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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mom dotes on new boyfriend
at the expense of her kids
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My wife, “Rita,” and
to be present for her children when
I separated a year ago. Our divorce is
he’s there, consider having a calm,
pending. The man she’s seeing, whom
non-accusatory conversation with her
I believe she was cheating with before
about them staying with you “a while”
we split, has a violent criminal past.
— a long while. She may surprise you
He has already cheated on Rita with
and be open to it.
his ex-girlfriend, the woman who had
Dear Abby: A friend of a friend
him locked up in the first place.
was looking for a weekend getaway.
Rita caters to him to the point that
I offered my summer home to the
Jeanne
she ignores our kids. When he shows Phillips couple at no cost. I love the place and
up, they often “retire” to the bedroom
spend all my summers relaxing there.
Advice
and my children are on their own for
They quickly accepted.
dinner. She even paid his bail when we
I gave them the keys, they left for
were supposed to be saving for our daughter’s the weekend and she texted me to say they
school trip, which meant I ended up paying arrived. Two hours later, I received another
her half.
text saying that they could not stay there
She is oblivious. She believes the kids want because their allergies were really bad and
to spend time at my place only because there’s they had to leave.
a game system here. Our daughter is slightly
I felt bad, but they were well aware of
overweight, and Rita and I had agreed to make my two large, hairy dogs. I’m not a dirty
sure we keep up her self-esteem. I don’t think person. Quite a few people come and stay at
Rita’s behavior is helping in this area at all.
the summer house, and no one has ever left
My kids want him gone. They have before. How should I react when I see them
expressed this to their mother, but she keeps again? I thought I was doing something nice.
making excuses to keep him around. They — Feeling Bad In Pennsylvania
have told me she comes apart when he’s not
Dear Feeling Bad: You WERE doing
there. Could she be terrified of being alone? something nice, and you should not take
Is it possible to make her realize how this is what happened personally. Some people are
affecting our kids? Or am I making too much extremely sensitive to animal dander, which
of all this? — Perplexed In Minnesota
is what likely caused your guests to leave. It
Dear Perplexed: Your wife may have a was in no way a criticism of your skills as a
severe fear of being alone, but if it’s true that housekeeper. While you may have been able
she can’t function when he’s not there, there to remove all or most of the dog hair, you may
may be other emotional issues as well. Please have missed flakes from their skin that were
understand that now that you are separated, embedded in the upholstered furniture and
you cannot dictate how often she sees this which triggered the allergic reaction. Let it go,
man, or in what room of the house. However, and when you see these people, treat them as
because she appears to be unable or unwilling you always have.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 7, 1917
Preparation of the Wild Horse macadam
road for receiving a hard surface will be much
simpler than anticipated, according to M.O.
Bennett, deputy state engineer who yesterday
went out over the road with the county court
and took a number of cross sections. The
county will be put to but little expense to
get the first ten mile stretch in readiness, he
states. The county court, now in session, is
seriously considering the purchase of three
motor trucks for use in hauling gravel to
market roads, thus doing away with much
team expense. The court has decided to use
river gravel instead of crushed rock in fixing
market roads, taking the stand the gravel is
better and cheaper.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 7, 1967
An expected influx of house trailers to
Pendleton because of freeway construction
figured in two city council decisions last
night. One allowed water service to Rockin W
trailer court in Riverside. The other approved
establishment of a trailer park at Pendair by
Art Evans and F.E. Sampson on land to be
leased from the city. Water service consisting
of two 3/4-inch hookons was allowed the
Rockin W for its 23 trailers because the
court’s well has gone dry and because every
trailer space in the city may be needed to
accommodate construction workers. The
exact number of trailers expected is unknown.
All trailer courts in the city are already at or
near capacity.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 7, 1992
No one knows for sure what Darren
Garrison and Roy Bracken found laying in
a creek bed in the Blue Mountains, but the
amateur archaeologists are convinced it is a
link to eons past. Garrison, 27, and Bracken,
50, have found what they think might be
a petrified tooth, conjuring up all sorts of
questions about its origin. The petrified
tooth — measuring almost two inches tall
— is certainly larger than anything of its type
that Garrison and Bracken have discovered
before. Plans now are to knock on some doors
at Oregon State University, hoping luck leads
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 158th day of
2017. There are 207 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On June 7, 1942, the
Battle of Midway ended in a
decisive victory for American
naval forces over Imperial
Japan, marking a turning
point in the Pacific War.
On this date:
In 1654, King Louis
XIV, age 15, was crowned
in Rheims, 11 years after the
start of his reign.
In 1776, Richard Henry
Lee of Virginia offered a
resolution to the Continental
Congress stating “That these
United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and
independent States.”
In 1892, Homer Plessy,
a “Creole of color,” was
arrested for refusing to leave
a whites-only car of the East
Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling
on his case, the U.S. Supreme
Court upheld “separate but
equal” racial segregation, a
concept it renounced in 1954.)
In 1917, the Lions Clubs
service organization was
founded in Chicago. Actor-
singer Dean Martin was
born Dino Paul Crocetti in
Steubenville, Ohio.
In 1929, the sovereign
state of Vatican City came
into existence as copies of
the Lateran Treaty were
exchanged in Rome.
In 1958, singer-songwriter
Prince was born Prince
Rogers Nelson in Minneap-
olis.
In 1965, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Griswold v.
Connecticut, struck down,
7-2, a Connecticut law used to
prosecute a Planned Parent-
hood clinic in New Haven for
providing contraceptives to
married couples.
In 1998, in a crime that
shocked the nation, James
Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black
man, was hooked by a chain
to a pickup truck and dragged
to his death in Jasper, Texas.
(Two white men were later
sentenced to death; one of
them, Lawrence Russell
Brewer, was executed in
2011. A third defendant
received life with the possi-
bility of parole.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Movie director James Ivory is
89. Former Canadian Prime
Minister John Turner is 88.
Actress Virginia McKenna is
86. Singer Tom Jones is 77.
Poet Nikki Giovanni is 74. .
Americana singer-songwriter
Willie Nile is 69. Actor Liam
Neeson is 65. Vice President
Mike Pence is 58. Rock
singer-musician
Gordon
Gano (The Violent Femmes)
is 54. Rock musician Eric
Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots)
is 51. Rock musician Dave
Navarro is 50. Actor Karl
Urban is 45. TV personality
Bear Grylls is 43. Rock
musician Eric Johnson (The
Shins) is 41. Actor-comedian
Bill Hader is 39. Tennis
player Anna Kournikova is
36. Actor Michael Cera is
29. Rapper Iggy Azalea is 27.
Rapper Fetty Wap is 26.
Thought for Today:
“I might repeat to myself,
slowly and soothingly, a list
of quotations beautiful from
minds profound; if I can
remember any of the damn
things.” — Dorothy Parker
(1893-1967).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE