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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, August 17, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man in relationship wants PRUHWKDQVOHHSLQJRQÀRRU FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am a 40-year-old You didn’t mention how long you man, divorced with teenage children, have been seeing this lady, but I think and have been exclusively dating it’s time you discussed your feelings a woman who has a 4-year-old ZLWKKHUDJDLQ¿QGRXWH[DFWO\ZK\ daughter. There have been no clashes your sexual relationship hasn’t gone between our children. from theory to practice, and take your We have yet to have sex. When I’m cue from there. over at her place, I sleep on the living Dear Abby: I’m 37 and have been URRPÀRRUHLWKHURQDQLQÀDWDEOHDLU Jeanne married for eight years. I love my mattress (her idea) or in a sleeping Phillips husband, but I’m not “in love” with bag (my response when I just couldn’t him. In my younger years I gave my Advice take the air mattress any longer). heart to another woman. Either way, I feel like I’m left to sleep Since then, I have masked my true on a dog bed — not great for my self-esteem, feelings, but I can’t do it anymore. I’m still as you can imagine. in love with “Loretta,” and I want to be with My girlfriend uses her daughter as the her. But now I have many responsibilities — reason, suggesting that the girl just wouldn’t husband, kids, etc. I have told my husband about my feelings, understand me sleeping in Mommy’s bed. I don’t personally see it as being a big issue but he seems to think this is something I’ll for her daughter, given how long we have get over. I was 17 when Loretta and I started been together. We have discussed the subject, our relationship. We still love each other very and she makes reference to perhaps planning much. I don’t want to hurt him, so what do some sort of rendezvous, but it never seems I do? — Following My Heart In Alabama Dear Following: What you do is tell your to go from theory to practice. There are no religious issues here. My husband that you thought you might be able girlfriend did have a promiscuous and trou- to get over your love for Loretta, but that bled past as a young adult, so I’m sensitive you haven’t. Do not expect him to take the to the issue. But this is driving me nuts. Any news lightly because he has good reason to suggestions would be appreciated. — On be upset. But he needs to know that none of Hold In New York this is his fault. Dear On Hold 3HRSOH XVXDOO\ ¿QG WKH If he has trouble accepting and under- time to do the things they want to do. Your standing this, suggest he contact the Straight girlfriend may be holding out for marriage, Spouse Network (straightspouse.org) for the not have a strong sex drive, or not be as support it offers to the heterosexual partners attracted to you as you are to her. of LGBT individuals. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 17, 1916 J.O. Travelstead, dairyman at the Eastern Oregon State Hospital, believes he has an invention that when brought into use will safeguard ships against attacks from torpedoes or from damage from icebergs. The device is now being patented and it has been submitted in a tentative way to the navy department. As described by Mr. Travelstead, the anti-sub- marine equipment consists of a network of chains. The work entirely surrounds the vessel and the net is so arranged that when a ship is not in a danger zone the net may be folded up again the ship. It is operated by motor power. The guard net will extend out from a ship for distance of 25 to 30 feet. The inventor claims WKDWKDGWKH7LWDQLFEHHQ¿WWHGZLWKKLVGHYLFH it would have suffered no harm from the collision with the iceberg. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 17, 1966 It’s too bad Mrs. John L. Perry of Riverside GRHVQ¶WKDYHDQ\JUDQGGDXJKWHUV7KH\¶G¿QG a little girl’s paradise in the front bedroom RI WKH 3HUU\ KRPH 7KLV URRP LV ¿OOHG ZLWK THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN dolls. They sit on the bed, and they lie with eyes closed in their own carriages. All of them are brand new. And each doll has its own handmade wardrobe. Mrs. Perry suffers from asthma and doesn’t sleep much at all. She started making doll clothes at the suggestion of a friend a few years ago. Her work was so good, the friend, more or less as a joke, sent in coupons to a cereal company for a doll, and KDGLWVHQWWR0UV3HUU\7KLVZDVWKH¿UVWGROO the seamstress had received since she was a little girl. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 17, 1991 A torrential hail storm that rumbled through Milton-Freewater last week will likely result in the loss of millions of dollars in income from the area’s apple crop. Growers DQGLQGXVWU\RI¿FLDOVKDYHVWDUWHGWKHSURFHVV of evaluating the damage on a narrow strip of orchards that were in the direct path of storm clouds. Hail is blamed for damaging nearly 100 percent of some orchards and possibly as much as one third of the valley’s total crop. The damage was the worst for orchards between Winesap Road and the old Walla Walla Highway. Today is the 230th day of 2016. There are 136 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 17, 1807, Robert Fulton’s North River Steam- boat began heading up the Hudson River on its successful round trip between New York and Albany. On this date: In 1863, Federal batteries and ships began bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War, but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of pounding. In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, 31, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who’d maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.) In 1943, the Allied conquest of Sicily during World War II was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina. In 1945, Indonesian nation- alists declared their indepen- dence from the Netherlands. The George Orwell novel “Animal Farm,” an allegorical satire of Soviet Communism, ZDV¿UVWSXEOLVKHGLQ/RQGRQ by Martin Secker & Warburg. In 1962, East German border guards shot and killed 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector. In 1969, Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississippi coast as a Category 5 storm that was blamed for 256 U.S. deaths, three in Cuba. In 1978WKH¿UVWVXFFHVVIXO WUDQV$WODQWLF EDOORRQ ÀLJKW ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris. In 1982WKH¿UVWFRPPHU- cially produced compact discs, a recording of ABBA’s “The Visitors,” were pressed at a Philips factory near Hanover, West Germany. In 1996, the Reform Party announced Ross Perot had EHHQVHOHFWHGWREHLWV¿UVWHYHU presidential nominee, opting for the third-party’s founder over challenger Richard Lamm. Today’s Birthdays: Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin is 90. Author V.S. Naipaul is 84. Former MLB All-Star Boog Powell is 75. Actor Robert DeNiro is 73. Movie director Martha Coolidge is 70. Rock musician Gary Talley (The Box Tops) is 69. Actor/ screenwriter/producer Julian Fellowes is 67. Rock musician Sib Hashian is 67. Actor Robert Joy is 65. International Tennis Hall of Famer Guillermo Vilas is 64. Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is 63. Rock musician Colin Moulding (XTC) is 61. Country singer-songwriter Kevin Welch is 61. Olympic JROG PHGDO ¿JXUH VNDWHU Robin Cousins is 59. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 58. Author Jonathan Franzen is 57. Actor Sean Penn is 56. Jazz musi- cian Everette Harp is 55. Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) is 51. Singer Donnie Wahlberg is 47. Thought for Today: “Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.” — Heinrich Heine, German poet and critic (1797-1856). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
