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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, July 29, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom ights feelings of guilt over son being an only child FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE Dear Abby: I am the mother of a the kind of relationship you fantasize 13-year-old son, my only child. For about. While some do, many do not. the past 10 years I have been living Please consider carefully what I with mounting guilt over the fact have said and search your heart. And that he doesn’t have a sibling. It’s not if you still think you are guilty of because my husband and I haven’t any sin of omission, discuss it with a tried, we have. But fertility issues took licensed psychotherapist. us down an empty road, and adoption Dear Abby: Last year I found out discussions were just that — discus- my husband borrowed $3,500 from Jeanne sions. our savings account and gave it to Phillips I can’t tell you how many times a female co-worker. When I asked Advice our son has said he wishes he had a where the money had gone, he lied to sibling. Every time, it’s like a knife in me. my heart and the guilt surges back. I think It has been more than a year and the about the future and how he will have no co-worker hasn’t repaid the money. She brother or sister to share life with or lean comes up with cockamamie excuses, but has on when something happens to my husband plenty of money to buy gifts for her grandkids or me. Although I have always felt blessed and new clothes for herself. When I contacted to have him, I can’t escape these feelings. her about it, she called human resources on Sometimes I feel like I have failed him my husband! He said no one at work likes her horribly. and she has a lot of personal problems. It’s worth noting that my son is a happy, Our marriage has been rocky, and we need well-adjusted child. He has good peer this money back. What’s really going on relationships in school, is close to me and here? How do I get her to start paying back my husband and has hobbies and friends he the money? I have reached the end of my rope enjoys spending time with. My love for him and my husband is no help whatsoever. He is endless, and I pray that he will forgive me gets mad whenever I ask about the money. someday for not being able to give him what Some advice, please? — Needs The Money he has so deserved. — Sad Mom In Ohio Dear Needs The Money: Stop asking Dear Sad Mom: Take a step back, stop your husband about the money. It should be self-lagellating and ask yourself how many clear by now that the woman he gave it to has times your son may have also asked for a no intention of repaying it. As to her not being puppy. You say you have raised a happy, liked at the ofice, HE must have liked her or well-adjusted son. That’s an accomplish- he wouldn’t have forked over all that dough. ment that should ill you with pride. Not Because your marriage is “rocky,” I’m being able to give birth to another child recommending that you seek couples coun- is not something you should feel guilty seling. Perhaps with the help of a mediator about or need forgiveness for, and neither your husband will be able to be completely is refraining from adopting “so your son truthful with you. That’s essential because would have a sibling.” Not all siblings have good marriages are based on trust. DAYS GONE BY BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 29, 1916 Who stole three riles from the cabin of John C. Zoler near Duncan and why didn’t the robber take the rest of the arsenal, while he was at it? This is a question puzzling Zoler and some of his friends who had “shooting irons” stored at his place. The robbery occurred on the day of the freight train pile up near Duncan and while Zoler and Ashley Follette, who was staying with him, were helping with the wreck. Zoler was formerly a government hunter and is now engaged in trapping. He is also deputy game warden and since the robber showed a preference for the Zoler guns it is believed that possibly the theft was committed by a personal enemy who knew as to the ownership of the guns. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 29, 1966 A storage building and a two-wheel trailer caught ire Tuesday on the Joe Stuart ranch on Loop Road near Hermiston. The blaze started from a nearby trash ire. The ire was discov- ered by state police oficer Ross Patrick, who radioed the alarm to the Hermiston Fire Department. Prior to the arrival of the iremen, Patrick moved the trailer to safety and protected the repair shop with a garden hose. Fire Chief Bob Russell said a major property loss was averted by the police oficer’s action. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 29, 1991 A ire Sunday night gutted a landmark home at 102 Washington Street, just off the west end of Main, in Weston. Fireighters were on the scene until well after midnight as the ire continued to burn in the upstairs bedrooms of the “gorgeous Victorian house” occupied by Lois Bertilino and her family, said Opal Barnett, a city councilwoman and ire commissioner. The house is less than a block away from the ire hall and volunteers were able to arrive within about three minutes. However, the house was heavily involved in lames. The occupants escaped injury and the family pets were reportedly rescued. 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 211th day of 2016. There are 155 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 29, 1976, the irst of eight shootings ascribed to the serial killer known as “Son of Sam” occurred on a street in The Bronx, New York, as a gunman killed 18-year-old Donna Lauria and wounded her friend, 19-year-old Jody Valenti. (In a yearlong reign of terror, the shooter also known as the “.44 Caliber Killer” would claim ive more lives and wound six more people until the arrest of David Berkowitz, who is serving a life prison sentence.) On this date: In 1588, the English attacked the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines, resulting in an English victory. In 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, died of an appar- ently self-inlicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. In 1900, Italian King Humbert I was assassinated by an anarchist; he was succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel III. In 1914, transcontinental telephone service in the U.S. became operational with the irst test conversation between New York and San Francisco. Massachusetts’ Cape Cod Canal, offering a shortcut across the base of the peninsula, was oficially opened to shipping trafic. In 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader (“fuehrer”) of the National Socialist German Workers Party. In 1948, Britain’s King George VI opened the Olympic Games in London. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA. In 1967, an accidental rocket launch aboard the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a ire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford became the irst U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland. Today’s Birthdays: Comedian “Professor” Irwin Corey is 102. Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum-Baker is 84. Actor Robert Fuller is 83. Former Sen. Elizabeth H. Dole is 80. Actor David Warner is 75. Actress Roz Kelly is 74. Rock musician Neal Doughty (REO Speed- wagon) is 70. Actor Mike Starr is 66. Documentary maker Ken Burns is 63. Style guru Tim Gunn (TV: “Project Runway”) is 63. Rock singer-musician Geddy Lee (Rush) is 63. Rock singer Patti Scialfa (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 63. Country singer Martina McBride is 50. Actor Wil Wheaton is 44. Rhythm- and-blues singer Wanya Morris (Boyz II Men) is 43. Hip-hop DJ/music producer Danger Mouse is 39. Thought for Today: “Man must rise above the Earth — to the top of the atmosphere and beyond — for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” — Socrates, Greek philosopher (469 B.C.-399 B.C.) PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
