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Friday, June 17, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
A long life lived well is
inspiration for others
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I read your column
an atheist. When I went to my doctor,
and I feel for the people who have
along with my supportive husband,
problems. I have no worries. Although
she had no suggestions to offer. I know
my life has been far from perfect and
I need help beyond what friends and
no bed of roses, here I am at 95 with no
family can provide. Do you have any
serious physical, spiritual, emotional,
ideas for me? — Taking The Step In
family or economic problems.
Pennsylvania
I grew up during the Depression,
Dear Taking The Step: I certainly
had wonderful parents, worked my
do,
because there are secular alterna-
Jeanne
way through college, and was married Phillips tives to AA.
to a loving woman for 67 years. I have
SMART Recovery offers a four-
Advice
four successful children and their
point program aimed at motivation
spouses and several industrious grand-
to abstain, coping with cravings,
children. I also have met a terriic widow who managing negative emotions and inding a
shares the current daily obstacles.
life balance. It has face-to-face support groups
Service in the Navy during WWII and worldwide, as well as daily online meetings.
Korea seemed at the time to limit my future Like AA, lifetime abstinence is the goal, and
career, but in retrospect were experiences meetings and help are free of charge. Unlike
I cherish. Science has been good to me. My AA, lifetime abstinence need not require
knee replacement still permits tennis, three lifetime attendance at meetings. For more
stents keep me alive, vertebra shots eliminate information, visit smartrecovery.org.
severe pain and I have had a couple of other
Another group, Women for Sobriety, may
minor corrections.
be of interest to you because it is non-theistic
Yes, I know, Abby — I am the luckiest and aims to empower women and minorities.
person alive. — Frank In Atlanta
The website, womenforsobriety.org, does not
Dear Frank: I agree. And I can’t help but list its meetings (for reasons of privacy), so in
wonder if part of your luck has to do with your order to ind a group, you will have to make
attitude when you were faced with problems contact within the site.
that others would consider to be adversities.
Last, Secular Organizations for Sobriety
We can all learn from your example.
(aka Save Our Selves) is sometimes described
Dear Abby: I know I have an issue with as a 12-step program minus the religious
alcohol. I have read about local AA groups, overtones. To ind a list of meetings, visit
but they don’t seem right for me because I’m sossobriety.org.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 17, 1916
Plain Jamaica ginger, diluted with water,
is the latest jag-maker discovered by Ed
Chapman. The last time he was arrested
he had on his person a bottle of the ginger
which has a large percentage of alcohol in
it. Chief of Police Gurdane declares Indians
and whites, who are slaves to the booze habit,
are drinking many strange mixtures now. A
few days ago he found a gallon and a half
of whiskey, presumably made from some
powder, in a local lodging house and conis-
cated it. Nobody would lay claim to it.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 17, 1966
“Jumbo,” a Hereford steer owned by
livestock buyer Harve Heeley, isn’t a bum
steer, he’s a rare steer. For one thing Jumbo
is big, 1,800 pounds. He’s also 5 years old (2
is considered a ripe old age for steers). Jumbo
escaped a trip to the slaughter house by a
quirk of fate. Heeley said he bought Jumbo
from a man who had raised him just to see
how big he would grow. Heeley plans to
keep on raising Jumbo as a pet and hopes to
show him off in coming Pendleton Round-Up
parades. “I’d like to get another one and have
a matched pair,” Heeley said.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 17, 1991
Some of the nation’s top senior powerlifters
blitzed more than a dozen world records at the
American Powerlifting Federation/American
Masters Powerlifting Federation National
Masters Championships here Saturday and
Sunday. Randy Patterson of Pendleton led
the assault with three records in the super
heavyweight class 40-44 age group. Patterson
broke his own world record in the bench with
a lift of 552 pounds and destroyed the squat
record of 772 pounds with a inal lift of 881.7
pounds. Patterson’s total in the squat, bench
and deadlift of 2,217 pounds also set a WPC
world record.
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 169th day of
2016. There are 197 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On June 17, 1775, the
Revolutionary War Battle
of Bunker Hill resulted in a
costly victory for the British,
who suffered heavy losses.
On this date:
In 1789, during the French
Revolution, the Third Estate
declared itself a national
assembly, and undertook to
frame a constitution. (This
gathering gave rise to the
political terms “left wing”
and “right wing,” with depu-
ties representing commoners
sitting to the left of the
assembly president, and
nobles sitting to the right.)
In 1885, the Statue of
Liberty arrived in New York
Harbor aboard the French
ship Isere.
In 1928, Amelia Earhart
embarked on a trans-Atlantic
light from Newfoundland
to Wales with pilots Wilmer
Stultz and Louis Gordon,
becoming the irst woman to
make the trip as a passenger.
In
1930,
President
Herbert Hoover signed the
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act,
which boosted U.S. tariffs
to historically high levels,
prompting foreign retaliation.
In 1940, France asked
Germany for terms of
surrender in World War II.
In 1944, the Republic of
Iceland was established.
In 1953, U.S. Supreme
Court Justice William O.
Douglas stayed the execution
of Julius and Ethel Rosen-
berg, originally set for the
next day, the couple’s 14th
wedding anniversary. (They
were put to death June 19.)
In 1961, Soviet ballet
dancer Rudolf Nureyev
defected to the West while his
troupe was in Paris.
In
1972,
President
Richard M. Nixon’s even-
tual downfall began with
the arrest of ive burglars
inside Democratic national
headquarters in Washington,
D.C.’s Watergate complex.
In 1986, President Ronald
Reagan announced the retire-
ment of Chief Justice Warren
Burger, who was succeeded
by William Rehnquist.
Singer Kate Smith died in
Raleigh, North Carolina, at
age 79.
In 1992, President George
H.W. Bush and Russian Pres-
ident Boris Yeltsin signed a
breakthrough arms-reduction
agreement.
In 1994, after leading
police on a slow-speed chase
on Southern California
freeways, O.J. Simpson was
arrested and charged with
murder in the slayings of
his ex-wife, Nicole, and her
friend, Ronald Goldman.
(Simpson was later acquitted
in a criminal trial, but held
liable in a civil trial.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Peter Lupus is 84.
Actor William Lucking is 75.
Singer Barry Manilow is 73.
Former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich is 73. Comedian
Joe Piscopo is 65. Actor
Mark Linn-Baker is 62.
Actor Jon Gries (gryz) is 59.
Rock singer Jello Biafra is
58. Movie producer-direc-
tor-writer Bobby Farrelly
is 58. Actor Thomas Haden
Church is 55. Actor Greg
Kinnear is 53. Actress Kami
Cotler is 51. Olympic gold-
medal speed skater Dan
Jansen is 51. Actor Jason
Patric is 50. Rhythm-and-
blues singer Kevin Thornton
is 47. Actor-comedian Will
Forte is 46. Latin pop singer
Paulina Rubio is 45. Tennis
player Venus Williams is
36. Country singer Mickey
Guyton is 33. Actor-rapper
Herculeez (AKA Jamal
Mixon) is 33. Rapper
Kendrick Lamar is 29. Actor
Damani Roberts is 20.
Thought for Today:
“One has two duties — to
be worried and not to be
worried.” — E.M. Forster,
British author (1879-1970).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE