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Page 8B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, May 2, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Lost tooth leads to surprise attraction to dental student FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS Dear Abby: A year ago, I lost a with a couple for about eight years. tooth. I’m a 56-year-old woman on We moved away, but continued to see disability, short on funds to rectify the each other occasionally. We kept in problem, so I visited my local hospi- touch, and in the past few years have tal’s dental clinic. I hadn’t visited a been able to visit more frequently. dentist in years, so I was quite fearful. When we were in their city six The clinic allows a dental resident months ago, we saw them a few times to work on your issue under the and they mentioned that they had no supervision of a practiced dentist. The friends. I know she has no siblings or Jeanne work I needed was performed every Phillips parents left. two weeks for about four months. Her husband died suddenly of a Advice What I did not count on was becoming stroke five months ago. They were seriously attracted to a 29-year-old together for 50 years. I sent her a resident I’ll call “Justin.” formal sympathy note and three more casual At first, I couldn’t believe it was possible, follow-ups. I also wrote a poem in his memory. given the fact that I’m old enough to be his It may seem excessive, but I remember how mother and my ex-husband is a doctor. I was a bereft she felt when her sister died, and she felt teacher and I know all the “rules.” In fairness, that sympathy was not sufficiently extended (I in NO WAY did Justin or I do or say anything don’t think she was pointing the finger at me). inappropriate. Still, certain circumstances led Abby, I don’t want her to think that we me to believe that he felt the same about me. aren’t feeling a lot of sympathy for her. Yet Neither of us acted on this. her silence indicates that either our overtures My question: The work has been over for are unwanted or that her condition is so bad months, but some days the memories are so that she’s emotionally overwhelmed. When intense, I can’t get him out of my mind. I does an old friend stop reaching out? — don’t know how to handle this. Please help. Bewildered In Ohio — Unexpected In New York Dear Bewildered: Call the woman and Dear Unexpected: The “rules” you ASK HER how she’s doing. Explain that referred to are a code of ethics that profes- because you haven’t heard from her, you have sionals are expected to adhere to. The way to been concerned. handle your feelings would be to consider that You are a caring friend, but there is only if Justin were to act on the feelings you think so much anyone can do via long distance. he shared with you, he could lose his job, It’s possible that because her husband’s death and the future he has worked so hard to build was unexpected, she has had her hands full would be destroyed. If you care about him at learning how to take care of the details that he all beyond your attraction, you will not pursue managed while he was alive. this further. If she’s not doing well, suggest she join Dear Abby: I am writing about how to a support group so she won’t be isolated in proceed with expressing sympathy for an old her grief. And recognize that, as much as you friend. wish to support her, she will have to forge her My husband and I were very close friends own way through her heartache. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 1-2, 1917 The last obstacle in the way of securing the steel bridges across the Umatilla river at Mission and Thorn Hollow has been removed by the interior department turning over to the county the stretches of reservation road leading up to the river at these two points. Having secured jurisdiction over the roads, the county court has already telegraphed to Washington an amount of money equal to one-third the cost of constructing the two bridges, the original appropriation bill having provided that the United States would appro- priate two-thirds of the cost. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 1-2, 1967 Two women were hospitalized at Pend- leton Community Hospital for undetermined injuries after the cars they were riding in met head-on on Highway 395 at the intersection of SW Hailey Avenue Sunday afternoon. A car driven by Rufus Crismon, 40, Ukiah, attempting to avoid a rearend collision, swerved into the path of a southbound auto driven by Howard Hale, 48, of Pilot Rock. Joan Crismon, a passenger in the Ukiah auto, was hospitalized as was Daisy Hale, a passenger in the Hale auto. Crismon was cited for failure to drive to the right. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 1-2, 1992 There’s regular barley and then there’s Gwen, said cereal researcher Mathias Kolding of the Hermiston Agricultural Research Center. “It’s a tough, resistant thing,” Kolding explained, grasping the barley that is brewed for beer or placed in troughs as feed. Its resil- ience is part of the reason Kolding named his new hybrid after Gwen Mitchell, long-time wife of an agriculture scientist. “She’s a tough gal,” he said. “She’s really an active lady.” Even at the age of 90, Mitchell can’t keep still, rocking in her chair on a sun-washed porch, her nimble fingers knitting as she talks. 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 122nd day of 2017. There are 243 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 2, 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Buck v. Bell, upheld 8-1 a Virginia law allowing the forced sterilization of people to promote the “health of the patient and the welfare of society.” (On this date in 2002, Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner apologized for the state’s thousands of forced sterilizations from 1924 to 1979, calling the practice “a shameful effort.”) On this date: In 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Virginia; he died eight days later. In 1890, the Oklahoma Territory was organized. In 1908, the original version of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” with music by Albert Von Tilzer and lyrics by Jack Norworth, was published by Von Tilzer’s York Music Co. In 1936, “Peter and the Wolf,” a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow. In 1946, violence erupted during a foiled escape attempt at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay; the “Battle of Alcatraz” claimed the lives of three inmates and two correctional officers before it was put down two days later. In 1952, commercial jet service began as a BOAC de Havilland Comet carrying 36 passengers and seven crew members took off from London on a flight to Johan- nesburg with five stopovers along the way. In 1982, the Weather Channel made its debut. In 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by elite American forces at his Paki- stan compound, then quickly buried at sea after a decade on the run. Because of the time difference, bin Laden’s death came May 1, U.S. time. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Engelbert Humper- dinck is 81. Former Interna- tional Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge is 75. Actress-activist Bianca Jagger is 72. Country singer R.C. Bannon is 72. Actor David Suchet is 71. Singer-songwriter Larry Gatlin is 69. Rock singer Lou Gramm (Foreigner) is 67. Actress Christine Baranski is 65. Singer Angela Bofill is 63. Fashion designer Donatella Versace is 62. Actor Brian Tochi is 58. Actress Elizabeth Berridge is 55. Country singer Ty Herndon is 55. Rock musi- cian Todd Sucherman (Styx) is 48. Wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson (AKA The Rock) is 45. Soccer player David Beckham is 42. Actress Ellie Kemper is 37. Thought for Today: “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” — Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (1813-1887). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
