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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, May 19, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Reluctant grandparents veto
couple’s plan to start a family
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been married
And, by the way, so should your
for almost five years, and my husband
sister. If there are consequences from
and I recently decided to try to have
her elopement, she should experience
a baby. I am really excited about
them. But under no circumstances
the possibility of being a mom. My
should you allow yourself to be
problem is, my parents and his parents
dragged into her drama.
don’t want to be grandparents.
Dear Abby: I have a wonderful
I will be 30 this year, and they keep
husband I love deeply and can’t
telling me I should wait until I’m 40
imagine my life without. We have a
Jeanne
to have kids. I have endometriosis, Phillips beautiful marriage. We never fight or
and I know if I wait too long it will be
really even argue.
Advice
even harder to get pregnant.
We have been together for 11
On top of all the pressure our
years and only during the last couple
families are putting me under, I just found out of years has he started doing something that
my sister has been married almost a year and troubles me. In the afternoon or evening, if
hasn’t told anyone. I don’t want to disappoint I need to go to the store — or anywhere for
our families or force something on them they that matter — he gets upset and gives me the
are not ready for. I’m not sure what to do now. silent treatment and doesn’t want me to go.
I want my husband and me to be happy. Any
I trust him and let him do whatever he
advice would be appreciated. — Stressed wants. I have never given him a reason to not
Out In Ohio
trust me, so why does it make him so angry if
Dear Stressed: I know you want to be I need to run to the store? I feel I deserve the
a good daughter, but you are allowing your same respect and trust that I show him. How
parents (and in-laws) to weigh in on a deci- do I make him see how much it hurts me for
sion that should be yours and your husband’s him to act like this? — Feeling Mistrusted
alone. Your reason for not wanting to post- In The South
pone motherhood makes sense.
Dear Feeling Mistrusted: What you are
Understand that not everyone wants to be describing is a red flag that if ignored could
a grandparent and be glad you’re finding out ruin your beautiful marriage. Your husband’s
upfront that the parents will not be baby-sit- insecurity and need to control you may stem
ting. Many disappointed readers have written from the fact that he has been hiding some-
me after the fact to express their dismay when thing from you. Tell him that you love him,
they realized it. Take from this the lesson that but for the sake of your marriage, the two of
you must live your own life.
you should go to couples counseling.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 19, 1917
Members of the second or married
men’s military unit will be measured of
their uniforms at the regular drill tomorrow
morning at Round-Up Park. The company at
the drill last evening voted in favor of khaki
breeches, regulation leggings, flannel shirt
and campaign hat. A committee consisting of
Lieutenant Chambers, Sergeant Steiwer and
Sergeant Thompson was appointed to make
the purchases and an effort will be made to
get them here in time for the Decoration Day
exercises.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 19, 1967
Pendleton’s 1967 clean-up campaign got
a soapy sendoff this morning as downtown
merchants manned brooms to scrub down the
mall. It’s hoped before the campaign is over on
June 10 that it will spread to every neighbor-
hood in the city. The Pendleton Lions Club is
in charge of the clean-up campaign this year,
which officially runs from May 20 to June 10.
Last year Pendleton placed second and the
year before, during the first statewide clean-up
campaign, Pendleton won the cup. The mall
scrub-down was just the first of many such
efforts around town. Monday, the local Naval
Reserve unit will show how the sailors do it by
washing down the city hall steps.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 19, 1992
Beef cattle ranchers in Umatilla County are
putting Northeast Oregon on the map as one of
the most progressive regions in the business,
evidenced by an unbroken string of national
beef producer awards. The Kopp Ranch near
Pilot Rock is the third Umatilla County ranch
in as many years to win the Beef Improvement
Federation’s “Outstanding Commercial
Producer” award, given to just one ranch
family nationwide each year.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 139th day of
2017. There are 226 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On May 19, 1927, the
silent movie “Wings,” a
World War I drama starring
Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy”
Rogers and Richard Arlen,
had its world premiere in
San Antonio, Texas, where
it had been filmed. (“Wings”
would go on to win the first
Academy Award for best
picture.)
On this date:
In 1536, Anne Boleyn,
the second wife of England’s
King Henry VIII, was
beheaded
after
being
convicted of adultery.
In 1780, a mysterious
darkness enveloped much
of New England and part of
Canada in the early after-
noon.
In 1913, California Gov.
Hiram Johnson signed the
Webb-Hartley Law prohib-
iting “aliens ineligible to
citizenship” from owning
farm land, a measure
targeting Asian immigrants,
particularly Japanese.
In 1935, T.E. Lawrence,
also known as “Lawrence
of Arabia,” died in Dorset,
England, six days after being
injured in a motorcycle
crash.
In 1943, in his second
wartime address to the U.S.
Congress, British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
pledged his country’s full
support in the fight against
Japan.
In 1958, British actor
Ronald Colman died in
Santa Barbara, California, at
age 67.
In 1962, actress Marilyn
Monroe
sang
“Happy
Birthday to You” to Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy during
a Democratic fundraiser at
New York’s Madison Square
Garden.
In 1967, the Soviet Union
ratified a treaty banning
nuclear and other weapons
from outer space as well as
celestial bodies such as the
moon. (The treaty entered
into force in Oct. 1967.)
In 1977, in what became
known as the “Girl in the
Box” case, 20-year-old
Colleen Stan, hitchhiking her
way to a party in northern
California, was abducted by
a couple she’d accepted a
ride from and imprisoned as
a sex slave for the next seven
years.
In 1981, five British
soldiers were killed by an
Irish Republican Army
landmine in County Armagh,
Northern Ireland.
In 1994, former first lady
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
died in New York at age 64.
Today’s Birthdays: PBS
newscaster Jim Lehrer is
83. TV personality David
Hartman is 82. Actor James
Fox is 78. Actress Nancy
Kwan is 78. Actor Peter
Mayhew is 73. Rock sing-
er-composer Pete Townshend
(The Who) is 72. Concert
pianist David Helfgott is 70.
Rock singer-musician Dusty
Hill (ZZ Top) is 68. College
Football Hall of Famer and
former NFL player Archie
Manning is 68. Singer-ac-
tress Grace Jones is 65. Rock
musician Phil Rudd (AC-DC)
is 63. Actor Steven Ford is
61. Actress Toni Lewis is 57.
Rock musician Iain Harvie
(Del Amitri) is 55. Actress
Polly Walker is 51. Gospel
singer Israel Houghton is 46.
Rock singer Jenny Berggren
(Ace of Base) is 45. Race
car driver Dario Franchitti
is 44. Actor Drew Fuller is
37. Actor-comedian Michael
Che (TV: “Saturday Night
Live”) is 34. Rock musician
James Richardson (MGMT)
is 34. Pop singer Sam Smith
is 25.
Thought for Today: “We
are torn between nostalgia for
the familiar and an urge for
the foreign and strange. As
often as not, we are homesick
most for the places we have
never known.” — Carson
McCullers, American author
(1917-1967).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE