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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, June 30, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Brother with multiple issues must work them out himself FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE our parents. — Grieving In Nicosia, Dear Abby: My brother, “Chris,” Cyprus is going through a divorce and lost his Dear Grieving: You cannot heal business. He is now lashing out at our mom and me when she spends time a rift you didn’t create, and you also with me. can’t “donate away” Chris’ resent- When I tried to express my ment. He’s unhappy for a number sympathy, Chris attacked me via direct of reasons and is taking it out on message, saying I have a “charmed you not because you’re a bad sister, life and don’t care about anyone — but because you are within striking Jeanne including him and our cash-strapped Phillips distance. parents.” It started when Dad gave Your brother needs to work out Advice me a car he wasn’t using before we his dificulties himself. A family learned about my brother’s misfor- meeting — including your husband tune. When I tried to return it, Dad refused. — might clear the air so all of you are on the Because I stopped responding to him on same page. Your brother needs to understand the internet, Chris is now complaining to why the inancial help he seems to expect is Mom about my “selishness.” He says if the unrealistic and will not be forthcoming. situation was reversed, he would have moved Dear Abby: Is there any way to counter heaven and Earth to help me. a stranger’s mean or hurtful remark (racist, Abby, Chris has a job. He lives with our age-related or sexist) in a mall or store? I folks and pays token rent. My husband and feel I have to say something — without I work, but I have had a salary cut, we have being confrontational — even if the remark two kids to support and a mortgage to pay. isn’t aimed at me. What do you suggest? — We’re in no position to provide the inancial Compelled To Act In Ottawa, Canada assistance my brother expects. My parents Dear Compelled: Because you don’t want suspect that he’s still giving money to his a confrontation, I urge you to say nothing to soon-to-be ex. the person who made the offensive remark. My husband says Chris is trying to However, you could approach the person manipulate me and that I need to go on with who was the target and quietly say: “That was my life, but I’m worried that the longer this uncalled for. I hope you realize the person goes on, the harder it will be to heal the rift. who said that is ignorant, and don’t let it get I’m also worried about how this is affecting to you.” DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 30, 1916 Last evening two young Weston men, known as “Fat” McKenzie and “Young” Duncan and who are planning to enlist for service on the Mexican border, drove to Pendleton accompanied by two young ladies and on their return had an experience with their “Tin Lizzie” that left them feeling like they had been annihilated by a force of Mexicans. The car stopped near Saxe and, upon McKenzie’s attempt to crank it, kicked back and broke his arm. Duncan then essayed the task and was walloped on the shoulder so hard he sprawled in the road. The young ladies, who knew something about motor cars, then put the young men in the back seat, cranked the car and drove the wounded “soldiers” home. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 30, 1966 Joyce Pruess, waitress at the Tapadera Restaurant, served ive leading Pendleton citizens who were attempting a national irst at eating a New York cut steak dinner in the back of a garbage truck. Pendleton, which won the irst Governor’s Cup for doing the best job in a statewide clean-up campaign last year, was so eager to retain the cup that it went all-out to clean up the community, even down to the inside of the garbage trucks. Bob Spiekerman, owner of the Pendleton Sanitary Service, Inc., was the host for the unusual dinner. Guests included Eddie Knopp, mayor; Gene Roden, incoming city councilman; and Hank Davis and Jim Wiginton, who were in charge of the clean-up campaign. The diners reported that many tourists did double-takes as they drove by the truck. Some even circled the block to take a second look at the strange dining room. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 30, 1991 Pendleton police arrested Steven Hyde, 32, of Meacham for reckless driving, posses- sion of less than one ounce of a controlled substance and DUII after he allegedly drove his brown Subaru on the River Parkway. A passenger in Hyde’s vehicle, Kevin Valentine, was arrested for resisting arrest, obstructing justice and criminal mischief. Police said he grabbed the badge off an arresting oficer’s uniform and stomped on it. 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 182nd day of 2016. There are 184 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 30, 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded in Washington, D.C. On this date: In 1859, French acrobat Charles Blondin walked back and forth on a tightrope above the gorge of Niagara Falls as thousands of specta- tors watched. In 1865, eight people, including Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd, were convicted by a military commission of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. (Four defendants, including Surratt, were executed; Mudd was sentenced to life in prison, but was pardoned by Pres- ident Andrew Johnson in 1869.) In 1908, the Tunguska Event took place in Russia as an asteroid exploded above Siberia, leaving 800 square miles of scorched or blown- down trees. In 1912, Canada’s deadliest tornado on record occurred as a cyclone struck Regina, the provincial capital of Saskatchewan, killing 28 people. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding the late Edward Douglass White. In 1936, the Civil War novel “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell was irst published by The Macmillan Co. in New York. In 1949, “The Missouri Waltz” became the oficial state song of Missouri. In 1958, the U.S. Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill by a vote of 64-20. In 1963, Pope Paul VI was crowned the 262nd head of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1971, the ilm fantasy “Willy Wonka & the Choco- late Factory,” starring Gene Wilder, was released by Paramount Pictures. In 1985, 39 American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner were freed in Beirut after being held 17 days. In 1994, an Airbus A330 passenger plane crashed after takeoff from Toulouse, France, on a test light, killing all seven occupants. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Lea Massari is 83. Actress Nancy Dussault is 80. Songwriter Tony Hatch is 77. Singer Glenn Shor- rock is 72. Actor Leonard Whiting (Film: “Romeo and Juliet”) is 66. Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is 65. Actor David Garrison is 64. Rock musician Hal Lindes (Dire Straits) is 63. Actor-comedian David Alan Grier is 60. Actor Vincent D’Onofrio is 57. Actress Deirdre Lovejoy is 54. Actor Rupert Graves is 53. Boxer Mike Tyson is 50. Actor Peter Outerbridge is 50. Rock musician Tom Drum- mond (Better Than Ezra) is 47. Actor Brian Bloom is 46. Actor Brian Vincent is 46. Actress Monica Potter is 45. Actress Molly Parker is 44. Actor Rick Gonzalez is 37. Actor Tom Burke is 35. Rock musician James Adam Shelley (American Authors) is 33. Rhythm-and-blues singer Fantasia is 32. Olympic gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps is 31. Thought for Today: “The man who has done his level best is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.” — B.C. Forbes, Scottish journalist (1880-1954). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
