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Tuesday, June 13, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Early playtime leaves retired neighbor tossing and turning FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: We have owned our nity for people over 55. house for 31 years and raised our kids Dear Abby: My husband and I here. They are grown now and have have been married for five years. moved out. Several families across the He’s always been a jokester, which street have come and gone. is OK, except for the way he does it. The most recent owners have two He knows what pushes my buttons, kids, one in kindergarten and another so his jokes are geared toward that. At in first grade. Every morning before first, I ignore it, but when he persists, I school, the mom lets her kids run wild, get mad. Then he accuses me of over- Jeanne screaming, yelling, riding their bikes Phillips reacting and calls me unreasonable and scooters unsupervised in the street for getting mad because he’s “only Advice from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m. My husband is joking.” retired and hears this every morning. If a husband knows what pushes He has a back injury and two hip replacements, your buttons and makes you yell at him so he doesn’t sleep well and isn’t an early riser. (which I never did before I met him), isn’t Today he finally went over and asked her that playing with your emotions for his own not to let them do this every morning. She, of entertainment? I’m not the only one he does course, became defensive and said she likes this to. His daughter has been on the receiving to let them play before school and thought 8 end many times. He claims she’s being unrea- a.m. wasn’t unreasonable. Not only are the sonable, too. I have asked him to stop, but he kids loud, but cars often race up the road and doesn’t. It’s affecting our relationship. I almost it’s dangerous. We were always out there feel like he’s gaslighting me. What say you, watching our kids on this road, especially Abby? — Pushing My Buttons when they were that age. Dear Pushing: I say you are absolutely Are we a couple of old fogies, or do you right. Your husband’s behavior is emotionally agree she is an irresponsible parent? — Upset abusive, not funny. It would be interesting In Washington to know how years of that kind of treatment Dear Upset: Playtime at 8 a.m. may not have affected his daughter. The effects of a seem unreasonable, but it is to someone who parent’s ridicule can remain with a child into has health and sleep problems. However, your adulthood. neighbor has a right to let her children out Because you haven’t been able to get to play before school. I wouldn’t call you a through to him, perhaps you should enlist the couple of old fogies, but I would point out that assistance of a licensed marriage counselor. If after people reach a certain age, their needs he refuses to go with you, you should go by can change. Try earplugs or double-paned yourself. And if nothing changes, ask yourself bedroom windows. But if that doesn’t help, it if this is how you are prepared to spend the rest may be time to consider moving to a commu- of your life. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 12-13, 1917 William Kennedy, Hermiston farmer who yesterday emptied a shot gun at the back of his son Robert Kennedy, is now in the county jail here while the young man is at St. Anthony’s hospital with his recovery virtually assured. What disposition will be made of the case is not yet clear. The elderly prisoner is said not to have been in a very repentant mood on his trip to the city yesterday with Sheriff Taylor and inquired as to securing a lawyer. Today he consulted with Col. J.H. Raley. The other son, Jack Kennedy, consulted with his father this morning. Whether or not the sons will wish to proceed with prosecution of the parent is not yet made clear but there is a report that one son is inclined to do so. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 12-13, 1967 Umapine residents voted down a $295,000 school bond issue in a special election Monday, 99 “no” votes to 89 “yes” votes. More than 90 per cent of the registered voters of the school district turned out for the election which was seen by many as a battle between those who want to retain the high school at Umapine and those who want to send their young- sters to McLoughlin Union High School in Milton-Freewater. Superintendent Don Tank said, following the defeat, he didn’t know what would happen next. He said this would probably be discussed at the next school board meeting July 10. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 12-13, 1992 Joel Estrada didn’t make great grades in high school. So he wasn’t surprised to find himself twirling pizzas at Dominos or boring holes in lumber at Pinelam in Pilot Rock after gradua- tion. But Estrada — it turns out — isn’t one to settle for anything that he can’t settle himself. Tonight Estrada will don traditional academic gear — the black gown, the squared off hat with the dangling tassel — and march toward twin degrees in civil engineering and civil drafting at Blue Mountain Community College. 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 164th day of 2017. There are 201 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On June 13, 1942, a four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived on Long Island, New York, during World War II, three days before a second four-man team landed in Florida. (All eight were arrested after two members of the first group decided to defect and cooperate with U.S. authorities; they were ultimately spared while the other six were executed.) President Franklin D. Roos- evelt created the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency, and the Office of War Information, headed by radio news commentator Elmer Davis. On this date: In 1842, Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to ride on a train, traveling from Slough Railway Station to Paddington in 25 minutes. In 1886, King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg. In 1917, during World War I, a group of German Gotha bombers attacked London, killing 162 people. The Phillips Petroleum Co. was incorporated in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. (Phillips merged with Conoco in 2002.) In 1927, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City. In 1957, the Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620, arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, after a nearly two-month journey from England. In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison. In 1997, a jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Bob McGrath is 85. Artist Christo is 82. Magician Sieg- fried (Siegfried & Roy) is 78. Actor Malcolm McDowell is 74. Former U.N. Secre- tary-General Ban Ki-moon is 73. Singer Dennis Locorriere is 68. Actor Richard Thomas is 66. Actor Jonathan Hogan is 66. Actor Stellan Skarsgard is 66. Comedian Tim Allen is 64. Actress Ally Sheedy is 55. TV anchor Hannah Storm is 55. Rock musician Paul deLisle (Smash Mouth) is 54. Actress Lisa Vidal is 52. Singer David Gray is 49. Rhythm-and-blues singer Deniece Pearson (Five Star) is 49. Rock musician Soren Rasted (Aqua) is 48. Sing- er-musician Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) is 47. Country singer Susan Haynes is 45. Actor Steve-O is 43. Country singer Jason Michael Carroll is 39. Actor Chris Evans is 36. Actress Mary-Kate Olsen is 31. Actress Ashley Olsen is 31. Thought for Today: “The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.” — Viscountess Astor, American-born English politician (1879-1964). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
