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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Husband with sleepy wife
wants marriage to wake up
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been married
mise. If you are experiencing stress
to my soul mate for 25 years. We get
because you don’t have enough help
along great — she’s my best friend and
in your business, then you need to
a good mother to our three kids. (She
hire someone because your wife is
takes care of my mom who lives with
already doing all she can taking care of
us, too.) The only problem is, she loves
three kids and your mother. And you
shouldn’t need her permission.
to sleep.
Dear Abby: At a pool party
She will do anything for us except
recently,
I complimented another
wake up a few hours early without
Jeanne
being mad at the world. She gets our Phillips woman on her “good igure” (she
was wearing a bikini and looked
kids off to school with no problem,
Advice
great in it), but I was told later by a
but then returns to bed. I run a small
different woman who had been there
construction company and need
someone to answer the phones and do secre- how “hurtful” my compliment had been to
tary stuff. Our books are a mess, the house is everyone else present because I complimented
decent, but she won’t let me hire a part-time only the bikini-wearing woman. I felt coerced
into apologizing to the second woman for
secretary.
She gets up at noon and spends the rest of not offering a compliment of some kind to
the day “catching up.” It’s driving a wedge in everyone else at the party — which seems
our marriage. My friends and their wives do artiicial and unnecessary (actually stupid) to
things together on weekends, but not mine. me.
The woman looking for the apology left
She sleeps until 2 or 3 p.m. on the weekends.
I work a lot of Saturdays, and when I go me feeling steamed, and now I’m thinking
to customers’ homes and see the wife outside that maybe I apologized for something I didn’t
gardening, it breaks my heart. I have threatened need to. Is it true that you shouldn’t compli-
to leave, and she works on it for a couple days ment one person if you can’t manage to do
and then falls back into the same old habits. the same for everyone else present? — Pool
Party Compliment
Help! — Hurting Husband In California
Dear P.P.C.: No, it’s not. I have never
Dear Husband: Not everyone requires
the same amount of sleep in order to function. heard of that rule of etiquette. Following her
Some folks may be ine with ive hours, but logic, you would be compelled to compliment
others need eight, nine or even 10. If your wife every male at an event if you told one that the
needs more than that, there may be an under- tie or shirt he was wearing was nice. I suspect
lying problem of some kind that she should the woman was less hurt than jealous, and I
doubt the other women at the pool party were
discuss with her doctor.
In marriage there needs to be compro- paying much attention to what you said.
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
Sept. 5-6, 1916
Wanted — Four brides and four bride-
grooms to take their vows in Happy Canyon.
This is no joke. The program committee of
the Round-Up evening show wants to stage
four public weddings with the principals on
horseback, and the irst to offer themselves
will be accepted. On the last night of Happy
Canyon last year a prominent Weston couple
were married in the “street” of the “old town”
and the event proved to be a popular one with
the crowd. This year, the committee wants
a wedding every night. All expenses of the
wedding will be paid by Happy Canyon and
the bridal couple will be given a present by
the management. Prospectives will please
communicate as early as possible with Roy
Raley.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 5-6, 1966
A new $170,000 restaurant, aiming for
the tourist trade, is planned for downtown
Pendleton. Ron Bergquist, a Baker restau-
rant designer, said he is planning to build
and operate a restaurant here. The Baker
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
man purchased a lot from Mel Winters at
the corner of SE 2nd and Dorion across the
street from the Let’er Buck Motel and the
Episcopal Church. Bergquist, who is noted
for his distinctively designed restaurants,
already operates one in Baker. The Pendleton
restaurant will be the second of what he hopes
to be a chain of eateries in the Northwest.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 5-6, 1991
Two of the three young men charged in
the armed robbery of The Sportster store in
April pleaded guilty this week in Umatilla
County Circuit Court. Meanwhile, Oregon
oficials still are trying to extradite a third
18-year-old Richland man — Duane R.
Mills — who they believe was the brains
behind the crime. Samuel D. Armatis, 19, of
Richland pleaded guilty this morning — only
minutes before his trial was to begin — to
two counts of irst-degree robbery. Police
say Armatis drove the getaway car for Jason
O. Hughes and Duane R. Mills, both 18.
On Tuesday, Hughes pleaded guilty to two
counts of irst-degree robbery and two counts
of second-degree kidnapping the day before
his trial was to begin.
Today is the 250th day of
2016. There are 116 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Sept. 6, 1916, the
irst self-serve grocery store,
Piggly Wiggly, was opened
in Memphis, Tennessee, by
Clarence Saunders. (The store
was set up to allow customers
to hand-pick their groceries
from shelves, rather than
request them from a clerk
standing behind a counter.)
On this date:
In 1861, Union forces
led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
occupied Paducah, Kentucky,
during the Civil War.
In
1901,
President
William McKinley was shot
and mortally wounded by
anarchist Leon Czolgosz at
the Pan-American Exposi-
tion in Buffalo, New York.
(McKinley died eight days
later; Czolgosz was executed
on October 29.)
In 1925, the silent ilm
horror classic “The Phantom
of the Opera,” starring
Lon Chaney, had its world
premiere at the Astor Theater
in New York.
In 1939, the Union of
South Africa declared war on
Germany.
In 1943, 79 people were
killed when a New York-
bound Pennsylvania Railroad
train derailed and crashed in
Philadelphia.
In 1954, groundbreaking
took place for the Shipping-
port Atomic Power Station in
western Pennsylvania.
In 1966, birth control
advocate Margaret Sanger
died in Tucson, Arizona, at
age 86, eight days before her
birthday. South African Prime
Minister Hendrik Verwoerd
was stabbed to death by an
apparently deranged page
during a parliamentary
session in Cape Town.
In 1970, Palestinian
guerrillas seized control of
three U.S.-bound jetliners.
(Two were later blown up on
the ground in Jordan, along
with a London-bound plane
hijacked on Sept. 9; the fourth
plane was destroyed on the
ground in Egypt. No hostages
were harmed.)
In 1997, a public funeral
was held for Princess Diana
at Westminster Abbey in
London, six days after her
death in a car crash in Paris.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Comedian JoAnne Worley
is 81. Country singer David
Allan Coe is 77. Rock
singer-musician
Roger
Waters (Pink Floyd) is 73.
Actress Swoosie Kurtz
is 72. Comedian-actress
Jane Curtin is 69. Country
singer-songwriter
Buddy
Miller is 64. Actor James
Martin Kelly is 62. Country
musician Joe Smyth (Sawyer
Brown) is 59. Actor-come-
dian Jeff Foxworthy is 58.
Actor-comedian
Michael
Winslow is 58. Rock
musician Perry Bamonte
is 56. Rock musician Scott
Travis (Judas Priest) is 55.
Pop musician Pal Waaktaar
(a-ha) is 55. New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie is 54. Actress
Rosie Perez is 52. Rhythm
and blues singer Macy Gray
is 49. Rock singer Dolores
O’Riordan (The Cranberries)
is 45. Actor Idris Elba is 44.
Thought for Today:
“I never make a trip to
the United States without
visiting a supermarket. To
me they are more fascinating
than any fashion salon.” —
Wallis Simpson, Duchess of
Windsor (1896-1986).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE