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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, June 14, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man’s old tryst with wife’s yoga teacher causes strain FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My wife recently sure she doesn’t actually follow this started a new yoga class she really religion, but rather regards it as an likes. But I made the mistake of entertaining idea. As a Christian, telling her that the instructor and I I’m uncomfortable with the theme. had dated briefly (had sex) when we Our only choices are to go and make were around 15. I am 50 now and the best of it, or to stay home and my wife is 45. I was a promiscuous have everyone think we are narrow- drunk when I was in high school and minded old fuddy-duddies. What college. I have been sober now for should we do? — Challenged In Jeanne 28 years, and we have been together Phillips California for 22 years. I have not been with Dear Challenged: I’m glad you Advice another woman since I met my wife. asked. Go, make the best of it, and Abby, she treats this situation as refrain from making judgments about if I cheated on her yesterday, and this was your lovely, high-achieving granddaughter’s 35 years ago! Also, after she recognized my decision about her wedding. Her choice of wife’s last name, the yoga instructor told my wedding theme may or may not be a lark. wife that I broke her heart back then. Help! However, if it isn’t, Wicca is a peaceful reli- gion. Wiccans do not practice black magic. — Heartbreaker Dear Heartbreaker: You have gotten She will still be the same lovely girl after the your life in order, and the yoga instructor wedding as she was before. appears to be doing well. That she’s 50 and Dear Abby: My mother-in-law didn’t get in good enough shape to be teaching yoga me a card or even wish me Happy Mother’s says a lot for her flexibility. Clearly, neither Day on my very first one. We got together you nor your old high school classmate has to celebrate, so I don’t think she forgot. I been trying to slip anything past your wife. thought we had a pretty good relationship, If she really feels threatened because of your but now I’m not so sure. long-past relationship with her teacher, she Is there a nice way to ask her why she should roll up her mat and find another class. didn’t get me a card or even say, “Happy Dear Abby: We have a lovely grand- Mother’s Day”? I’d like to be able to apol- daughter who is about to be married to an ogize if she’s harboring a grudge for some excellent young man. She is sweet, kind, reason. — New Mom In Tennessee smart, hardworking, just out of college and Dear New Mom: Sometimes it’s not everything you would want in a grand- what you say, but the way you say it that daughter. However, we are deeply concerned can create tension. I suggest that when you about her wedding, which will have a Wiccan approach your MIL about this, you do it with theme, and they are both planning to change a smile and say, “I was surprised when you to a last name with Wiccan significance. didn’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day. Why Although I’m not positive, I’m pretty was that?” Then LISTEN. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 14, 1917 These cigarette smoking youths of fluctu- ating ages are up against a tough proposition these days, as is attested by the experience of Dan Quinliban of Athena. Quinliban purchased some cigarettes the other day on the representation that he was 21 years old. He wore a beard and passed easily for that age. When an officer asked him his age, he promptly replied, “21.” “Show me you regis- tration certificate,” said the officer. “I haven’t any,” he said. “Alright, the government wants you for being a slacker,” said the officer. Then it was that Quinliban did an “about face.” He denied he was 21 years old, saying he lacked a few months, and he produced his mother to prove it. He was prosecuted then for smoking cigarettes, Deputy District Attorney Fred Schmidt handling the case before Justice Richards of Athena yesterday. He was let off with a fine of three dollars. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 14, 1967 About 4:40 p.m. Tuesday a car belonging to Tilman Stone, 1001 NW DeSpain Ave., somehow or other left its driveway, rolled out into the street, hit a car owned by Kenneth Bjorklund and operated by Eileen Halsey, and then leaped the curbing and whammed against the porch of the Jack Kehoe place at 914 NW DeSpain. The impact knocked down one of the two supporting columns, and did neither house nor car any good whatever. No one was injured, according to city police, but they also recalled that this is the second time in recent months that the same house has been struck by an automobile. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 14, 1992 Favorable weather conditions and a quick response by firefighters has brought a rash of fires in the Umatilla National Forest under control. The forest reported 23 small lightning-caused fires Friday morning after a storm passed overhead Thursday evening. Two additional fires were detected Friday. But substantial rain — more than half an inch in some areas — aided firefighters who responded from as far away as Redmond and Salem. 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 165th day of 2017. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the design of the original American flag, declaring: “Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thir- teen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.” On this date: In 1775, the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created. In 1801, former American Revolutionary War general and notorious turncoat Bene- dict Arnold died in London. In 1922, Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedi- cating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry. In 1934, Max Baer defeated Primo Carnera with an 11th round TKO to win the world heavyweight boxing championship in Long Island City, New York. In 1940, German troops entered Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis began transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, ruled 6-3 that children in public schools could not be forced to salute the flag of the United States. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1972, the Environ- mental Protection Agency ordered a ban on domestic use of the pesticide DDT, to take effect at year’s end. In 1992, Mona Van Duyn became the first woman to be named the nation’s Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Marla Gibbs is 86. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is 78. Writer Peter Mayle is 78. Actor Jack Bannon is 77. Country-rock musician Spooner Oldham is 74. Rock singer Rod Argent (The Zombies; Argent) is 72. President Donald Trump is 71. Singer Janet Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 71. Rock musician Barry Melton is 70. Rock musician Alan White (Yes) is 68. Actor Eddie Mekka is 65. Actor Will Patton is 63. Olympic gold-medal speed skater Eric Heiden is 59. Jazz musician Marcus Miller is 58. Singer Boy George is 56. Rock musi- cian Chris DeGarmo is 54. Actress Traylor Howard is 51. Thought for Today: “I am not the flag; not at all. I am but its shadow. I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a People may become.” — From a Flag Day address by U.S. Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane (1864-1921) recounting what Old Glory “said” to him. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
