Wednesday, May 31, 2017
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Age is no barrier for man
long in love with neighbor
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I’m 36, doing very
including holidays, sometimes for
well in business, single and deeply
weeks at a time, in clients’ homes
in love with a 58-year-old woman.
caring for their animals. I have 40
She has been a neighbor since I was
years of care experience, and I’m
in grade school. She’s petite, pretty,
recommended by every veterinarian
intelligent, cheerful and looks my age.
in the area. I have worked very hard
My parents moved to Florida
to build my reputation, and I charge
when I turned 27, and I bought their
reasonable prices.
home just so I could be near her. On
On occasion, a client wants a
Jeanne
my 33rd birthday, I begged her to Phillips “deal” and tries to bargain down my
cook for me. We had dinner and too
already reasonable fee. It is nearly
Advice
much wine and ended up in bed. We
always attorneys (who also look for
don’t live together, and she often tells
a reason to be disappointed after the
me to find a younger woman. I have tried to fact, but fail) or extremely wealthy people.
gift her a car, jewelry, etc., but she has refused I try hard not to show how insulting their
them all.
request is, especially when someone’s front
Our families are against this. I’m going gate costs more than my annual income.
crazy trying to convince her I love her. When Sometimes I’ll bend, but then I kick myself
I told her I’ve loved her since middle school, for doing it. (I am working hard to quit doing
she laughed. My parents say I am insane, that.)
though they love her dearly. Am I? Help,
Why should it cost me money to care for
please. — In Love In California
someone else’s animals and home? I need a
Dear In Love: Insane? No. When people polite, respectful and definite comeback to
are in love, they sometimes think emotionally decline making deals. — Pet Sitter In The
rather than rationally. The 22-year difference South
in your ages may be why your parents are
Dear Pet Sitter: Try this: “I’m the best.
calling you insane.
My prices are firm. If you’re looking for
Rather than try to “buy” your neighbor’s a bargain, hire someone else. Plenty of
love with gifts, try to get her to tell you how people will accept what you’re offering. But
she DOES feel about you and about what remember, you get what you pay for.”
happened the night she cooked you dinner.
Dear Abby: In the midst of planning my
If it was only because she had too much to wedding, I got pregnant. My family wants to
drink, she may be embarrassed that things plan for a combination bridal/baby shower,
went as far as they did. If it was because the but my mother thinks I should only have a
attraction is mutual, you should explain to baby shower because I will receive gifts at
her that while it may be unusual, these kinds my wedding. What is your take on this? —
of relationships can be successful if both Unsure In Texas
parties are mature. Example: The president of
Dear Unsure: I agree with your mother
France, Emmanuel Macron, and his first lady. for the reason she gave you. You will need
Dear Abby: I’m a full-time pet and baby things in the near future. Your wedding
livestock sitter. I work seven days a week, will effectively be your wedding shower.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 31, 1917
Pendleton’s company of cowboy cavalry is
now Troop D of the Oregon National Guard.
Captain Kenyon A. Joyce, Sixth Cavalry
U.S.A., inspecting officer for national guard
cavalry, last evening formally inspected the
new troop and accepted it. The inspection
took place last evening about 8 o’clock in the
Happy Canyon pavilion and was witnessed
by many townspeople. The actual inspection
took but a few minutes inasmuch as the new
troopers have had no training. They were
lined up in one long line at attention and the
roll was then called by Captain C.E. Gjed-
sted, the recruitment officer. There were 65
men present last evening. A half dozen had
been rejected by the physical examiner and
a number of others were out of the city and
unable to get in for inspection.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 31, 1967
A major improvement was made in
Stanfield’s City Park in a recent tree and
shrub planting as a living memorial to four
of the organization’s members who have
died in the past year. Several members of the
Stanfield Iris Club and members of families
of deceased members were on hand for the
planting event. Presiding at the ceremony was
club president Stella Bergtoll, who announce
the memorials were planted in the memory
of Ida Cloute, Carrie Reeves, Rose Hendrick
and Lena Byrnes.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 31, 1992
Susan High was horrified when she
found white supremacist propaganda in her
mailbox last month. She mistakenly opened
the envelope, which contained an eight-page
newsletter titled “National Socialist Vanguard
Report.” High didn’t need to read further. The
swastika in the right hand corner said it all.
The newsletter, and another white suprem-
acist flyer mailed to high school students
in late February, didn’t evoke one positive
response, according to Rick Cooper, the man
who mailed them. In fact, the mailing seems
to have backfired. Instead of “educating” and
segregating residents as intended, the propa-
ganda has brought the community closer
together, heightening an effort to harmoni-
ously integrate Hispanics and Anglos.
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 151st day of
2017. There are 214 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On May 31, 1977, the
Trans-Alaska oil pipeline,
three years in the making
despite objections from
environmentalists and Alaska
Natives, was completed. (The
first oil began flowing through
the pipeline 20 days later;
today the pipeline carries an
average of 1.8 million barrels
of oil a day, according to the
Alaska Public Lands Infor-
mation Centers website.)
On this date:
In 1790, President George
Washington signed into law
the first U.S. copyright act.
In 1889, some 2,200
people in Johnstown, Penn-
sylvania, perished when the
South Fork Dam collapsed,
sending 20 million tons of
water rushing through the
town.
In 1910, the Union of
South Africa was founded.
In 1916, during World
War I, British and German
fleets fought the naval Battle
of Jutland off Denmark;
there was no clear-cut victor,
although the British suffered
heavier losses.
In 1935, movie studio
20th Century Fox was created
through a merger of the Fox
Film Corp. and Twentieth
Century Pictures.
In 1962, former Nazi
official Adolf Eichmann
was hanged in Israel a few
minutes before midnight for
his role in the Holocaust.
In 1994, the United States
announced it was no longer
aiming long-range nuclear
missiles at targets in the
former Soviet Union.
In 2005, breaking a silence
of 30 years, former FBI
official W. Mark Felt stepped
forward as “Deep Throat,”
the secret Washington Post
source during the Watergate
scandal.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor-director Clint Eastwood
is 87. Singer Peter Yarrow
is 79. Former Humanitarian
Terry Waite is 78. Singer-mu-
sician Augie Meyers is 77.
Actress Sharon Gless is 74.
Football Hall-of-Famer Joe
Namath is 74. Broadcast jour-
nalist/commentator Bernard
Goldberg is 72. Rapper DMC
is 53. Actress Brooke Shields
is 52. Actor Colin Farrell
is 41. Rock musician Scott
Klopfenstein (Reel Big Fish)
is 40. Rock musician Andy
Hurley (Fall Out Boy) is 37.
Rapper Waka Flocka Flame
is 31. Pop singer Normani
Hamilton (Fifth Harmony)
is 21.
Thought for Today: “A
conference is a gathering of
important people who singly
can do nothing, but together
can decide that nothing can
be done.” — Fred Allen,
American comedian (born
this date in 1894, died in
1956).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE