Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, August 26, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Donation of kidney ends with loss of a friendship FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: My friend “Virginia” hasn’t been through this would be to say what unfeeling and ungrateful and I have known each other for 11 people Virginia and her family are, years. Five years ago she went into because you literally saved her life. renal failure and was on dialysis for However, it may help you three years. It was hard on her and to better understand what has she needed a kidney transplant. Her happened if you consider that three healthy siblings refused to be while you saved Virginia’s life, tested as a possible match. sometimes the burden of gratitude Virginia is on the young side, and Jeanne she was in such a bad way I agreed Phillips is more than someone can bear. For whatever reason, she may carry to be tested. After several procedures Advice some guilt about owing you as it was determined I was a “close much as she does, which is why she enough” match, so we decided to go for it. She was scared to death right before can no longer interact with you. As to her family, that none of her siblings the surgery. I convinced her that even though things might be rough for a while, she would were willing to be tested as possible matches for her speaks volumes about them and the be glad she went through with it. It has been 18 months now, and I have quality of their relationships, so stop feeling not seen or heard from Virginia since the slighted. Listen to your therapist because day after the surgery. I called her a few she/he has given you some practical advice. Dear Abby: Why is it that when women times to make sure she was doing well. She never returned my calls and has completely visit, they’ll take their handbag and put it on dropped out of my life. She lives only four the kitchen counter, the kitchen table or on blocks away, so I know things are going OK the dining room table? Their handbags have for her. I igured I’d give her some space, but been on as many loors as my shoes. Don’t that space has turned into forever. I haven’t they think about what they’re doing? Please let your readers know this is not heard from her family either. They visited Virginia at the hospital, but didn’t stop in to a good idea. If someone needs to put a handbag down, it should be placed on the see me just three rooms away. How could I have been so wrong about loor, where it most likely was previously. someone I knew for so long? My husband — Grossed Out In The East Dear Grossed Out: I think the answer to says Virginia is an idiot and I should let it go. My therapist says I’ll have to “adjust your question is that the majority of women to the injustice.” I would have donated to who carry purses DON’T think about this, a complete stranger without hesitation. But just absentmindedly place them on the loor, Virginia wasn’t a stranger. I never expected a table, counter or chair. However, for individuals who are to lose my friend along with my kidney. Can you please help me handle this? — Blind- concerned about the transfer of germs, there is a solution. There are portable hooks they sided In New York Dear Blindsided: I can see why you are can carry with them that rest on a table or hurt by the abrupt change in your friend’s desk so the purse can be suspended if it has behavior, and believe me, I empathize. a handle. I have seen them advertised on the The knee-jerk reaction of someone who internet, and they are inexpensive. DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 26, 1916 Books are today being given out from Pend- leton’s beautiful new $35,000 Carnegie library. Without any announcement whatsoever work was commenced last night transferring the books from the city hall to their new home. Not a single hour has been lost to the patrons of the library. Last night books were given out from the old location and this morning they are being issued by Sabra Nason, county librarian, at the county building. By noon today all books from numbers 1 to 800, including the works of iction, were housed in the new home as well as the children’s books. For a time some of the adult books will be mixed in with the child books on account of lack of shelving. The steel shelves have not arrived and as a result it was necessary to move some of the old shelves temporarily. The large steel loan desk is expected soon. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 26, 1966 A special Papal Honor will be bestowed upon William Nugent, Umatilla, in recognition of 50 years of faithful service to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Umatilla. Bishop Francis P. Leipzig, Bishop of Baker, will oficiate at the presentation at a Mass Sunday at the Umatilla church. Attending the ceremony will be the 4th Degree Knights of Columbus and oficers of the Catholic Daughters of America. Bishop Leipzig will bless and dedicate the Pieta Memorial Statue erected in the Herm- iston Cemetery by Court Our Lady of Angels No. 1692, Catholic Daughters of America, at a public ceremony at the cemetery Sunday. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 26, 1991 A Hermiston juvenile was arrested Friday for a March ire bombing of Homestead Youth Lodge in Pendleton. Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., who has been living in Hermiston, was charged with irst-degree arson in connection with the “Molotov cocktail” bombing that did about $1,000 in damage to the youth treatment center. Gonzalez, 17, has admitted throwing a Pepsi bottle illed with gasoline and capped with a lit wick through a window of the building, said Pendleton Fire Marshal Ron Campbell. Camp- bell said Gonzalez left Homestead Youth Lodge on a weekend pass and bombed the building because “he hated it” and did not want to return. 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 239th day of 2016. There are 127 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 26, 1968, the Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago; the four-day event was marked by a bloody police crackdown on anti-war protesters in the streets and a tumultuous nominating process that resulted in the choice of Hubert H. Humphrey for president. On this date: In 1789, France’s National Assembly adopted its Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa began cataclysmic eruptions, leading to a massive explo- sion the following day. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women’s right to vote, was certiied in effect by Secretary of State Bain- bridge Colby. In 1939, the irst televised major league baseball games were shown on experimental station W2XBS: a double- header between the Cincin- nati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. (The Reds won the irst game, 5-2, the Dodgers the second, 6-1.) In 1944, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German snipers as he led a victory march in Paris, which had just been liberated by the Allies from Nazi occupation. In 1958, Alaskans went to the polls to overwhelmingly vote in favor of statehood. In 1972, the summer Olympics games opened in Munich, West Germany. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Francine York is 80. Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is 71. Rhythm-and-blues singer Valerie Simpson is 71. Pop singer Bob Cowsill is 67. Broadcast journalist Bill Whitaker is 65. NBA coach Stan Van Gundy is 57. Actress-singer Shirley Manson (Garbage) is 50. Rock musician Adrian Young (No Doubt) is 47. Actress Melissa McCarthy is 46. Actor Mike Colter is 40. Actor Macaulay Culkin is 36. Actor Chris Pine is 36. Thought for Today: “When the political colum- nists say ‘Every thinking man’ they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to ‘Every intelligent voter’ they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.” — Franklin P. Adams, American journal- ist-humorist (1881-1960). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE