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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