Tuesday, June 13, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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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