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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