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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, January 27, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Stranger’s boyfriend looks
a lot like friend’s husband
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I work in customer
beyond being overprotective. What
service and was helping a guest.
do you think? — Feeling Conflicted
During my eight- to 10-minute chat
Dear Feeling Conflicted: I agree
with her, she showed me her phone.
with you. What your mother is
The wallpaper on her phone was a
proposing is the definition of heli-
picture of the guest and her boyfriend
copter parenting. If your boyfriend
in Times Square. Without mentioning
were to find out, it would be the end
it to the guest, I recognized her
of your romance. Perhaps you should
boyfriend as the husband of a friend
ask your mother how she would feel
Jeanne
of mine I’ll call Julie.
Phillips if your fiancé’s family hired a detec-
Julie and her husband have two
tive to shake your family tree. I’ll bet
Advice
young children. Part of me wants
she wouldn’t like it one bit.
to confront him, but part of me says
Dear Abby: I would like to see
this would destroy a family. I have resolved how other wives would handle this. I have
to remain quiet unless I hear of marital a “friend” who constantly calls my husband
difficulties, but would that be a disservice to her “boyfriend.” She’s married, and I’m sure
my friend and her children? I feel like I’m this irks her spouse too. Every time they
carrying a grenade that may devastate many come over, she has to give my husband a
innocents. — Wants To Confront Him
really big hug (she has a large chest).
Dear Wants To Confront: Unless you
I feel what she’s doing is inappropriate
are 100 percent certain that the man you saw and want to know what you recommend to
on the phone was who you think he was, and put a stop to this. It has reached the point
not someone with a strong resemblance to I wish they would quit coming here. My
Julie’s husband, do NOT involve yourself.
husband and I are both polite people, but I
Dear Abby: My mom told me that when would like for this to cease. — Polite Pat In
I get engaged, she is going to hire a PI to The South
investigate my fiancé! I know that parents
Dear Polite Pat: I’m a wife and here’s
can be concerned, but this seems to me like how I’d handle it. I would have your husband
total paranoia.
tell your friend privately that her effusiveness
She told me a story she saw in the news is embarrassing and to please stop doing it.
about a seemingly normal man who ended up If he doesn’t feel comfortable doing this,
killing people to steal their money to pay for talk to the woman yourself and tell her that
his wedding. That’s scary, but I don’t think when she calls your husband her boyfriend,
it warrants hiring a PI to follow my future it offends you, and that HER husband should
fiancé around. I think my mom is going be her boyfriend.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 27, 1917
A national farm loan association was
organized by the farmers of the east end
of the county yesterday morning and
the organization had no more than been
perfected than more than $50,000 in loans
were applied for, according to a letter from
Attorney G.H. Bishop who assisted in the
organization work. The organization has
decided to do business under the name and
style of “The Freewater National Farm Loan
Association.” It proposes to do business in a
territory co-extensive with Umatilla county.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 27, 1967
The next time you feel bored get Emery
Tresham to take you over some of the route
he flies with biologist John Ely in making
herd composition counts on elk in this part
of the Blue Mountains. It’s invigorating to
swoop over the snowy ridges low enough to
see the startled look on a sleepy cow elk’s
face. Your blood will flow a little faster, too,
when you see a herd of anywhere from 50 to
200 elk bounding through the snow, heading
for the bottom of a canyon and thick timber.
Ely and Tresham make the flights early in
the morning when elk are feeding.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 27, 1992
Plans to construct an overnight campsite
on the shores of the lake behind Willow
Creek Dam near Heppner are still “on
track,” said park district chairman Kenneth
Turner, even though the project now has
a $1 million price tag. Turner and Raul
Davila of Vancouver, Wash., consultant to
the Willow Creek Park District, presented
an update on the project at a recent Heppner
Chamber luncheon. “The project now seems
to have taken a life of its own,” Turner
said. Although the board had hoped to start
construction on the overnight campsite
in 1991, after the US. Corps of Engineers
agreed in late 1990 to fund half of the
project, it took a lot longer than expected for
the paperwork and necessary studies to be
completed, he said.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 27th day of
2017. There are 338 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On Jan. 27, 1967,
astronauts Virgil I. “Gus”
Grissom, Edward H. White
and Roger B. Chaffee died
in a flash fire during a test
aboard their Apollo space-
craft. More than 60 nations
signed a treaty banning
the deploying of nuclear
weapons in outer space.
On this date:
In 1756, composer Wolf-
gang Amadeus Mozart was
born in Salzburg, Austria.
In 1880, Thomas Edison
received a patent for his
electric incandescent lamp.
In 1901, opera composer
Giuseppe Verdi died in
Milan, Italy, at age 87.
In 1913, the musical
play “The Isle O’ Dreams,”
featuring the song “When
Irish Eyes Are Smiling” by
Ernest R. Ball, Chauncey
Olcott and George Graff Jr.,
opened in New York.
In 1944, during World
War II, the Soviet Union
announced the complete end
of the deadly German siege of
Leningrad, which had lasted
for more than two years.
In 1945, during World War
II, Soviet troops liberated the
Nazi concentration camps
Auschwitz and Birkenau in
Poland.
In 1951, an era of atomic
testing in the Nevada desert
began as an Air Force plane
dropped a one-kiloton bomb
on Frenchman Flat.
In 1973, the Vietnam peace
accords were signed in Paris.
In 1977, the Vatican issued
a declaration reaffirming the
Roman Catholic Church’s ban
on female priests.
In 1984, singer Michael
Jackson suffered serious burns
to his scalp when pyrotechnics
set his hair on fire during the
filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV
commercial at the Shrine
Auditorium in Los Angeles.
In 1998, first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton, on NBC’s
“Today” show, charged the
sexual misconduct allegations
against her husband, Presi-
dent Bill Clinton, were the
work of a “vast right-wing
conspiracy.”
In 2001, 10 people were
killed when a plane bringing
people home from Oklahoma
State University’s basketball
game against Colorado
crashed in a field outside
Denver.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor James Cromwell is
77. Actor John Witherspoon
is 75. Rock musician Nick
Mason (Pink Floyd) is 73.
Rhythm-and-blues
singer
Nedra Talley (The Ronettes)
is 71. Ballet star Mikhail
Baryshnikov is 69. Political
commentator Ed Schultz is
63. Chief U.S. Justice John
Roberts is 62. Country sing-
er-musician Richard Young
(The Kentucky Headhunters)
is 62. Rock musician Janick
Gers (Iron Maiden) is 60.
Actress Susanna Thompson
is 59. Political and sports
commentator Keith Olber-
mann is 58. Rock singer
Margo Timmins (Cowboy
Junkies) is 56. Actress
Bridget Fonda is 53. Actor
Alan Cumming is 52. Rapper
Tricky is 49. Actor Josh
Randall is 45. Country singer
Kevin Denney is 41. Actress
Rosamund Pike (Film:
“Gone Girl”) is 38.
Thought for Today: “If
we die, we want people to
accept it... We are in a risky
business and we hope that if
anything happens to us, it will
not delay the program. The
conquest of space is worth
the risk of life.” — Virgil I.
“Gus” Grissom (1926-1967).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE