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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, May 12, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Emotional intensity of work
leaves man drained at home
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
Dear Abby: When I was in my
I told him it would be like me
20s I chose a career whose long-term
giving him my ex-husband’s wedding
effects I hadn’t anticipated. I am
band to wear. He doesn’t understand
charged with telling people they are
because he didn’t use them to propose
dying and watching them die on a
to her, but to me that’s beside the
daily basis. While I know I am good
point. They were ON HER HAND.
at it, it leaves me emotionally drained.
I told him he should have given
I manage to muster up enough
me the option of wearing the rings
energy to try to be there for my kids
or having him buy my own set. He
Jeanne
but, frankly, I can’t seem to be there Phillips thinks I’m just supposed to be OK
for anyone else, including my wife,
with this. Am I out of line feeling
Advice
co-workers and close family. My
the way I do? — Tarnished In
problem is, this has left me with no
Tennessee
emotional support (my children are too young
Dear Tarnished: I don’t think so. To
for that, although playing with them is some say this “guy” lacks sensitivity would be an
help) and there are tough days when I really understatement. Are you sure you actually
need it. Advice? — Alone From My Work
want to spend the rest of your life with
Dear Alone: You need a support group. someone so clueless?
Many people in the medical field find them
When he allowed his former girlfriend to
to be a helpful outlet. Rather than blame your- wear his mother’s wedding rings “because
self for your inability to “be there” for your she loved jewelry” rather than because they
co-workers and family members, joining a were planning to marry, the symbolism of
group might help you to relieve some of the bestowing them vaporized. If you do plan to
stress you are experiencing by talking about go through with it, “suggest” he buy you ones
it. If you do, I’m sure you will find you are or use the stones from his mother’s rings in
far from alone. If there isn’t a support group a different setting for a ring you will enjoy
already there for you, please consider starting wearing rather than feeling like Secondhand
one, because airing those emotions you Rose (third-hand, actually).
haven’t been able to share would be extremely
Dear Abby: My son is graduating this
helpful.
year. To celebrate, I would like to have
Dear Abby: I’ve been dating a guy for two dinner at a restaurant with a group of friends
years. He has his late mom’s wedding rings. (adults) and their children. However, I’d like
He always said he would use them if he ever them to pay for their own meals. How do I
proposed to anyone.
address an invitation to such a get-together?
Well, he proposed to me last week. Last — Not A Free Dinner
night he informed me that he had let his
Dear Not A Free Dinner: You could put
ex-girlfriend of 10 years wear the rings on the invitation that this will be a “no host”
because she loved jewelry. It made me sick to celebration. Or, rather than issue a formal
my stomach, and made his proposal not mean written invitation, simply call your friends
anything to me.
and describe what you have in mind.
DAYS GONE BY
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 12, 1917
In compliance with the government’s
recent order that all citizens of a country now
at war with the United States voluntarily
surrender any firearms in their possession, two
unnaturalized Germans of Umatilla County
have appeared at the office of Sheriff T.D.
Taylor within the past few days and turned
over revolvers. There are quite a number of
other Germans in the county who have not
renounced their allegiance to their native
country and who have not placed themselves
above suspicion by voluntarily surrendering
their firearms. Steps will probably be taken to
deal with this class soon.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 12, 1967
Darlene Kuehn, 13-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kuehn of Milton-Freewater,
will serve as queen of the 16th annual East-
West Shrine benefit football game to be played
in Round-Up Stadium in Pendleton Saturday
night, Aug. 19. An eighth grade student at
the Milton-Freewater Junior High School,
she is an outpatient at present of the Shrine
Hospital for Crippled Children in Portland,
which the game here helps finance. She was
first admitted to the hospital June 2, 1966 with
curvature of the spine.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 12, 1992
Two Hermiston teenagers were arrested
Saturday in Burley, Idaho, suspected of fleeing
Umatilla County in a stolen car and of stealing
two vehicles in Idaho. Robert T. Martin and
Brandon L. Devore of Hermiston are suspected
in the theft of a 1990 Toyota pickup reported
missing Friday by Betty Snell of Hermiston.
The pickup was found abandoned with trans-
mission breakdown Saturday in Boise, Idaho.
Martin and Devore are suspected in stealing
a second vehicle in Boise, later found aban-
doned in Twin Falls, and a third vehicle that
was found rolled near Burley, Idaho. Martin
was hospitalized after the rollover, and Devore
was taken into custody in Burley.
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 132nd day of
2017. There are 233 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On May 12, 1967, “Are
You
Experienced,”
the
groundbreaking debut album
of the Jimi Hendrix Experi-
ence, was released in Britain
by Track Records (a version
with a somewhat different
playlist went on sale in the
United States the following
August on the Reprise label).
Procol Harum’s debut single
“A Whiter Shade of Pale”
was released in the United
Kingdom on the Deram label.
English poet laureate John
Masefield (“And all I ask is
a tall ship and a star to steer
her by...”) died in Abingdon
at age 88.
On this date:
In 1780, during the Revo-
lutionary War, the besieged
city of Charleston, South
Carolina, surrendered to
British forces.
In 1870, an act creating
the Canadian province of
Manitoba was given royal
assent, to take effect in July.
In 1932, the body of
Charles Lindbergh Jr., the
kidnapped son of Charles
and Anne Lindbergh, was
found in a wooded area near
Hopewell, New Jersey.
In 1937, Britain’s King
George VI was crowned at
Westminster Abbey; his wife,
Elizabeth, was crowned as
queen consort.
In 1949, the Soviet Union
lifted the Berlin Blockade,
which the Western powers had
succeeded in circumventing
with their Berlin Airlift.
In 1957, movie direc-
tor-actor Erich von Stroheim,
71, died in Maurepas, France.
In 1963, Betty Miller
became the first woman to
fly solo across the Pacific
Ocean as she landed her
Piper Apache in Brisbane,
Australia,
having
left
Oakland, California, on April
30, making three stopovers
along the way.
In 2002, Jimmy Carter
arrived in Cuba, becoming
the first U.S. president in or
out of office to visit since the
1959 revolution that put Fidel
Castro in power.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Critic John Simon is 92.
Composer Burt Bacharach
is 89. Actress Millie Perkins
is 79. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Jayotis Washington
is 76. Country singer Billy
Swan is 75. Actress Linda
Dano is 74. Actress Lindsay
Crouse is 69. Singer-musician
Steve Winwood is 69. Actor
Gabriel Byrne is 67. Actor
Bruce Boxleitner is 67. Singer
Billy Squier is 67. Blues sing-
er-musician Guy Davis is 65.
Country singer Kix Brooks is
62. Actress Kim Greist is 59.
Rock musician Eric Singer
(KISS) is 59. Actor Ving
Rhames is 58. Rock musician
Billy Duffy is 56. Actor Emilio
Estevez is 55. Actress April
Grace is 55. Actor Stephen
Baldwin is 51. Country
musician Matt Mangano (The
Zac Brown Band) is 41. Actor
Jason Biggs is 39.
Thought for Today:
“Sometimes there is greater
lack of communication
in facile talking than in
silence.” — Faith Baldwin,
American romance novelist
(1893-1978).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE