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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, April 4, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Grandparents’ pink grad gift comes right out of the blue FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My daughter is extremely close. By close, I mean we graduating from high school in May. have conversations about how things She has been accepted to a prestigious would be if we were dating. We have university, entirely due to her own so much fun together. We never, ever hard work and dedication. argue, whereas my girlfriend and I are My father-in-law recently informed constantly fighting. I legitimately want us that his new wife had selected our the other girl, but I don’t know what I daughter’s graduation present, and should do. — Scared And Stuck In they are excited to give it to her. They St. Paul Jeanne chose a pink luggage set. My husband Phillips Dear Scared And Stuck: You and I are mystified about why they are a free man, neither married nor Advice decided this would be the perfect gift engaged. Because you have romantic for our daughter. We know she will be feelings for someone else, gather your embarrassed — but gracious — if she receives courage and level with your girlfriend. Tell her this gift in front of our family and friends on that while you appreciate everything she has graduation day. We would like to spare her the done for you, you want to be free to date other awkwardness and having to return an inappro- people and think she should, too. The news priate gift. will probably come as a shock to her, but it’s Abby, would it be rude of us to strongly the honest thing to do and better for both of encourage them to rethink their gift? How you. do we broach the subject so we don’t cause Dear Abby: My ex-husband recently died, hurt feelings or a rift? We are grateful for their and I have just learned he had an illegitimate generosity, but we know the gift won’t suit our son 25 years ago. The son tracked me down grad. — Mystified Mother wanting to know things about his biological Dear Mother: I do not advise your father. My late husband and I had two children becoming involved with this. Warn your before this one was born. So, do I tell my daughter in advance what the gift will be so children they have a half-brother and his she isn’t caught flat-footed on graduation day. aunts they have another nephew? — Tracked If she chooses to exchange the luggage for Down In Illinois something she feels will be more appropriate, Dear Tracked Down: I see no reason to she should do so. Luggage that stands out like a make any announcements right now. Keep sore thumb may be easier to spot on an airport the news to yourself until you are sure that carousel, but it can also be more vulnerable to the man wants more contact with his relatives theft than something that blends in. and isn’t just looking for medical information Dear Abby: I have a tough problem. I that could affect him. You also should make care very much for my girlfriend. She keeps absolutely certain that he truly IS your late me in check and does everything for me. husband’s son by discussing it with an attorney However, my best friend’s sister and I are before sharing any news or details. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 3-4, 1917 Pendleton people were “on their toes” last night as the result of nearness of actual war with Germany. The eagerness with which they purchased the copies of the extra edition of the East Oregonian bringing the first news of the president’s speech asking that congress declare war proved that there is no indifference here. Nearly 700 copies were sold by the newsboys last evening and the only reason more were not sold was that there were no more printed. As it was the presses were started four different times to supply the insistent demands of the “newsies.” Only 250 copies were printed originally but these disappeared within a few minutes. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 3-4, 1967 A Pendleton Jaycee team swept to victory in Saturday’s Blue Mountain Community College raft race in record time. The winning raft with Jim Sewell, Claude Mackie, Dave Thorne and Jim Christensen aboard, covered the distance in one hour and 50 minutes. The second annual race was declared a splashing success by its sponsor, the Circle K. Club. Fifteen rubber rafts started the race at the Mission Bridge and 11 finished about two hours later eight miles downstream at the Bob White Babe Ruth Baseball park. A roaring fire was on hand to greet the river runners, many of whom were blue with cold and soaked to the skin following their ordeal in the icy Umatilla. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 3-4, 1992 Divers searching for a gun Thursday found that and more in the Columbia River near McNary Dam. Before they were finished, they also found a motorcycle, car and pickup that had been dumped over the years at the boat ramp above the dam. The gun was sought in the death investigation of Roy R. Burnett of Umatilla, whose body was found in the river earlier this week. Based on an autopsy, Burnett died of a single gunshot wound to the torso. Divers found a sawed-off shotgun of the same gauge that caused Burnett’s injury. The victim reportedly owned a shotgun of the type found. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 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 94th day of 2017. There are 271 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On this date: In 1818, Congress decided the flag of the United States would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union. In 1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office. In 1859, “Dixie” was performed publicly for the first time by Bryant’s Minstrels at Mechanics’ Hall in New York. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Kentucky newspaper editor Albert G. Hodges, wrote: “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” In 1887, Susanna Madora Salter became the first woman elected mayor of an American community: Argonia, Kansas. In 1917, the U.S. Senate voted 82-6 in favor of declaring war against Germany (the House followed suit two days later by a vote of 373-50). In 1933, the Navy airship USS Akron crashed in severe weather off the New Jersey coast with the loss of 73 lives. In 1949, 12 nations, including the United States, signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Johnny Stom- panato, an enforcer for crime boss Mickey Cohen and the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner, was stabbed to death by Turner’s teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane, who said Stompanato had attacked her mother. In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger roared into orbit on its maiden voyage. (It was destroyed in the disaster of Jan. 1986.) Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is 85. Recording executive Clive Davis is 85. Bandleader Hugh Masekela is 78. Author Kitty Kelley is 75. Actor Craig T. Nelson is 73. Actor Walter Charles is 72. Actress Christine Lahti is 67. Country singer Steve Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) is 66. Actress Mary-Margaret Humes is 63. Writer-pro- ducer David E. Kelley is 61. Actress Constance Shulman is 59. Actor Phil Morris is 58. Actress Lorraine Toussaint is 57. Actor Hugo Weaving is 57. Rock musician Craig Adams (The Cult) is 55. Talk show host/comic Graham Norton is 54. Actor David Cross is 53. Actor Robert Downey Jr. is 52. Actress Nancy McKeon is 51. Actor Barry Pepper is 47. Country singer Clay Davidson is 46. Magician David Blaine is 44. Actor Eric Andre is 34. Thought for Today: “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” — Og Mandino, Amer- ican author (1923-1996). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
