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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