 45
to 60 days from the date of the sale.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 6-7, 1991
Flash looding washed through portions
of downtown Pendleton and Milton-Free-
water Thursday evening when storm clouds
dumped more than one inch of rain along
the edge of the Blue Mountains. Damage
also was reported to area wheat, barley and
hay ields. The downtown storm sewers
became overloaded and backed up water
at a depth of about seven inches on some
streets. The sewers were unable to support
the volume, Pendleton public works director
Jerry Oldman said. He said the city received
about 35 calls for assistance from residents
who were reporting problems ranging from
plugged catch basins to property damage.
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 159th day of
2016. There are 207 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On June 7, 1776, Richard
Henry Lee of Virginia offered
a resolution to the Continental
Congress stating “That these
United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and
independent States.”
On this date:
In 1654, King Louis
XIV, age 15, was crowned
in Rheims, 11 years after the
start of his reign.
In 1769, frontiersman
Daniel Boone irst began
to
explore
present-day
Kentucky.
In 1892, Homer Plessy, a
“Creole of color,” was ined
for refusing to leave a whites-
only car of the East Louisiana
Railroad. (Ruling on his case,
the U.S. Supreme Court
upheld “separate but equal”
racial segregation, a concept
it renounced in 1954.)
In 1929, the sovereign
state of Vatican City came
into existence as copies of
the Lateran Treaty were
exchanged in Rome.
In 1939, King George VI
and his wife, Queen Elizabeth,
arrived at Niagara Falls, New
York, from Canada on the irst
visit to the United States by a
reigning British monarch.
In 1954, British mathe-
matician, computer pioneer
and code breaker Alan Turing
died at age 41, an apparent
suicide. (Turing, convicted in
1952 of “gross indecency” for
a homosexual relationship,
was pardoned in 2013.)
In 1958, singer-songwriter
Prince was born Prince
Rogers Nelson in Minneap-
olis.
In 1965, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Griswold v.
Connecticut, recognized a
constitutional right to privacy
as it struck down, 7-2, a
Connecticut law used to pros-
ecute a Planned Parenthood
clinic in New Haven for
providing contraceptives to
married couples.
In 1998, in a crime that
shocked the nation, James
Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old
black man, was hooked by
a chain to a pickup truck
and dragged to his death in
Jasper, Texas. (Two white
men were later sentenced
to death; one of them,
Lawrence Russell Brewer,
was executed in 2011.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Movie director James Ivory
is 88. Former Canadian Prime
Minister John Turner is 87.
Actress Virginia McKenna
is 85. Singer Tom Jones is
76. Poet Nikki Giovanni
is 73. Actor Ken Osmond
(TV: “Leave It to Beaver”)
is 73. Former talk show host
Jenny Jones is 70. Americana
singer-songwriter Willie Nile
is 68. Actress Anne Twomey
is 65. Actor Liam Neeson is
64. Actress Colleen Camp
is 63. Rock singer-musician
Gordon Gano (The Violent
Femmes) is 53. Rock musi-
cian Eric Kretz (Stone Temple
Pilots) is 50. Rock musician
Dave Navarro is 49. Actor
Karl Urban is 44. TV person-
ality Bear Grylls is 42. Rock
musician Eric Johnson (The
Shins) is 40. Actor-comedian
Bill Hader is 38. Tennis
player Anna Kournikova is
35. Actor Michael Cera is
28. Rapper Iggy Azalea is 26.
Rapper Fetty Wap is 25.
Thought for Today: “Two
men look out through the
same bars: One sees the mud
and one the stars.” — Fred-
erick Langbridge, English
clergyman and author (1849-
1922).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE