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Page 8A East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, June 2, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ College student living at home is ready to fly after graduation FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am 21 and about to goes out with friends and spends graduate from college. I have lived time with family. She’s very attrac- at home these last four years partly tive and has a wonderful personality. because my dad didn’t want me to go Her siblings, cousins and friends away. He never said it, but he made are all married and most of them up reasons to make me stay at home. have children. She wants her own I was 17 and being manipulated and family and has tried the usual dating controlled. I tried to explain to him sites, but never gets any results. that I wanted to go away to learn I try to keep her spirits up. Her Jeanne independence, but he said I wasn’t Phillips happiness is most important to me, mature enough. not her marital status. How can I Advice Now that I am about to graduate, help her? I don’t want to keep telling I have been offered a job with a her the right one will come along company in California. I am afraid to tell when she wants a boyfriend now. — Single my parents about the news. I know that it’s Girl’s Mom In Georgia my life, but my father is a master of psycho- Dear Mom: Your daughter should start logical manipulation. I want to finally get by asking her siblings, cousins and friends away from my parents’ strict controlling and why they think she’s still single when she financial strings and start a stress-free life of wants so much to be married. Could the my own. How do I explain this without them solution be something as simple as tweaking manipulating me all over again? — Soon To her profile? It may be that she needs to Be A College Graduate expand her interests and activities so she’ll Dear Graduate: First, make up your be out in the community more than she is. mind that you ARE leaving. When you tell If her friends and co-workers aren’t them, be sure to say how grateful you are already aware, she should ask if they know for the love and support they have given someone nice who’s unattached. Who you, but that you have been offered a job knows? One of them might have a cousin. in the field for which you have studied and Professional organizations having to do are now well-prepared enough to fly on your with her field of employment can also be own. fertile ground for prospecting. Set a date to leave and do not allow People who are visible and passionate yourself to be dissuaded, whether because about the activities they’re involved in of a guilt trip or any other manipulation. I’m attract positive attention, which increases not saying it will be emotionally easy, but the likelihood of meeting someone eligible, for your own sake, you must do it. or meeting someone who knows someone. Dear Abby: I have a single daughter in When all is said and done, finding Mr. Right her early 30s. She’s active in her church, is usually a matter of luck and timing. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 2, 1917 The United States Navy wants more aviators. Peter Swartz, in charge of the local naval recruiting office, this morning received notification that additional men are wanted in the aviation department, the quota of the Oregon division being 14. Men who enlist in this department will be sent to the training school at Pensacola, Fla., for 18 months training. Men of experience with gas engines or as mechanics only are eligible. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 2, 1967 The small city park in Echo, which for 57 years has been simply known as “the park,” was dedicated Sunday as the George Park in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. George who loaned the plot of ground to the city as a park in 1910. Mrs. Al Berg, the former Marian George, gave the park to the city recently as a memorial to her parents. A stone was set by the city in the center of the park and a new flag raised at the dedication. Fred George came to Echo in 1906 and owned and operated a general merchandise store until his death. Mrs. George came to the community from Ann Arbor, Mich., as a school teacher. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 2, 1992 Trina Sayles recently received some big bucks to spend on her college education, thanks to her grandmother wining a national sweepstakes. Sayles, a former Boardman high school student, said she was ecstatic to learn about the $10,000 check headed her way. Her grandmother, Ruth Sayles, entered a “Scholarship Sweepstakes” contest spon- sored by Libbey Glass at Pendleton’s Kmart Store. Sayles was one of only 10 winners nationwide. Trina is currently a sophomore at Gonzaga University in Spokane. 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 153rd day of 2017. There are 212 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 2, 1897, Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that “the report of my death was an exagger- ation.” (Twain, in London to cover Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee for the Journal, was responding to a report in the New York Herald that he was “griev- ously ill” and “possibly dying.”) On this date: In 1863, during the Civil War, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman wrote a letter to his wife, Ellen, in which he commented, “Vox populi, vox humbug” (The voice of the people is the voice of humbug). In 1886, President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in the Blue Room of the White House. (To date, Cleveland is the only president to marry in the executive mansion.) In 1924, Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits. In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37. In 1946, Italy held a referendum which resulted in the Italian monarchy being abolished in favor of a republic. In 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in London’s Westmin- ster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. In 1966, U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmit- ting detailed photographs of the lunar surface. In 1976, Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles was mortally injured by a bomb planted underneath his car; he died 11 days later. (Prosecutors believed Bolles was targeted because he had written stories that upset a liquor wholesaler.) In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people. (McVeigh was executed in June 2001.) Today’s Birthdays: Actress-singer Sally Kell- erman is 80. Actor Ron Ely is 79. Filmmaker and movie historian Kevin Brownlow is 79. Actor Stacy Keach is 76. Rock musician Charlie Watts is 76. Actor Charles Haid is 74. Movie director Lasse Hallstrom is 71. Actor Jerry Mathers is 69. Actress Joanna Gleason is 67. NHL Commis- sioner Gary Bettman is 65. Actor Dennis Haysbert is 63. Comedian Dana Carvey is 62. Actor Gary Grimes is 62. Pop musician Michael Steele is 62. Rock singer Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) is 57. Actor Liam Cunningham is 56. Actor Navid Negahban is 53. Singer Merril Bainbridge is 49. TV personality-producer Andy Cohen (“The Real Housewives” TV franchise) is 49. Rapper B-Real (Cypress Hill) is 47. Actor-comedian Wayne Brady is 45. Actor Justin Long is 39. Rock musician Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes) is 37. Olympic gold medal soccer player Abby Wambach is 37. Thought for Today: “Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery.” — Rex Harrison, English actor (born 1908, died this date in 1990). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
