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Wednesday, May 24, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ New job in new state tests strength of men’s relationship FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am a gay man who gay until some time after they were has been dating a divorced man for married. It happens. nine months. I’m 25 and he is 50. He Dear Abby: I work in a company was married to a woman for more than that has small offices. Although most 20 years and has three children. (I am people have their own office, I share the age between his middle and oldest one because I was the last guy hired. children.) We met one day and have I have one co-worker who I really never been apart since. like, but he has a serious problem. It started great. We had a connec- He — and his wife, I suspect — don’t Jeanne tion I had never experienced before I Phillips do laundry. This results in him having met him. He was let go from his job, serious odor. When he comes into my Advice and I supported him for some time. He office or I have to go into his, or even finally found a job in Georgia, and I walk by his door, the smell is seriously am left in New York. rank. How do I tell him or his superiors about I made plans to move there with him, but this issue? — Holding My Nose In Texas I’m nervous about it. First, because I have Dear Holding: Go to your supervisor and never been in love before and I’m not sure explain the problem. You should not have to if he’s as in love with me as I am with him. counsel the offending employee; the boss, your Second, he cheated on his wife with a man my supervisor or someone in human resources age. The guy left him right before he met me, should do it. If the problem is as severe as you and I’m not so sure he is completely over him. say it is, it probably won’t be the first time they (I know they are still in contact, but he has have heard about it because others will have never lied about it.) noticed it and complained, too. I’m worried he might cheat on me too, or Dear Abby: I have a new neighbor, and worse, give his ex another shot, and I’ll be left after meeting just once, she declared us to on the sidelines. What advice can you offer be “great friends.” I work full time and she me? — Wants To Make The Right Move doesn’t, so anytime I’m home she wants to Dear Wants: Do nothing drastic right now. get together. That would be fine if I liked her, Pay him a visit. Without committing yourself, but I don’t! We are complete opposites, and take a look around to see if Georgia might suit she has a major gambling problem. How do you. I gracefully say I’m not interested in being You say this man hasn’t lied to you. While friends? — Please Leave Me Alone you’re there, ask him whether he would give Dear Please: The poor woman is new in his ex another shot if the man were willing. the neighborhood. That may be why she’s However, don’t prejudge him because he was reaching out the way she is. When she suggests unable to remain faithful to his wife. Like getting together, explain that you have a full- some gay men who come out later in life, time job and things you need to do at home, so he may not have fully realized that he was the answer is you don’t have time. Sorry. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 24, 1917 Pendleton’s cavalry troop is being closed up today. And tonight Captain C.E. Gjedsted expects to wire Adjutant General White that Troop D, Second Squadron, O.N.G. 16th Divisional Cavalry has been organized up to full peace footing. Athena will furnish the bunch to complete the organization, Dell Blancett having found ten or a dozen boys of that vicinity yesterday who wanted to go with the Pendleton unit. They will be signed up this afternoon. Pilot Rock furnished a dozen or more recruits yesterday, bringing the total up to 56 last night. This afternoon there were 59 sworn in without counting the Athena contingent. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 24, 1967 Bees that refused to come out of a tree resulted in firemen being awakened Sunday morning to answer a call. The fire was in a tall poplar tree at the Eddie Gunderson home at the south Heppner city limits. Dr. A.D. McMurdo had been called to get rid of a swarm of bees making its home in the tree. He decided to smoke them out, set the tree on fire, then left, thinking Mrs. Gunderson would watch the fire, and that it would be small and could do no damage. Instead, flames started shooting up the length of the tree and brush adjacent ignited. The fire department was called at 7:45 a.m. and quickly had the fire extinguished. Bees were still swarming around the tree Monday and the Gundersons were puzzled as to just how to get rid of them. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 24, 1992 A Pendleton postal employee and his wife were arrested Thursday and charged in the May 1990 theft of a Federal Reserve Bank cash shipment taken from the Pendleton Post Office. William P. Cuff Jr., 44, was charged with theft of mail by a postal employee and receipt of stolen mail. His wife Reese A. Cuff, 45, also was arrested and charged with posses- sion of stolen mail. No one involved with the investigation ever revealed the amount of money taken, but a $10,000 reward plus 10 percent of any recovered funds was offered in June 1990 for significant information leading to an arrest. The investigation took a twist on July 2, 1990, when “a substantial amount” of the stolen money was recovered from a Northeast Portland mailbox. 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 144th day of 2017. There are 221 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 24, 1775, John Hancock was unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress in Phil- adelphia, succeeding Peyton Randolph. On this date: In 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America’s first tele- graph line. In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland. In 1935, the first major league baseball game to be played at night took place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1. In 1937, in a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935. In 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 men on board. In 1957, anti-American rioting broke out in Taipei, Taiwan, over the acquittal of a U.S. Army sergeant who had shot and killed a Chinese man. In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7. In 1976, Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic trans- port service to Washington. In 1977, in a surprise move, the Kremlin ousted Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny from the Commu- nist Party’s ruling Politburo. In 1980, Iran rejected a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the Amer- ican hostages. Today’s Birthdays: Actor-comedian-impres- sionist Stanley Baxter is 91. Jazz musician Archie Shepp is 80. Comedian Tommy Chong is 79. Singer Bob Dylan is 76. Actor Gary Burghoff is 74. Singer Patti LaBelle is 73. Actress Pris- cilla Presley is 72. Country singer Mike Reid is 70. Actor Jim Broadbent is 68. Actor Alfred Molina is 64. Singer Rosanne Cash is 62. Actor Cliff Parisi is 57. Actress Kristin Scott Thomas is 57. Rock musician Jimmy Ashhurst (Buckcherry) is 54. Rock musician Vivian Trimble is 54. Actor John C. Reilly is 52. Actor Dana Ashbrook is 50. Actor Eric Close is 50. Country singer Billy Gilman is 29. Thought for Today: “It is the weakness and danger of republics, that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented in their legislation.” — Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, American author (1830-1885). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
