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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, July 22, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Family resents boyfriend for usurping dad’s chair FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My beloved father of the dozens of people behind us, passed away three years ago. One of visualizing a pileup and injuries. my older sisters moved in with Mom Fortunately, an attendant quickly grabbed the suitcase, and no one was to help take care of her and be her hurt. As he did he said, “NEVER put companion. My sister has a boyfriend a suitcase ahead of you on an esca- my father absolutely disliked, and the lator! Always carry it behind you so rest of our family doesn’t like him you can control it!” I hope this letter either. will save others from what could be My issue (and I’m not the only Jeanne family member who feels this way) Phillips a dangerous situation. — Avoided A Pileup In New Jersey is that when her boyfriend is at the Advice Dear Avoided: Whoa! So do I. house, he sits in Dad’s chair. It’s Thank you for the warning. hard enough not seeing Dad there Dear Abby: Recently my wife was out anymore, but seeing the boyfriend sitting there is offensive. Am I wrong for feeling this for some training all day on a Saturday. Our way? If there is a way, how could I or my 11-year-old daughter had been invited to family approach the subject with my sister or a birthday party on the same day, so I was to drop her off. My wife and daughter told her boyfriend? — Daddy’s Gone Now Dear Daddy’s Gone Now: Please accept me the birthday party “might or might not” my sympathy for the loss of your obviously be a sleepover party. My daughter would much-loved father. But the boyfriend may inform me at the end of the party if she were be using Dad’s chair because no one else is spending the night. I wanted to know at the time I dropped her using it, and it is comfortable and available. As I see it, you and your other siblings have off whether she was going to be sleeping over. two choices: Either speak to the boyfriend My wife claimed I “didn’t need” to know. She and tell him — nicely — that seeing him accused me of being unreasonable, and said it occupy your father’s special chair is painful was OK for me to ind out at the end of the for all of you, or replace the chair with one party. I don’t mean to be picky, but as a dad was I being unreasonable? — Responsible that has less sentimental value. Dear Abby: Some time ago I was Parent In Oregon Dear Parent: No. As the parent respon- descending an escalator when a suitcase belonging to the woman ahead of me got sible for your daughter that day, you had every stuck. She had put the bag in front of her, right to know what the plans would be so and the wheels had caught on one of the you could plan your own evening. When the steps. When she reached the bottom of the invitation was issued, that information should escalator, she fell over her suitcase, and then have been conveyed so your daughter would I fell over her. I scrambled on my hands and be prepared and take along her pajamas and knees as fast as I could to get out of the way toothbrush. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 22, 1916 A meeting of a number of property owners of the west end of the county was held last night and an organization formed to ight the establishment of the Port of Umatilla and the Pitman road. W.J. Furnish was elected president of the body and Manuel Friedly, secretary. These two will appoint a committee of ive to work with them. The meeting last night was attended by about 40 property owners of the port district, and it is known a spirited ight will be made in opposition to the Pitman enterprise. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 22, 1966 Two men and a woman wanted in connection with a burglary are being held in Kennewick, Wash., awaiting extradition proceedings to Umatilla County. The three are booked as Charles Robert Mathis, Texar- kana, Texas, and Bill Joe Thorne and Mary Driggs Harris, both of Denison, Texas. The three are accused of burglarizing the Price IGA food store in Milton-Freewater and taking $10,000 in currency and some silver from two safes. The burglary was discovered Saturday morning when the store owners, Bob and Glen Price, opened the store. Entry to the building was gained through the roof and one safe was punched and one peeled. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 22, 1991 The Helix Parks and Recreation Board found the formula for curing erosion prob- lems in Greasewood Creek where it lows through the town’s park — get a lot of help from plenty of people. The board had little, if any, funding of its own to repair the eroding bank, which had washed as far back as two feet from a chainlink fence that surrounds the park’s swimming pool. Faced with no funds to install ripraps, the board went in search of help, inding it with Umatilla County Soil and Water Conservation Service, Resources Conservation and Development Agency, Umatilla County and volunteer labor. Board member Cindy Lenhart also was successful in writing a Meyer Memorial Trust grant — a component of Fred Meyer Inc. of Portland — which allocated $3,495 to the project. 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 204th day of 2016. There are 162 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 22, 1916, 10 people were killed when a suitcase bomb went off during San Francisco’s Preparedness Day parade, an event sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce in anticipation of America’s entry into World War I. Two anti-war labor radicals, Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, were accused of the bombing and imprisoned; they were released in 1939 amid doubts about their guilt. On this date: In 1587, an English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. In 1796, Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland (correct). In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.” In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II. In 1946, the militant Zionist group Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people. In 1957, Walter “Fred” Morrison applied for a patent for a “lying toy” which became known as the Frisbee. In 1975, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. (President Gerald R. Ford signed the measure on August 5.) In 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys. Today’s Birthdays: Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., is 93. Actor-comedian Orson Bean is 88. Author Tom Robbins is 84. Actress Louise Fletcher is 82. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chuck Jackson is 79. Actor Terence Stamp is 78. Game show host Alex Trebek is 76. Singer George Clinton is 75. Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 73. Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is 73. Movie writ- er-director Paul Schrader is 70. Actor Danny Glover is 70. Singer Mireille Mathieu is 70. Actor Willem Dafoe is 61. Actor John Leguizamo is 52. Actor-comedian David Spade is 52. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 43. Actress Selena Gomez is 24. Britain’s Prince George of Cambridge is three. Thought for Today: “Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.” — Helen Rowland, American writer and humorist (1875-1950). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE