Tuesday, March 28, 2017
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East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mom visiting dad in Mexico
should leave baby at home
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My 21-year-old
having is, he doesn’t understand how
daughter has a 6-month-old child.
some things bother me.
The father is a 36-year-old man who
For instance, when the three of
was recently deported to Mexico. He
us went to dinner, they were sharing
continues to contact her and wants her
food by feeding each other. I’m sure
to travel to Mexico to visit him. I am
people probably thought they were
terrified of all the things that could
a couple. When I asked him why
happen to her if she goes.
he didn’t put some food on a plate
I don’t trust him. I keep thinking,
and give it to her, he didn’t have an
Jeanne
will he try to keep the baby? Will Phillips answer. Also, they watch TV in bed
he try to keep them both or entice
together. He thinks these are normal
Advice
her to do something illegal? (He had
“friend things” to do.
an earlier felony conviction.) Am I
I’m not a jealous person, but I have
overreacting? How can I get her to recognize my limits. We don’t live close, so we see each
that these types of things happen all the time? other only a few times a week. Keira doesn’t
— Mother In Illinois
pay anything to live there. He said she has
Dear Mother: The most important thing nowhere to go, and it was his agreement with
you can do right now is calm down. Your her that if she came home with him she would
daughter is an adult, and you need to treat always have a place to stay.
her like one. You are within your rights to
I like her, but sometimes feel like I’m
express your concern, but if she wants to go, dating both of them. He’s clueless. They are
you cannot stop her.
dependent on each other. She fixes things
If I were her mother, I’d approach it this around the house, and he lets her borrow his
way: Offer to take care of your grandchild car for work. Am I just being petty? — Third
while she visits the baby’s daddy. That way Wheel In The East
she can get a look at how he’s living and what
Dear Third Wheel: Forgive me if this
he is doing. Suggest she take lots of photos seems negative, but your boyfriend’s primary
with her. But unless she is absolutely sure that relationship seems to be with the girl who is
the environment is safe for her child, the little living with him 24/7 and watching television
one should stay north of the border.
in his bed rather than with you.
Dear Abby: My boyfriend’s friend
Step back and look at it rationally: Keira’s
“Keira” moved back here to help take care living with him, taking care of the house and
of his mom. He has known her for more his mother, spending time in his bed, hand-
than 10 years. They didn’t have an intimate feeding him, and the few times a week you
relationship; it was more of a friendship than see him, she’s coming along. He may treat
anything. He’s very loving toward me and you like gold, but it looks more like fool’s
treats me like gold. The problem I’ve been gold to me.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
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BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 27-28, 1917
Thousands of acres of wheat land in
Umatilla county are now being reseeded or
will be in the next few weeks because of the
injury done by the cold winds of the long
winter. There is not a wheat community in the
county that has escaped damage and hardly
a farmer but will have some of his land to
reseed, according to general reports. With
wheat worth better than $1.50 a bushel, the
expense of reseeding will mean a big loss to
the farmers of the county. There will be the
additional loss of lesser yields, for spring
sown grain rarely makes within ten bushels
of the acre yield of fall sown grain.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 27-28, 1967
The FBI here today reported that city
police, state police, the sheriff’s department
and the FBI together arrested Edward
David Hargrow, 20, at his residence and
simultaneously apprehended Walter Bud
Willingham, 19, at his residence on the
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
charge of kidnapping. Hargrow, who dropped
out of Pendleton High School when he was
a sophomore and did not return to classes
again, and Willingham are being held without
bail on the kidnapping charge in the Umatilla
County jail today, but will be released to the
custody of the U.S. marshal from Portland
when he arrives, probably today, to return
the pair to Washington to face the charge.
The two men are charged with the abduction
Saturday of Michael Dean Bergevin, 18, and
a 17-year-old girl, both of Toppenish, Wash.
The FBI said the two teenagers were taken
from Yakima County to Pendleton.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 27-28, 1992
A senior at Weston-McEwen High School
has been elected state president of the Future
Farmers of America. “Right now I’m just kind
of in shell shock,” said Ginger Price. “I’ve
finally reached the goal I’ve wanted since I
was a freshman.” She is the first state officer
from Weston-McEwen. Darren Coppock of
Pendleton High School was state president in
the early 1980s.
Today is the 87th day of
2017. There are 278 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 28, 1942,
during World War II,
British naval forces staged
a successful raid on the
Nazi-occupied French port
of St. Nazaire in Operation
Chariot, destroying the only
dry dock on the Atlantic
coast capable of repairing
the German battleship
Tirpitz.
On this date:
In 1834, the U.S. Senate
voted to censure President
Andrew Jackson for the
removal of federal deposits
from the Bank of the United
States.
In 1896, the opera
“Andrea
Chenier,”
by
Umberto
Giordano,
premiered in Milan, Italy.
In 1898, the Supreme
Court, in United States v.
Wong Kim Ark, ruled that
a child born in the United
States to Chinese immi-
grants was a U.S. citizen.
In 1930, the names of the
Turkish cities of Constan-
tinople and Angora were
changed to Istanbul and
Ankara.
In 1935, the notorious
Nazi
propaganda
film
“Triumph des Willens”
(Triumph of the Will),
directed by Leni Riefenstahl,
premiered in Berlin with
Adolf Hitler preset.
In 1941, novelist and critic
Virginia Woolf, 59, drowned
herself near her home in
Lewes, East Sussex, England.
In 1955, John Marshall
Harlan II was sworn in as an
associate justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
In 1969, the 34th president
of the United States, Dwight
D. Eisenhower, died in Wash-
ington, D.C., at age 78.
In 1977, “Rocky” won
best picture at the 49th
Academy Awards; Peter
Finch was honored post-
humously as best actor for
“Network” while his co-star,
Faye Dunaway, was recog-
nized as best actress.
In 1979, America’s worst
commercial nuclear accident
occurred with a partial melt-
down inside the Unit 2 reactor
at the Three Mile Island plant
near Middletown, Pennsyl-
vania.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former White House national
security adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski is 89. Author
Mario Vargas Llosa is 81.
Country musician Charlie
McCoy is 76. Movie director
Mike Newell is 75. Actress
Conchata Ferrell is 74. Phil-
ippines President Rodrigo
Duterte is 72. Actress
Dianne Wiest is 71. Country
singer Reba McEntire is 62.
Olympic gold medal gymnast
Bart Conner is 59. Rapper
Salt (Salt-N-Pepa) is 51.
Actress Tracey Needham is
50. Actor Max Perlich is 49.
Movie director Brett Ratner
is 48. Country singer Rodney
Atkins is 48. Actor Vince
Vaughn is 47. Rapper Mr.
Cheeks (Lost Boyz) is 46.
Actor Ken L. is 44. Singer/
songwriter Matt Nathanson
is 44. Actress Julia Stiles is
36. Singer Lady Gaga is 31.
Drew Langton is 29.
Thought for Today: “A
man can do his best only
by confidently seeking (and
perpetually missing) an
unattainable perfection.” —
Ralph Barton Perry, Amer-
ican author and educator
(1876-1957).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE