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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, April 7, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man trying to find himself
may be lost cause for dating
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I was married for
handle right now. That he’s seeing a
more than 20 years. My ex and I
therapist is a wise move, so give him
divorced five years ago. During that
credit for that. But the kind of prob-
time I stayed busy focusing on my
lems he is trying to work through are
children and their needs.
not ones you can “help” him with. At
About seven months ago I met
a later date things may work out, but
a nice guy. We saw each other
clearly not now. A friendship may be
for about five months, then out of
possible, but only if you are strong
nowhere, he broke things off. I was
enough to disengage emotionally
Jeanne
devastated. He said his reason for the Phillips until he is ready — which could take
breakup was “he needed time to find
a very long time.
Advice
himself.” He was recently divorced
Dear Abby: I have noticed a trend
and has sole custody of his kids. He
at children’s birthday parties. The
has been under a great deal of stress and children aren’t opening their presents at the
started seeing a therapist a couple of months party. Instead, the parents collect the gifts
ago.
and take them home for the child to open
I understand why he needs this time, but later. To me, this seems rude and inconsid-
I also wish he would let me help. He said he erate to the children who are attending the
wants to remain friends. I avoided contact party. Part of the enjoyment of giving a gift
with him for several weeks, but now I am is seeing the recipient’s response. Please let
drawn back to him. My friends keep telling me know the rule of etiquette in this matter.
me to forget him, but I can’t get him off my Am I correct in thinking that presents should
mind. We talk almost daily and have even be opened at children’s birthday parties in
gotten together again a couple of times. I front of their guests? — Gift Etiquette
keep telling myself all the reasons it won’t
Dear G.E.: No rule of etiquette decrees
work. Should I run away, stay friends only, that gifts “must” be opened at the birthday
or hope to work things out? — Hopeless party. Because this trend bothers you, ask
Romantic In Wisconsin
the parent of the birthday child why she or
Dear Hopeless Romantic: When a man he has chosen to have the gifts opened after-
says he “needs time to find himself” and ward, because there may be more than one
breaks things off, it usually means he’s no reason for it. One that occurs to me might be
longer interested or ready for the kind of that it’s a way of preventing embarrassment
relationship you’re looking for.
on the part of children who might not be
This man is newly divorced and parenting able to afford a gift as expensive as some of
solo, so he has as much on his plate as he can the other children’s.
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
April 7, 1917
Not only are there quite a number of
white men in they county who are entitled to
pensions under the new act enacted for the
benefit of veterans of Indian wars but there
are a number of Indians on the Umatilla
reservation who likewise have valid claims.
One of these is Henry Campo. He served as
a private under Lieutenant Edward S. Farrow
in the campaign against the Sheepeaters in
1879. In an old shot sack he has carefully
preserved the papers officially mustering him
out of the government service. Campo was
one of the forty or fifty Indians of the local
tribes who went with Farrow to capture the
band of renegade Indians who were preying
upon sheepmen east of the Blue Mountains.
Several expeditions from Fort Boise had
failed but Farrow with his men captured
the whole band and turned them over to the
government.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 7, 1967
The Pendleton airport interchange issue
continues to heat up today. Someone hung an
effigy of County Judge D.R. (Sam) Cook late
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
last night. A petition is reportedly being circu-
lated outside the city of Pendleton to muster
the support of rural folk for a diamond-type
interchange. Fear has been expressed by one
public official that the interchange issue could
boil into an ugly rural-city squabble. The
interchange is located in the county adjacent
to the city limits and according to the state
highway department is a county matter.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 7, 1992
Too heavy to haul by horse-drawn wagon,
a bulky black safe was left in Kendrick,
Idaho, when the Hamley brothers, John J. and
Henry, loaded what was left of their saddle
business after a fire at the turn of the century.
Eighty-seven years later, the safe — likely
more than a century old — has finally made
the 150-mile journey to the Round-Up City
from the tiny Idaho panhandle town where
Hamley and Co. operated for more than 20
years. The combination still works on the
safe, which was left in Kendrick when fire
struck and destroyed Hamley stocks and
equipment in 1904. The brothers survived
an earlier fire that destroyed the business in
1894, but the second blaze served as a signal
to move westward once more.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 97th day of
2017. There are 268 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On April 7, 1917, Amer-
ican entertainer and song-
writer George M. Cohan,
galvanized by America’s
entry into World War I the
day before, wrote his rousing
call to arms, “Over There.”
On this date:
In 1788, an expedition
led by Gen. Rufus Putnam
established a settlement at
present-day Marietta, Ohio.
In 1862, Union forces led
by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
defeated the Confederates
at the Battle of Shiloh in
Tennessee.
In 1927, the image and
voice of Commerce Secre-
tary Herbert Hoover were
transmitted live from Wash-
ington to New York in the
first successful long-distance
demonstration of television.
In 1939, Italy invaded
Albania, which was annexed
less than a week later.
In 1947, auto pioneer
Henry Ford died in Dear-
born, Michigan, at age 83.
In 1957, shortly after
midnight, the last of New
York’s electric trolleys
completed its final run from
Queens to Manhattan.
In 1962, nearly 1,200
Cuban exiles tried by Cuba
for their roles in the failed
Bay of Pigs invasion were
convicted of treason.
In 1967, “The Death
of a President,” William
Manchester’s
detailed
reconstruction of the events
surrounding the assassina-
tion of President John F.
Kennedy, was published in
book form by Harper & Row
after being serialized in Look
magazine.
In 1978, President Jimmy
Carter announced he was
deferring development of the
neutron bomb, a high-radia-
tion weapon.
In 1984, the Census
Bureau reported Los Angeles
had overtaken Chicago as
the nation’s “second city” in
terms of population.
In 2001, NASA’s Mars
Odyssey spacecraft took off
on a six-month, 286 million-
mile journey to the Red
Planet.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Media commentator Hodding
Carter III is 82. Country singer
Bobby Bare is 82. Rhythm-
and-blues singer Charlie
Thomas (The Drifters) is
80. California Gov. Jerry
Brown is 79. Movie director
Francis Ford Coppola is 78.
Actress Roberta Shore is
74. Singer Patricia Bennett
(The Chiffons) is 70. Singer
John Oates is 69. Former
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels
is 68. Singer Janis Ian is
66. Country musician John
Dittrich is 66. Actor Jackie
Chan is 63. College and Pro
Football Hall-of-Famer Tony
Dorsett is 63. Actor Russell
Crowe is 53. Christian/jazz
singer Mark Kibble (Take
6) is 53. Actor Bill Bellamy
is 52. Rock musician Dave
“Yorkie” Palmer (Space) is
52. Former football play-
er-turned-analyst Tiki Barber
is 42. Rock musician Ben
McKee (Imagine Dragons)
is 32.
Thought for Today:
“Whether you think you can,
or you think you can’t —
you’re right.” — Henry Ford
(1863-1947).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE