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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, June 8, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man gets needed health care
in a marriage of convenience
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m in a second
I know time will make it easier,
marriage, which was only for the
but in the short term, how do we help
benefit of insurance so my husband
him tap into his inner strength and be
could get insurance through my
an adult about this? He goes to work,
employer’s plan. We were together for
so that’s a blessing. How do people
many years before getting married.
make it through breakups and cope
He received the health care he
with the grief? — Sad For Him
needed, and I’m ready to move
Dear Sad: They depend upon
forward with my life as a single
their
friends and family to listen to
Jeanne
person. However, he now says he’s Phillips them while they vent. And if that
happy being married. THAT WAS
doesn’t work, they do it in the office
Advice
NOT OUR AGREEMENT. I am not
of a licensed therapist. Because
interested in spending any more time
what you’re telling your son hasn’t
being dissatisfied with this relationship. What helped, please suggest it.
he brought to it was not all that I wanted, and
Dear Abby: When I was 7, my mother
he knew this.
hosted a birthday party for me. When we
I’m ready to move forward, but don’t made out the guest list, there was a girl who
want to lose his friendship. What’s the best wasn’t popular who I didn’t want to invite.
way to approach this? I have spoken to him Mom told me to invite her or I wouldn’t have
about another procedure he needs, but he is a party. I invited her, but she didn’t come.
stalling. — Marriage Of Convenience
That lesson of inclusiveness made a
Dear M.O.C.: You have devoted enough big impression on me. Later, in school, I
to this man’s welfare. In a marriage, both became an unpopular girl. I missed many of
parties are supposed to be happy, and he my classmates’ parties because of it, but the
already knows you’re not. It may not be lesson stayed with me.
possible to move forward and keep his
In high school and beyond I have
friendship. If he needs another procedure, befriended people who were unpopular
give him a deadline to have it done. If he or who are seen as misfits. And you know
hasn’t had it by then, feel free to file.
what? My life has been richer from these
Dear Abby: My grown son has broken experiences. So I would like to offer a
up with his girlfriend. They were together belated thank-you to my mother for making
for five months. He feels his life is over. His me invite that little girl years ago, because it
dad and I have been helping him get over it. shaped my life. — Kathy In Pennsylvania
He has a 7-year-old son who lives with him
Dear Kathy: Your mother is a wise and
and we want him to be strong. He calls us compassionate woman. The lesson here
every day and he’s beginning to sound like a is, popularity can be fleeting. But having
broken record, repeating the same story again compassion for people who need it is
and again.
forever.
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
June 8, 1917
High price of sacks and the prospective
shortage of farm labor this summer are
proving effective arguments for the bulk
method of handling grain and not a few
farmers are already making plans to equip
themselves to use this method. Quite a
number of others are seriously considering
the change from the more cumbersome and
expensive sack method. The price of sacks
has been steadily soaring until the sack bill
for a harvest will be a very considerable item.
One farmer who has already made provisions
to handle his grain in bulk estimates that he
can equip his harvester, construct wooden
bins and wagons at a cost less than his sack
bill would be. At the same time the change
will enable him to dispense with three men
on his machine and to store this grain as soon
as he harvests it. The building of the elevator
in this city has given an impetus to the bulk
method.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 8, 1967
It just wasn’t a good trip for Robert Earl
Harvey, 20. He was driving on NW 10th at
11:45 p.m., city police reported, when he
reportedly collided with the side of a house
owned by James Brotherton, 312 NW 10th.
At the impact tires in the back end of his
pickup bounced out, rolled down to the resi-
dence of Jack Kehoe, 914 NW Despain, and
smashed his front door. Officer Dale Huise
arrested Harvey in the 1100 block of NW
Furnish and charged him with driving while
intoxicated and failure to stop and leave name
and address at the scene of an accident. He
was taken to the police station and a little later
arrested on a charge of having a fraudulent
operator license.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 8, 1992
A 17-year-old Idaho youth was arrested on
the shore of the Columbia River after fleeing
from state police in a boat. An officer began
chasing Ronnie K. Harris of St. Anthony,
Idaho, on Highway 730 from Hat Rock State
Park to Weyerhouse Beach and concluded the
chase in the Columbia River, according to
police. Harris reportedly sped off the highway
to Weyerhouse Beach where he attempted to
lose police by driving his Ford pickup over
sand dunes to the river’s edge. Harris then
jumped into a boat and was transported out
into the river, police said. A marine boat police
officer brought Harris back to shore, where he
was arrested for DUII, attempting to elude a
police officer and no operator’s permit.
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 159th day of
2017. There are 206 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On June 8, 1967, during
the six-day Middle East war,
34 American servicemen
were killed when Israel
attacked the USS Liberty, a
Navy intelligence-gathering
ship in the Mediterranean
Sea. (Israel later said the
Liberty had been mistaken
for an Egyptian vessel.)
On this date:
In A.D. 632, the prophet
Muhammad died in Medina.
In 1042, Edward the
Confessor became King of
England, beginning a reign
of 23 ½ years.
In 1845, Andrew Jackson,
seventh president of the
United States, died in Nash-
ville, Tennessee.
In 1867, modern Amer-
ican architect Frank Lloyd
Wright was born in Richland
Center, Wisconsin.
In 1917, during World War
I, Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing,
commander of the American
Expeditionary Force, arrived
in Liverpool, England, while
en route to France; also, the
1st Expeditionary Division
was organized at Fort Jay in
New York.
In 1920, the Republican
National Convention opened
in Chicago; its delegates would
end up nominating Warren G.
Harding for president.
In 1939, Britain’s King
George VI and his consort,
Queen Elizabeth, arrived in
Washington, D.C., where
they were received at the
White House by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1972, during the
Vietnam War, an Associated
Press photographer took
a picture of a screaming
9-year-old girl, Phan Thi
Kim Phuc, as she ran naked
and severely burned from the
scene of a South Vietnamese
napalm attack.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former first lady Barbara
Bush is 92. Actor-comedian
Jerry Stiller is 90. Actress
Millicent Martin is 83.
Actor James Darren is 81.
Actor Bernie Casey is 78.
Singer Nancy Sinatra is 77.
Singer Chuck Negron is 75.
Musician Boz Scaggs is 73.
Author Sara Paretsky is 70.
Actress Sonia Braga is 67.
Actress Kathy Baker is 67.
Country musician Tony Rice
is 66. Rock singer Bonnie
Tyler is 66. “Dilbert” creator
Scott Adams is 60. Actor-di-
rector Keenen Ivory Wayans
is 59. Musician Nick Rhodes
(Duran Duran) is 55. Rapper
Kanye West is 40. Country
singer/songwriter
Sturgill
Simpson is 39.
Thought for Today:
“When we begin to take
our failures non-seriously, it
means we are ceasing to be
afraid of them.” — Katherine
Mansfield, New Zealander
author (1888-1923).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE