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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, August 25, 2016 BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ DEAR ABBY Dad dating ex-wife causes daughter to feel betrayed FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have a complicated more to do with the fact that he is drawn family situation. My dad was married to someone familiar than any lack of to a woman named “Cynthia” for 16 feeling for you and your mother. Instead of punishing him by years until they divorced. He met and ignoring his calls, I urge you to married my mother the next year. My talk to him. What he’s doing isn’t parents were married for 40 years, until disrespectful. He has mourned your Mom died of cancer a year ago. Since mother’s death for a year. Let him ind her death, I have gone with my dad to happiness if he can, because if you do, a few holiday events hosted at his other Jeanne daughters’ houses, where we saw them Phillips I predict that it will spill over into your own life. and Cynthia. Everyone was cordial and Advice Dear Abby: “Hiding My Smile in welcoming. New Jersey” (Feb. 28) was embar- A few days ago, Dad told me that he and Cynthia are dating, and he asked me to rassed by the condition of her teeth, which wish them luck. My immediate reaction was she had neglected for years. Your advice to “Why?!” I left immediately, and have ignored her/him was excellent, but I’d like to add one more suggestion: his phone calls ever since. Schools of dentistry often have programs in I cannot express how upset this made me. I realize he’s a lonely old man who would like to which care is offered to lower-income patients maybe start dating again, but his EX-WIFE? It under a reduced-fee structure, based on the feels like a total betrayal of my mother and me, client’s income. Care is provided by dental like we were only some sort of intermission students under close supervision by their board-certiied dental professors. Students from his irst family. There are so many reasons why this feels participate as assistants in procedures prior to like a sad and terrible idea, up to and including being allowed to perform these procedures. the havoc it will wreak on all of his daughters In the latter case, the senior dentist serves if something goes wrong again. I feel like he as the assistant (and guide). — Patricia In hasn’t taken into account anyone’s feelings but Kentucky Dear Patricia: Thank you for offering his own. Am I selish to feel this way? Is there that suggestion, one that was echoed by anything I can do to stop this dead in its tracks? many readers who wrote to lend support to I don’t want to be the bad guy, but I will “Hiding.” Some of them also advised looking NEVER be OK with this. — “Intermission” into a company that provides credit to inance medical and dental work. Usually it’s a no-in- Daughter Dear Daughter: If you are never OK terest loan for a certain period, which allows with this, you will punish only yourself. Your patients to pay over time without having to father’s divorce from Cynthia appears to have wait for their care. The dental care provider been amicable. His attraction to her may have may be able to recommend one. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 25, 1916 Miss Muriel Saling of Pendleton, queen of the 1916 Portland Rose Festival and of the Columbia Highway, has been asked by Astoria to rule over the annual Regatta there next month, and she has also been chosen as queen of the 1916 Round-Up. Thus in all probability she will have the unprecedented distinction of having presided over the three largest municipal festivals in the state this year. The action of the Astoria people came as a big surprise to Pendleton, inasmuch as no intimation that they had been consid- ering the election of Miss Saling had been received until the Commercial association late yesterday afternoon received a telegram urging the association and the Round-Up directors to secure Miss Saling’s consent. The Round-Up directors immediately named her as queen of the 1916 Round-Up, an action they had been considering before, and both crowns were tendered Queen Muriel at the same time. However, it was not until late this morning that she was induced to accept the proferred double honor. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 25, 1966 The mysterious “gunshot” victim people are talking about in downtown Pendleton. … Here is what really happened: Monday afternoon, only moments after a sonic boom rattled Pendleton, downtown shoppers saw a man with blood streaming down his face run from a parking lot. “He’s been shot!” someone said. Fortunately for the man, he had not been shot. A little under the weather, police said, he had fallen and cut himself at about the same time a jet plane broke the sound barrier over Pendleton. Police hauled him to the hospital as a “sick and aid” case. He was treated and later released. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 25, 1991 Norm and Bonnie Clow bought their irst Brittany puppy, Star Raiser, nearly 30 years ago. They haven’t broken the habit yet. In the years since Star Raiser, the Clows have produced a line of champion dogs at their Black Butte Brittanys kennel in Irrigon. The Clows base their program on the best interests of the breed, which at its core means to breed dogs to one standard for showmanship, ield trials and hunting. Brittanys are about the last breed of dog still to be bred to a “dual standard,” in which the same dog will have the qualities to show on one day and run in a ield trial the next. “It’s hard to get them in one dog, but we try,” Norm said. 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 238th day of 2016. There are 128 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act establishing the National Park Service within the Department of the Interior. On this date: In 1718, hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans. In 1825, Uruguay declared independence from Brazil. In 1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany. In 1944, during World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. Romania declared war on former ally Germany. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure providing pensions for former U.S. presidents and their widows. In 1960, opening cere- monies were held for the Summer Olympics in Rome. In 1975, the Bruce Springsteen album “Born to Run” was released by Columbia Records. In 1981, the U.S. space- craft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn’s cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet. In 1989, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune, its inal planetary target. In 1998, retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell died in Richmond, Virginia, at age 90. In 2001, Rhythm-and- blues singer Aaliyah was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas; she was 22. Today’s Birthdays: Game show host Monty Hall is 95. Actor Sean Connery is 86. Actor Page Johnson is 86. TV personality Regis Philbin is 85. Actor Tom Skerritt is 83. Movie director Hugh Hudson is 80. Movie director John Badham is 77. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is 74. Rock sing- er-actor Gene Simmons is 67. Rock singer Elvis Costello is 62. Movie director Tim Burton is 58. Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus is 55. Rock musician Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard) is 54. Rap DJ Terminator X (Public Enemy) is 50. Alternative country singer Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) is 49. Television chef Rachael Ray is 48. Model Claudia Schiffer is 46. Country singer Brice Long is 45. Thought for Today: “History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.” — Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (1876-1967). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE