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East Oregonian
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mom weighs telling her son
truth about dad’s ‘time away’
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My son, “Jimmy,” is
Dear In Love: This may seem
8. His father and I are divorced, and
counterintuitive, but take a step
he is facing jail time. Jimmy sees him
back. Stop asking for reassurance.
every other weekend. I’m planning on
Because he says he feels guilty about
telling Jimmy the truth, although I’m
doing anything remotely sexual, the
sure his dad will want me to lie and
next time he makes a move, be less
say he needs to “work out of town” for
willing. Tell him you don’t want
a while, or something like that.
him to do anything that he will be
I know it will be hard for my boy
sorry about later, and remind him
Jeanne
to deal with. I also wonder what he Phillips what he said the last time. It may
should tell other people. I worry that if
improve your relationship because,
Advice
he tells his friends the truth (and they
from your description, he appears
tell their parents), Jimmy might not be
to be immature and not ready for a
invited over to play quite as often, or kids will romance.
tease him. But I feel like it’s sending a mixed
Dear Abby: My mother-in-law is very ill
message if I tell him it’s OK to lie about this and is preparing for the end. I feel bad for my
particular issue. How should I handle this? — spouse — this will be a great loss. However,
To Tell The Truth
my mother-in-law and I have never been
Dear Truth: Jimmy needs to know that his close. She has been very negative about me,
mother tells the truth. If you lie to him about mostly behind my back. I have tolerated her
this, or anything else for that matter, when he and complained only to my spouse.
learns the truth — as he will eventually — he
When the end comes, I know many
will start to question the veracity of every- people will express sympathy for “my loss.”
thing you have told him. This is a lot for an I won’t be feeling remorse, but a sense of
8-year-old to deal with, I know, but I vote for relief. Is there a kind way of stating that
keeping the boy informed.
it is not a sad time for me because of our
Dear Abby: My boyfriend and I have been strained relationship? — The End Is Near
dating for two months. I think I’m being too
Dear End: Much as you might like to
clingy, but he won’t tell me if I am. He says express those feelings publicly, I don’t
when I ask for reassurance, it drives him away. advise it. It would be inappropriate and
Every time we do anything remotely reflect badly on you. If someone offers
sexual, he tells me he feels guilty about it. He condolences, say, “Thank you, how kind of
is sweet and caring. I don’t know what I’m you,” and keep the rest to yourself. If you
doing wrong. I have never been so in love. I do otherwise, you will be validating every
don’t want to lose him. What should I do? — bad thing that woman said behind your
In Love In Illinois
back.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 18, 1917
Troop D, Second Squadron, Oregon
National Guard, Sixteenth Divisional Cavalry,
will be organized in Pendleton. The first man
to sign the agreement was Del Blancett, well
known cowboy who recently offered to raise
an entire squadron of rough riders. Others
whose names led the list were Lee Caldwell,
champion of all broncho busters, Frank
Cable, former champion bulldogger of the
world, Ben Corbett, champion Roman rider
and former cavalryman, Scoop Martin and
Earl Newquist, also well known Round-Up
performers. Blancett and Caldwell are taking
an active interest in forming the troop, both
circulating agreements among their friends.
They guaranteed Captain Gjedsted that they
could provide 50 of the 70 men within a few
days.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 18, 1967
Who needs LSD when you’ve got the
Pendleton and La Grande show bands? More
than 40 members of the combined bands
took a couple of hundred spectators on a wild
flight here Tuesday night in the first annual
Jazz Festival. And fun it was, right through
the closing number. That finale, “Sunday
Morning,” pulled the audience to a standing
ovation. There may have been one excep-
tion to the “togetherness” theme. Burgess
Crandall, LHS director, turned an envious
green to match his band uniforms’ color after
“The Group” from Pendleton blasted its way
through two numbers. “We may just pick up
our instruments and go home,” joked Crandall.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 18, 1992
The Pendleton Bucks finished their regular
season in style with back-to-back no-hitters
in a double-header Saturday with La Grande.
The Bucks defeated the Tigers 9-0, 12-0.
“I think that’s got to be a first,” said Lyle
Phelps, Pendleton’s coach. “Those are pretty
hard to come by — it was a fun day for those
pitchers.” Ryan Heinrich started the Pendleton
assault by striking out 16 of La Grande’s 22
batters through seven innings without giving
up a hit. Heinrich walked only one batter.
Michael Corey went the distance for Pend-
leton in the second game, striking out 10 of 14
and walking four batters to record the second
no-hitter. The game went only five innings
under the 10-run mercy rule.
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 138th day of
2017. There are 227 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On May 18, 1927, in
America’s deadliest school
attack, part of a schoolhouse
in Bath Township, Michigan,
was blown up with explosives
planted by local farmer
Andrew Kehoe, who then set
off a bomb in his truck; the
attacks killed 38 children and
six adults, including Kehoe,
who’d earlier killed his wife.
(Authorities said Kehoe, who
suffered financial difficulties,
was seeking revenge for losing
a township clerk election.)
On this date:
In 1642, the Canadian city
of Montreal was founded by
French colonists.
In 1765, about one-fourth
of Montreal was destroyed by
a fire.
In 1896, the Supreme
Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson,
endorsed “separate but equal”
racial segregation, a concept
renounced 58 years later in
Brown v. Board of Education
of Topeka.
In 1897, a public reading
of Bram Stoker’s new horror
novel, “Dracula,” was staged
in London.
In
1926,
evangelist
Aimee Semple McPherson
vanished while visiting a
beach in Venice, California.
(McPherson
reappeared
more than a month later,
saying she’d escaped after
being kidnapped and held for
ransom, an account that was
greeted with skepticism.)
In 1933, President Franklin
D. Roosevelt signed a measure
creating the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
In
1953,
Jacqueline
Cochran became the first
woman to break the sound
barrier as she piloted a
Canadair F-86 Sabre jet over
Rogers Dry Lake, California.
In 1967, Tennessee Gov.
Buford Ellington signed a
measure repealing the law
against teaching evolution that
was used to prosecute John T.
Scopes in 1925.
In 1980, the Mount St.
Helens volcano in Washington
state exploded, leaving 57
people dead or missing.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Bill Macy is 95. Actress
Priscilla Pointer is 93. Hall-
of-Fame sportscaster Jack
Whitaker is 93. Actor Robert
Morse is 86. Actor Dwayne
Hickman is 83. Baseball Hall
of Famer Brooks Robinson is
80. Actress Candice Azzara
is 76. Bluegrass singer-mu-
sician Rodney Dillard (The
Dillards) is 75. Baseball Hall
of Famer Reggie Jackson
is 71. Country singer Joe
Bonsall (The Oak Ridge
Boys) is 69. Rock musician
Rick Wakeman (Yes) is 68.
Rock singer Mark Mothers-
baugh (Devo) is 67. Country
singer George Strait is 65.
Rhythm-and-blues
singer
Butch Tavares (Tavares) is
64. Actor Chow Yun-Fat is
62. Rock singer-musician
Page Hamilton is 57. Come-
dian-writer Tina Fey is 47.
Rock singer Jack Johnson is
42.
Thought for Today: “The
hardest job kids face today
is learning good manners
without seeing any.” — Fred
Astaire, American danc-
er-actor (1899-1987).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE