Wednesday, May 24, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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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