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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