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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, June 28, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Boyfriend’s mom’s disapproval looms over couple’s future FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My boyfriend, “Paul,” dice, and that’s all it is. It is no longer and I have been together for ive the position of the Catholic Church to excommunicate people who marry years. We want to get married, but his out of the faith. mother is Catholic and she doesn’t You asked my advice; here it is: approve because I am an Alaskan The woman is a religious bigot. She’s native, which from her perspective unlikely to ever approve of you or makes me a pagan. stop trying to convert you, and it has Paul hasn’t attended church or held gone beyond the point of concern for any Catholic views for many years, Jeanne but he won’t tell his mother because Phillips your soul to just plain insulting. She isn’t going to change, and as long as he’s afraid it would devastate her. She Advice your boyfriend is afraid of “devas- has told me we are living in sin, that tating” her, your situation won’t our marriage could cause him to be excommunicated, and if we have children, change either. A marriage to him under these conditions won’t be easy, so please think they’ll be bastards who will go to hell. I am hurt and confused over this and don’t twice about it. Dear Abby: Some good friends of know what to do or say about it. Every time I try to talk to her, she tries to persuade me to mine were unable to have kids because of convert, which I don’t want to do. I’d like to a medical issue. They recently adopted a have a relationship with her, but I don’t want preteen daughter, and the adoption became to have to change who I am for her to approve inal a few months ago. They are now having an “adoption party” of me or my future children. What advice can you give me to help me get through my where everyone can come and hang out and just have a good time. What is the etiquette situation? — Doomed To Hell In Alaska Dear “Doomed”: Are you sure your for such a celebration? It’s being held at a boyfriend WANTS to be married? Your park where there is lots to do. Should I bring problem isn’t his mother; it’s that he can’t a card, a gift for the child, something for the ind the backbone to tell her he plans to marry parents or nothing? — Confused In Arizona Dear Confused: What a wonderful you with or without her approval. Paul’s mother’s thinking is outdated. occasion to celebrate! It would be thoughtful, Non-Catholic Alaskan natives are not generous and welcoming if you brought “pagan”; the majority are Christian. As for along a gift for the girl, and I’m sure it would your future children being “bastards doomed be appreciated not only by their daughter but to hell” — she’s repeating an ancient preju- also by the new parents. 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 27-28, 1916 Ed McBroom is minus one Ford automo- bile today as a result of the storm of yesterday afternoon but he is very grateful that he didn’t meet the same fate as his car, which was caught by a wall of water looding down Stage Gulch, carried a mile and a half and torn to pieces by the water. Accompanied by Hal J. Holland, a Denver horsebuyer, he was proceeding down Stage Gulch near the Andy Peebler place yesterday afternoon when the storm came up. He stopped his car to put on the side curtains and was trying to start it when he discovered the wall of water, several feet high, coming down the gulch. The two men clambered up the hillside after becoming drenched. The car was caught by the water and swept away in a moment. For a mile and a half it was rolled down the gulch, and when the waters had receded so that the men could look for it, all they could ind was the engine, one wheel and a few small parts. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 27-28, 1966 Joe Green, local CPA; S.O. (Chub) Whiteman, retired businessman; Lowell Suttle, insurance executive; and Dr. Carl Calhoun, physician, all escaped serious injury when their light plane ran off a short runway at Scum Lake, British Columbia, and crashed into some downed trees. Green said the plane was going at a fair clip when it ran out of runway and they went into the trees. The craft bounced around considerably before it inally lipped over, leaving the four men hanging upside down by their seat belts. Whiteman apparently was the most seriously injured, suffering possible cracked ribs, as did Dr. Calhoun. Whiteman, who had dificulty breathing after the crash, spent Friday night at a Williams Lake hospital. All four were lown home by Lynn Timmerman and Clair Stratton of Pendleton. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 27-28, 1991 Police oficer Marty Ray has apparently burned his bridges with the Athena City Council, which voted this week to suspend him without pay for at least two years. The action doesn’t carry much sting, however, since Ray was being laid of the end of this month due to budget cuts. The disciplinary action was due to Ray’s refusal to return a cassette tape belonging to the city. Chris Wallace, city attorney, said Ray had been asked to return the tape and warned of the possibility of disciplinary action if he did not. She said she did not know what was recorded on the tape, but she added that it was a possible cause of concern due to legal action Ray is expected to take against the city. Ray was unhappy over the way the city handled his layoff. The council determined it would have to cut the two-man police force in half and made the determination to keep Jim Marquardt by drawing names from a hat. 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 180th day of 2016. There are 186 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On June 28, 1778, the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth took place in New Jersey; from this battle arose the legend of “Molly Pitcher,” a woman who was said to have carried water to colonial soldiers, then taken over iring her husband’s cannon when he became injured. On this date: In 1836, the fourth pres- ident of the United States, James Madison, died in Montpelier, Virginia. In 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip — an act which sparked World War I. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War. In Independence, Missouri, future president Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace. In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which required adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and ingerprinted. In 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea. In 1996, the Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school. (The unani- mous decision by the school’s governing board came two days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the all-male admissions policy at Virginia Military Institute.) Today’s Birthdays: Comedian-movie director Mel Brooks is 90. Former Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., is 82. Comedian-impressionist John Byner is 79. Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is 78. Rock musi- cian Dave Knights (Procul Harum) is 71. Actor Bruce Davison is 70. Actress Kathy Bates is 68. Actress Alice Krige is 62. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 56. Record company chief executive Tony Mercedes is 54. A Actor John Cusack is 50. Rock musician Tim Nordwind (OK Go) is 40. Thought for Today: “Man is born free; and every- where he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-born philosopher (born this date in 1712, died in 1778). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
