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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, July 7, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Stepson is on losing end
of misspent child support
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have an 8-year-old
placed with you. While a young child
stepson, “Kaden,” whom I love dearly.
may not be able to do this, I believe
a teenager can make a compelling
Kaden spends the bulk of his time
case for it. If Kaden’s mother has
with his mother on the other side of
been depriving him, it would make a
the country. When he comes to visit us
persuasive argument for a change in
in the summer, his clothing and shoes
custody.
are always ragged and a few sizes too
Dear Abby: I really like this guy
small.
named “Gary.” He’s super sweet,
My husband pays child support and
Jeanne
buys Kaden a new wardrobe every six Phillips funny, cute and just incredible. He’s
my brother’s friend.
months. Yet every time he comes to us,
Advice
I’m in sixth grade and he’s in ifth. I
he’s never wearing anything his dad
think he might like me back. He asked
and I bought him, but what appear to
be hand-me-down rags. We have spoken to me to follow his new Instagram account, and
the mother many times about it, but nothing when I told him to tell my brother hi, he stared
at me for a few seconds longer (plus he was
changes.
We feel if we stop buying clothes for Kaden smiling the whole time). One of my girlfriends
it would punish him, when it is his mom who sort of likes him, too.
What do I do? How do I tell him I like him?
isn’t spending the child support money on the
boy. We have paid for extracurricular activities Is it OK for me to ask him to go to the park?
(sports) only for her to not take him there. She His brother and my brother could go, too.
lies and says he doesn’t want to go, but we get Please help me. What do I do? — Girl In El
a different story from the boy. He says she says, Paso, Texas
Dear Girl: If Gary wants you to follow his
“Judo isn’t a real sport.” He has gained weight
Instagram account, it’s a pretty good sign that
and we don’t want him to be picked on for it.
The state where the boy lives is not good he has positive feelings for you. If you want
about giving fathers custody of their kids, and to ask him to go to the park, and your parents
the mom is not necessarily unit. How can we don’t mind, go ahead and do it. But let me offer
make her see she’s hurting her kid? — Mother a couple of suggestions:
If you ask him, DO include your brother
Doesn’t Know Best
Dear M.D.K.B.: You can’t “make” another and his brother because being with others
adult do something she isn’t inclined to do. will make it more fun. And, everybody loves
However, what you can do is enroll Kaden in a compliment. The compliment doesn’t have
sports programs when he visits you during the to be as blatant as “I like you,” which could
embarrass some boys his age. A simple, “I
summer months.
You and your husband can also talk to a think you’re great because (you’re really
family law attorney and ind out at what age smart, you’re good at sports, you’re fun to be
Kaden will be able to legally request to be around, etc.)” should do the trick.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 7, 1916
The Standard Oil Co. will commence work
this week on the erection of a large warehouse,
ofice and stable and three large oil tanks, on
the ground recently purchased from Loren
Kennison near the stockyard in Stanield. This
will be a distributing point for this part of the
country.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 7, 1966
Government trapper James Chetwood,
who was the object of an extensive search
in the Holdman-Helix area Tuesday night
and Wednesday, turned up at his Meacham
trapping headquarters “wondering what all the
fuss was about.” Chetwood’s wife called the
state police Tuesday, after her husband failed
to return home that evening from a coyote trap-
ping trip into the rolling wheat country around
Holdman. A small scale search began Tuesday
evening and grew Wednesday morning when
several planes lew over the area. Chetwood
had apparently not stopped in Pendleton on his
way to Meacham. He also was out checking his
traps when oficers visited his Meacham camp
earlier Wednesday. Chetwood showed up at his
trailer at 7 p.m. Wednesday, ending the search.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 7, 1991
Retired Salvation Army Major James Berry
remembers 50 years ago when Pendleton
suffered from a bad reputation. “It just had
a very poor name ... perhaps because (the
Salvation Army) sent wrong people, people
who didn’t care,” said Berry, who now lives
in Casper, Wyo. Berry was a Salvation Army
captain here from April 1942 until June 1945.
He has returned for the 50th anniversary
celebration of the United States’ entry into
World War II sponsored by the Umatilla
County Historical Society. At about 2 this
afternoon, Berry will serve the irst doughnut
from the replicated Salvation Army Do-nut
Hut to Oregon’s adjutant general, Brig. Gen.
Gene A. Katke. Berry and his wife, Annabele,
initiated the refreshment stand at the Union
Paciic railroad depot while living here. Now
the re-created hut is located on the same prop-
erty, next to the Amtrak station and historical
society museum.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 189th day of
2016. There are 177 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On July 7, 1976, Pres-
ident and Mrs. Gerald R.
Ford hosted a White House
dinner for Britain’s Queen
Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
The United States Military
Academy at West Point
included female cadets for
the irst time as 119 women
joined the Class of 1980.
On this date:
In 1846, U.S. annexation
of California was proclaimed
at Monterey after the surrender
of a Mexican garrison.
In 1865, four people were
hanged in Washington, D.C.,
for conspiring with John
Wilkes Booth to assassinate
President Abraham Lincoln:
Lewis Powell (aka Lewis
Payne),
David
Herold,
George Atzerodt and Mary
Surratt, the irst woman to be
executed by the U.S. federal
government.
In 1898, the United States
annexed Hawaii.
In 1919, the irst Trans-
continental Motor Convoy, in
which a U.S. Army convoy of
motorized vehicles crossed
the United States, departed
Washington, D.C. (The trip
ended in San Francisco on
Sept. 6, 1919.)
In 1937, the Second
Sino-Japanese War erupted
into full-scale conlict as
Imperial Japanese forces
attacked the Marco Polo
Bridge in Beijing.
Also in 1946, Italian-born
Mother Frances Xavier
Cabrini was canonized as the
irst American saint by Pope
Pius XII.
In 1948, six female U.S.
Navy reservists became the
irst women to be sworn in to
the regular Navy.
In 1969, Canada’s House of
Commons gave inal approval
to the Oficial Languages
Act, making French equal
to English throughout the
national government.
In 1981, President Ronald
Reagan announced he was
nominating Arizona Judge
Sandra Day O’Connor to
become the irst female justice
on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Musician-conductor
Doc
Severinsen is 89. Pulitzer
Prize-winning author David
McCullough is 83. Rock
star Ringo Starr is 76. Rock
musician Jim Rodford is
75. Comedian Bill Oddie is
75. Singer-musician Warren
Entner (The Grass Roots) is
73. Actor Joe Spano is 70.
Pop singer David Hodo (The
Village People) is 69. Country
singer Linda Williams is
69. Actress Shelley Duvall
is 67. Actress Roz Ryan is
65. Actor Billy Campbell
is 57. Rock musician Mark
White (Spin Doctors) is 54.
Singer-songwriter
Vonda
Shepard is 53. Actor-co-
median Jim Gafigan is 50.
Olympic silver and bronze
medal igure skater Michelle
Kwan is 36. Pop singer Ally
Hernandez (Fifth Harmony)
is 23.
Thought for Today:
“Nothing ever comes to one,
that is worth having, except
as a result of hard work.”
— Booker T. Washington,
American educator and
author (1856-1915).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE